History Webcomic / The10Doctors

* LesYay: Between [[spoiler:Romana]] and Grace Holloway, no less, the latter having mistaken [[spoiler:Romana]] (who she realised was a Time Lord) for a newly-regenerated Doctor, who she'd fallen for. Cue a kiss, a very startled (but rather pleased) [[spoiler:Romana]], followed by a cheerful [[spoiler:Romana]] and a very embarrassed Grace. At the end, they're shown in the background parting with another kiss.

It can be read [[http://comics.shipsinker.com/archive.php?arc=10doctors online]], or downloaded in [[http://comics.shipsinker.com/downloads/ PDF and CBZ format]].

* GambitPileup: At first it looks like the story is a plot by the Sontarans to get the various alien races of the galaxy to attack the Daleks and begin the Time War, only to find out it's really a plan by the Master [[spoiler:and his [[CloningBlues cloned Sontaran army]]. Which is then revealed to be a plot by the Valeyard to cause all-out war and let him take over Gallifrey. Which is ''then'' revealed to be a plot by Omega to cause the universe to be destroyed and then reshaped in his image. Which is in turn a plot by the Guardians of Time to force the Doctor to choose between eternal entropy or eternal order. Which the Ninth Doctor stops via a plan of his own involving nine duplicates of himself meeting up and causing the ClockRoaches to eat the {{Big Bad}}s]]. Whew. And that's not counting the roles the Rani, Davros, Dalek Ahn, the Toymaker, the War Chief, and Mortimus (the Meddling Monk) play in all this.

* GagBoobs: Peri, as usual. She's even referred to as "the one with the boobs".

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Nine and Ten end the conflictcomic by feeding the Black and White Guardians to the ClockRoaches.]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The titular Ten Doctors are just the start.

The story is 247 pages long (plus a few extras along the way) and was posted from March 10, 2007 until May 27, 2009, so in a sense it could be considered the "official" unofficial Anniversary Special.

* NotSoDifferent: The Daleks scan Six's energy and conclude he's not at all like the kind and merciful Doctor, but instead their violent mastermind Keeper, [[spoiler:the Valeyard]]. Six decides to [[SureLetsGoWithThat roll with it]].

* ForegoneConclusion: Given what we know about [[http://comics.shipsinker.com/epguide.php when the Doctors and companions came from]] and when this story is set, a reader can safely assume that Susan, Jo, Sarah Jane, K9 Mks. II and IV, Romana, Tegan, Turlough, Peri, Rose, [[{{Immortality}} Jack]], the Brigadier, and the Doctors will all survive. It's more unclear with Jamie, Zoe, Leela, K9 Mk. I, Nyssa, Glitz, Mel, Ace, and Grace, but [[spoiler:they survive anyway]].

* OriginalCharacter: There is precisely ''one'' character in this story who is not from ''Doctor Who'' canon or (in the case of the CreatorCamo) RealLife - the Lady President of Gallifrey.

''The 10 Doctors'' is a ''Series/DoctorWho'' {{Fan Webcomic|s}} by Rich Morris. The comic is notable for its epic scope and for featuring, in addition to what was then all the eponymous 10 Doctors, nearly ''every'' companion, major villain, and recurring character to appear in the series up to 2007. The references come thick and fast, so if you don't know the difference between a Renegade Dalek and an Imperial Dalek, be forewarned - but not discouraged.

To briefly summarise - the Tenth Doctor, in a bad mood following "[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]]", has gone to a luxurious world called the [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors Eye of Orion]] to cheer himself up... only to gradually find eight of his previous selves having all arrived at the same time along with their companions. While they begin to investigate what's going on and why they've been brought together, [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the Eighth Doctor]] (the odd one out) is on Gallifrey, investigating mysterious goings-on which seem to involve the recently-disappeared Daleks. And then things get [[GambitPileup complicated...]]

''The 10 Doctors'' is a ''Series/DoctorWho'' {{Fan Webcomic|s}} by Rich Morris. The comic is notable for its epic scope and for featuring, in addition to what was then all the eponymous 10 Doctors, nearly ''every'' companion, major villain, and recurring character to appear in the series up to 2007. The references come thick and fast, so if you don't know the difference between a Renegade Dalek and an Imperial Dalek, be forewarned — but not discouraged.

To briefly summarise — the Tenth Doctor, in a bad mood following "[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]]", has gone to a luxurious world called the [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors Eye of Orion]] to cheer himself up... only to gradually find eight of his previous selves having all arrived at the same time along with their companions. While they begin to investigate what's going on and why they've been brought together, [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the Eighth Doctor]] (the odd one out) is on Gallifrey, investigating mysterious goings-on which seem to involve the recently-disappeared Daleks. And then things get [[GambitPileup complicated...]]

The story is 247 pages long (plus a few extras along the way) and was posted from March 10, 2007 until May 27, 2009, so in a sense it could be considered the "official" unofficial 45th Anniversary Special.

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: The game of Crazy 8's the Second Doctor challenges the Celestial Toymaker with.

''[Nine sighs]''
* AllForNothing: The Seventh Doctor is desperate to take away the sample of Lazar's Disease Glitz sold to Davros, so he resorts to pinching it, distracting Davros himself with a firecracker and fleeing the pursuing Daleks. Then Glitz reminds him that, if nothing else, he's clever enough to know [[PragmaticVillainy there's very little profit to be made in a galaxy run by Daleks]]. The thing Glitz sold Davros was just a vial of gumblejack oil from the galley at Terminus.

* AscendedMeme: From one fan work to another! During a scene where Two needs assistance performing a TARDIS function that requires two Time Lords, he [[spoiler:uses willpower to create a "temporary manifestation" of a future incarnation. As he doesn't want it to be "that unhelpful, smug buffoon" (Three), he modifies the projection to be "different enough from me, but not yet him." The result, who stays for the remainder of the story, is the Second-and-a-Halfth Doctor (Tony Garner) from the ''Who'' fan film ''Devious'']].

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:All of the Doctors (minus 2.5) perform a SplitPersonalityMerge to fight the Dalek conditioning that turned Ten into Dalek Tor.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:It turns out this was Nine's entire job for most of the story — he skipped ahead in time and zapped back and forth to play the hero throughout. Four also performs a great one.]]

** [[spoiler:While dangling from a ship by his trademark scarf, Four reflects that one of these days, that plan is going to fail him. And it did, in "Logopolis".]]

* CombatPragmatist: Leela. She stabs the Valeyard with a knife, and attempted to stab him again while he was regenerating, only to be held back by the Doctor. A non-continuity strip has her repeatedly stab him, killing off each regeneration one by one. After drawing it, Rich found it too violent and replaced it.
* ContinuityLockout: Masterfully ''averted''. While the story is at parts a ''lot'' easier to understand (and definitely a lot easier to predict) if you have a huge memory of all things ''Doctor Who'', the continuity references don't actually get in the way of the plotline, and plenty of positive reviews have come from readers with only a smattering of Whovian knowledge. Even for the more obscure characters, a quick Wikipedia search will have all the relevant information in the first few lines.

** Dr. Grace Holloway is working at the very same hospital that Sarah Jane and Jamie take Romana II to, meaning that Grace also gets caught up in the plot. Even more coincidentally, it's the same hospital that then-future companion Martha Jones works at, so at the end of the story, [[spoiler:Romana II points the Tenth Doctor in its direction after having felt an alien presence there, thus leading directly to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]"]].

* CrisisCrossover: Of the ''Doctor Who'' fanfic variety, anyway. A ''lot'' of aliens, companions, allies, and villains from both classic and new ''Doctor Who'' an appearance. Notable with a ridiculously huge battle over the skies of Earth that includes Ice Warriors, Draconians, Sontarans, Movellans, Rutans, Renegade Daleks, Imperial Daleks, (several incarnations of) the Doctor, the Master, etc.

* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: Averted. On one page, an enraged Nine calls his other selves "tossers". Rich is actually Canadian, but he also knew full well how rude the word is in the UK.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Nine and Ten end the comic by feeding the Black and White Guardians to the ClockRoaches.]]

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As the Second Doctor is saying goodbye to his other selves in the foreground, his companions say their goodbyes in the background. In one panel, Jack is whispering to an embarrassed-looking Jamie. In the next panel Jamie is giving a very surprised Ace a goodbye kiss, presumably what Jack was prompting him to do.

** Doctors One through Eight also feel this way about Nine, wondering just what could have happened to make him into such a hard-edged, bitter, cynical person. Of course what none of them know is that he carries the guilt of having to effectively destroy the Time Lord race as the War Doctor at the close of the Last Great Time War.
* GagBoobs: Peri, just like usual. She's even referred to as "the one with the boobs".
* GambitPileup: At first it looks like the story is a plot by the Sontarans to get the various alien races of the galaxy to attack the Daleks and begin the Time War, only to find out it's really a plan by the Master [[spoiler:and his [[CloningBlues cloned Sontaran army]]. Which is then revealed to be a plot by the Valeyard to cause all-out war and let him take over Gallifrey. Which is ''then'' revealed to be a plot by Omega to cause the universe to be destroyed and then reshaped in his image. Which is in turn a plot by the Guardians of Time to force the Tenth Doctor to choose between eternal entropy or eternal order. Which the Ninth Doctor stops via a plan of his own involving nine duplicates of himself meeting up and causing the ClockRoaches to eat the {{Big Bad}}s]]. Whew. And that's not counting the roles the Rani, Davros, Dalek Ahn, the Toymaker, the War Chief, and Mortimus (the Meddling Monk) play in all this.
* GambitRoulette: As mentioned above, [[GambitPileup there's a number of tables going at once]], but special mention must be made of Omega, who piggybacked onto a bunch of other people's plans in an effort to [[spoiler:destroy One so that he and the actions of his successors would be removed from all time]].

-->'''Mel:''' ''[via radio]'' Doctor! How are you? It's me, Mel!\\

* LogicalWeakness: The Black Guardian laughs her ass off when asking the Doctor if he really thought he could escape her, the embodiment of chaos and entropy, with a ''Randomizer'' of all things. Ten bitterly admits it wasn't one of his finest ideas.
* LoopholeAbuse: It's how Two is able to beat the Celestial Toymaker at a game of Crazy Eights.

* MistakenIdentity: Inevitable when there are ten versions of the Doctor running around (and that's not counting the Valeyard or "2.5"), and usually — though not invariably — PlayedForLaughs.

* NotSoDifferent: The Daleks scan the Sixth Doctor's energy and conclude he's not at all like the kind and merciful Doctor, but instead their violent mastermind Keeper, [[spoiler:the Valeyard]]. Six decides to [[SureLetsGoWithThat roll with it]].

** A funny one happens when Ten realizes he's been paired up with the First Doctor.
* OneSteveLimit: As it would be very difficult to have ten-er, [[spoiler:elev-er, ten and a half]] characters named "the Doctor" running around, many of the Doctors are referred to by their incarnation number. Four, being eccentric, tries to claim he's One, before getting glared down.

* OriginalCharacter: There is precisely ''one'' character in this story who is not from ''Doctor Who'' canon or (in the case of the CreatorCameo) RealLife — the Lady President of Gallifrey.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: It is only near the end of the story when all the plot threads come together. At one point, the story manages to pull off a magnificent ''Twelve'' Lines, No Waiting: one for each Doctor, and one for each group of Companions.

-->'''Three:''' ''[after hearing someone break open the door]'' Who was it?\\
'''Four:''' ''[referring to Six]'' Just me.\\

The story is 247 pages long (plus a few extras along the way) and was posted from March 10, 2007 until May 27, 2009, so in a sense it could be considered the "official" unofficial Anniversary Special.