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* [[Absent-Minded Professor]]: Even more than usual for the Doctor.
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: He was very attractive to begin with, yet is sometimes described to sound younger, taller, and thinner than he was in the TVM.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: In normal canon, he's pretty much overtly bisexual and occasionally effeminate. In the [[Alternate Reality Episode|Obverse]] segments of ''The Blue Angel'', he likes cooking and old movie soundtracks and his [[Ambiguously Jewish]] [[Jewish Mother|Mother]] seems to take a particular interest in his love life.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Quite overtly so; he has implied romantic relationships with both men and women, and at least one character noticed.
{{quote|'''Sam''': ...The way he looks at certain people. Women and men. But he never acts on anything. <ref>(He does eventually, but not yet, and it's pretty much never clearly stated.)</ref>}}
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* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: He once stuck his fingers up an opponent's nose.
* [[Creepy Good]]: Sometimes. Anji occasionally has an [[Uncanny Valley]] reaction to him, particularly in ''Camera Obscura'' when he faints and she notices that his "muscular-skeletal frame" is unnaturally flexible. Also, his emotional responses are often a little bit off -- he's sometimes not upset by things that upset everybody else, and even when he is upset he tends not to show it. And there's the [[Stealth Hi Bye]] thing he often does, and he didn't have a shadow for a while... he even kept a couple of pet bats in the TARDIS at the beginning of the series, one of which almost scares the crap out of someone in ''Vampire Science''.
* [[The Dandy]]: Subverted: he dresses like Oscar Wilde on his way to a wedding and is often actually described as dandyish, but seems not to actually take much of an interest in his physical appearance: his [[Messy Hair|hair is usually wild and messy]], he doesn't give a damn for [[Clothing Damage|the effects going through hell and high water would have]] on [[Impractically Fancy Outfit|all that fancy velvet and silk he wears]], and he has to take others' word for it that he's good-looking, because he doesn't personally notice or care <ref>(compare "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S17
* [[Darker and Edgier]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Every now and then.
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* [[Audience Surrogate]]: In a let's-try-to-appeal-to-young-girls kind of way. It more or less worked.
* [[Bi the Way]]
* {{spoiler|[[Bus Crash]]}}
* [[Granola Girl]]
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* [[Oxbridge]]: ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'' mentions both that he went to Cambridge and {{spoiler|has him participating in what's apparently a [[wikipedia:May Ball#Ball crashing|fine old Cambridge tradition]] of party-crashing in a gorilla costume. Except he was invited. But he still had to be an enigmatic, incognito jerk}}.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: In both ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'' and ''Camera Obscura'', he has a [[Little Miss Badass]] as a [[Sidekick]], and seems to care about them quite a bit. Also, he becomes more likable as he and the Doctor become more like [[Friendly Enemy|Friendly Enemies]], and his civility towards Anji demonstrates that he has good taste.
* [[The Quiet One]]: Relative to the Doctor, at least, and the Doctor tends to get kind of [[No Sense of Personal Space|grabby]] to [[Attention Whore|get his attention]] when he seems to have decided to let the Doctor's [[Motor Mouth]] run out of fuel on its own:
{{quote|"What the wraiths were warning you about," Anji chipped in when it became apparent Sabbath still wasn’t speaking. The Doctor waved a hand in front of Sabbath’s eyes as if to break a trance.}}
* [[Staying Alive]]: Once or twice, just enough to elicit grumblings from the audience about how much of a Master-expy he is.
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* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]
* [[Mind Screw]]: They were created by, and largely written by, Lawrence Miles, so this is only to be expected.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Did we mention they wear black robes and animal skulls?
* [[Powers as Programs]]: A strange sort-of-inversion in that the Faction makes extensive use of biodata (the importance of which was established in ''The Deadly Assassin'') in the "rituals" that fuel their technology.
* [[Skeletons in the Coat Closet]]: Their armor is carved from the bones of [[Time Paradox|impossible]] creatures, as seen [[media:armour.jpg|here.]]
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