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- In a discussion as to who was the best companion in Doctor Who, there were a surprisingly large number of votes for Ace. When someone asked why, everyone gave the same reason: she once beat the crap out of a Dalek with a baseball bat. Because it called her "small". In fact, Sophie Aldred herself mentioned in a dvd-documentary that, after her marriage and her children, the greatest moment of her life was the fact that she beat the crap out of a Dalek using a baseball bat.
- Ace also had this moment in "Silver Nemesis".
The Doctor: Ace, I don't suppose you've totally ignored my instructions and secretly concocted any Nitro-9 have you?
Ace: What if I had?
The Doctor: Then of course you wouldn't do anything so insanely dangerous as carry it around with you?
Ace: Of course not. I'm a good girl, I do what I'm told.
The Doctor: Excellent. Blow up that vehicle.
- The First Doctor manages to convince virtually an entire audience that he is a brilliant harp player without playing a note in "The Romans". Also in that episode, beating a big guy so easily, he laughs during it.
- He also pulls a Granny Weatherwax in "The Savages," transferring part of his personality and conscience to one of the bad guys and successfully saving the day. It is then implied that he planned it all from the start.
- Bret Vyon (a pre-Brigadier Nicholas Courtney), meanwhile, gets one for being the only man in the universe to ever tell the First Doctor to "shut up" and get away with it.
- The Second Doctor's speech to the Time Lords in "The War Games".
- The Third Doctor not only manages to best the Master in a sword fight - he disarms him, holds him at swordpoint, steals his lunch for no real reason other than to prove that he can, and then gives the Master his sword back because he's having too much fun to stop. Oh, and then beats him again. Granted, the Doctor still ends up captured, but the entire sequence is pretty awesome.
- The Fourth Doctor has quite a few. His "Do I have the right?" speech from "Genesis of the Daleks", for example.
- The one I always remember is from the climax of "State of Decay"- he launches the Great Vampires' rocket from the surface of the planet, only for it to run out of fuel and crash straight back down in an explosion that destroys all vampires. The Fourth doesn't arse about with any of that stake through the heart stuff...
- What makes that particularly awesome is that it is a stake through the heart — the last Great Vampire (which is giant) is directly underneath the rocket when it falls...
- Who could forget the Fifth Doctor in the cliffhanger to episode three of "The Caves of Androzani" ("I'm not gonna let you stop me now!"). It takes several viewings to notice it, but the fact is he is not only saying it to Stoltz, but to himself- he is stopping himself regenerating (witness the effect on the screen).
- Point of fact, who can forget the scenes leading up to the regeneration in the final episode of The Caves of Androzani? Carrying Peri across a battlefield surrounded with explosions, nearly dying of asphyxiation in an earlier scene and generally engaging in derring-do - all so he can save the girl he accidentally got into this situation and all while dying from spectrox poisoning. And not only this, but in the final moments of the first scene mentioned, he knows he has no cure for himself - he still delivers Peri to safety and meets death with dignity. And people thought the Fifth Doctor wasn't badass.
- The Fifth Doctor wasn't badass. However, he was most certainly Made Of Win.
- The Sixth Doctor's moment comes at the end of "Trial of a Time Lord", when he denounces the Kangaroo Court that the Time Lords have set up for him to cover up their own atrocities:
In all my travels through time and space I have battled against evil. Against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here! The oldest civilization — decadent, degenerate and rotten to the core! Power mad conspirators? Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen — they're still in the nursery compared to us! Ten million years of absolute power. That's what it takes to be really corrupt.
- The Sixth Doctor gets a delicious CMOA in "Revelation of the Daleks" when he offers to shake the hand of the defeated Davros (said hand had just been shot off)
- The Seventh Doctor gets one in "The Greatest Show In The Galaxy" when he calmly walks away from a circus tent — which proceeds to blow up very violently right behind him.
- Pretty awesome for Sylvester McCoy too: the explosion was somewhat bigger than the special effects crew were expecting, and it doesn't faze him at all.
- He has said he was fully expecting to have scorch marks on his back afterward, but he knew there could be no second take so he simply went on with the shot.
- All of Seven's intricate Chessmaster style schemes can qualify, but especially in the episode "Remembrance of the Daleks", where he briar patches Davros into blowing up the Dalek home system, with a Time Lord weapon he'd stashed away in his first life.
- And in "Ghost Light," after Light has outlined his plan to end all life and evolution so that his catalogue of life will remain valid, driving the godlike alien to suicide. So good it deserves to be quoted:
The Doctor: But you evolve too, Light.
Light: Nonsense.
The Doctor: Of course you do. You change, you adapt, all the time. Your attitude, your place, your mind... I mean, look at you now: you're no longer your original shape. And I don't think much of your catalogue- it's full of gaps.
Light: (suddenly alarmed) All organic life is recorded!
The Doctor: What about the gryphons, the basilisks? You missed the dragons, the bandersnatches... then there are the slithy toves and the crowned Saxe-Coburg.
(Strolling into the entrance hall, he casually clicks his fingers and Light immediately appears at the staircase)
Light: (frantically reviewing his data screen) Where are these items?
The Doctor: I can't think how you missed them. You have to complete the catalogue before you destroy all life here.
The Doctor: She's no use to you, she's evolved as well.
Light: No! All slipping away...
The Doctor: All is change, all is movement. Tell me, Light, haven't you just changed your location?
Light: (Gritting his teeth) Not yet.
The Doctor: What's the matter, Light? Changed your mind?
Light: You are endlessly agitating, unceasingly mischievous, will you never STOP?!
The Doctor: I suppose I could. It would make a change.
Light: (desperate) Nimrod- I can rely on you! Assist me now...
Nimrod: I'm sorry, sir, but my allegiance is to this planet- my birthright.
Light: (Hysterical) Everything is changing! All in flux! Nothing remains the same!
The Doctor: Even remains change. It's this planet- it can't help itself.
Light: I... will not change... I'll wake up soon. No... change... dead... (trails off as he begins to evaporate)
The Doctor: (To the data screen) Subject for catalogue: file under "imagination, comma, lack of."
- Seventh convincing the snipers in The Happiness Patrol to lay down their weapons probably counts, too.
Sniper 2: "Get back. Or he'll use the gun."
The Doctor: "Yes, I imagine he will. You like guns, don't you?"
Sniper 1: "This is a specialised weapon. It's designed for roof duty. Designed for long range. I've never used one up close before."
Sniper 2: "Let him go."
Sniper 1: "No."
The Doctor: "No. In fact... let him come a little closer."
Sniper 1: "Stay where you are."
The Doctor: "Why? Scared? Why should you be scared? You're the one with the gun."
Sniper 1: "That's right."
The Doctor: "And you like guns, don't you?"
Sniper 2: "He'll kill you."
The Doctor: "Of course he will. That's what guns are for. Pull a trigger. End a life. Simple, isn't it?'"
Sniper 1: Yes.
The Doctor: "Makes sense, doesn't it?"
Sniper 1: "Yes."
The Doctor: "A life, killing life."
Sniper 2: "Who are you?"
The Doctor: "Shut up. Why don't you do it then? Look me in the eye. Pull the trigger. End my life."
Sniper 1: "No."
The Doctor: "Why not?"
Sniper 1: "I can't."
The Doctor: "Why not?"
Sniper 1: "I don't know."
The Doctor: "You don't, do you. Throw away your gun."
- Don't forget in the episode "Battlefield", where knights Ancelyn and Mordred are engaged in a vicious swordfight... and the Doctor just walks calmly between them in the middle of their duel.
- Lifting his hat to them as he strolls right between them.
- In the filming of that episode. Sylvester McCoy arguably saved Sophie Aldred's life when he noticed a watertank was about to crack and pour water onto a floor covered in electrical cables.
- The Eighth Doctor only had ninety minutes on television, much of which received a lukewarm reaction from much of the audience. There are, however at least two moments which are largely agreed to have perfectly captured the spirit of the series it was adapting and managed to cement the Eighth Doctor's awesomeness:
- You wouldn't think that a man in a wheelchair with one working arm could have a Crowning Moment Of Awesome. Then Davros comes along with his legendary "To hold in my hand..." speech from "Genesis of the Daleks".
The Doctor: Davros, if you had created a virus in your laboratory, something contagious and infectious that killed on contact, a virus that would destroy all other forms of life; would you allow its use?
Davros: It is an interesting conjecture.
The Doctor: Would you do it?
Davros: The only living thing... The microscopic organism... reigning supreme... A fascinating idea.
The Doctor: But would you do it?
Davros: Yes; yes. To hold in my hand, a capsule that contained such power. To know that life and death on such a scale was my choice. To know that the tiny pressure on my thumb, enough to break the glass, would end everything. Yes! I would do it! That power would set me up above the gods! And through the Daleks I shall have that power!
- A decade later, after having two mediocre-at-best appearances, Davros reminds us why he is feared throughout the universe in "Revelation of the Daleks" when he takes a page from the book of fellow Magnificent Bastard Palpatine and shoots lightning out of his hand.
- And more than two decades after that, Davros is reintroduced to the world in "The Stolen Earth" by showing what he is willing to do to ensure his victory: creating a new army of Daleks using his own flesh.
- Davros' ultimate CMOA must come in "Journey's End" when he unveils what the Reality Bomb will do in typically Hitleresque fashion, increasing in volume with each word.
Davros: Across the entire universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People, planets and stars will become dust. And the dust will become atoms. And the atoms will become.... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade! Into every dimension! Every parallel! Every single corner of creation! THIS is my ultimate victory, Doctor! THE DESTRUCTION! OF REALITY! ITSELF!
- For this troper, the speech itself was awesome, but what really won him over was that this was exactly what he and the Doctor had talked about 30 years ago in Genesis of the Daleks. That Davros finally had within his grasp the universal removal of all non-Dalek life, and that this all-consuming Critical Existence Failure was stopped only by a series of fortunate events? Davros has always been a creepy, psychotic and excellent villain. This was the first time Davros had him honest to goodness scared. And it was awesome.
- Wait a minute, doesn't that mean reality is already doomed, as a new parallel is created everytime something happens, therefore there's a parallel where Davros succeeded, and Reality Bomb went off.
- The episode even includes a wonderful little nod to that earlier scene. In the scene from Genesis, Davros is holding up his hand with finger and thumb just parted, as though holding the imaginary vial of virus - and even before he actually exclaims "Yes! I would do it!", he brings the digits together as though crushing the vial. In the more recent episode, he unconsciously makes the same gesture, this time when he orders the detonation of the Reality Bomb.
- And let's not forget Zoe beating the crap out of a comic-book superhero in "The Mind Robber".
- One from the new series:
The Doctor: No! '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!
Dalek: But you have no weapons! No defenses! No plan!
The Doctor: Yeah! And doesn't that scare you to death? Rose?
Rose: Yes, Doctor?
The Doctor: I'm coming to get you.
- This is a cool moment thanks to Chris Eccleston's acting either way, but if you are British, it has an added layer of "hell yeah!" because it ties into the Big Brother bit at the beginning - host Davina McCall always uses the same line when announcing an eviction: "X, you have thirty seconds to leave the Big Brother house. I'm coming to get you!" Housemates have commented in the past that they love that because it gives an air of support from her, as the way she always says it (with a certain amount of joy) gives the impression that she means "don't worry, I'll be there with you". When the Doctor says this to Rose, to anyone who's watched more than a handful of BB episodes (which, considering the phenomenon it is here, is probably the majority of DW fans) it makes you grin that little bit wider. This furthermore is nicely contrasted with the episode's own use of McCall's line, which - given that the show as in the episode is part of an oppressive regime which forces people to participate against their will and kills them (although not in the way they expect) when they get voted out, is a lot more sinister.
- Though of course, the earlier use isn't McCall's friendly "I'm coming to get you", but "we're going to get you" - quite a different implication!
- Speaking of Eccleston's acting (which is highly underrated, at least here in the States), the final third of "Bad Wolf" is certainly a CMOA for him as a performer, starting from the moment of Rose's apparent death. No amount of screaming or tears could possibly convey the amount of despair and loss in his eyes in that shocked, silent moment.
- And then his Oh Crap look when he realises that there a quarter of a million Daleks on Earth's doorstep.
- "The Parting of the Ways" is basically one forty-five minute long CMOA for the Ninth Doctor.
- "Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You might have removed all your emotions, but I reckon right down deep in your DNA, there's one little spark left. And that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me?"
- "I think you're forgetting something: I'm the Doctor. And if there's one thing I can do, it's talk. I've got five billion languages and you haven't got one way of stopping me, so if anyone's gonna shut up, it's you!" Anything which causes Daleks to back off? Awesome.
- "You were fantastic, absolutely fantastic...and you know what? So was I." Pretty much says it all.
- "The Parting of the Ways" is also a CMOA for Rose, when she becomes the Bad Wolf. "You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space. Every single atom of your existence. And I divide them."
- Not to forget her speech to Jackie and Mickey back on Earth.
"But it was.... it was a better life. And I don't mean the travelling, the seeing aliens and spaceships and thing, that don't matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You know, he showed you too. That you don't just give up. You don't just let things happen, you make a stand, you say no. You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away, and I can't..."
- Also a collective Moment for the Daleks: when an enormous horde of Daleks pours out of their ships and heads straight for the Game Station. This is later topped and combined with Kick The Dog in "The Stolen Earth" with their brutally efficient invasion of Earth, including the destruction of the Valiant. It says a lot when you can make the two most experienced alien fighters on Earth break down in tears just by announcing your arrival.
- Another of the Daleks' best CMOA: when they can't break into the observation deck to kill Lynda, so instead they rise up through space to the observation window, and, although we can't hear it, their lights clearly flash to the scream of "EXTERMINATE!". They then blow the window open.
- Jack's death (for the first time, anyway) in "Parting of the Ways." After fighting down to his last bullet, he coolly stands and faces a troop of Daleks:
Dalek: EXTERMINATE!
Jack: I kind of figured that.
- Earlier in "New Earth", the Doctor puts himself in perspective for some Sisters.
Sister: What authority do you have?
The Doctor: I'm the Doctor! THERE IS NO HIGHER AUTHORITY! It stops here!
- Further, from "Voyage of the Damned":-
The Doctor: I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old, and I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?
- This would have been even more Awesome if he'd actually accomplished it.
- Kylie Minogue and a forklift truck.
- The Doctor striding forwards after it, holding out his hands and being lifted up through the ship by a pair of angels. This Troper is not ashamed to admit she squee'd.
- Bannakaffalatta (the little red guy) taking down the Host with an EMP.
Bannakaffalatta: Bannakaffalatta PROUD! Bannakaffalatta CYBORG!
- The Doctor pulling the Titanic up in the nick of time and missing Buckingham Palace by literally inches. You're a liar if you didn't cheer at that.
- Having the Queen, without a hint of anything but calm in her voice, wave and say "Thank you Doctor, thank you" as if this sort of thing happens every day was what did it for this troper.
- Also, Wilf coming out of his stall to shake his fist at the sky turned this troper into an instant fan- and that was long before Donna came into the picture.
- "The Sound of Drums" was the Master's Crowning Moment of Awesome, especially a certain thumbs up. The only thing that could possibly compete with it is the last 12 minutes of Utopia.
- More specifically, there's this conversation:
The Doctor: I'm asking you really, properly, just stop! Just think!
The Master: Use my name.
The Doctor: Master... I'm sorry.
The Master: Tough!
He then proceeds to leave the Doctor stranded. At the end of the universe. With a horde of cannibals about to break in. Awesome.
- There's also his moment at the end of "The Sound of Drums", where he effortlessly overcomes the Doctor's plan to defeat him, kills the US President, and guns down Captain Jack, with the quip:
The Master: And the good thing is, he's not dead for long. I get to kill him again!!
- Not to rain on the awesomeness parade but this incredible awesome moment rapidly becomes rather unawesome later, when you consider the fact that he's had Jack, an immortal who cannot die no matter what you do to him locked up in that place for a year. And you start to wonder exactly how the Master has probably been taking advantage of this during that year...
- Followed almost immediately by summoning six billion robotic beach balls Of Doom to decimate (bonus points for the correct usage of "decimate") the Earth, blowing a good-bye kiss to the Doctor, all the while dancing to "Voodoo Child". EPIC. EVIL. WIN.
- He then ends the episode, with himself in control, the Doctor aged to senility, Martha stranded, Jack collapsed on the floor and 10% of the population dead, with the following speech.
The Master: And so it came to pass that the human race fell, and the Earth was no more. And I looked down upon my new dominion, as Master of all, and thought it... good.
- This troper liked the exchange after the Master opened his Chameleon Arch and remembered who he was.
Professor Yana: That is not my name.
Chantho: Chan, wh-what is it, tho?
- Another CMOA would be at the end of "Last of the Time Lords" where the Master dies in the Doctor's arms, refusing to regenerate, and just laughing at the Doctor's pain at being the only Time Lord in existence once more. Even though the Doctor foiled his plans, he has the last laugh. As he puts it himself - "I win!"
- "What's the mask for?" "The gas." "What gas?" "This gas!"
- And in the next episode, busting out more funky dance moves to the tune of "I Can't Decide", while he capers about the Valiant's command deck, snogs his wife, pours coffee on Martha's mom, and rings a bell to call out the Doctor, whom he has living in a tent and eating from a dog bowl. And starts spinning him around in a wheelchair. Oh Master, you bastard... why do I love you so much?
- It seems that when the Master has his iPod on, awesomeness is never far behind.
- Please, these barely qualify. The Master had a lot more Crowning Moments of Awesome when he still had a beard. Like in "Logopolis", when he held the entire universe for ransom.
- Check out "Frontier in Space" for proof of this, and the wonderful observation that "rocket fire at long range - somehow it lacks that personal touch."
- In a sort of reaction to the above comments, Martha's Crowning Moment Of Awesome has to be when, after two episodes of effortless pwning absolutely everyone (including the Doctor and the immortal Captain Jack), the Master has her imprisoned, kneeling at his feet... and she laughs at him.
- "A gun? A gun in four parts? You really believed that?"
- And then, she reveals that she has just saved the entire world, even the bits the Master already killed (except the President, but he was a jackass), by telling people a story. Neil Gaiman must love that.
- Speaking of "Last of the Time Lords", Tom Milligan's attempt at a Heroic Sacrifice with his pistol, even though he knew that both the Toclafane and the Master were invulnerable to bullets, to try and save Martha, a woman that he's known less than a day...in a word, awesome.
- Don't forget the Doctor in that scene:
The Doctor: Tell me the human race is degenerate now. When they can do this. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Because you know what happens next.
- All the while he is glowing and floating towards the Master, invincible and unstoppable.
- The lone Dalek in the episode "Dalek" had a few Crowning Moments of Awesome on behalf of its entire species, but one in particular stands out from the rest. One word: "Elevate!" The episode was specifically written to subvert all the Dalek cliché weaknesses, and kill people doing it. A Dalek had already ascended stairs in "Remembrance of the Daleks", a Seventh Doctor story, although it wasn't as awesome.
- It had another moment earlier on...
Red Shirt Soldier: What are you going to do, sucker me to death?
(The Dalek immediately crushes his skull with its plunger.)
- Also up as a potential CMOA in Dalek (as well as an absolute Tear Jerker) is its final death. The idea of a Dalek experiencing such emotions as this one did after forty years of canon establishing them as vindictive bastards is... quite something. As was its final use of its own world famous Catch Phrase against itself (after asking Rose to order it to destroy itself, because it can't do anything without an order).
Rose: ...Do it.
Dalek: Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?
Rose: Yes.
Dalek: So am I. Exterminate.
- It also managed to do something other Daleks rarely do: stun the Doctor into silence with words. Namely ... 'You would make a good Dalek.' Done as the Doctor is foaming at the mouth and screaming at it to DROP DEAD. And that isn't exaggeration at the scene. (Incidentally, nice job, Chris—seriously.)
- Continuing the love with the moment it meets Henry Van Statten. It advances on him, demanding to know why it was tortured:
Van Statten: I'm sorry, I'M SORRY! I just wanted to hear you talk!
Dalek: *stops its advance* Then hear me talk now. EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINAAAAAAATE!
- No mention of its actual escape? Breaks its chains, murders a man with its plunger, downloads the entirety of the internet and drains power from the entire west coast of the US to repair itself. And THEN screams:
The Daleks survive in MEEEEEEE! *Shoots stuff*
- The Imperial Daleks from Remembrance of the Daleks deserve a mention here, for sheer awesome firepower. After their landing party starts being beaten back by renegade Dalek forces, the Emperor orders the Special Weapons Dalek into action - and onto the screen trundles an extraordinary machine: Basically a Dalek chassis topped by an independently-swivelling turret. No eye-stalk, no plunger arm, just a massive cannon version of the Dalek gun, and the whole thing scarred and grime-stained as though it had been through dozens of battlefields. It rolls up to take aim on a pair of opposing Daleks, and fires - once. The resulting massive explosion wipes out the renegade Daleks completely. The Special Weapons Dalek fires its weapon exactly twice more in the episode - once to totally demolish the gates of the renegade Daleks' compound, and once to annihilate the remaining renegades. Each time, it's awesome.
- It's worth noting that the BBC special effects team went seriously overboard with the explosions for these effects. The first one got them into trouble after police and fire brigade were summoned, because they hadn't told the authorities they were going to be using pyrotechnics on that scale. The second shot, of the gates exploding to reveal the Imperial Daleks behind them, had to be cut short during editing to end before too much of the smoke had cleared, because the force of the explosion had blown several hemispheres off the Daleks' skirts.
- Christopher Eccleston packed a lot of awesome into his single season as the Doctor. This speech from "Rose":
Do you know like we were saying, about the earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid, the first time they tell you that the world is turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it-the turn of the earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. The entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour. And I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world. And, if we let go... That's who I am. Now forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home.
- Romana has her Crowning Moment Of Awesome at the climax of "The Armageddon Factor", where she stops the Doctor from becoming a monstrous universal dictator by shouting at him.
- Then there's the "despicable worm" scene and a good part of "The Horns of Nimon".
- Or, for that matter, opening the puzzle box in "City of Death"?
- This Troper always felt that Romana's CMOA came earlier in "The Armageddon Factor" when she refused to break under the Shadow's Electric Torture.
- Hell, her first scene.
- The series itself became awesome when the Daleks made their first appearance.
- For the record, that was the second story.
- While her portrayal in later episodes prevented her from being endlessly adored by the fans, Peri looked very promising as a companion after verbally owning the Master of all people in this memorable exchange:
The Master: You will obey me. I am the Master!
Peri: So what? I'm Perpugilliam Brown, and I can shout as loud as you can!
- It is a bit modulated by the silly voices, but Cyberman Krang's response to Polly when she challenges him about not caring that people are going to die in "The Tenth Planet":
Krang: Care? No, why should I care?
Polly: Because they're people and they're going to die!
Krang: I do not understand you. There are people dying all over your world and you do not care about them.
- "Doomsday" may have had more than a few Dalek Moments of Awesome, but the Cybermen also get to verbally own the Daleks in this exchange of insults (around 2:13):
Cyberman: Our species are similar, though your design is inelegant.
Dalek Thay: Daleks have no concept of elegance!
Cyberman: This is obvious.
- The Daleks get vengeance (at 2:53 in the above video):
Cyber Leader: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen.
Cyber Leader: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?
Dalek Sec: Four.
Cyber Leader: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?
Dalek Sec: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You are superior in only one respect.
Cyber Leader: What is that?
Dalek Sec: You are better at dying.
- The ending of the episode before, Army Of Ghosts, also counts. Right when the Cybermen had emerged, and creating a cliffhanger ending of how the Doctor would defeat them, the Sphere opens and out come the Daleks. This troper also had no clue of this happening until they actually appeared on screen.
- One of the first companions, Barbara Wright, had several: verbally bitchslapping the Doctor in "The Edge of Destruction", running down Daleks with a truck, holding an Aztec priest at knifepoint, destroying the Animus, being the first person to have the "let's slap something on the Dalek's eye" idea, successfully fast-talking at least one villain into temporarily sparing their lives... essentially, the first two seasons could have been renamed The Why Barbara is Awesome Show, and no one would have noticed. She strode through time in sensible shoes, wearing the Bouffant of Doom...
- Her co-companion, Ian, gets at least one himself when he knocks the Aztec warrior unconscious.
- Ian got quite a few, actually; creating fire, passing himself off as a Dalek, and hauling Ping-Cho home with all the assorted problems that escapade caused jump to mind, and that's just the first four stories.
- Don't forget The Crusades, when Ian spends three episodes trying to get to Barbara to rescue her, and by the time he finally meets up with her she's already rescued herself and is on her way home.
- Or smashing the Brains of Morphoton in The Keys of Marinus.
- Then there was the time in The Dalek Invasion of Earth that she dredged up every bit of history she could call to mind to make the Daleks think the entire human race was in revolt, worldwide, and get them in a panic.
- The denouement of "Family of Blood." The Doctor didn't disguise himself as a human for months because he was afraid of the Family. He hid because he knew what he'd do to the Family.
- His ultimate CMOA came near the end, when he reveals himself as the Doctor, and blows the Family's ship up.
Oh, I think the explanation might be that you've been fooled by a simple olfactory misdirection. It's a little bit like ventriloquism of the nose. It's an elemantary trick in certain parts of the galaxy. But it has got to be said. I don't like the look of that hydrokilominator. It seems to be indicating that you're got energy feedback all the way through the retro-stabilisers, feeding back into the primary heat converters. OOH! 'Cos if there's one thing you shouldn't have done. You shouldn't have let me press all those buttons. But, to be fair, I will give you one word of advice. RUN!
- The Brigadier, in "Battlefield":
"Get off my world!"
- How about:
The Destroyer: "Pitiful. Can this world do no better than you as their champion?"
Brigadier: "Probably. I just do the best I can." (Opens fire.)
- Really, the Brig was just an inherently awesome fellow. Another high point of his comes when he greets the Master in "The Five Doctors"
"Nice to see you again." *punch*
- And again in "The Daemons". Complete, unflappable, pure win when faced with an animated gargoyle: "Chap with wings, five rounds rapid"
- Lampshaded in the New Adventures novel No Future in which the Brig indicates an alien standing next to Paul McCartney: "Chap with 'Wings', five rounds rapid!"
- "The Poison Sky": Colonel Mace before introducing two bullets to a Sontaran's head:
"You will face me, sir!"
Col. Mace: The Sontarans might think of us as primitive, as does every passing species with an axe to grind. They make a mockery of our weapons, our soldiers, our ideals, but no more. From this point on it stops. From this point on, the people of Earth fight back. And we show them, we show the warriors of Sontar what the human race can do.
- Not to mention the entire last 15 minutes of that episode for the whole of UNIT, after 40+ years of playing the Redshirt Army they finally get to kick some Sontaran arse.
- And who could forget Rattigan's final "Sontar-HA!"?
- Especially since it took something that had been pure Narm up until that point and actually made it work.
- Or the Valiant on the start of the attack run? Even the Doctor is impressed.
- Plus one of the few times CMOA and Nightmare Fuel go hand in hand is when Colonel Mace orders the Doctor to put on a gas mask and he immediately turns to Mace and says, as a throw away line, "Are you my mummy?" Don't remind us of that sort of stuff without warning, dammit!
- Donna Noble knocking out a Sontaran. "Back of the neck!"
- The Doctor doing the same with applied squash. To the enemy commander no less.
- Three words: Sky. On. Fire.
- "The Doctor's Daughter" after Jenny takes a bullet from General Cobb, the Doctor points a gun at Cobb's head... of course being the Technical Pacifist he is he doesn't shoot but what he tells Cobb and the rest of the colonist descendants is definitely a CMOA worthy speech.
- From the same episode-
Jenny: "Whatcha you going to do? Tell my dad?"
- Jenny making it through the beams via epic gymnastic skills also counts.
- Another from the same episode, delivered after relocating the shoulder of a Hath soldier under gunpoint-
Martha: "Now then, I'm Doctor Martha Jones. Who the hell are you?"
- K9 Mark III's Heroic Sacrifice: "You bad dog!" "Affirmative."
- Even more awesome because K9, as always, sounds so damn smug.
- Pretty much every time that Steven Moffat writes a Doctor Who episode, a Crowning Moment Of Awesome for the Doctor (or someone, at least) can't be far behind. But these gems from "The Doctor Dances" stands out:
- The Doctor turns up for dinner. ("Thanks miss!")
- "Go to your room!"
- The Doctor identifies Jack's weapon:
The Doctor: Sonic blaster, 51st Century — Weapon factories at Villengard?
Jack: Yeah. You've been to the factories?
The Doctor: Once.
Jack: They're gone now, destroyed. Main reactor went critical. Vaporised the lot.
The Doctor: Like I said. Once.
- The banana bit.
- The Doctor saves the day:
- Nancy deserves one in that episode as well for verbally bitch-slapping the guy whose house she broke into. "Oh look, there's the sweat on your brow."
- Jack gets a couple CMOA at the end of the episode. First, stopping a German bomb seconds before it plows into the rest of the cast, then saying his farewells while straddled atop it (popping back once to compliment Rose on her shirt). Later on his ship, on learning the bomb's detonation (and his death) is pretty much unavoidable, he nonchalantly orders himself a martini and reminisces in what appear to be his last moments. Then to top it all off, the camera pulls away from him, past the bomb...and through the TARDIS doors. WIN.
- Speaking of Steven Moffat, surely The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances would be his Crowning Moment Of Awesome!
- How about Sally Sparrow in "Blink"? She had several, but the one I love the most is the following conversation:
Sally Sparrow: I love old places. They make me sad.
Kathy Nightingale: What's so great about sad?
Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
- Both the Doctor and Reinette got Crowning Moments of Awesome in "The Girl in the Fireplace".
- The Doctor rides a horse through a mirror, then there's the following exchange when he's introduced to Louis XV.
Reinette: This is my lover, the King of France.
Doctor: Yeah, well, I'm the Lord of Time.
- Also, this line:
Reinette: "What do monsters have nightmares about?"
Doctor "Me!"
- Don't forget Reinette telling the entire Royal Court of Versailles to get a hold of themselves, while facing down unstoppable killer clockwork robots:
Reinette: "Would everyone just please calm down. Such a commotion, such distressing noise! Kindly remember that this is Versailles. This is the royal court, and we are French. I have made a decision. And my decision is no. I have seen your world, and I do not desire to set foot there again."
Clockwork Droid: "We do not require your feet."
- And the Doctor pretending to be three sheets to the wind so he can get close enough to a clockwork robot to destroy it.
Clockwork Droid: She is compatible.
The Doctor: Compatible? If you believe that... you probably believe this is a glass of wine.
*Pours said glass over the top of its head*
- And again in "Forest of the Dead": The Doctor tries to get the Vashta Nerada to back down. The Vashta Nerada won't back down. The Doctor tells the Vashta Nerada to read all the files on him in The Library. The Vashta Nerada back down.
"Don't play games with me. You just killed someone I liked, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest Library in the universe. *pauses* Look. Me. Up."
- Sort of a Crowning Moment of His-Awesomeness-Precedes-Him, that one!
- Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister gets hers in "The Stolen Earth", when she's about to die.
Harriet Jones: Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister.
Dalek: Yes, we know who you are.
Harriet Jones: Oh, you know nothing of any human, and that will be your downfall.
- "The Stolen Earth" bagged not only the show's highest ever Appreciation Index (AI) figure of 91/100, it got one of the highest of all time for any mainstream (i.e. not an American import shown on Sky One or something similar) show and reduced ITV 1 to its lowest audience share in history. To quote Donna Noble - back of the neck!
- The fourth season finale, "Journey's End", managed to top this, becoming the most watched UK TV program of the week - the first time a Doctor Who episode has managed this - *and* getting another AI of 91/100. For *any* program to get both of these together is virtually unheard of.
- "The Stolen Earth" only got beaten to the top spot by 60,000 viewers. By a international football final. Any other show would've been decimated.
- "Journey's End" had a whole bunch of Crowning Moments of Awesome, but this troper feels that the most outstanding one- and shocking, no less- belongs to none other than Dalek Caan:
"I saw the Daleks, what we have done throughout time and space. I saw the truth of us, creator, and I decreed: No! More!."
- If that's not the best CMOA in the episode, then that title certainly belongs to Martha. She not only blackmails Davros by holding the destruction of Earth (and all Davros' plans) in her hands, but while she's doing that, she tells the Doctor to shut up. When even Rose is impressed, you know you're Crowned With Awesome.
- Wilf takes on a Dalek. With a paintball gun. Then the Dalek vaporises the paint from its eyestalk with the line "MY VISION IS NOT IMPAIRED.".
- About five seconds later, this is proven untrue as Rose shoots it in the back of the head (i.e from behind it).
- And what about Sarah Jane Smith? Her speech to Davros is one of the best "surrender now to keep your ass intact, good sir" speeches that this troper's ever heard. Not to mention a CMOA for Elisabeth Sladen in Stolen Earth: she achieved levels of fear with a tiny little tremble and a pale face that would take screams on a King Kong level from lesser actresses.
- Liz Sladen reaches those levels on an insanely regular basis - not that it's a bad thing. Back in her original run on the series, Sladen's reaction to Sontaran general Styre in The Sontaran Experiment was enough to have the director leaping up and down with joy - actually running up the Welsh equivalent of a mountain to congratulate her on the scene. And these moments are only added onto with the second season premier of The Sarah Jane Adventures when Sarah Jane sees a Sontaran space pod, and knows exactly how screwed they are. This troper can't wait to see the inevitable run in with a Dalek in that series.
- Another one just for the fact that Davros still remembers Sarah Jane after thousands of years from his point of view. Maybe that counts for RTD as well for remembering that Sarah Jane was in Genesis of the Daleks and managing to cram in that nod to it.
- Also in "Journey's End" we really get to see what the technology of the Time Lords really can do by having the TARDIS move the Earth all the way across the universe back into place. That my good sirs is God-like power.
- And let's not forget that that scene is itself fueled by a Crowning Moment Of Awesome for every single companion that new Who has ever featured, as they collectively fly the TARDIS the way it was meant to be flown - not by one person, but by six, working together. They even get an awesome team name: The Children Of Time.
- In The Androids of Tara , the Doctor pwns Count Grendel, the best swordsman on the planet. Meanwhile, Romana and Princess Strella stop Grendel's goon with a needlework loom and a pitcher.
- In The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Leela taking on Magnus Greel.
- Bah. Most of these are as nothing compared to Yvonne Hartman's CMOA in "Doomsday". Even after being "upgraded" to Cyberman, she still defends Queen and Country. (Although, as the next item notes, the "fightin' hand" is also hella cool.)
- The Christmas episode between season 1 and 2 of the new series... the Doctor, his hand just chopped off in a way that would have made George Lucas proud: "As it happens, I'm within the first fifteen hours of my regeneration, allowing me to do this." (regrows hand) "And you know what? It's a fightin' hand!"
- "No second chances. I'm that sort of a man."
- Does it still count as CMOA when he consistently proves through the next three series that he is nothing BUT a second chances man? After all, how many chances did he give Davros and still get pissy when the other Doctor destroyed them. Or in the very same episode he tries to ruin a character's reputation simply because she wouldn't give a second chance to a bunch of aliens who'd proved their word couldn't be trusted?
- Does it still count as a CMOA when most of the series consists of these kinds of contrived 'hell yeah' moments? If every moment is Awesome, none are.
- If every moment is Awesome, then the series itself becomes Awesome. Quantity does not dilute the quality.
- In The Shakespeare Code, the Bard completely OWNS the Carrionites, with words.
- And Harry Potter gets a reference (The Doctor cried while reading Book 7)
- If she was watching that episode, J.K Rowling probably would have jumped up and cheered. A word from her series got used on national television to help save the world! And the Doctor COMPLIMENTS her!
"Good old J.K!"
- Elizabeth Sladen deserves one for saying, upon seeing a man wearing a gas-mask, "Are you my mummy?" in the commentaries for Genesis of the Daleks. The new series isn't canon my arse!
- The DJ in Revelation of the Daleks, when he blasts Daleks with his music as an intense sonic beam.
- It's not a "shiver down the spine moment" like "I'm coming to get you" or " Why would I give her my screwdriver?" but it's classic. In "The Fires of Pompeii" the Doctor holds off the attacking alien menace with... a water pistol. At first you think it's just a bluff and he treats it as such, but then you remember that these are lava monsters and actually, that kinda stings. How often do you get a character who can seriously hold off the bad guys with a water pistol?
Donna: You fought her off with a water pistol?! I bloody love you!
- Zoë makes the International Electromatics computer work itself to "death" in The Invasion.
- Ben, Polly and Jamie blasting the Cybermen with various solvents in The Moonbase.
- In The Three Doctors, Two and Three are able to use that recorder in a Xanatos Gambit to get them out of Omega's world.
- In Robot, Sarah Jane delivers a killer ice burn to the Scientific Reform Society.
"I'm sure I can find room for you ... between the flying saucer people and the Flat Earthers."
- Jo Grant gets one in Frontier in Space, when she responds to the Master's attempted hypnotism first by shouting nursery rhymes at him and then by sheer force of will. And she's still so polite about it.
- Jo owns the Master again in "The Time Monster". He's completely failed to hypnotise the Atlantean king and is being led away by guards. His one consolation is that at least he's killed the Doctor. So when the Doctor and Jo show up, he's literally speechless. And Jo prompts him "How about 'Curses! Foiled again!'?"
- The Next Doctor Humongous Mecha trampling Victorian-era London. The Doctor uses the power of good in a hot air balloon to defeat it.
- The Cybermen got one in that episode too.
Miss Hartigan: But you promised me! You said I would never be converted!
- Family of Blood. Let's look at the evidence, shall we? One, John Smith, the Doctor's alternate personality, is brave enough to sacrifice himself for the greater good of a cause he knows next to nothing about (although he probably realized it was the only way to stop the psychotic aliens). Two, having done this he uses Obfuscating Humanity to fool the Family into thinking he's a harmless stupid human, falling over a lot and landing on the buttons in their ship... they REALLY shouldn't have let him press all those buttons. Four, No... wait a minute... Three. Beware The Nice Ones. Four, A Fate Worse Than Death Five, Don't let me eat pears...; that video of debatable canon, never seen in full in the episode, works because it is entirely consistent with what the Doctor would say.
- Midway through his career as the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee put the Doctor Who theme to words in the form of "Who is the Doctor?", spoken more or less in-character. Among other things, the results stand as a powerful challenge to the dominance of the Villain Song.
As fingers move to end mankind, metallic teeth begin to grind
With sword of truth, I turn to fight the satanic powers of the night!
- In The Daleks' Master Plan, Ancient Egyptians stop a Bad Ass Dalek by blocking its way with rocks.
- The Doctor gets his 16th gajillionth CMOA in Planet Of The Dead. Three words: BUS BITCH-SLAP.
- Two more: flying bus. That, and UNIT not playing the Redshirt Army to stingrays with metal shells.
- Queen Victoria got one in "Tooth and Claw" when she pulled a pistol out of her handbag and shot the leader of the monks.
Monk: Oh, I don't think so, woman.
Queen Victoria: The correct form of address is "Your Majesty"! *BANG*
- Pex's Heroic Sacrifice in Paradise Towers.
- Fewsham's sacrificial redemption in The Seeds of Death
"Every word has been heard on Earth."
- The episode The Idiot's Lantern:
The Doctor: "AND I'M NOT LISTENING!"
- Captain Jack Harkness producing a concealed laser pistol while completely naked and destroying the makeover droids.
- Am I the only one giving props to the
Dalek Fred Dalek from the last few minutes of The Stolen Earth? Shooting the Doctor mid-Meadow Run might be horrifying to some, but this troper was busy laughing from the awesome.
- Towards the climax of Spearhead from Space, the villain Channing informs the Third Doctor that he is already too late. The Doctor counters with the inspiring: On this planet, there is a saying that it is never too late.
- Waters of Mars:
The Doctor: It's taken me all these years to realize the laws of time are MINE. AND THEY WILL OBEY ME!
- Also High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
- Also resulting in a Broken Base on whether it's a CMOA for the Doctor or Ruined Forever.
- RTD and Phil Ford subvert the CMOA. That's one in itself.
- From the same episode Adelaide Brooke gets one for calling the Doctor out on what he had done and making him realize that maybe he had gone too far. But then again, maybe not
- After the above, when Adelaide realizes the Doctor won't recognize that he's gone too far, she kills herself to fix the timeline in place. Watching the Doctor's sudden realization of what he just did is very satisfying, after his prior speech.
- You just know that "The End of Time" will be packed with awesome.
- And it is. Part One. That. Last. Scene.
- Two words: Master Race. If anything could top what the Master pulled off in The Sound of Drums, it's that.
- It's also a CMOA for John Simm. If you just read the script you would think 'Wow!', but if you see him? Awesome!
- BTW Whomever wanted him to Grow The Beard up here in this page, I hope you are happy now.
- Lucy Saxon. Yes, that moment: "TILL DEATH DO US PART, HARRY!"
- Especially given the popular fan theory that she was evil and the one behind the Master's resurrection.
- Minnie the Menace groping the Doctor. This Troper fully plans to be that awesome when they are old, hopefully this will include the opportunity to grope David Tennant.
- And in part 2? The Master gets revenge on Rassilon (it's sort of timey wimey. Yay, time war! Rewriting canon since 2005!) for putting the drums in his head. "ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!"
- Even Rassilon himself gets a moment: the Master taunts the Lord President, calling him ancient and decrepit, gloating that he will turn every last one of the Time Lords into a genetic copy of himself. Response? Rassilon undoes the Master's handiwork on the entire human race. With a flick of the wrist. Awesome.
- The Doctor points out a small but significant detail to the Master: "That guard is one inch too tall." *Male Vinvocci cold-cocks the Master with his rifle*
- Quite possibly the best usage of one of Ten's Catch Phrases ever:
Tenth Doctor: There's an old Earth saying, captain. A phrase of great power and wisdom, and consolation to the soul in times of need.
Vinvocci: What's that then?
Tenth Doctor: Allons-y!
- Wilf further cementing his Badass Grandpa status by piloting an anti-missile turret and saving the entire ship.
- "Get out of the way". No, not when the Doctor says it, but when the Master says it.
- Seconded. This Troper cheered the Master... and then cursed him for walking into his own death.
- By this point, the Master needs his own CMOA page.
- The 11th Doctor is born as the Tardis burns around him, laughing joyfully while it's exploding, and a kick-ass guitar riff plays in the background.
And still not ginger! Something else, there's something... important. I'm...I'm...I'm...(explosion knocks him back) CRASHING!!! (laughs) (explosions) GERONIMO!!!
- Prior to that moment, this troper had been on the fence about Matt Smith taking the helm. Now? I'm giddy with anticipation for the next season. Behold, the power of awesome.
- Bear in mind we've just had a massive Tear Jerker so that moment comes across as Mood Whiplash too.
- More still to come in 2010: The Doctor clubbing a Dalek, decking someone with an upper cut, the return of River Song...
- While it's kind of a meta example, consider that Michael Grade was the only BBC controller never to be knighted. Consider that the Queen is a fan of Doctor Who. This troper gladly nominates Her Majesty for a very subtle, but very satisfying, CMOA.
- Back in the 1980s, Sylvester McCoy's era was scheduled against UK soap Coronation Street, and got clobbered, getting some of the lowest ratings in Who's history. Fast forward twenty years: "The End of Time" Part Two was scheduled against Coronation Street, and won (10.4 million to Corrie's 8.6 million on overnights). For those of us who lived through that time, it felt like justice had been done.
- Really, with a show that has run for thirty seasons over forty-five years and counting, contains two CMoA goldmines in the Doctor and the Master, as well as many other characters with more than a few CMoA themselves (Daleks, Davros, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) Doctor Who itself is a Crowning Moment Of Awesome for the BBC.
- I don't think forty-five years can be considered a "moment", perhaps we should just say Crowning *Lifespan* Of Awesome.
- Here, here!
- I respectfully object, but this show is packed to the brim with awesome moments.
- In 2005, accepted wisdom in the British television industry held that the family TV genre was dead. The audience simply wasn't there; families didn't watch TV together anymore. Something like the revived Doctor Who wasn't going to last long.
Doctor Who promptly proceeded to demolish all those assumptions. It regularly got ratings higher than those of most other dramas, its average audience staying stable in defiance of the general TV decline. It was repeatedly acclaimed by public, critics, and TV professionals alike. It quickly established itself as a centrepiece of the BBC's Saturday night schedule, heralding the revival of the family TV genre, and becoming a justification for the BBC's continued existence. Doctor Who became a crowning achievement for the BBC, and for British television in general.
- The Davies/Gardner production team have several CMoAs themselves, including:
- Bringing the show back to be one of the BBC's big hitters.
- Restoring the use of the Cliff Hanger as an art form.
- Using the BBC's rival network ITV to break the news of David Tennant's departure. Seriously, mega-cojones.
- And all of that? Scratching the surface. In effect, what we're talking about is a TV series that if there isn't some sort of CMoA in a story, the story is considered poor. And then there's the books, which give us just as many.
- Case in point: The Dying Days. The last novel by then publisher Virgin Publishing. It's set up as a "anything can happen" novel that will segue into a "Bernice Summerfield Series" (Benny being the main companion of the Virgin era). So when the Doctor seemingly dies (and is thought of as dead by two people who know about regeneration) you think "crap, he's dead". So when three chapters from the end (about fifty pages) a quiet voice whispers "it ends now" to the villain of the piece your blood goes cold and you cannot say anything but "ohh hell YES". Given that said scene goes on to include the lines "the Daleks call me the Bringer of Darkness", "I'm the champion of life and time" "I make history better" and finally "each word louder then the last "I. Am. The. Doctor" and it was,". The Brigadier who's watching this sheds a tear.
- Another case in point: the first Doctor looks and acts like he's 60+ years old (he's actually about 400). So when he's challenged to a kung fu duel in "The Eleventh Tiger" you expect him to come up with something brilliant and avoid the fight. He doesn't. Instead he physics the arrogant thug into submission. He uses his momentum from an attack to flip him onto his back. To prove he's not a one hit wonder, he does it again. THEN when the thug pulls out his "breaks clay jars, and heads are softer then clay jars" kick, the Doctor stands in classic "bring it on" pose and catches the light with his sapphire ring, temporarily blinding the thug. The kick still connects. With the pole the Doctor was standing in front of. All the Doctor did was tilt his head. He then sets about tending the thug's wounds.
Ian and Barbara are stunned into silence. If they weren't paragons of '60s virtue they'd have both said "ohh hell yes".
- Maybe a third case in point: In "The Also People" super-sentient spaceships kilometers wide, made up by forcefields, armed with weapons that overload suns and who think that a picosecond is a long time, are worried about the presence of the Doctor. In fact, they're thinking that it might be wise to sterilise the entire planet just in case. What does the Doctor do?
He goes for tea and biscuits. And sets up his chair in the zero-g environs the ships live in (it can be seen here: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Also_People. He talks to them nicely and they decide either that he's not a threat or that even if he is a threat, it's not wise to cross him. Later in the same book he out thinks a ship, and blows up its higher functions with a small bomb that he kept in his mouth. And whistles "anything you can do, I can do better" all the while.
Bringer of Darkness? Destroyer of Worlds? Oncoming Storm? Pure. Unadultered. Awesome.
- It's not just the books. The comics get in on it as well.
- Take the DWM strips:
- "The Flood". The Eighth Doctor goes full-on angry god against an army of future Cybermen, annihilating them utterly. Then he gives up the chance to achieve communion with the Vortex, becoming one with everything, to save his companion's life.
- Or "Wormwood". Specifically, The Reveal, where Eight reveals just how he's tricked the Ancient Conspiracy that's been screwing him over for the past couple of storyarcs.
- "The Glorious Dead" is a CMoA for the Master. He changes the course of history so his forces end up ruling the Earth for centuries - by taking advantage of the Doctor's earlier meddling, something he's quite happy to point out to the Doctor in the course of a massive put-down. And that's just a distraction from what he's really after.
- "Uninvited Guest": the Seventh Doctor, in full Oncoming Storm mode, takes down a group of Eternals who manipulated a world into destroying itself.
- Or, from IDW's "The Forgotten", the ten Doctors facing off against the Big Bad.
WITH A BASEBALL BAT!
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