History FandomSpecificPlot / DoctorWho

* During "The Year That Never Was", the Master rapes the Doctor, Jack, and/or Martha, with a heavy bias toward the Doctor. Note that he (almost?) invariably reverts the Doctor to his usual physical age before doing so[[note]] it's less common if the author keeps it limited to [[MindRape forced telepathic Time Lord sex]][[/note]]. Usually played as erotic yet angsty.

* During "The Year That Never Was", the Master rapes the Doctor, Jack, and/or Martha, with a heavy bias toward the Doctor. Note that he (almost?) invariably reverts the Doctor to his usual physical age before doing so. Usually played as erotic yet angsty.

* Rewrites of [[DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]] / [[DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]], with "John Smith" falling in love with someone other than Joan Redfern, usually Rose.

* {{Fix Fic}}s in which Donna recovers her memories are quite common, usually taking place either at the end of her (usually elderly) with the Doctor visiting her one last time, or by miraculously being able to remember everything without her mind burning itself up in the process. The latter is accomplished by the Doctor figuring out some clever way to save her that he didn't before, or by regeneration. (ExpandedUniverse Whoniverse stories have done the same with Zoe, who had her memories of the Doctor partially erased by the Time Lords -- usually as a prelude to [[YankTheDogsChain chain-yanking]].)

* It seems you don't actually get your ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[WeirdTradeUnion fanfic writer's union card]] until you've written a Time War-centric fic. It helps that aside from the 50th anniversary special and its associated shorts, it isn't being depicted onscreen by choice, and it took a little while after that for the ExpandedUniverse to start addressing it (and then only the War Doctor's actions, not Eight's).

** After the Thirteenth Doctor was revealed to be a woman, River was easily the most popular character to pair her with in the fics that popped up, likely helped by Alex Kingston's lustful expression upon getting the news in the middle of a panel.

* Female Doctor fics are a common theme. Expect [=FemDoctor=] to be paired with either Jack or The Master.

* For a while, for some reason[[note]]The original cause was a typo: the Tenth Doctor was supposed to be naked apart from the Third Doctor's ''cape''.[[/note]] a [[http://www.whofic.com/series.php?seriesid=2338 popular fic meme]] was to write a story involving the Third Doctor and the Tenth Doctor being tied together, with the Tenth Doctor being naked and both of them covered in cake somehow. Interesting and amusingly, despite the set-up most of the authors involved did ''not'' go down the sexual route that was opened up by this challenge.

* Crossovers with [[Series/{{Sherlock}} that other popular BBC show of which]] Creator/StevenMoffat [[FriendlyFandoms is the showrunner of.]]

* More like Fandom Specific Title, but the LiteraryAllusionTitle "[[Creator/AndrewMarvell World enough, and time]]" is practically irresistible to Whofic writers. Series 10 of the new series finally got around to actually making it an episode title.
* So you have a story. In it, the Doctor lands the TARDIS on Earth near where you live and meets a human [[SelfInsertFic with an inexplicable resemblance to you]]. He decides this human will be his new companion and the two of them go off to have wacky adventures together. [[SturgeonsLaw Congratulations, we'll add it to the ninety-percent crap pile.]]

* Stories about past Doctors not ''quite'' encountering echo!Claras (or, occasionally echo!Great Intelligences). Can be combined with DoppelgangerCrossover to reveal any character played by Creator/JennaColeman or Creator/RichardEGrant was an echo. (Yes, ''any'' character - Shalka!Doctor was ''obviously'' a Great Intelligence echo who stole the Doctor's remaining incarnations. That's why he isn't part of the real timeline.)

* More like Fandom Specific Title, but the LiteraryAllusionTitle "[[Creator/AndrewMarvell World enough, and time]]" is practically irresistible to Whofic writers.

* For a while, for some reason[[note]]The original cause was a typo: the Tenth Doctor was supposed to be naked apart from the Third Doctor's ''cape''.[[/note]] a [[http://www.whofic.com/series.php?seriesid=2338 popular fic meme]] was to write a story involving the Third Doctor and the Tenth Doctor being tied together, with the Tenth Doctor being naked and both of them covered in cake somehow.

** Fanfics involving her and the Doctor going to the Singing Towers of Darillium were common until the canon version of the event was depicted in "The Husbands of River Song" in 2015.

* For a while, for some reason a popular fic meme was to write a story involving the Third Doctor and the Tenth Doctor being tied together, with the Tenth Doctor being naked and both of them covered in cake somehow.

* {{Fix Fic}}s in which Donna recovers her memories are quite common, usually taking place either at the end of her (usually elderly) with the Doctor visiting her one last time, or by miraculously being able to remember everything without her mind burning itself up in the process. The latter is accomplished by the Doctor figuring out some clever way to save her that he didn't before, or by regeneration. (ExpandedUniverse Whoniverse stories have done the same with Zoe, who had her memories of the Doctor partially erased by the Time Lords.)

** Similarly, the further adventures of Ashildr/Me between her four televised appearances, given that her life eventually encompasses most of the universe's history ''and beyond.''

* After the Series 9 finale, the continued adventures of Clara and Ashildr/Me in their TARDIS.

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* It seems you don't actually get your ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[WeirdTradeUnion fanfic writer's union card]] until you've written a Time War-centric fic.

* Fics where the Doctor regenerates into an eight year old/an animal/a girl/pretty much anything else.

** Also relating to River, "Forest Of The Dead" {{Fix Fic}}s are common, as well as fanfics involving her and the Doctor going to the Singing Towers.

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* The episode "Doomsday" spawned hundreds, if not thousands, of 10/Rose Reunion fics, an event which [[IKnewIt became canon]] with "Journey's End". After that, many are writing 10.5-and-Rose-in-the-alternate-universe fic.

* Female Doctor fics are a common theme in Doctor Who fics. Expect [=FemDoctor=] to be paired with either Jack or The Master.

* Rewrites of [[DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature Human Nature]] / [[DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood The Family of Blood]], with "John Smith" falling in love with someone other than Joan Redfern, usually Rose.
* Daleks vs Cyberm- oh, hang on, [[DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday they actually did that]].

* {{Fix Fic}}s in which Donna recovers her memories are quite common, usually taking place either at the end of her life (usually elderly) with the Doctor visiting her one last time, or by miraculously being able to remember everything without her mind burning itself up in the process. The latter is accomplished by the Doctor figuring out some clever way to save her that he didn't before, or by regeneration.

* There are practically just as many multi!Doctor crossover stories as there are single Doctor ones.

* Stories in which Donna recovers her memories are quite common, usually taking place either at the end of her life (usually elderly) with the Doctor visiting her one last time, or by miraculously being able to remember everything without her mind burning itself up in the process. The latter is accomplished by the Doctor figuring out some clever way to save her that he didn't before, or by regeneration.

** Despite this there are many fans who can't accept the splitting and will try any means to get the Doctor and Rose together. Expect from both a [[TakeThat lot of]] FanDumb.