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* [[Genius Cripple]]: Davros. C'mon, he's eyeless, has one arm, and is in a Dalek-base wheelchair.
* [[Genius Loci]]: The TARDIS, others, House in "The Doctor's Wife".
* [[Genre Roulette]]: borderlineBorderline [[Genre Busting]] at times. It did so even more in the era of William Hartnell, who played the First Doctor, before the series had quite settled into its format. As showrunner [[Steven Moffat|The Grand Moff]] put it: "Sometimes it's comedy, sometimes thriller, sometimes horror, sometimes children's stories, the silliest stories you've ever seen. Sometimes it's all that in the same episode"
** On the Nerdist podcast, Matt Smith praised the format for not being bound by "logic, time, space, or genre."
* [[Genre Savvy]]:
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** Moffat seems to love this trope. The Doctor/Amy scene at the end of "Flesh and Stone" springs to mind, especially this particularly [[Egregious]] exchange:
{{quote|'''Eleventh Doctor:''' Listen to me! I'm 907 years old. Do you know what that means?
'''Amy:''' It's been a while? }}
** A made for DVD scene included in the Series 5 box set expands on this further, with Amy discussing former companions in the same way a girlfriend might ask her boyfriend how many women he's slept with...
{{quote|'''Eleventh Doctor:''' ''(as the TARDIS shows Amy photos of all previous female companions)'' Thanks, dear. Miss out the metal dog, why don't you?
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