Quote Originally Posted by comicshorse View Post
The Doctor prefers to sort things out with minimum damage (and to let people fix their own problems with a little help if he can) the Daleks and the C.I.A. (Celestial Intervention Agency) not so much
Plus the whole Time Lord-Dalek time war which almost destroyed the universe.

I'm going to throw in an odd one - The Long Earth series (Terry Pratchett and Steven Baxter). There's really not much you can do if your opponents can just step into the reality next door to dodge around your weapons or defences, although they're limited to non-iron items when they do so.