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{{Infobox Comic|
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comic name= End Game |
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{{ImageLink|Endgame DWM comic story}}
series= [[Doctor Who Magazine comic strips|Doctor Who]] -<BR> [[Eighth Doctor comic strip stories]]|
{{Infobox Story SMW
doctor= [[Eighth Doctor]]|
|range          = DWM comic stories{{!}}DWM Comics
companions= [[Izzy Sinclair]]|
|number in range = 91
enemy= [[Celestial Toymaker]]|
|image          = Celestial Toymaker End Game.jpg
year= [[Stockbridge]]|
|doctor          = Eighth Doctor
writer= [[Alan Barnes]]|
|companions      = [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]]
editor=[[Gary Gillatt]] & [[Scott Gray]]|
|featuring      = [[Maxwell Edison|Max]]
artist= [[Martin Geraghty]], [[Robin Smith]], [[Robin Riggs]]|
|enemy          = [[The Toymaker]]
colourist=None - Black and White|
|setting        = [[Stockbridge]], [[19 December]] [[1996]]
lettering=[[Elitta Fell]]|
|writer         = Alan Barnes
publication title= [[Doctor Who Magazine]] [[DWM Issue 244|244]]-[[DWM Issue 247|247]]|
|editor         = [[Gary Gillatt]] & [[Scott Gray]]
publication dates= [[23rd October]] [[1996]] - [[15th January]] [[1997]]|
|artist         = [[Martin Geraghty]], [[Robin Smith]], [[Robin Riggs]]
publisher= [[Marvel Comics UK]]|
|colourist       =  
format= Comic - 4 parts |
|letterer        = [[Elitta Fell]]
previous story= [[Doctor Who and the Fangs of Time]]<br>[[Ground Zero]]|
|publication     = [[DWM 244]]-[[DWM 247|247]]
next story= [[The Keep]]|
|release date    = 26 September - 19 December 1996
}}
|cover date      = 23 October 1996 - 15 January 1997
:''For other ''End Games'' see [[End Game (disambiguation)]].''
|publisher       = Marvel Comics UK
|format         = Comic  
|epcount        = 4
|series          = [[DWM comic stories]]
|prev            = Doctor Who and the Fangs of Time (comic story)
|next           = The Keep (comic story)
}}{{you may|Endgame (graphic novel)|End Game (DWBIT comic story)|n1=the graphic novel|n2=the Battles in Time comic strip of a similar name}}
'''''Endgame''''', also titled '''''End Game''''', was the first [[Eighth Doctor]] strip in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. It reintroduced the character of [[Maxwell Edison]], absent since the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s DWM run, and linked him to the Eighth Doctor's new [[companion]], [[Izzy Sinclair]]. Furthermore, the story depicted the first comic-based story encounter between [[the Doctor]] and [[the Toymaker]], with dialogue indicating that this was the characters first meeting since the events of ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]''.


==Summary==
== Summary ==
[[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] lands in [[Stockbridge]] where he is quickly attacked by men who identify themselves as The Butcher, The Baker, and The Candlestick Maker.  The Doctor is saved by [[Izzy Sinclair]] and [[Maxwell Edison|Max Edison]]. The three of them soon discover that they are not in the real Stockbridge but in something the Doctor calls a "macro-dimensional pocket" created by the [[Celestial Toymaker]] who is looking for "the Focus," a small round device in Izzy's possession.  
Returning to Stockbridge, the Doctor is reunited with an old friend, gains a new companion and comes into conflict with an old enemy.


After capturing Izzy and Max, the Doctor turns the Focus over to the Toymaker who reveals that the device is part of a mirror called the Imagineum made long ago by alien alchemists. The Toymaker uses the Imagineum to make an evil duplicate of the Doctor. However, as the Doctor and his duplicate fight, the Doctor convinces the duplicate that the Toymaker is untrustworthy and ends their fight. The Doctor then uses the Imagineum to to create a duplicate of the Toymaker. The Toymaker and his double fight, causing them bother to disappear back into the Toymaker's home dimension. The Doctor then breaks the Imagineum's mirror and frees the real Stockbridge.
== Plot ==
On horseback, [[Knights Templar|Knight Templar]] [[Marwood (Endgame)|Marwood]] pursues and kills a man named [[Felix (Endgame)|Felix]]. [[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] arrives in the valley below, in the [[village]] of [[Stockbridge]], but things are not as familiar as they should be, and the [[Eighth Doctor]] is soon attacked by grotesquely [[doll]]-like people. He is saved by [[Izzy Sinclair]] and [[Maxwell Edison]] who tell him that Stockbridge has been invaded by aliens. However, Marwood arrives and disputes this. Izzy has a pendant named the [[Focus]] that belongs to him. He and his [[fox]]-headed huntsmen give chase as the Doctor, Max and Izzy run for the TARDIS. But the [[Celestial Toymaker]] is waiting for them.


With things back to normal, the Doctor prepares to leave. He asks Max to join him but Max replies that while he would love to, there are some crop circles that he needs to investigate instead. The Doctor then asks Izzy to join him. She enthusiastically agrees and they enter the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] and take off for their next adventure.
The Doctor informs a perplexed Izzy that the he once bested the Toymaker in [[trilogic game|a game]], and so the Toymaker wants a rematch. The Toymaker reveals that the village is not the real Stockbridge, but as the Doctor and Izzy escape into the TARDIS, Max is caught. Izzy explains that two days before, she and Max returned to Stockbridge to find it strangely changed and all the people either missing or possessed. They met Felix, who was Marwood's adjutant, who had stolen the Focus. He charged Izzy and Max with getting it away from Stockbridge. The Doctor thinks the real Stockbridge is close by and disengages the TARDIS's sub-spatial gyros to get there, but the Toymaker has them and the whole village trapped in a [[snow globe]].


==Characters==
Realising the stakes, the Doctor and Izzy return to the Toymaker's version of Stockbridge to play the games set for them. Entering a floating castle, they are drawn into the Toymaker's domain where the Toymaker forces the Doctor to play a deadly game of hangman... with Izzy on the gallows. He loses and surrenders the Focus, which is part of a contraption known as the [[Imagineum]], a device capable to transmuting raw light into matter itself. The Toymaker uses it to create a champion to defeat the Doctor, which is [[Eighth Doctor (Imagineum)|a twisted version]] of the [[Time Lord]] himself, after having spent [[millennia]] in his banishment to the [[ether]] to find the best way to defeat his rival.
 
Izzy and Max are pursued by the fox-headed huntsmen in a game of Mousetrap while the Doctor battles himself. However, as his destruction seems inevitable, he tells his evil duplicate that the Toymaker will never set him free and will always keep him as a plaything. The duplicate stops to listen. Izzy and Max, meanwhile, turn the tables on the huntsmen and drop a large weight on them, just as in the traditional game. Marwood is distraught at the demise of his little foxes and turns on the Toymaker, who casually kills him. This act is enough to convince the Doctor's duplicate that the Doctor speaks the truth. While he distracts the Toymaker, the Doctor uses the Imagineum to create [[Celestial Toymaker (Imagineum)|a duplicate Toymaker]] who drags the real Toymaker back to the [[Dark Places]] whence the Toymaker came, locked in perpetual stalemate. The Doctor's duplicate then destroys the Imagineum and himself. With the Toymaker gone, the fake Stockbridge begins to break apart. Max finds the real village locked in the snow globe, actually a macro-dimensional linkage device and the Doctor is able to transpose the containment vectors to restore the village. The Doctor invites both Max and Izzy aboard the TARDIS, but only Izzy accepts.
 
== Characters ==
* [[Eighth Doctor]]
* [[Eighth Doctor]]
* [[Izzy Sinclair]]
* [[Izzy Sinclair]]
* [[Celestial Toymaker]]
* [[Celestial Toymaker]]
*[[Maxwell Edison|Max Edison]]
* [[Maxwell Edison]]
:*The Doctor offers Max a trip in the TARDIS.
* [[Knights Templar|Knight Templar]] [[Marwood (Endgame)|Marwood]]
* [[Imagineum]] [[Eighth Doctor (Imagineum)|Eighth Doctor]]
* [[Felix (Endgame)|Felix]]
* [[Imagineum]] [[Celestial Toymaker (Imagineum)|Celestial Toymaker]]
* [[Rufus (Endgame)|Rufus]]
* [[Reynard (Endgame)|Reynard]]
* [[Basil (Endgame)|Basil]]
* [[Grum (Endgame)|Grum]]
* [[Sandra Sinclair]]
* [[Les Sinclair]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor carries an [[alarm clock]] from [[Somnambulos IV]].
* Izzy expected the TARDIS to be more like the Star Ship ''[[USS Enterprise|Enterprise]]''.
* There is an [[Osiran]] grimoire in the TARDIS library.
* One of Izzy's first stops in her initial TARDIS experience is the [[TARDIS library]], where she finds ''[[Pavlovian Response in the Undead]]'', ''[[Secrets of the Black Museum]]'' and ''[[Jane's Alien Artefacts]]''.
* The Toymaker has bested [[Le Chiffre]] at [[baccarat]] and [[Napoléon Bonaparte]] at [[risk]].


==References==
== Notes ==
*''T''here is an [[Osirian]] grimoire in the TARDIS library, it tingles Izzy's fingers when she picks it up because it's alive. The Doctor apparently went through a great deal to collect that volume, commenting that izzy "has no idea how much trouble it was to get that".<br />
* The first words spoken by the [[Eighth Doctor]] in his comic book tenure are: "''Freshly-mown [[grass]]. [[Linseed oil]]. [[September]] [[hay]] and [[blackberry|blackberries]]... the chirrup of crickets and a murmur of applause in the afternoon sun... Stockbridge. Definitely civilisation!''"
* ''Endgame'' was reprinted in the ''[[Endgame (graphic novel)|Endgame]]'' graphic novel.
* The name "Marwood" is a reference to the film ''[[Withnail and I]]'', which starred [[Richard E Grant]] and [[Paul McGann]], both of whom have portrayed various incarnations of the Doctor<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://twitter.com/senrab_nala/status/1114818410112868352
|title = "Yes!"
|website name = Twitter
|author = Alan Barnes
|date of source = 7 April 2019
|accessdate = 26 October 2024
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20220609150246/https://twitter.com/senrab_nala/status/1114818410112868352
|archivedate = 9 June 2022
}}</ref> and both exist in-universe. The name "Marwood" was also used for the character [[Claudia Marwood]], who, in a erotic novel called ''The Stranger'', fell in love with a character very heavily implied to be the Eighth Doctor during the "Earth arc" of the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|BBC ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'']]. The novel also featured other homages to ''Withnail and I''.
* ''Endgame'' posits that this is the first encounter between the Doctor and the Toymaker since {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}}, with the Doctor referring to only the 1966 serial when recapping their previous encounter, and the Toymaker also states that he was outright banished into the [[ether]] for [[millennia]] upon his last defeat, in which time he had being searching for a way to best the Doctor. However, several stories published since have depicted incarnations of the Doctor between the first and eighth incarnations facing the Toymaker.


==Notes==
== Continuity ==
*reprinted with other stories in the [[Endgame (graphic novel)|Endgame]] graphic novel
* Max tells Izzy about how he met the Doctor, which was depicted in [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Stars Fell on Stockbridge (comic story)}}.
* The Doctor indicates that this is his first encounter with the Toymaker since [[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}}, with the Toymaker threatening to turn the Doctor [[invisible]] again. The Toymaker also indicates that he hadn't faced the Doctor since his debut serial.
* The Doctor mentions riding with the Templar Knights in [[Palestine]], who the [[First Doctor]] met during [[TV]]: {{cs|The Crusade (TV story)}}.
* Marwood and Max refer to the Toymaker as the "Mandarin", a name which originated in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)}}.


==Continuity==
== External links ==
*The Celestial Toymaker first appeared in [[DW]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker]]''.
{{dwrefguide|comic8.htm#dwm244|End Game}}
:*The Celestial Toymaker has also appeared in: [[DWM]]: ''[[The Greatest Gamble]]'', [[TME]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair]]'', [[DWM]]: ''[[Games]]'', [[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'' and [[BFA]]: ''[[The Magic Mousetrap]]''.


==[[Eighth Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]]==
== Footnotes ==
*This story occurs after [[BFA]]: ''[[To the Death]]''
{{reflist}}
*This story takes place before [[DWM]]: ''[[The Keep]]''


==External links==
{{Eighth Doctor DWM comics}}
* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/comic8.htm#dwm244 The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of '''End Game''']
{{Toymaker sources}}
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[[Category:Stories set in 1996]]
[[Category:Four part comics]]

Latest revision as of 20:07, 3 November 2024

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You may be looking for the graphic novel or the Battles in Time comic strip of a similar name.

Endgame, also titled End Game, was the first Eighth Doctor strip in Doctor Who Magazine. It reintroduced the character of Maxwell Edison, absent since the Fifth Doctor's DWM run, and linked him to the Eighth Doctor's new companion, Izzy Sinclair. Furthermore, the story depicted the first comic-based story encounter between the Doctor and the Toymaker, with dialogue indicating that this was the characters first meeting since the events of The Celestial Toymaker.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Returning to Stockbridge, the Doctor is reunited with an old friend, gains a new companion and comes into conflict with an old enemy.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

On horseback, Knight Templar Marwood pursues and kills a man named Felix. The TARDIS arrives in the valley below, in the village of Stockbridge, but things are not as familiar as they should be, and the Eighth Doctor is soon attacked by grotesquely doll-like people. He is saved by Izzy Sinclair and Maxwell Edison who tell him that Stockbridge has been invaded by aliens. However, Marwood arrives and disputes this. Izzy has a pendant named the Focus that belongs to him. He and his fox-headed huntsmen give chase as the Doctor, Max and Izzy run for the TARDIS. But the Celestial Toymaker is waiting for them.

The Doctor informs a perplexed Izzy that the he once bested the Toymaker in a game, and so the Toymaker wants a rematch. The Toymaker reveals that the village is not the real Stockbridge, but as the Doctor and Izzy escape into the TARDIS, Max is caught. Izzy explains that two days before, she and Max returned to Stockbridge to find it strangely changed and all the people either missing or possessed. They met Felix, who was Marwood's adjutant, who had stolen the Focus. He charged Izzy and Max with getting it away from Stockbridge. The Doctor thinks the real Stockbridge is close by and disengages the TARDIS's sub-spatial gyros to get there, but the Toymaker has them and the whole village trapped in a snow globe.

Realising the stakes, the Doctor and Izzy return to the Toymaker's version of Stockbridge to play the games set for them. Entering a floating castle, they are drawn into the Toymaker's domain where the Toymaker forces the Doctor to play a deadly game of hangman... with Izzy on the gallows. He loses and surrenders the Focus, which is part of a contraption known as the Imagineum, a device capable to transmuting raw light into matter itself. The Toymaker uses it to create a champion to defeat the Doctor, which is a twisted version of the Time Lord himself, after having spent millennia in his banishment to the ether to find the best way to defeat his rival.

Izzy and Max are pursued by the fox-headed huntsmen in a game of Mousetrap while the Doctor battles himself. However, as his destruction seems inevitable, he tells his evil duplicate that the Toymaker will never set him free and will always keep him as a plaything. The duplicate stops to listen. Izzy and Max, meanwhile, turn the tables on the huntsmen and drop a large weight on them, just as in the traditional game. Marwood is distraught at the demise of his little foxes and turns on the Toymaker, who casually kills him. This act is enough to convince the Doctor's duplicate that the Doctor speaks the truth. While he distracts the Toymaker, the Doctor uses the Imagineum to create a duplicate Toymaker who drags the real Toymaker back to the Dark Places whence the Toymaker came, locked in perpetual stalemate. The Doctor's duplicate then destroys the Imagineum and himself. With the Toymaker gone, the fake Stockbridge begins to break apart. Max finds the real village locked in the snow globe, actually a macro-dimensional linkage device and the Doctor is able to transpose the containment vectors to restore the village. The Doctor invites both Max and Izzy aboard the TARDIS, but only Izzy accepts.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The first words spoken by the Eighth Doctor in his comic book tenure are: "Freshly-mown grass. Linseed oil. September hay and blackberries... the chirrup of crickets and a murmur of applause in the afternoon sun... Stockbridge. Definitely civilisation!"
  • Endgame was reprinted in the Endgame graphic novel.
  • The name "Marwood" is a reference to the film Withnail and I, which starred Richard E Grant and Paul McGann, both of whom have portrayed various incarnations of the Doctor[1] and both exist in-universe. The name "Marwood" was also used for the character Claudia Marwood, who, in a erotic novel called The Stranger, fell in love with a character very heavily implied to be the Eighth Doctor during the "Earth arc" of the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures. The novel also featured other homages to Withnail and I.
  • Endgame posits that this is the first encounter between the Doctor and the Toymaker since The Celestial Toymaker [+]Loading...["The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)"], with the Doctor referring to only the 1966 serial when recapping their previous encounter, and the Toymaker also states that he was outright banished into the ether for millennia upon his last defeat, in which time he had being searching for a way to best the Doctor. However, several stories published since have depicted incarnations of the Doctor between the first and eighth incarnations facing the Toymaker.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Max tells Izzy about how he met the Doctor, which was depicted in COMIC: Stars Fell on Stockbridge [+]Loading...["Stars Fell on Stockbridge (comic story)"].
  • The Doctor indicates that this is his first encounter with the Toymaker since TV: The Celestial Toymaker [+]Loading...["The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)"], with the Toymaker threatening to turn the Doctor invisible again. The Toymaker also indicates that he hadn't faced the Doctor since his debut serial.
  • The Doctor mentions riding with the Templar Knights in Palestine, who the First Doctor met during TV: The Crusade [+]Loading...["The Crusade (TV story)"].
  • Marwood and Max refer to the Toymaker as the "Mandarin", a name which originated in PROSE: The Nightmare Fair [+]Loading...["The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)"].

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Alan Barnes (7 April 2019). "Yes!". Twitter. Archived from the original on 9 June 2022. Retrieved on 26 October 2024.
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