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** There's a quote from "The Family of Blood" that pretty much sums up this trope:
{{quote|"He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing. The fury of the Time Lord. And then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he had run away from us and hidden... He was being kind."}}
** Faced with his own daughter's dead body, the Doctor picks up the gun that killed her, holds it against the head of the man who fired it and delivers the spine-chilling {{spoiler|"[[ThisPunctuated! IsFor! SpartaEmphasis!|I. Never. Would.]]", destroying that man's support with three words.}} If you pay attention to the background music as he holds the guns, guess what it is? Drums. Yeah that's right. The Doctor was nearly pushed into becoming The Master mk2.
** To be honest, most of the Doctor's incarnations have behaved similarly at least once. As he gets angrier, he tends to go from smiling to annoyed scowling to shouting to steely-eyed gazing.
** In ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E13 The Big Bang|The Big Bang]]'', {{spoiler|When the Eleventh Doctor pulls off his first [[Disney Death]] thanks to being shot by [[It Makes Sense in Context|a stone Dalek]], River Song gets seriously pissed at said Dalek. She lets it ask for mercy ''three times'', all that time remaining completely calm and emotionless. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Then she shoots it.]]}} To recap: River Song ''made a Dalek ask for mercy'', and then she ''didn't give it''. All without raising her voice. Oh, here -- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJkB6Ky6gJ0 watch it for yourselves.]
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