20 Things Doctor Who Wants You To Forget

10. The Destroyer Of Worlds

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In Journey’s End, Davros might have been furious (not to mention just a tad hypocritical) with the Doctor for turning the reality bomb against the Daleks, but he had a point when he accused him of being the destroyer of worlds.

Technically this time it wasn’t the Doctor but his human/Time Lord double, and the Doctor ‘punishes’ his genocidal blue-suited clone by banishing him to the alternate earth (for a life of misery with Rose Tyler!).

The Doctor sometimes regrets the trail of devastation left in his wake, with his Fifth incarnation saying ‘there should have been another way.’ But sometimes he acts without a hint of conscience, most notably when he tricks the Daleks into blowing up Skaro (Remembrance of the Daleks) and when he revels in wiping out the Silence (Day of the Moon).

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Paul Driscoll is a freelance writer and author across a range of subjects from Cult TV to religion and social policy. He is a passionate Doctor Who fan and January 2017 will see the publication of his first extended study of the series (based on Toby Whithouse's series six episode, The God Complex) in the critically acclaimed Black Archive range by Obverse Books. He is a regular writer for the fan site Doctor Who Worldwide and has contributed several essays to Watching Books' You and Who range. Recently he has branched out into fiction writing, with two short stories in the charity Doctor Who anthology Seasons of War (Chinbeard Books). Paul's work will also feature in the forthcoming Iris Wildthyme collection (A Clockwork Iris, Obverse Books) and Chinbeard Books' collection of drabbles, A Time Lord for Change.