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{{Infobox Individual | {{Infobox Individual | ||
|image = | |image = The Doctor's Daughter.jpg | ||
|alias = | |alias = | ||
|species = The | |species = The Doctor's species | ||
|origin = [[Messaline]] | |origin = [[Messaline]] | ||
|parent = Tenth Doctor | |parent = Tenth Doctor | ||
|first = The Doctor's Daughter (TV story) | |first = The Doctor's Daughter (TV story) | ||
|appearances = | |appearances = [[Jenny - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']] | ||
|actor = Georgia Moffett | |actor = Georgia Moffett | ||
|clip = The Doctor Meets his Daughter - Doctor Who - The Doctor's Daughter - BBC | |clip = The Doctor Meets his Daughter - Doctor Who - The Doctor's Daughter - BBC | ||
|clip2 = Jenny Dodges Lasers - The Doctor's Daughter - Doctor Who - BBC | |clip2 = Jenny Dodges Lasers - The Doctor's Daughter - Doctor Who - BBC | ||
}} | |foster mother=River Song}} | ||
'''Jenny''' was the [[daughter]] of the [[Tenth Doctor]], artificially created from his [[DNA]] when it was sampled by a [[progenation]] machine. | '''Jenny''' was the [[daughter]] of the [[Tenth Doctor]], artificially created from his [[DNA]] when it was sampled by a [[progenation]] machine. | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Creation === | === Creation === | ||
During [[human-Hath War|a short war]] on the [[planet]] [[Messaline]] between [[human]]s and [[Hath]], both sides used progenation machines. These could create mentally programmed adults from a single DNA sample, making the donor both "biological mother and father". When the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Donna Noble]], and [[Martha Jones]] arrived on Messaline, Jenny was made from a [[skin]] sample taken from the Doctor without his permission. ([[TV]]: | During [[human-Hath War|a short war]] on the [[planet]] [[Messaline]] between [[human]]s and [[Hath]], both sides used progenation machines. These could create mentally programmed adults from a single DNA sample, making the donor both "biological mother and father". When the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Donna Noble]], and [[Martha Jones]] arrived on Messaline, Jenny was made from a [[skin]] sample taken from the Doctor without his permission. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]'') | ||
=== With the Doctor === | === With the Doctor === | ||
The then nameless Jenny pushed a button which triggered an explosion, collapsing the tunnel and cutting the group off from the Hath and Martha. Shortly after, Jenny was named by Donna from the Doctor's description of her as a "generated anomaly." Jenny's commander, [[Cobb (The Doctor's Daughter)|Cobb]], imprisoned the Doctor, Donna, and Jenny where Donna proved that Jenny was indeed the Doctor's daughter by listening to her [[binary vascular system]]. However, the Doctor insisted that she was nothing more than an "echo" and that a "real" [[Time Lord]] was "so much more." | The then nameless Jenny pushed a button which triggered an explosion, collapsing the tunnel and cutting the group off from the Hath and Martha. Shortly after, Jenny was named by Donna from the Doctor's description of her as a "generated anomaly." Jenny's commander, [[Cobb (The Doctor's Daughter)|Cobb]], imprisoned the Doctor, Donna, and Jenny where Donna proved that Jenny was indeed the Doctor's daughter by listening to her [[binary vascular system]]. However, the Doctor insisted that she was nothing more than an "echo" and that a "real" [[Time Lord]] was "so much more." | ||
By kissing [[Cline]] and stealing his [[pistol]], Jenny was able to allow them to escape, impressing the Doctor with her capability, even if he didn't care for her inclination towards violence, having to later convince her not to kill Cobb. As the three of them made their way | By kissing [[Cline]] and stealing his [[pistol]], Jenny was able to allow them to escape, impressing the Doctor with her capability, even if he didn't care for her inclination towards violence, having to later convince her not to kill Cobb. As the three of them made their way towards [[the Source (The Doctor's Daughter)|the Source]], which Cobb and the [[Hath]] both sought, Jenny spoke with the Doctor about the possibility of travelling with him, and he told her that he would never leave her. Upon arriving at the Source, the Doctor told the respective parties to end the war, whereupon General Cobb aimed his gun and shot at him, Jenny jumping in the way of the bullet. She was shot through one of her hearts, and died, but did not [[Regeneration|regenerate]]. | ||
Despite not experiencing regeneration Jenny somehow came back to life. With her father having left the planet and believing her to be dead, she stole a shuttlecraft and left Messaline. When asked where she was going, she restated Donna's earlier description of the Doctor's life. "Oh, I've got the whole universe: planets to save, civilisations to rescue, creatures to defeat — and an awful lot of running to do." She then set off to explore the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]'') | |||
=== Exploring the universe === | === Exploring the universe === | ||
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Someone in a cantina told her about messages in bottles. She then wrote a letter to her father and left it in the ocean. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Judge, Jury and Executioner (short story)|Judge, Jury and Executioner]]'') | Someone in a cantina told her about messages in bottles. She then wrote a letter to her father and left it in the ocean. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Judge, Jury and Executioner (short story)|Judge, Jury and Executioner]]'') | ||
She had numerous adventures whilst travelling via wormhole, visiting dead space, blooming nebulae, spaceports and bolt-holes. After six jumps, she arrived on the planet [[Kulontor]]. She made a living by trading engineering support for resources and planned to make a trip to the planet's moon [[Terebek]] that only appeared every six months. Fashioning a suit of | She had numerous adventures whilst travelling via wormhole, visiting dead space, blooming nebulae, spaceports and bolt-holes. After six jumps, she arrived on the planet [[Kulontor]]. She made a living by trading engineering support for resources and planned to make a trip to the planet's moon [[Terebek]] that only appeared every six months. Fashioning a suit of armor for herself, Jenny travelled to Terebek when it appeared. Discovering that a crashed bowship was the cause of the temporal anomalies, Jenny repaired, incorporating its [[Seal of Rassilon]] into her armor, and claimed it as her new craft. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') | ||
=== Fighting the Void === | === Fighting the Void === | ||
[[File:Jenny The Lost Dimension.jpg|thumb|Jenny meets the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'')]] | [[File:Jenny The Lost Dimension.jpg|thumb|Jenny meets the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'')]] | ||
Travelling around in [[Jenny's bowship|her bowship]], Jenny tracked the progress of a [[white hole]] to the planet [[Sultath]], where she encountered [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Tara Mishra]]. Failing to save them, she flew after them into the | Travelling around in [[Jenny's bowship|her bowship]], Jenny tracked the progress of a [[white hole]] to the planet [[Sultath]], where she encountered [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Tara Mishra]]. Failing to save them, she flew after them into the while hole, becoming trapped herself. She was saved by the [[Fifth Doctor]] who in doing so, was sucked in himself. Jenny tracked [[the Doctor|her father]] through multiple [[incarnation]]s. but he rarely stayed in one place long enough for her to make contact with him. She managed to track the [[Eleventh Doctor]] to the [[Siege of Trenzalore]] but was unable to contact him owing to the force field that the [[Papal Mainframe]] had established. Jenny then travelled to [[St Luke's University]], another of the few places the Doctor was sedentary, where she met the [[Twelfth Doctor]] to get his help. As she told him what had happened, her bowship was analysed by [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] personnel, [[the Void]] energy saturating its hull infecting [[Kate Stewart]] and [[Patronella Osgood|Osgood]]. Immune to the white energy thanks to being [[time travel]]lers, the Doctor, Jenny, [[Bill Potts]] and [[Nardole]] entered the TARDIS, only to find that it merged with the version occupied by the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Gabby Gonzalez]] and [[Cindy Wu]], grounding the ship. Ejecting themselves, the group emerged on the university's lawn, finding a white hole that threatened to devour the planet before the [[Ninth Doctor]] saved them from the possessed students. Though the group tried to use his TARDIS to escape, it too had merged with its other selves before the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Josie Day]] emerged from it. Deciding to use the bowship, the Ninth, Tenth, and Twelfth Doctors flew into the portal to discover the source of the threat. Left to hold the line, Jenny rallied the companions to hold off the possessed forces before the threat passed. Deprived of her bowship, Jenny was returned to her proper time and place by the Ninth Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') | ||
Another account implied the Doctor was unaware of her survival, as the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] told the soon to be formed [[Team TARDIS]] that her "entire family had died" a long time prior. ([[TV]]: | Another account implied the Doctor was unaware of her survival, as the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] told the soon to be formed [[Team TARDIS]] that her "entire family had died" a long time prior. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)|The Woman Who Fell to Earth]]'') | ||
=== Encounter with the Fifth Doctor === | === Encounter with the Fifth Doctor === | ||
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Arriving in the [[Old West]] Jenny was seemingly mistaken for a criminal identical in appearance to her and they discovered a crystal which caused bad luck. In the ensuing events the crystal caused Jenny to accidentally travel back in time three months, forcing her to become the infamous criminal she'd been mistaken for and arrange events to ensure her younger self fell back in time. With the paradox resolved, she and Noah escaped, leaving the crystal on a crashing train. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Calamity Jenny (audio story)|Calamity Jenny]]'') | Arriving in the [[Old West]] Jenny was seemingly mistaken for a criminal identical in appearance to her and they discovered a crystal which caused bad luck. In the ensuing events the crystal caused Jenny to accidentally travel back in time three months, forcing her to become the infamous criminal she'd been mistaken for and arrange events to ensure her younger self fell back in time. With the paradox resolved, she and Noah escaped, leaving the crystal on a crashing train. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Calamity Jenny (audio story)|Calamity Jenny]]'') | ||
When the COLT-5000 caught up with them again, Jenny linked her manipulator to its timeline and travelled back with Noah to try to avert its creation. They discovered it was formerly a woman called Geraldine and that the cyborgs were created from people who voiced disatisfaction with their lives in an audit on her world. Jenny took Geraldine further back to show her the positive impact she'd had over | When the COLT-5000 caught up with them again, Jenny linked her manipulator to its timeline and travelled back with Noah to try to avert its creation. They discovered it was formerly a woman called Geraldine and that the cyborgs were created from people who voiced disatisfaction with their lives in an audit on her world. Jenny took Geraldine further back to show her the positive impact she'd had over life so she'd pass the audit. Jenny then returned Geraldine to the audit realising the progressive trips had damaged the manipulator so it could only make one more trip. As security closed in for them disrupting the audit, Jenny hurriedly attempted to escape with the manipulator but accidentally took Geraldine instead of Noah. Back where they'd been cornered by the COLT-5000, she was horrified to discover that Noah had now become the cyborg in Geraldine's place. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Her Own Worst Enemy (audio story)|Her Own Worst Enemy]]'') | ||
=== Legacy === | === Legacy === | ||
[[Davros]] tried to manipulate and hurt the Doctor when he moved the [[Earth]] to the [[Medusa Cascade]] by asking the Doctor how many people had died in his name. Jenny was one of the people the Doctor thought of, as he was unaware of her revival. ([[TV]]: | [[Davros]] tried to manipulate and hurt the Doctor when he moved the [[Earth]] to the [[Medusa Cascade]] by asking the Doctor how many people had died in his name. Jenny was one of the people the Doctor thought of, as he was unaware of her revival. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') | ||
While trying to convince the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] that she was the Doctor, [[Clara Oswald]] noted among his family a non-[[Gallifrey]]an daughter created via genetic transfer. ([[TV]]: | While trying to convince the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] that she was the Doctor, [[Clara Oswald]] noted among his family a non-[[Gallifrey]]an daughter created via genetic transfer. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') | ||
== Personality == | == Personality == | ||
Jenny showed a lot of the brilliance, lust for life, and the determination of her [[Tenth Doctor|father]]. Though programming had made her military-minded and goal- | Jenny showed a lot of the brilliance, lust for life, and the determination of her [[Tenth Doctor|father]]. Though programming had made her military-minded and goal-oriented, she was too much like her father for this to dictate her actions. While at first, she showed violent intentions towards others, she soon adopted the Doctor's values and principles, though she still retained her miltary mind. She even inherited his selflessness as shown when she took a gunshot from Cobb to save her dad. | ||
She was delighted at the prospects of travelling in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] with her father. After her revival, she seemed very excited about travelling the universe. ([[TV]]: | She was delighted at the prospects of travelling in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] with her father. After her revival, she seemed very excited about travelling the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]'') She later expressed the desire to visit everywhere in the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stolen Goods (audio story)|Stolen Goods]]'') | ||
Jenny had no intention of finding her father when first setting out on her travels. She knew that she would run into him one day when the time was right. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zero Space (audio story)|Zero Space]]'') | Jenny had no intention of finding her father when first setting out on her travels. She knew that she would run into him one day when the time was right. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zero Space (audio story)|Zero Space]]'') | ||
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=== Inherited characteristics === | === Inherited characteristics === | ||
[[File:Lost Dimension Jenny and Fifth Doctor.jpg|thumb|Jenny encounters the [[Fifth Doctor]], the incarnation she arguably most closely resembled. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'')]] | [[File:Lost Dimension Jenny and Fifth Doctor.jpg|thumb|Jenny encounters the [[Fifth Doctor]], the incarnation she arguably most closely resembled. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'')]] | ||
Being biologically [[ | Being biologically [[Gallifreyan]], Jenny had two [[heart]]s, as well as reflexes, precision timing, and acrobatic ability far beyond that of an average [[human]]. At first, the [[Tenth Doctor]] flatly denied that she should be considered a [[Time Lord]] because she lacked the shared culture, code, and [[knowledge]]. However, as he later admitted to [[Donna Noble|Donna]], "when I look at [Jenny] now, I can see them. The hole they left, all the pain that filled it. Just don't know if I can face that every day." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]'') Jenny was able to sense temporal events before they happened, and knew instinctively how to pilot [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Time (audio story)|Relative Time]]'') | ||
== Other information == | == Other information == | ||
The presence of Jenny drew [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to [[Messaline]], [[paradox]]ically before her creation, so that she, in effect, caused herself to exist. ([[TV]]: | The presence of Jenny drew [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to [[Messaline]], [[paradox]]ically before her creation, so that she, in effect, caused herself to exist. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
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=== Companion status === | === Companion status === | ||
Prior to November 2013, Jenny was considered a "companion presumptive". It is clear, once the Doctor accepted her as his daughter, that she would travel with him and Donna. Her "death" ended these plans. In the ''[[Prisoners of Time]]'' comic miniseries released five years after ''The Doctor's Daughter'', all of the Doctor's companions were kidnapped by Adam Mitchell. Jenny was revealed among those kidnapped, marking her inclusion as a companion. In the 2017 comic, ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'', Jenny joined [[Bill Potts]] and [[Nardole]] as a companion of the Twelfth Doctor. | Prior to November 2013, Jenny was considered a "companion presumptive". It is clear, once the Doctor accepted her as his daughter, that she would travel with him and Donna. Her "death" ended these plans. In the ''[[Prisoners of Time]]'' comic miniseries released five years after ''The Doctor's Daughter'', all of the Doctor's companions were kidnapped by Adam Mitchell. Jenny was revealed among those kidnapped, marking her inclusion as a companion. In the 2017 comic, ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'', Jenny joined [[Bill Potts]] and [[Nardole]] as a companion of the Twelfth Doctor. | ||
=== Resurrection === | |||
The reference book ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac]]'', which is not accepted as a [[Tardis:Valid sources|valid source for in-universe articles on this wiki]], suggests that Jenny's revival was not due to [[regeneration]] but rather [[The Source (The Doctor's Daughter)|the Source]], as suggested by visual cues in the episode. | |||
=== Return? === | === Return? === | ||
Although ''The Sun'', a UK tabloid newspaper, speculated that Georgia Moffett would appear as Jenny in one of the 2009 specials, she did not make an appearance. | |||
[[Steven Moffat]] is credited with suggesting that Jenny be brought back to life at the end of the episode. This led to rumours that Georgia Moffett was in the running to return as a companion for the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. Ultimately, [[Karen Gillan]] was cast in this role as [[Amy Pond]]. | |||
No further television appearances of the character have been announced. Moffett did return to the franchise in other roles, providing the voice of an unrelated character named [[Cassie Rice]] in the animated serial ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'', and continuing to do voice work for [[Big Finish Productions]] in 2010. | |||
The ''[[Prisoners of Time]]'' comic was Jenny's first appearance, not including the archival footage, since her appearance in ''The Doctor's Daughter''. Despite being seen with the captured in ''[[The Choice (comic story)|The Choice]]'', she was absent after the companions were released in the following issue, ''[[Endgame (POT comic story)|Endgame]]''. Her appearance in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'' was her first major appearance since her inception. In 2018, she returned for her own Big Finish audio series: ''[[Jenny: The Doctor's Daughter (audio | In August 2013, Steven Moffat said "the door is open" for Jenny to return to the series.<ref name="Potential to Return">{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a508925/doctor-whos-steven-moffat-acknowledges-regeneration-limit.html |title='Doctor Who's Steven Moffat acknowledges regeneration limit |date of source=21 August 2013 |website name=Radio Times |publisher=Radio Times |accessdate=21 August 2013}}</ref> Moffett told ''Doctor Who Magazine'' in 2015 that she was desperate to return and would be happy to play even a character with a single line, but that it was not likely, as her character had only ever been conceived as a one-off. Additionally, [[Russell T Davies]] jokingly told Steven Moffat that Jenny crashed into a moon.<ref>http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-11-14/steven-moffat-finally-reveals-the-fate-of-the-doctors-daughter---sort-of</ref> Her solo series, ''[[Jenny: The Doctor's Daughter (audio anthology)|Jenny: The Doctor's Daughter]], ''begins with her crashing into a moon but surviving. | ||
The ''[[Prisoners of Time]]'' comic was Jenny's first appearance, not including the archival footage, since her appearance in ''The Doctor's Daughter''. Despite being seen with the captured in ''[[The Choice (comic story)|The Choice]]'', she was for some reason absent after the companions were released in the following issue, ''[[Endgame (POT comic story)|Endgame]]''. | |||
Her appearance in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'' was her first major appearance since her inception. In 2018, she returned for her own Big Finish audio series: ''[[Jenny: The Doctor's Daughter (audio anthology)|Jenny: The Doctor's Daughter]]''. | |||
=== Other matters === | === Other matters === | ||
* In the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s flashbacks during | * In the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s flashbacks during ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'', Jenny's "death" is emphasised by being the only one that has its original sound clip attached: the sound of the shot that "killed" her. | ||
* In addition to the character's licensed reappearances, [[Georgia Moffett]] reprised the role in live-action in [[2018 (releases)|2018]] for a brief skit, part a "farewell film" gifted to [[Gary Russell]] upon his departure for [[Australia]]. She later posted the entire scene on her official Twitter account. The scene featured Jenny seemingly "hanging out" with the [[Tenth Doctor]], with neither of them finding the situation extraordinary, and involved them discussing [[Gary Russell (The Legacy of Gallifrey)|Gary Russell]]'s apparent disappearance near [[Cardiff]], which the Doctor feared had something to do with the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/georgiaetennant/status/957666470233870337 Georgia Tennant on Twitter in January 2018].</ref> | * In addition to the character's licensed reappearances, [[Georgia Moffett]] reprised the role in live-action in [[2018 (releases)|2018]] for a brief skit, part a "farewell film" gifted to [[Gary Russell]] upon his departure for [[Australia]]. She later posted the entire scene on her official Twitter account. The scene featured Jenny seemingly "hanging out" with the [[Tenth Doctor]], with neither of them finding the situation extraordinary, and involved them discussing [[Gary Russell (The Legacy of Gallifrey)|Gary Russell]]'s apparent disappearance near [[Cardiff]], which the Doctor feared had something to do with the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/georgiaetennant/status/957666470233870337 Georgia Tennant on Twitter in January 2018].</ref> | ||
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