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* The 50th anniversary comic "Hunters of the Burning Stone" has a particularly sad moment when after rescuing Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, the first human companions The Doctor met. The Eleventh Doctor tries to explain that he's the same man they met, but since they never learned of his regenerations, they don't believe him. When he takes them to the TARDIS, they recognize it and knock on the door expecting their Doctor to come out. It's only for one panel, but the sad look on The Doctor's face as they call to him while he's standing right next to them is heartbreaking.

* "The World Shapers," written by Creator/GrantMorrison for DWM: The Sixth Doctor, Peri, and Frobisher need the assistance of the Doctor's former companion Jamie, so they travel back to Scotland to get him. Except the TARDIS overshoots their destination by forty years, and in the interim Jamie has become an old man and the village crank. The Doctor takes him on board the TARDIS anyway, and later on in the story Jamie sacrifices himself in order to stop the Cybermen from ever existing. And ''then'' we find out that Jamie's sacrifice was in vain, as some Time Lords show up and refuse to stop the Cybermen--you see, the Time Lords don't mind the Cybermen killing innocents over millions of years, since (unlike the Daleks) the Cybermen will apparently one day AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. Given what we later find out about the Time Lords in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]], you get both a FunnyAneurysmMoment and a ShootTheShaggyDog moment all rolled into one.

* The 50th anniversary comic "Hunters of the Burning Stone" has a particularly sad moment when after rescuing Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, the first human companions The Doctor met]]. The Eleventh Doctor tries to explain that he's the same man they met, but since they never learned of his regenerations, they don't believe him. When he takes them to the TARDIS, they recognize it and knock on the door expecting their Doctor to come out. It's only for one panel, but the sad look on The Doctor's face as they call to him while he's standing right next to them is heartbreaking.

* There was once an absolutely heartbreaking [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine DWM]] strip with the Doctor landing on a planet with his grandchildren John and Gillian and discovering all creativity had faded. Following the traces, he finds a tyrant obsessed with being the single holder of the beings that provide the planet's inhabitants with imagination and creativity. Defeating him easily, he releases all of the tiny beings and leaves a hero having reformed the bad guy and returned happiness with no blood, no darkness, no evil. Then it's revealed that the entire story was a dream of the Eighth Doctor, who briefly laments that not all stories can end like that, and hoping for the day he'll be able to live in an Universe where such endings are possible.

* The 50th anniversary comic "Hunters of the Burning Stone" has a particularly sad moment when after rescuing [[spoiler: Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, the first human companions The Doctor met]]. The Eleventh Doctor tries to explain that he's the same man they met, but since they never learned of his regenerations, they don't believe him. When he takes them to the TARDIS, they recognize it and knock on the door expecting their Doctor to come out. It's only for one panel, but the sad look on The Doctor's face as they call to him while he's standing right next to them is heartbreaking.
** Later, when The Doctor and [[spoiler: Ian Chesterton]] are stuck in an illusionary recreation of their [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild first adventure together]]. The Doctor gives his original self a look of utter contempt and disgust, calling his younger self a [[HeroicSelfDeprecation liar, coward and a selfish idiot]]. Talk about a bad case of IHatePastMe.

** This is all leading to TheReveal that [[spoiler: poor, picked-on Maxwell's Forgotten Birthday wasn't forgotten at all, as everybody goes to Cornucopia to celebrate]].

* Issue 500's "The Stockbridge Showdown" reunites the Twelfth Doctor with several of the DWM-specific companions up to that point, from Sharon to Izzy to Frobisher to Majenta to Maxwell Edison. This is the first DWM comic set post-Series 9, meaning the Doctor is traveling alone, which makes all of these friends -- who all got to know earlier incarnations, and some have significantly aged since their travels with him -- helping him that much more heartwarming. In the falling action, after Josiah W. Dogbolter has been defeated for good, he and the lonesome, picked-on-by-fellow-townsfolk Maxwell have the following conversation:

* Issue 500's "The Stockbridge Showdown" reunites the Twelfth Doctor with almost all of the DWM-specific companions up to that point, from Sharon to Izzy to Frobisher to Majenta to Maxwell Edison. This is the first DWM comic set post-Series 9, meaning the Doctor is traveling alone, which makes all of these friends -- who all got to know earlier incarnations, and some have significantly aged since their travels with him -- helping him that much more heartwarming. In the falling action, after Josiah W. Dogbolter has been defeated for good, he and Maxwell have the following conversation:

** This is all leading to TheReveal that [[spoiler: poor, picked-on Maxwell's Forgotten Birthday wasn't forgotten at all, as everybody celebrates in a temporarily redecorated TARDIS]].

** Later, when The Doctor and [[spoiler: Ian]] are stuck in an illusionary recreation of their [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild first adventure together]]. The Doctor gives his original self a look of utter contempt and disgust, calling his younger self a [[HeroicSelfDeprecation liar, coward and a selfish idiot]].
** Talk about a bad case of IHatePastMe.

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* The 50th anniversary comic "Hunters of the Burning Stone" has a particularly sad moment when after rescuing Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, the first human companions The Doctor met. The Eleventh Doctor tries to explain that he's the same man they met, but since they never learned of his regenerations, they don't believe him. When he takes them to the TARDIS, they recognize it and knock on the door expecting there Doctor to come out. It's only for one panel but, the sad look on The Doctor's face as they call to him while he's standing right next to them is heartbreaking.
** Later, when The Doctor and Ian are stuck in an illusionary recreation of their [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild first adventure together]]. The Doctor gives his original self a look of utter contempt and disgust. Calling his younger self a [[HeroicSelfDeprecation liar, coward and a selfish idiot]].