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* [[Future Me Scares Me]]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|John, offscreen.}}
* [[Hey
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Somehow the Family completely fails to notice the fact that {{spoiler|Smith / the Doctor seems to be going out of his way to trip over himself and press certain buttons.}} It's not all that well concealed.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: "The Time Lord has such adventures… but he could never have a life like that."
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* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: Son of Mine. '''''[http://www.danielkanolik.co.uk/Images/harrylloyd.jpg SON OF MINE.]'''''
* [[Puppet Master|Puppet Masters]]: The Family.
* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Joan. See [[What the Hell, Hero?]] below.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: A ''[[Tranquil Fury|calm]]'' example.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: The Headmaster delivers one to Son of Mine (which doubles as the writer criticising the way public attitudes to [[World War One]] have often been portrayed in British media):
{{quote| '''Son of Mine:''' [[War Is Hell|War is coming. In foreign fields, war of the whole wide world, with all your boys falling down in the mud]]. Do you think they will thank the man who taught them it was glorious?<br />
'''Headmaster:''' Don't you forget, boy, I've been a soldier. I was in [[Second Boer War|South Africa]], I used my dead mates as sandbags, I fought with the butt of my rifle when the bullets ran out, and I would go back there tomorrow ''[[Patriotic Fervor|for King and country!]]''<br />
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* [[Uncanny Valley]]: All of the Family, Most notable offenders are Son of Mine and Daughter of Mine.
* [[Visible Invisibility]]: When Baines strikes the ship's invisibility field, it briefly becomes visible.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Joan delivers a devastating [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] in the episode's denouement. Too bad the Doctor doesn't seem to have listened.
{{quote| ''He was braver than you, in the end — that ordinary man. You chose to change. He chose to die. … If the Doctor had never visited us, never chosen this place — ''on a whim'' — would anyone here have died?''}}
** Though the end of the episode shows that at least two people ''survived'' because of him, thanks to Latimer's knowledge of the future.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: ''The entire episode'' falls into this trope. Although {{spoiler|a descendant of Joan Redfern has written a book about John Smith and his Journal of Impossible Things}} in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E17 E18 The End of Time|The End of Time]]'', the Family's attack on the village, from the disappearances to an ''aerial bombardment'', seem to have completely vanished from English history, as the show never mentions it again.
** A valid explanation is put forward in Series 5.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: {{spoiler|The Family certainly don't by the end.}}
* [[World War One]]
* [[The X of Y]]
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