The Futurists (comic story)

Soon after the leader of the Futurist group disappears, Milan is destroyed. In its place is a huge, futuristic city. The Doctor and Rose travel back to the time of the Romans to find out who is behind this...

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Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rose mentions 99s, tutti frutti, Boudicca and WKD.
The Doctor mentions Kraftwerk, Purple Haze, and Starlight Express.
When explaining the Futurists' history, the Doctor tells Rose that they ended up fascists for Benito Mussolini when he joined Adolf Hitler in World War II.
Rose fancied a boy at her school who liked Pantera's thrash metal, and she still has a weakness for Planet Caravan.
Rose compares Valente to the Rock.
The Doctor acts with confusion when he hears a Roman call for an attack on the Silurians, mistakenly thinking he means the Earth Reptiles.
The Silurian Liberation Front fight in the name of Caratacus.
Giovanni is obsessed with architect Antonio Sant'Elia's work.
Aeron thinks the Hajor dimension might be Annwn.
When told the Hajor "smooth out" the paradoxes in the timeline created by time travellers, the Doctor compares them to "the blokes with shovels [that] follow the elephants in the Disneyland parade", only to realise he would be the elephant in the example.

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The Silurians were a real Celtic tribe, and were deliberately included in the strip by Collins due to their having the same name as the show's Silurians.^{[source needed]}

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rose is once again disappointed to be near Cardiff. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)