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=== YMMVs for [[Doctor Who|the TV series]]: ===
* [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]]: Adric.
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: Quite a few of these.
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** The First Doctor. Is his impatience and grumpiness and general abrasiveness because he is old and had a life hard lived, or because he is a young man trying to seem much more important than he is?
** The series on a whole- is it about an ancient alien travelling time and space in a dimensionally trancendient box, or is it about the people who he travels with and how he changes them? Arguments could be made for both sides.
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: Bizarre example-- theexample—the announcement of [[Matt Smith]] provoked cries of "That one's too young!" (to use the Doctor's own words) and "He's wrong for the role!" Then him eccentrically ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zog-6SrGxE0 wiggling his fingers]'' in a interview managed to win over the majority of those who initially objected to his casting (such as the many who were hoping for Patterson Joseph).
** About Matt Smith again, those that weren't sold by the interview (or didn't see it) were won over by the first videos of his actual acting--specificallyacting—specifically, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slP6Rrou2ns this preview]. Pretty much everyone who was still on the fence was instantly converted.
** The new series as a whole received a shot of enthusiasm in the arm when it was announced that 'proper' actor [[Christopher Eccleston]] had been cast as the Doctor after a long period of worrying tabloid stories about various light-entertainment stars being rumoured for the role.
** The Russell T Davies era securing the rights to use the Daleks after their participation had been questioned by the estate of their late creator assuaged many fans' fears.
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** Eleven in general in comparison to both Nine and Ten. {{spoiler|It's shown in series 6 he still has guilt for what he did to Rose, Martha and Donna as well as the loss of the Time Lords, however.}}
* [[Anvilicious]]: Yeah, painting the TARDIS ''pink'' in ''The Happiness Patrol'' was probably a ''bit'' on-the-nose...
** Looking back, the 1988-1989 series in general can be a bit too unsubtle about how 'right-on' politically they are. In 2010, the producers admitted that they'd been directly opposed to [[Margaret Thatcher]] and had been working to do their bit to help bring her down -- whichdown—which led to a certain amount of derision, partly because the viewing audience at this time wasn't exactly a massively influential voting block (comprised primarily of kids and hardcore fans), but mostly because thanks to this trope, this was hardly a secret.
** To a lesser extent, if you started a drinking game about how many times Rory being a nurse got brought up, you'd be drunk very quickly.
* [[Arc Fatigue]]: With the finale of the sixth series Moffat has run into this for River and the Silents/Silence, if critical reviews are any indication.
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** Amy as well, thanks to her [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] moments.
* [[Like You Would Really Do It]]: Every time The Master is killed off. Ditto for the Daleks.
** Series 6 is hinting very strongly that the Doctor is going to die For Realsies This Time {{spoiler|and it in fact begins with a future version of the Eleventh Doctor apparently getting shot to death and cremated}}. Since this would bring the entire series to an end, all but a few are pretty convinced he'll get around it somehow -- thesomehow—the question lies in what the 'somehow' in question will be.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: So ''very'' many. The Master pretty much takes home the gold, though. Davros gets the silver. {{spoiler|Madam Kovarian gets the bronze}}.
* [[Mary Sue]]: There are arguments for any number of companions, not to mention the Doctor. Take a look at [[Common Mary Sue Traits|the list of traits]] and you'll find that the Doctor has quite a few. Proof that [[Tropes Are Not Bad]].
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** 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.]
** Amy; the original entry on the Characters page compared the chibi-like fanart for her to Karen Gillan.
** On the male side of things, Rory, with his [[Adorkable|adorkablenessadorkable]]ness, [[Undying Loyalty]] and almost constantly sad eyes.
* [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]]: [[Doctor Who/Awesome|Has its own page.]]
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]:
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** The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Headless]] Monks. All that remains of their heads is ''a tied-off stump''.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: [[Doctor Who/Tear Jerker|Has its own page.]]
* [[Theme Pairing]]: There's a portion of the fandom that ships Adric/Nyssa because they look cute together as [[Conveniently an Orphan|Orphaned]] [[Human Alien]] [[Teen Genius|Teen Geniuses]]es traveling through time and space together.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Fan reaction to almost any regeneration and companion addition, sometimes initial, sometimes permanent.
* [[Too Cool to Live]]: The Ninth Doctor had the second-shortest tenure (12 weeks).
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* [[Values Dissonance]]: Even accepting the recons and the wonky production values, many people trying to get into the Hartnell/Troughton era nowadays find it hard due to the rather questionable portrayals of race and gender.
* [[Viewers are Morons]]: Unfortunately seems to be an assumption that the series is making more often the longer it goes on. The first episode of the Capaldi run has a wonderfully done set of scenes where it's unclear whether the villain of the episode jumped to his death or the newly-regenerated Doctor pushed him. Since the Twelfth Doctor said that either the villain was lying about their inability to commit suicide, or the Doctor was lying about not being a murderer, this was an establishing character moment for Twelve, and its ambiguity was important. Apparently too important to leave to mushy-headed viewers to catch, so at the end of the episode they added a scene with a character ''loudly asking'' the villain in the afterlife "Did you jump or did he push you? '''It was a bit difficult to see!'''"
* [[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 utilise 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 -- includingepisodes—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".
** Arguably, the Sontarans and Ice Warriors. In the case of the Ice Warriors, them becoming less evil in general was actually part of the story, while in the new series the war-loving Sontarans have [[Took a Level In Badass|Taken A Level In Badass]].
* [[Visual Effects of Awesome]]: Seriously, for all the mocking the classic series receives for its [[Special Effects Failure|Special Effects Failures]]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.
** The Tenth Doctor may qualify.
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