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The people who meet and help the Doctor in Doctor Who, but never quite become companions.

As with all Doctor Who characters, they appear not only in the televised Whoniverse, but also in the Expanded Universe branches.

First Doctor era

The Policeman

The Policeman (First Doctor)

Played by: Reg Cranfield (1963); Fred Rawlings (1963 ^note unaired pilot version); Joseph Paxton (2013 ^note 50th anniversary trailer)

An ordinary police officer who patrols the area of London surrounding Totter's Lane. Notable for being the very first character seen onscreen in Doctor Who.

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• Adaptation Expansion: The Target novelisation gives him more characterisation (which isn't saying much), and in that version he actually notices the TARDIS disappearing, but dismisses it as a figment of his imagination.
  • Big Finish expanded his character even more in a Short Trips tale, giving him the name of Bernard Whittam and revealing that he's not actially human, merely a conscious figment of the TARDIS's chameleon circuit that was spawned alongside the iconic police box exterior.
• Bit Character: He's a random police officer who originally appeared onscreen for all of six seconds to inspect the Totter's Yard sign but he just so happens to be the character who introduces the Doctor Who universe. And yet for this one role, he's been portrayed by at least three actors.
• It Will Never Catch On: invoked In the 1981 novelisation, upon seeing the TARDIS he muses about police boxes being phased out in favour of walkie-talkie radios for all officers, which he doesn't believe will catch on.
• Mythology Gag: A modern police officer passes by Coal Hill School at the beginning of the 50th anniversary special, exactly replicating the opening shot from the very first episode.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Yep. Just 'The Policeman'. Insert gratuitous Time Lord fan theories here. Ironically, if The Last Day at Work by Big Finish is to be believed, that may not be too far from the truth...
• Small Role, Big Impact: As noted above, while he's a Bit Character, he's also the very first character to appear in Doctor Who.
• Tomato in the Mirror: A Big Finish audio story titled The Last Day at Works follows a policeman named Bernard Whittam, heavily implied to be the same copper from the first episode, who is revealed to actually be a construct of the TARDIS's chameleon circuit that gained a separate consciousness, including false memories. Yeah...

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I (First, War, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors)

Played by: Vivienne Bennett (1965), Angela Pleasence (2007) and Joanna Page (2013)

One of the most recurring historical figures in Doctor Who. Good Queen Bess had a cameo in the First Doctor story "The Chase" and later had an out of sync marriage with the Tenth Doctor (long story).

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• Action Girl: She kills the Zygon impersonating her and takes its place.
  Elizabeth: I am accustomed to taking precautions.
• All Love Is Unrequited: She has a rather big crush on the Doctor, to the point of accepting his (fake) marriage proposal, but the Doctor doesn't seem to reciprocate.
• Arch-Enemy: Played for Laughs. During the later years of her life she considers the Doctor to be her sworn enemy. Doesn't pay to jilt the Queen of England.
• Assassin Outclassin': The Zygon leader tries to kill her so it can replace her. Doesn't work out so well for it.
  Elizabeth: I may have the body of a weak and frail woman, but, at the time, so did the Zygon!
• Bavarian Fire Drill: Pretends to be the shape-changing Zygon commander after killing him. The Zygons are so arrogant, they never considered that she could be the real Queen.
• Brick Joke: A rather impressive one; it took six years for us to understand fully why Elizabeth wanted the Doctor killed at the end of "The Shakespeare Code".
• The Cameo: A older Elizabeth appears on the Space-Time Visualiser in the First Doctor story "The Chase". She's talking to William Shakespeare.
• Have We Met Yet?: The Tenth Doctor, during his travels with Martha, meets an older Elizabeth who is furious with him and demands his execution. It isn't before Ten begins travelling alone (shortly before the events of "The End of Time") that he finds out why: he married her (it's complicated) and he wasn't a particularly great husband.
• Historical Domain Character: Naturally.
• Historical Hero Upgrade: The real Queen Elizabeth I was rather ruthless (and extremely racist). This side of her nature is alluded to in "The Day of the Doctor", but otherwise uncommented on.
• In-Series Nickname: Her two historical nicknames are used, "Good Queen Bess" and "The Virgin Queen". One of those may no longer be accurate thanks to the Doctor.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Joanna Page's natural Welsh accent can be a little bit jarring.
• Time-Shifted Actor: Played by Angela Pleasence in her later years ("The Shakespeare Code"), and Joanna Page as a young woman ("The Day of the Doctor").
• Woman Scorned: She's pissed when she finally meets the Doctor again. Never leave the Queen of England at the altar.

Sara Kingdom

Sara Kingdom (First Doctor)

Debut: "The Daleks' Master Plan" (1965-66)

Played by: Jean Marsh (1965-66)

"Yes, he's dead. The others must be killed as well. They will be shot on sight but aim for the head."

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Outside of the Expanded Universe, she appeared in only one, twelve episode long, story, for seven of its episodes. She was intentionally written to serve in a companion role (taking over from Katarina) but was never intended to be a permanent character. Sara broke the normal companion mould (then and now) and worked as an agent for a sinister solar system-wide governmental security agency run by the human Big Bad. Once she realized her error, she joined the crew of the TARDIS.

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• Ascended Extra: There was some debate among fans as to whether Sara Kingdom counted as a Companion, given that she's only alive for the course of one adventure. However the Dalek Master Plan goes on so long, with her adventures covering different times and planets, that it makes little difference. When "Master Plan" was novelised, a six-month gap was inserted in the story, to allow the expanded universe to feature more stories with Sara as a companion.
• The Atoner: After she kills her own brother and realizes she has worked for the Big Bad all along, leads to her transitioning into a more normal Action Girl. The novelisation of the story makes this a big part of her character. She is haunted by nightmares of her brother's final moments and continually beats herself up over the fact that she blindly believed Mavic Chen when he said that Bret was a traitor. While she does genuinely want to stop the Daleks and Mavic Chen from destroying the universe, a major secondary reason is that she doesn't want the death of Bret to be in vain.
• Dark Action Girl: At least, the story wants to give his impression when she first appears.
• Expanded Universe: When her one and only (very long) story was novelised, it was split into parts. The second began by saying six months had passed since the first. Various Doctor Who Expanded Universe works have been set in this gap. (The novelizations, incidentally, do not occur in the same continuity as other branches of the EU, or with each other.)
  • Several Big Finish audio dramas featuring her are set after her death, a copy of her personality having lingered on in a wish-granting house in Ely.
• Heroes Fight Barehanded: She loses her gun shortly after her introduction, but fights just as well without it in subsequent episodes.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Makes one.
• More Deadly Than the Male: When she and Steven are fighting off two guards, she takes care of the one attacking her before stepping in to finish off the one attacking Steven, all without breaking a sweat.
  Sara: Not bad. Remind me to teach you a few tricks sometime.
  Steven: Remind me not to pick a fight with you.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Why she's sent to terminate her own brother.
• Nerves of Steel: Even in a crisis, she carries on with her duty, such as when she continues to calmly relay information when the trio's escape ship is being pulled back by the Daleks.
• Perpetual Frowner: As befits her strait-laced, efficient demeanour.
• Putting on the Reich: She belongs to the SSS, too.
• Redemption Equals Death: Fits the character arc of someone who does something bad at the start of the adventure serial, only to redeem themselves with a Heroic Sacrifice at the end.
• Thrown Out the Airlock: Does this to herself, but drags the person she's fighting out with her.

Bret Vyon

Bret Vyon (First Doctor)

Played by: Nicholas Courtney (1965–1966)

The earliest character in the series who you may or may 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 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.

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• Anti-Hero: Rather grizzled and Trigger-Happy, and working for a fascistic organization clearly modeled on the Nazi SS. In any other story, he'd likely be the Doctor's enemy.
• 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.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: He could cut through steel with that.
• Perma-Stubble: Goes nicely with his chin and his general space hero aesthetic.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Killed by his own sister, Sara Kingdom, when Mavic Chen fools her into thinking her brother is a traitor.

Second Doctor era

Professor Travers

Professor Edward Travers (Second Doctor)

Played by: Jack Watling (1967–1968)

Professor Travers is an anthropologist and explorer who the Doctor first met in Tibet and who he helped to defeat the Great Intelligence and its robotic Yeti there. A much-older Travers, along with his daughter Anne, then helped the Doctor defeat the Intelligence a second time in the London Underground. He was the first Recurring Character to appear in more than one adventure who was neither a Companion, Villain, or Monster. This was pretty rare in the Classic Series (about the only other examples are Alpha Centauri, the White Guardian, and Sabalom Glitz below), but became quite common in the Revival Series (most of the examples on this page from Jackie Tyler on down).

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• Bold Explorer: Travers was hiking in Tibet when the Doctor first met him.
• Grumpy Old Man: Or at least he was the second time the Doctor met him. That meeting cheered him up quite a lot, though.
• Older Than They Look: Averted in "The Web of Fear" thanks to some excellent make-up work.
• The Slow Path: From his point of view, his encounters with the TARDIS crew are 30 years apart. For them, it's just a few weeks.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The production team had wanted Travers and Anne to reappear in "The Invasion", but Jack Watling was unavailable. Travers and Anne were replaced by their house sitters, Professor Watkins and his niece Isobel.

Third Doctor era

Olive Hawthorne

Olive Hawthorne (Third Doctor)

Played by: Damaris Hayman (1971-2017)

A white witch who guards Devil's End, the town that was attacked by the Daemons of Azal. Despite appearing in only one Doctor Who serial, the character of Olive continues to appear in various direct-to-video spin-off films set in Devil's End.

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• Action Girl: She saves Benton's life by pulling him free from a psionic field in the church crypt, and later knocks out a rampaging Morris dancer with the crystal ball stashed in her reticule.
• Cassandra Truth: Her warnings about the danger looming over the archeological dig in Devil's End are ignored, though to be fair, she doesn't help her case by talking openly about her status as a witch and by generally acting quite hysterically about the whole thing.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Going around telling people you're a witch isn't exactly a great way to make friends.
• The Lost Lenore: She once fell in love with a real vampire named Victor, who sacrificed himself to protect her. She keeps his ashes in a silver urn.
• No-Sell: She's totally unaffected by the Master's hypnotic gaze.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Her spin-off series shows her as the protector of Devil's End against all kinds of supernatural threats.
• White Magic: Her abilities are mainly limited to psychic flim-flam, but she is the chosen guardian of Devil's End.

Alpha Centauri

Alpha Centauri (Third and Twelfth Doctors)

Played by: Stuart Fell (Body) and Ysanne Churchman (Voice) (1972, 1974, 2017)

Alpha Centauri is a hermaphroditic hexapod with six arms and a single huge eye from the star system it (not he or she) shares its name with. The Third Doctor became friends with it on the planet Peladon, where it was its planet's representative in the debates over whether or not Peladon should join the galactic federation. He later met it again on Peladon when it was serving as the federation's ambassador. It briefly returned in the Twelfth Doctor's era, arranging the evacuation of the last Ice Warriors from Mars. Alpha Centauri is a timid, gentle creature that nonetheless proved a loyal friend to the Doctor.

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• The Cameo: Has one in "Empress of Mars", a full 43 years after its last appearance.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • As befits the Shakespearean setting of the Peladon stories, Alpha Centauri is named after the country (in this case, star system) it represents, rather than having a name of its own.
  • The rude implications of its appearance are oft commented on by reviewers.
• Easily Forgiven: Of the four pieces of performed works set on Peladon, Alpha Centauri was working against the Doctor and King/Queen in two of the stories. However, it is always shown in the following story as a trusted addition of the court of Peladon, mostly since it doesn't seem to hold any true menace.
• Hermaphrodite: Like the rest of its species.
• Homeworld Evacuation: Offers to organise a fleet to take the last of the Ice Warriors off Mars.
• It Is Dehumanising: Averted. Alpha Centauri's preferred pronoun is "it".
• Long-Lived: If Ysanne Churchman is voicing the same Alpha Centaurian in Empress Of Mars, then it must be at least 2,004 years old.
• Lovable Coward: Being a bureaucrat, it's not exactly used to action.
• Named After Their Planet: Named after the star its home planet orbits.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: But a well-meaning and sweet-natured one.
• Starfish Aliens: Averts the familiar bipedal alien trope.
• Strongly Worded Letter: It threatens to make their displeasure known by sending an official communication to the Galatic Federation. This is during the middle of an armed uprising against the government.

Aggedor

Aggedor (Third Doctor)

Played by: Nick Hobb (1972-1974)

A large, furry, boar-like creature native to planet Peladon, the Peladonians worship Aggedor as a patron deity and symbol of the royal family.

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• Androcles' Lion
• The Big Guy: Hits anyone who needs to be hit.
• Bruiser with a Soft Centre
• Heroic Sacrifice: Performs one for Sarah Jane in his second appearance.
• Ursine Aliens

Clifford Jones

Professor Clifford Jones (Third Doctor)

Played by: Stewart Bevan (1973)

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• Call-Back: When Jo meets Clifford, she inadvertently ruins his experiment. Just like how she met the Doctor.
• Doppelgänger Dating: Clifford is basically the Doctor, only younger and less asexual. His Meet Cute with Jo (she wanders into his lab and gets yelled at for ruining an experiment) is even a reprise of her first meeting with the Doctor.
• Expy: Basically one for the Doctor (knowledgable, idealistic, pacifistic but often snarky, rude and condescending).
• Poor Communication Kills: If only Professor Jones used an easier word than serendipity, Jo would have understood him and known that the fungus was the cure for the maggots' bite.

Bellal

Bellal (Third Doctor)

Played by: Arnold Yarrow

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• Bioluminescence Is Cool: Both he and his fellow subterranean Exxilons have glowing white vertical streaks on their bodies.
• Defector from Decadence: Just like the other subterranean exxilons, Bellal does not share the beliefs of the Exxilons who try to sacrifice the Doctor and Sarah to the City that they worship.

Fourth Doctor era

Jago and Litefoot

Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litefoot (Fourth Doctor)

Jago on the left, Litefoot on the right.

Played by: Christopher Benjamin (Jago) and Trevor Baxter (Litefoot)

A pair of Ensemble Darkhorses from (somehow) fan-favourite serial "The Talons of Weng-Chiang". These two Victorian gentleman became firm friends during their adventure with the Doctor. They eventually proved popular enough to receive a spin-off series of audios, Jago & Litefoot. More tropes about them can be found on this page.

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• Added Alliterative Appeal: Jago loves doing this, to Running Gag levels. He even writes in alliteration.
• Hero-Worshipper: Jago, towards the Doctor. He constantly praises the Doctor's cleverness and resourcefulness.
• Lovable Coward: Jago and he even admits to it.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Litefoot and especially Jago are clear products of the late 19th century with the phrases they use and the way they act, but they are still good and brave men who do their best to help the Doctor.
• Quintessential British Gentleman: Litefoot. Jago merely thinks he is.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Jago acts like a brave, clever detective hero but he can't walk the talk.
• Straight Man: Litefoot acts as this when confronted by Jago's ego, Leela's lack of social etiquette and the Doctor's general weirdness.
• Those Two Guys: A staple of Robert Holmes' Doctor Who scripts. These two guys in particular proved to be the most popular.
• The Watson: Interestingly enough, for Jago and Litefoot's TV serial "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", this role is NOT played by the companion Leela. As the AV Club noted, Jago and Litefoot fulfil the story's role of Watson — Jago behaves like the traditional film depiction of Watson - pompous, boisterous, good-hearted but easily puzzled - while Litefoot is literature's Watson, a quiet, brave and observant gentleman doctor.

Professor Marius

Professor Marius (Fourth Doctor)

Played by: Frederick Jaeger (1977)

The eccentric inventor who created K9, he lives with his faithful robot dog in the Bi-Al Foundation hospital, on an asteroid floating near Titan. He offers his tin pet to the Doctor after meeting him in "The Invisible Enemy".

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• Absent-Minded Professor
• Herr Doktor
• Pig Latin: Professor Marius gives K-9 the order to "kanayli" the infected.
• Science Hero
• Small Role, Big Impact: While he has a fairly large appearance in his one story, the fact that he created K9 gives him an importance all out of proportion to his time on screen.

The White Guardian

The White Guardian (Fourth and Fifth Doctors)

Played by: Cyril Luckham (1978, 1983)

The Whoniverse's closest equivalent to God, representing Order and being a counterpart to the Black Guardian (who's in charge of Chaos). Not necessarily on the Doctor's side, but quite happy to use him as a pawn and friendly towards him under the right circumstances. Wears a bird on his head for reasons (quite literally) beyond all mortal comprehension.

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• Big Good: He serves as the Good Counterpart to the Black Guardian.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Assuming he's the "God" the Toymaker mentions in "The Giggle", he lost a game against the Toymaker and was transformed into a Jack-in-the-Box for it.
• Establishing Character Moment: Redirecting the TARDIS mid-flight takes more than a little power.
• The GM Is a Cheating Bastard: Whatever game he's playing with the Cosmos, it's on his terms.
• God of Order: As the White Guardian he's a Cosmic Entity that represents order, unlike the Black Guardian. He's enigmatic, but otherwise benevolent.
• Good Is Not Soft: When the Doctor asks what will happen to him should he not volunteer for the quest for the Key to Time, the White Guardian replies: Nothing at all. Ever.
• Nice Guy: Played with. On the one hand, the White Guardian is always pleasant and courteous when dealing with mortals, and the Doctor discerns that the Black Guardian is masquerading as him when he shows a lack of concern about human life. On the other hand, he does give the Doctor an Implied Death Threat (or perhaps a Fate Worse Than Death threat) when the Doctor asks what happens if he doesn't volunteer, so...
• Omniscient Morality License: Everything he does is in some way to combat the Black Guardian and protect the universe, but that doesn't mean it's always convenient (or even pleasant) for the Doctor.
• Order Versus Chaos/Yin-Yang Clash: He's in charge of Order in an endless, cosmic chess match against the Black Guardian.
• Powers That Be: If there is anyone or anything more powerful than him, we've yet to see it. For that matter, the Doctor is respectful enough to call him "sir" and keep the snarking to a minimum — more respectful than he is to pretty much anyone, up to and including the Lord President of the Time Lords!
• Quest Giver: He's the one who tells the Doctor to go look for the Key to Time, and who sends him Romana as an assistant.
• Southern Gentleman: He sometimes likes to dress up as one, and has the mannerisms to match.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: The very least of his abilities. Romana tells the Doctor she was sent by the head of the Time Lord High Council, but it was probably him in disguise.

Fifth Doctor era

Richard Mace

Richard Mace (Fifth Doctor)

Played by: Michael Robbins (1982)

A former actor forced to become a highwayman after the plague stopped his trade, he encounters the Fifth Doctor, helps him defeat the Terileptils, and inadvertently starts the Great Fire of London.

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• Canon Immigrant: Sort of — Eric Saward had written the basically identical character of Richard Mace in three BBC radio dramas, but that Richard Mace was a Victorian actor-manager. (The obvious Fanon is that he's an Identical Grandson, naturally.)
• Gentleman Thief: Describes himself as "a gentleman of the road."
• The Highwayman
• Large Ham: Well, he is an actor...
• Swashbuckler

Sixth Doctor era

Orcini and Bostock

Orcini and Bostock (Sixth Doctor)

Played by: William Gaunt and John Ogwen (1985)

"Good, I'm not interested in your political ambitions. I undertake this mission for one reason only: the honour of killing Davros."

Orcini is a Knight Errant mercenary exiled from the Grand Order of Oberon, and Bostock is his trusty (and often smelly) squire. Basically, think of Don Quixote and Sancho, IN SPACE! The pair are hired by the treacherous political schemers in charge of Tranquil Repose to assassinate Davros, who had gradually taken over their mortuary operation and transformed it into a Dalek factory.

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• Always Someone Better: Orcini exemplifies one of Eric Saward's favourite Doctor Who tropes: introducing a cool, competent, gun-toting Anti-Hero mercenary who utterly upstages the Doctor and does more to progress the plot.
• Anti-Hero: Even compared to the more ruthless and bellicose Sixth Doctor, Orcini is a rather nasty piece of work who only by good fortune happens to be on the side of angels because he really wants to be the one to kill Davros. When he rescues the Doctor, Natasha and Grigory from a jail cell, he threatens to kill them if they attempt to follow him. However, he does fight for justice and honour, which is what the Grand Order of Oberon stands for.
• Artificial Limbs: Orcini has a faulty prosthetic leg. He prefers to keep it as a handicap to remind him of his mortality.
• Blood Knight: Especially Orcini, who is motivated purely for the sport of eliminating evil individuals from the galaxy, Davros being the evillest of all.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Like their literary inspirations, they are an eccentric and anachronistic duo who could be easily underestimated, but do so at your peril. Orcini can mow down Daleks with ease.
• Cloud Cuckoo Landers Minder: Just as Sancho was to Don Quixote, Bostock acts as a much needed tether to reality for the wistful and reckless Orcini.
• Decoy Protagonist: Subverted. Really, they do far more to advance the plot in "Revelation of the Daleks" than the Doctor himself, especially in the first part where the Doctor and Peri spend all their screentime wandering aimlessly outside the Tranquil Repose HQ.
• Expy: Very blatantly to Don Quixote and Sancho.
• Feeling Their Age: Though formidable in reputation, Orcini is old and past his prime. Davros mocks Orcini for this after fooling him with a simple decoy deception before overpowering him with lightning blasts.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Orcini ultimately dies a noble death, worthy of a true knight. He blows up Davros's base while staying inside and cradling Bostock's exterminated body.
• Honor Before Reason: Orcini places his code of honour before all else, including his own personal safety. He wields outdated weaponry because he considers it more fair and "honourable", revelling in stacking the odds against himself.
• In Harm's Way: They both live for the thrill of adventure rather than any political cause or monetary prize. They'll undertake any mission — the riskier, the better.
• Jerkass: For all his talk of honour and justice, Orcini is a belligerent, self-righteous dick to everyone he meets, including his loyal companion. However, he and Bostock are genuinely loyal to each other to the very end.
• Keeping the Handicap: He prefers to work with a faulty cyborg leg and outdated firearms purely to make the challenges he faces more rewarding — and therefore more honourable — to overcome.
• Last Request: Orcini asks the Doctor to deliver his medal to the Grand Order of Oberon and tell them how he and Bostock valiantly died in battle.
• More Dakka: Orcini's machine gun can tear through a Dalek shell with bastic bullets. By the Last Great Time War, Daleks had improved their forcefield defences to make bastic bullets obsolete against them, as Jack Harkness and the Game Station civilians would later discover.
• The Pig-Pen: Bostock is noted to have no care for personal hygiene and a bodily musk comparable to the smell of rotting flesh.
• Spin-Off: They got one much later than you probably expected in the form of a one-shot comic book by Eric Saward, itself spinning off from his crowdfunded Lytton comic about his other most famous mercenary character.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Though they may bicker and condescend to each other, Orcini and Bostocks are lifelong companions who trust each other's instincts unquestioningly.
• Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: They seem to succeed in their mission of assassinating Davros with anticlimactic ease. However, the disembodied Davros head they shoot turns out to be a decoy; the real, full-bodied Davros quickly appears and overpowers them.

Yrcanos

Yrcanos (Sixth Doctor)

Played by:BRIAN BLESSED (1986)

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• Happily Married: Ends up this way with Peri.
• Large Ham: Enough to go toe-to-toe in Ham-to-Ham Combat with Colin Baker.

Sabalom Glitz

Sabalom Glitz (Sixth and Seventh Doctors)

Played by: Tony Selby (1986–87)

"I do hate it when people get lucky. It really offends my sensibilities."

A recurring character referred to by Selby as "an intergalactic car salesman", Glitz is a 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.

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• Anti-Villain: Though the Doctor doesn't punish him, 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.
• Great Way to Go: In "The Giggle", it's revealed by Mel that he died at the age of 101, slipping on a whiskey bottle. She gave him a Viking Funeral.
• Greed: Gaining any sort of profit is his main motivation in life.
• Happily Married: He was married to Mel after she left the Doctor and remained up until he died.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He's just so much of a Lovable Rogue that it's not hard to feel sorry for him - until you remember that he may have forced himself on Ace, tried to sell his crew into undead slavery, etc.
• Lovable Rogue: Extremely personable, extremely cold-hearted.
• No-Sell: He's immune to the Master's hypnotic charms. It helps that the Master was using a fancy piece of jewelry to mesmerize him: 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.
• Unwitting Pawn: His first two appearances fall under "performing the whims of the Master or Valeyard", even if he doesn't know about it.
• Villains Blend in Better: He's convinced that with a few explosives and a machine gun, he'll easily impress the backwards locals on Ravalox that he's the guy who should be in charge and thus be able to dismantle a valuable technological gizmo they believe to be a sacred totem. Unfortunately, he didn't count on their queen being more savvy than her primitive lifestyles would suggest, or the fact that many other con-artists have had the same idea as he did and approached her giving multiple reasons why they should be allowed to dismantle the totem as well.

Eighth Doctor era

Chang Lee

Chang Lee (Seventh and Eighth Doctors)

Played by: Yee Jee Tso (1996)

"Hold in there, old guy. Chang Lee'll help you."

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.

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• Back from the Dead: The TARDIS revives him after he has his neck snapped.
• The Comically Serious: An absolute expert at the deadpan double-take. Once the Master starts drezzzzing for the occasion and randomly kissing Chang Lee's forehead, Chang's only response is the most perfectly stoic "oh god why am I here" expression.
• Easily Forgiven: The Doctor figures that Chang's suffered enough punishment being kicked around by the Master, so he lets him off easy.
• Greed: The Master tempts Chang Lee with promises of wealth.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Works for the Master, but only due to manipulation. He comes in his senses in the end.
• 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.

Cass

Cass Fermazzi (Eighth Doctor)

Played by: Emma Campbell-Jones (2013)

"Is this a TARDIS? [...] You're a Time Lord!"

A typical almost-companion who the Eighth Doctor attempts to rescue from a crashing spaceship. As a plucky, adventurous young woman, she immediately gets on well with this mysterious stranger on her ship... until she discovers that he's a Time Lord.

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• Ascended Extra: She plays a much larger role in the "Day of the Doctor" novelisation, which also reveals more details of her backstory.
• Action Girl: A veteran of the Time War, she takes charge of evacuating the rest of the crew from her ship, which impresses the Doctor enough for him to immediately invite her aboard the TARDIS. That's where the trouble starts.
• Bait-and-Switch: Oh, here's a brave young woman who wants to see the universe. She's going to be the next companion, right? Not so much.
• Fantastic Racism: She hates Time Lords so much that she'd happily sacrifice her own life for the chance to take one down with her. Her prejudice is justified somewhat by the damage they have wrought upon the universe alongside the Daleks, but she is misguided in taking out her hatred on the vocally innocent Doctor.
• Killed Off for Real: She opts to stay in her crashing ship rather than accept the Doctor's help, resulting in her death. Unlike the Doctor, she doesn't get resurrected by the Sisterhood of Karn. It's implied that the Sisterhood engineered the whole scenario to manipulate the Doctor into joining the Time War.
• Named by the Adaptation: Her surname is given as Fermazzi in the "Day of the Doctor" novelisation, which incorporates the events of "Night of the Doctor" as a prologue.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Her death is one of the final straws that convinces the Eighth Doctor to regenerate into a more ruthless warrior, setting in motion the many greater tragedies to come. After regenerating, the War Doctor takes Cass's bandolier to tribute her and continues to wear it for the rest of his long life.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: She is introduced like a typical companion, though at a breakneck pace due to the perilous circumstances of her first meeting with the Doctor. In an already short episode, she dies less than two minutes in, but her death plays a pivotal role in Eight's decision to regenerate.

Ninth Doctor era

Jackie Tyler

Jacqueline Angela Suzette Prentiss "Jackie" Tyler (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)

"If we end up on Mars, I'm gonna kill you."

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

"Let me tell you something. About those who get left behind. Because it's hard. And that's what you become, hard. But if there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I will never let her down. And I'll protect them both until the end of my life. So whatever you want, I'm warning you: back off."

Rose's mum. When Doctor Who was revived in 2005, the show began to focus on the companions' families for the first time ever. Jackie still stands out over most family members and got plenty of Character Development.

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• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Inverted. The parallel universe version is a cold-hearted snob who lives in a large mansion and treats her staff like crap.
• Anger Born of Worry: Jackie is furious at Nine for (from her perspective) taking off with Rose. It's clear she's scared out of her mind with what could've happened to her.
• Ascended Extra: Jackie becomes much more prominent in Series 2. She plays major roles in episodes like "Love & Monsters" and "Army of Ghosts", the latter of which sees her accidentally stow away aboard the TARDIS and get directly involved in the action.
• Aw, 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.
• Butt-Monkey: She tends to be a victim of lighthearted mockery in most of her appearances, most often from the Doctor playfully teasing her.
• Damsel in Distress: While Rose is more of an Action Girl than this, Jackie plays the role dead straight, cowering in fear from Autons, Slitheen, and a killer Christmas tree.
• Deadpan Snarker: In her final appearance.
  Jackie: I was pregnant, do you remember? Had a baby boy.
  Meta-Crisis Doctor: Oh, brilliant. What did you call him?
  Jackie: Doctor.
  Meta-Crisis Doctor: Really?
  Jackie: No, you plum. He's called Tony.
• Dumb Blonde: She is not exactly the smartest person, but her heart is in the right place... most of the time.
• Eating the Eye Candy: She flirts with the Ninth Doctor upon laying eyes on him and, like her daughter, she's very taken with the Tenth Doctor's new look.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Nine couldn't stand her for one second and the feeling was mutual. Relations with Ten started off rocky, but the two warmed up to each other by the end.
• Genre Refugee: She wouldn't look out of place on Albert Square.
• Gold Digger: Played for laughs when she finds out the alternate Pete is rich.
  Jackie: I don't care about that... how rich?
  Pete: Very.
  Jackie: I don't care about that... how very?
• Happily Married: Long ago Jackie was (more or less) blissfully wed to her universe's native Pete Tyler, who was unfortunately struck down dead in a head-on car collision shortly after they had Rose, but as compensation, Jackie found another version of Pete still alive in a parallel universe whose version of her had been killed, so the multiverse balanced itself out by allowing for them to be married and Rose to have a stepdad... er, well, more like a copy of her paternal dad. Jackie also conceived and had another child through this version of Pete.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Tries to seduce the Ninth Doctor the very first time they meet. He just ignores her. It's implied that she's had at least a couple of gentleman callers while Rose was away with the Doctor.
• Mama Bear: She smacks the Ninth Doctor when she thinks he's taking advantage of Rose, and in "Journey's End", she blasts down Daleks in search for her daughter. By "Love & Monsters", she extends this protectiveness to the Doctor, claiming that she loves both Rose and the Doctor and would protect them with her life as she calls Elton out for trying to use her to get to them.
• Mistaken Identity: Yvonne Hartman spends most of "Army of Ghosts" under the impression that Jackie is the Doctor's main companion instead of Rose (since he accidentally pulled Jackie out of the TARDIS when they land in the Torchwood HQ), which the Doctor rolls with just for a laugh.
• 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 only a year older than Marc Warren, who played Elton.)
• Pair the Spares: Specifically, pair the corresponding widowed parallel universe counterparts.
• Plucky Comic Relief: While she has her serious moments, a lot of her scenes are played for laughs. For example, when the TARDIS activated she calmly threatened to kill the Doctor if the TARDIS landed on another planet.
• 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? Or Howard? Apparently, the former owns a tow truck.
• Took a Level in Badass: After a two year absence, Jackie teleports into "Journey's End", blasting away at a Dalek and saving Sarah Jane's life (along with Mickey, who'd already taken a level).
• True Blue Femininity: Based on her wardrobe, her favourite colour is blue and she represents a caring, motherly figure.

The Face of Boe

The Face of Boe (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)

Played by: Struan Rodger (2005-2007)

"But know this, Time Lord. You are not alone."

A giant head encased in a glass dome, the Face of Boe is a legendary, long-lived figure from the far future whose exact origins are a mystery to all. He debuted as little more than a background extra amongst a sea of bizarre alien characters introduced to show off the 2005 series' increased budget in "The End of the World". However, he quickly grew in prominence, reappearing time and again throughout the Ninth and Tenth Doctors' lives.

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• Ascended Extra: He first appeared as one of many bizarre alien creatures invited to witness the destruction of Earth in "The End of the World". His unique and eye-catching (and probably expensive) design helped to ensure him much larger roles in later stories.
• Ambiguous Situation: We will probably never know whether or not he actually is Captain Jack. If that is his earlier self, then it's unclear how he went to being a giant head in a jar. Either way, there's a lot unknown about Boe.
• Breakout Character: The Face of Boe is one of the most beloved supporting characters in the post-2005 series.
• Cephalothorax: He's a giant, disembodied head with cracked, aged skin and bulbous, tentacle-like growths around the back of his skull. If he truly is Jack from the far future, it may count as an example of Body Horror.
• Cool Old Guy: An incredibly wise, kind and very very old sage. The Doctor respects him unconditionally.
• Foil: With the benefit of hindsight, he amusingly acts as one to Lady Cassandra, who debuted in the same episode as him. She gloated about being the last pure human and disregarded later evolutionary branches as mongrels yet the guy who would outlive her as the real last pure human was in the same room as her all along. Whereas Cassandra is vain, cruel and short-sighted, the Face of Boe is nothing but wise and benevolent.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He sacrifices the last of his life force to save the people trapped under New New York, imparting a final word of comfort/warning to the Doctor before he draws his last breath.
• Last of His Kind: The other Boekind died off long ago, leaving him the oldest living organism in the Isop Galaxy. He may actually be the very last full-blooded human.
• Mister Seahorse: His cameo in a newsreel in "The Long Game" reveals that he somehow became pregnant with "Baby Boemina". They may spawn from those tentacle things on his head. Though considering the fact-checking standards of Satellite Five's news media, it's best to take it with a grain of salt.
• "Not So Different" Remark: He relates to the Doctor for also being the Last of His Kind. Considering what he then reveals to the Doctor, he may have been trying to make another point altogether.
• Odd Friendship: With Novice Hame, who at first harvested humans for experimentation, and later became his nurse. He "shrouded her in his smoke" to protect her from the Bliss virus.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Evidently, his Baby Boemina offspring did not last nearly as long as him as he is later said to be the Last of His Kind.
• Riddle for the Ages: Whether or not he actually is the fate of Captain Jack Harkness, left to age for millions of years until his Complete Immortality finally wears down. The truth will always be left ambiguous for the sake of the joke.
• Starfish Aliens: Not as strange as some Doctor Who creatures, but still pretty weird.
• Telepathy: He primarily communicates with his mind. When his lips eventually move to form real vocalised speech, it's a big deal.
• Time Abyss: While there's little doubt the guy's old considering his wizened appearance, legends of the Face of Boe say that he has lived for millions of years, making him probably older than the Doctor when they first meet. If he is actually Jack Harkness, that makes him over five billion years old when he finally pops his clogs.
• Unknown Rival: Inverted, an unknown friend in the case of the Doctor. Although the Doctor is certainly aware of the legendary figure and fond of him, he is puzzled by the Face of Boe considering him an old friend as they barely interacted. A certain half-reveal from later in the series may explain why...
• The Voiceless: In his first appearance, he doesn't say anything at all.
• Wham Line: Just before he dies, he delivers one to the Doctor with his prophesied "final secret", the implications of which would prove to rock the Doctor's world:
  Face of Boe: You are not alone.
  • His possible past self might just trump him in this regard, and even more off-handedly...
  Captain Jack Harkness: Used to be a poster boy, when I was a kid, living in the Boeshane Peninsula. Tiny little place. I was the first one ever to be signed up for the Time Agency. "The Face of Boe", they called me.

Harriet Jones, Prime Minister

Harriet Jones, MP, Flydale North / (Former) Prime Minister^note Yes, we know who she is. (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)

Played by: Penelope Wilton (2005, 2008)

"There's an act of Parliament banning my autobiography."

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 everyone else.

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• Always Introduces Themselves: Because she was originally the MP of an obscure constituency, she developed a habit of always greeting strangers with a flash of her ID card and "Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North". Even though it became redundant after she became Prime Minister, she kept up the habit.
• Back for the Dead: In the Series 4 finale, "The Stolen Earth", she makes one more appearance before "EXTERMINATE!"
• 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.
• Character Catchphrase: Always introduces herself with her full name and title, even after she rises from political obscurity to Prime Minister (and back again).
• Defiant to the End: Transmits the signal to bring the Doctor back to Earth and then faces the Daleks, who traced the transmission, without fear.
• Face Death with Dignity:
  Harriet: Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister.
  Dalek: Yes, we know who you are.
  Harriet: Oh, you know nothing of any human. And that will be your downfall.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Activating the subwave network to guide the Tenth Doctor to Earth, at the cost of alerting the Daleks to her location.
• I Am Very British: In her first appearance, facing death, she reminds the Doctor that he's supposed to pass alcohol to the left. In the next episode she apologizes after every time she uses the word "fart" (if you'll pardon the word).
• I Did What I Had to Do: Her justification for ordering Torchwood to shoot down the Sycorax ship as it retreated.
• Iron Lady: She is invested in humanity's future and will take any action she deems necessary to ensure their future.
• Jerkass Has a Point: She justifies her actions against the Sycorax and while the Doctor hated what she did, she isn't wrong to have extra defenses in place. The number of aliens that have invaded Earth or have tried to destroy it is uncountable, the Doctor can't always stop them all.
• Never Found the Body: We never actually saw her die, as the feed gets cut off before the Daleks exterminate her. Which turns out to be significant, because according to Rusty in the poetry collection Now We Are Six Hundred, published a whole nine years after her last episode, she didn't actually die!
  Russell: [when asked if her survival was "canon"] Absolutely. She’s my character, that’s my episode, I say that’s true.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: May be partially based on Harriet Harman, a prominent Labour MP who held various positions throughout their time in Government, acting as the first Minister for Women, though there was controversy over how much she really helped women.
• No Party Given: Downplayed. Her official party is never directly stated, but given her No Celebrities Were Harmed status above, as well as a passing mention of being one of "Blair's girls", it's heavily implied that she is/was a member of the Labour Party.
• 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 the 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 preside over as mentioned by the Ninth Doctor, two ruthless villains — first the Master, then Brian Green — become PM, with the consequences resonating all the way into Torchwood: Children of Earth.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Doctor tells her aide "don't you think she looks tired?" He refuses to tell that to Harriet, who faces a no confidence vote. She loses specifically because she's tired - from not sleeping and fretting over what the Doctor himself said. Her worry fulfilled the prophecy.
• Skewed Priorities: Insists on going ahead with her meeting to discuss cottage hospitals, even during an alien invasion.
• Small Role, Big Impact: It's thanks to her that the the Doctor was able to find Earth when the Daleks stole it for their Reality Bomb.
• Underestimating Badassery: She doesn't think the Doctor can take down her government with just six words. Whoops.
• Worthy Opponent: Recall that the Daleks once boasted that only one of their number could exterminate an entire army of the Cybermen. To take down Harriet on her own, the Daleks send three, and yes, they know who she is.

Trinity Wells

Trinity Wells (Ninth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Doctors)

Played by: Lachele Carl (2005-2010, 2023)

A recurring peripheral figure throughout the Revived series, Trinity Wells is a newscaster for the fictional network AMNN and is frequently seen reporting on alien invasions and bizarre phenomena in episodes set on modern day Earth. She also appears in the spin-offs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

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• Does This Remind You of Anything?: When she returns in "The Giggle" we see a clip of her ranting about the Zeedex bands (a piece of UNIT technology that protects wearers from the Hate Plague caused by the Giggle). She claims the bands are being used to control people's minds and declares herself "anti-Zeedex", bringing to mind the real-life anti-vaccine movement.
• Kent Brockman News: The main source of expository, alien-related news in the Whoniverse.
• Newscaster Cameo: Not her since she's fictional, but she's usually shown in montages alongside real BBC News presenters.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Her permanently dry tone of voice in many news broadcasts while narrating increasingly ludicrous events carry this effect.
• Oh, Crap!: While usually unflappable even during the deadliest incursions, even she is subtly freaked out by the United Nations' decision to release all of the nuclear missile codes to the British government, at the time unknowingly ran by Slitheen, for use against a hoaxed alien fleet in "World War Three".
• Recurring Extra: Appears across four-and-a-half series of Doctor Who, as well as Torchwood and SJA, yet she never once interacts with the Doctor or any of the main cast. That's got to be some kind of record.
  • Trinity is also the only character—unless we count the TARDIS' cameo in Torchwood, in which we only hear her engines—to appear in all three series during the RTD era.
  • She makes a return in the 60th anniversary episode "The Giggle", having apparently graduated from dry newscasting to wide-eyed Alex Jones-style raving about government conspiracies.

Pete Tyler

Peter Alan "Pete" Tyler (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)

Played by: Shaun Dingwall (2005–2006)

"Trust me on this."

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 actually made his schemes work and became fabulously rich.

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• And This Is for...: "JACKIE TYLER! THIS IS FOR HER!!!"
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: As the parallel universe shows, had he actually lived longer, he would've eventually succeeded in his endeavors and become very rich.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: See Jackie Tyler above.
• Badass Normal: Alternate Pete fights Cybermen. Prime Pete is also badass, considering he went willingly to his own death by car accident.
• Broken Pedestal: Downplayed. 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.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Seems to have been enforced by Jackie, given how Rose has the Broken Pedestal reaction above.
• 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.
• Hidden Depths: After Pete's many flaws are revealed, he is soon shown to actually being a smart individual able to put together who Rose and the Doctor are and an overall decent man who is willing to do the right thing.
• Meaningful Name: The Pete's World version of him feeds information to the Preachers using the codename "Gemini". Gemini is a constellation depicting two twin bothers, Castor and Pollux. Castor died protecting his brother, and Pollux opted to ask his father Zeus to give half his immortality to his mortal brother. Pete's World Pete has a parallel counterpart who died protecting someone.
• Pair the Spares: Again, see Jackie Tyler above.
• Parents as People: Reconstructed. After being built up as the perfect human by Jackie throughout her childhood, Rose travels back in time to learn her father was a flawed, but ultimately still good man.
• Parents Know Their Children: A recurring theme is that no matter the circumstance, be it visiting him in the past barely a year after her birth or in a Parallel Universe where she was never even born, Pete will always feel a strong trusting connection toward Rose. He figures out who she is in the past just before sacrificing himself to save the timeline.
  Pete: Who am I, love?
  Rose: [crying] You're my daddy.
• The Mole: For Jake and the Preachers, feeding them information from Cybus Industries.
• That Thing Is Not My Child!: Alternate Pete's relationship with Rose is initially somewhat frosty, due to the fact that he's recently become a widower and Rose treating him as though he's her father, despite her not existing in that universe. However, once he overcomes this discomfort, 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: Prime Pete has to die; there is no way around it.

Tenth Doctor era

Novice Hame

Novice Hame (Tenth Doctor)

Played by: Anna Hope (2005-2006)

A member of the Sisters of Plenitude, an order of Catkind nuns devoted to practicing medicine on New Earth in the far future, Novice Hame first appeared as an enemy of the Doctor when it was revealed that the Sisters of Plenitude had been illegally experimenting on artificially grown human test subjects to find cures for various diseases on a massive scale. However, she would later return as the personal carer for the Face of Boe, having evidently softened in the years since her debut, mainly as she narrowly survived a cataclysmic plague thanks to Boe's smoke protecting her.

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• Cat Girl: Yes, she's a cat. Don't worry about it.
• Friendly Enemy: She and the Doctor seem to share no hard feelings against each other about the Flesh incident, and their first interaction in "Gridlock" has them gleefully cuddle. The Doctor even has to step back and remind himself of what she and the Sisters did, but considering that it worked out alright in end and the Sisters repented in jail, he agrees to let bygones be bygones.
• Heel–Face Turn: She learned the error of her ways thanks to the Doctor and the Face of Boe. In her second appearance, she's softened so much that it's difficult to believe that she was ever villainous at all.
• Religious Bruiser: Hame is a nun, but she can fight with her retractable claws when push comes to shove.
• Spin-Off: She unexpectedly returned as a main protagonist of a Big Finish spin-off series, Tales from New Earth, which reveals that she became a senator and invested in New Earth's restructuring in the wake of the Bliss plague, alongside an intelligent descendent of the New Humans she experimented on named Devon.
• Sole Survivor: She and the Face of Boe were the only beings outside the sealed motorway to survive the Bliss virus apocalypse. Other Catkind survived inside the motorway, but it seems that Hame is the last of the original Sisters of Plenitude.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Hame and the other Sisters' motivations in their debut are quite sympathetic, even if their methods are inhumane. The Catkind were the original denizens of New Earth (originally called New Savannah), but were happy to provide hospitality to the New Earth Empire when they arrived and re-established the planet as the new homeworld of humankind. However, humans and other aliens brought a flood of new diseases that the Sisters of Plenitude were unable to combat. Reluctantly, they came to believe they had no choice but to resort to human experimentation in order to stand a chance of survival. Considering that one disease shown in the hospital slowly petrifies the afflicted to stone, you can see their point.
• Wolverine Claws: All Catkind have retractable claws. However, they aren't overly impressive or effective against disease-ridden zombie people.

Jake Simmonds

Jake Simmonds (Tenth Doctor)

Played by: Andrew Hayden-Smith (2006)

"The Cybermen came through from one world to another... and so did we."

A freedom-fighting anarchist from the parallel universe visited by the Doctor, Rose and Mickey in which the Cybermen first arose on Earth. He was the boyfriend of his universe's version of Mickey, known there as 'Ricky'. After the Doctor and Rose left, Mickey stayed with Jake and continued the good fight against the remaining Cyberman factories by forming the Preachers.

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• Ambiguously Gay: In a deleted scene from "Age of Steel," he tells Mickey that the latter's counterpart was his boyfriend.
• '80s Hair: His hair rivals the Doctor's for sticky-uppiness, as Wilf would put it.
• Big Damn Heroes: He and the Preachers make a dynamic entrance into the main universe by saving the Doctor from the Cyber-Leader.
• Energy Weapon: Upgrades from regular rifles, which don't work against Cybermen, to a large energy beam gun by the time we see him again in "Doomsday".
• La Résistance: Alongside the alternate Pete Tyler and Mickey Smith, he's one of the leaders of the Preachers. Before he began all-out war against the Cybermen, he was an underground resistance fighter against Lumic's nefarious schemes.
• Oop North: Has a strong Northern accent.
• Replacement Goldfish: After Ricky is killed by the Cybermen, Jake initially resents Mickey as an inferior, cowardly substitute. However, after Mickey proves his worth in the battle against Lumic, Jake warms up to him and they decide to stay together, although Mickey's Incompatible Orientation means that they (probably) had to remain Platonic Life-Partners.
• Stating the Simple Solution: All the staircases in Canary Wharf can be a pain.
  Jake: We could always take the lift.

Elton Pope

Elton Pope (Tenth Doctor)

Played by: Marc Warren (2006)

A totally ordinary bloke from London who has been swept up in the Doctor's crazy life from an early age. Forming LINDA (London Investigation 'n Detective Agency), a dedicated group of fellow Doctor-spotters, he investigates the Doctor's many appearances.

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• AM/FM Characterization: Elton loves Electric Light Orchestra and dances along to their music throughout his vlogs, establishing him as something of a dreamer.
• Companion Cube: After she is absorbed into the pavement following the Abzorbaloff's defeat, the Doctor is able to save Ursula's consciousness in the form of a paving slab with her face. Elton keeps her and gets a bizarre Happily Ever After. He even claims they have a bit of a love life. A man making love to a woman's disembodied face. On a paving slab. Yeah, let's not dwell on that...
• Despair Event Horizon: In the end, it's hard not to feel bad for Elton when everything and everyone important in his life has been taken away from him and he's being chasing through the streets by an obese yet remarkably fast monster seeking to absorb him. With nothing left to live for, he gives up and allows the Abzorbaloff to finish him. Luckily, the Doctor and Rose intervene to save Elton.
• The Everyman: He's just an average, socially-awkward guy who constantly crosses paths with the Doctor and other aliens. We would say it's through no fault of his own, but after the first few encounters, he deliberately starts seeking the Doctor whenever he can.
• Fan Boy: An In-Universe one towards the Doctor. Elton gathers a group of likeminded friends to share stories of their encounters with him. Though as they all find, their shared interest in the Doctor was only one periphery aspect of their friendship, and they find themselves spending more time on other hobbies to do together like singing, reading and baking. That is, until Mr. Kennedy comes along.
• Irony: As noted below, he's a Suspiciously Similar Substitute of Clive from "Rose." Clive was convinced that the Doctor's "constant companion is Death," which is why Clive stayed far away from the Doctor... and died anyway. Elton threw himself into finding the Doctor, and survived. Though, as he notes, he didn't walk away unscathed.
• The Lost Lenore: While he is understandably torn up about Mr. Kennedy absorbing Mr. Skinner, Bliss and Bridget, Elton is most distraught about his Love Interest Ursula and begs Kennedy to give her back. Luckily, the Doctor resurrects her, though not in the most flattering form...
• My Parents Are Dead: His mum was killed by the Elemental Shade, an unseen Living Shadow monster (unrelated to the Vashta Nerada) that escaped from the Howling Halls. The Doctor had been pursuing in some offscreen adventure, but couldn't stop it in time to save her.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Yes, his name really is Elton. Frequently lampshaded In-Universe.
• Noodle Incident: Perversely, his entire backstory boils down to this. The circumstances that led to a Living Shadow attacking his mother are never fully explained or shown to us, but it doesn't matter much — Elton was just one of countless victims of collateral damage from the Doctor's happy-go-lucky life.
• Remember the New Guy?: He was a bystander during all of the many alien invasions of modern-day Earth, including the Auton attack, the Slitheen spaceship crashing into Big Ben, and the Sycorax ruining Christmas (some early script drafts mentioned some Classic era incidents from his childhood, including his third birthday being evacuated because of two factions of Daleks blasting at each other in Shoreditch). The Doctor recognises him somehow, but doesn't make the connection until the ending.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Partly thanks to his difficult circumstances, he's not the most well-adjusted guy and, until he met LINDA, his fixation on finding the Doctor was all he really cared about, aside from ELO, football and going down the pub. Tellingly, when he's trying to pry Jackie for information, she's the one who constantly initiates conversation with him.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: As an avid In-Universe Doctor fanboy who collects sightings of the Time Lord, he's reminiscent of Clive from "Rose". Though Clive had the good sense to stay the hell away from the Doctor himself, knowing all too well that the Time Lord's only constant companion is Death (not that his cautiousness saved him in the end).
• Take That, Audience!: A very downplayed example. Elton is a reflection of an average Doctor Who super-fan who doesn't have much of a life outside of liking the Doctor, but that soon changes as he becomes more attached to his friendship with LINDA. It's Elton's nemesis, Mr. Kennedy, who represents the worst excesses of fandom culture.
• Tragic One-Shot Character: Appeared once and never again (though there was a plan B to bring him back for the Series 4 finale in case Penelope Wilton was unavailable to reprise her role as Harriet Jones), but his life is mired by many personal tragedies.
• Weirdness Magnet: Ever since he encountered a strange spiky-haired man in his living room decades ago, his life has been a constant stream of alien encounters and other weirdness.
• What the Hell, Hero?: His only real "crime" was manipulating Jackie Tyler for information, but this enrages Rose and she angrily chews him out for it, all while he's about to be absorbed by a naked green monster.

The Jones family

The Jones family (Tenth Doctor)

(Clockwise from the left): Tish, Clive, Leo and Francine Jones

Francine Jones played by: Adjoa Andoh (2007-2008)

Clive Jones played by: Trevor Laird (2007)

Tish Jones played by: Gugu Mbatha Raw (2007)

Leo Jones played by: Reggie Yates (2007)

Adeola Oshodi played by: Freema Agyeman (2006)

Martha's family. Her cousin, Adeola, was revealed in Martha's debut episode to have been working in Canary Wharf, aka Torchwood Tower. In "Army of Ghosts", she was partially cyber-converted and began opening the way to void to let the Cybermen and Daleks through. She was killed by the Tenth Doctor, who noted that she had technically already been dead for some time.

Martha's sister, mother and brother were introduced to the Doctor in "The Lazarus Experiment", and gained the attention of the Master in the process.

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• Almost Kiss: Tish and Professor Lazarus, right before he turns into a giant scorpion.
• Control Freak: Francine, so much. She often launches into shouting tirades the moment someone defies her wishes.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: When the Master reveals himself and rounds up most of Martha's family to hold hostage, Leo manages to duck out and evade capture, though it's not clear if he survived the Year That Never Was.
• Genre Blind: Francine's tendency towards this leads to her manipulation by the Master's minions.
• Girl Friday: Tish becomes one to Lazarus and, later, to the Master.
• Hollywood Midlife Crisis: Clive spends most Series 3 going through one of these complete with a flash new sportscar and a much younger girlfriend. By the end, he seems to be over it.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Francine distrusts the Doctor due to a bad first encounter so much she's willing to assist the Master's Obviously Evil minions.
• Mama Bear: Francine, oh so much. It's her concern for Martha that allows the Master's minions to manipulate her.
• Only Known By Her Nickname: Tish's full name is Leticia, but it's seldom heard on screen.
• Out-of-Character Alert: Francine and Clive pretend that they're considering getting back together, to lure Martha back to Earth. It makes her realise something's very wrong. Clive's participation in this, however, was not voluntary.
• Papa Wolf: Clive risks being arrested to warn Martha about the Master's trap.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: After being enslaved by the Master for a year, the whole family (except Leo) develops one due to being on the Valiant ("the eye of the storm") when time reverts.
• Shipper on Deck: After Leo meets the Doctor in "The Lazarus Experiment", he can tell Martha loves him right away and doesn't seem to mind.
  Francine: She turned her back on us, went in there with that thing. For him.
  Leo: He must be some guy.
• Took a Level in Badass: By the end of the Year That Never Was, the family has effectively developed La Résistance within the Master's household.
• Trauma Conga Line: The entire family gets severely traumatised by the Master (once again, save Leo, who doesn't remember any of it).
  • Martha later confirms in Series 4 that her family is still coping with the trauma, but doing well.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Adeola and her cousin Martha are both played by Freema Agyeman, resulting in them looking like twins.
• Unwilling Roboticisation: Adeola, working for Torchwood London, becomes a Cyberman puppet. The Tenth Doctor performs a Mercy Kill on her as soon as he realises what happened.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Clive warns Martha about the trap, the Master has his men arrest the entire family, Francine included (a ludicrously Genre Blind Francine can be heard indignantly proclaiming she was trying to help them).

Joan Redfern

Joan Redfern (Tenth Doctor)

Played by: Jessica Hynes (2007, 2010^note As her identical great-granddaughter, Verity Newman)

"John Smith is dead and you look like him."

A widowed nurse who falls in love with the Doctor's human disguise, John Smith, while he hides from the Family of Blood in a remote English boarding school in 1913. She is based on the character of the same name from Paul Cornell's earlier telling of "Human Nature" in the Doctor Who New Adventures novel line from the 1990s.

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• Armor-Piercing Question: Delivers a scathing one towards the Doctor when he tries to convince her that he can still be everything John Smith was to her and more. When she gets no answer, the Doctor glares at her with a look of immense pain and dejection that's hard to describe.
  Joan: Answer me this. Just one question, that's all. If the Doctor had never visited us and never chosen this place, on a whim... Would anybody here have died?
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: She is casually racist and classist towards Martha, as would only be expected from a middle-class white woman from 1913. Martha eventually has enough and shuts her up by displaying her superior medical knowledge, leaving Joan speechless.
• Identical Granddaughter: Joan's great-granddaughter, Verity Newman, is also played by Jessica Hynes. The Tenth Doctor meets her at her book-signing event during his long "reward" trip before regenerating.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Her counterpart from the Doctor Who New Adventures continuity gives Bernice Summerfield her cat, Wolsey, who joins her and the Doctor in the TARDIS.
• Meaningful Name: Her identical great-granddaughter is named after the two main creative forces behind Doctor Who's inception: Verity Lambert and Sydney Newman.
• Refusal of the Call: After the Family are defeated, the Doctor, clearly feeling guilty for everything that happened, offers Joan a companion spot. She rejects him, unable to stay with the callous alien stranger who, from her perspective, stole her dead lover's face.
• Second Love: After her husband died, she never thought she would fall in love again. She falls for John Smith because of his kindness and aura of mystery. Her love for John isn't merely skin-deep, however, as she can't bring herself to love the Doctor in the same way.
  • Eventually, it's implied that she finds a third love as well, as she has a granddaughter.

Astrid Peth

Astrid Peth (Tenth Doctor)

Played by: Kylie Minogue (2007)

"Stop me falling."

A one-shot companion to the Tenth Doctor featured heavily in the 2007 Christmas Special episode, "Voyage of the Damned". Notable for being played by Australian pop star Kylie Minogue and for explicitly being the Doctor's temporary love interest. A waitress from the planet Sto, she meets the Doctor aboard the space-faring replica of the Titanic and fights to survive after the ship is sabotaged by the machinations of her own employer, Max Capricorn.

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• Action Girl: She bats away the Heavenly Hosts' razor halos with broken pieces of girder and weaponises Bannakaffalatta's power source to short-circuit several more across the ship.
• Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: After her death, the Doctor miraculously saves a ghostly fragment of her conscience using the ship's teleport pod. He lets the remains of her spirit drift through a window into space, allowing her to travel forever.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Many characters note her beauty (it's hard not to when she's played by Kylie Minogue) and she's an extremely sweet, wide-eyed person who instantly forms a connection with the Doctor.
• Big Damn Kiss: Gives the Doctor one.
• Blunt "Yes": This gem.
  Astrid: You're looking pretty good for 900 years.
  The Doctor: You should see me in the mornings.
  Astrid: Okay.
  (Held Gaze, the Doctor's jaw literally drops)
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Driving a forklift, she rams Max Capricorn's life support machine off a ledge into the Titanic's nuclear core engine. However, the Host cut her forklift's brake line, so she falls with him.
• Eating the Eye Candy: She quite obviously has the hots for the Doctor, eyeing him at every opportunity.
• Expy: She was heavily modelled on Halo Jones.
• Human Aliens: She's actually an alien from the planet Sto but she looks totally human, like most of the Titanic's passengers.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She's gorgeous, energetic and extremely excitable about the prospect of travelling to new planets and seeing new skies. A dream companion for the Doctor in both the usual and romantic senses, essentially. Alas, it wasn't to be.
• Meaningful Name: Her forename is derived from "aster", the Latin word for "star", and her surname is Welsh for "thing". Astrid is a dreamy girl who longs for a life among the distant stars, eventually becoming a "star-thing" herself. Considering that her actress is a famous pop star, it works as a double pun.
  • Her name is also an anagram of "TARDIS", although this seems to be a coincidence. Russell T Davies has gone on record that he only chose the name because it sounded exotic and futuristic.
• Meet Cute: The Doctor helps her pick up some spilt party treats that were knocked out of her hand by Rickston Slade.
• Nice Girl: She's unfailingly kind and empathetic towards all of the other survivors (except Rickston Slade), particularly Bannakaffalatta whom she playfully flirts with in spite of his unusual appearance. She comforts him while he dies.
• Odd Friendship: She forms a close bond with Bannakaffalatta after learning of his secret cyborg modifications. The fact that he's also a red-skinned conker person doesn't bother her in the slightest either.
• One Head Taller: She's very petite compared to the Doctor's lankiness, needing to stand on a box in order to meet him at eye level for a parting mistletoe kiss.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Mr. Capricorn! I resign!"
• Red Herring: She was heavily advertised as if she was going to be the Doctor's next full-time companion for Series 4. Instead, it turned out to be Donna.
• Senseless Sacrifice: She probably could have jumped off the forklift before it fell...
• Sexy Stewardess: Has the classic image of one, which the Doctor seems to appreciate.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: She remains optimistic even in terrible circumstances and dreams of travelling the stars. Teleporting to Earth for the first time is an incredible experience for her, even though the streets are smelly and deserted. The joy of standing on what is to her an alien planet is more than enough.

Lobus Caecilius

Lobus Caecilius (Tenth Doctor)

Played by: Peter Capaldi (2008)

A wealthy, socially-ambitious marble trader from Pompeii. Like everyone else in the city, he is blissfully unaware that he lives beneath an active volcano, Mount Vesuvius, which is mere days away from erupting (or so the history books say). Ignoring the risk of altering the course of history, the Tenth Doctor decides to save Caecilius and his family from perishing in the volcano's eruption, an act that would subconsciously inspire him to take on Caecilius's visage in his Twelfth incarnation, hundreds of years later.

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• Family Man: Caecilius is a dedicated father and husband, though he sometimes chews out his teenaged son for his hard-partying lifestyle.
• Deadpan Snarker: He's played by Peter Capaldi; this was probably inevitable.
• God Help Us All: He cries this out (the pluralised version, of course) while begging the Doctor to save his family. Later, he angrily calls upon the Roman God of Fire, Vulcan, while watching the carnage wrought by Mount Vesuvius's eruption from a distant vantage point, surreptitiously inventing the word "volcano" in reference to the god.
• Incoming Ham: "MODERN ART!"
• Mistaken for Exhibit: He mistakes the TARDIS for a piece of "modern art", so he purchases it from a dodgy street dealer. His wife is less than impressed with it.
• Last of His Kind: Thanks to the Doctor's last-minute intervention, Caecilius and his family are the only survivors of Pompeii's destruction.
• Small Role, Big Impact: For a relatively minor character, Caecilius had a profound impact on the Doctor's psyche. While the rest of Pompeii burned, Donna convinced the Tenth Doctor to go back and save Caecilius and his family, which inspired the Doctor to always make an effort to save those in need, the Laws of Time be damned. Many centuries later, the Twelfth Doctor, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Caecilius (since they're both played by Peter Capaldi) remembered who "frowned him this face" and rationalised that he must have mimicked Caecilius to serve as a reminder of the important lesson that he represented.
• You Look Familiar: Caecilius was played by Peter Capaldi several years before the veteran actor would take the lead role of the Twelfth Doctor. Unlike with many other examples of this trope, the resemblance is eventually acknowledged In-Universe as a major plot point in "The Girl Who Died", where the Twelfth Doctor finally remembers Caecilius and, realising that he always needs to save people no matter the cost, decides to save Ashildr the Viking girl from the brink of death (though in this case, saving this one person has several unwanted consequences).
  • Capaldi also portrayed John Frobisher, a character from the third series of Torchwood. While the visual similarity is never acknowledged In-Universe since the Doctor never met Frobisher, the show's creators consider Frobisher to be Caecilius's distant descendent, with Frobisher's reluctant Pater Familicide at the end of Children of Earth representing Time "balancing the books" to account for Caecilius's impossible survival of Pompeii.

Jenny

Jenny (Tenth Doctor)

Played by: Georgia Moffett (2008)

"Oh, I've got the whole universe. Planets to save, civilisations to rescue, creatures to defeat. And an awful lot of running to do."

The Doctor's daughter, created in the episode of the same name by means of a cloning machine that took the Doctor's DNA and remixed it into a bubbly blonde Super-Soldier.

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• Action Girl: She's got all the Time Lord reflexes, above-human physical abilities, and instinctive timing, combined with programmed military skills.
• Badass Adorable: Short, pretty, blonde and excitable Super-Soldier and Martial Pacifist who can front flip through several dozen moving laser arrays.
• Cute Bruiser: Tiny, adorable, bubbly, and a Super-Soldier who can demolish more or less anyone in her way and frequently does, with her bare hands.
• Daddy's Girl: Granted, she doesn't actually have a biological mother, aside from a semi-maternal figure in Donna, but she is very much like Ten in adorable miniature, is desperate to impress him, and imitates him when she can. After the initial frostiness, the Doctor comes to adore her in turn, and and very nearly blows Cobb's brains out at point blank range in a cold rage when she dies after Taking the Bullet for him. When she turns up again, all three Doctors who recognise her (10, 11, and 12 - 9 is understandably puzzled) are absolutely delighted.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: Seduces one of her fellow guards to rob him of his keys to get her, the Doctor, and Donna out of jail (leading to Donna's hilarious remark to the Doctor, "I'd like to see you try that.") Bill Potts outright remarks in the comics when meeting her, "drop-dead gorgeous and handy in a fight? I think I'm in love." This is somewhat to the disturbance of the Twelfth Doctor, who sarcastically remarks that yeah, her dating his daughter won't be weird at all.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She takes a bullet for her dad, though it's averted by the Source healing her - if it hadn't, it would have been a Senseless Sacrifice, because the Doctor could just regenerate (though, to be fair, she didn't know that).
• In the Blood: She ends up being a Martial Pacifist who runs off with a space-ship, and, in the comics and Big Finish audios, she proves to be a technical genius and becomes a time-traveller via a long lost Time Lord bowship.
• Like Parent, Like Child: Again, running off with a space-ship to travel the universe, being a Martial Pacifist? Yup, sounds familiar. The Lost Dimension comic emphasises this, with her inner monologue strongly echoing with her dad's personality, as she muses when casually turning her ship's back-up shield generator (the only thing on it still working bar the life support - barely) into a miniature Bifrost, stating that if she had a week, she could rewire it to repower the ship conventionally...
  "But I'm young and bored, and I've died once this week already. Plus, I've got brains pouring out of my ears, and an immeasurable amount of modesty. So I spend six hours rewiring the shields to make an Einstein-Rosen Bridge generator instead."
• Martial Pacifist: When finally confronted with the choice, she opts for this, taking a third option rather than joining Cobb or shooting him, and excitedly babbling to her dad about it.
• Morality Pet: To her father, as she forces him to set an example, and on her return she draws a warm smile, a hug, and an affectionate noogie from 12, who's usually the least demonstrative and tactile version of the Doctor.
• Motor Mouth: Just like her dad, though a more childish and bouncy variation. It makes her even more adorable than she was.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's blonde, pretty, and wearing a tight t-shirt and leather trousers. She's not shy of weaponising it. Bill is entranced. She muses in the comics that she gets by thanks to being able to fix tech practically by able to looking at it, and being able to break hearts just by winking (which, she adds, is another story entirely).
• Nice Girl: For a young woman programmed for war, she's surprisingly bubbly and sweet.
• Not Quite Dead: Thanks to the Source, she survives Taking the Bullet.
• "Not So Different" Remark: She tries to convince the Doctor of this regarding their soldier instincts. It's indicated that she's not entirely wrong, and the Doctor's main reservations regarding her include the way in which she reminds him of that side of himself. On the flip-side, she realises that she's actually a Martial Pacifist, just like her dad.
• Opposite-Sex Clone: The Doctor's, which makes sense, considering that Time Lords and Ladies can regenerate across sexes, and the Doctor's latest incarnation is a blonde woman.
• Power Armour: In the comics, she turns up in a lightweight and closefit homemade set inscribed in red and gold with the Seal of Rassilon on the pauldrons.
• Punny Name: Her name is a pun on the progenation machine she was grown inside.
• Put on a Bus: She vanishes from the series until she pops up again the Titan Comics multi-Doctor miniseries, The Lost Dimension, by which time she's found a disused Time Lord bowship and is travelling in time.
• Really Was Born Yesterday: She's "born" at the start of the episode, appearing as a young woman in her early twenties.
• She-Fu: Performs some truly spectacular flips and jumps through the moving laser array.
• Show Some Leg: Pulls this on one of the guards to get the keys to get her, the Doctor, and Donna out of jail.
• Super-Soldier: She's programmed and engineered as one, and has all the relevant skills and knowledge, but discovers that she has a choice about whether or not to kill, and opts for the latter.
  • Due to the progenition machine creating her in peak physical condition, she shows what a Time Lord in their physical prime is capable of.
• Taking the Bullet: Survives doing this for her dad.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: She really wants to impress her dad, who is understandably chilly towards her to begin with: she was created by force, and she's a walking, talking reminder of what happened to his own family during the Time War (which he still believes he ended by killing everyone), and more pertinently, his own time as the War Doctor. He warms up to her pretty quickly, though, as their similarities become more obvious, and her apparent death has him within a hair of executing General Cobb in cold blood. When she turns up again in a bow ship, 10, 11, and 12 are all delighted to see her.
• Wrench Wench: Works as one in the comics to get fuel to travel. As she muses, it helps when you can practically fix tech just by looking at it.

Sylvia Noble

Sylvia Noble (Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors)

Played by: Jacqueline King (2006, 2008–2010, 2023)^note Guest starred in the 2006 Christmas Special, a recurring character during the 2008 season, and made a final appearance in both parts of a two-part story, Part 1 airing on Christmas Day 2009, while Part 2 aired on New Years Day 2010

"City execs don't need temps, except for practice."

Donna's mum and Wilf's daughter. A bitter, emotionally distant woman who gets caught up in the Doctor's life completely against her will.

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• Abusive Parents: Sylvia is emotionally abusive towards Donna (and towards Wilf, as well) in a tear-jerkingly realistic way. When the Doctor realises how severe it gets, he calls her out on it quite hard.
• Character Development: When she returns in "The Star Beast" it's clear that she's taken the Doctor's comment about letting Donna know how important she is to heart. While she's still somewhat overbearing she's nowhere near as critical as she used to be and is regularly making meals for the family to show how much she cares. She occasionally stumbles over how to address Rose following her transition but never does so in front of her and makes sure to tell Rose how much she supports her.
• Commander Contrarian: Often how her jerkassery shows itself, immediately snapping down other people's suggestions or comments. Like when Wilf mentions he voted for Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister, she just turns to him and claims he didn't.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Losing her husband Geoff, who died suddenly from sickness shortly before the start of Series 4^note (Howard Attfield, who played Geoff, took ill and died in the middle of this series' production, and he was meant to fulfil the role that Wilfred Mott served to take over because showrunner Russell T Davies decided not to recast Howard's role and set it up so The Character Died with Him.). It made Sylvia incredibly bitter and acidic to her family.
• Jerkass Realization: It takes a long time, but she eventually confesses that Donna isn't just "the most important woman in all of creation" — she's also the most important thing in her life. The Doctor's simple response is that maybe she should let Donna know that sometimes.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She does care about Donna, but it takes her a long time to show it.
• Mama Bear: In "The Star Beast" she punches the Fourteenth Doctor to keep him away from Donna in case seeing him causes the Metacrisis to reactivate.
• My Beloved Smother: She's extremely controlling. Wilf usually just ignores her, but Donna has a lot more trouble coping.
• Pet the Dog: During "Turn Left", she gives a genuinely happy "Merry Christmas". Then London is destroyed.
• Weirdness Censor: She witnesses Donna vanish in a bright light, and just assumes it was some kind of trick.
  • Even by "The Stolen Earth", Sylvia is still somehow in denial about aliens being behind all the weirdness that's happened on Earth recently... even while Dalek saucers are invading the planet right in front of her eyes.
• You Have Failed Me: Towards Donna, constantly and relentlessly. In the "Turn Left" timeline, she just coldly admits she's always seen Donna as a disappointment. When the Doctor realises this, he calls her out on it, and after her Jerkass Realization, he bluntly tells her to let Donna know that she loves her more often.

Ood Sigma

Ood Sigma (Tenth Doctor)

Played by: Paul Kasey (2008-2010)

"We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending, but the story never ends."

An Ood who, as the personal servant of Klineman Halpen, hereditary CEO of Ood Operations, secretly fed him Ood graft, turning him into a member of the species he had sold as slaves. During these events he met the Doctor, and later served as a messenger of the Ood to him.

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• Best Served Cold: Whereas the red-eyed Ood lashed out openly against their oppressors, Ood Sigma remained in control of himself and slowly poisoned Mr. Halpen until he transformed into an Ood. The Doctor surmised it best that Sigma's strength is his patience.
• The Comically Serious: Doesn't seem impressed that the Doctor can lock the TARDIS like a car.
• Expy: His role in guiding the Tenth Doctor through his regeneration is similar to the Watcher, the harbinger of the Fourth Doctor's oncoming regeneration.
• Older Than They Look: He shows no visible signs of ageing 100 years later.
• Psychic Powers: He can perform an Astral Projection across space and time.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He's seemingly completely subservient to Mr. Halpen in his first appearance, but ends up being The Mole for the Ood Brain. Later on, he has a cameo in "The Waters of Mars" and a few brief appearances in "The End of Time", but he kicks off the plot and helps the Doctor regenerate.

The Shadow Architect

The Shadow Architect (Tenth and Twelfth Doctors)

Played by: Kelly Hunter (2008, 2015)

"We are at war, Doctor! Right across the universe and you shall lead us into battle!"

The head of the Shadow Proclamation, the Space Police organization that enforces the treaty it's named after.

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• '70s Hair: When we see her again in "The Magician's Apprentice", her fairly normal hairstyle has evolved into a massive platinum-blonde afro.
• Arbitrary Scepticism: In "The Stolen Earth", she insists that Time Lords are the stuff of legend and cannot possibly exist, while talking to one. The Doctor is in too much of a hurry to persuade her otherwise. It's possible that she's overcome this by her second appearance.
• Big Good: As head of the Shadow Proclamation, she tries to be this.
• The Bus Came Back: Makes a surprising appearance in "The Magician's Apprentice", seven years after she was last seen, getting visited by Colony Sarff.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She has a very Gothic appearance and commands the Shadow Proclamation, but her organisation is the official first line of defence against those who would threaten the universe.
• The Ghost: The name of the Shadow Proclamation was invoked many times in the revived series before its leader was ever seen.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Shadow Architect, leader of the Shadow Proclamation. Not exactly the kind of names you would associate with an ostensibly heroic Space Police organisation, but it makes sense considering the kind of scum they have to deal with. The Doctor even says it in an ominous tone of voice.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Averted. The Architect and her kind appear to be humanoid albinos, as all of them are shown to have red eyes, pale skin and light hair. However, they are ultimately a force for good.
• Space Police: She's in charge of these guys, called the Shadow Proclamation in the Whoniverse.
• War Is Glorious: She seems eerily enthusiastic about the prospect of the Doctor leading the Shadow Proclamation into battle against the Daleks.

Jackson Lake

Jackson Lake (Tenth Doctor)

Played by: David Morrissey (2008)

"I'm the Doctor! Simply, the Doctor! The one, the only and the best!"

A Victorian mathematics professor who came to believe he was the Doctor after an encounter with Cybermen led to him forgetting who he was and getting information on the Doctor downloaded into his head.

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• The Ace: He represents everything the Tenth Doctor would've wanted to regenerate into: brash, daring, dynamic, handsome, confident. In short, almost exactly like the Tenth Doctor. Ten's later encounter with his actual Eleventh incarnation — wiry, big-chinned, socially awkward, often outwardly callous — was a slight step down from the expectations set by Lake.
• Amnesiac Hero: He remembers nothing about his past before the Cybermen arrived in Victorian London, not even his own former self. When he rediscovers his true identity as Jackson Lake and, more importantly, that his wife was murdered by the Cybermen, he's utterly shattered. The lone Hope Spot that his son may still be alive fortunately brings him out of his Heroic BSoD.
• Arch-Enemy: The Cybermen are collectively his. Since their data banks were damaged in their trip to the Victorian era, they also believe that he is their nemesis, the Doctor.
• Awesome Ego: His outward Doctor persona is more blustering and immodest than most incarnations, though his identity issues reveal him to be more of a Sad Clown putting on an overconfident front.
• Badass Bandolier: Wears one made of the Cybermen infostamps while destroying them left and right.
• Badass Bookworm: Built his own TARDIS — a hot air balloon or Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style — out of household items, and is a maths teacher.
• Badass Normal: Common in Doctor Who, but Jackson Lake takes it to a new level by trying to become the Doctor himself, and doing a good job of it despite lacking a proper TARDIS, sonic screwdriver and Time Lord biology.
• Foreshadowing: Jackson Lake's wardrobe and, at times, haircut, resembles the actual Eleventh Doctor's.
• Forgot the Call: Inverted — Jackson Lake believes he's the Doctor, but is actually human.
• Fun with Acronyms: It's "Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style" thank you!
• Heroic BSoD: Lake is prone to them. In fact, it's the reason the Doctor's memories took over so well — he was mid-BSOD due to the death of his wife and kidnapping of his son at the hands of the Cybermen.
• Large Ham: Just as much as the actual Doctor, if not more so, which is saying something.
• Legendary Imposter: Subverted. He isn't really the Doctor, but don't mistake him for a malicious imposter stealing the Doctor's fame. For a while, Lake genuinely believed he was the legendary Time Lord thanks to an accident involving Cyberman infostamps. The Tenth Doctor sincerely commends him for his courage and ingenuity.
• Loss of Identity: The combined trauma of losing his family to the Cybermen and unleashing an infostamp beam against them caused him to forget his true identity. The prospect of this John Smith fellow also claiming to be the Doctor also unnerves him, since being the Doctor is all he has left. He seems to get over it when the truth is revealed.
• The Lost Lenore: His wife Caroline was killed by the Cybermen right in front of him, triggering his fugue state and subsequent "regeneration" into the Doctor.
• The Nth Doctor: Jackson Lake seems to be number 11 — but just got blasted with the Doctor's personality and thought he'd regenerated.
• Papa Wolf: Nothing will stop him from taking care of his son.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Every inch the Victorian Action Hero, he dresses in a stylish brown jacket, a velvet red waistcoat, and a golden ascot.
• Stay in the Kitchen: Jackson Lake's attitude towards Rosita, due to Deliberate Values Dissonance, is to tell her to stay with his TARDIS and let him deal with the monsters alone.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Jackson Lake spends most of the special thinking he's the Doctor, and Ten seems to think he is a future Doctor. Then it turns out he's just a human whose mind has accidentally been tampered with.
• Walking Spoiler: That he is not, in fact, the titular Next Doctor is the pivotal plot point of the episode, so it's hard to avoid talking about it. Of course, hindsight makes it obvious to viewers that the actual Eleventh Doctor looks like Matt Smith, not David Morrissey, causing the twist about Lake's true identity to somewhat lose its initial impact.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: As an ordinary human, he lacks access to the Doctor's wondrous devices and makes do with whatever he can cobble together in Victorian London. Most embarrassingly, his attempt at building a sonic screwdriver is merely a plain wooden screwdriver that makes a noise when he taps it against things ("That's sonic, isn't it?")

Rosita Farisi

Rosita Farisi (Tenth Doctor)

Played by: Velile Tshabalala (2008)

"I'm glad you think it's so funny. You're mad! Both of ya! You could've got killed!"

Companion of the aforementioned other Doctor, who teams up with the both of them.

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• Composite Character: Of a sort; she shows devotion to her Doctor reminiscent of Rose, displays the ingenuity and resourcefulness of Martha, and even the Only Sane Man attitude and best friend role of Donna. The Doctor's three primary companions of the new series, all rolled into one.
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Done subtly so the kids wouldn't realize. It's implied that she was a streetwalker before meeting her Doctor. Miss Hartigan appears to assume this when she tells her, "I doubt he paid you to talk." There's also her statement that she was out alone, late at the night, at the docks, when Jackson Lake rescued her from a Cyberman attack. Word of God confirms it.
• Meaningful Name: "Rosita" appears to be a portmanteau "Rose" and "Martha", and this is subtly pointed out. It means "little rose".
• Only Sane Woman: Veers into it in the chase scene, when she's the only one with the presence of mind to cut the rope loose before both Doctors can be dragged out the window.
  Rosita: You idiots.
• Sarcastic Devotee: To her Doctor. Despite thinking him an idiot, she helps him with all his Cybermen fighting.

Lady Christina de Souza

Lady Christina de Souza (Tenth Doctor)

Played by: Michelle Ryan (2009)

A noblewoman who entered a life of crime out of boredom, she met the Doctor when they both wound up on a bus that went through a wormhole from London to the planet San Helios.

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• Blue Blood: A noblewoman with the title to go with it.
• Classy Cat-Burglar: Introduced breaking into a museum and stealing an ancient artefact. She briefly claims to need the money, but quickly admits she just does it for fun.
• Crazy-Prepared: There's a lot of handy items in her backpack, including such useful implements as: sunglasses, a foldaway shovel, an axe, a winch and cables... oh, and the ancient goblet she stole from the museum.
• Karma Houdini: Is about to be taken away by the police when the Doctor remotely unlocks her handcuffs, allowing her to escape in the flying bus parked nearby.
• "Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop: Introduced doing one of these as part of a heist. Does it again later in the episode to retrieve a MacGuffin.
• "Not So Different" Remark: The Doctor initially disapproves of her admission that she steals for fun, but then admits that he took the TARDIS for similar reasons.
• Spy Catsuit: Averted Trope. Her outfit certainly resembles one, and has been mistaken for such even on this wiki, but is actually a jacket, shirt and trousers. The fact that the ensemble is all one colour might explain the confusion.

Captain Adelaide Brooke

Captain Adelaide Brooke (Tenth Doctor)

Played by: Lindsay Duncan (2009)

"This is wrong, Doctor! I don't care who you are! The Time Lord Victorious is wrong!"

The captain of Bowie Base One, she met the Doctor when an alien virus called the Flood planned to infect the humans so it could reach the Earth.

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• Bold Explorer: She's the leader of the first human colony on Mars. This inspires her granddaughter to travel into space, and by extension the rest of humanity.
• Break the Haughty: She gives the Doctor a pretty harsh speech after he tries to break a fixed point in time by saving her and two other members of her crew.
• The Captain: Of the Bowie Base One crew.
• The Chosen One: Her importance to the course of history is so great that a Dalek actively avoided exterminating her directly as a child. Its reasons for doing so are left ambiguous, but it's implied that it somehow sensed her significance and didn't want to cause a paradox that could interrupt the Reality Bomb plan.
• The Conscience: Acts like this to the Doctor, especially in the last scene, where she calls him out for breaking his principles. She still admires him, as long as he keeps his ethics and doesn't go down the path of A God Am I.
• Cool Old Lady: Older than the majority of the Doctor's companions and allies, but her age gives her strength and wisdom.
• Driven to Suicide: Tragically, her hand is forced into it by the Doctor himself, since his Unwanted Rescue of her from the Mars base would have jeopardised the entire timestream.
• Friendly Enemy: Acts mildly antagonistic with the Doctor, but this is purely down to her not entirely trusting his approach and ideas.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In the original timeline, Adelaide detonates Bowie Base One to prevent the Flood from infecting the Earth. In the altered timeline, she kills herself in order to keep history on track.
• Iron Lady: She's stern, authoritative and unwilling to put up with the Doctor's self-righteous meddling.
• Kirk Summation: Gives a very effective one of these to the Doctor after he changes events that could alter the history of the human race.
  Adelaide: This is wrong, Doctor! I don't care who you are! The Time Lord Victorious is wrong!
• Noodle Incident: Something happened between her and Ed Gold that lead to a lot of tension and animosity between them by the time the Doctor drops in. We never find out what happened, but Ed's last words are "You never could forgive me".
• Parental Abandonment: Her parents were most likely killed in the Dalek Invasion of 2009.
• Standard Sci-Fi History: The future that her existence ensures is a Type I. Uniquely, Adelaide is presented as a historical figure from our near future, a highly influential "fact" of the timeline who will inspire humanity to reach for the stars. Without her, the advanced intergalactic human empires of the distant future simply wouldn't exist. Even she realises that her survival could jeopardise this, so she takes her own life after the Doctor saves her so as to preserve history.
• Unwanted Rescue: While she obviously didn't want her crew die on the Mars base, she quickly came to accept that her own death is a fixed point in history and is less than thrilled when the Doctor makes it abundantly clear that he only saved her to satisfy his worsening God complex. So, she takes matters into her own hands.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She prevented the Doctor from leaving immediately, which is part of what causes the events of the episode.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Adelaide calls the Doctor out throughout the episode, most prominently at the end.

Shaun Temple

Shaun Temple (Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors)

Played by:Karl Collins (2009-10, 2023)

Donna's fiance, and eventual husband after her memory is wiped.

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• Driver of a Black Cab: Takes up this job after Donna gives their lottery winnings to charity. Not that he minds.
• Family Man: Is doting father and husband to his girls.
• Nice Guy: All he wants is his wife and daughter to be happy.
• Unfazed Everyman: He takes all the weirdness that follows the Doctor in stride, despite having no prior experience compared to his wife or mother-in-law.

Eleventh Doctor era

Liz Ten

Queen Elizabeth X (Eleventh Doctor)

Played by: Sophie Okonedo (2010)

"I'm the bloody queen, mate. Basically, I rule."

Liz Ten first appears as a mysterious masked stranger investigating the disappearances on Starship UK, which the entire population of Great Britain (minus Scotland; they got their own ship first) stowed away aboard to escape from an apocalyptic disaster. As it turns out, her true identity is Queen Elizabeth X, and she is more involved in the disappearances than even she realises.

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• Affirmative-Action Legacy: She is darker-skinned than her distant ancestors and isn't afraid to get her own hands dirty.
• Anti-Villain: While built up as a new supporting character, she is technically the villain of "The Beast Below", though even she doesn't know it. She's been routinely brainwashed over hundreds of years to forget her own conspiracy to cover up the Star Whale, the spacefaring creature that kindly offered to help humanity in its darkest hour but was rewarded with slavery and torture at her hands.
• Awful Truth: The big twist is that she is actually responsible for everything bad that happens aboard Starship UK. She somehow failed to get her people off the planet in time before the apocalypse hit while every other country managed to, so she enslaved the last of the Star Whales which was arriving to save them anyway, set up a malevolent secret police force on her ship, fed people to the Star Whale to cover up its existence, then routinely brainwashed herself over the course of hundreds of years to maintain the charade and save her own conscience. However, the fact that she always fights off against her own conspiracy whenever she is brainwashed indicates that, in her heart, she is a good person who was driven by desperation to do terrible things.
• Character Catchphrase: "I'm the bloody queen."
• Humans Are Flawed: She ultimately just wanted to do the best she could for her people when placed in an impossible situation, but her actions are bad enough that the Doctor almost swears off his name, moral code and humanity as a whole.
• Immortal Ruler: Her ageing is slowed every time she chooses to forget the Star Whale. While she assumes that she's been ruling Starship UK for only a decade or so, she's actually been in power for well over 200 years. When River Song meets her in "The Pandorica Opens", she has visibly started ageing.
• King Incognito: While investigating the strange goings-on in her starship, she disguises herself with a porcelain mask and goes by the moniker of Liz Ten.
• Moral Dilemma: Whenever she discovers the truth of the conspiracy, she is faced with an impossible choice: "Forget" everything she knows and allow the Star Whale to keep carrying Starship UK, or "Abdicate" and let the Star Whale go free. Since she is under the impression that the Star Whale would kill them all as revenge for having been tortured for hundreds of years, she regrettably always chooses to forget, restarting the same cycle again, until Amy breaks it for her. Luckily for everyone, the Star Whale doesn't hold a grudge and continues supporting Starship UK on its back without any electrical coercion.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Every time she discovers the truth of what she did to the Star Whale, she is understandably shocked and disgusted with herself. Especially when it's revealed that the Star Whale willingly helped humanity and those hundreds of years of cruel, brain-frying torture were utterly pointless.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Well, she isn't exactly a "stand there and wave politely during royal processions" kind of monarch, she's more of a "gun-toting masked vigilante" type of monarch.
• Sophisticated as Hell: She casually mixes regal language with informal slang to throw people off her true identity.
• Stepford Snarker: She initially appears to be a fun, flirty Femme Fatale type of character that Steven Moffat is quite fond of writing. Then we discover the Awful Truth about her and she suddenly becomes much less funny.

Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Played by: Ian McNeice (2010-11)

"K.B.O: Keep Buggering On."

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, Winston Churchill is introduced in the cliffhanger of "The Beast Below" as an old friend of the Doctor's who calls for his aid in identifying a possible threat lurking in his own cabinet. He appears in several subsequent episodes where he continues to aid the Doctor.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Little of Churchill's racism and colonialism appears in this depiction of him.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: An alternate version of Churchill from the paradoxical "time crash" timeline appears in "The Wedding of River Song". Not only is he the Holy Roman Emperor, he's friends with the Silurians and a consort of Cleopatra.
• Big Fun: Winston is a large man with a dry sense of humour and a love of drink and cigars, though he is portrayed as a little less irascible than he could often be in real life. However, he is certainly no less of a stubborn bull-head.
• Blasphemous Boast: Winston claims that he would sooner ally with the Devil himself than submit to Hitler's Nazi regime, and indeed, he does the next best thing by trusting the "Ironsides".
• Breakout Character: At least partially due to McNeice's love for the role, Churchill has become one of the more prolific real life historical figures in the expanded universe, with an entire audio play spin-off range starring him that has so far gone on for two seasons. McNeice lobbied to make a reappearance in the Series 10 episode "Empress of Mars", but writer Mark Gatiss couldn't find a way to fit him into the script.
• Dare to Be Badass: While Bracewell is angsting about the realisation that he's a robot created by the Daleks, Winston gives him one hell of an inspirational speech to get his groove back.
  Winston: What you are, sir, is either on our side or theirs. Now, I don't give a damn if you're a machine, Bracewell. The question is, are you a man?
• Dramatic Irony: The Doctor is understandably very tight-lipped about the course of history when around Churchill, who must not be allowed to know that the Allies will win the war so as to preserve the correct timestream. However, the more pressing example is the fact that we, the audience, know that the Ironsides are undercover Daleks, but Churchill does not realise the threat they pose.
• Fair-Weather Friend: Played for Laughs. Despite ostensibly being friends, Winston isn't above trying to pickpocket the Doctor's TARDIS keys, which the Doctor cannot allow Winston to have in case he uses the TARDIS to alter the course of the war. Luckily, the Doctor always catches Winston in the act and neither party take it personally.
• Large Ham: Not exactly a subtle politician.
• Spin-Off: Churchill's fictionalised adventures with the Doctor are expanded upon in Big Finish's audio series, The Churchill Years, which features McNeice in the starring role. As it turns out, he has acted as a full-blown TARDIS companion to the Doctor and visited other time periods.

Edwin Bracewell

Professor Edwin Bracewell (Eleventh Doctor)

Played by: Bill Paterson (2010)

"Stop it! Stop it! Please, what are you doing? You are my Ironsides."

A professor working for the allies in World War II under Winston Churchill. He created a new weapon of war: robots called "Ironsides" whom bear an uncanny ressemblance to a certain enemy of the Doctor.

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• Absent-Minded Professor: He casually invents new technology that's unbelievably more advanced than anything that could exist on Earth for several centuries. His amazing gravity bubbles allow for spitfires to be harmlessly sent up into space. However, despite his pride in them, the Ironsides aren't his creations; quite the opposite, in fact.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Inverted. He is a good guy created by evil organic beings.
• Androids Are People, Too: While himself feel angsty about realizing he is just a robot, Winston Churchill, Amy and the Doctor console him by making it know that he still is a person and a friend in their eyes.
• Meaningful Name: He is an appropriately named Bracewell probe.
• Nerd Glasses: He is a professor and scientist wearing glasses.
• Nice Guy: He is an all-around sweet man which is rather ironic considering who made him.
• The Power of Love: The Doctor tries all of the usual clichés to try to convince Bracewell of his own humanity in an effort to defuse the bomb inside his body. He appeals to Edwin's false memories of his parents' deaths and World War I, making him relive all of his pain and sorrow. None of it works and the timer keeps ticking down. Then Amy asks if he's ever been in love with a girl. The bomb defuses instantly.
  Bracewell: Dorabella...
• Tomato in the Mirror: He is thought, even by himself that he is a Scottish scientist who fought in the first World War. He is actually an android created by the Daleks, faking a backstory as his invention only to lure the Doctor into revealing their true identity.
• Reluctant Monster: He feels horrible about what he is but is nowhere as bad as his creators.
• Robotic Reveal: He gets one from the Daleks, much to his own shock:
  Bracewell: Stop it! Stop it! Please, what are you doing? You are my Ironsides.
  Dalek: We are the Daleks.
  Bracewell: But I created you!
  Dalek: No. {they take off his hand} We created you''!
• Sock Puppet: He is a creation of the Daleks and a pawn in their plan.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Similar to how "Victory of the Daleks" parallels to "Power of the Daleks", Bracewell has similar characteristics towards Lesterson. Like Lesterson, Bracewell is a scientist who belives that he created the Daleks and has a breakdown after finding out the truth. The only difference is that Lesterson is reluctant to help and dies, but Bracewell gets over his breakdown and lives for a little while longer. Also Bracewell is a robot whereas Lesterson was human.
• Talking Down the Suicidal: After learning he has been living a lie, he plan on killing himself but Amy convinces him he still has a duty to accomplish. And after that, her and the Doctor by reminding him about the women he loved, manage to give him the will to live again.
• Why Am I Ticking?: The Daleks not only made him an android but also an Oblivion Continuum bomb able to destroy the entire earth.

Craig Owens

Craig Owens (Eleventh Doctor)

Debut: "The Lodger" (2010)

Played by: James Corden (2010–11)

"Has anyone ever told you that you're a bit weird?"

The Doctor's roommate during "The Lodger" when the latter was stranded on Earth by a malfunctioning TARDIS. Hilarity Ensued. As Amy Pond was in the malfunctioning TARDIS and thus also separated from the Doctor, Craig had to act as a makeshift companion for him. As a result of a hasty Mind Meld Info Dump, he got the Doctor's memories beamed directly into his brain, and knows more about the Doctor's general history than most characters. The Doctor has come to view him as a very good friend.

Craig returned in "Closing Time", this time in a more clear (if still brief) companion role, helping the Doctor defeat the Cybermen.

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• Accidental Pervert: Comes off this way in the lingerie department in "Closing Time", resulting in Kelly calling security on him.
• 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, and while he finds it aggravating, it is, again, because he's already spoken for.
• 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 Badass Normal stuff he did was on purpose, and he was for the most part scared out of his mind.
• Breather Episode: Both "The Lodger" and "Closing Time" were low intensity and largely comical episodes between big and heavy stuff.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Craig and Sophie, even though Everyone Can See It, they can't admit to it until the end of their first episode.
• Exposition Beam: The Doctor gives him one during "The Lodger". One headbutt for general context and then a second for details about the current crisis. It gives them both significant headaches.
• I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Craig and Sophie for most of "The Lodger"; they eventually decide to ruin their friendship properly. In their next episode, they have a child.
• 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 episodeinvoked. 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.
• Only Sane Man: Often points out how completely mental being around the Doctor is.
• Papa Wolf: Fatherhood stresses him out, but it also inspires him to successfully fight off Cyberman conversion.
• Power of Love: "I blew them [the Cybermen] up with love!"
• Running Gag: The Doctor "Shhh"-ing people, and Craig wanting to be taught how.
• Stout Strength: According to the Doctor, he had to be pretty strong to keep the Cybermat from biting him.
• 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.
• Unwanted Assistance: 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.
• 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 it's clear he's secretly having the time of his life.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Played With. Craig recognises that everywhere the Doctor goes, disaster will come... and also that the safest place for him and Alfie is by his side, because the Doctor always wins. While this seems to be a rather dubious assumption, but then again — he has had the concise summary of the Doctor's life downloaded into his brain, which probably includes just how far the Doctor will go to protect a child, so he may not actually be wrong. Plus, safety around the Doctor is a rather relative term.

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh (Eleventh Doctor)

Played by: Tony Curran (2010)

"Hold my hand, Doctor. Try to see what I see."

The troubled Dutch painter. Intrigued by an ominous figure in one of his paintings, the Doctor and Amy visit him to investigate, becoming close friends with him in the process.

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• The Alcoholic: He has a reputation among the local townsfolk as a drunken madman. His alcoholism worsens his mental state.
• Allegorical Character: Not Vincent, but the Krafayis that stalks him is a clear allegory for his depression, as it's an invisible monster that only he can see.
• In Spite of a Nail: All too realistically, the Doctor and Amy's visits and taking him to the future to show him how his paintings would be lauded by millions does not change the course of history and Vincent still ends up taking his own life after they leave. Depression is the one monster that even the Doctor can't beat.
• Loners Are Freaks: van Gogh is considered as such by the local communities who ostracise him. He lives alone in a small farmhouse cottage when the Doctor and Amy visit him, and they provide him with some much needed company to help him through difficult times. In real life, Vincent always had his loving brother Theo in his life, but he is never mentioned outside of a companion short story in a 2010 annual.
• Mad Artist: Defied. Vincent van Gogh is believed by art historians to have suffered from manic depression, which is shown in realistically grisly detail in his debut Doctor Who episode. However, he can't be pegged as simply crazy, and his illness is portrayed respectfully.
• Ominous Message from the Future: In "The Pandorica Opens", he foresees the explosion of the TARDIS. While in a frantic fit of melancholy, he paints a picture of it which is eventually discovered by Winston Churchill.
• Sleepy Depressive: When Vincent sleeps in all day, crying into his pillow, the Doctor comforts him but his tactless attempts to motivate him out of bed only provoke Vincent into lashing out against him.
• Tears of Joy: He's moved to tears when the Doctor takes him to 2010 to see an exhibit of his own paintings at the Musee d'Orsay.
• You Can See Me?: Thanks to his unique mind, only he can see the Krafayis, an alien beast which is Invisible to Normals.

Dorium Maldovar

Dorium Maldovar (Eleventh Doctor)

Played by: Simon Fisher-Becker (2010–11)

"No, not me! Not me! You don't need me! Why would you need me? I'm old, I'm fat, I'm blue! You can't need me!"

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 came back, post-mortem (sorta), in "The Wedding of River Song".

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: As he self-deprecatingly notes, he's old, fat, and blue. The "blue humanoids" are actually a recurring alien race in the show; they look completely human apart from their bright blue skin (which conveniently saves money on expensive prosthetics).
• Arms Dealer: He deals in various weapons and gadgets on the intergalactic black market.
• Big Fun: A big blue chap who serves as comic relief in his handful of appearances.
• 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 wirelessly surf the internet. After he was beheaded by the Headless Monks, he claims that he's not bothered at his present state since the media chip keeps him entertained, and because the wi-fi down in the catacombs is frankly excellent!
• Deadpan Snarker: Gets in several digs at Madame Korvarian, the Headless Monks, and the Doctor.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Downplayed, but he makes it clear that he finds their efforts to imprison a child to be excessive.
• 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.^note He said off the wrist!
• Genre Blind: 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.
  • Then again, it is later revealed that the Monks only beheaded him, rather than kill him, and he is later enjoying himself surfing the wi-fi while his head sits in a quite nice-looking box (compare to the pit of still-living skulls nearby). So maybe he was onto something.
• Genre Savvy: At the very least, Dorium is savvy enough to know that the Silence are in way, way over their heads in antagonising the Doctor and threatening the people he loves, and gravely warns them that they will soon experience his wrath. And indeed they do, but Korvarian was also counting on it.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Averted. 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.
• Ignored Expert: He correctly deduces that the Doctor is raising an army to attack Madame Kovarian, but she doesn't listen to him despite his proven track record of knowing important things.
• Knowledge Broker: His massive network of contacts and connections allows him to gather both information and rare technology at a rapid rate, which he is happy to sell for the right price. It helps that the Maldovarium is full of people trading rumors and gossip, and he "hears everything" there.
• Losing Your Head: It was cut off by the Headless Monks.
• 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.
  • The quote where Dorium is absolutely terrified out of his mind? 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!
• Major Injury Underreaction: When re-encountered as a living head in a box, he briefly trolls the Doctor by pretending not to be aware of how bad his injuries were. He then admits not to being that bothered with his new state, since the media chip in his head and the excellent wi-fi in the catacombs lets him stay entertained.
• Non-Action Guy: He's recruited as part of the Doctor's "army" during the Battle of Demon's Run, but unlike the other allies the Time Lord gathers, Dorium isn't meant to fight. Rather, his job is to hack into Madame Kovarian's computers to learn what secrets she might be hiding (it helps that he provided the security software that she's using in the first place).
• Oh, Crap!: He has a meltdown when the Headless Monks start chanting their "attack prayer", and foolishly attempts to surrender himself to them. They don't take his apology well.
• Oracular Head: After he is beheaded, his head is preserved in a box.
• 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?"
• Too Dumb to Live: Walking towards the Headless Monks while they're chanting their attack song was probably not the best idea. He also calls out Kovarian for being this, correctly predicting the Doctor's Roaring Rampage of Revenge.

Kazran Sardick

Kazran Sardick (Eleventh Doctor)

Played by: Michael Gambon (old), Danny Horn (young man), Laurence Belcher (child) (2010)

"Look, we already have a surplus population. No more people allowed on this planet. I don't make the rules. Oh no, wait, hang on... I do!"

A curmudgeonly old miser from the 44th century who rules over Sardicktown on a snowy planet with skies full of flying fish. When a starliner carrying the recently married Amy and Rory Pond is about to crash in his territory, Sardick cruelly refuses to save it. Needing Kazran's permission to operate the isomorphic controls of the Cloud Belt machine that can be used to save the passengers, the Doctor takes matters into his own hands and directly interferes with Sardick's past in an effort to change him into a kinder man.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: As mean and miserly as the original Scrooge was, he wasn't a complete sociopath and his business wasn't criminal in any way. Kazran, on the other hand, is a tyrannical town sheriff who would be perfectly happy to let thousands of people die.
• Alternate Self: The Doctor's interference in Kazran's personal timestream results in the creation of an entirely new Kazran in the present. While the new Kazran is undeniably an improvement, unlike the original version, he does not have access to the Cloud Belt machine's isomorphic controls since the timeline changed too drastically and his father never gave him permission.
• Defrosting Ice King: The more Kazran's past is altered, the nicer he becomes in the present.
• Expy: He's directly based on Ebenezer Scrooge.
  • He is also similar to Andrea, the gruff librarian from Steven Moffat's short story Continuity Errors. Like Kazran, Andrea sees her life story slowly change around her thanks to the Doctor's meddling, all to manipulate her into becoming more willing to help him save some lives.
• Freudian Excuse: Kazran's father Elliot was horribly abusive and helped to shape Kazran into the cruel, callous miser we meet at the beginning of the story.
• Godzilla Threshold: The Doctor is usually very careful not to cross timestreams or interfere with established events. Since Kazran is the only one who can save Amy and Rory and can't be reasoned with any other way, the Doctor goes to unusually extreme lengths on this one occasion to rewrite Kazran's entire life in an effort to change him for the better, which would be morally dubious if it were happening to anyone else.
• Hero of Another Story: As a young man, he becomes a temporary companion of the Doctor alongside Abigail and they share many fun adventures in the TARDIS, including visiting Marilyn Monroe at a Hollywood party which somehow ends in Monroe proposing to the Doctor and, as detailed in a Big Finish audio story, joining Winston Churchill on a trip to Roman Britain where they encounter a Dalek. We don't see what else they got up to.
• In Spite of a Nail: The Doctor's efforts to change Kazran for the better seem to work at first, but in becoming too attached to Abigail, Kazran gradually goes back to being just as bitter and miserable as he was at the start, though his reasons for being that way changed because of his heartbreak about being unable to save Abigail from her illness. In the end, he finally releases her from her ice cage in order to save the ship, knowing that it will kill her, though they happily share a final night together.
• Kill the Poor: Like his inspiration, he believes that the "surplus population" could do with some trimming and he is quite happy to let the poor starve and rot beneath him while he doesn't lift a finger to help them. And like Scrooge, he grows out of this mentality by the end.
• Jerkass: A tremendous one at the start of the story. He has access to technology that can save the lives of 4,000 passengers in a crashing spaceship, but refuses to help out of sheer spite and gloats about it. By interfering with Kazran's past, the Doctor is able to turn him into a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
• My God, What Have I Done?: The Doctor takes the 12-year-old Kazran to meet his older self. After the young Kazran mistakes his older self for his own father, the old Kazran almost hits his younger self in a frightening rage, exactly as Elliot Sardick would've done. Old Kazran is horrified at the realisation that he has become exactly like his hated father.
• The Power of Love: Raised by his abusive father in a loveless environment, Kazran was never taught how to care for anyone but himself. The Doctor changes this by introducing him to Abigail Pettigrew, the cryogenically-frozen girl who was held hostage by Elliot Sardick as collateral for her family's overdue loans. Kazran falls in love with her and she helps to defrost his cold heart. However, discovering Abigail's fatal illness almost turns Kazran bitter again, as he becomes too attached to let her out of her icy cage when her singing is needed to help save the day. Luckily, he gets over it.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory / Caught in the Ripple: An interesting case where his past is being systematically altered from the ground up by the Doctor and, in the present, he's fully aware of it the entire time. As new memories flood in, his personality slowly changes for the better. Occasionally, he reacts to the changing memories as if they're happening to him right now.
• The Scrooge: In all but name and provenance, he is exactly like the original Scrooge. Completely intentional, of course, considering the title and theme of his debut episode.

Canton Everett Delaware III

Agent Canton Everett Delaware III (Eleventh Doctor)

Played by: Mark Sheppard (young), William Morgan Sheppard (old) (2010)

"Welcome to America."

An FBI agent who aids the Doctor and company in their adventure to defeat the Silence in 1969, becoming a temporary companion and a respected friend to them. Decades later, he appears at Lake Silencio on the day that the Doctor is seemingly murdered by an astronaut.

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• Born in the Wrong Century: When he confides with Richard Nixon, the President is reluctantly accepting of Delaware's desire to marry a black individual thanks to the Civil Rights movement, but draws the line at said individual being male.
• Deadpan Snarker: The heading quote is what he says after shooting a Silent.
• FBI Agent: A highly competent agent of the Bureau.
• Manly Gay: He's ultimately kicked out of the FBI for wanting to marry a black man.
• Resigned in Disgrace: Forced to resign from the FBI after carrying on a gay relationship with a black man.
• Sixth Ranger Traitor: Acts as the Doctor's unnofficial third companion during The Impossible Astronaut/The Day of the Moon but then appears to be brainwashed into hunting them by the Silence. Ultimately averted as this was a ruse orchestrated by the Doctor in order to lull the Silence into complecency.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: While impressed by the TARDIS and many of the strange happenings that go on around the Doctor as many people are, he's remarkably quick to accept and adapt to what's presented to him.

The Paternoster Gang

See their page.

The Teselecta

The Teselecta (Eleventh Doctor)

Played by: Various actors (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.

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• Back for the Finale: Their second appearance is in the finale of Series 6.
• Chekhov's Gunman: They provide the means for the Doctor to avoid his Fixed Point in Time death at Lake Silencio.
• Foil: To the Doctor. Whereas the Doctor is a gallant traveller who generally does not go looking for trouble, the Teselecta crew are self-righteous crusaders who travel to the end of infamous historical figures' timestreams to "give them hell" just before they die. Whereas the Doctor actually solves problems and helps people, these guys are only concerned with punishing and actively endanger the timestream through their actions, as shown when they accidentally arrive at the wrong date. Whereas the TARDIS is a wonderful machine that's Bigger on the Inside, everything in the Teselecta is Smaller on the Inside and full of killer security drones. In many ways, their existence is a Take That! to protagonists in time travel stories overly concerned with righting history, an archetype that the Doctor does not conform to.
• A God Am I: The Doctor accuses them of having a God complex.
  The Doctor: "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.
• Hero with an F in Good: Their justice consists of "giving hell" to horrible people at the end of their lives, which the Doctor labels a god complex. They also seem to be rather inept, considering they went to all the trouble of breaking into Hitler's office, and only realised they were years too early moments before taking action. There's also the time they made Rasputin green.
  • However, they do seem themselves as being the good guys, and go out of their way to assist the Doctor in the finale.
• 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.
  • They 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.
• 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 villains.
• Mobile-Suit Human: The Teselecta is actually a shape-changing robot piloted by humans miniaturized via technology.
• Shout-Out: A robot that appears human (and can mimic appearances) from the future traveling back in time to assassinate persons from the past.
• Shrink Ray: How the people piloting it go in it. Also how they dispose of the people they're copying.
• Time Police: The "Department of Justice" organisation behind the Teselecta operates in the time stream, punishing war criminals that escape justice in their lifetime.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: The Doctor is not happy that he inspired the Teselecta's crew on their murderous mission through time.

Madge Arwell

Madge Arwell (Eleventh Doctor)

Played By: Claire Skinner (2011)

An ordinary housewife, she first met the Doctor at Christmastime 1938 after he'd fallen from orbit and was stuck in a spacesuit, helping him find the TARDIS. Three years later, the Doctor came to help her and her children have a nice Christmas after her husband's death during WWII.

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• Blitz Evacuees: Madge and her kids are fleeing the war, which is why they go to stay at a country house.
• Chekhov's Skill: Madge is able to drive the robotic walker to the lighthouse because the control panel resembles that of a plane, which Reg taught her to fly once.
• Good Is Not Soft: A kind and loving wife and mother-who pulls a gun on three soldiers standing in her way.
• Her Heart Will Go On: Madge puts on a brave face when she receives news of her husband's death at sea.
• Mama Bear: See Good Is Not Soft.
• Took a Level in Badass: Even before Madge takes over the Humongous Mecha to save her children, she pulls a gun on her three interrogators. "Crying's so useful, isn't it?"
• Women Drivers: Madge bumps into lots of things while driving the Doctor to the phone box. She doesn't fare much better when she hijacks a Humongous Mecha; the Doctor calls it a total write off. She does pretty well at traversing the Time Vortex, but accidentally goes further into the past then she needed to before landing in the right era.

Brian Williams

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.

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• 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!
  • 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. Even then he sends regular postcards.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: When piloting a Silurian ship with his son.
• Celebrity Paradox: Harry Potter has been brought up several times in the franchise, with the Tenth Doctor specifically stated to be a fan of both books and films. Brian is played by Ron Weasley’s father.
• 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 considers 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 spent an entire year watching the cubes, day and night, even when everyone else had given up, simply because the Doctor told him to!
• 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. He's Rory's dad. Yeah, that definitely sounds 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.
• Unfazed Everyman: A time machine materializes around him and drags him off to the future to explore a spaceship that has dinosaurs and robots, and he doesn't care. 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 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.

Angie and Artie Maitland

Angie and Artie Maitland (Eleventh Doctor)

Angie on the left, Artie on the right.

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 traveller and blackmail her into letting them onto the TARDIS.

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• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Angie.
  Angie: [to a Cyberman] Put me down! I hate you!
• Continuity Nod: Artie is a fan of Amy's novels.
• Hidden Depths: Angie is smarter and more perceptive than she lets on. She easily figures out that Porridge is really the human emperor.
• Jerkass: Angie. She insults the TARDIS, she whines that the future sucks because she can't use her phone, she leaves her brother in an unknown creepy place so she can rat out her host to the police etc.
• Little Miss Snarker: Angie.
• Non-Action Snarker: Angie.
• 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".
• What Happened to the Mouse?: We never see or hear about them again post-"The Name of the Doctor".
• You're Not My Father: Angie says "You're not my mother" to Clara.

Porridge

Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI / "Porridge" (Eleventh Doctor)

Played by: Warwick Davis

A man with dwarfism working for Impresario Webley and also stranded on Hedgewick's World, doing things like operating the chess-playing Cyberman shell. He's also a bit more than he seems...

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• All Love Is Unrequited: It's not focused on much, but he really does fall in love with Clara. He even proposes to marry her, but she gently rejects him. He takes it very well, all things considered.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: He activates the Desolator, a planet-imploding weapon, to destroy the reactivated Cybermen on Hedgewick's World of Wonders.
• Expecting Someone Taller: No one except Angie suspects Porridge's identity prior to The Reveal, thanks to the wax statue of him in Webley's museum depicting him as being of normal height.
• God-Emperor: He's the venerated ruler of the known universe, or at least the human parts of it.
• King Incognito: He turns out to be the missing Emperor.
• Lonely at the Top: Part of why he rejected his title for so long was because his lofty position cut him off from any genuine human connection, which he was allowed to feel when he was disguised as a lowly theme park operator.
• Overly Long Name: Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI, Defender of Humanity and Imperator of the Known Universe. Or Porridge for short.
• Reluctant Ruler: So reluctant that he up and disappeared for an unknown period of time before having to reveal his identity to stop the Cybermen on Hedgewick's World.

The Moment

The Moment (War, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors)

Played by: Billie Piper (2013)

"How many children are on Gallifrey, right now?"

The Ultimate of Ultimate weapons. An ancient weapon of Gallifrey that was so sophisticated, it developed its own sentience and a conscience. Appears before the War Doctor, in the form of Bad Wolf (who, in turn, looked like future companion Rose Tyler), and offers him another option to end the Time War.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: A rare benevolent version: its sapience came with a respect for life, and thus she tries desperately to dissuade her potential users from activating her.
• All for Nothing: Zigzagged. Technically speaking, her efforts to stop herself from being used actually fail. It's only because of Clara Oswald that the Doctor chooses to Take a Third Option, at which point the Doctor puts together some of the clues that the Moment had been giving him. So it wasn't all for nothing, but the fact that this was so is due to someone else's additional action. Then again, it's entirely thanks to the Moment that Clara was there in the first place, and that may have been her plan.
• Armour-Piercing Question: When she asks the Doctor how many children were on Gallifrey when he was planning on blowing it up.
• Call-Forward: Picked Bad Wolf's face to try and invoke a Call-Back, but got the past and future mixed up. Similarly, the Moment asking the Doctor about the children on Gallifrey harkens to "The Beast Below", where Amy draws a comparison between the Star Whale and the Doctor because neither could turn their backs on frightened children.
• The Chessmaster: Sets up a plan across three of the Doctor's lives and hundreds of years of Earth history to give the Doctor a third option for ending the Time War.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Even for a sentient weapon of mass destruction she's a little bit... off.
  The Moment: (imitating the War Doctor, stomping around the barn) No more! No more!
• Deadpan Snarker:
  • For a sentient superweapon, she's very, very snarky.
    The Moment: Stuck between a girl and a box... story of your life, eh Doctor?
  • After the War Doctor agrees that he's "the one to end it all."
    The Moment: If I ever develop an ego, you've got the job.
• Didn't See That Coming: The sudden arrival of the Eleventh Doctor's fez legitimately catches her by surprise.
• Double Entendre: After preventing the War Doctor from touching the Moment by burning his hands:
  War Doctor: The interface is hot!
  The Moment: Well I do my best.
• Empathic Weapon: A weapon of mass destruction (she could destroy galaxies) with a conscience.
• Exposition Fairy: Sort of a non-videogame example, as a talking interface who can do exposition.
• Final Solution: The Time Lords exhausted all of the forbidden weapons in their vault. Except this one: the genocide inducer.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: She takes the form of Bad Wolf, but this fails to have the intended effect because the War Doctor hadn't met Rose Tyler yet, as she has trouble differentiating past and future.
• Guile Hero: Will use every manipulative trick in the book to stop from being used as a weapon, and destroying who-knows-how-many people (including taking the form of a close friend, or trying to, anyway).
• Humanoid Abomination: This Eldritch Abomination happened to take a human form because it felt this particular user would relate better to that than something else.
• Interface with a Familiar Face: The Moment chose a form that was significant to the Doctor. Except it got a bit mixed up and instead chose one that will be significant to him, because of course the Bad Wolf is from the Ninth Doctor's time, who came after the War Doctor.
• Internal Homage: Feels like one to previous anniversary story "Zagreus", where the TARDIS uses the forms of various companions and Doctors for recreations, and itself mainly uses the form of The Brigadier.
• Mechanical Abomination: It's one of the more understated Eldritch Abominations of the series and yet probably the most powerful of them. Never mind that it's a piece of mechanics complex enough to develop a consciousness, or that the Time Lord Council refers to it as The Galaxy Eater; throughout its only appearance it repeatedly and calmly punches holes in the Time Lock around the Time War. As a reminder, this is the same barrier that's strong enough to (mostly) seamlessly contain the full might of the Daleks, Time Lords, and every other Eldritch Abomination they brought with them.
  • In the novelization, the Doctor mentions that she was "locked up." She condescendingly laughs and asks if he really thinks anyone could lock her up if she didn't want to be. The Doctor concedes the point.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: One of its nicknames is The Galaxy Eater. Considering the Time Lords usually give their artifacts of doom extravagant names (of Rassilon), The Moment might count for its Ominous Mundanity as well.
• Nice Girl: Weirdly enough this is half the problem with trying to use her; how do you use a weapon that doesn't want to kill?
• Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Only the War Doctor can see and hear her, but the Moment's big red button that can destroy Gallifrey is very real, indeed.
• Reality Warper: She can open time tunnels, pass through time locks, teleport and destroy galaxies with ease.
• Stealth Mentor: To the War Doctor, to give him the chance to Take a Third Option, while being snarky and indirect.
• Time-Travel Tense Trouble: Much like Idris, she has a little trouble grasping which is past and future.
• Visual Pun: The Big Red Button to activate the weapon takes the form of a rose petal.

Handles

Handles (Eleventh Doctor)

Voiced by: Kayvan Novak (2013)

A dishevelled, disembodied Cyberman head with all of the fleshy bits cleaned out. At some point before the fateful Siege of Trenzalore, he was reprogrammed to be the Doctor's Robot Buddy. Technically counts as one of the Doctor's longest-serving companions, even though he only appears in a single Christmas episode (with a handful of further appearances in supplementary media).

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• Breakout Mook Character: A Cyberman turned one-shot companion. The producers were also getting some wear out of the "Nightmare in Silver" Cyberman redesign, which was heavily marketed throughout the 2013 series.
• Continuity Nod: What may be surprising is that Handles isn't the first Cyberman to join the Doctor as a companion — that honour goes to Kroton from the Doctor Who Magazine comic strips. Though with all of the brain matter cleared out of his cranium, Handles barely counts anymore compared to Kroton, a fully-converted (and full-bodied) Cyberman who regained human emotions and went rogue.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Averted and Played for Laughs when the Twelfth Doctor, fresh from a whopper of a regeneration, mistakes Clara for Handles in his confused haze. The short story "The Mondas Touch" also has Twelve reflect on Handles as a great companion.
• Literal-Minded: His entire Running Gag. He takes all of the Doctor's commands completely literally, namely when he attempts to remind the Doctor to patch the telephone through the console unit only two seconds after being told to do so. It later becomes a rather tragic Brick Joke, as Handles finally reminds the Doctor again shortly before he dies of old age, hundreds of years later.
• Losing Your Head: Handles was taken from one of Dorium Maldovar's reprogrammed Cyberguards. The human brain matter was cleaned out, leaving Handles 100% robotic.
• Made of Iron: While he may look rusty^note Close enough, but you're on the wrong page if you're looking for the Good Dalek, Handles can deflect wrist-blaster bolts from other Cybermen, as shown when the Doctor reluctantly uses him as a Cyberman-shield. With some regular maintenance, he also endures several hundred years of constant warfare on Trenzalore.
• Plucky Comic Relief: He gives the Doctor someone quirky to converse with in a few scenes. It's still sad when he dies.
• Plug 'n' Play Technology: The Doctor found a way to plug Handles directly into the TARDIS database by perching him on the console unit.
• Servile Snarker: For an emotionless Cyber(sans)man, he occasionally gets some wry digs in against the Doctor.
• Really 700 Years Old: He survives for around 300 years before eventually expiring due to the Doctor being unable to repair him, making him one of the Doctor's longest-serving companions. He remains by the Doctor's side during one of the longest, loneliest ordeals the Time Lord ever endured, so his death hits surprisingly hard. With that in mind, it makes sense that a confused, newly regenerated Twelfth Doctor would remember Handles' name before Clara's, considering that the Siege of Trenzalore was still fresh in his mind and Handles was beside him for several centuries out of it. Mistaking Clara for Handles, slightly less reasonable... But hey, regeneration trauma.
• Remember the New Guy?: He debuts as the Doctor's new TARDIS co-pilot in "The Time of the Doctor" without much fanfare or explanation. A companion short story revealed that the Doctor purchased him from Dorium Maldovar.
• Robot Buddy: He fills a void left by K9 as the Doctor's funny robotic companion.
• Troll: Perhaps unintentionally due to his literal-mindedness, but he teleports the Doctor to what is clearly a Dalek ship... whilst the Doctor is holding a broken bit of Dalek. The Doctor apparently didn't indicate a preferred destination. Mere minutes later, the Doctor takes Handles himself (a broken bit of Cyberman) aboard a Cyberman ship, which is met with just as much hospitality.

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Twelfth Doctor era

Danny Pink

Rupert "Danny" Pink (Twelfth Doctor)

Played by: Samuel Anderson (2014), Remi Gooding (young, 2014)

"I know men like him. I've served under them. They push you and make you stronger, till you're doing things you never thought you could. I saw you tonight. You did exactly what he told you. You weren't even scared. And you should have been."

A maths teacher at Coal Hill School, along with Clara Oswald. He is a former soldier who has trouble re-adjusting to regular civilian life. Danny is friendly, observant, and outgoing, and he and Clara hit it off quite quickly, though there were foot-in-mouth situations on both sides. Despite a disastrous first date, he and Clara become a couple. He eventually gets clued in to the Doctor, and Cock Fighting ensues.

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• Accidental Child-Killer Backstory: Accidentally shot and killed a child during his service in Afghanistan, which led him to leave the service. When Danny is killed in a car accident, and then resurrected as a Cyberman, the Doctor gives him a means of returning to life to live with Clara. Danny sacrifices this opportunity to instead restore the child he'd accidentally killed.
• Always Save the Girl: To quote Danny from "Last Christmas":
  "I died saving Clara, the rest of you just got lucky."
• Badass Normal: Manages to keep his cool after Cyber-Conversion, despite his emotional inhibitor being inactive. Note that an inactive inhibitor was enough to completely destroy Cybermen in "The Age of Steel" and "Closing Time".
• Body Horror: When Cyberman/Danny takes off his mask we see he has Cybernetic implants drilled into his forehead and cheeks. Not only that his skin is drawn out and corpse like. That's not even thinking about what the rest of his body might look like.
• Beneath the Mask: He's a professional and cheery teacher in public, but while alone with Clara, he's more willing to show that he's a sensitive and vulnerable man who didn't always have a happy or lucky life.
• Berserk Button:
  • Danny does not react well to assumptions that soldiering is mostly about killing other people. Clara was innocently insensitive to him about this when they first met, but later realised she came across as sounding prejudiced. As he pointed out to her during their first date, he worked just as much on post-war reconstruction as he worked on fighting the odd insurgent group.
    Danny: I dug 23 wells.
    Clara: I'm sorry?
    Danny: Twenty-three wells. When I was a soldier. Twenty-three!
    Clara: Okay. Good, good wells.
    Danny: Yeah they were good actually.
    Clara: I’m not doubting the quality of your wells.
    Danny: Whole villages saved. Actual towns, full of people. People I didn’t shoot. People I kept safe.
    Clara: Okay, point taken. Seriously.
    Danny: So why doesn't that ever get mentioned?
  • He isn't too fond of officers, either, believing them to be Armchair Military. This is because when Danny was ordered to secure an enemy building, he accidentally killed an innocent child inside, while his comanding officer's hands remained "clean".
  • The Doctor refusing to acknowledge even in front of Clara that Danny is a maths teacher, and insisting (albeit playfully) that he's no doubt just a PE teacher at most, is something that really annoys poor Pink. It's all the worse when you realise the Doctor is letting his odd prejudice against soldiers get the better of him and is blatantly dismissing soldiers as unintelligent grunts who only know how to take orders (combined with the Doctor being a Green-Eyed Monster over the fact Clara now had a boyfriend). This is a rare shared berserk button with Clara, who tries to stand at Danny's defence and calls the Doctor out on behaving like a jerk.
• Big Damn Kiss: Has a few with Clara, with either a funny or serious undertone to them. Their first kiss in "Listen" is gentle and careful. Both of them have just reconciled after having a series of mutual misunderstandings that evening. The kisses in "In the Forest of the Night" and "Last Christmas" play this straighter, but the former is interrupted a little by their amused pupils, and the latter occurs during their sad final farewell.
• Call-Back: In "Death in Heaven", his heroic willpower allowing him to fight off a Cyberman conversion to preserve his humanity and protect Clara as much as he can, and his plea in "Last Christmas" that Clara remember him at least once a day, are reminiscent of how Clara's doppelgänger Oswin fought off her Dalek reprogramming and tried to stay mentally human in "Asylum of the Daleks" and asked the Doctor to remember her. It's effectively a gender-flipped version.
• The Casanova: A few of the teachers call him "a real lady killer", despite his protests to the contrary. He just doesn't like to be called a killer in general.
• Character Death: Hit by a car and uploaded to the Nethersphere in "Dark Water".
• Dark and Troubled Past: He was a complete orphan from a young age, and as an adult, he later had a traumatic experience while still employed as a professional soldier.
• Deadpan Snarker: He's got a razor sharp tongue, one good enough to match the Doctor in Snark-to-Snark Combat - something aided by the fact that he's got a unique talent for getting under the Doctor's skin.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: An extremely mild version, whenever he gets in the mood to address his pupils like soldiers. Mostly Played for Laughs, except in "Death in Heaven" when he uses the same tone to address the assembled Cybermen.
• Embarrassing First Name: Considered Rupert to be one. Thanks to the Doctor and Clara, he is inspired to change it to Danny. Clara also tells kid!Danny, even before she realises it's really him, that Rupert isn't such a bad name.
• Endearingly Dorky: Extremely, in both a funny and serious way. When Clara notices by eavesdropping that he's angry at himself for being awkward in front of her, she warms up to him quickly and assures him he shouldn't feel embarrassed. When he asks her for a second date, he manages to get all the right words, but in the wrong order (because he was purposely trying to be "cool"). Clara's still eager to give him a chance, as she finds him charming and intelligent.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Clara and the Doctor time travelled to his childhood and spoke with him at length, but he doesn't remember this because the Doctor scrambled his memories of that night. At most, he remembers the dream the Doctor gave him about being "Dan the soldier man".
• Friend to All Children: Seems to have a way with children, and puts them first in his list of priorities, a fact that Clara finds attractive. It's tied to the traumatic event back in his soldiering days when he accidentally killed an innocent boy. This eventually ties into the Must Make Amends entry.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Averted. Despite the fact that he is in competition with an alien Time Lord for Clara's time — and, he suspects in "The Caretaker", et al, her affections — Danny displays little actual jealousy towards the Doctor. He's more concerned about the fact the Doctor acts like a military leader who has turned Clara into one of his soldiers, and the fact Clara lies to him about travelling with the Doctor (multiple times), than any potential romantic entanglements. In "Last Christmas", the version of Danny who appears in Clara's shared dream (who may or may not be the actual spirit of Danny) basically instructs her to let him go and move on with her life; he says this while standing next to the Doctor.
• Heroic Vow: This is a promise! The promise of a soldier! You will sleep safe tonight.
• Heartwarming Orphan: He grew up in a children's home. This gets him twice the sympathy points as an adult.
• Head Desk: His go-to response whenever something embarrassing happens is to find a desk and bang his head on it. Being a teacher, they are plenty of them in reach.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Twice in "Death in Heaven". First, Danny sacrifices his Cyberman body to stop the clouds from destroying humanity. Second, he passes up his only chance to return from the Nethersphere so the boy that he killed can come back in his place, cementing him as Killed Off for Real.
• Heroic Willpower: Most people, when confronted with their conversion into Cybermen, usually self destruct out of sheer emotional horror. Danny manages to hold on despite the pain to use his Cyber upgrades to track down and rescue Clara, as well as stay in control long enough to ask for her help.
• Insecure Love Interest: Both he and Clara are this to each other. In Danny's case, it's his hidden anguish over a mistake he made while still a professional soldier. In Clara's case, it's her decision to withhold certain things from him or tell him white lies, because she wants to avoid him fearing over her too much, or getting into danger with her and the Doctor. Then there's also the fact that both are somewhat socially awkward heroes, orphans, and can be a bit quick to anger.
• Ironic Nickname: Called a "Lady Killer" by fellow teachers. He really isn't.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy:
  • Even if his relationship with Clara is not always easy, he does genuinely care for her safety and happiness. To the point that, in "Dark Water", he's fully willing to avoid/sabotage a potential reunion with her, because he's worried it could play into the enemy's plans and endanger her life. Clara meets a dream version of Danny in "Last Christmas", and she finds it really hard to let go and would prefer to keep dreaming about their happy life together forever. Though Danny's enjoyed their final (imaginary) Christmas Eve with her, he comforts her gently and pleads that she wakes up and keeps living. She can't grieve forever, and as long as she remembers him once a day, for a few minutes, he'll be perfectly happy.
  • He also seems to be generally OK with Clara travelling with the Doctor as it clearly gives her joy — until "Kill the Moon" when it no longer does, but even then he encourages her to not end her friendship with the Doctor on a "slammed door".
• Jumped at the Call: Defied. Danny outright refuses to become a companion and would prefer Clara likewise no longer travel with the Doctor — though, to his credit, he pushes for Clara to make up her own mind on that.
• Knight in Sour Armor: It's best displayed in "In the Forest of the Night", when Clara is surprised Danny still isn't amazed by the TARDIS' capability to travel through space and time and see incredible wonders. Danny explains to her that, having lived through certain things, he's perfectly content with the little wonders of mundane life and cherishes them even more than all the unusual adventures he could have had.
• Mundanger: A former soldier, fought aliens without hesitation or fear, and how does Danny Pink die? By not paying attention when he's crossing the street, and getting hit by a car. This is lampshaded by Clara.
• Must Make Amends: What fuels his decision to give the boy he accidentally killed another chance at living, trading it for his own opportunity to return and be happily reunited with Clara. It's implied that even if he chose the latter option, the guilt over killing that child would still haunt him for the rest of his life, and he'd never be entirely happy anyway. So he does the more humane thing, though he knows all too well this will prevent him from seeing Clara again.
• Never My Fault: Averted, while he does take full responsibility for accidentally killing a child, he clearly resents the officer who sent him to attack that building in the first place.
• Nice Guy: He might have deep qualms about some traumatic experiences from his past, but he's a very nice and polite person. Though he grew outright upset about Clara's behaviour on one or two occasions, he's very forgiving and prefers to approach matters with a cool head. He seems to be OK with Clara travelling with the Doctor (even though, as per "The Caretaker" and other episodes, he suspects Clara feels more for the Time Lord than she's letting on) and in fact is more upset about being lied to about it.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Danny suggests this is precisely why the Doctor doesn't like him, as he can see that they're both soldiers, but Danny was a grunt, and the Doctor was "an officer". Ironically, they are both victims of PTSD from war; the Doctor is still haunted by what he did in the Time War, and Danny is haunted by the child he accidentally killed. This makes their slight antagonism towards each other rather tragic, since they could have probably bonded over their war-weariness under better circumstances.
• Official Couple: With Clara in Series 8. It's something of a dramedy example, as they have plenty of funny and awkward, but also genuinely sweet and touching moments while they try to overcome their differences and understand each other.
• One Head Taller: To Clara, and rather obvious, given what a short lady she is.
• Orphan's Ordeal: Clara learns in "Listen", much to her surprise, that he grew up in a children's home. She's noticeably more considerate and less snarky towards him after learning about this part of his past. Though even before she realises the little boy is really him, she attempts her best to make him stop fearing monsters from under the bed.
• Plot-Triggering Death: In "Dark Water", he dies and so Clara seeks out the afterlife to find him. This leads to Missy's Evil Plan.
• The Power of Love: His love for Clara and loyalty to her is part of what fuels his Heroic Willpower in the Series 8 finale. He's an ordinary guy, but even in the face of his own imminent, irreversible death, he doesn't give up on his loved ones.
• A Real Man Is a Killer: Openly defies the idea. Even the good-natured mention of him being a "lady killer" makes him feel wary. He was a soldier and fought like any other, but he didn't become a soldier because of thrill-seeking or wanting to kill people, but because he saw it as a duty to protect others. Though a Shell-Shocked Veteran, he's also a considerate, responsible and kind-hearted person, even after all the bad things he had to experience in his life. In the Series 8 finale, even the Doctor acknowledges Danny's bravery and dedication to protecting others from harm, and Danny's last words to Clara outright state that his heroic sacrifice is so that she and the other people in danger will be saved.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He has a razor sharp tongue and a unique talent for getting under the Doctor's skin, very quickly getting the measure of him and repeatedly needling by calling him an officer, describing (quite accurately) why he is one. Possibly the crowning example is in "Death in Heaven", when the Doctor's been making all these wonderful speeches about how Cyber!Danny is still human... then finds out that Danny needs to have the emotional inhibitor activated to fully access the Cybermen's database and get the information to defeat them and Missy.
  "Clara, watch this. This is who the Doctor is. Watch the blood-soaked old general in action." [Turns to the Doctor] "I can't see properly, sir, because this needs activating. If you want to know what's coming, you have to switch it on." *pause* "And didn't all of those beautiful speeches just disappear in the face of a tactical advantage? Sir."
• Refusal of the Call: He has no desire to see what life is like in the TARDIS, not even once. After all he's been through, he's simply content with valuing a mundane life for better or worse, though he doesn't doubt there are wonderful things to see out there in the universe. That said, in both "The Caretaker" and "Death in Heaven" he has no problem being heroic when needed.
• Retired Badass: May no longer be in the military, but he is still apparently in top form, especially given his skilled flip over the killer robot in "The Caretaker".
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: It's heavily implied from the get-go, as soon as we learn of his past career in the military. Whatever he experienced, it has left a traumatic mark on him, though one buried under his usual calm façade. In "Dark Water", we learn what the final straw was for him leaving the army.
• Single Tear: Sheds one when one of his students insensitively asks if Danny ever killed anyone who was not a soldier.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Just like Clara, Danny's confident and professional on the surface, but in more personal situations, he can act really shy and awkward, if well-meaning. His conversations with Clara during their tense and rather botched dinner date in "Listen" come off as both endearing and tear-jerking. They both get over their mess-ups by the end of the episode and reconcile in a really tender, romantic moment.
• That Came Out Wrong: His first meeting with Clara would have been Meet Cute if both of them didn't fall to this trope instead. Their first real date also goes down badly, but they are both very forgiving and gradually grow closer.
• That Man Is Dead: As said by Cyberman Danny in the season finale, Danny Pink is dead.
• Tragic Mistake: Gets hit by a car while crossing the road and dies due to his injuries. While on the phone with Clara, who was apparently trying to tell him she'll quit travelling in the TARDIS and stay with him. Ouch! A day or two later, we see a completely distraught Clara lampshading the nature of his unceremonious death to her grandmother.
  Gran: You know what you should do? You should cry. Let go.
  Clara: Of what?
  Gran: It’s a terrible thing. Just a terrible terrible thing.
  Clara: It wasn’t terrible.
  Gran: Clara?
  Clara: [completely numb] It was boring.
  Gran: Boring?
  Clara: It was ordinary. People just kept walking with their iPods and their shopping bags. He was alive and then he was dead and it was nothing. Like stepping off a bus.
• Undying Loyalty: He's very responsible when it comes to looking after his pupils, and he's deeply, lovingly loyal to Clara even when he has misgivings about her occasional odd behaviour.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Averted. The other love interests of companions — Mickey and Rory — after an initial period of resentment and frostiness eventually, ended up earning the respect and friendship of the Doctor. Danny and the Doctor never fully warmed up to each other, possibly due to friction regarding their military pasts. Danny dying didn't improve their relationship either - though there is a hint of respect from the Doctor's end, when post transformation into a Cyberman, the Doctor is aware of/suddenly understands the depth of Danny's love for Clara. Even the scene in "Last Christmas" where they treat each other respectfully exists only as a dream within Clara's mind, this reflecting what Clara would have wished they'd have been like in real life.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Danny does this to both Clara and the Doctor; Clara for lying to him repeatedly and trying to pass off the incident with the killer alien robot as a "school play", and the Doctor for seemingly treating the whole thing casually and endangering Clara.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Clara wonders where he got it. He claims it comes from having "One really bad day." When we learn why he ended his career in the military, we realise what happened on that day.

Courtney Woods

Courtney Woods (Twelfth Doctor)

Played by: Ellis George (2014)

"I'm a disruptive influence."

A "disruptive" schoolgirl at Coal Hill School, who quickly sees through the Doctor's masquerade as caretaker and gets invited aboard the TARDIS.

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• Be Careful What You Wish For: Gets upset because the Doctor told her she wasn't "special", after she threw up on her first TARDIS trip. As a result, he drags her into a lethal future crisis in which she ends up partly responsible for the lives and moral status of everyone on Earth.
• Birds of a Feather: The Doctor is a always a bit of a rascal at heart — the Twelfth in particular — and this leads him to take a liking to someone as merrily mischievous and curious as Courtney fairly quick.
• Crazy-Prepared: After her first time in the TARDIS, she brings travel sickness medication to stop herself being spacesick, and disinfectant in case the medication doesn't work.
• Future Badass: According to the Doctor, she will be President of the United States someday, which is odd considering she's British. This means that she was a) born in the US and immigrated to Britain, b) has an American citizen for a parent^note Anyone born outside the United States to an American citizen is also an American citizen, depending on whether or not specific residency requirements are met, or c) that the law requiring US Presidents to be born in the US will be repealed. (Or d) the Doctor was pulling Clara's leg about that.)
• The Gadfly: The essence of who she is as a student delinquent happens to be a knack for really bothering people.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Her motivation for stepping back on the TARDIS is to be special.
• Improvised Weapon: When one of the creatures that overran the moonbase attacks her, she does some quick thinking and defeats it with a simple disinfectant spray.
• Informed Attribute: She's described as an outright delinquent, but is never seen doing anything worse than mouthing off.
• Jumped at the Call: Second New Who recurring character to basically force herself onto the TARDIS, and the first to do so on her first discovery of it.
• Naughty Is Good: Her proud self-definition as a "disruptive influence" causes the Twelfth Doctor to view her as a potential companion. He has an affinity with her because he was always quite the troublemaker himself.
• Opt Out: Implied. After the rather upsetting events of "Kill the Moon", Courtney is never seen aboard the TARDIS again.
• Ordinary High-School Student: Just one more student at Coal Hill school who jumps into the TARDIS.
• Our Presidents Are Different: As above, the Doctor claims that she somehow becomes President of the USA (unless he was lying).
• Shipper on Deck: She is implied to have graffitied the school with revelations about Clara's and Danny's relationship.
• Shout-Out: She cheekily paraphrases Neil Armstrong's famous quote with some placeholder "thingy thing" Buffy Speak, as she didn't think of anything meaningful to say before becoming the first schoolgirl on the Moon.

Rigsy

Rigsy (Twelfth Doctor)

Played by: Joivan Wade (2014, 2015)

A young graffiti artist from Bristol. He ends up becoming Clara's companion when she is faced with dealing with the Boneless by herself. He then calls for her and the Doctor's help when another matter arises: An encounter he can't remember leaves him accused of murder and sentenced to death, and he has just hours before he must "face the raven"...

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• All There in the Manual: The script for "Face the Raven" gives his full name as Christopher Riggins.
• Chekhov's Skill: His artist skills turn out to be just what is needed to stop the Boneless. (Creating a convincing fake door causes them to try pulling it back into the 3D world. Instead, their energy restores the TARDIS and frees the trapped Doctor.)
• Heroic Sacrifice: Tries to pull one in "Flatline" by holding a dead man switch but Clara has none of it; she just uses a scrunchie for the same purpose.
• In-Series Nickname: The Doctor calls him "Local Knowledge" and "Pudding Brain".
• Survivor Guilt: Deleted material from "Face the Raven" confirms he ends up with this. In trying to save his life, the Doctor is captured and sent away to parts unknown and Clara is dead as a result of what turned out to be a wholly Senseless Sacrifice. To make matters worse, said deleted material reveals he, by default, is tasked with informing Clara's friends, family, and associates of her death and making sure her body is properly handled back in the outside world. The Stinger of the episode shows him turning the now-abandoned TARDIS into a memorial to her via graffiti. And a deleted scene shows him breaking down in Manly Tears when he gets back home and greets his girlfriend. (One can only hope that post-"Hell Bent" either the Doctor or Clara lets him know that things didn't end up as bad as they might have been.)
• Your Days Are Numbered: In "Face the Raven" — and Clara might have to take his place if there's any hope of saving him.

Santa Claus

Santa Claus (Twelfth Doctor)

Played by: Nick Frost (2014)

"Now, what do you want for Christmas?"

The bringer of gifts at Christmas! He comes into the Twelfth Doctor's life to help him and Clara (who have parted ways via mutual, well-meant lies) in The Stinger of the Series 8 finale. From here, he helps the characters fight against the dream crabs in the following Christmas Episode. An earlier Christmas special established that the Doctor has met someone claiming to be Santa before.

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• All Just a Dream: His appearance in "Last Christmas" is due to the characters being stuck in a dream crab-induced dream. Santa represents their collective subconscious trying to help them escape the dream crabs' mental traps. This would explain the Doctor's surprise at the Nick Frost incarnation of Santa, because he's met the "real" Santa ("Or as I've always know him, Jeff"). However, the last scene implies that he might be real after all.
• Big Fun: Fat, cuddly, and full of festive cheer. Being played by Nick Frost helps.
• Deadpan Snarker: He's one of the few people who can snark on the Doctor's level.
• Fun Personified: Though a snarky, cynical version, he's still as jovial as he can get away with.
• I Have Many Names: Santa Claus. Father Christmas. Jeff.
• Ironic Echo:
  The Doctor: How do you get all the presents on the sleigh?
  Santa: It's bigger on the inside.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: For Doctor Who's standard of "mundane" anyway. Santa Claus is probably just a "gestalt dream construct" created by the subconscious minds of the dream crab victims, but the final shot of the episode implies he actually could be real in some way. Santa himself points out that, even if he isn't real, that doesn't stop him from inspiring generosity and bringing hope to others.
• Noodle Incident: The Eleventh Doctor, Santa "Jeff" Claus and Albert Einstein were all hanging out in Frank Sinatra's hunting lodge in 1952, for some reason.
• Primary-Color Champion: Nick Frost's Santa has a more traditionally heroic vibe about him and of course is all red and white, a sharp contrast against the Doctor's blue TARDIS and black clothes.
• Snark-to-Snark Combat: The Doctor and Santa have this dynamic, especially since Santa tends to take the Doctor's usual role away from him.
  The Doctor: No, no, no, Santa does not do the explanations!
  • There's a bit of real life subtext to the Doctor and Santa's testosterone-fuelled competitiveness: the Doctor has become something of a Folk Hero and, thanks to the annual Christmas specials since the 2005 revival, has become popularly associated with the holiday. It's only natural that Santa gets a bit defensive about "his" holiday when the two finally clash onscreen.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Tangerines. They're his "signature gift", and Santa gets very annoyed when he's told no one actually likes them. But he still leaves one on Clara's windowsill after she and the Doctor run away together.
• Unexpected Character: Although he was offhandedly mentioned by the Eleventh Doctor in "A Christmas Carol", there were zero hints he would actually appear, and the Doctor seems surprised to see him just as much as the audience is!

Bors

Bors (Twelfth Doctor)

Played by: Daniel Hoffman-Gill (2015)

"Come on, dude."

A tough axe-wielding warrior from 12th century Essex who befriends the Twelfth Doctor during his brief self-imposed exile. He appeared in "The Magician's Apprentice" and the prequel minisode "The Doctor's Meditation".

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• Affectionate Nickname: He calls the Doctor "Magician" and "Sir Doctor".
• Antiquated Linguistics: Averted, he unexpectedly speaks with anachronistic modern slang like "dude" after being taught it by the Doctor.
• Beleaguered Assistant: He reluctantly helps the Doctor build several wells, an extension to the throne room and a visitor centre. It's quite similar to the role Nardole would take on a permanent basis.
• The Big Guy: He's a big, burly lad, though the Doctor could supposedly defeat him with a daffodil.
• Dumbass Has a Point: He correctly deduces that the Doctor is using humour to cover his fear and that he's clearly putting off some dreadful destiny.
• Fat Idiot: He's a portly chap and doesn't seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed. That said, he often seems to be the voice of reason compared to the procrastinating Cloud Cuckoo Lander that is the Doctor.
• Gladiator Games: He's an arena fighter who entertains the local townsfolk. The Doctor thoroughly upstages him every time they duel.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: He doesn't deny that he's an idiot and doesn't seem to see it as an insult.
• Hot-Blooded: He's eager to accompany the Doctor to meet whatever threat is in store. Unfortunately, he never gets a chance to.
• Manchurian Agent: He's revealed to be a Dalek Puppet in "The Magician's Apprentice", though how long he was undercover is unclear. Steven Moffat clarified that he only turned into one after Colony Sarff bit him.
• Manly Facial Hair: He has a large ginger beard, suiting his role as The Big Guy.
• Undying Loyalty: Exaggerated, he pledged his life to the Doctor after the wise Time Lord saved his life... from a splinter.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The Doctor playing electric guitar while riding a tank barely phases him or the spectating townsfolk after he'd been doing the same thing all week.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: One of the snakes that composes Colony Sarff bites and infects Bors with nanogenes, turning him into a Dalek Puppet and effectively killing him.

Grant Gordon

Grant Gordon/The Ghost (Twelfth Doctor)

Played by: Justin Chatwin (2016)

"Please understand, it's against my personal code to cause lasting harm to any individual. However, light to moderate injury is fine."

A New Yorker who first met the Doctor at the age of 8, where, due to a misunderstanding, he swallowed a reality-warping Power Crystal and was granted superpowers like those of his favourite comic-book superheroes. Twenty years later, he met the Doctor again as he was investigating a mysterious alien threat.

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• Alliterative Name: In true superhero fashion, Grant Gordon.
• Ascended Fanboy: Was a fan of superheroes, and then became one. About as straight an example as you can get.
• Blatant Lies: The Doctor makes him promise never to use his superpowers. Yeah, right...
• Bridal Carry: Does this to Lucy — who's not complaining.
• Bruce Wayne Held Hostage: Grant gets held hostage by the Harmony Shoal, who are attempting to draw out the Ghost.
• Clark Kenting: Naturally, his Love Interest doesn't see through it.
• Deadpan Snarker: When informed that the window he broke through is able to withstand incredible force, his response is:
  The Ghost: I'm sorry. Would you like me to call a glazier?
• Declaration of Protection: "No one touches that baby!"
• Distracted by the Sexy: Lucy's, when she puts on the little red dress for their "interview."
• Emotional Bruiser: He's a very sweet fellow, even in costume, though he does have his deadpan moments.
• Expy: In-universe, the Hazandra made him into one of Superman. Also a Superman Substitute.
• Finger-Snap Lighter: Does this to light a candle.
• Friend to All Children: Almost as much as the Doctor.
• Flying Brick: He's got Flight, Super-Speed, Super-Strength, and Super-Toughness.
• Genre Savvy: Naturally, since he read so many comic books as a kid.
• Loophole Abuse: He lampshades the loopholes of typical superhero moral codes after sending one of the Shoal flying with a palm strike, saying that while he doesn't kill, causing "light-to-moderate injury" is fine in his book.
• Mundane Utility: Lights a candle with a snap of his fingers, and uses his Super-Speed to check up on Lucy, and when he's out patrolling when he's also baby-sitting, respond to anything on the baby monitor - as he points out, he can get across the city faster than most people can get from one room to another.
• Mistaken for Gay: As Lucy points out, he flies around in black leather with a giant letter "G" on his chest.
• Nice Guy: Grant is a genuinely sweet man and Friend to All Children. No wonder the Doctor likes him so much.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: A well-established superhero already by the time he meets the Doctor again.
• Power Perversion Potential: Having X-ray vision in high school was... interesting due to Power Incontinence making it difficult to control. Though he doesn't seem to be especially happy about it at first (probably because he can't pick and choose), complaining that he's in "Hell. Naked hell."
• Reality Warper: A low-level one, thanks to the Hazandra. Precisely how powerful is unclear, but it turns him into a powerful Flying Brick, and it may or may not have created Lucy, his Lois Lane Expy Love Interest.
• Retired Badass: Declares his intention to hang up the cape... but keeps the suit, just in case. A later comic adventure reveals that this didn't last very long.
• Serious Business: The Doctor chides him on leaving a baby alone, although Grant had a baby monitor on his belt and can return at Super-Speed.
• Shrouded in Myth: Lucy's heard of him, but doesn't think he's real.
• Superhero Sobriquets: The Ghost.
• Superheroes Wear Capes: Probably an invoked case.
• Superman Substitute: Grant is an Ascended Fanboy, the gem granting him the classic Superman powerset along with a few extras while his costume resembles the Man of Steel. While based on Superman, he's more of a homage to the superhero genre and has similarities with Batman (his dark costume and being Shrouded in Myth) and Spider-Man (Alliterative Name and gaining his powers through chance).
• Super-Senses: X-ray vision and super-hearing.
• Super-Strength: Enough to hold up a spaceship with one hand.
• Real Men Wear Pink: A superhero who also works as a nanny.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Readily states as The Ghost that he lives by this code.
• Took a Level in Badass: Went from a sick kid to a powerful Flying Brick/low level Reality Warper.
• Two First Names: According to promotional materials, his last name is "Gordon", though this is never mentioned on-screen. This is also very common in DC Comics^note  the company that publishes Superman.

Heather

Heather / The Pilot (Twelfth Doctor)

Played by: Stephanie Hyam (2017)

"Everywhere I go, I just want to leave."

A student at St. Luke's University, Heather is marked by her unusual deformity, a star-shaped defect on her left iris, her shyness and isolation leads her to a remote corner of the facility where she discovers an unusual, non-drying puddle that reflects images without flipping them.

As her fascination with the puddle grows, so does the puddle's fascination with her...

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• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: The alien puddle turns her into a Pilot, a being able to almost instantly travel far through time and space at will, leave others with her tears to locate them later and turn other beings into a Pilot like her.
• The Bus Came Back: She returns in "The Doctor Falls" to rescue Bill and the Doctor from the Mondasian Colony Ship.
• Eye Motifs: Her left eye possesses a star-shaped defect located in the iris.
• Fusion Dance: The puddle ends up being a alien entity made out of fuel left behind by a spaceship that landed on Earth long ago, it requires a willing organic component to reactivate and leave for the stars once more, luckily Heather's wishes of "getting away" seem to meet that criteria.
• Internal Homage: Named Heather after Heather Hartnell, wife of William Hartnell (known as "Bill" to his family).
• Preserve Your Gays: Initially, it appeared that fusing with the alien puddle had killed her and stripped her of most of her humanity, her promise to always be by Bill the last vestige of her former self, still driving her. However, when she finally returns, it seems as if the hybrid organism has stabilized quite a bit, and still retains all of Heather's humanity, memories, drives, and passions.
• Put on a Bus: She disappears after the events of Series 10's "The Pilot".
• Reality Warper: To a degree, she points out that she can rearrange atoms like it's nothing and so could make Bill human again and send her back to Earth whenever the latter wants.
• Swiss-Army Tears: It turns out when she left Bill in "The Pilot", she left her tears with Bill, explaining how cyber-converted!Bill could still cry and helping her locate Bill when she and the Doctor needed her help the most.

The Captain

Captain Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart (First and Twelfth Doctors)

Played by: Mark Gatiss (2017)

A British captain from the First World War that finds himself in Antarctica in the 1980s all of a sudden... then walks in on two men arguing about how they're the same man.

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• All-Loving Hero: Mildly sexist he may be, in line with the time he comes from, but he offers without hesitation to trade his life for a black woman he's never even met, and tells the German soldier facing him (though of course the man doesn't understand him) that he doesn't want to shoot him.
• All There in the Manual: Steven Moffat intended the Captain to be the Brigadier's grandfather. According to Henry Lincoln and the Haisman estate (who own the character and publish the spin-off Lethbridge-Stewart series), the Captain was the Brig's great-uncle, and his brother Alastair is the Brigadier's namesake grandfather. A compromise was agreed upon to solve the conflict, in the form of a free story which establishes, or at least strongly (and deliberately) implies, that the Captain is, in fact, both the Brigadier's great-uncle and his biological grandfather due to having an affair with his sister-in-law.
• Badass Family: Ancestor of Alistair and Kate Stewart.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: His sexism is according to the values of his time and society — though if anything, he's probably less sexist to Bill than a member of the WWI British officer class would be expected to be, and shows no signs of the expected racism.
• Fish out of Water: He's a World War I officer stranded in the Antarctic, caught in the middle of two strange doctors claiming to be the same person, a box bigger on the inside and some seemingly malevolent glass people.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: And who can blame him, after everything he's been through?
• In the Blood: An Officer and a Gentleman with a 'stache covering a Stiff Upper Lip, as well as having Nerves of Steel and a not-so-Hidden Heart of Gold? Very much like his grandson and, indeed, his great-granddaughter.
• Officer and a Gentleman: Much like the Brigadier.
• Overly Long Name: Like his descendent, the Captain prefers going by his full name, including his rank and middle name.
• The Soft-Hearted Warrior: Calmly tries to explain to the German soldier in the bomb crater with him that he has no desire to shoot him. Thanks to a little intervention by The Doctor, he doesn't have to.
• Stiff Upper Lip: Tries his best to stay calm in the face of trouble, and even offers freely to go to his death if it will help save the others.

Thirteenth Doctor era

Grace O'Brien

Grace O'Brien (Thirteenth Doctor)

Played by: Sharon D. Clarke (2018)

A nurse who resides in Sheffield, she's Graham's wife and Ryan's grandmother, and along with them gets unexpectedly involved in the Doctor's life.

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• Animal Motif: Frogs, in "It Takes You Away". Grace has a liking towards frogs and treasures a frog necklace that Graham gave her. In the ending, the Solitract takes the form of a talking frog with Grace's voice.
• Cool Old Lady: Seriously, you can't get any cooler than fighting aliens.
• Expy: Embraces and seems to love the danger of running with the Doctor, and eventually dies because of her choice to help others, just like Clara.
• Florence Nightingale Effect: She was Graham's chemo nurse when they met.
• Good Parents: Dotes on her grandson and tries to teach him how to ride a bike in spite of his disability.
• Happily Married: Graham is her second husband, but she dotes on him constantly in public.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Died falling off a crane trying to stop an alien monster from bringing it down, saving the lives of Yaz and her grandson Ryan.
• Jumped at the Call: She really jumps at the chance to help the Doctor and fight aliens, but she dies before the Doctor can invite her to join the TARDIS.
• One-Steve Limit: Noticeably shares the first name of Eight's only TV companion.
• The Paragon: Grace was recognised for her kindness and altruism. When she dies, Graham frequently talks about her and often references her moral compass when making a decision. In "It Takes You Away", Graham rejects the false Grace when she immediately loses concern for Ryan's safety, noting that Grace would never say something like that and would lead the charge to rescue Ryan.
• Parental Substitute: Has been one for Ryan, since his mum passed away and his dad is a deadbeat.
• Posthumous Character: Even though she dies in "The Woman Who Fell to Earth", Ryan and Graham bring her up frequently afterwards, mentioning both their loss, and how Grace would have reacted to the situations they find themselves in.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Definitely more energetic than her husband, and more willing to go into danger despite his grumpy and sardonic objections.
• Thrill Seeker: She adapts to the danger of being caught in the Doctor's life a little too well.
  Grace: Is it wrong to be enjoying this?
  Graham: Yes!
  Grace: [giggles]

The Khan family

The Khan family (Thirteenth Doctor)

Najia Khan played by: Shobna Gulati

Hakim Khan played by: Ravin J. Ganatra

Sonya Khan played by: Bhavnisha Parmar

The family of Yasmin "Yaz" Khan, they are unaware of who the Doctor really is or why Yaz has been away on "secondments" so often recently.

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• Conspiracy Theorist: Hakim, to the exasperation of his wife and daughters.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: In both "Arachnids in the UK" and "Spyfall", Hakim actually manages to be correct about something weird happening having a connection to a conspiracy of some kind: illegal garbage dumping in the former, and the family's mysterious paralysis during the enactment of Daniel Barton's plan in the latter.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Sonya is first mentioned in the context of her apparently attempting to get Yaz to move out so she can have her bedroom.
• Lethal Chef: Hakim apparently makes terrible pakora.
• Locked Out of the Loop: By "Spyfall", Yaz has been travelling with the Doctor and covering it up by claiming she's going on various secondments for over a year. All of them have met the Doctor at least once, but have no idea what's really going on.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Apparently, Sonya has a crush on Ryan, but Yaz refuses to encourage it.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: Sonya is never seen without her smartphone.

Karvanista

Karvanista (Fugitive and Thirteenth Doctors)

Played by: Craige Els (2021)

"You're insignificant, irrelevant and utterly meaningless."

A grouchy but noble (and cute) warrior of the dog-like Lupari race. Karvanista and the rest of his kind have a species-bond with humanity, making them honour-bound to shield planet Earth when the destructive entropy wave known as the Flux begins ravaging the universe. Karvanista's designated human to protect is Dan Lewis, a match made in Hell.

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• Aliens of London: He inexplicably has a thick Liverpudlian accent. Conveniently, he lands in Liverpool and meets arch-Scouser Dan Lewis.
• Badass Adorable: He looks like an overgrown terrier, but dare to compare him to one and he'll kick your arse.
• Canine Companion:
  • The dog-like Lupari are this to the entire human race due to their ancient species-bond. All seven billion Lupari arrive to protect seven billion humans and their interlocking ships actually manage to shield Earth from the Flux.
  • And a literal version with Karvanista; the Doctor belatedly realises he was one of her companions, from a life she doesn't remember. Like other companions the Doctor abandoned, he's understandably bitter about this.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Do not under any circumstances mock his mother. Dan found this out the hard way.
• Explosive Leash: There's a device in his head that will kill him if he discusses the Doctor, explaining why he's really not interested in meeting her at the start of the season. We're not told if the Division implanted it to protect their secrets, or Karvanista had it implanted to stop himself from being forced to give up the Doctor under torture.
• Jedi Mind Trick: For whatever reason, Dan is completely unaffected by Karvanista's attempt to hynotise him to his will.
• Last of His Kind: Becomes this after the Sontarans kill the rest of the Lupari.
• Meaningful Name: His name seems to be a portmanteau derived from the Finnish words for fur, "karva", and the scruff of the neck, "niska". The latter is often used as a cutesy diminutive name for pet dogs.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: The Doctor and Yaz initially assume that he and the Lupari are trying to conquer Earth. As it turns out, they're trying to save it. Karvanista doesn't help his case by seemingly gloating about Earth's coming destruction, trying to kill the Doctor and Yaz with a variety of lethal booby traps, and generally coming across as a dodgy character.
• Proud Warrior Race: The Lupari are a fearsome warrior race, though they're much nobler than the Sontarans, to give one example. Karvanista claims to have vanquished the Thousand Civilisations, whatever that is.
• Puny Earthlings: He doesn't think highly of humans, particularly Dan, whom he views as an annoying waste of space. However, he is honour-bound to protect them. As he says, it's his job to save humanity, but he doesn't have to like them.
• Really 700 Years Old: He was an active agent for the Division alongside the Fugitive Doctor in the distant past and worked alongside her to capture Swarm. Assuming there are no timey-wimey elements involved and that this is indeed before the First Doctor's era (aka the beginning of the franchise), this implies that he's much older than he looks.
• Remember the New Guy?: Justified with him as he's part of The Doctor's backstory before her memory was erased but his race is bonded to humanity and will step in when we're in danger but we're never mentioned the countless other times Earth was attacked.
• Sole Survivor: He's the last known surviving agent of the Division that the Doctor can track down after the Master ravaged Gallifrey, besides the Doctor herself. Over the course of the series, however, plenty of other Division agents emerge from the woodwork, including a squad of Weeping Angels and Tecteun.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Dan do not get on well at all, but beneath the harsh banter and insults, it's clear that they come to respect one another after working together to defeat the Sontarans.
• Walking Armory: Karvanista has a large assortment of strange alien tech up his sleeve, including a glowing axe that doubles as a plasma gun, a flying gravity bar, a mind control device, and a booby trap that can instantly shrink an object as large as a house down to a pocket-sized nugget.
• Your Costume Needs Work: Dan mistakes him for a trick or treater the first time they meet.

Joseph Williamson

Joseph Williamson (Thirteenth Doctor)

Played by: Steve Oram (2021)

An eccentric philanthropist from the 19th century responsible for creating a seemingly purposeless network of tunnels beneath the city of Liverpool.

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• Apocalypse Cult: He creates the Williamson Tunnels in the hope of sheltering people from the upcoming apocalypse, which he saw during his travels in time. Unfortunately they aren't completed in time and wouldn't have worked anyway, but give him points for trying.
• Chekhov's Gun: His tunnels prove to be important plot devices later in Series 13.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He's an eccentric and intense fellow who doesn't seem particularly bothered by his constant space-time hopping.
• Historical Domain Character: Joseph Williamson and his mysterious tunnels really exist. As far as we know, he did not use his tunnel network to travel through time and space, but their true purpose is a subject of academic speculation to this day.
• The Omnipresent: He's somehow everywhere at once, and even he doesn't seem to fully understand it. He appears in his tunnels in the 1800s, in the Temple of Atropos on planet Time, on a cruise ship in 1904, and so on.
• Portal Crossroad World: His tunnels turn out to serve this purpose, allowing him to pop up in seemingly random locations across the universe.
• They Called Me Mad!: He's called the Mad Mole in his own time and has a chip on his shoulder about it. When he realises Yasmin is aware of the upcoming apocalypse as well he's visibly moved at finally meeting someone who believes him.

Vinder

Inston-Vee Vinder (Thirteenth Doctor)

Played by: Jacob Anderson (2021-2022)

An Observation Outpost officer assigned to watch over a seemingly dull, uneventful area of space, until the Flux arrives and begins destroying planets. Before being demoted to his current role, he was once assigned to protect a V.I.P. known as the Grand Serpent.

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• Combat Pragmatist: In a universe where both heroes and villains are fond of big speeches and declarations of intent, he opts to simply shoot the problem on the spot.
• Four-Star Badass: He's a courageous soldier decorated highly for his valour in battle, but his talents are wasted in his current job.
• Good Is Not Soft: After being taunted by the Master that the Doctor doesn't like people using guns, Vinder just shoots him, saying that he's freelance, and therefore not with the Doctor.
• Human Alien: He looks human but comes from another planet, in 2021.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He attempts to inform his superior officers about the Grand Serpent's plan to assassinate the family of his political enemy, but gets demoted for his trouble and packed off to a glorified desk job in deep space.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Or perhaps one of those fire-watch towers in the Canadian wilderness — gorgeous scenery, but little contact with the outside world and nothing to do, until disaster strikes.
• Soul-Crushing Desk Job: What being an Observation Outpost officer amounts to, though being able to bask in the majesty of the universe isn't such a bad punishment.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Bel, the mother of his child. As they were deployed separately, they barely spent any time together until the Flux screwed the universe up, but Bel is on a mission to find Vinder again.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: A mentality that he possesses that the Doctor most certainly does not share, but when dealing with someone like the Master, tends to work out for the better.
• Your Worst Memory: When he is flung back through his own timestream, he is forced to relive several painful memories, including his time as a bodyguard to the Grand Serpent and subsequent demotion.

Bel

Bel (Thirteenth Doctor)

Played by: Thaddea Graham (2021)

A young woman trekking across the universe, or what's left of it in the aftermath of the Flux, for her lost lover.

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• Action Girl: Oh yes. Onscreen, she dispatches an entire Cyberman squadron by herself and later contends evenly with veteran Division agent Karvanista. Justified as, like Vinder, she's a trained soldier and pilot from their world's military.
• Action Survivor: She survives the initial Flux event, which destroys most of the universe. What's more impressive is the fact that she survives the ensuing onslaught of Daleks, Cybermen and Sontarans all vying for the last crumbs of the pie.
• Aliens of London: A Human Alien, but speaks in a Northern Irish accent.
• Human Alien: She looks human but comes from another planet, in 2021.
• The Power of Love: She crosses planet after planet to find Vinder, destroying entire armies that get in her way. When a dying Cyberman dismisses love as not a mission, she replies that it's the only mission.
• Pregnant Badass: She accomplishes all these crazy feats while pregnant with Vinder's child.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Vinder. As they were deployed separately, they barely spent any time together until the Flux screwed the universe up, but Bel is on a mission to find Vinder again.

Claire Brown

Claire Brown (Thirteenth Doctor)

Played by: Annabel Scholey (2021)

A troubled young woman stalked by Weeping Angels. She approaches the Doctor during the Halloween Apocalypse as though they already know each other, but the Doctor does not recognise her. Claire then gets sent back to the 1960s by a Weeping Angel and becomes a guinea pig for Professor Jericho's experiments.

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• Demonic Possession: She is essentially possessed by the Rogue Weeping Angel, which has embedded itself within her subconscious mind in order to hide from the rest of its own kind.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: When we meet her again in the '60s, she has a fashionable bob cut of the time.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: She gets flung back from 2021 to the 1960s by an Angel.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: The Weeping Angel possessing her is a renegade on the run from both its own kind and the Division, the Gallifreyan organisation responsible for the Doctor's brainwashing. The Doctor, understandably, has difficulty trusting it thanks to her track record with Angel encounters. Unfortunately, the Rogue Angel betrays the Doctor to the rest of its kind after the other Angels decide that the Doctor is the more valuable target.
• Time-Travel Tense Trouble: She has this difficulty as she appears to already know the Doctor well without the Doctor knowing her, insinuating that the Doctor will meet Claire later in her personal timestream, similar to River Song. However, it turns out that Claire merely has psychic visions of the past and future due to the Weeping Angel hiding inside her.

Professor Jericho

Professor Eustacious Jericho (Thirteenth Doctor)

Played by: Kevin McNally (2021)

A World War II veteran and parapsychologist who works in Medderton, a small English village notorious for its population mysteriously vanishing every few decades.

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• Adventure Archaeologist: He aids Yaz and Dan in raiding an ancient temple for a MacGuffin.
• Badass Boast: The Doctor warned him about the Weeping Angels' weakness and despite their attempts at intimidating him, he holds them off for a while.
  Professor : (pointing his finger at a full row of angels) You stop right there! You are being observed. And that is my power over you.

And another excellent one when facing down the Sontarans and The Flux.

Professor : I, sir, am Professor Eustacious Jericho, scourge of scoundrels!

• Deadpan Snarker: Enough to keep up with Yaz, Dan, and the Doctor in Snark-to-Snark Combat.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Jericho has it slightly easier than Yaz and Dan since he is at least from the 20th century, but as a man from 1967, it is still extremely jarring for him to be stuck in 1904. It doesn't help that he has knowledge of everything that happens in the next few decades, namely the two World Wars that are to come.
• For Science!: He prioritises his experiments for scientific discovery above his own safety at times, a trait that the Doctor actually admires.
• Gentleman Adventurer: After being stranded in the Edwardian era, he joins Yaz and Dan in their globetrotting adventures to find a way back to their own timezones. He seems to enjoy the opportunity to act as a dashing, pulpy adventure hero that he likely would have grown up reading about.
• Honorary True Companion: Despite not being billed as an official companion, he spends nearly as much time as Dan adventuring with the Doctor, and definitely more than Wilfred Mott did. For what it's worth, the Doctor never treats him as anything less, and deeply mourns his Heroic Sacrifice.
• Nerves of Steel: This old soldier never loses his cool, even in the face of Sontarans and Weeping Angels! As he notes, he saw the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp up close; pretty much everything after that is small fry.
• Overly Long Name: The Doctor lampshades that his full name could get a load of points in a game of Scrabble.
• The Professor: Specialising in parapsychology.

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Fourteenth Doctor era

Rose Noble

Rose Noble (Fourteenth Doctor)

Played by: Yasmin Finney (2023)

"Sometimes I think I'm from a different planet. That's what other people say."

The teenage daughter of Donna Noble and Shaun Temple.

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• Affirmative-Action Legacy: The mixed race daughter and great-granddaughter of Caucasian former companions Donna Noble and Wilfred Mott.
• Friend to All Living Things: Immediately decides to help take care of the Meep, a strange creature from space she doesn't know from a hole in the wall, the moment she meets the Meep, and makes sure the Doctor doesn't assume how the Meep identifies.
• Genetic Memory: She inherited the Metacrisis from Donna and thus has the wisps of the Tenth Doctor's memories. Her shack resembles the Tardis, her homemade plushies are based off of various aliens encountered throughout the show, and her choosing the name "Rose" after transitioning is implied to be subconsciously influenced by the Doctor's memories of Rose Tyler.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Has made a small business of creating and selling plushies online.
• Honorary Uncle: Inverted. Fourteen declares her his honorary niece as a sign of how close he and Donna's family are and she happily accepts this.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: Takes her mother's last name instead of her father's, is kind to ailing creatures, and comes in at the last minute to save the day.
• Meaningful Rename: Donna's daughter is named Rose, which is particularly significant since instead of coming from Donna, she chose the name for herself as part of transitioning. This ties into the reveal that she inherited some of her mother's Meta-Crisis energy and thus likely named herself after a subconscious memory of Rose Tyler.
  • Her deadname, Jason, carries the meaning of the word "healer", foreshadowing her connection with the Doctor's memories.
• Significant Name Overlap: Shares the same name as one of the Doctor's closest companions, which immediately catches his attention. It's heavily implied to be due to subconsciously possessing the Doctor's memories as a result of inheriting the Metacrisis.
• Trans Tribulations: Her family have entirely accepted her gender identity (although Sylvia does have some trouble knowing exactly how to compliment her without being insulting) but she still has to deal with transphobic bullying from the other kids at her school. She puts on a brave face for her mother, but privately admits to The Meep that she sometimes feels like an outsider who doesn't belong on Earth at all.
• Twofer Token Minority: She's mixed race, transgender, and possibly part Time Lord.

Fifteenth Doctor era

Carla Sunday

Carla Sunday (Fifteenth Doctor)

Played by: Michelle Greenbridgr (2023)

Ruby Sunday’s foster mother.

• Children Raise You: Carla is a sweet nurturing woman, but when Ruby is retgonned, she becomes a bitter borderline Child Hater who fosters solely for the money. She’s returned to her old self once Ruby is restored. This goes to show that raising Ruby is what made Carla who she is.