History Characters / DoctorWhoEighthDoctor

* TheFogOfAges: The Eighth Doctor has a ''very'' long life, even discounting his six centuries on Orbis and, as a result, his memory starts to get a bit fuzzy as he comes closer to the Time War. In "Lies in Ruins", he introduces himself to Bernice Summerfied, having apparently forgotten who she is and all the adventures they had together. At the end of that story, River Song doesn't even bother erasing his memory as she normally would, with no adverse affect on the timelines.

* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: Wakes up in a morgue in the middle of amnesia-inducing regeneration trauma. Finds a few feet of camera probe coming out of his chest. His first day was a bit scary.

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* InnocentFanserviceGuy: Gets a a few shirtless scenes right off the bat, while still very confused and amnesiac.
* JuliusBeethovenDaVinci: The Master bluffs Chang Lee that Tge Doctor was Genghis Khan in a past regeneration.

** While technically not ''his'' failure, the events of ''Genesis of the Daleks'' (more specifically the fact his Fourth incarnation ultimately decided not to kill the Daleks) get brought up alot in ''Dark Eyes" because [[spoiler: the Time Lords are actively trying to wipe the Daleks from existence again, only without getting the Doctor involved this time and using more dubious and extreme methods.]]

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* BiTheWay: Quite overtly so; he has heavily implied romantic and sexual relationships with both men and women, and at least one character noticed.
--> '''Sam''': ...The way he looks at certain people. Women and men. But he never acts on anything. [[note]]He does eventually, when Characters/BerniceSummerfield pounces him, but even then it still took a while before the authors were allowed to clearly state what happened.[[/note]]

!!Tropes associated with other prose stories (''Short Trips'', ''Virgin New Adventures'', etc.)

!!Tropes associated with other books (''Short Trips'', ''Virgin New Adventures'', etc.)

* VagueAge: In ''and the Time War'', the [[TimeyWimeyBall trans-temporal warfare Time War]] has messed with his ageing processes a great deal. After he puts and end to it all and begins to regenerate, he decides that [[MythologyGag 900 years old sounds like a good number.]]

* SoleSurvivor: Russell T Davies' short story, published during the ''Lockdown!'' watchalong event but originally written before show's 50th anniversary and the introduction of the War Doctor, ''Doctor Who and the Time War'' positions the Eighth Doctor as the one who ended the Last Great Time War and has him directly regenerate into Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor.

%%!! Tropes associated with the Virgin New Adventures

%%!! Tropes associated with Short Trips

%%!! Tropes associated with other books

* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Victorian clothes, long hair and Grace's ex-boyfriend's shoes.

* AbsentmindedProfessor: Even more than usual for the Doctor.

* {{Bookends}}:

The [[{{Keet}} bouncy]], [[TheCharmer charming]] romantic, slowly darkened into a WarriorPoet by loss and sorrow. From the little we saw of him, the Eighth Doctor was a chatty, passionate figure who reveled in life and living and -- uniquely among the Doctors -- seemed to enjoy giving people hints about their futures.

The [[Keet bouncy]], [[TheCharmer charming]] romantic, slowly darkened into a WarriorPoet by loss and sorrow. From the little we saw of him, the Eighth Doctor was a chatty, passionate figure who reveled in life and living and -- uniquely among the Doctors -- seemed to enjoy giving people hints about their futures.

The bouncy, charming romantic, slowly darkened into a WarriorPoet by loss and sorrow. From the little we saw of him, the Eighth Doctor was a chatty, passionate figure who reveled in life and living and -- uniquely among the Doctors -- seemed to enjoy giving people hints about their futures.

-->''"Four minutes?! That's ages! What if I get bored, need some books, a television? Anyone for chess? Bring me knitting."''

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I may talk like a fool, but I always know what I'm talking like a fool about!"'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I may talk like a fool, but I always know what I'm talking like a fool about!"'']]

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* HalfHumanhybrid: He infamously declared himself to be half human.

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* RoguesGallery: Autons, Caleera, the Celestial Toymaker, the Clocksmith, Cybermen, Daleks, Dalek Time Controller, Davros, Eight Legs, the Eleven, the Eminence, the Headhunter, Ice Warriors, Kotris, the Kandyman, the Krampus, the Kro'ka, Krynoids, the Master, Morbius, the Monk, Nimon, Padrac, Peter Rathbone, Ravenous, Rassilon, Sandminer robots, Sebastian Grayle, Viyrans, Voord, Weeping Angels, Wirrn, Zagreus, and Zygons.

Notably, he was the Doctor who shattered the NoHuggingNoKissing policy forever, happily snogging his companions just because he wanted to. He also claimed to be half-human, which was either ignored or denied in later stories.

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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: A mutual one with Charlotte. They both mean ''very'' different things by it, and the Doctor is extremely uncomfortable with Charley's "yearning" for him.

* BigDamnKiss: With [[spoiler: Charlotte]]. Completely played for BodyHorror.

* CloudCuckooLander: Seriously. His mind's inner sanctuary t a croquet course and a waterslide.

* GoingNative: "Orbis".

** 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, 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.)

* ItHasBeenAnHonor[=/=]ToAbsentFriends: Before consuming the Sisterhood's regeneration elixir, he raises a toast to each of his Big Finish companions.

* LongBusTrip: ''Seventeen years'' in fact.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Obviously, being the Doctor, but this incarnation in particular. If Big Finish is counted, this version lasted roughly ''1000 years''; the longest living Doctor until the Eleventh.

* SenselessSacrifice: Played with. Eight stubbornly refused to leave Cass despite telling him, quite clearly, to shove off. He's at the emotional crux of being broken and won't have any more of it. So he decides that if she's going to die, it would be worse if he went on living, dooming Cass to the fate of her own choosing, and having additional blood on his hands after losing multiple companions and loved ones. This time, he'll gladly allow himself to bite the big one. However, the crashed ship lands on Karn, causing a sequence of events that transform him into the War Doctor.

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