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**** A madcap [[Bow Ties Are Cool|bow-tie]]-wearing, [[Nice Hat|hat-loving]] [[The Woobie|perma-Woobie]].

**** During the more [[Foe Yay|"serious"]] scenes between the Doctor and the Master, you can see the Master himself suffers this because of the drums. Suffers it horribly, in fact. Which means that ''everything the Master has ever done'' was the fault of {{spoiler|Rassilon and the Council}}; he started out as a completely normal child. Poor mad Master.

** Pretty much the entirety of [[Doctor Who/Recap/~~NS/S3~~/E09 The Family of Blood|The Family of Blood]] is devoted to breaking the character of John Smith (an amnesiac, human Doctor) into teeny tiny pieces after setting him up as a rather lovely bloke in the prior episode. It's [[Tear Jerker|effective.]]

** Pretty much the entirety of [[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E09 The Family of Blood|The Family of Blood]] is devoted to breaking the character of John Smith (an amnesiac, human Doctor) into teeny tiny pieces after setting him up as a rather lovely bloke in the prior episode. It's [[Tear Jerker|effective.]]

** ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/~~NS/S4~~/E10 Midnight|Midnight]].'' When a mysterious unseen creature strikes his transport, the Doctor watches helplessly as his "listen to me, I'm clever and I can help" attitude not only fails miserably but starts to turn the rest of the passengers ''against'' him and leaves him open to immobilizing [[Mind Rape]], resulting in one of the most intense cases of [[Humans Are Bastards]] in the whole series. If you don't find yourself wanting very desperately to [[The Woobie|give him a hug]] when it all ends and he's lying sprawled on the floor and clutching his chest gasping "It's gone... it's gone... it's gone..." then I don't know what to do with you.

** ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E10 Midnight|Midnight]].'' When a mysterious unseen creature strikes his transport, the Doctor watches helplessly as his "listen to me, I'm clever and I can help" attitude not only fails miserably but starts to turn the rest of the passengers ''against'' him and leaves him open to immobilizing [[Mind Rape]], resulting in one of the most intense cases of [[Humans Are Bastards]] in the whole series. If you don't find yourself wanting very desperately to [[The Woobie|give him a hug]] when it all ends and he's lying sprawled on the floor and clutching his chest gasping "It's gone... it's gone... it's gone..." then I don't know what to do with you.

** In ''A Good Man Goes To War'', both Amy and the Doctor get pretty broken. First, {{spoiler|Amy gets her baby taken away, the baby she hadn't even known she was pregnant with until a month before; then, the Doctor saves her and Melody, only to realize that his entire plan has led them all into a massive trap. Melody is not really Melody but is Flesh!Melody, who then dissolves in Amy's arms. Amy, understandably, freaks out. The Doctor tries to hug her, but she won't let him. [[Tear Jerker|That broke him, hard.]] And then, just to pour salt into his open wound, River shows up and gives him an interestingly inverted version of a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] in which she tells him he's getting too good at what he does and becoming a mighty warrior, exactly the opposite of what he wanted, and because of this, it's his fault that Melody was taken. Ouch.}}

** There's a subversion with Rory. First his girlfriend snogs another bloke, next they get trapped in some creepy dream world where you can't tell fiction from reality, he discovers the happy home he's been building with Amy is all a big lie and dies while he's there, then he gets killed ''again'' before being erased from history, and to top it all off {{spoiler|his [[Tomato in the Mirror|Plastic Auton self who he somehow remembers being]] watches over an incredibly powerful reality altering box for two thousand years because his not quite dead yet girlfriend is stuck inside and he wants to stay there and protect her}}. And yet in spite of all this, he still comes out of it fighting.