Doctor Who: 10 Most Poetic Moments

5. Clara's End (Face The Raven)

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Clara Oswald is the longest serving companion of the revived series, and for good reason: she's resourceful, intelligent and compassionate to a fault. After being contacted by an old friend for help with a tattooed countdown that he has no recollection of getting, Clara and the Doctor discover that it is a Chronolock, a death sentence from a Quantum Shade, a being that will hunt anyone through time or space in order to deliver its sentence.

Believing it will buy some time and protect her friend while simultaneously outsmarting Mayor Me, the woman responsible for the death sentence, Clara willingly transfers it to herself. What she doesn't realise, is that this negates any hope that the Doctor or Me could have broken the contract with the Quantum Shade.

The hardest part of it all is that Clara faces her impending death with the decorum that we'd come to expect from her, calming the Doctor from his panicked fury and asking him not to avenge her, and to be the Doctor that he claims to be.

It's poignant, it's sad, and it's one of the most memorable ways the writers have seen off one of the Doctor's companions.

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