Bret Vyon (First Doctor)

Played by: Nicholas Courtney (1965-1966)

The earliest character in the series who you might or not call a companion, depending on your definition. A SSS agent who has been searching for the missing (actually dead) Marc Cory. He helps the Doctor for the first few episodes after discovering that the Guardian of the Solar System Mavic Chen is a traitor. Notable because Nicholas Courtney went on to play the much-beloved Brigadier in the same series.

• Anti-Hero: Type II or III.
• Killed Off for Real: By his own sister, Sara Kingdom, early on in his debut story "The Daleks' Master Plan". Sara went on to travel with the Doctor for the remainder of the story. (It Makes Sense in Context.)
• Lantern Jaw of Justice
• Perma Stubble
• Senseless Sacrifice
• You Look Familiar

Sabalom Glitz (Sixth and Seventh Doctors)

A recurring character (but not a companion) referred to by Selby as "an intergalactic car salesman", Glitz is con man who crossed paths with the Doctor on three occasions. The first two times were deep in the tale of "Trial of a Time Lord", where he attempted to kill the Doctor and teamed up with the Master, respectively. Glitz did have a grudging respect for the Doctor, though. His third appearance was also the final showing of companion Mel, as she stayed behind with him. For some reason.

• Anti-Villain: Though the Doctor doesn't punish him (unless you count saddling him with Mel), Glitz does, or at least tries to do some evil things, like sell his crew into undead slavery.
• Con Man: Glitz and his partner Dibber are another example of Robert Holmes' criminal double-acts, much like Garron and Unstoffe and Vorg and Shirna.
• Delusions of Eloquence
• Greed: Gaining any sort of profit is his main motivation in life.
• Honest John's Dealership
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Arguably.
• No Sell: He's actually immune to the Master's hypnotic charms. It helps that the Master was using a fancy piece of jewelry: Glitz was more concerned with how much the item was worth!
• Same Character, But Different: His third appearance was originally written for a whole other character. It was decided to bring back Glitz instead, without changes to the script.
• Space Jews
• Unwitting Pawn: His first two appearances arguably fall under "performing the whims of the Master or Valeyard", even if he doesn't know about it.

Chang Lee (Seventh and Eighth Doctors)

Played by: Yee Jee Tso (1996)

A young San Francisco gang member who watches the Doctor get shot, gets poor "John Smith" to the hospital out of sheer kindness, and proceeds to make some very poor life decisions that leave him as the Master's companion. Eventually realises his mistake and joins up with the Doctor to fix everything.

• Back from the Dead
• Black Eyes of Evil
• Easily Forgiven: The Doctor figures that Chang's suffered enough punishment being kicked around by the Master, so he lets him off easy.
• Fake American: Actor Yee Jee Tso is actually Canadian.
• Greed
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Minion with an F in Evil: He's not evil, he's just incredibly greedy.
• Ominous Message From The Future: The Doctor gives him a cryptic warning to stay out of San Francisco next Christmas, implying something bad might happen to either the city, or possibly just him, if he doesn't.

Jacqueline "Jackie" Tyler (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)

Rose's mum. When Doctor Who was revived in 2005, the show began to focus a bit on the Companions' families for the first time ever. Jackie still stands out over most family members and got plenty of Character Development. Her daughter was also the first Companion of the new series.

Played by: Camille Coduri (2005-2006, 2008, 2010)

• Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Jackie's final kiss with Pete at the end of "Father's Day".
• Blatant Lies: "There was never anyone else." Uh-huh.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not usually, but she has her moments, especially in her final conversation with the Doctor.
• Distressed Damsel: MUCH more so than Rose.
• Dumb Blonde: And a mouthy one, to boot.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Nine couldn't stand her for one second. Relations with Ten started off rocky, but he warmed to Jackie by the end.
• Loveable Sex Maniac: Tries to seduce the Ninth Doctor the very first time they meet. He just ignores her.
  • Eating the Eye Candy: Like her daughter, she's very taken with the Tenth Doctor's new look.
• Mama Bear: In "Journey's End" in particular.
• Motor Mouth: Can sport a terrific one if she wants to, especially when first meeting the Tenth Doctor.
• Mrs. Robinson: To Elton in "Love & Monsters". (Which must have hurt, since Camille Coduri is actually less than 1 1/2 years older than Marc Warren, who played Elton)
• Pair the Spares: Specifically, pair the corresponding widowed parallel universe counterparts.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Word Of God said she worked as a hairdresser, but this was never mentioned onscreen.
• Really Gets Around: Who the heck is Rodrigo?
• Rich Bitch: Parallel universe version.
• Took a Level in Badass: After a two year absence, Jackie teleports in "Journey's End", blasting away at a Dalek and saving Sarah Jane's life (along with Mickey who'd already taken a level).

Harriet Jones, MP, Flydale North / Prime Minister (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)

MP for a small constituency from the 21st century, and later Prime Minister during the Sycorax invasion before being ruthlessly deposed again by the Tenth Doctor. She later appeared at the end of series 4, along with pretty much everyone else.

• Back for the Dead: In the Series 4 finale.
• Career Building Blunder: Stumbles into Downing Street to promote her new health regulation ideas... during the middle of an alien invasion. Being too stubborn to back off, despite everyone repeatedly telling her to, she manages to accidentally spot the aliens while trying to plant her files in the emergency program suitcase. This leads to her meeting the Doctor and becoming the lone reliable witness of the alien battle. The Doctor encourages her to become the invasion's media darling, knowing that it would lead to her eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK as a result.
• Catch Phrase: Always introduces herself with her full name and title, even after she rises from political obscurity to Prime Minister.
• "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner
• Heroic Sacrifice
• I Did What I Had to Do: Her justification for ordering Torchwood to shoot down the Sycorax ship as it retreated.
• Iron Lady
• Not So Different: To the Doctor oddly enough. His solution to deal with the Sycorax was to scare them into submission, telling them to tell every other race that Earth is defended (by him). Her solution was to blast them out of the sky, sending a message to anyone watching that when the Doctor's not around, they can defend themselves just fine.
• Phrase Catcher: After her rise from political obscurity, her catchphrase is always responded to with a tetchy or affectionate or confused (depending on the respondent) "Yes, I/we know who you are". Even from Daleks.
• Screw Destiny: Becomes the victim of the Doctor's decision to significantly alter her history after her first year as Prime Minister. The result is that instead of the Golden Age that Harriet was supposed to reside over mentioned by the Ninth Doctor, two ruthless villains — first the Master, then Brian Green — become PM, with the consequences resonating all the way through into Torchwood Children Of Earth.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.
• Small Role Big Impact: Oh, yes.

Peter "Pete" Tyler (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)

Rose's dad. The version native to "our" universe died in a car accident in 1987 when Rose was just a baby. Though very clever, he was also an idealistic dreamer whose schemes never amounted to anything much; after his death, Jackie would describe him to Rose as an ideal husband and father.

In the parallel universe seen in "Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel", that universe's version of Pete (dubbed Alt!Pete or Re-Pete) actually made his schemes work and became fabulously rich.

• And This Is for...: Alt!Pete's "JACKIE TYLER! THIS IS FOR HER!!!"
• Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: See Jackie Tyler above.
• Badass Normal: Both versions.
• Broken Pedestal: Subverted. While Pete was nowhere near the ideal husband and father Jackie made him out to be, he still turns out to be a bright, basically decent bloke, who manages to save the entire timeline, even at the cost of a...
• Heroic Sacrifice: Our Pete saves the world, maybe the universe, and nobody will ever know. Except for the one person who matters most, his little girl.
• Pair the Spares: Again, see Jackie Tyler above.
• Reverse Mole
• That Thing Is Not My Child: Alt!Pete's relationship with Rose is initially somewhat frosty, due to the fact that he's been recently widowered and his discomfort at Rose treating him as though he's her father, when she honestly doesn't exist in his universe. However, this is mostly just hot air and he quickly accepts her as the daughter he never had.
• They Called Me Mad!: Given time, Pete's inventions would have netted him a fortune, as his alternate self proves.
• You Can't Fight Fate

Jenny (Tenth Doctor)

Played by Georgia Moffet (2008)

Appeared for one episode (so far) as the daughter (more accurately, Opposite-Sex Clone) of the Tenth Doctor. Mourned by the Doctor. But, unknown, to him, she didn't actually die.

• Action Girl: Has extensive knowledge of combat techniques.
• Actor Allusion: The daughter of the Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison.
• Badass Adorable: Is short. Cute. Can kill a man in a large variety of ways and once backflipped through a room of lasers.
• Cast Incest: Now married to David Tennant, who played the Tenth Doctor.
• Custom Uniform of Sexy: A particularly egregious example. Not only did she come out of the cloning machine wearing a slightly sexier uniform than generic fatigues, she came out of it wearing makeup.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Supposedly.
• Human Aliens
• One Steve Limit: Shares the same name as Madame Vastra's wife.

Craig Owens (Eleventh Doctor)

Rented a room out to the Doctor when the latter was stranded on Earth by a malfunctioning TARDIS. Hilarity ensued. As a result of a hasty Mind Meld Info Dump, he knows more about the Doctor's general history than most non-companion characters, and the Doctor has come to view him as a very good friend.

• Accidental Pervert
• Adorkable
• Always Someone Better: The Doctor to Craig, with regards to football and his job. Probably not the best thing to do to your landlord.
• Ambiguously Bi: He casually tells the Doctor that he's always welcome to bring over a girlfriend or boyfriend, and his only objection to the Doctor trying to snog him (It Makes Sense in Context) is that he's already taken. He and the Doctor get Mistaken for Gay by just about everyone.
• Badass
• Badass Normal: Emphasis on the latter to justify the former. He's so ordinary that a Lotus-Eater Machine exploded instead of killing him, and he once blew up an entire Cyberman base by simply letting them feel the mental feedback of his intense desire to protect his infant son.
• Badass Unintentional: None of the stuff he did was on purpose, and he was for the most part scared for his life.
• Breather Episode: Craig has only appeared in these.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Craig and Sophie, even though Everyone Can See It.
• Exposition Beam: The Doctor gives him one when they first meet.
• Genre Savvy: Craig recognizes that everywhere the Doctor goes, disaster will come...
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: ...and also that the safest place for him and Alfie is by his side, because the Doctor always wins.
• I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Craig and Sophie for most of The Lodger; they eventually decide to ruin their friendship properly.
• Mistaken for Gay: The Doctor and Craig. As Val tells them, "There's no need to be coy these days."
  • Val has more reason than most do for this trope, what with the way Craig and the Doctor act throughout the episode. She sees them hug, and they refer to each other as their 'partner'. Also, the Doctor tries to kiss Craig, but (as usual) that was to save their lives.
  • Craig also makes it a point to make no assumptions about the Doctor when they first meet, telling him that he's always welcome to bring over a girlfriend — or a boyfriend.
• Morality Chain: For the Doctor.
  • Lampshaded that their relationship is similar to people opening up to talk to Craig whenever he brings his baby with him.
  Doctor: That's why I usually take a Human along with me.
  Craig: So I'm your baby?
  Doctor: You're my baby!
• Nice Hat: When the Doctor says he is going to America, Craig gives him the Stetson as a parting gift.
• Only Sane Man: Often points out how completely mental being around the Doctor is.
• Papa Wolf: ...eventually.
• Power of Love
• Running Gag: The Doctor "Shhh"-ing people and Craig wanting to be taught how.
• Stop Helping Me!: The Doctor's attempts to help Craig (joining his football team, filling in for him at work when he's sick, trying to get Sophie to admit that she loves him, etc.) just make him look like the better man who's driving Sophie away.
• Stout Strength: According to the Doctor.
• Too Spicy for Yog Sothoth: Craig is so happy in his mundane life that it overloads the alien spacecraft in "The Lodger". In "Closing Time", his paternal instincts overload the Cybermen's emotional inhibitors, blowing up their whole ship.
• Use Your Head: In order to save time explaining why he's staying with Craig, the Doctor headbutts him twice.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With the Doctor. Craig may express exasperation, terror and irritation whenever the Doctor shows up, but its clear he's secretly having the time of his life.

Dorium Maldovar (Eleventh Doctor)

Owner and operator of the Maldovarium, a commercial/black market outpost in the 52nd century, Dorium made a brief cameo in "The Pandorica Opens" before being recruited by the Doctor to fight in the Battle of Demon's Run in "A Good Man Goes to War" to repay the Doctor's debt. He's back, post-mortem (sorta), in "The Wedding of River Song".

• Chekhov's Gunman: His first episode was a very brief cameo with nothing to indicate we'd ever see him again. In his second episode, he had a major role to play before he was beheaded. Later, it turns out his head still lives.
• Crazy-Prepared: He had a media chip implanted in his skull that allows him to wireless surf the internet. After he was beheaded by the Headless Monks, he claims that he's not bothered at his present state since at least the media chip keeps him entertained. And because the wi-fi down in the catacombs is frankly excellent!
• Fat Bastard: Subverted. Cunning, cowardly, corrupt and corpulent he may be, but he's definitely on the Doctor's side.
• Friend In The Black Market: Gave River her Vortex Manipulator in "The Pandorica Opens". Fresh off the wrist of a handsome Time Agent.
  • He said off the wrist!
• Genre Blind / Idiot Ball: After he points out that the Headless Monks are chanting their "Attack Prayer", and after Rory points out that Dorium had just sold them out to the Doctor, Dorium wanders over to attempt peace negotiations. It doesn't work.
• Heel Face Revolving Door: Subverted. He makes it very clear that he only aided the army at Demon's Run because they threatened to kill him. He warned them against taking action because they didn't scare him half as much as the Doctor does.
• Losing Your Head
• Lovable Coward: Freely admits this on Demon's Run — and it's this deeply-ingrained sense of self-preservation that lets him know the Doctor's victory was too easy.
  • That quote above, where Dorium is absolutely terrified out of his mind and raging against the heavens? That wasn't his reaction to being confronted by a horde of hostile enemies... that was his reaction to The Doctor showing up to recruit him!
• Oracular Head
• Secret Keeper: He enthusiastically promises to keep the Doctor's secrets after learning that the Doctor didn't really die by Lake Silencio.
• Title Drop: Turns the show's occasional Running Gag into Arc Words. "Doctor who?"

Canton Everett Delaware III (Eleventh Doctor)

A former FBI agent, fired for wanting to get married before being rehired by President Richard Nixon to investigate a mysterious girl who calls Nixon no matter where he goes. Is teamed up with the Doctor for one story.

• Awesome McCoolname
• Badass
• Badass Beard: As a retiree, chilling his heels at Lake Silencio.
• Badass Gay: He tells Nixon he wants to get married to a black person. Nixon's unfazed until Canton elaborates that it's a black guy.
• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Combat Pragmatist: Wisely shot one of the Silence when it started bragging how tough they were.
• Cool Old Guy: Older Canton definitely gives off this vibe.
• Cool Shades / Sinister Shades: Wore a rather nice (and intimidating) pair during his faked executions of the Doctor's companions.
• Genre Savvy: He adjusts incredibly quickly to the implications of the TARDIS, to the point he refers to it as the Doctor's "wheels". This same understanding allows him to repeatedly manipulate the Silence's arrogance. And shoot them.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Face Heel Turn: In the time between "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon". He's faking it.
• The Men in Black: Following his sudden Face Heel Turn, which is all a ruse.
• Real-Life Relative: His older self is played by Mark Sheppard's own father.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Kicked out of the FBI for wanting (in the 60's) to be able to get married to someone who was black... and a man.
• Revolvers Are Just Better
• Shut Up, Hannibal!
• The Stoic: To the point of having Nerves of Steel.
• Straight Gay
• Trigger Happy: See quote.

Madame Vastra (Eleventh Doctor)

Vastra is a Silurian warrior living in Victorian London as a detective with her human maidservant, lover, and eventual wife, Jenny. They were recruited by the Doctor to fight in the Battle of Demon's Run. After that, Strax came to live with them as their butler, and the Doctor spends quite a lot of time with them.

• All There in the Manual: The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012 contains 4 pages worth of Victorian newspaper articles and letters from Vastra hinting at how she first met the Doctor and Jenny, as well as some adventures Vastra and Jenny have had independent of each other.
• Crazy-Prepared: She sent Clara a letter containing a candle that would release a sedative when burned. Knowing that Clara wouldn't light it, she also coated the letter itself with the sedative.
• Deadpan Snarker: Vastra can get quite deadpan at times.
  Strax: I'm not an expert on alien species. ...but you're both woman ones aren't you?
  Vastra: It has been noted.
• Great Detective: The inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Happily Married: See above.
• Hero of Another Story
• Hugh Mann: Really isn't trying. She takes off her veil quite often, and explains to anyone who asks her background.
  • Weirdness Censor: Many seem to assume that Vastra and Strax suffer from some kind of skin malady and physical deformities, but because of Victorian social etiquette, are simply too polite to say anything! Then again, they do live in Victorian London.
• Interspecies Romance
• Jack the Ripper:
  Jenny: How did you find him?
  Vastra: Stringy, but tasty all the same. I shan't be needing dinner.
• Katanas Are Just Better
• Lady of Adventure
• Lipstick Lesbian: Likes to conform to Victorian standards of female dress in non-violent situations.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: She and Jenny are married crime-fighting serial-killer-hunting katana-wielding Victorian interspecies lesbians. Vastra herself is a Victorian, Silurian, katana-wielding, human-eating, crimefighter.
• Noble Bigot: Vastra, who frequently criticises "apes" despite being married to one. Jenny just rolls with it.
• Official Couple
• Perception Filter: Her veil has one.
• Power Perversion Potential: "I don't know why you put up with me." Cue the six-foot long tongue...
• Retired Monster: Vastra was hunting workmen on the London Underground when the Doctor first met her.
• Those Two Gals: With Jenny.
• To Serve Man: Vastra. We don't know if Jenny joins in.
• Victorian Britain
• Waistcoat of Style
• You Look Familiar: Neve McIntosh had previously played the 2 main Silurian females in the "Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood" two-parter.

Jenny Flint (Eleventh Doctor)

Played by: Catrin Stewart (2011-)

Madame Vastra's wife and Ninja Maid, who was cast out by her family for her preferences and subsequently took up a life of detective work, lock-picking and katana-wielding.

• Action Girl
• Badass: Jenny has shown to be very capable of defending herself in a fight.
  • Badass Gay
• Battle Butler / Ninja Maid
• Battle Couple: With Vastra.
• Beauty Mark
• Big Damn Kiss: The Doctor snogs her once out of sheer joy, after reversing the process that left him as a partially-frozen statue. She's not happy with it (being, you know, lesbian and married) and slugs him in the face, but he's too happy being able to feel his jaw again to care.
• Disney Death: In The Name of the Doctor, she "dies" just long enough to freak out Vastra (and the fans) before Strax restarts her heart.
• Gayngst: Jenny was ostracized by her family over "preferences in companionship". She's rolled with it.
• Happily Married: See above.
• Hero of Another Story
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Jenny's black-leather Spy Catsuit, which she has been seen to wear under more usual clothing.
• Insistent Terminology: Always addresses her wife simply as "Madame".
• Interspecies Romance
• Katanas Are Just Better
• Lady of Adventure
• Lipstick Lesbian: Likes to conform to Victorian standards of female dress in non-violent situations, but wears more sensible combat gear underneath.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: She and Vastra are married crime-fighting serial-killer-hunting katana-wielding Victorian interspecies lesbians.
• Official Couple
• One Steve Limit: Jenny is not the same character as the Doctor's daughter.
• Silk Hiding Steel
• Spy Catsuit: Sometimes wears one in combat situations.
• Submissive Badass
• Those Two Gals: With Vastra.
• Victorian Britain
• Waistcoat of Style
• The Watson: The original Watson who allegedly inspired Sir Conan Doyle's stories.

Strax (Eleventh Doctor)

Strax was, at one time, a Commander in the Sontaran army, but was demoted to the status of nurse. At some point he encountered the Doctor and the two began an Odd Friendship, leading Strax to participate in the Battle of Demon's Run, where he was killed (or, perhaps, simply fainted). The Doctor managed to get Strax brought Back from the Dead (although he Came Back Wrong a bit), and he began living with Vastra and Jenny in Victorian London.

• Accent On The Wrong Syllable: His appearence at Monster's Day Out was in Cahrrdeef.
• Affably Evil: Not evil per se, but he frequently remarks to people that he hopes to one day kill them for the glory of the Sontaran Empire. Note that this is a compliment from a Sontaran's perspective.
• Back from the Dead: Somehow, thanks to an unspecified friend of the Doctor's. We see Vastra and Jenny fixing him up in the "Two Days Later" mini-sode, where it's implied that he may have actually fainted instead.
• Battle Butler: Now serves this role to Vastra and Jenny. He's got the battle down, and he's trying hard on the butler part.
• Blood Knight: He is a Sontaran, after all. Around the time of his death, though, he realized he wasn't all too keen on dying in battle after all.
  • Bar Brawl: His idea of a fun weekend off is getting into one of these with a Violent Glaswegian.
• Bizarre Alien Sexes: Hailing from a monosex clone-race, "two genders is a bit further than he can count". He defaults to male pronouns to comic effect, even when he's making an effort.
  Strax: I'm not an expert on alien species, but you're both...woman-ones, aren't you?
  Vastra: It has been noted.
  Strax: Don't you need a man-one?
  Vastra / Jenny: No.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: He declared war on the Moon, having determined that it had been over them far too long and had gained a tactical advantage. When informed that the Moon was uninhabited, he merely insisted that that just meant that now is the best time to strike because "They'll never see it coming!"
  • He executed three horses in a week, because he believed they failed their missions. (He gets prevented from executing a fourth.)
• Combat Medic: A Sontaran Nurse.
• Death Seeker: He finds the glorious Sontaran death is a bit less pleasant than he expected. After being revived, he initially insists that he's most sincerely dead and they should leave him.
• Disney Death
• The Ditz: The Doctor suggested that he Came Back Wrong, though part of his apparent ditziness may be because he's a Sontaran trying to fit in Victorian London.
  • Genius Ditz: Still retains his medical and combat knowledge.
• Fate Worse Than Death: For a Sontaran, being forced to save lives is one of the greatest shames imaginable.
• Foil: Arguably to Rory, who is a nurse-turned-warrior, while Strax is a warrior-turned-nurse.
• Friend To Miniature Humans: His appearance at Monster's Day Out taking questions from a group of little children.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sontarans can be violent and brutish, but this one's the Doctor's friend. Plus he offered to breast-feed Amy and Rory's baby. He can produce magnificent quantities of lactic fluid!
• Mr. Seahorse: He's not technically got a gender, but mentions undergoing gene-splicing to allow him to produce breast milk.
• OOC Is Serious Business: In "The Name of the Doctor", when the Great Intelligence attempts to rewrite the Doctor's entire timestream and remove his positive influence on the universe, Strax is briefly transformed into a psychopathic Sontaran Warrior (more so than usual) and even attempts to murder Madame Vastra because as a Silurian, she was "racially impure".
• Psycho Sidekick: The only reason why he isn't trying to conquer Earth is because he sees Vastra, Jenny and the Doctor as his superiors and works towards their objectives.
• Psychopathic Manchild: In The Crimson Horror, Vastra scolds him for acting overexcited. Strax goes outside to play with his grenades.
• Throw Down the Bomblet: In "The Crimson Horror", he grumbles that Madame Vastra never lets him use his grenades.
• Weirdness Censor: Like Vastra, many seem to assume that Strax suffers from some skin malady and physical deformities, but because of Victorian social etiquette, are simply too polite to say anything! It helps that Strax spends most of his time in London and Glasgow.
• You Look Familiar: Well, Sontarans are clones, after all. Dan Starkey has played several Sontarans since their reappearance in the 2008 series.

The Teselecta (Eleventh Doctor)

Played By: Philip Rham, Karen Gillan, Alex Kingston, Niall Greig Fulton, Matt Smith (2011)

The Teselecta was a Justice Department Vehicle, staffed by a crew who had been miniaturised by a compression field. It could travel through time, and was used to locate people who were deemed to have committed crimes but had escaped punishment. After finding them near the end of their respective timelines (so as to avoid changing history), the crew would administer their own punishment - usually in the form of some non-lethal painful torture, so that afterwards they could die in the manners recorded by history.

• Acting for Two
• Back for the Finale
• Chekhov's Gunman
• A God Am I: The Doctor accuses them of having a God complex.
  "Give them Hell?" I'd say, who do you think you are? But I already know the answer!
• Have a Nice Death: The Antibodies would like you to remain calm while your life is extracted. You will experience a slight tingling sensation and then death.
• Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: The crew of the Teselecta operates on this rule. They target war criminals throughout history, particularly those who were outright Karma Houdinis or committed suicide (like Hitler) before they could be brought to justice. They replace the original with a duplicate near the end of their timeline, and "give [the originals] hell". In Hitler's case they mistakenly did this too early, and would've left him alone (for the time being) had the TARDIS not appeared when it did.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Amy saves River from the Teselecta by shorting out all the devices that make the Antibodies leave them alone, forcing them to teleport away when they can't shut the Antibodies down quickly enough.
• Karma Houdini: The crew of the Teselecta aims to prevent this, by travelling to the end of said person's timeline… and killing them painfully.
  • And they effectively become Karma Houdinis themselves, in that they are forced to teleport away before the Doctor has time to do to them what he usually does to people who try to justify torture. They do get something of a redemption in "The Wedding Of River Song" by assisting the Doctor in creating a Tricked Out Time situation to sidestep his own death.
• Loony Fan: Heavily implied to be one to the Doctor.
  • It's indicated in "The Wedding of River Song" that they are somewhat aware of this. The Captain even acknowledges that, no matter what the Doctor may feel about their actions, they at least try to follow his example and act as champions of law and order throughout time.
• Misaimed Fandom (In-Universe): It's strongly suggested that it was the Doctor who inspired the Department of Justice to travel through time punishing Complete Monsters.
• Mobile Suit Human
• Shout Out: A robot that appears human (and can mimic appearances) from the future traveling back in time to assassinate persons from the past.
  • Also, it's manned by a bridge full of people in uniforms who have teleporter technology… who are on a Fantastic Voyage, you might say. The Human-looking robot is also manned by tiny people…
• Shrink Ray
• Time Police: The "Department of Justice" organisation behind the Teselecta appears to be a variation of this. They also seem to be rather inept, considering they went to all the trouble of breaking into Hitler's office, and only realised they were years too early in just enough time. Or the time they made Rasputin green.

Brian Williams (Eleventh Doctor)

Played By: Mark Williams (2012)

Rory's retired dad, who's dragged along with the Ponds by accident and gets along splendidly with the Doctor from the moment they meet.

• Allergic To Routine: Averted, he went four days in the TARDIS apparently staring at a blank black cube and then went on a year of scheduled cube watching simply because the Doctor told him to!
  • Initially averted, then played straight. Rory claims that the furthest his dad ever ventures is to the post-office, however after meeting the Doctor and seeing that The World Is Just Awesome, Brian gets inspired to begin globe-trotting.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: When piloting a Silurian ship with his son.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He packs a trowel in case he needs it to repair a lightbulb and honestly didn't appear to notice until the Doctor pointed it out that he'd spent over four days in the TARDIS simply watching a black cube!
• Cool Old Guy: He's not old per se, but nonetheless, the Doctor seems to consider Rory's dad to be utterly awesome and even offers him a spot on the TARDIS if he wants to come along.
• Crazy-Prepared: He has a trowel with him, despite coming over to change a lightbulb. Rory does the same thing with medical supplies.
  Rory: It's all about the pockets in our family.
• The Determinator: In "The Power of Three", he actually spent an entire year watching the Cubes, day and night, even when everyone else had given up, simply because the Doctor told him to!
• Genre Savvy: Easily lists off pretty much all possible options during a mysterious alien invasion, which quite impresses the Doctor.
• Like Father, Like Son: He's an Unfazed Everyman and Deadpan Snarker and occasionally gives the Doctor a much needed What the Hell, Hero? speech. And he's Rory's dad. Yeah, that definitely sounds about right.
• The Maiden Name Debate: The Doctor insists on calling him "Brian Pond".
• Refusal of the Call: The Doctor invites him to become a companion, but Brian tells him he'd rather just stay home and experience regular modern-day Earth instead.
• A Spot Of Tea
• Unfazed Everyman: He's about a bathrobe short of being Arthur Dent proper.
• Walking the Earth: Rory mentions that the only time he goes anywhere is to the Post Office. However, after meeting the Doctor and seeing the Earth from orbit, he apparently gained a love of travel and frequently sent postcards from across the globe informing his son and daughter-in-law that:
  Brian's Postcard: "I Am Here!"
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Averted. "P.S." reveals that Rory wrote a letter to his father, explaining that he and Amy had become stuck in the past and are, sadly, most likely long-dead by the present. Rory reassures Brian that despite this, they are happy, have had a good life and miss him. Finally, Rory hoped that his father would accept the American man who handed him the letter, as he's Brian's adopted grandson. He does.
• The World Is Just Awesome: While he turns down the offer of companionship, he does ask the Doctor for one favour, which is to watch the Earth from orbit, while he sits and eats his lunch. This inspires him to begin globe-trotting.

Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Eleventh Doctor)

Played By: Jemma Redgrave (2012-13)

The de facto scientific head of UNIT Next Sunday A.D. Kate first appeared in the Doctor Who Expanded Universe releases Downtime and Dæmos Rising, where she was played by Beverley Cressman. After a few more appearances in Expanded Universe novels, Kate became one of the very, very few Canon Immigrants in the TV series.

• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: She gives Eleven a very sweet kiss on the cheek.
• The Brigadier: She doesn't hold the title, but takes up the role in the new series.
• Canon Immigrant
• Consummate Professional
• Emperor Scientist: A rare heroic version. Under her leadership, UNIT has become a more technologically-savvy organisation, who can defend the Earth and cripple alien menaces with science, in addition to their traditional methods of unloading Five Rounds Rapid to them.
• Hot Scientist
• Intergenerational Friendship: Her friendship with the Doctor picks right up where her dad left off.
• Legacy Character: She's The Brigadier's daughter.

Angie and Artie Maitland (Eleventh Doctor)

Played By: Eve De Leon Allen (Angie) and Kassius Carey Johnson (Artie) (2013)

Two children that modern-day Clara looks after — they were family friends, and when their mother passed away, Clara felt a strong need to take care of them. They find out their nanny is a time traveler and blackmail her into letting them onto the TARDIS.

• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Angie.
  Angie: (to a Cyberman) Put me down! I hate you!
• Continuity Nod: Artie is a fan of Amy's novels.
• Genre Savvy: Angie is able to figure out both Clara's time travelling in "The Crimson Horror" and the identity of the space emperor in "Nightmare In Silver".
• Hidden Depths: Angie is smarter and more perceptive than she lets on. She easily figures out that Porridge is really the human emperor.
• Muggles
• Non-Action Snarker: Angie
  • Little Miss Snarker
• Shipper on Deck: Angie insists on addressing the Doctor as "Clara's boyfriend".
• Smart People Play Chess: Artie is in his school chess club.
• Tagalong Kids: In "Nightmare in Silver".
• You're Not My Mother: Angie says this to Clara.