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[[File:angel.jpg|frame| [[Fridge Horror|The image of an angel]] ''[[Fridge Horror|becomes itself]]'' [[Fridge Horror|an angel.]] [[Paranoia Fuel|So don't look away. Don't even blink.]] {{spoiler|You blinked.}}]]

 

 

[[Doctor Who]]: [[Mood Whiplash|Combining]] [[Camp|cheesy camp]] with [[Nightmare Fuel|utterly nightmarish television]] since 1963. Sweet dreams!

 

== Classic Series ==

 

== Season 4 ==

* The original Cybermen make their first appearance in ''The Tenth Planet'' and prove to be extremely unnerving:

{{quote|'''Cyberleader''': (after learning of the men trapped in the space probe) It is not important. There's really no point, they could never reach us now.

'''Lesterson''': ''I''... am your ser-vant. }}

** Heck, that guy was creepier than the Daleks.

* The [[Fish People]] from ''The Underwater Menace'' were born humans, but went through a [[Body Horror|mind-numbing operation]] (which is almost forced onto Polly) which enabled them to survive underwater. Also, [[Moral Event Horizon|Zaroff's watery doom.]]

* The Macra in their original story are sentient and cunning. The clips on Lost in Time are terrifying, especially when the "Controller" is pleading in vain for mercy and very obviously not in control. Thank God these things eventually devolve.

* That tour company in ''The Faceless Ones''. Tourists board but never disembark (unless the Doctor shows up before they start dying, which he does).

** The Chameleons' modus operandi, not fully explained until Jamie reaches their hideout in space: when they board the planes, the victims are slowly subjected to a process of spatial compression, and by the time they've reached the hideout, they're the size of dolls, and are unconsciously kept in drawers until the Chameleons have further use for them. Also, if their disguise-generating armbands are prematurely removed, they dissolve into lifeless blobs.

** Oh boy, ''The Web of Fear''. Where do we begin? Due to the disbelief of a pompous collector and the fact that the only man who knows how to fight them has grown old and is now mocked, the Yeti make a nightmarish takeover of London, covering the entire city in a web which is also the physical manifestation of [[Eldritch Abomination|the being that controls them]], which spreads so far that the first look the Doctor and co. have of the city includes a man who was ensnared alive, and the only way people have found to survive is to retreat into the underground, where the Yeti and said web are steadily closing in on them, leaving them with nowhere else to go. When [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart]] tries to lead a team of soldiers to a safer area on the surface, they run into a few Yeti, who kill everyone except himself... [[Serial Escalation|BUT that's not all.]] There's clearly a traitor among the small group of survivors who turns out to be dead from the start, his corpse animated by the same abomination which masterminded the whole thing. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRBWOTFNotM This] lost trailer for ''Web of Fear'' is a testament to any remaining doubt anyone may have had about "behind the couch".

* ''Fury from the Deep'' has Oak and Quill's attack on Maggie, van Lutyens being captured by the weed creature, and Robson attacking the guard. And that's just in the surviving footage.

* ''The Wheel in Space'' is rather slow plot-wise, serving more than anything as an introduction for Zoe (The Cybermen, the stellar villains, aren't even in it that much, and the Doctor doesn't even meet them until halfway through the final episode). So it can come as quite a surprise to see a cold, calculating Cyberman violently writhing in pain as he's fried to death by a force field.

 

== Season 6 ==

* ''The Dominators'' has the (extremely painful) intelligence tests. Some may consider the Quarks' destructive power to be this as well.

** And that's a [[Cliff Hanger]], so we get to see it twice.

** Those really bizarre sound effects in episode 1.

** The Morbius body is [[Body Horror|made up of victims that crashed onto the planet.]] The result is a hulking thing with a huge claw for an arm and stitches all over his body. It doesn't help that the [[Applied Phlebotinum|plastic case]] in lieu of a head is hilariously small compared to his body.

** When Morbius first awakens, his [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|brain is only functioning at a primitive level]]. The result is frightening - the creature snarls like an animal, screams when his [[Special Effect Failure|claw catches fire]] and attacks everything in sight. He then sees his new body for the first time - and goes nuts, smashing his way out of the lab to kill things.

** Don't forget the really graphic close-up of Condo getting shot by Solon, bloody squib and all. No wonder [[Moral Guardians|Mary Whitehouse]] had it in for this show.

** What about Mr. Chase's [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom|mulching machine]]? Possibly the scariest moment in the story is when he puts Sergeant Henderson in it. He doesn't come out. Not long after that Chase himself follows the him... awake and screaming.

 

* ''The Robots of Death'': A Christie-ish mystery with a small, rapidly diminishing number of people at the mercy of a madman who reprograms their servant robots to do murderous deeds. Said robots have designs straight out of the [[Uncanny Valley]], with extremely detailed but completely immobile faces- one of the crew, especially sensitive to human body language, goes mad from "robophobia", a fear related to the robots' lack of body language that makes him feel he is surrounded by the walking dead.

* ''The Talons of Weng-Chiang'' - a hideously decaying war criminal from the future sucking the life force from local women, giant rats stalking the sewers and feeding on the corpses, the living satanic doll with the cerebral cortex of a pig as its wetware... A Grade [[Nightmare Fuel]].

 

== Season 15 ==

* For the most part, ''The Invisible Enemy'' is delightful nonsense. But the idea of an intelligent virus... brr.

* The Fendahl are giant slug-like creatures that paralyse you and eat you alive. An ancient horror that reaches out through time and takes over your mind, transforming people around you into said monsters as vessels for its rebirth. Some of this would make [[Steven Moffat]] back away shuddering.

** "There are four thousand million people on this planet. If I'm right, within a year, there'll be just one."

* The [[Cruel and Unusual Death|Steamer]] in ''The Sunmakers''.

* The Seers from ''Underworld''.

 

== Season 19 ==

* ''Earthshock:'' The first enemies encountered by the [[Redshirt Army]] ''blow them into puddles of goo.'' To be honest the Cybermen guns are far less horrific (though suitably hammed up by the actors).

** The Cybermen as they were about to destroy the planet. And then the trauma redoubled itself with Adric's death.

* ''The Happiness Patrol'', whilst on first viewing is pretty innocuous and has a really unconvincing villain in the shape of the Kandy Man (a giant 'Bertie Bassett' shaped thing, that isn't quite a robot, and definitely isn't nice) is actually really fucked up.

** The story revolves around Helen A and her husband/partner Joseph C who rule a colony on the planet Terra Alpha where it is illegal to be unhappy. The scene that's really nightmarish is when a man is executed by Helen A and Joseph C for the crime of unhappiness. A huge pipe is lowered over his head and molten candy is poured over his head. It's not clear if it's boiling hot, or if he drowns with his lungs full of molten sugar, but either way it's very disturbing. This is made even worse when (just before the camera cuts to the next scene) Joseph C leans forward, scrapes some candy off the corpse with his finger and eats it with a grin on his face. Urgh.

 

== Season 26 ==

* The final series of the classic show had Ghost Light, [[Body Horror|fun with de-evolution]]. The fate of the reverend and the police inspector were incredibly disturbing (even if one was [[Disproportionate Retribution|meant to be]] something of a [[Karmic Death]]).

** In one scene, several women are in a room into which a few Haemovores approach. The next time we see the room, all of the women have become Haemovores.

** When Fenric decides that he doesn't need two of the Haemovores, he has the Ancient One turn them to dust.

*** What about when the Doctor {{spoiler|asks Angel Bob why the Angel in Amy's mind is forcing her to count down.}} "To make her afraid, Sir." "Yes, but why?" "For fun, Sir."

*** ''The Time of Angels'' takes the concept of the Weeping Angels, turns it up to eleven and rips the knob off it. A dead man describing to the Doctor over the radio how the Angels snapped his neck, and {{spoiler|the Doctor recalling the builders of the temple having two heads. And then realising that all of the seemingly innocuous statues littering the temple only have one. They then turn out to be rotting, decaying angels.}} Brrr.

** The Angels don't move when you see them. [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|They don't move on-screen, even when the characters aren't looking.]] [[Medium Awareness|They can see you.]] [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You|They can affect you.]]

** ''[[Doctor Who]] Live'' makes all the monsters even worse, seeing as its gimmick is [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|letting the monsters wander among the stage and audience.]] The Weeping Angel segment is one of the worst; two Angels on the stage, killing actors dressed as investigating policemen, with the image of one on the massive screen behind them. All set to the [[Soundtrack Dissonance|most soothing music of the night.]] Can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjeNUhcso-o&feature=related here.]

* "Flesh and Stone":

** First, the Doctor has to [[Holy Shit Quotient|shoot the globe]] that's keeping the entire MAZE of Angels at bay.

 

== Series 4 - Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead ==

** Apparently the little specks in bright light are Vashta Nerada, too.

** "Hey...''who turned out the lights....?"'' Go ahead; ''[http://lacer.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/silence-in-the-library.jpg shudder.]''

* The Eleventh Hour. Kids, see that crack in your wall? It's got a murderous shapeshifting alien behind it which looks like the hybrid of a moray eel and [[Alien|xenomorph.]] And if you look into the crack there is a giant eye that will look back at you.

** One night that murderous alien made his way through the crack and ''into your home''. Where it went into hiding. Without you knowing. For over ten years.

** Moffat got the idea after seeing a crack in his son's bedroom wall. Yeah. That's right. He tailor-designed nightmare fuel for his own child!

*** According to the commentary for the episode, his son doesn't find the crack itself terribly frightening. Nonetheless, he bravely 'rolled up [his] sleeves and called a man to fill in the crack.'

** There might also be hidden rooms in your house which you can't notice and which contain evil shapeshifting monsters.

*** ''If you just look in the corner of your eye...''

*** "Walking down a hallway towards a door that shouldn't be there while someone screams not to open it? Hey, who needs sleep?"

** Prisoner Zero was in that room for 12 years and had forged a mental link with Amy strong enough to knock her out by the time she was an adult. What would having an alien creature who had done something so awful that it's guards are willing to distroy a planet to stop it do to the mind of a little girl as she grew up? Some fans have even pointed out Amy shows signs of mental illness. From that perspective, she really needed those psychologists.

** The Atraxi were willing to destroy an entire planet just to get rid of him. [[Fridge Horror|Just what the hell]] [[Nothing Is Scarier|did Prisoner Zero do]] for this extreme action?!

*** The Doctor does make a fairly simple case that there must have been a less "extreme" method, since one would assume there must be a method for dealing with major convicts on planets that you can't just torch. And in the process reminds us why he's so greatly feared as to {{spoiler|get his own Pandorica}}.

* ''"The Beast Below"'' has Smilers and their demonic frowns.

** And the Test Card F girl singing an [[Ironic Nursery Rhyme]] to the condemned...

** "This, then, is what has been done to preserve the safety of the British people. May God have mercy on our souls."

** Oh, god, most of The Beast Below was freaky--{{spoiler|well, until we get near the end when it's discovered what's so horribly wrong about the ship having no engines. It's not just that it oughtn't be moving, it's that they're [[Tear Jerker|torturing a star whale who ''volunteered'' to help]], to achieve propulsion.}}. The Smilers are creepy in the pre-title sequence alone.

*** The Smilers' faces are made of porcelain... And each face takes up 50% of the head... And there's -THREE- faces.

*** That's not the creepy part. The creepy part is that ''the Smilers were '''[[Nothing Is Scarier|never explained.]]'''''

 

== Series 6 - The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon, A Good Man Goes to War/Let's Kill Hitler, The Wedding of River Song ==

** "Run, get out of this room, right now!" A reminder from Amy to herself... only a moment earlier.

** [[It Got Worse|Also]], they look like a cross between [[Slender Man]], the Gentlemen from ''[[Buffy]]'', and Edvard Munch's "The Scream." Not quite seeing the "Scream" inspiration? Wait 'til it opens its mouth...

*** The scenes where the camera barely flickers and suddenly someone's palm is blinking. Or worse, their face and arms are ''covered'' in marks, and they ''can't remember why.''

** Amy finds a whole bunch of Silents sleeping batlike on the ceiling... and one of them starts moving.

{{quote|'''River Song:''' For them, 'Doctor' is the word for 'great warrior'.}}

** He's a scary man. Think back to "The Impossible Astronaut": "Don't play games with me. Don't ever, ever think you're capable of that". There's just something about the slightly contemptuous way he delivers that line that makes you wonder what he really thinks of humans...

** The Headless Monks' Attack Chant. Hell, the Headless Monks in general!

** "Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many."

{{quote|{{spoiler|Doctor, brave and good, he turned away from violence}}

{{spoiler|When he understood [[Arc Words|the falling of the Silence]].}} }}

* The gaseous aliens who possess dead bodies like zombies, and the fact that the Doctor later claims that the servant girl in the mortuary had already been ''dead'' when she told everyone to run and then blew up the house and sacrificed herself to kill the evil aliens,

* The genetically modified anthropomorphic pig (not to mention the aliens who mutated the pig itself, especially how they wear human skin as disguises).

* The man who has his cranium sucked by the Dalek's arm (or the fact that the entire Earth military could be defeated with one Dalek)

** From the same episode; what initially seemed like a success for Rose and a few humans being chased by the Dalek think they can escape the alien cyborg horror, by merely going up a flight of stairs as the Dalek has no legs to do the same. [[Tempting Fate|Then...]] EL-E-VATE.

*** When the Doctor is first put in that room with the chained-up Dalek. The horrified look on his face when he (and the audience) figures out what it is...

* All the timewarping caused by Rose when she tries to save her father from death in the past,

* The particularly gruesome description of how the Raxacoricofallapatorians punish planetary genocide on their homeworld (although it's quite a deserved punishment).

* The game shows/reality shows of the far future with a twist (it's fatal to everyone except the winner, or even him if there are no other contestants). What's even worse is that it's not disintegration, [[Fate Worse Than Death|but being turned into Dalek material]]...

{{quote|'''Finch:''' No parents? No one to miss you? I see why the nurse sent you. You poor child. Poor... thin child. Come inside. It's nearly time for lunch.}}

*** The fact that line was uttered by ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Giles]]'' and [[Repo! The Genetic Opera|Nathan Wallace]] makes it especially creepy.

* The [[Alternate Universe]] Cybermen's origins, with the "upgrade or be deleted" scene, and the scene where the Doctor has to kill a Cyberman who he discovers was a bride at her wedding, (and [[Soundtrack Dissonance|"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"]]).

** And the way the Doctor defeats the Cybermen. Allowing them to feel once again, to realize what they have truly become! And you know out there one of them is AU Jackie Tyler!

** Listen carefully as he describes the fate of Daughter of Mine: He doesn't say that the Doctor trapped her in ''a'' mirror, he says the Doctor trapped her in ''every'' mirror. If even your subconscious takes this the least bit seriously, you are now trapped in an eternal, incredibly creepy game of I Spy that you can never win. [[Sarcasm Mode|Thank you]], [[Paul Cornell]].

** What the heck happened to the minds/souls of the Family of Blood's 'hosts'? Naturally you'd assume they were killed, [[Fridge Horror|but we see no injuries or possible signs that the bodies were dead...]] What if the minds of the hosts were still there? Living out the Family of Blood's punishments with them...

* The last three episodes include humanoid wildmen, the end of the universe looming, a kindly old man who, when he gets his memory back, turns out to be a genocidal monster who immediately murders his gentle assistant, the utterly eerie pleasure the human Lucy (whose mind the Master destroyed) takes in decimating the global population (she dances to pop music while he does it) and, last but certainly not least, the revelation that the robotic killing machines with childlike voices are actually powered by human brains - those of the last humans in the universe, no less, who cannibalized themselves and went back in time to avoid the end of the universe. And they share minds with one another, though that means out there is the little boy who back on the spaceship gleefully told Martha that his mother had told him in Utopia "the sky was made of diamonds".

** Listen carefully when Professor Yana opens the fob watch: among the miscellaneous "flashback" sound effects, you can clearly hear the Master's voice saying '' "Step aside human, and release'' '''''my majesty'''''." Compare that to how the Doctor's essence behaved toward John Smith: Smith was allowed to ''choose'' whether he wanted to resume his life as a Time Lord. Yana, by contrast, was allowed no such luxury; a sweet, innocent old man had the vile mind of a thousand-year maniac ''[[Mind Rape|literally]]'' [[Mind Rape|forced upon him.]]

* Killer wasps. GIANT killer wasps. As in ''cow-sized'' giant killer wasps.

** [[Squick|A woman had sex with one. And was at least partially genetically compatible.]]

** That isn't even the worst part. The worst part is that the Doctor is forced to repeat everything the monster says...including her commands to kill him. He is literally made to beg for his own death. Imagine being completely paralyzed, as several people physically drag you to your death, and hearing your own voice say, "Faster!"

** This exchange:

** An addendum: ''Doctor Who'' Nightmare Fuel is at least somewhat reduced by the end of the episode because the monsters get defeated. In this one? ''We have no guarantee the thing is dead.'' Nor do we know if there are ''more of them.''

** The ''Midnight'' theme. [[Shmuck Bait|DO NOT listen to that theme late at night in the dark.]]

* [[What If|A world where the Doctor and Donna never met]], thus the Doctor is killed and every [[Once an Episode|attempted present-day alien invasion of Earth]] from that point onwards is successful, turning Earth into a doomed dystopia. It's not easy seeing one of your beloved characters getting KILLED.

** Almost every single companion so far in the new series plus three CHILDREN and the members of Torchwood dying in an effort to save others after the Doctor was gone was sufficiently nightmarish.

*** {{spoiler|Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf Bad Wolf}}

* Guess who comes back for the finale? (Hint: They were in two out of the three previous finales. And their freakish creator returns as they begin their grandest invasion of Earth ever.).

*** The fact that for a brief instant you saw his skeleton through the after-effects of the attack, and the fact that we had forty years of canon at our backs in which the Daleks were always ''eventually'' beaten. And now in one split second scene where most people weren't expecting it, you honestly can't help thinking: they've ''won.''

**** When they finally established communication with the Doctor Jack's terrified rant at wondering where the hell the Doctor has been tells you that Jack's afraid of them, even with being immortal. Don't forget: they ''killed'' him. And they can keep killing him over and over and over.

***** Jack isn't going to be born for three thousand years. [[Fridge Brilliance|He's got very good reason to be afraid-]] if they win, [[Ret-Gone|he couldn't be there in the first place.]]

*** His metaphorical holding a mirror up to the Doctor to show him who he really is - "the man who never carries a gun..."

** "Yes, we know who you are"? Funny interlude for some, Nightmare Fuel for others.

*** Have you ever considered that theory about multiple realities? The one that states that there's a different reality for every possible outcome of any event? Such as there being an alternate universe where ''the Reality Bomb successfully went off?''

**** What's worse than that? [[The Multiverse]] may very well exist. That would mean there is an infinite number of universes, and thus a reality where everything that happens in Doctor Who is real. [[Oh Crap|Including the Reality Bomb.]] And, if the Reality Bomb can truly live up to its name, there's a universe where it ''went off.'' For all we know, this has happened multiple times, and we live in a multiverse born [[Fridge Horror|out of the ashes of the old.]]

*** For that extra [[Fridge Logic|chilling]] [[Nightmare Fuel|edge]]: {{spoiler|Gwen, Martha and Sarah Jane Smith never saw that coming, did they...}}

*** Or Jo Grant. Or Ace. Or the Brigadier. Or any of the Doctor's ''other'' companions on Earth, alive ''or'' dead. Wait a second...wasn't {{spoiler|Mels/River Song}} on Earth then, too?

*** Hey. Think about it. What happens to unborn but viable (that is, for the sake of argument, alive) babies still in the womb?

***** Part two hints at something worse {{spoiler|The dead and buried are the Master too}}.

*** Speaking of him in EoT: {{spoiler|it's heavily implied he eats ''people''. And just leaves skeletons.}}

*** The Doctor's mention of the horrible things that the {{spoiler|Time Lords}} would bring back from the War if they were released. We may [[Noodle Incident|never get to see]] them, but somehow that just makes it ''worse.'' Just the expression on the Doctor's face alone makes you realise that, to him, {{spoiler|the Time Lords returning}} is ''HIS'' [[Nightmare Fuel]]. And this is the guy who pretty much tells anyone he meets that {{spoiler|the Time Lords}} were great and awesome -- ''WERE'' being the operative word. [[Technical Pacifist|And then he takes up the gun]]...

{{quote|"You weren't there, in the final days of the war. You never saw what was born. But if the time lock's broken then everything's coming through and not just the Daleks but the Skaro Degradations. The horde of travesties! The Nightmare Child, The Could-Have-Been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-Weres... the war turned into HELL! And that's what you've opened: right above the Earth!"}}

*** The Time War. So the two most powerful civilizations in the universe ever are going at it with the gloves off; bad enough. Some of the weapons are creepifying just by their names- the Dalek fleet that "flew into the jaws of the Nightmare Child" is one hell of a noodle incident to ponder. The use of time travel to constantly resurrect the warriors, only for them to die again and again, hundreds of times? But worst of all is the simple fact implicit in its name— because it's a time war, you can never really meaningfully say that it's over from an internal perspective. It's just sealed away, with no escape...

*** The thought of the Time Lords returning made ''the Doctor'' pick up a gun. '''Willingly'''. And another thing from ''The End of Time''. Remember Donna's reaction to seeing her mother and fiance turned into the Master. Now go look him up in the Doctor Who wiki (if you don't watch ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'') and you will find that Luke Smith, Sarah Jane's adopted son, is an artificial human, who likely would not have been affected, the same as Donna. How did ''he'' react when Sarah Jane was transformed?

 

== Series 5 ==

* ''"Victory of the Daleks",'' where in your brightest moment, you're told that your inventions are actually planetary exterminators, every single thing about you is a lie, and that you're a bomb that's gonna blow up in a few minutes.

** Guess why it's called "Victory"? That's right, because the Daleks ''win''.

** When the 'Ironside' is introduced: "I-AM-YOUR-SOL-DIER." Not again. (See classic Season 4 for the reference)

*** Watch in hindsight, knowing their plan. That is distinctly a note of smugness in those mechanical tones - it ''knows'' they've set it up so that the Doctor will lose this time and it's already rubbing his face in it.

* In "The Vampires of Venice", when the Doctor muses about {{spoiler|what would be so bad that it wouldn't mind being thought to be a vampire...}}

*** {{spoiler|Their true forms are aquatic beings with horrifying teeth. and you can become one if you survive the blood transfusion...}}

* You can't even ''see'' the Monster of the Week in "Vincent and the Doctor." More Paranoia Fuel.

* You would think that "The Lodger" would be the one episode of Series 5 without any Nightmare Fuel. Wrong: It begins around 2:30 of this clip: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNcG48rxbqI\]. Nothing bad really happens, but Eleven seems to perceive a threat.

** The silhouettes of the "people" at the top of the stairs... Luring victims up the stairs, where we hear them screaming as they are consumed by a creepy, hungry, half-sentient machine. And their burnt remains seeping down into the room below... yeesh.

** The worst thing in that episode is the fridge horror. They repeatedly state the human population is 6,400,000,026. This number is at least 299,999,974 people less than what the population was at the time in real life. Those three hundred million are the deaths from all those alien invasions whoniverse-Earth suffers.

== Series 6 ==

* ''The Curse of the Black Spot'': Don't get hurt. Something might crawl out of the water and take you away. {{spoiler|And then we discover it extends to reflective surfaces, too.}}

* They let [[Neil Gaiman]] write an episode, ''The Doctor's Wife''. Its antagonist was {{spoiler|a creature with the same level of evil as [[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream|A.M. itself]], and it ''[[Eldritch Abomination|eats TARDISes]]''.}} Oh, and [[Evil Sounds Deep|that voice]]. And the fact that Auntie and Uncle {{spoiler|are stitched together from slain Time Lords and who-knows-what-else}}.

'''The Doctor:''' Fear me. I've killed all of them. }}

::: The glib way he says this once again showcases how easily he can become the Timelord Victorious.

** Nephew's fate, while not on the same level of terror as the previous examples, is slightly disturbing. The Doctor and Idris materialise a TARDIS on top of him.

{{quote|The Doctor: He's been... 'redistributed.'

*** {{spoiler|The freakish elongated monster that Jennifer turns into, which apparently got lost on its way to a casting call for the next ''[[Resident Evil]]'' game.}} Or the {{spoiler|hallway with eyes in the walls.}} Really, the last half of the episode is one non-stop cavalcade of [[Nightmare Fuel]] of the [[Body Horror]] variety.

** The fact that Ganger!Jenny {{spoiler|deliberately kills another, '''sentient''' Ganger of herself to convince Rory she's real.}} Because, as the Doctor repeatedly tells us, the sentient Gangers are ''just like real humans.''

* The landlord's {{spoiler|involuntary transformation into a doll}} in "Night Terrors".

** Which is scary because at first you think they're going to fake you out. But they don't. It's made to look like it's going to be offscreen... but it isn't.

** If you think about it, {{spoiler|River's}} situation at the end of ''Closing Time'' comes pretty close to [[And I Must Scream]]. {{spoiler|River knows that she is about to be forced to kill the man she loves. She will apparently be completely conscious for this, but unable to do anything to stop it. You gotta wonder just how messed up she was after this...}}

** From the main story, {{spoiler|Craig's Cyber-conversion. Made oh-so-much worse by Alfie's (aka Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All) plaintive wailing, as if he knows what's happening to his father.}}

 

 

== Expanded Universe ==

*** The fun kicks off at the very beginning of the audio play, where you hear the thousands of voices in the Time Lords' Matrix desperately trying to keep history on track... and failing.

{{quote|'''Matrix AIs:''' I... can't remember... I ''can't remember!'' '''I CAN'T REMEMBER!!''' *shudder*}}

{{quote|''They say he sits inside your head,''

''they say he lives among the dead,''

''they say he eats you when you're''--What an odd verse.

''They say he sits inside your head...'' }}

{{quote|''We have your companions, Doctor. You will assist us, or their deaths will be...'' '''emotional.'''}}

* Similar to [[Big Finish]], some of the [[Expanded Universe]] novels and audiobooks have their moments. The latter includes [[David Tennant]]'s seriously creepy voice for the monster in ''Day of the Troll'': "Come under the bridge..."

** Even worse in Tennant's run is the audiobook ''Dead Air'' which is recorded and staged to make it seem like a genuine BBC recording which has been recovered from a sunken ship, being played "for the very first time" on live radio - the enemy is a sentient weapon, a creature made entire out of SOUND (not to mention a Time Lord creation) that infects and eats everything that makes a noise, and everything that hears it. All throughout the book (which is recorded at an ever so slightly ''wrong'' pitch so Tennant's voice sounds just a little ''off'' the whole time) we're treated to the spectacle of people being devoured by this machine, stripped to mere soundwaves, their identities stolen by the weapon. The audiobook ends with only the Doctor still alive, everything else having been destroyed, and with him telling [[The Virus]] that by recording the very audiobook you're not listening to, he has trapped the weapon inside it, where it will be stuck forver... Unless someone else listens to it. Well guess who's listening to it right at that moment?

** In ''The Resurrection Casket'' there is a cyborg girl named Silver Sally whose entire left side is made of clunky machinery that runs off steam in order to keep her alive. Later we find out that Sally is actually "Salvo," an assassin robot who was damaged, and the metal machinery is her real body. She grafted on the human skin and organs in order to keep the robotic parts running, not the other way around.

* Doctor Who manages to be damned creepy even in ''Flash-animated webisode format.'' In ''Scream of the Shalka,'' we're told how one of the characters' friends died at the hand of villains who already exemplify [[Paranoia Fuel]] before we ''ever'' see them or know what they do: {{spoiler|she was forced to cover her body with lava, screaming and begging the entire time, having ''no hands'' by the time it was over, until she finally covered her ''face'' with it, at which point she became entirely petrified, becoming the humanoid-ish rock formation seen on the street earlier.}} How bad are they? It's such a ''relief'' to finally see them, to have an image that's inevitably friendlier than the one your mind's conjuring by now. It really has to be watched to be properly understood or appreciated.

* In the [[Doctor Who Magazine|DWM]] comic 'The Flood', a group of Cybermen from the future use what can best be called 'emotional rain'. This rain causes humans to experience extreme emotional attacks. This leaves the victims so traumatised by the intensity of their experiences, that when the rain cuts off, and the Cyber Leader offers the humans freedom from their emotions, they all go willingly for conversion!

** Astrolabus' final fate in "Once Upon A Time Lord", as Voyager reclaims his star-charts. We only get to see Astrolabus' arm afterwards, but that's enough.

 

== Spin-offs ==

** Let us reiterate: the Master was ''afraid'' of the Valeyard. What does that say about the Doctor when a madman is ''afraid'' of his dark side?

* The Cybermen (particularly in their original form) are people who have had organs ripped out and replaced with machines, metal welded onto their flesh and then covered in bandages. How can people overlook this concept as being mind numbingly terrifying?

* The entire concept of the Silurian and Sea Devil races, especially in their eponymous serials. Species of humanoid reptilians coming up from beneath the ground/under the oceans to reclaim the world feeling that we have usurped it from them. Extra points go to the Silurian Plague in their story and the shots of random members of the public dying in the streets. Chilling!

* The {{spoiler|Atraxi}} from "The Eleventh Hour". They were pretty creepy themselves.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKr7uuDMkns&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL Here's a 6:33 reason The Doctor is pure Nightmare Fuel].

* An unknown, undefeated monster that repeats everything you say until it catches up with you and possesses you. And then it pleads with your voice to kill you. Add to that, it also makes people around you on edge. That's what could go wrong on the planet ''Midnight'', Doctor.

* The Toclafane, in sort of the same way as Cybermen but SO MUCH WORSE. Both were originally human but were changed. Depending on which version of the Cybermen you take; they are either from Earth’s twin planet or from parallel Earth, but you don’t get a choice about becoming one. It’s forced on you. In fact if you take away the ‘Emotional Inhibiter’ they go mad from the knowledge of what they are. On the other hand the Toclafane chose to become what they did. They were the last of humanity. When you see a Toclafane you are seeing the future of the human race, at the end of the universe. ‘Furnaces, burning... the last of humanity screaming at the dark. There was no solution. No diamonds. Just the dark, and the cold.’ So what do they do? They decide to make themselves ‘pretty’ by becoming little balls of flying death with a hive mind. The worst thing? They enjoy it. They have a childlike joy of killing and making others suffer.

 

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