The Man With No Name (fanfic): Difference between revisions

 

Taking place about six months after the [[The Movie]], the ''Serenity'' crew is strapped for cash and takes on the ridiculous job of hunting down an alien. Meanwhile, after the events of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/2006 CS the Runaway Bride/Recap|The Runaway Bride]]'', the Doctor decides to go someplace completely new, and finds himself having to convince Mal to take him on as a passenger. So long as their ship has enough room for a blue storage shed..

* [[Alien Blood]]: The Doctor's blood is a paler shade of red than a human's.

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Simon'''}}: His blood is the wrong color!<br />

* [[Genre Savvy]]: The Doctor, even more so than usual.

* [[Go Look At the Distraction]]: The Doctor throws a [[Hypno Trinket]] up in the air, hoping some brainwashed thugs will stare at it long enough for River to beat the snot out of them.

* [[Great Offscreen War]]: Both the Time War and the war between the Alliance and the Browncoats are integral to the backstories and motivations of pretty-much every single character.

* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: The ''Serenity'' crew tends to forget that a giant blue box from the [[Earth That Was]] is sitting around in storage. [[Human Alien|The Doctor himself]] also counts, as they are supposed to be looking for an alien, but they keep getting sidetracked.

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: The [[Big Bad]] at one point successfully {{spoiler|breaks into the Doctor's mind. [[Oh Crap|It's exactly what the Doctor wanted him to do]]}}.

* [[Hypno Trinket]]: These were used primarily to gain control over {{spoiler|Reavers (as well as a few humans)}}.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: The primary reasoning of the [[Big Bad]], as well as Zeke, the leader of a town plagued by Reavers.

* [[Implausible Deniability]]: Invoked when Inara and the Doctor are {{spoiler|escaping from the enemy base}}).

{{quote| '''The Doctor''': You must be mistaken, Leftenant. The lady and I were just out for a stroll. You must have mistaken us for someone else.<br />

*Jayne proceeds to open fire* }}

* [[Irony]]: [[Human Alien|The Doctor]] is clearly enjoying himself immensely every time somebody mentions how stupid the idea of aliens is.

* [[The Lancer]]: Mal and the Doctor are essentially [[The Hero|the heroes]] on their own shows. When stuck together, though, the Doctor acts as Mal's Lancer and vice-versa.

* [[Laughing Mad]]: Actually invoked by the Doctor. Everyone is duly freaked out by it.

{{quote| '''[[Big Bad]]''': You cannot escape, Doctor! <br />

'''The Doctor''': I can't begin to tell you how often I've heard that line over the centuries. }}

* [[No Name Given]]: The crew is less than amused that the Doctor refuses to tell them his name.

* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: When Jayne says they're going to use their doctor for treatment, the Doctor says he doesn't do surgery.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Comes up when River mentions that the Doctor is too old for her. Mal, believing himself to be about the same age, feels rather put out by this.

** A bit meta, but Nathan Fillion and David Tennant are less than a month apart age-wise. Were the Doctor human and the both of them the same age as their actors, Reynolds would be right on the money.

* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: {{spoiler|Mal and Inara are engaged by the end}}.

* [[The Sixth Ranger]]: By the end, the Doctor has more or less fulfilled this role.

* [[Voice of the Resistance]]: Mal is recruited to be this. {{spoiler|He turns them down}}.

* [[Weirdness Censor]]: A literal one. The [[Big Bad]] uses a device similar to what the TARDIS has to keep up the [[Masquerade]] at his hideout.

* [[You Do NOT Want to Know]]:

{{quote| '''Mal''': Kaylee, find something for the doc to do. He don't need to be fussin' the whole time we're gone.<br />