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* The Doctor's [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments "One day, I shall come back"]] speech from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"]]. [[spoiler:Unless you count the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'', he doesn't come back.]]
** [[spoiler:Though they do reunite in the Death Zone on Gallifrey in [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]].]]
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** [[spoiler:Though they do reunite''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' and their brief reunion in the Death Zone on Gallifrey in [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]].Doctors"]], he doesn't come back.]]
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* The trope was averted only through sheer ExecutiveMeddling with Music/TheBeatles cameo in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase "The Chase"]]. The original idea for the insert was to have a segment specially filmed for the show of John, Paul, George and Ringo in "old man" makeup, during a 21st Century reunion tour. Brian Epstein refused to let The Beatles be shown like that, leading to archival footage from ''Top of the Pops'' being used instead. It dodged this trope because of that, as Creator/JohnLennon was murdered in 1980, and Creator/GeorgeHarrison died of cancer in 2001, making any such RealLife reunion of all four Beatles in the 21st Century completely impossible.
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* The trope was averted only through sheer ExecutiveMeddling with Music/TheBeatles cameo in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase "The Chase"]]. The original idea for the insert was to have a segment specially filmed for the show of John, Paul, George and Ringo in "old man" makeup, during a 21st Century reunion tour. Brian Epstein refused to let The Beatles be shown like that, leading to archival footage from ''Top of the Pops'' being used instead. It dodged this trope because of that, as Creator/JohnLennon Music/JohnLennon was murdered in 1980, and Creator/GeorgeHarrison Music/GeorgeHarrison died of cancer in 2001, making any such RealLife reunion of all four Beatles in the 21st Century completely impossible.
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* The trope was averted only through sheer ExecutiveMeddling with Music/TheBeatles cameo in [Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase "The Chase"]]. The original idea for the insert was to have a segment specially filmed for the show of John, Paul, George and Ringo in "old man" makeup, during a 21st Century reunion tour. Brian Epstein refused to let The Beatles be shown like that, leading to archival footage from ''Top of the Pops'' being used instead. It dodged this trope because of that, as Creator/JohnLennon was murdered in 1980, and Creator/GeorgeHarrison died of cancer in 2001, making any such RealLife reunion of all four Beatles in the 21st Century completely impossible.
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* Characters making fun of the Ninth Doctor's funny looks becomes a bit cringeworthy considering Creator/ChristopherEccleston's [[https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49713708 recent revelation]] of his very real struggles with anorexia and body dysmorphia, which he struggled with while making the show. It also makes the Ninth Doctor's constant [[EnforcedMethodActing crestfallen and pained look]] appear all the more real.
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* The revelation in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren "The Timeless Child"]] that [[spoiler:the Doctor is actually a mysterious non-Time Lord child experimented on to make regeneration possible makes many, many moments from previous episodes harsher in hindsight. For the show in general, this makes the Doctor's various incarnations' fear and dislike of hospitals a subconscious dread from what happened to them as a child. It also makes the Seventh Doctor's death on the operating table and subsequent regeneration into the amnesiac Eight even more terrifying. The Doctor's angst at being the last of their kind in the first seasons of the revived series is also this given that they have always been the last (or at least the only known one) of their ''real'' kind.]]
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* At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]", when the Third Doctor states that eternal torment was something he'd never subject anything to. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood About]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink that...]] also at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday Doomsday]]" while he had no choice in the matter, he didn't feel any remorse for sending millions of Daleks and Cybermen [[FateWorseThanDeath into the void]]. Even worse, many of the Cybermen were innocent humans converted.
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* At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]", when the Third Doctor states that eternal torment was something he'd never subject anything to. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood About]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink that...]] also at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday Doomsday]]" while he had no choice in the matter, he didn't feel any remorse for sending millions of Daleks and Cybermen [[FateWorseThanDeath into the void]]. Even worse, many of the Cybermen were innocent humans converted.
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* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E07AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]":
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* The serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet "The Tenth Planet"]], first shown in 1966, has a spacecraft lost with all hands in 1986. In RealLife, 1986 was the year the space shuttle Challenger exploded on take-up, killing all seven astronauts on board.
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* The serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet "The Tenth Planet"]], first shown in 1966, has a spacecraft lost with all hands in 1986. In RealLife, 1986 was the year the space shuttle Challenger exploded on take-up, take-off, killing all seven astronauts on board.
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* "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]" has the Sixth Doctor and Tegan react in a FauxHorrific way when Creator/JimmySavile shows up and gives the special guest, 8-year old Gareth Jenkins, a [[DeathRay meson gun]] to defend himself from Savile with after he kisses Tegan's hand. In 2012, Savile (one year after his death) was revealed to be one of the most horrific child molesters ''ever'', and suddenly Tegan and Six's FauxHorrific reactions are a lot ''[[FromBadToWorse worse]]'' to see now. After the revlations of Savile's true nature became known, Sixth Doctor actor Creator/ColinBaker later [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230497/Colin-Bakers-verdict-Jimmy-Savile-His-eyes-cold-behaved-like-child-indulged.html#ixzz2BvNqgs96 wrote about the unsettling experience of working with Savile on the sketch.]]
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* "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]" has the Sixth Doctor and Tegan react in a FauxHorrific way when Creator/JimmySavile shows up and gives the special guest, 8-year old Gareth Jenkins, a [[DeathRay meson gun]] to defend himself from Savile with after he kisses Tegan's hand. In 2012, Savile (one year after his death) was revealed to be one of the most horrific child molesters ''ever'', and suddenly Tegan and Six's FauxHorrific reactions are a lot ''[[FromBadToWorse worse]]'' to see now. After the revlations revelations of Savile's true nature became known, Sixth Doctor actor Creator/ColinBaker later [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230497/Colin-Bakers-verdict-Jimmy-Savile-His-eyes-cold-behaved-like-child-indulged.html#ixzz2BvNqgs96 wrote about the unsettling experience of working with Savile on the sketch.]]
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* In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]], it causes Ten great grief that after the Master's death, he is truly the last Time Lord in existence. [[spoiler:[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], which revealed the Time Lords weren't destroyed after all, still had Gallifrey in a pocket dimension, with it later being placed at the end of the universe and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren "The Timeless Children"]] would then later reveal that the Doctor isn't a Time Lord at all, meaning that unbeknownst to Ten, after the Master's death, the Time Lords were in fact for all intents and purposes extinct.]]
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* "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]" has the Sixth Doctor and Tegan react in a FauxHorrific way when Creator/JimmySavile shows up and gives the special guest, 8-year old Gareth Jenkins, a [[DeathRay meson gun]] to defend himself from Savile with after he kisses Tegan's hand. In 2012, Savile (one year after his death) was revealed to be one of the most horrific child molesters ''ever'', and suddenly Tegan and Six's FauxHorrific reactions are a lot ''[[AdultFear worse]]'' to see now. After the revlations of Savile's true nature became known, Sixth Doctor actor Creator/ColinBaker later [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230497/Colin-Bakers-verdict-Jimmy-Savile-His-eyes-cold-behaved-like-child-indulged.html#ixzz2BvNqgs96 wrote about the unsettling experience of working with Savile on the sketch.]]
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* "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]" has the Sixth Doctor and Tegan react in a FauxHorrific way when Creator/JimmySavile shows up and gives the special guest, 8-year old Gareth Jenkins, a [[DeathRay meson gun]] to defend himself from Savile with after he kisses Tegan's hand. In 2012, Savile (one year after his death) was revealed to be one of the most horrific child molesters ''ever'', and suddenly Tegan and Six's FauxHorrific reactions are a lot ''[[AdultFear ''[[FromBadToWorse worse]]'' to see now. After the revlations of Savile's true nature became known, Sixth Doctor actor Creator/ColinBaker later [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230497/Colin-Bakers-verdict-Jimmy-Savile-His-eyes-cold-behaved-like-child-indulged.html#ixzz2BvNqgs96 wrote about the unsettling experience of working with Savile on the sketch.]]
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* "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]" has the Sixth Doctor and Tegan react in a FauxHorrific way when Creator/JimmySavile shows up and gives the special guest, 8-year old Gareth Jenkins, a [[DeathRay meson gun]] to defend himself from Savile with after he kisses Tegan's hand. In 2012, Savile (one year after his death) was revealed to be one of the most horrific child molesters ''ever'', and suddenly Tegan and Six's FauxHorrific reactions are a lot ''[[AdultFear worse]]'' to see now. After the allegations became more fully known, Sixth Doctor actor Creator/ColinBaker later [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230497/Colin-Bakers-verdict-Jimmy-Savile-His-eyes-cold-behaved-like-child-indulged.html#ixzz2BvNqgs96 wrote about the unsettling experience of working with Savile on the sketch.]]
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* "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]" has the Sixth Doctor and Tegan react in a FauxHorrific way when Creator/JimmySavile shows up and gives the special guest, 8-year old Gareth Jenkins, a [[DeathRay meson gun]] to defend himself from Savile with after he kisses Tegan's hand. In 2012, Savile (one year after his death) was revealed to be one of the most horrific child molesters ''ever'', and suddenly Tegan and Six's FauxHorrific reactions are a lot ''[[AdultFear worse]]'' to see now. After the allegations revlations of Savile's true nature became more fully known, Sixth Doctor actor Creator/ColinBaker later [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230497/Colin-Bakers-verdict-Jimmy-Savile-His-eyes-cold-behaved-like-child-indulged.html#ixzz2BvNqgs96 wrote about the unsettling experience of working with Savile on the sketch.]]
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* "I never should have met you, Doctor. I In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays The Parting of the Ways]]", Jack tells the Doctor that he was better off when I was as a coward." Considering everything coward, before he met him. Given all that happens to him later, Jack was right. in ''Doctor Who'' and ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', maybe he has a point...
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** It is revealed that the Master's worst fear is being inferior to the Doctor, a theme that remains recurrent for the rest of the series. Five decades later, when the Master finds out in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E12TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]" that [[spoiler:his powers and abilities only exist thanks to the Doctor, he considers this a definitive proof of being inferior to the Doctor and is furious to the point of destroying Gallifrey]].
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** It is revealed that the Master's worst fear is being inferior to the Doctor, a theme that remains recurrent for the rest of the series. Five decades later, when the Master finds out in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E12TheTimelessChildren "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]" that [[spoiler:his powers and abilities only exist thanks to the Doctor, he considers this a definitive proof of being inferior to the Doctor and is furious to the point of destroying Gallifrey]].
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** It is revealed that the Master's worst fear is being inferior to the Doctor, a theme that remains recurrent for the rest of the series. Five decades later, when the Master finds out in "The Timeless Children" that [[spoiler:his powers and abilities only exist thanks to the Doctor, he considers this a definitive proof of being inferior to the Doctor and is furious to the point of destroying Gallifrey]].
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** It is revealed that the Master's worst fear is being inferior to the Doctor, a theme that remains recurrent for the rest of the series. Five decades later, when the Master finds out in "The "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E12TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children" Children]]" that [[spoiler:his powers and abilities only exist thanks to the Doctor, he considers this a definitive proof of being inferior to the Doctor and is furious to the point of destroying Gallifrey]].
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* When Russell T. Davies left as showrunner, the cast wrote and performed a song about his tenure called [[https://youtu.be/SFZn5HKpO18 "The Ballad of Russell and Julie"]], which was loosely based around the issues they faced keeping the show on the air. Notably, the song contains the line "I can't block out— Please lock out— Images of Johnny B. getting his cock out!" Years later, Barrowman would admit to repeatedly exposing himself without consent to his coworkers on the set of Doctor Who.
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* When Russell T. Davies Creator/RussellTDavies left as showrunner, the cast wrote and performed a song about his tenure called [[https://youtu.be/SFZn5HKpO18 "The Ballad of Russell and Julie"]], which was loosely based around the issues they faced keeping the show on the air. Notably, the song contains the line "I can't block out— Please lock out— Images of Johnny B. getting his cock out!" Years later, Barrowman would admit to repeatedly exposing himself without consent to his coworkers on the set of Doctor Who.''Doctor Who'' and ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''.
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** Also in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil The Mind of Evil]]", it is revealed that the Master's worst fear is being inferior to the Doctor, a theme that remains recurrent for the rest of the series. Five decades later, when the Master finds out in "The Timeless Children" that [[spoiler:his powers and abilities only exist thanks to the Doctor, he considers this a definitive proof of being inferior to the Doctor and is furious to the point of destroying Gallifrey]].
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** Also in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil The Mind of Evil]]", it It is revealed that the Master's worst fear is being inferior to the Doctor, a theme that remains recurrent for the rest of the series. Five decades later, when the Master finds out in "The Timeless Children" that [[spoiler:his powers and abilities only exist thanks to the Doctor, he considers this a definitive proof of being inferior to the Doctor and is furious to the point of destroying Gallifrey]].
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* In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear "The Web of Fear"]], the Great Intelligence seems to view "revenge" as petty and beneath it, and is only interested in the Doctor again because of his usefulness. Come "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor The Name of the Doctor]]", revenge seems to be its primary motivation.
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil The Mind of Evil]]":
** It's shown that the Doctor's worst fear is worlds burning down. See Doctor, there's this certain time war that you'll stop... %%Gallifrey is not the only world that was a part of the Time War. How and if Skaro was destroyed varies from writer to writer, but neither was it the only world along with Gallifrey that participated.
** Also in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil The Mind of Evil]]", it is revealed that the Master's worst fear is being inferior to the Doctor, a theme that remains recurrent for the rest of the series. Five decades later, when the Master finds out in "The Timeless Children" that [[spoiler:his powers and abilities only exist thanks to the Doctor, he considers this a definitive proof of being inferior to the Doctor and is furious to the point of destroying Gallifrey]].
* For the Doctor, at least: the description of the end of the alternate 21st Century given by the Controller in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks Day of the Daleks]]" matches nearly perfectly with the fate of Gallifrey in the 2005 series.
* At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]", when the Third Doctor states that eternal torment was something he'd never subject anything to. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood About]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink that...]] also at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday Doomsday]]" while he had no choice in the matter, he didn't feel any remorse for sending millions of Daleks and Cybermen [[FateWorseThanDeath into the void]]. Even worse, many of the Cybermen were innocent humans converted.
* The Fourth Doctor's parting "Until we meet again, Sarah" was always going to be heartbreaking after the death of Creator/ElisabethSladen. But it's magnified by the fact that she spent more than a decade trying to convince Creator/TomBaker to do a series of Big Finish audios with her. He finally caved and signed a contract a week before she died. So, in essence, Four and Sarah Jane never did meet again.
** It's shown that the Doctor's worst fear is worlds burning down. See Doctor, there's this certain time war that you'll stop... %%Gallifrey is not the only world that was a part of the Time War. How and if Skaro was destroyed varies from writer to writer, but neither was it the only world along with Gallifrey that participated.
** Also in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil The Mind of Evil]]", it is revealed that the Master's worst fear is being inferior to the Doctor, a theme that remains recurrent for the rest of the series. Five decades later, when the Master finds out in "The Timeless Children" that [[spoiler:his powers and abilities only exist thanks to the Doctor, he considers this a definitive proof of being inferior to the Doctor and is furious to the point of destroying Gallifrey]].
* For the Doctor, at least: the description of the end of the alternate 21st Century given by the Controller in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks Day of the Daleks]]" matches nearly perfectly with the fate of Gallifrey in the 2005 series.
* At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]", when the Third Doctor states that eternal torment was something he'd never subject anything to. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood About]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink that...]] also at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday Doomsday]]" while he had no choice in the matter, he didn't feel any remorse for sending millions of Daleks and Cybermen [[FateWorseThanDeath into the void]]. Even worse, many of the Cybermen were innocent humans converted.
* The Fourth Doctor's parting "Until we meet again, Sarah" was always going to be heartbreaking after the death of Creator/ElisabethSladen. But it's magnified by the fact that she spent more than a decade trying to convince Creator/TomBaker to do a series of Big Finish audios with her. He finally caved and signed a contract a week before she died. So, in essence, Four and Sarah Jane never did meet again.
* Davros using human corpses to make food out of in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]" was pretty grim to start with. But the Creator/BigFinish ''I, Davros'' audio dramas make it clear that the same was standard practice in Kaled society while he was growing up, due to the effects of the HopelessWar.
* The little girl is released from the Daleks' mind control in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]"! But a later short story shows that she was driven irreversibly mad by the experience.
* Characters making fun of the Ninth Doctor's funny looks becomes a bit cringeworthy considering Chris Eccleston's [[https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49713708 recent revelation]] of his very real struggles with anorexia and body dysmorphia, which he struggled with while making the show. It also makes the Ninth Doctor's constant [[EnforcedMethodActing crestfallen and pained look]] appear all the more real.
* The little girl is released from the Daleks' mind control in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]"! But a later short story shows that she was driven irreversibly mad by the experience.
* Characters making fun of the Ninth Doctor's funny looks becomes a bit cringeworthy considering Chris Eccleston's [[https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49713708 recent revelation]] of his very real struggles with anorexia and body dysmorphia, which he struggled with while making the show. It also makes the Ninth Doctor's constant [[EnforcedMethodActing crestfallen and pained look]] appear all the more real.
* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem The Sontaran Stratagem]]" the Sontarans use ATMOS, a device that supposedly drops carbon emissions to zero but in actuality makes the car fumes more toxic and dangerous. This mirrors the 2015 Volkswagen carbon emissions test scandal where Volkswagen cars were claimed to be more environmentally friendly but were in fact expelling dangerous levels of carbon dioxide.
** This one's a twofer because the Sontarans can remotely hack the cars against the driver's will. A concern that's become more and more widespread with the advent of self-driving cars.
** This one's a twofer because the Sontarans can remotely hack the cars against the driver's will. A concern that's become more and more widespread with the advent of self-driving cars.
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* At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone Flesh and Stone]]", River says "You, me, handcuffs... must it always end this way?" Then you remember that's exactly how she died.
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E07AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]":
** In the "Upper Leadworth" dream, Rory is hit by the Eknodines' green mist. He ends up disintegrating into dust in front of Amy, saying some final parting words. 8 years later, ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' has Amy's actor, Creator/KarenGillan, witness a begging [[Comicbook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] turn into dust in front of his mentor, [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]].
** The scene of Rory sadly playing with the dream!cot is made even more heartbreaking by what happens in Series 6.
** The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors' post-regeneration complaints about not being ginger. In"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]", this episode, the MonsterOfTheWeek is an EvilRedhead (played by Creator/TobyJones) who [[spoiler:turns out to be a twisted manifestation of the Doctor's self-loathing. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, Doc...]]
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E07AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]":
** In the "Upper Leadworth" dream, Rory is hit by the Eknodines' green mist. He ends up disintegrating into dust in front of Amy, saying some final parting words. 8 years later, ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' has Amy's actor, Creator/KarenGillan, witness a begging [[Comicbook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] turn into dust in front of his mentor, [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]].
** The scene of Rory sadly playing with the dream!cot is made even more heartbreaking by what happens in Series 6.
** The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors' post-regeneration complaints about not being ginger. In
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* The little girl in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon Day of the Moon]]" being forgotten about only to [[spoiler:find herself sick and dying in New York]] could be bad enough, until you realise [[spoiler:this is a young River Song ''and'' the baby Amy was pregnant with. It also leads into the attempted murder of the Doctor.]]
* "I never should have met you, Doctor. I was better off when I was a coward." Considering everything that happens to him later, Jack was right.
* "I never should have met you, Doctor. I was better off when I was a coward." Considering everything that happens to him later, Jack was right.
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* In the climax of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]", Clara, acting as the Doctor for a day, deftly talks Rigsy out of making a pointless and unnecessary self-sacrifice because she won't lose anymore people on her watch, all while making sassy remarks about her headband. This is PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler: In Rigsy's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven second appearance]], Clara tries to emulate the Doctor again and take on his ticking clock of doom in the hopes of buying them both a little more time to wiggle out of it. She fails and to everyone's dismay is killed by the monster of the week, with the real kicker being that Rigsy already had a way out and her sacrifice was unnecessary.]]
** The above is taken even further in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent Heaven Sent]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]", when [[spoiler: ''Clara's death'' and 4.5 billion years spent ''alone'' in the confession dial experiencing Cold-Blooded Torture causes him to snap and try to bring back Clara while risking the existence of the ''entire universe.'' He has to not only have a Heel Realization but lose his memories of Clara to regain his best self, thanks to how badly damaged he is by that point... which was partially the fault of '''his own people''', which arguably spoils the triumphs of the post-Series 7 specials. He saved Gallifrey for '''THIS''']].
** The above is taken even further in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent Heaven Sent]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]", when [[spoiler: ''Clara's death'' and 4.5 billion years spent ''alone'' in the confession dial experiencing Cold-Blooded Torture causes him to snap and try to bring back Clara while risking the existence of the ''entire universe.'' He has to not only have a Heel Realization but lose his memories of Clara to regain his best self, thanks to how badly damaged he is by that point... which was partially the fault of '''his own people''', which arguably spoils the triumphs of the post-Series 7 specials. He saved Gallifrey for '''THIS''']].
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* After witnessing the Doctor's judgment upon the Racnoss, Donna tells him that he "needs someone to stop him". Much later, we see him breaking under the strain of hearing the explorers on Mars dying... and he's all alone. And not even Captain Brooke can get through to him. [[TearJerker Only her suicide can.]]
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58FO_SMW7II This video]] of Creator/NoelClarke joking about Creator/JohnBarrowman exposing himself (something he was infamous for) became cringeworthy when Clarke was accused of sexual harassment in 2021.
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%% The above Doctor Who list is arranged in chronological order of when the original episode (that subsequently became Harsher in Hindsight) aired. If added further examples from older episodes, please insert in the correct chronological position on the list.
* Barbara's attempted interference in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E6TheAztecs The Aztecs]]" is made more dangerous by "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay Father's Day]]"; Tlotoxl was RightForTheWrongReasons about there being cataclysmic consequences to heeding her.
* The Doctor's [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments "One day, I shall come back"]] speech from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"]]. [[spoiler:Unless you count the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'', he doesn't come back.]]
** [[spoiler:Though they do reunite in the Death Zone on Gallifrey in [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]].]]
* The serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet "The Tenth Planet"]], first shown in 1966, has a spacecraft lost with all hands in 1986.
* The conclusion of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]" where the Doctor is forced to "change his appearance" before going into exile is now seen as being forced to use one of his 12 regenerations. Ergo, the modern viewer would see this as the Doctor being ''executed'' after a fashion by shortening his lifespan.
* From [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "Inferno"]]:
** The Doctor's worst fear (introduced in this story and reiterated in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil "The Mind of Evil"]]) is that of a burning planet. [[spoiler:Guess what [[ShootTheDog he had no choice but to do to Gallifrey]] in the Time War.]]
** What nearly happens to Sir Keith in this story is eerily prescient of what happened to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood Karen Silkwood]] a few years later.
* All four versions of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]" (the unfinished Fourth Doctor TV story, the Eighth Doctor animated webcast, the novelisation, and the original story with animated scenes and the original cast voice acting to complete the story) end with the Doctor musing on how Salyavin turned out to be much less evil than official Time Lord history claimed and speculating on how he himself might be remembered by future Time Lords as a monstrous criminal. This became much more serious after the apparent destruction of Gallifrey, especially since until "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]" most fans assumed that the Eighth Doctor had been responsible for it. (And the Eighth Doctor had also been responsible for destroying Gallifrey in the prose Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures.)
* The scene in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid Black Orchid]]" where Adric wants to help the Doctor and Lord Cranleigh to rescue Nyssa, only to be held back and told that "two are enough". Difficult to watch when you consider that one of the reasons Adric was killed off was because the show's writers were finding it difficult to juggle three companions.
* The Seventh Doctor, distraught over the [[spoiler:apparent death of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]", tells him "You should have died in bed!" Fast forward to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]"...
* "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]" has the Sixth Doctor and Tegan react in a FauxHorrific way when Creator/JimmySavile shows up and gives the special guest, 8-year old Gareth Jenkins, a [[DeathRay meson gun]] to defend himself from Savile with after he kisses Tegan's hand. In 2012, Savile (one year after his death) was revealed to be one of the most horrific child molesters ''ever'', and suddenly Tegan and Six's FauxHorrific reactions are a lot ''[[AdultFear worse]]'' to see now. After the allegations became more fully known, Sixth Doctor actor Creator/ColinBaker later [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230497/Colin-Bakers-verdict-Jimmy-Savile-His-eyes-cold-behaved-like-child-indulged.html#ixzz2BvNqgs96 wrote about the unsettling experience of working with Savile on the sketch.]]
** A DVD extra recorded in 2006 on "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment The Sontaran Experiment]]" briefly covers that sketch -- after a clip of the OhCrap from the Doctor and Tegan, Creator/ColinBaker notes, "Creator/JimmySavile is much more frightening than the Sontarans. Much more."
* The first revival episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]" starts off with the titular character's workplace in London exploding and being on the news the next day. The episode aired on March 26, 2005, less than four months before [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings The 7th July London bombings]]
* The [[WhamLine line]] "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek You would make a good Dalek.]]" becomes a lot more meaningful and tragic by the time of learning about the fate of [[spoiler:[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor the Eighth Doctor]]. Cass' treatment of the doctor with comparing the Time Lords are no different than the Daleks eventually brings this Doctor through DespairEventHorizon.]]
* The HappinessInSlavery thing the Ood from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]] have going is cringe-inducing enough. Then [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod a couple seasons later]] we find out [[spoiler:it's because they've been lobotomized]].
** This also makes "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E2TheCurseOfPeladon The Curse of Peladon]]" harsher, because the time frame established in "Planet of the Ood" means ''Hepesh had a point''.
* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]", the Tenth Doctor absorbs high levels of radiation. When companion Martha Jones asks if that's likely to kill him, he light-heartedly replies "Nah, it's only Roentgen radiation. We used to play with Roentgen bricks in the nursery". Ironic and sad seeing that [[spoiler: he ended up regenerating (dying) by absorbing radiation a few series later]].
* From [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]]:
** The final scene, which implied that every statue could be a Weeping Angel, was already [[NightmareFuel/DoctorWho horrific]] enough. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]] [[spoiler:turned that concept into reality]]. [[SarcasmMode Have sweet dreams.]]
** Sally gave the Doctor a photo of an angel. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels Image of an Angel]], anyone?
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime Partners in Crime]]" has Donna chewed out by her mother for not having a job, snapping "this isn't the 1980s! The only one around not employed is you!" This aired in early 2008...just months before the UK was hit hard by the global economic meltdown that led to widespread unemployment.
* The episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]] ends with [[spoiler:River Song]] making a HeroicSacrifice. At the time, it's pretty sad, but we don't really feel much connection to her since she'd only just been introduced. But as the show continues, we find out more about her and her relationship with the Doctor, and that first episode becomes [[{{Tearjerker}} simply heartbreaking]] to watch... especially once you realize the Doctor himself should have mourned her death far more than he did, it was just unlucky chance that he didn't know her when she died.
* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]", the Tenth Doctor channeling his regeneration energy into his hand and a half-human Doctor growing from it is treated as something really happy as Rose can have her own Doctor. In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]" we find out that meant the Tenth Doctor's actual regeneration was his last.
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour There's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box.]]" [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex One day her life does depend on accepting that the Doctor is just a mad man with a box]].
* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels The Time of Angels]]", River says she had TARDIS-flying lessons "from the very best" and that it's a shame the Doctor was busy that day. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler Let's Kill Hitler]]", it turns out that the Doctor was busy [[spoiler: dying because River poisoned him.]]
* The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors' post-regeneration complaints about not being ginger. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]", the MonsterOfTheWeek is an EvilRedhead (played by Creator/TobyJones) who [[spoiler:turns out to be a twisted manifestation of the Doctor's self-loathing. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, Doc...]]
* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]", the Eleventh Doctor makes a big, grandiose speech to all the alien spaceships, telling them that if they want the Pandorica, they have to get through him, and reminding them of all the times he beat them. [[spoiler:It turns out that the aliens weren't after the Pandorica at all, and it was instead a trap set by them to imprison The Doctor.]] Bet that speech doesn't seem so grand now.
* "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]]" turns a lot of the Eighth Doctor's adventures into this. In [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS2E2MaxWarp "Max Warp"]] he and Lucie are on a crashing spaceship [[spoiler: that turns out to be a computer simulation.]] In [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS2E8VengeanceOfMorbius Vengeance of Morbius]] it looks like the Eighth Doctor dies on Karn from a fall. He ends up dying in a spaceship crash on Karn. Max Warp doubles as in [[spoiler: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS4E10ToTheDeath "To the Death"]] Lucie dies from [[HeroicSacrifice crashing a spaceship]] [[DyingMomentOfAwesome into Dalek mines]].]]
* The hopeful ending of the 50th anniversary special [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], particularly the Eleventh Doctor's closing monologue about [[spoiler: returning to Gallifrey]] "the long way 'round", is ''much'' more bittersweet if not outright bitter two seasons later. First, the Eleventh Doctor doesn't get to be the one to pull off the feat; his very next story sees him spend a millennium on Trenzalore instead and he finally regenerates. Then, the three-part finale of Series 9 sees the ''Twelfth'' Doctor pull it off...but not in the way Eleven would have hoped. It's because [[spoiler: the Time Lords betray him, arranging for his capture and torture -- and inadvertently paving the way for the death of Clara Oswald, the woman who inspired the Doctors to save Gallifrey. Twelve goes mad with grief and rage and fights his way back to his homeworld over four-and-a-half billion years. On Gallifrey, he is a wanted yet admired man who overthrows the powers that be, only to become a renegade once more as a result of his mad quest to save Clara from the grave]]. '''Ouch.'''
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon Day of the Moon]]", in which Amy Pond [[spoiler:shoots the little girl in the astronaut suit to save the future Doctor's life]] becomes almost painful to watch when you realize that [[spoiler:said little girl was actually Melody/River Song, the baby daughter stolen from her later in the season]].
* It is obviously unimaginably horrible to have your child stolen from you. This is made even worse when we find out in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]" that [[spoiler:Rory ALWAYS wanted children and Amy is infertile as a result of what happened on Demon's Run.]] Made even more heartbreaking when you realize that [[spoiler: Amy]] had a very noticeable BSOD in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]" but [[spoiler:Rory]] never outwardly reacted, opting to stay strong for his wife even though he must have been completely crushed.
* One of [[TheReveal the reveals]] in Series 8's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist "Time Heist"]], and the Doctor and Clara's discussion about it, is a LOT more poignant after the three-part Series 9 finale. [[spoiler:As the enslaved Teller killed to protect its imprisoned mate, so too does the Doctor resort to desperate, in his case almost universe-destroying measures (including shooting the General and forcing a regeneration) to save Clara Oswald from the grave. And he too experiences brutal treatment at the whims of a villain on the way to temporarily abandoning his principles]].
* Series 12 is a slap in the face to the Thirteenth Doctor after spending so much time to save Gallifrey, only for [[spoiler: the Master to resurface, raze the planet into flaming ruins, and then turn some unlucky denizens into Cyber-Masters that regenerate without end and are invincible warriors due to such, so the Doctor is forced to resort to an option that cleanses the planet of all organic life.]] Perhaps some Gallifreyans and Time Lords escaped. Hopefully.
* When Russell T. Davies left as showrunner, the cast wrote and performed a song about his tenure called [[https://youtu.be/SFZn5HKpO18 "The Ballad of Russell and Julie"]], which was loosely based around the issues they faced keeping the show on the air. Notably, the song contains the line "I can't block out— Please lock out— Images of Johnny B. getting his cock out!" Years later, Barrowman would admit to repeatedly exposing himself without consent to his coworkers on the set of Doctor Who.
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* Barbara's attempted interference in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E6TheAztecs The Aztecs]]" is made more dangerous by "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay Father's Day]]"; Tlotoxl was RightForTheWrongReasons about there being cataclysmic consequences to heeding her.
* The Doctor's [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments "One day, I shall come back"]] speech from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"]]. [[spoiler:Unless you count the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'', he doesn't come back.]]
** [[spoiler:Though they do reunite in the Death Zone on Gallifrey in [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]].]]
* The serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet "The Tenth Planet"]], first shown in 1966, has a spacecraft lost with all hands in 1986.
* The conclusion of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]" where the Doctor is forced to "change his appearance" before going into exile is now seen as being forced to use one of his 12 regenerations. Ergo, the modern viewer would see this as the Doctor being ''executed'' after a fashion by shortening his lifespan.
* From [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "Inferno"]]:
** The Doctor's worst fear (introduced in this story and reiterated in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil "The Mind of Evil"]]) is that of a burning planet. [[spoiler:Guess what [[ShootTheDog he had no choice but to do to Gallifrey]] in the Time War.]]
** What nearly happens to Sir Keith in this story is eerily prescient of what happened to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood Karen Silkwood]] a few years later.
* All four versions of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]" (the unfinished Fourth Doctor TV story, the Eighth Doctor animated webcast, the novelisation, and the original story with animated scenes and the original cast voice acting to complete the story) end with the Doctor musing on how Salyavin turned out to be much less evil than official Time Lord history claimed and speculating on how he himself might be remembered by future Time Lords as a monstrous criminal. This became much more serious after the apparent destruction of Gallifrey, especially since until "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]" most fans assumed that the Eighth Doctor had been responsible for it. (And the Eighth Doctor had also been responsible for destroying Gallifrey in the prose Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures.)
* The scene in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid Black Orchid]]" where Adric wants to help the Doctor and Lord Cranleigh to rescue Nyssa, only to be held back and told that "two are enough". Difficult to watch when you consider that one of the reasons Adric was killed off was because the show's writers were finding it difficult to juggle three companions.
* The Seventh Doctor, distraught over the [[spoiler:apparent death of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]", tells him "You should have died in bed!" Fast forward to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]"...
* "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]" has the Sixth Doctor and Tegan react in a FauxHorrific way when Creator/JimmySavile shows up and gives the special guest, 8-year old Gareth Jenkins, a [[DeathRay meson gun]] to defend himself from Savile with after he kisses Tegan's hand. In 2012, Savile (one year after his death) was revealed to be one of the most horrific child molesters ''ever'', and suddenly Tegan and Six's FauxHorrific reactions are a lot ''[[AdultFear worse]]'' to see now. After the allegations became more fully known, Sixth Doctor actor Creator/ColinBaker later [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230497/Colin-Bakers-verdict-Jimmy-Savile-His-eyes-cold-behaved-like-child-indulged.html#ixzz2BvNqgs96 wrote about the unsettling experience of working with Savile on the sketch.]]
** A DVD extra recorded in 2006 on "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment The Sontaran Experiment]]" briefly covers that sketch -- after a clip of the OhCrap from the Doctor and Tegan, Creator/ColinBaker notes, "Creator/JimmySavile is much more frightening than the Sontarans. Much more."
* The first revival episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]" starts off with the titular character's workplace in London exploding and being on the news the next day. The episode aired on March 26, 2005, less than four months before [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings The 7th July London bombings]]
* The [[WhamLine line]] "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek You would make a good Dalek.]]" becomes a lot more meaningful and tragic by the time of learning about the fate of [[spoiler:[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor the Eighth Doctor]]. Cass' treatment of the doctor with comparing the Time Lords are no different than the Daleks eventually brings this Doctor through DespairEventHorizon.]]
* The HappinessInSlavery thing the Ood from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]] have going is cringe-inducing enough. Then [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod a couple seasons later]] we find out [[spoiler:it's because they've been lobotomized]].
** This also makes "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E2TheCurseOfPeladon The Curse of Peladon]]" harsher, because the time frame established in "Planet of the Ood" means ''Hepesh had a point''.
* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]", the Tenth Doctor absorbs high levels of radiation. When companion Martha Jones asks if that's likely to kill him, he light-heartedly replies "Nah, it's only Roentgen radiation. We used to play with Roentgen bricks in the nursery". Ironic and sad seeing that [[spoiler: he ended up regenerating (dying) by absorbing radiation a few series later]].
* From [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]]:
** The final scene, which implied that every statue could be a Weeping Angel, was already [[NightmareFuel/DoctorWho horrific]] enough. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]] [[spoiler:turned that concept into reality]]. [[SarcasmMode Have sweet dreams.]]
** Sally gave the Doctor a photo of an angel. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels Image of an Angel]], anyone?
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime Partners in Crime]]" has Donna chewed out by her mother for not having a job, snapping "this isn't the 1980s! The only one around not employed is you!" This aired in early 2008...just months before the UK was hit hard by the global economic meltdown that led to widespread unemployment.
* The episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]] ends with [[spoiler:River Song]] making a HeroicSacrifice. At the time, it's pretty sad, but we don't really feel much connection to her since she'd only just been introduced. But as the show continues, we find out more about her and her relationship with the Doctor, and that first episode becomes [[{{Tearjerker}} simply heartbreaking]] to watch... especially once you realize the Doctor himself should have mourned her death far more than he did, it was just unlucky chance that he didn't know her when she died.
* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]", the Tenth Doctor channeling his regeneration energy into his hand and a half-human Doctor growing from it is treated as something really happy as Rose can have her own Doctor. In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]" we find out that meant the Tenth Doctor's actual regeneration was his last.
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour There's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box.]]" [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex One day her life does depend on accepting that the Doctor is just a mad man with a box]].
* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels The Time of Angels]]", River says she had TARDIS-flying lessons "from the very best" and that it's a shame the Doctor was busy that day. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler Let's Kill Hitler]]", it turns out that the Doctor was busy [[spoiler: dying because River poisoned him.]]
* The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors' post-regeneration complaints about not being ginger. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]", the MonsterOfTheWeek is an EvilRedhead (played by Creator/TobyJones) who [[spoiler:turns out to be a twisted manifestation of the Doctor's self-loathing. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, Doc...]]
* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]", the Eleventh Doctor makes a big, grandiose speech to all the alien spaceships, telling them that if they want the Pandorica, they have to get through him, and reminding them of all the times he beat them. [[spoiler:It turns out that the aliens weren't after the Pandorica at all, and it was instead a trap set by them to imprison The Doctor.]] Bet that speech doesn't seem so grand now.
* "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]]" turns a lot of the Eighth Doctor's adventures into this. In [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS2E2MaxWarp "Max Warp"]] he and Lucie are on a crashing spaceship [[spoiler: that turns out to be a computer simulation.]] In [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS2E8VengeanceOfMorbius Vengeance of Morbius]] it looks like the Eighth Doctor dies on Karn from a fall. He ends up dying in a spaceship crash on Karn. Max Warp doubles as in [[spoiler: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS4E10ToTheDeath "To the Death"]] Lucie dies from [[HeroicSacrifice crashing a spaceship]] [[DyingMomentOfAwesome into Dalek mines]].]]
* The hopeful ending of the 50th anniversary special [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], particularly the Eleventh Doctor's closing monologue about [[spoiler: returning to Gallifrey]] "the long way 'round", is ''much'' more bittersweet if not outright bitter two seasons later. First, the Eleventh Doctor doesn't get to be the one to pull off the feat; his very next story sees him spend a millennium on Trenzalore instead and he finally regenerates. Then, the three-part finale of Series 9 sees the ''Twelfth'' Doctor pull it off...but not in the way Eleven would have hoped. It's because [[spoiler: the Time Lords betray him, arranging for his capture and torture -- and inadvertently paving the way for the death of Clara Oswald, the woman who inspired the Doctors to save Gallifrey. Twelve goes mad with grief and rage and fights his way back to his homeworld over four-and-a-half billion years. On Gallifrey, he is a wanted yet admired man who overthrows the powers that be, only to become a renegade once more as a result of his mad quest to save Clara from the grave]]. '''Ouch.'''
* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon Day of the Moon]]", in which Amy Pond [[spoiler:shoots the little girl in the astronaut suit to save the future Doctor's life]] becomes almost painful to watch when you realize that [[spoiler:said little girl was actually Melody/River Song, the baby daughter stolen from her later in the season]].
* It is obviously unimaginably horrible to have your child stolen from you. This is made even worse when we find out in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]" that [[spoiler:Rory ALWAYS wanted children and Amy is infertile as a result of what happened on Demon's Run.]] Made even more heartbreaking when you realize that [[spoiler: Amy]] had a very noticeable BSOD in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]" but [[spoiler:Rory]] never outwardly reacted, opting to stay strong for his wife even though he must have been completely crushed.
* One of [[TheReveal the reveals]] in Series 8's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist "Time Heist"]], and the Doctor and Clara's discussion about it, is a LOT more poignant after the three-part Series 9 finale. [[spoiler:As the enslaved Teller killed to protect its imprisoned mate, so too does the Doctor resort to desperate, in his case almost universe-destroying measures (including shooting the General and forcing a regeneration) to save Clara Oswald from the grave. And he too experiences brutal treatment at the whims of a villain on the way to temporarily abandoning his principles]].
* Series 12 is a slap in the face to the Thirteenth Doctor after spending so much time to save Gallifrey, only for [[spoiler: the Master to resurface, raze the planet into flaming ruins, and then turn some unlucky denizens into Cyber-Masters that regenerate without end and are invincible warriors due to such, so the Doctor is forced to resort to an option that cleanses the planet of all organic life.]] Perhaps some Gallifreyans and Time Lords escaped. Hopefully.
* When Russell T. Davies left as showrunner, the cast wrote and performed a song about his tenure called [[https://youtu.be/SFZn5HKpO18 "The Ballad of Russell and Julie"]], which was loosely based around the issues they faced keeping the show on the air. Notably, the song contains the line "I can't block out— Please lock out— Images of Johnny B. getting his cock out!" Years later, Barrowman would admit to repeatedly exposing himself without consent to his coworkers on the set of Doctor Who.
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