The Plastic Population (comic story)

was the second story in the Four Hours of Doom's Day comic anthology publication released with issue 592 of Doctor Who Magazine. It was released in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who.
It was the third overall story in the Doom's Day multimedia series.
== Publisher’s summary ==
Plastic and loads of it! Doom encounters Autons and the Doctor… although not the one she’s after.
== Plot ==
At the Waxworks Museum in the Heroes Gallery on New Calamino a brand new invention has taken centre stage, the Tiny Twin plastic doll from Plastic Population, with the spokesperson Miss Ness Stean trying to change Minister Scarling's mind about his Anti-Plastics Bill.
A young girl is seen in her room, lamenting being bored and lonely. She opens a package with a Tiny Twin doll and as it transforms into a doll replica of her, she exclaims that she will never be bored and lonely again.
The Minister takes a doll and it transforms into a replica of him. As he prepares to leave, Stean objects, insisting that he’ll stay to take measurements for a wax figure replica.
Back in the gallery, Doom starts searching for the Doctor, finding the Sixth Doctor hiding as an astronaut wax figure, and goes to the backroom with him.
As Scarling is taken out to the backroom, the Autons reveal themselves as they make him watch in horror as more plastic figures are created from humans.
The Doctor and Doom barge into the room, with the Doctor boasting about his clever plan of disguising himself as himself as they start shooting all the Autons. Suddenly Scarling turns on the Doctor and Doom, having come to a realisation, and ends up being shot by Doom, and falls into a pool of liquid plastic, disrupting the machinery.
As Doom turns to the Sixth Doctor for help, asking him about what happened on New Venice, he regrets that he cannot help her. Disappointed, Doom takes off to a new location as her vortex manipulator goes off.
== Characters ==
* Doom
* Minister Scarling
* Reporter 1
* Reporter 2
* Autons
** Miss Ness Stean
* Girl
* Sixth Doctor
== Worldbuilding ==
to be added
== Notes ==
* This story takes place across Hour 0300.
* The weapon that Doom is brandishing in the cover of the Doctor Who Magazine supplement Four Hours of Doom's Day, appears to resemble a sonic blaster similar to the one owned by Jack Harkness. However, no such blaster appears in this or any of the other three stories within. The same gun seemingly makes a reappearance on the comic-style cover of DD 1, the first issue of A Doctor in the House?.
== Continuity ==
to be added
Category:Four Hours of Doom's Day stories
Category:Sixth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Doom comic stories
Category:2023 comic stories
Category:DWM comic stories