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| 4 | ->''"You'd have to explain gay to him first. Then straight! Then why you were still talking when there's ALL THESE SPACESHIPS!! Then [he'd] be very cross it was ever in doubt, add a gay marriage setting to his screwdriver and accidentally marry a Krynoid. Again."'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Creator/StevenMoffat''' (when asked what the Doctor would think of gay marriage) |
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| 7 | %%(For the interested, you can read a blow-by-blow account (pun unintended) of every suspicious moment from almost the entire series ''and'' spinoffs (though the DW section stops with "The Waters of Mars") [[http://www.nyder.com/stuff/whosqueer.html here]].) |
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| 10 | [[folder:The Doctor and the Master]] |
| 11 | Basically the OneTruePairing of the series, second only to Doctor/TARDIS (if only because those two have much more screen time together). ChildhoodFriends and fellow students from their youth on Gallifrey, some unknown reason caused a falling out between them. Though one seeks to explore and the other to conquer, their friendship [[FriendlyEnemy still exists despite their enmity]]. Creator/RussellTDavies, Creator/StevenMoffat, and Creator/PaulCornell ''all'' ship it, and their feelings towards and obsession with each other had been the subject of much speculation for forty-three years before they finally started snogging on the show. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Terror of the Autons]]" (the Master's very first appearance), the Master isn't at all surprised that the Doctor survived his first two attempts to kill him and refers to them as the opening salvos in their "game". This begins a trend apparent all throughout Roger Delgado's tenure, with the Master treating their constant battling as more of a friendly rivalry. At the end of the episode, despite all the death and destruction, the Doctor says that he's "rather looking forward to" their next encounter, showing that the Master isn't the only one to enjoy it. |
| 14 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil The Mind of Evil]]": |
| 15 | ** How [[http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/styles/article_width/public/mind_of_evil.jpg?itok=2GJpbH0e all]] [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/5aba001b1c23286ddde10a1443d5ae8f/tumblr_mvbtnnAPbA1ssxtqro2_250.gif up]][[https://78.media.tumblr.com/a96805b50e74eb0b6c57b50639fa4316/tumblr_mvbtnnAPbA1ssxtqro3_250.gif in]] the Doctor's [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace personal space]] the Master is. As you can see, it looks '''really''' suggestive, with or without context! |
| 16 | ** The Master [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/57f573a1d443a7e3a07eefc206f85bb2/tumblr_mvbtnnAPbA1ssxtqro7_250.gif caring for]] the Doctor after the Keller machine nearly kills him is straight out of a HurtComfortFic. Again this starts a trend in which, while he continually tries to kill him, the Master always believes that the Doctor will survive and doesn't actually want him gone. |
| 17 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]]" has the Master offer the Doctor [[WeCanRuleTogether the opportunity to rule the entire cosmos]]... for seemingly no reason whatsoever, as he doesn't need the Doctor's help. After the Doctor (predictably) refuses, the Master becomes unreasonably angry, implying that he genuinely wanted the Doctor to rule side by side with him. |
| 18 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E3TheSeaDevils The Sea Devils]]" has the Master admit that the only reason he keeps trying to destroy Earth is because it's the Doctor's favourite planet. This is part of yet another larger trend in which the Master deliberately targets Earth to infuriate the Doctor, much like a young boy pulling the hair of a girl they like because they don't know how else to express what they're feeling. |
| 19 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]", the Master openly states that "a cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about", further supporting the idea that he never truly intends to kill the Doctor. He's genuinely nice to the Doctor throughout the entire episode, though the Doctor sadly doesn't believe him, and is very miffed when One doesn't recognise him from their Academy days (what with him having a new, stolen body). |
| 20 | ** In that same episode, the Third Doctor calls the Master "my best enemy". |
| 21 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E6TheKingsDemons The King's Demons]]" is swimming in HoYay, starting with a very suggestive sword fight between Five and Ainley, and culminating in the Master's revelation that he has a robot that he can transform into the Doctor by sheer force of will. Rather than be weirded out, the Doctor uses his own psychic energy to transform said robot to look like the Master. They spend a few minutes simply playing with their new toy, turning it into each other while giving each other long closeup looks. |
| 22 | ** The novelization gives us this absolute gem: |
| 23 | --> The Master moaned in undiluted pleasure. "Only you, dear Doctor, can appreciate my art to the full." |
| 24 | * On two separate occasions ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken The Keeper of Traken]]" and [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie]]), the Master tries to [[GrandTheftMe steal the Doctor's body]]; he literally wants to be inside the Doctor. The former plays this very sexually, with the Master at one point toying with the ends of the Doctor's long curly hair, while the latter has the line "This body will soon decay. I NEED THE DOCTOR'S BODY!" |
| 25 | * In the game "Destiny of the Doctors", the Master locks up the Doctor and you must free his (then-seven) incarnations. But this is not done without a lot of Anthony Ainley's flirting with him. |
| 26 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound of Drums]]" couldn't have stretched the subtext thinner, with a phone conversation that is, in between explaining how the Master survived the Time War, basically the Doctor trying to persuade the Master to have a long term relationship with him and the Master trying to get the Doctor to have phone sex with him. It's so strong that the Master needs to lampshade it, mockingly asking "Are you asking me out on a ''date''?". |
| 27 | ** The (in)famous SayMyName bit, where the Master's reaction to hearing his name is closing his eyes and literally ''sighing with pleasure.'' |
| 28 | -->'''Master:''' ''Doctor''.\ |
| 29 | '''Doctor:''' Master.\ |
| 30 | '''Master:''' I like it when you use my name. |
| 31 | ** This conversation was preceded by the Master scrambling for his phone (he'd had it in his pocket and on speaker) when he hears the Doctor's voice, holding it to his ear with an expression that looks somewhat like relief. Of course, he gets straight into setting off his next plot, but not before swallowing and quietly asking about Gallifrey. |
| 32 | ** The previous episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia Utopia]]", has a similar exchange ("Use my name." "''Master''.") that wouldn't be out of place in a BDSM session. |
| 33 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords Last of the Time Lords]]" couldn't get more obvious if it tried. Particularly, the last ten minutes or so, what with [[spoiler:the Master [[DeathIsCheap 'dying']] [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in the Doctor's arms]]]]. And right before this, the Doctor reveals that the only safe place in the universe to keep the Master is... the TARDIS. |
| 34 | -->'''Doctor:''' The only safe place for him is the TARDIS.\ |
| 35 | '''Master:''' You mean you're just gonna... keep me?\ |
| 36 | '''Doctor:''' If that's what I have to do. It's time to change. Maybe, I've been wandering for too long. Now, I've got someone to care for. |
| 37 | * During a bit of timey-wimey shenanigans in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash Time Crash]]", the Fifth Doctor asks the Tenth: |
| 38 | -->'''Fifth Doctor:''' Does [the Master] still have [[BeardOfEvil that rubbish beard]]?\ |
| 39 | '''Tenth Doctor:''' No, no beard this time. Well, [[TheBeard a wife]]. |
| 40 | * Creator/RussellTDavies, writer of all the Master's appearances in Ten's era, called them "practically soul mates" in a Radio Times interview. |
| 41 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]" part one gives us the chase through the scrapyard, complete with piercing stares and heavy panting, the Master zapping the Doctor with his new electricity powers and the Doctor writhing in pain. And when the Master actually ''hits'' the Doctor, he stops attacking and runs over to make sure he's okay. The two reminisce about them playing in fields on Gallifrey as children, before the Master becomes rather insistent that the Doctor ''must understand him'', taking it so far as to initiate a mindmeld. |
| 42 | ** Part two is, between the return of [[spoiler:the Time Lords]] and the Doctor's angst about it and his impending death, almost ''entirely'' filled with Ho Yay goodness. Their back and forth banter while the Doctor is locked in what can only be described as [[BoundAndGagged a bondage chair]], the Master taking the Doctor's favourite species and [[spoiler:turning them into copies of himself]] (showing he's still jealous), the Doctor seriously contemplating whether killing the Master is worth saving everyone (which Wilf [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out on]]), and the Master's final act being [[spoiler:to sacrifice himself to save the Doctor]]. This exchange says it all: |
| 43 | -->'''Master:''' ''[shaking his head as his eyes fill with tears]'' Don't know what I'd be without that noise.\ |
| 44 | '''Doctor:''' I wonder what I'd be without you.\ |
| 45 | '''Master:''' ''[tearfully]'' Yeah. |
| 46 | ** When talking about the Doctor and Donna ("He ''loves'' playing with Earth girls!"), the Master is annoyed and bitter. |
| 47 | ** The Doctor's "You could be beautiful" monologue is dripping with homoerotic undertones. |
| 48 | ---> '''Doctor:''' You're a genius. You're stone cold brilliant, you are, I swear, you really are. But you could be so much more. You could be ''beautiful''. With a mind like that, we could travel the stars. It would be my honour. Because you don't need to own the universe, just see it. Have the privilege of seeing the whole of time and space. That's ownership enough. |
| 49 | * The Master, in a new android body, lives with the Doctor on the TARDIS in ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka''. Paul Cornell later attended a Doctor/Master slash panel (as an audience member) and was asked about the relationship, replied "I wouldn't be here if I didn't see it", and said that in ''Shalka'', the Doctor and the Master were "doing it". He later elaborated that he hadn't intended to write the story that way, but he adores the interpretation. |
| 50 | ** Their answering machine message was meant to imply a close friendship between the Doctor and his previous female companion. This was not even ''remotely'' clear in the finished product, and as such, it ends up sounding like the Doctor was recording while the Master was doing R-rated things to him. |
| 51 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]" gives us this lovely exchange (which Paul Cornell was downright giddy about): |
| 52 | --> '''Clara:''' I'm cooking Christmas dinner and I may have accidentally invented a boyfriend.\ |
| 53 | '''Doctor:''' Yeah, I did that once, and there's no easy way to get rid of an android! |
| 54 | * In the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho WhatIf episode [[spoiler: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoUnboundE2SympathyForTheDevil "Sympathy For The Devil"]]]], the Doctor and the Master meet in alternate regenerations, and the episode explores what would have happened if they'd never met in the 1970's ([[RunningGag or was it the 80's?]]). The HoYay is ''palpable''. This is also one of the times that the Master was played by an openly gay actor... namely, ''[[spoiler: Creator/MarkGatiss]]''. |
| 55 | ** In its direct sequel "The Emporium At The End", part of the Franchise/BerniceSummerfield Big Finish range, Benny straight up asks the Master if he and the Doctor used to be lovers. At this point she doesn't even know that the man she's talking to is the Master -- the HoYay is just ''that'' blatant. |
| 56 | * The Creator/BigFinish episode [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho049Master "Master"]] might as well have been called "just over two hours of HoYay". |
| 57 | * The Alex [=MacQueen=] incarnation of the Master, also in Creator/BigFinish, is ''by far'' the campest one of them all -- while still being very, very sinister. His plans for Seven involve merging the both of them into a single being, with Seven's mind as a slave to his own, so they can rule the galaxy together for all of eternity. (He fails, of course.) When he finally meets Eight, he spends a while simply admiring the Doctor's beauty, making appreciative noises and commenting on his hair. |
| 58 | * In ''VideoGame/DoctorWhoLegacy'', the Ninth Doctor's reaction to hearing that the Master is involved is simply "Fantastic!" |
| 59 | * In the Creator/BigFinish Short Trips prose story "Christmas Truce", by Creator/TerranceDicks, the Master sneaks into a UNIT Christmas party using an elaborate disguise, a funny accent and a lot of hypnotism... ''just'' so he can spend some time with the Doctor. Three wearily allows it, and the two of them drink some champagne on the UNIT terrace, gaze at the stars and reminisce about the time on Gallifrey they spent hanging out in Shobogan bars. Afterwards, Jo wonders why the Master even bothered planting a bunch of microphones and explosives and such around UNIT base in the process, since the Doctor would inevitably find them anyway -- and the Doctor comments that the Master just really wanted to share a nice glass of champagne with an old friend, but couldn't let his evil reputation get tarnished. |
| 60 | * In the novel "Harvest Of Time", by Alastair Reynolds, the Doctor and the Master spend an inordinate amount of time not killing each other when they have the chance to, and making up rubbish excuses as to why they're letting each other live. The Doctor also goes out of his way to save the Master's life after the latter gets his skull invaded by a tentacled robo-crab. |
| 61 | ** Moreover, said robo-crab skull invasion apparently leaves the Master physically weakened, and the Doctor has a rather gentle and considerate manner toward him as a result, helping him stand and such. And we get this rather emotional bit while the Master is out cold: |
| 62 | -->‘If our positions were reversed,’ the Doctor whispered, ‘what would you do? Smother me? Something worse? Or accept that there’s a part of me in you, a part of you in me?’ |
| 63 | * In the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho AU episode "Exile", the Doctor regenerates as a woman. She notices a guy making eyes at her and ''immediately'' assumes he's the Master. |
| 64 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater Dark Water]]", [[spoiler:the Master (well, [[GenderBender Mistress]])]] finally pushes the Doctor up against a wall and snogs him completely senseless. And, being very fond of little games, she offers a snog to Clara as well. She says her heart belongs to the Doctor, teases that her heart is maintained by the Doctor, and clues him in on her [[spoiler:double heartbeat]] by putting his hand on her chest. In the next episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven Death in Heaven]]", she tries to ''give him the army she's just spent centuries making'', offering it to him in a desperate attempt to repair their friendship. When the Doctor realises just how utterly broken she is -- and how much he needs her too, just as a reminder of what he's ''not'' -- he [[spoiler:gets down on his knees to gently kiss her on the lips in return]]. Even though [[spoiler:the Master happens to be female at this point]], the arc retroactively canonises several decades of HoYay. |
| 65 | * One script draft of "The End Of Time" had the following scene which, tragically, didn't make it to the screen: |
| 66 | -->'''The Master:''' Yeah, as much as I like looking at myself, I think you can get out of that dress. |
| 67 | -->'''The Master:''' Is that an invitation? |
| 68 | -->'''The Master:''' Now that would be different. And brilliant. But later! |
| 69 | -->'''The Master:''' [[ScrewYourself I'm a psychological minefield.]] |
| 70 | * The Twelfth Doctor tells Bill that when they were young, the Master was his "man crush". |
| 71 | -->'''The Doctor:''' We had a pact, me and him. Every star in the universe, we were going to see them all. But he was too busy burning them. |
| 72 | * In "Spyfall", the Master [[PowerDynamicsKink makes the Doctor kneel in front of him, and demands that she call him by his name]]. Then he immediately kneels down himself, so that they can have an emotional conversation on the same level. |
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| 74 | |
| 75 | [[folder:Jack Harkness]] |
| 76 | * The Doctor continually curtailing Jack's attempts to flirt with everyone they meet ([[ExtremeOmnisexual male, female, or indeterminate]]), allegedly because otherwise, they'd never get anything done. It often sounds more like someone's just jealous. |
| 77 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown Boom Town]]", Jack and Nine start pretty much openly flirting, to the point where it seems silly to even list it here, because it's not even subtext, it's just text. |
| 78 | -->'''Mickey:''' ''[to Rose]'' You look fantastic! ''[hugs her]'' |
| 79 | -->'''Jack:''' Aww, sweet. Look at these two. How come I never get any of that? |
| 80 | -->'''The Doctor:''' Buy me a drink first. |
| 81 | -->'''Jack:''' Such hard work. |
| 82 | -->'''The Doctor:''' ''[grins]'' But worth it! |
| 83 | * [[spoiler:In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon Fugitive of the Judoon]]", Jack teleports Graham onto his ship. Believing he's the Doctor, he greets him by planting a kiss straight on his lips. Graham is understandably confused.]] |
| 84 | * As mentioned below, Jack gives a speech to Yaz in "Revolution of the Daleks" that's very reminiscent of an ex giving the new girlfriend some advice on relationships. In the speech, Jack refers to the Doctor by he/him pronouns, implying he's thinking of the Ninth and Tenth Doctor, and Jack's timeline of events seems to put a heavy focus on his adventures with the Ninth Doctor, which makes sense given that Nine is the Doctor that Jack had the most romantic tension with (and outright kissed). |
| 85 | [[/folder]] |
| 86 | |
| 87 | [[folder:Eleventh Doctor]] |
| 88 | Eleven absolutely doesn't care about social norms or nudity taboos, has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace, and generally brings to the airwaves all the lovely things Eight was only allowed to do in the novels. He's also the first incarnation since Eight to randomly kiss companions when he gets excited, without needing some kind of excuse for it. |
| 89 | * Eleven and Rory have a bit of this going on from the moment they meet, mainly thanks to Eleven's complete disregard for personal space and their intense rivalry caused by Amy. It's hilariously one-sided due to Rory's SingleTargetSexuality. |
| 90 | ** There is a [[http://youtu.be/Ix6omvPYXWI cut scene]] from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth The Hungry Earth]]" where Eleven gets distracted wondering where Rory is, before stating almost dreamily that "I like him. A ''lot''." It's adorable and most definitely should have been left in. |
| 91 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood Cold Blood]]", Rory [[spoiler:dies to save Eleven]], which is followed by Eleven telling Amy to [[spoiler:remember "funny, gorgeous Rory"]]. In general, as part of his ShipperOnDeck duties he spends quite a lot of time telling Amy how great Rory is. |
| 92 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]": |
| 93 | *** The bit where the Dream Lord has just sent the three of them off to sleep in one world, they wake up on a park bench... and [[SleepCute the Doctor's head has fallen onto Rory's shoulder]]. They both kind of freak, and the {{adorkable}}ness reaches near-fatal levels. |
| 94 | *** At one point the Dream Lord sends the Doctor and Rory back into an alternate reality together, offering to "keep" Amy and let the Doctor have Rory all to himself... for all eternity. Rory and the Doctor then proceed to fall asleep entangled together on the floor of the TARDIS. |
| 95 | ** Speaking of Eleven's personal space issues, Rory is definitely the most frequent recipient of Doc's hello face-touches. |
| 96 | ** During a scene in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon Day of the Moon]]" when they've all faked their deaths to get into Area 51 and are taken into the Doctor's prison via bodybags, it's Rory who the Doctor goes for straight away and you can see him [[AnywhereButTheirLips kissing his forehead]] to one side of the screen. |
| 97 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]", when Amy and Rory are finally reunited with Melody, they start crying and making out just as the Doctor walks in. He is hastily trying to excuse himself when Rory points his sword at him and ''demands'' he come back. |
| 98 | ** The Doctor grabs Rory's head and kisses him full on the mouth in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]". Just because he feels like it. [[GuyOnGuyIsHot Amy doesn't seem to mind]], though Rory makes a "yuck" face. As was revealed during the 2013 Gallifrey One convention, the snog wasn't actually in the script. Creator/MattSmith just likes kissing people. |
| 99 | ** They previously shared a kiss in the [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW IDW comics]], after the Doctor and Amy [[FreakyFridayFlip accidentally switched bodies]]. Rory [[SingleTargetSexuality doesn't even care]] that Amy has a different body and kisses her to reassure her... until he realises that they've already switched back to normal, and he just accidentally kissed the Doctor. Amy asks them to do it again. [[YaoiFangirl Slower.]] |
| 100 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E4ThePowerOfThree The Power of Three]]", the Doctor looks ''very'' happily at Rory in his underpants. Rory also kisses the Doctor on the cheek in the episode. Just casually. Eleven makes a very happy "oooh!" sound. |
| 101 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]" has him borrowing a [[MrFanservice hunky guy]]'s laptop, and later in the episode he refers to him as "Amy's friend... the good-looking one". It helps that Jeff seems perfectly happy to let the Doctor get all in his personal space. In fact, cut dialog from that scene even has Jeff's grandmother asking (of the Doctor) "Jeff, is he your gay friend?" despite protests from Jeff that he isn't gay. |
| 102 | * Eleven and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor Vincent van Gogh]]. They become physically close right off the bat, with the Doctor doing a lot of clapping his hand on Vincent's shoulder and such. Then Vincent gets hyped up on coffee and ends up screaming "''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Capture my mystery!]]''" at the Doctor, then awkwardly ''stroking'' his shirt. There are lingering glances, the Doctor comforting Vincent in the depths of his depression, long hugs, and [[OneTrueThreesome Amy, the Doctor, and Vincent]] lying on the grass together stargazing, during which scene Vincent takes both their hands, and holds the Doctor's to his chest. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments The Doctor even goes against pretty much ALL the rules of time travel and takes Vincent to see how popular and revered his work is in the future, just to add more good moments]] [[TearJerker to a life that inevitably ends in suicide.]] |
| 103 | ** In that same episode, Eleven kept running an appreciative eye over Creator/BillNighy as a museum curator because he likes his bow ties. |
| 104 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger The Lodger]]" is pretty much a mass of Ho Yay directed at Craig. Eleven strokes him constantly, displays a complete disregard for his personal space and grabbed him at at least one point (although that was for the purposes of telepathy). The Ho Yay of this episode peaked with Eleven stroking Craig's face when he was poisoned and incapacitated, and tenderly saying "You're important". Not to mention Eleven's lack of hesitation in approaching both Craig and Sophie while wearing only a towel. |
| 105 | ** Absolutely off the charts in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E12ClosingTime Closing Time]]"; the Doctor plus Craig plus a baby adds up to make the episode one long, unbroken MistakenForGay sequence, and that's not counting the bit where the Doctor attempts to distract Craig from the approaching [[spoiler:Cybermen]] by declaring his passionate love for him and attempting to kiss him to prove it. Craig's only objection, by the way, is that he is already in a relationship. |
| 106 | * "I danced with everyone at their wedding. The women were all brilliant. The men... were a bit shy." |
| 107 | * He considers the founding fathers of the United States "lovely fellas. Two of them fancied me." |
| 108 | * He's friends with Franz Schubert (who was AmbiguouslyBi), and happily babbles about how "Franz the Hands" likes to tickle him while they play the piano together. |
| 109 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]", Eleven goofs around with a Punch handpuppet and snogs it. It proceeds to hit him in the face, not entirely unlike how his relationships typically pan out. |
| 110 | * [=DragonCon=] 2012 had Creator/SylvesterMcCoy giving the world [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5E1i7Wd6aXI Seven/Eleven handpuppet slash]]. |
| 111 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E8ColdWar Cold War]]", Eleven tells Creator/DavidWarner [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone "I could kiss you!"]] Warner's character isn't all too bothered by the idea, since kissing on the mouth was a common gesture of friendship between men in the Soviet era. Eleven looks mildly confused and decides on "later!" |
| 112 | * Eleven and Professor Brian Cox have some of the most intense HoYay in the series so far in the special "The Science of Doctor Who". |
| 113 | [[/folder]] |
| 114 | |
| 115 | [[folder:Second Doctor and Jamie]] |
| 116 | * [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1grope_6685.jpg Getting]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2grope_7217.jpg all]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3grope_5587.jpg up]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4grope_2091.jpg in]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5grope_9209.jpg each]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6grope_1475.jpg other's]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7grope_139.jpg personal]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8grope_1542.jpg space,]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/9grope_3281.jpg oh]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/10grope_2357.jpg yes.]] They hug constantly, they flirt, they banter like an old married couple, and of all the companion/Doctor relationships, they seem most like a dynamic duo rather than "the extraordinary Doctor and his amazed companion along for the ride". The actors were very close friends, and Creator/FrazerHines commented that he could read Creator/PatrickTroughton's mind just by looking into "those twinkling eyes", and that much of their thoughts of spending time with each other sadly had to remain "private". |
| 117 | * Not just constant hugging, but constant touching -- they ''epitomize'' NoSenseOfPersonalSpace. Jamie is a master of the SecurityCling and, while he'll grab onto his co-companions or random one-off characters who happen to be nearby, clings to the Doctor with truly ridiculous frequency. |
| 118 | * Mere days after they meet with the latter [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders holding him at knifepoint]], the Doctor has apparently taken notice of Jamie's "soft hands and face". |
| 119 | * That moment in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]" when the Doctor fondles Jamie's sporran. |
| 120 | * There's a scene in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E6FuryFromTheDeep Fury From the Deep]]" which only survives in telesnaps but which depicts [[ManInAKilt Jamie]] on the Doctor's shoulders -- and the Doctor rather definitely looking up. |
| 121 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks The Evil of the Daleks]]", when the Doctor has to manipulate Jamie as part of a plot and Jamie finds out, he tells the Doctor "We're finished!" and refuses to touch him. (It doesn't last long.) And the ''sheer terror'' on the Doctor's face when he finds out that the Daleks want to use Jamie in their experiments. Not until the Revival series would a Doctor go into a similar panic at the thought of a companion being harmed. |
| 122 | * There's a scene in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E4TheEnemyOfTheWorld Enemy of the World]]" where the Doctor specifically asks Jamie, rather than either of the women in the room, if he thinks his [[IdenticalStranger doppelganger]] Ramón Salamander is handsome, while licking his lips. In response, Jamie swats his arm and gives him an "''oh, behave, you''" grin. |
| 123 | * Some of the [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish]] audio dramas seem to lean into it even further. The Short Trip ''Deleted Scenes'' practically spells out that the Doctor has feelings for Jamie, at least, as the Doctor's response to Jamie picking up a GirlOfTheWeek is to behave in exactly the same manner as her spurned ex-fiance, and the Doctor and he have a conversation about lost love in as many words. And said conversation certainly made an impression on the Doctor, as [[spoiler: the Fourth Doctor calls back to it when he appears at the end of the story, while simultaneously defending Jamie's honor.]] |
| 124 | ** In the same story, said GirlOfTheWeek says to Jamie of the Doctor, "he loves you dearly, as do I", and urges Jamie to "take care of [him]", the same advice the Doctor gave to Polly regarding Ben, who she ended up marrying in the ExpandedUniverse. |
| 125 | * Jamie is also one of the companions to reunite with or be referenced by future Doctors the most, at least if the Expanded Universe is taken into account, and nearly every Doctor that mentions him remembers being exceptionally fond of him. |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:Eighth Doctor and Fitz]] |
| 129 | Where to begin with Fitz Kreiner and the Eighth Doctor from the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures... Over the course of their fifty-something books together, they become Not-So-[[HeterosexualLifePartners Heterosexual Life Partners]]. [=EDAs=] with Fitz can be divided up into "Fitz and the Doctor are rather gay for each other" books and "Fitz and the Doctor are ''really'' gay for each other" books. This is all massively confusing for Fitz, who has a ''number'' of issues with suddenly being in love with an alien bloke. A ''few'' examples: |
| 130 | * The Doctor happily kisses Fitz on the mouth after knowing him, from the Doctor's own perspective, for just a couple of weeks. |
| 131 | * He also "delicately" kisses Fitz on the hand, and after spending much of a book looking up and down for him, the Doctor learns Fitz is alive through a video link and kisses the screen in happiness. In the same book, Fitz has managed to both sprain and get a shotgun wound in one of his legs. When the group has to make a fast getaway, the Doctor [[BridalCarry carries Fitz bridal style]] to safety. The author thought it was important for everyone to know how "almost romantic" it was. |
| 132 | * Fitz outright admits, via internal monologue, to wanting to "get laid by" the Doctor. When someone uses mind control to make Fitz love her in another book, Fitz breaks out of it by saying, "I've been engineered to love you, Carmodi. With the Doctor - it's the real thing." At one point, the prospect that they may not be able to use the TARDIS comes up and Fitz wonders if they'll end up settling down together in "that house [the Doctor] had in Kent and grow roses." |
| 133 | * While the Doctor is alone on Earth for 100 years, he's obsessed with a song he can only half-remember. "Do you know, I've had a tune going round and round in my head for more than a hundred years. I don't have the slightest idea what it is. I want to know." It's revealed to the reader at the very end of the book this song is Fitz's, one he wrote for the Doctor. So the Doctor [[TraumaInducedAmnesia forgot everything about himself, the Time Lords, Gallifrey]], but he remembered a song Fitz wrote for him. |
| 134 | * In yet another book, there is the infamous naked bum-rubbing dream, causing Fitz to spend the rest of the story trying not to stare at the Doctor's arse. The plot involves a FreakyFridayFlip. The Doctor, who is TheStoic when it comes to expressing sadness or fear, [[NotSoStoic actually]] [[ManlyTears cries]] when he realizes how terrifying [[CowardlyLion Fitz]]'s life is [[TearsOfRemorse because of him]]. |
| 135 | * When the Doctor manages to lose Fitz in ''Interference'', he does some very shady things to get him back, including [[spoiler:talking the clone-of-a-clone-of-a-clone of Fitz, a kid named Kode, into suicide so he can basically reprogram memories of Fitz into Kode's body.]] The fact that he lies about it to his other companion implies the Doctor [[{{Necromantic}} knows how sketchy it was.]] |
| 136 | * In that same book, the original Fitz goes to ''extreme'' measures to be re-united with the Doctor, to the point where [[spoiler: after hundreds of years, he's become so obsessed that finding the Doctor has become his unnatural life's entire purpose]]. |
| 137 | * The Doctor, generally ObliviousToLove, actually ''flirts'' with Fitz ("I'll show you my tattoo if you're lucky."). Fitz also seems to be the only companion in the [=EDAs=] whose physical appearance the Doctor really notices, and he compliments Fitz when he's looking uncharacteristically well-groomed. |
| 138 | * After spending an entire book having a massive HeroicBSOD, Fitz pulls himself out of it by explicitly making his new purpose in life looking after the amnesiac Doctor. |
| 139 | * Fitz is said to "dote on the Doctor", makes him three meals a day with little notes when he's locked up in his room mourning, and is the target of serious worry from the Doctor sometimes when they are apart. |
| 140 | * The very last line of ''Parallel 59'', which follows the Doctor being joyfully reunited with Fitz and then watching Fitz be reunited with his GirlOfTheWeek, strongly implies that what the Doctor feels for Fitz is love in some sense. |
| 141 | -->He whistled as he walked, Fitz’s plaintive little melody still in his head. Thinking of loved ones, coming home. |
| 142 | * From ''Frontier Worlds'': |
| 143 | --> ‘Doctor! I’ve never been so glad to see anyone in my entire life. And that includes several naked women.’ |
| 144 | * There is much more, to the point no fan would be surprised if one of the [=EDAs=] ended with, "And then the Doctor and Fitz went back to the TARDIS and shagged." To see more examples, check [[http://community.livejournal.com/who_otp/188826.html here]] and [[http://community.livejournal.com/ship_manifesto/157884.html here]]. |
| 145 | * And last but not least, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic their first meeting is rife with meaning]]. Fitz is working in a plant shop, lamenting how his life is being wasted away, when the Doctor shows up and tries to purchase a very symbolic flower. |
| 146 | -->"I'd like to buy this begonia." |
| 147 | -->"This begonia? But it's nearly dead." |
| 148 | -->"I know. I intend to rescue it." |
| 149 | ** 27 books later, he still has that begonia. As well as Fitz. |
| 150 | |
| 151 | Aside from Eight's fascination with Fitz, he was also the first Doctor to be written as bisexual (or as ''anything''-sexual, really) and gets some more lovely moments in the books: |
| 152 | * Eight and UsefulNotes/AlanTuring -- yes, ''that'' Alan Turing -- have some absolutely intense HoYay in the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures. |
| 153 | * Also, the Eighth Doctor and Karl from the EDA ''The Year Of Intelligent Tigers''. Quoth author Kate Orman: |
| 154 | -->"...still surprised that fans, on the whole, think Karl was in wuv with the Doctor but the Doctor didn't reciprocate. This is not unreasonable in light of canon, but, oh me oh my, I must be more subtle than I thought." [...] "The Doctor and Karl are at it like rabbits every time the reader isn't looking. However, the precise nature of their relationship is deliberately left ambiguous, so that the reader can interpret it as A) a passionate but platonic friendship or B) unrequited love on the part of Karl. However, I know the location of all the missing sex scenes." [...] "Well, there's the weight of 40 years of apparently sexless Doctor on their side; plus the relationship is *meant* to be ambiguous, so people can interpret it to their comfort level. What surprises me is so few readers *do* think that Karl and the Doctor have to do some fast buttoning and zipping every time I cut back to them." [...] "I wanted to let readers decide for themselves what was happening between the [[strike:sheets]] pages, as a way of showing that you could do a love story for the Doctor with a bit of subtlety and gentleness." |
| 155 | ** And Kate Orman being slightly less subtle: |
| 156 | --> "They blow each other every time the camera's off them." |
| 157 | * In the Creator/BigFinish printed story "The Feast of Seven... Eight (and Nine)" by Vanessa Bishop, from ''Short Trips: A Christmas Treasure'', Eight celebrates Christmas by... grabbing some mistletoe and trying to make out with all of his former selves. He succeeds with Five and Three and dreamily sighs about Puccini having such soft lips. Seven gets offended by the whole thing and tells Eight that Six is "more that way inclined". |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Ace]] |
| 161 | Ace gets suspiciously chummy with a female guest cast member in almost every story. We really have to give special mentions to: |
| 162 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight Ghost Light]]", in which she [[{{Bifauxnen}} dresses up in Victorian male evening dress for no apparent reason]] and then has two separate {{Cat Fight}}s (one of which takes place ''on a bed'') with a girl who keeps calling her "my dear". |
| 163 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]", in which the LesYay between her and the Cheetah Person Karra is so shameless that when the author [[WordOfGay complained]] that her [[http://web.archive.org/web/20090101212107/http://www.btinternet.com/~david.darlington/WORDS/RonaMunroInterview.htm intended lesbian innuendo had been lost from the finished story]], most viewers wondered how it could have been any more explicit and still got shown before the {{Watershed}}. |
| 164 | * With Mel in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire Dragonfire]]". Her first response to Mel falling over and being knocked out is to do what is probably meant to be feeling for a skull fracture, but looks more like stroking her hair. It's more blatant in the novelisation, where Ace and Mel [[spoiler:descend an ice face using mountain climbing gear rather than the pack ladder used in the serial]] and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything this exchange takes place]]: |
| 165 | -->'I've never done this before,' admitted Mel. 'You must have done it lots of times.'\ |
| 166 | 'Well, not lots of times...'\ |
| 167 | Ace was avoiding Mel's eyes.\ |
| 168 | 'How many times?' asked Mel suspiciously.\ |
| 169 | 'This'll be the first.' Ace looked up guiltily. 'But I've seen them do it on telly, and it's easy!'\ |
| 170 | Mel looked at Ace. The safety harness Ace was wearing didn't look quite right. 'I think you've got that harness on upside-down. I think those tight straps are supposed to go between your legs.'\ |
| 171 | Ace looked down, and giggled. 'It's a good job I'm not a boy!' she laughed. Mel smiled - and then she began to laugh as well. This wasn't going to be a bit like they always showed it on telly! |
| 172 | * With Shou Yuing in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]". They bond over a shared love of explosives and at one point are huddled inside a chalk circle clutching a sword. |
| 173 | * In "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol}} The Happiness Patrol]]" with the repentant Patrol member Susan Q, who talks to her about being closetedly sad. In the deleted scenes package on the DVD, Susan Q tells Ace "As long as you're looking cute we've got a chance". |
| 174 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]": |
| 175 | ** Jean and Phyllis, who also seem rather determined to get Ace to join them early on, and after [[spoiler:they become [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Haemovores]]]] they tell her, "You should have come into the water with us. Then we'd have been together." This is another case where the novelisation goes a bit... deeper with things. Not only is there implied to be a past relationship between Millington and Judson as mentioned below, but it's pretty clear in the book that Jean and Phyllis were probably a couple as well, even before [[spoiler:their [[LesbianVampire transformation]]]]. |
| 176 | ** Ace definitely had a thing for Kathleen in "Curse of Fenric". Absolutely no sense of personal space, she's constantly taking time (when they really don't have much to spare) to run off and check on her and the baby... She even refuses to accompany the Doctor into a fight because she wants to stay and take care of them. Keep in mind that this is ''Ace [=McShane=]'', who normally refuses to be left behind, hates "dark buildings", and loves a good fight more than anything, turning down the Doctor's request for help in order to barricade herself into a barracks with a sweet, gorgeous, intelligent, recently-widowed army wife. [[SurpriseIncest Who happens to be her grandmother.]] And whom she promptly risks her life for to help her escape to London, sending them ''to her own family'' no less. |
| 177 | * With the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent alien girl Mags]] in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowInTheGalaxy The Greatest Show In The Galaxy]]". Ace forms a bond with her almost instantly and seems to pick up on the abusive nature of the girl's arrangement with her companion/master almost before the Doctor does; while Ace is separated from her for most of the episode, they play off one another beautifully when they're together and are among the only characters that never, at any point, doubt each other's honesty or try to use each other. |
| 178 | * Surprisingly, despite all the examples given above on TV, when it comes to the expanded universe novels, Ace becomes almost aggressively promiscuous but exclusively with men, even though in the books they felt free enough to retroactively bring one longstanding TV character (Mike Yates) out of the closet. |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[folder:Nyssa and Tegan]] |
| 182 | * The TARDIS is (theoretically) infinite, and yet Nyssa and Tegan share a very cozy room and not only never question this arrangement, but they also seem to be pleased as punch about the whole thing. For context, the only other people who have shared a room in the show's history are [[OfficialCouple canon couples]] Ian and Barbara (confirmed to have finally gotten married in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'') and Amy and Rory. |
| 183 | * Nyssa and Tegan hit it off quite well from the very beginning, with Tegan being the more likely to stand up to pushy individuals and Nyssa acting as the voice of reason. This includes their original meeting, where Tegan goes from visibly upset to happy upon seeing Nyssa, at that point a complete stranger. |
| 184 | * Nyssa's gentle fretting and care for Tegan in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E2Snakedance Snakedance]]" edges a great deal past mere friendly concern. |
| 185 | * Nyssa is deeply upset when the Doctor leaves Tegan behind without warning in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E7TimeFlight Time-Flight]]", insisting they shouldn't have just left her. |
| 186 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E1ArcOfInfinity Arc of Infinity]]" Nyssa's priorities pull a 180 from worrying about the Doctor to wanting to hear every detail about Tegan the moment they hear from her. She's very quick to pull Tegan firmly back onto the team when she turns up again, and nearly throws a fit when the Doctor is about to venture into the Matrix to find [[spoiler:Omega]]'s location from Tegan, on the grounds that she might be killed. The next time she sees the Doctor, she won't even ''look at him'' until he tells her Tegan is all right. |
| 187 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid Black Orchid]]" has this in spades. Tegan cheerfully demonstrates the Charleston for Nyssa. Tegan can tell [[IdenticalStranger Ann and Nyssa]] apart and is insufferably smug about this. (Context: In a discussion between Ann and Nyssa we learn that the only visible difference is ''a mole on Ann's chest'', which isn't visible even in a relatively low-cut butterfly dress.) Upon the reveal of their twin act: |
| 188 | --> '''Muir:''' I might have known they were up to something. Now no one can tell them apart.\ |
| 189 | '''Tegan:''' I can.\ |
| 190 | '''Muir:''' How?\ |
| 191 | '''Tegan:''' ''[smirk]'' That's a secret. |
| 192 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead Mawdryn Undead]]" is basically Nyssa and Tegan being married while trying to keep an eye on a bumbling, overgrown alien schoolboy (and Turlough). When not-actually-the-Doctor tries to order Nyssa to dematerialize without Tegan (again), she only argues for a minute... and then walks defiantly out of the TARDIS. The scene where Tegan goes for help is difficult to read as anything ''but'' a worried couple hovering over their injured kid and not knowing what to do, with Nyssa's fretting as she tells Tegan to be careful and to take the TARDIS communicator. For that matter, Tegan's very real fear when she realizes she just left her best friend alone with a stranger who probably isn't the Doctor, upon which she runs back to the TARDIS. The sheer ''relief'' in her voice when she finds Nyssa safe and waiting for them... |
| 193 | * While the rest is [[{{TearJerker}} agonizingly painful]], "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]]" has its moments. |
| 194 | ** Nyssa once again demonstrates her priorities: |
| 195 | -->'''Doctor:''' It'll be good to see the TARDIS again.\ |
| 196 | '''Nyssa:''' And Tegan! |
| 197 | ** Despite knowing the Doctor longer and having spent more time with him -- all those adventures while Tegan was on Earth -- Nyssa is able to remain calm and collected while saying goodbye to him, asking him politely not to be upset and to let her leave in good faith, to part as friends. Then she has to say goodbye to Tegan and breaks down ''sobbing'' into her chest. |
| 198 | ** Tegan's horrified head-shaking in the background when Nyssa tries to tell her that she's chosen to stay on Terminus, and her desperation when she asks the Doctor not to let Nyssa stay on Terminus to die, and her growing realization that Nyssa's really not coming with them. By the time Nyssa asks them to stop trying to convince her so they can part as friends, loud angry defiant Tegan Jovanka can barely manage to whisper "...Please, Nyssa...?" And of course, their tearful goodbye. |
| 199 | -->'''Tegan:''' She'll die here.\ |
| 200 | '''Nyssa:''' ''[voice breaking]'' Not easily, Tegan. Like you, I'm indestructible. |
| 201 | * In the AudioPlay/{{Big Finish|DoctorWho}} adventure "Cradle of the Snake": |
| 202 | ** Within the first seven minutes, Tegan (admittedly Tegan possessed, but still) has Nyssa pinned against the wall ''purring'' about how much they'll enjoy themselves if Nyssa stays. Several times it's mentioned that the influence of the Mara works by forcing people's dark sides and ''subconscious desires'' to the surface. |
| 203 | ** Throughout the audio and for no reason whatsoever except for its long stay in Tegan's subconscious, the Mara has a sexually-charged ''obsession'' with Nyssa. It sneers about her purity and calls her "little nun", implying that her rejection of its advances ''actually offended it'', and while possessed not only can none of the Mara's minions take their eyes off Nyssa, but the Mara's influence on her involves her dressing scantily and in black. |
| 204 | ** Nyssa opens the audio by gently shooing Turlough and the Doctor away so she can take care of Tegan on her own. Tegan - who'd locked herself in their room and had refused to open the door for what appeared to be a long period of cajoling by the Doctor - instantly lets Nyssa in when she's asked. One of the first things Nyssa says is that Tegan's been sleeping badly and having nightmares again, to which Tegan's reply is a tired "Sorry to keep you awake." (Admittedly they ''do'' share a room, but if they slept on opposite sides of the room it's very unlikely that Nyssa would be woken up by Tegan's restless sleep unless she actually woke up screaming, which doesn't appear to be the case, so it's logical to conclude they're sharing a bed.) |
| 205 | ** Even while under the influence of the Mara ''after it gives the explicit order that Tegan and Turlough are to be killed on sight'', Nyssa goes out of her way to hide Tegan and keep her out of the way of the other members of the Mara's council, to keep her safe. She even consoles Tegan - sort of - about the fact that the Mara rejected the idea of possessing her again, explaining that some people just aren't born to power, and then makes her a very interesting deal... |
| 206 | -->But I tell you what. If you work hard, I'll let you be my... ''personal assistant''. Would you like that? ''(Yes, that pause ''is'' in the actual audio.)'' |
| 207 | * The webcast ''[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresSpecialFarewellSarahJane Farewell, Sarah Jane]]'', released as part of the "Doctor Who: LOCKDOWN" event during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, [[spoiler: outright confirms they are a couple at the time of Sarah Jane's funeral.]] |
| 208 | [[/folder]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | [[folder:Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz]] |
| 211 | After regenerating into a female body for the first time, the Doctor forms an especially close bond with the other woman in the new team Yazmin Khan, known by the PortmanteauCoupleName Thasmin. |
| 212 | |
| 213 | * The Doctor is reminded to get her own outfit by Yaz telling her pretty much out of nowhere "You need to get out of those clothes." |
| 214 | * Yaz's mum asks if she and the Doctor are dating, and the Doctor actually isn't sure whether they are. |
| 215 | * Wanting to spend more time with the Doctor is one of the reasons Yaz lists for why she wants to travel in the TARDIS, and she tells the Doctor that she's one of the best people she's ever met. |
| 216 | * The Doctor seems to get paired up with Yaz more than Ryan and Graham combined, which means that the Doctor gets the most bonding time with Yaz out of her three companions by a good margin. Granted, this is partly because Ryan and Graham get paired up so often due to having one of the main subplots of working out their family dynamic, but this still leaves the Doctor and Yaz plenty of time to have their own cute moments together. |
| 217 | * Yaz is able to convince the Doctor to visit her own family's history, the last companion who was able to get them to break this rule being Rose. And while cautioning Yaz on how easy it will be to RetGone herself on this trip, the Doctor outright declares that there can't be a universe without her. |
| 218 | ** Another similarity to Rose would be Yaz declaring in the face of possibly apocalyptic odds (Tim Shaw's planet-stealing scheme, specifically), that she's with The Doctor ''no matter what happens''. Together to the end. |
| 219 | * Out of nowhere, Yaz suggests the Doctor's old strategy of reversing the polarity, to which the Doctor gives an awestruck look and says with delight "You speak my language!" |
| 220 | * In and out of character, Creator/JodieWhittaker and Creator/MandipGill are frequently very... tactile with each other. A lot of hugs, a lot of hand-holding. |
| 221 | * In different Series 11 episodes, the Doctor introduces "my friends, Ryan, Graham, and Yaz," and Yaz "my friends, Ryan, Graham, and the Doctor," with ''both'' putting a slight pause before the last one like they're considering if "friend" is really the right word. |
| 222 | * The 2019 New Year's Special "[[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution Resolution]]" features at least two more instances between the Doctor and Yaz. The first comes when the gang are watching the cosmic fireworks spectacle from the TARDIS doors at the beginning of the episode; Yaz is kneeling down on the floor with the Doctor standing right behind her, her hand on Yaz's shoulder. The second comes when the Doctor realises what the DNA sample she collected from the sewers belongs to and Yaz is alerted to the severity of the situation by just reading the Doctor's body language. |
| 223 | --> '''Yaz:''' ''[slowly, with concern]'' Doctor. ''[pause]'' I don't like it when you go quiet. |
| 224 | ** There's also their brief instance of [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple bickering]] after the Dalek gets away. |
| 225 | --->'''Yaz:''' Doctor!\ |
| 226 | '''The Doctor:''' I know! Don't go on about it! |
| 227 | * In “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall Spyfall]]” Agent O quickly starts flirting with Yaz. Upon the reveal that [[spoiler:he’s actually the Master]], it’s very easy to read this as [[spoiler:his picking up on the Doctor’s interest in Yaz and messing with her.]] |
| 228 | ** Also, while the Doctor and Graham head to Australia to find O, the Doctor entrusts Yaz (and Ryan) to carry out her own mission far away and out of reach in San Francisco. Normally in the modern era, the Doctor takes great pains to never let companions or love interests out of his/her sight for too long. |
| 229 | ** There is also a very tearjerking moment for the two in Part One where the Doctor and O trap one of the aliens in a containment chamber but the rest of its kind somehow rescue it by switching it for Yaz, revealing to the Doctor that they had captured her. The Doctor starts freaking out and yelling at O to get her out, and tries talking through the wall to Yaz. Heartbreakingly, likely because she’s traumatised by the belief she was going to die at the aliens’ hands, Yaz doesn’t respond. |
| 230 | ** In Part 2, when the Doctor is the one who’s trapped in the alien dimension, Yaz confesses a fear and worry to Ryan and Graham that they might never see her again. |
| 231 | ** At the conclusion of Part 2, Yaz excitedly asks the Doctor if they could take a trip to Gallifrey after learning about her species and home planet for the first time. |
| 232 | * In “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E3Orphan55 Orphan 55]]”, after learning about the vacation Graham had won for all of them, Yaz mentions to the Doctor that it will be just the thing to get her out of the bad mood she’s been in since “Spyfall”. The Doctor mildly glares back at her, telling her her mood’s just fine. |
| 233 | ** Both of them also share innocent and oblivious MomentKiller occasions, Yaz earlier in the episode with Benni and Vilma and the Doctor later with Ryan and Bella. |
| 234 | * “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror]]” has its share of moments for the two. |
| 235 | ** After the Doctor repeatedly insults Tesla onboard a train, a defensive Miss Skerritt asks the companions if she’s always so impertinent. They all answer yes, but the camera is centered particularly on Yaz while Ryan and Graham are faded in the background. |
| 236 | ** Once again, as in “Spyfall”, the Doctor entrusts Yaz to handle a part of the mission while out of her sight by telling her to guard Tesla and the orb. It’s also telling that the Doctor has enough faith in Yaz to do it on her own as she takes Ryan and Graham with her. |
| 237 | ** There's a subtle one involving Tesla. He and the Doctor discuss inventing, Tesla beside himself and looking almost smitten as he realizes the Doctor shares his skill and joy at imagining a thing and then making that thing a reality. Later, alone with Yaz, he has a similar moment of connection with her over the concept of radar, then gets a look that's half realizing why the Doctor and Yaz hang out so much, half the look you get when you [[EveryoneCanSeeIt realize someone you might be interested in is already spoken for]]. |
| 238 | ** Later, thinking her warning about the Skithra got to Yaz in time, the Doctor returns to Tesla’s lab in her usual energetic cheerfulness, only to be told that the aliens have not only taken Tesla but Yaz as well. The Doctor rapidly becomes worried and fearful. |
| 239 | ** Onboard the Skithra ship, after Tesla refuses to cooperate and build the aliens war machines, their Queen threatens to kill Yaz. Tesla tried to save her, calling her his assistant. One of the Skithra waves this off, deeming her as not important. Suddenly, the Doctor appears out of nowhere and loudly proclaims otherwise. |
| 240 | ---> '''Doctor:''' I’m gonna have to disagree with that! |
| 241 | *** Right after that, she asks Yaz (and Tesla) if they’re fine. Yaz answers in relief, “Better now that you’re here.” |
| 242 | ** Then there’s their piece of teamwork in getting away from the Skithra. |
| 243 | ---> '''Doctor:''' Oh! Is that a Delerian resonator? Oh, and this can power a starship for months. You think Tesla’s clever? We make him look like the village idiot. And a smart forward-thinking scorpion queen like yourself, I wouldn’t go killing me and Yaz. |
| 244 | ---> ''[The Doctor picks up an object off the floor and holds it in her hands]'' |
| 245 | ---> '''Doctor:''' Cos Yaz can tell you what this is. |
| 246 | ---> '''Yaz:''' ''[smiles]'' It’s a camera. |
| 247 | ---> '''Doctor:''' ''[grins]'' Bingo. |
| 248 | ---> ''[The Doctor proceeds to use the camera several times. The Skithra are blinded by the flashes. The Doctor, Yaz and Tesla escape using a teleporter]'' |
| 249 | ** When the Skithra grab hold of the Doctor in TheClimax, Yaz very nearly charges forward to rescue her and likely would have had the Doctor not warned her to stay back. |
| 250 | * When the Doctor is revealed to have been looking for the Master but becomes cagey when she’s asked why at the beginning of “[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon Fugitive of the Judoon]]”, Yaz’s behaviour and attitude in response to it is reminiscent of a girlfriend feeling insecure by the fact her love interest won’t let her in. |
| 251 | ** Later on, as the Doctor attempts to take control of the Judoon’s mission upon their arrival in Gloucester, she relies on Yaz to aid in her cover story. In spite of the issue listed above, Yaz complies without hesitating, effortlessly backing her up. |
| 252 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus Praxeus]]", Yaz is split up from Team TARDIS and puts herself in danger, becoming more like the Doctor in the process, which is reminiscent of [[ShipTease Clara Oswald's]] storyline in Series' 8 and 9. |
| 253 | ** There’s also the Doctor’s incessant worry over her throughout the episode. After she and Ryan have separately eliminated two of the three locations early on, she realises Yaz and Graham are going into the real danger zone and she asks Ryan if he had heard from either of them, placing Yaz first in the question. Later, when Yaz wants to separate from the team, the Doctor tries her hardest to talk her out of it, but eventually relents. However, she never takes her eyes off Yaz until she’s well inside the TARDIS with the others. |
| 254 | ** The banter between them on two occasions. |
| 255 | ---> '''Yaz:''' I don’t want you to panic, but we followed one of those things through a teleport and now I think we’re on an alien planet. |
| 256 | ---> '''Doctor:''' Well, you don’t do things by halves! |
| 257 | ---> ''[later scene]'' |
| 258 | ---> '''Doctor:''' Yaz! Found you. |
| 259 | ---> '''Yaz:''' Thanks for coming to get us. ''Eventually''. |
| 260 | ---> '''Doctor:''' Look at you, going off on your own and not getting killed. |
| 261 | * The conversation between Yaz and the Doctor at the start of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E7CanYouHearMe Can You Hear Me]]" comes off sounding like someone asking (or constantly nagging) their significant other if they’ve taken the right direction while travelling. The Doctor claims to Yaz she brought her home in time for dinner with her family, but by now, Yaz knows the Doctor well enough to check if she has landed the TARDIS correctly. Turns out she still should have checked better. |
| 262 | --> '''Doctor:''' Here we are! Sheffield. |
| 263 | --> '''Yaz:''' Is it the right day? |
| 264 | --> '''Doctor:''' It’s the right day. |
| 265 | --> '''Yaz:''' Is it the right year? |
| 266 | --> '''Doctor:''' The day you asked, in the year you asked, at the time you asked. ''You'' are home. |
| 267 | --> ''[later]'' |
| 268 | --> '''Doctor:''' Oh, okay. Not the exact right time. Seventy seven minutes out. Late. |
| 269 | --> '''Yaz:''' [[BigWhat WHAT?!]] |
| 270 | ** Later, when they’re onboard the space platform, Tahira refutes the revelation that they are in space, saying it is impossible to travel across the stars. Yaz counters with the following: |
| 271 | ---> '''Yaz:''' Unless you’re the Doctor. She’s basically the definition of impossible. |
| 272 | ** After being rendered unconscious and taken prisoner, the Doctor comes to and begins looking around for her companions. Though she finds Ryan first, she spends a lot more time concerned with Yaz. |
| 273 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati The Haunting of Villa Diodati]]" goes perhaps the furthest yet to just making the relationship canon, as Yaz explicitly talks about the Doctor in the same terms as Claire Claremont about the man she loves (Lord Byron). |
| 274 | --> '''Claire:''' His answers only increase the enigma. |
| 275 | --> '''Yaz:''' I know someone like that. |
| 276 | --> ''[Claire senses the similarity between them]'' |
| 277 | --> '''Claire:''' This enigmatic person of yours...would you trade them for reliable and dull? |
| 278 | --> '''Yaz:''' My person’s a bit different. |
| 279 | * As the Doctor is about to leave them to go face the Master and perform a HeroicSacrifice to take him and the Cybermen down at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]", Yaz is the only one of the fam that attempts to physically pull her back, leading to a desperate PleaseDontLeaveMe moment, one that the Doctor heartbreakingly puts a stop to. |
| 280 | --> '''Yaz:''' We’re not letting you go! You’re not doing this! |
| 281 | --> '''Doctor:''' Get off me, Yaz! |
| 282 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWho2021NYSRevolutionOfTheDaleks Revolution of the Daleks]]" is a ''doozy'' for these moments. |
| 283 | ** To begin with, Yaz has turned the spare TARDIS into a RoomFullOfCrazy, with the floors, console, and one wall completely covered in post-it notes relating to her investigation into the Doctor's disappearance. She's even gone so far as to sleep on the TARDIS and has lost track of time, to the point that she doesn't even realize it's the New Year. And this is almost ''ten months'' after the Doctor disappeared. |
| 284 | -->'''Graham:''' The Doc, y'know, she went to do something she knew might kill her. We just gotta assume she didn't make it.\ |
| 285 | '''Yaz:''' Why? Why do we have to assume that? |
| 286 | ** Yaz is the first person to hear the TARDIS landing and is silently heard begging, "Please. Please, be her." |
| 287 | ** And then, when the Doctor does return, having not realized the ten-month time gap in between "The Timeless Children" and "Revolution", Yaz [[AngerBornOfWorry physically pushes the Doctor, exclaiming that the Fam was worried about her.]] |
| 288 | --> '''Chris Chibnall (the writer of this episode):''' Yeah, the range of reactions is very different, but Yaz has clearly been holding this all inside and sort of explodes onto the Doctor when she sees her.\ |
| 289 | '''Mandip Gill (Yaz's actress):''' There's kind of an outburst of anger that I don't think we've seen before. But, you know, there's love there. |
| 290 | ** Later on, Captain Jack has a heart-to-heart with Yaz, sounding for all the world like a ShipperOnDeck. And, keep in mind, he [[EveryoneCanSeeIt guessed Yaz's relationship with the Doctor from a]] ''[[EveryoneCanSeeIt push]]''. And Yaz, for her part, takes his advice in stride, like the new girlfriend talking to an [[AmicableExes Amicable Ex]]. |
| 291 | --> '''Jack:''' I saw the way you shoved her. You thought she wasn't coming back, right?\ |
| 292 | '''Yaz:''' I just missed her. I never stopped to think...\ |
| 293 | '''Jack:''' Hey. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild When I was]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances with the Doctor]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown I saw more]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf than I could have ever dreamed.]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays And then... we lost each other.]] I didn't know what happened to him. If he was alive or [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia if I was]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums ever going to]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords see him again.]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth Hard]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd way]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime to live.]] Being with the Doctor, you don't get to choose when it stops. Whether you leave her or... she leaves you.\ |
| 294 | '''Yaz:''' It felt cruel. To be shown something I couldn't have anymore. Felt like, um, I'd rather not have known. I'd rather not have met her, 'cos having met her and then... being without her, that's worse. How do you deal with that?[[note]]It basically sounds like Yaz is wondering if it is indeed "Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."[[/note]]\ |
| 295 | '''Jack:''' How many people in the universe get to meet the Doctor, let alone travel with her? We're the lucky ones, Yaz. Enjoy the journey while you're on it. 'Cause the joy... is worth the pain.[[note]]And Jack's basically saying, "Yeah, it is."[[/note]] |
| 296 | ** On the Doctor's end, when Yaz notices that the lights in the Dalek Cloning Chamber have slowly been changing color: |
| 297 | --> '''The Doctor:''' Thanks, Yaz. I missed you, Yaz. |
| 298 | ** When Ryan decides to leave, Yaz immediately affirms that she wants to stay with the Doctor, saying “I’m not ready to let you go yet”, which the Doctor is absolutely overjoyed with. Ryan even notes that the Doctor got over his departure ''really'' quickly when she found out Yaz was staying. Not even a few moments later, Ryan says this to Yaz when she decides to stay. |
| 299 | --> '''Ryan:''' She needs you. |
| 300 | ** As of this episode, Yaz is in a similar position to the Doctor's last canonical love interest, Clara Oswald, acting as the Doctor's caretaker and offering the Time Lord emotional support when needed. |
| 301 | * The opening scene of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E1FluxChapterOneTheHalloweenApocalypse The Halloween Apocalypse]]" has Yaz and the Doctor falling through the doors of the sideways TARDIS and landing on their backs on a bed together. They are also wearing [[KinkyCuffs handcuffs]] which open at the word [[ItMakesSenseInContext relief]]. Throughout the episode, Yaz complaining about the Doctor shutting her out and not communicating about certain things is very reminiscent of someone wanting their significant other to open up more. At the same time, the Doctor's deflections of Yaz's requests to open up can sound like someone bothered that a casual fling is getting more serious and not knowing how to deal with it, instead asking for things to back off and just keep "having fun." |
| 302 | -->'''The Doctor''': Have we not had a good time together? Since Ryan and Graham left, have I not taken you to amazing places? ''I thought'' I was showing you experiences of a lifetime. |
| 303 | ** Just the fact that the Doctor has two pair of voice-activated handcuffs lurking about in her coat. Oh, and the Doctor and Yaz also took a "high-gravity circus workshop," [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility and were the top two in the class]]. |
| 304 | * In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E3FluxChapterThreeOnceUponTime "Once Upon Time"]], Yaz is telling her sister that no-one is going to say: "Who's the sexy girl with the nimble fingers?" when the Doctor suddenly appears like in a classic TemptingFate moment, implying that Yaz might well say that about her. |
| 305 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E5FluxChapterFiveSurvivorsOfTheFlux Survivors of the Flux]]" shows Yaz, after three years separated from the Doctor, watching the holographic message the latter left, in which she entrusts Yaz with protecting the Earth in her absence and expresses surety that they miss one another. It's clear that she watches it often, as she knows the conversation by heart and her companions immediately recognize her mood. In addition to the obvious emotions of the scene, one could draw a parallel to the other characters who've been communicating by prerecorded holograms in recent episodes, Vinder and Bel, who ''are'' explicitly a couple. |
| 306 | * At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E6FluxChapterSixTheVanquishers The Vanquishers]]", finally reunited with Yaz, the Doctor apologizes for shutting her out and explains what she was looking for; the two share an emotional moment before being interrupted by [[MomentKiller Dan]]. |
| 307 | --> '''Doctor:''' I was looking for... information. About me. A life I never knew. I wanna tell you everything. |
| 308 | --> '''Yaz:''' I'd like that. |
| 309 | * Finally made explicit in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022NYSEveOfTheDaleks Eve of the Daleks]]" after Dan calls Yaz out on never having admitted her feelings to the Doctor. |
| 310 | --> '''Dan:''' Have you ever told her? |
| 311 | --> '''Yaz:''' Told her what? |
| 312 | --> '''Dan:''' How you feel about her. |
| 313 | --> '''Yaz:''' I don't know what you mean. |
| 314 | --> '''Dan:''' Yeah, you do. |
| 315 | --> '''Yaz:''' Is it that obvious? |
| 316 | --> '''Dan:''' Well, maybe not to a good-hearted weirdo, but I spent four years travelling the world with you. I saw it then. You didn't half cane looking at that hologram. |
| 317 | --> '''Yaz:''' I didn't! I mean, it were just that... She's just... I don't know what to do, Dan. I've never told anyone. Not even myself. |
| 318 | --> '''Dan:''' Just tell her. |
| 319 | --> '''Yaz:''' It's not that easy! |
| 320 | --> '''Dan:''' Look. I took way too long to tell somebody that I liked them and then the universe ended, and everything got messy. I wouldn't want that to happen to you, Sheffield. |
| 321 | ** Earlier, Sarah had talked about Nick as a "good-hearted weirdo," then adds a friend told her "the good-hearted weirdos are the keepers." Yaz throws a ''very'' significant look at the Doctor, and Dan catches it, confirming his suspicions. |
| 322 | ** Later in the episode Dan tells the Doctor how Yaz feels about her, and is met with a very ambiguous response: |
| 323 | --> '''Dan:''' She likes you. |
| 324 | --> '''The Doctor:''' ''[distracted]'' I like her, too. |
| 325 | --> '''Dan:''' No, I mean... she likes you. |
| 326 | --> '''The Doctor:''' I don't understand what you're saying, Dan. |
| 327 | --> '''Dan:''' I think you do. But for some reason, you pretend to me, and to her, that you don't. |
| 328 | --> ''[The Doctor doesn't reply, but looks visibly emotional]'' |
| 329 | [[/folder]] |
| 330 | |
| 331 | [[folder:Others]] |
| 332 | * Writers Creator/PaulCornell, Gareth Roberts, Creator/RussellTDavies (Roberts and Davies are both gay men), and Creator/StevenMoffat all merrily ship a male Doctor with guys, and have all explicitly stated that the innuendo is very much on purpose. |
| 333 | ** Moffat is of the opinion that the Doctor has been flirty with their male and female companions since ever and that they, in fact, can't be bothered with silly human concepts of "gay" and "straight". He's also the guy who invented Captain Jack Harkness and has casually stated that River Song was probably involved with her ''entire'' archaeology crew. |
| 334 | ** When asked if the Doctor was bigamous, Moffat replied that River herself probably got married like 428 times, once for each gender. Someone else then asked a question about whether River had ever travelled with Franchise/BerniceSummerfield, to which Moffat replied "remember those 428 marriages..." It took less than 24 hours for Creator/PaulCornell, who invented Bernice, to state that if there were such a thing as a unified Doctor Who canon this would ''totally'' be canon. |
| 335 | * Leela and Romana seemed to get interestingly chummy with the female guest stars. Then Leela and Romana became co-stars in the ''AudioPlay/{{Gallifrey}}'' audio series. Romana takes an entire week out of her schedule as the ''President of Gallifrey'', with no warning, specifically to take Leela to a spa planet and talk about their relationship. They proceed to talk about Romana's regenerations in the context of reassuring Leela that unlike ''her husband'', Romana will never leave her. |
| 336 | -->'''Leela:''' I was so alone in the world of dreams when you left... the wild lands were dark, and so ''quiet''... I... I do not wish to be alone.\ |
| 337 | '''Romana:''' There will be a place for you with me, always. ''Whatever'' face I wear. |
| 338 | ** In that same episode, they manage to accidentally get into a jumbled-up [[spoiler:FreakyFridayFlip]], which Romana calls "intoxicating". |
| 339 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]", Toos seems unusually attached to Leela, to the point that she requested Leela check on her arm again even after a robot offered to take her to Sickbay. Toos then proceeds to have a nice elaborate SecurityCling with Leela on her bed, surreptitiously groping her naked thigh. |
| 340 | ** Donna picks up where Leela and Romana left off in the "getting chummy with female guest stars" category, namely Evelina in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii The Fires of Pompeii]]", Martha and Rose in their guest appearances, Jenny in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter The Doctor's Daughter]]", and flipping ''Creator/AgathaChristie'' in "The Unicorn and the Wasp". Special mention goes to Miss Evangelista in "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead", to the point that her [[spoiler:dying request]] is to speak to Donna, and she deliberately seeks Donna out in [[spoiler:CAL's simulated world.]] |
| 341 | * A memorable moment between Creator/WilliamShakespeare and the Tenth Doctor in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode The Shakespeare Code]]" (keep in mind the real Shakespeare is widely speculated to have been bisexual): |
| 342 | -->'''Doctor:''' Come on, we can all have a good flirt later!\ |
| 343 | '''Shakespeare:''' Is that a promise, Doctor?\ |
| 344 | '''Doctor:''' Oh, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_57 fifty-seven academics]] just punched the air. |
| 345 | * This exchange in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan Daleks in Manhattan]]": |
| 346 | -->'''Martha:''' I'm so glad to see you!\ |
| 347 | '''Tenth Doctor:''' Yeah, well you can kiss me later. You too Frank, if you want. |
| 348 | * Turlough. There certainly seems to be some mutual crushing going on in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead Mawdryn Undead]]", Turlough's first episode; it would also explain the Doctor's otherwise inexplicable decision to trust Turlough ''after Turlough has introduced himself by trying to steal the TARDIS''. There's also this line, from the commentary, on the subject of why the Doctor trusts him so easily: |
| 349 | -->'''Peter Davison:''' Clearly I'm [[AlasPoorScrappy missing Adric]] so much... I clearly want a companion I can [[HoYay put my arm around,]] [[NoHuggingNoKissing rather than one I cannot touch, as with the girls.]] |
| 350 | * Wilf almost has a mancrush on the Doctor. |
| 351 | * Malcolm? Hero-worship is understandable, but running up to the Doctor, hugging him ''very'' tightly, and saying "I love you!" over and over is a ''bit'' different. |
| 352 | * The increasingly HoYay interactions between Max Stael and Adam Colby in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E3ImageOfTheFendahl Image of the Fendahl]]", which escalates to Adam being tied to a column with three buttons of his shirt unbuttoned and Max stroking his face with a pistol. Scott Fredericks has stated he deliberately played Max as bisexual. |
| 353 | * Mr. Finch from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]]" softly asking the Doctor to rule the universe at his side to a background of piano music comes to mind. |
| 354 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen Rise of the Cybermen]]" / "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel The Age of Steel]]" there was [[spoiler:Rickey/Alternate Mickey]] and his boyfriend Jake. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MzNvT5q6E actual expository scene]] was cut for one reason or another, making their canon relationship into simply oodles of hoyay. |
| 355 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice The Vampires of Venice]]" we get lots of Les Yay from Signora Calvierri, who is basically a dominatrix-y older woman surrounded by sexy younger women who she regularly drinks blood from. (At one point this included Amy.) |
| 356 | * Adric has huge HoYay with both Four AND Five. Lots of longing glances, and thoroughly unnecessary compliments of the Doctor, such as one bit where he says something along the lines of "Oh, Doctor, your handwriting is just lovely", in this really quite suggestive way. Not to mention his persistent daddy issues with just about any powerful male figure the team encounters, evil or not. (Not really relevant, but his actor Creator/MatthewWaterhouse is gay.) |
| 357 | * The all-female Cryons in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E1AttackOfTheCybermen Attack of the Cybermen]]" have a habit of drifting their hands very close to Peri, and sometimes touching her, in a way that's almost sensual. |
| 358 | * In the 2011 Comic Relief Red Nose Day mini episode "Time": Amy Pond and [[spoiler:[[ScrewYourself Amy Pond]]]]. |
| 359 | -->'''Amy:''' Mmm... I'd give you a driving licence.\ |
| 360 | '''[[spoiler:Amy]]:''' I'll bet you would.\ |
| 361 | '''The Doctor:''' Oh, this is how it all ends. Pond, flirting with [[spoiler:herself]]. True love at last. ''[remembers that Amy's husband is also present]'' Oh, sorry Rory.\ |
| 362 | '''Rory:''' ''[nearly catatonic]'' ...[[TwinThreesomeFantasy absolutely no problem at all...]] |
| 363 | * Madame Vastra and her chambermaid Jenny from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes To War]]" do not qualify simply because it's definitely not ''sub''text. It's canon as of "The Snowmen", where Vastra introduces Jenny as her wife. |
| 364 | ** Also in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]", Vastra is definitely hitting on Clara while "testing" her. Jenny doesn't seem to mind. |
| 365 | ** Once again, Vastra and Clara's... [[SecretTestOfCharacter argument...]] in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath Deep Breath]]" positively reeks of HoYay, and this time Jenny minds a little bit. |
| 366 | -->'''Clara:''' Now just because my pretty face has turned your head, do not assume that I am so easily distracted.\ |
| 367 | '''Vastra:''' Well. Goodness me. The lake has been ruffled. I often wondered what you'd be like when you lost your temper.\ |
| 368 | '''Jenny:''' ''[hits Vastra over the head]'' Oi! Married!\ |
| 369 | |
| 370 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]", Isobel is quite clear that she only wants to photograph Zoe, not Jamie. And then she gets Zoe to wear a miniskirt, and [[SleazyPhotoshoot photographs her from floor level]]. |
| 371 | * There is a definite, if subtle, romantic undertone to Rumford and Fay's relationship in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood The Stones of Blood]]". Creator/MaryTamm herself said "We were all so innocent back then" when the LesYay was pointed out to her. |
| 372 | * "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]": |
| 373 | ** Two of the only survivors of the serial are a British soldier and a Russian soldier who decide there isn't any point to fighting anymore, and who are last seen with their arms wrapped around each other with big grins on their faces. |
| 374 | ** The novelisation outright states that Millington was in love with Judson, and their sourness towards each other is in part because it ended very badly. |
| 375 | ** When Jean and Phyllis tell Miss Hardaker that they're going to Maidens' Point (they had agreed to meet Ace there), she gets angry and says, "I know what girls who go to Maidens' Point have in mind!" You expect her to follow this up with something like "You're going there to meet with boys!" But no, boys aren't mentioned ''at all'' in this little lecture; just "girls with evil in their hearts". In the novelisation, by the same author, it's not even subtle: |
| 376 | --> ‘I don’t know why I let you talk me into doing these things. You’re always getting me into trouble.’ ‘’Cause it’s a laugh, that’s why. And anyway, if it weren’t for me, you’d still be a baby doll – know what I mean?’ Jean smiled slyly. Phyllis turned bright red and Jean laughed. |
| 377 | * Why was Ping-Cho in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E4MarcoPolo Marco Polo]]" so anxious for Susan to say "goodbye" to her? |
| 378 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan Daleks in Manhattan]]", Martha seems way too excited to watch Tallulah's dance number. |
| 379 | * "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol}} The Happiness Patrol]]" is loaded with Ho Yay to the point that there's a serious argument that the whole thing is a deliberate queer rights allegory. As well as Ace's friendship with Susan Q (mentioned above), the dysfunctional relationship between Gilbert M and the Kandyman really is like a married couple turned sour, and of course Gilbert M and Joseph C run away together at the end. In the deleted scenes, Gilbert M's reaction to the Kandyman's death is "There's nothing here for me now.", at which point Joseph C makes a suggestion... |
| 380 | * At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons The Daemons]]", everyone merrily joins in the DancePartyEnding and the local witch makes sure to point out that it's a ''fertility'' dance. Hearing that, Captain Yates asks the Brigadier: "Fancy a dance, sir?" ("Kind of you Captain... I think I'd rather have a pint.") The "Making of" segment of the DVD has Creator/NicholasCourtney pretty much confirm (as quoted by Creator/KatyManning) what we were already thinking -- "The Brig's an alcoholic and Mike Yates is gay!". According to the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'', Mike eventually ends up with a guy. |
| 381 | ** At the beginning of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders Planet of the Spiders]]", the Doctor takes the Brigadier to see a variety show of which one act is an exotic dancer. The Brigadier enjoys the act, but apparently because he 'will have to adapt some of those exercises for the men'. |
| 382 | * Jex and Isaac from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy A Town Called Mercy]]": Isaac's [[HeroWorshipper gushing over Jex]], and despite [[TheReveal the twist]] of the episode, his [[spoiler:[[DyingDeclarationOfLove last words]]]] pretty much being "take care of Jex for me". It isn't fully one-sided either: Jex has serious [[SurvivorsGuilt survivor's guilt.]] "He was my...friend." |
| 383 | * The Doctor's friendship with the Corsair has serious Ho Yay overtones. According to Creator/NeilGaiman, (s)he and the Doctor occasionally woke up in cells together after bouts of heavy drinking. (And once in the vault of the Bank of England.) |
| 384 | -->"Fantastic bloke. He had that snake as a tattoo in every regeneration. Didn't feel like himself unless he had that tattoo. Or herself, a couple of times. Oo-hoo! She was a bad girl!" |
| 385 | * Giuliano and Marco in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora "The Masque Of Mandragora"]] are beyond blatant, with UndyingLoyalty on both ends. Giuliano trusts Marco enough to confide in him unquestioningly despite his uncle's spies being everywhere, while Marco is so devoted to the Count he'll willingly endure Medieval-style torture rather than betray him. Marco also says "We have weapons of our own" while staring at Guiliano's crotch. |
| 386 | ** Giuliano appears to be attracted to the Doctor in their first scene together, looking him up and down appraisingly and remarking, "a most uncommon spy!". At the end of the story he [[VisualPun literally gives the Doctor a large sausage]]. |
| 387 | * In [[Radio/ThirdDoctorRadioDramas "The Ghosts Of N-Space"]], the Doctor fondly recalls how he and his old teacher used to go skinny dipping on Gallifrey. (And earlier in the episode, Sarah Jane -- posing as a page boy -- gets mistaken for the Doctor's ''catamite''.) |
| 388 | * As the Great Intelligence, Creator/RichardEGrant grabs the Doctor's face with a black leather glove and brings their mouths close together while they stare defiantly at each other. |
| 389 | * As ''The Discontinuity Guide'' points out, ThereIsOnlyOneBed in [[LoverAndBeloved Izlyr and Ssorg]]'s room in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E2TheCurseOfPeladon The Curse of Peladon]]". |
| 390 | * ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic companions Izzy and Fey share a bit of flirtation, a lot of adventures, and -- once Izzy manages to overcome her fear and be open about her sexuality -- a nice proper snog. |
| 391 | ** Izzy and Destrii blatantly flirt with each other when they first meet, with Destrii calling her new friend "Sweetie" and commenting on her body a lot, and Izzy just making cute faces and happily jumping on Destrii's back at the first opportunity. Too bad [[spoiler:Destrii reveals herself to be evil and ends up taking Izzy's body, but not in ''that'' way]]. |
| 392 | ** There's a distinct undercurrent of something between Majenta Pryce and her sometime-cellmate Zephyr (with Majenta deciding to take Zephyr along in the TARDIS, which ends up getting nixed by the plot), and the end of Majenta's arc sees the two of them heading off together to seek their fortune. Amusingly, emails between [=RTD=] and the magazine staff included the stipulation "No more lesbians" -- either he wasn't actually serious, or they figured [[ExactWords bi women were still fair game.]] |
| 393 | * The implications of Rose ending up with the clone Doctor in the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]" / "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]", and the clone Doctor saying something to her that we didn't hear ends with them kissing. For the Doctor to properly return Rose's love, and say what she needed to hear, he had to be part human. Specifically, part Donna. |
| 394 | ** Speaking of which, some of Donna and Rose's interactions in "Turn Left" could be interpreted as Les Yay. |
| 395 | * [[WordOfGay Word Of Moffat]] says Tasha Lem and Madame Kovarian were married, before the whole Trenzalore thing caused the schism in the Church. |
| 396 | * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood "Robot of Sherwood"]] pits the Twelfth Doctor and Robin Hood against each other in a fencing match, wherein the Doctor (armed with a spoon) brags about all the fencing masters he'd fenced with, including Creator/ErrolFlynn, whom he proceeds to remark has a very big [[LastSecondWordSwap "ego"]]. Grown ups would connect the dots and figure what the Doctor [[GagPenis meant to say]], leading to the impression that the "fencing" with Flynn was something else entirely. (And although it wasn't in the script, Clara adds a polite little cough.) |
| 397 | * In [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho054TheNaturalHistoryOfFear Jim Mortimore]]'s novel ''[[http://doctorwho.org.nz/archive/campaign/ Campaign]]'', which was commissioned by the BBC and then immediately rejected for making ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End Of Evangelion]]'' look normal, the First Doctor's companions are thrust into different times and places. This includes Ian being thrown into the Great Fire of London, where he ''and'' an alternate version of him (Cliff, named for an early version of Ian when ''Doctor Who'' was first pitched) replace a blacksmith and his wife (originally from the novella "Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space"). Cast in these roles, they realise their love is forbidden, but they're hopelessly stuck in a WorldLimitedToThePlot and spend their moments together in the GroundhogDayLoop as a married couple... and stay lovers once they escape. (There's also a brief moment where Alexander the Great refers to a version of Ian as his "beloved", but good luck figuring out where it fits into all the rest of the MindScrew. The original commissioned pitch for the novel made it clear that Alexander had fallen in love with Ian.) |
| 398 | * Speaking of Ian Chesterton, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]" gives us a classic moment: |
| 399 | --> '''Ian:''' You've done it again! You've beaten them! \ |
| 400 | '''First Doctor:''' My dear boy, I could kiss you! |
| 401 | * And speaking of Alexander the Great, the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho story "Farewell, Great Macedon" has some intense HoYay between Alexander and Hephaistion. Historians have yet to determine whether the two men were lovers or just best friends, and the audio deliberately leaves it ambiguous, presenting the word "love" and Hephaistion's (gorgeous) description of how much Alexander means to him as something that can mean either romance or friendship. (Since the audio was adapted from a script that never made it to TV, one can't help but wonder what the original looked like.) |
| 402 | * Clara Oswald has shown romantic feelings for both the Doctor (Eleventh and Twelfth) and Danny Pink, but she also [[AmbiguouslyBi may or may not be attracted to women.]] Oswin, [[ItMakesSenseInContext a copy of Clara along the Doctor's timestream]], flirted with both Rory and Amy, and also casually mentioned a girl called Nina she had a crush on. Clara herself carries on Ace's tradition of getting very chummy with female guest stars; she compares Journey Blue in "Into the Dalek" to her future boyfriend Danny and got very close with Maisie in "Mummy on the Orient Express." There was also that time she asked the Eleventh Doctor to [[TheBeard pretend to be her boyfriend at her family's Christmas dinner.]] |
| 403 | ** In "The Magician's Apprentice", she has [[NoodleIncident this line]], which is... less ambiguous. |
| 404 | --> '''Clara:''' ''(teaching a class)'' Jane Austen. Amazing writer, brilliant comic observer, and, strictly among ourselves, a phenomenal kisser. |
| 405 | *** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven Face the Raven]]", they apparently had enough of a relationship to have Clara say she loves her. "[[LampshadeHanging Sometimes Jane Austen and I prank each other. Oh, she is the worst. I love her. Take that how you like.]]". |
| 406 | ** Although she doesn't have much interaction with Ashildr in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied "The Girl Who Died"]], she does notice the Doctor's interest in Ashildr, and jokes "I'll fight you for her". The needle goes in deeper with the Doctor's odd reply about humans "being obsessed". |
| 407 | ** And then, at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]", we have Ashildr and Clara [[spoiler: flying off to see the universe in a stolen TARDIS]]. |
| 408 | ** And then there's her subtext with Missy. They both seem to hate each other, but if you look ''really'' closely (or just have ShippingGoggles on) some of their interactions are rather suggestive. Examples include: |
| 409 | *** Missy, while pretending to be a "welcome droid", volunteers to kiss Clara. Seriously. After she gives Twelve the "3W Greeting's Package" and snogs him, she turns to Clara and says "You also have not received the welcome package" and moves to make-out with her too before Clara (unfortunately) declines. |
| 410 | *** Then there's the fact that Missy "conveniently" had a pair of ''handcuffs'' on her to attach to Clara so they could get a Dalek casing and sneak into the city. It's certainly very interesting she actually had handcuffs on her for her adventure with Clara. |
| 411 | *** Then just before they get the Dalek casing, it explodes and Missy shields Clara ''with her body!'' [[http://49.media.tumblr.com/4c8820f80e8567e7c71fa880e5da95d1/tumblr_nvb2igvEPa1r0bnq5o5_250.gif It looks very suggestive.]] |
| 412 | *** Then there's her telling Clara to say "I love you" when she's in the Dalek casing. She even says "Don't ask me why, ''just say it.''" And Clara actually says it! |
| 413 | ** Then there's "Clara and the TARDIS," wherein Clara gives [[ScrewYourself herself]]... long story, a lascivious look, and declares that they have to share a bed. |
| 414 | * You can make a serious argument that Nyder in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" is Davros's StalkerWithACrush. It's one of the reasons why "Genesis of the Daleks" is one of the serials with a massive LGBTFanbase ''of its own''. In the blog ''Adventures With the Wife in Space'', Neil opines to Sue that Nyder is in love with Davros and she accuses him of 'reading too far into this'. |
| 415 | * [[http://shabogangraffiti.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/vixens-and-saxons.html This blog post]] makes a reasonably serious argument that Irongron and Linx's disastrous partnership in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior The Time Warrior]]" is rather like a DestructiveRomance, pointing out how Irongron is fascinated by Linx's face, Linx cuts Irongron off from all his other friends, that Irongron has several scenes moaning to his friends over pints about how awful Linx is, and how both are {{He Man Woman Hater}}s. |
| 416 | * The BOSS and Stevens in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]" are very homoerotic. The BOSS calls Stevens things like 'my little Superman' and Stevens' subplot is played very much like him dumping an abusive husband. The novelisation ramps up the subtext by having The BOSS quote Oscar Wilde and sing the Wedding March before asking Stevens, "Do you, Stevens, take this computer..." |
| 417 | * In "Cabinet Of Changes", Philip Purser-Hallard's sequel to Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''The Blue Angel'', the Blue Angel version of Compassion ends up with the Blue Angel version of Romana. (It was published in a charity anthology, so not sanctioned by the BBC, but Purser-Hallard is a Who author for licensed books as well.) |
| 418 | * George Litefoot in Big Finish is AmbiguouslyGay. At one point he talks fondly of a lost love, without specifying the person's gender, in a way that rather strongly hints at his love having been male. In a later audio, in which everyone is talking about very personal and emotional moments, he recounts a story of trying in vain to impress a classmate named Ralph while at university. He's the first to recognise that one of the villains they encounter is gay, and explains to Jago that this is a case of the love that dare not speak its name -- as well as stating that he hopes the love may one day not be a taboo. He's quick to acknowledge when young men who cross their path are handsome, but doesn't seem to notice the women at all. He shelters Ellie in his house without even considering the social implications of an unmarried woman living with him. And his encounter with [[spoiler:fake]] Music/MauriceRavel (as well as the... more complicated situation between Ravel and the villain of the week) is really, blatantly romantic. Additionally, his description of the Doctor in "The Jago & Litefoot Revival", complete with emotional music in the background, speaks volumes. |
| 419 | * The Twelfth Doctor in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E2Smile Smile]]" remembers once meeting an emperor made of algae. He looks wistfully out a window, dramatic music playing, and says, "he fancied me...", taking a few seconds to get back into his conversation with Bill. |
| 420 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E2TheWitchsFamiliar The Witch's Familiar]]", some of the interactions between the Twelfth Doctor and Davros are quite interesting. |
| 421 | ** First off, when he hears the news that Gallifrey, and thus the Time Lords, were saved by the Doctor, he appears to be genuinely ''overjoyed'' for the Doctor's victory in saving his people. As such, he actually ''[[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y8l9GImBFfo/maxresdefault.jpg opens his eyes]]'', something he's never done before in the entire franchise and something that most people didn't think was even possible! |
| 422 | ** And then, he actually gently [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXfXW7XU0AArG0f.jpg touches the Doctor's hand]] after this happens. |
| 423 | ** And then they share a genuine laugh over Davros' quip that the Doctor "is not a good Doctor". |
| 424 | ** And even if most or all of it was just both sides tricking each other, it's still kind of [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments sweet]] in a strange way. |
| 425 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E8TheWitchfinders The Witchfinders]]", King James I seems quite enamored with Ryan, calling him a "Nubian prince" when they first meet and later on inviting him to come with him to London as his bodyguard.[[note]]There actually is quite a bit of evidence that he really was bisexual; take that as you will.[[/note]] |
| 426 | * In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E6FluxChapterSixTheVanquishers The Vanquishers]]", Thirteen is particularly taken with [[spoiler:[[ScrewYourself the various duplicates of herself]]]] she meets along the way. |
| 427 | * Creator/AlexKingston's reaction to hearing that Creator/JodieWhittaker had been cast as the Thirteenth Doctor [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZTSEKPumEY has to be seen to be believed]]. Cue the River/Thirteen shipping.... |
| 428 | -->'''Alex:''' ''Jodie Whittaker?'' [''smooching noises, accompanied by speculative look''] Oh my ''goodness!'' ...God, I'm always the damn [[AgeGapRomance cradle-snatcher]]!! |
| 429 | * Creator/BilliePiper claims that Rose [[https://twitter.com/billiepiper/status/905000966503755776 would still love the Doctor]] as Thirteen is now. |
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