- Magnificent Bastard: His fans supposedly hate him for his evil plot twists, but yet think he's fantastic.
- Nightmare Fuel: The man has his own folder on the Doctor Who/Nightmare Fuel page.
- Paranoia Fuel: Among the things the Moff has managed to make terrifying: clocks, statues, darkness, cracks, birdsongs, memory gaps and cab drivers.
- Scapegoat Creator: Like all Who showrunners, there's a part of the fanbase that regards him as being responsible for the show Jumping the Shark and/or ruining it for everyone that came afterwards.
- Doctor/River shippers have quite a tango of a relationship with him. They hate him for killing off River and daring to have the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors flirt with other people after "marrying" River, citing it as proof that he's a hack who can't write anything. This is in spite of him not only writing all of River's televised appearances from 2008 and 2015 and every moment that the shippers love so much but creating River as a character.
- Unfortunate Implications: The Moff's jokes about non-heterosexual people do sometimes tend to lean in this direction. Some of it can be attributed to Values Dissonance but other examples are just in poor taste. Though to his credit, this has lessened over time.
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