History Characters / TheSarahJaneAdventures

* BellyButtonless: He lacks a navel, due to being created by the Bane rather than born like a normal human.

->Played by: Anjli Mohindra (2008-2011)

* BadassBaritone: He has the voice of Alexander Armstrong, a classically trained baritone singer.
* TheChessmaster: He plays both sides very effectively in ''The Lost Boy''.

* DeclarationOfProtection: He solemnly vows to protect Luke from the Daleks when they invade.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: He has a bombastic, orchestral fanfare whenever he reveals himself from the fireplace column. Funnily enough, it wasn't until his crossover appearance in ''Series/DoctorWho'' that we learn that this music is actually diegetic when Sarah Jane expresses exasperation with it (possibly crossed with LeaningOnTheFourthWall). Later episodes of ''SJA'' reveal that he can be activated "quickly and quietly" without the usual fanfare.

* MrSmith: Averted, his name actually is Mr. Smith.

* CasanovaWannabe: He showed an interest in girls of his age group. He had a particular interest in Rani and seemed the closest to her in the gang. He formed a strong bond with Ellie Faber when he was cut off from his friends, to the point that she kissed him, but they were separated when Clyde had to join his friends to defeat their enemy.
* DeadpanSnarker: A wisecracker and a major fan of {{Pun}}s.

** [[spoiler: And, in the plan for 'Battle for Bannerman Road', she was going to be revealed to be part TRICKSTER]].

** [[spoiler: He was planned to appear in Battle for Bannerman Road, and would have been the FinalBoss.]]

* NoodleIncident: According to the Eleventh Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E17PondLife "Pond Life"]], Androvax has an entire conflict named after him, somehow involving the Ood.

Flaky Malakey. She loves her daughter but she's irresponsible and undependable. She doesn't like Sarah Jane as she is jealous of the bond she and Maria have forged.

%%* DropInCharacter

* ParentalObliviousness: [[spoiler: Until "The Last Sontaran]].

* DudeWheresMyReward: In "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith", she gives into the Trickster's manipulations and, against her better judgement, decides to save her parents' lives in spite of the consequences it will surely have for the timeline, selfishly justifying that she deserves a personal reward after her many years of hard work in protecting the planet. Of course, the Trickster counted on this and his entire plan hinged on Sarah having only a single moment of weakness. Fortunately, Sarah Jane's parents were stronger and braver than anyone expected.

* DudeWheresMyReward: In "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith", she gives into the Trickster's manipulations and decides to save her parents' lives in spite of the consequences it will surely have for the timeline, selfishly expressing that she deserves a personal reward after her many years of hard work in protecting the planet as a justification. Of course, the Trickster's plan hinged on Sarah having only a single moment of weakness.

* AmbitionIsEvil: By her return in "Enemy of the Bane", she has split off from the Bane after the failure of the Bubble Shock plan and become a wanted fugitive. She now desires to take over the galaxy by awakening Horath, an ancient civilisation-crushed supercomputer.

* ArchEnemy: While Wormwood works as a good villainous {{Foil}} for Sarah Jane, no individual villain has had as much of a personal impact on her life than the Trickster.

* LiteralGenie: In a moment of frustration, Rani figuratively wishes for her friends to leave her alone, but Ship interprets this literally and grants it, creating a bad alternate timeline where Rani devolves into a lonely old hermit woman in Sarah Jane's attic.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: He aims to protect humanity from aliens...by mind-wiping anyone who finds out too much.

* DistaffCounterpart: Had started acting ''completely'' like the Doctor in terms of being a SociallyAwkwardHero. In the first episode, suddenly having a child to take care of snaps her out of it, and she gradually becomes much more human again.

* MakeupWeapon: Her signature tool is "sonic lipstick," which can open locks and override machinery.

** PlayedWith for Clyde; he already has a loving mother, but it's very clearly shown that SJ is a second parental figure to him. He respects her immensely and (almost) always listens to her advice, while she is very protective and encouraging of him.

Cool kid, or at least likes to think of himself as such. Starts of as a bit of a jerk but slowly softens. Smarter than he'd like to admit.

* ParentalSubstitute: In his last few episodes, he starts becoming something of a father figure to Luke and Clyde.

* DoctorWhomage: ''The Sarah Jane Companion Volume Three'' in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' said it was originally supposed to be The Doctor dropping off baby Sky but The Shopkeeper was used instead when the plan to get Creator/MattSmith on the show fell through.

* SuperSoldier: Although he isn't very successful in his efforts, he demonstrates his race's superior aptitude for warfare in his debut episode by giving Sarah Jane a serious OhCrap moment with his mere presence and attempting to gun down the gang during their on-foot chases.

* MundaneUtility: He uses his

* DudeWheresMyReward: In "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith", she gives into the Trickster's manipulations and decides to save her parents' lives in spite of the consequences it will surely have for the timeline, selfishly expressing that she deserves a personal reward after her many years of hard work in protecting the planet as a justification. Of course, the Trickster hinged his plan on Sarah having only a single moment of weakness.

* AmbitionIsEvil: By her return in "Enemy of the Bane", she has split off from the Bane after the failure of the Bubble Shock plan and become a wanted fugitive, as she now desires to take over the galaxy by awakening Horath, an ancient civilisation-crushed supercomputer.

* DefrostingIceQueen: At the start of the series, she is distant and solitary to both her neighbours and the kids trying to tag along on her adventures, but gradually comes out of her shell around them. While motherhood was certainly not on her agenda, she takes to it very well when she adopts Luke and acts as a maternal figure to the rest of the Bannerman Road Gang.
Starts out a bit distant to the kids, and isn't much for motherhood when she takes in Luke. She tries to discourage them from endangering themselves by helping her, but she eventually relents.

** [[FridgeBrilliance Who else has a habit of doing this? The Doctor, her mentor and role model, from whom she probably picked up the habit.]]

* CharacterOutlivesActor: Its unclear when Sarah Jane passes away, the actress dying of cancer in 2011. However in a comic the Doctor claims she is still alive in 2013. "Farewell Sarah Jane", a webcast produced in 2020 as part of the Doctor Who: Lockdown event, is set around her funeral, by which time her friends are all well into their careers and Luke has been married for five years, indicating this takes place some time after the series ended.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Starts out a bit distant to the kids, and isn't much for motherhood when she takes in Luke. She tries to discourage them from endangering themselves by helping her, but she eventually relents.

* FantasticRacism: Averted; unlike certain members of Torchwood and UNIT, she's kind and helpful to aliens who are just here to visit, or who got lost.

* LittleOldLadyInvestigates: Not that old, but still investigating.

* MamaBear: Do you want to harm Luke or Sky Smith? The correct answer is - no, you do not. Their [[MamaBear mother]] - a former [[Series/DoctorWho Companion]], and not of the [[DistressedDamsel screaming type]] either - will stop at nothing to save them. No, seriously. There's no power in the universe that can save you from her wrath. And they've all tried. Needless to say, they failed. Painfully. Particularly explicitly in "The Gift" where she essentially declares, "Screw the world. I'm saving my son." In "Sky," she goes head to head with Mrs. Myers, declaring that Sky is a child, ''not'' a weapon.

* NeverMessWithGranny: She fits this trope particularly in that episode where she stops an escaping biker with her sonic lipstick, ''and blows into it as if it were a gun that she fired''.

* ParentalAbandonment: Sarah Jane was an orphan raised by her Aunt Lavinia.

* TooDumbToLive: She has a habit of marching into villains' offices, etc. and telling them she knows what they're up to, and it ''never'' goes well. However, she always manages to get away in the end and thus she avoid the business end of this trope.

[[folder:The gang]]
Tropes that apply to all of the teens

* DeadpanSnarker: While Clyde is the uncontested king of snark in the group, Maria, Luke, and Rani all have their moments.
* NiceGuy[=/=]NiceGirl: All of them are genuinely compassionate and caring people, though it's revealed in an alternate universe that Clyde wouldn't have been this way without Sarah Jane's influence.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Clyde and Rani do have distinct talents, however—Clyde's a splendid sketch artist and Rani has great journalism skills. Maria is more the average protagonist until actor Yasmin Paige's own academic life persuaded her to leave the show. Kelsey was just a pilot-only character who got a Second Episode Substitute in the form of Clyde because there were too many females in the cast, and she was more than a bit bratty, too. Luke and Sky don't fit this trope because they were created to be extraordinary. In fact, Luke ends up going right into college because of his high intelligence.
* TrueCompanions: Bicker and argue they might, but all of them are incredibly devoted to each other and Sarah Jane.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: They balance schoolwork with saving the world, sometimes more successfully than others.
* TheWatson: In this show it's the boys, and not Maria, who tend to get captured more often...though they are still savvy enough to get themselves out of it too.
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%%* TheLancer

* PutOnABus: In "The Last Sontaran". She gets one more episode, "The Mark of the Berserker", and then the occasional mention in emails.

%%* MixAndMatchMan

* NiceGuy: Very quickly becomes this. Then again, having Sarah Jane as a mother figure does and can transform you into this and Luke is definitely raised right and quite obviously follows her example to heart

%%* TheSmartGuy
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Much more so in season 1, when he's still getting used to human norms, and has at first the innocence of a child (since he actually is one).
* SuperReflexes: His are much better than a normal human's.

* HiddenDepths: Though he initially kept them secret, he had talents for drawing and cooking. He is in general much kinder and smarter than he sometimes appears.

* SecondEpisodeSubstitute: For Kelsey Hooper.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: His shifting screensaver image turns into a more chaotic green-hued pattern after he reveals himself as a traitor.
* GoodFeelsGood: After [[spoiler:his reprogramming]], he begins to develop a sense of humour.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After feigning allegiance to Sarah Jane in Series 1, he is reprogrammed to undergo a genuine face-turn following his attempt to crash the Moon into Earth. His angular crystalline screensaver image turns into a friendlier-looking amorphous blob from Series 2 onwards.]]
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: His fanfare, as revealed when he crosses over into ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* MagicalComputer: He can do pretty much anything he needs to by virtue of being a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: She took out a Sontaran...with a high-heeled shoe.

* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: He appears to be very nasty on his introduction, but it is later revealed to be mostly an act. To a certain extent, this is TruthInTelevision--many teachers often start out harsh, then relax a little once they've asserted their authority.

* ParentalObliviousness: Starts to crumble as of series 4, when she's ''sure'' something's going on.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Expresses a disturbing view to Sarah Jane that humans are nothing but mindless consumers (in the literal sense of the word) who do nothing but eat and devour.

* TentacledTerror: Her true form is a giant, one eyed [[BuffySpeak squiddy-thing]]. How she manages to maintain a human disguise so easily while the Slitheen routinely fail to is never explained.
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler: Tries this with Luke in ''Enemy Of The Bane''.]]

Leader of the Trickster's Brigade and member of the [[AGoodNameForARockBand Pantheon of Discord]], an extra-dimensional entity that messes with timelines and creates chaos. The main recurring singular villain in the series, out to take down Sarah Jane, and later the Doctor himself. His main tactic is to "save" someone's life in a way that alters the timeline to his benefit - the only real way to stop him once this happens is for the person he saved to renounce the deal and make a HeroicSacrifice.


* ArchEnemy: While Wormwood works as a good villainous {{Foil}} for Sarah Jane, no villain has had as much of a personal impact on Sarah's life than the Trickster.

%%* EvilCannotComprehendGood

* KnightOfCerebus: ''Sarah Jane Adventures'' already has its share of [[VileVillainSaccharineShow vile villains]], but the Trickster's presence is always especially foreboding and indicates a much darker tone than usual.

* OnceASeason: Always appears in no more than one story per season, all of which have Sarah Jane's name in the title: ''Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?'' in series one, ''The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith'' in series two and ''The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith'' in series three. [[spoiler:Unfortunately he did not return for the series four finale ''Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith''.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: He eventually betrays the Trickster in the apocalyptic alternate timeline.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: He's short but he's ferocious and capable of chasing down fully grown adults with ease.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: A Graske (identical to Krislok due to reuse of the same costume and considering their shared M.O. of messing around with time, they're probably the same person) originally appeared in the interactive Red Button TV game [[Recap/DoctorWho2005RBSAttackOfTheGraske "Attack of the Graske"]] and acts as a recurring nuisance to the Tenth Doctor in other exclusive fourth-wall breaking skits.

* SuperSoldier: Although he isn't very successful in his efforts, he demonstrates his race's superior aptitude for warfare in his debut episode by giving Sarah Jane a serious OhCrap moment with his mere presence and attempting to gun down the gang during their foot chases.

* AntiVillain: He's a snarling, conniving villain in his debut, but his second appearance portrays him more sympathetically, although he is still extremely ruthless and uncaring for any race besides his own.

* GrandTheftMe: Takes over the bodies of all the main cast over the course of his appearances, giving the actors an opportunity to [[ChewingTheScenery flex some flamboyant, evil muscles.]]

* GreatOffscreenWar: It's heavily implied that the mysterious war that destroyed Eve's people was the Last Great Time War.
* LiteralGenie: Ship literally interprets Rani's frustrated figure of speech about wishing for her friends to leave them alone.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Eve mind-controls several local homeless people to play with her at the amusement park to stave off her intense loneliness, not understanding that her actions are wrong.
* RealityWarper: Eve and her Ship both have impressive reality warping powers related to telepathy and timeline manipulation.

* CardboardPrison: [[spoiler:She was imprisoned in a tiny spaceship by her people, but was allowed to keep an extremely high-tech games console for entertainment... which she used to take control of the craft and escape at her leisure.]]
* ColourMotif: Befitting her name, she's heavily associated with the colour red.

* ShadowArchetype: In many ways, she reflects what Sarah Jane was like at the beginning of the series: a cold, aloof thrillseeker, free of all attachments.

Appearing in Series 5, she is one of the Fleshkind who is at war with the Metalkind. She creates Sky as a bomb to end the war.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: She designed Sky as a weapon to bring an end to the war between her people and the Metalkind, but shows no compassion for her "daughter".

* AbortedArc: We would probably have learned more about them if not for the sad ending of the series.

* AbsurdlyDedicatedWorker: [[spoiler:He's been ignorantly fighting a war that ended years ago, similar to the famous story of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda Hiroo Onoda]], a Japanese soldier who continued operating on a remote island unaware that World War II was over.]]
* TheCameo: His CGI mugshot frequently appears on Mr. Smith's monitor whenever he is trying to deduce the identity of an unknown alien race.
* ForeverWar: The Uvodni are locked in a long conflict against an unseen and apparently far worse race called the Malakh. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in the end as it turns out Kudlak's information is outdated; the war ended over a decade ago and his mission has been [[AllForNothing pointless]].]]
* GirlyRun: Humorously, he chases Sarah Jane and Maria with a bizarre, prancing gait.
* HeelFaceTurn: Upon realising that his Mistress is an AI that has been lying to him for decades, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Kudlak is so ashamed and dishonoured]] for his actions that he offers Sarah Jane his gun to execute him with.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He kidnaps human children to serve in the Uvodni military and use their combat skills against the Malakh, acting on the orders of his Mistress that it is necessary for them to end the war. However, as soon as he discovers the truth, he doesn't hesitate to stop.

%%* ParentalObliviousness

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Mostly a case of BewareTheNiceOnes, and getting '''really''' lucky with an ArmorPiercingSlap, but the record still stands... she ''took out a freakin' SONTARAN!!!''

* BrainyBrunette: Brown hair and smart as a whip. Good enough to outsmart SufficientlyAdvancedAliens that think they're better than her.

* MamaBear: Do you want to harm Luke or Sky Smith? The correct answer is - no, you do not. His [[MamaBear mother]] - a former [[Series/DoctorWho Companion]], and not of the [[DistressedDamsel screaming type]] either - will stop at nothing to save him. No, seriously. There's no power in the universe that can save you from her wrath. And they've all tried. Needless to say, they failed. Painfully. Particularly explicitly in "The Gift" where she essentially declares, "Screw the world. I'm saving my son." In "Sky," she goes head to head with Mrs. Myers, declaring that Sky is a child, ''not'' a weapon.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Justified. She never gets involved in Captain Jack's adventures (or vice versa), because she DoesntLikeGuns and Torchwood's first response is generally to go in guns blazing. Similarly, though she will often call in UNIT to clean up her messes and occasionally lean on their authority to open closed doors, she keeps her distance from them.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:He sacrifices himself to kill Wormwood, regaining his last shred of honour in the process.]]

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* AbortedArc: We would probably have learned more about them if not for [[ActorExistenceFailure the sad ending of the series.]]

-->[[Characters/DoctorWhoClassicSeriesCompanions See here]]

* DoctorWhomage:''The Sarah Jane Companion Volume Three'' in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' said it was originally supposed to be The Doctor dropping off baby Sky but the plan to get Creator/MattSmith on the show fell through.

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!!Sarah Jane Smith

!! The Shopkeeper and the Captain