10 Doctor Who Fates Worse Than Death

Given the amount of times Captain Jack was killed off and brought back to life in Doctor Who and Torchwood, John Barrowman should be able to weather the storm of being booted off Dancing on Ice. Resurrected by Rose Tyler, the indestructible Captain Harkness has been shot in the head, dismembered, encased in concrete and electrocuted by a sexy Cyberwoman. They smash him, but they know he'll return to live again.

Captain Jack has it tough. Especially in Torchwood. He's buried alive for two thousand years at one point! It's not quite the four billion years the Twelfth Doctor spends inside the confession dial, but Barrowman doesn't have Capaldi's range. Immortality sounds exhausting, and there was surely some point during the time in which he was routinely murdered by terrified American townsfolk that he wished Rose had just left him for dead.

It's amazing that he's managed to keep both his sense of humour and libido throughout being repeatedly murdered for thousands of years. It's clearly a by-product of casting John Barrowman in the role, whose Mr Saturday Night vibe is at odds with the dark, tortured immortal hero the series often aims to portray.