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In the end, the Doctor sets Adric straight and then goes flying around in space without a space suit, but WITH the help of a cricket ball and The Power Of Physics, and rescues the TARDIS. Then he randomly throws an incredibly deadly poison at Monarch, which doesn't kill him... but instead [[Incredible Shrinking Man|shrinks him]]. Yeah. And the robots announce that they're going off to find their own planet and "start again."
Everyone leaves, and Nyssa conveniently collapses at literally the last second because she originally wasn't written in the next episode.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Monarch, who carries a pleasant and civilized demeanor (which unfortunately wins over Adric for most of the last two episodes).
* [[Ancient Grome]]: Seriously, ''Greek'' gladiators? Somebody clearly did not do their research.
* [[A God Am I]]: Monarch, sans the actual godhood.
* [[Badass in
* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]
* [[Frogs and Toads]]
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Contrary to popular belief, this is the only story where Adric ''actually'' sides with the villain (his ploys in "[[Doctor Who
* [[Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering]]
* [[Kneel Before Zod]]
* [[Mayincatec]]
* [[Pun-Based Title]]: Monarch's spaceship is four light-days away from Earth, there are four ethnic groups on board, and the Doctor and his companions are four people. Or maybe the truth of the matter is that when this story was filmed (1981), the [[Doomsday Clock]] was positioned at four minutes until midnight.
* [[Ridiculously
* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: Monarch is content to let his ministers do all the bad stuff.
* [[Space Is Cold]]: Wearing just an air-helmet, the Doctor explains that he can survive about five minutes in open space. Vacuum is apparently not a problem for his exposed skin; the time-limiting factor is explicitly named as the intense ''cold''.
* [[Suddenly Always Knew That]]: Good thing Tegan fluently speaks a 40,000 year old dialect of a random [[Australian Aborigines|Indigenous Australian]] language! (There are thousands of such languages, most of which wouldn't have existed by Tegan's
* [[Surveillance Drone]]: The Monopticon
* [[The Voiceless]]: Princess Villagra, who took a vow of silence.
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