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* [[Wealthy Ever After]]:
** In ''The End of Time'', {{spoiler|the Doctor's present to Donna outside her wedding is a lottery ticket.}}
** At the end of "Voyage of the Damned", {{spoiler|The Doctor leaves Mister Copper in London with just the credit card he had put some money on for passengers to buy Earth trinkets. Turns out he underestimated the value of the British Pound and loaded it with a million Pounds!}}!
** In "Doomsday" {{spoiler|Rose gets this sort of future since Alternate Universe Pete is a wealthy businessman.}}.
* [[Weapons Grade Vocabulary]]: There is a audio Drama where Donna defeats a blob monster with nothing but pure indignation.
* [[We Have Forgotten the Phlebotinum]]:
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{{quote|'''The Doctor''': "No TARDIS, no screwdriver, two minutes to spare... Who da man?"
*[[Beat]]*
'''The Doctor''': "Alright I'm [[Never Say That Again|never saying that again]], fine!" }}
* [[Welcome to the Liberator]]
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: ''The Reign of Terror'', ''The Massacre'', ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'', ''Robot'', ''Remembrance of the Daleks''
* [[Wham! Episode]]:
** ''The End of Time'', Part One. That last twenty seconds. To drop some ''major'' spoilers in- : {{spoiler|The Time Lords aren't just back, ''they're'' the ones trying to do as the title says.}}.
** "The Impossible Astronaut". {{spoiler|It ''starts'' with the Doctor's [[Killed Off for Real|Final Death]]. Except not really, but we don't know this for certain until the finale.}}.
** And straight after that, "Day of the Moon". {{spoiler|The young girl from the Apollo spacesuit is implied to be Amy's daughter. This possibility is made even more confusing by the fact the TARDIS can't determine whether Amy is actually pregnant or not.}}. To top things off, {{spoiler|the girl is seen wandering the streets close to death at the end of the episode...and then it STARTS REGENERATING! Yes, as in Time Lord-style regenerating. River kisses the Doctor at the end of the episode, confirming their relationship is DEFINITELY romantic to some degree}}.
** "The Almost People". {{spoiler|[[Tomato in the Mirror|Amy's been piloting a Ganger body for a long time, possibly for all of the first half of Series 6, with the real Amy being kept by a Midwife from hell. Oh, and she's in labor.]] }}.
** "A Good Man Goes to War". At that point, Series 6 basically becomes a Wham Season.
** The theme of Series 6 being a Wham Season continued in "The Wedding of River Song", where {{spoiler|we find out that the Doctor who was shot in Utah was actually a Teselecta, that the Doctor's exact relationship with River is that they're married, that it will be the Doctor who will cause silence to fall, and that the Question is [[Title Drop|Doctor Who]].}}.
** While basically every fan these days is familiar with [[The Nth Doctor|regeneration]], the switch from the First Doctor to the Second Doctor must have been a ''massive'' Wham Episode for viewers back in the 1960s.
** ''The Trial of a Time Lord'' episode 13. {{spoiler|The Valeyard is really a corrupted future incarnation of the Doctor, employed by the Time Lord High Council to destroy the Doctor to prevent him from revealing their role in the attempted genocide of the human race. The Doctor's only ally in this is the Master, who (obviously) cannot be trusted.}}.
** "The Traitors" (episode 4 of ''The Daleks' Master Plan''). {{spoiler|Two companions (Katarina and Bret Vyon) are killed in two separate incidents, book-ending the episode.}}.
* [[What Year Is This?]]: Used more often than not, given it's a time travel show.
* [[When It All Began]]: The Time War is a strong defining moment for the Ninth and Tenth Doctors and the aftermath of it plays a part into both of their regenerations.
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* [[World War Two]]: The settings of ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26/E03 The Curse of Fenric|The Curse of Fenric]]'', "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E09 The Empty Child|The Empty Child]]", "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E10 The Doctor Dances|The Doctor Dances]]", the final scene of "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E02 The Beast Below|The Beast Below]]", "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E03 Victory of the Daleks|Victory of the Daleks]]", {{spoiler|"[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E12 The Pandorica Opens|The Pandorica Opens]]" (partially), with "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E13 The Big Bang|The Big Bang]]" using the fires of the London Blitz as a plot point}} and "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2011 CS the Doctor the Widow and the Wardrobe|The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]".
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: So ''very'' many.
** Special mention should be made of "Victory of the Daleks" in which the Daleks run an elaborate [[Xanatos Gambit]] in which pretty much every possible outcome has them come out ahead. {{spoiler|And it works!}}.!
* [[The X of Y]]: By far the single worst abuser of this trope, guilty of it no less than '''''116 times'''''. Having trouble coming up with an episode title? Try mixing and matching these ones that ''already'' exist.
** '''Column X:''' Age, Aliens, Ambassadors, Androids, Arc, Army, Attack, Bargain, Battle, Bell, Brain, Bride, Brink, Carnival, Cave(s), Change, Claws, Coronas, Crater, Curse (3 times), Dalek Invasion, Day (''5 times''), Death (3 times), Destruction, Dimensions, Edge, End (3 times), Enemy, Escape, Evil, Evolution, Face, Family, Feast, Fires, Forest, Genesis, Guests, Hall, Hand, Horror, Horse, Image, Invasion, Keeper, Keys, Knight, Land, Last, Mark, Masque, Massacre, Mind, Monster, Music, Parting, Planet (''8 times''), Power, Priest, Prisoners, Pyramids, Reign, Remembrance, Revenge, Resurrection, Revelation, Rise, Robots, Roof, Sea, Seeds, Sentence, Snows, Sound, State, Stones, Talons, Temple, Terror (3 times), Time, Tomb, Trap, Tyrant, Vampires, Victory, Voyage, Wall, War, Warriors, Waters, Web, Wedding, Wheel
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** So overdone that the title convention itself was parodied in "The Curse of Fatal Death."
* [[You Already Changed the Past]]: Heavily implied every time the Doctor interacts with and saves a historical figure; the Doctor and companions probably wouldn't remember the celebrity as well or at all if they failed. It's particularly obvious when the Doctor turns out to be responsible for historical events, like the destruction of Pompeii, or the short disappearance and memory loss of Agatha Christie. The Doctor says certain points in history are "fixed", unchangeable, but for plot reasons he never elaborates on which ones.
** One time he is seen clearly changing the past (well, the past relative to the future anyway) is when he saves the crew in "The Waters of Mars". He does manage to save 3 survivors, but {{spoiler|Adelaide Brooke, the important one, kills herself}} to restore the timeline anyway, leaving only cosmetic changes, and giving us a nasty taste of what happens when you change a fixed point.
* [[You Are Number Six]]: As the Doctor fills Craig in psychically in "The Lodger", the Eleventh Doctor simply responds: "Eleven" to Craig's [[Angrish|rambling gibberish]].
* [[You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good]]
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