History ComicBook / DoctorWhoFourDoctors

** Another timeline is shown where [[spoiler:the Tenth Doctor has become a dictator, "the Time Lord Victorious".]]

** In a variation, Clara learns in Twelve's alternate timeline that she [[spoiler: will betray him at some point in the ''normal'' one. She does not actually meet her future self, but she ''does'' see what her betrayal will do to the ultimately evil alternate Doctor]], and is understandably distressed by this.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: In Part 5, [[spoiler: the Doctors and companions convince the evil alternate Twelve to give up his existence in a way that saves both the original timeline ''and'' the Voord]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Issue 5 was published shortly after Series 9 launched on TV (it was supposed to hit the stands ''before'' "The Magician's Apprentice" aired, in fact). Twelve and Clara's conversation in the denouement of this miniseries has him tell her he would never [[spoiler: mind wipe her]]. This turned out to tragically foreshadow [[spoiler: the Doctor attempting to wipe all her memories of him, and ultimately losing his memories of her instead, in the finale "Hell Bent"]].

The Tenth Doctor and Gabby, the Eleventh Doctor and Alice, and the Twelfth Doctor and Clara have all arrived in early-twenty-first-century Paris, in what appears to be a coincidence. But when Clara mysteriously gathers all the companions together to ensure that the three Doctors must never meet, fate seems determined to foil her hopes.

* BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind: 12 fights [[spoiler:his alternate self by entering the Voord Group Mind. To assist help he pulls the other Doctors and his companions in.]]
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: [[spoiler: The mentioned alternates. Ten assumes the Time Lord Victorious persona, Eleven willfully ignores the collapsing timeline, and Twelve becomes the BigBad.]]

* ExactWords: Although the War Doctor only appears in Part One, it was promised there would still be a fourth Doctor in the action, as per the story title of "Four Doctors". [[spoiler:Evil version of the Twelfth Doctor, anyone? Also, Nine gets a cameo at the end, so the story ends up including all four numbered Doctors of the revival series in one way or another]].

* YouCantFightFate: Clara attempts to prevent the meeting of Doctors from happening by telling Alice and Gabby to convince their Doctors to leave Paris before they can meet. She didn't count on Twelve learning her plan, meeting Ten and Eleven outside, and them all barging in on their meeting!

** Ten: [[spoiler:[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime Refused to save Wilfred]] and became an mad tyrant over time and space.]]
** Eleven: [[spoiler:[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong Let River save his life]] and married her.]]
** Twelve: [[spoiler:After [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater Clara's attempted betrayal]], became a recluse and refused to allow anyone to come close to him again, eventually becoming the leader of the Voord. Serves as the story's BigBad.]]

* CallForward: Events from "The End of Time", "The Wedding of River Song" and "Dark Water" are referenced in the alternate timelines. None of the main three Doctors have experienced them yet.

** [[spoiler:The War Doctor's appearance is only a brief cameo, despite fan assumptions. The actual main "Fourth Doctor" of the comic is the BigBad, an evil future Twelfth Doctor.]]
** [[spoiler:The Ninth Doctor and Rose, in the final issue, happily having a drink together while the other three Doctors look on.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Eleven's comics.]]
* ClockRoaches: [[spoiler:10 and 12 touching summons the Reapers.]]

* ExactWords: Although the War Doctor only appears in Issue One, it was promised there would still be a fourth Doctor in the action, as per the story title of "Four Doctors". [[spoiler:Evil version of the Twelfth Doctor, anyone? Also, Nine gets a cameo at the end, so the story ends up including all four numbered Doctors of the revival series in one way or another]].
* FutureMeScaresMe: Ten doesn't know where the Twelve can fit in, given he thinks he only has one life left at the time.

* HiveMind: The Voord, [[spoiler:and the alternate 12th Doctor.]]

* LonersAreFreaks: The BigBad is [[spoiler: what would happen if the Twelfth Doctor went without a companion for too long]].

* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: 10 and 12 touching causes the Blinovitch Limitation Effect, [[spoiler:allowing the Reapers to attack]].

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: In Issue 5, [[spoiler: the Doctors and companions convince Alternate Universe Twelve to give up his existence in a way that saves both the original timeline ''and'' the Voord]].

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Issue 5 has [[spoiler: Gabby sent into the past by a Weeping Angel]], allowing [[spoiler: her to warn the companions about what will happen at and after the Doctors' cafe meeting]]...

* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:Gabby is sent back in time by a Weeping Angel hidden in a package, enabling her to give the companions advice which they relay to the Doctors. After they've defeated the alternate 12, 11 finds the right Weeping Angel and leaves the package for Gabby. Rather oddly, due to this the timeline where Gabby is sent back doesn't occur.]]
* TimeyWimeyBall: Very much so, with a lot of shifting between alternate timelines, [[spoiler:and Gabby being able to change history due to something that was done in the timeline she creates via this.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Cornell sets himself the task of reintroducing one of the TV show's most notoriously underwhelming villain cultures, and making them actually threatening.
* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:As a result of preventing the alternate 12 from coming into being, the Doctors and companions forget this, though 12 and Clara still retain some memories.]]
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: We never learn what Clara did to betray the Doctor - it is ''not'' confirmed that this had anything to do with the TARDIS keys incident in "Dark Water" - nor do we ever learn what happened to Clara in this alternate timeline.]]
* YouCantFightFate: Clara attempts to prevent the meeting of Doctors from happening by telling Alice and Gabby to convince their Doctors to leave Paris before they can meet. She didn't count on Twelve learning her plan, meeting Ten and Eleven outside, and them all barging in on their meeting though.

* EvilMeScaresMe: In another timeline, [[spoiler: the Twelfth Doctor became the leader of the Voord]].
** [[spoiler:Another timeline is shown where the Tenth Doctor has become a dictator, "the Time Lord Victorious".]]

* YouCantFightFate: Clara attempts to prevent the meeting of Doctors from happening by telling Alice and Gabby to convince their Doctors to leave Paris before they can meet. She didn't count on Twelve learning her plan, meeting Ten and Eleven outside, and them all barging in on their meeting though.

* TheCameo: [[spoiler:The Ninth Doctor and Rose, in the final issue, happily having a drink together while the other three Doctors look on.]]

** Twelve: [[spoiler:After [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater Clara's attempted betrayal]], became a recluse and refused to allow anyone to come close to him again. He eventually became the leader of the Voord. Serves as the story's BigBad.]]

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Issue 5 has [[spoiler: Alice sent into the past by a Weeping Angel]], allowing [[spoiler: her to warn the companions about what will happen at and after the Doctors' cafe meeting]]...

* EvilMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:In another timeline, the Twelfth Doctor became the leader of the Voord.]]
* ExactWords: Although the War Doctor only appears in part one, it was promised there would still be a fourth Doctor in the action, as per the story title of "Four Doctors". [[spoiler:Evil version of the Twelfth Doctor, anyone? Also, Nine gets a cameo at the end, so the story ends up including all four numbered Doctors of the revival series in one way or another]].

* SetWrongWhatOnceWentRight: The BigBad, [[spoiler: an alternate universe Twelfth Doctor who has realized his timeline isn't meant to be]], has a plan to [[spoiler: make his timeline the actual one by altering the events of "Dark Water"]].

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: In Issue 5, [[spoiler: Alternate Universe Twelve is convinced to sacrifice his existence in a way that saves not only the original timeline, but also the Voord (whom befriended him in his grief over what happened with Clara in his timeline)]].

* ExactWords: Although the War Doctor only appears in part one, it was promised there would still be a fourth Doctor in the action, as per the story title of "Four Doctors". [[spoiler:Evil version of the Twelfth Doctor, anyone?.]]

* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler:Apparently, no matter the timeline, no matter the circumstances, the Ninth Doctor, unlike the Doctors that followed, can only ever be himself. Or, as 10 puts it, he can only ever be ''fantastic''.]]
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: 10 and 12 touching causes the Blinovitch Limitation Effect, [[spoiler:allowing the Reapers to attack.]]

* YouCantFightFate: Clara attempts to prevent the meeting of Doctors from happening by telling Alice and Gabby to convince their Doctors to leave Paris before they can meet. She didn't count on Twelve learning her plan, meeting Ten and Eleven outside, and them all barging in on their meeting though.

* OnlySaneMan: Eleven tries to break up the fighting between Ten and Twelve.