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* [[Kingpin in His Gym]]: Played for laughs when the Delgado Master, locked up in a sea fortress, exercises on a rowing machine. It doesn't seem to be working, though—the Doctor remarks that the Master has put on weight!

* [[Large Ham]]: [[Large Ham/Doctor Who|Has its own page]].

** {{spoiler|It occurs more literally in ''The End Of Time''; after receiving a fatal dose of radiation, the Doctor spends his last hours visiting the people he'd cared about during his tenth life and... well, not so much saying goodbye as helping them out from a distance and then staring sadly at them before wandering off. Except for Rose, whom [[Timey-Wimey Ball|he meets before she met him]] to have one last conversation with her. ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' says he visited every companion from all his incarnations}}.

** {{spoiler|And in "Closing Time", Eleven does it again in anticipation of getting [[Killed Off for Real]]}}.

** Good work {{spoiler|screwing the timeline over}} in "The Waters Of Mars", Doctor.

** Also, the Doctor calling the Daleks out on how they were tricking everyone about their victory was exactly what they needed to create a new race of Daleks. Great work, Doctor.

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: The Doctor is a psychic alien time-traveling slider. [[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'s [[Your Head Asplode|head would asplode]] with joy were she to meet him.

* [[Nobody Over 50 Is Gay]]:

* [[Oop North]]: Three of the eight Doctors from the classic series were played by actors from from the North of England (and one from Scotland), but the two Bakers were expected to use [[British Accents|the Queen's English]]. Paul McGann and [[Bonnie Scotland|Sylvester McCoy]] still had audible regional accents, but were toned down from their normal speaking voices. When (Mancunian) Christopher Eccleston, who played the Ninth Doctor, claimed to be "the first Northern Doctor", (Liverpudlian) [[Tom Baker]]--the iconic Fourth Doctor--called him on it.

{{quote|"Lots of planets have a North."}}

* [[Our Time Travel Is Different]]: Confusing, as there is no definite description of how time changes work.

** If a paradox is created monsterous [[Clock Roaches]] show up to "cauterize" the wound as seen in "Father's Day". It could only apply to certain types of paradox. Or sometimes there is a big explosion as seen in ''Mawdryn Undead''.

*** In the classic series, this was (vaguely) described as the [[Techno Babble|"Blinovitch Limitation Effect"]].

** Very early on in the classic series run the "rules" of time travel transitioned from "you can't change history... not one line" in the Season One story ''The Aztecs'' to manipulation of history being the plot of the Season Two story ''The Time Meddler''.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: ''State of Decay'', ''The Curse of Fenric'', "Smith and Jones" and "The Vampires of Venice" each featured different variations on the standard bloodsuckers.

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Actually, the creature in "Tooth and Claw" is identical to your standard pop culture werewolf...except that, like almost all monsters on the show, it's actually an alien.

** The eponymous Impossible Planet, imprisoning the devil (sort of) since before time and matter itself.

** Subverted in "The Doctor's Daughter". {{spoiler|It's initially assumed that the spaceship containing the Source and the Precursors to the war's combatants is many years old and should have burnt out, yet is working fine. It later turns out that thousands of generations of cloning is actually only a week, and the "abandoned" city was never populated to begin with}}.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]:

** The Doctor, in every incarnation. Even the one with the oldest body, One, looks positively spritely for four-hundred. And Eleven was cast at age 26, despite the Doctor now claiming to be 1100-ish (And from "Aliens of London" up until "The God Complex", claimed to be younger than the figure used by his seventh incarnation)

* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]: The Doctor's faced several examples, but the new series Daleks pretty much take the cake.

** The Daleks have since been supplanted by the Silence, who are explicitly a ''religious order'' dedicated to taking down the Doctor, among other undetermined things.

* [[Scry vs. Scry]]

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]:

* [[You Will Be Assimilated]]: The main objectives of the Cybermen.

* [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry]]: The Doctor (Ten and Eleven get special mentions).

* [[Zeerust]]:

** Both intentional (the TARDIS's controls look rather clunky, possibly partly because of its dodgy condition) and unintentional. Basically every story set in space or and/or the future from the first eleven years of the series by now looks absurdly out-of-date, though the bell-bottomed space uniforms of the 70s now look oddly fashion-forward. And while the late 1960s stories makes some gestures toward internationalism, they almost always show show a preponderance of men in technical or scientific roles.