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On the other hand, people have complained that the Doctor in the new ''[[Doctor Who]]'' ''never'' encounters creatures or concepts he doesn't know. <ref>An exception being the [[Bottle Episode]] [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 E10 Midnight|Midnight]], in which they complained [[Nothing Is Scarier|he knew too little.]]</ref> But what do you expect from a [[Time Travel|time traveler]] with somewhere around 900 years of experience? |
On the other hand, people have complained that the Doctor in the new ''[[Doctor Who]]'' ''never'' encounters creatures or concepts he doesn't know. <ref>An exception being the [[Bottle Episode]] [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 E10 Midnight|Midnight]], in which they complained [[Nothing Is Scarier|he knew too little.]]</ref> But what do you expect from a [[Time Travel|time traveler]] with somewhere around 900 years of experience? |
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* ''[[Xenosaga]]'' uses this one way too much in the span of its three games. I AM RECORDING A SPACE TIME ANOMALY!!! |
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* In the universe of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', if you don't already know what's behind the local [[Negative Space Wedgie]], you probably don't wanna know. |
* In the universe of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', if you don't already know what's behind the local [[Negative Space Wedgie]], you probably don't wanna know. |
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** And quite often if you ''do'' know, you'll wish you didn't. |
** And quite often if you ''do'' know, you'll wish you didn't. |
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* The new ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has in fact encountered a couple of thingies that he'd never encountered before. The most notable are the Devil (perhaps) in "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit", and especially the unnamed creature from "Midnight". The latter is especially Nightmare Fuel-y because no-one ever finds out what it is - not the victims, not the Doctor, not the viewers, no-one. |
* The new ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has in fact encountered a couple of thingies that he'd never encountered before. The most notable are the Devil (perhaps) in "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit", and especially the unnamed creature from "Midnight". The latter is especially Nightmare Fuel-y because no-one ever finds out what it is - not the victims, not the Doctor, not the viewers, no-one. |
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** Lampshaded in "Amy's Choice", where the Eleventh Doctor laments, "I don't know! Why does everyone always expect me to know everything?" |
** Lampshaded in "Amy's Choice", where the Eleventh Doctor laments, "I don't know! Why does everyone always expect me to know everything?" |
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* In ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'', the heroes encounter a mysterious energy source known only as '''{{color|orange| THE POWER}}''' that seems to boost your natural abilities greatly. It resides ''in the planet Jupiter.'' |
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* [[Star Trek]]. Every series, several times per season. |
* [[Star Trek]]. Every series, several times per season. |
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* In the book and film ''[[Sphere]]'', a long-buried spaceship is revealed to have originated in the distant future and fallen into a black hole, recording this in the last entry of its log as "UNKNOWN (ENTRY) EVENT". Harry takes this to mean that the crew of the Habitat are fated to die, because if they lived to report this phenomonen, it wouldn't be "unknown". |
* In the book and film ''[[Sphere]]'', a long-buried spaceship is revealed to have originated in the distant future and fallen into a black hole, recording this in the last entry of its log as "UNKNOWN (ENTRY) EVENT". Harry takes this to mean that the crew of the Habitat are fated to die, because if they lived to report this phenomonen, it wouldn't be "unknown". |
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