The Broken Man (comic story): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story

|enemy = [[Yuri Azarov]], the [[Mavora]], [[Sergal]]  

|setting = [[Prague]], [[1989]]

|writer = [[Scott Gray]]

|editor = [[Tom Spilsbury]], [[Peter Ware]]

|publication = ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 451|451]] - [[DWM 454|454]]

|release date = [[30 August (releases)|30 August]] - [[November (releases)|November]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]]

|format = Comic - 4 parts

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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' 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, who would return in the 50th anniversary comic strip special, ''[[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]''. Even though they would appear in the following story, this strip was the final story to feature Amy and Rory travelling with the Doctor.

[[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...

* [[Ambassador]] [[Golovkin]]

* [[Sergal]]

* [[Carrington (The Broken Man)|Carrington]]

== References ==

* When talking about [[London]], [[Heather Lake]] mentions ''[[Coronation Street]]'', [[Hyde Park]], [[fish]] and [[chip]]s and [[Woolworths]] shops.

* Rory was born in [[1989]].

* The Doctor claims to be Doctor Zhivago of the [[Party Security Directorate]] and the ambassador of [[Syldavia]].

* References are made to the revolutions of 1989, the [[Poland|Polish]] and [[Hungary|Hungarian]] revolutions, the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]], [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] invasion of [[Afghanistan]], [[fixed point in time|fixed points in time]] and the [[Judaism|Jewish]] legend of the [[Golem of Prague]].

* [[Operation Broken Man]] is mentioned.

* Rhoda mentions [[St Martin's College]].

* This is the first Eleventh Doctor [[DWM]] strip that does not feature [[the TARDIS]].

* The Doctor refers to the fall of the Berlin Wall on [[9 November]] [[1989]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Protect and Survive (audio story)|Protect and Survive]]'')

* The Doctor wears the evening outfit that he wore at Amy and Rory's wedding on [[26 June]] [[2010]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') He also wore this outfit in Berlin in [[1938]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'') and Paris in [[1858]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Screams of Death]]'')

* The Doctor mentions his latest visit to [[Athens]] in [[BC#5th century B.C.|410 BC]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Chains of Olympus]]'')

* 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 the Doctor discovers that they are in 1989, Rory says that his younger self "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 information 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 [[Rory Williams (Auton)|plastic Roman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'' / ''[[The Big Bang]]'')