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|name = Hypothetical Gentleman
|image       = EmilyHypothetical.jpg
|image=EmilyHypothetical.jpg
|series       = [[Doctor Who (2012)|''Doctor Who'' (2012)]]
|series = [[Doctor Who (2012)|''Doctor Who'' (2012)]]
|doctor       = Eleventh Doctor
|doctor = Eleventh Doctor
|companions   = [[Amy Pond|Amy]], [[Rory Williams|Rory]]
|companions = [[Amy Pond|Amy]], [[Rory Williams|Rory]]
|enemy       = [[Hypothetical Gentleman]]
|enemy = [[Hypothetical Gentleman]]
|setting     = [[London]], [[1851]]
|setting =  
|writer       = Andy Diggle
|writer = [[Andy Diggle]]
|editor       = [[Denton J. Tipton]]
|editor = [[Denton J. Tipton]]
|artist       = [[Mark Buckingham]]
|artist = [[Mark Buckingham]]
|colourist   = [[Charlie Kirchoff]]
|colourist = [[Charlie Kirchoff]]
|letterer     = [[Shawn Lee]]
|letterer = [[Shawn Lee]]
|publication = [[DW12 1]] - [[DW12 2|2]]
|publication = [[Doctor Who (2012)|''Doctor Who'' (2012)]] #1 - 2
|release date = 3 - 31 October 2012
|release date = [[September]] - [[October]] [[2012]]
|publisher   = IDW Publishing
|publisher = [[IDW Publishing]]
|format       = [[American comic book]] - 2 parts
|format = {{w|American comic book}} 2 issues
|next         = The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)
|prev = none
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|next = The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)}}
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'''''Hypothetical Gentleman''''' was the first comic story from the [[Doctor Who (2012)|''Doctor Who'' (2012)]] range.
'''''Hypothetical Gentleman''''' was a two-issue comic story from the [[Doctor Who (2012)|''Doctor Who'' (2012)]] range.


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
A shadow being has emerged from a machine used to view alternate realities, and is stealing time from those he touches in order to become "real." Can the Doctor save the Hypothetical Gentleman's latest victim?
A shadow being has emerged from a machine used to view alternate realities, and is stealing time from those he touches in order to become "real." Can the Doctor save the [[Hypothetical Gentleman]]'s latest victim?


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* The [[Eleventh Doctor]]
* [[Eleventh Doctor]]
* [[Amy Pond]]
* [[Amy Pond]]
* [[Rory Williams]]
* [[Rory Williams]]
* [[Henry Hardwicke]]
* [[Rosalind Hardwicke]]
* [[Charles Fairfax]]
* [[Emily Fairfax]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* The Hypothetical Gentleman gives the Fairfaxes the information to build a [[quantum resonator]], which serves as a window into other worlds and shows what might have been. It draws [[artron energy]] from the TARDIS allowing the Gentleman to materialise in this reality, so the Doctor creates a [[synchronization cage]] to trap it.
* The Hypothetical Gentleman shows Emily images of [[Sontaran]]s, a [[peg doll (Night Terrors)|peg doll]], a [[Zygon]], a [[Kroton (species)|Kroton]], a [[Headless monk]], a [[Silent]], a [[Weeping Angel]] and a [[Krynoid]].
* [[Glossolalia]] is "the language of the [[angel]]s."


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* This story subtly begins a running gag of trying to get Amy and Rory to [[Majorca]], [[Spain]].
* ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'' later reveals the Hypothetical Gentleman is in fact [[the Matrix]], having survived the [[Last Great Time War]] by connecting itself into [[the Doctor's TARDIS]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
*This story subtly begins a running gag of trying to get Amy and Rory to [[Majorca]], [[Spain]].
* The Eleventh Doctor successfully takes Amy and Rory to [[the Great Exhibition]], having previously missed the year. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Eagle of the Reich (comic story)|The Eagle of the Reich]]'')
*''Gentleman'' makes good on the Eleventh Doctor's ambition to take Amy and Rory to The Great Exhibition. He had tried before in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Eagle of the Reich (comic story)|The Eagle of the Reich]]'', but had missed the year.  This story therefore contains Amy and Rory's second visit to the [[Crystal Palace]].  
* Rory mentions going to [[Majorca]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Eye of Ashaya (comic story)|The Eye of Ashaya]]'')
*Set mainly in and around the [[Crystal Palace]] of [[The Great Exhibition]] of [[1851]], the Doctor mentions he has to avoid running into himself. This is a reference to [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives (audio story)|Other Lives]]'', where the [[Eighth Doctor]] visited the exhibition, as well as unknown visits implied by the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s enthusiasm in [[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]''.
* Set mainly in and around the [[Crystal Palace]] of The Great Exhibition of [[1851]], the Doctor mentions he has to avoid running into himself. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives (audio story)|Other Lives]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'')
* A [[Osiran service robot|mummy]] is on display in the Crystal Palace. The Doctor checks to see if it is deactivated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'')


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DW2012 2a.jpg|Issue 2 (Cover A)
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[[Category:Two part comics]]

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Hypothetical Gentleman was the first comic story from the Doctor Who (2012) range.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

A shadow being has emerged from a machine used to view alternate realities, and is stealing time from those he touches in order to become "real." Can the Doctor save the Hypothetical Gentleman's latest victim?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]