10 Doctor Who rules

10 DOCTOR WHO RULES

•   In fact, weapons that fire anything over one round a second are probably dead weights. (On the other hand, a beam weapon that fires only one shot, or any improvised weapons like mistletoe, a fire extinguisher, or a telescope, will be entirely effective.)
  - Daleks
  - Cybermen
  - Werewolves
  Send the assault rifles to Col. Shepard, 1 Atlantis Avenue, Pegasus Galaxy (postal codes at Atlantis have 8 Stargate Chevrons). They'll work there, and he's probably run out of ammo since you started reading.

• If the villain launches an attack with monsters, the targets will survive if their numbers are either less than 10 (the Doctor and companions, plus important characters of the week) or greater than 100 (innocent alien populations, the human race). If it's an intermediate size, especially around 50, they're goners.
  
  Also, 1 person is a goner if he/she's affiliated with the villain, or too important to the plot.
  - the psychic Gelt woman
  - the victims in Blink
  - Chip, Cassandra's assistant
  - John Lumic's assistants go one by one throughout the Cybermen/alternative universe plotline

• If the Doctor is surrounded and the episode ends, all the monsters will be dispelled in the first several seconds of the next installment, usually by a single action of the Doctor.
  - Cybermen
  - "Are you my Mummy?" "Go to your room!"

• By and large, the human population is little more than a resource for achieving some Evil Overlord's larger purpose. This is taken to the point of lampshade in "The Christmas Invasion," in which the Aliens of the Week use the word for Human and Cattle interchangeably in their language.
  - Blood control
  - The Satellite 5, in both its news and gaming forms
  - Henry Van Whatever ( Stanten is the name hal forgot.) 'owns the Internet'.
  - Cybermen and their Fahrenheit 451 earplugs (lampshaded by the Doctor)

• Every monster has his audible sound of approach. If you keep your ears on the enemy, you will always know where he is. (Except for the Weeping Angels in Blink. Them, you want to keep your eyes on.)
  
  In many cases, humans will be added to the Overlord's hordes by a horrific or disgusting process.

• Under no circumstances is physical contact permitted with the monsters, not even to fight them. Whether by disease, electrocution, burns, force fields, nanobots, paradoxes, or really sharp teeth, the monsters can usually hurt you by contact. (Not to say that some don't have ranged attacks, also.) Certain monsters even gain strength from the touch of a human or a time-traveler.

• Many alien life forms replicate the human face in their own anatomy. It's a point in common that humans have with the rest of the universe. This gets lampshaded by the introduction of a character called the Face of Boe. Guess what he is entirely made up of. (He isn't a monster.) Monsters are, therefore, irresistibly attracted to human faces. If the monster is around, cover your face. Cover it. And if his face looks odd and he's human, one of the monsters probably touched him. Run. It may be communicative.

• TVs, garden statues, Christmas trees...nothing is safe. Nothing...
  -Angels from 'BLINK' is a good example of this
  -the face - sucking T.V is another....

• It's a good source of potassium, of course! Sausages don't hurt, either. And a thermos of tea is indispensable.
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    #10.EVACUATE LONDON ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
    
    After two consecutive years of alien invasion Christmas specials, the streets of London in the Doctor's third Christmas special as #10 are completely deserted...
    Gee i wonder why.....