10 Times Doctor Who Lied To Your Face
7. The Story Of How Rose Tyler Died
"Then came Torchwood and the War. And that's when it all ended. This is the story of how I died."
And so began Doctor Who's Series 2 finale, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday. A tease of how Billie Piper would leave Doctor Who, and also a massive lie.
As we all now know, Rose Tyler does not die in Doomsday, she just gets a brand-new life with her family in an alternate reality. Not that she appreciates this, mind. She's too busy pining after David Tennant.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Canary Wharf, Torchwood tweaked the official casualty records to include Rose so that nobody would ask questions about her disappearance into a parallel universe.
Admittedly, "This is the story of how some official documents got fudged", isn't a particularly exciting pre-titles teaser, so RTD made the right choice to lie to the viewers at home.
He did it again in The Stolen Earth/Journey's End, with Dalek Caan's incessant teasing of one of the Doctor's companions dying... only for nobody to die.
You could argue that Donna Noble "died" because she had to revert back to her pre-Runaway Bride form, but a normal life surrounded by her family isn't a death, no matter how bad you think having Sylvia as a mum would be.