The Doctor and Susan's escape from Gallifrey: Difference between revisions

|appearances  = {{Il|[[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Exiles (short story)|The Exiles]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Frayed (novel)|Frayed]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Something Borrowed, Something Blue (short story)|Something Borrowed, Something Blue]]''}}

For many pressing reasons, ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nightshade (audio story)|Nightshade]]'') the Doctor stole [[The Doctor's TARDIS|a TARDIS]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') and fled his home planet with his granddaughter, [[Susan Foreman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'')  

While some accounts suggested the Doctor and Susan were [[human]]s, with [[Planet (An Unearthly Child)|the planet]] they escaped from existing in the [[49th century]], ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', et al.) the most commonly accepted version of the the Doctor and Susan's escape from their [[homeworld]] was from [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]], ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'', etc.)

A [[Boy (Unnatural History)|boy]] from [[Faction Paradox]] told the [[Eighth Doctor]] that the Doctor started out as a [[49th century]] [[human]], who had to leave their home planet to escape from [[the Enemy]]. The Enemy subsequently kept rewriting their past until they remembered having been a [[Time Lord]] from [[Gallifrey]], instead. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'')  

[[The Doctor]]'s most common explanation as to why they left [[Gallifrey]] was that "[he] was bored". However, many accounts suggested this was a lie, or at least not the whole truth, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') with the Doctor's arch-nemesis, [[Davros]], once confronting the [[Twelfth Doctor]] about this, stating that "no one runs the way you have run for so small a reason". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') Indeed, the [[First Doctor]] did admit to [[Bill Potts]] that there were "many pressing reasons" for his departure from Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')  

According to [[Ashildr]], when he was "barely more than a child", the Doctor learned of a prophesied warrior called "[[the Hybrid]]" from the [[Cloister Wraith]]s and the story made him "so scared" ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') that he eventually left Gallifrey out of fear. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') Another reason he left to see the universe was that he was curious ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Daleks (TVC comic story)|Return of the Daleks]]'') of why "good prevail[ed]" over "evil" in the universe; ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice (audio story)|The Stones of Venice]]'') according to the Doctor, uncovering this explanation was not the only reason they ''ran from'' the planet, but it was what they were running ''to''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') Another account also stated the Doctor had left during "dark times when [their] world tottered on the edge of ruin, where the impotence of [their] own people had driven him to leave". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Roses (short story)|Roses]]'')

The Doctor also took the [[Hand of Omega]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') some [[validium]], and Gallifrey's moon when he left, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') and brought Susan with him, either as an accidental passenger ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Here There Be Monsters (audio story)|Here There Be Monsters]]'') or on purpose, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') having decided it was best to do so to prevent her from being brainwashed and regimented in the thought patterns of the Time Lords. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'') He also took [[The Doctor's signet ring|his]] [[signet ring]] with him, using it to breach the "laws and barriers" to enable his escape. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Three Paths (short story)|The Three Paths]]'')

An account from an Astral Projection of the Doctor's life depicted the Doctor living as a lowly [[Scrutationary Archivist]] of the [[Bureau of Possible Events]]. He had been disowned and banished from his home by his family in the [[House of Lungbarrow]]. In order to replace the disowned Doctor, his family illegally [[loom]]ed another cousin, [[Owis]]. Upon learning of this crime, the Doctor reported his family to the [[Prydonian Chapter]]. After an encounter with his gloating Cousin [[Glospin]], Glospin revealed that there was genetic evidence to suggest that the Doctor didn't originally come from the Lungbarrow Loom, having originally been naturally born. Glospin claimed that the Doctor had infiltrated the family, and intended to use his evidence to get the Doctor executed for Loom-jumping. Glospin attacked the Doctor, obtaining a sample of his DNA, allowing him to frame the Doctor for the murder of their House [[Kithriarch]], [[Quences]]. During the fight between the two, the [[Hand of Omega]] arrived to attack Glospin, giving the Doctor the opportunity to escape. Knowing Glospin's claims could lead to his execution, the Doctor left Gallifrey, declining the chance to take a [[Type 53]] TARDIS in the process. He instead chose to leave in a [[The Doctor's TARDIS|Type 40 TARDIS]] with the Hand of Omega. The Hand piloted the TARDIS to the Dark Time on Gallifrey to collect [[Susan Foreman|the granddaughter]] of [[the Other]], who recognised the Doctor as the reincarnation of the Other, and the two left Gallifrey together in the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')

One account showed the Doctor enter the TARDIS by himself and, after admiring the interior, found that the ship had no owner. He then took the TARDIS from Gallifrey to explore the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Something Borrowed, Something Blue (short story)|Something Borrowed, Something Blue]]'')

Now cut off from his home planet "without friends or protection", the exiled Doctor intended for him and Susan to someday return, ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') but he knew that he could not. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Massacre (TV story)|The Massacre]]'') When he left Gallifrey, the Doctor lost his right to have his mind absorbed into the [[APC Net]] at the time of his death ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'') and, according to Clara, his "Prydonian privileges were [also] revoked when [he] stole a time capsule and ran away". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')

According to another account, immediately after leaving Gallifrey, the Doctor rested in the TARDIS console room, while Susan explored their new home. She found a full-length mirror and saw a pale-skinned fanged figure who vanished after telling her that she was not "[[Ace|the one]]". The Doctor theorised that, since they were now travelling through time, she encountered a brief echo of either the future or the past. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Exiles (short story)|The Exiles]]'')

In a different account, the Doctor and Susan's first destination was a [[vivarium]] beneath the surface of the Moon. Before walking outside, they were confronted by Quadrigger [[Stoyn]], who had become an unwitting passenger and had part of his face burned when the TARDIS took off. Stoyn's job was to take apart the TARDIS' engines before it was sent to be vaporised, but the TARDIS had run out of power, stranding them. The Doctor took the [[dematerialisation circuit]] so Stoyn wouldn't leave them behind and they explored the strange location. The Doctor, Susan and Stoyn realised they were in a massive cavern filled with vivariums carefully-preserved specimens. The [[Archaeon]]s had been seeding primitive planets such as the [[Earth]] with life by firing red lightning from the Moon, creating an established order out of the chaos and nurturing the early life forms under controlled conditions.

While checking to see if the TARDIS was a threat, the Archaeons began taking it apart. They took the TARDIS' [[temporal stasis capacitor]] while it was still attached to the power source. This caused the [[stasis field]] to breach, freezing the Doctor, Susan, Stoyn and the Archaeons in time, allowing the TARDIS to recharge itself. 450 million years later, [[human]]s had evolved on the Earth until they established a lunar colony, [[Giant Leap Base]]. A group of humans from Giant Leap Base broke the stasis field, taking the Doctor and Susan on board their [[Small Step Four|lunar rover]], where they came to. According to this account, the Doctor and Susan learnt about the Earth's history through a "[[first contact]] induction video" Susan had been provided while on board the rover.

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