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00:00Doctor Who has never shied away from shocking cliffhangers and plot twists. Ever since its
00:05return in 2005, the show has been keeping fans on the edge of their seats, with unforeseen
00:11reveals and shocking and sometimes controversial cliffhangers and plot twists. For a show as
00:17complex and exciting as Doctor Who, complete with space and time travel, it's not really
00:24any surprise that this sci-fi series has mastered the craft of creating twists to maintain intrigue
00:31and generate buzz. So, with that in mind then, I'm Ellie with WhoCulture, here with the 10
00:37biggest new Who plot twists nobody saw coming.
00:40Number 10. The 11th Doctor is killed. The 6th season of Doctor Who started off with a bang.
00:47Quite literally. In the first 10 minutes of the episode, we see the 11th Doctor killed
00:52by a mysterious astronaut figure that has risen from Lake Silencio, Utah.
00:57Now, it's fair to say that fans were left quite shocked and confused by this. Because,
01:03I mean, there's no way the Doctor can actually die, right? And it's not until a few minutes
01:08later that the episode gives us another big twist that the Doctor is back. Except it's
01:13a younger version of himself who has no idea who, what or why he was sent an invitation to Utah.
01:18River, Amy and Rory spend the remainder of the season keeping his death a secret as they were
01:23afraid of what he might do if he found out, since it's been said to be a fixed point in
01:28time.
01:28Now, this twist coming at the beginning of the season meant that fans were left on the edge of
01:33their seats for the remainder of the season, wondering how in the hell the Doctor was going to cheat death.
01:39Number 9. The War Doctor. Now, Doctor Who's 50th anniversary was fast approaching,
01:45and there was so much speculation as to who would be returning and who wouldn't be returning.
01:51But I don't think anyone expected them to throw a new Doctor into the mix.
01:56When the show came back in 2005, it shocked many fans that the Doctor's home planet
02:02Gallifrey was gone due to the time war between the Time Lords and the Dalits.
02:06And it was an even greater shock when we found out that the Doctor was the one who killed all
02:10the
02:10Time Lords, and he is the only one left. Now, we all assumed it was the 8th Doctor who fought
02:16in the
02:16Time War, as when we are introduced to Christopher Eccleston's 9th Doctor, he is shown to be seeing
02:21his face for the first time, hinting that he was wounded in the war. No one expected there to be
02:27another Doctor in between these two. But we were all proved wrong in the closing moments of the
02:32season 7 finale, The Name of the Doctor, when we were introduced to John Hurt as the War Doctor.
02:38Number 8 – What's Inside the Sphere?
02:41Series 2's brilliant two-part finale left fans in a sea of emotions, as no one expected two of
02:50the Doctor's greatest foes to go head-to-head in one epic battle. Now, before the episode aired,
02:57fans knew that the Cybermen were going to be returning, but the return of the Daleks was kept
03:03a secret right up until the reveal at the end of Army of Ghosts.
03:08As the Cybermen commenced their takeover of the world, there was an increased interest in what the
03:13Sphere was that came through with the Cybermen. Scientists at Torchwood Institute couldn't understand
03:19how there were no readings coming off of it, as it was existing, but all the signs pointed that it
03:24shouldn't. The Doctor questions the Cybermen about the Sphere, which is when the Cybermen admit they
03:29don't know anything about the object, but merely followed it through the void to travel into an
03:34alternate universe. The twist came when the Sphere decided to open, with four Daleks flying out
03:41immediately ready to kill anything that got in their way. Number 7 – Amy Pond is a Ganger
03:47Now, Series 6 is full of twists and turns around every single corner, and if you didn't know already,
03:53it's my favourite series. So aside from the Doctor being killed at the beginning of the series,
03:59and that other big bombshell that's dropped in the middle of the series, but we'll get to that one
04:04later, another shocking and quite important revelation is that Amy has been a flesh duplicate
04:11the entire time she's been travelling with the Doctor and Rory throughout the beginning half of the
04:17series. In reality, Amy was taken to Demons Run by Madame Kavarian, in order for Kavarian to watch
04:23over the pregnant pond and eventually take the child as her own, with the plan of this offspring
04:29later killing the Doctor. Now, the scene of seeing Amy waking up to find herself heavily pregnant and
04:34about to give birth was truly chilling. But this twist did answer a lot of questions that had emerged
04:41during the first half of the series, such as why Amy kept seeing the mysterious woman through the hatch,
04:48and why she told the Doctor she was pregnant and then said she wasn't and kind of backtracked a little
04:52bit, and more importantly, why the TARDIS scanner couldn't determine whether she was or was not pregnant.
04:59Number 6 – Captain Jack Harkness is the face of Bo. The face of Bo, they called me. That one
05:05line
05:05changed everything fans had seen in series 1, 2 and 3. So technically then, we meet Jack Harkness twice
05:13in series 1. The face of Bo was first introduced in The End of the World, and Captain Jack Harkness
05:19was introduced in The Empty Child. Originally, the face of Bo had a small role, which gradually got
05:24somewhat bigger until his death in series 3's Gridlock, when he tells the Doctor his last four words,
05:31You are not alone. Although the final words were seemingly forgotten by fans until the Professor
05:38Yana Master reveal, and many wondered how the face of Bo knew that the Doctor wasn't the last of his
05:44kind. So the face of Bo has mentioned that he's lived a long time, and I think at the time,
05:49lots of fans just assumed that he'd heard it through the grapevine, that there was another
05:53Time Lord knocking about. It's not until Captain Jack Harkness innocently states that he was named the
05:59face of Bo in the Beauchesne Peninsula where he grew up. And then it all seemed to make sense how
06:04the
06:04face of Bo knew so much about the Doctor and the secret of Professor Yana, because Jack had been
06:12through all that with the Doctor, so he actually witnessed it first hand.
06:15Number 5. Clara Oswald is a Dalek
06:18Clara Oswald was introduced to Doctor Who in a very unique way. During Asylum of the Daleks,
06:24we see Oswin Oswald living day-to-day life whilst trapped on the Dalek Asylum after crash landing
06:30there three years prior. She befriends and communicates with both the Doctor and Rory
06:35through the asylum's communication system, giving the Doctor instructions on how to slow down the
06:40Daleks, blow them up if necessary, and where to go to find her. But throughout the episode,
06:45the Doctor does seem to keep questioning how she's managed to survive for so long, and also,
06:50where she gets the milk from to make the numerous souffles that she seems to make on a daily basis.
06:56Things take a tragic turn when it's revealed that Oswin never escaped from the Daleks, but was turned
07:02into one herself. The Doctor explains how the truth was too much for her to handle, and that she created
07:07a world inside her head where she escaped and was waiting for someone to come and rescue her.
07:12Finally accepting what had happened to her, Oswin still decides to help the Doctor,
07:17by wiping all memories from the Daleks regarding the Doctor and helping him and his companions find
07:22their way back to the TARDIS. 4. Rose Tyler is the Bad Wolf
07:27During Series 1, the same two words seem to be following the Knight's Doctor and Rose throughout
07:33time and space. Bad Wolf. Even the Doctor mentions in Boomtown that those two words have been constant
07:41throughout their time together. And although the phrase had no meaning to the Doctor, it still worried
07:46him as he found it strange that the same two words kept popping up everywhere they went.
07:50And it turns out that it was Rose sending a message to herself this whole time so that
07:56she could save the Doctor when the time was right. In the series finale, the Doctor and Rose were
08:01forced to face an army of Daleks, including the Emperor Dalek, a battle which overwhelmed the Doctor
08:07as he didn't want to become a killer like his enemies were. In a last ditch effort to save the
08:12Doctor,
08:12Rose looks into the TARDIS' time vortex and possesses the power of the Bad Wolf, allowing her to defeat
08:19the entire Dalek fleet, save Jack Harkness, and also create a paradox by interfering with her own
08:25past of placing the message everywhere she went. 3. Professor Yana is the Master
08:31The Master has always been a big part of the Doctor's life, constantly causing chaos whenever he can.
08:37So when the show came back in 2005, the showrunners introduced a lot of new monsters and aliens,
08:43because they wanted to keep it new and fresh. But Who fans always knew that the Doctor's frenemy
08:49just had to turn up at some point. The last Doctor Who fans saw of the Master,
08:54he had fallen into the Eye of Harmony and was trapped. Now we never knew how he got out,
08:59but many fans were happy that the Master was back to cause chaos and distraction in the Doctor's life.
09:05Utopia seemed to be a simple episode, showing the last of humanity on their way to the planet Utopia,
09:11in the hopes of living a better life. It's not until the kind old man Professor Yana reveals that
09:16he has a fob watch that's very similar to that which the Doctor used to turn himself human,
09:21that the penny starts to drop. When Yana recovers his memories from the watch,
09:26his true identity is revealed to be the Master. A reveal which not only shocked viewers watching,
09:32but the Doctor himself, as he believed he was the last of the Time Lords. And it's revealed that
09:38the Master has been amongst the Doctor all throughout Series 3, as he claims to be named
09:43Harold Saxon, the man who then became Prime Minister of Great Britain.
09:48Number 2. River Song revealed to be Amy and Rory's daughter.
09:53Since her introduction in Series 4's Silence in the Library, River Song has been a very important part
09:58of the Doctor's life. While it was heavily speculated, and then later revealed that she was
10:03indeed the Doctor's wife, the twist that nobody saw coming is that River Song is also the daughter
10:11of Amy and Rory. Now, the mystery of who River Song actually is, is probably one of the longest
10:17running mysteries in Doctor Who, with fans having to wait three years to find out her true identity.
10:24And if that wasn't enough, River is also turned into a weapon to be used against the Doctor,
10:29as it's then later revealed that she is the one inside the astronaut suit who killed the Doctor at
10:35the beginning of Series 6. That mind-blowing twist was felt around the world by fans, and many took to
10:41the internet to express their thoughts and feelings regarding the twist. Some were happy, some were confused,
10:47and some just found the reveal to be annoying. Because I think a lot of people liked the character
10:52as a standalone character, without having any relation to the companions, because it made the
10:57Hooniverse seem smaller than it actually is. Now, as you all know, I am a very big fan of River
11:03Song, and I
11:04will defend the character till my dying breath. But everyone is entitled to their own opinions, even if they're wrong.
11:13Number 1. Wilfred Mott knocks four times. This is the twist that shocked fans to the core.
11:22In the series' special Planet of the Dead, the 10th Doctor hears a prophecy that warns him he will die
11:29by a man who will knock four times, and many suspected that it was the Master who would be behind
11:34this,
11:34due to the four-beat drumming he constantly hears in his head. But I'll tell you what nobody expected,
11:40nobody expected Wilfred Mott to be the man behind the downfall of the 10th Doctor.
11:47In an exceptionally emotional scene, the Doctor briefly believes he escaped the prophecy, until he hears four
11:54knocks from a now-trapped Wilfred in a radioactive booth asking for the Doctor's help to set him free.
12:01I think what makes this twist so heartbreaking is that you can't really be angry or blame Wilfred for
12:08the death of the Doctor. You know, he just did what he thought was right by saving one of the
12:12workers,
12:13and innocently thinking that the Doctor would be able to get him out. I mean, he even begs the Doctor
12:18to leave him in there and save himself, but the Doctor being the Doctor, he can't do that and ultimately
12:23chooses to sacrifice himself to save Wilfred. And that concludes our list. If you think we missed something,
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12:45and in the words of Riversong herself, goodbye, sweeties.
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