10 Most Useless Doctor Who Characters

Tasked with punishing history's greatest monsters with their Teselecta, the Justice Department is actually pretty bad at its job. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory meet them when Melody Pond (aka River Song) takes them back to Berlin to kill Hitler. However, the Teselecta has arrived at the wrong point in time, and could've easily changed the whole course of history.

The Justice Department shows the failings in Steven Moffat's rather glib take on the killing Hitler dilemma. While the Doctor smartly orders Rory to put Hitler in a cupboard so that Doctor Who doesn't have to deal with him, the presence of the Justice Department does highlight the impotence of the Doctor and others in stopping Hitler's crimes.

While it appears that Hitler will be punished later on, the Justice Department is moments away from killing him before they realise they have the wrong date, which is hardly the level of due diligence you expect from law enforcement. It's a good job that Hitler's guilty of the deaths of millions, but with such a glaring oversight, it doesn't give much hope for them as time's judge, jury, and executioner.

They did prove to be of some use, however, when their Teselecta aided the Eleventh Doctor in faking his own death. So they're not completely useless.