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** Alas, things get worse again in Series 9. While Nine through Eleven managed to repress and even forget the horrors of his days as the War Doctor -- yes, Gallifrey stands, but there's ''all the other atrocities he committed'' -- Twelve cannot, as a heartwrenching monologue in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion The Zygon Inversion]]" makes clear. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied The Girl Who Died]]", he admits he hates losing everyone he comes to care about, and losing people in general; he runs about the universe to try and escape the pain even though it never works. His ChronicHeroSyndrome intensifies; he wants to save whomever he can, ''damn'' the consequences. His desperate, rash rescue of the Viking girl Ashildr in a way that also makes her immortal turns into a gigantic case of NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished as ''she'' becomes a dark woobie. As the season approaches its climax, [[spoiler: Ashildr betrays him -- and it accidentally results in '''Clara's death''']], whereupon he has a ''massive'' FreakOut. '''Then''' he's transported into a giant torture chamber by none other than [[spoiler: '''his own people, the Time Lords''']]. Firmly at the DespairEventHorizon and completely alone, he lets grief and rage overwhelm him and becomes a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: he chooses to fight his way out and turn his back on his people and beloved homeworld just to achieve the means to spirit Clara away from her death (a fixed point in time) and considers mind wiping her to keep her safe rather than paying heed to her wishes and accepting she's gone]]. He no longer cares about ''the safety of the universe''. He only fully returns to his best self when [[spoiler: ''he'' is the one memory wiped -- he remembers their time together but not ''her'', and they are separated forever]]. At last, the Christmas special [[ThrowTheDogABone throws this poor old dog a bone]]: He's reunited with River Song; it's bittersweet as he knows how she'll die...'''but.''' [[spoiler: A night on Darillium lasts '''twenty-four years''', and the ending implies he stays with her all that time, loving her the way his younger selves could not]].
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** Alas, things get worse again in Series 9. While Nine through Eleven managed to repress and even forget the horrors of his days as the War Doctor -- yes, Gallifrey stands, but there's ''all the other atrocities he committed'' -- Twelve cannot, as a heartwrenching monologue in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion The Zygon Inversion]]" makes clear. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied The Girl Who Died]]", he admits he hates losing everyone he comes to care about, and losing people in general; he runs about the universe to try and escape the pain even though it never works. His ChronicHeroSyndrome intensifies; he wants to save whomever he can, ''damn'' the consequences. His desperate, rash rescue of the Viking girl Ashildr in a way that also makes her immortal turns into a gigantic case of NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished as ''she'' becomes a dark woobie. As the season approaches its climax, [[spoiler: Ashildr betrays him -- and it accidentally results in '''Clara's death''']], whereupon he has a ''massive'' FreakOut. '''Then''' he's transported into a giant torture chamber by none other than [[spoiler: '''his own people, the Time Lords''']]. Firmly at the DespairEventHorizon and completely alone, he lets grief and rage overwhelm him and becomes a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: he chooses to fight his way out and turn his back on his people and beloved homeworld just to achieve the means to spirit Clara away from her death (a fixed point in time) and considers mind wiping her to keep her safe rather than paying heed to her wishes and accepting she's gone]]. He no longer cares about ''the safety of the universe''. He only fully returns to his best self when [[spoiler: ''he'' is the one memory wiped -- he remembers their time together but not ''her'', and they are separated forever]]. At last, the Christmas special [[ThrowTheDogABone throws this poor old dog a bone]]: He's reunited with River Song; it's bittersweet as he knows how she'll die...'''but.''' [[spoiler: A night on Darillium lasts '''twenty-four years''', and the ending implies he stays with her all that time, loving her the way his younger selves could not]].not — going forward through time together]].
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* All MirrorUniverse people in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]", including many a JerkassWoobie and {{Lone Dalek}}.
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* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Dalek]]": A [[LoneDalek Dalek]] as a Woobie? It's the first Dalek seen in the revival series. Tortured into near-insanity; alone in the universe of space and time; cut off from orders and companionship; forced to pollute itself to regain power; adapts to survive, in the process becoming "no longer pure Dalek". Cannot kill its enemies; admits fear and disgust at itself. Then is finally DrivenToSuicide. "This is not life. This is sickness." A different set of values, but ''definitely'' a Woobie.
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* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Dalek]]": A [[LoneDalek Dalek]] Dalek as a Woobie? It's the first Dalek seen in the revival series. Tortured into near-insanity; alone in the universe of space and time; cut off from orders and companionship; forced to pollute itself to regain power; adapts to survive, in the process becoming "no longer pure Dalek". Cannot kill its enemies; admits fear and disgust at itself. Then is finally DrivenToSuicide. "This is not life. This is sickness." A different set of values, but ''definitely'' a Woobie.
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** The Doctor has woobie points before we even meet him - a lonely childhood, either bullied or just excluded by all the other Time Lord kids, to the extent the Master was his only friend.
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** The Target novelization of "Rose" decides to pile on some more suffering on poor Mikey, on top of what the show had. Turns out his mom committed suicide at home when Mikey was five, leaving his dad to raise Mikey alone... which he couldn't, taking jobs that kept him away from home more and more, until one day he just left and didn't come back. Mikey was then raised by his grandma, who was something of a {{Tsundere}}, alternating between genuine love and affection and feigned indifference (she's the one who bought Mikey his apartment at the Powell Estate). Then during the events of the story, he's abducted by the Nestene, who MindRape him to make their duplicates, meaning he's already not in a good place when he sees the TARDIS, and has a FreakOut. Neither Rose or the Doctor are particularly sympathetic to his plight.
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** First, understand that he is an imposing, aloof, older-looking Doctor: tall, LeanAndMean, in severe dark suits much of the time (though this look softens via a hoodie and fluffier hair later) with BigOlEyebrows and NoSocialSkills, and HatesBeingTouched. In both the show and the ExpandedUniverse, he ''constantly'' creeps out and puts off the people he encounters via his appearance and mannerisms alone; it's one reason Clara initially has a hard time caring for him the way she did for Eleven. Because most people go by first and second impressions and he's cagey about revealing his sweeter nature, he is one of the loneliest and broodiest Doctors despite being incredibly loving and compassionate, with a remarkable capacity for forgiveness. It's so hard to be different...
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** First, understand that he is an imposing, aloof, older-looking Doctor: tall, LeanAndMean, in severe dark suits much of the time (though this look softens via a hoodie and fluffier hair later) with BigOlEyebrows and NoSocialSkills, and NoSocialSkills who HatesBeingTouched. In both the show and the ExpandedUniverse, he ''constantly'' creeps out and puts off the people he encounters via his appearance and mannerisms alone; it's one reason Clara initially has a hard time caring for him the way she did for Eleven. Because most people go by first and second impressions and he's cagey about revealing his sweeter nature, he is one of the loneliest and broodiest Doctors despite being incredibly loving and compassionate, with a remarkable capacity for forgiveness. It's so hard to be different...
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** In "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK Arachnids in the UK]]," when she drops Yaz, Ryan, and Graham off when she is finally able to get them home to Sheffield, she is only barely able to keep up her cheerful tone because she realizes that this means she will be travelling alone, and she ''really'' HatesBeingAlone. Fortunately, the fam also is reluctant to leave her, so this episode is when they officially start travelling with her for real.
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** In "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK Arachnids in the UK]]," when she drops Yaz, Ryan, and Graham off when she is finally able to get them home to Sheffield, she is only barely able to keep up her cheerful tone because she realizes that this means she will be travelling alone, and she ''really'' HatesBeingAlone. Fortunately, the fam also is reluctant to leave her, so this episode is when they officially start travelling with her for real.
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** In the first part of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall Spyfall," the Doctor finds out that her friend O was actually the Master all along, and she is absolutely ''gutted.'' She crumples into herself and is uncharacteristically ''speechless.'' Throughout the Master's speech, she looks like she is about to vomit because she is so shaken.
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** In the first part of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall Spyfall," Spyfall]]," the Doctor finds out that her friend O was actually the Master all along, and she is absolutely ''gutted.'' She crumples into herself and is uncharacteristically ''speechless.'' Throughout the Master's speech, she looks like she is about to vomit because she is so shaken.
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* The '''[[Creator/JodieWhittaker Thirteenth Doctor]]''' might appear cheerful, but don't be fooled. She has ''plenty'' of moments where she is so devastated, you just want to hug her.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument The Ghost Monument]]," she stakes all her hopes of getting Yaz, Ryan and Graham off of the planet Desolation on being able to find the TARDIS. But when she is unable to find her ship in the location it was supposed to appear in at the end of the episode, her face crumples and she looks absolutely devastated at having let her new friends down.
** In "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK Arachnids in the UK]]," when she drops Yaz, Ryan, and Graham off when she is finally able to get them home to Sheffield, she is only barely able to keep up her cheerful tone because she realizes that this means she will be travelling alone, and she ''really'' HatesBeingAlone. Fortunately, the fam also is reluctant to leave her, so this episode is when they officially start travelling with her for real.
-->'''Yaz:''' What're you going to do now?\\
'''Thirteen:''' Oh, you know. Back in the box. There's loads to see.\\
'''Yaz:''' By yourself?\\
'''Thirteen:''' ''(sadly)'' Yeah, I suppose.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab Demons of the Punjab]]," because it is ultimately a fixed point in time and would strongly impact Yaz's personal timeline if it is changed, Prem, Yaz's grandma's first love, has to be allowed to die. Thirteen has one heck of a ThousandYardStare as she walks away from Prem, and she flinches when she hears him being shot.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway It Takes You Away]]," she befriends the Solitract, a lonely sentient universe, but because it is not stable enough to let anyone stay in it, she ultimately has to leave it. Even though the Solitract did spend most of the episode trying to lure and trap people from the main universe within it, Thirteen can't help but feel sad when she has to leave it.
-->'''Thirteen:''' Shame. Made a new friend, a whole conscious universe, then I had to say goodbye.
** In the first part of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall Spyfall," the Doctor finds out that her friend O was actually the Master all along, and she is absolutely ''gutted.'' She crumples into herself and is uncharacteristically ''speechless.'' Throughout the Master's speech, she looks like she is about to vomit because she is so shaken.
*** Towards the end of the second part of "Spyfall," she visits Gallifrey to see if the Master was telling the truth about it being destroyed again. She looks utterly horrified as she stares at the wreckage of her home planet, and then, after listening to the Master's geolocked message saying that he destroyed Gallifrey because of a terrible secret the founders of Gallifrey had been keeping from all of them, she snarls and angrily tosses the disk away, leans against one of the TARDIS pillars, and [[ThousandYardStare stares off into the distance.]] Later, when Yaz [[InnocentlyInsensitive asks if they can visit her home,]] Thirteen pastes on a thin smile, says that maybe they can visit another time, quickly walks away and stares off into the middle distance, away from the fam.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon Fugitive of the Judoon]]," we learn that Thirteen apparently regularly visits the wreckage of Gallifrey whenever she drops Yaz, Ryan, and Graham off.
*** In this episode, Thirteen discovers that the titular fugitive that the Judoon are looking for is an incarnation of herself who does not remember her and who Thirteen has no memory of. After she finds this out, she spends most of the rest of the episode looking utterly confused (though this doesn't stop her from constantly arguing with this other incarnation of herself, as is usual when the Doctor encounters other incarnations of themself). But when she leaves the other Doctor's TARDIS, she walks with a ThousandYardStare, looking desperately in need of a hug because now not only does she have to deal with her planet being destroyed again, she also has to deal with a ''huge'' identity crisis.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument The Ghost Monument]]," she stakes all her hopes of getting Yaz, Ryan and Graham off of the planet Desolation on being able to find the TARDIS. But when she is unable to find her ship in the location it was supposed to appear in at the end of the episode, her face crumples and she looks absolutely devastated at having let her new friends down.
** In "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK Arachnids in the UK]]," when she drops Yaz, Ryan, and Graham off when she is finally able to get them home to Sheffield, she is only barely able to keep up her cheerful tone because she realizes that this means she will be travelling alone, and she ''really'' HatesBeingAlone. Fortunately, the fam also is reluctant to leave her, so this episode is when they officially start travelling with her for real.
-->'''Yaz:''' What're you going to do now?\\
'''Thirteen:''' Oh, you know. Back in the box. There's loads to see.\\
'''Yaz:''' By yourself?\\
'''Thirteen:''' ''(sadly)'' Yeah, I suppose.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab Demons of the Punjab]]," because it is ultimately a fixed point in time and would strongly impact Yaz's personal timeline if it is changed, Prem, Yaz's grandma's first love, has to be allowed to die. Thirteen has one heck of a ThousandYardStare as she walks away from Prem, and she flinches when she hears him being shot.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway It Takes You Away]]," she befriends the Solitract, a lonely sentient universe, but because it is not stable enough to let anyone stay in it, she ultimately has to leave it. Even though the Solitract did spend most of the episode trying to lure and trap people from the main universe within it, Thirteen can't help but feel sad when she has to leave it.
-->'''Thirteen:''' Shame. Made a new friend, a whole conscious universe, then I had to say goodbye.
** In the first part of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall Spyfall," the Doctor finds out that her friend O was actually the Master all along, and she is absolutely ''gutted.'' She crumples into herself and is uncharacteristically ''speechless.'' Throughout the Master's speech, she looks like she is about to vomit because she is so shaken.
*** Towards the end of the second part of "Spyfall," she visits Gallifrey to see if the Master was telling the truth about it being destroyed again. She looks utterly horrified as she stares at the wreckage of her home planet, and then, after listening to the Master's geolocked message saying that he destroyed Gallifrey because of a terrible secret the founders of Gallifrey had been keeping from all of them, she snarls and angrily tosses the disk away, leans against one of the TARDIS pillars, and [[ThousandYardStare stares off into the distance.]] Later, when Yaz [[InnocentlyInsensitive asks if they can visit her home,]] Thirteen pastes on a thin smile, says that maybe they can visit another time, quickly walks away and stares off into the middle distance, away from the fam.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon Fugitive of the Judoon]]," we learn that Thirteen apparently regularly visits the wreckage of Gallifrey whenever she drops Yaz, Ryan, and Graham off.
*** In this episode, Thirteen discovers that the titular fugitive that the Judoon are looking for is an incarnation of herself who does not remember her and who Thirteen has no memory of. After she finds this out, she spends most of the rest of the episode looking utterly confused (though this doesn't stop her from constantly arguing with this other incarnation of herself, as is usual when the Doctor encounters other incarnations of themself). But when she leaves the other Doctor's TARDIS, she walks with a ThousandYardStare, looking desperately in need of a hug because now not only does she have to deal with her planet being destroyed again, she also has to deal with a ''huge'' identity crisis.
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* River Song had a pretty awful childhood, to say the least. The rest of her life was spent watching the man she loved, along with her parents (who never got a chance to raise her), forget about her. Also, she died after having her worst fear come true and ends up trapped in a virtual world. As subjective as she is, it is hard to not feel a bit sorry for her. And ''then'' there's her most recent appearance in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong The Husbands of River Song]]", set after she loses her parents and before her death, which reveals that (at least sometimes) she doubts that the Doctor ever truly loved her. In the end, [[spoiler: she spends '''twenty-four happy years with the Twelfth Doctor''' before that death, because he ''does'']] (sniffle).
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* River Song had a pretty awful childhood, to say the least. least: she was taken from her mother in the first days of her life, grew up all alone in an orphanage while being heavily indoctrinated by the Silence. Then when she saw her mother again for the first time, her mother (who at that point had no idea River even existed) ''shot at her''. The rest of her life was spent watching the man she loved, along with her parents (who never got a chance to raise her), forget about her. Also, she died after having her worst fear come true and ends up trapped in a virtual world. As subjective as she is, it is hard to not feel a bit sorry for her. And ''then'' there's her most recent appearance in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong The Husbands of River Song]]", set after she loses her parents and before her death, which reveals that (at least sometimes) she doubts that the Doctor ever truly loved her. In the end, [[spoiler: she spends '''twenty-four happy years with the Twelfth Doctor''' before that death, because he ''does'']] (sniffle).
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* The Game Station Controller from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf Bad Wolf]]". The poor woman was ''wired into a giant broadcasting satellite at the age of five'', used as the {{WetwareCPU}} by the Daleks, but she turned out also to be an example of a HeroicAlbino by defying them and helping the Doctor find out where they were.. Even so, she deserved a hug from having spent a life wired up to a broadcasting station that does nothing but broadcast BadFuture [[DeadlyGame rehashes of bad reality TV and game shows]].
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* The Game Station Controller from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf Bad Wolf]]". The poor woman was ''wired into a giant broadcasting satellite at the age of five'', used as the {{WetwareCPU}} by the Daleks, but she turned out also to be an example of a HeroicAlbino hero by defying them and helping the Doctor find out where they were.. Even so, she deserved a hug from having spent a life wired up to a broadcasting station that does nothing but broadcast BadFuture [[DeadlyGame rehashes of bad reality TV and game shows]].
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuDGzIz2uMM This]] [[TearJerker scene]] from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten The Rings of Akhaten]]". Also a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for both character and [[Creator/MattSmith actor]].
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuDGzIz2uMM This]] [[TearJerker scene]] from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten The Rings of Akhaten]]". Also a CrowningMomentOfAwesome SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for both character and [[Creator/MattSmith actor]].
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* And then there's Owen, whose [[spoiler:first encounter with Jack involved his fiancée dying through alien parasite, being repeatedly told that it didn't happen and that it was him going crazy, got his heart broken by a time-displaced pilot, got savaged by a Weevil deliberately after being abandoned by said pilot, got shot in the shoulder for trying to bring her (and the two members of the team stuck in the 1940s) back, was forced to euthanise a giant space whale, was [[MindRape mindraped]] into a more nerdy persona (even if he didn't remember it), got killed by a doctor that he actually respected, came back as an asexual zombie just because his boss wanted the codes for the morgue (well, and because "I didn't want to give up on you", but still...), got possessed by TheGrimReaper and had to fight it off in order to stop it from completely coming through into our world (which, okay, was also a CrowningMomentOfAwesome) and is finally trapped in a nuclear reactor, still completely conscious as his body slowly decomposes.]]
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* And then there's Owen, whose [[spoiler:first encounter with Jack involved his fiancée dying through alien parasite, being repeatedly told that it didn't happen and that it was him going crazy, got his heart broken by a time-displaced pilot, got savaged by a Weevil deliberately after being abandoned by said pilot, got shot in the shoulder for trying to bring her (and the two members of the team stuck in the 1940s) back, was forced to euthanise a giant space whale, was [[MindRape mindraped]] into a more nerdy persona (even if he didn't remember it), got killed by a doctor that he actually respected, came back as an asexual zombie just because his boss wanted the codes for the morgue (well, and because "I didn't want to give up on you", but still...), got possessed by TheGrimReaper and had to fight it off in order to stop it from completely coming through into our world (which, okay, was also a CrowningMomentOfAwesome) SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome) and is finally trapped in a nuclear reactor, still completely conscious as his body slowly decomposes.]]
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C Ms can't be woobies. Also I don't see enough context.
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* The Master! Especially Creator/JohnSimm's Master. Okay, so he's an insane rogue Time Lord determined to take over the universe and make us all do horrible things, but he has issues! Especially in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]".
** Remember Professor Yana. As the Doctor mentioned, a Time Lord's false identity is created from their true identity. So, if not for Rassilon and the Time Lord Council, he could be a good man not unlike the Doctor...
** Later on, we discover that sometimes it's the Master [[spoiler:who's their own worst enemy, preferring to kill themselves rather than have them HeelFaceTurn]].
** Remember Professor Yana. As the Doctor mentioned, a Time Lord's false identity is created from their true identity. So, if not for Rassilon and the Time Lord Council, he could be a good man not unlike the Doctor...
** Later on, we discover that sometimes it's the Master [[spoiler:who's their own worst enemy, preferring to kill themselves rather than have them HeelFaceTurn]].
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Hell, the Doctor's been a woobie from the start. Let's see: Forced to run from his own people, makes his granddaughter - the only family he has left - leave him so she can be happy (he tried to make it look like he was okay with it, in truth it was heartbreaking for him; note the awful moment in the very next episode, where he forgets that Susan has left), he places the people around him in danger, and despite his best efforts to keep them safe has failed in one of the biggest {{Tear Jerker}}s of all television, has tried time and again to bring out the innate goodness in all life and then ends up forced to kill once he realizes there's no other way, and has continually been forced to regenerate, which doesn't always end well...
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Hell, the Doctor's been a woobie from the start. Let's see: Forced to run from his their own people, makes they've found themselves placing the people around them in danger, and despite their best efforts to keep them safe have failed in one of the biggest {{Tear Jerker}}s of all television, have tried time and again to bring out the innate goodness in all life and then end up forced to kill once they realize there's no other way, and have continually been forced to regenerate, which doesn't always end well...
* The '''[[Creator/WilliamHartnell First Doctor]]''' made his granddaughter Susan - the only family hehas had left - leave him so she can could be happy (he tried to make it look like he was okay with it, in truth it was heartbreaking for him; note the awful moment in the very next episode, where he forgets that Susan has left), he places the people around him in danger, and despite his best efforts to keep them safe has failed in one of the biggest {{Tear Jerker}}s of all television, has tried time and again to bring out the innate goodness in all life and then ends up forced to kill once he realizes there's no other way, and has continually been forced to regenerate, which doesn't always end well...left).
* The '''[[Creator/WilliamHartnell First Doctor]]''' made his granddaughter Susan - the only family he
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** After this, the 2016 Christmas special that leads into Series 10 confirms that he's still emotionally tender over [[spoiler: his last goodbye to River Song, confirming that they indeed enjoyed 24 years of happiness]], trying to put the best face on it that he can and move on.
** Series 10 starts by establishing he's been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and its dangerous prisoner beneath a university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but "Knock Knock" reveals he's still lonesome when she's not around. And when he risks his own life to save hers in "Oxygen", he comes out of the experience [[spoiler: incurably blind]] -- which compromises his ability to watch over that vault. For some reason, he can't just [[spoiler: use his regeneration energy]] to solve the problem...and he can't bear to tell Bill what's happened to him, to spare her guilt. As a result, he ends up [[spoiler: almost dying in a lab explosion until Bill, who's found out about his blindness, decides to sacrifice humanity's freedom to the Monks to save him]]! They solve that crisis together, but then comes "World Enough and Time", which relates to the prisoner, [[spoiler: Missy (aka the Master), the old adversary of Series 8 mentioned above]]. He has become so lonely after all his losses that he is desperate to redeem them and takes a chance on a distressed spaceship -- one that leads to Bill [[spoiler: having a hole blown in her chest and being spirited away by sinister nurses]]. He races to rescue her, only to find that [[spoiler: Saxon, Missy's previous self, has already had Bill '''converted into a Cyberman''' and has apparently wooed Missy back to the side of evil]]. And just to make everything absolutely perfect, [[spoiler:he ends up getting electrocuted by a Cyberman, but suppresses the ensuing regeneration for two weeks without anyone knowing, not wanting to change again. He decides to go out by making a last stand against an army of Cybermen, taking everything they can throw at him, then blowing both the Cyber-army and himself to kingdom come, preferring to die rather than change. He wakes up to find himself alive and back in the TARDIS, still on the brink of regeneration, and repeatedly refuses to go through with it, feeling he's changed too often, too many times. He doesn't know that Missy decided to join forces with him, but was killed by Saxon, or that Bill was saved by Heather, who turned her into a being like herself, and she laid the Doctor to rest in the TARDIS, inadvertently giving him just enough life to come back, before the two of them went to see the universe... just that everyone's gone, and he's about to become ''someone else'' again.]]
** Series 10 starts by establishing he's been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and its dangerous prisoner beneath a university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but "Knock Knock" reveals he's still lonesome when she's not around. And when he risks his own life to save hers in "Oxygen", he comes out of the experience [[spoiler: incurably blind]] -- which compromises his ability to watch over that vault. For some reason, he can't just [[spoiler: use his regeneration energy]] to solve the problem...and he can't bear to tell Bill what's happened to him, to spare her guilt. As a result, he ends up [[spoiler: almost dying in a lab explosion until Bill, who's found out about his blindness, decides to sacrifice humanity's freedom to the Monks to save him]]! They solve that crisis together, but then comes "World Enough and Time", which relates to the prisoner, [[spoiler: Missy (aka the Master), the old adversary of Series 8 mentioned above]]. He has become so lonely after all his losses that he is desperate to redeem them and takes a chance on a distressed spaceship -- one that leads to Bill [[spoiler: having a hole blown in her chest and being spirited away by sinister nurses]]. He races to rescue her, only to find that [[spoiler: Saxon, Missy's previous self, has already had Bill '''converted into a Cyberman''' and has apparently wooed Missy back to the side of evil]]. And just to make everything absolutely perfect, [[spoiler:he ends up getting electrocuted by a Cyberman, but suppresses the ensuing regeneration for two weeks without anyone knowing, not wanting to change again. He decides to go out by making a last stand against an army of Cybermen, taking everything they can throw at him, then blowing both the Cyber-army and himself to kingdom come, preferring to die rather than change. He wakes up to find himself alive and back in the TARDIS, still on the brink of regeneration, and repeatedly refuses to go through with it, feeling he's changed too often, too many times. He doesn't know that Missy decided to join forces with him, but was killed by Saxon, or that Bill was saved by Heather, who turned her into a being like herself, and she laid the Doctor to rest in the TARDIS, inadvertently giving him just enough life to come back, before the two of them went to see the universe... just that everyone's gone, and he's about to become ''someone else'' again.]]
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** After this, [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio the 2016 Christmas special special]] that leads into Series 10 confirms that he's still emotionally tender over [[spoiler: his last goodbye to River Song, confirming that they indeed enjoyed 24 years of happiness]], trying to put the best face on it that he can and move on.
** Series 10 starts by establishing he's been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and its dangerous prisoner beneath a university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but"Knock Knock" "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E4KnockKnock Knock Knock]]" reveals he's still lonesome when she's not around. And when he risks his own life to save hers in "Oxygen", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen Oxygen]]", he comes out of the experience [[spoiler: incurably blind]] -- which compromises his ability to watch over that vault. For some reason, he can't just [[spoiler: use his regeneration energy]] to solve the problem...and he can't bear to tell Bill what's happened to him, to spare her guilt. As a result, he ends up [[spoiler: almost dying in a lab explosion until Bill, who's found out about his blindness, decides to sacrifice humanity's freedom to the Monks to save him]]! They solve that crisis together, but then comes "World "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime World Enough and Time", Time]]", which relates to the prisoner, [[spoiler: Missy (aka the Master), the old adversary of Series 8 mentioned above]]. He has become so lonely after all his losses that he is desperate to redeem them and takes a chance on a distressed spaceship -- one that leads to Bill [[spoiler: having a hole blown in her chest and being spirited away by sinister nurses]]. He races to rescue her, only to find that [[spoiler: Saxon, Missy's previous self, has already had Bill '''converted into a Cyberman''' and has apparently wooed Missy back to the side of evil]]. And just to make everything absolutely perfect, [[spoiler:he [[spoiler: in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Doctor Falls]]" he ends up getting electrocuted by a Cyberman, but suppresses the ensuing regeneration for two weeks without anyone knowing, not wanting to change again. He decides to go out by making a last stand against an army of Cybermen, taking everything they can throw at him, then blowing both the Cyber-army and himself to kingdom come, preferring to die rather than change. He wakes up to find himself alive and back in the TARDIS, still on the brink of regeneration, and repeatedly refuses to go through with it, feeling he's changed too often, too many times. He doesn't know that Missy decided to join forces with him, but was killed by Saxon, or that Bill was saved by Heather, who turned her into a being like herself, and she laid the Doctor to rest in the TARDIS, inadvertently giving him just enough life to come back, before the two of them went to see the universe... just that everyone's gone, and he's about to become ''someone else'' again.]]
*** "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" provides further context [[spoiler:on his refusal to change; it's his sense of WhoWantsToLiveForever surfacing, seeing everyone else die while he just keeps on going, caught on the perpetual treadmill of saving the universe without respite or rest. It's kindness, in the end, that convinces him to go through with it one more time, both showing it and being witness to it. And before he finally goes, he has his memories of Clara restored, and gets the chance to say goodbye to Bill.]]
** Series 10 starts by establishing he's been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and its dangerous prisoner beneath a university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but
*** "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" provides further context [[spoiler:on his refusal to change; it's his sense of WhoWantsToLiveForever surfacing, seeing everyone else die while he just keeps on going, caught on the perpetual treadmill of saving the universe without respite or rest. It's kindness, in the end, that convinces him to go through with it one more time, both showing it and being witness to it. And before he finally goes, he has his memories of Clara restored, and gets the chance to say goodbye to Bill.]]
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->''"Can't I ever have peace? Can't I rest?"''
-->'''The Twelfth Doctor''', ''"[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]"''
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->''"Can't I ever have peace? Can't I rest?"''
-->'''The Twelfth Doctor''', ''"[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]"''
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* Jack himself is quite woobie-ish. [[spoiler:At the age of about fifteen or so, his father dies and his brother is taken in an attack on his home planet. His mother blames him for the loss of his brother. He fights in a war and him and a friend get captured by the enemy, and his friend is tortured then killed in front of him. After that Jack joins the Time Agency, where they wipe two years of his memories. He then meets up with the Doctor, gets shot by Daleks, resurrected, left on an empty space station and has to time-jump to the mid-1800s, where he discovers he can never die. Then he is blackmailed into working for Torchwood but has to take over when the whole team is killed by one of their own. After creating a new team, he is pretty much betrayed by all of them over time, then killed when they stage a coup to open the rift. After saving the world, he leaves with the Doctor, who he loves and has been waiting for for over 150 years, only to discover that he was left on the space station on purpose, the Doctor can't stand to look at him and he is stuck being immortal. He then spends a year in captivity being tortured by the Master. When he comes back to Torchwood, his brother (who he had been searching for since the beginning) comes back evil. The brother buries Jack alive, so he spends 2000 years dying and coming back, and kills two members of Jack's team.]]
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* Jack himself is quite woobie-ish. [[spoiler:At the age of about fifteen or so, his father dies and his brother is taken in an attack on his home planet. His mother blames him for the loss of his brother. He fights in a war and him and a friend get captured by the enemy, and his friend is tortured then killed in front of him. After that Jack joins the Time Agency, where they wipe two years of his memories. He then meets up with the Doctor, gets shot by Daleks, resurrected, left on an empty space station and has to time-jump to the mid-1800s, where he discovers he can never die. Then he is blackmailed into working for Torchwood but has to take over when the whole team is killed by one of their own. After creating a new team, he is pretty much betrayed by all of them over time, then killed when they stage a coup to open the rift. After saving the world, he leaves with the Doctor, who he loves and has been waiting for for over 150 years, only to discover that he was left on the space station on purpose, the Doctor can't stand to look at him (in fact he even gives the ''TARDIS'' the crawling heebies) and he is stuck being immortal. He then spends a year in captivity being tortured by the Master. When he comes back to Torchwood, his brother (who he had been searching for since the beginning) comes back evil. The brother buries Jack alive, so he spends 2000 years dying and coming back, and kills two members of Jack's team.]]
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* In addition to the aforementioned Dalek, there's the Ood in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod Planet of the Ood]]" (lobotomized and sold as slaves), the Krafayis in "Vincent and the Doctor" (abandoned, wounded and blind, on an alien planet), or the Minotaur in "The God Complex" (kept imprisoned for god knows how long, and compelled against its will to feed on innocents even though all it wants to do is die).
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* In addition to the aforementioned Dalek, there's the Ood in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod Planet of the Ood]]" (lobotomized and sold as slaves), the Krafayis in "Vincent and the Doctor" (abandoned, wounded and blind, on an alien planet), or the Minotaur in "The God Complex" (kept imprisoned for god knows how long, and compelled against its will to feed on innocents even though all it wants to do is die). In the latter two cases, it's the Doctor himself who reassures them that it'll be okay.
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** He even gets more pitiful in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen Rise of the Cybermen]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel The Age of Steel]]" 2-part episode, where we find out that his grandmother died, and he blames himself because she slipped on some loose carpet he was supposed to staple down. He also only gets to talk to the parallel world's version of his grandmother for a few minutes before he is kidnapped. Also during the second part, his counterpart, Ricky, dies, causing his allies, as well as Mickey himself again, to blame him for his death. Also at the end of the episode [[spoiler: convinced that there is more purpose for him in the parallel world, stays behind, and the Doctor can't ever come back to get him]].
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** He even gets more pitiful in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen Rise of the Cybermen]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel The Age of Steel]]" 2-part episode, where we find out that his grandmother died, and he blames himself because she slipped on some loose carpet he was supposed to staple down. He also only gets to talk to the parallel world's version of his grandmother for a few minutes before he is kidnapped. Also during the second part, his counterpart, Ricky, dies, causing his allies, as well as Mickey himself again, to blame him for his death. Also at the end of the episode [[spoiler: convinced that there is more purpose for him in the parallel world, stays behind, and the Doctor can't ever come back to get him]].him. At least now he has another chance to staple that carpet]].
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** Series 10 starts by establishing he's been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and its dangerous prisoner beneath a university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but "Knock Knock" reveals he's still lonesome when she's not around. And when he risks his own life to save hers in "Oxygen", he comes out of the experience [[spoiler: incurably blind]] -- which compromises his ability to watch over that vault. For some reason, he can't just [[spoiler: use his regeneration energy]] to solve the problem...and he can't bear to tell Bill what's happened to him, to spare her guilt. As a result, he ends up [[spoiler: almost dying in a lab explosion until Bill, who's found out about his blindness, decides to sacrifice humanity's freedom to the Monks to save him]]! They solve that crisis together, but then comes "World Enough and Time", which relates to the prisoner, [[spoiler: Missy (aka the Master), the old adversary of Series 8 mentioned above]]. He has become so lonely after all his losses that he is desperate to redeem them and takes a chance on a distressed spaceship -- one that leads to Bill [[spoiler: having a hole blown in her chest and being spirited away by sinister nurses]]. He races to rescue her, only to find that [[spoiler: Saxon, Missy's previous self, has already had Bill '''converted into a Cyberman''' and has apparently wooed Missy back to the side of evil]]. In the end, it comes down to the Doctor [[spoiler: making a last stand against an army of Cybermen and being mortally wounded in the process, but refusing to regenerate, finally blowing the Cyber-army to kingdom come... and ''still'' not regenerating, preferring to die instead. He wakes up to find himself alive and back in the TARDIS, still on the brink of regeneration, and repeatedly refuses to go through with it, feeling he's changed too often, too many times. He doesn't know that Missy decided to make a HeelFaceTurn, but was killed by Saxon, or that Bill was saved by Heather, who turned her into a being like herself, and she laid the Doctor to rest in the TARDIS, inadvertantly giving him just enough life to come back, before the two of them went to see the universe... just that everyone's gone, and he's about to become ''someone else'' again.]]
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** Series 10 starts by establishing he's been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and its dangerous prisoner beneath a university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but "Knock Knock" reveals he's still lonesome when she's not around. And when he risks his own life to save hers in "Oxygen", he comes out of the experience [[spoiler: incurably blind]] -- which compromises his ability to watch over that vault. For some reason, he can't just [[spoiler: use his regeneration energy]] to solve the problem...and he can't bear to tell Bill what's happened to him, to spare her guilt. As a result, he ends up [[spoiler: almost dying in a lab explosion until Bill, who's found out about his blindness, decides to sacrifice humanity's freedom to the Monks to save him]]! They solve that crisis together, but then comes "World Enough and Time", which relates to the prisoner, [[spoiler: Missy (aka the Master), the old adversary of Series 8 mentioned above]]. He has become so lonely after all his losses that he is desperate to redeem them and takes a chance on a distressed spaceship -- one that leads to Bill [[spoiler: having a hole blown in her chest and being spirited away by sinister nurses]]. He races to rescue her, only to find that [[spoiler: Saxon, Missy's previous self, has already had Bill '''converted into a Cyberman''' and has apparently wooed Missy back to the side of evil]]. In And just to make everything absolutely perfect, [[spoiler:he ends up getting electrocuted by a Cyberman, but suppresses the end, it comes down ensuing regeneration for two weeks without anyone knowing, not wanting to the Doctor [[spoiler: change again. He decides to go out by making a last stand against an army of Cybermen and being mortally wounded in the process, but refusing to regenerate, finally Cybermen, taking everything they can throw at him, then blowing both the Cyber-army and himself to kingdom come... and ''still'' not regenerating, come, preferring to die instead.rather than change. He wakes up to find himself alive and back in the TARDIS, still on the brink of regeneration, and repeatedly refuses to go through with it, feeling he's changed too often, too many times. He doesn't know that Missy decided to make a HeelFaceTurn, join forces with him, but was killed by Saxon, or that Bill was saved by Heather, who turned her into a being like herself, and she laid the Doctor to rest in the TARDIS, inadvertantly inadvertently giving him just enough life to come back, before the two of them went to see the universe... just that everyone's gone, and he's about to become ''someone else'' again.]]
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* Sweet Heather, aka [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot "The Pilot"]]. A lonely student at St. Luke's who longs to be anywhere but where she currently is, she and Bill Potts fall in love -- but then the former is possessed by a sentient puddle of starship fuel and turned into a creature who has all of space and time to explore, but can't forget the promise her human self made to Bill ''not to leave without her''. She effectively becomes a StalkerWithACrush in this form. Eventually Bill and the Doctor realize what she wants is not to hurt Bill, but to make her a passenger, but that's a dangerous fate in any case. The Doctor convinces Bill to sever the promise so both women can be free, but Heather is awash in tears as she does so...in the end, [[spoiler: eleven episodes later she's gained control of her old self ''and'' abilities. Tracing Bill via those tears, she frees her from a Fate Worse Than Death, and they travel the universe together...after they unknowingly provide the means for the Doctor to live anew]].
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* Poor Heather, aka [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot "The Pilot"]]. A lonely student at St. Luke's who longs to be anywhere but where she currently is, she and Bill Potts fall in love -- but then the former is possessed by a sentient puddle of starship fuel and turned into a creature who has all of space and time to explore, but can't forget the promise her human self made to Bill ''not to leave without her''. She effectively becomes a StalkerWithACrush in this form. Eventually Bill and the Doctor realize what she wants is not to hurt Bill, but to make her a passenger, but that's a dangerous fate in any case. The Doctor convinces Bill to sever the promise so both women can be free, but Heather is awash in tears as she does so...in the end, [[spoiler: eleven episodes later she's gained control of her old self ''and'' abilities. Tracing Bill via those tears, she frees her from a Fate Worse Than Death, and they travel the universe together...after they unknowingly provide the means for the Doctor to live anew]].
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* Poor Heather, aka [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot "The Pilot"]]. A lonely student at St. Luke's who longs to be anywhere but where she currently is, she and Bill Potts fall in love -- but then the former is possessed by a sentient puddle of starship fuel and turned into a creature who has all of space and time to explore, but can't forget the promise her human self made to Bill ''not to leave without her''. She effectively becomes a StalkerWithACrush in this form. Eventually Bill and the Doctor realize what she wants is not to hurt Bill, but to make her a passenger, but that's a dangerous fate in any case. The Doctor convinces Bill to sever the promise so both women can be free, but Heather is awash in tears as she does so...in the end, [[spoiler: eleven episodes later she's gained control of her old self ''and'' abilities. Tracing Bill via those tears, she frees her from a Fate Worse Than Death, and they travel the universe together...after they unknowingly provide the means for the Doctor to live anew]].
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* '''The Fifth Doctor''' was a kind, gentle soul who wandered the universe with the desire to see it's wonders and had the genuine belief that there was real good out there. The universe rewarded this world view with high body counts wherever he went, a companion dying, and another one leaving because the brutality was getting too much to handle.
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* '''The The '''[[Creator/PeterDavison Fifth Doctor''' Doctor]]''' was a kind, gentle soul who wandered the universe with the desire to see it's its wonders and had the genuine belief that there was real good out there. The universe rewarded this world view with high body counts wherever he went, a companion dying, and another one leaving because the brutality was getting too much to handle.
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** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]" points this out-after finally starving the Minotaur to death-[[DeathSeeker something the Minotaur wanted]], [[AndIMustScream and who can blame him?]]-the dying Minotaur describes what sounds a lot like him...and then his FamousLastWords are "I'm not talking about myself". Guess who's translating for him?
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** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]" points this out-after out: after finally starving the Minotaur to death-[[DeathSeeker death - [[DeathSeeker something the Minotaur wanted]], [[AndIMustScream and who can blame him?]]-the him?]] - the dying Minotaur describes what sounds a lot like him...and then his FamousLastWords are "I'm not talking about myself". Guess who's translating for him?
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** First, understand that he is an imposing, aloof, older-looking Doctor: tall, LeanAndMean, in severe dark suits much of the time (though this look softens via a hoodie and fluffier hair later later) with BigOlEyebrows and NoSocialSkills; he HatesBeingTouched. In both the show and the ExpandedUniverse, he ''constantly'' creeps out and puts off the people he encounters via his appearance and mannerisms alone; it's one reason Clara initially has a hard time caring for him the way she did for Eleven. Because most people go by first and second impressions and he's cagey about revealing his sweeter nature, he is one of the loneliest and broodiest Doctors despite being incredibly loving and compassionate, with a remarkable capacity for forgiveness. It's so hard to be different...
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** First, understand that he is an imposing, aloof, older-looking Doctor: tall, LeanAndMean, in severe dark suits much of the time (though this look softens via a hoodie and fluffier hair later later) with BigOlEyebrows and NoSocialSkills; he NoSocialSkills, and HatesBeingTouched. In both the show and the ExpandedUniverse, he ''constantly'' creeps out and puts off the people he encounters via his appearance and mannerisms alone; it's one reason Clara initially has a hard time caring for him the way she did for Eleven. Because most people go by first and second impressions and he's cagey about revealing his sweeter nature, he is one of the loneliest and broodiest Doctors despite being incredibly loving and compassionate, with a remarkable capacity for forgiveness. It's so hard to be different...
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** Series 10 starts by establishing he's been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and its dangerous prisoner beneath a university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but "Knock Knock" reveals he's still lonesome when she's not around. And when he risks his own life to save hers in "Oxygen", he comes out of the experience [[spoiler: incurably blind]] -- which compromises his ability to watch over that vault. For some reason, he can't just [[spoiler: use his regeneration energy]] to solve the problem...and he can't bear to tell Bill what's happened to him, to spare her guilt. As a result, he ends up [[spoiler: almost dying in a lab explosion until Bill, who's found out about his blindness, decides to sacrifice humanity's freedom to the Monks to save him]]! They solve that crisis together, but then comes "World Enough and Time", which relates to the prisoner, [[spoiler: Missy (aka the Master), the old adversary of Series 8 mentioned above]]. He has become so lonely after all his losses that he is desperate to redeem them and takes a chance on a distressed spaceship -- one that leads to Bill [[spoiler: having a hole blown in her chest and being spirited away by sinister nurses]]. He races to rescue her, only to find that [[spoiler: Saxon, Missy's previous self, has already had her '''converted into a Cyberman''' and has apparently wooed Missy back to the side of evil]]. And if the pre-credit sequence of the second-to-last episode of the season/third-to-last of his tenure is any indication, this Doctor [[spoiler: ends up '''{{dying alone}}''' and in anguish in a snowy waste]]. [[UpToEleven Can't this poor man ever catch a break?!]]
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** Series 10 starts by establishing he's been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and its dangerous prisoner beneath a university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but "Knock Knock" reveals he's still lonesome when she's not around. And when he risks his own life to save hers in "Oxygen", he comes out of the experience [[spoiler: incurably blind]] -- which compromises his ability to watch over that vault. For some reason, he can't just [[spoiler: use his regeneration energy]] to solve the problem...and he can't bear to tell Bill what's happened to him, to spare her guilt. As a result, he ends up [[spoiler: almost dying in a lab explosion until Bill, who's found out about his blindness, decides to sacrifice humanity's freedom to the Monks to save him]]! They solve that crisis together, but then comes "World Enough and Time", which relates to the prisoner, [[spoiler: Missy (aka the Master), the old adversary of Series 8 mentioned above]]. He has become so lonely after all his losses that he is desperate to redeem them and takes a chance on a distressed spaceship -- one that leads to Bill [[spoiler: having a hole blown in her chest and being spirited away by sinister nurses]]. He races to rescue her, only to find that [[spoiler: Saxon, Missy's previous self, has already had her Bill '''converted into a Cyberman''' and has apparently wooed Missy back to the side of evil]]. And if In the pre-credit sequence of end, it comes down to the second-to-last episode of the season/third-to-last of his tenure is any indication, this Doctor [[spoiler: ends up '''{{dying alone}}''' making a last stand against an army of Cybermen and being mortally wounded in anguish the process, but refusing to regenerate, finally blowing the Cyber-army to kingdom come... and ''still'' not regenerating, preferring to die instead. He wakes up to find himself alive and back in the TARDIS, still on the brink of regeneration, and repeatedly refuses to go through with it, feeling he's changed too often, too many times. He doesn't know that Missy decided to make a snowy waste]]. [[UpToEleven Can't this poor man ever catch HeelFaceTurn, but was killed by Saxon, or that Bill was saved by Heather, who turned her into a break?!]]
being like herself, and she laid the Doctor to rest in the TARDIS, inadvertantly giving him just enough life to come back, before the two of them went to see the universe... just that everyone's gone, and he's about to become ''someone else'' again.]]
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** Bill Potts, the principal companion of the Twelfth Doctor in Series 10, may beat all previous revival companions for the most woobieness in the fewest episodes. Her mum died when she was a baby, she never knew her dad, and her foster mother is emotionally distant. She relates more to her dead mother, speaking to her and treating her as one would an ImaginaryFriend. She wants more out of life than just dishing up chips, but has little means. The Doctor, serving as a lecturer at the university where she works, takes her under his wing, tutors her -- and then she learns his true nature when she loses a woman who might have been her soulmate to a sentient fuel puddle that possesses her, and he must help turn her away. Despite his desperation to keep his secrets secret, she convinces him not to mind wipe her, and he takes her on as a companion instead. From there, she undergoes several near-death experiences (twice in "Oxygen" alone). She must endure six months of the Monks' conquest of Earth on her own because [[spoiler: ''she'' gave them control of humanity to save the Doctor's life]], before being severely tested by [[spoiler: the Doctor himself]] over where her loyalties lie in this new world, and almost loses her life in a HeroicSacrifice stopping the conquerors. Finally, by agreeing to help the Doctor with a risky plan to rehabilitate [[spoiler: Missy]], she ends up [[spoiler: having a hole blown through her chest, being imprisoned in a sinister spaceship hospital for years while only minutes pass for the Doctor, and finding only one friend there -- who, ''just'' as the Doctor's finally arriving to save her, betrays her and has her converted into a Cyberman who ''can still feel emotions, along with pain'']]. As with the Twelfth Doctor, there would seem to be no happy ending in the cards for her.
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** Remember Professor Yana. As Doctor mentioned, a Time Lord false identity is created from true identity. So, if not for Rassilon and Time Lord Council, he could be a good man not unlike the Doctor...
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** Remember Professor Yana. As the Doctor mentioned, a Time Lord Lord's false identity is created from their true identity. So, if not for Rassilon and the Time Lord Council, he could be a good man not unlike the Doctor...Doctor...
** Later on, we discover that sometimes it's the Master [[spoiler:who's their own worst enemy, preferring to kill themselves rather than have them HeelFaceTurn]].
** Later on, we discover that sometimes it's the Master [[spoiler:who's their own worst enemy, preferring to kill themselves rather than have them HeelFaceTurn]].
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** Series 10 starts by establishing he's been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and its dangerous prisoner beneath a university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but "Knock Knock" reveals he's still lonesome when she's not around. And when he risks his own life to save hers in "Oxygen", he comes out of the experience [[spoiler: incurably blind]] -- which compromises his ability to watch over that vault. For some reason, he can't just [[spoiler: use his regeneration energy]] to solve the problem...and he can't bear to tell Bill what's happened to him, to spare her guilt. As a result, he ends up [[spoiler: almost dying in a lab explosion until Bill, who's found out about his blindness, decides to sacrifice humanity's freedom to the Monks to save him]]! They solve that crisis together, but then comes "World Enough and Time", which relates to the prisoner, [[spoiler: Missy (aka the Master), the old adversary of Series 8 mentioned above]]. He has become so lonely after all his losses that he is desperate to redeem them and takes a chance on a distressed spaceship -- one that leads to Bill [[spoiler: having a hole blown in her chest and being spirited away by sinister nurses]]. He races to rescue her, only to find that [[spoiler: Saxon, Missy's previous self, has already had her '''converted into a Cyberman''' and has apparently wooed Missy back to the side of evil]]. And if the pre-credit sequence of the second-to-last episode of the season/third-to-last of his tenure is any indication, this Doctor [[spoiler: ends up '''Dying Alone''' and in anguish in a snowy waste]].
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** Series 10 starts by establishing he's been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and its dangerous prisoner beneath a university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but "Knock Knock" reveals he's still lonesome when she's not around. And when he risks his own life to save hers in "Oxygen", he comes out of the experience [[spoiler: incurably blind]] -- which compromises his ability to watch over that vault. For some reason, he can't just [[spoiler: use his regeneration energy]] to solve the problem...and he can't bear to tell Bill what's happened to him, to spare her guilt. As a result, he ends up [[spoiler: almost dying in a lab explosion until Bill, who's found out about his blindness, decides to sacrifice humanity's freedom to the Monks to save him]]! They solve that crisis together, but then comes "World Enough and Time", which relates to the prisoner, [[spoiler: Missy (aka the Master), the old adversary of Series 8 mentioned above]]. He has become so lonely after all his losses that he is desperate to redeem them and takes a chance on a distressed spaceship -- one that leads to Bill [[spoiler: having a hole blown in her chest and being spirited away by sinister nurses]]. He races to rescue her, only to find that [[spoiler: Saxon, Missy's previous self, has already had her '''converted into a Cyberman''' and has apparently wooed Missy back to the side of evil]]. And if the pre-credit sequence of the second-to-last episode of the season/third-to-last of his tenure is any indication, this Doctor [[spoiler: ends up '''Dying Alone''' '''{{dying alone}}''' and in anguish in a snowy waste]].
waste]]. [[UpToEleven Can't this poor man ever catch a break?!]]
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** Bill Potts, the principal companion of the Twelfth Doctor in Series 10, may beat all previous revival companions for woobieness. Her mum died when she was a baby, she never knew her dad, and her foster mother is emotionally distant. She relates more to her dead mother, speaking to her and treating her as one would an ImaginaryFriend. She wants more out of life than just dishing up chips, but has little means. The Doctor, serving as a lecturer at the university where he works, takes her under his wing, tutoring her and eventually making her a companion. But from there, she undergoes several near-death experiences (twice in "Oxygen" alone), loses a woman who might have been her soulmate to a sentient fuel puddle that possesses her, must endure six months of the Monks' conquest of Earth on her own because [[spoiler: ''she'' gave them control of humanity to save the Doctor's life]], and finally, by agreeing to help the Doctor with a risky plan to rehabilitate [[spoiler: Missy]], ends up [[spoiler: having a hole blown through her chest, being imprisoned in a sinister spaceship hospital for years while only minutes pass for the Doctor, and finding only one friend there -- who, ''just'' as the Doctor's finally arriving to save her, betrays her and has her converted into a Cyberman who ''can still feel emotions, along with pain'']]. As with the Twelfth Doctor, there would seem to be no happy ending in the cards for her.
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** Bill Potts, the principal companion of the Twelfth Doctor in Series 10, may beat all previous revival companions for woobieness.the most woobieness in the fewest episodes. Her mum died when she was a baby, she never knew her dad, and her foster mother is emotionally distant. She relates more to her dead mother, speaking to her and treating her as one would an ImaginaryFriend. She wants more out of life than just dishing up chips, but has little means. The Doctor, serving as a lecturer at the university where he she works, takes her under his wing, tutoring tutors her -- and eventually making her a companion. But from there, then she undergoes several near-death experiences (twice in "Oxygen" alone), learns his true nature when she loses a woman who might have been her soulmate to a sentient fuel puddle that possesses her, and he must help turn her away. Despite his desperation to keep his secrets secret, she convinces him not to mind wipe her, and he takes her on as a companion instead. From there, she undergoes several near-death experiences (twice in "Oxygen" alone). She must endure six months of the Monks' conquest of Earth on her own because [[spoiler: ''she'' gave them control of humanity to save the Doctor's life]], before being severely tested by [[spoiler: the Doctor himself]] over where her loyalties lie in this new world, and finally, almost loses her life in a HeroicSacrifice stopping the conquerors. Finally, by agreeing to help the Doctor with a risky plan to rehabilitate [[spoiler: Missy]], she ends up [[spoiler: having a hole blown through her chest, being imprisoned in a sinister spaceship hospital for years while only minutes pass for the Doctor, and finding only one friend there -- who, ''just'' as the Doctor's finally arriving to save her, betrays her and has her converted into a Cyberman who ''can still feel emotions, along with pain'']]. As with the Twelfth Doctor, there would seem to be no happy ending in the cards for her.
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** Series 10 starts by establishing he's been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and its dangerous contents beneath a university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but "Knock Knock" reveals he's still lonesome when she's not around. And when he risks his own life to save hers in "Oxygen", he comes out of the experience [[spoiler: incurably blind]] -- which compromises his ability to watch over that vault. For some reason, he can't just [[spoiler: use his regeneration energy]] to solve the problem...and he can't bear to tell Bill what's happened to him, to spare her guilt.
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** Series 10 starts by establishing he's been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and its dangerous contents prisoner beneath a university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but "Knock Knock" reveals he's still lonesome when she's not around. And when he risks his own life to save hers in "Oxygen", he comes out of the experience [[spoiler: incurably blind]] -- which compromises his ability to watch over that vault. For some reason, he can't just [[spoiler: use his regeneration energy]] to solve the problem...and he can't bear to tell Bill what's happened to him, to spare her guilt.
guilt. As a result, he ends up [[spoiler: almost dying in a lab explosion until Bill, who's found out about his blindness, decides to sacrifice humanity's freedom to the Monks to save him]]! They solve that crisis together, but then comes "World Enough and Time", which relates to the prisoner, [[spoiler: Missy (aka the Master), the old adversary of Series 8 mentioned above]]. He has become so lonely after all his losses that he is desperate to redeem them and takes a chance on a distressed spaceship -- one that leads to Bill [[spoiler: having a hole blown in her chest and being spirited away by sinister nurses]]. He races to rescue her, only to find that [[spoiler: Saxon, Missy's previous self, has already had her '''converted into a Cyberman''' and has apparently wooed Missy back to the side of evil]]. And if the pre-credit sequence of the second-to-last episode of the season/third-to-last of his tenure is any indication, this Doctor [[spoiler: ends up '''Dying Alone''' and in anguish in a snowy waste]].
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** Bill Potts, the principal companion of the Twelfth Doctor in Series 10, may beat all previous revival companions for woobieness. Her mum died when she was a baby, she never knew her dad, and her foster mother is emotionally distant. She relates more to her dead mother, speaking to her and treating her as one would an ImaginaryFriend. She wants more out of life than just dishing up chips, but has little means. The Doctor, serving as a lecturer at the university where he works, takes her under his wing, tutoring her and eventually making her a companion. But from there, she undergoes several near-death experiences (twice in "Oxygen" alone), loses a woman who might have been her soulmate to a sentient fuel puddle that possesses her, must endure six months of the Monks' conquest of Earth on her own because [[spoiler: ''she'' gave them control of humanity to save the Doctor's life]], and finally, by agreeing to help the Doctor with a risky plan to rehabilitate [[spoiler: Missy]], ends up [[spoiler: having a hole blown through her chest, being imprisoned in a sinister spaceship hospital for years while only minutes pass for the Doctor, and finding only one friend there -- who, ''just'' as the Doctor's finally arriving to save her, betrays her and has her converted into a Cyberman who ''can still feel emotions, along with pain'']]. As with the Twelfth Doctor, there would seem to be no happy ending in the cards for her.
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** After this, the 2016 Christmas special that leads into Series 10 confirms that he's still emotionally tender over [[spoiler: his last goodbye to River Song, confirming that they indeed enjoyed 24 years of happiness]], trying to put the best face on it that he can and move on. After all he's loved and lost, will he have a triumphant ending to his tenure, whenever that may be?
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** After this, the 2016 Christmas special that leads into Series 10 confirms that he's still emotionally tender over [[spoiler: his last goodbye to River Song, confirming that they indeed enjoyed 24 years of happiness]], trying to put the best face on it that he can and move on. After all
** Series 10 starts by establishing he'sloved been more or less stuck on Earth for 50+ years, having taken an oath to guard a mysterious vault and lost, will he have its dangerous contents beneath a triumphant ending university campus, under the guise of a professor. He only has a "valet", Nardole (a cyborg); he's tied down to his tenure, whenever promises. Then he meets curious cafeteria worker Bill Potts and takes her under his wing, ultimately making her a companion. Their friendship and travels give him a new lease on life, but "Knock Knock" reveals he's still lonesome when she's not around. And when he risks his own life to save hers in "Oxygen", he comes out of the experience [[spoiler: incurably blind]] -- which compromises his ability to watch over that may be?
vault. For some reason, he can't just [[spoiler: use his regeneration energy]] to solve the problem...and he can't bear to tell Bill what's happened to him, to spare her guilt.
** Series 10 starts by establishing he's
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* Hell, the Doctor's been a woobie from the start. Let's see: Forced to run from his own people, makes his granddaughter - the only family he has left - leave him so she can be happy (he tried to make it look like he was okay with it, in truth it was heartbreaking for him; note the awful moment in the very next episode, where he forgets that Susan has left), he places the people around him in danger, and despite his best efforts to keep them safe has failed in one of the biggest {{Tear Jerker}}s of all television, has tried time and again to bring out the innate goodness in all life and then ends up forced to kill once he realizes there's no other way, and has continually been forced to regenerate, which doesn't always end well...
* The Fifth Doctor was a kind, gentle soul who wandered the universe with the desire to see it's wonders and had the genuine belief that there was real good out there. The universe rewarded this world view with high body counts wherever he went, a companion dying and another one leaving because the brutality was getting too much to handle.
* The Fifth Doctor was a kind, gentle soul who wandered the universe with the desire to see it's wonders and had the genuine belief that there was real good out there. The universe rewarded this world view with high body counts wherever he went, a companion dying and another one leaving because the brutality was getting too much to handle.
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** In Series 9, the fallout of Series 8 becomes clear: She becomes the Doctor's DistaffCounterpart, more willing than ever to risk her life for adventure and for others, especially the Doctor. So she is almost killed by the Doctor when Missy "installs" her into a Dalek casing and claims this Dalek has killed Clara, and is almost unable to convince him otherwise. She encounters the Doctor's ''ghost'' after he heads into the past to stop a villain and, communicating with his living self, tearfully begs him to find a way not to die. She is a prisoner of the Zygons -- trapped in a pod and mind-linked to a commander who has assumed her form, finding herself trying to keep this double from killing her friends (including the Doctor). She is infected by an evil sleep crust-based lifeform. Finally in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven Face the Raven]]", [[spoiler: a misguided heroic plan results in her making a Senseless Sacrifice. She dies fearing that her dear friend will become a warrior again out of anguish. When he pulls her from time at the moment of her death, she's horrified and heartbroken to learn he's undergone billions of years of torture and risked the entire universe just to save her]]. In the end, [[spoiler: she ends up with her own TARDIS and companion, and has more adventures before returning to her final death, but so far as the viewer knows she never sees the Doctor again after one last meeting in which he does not recognize her, owing to his memory wipe]].
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** In Series 9, the fallout of Series 8 becomes clear: She becomes the Doctor's DistaffCounterpart, more willing than ever to risk her life for adventure and for others, especially the Doctor. So she is almost killed by the Doctor when Missy "installs" her into a Dalek casing and claims this Dalek has killed Clara, and is almost unable to convince him otherwise. She encounters the Doctor's ''ghost'' after he heads into the past to stop a villain and, communicating with his living self, tearfully begs him to find a way not to die. She is a prisoner of the Zygons -- trapped in a pod and mind-linked to a commander who has assumed her form, finding herself trying to keep this double from killing her friends (including the Doctor). She is infected by an evil sleep crust-based lifeform. Finally in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven Face the Raven]]", [[spoiler: a misguided heroic plan results in her making a Senseless Sacrifice. She dies fearing that her dear friend will become a warrior again out of anguish. When he pulls her from time at the moment of her death, she's horrified and heartbroken to learn he's undergone billions of years of torture and risked the entire universe just to save her]]. In the end, [[spoiler: she ends up with her own TARDIS and companion, and has more adventures before returning to her final death, but so far as the viewer knows she never sees the Doctor again after one last meeting in which he does not recognize her, owing to his memory wipe]].
wipe]]. That said, [[spoiler: if the Curator of "The Day of the Doctor" is THE Doctor he may recognize her one last time, ''very'' far down the line, from his perspective]].
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** The finale of "The New Eighth Doctor Adventures" easily outdoes New Who finale sadness. The Doctor's great-grandson Alex Campbell and Lucie Miller die defeating the Daleks and the Doctor leaves utterly broken. And he never gets better.
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** The finale of "The the New Eighth Doctor Adventures" Adventures, "To the Death", easily outdoes New Who finale sadness. The Doctor's great-grandson Alex Campbell and Lucie Miller die defeating the Daleks and the Doctor leaves utterly broken. And "The Night of the Doctor" confirms that he never gets better.better, but just gets bleaker and bleaker in subsequent stories.
** First, understand that he is an imposing, aloof, older-looking Doctor: tall, LeanAndMean, in severe dark suits much of the time (though this look softens via a hoodie and fluffier hair later later) with BigOlEyebrows and NoSocialSkills; he HatesBeingTouched. In both the show and the ExpandedUniverse, he ''constantly'' creeps out and puts off the people he encounters via his appearance and mannerisms alone; it's one reason Clara initially has a hard time caring for him the way she did for Eleven. Because most people go by first and second impressions and he's cagey about revealing his sweeter nature, he is one of the loneliest and broodiest Doctors despite being incredibly loving and compassionate, with a remarkable capacity for forgiveness. It's so hard to be different...
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** Alas, things get worse again in Series 9. While Nine through Eleven managed to repress and even forget the horrors of his days as the War Doctor -- yes, Gallifrey stands, but there's ''all the other atrocities he committed'' -- Twelve cannot, as a heartwrenching monologue in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion The Zygon Inversion]]" makes clear. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied The Girl Who Died]]", he admits he hates losing everyone he comes to care about, and losing people in general; he runs about the universe to try and escape the pain even though it never works. His ChronicHeroSyndrome intensifies; he wants to save whomever he can, ''damn'' the consequences. His desperate, rash rescue of the Viking girl Ashildr in a way that also makes her immortal turns into a gigantic case of NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished as ''she'' becomes a dark woobie. As the season approaches its climax, [[spoiler: Ashildr betrays him -- and it accidentally results in '''Clara's death''']], whereupon he has a ''massive'' FreakOut. '''Then''' he's transported into a giant torture chamber by none other than [[spoiler: '''his own people, the Time Lords''']]. Firmly at the DespairEventHorizon and completely alone, he lets grief and rage overwhelm him and becomes a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: he chooses to fight his way out and turn his back on his people and beloved homeworld just to achieve the means to spirit Clara away from her death (a fixed point in time) and considers mind wiping her to keep her safe rather than paying heed to her wishes and accepting she's gone]]. He no longer cares about ''the safety of the universe''. He only fully returns to his best self when [[spoiler: ''he'' is the one memory wiped -- he remembers their time together but not ''her'', and they are separated forever]]. At last, the Christmas special [[ThrowTheDogABone throws this poor old dog a bone]]: He's reunited with River Song; it's bittersweet as he knows how she'll die...'''but.''' [[spoiler: A night on Darillium lasts '''twenty-four years''', and the ending implies he stays with her all that time, loving her the way his younger selves could not.]]
** Also, Twelve is an imposing, aloof, older-looking Doctor. He's tall, LeanAndMean, in severe dark suits much of the time (though this look softens via a hoodie and fluffier hair later later) with BigOlEyebrows and NoSocialSkills; he HatesBeingTouched. In both the show and the ExpandedUniverse, he ''constantly'' creeps out and puts off the people he encounters via his appearance and mannerisms alone; it's one reason Clara initially has a hard time caring for him the way she did for Eleven. Because most people go by first and second impressions and he's cagey about revealing his sweeter nature, he is one of the loneliest and broodiest Doctors despite being incredibly loving and compassionate, with a remarkable capacity for forgiveness. It's so hard to be different...
** Also, Twelve is an imposing, aloof, older-looking Doctor. He's tall, LeanAndMean, in severe dark suits much of the time (though this look softens via a hoodie and fluffier hair later later) with BigOlEyebrows and NoSocialSkills; he HatesBeingTouched. In both the show and the ExpandedUniverse, he ''constantly'' creeps out and puts off the people he encounters via his appearance and mannerisms alone; it's one reason Clara initially has a hard time caring for him the way she did for Eleven. Because most people go by first and second impressions and he's cagey about revealing his sweeter nature, he is one of the loneliest and broodiest Doctors despite being incredibly loving and compassionate, with a remarkable capacity for forgiveness. It's so hard to be different...
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** Alas, things get worse again in Series 9. While Nine through Eleven managed to repress and even forget the horrors of his days as the War Doctor -- yes, Gallifrey stands, but there's ''all the other atrocities he committed'' -- Twelve cannot, as a heartwrenching monologue in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion The Zygon Inversion]]" makes clear. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied The Girl Who Died]]", he admits he hates losing everyone he comes to care about, and losing people in general; he runs about the universe to try and escape the pain even though it never works. His ChronicHeroSyndrome intensifies; he wants to save whomever he can, ''damn'' the consequences. His desperate, rash rescue of the Viking girl Ashildr in a way that also makes her immortal turns into a gigantic case of NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished as ''she'' becomes a dark woobie. As the season approaches its climax, [[spoiler: Ashildr betrays him -- and it accidentally results in '''Clara's death''']], whereupon he has a ''massive'' FreakOut. '''Then''' he's transported into a giant torture chamber by none other than [[spoiler: '''his own people, the Time Lords''']]. Firmly at the DespairEventHorizon and completely alone, he lets grief and rage overwhelm him and becomes a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: he chooses to fight his way out and turn his back on his people and beloved homeworld just to achieve the means to spirit Clara away from her death (a fixed point in time) and considers mind wiping her to keep her safe rather than paying heed to her wishes and accepting she's gone]]. He no longer cares about ''the safety of the universe''. He only fully returns to his best self when [[spoiler: ''he'' is the one memory wiped -- he remembers their time together but not ''her'', and they are separated forever]]. At last, the Christmas special [[ThrowTheDogABone throws this poor old dog a bone]]: He's reunited with River Song; it's bittersweet as he knows how she'll die...'''but.''' [[spoiler: A night on Darillium lasts '''twenty-four years''', and the ending implies he stays with her all that time, loving her the way his younger selves could not.]]
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**Also, Twelve is an imposing, aloof, older-looking Doctor. He's tall, LeanAndMean, in severe dark suits much of After this, the time (though this look softens via a hoodie and fluffier hair later later) with BigOlEyebrows and NoSocialSkills; he HatesBeingTouched. In both the show and the ExpandedUniverse, he ''constantly'' creeps out and puts off the people he encounters via his appearance and mannerisms alone; it's one reason Clara initially has a hard time caring for him the way she did for Eleven. Because most people go by first and second impressions and 2016 Christmas special that leads into Series 10 confirms that he's cagey about revealing still emotionally tender over [[spoiler: his sweeter nature, he is one last goodbye to River Song, confirming that they indeed enjoyed 24 years of happiness]], trying to put the loneliest best face on it that he can and broodiest Doctors despite being incredibly loving move on. After all he's loved and compassionate, with lost, will he have a remarkable capacity for forgiveness. It's so hard triumphant ending to be different...
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* She'd been skirting woobiefication for a while, but Donna's [[spoiler:[[MindRape mindwipe]]]] in "Journey's End" finally propelled her fully into this trope. In a way Donna might actually be a woobie from her first appearance, she has a horrible relationship with her mother, her shouting at everyone is a cover for her very low self esteem, and now she's in love and getting married... to a man who is poisoning her with the coffee he makes for her everyday (a gesture that probably touched her at the time), so she can be the chemical key to unlock the hatchery for a bunch of starving omnivorous spiders... She's always had it pretty bad when you think about it.
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* She'd been skirting woobiefication for a while, but Donna's [[spoiler:[[MindRape mindwipe]]]] in "Journey's End" finally propelled her fully into this trope. In a way Donna might actually be a woobie from her first appearance, she appearance: She has a horrible relationship with her mother, her shouting at everyone is a cover for her very low self esteem, self-esteem, and now she's in love and getting married... to a man who is poisoning her with the coffee he makes for her everyday (a gesture that probably touched her at the time), so she can be the chemical key to unlock the hatchery for a bunch of starving omnivorous spiders... She's always had it pretty bad when you think about it.
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** The end of "Journey's End" is especially sad when you take into that this episode was the first time we see her actually feel good about herself for once [[spoiler: then her memories are ripped away from her]].
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** The end of "Journey's End" is especially sad when you take into that this episode was the first time we see her actually feel good about herself for once [[spoiler: then her memories are ripped away from her]]. And despite massive fan outcry over this, any chance of this being corrected died with Ten's regeneration. [[spoiler: She does marry a loving man and lives very comfortably, the latter thanks to the Doctor, but she doesn't regain the character development she lost]].
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* The Fifth Doctor was a kind, gentle soul who wandered the universe with the desire to see it's wonders and had the genuine belief that there was real good out there. The universe rewarded this world view with high body counts wherever he went, a companion dying and another one leaving because the brutality was getting too much to handle.
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* Sarah Jane herself. Her best friend, her parents and her fiancé all have to die as a result of the Trickster's interference (made worse because the Trickster ''brought them back'' as a part of his nefarious plans, forcing her to lose them all over again). Then there's ''The Lost Boy'', when she's so distraught by Luke being taken away (and her near incarceration) that she nearly shuts herself off from her team.
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* Sarah Jane herself. Her best friend, her parents and her fiancé all have to die as a result of the Trickster's interference (made worse because the Trickster ''brought them back'' as a part of his nefarious plans, forcing her to lose them all over again). Then there's ''The Lost Boy'', when she's so distraught by Luke being taken away (and her near incarceration) that she nearly shuts herself off from her team. That's not the last time she faces the prospect of losing Luke and in "Goodbye Sarah Jane" she also faces her own mortality in one of the most heart-breaking stories on the show.
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** He's a Woobie again in "The Curse of Clyde Langer". Everyone who has ever known him suddenly turns on him for no reason at all leaving him homeless and friendless.
