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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 E4/E04 Genesis of the Daleks|Genesis Of The Daleks]]'' (broadcast 15 years later) where it implies that the later Thals are descended from both the Thal and Kaled survivors of Davros' massacre of both race's cities. May turn this into [[Unreliable Narrator]] in that case.
* [[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 E4/E04 Planet of the Daleks|one other]]) that the Daleks can use their weapons to temporarily paralyze someone.
* [[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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