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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor refers to the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]] on [[9 November]] [[1989]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Protect and Survive (audio story)|Protect and Survive]]'')
* The Doctor wears the evening outfit that he wore at Amy and Rory's wedding on [[26 June]] [[2010]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') He also wore this outfit in Berlin in [[1938]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'') and Paris in [[1858]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Screams of Death]]'').
* The Doctor wears the evening outfit that he wore at Amy and Rory's wedding on [[26 June]] [[2010]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') He also wore this outfit in Berlin in [[1938]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'') and Paris in [[1858]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Screams of Death]]'').
* The Doctor mentions his latest visit to [[Athens]] in [[BC#5th century B.C.|410 BC]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Chains of Olympus]]'')
* The Doctor mentions his latest visit to [[Athens]] in [[BC#5th century B.C.|410 BC]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Chains of Olympus]]'')
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* Amy mentions that her favourite artist is [[Vincent van Gogh]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]'')
* Amy mentions that her favourite artist is [[Vincent van Gogh]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]'')
* Amy uses [[River Song]]'s [[hallucinogenic lipstick]], which River sent to her for [[Mother's Day]]. Assuming that this story is set during [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|the 2011 series]], this places this story in between ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'' and ''[[The God Complex]]''.
* Amy uses [[River Song]]'s [[hallucinogenic lipstick]], which River sent to her for [[Mother's Day]]. Assuming that this story is set during [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|the 2011 series]], this places this story in between ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'' and ''[[The God Complex]]''.
* The Doctor says that [[Prague]] in [[1989]] is not a [[fixed point in time]], and that anything could happen. He previously said the same about Earth in [[2020]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
* The Doctor says that [[Prague]] in 1989 is not a [[fixed point in time]], and that anything could happen. He previously said the same about Earth in [[2020]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
* When the Doctor discovers that they are in 1989, Rory says that his younger self "is in a cot in [[Leadworth]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Amy's Choice]]'', ''[[The Big Bang]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
* When the Doctor discovers that they are in 1989, Rory says that his younger self "is in a cot in [[Leadworth]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Amy's Choice]]'', ''[[The Big Bang]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
* Amy calls Rory "stupid face". ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')
* Amy calls Rory "stupid face". ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')

Revision as of 22:44, 24 October 2014

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The Broken Man was a Doctor Who Magazine comic story featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams. It marked the first appearance of the Lake family, who would return in the 50th anniversary comic strip special, Hunters of the Burning Stone. Even though they would appear in the following story, this strip was the final story to feature Amy and Rory travelling with the Doctor.

Summary

Prague, 1989: Patrick Lake and his family are desperate to return to London, but Patrick is hiding a dark secret from his wife - he is a British spy working undercover to bring down Yuri Azarov, a man whose rise to power leaves devastation for all. Patrick finds an ally in a traveller called the Doctor, a man whose name echoes throughout history, according to Patrick's associate Hugo Wilding. But the Doctor's attempt to discover the truth leaves Patrick's family - and Rory - at the mercy of Yuri and his sinister, inhuman, sidekick...

Plot

Part One: The Broken Man

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Part Two: From Russia With Hate

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Part Three: The Sorrows of Prague

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Part Four: The Sacrifice

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Characters

References

  • When talking about London, Heather Lake mentions Coronation Street, Hyde Park, fish and chips and Woolworths shops.
  • Rory was born in 1989.
  • The Doctor claims to be the ambassador of Syldavia.
  • References are made to the revolutions of 1989, the Polish and Hungarian revolutions, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, fixed points in time, and the Jewish legend of the Golem.

Notes

  • This is the first Eleventh Doctor DWM strip that does not feature the TARDIS.

Continuity

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