History Heartwarming / DoctorWho

**** Damn right! I've always loved Peter Davison and "Time Crash" for me, is the best of the new series episodes. I wish Davison would come back and do a full episode or special.

* For all its supposed {{Narm}}, few things warm this troper's heart more than [[spoiler:the beginning of the Master's defeat]] in "The Last of the Time Lords": the Doctor, having [[spoiler:absorbed the power of the Master's psychic field via ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve]], is advancing on the Master, who is screaming, crying, and clawing at the walls in fear of the epic wrath of [[strike:Tinkerbell Jesus]] God that is about to descend on him in retribution for all the horrible things he's done, and the Doctor proceeds to ''give him a hug''.

* The [[DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] novel "Shadows of Avalon" has the Brigadier, in the aftermath of a screaming argument with the Doctor where both men virtually severed their friendship with each other over events in Avalon (basically the human dreaming). During the siege of a castle, the Brigadier, thinking the Doctor dead, realises that he was right, and tells the troops that their job is save the day and do the right thing - just as the Doctor would have wanted. Naturally, being an attention tart, the Doctor trumps him by performing a chandelier swing into the middle of the room, but it doesn't detract from the emotion in the Brigadier's speech.
** Also from a Brigadier-Doctor scene... in "Dying Days", the Doctor hugs the Brigadier after surviving the exploding Martian ship, and for once the Brigadier doesn't push him away.

-->'''The Doctor''': [[spoiler: I think you're going to have a really great year]]

** Apply some FridgeLogic to his last meeting with Donna (Well, Donna's parents.) He went back in time to borrow a quid from Jeffrey Noble (Donna's late father) and bought Donna a lottery ticket so Donna could live WealthyEverAfter. He was able to let Donna's father buy her a wedding preset even after he passed away.
** The episode of TheSarahJaneAdventures "The Death of the Doctor" turned that whole sequence into an even bigger moment of heartwarming. The Doctor tells Jo Grant [[spoiler:that he didn't just revisit all the companions from his tenth incarnation. He revisited all of them, every single one, from his first life to his tenth. And given that he visited the descendant of someone who wasn't even a companion, who knows how many people important to him he may have appeared to...]]

--> '''[[spoiler: The Master]]:''' Get out of the way."'

-->''*Click.* ''

* The Doctor pointing the gun at [[spoiler: the Master]] and saying, "Get out of the way." This troper burst into tears because of [[spoiler: The Master's]] shocked, hurt face...then his ''smile.'' It says more than words ever could.

* ''The Christmas Invasion''. What was earlier portrayed as a CrowningMomentOfFunny turns into [[CrowningMOmentOfHeartwarming one of these]] when they're about half an hour away from all out invasion, the Doctor is unconscious and completely out of it, and Jackie is just ''sitting'' with him, in a stark contrast to their usual relationship, trying to get him to [[ConverseWithTheUnconscious tell them what's wrong with him]] and how they can help. She calls him ''sweetheart''. And falls asleep besides him.

* The ending of ''Evolution of the Daleks'', when [[spoiler:Laslo's dying]]:

-->'''The Doctor:''' Oh, Tallulah with three Ls and an H... just you watch me. What do I need? Oh, I don't know, how about a great big genetic laboratory? Oh look, I've got one. [[spoiler:Laslo]], just you hold on. There've been too many deaths today. ''Way'' too many people have died. Brand new creatures and wise old men and age-old enemies. And I'm telling you. I'm telling you right now, I am ''not having one more death''. Got that? '''No-one.''' Tallulah? Out of the way. The Doctor is in.

* In "Victory of the Daleks" Winston Churchhill to the android Bracewell, "Now, I don't give a damn if you're a machine, Bracewell... Are you a man?" The question is asked more or less the whole way though, and the fate of earth depended on the answer. By the end of the episode the answer is yes enough that the Doctor is able leave Bracewell behind to enjoy his throughly human life. Such a shockingly happy ending for an AI that it brought tears to this troper's eyes.

*** Nah, I don't really buy that [[spoiler: Auton Rory might be (okay, definitely is) a more competent fighter than the original Rory. But I don't think he's any more valiant than the original. The original fought vampires (okay, fish from space) even though he knew his opponent was a much better fighter and hence likely to kill him (that's real bravery) and he also gave his life trying to save the Doctor's. Auton Rory is as valiant as the original, not more so. And I also don't buy the idea that Amy believed Rory to be her knight in shining armor. She seemed to always see him as her bumbling but loyal boyfriend "Wrong way, idiot!" No, Rory's awesomeness is not the by product of non-existent hero-worship on Amy's part. His awesomeness is his own]]

** [[spoiler: Just let me emphasize this a little bit. Auton-Rory spends just shy of 2,000 years protecting a box. Cultures rise and fall around him, and he is nothing more than a historical curiosity associated with another historical curiousity. He never wavers, he never falters, he never leaves the Pandorica. He dragged the Pandorica out of a German firebombing, knowing that if he ever was damaged, he could never, ever be repaired. The Doctor warned Rory that he would probably be mad by the time the Doctor's gambit reached its end. But Rory? He was sane. He was unharmed. And he was still... right... there. Working security for the Pandorica Exhibition, keeping Amy safe. Like he did for two thousand years. If that isn't devotion worthy of a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, I don't know what is.]]

*** Later reflection makes you realise that this is the first genuinely, completely ''[[EarnYourHappyEnding Happy Ending]]'' that New Who has ever had -first series the Doctor regenerates, everyone on the station dies except Jack who now has to live forever after just being ''abandoned'', second series he loses Rose to another dimension, third series he's the last of his kind again and Martha leaves him probably with a horrible case of Post Traumatic Stress, fourth season the fate of Donna, just... Donna. Specials? He gets told he's going to die, goes crazy, and finally regenerates. But now we have a wedding, a celebration, silly dancing, the Doctor saved via telling a story, and a death count ''doing into the minuses''. Only StevenMoffat could pull an 'EverybodyLives'' happy ending in a Doctor Who finale. Hats off to the man.

* And of course, when the depressed Eight goes to a bar to drown his sorrows after a particularly nasty time, and runs into 'Bish, the bar's owner. Both have a chat together when a cheated robot barges in with an explosive threatening to blow up the bar. Eight suavely approaches her, and with genuine sorrow in his voice, reminding her of the flow of Time and how everybody longs for the past that is no longer with us, gets close enough to her and turns her and the explosive off. Everybody breaths again and the Doctor and 'Bish remain a while after closing. The Doctor thanks him for the heart-to-heart and leaves on a holiday. Due to an earlier interruption, 'Bish never learned the Doctor's name. Unfortunately, after the Doctor leaves, 'Bish drops his form as a tall bartender and reveals himself to be Frobisher, the Doctor's old companion, who complains he never got to learn the man's name...
* At the end of IDW Comics ''The Forgotten'' miniseries. The Tenth Doctor asks the TARDIS' matrix to appear as one specific Companion -- "You know who I need to see..."[[spoiler: and it's Susan, so he can finally hug and say goodbye and apologize for leaving her so many, many years ago.]]

* The Doctor pointing the gun at the Master and saying, "Get out of the way." This troper burst into tears because of [[spoiler: The Master's]] shocked, hurt face...then his ''smile.'' It says more than words ever could.

--> '''[[spoiler: The Master]]:''' Get out of the way.

* Earlier in "The Impossible Planet", the Doctor has an [[ http://phenommark.xanga.com/videos/953e9293992 adorable]] HumansAreSpecial moment with the acting Captain who is deeply in need of some reassurance.

* The Tenth Doctor thanking Martha at the end of "The Family of Blood" for looking after him.

** Apply some FridgeLogic to his last meeting with Donna (Well, Donna's parents.) He went back in time to borrow a quid from Jeffrey
Noble (Donna's late father) and bought Donna a lottery ticket so Donna could live WealthyEverAfter. He was able to let Donna's father buy her a wedding preset even after he passed away.

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* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E13ThePartingOfTheWays Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a ''fantastic'' life.]]" "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye.]]" "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords I'm not having you disappear. If that rings -]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords when]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords that rings you better come running, got it?]]" "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well, I borrowed it; I was always gonna take it back. Oh, that box. Amy, you'll dream about that box.]]" Every ''DoctorWho'' season finale since the revival has both warmed [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E13JourneysEnd and broken]] many hearts.

* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E13ThePartingOfTheWays Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a ''fantastic'' life.]]" "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye.]]" "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords I'm not having you disappear. If that rings -]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords when]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords that rings you better come running, got it?]]" "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang Remember what I told you when you were little. "Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well, I borrowed it; I was always gonna take it back. Oh, that box. Amy, you'll dream about that box.]]" Every ''DoctorWho'' season finale since the revival has both warmed [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E13JourneysEnd and broken]] many hearts.

-->'''[[BigDamnHeroes Doctor]]''': Well, '''''[[{{Shipping}} of course it matters]]!!'''''

* The ending of ''The Doctor Dances'': "Just this once, Rose. EverybodyLives!" This is the first time in the series ''since the Fifth Doctor'' that there hasn't been a single fatality, death being a constant element of ''DoctorWho''. Seeing the Doctor's ecstatic reaction brings home how painful all those deaths have been for him. This also manages to be a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesomeLiveActionTV Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

* "Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a ''fantastic'' life." "I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye." "I'm not having you disappear. If that rings - ''when'' that rings you better come running, got it?" Every ''DoctorWho'' season finale since the revival has both warmed and broken many hearts.

** Course then it immediately becomes a TearJerker when the Doctor makes [[ForeShadowing a throwaway comment about Rio]] and we realise what happens to Rory next.

* The end of "The Unquiet Dead", when Charles Dickens, in a moment of self-doubting vulnerability, asks the Doctor whether his books will still be read in the future:

* ThisTroper would like to submit a ten minute section of "The Stolen Earth" as doing it again and again. First the hug between Martha and her mum (and the latter's response, "[[spoiler:You came home. At the end of the world, you came back to me]].") Then Harriet Jones's return - especially her admitting [[spoiler:she'll die trying to save the Earth]]. Then the whole "Calling the Doctor" scene. ''Then'' Harriet's theme coming in full blast when she [[spoiler:says her last words]]. ''Then'' the Doctor's conversation with his companions.

-->''* Click.* ''

** Which is then viciously subverted as what would be a truly CMoH when [[spoiler: Amy finally remembers Rory]] is made horribly sad by the fact that [[spoiler: he is fighting his transformation into a murderous Auton, loses control and shoots her.]]
** And amidst all the horror of later events, there's even a ''fridge'' CMoH. [[spoiler: Auton Rory, with his "head full of Roman stuff", is a considerably more valiant and competent fighter than the original Rory. Because his entire programming is based on what Amy believes Rory to be, and he's her knight in shining armor.]]

Eat your heart out, Ood Sigma.

*** Later reflection makes you realise that this is the first genuinely, completely ''[[EarnYourHappyEnding Happy Ending]]'' that New Who has ever had -first series the Doctor regenerates, everyone on the station dies except Jack who now has to live forever after just being ''abandoned'', second series he loses Rose to another dimension, third series he's the last of his kind again and Martha leaves him probably with a horrible case of Post Traumatic Stress, forth season the fate of Donna, just... Donna. Specials? He gets told he's going to die, goes crazy, and finally regenerates. But now we have a wedding, a celebration, silly dancing, the Doctor saved via telling a story, and a death count ''doing into the minuses''. Only StevenMoffat could pull an 'EverybodyLives'' happy ending in a Doctor Who finale. Hats off to the man.

* Not even the DW comics escape this. Once, the Eighth Doctor travelled with Kroton, a Cyberman who had somehow retained his ability to feel emotions. Kroton had a lot of [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome damn good moments]] like pummeling a patrol of Sontarans into submission, but he also had a lot of potential for TearJerker s given that he kept having flashes of his former life before a Cyberman. In ''The Glorious Dead'', Izzy, another of the Doctor's companions, gives him a memory crystal and forces him to use it so he can fully remember (ItMakesSenseInContext). And he does, and the memories of his whole family are restored to him. His voice cracking as it all comes back, trembling through the pain and the sweetness of all he had lost, almost weeping in joy, is Kroton's true CMOH.
* And of course, when the depressed Eight goes to a bar to drown his sorrows after a particularly nasty time, and runs into 'Bish, the bar's owner. Both have a chat together when a cheated robot barges in with an explosive threatening to blow up the bar. Eight suavely approaches her, and with genuine sorrow in his voice, reminding of the flow of Time and how everybody longs for the past that is no longer with us, gets close enough to her and turns her and the explosive off. Everybody breaths again and the Doctor and 'Bish remain a while after closing. The Doctor thanks him for the heart-to-heart and leaves on a holiday. Due to an earlier interruption, 'Bish never learned the Doctor's name. Unfortunately, after the Doctor leaves, 'Bish drops his form as a tall bartender and reveals himself to be Frobisher, the Doctor's old companion, who complains he never got to learn the man's name...

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