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| 4 | [-'''Incarnations of [[Characters/DoctorWhoDoctors the Doctor]]'''\ |
| 5 | [[Characters/DoctorWhoFirstDoctor 1]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoSecondDoctor 2]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirdDoctor 3]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoFourthDoctor 4]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoFifthDoctor 5]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoSixthDoctor 6]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoSeventhDoctor 7]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoEighthDoctor 8]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoWarDoctor War]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoNinthDoctor 9]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor 10]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor 11]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor 12]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor 13]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoFourteenthandfifteenthDoctors 14 & 15]]\ |
| 6 | '''[[Characters/DoctorWhoTheTARDIS The TARDIS]]'''\ |
| 7 | '''[[Characters/DoctorWhoCompanionsAndSupportingCast Companions and Supporting Cast]]'''\ |
| 8 | [[Characters/DoctorWhoClassicSeriesCompanions Classic Series Companions]] ([[Characters/DoctorWhoK9 K9]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoRomana Romana]]) | [[Characters/DoctorWhoRevivalSeriesCompanions Revival Series Companions]] ([[Characters/DoctorWhoRoseTyler Rose Tyler]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoJackHarkness Captain Jack Harkness]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoThePonds The Ponds]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoRiverSong River Song]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoClaraOswald Clara Oswald]]) | '''Other Supporting Cast''' ([[Characters/DoctorWhoThePaternosterGang The Paternoster Gang]]) | [[Characters/DoctorWhoUNITStaff UNIT Staff]]\ |
| 9 | '''[[Characters/DoctorWhoVillains Villains]]'''\ |
| 10 | [[Characters/DoctorWhoImmortalsAndEldritchAbominations Immortals and Eldritch Abominations]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoMasters The Master]] ([[Characters/DoctorWhoJohnSimmsMaster John Simm's Master]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoMissy Missy]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverseMasters Expanded Universe Masters]])\ |
| 11 | '''[[Characters/DoctorWhoAliensAndMonsters Aliens and Monsters]]'''\ |
| 12 | [[Characters/DoctorWhoDaleks Daleks]] ([[Characters/DoctorWhoDavros Davros]]) | [[Characters/DoctorWhoCybermen Cybermen]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoRobots Robots]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoTheSilence The Silence]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoSilurians Silurians]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoSontarans Sontarans]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoTimeLords Time Lords]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoWeepingAngels Weeping Angels]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoSlitheen Slitheen]]-]]]]] |
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| 14 | Other prominent characters who make multiple appearances in the show or serve crucial roles in their stories of origin. This page includes some one-off and "could've been" companions. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | As with all ''Doctor Who'' characters, they appear not only in the televised ''Franchise/{{Whoniverse}}'', but also in the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] branches. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 19 | |
| 20 | !First Doctor era |
| 21 | [[folder:The Policeman]] |
| 22 | !!The Policeman (First Doctor) |
| 23 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4d231ef9_31ff_427d_831a_b17e3b4c75bc.gif]] |
| 24 | ->'''Played by:''' Reg Cranfield (1963); Fred Rawlings (1963 [[note]]unaired pilot version[[/note]]); Joseph Paxton (2013 [[note]]50th anniversary trailer[[/note]]) |
| 25 | |
| 26 | An ordinary police officer who patrols the area of London surrounding Totter's Lane. Notable for being the very first character seen onscreen in ''Doctor Who''. |
| 27 | ---- |
| 28 | * AdaptationExpansion: The Target novelisation gives him more characterisation (which isn't saying much), and in that version he actually notices the TARDIS disappearing, but dismisses it as a figment of his imagination. |
| 29 | ** Big Finish expanded his character even more in a ''Short Trips'' tale, giving him the name of Bernard Whittam and revealing that [[spoiler:he's not actially human, merely a conscious figment of the TARDIS's chameleon circuit that was spawned alongside the iconic police box exterior.]] |
| 30 | * BitCharacter: He's a random police officer who originally appeared onscreen for all of six seconds to inspect the Totter's Yard sign but he just so happens to be the character who introduces the ''Doctor Who'' universe. And yet for this one role, he's been portrayed by at least three actors. |
| 31 | * ItWillNeverCatchOn: [[invoked]] In the 1981 novelisation, upon seeing the TARDIS he muses about police boxes being phased out in favour of walkie-talkie radios for all officers, which he doesn't believe will catch on. |
| 32 | * MythologyGag: A modern police officer passes by Coal Hill School at the beginning of the 50th anniversary special, exactly replicating the opening shot from the very first episode. |
| 33 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Yep. Just 'The Policeman'. Insert gratuitous Time Lord fan theories here. [[spoiler:Ironically, if ''The Last Day at Work'' by Big Finish is to be believed, that may not be too far from the truth...]] |
| 34 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: As noted above, while he's a BitCharacter, he's also the very first character to appear in ''Doctor Who''. |
| 35 | * TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: A Big Finish audio story titled ''The Last Day at Works'' follows a policeman named Bernard Whittam, heavily implied to be the same copper from the first episode, who is revealed to actually be a construct of the TARDIS's chameleon circuit that gained a separate consciousness, including false memories. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yeah]]...]] |
| 36 | [[/folder]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Queen Elizabeth I]] |
| 39 | !!Queen Elizabeth I (First, War, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors) |
| 40 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/liz_i.jpg]] |
| 41 | ->'''Played by:''' Vivienne Bennett (1965), Angela Pleasence (2007) and Joanna Page (2013) |
| 42 | |
| 43 | One of the most recurring [[HistoricalDomainCharacter historical figures]] in ''Doctor Who''. Good Queen Bess had a cameo in the First Doctor story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase "The Chase"]] and later had an [[HaveWeMetYet out of sync]] marriage with the Tenth Doctor (long story). |
| 44 | ---- |
| 45 | * ActionGirl: She kills the Zygon impersonating her and takes its place. |
| 46 | -->'''Elizabeth:''' I am accustomed to taking precautions. |
| 47 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: She has a rather big crush on the Doctor, to the point of accepting his (fake) marriage proposal, but the Doctor doesn't seem to reciprocate. |
| 48 | * ArchEnemy: PlayedForLaughs. During the later years of her life she considers the Doctor to be her sworn enemy. Doesn't pay to jilt the Queen of England. |
| 49 | * AssassinOutclassin: The Zygon leader tries to kill her so it can replace her. Doesn't work out so well for it. |
| 50 | -->'''Elizabeth:''' I may have the body of a weak and frail woman, but, at the time, so did the Zygon! |
| 51 | * BavarianFireDrill: Pretends to be the shape-changing Zygon commander after killing him. The Zygons are so arrogant, they never considered that she could be the real Queen. |
| 52 | * BrickJoke: A rather impressive one; it took ''six years'' for us to understand fully why Elizabeth wanted the Doctor killed at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode "The Shakespeare Code"]]. |
| 53 | * TheCameo: A older Elizabeth appears on the Space-Time Visualiser in the First Doctor story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase "The Chase"]]. She's talking to William Shakespeare. |
| 54 | * HaveWeMetYet: The Tenth Doctor, during his travels with Martha, meets an older Elizabeth who is furious with him and demands his execution. It isn't before Ten begins travelling alone (shortly before the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]) that he finds out why: he married her (it's complicated) and he wasn't a particularly great husband. |
| 55 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Naturally. |
| 56 | * HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The real Queen Elizabeth I was rather ruthless (and ''extremely'' racist). This side of her nature is alluded to in [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], but otherwise uncommented on. |
| 57 | * InSeriesNickname: Her two historical nicknames are used, "Good Queen Bess" and "The Virgin Queen". One of those may no longer be accurate thanks to the Doctor. |
| 58 | * NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Joanna Page's natural Welsh accent can be a little bit jarring. |
| 59 | * TimeShiftedActor: Played by Angela Pleasence in her later years ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode "The Shakespeare Code"]]), and Joanna Page as a young woman ([[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]). |
| 60 | * WomanScorned: She's ''pissed'' when she finally meets the Doctor again. Never leave the Queen of England at the altar. |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | !Third Doctor era |
| 64 | [[folder:Olive Hawthorne]] |
| 65 | !!Olive Hawthorne (Third Doctor) |
| 66 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/olivehawthorne.png]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | ->'''Played by:''' Damaris Hayman (1971-2017) |
| 69 | |
| 70 | A white witch who guards Devil's End, the town that was attacked by the Daemons of Azal. Despite appearing in only one ''Doctor Who'' serial, the character of Olive continues to appear in various direct-to-video spin-off films set in Devil's End. |
| 71 | ---- |
| 72 | * ActionGirl: She saves Benton's life by pulling him free from a psionic field in the church crypt, and later knocks out a rampaging Morris dancer with the crystal ball stashed in her reticule. |
| 73 | * CassandraTruth: Her warnings about the danger looming over the archeological dig in Devil's End are ignored, though to be fair, she doesn't help her case by talking openly about her status as a witch and by generally acting quite hysterically about the whole thing. |
| 74 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: Going around telling people you're a witch isn't exactly a great way to make friends. |
| 75 | * TheLostLenore: She once fell in love with a real vampire named Victor, who sacrificed himself to protect her. She keeps his ashes in a silver urn. |
| 76 | * NoSell: She's totally unaffected by the Master's hypnotic gaze. |
| 77 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Her spin-off series shows her as the protector of Devil's End against all kinds of supernatural threats. |
| 78 | * WhiteMagic: Her abilities are mainly limited to psychic flim-flam, but she is the chosen guardian of Devil's End. |
| 79 | [[/folder]] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | [[folder:Aggedor]] |
| 82 | !!Aggedor (Third Doctor) |
| 83 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aggedor.jpg]] |
| 84 | ->'''Played by:''' Nick Hobb (1972-1974) |
| 85 | |
| 86 | A large, furry, boar-like creature native to planet Peladon, the Peladonians worship Aggedor as a patron deity and symbol of the royal family. |
| 87 | ---- |
| 88 | * AndroclesLion |
| 89 | * TheBigGuy: Hits anyone who needs to be hit. |
| 90 | * BruiserWithASoftCentre |
| 91 | * HeroicSacrifice: Performs one for Sarah Jane in his second appearance. |
| 92 | * UrsineAliens |
| 93 | [[/folder]] |
| 94 | |
| 95 | [[folder:Clifford Jones]] |
| 96 | !!Professor Clifford Jones (Third Doctor) |
| 97 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cliff.jpg]] |
| 98 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/StewartBevan (1973) |
| 99 | |
| 100 | ---- |
| 101 | %%* AbsentMindedProfessor |
| 102 | %%* ActualPacifist |
| 103 | %%* BadassBookworm |
| 104 | * CallBack: When Jo meets Clifford, she inadvertently ruins his experiment. Just like how she met the Doctor. |
| 105 | * DoppelgangerDating: Clifford is basically the Doctor, only younger and less asexual. His MeetCute with Jo (she wanders into his lab and gets yelled at for ruining an experiment) is even a reprise of her first meeting with the Doctor. |
| 106 | * {{Expy}}: Basically one for the Doctor (knowledgable, idealistic, pacifistic but often snarky, rude and condescending). |
| 107 | %%* NotThatKindOfDoctor |
| 108 | * PoorCommunicationKills: If only Professor Jones used an easier word than serendipity, Jo would have understood him and known that the fungus was the cure for the maggots' bite. |
| 109 | [[/folder]] |
| 110 | |
| 111 | [[folder:Bellal]] |
| 112 | !!Bellal (Third Doctor) |
| 113 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bellal.jpg]] |
| 114 | ->'''Played by:''' Arnold Yarrow |
| 115 | |
| 116 | ---- |
| 117 | * BioluminescenceIsCool: Both he and his fellow subterranean Exxilons have glowing white vertical streaks on their bodies. |
| 118 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Just like the other subterranean exxilons, Bellal does not share the beliefs of the Exxilons who try to sacrifice the Doctor and Sarah to the City that they worship. |
| 119 | [[/folder]] |
| 120 | |
| 121 | |
| 122 | !Fourth Doctor era |
| 123 | [[folder:Professor Marius]] |
| 124 | !!Professor Marius (Fourth Doctor) |
| 125 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/professor_marius.jpg]] |
| 126 | ->'''Played by:''' Frederick Jaeger (1977) |
| 127 | |
| 128 | The eccentric inventor who created K9, he lives with his faithful robot dog in the Bi-Al Foundation hospital, on an asteroid floating near Titan. He offers his tin pet to the Doctor after meeting him in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E2TheInvisibleEnemy "The Invisible Enemy"]]. |
| 129 | ---- |
| 130 | * AbsentMindedProfessor |
| 131 | * HerrDoktor |
| 132 | * PigLatin: Professor Marius gives K-9 the order to "kanayli" the infected. |
| 133 | * ScienceHero |
| 134 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: While he has a fairly large appearance in his one story, the fact that he created K9 gives him an importance all out of proportion to his time on screen. |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Duggan]] |
| 138 | !!Duggan (Fourth Doctor) |
| 139 | ->'''Played by:''' Tom Chadbon (1979) |
| 140 | |
| 141 | A hard-boiled French detective who accompanies the Doctor and Romana through their time-hopping Paris vacation. |
| 142 | ---- |
| 143 | * BreakoutCharacter: Not quite enough to secure any further appearances in the show, but Duggan regularly tops fan lists of most wanted companions that could've been. |
| 144 | * GenreRefugee: He is a character lifted straight out of a yellowback hard-boiled detective novel. |
| 145 | * TheQuietOne: He doesn't say much, preferring to let his fists do the talking. |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | !Fifth Doctor era |
| 149 | [[folder:Richard Mace]] |
| 150 | !!Richard Mace (Fifth Doctor) |
| 151 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2018_01_17_at_144018_9.png]] |
| 152 | ->'''Played by:''' Michael Robbins (1982) |
| 153 | |
| 154 | A former actor forced to become a highwayman after the plague stopped his trade, he encounters the Fifth Doctor, helps him defeat the Terileptils, and inadvertently starts the Great Fire of London. |
| 155 | |
| 156 | ---- |
| 157 | * CanonImmigrant: Sort of — Eric Saward had written the basically identical character of Richard Mace in three BBC radio dramas, but that Richard Mace was a Victorian actor-manager. (The obvious {{Fanon}} is that he's an IdenticalGrandson, naturally.) |
| 158 | * GentlemanThief: Describes himself as "a gentleman of the road." |
| 159 | * TheHighwayman |
| 160 | * LargeHam: Well, he ''is'' an actor... |
| 161 | * {{Swashbuckler}} |
| 162 | [[/folder]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | !Sixth Doctor era |
| 165 | [[folder:Orcini and Bostock]] |
| 166 | !!Orcini and Bostock (Sixth Doctor) |
| 167 | ->'''Played by:''' William Gaunt and John Ogwen (1985) |
| 168 | |
| 169 | -->''"Good, I'm not interested in your political ambitions. I undertake this mission for one reason only: the honour of killing Davros."'' |
| 170 | |
| 171 | Orcini is a KnightErrant mercenary exiled from the Grand Order of Oberon, and Bostock is his trusty (and often smelly) squire. Basically, think of [[Literature/DonQuixote Don Quixote and Sancho]], InSpace The pair are hired by the treacherous political schemers in charge of Tranquil Repose to assassinate Davros, who had gradually taken over their mortuary operation and transformed it into a Dalek factory. |
| 172 | ---- |
| 173 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Orcini exemplifies one of Creator/EricSaward's favourite Doctor Who tropes: introducing a cool, competent, gun-toting AntiHero mercenary who utterly upstages the Doctor and does more to progress the plot. |
| 174 | * AntiHero: Even compared to the more ruthless and bellicose Sixth Doctor, Orcini is a rather nasty piece of work who only by good fortune happens to be on the side of angels because he ''really'' wants to be the one to kill Davros. When he rescues the Doctor, Natasha and Grigory from a jail cell, he threatens to kill them if they attempt to follow him. However, he does fight for justice and honour, which is what the Grand Order of Oberon stands for. |
| 175 | * ArtificialLimbs: Orcini has a faulty prosthetic leg. He prefers to keep it as a handicap to remind him of his mortality. |
| 176 | * BloodKnight: Especially Orcini, who is motivated purely for the sport of eliminating evil individuals from the galaxy, Davros being the evillest of all. |
| 177 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Like their literary inspirations, they are an eccentric and anachronistic duo who could be easily underestimated, but do so at your peril. Orcini can mow down Daleks with ease. |
| 178 | * CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Just as Sancho was to Don Quixote, Bostock acts as a much needed tether to reality for the wistful and reckless Orcini. |
| 179 | * DecoyProtagonist: {{Subverted}}. Really, they do far more to advance the plot in "Revelation of the Daleks" than the Doctor himself, especially in the first part where the Doctor and Peri spend all their screentime wandering aimlessly outside the Tranquil Repose HQ. |
| 180 | * {{Expy}}: Very blatantly to Don Quixote and Sancho. |
| 181 | * FeelingTheirAge: Though formidable in reputation, Orcini is old and past his prime. Davros mocks Orcini for this after fooling him with a simple decoy deception before overpowering him with [[ShockAndAwe lightning blasts.]] |
| 182 | * HeroicSacrifice: Orcini ultimately dies a noble death, worthy of a true knight. He blows up Davros's base while staying inside and cradling Bostock's exterminated body. |
| 183 | * HonorBeforeReason: Orcini places his code of honour before all else, including his own personal safety. He wields outdated weaponry because he considers it more fair and "honourable", revelling in stacking the odds against himself. |
| 184 | * InHarmsWay: They both live for the thrill of adventure rather than any political cause or monetary prize. They'll undertake any mission -- the riskier, the better. |
| 185 | * JerkAss: For all his talk of honour and justice, Orcini is a belligerent, self-righteous dick to everyone he meets, including his loyal companion. However, he and Bostock are genuinely loyal to each other to the very end. |
| 186 | * KeepingTheHandicap: He prefers to work with a faulty cyborg leg and outdated firearms purely to make the challenges he faces more rewarding -- and therefore more honourable -- to overcome. |
| 187 | * LastRequest: Orcini asks the Doctor to deliver his medal to the Grand Order of Oberon and tell them how he and Bostock valiantly died in battle. |
| 188 | * MoreDakka: Orcini's machine gun can tear through a Dalek shell with bastic bullets. By the Last Great Time War, Daleks had improved their forcefield defences to make bastic bullets obsolete against them, as Jack Harkness and the Game Station civilians would later discover. |
| 189 | * ThePigPen: Bostock is noted to have no care for personal hygiene and a bodily musk comparable to the smell of rotting flesh. |
| 190 | * SpinOff: They got one much later than you probably expected in the form of a one-shot comic book by Eric Saward, itself spinning off from his crowdfunded ''Lytton'' comic about his other most famous mercenary character. |
| 191 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Though they may bicker and condescend to each other, Orcini and Bostocks are lifelong companions who trust each other's instincts unquestioningly. |
| 192 | * YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: They seem to succeed in their mission of assassinating Davros with anticlimactic ease. However, the disembodied Davros head they shoot turns out to be a decoy; the real, full-bodied Davros quickly appears and overpowers them. |
| 193 | [[/folder]] |
| 194 | |
| 195 | [[folder:Yrcanos]] |
| 196 | !!Yrcanos (Sixth Doctor) |
| 197 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/myrcanos.jpg]] |
| 198 | ->'''Played by:'''Creator/BrianBlessed (1986) |
| 199 | |
| 200 | ---- |
| 201 | * HappilyMarried: Ends up this way with Peri. |
| 202 | * LargeHam: Enough to go toe-to-toe in HamToHamCombat with ''Colin Baker''. |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | !Eighth Doctor era |
| 206 | [[folder:Chang Lee]] |
| 207 | !!Chang Lee (Seventh and Eighth Doctors) |
| 208 | [[quoteright:264:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/changlee_2380.jpg]] |
| 209 | ->'''Played by:''' Yee Jee Tso (1996) |
| 210 | |
| 211 | -->''"Hold in there, old guy. Chang Lee'll help you."'' |
| 212 | |
| 213 | A young San Francisco gang member who watches the Doctor get shot, gets poor "John Smith" to the hospital out of sheer kindness, and proceeds to make some very poor life decisions that leave him as the Master's companion. Eventually realises his mistake and joins up with the Doctor to fix everything. |
| 214 | ---- |
| 215 | * BackFromTheDead: The TARDIS revives him after he has his neck snapped. |
| 216 | %%* BlackEyesOfEvil: When possessed by the Master. |
| 217 | * TheComicallySerious: An absolute expert at the deadpan double-take. Once the Master starts drezzzzing for the occasion and randomly kissing Chang Lee's forehead, Chang's only response is the most perfectly stoic "oh god why am I here" expression. |
| 218 | * EasilyForgiven: The Doctor figures that Chang's suffered enough punishment being kicked around by the Master, so he lets him off easy. |
| 219 | * {{Greed}}: The Master tempts Chang Lee with promises of wealth. |
| 220 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Works for the Master, but only due to manipulation. He comes in his senses in the end. |
| 221 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: He's not evil, he's just incredibly greedy. |
| 222 | * OminousMessageFromTheFuture: The Doctor gives him a cryptic warning to stay out of San Francisco next Christmas, implying something bad might happen to either the city, or possibly just him, if he doesn't. |
| 223 | [[/folder]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[folder:Cass]] |
| 226 | !!Cass Fermazzi (Eighth Doctor) |
| 227 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/66ac3356_45e2_4924_b8fb_572c20642d8c.jpeg]] |
| 228 | ->'''Played by:''' Emma Campbell-Jones (2013) |
| 229 | |
| 230 | -->''"Is this a TARDIS? [...] You're a Time Lord!"'' |
| 231 | |
| 232 | A typical almost-companion who the Eighth Doctor attempts to rescue from a crashing spaceship. As a plucky, adventurous young woman, she immediately gets on well with this mysterious stranger on her ship... until she discovers that he's a Time Lord. |
| 233 | ---- |
| 234 | * AscendedExtra: She plays a much larger role in the "Day of the Doctor" novelisation, which also reveals more details of her backstory. |
| 235 | * ActionGirl: A veteran of the Time War, she takes charge of evacuating the rest of the crew from her ship, which impresses the Doctor enough for him to immediately invite her aboard the TARDIS. That's where the trouble starts. |
| 236 | * BaitAndSwitch: Oh, here's a brave young woman who wants to see the universe. She's going to be the next companion, right? Not so much. |
| 237 | * FantasticRacism: She hates Time Lords so much that she'd happily sacrifice her own life for the chance to take one down with her. Her prejudice is justified somewhat by the damage they have wrought upon the universe alongside the Daleks, but she is misguided in taking out her hatred on the vocally innocent Doctor. |
| 238 | * KilledOffForReal: She opts to stay in her crashing ship rather than accept the Doctor's help, resulting in her death. Unlike the Doctor, she doesn't get resurrected by the Sisterhood of Karn. It's implied that the Sisterhood engineered the whole scenario to manipulate the Doctor into joining the Time War. |
| 239 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: Her surname is given as Fermazzi in the "Day of the Doctor" novelisation, which incorporates the events of "Night of the Doctor" as a prologue. |
| 240 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Her death is one of the final straws that convinces the Eighth Doctor to regenerate into a more ruthless warrior, setting in motion the many greater tragedies to come. After regenerating, the War Doctor takes Cass's bandolier to tribute her and continues to wear it for the rest of his long life. |
| 241 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: She is introduced like a typical companion, though at a breakneck pace due to the perilous circumstances of her first meeting with the Doctor. In an already short episode, she dies less than two minutes in, [[SmallRoleBigImpact but her death plays a pivotal role in Eight's decision to regenerate.]] |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | !Ninth Doctor era |
| 245 | [[folder:Trinity Wells]] |
| 246 | !!Trinity Wells (Ninth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Doctors) |
| 247 | ->'''Played by:''' Lachele Carl (2005-2010, 2023) |
| 248 | |
| 249 | A recurring peripheral figure throughout the Revived series, Trinity Wells is a newscaster for the fictional network AMNN and is frequently seen reporting on alien invasions and bizarre phenomena in episodes set on modern day Earth. She also appears in the spin-offs ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' and ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''. |
| 250 | ---- |
| 251 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When she returns in "The Giggle" we see a clip of her ranting about the Zeedex bands (a piece of UNIT technology that protects wearers from the HatePlague caused by the Giggle). She claims the bands are being used to control people's minds and declares herself "anti-Zeedex", bringing to mind the real-life anti-vaccine movement. |
| 252 | * KentBrockmanNews: The main source of expository, alien-related news in the Whoniverse. |
| 253 | * NewscasterCameo: Not her since she's fictional, but she's usually shown in montages alongside real BBC News presenters. |
| 254 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Her permanently dry tone of voice in many news broadcasts while narrating increasingly ludicrous events carry this effect. |
| 255 | * OhCrap: While usually unflappable even during the deadliest incursions, even she is subtly freaked out by the United Nations' decision to release all of the nuclear missile codes to the British government, at the time unknowingly ran by Slitheen, for use against a hoaxed alien fleet in "World War Three". |
| 256 | * RecurringExtra: Appears across four-and-a-half series of ''Doctor Who'', as well as ''Torchwood'' and ''SJA'', yet she never once interacts with the Doctor or any of the main cast. That's got to be some kind of record. |
| 257 | ** Trinity is also the only character--unless we count the TARDIS' cameo in ''Torchwood'', in which we only hear her engines--to appear in all three series during the RTD era. |
| 258 | ** She [[TheBusCameBack makes a return]] in the 60th anniversary episode "The Giggle", having apparently graduated from dry newscasting to wide-eyed Alex Jones-style raving about government conspiracies. |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | !Tenth Doctor era |
| 262 | [[folder:Novice Hame]] |
| 263 | !!Novice Hame (Tenth Doctor) |
| 264 | ->'''Played by:''' Anna Hope (2005-2006) |
| 265 | |
| 266 | A member of the Sisters of Plenitude, an order of Catkind nuns devoted to practicing medicine on New Earth in the far future, Novice Hame first appeared as an enemy of the Doctor when it was revealed that the Sisters of Plenitude had been illegally experimenting on artificially grown human test subjects to find cures for various diseases on a massive scale. However, she would later return as the personal carer for the Face of Boe, having evidently softened in the years since her debut, mainly as she narrowly survived a cataclysmic plague thanks to Boe's smoke protecting her. |
| 267 | ---- |
| 268 | * CatGirl: Yes, she's a cat. Don't worry about it. |
| 269 | * FriendlyEnemy: She and the Doctor seem to share no hard feelings against each other about the Flesh incident, and their first interaction in "Gridlock" has them gleefully cuddle. The Doctor even has to step back and remind himself of what she and the Sisters did, but considering that it worked out alright in end and the Sisters repented in jail, he agrees to let bygones be bygones. |
| 270 | * HeelFaceTurn: She learned the error of her ways thanks to the Doctor and the Face of Boe. In her second appearance, she's softened so much that it's difficult to believe that she was ever villainous at all. |
| 271 | * ReligiousBruiser: Hame is a nun, but she can fight with her retractable claws when push comes to shove. |
| 272 | * SpinOff: She unexpectedly returned as a main protagonist of a Big Finish spin-off series, ''Tales from New Earth'', which reveals that she became a senator and invested in New Earth's restructuring in the wake of the Bliss plague, alongside an intelligent descendent of the New Humans she experimented on named Devon. |
| 273 | * SoleSurvivor: She and the Face of Boe were the only beings outside the sealed motorway to survive the Bliss virus apocalypse. Other Catkind survived inside the motorway, but it seems that Hame is the last of the original Sisters of Plenitude. |
| 274 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Hame and the other Sisters' motivations in their debut are quite sympathetic, even if their methods are inhumane. The Catkind were the original denizens of New Earth (originally called New Savannah), but were happy to provide hospitality to the New Earth Empire when they arrived and re-established the planet as the new homeworld of humankind. However, humans and other aliens brought a flood of new diseases that the Sisters of Plenitude were unable to combat. Reluctantly, they came to believe they had no choice but to resort to human experimentation in order to stand a chance of survival. Considering that one disease shown in the hospital slowly petrifies the afflicted to stone, you can see their point. |
| 275 | * WolverineClaws: All Catkind have retractable claws. However, they aren't overly impressive or effective against disease-ridden zombie people. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Jake Simmonds]] |
| 279 | !!Jake Simmonds (Tenth Doctor) |
| 280 | ->'''Played by:''' Andrew Hayden-Smith (2006) |
| 281 | |
| 282 | -->''"The Cybermen came through from one world to another... and so did we."'' |
| 283 | |
| 284 | A freedom-fighting anarchist from the parallel universe visited by the Doctor, Rose and Mickey in which the Cybermen first arose on Earth. He was the boyfriend of his universe's version of Mickey, known there as 'Ricky'. After the Doctor and Rose left, Mickey stayed with Jake and continued the good fight against the remaining Cyberman factories by forming the Preachers. |
| 285 | ---- |
| 286 | * AmbiguouslyGay: In a deleted scene from "Age of Steel," he tells Mickey that the latter's counterpart was his boyfriend. |
| 287 | * EightiesHair: His hair rivals the Doctor's for [[BuffySpeak sticky-uppiness]], as Wilf would put it. |
| 288 | * BigDamnHeroes: He and the Preachers make a dynamic entrance into the main universe by saving the Doctor from the Cyber-Leader. |
| 289 | * EnergyWeapon: Upgrades from regular rifles, which don't work against Cybermen, to a large energy beam gun by the time we see him again in "Doomsday". |
| 290 | * LaResistance: Alongside the alternate Pete Tyler and Mickey Smith, he's one of the leaders of the Preachers. Before he began all-out war against the Cybermen, he was an underground resistance fighter against Lumic's nefarious schemes. |
| 291 | * OopNorth: Has a strong Northern accent. |
| 292 | * ReplacementGoldfish: After Ricky is killed by the Cybermen, Jake initially resents Mickey as an inferior, cowardly substitute. However, after Mickey proves his worth in the battle against Lumic, Jake warms up to him and they decide to stay together, although Mickey's IncompatibleOrientation means that they (probably) had to remain PlatonicLifePartners. |
| 293 | * StatingTheSimpleSolution: All the staircases in Canary Wharf can be a pain. |
| 294 | -->'''Jake:''' We could always take the lift. |
| 295 | [[/folder]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[folder:Elton Pope]] |
| 298 | !!Elton Pope (Tenth Doctor) |
| 299 | ->'''Played by:''' Marc Warren (2006) |
| 300 | |
| 301 | A totally ordinary bloke from London who has been swept up in the Doctor's crazy life from an early age. Forming [[FunWithAcronyms LINDA (London Investigation 'n Detective Agency)]], a dedicated group of fellow Doctor-spotters, he investigates the Doctor's many appearances. |
| 302 | ---- |
| 303 | * AMFMCharacterization: Elton loves Music/ElectricLightOrchestra and dances along to their music throughout his vlogs, establishing him as something of a dreamer. |
| 304 | * CompanionCube: After she is absorbed into the pavement following the Abzorbaloff's defeat, the Doctor is able to save Ursula's consciousness in the form of a paving slab with her face. Elton keeps her and gets a bizarre HappilyEverAfter. He even claims they have a bit of a love life. A man making love to a woman's disembodied face. On a paving slab. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Yeah, let's not dwell on that...]] |
| 305 | * DespairEventHorizon: In the end, it's hard not to feel bad for Elton when everything and everyone important in his life has been taken away from him and he's being chasing through the streets by an [[{{Acrofatic}} obese yet remarkably fast]] monster seeking to absorb him. With nothing left to live for, he gives up and allows the Abzorbaloff to finish him. Luckily, the Doctor and Rose intervene to save Elton. |
| 306 | * TheEveryman: He's just an average, socially-awkward guy who constantly crosses paths with the Doctor and other aliens. We would say it's through no fault of his own, but after the first few encounters, he deliberately starts seeking the Doctor whenever he can. |
| 307 | * FanBoy: An InUniverse one towards the Doctor. Elton gathers a group of likeminded friends to share stories of their encounters with him. Though as they all find, their shared interest in the Doctor was only one periphery aspect of their friendship, and they find themselves spending more time on other hobbies to do together like singing, reading and baking. That is, until [[StopHavingFunGuys Mr. Kennedy]] comes along. |
| 308 | * {{Irony}}: As noted below, he's a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute of Clive from "Rose." Clive was convinced that the Doctor's "constant companion is Death," which is why Clive stayed far away from the Doctor... and died anyway. Elton threw himself into finding the Doctor, and survived. Though, as he notes, he didn't walk away unscathed. |
| 309 | * TheLostLenore: While he is understandably torn up about Mr. Kennedy absorbing Mr. Skinner, Bliss and Bridget, Elton is most distraught about his LoveInterest Ursula and begs Kennedy to give her back. Luckily, the Doctor resurrects her, though not in the most flattering form... |
| 310 | * MyParentsAreDead: His mum was killed by the Elemental Shade, an unseen LivingShadow monster (unrelated to the Vashta Nerada) that escaped from the Howling Halls. The Doctor had been pursuing in some offscreen adventure, but couldn't stop it in time to save her. |
| 311 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Yes, his name really is [[Music/EltonJohn Elton]]. [[LampshadeHanging Frequently lampshaded]] InUniverse. |
| 312 | * NoodleIncident: Perversely, his entire backstory boils down to this. The circumstances that led to a LivingShadow attacking his mother are never fully explained or shown to us, but it doesn't matter much -- Elton was just one of countless victims of collateral damage from the Doctor's happy-go-lucky life. |
| 313 | * RememberTheNewGuy: He was a bystander during all of the many alien invasions of modern-day Earth, including the Auton attack, the Slitheen spaceship crashing into Big Ben, and the Sycorax ruining Christmas (some early script drafts mentioned some Classic era incidents from his childhood, including his third birthday being evacuated because of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks two factions of Daleks blasting at each other in Shoreditch]]). The Doctor recognises him somehow, but doesn't make the connection until the ending. |
| 314 | * SociallyAwkwardHero: Partly thanks to his difficult circumstances, he's not the most well-adjusted guy and, until he met LINDA, his fixation on finding the Doctor was all he really cared about, aside from ELO, football and going down the pub. Tellingly, when he's trying to pry Jackie for information, she's the one who constantly initiates conversation with him. |
| 315 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: As an avid InUniverse Doctor fanboy who collects sightings of the Time Lord, he's reminiscent of Clive from "Rose". Though Clive had the [[GenreSavvy good sense to stay the hell away from the Doctor himself]], knowing all too well that the Time Lord's only constant companion is Death (not that his cautiousness saved him in the end). |
| 316 | * TakeThatAudience: A very downplayed example. Elton is a reflection of an average ''Doctor Who'' super-fan who doesn't have much of a life outside of liking the Doctor, but that soon changes as he becomes more attached to his friendship with LINDA. It's Elton's nemesis, Mr. Kennedy, who represents the [[JerkAss worst]] [[StopHavingFunGuys excesses]] [[StalkerWithoutACrush of]] [[LoonyFan fandom]] [[SingleIssueWonk culture]]. |
| 317 | * TragicOneShotCharacter: Appeared once and never again (though there was a plan B to bring him back for the Series 4 finale in case Penelope Wilton was unavailable to reprise her role as Harriet Jones), but his life is mired by many personal tragedies. |
| 318 | * WeirdnessMagnet: Ever since he encountered a strange spiky-haired man in his living room decades ago, his life has been a constant stream of alien encounters and other weirdness. |
| 319 | * WhatTheHellHero: His only real "crime" was manipulating Jackie Tyler for information, but this enrages Rose and she angrily chews him out for it, [[SkewedPriorities all while he's about to be absorbed by a naked green monster]]. |
| 320 | [[/folder]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[folder:The Jones family]] |
| 323 | !!The Jones family (Tenth Doctor) |
| 324 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jones_fam.jpg]] |
| 325 | [[caption-width-right:350:(Clockwise from the left): Tish, Clive, Leo and Francine Jones]] |
| 326 | ->'''Francine Jones played by:''' Adjoa Andoh (2007-2008) |
| 327 | ->'''Clive Jones played by:''' Trevor Laird (2007) |
| 328 | ->'''Tish Jones played by:''' Creator/GuguMbathaRaw (2007) |
| 329 | ->'''Leo Jones played by:''' Reggie Yates (2007) |
| 330 | ->'''Adeola Oshodi played by:''' Creator/FreemaAgyeman (2006) |
| 331 | |
| 332 | Martha's family. Her cousin, Adeola, was revealed in Martha's debut episode to have been working in Canary Wharf, aka Torchwood Tower. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts "Army of Ghosts"]], she was partially cyber-converted and began opening the way to void to let the Cybermen and Daleks through. She was killed by the Tenth Doctor, who noted that she had technically already been dead for some time. |
| 333 | |
| 334 | Martha's sister, mother and brother were introduced to the Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The Lazarus Experiment"]], and gained the attention of the Master in the process. |
| 335 | ---- |
| 336 | * AlmostKiss: Tish and Professor Lazarus, right before he turns into a giant scorpion. |
| 337 | * ControlFreak: Francine, ''so much.'' She often launches into shouting tirades the moment someone defies her wishes. |
| 338 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When the Master reveals himself and rounds up most of Martha's family to hold hostage, [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome Leo manages to duck out and evade capture]], though it's not clear if he survived the Year That Never Was. |
| 339 | * GenreBlind: Francine's tendency towards this leads to her manipulation by the Master's minions. |
| 340 | * GirlFriday: Tish becomes one to Lazarus and, later, to the Master. |
| 341 | * HollywoodMidlifeCrisis: Clive spends most Series 3 going through one of these complete with [[MidlifeCrisisCar a flash new sportscar]] and [[TrophyWife a much younger girlfriend]]. By the end, he seems to be over it. |
| 342 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Francine distrusts the Doctor due to a bad first encounter so much she's willing to assist the Master's ObviouslyEvil minions. |
| 343 | * MamaBear: Francine, oh so much. It's her concern for Martha that allows the Master's minions to manipulate her. |
| 344 | * OnlyKnownByHerNickname: Tish's full name is Leticia, but it's seldom heard on screen. |
| 345 | * OutOfCharacterAlert: Francine and Clive pretend that they're considering getting back together, to lure Martha back to Earth. It makes her realise something's ''very'' wrong. Clive's participation in this, however, was not voluntary. |
| 346 | * PapaWolf: Clive risks being arrested to warn Martha about the Master's trap. |
| 347 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: After being enslaved by the Master for a year, the whole family (except Leo) develops one due to being on the ''Valiant'' ("the eye of the storm") when time reverts. |
| 348 | * ShipperOnDeck: After Leo meets the Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The Lazarus Experiment"]], he can tell Martha loves him right away and doesn't seem to mind. |
| 349 | -->'''Francine:''' She turned her back on us, went in there with that thing. For him.\ |
| 350 | '''Leo:''' He must be some guy. |
| 351 | * TookALevelInBadass: By the end of the Year That Never Was, the family has effectively developed LaResistance within the Master's household. |
| 352 | * TraumaCongaLine: The entire family gets severely traumatised by the Master (once again, save Leo, who doesn't remember any of it). |
| 353 | ** Martha later confirms in Series 4 that her family is still coping with the trauma, but doing well. |
| 354 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: Adeola and her cousin Martha are both played by Freema Agyeman, resulting in them looking like twins. |
| 355 | * UnwillingRoboticisation: Adeola, working for Torchwood London, becomes a Cyberman puppet. The Tenth Doctor performs a MercyKill on her as soon as he realises what happened. |
| 356 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Once Clive warns Martha about the trap, the Master has his men arrest the entire family, Francine included (a ludicrously GenreBlind Francine can be heard indignantly proclaiming she was trying to ''help'' them). |
| 357 | [[/folder]] |
| 358 | |
| 359 | [[folder:Joan Redfern]] |
| 360 | !!Joan Redfern (Tenth Doctor) |
| 361 | ->'''Played by:''' Jessica Hynes (2007, 2010[[note]]As her identical great-granddaughter, Verity Newman[[/note]]) |
| 362 | |
| 363 | -->''"[[ThatManIsDead John Smith is dead]] and you look like him."'' |
| 364 | |
| 365 | A widowed nurse who falls in love with the Doctor's human disguise, John Smith, while he hides from the Family of Blood in a remote English boarding school in 1913. She is based on the character of the same name from Paul Cornell's earlier telling of "Human Nature" in the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel line from the 1990s. |
| 366 | ---- |
| 367 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: Delivers a scathing one towards the Doctor when he tries to convince her that he can still be everything John Smith was to her and more. When she gets no answer, the Doctor glares at her with a look of immense pain and dejection that's hard to describe. |
| 368 | -->'''Joan:''' Answer me this. Just one question, that's all. If the Doctor had never visited us and never chosen this place, on a whim... Would anybody here have died? |
| 369 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: She is casually racist and classist towards Martha, as would only be expected from a middle-class white woman from 1913. Martha eventually has enough and shuts her up by displaying her superior medical knowledge, leaving Joan speechless. |
| 370 | * IdenticalGranddaughter: Joan's great-granddaughter, Verity Newman, is also played by Jessica Hynes. The Tenth Doctor meets her at her book-signing event during his long "reward" trip before regenerating. |
| 371 | * KindHeartedCatLover: Her counterpart from the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' continuity gives Bernice Summerfield her cat, Wolsey, who joins her and the Doctor in the TARDIS. |
| 372 | * MeaningfulName: Her identical great-granddaughter is named after the two main creative forces behind Doctor Who's inception: Verity Lambert and Sydney Newman. |
| 373 | * RefusalOfTheCall: After the Family are defeated, the Doctor, clearly feeling guilty for everything that happened, offers Joan a companion spot. She rejects him, unable to stay with the callous alien stranger who, from her perspective, stole her dead lover's face. |
| 374 | * SecondLove: After her husband died, she never thought she would fall in love again. She falls for John Smith because of his kindness and aura of mystery. Her love for John isn't merely skin-deep, however, as she can't bring herself to love the Doctor in the same way. |
| 375 | ** Eventually, it's implied that she finds a third love as well, as she has a granddaughter. |
| 376 | [[/folder]] |
| 377 | |
| 378 | [[folder:Lobus Caecilius]] |
| 379 | !!Lobus Caecilius (Tenth Doctor) |
| 380 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/PeterCapaldi (2008) |
| 381 | |
| 382 | A wealthy, socially-ambitious marble trader from Pompeii. Like everyone else in the city, he is blissfully unaware that he lives beneath an active volcano, Mount Vesuvius, which is mere days away from erupting (or so the history books say). Ignoring the risk of altering the course of history, the Tenth Doctor decides to save Caecilius and his family from perishing in the volcano's eruption, an act that would subconsciously inspire him to take on Caecilius's visage in his Twelfth incarnation, hundreds of years later. |
| 383 | ---- |
| 384 | * FamilyMan: Caecilius is a dedicated father and husband, though he sometimes chews out his teenaged son for his hard-partying lifestyle. |
| 385 | * DeadpanSnarker: He's played by Peter Capaldi; this was probably inevitable. |
| 386 | * GodHelpUsAll: He cries this out (the pluralised version, of course) while begging the Doctor to save his family. Later, he angrily calls upon the Roman God of Fire, Vulcan, while watching the carnage wrought by Mount Vesuvius's eruption from a distant vantage point, surreptitiously inventing the word "volcano" in reference to the god. |
| 387 | * IncomingHam: "MODERN ART!" |
| 388 | * MistakenForExhibit: He mistakes the TARDIS for a piece of "modern art", so he purchases it from a dodgy street dealer. His wife is less than impressed with it. |
| 389 | * LastOfHisKind: Thanks to the Doctor's last-minute intervention, Caecilius and his family are the only survivors of Pompeii's destruction. |
| 390 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: For a relatively minor character, Caecilius had a profound impact on the Doctor's psyche. While the rest of Pompeii burned, Donna convinced the Tenth Doctor to go back and save Caecilius and his family, which inspired the Doctor to always make an effort to save those in need, the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Laws of Time]] be damned. Many centuries later, the Twelfth Doctor, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Caecilius (since they're both played by Creator/PeterCapaldi) remembered who "frowned him this face" and rationalised that he must have mimicked Caecilius to serve as a reminder of the important lesson that he represented. |
| 391 | * YouLookFamiliar: Caecilius was played by Creator/PeterCapaldi several years before the veteran actor would take the lead role of the Twelfth Doctor. Unlike with many other examples of this trope, the resemblance is eventually acknowledged InUniverse as a major plot point in "The Girl Who Died", where the Twelfth Doctor finally remembers Caecilius and, realising that he always needs to save people no matter the cost, decides to save Ashildr the Viking girl from the brink of death (though in this case, saving this one person has [[WhoWantsToLiveForever several]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero unwanted]] [[FaceHeelTurn consequences]]). |
| 392 | ** Capaldi also portrayed John Frobisher, a character from the third series of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. While the visual similarity is never acknowledged InUniverse since the Doctor never met Frobisher, the show's creators consider Frobisher to be Caecilius's distant descendent, with Frobisher's reluctant PaterFamilicide at the end of ''Children of Earth'' representing Time "balancing the books" to account for Caecilius's impossible survival of Pompeii. |
| 393 | [[/folder]] |
| 394 | |
| 395 | [[folder:The Shadow Architect]] |
| 396 | !!The Shadow Architect (Tenth and Twelfth Doctors) |
| 397 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2018_01_17_at_142852.png]] |
| 398 | ->'''Played by:''' Kelly Hunter (2008, 2015) |
| 399 | |
| 400 | -->''"We are at war, Doctor! Right across the universe and ''you'' shall lead us into battle!"'' |
| 401 | |
| 402 | The head of the Shadow Proclamation, the SpacePolice organization that enforces the treaty it's named after. |
| 403 | ---- |
| 404 | * SeventiesHair: When we see her again in "The Magician's Apprentice", her fairly normal hairstyle has evolved into a massive platinum-blonde afro. |
| 405 | * ArbitraryScepticism: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth "The Stolen Earth"]], she insists that Time Lords are the stuff of legend and cannot ''possibly'' exist, while ''talking to one''. The Doctor is in too much of a hurry to persuade her otherwise. It's possible that she's overcome this by her second appearance. |
| 406 | * BigGood: As head of the Shadow Proclamation, she tries to be this. |
| 407 | * TheBusCameBack: Makes a surprising appearance in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician's Apprentice"]], seven years after she was last seen, getting visited by Colony Sarff. |
| 408 | * DarkIsNotEvil: She has a very Gothic appearance and commands the Shadow Proclamation, but her organisation is the official first line of defence against those who would threaten the universe. |
| 409 | * TheGhost: The name of the Shadow Proclamation was invoked many times in the revived series before its leader was ever seen. |
| 410 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Shadow Architect, leader of the Shadow Proclamation. Not exactly the kind of names you would associate with an ostensibly heroic SpacePolice organisation, but it makes sense considering the kind of scum they have to deal with. The Doctor even says it in an ominous tone of voice. |
| 411 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: {{Averted}}. The Architect and her kind appear to be humanoid albinos, as all of them are shown to have red eyes, pale skin and light hair. However, they are ultimately a force for good. |
| 412 | * SpacePolice: She's in charge of these guys, called the Shadow Proclamation in the Whoniverse. |
| 413 | * WarIsGlorious: She seems eerily enthusiastic about the prospect of the Doctor leading the Shadow Proclamation into battle against the Daleks. |
| 414 | [[/folder]] |
| 415 | |
| 416 | [[folder:Shaun Temple]] |
| 417 | !!Shaun Temple (Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors) |
| 418 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shauntemple.png]] |
| 419 | ->'''Played by:'''Karl Collins (2009-10, 2023) |
| 420 | |
| 421 | Donna's fiancé, and eventual husband after her memory is wiped. |
| 422 | ---- |
| 423 | * BumblingDad: At a barbecue, he gets Rose's vegan meal mixed up with the other plates. |
| 424 | * TheBusCameBack: For a MinorMajorCharacter who only appeared in one story, it's impressive that he returned over a decade later, still played by the same actor. |
| 425 | * DriverOfABlackCab: Takes up this job after Donna gives their lottery winnings to charity. Not that he particularly minds. |
| 426 | * FamilyMan: He is a doting father and husband, always doing his best to accommodate his trans daughter's needs. |
| 427 | * LastEpisodeNewCharacter: As Donna's new fiancé, was introduced at the very tail end of Russell T Davies' tenure as showrunner and David Tennant's regeneration story, so few expected him to appear again. After many years, Davies continued his and the Noble family's story for the 60th anniversary specials. |
| 428 | * NiceGuy: All he wants is his wife and daughter to be happy. |
| 429 | * StepfordSmiler: In his first conversation with the Fourteenth Doctor, he seems to hold a slight grudge against Donna's baffling decision to give the entire lottery winnings pot away to charity. Shaun struggled to afford a tiny London flat with Donna's help, and he had to take up taxi driving to support his new family. Nonetheless, he keeps his sunny disposition and affirms that as long as his family are happy, he's happy. |
| 430 | * UnfazedEveryman: He takes all the weirdness that follows the Doctor in stride, despite having no prior experience compared to his wife or mother-in-law. |
| 431 | * WideEyedIdealist: Wilfred dismisses him as a "bit of a dreamer". In "The End of Time", he is comically idealistic about UsefulNotes/BarackObama's plan to solve the global economic recession. The Master hijacks the president's body (along with nearly everyone else) and wipes part of his memory before these amazing plans could be unveiled. |
| 432 | [[/folder]] |
| 433 | |
| 434 | !Eleventh Doctor era |
| 435 | [[folder:Liz Ten]] |
| 436 | !!Queen Elizabeth X (Eleventh Doctor) |
| 437 | ->'''Played by:''' Sophie Okonedo (2010) |
| 438 | |
| 439 | -->''"I'm the bloody queen, mate. Basically, I rule."'' |
| 440 | |
| 441 | Liz Ten first appears as a mysterious masked stranger investigating the disappearances on Starship UK, which the entire population of Great Britain (minus Scotland; they got their own ship first) stowed away aboard to escape from an apocalyptic disaster. As it turns out, her true identity is Queen Elizabeth X, and she is more involved in the disappearances than even she realises. |
| 442 | ---- |
| 443 | * AffirmativeActionLegacy: She is darker-skinned than her distant ancestors and isn't afraid to get her own hands dirty. |
| 444 | * AntiVillain: While built up as a new supporting character, she is technically the villain of "The Beast Below", though even she doesn't know it. She's been routinely brainwashed over hundreds of years to forget her own conspiracy to cover up the Star Whale, the spacefaring creature that kindly offered to help humanity in its darkest hour but was rewarded with slavery and torture at her hands. |
| 445 | * AwfulTruth: The big twist is that she is actually responsible for everything bad that happens aboard Starship UK. She somehow failed to get her people off the planet in time before the apocalypse hit while ''every'' other country managed to, so she enslaved the last of the Star Whales which was arriving to save them anyway, set up a malevolent secret police force on her ship, fed people to the Star Whale to cover up its existence, then routinely brainwashed herself over the course of hundreds of years to maintain the charade and save her own conscience. However, the fact that she always fights off against her own conspiracy whenever she is brainwashed indicates that, in her heart, she is a good person who was driven by desperation to do terrible things. |
| 446 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "I'm the bloody queen." |
| 447 | * HumansAreFlawed: She ultimately just wanted to do the best she could for her people when placed in an impossible situation, but her actions are bad enough that the Doctor almost [[DespairEventHorizon swears off his name, moral code and humanity as a whole.]] |
| 448 | * ImmortalRuler: Her ageing is slowed every time she chooses to forget the Star Whale. While she assumes that she's been ruling Starship UK for only a decade or so, she's actually been in power for well over 200 years. When River Song meets her in "The Pandorica Opens", she has visibly started ageing. |
| 449 | * KingIncognito: While investigating the strange goings-on in her starship, she disguises herself with a porcelain mask and goes by the moniker of Liz Ten. |
| 450 | * MoralDilemma: Whenever she discovers the truth of the conspiracy, she is faced with an impossible choice: "Forget" everything she knows and allow the Star Whale to keep carrying Starship UK, or "Abdicate" and let the Star Whale go free. Since she is under the impression that the Star Whale would kill them all as revenge for having been tortured for hundreds of years, she regrettably always chooses to forget, restarting the same cycle again, until Amy breaks it for her. Luckily for everyone, the Star Whale doesn't hold a grudge and continues supporting Starship UK on its back without any electrical coercion. |
| 451 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Every time she discovers the truth of what she did to the Star Whale, she is understandably shocked and disgusted with herself. Especially when it's revealed that the Star Whale willingly helped humanity and those hundreds of years of cruel, brain-frying torture were utterly pointless. |
| 452 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Well, she isn't exactly a "stand there and wave politely during royal processions" kind of monarch, she's more of a "gun-toting masked vigilante" type of monarch. |
| 453 | * SophisticatedAsHell: She casually mixes regal language with informal slang to throw people off her true identity. |
| 454 | * StepfordSnarker: She initially appears to be a fun, flirty FemmeFatale type of character that Creator/StevenMoffat is quite fond of writing. Then we discover the AwfulTruth about her and she suddenly becomes much less funny. |
| 455 | [[/folder]] |
| 456 | |
| 457 | [[folder:Edwin Bracewell]] |
| 458 | !!Professor Edwin Bracewell (Eleventh Doctor) |
| 459 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edwin_bracewell.png]] |
| 460 | -> '''Played by:''' Creator/BillPaterson (2010) |
| 461 | |
| 462 | --> ''"Stop it! Stop it! Please, what are you doing? You are my Ironsides."'' |
| 463 | |
| 464 | A professor working for the allies in World War II under Winston Churchill. He created a new weapon of war: robots called "Ironsides" whom bear an uncanny ressemblance to a certain enemy of the Doctor. |
| 465 | ---- |
| 466 | * AbsentMindedProfessor: He casually invents new technology that's unbelievably more advanced than anything that could exist on Earth for several centuries. His amazing gravity bubbles allow for spitfires to be harmlessly sent up into space. However, despite his pride in them, the Ironsides aren't his creations; quite the opposite, in fact. |
| 467 | * AIIsACrapshoot: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. He is a [[BigGood good guy]] created by evil organic beings. |
| 468 | * AndroidsArePeopleToo: While himself feel angsty about realizing he is just a robot, Winston Churchill, Amy and the Doctor console him by making it know that he still is a person and a friend in their eyes. |
| 469 | * MeaningfulName: He is an appropriately named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracewell_probe Bracewell probe]]. |
| 470 | * NerdGlasses: He is a professor and scientist wearing glasses. |
| 471 | * NiceGuy: He is an all-around sweet man which is rather [[{{Irony}} ironic]] considering who made him. |
| 472 | * ThePowerOfLove: The Doctor tries all of the usual clichés to try to convince Bracewell of his own humanity in an effort to defuse the bomb inside his body. He appeals to Edwin's false memories of his parents' deaths and UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, making him relive all of his pain and sorrow. None of it works and the timer keeps ticking down. Then Amy asks if he's ever been in love with a girl. The bomb defuses instantly. |
| 473 | --> '''Bracewell:''' ''Dorabella...'' |
| 474 | * TomatoInTheMirror: He is thought, even by himself that he is a Scottish scientist who fought in the first World War. He is actually an android created by the Daleks, faking a backstory as his invention only to lure the Doctor into revealing their true identity. |
| 475 | * ReluctantMonster: He feels horrible about what he is but is nowhere as bad as his creators. |
| 476 | * RoboticReveal: He gets one from the Daleks, much to his own shock: |
| 477 | --> '''Bracewell:''' Stop it! Stop it! Please, what are you doing? You are my Ironsides. |
| 478 | --> '''Dalek:''' We are the Daleks. |
| 479 | --> '''Bracewell:''' But I created you! |
| 480 | --> '''Dalek:''' No. {they take off his hand} ''We created ''you''! |
| 481 | * SockPuppet: He is a creation of the Daleks and a pawn in their plan. |
| 482 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Similar to how "Victory of the Daleks" parallels to "Power of the Daleks", Bracewell has similar characteristics towards Lesterson. Like Lesterson, Bracewell is a scientist who belives that he created the Daleks and has a breakdown after finding out the truth. The only difference is that Lesterson is reluctant to help and dies, but Bracewell gets over his breakdown and lives for a little while longer. Also Bracewell is a robot whereas Lesterson was human. |
| 483 | * TalkingDownTheSuicidal: After learning he has been living a lie, he plan on killing himself but Amy convinces him he still has a duty to accomplish. And after that, her and the Doctor by reminding him about the women he loved, manage to give him the will to live again. |
| 484 | * WhyAmITicking: [[spoiler:The Daleks not only made him an android but also an Oblivion Continuum bomb able to destroy the entire earth]]. |
| 485 | [[/folder]] |
| 486 | |
| 487 | [[folder:Vincent van Gogh]] |
| 488 | !!Vincent van Gogh (Eleventh Doctor) |
| 489 | ->'''Played by:''' Tony Curran (2010) |
| 490 | |
| 491 | -->''"Hold my hand, Doctor. Try to see what I see."'' |
| 492 | |
| 493 | The troubled Dutch painter. Intrigued by an ominous figure in one of his paintings, the Doctor and Amy visit him to investigate, becoming close friends with him in the process. |
| 494 | ---- |
| 495 | * TheAlcoholic: He has a reputation among the local townsfolk as a drunken madman. His alcoholism worsens his mental state. |
| 496 | * AllegoricalCharacter: Not Vincent, but the Krafayis that stalks him is a clear allegory for his depression, as it's an invisible monster that only he can see. |
| 497 | * InSpiteOfANail: All too realistically, the Doctor and Amy's visits and taking him to the future to show him how his paintings would be lauded by millions does not change the course of history and Vincent still ends up taking his own life after they leave. Depression is the one monster that even the Doctor can't beat. |
| 498 | * LonersAreFreaks: van Gogh is considered as such by the local communities who ostracise him. He lives alone in a small farmhouse cottage when the Doctor and Amy visit him, and they provide him with some much needed company to help him through difficult times. In real life, Vincent always had his loving brother Theo in his life, but he is never mentioned outside of a companion short story in a 2010 annual. |
| 499 | * MadArtist: {{Defied}}. Vincent van Gogh is believed by art historians to have suffered from manic depression, which is shown in realistically grisly detail in his debut ''Doctor Who'' episode. However, he can't be pegged as simply crazy, and his illness is portrayed respectfully. |
| 500 | * OminousMessageFromTheFuture: In "The Pandorica Opens", he foresees the explosion of the TARDIS. While in a frantic fit of melancholy, he paints a picture of it which is eventually discovered by Winston Churchill. |
| 501 | * SleepyDepressive: When Vincent sleeps in all day, crying into his pillow, the Doctor comforts him but his tactless attempts to motivate him out of bed only provoke Vincent into lashing out against him. |
| 502 | * TearsOfJoy: He's moved to tears when the Doctor takes him to 2010 to see an exhibit of his own paintings at the Musee d'Orsay. |
| 503 | * YouCanSeeMe: Thanks to his unique mind, only he can see the Krafayis, an alien beast which is InvisibleToNormals. |
| 504 | [[/folder]] |
| 505 | |
| 506 | [[folder:Canton Everett Delaware III]] |
| 507 | !!Agent Canton Everett Delaware III (Eleventh Doctor) |
| 508 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkSheppard (young), William Morgan Sheppard (old) (2010) |
| 509 | |
| 510 | -->''"Welcome to America."'' |
| 511 | |
| 512 | An FBI agent who aids the Doctor and company in their adventure to defeat the Silence in 1969, becoming a temporary companion and a respected friend to them. Decades later, he appears at Lake Silencio on the day that the Doctor is seemingly murdered by an astronaut. |
| 513 | ---- |
| 514 | * BornInTheWrongCentury: When he confides with UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, the President is reluctantly accepting of Delaware's desire to marry a black individual thanks to the Civil Rights movement, but draws the line at said individual being ''male''. |
| 515 | * DeadpanSnarker: The heading quote is what he says after shooting a Silent. |
| 516 | * FBIAgent: A highly competent agent of the Bureau. |
| 517 | * ManlyGay: He's ultimately kicked out of the FBI for wanting to marry a black man. |
| 518 | * ResignedInDisgrace: Forced to resign from the FBI after carrying on a gay relationship with a black man. |
| 519 | * SixthRangerTraitor: Acts as the Doctor's unofficial third companion during The Impossible Astronaut/The Day of the Moon but then appears to be brainwashed into hunting them by the Silence. Ultimately averted as this was a ruse orchestrated by the Doctor in order to lull the Silence into complacency. |
| 520 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: While impressed by the TARDIS and many of the strange happenings that go on around the Doctor as many people are, he's remarkably quick to accept and adapt to what's presented to him. |
| 521 | [[/folder]] |
| 522 | |
| 523 | [[folder:The Teselecta]] |
| 524 | !!The ''Teselecta'' (Eleventh Doctor) |
| 525 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tesecrew_4028.jpg]] |
| 526 | -> '''Played by:''' Various actors (2011) |
| 527 | |
| 528 | The ''Teselecta'' was a Justice Department Vehicle, staffed by a crew who had been miniaturised by a compression field. It could travel through time, and was used to locate people who were deemed to have committed crimes but had escaped punishment. After finding them near the end of their respective timelines (so as to avoid changing history), the crew would administer their own punishment — usually in the form of some non-lethal painful torture, so that afterwards they could die in the manners recorded by history. |
| 529 | ---- |
| 530 | * BackForTheFinale: Their second appearance is in the finale of Series 6. |
| 531 | * ChekhovsGunman: They provide the means for the Doctor to avoid his Fixed Point in Time death at Lake Silencio. |
| 532 | * {{Foil}}: To the Doctor. Whereas the Doctor is a gallant traveller who generally does not go looking for trouble, the Teselecta crew are self-righteous crusaders who travel to the end of infamous historical figures' timestreams to "give them hell" just before they die. Whereas the Doctor actually solves problems and helps people, these guys are only concerned with punishing and actively endanger the timestream through their actions, as shown when they accidentally arrive at the wrong date. Whereas the TARDIS is a wonderful machine that's BiggerOnTheInside, everything in the Teselecta is Smaller on the Inside and full of killer security drones. In many ways, their existence is a TakeThat to protagonists in time travel stories overly concerned with righting history, an archetype that the Doctor does not conform to. |
| 533 | * AGodAmI: The Doctor accuses them of having a God complex. |
| 534 | -->'''The Doctor:''' "Give them Hell?" I'd say, who do you think you are? But I already know the answer! |
| 535 | * HaveANiceDeath: The Antibodies would like you to remain calm while your life is extracted. You will experience a slight tingling sensation and then death. |
| 536 | * HeroWithAnFInGood: Their justice consists of "giving hell" to horrible people at the end of their lives, which the Doctor labels a god complex. They also seem to be rather inept, considering they went to all the trouble of breaking into Hitler's office, and only realised they were ''years'' too early moments before taking action. There's also [[NoodleIncident the time]] they made Rasputin ''green''. |
| 537 | ** However, they do seem themselves as being the good guys, and go out of their way to assist the Doctor in the finale. |
| 538 | * HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: The crew of the ''Teselecta'' operates on this rule. They target war criminals throughout history, particularly those who were outright {{Karma Houdini}}s or committed suicide (like Hitler) before they could be brought to justice. They replace the original with a duplicate near the end of their timeline, and "give [the originals] hell". In Hitler's case they mistakenly did this too early, and would've left him alone (for the time being) had the TARDIS not appeared when it did. |
| 539 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Amy saves River from the ''Teselecta'' by shorting out all the devices that make the Antibodies leave them alone, forcing them to teleport away when they can't shut the Antibodies down quickly enough. |
| 540 | * KarmaHoudini: |
| 541 | ** The crew of the ''Teselecta'' aims to prevent this, by travelling to the end of said person's timeline… and killing them painfully. |
| 542 | ** They become {{Karma Houdini}}s themselves, in that they are forced to teleport away before the Doctor has time to [[BewareTheNiceOnes do to them]] what he usually does to people who try to justify torture. |
| 543 | * LoonyFan: Heavily implied to be one to the Doctor. It's indicated in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]] that they are somewhat aware of this. The Captain even acknowledges that, no matter what the Doctor may feel about their actions, they at least ''try'' to follow his example and act as champions of law and order throughout time. |
| 544 | * MisaimedFandom (InUniverse): It's strongly suggested that it was the Doctor who inspired the Department of Justice to travel through time punishing villains. |
| 545 | * MobileSuitHuman: The Teselecta is actually a shape-changing robot piloted by humans miniaturized via technology. |
| 546 | * ShoutOut: [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} A robot that appears human (and can mimic appearances) from the future traveling back in time to assassinate persons from the past.]] |
| 547 | * ShrinkRay: How the people piloting it go in it. Also how they dispose of the people they're copying. |
| 548 | * TimePolice: The "Department of Justice" organisation behind the ''Teselecta'' operates in the time stream, punishing war criminals that escape justice in their lifetime. |
| 549 | * YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: The Doctor is not happy that he inspired the Teselecta's crew on their murderous mission through time. |
| 550 | [[/folder]] |
| 551 | |
| 552 | [[folder:Madge Arwell]] |
| 553 | !!Madge Arwell (Eleventh Doctor) |
| 554 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2018_01_16_at_131329.png]] |
| 555 | ->'''Played By:''' Claire Skinner (2011) |
| 556 | |
| 557 | An ordinary housewife, she first met the Doctor at Christmastime 1938 after he'd fallen from orbit and was stuck in a spacesuit, helping him find the TARDIS. Three years later, the Doctor came to help her and her children have a nice Christmas after her husband's death during WWII. |
| 558 | ---- |
| 559 | * BlitzEvacuees: Madge and her kids are fleeing the war, which is why they go to stay at a country house. |
| 560 | * ChekhovsSkill: Madge is able to drive the robotic walker to the lighthouse because the control panel resembles that of a plane, which Reg taught her to fly once. |
| 561 | * GoodIsNotSoft: A kind and loving wife and mother-who pulls a gun on three soldiers standing in her way. |
| 562 | * HerHeartWillGoOn: Madge puts on a brave face when she receives news of her husband's death at sea. |
| 563 | * MamaBear: See GoodIsNotSoft. |
| 564 | * TookALevelInBadass: Even before Madge takes over the Humongous Mecha to save her children, she pulls a gun on her three interrogators. "Crying's so useful, isn't it?" |
| 565 | * WomenDrivers: Madge bumps into lots of things while driving the Doctor to the phone box. She doesn't fare much better when she hijacks a Humongous Mecha; the Doctor calls it a total write off. She does pretty well at traversing the Time Vortex, but accidentally goes further into the past then she needed to before landing in the right era. |
| 566 | [[/folder]] |
| 567 | |
| 568 | [[folder:Porridge]] |
| 569 | !!Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI / "Porridge" (Eleventh Doctor) |
| 570 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nightmare_in_silver_pics_promo_30_0.jpg]] |
| 571 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/WarwickDavis |
| 572 | |
| 573 | A man with dwarfism working for Impresario Webley and also stranded on Hedgewick's World, doing things like operating the chess-playing Cyberman shell. He's also a ''bit'' more than he seems... |
| 574 | ---- |
| 575 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: It's not focused on much, but he really does fall in love with Clara. He even proposes to marry her, but she gently rejects him. He takes it very well, all things considered. |
| 576 | * EarthShatteringKaboom: He activates the Desolator, a planet-imploding weapon, to destroy the reactivated Cybermen on Hedgewick's World of Wonders. |
| 577 | * ExpectingSomeoneTaller: No one except Angie suspects Porridge's identity prior to TheReveal, thanks to the wax statue of him in Webley's museum depicting him as being of normal height. |
| 578 | * GodEmperor: He's the venerated ruler of the known universe, or at least the human parts of it. |
| 579 | * KingIncognito: He turns out to be the missing Emperor. |
| 580 | * LonelyAtTheTop: Part of why he rejected his title for so long was because his lofty position cut him off from any genuine human connection, which he was allowed to feel when he was disguised as a lowly theme park operator. |
| 581 | * OverlyLongName: Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI, Defender of Humanity and Imperator of the Known Universe. Or Porridge for short. |
| 582 | * ReluctantRuler: ''So'' reluctant that he up and disappeared for an unknown period of time before having to reveal his identity to stop the Cybermen on Hedgewick's World. |
| 583 | [[/folder]] |
| 584 | |
| 585 | [[folder:Tasha Lem]] |
| 586 | -> See Characters/DoctorWhoTheSilence |
| 587 | |
| 588 | [[/folder]] |
| 589 | |
| 590 | !Twelfth Doctor era |
| 591 | [[folder:Santa Claus]] |
| 592 | !!Santa Claus (Twelfth Doctor) |
| 593 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stnick_9185.jpg]] |
| 594 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/NickFrost (2014) |
| 595 | |
| 596 | -->''"Now, what do you want for Christmas?"'' |
| 597 | |
| 598 | [[SantaClaus The bringer of gifts at Christmas!]] He comes into the Twelfth Doctor's life to help him and Clara (who have parted ways via mutual, well-meant lies) in TheStinger of the Series 8 finale. From here, he helps the characters fight against the dream crabs in the following ChristmasEpisode. An earlier Christmas special established that the Doctor has met someone claiming to be Santa before. |
| 599 | ---- |
| 600 | [[hardline]] |
| 601 | |
| 602 | * AllJustADream: His appearance in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2014CSLastChristmas Last Christmas]]" is due to the characters being stuck in a dream crab-induced dream. Santa represents their collective subconscious trying to help them escape the dream crabs' mental traps. This would explain the Doctor's surprise at the Nick Frost incarnation of Santa, because he's met the "real" Santa ("Or as I've always know him, Jeff"). However, [[TheEndOrIsIt the last scene implies that he might be real after all]]. |
| 603 | * BigFun: Fat, cuddly, and full of festive cheer. Being played by Nick Frost helps. |
| 604 | * DeadpanSnarker: He's one of the few people who can snark on the Doctor's level. |
| 605 | * FunPersonified: Though a snarky, cynical version, he's still as jovial as he can get away with. |
| 606 | * IHaveManyNames: Santa Claus. Father Christmas. Jeff. |
| 607 | * IronicEcho: |
| 608 | -->'''The Doctor:''' How do you get all the presents on the sleigh? |
| 609 | -->'''Santa:''' It's bigger on the inside. |
| 610 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: For ''Doctor Who'''s standard of "mundane" anyway. Santa Claus is probably just a "gestalt dream construct" created by the subconscious minds of the dream crab victims, but the final shot of the episode implies he actually could be real in some way. Santa himself points out that, even if he isn't real, that doesn't stop him from inspiring generosity and bringing hope to others. |
| 611 | * NoodleIncident: The Eleventh Doctor, Santa "Jeff" Claus and Albert Einstein were all hanging out in Frank Sinatra's hunting lodge in 1952, for some reason. |
| 612 | * PrimaryColorChampion: Nick Frost's Santa has a more traditionally heroic vibe about him and of course is all red and white, a sharp contrast against the Doctor's blue TARDIS and black clothes. |
| 613 | * SnarkToSnarkCombat: The Doctor and Santa have this dynamic, especially since Santa tends to take the Doctor's usual role away from him. |
| 614 | -->'''The Doctor:''' No, no, no, Santa does not do the explanations! |
| 615 | ** There's a bit of real life subtext to the Doctor and Santa's testosterone-fuelled competitiveness: the Doctor has become something of a FolkHero and, thanks to the annual [[ChristmasSpecial Christmas specials]] since the 2005 revival, has become popularly associated with the holiday. It's only natural that Santa gets a bit defensive about "his" holiday when the two finally clash onscreen. |
| 616 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tangerines. They're his "signature gift", and Santa gets very annoyed when he's told no one actually likes them. But he still leaves one on Clara's windowsill after she and the Doctor run away together. |
| 617 | * UnexpectedCharacter: Although he was offhandedly mentioned by the Eleventh Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol "A Christmas Carol"]], there were zero hints he would actually appear, and the Doctor seems surprised to see him just as much as the audience is! |
| 618 | [[/folder]] |
| 619 | |
| 620 | [[folder:Bors]] |
| 621 | !!Bors (Twelfth Doctor) |
| 622 | ->'''Played by:''' Daniel Hoffman-Gill (2015) |
| 623 | |
| 624 | -->''"Come on, dude."'' |
| 625 | |
| 626 | A tough axe-wielding warrior from 12th century Essex who befriends the Twelfth Doctor during his brief self-imposed exile. He appeared in "The Magician's Apprentice" and the prequel minisode "The Doctor's Meditation". |
| 627 | ---- |
| 628 | [[hardline]] |
| 629 | |
| 630 | * AffectionateNickname: He calls the Doctor "Magician" and "Sir Doctor". |
| 631 | * AntiquatedLinguistics: {{Averted}}, he unexpectedly speaks with anachronistic modern slang like "dude" after being taught it by the Doctor. |
| 632 | * BeleagueredAssistant: He reluctantly helps the Doctor build several wells, an extension to the throne room and a visitor centre. It's quite similar to the role Nardole would take on a permanent basis. |
| 633 | * TheBigGuy: He's a big, burly lad, though the Doctor could supposedly defeat him with a [[ImprobableWeaponUser daffodil]]. |
| 634 | * DumbassHasAPoint: He correctly deduces that the Doctor is using humour to cover his fear and that he's clearly putting off some dreadful destiny. |
| 635 | * FatIdiot: He's a portly chap and doesn't seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed. That said, [[DumbassHasAPoint he often seems to be the voice of reason]] compared to the procrastinating CloudCuckooLander that is the Doctor. |
| 636 | * GladiatorGames: He's an arena fighter who entertains the local townsfolk. The Doctor thoroughly upstages him every time they duel. |
| 637 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: He doesn't deny that he's an idiot and doesn't seem to see it as an insult. |
| 638 | * HotBlooded: He's eager to accompany the Doctor to meet whatever threat is in store. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he never gets a chance to.]] |
| 639 | * ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:He's revealed to be a Dalek Puppet in "The Magician's Apprentice", though how long he was undercover is unclear. [[WordOfGod Steven Moffat]] clarified that he only turned into one after Colony Sarff bit him.]] |
| 640 | * ManlyFacialHair: He has a large ginger beard, suiting his role as TheBigGuy. |
| 641 | * UndyingLoyalty: {{Exaggerated}}, he pledged his life to the Doctor after the wise Time Lord saved his life... [[MinorInjuryOverreaction from a splinter]]. |
| 642 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The Doctor playing electric guitar while riding a tank barely phases him or the spectating townsfolk after he'd been doing the same thing all week. |
| 643 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:One of the snakes that composes Colony Sarff bites and infects Bors with nanogenes, turning him into a Dalek Puppet and effectively killing him.]] |
| 644 | [[/folder]] |
| 645 | |
| 646 | [[folder:The Captain]] |
| 647 | !!Captain Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart (First and Twelfth Doctors) |
| 648 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2018_01_16_at_135127.png]] |
| 649 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkGatiss (2017) |
| 650 | |
| 651 | A British captain from the First World War that finds himself in Antarctica in the 1980s all of a sudden... then walks in on two men arguing about how they're the same man. |
| 652 | ---- |
| 653 | [[hardline]] |
| 654 | |
| 655 | * AllLovingHero: Mildly sexist he may be, in line with the time he comes from, but he offers without hesitation to trade his life for a black woman he's never even met, and tells the German soldier facing him (though of course the man doesn't understand him) that he doesn't want to shoot him. |
| 656 | * AllThereInTheManual: [[WordOfGod Steven Moffat]] intended the Captain to be the Brigadier's grandfather. According to Henry Lincoln and the Haisman estate (who own the character and publish the spin-off ''Lethbridge-Stewart'' series), the Captain was the Brig's great-uncle, and his brother Alastair is the Brigadier's namesake grandfather. A compromise was agreed upon to solve the conflict, in the form of [[http://mailchi.mp/6a0db744bb65/hs7hix02oj-2836461 a free story]] which establishes, or at least strongly (and deliberately) implies, that the Captain is, in fact, both the Brigadier's great-uncle and his ''biological'' grandfather due to having an affair with his [[AFamilyAffair sister-in-law]]. |
| 657 | * BadassFamily: Ancestor of Alistair and Kate Stewart. |
| 658 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: His sexism is according to the values of his time and society — though if anything, he's probably ''less'' sexist to Bill than a member of the WWI British officer class would be expected to be, and shows no signs of the expected racism. |
| 659 | * FishOutOfWater: He's a World War I officer stranded in the Antarctic, caught in the middle of two strange doctors claiming to be the same person, a box bigger on the inside and some seemingly malevolent glass people. |
| 660 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: And who can blame him, after everything he's been through? |
| 661 | * InTheBlood: An OfficerAndAGentleman with a 'stache covering a StiffUpperLip, as well as having NervesOfSteel and a not-so-HiddenHeartOfGold? Very much like his grandson and, indeed, his great-granddaughter. |
| 662 | * OfficerAndAGentleman: Much like the Brigadier. |
| 663 | * OverlyLongName: Like his descendent, the Captain prefers going by his full name, including his rank and middle name. |
| 664 | * TheSoftHeartedWarrior: Calmly tries to explain to the German soldier in the bomb crater with him that he has no desire to shoot him. Thanks to a little intervention by The Doctor, he doesn't have to. |
| 665 | * StiffUpperLip: Tries his best to stay calm in the face of trouble, and even offers freely to go to his death if it will help save the others. |
| 666 | [[/folder]] |
| 667 | |
| 668 | !Thirteenth Doctor era |
| 669 | [[folder:The Khan family]] |
| 670 | !!The Khan family (Thirteenth Doctor) |
| 671 | ->'''Najia Khan played by:''' Shobna Gulati |
| 672 | ->'''Hakim Khan played by:''' Ravin J. Ganatra |
| 673 | ->'''Sonya Khan played by:''' Bhavnisha Parmar |
| 674 | |
| 675 | The family of Yasmin "Yaz" Khan, they are unaware of who the Doctor really is or why Yaz has been away on "secondments" so often recently. |
| 676 | ---- |
| 677 | * ConspiracyTheorist: Hakim, to the exasperation of his wife and daughters. |
| 678 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In both [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], Hakim actually manages to be correct about something weird happening having a connection to a conspiracy of some kind: illegal garbage dumping in the former, and the family's mysterious paralysis during the enactment of Daniel Barton's plan in the latter. |
| 679 | * TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Sonya is first mentioned in the context of her apparently attempting to get Yaz to move out so she can have her bedroom. |
| 680 | * LethalChef: Hakim apparently makes terrible pakora. |
| 681 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: By [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], Yaz has been travelling with the Doctor and covering it up by claiming she's going on various secondments for over a year. All of them have ''met'' the Doctor at least once, but have no idea what's really going on. |
| 682 | * MySisterIsOffLimits: [[InformedAttribute Apparently,]] Sonya has a crush on Ryan, but Yaz refuses to encourage it. |
| 683 | * PhoneaholicTeenager: Sonya is never seen without her smartphone. |
| 684 | [[/folder]] |
| 685 | |
| 686 | [[folder:Joseph Williamson]] |
| 687 | !!Joseph Williamson (Thirteenth Doctor) |
| 688 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joseph_williamson_steve_oram_doctor_who_flux.jpg]] |
| 689 | ->'''Played by:''' Steve Oram (2021) |
| 690 | |
| 691 | An eccentric philanthropist from the 19th century responsible for creating a seemingly purposeless network of tunnels beneath the city of Liverpool. |
| 692 | ---- |
| 693 | [[hardline]] |
| 694 | |
| 695 | * ApocalypseCult: He creates the Williamson Tunnels in the hope of sheltering people from the upcoming apocalypse, which he saw during his travels in time. Unfortunately they aren't completed in time and wouldn't have worked anyway, but give him points for trying. |
| 696 | * ChekhovsGun: His tunnels prove to be important plot devices later in Series 13. |
| 697 | * CloudCuckooLander: He's an eccentric and intense fellow who doesn't seem particularly bothered by his constant space-time hopping. |
| 698 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Joseph Williamson and his mysterious tunnels really exist. As far as we know, he did not use his tunnel network to travel through time and space, but their true purpose is a subject of academic speculation to this day. |
| 699 | * TheOmnipresent: He's somehow everywhere at once, and even he doesn't seem to fully understand it. He appears in his tunnels in the 1800s, in the Temple of Atropos on planet Time, on a cruise ship in 1904, and so on. |
| 700 | * PortalCrossroadWorld: His tunnels turn out to serve this purpose, allowing him to pop up in seemingly random locations across the universe. |
| 701 | * TheyCalledMeMad: He's called the Mad Mole in his own time and has a chip on his shoulder about it. When he realises Yasmin is aware of the upcoming apocalypse as well he's visibly moved at finally meeting someone who believes him. |
| 702 | [[/folder]] |
| 703 | |
| 704 | [[folder:Claire Brown]] |
| 705 | |
| 706 | !!Claire Brown (Thirteenth Doctor) |
| 707 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/annabel_scholey_doctor_who_flux_600x337.jpg]] |
| 708 | ->'''Played by:''' Annabel Scholey (2021) |
| 709 | |
| 710 | A troubled young woman stalked by Weeping Angels. She approaches the Doctor during the Halloween Apocalypse as though they already know each other, but the Doctor does not recognise her. Claire then gets sent back to the 1960s by a Weeping Angel and becomes a guinea pig for Professor Jericho's experiments. |
| 711 | ---- |
| 712 | [[hardline]] |
| 713 | |
| 714 | * DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:She is essentially possessed by the Rogue Weeping Angel, which has embedded itself within her subconscious mind in order to hide from the rest of its own kind.]] |
| 715 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When we meet her again in the '60s, she has a fashionable bob cut of the time. |
| 716 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: She gets flung back from 2021 to the 1960s by an Angel. |
| 717 | * MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: [[spoiler:The Weeping Angel possessing her is a renegade on the run from both its own kind and the Division, the Gallifreyan organisation responsible for the Doctor's brainwashing. The Doctor, understandably, has difficulty trusting it thanks to her track record with Angel encounters. Unfortunately, the Rogue Angel betrays the Doctor to the rest of its kind after the other Angels decide that the Doctor is the more valuable target.]] |
| 718 | * TimeTravelTenseTrouble: She has this difficulty as she appears to already know the Doctor well without the Doctor knowing her, insinuating that the Doctor will meet Claire later in her personal timestream, similar to River Song. However, it turns out that Claire merely has psychic visions of the past and future due to the [[spoiler:Weeping Angel hiding inside her.]] |
| 719 | [[/folder]] |
| 720 | |
| 721 | ---- |
| 722 | |
| 723 | !Fifteenth Doctor era |
| 724 | |
| 725 | [[folder:Carla Sunday]] |
| 726 | !!Carla Sunday (Fifteenth Doctor) |
| 727 | [[quoteright:747:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_8038.jpeg]] |
| 728 | [[caption-width-right:747:]] |
| 729 | ->'''Played by:''' Michelle Greenbridgr (2023 - present) |
| 730 | |
| 731 | Ruby Sunday’s foster mother. |
| 732 | |
| 733 | ---- |
| 734 | [[hardline]] |
| 735 | |
| 736 | * ChildrenRaiseYou: Carla is a sweet nurturing woman, but when Ruby is retgonned, she becomes a bitter borderline ChildHater who fosters solely for the money. She’s returned to her old self once Ruby is restored. This goes to show that raising Ruby is what made Carla who she is. |
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