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** "Stevie Wonder sang in 1814?" "Yes. And you must never tell him."
* [[Arc Words]]: "The only water in the forest is the river" refers to {{spoiler|a cultural translation issue. There is no word in the Gamma Forest for a pond, only for a river. Melody Pond becomes River Song.}}
* [[Armor
{{quote| '''The Doctor''': Why would a Time Lord be a weapon?<br />
'''Vastra''': They've seen ''you''. }}
** The Doctor is so floored by the implications of this he has to sit down.
* [[Army of the Ages]]: See [[Badass Army]] below.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: When Dorium realizes that he's one of the Doctor's draftees.
{{quote| '''Dorium''': "You don't need me! Why would you need me?! I'm old! I'm fat! [[Crowning Moment of Funny|I'm blue!]]"}}
** Also, when Amy pick up some sort of tool (that looks like an electric toothbrush) in response to a knock on the door of her room
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* [[Awesome McCoolname]]/[[Fail O'Suckyname]]: Amy argues [[The Maiden Name Debate|the difference between "Amy Williams" and "Amy Pond"]] is the difference between a geography teacher and a superhero.
* [[Baby Language]]: The Doctor can speak it, apparently. What's hilarious is the lines of the one sided conversation he has with little Melody. Includes, "Really, you should call her mummy, not big milk thing," "It's my hair, it's real" and in regard to the bow-tie, [[Running Gag|"No, it's cool."]]
* [[Badass Army]]: Lets see, the Doctor brought alongside with him an army of Silurians including the one in Victorian England with a female human partner, the Judoon who are basically an intergalactic SWAT team, a Sontaran as a [[Combat Medic]], [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S32 E3 The Curse of the Black Spot|Captain Avery and his son]], an intergalactic black market dealer, with [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 E03 Victory of the Daleks|the Space Spitfires covering the skies]], Rory/"[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 E13 The Big Bang|The Lone Centurion]]" and of course, the The Doctor himself who is a [[One
* [[Badass Boast]]: The Moff delivers as usual.
{{quote| '''The Doctor''': "Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out [[Bait and Switch Comparison|why I have so many]]."<br />
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* [[Battle Couple]]: Vastra and Jenny.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: A Sontaran who regrets dying in battle? Talk about playing against your planet's hat.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: It's what the episode title ''means'', so you can expect a lot of it. Rory kicks much ass and the ''entire episode'' is basically showing us this about the Doctor. The 'Colonel Runaway' scene and his [[What the Hell, Hero?]] to River are all about showing the Doctor when he's really at the limit of his restraint.
{{quote| '''The Doctor''': "Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many."}}
** As Rory notes in the opening teaser;
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* [[He's Back]]: Rory the Roman, [[Let's Get Dangerous|all pimped out in battle gear and seriously ticked off]].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: A minor one when Madame Vastra tells the Doctor that the child can be a weapon because it's modeled after ''him''.
** A much bigger one after a scathing [[What the Hell, Hero?]] from {{spoiler|River}}: the Doctor realizes that the rest of the universe sees him as a dangerous and potentially insane warrior because of his actions. We haven't yet seen the full extent of this one, however.
* [[Hidden Agenda Villain]]: Arguably, Madame Kovarian. She's clearly a mysterious one, and outside of getting rid of the Doctor, she doesn't seem to have revealed any major ambitions... as of yet. It's not even clear exactly why she wants the Doctor gone. But what ''is'' clear, if she can play the Doctor like a fiddle, she's gotta be one [[Magnificent Bastard]], and she must have things in store for the universe, and specifically {{spoiler|Melody/Little!River}}.
* [[Hitler Cam]]: Several, given the prevalence of balconies and grand speeches. One for [http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DW_6x07_A_Good_Man_Goes_To_War_262.jpg Colonel Manton] and, oddly, one for [http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DW_6x07_A_Good_Man_Goes_To_War_335.jpg Madame Vastra].
* [[Hot Chick With a Sword]] and [[Hot Chick in A Badass Suit]]: Jenny. And Madame Vastra, if you like [[Green
* [[Hypocritical Humour]]: Vastra. She frequently shows disdain for mammals and implies she devours ones who annoy her, though she is also involved in a lesbian relationship with a human woman. She does seem to try to catch herself when she's being rude at least, commenting "how do you put up with me?".
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Dorium running towards the Headless Monks. Prior to that he'd been pretty [[Genre Savvy]].
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** As for the Doctor himself, this is not one of those episodes where he scares off his enemies by saying [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E9 Forest of the Dead|"You're in a library, look me up."]] No, this is one of the times when he shows exactly ''why'' everyone's so scared of him.
* [[Lovely Angels]]: Vastra and Jenny, though with no [[Les Yay|subtext]], it's right upfront.
* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: {{spoiler|River reveals she's Amy and Rory's daughter}}.
* [[Manly Tears]]: {{spoiler|Rory, upon returning Melody to Amy. Even more heartwarming is that he does it while saying he was trying to be "cool" and not cry}}.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The asteroid Madame Kovarian has set up shop on is called Demons Run. As in [[Beware the Nice Ones|"Demons run when a good man goes to war."]]
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** According to Steven Moffat, Lorna Bucket: {{spoiler|"Lorna the warner, the bucket that carried the pond to the river."}}
* [[Mood Whiplash]]:
** River and the Doctor trade [[What the Hell, Hero?|WhatTheHellHeros]] and the audience is quite caught up in it. Then the Doctor looks at the crib and he's giddy as a schoolboy. He bounces out of the room and...
{{quote| '''River''': "It's me. {{spoiler|I'm Melody. I'm your daughter.}}"<br />
* smash to black*<br />
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{{quote| '''Cyberman''': "Intruder Level 11! Seal off Levels 12, 13 and 14! ''[[Offscreen Teleportation|Intruder Level 15!]]''" }}
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Due to the Doctor's influence, Vastra no longer preys upon humans as she once did. On the other hand, she has no qualms about killing and ''eating'' [[Jack the Ripper]].
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: The Doctor has this combined with a [[Heroic Blue Screen of Death]] when he realizes just how much he's made people fear and hate him over the years, and what that's cost him and his loved ones.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: When Rory asks if there could be more than one Doctor, River says 'that's another sort of birthday', referencing the multi-Doctor anniversary specials (and perhaps hinting there will be another for the 50th anniversary?) as well as a very likely threesome.
** Also possibly a reference to the events of "First Night / Last Night" where the Doctor has to deal with trying to keep three River Songs from bumping into each other, each mistaking his TARDIS as the one that was meant to pick them up [[Timey
* [[
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Eye Patch Lady's real name is [[Obviously Evil|Madame Kovarian]].
** And of course, [[Mook Horror Show|for the antagonists]], The Doctor.
** Also the Last Centurion is becoming one of these.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: We can imply that the whole reason {{spoiler|River Song}} was taken from {{spoiler|Amy and Rory}} and became who she is today is because the Doctor has a love for theatrics and likes to make his enemies afraid of him. During the [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech given to him near the end by {{spoiler|River}} he seems to be having a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment when he realizes that he's partly culpable for the creation of a [[Child Soldier]] [[Tyke Bomb]]. Yeah, [[Sarcasm Mode|great going there]] Doctor.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: [[They Fight Crime|Crime-fighting]] [[Serial Killer Killer|serial-killer-hunting]] [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana-wielding]] [[Victorian Britain|Victorian]] [[Interspecies Romance|interspecies]] [[Les Yay|lesbians]].
{{quote| '''[[Neil Gaiman]]:''' "I think Madame Vastra should act as well as solve crimes. Then she'd be a [[Sublime Rhyme|Victorian Silurian Lesbian Thespian]]."}}
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** Dorium, when he realizes the Doctor's recruiting him too.
** The Doctor has one earlier, when he realizes that {{spoiler|baby Melody that Amy is protecting is actually a Flesh avatar, and that Madame Kovarian has successfully kidnapped the real child.}}
* [[One
* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: The Thin One and the Fat One. [[Lampshaded]].
{{quote| '''The Fat One''': "We're the thin/fat, gay, married Anglican Marines. Why would we need names as well?"}}
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{{quote| '''Rory''': "Where. Is. My. WIFE?"}}
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: Definitely one for the Doctor. He raised an army, kicked the ass of the bad guys with them, took control of the army and even got back the real Amy [[Everybody Lives|without a single fatality]] {{spoiler|up to that point}}. However, part of the mission was to save Amy and Rory's newborn daughter with them, which they failed and even some of the lives of the Doctor's army were lost in the battle. However, after finding out who [[The Reveal|River Song really is]], the Doctor is reinvigorated to rescue {{spoiler|her infant self}}. The battle may have been lost (or won, as the case may be), but the war is far from over.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Given to the Doctor {{spoiler|by River Song no less.}} It basically consists of "you're so successful at what you do that it's starting to scare people, so that whole non-violent schtick of yours is starting to seem kinda flimsy from where everyone else is standing".
** The 'Run away' speech the Doctor gives to Colonel Manton comes across as a sort of "The Reason You ''Will'' Suck Speech".
* [[Red Baron]]: Rory, the Lone/Last Centurion. Post Big Bang 2, his standing guard over the Pandorica has become part of the Earth's official mythology, and will never be forgotten.
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** Since the cot is the Doctor's, and River seems to point at its engraved Gallifreyan text when the Doctor asks her who she is, there are also hints that River could be a future incarnation of him. This was already hinted at in "The Doctor's Wife" when it was revealed that Time Lords can change sex when regenerating. It was [[David Tennant]]'s personal pet theory while filming River's first appearance, and when he revealed that to [[Steven Moffat]] during the audio commentary, Moffat was amused enough to tease the fans with it a little in this episode.
** The giant "door lock override" button. The guard dramatically inches his way toward it, almost making you think he'll succeed... and then Vastra tongue-whips him unconscious as if it's nothing.
* [[Redshirt Army]]: Subverted. The human [[Mooks]] out to kill the Doctor don't look as if they'll stand a chance against the hordes the Time Lord can call up, but the Doctor takes the base without a drop of blood being spilled. {{spoiler|Initially.}} ([[What Measure Is a Mook?|Just don't count the RedShirt and the Headless Monk killed when the Doctor briefly turned the two enemies against each other.]])
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: "The Doctor will return in '''LET'S KILL HITLER''' Autumn 2011"
** The Doctor makes a point by ''blowing the ever-loving crap out of an entire Cyber Legion''.
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* [[Villainous Valor]]: We all knew how outclassed Colonel Manton's forces would be, still remarkable they got as far as they did.
* [[Waistcoat of Style]]: Jenny's outfit is very stylish indeed.
* [[Well
* [[Wham Episode]]: Almost certainly, not least because it's the last episode of this half of the series, the apparent [[Gondor Calls for Aid|Doctor Calls For Aid]] scenario and [[The Reveal|River Song's identity being revealed.]] Moffat's been promising a cliffhanger that, rather than endanger the characters' lives, will change them forever.
** {{spoiler|The Doctor and company manage to save the baby, but it turns out to be a double bluff as the baby is Flesh. [[Timey
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: River and the Doctor actually exchange these speeches with one another at the end. {{spoiler|In fact, it could well be said that the entire, desperate attempt by the Clerics to create a weapon usable against the Doctor served as an enormous one of these}}.
{{quote| '''The Doctor''': "Where the ''[[Precision F
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: The "we are not fools" ploy might have worked had the Doctor been working alone as usual. Too bad he has an army.
** The [[Those Two Guys|fat/thin gay married Anglican marines]] seem to assume that they are quirky enough to outlive the story. [[Nominal Importance|They don't even need names!]] Unfortunately, in this series [[Anyone Can Die]].
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* [[Younger Than They Look]]: You wouldn't guess by looking at him, but {{spoiler|Strax is less than twelve years old}}.
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Or in this case, your {{spoiler|daughter is in another body}}.
* [[Zero Approval Gambit]]: River's [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech paints the Doctor's adventures as a very gradual version of this trope. Yes, the Doctor has saved worlds and more, but his methods in doing so and the occasional genocide have slowly changed his reputation from a healer and wise man to a [[Alternative Character Interpretation|dangerous, unpredictable and possibly insane warrior]] that some feel must be destroyed.
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