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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents:
** In ''Salvation Nine'' the Ninth Doctor has two sets of Sontaran battle armour in his TARDIS. When asked about it he comments he might have had two in the TARDIS at some point "There's a bit of a gap in my memory." In 1985 there was a mini episode of ''Doctor Who'' called "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]" for the childrens' programme ''Jim'll Fix It''. Just in case anyone doesn't know, Jimmy Savile was public revealed to be a serial paedophile of the highest order after his death. Little wonder even the Doctor's memory has a gap where he is concerned!

* KarmaHoudini:
** In The Ribos Inheritance, Garron perfectly encapsulates this. Twenty years prior he bought an illegal terraforming device from a back market dealer of banned items with the idea of returning to Ribos during its 32 year winter and making a perpetual winter in order to create a role play resort in its feudal society for holiday makers. He is fully aware of the planet’s intelligent occupants but does so anyway. This is his idea of going legitimate after a life of crime. Then the device controlling the terraforming is stolen from him and the planet’s winter is extended for at least a decade. The Doctor himself says he can’t decide if Garron is remarkably unlucky or remarkably stupid—and this seems to be his only comment on the matter. Unsurprisingly this wreaks havoc on the planet’s inhabitants who were expecting summer and didn’t get it. The Doctor does restore summer with the recovered device—but in a single afternoon, no concern for the consequences of such a dramatic change. At the end of this he lets Garron go without so much as a warning.
*** The one person who does get their karma? The black market dealer who sold the device. Despite having a whole trove of illegal items banned on at least two dozen worlds she did not have any further involvement in the plan for Ribos, merely selling the device that enabled it and claiming that what is done with the devices she sells is none of her concern. While the Doctor lets Garron go without any harsh words he does threaten the dealer with telling the local authorities her true identity and her connection tot he death of a young dancer some time prior. He does this in a cold hearted way and to much fear from the dealer. Strangely it is this that upsets the Doctor’s companion, Mel—not the huge disruption to a whole planet—and is implied to foreshadow her later departure in the TV series.

** "Spare Parts" states that the Fifth Doctor was partially responsible for the creation of the Cybermen as his body was made as the blueprint. [[spoiler: The Series 12 finale "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]" reveals that this wasn't the first time the Doctor's body was used for experimentation for another race, as he/she was also responsible for the creation of the Time Lord regeneration cycle. This also goes a double whammy as the Master combined both Time Lord and Cybermen biology, meaning that the Master made a monster using the Doctor's biology!]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The War Doctor mini-series. Not only does it waste time on generic war stories JustForFun/RecycledInSpace, but many of the horrific acts the Doctor [[InformedWrongness allegedly committed]] during the war are left as KickTheSonOfABitch moments at best, and TakeOurWordForIt at worst. Granted, since the Doctor [[ForegoneConclusion will ultimately still prove himself as being worthy of the title]], it's not all bad - but that, combined with the fact that it [[spoiler: left many important figures in ''Doctor Who'' history unresolved (e.g. Romana, Brax, Susan, and even ''Cardinal Ollistra'', who arguably served as the BigBad at points in the series)]], left the base very much broken over its quality. To add insult to injury, the big question of what leads the Doctor to use the Moment is [[spoiler:also left unanswered]], so unless "Engines of War" is canon, we'll most likely never know the truth (especially with the passing of Creator/JohnHurt).

** Peri and Mel: Miracles can be worked with strong writing. Add to that a tendency to remember and use the characters' backgrounds (Peri's a botanist, Mel's a [[BadassBookworm programmer]], but you wouldn't know it from the series) and characterization beyond MsFanservice and ScreamingWoman, and many fans re-evaluated them. It also helped that [[OohMeAccentsSlipping Nicola Bryant's American accent has improved with age]], and they let Creator/BonnieLangford put her Panto experience to good use in the fan-favourite [[{{Pantomime}} Panto]] episodes.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The War Doctor mini-series. Not only does it waste time on generic war stories RecycledInSpace, but many of the horrific acts the Doctor [[InformedWrongness allegedly committed]] during the war are left as KickTheSonOfABitch moments at best, and TakeOurWordForIt at worst. Granted, since the Doctor [[ForegoneConclusion will ultimately still prove himself as being worthy of the title]], it's not all bad - but that, combined with the fact that it [[spoiler: left many important figures in ''Doctor Who'' history unresolved (e.g. Romana, Brax, Susan, and even ''Cardinal Ollistra'', who arguably served as the BigBad at points in the series)]], left the base very much broken over its quality. To add insult to injury, the big question of what leads the Doctor to use the Moment is [[spoiler:also left unanswered]], so unless "Engines of War" is canon, we'll most likely never know the truth (especially with the passing of Creator/JohnHurt).

*** Big Finish intended to address this in a [[https://twitter.com/MrJohnDorney/status/1319930958179696640/ deleted scene]] in "Return of the Cybermen" where a Time Lord observes the Time War spreading out of the fallout of "Genesis of the Daleks" into the Doctor's timeline to create every ContinuitySnarl in ''Doctor Who'' ever, explicitly pointing out the above Shelley case. (It was cut for being "too silly".)

** In ''Salvation Nine'' the Ninth Doctor has two sets of Sontaran battle armour in his TARDIS. When asked about it he comments he might have had two in the TARDIS at some point "There's a bit of a gap in my memory." In 1985 there was a mini episode of ''Doctor Who'' called ''A Fix with Sontarans'' for the childrens' programme ''Jim'll Fix It''. Just in case anyone doesn't know, Jimmy Savile was public revealed to be a serial paedophile of the highest order after his death. Little wonder even the Doctor's memory has a gap where he is concerned!