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00:00 Doctor Who has never shied away from shocking cliffhangers and plot twists.
00:04 Ever since its return in 2005, the show has been keeping fans on the edge of their seats
00:10 with unforeseen reveals and shocking and sometimes controversial cliffhangers and plot twists.
00:16 For a show as complex and exciting as Doctor Who, complete with space and time travel,
00:23 it's not really any surprise that this sci-fi series has mastered the craft of creating
00:28 twists to maintain intrigue and generate buzz.
00:32 So with that in mind then, I'm Ellie with Who Culture, here with the 10 biggest new
00:37 Who plot twists nobody saw coming.
00:40 Number 10, the 11th Doctor is killed.
00:43 The sixth season of Doctor Who started off with a bang, quite literally.
00:48 In the first 10 minutes of the episode, we see the 11th Doctor killed by a mysterious
00:53 astronaut figure that has risen from Lake Silencio, Utah.
00:57 Now, it's fair to say that fans were left quite shocked and confused by this, because
01:03 there's no way the Doctor can actually die, right?
01:07 And it's not until a few minutes later that the episode gives us another big twist,
01:11 that the Doctor is back, except it's a younger version of himself who has no idea who,
01:15 what or why he was sent an invitation to Utah.
01:18 River, Amy and Rory spend the remainder of the season keeping his death a secret,
01:22 as they were afraid of what he might do if he found out, since it's been said to be
01:27 a fixed point in time.
01:28 Now, this twist coming at the beginning of the season meant that fans were left on the
01:32 edge of their seats for the remainder of the season, wondering how in the hell the Doctor
01:37 was going to cheat death.
01:39 Number 9, the War Doctor.
01:42 Now, Doctor Who's 50th anniversary was fast approaching, and there was so much speculation
01:47 as to who would be returning and who wouldn't be returning.
01:51 But I don't think anyone expected them to throw a new Doctor into the mix.
01:56 When the show came back in 2005, it shocked many fans that the Doctor's home planet
02:02 Gallifrey was gone due to the Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks.
02:06 And it was an even greater shock when we found out that the Doctor was the one who killed
02:10 all the Time Lords, and he is the only one left.
02:13 Now, we all assumed it was the 8th Doctor who fought in the Time War, as when we are
02:17 introduced to Christopher Eccleston's 9th Doctor, he's shown to be seeing his face
02:21 for the first time, hinting that he was wounded in the war.
02:25 No one expected there to be another Doctor in between these two.
02:29 But we were all proved wrong in the closing moments of the season 7 finale, The Name of
02:34 the Doctor, when we were introduced to John Hurt as the War Doctor.
02:39 Number 8, What's Inside the Sphere?
02:41 Series 2's brilliant two-part finale left fans in a sea of emotions, as no one expected
02:49 two of the Doctor's greatest foes to go head to head in one epic battle.
02:55 Now, before the episode aired, fans knew that the Cybermen were going to be returning, but
03:00 the return of the Daleks was kept a secret right up until the reveal at the end of Army
03:07 of Ghosts.
03:08 As the Cybermen commenced their takeover of the world, there was an increased interest
03:12 in what the Sphere was that came through with the Cybermen.
03:16 Scientists at Torchwood Institute couldn't understand how there were no readings coming
03:20 off of it as it was existing, but all the signs pointed that it shouldn't.
03:25 The Doctor questions the Cybermen about the Sphere, which is when the Cybermen admit they
03:29 don't know anything about the object, but merely followed it through the void to travel
03:33 into an alternate universe.
03:35 The twist came when the Sphere decided to open, with four Daleks flying out immediately
03:41 ready to kill anything that got in their way.
03:44 Number 7, Amy Pond is a Ganga
03:47 Now, Series 6 is full of twists and turns around every single corner, and if you didn't
03:53 know already, it's my favourite series.
03:56 So, aside from the Doctor being killed at the beginning of the series, and that other
04:00 big bombshell that's dropped in the middle of the series, but we'll get to that one
04:04 later, another shocking and quite important revelation is that Amy has been a flesh duplicate
04:11 the entire time she's been travelling with the Doctor and Rory throughout the beginning
04:15 half of the series.
04:17 In reality, Amy was taken to Demon's Run by Madame Kavarian, in order for Kavarian
04:23 to watch over the pregnant Pond and eventually take the child as her own, with the plan of
04:28 this offspring later killing the Doctor.
04:30 Now, the scene of seeing Amy waking up to find herself heavily pregnant and about to
04:34 give birth was truly chilling.
04:37 But this twist did answer a lot of questions that had emerged during the first half of
04:42 the series, such as why Amy kept seeing the mysterious woman through the hatch, and why
04:48 she told the Doctor she was pregnant and then said she wasn't and kind of backtracked a
04:52 little bit, and more importantly, why the TARDIS scanner couldn't determine whether
04:57 she was or was not pregnant.
04:59 Number 6, Captain Jack Harkness is the face of Bo.
05:03 The face of Bo, they called me.
05:04 That one line changed everything fans had seen in Series 1, 2 and 3.
05:10 So technically then, we meet Jack Harkness twice in Series 1.
05:14 The face of Bo was first introduced in The End of the World, and Captain Jack Harkness
05:18 was introduced in The Empty Child.
05:22 Originally the face of Bo had a small role, which gradually got somewhat bigger until
05:26 his death in Series 3's Gridlock, when he tells the Doctor his last four words, "You
05:32 are not alone".
05:33 Although the final words were seemingly forgotten by fans until the Professor Yana master reveal.
05:40 And many wondered how the face of Bo knew that the Doctor wasn't the last of his kind.
05:44 So the face of Bo has mentioned that he's lived a long time, and I think at the time,
05:49 lots of fans just assumed that he'd heard it through the grapevine that there was another
05:53 Time Lord knocking about.
05:54 It's not until Captain Jack Harkness innocently states that he was named the face of Bo in
06:00 the Bo-Shame Peninsula where he grew up, and then it all seemed to make sense how the face
06:05 of Bo knew so much about the Doctor and the secret of Professor Yana, because Jack had
06:12 been through all that with the Doctor, so he actually witnessed it first hand.
06:15 Number 5 - Clara Oswald is a Dalek
06:18 Clara Oswald was introduced to Doctor Who in a very unique way.
06:22 During Asylum of the Daleks, we see Oswin Oswald living day-to-day life whilst trapped
06:28 on the Dalek Asylum after crash landing there three years prior.
06:32 She befriends and communicates with both the Doctor and Rory through the Asylum's communication
06:36 system, giving the Doctor instructions on how to slow down the Daleks, blow them up
06:41 if necessary, and where to go to find her.
06:44 But throughout the episode, the Doctor does seem to keep questioning how she's managed
06:48 to survive for so long, and also where she gets the milk from to make the numerous souffles
06:54 that she seems to make on a daily basis.
06:56 Things take a tragic turn when it's revealed that Oswin never escaped from the Daleks,
07:01 but was turned into one herself.
07:03 The Doctor explains how the truth was too much for her to handle, and that she created
07:07 a world inside her head where she escaped and was waiting for someone to come and rescue
07:12 her.
07:12 Finally accepting what had happened to her, Oswin still decides to help the Doctor, by
07:17 wiping all memories from the Daleks regarding the Doctor and helping him and his companions
07:22 find their way back to the TARDIS.
07:24 Number 4 - Rose Tyler is the Bad Wolf
07:27 During series 1, the same two words seem to be following the Night's Doctor and Rose
07:33 throughout time and space.
07:34 Bad.
07:36 Wolf.
07:36 Even the Doctor mentions in Boomtown that those two words have been constant throughout
07:41 their time together.
07:42 And although the phrase had no meaning to the Doctor, it still worried him as he found
07:47 it strange that the same two words kept popping up everywhere they went.
07:50 And it turns out that it was Rose sending a message to herself this whole time so that
07:56 she could save the Doctor when the time was right.
07:58 In the series finale, the Doctor and Rose were forced to face an army of Daleks, including
08:03 the Emperor Dalek, a battle which overwhelmed the Doctor as he didn't want to become a
08:08 killer like his enemies were.
08:10 In a last ditch effort to save the Doctor, Rose looks into the TARDIS's time vortex
08:15 and possesses the power of the Bad Wolf, allowing her to defeat the entire Dalek fleet,
08:21 save Jack Harkness, and also create a paradox by interfering with her own past of placing
08:26 the message everywhere she went.
08:28 Number 3.
08:28 Professor Yana is the Master.
08:31 The Master has always been a big part of the Doctor's life, constantly causing chaos
08:36 whenever he can.
08:37 So when the show came back in 2005, the showrunners introduced a lot of new monsters and aliens
08:43 because they wanted to keep it new and fresh.
08:46 But, Who fans always knew that the Doctor's frenemy just had to turn up at some point.
08:52 The last Doctor Who fan saw of the Master, he had fallen into the Eye of Harmony and
08:57 was trapped.
08:58 We never knew how he got out, but many fans were happy that the Master was back to cause
09:02 chaos and distraction in the Doctor's life.
09:05 Utopia seemed to be a simple episode showing the last of humanity on their way to the planet
09:10 Utopia in the hopes of living a better life.
09:13 It's not until the kind old man Professor Yana reveals that he has a fob watch that's
09:17 very similar to that which the Doctor used to turn himself human that the penny starts
09:23 to drop.
09:23 When Yana recovers his memories from the watch, his true identity is revealed to be the Master.
09:29 A reveal which not only shocked viewers watching, but the Doctor himself as he believed he was
09:35 the last of the Time Lords.
09:37 And it's revealed that the Master has been amongst the Doctor all throughout series
09:41 three as he claims to be named Harold Saxon, the man who then became Prime Minister of
09:47 Great Britain.
09:48 Number 2, River Song revealed to be Amy and Rory's daughter.
09:53 Since her introduction in series four's "Silence in the Library", River Song has
09:57 been a very important part of the Doctor's life.
10:00 While it was heavily speculated and then later revealed that she was indeed the Doctor's
10:05 wife, the twist that nobody saw coming is that River Song is also the daughter of Amy
10:12 and Rory.
10:13 Now the mystery of who River Song actually is, is probably one of the longest running
10:17 mysteries in Doctor Who, with fans having to wait three years to find out her true identity.
10:24 And if that wasn't enough, River is also turned into a weapon to be used against the
10:29 Doctor, as it's then later revealed that she is the one inside the astronaut suit who
10:33 killed the Doctor at the beginning of series six.
10:36 That mind-blowing twist was felt around the world by fans, and many took to the internet
10:41 to express their thoughts and feelings regarding the twist.
10:44 Some were happy, some were confused, and some just found the reveal to be annoying.
10:49 Because I think a lot of people liked the character as a standalone character without
10:53 having any relation to the companions, because it made the Whoniverse seem smaller than it
10:58 actually is.
10:59 Now, as you all know, I am a very big fan of River Song, and I will defend the character
11:05 till my dying breath.
11:07 But everyone is entitled to their own opinions, even if they're wrong.
11:13 Number one, Wilfred Mott knocks four times.
11:17 This is the twist that shocked fans to the core.
11:22 In the series special Planet of the Dead, the Tenth Doctor hears a prophecy that warns
11:28 him he will die by a man who will knock four times, and many suspected that it was the
11:33 Master who would be behind this due to the four-beat drumming he constantly hears in
11:37 his head.
11:38 But I'll tell you what nobody expected.
11:40 Nobody expected Wilfred Mott to be the man behind the downfall of the Tenth Doctor.
11:47 In an exceptionally emotional scene, the Doctor briefly believes he escaped the prophecy,
11:52 until he hears four knocks from a now-trapped Wilfred in a radioactive booth asking for
11:59 the Doctor's help to set him free.
12:01 I think what makes this twist so heartbreaking is that you can't really be angry or blame
12:07 Wilfred for the death of the Doctor.
12:09 You know, he just did what he thought was right by saving one of the workers and innocently
12:14 thinking that the Doctor would be able to get him out.
12:16 I mean, he even begs the Doctor to leave him in there and save himself, but the Doctor
12:21 being the Doctor, he can't do that and ultimately chooses to sacrifice himself to
12:25 save Wilfred.
12:26 And that concludes our list.
12:28 If you think we missed something, then do let us know in the comments below.
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12:44 I've been Ellie with WhoCulture, and in the words of River Song herself, goodbye,
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