Survival

The Cybermen accepted the Sontarans' offer of a truce for "mutually assured survival" in the face of the final Flux event. (TV: The Vanquishers)

Craig Owens observed to the Eleventh Doctor that he always won and that he always survived. The Doctor, aware of his apparent death at Lake Silencio, remarked "those were the days". (TV: Closing Time) Whilst discussing the fate of the Twelfth Doctor, Missy acknowledged that the Doctor always survived, with Clara Oswald believing it to "because he's clever" when asked. When Missy noted that there were "lots of clever dead people", Clara added that the Doctor survived because "he always assumes he's going to win. He always knows there's a way to survive." Through Missy, Clara realised that, when the Doctor assumed he would die, they would be there for him. (TV: The Witch's Familiar)

The Sixth Doctor took it for granted that Davros would survive, even when he was apparently killed when the spaceship he was on crashed, explaining to Lorraine Baynes that "people like him, and me, don't know any different." (AUDIO: Davros) The Eighth Doctor, upon hearing a Cyber-Leader maintain that "we will survive", quipped "yes, I've rather come to take that for granted." (AUDIO: Human Resources) Later, he claimed to the the Bruce Master that, even if he had not already met the Master's future incarnations, he would know that he had escaped his apparent destruction in the Eye of Harmony, "it's basically what you do." (AUDIO: Day of the Master)

The Tenth Doctor, upon finding Daleks in Manhattan in 1930, lamented that "they always survive, while I lose everything." (TV: Daleks in Manhattan) Indeed, Dalek Thay would observe that "we always survive" in contradiction to Dalek Sec's claim that for the Daleks would ultimately face the death and destruction that they had wrought. Ironically, both would die shortly after, Sec dying by Thay's hand when he stood to defend the Doctor, whilst Thay was destroyed in an attempt to exterminate the Dalek-humans. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks)