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[[Famous Last Words|How wrong he was.]]
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NB This story is also referred to as "The Mutants".
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** To save the lives of others, she braves a jungle at night in a storm while suffering from radiation sickness, travels several miles, navigates to a pinpoint target, then keeps it together when suprised by a apparent monster that proves to be handsome man. Self-possession of the highest order; go girl!
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: The whole "cycle of mutation" thing. The Thals mutated into creatures like the Daleks, then over centuries back into human form.
** Though this was ''sort of'' retconned in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S12
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: The Thals, all of whom are blonde and nearly physically perfect. Not that they don't have flaws, a few of which prove fatal. But they're nearly all good characters, while the hideous Daleks are all evil.
* [[Breakout Character]]: And thus Dalekmania had begun.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Next to ''nothing'' about the Daleks in this serial carries over into future ones.
** Here the Daleks are technocratic scientists, barely holding onto a hysterical sanity, locked up in suits of armour that barely preserve their lives on a hostile world.
*** Probably the biggest difference here is that they shoot Ian simply to temporarily paralyze him, and warn him that if he tries to escape again, they will kill him. It's a bit difference from the Daleks' later MO of just killing everything on sight, and certainly going straight for a killing shot on someone trying to run. Hell, it's only in this serial (and [[Doctor Who/Recap/S10
* [[Double Entendre]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|This has a lampshade placed on top of it]].
{{quote|'''A Thal''': We're all working towards the same end!
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* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: Ian at one point climbs into an immobilized Dalek.
** [[Fridge Horror|Fridge]] [[Squick]]: It must be ''really'' gross in there.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The Daleks towards the Thals, simply because they are different; hence the deliberate use of [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]. The Daleks constantly refer to Thals as "mutants"
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: The Doctor intentionally sabotaged the fluid links of the TARDIS in order to strand them there, after his companions denied him the chance to satiate his curiousity about the Dalek City, claiming that they would now have to go there in order to find replacements (unaware that he actually HAD seriously damaged the TARDIS and the need for repairs was genuine). If he hadn't been impulsive, he may never have encountered the Daleks, starting the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] rolling that lead to the Daleks manipulating their own timeline and beginning a campaign of terror, the Timelords attempting to intervene, "Genesis of the Daleks", and ultimately, the Time War itself.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: The Daleks don't know what the TARDIS is, and when the Doctor mentions it, assume he's delirious. For future Daleks, the word TARDIS, especially one shaped like a blue box, is [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]].
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