Boredom

Boredom, or ennui, (AUDIO: ) was an emotion.
The Doctor frequently claimed that he had left Gallifrey because he was bored. (TV: , , ) However, Davros believed that this was a lie. (TV: ) The Twelfth Doctor confessed it was a lie while inside his confession dial. (TV: ) The First and Fourth Doctors admitted that there several other "pressing reasons" at the time. (TV: , )
Whilst in a dream, created by the Dream Lord, of Upper Leadworth in 2022, the Eleventh Doctor asked Amy Pond and Rory Williams to "stave off the, you know...", to which Amy added "boredom" before the Doctor finished "self harm". Rory answered that they relaxed. (TV: )
Shortly before his death and regeneration into the Twelfth Doctor, the Doctor joked that as Daleks spoke very slowly, he would probably "die of boredom" before they finally shot him. (TV: )
Things the Doctor found boring included the planet Calufrax, (TV: ) studying Druidic lore, (TV: ) the Vulgar End of Time, (AUDIO: ) the two weeks he ran Taunton in the 18th century, (PROSE: ) sitting watching the cubes all day, (TV: ) Earth in 2105, (TV: ) queuing, golf and taking the bins out. (COMIC: )
Ace called Perivale "the boredom capital of the universe". (TV: )
Gilgamesh believed that danger staved off the boredom of life. He scoffed at Enkidu's claim that there were worse things in life than boredom. (PROSE: )
Morella Wendigo claimed to be bored of Tamsin Drew within seconds. (AUDIO: )
Jack Harkness thought that the Arcans were boring. (TV: )
Joanna Harris, a vampire, said that she had not been bored since the invention of the Internet. (PROSE: )
Das, a Neanderthal, did not understand why humans hated boredom. (PROSE: )
The New Earth Republic was so successful that boredom was the only problem. (PROSE: )
Bram and Gregor Van Baalen told their amnesiac brother Tricky he was an android as a joke to relieve their boredom. (TV: )
The Toymaker spent centuries wandering the Earth sampling its games (PROSE: ) and luring people back to the Toyroom because he was bored. (TV: , COMIC: )
Category:Emotions
Category:Psychology from the real world