Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E06 The Vampires of Venice: Difference between revisions

* [[Black Dude Dies First|Black Girl Dies First.]] And her father dies next. Second episode this season with this trope.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: The TARDIS sparks and smokes and explodes...

* [[Broomstick Quarterstaff]]: Attempted by Rory...

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Rory. As an illustration, when bluffing their way past an [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] with the psychic paper, the Doctor becomes 'your Holiness' and Amy a viscountess. And Rory?

** Worth noting here that the title "Your Holiness" implies that he's the Pope.

* [[California Doubling]]: Or Croatia Doubling, since the city of Trogir has authentically Venetian architecture (but no canals).

* [[Fan Disservice]] ([[In-Universe]]): The Doctor bursting out of the cake instead of a bikini girl. Not what they were anticipating.

* [[Fee Fi Faux Pas]]: The cake scene.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 E11 The Lodger|There's are no upstairs neighbors.]]

** Rosanna claims her people ran from the silence. {{spoiler|Or perhaps, the Silents.}}

* [[Freud Was Right]]

'''The Doctor:''' Let's not go there. }}

* [[Foe Yay]]: Despite everything, the Doctor and Rosanna were standing very close, and it's safe to say what Rosanna was suggesting with the line "Think of the children," given their conversation before hand. The [[Foe Yay]] comes to a crashing halt, however, when [[Berserk Button|the Doctor learns that Rosanna hasn't been bothering to learn the names of the human girls she's converting into breeding stock.]]

* [[Game Face]]: explained as {{spoiler|the survival instinct overriding a perception filter}}.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Rory cuts off the Doctor's 'it's bigger on the inside' speech by pointing out that he's been doing some reading up on 'the latest theories' since their encounter with Prisoner Zero. The Doctor is a little pissed off:

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "Yours is bigger than mine."

** Which is then [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]:

* [[Glamour Failure]]

* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]

** Averted later on, as the alien fish race is apparently screwed, even though Rosanna was still alive (and thus she kills herself)

* [[Jade-Colored Glasses]]: In the 'Extra' the Doctor explains this is why he has Companions, though Amy suggests there are other reasons (see [[Unwanted Harem]])

'''Doctor:''' Everything -- I look at a star there's just a big ball of burning gas and I know how it began and I know how it ends...and [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|I was probably there both times]]. After a while everything is just ''stuff''. That's the problem; you make all of space and time your backyard and what do you have? A back-yard. But you; you can see it. And when you see it I see it. }}

* [[Jumping Out of a Cake]]: The Doctor does this at the very beginning.

* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: Subverted. Rory would appreciate it if he was ''not'' introduced as Amy's brother.

* [[Literal Minded]]:

'''The Doctor''': No, I kissed her ''mouth''. }}

* [[Mars Needs Women]]