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*** The ''Doctor Who'' series proper [[Hand Wave|handwaves]] this by saying that the Doctor "can't interfere with established events"—which is code for "can't use time travel in any fashion that would make the dilemma of the week too easy to solve."
*** The in-universe explanation for this is that The Doctor and other "time aware" species like the Daleks are aware of fixed points in history that cannot be changed. This is usually indicated by their significance in subsequent history books. It seems that the more an event is ingrained into legend, the less power the Doctor has to alter it. Like the Titanic Sinking, the volcano which destroyed Pompeii, the mysterious destruction of the first Mars colony, etc. Attempts to push against these boundaries seem fruitless as Fate keeps making them happen anyway. It is implied that it *is* possible to beat fate, but only by accepting all the ramifications to the stability of time. Even a Dalek is shown sparing someone's life because it realizes she isn't meant to die yet.
**** Of course this makes absolutely no sense even by Doctor Who standards, since the Daleks were in the middle of both slaughtering the entire human race and/or unraveling time itself, in either case that person would not have gone on to have the fate recorded in the history books. But oh well, it was meant to be a dramatic moment so don't think too hard about it.
*** Series 6 shows what happens when a "fixed point" is altered; {{spoiler|it breaks history. The entire history of Earth is altered so it all takes place at once, and it's ''always'' the moment when time is broken.}}
* In ''[[Lost in Space]]'', Dr. Smith is a sanctimonious coward who constantly gets the whole ship in trouble through his greed. A great many potential future problems could have been solved simply by leaving him to get killed in the mess he's caused for himself. A later comic continuation by Innovation Comics partially addresses that by the Robinsons and West finally losing their patience with Smith, throwing him in one of the ship's cryo tubes and keeping him there. At least the movie adaptation gave an explanation as to why he wasn't immediately thrown out the airlock after his first treachery, and they ''did'' eventually leave him to die after his betraying them yet again.
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