The Timeless Children (TV story): Difference between revisions

* The Master and his army of CyberMasters mimic the rallying speech of [[Rassilon]] at the end of the [[Last Great Time War]], as seen in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''.

* The Master reveals the truth of the [[Timeless Child]], which had previously been mentioned in ''[[The Ghost Monument (TV story)|The Ghost Monument]]'', ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'', and ''[[Can You Hear Me? (TV story)|Can You Hear Me?]]''.

* The Doctor and the Master see [[Brendan (Ascension of the Cybermen)|Brendan]] and the [[Garda]] in "[[Ireland]]", as prevously seen in ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]''.

* Graham and Yaz wear [[Cyber-body|Cyber-bodies]] to disguise themselves as Cyber-Warriors, similar to the gambit [[Eregous Bates|Bates]] and [[Lintus Stratton|Stratton]] attempted on [[Telos]] in ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]''.

* The Doctor sees the "Fugitive" Doctor within the Matrix, whom she had encountered in ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]''.

* The Master recalls fleeing from [[Borusa]], who first appeared in ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', when they were young.

* The Master double-crosses Ashad and kills him as he had done to a [[Cyber-Leader]] on the [[Death Zone]] in ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''.

* The Master names his Time Lord-converted Cybermen under his command the "[[CyberMaster]]s". Previously, {{Simm|n=he}} transformed humanity into what he dubbed the "[[Master Race]]" in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''. Before that, {{Jacobi|n=he}} named himself "[[Cyber-Master]]" while posing as a converted Cybermen. in ''[[Master of Worlds (audio story)|Master of Worlds]]''.

** Incidentally, [[Karl (Silver Nemesis)|Karl]] believed the Cybermen to be "the [[master race]]" in ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]''.

** The [[Spy Master]] from ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]''.

** Ashad and his [[Cyberguard]]s from ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]''.

** [[Gat]], the "Fugitive" Doctor and [[Captain]] [[Jack Harkness]] from ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]''.

** A [[Dreg]] from ''[[Orphan 55 (TV story)|Orphan 55]]''.

** The [[reconnaissance scout]] [[Dalek (Resolution)|Dalek]] from ''[[Resolution (TV story)|Resolution]]''.

** A [[Morax (species)|Morax]] and herself chained down in ''[[The Witchfinders (TV story)|The Witchfinders]]''.

** A [[Kerb!am Man]] from ''[[Kerblam! (TV story)|Kerblam!]]''.

** [[Rosa Parks]] who she met in ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]''.

** [[Tzim-Sha]] from ''[[The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)|The Woman Who Fell to Earth]]''.

** Herself choosing an outfit from ''[[The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)|The Woman Who Fell to Earth]]''.

** [[Davros]] from ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]''.

** The [[Twelfth Doctor]] from ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'' and ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'',

** The [[Eleventh Doctor]] from ''[[The Almost People (TV story)|The Almost People]]'', ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'', and ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]''.

** [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|Seven of the faces]] seen during the [[mindbending]] battle against [[Morbius]] in ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]''.

** Brendan from ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]''.

* The Doctor seeks to uphold the rule "No humans on Gallifrey", echoing her reason for leaving behind [[Sarah Jane Smith]] in ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]''.

* The Doctor returns her companions home in a TARDIS while she prepares to sacrifice herself to destroy some of her oldest enemies. Similarly, the Ninth Doctor sent Rose Tyler home in the TARDIS as he confronted the [[Dalek Emperor (The Parting of the Ways)|Dalek Emperor]] and his [[Dalek of human origin|human-converted Daleks]] in ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]''.

* The Doctor is prepared to sacrifice herself using a weapon that cannot be remotely detonated, only for Ko Sharmus to take her place. Previously, the Tenth Doctor planned to sacrifice himself to destroy the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet with an [[atmospheric converter]], but [[Luke Rattigan]] used a [[Sontaran]] teleporter to switch places with him in ''[[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]]''. Before this in ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'', the Ninth Doctor offered to light the [[match]] which would stop the [[Gelth]] for the sake of [[Gwyneth (The Unquiet Dead)|Gwyneth]], who silently refused Earlier still, [[Orcini]], despite the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s protests, chose to hand detonate a bomb to destroy Davros' [[Imperial Dalek|Daleks]] in ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]''.

* Ko Sharmus was part of [[The Alliance (Fugitive of the Judoon)|the resistance unit]] who sent the Cyberium through time and space, as prevously mentioned in ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]'', and ''[[The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)|The Haunting of Villa Diodati]]''.

* The Doctor once again steals [[TARDIS 2 (The Timeless Children)|a TARDIS]] in order to run away from Gallifrey much like ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'', ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'', and ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]''.

* The Doctor responds to being ambushed by the [[Judoon]] aboard her TARDIS by repeatedly exclaiming "what?", as the Tenth Doctor had previously done when caught by surprise aboard his TARDIS, as seen in ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'', and ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]''.

* The Cybermen use [[transmat]]s. as they had in ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', and ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]''.

* The Master is once again instrumental in creating a new race of Cybermen, much like ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]''/ ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'' and ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]''.

* The Cybermen again show their ability to convert the bodies of the deceased, as previously demonstrated in ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]''/ ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]''.

* The Eighth Doctor previously uncovered another secret hushed up by the [[Founders of Gallifrey]]: the role Rassilon had played in the true [[genesis of the Ravenous|origin]] of the [[Ravenous]], as discovered in ''[[Day of the Master (audio story)|Day of the Master]]''. The Doctor hypothesised that Rassilon had invented the [[myth]] of their creation precisely to hide his involvement in the events on [[Kolstan]].  

* The Doctor states that she has fought the Matrix before and denied its reality. The Fourth Doctor previously entered the Matrix to locate the Master after the [[President (The Deadly Assassin)|Time Lord President]] was assassinated, and was forced to fight against the Matrix, which was manipulated by [[Goth|Chancellor Goth]] in ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]''. The Sixth Doctor had also entered the Matrix after following the [[Valeyard]] and had to deal with the Matrix and its reality in ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]''.

* The Master has twice before secretly infiltrated and manipulated the Matrix for his ends in both ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'' and ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]''.

* [[Peinforte|Lady Peinforte]] once threatened to reveal the Doctor's secrets concerning his role on Gallifrey during the [[Dark Time]] in ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]''. She believed this secret would prove the Seventh Doctor's downfall.

* [[The Toymaker]] would later claim that he had a hand in turning the Doctor's past into a 'jigsaw puzzle' in ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]'', suggesting that he was partly responsible for creating the history of the Timeless Child.