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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...

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Characters[]

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.

Notes[]

  • The Silurians were a real Celtic tribe, and were deliberately included in the strip by Collins due to their having the same name as the show's Silurians.[source needed]

Continuity[]

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