History Characters / BigFinishDoctorWho

* TheChessmaster: Throughout much of "The Dalek Generation" is controlling the Doctor.

An interstellar race of WellIntentionedExtremist scientists, who created a number of very nasty biological weapons to use in their warfare. Realising that those viruses might end up destroying the universe, they set themselves the goal of wiping them all out again. Every single bit of them. Every single bit of potential of someone, somewhere, ''maybe'' mutating a gene that ''might'' cause them to develop the deadly diseases. And if they can't destroy the virus, they'll gladly murder its carriers. First encounter the Sixth Doctor and Peri, then get mixed up thoroughly in Charley Pollard's life thanks to the Dalek Time Controller, before becoming antagonists to the Eighth Doctor and Molly. Also show up to bother Ten and Rose in the short prose story "No One Died".

* TheAtoner: Travelling through time and space to destroy the viruses they once created.

* BattleAxeNurse: Their main thing.

* VoiceChangeling: How they can communicate with people.

* CrossThrough: His appearance outside of Six' timeline seriously freaks out Eight. To make things more complicated, he's also the main villain in "The Dalek Generation", a novel written by Creator/NicholasBriggs, in which (from his perspective) he meets the Doctor for the first time... and his first Doctor is, via LoopholeAbuse of the story being a BBC Books novel and not a Big Finish audio play, the ''Eleventh'' Doctor whom he meets post Time War (relatively speaking) while working for the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E03VictoryOfTheDaleks New Dalek Paradigm]].

Nyssa has many adventures with the Doctor that are set between [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS19E7Time-Flight}} "Time-Flight"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E1ArcOfInfinity "Arc Of Infinity"]]. She would also encounter the Doctor and her friends again much, much later on in her life -- [[TimeyWimeyBall despite it being a few weeks for them]]. Luckily, as she's not human, this isn't as much of a problem as it could be.

* [[{{Psychopomp}}]]: What turns out to be the purpose of his existence.

-->Voiced by: Geoffrey Beevers (2001, 2003, 2012-2013), [[spoiler: MarkGatiss]] (2003), [[spoiler: Alex Macqueen]] (2012, 2014)

One of the Eighth Doctor's first companions, long before the regular timeline of the monthlies. Mary Godwin meets the Doctor at Lake Geneva, just before going on to write ''{{Literature/Frankenstein}}'' and, soon after, get married and become Mary Shelley. She's having difficulties in her relationship with Percy and his friends and jumps at the chance to escape it all for a bit.

* AnachronicOrder: Her adventures with Eight take place long before those of Charley Pollard and Lucie Miller. This was done to put a bit of a breather between "To The Death" and "Dark Eyes", and to explore what Eight's life was like before "Storm Warning" (and "Terror Firma").

* {{Diary}}

* TheExile: The Time Lords tried to do this to the Doctor, much like his canonical version. Luckily, a well-placed nuke kicks the TARDIS back to normal. Amusingly, perhaps out of spite, the Doctor's exile was simply being given a limiter that kept it from moving through time, or away from Earth ''(with, of course, the Doctor's knowledge of how to fix this ripped from his head)'' rather than being stripped from knowing how to work the TARDIS at all.

* PsychoForHire: Doesn't much care about the rewards, wanting to hunt down the most dangerous creatures across the Multiverse.

A Doctor from an alternate timeline, where the Seventh Doctor, Ace and the TARDIS were captured in Colditz Castle and the Nazis wound up winning WorldWarII as an accidental aftereffect. After being killed and regenerating, the (now) Eighth Doctor spent decades manipulating the Nazis and trying to reset the timeline. Was first mentioned in the audio "Colditz", and much later properly appeared in the mini-episode "Klein's Story".

* FlashSideways: In "Zagreus", he's briefly able to see all other versions of his Eighth self. The ''EighthDoctorAdventures'' series freaks him right the hell out. Since he's also completely losing his mind at the time, though, it's fair to assume he didn't remember it.

* IHatePastMe: After his travels with Lucie, a very bitter Eight encounters a ''much'' younger version of himself, who hadn't even met Charlotte yet. He tells his younger self to get out, and loathes the fact that they need to spend time together. (Eight also meets a younger self during his travels with Lucie and, when the other is travelling with Charley and C'rizz, but they actually get along quite well and spend a nice evening playing poker. Just goes to show how deeply Lucie's absence ended up affecting him.)

* AGodAmI: In the "Dark Eyes 3", he states that he is a '''Time Lord''' Dalek, and that through him, the Daleks will be the new masters of time and space.

* FutureMeScaresMe: In "Mary's Story", a very young Eighth Doctor (during his travels with Samson and Gemma, before he met Charley) meets an Eight from sometime after "Dark Eyes". Horrifyingly burned, hallucinating, and unable to regenerate. [[IGotBetter He gets better]], of course, but neither is even remotely thrilled at meeting their other selves -- they agree that they just annoy each other.

This is the main timeline for the Eighth Doctor, according to the parent series. He's not the same Eighth Doctor as the one in the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novels, as the timelines diverged after [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie]] -- though he's fascinated when he's allowed a glimpse of his alternate self's book adventures. However, this is also complicated by the fact that in "Mary's Story", the Doctor simultaneously references characters from the novels and comics.

* IHatePastMe: After his travels with Lucie, a very bitter Eight encounters a ''much'' younger version of himself, who hadn't even met Charlotte yet. He tells his younger self to get out, and loathes the fact that they need to spend time together. (Eight also meets a younger self ''during'' his travels with Lucie and C'rizz, when the other is travelling with Charley, and they actually get along quite well and spend a nice evening playing poker. Just goes to show how deeply Lucie's absence ended up affecting him.)

* DespairEventHorizon: Crosses it in "To The Death", which leads into "Dark Eyes". Which ultimately leads to:
** [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]: In "The Night of the Doctor". When the Eighth Doctor has ''completely'' broken... he allows himself [[spoiler: to be killed in a crashing gunship when its passenger refuses to take a rescue from a Time Lord due to the Time War.]] That would've been all he wrote, until [[spoiler: The Sisterhood of Karn revived him]]. And within minutes, he became ANGRY. He gives into his hatred and his full wrath pops out. He deliberately [[spoiler: turns himself into a warrior through regeneration to demolish his enemies as the most dangerous Time War combatant to Daleks and Time Lords alike.]]

Please keep in mind that, although the series is officially part of the Franchise/{{Whoniverse}}, it encompasses many different timelines/continuities and includes adaptations of existing works from the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse. Due to Creator/BigFinish's sheer size and complexity, the TV series can at times contradict or overwrite the timelines described here, or adapt them for the televised continuity.

* MessianicArchetype: During "Neverland" (and his {{Foreshadowing}} appearances before it) he appears practically as a benevolent God, helping out his "favoured son", the Doctor. [[spoiler: Later stories show this to be a massive front, however]].

* RaceLift: His episodes were among the first ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories to establish the idea that Time Lords can be black, which was later carried over to the TV series by Creator/RussellTDavies, and became a huge plot point under Creator/StevenMoffat. (The Master was also black in a lengthy Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine comics storyline.) The idea is a few ''years'' OlderThanTheyThink.
* WickedCultured: In The Next Life he quotes Macbeth.

A Dalek from the far future, which was created with an evolved mind that allowed it to perceive time in a more advanced manner than a standard Dalek. Consequently, the Dalek time controller was given the position of strategist for all Dalek time missions. Chronologically (from its perspective) first meets the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC novel "The Dalek Generation" and later encounters the Sixth Doctor, before becoming a main antagonist to the Eighth Doctor. In the Eighth Doctor's opinion, he is the most dangerous Dalek of them all.

A Dalek from the far future, which was created with an evolved mind that allowed it to perceive time in a more advanced manner than a standard Dalek. Consequently, the Dalek time controller was given the position of strategist for all Dalek time missions. Chronologically (from its perspective) first meets the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC novel "The Dalek Generation" and later encounters the Sixth Doctor, before becoming a main antagonist to the Eighth Doctor.

Please keep in mind that, although the series is officially part of the {{Whoniverse}}, it encompasses many different timelines/continuities and includes adaptations of existing works from the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse. Due to BigFinish's sheer size and complexity, the TV series can at times contradict or overwrite the timelines described here, or adapt them for the televised continuity.

* CrossThrough: His appearance outside of Six' timeline seriously freaks out Eight. To make things more complicated, he's also the main villain in "The Dalek Generation", a novel written by Creator/NicholasBriggs, in which (from his perspective) he meets the Doctor for the first time... and his first Doctor is, via LoopholeAbuse of the story being a BBC Books novel and not a Big Finish audio play, the ''Eleventh'' Doctor whom he meets post Time War (relatively speaking) while working for the [[DoctorWhoS31E03VictoryOfTheDaleks New Dalek Paradigm]].

Please keep in mind that, although the series is officially part of the {{Whoniverse}}, it encompasses many different continuities and includes adaptations of existing works from the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse. Due to BigFinish's sheer size and complexity, the TV series can at times contradict or overwrite the stories, or adapt them for the televised continuity.

Please keep in mind that, although the series is officially part of the {{Whoniverse}}, it encompasses many different continuities and includes adaptations of existing works from the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse. Due to BigFinish's sheer size and complexity, the TV series can at times contradict or overwrite the stories, or adapt them for the telivised continuity.