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* [[A God Am I]]: The Minotaur needs to be believed as this to get his "meals". And Rita accuses the Doctor of having a "[[Title Drop|God Complex]]". {{spoiler|The Minotaur himself doesn't believe this, though.}}
* [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]]: The Minotaur feeds on {{spoiler|the belief of people who worship it. Any belief will do in a pinch, though.}}
* [[Got the Call
* [[Gym Class Hell]]: briefly appears as one of the left-over fears.
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Doesn't actually happen, but Gibbis seems wistful at thought of being saved by slavers.
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** Not to mention leaving the possessed guy under the care of the guy whose species is notoriously cowardly.
* [[I'm Not a Hero, I'm X]] really just a mad man with a box.
* [[Internal Homage]]: The plot is similar to the Eighth Doctor's adventure on [[Big Finish Doctor Who
* [[Ironic Nursery Rhyme]]: ''Here comes a candle to light you to bed. Here comes a chopper to chop off your head. Chop… chop… chop… chop!''
** Double points for being an actual nursery rhyme. Note to foreigners: British nursery rhymes are [http://www.rhymes.org.uk/oranges_and_lemons.htm deeply disturbing.]
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* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Howie Spragg. They're even old fashioned.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: The core plot element, how each of the taken's faith is broken by being exposed to their worst fears that are generally otherwise mundane and non-threatening to anyone else. Doesn't help that some overlap with real fears (such as clowns)
* [[Noodle Incident]]: This apparently isn't the first time the Doctor has been [[Makes Just
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: The opening sequence shows a woman, Lucy Hayward, opening door after door in the hotel, and finding various nightmares, including a creepy clown. She's then drawn to one particular door - her door - and opens it to reveal… an empty room. ''Then'' the gorilla comes out the bathroom.
** Used again later when the Doctor finds his room: {{spoiler|we hear the cloister bell ringing, and can assume that a person is in there, but that's all.}}
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* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]:
{{quote| '''Rita:''' You are a ''medical'' doctor, aren't you? You don't have a degree in cheese or something?}}
* [[One Steve Limit]]: In the script read-through (shown on ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'') the policewoman in the opening sequence is named Lucy Miller. By the time of the actual episode, she has been renamed as Lucy Hayward, presumably to avoid confusion with [[Big Finish Doctor Who
* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]: What happens to planets over time, cutting off the Minotaur's source of "food": {{spoiler|faith.}}
** Played with; it's shown that {{spoiler|"faith"}} is a catch-all phrase for {{spoiler|any strongly-held value, be it a faith in luck related to a compulsive gambling habit, a mountain of crazy conspiracy theories, or [[Tear Jerker|the belief that compels a seven-year-old girl to hold on to the memory of an imaginary friend for fourteen years.]]}}
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* [[Shadow Archetype]]: The Minotaur and the Doctor are played as [[Not So Different|being very similar]]: traveling the universe in a vessel with strange dimensions, and which is stuck in its current guise, drawing people to themselves at random and compelling those people to have faith in them. Both ultimately destroy those trapped with them, not because they want to but out of a sort of compulsion. Many of the things the Minotaur says (voiced by the Doctor) can apply to either of them.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** [[Star Trek
** The setup of the episode as a whole is clearly based on the Minotaur of Crete from [[Greek Mythology]]: A bull/man monster trapped in an inescapable labyrinth, with victims periodically chucked in for it to feed on.
** [[House of Leaves|A constantly-shifting structure with a minotaur in it?]]
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* [[Wham! Episode]]: Bet you weren't expecting {{spoiler|Rory and Amy to part ways with the Doctor two episodes before the series ends.}}
* [["What Do They Fear?" Episode]]
* [[What Happened to
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Done to the Doctor by ''himself''.
* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: The crazy worshiper who won't shut up. They tape his mouth shut.
* [[Your Worst Nightmare]]: The maze brings people's fears into physical form. They include [[Monster Clown|clowns]], a gang of [[Alpha Bitch|Alpha Bitches]], [[Demonic Dummy|ventriloquist's dummies]], gorillas, P.E. teachers, paternal rejection, and ''[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S3 E10 Blink|Weeping]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31
* [[Zero-Approval Gambit]]: {{spoiler|The Doctor does this in order to save Amy from the monster — he tells her he's not worth believing in, and that he's done more harm than good to her. He was a bit nicer about it than he was [[Doctor Who/Recap/S26 E3 The Curse of Fenric|to Ace.]]}}
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