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== Usage == | == Usage == | ||
=== The TARDIS as a box === | === The TARDIS as a box === | ||
Following a stopover in [[1963]] [[London]], [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] was stuck with the [[Outer plasmic shell|exterior shape]] of a telephone box, specifically a [[police box]], due to a malfunction in its [[chameleon circuit]]. ([[TV]]: | Following a stopover in [[1963]] [[London]], [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] was stuck with the [[Outer plasmic shell|exterior shape]] of a telephone box, specifically a [[police box]], due to a malfunction in its [[chameleon circuit]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|An Unearthly Child (TV story)|namedep=The Cave of Skulls (2)}}) As the [[First Doctor]] explained to [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]], the box was an [[entrance chamber]] to a [[fourth dimension]], leading directly into the [[control room]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Secrets of the Tardis (comic story)}}) | ||
The Doctor would continue to refer to his TARDIS as a "box" all throughout their lives; the [[Eleventh Doctor]] called himself "a madman with a box" ([[TV]]: | The Doctor would continue to refer to his TARDIS as a "box" all throughout their lives; the [[Eleventh Doctor]] called himself "a madman with a box" ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Eleventh Hour (TV story)}}) and, while believing he was dying, looked back on his [[story]] as that of "a daft old man who stole a [[magic]] box and ran away". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Big Bang (TV story)}}) He referred to the TARDIS's physical shell as "the box" when the [[heart of the TARDIS]] wrenched back control of said shell from [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]], declaring that "now she [was] back in the box again". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Doctor's Wife (TV story)}}) His [[Twelfth Doctor|next regeneration]], at a turning point in understanding himself, proclaimed himself "an idiot! With a box, and [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|a screwdriver]]!". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Death in Heaven (TV story)}}) | ||
=== Other boxes === | === Other boxes === | ||
[[Pandora's box]] was a legendary item to which the [[Pandorica]] bore a resemblance. Before he was made aware of its true nature by the [[Dalek]] members of the [[Pandorica Alliance]], the Eleventh Doctor also derisively called the Pandorica "a box". ([[TV]]: | [[Pandora's box]] was a legendary item to which the [[Pandorica]] bore a resemblance. Before he was made aware of its true nature by the [[Dalek]] members of the [[Pandorica Alliance]], the Eleventh Doctor also derisively called the Pandorica "a box". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Pandorica Opens (TV story)}}) | ||
An advanced, interactive computer who served as [[Liz Shaw]]'s companion shortly before her retirement from the [[Preternatural Research Bureau]] also went by the name of [[Box (When to Die)|Box]], as, indeed, she resembled one. ([[HOMEVID]]: | An advanced, interactive computer who served as [[Liz Shaw]]'s companion shortly before her retirement from the [[Preternatural Research Bureau]] also went by the name of [[Box (When to Die)|Box]], as, indeed, she resembled one. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|When to Die (home video)}}) | ||
Despite [[Operation Divide and Conquer|forming an alliance]] with the Daleks, {{Delgado}} privately grumbled them off as "[[Stupidity|stupid]] [[tin]] boxes", in a contemptuous reference to their [[casing]]s. ([[TV]]: | Despite [[Operation Divide and Conquer|forming an alliance]] with the Daleks, {{Delgado}} privately grumbled them off as "[[Stupidity|stupid]] [[tin]] boxes", in a contemptuous reference to their [[casing]]s. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Frontier in Space (TV story)}}) | ||
[[The Moment]]'s true form was a small box. When its interface spoke to the [[War Doctor]] during the [[Fall of Gallifrey]], it sarcastically noted that "stuck between a girl and a box" summarised his life rather well. ([[TV]]: | [[The Moment]]'s true form was a small box. When its interface spoke to the [[War Doctor]] during the [[Fall of Gallifrey]], it sarcastically noted that "stuck between a girl and a box" summarised his life rather well. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}}) Inspired by that adventure, the Doctor helped secure the peace of [[Operation Double]] via two, empty, [[Osgood Box]]es. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Zygon Inversion (TV story)}}) | ||
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