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== S-U ==
* [[San Dimas Time]]: Despite being a show about ''time travel'', almost all recurring characters always seem to remember their last encounter from the same perspective, and the Doctor's idea of "present day" always agrees with the audience's. It is taken for granted that Time Lords meet each other in sequence, due to a presumptive "Gallifrey Standard Time
** Averted with River Song, who never meets with the Doctor in the right order. In his [[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E08 Silence in the Library|first meeting]] with River, she's already formed a very long and complicated history with him that he hasn't experienced yet.
** Also averted in "The Shakespeare Code", as the Doctor finds himself running away at the end of the episode from an antagonist that he had yet to "antagonise". {{spoiler|In fact, the Doctor apparently later ''married'' Queen Elizabeth I}}.
** Also averted in "Blink" where {{spoiler|Sally Sparrow discovers at the end that the only reason the Doctor was able to record a message in the past telling her what's going on and what to do is because SHE gives him the message in the future. The Doctor naturally has no idea who this crazy girl is when he meets her}}.
** Also averted in
** For ''The End of Time'' Part One, the Ood elder implies that because the Doctor waited to meet them and went off on other adventures after the events of "The Waters Of Mars", things are going badly because of this. Events happening in modern day only just affecting the Ood.
** Unfortunately averted in ''The Trial of a Time Lord'' where Mel has met the Doctor, but he hasn't met her yet. We never do see how she first meets him, she just gets in the TARDIS with him at the end.
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** According to info supplied in one of the novels, the green slime in ''Inferno'' was evil deliberately sealed in a planet, even though nobody in the T.V. story knew that.
* [[Sealed Good in a Can]]: The Doctor himself in "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood" as well as {{spoiler|in the end of "The Pandorica Opens", and Amy in the beginning of "The Big Bang"}}.
* [[Searching the Stalls]]: In
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: The Doctor destroyed his people, including his parents, and his entire planet to end the Time War.
* [[Sensor Suspense]]:
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** Satellite Five (and all the mess the Doctor's involvement caused) reappears in the Series 1 finale, after an assumed one-off encounter with the Mighty Jagrafess in "The Long Game".
** While ''Torchwood'' was a recurring [[Arc Words]] in Series 2 (with the Doctor meeting a group identifying as the Torchwood Archive in "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit"), the Doctor's only direct encounters were at the founding in "Tooth and Claw" and his capture by ({{spoiler|and the subsequent slaughtering of the team of by the real villains}}) Torchwood London in "Army of Ghosts".
** Series 4, 5 and 6 have a recurring string of non-consecutive River Song episodes ("Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead"; "The Time of Angels"/"Flesh and Stone", "The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang", "The Impossible Astronaut"/"Day of the Moon", "A Good Man Goes
** ''The End of Time'' picks up from {{spoiler|The Master's death}} at the end of "Last of the Time Lords".
** "Closing Time" is a followup encounter with Craig from "The Lodger".
** ''Kinda'' and ''Snakedance''.
* [[Seven Deadly Sins]]:
** Some species have one of them as [[Planet of Hats|a hat]].
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* [[Shout-Out]]:
** The Tenth Doctor is fond of these.
** David Tennant's final episode, ''The End of Time'' Part
*** The actions of Cribbins' character as detailed above avert the phenomenon by which Luke Skywalker, upon {{spoiler|climbing into the gunner's chair in the ''Millennium Falcon'', was able to work the thing on the first try without being told}}. Wilfred {{spoiler|screams frantically for instructions, and gets them}}, but fortunately they aren't all that complex.
** "The Stolen Earth", where Rose and the Doctor are running to each other in the street and a Dalek attacks, feels to some like a homage to ''[[West Side Story]]''.
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** The name and garbs of the [[Church Militant|army]] in '"The Time of Angels"/"Flesh and Stone" is obviously a shout-out to the [[Warhammer 40000|Imperial Guard]], although with quite different ranks.
** River's relationship with the Doctor, a woman who falls in love with a time traveller and meets him in the wrong order throughout her life is a pretty obvious shout out to ''[[The Time Travellers Wife]]''.
** The name of Bowie Base One in "The Waters of Mars" is a shoutout to [[David Bowie]]'s song ''Life On Mars''. {{spoiler|It later also works as a shoutout to ''Space Oddity'' with astronauts stranded and knowing that they are about to die}}. In the same episode, there's a shout out to ''[[28 Days Later]]'' with a character becoming infected just by looking up and a single drop falling on to their eye from above.
** In "The Runaway Bride", the Racnoss Webstar bears a striking resemblance to the Cylon Basestar of the reimagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]''. Both ships are made with Y shapes stacked on each other. The names are also quite similar.
** The Toclafane bear an uncanny resemblance to the spheres from ''[[Phantasm (Film)|Phantasm]]'', right down to {{spoiler|being powered by the brains of the creator's human victims}}. Bonus points for the similarity between [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUizt6kMgbQ this] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ieQxm_M2I this].
** In "Flesh and Stone", the ship is referred to as "[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Galaxy-class]]
** The Eleventh Doctor once referred himself to a decaying Silence ship as Captain Troy Handsome of [[Thunderbirds|International Rescue]] and to [[Star Trek: Voyager|state the nature of the emergency]].
** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeJ4Ak2xCkw Eleventh Doctor tells Amy] he's like, "I dunno, [[The Lord of the Rings|Gandalf]]! A [[Recycled in Space|space Gandalf]]. Or the little green one in ''[[Star Wars]]'', *lightsaber noise*"
** ''The Curse of Fenric'' has Ace's grandmother cry out "[[Gone with the Wind|Where shall I go, what shall I do?!]]"
* [[Shower Scene]]: The Third Doctor in ''Spearhead
* [[Shut Up and Save Me]]
* [[Sickly Green Glow]]: Most monsters.
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* [[Space Is an Ocean]]: "Voyage of the Damned" has a space Titanic orbiting Earth, which almost crash-lands into Buckingham Palace.
* [[Space Is Noisy]]:
**
** Averted in "The Parting of the Ways" -- Lynda (with a 'y') looks out a window of the space station to see a Dalek looking in at her. Though we can't hear it, the lights on its head clearly flash in synch with the word "<small>EXTERMINATE</small>!"
* [[Space Whale Aesop]]:
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** Donna suggests ideas to Agatha Christie about books she hasn't written yet. Agatha "forgets", but likely remembers them well enough to invent them herself years later.
** The Red Nose Day short "Time" runs on this - Amy, Rory, and Eleven all get info from their past selves then go back in time to deliver it.
** {{spoiler|Amy named her daughter "Melody" after a friend she grew up with; said friend turned out to be her daughter waiting for The Doctor to show up
*** This character falls prey to it a lot, really. {{spoiler|River Song only calls herself that because that's what Team TARDIS call her when she first regenerates. The 'spoiler' thing only became a catch-phrase for this reason. Pretty much, her whole live could be called a [[Stable Time Loop]]- she could only have been born if she'd sacrificed her life in the library so her parents could conceive her on the TARDIS}}.
* [[Staff of Authority]]: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart often carried a Swagger stick with him, and the Sontaran baton is a device is carried by certain high ranking officers of the Sontaran Empire symbolizing rank as well as being functional.
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: The Tenth Doctor and Rose.
** Kazran and Abigail in
* [[Star-Killing]]:
** The Hand of Omega.
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** Type 4: The Black Guardian, the White Guardian, the Animus, the [[Eldritch Abomination|Great Intelligence]], Sutekh, the metamorphosed Solonians, [[Mind Rape|the Midnight monster]], [[A God Am I|The Bad Wolf Entity]], the TARDIS, higher Time Lords (including Rassilon), {{spoiler|the Star Whale}}, the Eternals, the Beast, {{spoiler|the Silence}}, {{spoiler|House}}, presumably the [[Eldritch Abomination|Skaro Degradations, Horde of Travesties, Nightmare Child, and Could've-been King]]<ref>considering the Doctor was more worried about them getting out of the Time Lock than the Daleks...</ref>
** Type 5: The Key to Time and its [[Physical God|wielder.]]
* [[Swirly Energy Thingy]]: The Time Vortex.
* [[Switch to English]]: In the serial ''The Curse of Fenric'', a group of Russian soldiers are on a secret mission in England. The first scene has them speaking Russian with subtitles, then their leader says "From now on, we speak only English
* [[Sword Fight]]: The Third Doctor with the Master in ''The Sea Devils'', The Fourth Doctor in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S16/E04 The Androids of Tara|The Androids of Tara]]'', the Fifth with the Master in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S20/E06 The Kings Demons|The King's Demons]]'', and the Tenth and his new hand with the Sycorax in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2005 CS the Christmas Invasion|The Christmas Invasion]]".
* [[Take a Third Option]]:
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** The Doctor won't kill anyone and [[Gun Hater|doesn't like guns]] because he thinks they're wrong. When people around him are willing to kill and use guns, his reaction is little more than scolding... and he doesn't go out of his way to [[Hoist by His Own Petard|save his enemies from themselves]]... and some of his enemies amount to [[Omnicidal Maniac|Omnicidal Maniacs]] with [[Joker Immunity]], so killing them really would be the kindest option overall... and he'll visit all kinds of horrible [[And I Must Scream|fates worse than death]] on people [[Beware the Nice Ones|he thinks deserves it]], mind you... but he won't kill (although he has killed people and things on numerous occasions, including releasing cyanide into a room with a mad surgeon).
** A good example of this is the Family of Blood who [[Be Careful What You Wish For|want immortality]] at any cost, so he gives it to them...[[And I Must Scream|by keeping them alive but putting them in hellish prisons that they cannot die in but cannot escape from]].
** However, in "Day of the Moon", he {{spoiler|admitted he quite liked River Song's gun toting ways, even if he shouldn't}}.
* [[Techno Babble]]:
** Averted when [[Steven Moffat]] writes. He ''did'' invent the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]].
** It went insanely overkill in Series 4's finale.
** Subverted in "The Girl in the Fireplace".
{{quote|'''Doctor:''' It must be a spacio-temporal hyper-link.
'''Mickey:''' What's that?
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* [[Themed Aliases]]: The Master tends to use aliases which are anagrams of "master" or mean master in another language. From Nu Who, Mister Saxon is an anagram of "Master No. Six" (this being the sixth incarnation of the Master that we've seen). [[Word of God]] is that it was a coincidence.
* [[Theme Naming]]: After Series 4, companions had a tendency to be named after bodies of water. Jackson Lake, River Song ({{spoiler|a.k.a. Melody Pond}}), Amy Pond, Adelaide Brooke ...
* [[The "The" Title]]: During the Second Doctor era, only
* [[This Banana Is Armed]]: "Pssh, what could a screwdriver do?" is a pretty common reaction at first. But did we mention it's ''sonic''?
* [[This Is My Human]]: The Doctor has always insisted that the stole ("borrowed") his TARDIS from a museum in order to see the universe. But in "The Doctor's Wife", when {{spoiler|the TARDIS' soul is implanted in a human host}}, she insists that ''she'' stole ''him!''
* [[Thoughtcrime]]: The Happiness Patrol, where enforced cheerfulness was the law on one planet.
* [[Three-Way Sex]]: Captain Jack alluded to this when three Doctors (kind of) turned up in "Journey's End".
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* [[Translation Convention]]/[[Translator Microbes]]: Started as the former, then was [[Justified Trope|justified]] as the latter.
* [[Trash the Set]]:
** ''The End of Time''
** This also happened to Solon's laboratory in ''The Brain of Morbius'' when the Doctor was looking for an air vent.
* [[Trust Me I'm a Doctor]]: More like, "Trust me, I'm the Doctor." From "The Eleventh Hour".
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** The Seventh Doctor in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S25/E04 The Greatest Showinthe Galaxy|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]''<ref> Also McCoy himself. The pyrotechnics were a mite bit bigger than expected, but McCoy knew there'd be no second shot, so just kept rolling. His clothes were actually partially set on fire in that shot.</ref>.
** The Tenth Doctor embraces this, he often walks from explosions and combined with sheer [[Tranquil Fury]] unnerves his enemies into submission.
** More like running, but if taken as canon and was meant to be the explosion in
** Rose in "{{spoiler|[[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E12 The Stolen Earth|The Stolen Earth]]}}" when she was walking on the street and a Dalek blows up a house / path a little way behind her.
* [[Universe Bible]]: Somewhat notable for being a [[Long Runner]] TV show and ''not'' having one.
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** The Doctor himself fits, in more ways than one.
* [[Used Future]]: Despite being far ahead of most technology even approaching the end of the universe, the TARDIS is seriously broken and worn out by Gallifreyan standards. He's also mentioned on several occasions that he's stolen or borrowed it. The Time Lords were also ''phasing out that particular TARDIS model'' for being outdated when the Doctor nicked it.
:''The Deadly Assassin'' and ''Shada'' both had an aged, senior Time Lord reminiscing about how he "hadn't seen a Type 40 since [he] was a boy
** There has been run-down human technology too (ie "42" and "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit"). It's implied that these are the more industrial purposes that run alongside the shiny futuristic tech.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]:
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