History Literature / EighthDoctorAdventures

* CloningBlues: Fitz's main story arc hinges on his being a clone of his original self, brought back by the TARDIS after Fitz 1.0 joins the Literature/FactionParadox and becomes a bad guy. [[labelnote:Okay, you want a full explanation?]]Fitz 1.0 was separated from the Doctor and joined Literature/FactionParadox, going on to become [[FaceHeelTurn Father Kreiner]]. Before this, Fitz put himself in a Remembrance Tank, which was a sort of cloning device that would remake a person after they died from the memories of the people who knew them. A few remembrances down the line, Kode was created. He met up with the Doctor, who eventually recognized Fitz in him. The TARDIS re-remembered Kode into Fitz (with a few upgrades and smoothed edges, similar to what the Doctor did to Sam) and it's this Fitz 2.0 that continues traveling with the Doctor. [[MindScrew Got all that?]][[/labelnote]]

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Fitz ends up [[ReplacementGoldfish replaced]] [[CloningBlues with a clone]]; the Doctor gets TraumaInducedAmnesia and spends about a hundred years WalkingTheEarth.

* AnythingThatMoves: Fitz ogles a surprisingly large range of things that move, including thirteen-year-old girls (he [[ImGoingToHellForThis cut it out]] in both cases after discovering their age), [[LikesOlderWomen women more than twenty years older than him]], [[HoYay the Doctor]]... He's shagged {{Human Alien}}s and a woman possibly [[TinyGuyHugeGirl a whole foot taller than him]], and has a TemporaryLoveInterest or GirlOfTheWeek in almost every book. And [[{{Fetish}} he apparently got off]] on being stripped and collared by [[TalkingAnimal space poodles]]. He's implied to be bi beyond his crush on the Doctor, too.

->''Break, damn you! Break! You've never had a spanner like this thrown in you! Chew on me till your teeth crack. Grind me up till your gears lock. I'm the nail in your tyre, the potato jammed in your exhaust pipe, the treacle poured in your petrol tank. I'm the banana peel beneath your foot, the joker that ruins your straight flush, the coin that always comes up heads and the gun you didn't know was loaded. I am the '''Doctor'''!''
-->-- '''The Eighth Doctor''', ''Camera Obscura''

The tone of the novels is a bit DarkerAndEdgier and more mature than the television series (usually not as "edgy" as the New Adventures, but arguably "deeper"). NoHuggingNoKissing is averted, [[BloodierAndGorier people get hurt]], [[BlackAndGreyMorality the "right thing" is often not cut and dried]], [[HoYay the Doctor happily snogs his male companion just because he feels like it]], and [[HotterAndSexier there's a quite a bit of sex]], albeit not explicit.

[[Characters/EighthDoctorAdventures Has a character page.]] Please keep most of the character-specific tropes there.

* PopCulturedBadass: Almost everyone. Fitz has been known to reference Creator/HPLovecraft, Film/JamesBond, ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', and ''Franchise/StarTrek'', and he's very into music, particularly from TheFifties and TheSixties. He also has a CutSong (yes, you didn't think that happened in books) that just listed a bunch of SpoilingShoutOut moments, designed to [[TakeThatAudience irritate people who skipped to the end of the last book]]. The Doctor apparently likes ''ComicBook/XMen'' and ''{{Transformers}}'', not to mention a scene where he [[WaxingLyrical starts quoting "All Along the Watchtower"]]. Anji makes some odd reference in almost every book, and seems to have given up on caring whether some FishOutOfTemporalWater gets it. And even Sabbath makes a [[NotSoAboveItAll rather hilarious]] reference to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' in ''The Infinity Race''.

Running from 1997 to 2005, a series of 74 novels revolving around the exploits of the Eighth Doctor and his companions were published. These books, commonly referred to as the [=EDAs=], were notable for fleshing out the character of the Eighth Doctor after his short run in the television movie, for having a very compelling cast of characters, and for having several interconnected [[StoryArc Story Arcs]].

The tone of the novels is a bit DarkerAndEdgier and more mature than the television series (usually not as "edgy" as the New Adventures, but arguably "deeper"). NoHuggingNoKissing is averted, [[BloodierAndGorier people get hurt,]] [[BlackAndGreyMorality the "right thing" is often not cut and dried]], [[HoYay the Doctor happily snogs his male companion just because he feels like it]], and [[HotterAndSexier there's a quite a bit of sex]], albeit not explicit.

After the Seventh Doctor's part in the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures came to an end in 1997, BBC Books picked up the licence to produce new ''Series/DoctorWho'' literature from Virgin Publishing. Realising Virgin had the right idea, BBC decided to have an honest crack at it, moving on from [[TheChessmaster wiley ol' McCoy]] onto the [[TheNthDoctor newly regenerated]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Paul McGann]].

Running from 1997 to 2005, a series of 74 novels revolving around the exploits of the Eighth Doctor and his companions were published. These books, commonly referred to as the [=EDAs=], were notable for fleshing out the character of the Eighth Doctor after his short run in the television movie, for having a very compelling cast of characters, for having several interconnected [[StoryArc Story Arcs]], and for having been [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs seemingly written on drugs]].

** In ''Sometime Never'', [[spoiler:one of the Council of Eight, a group of antagonistic beings who resemble the eight Doctors, absorbs the Doctor's personality and flees in a timeship with the Doctor's granddaughter Zezanne. If you take the view (popular at the time but contradicted later) that Gallifrey is Ret Gone, this provides an alternate origin for the First Doctor and Susan]].

* TheChick: Notable because in most team set-ups, this role falls upon [[GenderFlip Fitz]] and ''not'' the female companions.