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* [[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.
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* [[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''.
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* [[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.
** Generally averted when it comes to Anji: the bad guys might brainwash her and kick her around and whatever else, but have not been noticed to say anything about her ethnicity, even though various minor characters sometimes do. Also, despite the fact that Sabbath, one of only a scant few recurring villains, is from the 18th century, he also usually averts this trope.<ref>Maybe he's learned something from people picking on his weight all the time, maybe he's just [[Ubermensch|above all that]] the same way he's above having hair, or maybe the fact his closest known relationship was with a [[Little Miss Badass]] from a remote Polynesian tribe made him less bigoted than the average 18th-century bloke.</ref> There is one instance where he tells Anji to [[You! Get Me Coffee!|go put the kettle on]]. Like [[wikipedia:800 lb gorilla|the proverbial 800-lb gorilla]], he gets away with it even though she's seething.
* [[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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