Doctor Who: 10 Times The Doctor Was Actually A Bit Of A Dick
8. She Enabled ‘Tim Shaw’
Before The Thirteenth Doctor could even take a moment to pause after her most recent regeneration she is thrown into an adventure with Ryan, Yaz, Graham and Grace that leads her to meeting Tzim-Sha, who The Doctor decides to call Tim Shaw. By the end of the episode The Doctor is able to trick Tim Shaw and forces him to teleport away.
However, in the finale of Series 11 it is revealed that The Doctor sent Tim Shaw to Ranskoor Av Kolos, trapping him there. Waiting for 3,407 years, he planned to exact his revenge. While it is true that Tim Shaw was by no means a good person, The Doctor refuses to acknowledge her hand in creating a new enemy for herself and putting him in a position where he can cause even more havoc and threaten the lives of her companions.
She chastises Tim Shaw, telling him that “All actions have consequences.” But when Tim Shaw turns this question around on The Doctor, citing how she is partly responsible for the chain of events, she refuses to acknowledge this and simply says “I didn’t mean it like that!” before hanging up.