History Characters / DoctorWhoEighthDoctor

!! Tropes associated with the TV movie

!! Tropes associated with the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' line

!! Tropes associated with ''Eighth Doctor Adventures''

-> The Doctor didn’t even slow down. One part of his brain started madly calculating velocities and trajectories. Another part started advising him strongly against this course of action. Another part was sticking its arms out and making aeroplane noises.
-> The Doctor leapt from the pier. There was a moment, almost a silent moment, when he was sailing free through the air, unconnected to anything.
-> Then he was vaulting easily over the railing of the ship, landing smoothly on his toes on the other side. The tourists on board the boat burst into a round of applause. The Doctor broke into a smile, and gave a little bow, letting them take photos.

-->‘Do you want some food? You haven’t eaten in days.’
-->‘That’s right,’ he said wonderingly, as if she’d made a point that hadn’t occurred to him. ‘You know, I bet that’s one reason I feel so bad.’

-->The Doctor had sat on the high-backed chair [[LeaningOnTheFurniture with his feet on the console]], idly flipping through Creator/MarvelComics. It turned out he was a big ''ComicBook/XMen'' fan.

-->(''Anji has just found a box of model train things'') Though she had hurriedly, if somewhat guiltily, hidden this even further back in the cupboard, she suspected it was only a matter of time until the morning arrived when she couldn't cross the console room without having to step over miniature tracks and leap tiny buildings.

-->He placed his foot on the Doctor's injured [[note]]broken and, considering the fact he's not up and walking on it, probably quite badly so[[/note]] leg. The Doctor gasped. "How long until this heals? A few days? A few hours? Twenty minutes?''[...]''"
-->"Well, you're right of course," said the Doctor tightly. "And since it heals so quickly, why not do this?" Teeth clenched, he began to wrench his leg free. [[{{Gorn}} There was a nasty, tearing, butcher's-shop sound.]]

!! Tropes associated with Big Finish

-->'''Eighth Doctor:''' You tell me all this, and you expect me to help you.
-->'''Davros:''' Yes, Doctor.
-->'''Eighth Doctor:''' ... How. How can you expect... ... Davros.
-->'''Davros:''' Yes, Doctor?
-->'''Eighth Doctor:''' [[spoiler: I'm going to kill you.]]

!! Tropes associated with "The Night of the Doctor"

* CharacterDevelopment: His long arcs with his Creator/BigFinish companions lead him to adopt a much more solemn outlook on life -- and he ends up world-weary and alone in the very end.
** It doesn't help that most of the companions he recited in "The Night of the Doctor" prior to his regeneration were killed during his travels. In fact, only one of them is still alive, and the Doctor was made to think they also died.

Bouncy, chatty and very fond of humans, the Eighth Doctor was fleshed out considerably in Creator/BigFinish and quickly became the series' BreakoutCharacter. After the new TV series stated that the Doctor would end up committing double genocide in the Last Great Time War, Big Finish started slowly but steadily [[BreakTheCutie breaking him]]. Eventually he would stop being in the monthly audios, and he would get his own separate series (called the "New Eighth Doctor Adventures") which takes place at a later time in the same continuity and its sequel series ''Dark Eyes'' sees him eventually outgrowing his Victorian look.

The one, [[TheNthDoctor the not-]][[Characters/BigFinishDoctorWho so-only]]. The Doctor received a lot of CharacterDevelopment throughout the [=EDAs=], making him a much more complicated person than he was in the [=TVM=].

[[caption-width-right:312:Never turn down tea if it's offered. It's impolite, and that's how wars start.]]

%%!! Tropes associated with the Virgin New Adventures

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Paul McGann's very attractive to begin with, but EDA writers often described the Doctor as sound younger, taller, thinner and more unearthly than McGann.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: He was very attractive to begin with, yet is sometimes described to sound younger, taller, and thinner than he was in the [=TVM=].

* DownerEnding[=/=]CerebusSyndrome: Started out as the sunniest Doctor yet, with an unadulterated glee about the prospect of living that would not be seen again until his Tenth or even Eleventh iteration. By the time he got to Karn, however, he is a broken and emotionally haggard man who believes he deserves to have his life ended in agony.

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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Until the very end.

* BookEnds:

* BreakTheCutie: "The Night of the Doctor", leading to his DespairEventHorizon and regeneration into the War Doctor.
** This comes after more than a decade of BreakTheCutie adventures in Big Finish. By "The Night of the Doctor" he seems to be barely holding on after all he's been through.
* ChangedMyJumper: for "The Night of the Doctor" Paul [=McGann=] got his wish and has a BadassLongcoat, similar in style to the Tenth Doctor's but in a dark green, along with a well worn and broken-in revision of his TV movie outfit that's much less stylized than his original costume. It's a mix of his classic TV movie costume and his updated Dark Eyes look from AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho.

!! Tropes associated with ''The Night of the Doctor''

* NiceShoes: Now upgraded to a pair of cavalry boots.

* NiceShoes: "THESE SHOES!"

* NiceShoes: "THESE SHOES!"
** Also part of a running gag, as Three and Four both babbled about their shoes shortly after regenerating (of course, because they had the TARDIS key in them)

Along the way to his return to the show, [[BreakTheCutie Eight really went through the wringer]]. The happy, cheerful days he had enjoyed were a distant memory, as he was subjected to an unfairly tortured existence as the violence and loss across the universe rapidly grew until it kindled into the Last Great Time War. We are presented with a hurting poet who is about one step away from total collapse as he finds himself powerless to do anything to the effect of being the Doctor, and then it gets thrown in his face so hard that the Doctor decides to give up the ghost.

Along the way to his return to the show, [[BreakTheCutie Eight really went through the wringer]]. The happy, cheerful days he had enjoyed were a distant memory, as he was subjected to an unfairly tortured existence as the violence and loss across the universe rapidly grew until it kindled into the Last Great Time War.

%%* RoguesGallery

* TorturePorn: It's the Eighth Doctor. Of ''course'' there's TorturePorn. His final adventure sees him badly beaten up by the Cybercontroller.

* CloudCuckooLander: Seriously. His mind's inner sanctuary features a croquet course and a waterslide.

[[caption-width-right:312:''" I'm a doctor. But probably not the one you're expecting."'']]

* GenreSavvy: He's an expert on the sort of things that tend to happen to him, plus he sometimes applies his knowledge of fiction to events he's involved in. Sometimes he even seems to have a bit more of a snarky-fan perspective than an in-universe character perspective. For instance, in ''The Taking of Planet 5'', he remarks on how the GreatOffscreenWar tends to become less interesting if it ends up onscreen:
-->"I have a feeling I'll be much happier not knowing who or what this 'Enemy' are. They'll probably be terribly disappointing. With my luck it'll turn out to be [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E5TheKeysOfMarinus Yartek, leader of the alien Voord]], with a big stick."

* LooseCanon: The ''first'' destruction of Gallifrey, in the [=EDAs=] that is, was the one the Eighth Doctor enacted to save Gallifrey from Faction Paradox (''The Ancestor Cell''). A previous book, ''Alien Bodies'', introduced the War storyline which would become central to the Revival Series: the loss of the Time Lords results in a universe where the laws of time are no longer being enforced ("The Book of the Still"). The BigFinish anniversary episode "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho050Zagreus Zagreus]]" cleared up the confusion over those novels' canonicity, by stating they're an alternate timeline possibility (and forcing Eight to watch that alternate self for a bit). Although BigFinish still tends to be, as Creator/NicholasBriggs likes to put it, "a bit naughty" in regards to canon, and has Eight referencing the novels ''and'' the comics a few times later on.

* BiTheWay: Quite overtly so; he has implied romantic relationships with both men and women, and at least one character noticed.

* BigDamnKiss: Has the occasional snog with his companions -- with Sam, a big one with dark Sam and at least once with Fitz.

* KaleidoscopeEyes: Usually blue, (sometimes described as IcyBlueEyes), but sometimes {{gray| eyes}} or [[GreenEyes green]]. DependingOnTheWriter and his own mercurial personality, a lot of the associated characteristics of each eye color apply.

* TheGreatOffscreenWar: WordOfGod has it that the Last Great Time War will stay off-screen forever. Due to a case of TrollingCreator, "Dark Eyes" still came ''this'' close to diving into it.

%%!! Tropes associated with Titan comics