The Broken Man (comic story)

	Eleventh Doctor
	Amy, Rory
	Yuri Azarov, the Mavora, Sergal
	Prague, 1989
	[[publisher::Panini Comics]]
	Tom Spilsbury Peter Ware
	Scott Gray
	Martin Geraghty
	James Offredi
	Doctor Who Magazine 451 - 454
	30 August 2012
	Comic - 4 parts
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The Broken Man was a Doctor Who Magazine comic story featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams.

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

• Eleventh Doctor
• Amy Pond
• Rory Williams
• Patrick Lake
• Heather Lake
• Alice Lake
• Yuri Azarov
• Rhoda Hoffmann
• Saul Hoffmann
• Hugo Wilding
• Ambassador Golovkin
• Sergal

References

• When talking about London, Heather mentions Coronation Street, Hyde Park, Fish & Chips and Woolworths shops.

Notes

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

Continuity

• The Doctor wears the evening outfit that he wore at Amy and Rory's wedding in TV: The Big Bang. He also wore this outfit in Berlin. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler) and in Paris. (COMIC: The Screams of Death)
• The Doctor mentions his latest visit to Athens. (COMIC: The Chains of Olympus)
• Rory punches Sergal. He previously punched Adolf Hitler and the Doctor. (TV: The Big Bang, Let's Kill Hitler)
• Amy uses River Song's hallucinogenic lipstick, which River sent to her for Mother's Day. Assuming that this story is set during 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)
• When the Doctor discovers that they are in 1989, Rory says that "he 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)
• When questioned by Patrick about his identity, the Doctor hands him a top secret file with infomation about his relationship with Winston Churchill, and a picture of The Doctor and Churchill is shown. (TV: Victory of the Daleks)
• When interrogated by Yuri, Rory mentions being a plastic Roman. (TV: The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang)

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