History Characters / BigFinishDoctorWho

* CharacterDevelopment: All over the place.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: While the Big Finish lines have been [[invoked]][[AscendedFanon confirmed to be canon]] with the TV series, the BBC hasn't licensed all of the terms, events, and characters over. This barely slows the writers down, however, and several audioplays clearly reference events from the TV series; for instance, the "Dark Eyes" series never references the Last Great Time War, but clearly covers the opening volleys and battles. In 2015, said licence expanded to include all characters and Doctors up until the Twelfth. Currently, they have access to everything that debuted prior to Thirteen, along with the Sacha Dhawan Master and the Fugitive Doctor.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: While the Big Finish lines have been [[invoked]][[AscendedFanon confirmed to be canon]] with the TV series, the BBC hasn't licensed all of the terms, events, and characters over. This barely slows the writers down, however, and several audioplays clearly reference events from the TV series; for instance, the "Dark Eyes" series never references the Last Great Time War, but clearly covers the opening volleys and battles. In 2015, said licence expanded to include all characters and Doctors up until the Twelfth.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: While the Big Finish lines have been [[AscendedFanon confirmed to be canon]] with the TV series, the BBC hasn't licensed all of the terms, events, and characters over. This barely slows the writers down, however, and several audioplays clearly reference events from the TV series; for instance, the "Dark Eyes" series never references the Last Great Time War, but clearly covers the opening volleys and battles. In 2015, said licence expanded to include all characters and Doctors up until the Twelfth.

Due to the series having LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, the tropes pages are split into:

* ADayInTheLimelight: Nearly every single person, being or background character from the classic TV series gets a chance to shine.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Since Creator/BigFinish doesn't have to present itself as a kids' show, it can bring much more drama into the characters' lives than the TV show ever could. This is especially the case with characters like Peri, who gets ''tons'' of character development, and villains like Davros, whose childhood is shown in great detail. However, at the same time they try to avoid things that would gratuitously jar with the traditional tone of ''Doctor Who''. There's no [[ClusterFBomb strong swearing]] or sex scenes, but there is some mild language and characters are [[NoHuggingNoKissing allowed to actually have sex lives now]], just offscreen. Even the New Adventures novel adaptations get some (very mild) {{bowdlerization}} of some of the more self-consciously gratuitous "90s edgy" elements.

** This is also happening with all the new series companion actors as well such as {{Creator/Billie Piper}} who comes back in an audio series that involves Rose's time with the Tenth Doctor then a few years later she comes back in a spinoff/prequel series that shows what was Rose doing between Series 2 finale and Series 4.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: While the Big Finish lines have been [[AscendedFanon confirmed to be canon]] with the TV series, the BBC hasn't licensed all of the terms, events, and characters over. This barely slows the writers down, however, and several audioplays clearly reference events from the TV series; for instance, the "Dark Eyes" series never references the Last Great Time War, but clearly covers the opening volleys and battles. In 2015, said license expanded to include all characters and Doctors up until the Twelfth.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Since Creator/BigFinish doesn't have to present itself as a kids' show, it can bring much more drama into the characters' lives than the TV show ever could. This is especially the case with characters like Peri, who gets ''tons'' of character development, and villains like Davros, whose childhood is shown in great detail. However, at the same time they try to avoid things that would gratuitously jar with the traditional tone of ''Doctor Who'', so there's no [[ClusterFBomb strong swearing]] or sex scenes, but there is some mild language and characters are [[NoHuggingNoKissing allowed to actually have sex lives now]], just offscreen. Even the New Adventures novel adaptations get some (very mild) {{bowdlerization}} of some of the more self-consciously gratuitous "90s edgy" elements.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Since Creator/BigFinish doesn't have to present itself as a kids' show, it can bring much more drama into the characters' lives than the TV show ever could. This is especially the case with characters like Peri, who gets ''tons'' of character development, and villains like Davros, whose childhood is shown in great detail. However, at the same time they try to avoid things that would gratuitously jar with the traditional tone of ''Doctor Who'', so there's no [[ClusterFBomb strong swearing]] or sex scenes, but there is some mild language and characters are [[NoHuggingNoKissing allowed to actually have sex lives now]]). Even the New Adventures novel adaptations get some (very mild) {{bowdlerization}} of some of the more self-consciously gratuitous "90s edgy" elements.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Since Creator/BigFinish doesn't have to present itself as a kids' show, it can bring much more drama into the characters' lives than the TV show ever could. This is especially the case with characters like Peri, who gets ''tons'' of character development, and villains like Davros, whose childhood is shown in great detail. However, at the same time they try to avoid things that would gratuitously jar with the traditional tone of ''Doctor Who'', so there are no ClusterFBombs or sex scenes ("onscreen", at least, though characters ''are'' [[NoHuggingNoKissing allowed to have sex lives now]]). Even the New Adventures novel adaptations get some (very mild) {{bowdlerization}} of some of the more self-consciously "90s edgy" elements.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Since Creator/BigFinish doesn't have to present itself as a kids' show, it can bring much more drama into the characters' lives than the TV show ever could. This is especially the case with characters like Peri, who gets ''tons'' of character development, and villains like Davros, whose childhood is shown in great detail.

* TheBusCameBack: With the notable exception of Dodo, all classic series companion actors have returned to play their characters. The series has the occasional LongBusTrip as a result as well.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: While the Big Finish lines have been [[AscendedFanon confirmed to be canon]] with the TV series, the BBC hasn't licensed all of the terms, events, and characters over. This barely slows the writers down, however, and several audioplays clearly reference events from the TV series; for instance, the Dark Eyes series never references The Last Great Time War, but clearly covers the opening volleys and battles.
** Until 2015, where their license expanded to include all characters and Doctors up until the Twelfth.