History Characters / DrWhoFilms

* MerlinSickness: The ''Doctor Who?'' parody comic mentioned above says she's actually The Doctor Who's great grandmother who got younger with each regeneration.

* ActorAllusion: The ''Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture'' short story has Susan threaten a yeti with a hammer and WoodenStake from on of her grandfather's last acting jobs. A reference to Cushing playing Van Helsing in various ''Film/HammerHorror Franchise/{{Dracula}}'' films.

** [[https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Who%3F_(DWM_106_comic_story)?file=Doctor_Who_DWM_106.jpg Issue 42]] of the ''Doctor Who?'' parody comic in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' implies he is a Time Lord.

* YouLookFamiliar: Played by Bernard Cribbins, who reappeared many years later on ''Doctor Who'' as Wilfred Mott, who even ended up encountering the Daleks.

* NiceHat: Wears a rather fetching hat.

* AdaptationNameChange: The TV version isn't actually called Doctor Who.

* {{Expy}}: Of movie-Ian, being more of a comic-relief klutz.

* YouLookFamiliar: Played by Bernard Cribbins, who reappeared many years later on ''Doctor Who'' as Wilfred Mott.

* BadassMoustache: The only Doctor with facial hair.

* FourthWallObserver: The ''Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture'' shirt story starts with her working out how much money she's owed for starring in the previous two movies.

* AmnesiacHero: Attempts to make Dr Who the same character as the Doctor from the TV series will usually say that one lost their memory and became the other. ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHumanNature Human Nature]]'' has John Smith going through the Seventh Doctor's repressed memories, finding one where he was a human inventor who built the first [=TARDIS=], then educated a race of primitive HumanAliens who became Gallifreyans, as [[MultipleChoicePast one of a few implied origins]] for the Other who helped found Time Lord society and is implied to reincarnate into the Doctor in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresLungbarrow Lungbarrow]]''.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Despite being based off the [[Characters/DoctorWhoFirstDoctor First Doctor]], he has much more in common with the [[Characters/DoctorWhoSecondDoctor Second Doctor]] personality-wise. He's certainly not the sinister, untrustworthy and occasionally arrogant Creator/WilliamHartnell version from the original serials.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Is a human now instead of a Time Lord though The Doctor hadn't yet been established as an alien in the TV show and was implied to be a future human.
** [[https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Who%3F_(DWM_106_comic_story)?file=Doctor_Who_DWM_106.jpg Issue 42]] of the ''Doctor Who?'' parody comic in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' implies him to be a Time Lord.
* AmnesiacHero: Attempts to make Doctor Who the same character as The Doctor from the TV series will usually say that one lost their memory and became the other;
** Peter Cushing believed he was a future regeneration of The Doctor after having his memory erased and being made to relive old adventures by the Celestial Toymaker.
** In the ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHumanNature Human Nature]]'' novel has John Smith going throught the Seventh Doctor's repressed memories where he was a human scientist who built the first [=TARDIS=] then a educating a race of primitive HumanAliens. This seems to be hinting that he's The Other who helped found Time Lord society and is implied to reincarnate into The Doctor in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresLungbarrow Lungbarrow]]''.

** In the ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHumanNature Human Nature]]'' novel has John Smith going throught the Seventh Doctor's repressed memories where he was a human scientist who built the first [=TARDIS=] then a educating a race of primitive HumanAliens. This seems to be hinting that he's The Other who helped found Time Lord society and is implied to reincarnate into The Doctor in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresLungbarrow Lung arrow]]''.

* DitzyGenius: At the very beginning he comes off as this, as he's first seen reading a comic book (while his granddaughters are reading heady tomes on science), misplaces critical components to ''[=TARDIS=]'' where they can be sat upon, and later concocts a blatant lie about the ship being damaged to prompt a curiosity-satisfying expedition to the Dalek city -- and actually takes the ''perfectly functioning component in question'' with him to be stolen by the Daleks... not to mention the component apparently contains or at least is a conduit for mercury, and he handles it in his pocket and with his bare hands. Yes, this Doctor thinks on a different wavelength, and he doesn't have the excuse of being a Gallefreyan Time Lord to fall back on.

* RageAgainstTheAuthor: The ''Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture'' short story ends with Susan turning her hammer and stake towards the scriptwriter with large blots of blood staining the rest of the page are the only evidence of what happened next.

* AmnesiacHero: Attempts to make Doctor Who the same character as The Doctor from the TV series will usually say that one lost their me let and became the other;

* AmnesiacHero: Peter Cushing believes he's a future regeneration of The Doctor from the [=TV=] show after having his memory erased and being made to relive old adventures by the Celestial Toymaker.

* AdaptationRelationshipChange: [[https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Who%3F_(DWM_106_comic_story)?file=Doctor_Who_DWM_106.jpg Issue 42]] of the ''Doctor Who?'' parody comic in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' implies she's Doctor Who's great grandmother regenerated into a child.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Is a human now instead of a Time Lord.

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* PluckyGirl: Much more likely to get stuck in to the adventure. Also seems to be more emotionally resilient with what's thrown at her in the movie as compared to her TV counterpart (who, remember, is a good 6 to 10 or so [or[[BizarreAlienBiology possibly much, much more...]]] years her senior). In the original serial, Susan's encounter with the Thal leaves her nearly useless for a few scenes as she goes through a HeroicBSOD moment. The movie Susan? She seems more annoyed that a) nobody will believe that someone touched her shoulder and b) that Ian crushed her flower.

* PluckyGirl: Much more likely to get stuck in to the adventure. Also seems to be more emotionally resilient with what's thrown at her in the movie as compared to her TV counterpart (who, remember, is a good 6 to 10 or so or [[[BizarreAlienBiology possibly much, much more...]]] years her senior). In the original serial, Susan's encounter with the Thal leaves her nearly useless for a few scenes as she goes through a HeroicBSOD moment. The movie Susan? She seems more annoyed that a) nobody will believe that someone touched her shoulder and b) that Ian crushed her flower.

* PluckyGirl: Much more likely to get stuck in to the adventure