Doctor Who: 10 Worst Things The Tenth Doctor Has Ever Done

The Tenth Doctor sometimes steps out of line...

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[beaulear]

I absolutely love the darkness of the tenth doctor. There is something about it, the way he takes on his power and does not always do the absolutely best thing. Just incredible and one of the reasons 10 is my favourite.

[georgiec]

This is why I loved the pandorica storyline - all of his enemies working together to defeat the doctor, because they knew just how far he could go to "save" people

[jpistolas]

I can explain away/condone most of 10's actions but any mistreatment of Dr. Martha Jones is simply inexcusable!

[JackRafael]

Are we saying that you don’t want to see the Doctor behave this way? In my opinion the reason why the 10th doctor is the best is because of his depth and darkness. Same with the 9th doctor, they have flaws which make them interesting. I don’t think anyone wants to see a polished, boring and unflawed superman type of protagonist.

[DamonChuckLover]

I paused at 4:29 to say this. Really, Ten was always going to be dark. The Christmas Invasion (and Harriet Jones in it simultaneously) are to me justifiable. A human in power went too far and an alien invader went too far. Even still, he only killed their leader when he went to stab him in the back and he only nudged Harriet's fall from power. Also he may have wanted to imprint to Rose "Hey I'm still me" which IS a theme for the Doctor in general. Trying to convince a companion he hasn't changed even if he has regenerated. Other than that, the Doctor HAS been hanging with humans for centuries. He would go native. Anyone would objectively. Meaning, he would develop feelings.
As far as Martha is concerned, I like Martha. I do. But SHE WAS THE REBOUND. We ALL know how Ten felt about Rose. Even if a portion of the fandom denies it, he WAS in love with her. He obviously was torn up about Doomsday so he pushed and pushed companions away. He didn't need another version of Rose which lets face it Martha WAS in season 3 (meaning a little girl that has an immense crush on a guy and ends up falling in love with him even if he's unattainable) but he needed an actual best friend to call him out on his bullshit which was Donna. Even if his behavior towards Martha was bad, it was understandable. The guy was grieving. Blaming himself for everything. He wanted to protect himself from getting hurt again. He would always compare Martha to Rose because it was way too fresh and just not the right time for him to start over. Emotionally that is.

That being said, everything else I can understand and explain (yes even the "humans as weapons" argument because lets face it, it IS essentially the companions' choice to go beyond and to the extreme. Those were life or death situations. For the entire cosmos, not just some humans. What would ANY of us have done? Noped out maybe. But don't deny that depending on the situation we would have done the same). But not the Time Lord Victorious. That was simply bone chilling to watch at least to me. The all time Dark moment where no trace of the Doctor was visible for the last 5ish minutes of the episode.

[julianaylor]

I got the impression that the tenth Doctor was somewhat scared of Captain Jack in the beginning, because he was a time anomaly. However he late when the eleventh Doctor, he was more at peace with that fact.
The fact the tenth Doctor would have died fighting the Rachnoss, if it wasn't for Donna, is covered in Turn Left.
The tenth Doctor may have done dark things, but the seventh Doctor sometimes revealed the Timelord's dark side in what he says. So it was always there, in fact we also hear it in the early first Doctor and was clearly in the Renegade Doctor, in the Doctor's history therefore.

[radioarchives]

I knew the Family of Blood punishment would come. It's so brutal of a punishment.

[matthewkalasky]

4:00 Well, to be fair, the Sycarax leader WAS trying to attack him from behind.

[detectivesquirrel]

Technically it was the Tardis that tried to shake Captain Jack off and went all the way to the end of the Universe to try to get away from him. So it wasn't entirely the Doctor's doing.

[thechillindude]

Personally despite being dark. The family deserved their punishment. However what was worse was escaping to that point in time where he broke a woman's heart who so loved his human version and also being the cause of so much death due to the family finding him

[eef_]

I absolutely adore all of the darker moments. There’s just something about a character who does his best to keep up a cheerful facade, often so that others won’t worry, dropping said facade and letting all that built up anger, hurt and bitterness shine through.

[alyzu]

To be fair, Donna mentions the Racnoss, in a way, when they meet up again in "Partners in Crime".

[Kant_]

"It's a fighting hand !" wile showing the slap of Will Smith make me laugh so hard.

[applejuice]

3:51 "KEEP MY FIGHTING HAND OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!"

[timidwolf]

He punishes the meta-crisis Doctor for Dalek genocide, failing to mention that he has caused the extinction of a few races himself beforehand including the Daleks a couple of times, other races haven't even been lucky enough to return!

[silversonic]

The thing about Donna was that he had to do it to give her any possible chance of survival. And in The End of Time, he was shown to have given her a means of not just protecting herself, but to prevent remembering from burning her up, as when she's found by her family, they're panicked over how cold she is. In a sense, he saved Donna twice with this decision. The memories died, but the person survived.
As for the Doctor inspiring people to fight back, this thought is actually revisited. In Twice Upon a Time, the 1st Doctor says he wanted to understand why good beats evil, even though evil should be more powerful. Bill puts it down to it being because of "a bloke", a single person inspiring people(thinly veiled to be The Doctor himself). While the 10th Doctor was noted for this, every Doctor has inspired people to say "No more." throughout time and space, no matter the face.

[mattthesilentRED]

I can understand why the Doctor immediately abandons Jack, he saves Rose and swallows up the time energy then spends quite a bit of time in a regeneration coma.

[StudioGhibliFan]

The Sycorax leader was killed because The Doctor asked him to leave & the Sycorax leader got up & tried to kill the Doctor. So you think the spider lady should have been left to kill people so she could feed them to her children? The family of blood got what was coming to them after what they did. They murdered innocent people & took their bodies.

[archilarkania]

Meta-crisis Doctor left with Rose and they had normal relationship and when wiped out his memory managed to fall in love with that nurse in the past, which means he could technically mate with any of them under special conditions. I don't know why Martha thought that she can be any different from Sarah-Jane or the others. She's a human. He can't give her what she wants. Even River Song who's partially time lord couldn't maintain normal relationship with him and died at their first meeting. He already explained it with Sarah-Jane, as it's too hard to watch loved ones die. That's why he's leaving them behind eventually.

[SephoraBloons]

*Nobody Loves The Tenth Doctor More Than Me!*