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* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: Bizarre example—the announcement of [[Matt Smith]] provoked cries of "That one's too young!" (to use the Doctor's own words) and "He's wrong for the role!" Then him eccentrically ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zog-6SrGxE0 wiggling his fingers]'' in a interview managed to win over the majority of those who initially objected to his casting (such as the many who were hoping for Patterson Joseph).
** About Matt Smith again, those that weren't sold by the interview (or didn't see it) were won over by the first videos of his actual acting—specifically, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slP6Rrou2ns this preview]. Pretty much everyone who was still on the fence was instantly converted.
** The new series as a whole received a shot of enthusiasm in the arm when it was announced that 'proper' actor [[Christopher Eccleston]] had been cast as the Doctor after a long period of worrying tabloid stories about various light-entertainment stars being
** The Russell T Davies era securing the rights to use the Daleks after their participation had been questioned by the estate of their late creator assuaged many fans' fears.
** For some, the announcement of [[Steven Moffat]] as showrunner following Russell T Davies' departure.
** Also, [[Neil Gaiman]] writing for
* [[Angst Dissonance]]: Due to the diverse nature of the show's ever-changing mixture of characters and actors, some fans react differently to angst-related scenarios than others. The somewhat angst-ridden relationships between the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler (particularly after she is trapped in the alternate earth) and the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald are not supported by some fans.
* [[Angst? What Angst?]]:
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** 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.
** To a lesser extent, if you started a drinking game about how many times Rory being a nurse got brought up, you'd be drunk very quickly.
* [[Arc Fatigue]]: With the finale of the sixth series, Moffat has run into this for River and the Silents/Silence, if critical reviews are any indication.
* [[Archive Panic]]: Oh boy where do we begin? At the start of 2017, the TV series alone stands at a whopping '''832''' episodes split into 264 serials across 35 seasons. Watch (or listen to) one serial a week and you'll finish the classic series in a little over three years. Watch/listen to one serial a ''day'', and you'll finish the entire show in just under a year. There's a reason the show reset the season and episode counters to 1 when it started up again in 2005.
* [[Ass Pull]]: It seems the Doctor has a knack for saving the day through some [[Applied Phlebotinum|trick of space, time, the TARDIS, or his sonic screwdriver]] about which we've never heard before, and may not ever hear of again, though sometimes, a trick might get resurrected later, just to add a bit of continuity.
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* [[Ear Worm]]: The theme tune.
** The Master's drumbeat.
* [[Ending Fatigue]]: The 15-minute farewell scenes in
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]:
** From Classic Who, both the Daleks and ''Sir'' Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. Both originally intended as one-off characters in the
** Within just one episode, the Weeping Angels were heavily regarded as the show's most terrifying villains. Even more so than the Daleks, just from the sheer [[Paranoia Fuel|paranoia factor]]. Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone only ''increased'' their popularity (except among certain fans who screamed [[Ruined FOREVER]] at some of the changes).
*** Yet another creation from Blink is also widely beloved: Sally Sparrow.
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*** And his bow tie. [[Memetic Mutation|Both are cool.]]
** Despite Sharaz Jek only appearing in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S21/E06 The Caves of Androzani|The Caves of Androzani]]'' {{spoiler|and dying in the final episode}}, he's arguably one of the most popular side characters in the show's history.
** Wilfred Mott. He attacked a Dalek with a ''paint gun''. He was so popular that he was brought back as The Doctor's companion for
** Captain Jack Harkness was popular enough to get his own show after just five episodes.
** Although thus far they've only shown up for one episode, and didn't get very much screen time within it, Madame Vastra, the Lesbian Victorian Silurian Detective and her partner-slash-servant are incredibly popular, with the fandom begging for a spin-off.
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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
* [[Escapist Character]]: The Doctor and his companions.
* [[Ethnic Scrappy]]: The council worker in "Fear Her".
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* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: [[Doctor Who/Fridge|It and Fridge Horror have their own page.]]
* [[Fridge Logic]]: [[Doctor Who/Headscratchers|Has its own page.]]
* [[Growing the Beard]]: Being that the series has a few decades of history, it's a bit inevitable that there have been a lot of times when the show's quality gets lower a few times and then back up later. The most notable are the Second Doctor compared to the first, the Sixth Doctor's second season (
** Some fans would argue that the new series in general was a beard growth compared to the eighties and nineties, and others see it as the point where the show was [[Ruined FOREVER]].
** The Second Doctor was a noticeable improvement on the First, making stories more action-orientated, and spreading his influence to every other Doctor after that.
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* [[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
* [[Iron Woobie]]:
** Since the revival, the Doctor.
** Amy.
** In
*** Then in Series
* [[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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** In ''The Curse of Fenric'', Millington locks two men up in a cellar, leaving them to their Haemovorey death.
** 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
* [[Most Wonderful Sound]]: The characteristic TARDIS dematerialisation sound {{spoiler|created, according to River Song, by the Doctor leaving the brakes on. ([[I Meant to Do That|He claims it's deliberate]])}}. Of course, this raises the question as to why Romana and the Master had it happen to them, but River could have just been messing with the Doctor.
* [[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.
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* [[Nightmare Retardant]]: The cheaper costumes of the classic era. Sometimes pops up every now and then in the new series.
* [[Paranoia Fuel]]:
**
** 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}}.
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* [[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}}. On the ''other'' hand, she also {{spoiler|broke time itself and endangered the universe because of it
* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: Donna Noble, thanks to a lot of character development. {{spoiler|Unfortunately all undone at the end of
** 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. {{spoiler|Now, '''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E04 The Doctor's Wife|official, in-universe canon]]'''}}.
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* [[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
* [[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.
** The low budget also effected the [[Chroma Key]] work throughout the seventies and eighties. It pops up every now and then in the new series but very infrequently.
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* [[Values Dissonance]]: Even accepting the recons and the wonky production values, many people trying to get into the Hartnell/Troughton era nowadays find it hard due to the rather questionable portrayals of race and gender.
* [[Viewers are Morons]]: Unfortunately seems to be an assumption that the series is making more often the longer it goes on. The first episode of the Capaldi run has a wonderfully done set of scenes where it's unclear whether the villain of the episode jumped to his death or the newly-regenerated Doctor pushed him. Since the Twelfth Doctor said that either the villain was lying about their inability to commit suicide, or the Doctor was lying about not being a murderer, this was an establishing character moment for Twelve, and its ambiguity was important. Apparently too important to leave to mushy-headed viewers to catch, so at the end of the episode they added a scene with a character ''loudly asking'' the villain in the afterlife "Did you jump or did he push you? '''It was a bit difficult to see!'''"
* [[Villain Decay]]: The Classic Series' Cybermen went from "no known weaknesses" to "gold dust interferes with their respiratory systems" to "[[Weaksauce Weakness|holy crap, anything gold kills them dead]]". ''The Five Doctors'' and ''Attack of the Cybermen'' didn't
** The Slitheen were fairly menacing in "Aliens of London", "World War Three" and "Boom Town". By the third series of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', they were quickly caught by their "cousins".
** Arguably, the Sontarans and Ice Warriors. In the case of the Ice Warriors, them becoming less evil in general was actually part of the story, while in the new series the war-loving Sontarans have [[Took a Level In Badass|Taken A Level In Badass]].
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