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* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]:
** David and Susan in ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth''.
** The Doctor and Rose. Jack and everyone. Also, Ten and Madame de Pompadour, as well as (jokingly implied) Ten and Queen Elizabeth I.
* [[Meaningful Background Event]]: Used a lot in the new series. It will usually be something relating to the finale of that series. Series 1 had the words Bad Wolf scribbled everywhere; Series 2 had everyone and their mother mentioning Torchwood; Series 3 had posters saying Vote Saxon; Series 4 featured various TV screens briefly {{spoiler|showing Rose screaming}} and so on.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Stormcage Prison, [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|with its literal Storms and Cages.]]
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* [[Muggle and Magical Love Triangle]]: Rose between the Doctor and Mickey.
* [[Mundanger]]: Although the earliest episodes alternated between science-fictional and purely historic episodes (the series started out as an educational show, you see), it soon evolved into a purely sci-fi show. The only post-'60s episode to feature a completely mundane threat was the Fifth Doctor story ''Black Orchid''.
* [[Murderous Mannequin]]: The Autons.
* [[Mutilation Conga]]: By the end of ''The End
* [[My Card]]: ''The Happiness Patrol'' and "The Vampires of Venice" (a ''library'' card, no less) not to mention all those uses of the psychic paper.
** Harriet Jones, Prime Minister.
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: A running gag with Donna's friend Nerys.
{{quote|"This photo is just with friends. And I want all of you in it. Well, friends... and Nerys."}}
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]:
** The Valeyard.
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** And [[The Master]]. No-one good was ever named the Master. Come to that, 'The Doctor' has an ominous ring to it too, if only because of its anonymity. The Eleventh Doctor even invokes this trope at the start of the 5th series:
{{quote|'''Eleventh Doctor''': "Hello, I'm The Doctor. Basically, Run."}}
*** This has gotten to be an actual truth in-series as well, with Lorna's people (of "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E07 A Good Man Goes to War|A Good Man Goes
** The Controller in ''The Macra Terror''. Subverted as he's even more a slave than the rest of the colony.
** The Vashta Nerada. Or as they're nicknamed: piranhas of the air. The translation of their formal name is even more clear: "The Shadows That Melt The Flesh".
** Craig's son Alfie, or as he has dubbed himself: Stormaggedon the Dark Lord of All.
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]:
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* [[Noodle Incident]]:
** While the Time War in the new era has been a constant point of mention (especially when the Daleks or some re-introduced species are involved), it has never been specifically explained what exactly the Doctor did throughout the war. All that is known is that his actions resulted in the almost-complete extinction of both the Daleks and the Gallifreyan Time Lords, as well as the destruction of Gallifrey, and various other universal disturbances. This, of course, has been used as a [[Chekhov's Gun]] for the Doctor's [[Character Development]] repeatedly.
** Events of the show are regularly presented this way to other people in universe. For instance, when Agatha Christie says her husband left her for a younger woman, Donna replies "Well, mine left me for a giant spider
** Also, the Doctor's dealings with Queen Elizabeth I in between "The Waters of Mars" and ''The End of Time''. Apparently Queen Elizabeth's nickname is no longer accurate.
** In "The Vampires Of Venice", we find out he owes [[Casanova]] a chicken.
** At the end of
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Despite constantly dragging young women along on his travels, the Doctor never has to deal with this particular obstacle. Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.
* [[The Noseless]]: The Silents. They appear to have nostrils, but no definable nose.
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* [[Off the Record]]: The Brigadier to Sarah Jane.
* [[Oh Crap]]: It says a ''lot'' about this show that [[Oh Crap/Doctor Who|it has its own subpage for this trope]].
* [[Ominous Floating Castle]]: The Aircraft Carrier ''Valiant'', first seen in
* [[Ominous Floating Spaceship]]: Seen in "The Christmas Invasion" with the Sycorax ship. Several Dalek ships do this too.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]:
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** Also, the Doctor and other Time Lords cannot travel back in time to affect his own timeline. This explains why he can't simply just travel back thirty minutes and undo the mistakes he made.
*** In the classic series, this was (vaguely) described as the [[Techno Babble|"Blinovitch Limitation Effect"]].
** Very early on in the classic series run the "rules" of time travel transitioned from "you can't change history... not one line" in the
*** Of course, the "rules" were being explained to Barbara by the Doctor, who himself seemed surprised to find he could have an effect on history in the early <ref>(prior to the Time Meddler arc)</ref> season two story ''The Romans''.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: ''State of Decay'', ''The Curse of Fenric'', "Smith and Jones" and "The Vampires of Venice" each featured different variations on the standard bloodsuckers.
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* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]:
** "The Waters of Mars".
** And the Gelth's hosts in "The Unquiet Dead
** ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26/E03 The Curse of Fenric|The Curse Of Fenric]]'' combined this with [[Our Vampires Are Different]], somehow.
** The New Humans in "New Earth", at least thematically.
** Staff Sgt. Arnold in ''The Web of Fear''.
** Robomen in ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth''.
* [[Out-Gambitted]]
* [[Overly Long Name]]:
** The villain in "The Long Game": the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe. His [[The Dragon|Dragon]], [[Faux Affably Evil|the Editor]], calls him "[[Fluffy the Terrible|Max]]".
** Also, the planet that the Slitheen are from, Raxacoricofallapatorius.
*** This is made even funnier by the fact that its sister planet is named Clom.
** Romanadvoratrelundar.
** Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All (a.k.a. Alfie) in
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