The King and the Tripeberry (comic story): Difference between revisions

{{TitleComic}}{{Infobox Comic

|doctor            = [[Eleventh Doctor]]

|companions     = [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]

|enemy            = [[Trit]]  

|year              =  

|writer            = [[Craig Donaghy]]

|letterer         =  

|publication = ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' <br /> [[DWA 221|Issue 221]]

|release date = [[9 June|9]] [[June]] [[2011]]

|publisher        = [[BBC Magazines]]

|format            = Comic - 1 parts (4 pages)

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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' comic strip published in [[2011]].

The [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] ArrivE at the Royal Court on Husseloof Quatrine with a tripeberry – a [[Hussuloofian]] delicacy fit for a King. [[Trubbs]], the King’s aide, announces the visitors to the King and the Doctor is horrified to find the plump King enthroned, demanding gifts – that is the rule, and being tended to, by a cohort of subjects, some bound in chains. When one of the subjects is punished for being distracted by the tripeberry she is punished for not paying the King attention – as is the rule. Not accepting the bullying King’s explanation that his subjects love to serve him, the Doctor uses his sonic to free them from their chains. But the subjects are scared and the King orders his orders to take the visitors to the static dungeons. Amy grabs the tripeberry and throws it to the ground. The Hussuloofians scramble to eat up the shattered fruit – all except the King, who rages at the distracted Hussuloofians. The Doctor leaps forward and aiming his sonic screwdriver exposes the King as a [[Trit]] – a social parasite that assumes the body of people in power so that they can be pampered and served without question. The guards turn on the Trit and take him away, leaving a vacancy in King position, which the Doctor suggests should be taken up by the King’s aide Trubbs with one rule – no more rules!

== Named characters ==

* [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]]

== References ==

* The Doctor arrives on Hussuloof Quatrine with a tripeberry to present to the King and quickly establishes that the scene that greets him is somehow all wrong.

* At the Royal Court the Doctor is announced to the King as “Sir Doctor of TARDIS.”([[DW]] : ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'')