10 Traumatic Doctor Who Facts You'll Wish You Hadn't Heard

10. Mancini's Restaurant Has A Children's Menu

The beginning of Peter Capaldi’s tenure as the Doctor marked a sudden and distinct change of tone.

Gone was the whimsical, fairytale atmosphere of the Matt Smith era – in its place, Deep Breath introduced us to a Twelfth Doctor who was dark, brooding, unsure of himself, and potentially even willing to kill in cold blood, depending on how you interpret the episode’s ending.

Alongside the darker Doctor was a suitably dark premise, with Deep Breath seeing a return of the clockwork droids from The Girl in the Fireplace. This new group of robots (this time from the SS Marie Antoinette) quickly get back to their old tricks, setting up the fake Mancini’s Family Restaurant and harvesting customers’ body parts to rebuild their ship.

In some particularly gruesome imagery, they even repurpose their victims’ skin to make a hot air balloon.

But the most distressing aspect of this is also the easiest to miss: Mancini’s is a family restaurant, and they have a "children's menu". As the Doctor confirms to a horrified Clara, "We ARE the menu", which indicates that the children's menu in question actually consists of kids' body parts, as opposed to turkey dinosaurs and potato waffles.

The robotic staff of the SS Madame de Pompadour massacring its human crew to use their bodies for scrap is already harrowing enough, but imagining the same happening to innocent children is on a completely different level. No wonder Moffat decided to leave that one as a background detail instead of bringing attention to it!