History YMMV / The10Doctors

* BetterThanCanon: Some have proclaimed this story the best ''Series/DoctorWho'' tale never made. It helps that it's ArmedWithCanon and fits right between the tenures of Eight and Nine to an extent - and even manages to not conflict with the later War Doctor RetCon ''too'' much, if you squint a bit.
** Though naturally it means discounting the continuity of most of the series' official expanded universe publications, including the highly-popular AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho stories, which for some can be a hard pill to swallow.

* CrazyAwesome:

* MagnificentBastard: Six. [[spoiler:Playing Daleks against each other has never been done so well.]]

** Though naturally it means discounting the continuity of most of the series's official expanded universe publications, including the highly-popular AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho stories, which for some can be a hard pill to swallow.

** Two defeating [[spoiler:the Celestial Toymaker by cheating(?) at Crazy Eights]].

** [[spoiler:The Dalek conversions of the High Council, the Lady President, and the Tenth Doctor are a lot like Oswin's Dalek conversion in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks "Asylum of the Daleks"]]. And the Doctor fighting off the Dalek programming is similar to Oswin doing the same thing.]]
** Eight calls Nine "my successor" when saying goodbye, but Nine will ''not'' talk to Eight and leaves in a huff. Eight concludes that he will end up doing something horrible. Nine's anger makes '''much''' more sense after [[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor "The Night of the Doctor"]] revealed that Eight ''willingly'' allowed his regeneration into the War Doctor - Eight's ''actual'' successor.
** Speaking of "The Night of the Doctor", in that special it's revealed that Daleks and Time Lords are regarded as [[EvilVersusEvil more or less the same]] during the height of the Time War. In this fanfic, [[spoiler:thanks to the Valeyard's experiments, they ''did'' become the same]].
** The Tenth Doctor can't keep count of how many incarnations he has left, whether it's two or three. Creator/PeterCapaldi, the first of his new regeneration cycle, is officially the Twelfth. Way to burn through those regenerations, Doctor.
** [[spoiler: The Valeyard created the Time Daleks by forcing Time Lords into Dalek casings. In series 12, the Master would follow in his footsteps by cyber-converting Time Lords into [=CyberMasters=].]]
* HeartwarmingInHindsight
** Ten hugging Five the first time they met becomes this when you take into account that it was written ''before'' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash Time Crash]]", which also shows Ten admiring Five.
* HilariousInHindsight
** Ten gushes over Five a year before "Time Crash".
** Omega's plan to destroy the First Doctor, which would cause the Universe to plunge into chaos, [[spoiler:is similar to the Great Intelligence trying to destroy the Doctor across his timestream which would cause destruction across the Universe]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], which came out over four years later.
** Seven comments that the ramshackle alternate power supply for the TARDIS that Nine came up with post-Time War (and thus after Gallifrey and the Eye of Harmony were inaccessible) is "an explosion waiting to happen". This, way before [[spoiler:the Eleventh Doctor is confronted to the problem in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]]]].

** While we're talking about "The Day of the Doctor", in that episode, the Curator (who looks like an aged Four) tells the Eleven that he'll one day revisit some of his favourite old faces. In this comic, the Valeyard, who is the Doctor's future dark side given form, regenerates into a younger version of the First Doctor.

* LesYay: Grace believes that Romana II is actually the regenerated Doctor, and leans in to kiss her. When she finds out the truth, she's... noticeably embarrassed. For her part, Romana mentions that the kiss was "nice" and later on mentions that Humans are the species that get hung up about this sort of thing, but it doesn't bother Time Lords. The next panel, they're seen kissing in the background. Les Yay, [[FanService indeed]].

** [[spoiler: The Valeyard made the Time Daleks by forcing Time Lords into Dalek casings. In series 12, the Master would follow in his footsteps by cyber-converting Time Lords into [=CyberMasters=].]]

** Mixed with HarsherInHindsight given the horrific tragedy of both circumstances, but [[spoiler: the Valeyard made the Time Daleks by forcing Time Lords into Dalek casings. In series 12, the Master would follow in his footsteps by cyber-converting Time Lords into [=CyberMasters=].]]

** Though doing so also means discounting much of the continuity of AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho stories (particularly the ''AudioPlay/Gallifrey'' spin-off), which for some can be a hard pill to swallow.

* BetterThanCanon: Some have proclaimed this story the best ''Series/DoctorWho'' tale never made. It helps that it's ArmedWithCanon and fits right between the tenures of Eight and Nine to an extent — and even manages to not conflict with the later War Doctor RetCon ''too'' much, if you squint a bit.
* CrazyAwesome

** Eight calls Nine "my successor" when saying goodbye, but Nine will NOT talk to Eight and leaves in a huff. Eight concludes that he will end up doing something horrible. [[spoiler:Nine's anger makes MUCH more sense after [[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor "The Night of the Doctor"]] revealed that Eight ''willingly'' allowed his regeneration into the War Doctor -- Eight's ''actual'' successor.]]
** Speaking of "The Night of the Doctor," in that special, it is revealed that Daleks and Time Lords are regarded as [[EvilVersusEvil more or less the same]] during the height of the Time War. In this fanfic, [[spoiler:thanks to the Valeyard's experiments, they DID become the same.]]
** The Tenth Doctor can't keep count of how many incarnations he has left, whether it's two or three. Creator/PeterCapaldi, the first of his new regeneration cycle, is officially the TWELFTH. Way to burn through those regenerations, Doctor.

** Ten hugging Five the first time they met becomes this when you take in account that it was written ''before'' [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash Time Crash]], which also shows Ten admiring Five.

** Omega's plan to destroy the First Doctor, which would cause the Universe to plunge into chaos [[spoiler:is similar to the Great Intelligence trying to destroy the Doctor across his time stream which would cause destruction across the Universe]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]]. Which came out about 4 and a half years later.

** Basically the same explanation for why the Doctors don't remember these multi-doctor events is given in "The Day of the Doctor".
** While we're talking about "The Day of the Doctor," in that episode, the Curator (who looks like an aged Fourth Doctor) tells the Eleventh Doctor that he'll one day revisit some of his favourite old faces. In this comic, the Valeyard, who is the Doctor's future dark side given form, regenerates into a younger version of the First Doctor.
** Grace kisses Romana II, believing her to be the Doctor in a female form. She is incorrect. However, flash forward to the thirteenth doctor...
* LesYay: Dr. Grace Holloway believes that Romana II is actually the regenerated Doctor, and leans in to kiss her. When she finds out the truth, she's... noticeably embarrassed. For her part, Romana mentions that the kiss was "nice" and later on mentions that Humans are the species that get hung up about this sort of thing, but it doesn't bother Time Lords. The next panel, they're seen kissing in the background. LesYay, [[FanService indeed]].