History Characters / DoctorWhoSixthDoctor

* IHatePastMe: In "Sirens of Time", Six calls Five "tediously noble". To his face. However, in "The 100 Days of the Doctor", he finally cracks under duress and admits to Evelyn that he did actually enjoy his time as the Fifth Doctor, describing having been him like "being on holiday... a very wonderful holiday." He also confesses that his animosity towards that period of his life is not really aimed at Five himself, but rather how the universe treated him back then.
** Also played with in [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho169TheWrongDoctors "The Wrong Doctors"]], where you have the Sixth Doctor encounter... [[invoked]][[ActingForTwo the Sixth Doctor]]. The Sixth Doctor who's already been through his big emotional Big Finish StoryArc (distinguished by his blue outfit and calmer dialogue) finds his younger self to be pretty annoying.

* TorturePorn: "Jubilee" sees him broken more thoroughly than ''any'' other Doctor in ''any'' episode. In the alternate timeline he loses his mind, his [[spoiler: best friend and his legs]], and that's just the start of it. When the Evelyn from the original timeline meets him, she is shaken to the core, and the memory flashes of the merged timelines hit Six, he's none too well adjusted to them.

->''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure "Change...I feel it...yes. I]] '''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure WILL]]''' [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure regenerate...!]] '''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure Our future...is in safe hands..."]]'''''

However, while he was becoming a better person, he encountered his antithesis, [[EvilMeScaresMe the Valeyard]], who tried many times to seize everything the Doctor had for himself, until a day came when one of his overarching plans succeeded. Six, trapped in the Matrix with no escape and the company of a triumphant Valeyard, decided to cut his own life short and steer his younger self toward Lakertya, despite a warning that something was producing deadly radiation nearby. His TARDIS came under attack by the Rani as she pelted it with beams from a radiation gun, which didn't hurt humans but was lethal to Time Lords. Six got a glimpse of [[Characters/DoctorWhoSeventhDoctor his next self]] as he regenerated, and the version of him in the Matrix faded away, leaving the Valeyard robbed of victory and trapped inside.

->''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E3TerrorOfTheVervoids "Vesti la guibba e la faccia..."]]''
->''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe "Carrot juice, carrot juice, carrot juice!"]]''

->''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe "Carrot juice, carrot juice, carrot juice!"]]''
->''(...)''

* ArchEnemy: The Valeyard, who prosecuted him during his trials and later turns out to be an evil future incarnation (or at least offshoot) of himself.
** The Sixth Doctor also runs into Time Lord antagonists -- within the Gallifreyan society as well as fellow renegades -- more often than his other incarnations. This culminates in his furious outburst against his own people at his own trial, decrying them as corrupt, decadent, and rotten to the core.

* ArchEnemy: The audios give further development to the animosity the Sixth Doctor had with Davros and the Valeyard in the television series. The Valeyard even serves as the FinalBoss of the Sixth Doctor's life.

* RoguesGallery: Mestor, Cybermen, the Cyber-Controller, Sil the Mentor, the Master, the Rani, Chessene of the Franzine Grig, Shockeye of the Quawncing Grig, Sontarans, the Borad, Davros, Daleks, the Valeyard, and Vervoids.

* RoguesGallery: Axos, Beth Pernell, Carrionites, the Celestial Toymaker, Cybermen, Daleks, Daniel Hopkins, Davros, the Eminence, Ice Warriors, Joe Carnaby, Josiah W. Dogbolter, Krotons, Myriads, the Rani, Dr. Robert Knox, Silurians, Sil the Mentor, Sontarans, William Abberton, Wirrn, the Wishing Beast, the Valeyard, and Viyrans.

The [[ItsAllAboutMe prideful]], [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness verbose]] naysayer with a HiddenHeartOfGold and [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes the dress sense of a BBC test card]]. The Sixth Doctor [[DarkerAndEdgier was a darker and certainly more unstable Doctor, more suited for a hard and chaotic universe]] than [[Characters/DoctorWhoFifthDoctor his previous self]], and his default emotions were righteous indignation or smug self-satisfaction. He wore a multicoloured coat (which to this day is quite possibly the most visually distinctive outfit the Doctor has worn, for better or for worse - perhaps it was a midlife crisis?) and wasn't averse to fisticuffs or murder to get out of a desperate fix.

* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Want to know what happens when there's an explosion in a patchwork quilt factory? Well, here's your answer! The shirt and suspenders were inherited from Five, the hair and the Hawaiian vest seem to be directly lifted from producer [[Creator/JohnNathanTurner John Nathan-Turner]], and Six goes for broke with the coat-shaped quilt, a white dress shirt with question marks on the lapels and checked red sleeve cuffs, a polka-dotted aquamarine or red cravat / mustard yellow with a purple starfield cravat tied in a droopy bow, various clashing vests (asymmetrical rainbow patterns with bars on one side and zigzags on the other, red and white plaid with teddy bear buttons, a pattern of diagonal spangling stripes of violet, blue, cerulean, and green) with strange coloured fobs pinned on, the lemonade pants, scarlet socks, the green loafers adorned with traffic cone orange spats, and a variety of cat badges. As a inside joke on the Doctor's post-regeneration makeovers, it's brilliant parody. (It becomes less funny when the Doctor continues to wear it.)

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* LimitedWardrobe: A garish, clashing outfit of black and yellow striped trousers, a multicoloured waistcoat, and a patchwork coat which defies description. The production notes for the series at the time specified a "totally tasteless costume". Newer webcasts and remakings of older episodes have replaced the amazing technicolor dreamcoat into a more muted (and more easily drawn) blue ensemble which has proven popular with fans who thought the striking colours distracting.
** He was referred to as "Creator/TheBBC Colour Test Man", and Colin Baker himself described it as "an explosion in a rainbow factory".
** Slightly averted in "The Trial of a Time Lord", in which he started using a few different waistcoats and ties. This was done to distinguish the different past, present, and future time periods in the stories and the season's Law Procedural framing story.

* ChangedMyJumper: Averted in ''Players'', ''The Shadow in the Glass'' and ''Blue Box'', when the Doctor changes into more conventional attire as part of a long-term investigation into current events (although in ''Blue Box'' he returns to his regular attire as soon as the situation escalates).

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->''"[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure Change...I feel it...yes. I]] '''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure WILL]]''' [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure regenerate...!]] '''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure Our future...is in safe hands]]'''..."''

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->''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani "You're expecting someone else?"]]''

->''"In all my travelling throughout the universe, I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here. The oldest civilisation: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power-mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen -- they're still in the nursery compared to us. '''Ten million years of absolute power. That's what it takes to be really corrupt.'''"''

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->''"[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure I hope the footprint I leave will be...]] '''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure light]]''', [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure but]] '''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure apposite]]'''..."''

* InsufferableGenius: Oh, ''boy''. Described by many as a "raging egotist"... but he really was as good as he described himself, like when he temporarily fixed the TARDIS's chameleon circuit in "Attack of the Cybermen". (Well, he got it to change, at least, though it was about as inconspicuous as ''he'' was.)

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: When it comes to being obnoxious and egotistical, he most certainly [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness appropriates the gateau]]. Good examples are him repeatedly calling Peri fat for no apparent reason. Even [[HypocriticalHumor Mr. Jobel]] in "Revelation of the Daleks" notices it would take "a mountain to crush an ego like yours". This is really only applicable to his stories in Seasons 21 & 22 - he's a lot nicer in Season 23. Additionally, the genuine heart of gold still existed in this narcissistic Doctor, it was just buried under a whole lot of ego. And bluster. But mostly ego. Ironically, the Sixth Doctor may well have had the largest heart of gold of any of them, hidden way deep down underneath the ego. Creator/ColinBaker later said he based his Doctor on [[Literature/PrideAndPrejudice Mr. Darcy]].

%%zce* CloningBlues: In "Project: Lazarus".

->'''Played by:''' Creator/ColinBaker (1984–86, 1989, 1993, 2022); Creator/SylvesterMcCoy[[note]]Played the Sixth Doctor during his regeneration into the Seventh Doctor[[/note]] (1987)