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* MysticalIndia: Anji, being South Asian, stands out pretty heavily in VictorianLondon, and as a result, finds it easiest to wear a sari and not speak to anyone while the three of them are staying, capitalizing on the peoples' assumptions about India of the time. Needless to say, she doesn't particularly enjoy this trip.
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* MysticalIndia: Anji, being South Asian, Asian (ethnically, culturally she's as English as they come), stands out pretty heavily in VictorianLondon, and as a result, finds it easiest to wear a sari and not speak to anyone while the three of them are staying, capitalizing on the peoples' assumptions about India of the time. Needless to say, she doesn't particularly enjoy this trip.
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* IShallTauntYou: The Doctor goes all out in one scene, mostly just to get back at Sabbath for making his life very, very difficult. He does all kinds of intentional things (complete with innuendo-laden references to Sabbath [[OrganTheft stealing his heart]]), hides a whoopee cushion in his sofa, flops on his desk like a cat while Sabbath is looking at something, folds his papers up into [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]], sings to him, etc. Do not piss off the Doctor, or he'll teach you how it's done.
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* IShallTauntYou: The Doctor goes all out in one scene, mostly just to get back at Sabbath for making his life very, very difficult. He does all kinds of intentional things (complete with innuendo-laden references to Sabbath [[OrganTheft stealing his heart]]), hides a whoopee cushion in his sofa, flops on his desk like a cat while Sabbath is looking at something, folds his papers up into [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]], penguins, sings to him, etc. Do not piss off the Doctor, or he'll teach you how it's done.
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* IllGirl: The Doctor's erm, heart condition leaves him frail and prone to fainting.
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* IShallTauntYou: The Doctor goes all out in one scene, mostly just to get back at Sabbath for making his life very, very difficult. He does all kinds of intentional FoeYay things (complete with innuendo-laden references to Sabbath [[OrganTheft stealing his heart]]), hides a whoopee cushion in his sofa, flops on his desk like a cat while Sabbath is looking at something, folds his papers up into [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]], sings to him, etc. Do not piss off the Doctor, or he'll teach you how it's done.
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* IShallTauntYou: The Doctor goes all out in one scene, mostly just to get back at Sabbath for making his life very, very difficult. He does all kinds of intentional FoeYay things (complete with innuendo-laden references to Sabbath [[OrganTheft stealing his heart]]), hides a whoopee cushion in his sofa, flops on his desk like a cat while Sabbath is looking at something, folds his papers up into [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]], sings to him, etc. Do not piss off the Doctor, or he'll teach you how it's done.
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* MysticalIndia: Anji, being South Asian, stands out pretty heavily in VictorianLondon, and as a result, finds it easiest to wear a sari and not speak to anyone while the three of them are staying, capitalizing on the peoples' assumptions about India of the time. Needless to say, she doesn't particularly enjoy this trip.
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* SimSimSalabim: Anji, being South Asian, stands out pretty heavily in VictorianLondon, and as a result, finds it easiest to wear a sari and not speak to anyone while the three of them are staying, capitalizing on the peoples' assumptions about India of the time. Needless to say, she doesn't particularly enjoy this trip.
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* CantHoldHisLiquor: Sabbath gives Fitz and Anji brandy, and Fitz falls asleep/passes out after one glass. Which is odd, because [[DependingOnTheWriter he usually seems to have an above-average tolerance for alcohol]]; he once drank a whole bottle of wine and remained capable of walking, talking, and assisting in the Doctor's IndyPloy. Maybe he was just tired, poor dear.
* FlashbackNightmare: The Doctor falls asleep on a train and brings the reader up to speed on one of the salient points of the story arc.
* ForgetsToEat: The Doctor has a bit of a habit of this. Somewhat justified by the fact that as a Time Lord he apparently needs to eat less than a normal human being. In ''Camera Obscura'', while he's already under the weather for several other reasons, Anji has to remind him to eat:
-->‘Do you want some food? You haven’t eaten in days.’\\
‘That’s right,’ he said wonderingly, as if she’d made a point that hadn’t occurred to him. ‘You know, I bet that’s one reason I feel so bad.’
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: One of the regular cast is rendered effectively immortal, and inevitably suffers a series of otherwise-lethal injuries over the course of the plot.
* ForgetsToEat: The Doctor has a bit of a habit of this. Somewhat justified by the fact that as a Time Lord he apparently needs to eat less than a normal human being. In ''Camera Obscura'', while he's already under the weather for several other reasons, Anji has to remind him to eat:
-->‘Do you want some food? You haven’t eaten in days.’\\
‘That’s right,’ he said wonderingly, as if she’d made a point that hadn’t occurred to him. ‘You know, I bet that’s one reason I feel so bad.’
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: One of the regular cast is rendered effectively immortal, and inevitably suffers a series of otherwise-lethal injuries over the course of the plot.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: The first chapter concerns Sabbath meeting his MoralityPet ''du jour''. She's a [[CuteAndPsycho violent]], [[BrokenBird troubled]], [[TheOphelia crazy teenage girl]]. Being used to men sexually harassing her, she decides to ShowSomeLeg to get him interested, as she's in a BedlamHouse and would like to leave. He ignores what she's doing until she gets bored of it. When she suggests that he might have prurient motives for hiring her, he's neither startled nor interested by it. By the end of the book, it's implied that they're having some sort of chaste love affair.
* IShallTauntYou: The Doctor goes all out in one scene, mostly just to get back at Sabbath for making his life very, very difficult. He does all kinds of intentional FoeYay things (complete with innuendo-laden references to Sabbath [[OrganTheft stealing his heart]]), hides a whoopee cushion in his sofa, flops on his desk like a cat while Sabbath is looking at something, folds his papers up into [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]], sings to him, etc. Do not piss off the Doctor, or he'll teach you how it's done.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: An appearance of William the Bloody Awful Poet, which was the nickname Spike from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had as a human.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: An appearance of William the Bloody Awful Poet, which was the nickname Spike from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had as a human.
* PlayingPictionary: Everyone who sees the Doctor's attempted map of a London neighborhood wonders about the round shapes he's drawn. Fitz tries to guess what they might be ("trees", "gardens", or "duck ponds") until Anji gets annoyed and sarcastically suggests they're "gigantic pools of jam". It's never explained what they were actually meant to be.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Anji insults Sabbath with a pun on "phat"/"fat", causing him to "[stare] at her in complete incomprehension."
* ShoutOut:
** A group of circus freaks exhibit [[Literature/SherlockHolmes "The Giant Rat of Sumatra"]].
** It also seems that the Doctor and company are subletting their flat from Literature/SherlockHolmes, which Sabbath lampshades in typical [[EnigmaticMinion enigmatic]] fashion.
** Sabbath uses the pseudonym "G.K. Thursday", a reference to Creator/GKChesterton's ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday'', which, given his [[DayOfTheWeekName name]], size, and [[{{Ubermensch}} Nietzschean]] [[NietzscheWannabe pretensions]], is a stunningly appropriate reference.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Anji insults Sabbath with a pun on "phat"/"fat", causing him to "[stare] at her in complete incomprehension."
* ShoutOut:
** A group of circus freaks exhibit [[Literature/SherlockHolmes "The Giant Rat of Sumatra"]].
** It also seems that the Doctor and company are subletting their flat from Literature/SherlockHolmes, which Sabbath lampshades in typical [[EnigmaticMinion enigmatic]] fashion.
** Sabbath uses the pseudonym "G.K. Thursday", a reference to Creator/GKChesterton's ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday'', which, given his [[DayOfTheWeekName name]], size, and [[{{Ubermensch}} Nietzschean]] [[NietzscheWannabe pretensions]], is a stunningly appropriate reference.
* TheUnsmile:
-->The station manager, a portly little man in wire rims, crept timidly from the office. ‘Everything all right, gentlemen?’ he asked, more hopefully than sternly.\\
Sabbath and the Doctor both beamed at him. The station master didn’t really find this a reassuring sight.
-->The station manager, a portly little man in wire rims, crept timidly from the office. ‘Everything all right, gentlemen?’ he asked, more hopefully than sternly.\\
Sabbath and the Doctor both beamed at him. The station master didn’t really find this a reassuring sight.
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* VictorianNovelDisease: The Doctor's erm, heart condition leaves him frail and prone to fainting. Everyone assumes the Doctor is consumptive.
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* VictorianNovelDisease: The Doctor's erm, heart condition leaves him frail and prone to fainting. Everyone assumes the Doctor is consumptive.consumptive.
* WaxingLyrical:
** The Doctor quotes "All Along the Watchtower" while trying to escape a creepy EldritchLocation with Sabbath:
---> ‘“There must be some way out of here,’ said the [[TricksterArchetype joker]] to the [[OrganTheft thief]]”.’
** Sabbath has his own moment of doing this, for no particular reason at all: he's usually TheStoic, and he's from the 18th century. But he gets into an alarmingly perky and cheerful mood and starts quoting from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
--->"‘Because,’ said Sabbath. ‘Because because because because because. Because of the wonderful things I does.’"
* WaxingLyrical:
** The Doctor quotes "All Along the Watchtower" while trying to escape a creepy EldritchLocation with Sabbath:
---> ‘“There must be some way out of here,’ said the [[TricksterArchetype joker]] to the [[OrganTheft thief]]”.’
** Sabbath has his own moment of doing this, for no particular reason at all: he's usually TheStoic, and he's from the 18th century. But he gets into an alarmingly perky and cheerful mood and starts quoting from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
--->"‘Because,’ said Sabbath. ‘Because because because because because. Because of the wonderful things I does.’"
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* OrganTheft: See HeartTrauma above.
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* OrganTheft: See HeartTrauma above.Follows up on the theft of the Doctor's second heart in ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street''.
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* VictorianNovelDisease: See IllGirl. Everyone assumes the Doctor is consumptive.
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* VictorianNovelDisease: See IllGirl.The Doctor's erm, heart condition leaves him frail and prone to fainting. Everyone assumes the Doctor is consumptive.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:of Death. Probably continuing on from the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures NAs]]]].
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:of Of Death. Probably continuing on from the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures NAs]]]].NAs]].
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* HeartTrauma: After Sabbath rips the Doctor's second heart out of his chest in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, he finds out that Sabbath [[spoiler:has placed it in his own chest to use as a navigating tool of some sort]].
* HumanoidAbomination: Nathaniel Chiltern is [[spoiler:split into two unequal parts, the second of which ends up fused together with an electric toaster and a rosebush as a result of a failure in the time machine to work properly]].
* HumanoidAbomination: Nathaniel Chiltern is [[spoiler:split into two unequal parts, the second of which ends up fused together with an electric toaster and a rosebush as a result of a failure in the time machine to work properly]].
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* HeartTrauma: After Sabbath rips the Doctor's second heart out of his chest in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, he finds out that Sabbath [[spoiler:has has placed it in his own chest to use as a navigating tool of some sort]].
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* HumanoidAbomination: Nathaniel Chiltern is[[spoiler:split split into two unequal parts, the second of which ends up fused together with an electric toaster and a rosebush as a result of a failure in the time machine to work properly]].properly.
* HumanoidAbomination: Nathaniel Chiltern is
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* SplitPersonality: Constance Jane, a "fake" psychic, has this problem, as well as an ability to sense time anomalies. Octave, the magician who tries to kill the Doctor, has an inversion: [[spoiler:his use of the faulty time machine split him into eight separate bodies, each of which has the same sensory input and feelings as all of the others]].
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* SplitPersonality: Constance Jane, a "fake" psychic, has this problem, as well as an ability to sense time anomalies. Octave, the magician who tries to kill the Doctor, has an inversion: [[spoiler:his his use of the faulty time machine split him into eight separate bodies, each of which has the same sensory input and feelings as all of the others]]. others.
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* BodyHorror: Happens to the Doctor quite a lot for one book. First he gets his heart ripped out, then he gets squashed flat by a falling sandbag.
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* BodyHorror: Happens to the Doctor quite a lot for one book. First Not only does he gets have a vivid flashback to his heart being ripped out, then out in ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresTheAdventuressOfHenriettaStreet The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'', he gets squashed flat by a falling sandbag.sandbag, which apparently would ordinarily have killed him, except it turns out that the reason Sabbath stole the Doctor's heart was so he could transplant it into himself, resulting in some kind of {{Synchronization}} which ensures the Doctor can't be killed if Sabbath is still alive. Eventually, Sabbath rips the heart out of his own chest. There's also a scene where the Doctor, in some sort of mystical realm, ends up impaled on a meathook. And also there's Chiltern, who ends up part-man, part-toaster, part-rosebush, etc., to really top the whole thing off.
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* ArmedWithCanon: Fitz and Anji have a SeinfeldianConversation about cartoons, leading Fitz to apparently complain about his characterization in ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresTheCrookedWorld The Crooked World]]''.
--> "This is too much like that cartoon planet, Anj. I don't feel I was at my best there."
** This may be because he was much more of a CasanovaWannabe in that one, whereas he's entirely innocent of any overtly libidinous behavior in ''Camera Obscura''. In another scene he objects to Anji's assessment of him as only interested in things he can "drink, inhale, play, dance to or [[CurseCutShort –]]".
--> "This is too much like that cartoon planet, Anj. I don't feel I was at my best there."
** This may be because he was much more of a CasanovaWannabe in that one, whereas he's entirely innocent of any overtly libidinous behavior in ''Camera Obscura''. In another scene he objects to Anji's assessment of him as only interested in things he can "drink, inhale, play, dance to or [[CurseCutShort –]]".
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* SuggestiveCollision: The Doctor confronts Sabbath in a sort of shared dream sequence, in which they end up on a ship, whose rocking causes the Doctor to end up falling on top of Sabbath while panting.
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-->Break, damn you! Break! You've never had a spanner like this thrown in you! Chew on me till your teeth crack. Grind me up till your gears lock. I'm the nail in your tyre, the potato jammed in your exhaust pipe, the treacle poured in your petrol tank. I'm the banana peel beneath your foot, the joker that ruins your straight flush, the coin that always comes up heads and the gun you didn't know was loaded. I am the Doctor!
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There is a time machine causing dangerous instabilities, fracturing people both mentally and physically. Worse, its continued use might see the time continuum chewed up and spat out. The Doctor turns to his sometime ally, sometime enemy Sabbath for help tracking down the machine and along the way discovers some very disturbing things about where his heart is in the matter…
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There is a time machine causing dangerous instabilities, fracturing people both mentally and physically. Worse, its continued use might see the time continuum chewed up and spat out. The Doctor turns to his sometime ally, sometime enemy Sabbath for help tracking down the machine and along the way discovers some very disturbing things about where his heart is lies in the matter…
* BadassBoast: See the page quote for the series as a whole.
-->Break, damn you! Break! You've never had a spanner like this thrown in you! Chew on me till your teeth crack. Grind me up till your gears lock. I'm the nail in your tyre, the potato jammed in your exhaust pipe, the treacle poured in your petrol tank. I'm the banana peel beneath your foot, the joker that ruins your straight flush, the coin that always comes up heads and the gun you didn't know was loaded. I am the Doctor!
-->Break, damn you! Break! You've never had a spanner like this thrown in you! Chew on me till your teeth crack. Grind me up till your gears lock. I'm the nail in your tyre, the potato jammed in your exhaust pipe, the treacle poured in your petrol tank. I'm the banana peel beneath your foot, the joker that ruins your straight flush, the coin that always comes up heads and the gun you didn't know was loaded. I am the Doctor!
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* TimeMachine
* VictorianLondon
* VictorianNovelDisease
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* OrganTheft:
OrganTheft: See HeartTrauma above.
*SimSimSalabim
SimSimSalabim: Anji, being South Asian, stands out pretty heavily in VictorianLondon, and as a result, finds it easiest to wear a sari and not speak to anyone while the three of them are staying, capitalizing on the peoples' assumptions about India of the time. Needless to say, she doesn't particularly enjoy this trip.
*SplitPersonality
SplitPersonality: Constance Jane, a "fake" psychic, has this problem, as well as an ability to sense time anomalies. Octave, the magician who tries to kill the Doctor, has an inversion: [[spoiler:his use of the faulty time machine split him into eight separate bodies, each of which has the same sensory input and feelings as all of the others]].
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TimeMachine: A damaged and incredibly destructive one is the cause of most of the plot.
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VictorianLondon: Where the book takes place.
*VictorianNovelDiseaseVictorianNovelDisease: See IllGirl. Everyone assumes the Doctor is consumptive.
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There is a time machine causing dangerous instabilities, fracturing people both mentally and physically. Worse, its continued use might see the time continuum chewed up and spat out. The Doctor turns to his sometime ally, sometime enemy Sabbath for help tracking down the machine and along the way discovers some very disturbing things about where his heart is in the matter…
!!Tropes present in ''Camera Obscura'' include:
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:of Death. Probably continuing on from the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures NAs]]]].
* BodyHorror: Happens to the Doctor quite a lot for one book. First he gets his heart ripped out, then he gets squashed flat by a falling sandbag.
* EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
* {{Gorn}}: To go along with all of the BodyHorror inflicted on the Doctor, it's all described in pretty graphic detail.
* HeartTrauma: After Sabbath rips the Doctor's second heart out of his chest in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, he finds out that Sabbath [[spoiler:has placed it in his own chest to use as a navigating tool of some sort]].
* HumanoidAbomination: Nathaniel Chiltern is [[spoiler:split into two unequal parts, the second of which ends up fused together with an electric toaster and a rosebush as a result of a failure in the time machine to work properly]].
* IllGirl: The Doctor's erm, heart condition leaves him frail and prone to fainting.
* OrganTheft:
* SimSimSalabim
* SplitPersonality
* TimeMachine
* VictorianLondon
* VictorianNovelDisease
!!Tropes present in ''Camera Obscura'' include:
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:of Death. Probably continuing on from the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures NAs]]]].
* BodyHorror: Happens to the Doctor quite a lot for one book. First he gets his heart ripped out, then he gets squashed flat by a falling sandbag.
* EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
* {{Gorn}}: To go along with all of the BodyHorror inflicted on the Doctor, it's all described in pretty graphic detail.
* HeartTrauma: After Sabbath rips the Doctor's second heart out of his chest in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, he finds out that Sabbath [[spoiler:has placed it in his own chest to use as a navigating tool of some sort]].
* HumanoidAbomination: Nathaniel Chiltern is [[spoiler:split into two unequal parts, the second of which ends up fused together with an electric toaster and a rosebush as a result of a failure in the time machine to work properly]].
* IllGirl: The Doctor's erm, heart condition leaves him frail and prone to fainting.
* OrganTheft:
* SimSimSalabim
* SplitPersonality
* TimeMachine
* VictorianLondon
* VictorianNovelDisease
