The Great Shopping Bill (comic story)

was the fourth story (fifth counting COMIC: The Lost Dimension: The Twelfth Doctor) of the third year of Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic story series, published in 2017.
The story featured Nardole's first appearance in the ongoing Twelfth Doctor comic series, although his first comic appearance was in COMIC: The Lost Dimension. It also featured 's first appearance in the ongoing comic series.
== Summary ==
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== Characters ==
=== Main story ===
* Twelfth Doctor
* Bill Potts
* Nardole
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* Thomas Kincade Brannigan
* Valerie Brannigan
* Tyto
* Heather
== Worldbuilding ==
* Bill convinced the Doctor to watch Back to the Future. However, all the Doctor can do is criticise the portrayal of time travel in the film.
* It's implied the Doctor finds Everlasting Gobstoppers from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, saying he knew that they made matches, but not Gobstoppers.
* The Vault has a dimensional stabiliser.
* Pathicols feed on the empathy of others.
* The Doctor likes Nanjura fruit juice.
** Nanjura fruit juice shouldn't be given to Silurians.
== Notes ==
* The robots at the Übermarket begin sentences with a phrase between two plus signs (e.g. "+Statement+"). In one panel, it mistakenly begins with two plus signs ("++Directive+")
* The Doctor mistakenly refers to Back to the Future's Marty McFly as "Morty". Bill replies saying "Morty's a whole other thing", a reference to .
* The Doctor would quote Back to the Future by saying "Great Scott!"
* The Doctor quotes Star Wars in saying "Boring conversation anyway".
* The three robots seen close up have the designations "N-e-1-4-10-S", "X-i-10-2-C-u", and "N-i-4-N-i" . Read aloud these sound (approximately) like: "Anyone for tennis", "Exciting to see you", and "An eye for an eye".
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor mentions that he's crossed his own time stream, and there were "Reapers everywhere! Vicar set upon! TARDIS kaput!" (TV: Father's Day)
* Missy was let out of the Vault and into the TARDIS once before. (TV: Empress of Mars)
* Raxacoricofallapatorians (TV: Aliens of London / World War Three et al), Trees of Cheem (TV: The End of the World), Thomas Kincade Brannigan and Valerie Brannigan (TV: Gridlock) are shopping at the Übermarket.
* Deserts, sweets, and pudding sign reads "Wibbly-wobbly, limey-wimey jelly." (TV: Blink et al)
* "Impossible soufflé grills" are on sale at the Übermarket. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks, The Snowmen et al)
* Bill tells Olivia Gowland that she lost her mother. (TV: The Pilot)
* The Doctor finds Jelly Babies at the Übermarket. (TV: The Dominators et al)
* The Doctor says Bill smiles when she doesn't understand something. (TV: The Pilot)
* The Doctor doesn't like the Übermarket robots due to their similar shape to the Daleks. The robots say "Seek! Locate! Restrain!", similar to the Daleks' "Seek! Locate! Exterminate/Destroy!" (TV: Destiny of the Daleks et al)
* Heather is keeping an eye on Bill (TV: The Pilot)
* Nardole says "Carrot juice, carrot juice, carrot juice..." (TV: The Ultimate Foe)
* Bill finds Nanjura juice, but the Doctor warns not to give it to Silurians because it is toxic to them. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)
== External links ==
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Category:12D comic stories
Category:2017 comic stories
Category:Stories set in Bristol
Category:Stories set in 2017
Category:Stories set in the 5000000000s
Category:Missy comic stories
Category:One part comics