Doctor Who: 10 Times The Doctor Was The Bad Guy

While preventing himself from wiping the Dalek race from all of history, one would expect that this would land the Doctor in a very positive position on this list. However, one needs to examine the fallout from this decision to really grasp the enormity of the Doctor's actions here.

Assigned by the Time Lords to go back to Skaro and find the moment of the creation of the Daleks, the Fourth Doctor is handed the power to undo everything that the Daleks have ever done. Considering that they are solely responsible for genocide, galactic destruction and all manners of sins, for the Doctor not to act in this moment poses, potentially, an even greater question that the ethics of the decision. Is the Doctor now at least partially responsible for the death and mayhem that they have wrought in time and space?

He stops himself by saying he hasn't the right to wipe an intelligent race from ever having existed which on paper is fair. Yet the Kaleds, several million Time Lords and countless others may disagree with this rationale. While the Doctor himself may be able to sleep with this decision, there are many more who would say that as they looked up and cried help us, the Doctor whispered no.