Donna. She was sent to The Doctor as "The Most Important Woman In The Universe" and finally escaped her tragically normal life only to have all of her most joyous memories erased by the man who gave her that joy and returned to that same dull life like she meant nothing. And then there's poor Wilf - everytime that man tears up I'm sobbing lol
Knowing that he can't so much as mention any of those wonderful times or it would kill her. Imagine having to guard your every word around loved ones like that.
Is nobody gonna mention Tzim-Sha? His plan was foiled because a team of 4 people just individually happen to come across his egg, his database, and his target by coincidence and just happened to have procession of a new screwdriver and the word from a bus driver who witnessed the database. Furthermore, the database didn't move from its spotted location in order for the plot to happen. I honestly wanted Tzim-Sha to win at that point.
The fact that not only was all of her best memories erased before she was forced to returned to her boring life, but that the mere mention of it by her mom or grandpa could kill her is extremely sad. At least unlike the later 2, Donna has no idea of what she's missing. Plus, with her wedding gift she probably has enough money to do what ever she want. As for Wilf, he really has the saddest fate out of the 3. All he wanted was his granddaughter's happiness and knowing he couldn't even hint at her missing memories in fear of killing her is hearth breaking. Hopefully with RTD returning and Bernard Cribbins (Wilf) seemingly still being alive and active we could see his return as a cameo in an episode or in a special. I also just want to see his face when he finally learned that The Doctor not only "survived" the radiation poisoning, but got to live 3 other lives after their final interaction.
@@MastarNinja I would have loved to see Wilf become a companion - but one who had to hide his secret life from Sylvia’s wrath while at home, but also carried the great sadness that he could never share his adventures with Donna everytime he saw her. All that time behind his daughters house with his telescope staring up at the stars... It would have been fascinating to see his reaction to suddenly travelling in the TARDIS like Donna did and having his own adventures while hearing The Doctor talk to Wilf about Donna so we could see her story from another perspective. Wilf had a very strong character so it could have been possible. Also, dealing with The Doctor regenerating could have created an opportunity for The Doctor to reintroduce to NuWho his past relationships with The Master from Classic Who after The Master failed to bring the timelords back in that episode. I just see some potential there, as opposed to the unfortunately one dimensional 3 companions we've had recently. Wilf was a very strong, fleshed out character. Sorry for rambling, it's late at night so I do apologise for that. Take care and night all🙂👍
The fact Captain Jack Harkness isn't in this list at all and let alone number 1 candidate for the most unluckiest Doctor Who character of all time is a interdimensional crime.
If you live for five billion years and can't be permanently killed, and work for the government in dangerous situations, a few bad things are likely to happen.
It was first marketed as an educational kids' show. But that was never really true even in the original series. It obviously isn't remotely true in the new series.
I thought the same thing. A kids show is marketed towards kids. Like teletubbies, Dora the explorer, Steven universe, Sophia the first. While a family show is supposed to be something any age can enjoy. Doctor who was definitely not made specifically for kids. If anything it’s made for teens and up. I enjoyed the show as a kid but it’s very complicated and there are lots of stuff kids won’t understand. So it’s a family show.
@@favJ-qq2ef I was terrified of cybermen and daleks. Cybermen scared me the most because they could walk up stairs and come kill me in my bedroom and then the episode aired with the flying daleks…
@@rachelcookie321 I think the show that most fulfilled the original intent of a "Kid's Show" (while still entertaining to adults) was "The Sarah Jane Adventures."
Jack Harkness has entered the chat with his dead brother, murdered friends and grandson he was forced to kill by his own hand, oh and there’s that small matter of constantly being painfully dragged back into life, but no Joan was sad
@@Grayson.P and let's not forget his own government blowing him up and then, when he reanimated, pouring cement over him. Or when his best friend (lover?) pushed him off the top of a building and he was impaled on a statue and on and on and on and on He should have hooked up with Lady Me.
I think River should have been on this list. She was taken from her parents at birth, probably abused and mistreated by The Silence, forced into an astronaut suit and was shot at by her own mother before she managed to escape and regenerate. As an adult she was forced into the astronaut suit once again and was forced to kill the man she loved. She also married a man who knew that we was going to die and therefore never told her that he loved her, and she frequently had to hide who she truly was. Oh, AND she was watched her parents die, and all of her friends in the library, and when she died herself, she became trapped in the library data core.
Her feelings and problems are also almost perpetually forgotten or ignored by the characters who are supposed to care about her. Amy and Rory don’t really know her for who she is, and they’re not parental toward her even when they do. The Doctor somehow simultaneously treats her like an inconvenience and a convenience until some of his last interactions with her. I can’t believe her character is portrayed as lightheartedly as it is. If you had read it all on paper first, you’d assume a much more nuanced and troubled character.
For real, River's entire existence is fucking pain. What really gets me is that she had her first regeneration as a goddamn child, then another one as a teen, then lost the power. Jesus christ what a waste of a Time Lord.
Joan Redfern and Nightingale got off light. What about Ursula from Love and Monsters? The blinded daughter from The Crimson Horror? The Ood in the Impossible Planet/Satan Pit? The poor townspeople of Trenzalore? Or anybody who tries to celebrate Christmas in London?
Is nobody gonna mention Tzim-Sha? His plan was foiled because a team of 4 people just individually happen to come across his egg, his database, and his target by coincidence and just happened to have procession of a new screwdriver and the word from a bus driver who witnessed the database. Furthermore, the database didn't move from its spotted location in order for the plot to happen. I honestly wanted Tzim-Sha to win at that point.
Generally, they are not reanimated corpses. They are "converted" while still alive and have an implant that separates them from access to their emotions.
The doctor is just so unlucky. He had to make an impossible decision, which ended in him killing off his own race, only to find that it was all in vain because the daleks came back. He has to live with that every day. 10 fell in love with rose only for her to be trapped in a parallel universe, the rest of his companions either left or met a horrible end, resulting in him basically going mad with grief. 11 lost the two most important people in his life at the same time and went into a depressive episode. 12 forgot clara, even though he spent 4 billion years in his own personal hell trying to save her, then lost bill and learnt that he could have saved her if he'd been just a few seconds earlier and left thinking that missy had betrayed him again.
Plus he saw Gallifrey destroyed twice. If you accept the Timeless Child story arc. Which I refuse to do. I shall stop watching, after following the show since November 23rd 1963. I shall just pretend the Doctor's personal history ended for me with Capaldi. Poor JW, saddled with terrible scripts, and a show runner who seems determined to undermine the entire mythos. I predict the Tardis will be destroyed "permanently" in the near future, unless Chibnall succeeds in getting the show cancelled completely or is sacked before he writes the story.
@@Neil070 … you literally had _no_ reason to bring up (and then insulting) the Chibnall era. Literally _no_ reason. Lamb Sauce wasn’t even _talking_ about her!
Remember, though, he did find out that he didn't really destroy Gallifrey, just exiled it and forgot about that part for a few regenerations until he got back to it the last time. Although it still seems to have been destroyed. By the Cybermen courtesy of The Master, this time. And to be fair to Bill, though, she was ultimately rescued by 'her wet girlfriend' and they went off to explore the universe together.
Joan isn’t tragic. When we see her (great?) granddaughter in Tennant’s last episode we learn that she lived a good life and was very happy. Yes, she loved and lost, but by all accounts she found it again
@@craytherlaygaming2852 Rory: I'm fine with that" The Universe: "you know what? Forget it, you're no plastic anymore" Rory: "I'm fine with that too" The Universe: *sends Weeping Angels*
i'm surprised Nyssa isn't on this list she lost her father, then lost her home planet when the master wearing her father's body destroyed it killing everyone, then several stories later saw someone she considered a little brother die.
Is nobody gonna mention Tzim-Sha? His plan was foiled because a team of 4 people just individually happen to come across his egg, his database, and his target by coincidence and just happened to have procession of a new screwdriver and the word from a bus driver who witnessed the database. Furthermore, the database didn't move from its spotted location in order for the plot to happen. I honestly wanted Tzim-Sha to win at that point.
Well Bill got to travel the Universe with Heather so not such a bad ending. We also found out from her great granddaughter that Joan was happy after her adventure with the Doctor.
Did no one else think that River Song deserved to be on this list considering that she lost her parents several times, went to prison for a murder she didn't commit and after dedicating her entire life to the doctor he just abandoned her in a computer database somewhere
Not Tegan? Aunt killed by the master, unable to get home until after witnessing her friend die, and then actually managing to settle in a bit, only to get fired, end up back in the TARDIS, and subjected to full blown Dalek war
Is nobody gonna mention Tzim-Sha? His plan was foiled because a team of 5 people just individually happen to come across his egg, his database, and his target by coincidence and just happened to have procession of a new screwdriver and the word from a bus driver who witnessed the database. Furthermore, the database didn't move from its spotted location in order for the plot to happen. I honestly wanted Tzim-Sha to win at that point.
What about River Song? She got ripped away from her parents when she was a baby. Kovarian raised her to be a murderer, psychopath. She did runaway and got to live with her parents, but they didn't know who she was. When she grew up she killed the Doctor and she did save him. She fell in love with the Doctor, but they travel in different directions. At some point Kovarian caught her and forced her to kill the man she love, the Doctor. She doesn't really do it, but she ends up in prison for something she didn’t do for years. Then she watches her parents being taken away by the weeping angel knowing she'll never meet them again (or if she meets the younger versions, I think it's even worse that way). River also knows that she will meet one day a Doctor that won't know her and she believes that it will kill her. River did get 24 years with the Doctor knowing that it won't last forever. Then she goes to the library and meets a Doctor that doesn't know her. She sacrifices herself to save him. The Docor uploads her mind into the computer where she gets to live as long as she wants agues. But when we think about it, isn't the computer a bit more like a prison? But this time she can't really escape it. So tell me that isn't sad? That her life isn't tragic. That she isn't unlucky.
The Master makes his own luck: idiot power-mad schemes that frequently involve allying himself with aliens that very predictably betray him. "Soon, Doctor, the world will be mine, once the money from that Nigerian prince is transfered!"
captain jack is pretty unlucky as he cant die, being forced back to life every single time he dies, its made him very broken plus his whole backstory with his brother gray
IKR? She gets to travel all around time and space, and her time with the Doctor makes her a better person. She had everything she ever wanted just traveling with him, and it all got ripped away, she forgot it all, and she went back to being basically the same kind of unpleasant persona that hid what an intelligent, kind and caring person she really was
@@stevenhale2935 He is indeed still alive. He's a beautiful bright yellow with big green patches. He is 6 years old, and, honestly, he's my favorite of the four I have.
@@Amanda-zn7ox Aw wonderful, he sounds cute! Unfortunately I've never had birds (yet). And don't worry, if he ever dies, he'll probably come back in the next episode
I'd say pretty much all of the Class characters should have made the list. We still dont know how they're collective tragedies pan out. Compared to that Joan and Larry just lost their ice cream.
Donna deserved to be on that list at least in the top 5... Having lived and experienced all the amazing adventures with the Doctor, becoming his best friend and then have it all snatched away like it never happened.... It it still to this day, in my opinion, the saddest ending for a companion... I know she is happy in the end and found love, but she also lost her best friend and has no idea who he is.... Also, Wilfred, having to live with the knowledge of everything and seeing Donna always wondering that something is missing from her life...
You forgot Donna Noble. She met the doctor by being abducted on her wedding day (accidentally), which was actually a part of a plot to destroy the world. She gets locked into a fantasy world and loses her kids (which any parent would know is the worst thing that can happen), and she has a missed encounter with her potential soulmate. Oh, and her mind was wiped against her will after she saved the universe! Yeah, I would put her on a top 10 list.
Well in all fairness her mind was deteriorating at an alarming pace cause it couldn't withstand the Time Lord's vast knowledge, so it was that or she was gonna die instead
What the hell!? They just go back and screw around with Blink to tie a crappy mobile game into the series?? Let Larry have a happy, satisfied conclusion dammit!
The game isn’t crappy and you should play it! It’s about as AAA/polished as mobile games get. It’s really fun. Also, no spoilers, but Larry’s ending is fascinating
@@thelambsauce1701 yea but she had to give up her whole life for that. Her family, her friends, her life on Earth. And she went through a lot of pain to get there. Also, she’s a puddle.
Adam Mitchell. He was the Ninth Doctor’s companion for only ONE episode, The Long Game. In the episode, Adam was told by the Doctor to guard the TARDIS and not to interact with 200,000’s technology. Because he did the opposite, Adam got himself an infospike instalment. In the end, he blamed the Doctor for letting him get augmented, despite the fact that the doctor told him to keep away from such technology. Later on, Adam’s mother shows up and snaps her fingers, finding out about her son’s infospike in shock. So, for the rest of his life, Adam had to put up with the infospike by keeping it a secret from everyone of the current year and from the Doctor’s observation, Adam would have to live a quiet live and that he would be dissected if anyone would find out about his augmentation. To be honest, I didn’t care for Adam, so he was even more of an idiot than Mickey Smith.
There's a comic book about his stupid revenge on the Doctor for what was clearly Adam's own responsibility. I haven't read it and have no wish to do so as it sounds like a bad fanfic anyway. His story was ended just fine in the show itself. As you stated, he had to live a quiet life for his own stupidity. The more we forget about him, the better.
That phrasing makes me think that The Doctor is essentially a modern Odysseus. We even have an episode of men turning in pigs and learned he fought in "a great war".
What about River Song??? She was kidnapped as a newborn, raised and brainwashed by the Silence into becoming an assassin, had to lose her parents multiple times, was forced to 'kill' the love of her life, couldn't be with the Doctor most of the time and half of the times that she could, he didn't know/love her. Then she died trying to save the Doctor who 'just met her' and then she tried to contact him as a data ghost but he wouldn't talk to her. You guys put the guy from don't blink and the woman from family of blood but not River? Who did this listing? They should actually watch the series not google check these things
Can we talk about the fact that there's two Bill Potts out there. The first one is the companion of the Pilot, who is made out of water and then there's the other one, who is made out of glass.
So I had to do the math on that, every second up top is 146 hours on the bottom floor, so if he literally got in that elevator a millisecond faster he would have saved her with hours to spare
I don’t think Joan Redfern deserves to be on this list. Yes, she didn’t get a happily ever after with John Smith but she knows that he loved her desperately and almost allowed the world to end to be with her. She got to live an entire lifetime with him in a vision so she has the memories and she had the choice to go with the doctor. All I all, as a love interest, she ended up better than most mortals. Let’s face it. Love doesn’t have a happy ending ever. You either end or someone dies.
On the other hand, she had to watch the love of her life commit suicide (yes for noble reasons but the point stands I think) and then watch a man with the face of her dead lover offer her the universe while not understanding that he is offering her eternal torment... I would argue that to be pretty unlucky
@@gudrudru I agree she got a raw deal but not one of the 10 worst. I would say Martha actually was the one to feel sorry for in this story. She had to watch the man she loved almost give up everything for another woman and then once he remembers who he is, he still wants the other woman more. Imagine Martha’s pain if she had to be on the Tardis with the two of them? I guess I just think out of the women 10 loved, Joan got a better ending than any other ( depending on how you see meta and Rose). Isn’t fun to debate this? I miss Who discussions. 😀. Have a great day!
@@lynbaker7780 Good point! Martha definitely got a raw deal. You could argue she signed up for it... at least she was aware that the doc was a time lord. Joan had it thrust upon her after falling in love with an unassuming country teacher. Doctor Who discussions are the stuff of life! 💜💜
I don't know, I think Rory deserves to be in the middle. Because yes, dying is about the most unlucky thing that could possibly happen to you, but don't forget; in order to die over and over again, you also have to be resurrected over and over again. And if dying is the most unlucky thing, shouldn't ressurrection count as the most lucky thing? So that kind of places Rory in the middle. Heck, he even ends the story alive, with Amy, if in the past.
Rory is the most loyal person alive 😂 He literally spent years guarding Amy... wait, not years... MILLIONS guarding her. And both the doctor and Amy don’t ever properly thank him for it 😅
2000 aren't millions. The Doctor made a comment about that ("the man, who waits, good on ya, mate"), when watching Rory and Amy dance at their wedding, though Rory didn't hear that. But he didn't have to. He didn't do it for the thanks, or any other profit, he did it for Amy's love, and he got it. So there's no issue.
@@Croftice1 That’s not the point bro. The series just glosses over it. The amount that he did was just treated as a joke, and mentioned in a few lines and that’s it. It’s like the creators themselves even forgot about it.
How did Ram (& the rest of the Class cast who witnessed members of their race/families be brutaily murdered in front of them) or Captain Jack (where do I even start) not make this list but K9 did? 😂
it’s amazing how apparently everyone takes the Master at his word. If the Doctor had moved to the elevator sooner, Bill would have been transformed sooner. Rule 1: The Doctor lies Rule 1b: The Master lies.
Isn't K9 a robot? Why is it in the top 10 ahead of Bill and Danny, ahead of anyone who actually died. If K9 malfunctions all you need to do is nip down to PC World and get someone in the know to give it a reboot. It's a glorified ZX Spectrum on wheels.
What about River Song? She was taken from her parents. Turned into a weapon to kill the man that she loved more than anything and forced to watch him forget her even more every time she saw him until eventually he didn't know who she was.
The Master did get lucky when he was at the end of his regenerations and looked like a zombie. He was able to merge his body with Nisa’s father and get a new body.
What about Davros? He was born out of adultery into a nuclear warzone, got blown up and put into the chair and then was constantly thwarted by the doctor and sometimes by his own creations.
When I think about the Weeping Angels, I think about this: Imagine the Weeping Angels wait in a cemetery. Then imagine everyone knows about them and what they can do. How many people would want to go back in time and visit them. Many people would be like: 1950s please and let an Angel zap them back to what they consider happier times. Amy and Rory lived happily together after they were zapped back. They even adopted a child. Imagine going back in time to the 50s or 60s. (or any time) You'd know the winners of big sporting events, election etc. I bet the Angels would get so many willing volunteers that they would happily wait for people to come to them.
Did...did you really put Joan Redfern discovering that her second love, who she knew for a few months, never really existed, above a person having their organs removed and being converted into a cyberman? Like, sure, she got a bullshit happy ending in a special most of us pretend didn't happen, but every fucking New Who companion had it worse than Joan. Like...sure, John Smith 'died' and she had to help talk him into it. How many husbands and wives die in any given episode of the show? Amy's entire life and psychological development was fucked up by the Doctor's involvement in it. River fucking raised herself as a black kid in Nixon-era America before somehow managing to get to Britain. Rose had a worse outcome than Joan purely by virtue of knowing him longer and better. Fuck, Martha had it worse than Joan in that fucking Episode. Also...no one's going to bring up how when you were comparing Bill's experience to other NuWho companions, you explicitly compared her to the other black ones? And it wasn't even in the sense that like, the black companions on Doctor Who have had it pretty rough due to some arguably racist choices in RTD's era, which is worth mentioning, but just compared her to other companions and they were just the black ones for no clear reason? There's something really off putting about the first two minutes of this video.
@Night_Blue_Wolf That wasn't really Rory though. It was an Auton copy. But Doctor Who doesn't stick to its own canon even within episodes, so it's kind of a wash.
Not really a time loop. It's implied, that he resets everytime he died, so not remembering anything from his previous self. If it was a time loop, not remembering would prevent him from proceeding. At his end by the hands of the Veil monster, he crawled back at the beginning and reset the teleporter, resulting in a new identical copy of himself emerging from it. The time was passing on, so it's not a time loop. He just happend to figure out things over and over through each next clone, that came after the previous ones.
So we're saying someone who was almost killed because of the Doctor's misplaced trust, lived years watching the Doctor work out how to save her at an incredibly slow speed, and was then turned into the first ever Cyberman, then became the fear of everyone she was around which all would've been prevented by a couple seconds difference, is better off than someone who's husband left. Interesting.
Great list. One honorable mention could be Davros. His torchered past and his entire life, even creating the daleks, was only for revenge. Doesn't sound like a very lucky guy to me.
There was also that time Rory never even came into existence in the first place (before becoming a plastic Roman, with his head filled with Roman stuff.)
I'm surprised how Peri didn't leave/die early. Maybe then Colin's doctor would have softened early. I'd say Katarina is misfortuned, she just stepped in the tardis thinking it was the afterlife was so unaware and used her greek beliefs to help herself understand what was going on. She pressed a button thinking it would kill only Kirksen/open the door only to open death on herself.
I do think Danny Pink was, in my opinion, one of Moffat's biggest failures from a story and character development standpoint. He just made Danny and the Doctor needlessly and endlessly antagonistic towards each other The show took a strangely approach to Danny's history in the military. Like, I don't doubt there are some tactless people out there who would ask someone in the military if they killed someone, but Jesus Tap Dancing Christ, it was a loo on the nose where that seemed to be the first question anyone asked him after meeting him. And they went and muddled the whole thing with the Awesome Pink story, yet Danny dies and stays dead..... Don't even get me started on the Brig being casually turned into a Cyberman too and glossing over _that..._
I get so very, very tired of people who are SUPPOSED to be knowledgeable about Doctor Who, but who insist on calling it a "kid's program". iT AIN'T! iT NEVER WAS! Go back as far as Verity Lambert, and she made that VERY clear. It was a FAMILY program, which could be watched by all ages (i.e., it tended to avoid -- generally speaking -- things which many would consider "unsuitable" for children... but then, consider the Doctor nearly bashing in someone's skull in the first serial... or the threat of slavery and rape for Barbara in "The Crusade"... or the obviously genuine rape in "The Time Meddler"... etc., etc., etc.). Yes, Tom Baker often considered it to be such, and at times that caused problems with his performance ("Nightmare of Eden", for instance). But the producers, directors, writers, etc., DID NOT. Anyone REALLY think ""Revelation of the Daleks" can sanely be considered an episode of a "kid's show"???? I mean, not even Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, or John Collier would go THAT far.... (Shirley Jackson... well, maybe. See, e.g., "Raising Demons".) So, will someone PUH-LEASE tell these nits to stop with the nonsensical labeling here? "Suitable to be viewed by children" does NOT translate into "aimed for an audience of children", save with people with a very poor understanding of both children and the English language. (Sorry, Will, but this one you earned.)
Danny Pink getting hit by a car out of nowhere was such a lame death. I didn't believe him dead from that until the reveal of his consciousness in the hard drive.
I mean... Rory did come back every time and got to live out his life with his beloved wife. I'd say that's pretty lucky
True but dying must not be fun
Remember, per Pond Life, his marraige was not...completely...happy.
Amy doesn’t deserve Rory
He also got to be an Auton, and kill an unsuspecting Dalek. 😆
They basically turned him into Kenny from South Park
Donna.
She was sent to The Doctor as "The Most Important Woman In The Universe" and finally escaped her tragically normal life only to have all of her most joyous memories erased by the man who gave her that joy and returned to that same dull life like she meant nothing.
And then there's poor Wilf - everytime that man tears up I'm sobbing lol
Knowing that he can't so much as mention any of those wonderful times or it would kill her. Imagine having to guard your every word around loved ones like that.
Is nobody gonna mention Tzim-Sha? His plan was foiled because a team of 4 people just individually happen to come across his egg, his database, and his target by coincidence and just happened to have procession of a new screwdriver and the word from a bus driver who witnessed the database. Furthermore, the database didn't move from its spotted location in order for the plot to happen. I honestly wanted Tzim-Sha to win at that point.
I mean...Donna's outcome is sad, but she is literally exactly back where she was at the start, no better, but no worse.
The fact that not only was all of her best memories erased before she was forced to returned to her boring life, but that the mere mention of it by her mom or grandpa could kill her is extremely sad.
At least unlike the later 2, Donna has no idea of what she's missing. Plus, with her wedding gift she probably has enough money to do what ever she want.
As for Wilf, he really has the saddest fate out of the 3. All he wanted was his granddaughter's happiness and knowing he couldn't even hint at her missing memories in fear of killing her is hearth breaking. Hopefully with RTD returning and Bernard Cribbins (Wilf) seemingly still being alive and active we could see his return as a cameo in an episode or in a special. I also just want to see his face when he finally learned that The Doctor not only "survived" the radiation poisoning, but got to live 3 other lives after their final interaction.
@@MastarNinja I would have loved to see Wilf become a companion - but one who had to hide his secret life from Sylvia’s wrath while at home, but also carried the great sadness that he could never share his adventures with Donna everytime he saw her.
All that time behind his daughters house with his telescope staring up at the stars...
It would have been fascinating to see his reaction to suddenly travelling in the TARDIS like Donna did and having his own adventures while hearing The Doctor talk to Wilf about Donna so we could see her story from another perspective.
Wilf had a very strong character so it could have been possible.
Also, dealing with The Doctor regenerating could have created an opportunity for The Doctor to reintroduce to NuWho his past relationships with The Master from Classic Who after The Master failed to bring the timelords back in that episode.
I just see some potential there, as opposed to the unfortunately one dimensional 3 companions we've had recently.
Wilf was a very strong, fleshed out character.
Sorry for rambling, it's late at night so I do apologise for that.
Take care and night all🙂👍
"I thought I was going to die"
Rory: "Welcome to my world"
Amy: but how do you know you’re come back to life?
Rory: When don’t I?
The fact Captain Jack Harkness isn't in this list at all and let alone number 1 candidate for the most unluckiest Doctor Who character of all time is a interdimensional crime.
If you live for five billion years and can't be permanently killed, and work for the government in dangerous situations, a few bad things are likely to happen.
@@rtozier2011 all within 3 years, or 2000 years. Depending how you look at it.
Do you mean him waving his man parts around on set?
@@billybollockhead5628 no its likely because: spoilers
He couldn't die because of how Rose brought him back at the end of Ecclestons doctor
@@builderboy5502 : And his willy waving.
I wouldn't call Doctor Who a kids show so much as a family show.
It was first marketed as an educational kids' show. But that was never really true even in the original series. It obviously isn't remotely true in the new series.
I thought the same thing. A kids show is marketed towards kids. Like teletubbies, Dora the explorer, Steven universe, Sophia the first. While a family show is supposed to be something any age can enjoy. Doctor who was definitely not made specifically for kids. If anything it’s made for teens and up. I enjoyed the show as a kid but it’s very complicated and there are lots of stuff kids won’t understand. So it’s a family show.
yes, the weeping angels in blink kinda fucked me up for abit when i was a kid
@@favJ-qq2ef I was terrified of cybermen and daleks. Cybermen scared me the most because they could walk up stairs and come kill me in my bedroom and then the episode aired with the flying daleks…
@@rachelcookie321 I think the show that most fulfilled the original intent of a "Kid's Show" (while still entertaining to adults) was "The Sarah Jane Adventures."
Jack Harkness has entered the chat with his dead brother, murdered friends and grandson he was forced to kill by his own hand, oh and there’s that small matter of constantly being painfully dragged back into life, but no Joan was sad
Not to mention that his own brother burried him alive, where he remained: constantly dying and reviving shortly thereafter for 2000 years.
@@Grayson.P and let's not forget his own government blowing him up and then, when he reanimated, pouring cement over him.
Or when his best friend (lover?) pushed him off the top of a building and he was impaled on a statue and on and on and on and on
He should have hooked up with Lady Me.
@@Grayson.P Speaks to Jack's sheer willpower he never went mad from that.
I think it's because all of that happened in torchwood, not dr who
@@spins_jj9820 he's still a member of the Whonivers and it's DOCTOR not Dr. It's his name, not a title.
I think River should have been on this list. She was taken from her parents at birth, probably abused and mistreated by The Silence, forced into an astronaut suit and was shot at by her own mother before she managed to escape and regenerate. As an adult she was forced into the astronaut suit once again and was forced to kill the man she loved. She also married a man who knew that we was going to die and therefore never told her that he loved her, and she frequently had to hide who she truly was. Oh, AND she was watched her parents die, and all of her friends in the library, and when she died herself, she became trapped in the library data core.
Her feelings and problems are also almost perpetually forgotten or ignored by the characters who are supposed to care about her. Amy and Rory don’t really know her for who she is, and they’re not parental toward her even when they do. The Doctor somehow simultaneously treats her like an inconvenience and a convenience until some of his last interactions with her. I can’t believe her character is portrayed as lightheartedly as it is. If you had read it all on paper first, you’d assume a much more nuanced and troubled character.
For real, River's entire existence is fucking pain.
What really gets me is that she had her first regeneration as a goddamn child, then another one as a teen, then lost the power.
Jesus christ what a waste of a Time Lord.
Joan Redfern and Nightingale got off light. What about Ursula from Love and Monsters? The blinded daughter from The Crimson Horror? The Ood in the Impossible Planet/Satan Pit? The poor townspeople of Trenzalore? Or anybody who tries to celebrate Christmas in London?
The Ood in general were all but lobotomized slaves. Kind of hard to downplay that in the sh*t luck category.
Is nobody gonna mention Tzim-Sha? His plan was foiled because a team of 4 people just individually happen to come across his egg, his database, and his target by coincidence and just happened to have procession of a new screwdriver and the word from a bus driver who witnessed the database. Furthermore, the database didn't move from its spotted location in order for the plot to happen. I honestly wanted Tzim-Sha to win at that point.
@@declanhugors He was cheating though.
@@zrc1514 He wa still on of the most unlucky villains
@@declanhugors I don't care. I disagree with almost all of their lists anyway. Tzim- Sha is bad... ly written.
Did anyone else just, kinda... _die_ inside when they misspelled *“Peri* Brown”?
Definitely...
Same. Wow.
Did the guy who wrote this actually watch any Classic Who? I cringed.
Yes. Then regenerated, and died again.
Dead.
I think the most unluckiest character is the Cybermen, they are reanimated corpses in a robot body with no emotion.
Generally, they are not reanimated corpses. They are "converted" while still alive and have an implant that separates them from access to their emotions.
This is how I feel, except for the robotic body.
Cybermen for me are one of the most terrifying villains. The idea of being converted while still alive and trapped in that state... *shudders*
The doctor is just so unlucky. He had to make an impossible decision, which ended in him killing off his own race, only to find that it was all in vain because the daleks came back. He has to live with that every day. 10 fell in love with rose only for her to be trapped in a parallel universe, the rest of his companions either left or met a horrible end, resulting in him basically going mad with grief. 11 lost the two most important people in his life at the same time and went into a depressive episode. 12 forgot clara, even though he spent 4 billion years in his own personal hell trying to save her, then lost bill and learnt that he could have saved her if he'd been just a few seconds earlier and left thinking that missy had betrayed him again.
Plus he saw Gallifrey destroyed twice. If you accept the Timeless Child story arc. Which I refuse to do.
I shall stop watching, after following the show since November 23rd 1963. I shall just pretend the Doctor's personal history ended for me with Capaldi.
Poor JW, saddled with terrible scripts, and a show runner who seems determined to undermine the entire mythos. I predict the Tardis will be destroyed "permanently" in the near future, unless Chibnall succeeds in getting the show cancelled completely or is sacked before he writes the story.
@@Neil070 … you literally had _no_ reason to bring up (and then insulting) the Chibnall era. Literally _no_ reason. Lamb Sauce wasn’t even _talking_ about her!
When I saw the title of this video I thought that Doctor is the most unlucky character.
@@liesmazarina7578 yeahh same
Remember, though, he did find out that he didn't really destroy Gallifrey, just exiled it and forgot about that part for a few regenerations until he got back to it the last time. Although it still seems to have been destroyed. By the Cybermen courtesy of The Master, this time.
And to be fair to Bill, though, she was ultimately rescued by 'her wet girlfriend' and they went off to explore the universe together.
Joan isn’t tragic. When we see her (great?) granddaughter in Tennant’s last episode we learn that she lived a good life and was very happy. Yes, she loved and lost, but by all accounts she found it again
Rory: *exists*
the Universe: how bout no?
Rory in reply: I said, EXISTS!
@@patrickmccurry1563 The universe: guh! fine but your plastic
@@craytherlaygaming2852 Rory: I'm fine with that"
The Universe: "you know what? Forget it, you're no plastic anymore"
Rory: "I'm fine with that too"
The Universe: *sends Weeping Angels*
@@Croftice1
Rory:"Now you're just being petty!"
i'm surprised Nyssa isn't on this list she lost her father, then lost her home planet when the master wearing her father's body destroyed it killing everyone, then several stories later saw someone she considered a little brother die.
Yes
She also lost her new stepmother to the Master as well.
And the sendoff of spending the rest of her life in a leper colony, while selfless, wasn't exactly cheerful either
Is nobody gonna mention Tzim-Sha? His plan was foiled because a team of 4 people just individually happen to come across his egg, his database, and his target by coincidence and just happened to have procession of a new screwdriver and the word from a bus driver who witnessed the database. Furthermore, the database didn't move from its spotted location in order for the plot to happen. I honestly wanted Tzim-Sha to win at that point.
exactly!
Well Bill got to travel the Universe with Heather so not such a bad ending. We also found out from her great granddaughter that Joan was happy after her adventure with the Doctor.
Did no one else think that River Song deserved to be on this list considering that she lost her parents several times, went to prison for a murder she didn't commit and after dedicating her entire life to the doctor he just abandoned her in a computer database somewhere
Technically she did murder someone, just against her own will
Not Tegan? Aunt killed by the master, unable to get home until after witnessing her friend die, and then actually managing to settle in a bit, only to get fired, end up back in the TARDIS, and subjected to full blown Dalek war
Is nobody gonna mention Tzim-Sha? His plan was foiled because a team of 5 people just individually happen to come across his egg, his database, and his target by coincidence and just happened to have procession of a new screwdriver and the word from a bus driver who witnessed the database. Furthermore, the database didn't move from its spotted location in order for the plot to happen. I honestly wanted Tzim-Sha to win at that point.
What about River Song?
She got ripped away from her parents when she was a baby. Kovarian raised her to be a murderer, psychopath. She did runaway and got to live with her parents, but they didn't know who she was. When she grew up she killed the Doctor and she did save him. She fell in love with the Doctor, but they travel in different directions. At some point Kovarian caught her and forced her to kill the man she love, the Doctor. She doesn't really do it, but she ends up in prison for something she didn’t do for years. Then she watches her parents being taken away by the weeping angel knowing she'll never meet them again (or if she meets the younger versions, I think it's even worse that way). River also knows that she will meet one day a Doctor that won't know her and she believes that it will kill her. River did get 24 years with the Doctor knowing that it won't last forever. Then she goes to the library and meets a Doctor that doesn't know her. She sacrifices herself to save him. The Docor uploads her mind into the computer where she gets to live as long as she wants agues. But when we think about it, isn't the computer a bit more like a prison? But this time she can't really escape it.
So tell me that isn't sad? That her life isn't tragic. That she isn't unlucky.
The Master makes his own luck: idiot power-mad schemes that frequently involve allying himself with aliens that very predictably betray him. "Soon, Doctor, the world will be mine, once the money from that Nigerian prince is transfered!"
He's not an idiot.
@@foxydev4056 He really is. His plans almost always fail because he's the one in charge of them.
captain jack is pretty unlucky as he cant die, being forced back to life every single time he dies, its made him very broken plus his whole backstory with his brother gray
Remember the TARDIS doesn't always take the doctor where he wants to go, But it does take him to where he needs to go.
remember the tardis is ALIVE and can think for herself
Every time I hear someone refer to the TARDIS as "it", I die a bit inside.
What about River??? She was literally born to be a killer! And Donna?? She was my hands down unluckiest character in all of Who
IKR? She gets to travel all around time and space, and her time with the Doctor makes her a better person. She had everything she ever wanted just traveling with him, and it all got ripped away, she forgot it all, and she went back to being basically the same kind of unpleasant persona that hid what an intelligent, kind and caring person she really was
Jack tho?
The kids from South Park are shouting, You killed Rory, you bastards.
Ah, Rory. My sister and I loved you so much, that we named our parakeet after you. He is also a lovable goofball.
The fact that there is or was a parakeet named after Rory makes me pretty happy
@@stevenhale2935 He is indeed still alive. He's a beautiful bright yellow with big green patches. He is 6 years old, and, honestly, he's my favorite of the four I have.
@@Amanda-zn7ox Aw wonderful, he sounds cute! Unfortunately I've never had birds (yet). And don't worry, if he ever dies, he'll probably come back in the next episode
@@stevenhale2935 Yeah! LOL!
I'd say pretty much all of the Class characters should have made the list. We still dont know how they're collective tragedies pan out. Compared to that Joan and Larry just lost their ice cream.
I miss Class so much.
Cancelling Class was a terrible decision. And it's way too late for somebody else to revive it, since the actors would look much older.
@@evildeathcuddles886 just say it's been 5 years later.
I felt bad for Wilson he just wanted to do his job and got murdered by a mannequin. Poor Wilson 😢
Donna deserved to be on that list at least in the top 5... Having lived and experienced all the amazing adventures with the Doctor, becoming his best friend and then have it all snatched away like it never happened.... It it still to this day, in my opinion, the saddest ending for a companion... I know she is happy in the end and found love, but she also lost her best friend and has no idea who he is....
Also, Wilfred, having to live with the knowledge of everything and seeing Donna always wondering that something is missing from her life...
So many enormous errors in this. It’s like they’ve skim-read some blogs and whipped this out in an hour or two,
Sound about right
VERY unlucky that I didn’t crash the TARDIS on top of Hitler, amirite?
Pretty sure that would have broke the timeline even more.
Agreed.
You kinda did, well at least you tried, if that counts.
A 13 second intro and down to business, that's why I love Will
You forgot Donna Noble. She met the doctor by being abducted on her wedding day (accidentally), which was actually a part of a plot to destroy the world. She gets locked into a fantasy world and loses her kids (which any parent would know is the worst thing that can happen), and she has a missed encounter with her potential soulmate. Oh, and her mind was wiped against her will after she saved the universe! Yeah, I would put her on a top 10 list.
Seriously whoever made this list must have just completely skipped Donna's whole story.
And her husband in that world was unable to reunite with her after leaving the core because of his difficulty to speak
Well in all fairness her mind was deteriorating at an alarming pace cause it couldn't withstand the Time Lord's vast knowledge, so it was that or she was gonna die instead
Rory is a great character in the Doctor Who universe. He started off as a bit of a clumsy background character but ended up pretty badass.
Number 7: It's "Peri", not "Perry".
What the hell!? They just go back and screw around with Blink to tie a crappy mobile game into the series?? Let Larry have a happy, satisfied conclusion dammit!
Yeah...
I'm just gonna pretend the game doesn't count.
The game isn’t crappy and you should play it! It’s about as AAA/polished as mobile games get. It’s really fun. Also, no spoilers, but Larry’s ending is fascinating
@@danthemeegs8751 mobile games....
@@declanhugors …are mostly garbage, but there are exceptions to the rule, and Lonely Assassins is one of them
yall forget about the person who got turned into just a head made of rock?
Hey, at least she "still has a sex life." - Shudder
That's not accurate: it was her regular living head mounted on a paving slab.
You also didn't mention that rory spent 2000 years alone, guarding a box.
We can't forget the time when Rory protected Amy for over 2000 years to finally get divorced
What about the poor sod that got reduced to a damn paving slab?
Ursula Blake
Bill at 10? You sure? She got turned into a cyberman...
He normally says "In no particular order"
I mean one character got turned into a concrete slab
And the Doctor missed her by TEN MINUTES. Unlucky AF.
she got to travel with her gf for the rest of time tho after leaving her cyberman body, so it wasn't completely terrible
@@thelambsauce1701 yea but she had to give up her whole life for that. Her family, her friends, her life on Earth. And she went through a lot of pain to get there. Also, she’s a puddle.
Adam Mitchell.
He was the Ninth Doctor’s companion for only ONE episode, The Long Game. In the episode, Adam was told by the Doctor to guard the TARDIS and not to interact with 200,000’s technology. Because he did the opposite, Adam got himself an infospike instalment. In the end, he blamed the Doctor for letting him get augmented, despite the fact that the doctor told him to keep away from such technology. Later on, Adam’s mother shows up and snaps her fingers, finding out about her son’s infospike in shock. So, for the rest of his life, Adam had to put up with the infospike by keeping it a secret from everyone of the current year and from the Doctor’s observation, Adam would have to live a quiet live and that he would be dissected if anyone would find out about his augmentation.
To be honest, I didn’t care for Adam, so he was even more of an idiot than Mickey Smith.
There's a comic book about his stupid revenge on the Doctor for what was clearly Adam's own responsibility. I haven't read it and have no wish to do so as it sounds like a bad fanfic anyway. His story was ended just fine in the show itself. As you stated, he had to live a quiet life for his own stupidity. The more we forget about him, the better.
Adam wasn't unlucky. He was just stupid and arrogant. Everything that happened to him is a result of his own actions.
That phrasing makes me think that The Doctor is essentially a modern Odysseus. We even have an episode of men turning in pigs and learned he fought in "a great war".
"...and she got to marry Brian Blessed" while showing Maurice Colburne on the screen.
And you spelled Peri's name wrong.
That's some sloppiness.
How the hell is Donna not on this list!?
What about River Song???
She was kidnapped as a newborn, raised and brainwashed by the Silence into becoming an assassin, had to lose her parents multiple times, was forced to 'kill' the love of her life, couldn't be with the Doctor most of the time and half of the times that she could, he didn't know/love her. Then she died trying to save the Doctor who 'just met her' and then she tried to contact him as a data ghost but he wouldn't talk to her.
You guys put the guy from don't blink and the woman from family of blood but not River? Who did this listing? They should actually watch the series not google check these things
Can we talk about the fact that there's two Bill Potts out there. The first one is the companion of the Pilot, who is made out of water and then there's the other one, who is made out of glass.
So I had to do the math on that, every second up top is 146 hours on the bottom floor, so if he literally got in that elevator a millisecond faster he would have saved her with hours to spare
Nice to have you presenting again Will, have missed yee.
I really hope Doctor Who returns to the glory days at some point .. while always loving it, I'm sadly losing my passion for it
DOCTOR not Dr. It's his name, not a title.
@@tracyroweauthor true .. edited
@@tracyroweauthor I think he might have been referring to the programme title
@@simonholyoak8869 The program is also called Doctor Who
@@tracyroweauthor which is my point
I don’t think Joan Redfern deserves to be on this list. Yes, she didn’t get a happily ever after with John Smith but she knows that he loved her desperately and almost allowed the world to end to be with her. She got to live an entire lifetime with him in a vision so she has the memories and she had the choice to go with the doctor. All I all, as a love interest, she ended up better than most mortals. Let’s face it. Love doesn’t have a happy ending ever. You either end or someone dies.
On the other hand, she had to watch the love of her life commit suicide (yes for noble reasons but the point stands I think) and then watch a man with the face of her dead lover offer her the universe while not understanding that he is offering her eternal torment... I would argue that to be pretty unlucky
@@gudrudru I agree she got a raw deal but not one of the 10 worst. I would say Martha actually was the one to feel sorry for in this story. She had to watch the man she loved almost give up everything for another woman and then once he remembers who he is, he still wants the other woman more. Imagine Martha’s pain if she had to be on the Tardis with the two of them?
I guess I just think out of the women 10 loved, Joan got a better ending than any other ( depending on how you see meta and Rose).
Isn’t fun to debate this? I miss Who discussions. 😀. Have a great day!
@@lynbaker7780 Good point! Martha definitely got a raw deal. You could argue she signed up for it... at least she was aware that the doc was a time lord. Joan had it thrust upon her after falling in love with an unassuming country teacher. Doctor Who discussions are the stuff of life! 💜💜
I don't know, I think Rory deserves to be in the middle. Because yes, dying is about the most unlucky thing that could possibly happen to you, but don't forget; in order to die over and over again, you also have to be resurrected over and over again. And if dying is the most unlucky thing, shouldn't ressurrection count as the most lucky thing?
So that kind of places Rory in the middle. Heck, he even ends the story alive, with Amy, if in the past.
Rory is the most loyal person alive 😂
He literally spent years guarding Amy... wait, not years... MILLIONS guarding her. And both the doctor and Amy don’t ever properly thank him for it 😅
2000 aren't millions. The Doctor made a comment about that ("the man, who waits, good on ya, mate"), when watching Rory and Amy dance at their wedding, though Rory didn't hear that. But he didn't have to. He didn't do it for the thanks, or any other profit, he did it for Amy's love, and he got it. So there's no issue.
@@Croftice1
That’s not the point bro. The series just glosses over it. The amount that he did was just treated as a joke, and mentioned in a few lines and that’s it. It’s like the creators themselves even forgot about it.
@@Croftice1 1894 years, if I remember correctly. Still closer than millions.
K9 also has the world record for the most votes on the weakest link. poor guy
I take exception with your statement of Doctor Who being a kid's show.
How did Ram (& the rest of the Class cast who witnessed members of their race/families be brutaily murdered in front of them) or Captain Jack (where do I even start) not make this list but K9 did? 😂
it’s amazing how apparently everyone takes the Master at his word.
If the Doctor had moved to the elevator sooner, Bill would have been transformed sooner.
Rule 1: The Doctor lies
Rule 1b: The Master lies.
Just gonna say, The Doctor died a lot more times than Rory did.
But for a human...he dies an alarming number of times...
@@BJCMXY Fair
@@touyatodoroki3480 And the master has died more than the doctor
@@Isaac_Clarke The Doctor is the oldest Time lord, I think he/she has died more but idk
@@touyatodoroki3480 Your right but when using the name the doctor he/she has died less
Isn't K9 a robot? Why is it in the top 10 ahead of Bill and Danny, ahead of anyone who actually died. If K9 malfunctions all you need to do is nip down to PC World and get someone in the know to give it a reboot. It's a glorified ZX Spectrum on wheels.
Rory was definitely unlucky. I mean, have you seen his ponytail???
I wouldn't call Doctor Who a kids show, there can be very dark moments that kids shouldn't see.
I expected to see Donna on this list.
What about River Song? She was taken from her parents. Turned into a weapon to kill the man that she loved more than anything and forced to watch him forget her even more every time she saw him until eventually he didn't know who she was.
It's not a kids show it's a family show. Hope you understand the difference.
The Master did get lucky when he was at the end of his regenerations and looked like a zombie. He was able to merge his body with Nisa’s father and get a new body.
What about Davros? He was born out of adultery into a nuclear warzone, got blown up and put into the chair and then was constantly thwarted by the doctor and sometimes by his own creations.
Rory-The King of dying.
Unless we count Jack...
This means the Doctor would have saved Bill if he'd been 1/70th of a second faster.
When I think about the Weeping Angels, I think about this: Imagine the Weeping Angels wait in a cemetery. Then imagine everyone knows about them and what they can do. How many people would want to go back in time and visit them.
Many people would be like: 1950s please and let an Angel zap them back to what they consider happier times.
Amy and Rory lived happily together after they were zapped back. They even adopted a child.
Imagine going back in time to the 50s or 60s. (or any time) You'd know the winners of big sporting events, election etc.
I bet the Angels would get so many willing volunteers that they would happily wait for people to come to them.
Did...did you really put Joan Redfern discovering that her second love, who she knew for a few months, never really existed, above a person having their organs removed and being converted into a cyberman? Like, sure, she got a bullshit happy ending in a special most of us pretend didn't happen, but every fucking New Who companion had it worse than Joan. Like...sure, John Smith 'died' and she had to help talk him into it. How many husbands and wives die in any given episode of the show? Amy's entire life and psychological development was fucked up by the Doctor's involvement in it. River fucking raised herself as a black kid in Nixon-era America before somehow managing to get to Britain. Rose had a worse outcome than Joan purely by virtue of knowing him longer and better.
Fuck, Martha had it worse than Joan in that fucking Episode.
Also...no one's going to bring up how when you were comparing Bill's experience to other NuWho companions, you explicitly compared her to the other black ones? And it wasn't even in the sense that like, the black companions on Doctor Who have had it pretty rough due to some arguably racist choices in RTD's era, which is worth mentioning, but just compared her to other companions and they were just the black ones for no clear reason? There's something really off putting about the first two minutes of this video.
Bill should have been higher than10th. What happened to her is truly horrific.
I agree there, many of the higher up choices still had it bad, but Bill had a horrible thing happen to her.
Rory waiting 2000yrs for Amy while she was snogging the Doctor was a pretty bad one...
@Night_Blue_Wolf That wasn't really Rory though. It was an Auton copy. But Doctor Who doesn't stick to its own canon even within episodes, so it's kind of a wash.
I feel like Perry Brown stuck around for 2 reasons.. couldn't even try to hide it could they lol
I don't think I would call Dr who a kids show
#12 was in a time loop for a billion years
Not really a time loop. It's implied, that he resets everytime he died, so not remembering anything from his previous self. If it was a time loop, not remembering would prevent him from proceeding. At his end by the hands of the Veil monster, he crawled back at the beginning and reset the teleporter, resulting in a new identical copy of himself emerging from it. The time was passing on, so it's not a time loop. He just happend to figure out things over and over through each next clone, that came after the previous ones.
Abjectly surprised that Adric is not on this list.
What about Donna? She went from living a life of adventure to feeling like she wasn't important at all and constantly being criticised by her mother
This list is defintly not correct. You think larry is more u lucky thn bill, BILL?
Katarina, Sara Kingdom, and Adric from the classic series all died while travelling with the Doctor and don't even make the list.
ikr?
Finally, someone else who Remembers Katarina and Sara.
Might as well list the Daleks as number one based on the reason for the Master's inclusion.
the tardis teleporting to random places sounds like the omnitrix giving ben the wrong alien
I would have put Captain Jack at the top of this list. An eternity of pain just because he travelled with the doctor.
Children of Earth alone....
@@tracyroweauthor don't. I'm still not over it 💔💔
@@stephaniemantle5029 Ikr?
Lets not forget the rory Version in the TARDIS, who got stuck for decades, unable to die, blaming Amy and the doctor for his torture.
So we're saying someone who was almost killed because of the Doctor's misplaced trust, lived years watching the Doctor work out how to save her at an incredibly slow speed, and was then turned into the first ever Cyberman, then became the fear of everyone she was around which all would've been prevented by a couple seconds difference, is better off than someone who's husband left. Interesting.
Yeahhh, and no captain Jack on the list, he has literally died more that Rory, in so many horrific ways.
car dwellers? really in the top 10?... Adric, (or was that mercy)
Gridlocked stuck just going round and round, bit like real life...
Any male who dates a companion of the Doctor.
lol! so true
Why did he name 2 other black characters when talking about Martha lmao
How could you misspell PERI?
Great list. One honorable mention could be Davros. His torchered past and his entire life, even creating the daleks, was only for revenge. Doesn't sound like a very lucky guy to me.
How did I not see Rory at number one? Man I need to rewatch Matt Smith's era. Also I have been reminded of just how much I love K9.
There was also that time Rory never even came into existence in the first place (before becoming a plastic Roman, with his head filled with Roman stuff.)
I'm surprised how Peri didn't leave/die early. Maybe then Colin's doctor would have softened early. I'd say Katarina is misfortuned, she just stepped in the tardis thinking it was the afterlife was so unaware and used her greek beliefs to help herself understand what was going on. She pressed a button thinking it would kill only Kirksen/open the door only to open death on herself.
Colin Baker's Doctor was specifically written to start out as something of a bastard and then soften. It wouldn't have mattered who his companion was.
The Motorway people were the lucky ones. They were saved. You even say this after.
So scary to see this and remembering how good this show used to be.. compared to the last few years..
"Perry"??? Perpigillium Brown aka PERI.
OMG they killed Rory! 😆
I do think Danny Pink was, in my opinion, one of Moffat's biggest failures from a story and character development standpoint. He just made Danny and the Doctor needlessly and endlessly antagonistic towards each other The show took a strangely approach to Danny's history in the military. Like, I don't doubt there are some tactless people out there who would ask someone in the military if they killed someone, but Jesus Tap Dancing Christ, it was a loo on the nose where that seemed to be the first question anyone asked him after meeting him.
And they went and muddled the whole thing with the Awesome Pink story, yet Danny dies and stays dead..... Don't even get me started on the Brig being casually turned into a Cyberman too and glossing over _that..._
K9 deserves his own show
I get so very, very tired of people who are SUPPOSED to be knowledgeable about Doctor Who, but who insist on calling it a "kid's program". iT AIN'T! iT NEVER WAS! Go back as far as Verity Lambert, and she made that VERY clear. It was a FAMILY program, which could be watched by all ages (i.e., it tended to avoid -- generally speaking -- things which many would consider "unsuitable" for children... but then, consider the Doctor nearly bashing in someone's skull in the first serial... or the threat of slavery and rape for Barbara in "The Crusade"... or the obviously genuine rape in "The Time Meddler"... etc., etc., etc.). Yes, Tom Baker often considered it to be such, and at times that caused problems with his performance ("Nightmare of Eden", for instance). But the producers, directors, writers, etc., DID NOT. Anyone REALLY think ""Revelation of the Daleks" can sanely be considered an episode of a "kid's show"???? I mean, not even Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, or John Collier would go THAT far.... (Shirley Jackson... well, maybe. See, e.g., "Raising Demons".) So, will someone PUH-LEASE tell these nits to stop with the nonsensical labeling here? "Suitable to be viewed by children" does NOT translate into "aimed for an audience of children", save with people with a very poor understanding of both children and the English language. (Sorry, Will, but this one you earned.)
Who’s Mickey… I thought it was Rickey
Danny Pink getting hit by a car out of nowhere was such a lame death. I didn't believe him dead from that until the reveal of his consciousness in the hard drive.