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, and was the final story to feature Amy and Rory travelling with the Doctor, though they would appear in the following story without him.
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 Eleventh 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
Worldbuilding
- When reminiscing about London, Heather Lake mentions missing Coronation Street, Hyde Park, fish and chips and Woolworths shops.
- Among the minds that travelled to Prague where Franz Kafka, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Albert Einstein.
- The Doctor claims to be "Doctor Zhivago" of the Party Security Directorate and Ambassador Ottokar of Syldavia.
- The Doctor tells Rhoda that he, Amy and Rory are reporters from the BBC.
- Rhoda has ambitions to go to St Martin's College and see the Rembrandt Museum in Amsterdam.
- During the revolutions of 1989, the Polish and Hungarians "opted out" of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall was destroyed.
- Rory was born in 1989, with him quipping that his younger self is "sleeping in a cot in Leadworth" when the Doctor tells him they are in 1989.
- Karel Capek coined the word "robot" in 1920 Prague.
- Azarov's fake immigration to America is being handled under Operation Broken Man.
- Amy compares herself to Joan Collins in her dress.
- Azarov shows disgust towards Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviets' retreat from Afghanistan
- Amy received Hallucinogenic lipstick in the post last Mother's Day.
Notes
- This is the first Eleventh Doctor DWM strip that does not feature his TARDIS.
Continuity
- Amy mentions that her favourite artist is Vincent van Gogh. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor)
- 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 questioned by Patrick about his identity, the Doctor hands him a top secret file with information about his relationship with Winston Churchill, and a picture of him 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)
- The Doctor once again wears the evening outfit that he wore to Amy and Rory's wedding on 26 June 2010, (TV: The Big Bang) having previously in Berlin in 1938. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler) and Paris in 1858 (COMIC: The Screams of Death)
- Amy calls Rory "stupid face". (TV: Day of the Moon)
- The Doctor recalls finding psychic metal during his visit to Athens in 410 BC. (COMIC: The Chains of Olympus)
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