History WMG / EighthDoctorAdventures

Well, maybe. This may be the reason Lawrence Miles [[CreatorBacklash got kind of mad]] about his VillainDecay into a more overtly villainous but overall less threatening character. See, he's this antiauthoritarian sort of guy, who in the 18th century shaves off his hair because he just does not have the time for hair, and takes a [[CuteMute mute]] [[BadassNative native girl]] to social functions because [[ItAmusedMe it amuses him]]. He only deals with social conventions if it suits him to do so. It's not that he has NoSocialSkills, but he sometimes acts like it because at the time, social skills are not what's useful. His personality makes complete 180s depending on the situation: he acts WickedCultured or like a BoisterousBruiser, or just a completely different person, all for the sake of being a ManipulativeBastard. Because of this, he's very charismatic. (His [[BadassBaritone commanding voice]] helps, too.) His relationship with the Doctor is rather volatile just based on [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou whether]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness or not]] the Doctor is useful to him alive or dead. Even his {{Morality Pet}}s are primarily kept around because [[LittleMissBadass they can kick your ass]]. And he's prone to thinking MurderIsTheBestSolution. So, he's pretty much TheSpock, but, interestingly, unlike the typical Spock, isn't from a culture where massively prioritizing logic is normal; he just got this way on his own.

Another thing: the basic point of his character was originally to replace the Doctor, and when he first appeared the Doctor was TheLastOfHisKind and a [[IllGirl dying]] [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnesiac]], suggesting some sort of allegorical GodIsDead... [[BuffySpeak thing]]. And, in accordance with Nietszche's statement that not only is God dead, but "we have killed him", Sabbath is ''supposed'' to be killing the Doctor, although for [[NiceJobFixingItVillain a]] [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou few]] [[InLoveWithTheMark reasons]], he keeps saving his life instead (which he decides to rub the Doctor's nose in). The only problem is that his whole quest is kind of other people's ideas, even though he seems quite personally invested in it. Is he a subversion of the [[{{Ubermensch}} Übermensch]]... or is he just using his bosses, too? It's unclear. Also, he [[NiceJobBreakingItHero keeps screwing up]], which isn't terribly [[{{Ubermensch}} Übermensch]]like, but oh, well.

He's [[HeterosexualLifePartners obviously]] [[HoYay married]] to the Doctor, and maybe you can be a Time Lord by marriage or just by spending too much time around one. Alternately, see the first WMG. Perhaps the TARDIS thought that the ideal companion for the Doctor would be another Time Lord, who would never die and therefore would never have to leave him. Also, he somehow manages to figure out when it's his birthday, even though everyone else who travels in the TARDIS, at least everyone else who's human, completely loses track of time. And he's on the right track for getting the [[InexplicablyAwesome whole Doctorish thing]] down well enough, which is generally used in Wiki/ThisVeryWiki as a criteria for Time Lord-ness.