Doctor Who: 10 Huge Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About The Doctor
4. They’ve Got SO MUCH Blood On Their Hands
For someone who constantly preaches pacifism, the Doctor has been responsible for a heck of a lot of death.
They were the one who brought the Time War to a close, seemingly destroying their people and home planet in the process. It was eventually revealed that the Time Lords and Gallifrey had survived, but the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors still had to live with the idea that they hadn’t.
And it showed in their brutal treatment of villains – from Ten letting the Sycorax Leader fall and giving the Family of Blood fates worse than death, to Eleven showing no mercy to Solomon.
Then there are the literal genocides the Doctor has carried out, with the Vervoids and Racnoss both wiped out, whole battle fleets of Daleks and Sontarans eradicated by the Flux (which the Doctor was indirectly responsible for in the first place), and a Cyber-fleet just exploded in A Good Man Goes To War for no reason other than that the Doctor wanted to look all macho.
Given that the Doctor is the self-appointed protector of Earth (/the universe), death does sort of come with the territory, but the sheer amount of times they themselves have killed is staggering when you stop and look at it.
"The Man Who Never Would?" More like, "The Man Who Probably Will If You So Much As Look At Him Funny".