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== D-F ==
* [[Damsel in Distress]] and [[Dude in Distress]]: The Doctor, in varying degrees throughout all his incarnations; most if not all of the companions, whether male or female, at some time or another; assorted bystanders of both sexes. Seriously, having someone taken prisoner or menaced by the [[Monster of the Week]] is one of the standard plots.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: The Master, at least when played by John Simm. He even likes to [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] when he should make a typical villain mistake and doesn't. Hell, his first step of
* [[Dark Secret]]: Everything about the Doctor.
{{quote|'''Reinette''': Doctor? Doctor Who? ''It's more than just a secret, isn't it?''}}
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* [[Death By Pragmatism]]
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: The Master has [[Deader Than Dead|died on-screen without regenerating]] no less than {{spoiler|three}} times. It's never stopped him from coming back for more. The show doesn't even bother to explain why his possessed Trakenite body is alive again in ''The Mark of the Rani'', after burning to death in ''Planet of Fire''.
** The [[Russell T. Davies]] era has seen "
* [[Death Ray]]: ''Everywhere''.
* [[Death Seeker]]: All of the incarnations of the Doctor following the Time War have shades of this.
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* [[Development Gag]]
* [[Divine Chessboard]]: In whole-season spanning story arc ''The Key To Time'' there were the White and Black Guardians.
* [[Cowboy Bebop at His Computer|Doctor Who In His Tardis]]: It's become generally accepted, by fans and production alike, that The Doctor's name is '''''not''''' "Doctor Who", but the media doesn't seem to know this. Even the end titles sometimes list the character as "Doctor Who"
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: The Silence are the distilled essence of dramatic irony, since everyone else in the show can only remember they exist when they're looking at them.
* [[Driving Question]]: "Doctor ''who''?" It's been asked an ungodly number of times, and as of Series 6, {{spoiler|it's the oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight, and must never '''''ever''''' be answered. "Silence must fall when the question is asked."}}
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* [[Fauxshadow]]: The parenthood of Amy's baby. A lot of twists in the show are like this, but the prologue of "A Good Man Goes to War" goes out of its way here:
{{quote|'''Amy''': He’s the [[Last of His Kind]]. He [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|looks young, but he’s lived for hundreds and hundreds of years]]. [...] [[Wham! Line|this man is your father]]. He has a name, but the people of our world know him better as {{spoiler|The Last Centurion}}.}}
** The show also tried to keep this going till the last possible moment, with the Doctor remarking, while pointing at the baby, that "it's mine
* [[Females Are More Innocent]]: The original show ran for a quarter century and had a large number of villains yet in that time period only about 10 were women, and only one or two of theme appeared in the shows first 15 seasons.
* [[Feudal Future]]: Various planets the Doctor's landed on, from time to time.
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