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'''''War World''''' was the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' back-up strip which appeared in the pages of ''[[The Incredible Hulk Presents]]'' #4. Like all in the series, it was monochromatic and featured the [[Seventh Doctor]] travelling alone at the beginning and ending of the story. | '''''War World''''' was the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' back-up strip which appeared in the pages of ''[[The Incredible Hulk Presents]]'' #4. Like all in the series, it was monochromatic and featured the [[Seventh Doctor]] travelling alone at the beginning and ending of the story. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
'' | The [[Seventh Doctor]] lands in the middle of a war between [[human]]s and [[robot]]s on the [[planet]] [[Bellus IV]]. The human commander, [[Deldran]], quickly takes him to the human headquarters. There, the remains of a great experiment to simply turn off the robots has been halted by the death of the chief scientist. The Doctor finishes the work, flips the switch — and promptly discovers that the "human" side are robots, too. As he powers down for good, Deldran explains that the humans died ages ago, leaving the war running by robot proxy. When Deldran uses his last bit of power to explain that the robots wouldn't have known what to do with peace, the Docto echoes the sentiment. He wonders if ''anyone'' is really built for peace. | ||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[Seventh Doctor]] | |||
* [[Commander]] [[Deldran]] | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* | * The story was reprinted in ''[[Doctor Who Classic Comics]]'' [[DWCC 21|#21]] | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
''to | * The [[Seventh Doctor]] utters, "There should have been another way," when it becomes clear that he's effectively "killed" both robot armies. This evokes the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s line at the very end of [[DW]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]'' and the [[Third Doctor]]'s at the end of [[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. | ||
* Like many stories printed in ''[[IHP]]'', this one begins with a scene depicting a [[Seventh Doctor]] in conversation with [[the TARDIS]], and something or other going wrong with the time machine. In fact, such scenes simply didn't happen with the ''televised'' Seventh Doctor until his final flight in the TARDIS in the [[Doctor Who (1996)|1996 television movie]]. | |||
* The Doctor emerges from the TARDIS only to have weapons thrust immediately in his face. Such a scene wasn't particularly common in the "classic" televised era, but it's been done in the [[BBC Wales]] series a few times, such as when the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] emerge from the TARDIS to the guns and bayonets of [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]]'s guards in ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]''. | |||
== [[Seventh Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]] == | == [[Seventh Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]] == | ||
