Doctor Who: 10 Bizarre Powers You Forgot The Doctor Has

10. Super Smell And Super Taste

An advanced sense of smell and taste might not seem like a useful ability when you're battling aliens and saving planets, and yet, the Doctor still manages to find plenty of uses for those well-developed taste buds and that powerful sense of smell, the latter of which would give a trained sniffer dog a run for its money.

There are so many examples we can turn to here. In The Christmas Invasion, the Tenth Doctor inspects a button on the Sycorax ship, and tastes the red liquid that's powering it. Straight away, he's able to figure out that it's A-positive human blood, "with just a dash of iron". Then, in The Eleventh Hour, the Doctor sniffs and tastes Amy Pond's garden shed and correctly guesses that it's twelve years old, and in Day Of The Moon, he licks an envelope and deduces its planet of origin.

In addition, the Thirteenth Doctor once ate some soil and worked out that there was a gift shop roughly 25 miles away - one that had a low Tripadvisor rating. Mad skills.

He's also able to determine the nature of a planet's atmosphere within a matter of seconds - as seen in The Time Of Angels - and in The Unicorn And The Wasp, he steps out of the TARDIS, whiffs the air, and instantly works out that he's in the 1920s.

While we're on the topic of the Doctor's senses, he also has incredible eyesight too. In The Eleventh Hour, he's able to "freeze frame" his surroundings and analyze countless small details from dozens of feet away, all within a short space of time.