| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whoops.png]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:''I believe the word you're looking for is "Oops!"'']] |
| 3 | Given the stakes that are often at play in a series like this, pretty much everything and anything with enough of a brain to go OhCrap has done so at one point or another. Here's a few such moments. |
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| 5 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [[folder:Classic Series]] |
| 8 | * The Doctor realising he's just got engaged to Cameca in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E6TheAztecs The Aztecs]]". |
| 9 | * Counter-revolutionary Jules in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E8TheReignOfTerror The Reign of Terror]]", the Doctor enters the counter-revolutionaries' hideout, followed by Lemaître, whom they believe to be an enemy working for the Revolutionary government. |
| 10 | -->'''Barbara''': Lemaître! |
| 11 | -->'''Jules''': Your friend has betrayed us! |
| 12 | * The Meddling Monk goes from smug to this in seconds at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E9TheTimeMeddler The Time Meddler]]", when he realises that the Doctor has taken the dimensional control to his TARDIS, trapping him on Earth in 1066. |
| 13 | -->'''Monk:''' Ah! Ah! What's he done? He's taken my dimensional control! He's ruined my time machine! I'm, I'm marooned. Marooned! In 1066. Oh, Doctor. Doctor! DOCTOR!!! |
| 14 | * Jamaica, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E1TheSmugglers "The Smugglers"]], has been tricked into letting Thete and Kewper overpower him. Then he realizes Pike is going to [[YouHaveFailedMe kill him for his failure]]. |
| 15 | -->'''Jamaica:''' Captain! I beg thee! [[BigNo NO]]! ''[gasps]'' |
| 16 | * The Second Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks "The Power of the Daleks"]] when he realizes that Lesterson has reactivated a dormant Dalek: |
| 17 | -->'''The Doctor:''' ''What have you'' '''done''', Lesterson?! |
| 18 | * In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E7TheMacraTerror "The Macra Terror"]], [[spoiler:the Macra [[VillainousBreakdown freak out]] when the Doctor has the Pilot on his side and is about to use the gas from their lifeline to blow them all to Kingdom Come.]] |
| 19 | * The Second Doctor has a major one in Episode Two of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks "The Evil of the Daleks"]], when he discovers who is responsible for kidnapping him and Jamie and transporting them back to Victorian times. |
| 20 | --> '''Doctor:''' What are they called, these creatures? |
| 21 | --> ''(A Dalek enters the room, unseen by the Doctor who has his back to the door).'' |
| 22 | --> '''Dalek:''' Doctor! Now do you understand? |
| 23 | --> ''(A look of dread comes over the Doctor's face, as he slowly turns round to face the Dalek).'' |
| 24 | --> '''Doctor:''' (terrified): Oh, yes. Perfectly. |
| 25 | * In part six of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E4TheEnemyOfTheWorld "The Enemy of the World"]], [[spoiler:Giles Kent and Ramón Salamander are going into the so-called "records room", and Kent thinks Salamander is demonstrating ObfuscatingStupidity as regards an explosives room they had devised long before their falling-out. Kent reminds him of this room, and then Salamander reveals that he is not Salamander but [[IdenticalStranger the Doctor]]. Kent is understandably perturbed — the Doctor is not supposed to know of their past connection.]] |
| 26 | * The Second Doctor has one at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators The Dominators]]" when Jamie points out to him that they are standing in the path of an imminent volcanic eruption. |
| 27 | --> '''Jamie:''' Doctor, come on, will ye? The whole place is going to blow up. |
| 28 | --> '''Doctor:''' Oh, it's quite all right, Jamie. The planet is quite safe. There's just going to be a ''localised'' volcanic eruption. It'll only affect the island. |
| 29 | --> '''Jamie:''' Maybe so, but we happen to be ''on'' the island. |
| 30 | --> '''Doctor:''' Oh, my word! |
| 31 | * The Second Doctor in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber The Mind Robber]]" when he realises that he has rebuilt Jamie's face incorrectly: |
| 32 | --> '''Doctor:''' Oh no, I've done it wrong! |
| 33 | * The Second Doctor when he first comes face-to-face with, and recognizes, the War Chief in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]". He immediates drops his pretence of being a student at the lecture, and runs away in panic. |
| 34 | * PlayedForLaughs in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "Inferno"]], the Third Doctor gets one whern he is about to leave UNIT with the TARDIS console. Before he goes, he tells off Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in no uncertain terms. Then, he rematerializes... in the garbage heap next door, realizing that an irate Brig is within earshot... |
| 35 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks Day of the Daleks]]". It turns out that Jo (who's been captured) wasn't working on her own: |
| 36 | -->'''Controller:''' The girl referred to a companion in her own time zone. She called him... "the Doctor".\ |
| 37 | '''Dalek:''' [[AC:Doc-tor? Did you say "Doc-tor"?!]] |
| 38 | * The Master in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E3TheSeaDevils The Sea Devils]]" when the Doctor reveals that he [[ReversePolarity reversed the polarity]] of the neutron flow. |
| 39 | * In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs "Invasion of the Dinosaurs"]], [[spoiler:Grover and Whitaker]] have one when they realize that not only have their Chosen Few balked on learning what's really happening, but the Doctor has well and truly put the kibosh on their plans, and [[spoiler:they and they alone are going back into the past]]. |
| 40 | * The Fourth Doctor in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot Robot]]": "You let Sarah go somewhere with Kettlewell?" |
| 41 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Terror of the Zygons]]": When the Doctor, the Brigadier and Benton realize they have left Sarah-Jane with a Zygon disguised as the Duke of Forgill: |
| 42 | --> '''Doctor''': Forgill brought this down, didn't he? |
| 43 | --> '''Benton''': The Duke? |
| 44 | --> '''Brigadier''': Doctor, you're not suggesting his Grace is involved in this? |
| 45 | --> '''Doctor''': Why not? We know that these creatures can change. He may not be the ''real'' Duke. |
| 46 | --> '''Brigadier''': Great Scott! And we left Miss Smith alone at the castle! |
| 47 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime "The Invasion of Time"]]: After four episodes, the Vardans have been expelled from Gallifrey through copious amounts of mind-trickery; the Doctor, supremely smug with his success, addresses the cheering crowd with a victory speech. Puzzled at why the cheering abruptly stops, he turns around... [[spoiler:and standing behind him is a Sontaran battle squad, who have been playing the Vardans for patsies, and have taken advantage of the weakened Gallifrey's defences to stroll in and claim the place for themselves]]. Creator/TomBaker's boggle-eyes were MADE for moments like this. |
| 48 | * Romana in the opening scene of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive The Leisure Hive]]" when she sees K9 heading into the seawater on Brighton Beach. |
| 49 | -->'''Romana:''' K9! '''K9!!!!!!''' |
| 50 | * Adric in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock]]" after the dying Cyberman shoots the ship controls just after he thinks he has worked out how to take control of them, denying him the chance to pilot the ship away from Earth and condemning him to certain death. |
| 51 | -->'''Adric''': Now I'll never know if I was right... |
| 52 | * The Fifth Doctor at the end of Episode Three of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E7TimeFlight Time-Flight]]", when he believes that the Master has outmanoeuvred him: |
| 53 | -->'''Tegan:''' What's happened to the Xeraphin? |
| 54 | -->'''Nyssa:''' Transferred to the centre of the Master's Tardis. |
| 55 | -->'''Tegan:''' What does that mean? |
| 56 | -->'''Doctor:''' It means the Master has finally defeated me! |
| 57 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E7TheTwinDilemma The Twin Dilemma]]": Peri when the Doctor fails to reappear in the TARDIS, and she sees the base she has just left him in explode: |
| 58 | -->'''Peri''': Doctor, where are you? |
| 59 | -->''(She turns on the scanner sees the base explode.)'' |
| 60 | -->'''Peri''': Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no, Doctor! |
| 61 | -->''(She bursts into tears).'' |
| 62 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe "The Ultimate Foe"]]: The Master reveals that [[spoiler:the Valeyard is actually the embodiment of the Doctor's dark side, taken from a point after his twelfth incarnation]]. The look on the Doctor's face shows that he knows full well what he's capable of — and this is long before the final events of the Time War. |
| 63 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]]: |
| 64 | ** The Doctor is always good for one of these. The first is at the end of the first episode of the serial, in which the Doctor and Ace flee from a Dalek by going up the stairs, because [[RunningGag Daleks can't climb stairs]]. Except, no, this one ''can''. |
| 65 | ** And just before that: |
| 66 | --->'''Ace:''' The operator?\ |
| 67 | '''The Doctor:''' Yes, the Daleks usually leave an operator on station in case of any malfunctions.\ |
| 68 | '''Ace:''' ...And that would be another Dalek?\ |
| 69 | '''The Doctor:''' Yes...\ |
| 70 | '''Dalek:''' [[AC:Stay where you are! Do not move!]] |
| 71 | ** Mr. Parsons[[note]]who was actually Ian and Barbara's old boss[[/note]] just has time for a BigNo when [[spoiler:the Imperial Daleks kill him as a security risk]]. |
| 72 | ** Mr. Ratcliffe has one when [[spoiler:the Daleks reveal that they had played him like a violin and never had any intention of sharing power with him]]. |
| 73 | [[/folder]] |
| 74 | |
| 75 | [[folder:Expanded Universe]] |
| 76 | * The final ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTheDyingDays The Dying Days]]'', apparently kills off [[spoiler:the Doctor]] within the first third of the story. Then the villain of the piece is tricked into ranting about his plans by the Doctor's companion despite knowing full well that doing so would offend his "honour" to the point of him executing her on the spot. She gets ready for the chop when a quiet voice says "it ends now". It's a full blown "oh crap" and "hell yeah" moment as eventually the speaker reveals themselves, and you guessed it, [[spoiler:it's the Doctor]]. Who is happily aboard the villain's ship and is merrily messing with everyone's plans. The stunned silence on everyone's behalf speaks volumes. |
| 77 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix with Sontarans]]", when the Doctor and Tegan see Creator/JimmySavile on the viewscreen. Of course, neither the screenwriter nor the actors knew [[HarsherInHindsight the real reason]] Six and Tegan had the reaction they did... |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | !New Series |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Series 1]] |
| 83 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose "Rose"]]: |
| 84 | ** The Doctor's reaction to seeing Auton!Mickey's head melting, which will stop him from tracking the signal back to the Nestene Consciousness. |
| 85 | ** When the Doctor sees that the Nestene Consciousness has brought the TARDIS down to its lair, and is going to activate all the Autons in London. |
| 86 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]]: Lady Cassandra does this twice. The first time is when the Doctor exposes her as the villain, while she was in the middle of insulting the people she tried to kill behind their backs. The second time is when she realizes she's drying up without her moisturizing crew. |
| 87 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree "World War Three"]]: |
| 88 | ** The Doctor promises Margaret Blaine that he'll stop the Slitheen's plan, to which she sneers, as he is currently stuck in the Cabinet room behind a protective steel barrier. As he presses the button to shut the door while giving her an impressive DeathGlare, Margaret begins to look far less confident. |
| 89 | ** The Slitheen at the climax, as a missile is about to hit 10 Downing Street. |
| 90 | --->"Oh, ''[[CurseCutShort boll]]''–" |
| 91 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek "Dalek"]]: |
| 92 | ** The actual reveal of the Dalek. For the Doctor, it's the first clue that the genocide that ended the Time War wasn't as complete as he thought it to be. |
| 93 | --->'''The Doctor:''' Look, I know Mr. van Statten might think he's clever, but never mind him. I've come to help. I'm the Doctor.\ |
| 94 | '''Dalek:''' [[AC:Doc... tor?]]\ |
| 95 | '''The Doctor:''' ''Impossible... !''\ |
| 96 | '''Dalek:''' [[AC:'''THE''' Doctor?!]]\ |
| 97 | ''[the Dalek is revealed]''\ |
| 98 | '''Dalek:''' [[AC:EXTERMINATE! ''EXTERMINATE!'' '''''EX-TER-MI-NAAAAAAAATE!''''']] |
| 99 | ** When Rose believes they have escaped the Dalek by running up a flight of stairs. Adam mocks it and the soldier orders it to return to its cell. One word: "[[AC:E-le-vate!]]" |
| 100 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame "The Long Game"]]: |
| 101 | ** The Editor freaks out when the body of Eva/Suki grabs him by the ankle, [[TakingYouWithMe preventing him from escaping the room before the Jagrafess explodes, ensuring he will die]]. |
| 102 | ** At the end, Adam looks terrified when he sees the Doctor walking towards him giving him a withering DeathGlare. |
| 103 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay "Father's Day"]]: The (Ninth) Doctor and Rose have just had a falling out, and he goes back to the TARDIS, to give both of them time to cool off. He opens up his little blue police box to find... [[spoiler:it's a police box]]. Cue {{beat}} of [[OhCrap sheer horror]], followed by running back as fast as he can. |
| 104 | -->'''The Doctor:''' '''''ROSE!''''' |
| 105 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]]: Rose gets one when she finds herself dangling from a barrage balloon hundreds of metres from the ground, [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead wearing a Union Jack T-shirt]], during a German air raid. |
| 106 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]]: |
| 107 | ** The Doctor defeats a child-led zombie invasion by sending the child to his room. When the Doctor investigate a private hospital's records of the child's death, they uncover a recorded interview with him and a RoomFullOfCrazy zombie-child drawings. The OhCrap moment? [[spoiler:The realization that the taped interview ran out, and the child's voice is live, because the Doctor sent him to his room. This room.]] |
| 108 | ** The moment with the typewriter. A small boy wants to do some typing, so he does. Nothing scary about that... until Nancy mentions the fact that he stopped typing a minute ago, but the typing was still going on. Not to mention that what was being typed was "Are you my mummy?" over and over. |
| 109 | ** A twofer when Nancy is caught. First, she notices that the soldier who's been set to watch over her has the scratch on his hand that all of the gas-mask zombies develop early in their transformation and is reduced to ''begging'' the other soldiers to throw her in whatever cell they like as long as it isn't with him. Then the soldier begins to panic when she makes him realize that he doesn't just have a random cough, as he can't remember his wife's name, any children they have, or ''his own name''. |
| 110 | ** Jack gets one when he realizes that he's to blame for the entire situation and has probably doomed the Earth. |
| 111 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown "Boom Town"]] has an implied offscreen one when a [[DramaticDrop teacup shatters]] after Margaret Blaine's secretary has gone into her office to tell her that "The Doctor" is there to see her. |
| 112 | -->'''Doctor:''' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere She's climbing out the window, isn't she?]]\ |
| 113 | '''Secretary:''' Yes she is. |
| 114 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf "Bad Wolf"]]: |
| 115 | ** Gamestation employee Davitch, after the Doctor and company break out of the satellite's brig. |
| 116 | --->"Oh my God, ''now'' we're in trouble. Clear the floor! He's on his way up here — with a GUN!" |
| 117 | ** Rose gets one when she sees where she's been teleported to, and who's there. Complete with a distinctive, unsettling and disturbingly ''familiar'' electronic heartbeat in the background. |
| 118 | ** The Doctor brings down the masking signal hiding the true force behind Satellite 5, revealing a Dalek ship. Then the camera pulls back to reveal dozens upon dozens of them. The Doctor's face says it all, but then he turns it around by announcing ''exactly'' what he's going to do about the situation: |
| 119 | --->'''The Doctor:''' 'Cause this is what ''I[='=]m'' going to do: I'm going to rescue her! I'm going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet! And then I'm going to save the Earth! And then, just to finish off, I'm going to wipe every last ''stinking'' Dalek ''out of the sky!''\ |
| 120 | '''Dalek:''' [[AC:But you have no weapons, no defences, [[IndyPloy no plan]]!]]\ |
| 121 | '''The Doctor:''' Yeah, and doesn't that just ''scare you to death''? |
| 122 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of the Ways"]]: |
| 123 | ** In the opening scene, it continues to go back and forth: first the Doctor confronts the Daleks: "I'm the Doctor, and if there's one thing I can do it's talk! I've got five billion languages and you've got no way of stopping me, so if anybody's gonna shut up, '''IT'S YOU!!'''" — and ''Daleks'' actually ''recoil''. Then, seconds later, the God of All Daleks declares, "[[AC:These words are ''blasphemy''!]]" — the look on the Doctor's face as he realizes that the Daleks have found ''religion''... (not to mention discovering that the Dalek Emperor is still alive...) |
| 124 | ** At the climax, the Doctor's reaction to discovering Rose has absorbed the Time Vortex and temporarily become a PhysicalGod, which could kill her. |
| 125 | --->'''The Doctor:''' What have you ''done?!'' |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:Series 2]] |
| 129 | * [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed Children in Need special]]: The brand-new Tenth Doctor gets one when his regeneration goes wrong and he suddenly starts having seizures. |
| 130 | -->'''Tenth Doctor:''' I didn't- ''[gargles incoherently]'' Uh-oh. |
| 131 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw "Tooth and Claw"]]: After the Doctor and company have been holed up in the library, which is protected from the werewolf, for a while, the Doctor notices that the wolf isn't sniffing or scrabbling at the door anymore. Then dust starts falling from the ceiling... |
| 132 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]]: Sarah Jane is really thrown for a loop when she discovers the TARDIS hidden in a storage room off the school's gym. |
| 133 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace "The Girl in the Fireplace"]]: The Doctor is in Reinette's bedroom, and he realises that the clock's broken — so what's ticking? |
| 134 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen "Rise of the Cybermen"]]: At the cliffhanger, the Doctor gets a good one when he realises [[spoiler:the Cybermen aren't going to let them surrender]]. |
| 135 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "The Idiot's Lantern"]]: [[{{Jerkass}} Eddie Connolly's]] facial expression says this quite eloquently when he realizes that the Doctor isn't remotely intimidated by him, is a good deal taller than he is and, more to the point, is absolutely furious. |
| 136 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]: |
| 137 | ** While Rose is laughing at the "Welcome to Hell" message written on the wall, the Doctor is already freaking out that he can't read the mysterious writing beneath it. |
| 138 | ** Danny's reaction on seeing the Ood's telepathic field has gone up to Basic 100, at which point they should apparently be brain-dead... except that they ''aren't''. |
| 139 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts "Army of Ghosts"]]: |
| 140 | ** PlayedForLaughs when the Doctor realizes Jackie is still onboard the TARDIS when he takes off after the ghost signal. |
| 141 | ** Rose after her attempt to use the psychic paper on a Torchwood employee doesn't work. |
| 142 | ** The Doctor, when he figures out which other universe the main one is connected to. |
| 143 | ** The Daleks manage to provoke this expression twice while having approximately ten seconds of screen time. First, the Doctor's face screams "Oh ''shit''!" when the Cybermen tell him the Void Ship isn't theirs, then, when they actually appear, it's Rose's turn. |
| 144 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]]: |
| 145 | ** Lacking faces, you wouldn't imagine the Daleks could pull off a decent Oh Crap moment. But when a strange man shows up on the vidscreen the Daleks are watching (and have just informed ''five million Cybermen'' that they are no threat, claiming that destroying them "is not war, this is ''pest control''") and they demand Rose identify him, she calmly does so: "That's the Doctor." All three Daleks present simultaneously jerk a few inches backwards. Rose's line is priceless: |
| 146 | --->'''Rose:''' Five million Cybermen, that's easy. One Doctor ... ''now you're scared.'' |
| 147 | ** The Doctor ''and'' the audience have one when he realizes that [[spoiler: the Ark is BiggerOnTheInside. The Time Lords imprisoned ''lots'' of Daleks in there, and now it's open…]] |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Series 3]] |
| 151 | * [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride "The Runaway Bride"]]: |
| 152 | ** The Doctor when he sees that the cab Donna has gotten into is being driven by a robot Santa, followed by seeing several more aiming their weapons at him. |
| 153 | ** The Racnoss Empress, after the Doctor corrects Donna's mistake regarding his planet of origin and she finally realizes she's dealing with a Time Lord. |
| 154 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan "Daleks in Manhattan"]]: The Doctor, after calculating the planet of origin of the blob from the sewer: ''Skaro''... |
| 155 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 "42"]]: |
| 156 | ** ''"Burn with me"'' evokes this reaction from everyone. It's dialled up to eleven near the end with ''"Burn with me, Martha..."'' |
| 157 | ** The Doctor's reaction when he winds up staring at the sun and discovers "It's ''alive''." |
| 158 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]]: |
| 159 | ** Sister of Mine, when Latimer opens the watch and she's blasted with a vision of the Doctor at his most cruel and merciless. |
| 160 | ** When the Family realize that what they had dismissed as John Smith clumsily bumbling around was the Doctor setting their ship to self-destruct. |
| 161 | ** The looks on the Family's faces when their ship is blown up and they see the Doctor standing over them glaring down at them. |
| 162 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]]: |
| 163 | ** The Doctor's recording is telling Sally and Larry about the Angels, but then the two realize neither is looking at the Angel that was outside. |
| 164 | ** "Why's it pointing at the ..." ''[lightbulb flickers]'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "... light?"]] |
| 165 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia "Utopia"]]: |
| 166 | ** When the TARDIS lands in the year 100,000,000,000,000. The Doctor quietly states that not even the Time Lords came that far, and that they should leave. They should really, really ''leave''. Obviously, [[InHarmsWay they don't]]. |
| 167 | ** Martha's utter shock at the sight of Yana's pocket watch, which grows on confirmation that yes, it ''is'' a [[GadgetWatch Chameleon]] [[SoulJar Arch]]. |
| 168 | ** The Doctor, on being told that Yana has a Chameleon Arch and realizing that, whoever he is, Yana's not supposed to be able to really see the watch, and Martha just drew his attention to it. His subsequent panic implies that he knows full well which Time Lord it is. When the two finally make eye contact, the Master grins coyly and the Doctor shows no surprise whatsoever, even naming his foe without hesitation. |
| 169 | --->'''Martha:''' But that's brilliant, isn't it?\ |
| 170 | '''The Doctor:''' ''[clearly panicking]'' Yeah it is, 'course it is. Depends which one... |
| 171 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]: |
| 172 | ** The Doctor, Martha and Jack after the Doctor finds a bomb on the back of Martha's TV that's about to go off. |
| 173 | ** The Doctor is ''horrified'' when he finds out that the TARDIS has been cannibalized into a [[TemporalParadox Paradox Machine]]. |
| 174 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]]: |
| 175 | ** The Master is unimpressed with Martha's speech until she ends with "... but with 15 satellites." The resulting "What?" could easily have been an "Oh shit" if this weren't a family show. |
| 176 | ** Also, a sad version of this trope, for the Doctor, when the Master asks if the drumming noise will stop if he dies. ''Yes, it does''. |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Series 4]] |
| 180 | * [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]]: The Doctor's reaction when Midshipman Frame tells him that the Host, the ''Titanic''[='s=] complement of robots, are killing people. Particularly as this happens just as Morvin and Foon are about to activate a damaged one because the Doctor thought it would be useful in shifting the rubble... |
| 181 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime "Partners in Crime"]]: Miss Foster has just enough time to get this reaction across when her levitation beam is shut off before she meets the pavement below. |
| 182 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]]: The Doctor is initially unimpressed (and slightly amused) by the supposed prophets. Then Evelina calls him a "Doctor" and Lucius addresses him as "Man from Gallifrey", both things he hadn't mentioned to any locals, which clearly alarm him. |
| 183 | -->'''The Doctor:''' [[FlatWhat ...What?]] |
| 184 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky "The Poison Sky"]]: Although not exactly a traditional Oh Crap, General Staal and the Sontarans' reaction to [[spoiler:Luke Rattigan's HeroicSacrifice]] deserves a mention. The sheer confusion and disappointment at the realization that [[spoiler:rather than dying "nobly" alongside one of the Sontarans' greatest enemies, they're going to be pointlessly wiped out by someone they considered beneath contempt, is nearly as close as such a MartyrdomCulture would come to a "Bloody hell, I'm going to die."]] |
| 185 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp "The Unicorn and the Wasp"]]: The Doctor gets a quiet one when he uses NewspaperDating to deduce that he and Donna have arrived at a house party attended by Creator/AgathaChristie on the very day she's going to disappear. |
| 186 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary "Silence in the Library"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]]: |
| 187 | ** River experiences this in a ''heartbreaking'' way, when she realizes this version of the Doctor doesn't know who she is, as she has (correctly) guessed that such an instance [[spoiler:would kill her]]. |
| 188 | ** The Doctor tells Proper Dave that he's very sorry, but he has two shadows. Then, minutes later, Dave starts repeating "Hey! Who turned out the lights?" |
| 189 | ** The little girl is told by her therapist Dr. Moon that "The real world is a ''lie'', and your nightmares are real." |
| 190 | ** The Doctor's reaction when he realizes that Other Dave has suddenly started repeating himself a ''lot''. |
| 191 | ** The Doctor has accrued such a reputation by now that many aliens see him as a mythological figure, causing many an Oh Crap when he introduces himself. Perhaps the greatest is that of the Vashta Nerada, made all the more impressive by the fact that they can express it whilst being ''a shadow on the floor''. "Look me up." Indeed. |
| 192 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight "Midnight"]]: |
| 193 | ** Sweet holy hell, ''"Midnight"''. When the Doctor is taken over by the Midnight Creature and Sky is convincing the rest of the passengers to ''throw him to his death'', confirming the HumansAreTheRealMonsters that he's been trying desperately to avert all episode, the look on his face has to be seen to be believed. Super Bonus points to Creator/DavidTennant for distilling all of the Doctor's thoughts into ''just his face'', considering he was in a state of MindRape and ''couldn't move or speak in his own voice.'' |
| 194 | *** Of course, part of the MindRape was that he couldn't really move his face either, so he was stuck with an OhCrap expression the entire time. The fact that he's shaking like a leaf the entire time already hammers home how terrified he is, but it's the eyes that make the scene. |
| 195 | ** The entity then gets this itself when it realizes that by using the Doctor's [[CharacterCatchphrase catchphrases]] it's exposed itself to the hostess, who proceeds to throw "Sky" out of the bus, along with herself. |
| 196 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]]: |
| 197 | ** As [[spoiler:Rose Tyler]] and Donna Noble get ready to [[spoiler:send Donna back in time]]: |
| 198 | --->'''[[spoiler:Rose]]:''' Good luck.\ |
| 199 | '''Donna:''' I'm ready.\ |
| 200 | '''[[spoiler:Rose]]:''' One minute past ten.\ |
| 201 | '''Donna:''' 'Cause I understand now. You said [[spoiler:I was gonna die]], but... you mean this whole world. [[spoiler:It's gonna blink out of existence.]] But that's not [[spoiler:dying]], 'cause a better world takes its place. The Doctor's world! And I'm [[spoiler:still alive!]]\ |
| 202 | ''[=[=][[spoiler:Rose]] doesn't answer]''\ |
| 203 | '''Donna:''' That's right. Isn't it? [[spoiler:I don't die]], if I change things, [[spoiler:I don't die]], that's ... that's right, isn't it?\ |
| 204 | ''[=[=][[spoiler:Rose]] remains silent until ...]''\ |
| 205 | '''[[spoiler:Rose]]:''' I'm sorry. |
| 206 | ** The fortune teller freaks out and flees the scene when Donna manages to overcome the time beetle, killing it. |
| 207 | --->"What are you? ''What will you be?''" |
| 208 | ** Donna is exposed to an alternate reality in which she never met the Doctor, causing the events of [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride "The Runaway Bride"]] to end with him dying and everything to be a dystopia. When she breaks free and returns to the normal reality, the Doctor comments that she's brilliant and she suddenly remembers that a woman ([[spoiler:Rose Tyler]]) from the other reality said that he had said that about her. Then she remembers what she said to her just before she "dies". |
| 209 | --->'''Donna:''' No, but she said it was all worlds. Every world. She said the Darkness is coming. Even here.\ |
| 210 | '''The Doctor:''' Who was she?\ |
| 211 | '''Donna:''' I don't know.\ |
| 212 | '''The Doctor:''' What did she look like?\ |
| 213 | '''Donna:''' She was ... blonde.\ |
| 214 | '''The Doctor:''' What was her name?\ |
| 215 | '''Donna:''' I don't know.\ |
| 216 | '''The Doctor:''' Donna, what was her name?\ |
| 217 | '''Donna:''' But she told me to warn you. She said two words.\ |
| 218 | '''The Doctor:''' What two words? What were they? What did she say?\ |
| 219 | '''Donna:''' [[spoiler:"Bad Wolf".]] What does it mean? Doctor, what is it? What's [[spoiler:"Bad Wolf"]]? |
| 220 | ** His face at the mention of the ArcWords is a look of sudden realization, and when he gets back to the TARDIS and hears the Cloister Bell (the TARDIS' [[OhCrap Mega "Oh, Crap!" Alarm]]), he explains: |
| 221 | --->'''The Doctor:''' It's the end of the universe. |
| 222 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth "The Stolen Earth"]]: |
| 223 | ** The look on just about [[MassOhCrap everybody's]] face, (especially Captain Jack's) when [[spoiler:they realize it's the Daleks, and they're coming this way!]] |
| 224 | ** For her part, Sarah Jane actually wobbles as if her legs are about to give out. [[spoiler:And then again when Davros reveals himself.]] |
| 225 | ** The Doctor gets one too when he finds out that [[spoiler:not only is Davros still alive, he's made an new army of Daleks, numbering millions.]] |
| 226 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]]: The look on [[spoiler:Davros']] face when [[spoiler:Dalek Caan says ''[[HeelFaceTurn "No more"]]'']]. This is likely because Dalek Caan has done the one thing that Davros had specifically designed the Daleks to NEVER be capable of: [[spoiler:Dalek Caan ''repented''.]] |
| 227 | ** Not to mention that that's exactly what [[spoiler:Theta Sigma]] said the night before he [[spoiler:supposedly immolated Gallifrey.]] |
| 228 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor "The Next Doctor"]]: |
| 229 | -->''[the Doctor is searching through a house]''\ |
| 230 | '''The Doctor:''' There's one more thing I cannot figure. If this room's got infostamps, then maybe, just maybe, it's got something that needs infostamping ... ''[he opens a door and finds a Cyberman]'' OK ... ''[he closes it again]'' I think we should run. |
| 231 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead "Planet of the Dead"]]: |
| 232 | ** The bus passengers (except for the Doctor and Christina) when psychic Carmen says that "Death is coming." |
| 233 | ** The Doctor when he realizes that Christina intends to rappel down the shaft to get the crystal herself. |
| 234 | ** Christina, while in the shaft, gets this first when she hears one of the stingrays, and then when she sees a dormant one at the bottom. |
| 235 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]]: After [[spoiler:the Doctor [[AGodAmI goes completely mental]] and ends up realising Adelaide has committed suicide to right the timeline, he gets a pretty epic one of these.]] |
| 236 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]: |
| 237 | ** Lucy Saxon's reaction when she realizes that [[spoiler:the prison she is in is staffed by members of a crazed cult hell-bent on using her to bring back the Master]]. Keep in mind, [[spoiler:the Master]]'s MindRape has worn off and this is [[spoiler:the same man she shot two years earlier because she was scared to death of him]]. |
| 238 | ** When the Master opens a telepathic link between himself and the Doctor to let him hear [[TerribleTicking the drumming]], the Doctor is absolutely horrified to learn that [[spoiler: the drumming is NOT just a symptom of the Master's insanity. It's ''real'']]. |
| 239 | ** When the Master reveals his plan to the Doctor: |
| 240 | --->'''The Master:''' Oh that's too simple ... no no no no no. [[spoiler:They're not going to ''think'' like me... They're going to BECOME me!]] |
| 241 | ** There's also the Doctor's reaction when he realizes that [[spoiler:the Time Lords are returning]]. Creator/DavidTennant really sells it in that scene. |
| 242 | ** The Master gets one when [[spoiler:having just described his [[{{Pun}} master]] plan to Rassilon, Rassilon holds up his gauntlet. Followed immediately on the Master's part by [[BigNo "NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! STOP IT! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!"]].]] |
| 243 | ** During the HopeSpot, the Doctor [[spoiler:thinks he's cheated death, thinking the Master or the Time Lords were going to kill him... and then he hears Wilfred *knock-knock-knock-knock*ing to be let out of a booth that's going to flood with radiation]]. The look on his face when he realises it is absolutely heartbreaking. |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:Series 5]] |
| 247 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]]: |
| 248 | ** The Doctor, when he returns to Amelia's house and realizes he's been gone for longer than five minutes, especially since he's deduced that Prisoner Zero is in her house... |
| 249 | ** Jeff, when he realizes the Doctor wants to use his [[TheInternetIsForPorn laptop]]. |
| 250 | ** When the Doctor hears "Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated" being broadcast all over the world and realizes that "human residence" refers to the Earth instead of Amy's house. |
| 251 | ** Latest on the alien "Oh, crap, it's him" list is the Atraxi. After the 11th Doctor dresses them down for planning to destroy the Earth just to get an escaped prisoner, he asks them if they think the planet is under protection. Flash to a hologram showing Cybermen, Daleks, the numerous other aliens who have tried to conquer or destroy the Earth, and then a sequence showing every incarnation of the Doctor, ending with the latest walking through the hologram with a cheerful "Hello. I'm the Doctor." The Atraxi leave ''very'' quickly. Even more impressive with this is that the Atraxi are giant EYEBALLS, and still manage a complete and total "oh crap" expression. |
| 252 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]]: The look on the Doctor's face says it all when the Daleks stop their ObfuscatingStupidity. |
| 253 | -->'''Daleks:''' [[AC:[[NoIndoorVoice Victory! Victory!]] [[RuleofThree Victory!]]]] ''[teleport away]''\ |
| 254 | '''Amy:''' What just happened, Doctor?\ |
| 255 | '''The Doctor:''' I wanted to know what they wanted. What [[EvilPlan their plan]] was. ''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero I]]'' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero was their plan.]] |
| 256 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]]: |
| 257 | ** The Doctor, upon reading that "That which holds the image of an Angel becomes itself an Angel". |
| 258 | ** The Doctor and River realize that the statues in the maze, built by an extinct [[MultipleHeadCase two-headed race]]… ''don't have two heads''. |
| 259 | --->'''The Doctor:''' Oh.\ |
| 260 | '''Amy:''' What's wrong?\ |
| 261 | '''River:''' ''Oh.''\ |
| 262 | '''The Doctor:''' Exactly.\ |
| 263 | '''River:''' How could we not notice that?\ |
| 264 | '''The Doctor:''' Low level {{perception filter}}, or maybe we're ''thick''.\ |
| 265 | '''Amy:''' What is it? What's wrong?\ |
| 266 | '''River:''' The Aplans.\ |
| 267 | '''Octavian:''' The Aplans?\ |
| 268 | '''River:''' They've got two heads.\ |
| 269 | '''Octavian:''' So?\ |
| 270 | '''The Doctor:''' So why don't the statues? |
| 271 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]]: |
| 272 | ** The Doctor when he realizes that Guido intends to commit a HeroicSacrifice by blowing himself and the vampire girls up with the gunpowder stored in his house — and he's standing right in front of said house. |
| 273 | ** Rory swings a broom around and jabs it at Francesco, who responds by drawing his sword. Rory panics. |
| 274 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]]: |
| 275 | ** The Doctor, Amy and Rory get one when they see on the TARDIS' monitor that they're drifting towards a cold star. |
| 276 | ** Amy and Rory get another one later when the Doctor tells them he's going to blow up the TARDIS. |
| 277 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth "The Hungry Earth"]] ends on one, when the Doctor and Nasreen discover an underground Silurian city, meaning there are a ''bit'' more than a dozen of them camped under the earth. |
| 278 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood "Cold Blood"]] ends on an even ''better'' one, when the Doctor pulls out the piece of shrapnel he retrieved from the crack in time and discovers it's ''a piece of the TARDIS!'' |
| 279 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]]: The Doctor and Craig, while attempting to enter the upstairs flat, are informed by Amy that ''there is no upstairs'' because the plans for Craig's building reveal ''it's only one storey'', prompting the two of them to slowly look back down the stairs in apprehension. |
| 280 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]]: |
| 281 | ** Dorium Maldovar has a very deadpan one when he realizes that River's spiked his drink with micro-explosives. |
| 282 | ** When the Doctor realizes that [[spoiler:Stonehenge is broadcasting throughout the universe that the Pandorica is opening, and just who might be coming to their exact location (Daleks, Cybermen, etc.)]] His reaction: "Oh ..." |
| 283 | ** River gets a great escalating OhCrap moment when her scanner shows the ''ten thousand-plus'' battleships in orbit around Earth. Alex Kingston does a terrific job of showing the rising Oh Crap-ness of the situation. |
| 284 | ** River has another one when she realizes (from investigating Amy's bedroom) that the whole scenario in 102 A.D. is a trap for the Doctor, constructed from bits and pieces of Amy's past. |
| 285 | ** The Doctor's reaction when River tells him the date she's been dragged to: June 26, 2010, otherwise known as the date the TARDIS explodes. The look on his face, and the way his voice softens for an instant as he tells her to "Get out of there now," is a suitable indicator of how real shit just got. |
| 286 | ** The Doctor, on realising that the EldritchAbomination the Pandorica was made to contain was ''him''. |
| 287 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]]: River Song manages to give A GODDAMN DALEK an OhCrap moment, and it's ''terrifying''. To elaborate: in the Daleks have made the rather stupid mistake of [[spoiler:shooting the Doctor. River assumes him dead, but the half-resurrected Dalek's guns aren't at full power]]. River encounters the Dalek responsible, levels her gun at him and coolly promises to shoot him right through the eyestalk. The Dalek remarks that she is an associate of the Doctor; records indicate she will show mercy. Cue River giving the Dalek the [[DeathGlare evil eye]] and growling, "I'm River Song. ''Check your records again.''" |
| 288 | -->'''Dalek:''' [[AC:Mercy.]]\ |
| 289 | '''River:''' Say it again.\ |
| 290 | '''Dalek:''' [[AC:Mercy!]]\ |
| 291 | '''River:''' One. More. ''Time''.\ |
| 292 | '''Dalek:''' [[AC:MERCYYY!!!]] |
| 293 | ** You can tell the Dalek's fear is going up with each iteration of "Mercy", despite being mostly monotonous. It goes from "OhCrap" to "Please don't kill me!" to "DEAR DAVROS I'M GONNA DIE!!!" |
| 294 | ** Turns out there's a very good reason for why it was so afraid. Series 6 reveals that [[spoiler:River is the person history records as ([[FakingTheDead supposedly]]) doing the one thing they never could: ''Kill the Doctor!'']] |
| 295 | [[/folder]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[folder:Series 6]] |
| 298 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut "The Impossible Astronaut"]]: |
| 299 | ** There's a great one that's mostly played for laughs: |
| 300 | --->'''The Doctor:''' ''[reclining at the president's desk]'' Fellas, the guns? Really? I just walked into the highest security office in the United States, parked a big blue box on the rug. You think you can just shoot me?\ |
| 301 | '''River:''' ''[bursting out of the TARDIS, screaming]'' They're Americans!\ |
| 302 | '''The Doctor:''' ''[suddenly very frightened]'' Don't shoot! Definitely no shooting! |
| 303 | ** Amy and the Doctor get a shared one in the cliffhanger ending. Canton is unconscious, and a familiar, ominous astronaut is slowly approaching. [[spoiler:Amy, recognising the space suit as that worn by the killer of the future Doctor in 2011, grabs Canton's revolver and gets ready to shoot, hoping to prevent the Doctor's demise. But while she's facing the other way to load the gun, the spaceman lifts its visor to reveal the pleading face of ''a little girl'', which Amy doesn't notice until it's too late. Screaming, she whirls around and fires a single shot.]] Both her and the Doctor's faces when they realise what has happened embody the heck out of this trope. |
| 304 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon "Day of the Moon"]]: |
| 305 | ** There are multiple OhCrap moments involving the Silence: Any time someone's hand starts blinking red, indicating that they've seen a Silent but can't remember it; and the black tally marks on the characters' arms, which serve the same purpose. Amy gets a particularly effective one when she's looking for the little girl in the orphanage. She catches a glimpse of her reflection in a window, only to find that suddenly there are tally marks ALL OVER HER FACE. Then she slowly looks up ... |
| 306 | ** In the second part, [[spoiler:the Doctor engineers the Silence to order their own genocide. Canton filmed a downed Silent saying "You should kill us all on sight" and splices it into the moon landing LIVE. The Doctor sums it up perfectly with "I think the word you're looking for right now is 'Oops'."]] |
| 307 | *** Doubles as an OhCrap moment for the Doctor too, since he just pissed off the Silence. |
| 308 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]]: |
| 309 | ** In answer to the question of [[spoiler: whether Amy's child could have been conceived on the TARDIS]], the Doctor gives the wonderful line [[spoiler: "Rory wasn't even there at the beginning, then he was dead, then he didn't exist, then he was plastic, then I had to reboot the whole universe. Long story. [[ExplainExplainOhCrap So, technically, the first time they were on the TARDIS together in this version of reality was on their w...]] ''[[OhCrap on their wedding night.]]''".]] |
| 310 | ** It's revealed that [[spoiler:River Song is Amy's daughter, only from the future. Given what he and River got up to the last time they met, that Amy and Rory are standing right there when River tells him, and that Rory ''has a sword'', it proves to be something of an Oh Crap moment for the Eleventh Doctor.]] |
| 311 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler "Let's Kill Hitler"]]: |
| 312 | ** A quiet "OhCrap" moment appears in a flashback scene when Amy tries to explain to Rory why [[MistakenForGay he's gay]] because she's known him for years and he's never shown interest in any girl before ... until she realizes that [[SingleTargetSexuality he's never shown interest in any ]] ''[[SingleTargetSexuality other]]'' [[SingleTargetSexuality girl.]] |
| 313 | ** The "OhCrap" look on the Doctor's face when he realizes that the TARDIS has landed in Hitler's office is priceless. |
| 314 | ** He gives another one soon after when Hitler thanks him for saving his life. |
| 315 | --->'''The Doctor:''' Believe me, it was an accident. |
| 316 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E9NightTerrors "Night Terrors"]]: The moment when the Doctor gets Alex to realize that George [[spoiler:can't possibly be his son]] because [[spoiler:Claire, his wife, ''can't have children''.]] Cue look of horror on Alex's face — [[spoiler:if he doesn't have a son, then who and WHAT is the child that's been living with him for ten years?]] |
| 317 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]]: |
| 318 | ** The Doctor can be heard speaking: "Imagine you were dying and a long way from home and in terrible pain. And just when you think it couldn't get any worse, you look up and see the face of the devil himself." And then we see who he's addressing: a Dalek. Who immediately starts screaming "[[AC:EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!]]" |
| 319 | *** And those who had an OhCrap over Ten going [[AGodAmI Time Lord Victorious]] will have an all-too-familiar reaction to Eleven's last words to the Dalek he kills, in the most cold sociopathic voice he has ever used: ''[[DissonantSerenity Hello ... Dalek.]]'' |
| 320 | ** A much more pleasant one comes when [[spoiler:Madame Kovarian realises Amy is about to give full vent to her MamaBear fury when the Doctor isn't there to stop her, and really is going to kill her.]] |
| 321 | [[/folder]] |
| 322 | |
| 323 | [[folder:Series 7]] |
| 324 | * [[Recap/DoctorWho2011CSTheDoctorTheWidowAndTheWardrobe "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"]]: A more humourous one happens when [[spoiler:Madge's]] interrogator Droxil confidently states that she won't use her gun. She then replies "Oh really? Well, [[MamaBear I'm looking for my children!]]" His expression is priceless. |
| 325 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks "Asylum of the Daleks"]]: |
| 326 | ** When they're in the escape pod: |
| 327 | --->'''Amy:''' Doctor, ''[[BigShutUp shut up!]]'' Did you say alive ... ''or'' dead? |
| 328 | ** When Amy discovers that the Dalek zombies have her nanite-protection bracelet. |
| 329 | ** The Doctor, when the Daleks in Intensive Care learn who he is, break out and advance on him. |
| 330 | ** The Doctor has a ''huge'' one when the door to Oswin's cell opens and he enters to see [[spoiler:that she is a '''Dalek''']]. |
| 331 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]]: One line from the Melody Malone book makes the Doctor and Amy's blood run cold: |
| 332 | -->[[spoiler:"I was going to get coffee for the Doctor and Amy. Hello, River."]] |
| 333 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]]: Eleven gets a ''big'' one of these right after a heartwarming reunion with Clara: [[spoiler:It's the memory of the one Doctor that the rest of the regenerations refuse to acknowledge as such]]. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[folder:50ᵗʰ Anniversary Specials]] |
| 337 | * [[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor "The Night of the Doctor"]]: Cass is surprised to learn that someone has arrived to answer her DistressCall. She lets him drag her along to the back of the ship while asking him how they're going to escape. He opens a door to reveal the TARDIS, and when he mentions that it is BiggerOnTheInside, [[spoiler:she is horrified to realize he is a [[TheDreaded Time Lord]].]] |
| 338 | * [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]: [[spoiler: The Tenth Doctor]] gets one, PlayedForLaughs, when realizing Queen Elizabeth isn't the Zygon, so he really is engaged to the Queen. |
| 339 | -->'''The Doctor:''' I'm gonna be king... |
| 340 | * [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]]: |
| 341 | ** The Daleks boast victory at the [[spoiler:dying]] Doctor when they acknowledge that he has [[spoiler:run out of regenerations]]. ''Until'' he gets a gift for Christmas — [[spoiler:namely a new regeneration cycle from the Time Lords.]] They ''completely freak out'' when he fires up the first of them immediately ... and whips up enough energy that he can use it to ''destroy them''. |
| 342 | --->'''Supreme Dalek:''' [[AC:EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!! [[spoiler:THE DOCTOR IS REGENERATING!! '''''THE DOCTOR IS REGENERATING!!!''''']]]] |
| 343 | ** Clara has two in a row at the end of the episode: The first one is her priceless reaction to her beloved Time Lord [[spoiler:regenerating from the Eleventh to Twelfth Doctor and becoming vastly different, older, and quite scary at first glance ... 'til he starts babbling about new kidneys.]] The second one really packs a kick. There's one big problem with the [[spoiler:Twelfth]] Doctor just as the TARDIS starts crashing out of control: [[spoiler:the regeneration has made him ''forget how to fly the TARDIS'']]. Clara is ''terrified''. |
| 344 | [[/folder]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | [[folder:Series 8]] |
| 347 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater "Dark Water"]]: The Doctor and Clara both get this on realizing that [[spoiler:the skeletons in the eponymous water are really Cybermen.]] But neither compare to the look on the Doctor's face when he learns that [[spoiler:Missy is actually the Master.]] |
| 348 | [[/folder]] |
| 349 | |
| 350 | [[folder:Series 9]] |
| 351 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician's Apprentice"]]: |
| 352 | ** The Doctor has possibly his biggest OhCrap moment to this point when he discovers that [[spoiler:the kid he is currently trying to save from a minefield is actually ''Davros!'']] |
| 353 | ** He also has another two towards the end when [[spoiler:he finds out Davros has brought him to Skaro, which has been completely rebuilt by the Daleks, and when Clara is about to be exterminated by the Daleks, which reduces him to begging Davros to save her.]] |
| 354 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]]'s climax has one. As Clara's explaining that to protect Rigsy, she [[spoiler:took on the chronolock]], she suddenly realizes — and is helpfully reminded by Ashildr/Me — that [[spoiler:"You can't cheat it altogether"]]. This means that she MUST [[spoiler:be executed within the next few minutes]], much to her '''and''' the Doctor's horror. |
| 355 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent "Heaven Sent"]] has the most '''epic''' OhCrap moment ever, courtesy of the Twelfth Doctor, which can make the previous OhCrap moment look small in comparison. To clarify, the Doctor is teleported to an unknown location, which houses a creature he remembers back when he was young. When he arrives, he finds a skull of himself, as well as a word, written on the sand: "Bird". He finds several hints as to where he is supposed to go, finally reaching a wall extremely harder than diamond, which is blocking the way to [[spoiler: ''Gallifrey, his home planet'']]. At this point, he doesn't know what to do, but after remembering what was written on the floor when he arrived, he discovers that the word "Bird" is based on a section of a tale by the Brothers Grimm, entitled "The Shepherd's Boy", where a bird withers a diamond mountain over hundreds of years with its beak. This means that he must keep punching the wall '''''with his bare fists''''' until the creature kills him, and since Time Lords take longer than humans to die, he must make an agonising, [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence bloody]] journey back to the teleporter, which actually contains a copy of him back from when he first arrived. In turn, he must provide energy for the teleporter to work and write the word down, essentially [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing]] himself, in order to create a long-lasting loop full of pain, death and suffering for the Doctor to keep punching the wall until it breaks. And do keep in mind that this ends up going to the ''four billion year mark, at least.'' The sheer scale of the whole plan '''''sends the Doctor into a HeroicBSOD, waiting to die,''''' all while in his MentalWorld, '''''he rants at a mental creation of Clara for having to endure this crap and being forced to find a way to win, when it is easy to lose.''''' Luckily, [[spoiler:Mind!Clara]] ends up getting him back on track. |
| 356 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]] has [[spoiler:Clara]] (it's a long story) experience such a moment when she learns exactly how long the Doctor was trapped in the cycle of events mentioned above. |
| 357 | [[/folder]] |
| 358 | |
| 359 | [[folder:Series 10]] |
| 360 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]]: '''The audience''' gets one at the end when it's revealed that the reason the Doctor isn't looking at Nardole isn't because he's ignoring him... it's because [[spoiler:he can't see]]. |
| 361 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis "Extremis"]]: The Executioner gets an excellent OhCrap moment when the Doctor gives him a BadassBoast to let the man know ''exactly'' whom he's dealing with. |
| 362 | -->'''The Doctor:''' Do me a favour - the Fatality Index, look up "The Doctor". |
| 363 | -->'''Executioner:''' You have an entry, just like any other sentient being. |
| 364 | -->'''The Doctor:''' Under [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry "Cause of Death".]] |
| 365 | -->''(The Executioner checks the records on his wrist device, which begins to tick rapidly as it searches through.)'' |
| 366 | -->'''Executioner:''' You do seem to have an... ''impressive'' record of fatalities credited to you. |
| 367 | -->''(The ticks get faster, and the Executioner flinches slightly - the Doctor remains [[DeathGlare stoic.]])'' |
| 368 | -->'''Executioner:''' A truly remarkable record. |
| 369 | -->''(His guards slowly back away and then [[LetsGetOutOfHere flee.]])'' |
| 370 | -->'''Executioner:''' (yelling after them) Where are you going? He's unarmed! (turns to face him) You ''are'' unarmed? |
| 371 | -->'''The Doctor:''' [[DoesntLikeGuns Always.]] |
| 372 | -->'''Executioner:''' You stand alone? |
| 373 | -->'''The Doctor:''' [[OneManArmy Often.]] |
| 374 | -->'''Executioner:''' (threateningly) You're the one who should be afraid. |
| 375 | -->'''The Doctor:''' [[ImYourWorstNightmare Never.]] |
| 376 | -->'''Executioner:''' (cheerily) ...Have a nice day, then. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere (flees as well)]] |
| 377 | * [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]]: |
| 378 | ** Twelve manages to give the Captain, a British officer from the First World War, one by referring to the war as "World War One". This leads Twelve to have one himself when he realizes he dropped a ''titanic'' spoiler on the man, who is horrified at the prospect this won't be the last "World War". |
| 379 | ** The {{cliffhanger}} provides the page image, as the newly regenerated Thirteenth Doctor falls out of an exploding TARDIS, miles above the Earth's surface. |
| 380 | [[/folder]] |
| 381 | |
| 382 | [[folder:Series 11]] |
| 383 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]]: New companions Graham, Ryan, and Yaz's reactions at the end, when [[spoiler:the Doctor's teleporter, instead of transporting just her, brings the three of them along as well... into '''deep space'''. Without spacesuits.]] And yes, that's ''two'' memorable {{cliffhanger}}s in a row. |
| 384 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]]: |
| 385 | ** Ryan gets this reaction when, after his attempt to fight the [=SniperBots=] by grabbing one of their guns and shooting three of them, the robots simply get back up, he realizes he doesn't know how to reload the gun, and the robots now know where he came from. |
| 386 | ** The Doctor has one, for reasons ''yet to be explained'', when the Remnants, who somehow have knowledge of her past (and particularly past ''fears'') mention '''the Timeless Child'''. She proceeds to threaten them. |
| 387 | --->'''The Doctor:''' ''Get out of my '''head!''''' |
| 388 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]]: The {{Giant Spider}}s provoke several of these. |
| 389 | ** Jack Robertson completely panics when the enormous mother spider smashes out of a bathtub. |
| 390 | ** Ryan and Graham are having a serious conversation when Graham suddenly asks if they checked the ceiling. So they look up... and discover it crawling with spiders the size of small dogs. |
| 391 | ** The Doctor gets one when she looks through the hole ''and finds a massive spider inches from her face.'' She almost gets her face eaten. |
| 392 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab "Demons of the Punjab"]]: The Doctor and company's reaction when they learn they're on what is now the border of Pakistan and India on the day of the Partition, which will lead to considerable violence in the area. |
| 393 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E8TheWitchfinders "The Witchfinders"]]: The companions hear noise from the water and wonder if another witch is being dunked, but have trouble believing that because "the Doctor would never allow that." After a moment they realize that they left the sonic-wielding non-conformist woman alone with a bunch of witchhunting people. Cue panicked running. |
| 394 | * [[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution "Resolution"]] presents a veritable smorgasbord of these moments: |
| 395 | ** First off, the Doctor goes very quiet when the TARDIS finishes analyzing the DNA of the mysterious alien creature witnessed in the sewer. [[spoiler:Daleks tend to have that effect.]] |
| 396 | ** For its part, [[spoiler:the Dalek]] backs away from the Doctor when it scans her and detects two hearts, and then tries to kill her after she introduces herself. |
| 397 | ** The leader of the soldiers sent to confront the mysterious "drone" has this reaction twice, first when [[spoiler:the Dalek]] shrugs off all of the bullets fired at it. When it reveals it has rockets, the commander orders his troops to run for it. |
| 398 | ** Then the drivers of the tank try to flee when [[spoiler:the Dalek]] fires a missile at it, which deflects away their own missile. They don't manage to get away before the tank goes up in flames. |
| 399 | ** ''Then'' there's the GCHQ employee who bricks it when he hears [[spoiler:the Dalek]] slaughtering its way through people upstairs. And when it blows through the ceiling and descends into the room... he openly panics. |
| 400 | [[/folder]] |
| 401 | |
| 402 | [[folder:Series 12]] |
| 403 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]]: |
| 404 | ** Yaz and Ryan when they ''[[BaitAndSwitch think]]'' they've been discovered hiding in Barton's office after hours. They then get it again when Yaz is attacked and disappeared by one of the glowing, intangible creatures. |
| 405 | ** Yaz in the nowhere-place when she thinks the glowing things are attacking her. |
| 406 | ** The Doctor, when she realizes what O is indicating on the plane: [[spoiler:he's {{the Master}}]]. |
| 407 | *** In fact, [[spoiler:the Master says that the trope itself is the reason why he arranged to have the codename "O" to begin with]]. |
| 408 | ** This is followed by the Doctor discovering that Barton has vanished from the plane, with a bomb sitting there instead that [[spoiler:the Master]] deadlock-sealed so she can't shut it off. This leads directly into a {{cliffhanger}} where [[spoiler:the Doctor is trapped in the nowhere-place and Ryan, Graham and Yaz are stuck on an out-of-control plane with a bomb as the Master teleports away]]. |
| 409 | ** [[spoiler:The Master]] himself gets this at the climax when the Doctor [[spoiler:pulls an EngineeredPublicConfession by playing the Kasaavin her recording of the Master boasting about planning to backstab them.]] As they turn on him, [[spoiler:the Master has the perfect IronicEcho: "Oh."]] |
| 410 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E3Orphan55 "Orphan 55"]]: |
| 411 | ** The Doctor, when she learns that Tranquillity Spa is built on the titular planet, "orphan planets" being {{Death World}}s so dangerous that they are supposed to be completely uninhabitable. |
| 412 | ** Then, in the tunnel, the Doctor gets one when [[spoiler:she sees a Cyrillic sign on the wall, revealing they've been on EarthAllAlong]]. Yaz and Graham join in when they see [[spoiler:the sign]] despite the Doctor's efforts to prevent them from doing so. |
| 413 | [[/folder]] |
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