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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 61 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wasn't there a Dr. Who comic in which the Doctor meets Stalin and ends up saying that history would misremember him lmao

Edit: found it. Was a short story. https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Closing_the_Account_(short_story)

Summary:

Josef, who has been the president of his country for several decades, is dying. He wants the Doctor to visit him, so he captures Ace.

As Josef and the Doctor talk, Josef reveals that he has noticed a few things about the Doctor. Though they have met several times, and the last time was twenty-five years ago, the Doctor hasn't changed or aged. In addition, when he comes and goes, there is always a blue box involved.

Josef has deduced that the Doctor can see the future and wants to know what his legacy will be. The Doctor tells him that for over a hundred years, people will vilify him, but after that, people will realise that his actions, though sometimes wrong, were the right thing to do and they will continue his work.

[-] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 46 points 3 weeks ago

Josef has deduced that the Doctor can see the future and wants to know what his legacy will be. The Doctor tells him that for over a hundred years, people will vilify him, but after that, people will realise that his actions, though sometimes wrong, were the right thing to do and they will continue his work.

so extremely based

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago
[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 28 points 3 weeks ago

See but both the OP and the story I mentioned are from the 7th doctor. This is the 5th. So maybe the 5th's personality was more lib and the 7th was more commie.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago

Seems likely.

The character of Helen A was intended to satirise then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The character would say, "I like your initiative, your enterprise" while her secret police rounded up dissidents. In the story, the Doctor persuades "the drones", who toil in the factories and mines, to down tools and rise up in revolt, an echo of the miners' strikes and printers' disputes during Thatcher's first two terms in office.

waow-based

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 55 points 3 weeks ago

Trying to be encouraging to my vampire friend like "I believe in you!" "[vampires screaming]"

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 54 points 3 weeks ago

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

Makes sense that a hammer and sickle would repel a vampire.

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 38 points 3 weeks ago

The episode of dr who is called curse of fenric or something and its pretty great

the poster also totally leaves out an anglican priest fails to repel the monsters because he totally lost faith in god because of the war

also its set in Britain i have no idea why their plot summary is so bad

[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago

Power of christ compels you

Power of christ compels you

POWER OF SICKLE AND HAMMER, UNION OF THE PROLETARIAT, HOPE OF THE OPRRESED BANISHES YOU

[-] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

This reminds me of a DnD game I played, comrade pally, lol.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 30 points 3 weeks ago

It is. The story is The Curse of Fenric from the seventh Doctor era.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 30 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

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[-] Jumpingspiderman@reddthat.com 29 points 3 weeks ago

Well, as Vampires are often portrayed as Nobility (Count Dracula etc.). It makes sense they'd be repelled by the symbols of socialism.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago

Yes it is and it's amazing.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 weeks ago

Killing Dracula by burning the US flag

[-] EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago

It is the Doctor also mentions being friends with Mao at one point.

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

It is not a necklace, it is a hat badge.

[-] Venat@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

I think the point was that the vampire, as a parasitic and predatory entity, lives only for itself and its own instinct. Confronted with the cross, or the sickle & hammer, is anathema to the vampire because those symbols symbolize love, self-sacrifice, and common humanity. Both represent the courage to find power to do what is right even among the powerlessness, even when one is powerless.

[-] Commiejones@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago
[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

vampire screaming dracula-flow

[-] muzzle@lemm.ee 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Or the good old Euclidean glitch by Peter Watts.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Off-topic but I have a fond memory of reading about the vampire's control console having all the gauges replaced with screaming faces, and then I went to go look up the "Chernoff Faces" it was based on and burst out laughing

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

there is no single consistent canon of "vampire lore." modern fiction writers pick, choose, interpret and reinterpret aspects of previous stories and folklore -- which might not even be about "vampires" -- for their own ends. this absolutely was not how, for example, Bram Stoker's Dracula worked.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

The recent BBC Dracula series really explores these characteristics, and belief is a huge part

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's from Season 26, ep 8, "The Curse of Fenric", specifically part 3.

The Doctor reveals that faith or strong belief repels "hemavores" or vampires and repels a bunch by closing his eyes and believing in something. A higher ranking Soviet soldier that landed with a group of such soldiers in England during the second world war (reasons I forget) ends up separated from most of his troops who are still on the beach and instead with the Doctor, his companion Ace, and a priest. He insists he must go back for his men. Ace (the Doctor's present companion) asks him to teach the soldier "the singing" to scare them off. The Doctor states he either really believes in something or he doesn't to which the Soviet soldier replies he believes in the revolution. Some scene-cuts later the soldier, leaving the church is confronted by a group of these creatures and pulls out the pin, focusing on his belief in the revolution and they clutch themselves and start screaming as he walks slowly through them.

Someone made an edit with the Soviet anthem playing layered over it but in the original show it's just dramatic music stings with some ringing noises like those that accompanied the Doctor's actions earlier, no anthem plays.

And as mentioned elsewhere a priest in the episode can't repel them because he lost his faith due to the war.

[-] Monument 7 points 3 weeks ago

Billy Butcher: “Fuck off, you pale cunts! I’ll bollocks every last one of you!”

Vampires: “Oh, shit! He believes in himself! Run away!”

this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
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