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Characters appearing in the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'''s various comics stories.

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!The Doctor

When ''Doctor Who Magazine'' (then ''Doctor Who Weekly'') appeared, the Fourth Doctor appeared on television and in the feature comics. Subsequently, every major incarnation, from the First to the Fourteenth have had a turn at starring in the comics.

[[folder:The Future Doctor]]
!!Nicholas Briggs' Doctor
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See the [[Characters/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Miscellaneous Expanded Universe page]].
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!Companions

A number of 1963-89 companions (most significantly Peri and Ace) as well as all of the regular post-2005 companions have also appeared in the strip, but are omitted here.

[[folder:Sharon]]
!!Sharon Allen, née Sharon Davies (Fourth and Twelfth Doctors)
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The first original companion to be created for ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine''. Sharon was a clever and fairly stoic teenager from Blackcastle, who got mixed up in an adventure involving Beep the Meep. Rather than calling the police, she much preferred to sort things out by herself. First full-time non-white companion in any medium.[[note]]She was slightly beaten to the punch as the very first by [[https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Nick_Willard Nick Willard]], who filled the role in the Third Doctor strip ''Zeron Invasion'' in 1972/3.[[/note]]

* {{Brainwashed}}: In her first story. In the same story it also later leads into...
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: ...Sharon trying to kill the Doctor, but luckily she snaps out of it.
* TheCameo: The TARDIS' saved memory of her briefly shows up in an Eighth Doctor story.
* HappyEnding: Sharon's last classic story is a good example of this, with her choosing to remain on Unicepter IV to be with the man she had fallen in love with. When she returns in 2016, she's still happily married.
* IntrepidReporter: Becomes a newscaster for the Galactic Broadcasting Corporation.
%%zce* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: That is until she meets the Doctor.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: She starts out as a secondary school student, but due to a fault in the TARDIS's chrono-compensator in one of her later stories, it made everyone in the TARDIS age four years whilst they were passing through a time rift.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Due to the PlotRelevantAgeUp trope.
* TokenMinority: With a side helping of PoliticalOvercorrectness. Sharon was a '''black''' girl from '''Black'''castle who got sucked into a '''black''' hole, where she was hit by the '''black''' light radiation from the '''Black''' Sun and everyone got turned into zombies by the '''Black''' Star Drive. Trivia: The Doctor refers to the '''Black''' Guardian in the story.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: So she's aged up four years and left on another planet in the arms of someone she's fallen in love with. Happy ending, right? [[FridgeLogic But what about her family and friends back in Blackcastle?]]
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[[folder:Gus]]
!!Angus Goodman (Fifth Doctor)
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A tough, no-nonsense, but flexible US fighter pilot with a convoluted temporal background (he originally came from an alternate timeline created by the Monk, in which the Pacific part of WWII happened more or less in the same way but around twenty years later), who joined the Fifth Doctor as his only regular companion in the comic.
* GoodIsNotNice: As a military man, he has no hesitation or guilt about killing enemies.
* MeaningfulName: He is, as the name suggests, a good man.
* MutualKill: He is shot dead by a PsychoForHire who was set on the Doctor by Dogbolter, but manages to shoot and seriously injure his assailant before dying (the assailant then being finished off by his boss's number two in a YouHaveFailedMe moment).
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Killed off after only three stories, and doesn't actually meet the Doctor until the second story he appears in. The lack of impression he made on the fanbase is lampshaded when the Twelfth Doctor finally takes Dogbolter out, taking a moment to lament that nobody ever remembers Gus.
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[[folder:Frobisher]]
!!Frobisher (Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth and Twelfth Doctors)
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A shapeshifter who prefers to take the form of a penguin. Has a daytime job as a private eye. Appears outside of ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' in the "Prisoners Of Time" IDW comic miniseries, in the Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novel "Mission: Impractical", and in Creator/ColinBaker's Marvel graphic novel "The Age Of Chaos". Also appears in the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audios, where he's voiced by Robert Jezek. Not to be confused with the Creator/PeterCapaldi character from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}: [[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth Children of Earth]]'', although the coincidence in name did spawn some EpilepticTrees theorizing.

* TheBartender: Sometime after parting ways with the Doctor, Frobisher retires from adventure and settles into this role at his bar, "Bish's."
* BelatedHappyEnding: ''Fifteen years'' after his last comics appearance, Frobisher returned to the stories, now the owner of a successful bar and happily dating a nice woman.
* BigDamnKiss: Gets one in Creator/BigFinish.
* BreakTheComedian: Commonly serves as a comic relief foil to the Doctor, thanks to his sarcasm, his klutziness, and the fact that he's a shapeshifter trapped in the body of a penguin. However, in "The Holy Terror", he starts getting serious for a change when he finds himself being crowned GodEmperor, even doing his best to introduce the people to the concept of free will... only for it all to go horribly wrong when [[HumanoidAbomination the Child]] appears and begins massacring the population. [[spoiler: The Child is eventually stopped with Eugene's HeroicSacrifice, but by then, Frobisher's subjects are all dead - and died knowing that their god couldn't save them.]] Frobisher is deeply shell-shocked by the event and can't muster up a single joke in the epilogue.
* BreakoutCharacter: Originally a comic strip creation, Frobisher has had multiple feature length appearances in both Creator/BigFinish Audios and the Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novel ''Mission: Impractical''. He also appears in the IDW and Marvel comics, and he was the first (though not the last) character to be mentioned in ''VideoGame/DoctorWhoLegacy'' without ever having been referenced in the TV series.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Frobisher's bartender look is modeled on James Gandolfini.
* FakeAmerican: His voice actor in Creator/BigFinish is Canadian.
* FirstPersonSmartass: He fancies himself a Sam Spade-style private eye, so his inner monologue is appropriately snarky.
* FunPersonified: He's usually a comical character, with only occasional more touching moments.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be very abrasive, but is mostly moral.
* TheLancer: His ego and arrogance are ever so slightly larger than that of the Doctor, which is no small feat given that this is Six we're talking about. This was specifically used in the Creator/BigFinish episode "The Holy Terror", as Rob Shearman felt Frobisher could meddle with the planet's culture in ways the Doctor would never even consider.
* NoNameGiven: He's said to have taken many aliases before going with Frobisher, which he sticks with thereafter. His original name is never disclosed.
* PluckyComicRelief: He usually tries to be heroic, but his attempts at physical heroism don't always work.
* PrimalPolymorphs: Downplayed in "The Holy Terror," in which Frobisher has picked up some behavioural quirks from his adopted ShapeshifterDefaultForm, hunting fish in much the same way as a real penguin would - even though, as the Doctor points out, he shouldn't even ''need'' to go hunting since the TARDIS is stocked to the gills with tinned tuna. Unfortunately, this leads to Frobisher misusing the console controls to create a hologram fish that he can hunt - whereupon the TARDIS goes on strike in protest.
* RecognitionFailure: In "[[Series/{{Cheers}} Where Nobody Knows Your Name]]", he fails to recognize Eight as the Doctor, and forgets to ask his name.
* ShapeshifterModeLock: Frobisher got stuck in penguin form in his second adventure for "personal reasons", since the writer considered him overpowered. The next writer blatantly ignored that, and from that point on, his powers came and went DependingOnTheWriter. It was ''eventually'' explained as chronic monomorphia, which sometimes even conveniently came over him right in the middle of a story's climax. Even when he's not afflicted by it, though, he prefers the shape of a penguin.
* {{Sizeshifter}}: He can shrink enough to hide comfortably within a phone receiver and grow to a much taller form than the Doctors.
* VoicesAreMental: Notably averted. Frobisher at one point spends almost an entire Creator/BigFinish episode shapeshifted into the Sixth Doctor. Including his voice. This leads to Creator/ColinBaker impersonating Robert Jezek playing Frobisher pretending to be the Doctor. It is ''completely glorious''.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Whifferdills, Frobisher's species, are natural shapeshifters.
* WrongGenreSavvy: His introductory story is based around his belief that he's in a gritty private eye story instead of ''Doctor Who''.
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[[folder:Izzy]]
!!Dr. Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair (Eighth and Twelfth Doctors)
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A happy young "fan-geekoid" from Stockbridge, who's working as an UFO hunter together with Maxwell. Joins the Eighth Doctor on his travels, and in the process comes to terms with the reality of all of time and space, with having been adopted, and with being gay. Also appeared in a AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio, voiced by Jemima Rooper.

* ActionGirl: Very much so after the body swap, as she has no qualms going hand to hand with a demonic super strong energy creature. Was never one to avoid danger before, though she was more of a PluckyGirl to begin with.
* AdrenalineMakeover: Started off as a shy geek who used travelling with the Doctor as a way of dodging her adoption issues. Later morphed into a confident Amazonian Action Girl (whether a fish or a mammal) who had no qualms punching monsters.
%%* AscendedFangirl: Her SF fandom is repeatedly alluded to.
* BadassLongcoat: Wears one during her early Dalek arc.
* BelatedHappyEnding: She makes peace with her parents, and travels the world as a Doctor Without Borders.
* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: With Fey]].
* ChangelingFantasy: Subverted. Due to being adopted, Izzy fantasises about having special parents, about actually being an alien princess and how she'll one day be picked up and brought back to her home planet. Since this is ''Series/DoctorWho'', "BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor" is in full effect, and her fantasies come completely true... when she's trapped in Destrii's body. And Destrii's home planet turns out to be a complete hellhole, where being a princess is just about the worst job imaginable. She eventually realises how much she cares about her adoptive parents and goes home to them. Her real parents' identities are never revealed.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: according to WordOfGod, based initially on Louise Wener of {{Britpop}} band Sleeper, and later on the actor Luisa Bradshaw-White.
* EpiphanyTherapy: Seeing into Destrii's mind makes her realise that her own problems are completely trivial in comparison, which in turn leads her to admit she's been awful to her parents for years, and to finally come out as gay.
* {{Gayngst}}: Quite a bit of it, and also the reason she's so upset having having been adopted. Her parents are the sweetest couple you could possibly imagine, but Izzy represses her sexuality to the point where she starts lashing out at them over entirely unrelated matters -- including the fact that they're not her biological parents. She gets over it in the end.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: In a moment of self pity she wangsts to real life artist Frida Kahlo about the loss of her old body, telling her she has no chance of understanding what she's going through. However, having been the victim of crippling physical injuries herself, Frida angrily tells her that despite the trauma she didn't let her experiences break her and that she's not the only person to suffer such a trauma.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Destrii's body is amphibian, and once Izzy gets stuck in it, she has to learn how to breathe water. Problem is, she can't even swim. The Doctor and the TARDIS manage to get her into the swimming pool just in time before she dries out, and Eight has to forcefully [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic "baptise"]] her. It's fairly traumatic for poor Izzy.
* NoIndoorVoice: Her Creator/BigFinish appearance is a bit... screechy.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her biological parents left her as a foundling on the day she was born.
* PopCulturedBadass: Fits the trope to a T. At one point, a villain in 17th century Japan tries to conquer the land using images of the future ripped from Izzy's brain; fortunately, Izzy's knowledge of Japan consists of {{Sentai}} shows, impressive amounts of 90's anime, and ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'', which promptly and thoroughly ruins the villain's plans.
* StraightGay: Although allusions to Izzy's homosexuality are made throughout the strip, it's never unambiguously confirmed until her final story as companion.
* TomboyishName: A bit of a running thing with Eight's companions in the ExpandedUniverse.
* TookALevelInBadAss: Being turned into a super strong, lightning fast human-fish hybrid probably had something to do with it.
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[[folder:Fey]]
!!Fey Truscott-Sade (Eighth, War and Twelfth Doctors)
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A kind of on- and off-again companion to the Eighth Doctor, whom he had allied with previously. A secret agent for the British Crown in the 1930s and 40s. Fey's a textbook ActionGirl -- she punches Time Lords in the face. (Later, arguably an [[spoiler:actual superhero]].)


* ActionGirl: A British secret agent who is very good with both fists and guns.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Described by the writers as an "androgyne", but it's unclear how they meant the word and whether she actually would identify as non-binary.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Dresses in classy men's clothes.
* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: With Izzy.]]
* ClosetKey: For Izzy.
* ConflictingLoyalties: Well, sort of, thanks to TwoBeingsOneBody. Fey's loyalty is to the British Crown; [[spoiler:Shayde is an agent of Rassilon]]. By the time of "Me and My Shadow" she thinks [[spoiler:Rassilon can go hang]] - she's got a war to fight on her home ground.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Me and My Shadow", which looks at one of her missions for the Crown in the Second World War, and shows something of how the war's affecting her.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Thanks to [[spoiler:her bond with Shayde]].
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: [[spoiler:Finds herself permanently resident in present-day Britain thanks to the events of "The Clockwise War".]]
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Discussed in "Me and My Shadow" (which was before the TV series introduced 'fixed points in time'). [[spoiler:Shayde refuses to let her change history by killing Hitler and his cronies prematurely, seeking to maintain the web of time.]]
* IHaveManyNames: Also known as 'Nightingale', 'Jack Frost', and 'Cairo' on Earth, [[spoiler:and 'The Silent Shadow', 'The Soldier of the Unknown', and 'The Dark Reward' during the Time War. The Daleks called her 'Haruk Za' - "'The Death of Light'".]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:When Shayde saves Fey's life in "The Clockwise War", he also removes all of her memories of their time together, believing that he and the Doctor broke her by dragging her into their world.]]
* LivingShadow: See EmpoweredBadassNormal.
* MissingMom: Died when Fey was born.
* TheMole: Unintentionally. CrazyPrepared baddies called the Threshold had [[spoiler: given her an implant without her knowledge, so that she could act as a spy for them.]]
* NoodleIncident: Her first meeting with the Doctor in London in 1937, which may be the same adventure as the "sticky business with the psychic weasels of Russell Square" she and the Doctor got involved in. How the Doctor came to give her a Stattenheim Summoner to call on him in case of emergency may also be tied in.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: She deeply respects Shayde, and consents to [[spoiler: merge with him to save his life]]. Shayde later returns the favour, [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing himself]] to save her life]].
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Unleashes holy hell on a squad of Nazis in "Me and My Shadow" for causing the death of the old man she'd befriended on her latest mission. [[spoiler:Later targets the Doctor himself over what happened in their final adventure together in the Time War, engineering the Dreamspace arc.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: [[spoiler:Thanks to her experience with a race called the Loshann in the Time War, where she had to kill some to buy the War Doctor time to save the rest... only for the Doctor to fail, the Loshann and their world to be destroyed, and Fey to be seemingly abandoned by the Doctor. She came out of it with the delusion that she'd saved one of the Loshann, and that together with her nephew they were taking revenge on the Doctor and the Time Lords, when in truth it was only her and her nephew. That said nephew was quietly manipulating a traumatised Fey to pursue his own quest for universal dominion didn't help.]]
* TwoBeingsOneBody: She voluntarily fuses herself with [[spoiler: Gallifreyan shadow construct Shayde.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The only one of the DWM companions unaccounted for as of "The Stockbridge Showdown". [[spoiler:She returns in TheStinger to "The Phantom Piper", taking the Twelfth Doctor by surprise, as he'd thought she was dead.]]
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[[folder:Kroton]]
!!Kroton (Eighth Doctor)
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A friendly, silly, heroic adventurer who happened to have been Cyber-converted somewhere along the line. He spontaneously regained the capacity to experience emotion, but not his memories of his previous life. Originally introduced in solo back-up strips in the eighties, in which he wandered the universe trying to do good despite everybody's terror of him. Later reintroduced during the Eighth Doctor comics, much older and more experienced, in which he became a full-scale companion and a major player in one of the comics' arcs. (No connection to the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E4TheKrotons tellurium-themed bad guys]].)

* AscendedExtra: Only had a handful of brief appearances in Doctor Who Weekly and was then absent from the comic strip for quite a while, before becoming the Doctor's new companion.
* BreakoutMookCharacter: Kroton has more personality than almost any other Cyberman.
* AGodAmI: He eventually becomes [[spoiler: the keeper of the axis of all multiverses]].
* GuardianOfTheMultiverse: Becomes [[spoiler: Guardian of the Omniverse. That's right, not just all possible worlds of the Doctor Who universe, but of ''all'' universes and multiverses and worlds of fiction out there.]]
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: As he regains his humanity, he distances himself from the Cyberman way of life.
* QuestForIdentity: Initially subverted, because the idea of regaining his memories is too painful. [[spoiler: Izzy forces him, eventually.]]
* SameCharacterButDifferent: Writer/artist Adrian Salmon didn't even intend to bring him back, he was just toying around with an old character for an elaborate pencil test. Because of this, he felt free to let his interpretation of Kroton be inspired by {{Blaxploitation}} tropes and ''ComicBook/LukeCage'' in particular. Salmon showed the pages to his friends working at ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'', promptly got hired to expand the pages into a full-length comic, and became a mainstay artist for the franchise. (Kroton's newfound silliness was simply explained by him being a few centuries older than the last time we saw him, and more experienced with life.)
* WalkingTheEarth: Or rather, the universe.
* WistfulAmnesia: Whenever he gets flashes of his former life.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Destrii]]
!!Destriianatos a.k.a. "Destrii" (Eighth and Twelfth Doctors)
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The Eighth Doctor's final ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' companion, an alien who escaped her [[{{Dystopia}} hellhole homeworld]] to see the universe. She turns out to be very mentally unstable and has a whole lot to learn about morality. Got hit by an AbortedArc courtesy of the TV series's return, and finally got her happy ending in 2016.

* AbusiveParents: Tortured by her mother from a very young age, both physically and emotionally.
* AliensStealCable: How she became a fangirl -- her uncle Jodafra fed her a steady diet of ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'', ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' and old Westerns, to get her excited about exploring other worlds. All for his own purposes, of course.
* AmazonChaser: Some of the soldiers in "Bad Blood" seem rather allured by her combat skills.
* AmazonianBeauty: When it's revealed that she survived her apparent destruction while in Izzy's body, her more active lifestyle has given Izzy's body some seriously impressive muscle definition.
* AntiHero: Type V. Gets better as time goes by, roughly a Type III by her final appearance as companion. The Doctor offers her a chance to better herself, and she chooses to accept.
* AxCrazy: Trained as an arena warrior, and trained to fight ''dirty'', ever since she could walk. She loves carnage, and even after her HeelFaceTurn, she revels in the bloodshed.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Oh ''boy'', does it ever.
* BigDamnKiss: She kisses the Eighth Doctor a few times, against his will. He's not happy with it.
* BloodSport: Has been fighting in them all her life.
* BodySnatcher: Destrii tricks the Doctor's companion Izzy into swapping bodies with her to avoid capture by her people. [[spoiler:It gets reversed.]] She later acquires a hologram pendant from a group of enemies, which allows her to project herself as a human.
* CharacterDevelopment: Gets a nice amount of it, and would have gotten more had her stories not been cut short. Her 2016 return sees her living a happy life as a warrior, and also reveals that's she's lost her severe bloodlust and learned how to settle things with words instead of murder.
* DarkActionGirl: Raised as an arena fighter, and extremely skilled in combat.
* EasilyForgiven: She forcefully kisses and sexually intimidates the Eighth Doctor a few times over, and he's ''not remotely'' happy about it. He still takes her on as a companion, after she's [[spoiler:nearly beaten to death]] by Jodafra and shows the beginnings of a HeelFaceTurn. He makes sure to let her know she's "on probation" and has a lot to make up for if she really wants to travel with him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Her final and very ugly break with her uncle Jodafra comes when she discovers that he's planning to feed a bunch of little kids to a monster in exchange for power -- hurting children hits rather too close to home for her.]]
* FishPerson: As is her mom.
* FreudianExcuse: Abusive mother. [[DisappearedDad Dead father]]. WordOfGod has it that she doesn't even really fancy the Doctor, she subconsciously just wants to shag him to gain his approval as a father figure.
* AGodAmI: Her brief stint merged with the Horde.
* HeelFaceTurn: Eventually -- she had started making an effort during her final stories with the Eighth Doctor, and has become a warrior queen fighting for peace by the time she meets the Twelfth.
* InnocentBigot: Her inexperience with Earth minorities coupled with her over-exposure to twentieth-century Western pop culture leads her to tease an Asian cook, Tony, on his resemblance to Chinese stereotype Hop Sing from ''{{Series/Bonanza}}''. Due to exposure to the Cybermen's emotion aggravation device he tries to kill her, leaving a baffled Destrii to wonder why he hates ''Bonanza'' so much. The two spend the rest of the day facing Cybermen together, and Destrii comes to understand that she made a bit of a mistake.
* {{Matricide}}: Kills her mother. After looking at Destrii's childhood, you can see why.
* OnlyOneName: Her people have houses instead of last names.
%%* PrecisionFStrike: "You sorry '''sons of bitches'''", delivered to an army of Cybermen.
* ReallyGetsAround: She's had tons of lovers (according to WordOfGod), but none of them made her any happier in life.
* RebelliousPrincess: She's the heir to the throne, but was emotionally engineered by her uncle into wanting other things in life.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: Destrii and her family. Dear ''God'', Destrii and her family.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She eventually becomes ruler of the Oblivion Empire.
* TokenEvilTeammate: When Eight takes her on as a companion, she's only just starting to realise that there are other ways to live.
* TotallyRadical: Late 1990's-early 2000's variety, at least in her earlier appearances. Justified as she was raised on a selected batch of pop culture by her manipulative uncle.
* WildCard: Due to being extraordinarily mentally unstable.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Majenta]]
!!Majenta Pryce (Tenth and Twelfth Doctors)
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When they were told that the 2009 ''Doctor Who'' TV specials would not feature any ongoing regular companion, the strip's creators decided to revive the ''DWM'' tradition of original companions for Ten's final arc. Originally introduced as a minor villain, "Madge" later joined up with the Doctor ''against his will'', since she blames him for her amnesia and expects a cure.

* AffablyEvil: To an extent; she's more ruthless than evil, but she's terribly polite about it.
* AmnesiacDissonance: She's shocked to discover that she used to be a member of the Crimson Hand.
* AntiVillain: Starts off as villainous, but more callous than actively malevolent, and is shocked to discover just how bad her past was.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: She was initially introduced as a wealthy alien hotelier who was untroubled about the hazards caused to her guests and the universe by her irresponsible use of time travel technology for entertainment.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: What caused her to quit the Crimson Hand. She wasn't up for planetary destruction. They were. So she ran.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Green-skinned and quite pretty.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Went from a master criminal to an amnesiac minor villain to a WildCard TokenEvilTeammate to a genuine hero.
* IHaveManyNames: She's gone through a few aliases in her time.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Her unrequited lover erased her memories of being a supervillain to make her happier and prevent her from provoking her former allies.
* OurElvesAreDifferent: Majenta pretty much ticks most of the boxes. Attractive? Check. Pointy ears? Check. Blonde/white hair? Check. Haughty attitude? Check. [[spoiler:Mysterious abilities? Check.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: With some help from the Doctor, Destrii, Sharon, Frobisher and Max, she eventually takes over ''Dogbolter's company''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jess]]
!!Jess Collins (Twelfth Doctor)
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Like Majenta before her, Jess was originally introduced as a supporting character before getting upgraded to a bigger position, in her case thanks to the one-year gap with no regular companion between series 9 and 10. After the Twelfth Doctor finds himself stranded in 1970s London while the TARDIS recuperates following their latest adventure, Jess and her family take him in... only to find themselves drawn into the weirdness lurking under London's surface.

* AscendedExtra: Was just a guest character in "The Highgate Horror" (issues 492-493). Returned in issue 501 after TV companion Clara was written out.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Based on the actor Mélissa Azombo.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The whole Collins family get one in "Moving In", dealing with having Twelve as their houseguest.
* {{Fanboy}}: Her brother Maxwell's a comics fan.
* GoodParents: Her parents.
* HappilyMarried: Her parents.
* ItsPersonal: Happens to her a lot over her arc. Her boyfriend gets killed by the Corvids, her father gets (temporarily) possessed and mutated by a haywire piece of alien biotech, her little brother gets kidnapped by the Kolothos Hunters, and she and her entire family get kidnapped and sent to an alien wasteland by the Master.
* JumpedAtTheCall: After meeting the Doctor previously, she's not going to let him escape when she spots him in the street.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Jess' little brother Maxwell, the Doctor [[ContinuityNod mentioning]] the other Maxwell he knows.
* SeventiesHair: Has an afro. She's from 1972, so it's appropriate to the era.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Asks the Doctor this about Clara, his previous companion. But he doesn't remember her...
* YouLookFamiliar: Completely coincidental, as she debuted before the casting was announced, but she looks very similar to Bill, the Doctor's next TV companion.
[[/folder]]

!Recurring Characters
[[folder:Maxwell]]
!!Maxwell "Max" Edison (Fifth Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Tenth and Twelfth Doctors)
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The local nerd in the English country village of Stockbridge, the ''DWM'' comics' standard location for when something's weird going down in a bucolic setting. Has repeatedly turned down the idea of travelling with the Doctor because he claims to be too cowardly, although he's shown significant courage when pushed. Introduced Izzy to the Doctor and has some mild, vague psychic abilities. Has also appeared in one AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho story, "The Eternal Summer", where he was voiced by Mark Williams.

* BigDamnKiss: Gets a very big damn one in "The Eternal Summer" with Lizzie Corrigan.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A stereotypical conspiracy theory and UFO obsessive...
** TheCuckoolanderWasRight: ... but he '''does''' live in the ''Doctor Who'' universe.
* ComicBookTime: Averted; the strip's let Max age over time.
* CoolOldGuy: Well, he's getting there; he's sixty by "The Stockbridge Showdown".
* CowardlyLion: He always insists he's not brave enough to travel with the Doctor, but is heroic in crises. Such as attacking Dogbolter with his bare hands.
* TheDeterminator: Has often shown significantly better than average ability to resist mind control.
* GrandTheftMe: In "The Stockbridge Child".
* {{Seers}}: According to "The Stockbridge Child" he's got mild second sight, able to see something of people's futures. He's also shown some ability to recognise the Doctor regardless of his face.
* ShoutOut: He's named after Music/TheBeatles song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", and likes to joke that it could have been worse, his parents could have called him Eleanor Rigby instead.
* SoapboxSadie: His vocal but shallow environmentalism and left-wing conspiracy politics.
* YouLookFamiliar: He's voiced by Rory's dad.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shayde]]
!!Shayde (Fifth, Eighth, War and Twelfth Doctors)
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A creation of the Matrix Lords of Gallifrey, those Time Lords whose minds survive in the Matrix, serving as their agent in the wider universe. A sometime ally of the Fifth and Eighth Doctors, who through his adventures with them discovers he's slowly developing free will. Appears in the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audios, where he's voiced by Mark Donovan.

* AbnormalAmmo: His gun fires psychic bullets, powered by the will of his backers.
* TheBlank: Has a featureless black sphere for a head.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite his appearance, he's one of the good guys.
* EmergencyImpersonation: Pretends to be a newly-regenerated Doctor, based on Creator/NicholasBriggs' Doctor from the old ''AudioPlay/DoctorWhoAudioVisuals'', to fake out the Threshold while the real one goes undercover.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Gives up his own life to save Fey's.]]
* LivingShadow: A heroic blot with shadow powers, whose name alludes to it. More of his kind are prominently featured in the Franchise/FactionParadox novels ''The Book Of The War'' and ''Newtons Sleep''.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Able to travel anywhere in time and space.
* TwoBeingsOneBody: [[spoiler:Gets fused with Fey.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Abslom Daak]]
!!Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer (Seventh, War and Eleventh Doctors)
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Abslom Daak was a thuggish Human criminal from the mid-26th century. Eventually he was convicted and given the choice between vaporisation or exile as a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dalek Killer]]. He chose the latter. During this, his only true love was killed by a Dalek survivor that Daak had overlooked, leaving Daak grief-stricken and vowing to exterminate every Dalek in the galaxy. Made his first appearance in a back-up comic strip in 1980. He met the Fourth and Seventh Doctors and also Franchise/BerniceSummerfield a couple of times (he lived during the same 26th century time period as her). He made a comeback in Year Two of the Eleventh Doctor ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' comics, in which he became a full companion, and perhaps most surprisingly, appeared on the series, in a montage of previous bank robbers in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist "Time Heist"]].

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In the Titan comics, Alice develops an oddly flirtatious relationship with him.
* AntiHero: Of the ultra-violent sociopathic kind.
* AxCrazy: Occasionally, but always if you're a Dalek.
* BarbarianHero [[InSpace IN SPACE!]] But with the usual characteristics of ruthlessness and cheerful bloodlust.
* BountyHunter: In the Titan comics, he has become this after the Time War reduced the number of Daleks in the universe.
* ChainsawGood: Out of a selection of many weapons, his choice was (and continued to be) a chainsword.
-->'''Abslom Daak''' (to a Dalek): Okay, Chuckles, take a look at this chainsword. Notice those nice whirring teeth... and imagine them '''ripping through your little tin body!'''
* CharacterCatchphrase: "I'm gonna kill every last stinking Dalek in the galaxy!"
* CoolStarship: The Kill-Wagon.
* CreepySouvenir: In the Titan comics he travels in time using a Vortex Manipulator he took from a Time Agent. Still attached to the Time Agent's severed hand.
* DeathSeeker: In his first few strips, he is a suicidal nihilist, until falling in love and having his love killed by the Daleks turns him into a crazed avenger.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of AntiHero tropes.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In the Titan comics, he initially pretends to be rescuing the Doctor, then decides to take him back to the Overcast, then changes his mind due to blackmail, then seems to be genuinely mellowing.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He got better.]]
* IHaveYourWife: In the Titan comics, the TARDIS holds his wife's corpse hostage to make him behave himself.
* IneffectualLoner: Partially.
* TheLostLenore: His wife. Deconstructed in the Titan comics, as either River or his own inner voice reminds him that he knew her for barely an hour of time, and she's really just a further excuse to kill Daleks.
* NinetiesAntiHero: Despite being created in 1980.
* PetTheDog: Rescuing the Timeflies in the Titan comics.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Against the Dalek Empire.
* SociopathicHero: Daak is almost psychotically eager for battle to the point that he's along with [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] the only being able to make ''Daleks feel fear'' (at least until River Song comes on the scene).
* TrueCompanions: The Star Tigers crew - the Draconian Prince Salander, Vol Mercurius and an Ice Warrior, Harma, who came to travel the galaxy with Daak in a small ship known as the Kill-Wagon.
* UnexpectedCharacter: His shock return in the Titan ''Doctor Who'' comics.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rudy Zoom]]
!!Rudy Zoom (Twelfth Doctor)
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A futuristic "quadrillionaire" who uses his wealth to explore the wilder reaches of the solar system. A couple of times the Doctor has had to save his backside after he stumbled across SealedEvilInACan in the process.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: He is visually based on Creator/LennyHenry. Henry would later appear in Series 12, in a similar role.
* FearlessFool: His recklessness frequently puts him, and his employees and hangers-on, at severe risk.
* Fiction500: He's said to have been "only" a billionaire by the time he reached sixteen.
* GentlemanAdventurer: He aspires to the lifestyle.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: An unusually benign example - he is completely and utterly sociopathic, but he's so lacking in actual malice and has such a pampered life that he has no inclination to intentionally harm anyone, although he has got quite a few people killed by going where man was not meant to.
* InsanityImmunity: Clara once used him unknowingly as a weapon against evil {{Emotion Eater}}s that fed on people's self-loathing -- his utter, invincible self-satisfaction made him lethally toxic to them.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a {{Race Lift}}ed parody of Richard Branson, with some added tinges of Elon Musk. (Amusingly, when Henry would finally appear in the series, he was instead a stand-in for Steve Jobs.)
[[/folder]]

!Villains
[[folder:Beep the Meep]]
!!Beep the Meep (Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Fourteenth Doctors)
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An adorably cute alien fluffball who is actually a murderously psychotic GalacticConqueror. Introduced in the Fourth Doctor comic story "The Star Beast", a parody of cute AlienAmongUs narratives in which he crashed on contemporary Earth while fleeing justice and tried to pull a WoundedGazelleGambit. Made several later appearances as a comedy villain. Also appeared in two AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho dramas, "The Ratings War", in which he was voiced by Toby Longworth, and their full-cast adaptation of "The Star Beast". Beep, alongside the Wrarth Warriors, made their TV debut in [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast the first of the 60th anniversary specials]] alongside the Fourteenth Doctor, where Beep was voiced by Creator/MiriamMargolyes.

* AlienAmongUs: His initial masquerade as a harmless crash survivor.
* AxCrazy: He wants to kill everyone else in the universe for no particular reason.
* BlatantLies: The "Who on Earth is... Beep the Meep" interview in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' claims that he's innocent and that the Doctor framed him.
* BountyHunter: In "Party Animals", Beep tries to capture the Seventh Doctor and his future Fred incarnation in order to collect a bounty.
* CanonImmigrant: He and the Wrarth Warriors appeared in the first of the 60th anniversary TV specials.
%%* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon
* DependingOnTheArtist: His original comic appearance is in black and white:
** Most reprints colour him blue or white.
** He was purple in an illustration for the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' interview.
** He was gray on the cover of the audio story adaptation of his original appearance.
** They were white in their TV appearance.
* DepravedKidsShowHost: He created the ''Beep and Friends'' show in order to hypnotize children into committing murder.
* FaceHeelTurn: The Meeps were originally a fairly advanced and pacifistic race. Unfortunately, they were collectively mutated by Black Star radiation into a race of psychopathic conquerors.
* FalselyReformedVillain:
** At the beginning of "The Star Beast II", he is being paroled from prison after convincing the board that he's reformed. As soon as he gets out, it's revealed that he was faking it, and he starts on a new evil scheme.
** He does the same basic thing in "The Ratings War".
* GalacticConqueror: Beep is chased to Earth by the Wrarth Warriors after he attempted to take over the galaxy, and has made multiple attempts since.
* KillerRabbit: His cute appearance belies his extreme malice and murderousness.
* LaughablyEvil: He's usually used for black comedy and edgy satire, and he wouldn't feel out of place as a ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' villain.[[note]]He was created by Pat Mills, one of Dredd's co-creators.[[/note]]
* LongerThanLifeSentence: ''Doctor Who Magazine'' said that he was sentenced to 3,000 years in prison after his first appearance. Their TV iteration gets 10,000.
* MacGyvering: He ended his interview by turning Ben Cook's tape recorder into a sonic device that takes his handcuffs off.
* MassHypnosis: He uses [=TV=] shows to hypnotize the Earth's population in "The Ratings War".
* PuppyDogEyes: This is his final weapon when caught.
* RayGun: Has a laser pistol, but luckily The Doctor manages to make it discharge its energy before Beep can use it.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: The "Doctor Who Magazine'' interview is written as if Ben Cook is interviewing him in-universe, and ends with Beep shooting Cook and escaping.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: The "TV Action" comic has him visit a parallel universe where ''Series/DoctorWho'' is a TV show.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Consists basically of eyes, fluff, and feet.
* RuleOfFunny: His stories aren't exactly the most realistic ones. On one memorable occasion, he got defeated by Creator/TomBaker. No, not the Fourth Doctor-- Creator/TomBaker.
* StopHittingYourself: An interview in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' said that he cut the leg off the judge who sentenced him and beat him to death with it.
* TrappedInTVLand: The Doctor traps him inside a ''Franchise/{{Lassie}}'' movie at the end of "The Star Beast [=II=]"
* VillainSong: The theme to ''Beep and Friends'', a happy bouncy tune about mutilation and mass murder.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a tendency to drop his harmless masquerade too early and start gratuitously shooting people.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: His initial claim to be a harmless creature being hunted by villains.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dogbolter]]
!!Josiah W. Dogbolter (Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Twelfth Doctors)
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The froglike CEO of Intra-Venus Inc. who wanted to possess the TARDIS, and regularly hired mercenaries to pursue the Fifth and Sixth Doctors. Also appeared in a ''ComicBook/DeathsHead'' crossover, where he hired the eponymous Freelance Peacekeeping Agent ([[InsistentTerminology and definitely not a mercenary]]) to pursue the Seventh Doctor. Appeared in the Creator/BigFinish audios [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsTheMaltesePenguin "The Maltese Penguin"]] and "The Quantum Possibility Engine", voiced by Toby Longworth.

* AbortedArc:
** Despite being built up as a huge threat and potential long-term villain, he drops off the radar without explanation when the "Voyager" arc gets going.
** Appears again in [[MilestoneCelebration the 500th DWM issue]], where he is finally arrested for his crimes.
* BerserkButton: Blows his top when the Fifth Doctor names "frogspawn" as his price.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: In the 500th issue, the Twelfth Doctor asks if he remembers getting Gus Goodman killed. Dogbolter has no idea who he's talking about and outright brags about the number of "nobodies" he's killed on his way to the top.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: A wealthy and ruthless questionably-legitimate businessman.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Tricked into confessing to murders by the 12th Doctor. Sharon Allen broadcasts this on the Galactic Net, leading to Josiah's arrest.
* Fiction500: He owns most of the solar system.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: "The Stockbridge Showdown", in the special ''DWM'' #500, shows the Doctor finally defeating him.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: A cold-blooded froglike bad guy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Master]]
!!The "Preacher" Master (Eighth Doctor)
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The unique version of the Master appearing in the Eighth Doctor ''DWM'' comics. See the general [[Characters/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverseMasters expanded-universe-only Master incarnations]] character page.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Count Jodafra]]
!!Count Jodafra (Eighth Doctor)
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Destrii's foppish, devious uncle and the only member of the family she actually likes. Looks like a humanised lion. When he's introduced, he seems sympathetically roguish, but later developments reveal just how evil he can be.

* AbortedArc: According to WordOfGod, he would have made future appearances as Destrii's ArchEnemy had the Eight-Destrii comics not been cut off by the revival of the TV series.
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Brought back and almost immediately killed off as a, cough, SacrificialLion in "The Clockwise War".]]
* BaitTheDog: Initially introduced as an apparent LovableRogue, but gradually revealed to be truly evil.
* CaneFu: The NoHoldsBarredBeatDown he delivers to Destrii with it [[spoiler: because she stopped him killing a bunch of children]] is pretty much the final straw for seeing him as morally ambiguous.
* CatsAreMean: A sadistic and ruthless feline type.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Pretending to be genuinely AffablyEvil at worst.
* TheSvengali: Brought up his niece Destrii as a villainous henchperson to him and trained her as a fighter.
* WickedCultured: He pretends to be, and to a degree is, the intellectual one in his brutal family.
* TheWonka: His initial depiction as an eccentric and pranksterish, but kindly, intellectual.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Berakka]]
!! Berakka Dogbolter (Twelfth and Thirteenth Doctors)
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Josiah's daughter and a chip off the old block. Originally appeared in "The Stockbridge Showdown" as her father's loyal assistant, who was given a second chance when he was arrested. She did not rethink her life based on this, and resurfaced in the first Thirteenth Doctor comics story "The Warmonger", running a telepathic media channel called the Freedom Thoughtcasting Network.

* BrawnHilda: She's a thickset villainous woman who enjoys hand-to-hand fighting and has no interest in being seductive.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Just like her dad.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Josiah seems to have taught her everything he knew.
* TheDragon: To her father, in her first appearance.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Said to be the only person Dogbolter actually likes.
* NonMammalianHair: She's a humanoid frog, and a redhead.
* NonMammalMammaries: Despite being amphibian, she has a bosom.
* PragmaticVillainy: While she spent a while plotting revenge on the Doctor for her father's defeat, she ultimately decided that just wasn't profitable.
* StrawmanNewsMedia: FTN touts itself as a news source, but really it's packaging a devastating conflict as entertainment.
[[/folder]]
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