History Recap / DeathBattleS10E14RickSanchezVSTheDoctor

* MediumAwareness: Downplayed. Just because both combatants are aware of the fourth wall (the Doctor has been to the real world and met his own actors in the comics, and the Meta Plane is a facet of reality that Rick can visit and disdains), doesn't mean they can get a meaningful advantage over the other with it. ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is too cynical and gruesome of a show for the Doctor to ever get invested in it, meaning he hardly knows who Rick is. Similarly, ''Series/DoctorWho'' is to idealistic for someone like Rick to tolerate, even if he has referenced it before-- at best, Rick probably Googled "how to kill a Time Lord" for his knowledge of the two weaknesses of the Doctor's that he exploited (shooting two hearts and killing him mid-regeneration), but knew nothing about how to counter the sonic screwdriver or the Weeping Angels. [[Recap/DeathBattleS10E09BillCipherVSDiscord Bill and Discord]], by contrast, each had a form of omniscience that they could use to instantly binge-watch each other's shows and find each other's AchillesHeel.

* SuperToughness: While the Doctor's physical abilities are stated to be not far above average for human (outside of regeneration circumstances), it ''is'' noted that he's more durable, such as surviving a lightning bolt that vaporized humans. This may have played a role in how getting chestbursted wasn't lethal to him (but this ''was'' also one of those regeneration circumstances).

As both starships fly across the cosmos, Rick activates the Space Cruiser's lasers, landing two direct hits before the TARDIS begins to fade in and out of existence. Recognising the attempted jump, Rick fires the Space Cruiser's tow cable, hooking onto the police box as both enter the Time Vortex as Rick prepares his Portal Gun and orders his ship to keep his grandson safe before leaping out and grabbing on to the tow cable as the Space Cruiser severs the tow cable, causing it, Rick and the TARDIS to exit the Time Vortex at different points.

rising screaming sun that brings a bemused grin on the Doctor's face before someone else's screaming, Rick's, as the drunken scientist leaps out of a portal and tackles the Time Lord into a second portal that takes them into the Blips and Chitz space arcade. As both travellers recover, the Doctor offers alternative forms of combat only for Rick to have none of it and draw his Crow Sword, leading to the Doctor to draw a spoon as the pair clashes blade and kitchen utensil as they reach a nearby balcony, causing the Doctor to admire the arcade as he proceeds to disarm Rick of his sword. This small victory is short lived as Rick activates his cyborg implants to throw the Doctor around before the Time Lord pulls out his iconic gadget, the Sonic Screwdriver, and uses it to disrupt and detonate Rick's implants, throwing them off the balcony while the Time Lord swipes Rick's Portal Gun and uses it to make two portals, the first takes them back to the Planet of the Screaming Sun, the second takes them to Wester Drumlins.

As Rick and the Doctor pick themselves back up, the Time Lord realises where they ended up and are surrounded by Weeping Angels much to his horror as he gives his foe erroneous advice on how to deal with them while he tries to activate the Portal Gun, Rick falling for the bait and realising too late that he was tricked before the Doctor escapes, leaving him alone in the basement.

* GrandfatherParadox: The Doctor uses the D-Mat to erase Rick from existence and time, but Morty, his grandson, and his cruiser still exist, with the explanation being that Morty built it himself[[labelnote: *]] Morty actually being Rick Prime's grandson doesn't explain this, as the reason given for Rick not being able to resurrect himself using Operation Phoenix is that the D-Mat erased every Rick in the multiverse[[/labelnote]].

* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForKids: The Doctor's parting words to Morty are "Don't be a cynic!"

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Doctor's not impressed with Rick's "[[StrawNihilist the multiverse is so vast that almost nothing truly matters]]" outlook, and verbally serves him before he begins to regenerate.
-->'''The Doctor:''' I know your type. The nihilist know-it-all. But through all this wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey rubbish, there's one thing you never quite understood: I'm the Doctor. And I don't wanna go.

** When Rick follows the TARDIS through a wormhole, he's flung off at the last moment. Upon arriving on an alien planet, The Doctor steps outside and hears screaming. But it's not Rick screaming, it's a sun with a face. Rick jumps out of a portal and tackles him moments later.

** By creating a portal at the far end of the room and then starting to bring everything down on top of them, the Doctor lured Rick towards that portal as a possible escape route, only for the Doctor to cut him off and crush him with the rubble. However, Rick evaded death by shooting the Doctor with the chestburster gun right before getting crushed.

* MediumAwareness: Deconstructed. Just because both combatants are aware of the fourth wall (the Doctor has been to the real world and met his own actors in the comics, and the Meta Plane is a facet of reality that Rick can visit and disdains), doesn't mean they can get a meaningful advantage over the other with it. ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is too cynical and gruesome of a show for the Doctor to ever get invested in it, meaning he hardly knows who Rick is. Similarly, ''Series/DoctorWho'' is to idealistic for someone like Rick to tolerate, even if he has referenced it before-- at best, Rick probably Googled "how to kill a Time Lord" for his knowledge of the two weaknesses of the Doctor's that he exploited (shooting two hearts and killing him mid-regeneration), but knew nothing about how to counter the sonic screwdriver or the Weeping Angels. [[Recap/DeathBattleS10E09BillCipherVSDiscord Bill and Discord]], by contrast, each had a form of omniscience that they could use to instantly binge-watch each other's shows and find each other's AchillesHeel.

** A pop-up notes that Rick has referenced Doctor Who, but this doesn't necessarily mean he's fully versed in Doctor Who lore. As such, he name drops Time Lords and knows to [[AttackTheHeart shoot the Doctor in both hearts]], but is fooled by the Doctor's lie about how Weeping Angels work, and it's unclear whether he was planning to [[CoupDeGrace]] the Doctor mid-regeneration or had something else in mind.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: While Rick has more or less done the same things the Doctor has, the key difference here and what nets the Doctor his win is ''experience''. The Doctor, as a Time Lord, has hundreds, if not almost a thousand years traveling the universe and dealing with hostile alien threats. The Doctor's abilities and tech also cancel out most of Rick's advantages (his sonic screwdriver can disable most if not all of Rick's tech and can resist any of Rick's attempts to screw with time).

* AmbiguousSituation: Regarding the Doctor using the D-Mat Reality Erasure on Rick. While its made clear Rick himself no longer exists in any capacity (save his ghost AI aboard the Space Cruiser), it is uncertain whether this also goes for Rick's multiversal counterparts, and if so, whether Evil Morty is still running around.

* FullFrontalAssault: Near the end of the fight Rick uses his clone gun to escape death when the Doctor's regeneration destroys the roof of the TARDIS by implanting a clone into the Doctor. The resulting clone body of Rick is formed without clothes and continues the fight in the nude.

* BaitAndSwitch: Upon reentering the TARDIS to find it now flooded with numerous Ricks, the Doctor looks around seemingly baffled about how Rick had done this. Then, when he sees a Rick hiding in the central console he has a realization and runs off to the ''real'' central console, revealing that his confusion had been about the subtle differences within the decoy the TARDIS had used to deceive the Ricks.

* 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.

* NoSell: One of the Doctor's advantages is that Rick's ability to screw with time doesn't work on the Doctor as it's noted in the analysis that the Doctor has resisted time-related phenomena before.

* SeenItAll: The Doctor stares at the Screaming Sun with an amused smile on his face.

* 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 thing The Doctor did (besides hacking gadgets for self-defense) was giving wrong advice about the Weeping Angels.

* ShoutOut: DUMMI trying to figure out exactly how the mechanisms of [[RetGone the D-Mat Reality Gun]] works causes him to suffer a LogicBomb, similar to how GIR suffered one over the Time-Object Replacement Device in the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' episode "Recap/InvaderZimS1E15BadBadRubberPiggy Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy". A clip of GIR thinking it over from the episode is visible on the screen in the studio at the time.

* ShoutOut: DUMMI trying to figure out exactly how the mechanisms of [[RetGone the D-Mat Reality Gun]] works causes him to suffer a LogicBomb, similar to how GIR suffered one over the Time-Object Replacement Device in the ''WesternAnimationInvaderZim'' episode "Recap/InvaderZimS1E15BadBadRubberPiggy Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy". A clip of GIR thinking it over from the episode is visible on the screen in the studio at the time.

* GrandfatherParadox: The Doctor uses the D-Mat to erase Rick from existence and time, but Morty, his grandson, and his cruiser still exist, with the explanation being that Morty built it himself.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Doctor has basically been doing the things Rick and Morty have been...for ''thousands'' of years longer, and is ruled to be ''far'' smarter. In essence, the Doctor is Rick, but far saner, experienced, and smarter, earning him the win.

* GoKartingWithBowser: The background gag at the Blips and Chitz shows previous DB combatants hanging out with their formerly mortal enemies, like [[Recap/DeathBattleS08E05BlakeBelladonnaVsMikasaAckerman Blake and Mikasa,]] [[Recap/DeathBattleS10E02SkyrimVSDarkSouls the Dragonborn and the Chosen Undead,]] and [[Recap/DeathBattleS10E11FriezaVSMegatron Frieza and Megatron.]]

* HackYourEnemy: The Doctor uses his ever-handy Sonic Screwdriver for this purpose, destroying Rick's extendable robotic arms and disabling his gun. As most of Rick's admittedly greater arsenal of weaponry was vulnerable to this, it is a major boon in the Doctor's favor.