History Awesome / DoctorWho

* Back in the 1980s, Sylvester [=McCoy=]'s era was scheduled against UK soap ''CoronationStreet'', 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.

* Incidentally, this is what [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=d7pg6pv9&trope=CrowningMomentOfAwesome inspired the creation]] of the [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of Awesome article]] in the first place.
** Click here to see [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ace_asskickery_motivation_by_Wickedfeylady.jpg the awesome in action.]] Or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYR5lINNrsE here]].

* In the novel ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Illegal-Monster-Collection/dp/1849907579/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402833894&sr=1-1&keywords=illegal+alien+doctor+who Illegal Alien]]'' (originally a PDA), the Seventh Doctor not only manages to ''reprogram'' the Cybermen, but he makes them attack the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] that were storing them. That's right, '''[[CurbStompBattle CYBERMEN. FIGHTING. NAZIS.]]''' Guess who won?
** Bonus points for the Cyberleader taking one look at [[JerkAss Captain]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Hartmann]], throwing him across the room and later shooting him in the face. They also make a [[CoolGuns/MachineGuns MG42 machine gun]] explode by simply grabbing the barrel, heat up a Tiger Tank, destroy all the Nazis and generally be {{Badass}}. To top it all off, unlike what the cover of the Monster Collection edition shows, they're not the "Nightmare in Silver" Cybermen or the Cybus Cybermen - they're Mondasian Cybermen who [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100620164045/tardis/images/f/fd/Cyb_gun1.jpg look]] [[http://www.dbutler22.freeserve.co.uk/dwinv2.jpg like]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Cybermen_6972.jpg this]]. And yet they're [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] [[UncannyValley enough]] to make a [[BreakTheHaughty SS Commander]] [[BringMyBrownPants shit his pants.]]
*** The human characters still have loads of [=CMOAs=], and are all pretty damn {{Badass}}. The most shining examples are, naturally, Ace, who hits a Cyberman hard enough to make a huge dent in one of its "Handles", [[HardboiledDetective Cody McBride]], who attacks the Cybermen with a [[KillItWithFire oxycelatene torch]] and manages to saw off the arm of one of them, Mama the bartender who blasts a Cybermat with a [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter double-barreled shotgun]], Colonel Schott, the WWI veteran who decides to keep on fighting the Cybermen (which he isn't scared of at all) with a [[CoolGuns/{{Handguns}} Luger]] and a Tiger's main gun while the driver is dead and the arrogant SS Commander is busy crapping his pants, and Colonel George Lazonby, who goes down fighting the Cybermen with a [[CoolGuns/MachineGuns Bren Gun.]]
*** The fact that the reprogrammed Cyberleader scans Ace, George Limb and Captain Hartmann, then decides to ignore the other two completely and attack [[JerkAss Hartmann.]] This, and the subsequent attack on the Nazis, can be interpreted as evidence that even the ''Cybermen'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards hate Nazis.]]

* In ''The Gunpowder Plot'', Rory, stuck in orbit around Earth within the Houses of Parliament of 1605, armed with an EMP generator and a [[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK Dennis the Menace]] slingshot, takes out as many Rutans and Sontarans as he can. That's right, two species locked in war for millennia can't take down the Lone Centurian.
** Rory's made more {{Badass}} with this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWb9L5hDdIk&feature=channel_video_title glitch]].

* In the stage show ''Doctor Who Live'', there was one very awesome moment where the Cybermen and the Daleks have a rematch. Only unlike [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday last time]], it's the ''Cybermen'' [[TookALevelInBadAss that got the]] [[CurbStompBattle upper-hand]]. And keep in mind in the context, these Daleks are supposedly a lot more powerful than the ones in "Doomsday" and managed to outwit the Doctor TWICE in a row. Watch the whole battle [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJO7eD-2efg here]]

* Marrying Georgia Moffett. Who is also the daughter of Peter Davison. Tennant married the daughter of the man who inspired him to go into acting in the first place. And thanks to Creator/StevenMoffat, he got to perform with his idol in the role that he wanted to play one day... The Doctor. PromotedFanboy, thy name is Tennant.
** Also a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} that there's such love and devotion between two people.

* To top it off, behold [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaMRyn47Xg&feature=channel&list=UL the Ballad of Russell and Julie]] about Doctor Who's revival, as sung by David Tennant, Catherine Tate and John Barrowman. Epic Awesomeness.

* One of the darker chapters in the show's production history was Creator/TomBaker becoming incredibly difficult to work with in his final season. Recollections abound of him snoring in read-throughs at parts of the script he didn't like, verbally abusing the writers, having numerous shouting matches with co-star and [[RomanceOnTheSet brief-wife-to-be]] Lalla Ward, and caught in the middle of it all was new companion and PromotedFanboy Matthew Waterhouse, watching [[BrokenPedestal the image of his childhood hero shattering violently before his eyes.]] During one of Tom's "acting up and being rude" periods on the last day of filming for "Full Circle," Matthew (in full Adric get-up) finally put his foot down and told him to [[PrecisionFStrike "fuck off."]] And got away with it. And kept Tom quiet (aside from his lines, of course) for the ''whole rest of the studio day.'' The 2010 Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine interview described it as a "coming-of-age moment."
** Though given that this account came from Waterhouse himself and the reactions to his interview from his costars in the next issue (which was basically them gently laughing at him) it's disputable whether this even ever ''happened.''

** Using the BBC's rival network ITV to break the news of David Tennant's departure. Seriously, mega-cojones.
*** Even better, they had no idea it'd even ''work.'' They had a backup plan but they bet their chips that Tennant would win the award and be able to drop the bomb during his acceptance speech.

* Any time a lost episode, episodes, or rarest of all, complete serial that was thought to be junked by the BBC turns up. You've got maybe one very precious remnant of something that's been AWOL from television upwards of ''four decades''. On a feather and a prayer, through one magic discovery, be it in a rubbish bin, a garage sale, a dusty backlot of old celluloid in Hong Kong or Nigeria, or even pure dumb luck, another missing link is completed. And as soon as the film goes digital, it will proliferate the internet, whereupon the episode will be copied by those wishing to market or share the piece of ''Doctor Who'' history- ''countless backups'' from '''''one''''' reel of old weathered film!
** How about finding nine lost episodes, including the ''entirety'' of the long-lost "The Enemy of the World", in 2013? Talk about a 50th anniversary gift.
*** Not to mention the other story they found in near entirety, "The Web of Fear", which features the first ever appearance of beloved companion Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. In fact, he's a Colonel at this point!
*** To put it in perspective as to how amazing these finds are, it's considered very lucky to find even audio of lost episodes, let alone an entire episode. To find this many tapes, containing an ''entire missing story'' and all but ''one'' part of another, is a spectacular find.

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** Bonus points for the Cyberleader taking one look at [[JerkAss Captain]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Hartmann]], throwing him across the room and later shooting him in the face. They also make a [[CoolGuns/MachineGuns MG42 machine gun]] explode by simply grabbing the barrel, heat up a Tiger Tank, destroy all the Nazis and generally be {{Badass}}. To top it all off, unlike what the cover of the Monster Collection edition shows, they're not the "Nightmare in Silver" Cybermen or the Cybus Cybermen - they're Mondasian Cybermen who [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100620164045/tardis/images/f/fd/Cyb_gun1.jpg look]] [[http://www.dbutler22.freeserve.co.uk/dwinv2.jpg like]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Cybermen_6972.jpg this]]. And yet they're [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] [[UncannyValley enough]] to make a [[BreakTheHaughty SS Commander]] [[BringMeMyBrownPants shit his pants.]]

** Click here to see [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ace_asskickery_motivation_by_Wickedfeylady.jpg the awesome in action.]]

* The announcement that Big Finish was ''finally'' allowed to use characters from the New Who, after being forbidden for years from doing so. And who's the first character to be integrated? Kate Stewart, the Brigadier's daughter in her own UNIT spinoff, just like her father before her.
** Wait a sec... Kate isn't actually originally from new Who. She's a CanonImmigrant. Are Big Finish actually able to use anyone else? Like the War, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors and their companions?

* The announcement that Big Finsh was ''finally'' allowed to use characters from the New Who, after being forbidden for years from doing so. And who's the first character to be intergrated? Kate Stewart, the Brigadier's daughter in her own UNIT spinoff, just like her father before her.

[[AC:IDW comics]]
* "The Forgotten": The Ten Doctors facing off against the BigBad. [[http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/mrtonylee/comicpr/doctorwho_twopage.jpg Here you go.]]
* In "The Fugitive" the Draconian, Ogron and Sontaran fleets turning up to defeat the Krillitanes.
* Lau'Tan sacrificing himself to fix the terraforming device by turning into part of it, even though this fuses him in that form. That after he was a villain.
* Matthew Finnegan sacrificing himself to defeat the Advocate.
* Kevin. OK, first off, he is a [[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Kevin_%28When_Worlds_Collide%29 ROBOT. TYRANNOSAURUS. COMPANION.]] And if that wasn't enough by itself, ''then'' he strapped on a pair of prosthetic arms and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punched out Cthulhu]]. [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110930190040/tardis/images/4/4c/Issue_9a.jpg For reals]].
* The Legend of Rory Williams lives on in the IDW ''Doctor Who'' comic book. In "The Doctor and The Nurse", when Amy insisted that a squabbling Doctor and Rory spend some quality male-bonding time together, the Doctor and Rory (who was wearing a tux at the time) ended up in London during TheBlitz, where they saved the life of Creator/IanFleming. Evidently Rory inspired the creation of '''Literature/JamesBond'''!
** And right after that, they mistakenly end up in the Pleistocene and a saber-tooth chases them into the TARDIS. A cornered Rory slaps it in the face with a rolled-up magazine and, to his surprise, ''it runs away mewing like a scared kitten.''

** Creator/JohnHurt being knighted in the 2015 New Year's Honor List, making him the first actor to play the Doctor to recieve that honor.

* Really, with a show that has run for thirty-three seasons over fifty years and counting, contains two [=MoA=] ''goldmines'' in the Doctor and the Master, as well as many other characters with more than a few moments themselves (Daleks, Davros, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) ''Doctor Who'' itself is a Moment of Awesome for TheBBC.

* Awesome/DoctorWhoNewSeries here]].

For Classic Series [=CMOAs=], go [[Awesome/DoctorWhoClassicSeries here]].
For New Series [=CMOAs=], go [[Awesome/DoctorWhoNewSeries here]].
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* In a discussion as to who was the best companion in ''Series/DoctorWho'', 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 technologically-superpowered baseball bat. Because [[BerserkButton it called her "small"]]. In fact, Creator/SophieAldred 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''. ''And she would carve it on her tombstone.'' Sophie, if you're ever going to read this, we encourage you to do just that.
** It's followed up with a nice BigDamnHeroes moment.
** Incidentally, this is what [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=d7pg6pv9&trope=CrowningMomentOfAwesome inspired the creation]] of the [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of Awesome article]] in the first place.
*** Click here to see [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ace_asskickery_motivation_by_Wickedfeylady.jpg the awesome in action.]]
** This also inspired the creation of The Ace Test for the evaluation of the physical badassness of companions. Basically: "can you see this person clobbering a Dalek with a baseball bat?"





[[folder:Expanded Universe]]
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 [=MoA=] in a story, the story is considered poor. And then there's the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, which gives us just as many.

* "The Forgotten": ten Doctors facing off against the BigBad. [[http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/mrtonylee/comicpr/doctorwho_twopage.jpg Here you go.]]

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For other Classic Series [=CMOAs=], go [[Awesome/DoctorWhoClassicSeries here]].

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[[folder:Ninth Doctor]]
[[AC:Rose]]
* This speech from the Ninth Doctor:
-->'''Doctor:''' 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.
* Rose Tyler. She's not an ActionGirl, or not supposed to be one. She SAVES THE WORLD.

%%[[AC:The End of the World]]

%%[[AC:The Unquiet Dead]]

%%[[AC:Aliens of London]]

[[AC:World War Three]]
* Harriet Jones had one in her very first appearance, when the Slitheen were about to go for Rose, she leaps out from her cover yelling 'Take me first!' Obviously the Doctor appears to save them, but it's one of those tiny characterisation moments that really shows you how good she could be.
** She gets another at the end of that episode, when she flat out ''orders'' the Doctor to stop the Slitheen, even though his plan puts them all at risk. Especially impressive is that it's the first time her CatchPhrase is treated as something more serious than a RunningGag.
--->'''Harriet''': Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. Elected by the people, for the people. And on behalf of the people, I command you Doctor. Do it.
** It's subtle here, but it's an awesome moment crossed with a HeartwarmingMoment with some [[FridgeBrilliance Fridge Awesome]] in hindsight. Nine would not have gone against Jackie's wishes, as he personally did not want to be responsible for any harm that would come to her daughter, and Harriet realized he did not want the burden of Rose's blood on his hands, so she, in a Donna Noble "Fires Of Pompeii" moment, ordered him to commence his plan on behalf of the British people by virtue of her being the highest ranking legitimate governing authority present, thus pinning all the blame on herself if everything went wrong. Or, in short, ''she proved she was the perfect politician to be Prime Minister by being willing to take responsibility for her actions, regardless of their consequences.''
* Mickey Smith spends most of his time as second-fiddle, but he's had a couple of [=MoAs=]. Did you realize that he blew up Downing Street with a submarine missile from his flat? When the Master talks about Downing Street being rebuilt? That's because it took the British Government two seasons to get over Mickey.

[[AC:Dalek]]
* The lone Dalek:
-->'''Red Shirt Soldier''': [[TemptingFate What are you going to do, sucker me to death?]]\\
''[the Dalek immediately crushes his skull with its plunger]''
* The Dalek's 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 CatchPhrase ''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''.
* The iconic scene where the Dalek kills all the "Daleks cannot handle stairs" jokes with one word:
-->'''Dalek:''' ELEVATE!
* 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.)
* The moment it meets [[CorruptCorporateExecutive 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!
* The Dalek 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:
-->'''Dalek:''' The Daleks survive in MEEEEEEE!

[[AC:The Long Game]]
* The Doctor revokes Adam's companion status after he nearly changed history.

%%[[AC:Father's Day]]

[[AC:The Empty Child]]
* The Doctor turns up for dinner. ("Thanks miss!")
* A doctor in at least his sixties, being the last person left in Albion Hospital who has not succumbed to the Empty Child virus, Dr Constantine stays there to look after his patients, fully knowing there is absolutely nothing he can do for them and risking almost certain zombification which happens shortly after he is introduced.
--> '''Dr Constantine''': Before this war began I was a father and a grandfather. Now I'm neither, but I'm still a doctor.

[[AC:The Doctor Dances]]
* The Doctor tells the child to "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:
-->'''The Doctor''': Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, ''EverybodyLives''!
* Captain Jack Harkness. Firstly, 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.
** It also is a subtle EstablishingCharacterMoment. Jack mentions earlier on he's worried that the part of his life he's missing may be clues he was a horrible person, and he seriously fears that may be the case, so when the Doctor got him to stop that bomb, it also counts as a CMOA for the Doctor in not only giving Jack a chance to make sure an act of unquestioned moral virtue is forever a part of his personal history, but it's a CMOA for Jack later on, as he found his own actions would kill him 100% that he decided not to curse the Doctor for what happened, but instead decided to allow himself to die with a good deed as his last living act, proving that whatever person he was during those missing two years of his life, he's ultimately a heroic person. And thanks to Rose, his RedemptionEarnsLife.
* Nancy verbally bitch-slapping the guy whose house she broke into. "Oh look, there's the sweat on your brow."
** "I. Am. Your. Mummy."

[[AC:Boom Town]]
* When the Doctor takes Blon Slitheen out to dinner while the TARDIS refuels, she slips poison into his drink while he's gone. When he comes back, the first thing he does upon sitting down is switch cups. Then she shoots a poisonous dart out of her finger - only for the Doctor to catch it in mid-air without even looking up. Then she leans in close, about to breathe poison on him... and he squirts some mouthwash into her mouth.
* The TARDIS literally rewrites an alien's biology so she can become a child again, and have a second lease on life. That's pretty cool.

[[AC:Bad Wolf]]
* The Daleks have Rose, and have called the Doctor to gloat and demand his surrender.
-->'''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.
** What really sells this moment is the Daleks' reaction: the Doctor's speech really ''does'' scare them to death, as they immediately scramble their troops for an attack.
** 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 [[FateWorseThanDeath 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, the final third of "Bad Wolf" is certainly an MOA 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 OhCrap look when he realises that there are half a million Daleks on Earth's doorstep.
* The Controller emulating the similarly named character from "Day of the Daleks"' betrayal and bringing the Daleks' downfall.
* Captain Jack Harkness producing a concealed laser pistol ''[[AssPull while completely naked]]'' and destroying the makeover droids.
** And then a little after when he figures out the Daleks' plan:
--->'''Jack:''' Doctor, ''Rose is still alive!''

[[AC:The Parting of the Ways]]
* ''Everything'' the Doctor says.
-->'''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?\\
--\\
'''Doctor:''' 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!''"
** And the Daleks back away! Awesome.
--->'''Doctor:''' You were fantastic, absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I.
*** Nice bookend to how the Doctor introduced himself to her. "Nice to meet you, Rose. [holds up explosive with a half-badass, half-nuts (read: 100%-Doctor) grin] '''''Run for your life!'''''"
* Whereas the Tenth Doctor claimed that wielding the power of the Time Vortex would turn a Time Lord into a vengeful God, the Ninth Doctor absorbed all of it to save Rose... and then he ''let it go''.
* Jack's death (for the first time, anyway). After fighting down to his last bullet, he coolly stands and faces a troop of Daleks, holding out his arms ready for the attack:
-->'''Dalek:''' EXTERMINATE!\\
'''Jack:''' [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner I kind of figured that]].
* Just after Mickey's mini car fails to break open the TARDIS, Jackie arrives with a large tow-truck to help.
* When Rose becomes [[PhysicalGod 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."
** Rose's speech to Jackie and Mickey back on Earth.
--->'''Rose:''' 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...
* 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 KickTheDog 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 MoA: when they can't break into the observation deck to kill Lynda, they instead 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. Hell, they probably ''could'' have gotten in given time, but decided to stealthily do it the fast way just to screw with her before they killed her.
* The Doctor says goodbye to Rose through a pre-recorded hologram which at the end ''turns and looks directly at her'' to say goodbye.

[[folder:Tenth Doctor]]
[[AC:The Christmas Invasion]]
* The Tenth 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 wanna know the best bit? This new hand... it's a ''fightin''' hand!"
** "[[PowerWalk No second chances. I'm that sort of a man.]]"
** The Doctor gets a moment of awesome even ''before'' the above notes; earlier in the episode, Rose realizes she can't understand the Sycorax despite the translating properties of the TARDIS, concluding that this is because the Doctor is unconscious. Later, we find Rose, Harriet Jones, and a man translating the Sycorax language with a device, about to be killed. The Sycorax leader is boasting in his language...then, he starts speaking English. Rose realizes that the TARDIS is translating again...cue the Doctor [[HesBack exiting the TARDIS]]. He doesn't do it dramatically, he doesn't start fighting right away, he just steps out of the TARDIS casually. And it is awesome.
--->'''The Doctor:''' Now... first things first. How do I look?\\
'''Rose:''' Um...different.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Good different or bad different?\\
'''Rose:''' Just... different.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Am I... ginger?\\
'''Rose:''' No, you're just sort of... brown.\\
'''The Doctor:''' [[MemeticMutation Aww, I wanted to be ginger! I've never been ginger.]]

[[AC:New Earth]]
* The Tenth Doctor puts himself in perspective for some Sisters.
-->'''Sister:''' And who are you to decide that?\\
'''The Doctor:''' I'm the Doctor! And if you don't like it, you want to take it to a higher authority, there isn't one, it stops with me!
* The Doctor stops an epidemic by turning walking plagues into walking cures!
-->'''The Doctor''': I am the Doctor and I have ''cured'' you!

[[AC:Tooth and Claw]]
* Queen Victoria gets one when she pulls a pistol out of her handbag and shoots the leader of the monks.
-->'''Monk:''' Oh, I don't think so, woman.\\
'''Queen Victoria:''' The correct form of address is "Your Majesty!" ''[BANG]''

[[AC:School Reunion]]
* K9 Mark III's HeroicSacrifice: "You bad dog!" "Affirmative." Even more awesome because K9, as always, sounds so damn ''smug.''
** The tiny dog taking down all those Krillitanes almost single-handedly.
** "We are in a car."

[[AC:The Girl in the Fireplace]]
* This line:
-->'''Reinette:''' What do monsters have nightmares about?\\
'''Doctor''' Me!
** The above line is right after... well, TelevisionWithoutPity said it best: "He totally beat up the ''literal monster under her literal bed.''" Even better: he says it '''while''' beating up the Droid.
* The Doctor leaving through the rotating fireplace and telling a stunned courtier:
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm the Doctor--and I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!
* The Doctor pretending to be ten sheets to the wind so he can get close enough to a clockwork robot to destroy it.
-->[[spoiler:'''Clockwork Droid''': She is compatible.]] \\
[[spoiler:'''The Doctor''': Compatible? If you believe that... you probably believe this is a glass of wine.]]\\
[[spoiler:''[pours said glass over the top of its head]'']]
* The Doctor rides a horse through a mirror, then there's the following exchange when he's introduced to Louis XV.
-->'''Reinette:'''Oh, this is my lover, the King of France.\\
'''Doctor:''' Yeah, well, I'm the Lord of Time.
* Reinette telling the entire Royal Court of Versailles to get ahold of themselves, while facing down unstoppable killer clockwork robots:
-->'''Reinette''': Would everyone just please calm down. Such a commotion, such distressing noise! [[DareToBeBadass 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.
** That's right, CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys was [[InvertedTrope inverted]]. Because never forget, popular opinion about 20th century France aside, in the 18th Century, France was one of ''the'' most important and powerful nations in the world.

[[AC:Rise of the Cybermen]]
* The fact that as soon as the Doctor realizes what's going on, he's scared. Really scared. His frantic screaming of "We surrender!" over and over again helps.

[[AC:The Age of Steel]]
* It almost seems wasted on someone so evil, but when Mr. Crane rips out his [=EarBuds=] ("Oh, no you ''don't!''") as Lumic tries to seize control, makes his way into his boss's central chamber, and mortally injures Lumic before the Cybermen restrain and "delete" him... you've got to admit that that was impressive.

[[AC:The Idiot's Lantern]]
* Where Ten and Rose are just [[BavarianFireDrill dancing verbal circles]] around the assholic Eddie.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Hold a minute. You've got hands, Mr. Connolly. Two big hands! Why is that your wife's job?\\
'''Connolly:''' It's housework, innit?\\
'''The Doctor:''' And that's a woman's job?\\
'''Connolly:''' Of course it is!\\
'''The Doctor:''' Mr. Connolly, what gender is the Queen?\\
'''Connolly:''' ''[uncomfortable]'' She's a female.\\
'''The Doctor:''' And are you suggesting the Queen does the housework?\\
'''Connolly:''' No, not at all!\\
'''The Doctor:''' Then get busy.
** And, when he catches on to what they're doing, he tries to reinstate his supposed authority over them, only for the Doctor to show that not everybody is as easily bullied.
-->'''Connolly:''' "Hold on a minute. Queen and country's one thing, but this is my house! What the... What the hell am I doing? Now you listen here, Doctor. You may have fancy qualifications, but what goes on under my roof is my business."\\
'''The Doctor:''' "Not if people are being abducted--"\\
'''Connolly:''' " I am talking!"\\
'''The Doctor:''' "'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFIZqSTWgwg And I'm ''not'' listening!]]'''"
* The speech he gives after he finds out [[TheFaceless what The Wire did to Rose]]:
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[TranquilFury They did what?]]\\
'''Bishop:''' I'm sorry?\\
'''The Doctor:''' They left her where? \\
'''Bishop:''' Just... in the street. \\
'''The Doctor:''' The street. They left her in the street. They took her face, and just chucked her out and left her in the street. And as a result, that makes things... simple. Very very simple. Do you know why?\\
'''Bishop:''' No. \\
'''The Doctor:''' Because ''now'', Detective Inspector Bishop, [[ThisMeansWar there is no power on this]] ''[[ThisMeansWar Earth]]'' [[ThisMeansWar that can stop me!]]
* Tommy CallingTheOldManOut on his betrayal and hypocrisy, followed by his wife joining in, slamming the door in his face, and then telling her relatives that "something has ended," implying she's going to divorce him. After seeing how cowed they were, it took a lot of guts to do that.

[[AC:The Impossible Planet]]
* The Beast. Seriously, this character just oozes with EvilIsCool and his entire stick of messing with crew psychologically just shows how powerful words can be.

[[AC:The Satan Pit]]
* Rose and the Doctor ''kill {{Satan}}'' (or at least a being with a good claim to inspiring the legend). By dropping it down a black hole.
-->'''Rose:''' Go to Hell.
* The speech the Doctor gives just before he does was pretty awesome too.
-->'''The Doctor:''' So that's the trap, the great test, the final judgement, I dunno. But if I kill you, I kill her. But that implies, in this big grand scheme of gods and devils, that she's just a victim. Well, I've seen a lot of this universe. I've seen fake gods and bad gods and demi-gods and would-be gods. I've had the whole pantheon. But if I believe in one thing... just one thing... I believe in her!
** He's BadassBoast as the planet is falling into the Black Hole deserves a mention too.
-->'''The Doctor:''' This is your freedom. Free to die! You're going into that black hole and I'm riding with you!
* Mr. Jefferson's HeroicSacrifice, taking out the pursuing Ood with his guns and then accepting his fate with the knowledge he bought the others some time. He then asks the Captain the increase the speed of the oxygen removal so he can die from oxygen starvation rather than be lapelled as "death by Ood".

[[AC:Love & Monsters]]
* The Doctor did not have to save the day. LINDA defeated the MonsterOfTheWeek by the themselves. That's impressive by any standards. Special mention should go to Ursula, who discovered how to kill it and implemented ThePlan to do so.
%%[[AC:Fear Her]]

[[AC:Army of Ghosts]]
* 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.

[[AC:Doomsday]]
* "Doomsday" may have had more than a few Dalek Moments of Awesome, but the Cybermen also get to verbally own the Daleks in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBSOhODoch0 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.
** [[http://9gag.com/gag/a44znwv The Daleks get vengeance]] (at 2:53 in the above video):
--->'''Cyber Leader''': Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen.\\
'''Dalek Sec''': This is not ''war''. [[ThisIsPestControl This is]] ''[[ThisIsPestControl pest control!]]'' \\
'''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''.
** Just a minute later, Rose points out to the Daleks why the Doctor owns them both.
--->'''Rose''': Five million Cybermen? Easy. One Doctor? ''Now'' you're scared.
* Yvonne Hartman: Even after being "upgraded" to Cyberman, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v-cETfhO5g she still defends Queen and Country]].
--->'''Yvonne:''' [[AC: You will not pass.]]\\
'''Cyberman:''' [[AC: What is the meaning of this?]]\\
'''Yvonne:''' [[AC: ''You will not pass.'']]

%%[[AC:The Runaway Bride]]

%%[[AC:Smith and Jones]]

[[AC:The Shakespeare Code]]
* Shakespeare completely OWNS the Carrionites, with words.
** One word- ''[[Literature/HarryPotter Expelliarmus!]]''
* That moment at the end where Will figures out, all on his own, that the Doctor is an alien and Martha is a time traveler from the future. Oh, and the psychic paper not working on him because he's just ''that brilliant.''

%%[[AC:Gridlock]]

%%[[AC:Daleks in Manhattan]]

%%[[AC:Evolution of the Daleks]]

[[AC:The Lazarus Experiment]]
* The Doctor turning his sonic screwdriver UpToEleven and inserting it into a pipe organ in order to stop the Lazarus monster. It's a lot better than it sounds.

%%[[AC:42]]

[[AC:Human Nature / The Family of Blood]]
* The denouement of "The 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 [[FateWorseThanDeath what he'd do to the Family]]''.
--> '''Son of Mine''': He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing - the fury of the Time Lord - and then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he had run away from us and hidden. He was being kind. He wrapped my father in unbreakable chains forged in the heart of a dwarf star. He tricked my mother into the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy to be imprisoned there, forever. He still visits my sister, once a year, every year. I wonder if one day he might forgive her, but there she is. Can you see? He trapped her inside a mirror. Every mirror. If ever you look at your reflection and see something move behind you just for a second, that's her. That's always her. As for me, I was suspended in time and the Doctor put me to work standing over the fields of England, as their protector. We wanted to live forever. So the Doctor made sure we did.
* The Doctor's ultimate MOA came near the end, when he reveals himself as the Doctor, and blows the Family's ship up.
-->'''Doctor''': 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!
* When the Doctor is all "come with me" towards Joan, she calls him on the way death and destruction follows in his wake. "If you hadn't come here, never chosen this place, on a whim. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Would anyone have died?]]" Instead of being oh so dazzled by his awesomeness, she spoke up for the people who get left behind (like Harriet Jones tried to before). It's fine that he was trying to be kind to the Family of Blood and all, but by saving them (rather than just giving them a quick death and being done with it) how many more people ended up dead?
* 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).
** John Smith raises a rifle, looks down the sights... Then realizes he can't do it. The Doctor is THAT opposed to using guns that he won't use them, even when he can't remember who he is!
** John Smith instinctively grabbing a cricket ball and bowling it, thus causing a chain reaction which ''prevents'' a mother and her child from being killed by a falling piano. Whereas this sort of thing would be easy to the Doctor with his Time Lord senses, keep in mind he's still meant to be biologically ''human'' at this point! Whatever the species, the Doctor cannot help being a [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Hero!]]
* When told black women will never be doctors, Martha proceeds to list every bone in the human hand. Surely an MOA for Creator/FreemaAgyeman simply for being able to do that, let alone Martha totally owning the stuffy matron. Not to mention the StealthPun: Martha knows human anatomy like the back of her hand.
* Son of Mine with his grand BreakingSpeech against the headmaster.
-->'''Son:''' What do you know of history sir? What do you know of next year? 1914 sir! Because the Family has traveled far and wide looking for Mr. Smith and, oh, the things we have seen. War is coming. In foreign fields, war of the whole, wide world, with all your boys falling down in the mud. ''Do you think they will thank the man who taught them it was glorious?
** And the headmaster gets his own in turn; true, it's a remarkably bloodthirsty little statement for one of the allies, but you've got to give the man credit for not flinching in the face of someone as creepy as Baines:
--->'''Headmaster:''' You forget boy, I was in South Africa; I used my dead mates for sand bags, I fought with my gun when the bullets ran out, and I would go back tomorrow for King and Country!
** And Baines/Son Of Mine quite literally shoots this rebuttal down by shooting Phillips dead and sending the headmaster scurrying for cover.
*** Hell, Son of Mine in general is a [=CMoA=] for the ''[[HeReallyCanAct actor]].''
** Lucy Cartwright/Daughter of Mine casually entering the barricaded schoolyard, disintegating the headmaster, and ''daring'' the boy soldiers to shoot her.

[[AC:Blink]]
* This 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.
* Sally chastises the Doctor and forces him to explain the situation to her. He is visibly taken aback.
-->'''Sally''': How?! How is this possible? Tell me!\\
'''Doctor''': People don't understand time, it's not what you think it is.\\
'''Sally''': Then what is it?\\
'''Doctor''': Complicated.\\
'''Sally''': Tell me.\\
'''Doctor''': ''Very'' complicated.\\
'''Sally''': ...I'm clever, and I'm listening, and don't patronize me because people have died and I'm not happy. ''Tell me''.
** Still taken aback, it should be noted, even though he's in 1969 and reading her side of the conversation from an ''autocue''.

[[AC:Utopia]]
* Jack's reintroduction, holding onto the edge of the TARDIS, through the Time Vortex, while it desperately tries to shake it off. This is awesome for two reasons; Firstly because exposure to the Time Vortex is ''lethal'' to damn near everything else, but secondly because the TARDIS travels right through to the end of the universe before it's finally forced to land. In other words, the TARDIS ran out of ''universe'' to go through, before Jack was willing to let go. Perhaps this may be part of the reason the TARDIS later seems more willing to permit Jack onboard, since this act showed a ''ton'' of loyalty towards the Doctor, in that Jack would risk being killed or stranded anywhere rather than lose his chance to see the Doctor again.
* The exchange after the Master opened his Chameleon Arch and remembered who he was.
--> '''Chantho:''' [[VerbalTic Chan,]] [[MeaningfulName Professor Yana,]] [[VerbalTic tho?]]\\
'''Professor Yana:''' THAT IS NOT MY NAME! "The Professor" was an invention. So perfect a disguise that I forgot who I am.\\
'''Chantho:''' Chan, Then who are you, tho?\\
'''Professor Yana:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I. Am. The MASTER!]] ''(electrocutes Chantho)''
** And of course, rather than just die like a proper RedShirt, Chantho [[LastBreathBullet still manages to shoot the Master]]. That'd be the end of it, if it weren't for him being The Master and regenerating.
** Much of this was made possible by some excellent acting on the part of Creator/DerekJacobi. Particularly when, after having his memory restored, Yana's vocal cadence shifted slightly; some of Jacobi's line readings ("Not to worry, my dear. As one door closes, another must surely open") sounded just a bit like Anthony Ainley.
* The entire last 12 minutes.
** More specifically, there's this conversation:
--->'''The Master''': Why don't we [[JustBetweenYouAndMe stop and have a nice little chat]] while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me, [[GenreSavvy I]] ''[[GenreSavvy don't]]'' [[GenreSavvy think]]!\\
'''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''.
*** All capped off with some ''awesome'' parting words:
---->'''The Master''': End of the universe! HAVE FUN!!! Bye bye! ''[leaves in the TARDIS]''
**** A line made all the more awesome by John Simm's perfectly manic delivery.

%%[[AC:The Sound of Drums]]

[[AC:Last of the Time Lords]]
* The Master 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 mum, 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.
---> [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcSZ7gr-Eso Oooh I can't decide / Whether you should live or die... / You'll probably go to heaven / please don't hang your head and cry...]]
** The lyrics take on a whole new meaning when you consider that the song is being broadcast to ''everyone on the Earth.''
** Then, of course, the Doctor to the Master, while glowing and floating towards the Master, invincible and unstoppable.
--->'''The Doctor:''' Tell me the human race is degenerate ''now''. When they can do ''this''. [[CatchPhrase I'm sorry. I'm]] ''[[CatchPhrase so]]'' [[CatchPhrase sorry.]] Because you ''know'' what happens next.
** Which turns into a combined TearJerker and SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.
--->'''The Doctor''': I forgive you.
* Jack spending an entire year enduring being repeatedly tortured to death by the Master and ''still'' not breaking.
* Martha's Moment of Awesome has to be when, after two episodes of effortlessly 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.
-->'''Martha:''' A gun? A gun in four parts? [[DidYouActuallyBelieve You]] ''[[DidYouActuallyBelieve really]]'' [[DidYouActuallyBelieve believed that?]]
** And ''then'', she [[BatmanGambit 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''. Creator/NeilGaiman must love that.
** To be fair, though the U.S. President displayed some jackass-ish behavior (understandable since he's dealing with ''The Master''), he stood up to The Master more than anyone else before his death and refused to tolerate the man's bullshit. The fact that he seemed immune to The Master's mental manipulation is another mark in his favor.
* Off-screen, during the Year that Never Was, Martha did such deeds as going to Shipyard #1 in Russia, walking across radiation pits in Europe, being the only person to leave the burning islands of Japan alive, getting her hands on a disk telling exactly how to kill a Toclafane, and finding the parts for a fake gun. And her only defense? A low-level perception filter, that doesn't even really hide her.
* Martha spent a long while being treated as or feeling inferior, even without "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood", but she still stayed strong and in the end, she realised she was ''not'' inferior, neither to Rose nor the Doctor, and left.
-->'''Martha:''' So this is me, getting out.
* Tom Milligan's attempt at a HeroicSacrifice with his pistol, even though he knew that both the Toclafane and the Master were [[NighInvulnerable invulnerable]] to bullets, to try and save Martha, a woman that he's known less than a day...in a word, awesome.
* 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!"
* A Meta version: Martha for being the only main companion of the new series to leave on her own terms.

%%[[AC:Time Crash]]

[[AC:Voyage of the Damned]]
* When they demand to know who he is.
-->'''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?
* The Doctor striding forwards, holding out his hands and being lifted up through the ship by a pair of angels. Say what you want about the inclusion of religious imagery and portraying the Doctor as MessianicArchetype, but that moment is soberingly ''awesome'' to watch.
* The Doctor pulling the Titanic up in the nick of time and missing Buckingham Palace by literally ''inches''.
** 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 Tuesday.
* It's incredibly minor, but after a couple who won tickets onboard the ship fall for [[ItsACostumePartyISwear a prank]], the Doctor soaks the snobs who pranked them in their own champagne.
* Music/KylieMinogue and a forklift truck. [[PreAssKickingOneLiner "Mr. Capricorn... I resign."]]
* Bannakaffalatta (the little red guy) taking down the Host with an EMP.
-->'''Bannakaffalatta:''' Bannakaffalatta PROUD! Bannakaffalatta CYBORG!
* Wilf coming out of his stall to shake his fist at the sky. This is the man who, when the entirety of London ran in fear of the invasions of years past, stayed in his stall to mock any aliens who might try it this year. Did we mention this is ''his first appearance ever?'' When the Doctor takes a passenger from the starship Titanic ([[StarshipTitanic not that one]]) to Earth and finds London deserted at Christmas, there's a lone old man running a newsstand who tells him that everyone else cleared out because [[GenreSavvy nasty things happen to London every Christmas]]. But ''he'' wasn't letting any invaders scare him away, no! And he only gets more awesome from there.

%%[[AC:Partners in Crime]]

[[AC: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!
* Donna convinces the Doctor, after being forced into a horrible SadisticChoice (Pompeii or the world) to go back. Bonus points because she motivates him to save ''an entire family'' from Vesuvius.
--> '''Donna:''' Please. Not the whole town... just save someone.
* When she realizes that the Doctor has to pull the lever and destroy Pompeii, what does Donna do? She doesn't just support him in his decision; even better, she ''pulls the lever WITH him.'' She shoulders the guilt of killing hundreds of people ''with'' him.

%%[[AC:Planet of the Ood]]

[[AC:The Sontaran Strategem]]
* The Doctor defeating the enemy ''commander'', no less, with ''applied squash''.
* Stahl gets a minor one after this, instantly repairing the damage the Doctor inflicted on the teleport system, and dismissing the [[SwissArmyWeapon sonic screwdriver]] as 'primitive'.
* Donna gets to come into her own thanks to her experience as a "supertemp" and wring a salute out of the ranking UNIT officer present.

[[AC:The Poison Sky]]
* Three words: Sky. On. [[IncendiaryExponent Fire]].
* The Tenth Doctor doesn't just [[DoesNotLikeGuns not like guns]], he has a ''[[GeorgeCarlin psychotic fucking HATRED]]'' of them, and it only builds through out the two parter to the point that by the end when Luke points one at him, [[UnflinchingWalk he just bitchslaps the gun out of his hand without breaking stride!]]
* Col. Mace leads UNIT in a truly ''awesome'' attack on the Sontarans.
** [[ScrewYouElves "Thank you, Doctor. Thank you so much for your lack of faith, but this time I'm not listening."]]
** Mace again: "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."
** Mace, right before introducing two bullets to a Sontaran's head:
--->'''Mace:''' You will face me, sir!
*** Keep in mind that Sontarans are at a disadvantage when their back is turned. He [[WillfullyWeak willingly]] gives up his advantage ''and still wins''. {{Badass}}.
* Donna Noble knocking out a Sontaran. "Back of the neck!"
* The entire last 15 minutes of "The Poison Sky" for the whole of UNIT, after 40+ years of playing the RedshirtArmy they finally get to kick some Sontaran arse.
** The ''Valiant'' on the start of the attack run. Even the Doctor is impressed.
* Rattigan's final "Sontar-HA!"

[[AC: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 TechnicalPacifist he is, he doesn't shoot, but what he tells Cobb and the rest of the colonist descendants is definitely a MoA-worthy speech.
-->'''Doctor:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I. Never. Would.]]
** When Jenny returns from the dead:
--->'''Jenny:''' What are you going to do? Tell my dad?
* Jenny making it through the beams via epic gymnastic skills.
* Delivered after relocating the shoulder of a Hath soldier under gunpoint:
-->'''Martha:''' Now then, I'm Dr. Martha Jones. Who the hell are you?"
** Martha is completely unfazed by the radioactive surface of the planet, and convinces her Hath friend to accompany her across.

%%[[AC:The Unicorn and the Wasp]]

%%[[AC:Silence in the Library]]

[[AC: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.
-->'''Doctor:''' 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 Moment of His-Awesomeness-Precedes-Him, that one!
* The Tenth Doctor then finds out that armies will all but flee in his wake, learns that he will build an improved sonic screwdriver in the future (with optional body pattern imprint capability), saves the life of River Song by plugging her pattern into the planet's computer (keeping her alive for all time), then ''learns to open the TARDIS doors with the snap of his fingers''. Epic.
-->'''Doctor''': Why? Why would I give her my screwdriver? Why would I do that? Thing is, future me had those years to think about it. All those years to think of a way to save her, and all he did was give her a screwdriver! Why would I do that?! ''[pops the lid and realizes what he can do as the SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic reaches a crescendo]'' [[RepeatCut Oh.]] ''[[RepeatCut Oh]]''! '''[[RepeatCut OH!]] LOOK AT THAT!!! I'M VERY GOOD!!!'''\\
'''Donna''': What have you done?\\
'''Doctor''': Saved her. ''[starts running]''
** This could also count as a MOA for the Eleventh Doctor (''[[TimeyWimeyBall even before he appeared]]'', as he uses the screwdriver that was later modified and given to River, so it was probably him doing the modifying (and devising the rescue-plan that goes with it).

[[AC:Midnight]]
* The unnamed stewardess saving The Doctor and killing the alien, that is all.

[[AC:Turn Left]]
* Despite the fact that "Turn Left" is basically a TearJerker incarnate mixed with some terror for kicks, the entire extended cast gets at least one even if it's usually the death of them in the alternate timeline. The Doctor gets one in absence for being the one who inspired most of them.
* Donna finally going through with Rose's [[HeroicSacrifice plan]] at the end of "Turn Left".

[[AC:The Stolen Earth]]
* Gwen and Ianto:
-->'''Ianto:''' ''[after being handed a gun by Gwen]'' Those don't work against Daleks.\\
'''Gwen:''' Yeah? I'm going out fighting. [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Like Owen. Like Tosh.]] How about you?\\
'''Ianto:''' Yes ma'am.
** Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister, gets hers 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.
* Martha being ''genuinely happy'' the Doctor found Rose, despite her previous annoyance of her name. (well-earned, really, as Rose was a large part of ''why'' Martha was constantly put down by the Doctor and constantly made to feel inferior? Heartwarming AND Awesome.
* Rose's first appearance in "The Stolen Earth": following scenes with every other surviving major character of both the series itself and its two spinoffs, Rose teleports into the middle of the street with a huge gun. Then her UnflinchingWalk a bit later on. The latter is even more impressive since let's face it, if before this episode you were to figure what characters on the show would be able to pull off the UnflinchingWalk, Rose would probably be pretty low on the list.
** Once the Earth is taken by the Daleks, Rose walks past a shop being looted by two goons. She points the gun at them and orders them to leave with the classic line "Do you like my gun?"
* [[FanNickname Dalek Fred]], the Dalek from the last few minutes of "The Stolen Earth" ''shoots the Doctor'' mid-MeadowRun.
[[AC:Journey's End]]
* The [[TooCoolToLive Doctor]]-[[ScienceHero Donna]]. Seriously, watching her gleefully dismantle Davros's entire plan within the span of one minute is possibly the biggest joy of watching "Journey's End".
* Martha 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.
* Sarah Jane's speech to Davros is one of the best "surrender now to keep your ass intact, good sir" speeches ever.
* 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 [[ContinuityNod nod]] to it.
* 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."
* One belongs to none other than Dalek Caan:
-->'''Caan:''' I saw the Daleks, what we have done throughout time and space. I saw the truth of us, creator, and I decreed: ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis No! More!]]''
** Made even more awesome when you realize Dalek Caan was actually appropriating the War Doctor's catchphrase.
* Davros' magnificent BreakingLecture to the Doctor, hurting him as he has never been hurt, destroying the foundation of his entire life and morality and all with a single speech:
-->'''Davros''': The man who abhors violence, never carrying a gun, but this is the truth, Doctor: you take ordinary people and you fashion them into weapons... behold your Children of Time, transformed into murderers. I made the Daleks, Doctor, you made this.\\
'''The Doctor''': I'm trying to help.\\
'''Davros''': Already I have seen them sacrificed today, for their beloved Doctor. The Earth woman who fell opening the Sub Wave Network.\\
'''The Doctor''': Who was that?\\
'''Rose Tyler''': Harriet Jones. She gave her life to get you here.\\
''[flashback of Harriet Jones]''\\
'''Davros''': How many more? Just think, how many have died in your name?\\
''[more flashbacks of the people who have died helping the Doctor]''\\
'''Davros''': The Doctor, the man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not, out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor. I have shown you yourself.
** What makes the above speech all the more awesome is that it continues to be vindicated long after this episode, and its message even [[CallBack becomes a key plot point]] in the Eleventh Doctor's run, to the point where it almost seems to be have been foreshadowing. Especially since the Doctor himself seems to be aware of this.
* Davros' ultimate [=MoA=] must come when he unveils what the [[spoiler: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!
** The best thing was that this was exactly what he and the Doctor had talked about 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 CriticalExistenceFailure 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.
** 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 the ''laugh.'' Dear god, the laugh had the potential to be cheesy but given all his character and backstory it was genuinely frightening to see the madman that close to achieving all his goals. Also awesome for Julian Bleach for pulling it off so effectively...
* After every stolen planet is returned to its rightful place in the universe, The Doctor and company notice Earth is still floating aimlessly in the Medusa Cascade and know that just won't do. So how do they get it back home? After what seems like just another wave of {{Technobabble}}, we are introduced to perhaps the single most [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome beautiful]], [[CrazyAwesome insane]], [[BeyondTheImpossible over-the-top]] two minutes in the history of science fiction: A [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot time-and-space traveling Police Box]] ''towing'' Planet Earth back to Sol at light speed. And just to rub in the glory of what you're seeing for all its worth, it cuts between the so-called Children of Time piloting the TARDIS looking positively ecstatic as they move Earth back home and their own allies on Earth, either having a ball or freaking out at the mild earthquakes their transport is causing. All to the tune of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akb2hyw1aNg The Song of Freedom]]. In 50+ years of Who, there has never been a so many moments of Awesome, Heartwarming, and arguably a TearJerker ([[TearsOfJoy in a good way]]) crammed into the same two minutes, and perhaps there never will be again.

[[AC:The Next Doctor]]
* HumongousMecha trampling Victorian-era London. The Doctor counters this, by borrowing the Next Doctor's TARDIS... a hot air balloon. You have to admit, that takes balls.
* The eponymous "Next Doctor" suffering from mental trauma from finding out he's ''not'' the Doctor, that the Cybermen killed his wife ''(and did something else he can't remember)'', he straps on a bandoleer of fancy thumbdrives (called 'infostamps') and charges into battle, using them to destroy the Cybermen and rescue the Doctor. Sweet Jesus, for someone who wasn't the Doctor, Lake really is a massively awesome BadassNormal.
* Jackson Lake leading the crowd in cheering the Tenth Doctor after he saves the day.
* The scene after they first encounter Miss Hartigan. The two Doctors turn to run. Rosita ''decks her in the face.'' The Doctor's impressed, but can't admit it:
-->'''Doctor:''' Can I just say... I completely disapprove!
* This exchange with Miss Hartigan and the Cybermen:
-->'''Miss Hartigan:''' But you promised me! You said I would never be converted!\\
'''Cyberleader:''' [ILied That was designated: A lie]].
** Miss Hartigan gets one back on the Cybermen when it turns her mind is too strong to be upgraded and she promptly takes over the entire Cyberman operation with her willpower.
* The scene at the funeral where the Cybermen are killing ''everyone'', and Miss Hartigan is [[DissonantSerenity just standing there and watching serenely]]. It also helps that it's ''amazingly'' shot, and the Cybermen looming out at their victims through the [[SnowMeansDeath falling snow]].

[[AC:Planet of the Dead]]
* Three words: ''BUS BITCH-SLAP.'' Two more: flying bus.
* UNIT not playing the RedshirtArmy to stingrays with metal shells.

[[AC:The Waters of Mars]]
* The Doctor comes back to save the outpost.
-->'''The Doctor''': It's taken me all these years to realize the laws of time are MINE. AND THEY WILL OBEY ME!
** And he would have gotten away with it too, if not for his previous lecturing. Also, 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 [[WhatHaveIDone sudden realization]] of what he just did is ''very'' satisfying, after his [[AGodAmI above speech]]. Also absolutely terrifying.
* Gadget! The Doctor turning him into a super-scooter is cool, but the Moment of Awesome comes when he un-boxes and remote-controls Gadget to fly the Tardis in to save them at LITERALLY the last second - complete with SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic in the background as it all unfolds.

[[AC:The End of Time]]
* Quite possibly the best usage of one of Ten's {{Catch Phrase}}s 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!
* It just doesn't get more awesome than having [[Creator/DavidTennant the Doctor]] and [[Creator/TimothyDalton James Bond]] in the same scene.
* The Eleventh Doctor is born as [[spoiler:the TARDIS burns around him, laughing joyfully while it's exploding, and a ''kick-ass guitar riff plays in the background'']].
-->'''Eleven:''' And still not ginger! Something else, there's something... important. I'm... I'm... I'm... ''[explosion knocks him back]'' '''CRASHING!!!''' ''[laughs] [explosions]'' ''GERONIMO!!!''
*** Bear in mind we've just had a massive TearJerker so that moment comes across as MoodWhiplash too.
* "TILL DEATH DO US PART, HARRY!"
* Minnie the Menace groping the Doctor.
* The Doctor points out a small but significant detail to the Master: "That guard is one inch too tall." *Rossiter cold-cocks the Master with his rifle*
* Wilf further cementing his BadassGrandpa status by piloting an anti-missile turret and saving the entire ship.
** Wilf has an epic, but entirely well-meaning WhatTheHellHero moment when he tells the Doctor that he better dare not, even for a moment, consider putting the Master above the whole of the human race.
** Rory gets well-deserved credit for his lack of response upon first seeing the inside of the TARDIS, but Wilf might have topped that.
--->'''Wilf:''' I thought it'd be cleaner!
* The Master Race. If anything could top what the Master pulled off in "The Sound of Drums", it's that. It's also an MOA for John Simm. If you just read the script you would think 'Wow!', but if you ''see'' him? ''Awesome!''
* The Master's completely unexpected HeroicSacrifice and devastating TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Rassilon:
-->'''The Master''': [[WhatTheHellHero You did this to me!]] [[UnwittingPawn All of my life!]] [[CreateYourOwnVillain YOU! MADE! ME!]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard ONE! TWO!! THREE!!! FOUR!!!!]]
** Even better, the last we see of Rassilon and the Master before they vanish, the Master's kicking his ass.
* "The End of Time", Part One. That. Last. Scene.
-->'''Rassilon:''' For victory! ''FOR GALLIFREY!'' '''''FOR THE END! OF TIME! ITSELF!'''''
** In Part Two, even Rassilon ''himself'' gets a moment: the Master taunts him, 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.'''

[[folder:Eleventh Doctor]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpbmMhNe6aA The second trailer for series 5:]] Eleven blows up a Weeping Angel.

[[AC:The Eleventh Hour]]
* Where the Doctor shows the planet Earth is protected as he finishes getting dressed.
-->'''The Eleventh Doctor''': Oh, you're not the first lot to have come here. Oh, there have been ''so'' many. ''[slideshow of various monsters]'' And what you've got to ask is, ''what happened to them?'' ''[hologram of the previous known Doctors kicking the collective asses of every alien to mess with Earth, ever, comes up while utterly awesome music plays. Slideshow finishes with the faces of the Doctors, then the Eleventh walks through, having just finished picking out his new clothes]'' Hello. I'm the Doctor. [[BadassBoast Basically...]] '''[[BadassBoast run.]]''']]
** And the Atraxi [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere do]]. Epic on toast.
*** Oh, and watch closely--as the Atraxi representative flies away, it keeps its eye on the Doctor the whole time. If those giant eyes had pants, they'd probably have been soiling them at that point. The Doctor is so badass that a ''clip show'' scares alien threats off.
** What makes this truly brilliant is the way [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "I Am The Doctor"]] kicks in as he asks the last question, building up to its most awesome right as the Atraxi [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere do exactly as he says.]]
* Also, the Eleventh Doctor's ''introductory episode'' has him saving the world with no TARDIS, no Sonic Screwdriver, and only twenty minutes to work with.
** And a post office, but it's closed.
*** With ''two minutes to spare.'' Really.
* This is given a ContinuityNod by the Gamma Forest people in "A Good Man Goes to War": The above exchange is after the aliens in question have ''already left'', and he ''calls them back to Earth'' to ''scold'' them for the atrocity they were threatening.

[[AC:The Beast Below]]
* Amy one-ups the Doctor in AwesomenessByAnalysis, subverts the Doctor's plan to TakeAThirdOption, manhandles the Queen of England, saves ''everyone'', and restores the Doctor's faith in humanity, all in her first time off-planet and while wearing her nightie.
** Amy's [[PajamaCladHero Arthur Dent-ish costume]] in this episode is an awesome moment in itself.
* Liz X, GunsAkimbo, takes out the Smilers with the immortal quip "I'm the bloody queen, mate. Basically? I rule." The Doctor is quite impressed, as he should be.

[[AC:Victory of the Daleks]]
* The Doctor bluffs the Daleks for a long while by convincing them that a ''jammy dodger'' (a jam-filled biscuit sandwich) is the self-destruct switch for the TARDIS. Also doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, especially when the Progenitor Daleks finally figure it out.
-->'''Dalek:''' TARDIS self-destruct non-existent!\\
'''Doctor:''' ''[eats biscuit]'' Alright, it's a jammy dodger! BUT I WAS PROMISED TEA!
* Spitfires with energy weapons. In space.
* Amy, deactivating the Daleks' bomb, Edwin Bracewell, with ThePowerOfLove.
* The ''accurately-named'' "Victory of the Daleks." They manage to manipulate the Doctor, of all people, into restoring his greatest enemy, and then manage to pull off a SadisticChoice on the guy who is ''known'' for TakingAThirdOption.

[[AC:The Time of Angels]]
* The Angels use the voice of their latest victim (who still has some sentience) to [[BullyingADragon taunt the Doctor]]. The Doctor responds.
-->'''Angel Bob''': Sorry, sir. The Angels were very keen for you to know that.\\
'''The Doctor''': [[TranquilFury Well then, the Angels have made their second mistake, because I'm not going to let that pass.]] I'm sorry you're dead, Bob, but I swear to whatever's left of you]], they will be sorrier.
** Wait, their "second" mistake?
--->'''The Doctor''': [[BadassBoast Didn't anyone ever tell you there's one thing you never put in a trap. If you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap.]]\\
'''Angel Bob''': What would that be, sir?\\
'''The Doctor''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zunJKyMlBiA&t=1m36s Me]]''.
* Amy figuring out how to deal with the Angel that was threatening her. Even the Doctor and River are impressed.
-->'''Doctor:''' River, hug Amy.\\
'''River:''' Why?\\
'''Doctor:''' Cause I'm busy.
** Which actually takes on an entirely different dimension since we know River is Amy's daughter.
* River Song opened the hatch door and blew herself into space just in time to be saved by the Doctor.
-->'''River''': As I said on the dance floor... you might want to find something to hang onto.

[[AC:Flesh and Stone]]
* Two in the same scene: "No, seriously, GET a GRIP!" and "I just don't think you understand the ''[[IncrediblyLamePun gravity]]'' of the situation!" The latter being a nice reuse of the exact same pun as seen in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier in the opening scene.
* Father Octavian, a oneshot character from the two-parter "The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone," had perhaps the most [[FaceDeathWithDignity dignified]] [[DyingMomentOfAwesome death]] in the history of the show. Faced with the imminent and inevitable prospect of being killed by the Weeping Angel which has its arms around his neck, he keeps hold of his convictions and remains utterly, touchingly calm.
-->'''Octavian''': There's no way out. You have to leave me.\\
'''The Doctor''': You can't wriggle out?\\
'''Octavian''': No, it's too tight. You have to leave me, sir, there's nothing you can do. [...] Now please, you have to go. It's your duty to your friends. [...] Sir, the Angels are coming, you have to leave me. \\
'''The Doctor''': You'll die.\\
'''Octavian''': [[ObiWanMoment I will die in the knowledge that my courage did not desert me at the end]]. For that I thank God, and bless the path that takes you to safety.\\
'''The Doctor''': I wish I'd known you better.\\
'''Octavian''': I think, sir, you knew me at my best.\\
'''The Doctor''': ''[pause]'' Ready?\\
'''Octavian''': Content.

[[AC:The Vampires of Venice]]
* Even Guido gets one.
-->'''Guido''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WE ARE]] [[HeroicSacrifice VENETIANS!]]
* Companions often [[WhatTheHellHero call the Doctor out]] on dickery, pompousness, or some other questionable policy--heck, that's practically [[TheHeart why the Companions are]] ''[[TheHeart there]]'', but Rory takes this [[IncrediblyLamePun time-honoured tradition]] a step further by telling the Doctor, loudly and bluntly, exactly ''why'' he is such a huge threat to the people he travels with: not because he's dangerous and powerful, but because he makes people a danger ''to themselves'' by making them want to impress him when other people have to live with the consequences.

[[AC:Amy's Choice]]
* Amy figures if she and the others are going to die, they might as well die in "style".
-->'''Amy''': My poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a Peruvian folk band.

%%[[AC:The Hungry Earth]]

[[AC:Cold Blood]]
* The Doctor vs. the Silurian soldiers.

[[AC:Vincent and the Doctor]]
* The Doctor and Amy taking Vincent to the present day and showing him the museum of all his masterpieces, and Bill Nighy's speech about how Van Gogh was the greatest artist and one of the greatest humans who ever lived. It may not have been enough to save Vincent's life, but it definitely added to his pile of good things. Doubles as a MomentOfHeartwarming.

[[AC:The Lodger]]
* The Doctor kicking ass at football, complete with theme music blaring.
* Craig using ThePowerOfLove to short out a TARDIS knock-off that had already fried 18 people who had interfaced with it beforehand.

[[AC:The Pandorica Opens]]
* The Doctor gets on a microphone, surrounded by 15 Roman soldiers and "10,000? 100,000? 1,000,000?" alien space ships who all want what he's got. First, he tells them who he is, and then tells them to shut up. They do. He tells them that he's got the Pandorica. Then, he reminds them what he's done to them before, and he tells them "do the smart thing: let someone else try first." They leave. Romans gape.
--> '''The Doctor''': Now the question of the hour is: Who's got the Pandorica? Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? (No response) Come on, look at me! No plan, no backup, no weapons worth a damn, oh, and something else, I don't have. Anything. To. Lose! So! If you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your 'msilly little guns'' and you have any plans of taking the Pandorica ''tonight'', just remember who's standing in your way. [[LargeHam Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then! Aaand then!]] Do the smart thing! Let somebody else try first.
** As one Website/{{Youtube}} commentator put it:
--->So, in other words, he's basically saying...'''"COME AT ME BRO!"'''
** This is DoubleSubverted later on. Subversion the first: the Pandorica is actually a prison for the Doctor, and by sticking around he's just ensured he'll get put in it. Subversion the second: it turns out he was right after all, since the Pandorica protects him from erasure and after he gets out via [[TimeTravelForFunAndProfit time-travel abuse]] he proceeds to use it to save Amy, himself, and the universe, in that order. Recalling pretty much his boast of ''never putting him in a trap'' in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]], "Who takes the Pandorica takes the universe", indeed.
* River Song's opening adventure in "The Pandorica Opens". She hears the Doctor may be in trouble, so she busts out of her prison, steals a painting, procures a Vortex Manipulator, writes the first words on the first planet in existence as a message to the Doctor, and then bluffs her way into a Roman camp by making the soldiers think she is Cleopatra. A little Hallucinogenic Lipstick goes a long way!
* "The Pandorica Opens" gives some great material to a lone Cyberman, practically getting the same amount of MOA on behalf of his species as the title character from "Dalek" in just one scene. Broken into pieces, the human inside having long rotted to uselessness, and it manages to get quite far in trying to take down the Doctor and Amy while being damn scary in the meantime.
* Rory's re-introduction in "The Pandorica Opens", when he [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabs a Cyberman clean through the chest and pins it to a massive door]]. ''[[SuperStrength Damn.]]''
* Let's be honest: the Alliance that we see in this episode is also a pretty damn big Awesome Moment for the Doctor's enemies, being one of the biggest and most threatening {{Villain Team Up}}s that we've ''ever'' seen in this show. Even though it's treated as an OhCrap moment, you can't help but feel a little tingle of excitement when River and the Doctor realize just what kind of army they're up against.
-->'''River:''' Doctor, Cyberships!\\
'''The Doctor:''' No, Dalek ships. Listen to them. Those are Dalek ships.\\
'''River:''' Yes. Dalek ships and Cyberships.\\
'''The Doctor:''' [[EnemyCivilWar Well, we need to start a fight, turn them on each other.]] I mean, that's easy. It's the Daleks. [[AlwaysChaoticEvil They're so cross.]]\\
'''River:''' [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Sontarans.]] Four battlefleets.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Sontarans! Talk about cross, who stole all their handbags?\\
'''River:''' [[OhCrap Terileptil. Slitheen, Chelonian, Nestene, Drahvin. Sycorax, Haemogoth, Zygon, Atraxi, Draconian.]] They're all here for the Pandorica!

[[AC:The Big Bang]]
* The Doctor is ready to sacrifice not only his life, but his very EXISTENCE, to "reboot" the universe. As he's flying the Pandorica on a suicide-run into the TARDIS explosion, he takes time to send one final message to River, Rory, and Amy. He smiles as he drops the computer...
-->[[spoiler:'''River:''' It's from the Doctor.]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Amy:''' What does it say?]]\\
[[spoiler:'''River:''' ''Geronimo.'']]
** Actually, it's implied that he had River tell Amy that he would be erased from existence when his last in-person word to Amy was "Gotcha." Which basically doubles the awesome because he ''knew'' he would be able to come back and left Amy the clue to do it!
* At Amy's wedding: "Something old, something new, something borrowed...''something blue.''"
-->'''Amy''': Raggedy Man, I remember you, and you are LATE FOR MY WEDDING!
** To sum it up nicely: Amy flat-out ''orders reality'' to give her back her Doctor, and it ''does.'' Not with a begrudging "Why should I?" or even a permissive "Very well, here you go." The totality of existence is ''officially'' Amy Pond's bitch.
* River faces down the Stone Dalek. She informs it that its shields are compromised, and that one blast from her gun will kill it stone dead. The Dalek replies that its records show that, as an associate of the Doctors, she will show mercy. Her reply? "I'm River Song. Check your records again." And with that one line, the Dalek literally begs for mercy. Three times.
** "Where's the Dalek?" "It died." Also doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
* Auton-]Rory deploying his ArmCannon on a Dalek.
-->'''Dalek:''' INTRUDER-IS-UNARMED.\\
'''Rory:''' Oh, you think? ''(BANG)''
** His earlier exchange with The Doctor is also awesome.
---> '''Doctor:''' Why do you have to be so... human?\\
'''Rory:''' Because right now I'm not.
** Rory gets a LOT of awesome in this episode, including single-handedly DRAGGING the Pandorica out of a building that was just bombed by Germans, punching out the Doctor and getting COMPLIMENTED for it (since it proved his humanity), and, one more thing, protecting the Pandorica all alone for just under two THOUSAND YEARS. Forget Amy, Rory is the best companion of this series.
*** That last part can't be overstated enough. One thousand, eight hundred and ninety four years. Conscious, the whole time. Never sleeping. Never resting. Alone, stranded in time, and with no way of knowing whether he would even last until the modern day. Probably still wracked with guilt over shooting Amy in the first place, and tasked with keeping the Pandorica safe from ANYTHING, following it wherever it went, through dozens of civilizations and countries. No reassurances, no help, no instructions other than "protect Amy". No way of healing any damage if he gets hurt, and the only weapons he has when he starts are a sword and an ArmCannon. And he SUCCEEDS. Not only that, but when he shows up as the museum guard, ''there isn't a scratch on him.'' Not to mention the fact that he's now ''twice as old as the Doctor himself''. Yes, Rory is ''definitely'' {{Badass}}.
** The rescue of the Pandorica from the German Blitz also cannot be emphasised enough. Rory was made of ''plastic'' and still willingly risked walking into a burning building, in order to drag out the several-ton box containing the woman he loved. Even historians thought he'd perished whilst saving her.
** One more thing: The Doctor indicated that if he took the slow path alone for that long, he'd very likely go insane. But did he? Nope, Rory kept it together for nearly two thousand years ''out of sheer dedication due to his love for Amy.'' If there's a poster child for ThePowerOfLove, it's that.
** Before Rory Williams, ThePowerOfLove was just [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]]. Now, thanks to Rory, ThePowerOfLove is heartwarming ''and'' awesome.
** Socking the Doctor in the face when he dismisses Amy as unimportant. "'''She is to me!'''". Sure, it was a ploy by the Doctor to ascertain his humanity, but look at it from Rory's POV: you are two thousand years from home, you've just discovered that you are actually a plastic being with fake memories, you were forced to kill your girlfiend, the entire universe suddenly ended, and the only guy who can possibly save it (who is also the most feared being in history) declares that doing so is more important than saving your loved one. So you punch him. Bad. Ass.
* "That's my TARDIS burning up. That's what's been keeping the Earth warm." Even in death, the TARDIS still keeps the Earth safe for her Doctor as long as it can.

[[AC:A Christmas Carol]]
* Abigail uses her singing voice to save Rory, Amy and everyone on board that ship with the help of a broken screwdriver.
* The Doctor travelling back in time and landing in the home video that Kazran is watching. The old man then gets to literally watch as his whole life is rewritten before his eyes.
* The Doctor pulls his sonic screwdriver from the throat of an awake flying giant shark. Read that again.

%%[[AC:Space / Time]]

[[AC:The Impossible Astronaut]]
* "I'm going to need a SWAT team ready to mobilise, street maps covering all of Florida, a pot of coffee, twelve Jammy Dodgers and a fez!" The rest of the scene is not necessary. Awesome will, without a doubt, ensue.
** This was preceded by "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?" Yeah. The Doctor just shows up behind the American President's desk in the Oval Office, ''while said president and his body guards are in the room''.
* Canton gets a pretty good MOA, albeit a smaller one, back at him. After the Doctor demonstrates his knowledge and, frankly, how necessary his participation is in solving this case, Canton calmly continues to play hardball and merely responds, "''[{{beat}}]'' Get him his maps."
* Also,
-->'''Canton:''' Mr. President, that man walked in here with a big blue box and three of his friends and that's the man he walked past. One of them's worth listening to.
* "RIVER, MAKE HER BLUE AGAIN!" The Doctor cloaks the TARDIS in the Oval Office, and orders River to de-cloak her when he's tackled by secret service agents, dumbfounding everyone, including President Nixon himself.
* The events at Lake Silencio.

[[AC:Day of the Moon]]
* How the Doctor defeats the Silence: He plays a clip of one of the Silence saying "you should kill us all on sight" during the ''broadcast of the moon landing'', causing every human who ever watches footage of the moon landing (which would end up being billions of people, for billions of years) to kill the Silence as soon as they see one. Also counts as a [=CMoA=] for humanity.
-->'''Neil Armstrong''':...one giant leap for mankind.\\
'''The Doctor''': And one whacking great kick up the backside for the Silence! ''You just raised an army against yourselves!'' And now, for a thousand generations, you're going to be ordering them to destroy you, every day. How fast can you run? Because today's the day the human race throws you off their planet, and they won't even know they're doing it. I think quite possibly the word you're looking for, right now, is...whoops, run. Guys, I mean us: RUN!
** Canton gets one for recording said clip.
* One of the Silence starts on a speech about how they have always been on Earth and have no need for weapons, while Amy can be heard screaming for help in the background. Canton simply pulls out his gun and shoots it with the words "[[WhereDoYouThinkYouAre Welcome to]] [[EagleLand America]]", before running to find Amy.
* With no shame and no hesitation, in ''1969'', Canton informs the President of the United States -- Richard fucking Nixon! -- that he wants to marry a ''black '''man'''.'' The man has balls of titanium.
* With a little help from the Doctor, Canton manages to successfully con ''the entire American government'' (with the possible exception of Nixon) while acting like he is [[TheMole leading the hunt]] to track down the Doctor's companions.
* River Song mowing down at least eight Silent creatures by firing her gun while whirling rapidly in a circle, then holstering it and quipping "I hope my old man didn't see that, he gets ever so cross..." (possible foreshadowing) When Rory asks her "Just what sort of doctor ARE you?" She replies, "Archaeology," ...and shoots a Silent that was creeping up on her ''without looking''! And then finishes it all off with "love a tomb." Bad. Ass.
** How do you shoot a Silent that's ''behind'' you? I don't know, but River Song is awesome enough to pull it off.
*** For those not getting what the big deal is: the moment you take your eyes off of one of the Silence, you ''completely forget about them.'' River wasn't just shooting something she couldn't see, she shot something she literally ''[[BeyondTheImpossible could not have even known was there.]]''
** If you pay attention to Rory, you'll notice his alarmed expression when he sees a Silence creeping up behind River's back. River can shoot the Silence not because she knows it's a threat, but because she sees her daddy's expression and unhesitatingly kills whatever he is reacting to.
* Courtesy of a bit of FridgeHorror and FridgeBrilliance. At the end of their three months on the run in 1969, Rory has over ''twice'' the number of tally marks on his body, implying that he's been dealing with the Silence on a nearly ''daily'' basis. This means one of two things: either he's either been ''really'' unlucky... or the Silence consider him the ''largest'' threat, even more so than River, and have been sending wave after wave of {{mook}}s in a desperate bid to eliminate him.
* For a device often regarded as unreliable, the TARDIS pulls off one heck of a manoeuvre in "Day of the Moon", in which picking up River Song requires her to materialise within a timeframe of a few seconds, in mid-air, several storeys up, and ''oriented on her side''.

[[AC:The Curse of the Black Spot]]
* Amy dresses as a pirate just for the hell of it, and shows off some swordfighting.

[[AC:The Doctor's Wife]]
* The Doctor, stranded on a junkyard planet in a bubble universe, BUILDS A TARDIS TO ESCAPE. [[ComicBook/IronMan Not quite in a cave, but definitely with a box of scraps.]]
* When the Doctor finds the auto-saved last screams of terror of hundreds of Time Lords who died on the planet long ago making him realize there truly are no more Time Lords AGAIN! (or so he thought).
-->'''Doctor:''' You gave me hope and then you took it away. That's enough to make anyone dangerous. GOD KNOWS what it will do to me! Basically......run!
* This exchange is fantastic.
-->'''House:''' Fear me; I've killed hundreds of Time Lords.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Fear me; I've killed all of them.
* Crosses over with FridgeBrilliance: Just when Amy is about to go into a HeroicBSoD after seeing what looks like Rory's corpse, thinking that he'd gone insane and hated her for leaving him alone for so long, the real one shows up and calmly reassures her that her head's just being messed with. How would he know? Because it's been messing with him the same way, but he's managed to ''shrug it off''. After all, what's a little MindRape to a man who kept himself sane and loyal for nearly two thousand years?
** WordOfGod from Creator/NeilGaiman does indeed say that Rory was subjected to House's torments and that he was much better able to withstand them because of everything he's already been through.
* The TARDIS burning away every part of House inside herself.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Finish him off, girl. ''[cue House's screams as the TARDIS takes back what's rightfully hers]''
* Really, the entirety of "The Doctor's Wife" is just one great [=CMoA=] for our police box. Special props to when she first reveals to the Doctor who she is. She's just so smug, and the look on his face is priceless. Goes for when she explains to the Doctor that she might not be reliable, but she's always taken the Doctor where he's ''needed'' to go.
** Taken in this context, one can give her some credit for almost every moment of awesome on this list. After all, she was the one that brought the Doctor and his companions to any given place and time specifically so that he or they could make a difference there.

[[AC:The Rebel Flesh]]
* After a whole episode of the humans and their gangers being suspicious of and then wanting to kill each other, the Doctor (someone who rutinely pulls an IHatePastMe) meets a ganger!Doctor, and they get along wonderfully!
** And later, they switch sides, the Doctor exposing himself of the hatred and distrust of his companion, just to see the ganger's point of view. Made more awesome by the fact that the one who could ''feel'' the gangers' pain so strongly was ''the real Doctor''.
* This line:
->'''The Doctor''': I need to get to that cockerel before all hell breaks lose! [[NoodleIncident I never thought I'd have to say that again]].

%%[[AC:The Almost People]]

[[AC:A Good Man Goes to War]]
* The prequel to "A Good Man Goes To War".
-->'''Dorium''': But all this to imprison one child?\\
''[headless monks look at him]''\\
'''Dorium''': Oh, I know what you're up to, I hear everything in this place. I even hear rumours about whose child you've taken, are you mad?! \\
''[monks turn away and move off]''\\
'''Dorium''': You know the stories about the Doctor? The things that man has done? '''God help us if you've made him angry!'''
* "Three minutes forty seconds." Actually three minutes ''forty-two'' seconds, but who's counting?
** The Doctor turns two armies against each other without lifting a finger, only for their leader to recover the situation, talking both armies into standing down and disarming themselves. Then the Doctor's army turns up and claim sthe entire base. Without. A. Single. Casualty.
* The Doctor's punishment for the Colonel.
-->'''Strax:''' Colonel Manton, you will give the order for your men to withdraw.\\
'''Doctor:''' No; Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to "run away."\\
'''Colonel:''' What?\\
'''Doctor:''' Those words, "run away," I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want them to call you Colonel Runaway. I want children to laugh at your door because they've found the house of Colonel Runaway. And when people come to you, and ask if trying to get to me through the '''PEOPLE ''I LOVE''''' is in any way a good idea... ''[visibly collects himself]'' I want you to tell them your name.
*** Give the man some credit, he bears the full force of the Doctor's "Col. Runaway" speech without even flinching. The Daleks do a double take at the mention of his name and they're engineered not to feel fear!
*** The Doctor shows such pure, undiluted rage when he gets to the words "the people I love" that Vastra--who up to this point has been portrayed as an unflinching badass--is ''visibly shaken'' at the Doctor's ferocity.
** The following exchange is enough to make you crap yourself too, if you know the Doctor:
--->'''The Doctor:''' Oh look, I'm angry. That's new. I'm really not sure what's going to happen now.\\
'''Madame Kovarian:''' ''[steps in]'' The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men... have too many rules.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Good men don't need rules. [[TheFettered Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.]]
* Madame Vastra [[EstablishingCharacterMoment enters the series]] by revealing she just ''ate'' Jack the Ripper. Ate him. The most infamous and brutal serial killer in Victorian Times, and SHE ATE HIM. Someone give her a massive round of applause.
* Jenny Flint: perfectly ordinary parlormaid from Victorian London not only isn't afraid of Vastra (who ''ate Jack the Ripper'', this cannot be overemphasized) but manages to both keep up with her in terms of badassery, and get an ancient Silurian warrior who used to hate humanity to [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments fall in love with her]].
* Vastra dual-wields katanas on a daily basis [[BattleCouple with her future wife]].
* Vastra gets in a polite but ''very'' firm rebuke when the Doctor starts to let his temper get the best of him.
-->'''Vastra:''' Anger is always the shortest route to a mistake.
* River breaking into Stormcage to go back to her cell after having an adventure with the Doctor, letting the guards know it was her, and topping it off with a casual order of breakfast for the next morning.
* River bringing the Doctor to task and telling him that every death at Demon's Run is a result of his ego.
* "WHERE. IS. MY. WIFE?" Rory goes badass... again!
** Before that he [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]] his way through the Cyberman base while they try desperately to stop him
--->'''Cyberman:''' Intruder at level 9, seal level 9. Intruder at level 10... Intruder at level 11, seal levels 12, 13 and 14... Intruder at level 15... [[OhCrap Prepare to engage]]
** Rory spends the entire episode back in his Centurion outfit and beating headless monks with [[ShockAndAwe electric]] swords in swordfights. Before getting to Demon's Run he walks on a Cybership and refuses to flinch when they all raise guns his way, then again refuses to flinch when over half their fleet detonates RIGHT behind him.
--->'''Rory:''' [[FunnyMoments Oh, don't give me those blank looks.]]\\
''[...]''\\
'''Cyberman:''' What is the Doctor's message?\\
''[fleet blows up in the background]''
'''Rory:''' Would you like me to repeat the question?
** Made even more awesome by the fact that before he shows up, the viewer just sees all hell breaking loose on a Cyber-ship, woven with shots of Amy telling Melody about the man who's coming to save them. The viewer is [[BaitAndSwitchDescription made to think]] it's ''The Doctor'' she's talking about. When she tells Melody "...your father" those watching have just enough time to blink and go "what the fu-" before Rory makes his appearance on the ship.
** Rory's too badass to look at explosions.
* Madame Kovarian fooling the Doctor twice with the exact same trick, and calling him up to taunt him about it. We have a new MagnificentBastard on our hands.
* The Space Spitfires return.

[[AC:Let's Kill Hitler]]
* The Doctor's duel of IKnowYouKnowIKnow with a psychotic River, including giving the Ninth Doctor a nod by making her pull out a banana.
* Everything River does in "Let's Kill Hitler" qualifies, really. [[spoiler:Melody Pond regenerates, poisons the Doctor, then jumps out a window and insults the Nazis. They shoot her. It doesn't work. She then steals a motorbike and drops in on a fancy lunch and demands people relinquish their clothes. When the dying Doctor arrives and Melody performs a HeelFaceTurn, she ''gives up her regenerations'' to save him.]] Quite good for her first day out.
* Rory punches a fully armed and very angry Hitler in the face. Let me repeat that. Rory. Punches. Hitler. In. The. Face. Fans have made videos of this looping for ten minutes (at the minimum). He punches Hitler, puts him at gun point, tells him to shut up and then shoves him in a cupboard, all while sounding relatively unthreatening, which somehow makes it better.
** Two moments combined for even more awesome: Rory Williams is the only person in all of creation to have decked both the Doctor and Hitler in the face. The ultimate good and the ultimate evil. One of them complimented him on it and he promptly told the other to shut up and shoved him in a closet. Just... wow.
** Rory punches a Nazi guard by shouting "Heil!" and saluting, getting the guard to repeat it out of habit, then socking him so hard and fast the guard didn't stand a chance. Is anybody else noticing a connection? :Mind you, this isn't any ordinary guard, but a shapeshifting robot.
*** Rory sums it up when they steal a motorcycle to chase after Amy's robot duplicate:
---->'''Amy''': Can you even ride a motorbike?\\
'''Rory''': I expect so. It's been that sort of a day.

%%[[AC:Night Terrors]]

[[AC:The Girl Who Waited]]
* The FutureBadass version of Amy fighting off a bunch of robots by DualWielding a katana and quarterstaff.
* Rory killing a robot by smashing the Mona Lisa over its head.
* Rory's WhatTheHellHero to the Doctor over Amy going through hell due to his not doing the proper research.
* "You're turning me into you!" Gotta love Rory. Never hesitates to call the Doctor on his manipulation.
* When Amy talks to her future self, she doesn't plead to be saved, she doesn't consider herself for a second. She asks to be saved so that Rory won't have to live with abandoning her. For all the talk about Amy's selfishness, her only thought on facing 40 years imprisoned in the quarantine is what it'll do to Rory. This is Amy's ultimate [=CMoH=]. Period.

[[AC:The God Complex]]
* What does the Doctor do after finding the room with his greatest fear? He calmly puts a "Do Not Disturb" sign on it. Fear can't stop the Doctor.
* Rory Williams is officially TooSpicyForYogSothoth. The monster manipulates people by showing them what they're scared of. Everyone else sees rooms containing their worst fears. Rory, who ''has no fear left in his mind'' just sees... fire exits.
** For those who don't catch why this makes him a badass, thanks to the way the antagonist works this means Rory not only doesn't have a terror trigger like everyone else despite all he's seen, he also has ZERO need for "faith" in anything external... including not just God/religion but the Doctor himself, since Amy's reason for being there is that her faith in the Doctor was so strong it pulled them in. Hell, Rory doesn't even "need" Amy--if we take the phlebotinum at face value the way it's explained, that means he doesn't have "faith" in Amy, he just loves her. And he will goddamn love her, and stay with her ''even though the complex is letting him escape''. Translation: Rory is so badass, he can deal with any potential terror you could inflict on him, including all of the nightmare fuel he's run across, such as ''the Weeping bloody Angels''. Rory is so badass that he is completely unimpressed with the Doctor. Rory is so badass that when he decides to stick with a woman, it's not out of needy terror of being alone nor blind devotion, but because he ''genuinely loves her and has made a conscious decision to stay by her side''. And yet, despite all that self-assurance ''he isn't an egotistical asshole''. FridgeBrilliance basically turns this little fact into an EstablishingCharacterMoment that is equal parts SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}. There is a reason a lot of fans like his character.

[[AC:Closing Time]]
* A really subtle one, but after she and the Doctor part ways, we can see that Amy picked herself up, re-acclimated to the world, and moved on with her life. Considering Ten's record with companions, that's a serious accomplishment, especially considering where she started out.
* Craig is able to resist being turned into a Cyberman, return emotions to the existing Cybermen, and ''blow up their base'']] all because [[spoiler: [[ThePowerofLove he heard]] [[PapaWolf his baby crying]].
* Stormageddon Master of All. That baby might be the best companion The Doctor's ever had.

[[AC:The Wedding of River Song]]
* "Look into my eye." Who but the Doctor could go to his own death, a fixed point in time that can't possibly be overwritten, and survive?
* It's easy to forget in the wake of every single other thing in the episode, but the first thing we see the Doctor doing is perhaps the most brutal dispatching of a Dalek in the show's history. And then he plops its eyestalk on a counter as a sign that he's not someone to be screwed with.
* Amy saving Rory when the Silence are about to kill him. WITH AN ASSAULT RIFLE!
** And moments later, when Madame Kovarian asks Amy to save her, Amy reminds her of how she took her daughter from her. Kovarian claims the Doctor would save her and Amy wouldn't do anything to disappoint him.
--->'''Amy:''' The Doctor is very precious to me, you're right. But you know what else he is, Madame Kovarian? ''[leans in, whispers]'' [[WhamLine Not here.]]\\
''[[[MamaBear Amy reattaches the electrocuting eyepatch.]]]''\\
'''Amy:''' River Song didn't get it all from you, ''sweetie.''
* River ''disintegrates reality'' to send out a beacon to ''all points of time and space simultaneously'' with the message, "The Doctor is dying. Please, please help." She is answered by a ''million million'' voices, saying, "Yes, of course we will!" She then proceeds to tell the Doctor in question that she did so just so she could tell him that "...you are loved so much, and by so many--and by ''no one'' more than me." To sum up: River Song ''disintegrates reality'' to tell the Doctor how much she loves him, saving his life in the process, and then proceeds to marry him. She seems to take a cue from her mother there: neither of them are willing to be parted from the men they love.
* Rory keeps his eye drive on so that he can see the Silence coming so that he is able to defend Amy, the Doctor, and River despite the fact it can kill or at least cause the wearer crippling pain. When he's reminded it could activate at any time he says, fairly calmly but with trembling clenched fists, ''[[{{Determinator}} "It has activated, Ma'am."]]'' And this happens in a universe where Amy is just Rory's cold-hearted boss, not his wife, and doesn't even know his name. Rory is the ''living embodiment'' of the PowerOfLove.

[[AC:The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]
* The opening. "[[AlienInvasion People of Earth]], [[CoolStarship you]] [[{{BFG}} stand]] [[MoreDakka alone]]"--'''''[[KilledMidSentence BOOOOM.]]'''''
** Not to mention having The Doctor ''free-fall hundreds of miles to earth from space after being jettisoned from said spaceship'', ''wearing a huge grin on his face and laughing like a maniac'', treating it as though he were skydiving or bungie-jumping from within Earth's atmosphere and ''thoroughly enjoying every single second of it despite imminent death!''
* A woman from 1941 manages to get the better of three trained people from the future, all with weapons, using just fake tears and a pistol. She then pilots a HumongousMecha through the forest in search of her children. The fact that she eventually crashes it does nothing to lessen the awesomeness.
* Madge braves an acid rain storm and emerges unscathed, is chosen to be the vessel for the trees, pilots the ship, and saves the Doctor, her children, ''and an entire species!'' And then she rescues her husband. Essentially, the 2011 Christmas Special could've been renamed The Why Madge Is Awesome Special and no one would have noticed. She even manages to make its official title, "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe," a bit of a NonIndicativeTitle.

[[AC:Asylum of the Daleks]]
* Most [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]] and epic has to be the end, when after the Daleks' ''entire'' collective memory of the Doctor has been permanently erased the entire assembled parliament of the Daleks screams the same question over and over again: [[TitleDrop DOCTOR WHO!? DOCTOR WHO!!!!!!????]]
* Oswin spends a year trapped in a Dalek insane asylum, baking soufflés.
--> '''The Doctor:''' You accessed the Daleks' hive mind?\\
'''Oswin:''' ''(nonplussed)'' It's very easy to hack.\\
'''The Doctor:''' No, it isn't!!!
** This is also a Fridge CMOA for Oswin as wiping the Daleks' memory of the Doctor, and thus their fear of him is probably the most catastrophic blow ever struck to the Daleks (and yes, that counts their multiple near-extinctions), as now the single biggest factor in why the Daleks were ever so powerful and dangerous has been permanently removed. Without it they are just another race of wannabe universal conquerors.
* Normally it’s frowned upon for a character to acknowledge the camera in a series that doesn’t usually do that, but this episode pulls off two such moments in quick succession without making them seem cheesy, gimmicky, pandering, or self-indulgent (well, maybe a bit of that last one). Given how the character endears herself to the audience, Oswin’s quick final glance at the camera after saying “And remember” is less a distraction and more of a conspiratorial wink. And when the Doctor leans out of the TARDIS and says “Fellas, you’re never gonna stop asking” directly to the camera (and by extension the viewer) as hundreds of Daleks chant “Doctor who?!” in the background, any negative reaction to breaking the fourth wall is probably offset by the sheer squee-worthiness of the moment.
* The Doctor has a roomful of AxCrazy [[UpToEleven (even by their standards)]] Daleks coming at him. How does he deal with this? He notices the front one has no weapon, so he provokes it into activating its self-destruct as a way of killing him, and then starts fiddling around with its machinery. The Dalek tells him the self-destruct can't be stopped. He replies he wasn't trying to, he was looking for "reverse." The Dalek then starts helplessly reversing, straight into its comrades, and the unstoppable self-destruct goes off, clearing the room. Later, Rory goes through the same room, and we get the exchange that puts the cherry on top: Rory: "Who killed all these Daleks?" Doctor: "Who d'ya think?"
* Early in the episode, the Doctor states his intention to fix Amy and Rory's marriage, which Amy declares is "not something you can fix like your bow tie." Later in the episode, the Doctor maneuvers events so that the Ponds fix their marriage. Cut to a shot of the Doctor, adjusting his bow tie, as if to say "challenge completed."
* To put the icing on the cake, Eleven is the only Doctor who snarks off at the Daleks and gets away with it. "You know me, the Doctor. The Predator. The Oncoming Storm."
** Oswin resisted Dalek conversion of her mind and held onto her humanity for at least a year, possibly longer.
* Did you think Daleks were already scary? Now not only can any ordinary person suddenly sprout an eye stalk and try to kill you, but a dozen frozen skeletons can sprout eye stalks and try to kill you. DALEK. SKELETON. ZOMBIE. HORDE.

[[AC:Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]
* The Doctor refusing to help Solomon off his ship before sending it off to be hit by missiles is probably the kind of thing that should concern viewers, but considering all he had done... kind of hard not to root for the Doctor on this.
-->'''Doctor:''' Look, Solomon. The missiles. See them shine? See how valuable they are. And they're all yours. Enjoy your bounty.
* In his first appearance, the UnfazedEveryman, Brian Williams, decides to pilot the spaceship even though he doesn't fully understand it.

[[AC:A Town Called Mercy]]
* During the Gunslinger's hunt for Kahler Jex, Jex flees to his spaceship outside of town. Instead of escaping into space just as he and the Doctor planned, he decides then to set his ship to self-destruct to atone for his past mistakes.
** After Kahler Jex dies, the Gunslinger feels he is but a weapon without a purpose and decides to go self-destruct in the desert. The Doctor convinces the Gunslinger otherwise and makes him the new Marshall of Mercy, complete with his very own badge and a new-found sense of purpose.
* If you think about it, Isaac, the Marshall of Mercy, is everything that the Doctor has ever hoped to see in humanity. Here's a man who runs a town where all are welcome, regardless of race, color, creed, planet of origin, or past misdeeds. He barely even knows the Doctor, and still performs a HeroicSacrifice to save him.

[[AC:The Power of Three]]
* Brian shows GenreSavvy by gathering many theories about the cubes. ''And'' he gives the Doctor not one but two WhatTheHellHero speeches. LikeFatherLikeSon indeed.

[[AC:The Angels Take Manhattan]]
* The Doctor uses some of his regeneration to fix River's wrist. Proof that he loves River.
* Rory effectively decides to ScrewDestiny by committing suicide. It works.
* "Raggedy Man, goodbye." - It shows just how much Amy's grown as a character, and that unlike a lot of companions, she's gotten over her dependence on the Doctor, particularly because she's making the choice to spend the rest of her life with Rory in a completely different time setting, knowing she will die without ever seeing the Doctor again, and does so almost instantly.
* [[OlympusMons The Statue Of Liberty as a Weeping Angel]]. That is all.
* The Angels coming the closest of all the show's villains to actually killing off a companion. Sure, there have been HeroicSacrifices, and then Adric on the bomb-laden space ship. But these guys managed to "kill off" not one, but ''two'' top-ranking companions. Bravo, Angels. Bravo.
* River breaks her own wrist, and then lies about it, just to give the Doctor some hope.

[[AC:The Snowmen]]
* The Doctor's BigDamnHeroes moment in ''The Snowmen'', using a Mr. Punch puppet to assist him.
--> '''Doctor as "Mr. Punch"''': Doctor? Doctor?! [[TitleDrop Doctor...Who?]] Araghh! (''blasts the Ice Governess with Sonic Screwdriver, causing her to shatter'')
* Oswin Oswald's return as Clara Oswin Oswald in ''The Snowmen'' has her snap the Doctor out of a very deep funk after the loss of Amy and Rory.
* The whole plan for the Doctor to get Clara to join him. He gives her an umbrella so she can reach the TARDIS ladder.
* A minor but brilliant nod to the fact that Jenny is very much the Great Detective's full partner in awesomeness--she immediately recognized that Clara's behavior was more than just odd, and managed to deduce that she had met the Doctor (admittedly not difficult given that she was yelling "DOCTOR!" at a tree), calm her down, peg her as Companion material and get her set up to meet the Doctor again in only a few minutes.
* The One Word Test. That scene is just concentrated awesome for both Vastra and Clara.
* On a meta level:
--> '''Vastra:''' I resent the implication of impropriety! We are ''married''.
** "Good evening, I'm a lizard woman from the dawn of time and this is my wife." Points for sheer matter-of-fact ballsiness.
* Madame Vastra. The Great Detective. In the ''Doctor Who'' universe, she was Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Without her, the people in the Doctor Who Universe wouldn't be reading about him today. And the Doctor wouldn't be able to do his Sherlock impersonation either.
** "There are two beverages in your world the color of red wine. This is not [[IDoNotDrinkWine red wine]]."
* Strax spends most of his time in "The Snowmen" as a bumbling sidekick whose [[YourAnswerToEverything solution]] for every problem is violence. But when the snowmen actually attack, you get to see just how good a military tactician he is.
** How he intentionally [[ObfuscatingStupidity acts stupid]] in order to prevent the Doctor from wiping Clara's memory, without the Doctor realizing it.

[[AC:The Bells of Saint John]]
* The Doctor, or rather a Spoonhead copy of him, driving up [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shard the Shard]]
-->'''The Doctor''': ''[talking through the Spoonhead]'' Didn't you hear the word '''Anti-grav'''?
** That moment is immediately followed by another one. The Doctor pulls another Teselecta-type robot switcheroo trick on Ms. Kizlet.
* Prior to that, the Doctor using HollywoodHacking to recover Clara's stolen consciousness.
** Three Words: Under My Protection.
* Clara shows a remarkable degree of GenreSavvy, and uses her recently acquired HollywoodHacking abilities to bypass the computer security of the BigBad, instead using the lower-level security of the laptops and snapping shots of all of the employees, then using recognition software to locate their place of work.

[[AC:The Rings of Akhaten]]
* At the climax, the Doctor tries to defeat the sentient sun by force-feeding the parasitic sun over a thousand years' worth of his bad memories, and gives a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoVLhUxhdSw speech of epic proportions]] about the many terrors he has seen in his long life.
-->'''The Doctor''': Oh, you like to think you're a god, but you're not a god! You're just a parasite eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them. On the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow. So... so come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories. But I hope you’ve got a big appetite, because I've lived a long life, and I've seen a few things. I walked away from the Last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out, ''moment by moment'', until nothing remained. No time. No space. Just me! I've walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a MADMAN. I've watched universes freeze and creations burn. I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. ''I have lost things you'll never understand!'' And I know things. Secrets that must never be told. Knowledge that must never be spoken. Knowledge that will make parasite gods BLAZE! SO COME OOOOON THEN! TAKE IT! TAKE IT ALL, BABY! HAVE IT! YOU HAVE IT ALL!
** And while The Doctor is giving this magnificent speech, Merry and all the people sing a hymn to help him quell the sentient planet. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVk_dJVaobE& And it is glorious]].
*** And one Youtube commentor made a similarly awesome speech in the comments section of the above link, with ''79'' likes and counting:
-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/JellyGulper ElectricNova]]:''' I walked away from the last great youtube redesign. I marked the passing of the star rating system. I saw the birth of the internet, and I watched as posts ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No trolls! No commenters! Just me. I've walked in forums where the terms of service are controlled by a MAD MAN! I've watched threads freeze and websites burn. I have seen things you'd never believe. I have lost accounts that you will NEVER understand! And I know links. Links that must NEVER be told. Links that will make parasite mods BLAZE! So come on, then! DOWNVOTE IT ALL BABY! DOWNVOTE IT ALL!
** Despite this, the Old God is still hungry. What does Clara do? Makes it implode by force-feeding it ''a [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth leaf]]''. A single leaf containing the memories, hopes, and dreams of her mother, proving that though the Doctor has a plethora of memories to feed off of, nothing beats the infinite possibilities of the many could-have-beens of a single person.
* The Doctor's RousingSpeech to Merry about how she's a unique combination of elements millions of years in the making.
--> '''The Doctor''': ''Hey. Do you mind if I tell you a story? One you might not have heard. All the elements in your body were forged many many millions of years ago in the heart of a faraway star that exploded and died. That explosion scattered those elements across the desolations of deep space. After so, so many millions of years, these elements came together to form new stars and new planets. And on and on it went. The elements came together and burst apart, forming [[Literature/AliceInWonderland shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings]]. Until, eventually, they came together to make you. You are unique in the universe. There is only one Merry Galel. And there will never be another. Getting rid of that existence isn't a sacrifice, it's a waste!''

[[AC:Cold War]]
* Professor Grisenko and Clara are cheerfully chatting together when the de-armored Ice Warrior grabs Clara in its claws. What does the Professor do? ''Blast at it with his .357 magnum revolver.'' And it lets go of her! RevolversAreJustBetter, indeed.

[[AC:Hide]]
* Clara flies the TARDIS into a pocket universe doomed to collapse to rescue the Doctor. Twice.
** This is even more awesome if you remember that the TARDIS more or less hates her at the moment, and realize that Clara basically forced her to put aside her disdain for Clara to rescue the Doctor.

[[AC:Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]
* The Doctor forcing a rather ruthless bunch of scavengers to help him search the TARDIS for Clara.
-->'''The Doctor''': I just activated the TARDIS self-destruct system. One hour until this ship blows. Don't try to leave, the TARDIS is in lockdown, I'll open those doors when Clara's by my side.\\
'''Bram''': You crazy lunatic!\\
'''The Doctor''': My ship, my rules!\\
'''Gregor''': You'll kill us all, and the girl.\\
'''The Doctor''': She's going to die if you don't help me. Don't get into a spaceship with a mad man, didn't anyone ever teach you that? OK, a little gentle persuasion. Say, 30 minutes. ''[shortens the countdown]''\\
'''Bram''': We'll die even quicker now!\\
'''The Doctor''': You'll perform better under pressure. Anybody wanna go for 15 minutes?
** Made even better by the later revelation that he's bluffing, and the TARDIS still doesn't have a self-destruct.
* The TARDIS manages to defend herself admirably even when crippled by the salvagers. When one is climbing down a ladder to take her apart, she zaps him with a piece of exposed wiring, sending him crashing down a ladder. When Gregor steals a pod she uses to make new parts, she simply makes the door to the room disappear. Additionally, she constantly reworks her own architecture to confuse the salvagers and lure the carbonized zombies towards them. Even when at her weakest, the TARDIS is still a force to be reckoned with when pissed off.
* The TARDIS creating a couple of echoes of the console room to save Clara and the Doctor, keeping them in the safest rooms in the TARDIS until Clara accidentally lets one of the zombies in.
* The TARDIS Library.
-->'''Clara''': Oh, now that's just showing off.

[[AC:The Crimson Horror]]
* Ada beating the Red Leech that destroyed her life to a bloody pulp.
* Ada getting the courage to stand up to her mother. She ''screams'' at her and even goes so far as to beat her with her cane. It's both terrifying and incredibly therapeutic.
* Ada rescuing the Doctor from the "reject pile." She knows perfectly well that her mother would hate her for it, and her mother's opinion of her is the only thing she cares about--but she saves him anyway, not even knowing who he was. Because she ''could'', and she knows what it's like to be rejected, and she has it in her to be ''splendid''.
* Ada, at the end, being brave enough to not let her mother's tyranny ruin any more of her life; she's going to ''do'' something with her life, and has even found enough confidence to refer to herself as a 'bright young lady' whereas before she had only ever called herself by derogatory terms.
* "Just when you think your favorite lock-picking Victorian chambermaid is never going to turn up...! ''Jenny!''"
* "Right, we need a plan..." "Plan later. This one's on me!" Cue Jenny going from "formal Victorian" to "ass-kicking ninja suit" and beating the tar out of everyone in the immediate vicinity.
** And that is just after she ''smacks the Doctor silly'' for kissing her without permission.
** And considering that Diana Rigg is the villain in this episode, the fact that Jenny delivers an ass-whooping worthy of [[Series/TheAvengers Emma Peel]] makes it especially awesome.
* Jenny, infiltrating Sweetville, alone, with no way of contacting anyone for help if something goes wrong. Considering she knows perfectly well what happened to the last undercover investigators... and single-handedly rescuing the Doctor while she's at it!
* Vastra is a fan of the dramatic reveal.
--> '''Vastra:''' I have seen these symptoms before...A long time ago...\\
'''Coroner:''' Oh aye? How long?\\
'''Vastra:''' ''[turns to reveal her face, smirking]'' About 65 million years.
* Strax has two BigDamnHeroes moments in "The Crimson Horror," first charging a bunch of {{mook}}s with a laser gun [[BloodKnight while laughing like a maniac]], then appearing at the top of the chimney to order the BigBad to stand down. He even gets her gender right!
-->'''Strax:''' Drop down your weapon, human female!
* The Doctor is all set to shut down the complicated evil machine with the Sonic Screwdriver, then Clara smashes it with a chair.

[[AC:Nightmare in Silver]]
* The Doctor defeating ''himself'' (well, "Mr. Clever", a Cyber-Planner that had taken over half his brain) by ''playing chess''.
** A meta-moment of awesome to Creator/MattSmith for being able to flawlessly play a villain personality to hamminess levels that would rival some of the Master's incarnations. His acting is that good.
* One of the soldiers is all alone and faced with a Cyberman. He shouts, "I've heard about the Cybermen since I was in my cradle. I'm not afraid of you!"
* Clara taking command of a military unit and taking a swing at a Cyberman with a mace. And also a [[{{BFG}} humongous laser cannon]].
* "Nightmare in Silver" shows the proper return of the Mondasian Cybermen, and it is triumphant indeed, with many [[TookALevelInBadass levels in badass taken]], including [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]]-like AdaptiveAbility and SuperSpeed shown as disturbingly chilling BulletTime. It takes blowing up an entire planet to get rid of them this time around, and even then [[SequelHook there are still pieces left...]]

[[AC:The Name of the Doctor]]
* The Great Intelligence pulls off a BatmanGambit that leads him to the Doctor's final resting place. Instead of a corpse, the Doctor leaves behind an open rift of temporal energy that represents the whole of his timeline. The Great Intelligence then steps into that burning white light, destroying himself and nearly erasing the whole of the Doctor's life with him.
* Clara jumping into the Doctor's timestream, reincarnating herself throughout time and space to protect him from the Great Intelligence. Among other things, she advises the First Doctor on which TARDIS to steal. To save her, the Eleventh Doctor jumps in after her, crossing his own timestream.
** FridgeBrilliance: This means that Clara managed to completely thwart the Great Intelligence at every single instant of the Doctor's more than thousand-year-old life. BadassNormal at its finest.
* ''Doctor Who'' has an unprecedented ContinuityCavalcade in this episode, showing all of them as Clara and the Doctor travel through the latter's timeline]. This culminates in the big moment of the episode, where it's [[TheReveal revealed]] that John Hurt is playing ''another'' incarnation of the Doctor, one who performed an act so reprehensible that the other Doctors refuse to acknowledge it.
* The War Doctor's reveal. Dramatic and incredibly shocking. Just when everyone thinks there are strictly 11 Doctors out there to this point... we learn there is one more... who is ''not'' using the name that has been central to the show for 50 years. People's assumptions that there couldn't be any others are completely shaken. And his lines indicate that it was for a good reason.
--> '''War Doctor:''' What I did, I did without choice. In the name of peace and sanity.


[[AC:The Night of the Doctor]]
* Two words: [[HesBack PAUL MCGANN!]]
* Also, The Eighth Doctor saluting his companions by name from the Big Finish audios before his regeneration]], solidifying their status in the televised series's continuity. That means he has given himself a fully-fledged tenure ''without even appearing onscreen for the ride''.
** The above needs to be re-iterated: Big Finish ''is officially canon''. If you listen carefully you can still hear the [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing joyous shrieking]] of the fandom.
* His re-introduction, appearing behind Cass on a crashing spaceship while she argues with the computer about needing a Doctor.
--> '''Eighth Doctor''': I'm a Doctor. ''({{Beat}})'' Though ''probably'' [[RealitySubtext not the one]] [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall you were expecting....]]
** [[spoiler:A subtle touch that crosses with CMOH; it was a very clear decision to not reveal Paul [=McGann=] until ''after'' the audience hears him speak. For those unfamiliar with him, all it causes is a brief moment of confusion. For fans of the audios, it was like being clubbed over the head. Their years of devotion to their Doctor paid off in that one moment of breathless "...is it ''possible''?"]]
** The fact that the BBC managed to ''keep it a secret'' is a CMOA in and of itself.
** The regeneration. Period. The moment Christopher Eccleston appeared as the Ninth Doctor, fans began clamoring about what happened to the Eighth Doctor, not even knowing if it was a straight shot between 8 and 9 (which was later quashed). It became a gigantic blank space in the continuity of the show that was left unchecked and even Paul himself wanted it dealt with properly. The demand built up to have it take place, until the 50th rolled around and fans were bellowing for it to happen because it was the perfect excuse to show it. Paul even had to quell the commotion on his Twitter account repeatedly to hide his involvement and play coy the whole time before his minisode aired. Until at last, the impossible happened... and the video posted on Youtube by the BBC ''exploded'' with over a million hits in a matter of a week.
*** His FamousLastWords are taken right from the Good Book: "Physician, heal thyself."
** The Eighth Doctor makes it audibly known he doesn't give the [[DeadpanSnarker slightest]] rip that he's dying:
---> '''Eigth Doctor:''' Four minutes? That's ''ages!'' What if I get bored or need a television, couple of books? Anyone for chess? Bring me ''knitting.''
** His new costume is a {{Badass}} revamp of the old one, and the Doctor looks a bit messy--five o'clock shadow, unkempt hair, clothes all wrinkled and unbuttoned. He is evidently exhausted--who knows how much running he's been doing since the Time War began? Even the TARDIS is banged up with laser fire scorches and weathering paint. [[DoNotGoGentle But he's still going.]]

[[AC:[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day Of The Doctor]]]]
* As the show's 50th anniversary there was a truly gigantic level of hype surrounding this episode. It not only did not disappoint but had literally countless [[MomentOfAwesome Moments of Awesome]] throughout.
* The entire Time War scene, which managed to outdo all the epic battle scenes beforehand in the revival show's history as thousands of Daleks swarm Arcadia while Time Lord soldiers fight for their lives in the chaos.
* The War Doctor has had it with the Time War and he wants his enemies to know it. How does he do it? He calmly asks a Gallifreyan soldier for his gun and engraves "NO MORE" into a ruined wall of a building in Arcadia. He then steals the most dangerous weapon ever known to be created and threatens to activate it, not caring if he goes up with them all.
** After the Doctor blasts down the Daleks, the Gallifreyan Soldier notices one of them is still alive--a bisected Dalek ranting for someone to explain what "No More" means. He then proceeds to give it a ShutUpHannibal by blasting it in the eyestalk, causing it to ''explode'', in one of the most beautiful explosions in the history of the show. That soldier, whether he died or not, had balls of ''steel''.
* The appearance of ''[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17nw7w_gallifrey-falls-no-more-the-day-of-the-doctor_shortfilms every single Doctor, all working together to save Gallifrey.]]'' And better yet -- there weren't 12 Doctors there. It was all 13. Yes, including Capaldi. And during that scene, the fandom...well, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQuASQh36gI see for yourself.]]
** "No, sir. ''All thirteen''."
** Really, that whole sequence starts with a bang.
---> '''First Doctor:''' Calling the War Council of Gallifrey; this is the Doctor!
*** How about the sight of the 13 [=TARDISes=] whizzing around each other? Even better as it was each Doctor's individual TARDIS.
** Pretty much everything ''any'' of the Doctors said in that sequence could qualify. But the last moment really stands out:
---> '''11th Doctor:''' [[CatchPhrase Geronimo!]]\\
'''10th Doctor:''' [[CatchPhrase Allons-y!]]\\
'''War Doctor:''' [[TakeThatUs Oh, for God's sake...]] [[BadassBoast Gallifrey stands!]]
* Clara is surrounded by Zygons in a room with nothing but a vortex manipulator. Clara takes the vortex manipulator and escapes, in seconds.
* Four words: Gallifrey Falls No More. Long story short: the Doctors finally figure out a way to save Gallifrey while keeping history intact, and end up conscripting all 13 Doctors to help them.
---> '''11th Doctor:''' Gentlemen, I've had 400 years to think about this. [[WhamLine I've changed my mind.]]
** Let's give one to the ''editors'' too! They did an amazing job of editing in the stock footage to make it seem like all 13 were there, and they probably had to go through over ''four decades'' worth of stock footage, find the appropriate ones, and edit them in.
* TomBaker's entire appearance as the curator.
* The final scene with ''all'' the Doctors standing side by side, War Doctor included, staring upon Gallifrey, now saved.
* Though drowned out by the epic story surrounding it, the Zygon plot of the episode has multiple [[MomentOfAwesome Moments of Awesome]] in its own right.
** Kate Stewart proving once again that she has inherited her father's stainless steel balls, even if she is willing to nuke London to save the earth.
** Queen Elizabeth I both killing her Zygon double with a dagger and then successfully impersonating it to trick the other Zygons into entering stasis. BadAss, thy name is Elizabeth!
** Osgood is cornered and helpless, about to be killed (or at least, covered in Zygon goop to allow her continued impersonation). Then she notices that her attacker is standing on the end of her scarf... One good yank and the attacker is flat on her back on the floor.
*** And both Osgoods get a quite understated one: The Doctors' plan to have no one know if they're the real thing or the Zygon didn't account for how there was only one inhaler. But upon discovering this, [[HeartwarmingMoments they both agree to keep quiet and let the treaty be made]].
* The Moment gets quite a few, for a sentient super-weapon that developed a conscience. Taking the form of the Bad Wolf, she kicks off the entire plot by opening the windows in time to allow the War Doctor to meet the man he'd become if he pushed the button, in addition to offering him advice as an invisible StealthMentor for most of the episode.
** More than that, as the War Doctor points out, the Moment didn't show him just any possible future ([[ArcWords time can be rewritten]] after all), she showed him exactly the future he needed to see in order to save Gallifrey. You could make the argument that the ''entire'' Doctor Who revival series is thanks to her; it was only a possible future for the Doctor until her manipulation caused things to happen the way they did and thus made it ''the'' future. Nu-Who is a BatmanGambit by the Moment.
* Two moments in one for The Doctors getting into the Black Vault. First, they come up with a plan to get past Kate's TARDIS-proofing. Second, they make one hell of a BigDamnHeroes entrance by sonicing an active Dalek through the plate glass of the picture frame.
-->'''War Doctor''': Hello.\\
'''Tenth Doctor''': I'm the Doctor.\\
'''Eleventh Doctor''': Sorry about the Dalek.\\
'''Clara:''' Also the showing off.
* Early on, we see just how much the Daleks fear "The Oncoming Storm" during the Time War. About to exterminate a group of helpless Gallifreyans, including scared, crying children, the Daleks suddenly are distracted from this task because they detect The Doctor. Not one of them even considers stopping to execute their prey at this point. [[TheDreaded They're all so scared of The Doctor, they don't dare divert their attention to anything else when they realize he's on the scene.]]
** Alluded to in the climax; when 13 [=TARDISes=] start flying towards Gallifrey, each with an incarnation of the Doctor in them, the Daleks' only response is to increase their firepower, cleary terrified out of their wits at the thought of '''''all thirteen Doctors''''' coming at them.
* The Time Lords themselves. If you think about it on a meta-level, any race that the Daleks encounter--whether it be humans, Cybermen or some other race--gets thoroughly curbstomped by them. Yet, the Time Lords, who are described as being "old dusty senators" and "decadent and decayed", manage to hold ''centuries of warfare'' against them (considering the fact that the War Doctor died of old age, and given a Time Lord's superhuman life-span). There is a ''reason'' they are known as the mightiest race in the universe.
* Even after spending his life as a warrior, the War Doctor has not managed to end the Time War. It was just too big a conflict to end on his own while in his youth. He outlived that purpose and grew old. And all the while, he has gone through hell, but never abandoned his compassion for the innocent men, women, and children of Gallifrey and everyone else who was dragged into this war.
** He has a bandolier taken from someone he failed to save as a reminder of his purpose for fighting from the start of his life to the end of his life. His clothes are also really beaten up compared to the other Doctors, showing that he hasn't had the luxury of being whimsical.

[[AC:The Time Of The Doctor]]
* The Doctor fought for centuries in the same town just for a chance to finally bring his people back. Think about that. Centuries spent fighting Weeping Angels, Cybermen, Daleks and The Silence all for a chance to undo his greatest regret. And in all that time, the town called Christmas never fell to any of them. Now THAT is a stand that would make any Doctor proud.
* The Doctor forces the cooperation of The Silence due to the Daleks nearly destroying them during the siege of Trenzalore. Think about that. The organization that planned so far ahead that they almost outsmarted The Doctor turned around and ended up being among the last TrueCompanions the Doctor ever had this regeneration.
** As if to illustrate this, there are shots of the Silence zapping Cybermen and of the Doctor leading a squad of Silence into battle. That's right, the Doctor was able to win the allegiance of an army of [[SlendermanMythos Slenderman]]-Expy {{Humanoid Abomination}}s and lead them into battle against the Daleks.
* The brief [[OneSceneWonder puppet scene]], adorable and awesome.
---> '''Eleventh Doctor Puppet''': Christmas is defended!
* One must give props to the Daleks as well. 300 years where most of the Doctor's other enemies just gave up in their siege, and only the Daleks never gave up trying to kill The Doctor. Nobody can say they aren't determined.
** By 300 years everyone else had given up; who knows how many centuries later, the Eleventh Doctor is ''dying of old age'' and the pepper pots of doom are still at it. {{Determinator}}, thy name is Dalek.
*** Not to say the others didn't try. The Cyberiad somehow dispatched a Cyberman ''made entirely of wood.''
** Their trap for the Doctor, though it fails, is also awesome, as they manage to convert large numbers of ''Silents'' into Dalek Puppets.
** And even when they seem to have won, when they have the Doctor completely surrounded, in an old, decrepit body and ''knowing'' that he can't regenerate since he's used up all his lives, the Daleks are still too afraid of the Doctor to actually shoot. ''That'' is how much he scares them.
--->'''Daleks:''' YOU WILL DIE, AND THE TIME LORDS WILL NEVER RETURN.\\
'''Eleventh Doctor:''' And you still can't work up the courage to shoot me, can you? You're still worried I've got something up my sleeve.
* Tasha Lem, after a little ReversePsychology from the Doctor, is able to regain control of her Dalek-puppet body and [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard uses her Dalek weapons to kick Dalek ass.]]
* The Doctor uses his regeneration to ''destroy a Dalek Cruiser!''
** The speech leading up to that is fantastic as well:
--->'''Eleventh Doctor:''' What did you say? Did you mention "the rules?" Now listen, bit of advice: Tell me the truth if you think you know it, lay down the law if you're feeling brave, but, Daleks, never, ever tell me "the rules!"\\
'''Daleks:''' [[OhCrap EMERGENCY, EMERGENCY,]] [[WhamLine THE DOCTOR IS REGENERATING, THE DOCTOR IS REGENERATING!]]\\
'''Eleventh Doctor:''' Oh, look at this, [[spoiler: regeneration number thirteen!]] We're breaking some serious science here, boys! And tell you what, it's gonna be a ''WHOPPER!''\\
'''Daleks:''' [[KillHimAlready EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINATE THE DOCTOR!!!]]\\
'''Eleventh Doctor:''' ''[[YouAreTooLate You think you can stop me now, Daleks?]] '''[[BringIt IF YOU WANT MY LIFE]], [[PunctuatedForEmphasis COME. AND. GET IT!]]'''''
** Culminating in his PreAsskickingOneLiner to the Daleks as he uses the excess regeneration energy to destroy them;
---> '''Eleventh Doctor''': ''Love from Gallifrey, boys!''
* A minor one, but the means the Doctor uses to sneak a TARDIS key past Tasha Lem are clever. The church is accustomed to people using holographic clothes, but the Doctor exploited a blind spot by shaving his head and hiding the key in a wig.
* The Doctor is dying. He has run out of options and the Daleks are going to, at long last, finish him off. There is no one that can save the day, right? Wrong. Cue [[BigDamnHeroes The Time Lords]], with an absolutely heroic version of ''This is Gallifrey'' playing, reaching out from a pocket universe to give The Doctor, the man so many of them saw as insane and whom they belittled and mocked, a brand new set of regenerations... all because Clara told them that they didn't need to HEAR the Doctor's real name... that the name he chose should be good enough for them.
** Oh yeah, Clara talking the Time Lords into giving the Doctor more regenerations. She talked the ''Time Lords'' into something they didn't want to do.
** Oh, that's nowhere near the real awesome. The Time Lords ''already know the Doctor's name''. Even if it was somehow erased from their obsessive filing system, there's no way the name of one of the most (in)famous renegades in Gallifreyan history isn't in ''the Matrix'', or known to one of his House members. The Time Lords didn't need to ''learn'' the Doctor's name; they needed him to ''say'' his name. He refused because he didn't want to give that kind of power to his enemies. Clara's appeal to the Time Lords was essentially saying that the Doctor wasn't ever going to play that game but that he had spent centuries fighting to protect them and he was about to die for them. After millennia of tormenting him, the Time Lords finally ''listened to the Doctor'' and gave him his chance to save them.
** The fact that the Time Lords get to have a BigDamnHeroes moment when we've only seen them as antagonists since the revival.
* The Doctor removing his bow tie before regenerating. It's heartbreaking as hell, but Awesome.
* The Doctor managing to trick a Cyberman into killing itself while under the influence of a truth field.
* Clara riding on the ''outside'' of the TARDIS as it passes through the Time Vortex. Keep in mind that the only other person to do this was ''immortal''. It's a case of FridgeLogic, really...
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Twelfth Doctor]]
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYN6ruU672Y first released teaser]] features the Twelfth Doctor standing in the shadows, with the TARDIS [[ExplodingInstrumentation console exploding]] in the background. The new Doctor doesn't even flinch.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TivqZTq5u6Y first official trailer]], which sets the tone for what looks to be a much darker adventure.
-->Clara: Where are we going?
-->The Doctor: Into [[DarkerAndEdgier darkness.]]
* The final Series 8 teaser has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7TegbBPMkE the Doctor literally break the fourth wall by tapping in to form "TODAY" in the crack.]]

[[AC:Deep Breath]]
* Clara's refusal of the Half-Faced Man's demand by asking him questions is good.
** Hell, the way she confronts him in the escape is chilling, yet awesome.
** Added points for the fact that Clara is visibly terrified and crying while doing so, yet never backs down. Lampshaded by the Doctor:
--->'''The Doctor:''' Five-one and crying. You never stood a chance.
* Clara gets another for defending herself from Vastra's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, earning a round of solid applause from Jenny.
** The speech itself is one because of Vastra's self-satisfied grin by the end of Clara's defense. She didn't mean a word of it; she was just trying to make Clara angry enough for ''her'' to see that she still cared about the Doctor.
* Jenny and Vastra make a very stylish BigDamnHeroes entrance into the "larder" of the ancient ship.
--> '''"Remain still and lay down your weapons in the name of the British Empire!"'''
** And then there's Strax...
* "Hang on, she [[BoringButPractical called the police?]] We never do that! We should start."
* The Doctor's final confrontation with the Half-Faced Man. He tells him he's afraid he's going to have to kill him, surmising it's the only way to stop him and that he's the command module for the other clockwork droids. After a brief scuffle, in which the Half-Faced Man says he can't self-terminate and the Doctor says he can't kill him, the Doctor says one of them is lying. Cue the Half-Faced Man impaled on a tower, and the Doctor giving the camera a hell of a DeathGlare.
--> "Those people down there? [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime They're never small to me]]. Do not make assumptions about how far I will go to protect them, because I've already come a '''very long way!''' And unlike you...I do not expect to reach the Promised Land."
* The Twelfth Doctor gets his first BigDamnHeroes moment:
--> "Hello, hello rubbish robots from the dawn of time."

[[AC:Into the Dalek]]
* Despite being a massive PyrrhicVictory on the Doctor's part, Rusty the Dalek turning on and destroying the rest of the Daleks is admittedly pretty spectacular.
--> '''Rusty''': [[AC:I see into your soul, Doctor. I see beauty. I see divinity. I... see... ''hatred''!]]
* Clara gets one for delivering one hell of an ArmorPiercingSlap, calling the Doctor out in the grand tradition of the Companions.
-->'''Clara''': This is the look you get right before I slap you!
* The Doctor gets one not only for rescuing Journey at the last second, but when she's threatening him with a gun, he doesn't even bat an eye and flat out, calmly tells her that no, that is not how you ask for something. He actually gets her to back down and ask for help, "please."
* This episode captures the true horror of a Dalek assault force; A Dalek saucer descends on to the ''Aristotle'', which is dwarfed by the saucer's size, with cries of "Exterminate" echoing all around. Chillingly awesome.
** Likewise, the Combined Galactic Resistance deciding that, if the Daleks want to take down the ''Aristotle'', they're going to have to fight through them to achieve it.
---> '''[[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Colonel]] Morgan Blue''': That door's never going to hold. But I'm damned if I'm going to make it easy for them!

[[AC:Robot of Sherwood]]
* After Robin Hood attempts to steal the TARDIS (all property being theft to him), The Doctor defeats him in a swordfight with a spoon.
* Robin, The Sheriff, and The Doctor in an archery contest. Even though The Doctor cheated.
* Robin vs. The Sheriff.
* The Doctor leading the enslaved peasants to revolt against their captors. They take unmelted gold plates and use them as reflector shields against the robot knights' laser beams. The plan is so successful that all of the robots in charge of the area are completely destroyed, allowing the peasants to escape.
* Robin Hood managing to shoot a golden arrow, as in an arrow that must weigh more than a brick, miles into the air with an 1190-ish bow. With his arm broken! While compensating for the two other people who are helping to hold his bow! And hitting the target. But you know, [[ImprobableAimingSkills that last one's a given.]]
* "When did you start believing in impossible heroes?" The fact that Robin Hood was so impossibly awesome that each and every one of the Doctor's regenerations believed it couldn't be real. Not even the child-like Eleven, or the human curious One ever considered him plausible enough to even investigate. Coming from [[BeyondTheImpossible someone like The Doctor]] that says a lot about how awesome Robin Hood is. It may even be that the Doctor took such offense at Robin because he considered Robin Hood his personal hero, and didn't want some fake parading around.
* Clara managing to outsmart the Sheriff and have him spill the beans on his entire plan. Bonus points for correctly deducing what happened and letting him fill in the rest.

[[AC:Listen]]
* This episode is a great one for Clara. From her helping young Danny Pink with his fear of a monster under his bed to her telling the young First Doctor that it's okay to be afraid, and that it doesn't have to make him [[BadassCreed cruel or cowardly]].
** Clara managing to make the Doctor follow orders.
--->'''Clara''': Promise me you won't look at where we've been. Just fly us out of here.\\
'''Doctor''': I don't take orders Clara. Not from anyone.\\
'''Clara''': Do as you're told.
** When she uses the traces of her mental link with the TARDIS to transport the crew away from '''''the end of the universe.'''''
* The Doctor actually turning his back on the monster under Rupert's bed, and then urging Clara and Rupert to do so with him. Sure, he was terrified for their safety if they saw something that evolved to be a perfect hider, but it takes true courage to ignore the things you're scared of if it means protecting someone else.

[[AC:Time Heist]]
* In the "Next Time" clips for the episodes, Abslom Daak from ''Doctor Who Weekly'' makes a cameo on a wanted poster. In the same vein as "The Night of the Doctor" confirming the Creator/BigFinish audios as canon, "Time Heist" will confirm ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' as canon.
* Really, the whole heist is one for the Doctor. He puts together the perfect team and makes it through the biggest, most impenetrable bank in the universe, all to save the lives of the last two of an ancient species.
* The Doctor's EurekaMoment is a great thing to behold. He first recalls Saibra's question from earlier and then asks Clara what he knows about the Architect. Clara's answer: The Doctor hates him. The Doctor hates that manipulative, pompous, arrogant show-off called the Architect! There could only be one person as arrogant and manipulative as the Architect: The Doctor!

[[AC:The Caretaker]]
* Danny's BigDamnHeroes moment. He decloaks from the invisibility watch and buys the Doctor some well needed time by drawing Blitzer's fire, then ''backflips over him'' and then runs to hug Clara.
* Danny [[WhatTheHellHero calls The Doctor out for treating the situation with the killer alien robot casually simply because he knows Danny's in the room.]] And then he learns [[AristocratsAreEvil The Doctor is a]] '''[[AristocratsAreEvil Lord]]''', [[AristocratsAreEvil one of the "aristocracy" who starts conflicts]], and begins to address The Doctor as a superior officer, knowing that it will provoke his anger. Anger that Danny doesn't even flinch from, a considerable feat given the formidable performance by Creator/PeterCapaldi. Compare that to Madame Kovarian's silent shudder when she was confronted with Eleven. Danny Pink stands his ground confronting an alien with obviously superior tech on said alien's home turf. And like Rory before him, he doesn't seem all that fazed or impressed by the TARDIS's BiggerOnTheInside element. (Granted, he was forewarned on that last count.)

[[AC:Kill the Moon]]
* Courtney kills a spider-germ with disinfectant.
* Clara stops the nukes from going off, saving the moon-baby.
* Clara, calling the Doctor out in awesome fashion, threatening to slap him so hard he'll regenerate if he doesn't tell her the truth about how much foreknowledge he had.

[[AC:Mummy on the Orient Express]]
* Meta case: The recreation of the Orient Express is amazing SceneryPorn.
* Perkins proves to be so Awesome, he's one of those rare individuals who the Doctor decrees to be "a genius."
** Perkins' WhatTheHellHero speech. "Doctor, are you really a genius or are you just ''extremely arrogant''?" The Doctor doesn't even snap at him. He ''agrees'' with him. He could be both.
* Captain Quell decided to FaceDeathWithDignity.
* The Doctor lives up to his BadassBoast, "One minute with me and this thing would be over."
* The villain of the piece manages to be DangerouslyGenreSavvy enough to get all the information they needed, blew up the train to prevent The Doctor from finding them, and is still out there somewhere, having gotten away scot-free.

[[AC:Flatline]]
* The Doctor's speech to the Boneless as he banishes them back to their home dimension after regaining control of the TARDIS.
--> '''The Doctor:''' I tried to talk, I want you to remember that. I tried to reach out, I tried to understand you, but I think that you understand us perfectly. And I think that you just don't care! And I don't know whether you are here to invade, infiltrate or just replace us. I don't suppose it really matters now, you are monsters! That is the role you seem determined to play, so it seems that '''I''' must play '''mine'''! The man that stops the monsters! I'm sending you back to your own dimension. Who knows? Some of you may even survive the trip, and if you do, remember this: ''you'' are not welcome here! This plane is protected! '''I''' am the Doctor! *Catches his screwdriver* And I name you: the Boneless!
** Extra points for the bit where he gets into his signature costume halfway through, which we haven't seen for a while.
** Extra Extra points for the moment when he catches his screwdriver.
** Extra Extra Extra points for The Visual Effects of Awesome showing all the Boneless go zoom at the end.
* Clara using the Boneless's powers against them to get the TARDIS back to normal.
** Clara herself is utterly fantastic in this episode, stepping into the role of TheHero while the Doctor is trapped inside his TARDIS; For this episode, the Doctor, along with Rigsy, serve as ''her'' companions while she does everything she can to keep people alive and to stop the Boneless at the same time.

[[AC:In the Forest of the Night]]
* [[BigDamnHeroes Danny]] scares an escaped zoo tiger away simply by blinding it with a torchlight.
* The ''trees themselves'' banding together to block a solar flare from cooking the Earth.

%%[[AC:Dark Water]]
%%[[AC:Death in Heaven]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Expanded Universe]]
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 [=MoA=] in a story, the story is considered poor. And then there's the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, which gives us just as many.
* Awesome/BigFinishDoctorWho
* Awesome/DoctorWhoMagazine
* Awesome/DoctorWhoNewAdventures
* Awesome/EighthDoctorAdventures

[[AC:Past Doctor Adventures]]
* 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." As it is, they eventually respond by ''reciting the lyrics to Kung Fu Fighting''.
* In the novel ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Illegal-Monster-Collection/dp/1849907579/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402833894&sr=1-1&keywords=illegal+alien+doctor+who Illegal Alien]]'' (originally a PDA), the Seventh Doctor not only manages to ''reprogram'' the Cybermen, but he makes them attack the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] that were storing them. That's right, '''[[CurbStompBattle CYBERMEN. FIGHTING. NAZIS.]]''' Guess who won?
** Bonus points for the Cyberleader taking one look at [[JerkAss Captain]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Hartmann]], throwing him across the room and later shooting him in the face. They also make a [[CoolGuns/MachineGuns MG42 machine gun]] explode by simply grabbing the barrel, heat up a Tiger Tank, destroy all the Nazis and generally be {{Badass}}. To top it all off, unlike what the cover of the Monster Collection edition shows, they're not the "Nightmare in Silver" Cybermen or the Cybus Cybermen - they're Mondasian Cybermen who [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100620164045/tardis/images/f/fd/Cyb_gun1.jpg look]] [[http://www.dbutler22.freeserve.co.uk/dwinv2.jpg like]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Cybermen_6972.jpg this]]. And yet they're [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] [[UncannyValley enough]] to make a [[BreakTheHaughty SS Commander]] [[BringMeMyBrownPants shit his pants.]]
*** The human characters still have loads of [=CMOAs=], and are all pretty damn {{Badass}}. The most shining examples are, naturally, Ace, who hits a Cyberman hard enough to make a huge dent in one of its "Handles", [[HardboiledDetective Cody McBride]], who attacks the Cybermen with a [[KillItWithFire oxycelatene torch]] and manages to saw off the arm of one of them, Mama the bartender who blasts a Cybermat with a [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter double-barreled shotgun]], Colonel Schott, the WWI veteran who decides to keep on fighting the Cybermen (which he isn't scared of at all) with a [[CoolGuns/{{Handguns}} Luger]] and a Tiger's main gun while the driver is dead and the arrogant SS Commander is busy crapping his pants, and Colonel George Lazonby, who goes down fighting the Cybermen with a [[CoolGuns/MachineGuns Bren Gun.]]
*** The fact that the reprogrammed Cyberleader scans Ace, George Limb and Captain Hartmann, then decides to ignore the other two completely and attack [[JerkAss Hartmann.]] This, and the subsequent attack on the Nazis, can be interpreted as evidence that even the ''Cybermen'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards hate Nazis.]]

[[AC:BBC New Series Adventures]]
* "Winner Takes All": The Ninth Doctor disarms a knife wielding Darren Pye with ease and then stares him down into a retreat.

[[AC:IDW comics]]
* "The Forgotten": ten Doctors facing off against the BigBad. [[http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/mrtonylee/comicpr/doctorwho_twopage.jpg Here you go.]]
* In "The Fugitive" the Draconian, Ogron and Sontaran fleets turning up to defeat the Krillitanes.
* Lau'Tan sacrificing himself to fix the terraforming device by turning into part of it, even though this fuses him in that form. That after he was a villain.
* Matthew Finnegan sacrificing himself to defeat the Advocate.
* Kevin. OK, first off, he is a [[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Kevin_%28When_Worlds_Collide%29 ROBOT. TYRANNOSAURUS. COMPANION.]] And if that wasn't enough by itself, ''then'' he strapped on a pair of prosthetic arms and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punched out Cthulhu]]. [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110930190040/tardis/images/4/4c/Issue_9a.jpg For reals]].
* The Legend of Rory Williams lives on in the IDW ''Doctor Who'' comic book. In "The Doctor and The Nurse", when Amy insisted that a squabbling Doctor and Rory spend some quality male-bonding time together, the Doctor and Rory (who was wearing a tux at the time) ended up in London during TheBlitz, where they saved the life of Creator/IanFleming. Evidently Rory inspired the creation of '''Literature/JamesBond'''!
** And right after that, they mistakenly end up in the Pleistocene and a saber-tooth chases them into the TARDIS. A cornered Rory slaps it in the face with a rolled-up magazine and, to his surprise, ''it runs away mewing like a scared kitten.''

[[AC:The Adventure Games]]
* ''City of the Daleks'': The Doctor walks through a room full of Daleks who've just been blinded and are spraying gunfire nonstop to save the Daleks exterminating humanity and Amy from being erased from time. And of course then has to run to the top to escape the explosion.
* In ''The Gunpowder Plot'', Rory, stuck in orbit around Earth within the Houses of Parliament of 1605, armed with an EMP generator and a [[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK Dennis the Menace]] slingshot, takes out as many Rutans and Sontarans as he can. That's right, two species locked in war for millennia can't take down the Lone Centurian.
** Rory's made more {{Badass}} with this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWb9L5hDdIk&feature=channel_video_title glitch]].

[[AC:Stage shows]]
* In the stage show ''Doctor Who Live'', there was one very awesome moment where the Cybermen and the Daleks have a rematch. Only unlike [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday last time]], it's the ''Cybermen'' [[TookALevelInBadAss that got the]] [[CurbStompBattle upper-hand]]. And keep in mind in the context, these Daleks are supposedly a lot more powerful than the ones in "Doomsday" and managed to outwit the Doctor TWICE in a row. Watch the whole battle [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJO7eD-2efg here]]

[[/folder]]


[[folder:Behind the Scenes]]
[[AC:Jon Pertwee]]
* 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 [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7tKAi-lDhM 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!''
* The Third Doctor regularly had fight scenes, mostly because Jon Pertwee liked them. He also did all of his own stunts, which is pretty awesome on its own, especially when you consider that he did the majority of them [[MadeOfIron while suffering through well-nigh debilitating back pain.]]
* And the reveal that he [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283542/Double-O-Who-Jon-Pertwees-secret-life-wartime-agent--years-did-battle-Daleks.html used to be an intelligence agent]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, reporting directly to Churchill.

[[AC:Colin Baker]]
* For getting the Sixth Doctor RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap in the audio dramas. Whereas the Sixth Doctor is usually the least popular to TV fans, he is the ''most'' popular to audio drama fans.
* Getting elected President of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.
* Writing his own Doctor Who stories. I mean, who the hell is awesome enough to write their own Doctor Who for their own character?
* Similar to [=McCoy's=] and [=McGann's=] cold readings of Doctor Who speeches, we have Colin Baker doing a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcFUK-X0Ox8 cold reading]] of the Doctor's speech from "The Rings of Akhaten".

[[AC:Sylvester [=McCoy=]]]
* The Seventh Doctor's UnflinchingWalk in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" was 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 afterwards, but he knew there could be no second take so he simply went on with the shot.
* In the filming of "Battlefield", Sylvester [=McCoy=] arguably saved Sophie Aldred's life when he noticed a watertank used for a booby-trap holding Ace was about to crack and pour water onto a floor covered in electrical cables; in a second, he managed to get the stage hands to pull her out just before the glass broke.
** And amazingly it was all caught on camera and was considered so awesome that it gets its own brief documentary on the DVD for Battlefield.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Omz0lhapA Sylvester playing the spoons to an upbeat version of the Doctor Who theme.]] He really gets into it.
* His [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhlmNkk5r0k cold reading]] of the Eleventh Doctor's speech from "The Pandorica Opens".

[[AC: Paul [=McGann=]]]
* Akin to [=McCoy=]'s cold reading of Eleven's speech, here's [=McGann=]'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIKpBoJKqas&feature=related cold reading]] of the First Doctor's "One day, I shall come back" speech from ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth''.
* Returning after seventeen years to play the Eighth Doctor [[BackForTheDead once more]] in ''Night of the Doctor''.

[[AC: John Hurt]]
* John Hurt puts such weight and gravitas into his performance you might forget [[SpotlightStealingSquad the episode's about three Doctors]].
* In a matter of three appearances, John Hurt has effectively filled an enormous gap in the Doctor's life that had been ignored for a long time, and with a performance that is done masterfully.

[[AC:David Tennant]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW1x2TmIq8s&NR=1 The full list recounted to Martha in "Human Nature"]]. Since Tennant was required to ad-lib about a minute of footage that would be fast-forwarded, he just rambled on aimlessly a bit before jumping right back into character at the end. The bit about pears isn't an ad-lib, though; it's from the novel that the episode was based on.
* Marrying Georgia Moffett. Who is also the daughter of Peter Davison. Tennant married the daughter of the man who inspired him to go into acting in the first place. And thanks to Creator/StevenMoffat, he got to perform with his idol in the role that he wanted to play one day... The Doctor. PromotedFanboy, thy name is Tennant.
** Also a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} that there's such love and devotion between two people.
* Pranking Creator/FreemaAgyeman on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLnSphQ88_w Virgin Radio]] and managing to keep up the masquerade for a minute.
* Tennant did a tribute video with the cast and crew at the end of his run for a party, set to the Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)". The Proclaimers themselves merrily join in. Warning: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPKgPB80jNA MAJOR EARWORM]]
* To top it off, behold [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaMRyn47Xg&feature=channel&list=UL the Ballad of Russell and Julie]] about Doctor Who's revival, as sung by David Tennant, Catherine Tate and John Barrowman. Epic Awesomeness.

[[AC:[[Creator/ElisabethSladen Lis Sladen]]]]
* 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 West Country equivalent of a mountain to congratulate her on the scene. And these moments are only added onto with the second season premiere of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' when Sarah Jane sees a Sontaran space pod, and knows exactly how screwed they are.
* In "The 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.
* Elisabeth 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''.
* A posthumous moment of awesome for the late actress: the fact that almost nobody had any clue she was ill until she had already passed. It's a testament to her sheer professionalism and love for what she did, because she never saw it as being about her, it was about making great television that entertained fans. Lis, we love and miss you, and the world's a little darker now you're gone.
* Lis's ''magnificent'' career renaissance. She became so beloved by fans that her departure was headline news, a first for any Companion. And then, ''thirty years'' after she was last seen on ''Doctor Who'', she made a one-off appearance on the show that made her famous, and was so popular she ''earned [[Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures her own spin-off]]''. A spinoff aimed at children who largely ''had no idea who she was'', which went on to earn critical raves and a high audience for its channel. Name another actor or actress who has made that kind of comeback on television, ''ever''. And she did it all without a fuss. But then, that was Lis Sladen for you. Oh, Lis... we will never, ''ever'' forget you.
** Actually, just before she got back on TV, she made two series of AWESOME audio adventures for Big Finish, which is kind of a company that makes stories for fans of Old Who. She also returned in radio plays with Jon Pertwee. If anything, it just kind of shows how great her devotion to her character and giving the fans even more really was that she could return, first 20 years after her time, then thirty, and still just be her character like she's been living it all along.

[[AC:Matthew Waterhouse]]
* One of the darker chapters in the show's production history was Creator/TomBaker becoming incredibly difficult to work with in his final season. Recollections abound of him snoring in read-throughs at parts of the script he didn't like, verbally abusing the writers, having numerous shouting matches with co-star and [[RomanceOnTheSet brief-wife-to-be]] Lalla Ward, and caught in the middle of it all was new companion and PromotedFanboy Matthew Waterhouse, watching [[BrokenPedestal the image of his childhood hero shattering violently before his eyes.]] During one of Tom's "acting up and being rude" periods on the last day of filming for "Full Circle," Matthew (in full Adric get-up) finally put his foot down and told him to [[PrecisionFStrike "fuck off."]] And got away with it. And kept Tom quiet (aside from his lines, of course) for the ''whole rest of the studio day.'' The 2010 Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine interview described it as a "coming-of-age moment."
** Though given that this account came from Waterhouse himself and the reactions to his interview from his costars in the next issue (which was basically them gently laughing at him) it's disputable whether this even ever ''happened.''

[[AC:UsefulNotes/ComicRelief]]
* Creator/RowanAtkinson in "The Curse of Fatal Death" - Yes, it was silly, but Atkinson doesn't play a ''parody'' of the Doctor, he takes the role ''seriously,'' playing it as if he was actually the Doctor in a "real" episode. And he's ''wonderful.''

[[AC:The Mill]]
* At the end of "Bad Wolf" we see thousands and thousands and thousands of Daleks all chanting EX-TER-MIN-ATE. For the first time, the show was able to transcend budgetary considerations and deliver not just a tabletop full of dapol toys, not just cardboard cutouts propped up in the background, not just three Daleks driving around in a circle trying desperately to look like many, but a proper, honest-to-god army to be feared.

[[AC:The show itself]]
* Really, with a show that has run for thirty-three seasons over fifty years and counting, contains two [=MoA=] ''goldmines'' in the Doctor and the Master, as well as many other characters with more than a few moments themselves (Daleks, Davros, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) ''Doctor Who'' itself is a Moment of Awesome for TheBBC.
** 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.
** Also, CharlieBrooker likes it.
** The fact that a show that was simply intended to be a cheap and fun way of educating children about history and science is still made, remembered and loved by audiences fifty years later.
* The Davies/Gardner production team have several [=MoAs=] themselves, including:
** Bringing the show back to be one of the BBC's big hitters.
** Restoring the use of the CliffHanger as an art form.
** Using the BBC's rival network ITV to break the news of David Tennant's departure. Seriously, mega-cojones.
*** Even better, they had no idea it'd even ''work.'' They had a backup plan but they bet their chips that Tennant would win the award and be able to drop the bomb during his acceptance speech.
* There's the fact that the work of the new production team (along with the later work by Moffat, of course) has caused an explosion in the show's popularity across ThePond in the US. Sure, ''DW'' had fans in the US in the past, but it never truly approached the level it reached during the BBC America years.
* Back in the 1980s, Sylvester [=McCoy=]'s era was scheduled against UK soap ''CoronationStreet'', 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.
* Steven Moffat turning the series title into a nearly 50-year old [[ArcWords Arc Word]].
* The special effects team during "The Girl in the Fireplace". Apparently they decided that the iconic Doctor-astride-a-horse-through-a-mirror-into-a-ballroom shot was quite literally impossible to produce. After episode writer Creator/StevenMoffat threw, to quote the man himself, "the biggest queeny strop yet done on ''Doctor Who''" and cried like an infant, the team basically decided to give "impossible" the finger and do it anyway. And it was awesome.
* A collective CMOA goes to the show's makers, and the few fans and members of the press in on it, for successfully keeping the HUGE secret that actress Jenna-Louise Coleman, publicized to be the Doctor's next companion starting with the 2012 Christmas Special, had a MAJOR role to play 3 months earlier in the series 7 premiere, ''Asylum of the Daleks''. The premiere was actually shown in 4 semi-public screenings for fans in 4 countries prior to its televised debut and practically ''no one'' from the audiences in those screenings spoiled the secret online before the episode aired.
* The show also gets another CMOA over the only constant in the series: the [=TARDIS=] itself. When the BBC registered the TARDIS as a trademark in 1996, the Metropolitan Police challenged it, as the TARDIS is based on the police box they used in the 1960s. The Patent Office ruled in favour of the BBC, as the role of ''Doctor Who'' in the British collective psyche was so great that people identified the police box symbol with the series rather than with the police.
* In America, the Series 7 Part 2 Blu-ray was given to several hundred people in error before the airing of "The Name of the Doctor". Normally revealing a finale early is disastrous, but Moffat managed to keep fans quiet by promising a release of an interview of David Tennant and Matt Smith if the fans were good. The fans kept the secret, and Moffat [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Em8lmmTNkA complied]].
* David Tennant and Billie Piper's return for the 50th anniversary special.
* On November 25, 2013, ''The Day of The Doctor'' grossed $4.8 million. In 660 theaters. ''In. One. Night.'' Two days ''after'' it premiered on BBC America. For perspective, it was number two behind ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'' that day. It made more than ''Film/TheFifthEstate'' did in its entire run and almost as much as the 3D run of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. Again, in ''one night''. Not too shabby.
* Any time a lost episode, episodes, or rarest of all, complete serial that was thought to be junked by the BBC turns up. You've got maybe one very precious remnant of something that's been AWOL from television upwards of ''four decades''. On a feather and a prayer, through one magic discovery, be it in a rubbish bin, a garage sale, a dusty backlot of old celluloid in Hong Kong or Nigeria, or even pure dumb luck, another missing link is completed. And as soon as the film goes digital, it will proliferate the internet, whereupon the episode will be copied by those wishing to market or share the piece of ''Doctor Who'' history- ''countless backups'' from '''''one''''' reel of old weathered film!
** How about finding nine lost episodes, including the ''entirety'' of the long-lost "The Enemy of the World", in 2013? Talk about a 50th anniversary gift.
*** Not to mention the other story they found in near entirety, "The Web of Fear", which features the first ever appearance of beloved companion Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. In fact, he's a Colonel at this point!
*** To put it in perspective as to how amazing these finds are, it's considered very lucky to find even audio of lost episodes, let alone an entire episode. To find this many tapes, containing an ''entire missing story'' and all but ''one'' part of another, is a spectacular find.
* A collective decade of awesome for a small handful of fans (nearly all of them children at the time) who managed to make complete audio recordings of ''every single episode'' from TheSixties. So even though to date 26 serials and nearly 100 episodes (until 2013, it was over 100) are [[MissingEpisode now missing]], thanks to these fans, and with a little help from narrated [=CD=], telesnaps, and animation (a few animated reconstructions being officially sanctioned by the BBC), it's now possible to "watch" all 97 missing episodes of ''Doctor Who''.
* Creator/PaulMcGann finally getting his long overdue return as the Eighth Doctor in ''The Night of the Doctor.'' Granted he dies in the special, but it's still brilliant to see him back. The special also answers the old question of "How did the Eighth Doctor regenerate?".
** StevenMoffat managed to weave a whole new Doctor out of the gap between Eight and Nine and come up with a perfect reason to not upset the numbering.
** The very inception of the War Doctor into ''Doctor Who'' opens up a whole new avenue for storytelling potential, and finally lets writers cut loose and deal with the long untouched history of the Time War, because it was unclear which Doctor fought in it. Now we know.
* "The Day of the Doctor" winning a Guinness World Record for being the biggest simulcast in television history to date, transmitted in 94 countries.
** November 23rd, 2013 was a Saturday, [[BookEnds just as November 23rd, 1963 was]].
** The War Doctor's regeneration was only shown half-completed. We didn't see his full transition into Nine because Christopher Eccleston declined to return for the 50th and Steven Moffat wanted to respect his decision, on the grounds that making it appear that an actor was in something they did not want to be in without their consent would be unethical. But some fan decided to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO3veBHQ7aQ extend the regeneration into a complete version...]] With [[StealthPun fantastic]] results.
[[/folder]]

* Clara, CallingTheOldManOut in awesome fashion, threatening to slap him so hard he'll regenerate if he doesn't tell her the truth about how much foreknowledge he had.

%%[[AC:In the Forest of the Night]]

* The Doctor's final confrontation with the Hal-Faced Man. He tells him he's afraid he's going to have to kill him, surmising it's the only way to stop him and that he's the command module for the other clockwork droids. After a brief scuffle, in which the Half-Faced Man says he can't self-terminate and the Doctor says he can't kill him, the Doctor says one of them is lying. Cue the Half-Faced Man impaled on a tower, and the Doctor giving the camera a hell of a DeathGlare.

* The Doctor gets one not only for rescuing Journey at the last second, but when she was threatening him with a gun, he doesn't even bat an eye and flat out, calmly tells her that no, that is not how you ask for something. He actually gets her to back down and ask for help, "please."
* This episode captures the true horror of a Dalek assault force; A Dalek saucer descends on to the ''Aristotle'', which is dwarfed by the saucer's side, with cries of "Exterminate" echoing all around. Chillingly awesome.

* Danny [[WhatTheHellHero calls The Doctor out for treating the situation with the killer alien robot casually simply because he knows Danny's in the room.]] And then he learns [[AristocratsAreEvil The Doctor is a '''Lord''', one of the "aristocracy" who starts conflicts]] and begins to address The Doctor as a superior officer, knowing that it will provoke his anger. Anger that Danny doesn't even flinch from, a considerable feat given the formidable performance by PeterCapaldi. Compare that to Madame Kovarian's silent shudder when she was confronted with Eleven. Danny Pink stands his ground confronting an alien with obviously superior tech on said alien's home turf. And like Rory before him, he doesn't seem all that fazed or impressed by the TARDIS's BiggerOnTheInside element. (Granted, he was forewarned on that last count)

* The villain of the piece manages to be DangerouslyGenreSavvy enough to get all the information they needed, blew up the train to prevent The Doctor from finding them, and is still out there somewhere, having gotten away Scot-free.

** Extra points for the bit where he get's into his signiture costume half way through, which we haven't seen for a while.

** Extra points for the bit where he get's into his signiture costume half way through, which we haven't seen for a while.
** Extra Extra points for the moment when he catches his screwdriver.
** Extra Extra Extra points for The Visual Effects of Awesome showing all the Boneless go zoom at the end.

For other Classic Series [=CMOAs=], go [[Awesome/DoctorWhoClassicSeries here]].

[[folder:Ninth Doctor]]
[[AC:Rose]]
* This speech from the Ninth Doctor:
-->'''Doctor:''' 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.
* Rose Tyler. She's not an ActionGirl, or not supposed to be one. She SAVES THE WORLD.

%%[[AC:The End of the World]]

%%[[AC:The Unquiet Dead]]

%%[[AC:Aliens of London]]

[[AC:World War Three]]
* Harriet Jones had one in her very first appearance, when the Slitheen were about to go for Rose, she leaps out from her cover yelling 'Take me first!' Obviously the Doctor appears to save them, but it's one of those tiny characterisation moments that really shows you how good she could be.
** She gets another at the end of that episode, when she flat out ''orders'' the Doctor to stop the Slitheen, even though his plan puts them all at risk. Especially impressive is that it's the first time her CatchPhrase is treated as something more serious than a RunningGag.
--->'''Harriet''': Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. Elected by the people, for the people. And on behalf of the people, I command you Doctor. Do it.
** It's subtle here, but it's an awesome moment crossed with a HeartwarmingMoment with some [[FridgeBrilliance Fridge Awesome]] in hindsight. Nine would not have gone against Jackie's wishes, as he personally did not want to be responsible for any harm that would come to her daughter, and Harriet realized he did not want the burden of Rose's blood on his hands, so she, in a Donna Noble "Fires Of Pompeii" moment, ordered him to commence his plan on behalf of the British people by virtue of her being the highest ranking legitimate governing authority present, thus pinning all the blame on herself if everything went wrong. Or, in short, ''she proved she was the perfect politician to be Prime Minister by being willing to take responsibility for her actions, regardless of their consequences.''
* Mickey Smith spends most of his time as second-fiddle, but he's had a couple of [=MoAs=]. Did you realize that he blew up Downing Street with a submarine missile from his flat? When the Master talks about Downing Street being rebuilt? That's because it took the British Government two seasons to get over Mickey.

[[AC:Dalek]]
* The lone Dalek:
-->'''Red Shirt Soldier''': [[TemptingFate What are you going to do, sucker me to death?]]\\
''[the Dalek immediately crushes his skull with its plunger]''
* The Dalek's 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 CatchPhrase ''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''.
* The iconic scene where the Dalek kills all the "Daleks cannot handle stairs" jokes with one word:
-->'''Dalek:''' ELEVATE!
* 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.)
* The moment it meets [[CorruptCorporateExecutive 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!
* The Dalek 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:
-->'''Dalek:''' The Daleks survive in MEEEEEEE!

[[AC:The Long Game]]
* The Doctor revokes Adam's companion status after he nearly changed history.

%%[[AC:Father's Day]]

[[AC:The Empty Child]]
* The Doctor turns up for dinner. ("Thanks miss!")
* A doctor in at least his sixties, being the last person left in Albion Hospital who has not succumbed to the Empty Child virus, Dr Constantine stays there to look after his patients, fully knowing there is absolutely nothing he can do for them and risking almost certain zombification which happens shortly after he is introduced.
--> '''Dr Constantine''': Before this war began I was a father and a grandfather. Now I'm neither, but I'm still a doctor.

[[AC:The Doctor Dances]]
* The Doctor tells the child to "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:
-->'''The Doctor''': Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, ''EverybodyLives''!
* Captain Jack Harkness. Firstly, 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.
** It also is a subtle EstablishingCharacterMoment. Jack mentions earlier on he's worried that the part of his life he's missing may be clues he was a horrible person, and he seriously fears that may be the case, so when the Doctor got him to stop that bomb, it also counts as a CMOA for the Doctor in not only giving Jack a chance to make sure an act of unquestioned moral virtue is forever a part of his personal history, but it's a CMOA for Jack later on, as he found his own actions would kill him 100% that he decided not to curse the Doctor for what happened, but instead decided to allow himself to die with a good deed as his last living act, proving that whatever person he was during those missing two years of his life, he's ultimately a heroic person. And thanks to Rose, his RedemptionEarnsLife.
* Nancy verbally bitch-slapping the guy whose house she broke into. "Oh look, there's the sweat on your brow."
** "I. Am. Your. Mummy."

[[AC:Boom Town]]
* When the Doctor takes Blon Slitheen out to dinner while the TARDIS refuels, she slips poison into his drink while he's gone. When he comes back, the first thing he does upon sitting down is switch cups. Then she shoots a poisonous dart out of her finger - only for the Doctor to catch it in mid-air without even looking up. Then she leans in close, about to breathe poison on him... and he squirts some mouthwash into her mouth.
* The TARDIS literally rewrites an alien's biology so she can become a child again, and have a second lease on life. That's pretty cool.

[[AC:Bad Wolf]]
* The Daleks have Rose, and have called the Doctor to gloat and demand his surrender.
-->'''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.
** What really sells this moment is the Daleks' reaction: the Doctor's speech really ''does'' scare them to death, as they immediately scramble their troops for an attack.
** 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 [[FateWorseThanDeath 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, the final third of "Bad Wolf" is certainly an MOA 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 OhCrap look when he realises that there are half a million Daleks on Earth's doorstep.
* The Controller emulating the similarly named character from "Day of the Daleks"' betrayal and bringing the Daleks' downfall.
* Captain Jack Harkness producing a concealed laser pistol ''[[AssPull while completely naked]]'' and destroying the makeover droids.
** And then a little after when he figures out the Daleks' plan:
--->'''Jack:''' Doctor, ''Rose is still alive!''

[[AC:The Parting of the Ways]]
* ''Everything'' the Doctor says.
-->'''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?\\
--\\
'''Doctor:''' 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!''"
** And the Daleks back away! Awesome.
--->'''Doctor:''' You were fantastic, absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I.
*** Nice bookend to how the Doctor introduced himself to her. "Nice to meet you, Rose. [holds up explosive with a half-badass, half-nuts (read: 100%-Doctor) grin] '''''Run for your life!'''''"
* Whereas the Tenth Doctor claimed that wielding the power of the Time Vortex would turn a Time Lord into a vengeful God, the Ninth Doctor absorbed all of it to save Rose... and then he ''let it go''.
* Jack's death (for the first time, anyway). After fighting down to his last bullet, he coolly stands and faces a troop of Daleks, holding out his arms ready for the attack:
-->'''Dalek:''' EXTERMINATE!\\
'''Jack:''' [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner I kind of figured that]].
* Just after Mickey's mini car fails to break open the TARDIS, Jackie arrives with a large tow-truck to help.
* When Rose becomes [[PhysicalGod 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."
** Rose's speech to Jackie and Mickey back on Earth.
--->'''Rose:''' 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...
* 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 KickTheDog 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 MoA: when they can't break into the observation deck to kill Lynda, they instead 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. Hell, they probably ''could'' have gotten in given time, but decided to stealthily do it the fast way just to screw with her before they killed her.
* The Doctor says goodbye to Rose through a pre-recorded hologram which at the end ''turns and looks directly at her'' to say goodbye.

[[folder:Tenth Doctor]]
[[AC:The Christmas Invasion]]
* The Tenth 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 wanna know the best bit? This new hand... it's a ''fightin''' hand!"
** "[[PowerWalk No second chances. I'm that sort of a man.]]"
** The Doctor gets a moment of awesome even ''before'' the above notes; earlier in the episode, Rose realizes she can't understand the Sycorax despite the translating properties of the TARDIS, concluding that this is because the Doctor is unconscious. Later, we find Rose, Harriet Jones, and a man translating the Sycorax language with a device, about to be killed. The Sycorax leader is boasting in his language...then, he starts speaking English. Rose realizes that the TARDIS is translating again...cue the Doctor [[HesBack exiting the TARDIS]]. He doesn't do it dramatically, he doesn't start fighting right away, he just steps out of the TARDIS casually. And it is awesome.
--->'''The Doctor:''' Now... first things first. How do I look?\\
'''Rose:''' Um...different.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Good different or bad different?\\
'''Rose:''' Just... different.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Am I... ginger?\\
'''Rose:''' No, you're just sort of... brown.\\
'''The Doctor:''' [[MemeticMutation Aww, I wanted to be ginger! I've never been ginger.]]

[[AC:New Earth]]
* The Tenth Doctor puts himself in perspective for some Sisters.
-->'''Sister:''' And who are you to decide that?\\
'''The Doctor:''' I'm the Doctor! And if you don't like it, you want to take it to a higher authority, there isn't one, it stops with me!
* The Doctor stops an epidemic by turning walking plagues into walking cures!
-->'''The Doctor''': I am the Doctor and I have ''cured'' you!

[[AC:Tooth and Claw]]
* Queen Victoria gets one when she pulls a pistol out of her handbag and shoots the leader of the monks.
-->'''Monk:''' Oh, I don't think so, woman.\\
'''Queen Victoria:''' The correct form of address is "Your Majesty!" ''[BANG]''

[[AC:School Reunion]]
* K9 Mark III's HeroicSacrifice: "You bad dog!" "Affirmative." Even more awesome because K9, as always, sounds so damn ''smug.''
** The tiny dog taking down all those Krillitanes almost single-handedly.
** "We are in a car."

[[AC:The Girl in the Fireplace]]
* This line:
-->'''Reinette:''' What do monsters have nightmares about?\\
'''Doctor''' Me!
** The above line is right after... well, TelevisionWithoutPity said it best: "He totally beat up the ''literal monster under her literal bed.''" Even better: he says it '''while''' beating up the Droid.
* The Doctor leaving through the rotating fireplace and telling a stunned courtier:
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm the Doctor--and I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!
* The Doctor pretending to be ten sheets to the wind so he can get close enough to a clockwork robot to destroy it.
-->[[spoiler:'''Clockwork Droid''': She is compatible.]] \\
[[spoiler:'''The Doctor''': Compatible? If you believe that... you probably believe this is a glass of wine.]]\\
[[spoiler:''[pours said glass over the top of its head]'']]
* The Doctor rides a horse through a mirror, then there's the following exchange when he's introduced to Louis XV.
-->'''Reinette:'''Oh, this is my lover, the King of France.\\
'''Doctor:''' Yeah, well, I'm the Lord of Time.
* Reinette telling the entire Royal Court of Versailles to get ahold of themselves, while facing down unstoppable killer clockwork robots:
-->'''Reinette''': Would everyone just please calm down. Such a commotion, such distressing noise! [[DareToBeBadass 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.
** That's right, CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys was [[InvertedTrope inverted]]. Because never forget, popular opinion about 20th century France aside, in the 18th Century, France was one of ''the'' most important and powerful nations in the world.

[[AC:Rise of the Cybermen]]
* The fact that as soon as the Doctor realizes what's going on, he's scared. Really scared. His frantic screaming of "We surrender!" over and over again helps.

[[AC:The Age of Steel]]
* It almost seems wasted on someone so evil, but when Mr. Crane rips out his [=EarBuds=] ("Oh, no you ''don't!''") as Lumic tries to seize control, makes his way into his boss's central chamber, and mortally injures Lumic before the Cybermen restrain and "delete" him... you've got to admit that that was impressive.

[[AC:The Idiot's Lantern]]
* Where Ten and Rose are just [[BavarianFireDrill dancing verbal circles]] around the assholic Eddie.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Hold a minute. You've got hands, Mr. Connolly. Two big hands! Why is that your wife's job?\\
'''Connolly:''' It's housework, innit?\\
'''The Doctor:''' And that's a woman's job?\\
'''Connolly:''' Of course it is!\\
'''The Doctor:''' Mr. Connolly, what gender is the Queen?\\
'''Connolly:''' ''[uncomfortable]'' She's a female.\\
'''The Doctor:''' And are you suggesting the Queen does the housework?\\
'''Connolly:''' No, not at all!\\
'''The Doctor:''' Then get busy.
** And, when he catches on to what they're doing, he tries to reinstate his supposed authority over them, only for the Doctor to show that not everybody is as easily bullied.
-->'''Connolly:''' "Hold on a minute. Queen and country's one thing, but this is my house! What the... What the hell am I doing? Now you listen here, Doctor. You may have fancy qualifications, but what goes on under my roof is my business."\\
'''The Doctor:''' "Not if people are being abducted--"\\
'''Connolly:''' " I am talking!"\\
'''The Doctor:''' "'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFIZqSTWgwg And I'm ''not'' listening!]]'''"
* The speech he gives after he finds out [[TheFaceless what The Wire did to Rose]]:
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[TranquilFury They did what?]]\\
'''Bishop:''' I'm sorry?\\
'''The Doctor:''' They left her where? \\
'''Bishop:''' Just... in the street. \\
'''The Doctor:''' The street. They left her in the street. They took her face, and just chucked her out and left her in the street. And as a result, that makes things... simple. Very very simple. Do you know why?\\
'''Bishop:''' No. \\
'''The Doctor:''' Because ''now'', Detective Inspector Bishop, [[ThisMeansWar there is no power on this]] ''[[ThisMeansWar Earth]]'' [[ThisMeansWar that can stop me!]]
* Tommy CallingTheOldManOut on his betrayal and hypocrisy, followed by his wife joining in, slamming the door in his face, and then telling her relatives that "something has ended," implying she's going to divorce him. After seeing how cowed they were, it took a lot of guts to do that.

[[AC:The Impossible Planet]]
* The Beast. Seriously, this character just oozes with EvilIsCool and his entire stick of messing with crew psychologically just shows how powerful words can be.

[[AC:The Satan Pit]]
* Rose and the Doctor ''kill {{Satan}}'' (or at least a being with a good claim to inspiring the legend). By dropping it down a black hole.
-->'''Rose:''' Go to Hell.
* The speech the Doctor gives just before he does was pretty awesome too.
-->'''The Doctor:''' So that's the trap, the great test, the final judgement, I dunno. But if I kill you, I kill her. But that implies, in this big grand scheme of gods and devils, that she's just a victim. Well, I've seen a lot of this universe. I've seen fake gods and bad gods and demi-gods and would-be gods. I've had the whole pantheon. But if I believe in one thing... just one thing... I believe in her!
** He's BadassBoast as the planet is falling into the Black Hole deserves a mention too.
-->'''The Doctor:''' This is your freedom. Free to die! You're going into that black hole and I'm riding with you!
* Mr. Jefferson's HeroicSacrifice, taking out the pursuing Ood with his guns and then accepting his fate with the knowledge he bought the others some time. He then asks the Captain the increase the speed of the oxygen removal so he can die from oxygen starvation rather than be lapelled as "death by Ood".

[[AC:Love & Monsters]]
* The Doctor did not have to save the day. LINDA defeated the MonsterOfTheWeek by the themselves. That's impressive by any standards. Special mention should go to Ursula, who discovered how to kill it and implemented ThePlan to do so.
%%[[AC:Fear Her]]

[[AC:Army of Ghosts]]
* 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.

[[AC:Doomsday]]
* "Doomsday" may have had more than a few Dalek Moments of Awesome, but the Cybermen also get to verbally own the Daleks in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBSOhODoch0 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.
** [[http://9gag.com/gag/a44znwv The Daleks get vengeance]] (at 2:53 in the above video):
--->'''Cyber Leader''': Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen.\\
'''Dalek Sec''': This is not ''war''. [[ThisIsPestControl This is]] ''[[ThisIsPestControl pest control!]]'' \\
'''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''.
** Just a minute later, Rose points out to the Daleks why the Doctor owns them both.
--->'''Rose''': Five million Cybermen? Easy. One Doctor? ''Now'' you're scared.
* Yvonne Hartman: Even after being "upgraded" to Cyberman, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v-cETfhO5g she still defends Queen and Country]].
--->'''Yvonne:''' [[AC: You will not pass.]]\\
'''Cyberman:''' [[AC: What is the meaning of this?]]\\
'''Yvonne:''' [[AC: ''You will not pass.'']]

%%[[AC:The Runaway Bride]]

%%[[AC:Smith and Jones]]

[[AC:The Shakespeare Code]]
* Shakespeare completely OWNS the Carrionites, with words.
** One word- ''[[Literature/HarryPotter Expelliarmus!]]''
* That moment at the end where Will figures out, all on his own, that the Doctor is an alien and Martha is a time traveler from the future. Oh, and the psychic paper not working on him because he's just ''that brilliant.''

%%[[AC:Gridlock]]

%%[[AC:Daleks in Manhattan]]

%%[[AC:Evolution of the Daleks]]

[[AC:The Lazarus Experiment]]
* The Doctor turning his sonic screwdriver UpToEleven and inserting it into a pipe organ in order to stop the Lazarus monster. It's a lot better than it sounds.

%%[[AC:42]]

[[AC:Human Nature / The Family of Blood]]
* The denouement of "The 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 [[FateWorseThanDeath what he'd do to the Family]]''.
--> '''Son of Mine''': He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing - the fury of the Time Lord - and then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he had run away from us and hidden. He was being kind. He wrapped my father in unbreakable chains forged in the heart of a dwarf star. He tricked my mother into the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy to be imprisoned there, forever. He still visits my sister, once a year, every year. I wonder if one day he might forgive her, but there she is. Can you see? He trapped her inside a mirror. Every mirror. If ever you look at your reflection and see something move behind you just for a second, that's her. That's always her. As for me, I was suspended in time and the Doctor put me to work standing over the fields of England, as their protector. We wanted to live forever. So the Doctor made sure we did.
* The Doctor's ultimate MOA came near the end, when he reveals himself as the Doctor, and blows the Family's ship up.
-->'''Doctor''': 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!
* When the Doctor is all "come with me" towards Joan, she calls him on the way death and destruction follows in his wake. "If you hadn't come here, never chosen this place, on a whim. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Would anyone have died?]]" Instead of being oh so dazzled by his awesomeness, she spoke up for the people who get left behind (like Harriet Jones tried to before). It's fine that he was trying to be kind to the Family of Blood and all, but by saving them (rather than just giving them a quick death and being done with it) how many more people ended up dead?
* 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).
** John Smith raises a rifle, looks down the sights... Then realizes he can't do it. The Doctor is THAT opposed to using guns that he won't use them, even when he can't remember who he is!
** John Smith instinctively grabbing a cricket ball and bowling it, thus causing a chain reaction which ''prevents'' a mother and her child from being killed by a falling piano. Whereas this sort of thing would be easy to the Doctor with his Time Lord senses, keep in mind he's still meant to be biologically ''human'' at this point! Whatever the species, the Doctor cannot help being a [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Hero!]]
* When told black women will never be doctors, Martha proceeds to list every bone in the human hand. Surely an MOA for Creator/FreemaAgyeman simply for being able to do that, let alone Martha totally owning the stuffy matron. Not to mention the StealthPun: Martha knows human anatomy like the back of her hand.
* Son of Mine with his grand BreakingSpeech against the headmaster.
-->'''Son:''' What do you know of history sir? What do you know of next year? 1914 sir! Because the Family has traveled far and wide looking for Mr. Smith and, oh, the things we have seen. War is coming. In foreign fields, war of the whole, wide world, with all your boys falling down in the mud. ''Do you think they will thank the man who taught them it was glorious?
** And the headmaster gets his own in turn; true, it's a remarkably bloodthirsty little statement for one of the allies, but you've got to give the man credit for not flinching in the face of someone as creepy as Baines:
--->'''Headmaster:''' You forget boy, I was in South Africa; I used my dead mates for sand bags, I fought with my gun when the bullets ran out, and I would go back tomorrow for King and Country!
** And Baines/Son Of Mine quite literally shoots this rebuttal down by shooting Phillips dead and sending the headmaster scurrying for cover.
*** Hell, Son of Mine in general is a [=CMoA=] for the ''[[HeReallyCanAct actor]].''
** Lucy Cartwright/Daughter of Mine casually entering the barricaded schoolyard, disintegating the headmaster, and ''daring'' the boy soldiers to shoot her.

[[AC:Blink]]
* This 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.
* Sally chastises the Doctor and forces him to explain the situation to her. He is visibly taken aback.
-->'''Sally''': How?! How is this possible? Tell me!\\
'''Doctor''': People don't understand time, it's not what you think it is.\\
'''Sally''': Then what is it?\\
'''Doctor''': Complicated.\\
'''Sally''': Tell me.\\
'''Doctor''': ''Very'' complicated.\\
'''Sally''': ...I'm clever, and I'm listening, and don't patronize me because people have died and I'm not happy. ''Tell me''.
** Still taken aback, it should be noted, even though he's in 1969 and reading her side of the conversation from an ''autocue''.

[[AC:Utopia]]
* Jack's reintroduction, holding onto the edge of the TARDIS, through the Time Vortex, while it desperately tries to shake it off. This is awesome for two reasons; Firstly because exposure to the Time Vortex is ''lethal'' to damn near everything else, but secondly because the TARDIS travels right through to the end of the universe before it's finally forced to land. In other words, the TARDIS ran out of ''universe'' to go through, before Jack was willing to let go. Perhaps this may be part of the reason the TARDIS later seems more willing to permit Jack onboard, since this act showed a ''ton'' of loyalty towards the Doctor, in that Jack would risk being killed or stranded anywhere rather than lose his chance to see the Doctor again.
* The exchange after the Master opened his Chameleon Arch and remembered who he was.
--> '''Chantho:''' [[VerbalTic Chan,]] [[MeaningfulName Professor Yana,]] [[VerbalTic tho?]]\\
'''Professor Yana:''' THAT IS NOT MY NAME! "The Professor" was an invention. So perfect a disguise that I forgot who I am.\\
'''Chantho:''' Chan, Then who are you, tho?\\
'''Professor Yana:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I. Am. The MASTER!]] ''(electrocutes Chantho)''
** And of course, rather than just die like a proper RedShirt, Chantho [[LastBreathBullet still manages to shoot the Master]]. That'd be the end of it, if it weren't for him being The Master and regenerating.
** Much of this was made possible by some excellent acting on the part of Creator/DerekJacobi. Particularly when, after having his memory restored, Yana's vocal cadence shifted slightly; some of Jacobi's line readings ("Not to worry, my dear. As one door closes, another must surely open") sounded just a bit like Anthony Ainley.
* The entire last 12 minutes.
** More specifically, there's this conversation:
--->'''The Master''': Why don't we [[JustBetweenYouAndMe stop and have a nice little chat]] while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me, [[GenreSavvy I]] ''[[GenreSavvy don't]]'' [[GenreSavvy think]]!\\
'''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''.
*** All capped off with some ''awesome'' parting words:
---->'''The Master''': End of the universe! HAVE FUN!!! Bye bye! ''[leaves in the TARDIS]''
**** A line made all the more awesome by John Simm's perfectly manic delivery.

%%[[AC:The Sound of Drums]]

[[AC:Last of the Time Lords]]
* The Master 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 mum, 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.
---> [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcSZ7gr-Eso Oooh I can't decide / Whether you should live or die... / You'll probably go to heaven / please don't hang your head and cry...]]
** The lyrics take on a whole new meaning when you consider that the song is being broadcast to ''everyone on the Earth.''
** Then, of course, the Doctor to the Master, while glowing and floating towards the Master, invincible and unstoppable.
--->'''The Doctor:''' Tell me the human race is degenerate ''now''. When they can do ''this''. [[CatchPhrase I'm sorry. I'm]] ''[[CatchPhrase so]]'' [[CatchPhrase sorry.]] Because you ''know'' what happens next.
** Which turns into a combined TearJerker and SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.
--->'''The Doctor''': I forgive you.
* Jack spending an entire year enduring being repeatedly tortured to death by the Master and ''still'' not breaking.
* Martha's Moment of Awesome has to be when, after two episodes of effortlessly 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.
-->'''Martha:''' A gun? A gun in four parts? [[DidYouActuallyBelieve You]] ''[[DidYouActuallyBelieve really]]'' [[DidYouActuallyBelieve believed that?]]
** And ''then'', she [[BatmanGambit 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''. Creator/NeilGaiman must love that.
** To be fair, though the U.S. President displayed some jackass-ish behavior (understandable since he's dealing with ''The Master''), he stood up to The Master more than anyone else before his death and refused to tolerate the man's bullshit. The fact that he seemed immune to The Master's mental manipulation is another mark in his favor.
* Off-screen, during the Year that Never Was, Martha did such deeds as going to Shipyard #1 in Russia, walking across radiation pits in Europe, being the only person to leave the burning islands of Japan alive, getting her hands on a disk telling exactly how to kill a Toclafane, and finding the parts for a fake gun. And her only defense? A low-level perception filter, that doesn't even really hide her.
* Martha spent a long while being treated as or feeling inferior, even without "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood", but she still stayed strong and in the end, she realised she was ''not'' inferior, neither to Rose nor the Doctor, and left.
-->'''Martha:''' So this is me, getting out.
* Tom Milligan's attempt at a HeroicSacrifice with his pistol, even though he knew that both the Toclafane and the Master were [[NighInvulnerable invulnerable]] to bullets, to try and save Martha, a woman that he's known less than a day...in a word, awesome.
* 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!"
* A Meta version: Martha for being the only main companion of the new series to leave on her own terms.

%%[[AC:Time Crash]]

[[AC:Voyage of the Damned]]
* When they demand to know who he is.
-->'''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?
* The Doctor striding forwards, holding out his hands and being lifted up through the ship by a pair of angels. Say what you want about the inclusion of religious imagery and portraying the Doctor as MessianicArchetype, but that moment is soberingly ''awesome'' to watch.
* The Doctor pulling the Titanic up in the nick of time and missing Buckingham Palace by literally ''inches''.
** 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 Tuesday.
* It's incredibly minor, but after a couple who won tickets onboard the ship fall for [[ItsACostumePartyISwear a prank]], the Doctor soaks the snobs who pranked them in their own champagne.
* Music/KylieMinogue and a forklift truck. [[PreAssKickingOneLiner "Mr. Capricorn... I resign."]]
* Bannakaffalatta (the little red guy) taking down the Host with an EMP.
-->'''Bannakaffalatta:''' Bannakaffalatta PROUD! Bannakaffalatta CYBORG!
* Wilf coming out of his stall to shake his fist at the sky. This is the man who, when the entirety of London ran in fear of the invasions of years past, stayed in his stall to mock any aliens who might try it this year. Did we mention this is ''his first appearance ever?'' When the Doctor takes a passenger from the starship Titanic ([[StarshipTitanic not that one]]) to Earth and finds London deserted at Christmas, there's a lone old man running a newsstand who tells him that everyone else cleared out because [[GenreSavvy nasty things happen to London every Christmas]]. But ''he'' wasn't letting any invaders scare him away, no! And he only gets more awesome from there.

%%[[AC:Partners in Crime]]

[[AC: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!
* Donna convinces the Doctor, after being forced into a horrible SadisticChoice (Pompeii or the world) to go back. Bonus points because she motivates him to save ''an entire family'' from Vesuvius.
--> '''Donna:''' Please. Not the whole town... just save someone.
* When she realizes that the Doctor has to pull the lever and destroy Pompeii, what does Donna do? She doesn't just support him in his decision; even better, she ''pulls the lever WITH him.'' She shoulders the guilt of killing hundreds of people ''with'' him.

%%[[AC:Planet of the Ood]]

[[AC:The Sontaran Strategem]]
* The Doctor defeating the enemy ''commander'', no less, with ''applied squash''.
* Stahl gets a minor one after this, instantly repairing the damage the Doctor inflicted on the teleport system, and dismissing the [[SwissArmyWeapon sonic screwdriver]] as 'primitive'.
* Donna gets to come into her own thanks to her experience as a "supertemp" and wring a salute out of the ranking UNIT officer present.

[[AC:The Poison Sky]]
* Three words: Sky. On. [[IncendiaryExponent Fire]].
* The Tenth Doctor doesn't just [[DoesNotLikeGuns not like guns]], he has a ''[[GeorgeCarlin psychotic fucking HATRED]]'' of them, and it only builds through out the two parter to the point that by the end when Luke points one at him, [[UnflinchingWalk he just bitchslaps the gun out of his hand without breaking stride!]]
* Col. Mace leads UNIT in a truly ''awesome'' attack on the Sontarans.
** [[ScrewYouElves "Thank you, Doctor. Thank you so much for your lack of faith, but this time I'm not listening."]]
** Mace again: "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."
** Mace, right before introducing two bullets to a Sontaran's head:
--->'''Mace:''' You will face me, sir!
*** Keep in mind that Sontarans are at a disadvantage when their back is turned. He [[WillfullyWeak willingly]] gives up his advantage ''and still wins''. {{Badass}}.
* Donna Noble knocking out a Sontaran. "Back of the neck!"
* The entire last 15 minutes of "The Poison Sky" for the whole of UNIT, after 40+ years of playing the RedshirtArmy they finally get to kick some Sontaran arse.
** The ''Valiant'' on the start of the attack run. Even the Doctor is impressed.
* Rattigan's final "Sontar-HA!"

[[AC: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 TechnicalPacifist he is, he doesn't shoot, but what he tells Cobb and the rest of the colonist descendants is definitely a MoA-worthy speech.
-->'''Doctor:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I. Never. Would.]]
** When Jenny returns from the dead:
--->'''Jenny:''' What are you going to do? Tell my dad?
* Jenny making it through the beams via epic gymnastic skills.
* Delivered after relocating the shoulder of a Hath soldier under gunpoint:
-->'''Martha:''' Now then, I'm Dr. Martha Jones. Who the hell are you?"
** Martha is completely unfazed by the radioactive surface of the planet, and convinces her Hath friend to accompany her across.

%%[[AC:The Unicorn and the Wasp]]

%%[[AC:Silence in the Library]]

[[AC: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.
-->'''Doctor:''' 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 Moment of His-Awesomeness-Precedes-Him, that one!
* The Tenth Doctor then finds out that armies will all but flee in his wake, learns that he will build an improved sonic screwdriver in the future (with optional body pattern imprint capability), saves the life of River Song by plugging her pattern into the planet's computer (keeping her alive for all time), then ''learns to open the TARDIS doors with the snap of his fingers''. Epic.
-->'''Doctor''': Why? Why would I give her my screwdriver? Why would I do that? Thing is, future me had those years to think about it. All those years to think of a way to save her, and all he did was give her a screwdriver! Why would I do that?! ''[pops the lid and realizes what he can do as the SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic reaches a crescendo]'' [[RepeatCut Oh.]] ''[[RepeatCut Oh]]''! '''[[RepeatCut OH!]] LOOK AT THAT!!! I'M VERY GOOD!!!'''\\
'''Donna''': What have you done?\\
'''Doctor''': Saved her. ''[starts running]''
** This could also count as a MOA for the Eleventh Doctor (''[[TimeyWimeyBall even before he appeared]]'', as he uses the screwdriver that was later modified and given to River, so it was probably him doing the modifying (and devising the rescue-plan that goes with it).

[[AC:Midnight]]
* The unnamed stewardess saving The Doctor and killing the alien, that is all.

[[AC:Turn Left]]
* Despite the fact that "Turn Left" is basically a TearJerker incarnate mixed with some terror for kicks, the entire extended cast gets at least one even if it's usually the death of them in the alternate timeline. The Doctor gets one in absence for being the one who inspired most of them.
* Donna finally going through with Rose's [[HeroicSacrifice plan]] at the end of "Turn Left".

[[AC:The Stolen Earth]]
* Gwen and Ianto:
-->'''Ianto:''' ''[after being handed a gun by Gwen]'' Those don't work against Daleks.\\
'''Gwen:''' Yeah? I'm going out fighting. [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Like Owen. Like Tosh.]] How about you?\\
'''Ianto:''' Yes ma'am.
** Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister, gets hers 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.
* Martha being ''genuinely happy'' the Doctor found Rose, despite her previous annoyance of her name. (well-earned, really, as Rose was a large part of ''why'' Martha was constantly put down by the Doctor and constantly made to feel inferior? Heartwarming AND Awesome.
* Rose's first appearance in "The Stolen Earth": following scenes with every other surviving major character of both the series itself and its two spinoffs, Rose teleports into the middle of the street with a huge gun. Then her UnflinchingWalk a bit later on. The latter is even more impressive since let's face it, if before this episode you were to figure what characters on the show would be able to pull off the UnflinchingWalk, Rose would probably be pretty low on the list.
** Once the Earth is taken by the Daleks, Rose walks past a shop being looted by two goons. She points the gun at them and orders them to leave with the classic line "Do you like my gun?"
* [[FanNickname Dalek Fred]], the Dalek from the last few minutes of "The Stolen Earth" ''shoots the Doctor'' mid-MeadowRun.
[[AC:Journey's End]]
* The [[TooCoolToLive Doctor]]-[[ScienceHero Donna]]. Seriously, watching her gleefully dismantle Davros's entire plan within the span of one minute is possibly the biggest joy of watching "Journey's End".
* Martha 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.
* Sarah Jane's speech to Davros is one of the best "surrender now to keep your ass intact, good sir" speeches ever.
* 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 [[ContinuityNod nod]] to it.
* 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."
* One belongs to none other than Dalek Caan:
-->'''Caan:''' I saw the Daleks, what we have done throughout time and space. I saw the truth of us, creator, and I decreed: ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis No! More!]]''
** Made even more awesome when you realize Dalek Caan was actually appropriating the War Doctor's catchphrase.
* Davros' magnificent BreakingLecture to the Doctor, hurting him as he has never been hurt, destroying the foundation of his entire life and morality and all with a single speech:
-->'''Davros''': The man who abhors violence, never carrying a gun, but this is the truth, Doctor: you take ordinary people and you fashion them into weapons... behold your Children of Time, transformed into murderers. I made the Daleks, Doctor, you made this.\\
'''The Doctor''': I'm trying to help.\\
'''Davros''': Already I have seen them sacrificed today, for their beloved Doctor. The Earth woman who fell opening the Sub Wave Network.\\
'''The Doctor''': Who was that?\\
'''Rose Tyler''': Harriet Jones. She gave her life to get you here.\\
''[flashback of Harriet Jones]''\\
'''Davros''': How many more? Just think, how many have died in your name?\\
''[more flashbacks of the people who have died helping the Doctor]''\\
'''Davros''': The Doctor, the man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not, out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor. I have shown you yourself.
** What makes the above speech all the more awesome is that it continues to be vindicated long after this episode, and its message even [[CallBack becomes a key plot point]] in the Eleventh Doctor's run, to the point where it almost seems to be have been foreshadowing. Especially since the Doctor himself seems to be aware of this.
* Davros' ultimate [=MoA=] must come when he unveils what the [[spoiler: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!
** The best thing was that this was exactly what he and the Doctor had talked about 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 CriticalExistenceFailure 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.
** 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 the ''laugh.'' Dear god, the laugh had the potential to be cheesy but given all his character and backstory it was genuinely frightening to see the madman that close to achieving all his goals. Also awesome for Julian Bleach for pulling it off so effectively...
* After every stolen planet is returned to its rightful place in the universe, The Doctor and company notice Earth is still floating aimlessly in the Medusa Cascade and know that just won't do. So how do they get it back home? After what seems like just another wave of {{Technobabble}}, we are introduced to perhaps the single most [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome beautiful]], [[CrazyAwesome insane]], [[BeyondTheImpossible over-the-top]] two minutes in the history of science fiction: A [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot time-and-space traveling Police Box]] ''towing'' Planet Earth back to Sol at light speed. And just to rub in the glory of what you're seeing for all its worth, it cuts between the so-called Children of Time piloting the TARDIS looking positively ecstatic as they move Earth back home and their own allies on Earth, either having a ball or freaking out at the mild earthquakes their transport is causing. All to the tune of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akb2hyw1aNg The Song of Freedom]]. In 50+ years of Who, there has never been a so many moments of Awesome, Heartwarming, and arguably a TearJerker ([[TearsOfJoy in a good way]]) crammed into the same two minutes, and perhaps there never will be again.

[[AC:The Next Doctor]]
* HumongousMecha trampling Victorian-era London. The Doctor counters this, by borrowing the Next Doctor's TARDIS... a hot air balloon. You have to admit, that takes balls.
* The eponymous "Next Doctor" suffering from mental trauma from finding out he's ''not'' the Doctor, that the Cybermen killed his wife ''(and did something else he can't remember)'', he straps on a bandoleer of fancy thumbdrives (called 'infostamps') and charges into battle, using them to destroy the Cybermen and rescue the Doctor. Sweet Jesus, for someone who wasn't the Doctor, Lake really is a massively awesome BadassNormal.
* Jackson Lake leading the crowd in cheering the Tenth Doctor after he saves the day.
* The scene after they first encounter Miss Hartigan. The two Doctors turn to run. Rosita ''decks her in the face.'' The Doctor's impressed, but can't admit it:
-->'''Doctor:''' Can I just say... I completely disapprove!
* This exchange with Miss Hartigan and the Cybermen:
-->'''Miss Hartigan:''' But you promised me! You said I would never be converted!\\
'''Cyberleader:''' [ILied That was designated: A lie]].
** Miss Hartigan gets one back on the Cybermen when it turns her mind is too strong to be upgraded and she promptly takes over the entire Cyberman operation with her willpower.
* The scene at the funeral where the Cybermen are killing ''everyone'', and Miss Hartigan is [[DissonantSerenity just standing there and watching serenely]]. It also helps that it's ''amazingly'' shot, and the Cybermen looming out at their victims through the [[SnowMeansDeath falling snow]].

[[AC:Planet of the Dead]]
* Three words: ''BUS BITCH-SLAP.'' Two more: flying bus.
* UNIT not playing the RedshirtArmy to stingrays with metal shells.

[[AC:The Waters of Mars]]
* The Doctor comes back to save the outpost.
-->'''The Doctor''': It's taken me all these years to realize the laws of time are MINE. AND THEY WILL OBEY ME!
** And he would have gotten away with it too, if not for his previous lecturing. Also, 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 [[WhatHaveIDone sudden realization]] of what he just did is ''very'' satisfying, after his [[AGodAmI above speech]]. Also absolutely terrifying.
* Gadget! The Doctor turning him into a super-scooter is cool, but the Moment of Awesome comes when he un-boxes and remote-controls Gadget to fly the Tardis in to save them at LITERALLY the last second - complete with SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic in the background as it all unfolds.

[[AC:The End of Time]]
* Quite possibly the best usage of one of Ten's {{Catch Phrase}}s 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!
* It just doesn't get more awesome than having [[Creator/DavidTennant the Doctor]] and [[Creator/TimothyDalton James Bond]] in the same scene.
* The Eleventh Doctor is born as [[spoiler:the TARDIS burns around him, laughing joyfully while it's exploding, and a ''kick-ass guitar riff plays in the background'']].
-->'''Eleven:''' And still not ginger! Something else, there's something... important. I'm... I'm... I'm... ''[explosion knocks him back]'' '''CRASHING!!!''' ''[laughs] [explosions]'' ''GERONIMO!!!''
*** Bear in mind we've just had a massive TearJerker so that moment comes across as MoodWhiplash too.
* "TILL DEATH DO US PART, HARRY!"
* Minnie the Menace groping the Doctor.
* The Doctor points out a small but significant detail to the Master: "That guard is one inch too tall." *Rossiter cold-cocks the Master with his rifle*
* Wilf further cementing his BadassGrandpa status by piloting an anti-missile turret and saving the entire ship.
** Wilf has an epic, but entirely well-meaning WhatTheHellHero moment when he tells the Doctor that he better dare not, even for a moment, consider putting the Master above the whole of the human race.
** Rory gets well-deserved credit for his lack of response upon first seeing the inside of the TARDIS, but Wilf might have topped that.
--->'''Wilf:''' I thought it'd be cleaner!
* The Master Race. If anything could top what the Master pulled off in "The Sound of Drums", it's that. It's also an MOA for John Simm. If you just read the script you would think 'Wow!', but if you ''see'' him? ''Awesome!''
* The Master's completely unexpected HeroicSacrifice and devastating TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Rassilon:
-->'''The Master''': [[WhatTheHellHero You did this to me!]] [[UnwittingPawn All of my life!]] [[CreateYourOwnVillain YOU! MADE! ME!]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard ONE! TWO!! THREE!!! FOUR!!!!]]
** Even better, the last we see of Rassilon and the Master before they vanish, the Master's kicking his ass.
* "The End of Time", Part One. That. Last. Scene.
-->'''Rassilon:''' For victory! ''FOR GALLIFREY!'' '''''FOR THE END! OF TIME! ITSELF!'''''
** In Part Two, even Rassilon ''himself'' gets a moment: the Master taunts him, 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.'''

[[folder:Eleventh Doctor]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpbmMhNe6aA The second trailer for series 5:]] Eleven blows up a Weeping Angel.

[[AC:The Eleventh Hour]]
* Where the Doctor shows the planet Earth is protected as he finishes getting dressed.
-->'''The Eleventh Doctor''': Oh, you're not the first lot to have come here. Oh, there have been ''so'' many. ''[slideshow of various monsters]'' And what you've got to ask is, ''what happened to them?'' ''[hologram of the previous known Doctors kicking the collective asses of every alien to mess with Earth, ever, comes up while utterly awesome music plays. Slideshow finishes with the faces of the Doctors, then the Eleventh walks through, having just finished picking out his new clothes]'' Hello. I'm the Doctor. [[BadassBoast Basically...]] '''[[BadassBoast run.]]''']]
** And the Atraxi [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere do]]. Epic on toast.
*** Oh, and watch closely--as the Atraxi representative flies away, it keeps its eye on the Doctor the whole time. If those giant eyes had pants, they'd probably have been soiling them at that point. The Doctor is so badass that a ''clip show'' scares alien threats off.
** What makes this truly brilliant is the way [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "I Am The Doctor"]] kicks in as he asks the last question, building up to its most awesome right as the Atraxi [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere do exactly as he says.]]
* Also, the Eleventh Doctor's ''introductory episode'' has him saving the world with no TARDIS, no Sonic Screwdriver, and only twenty minutes to work with.
** And a post office, but it's closed.
*** With ''two minutes to spare.'' Really.
* This is given a ContinuityNod by the Gamma Forest people in "A Good Man Goes to War": The above exchange is after the aliens in question have ''already left'', and he ''calls them back to Earth'' to ''scold'' them for the atrocity they were threatening.

[[AC:The Beast Below]]
* Amy one-ups the Doctor in AwesomenessByAnalysis, subverts the Doctor's plan to TakeAThirdOption, manhandles the Queen of England, saves ''everyone'', and restores the Doctor's faith in humanity, all in her first time off-planet and while wearing her nightie.
** Amy's [[PajamaCladHero Arthur Dent-ish costume]] in this episode is an awesome moment in itself.
* Liz X, GunsAkimbo, takes out the Smilers with the immortal quip "I'm the bloody queen, mate. Basically? I rule." The Doctor is quite impressed, as he should be.

[[AC:Victory of the Daleks]]
* The Doctor bluffs the Daleks for a long while by convincing them that a ''jammy dodger'' (a jam-filled biscuit sandwich) is the self-destruct switch for the TARDIS. Also doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, especially when the Progenitor Daleks finally figure it out.
-->'''Dalek:''' TARDIS self-destruct non-existent!\\
'''Doctor:''' ''[eats biscuit]'' Alright, it's a jammy dodger! BUT I WAS PROMISED TEA!
* Spitfires with energy weapons. In space.
* Amy, deactivating the Daleks' bomb, Edwin Bracewell, with ThePowerOfLove.
* The ''accurately-named'' "Victory of the Daleks." They manage to manipulate the Doctor, of all people, into restoring his greatest enemy, and then manage to pull off a SadisticChoice on the guy who is ''known'' for TakingAThirdOption.

[[AC:The Time of Angels]]
* The Angels use the voice of their latest victim (who still has some sentience) to [[BullyingADragon taunt the Doctor]]. The Doctor responds.
-->'''Angel Bob''': Sorry, sir. The Angels were very keen for you to know that.\\
'''The Doctor''': [[TranquilFury Well then, the Angels have made their second mistake, because I'm not going to let that pass.]] I'm sorry you're dead, Bob, but I swear to whatever's left of you]], they will be sorrier.
** Wait, their "second" mistake?
--->'''The Doctor''': [[BadassBoast Didn't anyone ever tell you there's one thing you never put in a trap. If you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap.]]\\
'''Angel Bob''': What would that be, sir?\\
'''The Doctor''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zunJKyMlBiA&t=1m36s Me]]''.
* Amy figuring out how to deal with the Angel that was threatening her. Even the Doctor and River are impressed.
-->'''Doctor:''' River, hug Amy.\\
'''River:''' Why?\\
'''Doctor:''' Cause I'm busy.
** Which actually takes on an entirely different dimension since we know River is Amy's daughter.
* River Song opened the hatch door and blew herself into space just in time to be saved by the Doctor.
-->'''River''': As I said on the dance floor... you might want to find something to hang onto.

[[AC:Flesh and Stone]]
* Two in the same scene: "No, seriously, GET a GRIP!" and "I just don't think you understand the ''[[IncrediblyLamePun gravity]]'' of the situation!" The latter being a nice reuse of the exact same pun as seen in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier in the opening scene.
* Father Octavian, a oneshot character from the two-parter "The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone," had perhaps the most [[FaceDeathWithDignity dignified]] [[DyingMomentOfAwesome death]] in the history of the show. Faced with the imminent and inevitable prospect of being killed by the Weeping Angel which has its arms around his neck, he keeps hold of his convictions and remains utterly, touchingly calm.
-->'''Octavian''': There's no way out. You have to leave me.\\
'''The Doctor''': You can't wriggle out?\\
'''Octavian''': No, it's too tight. You have to leave me, sir, there's nothing you can do. [...] Now please, you have to go. It's your duty to your friends. [...] Sir, the Angels are coming, you have to leave me. \\
'''The Doctor''': You'll die.\\
'''Octavian''': [[ObiWanMoment I will die in the knowledge that my courage did not desert me at the end]]. For that I thank God, and bless the path that takes you to safety.\\
'''The Doctor''': I wish I'd known you better.\\
'''Octavian''': I think, sir, you knew me at my best.\\
'''The Doctor''': ''[pause]'' Ready?\\
'''Octavian''': Content.

[[AC:The Vampires of Venice]]
* Even Guido gets one.
-->'''Guido''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WE ARE]] [[HeroicSacrifice VENETIANS!]]
* Companions often [[WhatTheHellHero call the Doctor out]] on dickery, pompousness, or some other questionable policy--heck, that's practically [[TheHeart why the Companions are]] ''[[TheHeart there]]'', but Rory takes this [[IncrediblyLamePun time-honoured tradition]] a step further by telling the Doctor, loudly and bluntly, exactly ''why'' he is such a huge threat to the people he travels with: not because he's dangerous and powerful, but because he makes people a danger ''to themselves'' by making them want to impress him when other people have to live with the consequences.

[[AC:Amy's Choice]]
* Amy figures if she and the others are going to die, they might as well die in "style".
-->'''Amy''': My poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a Peruvian folk band.

%%[[AC:The Hungry Earth]]

[[AC:Cold Blood]]
* The Doctor vs. the Silurian soldiers.

[[AC:Vincent and the Doctor]]
* The Doctor and Amy taking Vincent to the present day and showing him the museum of all his masterpieces, and Bill Nighy's speech about how Van Gogh was the greatest artist and one of the greatest humans who ever lived. It may not have been enough to save Vincent's life, but it definitely added to his pile of good things. Doubles as a MomentOfHeartwarming.

[[AC:The Lodger]]
* The Doctor kicking ass at football, complete with theme music blaring.
* Craig using ThePowerOfLove to short out a TARDIS knock-off that had already fried 18 people who had interfaced with it beforehand.

[[AC:The Pandorica Opens]]
* The Doctor gets on a microphone, surrounded by 15 Roman soldiers and "10,000? 100,000? 1,000,000?" alien space ships who all want what he's got. First, he tells them who he is, and then tells them to shut up. They do. He tells them that he's got the Pandorica. Then, he reminds them what he's done to them before, and he tells them "do the smart thing: let someone else try first." They leave. Romans gape.
--> '''The Doctor''': Now the question of the hour is: Who's got the Pandorica? Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? (No response) Come on, look at me! No plan, no backup, no weapons worth a damn, oh, and something else, I don't have. Anything. To. Lose! So! If you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your 'msilly little guns'' and you have any plans of taking the Pandorica ''tonight'', just remember who's standing in your way. [[LargeHam Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then! Aaand then!]] Do the smart thing! Let somebody else try first.
** As one Website/{{Youtube}} commentator put it:
--->So, in other words, he's basically saying...'''"COME AT ME BRO!"'''
** This is DoubleSubverted later on. Subversion the first: the Pandorica is actually a prison for the Doctor, and by sticking around he's just ensured he'll get put in it. Subversion the second: it turns out he was right after all, since the Pandorica protects him from erasure and after he gets out via [[TimeTravelForFunAndProfit time-travel abuse]] he proceeds to use it to save Amy, himself, and the universe, in that order. Recalling pretty much his boast of ''never putting him in a trap'' in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]], "Who takes the Pandorica takes the universe", indeed.
* River Song's opening adventure in "The Pandorica Opens". She hears the Doctor may be in trouble, so she busts out of her prison, steals a painting, procures a Vortex Manipulator, writes the first words on the first planet in existence as a message to the Doctor, and then bluffs her way into a Roman camp by making the soldiers think she is Cleopatra. A little Hallucinogenic Lipstick goes a long way!
* "The Pandorica Opens" gives some great material to a lone Cyberman, practically getting the same amount of MOA on behalf of his species as the title character from "Dalek" in just one scene. Broken into pieces, the human inside having long rotted to uselessness, and it manages to get quite far in trying to take down the Doctor and Amy while being damn scary in the meantime.
* Rory's re-introduction in "The Pandorica Opens", when he [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabs a Cyberman clean through the chest and pins it to a massive door]]. ''[[SuperStrength Damn.]]''
* Let's be honest: the Alliance that we see in this episode is also a pretty damn big Awesome Moment for the Doctor's enemies, being one of the biggest and most threatening {{Villain Team Up}}s that we've ''ever'' seen in this show. Even though it's treated as an OhCrap moment, you can't help but feel a little tingle of excitement when River and the Doctor realize just what kind of army they're up against.
-->'''River:''' Doctor, Cyberships!\\
'''The Doctor:''' No, Dalek ships. Listen to them. Those are Dalek ships.\\
'''River:''' Yes. Dalek ships and Cyberships.\\
'''The Doctor:''' [[EnemyCivilWar Well, we need to start a fight, turn them on each other.]] I mean, that's easy. It's the Daleks. [[AlwaysChaoticEvil They're so cross.]]\\
'''River:''' [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Sontarans.]] Four battlefleets.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Sontarans! Talk about cross, who stole all their handbags?\\
'''River:''' [[OhCrap Terileptil. Slitheen, Chelonian, Nestene, Drahvin. Sycorax, Haemogoth, Zygon, Atraxi, Draconian.]] They're all here for the Pandorica!

[[AC:The Big Bang]]
* The Doctor is ready to sacrifice not only his life, but his very EXISTENCE, to "reboot" the universe. As he's flying the Pandorica on a suicide-run into the TARDIS explosion, he takes time to send one final message to River, Rory, and Amy. He smiles as he drops the computer...
-->[[spoiler:'''River:''' It's from the Doctor.]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Amy:''' What does it say?]]\\
[[spoiler:'''River:''' ''Geronimo.'']]
** Actually, it's implied that he had River tell Amy that he would be erased from existence when his last in-person word to Amy was "Gotcha." Which basically doubles the awesome because he ''knew'' he would be able to come back and left Amy the clue to do it!
* At Amy's wedding: "Something old, something new, something borrowed...''something blue.''"
-->'''Amy''': Raggedy Man, I remember you, and you are LATE FOR MY WEDDING!
** To sum it up nicely: Amy flat-out ''orders reality'' to give her back her Doctor, and it ''does.'' Not with a begrudging "Why should I?" or even a permissive "Very well, here you go." The totality of existence is ''officially'' Amy Pond's bitch.
* River faces down the Stone Dalek. She informs it that its shields are compromised, and that one blast from her gun will kill it stone dead. The Dalek replies that its records show that, as an associate of the Doctors, she will show mercy. Her reply? "I'm River Song. Check your records again." And with that one line, the Dalek literally begs for mercy. Three times.
** "Where's the Dalek?" "It died." Also doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
* Auton-]Rory deploying his ArmCannon on a Dalek.
-->'''Dalek:''' INTRUDER-IS-UNARMED.\\
'''Rory:''' Oh, you think? ''(BANG)''
** His earlier exchange with The Doctor is also awesome.
---> '''Doctor:''' Why do you have to be so... human?\\
'''Rory:''' Because right now I'm not.
** Rory gets a LOT of awesome in this episode, including single-handedly DRAGGING the Pandorica out of a building that was just bombed by Germans, punching out the Doctor and getting COMPLIMENTED for it (since it proved his humanity), and, one more thing, protecting the Pandorica all alone for just under two THOUSAND YEARS. Forget Amy, Rory is the best companion of this series.
*** That last part can't be overstated enough. One thousand, eight hundred and ninety four years. Conscious, the whole time. Never sleeping. Never resting. Alone, stranded in time, and with no way of knowing whether he would even last until the modern day. Probably still wracked with guilt over shooting Amy in the first place, and tasked with keeping the Pandorica safe from ANYTHING, following it wherever it went, through dozens of civilizations and countries. No reassurances, no help, no instructions other than "protect Amy". No way of healing any damage if he gets hurt, and the only weapons he has when he starts are a sword and an ArmCannon. And he SUCCEEDS. Not only that, but when he shows up as the museum guard, ''there isn't a scratch on him.'' Not to mention the fact that he's now ''twice as old as the Doctor himself''. Yes, Rory is ''definitely'' {{Badass}}.
** The rescue of the Pandorica from the German Blitz also cannot be emphasised enough. Rory was made of ''plastic'' and still willingly risked walking into a burning building, in order to drag out the several-ton box containing the woman he loved. Even historians thought he'd perished whilst saving her.
** One more thing: The Doctor indicated that if he took the slow path alone for that long, he'd very likely go insane. But did he? Nope, Rory kept it together for nearly two thousand years ''out of sheer dedication due to his love for Amy.'' If there's a poster child for ThePowerOfLove, it's that.
** Before Rory Williams, ThePowerOfLove was just [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]]. Now, thanks to Rory, ThePowerOfLove is heartwarming ''and'' awesome.
** Socking the Doctor in the face when he dismisses Amy as unimportant. "'''She is to me!'''". Sure, it was a ploy by the Doctor to ascertain his humanity, but look at it from Rory's POV: you are two thousand years from home, you've just discovered that you are actually a plastic being with fake memories, you were forced to kill your girlfiend, the entire universe suddenly ended, and the only guy who can possibly save it (who is also the most feared being in history) declares that doing so is more important than saving your loved one. So you punch him. Bad. Ass.
* "That's my TARDIS burning up. That's what's been keeping the Earth warm." Even in death, the TARDIS still keeps the Earth safe for her Doctor as long as it can.

[[AC:A Christmas Carol]]
* Abigail uses her singing voice to save Rory, Amy and everyone on board that ship with the help of a broken screwdriver.
* The Doctor travelling back in time and landing in the home video that Kazran is watching. The old man then gets to literally watch as his whole life is rewritten before his eyes.
* The Doctor pulls his sonic screwdriver from the throat of an awake flying giant shark. Read that again.

%%[[AC:Space / Time]]

[[AC:The Impossible Astronaut]]
* "I'm going to need a SWAT team ready to mobilise, street maps covering all of Florida, a pot of coffee, twelve Jammy Dodgers and a fez!" The rest of the scene is not necessary. Awesome will, without a doubt, ensue.
** This was preceded by "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?" Yeah. The Doctor just shows up behind the American President's desk in the Oval Office, ''while said president and his body guards are in the room''.
* Canton gets a pretty good MOA, albeit a smaller one, back at him. After the Doctor demonstrates his knowledge and, frankly, how necessary his participation is in solving this case, Canton calmly continues to play hardball and merely responds, "''[{{beat}}]'' Get him his maps."
* Also,
-->'''Canton:''' Mr. President, that man walked in here with a big blue box and three of his friends and that's the man he walked past. One of them's worth listening to.
* "RIVER, MAKE HER BLUE AGAIN!" The Doctor cloaks the TARDIS in the Oval Office, and orders River to de-cloak her when he's tackled by secret service agents, dumbfounding everyone, including President Nixon himself.
* The events at Lake Silencio.

[[AC:Day of the Moon]]
* How the Doctor defeats the Silence: He plays a clip of one of the Silence saying "you should kill us all on sight" during the ''broadcast of the moon landing'', causing every human who ever watches footage of the moon landing (which would end up being billions of people, for billions of years) to kill the Silence as soon as they see one. Also counts as a [=CMoA=] for humanity.
-->'''Neil Armstrong''':...one giant leap for mankind.\\
'''The Doctor''': And one whacking great kick up the backside for the Silence! ''You just raised an army against yourselves!'' And now, for a thousand generations, you're going to be ordering them to destroy you, every day. How fast can you run? Because today's the day the human race throws you off their planet, and they won't even know they're doing it. I think quite possibly the word you're looking for, right now, is...whoops, run. Guys, I mean us: RUN!
** Canton gets one for recording said clip.
* One of the Silence starts on a speech about how they have always been on Earth and have no need for weapons, while Amy can be heard screaming for help in the background. Canton simply pulls out his gun and shoots it with the words "[[WhereDoYouThinkYouAre Welcome to]] [[EagleLand America]]", before running to find Amy.
* With no shame and no hesitation, in ''1969'', Canton informs the President of the United States -- Richard fucking Nixon! -- that he wants to marry a ''black '''man'''.'' The man has balls of titanium.
* With a little help from the Doctor, Canton manages to successfully con ''the entire American government'' (with the possible exception of Nixon) while acting like he is [[TheMole leading the hunt]] to track down the Doctor's companions.
* River Song mowing down at least eight Silent creatures by firing her gun while whirling rapidly in a circle, then holstering it and quipping "I hope my old man didn't see that, he gets ever so cross..." (possible foreshadowing) When Rory asks her "Just what sort of doctor ARE you?" She replies, "Archaeology," ...and shoots a Silent that was creeping up on her ''without looking''! And then finishes it all off with "love a tomb." Bad. Ass.
** How do you shoot a Silent that's ''behind'' you? I don't know, but River Song is awesome enough to pull it off.
*** For those not getting what the big deal is: the moment you take your eyes off of one of the Silence, you ''completely forget about them.'' River wasn't just shooting something she couldn't see, she shot something she literally ''[[BeyondTheImpossible could not have even known was there.]]''
** If you pay attention to Rory, you'll notice his alarmed expression when he sees a Silence creeping up behind River's back. River can shoot the Silence not because she knows it's a threat, but because she sees her daddy's expression and unhesitatingly kills whatever he is reacting to.
* Courtesy of a bit of FridgeHorror and FridgeBrilliance. At the end of their three months on the run in 1969, Rory has over ''twice'' the number of tally marks on his body, implying that he's been dealing with the Silence on a nearly ''daily'' basis. This means one of two things: either he's either been ''really'' unlucky... or the Silence consider him the ''largest'' threat, even more so than River, and have been sending wave after wave of {{mook}}s in a desperate bid to eliminate him.
* For a device often regarded as unreliable, the TARDIS pulls off one heck of a manoeuvre in "Day of the Moon", in which picking up River Song requires her to materialise within a timeframe of a few seconds, in mid-air, several storeys up, and ''oriented on her side''.

[[AC:The Curse of the Black Spot]]
* Amy dresses as a pirate just for the hell of it, and shows off some swordfighting.

[[AC:The Doctor's Wife]]
* The Doctor, stranded on a junkyard planet in a bubble universe, BUILDS A TARDIS TO ESCAPE. [[ComicBook/IronMan Not quite in a cave, but definitely with a box of scraps.]]
* When the Doctor finds the auto-saved last screams of terror of hundreds of Time Lords who died on the planet long ago making him realize there truly are no more Time Lords AGAIN! (or so he thought).
-->'''Doctor:''' You gave me hope and then you took it away. That's enough to make anyone dangerous. GOD KNOWS what it will do to me! Basically......run!
* This exchange is fantastic.
-->'''House:''' Fear me; I've killed hundreds of Time Lords.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Fear me; I've killed all of them.
* Crosses over with FridgeBrilliance: Just when Amy is about to go into a HeroicBSoD after seeing what looks like Rory's corpse, thinking that he'd gone insane and hated her for leaving him alone for so long, the real one shows up and calmly reassures her that her head's just being messed with. How would he know? Because it's been messing with him the same way, but he's managed to ''shrug it off''. After all, what's a little MindRape to a man who kept himself sane and loyal for nearly two thousand years?
** WordOfGod from Creator/NeilGaiman does indeed say that Rory was subjected to House's torments and that he was much better able to withstand them because of everything he's already been through.
* The TARDIS burning away every part of House inside herself.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Finish him off, girl. ''[cue House's screams as the TARDIS takes back what's rightfully hers]''
* Really, the entirety of "The Doctor's Wife" is just one great [=CMoA=] for our police box. Special props to when she first reveals to the Doctor who she is. She's just so smug, and the look on his face is priceless. Goes for when she explains to the Doctor that she might not be reliable, but she's always taken the Doctor where he's ''needed'' to go.
** Taken in this context, one can give her some credit for almost every moment of awesome on this list. After all, she was the one that brought the Doctor and his companions to any given place and time specifically so that he or they could make a difference there.

[[AC:The Rebel Flesh]]
* After a whole episode of the humans and their gangers being suspicious of and then wanting to kill each other, the Doctor (someone who rutinely pulls an IHatePastMe) meets a ganger!Doctor, and they get along wonderfully!
** And later, they switch sides, the Doctor exposing himself of the hatred and distrust of his companion, just to see the ganger's point of view. Made more awesome by the fact that the one who could ''feel'' the gangers' pain so strongly was ''the real Doctor''.
* This line:
->'''The Doctor''': I need to get to that cockerel before all hell breaks lose! [[NoodleIncident I never thought I'd have to say that again]].

%%[[AC:The Almost People]]

[[AC:A Good Man Goes to War]]
* The prequel to "A Good Man Goes To War".
-->'''Dorium''': But all this to imprison one child?\\
''[headless monks look at him]''\\
'''Dorium''': Oh, I know what you're up to, I hear everything in this place. I even hear rumours about whose child you've taken, are you mad?! \\
''[monks turn away and move off]''\\
'''Dorium''': You know the stories about the Doctor? The things that man has done? '''God help us if you've made him angry!'''
* "Three minutes forty seconds." Actually three minutes ''forty-two'' seconds, but who's counting?
** The Doctor turns two armies against each other without lifting a finger, only for their leader to recover the situation, talking both armies into standing down and disarming themselves. Then the Doctor's army turns up and claim sthe entire base. Without. A. Single. Casualty.
* The Doctor's punishment for the Colonel.
-->'''Strax:''' Colonel Manton, you will give the order for your men to withdraw.\\
'''Doctor:''' No; Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to "run away."\\
'''Colonel:''' What?\\
'''Doctor:''' Those words, "run away," I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want them to call you Colonel Runaway. I want children to laugh at your door because they've found the house of Colonel Runaway. And when people come to you, and ask if trying to get to me through the '''PEOPLE ''I LOVE''''' is in any way a good idea... ''[visibly collects himself]'' I want you to tell them your name.
*** Give the man some credit, he bears the full force of the Doctor's "Col. Runaway" speech without even flinching. The Daleks do a double take at the mention of his name and they're engineered not to feel fear!
*** The Doctor shows such pure, undiluted rage when he gets to the words "the people I love" that Vastra--who up to this point has been portrayed as an unflinching badass--is ''visibly shaken'' at the Doctor's ferocity.
** The following exchange is enough to make you crap yourself too, if you know the Doctor:
--->'''The Doctor:''' Oh look, I'm angry. That's new. I'm really not sure what's going to happen now.\\
'''Madame Kovarian:''' ''[steps in]'' The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men... have too many rules.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Good men don't need rules. [[TheFettered Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.]]
* Madame Vastra [[EstablishingCharacterMoment enters the series]] by revealing she just ''ate'' Jack the Ripper. Ate him. The most infamous and brutal serial killer in Victorian Times, and SHE ATE HIM. Someone give her a massive round of applause.
* Jenny Flint: perfectly ordinary parlormaid from Victorian London not only isn't afraid of Vastra (who ''ate Jack the Ripper'', this cannot be overemphasized) but manages to both keep up with her in terms of badassery, and get an ancient Silurian warrior who used to hate humanity to [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments fall in love with her]].
* Vastra dual-wields katanas on a daily basis [[BattleCouple with her future wife]].
* Vastra gets in a polite but ''very'' firm rebuke when the Doctor starts to let his temper get the best of him.
-->'''Vastra:''' Anger is always the shortest route to a mistake.
* River breaking into Stormcage to go back to her cell after having an adventure with the Doctor, letting the guards know it was her, and topping it off with a casual order of breakfast for the next morning.
* River bringing the Doctor to task and telling him that every death at Demon's Run is a result of his ego.
* "WHERE. IS. MY. WIFE?" Rory goes badass... again!
** Before that he [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]] his way through the Cyberman base while they try desperately to stop him
--->'''Cyberman:''' Intruder at level 9, seal level 9. Intruder at level 10... Intruder at level 11, seal levels 12, 13 and 14... Intruder at level 15... [[OhCrap Prepare to engage]]
** Rory spends the entire episode back in his Centurion outfit and beating headless monks with [[ShockAndAwe electric]] swords in swordfights. Before getting to Demon's Run he walks on a Cybership and refuses to flinch when they all raise guns his way, then again refuses to flinch when over half their fleet detonates RIGHT behind him.
--->'''Rory:''' [[FunnyMoments Oh, don't give me those blank looks.]]\\
''[...]''\\
'''Cyberman:''' What is the Doctor's message?\\
''[fleet blows up in the background]''
'''Rory:''' Would you like me to repeat the question?
** Made even more awesome by the fact that before he shows up, the viewer just sees all hell breaking loose on a Cyber-ship, woven with shots of Amy telling Melody about the man who's coming to save them. The viewer is [[BaitAndSwitchDescription made to think]] it's ''The Doctor'' she's talking about. When she tells Melody "...your father" those watching have just enough time to blink and go "what the fu-" before Rory makes his appearance on the ship.
** Rory's too badass to look at explosions.
* Madame Kovarian fooling the Doctor twice with the exact same trick, and calling him up to taunt him about it. We have a new MagnificentBastard on our hands.
* The Space Spitfires return.

[[AC:Let's Kill Hitler]]
* The Doctor's duel of IKnowYouKnowIKnow with a psychotic River, including giving the Ninth Doctor a nod by making her pull out a banana.
* Everything River does in "Let's Kill Hitler" qualifies, really. [[spoiler:Melody Pond regenerates, poisons the Doctor, then jumps out a window and insults the Nazis. They shoot her. It doesn't work. She then steals a motorbike and drops in on a fancy lunch and demands people relinquish their clothes. When the dying Doctor arrives and Melody performs a HeelFaceTurn, she ''gives up her regenerations'' to save him.]] Quite good for her first day out.
* Rory punches a fully armed and very angry Hitler in the face. Let me repeat that. Rory. Punches. Hitler. In. The. Face. Fans have made videos of this looping for ten minutes (at the minimum). He punches Hitler, puts him at gun point, tells him to shut up and then shoves him in a cupboard, all while sounding relatively unthreatening, which somehow makes it better.
** Two moments combined for even more awesome: Rory Williams is the only person in all of creation to have decked both the Doctor and Hitler in the face. The ultimate good and the ultimate evil. One of them complimented him on it and he promptly told the other to shut up and shoved him in a closet. Just... wow.
** Rory punches a Nazi guard by shouting "Heil!" and saluting, getting the guard to repeat it out of habit, then socking him so hard and fast the guard didn't stand a chance. Is anybody else noticing a connection? :Mind you, this isn't any ordinary guard, but a shapeshifting robot.
*** Rory sums it up when they steal a motorcycle to chase after Amy's robot duplicate:
---->'''Amy''': Can you even ride a motorbike?\\
'''Rory''': I expect so. It's been that sort of a day.

%%[[AC:Night Terrors]]

[[AC:The Girl Who Waited]]
* The FutureBadass version of Amy fighting off a bunch of robots by DualWielding a katana and quarterstaff.
* Rory killing a robot by smashing the Mona Lisa over its head.
* Rory's WhatTheHellHero to the Doctor over Amy going through hell due to his not doing the proper research.
* "You're turning me into you!" Gotta love Rory. Never hesitates to call the Doctor on his manipulation.
* When Amy talks to her future self, she doesn't plead to be saved, she doesn't consider herself for a second. She asks to be saved so that Rory won't have to live with abandoning her. For all the talk about Amy's selfishness, her only thought on facing 40 years imprisoned in the quarantine is what it'll do to Rory. This is Amy's ultimate [=CMoH=]. Period.

[[AC:The God Complex]]
* What does the Doctor do after finding the room with his greatest fear? He calmly puts a "Do Not Disturb" sign on it. Fear can't stop the Doctor.
* Rory Williams is officially TooSpicyForYogSothoth. The monster manipulates people by showing them what they're scared of. Everyone else sees rooms containing their worst fears. Rory, who ''has no fear left in his mind'' just sees... fire exits.
** For those who don't catch why this makes him a badass, thanks to the way the antagonist works this means Rory not only doesn't have a terror trigger like everyone else despite all he's seen, he also has ZERO need for "faith" in anything external... including not just God/religion but the Doctor himself, since Amy's reason for being there is that her faith in the Doctor was so strong it pulled them in. Hell, Rory doesn't even "need" Amy--if we take the phlebotinum at face value the way it's explained, that means he doesn't have "faith" in Amy, he just loves her. And he will goddamn love her, and stay with her ''even though the complex is letting him escape''. Translation: Rory is so badass, he can deal with any potential terror you could inflict on him, including all of the nightmare fuel he's run across, such as ''the Weeping bloody Angels''. Rory is so badass that he is completely unimpressed with the Doctor. Rory is so badass that when he decides to stick with a woman, it's not out of needy terror of being alone nor blind devotion, but because he ''genuinely loves her and has made a conscious decision to stay by her side''. And yet, despite all that self-assurance ''he isn't an egotistical asshole''. FridgeBrilliance basically turns this little fact into an EstablishingCharacterMoment that is equal parts SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}. There is a reason a lot of fans like his character.

[[AC:Closing Time]]
* A really subtle one, but after she and the Doctor part ways, we can see that Amy picked herself up, re-acclimated to the world, and moved on with her life. Considering Ten's record with companions, that's a serious accomplishment, especially considering where she started out.
* Craig is able to resist being turned into a Cyberman, return emotions to the existing Cybermen, and ''blow up their base'']] all because [[spoiler: [[ThePowerofLove he heard]] [[PapaWolf his baby crying]].
* Stormageddon Master of All. That baby might be the best companion The Doctor's ever had.

[[AC:The Wedding of River Song]]
* "Look into my eye." Who but the Doctor could go to his own death, a fixed point in time that can't possibly be overwritten, and survive?
* It's easy to forget in the wake of every single other thing in the episode, but the first thing we see the Doctor doing is perhaps the most brutal dispatching of a Dalek in the show's history. And then he plops its eyestalk on a counter as a sign that he's not someone to be screwed with.
* Amy saving Rory when the Silence are about to kill him. WITH AN ASSAULT RIFLE!
** And moments later, when Madame Kovarian asks Amy to save her, Amy reminds her of how she took her daughter from her. Kovarian claims the Doctor would save her and Amy wouldn't do anything to disappoint him.
--->'''Amy:''' The Doctor is very precious to me, you're right. But you know what else he is, Madame Kovarian? ''[leans in, whispers]'' [[WhamLine Not here.]]\\
''[[[MamaBear Amy reattaches the electrocuting eyepatch.]]]''\\
'''Amy:''' River Song didn't get it all from you, ''sweetie.''
* River ''disintegrates reality'' to send out a beacon to ''all points of time and space simultaneously'' with the message, "The Doctor is dying. Please, please help." She is answered by a ''million million'' voices, saying, "Yes, of course we will!" She then proceeds to tell the Doctor in question that she did so just so she could tell him that "...you are loved so much, and by so many--and by ''no one'' more than me." To sum up: River Song ''disintegrates reality'' to tell the Doctor how much she loves him, saving his life in the process, and then proceeds to marry him. She seems to take a cue from her mother there: neither of them are willing to be parted from the men they love.
* Rory keeps his eye drive on so that he can see the Silence coming so that he is able to defend Amy, the Doctor, and River despite the fact it can kill or at least cause the wearer crippling pain. When he's reminded it could activate at any time he says, fairly calmly but with trembling clenched fists, ''[[{{Determinator}} "It has activated, Ma'am."]]'' And this happens in a universe where Amy is just Rory's cold-hearted boss, not his wife, and doesn't even know his name. Rory is the ''living embodiment'' of the PowerOfLove.

[[AC:The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]
* The opening. "[[AlienInvasion People of Earth]], [[CoolStarship you]] [[{{BFG}} stand]] [[MoreDakka alone]]"--'''''[[KilledMidSentence BOOOOM.]]'''''
** Not to mention having The Doctor ''free-fall hundreds of miles to earth from space after being jettisoned from said spaceship'', ''wearing a huge grin on his face and laughing like a maniac'', treating it as though he were skydiving or bungie-jumping from within Earth's atmosphere and ''thoroughly enjoying every single second of it despite imminent death!''
* A woman from 1941 manages to get the better of three trained people from the future, all with weapons, using just fake tears and a pistol. She then pilots a HumongousMecha through the forest in search of her children. The fact that she eventually crashes it does nothing to lessen the awesomeness.
* Madge braves an acid rain storm and emerges unscathed, is chosen to be the vessel for the trees, pilots the ship, and saves the Doctor, her children, ''and an entire species!'' And then she rescues her husband. Essentially, the 2011 Christmas Special could've been renamed The Why Madge Is Awesome Special and no one would have noticed. She even manages to make its official title, "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe," a bit of a NonIndicativeTitle.

[[AC:Asylum of the Daleks]]
* Most [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]] and epic has to be the end, when after the Daleks' ''entire'' collective memory of the Doctor has been permanently erased the entire assembled parliament of the Daleks screams the same question over and over again: [[TitleDrop DOCTOR WHO!? DOCTOR WHO!!!!!!????]]
* Oswin spends a year trapped in a Dalek insane asylum, baking soufflés.
--> '''The Doctor:''' You accessed the Daleks' hive mind?\\
'''Oswin:''' ''(nonplussed)'' It's very easy to hack.\\
'''The Doctor:''' No, it isn't!!!
** This is also a Fridge CMOA for Oswin as wiping the Daleks' memory of the Doctor, and thus their fear of him is probably the most catastrophic blow ever struck to the Daleks (and yes, that counts their multiple near-extinctions), as now the single biggest factor in why the Daleks were ever so powerful and dangerous has been permanently removed. Without it they are just another race of wannabe universal conquerors.
* Normally it’s frowned upon for a character to acknowledge the camera in a series that doesn’t usually do that, but this episode pulls off two such moments in quick succession without making them seem cheesy, gimmicky, pandering, or self-indulgent (well, maybe a bit of that last one). Given how the character endears herself to the audience, Oswin’s quick final glance at the camera after saying “And remember” is less a distraction and more of a conspiratorial wink. And when the Doctor leans out of the TARDIS and says “Fellas, you’re never gonna stop asking” directly to the camera (and by extension the viewer) as hundreds of Daleks chant “Doctor who?!” in the background, any negative reaction to breaking the fourth wall is probably offset by the sheer squee-worthiness of the moment.
* The Doctor has a roomful of AxCrazy [[UpToEleven (even by their standards)]] Daleks coming at him. How does he deal with this? He notices the front one has no weapon, so he provokes it into activating its self-destruct as a way of killing him, and then starts fiddling around with its machinery. The Dalek tells him the self-destruct can't be stopped. He replies he wasn't trying to, he was looking for "reverse." The Dalek then starts helplessly reversing, straight into its comrades, and the unstoppable self-destruct goes off, clearing the room. Later, Rory goes through the same room, and we get the exchange that puts the cherry on top: Rory: "Who killed all these Daleks?" Doctor: "Who d'ya think?"
* Early in the episode, the Doctor states his intention to fix Amy and Rory's marriage, which Amy declares is "not something you can fix like your bow tie." Later in the episode, the Doctor maneuvers events so that the Ponds fix their marriage. Cut to a shot of the Doctor, adjusting his bow tie, as if to say "challenge completed."
* To put the icing on the cake, Eleven is the only Doctor who snarks off at the Daleks and gets away with it. "You know me, the Doctor. The Predator. The Oncoming Storm."
** Oswin resisted Dalek conversion of her mind and held onto her humanity for at least a year, possibly longer.
* Did you think Daleks were already scary? Now not only can any ordinary person suddenly sprout an eye stalk and try to kill you, but a dozen frozen skeletons can sprout eye stalks and try to kill you. DALEK. SKELETON. ZOMBIE. HORDE.

[[AC:Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]
* The Doctor refusing to help Solomon off his ship before sending it off to be hit by missiles is probably the kind of thing that should concern viewers, but considering all he had done... kind of hard not to root for the Doctor on this.
-->'''Doctor:''' Look, Solomon. The missiles. See them shine? See how valuable they are. And they're all yours. Enjoy your bounty.
* In his first appearance, the UnfazedEveryman, Brian Williams, decides to pilot the spaceship even though he doesn't fully understand it.

[[AC:A Town Called Mercy]]
* During the Gunslinger's hunt for Kahler Jex, Jex flees to his spaceship outside of town. Instead of escaping into space just as he and the Doctor planned, he decides then to set his ship to self-destruct to atone for his past mistakes.
** After Kahler Jex dies, the Gunslinger feels he is but a weapon without a purpose and decides to go self-destruct in the desert. The Doctor convinces the Gunslinger otherwise and makes him the new Marshall of Mercy, complete with his very own badge and a new-found sense of purpose.
* If you think about it, Isaac, the Marshall of Mercy, is everything that the Doctor has ever hoped to see in humanity. Here's a man who runs a town where all are welcome, regardless of race, color, creed, planet of origin, or past misdeeds. He barely even knows the Doctor, and still performs a HeroicSacrifice to save him.

[[AC:The Power of Three]]
* Brian shows GenreSavvy by gathering many theories about the cubes. ''And'' he gives the Doctor not one but two WhatTheHellHero speeches. LikeFatherLikeSon indeed.

[[AC:The Angels Take Manhattan]]
* The Doctor uses some of his regeneration to fix River's wrist. Proof that he loves River.
* Rory effectively decides to ScrewDestiny by committing suicide. It works.
* "Raggedy Man, goodbye." - It shows just how much Amy's grown as a character, and that unlike a lot of companions, she's gotten over her dependence on the Doctor, particularly because she's making the choice to spend the rest of her life with Rory in a completely different time setting, knowing she will die without ever seeing the Doctor again, and does so almost instantly.
* [[OlympusMons The Statue Of Liberty as a Weeping Angel]]. That is all.
* The Angels coming the closest of all the show's villains to actually killing off a companion. Sure, there have been HeroicSacrifices, and then Adric on the bomb-laden space ship. But these guys managed to "kill off" not one, but ''two'' top-ranking companions. Bravo, Angels. Bravo.
* River breaks her own wrist, and then lies about it, just to give the Doctor some hope.

[[AC:The Snowmen]]
* The Doctor's BigDamnHeroes moment in ''The Snowmen'', using a Mr. Punch puppet to assist him.
--> '''Doctor as "Mr. Punch"''': Doctor? Doctor?! [[TitleDrop Doctor...Who?]] Araghh! (''blasts the Ice Governess with Sonic Screwdriver, causing her to shatter'')
* Oswin Oswald's return as Clara Oswin Oswald in ''The Snowmen'' has her snap the Doctor out of a very deep funk after the loss of Amy and Rory.
* The whole plan for the Doctor to get Clara to join him. He gives her an umbrella so she can reach the TARDIS ladder.
* A minor but brilliant nod to the fact that Jenny is very much the Great Detective's full partner in awesomeness--she immediately recognized that Clara's behavior was more than just odd, and managed to deduce that she had met the Doctor (admittedly not difficult given that she was yelling "DOCTOR!" at a tree), calm her down, peg her as Companion material and get her set up to meet the Doctor again in only a few minutes.
* The One Word Test. That scene is just concentrated awesome for both Vastra and Clara.
* On a meta level:
--> '''Vastra:''' I resent the implication of impropriety! We are ''married''.
** "Good evening, I'm a lizard woman from the dawn of time and this is my wife." Points for sheer matter-of-fact ballsiness.
* Madame Vastra. The Great Detective. In the ''Doctor Who'' universe, she was Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Without her, the people in the Doctor Who Universe wouldn't be reading about him today. And the Doctor wouldn't be able to do his Sherlock impersonation either.
** "There are two beverages in your world the color of red wine. This is not [[IDoNotDrinkWine red wine]]."
* Strax spends most of his time in "The Snowmen" as a bumbling sidekick whose [[YourAnswerToEverything solution]] for every problem is violence. But when the snowmen actually attack, you get to see just how good a military tactician he is.
** How he intentionally [[ObfuscatingStupidity acts stupid]] in order to prevent the Doctor from wiping Clara's memory, without the Doctor realizing it.

[[AC:The Bells of Saint John]]
* The Doctor, or rather a Spoonhead copy of him, driving up [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shard the Shard]]
-->'''The Doctor''': ''[talking through the Spoonhead]'' Didn't you hear the word '''Anti-grav'''?
** That moment is immediately followed by another one. The Doctor pulls another Teselecta-type robot switcheroo trick on Ms. Kizlet.
* Prior to that, the Doctor using HollywoodHacking to recover Clara's stolen consciousness.
** Three Words: Under My Protection.
* Clara shows a remarkable degree of GenreSavvy, and uses her recently acquired HollywoodHacking abilities to bypass the computer security of the BigBad, instead using the lower-level security of the laptops and snapping shots of all of the employees, then using recognition software to locate their place of work.

[[AC:The Rings of Akhaten]]
* At the climax, the Doctor tries to defeat the sentient sun by force-feeding the parasitic sun over a thousand years' worth of his bad memories, and gives a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoVLhUxhdSw speech of epic proportions]] about the many terrors he has seen in his long life.
-->'''The Doctor''': Oh, you like to think you're a god, but you're not a god! You're just a parasite eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them. On the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow. So... so come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories. But I hope you’ve got a big appetite, because I've lived a long life, and I've seen a few things. I walked away from the Last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out, ''moment by moment'', until nothing remained. No time. No space. Just me! I've walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a MADMAN. I've watched universes freeze and creations burn. I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. ''I have lost things you'll never understand!'' And I know things. Secrets that must never be told. Knowledge that must never be spoken. Knowledge that will make parasite gods BLAZE! SO COME OOOOON THEN! TAKE IT! TAKE IT ALL, BABY! HAVE IT! YOU HAVE IT ALL!
** And while The Doctor is giving this magnificent speech, Merry and all the people sing a hymn to help him quell the sentient planet. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVk_dJVaobE& And it is glorious]].
*** And one Youtube commentor made a similarly awesome speech in the comments section of the above link, with ''79'' likes and counting:
-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/JellyGulper ElectricNova]]:''' I walked away from the last great youtube redesign. I marked the passing of the star rating system. I saw the birth of the internet, and I watched as posts ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No trolls! No commenters! Just me. I've walked in forums where the terms of service are controlled by a MAD MAN! I've watched threads freeze and websites burn. I have seen things you'd never believe. I have lost accounts that you will NEVER understand! And I know links. Links that must NEVER be told. Links that will make parasite mods BLAZE! So come on, then! DOWNVOTE IT ALL BABY! DOWNVOTE IT ALL!
** Despite this, the Old God is still hungry. What does Clara do? Makes it implode by force-feeding it ''a [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth leaf]]''. A single leaf containing the memories, hopes, and dreams of her mother, proving that though the Doctor has a plethora of memories to feed off of, nothing beats the infinite possibilities of the many could-have-beens of a single person.
* The Doctor's RousingSpeech to Merry about how she's a unique combination of elements millions of years in the making.
--> '''The Doctor''': ''Hey. Do you mind if I tell you a story? One you might not have heard. All the elements in your body were forged many many millions of years ago in the heart of a faraway star that exploded and died. That explosion scattered those elements across the desolations of deep space. After so, so many millions of years, these elements came together to form new stars and new planets. And on and on it went. The elements came together and burst apart, forming [[Literature/AliceInWonderland shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings]]. Until, eventually, they came together to make you. You are unique in the universe. There is only one Merry Galel. And there will never be another. Getting rid of that existence isn't a sacrifice, it's a waste!''

[[AC:Cold War]]
* Professor Grisenko and Clara are cheerfully chatting together when the de-armored Ice Warrior grabs Clara in its claws. What does the Professor do? ''Blast at it with his .357 magnum revolver.'' And it lets go of her! RevolversAreJustBetter, indeed.

[[AC:Hide]]
* Clara flies the TARDIS into a pocket universe doomed to collapse to rescue the Doctor. Twice.
** This is even more awesome if you remember that the TARDIS more or less hates her at the moment, and realize that Clara basically forced her to put aside her disdain for Clara to rescue the Doctor.

[[AC:Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]
* The Doctor forcing a rather ruthless bunch of scavengers to help him search the TARDIS for Clara.
-->'''The Doctor''': I just activated the TARDIS self-destruct system. One hour until this ship blows. Don't try to leave, the TARDIS is in lockdown, I'll open those doors when Clara's by my side.\\
'''Bram''': You crazy lunatic!\\
'''The Doctor''': My ship, my rules!\\
'''Gregor''': You'll kill us all, and the girl.\\
'''The Doctor''': She's going to die if you don't help me. Don't get into a spaceship with a mad man, didn't anyone ever teach you that? OK, a little gentle persuasion. Say, 30 minutes. ''[shortens the countdown]''\\
'''Bram''': We'll die even quicker now!\\
'''The Doctor''': You'll perform better under pressure. Anybody wanna go for 15 minutes?
** Made even better by the later revelation that he's bluffing, and the TARDIS still doesn't have a self-destruct.
* The TARDIS manages to defend herself admirably even when crippled by the salvagers. When one is climbing down a ladder to take her apart, she zaps him with a piece of exposed wiring, sending him crashing down a ladder. When Gregor steals a pod she uses to make new parts, she simply makes the door to the room disappear. Additionally, she constantly reworks her own architecture to confuse the salvagers and lure the carbonized zombies towards them. Even when at her weakest, the TARDIS is still a force to be reckoned with when pissed off.
* The TARDIS creating a couple of echoes of the console room to save Clara and the Doctor, keeping them in the safest rooms in the TARDIS until Clara accidentally lets one of the zombies in.
* The TARDIS Library.
-->'''Clara''': Oh, now that's just showing off.

[[AC:The Crimson Horror]]
* Ada beating the Red Leech that destroyed her life to a bloody pulp.
* Ada getting the courage to stand up to her mother. She ''screams'' at her and even goes so far as to beat her with her cane. It's both terrifying and incredibly therapeutic.
* Ada rescuing the Doctor from the "reject pile." She knows perfectly well that her mother would hate her for it, and her mother's opinion of her is the only thing she cares about--but she saves him anyway, not even knowing who he was. Because she ''could'', and she knows what it's like to be rejected, and she has it in her to be ''splendid''.
* Ada, at the end, being brave enough to not let her mother's tyranny ruin any more of her life; she's going to ''do'' something with her life, and has even found enough confidence to refer to herself as a 'bright young lady' whereas before she had only ever called herself by derogatory terms.
* "Just when you think your favorite lock-picking Victorian chambermaid is never going to turn up...! ''Jenny!''"
* "Right, we need a plan..." "Plan later. This one's on me!" Cue Jenny going from "formal Victorian" to "ass-kicking ninja suit" and beating the tar out of everyone in the immediate vicinity.
** And that is just after she ''smacks the Doctor silly'' for kissing her without permission.
** And considering that Diana Rigg is the villain in this episode, the fact that Jenny delivers an ass-whooping worthy of [[Series/TheAvengers Emma Peel]] makes it especially awesome.
* Jenny, infiltrating Sweetville, alone, with no way of contacting anyone for help if something goes wrong. Considering she knows perfectly well what happened to the last undercover investigators... and single-handedly rescuing the Doctor while she's at it!
* Vastra is a fan of the dramatic reveal.
--> '''Vastra:''' I have seen these symptoms before...A long time ago...\\
'''Coroner:''' Oh aye? How long?\\
'''Vastra:''' ''[turns to reveal her face, smirking]'' About 65 million years.
* Strax has two BigDamnHeroes moments in "The Crimson Horror," first charging a bunch of {{mook}}s with a laser gun [[BloodKnight while laughing like a maniac]], then appearing at the top of the chimney to order the BigBad to stand down. He even gets her gender right!
-->'''Strax:''' Drop down your weapon, human female!
* The Doctor is all set to shut down the complicated evil machine with the Sonic Screwdriver, then Clara smashes it with a chair.

[[AC:Nightmare in Silver]]
* The Doctor defeating ''himself'' (well, "Mr. Clever", a Cyber-Planner that had taken over half his brain) by ''playing chess''.
** A meta-moment of awesome to Creator/MattSmith for being able to flawlessly play a villain personality to hamminess levels that would rival some of the Master's incarnations. His acting is that good.
* One of the soldiers is all alone and faced with a Cyberman. He shouts, "I've heard about the Cybermen since I was in my cradle. I'm not afraid of you!"
* Clara taking command of a military unit and taking a swing at a Cyberman with a mace. And also a [[{{BFG}} humongous laser cannon]].
* "Nightmare in Silver" shows the proper return of the Mondasian Cybermen, and it is triumphant indeed, with many [[TookALevelInBadass levels in badass taken]], including [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]]-like AdaptiveAbility and SuperSpeed shown as disturbingly chilling BulletTime. It takes blowing up an entire planet to get rid of them this time around, and even then [[SequelHook there are still pieces left...]]

[[AC:The Name of the Doctor]]
* The Great Intelligence pulls off a BatmanGambit that leads him to the Doctor's final resting place. Instead of a corpse, the Doctor leaves behind an open rift of temporal energy that represents the whole of his timeline. The Great Intelligence then steps into that burning white light, destroying himself and nearly erasing the whole of the Doctor's life with him.
* Clara jumping into the Doctor's timestream, reincarnating herself throughout time and space to protect him from the Great Intelligence. Among other things, she advises the First Doctor on which TARDIS to steal. To save her, the Eleventh Doctor jumps in after her, crossing his own timestream.
** FridgeBrilliance: This means that Clara managed to completely thwart the Great Intelligence at every single instant of the Doctor's more than thousand-year-old life. BadassNormal at its finest.
* ''Doctor Who'' has an unprecedented ContinuityCavalcade in this episode, showing all of them as Clara and the Doctor travel through the latter's timeline]. This culminates in the big moment of the episode, where it's [[TheReveal revealed]] that John Hurt is playing ''another'' incarnation of the Doctor, one who performed an act so reprehensible that the other Doctors refuse to acknowledge it.
* The War Doctor's reveal. Dramatic and incredibly shocking. Just when everyone thinks there are strictly 11 Doctors out there to this point... we learn there is one more... who is ''not'' using the name that has been central to the show for 50 years. People's assumptions that there couldn't be any others are completely shaken. And his lines indicate that it was for a good reason.
--> '''War Doctor:''' What I did, I did without choice. In the name of peace and sanity.


[[AC:The Night of the Doctor]]
* Two words: [[HesBack PAUL MCGANN!]]
* Also, The Eighth Doctor saluting his companions by name from the Big Finish audios before his regeneration]], solidifying their status in the televised series's continuity. That means he has given himself a fully-fledged tenure ''without even appearing onscreen for the ride''.
** The above needs to be re-iterated: Big Finish ''is officially canon''. If you listen carefully you can still hear the [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing joyous shrieking]] of the fandom.
* His re-introduction, appearing behind Cass on a crashing spaceship while she argues with the computer about needing a Doctor.
--> '''Eighth Doctor''': I'm a Doctor. ''({{Beat}})'' Though ''probably'' [[RealitySubtext not the one]] [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall you were expecting....]]
** [[spoiler:A subtle touch that crosses with CMOH; it was a very clear decision to not reveal Paul [=McGann=] until ''after'' the audience hears him speak. For those unfamiliar with him, all it causes is a brief moment of confusion. For fans of the audios, it was like being clubbed over the head. Their years of devotion to their Doctor paid off in that one moment of breathless "...is it ''possible''?"]]
** The fact that the BBC managed to ''keep it a secret'' is a CMOA in and of itself.
** The regeneration. Period. The moment Christopher Eccleston appeared as the Ninth Doctor, fans began clamoring about what happened to the Eighth Doctor, not even knowing if it was a straight shot between 8 and 9 (which was later quashed). It became a gigantic blank space in the continuity of the show that was left unchecked and even Paul himself wanted it dealt with properly. The demand built up to have it take place, until the 50th rolled around and fans were bellowing for it to happen because it was the perfect excuse to show it. Paul even had to quell the commotion on his Twitter account repeatedly to hide his involvement and play coy the whole time before his minisode aired. Until at last, the impossible happened... and the video posted on Youtube by the BBC ''exploded'' with over a million hits in a matter of a week.
*** His FamousLastWords are taken right from the Good Book: "Physician, heal thyself."
** The Eighth Doctor makes it audibly known he doesn't give the [[DeadpanSnarker slightest]] rip that he's dying:
---> '''Eigth Doctor:''' Four minutes? That's ''ages!'' What if I get bored or need a television, couple of books? Anyone for chess? Bring me ''knitting.''
** His new costume is a {{Badass}} revamp of the old one, and the Doctor looks a bit messy--five o'clock shadow, unkempt hair, clothes all wrinkled and unbuttoned. He is evidently exhausted--who knows how much running he's been doing since the Time War began? Even the TARDIS is banged up with laser fire scorches and weathering paint. [[DoNotGoGentle But he's still going.]]

[[AC:[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day Of The Doctor]]]]
* As the show's 50th anniversary there was a truly gigantic level of hype surrounding this episode. It not only did not disappoint but had literally countless [[MomentOfAwesome Moments of Awesome]] throughout.
* The entire Time War scene, which managed to outdo all the epic battle scenes beforehand in the revival show's history as thousands of Daleks swarm Arcadia while Time Lord soldiers fight for their lives in the chaos.
* The War Doctor has had it with the Time War and he wants his enemies to know it. How does he do it? He calmly asks a Gallifreyan soldier for his gun and engraves "NO MORE" into a ruined wall of a building in Arcadia. He then steals the most dangerous weapon ever known to be created and threatens to activate it, not caring if he goes up with them all.
** After the Doctor blasts down the Daleks, the Gallifreyan Soldier notices one of them is still alive--a bisected Dalek ranting for someone to explain what "No More" means. He then proceeds to give it a ShutUpHannibal by blasting it in the eyestalk, causing it to ''explode'', in one of the most beautiful explosions in the history of the show. That soldier, whether he died or not, had balls of ''steel''.
* The appearance of ''[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17nw7w_gallifrey-falls-no-more-the-day-of-the-doctor_shortfilms every single Doctor, all working together to save Gallifrey.]]'' And better yet -- there weren't 12 Doctors there. It was all 13. Yes, including Capaldi. And during that scene, the fandom...well, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQuASQh36gI see for yourself.]]
** "No, sir. ''All thirteen''."
** Really, that whole sequence starts with a bang.
---> '''First Doctor:''' Calling the War Council of Gallifrey; this is the Doctor!
*** How about the sight of the 13 [=TARDISes=] whizzing around each other? Even better as it was each Doctor's individual TARDIS.
** Pretty much everything ''any'' of the Doctors said in that sequence could qualify. But the last moment really stands out:
---> '''11th Doctor:''' [[CatchPhrase Geronimo!]]\\
'''10th Doctor:''' [[CatchPhrase Allons-y!]]\\
'''War Doctor:''' [[TakeThatUs Oh, for God's sake...]] [[BadassBoast Gallifrey stands!]]
* Clara is surrounded by Zygons in a room with nothing but a vortex manipulator. Clara takes the vortex manipulator and escapes, in seconds.
* Four words: Gallifrey Falls No More. Long story short: the Doctors finally figure out a way to save Gallifrey while keeping history intact, and end up conscripting all 13 Doctors to help them.
---> '''11th Doctor:''' Gentlemen, I've had 400 years to think about this. [[WhamLine I've changed my mind.]]
** Let's give one to the ''editors'' too! They did an amazing job of editing in the stock footage to make it seem like all 13 were there, and they probably had to go through over ''four decades'' worth of stock footage, find the appropriate ones, and edit them in.
* TomBaker's entire appearance as the curator.
* The final scene with ''all'' the Doctors standing side by side, War Doctor included, staring upon Gallifrey, now saved.
* Though drowned out by the epic story surrounding it, the Zygon plot of the episode has multiple [[MomentOfAwesome Moments of Awesome]] in its own right.
** Kate Stewart proving once again that she has inherited her father's stainless steel balls, even if she is willing to nuke London to save the earth.
** Queen Elizabeth I both killing her Zygon double with a dagger and then successfully impersonating it to trick the other Zygons into entering stasis. BadAss, thy name is Elizabeth!
** Osgood is cornered and helpless, about to be killed (or at least, covered in Zygon goop to allow her continued impersonation). Then she notices that her attacker is standing on the end of her scarf... One good yank and the attacker is flat on her back on the floor.
*** And both Osgoods get a quite understated one: The Doctors' plan to have no one know if they're the real thing or the Zygon didn't account for how there was only one inhaler. But upon discovering this, [[HeartwarmingMoments they both agree to keep quiet and let the treaty be made]].
* The Moment gets quite a few, for a sentient super-weapon that developed a conscience. Taking the form of the Bad Wolf, she kicks off the entire plot by opening the windows in time to allow the War Doctor to meet the man he'd become if he pushed the button, in addition to offering him advice as an invisible StealthMentor for most of the episode.
** More than that, as the War Doctor points out, the Moment didn't show him just any possible future ([[ArcWords time can be rewritten]] after all), she showed him exactly the future he needed to see in order to save Gallifrey. You could make the argument that the ''entire'' Doctor Who revival series is thanks to her; it was only a possible future for the Doctor until her manipulation caused things to happen the way they did and thus made it ''the'' future. Nu-Who is a BatmanGambit by the Moment.
* Two moments in one for The Doctors getting into the Black Vault. First, they come up with a plan to get past Kate's TARDIS-proofing. Second, they make one hell of a BigDamnHeroes entrance by sonicing an active Dalek through the plate glass of the picture frame.
-->'''War Doctor''': Hello.\\
'''Tenth Doctor''': I'm the Doctor.\\
'''Eleventh Doctor''': Sorry about the Dalek.\\
'''Clara:''' Also the showing off.
* Early on, we see just how much the Daleks fear "The Oncoming Storm" during the Time War. About to exterminate a group of helpless Gallifreyans, including scared, crying children, the Daleks suddenly are distracted from this task because they detect The Doctor. Not one of them even considers stopping to execute their prey at this point. [[TheDreaded They're all so scared of The Doctor, they don't dare divert their attention to anything else when they realize he's on the scene.]]
** Alluded to in the climax; when 13 [=TARDISes=] start flying towards Gallifrey, each with an incarnation of the Doctor in them, the Daleks' only response is to increase their firepower, cleary terrified out of their wits at the thought of '''''all thirteen Doctors''''' coming at them.
* The Time Lords themselves. If you think about it on a meta-level, any race that the Daleks encounter--whether it be humans, Cybermen or some other race--gets thoroughly curbstomped by them. Yet, the Time Lords, who are described as being "old dusty senators" and "decadent and decayed", manage to hold ''centuries of warfare'' against them (considering the fact that the War Doctor died of old age, and given a Time Lord's superhuman life-span). There is a ''reason'' they are known as the mightiest race in the universe.
* Even after spending his life as a warrior, the War Doctor has not managed to end the Time War. It was just too big a conflict to end on his own while in his youth. He outlived that purpose and grew old. And all the while, he has gone through hell, but never abandoned his compassion for the innocent men, women, and children of Gallifrey and everyone else who was dragged into this war.
** He has a bandolier taken from someone he failed to save as a reminder of his purpose for fighting from the start of his life to the end of his life. His clothes are also really beaten up compared to the other Doctors, showing that he hasn't had the luxury of being whimsical.

[[AC:The Time Of The Doctor]]
* The Doctor fought for centuries in the same town just for a chance to finally bring his people back. Think about that. Centuries spent fighting Weeping Angels, Cybermen, Daleks and The Silence all for a chance to undo his greatest regret. And in all that time, the town called Christmas never fell to any of them. Now THAT is a stand that would make any Doctor proud.
* The Doctor forces the cooperation of The Silence due to the Daleks nearly destroying them during the siege of Trenzalore. Think about that. The organization that planned so far ahead that they almost outsmarted The Doctor turned around and ended up being among the last TrueCompanions the Doctor ever had this regeneration.
** As if to illustrate this, there are shots of the Silence zapping Cybermen and of the Doctor leading a squad of Silence into battle. That's right, the Doctor was able to win the allegiance of an army of [[SlendermanMythos Slenderman]]-Expy {{Humanoid Abomination}}s and lead them into battle against the Daleks.
* The brief [[OneSceneWonder puppet scene]], adorable and awesome.
---> '''Eleventh Doctor Puppet''': Christmas is defended!
* One must give props to the Daleks as well. 300 years where most of the Doctor's other enemies just gave up in their siege, and only the Daleks never gave up trying to kill The Doctor. Nobody can say they aren't determined.
** By 300 years everyone else had given up; who knows how many centuries later, the Eleventh Doctor is ''dying of old age'' and the pepper pots of doom are still at it. {{Determinator}}, thy name is Dalek.
*** Not to say the others didn't try. The Cyberiad somehow dispatched a Cyberman ''made entirely of wood.''
** Their trap for the Doctor, though it fails, is also awesome, as they manage to convert large numbers of ''Silents'' into Dalek Puppets.
** And even when they seem to have won, when they have the Doctor completely surrounded, in an old, decrepit body and ''knowing'' that he can't regenerate since he's used up all his lives, the Daleks are still too afraid of the Doctor to actually shoot. ''That'' is how much he scares them.
--->'''Daleks:''' YOU WILL DIE, AND THE TIME LORDS WILL NEVER RETURN.\\
'''Eleventh Doctor:''' And you still can't work up the courage to shoot me, can you? You're still worried I've got something up my sleeve.
* Tasha Lem, after a little ReversePsychology from the Doctor, is able to regain control of her Dalek-puppet body and [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard uses her Dalek weapons to kick Dalek ass.]]
* The Doctor uses his regeneration to ''destroy a Dalek Cruiser!''
** The speech leading up to that is fantastic as well:
--->'''Eleventh Doctor:''' What did you say? Did you mention "the rules?" Now listen, bit of advice: Tell me the truth if you think you know it, lay down the law if you're feeling brave, but, Daleks, never, ever tell me "the rules!"\\
'''Daleks:''' [[OhCrap EMERGENCY, EMERGENCY,]] [[WhamLine THE DOCTOR IS REGENERATING, THE DOCTOR IS REGENERATING!]]\\
'''Eleventh Doctor:''' Oh, look at this, [[spoiler: regeneration number thirteen!]] We're breaking some serious science here, boys! And tell you what, it's gonna be a ''WHOPPER!''\\
'''Daleks:''' [[KillHimAlready EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINATE THE DOCTOR!!!]]\\
'''Eleventh Doctor:''' ''[[YouAreTooLate You think you can stop me now, Daleks?]] '''[[BringIt IF YOU WANT MY LIFE]], [[PunctuatedForEmphasis COME. AND. GET IT!]]'''''
** Culminating in his PreAsskickingOneLiner to the Daleks as he uses the excess regeneration energy to destroy them;
---> '''Eleventh Doctor''': ''Love from Gallifrey, boys!''
* A minor one, but the means the Doctor uses to sneak a TARDIS key past Tasha Lem are clever. The church is accustomed to people using holographic clothes, but the Doctor exploited a blind spot by shaving his head and hiding the key in a wig.
* The Doctor is dying. He has run out of options and the Daleks are going to, at long last, finish him off. There is no one that can save the day, right? Wrong. Cue [[BigDamnHeroes The Time Lords]], with an absolutely heroic version of ''This is Gallifrey'' playing, reaching out from a pocket universe to give The Doctor, the man so many of them saw as insane and whom they belittled and mocked, a brand new set of regenerations... all because Clara told them that they didn't need to HEAR the Doctor's real name... that the name he chose should be good enough for them.
** Oh yeah, Clara talking the Time Lords into giving the Doctor more regenerations. She talked the ''Time Lords'' into something they didn't want to do.
** Oh, that's nowhere near the real awesome. The Time Lords ''already know the Doctor's name''. Even if it was somehow erased from their obsessive filing system, there's no way the name of one of the most (in)famous renegades in Gallifreyan history isn't in ''the Matrix'', or known to one of his House members. The Time Lords didn't need to ''learn'' the Doctor's name; they needed him to ''say'' his name. He refused because he didn't want to give that kind of power to his enemies. Clara's appeal to the Time Lords was essentially saying that the Doctor wasn't ever going to play that game but that he had spent centuries fighting to protect them and he was about to die for them. After millennia of tormenting him, the Time Lords finally ''listened to the Doctor'' and gave him his chance to save them.
** The fact that the Time Lords get to have a BigDamnHeroes moment when we've only seen them as antagonists since the revival.
* The Doctor removing his bow tie before regenerating. It's heartbreaking as hell, but Awesome.
* The Doctor managing to trick a Cyberman into killing itself while under the influence of a truth field.
* Clara riding on the ''outside'' of the TARDIS as it passes through the Time Vortex. Keep in mind that the only other person to do this was ''immortal''. It's a case of FridgeLogic, really...

[[folder:Twelfth Doctor]]
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYN6ruU672Y first released teaser]] features the Twelfth Doctor standing in the shadows, with the TARDIS [[ExplodingInstrumentation console exploding]] in the background. The new Doctor doesn't even flinch.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TivqZTq5u6Y first official trailer]], which sets the tone for what looks to be a much darker adventure.
-->Clara: Where are we going?
-->The Doctor: Into [[DarkerAndEdgier darkness.]]
* The final Series 8 teaser has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7TegbBPMkE the Doctor literally break the fourth wall by tapping in to form "TODAY" in the crack.]]

[[AC:Deep Breath]]
* Clara's refusal of the Half-Faced Man's demand by asking him questions is good.
** Hell, the way she confronts him in the escape is chilling, yet awesome.
** Added points for the fact that Clara is visibly terrified and crying while doing so, yet never backs down. Lampshaded by the Doctor:
--->'''The Doctor:''' Five-one and crying. You never stood a chance.
* Clara gets another for defending herself from Vastra's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, earning a round of solid applause from Jenny.
** The speech itself is one because of Vastra's self-satisfied grin by the end of Clara's defense. She didn't mean a word of it; she was just trying to make Clara angry enough for ''her'' to see that she still cared about the Doctor.
* Jenny and Vastra make a very stylish BigDamnHeroes entrance into the "larder" of the ancient ship.
--> '''"Remain still and lay down your weapons in the name of the British Empire!"'''
** And then there's Strax...
* "Hang on, she [[BoringButPractical called the police?]] We never do that! We should start."
* The Doctor's final confrontation with the Hal-Faced Man. He tells him he's afraid he's going to have to kill him, surmising it's the only way to stop him and that he's the command module for the other clockwork droids. After a brief scuffle, in which the Half-Faced Man says he can't self-terminate and the Doctor says he can't kill him, the Doctor says one of them is lying. Cue the Half-Faced Man impaled on a tower, and the Doctor giving the camera a hell of a DeathGlare.
--> "Those people down there? [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime They're never small to me]]. Do not make assumptions about how far I will go to protect them, because I've already come a '''very long way!''' And unlike you...I do not expect to reach the Promised Land."
* The Twelfth Doctor gets his first BigDamnHeroes moment:
--> "Hello, hello rubbish robots from the dawn of time."

[[AC:Into the Dalek]]
* Despite being a massive PyrrhicVictory on the Doctor's part, Rusty the Dalek turning on and destroying the rest of the Daleks is admittedly pretty spectacular.
--> '''Rusty''': [[AC:I see into your soul, Doctor. I see beauty. I see divinity. I... see... ''hatred''!]]
* Clara gets one for delivering one hell of an ArmorPiercingSlap, calling the Doctor out in the grand tradition of the Companions.
-->'''Clara''': This is the look you get right before I slap you!
* The Doctor gets one not only for rescuing Journey at the last second, but when she was threatening him with a gun, he doesn't even bat an eye and flat out, calmly tells her that no, that is not how you ask for something. He actually gets her to back down and ask for help, "please."
* This episode captures the true horror of a Dalek assault force; A Dalek saucer descends on to the ''Aristotle'', which is dwarfed by the saucer's side, with cries of "Exterminate" echoing all around. Chillingly awesome.
** Likewise, the Combined Galactic Resistance deciding that, if the Daleks want to take down the ''Aristotle'', they're going to have to fight through them to achieve it.
---> '''[[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Colonel]] Morgan Blue''': That door's never going to hold. But I'm damned if I'm going to make it easy for them!

[[AC:Robot of Sherwood]]
* After Robin Hood attempts to steal the TARDIS (all property being theft to him), The Doctor defeats him in a swordfight with a spoon.
* Robin, The Sheriff, and The Doctor in an archery contest. Even though The Doctor cheated.
* Robin vs. The Sheriff.
* The Doctor leading the enslaved peasants to revolt against their captors. They take unmelted gold plates and use them as reflector shields against the robot knights' laser beams. The plan is so successful that all of the robots in charge of the area are completely destroyed, allowing the peasants to escape.
* Robin Hood managing to shoot a golden arrow, as in an arrow that must weigh more than a brick, miles into the air with an 1190-ish bow. With his arm broken! While compensating for the two other people who are helping to hold his bow! And hitting the target. But you know, [[ImprobableAimingSkills that last one's a given.]]
* "When did you start believing in impossible heroes?" The fact that Robin Hood was so impossibly awesome that each and every one of the Doctor's regenerations believed it couldn't be real. Not even the child-like Eleven, or the human curious One ever considered him plausible enough to even investigate. Coming from [[BeyondTheImpossible someone like The Doctor]] that says a lot about how awesome Robin Hood is. It may even be that the Doctor took such offense at Robin because he considered Robin Hood his personal hero, and didn't want some fake parading around.
* Clara managing to outsmart the Sheriff and have him spill the beans on his entire plan. Bonus points for correctly deducing what happened and letting him fill in the rest.

[[AC:Listen]]
* This episode is a great one for Clara. From her helping young Danny Pink with his fear of a monster under his bed to her telling the young First Doctor that it's okay to be afraid, and that it doesn't have to make him [[BadassCreed cruel or cowardly]].
** Clara managing to make the Doctor follow orders.
--->'''Clara''': Promise me you won't look at where we've been. Just fly us out of here.\\
'''Doctor''': I don't take orders Clara. Not from anyone.\\
'''Clara''': Do as you're told.
** When she uses the traces of her mental link with the TARDIS to transport the crew away from '''''the end of the universe.'''''
* The Doctor actually turning his back on the monster under Rupert's bed, and then urging Clara and Rupert to do so with him. Sure, he was terrified for their safety if they saw something that evolved to be a perfect hider, but it takes true courage to ignore the things you're scared of if it means protecting someone else.

[[AC:Time Heist]]
* In the "Next Time" clips for the episodes, Abslom Daak from ''Doctor Who Weekly'' makes a cameo on a wanted poster. In the same vein as "The Night of the Doctor" confirming the Creator/BigFinish audios as canon, "Time Heist" will confirm ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' as canon.
* Really, the whole heist is one for the Doctor. He puts together the perfect team and makes it through the biggest, most impenetrable bank in the universe, all to save the lives of the last two of an ancient species.
* The Doctor's EurekaMoment is a great thing to behold. He first recalls Saibra's question from earlier and then asks Clara what he knows about the Architect. Clara's answer: The Doctor hates him. The Doctor hates that manipulative, pompous, arrogant show-off called the Architect! There could only be one person as arrogant and manipulative as the Architect: The Doctor!

[[AC:The Caretaker]]
* Danny's BigDamnHeroes moment. He decloaks from the invisibility watch and buys the Doctor some well needed time by drawing Blitzer's fire, then ''backflips over him'' and then runs to hug Clara.
* Danny [[WhatTheHellHero calls The Doctor out for treating the situation with the killer alien robot casually simply because he knows Danny's in the room.]] And then he learns [[AristocratsAreEvil The Doctor is a '''Lord''', one of the "aristocracy" who starts conflicts]] and begins to address The Doctor as a superior officer, knowing that it will provoke his anger. Anger that Danny doesn't even flinch from, a considerable feat given the formidable performance by PeterCapaldi. Compare that to Madame Kovarian's silent shudder when she was confronted with Eleven. Danny Pink stands his ground confronting an alien with obviously superior tech on said alien's home turf. And like Rory before him, he doesn't seem all that fazed or impressed by the TARDIS's BiggerOnTheInside element. (Granted, he was forewarned on that last count)

[[AC:Kill the Moon]]
* Courtney kills a spider-germ with disinfectant.
* Clara stops the nukes from going off, saving the moon-baby.
* Clara, CallingTheOldManOut in awesome fashion, threatening to slap him so hard he'll regenerate if he doesn't tell her the truth about how much foreknowledge he had.

[[AC:Mummy on the Orient Express]]
* Meta case: The recreation of the Orient Express is amazing SceneryPorn.
* Perkins proves to be so Awesome, he's one of those rare individuals who the Doctor decrees to be "a genius."
** Perkins' WhatTheHellHero speech. "Doctor, are you really a genius or are you just ''extremely arrogant''?" The Doctor doesn't even snap at him. He ''agrees'' with him. He could be both.
* Captain Quell decided to FaceDeathWithDignity.
* The Doctor lives up to his BadassBoast, "One minute with me and this thing would be over."
* The villain of the piece manages to be DangerouslyGenreSavvy enough to get all the information they needed, blew up the train to prevent The Doctor from finding them, and is still out there somewhere, having gotten away Scot-free.

[[AC:Flatline]]
* The Doctor's speech to the Boneless as he banishes them back to their home dimension after regaining control of the TARDIS.
--> '''The Doctor:''' I tried to talk, I want you to remember that. I tried to reach out, I tried to understand you, but I think that you understand us perfectly. And I think that you just don't care! And I don't know whether you are here to invade, infiltrate or just replace us. I don't suppose it really matters now, you are monsters! That is the role you seem determined to play, so it seems that '''I''' must play '''mine'''! The man that stops the monsters! I'm sending you back to your own dimension. Who knows? Some of you may even survive the trip, and if you do, remember this: ''you'' are not welcome here! This plane is protected! '''I''' am the Doctor! *Catches his screwdriver* And I name you: the Boneless!
** Extra points for the bit where he get's into his signiture costume half way through, which we haven't seen for a while.
** Extra Extra points for the moment when he catches his screwdriver.
** Extra Extra Extra points for The Visual Effects of Awesome showing all the Boneless go zoom at the end.
* Clara using the Boneless's powers against them to get the TARDIS back to normal.
** Clara herself is utterly fantastic in this episode, stepping into the role of TheHero while the Doctor is trapped inside his TARDIS; For this episode, the Doctor, along with Rigsy, serve as ''her'' companions while she does everything she can to keep people alive and to stop the Boneless at the same time.

%%[[AC:In the Forest of the Night]]
%%[[AC:Dark Water]]
%%[[AC:Death in Heaven]]

[[folder:Expanded Universe]]
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 [=MoA=] in a story, the story is considered poor. And then there's the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, which gives us just as many.
* Awesome/BigFinishDoctorWho
* Awesome/DoctorWhoMagazine
* Awesome/DoctorWhoNewAdventures
* Awesome/EighthDoctorAdventures

[[AC:Past Doctor Adventures]]
* 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." As it is, they eventually respond by ''reciting the lyrics to Kung Fu Fighting''.
* In the novel ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Illegal-Monster-Collection/dp/1849907579/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402833894&sr=1-1&keywords=illegal+alien+doctor+who Illegal Alien]]'' (originally a PDA), the Seventh Doctor not only manages to ''reprogram'' the Cybermen, but he makes them attack the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] that were storing them. That's right, '''[[CurbStompBattle CYBERMEN. FIGHTING. NAZIS.]]''' Guess who won?
** Bonus points for the Cyberleader taking one look at [[JerkAss Captain]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Hartmann]], throwing him across the room and later shooting him in the face. They also make a [[CoolGuns/MachineGuns MG42 machine gun]] explode by simply grabbing the barrel, heat up a Tiger Tank, destroy all the Nazis and generally be {{Badass}}. To top it all off, unlike what the cover of the Monster Collection edition shows, they're not the "Nightmare in Silver" Cybermen or the Cybus Cybermen - they're Mondasian Cybermen who [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100620164045/tardis/images/f/fd/Cyb_gun1.jpg look]] [[http://www.dbutler22.freeserve.co.uk/dwinv2.jpg like]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Cybermen_6972.jpg this]]. And yet they're [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] [[UncannyValley enough]] to make a [[BreakTheHaughty SS Commander]] [[BringMeMyBrownPants shit his pants.]]
*** The human characters still have loads of [=CMOAs=], and are all pretty damn {{Badass}}. The most shining examples are, naturally, Ace, who hits a Cyberman hard enough to make a huge dent in one of its "Handles", [[HardboiledDetective Cody McBride]], who attacks the Cybermen with a [[KillItWithFire oxycelatene torch]] and manages to saw off the arm of one of them, Mama the bartender who blasts a Cybermat with a [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter double-barreled shotgun]], Colonel Schott, the WWI veteran who decides to keep on fighting the Cybermen (which he isn't scared of at all) with a [[CoolGuns/{{Handguns}} Luger]] and a Tiger's main gun while the driver is dead and the arrogant SS Commander is busy crapping his pants, and Colonel George Lazonby, who goes down fighting the Cybermen with a [[CoolGuns/MachineGuns Bren Gun.]]
*** The fact that the reprogrammed Cyberleader scans Ace, George Limb and Captain Hartmann, then decides to ignore the other two completely and attack [[JerkAss Hartmann.]] This, and the subsequent attack on the Nazis, can be interpreted as evidence that even the ''Cybermen'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards hate Nazis.]]

[[AC:BBC New Series Adventures]]
* "Winner Takes All": The Ninth Doctor disarms a knife wielding Darren Pye with ease and then stares him down into a retreat.

[[AC:IDW comics]]
* "The Forgotten": ten Doctors facing off against the BigBad. [[http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/mrtonylee/comicpr/doctorwho_twopage.jpg Here you go.]]
* In "The Fugitive" the Draconian, Ogron and Sontaran fleets turning up to defeat the Krillitanes.
* Lau'Tan sacrificing himself to fix the terraforming device by turning into part of it, even though this fuses him in that form. That after he was a villain.
* Matthew Finnegan sacrificing himself to defeat the Advocate.
* Kevin. OK, first off, he is a [[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Kevin_%28When_Worlds_Collide%29 ROBOT. TYRANNOSAURUS. COMPANION.]] And if that wasn't enough by itself, ''then'' he strapped on a pair of prosthetic arms and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punched out Cthulhu]]. [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110930190040/tardis/images/4/4c/Issue_9a.jpg For reals]].
* The Legend of Rory Williams lives on in the IDW ''Doctor Who'' comic book. In "The Doctor and The Nurse", when Amy insisted that a squabbling Doctor and Rory spend some quality male-bonding time together, the Doctor and Rory (who was wearing a tux at the time) ended up in London during TheBlitz, where they saved the life of Creator/IanFleming. Evidently Rory inspired the creation of '''Literature/JamesBond'''!
** And right after that, they mistakenly end up in the Pleistocene and a saber-tooth chases them into the TARDIS. A cornered Rory slaps it in the face with a rolled-up magazine and, to his surprise, ''it runs away mewing like a scared kitten.''

[[AC:The Adventure Games]]
* ''City of the Daleks'': The Doctor walks through a room full of Daleks who've just been blinded and are spraying gunfire nonstop to save the Daleks exterminating humanity and Amy from being erased from time. And of course then has to run to the top to escape the explosion.
* In ''The Gunpowder Plot'', Rory, stuck in orbit around Earth within the Houses of Parliament of 1605, armed with an EMP generator and a [[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK Dennis the Menace]] slingshot, takes out as many Rutans and Sontarans as he can. That's right, two species locked in war for millennia can't take down the Lone Centurian.
** Rory's made more {{Badass}} with this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWb9L5hDdIk&feature=channel_video_title glitch]].

[[AC:Stage shows]]
* In the stage show ''Doctor Who Live'', there was one very awesome moment where the Cybermen and the Daleks have a rematch. Only unlike [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday last time]], it's the ''Cybermen'' [[TookALevelInBadAss that got the]] [[CurbStompBattle upper-hand]]. And keep in mind in the context, these Daleks are supposedly a lot more powerful than the ones in "Doomsday" and managed to outwit the Doctor TWICE in a row. Watch the whole battle [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJO7eD-2efg here]]

[[folder:Behind the Scenes]]
[[AC:Jon Pertwee]]
* 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 [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7tKAi-lDhM 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!''
* The Third Doctor regularly had fight scenes, mostly because Jon Pertwee liked them. He also did all of his own stunts, which is pretty awesome on its own, especially when you consider that he did the majority of them [[MadeOfIron while suffering through well-nigh debilitating back pain.]]
* And the reveal that he [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283542/Double-O-Who-Jon-Pertwees-secret-life-wartime-agent--years-did-battle-Daleks.html used to be an intelligence agent]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, reporting directly to Churchill.

[[AC:Colin Baker]]
* For getting the Sixth Doctor RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap in the audio dramas. Whereas the Sixth Doctor is usually the least popular to TV fans, he is the ''most'' popular to audio drama fans.
* Getting elected President of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.
* Writing his own Doctor Who stories. I mean, who the hell is awesome enough to write their own Doctor Who for their own character?
* Similar to [=McCoy's=] and [=McGann's=] cold readings of Doctor Who speeches, we have Colin Baker doing a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcFUK-X0Ox8 cold reading]] of the Doctor's speech from "The Rings of Akhaten".

[[AC:Sylvester [=McCoy=]]]
* The Seventh Doctor's UnflinchingWalk in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" was 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 afterwards, but he knew there could be no second take so he simply went on with the shot.
* In the filming of "Battlefield", Sylvester [=McCoy=] arguably saved Sophie Aldred's life when he noticed a watertank used for a booby-trap holding Ace was about to crack and pour water onto a floor covered in electrical cables; in a second, he managed to get the stage hands to pull her out just before the glass broke.
** And amazingly it was all caught on camera and was considered so awesome that it gets its own brief documentary on the DVD for Battlefield.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Omz0lhapA Sylvester playing the spoons to an upbeat version of the Doctor Who theme.]] He really gets into it.
* His [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhlmNkk5r0k cold reading]] of the Eleventh Doctor's speech from "The Pandorica Opens".

[[AC: Paul [=McGann=]]]
* Akin to [=McCoy=]'s cold reading of Eleven's speech, here's [=McGann=]'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIKpBoJKqas&feature=related cold reading]] of the First Doctor's "One day, I shall come back" speech from ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth''.
* Returning after seventeen years to play the Eighth Doctor [[BackForTheDead once more]] in ''Night of the Doctor''.

[[AC: John Hurt]]
* John Hurt puts such weight and gravitas into his performance you might forget [[SpotlightStealingSquad the episode's about three Doctors]].
* In a matter of three appearances, John Hurt has effectively filled an enormous gap in the Doctor's life that had been ignored for a long time, and with a performance that is done masterfully.

[[AC:David Tennant]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW1x2TmIq8s&NR=1 The full list recounted to Martha in "Human Nature"]]. Since Tennant was required to ad-lib about a minute of footage that would be fast-forwarded, he just rambled on aimlessly a bit before jumping right back into character at the end. The bit about pears isn't an ad-lib, though; it's from the novel that the episode was based on.
* Marrying Georgia Moffett. Who is also the daughter of Peter Davison. Tennant married the daughter of the man who inspired him to go into acting in the first place. And thanks to Creator/StevenMoffat, he got to perform with his idol in the role that he wanted to play one day... The Doctor. PromotedFanboy, thy name is Tennant.
** Also a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} that there's such love and devotion between two people.
* Pranking Creator/FreemaAgyeman on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLnSphQ88_w Virgin Radio]] and managing to keep up the masquerade for a minute.
* Tennant did a tribute video with the cast and crew at the end of his run for a party, set to the Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)". The Proclaimers themselves merrily join in. Warning: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPKgPB80jNA MAJOR EARWORM]]
* To top it off, behold [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaMRyn47Xg&feature=channel&list=UL the Ballad of Russell and Julie]] about Doctor Who's revival, as sung by David Tennant, Catherine Tate and John Barrowman. Epic Awesomeness.

[[AC:[[Creator/ElisabethSladen Lis Sladen]]]]
* 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 West Country equivalent of a mountain to congratulate her on the scene. And these moments are only added onto with the second season premiere of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' when Sarah Jane sees a Sontaran space pod, and knows exactly how screwed they are.
* In "The 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.
* Elisabeth 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''.
* A posthumous moment of awesome for the late actress: the fact that almost nobody had any clue she was ill until she had already passed. It's a testament to her sheer professionalism and love for what she did, because she never saw it as being about her, it was about making great television that entertained fans. Lis, we love and miss you, and the world's a little darker now you're gone.
* Lis's ''magnificent'' career renaissance. She became so beloved by fans that her departure was headline news, a first for any Companion. And then, ''thirty years'' after she was last seen on ''Doctor Who'', she made a one-off appearance on the show that made her famous, and was so popular she ''earned [[Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures her own spin-off]]''. A spinoff aimed at children who largely ''had no idea who she was'', which went on to earn critical raves and a high audience for its channel. Name another actor or actress who has made that kind of comeback on television, ''ever''. And she did it all without a fuss. But then, that was Lis Sladen for you. Oh, Lis... we will never, ''ever'' forget you.
** Actually, just before she got back on TV, she made two series of AWESOME audio adventures for Big Finish, which is kind of a company that makes stories for fans of Old Who. She also returned in radio plays with Jon Pertwee. If anything, it just kind of shows how great her devotion to her character and giving the fans even more really was that she could return, first 20 years after her time, then thirty, and still just be her character like she's been living it all along.

[[AC:Matthew Waterhouse]]
* One of the darker chapters in the show's production history was Creator/TomBaker becoming incredibly difficult to work with in his final season. Recollections abound of him snoring in read-throughs at parts of the script he didn't like, verbally abusing the writers, having numerous shouting matches with co-star and [[RomanceOnTheSet brief-wife-to-be]] Lalla Ward, and caught in the middle of it all was new companion and PromotedFanboy Matthew Waterhouse, watching [[BrokenPedestal the image of his childhood hero shattering violently before his eyes.]] During one of Tom's "acting up and being rude" periods on the last day of filming for "Full Circle," Matthew (in full Adric get-up) finally put his foot down and told him to [[PrecisionFStrike "fuck off."]] And got away with it. And kept Tom quiet (aside from his lines, of course) for the ''whole rest of the studio day.'' The 2010 Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine interview described it as a "coming-of-age moment."
** Though given that this account came from Waterhouse himself and the reactions to his interview from his costars in the next issue (which was basically them gently laughing at him) it's disputable whether this even ever ''happened.''

[[AC:UsefulNotes/ComicRelief]]
* Creator/RowanAtkinson in "The Curse of Fatal Death" - Yes, it was silly, but Atkinson doesn't play a ''parody'' of the Doctor, he takes the role ''seriously,'' playing it as if he was actually the Doctor in a "real" episode. And he's ''wonderful.''

[[AC:The Mill]]
* At the end of "Bad Wolf" we see thousands and thousands and thousands of Daleks all chanting EX-TER-MIN-ATE. For the first time, the show was able to transcend budgetary considerations and deliver not just a tabletop full of dapol toys, not just cardboard cutouts propped up in the background, not just three Daleks driving around in a circle trying desperately to look like many, but a proper, honest-to-god army to be feared.

[[AC:The show itself]]
* Really, with a show that has run for thirty-three seasons over fifty years and counting, contains two [=MoA=] ''goldmines'' in the Doctor and the Master, as well as many other characters with more than a few moments themselves (Daleks, Davros, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) ''Doctor Who'' itself is a Moment of Awesome for TheBBC.
** 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.
** Also, CharlieBrooker likes it.
** The fact that a show that was simply intended to be a cheap and fun way of educating children about history and science is still made, remembered and loved by audiences fifty years later.
* The Davies/Gardner production team have several [=MoAs=] themselves, including:
** Bringing the show back to be one of the BBC's big hitters.
** Restoring the use of the CliffHanger as an art form.
** Using the BBC's rival network ITV to break the news of David Tennant's departure. Seriously, mega-cojones.
*** Even better, they had no idea it'd even ''work.'' They had a backup plan but they bet their chips that Tennant would win the award and be able to drop the bomb during his acceptance speech.
* There's the fact that the work of the new production team (along with the later work by Moffat, of course) has caused an explosion in the show's popularity across ThePond in the US. Sure, ''DW'' had fans in the US in the past, but it never truly approached the level it reached during the BBC America years.
* Back in the 1980s, Sylvester [=McCoy=]'s era was scheduled against UK soap ''CoronationStreet'', 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.
* Steven Moffat turning the series title into a nearly 50-year old [[ArcWords Arc Word]].
* The special effects team during "The Girl in the Fireplace". Apparently they decided that the iconic Doctor-astride-a-horse-through-a-mirror-into-a-ballroom shot was quite literally impossible to produce. After episode writer Creator/StevenMoffat threw, to quote the man himself, "the biggest queeny strop yet done on ''Doctor Who''" and cried like an infant, the team basically decided to give "impossible" the finger and do it anyway. And it was awesome.
* A collective CMOA goes to the show's makers, and the few fans and members of the press in on it, for successfully keeping the HUGE secret that actress Jenna-Louise Coleman, publicized to be the Doctor's next companion starting with the 2012 Christmas Special, had a MAJOR role to play 3 months earlier in the series 7 premiere, ''Asylum of the Daleks''. The premiere was actually shown in 4 semi-public screenings for fans in 4 countries prior to its televised debut and practically ''no one'' from the audiences in those screenings spoiled the secret online before the episode aired.
* The show also gets another CMOA over the only constant in the series: the [=TARDIS=] itself. When the BBC registered the TARDIS as a trademark in 1996, the Metropolitan Police challenged it, as the TARDIS is based on the police box they used in the 1960s. The Patent Office ruled in favour of the BBC, as the role of ''Doctor Who'' in the British collective psyche was so great that people identified the police box symbol with the series rather than with the police.
* In America, the Series 7 Part 2 Blu-ray was given to several hundred people in error before the airing of "The Name of the Doctor". Normally revealing a finale early is disastrous, but Moffat managed to keep fans quiet by promising a release of an interview of David Tennant and Matt Smith if the fans were good. The fans kept the secret, and Moffat [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Em8lmmTNkA complied]].
* David Tennant and Billie Piper's return for the 50th anniversary special.
* On November 25, 2013, ''The Day of The Doctor'' grossed $4.8 million. In 660 theaters. ''In. One. Night.'' Two days ''after'' it premiered on BBC America. For perspective, it was number two behind ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'' that day. It made more than ''Film/TheFifthEstate'' did in its entire run and almost as much as the 3D run of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. Again, in ''one night''. Not too shabby.
* Any time a lost episode, episodes, or rarest of all, complete serial that was thought to be junked by the BBC turns up. You've got maybe one very precious remnant of something that's been AWOL from television upwards of ''four decades''. On a feather and a prayer, through one magic discovery, be it in a rubbish bin, a garage sale, a dusty backlot of old celluloid in Hong Kong or Nigeria, or even pure dumb luck, another missing link is completed. And as soon as the film goes digital, it will proliferate the internet, whereupon the episode will be copied by those wishing to market or share the piece of ''Doctor Who'' history- ''countless backups'' from '''''one''''' reel of old weathered film!
** How about finding nine lost episodes, including the ''entirety'' of the long-lost "The Enemy of the World", in 2013? Talk about a 50th anniversary gift.
*** Not to mention the other story they found in near entirety, "The Web of Fear", which features the first ever appearance of beloved companion Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. In fact, he's a Colonel at this point!
*** To put it in perspective as to how amazing these finds are, it's considered very lucky to find even audio of lost episodes, let alone an entire episode. To find this many tapes, containing an ''entire missing story'' and all but ''one'' part of another, is a spectacular find.
* A collective decade of awesome for a small handful of fans (nearly all of them children at the time) who managed to make complete audio recordings of ''every single episode'' from TheSixties. So even though to date 26 serials and nearly 100 episodes (until 2013, it was over 100) are [[MissingEpisode now missing]], thanks to these fans, and with a little help from narrated [=CD=], telesnaps, and animation (a few animated reconstructions being officially sanctioned by the BBC), it's now possible to "watch" all 97 missing episodes of ''Doctor Who''.
* Creator/PaulMcGann finally getting his long overdue return as the Eighth Doctor in ''The Night of the Doctor.'' Granted he dies in the special, but it's still brilliant to see him back. The special also answers the old question of "How did the Eighth Doctor regenerate?".
** StevenMoffat managed to weave a whole new Doctor out of the gap between Eight and Nine and come up with a perfect reason to not upset the numbering.
** The very inception of the War Doctor into ''Doctor Who'' opens up a whole new avenue for storytelling potential, and finally lets writers cut loose and deal with the long untouched history of the Time War, because it was unclear which Doctor fought in it. Now we know.
* "The Day of the Doctor" winning a Guinness World Record for being the biggest simulcast in television history to date, transmitted in 94 countries.
** November 23rd, 2013 was a Saturday, [[BookEnds just as November 23rd, 1963 was]].
** The War Doctor's regeneration was only shown half-completed. We didn't see his full transition into Nine because Christopher Eccleston declined to return for the 50th and Steven Moffat wanted to respect his decision, on the grounds that making it appear that an actor was in something they did not want to be in without their consent would be unethical. But some fan decided to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO3veBHQ7aQ extend the regeneration into a complete version...]] With [[StealthPun fantastic]] results.