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->'''The Doctor:''' Look at you! My fam'. Mm, doesn't quite work. Team TARDIS!?\\
'''Yaz:''' Eeeh... We’ll take that.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Welcome aboard! Properly.
-->-- [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]]

The pseudo-official name of a trio of Companions introduced in Series 11 of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' revival.

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[[folder:Yasmin Khan]]
!!PC Yasmin "Yaz" Khan (Thirteenth Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]] (2018)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MandipGill

A young police officer in Sheffield who, after asking for more important responsibilities than parking disputes, is sent to respond to a call put in by her old school friend Ryan about a mysterious object appearing in the woods. This leads to her getting involved in the Doctor's life.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The lesbian version. The Doctor is compared to Byron for being a bit of a fuckboy, and it's part of the frustrating appeal for Yaz.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Her mother asks if she and the Doctor are dating when she meets her, and later asks the same about Ryan when she meets him. Later on, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"]], she makes some comments that can be interpreted as indicating she has a crush on the Doctor. [[spoiler: [[Recap/DoctorWho2022NYSEveOfTheDaleks "Eve of the Daleks"]] confirms that she has feelings for The Doctor.]]
* BrokenPedestal: The shine is completely off Thirteen by "The Halloween Apocalypse", Yaz being sick of the Doctor's lying and evasiveness.
* ChildhoodFriends: She was friends with Ryan in primary school, but they didn't keep in touch.
* CharacterDevelopment: She's gone from a rookie eager to prove herself to a proto-Doctor, just like Clara Oswald before her.
* DeadpanSnarker: Gains this in Series 13. She snarks back and fourth with the Doctor and Dan.
* TheDutifulDaughter: Between her and her sister, Yaz appeared to be the better-received child and is shown to be more responsible than her sister. ''Can You Hear Me'' reveals that she developed into this character after being consoled by a police officer when she tried to run away from home.
* EagerRookie: She's on her second year as a probationary officer, and is eager for duties beyond parking disputes, which leads to her getting sent to respond to Ryan's call about an alien object in the woods.
* FairCop: She's a rather attractive rookie police officer.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Is the responsible to her sister's foolish. Yaz became focused on her work as a police officer, while her sister became an irresponsible phone addict who got fired for insulting an unreasonable customer.
* GreenEyedMonster: Implied, due to the Doctor's evasiveness about her past and the realisation that she's had previous companions and adventures as a man, Yaz's relationship with the Doctor appears to have elements of retroactive jealousy. A condition or disorder where a person becomes fixated on their partner's past and previous relationships. Then again, this may just stem from Yaz feeling underappreciated and overlooked by the Doctor.
* HeroWorshipper: According to Mandip Gill, Yaz is initially so awestruck by the Doctor that, as Gill put it, if the Doctor said "jump" Yaz would ask "How high?" However, in "Revolution of the Daleks", her view on the Doctor is jaded somewhat. [[spoiler: That's what happens when your hero disappears for ten months.]]
* ImpliedLoveInterest: Shares this with both Ryan and the Doctor.
* InformedAttribute: In Series 11, there were no scenes showing how Yaz became the Doctor's most trustworthy companion and it was assumed that she got the role due to her career as a police officer. However, in Series 12, Yaz does start to get her share of heroism and proves herself as the Doctor's second-in-command.
* TheLancer: She is frequently seen at the Doctor's side and acting in a partner-like fashion. In contrast to the do-gooder traveller living in a police box, she actually is a police officer and significantly more rational.
* LipstickLesbian: In [[Recap/DoctorWho2022NYSEveOfTheDaleks "Eve of the Daleks"]], [[spoiler:she outright confirms that she is attracted to and in love with the Doctor. After showing no unambiguous signs of feelings for anyone other than the Doctor previously, this means that her only confirmed feelings have been for another woman. When combined with her feminine appearance and presentation, she is this trope.]]
* MarriedToTheJob: She's devoted in her role as a police officer.
* MistakenForRomance: Ryan and Yaz are just friends and nothing more, despite Yaz's sister and mum thinking otherwise.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: She refuses to give her sister's phone number to Ryan in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], stating that she doesn't want him as a brother-in-law.
* ObliviousToLove: Whenever she expresses any hint of romantic love for the Doctor, it is because she's of the belief that the latter is this trope. Some of the Thirteenth Doctor's dialogue, especially throughout Series 12, appears to indicate otherwise.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Yaz to her friends and family, and since the Doctor decided they were friends the moment they met, it's how she ends up being called by everyone around her.
* OutOfFocus: In Series 11, she gets less character background and character focus than her fellow companions. As of "Revolution of the Daleks", it's clear that this was because [[spoiler: she was going to be serving a much longer time as a companion than Graham or Ryan.]]
* PluckyGirl: She is often this, being a fangirl of the Doctors and volunteering to help people out. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus "Praxeus"]] even shows her going off on her own adventure and behaving like the Doctor, companion analogue and all!
* ReformedCriminal: The novelisation of "The Witchfinders" reveals that before joining the police force, she'd been in court for numerous traffic offenses and urinating in public. She claims they were "open and shut cases".
* TheReliableOne: Yaz spends less time struggling with her insecurities than Ryan or Graham and never really needs prodding to do the right thing. As a result, she's [[OutOfFocus out of focus]] a lot, but the Doctor seems to trust her the most out of the group.
* TheRunaway: It's revealed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E7CanYouHearMe "Can You Hear Me?"]] that Yaz nearly ran away from home a few years before she met the Doctor. An intervention from a friendly police officer led her to change her mind and eventually prompted her to become a police officer herself.
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[[folder:Ryan Sinclair]]
!!Ryan Sinclair (Thirteenth Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]] (2018)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/TosinCole

A warehouse worker in Sheffield who lives with his grandmother Grace and step-grandfather Graham. When he calls the police after seeing a glowing golden symbol in the air which, after touching, causes a mysterious object to appear, he re-connects with his old school friend Yaz, who's gone into the police, and then gets involved in the Doctor's life.
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* AMFMCharacterization: He's a fan of Music/{{Grime}} music, particuarly Music/{{Stormzy}}. He considered Raze to be the "sickest grime station" in Sheffield.
* TheArtefact: His family issues and relationship with Graham were resolved at the end of Series 11. In Series 12, he's just along for the ride, his dyspraxia barely being mentioned. The closest he has to an arc in the season is learning how to shoot hoops.
* BookDumb: The others are often left surprised by the amount of common knowledge Ryan isn't privy to.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At the end of "Revolution of the Daleks", he decides that he's found his place on Earth and that it's time for him to move on from adventures with the Doctor.]]
* TheCasanova: Hits on a woman in virtually every episode, and many women and gay men like him as well.
* ChildhoodFriends: He was friends with Yaz in primary school, but they didn't keep in touch.
* CynicismCatalyst: Being away from his friends makes Ryan realize that he is not the same as when he first met the Doctor. He even asks Yaz how she feels about leaving the TARDIS.
* DisappearedDad: His reaction when his dad fails to show at Grace's memorial service makes it clear that the man is a deadbeat. He subsequently comes to the conclusion that his dad's not up to coping with the things life can throw at you.
* DullSurprise: One of the more stoic companions, he had a very monotonous, almost robotic manner of speaking (possibly a result of dyspraxia).
* TheEngineer: Studying for his NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) to be a mechanic. He's still learning, but seems to want to puzzle out engineering problems and has some skill at figuring out machinery.
* HandicappedBadass: He has to manage his dyspraxia-induced "coordination problem" during his heroic adventures with the Doctor.
* InformedAttribute: Subverted. He has dyspraxia, a condition that affects his physical coordination. It isn't given much focus and is only relevant in his first two episodes, although subtle mentions do come up from time to time, such as while he's playing basketball in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], or hesitating to jump between train cars in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror”]].
* JerkassBall: He's a pretty nice guy, but he grabs it around Graham, refusing to acknowledge the man as his grandfather and rebuffing his attempts at friendship. And he's been doing this for three years. Possibly justified in that Graham often acts ''entitled'' to being treated as Ryan's grandfather, and so Ryan isn't given much space to acknowledge him on his own terms. All this said, he eases off over the course of the series, most notably in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]], where he expresses anger at his {{Jerkass}} father implicitly not considering Graham family. He finally ''does'' call Graham "Granddad" in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway "It Takes You Away"]], after Graham proves he cares about Ryan for the young man's own sake by rejecting the pseudo-Grace so he can save Ryan.
* TheKlutz: Justified and deconstructed. He has dyspraxia, and his inability to ride a bike as a result deeply frustrates him.
* MissingMom: Died six years before [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]], when Ryan was thirteen.
* MistakenForRomance: Yaz's family sees his friendship with Yaz as something more, despite neither of the two thinking that way.
* ObliviousToLove: Ryan does get a small number of admirers. He has a few [[ShipTease moments]] with Yaz, Yaz's sister takes a liking to him, and [[EvenTheGuysWantHim King James asks him to stay]]. Ryan usually responds with confusion, and he doesn't recognise when he's flirting with someone. [[spoiler:Captain Jack also flirted with him. Ryan's response: "I like him."]]
* PluckyComicRelief: By Series 12, he gets plenty of comedic moments, and is the most comedy oriented of the three.
* TheStoic: He speaks in a very reserved, unemotional manner.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Ryan has some deep-rooted daddy issues caused by his father walking out on him and he often brings up these problems. In "Rosa", he and Yaz quickly talk about the prejudice they face in the modern age after jumping through a window with Yaz to escape a racist cop. In "The Tsuranga Conundrum", [[SkewedPriorities he stops mid-chase because the pregnant man reminded him of his disappeared dad]]. In "It Takes You Away", he brings the possibility that Hanne's father simply abandoned her than being a kidnapped, an insensitive claim that is proven to be pretty accurate because the father actually chose to stay in an alternate universe to stay with something that claims to be his dead wife.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** He's not crazy about spiders.
** Or ladders, especially under pressure.
* YoureNotMyFather: Doesn't have the best relationship with Grace's second husband Graham, refusing Grace's and Graham's efforts to get him to call him "Grandad". That said, when Graham proudly calls Ryan his grandson in the Jim Crow Deep South in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa "Rosa"]], Ryan doesn't object. He also lets Graham know he was offended by his own father implying that Graham wasn't proper family.
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[[folder:Graham O'Brien]]
!!Graham O'Brien (Thirteenth Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]] (2018)

->'''Played by:''' Bradley Walsh

A retired bus driver from Sheffield, married to Grace and therefore Ryan's grandpa by marriage, who finds himself involved in the Doctor's life.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: He's not exactly complaining about being kissed by [[spoiler:Jack Harkness]].
* BadBoss: Discussed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"]], where he compares Thomas Edison to his old boss. It is implied that said boss was a factor towards him retiring from his job.
* BeenThereShapedHistory:
** He ends up being the white passenger who Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for, which he's understandably not too happy about.
** In ''The Simple Things'' short story by Joy Wilkinson he goes back to meet the founders of his favourite football team, West Ham United. He gives them his West Ham pin, they like the name and decide to use it.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Graham is about as sweet as a sweet old man could be. And yet, he is ''hell bent'' on killing Tim Shaw as revenge for Grace — so much so that the Doctor seriously wonders if he's going to be a threat to them all. In the end, he decides to "be the better man" and spares Shaw's life... only to subject him to a FateWorseThanDeath.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At the end of "Revolution of the Daleks", when Ryan decides to part ways with the Doctor, Graham leaves as well in order to remain in his life.]]
* CowardlyLion: He's not at all happy with the danger he finds himself in, yet he rises to the challenge anyway.
* CruelMercy: The way he and Ryan deal with "Tim Shaw". The Doctor did talk them out of killing the guy, but locking him in a stasis pod, conscious, and sealed away where no one is going to find him for a ''very'' long time? Seven and Ten would have approved.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's not impressed by Epzo's misanthropic viewpoint in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]].
-->'''Graham:''' Were you born that miserable, or did you have to work at it?
* DriverOfABlackCab: Retired bus driver. Still knows colleagues at the station, and when needed goes to them for the local gossip.
-->'''Graham:''' If you want to know what's happening, ask a bus driver.
* HappilyMarried: To Grace, as she gave him something to live for when he was undergoing cancer treatment. Her death devastates him.
* TheHeart: Despite his SourSupporter moments, Graham is the one with the biggest heart. He always tries to talk to an empathize with people having a hard time. See the way he comforts Yaz in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab "Demons of the Punjab"]] and Jake in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus "Praxeus"]]. Not forgetting the fact he and Ryan help deliver a baby in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum "The Tsuranga Conundrum"]].
* TheLostLenore: Grace's absence is a constant influence upon Graham, who asks himself "What would Grace do/think?" repeatedly throughout Series 11. He chose to join Team TARDIS as much to find respite from his grief as to explore new worlds and eras.
* MistakenIdentity: Has been mistaken for the Doctor twice now. [[spoiler:The second time, Captain Jack Harkness snogs him thinking the Doctor had regenerated.]]
* NiceGuy: Occasional grumpiness aside, he's actually a sweet guy.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite his general OnlySaneMan attitude, he occasionally cottons on to how cool it is to travel with the Doctor. For instance, after arriving (by mistake) in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, he asks if they can see Elvis perform live.
* OlderSidekick: He's not older than the Doctor, obviously, but he's probably the second-oldest human companion ever after Wilf. And, importantly, he ''looks'' older than the Doctor he's travelling with.
* OnlySaneMan: Much like Rory was to Amy and Eleven, he's the only one of Thirteen's companions to acknowledge how dangerous things are, and is quick to bring the others down to earth:
-->'''The Doctor:''' ''[opening a mysterious suitcase]'' Is anyone excited? I'm ''really'' excited.\\
'''Graham:''' You won't be if it's a bomb.\\
'''The Doctor:''' ''[annoyed]'' Don't kill the vibe, Graham!
* PapaWolf: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa "Rosa"]], he's quick to shield Ryan from a local bigot who shoved him to the ground.
* ParentsAsPeople: He's understandably frustrated by Ryan's refusal to acknowledge him as his grandfather, but he loves the boy just the same.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: He has this dynamic with his wife, Grace. He's generally sour and pointing out how dangerous and/or crazy something is and she is generally more excited and eager for adventure. One example is this exchange from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]]:
-->'''Grace:''' Is it wrong to be enjoying this?\\
'''Graham:''' [[BluntYes Yes!]]\\
'''Grace:''' ''[giggles]''
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: As the snarkiest of Team TARDIS, he often gets into snarking matches, with either the Doctor or the guest stars of the week.
* SourSupporter: Downplayed since he's pretty easygoing overall, but if anyone is going to start grumbling about the little inconveniences that the Doctor's lifestyle tends to result in (such as being too busy running around having grand adventures to remember little things like "having lunch"), it's him.
* SurvivorsGuilt: As a cancer survivor, he feels guilty when Grace dies, saying it should have been him instead.
* UnfazedEveryman: An easy-going, down-to-earth working-class bloke who takes most of the bizarre things he encounters in his stride.
* VerbalTic: He makes a habit of calling the Doctor "Doc".
* VitriolicBestBuds: He clearly admires the Doctor, but they get into snarking matches with each other often. The Doctor herself seems to enjoy the banter.
* WhatWouldXDo: He asks himself "what would Grace do" when he feels lost. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]], the answer is "What's wrong with you? You're on an alien planet. How cool is that?"
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* TheArtifact: His family issues and relationship with Graham were resolved at the end of season eleven. In season twelve, he's just along for the ride, his dyspraxia barely being mentioned. The closest he has to an arc in the season is learning how to shoot hoops.

* AllGirlsLoveBadBoys: The lesbian version. The Doctor is compared to Byron for being a bit of a fuckboy, and it's part of the frustrating appeal for Yaz.

* OutOfFocus: In Series 11, she gets less character background and character focus than her fellow companions. As of ''Revolution of the Daleks'', it's clear that this was because [[spoiler: she was going to be serving a much longer time as a companion than Graham or Ryan.]]

* TheArtifact: His family issues and relationship with Graham were resolved at the end of season eleven. In season twelve, he's just along for the ride. The closest he has to an arc in the season is learning how to shoot hoops.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Ryan has some deep-rooted daddy issues caused by his father walking out on him and he often brings up these problems. In ''Rosa'', he and Yaz quickly talk about the prejudice they face in the modern age after jumping through a window with Yaz to escape a racist cop. In ''The Tsuranga Conundrum'', [[SkewedPriorities he stops mid-chase because the pregnant man reminded him of his disappeared dad]]. In ''It Takes You Away'', he brings the possibility that Hanne's father simply abandoned her than being a kidnapped, an insensitive claim that is proven to be pretty accurate because the father actually chose to stay in an alternate universe to stay with something that claims to be his dead wife.

* BookDumb: The others are often left surprised by the amount of common knowledge Ryan isn’t privy to.

* InformedAttribute: In series 11, there were no scenes showing how Yaz became the Doctor's most trustworthy companion and it was assumed that she got the role due to her career as a police officer. However, in series 12, Yaz does start to get her share of heroism and proves herself as the Doctor's second-in-command.

->'''Played by:''' Mandip Gill

->'''Played by:''' Tosin Cole

* DullSurprise: He speaks in a very reserved, unemotional manner bordering on monotonous.