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* [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]]: Adric.
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: Quite a few of these.
** In particular the Master. In "The End of Time", {{spoiler|it was revealed the drumming in his head (that had tormented him his entire life and led to him being [[Ax Crazy|totally unhinged]]) was in fact put there by Rassilon for his own purposes
** Even a freaking DALEK gets one in the episode "Dalek", giving one last, rather morose-sounding "Exterminate!" before blowing itself up out of self-loathing.
** The Minotaur in "The God Complex".
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** The classic series has its share of this as well. For example, the Seventh Doctor is generally considered to be [[The Chessmaster]], but there's some evidence that suggests that he ''actually'' doesn't really know what he's doing at all but just happens to be very good at [[Xanatos Speed Chess]], making everyone to ''think'' he's pulling all the strings for his own reasons.
** The Bad Wolf. Is it Rose using the power of the time vortex to save the Doctor, or the time vortex controlling the mind of Rose to stop the Daleks?
*** Or given the events of
{{quote|'''Bad Wolf:''' I want you safe. My Doctor.}}
** The Beast
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z57Wktiu5Qc This] [[YouTube]] video of a Doctor Who Confidential offers one for Madame Kovarian: a woman "of a certain age" who never had any children of her own. It seems to be suggesting that not only will
** The First Doctor. Is his impatience and grumpiness and general abrasiveness because he is old and had a life hard lived, or because he is a young man trying to seem much more important than he is?
** The series on a whole- is it about an ancient alien travelling time and space in a dimensionally trancendient box, or is it about the people who he travels with and how he changes them? Arguments could be made for both sides.
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* [[Angst? What Angst?]]:
** The Doctor tends to ignore the fact that ''he just died'' to [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|near-pathological levels]] when he regenerates.
** Eleven in general in comparison to both Nine and Ten. {{spoiler|It's shown in series 6 he still has guilt for what he did to Rose, Martha and Donna as well as the loss of the Time Lords, however
* [[Anvilicious]]: Yeah, painting the TARDIS ''pink'' in ''The Happiness Patrol'' was probably a ''bit'' on-the-nose...
** Looking back, the 1988-1989 series in general can be a bit too unsubtle about how 'right-on' politically they are. In 2010, the producers admitted that they'd been directly opposed to [[Margaret Thatcher]] and had been working to do their bit to help bring her down—which led to a certain amount of derision, partly because the viewing audience at this time wasn't exactly a massively influential voting block (comprised primarily of kids and hardcore fans), but mostly because thanks to this trope, this was hardly a secret.
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** Yet ''another'' recent example is Craig Owens, The Doctor's roommate in The Lodger, who gained a lot of popularity based on the excellent chemistry between James Corden and Matt Smith. [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]] when it was announced that the Doctor would go back and visit him.
* [[Epileptic Trees]]: Series 5 has, thus far, generated reams of fan theories, ranging from very clever, probably right ones, to the fact that the barely legible text of the library card in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E06 The Vampires of Venice|The Vampires of Venice]]" has a slightly wrong post code on it.
** Series Six has followed in suit, and the Spoilers [[Wild Mass Guessing]] page had to be broken down into folders sorting the different type of speculation- e.g. {{spoiler|
* [[Escapist Character]]: The Doctor and his companions.
* [[Ethnic Scrappy]]: The council worker in "Fear Her".
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* [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Funny Moments]]: [[Doctor Who/Funny|Have their own page.]]
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]:
** The little girl in "Day of the Moon" being forgotten about only to {{spoiler|find herself sick and dying in New York}} could be bad enough, until you realise {{spoiler|this is a young River Song ''and'' the baby Amy was pregnant with. It also leads into the attempted murder of the Doctor
** At the end of ''The Time Monster'', when the Doctor states that eternal torment was something he'd never subject anything to. [[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E09 The Family of Blood|About]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E10 Blink|that...]]
** The scene of Rory sadly playing with the dream!cot in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E07 Amy's Choice|Amy's Choice]] is made even more heartbreaking by what happens in series 6.
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** In [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E02 Day of the Moon|Day of the Moon]], [[Richard Nixon]] asks the Doctor if he'll be remembered in the future. The Doctor, wishing to remain coy on the details, simply replies that "they'll never forget about [Nixon]" and "say hello to David Frost for me". [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E04 The Doctor's Wife|Two episodes later]], the Doctor has an encounter with a being voiced by [[Michael Sheen]], who played David Frost in [[Frost/Nixon]].
** In a [[Black Comedy]] sense, Rory tells Alaya in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E09 Cold Blood|Cold Blood]] that he trusts the Doctor with his life. That proved not to be a great idea.
* [[Holy Shit Quotient]]: The series does outdo itself constantly in this area due to thrills and scares, but very few can compare to
** Specifically, when the viewer gets out ahead of the plot on that one and realizes what's coming just soon enough to scream 'HOLY SHIT' about twenty times before the event actually happens.
* [[Ho Yay]]: [[Doctor Who/Ho Yay|Has its own page]].
* [[Hype Backlash]]: Fandom example. Rose was a fine character on her own, but when Martha was frequently compared to her by both the show [[Die for Our Ship|and the fanbase]], even some of the people who ''liked'' her have come to see her as [[The Scrappy]].
* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: The main character's name is "The Doctor", not "Doctor Who".
* [[Internet Backdraft]]: The reveal that the person cast as the companion for series 7 is
* [[Iron Woobie]]:
** Since the revival, the Doctor.
** Amy.
** In series 5's "The Big Bang",
*** Then in Series Six he has to deal with
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]:
** Thanks to copious amounts of [[Moral Dissonance]] right from the [[Doctor Who/Recap/2005 CS the Christmas Invasion|get-go]], the Tenth Doctor.
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** Amy as well, thanks to her [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] moments.
* [[Like You Would Really Do It]]: Every time The Master is killed off. Ditto for the Daleks.
** Series 6 is hinting very strongly that the Doctor is going to die For Realsies This Time
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: So ''very'' many. The Master pretty much takes home the gold, though. Davros gets the silver.
* [[Mary Sue]]: There are arguments for any number of companions, not to mention the Doctor. Take a look at [[Common Mary Sue Traits|the list of traits]] and you'll find that the Doctor has quite a few. Proof that [[Tropes Are Not Bad]].
** And then there's Clara, proof that sometimes they're ''absolutely terrible''.
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** In "Dalek", Van Statten is just arrogant and ignorant... until he decides to keep the Doctor as a specimen, for ''torturing''. And later he dismisses his soldiers as "dispensible" when the Dalek massacres them. After that, there's no excuse.
** In ''The End of Time'' {{spoiler|the Time Lords}} themselves have gone off the deep end as they are willing to destroy the fabric of space and time to escape their own demise, in a war {{spoiler|''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S12/E04 Genesis of the Daleks|they started]]''}}.
* [[Most Wonderful Sound]]: The characteristic TARDIS dematerialisation sound
* [[Narm Charm]]: Often, the series manages to be cheesy while still being on the edge of your seat tense. Any non-humanoid Auton in particular.
** In The Master's first-ever appearance, he tried to take over the world with plastic daffodils.
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** How about: "Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead! They are fast. Faster than you could believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink! Good Luck."
** Steven Moffat seems to be determined to give the entire planet a phobia of ''everything''. So far he's covered ticking, statues, shadows and now {{spoiler|cracks on the wall and... whatever the Smilers are}}.
*** And now
*** Makes people scared to death of their Gran's angel collection, too.
** Speaking of Moff, he also came up with the Silence, monsters that you instantly ''forget exist'' whenever you're not looking at them. Also, they look like [[The Slender Man Mythos|Slender Man]].
** The Autons. Basically ''anything made of plastic'' could come to life.
** Gangers. Human clones with the same memories. So how are you going to tell the original and the copy apart? Well, you can't, unless the Ganger is incomplete and has that smooth, transparent face. Just hope you won't be seeing it in the mirror. And then there's the twist of "The Almost People": {{spoiler|who's to say that '''you''' aren't unknowingly piloting a ganger right now, separated from all your friends and family who don't even know you're missing
* [[Periphery Demographic]]: The classic series was popular with the gay community. As there was almost no suggestion of any sexuality at all, viewers could add their own interpretations on the various relationships between characters.
* [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses]]: Amy can get this rather bad. "The Girl Who Waited", for example, was treated as sexist because the older Amy wouldn't save herself until young!Amy used Rory to convince her.
** River Song also gets accusations of this because she's obsessed with the Doctor. On the one hand, it's a [[Justified Trope]] due to her {{spoiler|being brainwashed to kill him her entire life
* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: Donna Noble, thanks to a lot of character development.
** Mickey Smith, from "The Age of Steel". Solidified at the end of "Army of Ghosts".
* [[Robo Ship]]: Doctor and TARDIS. [[Ship Tease|Hinted at]] at various occasions, especially during the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh Doctor's tenure.
* [[Running the Asylum]]: It's the longest running Science Fiction show in existence, heavily influencing just about everyone in England who ever did anything related to Science Fiction. Its a fair bet that there's a few long-time fans on the payroll, such as David Tennant.
* [[Scapegoat Creator]]: The series has no one creator to lay blame on, but aside from original producer Verity Lambert, legendary writer Robert Holmes and arguably Tom Baker's second producer, Philip Hinchcliffe, just about everyone who's ever worked on the show has been designated [[Scapegoat Creator]] by some segments of fandom. John Nathan-Turner (Producer, 1980-9) and [[Russell T. Davies]] (Executive Producer and Head Writer 2005-2010) are both frequent and popular targets of this.
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** More permanently, [[Teen Genius|Adric]] and [[Screaming Woman|Mel]].
** Eric Roberts' Master.
** Francine Jones, Martha's mother. She's rude to just about everyone right from the get-go, and ends up {{spoiler|selling out the Doctor to Harold Saxon, a.k.a. the Master
** Sylvia Noble, Donna's mum. Her [[Small Name, Big Ego|arrogance]], [[Smug Snake|smugness]], constant belittling of her daughter, and inability to say the words "Thank You" left a bad taste in the mouth of many a fan.
** The Slitheen have the unfortunate distinction of being the only Doctor Who race to be almost universally despised. Shoddy costume design, out-of-place toilet humor and the fact that the characters themselves were generally seen to be more irritating than menacing turned out to not be a very good recipe for an alien race, especially one that was the first recurring alien race of the new series.
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** Ben/Polly. Running an orphanage according to the above SJA episode.
* [[Shipping Wars]]: In addition to the above, people pretty much ship Anyone/Anyone on the show. Canon or not, they can get ''very'' defensive over their ship(s).
* [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]: Sure, ''Vincent and the Doctor'' was basically a [[Very Special Episode]] about depression - even the monster that provides the plot can be read as a metaphor for Van Gogh's mental illness - but it was handled so maturely that it falls squarely into this category. {{spoiler|Even knowing that his paintings will be incredibly famous and loved in the future, Vincent still kills himself, because it's not a matter of cheering him up: he's got a ''disease'' that nobody in his time understands
* [[Space Jews]]: Gibbis in ''The God Complex'' seems to be a deliberate parody of this trope. Hailing from 'the most invaded planet in the galaxy,' he has vaguely ratlike features, no hair, and [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys|is in charge of planting trees so invading soldiers can march in the shade.]] It's like the producers are deliberately trying to get the audience to scream "That's racist" without actually knowing who it's racist towards.
* [[Special Effects Failure]]: [[The BBC]] was somewhat notorious for giving the set and costume designers of ''Doctor Who'' a shoestring budget; that is, a bundle of shoe strings that they were expected to make fifteen monsters out of. Interestingly enough, however, this has always been viewed as part of the series' charm, and the fanbase reacted negatively when the TV movie upped the effects budget.
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* [[Ugly Cute]]:
** The Adipose (cutest [[Body Horror]] ever!)
** [[Eldritch Abomination|Prisoner Zero]] can be this when it's not trying to scare people.
** The Ood. In fricking ''spades''.
** Ganger-Jennifer. Her degeneration makes her look like Voldemort's younger sister.
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