| 1 | [[center:[[WMG:''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Characters/DoctorWho characters index]]\ |
| 2 | [-'''Incarnations of [[Characters/DoctorWhoDoctors the Doctor]]'''\ |
| 3 | [[Characters/DoctorWhoFirstDoctor 1]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoSecondDoctor 2]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirdDoctor 3]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoFourthDoctor 4]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoFifthDoctor 5]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoSixthDoctor 6]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoSeventhDoctor 7]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoEighthDoctor 8]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoWarDoctor War]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoNinthDoctor 9]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor 10]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor 11]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor 12]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor 13]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoFourteenthandfifteenthDoctors 14 & 15]]\ |
| 4 | '''[[Characters/DoctorWhoTheTARDIS The TARDIS]]'''\ |
| 5 | '''[[Characters/DoctorWhoCompanionsAndSupportingCast Companions and Supporting Cast]]'''\ |
| 6 | [[Characters/DoctorWhoClassicSeriesCompanions Classic Series Companions]] ([[Characters/DoctorWhoK9 K9]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoRomana Romana]]) | [[Characters/DoctorWhoRevivalSeriesCompanions Revival Series Companions]] ([[Characters/DoctorWhoRoseTyler Rose Tyler]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoJackHarkness Captain Jack Harkness]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoThePonds The Ponds]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoRiverSong River Song]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoClaraOswald Clara Oswald]]) | [[Characters/DoctorWhoOtherSupportingCast Other Supporting Cast]] ('''The Paternoster Gang''') | [[Characters/DoctorWhoUNITStaff UNIT Staff]]\ |
| 7 | '''[[Characters/DoctorWhoVillains Villains]]'''\ |
| 8 | [[Characters/DoctorWhoImmortalsAndEldritchAbominations Immortals and Eldritch Abominations]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoMasters The Master]] ([[Characters/DoctorWhoJohnSimmsMaster John Simm's Master]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoMissy Missy]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverseMasters Expanded Universe Masters]])\ |
| 9 | '''[[Characters/DoctorWhoAliensAndMonsters Aliens and Monsters]]'''\ |
| 10 | [[Characters/DoctorWhoDaleks Daleks]] ([[Characters/DoctorWhoDavros Davros]]) | [[Characters/DoctorWhoCybermen Cybermen]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoRobots Robots]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoTheSilence The Silence]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoSilurians Silurians]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoSontarans Sontarans]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoTimeLords Time Lords]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoWeepingAngels Weeping Angels]] | [[Characters/DoctorWhoSlitheen Slitheen]]-]]]]] |
| 11 | !The Paternoster Gang (Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors) |
| 12 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2018_01_16_at_134014.png]] |
| 13 | [[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Vastra, Strax, and Jenny.]] |
| 14 | ->''"In London in the time of Queen Victoria, there were many tales of a remarkable personage known as the Great Detective. I refer, of course, to Madame Vastra, the lizard woman of Paternoster Row and her extraordinary adventures, her beautiful assistant, Jenny Flint, and their mysterious henchman, Strax, whose countenance was too abominable to be photographed. There are also accounts of a fourth member of the Paternoster Gang, a shadowy figure whose assistance was only sought in the direst emergencies."'' |
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| 16 | A trio of misfits in Victorian London who assist the Doctor, notably in his Eleventh and Twelfth incarnations. Since their introduction in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]], they have become very popular, with many fans demanding a spin-off, and Big Finish naturally obliged — following [[EarlyBirdCameo Early Bird Cameos]] from Strax and Vastra in ''AudioPlay/JagoAndLitefoot'' and ''The Churchill Years'' respectively, the gang's first appearance together came in the form of a PoorlyDisguisedPilot as part of the first volume of ''The Eighth of March'', a series of special releases to mark International Women's Day. The first series of their spin-off proper was released in June 2019. |
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| 18 | !!In General: |
| 19 | * ArtifactCollectionAgency: At the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror "The Crimson Horror"]], Strax talks of "another one for the vault", implying this trope. |
| 20 | * BreakoutCharacter: Due to their immense popularity, they eventually got their own spinoff series of audio dramas by Big Finish in June 2019. |
| 21 | * EasilyForgiven: Considering the group's shared propensity for murder, violence, and [[ToServeMan occasional acts of cannibalism]], most incarnations of the Doctor likely wouldn't have tolerated their company. As a more alien and morally flexible incarnation, the Eleventh Doctor was cool with hanging out with assorted monsters and psychopaths ([[Characters/DoctorWhoRiverSong his wife]] conforming to the latter category by her own admission). |
| 22 | * FamilyOfChoice: Vastra, Jenny and Strax's dynamic is that of a family, with Vastra and Jenny being the parents and Strax the child. This is especially evident in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror "The Crimson Horror"]], where Vastra scolds Strax for acting overexcited and asks him whether he’s been eating too much sherbet. Strax acts like a misbehaving child being told off by his mother. |
| 23 | * TheGayNineties: Post-Demon's Run, all their appearances on screen [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse and off]] have been restricted to this decade. |
| 24 | * HiddenDepths: While it can be easy to peg them as nothing more than a heroic variant of a QuirkyMinibossSquad, they all have more going on beneath the surface than appearances suggest. Even [[PluckyComicRelief Strax]]. |
| 25 | * LovelyAngels: Jenny and Vastra. Even better, they're an OfficialCouple. |
| 26 | -->'''Vastra:''' Good evening. I'm a lizard woman from the dawn of time, and this is my wife. |
| 27 | * PutOnABus: Outside of ExpandedUniverse media and a flashback, they haven't been seen or heard from since Twelve's premiere episode. Big Finish eventually gave them their own series in 2019. |
| 28 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Both Vastra and Strax have had offscreen adventures with the Doctor prior to their debut, but were otherwise never mentioned before. |
| 29 | * SherlockHomage: Apparently, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Holmes and Watson]] off of Vastra and Jenny. |
| 30 | * SimilarSquad: The first ''Paternoster Gang'' Big Finish boxset introduces recurring rivals in the form of the Bloomsbury Bunch, another local band who ''very'' [[ContrivedCoincidence conveniently also consist of a Sontaran, a Silurian, and a non-heteronormative human companion]]. The universe indeed has a great sense of humour. They diverge in that the Sontaran named Stonn (played by Christopher Ryan, known for his role as General Staal in the TV series) is the ringleader and the human, Tom Foster, is ''his'' lover, while the Silurian warrior Vella is the untamed hothead of the group. Instead of being detectives, they engage in shady business ventures that put them in conflict with the Paternoster Gang, though they are not [[EvilCounterpart evil counterparts]] by any means. |
| 31 | * SnarkToSnarkCombat: Vastra and Jenny love to go back and forth at each other, with Strax as the straight man. |
| 32 | * TrueCompanions: To each other, as well as to the Doctor. The Doctor undertakes great personal risk in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]] to save Vastra, Jenny and Strax, saying that they were there for him after he lost Amy and Rory. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]], they also look after the Doctor after his traumatic regeneration. |
| 33 | * TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Jenny and Vastra are the two girls, and Strax is the guy ([[OneGenderRace which is kind of a given for a Sontaran]]). |
| 34 | * WeirdnessCensor: Many seem to assume that Vastra and Strax suffer from some kind of skin malady and physical deformities, but because of Victorian social etiquette, are simply too polite to say anything! Then again, they ''do'' live in [[QuirkyTown Victorian London]]. |
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| 36 | ---- |
| 37 | [[folder:Madame Vastra]] |
| 38 | !!Madame Vastra |
| 39 | [[quoteright:125:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vastra_4961.png]] |
| 40 | ->'''Played by:''' [[Creator/NeveMcIntosh Neve McIntosh]] (2011–2014) |
| 41 | |
| 42 | -->''"Good evening. I'm a lizard woman from the dawn of time, and this is my wife."'' |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Vastra is a Silurian warrior living in Victorian London as a detective with her human maidservant, lover, and eventual wife, Jenny. They were recruited by the Eleventh Doctor to fight in the Battle of Demon's Run. After that, Strax came to live with them as their butler, and the Doctor spends quite a lot of time with them. Vastra apparently knows the Doctor very well from offscreen encounters. |
| 45 | ---- |
| 46 | * AccentRelapse: Traces of Neve [=McIntosh=]'s natural Scottish accent occasionally seep through her usual RP dialect. In one scene, she goes full Scottish while trying to reason with a confused, newly regenerated Twelfth Doctor. |
| 47 | * AllThereInTheManual: ''The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012'' contains 4 pages worth of Victorian newspaper articles and letters from Vastra hinting at how she first met the Doctor and Jenny, as well as some adventures Vastra and Jenny have had independent of each other. Apparently, she was even part of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang Henry Gordon Jago's]] theatre shows for a bit. |
| 48 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: The reason why UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper was never caught? Vastra ate him after catching him herself. |
| 49 | * CluelessDetective: In regards to the Great Intelligence, despite the Doctor's explanation to the point she thinks the Great Intelligence possessed Dr. Simeon instead of being his subconscious mind. (Though the Doctor was being vague about how the snow was a parasite and neglected to mention that the alien snow naturally had no mind and how the Great Intelligence was Simeon's subconsciousness). |
| 50 | * CovertPervert: She tries to invite Clara to remove her clothes. She's even less subtle when flirting with Jenny. |
| 51 | * CrazyPrepared: She sent Clara a letter containing a candle that would release a sedative when burned. Knowing that Clara wouldn't light it, she also coated the letter itself with the sedative. |
| 52 | * CulturedBadass: An intellectual of refined tastes, Vastra is also one of the deadliest combatants on the Doctor's speed-dial list. |
| 53 | * DeadpanSnarker: Vastra can get quite deadpan at times. |
| 54 | -->'''Strax:''' I'm not an expert on alien species ...but you're both woman ones aren't you?\ |
| 55 | '''Vastra:''' It has been noted. |
| 56 | * DoesNotLikeMen: Assumes Clara is upset at the Doctor's change only because she wanted pretty Creator/MattSmith, and clarifies that humans are "apes", men are just monkeys. |
| 57 | * {{Expy}}: In many ways, she fills a role for the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors that the Brigadier played for Classic Doctors- a Earth bound fighter who helps against alien threats. This is even lampshaded in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]] (itself [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot a callback to an episode with the Brigadier]]) where she quotes him word for word in response to a regeneration. |
| 58 | * FantasticRacism: Vastra isn't exactly fond of "apes", which causes the occasional argument with her wife, and she really doesn't like the standards of Victorian London. |
| 59 | * GreatDetective: The inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle. |
| 60 | * HappilyMarried: To Jenny. |
| 61 | * HellBentForLeather: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]] reveals she has a leather outfit similar to Jenny's. |
| 62 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: Most of her adventures are off-screen; the Paternoster gang even had its own comics run in ''Doctor Who Adventures'' and later a spin-off series from Big Finish. |
| 63 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: Her inhuman appearance, combined with the fact that she ''eats'' many of her well-deserved victims, makes her the bane to all criminals and serial killers prowling the streets of Victorian London. |
| 64 | * HughMann: Really [[PaperThinDisguise isn't]] trying. She takes off her veil quite often, and explains her background to anyone who asks. The fact that she has to disguise herself at all annoys her greatly. |
| 65 | * InterspeciesRomance: Silurian (pre-historic humanoid dinosaur) and human. They make it work. |
| 66 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: Vastra uses a katana in battle. |
| 67 | * LadyOfAdventure: She's got lots of adventures of her own under her belt, to the point of being the original inspiration for Literature/SherlockHolmes. |
| 68 | * LadyOfWar: A dignified, very intelligent LipstickLesbian Silurian onna-bugeisha who ate UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. |
| 69 | * LipstickLesbian: Likes to conform to Victorian standards of female dress in non-violent situations. Even tells Strax that one of the appeals of the Victorian Era are the extraordinary dresses. |
| 70 | * LivingRelic: She comes from the era the Silurians were Earth's dominant species, about 65 million years ago. |
| 71 | * MysteriousVeil: In public, she wears a black veil to cover her particular "skin disfigurement". She considers it more of a judgement on human society that she has to cover her true self than anything to be ashamed of. |
| 72 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: She and Jenny are [[HappilyMarried married]] crime-fighting [[SerialKillerKiller serial-killer-hunting]] [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana-wielding]] [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain Victorian]] [[InterspeciesRomance interspecies]] lesbians. Vastra herself is a Victorian, Silurian, katana-wielding, human-eating, crimefighter. |
| 73 | ** One of the show writers commented that he would have liked to make Vastra an actress as well so that she would be a [[RhymesOnADime Silurian Victorian Lesbian Thespian]]. |
| 74 | * NobleBigot: Vastra, who frequently criticizes "apes" and has eaten them (well, UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper) off-screen, despite being married to one. Jenny just rolls with it, though she does call Vastra out on it from time to time, and Vastra does try to rein it in, admitting in a "Good Man Goes To War" after one particularly insensitive comment that she sometimes wonders why Jenny puts up with her. She then knocks out a guard with her very long, very flexible prehensile tongue, and the two share a smirk. |
| 75 | * NoodleIncident: The Doctor first met her while she was preying on tunnel workers, before talking her out of it and convincing her to reform. The comic ''The Lost Dimension'' indicates it was the [[Characters/DoctorWhoNinthDoctor Ninth Doctor]]. |
| 76 | * OfficialCouple: With Jenny, to whom she is married. |
| 77 | * OverlyLongTongue: One whip from her long, prehensile tongue can knock a grown man out cold. It's also extremely useful for, uh, [[CountryMatters less savoury purposes]]. [[SexGod It's why Jenny puts up with her eccentricities.]] |
| 78 | * PaperThinDisguise: For the audience at least, her veil is very transparent. |
| 79 | * PerceptionFilter: Her veil has one. |
| 80 | * RememberTheNewGuy: One might mistake her for appearing in the Silurian two-parter in the previous season, but in actual fact Vastra met the Doctor in a completely offscreen adventure. |
| 81 | * RetiredMonster: Vastra was hunting workmen on the London Underground when the Doctor first met her. |
| 82 | * SherlockScan: Appropriate, considering that she supposedly inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes InUniverse, but she is extremely adept at reading people's hearts. As she explains, she is used to living behind a veil in public, so she is able to see through the veils of others. |
| 83 | * SonOfAnApe: Calls humans "apes" a lot. She also uses "monkey" as a male-specific insult. |
| 84 | * StatuesqueStunner: She towers over many other characters, including Clara. |
| 85 | * ToServeMan: Vastra ate UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper and was preying on workmen in the London Underground before the Doctor made her stop, as mentioned above. We don't know if she routinely does this anymore, or if Jenny [[ImAHumanitarian joins in at all]]. |
| 86 | * {{Troll}}: Asks Jenny to pose in her underwear (as near as naked as makes no difference for Victorians) under the pretences of painting a portrait. Once Jenny cottons on that this isn't true, Vastra asks her to keep posing. |
| 87 | ** Her peculiar methods of interrogation are partly a tool to expose people's true colours. Victorian Clara managed to hold her own remarkably well, whereas Modern Clara lost her temper very quickly, to the amusement of Vastra and [[HenpeckedHusband the catharsis]] [[YouGoGirl of Jenny]]. |
| 88 | * WaistcoatOfStyle: Wears a green one in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]] when she goes to Demon's Run. |
| 89 | * WidowsWeeds: Her usual attire follows the rule of Victorian mourning attire (black or dark colours, jet jewelry, a veil etc.). In addition to the concealing garments masking her non-human appearance the choice to wear mourning attire is fitting for someone who has lost most, if not all, of their species. |
| 90 | * WiseSerpent: Ancient, reptilian, and frequently shown to be one of the Doctor's wisest, most insightful associates. |
| 91 | [[/folder]] |
| 92 | |
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| 94 | [[folder:Jenny Flint]] |
| 95 | !!Jenny Flint |
| 96 | [[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jennyflint_3913.png]] |
| 97 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/CatrinStewart (2011–2014) |
| 98 | |
| 99 | -->''"Naah, Doctor, this one's on me."'' |
| 100 | |
| 101 | Madame Vastra's wife and NinjaMaid, who was cast out by her family for her preferences and subsequently took up a life of detective work, lock-picking and katana-wielding. |
| 102 | ---- |
| 103 | * ActionGirl: With a katana. |
| 104 | * AwfulWeddedLife: Very {{Downplayed}}, but living with an incredibly eccentric (even by her species' standards) Silurian ninja detective with an over-inflated ego has its downsides. Vastra is clearly dominant in the relationship and Jenny frequently finds herself playing the maidservant role even in private, much to her vocal annoyance. However, their love is very genuine. |
| 105 | * BadassAdorable: She can be very cute, when she's not going around slicing people up. |
| 106 | * BattleButler: She poses as Vastra's maid, although both are aware that Victorian society is only accepting the cover story out of politeness. |
| 107 | * BattleCouple: With Vastra. |
| 108 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]] shows some cracks in her relationship with Vastra, as while she loves her she's not always happy about being the submissive one. |
| 109 | * DisneyDeath: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], she "dies" just long enough to freak out Vastra (and the fans) before Strax restarts her heart. |
| 110 | * FantasticallyIndifferent: [[InterspeciesRomance The obvious aside]], she seems to have an almost distressingly blasé attitude towards her wife's... [[ToServeMan unique palate]]. Granted, her meals usually consist of criminals, but still... |
| 111 | * {{Gayngst}}: Jenny was ostracized by her family over "preferences in companionship". She's rolled with it. |
| 112 | * HappilyMarried: To Vastra. Unlike her more indiscriminately flirtatious other-half, Jenny remains completely faithful and even smacks the Doctor when he attempts a platonic "[[GladToBeAliveSex glad to be alive]]" snog. |
| 113 | * HellBentForLeather: Jenny's black-leather SpyCatsuit, which she has been seen to wear under more usual clothing. |
| 114 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: Vastra being the "real life" Sherlock, Jenny is the inspiration for John Watson. |
| 115 | * InsistentTerminology: Addresses her wife simply as "Madame", and only occasionally as "Vastra". |
| 116 | * InterspeciesRomance: With Vastra. |
| 117 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: Wields one expertly, likely thanks to some tutelage from Vastra. |
| 118 | * LadyOfAdventure: A crime-fighting detective and occasional ninja. |
| 119 | * LipstickLesbian: Likes to conform to Victorian standards of female dress in non-violent situations, but wears more sensible combat gear underneath. |
| 120 | * MasterOfUnlocking: Seems to be very skilled at lockpicking in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror "The Crimson Horror"]]. The Doctor even compliments her lockpicking skills. |
| 121 | * MeaningfulRename: The Big Finish audios reveal that she was born Jennifer Scarrity. She ran away from home because she hated her parents and the fact that they ran a carnival freak show. She then chose the name Flint because she had to become hard like flint. |
| 122 | * NiceGirl: Her friendly and kind demeanour set her apart from the aloof Vastra and psychotic Strax. |
| 123 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: She and Vastra are [[HappilyMarried married]] crime-fighting [[SerialKillerKiller serial-killer-hunting]] [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana-wielding]] [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain Victorian]] [[InterspeciesRomance interspecies]] lesbians. |
| 124 | * OfficialCouple: With Vastra. |
| 125 | * OneSteveLimit: Most of the time the name "Jenny" is mentioned in the context of Doctor Who, most people think of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter the Doctor's daughter]]. This Jenny has no relation to her, despite having even more appearances. |
| 126 | * RunningGag: Has to repeatedly remind her wife that they are in fact married each time she openly flirts with another woman. Usually always in an aghast and exasperated manner by stating, "Married!" hinting that this is a reoccurring issue. This happens almost every episode with them and sometimes more than once, especially when Clara Oswald is around. |
| 127 | * SatelliteCharacter: {{Downplayed}} as she has been naturally developed over many appearances, but most of Jenny's characterisation revolves around her being Vastra's human wife and the fact that she shares many of her quirks. |
| 128 | * SheCleansUpNicely: Jenny usually wears either her SpyCatsuit or clothes suitable to a Victorian-era maid and pins her hair up. But in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]], she has a scene where she's only wearing her underclothes ''and'' has her hair down; the difference this makes to her appearance is quite surprising. |
| 129 | %% How does she fit the trope? |
| 130 | %%%* SilkHidingSteel: |
| 131 | %%%%% How does she fit the trope? |
| 132 | * SpyCatsuit: Sometimes wears one in combat situations. |
| 133 | * TokenHuman: She's the only human in the trio, working with a Silurian and a Sontaran. |
| 134 | ** This trait is what gets her [[KickTheDog kicked]] ''hard'' when they end up facing the Great Intelligence, who casually [[DisneyDeath kills her]] just to prove a point (and it's clear that he was more than willing to kill her ''again'' just because ''he could''). |
| 135 | * WaistcoatOfStyle: Wears a blue one in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]] when she goes to Demon's Run. |
| 136 | * TheWatson: The ''original'' Watson who allegedly inspired Sir Conan Doyle's stories, but does not actually fit the trope because she doesn't need her wife to explain things to her. |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
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| 140 | [[folder:Strax]] |
| 141 | !!Commander Strax |
| 142 | [[quoteright:295:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/strax_354.jpg]] |
| 143 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/DanStarkey (2011–2014) |
| 144 | |
| 145 | -->''"Do not attempt to escape or you will be obliterated. May I take your coat?"'' |
| 146 | |
| 147 | Strax was, at one time, a Commander in the Sontaran army, but was [[NoPlaceForAWarrior demoted to the status of nurse]]. At some point he encountered the Doctor and the two began an OddFriendship, leading Strax to participate in the Battle of Demon's Run, where he was killed (or, perhaps, simply fainted). He managed to be brought BackFromTheDead (although he CameBackWrong a bit), and he began living with Vastra and Jenny in Victorian London. |
| 148 | |
| 149 | Showed up in ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', where he got to team up with Jago and Litefoot... [[HilarityEnsues because he got hit on the head and thought they were Vastra and Jenny]]. |
| 150 | ---- |
| 151 | * AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: His appearance at Monster's Day Out [[AliensInCardiff was in Cahrrdeef]]. |
| 152 | * AffablyEvil: Not evil ''per se'', but he frequently remarks to people that he hopes to one day kill them for the glory of the Sontaran Empire. Note that this is a compliment from a Sontaran's perspective. |
| 153 | * AlienGenderConfusion: It's a RunningGag that Strax cannot identify humans by sex, and always guesses wrong, because he's a Sontaran, a race of clones who're only male. |
| 154 | * AttackAttackAttack: Strax's first, second, and third choice for any situation. |
| 155 | * AxeCrazy: His first instinct for any approach is to attack, kill, or destroy. |
| 156 | -->'''Jenny:''' It's beautiful.\ |
| 157 | '''Strax:''' Shall I destroy it?\ |
| 158 | '''Vastra:''' Shut up, Strax. |
| 159 | * BackFromTheDead: We see Vastra and Jenny fixing him up in the "Two Days Later" minisode, where it's stated that he actually ''fainted'' instead. |
| 160 | * BadassAdorable: Whenever he is excited to go into battle, he becomes this. |
| 161 | * BadBoss: Has a tendency to "execute" horses for failure, especially when he's hungry. |
| 162 | * BarBrawl: His idea of a fun weekend off is getting into one of these with a ViolentGlaswegian. |
| 163 | * BattleButler: Now serves this role to Vastra and Jenny. He's got the battle down, and he's trying hard on the butler part. |
| 164 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: "Deep Breath" includes a surprisingly dark and serious moment for Strax. When he and his friends are surrounded by deadly Clockwork Droids, they have to hold their breath to avoid detection from their primitive sensors. When he starts to falter, Strax slowly turns his gun on himself in order to give the others some more time, but they thankfully stop him before he pulls the trigger. It goes to show that for all his immature and psychotic behaviour, Strax would gladly eat a laser bolt for his TrueCompanions. |
| 165 | * BizarreAlienSexes: Hailing from a [[OneGenderRace monosex clone-race]], "two genders is a bit further than he can count". He defaults to male pronouns to comic effect, even when he's making an effort. |
| 166 | -->'''Strax:''' I'm not an expert on alien species, but you're both... woman-ones, aren't you? \ |
| 167 | '''Vastra:''' It has been noted.\ |
| 168 | '''Strax:''' Don't you need a man-one?\ |
| 169 | '''Vastra[=/=]Jenny:''' No.\ |
| 170 | '''Strax:''' Am I the man-one?\ |
| 171 | '''Vastra[=/=]Jenny:''' No! |
| 172 | ** In his report on the different incarnations of the Doctor, he is convinced that the Eighth Doctor is a woman because of his long hair. |
| 173 | * BloodKnight: He is a Sontaran, after all. He was excited to be recruited for the Battle of Demons Run. |
| 174 | * CameBackWrong: Regardless of whether one thinks he died at Demon's Run, or accepts the minisode explanation that he merely fainted, his personality changes rather drastically from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]] upon his return in [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen "The Snowmen"]]. However, the fact that he's much more docile and stupid than before is arguably an improvement. |
| 175 | -->'''The Doctor:''' He gave his life for a friend of mine once, and another friend brought him back. I'm not sure all his brains made the return trip! |
| 176 | * CharacterDevelopment: At first, he longed to destroy Earth and hated his punishment, but he seems to have gotten used to it (and even enjoys some bits of Earth). |
| 177 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: |
| 178 | ** He declared war on ''the Moon'', having determined that it had been over them far too long and had gained a tactical advantage. When informed that the Moon was uninhabited, he merely insisted that that just meant that now is the best time to strike because "They'll never see it coming!" |
| 179 | ** He executed three horses in a week, because he believed they failed their missions. And he was implied to have ''[[BigEater eaten]]'' them, too. (He gets prevented from executing a fourth.) |
| 180 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Turns out he was right about something [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E7KillTheMoon living on the Moon]]. |
| 181 | * CombatMedic: A Sontaran ''Nurse''. |
| 182 | * TheComicallySerious: Strax says pretty much everything in the most serious fashion a Sontaran can manage. |
| 183 | * DeathSeeker: He finds the glorious Sontaran death is a bit less pleasant than he expected. After being fixed up, he initially insists that he's most sincerely dead and they should leave him. |
| 184 | * DisneyDeath: He "died" at the Battle of Demon's Run. |
| 185 | * TheDitz: The Doctor suggested that he CameBackWrong, though part of his apparent ditziness may be because he's a Sontaran trying to fit in Victorian London. |
| 186 | ** In “The Snowmen” he repeatedly holds a memory worm without using gloves, thereby constantly erasing his own memory to the Doctor’s frustration. |
| 187 | * FateWorseThanDeath: For a Sontaran, being forced to ''save'' lives is one of the greatest shames imaginable. |
| 188 | * {{Foil}}: To Rory, who is a nurse-turned-warrior, while Strax is a warrior-turned-nurse. Also as Vastra and Jenny's butler. |
| 189 | * FriendToAllChildren: |
| 190 | ** His appearance at Monster's Day Out taking questions from a group of little children. |
| 191 | ** In the show proper, he gets along with kids just fine, and seems quite upset that Rory won't let him nurse Melody. |
| 192 | * GeniusDitz: Still retains his medical and combat knowledge after he CameBackWrong. |
| 193 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: He is, like all Sontarans, extremely quick to violence, but he means well enough and his antics are PlayedForLaughs. |
| 194 | * HumiliationConga: For a once-mighty warrior general, being demoted to Nurse and having to help the weak and sickly is the worst humiliation imaginable. |
| 195 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He's probably one of the most likeable guys who will ever threaten to melt you with acid. |
| 196 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Sontarans can be violent and brutish, but this one's the Doctor's friend. Plus he offered to breast-feed Amy and Rory's baby. He can produce ''magnificent'' quantities of lactic fluid! |
| 197 | * KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: When introduced, he states that he is forced to serve as a "healer of the weak and sick". To his mind, as a member of his ProudWarriorRace, this is the most shameful of all professions, as he is on the battlefield, but not only is he not fighting, but he is actively undoing the results of the fighting done by others. He tolerates this only because it is a penance imposed on him, heavily implied to be one imposed by the Doctor himself. |
| 198 | * LargeHam: To a certain extent. |
| 199 | -->"I have gene-spliced myself for all nursing duties. I can produce MAGNIFICENT quantities of lactic fluid!"\ |
| 200 | "PREPARE TO DIE IN AGONY FOR THE GLORY OF THE SONTARAN EMPIRE!" |
| 201 | * LiteralMinded: As Clara finds out, Strax has issues with metaphor and euphemism. And surprisingly good aim with a newspaper. This one isn't unique to Strax, however, as other Sontarans have shown confusion over human slang before. |
| 202 | * LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: He prefaces the cinema version of [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], warning viewers that texting or unauthorized filming will be punished ''severely'' but popcorn is a-okay. |
| 203 | -->'''Strax:''' Remember — popcorn can feel pain! ''[crunch]'' Ah, those tiny screams! |
| 204 | * MarsNeedsWomen: Bizarre considering his usual ignorance of the very concept of gender, but in one of his many "for the glory of the Sontaran Empire" rants, he demands that the planet Trenzalore surrender its women and intellectuals, more in the style of a stereotypical alien invader. What use Sontarans would have for them, one can only guess. |
| 205 | * MisterSeahorse: He's not technically got a gender, but mentions undergoing gene-splicing to allow him to produce breast milk. |
| 206 | * MoodWhiplash: He provides this gem from [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen "The Snowmen"]]: |
| 207 | -->'''Strax:''' Do not attempt to escape, or you will be obliterated! ''[politely]'' May I take your coat? |
| 208 | * NoodleImplements: Some of the weapons Strax will inevitably suggest using at the nearest opportunity sound [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill ridiculously overpowered]] or just flat-out insane. |
| 209 | * NoodleIncident: Whatever caused him to be demoted to nurse to restore the honour of his clone batch. Some ExpandedUniverse material suggests the Tenth Doctor may have been involved, as Strax ''really'' doesn't like him. |
| 210 | * NoTalkingOrPhonesWarning: Provides one for the cinema version of [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]. |
| 211 | * OddFriendship: While Vastra and Jenny were already an odd duo, the addition of a battle-crazed Sontaran nurse into their ranks was a step further. It's sometimes easy to forget that, before their first meeting at Demon's Run, Strax originally had nothing to do with Vastra; as they were both iconic monsters-turned-friends of the Doctor, Strax got lumbered with her in a platonic case of PairTheSpares. |
| 212 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], when the Great Intelligence attempts to rewrite the Doctor's entire timestream and remove his positive influence on the universe, Strax is briefly transformed into a psychopathic Sontaran warrior (more so than usual) and even attempts to murder Madame Vastra because as a Silurian, she was "racially impure". |
| 213 | * PaperThinDisguise: Squeezing into a well-fitted suit allows him to pass as a very deformed human, but unlike Vastra, he rarely bothers to hide his face in public. |
| 214 | * PluckyComicRelief: He plays this role ever since his second appearance, which is a sharp contrast from most of his species. |
| 215 | * PsychopathicManchild: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror "The Crimson Horror"]], Vastra scolds him for getting overexcited. Strax goes into a sulk and storms outside to play with his grenades. |
| 216 | * PsychoSidekick: The only reason why he isn't trying to conquer Earth is because he sees Vastra, Jenny and the Doctor as his superiors and works towards their objectives. |
| 217 | * RunningGag: Several. His inability to distinguish between genders, his fondness for violence, his poor grasp of human behaviour, and his habit of suggesting attacks with multiple ludicrous weapons. With these weapons, acid seems to be a favourite option of his, given how often he suggests using it. |
| 218 | * StoutStrength: Can throw a newspaper hard enough to knock someone over on a second floor. Justified given that he's a Sontaran. |
| 219 | * SweetTooth: He apparently gets into Jenny's Sherbert Fancies from time to time. |
| 220 | * ThrowDownTheBomblet: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror "The Crimson Horror"]], he grumbles that Madame Vastra ''never'' lets him use his grenades. |
| 221 | * TokenEvilTeammate: He is a Sontaran after all, albeit one reduced to the status of IneffectualSympatheticVillain. His suggested solutions to problems are usually horrifically violent and can't help but include death threats in his daily discourse. He also apparently murders a horse every couple of days for "failing its mission". |
| 222 | * ViolentGlaswegian: He isn't one, but Strax seems to feel more of a kinship with them than any other humans. Whenever he has a day off, he travels to Glasgow for the express purpose of getting in bar fights. |
| 223 | * WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Violence is all he knows. He recommends extremely violent solutions involving grenades or acid for dealing with any situation, regardless of how mundane it is. He's always overruled by Vastra, Jenny or the Doctor, so we never get to see the "hammer" in action. |
| 224 | * WorthyOpponent: |
| 225 | ** He considers the Doctor a worthy enemy of the Sontarans, though he prefers some incarnations over others. [[HotBlooded Six]] is his personal favourite, Three gets singled out for his super-spy heroics, and he despises Ten for humiliating his clone batch. |
| 226 | ** When he's not fighting his favourite ViolentGlaswegian to the death in an epic bar brawl, he's on quite friendly terms with him. |
| 227 | [[/folder]] |
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