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 [[BiTheWay (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.

''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...]]

* 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.]]

* 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.

* 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.

''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 ''Doctor Who'' 45th-Anniversary Special.

The comic is not to be confused with the web series ''WebVideo/TheTenDoctors'', which has a similar premise but a different plot.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The last page of the comic segues immediately into the beginning of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones "Smith and Jones]]".

* 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'', which has inexplicably been in DevelopmentHell since 1996]].

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

* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: Nine's willingness to sacrifice Rose to destroy Dalek-Tor]] results in One practically ''exploding'' with rage.

* 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.]]

** A pre-"Smith & Jones" Martha shows up briefly as Grace Holloway's assistant.

* CartoonyEyes: The characters switch between these and relatively realistic ones, depending on whether or not they're in the background or foreground. Most notable with Five, whose CartoonyEyes are [[BlackBeadEyes dots]].

* 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]]".]]

-->'''Glitz:''' Personally, I think it tastes like Nimon sh--\\

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler:The Guardians say that their appearances change with the needs of their desired champions. In the story proper, both Guardians manifest as attractive humanoid women in order to toy with Ten's need for meaningful companionship, and in a flashback, the White Guardian manifests to Davros as a military officer.]] It's also mentioned that their appearances as [[spoiler:doddery old men in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E1TheRibosOperation The Ribos Operation]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor The Armageddon Factor]]"]] played off of Four's need for an authority figure.

** The Rani. Putting aside her behaviour on the rest of the show, she kidnaps the companions and gives them to the Cybermen, and later reveals that she had some sort of arrangement with Glitz and Davros to ensure her own safety. She later ''does'' work with Seven to defeat the Daleks, but only after she's been betrayed by Davros. By the end of the story, [[spoiler:she attends the party on the Eye of Orion, becomes one of Drax's companions, and pretty much gets off scot-free (aside from losing her own TARDIS).]]
* 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 [[BiTheWay (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.

* 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.

** [[spoiler:So the entire reason the Time Lords lost the Time War is that the Valeyard, which the Time Lords ''created in the first place'', killed one Time Lord before he could get the Daleks' attack strategies to the Doctor. If this hadn't happened, the war would have been much less destructive, the Time Lords and Gallifrey would still be around, and the events of ''The End of Time'' would '''never have happened'''. So it's the Time Lords' fault they got into the Time War, which isn't too surprising. Though that was already known, given that various showrunners have openly stated that the Time Lords sending the Doctor back to stop the Daleks from existing in "Genesis of the Daleks" was the first shot in the war.]]

* OriginalCharacter: There is precisely ''one'' character in this story who is not from ''Doctor Who'' canon or (in the case of the CreatorCameo) RealLife, that being the Lady President of Gallifrey.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: The ten doctors, throughout the webcomic, do the two things that Multi-Doctor stories have done from the beginning. The first is save the universe from impossible odds, beating intractable foes, and sorting out world-shattering paradoxes. The other, of course, is ''bitching about how much their other selves annoy them.''

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The Monk [[spoiler:wants to prevent the outcome of the Time War, since the only reason Eight's double genocide was necessary in the first place was Damon being murdered by Maxil under the Valeyard's orders due to the Time Lord Council's meddling]].

* SummonBiggerFish: Quite a few villains are defeated or set back by one or other Doctor summoning their arch enemies, but the best example of this trope comes towards the end, when Nine and Ten [[spoiler:unleash the Reapers on the Guardians.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: Omega plans to do this to the Doctor if the Toymaker fails. [[spoiler:After Glitz hits Omega with a matter laser blast, Omega [[YouHaveFailedMe settles for the Toymaker instead]]]].

%%* UnwittingPawn: Maxil

* XanatosSpeedChess: Six pretending to be the Keeper to fool the Renegade Daleks. He keeps it up past several interruptions, constantly improvises to keep the upper hand, and eventually gets them to land on [[spoiler:Mechanus, where the Mechonoids promptly destroy them.]]

* 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.

* NinjaZombiePirateRobot: [[spoiler:Dalek-''Time Lords''-Humans. What more can you ask for?]] (As a close second, there's [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul cyberized Silurians]].)

* MistakenIdentity: When a patient with two hearts is brought into the hospital where Grace Holloway is working, Grace assumes it's the Doctor having regenerated again. In fact it's [[spoiler:Romana]], who's puzzled by but not entirely averse to Grace's ''very'' warm greeting.

%%* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* ArcWords: In [[http://comics.shipsinker.com/?id=74 Page 54]], there's a throwback to the "Bad Wolf" storyline in the second panel, which focuses on Nine.

* SevenMinuteLull: [[http://comics.shipsinker.com/?id=183 Page 141]] features everyone talking at once, and Jamie gets a line at the very end:

* AndThisIsFor: [[http://comics.shipsinker.com/?id=155 Nyssa takes down the Master and avenges the destruction of her homeworld.]]

''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 all the eponymous ten 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.

** [[spoiler:So the entire reason the Time Lords lost the Time War is that the Valeyard, which the Time Lords ''created in the first place'', killed one Time Lord before he could get the Daleks' attack strategies to the Doctor. If this hadn't happened, the war would have been much less destructive, the Time Lords and Gallifrey would still be around, and the events of ''The End of Time'' would '''never have happened'''. So it's the Time Lords' fault they got into the Time War, which isn't too surprising. Though that was already known, given that various showrunners have openly stated that the Time Lords sending the Doctor back to stop the Daleks from existing in "Genesis of the Daleks," was the first shot in the war.]]

** [[spoiler:So the entire reason the Time Lords lost the Time War is that the Valeyard, which the Time Lords ''created in the first place'', killed one Time Lord before he could get the Daleks' attack strategies to the Doctor. If this hadn't happened, the war would have been much less destructive, the Time Lords and Gallifrey would still be around, and the events of ''The End of Time'' would '''never have happened'''. So it's the Time Lords' fault they got into the Time War, which isn't too surprising.]]

* 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.

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...]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The last page of the comic segues immediately into the beginning of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones "Smith and Jones"]].

** 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"]].]]

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler:The Guardians say that their appearances change with the needs of their desired champions. In the story proper, both Guardians manifest as attractive humanoid women in order to toy with Ten's need for meaningful companionship, and in a flashback, the White Guardian manifests to Davros as a military officer.]] It's also mentioned that their appearances as [[spoiler:doddery old men in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E1TheRibosOperation "The Ribos Operation"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor "The Armageddon Factor"]]]] played off of Four's need for an authority figure.

** At one point, after hearing what other Time Lords think of his career, One (during his exile but before [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild "An Unearthly Child"]]) wonders what kind of lunatic he's going to turn into.

* 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, [[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.

* [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil Balance Between Order and Chaos]]: [[spoiler:When the Guardians reveal that, while Davros is the Champion of Order and the Master is the Champion of Chaos, the Doctor effectively sets himself up as the Champion of Happy Medium.]]

* ContinuityNod / MythologyGag: In '''spades'''

* FlatWhat / BigWhat: Ten gets in the usual "What? What?! What?!?"

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* UnwittingPawn: Maxil

:: After a bit of exposition, One eventually caves and calls it "timey-wimey".

(''Nine sighs'')

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

* ItsAllAboutMe: Four. He tried to introduce himself as One, but accepted chronological order rather than importance or charm under everyone else's glares.

* MistakenIdentity: When a patient with two hearts is brought into the hospital where Grace Holloway is working, Grace assumes it's the Doctor having regenerated again. In fact it's [[spoiler:Romana]], who's puzzled by but not unentirely averse to Grace's ''very'' warm greeting.

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

'''Six:''' Oh, I think it is. How do I know you aren't one of Davros' children, hmm? Trying to trick me into betraying the true Daleks. Painting up their ugly white carapaces to resemble the true masters of the universe... but they got you wrong, haven't they? Only the special envoy of the Emperor himself wears gold livery like this. Sector Commanders are black--\\

The comic is not to be confused with the web series WebVideo/TheTenDoctors, which has a similar premise but a different plot.

** The Dalek / Cybermen "negotiations" play out almost exactly as they do in "Doomsday", and Romana mentions "jiggery-pokery class" at the Academy.

* EarlyBirdCameo: In-universe? Anyway, a pre-"Smith & Jones" Martha shows up briefly as Grace Holloway's assistant.

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

'''''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 all the eponymous ten 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.

!!''The 10 Doctors'' provides examples of the following tropes:

''''The 10 Doctors''''' is a ''Series/DoctorWho'' {{Fan Webcomic|s}} by Rich Morris. The comic is especially notable for featuring 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.

''The 10 Doctors'' is a ''Series/DoctorWho'' {{Fan Webcomic|s}} by Rich Morris. The comic is especially notable for featuring almost ''every'' villain, companion and side character of the entire TV 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.