Eighth Doctor Adventures: Difference between revisions

[[Eighth Doctor Adventures/Characters|Has a character page.]] Please keep most of the character-specific tropes there.

 

* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother|Absurdly Youthful Father]]: {{spoiler|The Doctor is reunited with his daughter Miranda when she's caught up to his [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|apparent age]] and seems to have more grey hair than he does.}}

* [[Adaptational Sexuality]]: This series marked the first time that the Doctor was not portrayed as straight, which very much carried over to ''[[Scream of the Shalka]]'' and, shortly afterwards, to the television series proper.

* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Surprisingly rare; they all seem to be concentrated between two adjacent books; ''The Turing Test'' and ''Endgame''. The latter seems to mostly use it as an excuse for gratuitous [[Info Dump]]. Oh, and ''The Domino Effect'' reintroduces an [[Alternate Universe]] version of a previously seen [[Historical Domain Character]], to fairly sad and touching effect, and then {{spoiler|more or less [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|Shoots The Shaggy Dog]] at the end}}.

* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: A bit.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Actually justified in ''Time Zero''. [[Bag of Holding|Clothes that are bigger on the inside]] are useful for more than just super-effective Spanx. Although they are [[Mundane Utility|useful]] for that, too.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Fitz and the Doctor are both occasionally guilty of these, and, probably unsurprisingly, Fitz's name makes him a bit of a [[Phrase Catcher]] for bad puns. He even mentions a [[Stealth Pun|reasonably subtle]] one his mum made once in ''Frontier Worlds''.

* [[It Runs in The Family]]: There's a reason Fitz's family is like this. But that's not a reason for why he's sometimes a bit of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].

* [[It's Been Done]]: The fandom takes much glee in pointing these out.

** {{spoiler|[[Where I Was Born and Razed|The Doctor being forced to destroy Gallifrey?]]}} ''Ancestor Cell''.

** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E13 The Wedding of River Song|The Doctor grows a beard and gets married?]] ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street''.

** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E13 The Big Bang|A skinny, kindhearted non-action guy]] {{spoiler|gets copied and spends thousands of years waiting for the person he loves?}} Sorry, {{spoiler|Rory}}, {{spoiler|Fitz}} did it first.

** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E13 The Big Bang|The TARDIS is cleverly referred to as being "old, new, borrowed, and blue"?]] Happened in ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street''.

* [[Jewish Mother]]: The Doctor's mother in ''The Blue Angel'' comes across as a little [[My Beloved Smother|controlling]], and has a thick [[The Old Country|Eastern European]] accent, creating an impression of [[Ambiguously Jewish|Ambiguous Judaism]]. She also fusses a lot over his health, although since he's [[Ambiguously Human|technically human]] but has two hearts, you can't blame her.

* [[Pop-Cultured Badass]]: Almost everyone. Fitz has been known to reference [[H.P. Lovecraft]], [[James Bond]], ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', and ''[[Star Trek]]'', and he's very into music, particularly from [[The Fifties]] and [[The Sixties]]. He also has a [[Cut Song]] (yes, you didn't think that happened in books) that just listed a bunch of [[It Was His Sled]] moments, designed to [[Take That, Audience!|irritate people who skipped to the end of the last book]]. The Doctor apparently likes ''[[X-Men]]'' and ''[[Transformers]]'', not to mention a scene where he [[Waxing Lyrical|starts quoting "All Along the Watchtower"]]. Anji makes some odd reference in almost every book, and seems to have given up on caring whether some [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]] gets it. And even Sabbath makes a [[Not So Above It All|rather hilarious]] reference to ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' in ''The Infinity Race''.

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: At least two villains have made disparaging remarks about the Doctor's apparent sexuality (he's [[The Dandy|rather dandyish]], and whether this has anything to do with [[Bi the Way|his sexuality]] is his own affair). He always handles it with complete savoir-faire: in one book, a villain shouts "Queer!" at him and then beats him up for good measure, and he shags the guy's wife, which was almost certainly not intended as a [[Take That]] but would have been a pretty awesome one if it was. He endeavored to convince a [[Mook]] who'd called him a "poof" [[Clipboard of Authority|that he was a cop and would write him up for discrimination]], and [[Cutting the Knot|when that didn't work]] he poked him in the ear with his pencil and shoved him off a boat. So, homophobes take warning: the Doctor bashes back.

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: In the audio play ''The Company of Friends (Fitz's Story)'', the only story to date from another medium to take place within EDA continuity, Anji spends the whole adventure sleeping off a strong drink in the TARDIS so the story can focus on the Doctor/Fitz team.

* [[Pungeon Master]]: Fitz, the Doctor, and everyone who's introduced to Fitz.

 

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