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* The Doctor mentions [[tea]] and [[HobNob|HobNobs]].
* The Doctor mentions [[tea]] and [[HobNob|HobNobs]].
* Jack criticises how the Doctor negotiates with the [[Excrothian|Lect]] by saying: "Hardly the way to make friends or influence people." This is a reference to the book ''{{w|How to Win Friends and Influence People}}''.


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* Rose calls Glom "[[Squidward]]", a reference to {{w|Spongebob Squarepants}}.
* Rose calls Glom "[[Squidward]]", a reference to {{w|Spongebob Squarepants}}.
* The Doctor compares Jack to [[James Bond]].  
* The Doctor compares Jack to [[James Bond]].  
* <span>Jack criticises how the Doctor negotiates with the </span>[[Excrothian|Lect]]<span> by saying: "Hardly the way to make friends or influence people." This is a reference to the book </span>''{{w|How to Win Friends and Influence People}}''<span>.</span>


=== Original print details ===
=== Original print details ===

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Weapons of Past Destruction was the five-part story of Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor comic strip mini-series published in 2015.

Summary

Leaving World War II behind, the Ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack discover that Time Lord technology, lost in the wake of the Time War, is being sold on the intergalactic black market!

Now the threat of a NEW temporal war brews on the horizon. Can the Doctor stop history repeating itself?​

Plot

Part one

Having just saved Blitz-stricken London from the threat of a damaged Chula warship and its runaway nanogenes, and with Jack having revealed his inner heroism by nearly blowing himself up while towing a German bomb into space, the Doctor, Rose and Jack are taking a tour of the universe, hoping for more sightseeing opportunities and fewer occasions of near-certain death.

However, the three arrive at Excroth to find the planet destroyed, despite the fact that they should have arrived "slap bang in the middle of the Second Excrothian Tetrarchy, a period of unparalleled scientific enlightenment". Almost immediately, a massive ship decloaks and captures the TARDIS with a tractor beam; the Doctor storms out of his timeship to confront a platoon of massive robotic Lect, which confine the Doctor, Rose, and Jack inside a localised force field and demand to know why the travellers have come to the Excroth system.

The Doctor, however, uses his sonic screwdriver to activate Jack's vortex manipulator and teleport the three to the safety of a storage bay. There, Rose finds a tachyon inhibitor, which, the Doctor explains, protects "its wearer from cause and effect", and the Doctor explains that "the whole system is buzzing with chronon particles". Moments later, the storage bay's artificial gravity fails as a squadron of armored centaur-like Unon attack the ship.

The Doctor attempts to lead Rose and Jack back to the TARDIS, but the three are intercepted by a group of Lect, who order the Doctor and his companions to leave the ship. Another moment later, one of the Lect is destroyed by an Unon fighter, who blasts a hole in the ship, creating a decompression leak that nearly drags Jack and Rose out into space. Rose begins to glow when the tachyon inhibitor on her wrist activates, and one of the Lect reactivates the ship's external shield, saving the two humans. The Doctor offers to help the Lect escape their damaged ship even as another of the robots is destroyed by an Unon fighter, but the Lect insist that his kind "never run from battle" before attempting to terminate the Doctor.

Jack knocks the Doctor out of the way, blasting off the Lect's arm with his sidearm before the three escape and head for the TARDIS while Rose demands to know why she started glowing when the tachyon inhibitor activated. When they are intercepted by another Lect, Jack blasts it with his sidearm before the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to destroy Jack's weapon, and the three of them finally make their way back to the TARDIS. The Doctor and Jack rush into the timeship, but Rose's jacket becomes snagged on the severed arm of the destroyed Lect as the police box door slams shut. The TARDIS dematerialises just as the Lect ship is destroyed, causing Rose and the Lect to be thrown directly into the Time Vortex, where the tachyon inhibitor on Rose's wrist activates.

Part two

As Rose falls through the Vortex, the Doctor tries to materialise the TARDIS around her, but only her jacket appears within. Meanwhile, Rose wakes up next to a squid-like alien. The Doctor refuses to believe she is dead, and uses the TARDIS to track the DNA from her jacket. However, the coordinates it finds would place her in the middle of a supernova in the Beart system. Jack materialises the TARDIS on a nearby planetoid, Fluren's World. They find the sun's nova is being held back by a time bubble, technology that hasn't existed since the Time War.

Jack takes the Doctor to the Fluren Temporal Bazaar, a black market for time weapons. There, they find Rose, who has been stuck there for four days. She fell through the Vortex, and the tachyon inhibitor protected her from the time winds. Glom, the squid alien, picked her up with his ship's time scoops. The Doctor recognises one of Glom's weapons, and realises they're all from Gallifrey. He flips Glom's table in anger, and steps up to make an announcement. He's offering his Time Lord mind for sale, in an attempt to attract the Unon. Instead, the Lect appear.

Part three

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Part four

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Part five

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Characters

References

Notes

  • This is the first Ninth Doctor comic story to be released since Prisoners of Time in 2013, and the first to be released by Titan Comics overall.
  • Captain Jack jokingly calls the Doctor "Spock", referring to the character from Star Trek. The actor who played him, Leonard Nimoy, passed away a couple months before the release of the comic mini-series.
  • Rose calls Glom "Squidward", a reference to Spongebob Squarepants.
  • The Doctor compares Jack to James Bond.
  • Jack criticises how the Doctor negotiates with the Lect by saying: "Hardly the way to make friends or influence people." This is a reference to the book How to Win Friends and Influence People.

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