History Recap / DeathBattleS10E14RickSanchezVSTheDoctor

* BatmanGrabsAGun: The Doctor is well established as not carrying weapons and using his intelligence to outwit foes rather than killing them himself. So when seeing the multiple Rick's trash the TARDIS he realizes that using the D-Mat is the only way to permanently deal with Rick. Even with the threat Rick presents, the Doctor still hesitates to get the weapon out of the casing and Rick ends up using it himself.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime Much like the Tenth Doctor before him]], the Doctor says "I don't wanna go" before beginning to regenerate.

* SchmuckBait: When Rick and The Doctor are surrounded by Weeping Angels, The Doctor gives Rick the ''exact opposite'' of his famous advice on how to deal with them and tells Rick to blink as fast as he can, saying Weeping Angels are scared of rapid movement. Rick takes the bait and starts blinking, getting surrounded by the angels while The Doctor escapes, leaving Rick to be stranded in another time.

* BookEnds: The fight starts with Rick and Morty crashing into the TARDIS and Rick throwing ranting about the Doctor's carelessness. After Rick is erased with the D-Mat, the same scene plays out, this time with the Doctor complimenting Morty for being able to build a spacecraft.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Had Rick just shrugged off The Doctor's willingness to ignore him this battle wouldn't have happened. Unfortunately, Rick just had to be an impulsive egomaniac who couldn't let it slide. This ultimately results in Rick not just dying, but getting erased from time and space completely.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Had Rick just shrugged off The Doctor's willingness to ignore him this battle wouldn't have happened. Unfortunately, Rick just had to be an impulsive egomaniac who couldn't let it slide.

* TheCameo: During the Blitz and Chitz sequence, several past Death Battle combatants like Harley, Jinx, Dimitri, Vader, Guts (who's still in his DiedStandingUp pose), Cole, Megatron, Frieza and even Death Race combatant Thomas the Tank engine can be seen in the lobby. Bill Cipher also makes an appearance on an arcade machine whose title decodes to "IT'S BILL CIPHER!".
* CantMoveWhileBeingWatched: At one point, Rick and the Doctor end up in a dimension full of Weeping Angels. Knowing this, the Doctor gives Rick the worst possible advice against them: "Blink as much as you can. They're scared of rapid movement." Rick follows the "advice" and a Weeping Angel quickly closes in on him, making him realize he's been tricked.

* ChekhovsGun: Rick shoots the Doctor in the back with his portal gun, allowing him to pursue the Doctor for the climax of the fight. The Doctor later uses the portal in his back while regenerating to turn the D-Mat back on Rick for the killing blow.

* TechnicalPacifist: Downplayed. Throughout the whole fight initiated by Rick, The Doctor never once attacked him and stayed on the defense; even Rick's death was a HoistByHisOwnPetard. The worst The Doctor did was giving wrong advice about the Weeping Angels.

* ChekhovsGag: Rick making fun of Time Lords in the beginning seems to be just a joke about his {{Jerkass}} personality, but he actually shows some knowledge about them near the end of the fight when he shoots the Doctor in both of his hearts.

* TheCameo: During the Blitz and Chips sequence, several past Death Battle combatants like Harley, Jinx, Dimitri, Vader, Guts (who's still in his DiedStandingUp pose), Cole, Megatron, Frieza and even Death Race combatant Thomas the Tank engine can be seen in the lobby. Bill Cipher also makes an appearance on an arcade machine whose title decodes to "IT'S BILL CIPHER!".

-->'''The Doctor:''' I know your type. The nihilist know-it-all. But through all this timey-wimey rubbish, there's one thing you never quite understood: I'm the Doctor. And I don't wanna go.

* CrazyPrepared: Rick has several contingencies in place in the event he gets killed, ranging from decoy copies of himself to actual clones, all of whom believe themselves to be the ''real'' Rick. The only reason the Doctor manages to win ''at all'' is thanks to the Reality Erasure [[{{RetGone}} ret-gonning]] Rick from existence ''and'' time.

* TheCameo: During the Blitz and Chips sequence, several past Death Battle combatants like Harley, Jinx, Dimitri, Vader, Guts (who's still in his DiedStandingUp pose), Cole, Megatron, Frieza and even Death Race combatant Thomas the Tank engine can be seen in the lobby. Bill Cipher also makes an appearance on an arcade machine.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The Death Battle happens because Morty accidentally ran his and Rick's spaceship into the TARDIS. While the Doctor is willing to [[TurnTheOtherCheek let bygones be bygones]] and go about his merry way, Rick perceives it as the Doctor "ignoring him" which incenses him to the point he chases after the Doctor.

* TheCameo: During the Blitz and Chips sequence, several past Death Battle combatants like Harley, Jinx, Dimitri, Vader, Guts (who's still in his DiedStandingUp pose), Cole, Megatron, Frieza and even Death Race combatant Thomas the Tank engine can be seen in the lobby. Bill Cipher also makes an appearance on an arcade machine.

With Morty traumatized for the thousandth time, it's time to find out why Rick lost to the Doctor. Both did not have impressive physical feats despite being able to dodging lasers (barring the Doctor's super strength during his regeneration period), so Wiz and Boomstick look at the other aspects. In terms of weaponry, Rick definitely had more firepower and destructive weapons on a galactic scale, and could get the jump on the Doctor if he could have done so. However, the Doctor's technology could counter anything Rick threw at him, including hacking Rick's own tech with the Sonic Screwdriver. This includes Rick's Portal Gun, which has had a history of being hacked before. And while Rick did have Operation Phoenix to transfer to another body, the Doctor's D-Mat can eliminate that as it erases anyone from time. For vehicles, Rick's Space Cruiser was a beast of itself and could tow a Solar System with ease, but it could not match to the TARDIS' ability to defend itself from a universe destroying event. But the biggest deciding factor between Rick and the Doctor was their experience and intelligence. Despite Rick mastering space and time, the Doctor has done so longer than the former has. Also, the Doctor can quickly make plans on the fly, while Rick struggles to fight people that are on his own level of intelligence (like Rick Prime and Evil Morty). Ultimately, the Doctor's technology, intelligence, and thousand years of experience were too much for Rickest Rick of them all.

* CantMoveWhileBeingWatched: At one point, Rick and the Doctor end up in a dimension full of Weeping Angels. Knowing this, the Doctor gives Rick the worst possible advice against them: "Blink as much as you can. They're scared of rapid movement.". Rick follows the "advice" and a Weeping Angel quickly closes in on him, making him realize he's been tricked.

* TheCameo: During the Blitz and Chips sequence, several past Death Battle combatants like Harley, Jinx, Dimitri, Vader, Guts(who's still in his DiedStandingUp pose), Cole, Megatron, Frieza and even Death Race combatant Thomas the Tank engine can be seen in the lobby. Bill Cipher also makes an appearance on an arcade machine.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The Death Battle happens because Morty accidentally ran his and Rick's spaceship into the TARDIS. While the Doctor is willing to let bygones be bygones and go about his merry way, Rick's still pissed. That the Doctor "ignores him" incenses him to the point he chases after him.

* GeniusLoci: That the TARDIS is alive and sentient comes up, as does its ability to alter time and space within itself during the analysis. It does so during the fight, as several Ricks pursue the Doctor out of the control room through its corridors, the Tardis swaps rooms so they end up in a dead end (With a sign telling them "Exciting Changes are coming your way"), while the Doctor is re-routed to the now vacated control room.

With Morty traumatized for the thousandth time, it's time to find out why Rick lost to the Doctor. Both did not have impressive physical feats despite being able to dodging lasers (barring the Doctor's super strength during his regeneration period), so Wiz and Boomstick look at the other aspects. In terms of weaponry, Rick definitely had more firepower and destructive weapons on a galactic scale, and could get the jump on the Doctor if he could have done so. However, the Doctor's technology could counter anything Rick threw at him, including hacking Rick's own tech with the Sonic Screwdriver. This includes Rick's Portal Gun, which has had a history of being hacked before. And while Rick does had Operation Phoenix to transfer to another body, the Doctor's D-Mat can eliminate that as it erases anyone from time. For vehicles, Rick's Space Cruiser was a beast of itself and could tow a Solar System with ease, but it could not match to the TARDIS' ability to defend itself from a universe destroying event. But the biggest deciding factor between Rick and the Doctor was their experience and intelligence. Despite Rick mastering space and time, the Doctor has done so longer than the former has. Also, the Doctor can quickly make plans on the fly, while Rick struggles to fight people that are on his own level of intelligence (like Rick Prime and Evil Morty). Ultimately, the Doctor's technology, intelligence, and thousand years of experience were too much for Rickest Rick of them all.