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Let's not speculate on why, and instead focus on what it does within the story.

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 == Behind the scenes ==
-* Tlotoxl is one of the few ''Doctor Who'' villains who never receives any sort of comeuppance. This could perhaps be due to his more sympathetic nature when compared to other ''Doctor Who'' villains, since, despite committing evil acts, his motivation, to prove Barbara a false goddess, was correct, since she was, of course, not a goddess.
+* Tlotoxl is one of the few ''Doctor Who'' villains who never receives any sort of comeuppance. This serves to highlight the themes of the story, that [[history]] must not be tampered with, and that it will take its course with or without us. This would be developed throughout the [[DWU]], culminating in ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'', among other stories.
 * In ''[[Against Nature (novel)|Against Nature]]'', [[Lawrence Burton]] changed the character's name to "Tlohtoxcatl" in accordance with real-world Azteca grammar. In Burton's self-published [[Sixth Doctor]] novel ''[[Smoking Mirror (novel)|Smoking Mirror]], ''it was revealed that the character died by accidentally sacrificing himself.