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:Also, the Judoon were seen speaking English in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E01 Smith and Jones|Smith and Jones]]", but that was because they recorded a man speaking it, and then "assimilated" the language.
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* [[The Alleged Car]]: More like "The Alleged TARDIS" though it's in even worse shape by the 2005 series. He's had it for several centuries, and it was already ancient when he got it, yet it's still immensely powerful and advanced, even by alien standards. In "The Eleventh Hour", however, the TARDIS regenerated along with the Doctor and seems to be in a bit better shape. Two people (rather than the designed six) piloting it, as well as {{spoiler|leaving the handbrake on}} doesn't improve its poor state and [[Explosive Instrumentation]].
* [[All Myths Are True]]: And they're all aliens. Vampires, werewolves, yeti, the Loch Ness Monster; even the devil is an alien.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: Oddly enough, not extensively used. There ''are'' alternate universes in the ''Who'' multiverse--one Classic Series [[Story Arc]] took place in one called "E-Space" and the story ''Inferno'' has a [[Mirror Universe]], and the [[Russell T. Davies]] era has at least two, a [[Zeppelins from Another World]] universe and an alternate timeline world centred on Donna Noble in "Turn Left"--but travel between alternate universes seems to be extremely difficult (compared to travel in time and space, creating and controlling a black star, making dimensionally transcendental ships...) and very dangerous.
** Although the Doctor states that it used to be easy to do before the Time War; since then, though, the universe(s) don't seem to like letting the travel occur.
* [[Always Save the Girl]]:
** The Doctor, particularly Ten, puts his companions (who are usually, if not always, young and female) before anyone else. Also, the new ''Doctor Who'' series suggests that his companions represent his humanity in a universe full of mass death; as seen in "The Fires of Pompeii", when Donna convinces him to go back for one family among all those destroyed in Pompeii. It's mentioned some times that he feels responsible for them because it's his fault that they are in danger, since he brought them to wherever it is they are.
:The Doctor has sacrificed two of his regenerations for a girl now. {{spoiler|And one for an elderly man}}.
** Then you have Rory:
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* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]:
** The Doctor does this a ''lot''. [[Applied Phlebotinum|Psychic paper]] helps... unless the viewer happens to be psychic enough to see through the illusion, like everyone working for Torchwood, or intelligent enough, like [[William Shakespeare]]. Though lies too big will actually break it, as seen in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2010 CS A Christmas Carol|A Christmas Carol]]", when it refuses to say he's "widely acknowledged as a mature and responsible adult".
** In "Aliens of London", he gets out of being held at gunpoint by a room full of armed soldiers by using this -- when a scream sounds from another room he yells, "Defense plan Delta! Come on!" and runs out of the room, and they all instinctively follow his orders, even though he's presented no identification at all.
** In ''Silver Nemesis'', the TARDIS arrives in the present day on the grounds of a castle and the Doctor approaches the little old lady he sees confidently, telling Ace, "Act like we own the place... Always works. We own the place." Ace has to point out that the woman they're approaching really does own the place -- and the place is Windsor Castle.
** The 7th used this to much better effect in ''The Curse Of Fenric'', wandering onto a secret naval base, bypassing a patrol holding them at gunpoint by barking orders and nitpicking about uniform cleanliness, breezing into an office and proceeding to write his own letter from the War Office, which he promptly hands over to yet more soldiers as proof of his right to be there.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]:
** The Tenth Doctor practically personifies this trope. When pushed too far, he's been known to dish out a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] and even commit genocide.
** The mild, polite Fifth Doctor has one of the highest onscreen body counts for the entire series. He also looked on and did nothing while the Master ''burned alive.''.
** The goofy Seventh Doctor might blow up your planet, and he's not above using his own companions [[The Chessmaster|as pawns]].
** The Tenth Doctor didn't kill the members of the Family Of Blood; instead, he [[And I Must Scream|kept them alive but put them in hellish prisons that they cannot die in but cannot escape from]] because they [[Be Careful What You Wish For|wanted immortality]] at any cost.
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* [[Blatant Lies]]:
** From the [[Villain of the Week]] to the Doctor himself, you can usually find at least one example of this per an episode. The Doctor's abuse of the psychic paper has become so egregious it sometimes outdoes the [[Magic Tool|sonic]] [[Everything Sensor|screwdriver]]. Perception filters [[Depending on the Writer|range from]] generating an [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]] field to outright sensory illusions.
*** In "A Christmas Carol", The Doctor tells Kazran he is a mature and responsible adult, then pulls out the psychic paper to prove it. It doesn't work.
{{quote|The Doctor: "Finally, a lie too big."}}
** In a non-psychic paper example in "Planet of the Dead": No Christina, the Doctor will leave the Cup of Aethelstan ''just as he left it''. Cue hammers.
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** "The Rebel Flesh"/"The Almost People" has {{spoiler|Ganger Jennifer}} finding interesting/terrifying ways to change her body, eventually settling on some sort of {{spoiler|gangly demonic hellbeast, all while retaining her original face, more or less}}.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Given how long running the series was it was inevitable this trope would crop up. In fact virtually every Doctor and companion underwent this trope or the milder [[Brainwashed]] trope at some point in the series as well as guest characters in some stories.
* [[Brandishment Bluff]]: In "Victory of the Daleks", the Doctor convinces the Daleks that a jammie Dodger (a type of cookie) is a super weapon.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: The Eighth Doctor is much more sentimental than most of the other Doctors...he was also the one who fought in the [[Beware the Nice Ones|Time War]]. You can see how badly he got broken by observing the Ninth Doctor, who is probably the most aggressive and angry of the Doctors to date.
* [[Britain Is Only London]]: Considering that the TARDIS can travel anywhere and any''when'' in the universe, a disproportionate number of episodes in the [[Russell T. Davies]] era take place in present-day London. (As well as near-future London, 1953 London, 1969 London, 1987 London, Elizabethan London, London in the Blitz and Victorian London.)
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** After being subjected to painful "decontamination", a rather weak Eleventh Doctor asks his captors if they have some celery. The Fifth Doctor enthusiastically eats celery after his difficult regeneration in ''Castrovalva'', and wears a stick of it stuck to his lapel from then on.
** Eleven's theft of his new outfit from a hospital locker room can't be anything but a nod towards the way the Third Doctor acquired his wardrobe forty years before. The Eighth Doctor did this, as well. Must be a theme.
** In "The Doctor's Wife", the Doctor remarks to a patchwork person "I once had an [http://wilybadger.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/sixth_doctor.jpg umbrella] like you."
** Blink-and-you-miss-it example: In the 1985 story ''Revelation of the Daleks'', Davros gets his only functioning hand shot clean off. His hand is concealed inside {{spoiler|his Dalek Emperor disguise}} in the next story, ''Remembrance of the Daleks'', but in the 2008 episode "The Stolen Earth", he sports a shiny new robotic hand.
** The birth of Ganger!Doctor in "The Almost People" was shaky at best. According to the Doctor, it was having a hard time coping with the memories of his past regenerations. It spoke dialogue from the first, third, fourth, and tenth Doctors (using the actual voices of the latter two). Topics of conversation included [[Reverse Polarity|neutron flows]] and [[Trademark Favorite Food|jelly babies]].
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