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* [[Memetic Sex God]]: "There are no straight men, just men who haven't met Captain Jack Harkness" is a common line to describe the character, notable for the relatively few number of straight male fans who deny the statement. There's also a popular image macro with a nude screenshot from "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E12 Bad Wolf|Bad Wolf]]" captioned, "You're straight? So is spaghetti, before it gets hot."

** Even justified in-universe. His cologne's actually a genetic modification that includes pheromones.

* [[Moe]]:

** Jo Grant provides an ''excellent'' [http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/0x0/0x0/0/11318826022475577877.jpeg___1_500_1_500_cb94de6a_.png live action example.]

* [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses]]: Amy can get this rather bad. "The Girl Who Waited", for example, was treated as sexist because the older Amy wouldn't save herself until young!Amy used Rory to convince her.

** River Song also gets accusations of this because she's obsessed with the Doctor. On the one hand, it's a [[Justified Trope]] due to her {{spoiler|being brainwashed to kill him her entire life}}. On the ''other'' hand, she also {{spoiler|broke time itself and endangered the universe because of it}}.

** Mickey Smith, from "The Age of Steel". Solidified at the end of "Army of Ghosts".

* [[Robo Ship]]: Doctor and TARDIS. [[Ship Tease|Hinted at]] at various occasions, especially during the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh Doctor's tenure. {{spoiler|Now, '''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E04 The Doctor's Wife|official, in-universe canon]]'''}}.

* [[Villain Decay]]: The Classic Series' Cybermen went from "no known weaknesses" to "gold dust interferes with their respiratory systems" to "[[Weaksauce Weakness|holy crap, anything gold kills them dead]]". ''The Five Doctors'' and ''Attack of the Cybermen'' didn't utilize any gold weaknesses, but they were still quickly shot down in droves, including one who forgot it was immune to ordinary bullets. The new series has actually gone some way toward reversing the effect. Although the ones that appeared from 2006-2008 weren't from Mondas, a single Mondasian Cyberman in ''The Pandorica Opens'' has more nasty tricks up its sleeve than they ever did in the classic episodes—including lasers, tranquilizer darts, [[Combat Tentacles]] and the ability to function separately as a body and a severed head when necessary.

** The Slitheen were fairly menacing in "Aliens of London", "World War Three" and "Boom Town". By the third series of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', they were quickly caught by their "cousins".

* [[Visual Effects of Awesome]]: Seriously, for all the mocking the classic series receives for its [[Special Effects Failure]]s, they did manage to achieve some pretty awesome effects on pretty much no money at times. Examples that immediately come to mind include the epic opening shot of the space station in ''Trial of a Time Lord'' and the flying ships in ''Enlightenment''.

* [[Wangst]]: Tegan was always whining and complaining about something.

 

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