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"You know, after a while, everything is just stuff. That's the problem. You make all of space and time your backyard, what do you have? A backyard. But you can see it. And when you see it, I see it."
Eleventh Doctor

The many, many people who accompany the Doctor in the Doctor Who revival series (2005 onwards). For their ongoing character tropes in Big Finish Doctor Who (in which the original actors continue to play them), see here.

Warning: There are a lot of unmarked spoilers on this page. Proceed with caution.


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Ninth Doctor Era

    Rose Tyler 

    Mickey Smith 

Mickey Smith (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)

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Debut: "Rose" (2005)
Joins TARDIS Crew: "School Reunion" (2006)
Departure Story: "The Age of Steel" (2006)
Final Appearance: "The End of Time" (Part 2, 2010)

Played by: Noel Clarke (2005–06, 2008, 2010)
Young Mickey played by: Casey Dyer (2005)

"Me? I'm their 'man in Havana', their technical support... Oh God, I'm the tin dog."

Mickey starts the show as Rose's boyfriend, abandoned by her when she became the Doctor's companion. This doesn't stop him from running around for a few adventures during that series anyway, although he and Rose never quite manage to patch things up. He later joins the TARDIS crew as a companion for a few episodes early in the second series, only to stay behind off-planet (sort of). He returns at the end of the second series, as well as the end of the fourth and briefly in the 2009 specials. In the end, he found true love and married Martha Jones.


  • All Love Is Unrequited: Played straight with Rose, later averted with Martha, whom he married.
  • Alternate Self: His counterpart in the zeppelin world is a gay gangster named Ricky. (The gay part is suggested from a deleted scene, but it's debatable if the scene is canon or not.)
  • Always Second Best: He can't measure up to the Doctor even after taking his level in badass. Eventually, he stops trying to and decides to become his own person. Leading him to look for his own purpose in life, away from the TARDIS and Rose.
  • Amicable Exes: Initially Rose's boyfriend, after an awkward break-up, the two eventually manage to get along.
  • Badass Normal: A powerless, nerdy human with hacking skills who also becomes a Cyberman killer and freelance alien hunter.
  • Better as Friends: He and Rose become this, as their brief interactions are more positive in series 2 once Mickey accepts she's never going to be with him.
  • Black and Nerdy: He's a more than capable hacker.
  • Butt-Monkey: The Doctor considers him an idiot, his girlfriend gives him little to no respect, his girlfriend's mother accuses him of murder when her daughter goes missing, Captain Jack starts making fun of him within ten seconds of meeting him, and even K-9 gets to throw in a bit of snark while informing him, "We are in a car." Hell, his own parallel universe equivalent finds him embarrassing, and this is a guy who considers himself a badass because of the number of parking tickets he's accrued. Thankfully he gets some more respect after spending time in the parallel world.
  • Childhood Friends: Rose and Mickey were this before they started dating at some point before the start of the series. This is why they’re still emotionally attached to each other after they break up and why Mickey is so close with Jackie.
  • Humiliation Conga: His girlfriend runs off with an alien after basically snarking how useless he was. She goes missing for a year and the police haul him in five times, while her mother and the entire estate gives him hell about it. The Doctor keeps calling him Ricky and turning into better looking guys while hauling his girlfriend all over the cosmos. Then Mickey pisses on everyone and decides to show his worth.
  • I Choose to Stay: At the end of "The Age of Steel", he stays behind in the alternate universe to help his dead alternate self's invokedboyfriend (long story) fight the Cybermen and take care of his parallel-universe grandmother. Then he comes back for good at the end of "Journey's End" (after returning briefly in "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday").
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Once it becomes clear that Rose has chosen the Doctor and doesn't see a future with him, Mickey is still willing to help her get back to the Doctor if that's what she truly wants.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: Carries a torch for Rose for years despite her affections for the Doctor, but as soon as the Metacrisis Doctor is sent to live with Rose and company in Pete's World, returns to the prime universe. Between this and his parallel-universe grandmother having passed away, Pete's World no longer has anything to offer him.
  • Love Triangle: Rose leaves him as soon as she meets the Doctor, although she considers herself "sort of" Mickey's girlfriend for a while after that. When she also starts fancying Jack, Mickey pretty much gives up on the relationship. He becomes part of the family again when he and Rose are left without the Doctor for a few years, but eventually steps out of her life forever when Rose gets together with the Doctor's half-Donna clone.
  • The Mole: He manages to infiltrate Torchwood One after learning that the Cybermen of Pete's World had managed to cross universes. They never caught on.
  • My Greatest Failure:
    • He's felt guilty for not helping his grandmother fix the stair carpet, which caused her to fall and break her neck. He decides to not let that happen again when he sees her parallel counterpart and decided to take care of her until she passed away peacefully.
    • Also when his counterpart Ricky was deleted by the Cybermen, he decided to not let it happen again.
  • Mirror Character: To Rory Williams, as both are the boyfriends of the Doctor's main companion who feel unapreciated and threatened by their girlfriend's close relationship with the Doctor. They were also childhood friends with their respective love interests and experience surprising character development into a more stronger and tougher character. The difference is that Mickey's character development is about moving on from Rose so he can become his own person and he later finds Martha, while Rory stays with Amy after his character development and their relationship turns out much better.
  • Nice Guy: A pretty laid-back boyfriend, if a bit aimless... at first.
  • Pair the Spares: With Martha Jones, offscreen.
  • Parental Abandonment: His father Jackson Smith was a locksmith who just took off one day when Mickey was a kid. The series never states where Mickey's mother is, but the novelization of "Rose" mentions she committed suicide. He was largely raised by his grandmother, who while genuinely loving also tended to slap him a lot.
  • Poke the Poodle: His parallel equivalent is London's Most Wanted... For parking violations.
  • Punny Name: Perhaps not intentional, but to "take the mickey" out of someone is to take any fight/vigor/self importance out of them by mocking them, and Mickey does have to put up with a great deal of mockery and bullying from Rose and the Doctor (mostly Nine, but Ten has his moments), and Jackie at first.
  • Rebel Leader: Alternate Mickey. (It's Ricky.)
  • Refusal of the Call: Initially, after his help in "World War Three", the Doctor finally offers him a spot in the TARDIS only to be turned down (one of the few companions to do so). He later takes his offer up in "School Reunion".
  • Replacement Goldfish: Becomes one for Jake, Ricky's invokedboyfriend. Jake copes pretty well with the idea, but since Mickey's not gay, it's a dysfunctional setup to say the least.
  • Taking Up the Mantle: When his alternate self dies, Mickey simply assumes his identity and continues the fight.
  • Techno Wizard: He describes himself as "technical support" because he's very good with computers.
  • Token Minority Couple: With Martha, of the "Independently-Made" variety.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Multiple. To wit, from lovable but aimless boyfriend to a capable hacker and fully-fledged companion. Ends up fighting Cybermen in an alternate reality and respected member of that reality's Torchwood, and finally earns his happy ending with a woman who saved the world with the power of story.
  • Useless Boyfriend: He is this to Rose. Being unable to help even when he is not the one in distress. He eventually outgrow it.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: He develops into this with Jack over time. When they reunite on the Dalek Crucible, Jack mockingly calls him "Mickey Mouse" and Mickey responds in turn with "Captain Cheesecake". Then they cheer and hug it out.

    Adam Mitchell 

Adam Mitchell (Ninth Doctor)

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Debut: "Dalek" (2005)
Departure Story: "The Long Game" (2005)

Played by: Bruno Langley (2005)

"When I was eight, I hacked into the US defence network… you should have seen them running about!"

Short-lived companion; a Teen Genius from 2012. Holds the dubious honour of being the only companion to be evicted from the TARDIS for bad behaviour, and at 2 episodes and 2 stories is the shortest tenured companion in the revival era.


  • Arbitrary Skepticism: Has a job that revolves around the collection of alien artefacts, but sees alien abduction stories as nonsense.
  • Big Bad: For another piece of Doctor Who media, Prisoners of Time.
  • Butt-Monkey: He doesn't get a lot of respect.
  • Deliberately Bad Example: He's a horrible companion in every aspect, to demonstrate The Doctor's standards for who he lets travel with him.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: While angry at the Doctor, in Prisoners of Time, Adam is manipulated by the Master into attacking eleven Doctors, even those who hadn't met him yet, planning to kill most of the Doctor's companions just to make him suffer.
  • Ditzy Genius: A teen genius who thinks that his plan to sell information back to his own time is a good idea.
  • Evil Counterpart: To pretty much all of the Doctor's companions. He's an unworthy companion who abuses the trust the Doctor places in him for his own selfish benefit and nearly gets the Doctor and Rose killed, causing the Doctor to unceremoniously eject him from the TARDIS crew.
  • Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: In Prisoners of Time, Adam claims that he only tried to steal alien technology to heal his mother of her illness, but the Doctor doesn't consider this a justifiable excuse even if it's true.
  • Insufferable Genius: Very smug about it.
  • Jerkass: Intentionally written as a troublemaker to show what kind of person makes for a bad companion.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Prisoners of Time concludes with Adam realizing that his attack on the Doctor has gone too far, as he sacrifices himself to destroy the Master's equipment before the Master can use it to destroy the universe by attacking the TARDISes.
  • Never My Fault: In the aftermath of his disastrous adventure with the Ninth Doctor, he insists that since the Doctor was in charge he can't be held responsible for the bad decisions he made. Naturally, the Doctor doesn't buy it.
  • Not Brainwashed: The Master states in Prisoners Of Time that Adam's scheme was pretty much his own. He didn't have to influence him at all.
  • Shoo Out the New Guy: Invoked. He's an example of what not to do if you're travelling with the Doctor.
  • Teen Genius: And quick to mention it.
  • Temporary Scrappy: Purposely written in his first and only adventure as companion as an Insufferable Genius who endangers the Doctor and Rose's lives trying to use time travel for personal gain, and then lies to the Doctor's face and blames him when confronted about it, getting himself booted from the TARDIS as a result and demonstrating that not everyone is suited to be a companion.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: Despite the lack of respect he earned in life, sacrificing himself to stop The Master in Prisoners Of Time got him acknowledged post-mortem as "A Companion True."
  • Time Travel for Fun and Profit: Attempts to change his own future by sending information back from the year 200,000. It doesn't end well.

    Jack Harkness 

Tenth Doctor Era

    Martha Jones 

Martha Jones (Tenth Doctor)

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"I spent a lot of time with you thinking I was second best, but you know what? I am good."
Debut: "Smith and Jones" (2007)
Departure Story: "Last of the Time Lords" (2007)
Final Appearance: "The End of Time" (Part 2, 2010)

Played by: Freema Agyeman (2007–08, 2010)

"I travelled across the world. From the ruins of New York, to the fusion mills of China, right across the radiation pits of Europe..."

The Woman Who Walked the Earth

A medical student whose hospital ended up on the Moon in the early 21st century. She and the Doctor saved each other's lives a few times that day, and she ended up as the third female (second regular female) companion of the Tenth Doctor. Tries hard not to fall in love with him, but fails rather spectacularly at that. After she left the TARDIS, Jack Harkness pulled some strings to get her a job with UNIT in what seems to be Harry Sullivan's old job. She remains friends with Jack, and has popped up in a a couple of Torchwood episodes helping out Torchwood Cardiff. She left UNIT to become a freelance monster fighter but, at least in Torchwood comics, still works with them.


  • All Love Is Unrequited: Develops a crush on the Doctor. He acknowledges her feelings, she outright tells a group of strangers that she loves him and acknowledges this in conversation with Jack out of the Doctor's earshot. But nothing ever happens with the Doctor due to the episodes establishing that he is still pining the loss of Rose during their original time together; "Last of the Time Lords" directly indicates that this is a factor in Martha's decision to leave the Doctor. By the time she's no longer a companion, she's over him and they go back to being just friends, happier this way, when they reunite later and in "Journey's End" she's actually overjoyed to discover the Doctor finally found Rose again. Later, we learn that she marries Mickey Smith.
  • Always Second Best: The Doctor grieving Rose and talking about her makes Martha feel this way.
  • Ambiguously Brown: Freema Agyeman is ethnically half Ghanaian half Iranian. This is unlikey the case with Martha Jones as her name doesnt indicate African or Asian heritage. Her identical cousin Adeola Oshodi (also played by Freema Agyeman) whose name is Nigerian would suggest the Jones' family maybe partially British Nigerians. note 
  • AM/FM Characterization: She's introduced listening to Arrested Development's "Sunshine" on her phone as she talks to her family.
  • Anguished Declaration of Love: She accidentally gives quite a few with the Doctor, most noticeably in "The Family of Blood".
  • Badass Bookworm: During her first trip through time, she saves the world by quoting from Harry Potter.
  • Badass Normal: Unlike many companions of the revival, including both those introduced during Russel T Davies' original tenure who saved the day by becoming a Physical God or half-Time Lord, Martha saved the world with herself alone. As of the end of Series 10, she is the only New Series main companion not to become something more than human.
  • Better as Friends: Leaves the TARDIS when she realizes the Doctor's never going to like her "that way". In Series 4, they're much happier together being just friends.
  • Big Damn Kiss: With the Doctor in her first episode ("genetic transfer!"). Also eventually kisses Jack Harkness in Torchwood, simply because "everyone else has had a go". Jack just sort of stares at her and grins.
  • Black and Nerdy: Medical student, natch. She also saves the world by quoting Harry Potter.
  • The Bus Came Back: She returned for the Series 4 finale (along with making prior guest appearances in both Doctor Who and Torchwood) after officially "leaving" her role of companion.
  • Calling the Old Man Out: Befitting her status as a Nice Girl, she gives the Doctor a gentle (but no less pointed) one as she tells him about her friend Vicki, who suffered from a case of All Love Is Unrequited. The Doctor is visibly abashed.
  • Character Catchphrase: She gets a fair bit of mileage out of her open-mouthed, half-whispered "It can't be!"
  • Character Development: In Series 3, she went from constantly trying to get the Doctor's attention romantically, to moving on with her life and parting with him as friends. By Series 4, she has gotten over him.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: A mild case, but more so when Rose is brought up, adding to her frustration about being in the "friend zone" with the Doctor. She gets over it and is actually really happy when the Doctor and Rose are reunited.
  • Combat Medic: She joins UNIT in Series 4 and her progression to full "doctor" status is accelerated by them because of her field experience.
  • The Confidant: As strained as her friendship with the Tenth Doctor gets at times, she's always willing to listen to him carefully when he's reminiscing about his past and the things he's lost and offer him emotional support.
  • Contrasting Replacement Character: Whereas Rose was a blonde working-class shopgirl in a life slump, Martha was a black middle-class medical student with an ambitious personality.
  • Covert Pervert: When visiting Torchwood Three, Martha wastes no time in asking first Gwen, then Ianto about what Jack is like in the sack. When Ianto describes the good captain as "innovative, bordering on avant-garde" Martha is visibly delighted.
  • Determinator: At the end of Series 3 where she spends one year travelling the entire world telling people about the Doctor.
  • Dude Magnet: She basically gets a guy almost every adventure through Series 3. First Shakespeare, then Riley, then Tom. There's also others who showed attraction to her, though she ironically didn't get the one guy she wanted to notice.
  • Dysfunctional Family: While she loves them, her relationship with her parents and some of her relatives is a bit strained and there's tension in their household.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Martha's first scene is heading into work while on the phone, playing diplomat between various members of her Dysfunctional Family.
  • Foil: Rose was an A-Levels drop-out from a working class background who was forcefully separated from the Doctor, while Martha is a medical student from a comfortably middle class family who is able to walk away from the Doctor on her own terms (it should be noted that she will be the last companion for two regenerations who is able to do so). It is likely Rose and Martha are roughly the same age, but Rose was about a decade younger when she started travelling in the TARDIS. Both had feelings for the Doctor, although Martha's were unrequited and she eventually moved on, whereas Rose's were not and she ended up with the Metacrisis Doctor.
  • Evil Doppelgänger: Martha is captured and cloned by the Sontarans in the Series 4 two-parter "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky" to act as a double-agent inside UNIT. Loyal to the Sontaran cause, the clone is animated by the real Martha's memories, and steals her clothes in order to operate behind enemy lines. Although she's remarkably thorough in her impersonation (even remembering to wear the original's earrings and engagement ring!), the Doctor sees through it from the start, with minor physical imperfections and Clone Martha's callous disregard for her family being dead giveaways.
  • Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: To John Smith in "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood".
  • Good Is Not Soft: Willing to blow up the entire Earth to save it from the Daleks. She also gives the Doctor a short What the Hell, Hero? speech in "The Sontaran Stratagem" when he lumps her in with the mindless, gun-carrying grunts he (sometimes) thinks the rest of UNIT are.
  • Hospital Hottie: Studying to become a doctor and hot enough to become Shakespeare's "Dark Lady".
  • Ignored Enamoured Underling: Just after their first meeting, the Doctor makes her promise not to start fancying him. She agrees, but falls in love with him anyway.
  • It's All My Fault: It's understated, but the final few episodes of Series 3 imply Martha feels guilty about the damage the Master caused to the world and her family, since it was the Doctor, Martha and Jack's trip to the future that set the Master free and Martha who advised Yana to open his fob watch. "The Sontaran Stratagem" confirms that Martha feels at least partially responsible for what happened to the Jones clan, for not being more honest with them about what she was doing with the Doctor.
  • Just Friends: With the Doctor, to her great frustration, as he's still hung up on Rose.
  • Leitmotif: "Martha's Theme" and its reprise, "Martha Triumphant". The series composer also wove the opening notes of "Martha's Theme" into the Tenth Doctor's leitmotif, "The Doctor Forever", to symbolize their growing friendship that season.
  • Limited Wardrobe: She wears the same red leather jacket, casual pink tank top and flared jeans for her first few adventures with the Doctor. After a spell in evening wear during "The Lazarus Experiment", she starts changing things up a bit.
  • Middle Child Syndrome: She appears to be the middle child of her family, and her very first scene shows her bombarded with phone calls from her family, who seem to rely on her to solve their problems. Also tends to be this on a meta level: whilst Rose (the first main companion of the revival) and Donna (the third) get a lot of reference and play even a decade and a half after their last (official) appearance poor Martha rarely gets a mention.
  • Nice Girl: Martha is one of the Doctor's friendlier companions and generally outgoing and non-judgmental, and as such tends to make friends easily (Shakespeare, Tallulah, Riley, Jenny, Chantho, Jack, Tom, the odd Hath). She's even happy that the Doctor finally found Rose Tyler in "Journey's End".
  • No Equal-Opportunity Time Travel: Expresses worries about going back to the early 17th century, given fear of prejudice over her ethnic origins. The Doctor reminds her that not all black people living in Britain at the time were slaves and assures her that he'll look after her. When they visit 1913 in a later episode, several people are incredulous of her having a medical degree (not just because she's black, but also a woman). She quickly proves them wrong invokedwhen she shows of her extensive medical knowledge.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
    • Putting up with constant racist abuse and drudgery for two months while looking after John Smith in 1913 should definitely count.
    • She was clearly very busy in the year that never was, slowly building La Résistance against the Master.
    • "The End of Time" has Martha and Mickey as freelance alien fighters, implying that their encounter with a Sontaran is just one of many.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Pair the Spares: With Mickey Smith. What happened to her engagement to Thomas Milligan from Series 4 was never explained onscreen (according to invokedWord of God, Tom was the rebound). It's also a case of a Token Minority Couple.
  • Put on a Bus: Unlike other Davies-era companions such as Rose and Donna, Martha has no obstacles keeping her from reuniting with the Doctor. She even has him on speed dial, which she made use of in Series 4.
    • Martha has not made an appearance since the Tenth Doctor bid her goodbye in part 2 of "The End of Time", but actress Freema Agyeman has said as of 2017 that she would be open to coming back to reprise the role.
  • Replacement Goldfish: It doesn't take long for her to feel as though she's simply this for Rose. She doesn't put up with it, sits the Doctor down and makes him tell her what's going on.
  • The Smart Guy: Studying to be a doctor, quick thinking but also great at planning? Martha is one of the smartest characters in the show.
  • Technical Pacifist: Doesn't carry a gun, but has a position of command in a military organisation.
  • Token Minority: Nicely averted. The only time her ethnic background is brought up in a major way is when she's worried about time travelling to more prejudiced historical eras.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl:
    • She's the tomboy compared to her far more feminine sister, Tish. Martha was a medic who eventually became a hardened soldier and had a casual attire consisting of jeans and leather jackets. Tish worked in public relations and was usually hired in jobs just to stand around and look pretty, and was constantly seen in dresses and generally very girly clothes.
    • Zig-zagged a little, due to the latter having a more fiery and outspoken attitude, but Martha could also be considered the tomboy to Donna Noble's girly girl. When the two first met in "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky", a big deal is made about how unlike Martha, Donna is not a soldier, and is not comfortable with a warfare environment. This is also shown as Donna is uneasy about approaching a Sontaran from behind with a hammer. Donna also spends a lot of her time with the Doctor being taken to outer space spas and serves as a reminder for him to be humane and compassionate, while Martha takes on the Master and the entire Toclafane Army in series 3 and actually becomes mentally tough and determined enough to confront the Daleks and seemingly willingly destroy the Earth to stop their plan in series 4. Martha also usually sports an action ponytail in contrast to Donna's long, straight hair.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Not long after meeting the Doctor and enjoying their travels through time, Martha comes to have faith in his intellect and abilities, but she also comes to realize he can't be everywhere at once and will sometimes be incapacitated, and when that happens it's up to his friends to pick up the slack and do what they can to help. Whether it's electrocuting the pig slaves, getting Professor Lazarus' would-be victims to safety and leading him into a trap, saving the S.S. Pentallian from destruction, or fending off the Family of Blood, Martha starts to step up as the Doctor's companion, revealing an incredible amount of emotional strength in the process. It's this emotional strength that allows her to play a long con on the Master in the Year That Never Was and beat him at his own game. She joins UNIT not long after.
  • Uncanny Family Resemblance: Freema Agyeman was Adeola Oshodi in "Army of Ghosts", a Torchwood employee who is possessed by the Cybermen and then killed. To explain why Adeola looked similar to Martha, they had Martha refer to Adeola as her cousin in "Smith and Jones".
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Sets the wheels in motion to unleash the Master on the universe again, just by getting Professor Yana to notice that busted old watch he keeps around... Whoops.
  • Walking the Earth: During the Year That Never Was; the entire Earth in one year and on foot (plus a teleporter).
  • What the Hell, Hero?: The Doctor's reaction when he hears about Martha's plan to blow up Earth to stop a Dalek plot is outrage.
    • She gives a small one to the Doctor in "Gridlock" when he refuses to tell her what's going on, and a bigger one two episodes later when he starts trying to boss her around.
  • Yaoi Fangirl: As revealed in Torchwood, where she takes interest in Jack and Ianto's "dabbling".

    Donna Noble 

Donna Noble (Tenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors)

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"Didn't I ever tell you? Best temp in Chiswick — 100 words per minute!"
Debut: "The Runaway Bride" (2006)
Joins TARDIS Crew: "Partners in Crime" (2008)
Departure Story: "Journey's End" (2008)
Final Appearance: "The Giggle" (2023)

Played by: Catherine Tate (2006, 2008–10, 2023)note 

"Sometimes I think there's something missing. Like I had something lovely. And it's gone."

The Most Important Woman in the Whole of Creation

A temp worker from Chiswick, London in the 21st century. who met the Doctor when the Racnoss Empress fed her an ancient energy normally only found inside TARDISes, and the TARDIS pulled her into itself as a result. While she refused to become a companion at the time, she grew to regret that decision for over a year, eventually finding herself in the TARDIS properly. Unfortunately, she will never be able to remember her experiences as a result of one of the most heartbreaking denouments in the history of the franchise.

Played by established comedienne Catherine Tate. Originally a one-off character for the 2006 Christmas Special "The Runaway Bride", Donna returned as a regular companion for the fourth series as well as a role in the Tenth Doctor's last two specials. She returned in the 60th Anniversary specials.


  • Abhorrent Admirer: Downplayed in that she isn't unattractive but Lance really didn't want to marry her. At all. She badgered him until he finally gave in, but Donna did genuinely love him.
  • Abusive Parents: Donna's mum, Sylvia, is verbally abusive to both Donna and Wilf (Donna's grandfather) in a depressingly realistic way. The Doctor is actually shocked when he realizes the extent of it, and tells Sylvia to stop it. By the time of "The Star Beast", Sylvia has cleaned up her act, going so far as to slap the Doctor when she thinks he'll endanger her daughter's life.
  • All Webbed Up: Happens to her in "The Runaway Bride" Christmas special as a manner of restraint.
  • Amusing Injuries: The Doctor fails to catch Donna when she swings over a massive borehole to the centre of the Earth, causing her to slam into a nearby wall. It's Played for Laughs, though.
  • Artificial Hybrid: The biological meta-crisis made her half-Time Lord. Later averted in the the Star Beast, with her letting go of the meta-crisis, along with her daugther Rose.
  • Ascended Extra: Donna was originally intended purely as a one-shot character to bridge the gap between Rose and Martha during the 2006 Christmas special. However, she was brought back as a full-time companion in Series 4 and has become one of the most popular revival series companions.
  • Badass Bureaucrat: She was an office worker prior to being a companion, and her office skills prove extremely useful in "The Sontaran Strategem", "The Doctor's Daughter" and "Journey's End". Her ability to understand office files, work a calendar system and type 100 words a minute ends up saving the universe several times over. She eventually takes a high-paying job with UNIT, and negotiates for twice the offered salary.
  • Badass Normal: Of the smart variety; whilst the Doctor infiltrated (and later broke into) a corporate office building with psychic paper and the sonic screwdriver, she did the same with little more than really good BS skills and an absurd amount of patience.
  • Belated Happy Ending: Her reunion with the Fourteenth Doctor fifteen years after the end of her tenure as a companion results in the bitter part of her personal bittersweet ending being undone and her memories being restored, and the Doctor deciding to retire and live out his life with her and her family following his bigeneration.
  • Best Friend: The Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors unreservedly describe Donna as their best friend, though being incarnations of the Doctor (and thus very reluctant to bring up personal stuff), there are things they don't share even with her.
  • Better as Friends: With the Doctor, to the great relief of both, because he was very tired of everyone falling in love with him, and while Donna thought the world of him as a person she was aghast at the idea of “mating” with a “Long streak of alien nothing!”
  • Big Damn Kiss: With the Doctor, of the "Let Us Never Speak of This Again" variety.
  • Book Ends: Her first and last appearances during Russell T Davies's first run are at her wedding. The second time, the ceremony goes off without a hitch.
  • Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: Sylvia was always putting Donna down and never believed in her. Once Donna has a daughter of her own she's fiercely protective and supportive of her.
  • Character Catchphrase: "Oi!"
  • Character Development: Oh, very much. It's a testament to Tate's acting talent when Donna's mum and granddad beg the Doctor to let her keep her memories, as traveling with him made her a better person.
  • Chekhov's Skill: Donna often cites her time as a temp as granting her a surprising amount of administration skills. This comes to a head when, as the DoctorDonna, she puts her super-typing skills to work.
    DoctorDonna: Did I ever tell you? Best temp in Chiswick. 100 words per minute!
  • The Chosen One: Her moniker as "the most important woman in the whole of creation" may sound a tad hyperbolic, but her importance really can't be underestimated. Dalek Caan manipulated the timelines to ensure that she would fulfil her destiny of defeating the Daleks, but in doing so, he also condemned her to a metaphorical death.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Averted; the Doctor expects the same snarking he got from Rose and Sarah Jane, but when Donna meets Martha they just shake hands and get along fine. Donna's concerns are more that she might lose her position as the Doctor's companion.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Pre-character development Donna has the occasional odd thought process, such as thinking there might be dinosaurs living in the center of the Earth.
  • Comically Missing the Point: This exchange when the Doctor talks about wanting "a mate".
    The Doctor: [after explaining the fates of his previous companions] I just want a mate.
    Donna: You just want to mate?
    The Doctor: I just want a mate.
    Donna: [gasps] You're not mating with me, sunshine!
  • Contrasting Replacement Character: Whereas Rose and Martha both fell in love with the Doctor, Donna repeatedly states that she finds him unattractive, but adores him in a Platonic Life-Partners kind of way. Also, Martha was always self-assured and confident, while Donna had major self-esteem issues at first.
  • Crazy-Prepared:
    • After her debut episode, drove around with every type of clothing she might ever need to travel with the Doctor, just in case he showed up again one day and made her a companion. Including a hatbox.
      "Planet of the Hats, I'm ready!"
    • In a DWM comic set after her departure, it's revealed she made a recording in the TARDIS as she believed there was a good chance she'd could be killed in her adventures with the Doctor, to tell him she didn't regret any of it.
  • Cursed with Awesome: DoctorDonna: a human woman with a Time Lord brain and mankind's unique spark that makes her use her newfound intellect at maximum proficiency, even surpassing the Doctor himself. But the strain this puts on her human frame is so hard that it starts to kill her and forces the Doctor to make her forget everything about her travels with him in order to suppress her super intellect and save her life. Worse yet, if Donna ever remembers anything about her time with the Doctor, her Time Lord brain will resurface and she will burn. She eventually gets around it by having had some of the meta-crisis energy transfer into her daughter, buying her enough time for the two to dissipate the rest harmlessly.
  • Daddy's Girl: Implied to have been really close with her father before he passed away, going to see football matches with him every Saturday. She's equally close with her granddad Wilf, spending time with him while he's stargazing. Justified since it gives her an excuse to get away from her shrew of a mum.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She's great at lobbing sarcastic remarks at the Doctor.
    The Doctor: [stepping out of the TARDIS] Ah! Smell that air! Grass and lemonade! And a little bit of mint. Just a hint of mint. Must be the 1920s.
    Donna: You can tell what year it is just by smelling?
    The Doctor: Oh, yeah.
    Donna: Or, maybe, that big vintage car coming up the drive gave it away.
  • Death of Personality: Dalek Caan constantly foretells her death during the Dalek Invasion of Earth, but this was only Metaphorically True. She was arguably condemned to something much worse: a heartbreaking case of Laser-Guided Amnesia that erased all of her wonderful experiences with the Doctor from her mind. However, "The End of Time" reveals that Donna's true personality is still Fighting from the Inside and there's a lingering spark of hope that she may be fully restored someday. It only took 15 years, but "The Star Beast" ends with her mind and memories fully restored.
  • Ditzy Genius:
    • She sometimes struggles to follow the Doctor's instructions and he complains that "[she] can't change a bulb". But she's a convincing actress who easily infiltrates a corporate facility as an inspector and can easily point out odd details and patterns others would miss, like how no one has ever called in sick at a company she and the Doctor were investigating.
    • Over the course of the 60th anniversary specials she's not only the first to notice that the Not Things in "Wild Blue Yonder" are scaring them, helping the Doctor realize that their fear makes it easier for the Not Things to accomplish their goals, but she immediately figures out that the brainwave spikes in "The Giggle" are musical notes, helping the Doctor and UNIT discover the cause of the Hate Plague in the episode. Notably the latter case follows UNIT investigating the brainwaves for two days. Kate is so impressed she immediately offers Donna a job.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending:
    • Despite the whole "getting your mind wiped and unable to remember all the stuff you did or you will die" thing, Donna does eventually get to marry a nice bloke who genuinely loves her, her mother starts being nice to her, and one of the Tenth Doctor's last acts is to make sure the Temple-Nobles are financially secure. Scratch the last part, as the softness she subconsciously picked up from the Doctor compelled her to give every penny of her lottery winnings away, much to her own regret.
    • And then 15 years later she gets an even better one by having her memories restored, offered a well-paying permanent job at UNIT and getting to spend the rest of her life with the post-bigeneration Fourteen whom she brought into her happy family.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: She's made part-Time Lord in her final episode as the Doctor's companion, giving her his vast knowledge of technology and the workings of space-time. She uses this to rescue both Doctors and make fools of the Daleks before saving the day. Sadly, it wasn't to last.
  • Expy: According to Russell T. Davies, Donna was written as a modern interpretation of Barbara Wright, a companion that could engage the Doctor on an equal footing.
  • Failing a Taxi: In her first appearance in "The Runaway Bride" Christmas Special, she tries to hail a taxi and gets one driven by an alien Mook, forcing the Doctor to save her with some fancy TARDIS manoeuvres.
  • Fiery Redhead: Scorching temper and attitude, be it against the Doctor, Daleks, or her own mother.
  • Fighting from the Inside: Even after the mindwipe, Donna's true persona is still buried in her subconscious and occasionally manifests at key moments, namely when she bought Wilfred an autobiography about Joshua Naismith without realising why. When DoctorDonna eventually re-emerges, she confirms outright that the Doctor left a huge subconscious impact on Donna, compelling her to always make kind and selfless choices... sometimes a touch too selfless for her own good.
  • "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: Played With. Donna is frequently horrified by the amount of responsibility the Doctor has, but copes by going back to being snarky for the start of each new adventure. This means that her Character Development is gradual and zig-zaggy. It makes it all the more sad when we see her go back to her old old self.
  • Genre Refugee: She's the kind of shouty comic character who'd be played in a sketch show by Catherine Tate, although with plenty of Hidden Depths.
  • Good with Numbers: It's more than just math, though — she's spent most of her life temping, and she's gotten ridiculously good at it, having gained a knack for spotting patterns in numbers not even the Doctor would notice. For one, her skill with numbers proves vital in ending the Human-Hath War. How? She figures out the numbers stamped on the different sections of the complex are are actually dates, ones in the New Byzantine Calendar according to the Doctor. They aren't counting down to anything; instead, they're counting up from the Source, aka the original landing site for the colony, because they're dates from when the sections were completed — namely, one week earlier.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: In "Journey's End", she saves herself from Dalek-inflicted doom by splicing her DNA with the Doctor's. She then indulges in technobabble, yelling like the Doctor, and hijacking the Dalek's motor commands to make them spin in circles. Fun is had by all, but it does not last. Although apparently she remains part Time Lord even after her memory is wiped, because the Master's use of the Immortality Gate to turn all humans into Masters in "The End of Time" does not affect her. "The Star Beast" reveals that her daughter Rose also carries some Time Lord genes from the Meta-Crisis and is capable of sharing Donna's power, thereby saving her mother's life.
  • The Heart: She reminds the Doctor to be humane and sympathetic. She is perhaps the first companion to openly acknowledge that her role in their relationship is to tell him when enough is enough, before he does anything he might regret. This trope is at its most prominent in "The Fires of Pompeii", in which she begs him to "save someone".
  • Hidden Depths: As said above, she begins as a fairly one-dimensional Plucky Comic Relief caricature of Tate's usual roles, but through "The Christmas Invasion" displays some aspects of a softer side, and quickly established herself as a much deeper character when she returned as a regular companion. As it turns out, she acts loud and assertive to cover her deep-seated insecurities and low self-esteem, the result of years of emotional abuse at the hands of her overbearing mother.
  • I Just Want to Be Special: Her entire character arc is wanting to be more than "useless". And she'll never know what a difference she made. Or so it seemed.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: She's loud and abrasive because deep down she believes she isn't important. In "Wild Blue Yonder" the Doctor states that Donna doesn't just believe she is stupid - she also believes she is brilliant at the same time.
  • It Runs in the Family: For better or worse, Donna does seem to have gotten quite a lot from her mother, such as her temper, snark, and occasional Boring, but Practical approach to things (Sylvia deals with the problem of a locked car door immune to the Sonic Screwdriver by smashing the window). However, her gentler side and obliviousness seem to come more from her grandad Wilfred.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Her first appearance begins with Donna screaming her head off at the Doctor, not remotely impressed by the skinny bugger in front of her, thinking he's kidnapped her somehow, and her mood does not improve when she sees Rose's jacket and assumes the worst. When the Doctor clams up and refuses to speak to her, Donna starts to show her nicer side when she quietly tries to ask what happened to Rose.
  • Jumped at the Call: In her second appearance, she is searching for the Doctor and has already packed her bags.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Inverted by the DoctorDonna. When the stakes are arguably at their highest in "Journey's End" with all of reality on the brink of annihilation, she appears from the shadows and... immediately makes a complete laughing stock out of Davros and the Daleks with her temping skills. Instead, it's the other half of the Meta-Crisis, the cloned Tenth Doctor, who escalates the situation by casually committing genocide against the already-defeated Daleks.
  • Lamarck Was Right: Her daughter, Rose, inherits some of her mum's part-Time Lord nature, which also helps prevent Donna from dying when her mind and memories are restored, since some of the energy leeched off into Rose.
  • Large Ham: Extremely large and loud presence at all times, to the point that she doesn't even need to speak to be hammy. Then she becomes DoctorDonna, gaining the Doctor's intelligence and spontaneity. As a result, she may be the only character in the history of the show to become so over-the-top hammy that someone has to give her a psychic lobotomy so she can continue to live.
    DoctorDonna: THANK YOU, DAVROS-AH!
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: The Doctor had to give her this after she became the DoctorDonna so she wouldn't die. "The Star Beast" shows that she retains some portions of memory in the form of dreams and slips of the tongue, and eventually she regains her memories altogether.
  • Leitmotif: "A Noble Girl About Town". Where Rose gets the Lonely Piano Piece and Martha gets the Ethereal Choir, Donna's theme swaggers.
  • Like an Old Married Couple: Her relationship with the Doctor. In fact, most people initially believe they're married or brother and sister.
  • Like Brother and Sister: She and the Tenth Doctor have this dynamic, both trading sarcastic barbs constantly but obviously caring deeply for each other. The Doctor outright calls her his best friend. After initially mistaking them for a couple, Caecilius concludes that they must be siblings.
  • Lower-Class Lout: Played With. She comes from a more middle-class suburban background than Rose, but she has a much bawdier attitude with a strong London accent to match, as well as many tomboyish traits. After stepping out of the TARDIS doors, her usual first instinct when encountering a complete stranger is to get snarky with them. The Tenth Doctor's clone picks up her "rough" vernacular and other aspects of her personality as part of the two-way biological meta-crisis that created him.
  • The Maiden Name Debate: Her marriage to Shaun Temple has a few questions about whether she'll take his name, because Noble-Temple sounds like a tourist spot. Donna keeps her maiden name.
  • Mama Bear: When she returns in "The Star Beast" it's with her 15 year-old daughter Rose Noble in tow. Throughout the episode she makes it clear she will do anything to protect Rose, from threatening to fight some transphobic bullies to being willing to sacrifice her own life to keep her daughter safe.
  • Meaningful Name: "Noble" can be used to describe someone with a strong moral fiber and great integrity. Despite her sarcastic wit and shallow exterior, Donna is a kind and upstanding woman who can't bear the thought of just leaving people to die if she and the Doctor can help them.
  • Meta Girl: She comments on how fantastic things like a "translation circuit" are, calls the Doctor out on his Technical Pacifist traits and knew the best place to find him was where there was anything weird going on.
  • Missing the Good Stuff: In "The Runaway Bride", her first appearance, she has (somehow) managed to avoid all of London's previous encounters with extraterrestrials. She slept through the Auton massacre. She was hungover for the Sycorax invasion. And she was scuba-diving in Spain during the Battle of Canary Wharf. It may have been an early sign that the universe was finding increasingly implausible excuses to keep her out of danger before her destined meeting with the Doctor. Tragically, her Laser-Guided Amnesia at the end of Series 4 means that she believes she missed every subsequent alien invasion, including the ones she personally thwarted. It comes up again at the beginning of "The Star Beast", where she manages to miss a crashing spaceship directly overhead before getting pulled into the adventure later.
  • Mistaken for Romance: She and the Doctor are not a couple, but are initially mistaken for one by almost everyone they meet.
  • Morality Chain: Explicitly considers herself one for the Tenth Doctor. She thinks he "needs someone to stop him".
  • Motor Mouth: When her mouth starts running it just won't stop. As DoctorDonna, her speech is filled with Techno Babble that leaves even the Doctors' heads spinning.
    DoctorDonna: What? MacrotransmissionofaKfilterwavelengthblockingDalekweaponryinaselfreplicatingenergyblindfoldmatrix?!
  • Multigenerational Household: She's living with her mum and granddad when she begins travelling with the Tenth Doctor, and ends up back there when the Doctor has to wipe her memory. When the Fourteenth Doctor runs into her, she's living with her mum, husband, and teenage daughter, with her granddad now in sheltered accomodation.
  • My Skull Runneth Over: Poor DoctorDonna. The Doctor has to basically inflict Mind Rape on her to prevent this trope.
  • Not Quite Forever: Like Rose before her, Donna was fully committed to life with the Doctor in the TARDIS and wanted it to last forever. Admitting that only makes what happens to her next all the more tragic. Averted in the 60th anniversary specials, as the Fourteenth Doctor decides to retire and spend his time with Donna and her family after his bigeneration.
  • Old Maid: Spinsterhood is looming ahead as she's over 30 and not married. This is mostly an issue in her first episode, where she's desperate to get married. She eventually does get married in "The End of Time", but she's unaware what she went through to get there.
  • One of the Boys: Attributes her ability to whistle incredibly loudly to going to see West Ham play every Saturday, presumably with her father.
  • Pity the Kidnapper: When she was in peril, she often made the bad guys regret putting her there, even without the Doctor's interventions.
    Donna: Listen, you may have eyes on the back of your hands, but you'll have eyes on the back of your 'ead when I'm through with you! LET. ME. GO!!
    Sibylline Priestess: (about to stab her) THIS PRATTLING VOICE WILL CEASE FOREVER!
  • Platonic Life-Partners: She and the Doctor. It's even invoked when she first begins travelling with him, with the Doctor telling her he "just wants a mate". Despite this, she reveals that she intended to stay with him “forever”.
    • Solidified in The Giggle, where the Fourteenth Doctor retires to Earth (albeit with short trips elsewhere) while the Fifteenth Doctor continues to travel. Fourteen and Donna's final scene together sees them happily having dinner with Donna's family and Mel, with every indication that their strong friendship will last a lifetime. Notably, this marks Donna and Mel as the very first companions to remain a constant presence in the Doctor's life following the end of their adventures, and fulfills Donna's desire to be with him forever.
  • Plucky Girl: Explicitly called a "plucky young girl who helps me out" by the Doctor, and she lives up to such a description with her fiery determination (but she doesn't like the description).
  • Pretty in Mink: Wore a black fur-trimmed coat during "Planet of the Ood".
  • Puny Earthlings: She staunchly defies this trope by talking to the Doctor like an equal even when he tries to flex his Super-Intelligence to boss her around.
    Doctor: TARDIS, Time Lord, yes!
    Donna: Donna, human, no!
  • Rags to Riches:
    • Following her mind wipe, the Doctor gifts her a winning lottery ticket, securing her financial freedom.
    • In the 60th anniversary specials, it's revealed that after buying a house, Donna gave the rest of her winnings to charity. However "The Giggle" sees her take a job at UNIT, negotiating for twice the offered salary while allowing her to help people.
  • Red Pill, Blue Pill: "Turn Left" is basically someone force feeding her the blue pill after the fact and making her live a normal life. The future version of the alternate Donna then has to make sure the past version of the alternate Donna spits out the blue pill so that Donna Prime can resume her red pill adventure.
  • Refusal of the Call: When the Doctor first asks her if she'll travel with him, she says no — being, understandably, weirded out by his tranquil fury. She later regrets this and begins searching for him.
  • Save This Person, Save the World: Mainly just one episode, "Turn Left". Rose goes out of her way to get her out of town, and then to use her to change her past. Her importance to the universe as a whole is lampshaded by the Doctor in the same episode: "Most times, the universe just compensates around [changes in the timeline], but with you? Great big parallel world."
  • She Is Not My Girlfriend: Quite honestly so this time.
    "We're not even the same species. There's probably laws against it."
  • Shipper on Deck: In contrast to Martha, who felt stifled by the Doctor's lingering love for Rose and resented living in her shadow, Donna is remarkably invested in Rose before meeting her and always remains hopeful that the two Star-Crossed Lovers will reunite. And when they eventually do at the climax of Series 4, Donna is nothing but enthusiastic (well, until a Dalek comes out of nowhere and exterminates the Doctor). Unlike Martha, Donna has no romantic feelings for the Doctor, so the recurring issue of jealousy between companions never applies to her.
  • Shoe Slap: Declined. In "The Poison Sky", the Doctor told her to hit a Sontaran's probic vent with her shoe... but she was wearing trainers, and those don't have quite the kick needed. Fortunately, Percussive Maintenance leaves mallets around when you need them.
  • Sitcom Archnemesis: Her best (human) friend and apparent mortal enemy Nerys.
  • Spotting the Thread: A recurring habit of hers. She consistently spots patterns or vital clues, often before the Doctor and always to his praise. Her tendency to do this thoroughly impresses Kate Stewart who not only offers her a high-paying job, but happily accepts when Donna asks for twice the offered salary and five weeks' annual holiday.
  • Stating the Simple Solution: The ultimate solution to the Meta-Crisis? Simply making the conscious choice to let go of the power, something the Doctor was unable to even consider because of his ego.
  • Surprisingly Happy Ending: Her eventual fate in both her departures. While her initial tenure as companion ended with the Doctor erasing her memories, he borrowed some money from her father in the past to purchase a winning lottery ticket on her behalf - however, the whole situation is bittersweet, at best. In the 60th Anniversary Specials she regains her memories, and following the 14th Doctor's bigeneration he retires to Earth with his best friend and her family a constant presence in his life, with every indication that the both of them are truly happy with the arrangement.
  • True Companions: Sandwiched between many complicated companion relationships with unresolved romantic baggage, Donna represents a true friend and confidant for the Doctor. It says a lot that even after several regenerations and thousands of years of travelling, the Fourteenth Doctor still considers Donna his best friend ever.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
    • Because Donna begged Ten to "save someone" in Pompeii, he saved Lobus Caecilius and his family. This led to the Doctor choosing the face of Caecilius when he became Twelve so that he could always remember to "save someone", which led to him saving Ashildr by making her immortal. Making Ashildr immortal led her to much misery, and Ashildr herself led to Clara's death.
    • She's also partially responsible for a Cosmic Retcon that changed the word "gravity" to "mavity". Not a very serious offense in comparison.
  • Victory-Guided Amnesia: After preventing a Dalek-induced genocide, she's Mind Raped to prevent her skull runnething over.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Was prone to giving Ten this when he acted rudely or otherwise went too far, such as when he initially refused to save a soon-to-be-dead family in "The Fires of Pompeii". Donna set him straight in short order, and continued to do so over the course of her run.
  • Winds of Destiny, Change!: Lampshaded by Rose in "Turn Left". Even without the bug on her back, she still warps reality/destiny (or looked at another way, reality ensures she ends up where she needs to be - for better and worse).
  • Wistful Amnesia: In "The End of Time", her grandfather Wilf describes her as occasionally being sad, but not remembering why. In addition, despite the fact that she reverted to her shallow original personality when her memories were initially erased, Donna as seen in the two-parter acts somewhat more like the person she became after travelling with the Doctor. There is more of this in "The Star Beast", including Donna making a huge charitable donation because "it's what he would have done", then realising she isn't sure who "he" is.

    Wilfred Mott 

Wilfred Mott (Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors)

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Debut: "Voyage of the Damned" (2007)
Joins TARDIS Crew: "The End of Time" (2009-10)
Final Appearance: "The Giggle" (2023)

Played by: Bernard Cribbins (2007–10, 2023)note 

"Every night, Doctor, when it gets dark, and the stars come out, I'll look up on her behalf. I'll look up at the sky, and think of you."

A newspaper salesman from 21st century Chiswick, London. Originally a one-off character in "Voyage of the Damned", Wilfred was eventually revealed to also be Donna Noble's grandfather (a last-minute rewrite due to the actor hired to play Donna's father dying). This resulted in quite a few recurring roles throughout the fourth series, leading to fan-favourite status for the character and finally full-fledged companion status in "The End of Time", the Tenth Doctor's final story. He made a return appearance in 60th anniversary special "Wild Blue Yonder", which proved to be Bernard Cribbins's final role, with a Fake Shemp standing in for him in "The Giggle".


  • Ascended Extra: Originally intended to be named "Stan" for "Voyage of the Damned" and never show up again. This changed when Howard Attfield, the actor playing Donna's father, passed away and Wilf was written in as Donna's grandfather. It is revealed in "The Sontaran Stratagem" that according to Sylvia, he never appeared in "The Runaway Bride" because he was ill from a mild form of Spanish flu and was unable to attend Donna's wedding (which ended in disaster).
  • Badass Normal: His first thought during a Dalek invasion is to shoot one Dalek in the eyestalk. With a paintball gun. It didn't work, but that's still quite a few levels of badassness above the norm. Bonus points for it being his first encounter with the aforementioned pepperpots. He also squirreled his family away into hiding, keeping faith that the Doctor would eventually return to save Earth from a catastrophe that made the rest of the world go mad.
  • Breakout Character: He was originally a random newsvendor who explained why the streets of London are deserted on Christmas. His role in Series 4 was originally meant to for Donna's father, until Howard Attfield passed away and he was retconned as her grandfather. He subsequently became one of the most beloved characters of the Russell T. Davies era.
  • The Bus Came Back: Makes a brief reappearance at the end of "Wild Blue Yonder" after having not been seen since "The End of Time: Part Two" 14 years prior.
  • Character Catchphrase: "It's them aliens again!"
  • Chekhov's Gun: Owns an actual gun, and convinces the Doctor to accept it as a gift.
  • Cool Old Guy: Willing to do anything to save the world.
  • Fake Shemp: Due to illness, Bernard Cribbins wasn’t able to reprise Wilf in “The Giggle”, so an unnamed extra stepped in and Wilf was kept out of focus and out of frame until he was written out of the episode a few minutes into the episode.
  • The Hilarity of Hats: He will wear his goofy reindeer antler hat every Christmas, and nothing will stop him, least of all his daughter's embarrassment.
  • Like a Son to Me:
    • Despite being the Doctor's junior by more than 800 years, not that he knows it when he declares it.
      The Master: [sneering] Your dad's acting up.
      Wilf: Yeah? Well I'd be proud if I was!
    • The Doctor returns the sentiment.
      The Doctor: I'd be proud.
      Wilf: What?
      The Doctor: If you were my dad.
  • Manly Tears: His friendship with Ten is very emotional, with the sentiment carrying through to the Fourteenth Doctor.
    The Doctor: I loved that man.
  • Missed Him by That Much: For all his talk about the aliens, when the Adipose ship is hovering over London, horns blaring all the way, Wilfred is too busy stargazing elsewhere through his telescope to notice, listening to music on a pair of headphones.
  • More Expendable Than You: He tries to talk the Tenth Doctor out of his Heroic Sacrifice because he knows that the Doctor is a hero on a grand scale and he himself is just an old human man. The Doctor's response is basically, "No, you're not."
  • Nice Guy: He's way more welcoming to the Tenth Doctor than his daughter. A Cool Old Guy in every sense of the word.
  • No Longer with Us: In "The Star Beast", filmed before Bernard Cribbins' passing but released after, the Fourteenth Doctor asks after Wilf and is told he's not with the Nobles anymore. As in, Kate Stewart had him put in sheltered accommodation on UNIT's dime when his advancing age meant he couldn't get up and down the stairs anymore.
  • Older Sidekick: Subverted in the story. Obviously more than qualifies in the real world; he's more than twice David Tennant's age.note  In-universe, the Doctor is still much older. The Tenth Doctor lampshades this saying he would be proud if Wilfred was his old man.
  • Old Soldier: Wilfred Mott is a Palestine Mandate/Mideast Wars veteran and joins the Doctor in saving the world from super-tech aliens. The Woman in White actually calls him this at one point.
  • Parental Substitute: Is this to Donna. After her father died, and given her mother's aloofness, she always turns to "Gramps". In "The End of Time" he also takes on some of these traits with the Doctor, who is more than once implied to have had a fairly terrible home life.
  • Promoted to Opening Titles: For "The End of Time".
  • Properly Paranoid: Firmly believes in alien visitors to Earth. Since he lives in the Whoniverse, boy is he right.
  • Prophecy Twist: "He will knock four times." The Doctor was absolutely sure that it referred to the Master (and, admit it, so were you). Instead, after the Master is defeated, Wilf politely knocks four times on the door of his glass cage, hoping the Doctor will let him out.note  Wilf previously trapped himself in the cage to save a random guy's life. The only way the Doctor can get him out is by killing himself.
  • A Real Man Is a Killer: Defied — he refuses to be ashamed of never actually killing during his military service.
  • Retired Badass: He served in Palestine when he was younger, though by his own admission never took a life while there.
  • Winds of Destiny, Change!: Implied but never fully made explicit in "The End of Time" that Wilfred has been chosen by destiny to prevent the Doctor dying a final death at either Rassilon or the Master's hands, which is why they keep running into one another. The Woman merely tells him he "stands at the heart of coincidence".

Eleventh Doctor Era

    Amy Pond 

    Rory Williams 

    River Song 

    Clara Oswald 

Twelfth Doctor Era

    Nardole 

Nardole (Twelfth Doctor)

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"Are you the Surgeon? There's a medical emergency!"
Joins TARDIS Crew: "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" (2016)note 
Departure Story: "The Doctor Falls" (2017)
Final Appearance: "Twice Upon a Time" (2017)

Played by: Matt Lucas (2015-2017)

"I am the only person you have ever met, or ever will meet, who is officially licensed to kick. The Doctor's. Arse. I will happily do the same to you, in the event that you do not align yourself with any instructions I have issued which I personally judge to be in the best interests of your safety and survival."

A timid, unassuming Human Alien of the 54th century who was a servant of River Song during her caper to reclaim a valuable diamond from (the head of) the tyrannical cyborg King Hydroflax, whom she'd recently married to get close to. On Mendorax Dellora in 5343, he was sent to fetch the surgeon River hired to perform the... "operation"... and a misunderstanding meant that he brought back the Twelfth Doctor. Long story short, by the end of this misadventure Hydroflax himself was destroyed and Nardole's head — just the head, mind — was peacefully sharing and controlling his deactivated robot body with that of Ramone, one of River's many husbands and also involved in the scheme; together they served as a waiter at a restaurant near the Singing Towers of Darillium. However, during the long night the Doctor spent with River on Darillium (long as in equivalent to 24 Earth years) he "reassembled" Nardole into a cyborg.

Before River went to her death in the Library, she tasked Nardole with becoming the Doctor's "valet"; he promised to take care of the Doctor, to keep him from losing his sense of self and his noble morals... by any means needed, up to and including kicking his arse. Thus, he followed the Doctor to what was to be the execution of Missy (the Master), and from there they took to guarding the Vault beneath St. Luke's University on Earth. Nardole is determined to make sure the Doctor holds to his vow to watch over Missy for 1,000 years, but this becomes harder when, several decades into the vigil, the Doctor meets and befriends Bill Potts.


  • All There in the Manual: Paul Cornell's "Twice Upon a Time" novelization reveals he gets a Surprisingly Happy Ending post-"The Doctor Falls": He lives to over 700 years old on the colony ship, successfully defending the solar farmers against the Cybermen often enough that at last they only have to deal with with annual Cybermat infestations. He also accumulates six wives over that time. Finally, he's accidentally taken by Testimony, which believes him to be an actual human, before he dies. He guilts it into letting his memories be uploaded into it, which is how an avatar appears to Twelve shortly before he regenerates.
  • Ascended Extra: Started out as a supporting character in "The Husbands of River Song", getting upgraded to a companion in Series 10. While "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" was being filmed, Steven Moffat said that initially Matt Lucas had been contracted for certain episodes of Series 10, but ended up appearing in more. By the time the series came to broadcast, he was in every episode up to and including "Twice Upon a Time".
  • The Atoner: "The Doctor Falls" implies he used to be a conman.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Spends most of his early appearances as Comic Relief, yet he is capable of piloting the TARDIS and was used as Mission Control when the Doctor and Bill had to navigate a Dalek spaceship in "The Pilot". In "Oxygen", he gives the Doctor a brutal What the Hell, Hero? speech when an escapade nearly gets them killed, potentially leaving the Vault and its occupant unguarded. He is then proven correct when the Doctor reveals the trip blinded him.
  • Breaking Old Trends: So far he's the only non-human companion in New Who.
  • Bumbling Sidekick: To River Song. The whole plot of "The Husbands of River Song" gets underway when he is sent to fetch the surgeon involved in her scheme, and instead brings back the Twelfth Doctor. Both she and the Doctor treat him haughtily, as well.
  • Butt-Monkey:
    • In "The Husbands of River Song": He fetches the wrong person for River and learns of his mistake at the worst possible time. He ends up interrogated and decapitated by Hydroflax's body, his head kept alive to serve as its new head. In this state he is forced to effectively hold himself hostage so the body can interrogate Ramone. Then it takes Ramone's head too, and Nardole's head ends up "stored" within its torso, a hot and smelly place. And he almost goes down with the Harmony and Redemption when it crashes. (Not to mention that the robot short-circuiting can't be a pleasant experience.) All this in one story! When the dust has settled, however, he adjusts to his odd new existence nicely.
    • In Series 10 he's constantly belittled and treated as an annoyance who's less important to the Doctor than his new companion Bill. Like others in this situation, he finds that giving as good as he gets is the best response.
  • Character Development: "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" reveals that he's grown some backbone since "The Husbands of River Song" — he can hold his own in snarking with the Twelfth Doctor, and he has enough insight into him to know that he's trying too hard to mask his post-River loneliness, particularly when preparing to set the villains' bomb on a course for New York City ("I know you miss her, but can't you write a poem?"). By "Oxygen", he is capable of standing up to the Doctor about as well as some of his more forthright companions.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Compared to most other companions. Other companions would've probably panicked when the Doctor, say, set a villain's bomb on a course for a city. Nardole's response (after the immediate panic) is to say that he knows that the Doctor has been through a lot, but couldn't he think of another way to express it?
  • Cowardly Lion: While his fear is played for comic relief, he's willing to follow the Doctor through the increasingly insane situations the Doctor puts all his companions through. By the season finale Nardole is entirely willing to perform a Heroic Sacrifice in the Doctor's stead, though he's talked out of it.
  • Cowardly Sidekick: Once he realises River's scheme is going awry because of his mistake, all he can do is hope for the best; once confronted by Hydroflax's body all he can do is plead for his life, and he's quickly rendered helpless.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Lampshaded by Bill in "Extremis", after Nardole informs her he is the only being in all the Universe who has standing permission to kick the Doctor's arse should the need arise. Her words are, "Are you secretly a badass?" Nardole's response is that there's nothing secret about that.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Can surprisingly hold his own with the Doctor during "The Return of Doctor Mysterio". He really has his moments in "The Doctor Falls", when he nonchalantly reveals that most of the surrounding farmland like windmills and bushes are highly explosive.
    Hazran: You think you're really something, aren't you?
    Nardole: Try not to state the obvious.
  • Expansion Pack Past: About Once per Episode after his initial would-be one-off appearance, he throws out some new and bizarre factoid about himself.
  • Foil: He and the Twelfth Doctor have a bit of Fat and Skinny going on. Nardole is timid, anxious, unsuspecting, affable, good-mannered, and round-figured, while this particular Doctor is tall, near-bony, snarky, and grouchy with No Social Skills.
  • Human Alien: Though it's not mentioned on screen pre-Series 10, according to Matt in Doctor Who Magazine #507, Nardole's not human, and is possessed of strange abilities and knowledge — making him the TV series' first non-human companion (not counting Handles) since the Fifth Doctor's era. He admits that he isn't human in "The Doctor Falls", though he's close enough (after being rebuilt, at least) that a bacterium that is lethal to humans still affects him severely, and he barely survives it.
  • Insistent Terminology: He makes a resounding point that he has been given full permission by the late River Song to "Kick. The Doctor's. ARSE."
  • Literal-Minded: Does not understand that "restroom" and "little boy's room" are euphemisms for the same thing.
  • Losing Your Head: He lost his to Hydroflax's body! He got it back by the time of "The Return Of Doctor Mysterio", though ("The Pilot" reveals his body's mechanical as he accidentally shed's a bolt and has to awkwardly kick it under the Doctor's desk to utterly fail to hide it from Bill).
  • Manchild: Has shades of this in his first two appearances, considering his primary outfit is a duffle coat (usually worn by small children) and he uses the term "little boy's room". It's gone entirely by Series 10.
  • Mix-and-Match Man: Matt's understanding, in Doctor Who Magazine #518, is that Nardole's an alien, "with some robot replacement parts, and some human lungs".
  • Morality Chain:
    • River Song assigned him to be this to the Doctor before her death, knowing that he shouldn't be alone. At Missy's execution, he warned the Doctor not to go through with killing her, and subsequently did his best to hold the bored, lonesome Doctor to his vow to watch over her and the Vault.
    • Interestingly, he considers the Doctor to be this to him, and worries that he'll default back to being a crook if he doesn't have the Doctor to keep him busy. Given that he used to work for River Song, it's hardly improbable that he's got a criminal past.
  • Mysterious Past: We know he used to be blue at some point (thanks to a comment in "World Enough and Time") and in "Oxygen" he states that this face wasn't his original as he had to change that while on the run. Why he went on the run and changed his appearance is never made completely clear, but "The Doctor Falls" reveals he used to be involved in black market dealings. In the same episode he mentions that he doesn't actually know his origins, only that he was "found".
  • Noodle Incident: His "few accidental stop-offs" during "The Return of Doctor Mysterio", including one in 12th-century Constantinople, where he claims to have accidentally become the Emperor and "ruled firmly but wisely".
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: According to Steven Moffat, this is the reason for Nardole's behaviour in "The Husbands of River Song". This is likely a retcon.
  • Really 700 Years Old: The Doctor's scanner in the sonic sunglasses (in "The Pyramid at the End of the World") show that he's 237 years old.
  • Robotic Reveal: The opening scene of "The Pilot" strongly implies that at least part of Nardole's replacement body is robotic, as it squeaks when he moves and a bolt drops out of his sleeve when he's not carrying anything.
  • Servile Snarker: Extremely. He's forced to follow the Doctor out of a sense of gratitude, but is pretty honked off at him for using the notion of rebuilding him as an excuse to have someone to talk to when everyone else is gone. And 24 years (later an additional 50 to 70) as the Doctor's toady have rendered him incapable of taking any of his crap anymore. In fact, there are a few times when he outright states a desire to kick the Doctor's arse!
  • Techno Wizard: Series 10 has a few moments highlighting his computer skills, most memorably "The Doctor Falls".
  • Took a Level in Badass: Somewhere between the opening of "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" and the end, he becomes a lot more intelligent and savvy, and by the time of Series 10, is more than capable of unleashing a brow-beating on the Doctor (with the occasional threat that he can and will kick his arse should the need arise).
  • Unexplained Recovery: How exactly he got a new body isn't really explained, beyond the Doctor mentioning he "rebuilt" him.
  • Unfazed Everyman: Nardole handles the rigors of time travel quite well, even becoming Emperor of the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century for a time during an accidental side-trip by himself. The only thing that really makes him panic is when the Doctor decides to do something particularly crazy and stupid.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's (understandably) terrified at the thought of going near the Daleks.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: In "The Doctor Falls", the Doctor — after so often belitting and ignoring him — asks him an Armor-Piercing Question as they debate which one of them will stay behind to destroy the Cybermen hordes on Floor 507 and which will lead the solar farmers to safety and help protect them against future attacks — which of them is stronger? The Doctor is implying that it's Nardole who will be able to handle the latter option, and Nardole realises he is right and accepts this.

    Bill Potts 

Billie "Bill" Potts (Twelfth Doctor)

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"Look, I know you know lots of stuff about, well, basically everything, but do you know any sci-fi?"
Debut: "The Pilot" (2017)
Departure Story: "The Doctor Falls" (2017)
Final Appearance: "Twice Upon a Time" (2017)

Played by: Pearl Mackie (2017)

Bill: But, hey... you know how I'm usually all about women and kind of people my own age.
The Doctor: Yeah?
Bill: Glad you knew that!

The Passenger

The principal companion of 2017, though she was first introduced with a two-minute video clip in 2016. A cafeteria worker at St. Luke's University in Bristol, she is fascinated with the lectures on time and space given by one particular, long-tenured "professor" even though she's not actually enrolled in his classes at first. The Doctor, in turn, is fascinated by her curiosity and he becomes her tutor. A crisis involving her potential girlfriend Heather leads to the Doctor having to reveal his true nature to Bill, and though he is trying to hold himself to The Promise regarding his presence at the university, he subsequently takes her on as a companion to show her the wonders she's only heard him lecture about thus far. While her relatively short tenure as a companion sees her undergo horrifying ordeals both on Earth and in the stars, the Doctor's guidance and her inner strength will bring her to a happier ending than even he can imagine is possible.


  • '70s Hair: She has an afro most of the time, though it's absent in "The Lie of the Land".
  • All There in the Manual: Bill's final fate is explained in the "Twice Upon a Time" novelization by Paul Cornell: After travelling the universe with Heather, the lovers returned to Earth and grew old together as humans. The relationship was so happy that Bill ultimately chose to die of old age rather than be rejuvenated again, and on her deathbed gave Heather permission to return to her immortal, travelling state. (Bill's Testimony avatar cannot explain all this to the Doctor because the Testimony gives her Laser-Guided Amnesia so she'll interact with the Doctor as she did before they were parted.)
  • Amazon Chaser: In Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension, she's instantly struck by Jenny, remarking she's "drop-dead gorgeous, and handy in a fight. I think I'm in love." This is said somewhat admiringly while watching Jenny beat people up. The Doctor finds this specific instance somewhat aggravating because Jenny is his daughter.
  • And the Adventure Continues: Her departure has her leaving to explore the universe further with her Living Ship and lover Heather.
  • Apocalypse Maiden: Becomes this thanks to her consenting to let the Monks conquer the planet; though they don't realize it, she is the psychic conduit their Mass Hypnosis of humanity works through. Missy advises the Doctor to kill her or render her braindead to stop the Monks, and over his objections Bill is ready to make a Heroic Sacrifice to do so. However, she survives and breaks off their link, whereupon they flee.
  • Armor-Piercing Question: In "Twice Upon a Time" Bill (or rather her memory avatar) asks the First Doctor why he stole a TARDIS and ran away. Her exact question impresses him:
    Bill: I don't mean what you ran away from. What were you running to?
    1st Doctor: That's rather a good question.
    Bill: Questions are kinda my thing. How are you with answers?
  • Big Damn Kiss: With Heather the Pilot after she's more than Earned Her Happy Ending.
  • Black and Nerdy: She's quite geeky, and likes sci-fi. She is also undoubtedly very clever, enough to sit in on and understand the Doctor's lectures despite not being a student and manages to pique his curiosity purely through her intellect. When she formally becomes a student, she very ably steps up to the Doctor's challenge of getting a first and her scores are all excellent.
  • Braids of Action: Her hair is in this style in "Empress of Mars". She's a veteran companion by then, after all.
  • Break the Cutie: Her experiences in "World Enough and Time"/"The Doctor Falls", as she ultimately becomes the first Mondasian Cyberman. In the end, she gets much better.
  • Butch Lesbian: Downplayed, but Bill is gay, and she has a Tomboyish Name and clothing style. Her interview with the Doctor and Establishing Character Moment has her telling a story about flirting with a girl by giving her extra chips and unwittingly making her fat.
  • Character Development: By the time of "The Pyramid at the End of the World", she has learned enough from the Doctor to make the kind of choice he would when she's faced with the prospect of his death: She agrees to let the Monks Take Over the World if they'll restore his lost eyesight so he can escape the lab that's about to explode, taking the line of thinking that she'll not only save him but he will be able to liberate her and her people. While she must suffer through six lonely months and a gruelling Secret Test of Character in "The Lie of the Land" before she and the Doctor are reunited and he can put his plan to defeat the Monks into action, she endures and ultimately is willing to make a Heroic Sacrifice to save Earth. Luckily, she survives the process.
  • Chubby Chaser: She tried to woo a girl by serving her extra chips in the canteen and, as a result, accidentally caused the girl to gain a large amount of weight. But Bill realized she liked seeing the girl bigger because she was the one who caused it, and remarks that the other girl seems just fine with it. There's a brief scene where she serves an extra serving of chips to a larger girl, implicitly the one mentioned, and shares a wink with her.
  • Constantly Curious: She's always asking questions, which amps up the teacher/student vibe that she and the Doctor have going.
  • Contrasting Replacement Character: Bill is a cheerful, laidback person who doesn't have many aspirations in life, very different from bossy, control freak, go getter Clara Oswald. Naturally, they also have very different relationships with the Twelfth Doctor; Clara & the Doctor were very much a couple, while Bill took the role of student/daughter/granddaughter, having an easier, lighter dynamic with him.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: She endures incredible suffering in "World Enough and Time"/"The Doctor Falls" that puts the ordeal of the Monks to shame, including getting most of her chest vaporized, spending ten years trapped in a creepy hospital, getting betrayed by a False Friend (who turns out to be none other than the Master) and converted into a Cyberman, and watching the Doctor die, but she holds onto her sanity long enough to get rescued by Heather and ends up leaving to explore the universe with her. Meanwhile, a Testimony avatar of her is happily reunited with him shortly before his regeneration, which also lifts the burden of his guilt over not being able to undo her Cyber-conversion.
  • The Everyman: As much as any companion can be. Out of the Series 10 Team TARDIS dynamic of Bill, Nardole, the Doctor and Missy she's the only one new to an adventuring life. In fact, Bill may be the most normal companion since Ten's years.
  • Fridge Logic: In-Universe, when she wonders why Daleks say "Exterminate" instead of shorter words, like "Kill". Her unusual, questioning perspective on the Doctor's world is key to her character, according to invokedWord of God.
  • Gay Best Friend: She has this dynamic with the Doctor, having of course no interest in him romantically. When they talk to each other for the last time in "The Doctor Falls", she heavily implies to him that she loves him in a platonic way.
  • Gender-Blender Name: "Billie", her full first name, is the feminine form of "Bill"; she typically uses the masculine form.
  • Genre Savvy: She was into sci-fi and space before meeting the Doctor, and recognizes the attempt by the Doctor to erase her memories before he does it based on having previously seen it in movies.
  • Imaginary Friend: Her Missing Mom becomes this once she has pictures of her. In "The Lie of the Land", she talks to her as a friend because she has no one else to turn to at the time; she knows the truth about the Monks but no one else around her does and she will be arrested for speaking up. Ultimately, her created memories of her mother and their conversations — a pure fiction — are what defeat the Monks in a Battle in the Centre of the Mind, as they cannot rewrite fiction, only the truth.
  • Incompatible Orientation: She's the first openly gay Companion and, as such, is the first for whom any fan shipping is not cool (previous actors have said they and the Doctor were totally doing it all over the TARDIS). Bill lampshades this to get her and the Doctor out of an awkward moment, "I know whe have this student-teacher thing going, but...", and then they laugh and save the world.
  • Missing Mom: Her biological mother died when she was young. She didn't even have any pictures of her until the Doctor went back in time to take some.
  • Naïve Newcomer: She's had an ordinary life in ordinary modern day England with nothing particularly extraordinary happening to her until she was attacked by a puddle, so she doesn't know a thing about Daleks and things from outer space beyond what she's seen in movies. This is why she asks a lot of questions.
  • Named After Someone Famous: She and Heather are named after William Hartnell and his wife.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Goes by "Bill" rather than "Billie".
  • Parental Abandonment: She was fostered after her mother died. Her father is never mentioned, and her foster mother appears somewhat indifferent to her.
  • Parental Substitute: The Doctor takes on the role as a surrogate father or grandfather, assisting in such mundane tasks as helping her move house.
  • Pop-Cultured Badass: Even in dire situations, she just can't stop referencing movies she loves.
  • Preserve Your Gays: While she was turned into a Mondasian Cyberman in "World Enough and Time", she is assimilated by the Heather creature and they travel the universe together by the end of "The Doctor Falls". They even have an onscreen Big Damn Kiss after both have "died". However, she doesn't regain her human form. She's basically like Heather by that point, although she could turn back into a human if she wanted.
  • Running Gag: Subverted. When meeting the Doctor for the first time, she asks "Doctor what?", rather than "Doctor who?" It also takes her a while to realize that the TARDIS is "bigger on the inside".
  • Sorry, I'm Gay: A good few episodes end up with her telling potential love interests this, including the Doctor. It's inverted when members of a Roman legion actually find it rather cute that she's so… restricted.
  • Stepford Snarker: "Friend from the Future" suggests that she copes with life-threatening situations by cracking jokes and asking deliberately silly questions.
  • Straight Man and Wise Guy: Has this dynamic with Twelve, who has to work not to crack a smile while explaining how much trouble they're in in "Friend From the Future".
  • Surprisingly Happy Ending: Cyber-conversion should be Bill's death sentence since the Doctor has no means of restoring her under the circumstances, and indeed everything in "The Doctor Falls" points to a final Heroic Sacrifice, but Heather the Pilot steps in to save the day And the Adventure Continues to an extremely full life for Bill.
  • Swiss-Army Tears: She has these because of her connection to Heather/The Pilot. In "The Doctor Falls", they call Heather back to her and reignite the Doctor's regeneration ability. (All There in the Manual material confirms Heather was watching out for her all along.)
  • Tomboyish Name: "Billie" and "Bill". She goes by the masculine latter.
  • Twofer Token Minority: Black lesbian.
  • Unwilling Roboticisation: Part of her Break the Cutie experience. First, she ended up with her heart being replaced by a metal one after it was vaporised by a gun blast. Then she trusted the wrong person and ended up the first full-blown Mondasian Cyberman.
  • Working-Class Hero: She works in a university canteen and it's noted that Bill can't afford to attend any classes herself — until the Doctor becomes her private tutor, that is.
  • You Remind Me of X: It's implied her Constantly Curious nature reminds the Doctor of his granddaughter, Susan Foreman.

Thirteenth Doctor Era

    Yasmin Khan 

PC Yasmin "Yaz" Khan (Thirteenth Doctor)

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Departure Story: "The Power of the Doctor" (2022)

Played by: Mandip Gill

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. Yaz is the longest running companion in the entire series in terms of "years", from October 2018 to October 2022 for a total of 4 years and 16 days.note 


  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: 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.
  • Ambiguously Bi: 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 "The Haunting of Villa Diodati", she makes some comments that can be interpreted as indicating she has a crush on the Doctor. "Eve of the Daleks" confirms that she has feelings for The Doctor.
  • Broken Pedestal: The shine is completely off Thirteen by "The Halloween Apocalypse", Yaz being sick of the Doctor's lying and evasiveness.
  • Childhood Friends: She was friends with Ryan in primary school, but they didn't keep in touch.
  • Character Development: She's gone from a rookie eager to prove herself to a proto-Doctor, just like Clara Oswald before her.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Gains this in Series 13. She snarks back and forth with the Doctor and Dan.
  • The Dutiful Daughter: 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.
  • Eager Rookie: 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.
  • Fair Cop: She's a rather attractive rookie police officer.
  • Following in Their Rescuer's Footsteps: In "Can You Hear Me?" we learn that Yaz became a police officer because one helped her during a dark time several years before, when she had run away from home and was implied to be suicidal.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: 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. Downplayed a bit as it turns out Yaz had her own wild streak and was convinced to try for a more responsible life by an inspiring copper, who bet her fifty quid for fifty pence that she'd be happier trying to make the world a better place. (the copper won the bet)
  • Green-Eyed Monster: 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.
  • Hero-Worshipper: 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. That's what happens when your hero disappears for ten months.
  • Implied Love Interest: Shares this with both Ryan and the Doctor.
  • Informed Attribute: 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.
  • The Lancer: 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. In her last episode, she becomes a proto Doctor, like Clara before her, flying the TARDIS by herself, picking up companions and coming up with her own plan to save the Doctor from the Master.
  • Lipstick Lesbian: In "Eve of the Daleks", 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.
  • Married to the Job: She's devoted in her role as a police officer.
  • Mistaken for Romance: Ryan and Yaz are just friends and nothing more, despite Yaz's sister and mum thinking otherwise.
  • My Sister Is Off-Limits: She refuses to give her sister's phone number to Ryan in "Spyfall", stating that she doesn't want him as a brother-in-law.
  • Oblivious to Love: 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.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: 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.
  • Out of Focus: 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 she was going to be serving a much longer time as a companion than Graham or Ryan.
  • Plucky Girl: She is often this, being a fangirl of the Doctors and volunteering to help people out. "Praxeus" even shows her going off on her own adventure and behaving like the Doctor, companion analogue and all!
  • Reformed Criminal: 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".
  • The Reliable One: 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 Out of Focus a lot, but the Doctor seems to trust her the most out of the group.
  • The Runaway: It's revealed in "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.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Clara Oswald, with both having tremendous amounts of Ship Tease with the Doctor with feelings only being confirmed towards the end of their run, and a character arc showing them becoming increasingly Doctor-like, with reckless levels of confidence.

    Ryan Sinclair 

Ryan Sinclair (Thirteenth Doctor)

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Departure Story: "Revolution of the Daleks" (2021)

Played by: Tosin Cole

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.


  • AM/FM Characterization: He's a fan of Grime music, particuarly Stormzy. He considered Raze to be the "sickest grime station" in Sheffield.
  • The Artefact: 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.
  • Book Dumb: The others are often left surprised by the amount of common knowledge Ryan isn't privy to.
  • But Now I Must Go: 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.
  • The Casanova: Hits on a woman in virtually every episode, and many women and gay men like him as well.
  • Childhood Friends: He was friends with Yaz in primary school, but they didn't keep in touch.
  • Cynicism Catalyst: 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.
  • Disappeared Dad: 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.
  • Dull Surprise: One of the more stoic companions, he had a very monotonous, almost robotic manner of speaking (possibly a result of dyspraxia).
  • The Engineer: 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.
  • Handicapped Badass: He has to manage his dyspraxia-induced "coordination problem" during his heroic adventures with the Doctor.
  • Informed Attribute: 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 "Spyfall", or hesitating to jump between train cars in “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror”.
  • Jerkass Ball: 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 "Arachnids in the UK", where he expresses anger at his Jerkass father implicitly not considering Graham family. He finally does call Graham "Granddad" in "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.
  • The Klutz: Justified and deconstructed. He has dyspraxia, and his inability to ride a bike as a result deeply frustrates him.
  • Learning to Ride a Bike: Ryan has dyspraxia, a condition which impairs his coordination, and thus has never learned to ride a bike. He won't give up, and as they bond, this cements the father-son dynamic with Graham.
  • Missing Mom: Died six years before "The Woman Who Fell to Earth", when Ryan was thirteen.
  • Mistaken for Romance: Yaz's family sees his friendship with Yaz as something more, despite neither of the two thinking that way.
  • Oblivious to Love: Ryan does get a small number of admirers. He has a few moments with Yaz, Yaz's sister takes a liking to him, and King James asks him to stay. Ryan usually responds with confusion, and he doesn't recognise when he's flirting with someone. Captain Jack also flirted with him. Ryan's response: "I like him."
  • Plucky Comic Relief: By Series 12, he gets plenty of comedic moments, and is the most comedy oriented of the three.
  • The Stoic: He speaks in a very reserved, unemotional manner.
  • There Are No Therapists: 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", 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.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
    • He's not crazy about spiders.
    • Or ladders, especially under pressure.
  • You're Not My Father: 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 "Rosa", Ryan doesn't object. He also lets Graham know he was offended by his own father implying that Graham wasn't proper family.

    Graham O'Brien 

Graham O'Brien (Thirteenth Doctor)

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Departure Story: "Revolution of the Daleks" (2021)
Final Appearance: "The Power of the Doctor" (2022)

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.


  • Ambiguously Bi: He's not exactly complaining about being kissed by Jack Harkness.
  • Bad Boss: Discussed in "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.
  • Been There, Shaped History:
    • 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.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: 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 Fate Worse than Death.
  • The Bus Came Back: Returns for "The Power of the Doctor", without Ryan, who is apparently in Patagonia.
  • But Now I Must Go: 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.
  • Cowardly Lion: He's not at all happy with the danger he finds himself in, yet he rises to the challenge anyway.
  • Cruel Mercy: 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.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He's not impressed by Epzo's misanthropic viewpoint in "The Ghost Monument".
    Graham: Were you born that miserable, or did you have to work at it?
  • Driver of a Black Cab: 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.
  • Happily Married: To Grace, as she gave him something to live for when he was undergoing cancer treatment. Her death devastates him.
  • The Heart: Despite his Sour Supporter moments, Graham is the one with the biggest heart. He always tries to talk to and empathize with people having a hard time. See the way he comforts Yaz in "Demons of the Punjab" and Jake in "Praxeus". Not forgetting the fact he and Ryan help deliver a baby in "The Tsuranga Conundrum".
  • How Do I Shot Web?: Although he has psychic paper in his arsenal, he doesn't really know how it works, as Ace points out.
  • The Lost Lenore: 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.
  • Mistaken Identity: Has been mistaken for the Doctor twice now. The second time, Captain Jack Harkness snogs him thinking the Doctor had regenerated.
  • Nice Guy: Occasional grumpiness aside, he's actually a sweet guy.
  • Not So Above It All: Despite his general Only Sane Man 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.
  • Older Sidekick: 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.
  • Only Sane Man: 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!
  • Papa Wolf: In "Rosa", he's quick to shield Ryan from a local bigot who shoved him to the ground.
  • Parents as People: He's understandably frustrated by Ryan's refusal to acknowledge him as his grandfather, but he loves the boy just the same.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: 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 "The Woman Who Fell to Earth":
    Grace: Is it wrong to be enjoying this?
    Graham: Yes!
    Grace: [giggles]
  • Ship Tease: With Ace, who he bumps into while investigating some suspicious volcanic activity. He acts flustered when she calls it a "first" date, and when she tells him her name he says to himself she is Ace. This isn't followed up on at the former companion support group.
  • Snark-to-Snark Combat: As the snarkiest of Team TARDIS, he often gets into snarking matches, with either the Doctor or the guest stars of the week.
  • Sour Supporter: 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.
  • Survivor's Guilt: As a cancer survivor, he feels guilty when Grace dies, saying it should have been him instead.
  • Team Dad: Or Team Grandad. Cut him in half and you'd find "hard-working busdriver who loves nothing more than telling his fam how proud he is of them" written across his kidneys. Which would be inconvenient for him, so don't do it. Ryan and Yaz both tear up when he goes full grandad. Also, he's really bad with technology.
  • Unfazed Everyman: An easy-going, down-to-earth working-class bloke who takes most of the bizarre things he encounters in his stride.
  • Verbal Tic: He makes a habit of calling the Doctor "Doc".
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: He clearly admires the Doctor, but they get into snarking matches with each other often. The Doctor herself seems to enjoy the banter.
  • What Would X Do?: He asks himself "what would Grace do" when he feels lost. In "The Ghost Monument", the answer is "What's wrong with you? You're on an alien planet. How cool is that?"

    Dan Lewis 

Dan Lewis (Thirteenth Doctor)

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Departure Story: "The Power of the Doctor" (2022)

Played by: John Bishop (2021)

"What's the point in living if it's not to make other people happy?"

A new companion introduced in 2021's six-part storyline Flux, filling the void left by Graham and Ryan's departure. A slightly eccentric but otherwise ordinary middle-aged bloke from Liverpool whose principal interests include the Reds, helping poor families at his local food bank, and pretending to be a tour guide at the Museum of Liverpool, Dan is spirited away by a foul-tempered dog-man named Karvanista, who turns out to be his assigned protector for the coming apocalypse.

Depending on how you count the tenures of Adam Mitchell and Jack Harkness from Series 1Namely..., Dan is the shortest tenured companion in the revival era by both episode and story countnote .


  • Bait-and-Switch Character Intro: He's introduced to the audience giving a passionate speech to guests at the Museum of Liverpool about what an amazing city it is, suggesting he's a tour guide. After he's finished, Diane, an actual museum employee, walks up to him to escort him off the premises, and tells him that her boss is going to ban him if he tries a stunt like that again.
  • But Now I Must Go: After being brought within a hair of dying during the CyberMasters' attack on a train, he chose to leave the TARDIS crew amicably. Thanks to his experiences with the Doctor, he can now fight for the life he wants.
  • Canine Companion: Dan is Karvanista's designated human to protect from the Flux. While Karvanista is honour-bound to defend him, he doesn't have to like him.
  • Conversational Troping: Immediately indentifies a time loop as "Groundhog Day".
  • Deadpan Snarker: Easily the wittiest companion of the Thirteenth Doctor. His response to the TARDIS being Bigger on the Inside:
    Dan: I had a mate who had one of these. I think his was a bit bigger, actually.
  • Did Not Get the Girl: Di decides she doesn't want a relationship with him, resenting him for her ordeal with the Passenger. He's obviously heartbroken and chooses to commit to travelling in the TARDIS full time afterwards.
  • Disabled Love Interest: He's trying to get a date with a woman named Di, an actual employee of the Museum of Liverpool. Di has a malformed arm, but nobody makes a big deal of it.
  • Empty Fridge, Empty Life: He's shown to have an empty fridge after turning down an offer from the food bank he works in, after saying other people needed it more.
  • Friend to All Children: Gives a bag of sweets to and banters with a girl who visits the food bank with her mother. And later on, making sure he has enough sweets for the children that are trick-or-treating.
  • The Friends Who Never Hang: Despite being the Doctor's latest companion, the frantic pace of Flux combined with their constant separations due to temporal distortions means that she and Dan do not share much screentime or have a fully developed relationship yet. Dan ultimately spends much more time with Yaz after being stranded alongside her in the Edwardian era by some Weeping Angels, so he seems more like a companion to Yaz rather than the Doctor.
  • Frying Pan of Doom: His weapon of choice for bashing Sontarans on the probic vent is a large wok, given to him by his parents.
  • Oop North: He's from the North-West of England with a notable scouse accent.
  • Nice Guy: Though he can be surly and snarky at times, Dan is nevertheless a lovely man who gets the most pleasure out of helping others and making them happy.
  • Patriotic Fervour: He loves his home city of Liverpool. Not just for the football, but the history and culture. His passion is such that he pretends to be a museum tour guide even though he doesn't work there. Moreover, his knowledge of Liverpool's history allows him to deduce Joseph Williamson's identity before anyone else.
  • Runaway Fiancé: From the perspective of the one who got dumped. He was engaged at one point, but his fiancée changed her mind two days before the wedding because she was unable to bear the thought of spending the rest of her life with him and thought she could do better. (We don't know when the conversation in "Once, Upon Time" took place in Dan's timeline, only that the engagement was maybe 15 years or so before that.)
  • Shipper on Deck: He attempts to get the Doctor and Yaz to admit their feelings for each other.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: As another late-middle-aged Unfazed Everyman companion played by an actor best known for light entertainment programming, he would seem to be a replacement for Graham. While his storyline proves to be significantly different from Graham's, it's debatable how different he really is.
  • Unfazed Everyman: Dan takes most of the bizarre events that happen over the course of the Flux event in stride. He's mostly unfazed by Karvanista kidnapping him, mainly being furious over the violation of his human rights rather than the fact that an alien abducted him. Even the TARDIS doesn't impress him that much. When he finds out that Karvanista shrunk his house, he's worried about how the hell he's supposed to live inside it now!
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: His initial Teeth-Clenched Teamwork with Karvanista becomes this over the course of Flux. He has this relationship with Yaz too.

Fifteenth Doctor Era

    Ruby Sunday 

Ruby Sunday (Fifteenth Doctor)

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Played by: Millie Gibson

"It's taking me all this time to realize what I'm meant to do. I'm going to save the world."

A girl who was abandoned at a church as an infant. She eventually crosses paths with the Doctor and joins him as a companion, hoping to solve the mystery of her birth.


  • Big Sister Instinct: Quickly finds herself chasing after the Goblins when they kidnap Lulubelle and haul her into their airship.
  • Doorstep Baby: Was left by the door of a church as a baby.
  • Gene Hunting: She is introduced looking for her birth parents through a genealogy programme. When this fails and she realizes the Doctor is a time traveler, she joins him with the clear intention of getting some answers.
  • Happily Adopted: She dearly loves her adoptive mother and grandmother.
  • The Jinx: She thinks she's become this for a few weeks leading up to "The Church on Ruby Road"; it turns out the goblins have been targeting her so they can get to Lulabelle.
  • Line-of-Sight Name: She was given the name "Ruby" after the street she was found on.
  • Morality Pet: Was apparently one for her adoptive mother. After she is briefly erased, Carla becomes a cold and selfish woman, a sharp contrast to how loving and warm she is in the real timeline.
  • Multigenerational Household: Lives with her adoptive mother and grandmother.
  • Parental Abandonment: Her mother left her as a newborn on a church on Ruby Road in the middle of the night.
  • Ret-Gone: Briefly happens to her during "The Church on Ruby Road" when the Goblins go back and kidnap her as a baby before she can be found by the priest, the change in the timeline making things much worse for everyone around her. The Doctor is the only one who remembers her thanks to having Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory and goes back himself to rescue her and fix the timeline.


Alternative Title(s): Doctor Who New Series Companions, Doctor Who Martha Jones, Doctor Who Donna Noble, Doctor Who Rory Williams, Doctor Who Amy Pond, Doctor Who Team TARDIS

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