History WhatAnIdiot / DoctorWho

'''Instead''': She holds onto it as it pulls her of the roof and is left dangling from a great height.

* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead Planet Of The Dead]]", the Doctor, Lady Christina, and the other passengers on the bus they were on, have passed through a wormhole to the planet San Helios. The Doctor explains that the bus protected them from the effects of the wormhole.

'''Instead''': The Bus Driver tries to simply walk through the hole, and instantly gets reduced to a skeleton.\\

* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead Planet Of The Dead]]", the Doctor, Lady Christina, and the other passengers on the bus they were on, have passed through a wormhole to the planet San Helios. The Doctor explains that the bus protected them from the effects of the wormhole.\\

'''For Added Stupidity:''' They also try BullyingADragon by trying to control the Doctor-which, if they've studied their history, they should know never, ever works. It's probably overall a good thing that they were destroyed before they could really try messing with him.

* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead Planet Of The Dead]]":
The Doctor, Lady Christina, and the other passengers on the bus they were on, have passed through a wormhole to the planet San Helios. The Doctor explains that the bus protected them from the effects of the wormhole.
'''You'd Expect''': The Bus Driver to try and restart the bus to take them all home.
'''Instead''': The Bus Driver tries to simply walk through the hole, and instantly gets reduced to a skeleton.

* The Doctor, Lady Christina, and the other passengers on the bus they were on, have passed through a wormhole to the planet San Helios. The Doctor explains that the bus protected them from the effects of the wormhole.

'''Instead:''' Gharman allows Davros to speak to his accusers, which A) gives Davros the chance to turn some of them back to his side, and B) allows the Daleks time to arrive. Three guesses [[KillEmAll what happens next]].

** The female Master," Missy", no longer has a use for one of her subordinates - Dr. Chang - and very explicitly states that she's going to kill him after he says "something nice".\\

'''You’d Expect''' : She’d remember what she’s seen the Doctor do (and given how much she knows about UNIT and Torchwood, probably has heard a fair few stories), and even if she thinks he’s exaggerating about how easily he can depose her, realize he can still do it. And thus, try to cool down the argument.\\
'''Instead''' : She gets cocky and says she doesn’t believe he can do it.\\
'''As A Result''' : He does it.

'''Taking it really UpToEleven:''' Osgood, being a fangirl of the Doctor, knows of the Master and has a good idea of how dangerous she is. Furthermore, while an ordinary person might have frozen in terror, she's an experienced UNIT operative who had previously kept her resourcefulness and quick thinking when being cornered by a Zygon.

'''You'd Expect''': The Doctor to point out that while she may have had a point, it is very wrong to shoot a retreating enemy in the back especially if they have left peacefully as it may mean other races will be less likely to negotiate for fear of the same thing happening.\\
'''Instead''': He takes the HumansAreTheRealMonsters route and deposes Harriet as punishment while dismissing her side and causing many future problems.
** Harriet herself does not fare much better in this argument.\\

'''Instead''': Her reasoning is that The Doctor may not be around when the next invasion comes along. How destroying a fleeing and defeated adversary that the Doctor just stopped helps at all is not brought up.

'''You’d Expect''' : She’d remember what she’s seen the Doctor do, and even if she thinks he’s exaggerating about how easily he can depose her, realize he can still do it. And thus, try to cool down the argument.\\

'''Alternatively:''' If neither of these would work for some reason, for her to simply take a day off.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' The generals to agree to give the Doctor the time he needs, but call for a nuclear strike on the lab, to hit in roughly 18 minutes time and incinerate any trace of the bacteria before it spreads, just in case the Doctor is unsuccessful. Okay, this'd have the ''slight'' disadvantage of killing everyone in the nearby town, but compared to handing over control of the world to a bunch of RealityWarper SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, it's very much the lesser of two evils.\\

'''You'd Expect''': them to at least ''try'' to apprehend the Master -- if not directly, then by informing the proper authorities. Even if they didn't succeed in getting him, at least they made an effort.\\
'''Instead''': not only do they do nothing, they take the time to speculate whether the Doctor will ever encounter the Master again, as the villain escapes ''right in front of them''.

* In “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E1AttackoftheCybermen Attack of the Cybermen]]”, the Cyber Controller orders The Doctor to be locked up before they convert him into a Cyberman. \\
''' You’d Expect: ''' The Cybermen would find an empty room to lock him up in. \\
''' Instead: ''' They just chuck him into a store room full of explosives. \\
''' For Added Stupidity: ''' They didn’t even search him for anything that could be used as a detonator. \\
''' As A Result: ''' The Doctor manages to destroy the Cyberguard outside the door and gives the tool to the Cryon before he escapes, who places it into the explosives which eventually blows up Cyber Control. \\

** Davros criticizes the Doctor for letting people around him die on his behalf, accusing him of turning people into weapons and even [[NotSoDifferent comparing it to his own creation of the Daleks.]]\\

'''Instead:''' She just takes away Chloe's pencils, then tells her to stay in her room. As it turns out, Chloe has a small mountain of pencils hidden throughout her room, and she uses them with some paper -- which her mother ''didn't'' take away -- to make the Doctor and the TARDIS disappear.

'''You'd expect:''' that at prior points (before the episode) when the traffic delays are measured in weeks or months, the people planning their trips would realize that walking across the surface of the planet is faster, and do that.\\
'''Instead:''' They join the traffic jam, which makes it worse, to the point where traffic delays are measured in years!

'''Instead:''' He helps Davros rebuild the Daleks while setting up an elaborate trap for the Daleks to be destroyed by the Doctor. One ship survives. The Daleks' JokerImmunity persists.

'''Instead''': Rassilon just stands around and does nothing, eventually giving the Doctor time to TakeAThirdOption and disrupt Rassilon's plan without killing either him or the Master.

** The Daleks have succeeded in goading The Doctor into identifying them as Daleks and activating the progenitor.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They'd keep up the pretence and let Churchill's men arrest The Doctor as they are more likely to view him as the threat (he has just been assaulting one of the "Ironsides") compared to The Daleks. Then they can review the testimony when they have more privacy, send it to their spaceship and leave with a much larger head start on the Doctor. They can use either their light up London device or the oblivion continuum bomb to cover their tracks.\\
'''Or Alternatively''': They'd just shoot The Doctor since [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they no longer need him outside of having someone to gloat to]] and he's obviously going to try everything he can to stop them from causing any damage. Then they can escape while the Doctor regenerates or shoot him again to kill him for good.\\

'''As a Result''': While they manage to rebuild the Dalek race and escape, they fail in their plans to destroy London and then the Earth.\\

** Missy no longer has a use for one of her subordinates - Dr. Chang - and very explicitly states that she's going to kill him after he says "something nice".\\

'''Instead:''' He obeys her, fully expecting her to listen to his pleas and not kill him, but she just vaporizes him in response.

'''What's Worse:''' Is that even with this threat looming over her head, she doesn't run away, alert the guards or call for help. She just walks back to her computer and even when Missy starts a countdown and Osgood finds her handcuffs that are supposed to be ''restraining her'' in her pocket, she stays put and '''gawks''' at them, allowing Missy to sneak up behind her and vaporize her!\\

''' For Added Stupidity: ''' They didn’t even search him for anything that could be used as a detonator
''' As A Result: ''' The Doctor manages to destroy the Cyberguard outside the door and gives the tool to the Cryon before he escapes, who places it into the explosives which eventually blows up Cyber Control.

‘''You'd Expect:''' Mestor to just get on with it and possess the Doctor, who is quite literally asking for it.\\

‘’’You’d Expect:’’’ The Cybermen would find an empty room to lock him up in. \\
‘’’Instead:’’’ They just chuck him into a store room full of explosives. \\
‘’’For Added Stupidity:’’’They didn’t even search him for anything that could be used as a detonator
‘’’As A Result:’’’ The Doctor manages to destroy the Cyberguard outside the door and gives the tool to the Cryon before he escapes, who places it into the explosives which eventually blows up Cyber Control.

'''You'd Expect:''' Mestor to just get on with it and possess the Doctor, who is quite literally asking for it.\\

* In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E1AttackoftheCybermen Attack of the Cybermen]]”, the Cyber Controller orders The Doctor to be locked up before they convert him into a Cyberman. \\

'''Instead''': The Master is apparently left by himself with one sailor to guard him ''on a small hovercraft''. He somehow has time to hypnotize the sailor, place a PerfectLatexDisguise on him and palm him off as the Master's own corpse. Then, as the Doctor and the Royal Navy troops are gawking at the reveal, the Master makes off with the hovercraft. ''This was the serial that the Royal Navy chose, out of all ''Doctor Who'', to endorse and lend the BBC resources for.''

'''You'd Expect:''' Erica to ask one of her co-workers to supervise Douglas, while she quickly takes a trip to buy a replacement set of glasses, something she should ideally have done on the way to work anyway (whereas glasses for near-sighted people have to be made to order, generic reading glasses are readily available from most chemists and supermarkets). It's also highly possible that she has a spare set, and she could have a co-worker give her a ride back to get them.\\

'''What's Worse:''' Is that even with this threat looming over her head, she doesn't run away, alert the guards or call for help. She just walks back to her computer and even when Missy starts a countdown and Osgood finds her handcuffs that are supposed to be ''restraining her'' in her pocket, she stays put and '''gawks''' at them, allowing Missy to sneak up behind her and vaporize her!

'''You'd Expect:''' Erica to ask one of her co-workers to supervise Douglas, while she quickly takes a trip to buy a replacement set of glasses, something she should ideally have done on the way to work anyway (whereas glasses for near-sighted people have to be made to order, generic reading glasses are readily available from most chemists and supermarkets).\\

** Dalek Caan gets transported onto Davros's ship within the Time War. He also sees the entirety of the Time Vortex, which convinces him that the Daleks need to be wiped out.
'''You'd Expect:''' Dalek Caan to do nothing. The ship was about to be eaten by [[EldritchAbomination the Nightmare Child]] anyway. Dalek Caan was the last of his kind post-Time War. He can go down with the ship and end the Daleks with himself.
'''Or:''' If we assume Dalek Caan saw the Time Vortex on the way out of the Time War instead of on the way in, for him to just blow up Davros's ship. Take out Davros and any other Daleks on the ship, and put an end to the Daleks for good.