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* [[Post Mortem One Liner]]: Plenty, but [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E02 The Beast Below|Liz 10]] gets in a pretty good example after blowing away one of The Smilers:
{{quote|"I'm the bloody queen, mate; basically, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|I rule]]."}}
* [[Pound of Flesh Twist]]: In
** In "The Hand of Fear". Eldrad the Kastrian, having long ago been executed by his people for attempting to usurp rulership of Kastria, is resurrected on Earth many centuries later. He returns to Kastria to become its ruler, only to find the planet entirely dead. A final message from King Rokon (the king who Eldrad planned to usurp) crowns him 'King of Nothing'.
* [[The Power of Love]]: "The Doctor Dances", "Fear Her", "Victory of the Daleks", "Night Terrors" and "Closing Time".
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* [[Psychic Powers]]:
** The Doctor has a number of these, though he seldom uses them. Other aliens sometimes wield them as well.
** Some human characters possess them too: the Sibylline Sisterhood in "The Fires of Pompeii", Gwyneth from "The Unquiet Dead
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: The Celestial Toymaker from the story of the same name, Hindle from ''Kinda'', the John Simm incarnation of the Master.
* [[Public Secret Message]]: The "Bad Wolf" [[Arc Words]] as well as the Doctor's DVD extra message in "Blink".
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* [[Ret-Gone]]:
** What happens to those who fall through the cracks in the universe. And Steven Moffat has reportedly said that, as a result of the cracks (and what was necessary to fix them), a number of major events of the preceding series {{spoiler|(most notably, the several alien invasions and other incidents that attracted widespread public notice)}} have been erased from history, {{spoiler|leaving an earth that is once again (almost) entirely ignorant of the existence of alien beings}}. What this means for the past Companions whose travels with the Doctor hinged on those events is anybody's guess.
* [[Retcon]]: The insertion of a previously-unknown regeneration between 8 and 9 (played by John Hurt) in the fiftieth-anniversary special
* [[Reverse Polarity]]: Multiple examples, including "Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" and the sonic screwdriver.
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: ''The Reign of Terror'', ''The Robots of Death''.
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** Exploited in several serials involving direct rewrites of history, most notably the Year That Never Was in "The Sound of Drums"/"Last of the Time Lords".
** Also part and parcel of being a time traveller. One's perception of history is altered, forever, allowing you to remember what the world was like before history was changed via [[Retcon]] and [[Ret-Gone]]. However, it isn't retroactive.
*** Heartbreakingly subverted in "Cold Blood
* [[Roar Before Beating]]: The Daleks shouting "EXTERMINATE" before opening fire, giving their target, provided they're not a [[Red Shirt]], plenty of time to escape.
* [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]]:
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*** Even {{spoiler|the Daleks}} get in on this.
** The Doctor always hoping to be a ginger when he next regenerates.
** The Eleventh Doctor's constant indignant repeatings that "[[Bow Ties Are Cool]]
*** As are fezzes and stetsons. This gag seems to be expanding to a universal template for goofy clothes.
{{quote|'''Eleven:''' I wear an X now. [[Bow Ties Are Cool|Xes are cool]].
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