A character in Doctor Who
In 16 of the 1,966 quotes from Doctor Who
Most scenes with: Seventh Doctor (6), Fifteenth Doctor (3), Sixth Doctor (3)
[An alert sounds.]
Quickly, Mel! Press the red button! Get the message on the screen.
[Mel presses the button, but nothing happens.]
Press it! Press it!
I am!
[The Doctor presses a different button and the message appears.]
You said red.
Did I? It must be the carrot juice making me colour blind!
In all my travelling throughout the universe, I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here. The oldest civilisation: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power-mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen - they're still in the nursery compared to us. Ten million years of absolute power. That's what it takes to be really corrupt.
Take it easy, Doc...
Doctor, these unseemly outbursts will not --
Unseemly outbursts?! If I hadn't visited Ravalox, as I then thought of it, the High Council would've kept this outrage buried, as presumably they have for several centuries!
I must agree. You have an endearing habit of blundering into these things, Doctor, and the High Council took full advantage of your blunder.
Explain that!
They made a deal with the Valeyard - or as I've always known him, the Doctor - to adjust the evidence, in return for which, he was promised the remainder of the Doctor's regenerations.
This is clearly --
Just a minute! Did you call him... the Doctor?!
There is some evil in all of us, Doctor – even you. The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation, and I may say you do not improve with age.
Madam, this revelation should halt this trial immediately. Surely even Gallifreyan Law must acknowledge that the same person cannot be both prosecutor and defendant!
The single purpose of this trial is to determine the defendant's guilt or otherwise on the basis of the evidence that has been presented. Anything else is, for the moment, irrelevant!
[utterly speechless] WHAT?!
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Never mind the Sydney Carton heroics. You're not finished yet.
[whispers] Go away, Mel.
That trial was an illusion. [the cart vanishes and the Doctor falls to the ground]
Time and tide melts the snowman.
Waits for no man!
Who's waiting? I'm ready.
You're going to take some getting used to.
I'll grow on you, Mel. I'll grow on you.
Are these old ladies annoying you?
No!
Are you annoying these old ladies?
No, she isn't.
Oh. [lowers his gun]
[Mel and Pex are in a lift which is going up past floor 157]
Well I suppose it is one way of seeing the Paradise Towers, just so long as nothing goes wrong with the lift.
[The lights begin to flicker]
What did you say?
Oh, it doesn't matter, really. It's just, it's just if the lift gets completely stuck between floors.
[Floor 174, 173, 174]
And the lights go out.
[Guess what]
Oh, I hate the dark.
[after Ace takes drinks to a woman and her daughter, she unpins her bun to release a pony tail]
Would the emergency services please report to the docking bay to deal with an icing up. Thank you.
It's all your fault.
How'd you work that out?
You were encouraging them. "Oh, ace! Oh, brill!"
You girl. [Ace looks behind her] Yes, you, girl. Come here.
What do you want?
This milkshake isn't adequately shaken.
That's how they come, missus.
It's got lumps in it.
It's supposed to have lumps in it. That's the ice cream.
But we don't want lumps. Shake it some more.
Shake it yourself.
[offended] I beg your pardon?
You heard.
I've never been so insulted...
Bet you've never had a milkshake tipped over your head, neither.
[Ace is as good as her word. the woman squeals as the milkshake is tipped onto her and Anderson the bar manager rushes to her]
I'm awfully sorry, Madam. [turns to Ace] That does it, you're fired!
I'm sorry. It won't happen again.
Get out! I've had enough of you!
I promise, it will never happen again!
Get out! You two, out!
Me?
Both of you, out!
All right, I'm going!
You're troublemakers! Hooligans! [turns back to the woman] I do apologise for my staff. I do assure you, those milk shakes don't stain.
[Ace's last act is to tip a milkshake over Anderson's head, too]
But we can't give him the treasure!
We've no choice! The creature's already dead... Ace is still alive.
Oh all right, you win.
I do? I usually do.
I'm going now.
Yes, that's right, you're going. You've been gone for ages. You're already gone. You're still here. You've just arrived. I haven't even met you yet. It all depends on who you are and how you look at it. Strange business, time.
[in a whisper] Ace doesn't have anywhere to go.
Nonsense, it's an idyllic place, Perivale! It's got lush green fields — a village blacksmith, um —
Doctor, she comes from the twentieth century!
[thinking of 20th century Perivale] Oh...
I'll send you a postcard!
But I don't have an address.
Oh, I'll put it in a bottle and throw it into space! It'll reach you... in time.
But who am I?!
There is the Toymaker, the god of games. There is Trickster, the god of traps. There is Maestro, the god of music. There is Reprobate, the god of spite.
[Susan falls to her knees, wailing, and Bailey tries to comfort her]
No, no, no! Get away from her! Don't touch her!
There is the Mara, the god of beasts, and the threefold deity of malice and mischief and misery.
Warning. Manifestation.
There are gods of skin and shame and secrets.
[A black cloud is forming around the TARDIS]
Doctor, she needs you!
There is Incensor, the god of disaster, and her children called Doubt and Dread. And standing on high is the mother and father and other of them all.
Whatever it is... here it comes.
For the god of all gods has returned. And his names are many. His name has been Set, and Seth, and Sithifer. And his one true name for evermore is... Sutekh!
...It was the wrong anagram.
[The cloud materializes into a snarling, jackal-like creature looming over the TARDIS]
Probable trap... 100%.
Mel, get away from her. Both of you, don't let her touch you!
Bailey, get back. Leave her alone.
You said you were a doctor! Why don't you try to help...?
[Susan's face snaps up at him, now red-eyed and skull-like]
Sutekh is the god of death, and by his hand, all creation shall fall into dust and ashes and ruin!
[Susan grabs Bailey's arm, and he immediately dissolves into sand; Sutekh laughs cruelly]
I bring Sutekh's gift of death... to all humanity.
I am Sutekh, the god of death. I am the night. I am the terror. I am the loss.
[approached by a robed, hooded figure] Mum?
And all life will perish at my hand! [laughs]
Did you think I was family, Doctor? I bring Sutekh's gift of death... for you, and for all in your tiny, vile, incessant universe!
[gripping the TARDIS] We meet again, my old friend.
Don't you dare...!
Doctor, what is that thing?
Sutekh. The Death of Ages. The Typhonian Beast. The greatest monster I have ever fought. [sees scenes from their previous encounter on his monitor] The time window has my memories too.
It's your life, Doctor. It's telling the story of your life.
A long time ago, in the England of 1911, Sutekh had been bound and imprisoned for all eternity, but he rose again, and I defeated him. I cast you into the Time Vortex, I sent you forward to your own death!
Instead, I found a home. I clung to your infernal machine, and for so many years, I hid. I have travelled with you for all this time, riding the spine of your ship, staring into eternity and evolving into my true godhood. Now I know every beat of the heart of your time machine, and I can bend it to my will. It will stand as my altar. The temple of my empire of death. Never yours again, Doctor, never. And I saw, inside the TARDIS, so many secrets. Her name.
Susan.
The perfect trap. I created an apparition of her universally. Every time we landed, on every single world, I birthed them all. My angels of death, now standing triumphant across the universe. Every living thing is an abomination. I am come to release them into blessed death - and I find that good.
Then I damn you, Sutekh! I damn you in the name of life itself! And I swear to you, with both the hearts of the last of the Time Lords, I will stop you! I will defeat you! And I will turn back death! And why... am I still alive? Killing me is your gift. And believe me, Sutekh, I'm an extinction event. So what is stopping you? Why is the god of death not killing me? What am I missing? I'll tell you a secret, Sutes. This feeling that you have now, this doubt... have you ever felt so alive? And doesn't it feel good?
(31 May 2025)
We meet again.
I thought you'd be dead. I thought "There's no way that painted doll of a princess could ever survive."
I never thought about you once.
Oh, you thought of me every night!
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