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** Having sheltered in amnesiac reclusion as confused, frightened "Johnny," the Doctor’s businesslike arrival at Christ Church conveys a rather splendid instance of this.
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* SinisterMinister: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Reverend Jefford, whose religiosity veers more to respectability than charity. While he generally holds in brusque contempt the mentally disturbed Jed, he says the odd prayer for the kid.
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* ImprovisedLightningRod: Unintentionally, [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s ImprovisedWeapon of a church clock hand]].
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** [[spoiler: The Valeyard]], in each of the Doctor’s incarnations, found critical points at which to corrupt them; alternate versions of each succumbed to such temptations as the Fifth keeping for himself the last of the Spectrox antitoxin, and antitoxin for himself or the Fourth destroying the Daleks at their birth.
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Having learned a sixth UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murder to have gendered a near century of impoverished fear and violence, the Doctor and Ace hasten to 1888 Whitechapel. Attacked Briefly possessed by a murderous, mind-controlling murderous force, the Doctor, with the detached TARDIS telepathic circuit, erases his own memory, and is sheltered by mysterious wanderer Joseph Liebermann.
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When an inscrutable force a sinister disembodied voice invades the TARDIS, the Doctor takes Ace to 1963 Shoreditch, to leave her in the care of his first incarnation - whose TARDIS isn't there. From streets stalked by feral, deathly wraiths, they take shelter with Coal Hill School teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright - who have no pupil named Susan Foreman.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Ringmaster Jacques Malacroix, having learned from Jed of Ace’s bref transformation into a Cheetah Person, imprisons her for exhibition in his circus. To enforce another transformation, he sets a lion on Tiny Ron.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Ringmaster Jacques Malacroix, having learned from Jed of Ace’s bref brief transformation into a Cheetah Person, imprisons her for exhibition in his circus. To enforce another transformation, he sets a lion on Tiny Ron.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Mentally disturbed semi-vagrant Jed Barrow, for “unworthiness,” is furiously chased from the church by Reverend Jefford - supposed priest of a creed of compassion, humility and acceptance.
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** Whether accidentally or [[ForTheEvulz just for the hell of it]], [[spoiler: the Valeyard]] rouses Ace’s [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival dormant Cheetah Virus]], which, albeit in self-defence, drives her to kill.
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** Challenged by his underworld cronies, the circus personnel [[spoiler: overthrow Malacroix. On next appearance, the ringmaster has become a limbless torso, supported on reticulated wooden limbs, for exhibition in the ring]].
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** Challenged by his underworld cronies, the fleeing circus personnel [[spoiler: overthrow Malacroix. On next appearance, the ringmaster has become a limbless torso, supported on reticulated wooden limbs, for exhibition in the ring]].
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* LightIsGood: A glass cylinder holds an ethereal white glow, the TARDIS telepathic circuit, shields the Doctor against psychic attack.
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** Ace addresses De Vries as [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Arnie]], and refers to him as the Incredible Hulk.
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** In a spurt gang warfare, the circus personnel [[spoiler: overthrow Malacroix. On next appearance, the ringmaster has become a limbless torso, supported on reticulated wooden limbs, for exhibition in the ring]].
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** In a spurt gang warfare, Challenged by his underworld cronies, the circus personnel [[spoiler: overthrow Malacroix. On next appearance, the ringmaster has become a limbless torso, supported on reticulated wooden limbs, for exhibition in the ring]].
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* CollectorOfTheStrange: In 1888, thirty-three-year-old Jed Barrow, known locally as [[DeliberateValuesDissonance Jed the Idiot Boy]] obsessively collects miscellaneous curios for storage in the church crypt.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Joseph Liebermann, strongly implied to be the “Wandering Jew” of legend.
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* HeroicBSOD: Since ''[[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresIllegalAlien Illegal Alien]], the Doctor has grown wearily, melancholically reflective of his long-lived, omnipresent detachment from the lives he touches.
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** For their deadly trip to 1888, the Doctor insists Ace don her dress from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2Ghostlight Ghostlight]].
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Published 1998; featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
When an inscrutable force invades the TARDIS, the Doctor takes Ace to 1963 Shoreditch, to leave her in the care of his first incarnation. From streets stalked by feral, deathly wraiths, they take shelter with Coal Hill School teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright - who know no pupil by the name of Susan Foreman.
Having learned a sixth UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murder to have gendered a near century of impoverished fear and violence, the Doctor and Ace hasten to 1888 Whitechapel. In defence against a murderous, mind-controlling force, the Doctor, with the detached TARDIS telepathic circuit, erases his own memory, and is sheltered by mysterious wanderer Joseph Liebermann.
After several days’ struggle on the streets of Whitechapel, Ace briefly succumbs to the dormant, mutagenic virus retained from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival the Cheetah planet]]. Imprisoned in the circus of Jacques Malacroix with several deformed human exhibits, she seeks to retrieve the telepathic circuit from Malacroix’s henchman Jed Barrow.
In the crypt of a local church lies the diabolical force behind this nightmare - and at its helm, a familiar face…
!!Tropes
*AbusiveParents: In 1888, elderly Jane Treddle, aunt to mentally disturbed semi-vagrant Jed Barrow, scratches, chokes and burns him with fire-irons.
*AdultFear: From the TARDIS, the Doctor briefly finds himself transported to a battlefield strewn with gasmasked corpses - all of whom have the face of his seventeen-year-old companion Ace.
*TheAtoner:
** Peter Ackroyd, having been coerced at an early age by Malacroix [[spoiler: into setting fire to a synagogue]], is now friend to and keeper of the deformed inmates of Malacroix’s circus. Inspired by a telepathic vision of a potentially benevolent future, he vows to lead them to freedom.
*AxeCrazy: A hooded coven, each of whom are [[spoiler: corrupted versions of the Doctor’s incarnations]], having been infected by the Dark Matrix, are wildly, indiscriminately murderous. With the TARDIS’s detached telepathic circuit, the Seventh Doctor manages to evade this - but briefly succumbs.
*BadAssLongcoat: For 1888, the Doctor dons a near floor-length black overcoat. While Ace thinks it looks almost comical, it acquires a highly sinister badassery when the Doctor is possessed by the Dark Matrix.
*BattleInTheRain: Having fled the crypt, [[spoiler: the Valeyard]], amidst a pouring thunderstorm, pursues the Doctor to the top of Christ Church.
*BeastlyBloodsports: In a back room of the Angel and Harp, cockerels with metal-tipped claws fight to the death.
*BigDamnHeroes:
** With the Doctor cornered in a lighthouse, Ace, with a can of Nitro Nine, makes short work of the murderous Golem.
** Having sheltered in amnesiac reclusion as confused, frightened “Johnny,” the Doctor’s businesslike arrival at Christ Church conveys a rather splendid instance of this.
*BigDamnKiss: On [[spoiler: release from her cage,]] Ace shares a brief, tender snog with Ackroyd.
*TheBigGuy: Circus performer Saul, exhibited for having been born without legs, puts his massively strong arms to good use in [[spoiler: breaking open Ace’s cage]].
*TheBrute: Circus strongman De Vries, Malacroix’s heavily muscled henchman.
*{{Callback}}:
** For their deadly trip to 1888, the Doctor insists Ace don her dress from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2Ghostlight Ghostlight]].
** In the TARDIS Cloisters, a foliage-surrounded pond briefly conjures the [[CatPeople beast]] into which the Cheetah planet nearly transformed Ace in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]. In 1888 Whitechapel, the Dark Matrix briefly rouses Ace’s dormant Cheetah Virus.
*CallForward:
** In search of an intangible intruder, the Doctor flees to the heart of the TARDIS. Although it seems not to be the Cloister Room shown in the [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]], there is a marked resemblance - its “nexus point” is described as some kind of well, in which cosmic forces merge.
** On reunion with the TARDIS telepathic circuit, the Doctor is flooded by memories - including a glimpse of his eventual [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Movie inadvertent infiltration of a San Francisco gang war]], followed by a glimpse of his next incarnation.
*TheCaretaker: Joseph Liebermann shelters the amnesiac, traumatised Doctor, currently known as Johnny, and attempts to jog his memory.
*CollapsingLair: Beneath Christ Church, a crypt houses [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s TARDIS]] - which, host to the Dark Matrix, starts, [[spoiler: atom by atom, to implode]].
*CollectorOfTheStrange: In 1888, thirty-three-year-old Jed Barrow, known locally as [[DeliberateValuesDissonance Jed the Idiot Boy]] obsessively collects miscellaneous curios for storage in the church crypt.
*CopeByCreating: Unfathomably world-weary Joseph Liebermann and amnesiac “Johnny” become happily absorbed in repairing the former’s clock collection.
*TheCorruptor: [[spoiler: The Valeyard]], having taken control of the Matrix, uses it, via moments of pivotal temptation, to create depraved alternates of most of the Doctor’s incarnations.
*CrapsackWorld: The alternate 1963 - poverty; brutally crazed gangs, and zombies who like, quite literally, to rip people apart with their bare hands.
*CrazyHomelessPeople: In the alternate 1963, homeless Londoners live in the underground tube network; naked and conditioned to constant violence.
*DarkerAndEdgier: Let’s see… an AlternateHistory in which extra [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Whitechapel murders]] drove Britain to militia-ruled chaos and a near-century of brutalised poverty; a malign gestalt entity possesses the Doctor into committing one of the Ripper murders, and then drives Ace, via her dormant [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Cheetah virus]], to, albeit in self-defence, kill elderly Jane Treddle. Definitely one of Series/DoctorWho’s darker stories.
*DarkIsEvil: In the alternate timeline, a vast concentration of airborne shadow - [[spoiler: the Dark Matrix]] - feeds on the ruination it sows.
*DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** Mentally disturbed Jed Barrow is known locally as Jed the Idiot Boy.
** At Malacroix’s circus, neither the deformed human exhibitions nor their friend and keeper Peter Ackroyd seem to object to the term “freak.”
*DramaticThunder: As befits being chased across a church tower by a madman with a detached giant clock hand.
*EldritchLocation: Deep in the TARDIS, the nexus point plays havoc with its visitors’ minds.
*EmotionEater: The shadowy gestalt entity, being a [[spoiler: distillation of the malign thoughts of deceased Time Lords]], thrives on fear and misery.
*EnemyWithout: [[spoiler: Since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe The Ultimate Foe]], the Valeyard, now keeper of the Matrix, has awaited a chance to ensnare his earlier self]].
*FauxAffablyEvil: Malacroix: cordial, genial - and a callous, gloating, controlling brute.
*FishOutOfTemporalWater: PlayedForDrama. On the 1888 streets of Whitechapel, Ace’s struggle for food and shelter is quite harrowing.
*ForcedIntoEvil:
**Via the Dark Matrix, the Valeyard pushed twelve of the Doctor’s incarnations into evil; the Seventh Doctor escapes by erasing his own memory.
** Whether accidentally or [[ForTheEvulz just for the hell of it]], [[spoiler: the Valeyard]] rouses Ace’s [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival dormant Cheetah Virus]], which, albeit in self-defence, drives her to kill.
*GeniusLoci: The telepathic circuit, an ethereal white glow contained in a small glass cylinder, transfers the Doctor’s thoughts to the fabric of the TARDIS.
*{{Greed}}: Ringmaster Jacques Malacroix, with ruthless fixation, seeks curios for exhibition in his circus.
*{{Golem}}: A hulking clay automaton rises from the sea to chase the Doctor and Ace.
*TheGrotesque: The Circus of Jacques Malacroix hosts and exhibits several people with bodily deformities. While their appearance causes alarm - someone even wonders if one of them is behind the Ripper murders - they’re a perfectly reasonable bunch.
*HauntedTechnology: The TARDIS telepathic circuit, a transparent cylinder, holds an ethereal white glow, which may erase or impart memories. In the church crypt, [[spoiler: the Valeyard]] has a similar device - in the form of a crystal skull.
*HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: De Vries]] decides he’s had enough of being [[spoiler: Malacroix’s heavy]].
*HeroicBSOD: Since Illegal Alien, the Doctor has grown wearily, melancholically reflective of his long-lived, omnipresent detachment from the lives he touches.
*HeroicSacrifice: Having lifted a fallen pillar from Ace, [[spoiler: De Vries]] is torn apart by [[spoiler: the evil Doctors]].
*InTheHood: A twelve-strong coven; each a [[spoiler: corrupted version of one of the Doctor’s incarnations]], waits beneath the crypt for the Doctor to join them…
*HolyBurnsEvil: The ethereal glow of the TARDIS telepathic circuit repels the malign, semi-formed shades of the Dark Matrix.
*HopeBringer: In the brutalised alternate 1963, Ian and Barbara find themselves curiously encouraged by the nightly arrival of a strange man and his teenage friend.
-->'''The Doctor:''' If it helps, just remember, there are alternatives. Life doesn’t have to be like this.
*{{Hypocrite}}: Mentally disturbed semi-vagrant Jed Barrow, for “unworthiness,” is furiously chased from the church by Reverend Jefford - supposed priest of a creed of compassion, humility and acceptance.
*ImprovisedWeapon: From the clock tower of Christ Church, [[spoiler: the Valeyard]] wrenches a hand, and chases the Doctor with it.
*{{Kaiju}}: In a telepathic vision of the prospective perverted timeline, airborne amassed shadows coalesce into a “spectral giant.”
*TheKindnessOfStrangers:
** Horse-slaughterer Henry Tomkins and wife Martha briefly take in and feed Ace.
** Gloria, landlady of the Angel and Harp readily shelters withdrawn, amnesiac “Johnny.”
*KingOfThieves: Through bribery and incriminating knowledge, Malacroix wields influence throughout criminal society.
*LaserGuidedAmnesia: Self-inflicted by the Doctor with the TARDIS telepathic circuit.
*LightIsGood: A glass cylinder holds an ethereal white glow, the TARDIS telepathic circuit, shields the Doctor against psychic attack.
*LittlePeopleAreSurreal: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Tiny Ron, who befriends a lost, circus-imprisoned Ace.
*LongGame: Surrounded by semi-corporeal sentient shadows, [[spoiler: the Valeyard]], via a crystal skull, has, for years, observed the Doctor…
*ImprovisedLightningRod: Unintentionally, [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s ImprovisedWeapon of a church clock hand]].
*ManipulativeBastard: Ringmaster Jacques Malacroix, having learned from Jed of Ace’s bref transformation into a Cheetah Person, imprisons her for exhibition in his circus. To enforce another transformation, he sets a lion on Tiny Ron.
*MindControl: Via the Dark Matrix, [[spoiler: the Valeyard]], by pivotal moments of temptation, steers [[spoiler: each of the Doctor’s incarnations]] to acts of brutality.
*MergerOfSouls: The Matrix, having stored the minds of numerous deceased Time Lords, was purged, early on, of destructive thoughts. Beneath the Capitol, these manifest as an amorphous coalescence of malign shadows - the Dark Matrix.
*MissExposition: On a nightly visit from a strange man and his seventeen-year-old companion, who seem to have no grasp of post-1888 history, history teacher Barbara fills them in.
*MonsterClown: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The clowns of Malacroix’s circus, “killers to a man,” offer no threat beyond their turbulent backgrounds.
*NiceGuy: Orphan Peter Ackroyd, coerced as a young boy into [[spoiler: setting fire to a synagogue]], is mellow, reflective, and aspires to atonement.
*OminousFog: In the alternate 1963.
*OurGhostsAreDifferent: The malign elements of Matrix-preserved Time Lord minds appear as blood-crazed, semi-corporeal shadows.
*OurZombiesAreDifferent: The alternate post-1888 is plagued by wraiths: deathly pale, wizened, blood-crazed agents of the Dark Matrix.
*PointOfDivergence:
** In 1888, a sixth Whitechapel murder sparked violent unrest, which in turn gendered decades of brutalised poverty.
** [[spoiler: The Valeyard]], in each of the Doctor’s incarnations, found critical points at which to corrupt them; alternate versions of each succumbed to such temptations as keeping for himself the last of the Spectrox antitoxin, and destroying the Daleks at their birth.
*PuppeteerParasite: Throughout the perverted post-1888 timeline, a malign coalescence of airborne shadows projects its murderous will into animate corpses.
*RedFilterOfDoom: The emergency lighting of [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s]] TARDIS.
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Joseph Liebermann, strongly implied to be the “Wandering Jew” of legend.
*RepulsiveRingmaster: Jacques Malacroix,
*TheRenfield: Reverend Jefford becomes subservient to the Valeyard; carrying Ace into the crypt.
*RiversOfBlood: In a telepathic vision of the prospective perverted timeline, [[spoiler: a gigantic flow of blood swamps the streets]].
*ShoutOut:
** A visiting Yorkshireman who challenged Malacroix over some missing chickens is rumoured to have met a similar fate to ''Film/{{Freaks}}'''s Cleopatra.
** Circus-hand Peter Ackroyd seems to be named after the historical writer.
** Ace addresses De Vries as [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Arnie]], and refers to him as the Incredible Hulk.
*TheStrongman: De Vries, for his boss Malacroix, lifts the TARDIS.
*SwallowedWhole: In a telepathic vision of the prospective perverted timeline, the airborne cloud of shadows coalesce into a “spectral giant” which plucks people from the streets to swallow them whole.
*SwordCane: Malacroix.
*TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In the Cloisters of [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s TARDIS,]] the Doctor, on encounter with a shadowy coalescence of [[spoiler: the Dark Matrix, manages to persuade it that subservience to the Valeyard will only trap it further]].
*TeensAreMonsters: In the alternate 1963, drug-crazed, murderous Jacksprites hail the spectral Ripper as a vengeful deity.
*TimeStandsStill: On implosion of [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s crypt-embedded TARDIS]], time around each side of the church building respectively slows, freezes and reverses.
*TranquilFury: The Doctor, on confrontation in the crypt of [[spoiler: the Valeyard]].
*TrueCompanions: The deformed human exhibits of Malacroix’s circus, and Peter Ackroyd, their keeper.
*TurnedAgainstTheirMasters:
** Shortly after inception, the Time Lord Matrix, comprised of the memories of deceased Time Lords, began to resent posthumous confinement, and rebel. In retaliation, filters were installed to remove destructive thoughts, which resulted in the Dark Matrix.
** In a spurt gang warfare, the circus personnel [[spoiler: overthrow Malacroix. On next appearance, the ringmaster has become a limbless torso, supported on reticulated wooden limbs, for exhibition in the ring]].
*VigilanteExecution: In the Angel and Harp, the amnesiac Doctor, believed to be the Ripper, is thrown to the fighting cocks - and is narrowly saved by Joseph Liebermann.
*VigilanteMilitia: In response to the anomalously extended reign of Jack the Ripper.
*VillainousRescue: More like an [[AntiVillain AntivillainousRescue]], as he simply wants reunion with the soothing touch of the telepathic circuit. In [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s TARDIS, Jed Barrow finds the crystal skull which contains the murky glow of the Dark Matrix, and, at the cost of his own life, absorbs it, severing its influence on Whitechapel]].
*WalkingTheEarth: Joseph Liebermann is strongly implied to be the “Wandering Jew” of legend.
*WhamShot: A prose variant, on revelation of the possessed, murderously leering Seventh Doctor.
-->'''Warning:''' Spoilers may be unmarked.
Published 1998; featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
When an inscrutable force invades the TARDIS, the Doctor takes Ace to 1963 Shoreditch, to leave her in the care of his first incarnation. From streets stalked by feral, deathly wraiths, they take shelter with Coal Hill School teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright - who know no pupil by the name of Susan Foreman.
Having learned a sixth UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murder to have gendered a near century of impoverished fear and violence, the Doctor and Ace hasten to 1888 Whitechapel. In defence against a murderous, mind-controlling force, the Doctor, with the detached TARDIS telepathic circuit, erases his own memory, and is sheltered by mysterious wanderer Joseph Liebermann.
After several days’ struggle on the streets of Whitechapel, Ace briefly succumbs to the dormant, mutagenic virus retained from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival the Cheetah planet]]. Imprisoned in the circus of Jacques Malacroix with several deformed human exhibits, she seeks to retrieve the telepathic circuit from Malacroix’s henchman Jed Barrow.
In the crypt of a local church lies the diabolical force behind this nightmare - and at its helm, a familiar face…
!!Tropes
*AbusiveParents: In 1888, elderly Jane Treddle, aunt to mentally disturbed semi-vagrant Jed Barrow, scratches, chokes and burns him with fire-irons.
*AdultFear: From the TARDIS, the Doctor briefly finds himself transported to a battlefield strewn with gasmasked corpses - all of whom have the face of his seventeen-year-old companion Ace.
*TheAtoner:
** Peter Ackroyd, having been coerced at an early age by Malacroix [[spoiler: into setting fire to a synagogue]], is now friend to and keeper of the deformed inmates of Malacroix’s circus. Inspired by a telepathic vision of a potentially benevolent future, he vows to lead them to freedom.
*AxeCrazy: A hooded coven, each of whom are [[spoiler: corrupted versions of the Doctor’s incarnations]], having been infected by the Dark Matrix, are wildly, indiscriminately murderous. With the TARDIS’s detached telepathic circuit, the Seventh Doctor manages to evade this - but briefly succumbs.
*BadAssLongcoat: For 1888, the Doctor dons a near floor-length black overcoat. While Ace thinks it looks almost comical, it acquires a highly sinister badassery when the Doctor is possessed by the Dark Matrix.
*BattleInTheRain: Having fled the crypt, [[spoiler: the Valeyard]], amidst a pouring thunderstorm, pursues the Doctor to the top of Christ Church.
*BeastlyBloodsports: In a back room of the Angel and Harp, cockerels with metal-tipped claws fight to the death.
*BigDamnHeroes:
** With the Doctor cornered in a lighthouse, Ace, with a can of Nitro Nine, makes short work of the murderous Golem.
** Having sheltered in amnesiac reclusion as confused, frightened “Johnny,” the Doctor’s businesslike arrival at Christ Church conveys a rather splendid instance of this.
*BigDamnKiss: On [[spoiler: release from her cage,]] Ace shares a brief, tender snog with Ackroyd.
*TheBigGuy: Circus performer Saul, exhibited for having been born without legs, puts his massively strong arms to good use in [[spoiler: breaking open Ace’s cage]].
*TheBrute: Circus strongman De Vries, Malacroix’s heavily muscled henchman.
*{{Callback}}:
** For their deadly trip to 1888, the Doctor insists Ace don her dress from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2Ghostlight Ghostlight]].
** In the TARDIS Cloisters, a foliage-surrounded pond briefly conjures the [[CatPeople beast]] into which the Cheetah planet nearly transformed Ace in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]. In 1888 Whitechapel, the Dark Matrix briefly rouses Ace’s dormant Cheetah Virus.
*CallForward:
** In search of an intangible intruder, the Doctor flees to the heart of the TARDIS. Although it seems not to be the Cloister Room shown in the [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]], there is a marked resemblance - its “nexus point” is described as some kind of well, in which cosmic forces merge.
** On reunion with the TARDIS telepathic circuit, the Doctor is flooded by memories - including a glimpse of his eventual [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Movie inadvertent infiltration of a San Francisco gang war]], followed by a glimpse of his next incarnation.
*TheCaretaker: Joseph Liebermann shelters the amnesiac, traumatised Doctor, currently known as Johnny, and attempts to jog his memory.
*CollapsingLair: Beneath Christ Church, a crypt houses [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s TARDIS]] - which, host to the Dark Matrix, starts, [[spoiler: atom by atom, to implode]].
*CollectorOfTheStrange: In 1888, thirty-three-year-old Jed Barrow, known locally as [[DeliberateValuesDissonance Jed the Idiot Boy]] obsessively collects miscellaneous curios for storage in the church crypt.
*CopeByCreating: Unfathomably world-weary Joseph Liebermann and amnesiac “Johnny” become happily absorbed in repairing the former’s clock collection.
*TheCorruptor: [[spoiler: The Valeyard]], having taken control of the Matrix, uses it, via moments of pivotal temptation, to create depraved alternates of most of the Doctor’s incarnations.
*CrapsackWorld: The alternate 1963 - poverty; brutally crazed gangs, and zombies who like, quite literally, to rip people apart with their bare hands.
*CrazyHomelessPeople: In the alternate 1963, homeless Londoners live in the underground tube network; naked and conditioned to constant violence.
*DarkerAndEdgier: Let’s see… an AlternateHistory in which extra [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Whitechapel murders]] drove Britain to militia-ruled chaos and a near-century of brutalised poverty; a malign gestalt entity possesses the Doctor into committing one of the Ripper murders, and then drives Ace, via her dormant [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Cheetah virus]], to, albeit in self-defence, kill elderly Jane Treddle. Definitely one of Series/DoctorWho’s darker stories.
*DarkIsEvil: In the alternate timeline, a vast concentration of airborne shadow - [[spoiler: the Dark Matrix]] - feeds on the ruination it sows.
*DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** Mentally disturbed Jed Barrow is known locally as Jed the Idiot Boy.
** At Malacroix’s circus, neither the deformed human exhibitions nor their friend and keeper Peter Ackroyd seem to object to the term “freak.”
*DramaticThunder: As befits being chased across a church tower by a madman with a detached giant clock hand.
*EldritchLocation: Deep in the TARDIS, the nexus point plays havoc with its visitors’ minds.
*EmotionEater: The shadowy gestalt entity, being a [[spoiler: distillation of the malign thoughts of deceased Time Lords]], thrives on fear and misery.
*EnemyWithout: [[spoiler: Since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe The Ultimate Foe]], the Valeyard, now keeper of the Matrix, has awaited a chance to ensnare his earlier self]].
*FauxAffablyEvil: Malacroix: cordial, genial - and a callous, gloating, controlling brute.
*FishOutOfTemporalWater: PlayedForDrama. On the 1888 streets of Whitechapel, Ace’s struggle for food and shelter is quite harrowing.
*ForcedIntoEvil:
**Via the Dark Matrix, the Valeyard pushed twelve of the Doctor’s incarnations into evil; the Seventh Doctor escapes by erasing his own memory.
** Whether accidentally or [[ForTheEvulz just for the hell of it]], [[spoiler: the Valeyard]] rouses Ace’s [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival dormant Cheetah Virus]], which, albeit in self-defence, drives her to kill.
*GeniusLoci: The telepathic circuit, an ethereal white glow contained in a small glass cylinder, transfers the Doctor’s thoughts to the fabric of the TARDIS.
*{{Greed}}: Ringmaster Jacques Malacroix, with ruthless fixation, seeks curios for exhibition in his circus.
*{{Golem}}: A hulking clay automaton rises from the sea to chase the Doctor and Ace.
*TheGrotesque: The Circus of Jacques Malacroix hosts and exhibits several people with bodily deformities. While their appearance causes alarm - someone even wonders if one of them is behind the Ripper murders - they’re a perfectly reasonable bunch.
*HauntedTechnology: The TARDIS telepathic circuit, a transparent cylinder, holds an ethereal white glow, which may erase or impart memories. In the church crypt, [[spoiler: the Valeyard]] has a similar device - in the form of a crystal skull.
*HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: De Vries]] decides he’s had enough of being [[spoiler: Malacroix’s heavy]].
*HeroicBSOD: Since Illegal Alien, the Doctor has grown wearily, melancholically reflective of his long-lived, omnipresent detachment from the lives he touches.
*HeroicSacrifice: Having lifted a fallen pillar from Ace, [[spoiler: De Vries]] is torn apart by [[spoiler: the evil Doctors]].
*InTheHood: A twelve-strong coven; each a [[spoiler: corrupted version of one of the Doctor’s incarnations]], waits beneath the crypt for the Doctor to join them…
*HolyBurnsEvil: The ethereal glow of the TARDIS telepathic circuit repels the malign, semi-formed shades of the Dark Matrix.
*HopeBringer: In the brutalised alternate 1963, Ian and Barbara find themselves curiously encouraged by the nightly arrival of a strange man and his teenage friend.
-->'''The Doctor:''' If it helps, just remember, there are alternatives. Life doesn’t have to be like this.
*{{Hypocrite}}: Mentally disturbed semi-vagrant Jed Barrow, for “unworthiness,” is furiously chased from the church by Reverend Jefford - supposed priest of a creed of compassion, humility and acceptance.
*ImprovisedWeapon: From the clock tower of Christ Church, [[spoiler: the Valeyard]] wrenches a hand, and chases the Doctor with it.
*{{Kaiju}}: In a telepathic vision of the prospective perverted timeline, airborne amassed shadows coalesce into a “spectral giant.”
*TheKindnessOfStrangers:
** Horse-slaughterer Henry Tomkins and wife Martha briefly take in and feed Ace.
** Gloria, landlady of the Angel and Harp readily shelters withdrawn, amnesiac “Johnny.”
*KingOfThieves: Through bribery and incriminating knowledge, Malacroix wields influence throughout criminal society.
*LaserGuidedAmnesia: Self-inflicted by the Doctor with the TARDIS telepathic circuit.
*LightIsGood: A glass cylinder holds an ethereal white glow, the TARDIS telepathic circuit, shields the Doctor against psychic attack.
*LittlePeopleAreSurreal: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Tiny Ron, who befriends a lost, circus-imprisoned Ace.
*LongGame: Surrounded by semi-corporeal sentient shadows, [[spoiler: the Valeyard]], via a crystal skull, has, for years, observed the Doctor…
*ImprovisedLightningRod: Unintentionally, [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s ImprovisedWeapon of a church clock hand]].
*ManipulativeBastard: Ringmaster Jacques Malacroix, having learned from Jed of Ace’s bref transformation into a Cheetah Person, imprisons her for exhibition in his circus. To enforce another transformation, he sets a lion on Tiny Ron.
*MindControl: Via the Dark Matrix, [[spoiler: the Valeyard]], by pivotal moments of temptation, steers [[spoiler: each of the Doctor’s incarnations]] to acts of brutality.
*MergerOfSouls: The Matrix, having stored the minds of numerous deceased Time Lords, was purged, early on, of destructive thoughts. Beneath the Capitol, these manifest as an amorphous coalescence of malign shadows - the Dark Matrix.
*MissExposition: On a nightly visit from a strange man and his seventeen-year-old companion, who seem to have no grasp of post-1888 history, history teacher Barbara fills them in.
*MonsterClown: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The clowns of Malacroix’s circus, “killers to a man,” offer no threat beyond their turbulent backgrounds.
*NiceGuy: Orphan Peter Ackroyd, coerced as a young boy into [[spoiler: setting fire to a synagogue]], is mellow, reflective, and aspires to atonement.
*OminousFog: In the alternate 1963.
*OurGhostsAreDifferent: The malign elements of Matrix-preserved Time Lord minds appear as blood-crazed, semi-corporeal shadows.
*OurZombiesAreDifferent: The alternate post-1888 is plagued by wraiths: deathly pale, wizened, blood-crazed agents of the Dark Matrix.
*PointOfDivergence:
** In 1888, a sixth Whitechapel murder sparked violent unrest, which in turn gendered decades of brutalised poverty.
** [[spoiler: The Valeyard]], in each of the Doctor’s incarnations, found critical points at which to corrupt them; alternate versions of each succumbed to such temptations as keeping for himself the last of the Spectrox antitoxin, and destroying the Daleks at their birth.
*PuppeteerParasite: Throughout the perverted post-1888 timeline, a malign coalescence of airborne shadows projects its murderous will into animate corpses.
*RedFilterOfDoom: The emergency lighting of [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s]] TARDIS.
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Joseph Liebermann, strongly implied to be the “Wandering Jew” of legend.
*RepulsiveRingmaster: Jacques Malacroix,
*TheRenfield: Reverend Jefford becomes subservient to the Valeyard; carrying Ace into the crypt.
*RiversOfBlood: In a telepathic vision of the prospective perverted timeline, [[spoiler: a gigantic flow of blood swamps the streets]].
*ShoutOut:
** A visiting Yorkshireman who challenged Malacroix over some missing chickens is rumoured to have met a similar fate to ''Film/{{Freaks}}'''s Cleopatra.
** Circus-hand Peter Ackroyd seems to be named after the historical writer.
** Ace addresses De Vries as [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Arnie]], and refers to him as the Incredible Hulk.
*TheStrongman: De Vries, for his boss Malacroix, lifts the TARDIS.
*SwallowedWhole: In a telepathic vision of the prospective perverted timeline, the airborne cloud of shadows coalesce into a “spectral giant” which plucks people from the streets to swallow them whole.
*SwordCane: Malacroix.
*TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In the Cloisters of [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s TARDIS,]] the Doctor, on encounter with a shadowy coalescence of [[spoiler: the Dark Matrix, manages to persuade it that subservience to the Valeyard will only trap it further]].
*TeensAreMonsters: In the alternate 1963, drug-crazed, murderous Jacksprites hail the spectral Ripper as a vengeful deity.
*TimeStandsStill: On implosion of [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s crypt-embedded TARDIS]], time around each side of the church building respectively slows, freezes and reverses.
*TranquilFury: The Doctor, on confrontation in the crypt of [[spoiler: the Valeyard]].
*TrueCompanions: The deformed human exhibits of Malacroix’s circus, and Peter Ackroyd, their keeper.
*TurnedAgainstTheirMasters:
** Shortly after inception, the Time Lord Matrix, comprised of the memories of deceased Time Lords, began to resent posthumous confinement, and rebel. In retaliation, filters were installed to remove destructive thoughts, which resulted in the Dark Matrix.
** In a spurt gang warfare, the circus personnel [[spoiler: overthrow Malacroix. On next appearance, the ringmaster has become a limbless torso, supported on reticulated wooden limbs, for exhibition in the ring]].
*VigilanteExecution: In the Angel and Harp, the amnesiac Doctor, believed to be the Ripper, is thrown to the fighting cocks - and is narrowly saved by Joseph Liebermann.
*VigilanteMilitia: In response to the anomalously extended reign of Jack the Ripper.
*VillainousRescue: More like an [[AntiVillain AntivillainousRescue]], as he simply wants reunion with the soothing touch of the telepathic circuit. In [[spoiler: the Valeyard’s TARDIS, Jed Barrow finds the crystal skull which contains the murky glow of the Dark Matrix, and, at the cost of his own life, absorbs it, severing its influence on Whitechapel]].
*WalkingTheEarth: Joseph Liebermann is strongly implied to be the “Wandering Jew” of legend.
*WhamShot: A prose variant, on revelation of the possessed, murderously leering Seventh Doctor.
