The Futurists (comic story)

The Futurists was a Tenth Doctor comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine.

Summary
Soon after the leader of the Futurist group disappears, Milan is destroyed. In its place is a huge, futuristic city. The Doctor and Rose travel back to the time of the Romans to find out who is behind this...

Plot
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Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Rose Tyler
 * Altea Orsi
 * Valente
 * Giovanni Lucio
 * Massimo
 * Secondus
 * Aeron
 * Olwyn
 * Derek
 * Darius

Worldbuilding

 * Rose mentions 99s, tutti frutti, Boudicca and WKD.
 * The Doctor mentions Kraftwerk, Purple Haze, and Starlight Express.
 * When explaining the Futurists' history, the Doctor tells Rose that they ended up fascists for Benito Mussolini when he joined Adolf Hitler in World War II.
 * Rose fancied a boy at her school who liked Pantera's thrash metal, and she still has a weakness for Planet Caravan.
 * Rose compares Valente to the Rock.
 * The Doctor acts with confusion when he hears a Roman call for an attack on the Silurians, mistakenly thinking he means the Earth Reptiles.
 * The Silurian Liberation Front fight in the name of Caratacus.
 * Giovanni is obsessed with architect Antonio Sant'Elia's work.
 * Aeron thinks the Hajor dimension might be Annwn.
 * When told the Hajor "smooth out" the paradoxes in the timeline created by time travellers, the Doctor compares them to "the blokes with shovels [that] follow the elephants in the Disneyland parade", only to realise he would be the elephant in the example.

Continuity

 * Rose is once again disappointed to be near Cardiff. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)