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1	* DesignatedHero: The Sixth Doctor's most infamous moment is strangling Peri. Throughout the rest of the serial he acts incredibly cowardly and at one point decides to blame her for everything; he never apologises or gets called out for any of this. The rest of his time with Peri can not help but invite uncomfortable similarities to an abusive relationship. On top of that he is one of the most violent Doctors. Thankfully the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' stories would fix all these problems in time.
2	* HarsherInHindsight:
3	** The way Peri complains about the Sixth Doctor's post-regeneration behaviour from the beginning to the end of the serial, even making expressions of disgust and stating that she preferred the Fifth Doctor, gets much worse decades later, when the companions of the newly regenerated Tenth and Twelfth Doctor are also initially uncomfortable with them, something that clearly hurts them. This can be compared to deadnaming a transgender person, as well as body-shaming.
4	** The end of the final episode, with the Sixth Doctor promising Peri that she will get used to him and even like him ends up being that, considering that this Doctor’s era remained divisive and Creator/ColinBaker only lasted two seasons before being fired from series.
5	** Azmael's act of suicide becomes this in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver "Nightmare in Silver"]] when the Eleventh Doctor himself is faced with the prospect of being possessed by a malevolent entity, in this case Mr. Clever. Like Azmael, he threatens to regenerate to purge Mr. Clever. While the Doctor might be bluffing in this instance, with the reveal in [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]] that he was out of regenerations like Azmael, it is equally plausible that he planned to commit suicide like Azmael did.
6	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: The Sixth Doctor's last words in this serial ("I am the Doctor, whether you like it or not") became this three decades later, when Creator/ColinBaker used them to praise and defend the casting of Creator/JodieWhittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor.
7	* HilariousInHindsight: The Doctor has to help an old friend named Edgeworth[[note]](though his real name is Azmael)[[/note]], who was friends with the Doctor in the distant past, yet has suddenly become antagonistic and is working with an evil person out of a misguided desire to save people. A little under two decades later, a lawyer by the name of [[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]] found himself in very much the same situation.
8	* JerkassWoobie: The Doctor himself. For all his awful behaviour, he's mentally and emotionally unstable from a traumatic regeneration and is clearly NotHimself. The infamous scene where he tries to murder Peri is followed by a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and a deluge of self-pity, before he decides to become a hermit for the rest of his life... taking Peri with him, for no particular reason. The pendulum swings from {{Jerkass}} to [[TheWoobie Woobie]] and back again so quickly it's astounding.
9	* MisBlamed: Might as well get it out of the way here; the Sixth Doctor's run is considered by many to be the overall nadir of the show's entire history (despite a handful of genuine classic stories such as "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Vengeance on Varos]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]"), and a lot of the blame for that tends to stick to Creator/ColinBaker, as a large part of the problem was with the characterisation of the Doctor himself, with this being probably the worst of it. However it would be very unfair to call Baker a bad actor -- he's an extremely good actor who was unfortunately given a lot of the worst scripts the show ever saw and had to make the best of what he had, and when given genuinely good material he could really shine. Decades later, [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish]] would give Baker the chance to demonstrate how well he could play the Doctor when he was finally given some good scripts.
10	* {{Narm}}:
11	** The title characters. Not only are they both horrible DullSurprise actors who were obviously only hired for being identical twins, but they have a bad case of ElmuhFuddSyndwome. "I am Womulus." "I am Wemus."
12	** A couple of insert shots are meant to show Mestor listening in to the Doctor and Azmael finding out the truth of his plan. However, because it isn't revealed until the end of the scene that Mestor is using Drak to listen to them, both shots appear without any context whatsoever, meaning that the first shot seemingly just cuts away to Mestor chuckling evilly to himself for no reason, and the second one still feels very awkward and out-of-place.
13	** The Doctor's newfound love of strangling people. The first time, with Peri, is terrifying because it was a surprise that was well built up and well acted. The second time, with Azmael, is so hammy and abrupt (with Six leaping over a table) that it becomes hilarious.
14	* NeverLiveItDown: The Doctor dresses in what is widely regarded as the worst outfit he ever dons, has rapid mood swings, and nearly ''murders'' his companion for no reason. This story is ''not'' looked at fondly by many -- in fact it is near-unanimously considered the worst television story in the franchise's history -- and it's often felt that it doomed Creator/ColinBaker's televised run as the Doctor right from the start. Unfortunately, this means that those viewers who gave up on the Sixth Doctor after this story -- or in the early stages of the following season, when the Doctor wasn't out-and-out insane anymore, but was still pretty arrogant and prone to bickering with Peri -- didn't stick around to see him shake off his early characterization, which naturally ends up being all they remember him for.
15	* RetroactiveRecognition: Lieutenant Lang is [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Mr. Gibbs]].
16	* SignatureScene: The Doctor strangling Peri is the most iconic and infamous moment of this serial, to the point where it played a major role in defining public perception of the Sixth Doctor, for better or for worse.
17	* ValuesResonance: Peri tells the Sixth Doctor she does not like the changes in him still but he tells her that she should wait before she criticise his new changes and that his values changes along with time which after seeing how people reacted to Creator/JodieWhittaker taking the role of the Doctor before she even took the role officially it makes his words that people should wait before they start judging all the more relevant. Tellingly, [[Creator/ColinBaker Six's actor]] would come to Whittaker's defense after the hostile reaction to her announcement as Thirteen, to the point of outright reusing his own character's infamous first words to support her.
18	* WTHCostumingDepartment: All three principals--the Doctor, Peri, and Hugo--emerge from the TARDIS wardrobe room wearing terrible, terrible clothes. The Doctor's outfit is particularly notorious, the end result of Creator/JohnNathanTurner's instruction that the new costume be gaudy and tasteless in order to emphasize his alienness both among humans and on other planets, as well as his ongoing desire to ensure the leads' outfits were visually memorable [[TheMerch for merchandising purposes]]. Oh, Six's outfit was memorable alright, [[GoneHorriblyWrong but not in the way Nathan-Turner had hoped for.]]

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