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| === A day to come === | | === A day to come === |
| <!--This section if for the hints and teases the Doctor finds out about his future regenerations, as well as incidents where he almost regenerates into his next incarnation. Multi-Doctor events do not belong in this section, as such events are removed from the younger Doctor's memory and he forgets the encounter, though trace memories may count.--> | | <!--This section if for the hints and teases the Doctor finds out about his future regenerations, as well as incidents where he almost regenerates into his next incarnation. Multi-Doctor events do not belong in this section, as such events are removed from the younger Doctor's memory and he forgets the encounter, though trace memories may count.--> |
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| The [[First Doctor]] would occasionally have premonitions of his future incarnations, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)|A Big Hand for the Doctor]]'') and there was a rumour that he was able to glimpse as far as his eighth incarnation during a game of [[Eighth Man Bound]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'', ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | | The [[First Doctor]] would occasionally have premonitions of his future incarnations, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)|A Big Hand for the Doctor]]'') and there was a rumour that he was able to glimpse as far as his eighth incarnation during a game of [[Eighth Man Bound]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'', ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') |
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| === New adventures === | | === New adventures === |
| {{section stub|Info from ''[[Suns and Mothers (short story)|Suns and Mothers]]'', ''[[The Scent of Blood (audio story)|The Scent of Blood]]'', ''[[From Little Acorns (short story)|From Little Acorns]]'', ''[[The Eye of the Tyger (novel)|The Eye of the Tyger]]'', & ''[[Companion (short story)|Companion]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[Suns and Mothers (short story)|Suns and Mothers]]'', ''[[The Scent of Blood (audio story)|The Scent of Blood]]'', ''[[From Little Acorns (short story)|From Little Acorns]]'', ''[[The Eye of the Tyger (novel)|The Eye of the Tyger]]'', & ''[[Companion (short story)|Companion]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| Leaving San Francisco, the Doctor fell victim to a last trap set by the Master, causing yet another case of amnesia. He found himself travelling to different past points in his own timeline, encountering his previous incarnations to regain his memories via telepathic contact with each past incarnation. During these visits, he also offered the past Doctors advice and assistance, even securing the release of [[Borusa]] from the [[Tomb of Rassilon]] while arranging an inquiry into the trial of his [[sixth incarnation]]. At the end of this journey, [[Rassilon]] revealed that he had been guiding the Doctor's journeys to make some changes to the [[Web of Time|pattern of history]]; the Doctor regained his memories and acquired a new companion, [[Sam Jones]], a young woman from the same [[Shoreditch]] neighbourhood in which he lived in during his first incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') Since the Doctor had inadvertently changed his own timeline by travelling through it, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') the [[Rassilon|"Great Grey Eminence"]] made a deal with the [[Faction Paradox]] to fold the Doctor's [[timeline]] back on itself and rewrite [[Gallifreyan history]], at least according to the [[Book of Lies]]. The [[boy (Unnatural History)|Boy]] suggested that, as part of the Eminence's plan to re-sterilise Gallifrey, he arranged for the Doctor to travel with Sam rather than [[Grace Holloway|someone]] who would dare to "[[sex|screw]]" him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') However, the Doctor would periodically take several "side trips" between his adventures with Sam. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]'') | | Leaving San Francisco, the Doctor fell victim to a last trap set by the Master, causing yet another case of amnesia. He found himself travelling to different past points in his own timeline, encountering his previous incarnations to regain his memories via telepathic contact with each past incarnation. During these visits, he also offered the past Doctors advice and assistance, even securing the release of [[Borusa]] from the [[Tomb of Rassilon]] while arranging an inquiry into the trial of his [[sixth incarnation]]. At the end of this journey, [[Rassilon]] revealed that he had been guiding the Doctor's journeys to make some changes to the [[Web of Time|pattern of history]]; the Doctor regained his memories and acquired a new companion, [[Sam Jones]], a young woman from the same [[Shoreditch]] neighbourhood in which he lived in during his first incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') Since the Doctor had inadvertently changed his own timeline by travelling through it, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') the [[Rassilon|"Great Grey Eminence"]] made a deal with the [[Faction Paradox]] to fold the Doctor's [[timeline]] back on itself and rewrite [[Gallifreyan history]], at least according to the [[Book of Lies]]. The [[boy (Unnatural History)|Boy]] suggested that, as part of the Eminence's plan to re-sterilise Gallifrey, he arranged for the Doctor to travel with Sam rather than [[Grace Holloway|someone]] who would dare to "[[sex|screw]]" him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') However, the Doctor would periodically take several "side trips" between his adventures with Sam. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]'') |
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| === Fight against the Threshold === | | === Fight against the Threshold === |
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| [[File:End_Game_doctor_fights_relection.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor fights with his own reflection. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'')]] | | [[File:End_Game_doctor_fights_relection.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor fights with his own reflection. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'')]] |
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| On their first adventure, they went to the distant future of Earth in the [[51st century]], where they managed to traverse a pirate-infested wasteland and reach [[the Keep]], a mysterious source of power in the middle of nowhere. Within, they found the genius, [[Crivello]], who had solved the problem of the dwindling energy Earth received from the Sun, by creating a second sun capable of providing enough energy. The Doctor helped Crivello launch the device and a secondary sun was created in the [[Crab Nebula]] to provide humanity with a new home as [[Sol]] went [[supernova]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Keep (comic story)|The Keep]]'') | | On their first adventure, they went to the distant future of Earth in the [[51st century]], where they managed to traverse a pirate-infested wasteland and reach [[the Keep]], a mysterious source of power in the middle of nowhere. Within, they found the genius, [[Crivello]], who had solved the problem of the dwindling energy Earth received from the Sun, by creating a second sun capable of providing enough energy. The Doctor helped Crivello launch the device and a secondary sun was created in the [[Crab Nebula]] to provide humanity with a new home as [[Sol]] went [[supernova]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Keep (comic story)|The Keep]]'') |
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| After the TARDIS console exploded mid-flight, the Doctor and Izzy awoke at the bottom of a celestial staircase, believing that they had died and were moving on to the next life. At the top of the staircase, the duo found a courtroom, where the Doctor was accused of various crimes by figures from his past, prompting the judge to sentence both him and Izzy to Hell, only to discover that, in fact, they were in interstitial space, a simulated environment where a figure in white explained their true situation. The TARDIS had been invaded by a [[Vortex parasite]], and they had been uploaded to the TARDIS' datascape to combat it. After defeating the creature with the help of the figure, whom the Doctor realised was a manifestation of the TARDIS' own consciousness, the Doctor and Izzy decided to set off in search of a holiday. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Life of Matter and Death (comic story)|A Life of Matter and Death]]'') | | After the TARDIS console exploded mid-flight, the Doctor and Izzy awoke at the bottom of a celestial staircase, believing that they had died and were moving on to the next life. At the top of the staircase, the duo found a courtroom, where the Doctor was accused of various crimes by figures from his past, prompting the judge to sentence both him and Izzy to Hell, only to discover that, in fact, they were in interstitial space, a simulated environment where a figure in white explained their true situation. The TARDIS had been invaded by a [[Vortex parasite]], and they had been uploaded to the TARDIS's datascape to combat it. After defeating the creature with the help of the figure, whom the Doctor realised was a manifestation of the TARDIS's own consciousness, the Doctor and Izzy decided to set off in search of a holiday. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Life of Matter and Death (comic story)|A Life of Matter and Death]]'') |
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| The Doctor and Izzy materialised on a small satellite orbiting Crivello's sun, and witnessed an attack on it by the [[Dalek]]s. While attempting to stop the Daleks' plans, they found that another of the Doctor's enemies, the megacorp known as the [[Threshold]], had been hired to destroy the Daleks, and already had a plan in motion. This plan failed and Izzy escaped with the Threshold's payment and a portal-generating Threshold ring. She warped to the Doctor's location, and he was told of the Threshold's mission, and knew who hired them, since the box containing their payment was embossed with the [[Seal of Rassilon]]. The Doctor managed to defeat both the Daleks and the Threshold by making Crivello's sun go supernova. As the Doctor and Izzy escaped in the TARDIS, a Threshold agent appeared to remind the Doctor that the Threshold was not destroyed yet. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fire and Brimstone (comic story)|Fire and Brimstone]]'') | | The Doctor and Izzy materialised on a small satellite orbiting Crivello's sun, and witnessed an attack on it by the [[Dalek]]s. While attempting to stop the Daleks' plans, they found that another of the Doctor's enemies, the megacorp known as the [[Threshold]], had been hired to destroy the Daleks, and already had a plan in motion. This plan failed and Izzy escaped with the Threshold's payment and a portal-generating Threshold ring. She warped to the Doctor's location, and he was told of the Threshold's mission, and knew who hired them, since the box containing their payment was embossed with the [[Seal of Rassilon]]. The Doctor managed to defeat both the Daleks and the Threshold by making Crivello's sun go supernova. As the Doctor and Izzy escaped in the TARDIS, a Threshold agent appeared to remind the Doctor that the Threshold was not destroyed yet. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fire and Brimstone (comic story)|Fire and Brimstone]]'') |
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| === Controller of the Glory === | | === Controller of the Glory === |
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| The Doctor and Izzy arrived in [[17th century]] [[Japan]] and became involved in alien research by the [[Gaijin]]. The Gaijin were working with the locals in Japan and had created the secret to immortality; millions of [[Nanoform]]s that would recreate any damaged tissue within seconds. The Doctor managed to stop the Gaijin from giving the locals immortality with the help of Samurai [[Sato Katsura]], who was injured in the conflict. The Doctor used some of the Nanoforms to heal Sato. However, the Doctor poured too many of the Nanoforms on Sato and made him [[Immortality|immortal]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'') | | The Doctor and Izzy arrived in [[17th century]] [[Japan]] and became involved in alien research by the [[Gaijin]]. The Gaijin were working with the locals in Japan and had created the secret to immortality; millions of [[Nanoform]]s that would recreate any damaged tissue within seconds. The Doctor managed to stop the Gaijin from giving the locals immortality with the help of Samurai [[Sato Katsura]], who was injured in the conflict. The Doctor used some of the Nanoforms to heal Sato. However, the Doctor poured too many of the Nanoforms on Sato and made him [[Immortality|immortal]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'') |
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| === Final adventures with Izzy === | | === Final adventures with Izzy === |
| {{section stub|Info from ''[[Illumination (short story)|Illumination]]'', ''[[Izzy's Story (audio story)|Izzy's Story]]'', ''[[The Autonomy Bug (comic story)|The Autonomy Bug]]'', ''[[The Way of All Flesh (comic story)|The Way of All Flesh]]'', & ''[[Children of the Revolution (comic story)|Children of the Revolution]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[Illumination (short story)|Illumination]]'', ''[[Izzy's Story (audio story)|Izzy's Story]]'', ''[[The Autonomy Bug (comic story)|The Autonomy Bug]]'', ''[[The Way of All Flesh (comic story)|The Way of All Flesh]]'', & ''[[Children of the Revolution (comic story)|Children of the Revolution]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| On the planet [[Jora]], the Doctor and Izzy stooped the [[Joran]]s scientist [[Deezer]] from destroying [[the Syntax]], a sentient language he had accidently created, reasoning that, though the Syntax had overtaken the Jorans, it had not taken away their free will, and the possibility of them being dependent on the Syntax encouraged Deezer to join with it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Syntax (short story)|Syntax]]'') | | On the planet [[Jora]], the Doctor and Izzy stooped the [[Joran]]s scientist [[Deezer]] from destroying [[the Syntax]], a sentient language he had accidently created, reasoning that, though the Syntax had overtaken the Jorans, it had not taken away their free will, and the possibility of them being dependent on the Syntax encouraged Deezer to join with it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Syntax (short story)|Syntax]]'') |
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| === Revisiting old friends === | | === Revisiting old friends === |
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| === Solo travels === | | === Solo travels === |
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| Tracking a probe to [[Fort Casey]] in the [[Nevada]] [[desert]], the Doctor found that the town had fallen victim to the [[von Neumann seeding probe]]'s pathogen. Using his connections at UNIT to gain access past the quarantine, the Doctor ventured into Fort Casey to stop the virus at its source. Inside the town, the Doctor discovered Captain [[Evelyn Chan]], a survivor from a platoon sent in to investigate the town, and learnt from her that the probe had already begun building defensive constructs as it was entering the second stage of its infection. Realising that the third stage would result in the construction of an intelligence matrix, thereby making communication a possibility, the Doctor established communication with the probe, and tricked it into allowing him to destroy it. Returning Chan to the military roadblock, the Doctor promised to look in on her in the future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Spore (short story)|Spore]]'') | | Tracking a probe to [[Fort Casey]] in the [[Nevada]] [[desert]], the Doctor found that the town had fallen victim to the [[von Neumann seeding probe]]'s pathogen. Using his connections at UNIT to gain access past the quarantine, the Doctor ventured into Fort Casey to stop the virus at its source. Inside the town, the Doctor discovered Captain [[Evelyn Chan]], a survivor from a platoon sent in to investigate the town, and learnt from her that the probe had already begun building defensive constructs as it was entering the second stage of its infection. Realising that the third stage would result in the construction of an intelligence matrix, thereby making communication a possibility, the Doctor established communication with the probe, and tricked it into allowing him to destroy it. Returning Chan to the military roadblock, the Doctor promised to look in on her in the future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Spore (short story)|Spore]]'') |
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| === The War with the Enemy === | | === The War with the Enemy === |
| {{section stub|Info from ''[[Kursaal (novel)|Kursaal]]'', ''[[Option Lock (novel)|Option Lock]]'', ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'', ''[[Vanderdeken's Children (novel)|Vanderdeken's Children]]'', ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'', ''[[Beltempest (novel)|Beltempest]]'', ''[[The Face-Eater (novel)|The Face-Eater]]'', ''[[Femme Fatale (short story)|Femme Fatale]]'', ''[[The Taint (novel)|The Taint]]'', ''[[Demontage (novel)|Demontage]]'', ''[[Revolution Man (novel)|Revolution Man]]'', ''[[Dominion (novel)|Dominion]]'', ''[[Autumn Mist (novel)|Autumn Mist]]'', ''[[Seven Deadly Sins (short story)|Seven Deadly Sins]]'', ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'', ''[[Frontier Worlds (novel)|Frontier Worlds]]'', ''[[Parallel 59 (novel)|Parallel 59]]'' & ''[[The Space Age (novel)|The Space Age]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[Kursaal (novel)|Kursaal]]'', ''[[Option Lock (novel)|Option Lock]]'', ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'', ''[[Vanderdeken's Children (novel)|Vanderdeken's Children]]'', ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'', ''[[Beltempest (novel)|Beltempest]]'', ''[[The Face-Eater (novel)|The Face-Eater]]'', ''[[Femme Fatale (short story)|Femme Fatale]]'', ''[[The Taint (novel)|The Taint]]'', ''[[Demontage (novel)|Demontage]]'', ''[[Revolution Man (novel)|Revolution Man]]'', ''[[Dominion (novel)|Dominion]]'', ''[[Autumn Mist (novel)|Autumn Mist]]'', ''[[Seven Deadly Sins (short story)|Seven Deadly Sins]]'', ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'', ''[[Frontier Worlds (novel)|Frontier Worlds]]'', ''[[Parallel 59 (novel)|Parallel 59]]'' & ''[[The Space Age (novel)|The Space Age]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| After picking Sam up from the rally, the Doctor went to [[1997]] San Francisco after being summoned by [[Carolyn McConnell]], where they encountered a rogue group of Vampires. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'') They then visited [[Victorian era]] [[London]] where they, with the help of [[George Litefoot]], stopped a [[Zygon]] plot to conquer the Earth with [[Skarasen]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'') | | After picking Sam up from the rally, the Doctor went to [[1997]] San Francisco after being summoned by [[Carolyn McConnell]], where they encountered a rogue group of Vampires. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'') They then visited [[Victorian era]] [[London]] where they, with the help of [[George Litefoot]], stopped a [[Zygon]] plot to conquer the Earth with [[Skarasen]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'') |
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| === Adventures with Fitz and Anji === | | === Adventures with Fitz and Anji === |
| {{section stub|Info from ''[[Fear Itself (novel)|Fear Itself]]'', ''[[Vanishing Point (novel)|Vanishing Point]]'', ''[[Eater of Wasps (novel)|Eater of Wasps]]'', ''[[The Slow Empire (novel)|The Slow Empire]]'', ''[[Dark Progeny (novel)|Dark Progeny]]'', ''[[The City of the Dead (novel)|The City of the Dead]]'', & ''[[Grimm Reality (novel)|Grimm Reality]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[Fear Itself (novel)|Fear Itself]]'', ''[[Vanishing Point (novel)|Vanishing Point]]'', ''[[Eater of Wasps (novel)|Eater of Wasps]]'', ''[[The Slow Empire (novel)|The Slow Empire]]'', ''[[Dark Progeny (novel)|Dark Progeny]]'', ''[[The City of the Dead (novel)|The City of the Dead]]'', & ''[[Grimm Reality (novel)|Grimm Reality]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| By [[2001]], the TARDIS had regained its original appearance, with the Doctor reuniting with Fitz, just as the note had said, on February 8 2001, in the [[St Louis Bar and Restaurant|St Louis Bar & Grill]]. Initially distracted helping Fitz's new acquaintance, [[Anji Kapoor]], rescue her boyfriend, [[Dave Young]], when he became caught up in a planned [[Kulan]] invasion of Earth. After Dave was killed and Fitz was captured by the Kulan, the TARDIS completed its interior regeneration, allowing the Doctor and Anji to travel up to their fleet. Unfortunately, the invasion was only defeated when Anji accidentally tricked the entire fleet into firing on each other as she didn't realise that the mothership had full control of all weapons in the fleet, forcing the Doctor, Fitz and Anji to flee into the TARDIS as the Kulan destroyed themselves. With the Doctor's control of the TARDIS still awkward and his arrival in the Kulan fleet more luck than judgement, the Doctor and Fitz were left to accept the reluctant Anji as their new companion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Escape Velocity (novel)|Escape Velocity]]'') | | By [[2001]], the TARDIS had regained its original appearance, with the Doctor reuniting with Fitz, just as the note had said, on February 8 2001, in the [[St Louis Bar and Restaurant|St Louis Bar & Grill]]. Initially distracted helping Fitz's new acquaintance, [[Anji Kapoor]], rescue her boyfriend, [[Dave Young]], when he became caught up in a planned [[Kulan]] invasion of Earth. After Dave was killed and Fitz was captured by the Kulan, the TARDIS completed its interior regeneration, allowing the Doctor and Anji to travel up to their fleet. Unfortunately, the invasion was only defeated when Anji accidentally tricked the entire fleet into firing on each other as she didn't realise that the mothership had full control of all weapons in the fleet, forcing the Doctor, Fitz and Anji to flee into the TARDIS as the Kulan destroyed themselves. With the Doctor's control of the TARDIS still awkward and his arrival in the Kulan fleet more luck than judgement, the Doctor and Fitz were left to accept the reluctant Anji as their new companion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Escape Velocity (novel)|Escape Velocity]]'') |
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| {{section stub|Info from ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'', ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)|Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'', ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'', ''[[The Book of the Still (novel)|The Book of the Still]]'', ''[[The Crooked World (novel)|The Crooked World]]'', ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'', ''[[Notre Dame du Temps (short story)|Notre Dame du Temps]]'', ''[[Camera Obscura (novel)|Camera Obscura]]'', ''[[Fitz's Story (audio story)|Fitz's Story]]'', ''[[Time Zero (novel)|Time Zero]]'', ''[[The Infinity Race (novel)|The Infinity Race]]'', ''[[The Domino Effect (novel)|The Domino Effect]]'', ''[[Reckless Engineering (novel)|Reckless Engineering]]'', ''[[The Last Resort (novel)|The Last Resort]]'', & ''[[Emotional Chemistry (novel)|Emotional Chemistry]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'', ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)|Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'', ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'', ''[[The Book of the Still (novel)|The Book of the Still]]'', ''[[The Crooked World (novel)|The Crooked World]]'', ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'', ''[[Notre Dame du Temps (short story)|Notre Dame du Temps]]'', ''[[Camera Obscura (novel)|Camera Obscura]]'', ''[[Fitz's Story (audio story)|Fitz's Story]]'', ''[[Time Zero (novel)|Time Zero]]'', ''[[The Infinity Race (novel)|The Infinity Race]]'', ''[[The Domino Effect (novel)|The Domino Effect]]'', ''[[Reckless Engineering (novel)|Reckless Engineering]]'', ''[[The Last Resort (novel)|The Last Resort]]'', & ''[[Emotional Chemistry (novel)|Emotional Chemistry]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| While on Earth in the [[18th century]], the Doctor's heart was removed by [[Sabbath]], ostensibly to save the Doctor's life as it seemingly began to poison him by trying to link to a home world that no longer existed, but also to allow Sabbath to travel through time by planting it in himself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') This caused the Doctor to lose many of his Time Lord abilities, such as his [[respiratory bypass system]], although he eventually came to adapt to this loss and recognise that he was defined by what he did rather than his physical limitations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hope (novel)|Hope]]'') | | While on Earth in the [[18th century]], the Doctor's heart was removed by [[Sabbath]], ostensibly to save the Doctor's life as it seemingly began to poison him by trying to link to a home world that no longer existed, but also to allow Sabbath to travel through time by planting it in himself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') This caused the Doctor to lose many of his Time Lord abilities, such as his [[respiratory bypass system]], although he eventually came to adapt to this loss and recognise that he was defined by what he did rather than his physical limitations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hope (novel)|Hope]]'') |
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| {{section stub|Info from ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'', ''[[The Sleep of Reason (novel)|The Sleep of Reason]]'', ''[[The Deadstone Memorial (novel)|The Deadstone Memorial]]'', ''[[To the Slaughter (novel)|To the Slaughter]]'', & ''[[We Can't Stop What's Coming (short story)|We Can't Stop What's Coming]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'', ''[[The Sleep of Reason (novel)|The Sleep of Reason]]'', ''[[The Deadstone Memorial (novel)|The Deadstone Memorial]]'', ''[[To the Slaughter (novel)|To the Slaughter]]'', & ''[[We Can't Stop What's Coming (short story)|We Can't Stop What's Coming]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| After defeating the Council, the Doctor, Fitz and Trix went to [[Espero]]. While there, the Doctor was offered to have his memories restored by Madam [[Xing]], which he refused. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Halflife (novel)|Halflife]]'') | | After defeating the Council, the Doctor, Fitz and Trix went to [[Espero]]. While there, the Doctor was offered to have his memories restored by Madam [[Xing]], which he refused. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Halflife (novel)|Halflife]]'') |
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| The Doctor listened to [[Brad Travers]]'s story of when he encountered the Seventh Doctor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Inmate 280 (short story)|Inmate 280]]'') and met [[Fey Truscott-Sade]] in an adventure involving [[psychic weasel]]s in [[Russell Square]]. The Doctor gave her a [[Stattenheim Summoner]] – a device, disguised as a tin whistle, that could contact [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (comic story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') | | The Doctor listened to [[Brad Travers]]'s story of when he encountered the Seventh Doctor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Inmate 280 (short story)|Inmate 280]]'') and met [[Fey Truscott-Sade]] in an adventure involving [[psychic weasel]]s in [[Russell Square]]. The Doctor gave her a [[Stattenheim Summoner]] – a device, disguised as a tin whistle, that could contact [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (comic story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') |
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| {{section stub|Info from ''[[The Wickerwork Man (short story)|The Wickerwork Man]]'', ''[[Phoenix (short story)|Phoenix]]'', ''[[The Long Midwinter (short story)|The Long Midwinter]]'', & ''[[Dear John (short story)|Dear John]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[The Wickerwork Man (short story)|The Wickerwork Man]]'', ''[[Phoenix (short story)|Phoenix]]'', ''[[The Long Midwinter (short story)|The Long Midwinter]]'', & ''[[Dear John (short story)|Dear John]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| The Doctor spent a Christmas with Bernice Summerfield and his brother, [[Irving Braxiatel]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[...Be Forgot (short story)|...Be Forgot]]'') | | The Doctor spent a Christmas with Bernice Summerfield and his brother, [[Irving Braxiatel]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[...Be Forgot (short story)|...Be Forgot]]'') |
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| Skagra stole the Doctor's TARDIS, taking Romana with him to his command ship elsewhere. Creating a primitive form of [[dimensional stabiliser]] for Skagra's other ship and giving it the ability to dematerialise, the Doctor followed Skagra. Using ''The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey'' as a "key", Skagra left for the Time Lord [[prison planet]], [[Shada]], to take the mind of the criminal, [[Salyavin]], to make all inhabitants of the universe share Skagra's mind. Discovering [[Chronotis' TARDIS]] on board the command ship, the Doctor chased after him. After arriving, Skagra stole the mind of the Professor, who was actually Salyavin. Skagra began placing fragments of the minds he had stolen into his [[Krarg]] servants. | | Skagra stole the Doctor's TARDIS, taking Romana with him to his command ship elsewhere. Creating a primitive form of [[dimensional stabiliser]] for Skagra's other ship and giving it the ability to dematerialise, the Doctor followed Skagra. Using ''The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey'' as a "key", Skagra left for the Time Lord [[prison planet]], [[Shada]], to take the mind of the criminal, [[Salyavin]], to make all inhabitants of the universe share Skagra's mind. Discovering [[Chronotis' TARDIS]] on board the command ship, the Doctor chased after him. After arriving, Skagra stole the mind of the Professor, who was actually Salyavin. Skagra began placing fragments of the minds he had stolen into his [[Krarg]] servants. |
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| As Skagra left Shada in the Doctor's TARDIS, the Doctor created a tunnel to link the two TARDISes in the [[Time Vortex]] together. The Doctor arrived through the TARDIS' "back entrance" and improvised a mind control helmet to command the Krargs, as part of the shared mind contained the Doctor's own thoughts. After the TARDIS landed on Skagra's command ship, the conflicting commands from the Doctor and Skagra destroyed the Krargs, the surviving victims whose minds were taken by the sphere returning to their bodies. The Doctor and Romana ordered K9 to shoot at the [[Krarg commander]], leading it towards the vats of unborn Krargs, destroying it and the vats. | | As Skagra left Shada in the Doctor's TARDIS, the Doctor created a tunnel to link the two TARDISes in the [[Time Vortex]] together. The Doctor arrived through the TARDIS's "back entrance" and improvised a mind control helmet to command the Krargs, as part of the shared mind contained the Doctor's own thoughts. After the TARDIS landed on Skagra's command ship, the conflicting commands from the Doctor and Skagra destroyed the Krargs, the surviving victims whose minds were taken by the sphere returning to their bodies. The Doctor and Romana ordered K9 to shoot at the [[Krarg commander]], leading it towards the vats of unborn Krargs, destroying it and the vats. |
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| Skagra evacuated to his other ship, which the Doctor had reprogrammed to make himself its lord. Skagra was [[transmat]]ted into the brig and forcefully told Skagra stories about the Doctor. President Romana decided not imprison the professor in Shada, but to return him and his TARDIS to St Cedd's. ([[WC]]: ''[[Shada (webcast)|Shada]]'') | | Skagra evacuated to his other ship, which the Doctor had reprogrammed to make himself its lord. Skagra was [[transmat]]ted into the brig and forcefully told Skagra stories about the Doctor. President Romana decided not imprison the professor in Shada, but to return him and his TARDIS to St Cedd's. ([[WC]]: ''[[Shada (webcast)|Shada]]'') |
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| === A broken web of time === | | === A broken web of time === |
| {{section stub|Info from ''[[Repercussions... (short story)|Repercussions...]]'', ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There (audio story)|The Man Who Wasn't There]]'', ''[[Letting Go (audio story)|Letting Go]]'', ''[[Be Good for Goodness's Sake (short story)|Be Good for Goodness's Sake]]'', ''[[War in a Time of Peace (short story)|War in a Time of Peace]]'', ''[[Living Legend (audio story)|Living Legend]]'', ''[[Venus (short story)|Venus]]'', ''[[The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac (short story)|The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac]]'', ''[[Lady of the Snows (short story)|Lady of the Snows]]'', ''[[You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password (short story)|You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password]] '', ''[[They Fell (short story)|They Fell]]'', ''[[Faithful Friends: Part 3 (short story)|Faithful Friends: Part 3]]'', ''[[Second Chances (ST short story)|Second Chances]]'', ''[[Embrace the Darkness (audio story)|Embrace the Darkness]]'', ''[[Enemy Aliens (audio story)|Enemy Aliens]]'', ''[[Hall of the Ten Thousand (audio story)|Hall of the Ten Thousand]]'', ''[[Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)|Apocrypha Bipedium]]'', & ''[[Foreshadowing (audio story)|Foreshadowing]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[Repercussions... (short story)|Repercussions...]]'', ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There (audio story)|The Man Who Wasn't There]]'', ''[[Letting Go (audio story)|Letting Go]]'', ''[[Be Good for Goodness's Sake (short story)|Be Good for Goodness's Sake]]'', ''[[War in a Time of Peace (short story)|War in a Time of Peace]]'', ''[[Living Legend (audio story)|Living Legend]]'', ''[[Venus (short story)|Venus]]'', ''[[The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac (short story)|The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac]]'', ''[[Lady of the Snows (short story)|Lady of the Snows]]'', ''[[You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password (short story)|You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password]] '', ''[[They Fell (short story)|They Fell]]'', ''[[Faithful Friends: Part 3 (short story)|Faithful Friends: Part 3]]'', ''[[Second Chances (ST short story)|Second Chances]]'', ''[[Embrace the Darkness (audio story)|Embrace the Darkness]]'', ''[[Enemy Aliens (audio story)|Enemy Aliens]]'', ''[[Hall of the Ten Thousand (audio story)|Hall of the Ten Thousand]]'', ''[[Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)|Apocrypha Bipedium]]'', & ''[[Foreshadowing (audio story)|Foreshadowing]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| Still within the vortex, without any memory of Samson and Gemma, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'') the Doctor noticed the exploding ship stuck in a time loop and beset by a horde of [[Vortisaur]]s feeding off its temporal energy. He attempted to nudge the ship out of the loop, only to draw the attention of the predators to his TARDIS, forcing him to make an emergency materialisation. Landing within the ballast tanks of the British [[airship]], he discovered that he was on board the ''[[R101]]'' during its maiden voyage on [[5 October]] [[1930]]. Exploring further, he encountered [[Charlotte Pollard]], a self-described "Edwardian adventuress." The Doctor knew the fate of the airship and that everyone on it was supposed to die in its crash, but decided he didn't have it in him to leave Charley to her fate after she helped him get to the bottom of a conspiracy aboard the ship involving the [[Triskele]] race and the British government. Escaping the crash together, he invited her to become his companion. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') | | Still within the vortex, without any memory of Samson and Gemma, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'') the Doctor noticed the exploding ship stuck in a time loop and beset by a horde of [[Vortisaur]]s feeding off its temporal energy. He attempted to nudge the ship out of the loop, only to draw the attention of the predators to his TARDIS, forcing him to make an emergency materialisation. Landing within the ballast tanks of the British [[airship]], he discovered that he was on board the ''[[R101]]'' during its maiden voyage on [[5 October]] [[1930]]. Exploring further, he encountered [[Charlotte Pollard]], a self-described "Edwardian adventuress." The Doctor knew the fate of the airship and that everyone on it was supposed to die in its crash, but decided he didn't have it in him to leave Charley to her fate after she helped him get to the bottom of a conspiracy aboard the ship involving the [[Triskele]] race and the British government. Escaping the crash together, he invited her to become his companion. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') |
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| {{section stub|Info from ''[[Scaredy Cat (audio story)|Scaredy Cat]]'', ''[[Salva Mea (short story)|Salva Mea]]'', & ''[[Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death (short story)|Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[Scaredy Cat (audio story)|Scaredy Cat]]'', ''[[Salva Mea (short story)|Salva Mea]]'', & ''[[Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death (short story)|Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| Back in the main universe, Davros had laid a trap for the Doctor on Earth. Davros, however, was sharing his mind with the Dalek Emperor and had become mentally unstable; the Doctor managed to exploit this instability and made the Dalek Emperor side of Davros' mind dominant. The Daleks then agreed to leave Earth rather than be defeated by the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'') | | Back in the main universe, Davros had laid a trap for the Doctor on Earth. Davros, however, was sharing his mind with the Dalek Emperor and had become mentally unstable; the Doctor managed to exploit this instability and made the Dalek Emperor side of Davros' mind dominant. The Daleks then agreed to leave Earth rather than be defeated by the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'') |
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| {{section stub|Info from ''[[Nettles (short story)|Nettles]]'', ''[[Lonely (short story)|Lonely]]'', ''[[Transmission Ends (short story)|Transmission Ends]]'', & ''[[The Turn of the Screw (audio story)|The Turn of the Screw]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[Nettles (short story)|Nettles]]'', ''[[Lonely (short story)|Lonely]]'', ''[[Transmission Ends (short story)|Transmission Ends]]'', & ''[[The Turn of the Screw (audio story)|The Turn of the Screw]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| The Doctor decided to drown his sorrows in [[Vienna]]. There, he encountered a [[Bacchanite]] who taunted him over the loss of Charley and C'rizz. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sorrows of Vienna (short story)|The Sorrows of Vienna]]'') | | The Doctor decided to drown his sorrows in [[Vienna]]. There, he encountered a [[Bacchanite]] who taunted him over the loss of Charley and C'rizz. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sorrows of Vienna (short story)|The Sorrows of Vienna]]'') |
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| {{section stub|Info from ''[[Phobos (audio story)|Phobos]]'', & ''[[No More Lies (audio story)|No More Lies]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[Phobos (audio story)|Phobos]]'', & ''[[No More Lies (audio story)|No More Lies]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| Travelling alone, the Doctor was taken by surprise when [[Lucie Miller]] suddenly appeared in his TARDIS as part of a "witness protection scheme," much to his consternation. Immediately, he tried to return her home, but found he was unable to do so. He instead arrived on the planet [[Red Rocket Rising]]. Lucie told him that she had witnessed something, but couldn't recall what it was. Located and imprisoned by the Daleks on board their [[Dalek command ship (Blood of the Daleks)|command ship]], the Doctor agreed to help the Daleks target a factory of "[[Mutant Dalek]]s" created from humans by Professor [[Martez]]. | | Travelling alone, the Doctor was taken by surprise when [[Lucie Miller]] suddenly appeared in his TARDIS as part of a "witness protection scheme," much to his consternation. Immediately, he tried to return her home, but found he was unable to do so. He instead arrived on the planet [[Red Rocket Rising]]. Lucie told him that she had witnessed something, but couldn't recall what it was. Located and imprisoned by the Daleks on board their [[Dalek command ship (Blood of the Daleks)|command ship]], the Doctor agreed to help the Daleks target a factory of "[[Mutant Dalek]]s" created from humans by Professor [[Martez]]. |
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| The Doctor played poker with a younger version of himself travelling with Charley and C'rizz on the American frontier. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]'') | | The Doctor played poker with a younger version of himself travelling with Charley and C'rizz on the American frontier. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]'') |
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| {{section stub|Info from ''[[The Beast of Orlok (audio story)|The Beast of Orlok]]'', ''[[The Scapegoat (audio story)|The Scapegoat]]'', ''[[The Cannibalists (audio story)|The Cannibalists]]'', & ''[[The Curse of the Fugue (audio story)|The Curse of the Fugue]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[The Beast of Orlok (audio story)|The Beast of Orlok]]'', ''[[The Scapegoat (audio story)|The Scapegoat]]'', ''[[The Cannibalists (audio story)|The Cannibalists]]'', & ''[[The Curse of the Fugue (audio story)|The Curse of the Fugue]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| The Doctor and Luci encountered Lucie's aunt, [[Patricia Ryder]], ten years later in her personal timeline. By this time, Pat owned a lake-side hotel and was married to [[Haygoth]]. The two of them helped the Doctor defeat [[Zygon]]s who were trying to make Earth's climate closer to [[Zygor]]'s. The Zygons were defeated, but Pat died, and the Doctor and Haygoth decided to keep Lucie from the truth by having Haygoth live the rest of his life as Patricia. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)|The Zygon Who Fell to Earth]]'') | | The Doctor and Luci encountered Lucie's aunt, [[Patricia Ryder]], ten years later in her personal timeline. By this time, Pat owned a lake-side hotel and was married to [[Haygoth]]. The two of them helped the Doctor defeat [[Zygon]]s who were trying to make Earth's climate closer to [[Zygor]]'s. The Zygons were defeated, but Pat died, and the Doctor and Haygoth decided to keep Lucie from the truth by having Haygoth live the rest of his life as Patricia. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)|The Zygon Who Fell to Earth]]'') |
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| {{section stub|Info from ''[[Quantum Heresy (audio story)|Quantum Heresy]]'', ''[[Running Out of Time (audio story)|Running Out of Time]]'', ''[[Prologue (ST short story)|Prologue]]'', ''[[The Four Doctors (audio story)|The Four Doctors]]'', & ''[[Tuesday (audio story)|Tuesday]]'' needs to be added}} | | <nowiki>{{section stub|Info from ''[[Quantum Heresy (audio story)|Quantum Heresy]]'', ''[[Running Out of Time (audio story)|Running Out of Time]]'', ''[[Prologue (ST short story)|Prologue]]'', ''[[The Four Doctors (audio story)|The Four Doctors]]'', & ''[[Tuesday (audio story)|Tuesday]]'' needs to be added}}</nowiki> |
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| After leaving Lucie, the Doctor decided to travel to Earth in the [[22nd century]], after the Dalek invasion, to visit his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman]] and check on her progress. When he arrived, he found that Susan had given birth to a child named [[Alex Campbell|Alex]], who was now in his late teens. The Doctor wanted Alex to have an education on Gallifrey where it would be much more beneficial to him than on Earth. Alex didn't want to go to Gallifrey, as he saw Earth as his home. After leaving Alex to continue his life on Earth, the Doctor made an attempt to get Susan to come travelling with him, to which she too declined. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Earthly Child (audio story)|An Earthly Child]]'') | | After leaving Lucie, the Doctor decided to travel to Earth in the [[22nd century]], after the Dalek invasion, to visit his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman]] and check on her progress. When he arrived, he found that Susan had given birth to a child named [[Alex Campbell|Alex]], who was now in his late teens. The Doctor wanted Alex to have an education on Gallifrey where it would be much more beneficial to him than on Earth. Alex didn't want to go to Gallifrey, as he saw Earth as his home. After leaving Alex to continue his life on Earth, the Doctor made an attempt to get Susan to come travelling with him, to which she too declined. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Earthly Child (audio story)|An Earthly Child]]'') |
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| The Doctor encountered Molly again in [[1918]] London, where they came across the [[Viyran]]s trying to solve a problem caused by one of their viruses. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Room (audio story)|The White Room]]'') They then went to the [[edge of the universe]], where they encountered [[Liv Chenka]] and [[the Eminence]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'') This encounter with the Eminence brought the Doctor, Liv and Molly to London in the [[1970s]], where the Doctor once again came face to face with {{Macqueen}}. The Master was working with the Time Lords to use the Eminence to fight the Daleks. | | The Doctor encountered Molly again in [[1918]] London, where they came across the [[Viyran]]s trying to solve a problem caused by one of their viruses. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Room (audio story)|The White Room]]'') They then went to the [[edge of the universe]], where they encountered [[Liv Chenka]] and [[the Eminence]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'') This encounter with the Eminence brought the Doctor, Liv and Molly to London in the [[1970s]], where the Doctor once again came face to face with {{Macqueen}}. The Master was working with the Time Lords to use the Eminence to fight the Daleks. |
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| ==== Early skirmishes ==== | | ==== Early skirmishes ==== |
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| As early as the first two months from the start of the [[Last Great Time War]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Desperate Measures (audio story)|Desperate Measures]]'') the Doctor was noted as being unwilling to assist the Time Lords in the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Soldier Obscura (audio story)|Soldier Obscura]]'') Eventually, the Doctor became fearful that he would lose everything he held dear in joining the war. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Museum Peace (short story)|Museum Peace]]'') | | As early as the first two months from the start of the [[Last Great Time War]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Desperate Measures (audio story)|Desperate Measures]]'') the Doctor was noted as being unwilling to assist the Time Lords in the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Soldier Obscura (audio story)|Soldier Obscura]]'') Eventually, the Doctor became fearful that he would lose everything he held dear in joining the war. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Museum Peace (short story)|Museum Peace]]'') |
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| The Doctor began travelling with [[Sheena (The Starship of Theseus)|Sheena]], eventually taking her for a luxury cruiser aboard the starship ''[[Theseus (ship)|Theseus]]''. They investigated mysterious disappearances, discovering the crew were using quicker lanes through hyperspace and appeasing the trolls that lurked there with sacrifices. Due to damage to time caused by the Time War, the ''Theseus''{{'}} purpose from being a luxury cruise liner was changed into a ship housing refugees running from the Time War. The Doctor and Sheena now discovered that members of the crew and refugees were willingly sacrificing themselves to trolls that lived in hyperspace to allow the ''Theseus'' to travel through that section of hyperspace without being attacked by the creatures. Damage to the timeline caused by the Time War continued, and Sheena's personal history changed numerous times, before she was wiped from history altogether, causing the Doctor and everyone else to completely forget about her. | | The Doctor began travelling with [[Sheena (The Starship of Theseus)|Sheena]], eventually taking her for a luxury cruiser aboard the starship ''[[Theseus (ship)|Theseus]]''. They investigated mysterious disappearances, discovering the crew were using quicker lanes through hyperspace and appeasing the trolls that lurked there with sacrifices. Due to damage to time caused by the Time War, the ''Theseus''{{'}} purpose from being a luxury cruise liner was changed into a ship housing refugees running from the Time War. The Doctor and Sheena now discovered that members of the crew and refugees were willingly sacrificing themselves to trolls that lived in hyperspace to allow the ''Theseus'' to travel through that section of hyperspace without being attacked by the creatures. Damage to the timeline caused by the Time War continued, and Sheena's personal history changed numerous times, before she was wiped from history altogether, causing the Doctor and everyone else to completely forget about her. |
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| The Doctor, against his will, was trained by [[Harlan (The Conscript)|Harlan]]. He spent his time trying to decrypt the gate to reach Bliss. He wanted to convince the Time Lords to stop the war as he saw it was pointless. When the Daleks attacked, he tried to convince the recruits to escape. Ollistra threatened to kill him as she thought his successor would help in the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conscript (audio story)|The Conscript]]'') The Daleks intervened, having gained access to the compound. Seizing the chance, the Doctor escaped in the TARDIS with Ollistra and the ''Theseus'' survivors. | | The Doctor, against his will, was trained by [[Harlan (The Conscript)|Harlan]]. He spent his time trying to decrypt the gate to reach Bliss. He wanted to convince the Time Lords to stop the war as he saw it was pointless. When the Daleks attacked, he tried to convince the recruits to escape. Ollistra threatened to kill him as she thought his successor would help in the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conscript (audio story)|The Conscript]]'') The Daleks intervened, having gained access to the compound. Seizing the chance, the Doctor escaped in the TARDIS with Ollistra and the ''Theseus'' survivors. |
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| Attempting to return Bliss to the planet [[Derilobia]], the Doctor discovered that the planet's history had been changed so that it was now "dedicated" to manufacturing weapons for the Time Lords, Bliss only protected from the change because she was in the TARDIS. The Doctor soon discovered that the apparent Dalek attack on Derilobia had been faked by the Time Lord soldier [[Carvil]], so dedicated to destroying the Daleks that he could even justify destroying an innocent planet, even if he argued that the Daleks would have attacked it eventually. The Doctor destroyed the weapons factory, feeling that the moral cost of such a victory wouldn't be worth it, but was unable to restore its history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lords of Terror (audio story)|The Lords of Terror]]'') | | Attempting to return Bliss to the planet [[Derilobia]], the Doctor discovered that the planet's history had been changed so that it was now "dedicated" to manufacturing weapons for the Time Lords, Bliss only protected from the change because she was in the TARDIS. The Doctor soon discovered that the apparent Dalek attack on Derilobia had been faked by the Time Lord soldier [[Carvil]], so dedicated to destroying the Daleks that he could even justify destroying an innocent planet, even if he argued that the Daleks would have attacked it eventually. The Doctor destroyed the weapons factory, feeling that the moral cost of such a victory wouldn't be worth it, but was unable to restore its history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lords of Terror (audio story)|The Lords of Terror]]'') |
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| The Doctor, Bliss and the Twelve then accompanied [[War Ollistra|Ollistra]] and [[Fifth Tamasan|Major Tamasan]] to [[Uzmal]], where the Doctor was granted control of the resistance submarine ''[[Bloodhound (submarine)|Bloodhound]]''. They attempted to find the Ourashima, an entity which the Daleks occupying Uzmal were also looking for. After realising the Twelve’s erratic behaviour was the Ourashima trying to communicate, the Doctor made contact with it. The Ourashima was killed by the Dalek fleet in a kamikaze attack, and as it died, it offered its powers of foresight to the Time Lords. The Doctor turned down the offer, to Ollistra’s fury, believing his people shouldn't have such power. ([[AUDIO]]:'' [[Jonah (audio story)|Jonah]]'') Afterwards, the Doctor and Bliss collected the TARDIS from Gallifrey, where Ollistra warned him about suspicious irregularities in Bliss' timeline. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[State of Bliss (audio story)|State of Bliss]]'') | | The Doctor, Bliss and the Twelve then accompanied [[War Ollistra|Ollistra]] and [[Fifth Tamasan|Major Tamasan]] to [[Uzmal]], where the Doctor was granted control of the resistance submarine ''[[Bloodhound (submarine)|Bloodhound]]''. They attempted to find the Ourashima, an entity which the Daleks occupying Uzmal were also looking for. After realising the Twelve’s erratic behaviour was the Ourashima trying to communicate, the Doctor made contact with it. The Ourashima was killed by the Dalek fleet in a kamikaze attack, and as it died, it offered its powers of foresight to the Time Lords. The Doctor turned down the offer, to Ollistra’s fury, believing his people shouldn't have such power. ([[AUDIO]]:'' [[Jonah (audio story)|Jonah]]'') Afterwards, the Doctor and Bliss collected the TARDIS from Gallifrey, where Ollistra warned him about suspicious irregularities in Bliss' timeline. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[State of Bliss (audio story)|State of Bliss]]'') |
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| The Doctor and Bliss visited the ''[[Vespertine]]'' and helped take the crew away after they discovered that the captain, [[Hudson Sage]], was involved in smuggling, with Doctor promising to keep Sage safe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Vespertine (audio story)|Vespertine]]'') They later helped rescue [[The Nurse|a wounded Time Lord Lieutenant-Surgeon]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exit Strategy (audio story)|Exit Strategy]]'') | | The Doctor and Bliss visited the ''[[Vespertine]]'' and helped take the crew away after they discovered that the captain, [[Hudson Sage]], was involved in smuggling, with Doctor promising to keep Sage safe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Vespertine (audio story)|Vespertine]]'') They later helped rescue [[The Nurse|a wounded Time Lord Lieutenant-Surgeon]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exit Strategy (audio story)|Exit Strategy]]'') |
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| [[File:FourEightThreeForgotten.jpg|thumb|The Eighth Doctor helps face [[Es'Cartrss]] . ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'')]] | | [[File:FourEightThreeForgotten.jpg|thumb|The Eighth Doctor helps face [[Es'Cartrss]] . ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'')]] |
| When the [[Tenth Doctor]] was confronted by [[Es'Cartrss]] within the TARDIS' Matrix, he summoned the Eighth Doctor, among his other past incarnations, to use their united memories and willpower to take back control of the Matrix. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'') | | When the [[Tenth Doctor]] was confronted by [[Es'Cartrss]] within the TARDIS's Matrix, he summoned the Eighth Doctor, among his other past incarnations, to use their united memories and willpower to take back control of the Matrix. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'') |
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| [[File:Prologue The Eighth Doctor.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor finds the TARDIS covered in Cybermats. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Eighth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: the Eighth Doctor]]'')]] | | [[File:Prologue The Eighth Doctor.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor finds the TARDIS covered in Cybermats. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Eighth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: the Eighth Doctor]]'')]] |
| In a negated timeline, the Doctor and Charley were drawn towards a [[Vess]] weapons factory by a mysterious signal, where they also found the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Leela]] and discovered {{Pratt}} was plotting their undoing by removing their TARDIS from history. After Charley and Leela vanished, the Doctors were caught in the explosion of the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s TARDIS, but were saved by the [[Sixth Doctor]]. Once a plan to stop the Master was conceived, the Eighth Doctor went to keep the Master distracted with the Fourth Doctor, and, once the Fifth Doctor had ensured that the TARDIS would not explode, joined his other seven incarnations in preparing to [[time ram]] [[the Master's TARDIS]]. However, rather than kill the Master, the [[First Doctor]] instead turned off the automatic distress actions, which had brought all of the Doctors to the pocket dimension and triggered the TARDIS' destruction, making it so none of that had happened. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'') | | In a negated timeline, the Doctor and Charley were drawn towards a [[Vess]] weapons factory by a mysterious signal, where they also found the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Leela]] and discovered {{Pratt}} was plotting their undoing by removing their TARDIS from history. After Charley and Leela vanished, the Doctors were caught in the explosion of the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s TARDIS, but were saved by the [[Sixth Doctor]]. Once a plan to stop the Master was conceived, the Eighth Doctor went to keep the Master distracted with the Fourth Doctor, and, once the Fifth Doctor had ensured that the TARDIS would not explode, joined his other seven incarnations in preparing to [[time ram]] [[the Master's TARDIS]]. However, rather than kill the Master, the [[First Doctor]] instead turned off the automatic distress actions, which had brought all of the Doctors to the pocket dimension and triggered the TARDIS's destruction, making it so none of that had happened. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'') |
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| When the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] allied with [[Rassilon]] to take over history, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') the Doctor and Josie found that the TARDIS had been covered in [[Cybermat]]s, before being confronted by Cybermen who stated that they wished to "save" them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Eighth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: the Eighth Doctor]]'') This timeline was eventually unwritten by Rassilon and the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') | | When the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] allied with [[Rassilon]] to take over history, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') the Doctor and Josie found that the TARDIS had been covered in [[Cybermat]]s, before being confronted by Cybermen who stated that they wished to "save" them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Eighth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: the Eighth Doctor]]'') This timeline was eventually unwritten by Rassilon and the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') |
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| There were several alternate versions of the Eighth Doctor who lived vastly defferent lives to the one he led. For instance there was: [[Doc Gallifrey]], who was a gun using protector of a town called [[Vortex City]]; [[Joe Smith]], who ran his own detective agency; a [[wizard]] named [[Quiquaequod]]; [[Theta Stigma]], who was still close friends with [[the Rani]] and appeared to regularly go to her for psychiatric advice; an [[Eighth Doctor (cyborg)|incredibly violent cyborg]] who had a sonic weapon for a right arm; and one where he was [[Tardis Tails|an anthropomorphic cartoon cat]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') | | There were several alternate versions of the Eighth Doctor who lived vastly defferent lives to the one he led. For instance there was: [[Doc Gallifrey]], who was a gun using protector of a town called [[Vortex City]]; [[Joe Smith]], who ran his own detective agency; a [[wizard]] named [[Quiquaequod]]; [[Theta Stigma]], who was still close friends with [[the Rani]] and appeared to regularly go to her for psychiatric advice; an [[Eighth Doctor (cyborg)|incredibly violent cyborg]] who had a sonic weapon for a right arm; and one where he was [[Tardis Tails|an anthropomorphic cartoon cat]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') |
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| With an carefree exterior ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') and a belief that it was never too late, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All Flesh is Grass (novel)|All Flesh is Grass]]'') the Eighth Doctor was an enthusiastic figure who explored the universe for the sheer love and experience of it, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[By Hook or By Crook (comic story)|By Hook or By Crook]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'') craving open spaces and natural things, such as trees, grass, birds and animals, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') and relishing in the unpredictability of his travels. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Echoes of Extinction (audio story)|Echoes of Extinction]]'') Thriving on the activity of righting wrongs, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Descendance (comic story)|Descendance]]'') and safe guarding the future, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Coda (comic story)|Coda]]'') the Eighth Doctor was a direct, sympathetic and emotionally accessible individual, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Beautiful Freak (comic story)|Beautiful Freak]]'') but these traits were balanced by his occasional feelings of self-doubt and weariness of his endless battles to maintain order, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Longest Day (novel)|Longest Day]]'', ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference: The Hour of the Geek]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Where Nobody Knows Your Name (comic story)|Where Nobody Knows Your Name]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scherzo (audio story)|Scherzo]]'', ''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]'') with the Doctor commenting to [[Fitz Kreiner]] that his travels had made him "appreciate the beauty and delicate sadness of the interconnectedness of all things." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dominion (novel)|Dominion]]'') While he did not object to being called [[British]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') the Doctor "consider[ed] [himself] primarily a citizen of the galaxy", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vanderdeken's Children (novel)|Vanderdeken's Children]]'') and believed that "nothing [was] alien" to a "citizen of the universe". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'')
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| Not wanting to be "burdened by [his] past", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'') and believing it to be his job, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'') the Doctor would always make an attempt to save a life if he could, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') believing that any life was worth saving, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') even the life of his [[Imagineum]] doppelganger, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'') and even risked the [[Web of Time]] by warning his [[seventh incarnation]] about avoiding the events that would lead to his [[regeneration]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') He felt guilt when reflecting on the lives he had been forced to take, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revolution Man (novel)|Revolution Man]]'') and strove to compensate for the lives he had taken by saving just as many. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fallen Gods (novel)|Fallen Gods]]'')
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| The Eighth Doctor was full of spirit and the joy of life, possessing the willpower to hold off a [[cyber-conversion]] on a mental plane, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dreadnought (comic story)|Dreadnought]]'') make his body scream while his [[soul]] was in the psionic plane, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Bad Blood (comic story)|Bad Blood]]'') and was unable to surrender against the odds. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'') He was also something of a thrill-seeker, hitting the [[fire alarm]] of the [[Institute for Technological Advancement and Research|ITAR]] building simply to "liven things up" during his and Grace's escape, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') sneaking into the [[Gorolith]]'s sphere after he pointed out that he didn't need too, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ophidius (comic story)|Ophidius]]'') enjoying the feeling of not knowing where the TARDIS had landed, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'') and once indulged in multiple adventures simultaneously for the sheer fun of it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wickerwork Man (short story)|The Wickerwork Man]]'')
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| Although full of spirit and humanity, the Eighth Doctor did have a dark side within him, especially when the forces of evil tried to unbalance the laws of the universe, but he still held on to his belief in mercy, offering to save the [[Bruce Master]] from the [[Eye of Harmony]], even after he attacked him for killing Grace and Lee. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') However, he warned [[Ice Lord]] [[Artix]] that he was "very dangerous when roused", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ascendance (comic story)|Ascendance]]'') spoke in an icy tone when confronting [[Niroc]] about the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s trial, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') and tried to strangle [[Qixotl]] in retaliation for past betrayals. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') He also gave {{Fallen}} a particularly violent punch to the face while denying their similarities during their duel for [[the Glory]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') became more abrupt and short-tempered after Izzy got kidnapped due to being in Destrii's body, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Uroboros (comic story)|Uroboros]]'') and slaughtered an entire [[Cyber-Fleet]] with the power of the [[Time Vortex]] after they had angered him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'') After Lucie's death, the Doctor took his frustration out on {{Garden}} for his part in the tragedy, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]'') and later felt frustration at the [[Reborn Master]] for leaving the [[Ramossan]]s to die at the hands of [[the Eminence]], hitting the TARDIS in frustration and trying to avert the creation of the Eminence despite the [[Laws of Time]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reviled (audio story)|The Reviled]]'')
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| As a coping mechanism, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') the Doctor would react to threats of death and torture with dark humour; mocking the Bruce Master's affection for [[Chang Lee]] while he was strapped to a gurney, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') calling the [[Cybermen]] unimaginative during their attempt to [[cyber-convert]] him, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dreadnought (comic story)|Dreadnought]]'') getting sarcastically formal with the [[Dalek Supreme]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fire and Brimstone (comic story)|Fire and Brimstone]]'') jesting with [[Eric Rawden]] until he could no longer stand the interrogation, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Something Inside (audio story)|Something Inside]]'') bitterly asking his torturers for some more pain, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Memory Lane (audio story)|Memory Lane]]'') cracking jokes when aboard a crashing spaceship with the Reborn Master, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') and brashly listing hobbies he could indulge in after [[Ohila]] informed him he had four minutes left to live. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'') The [[Ice Warrior]]s believed he did so to "suppress his fear". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)|The Resurrection of Mars]]'')
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| The Eighth Doctor was willing to help anyone he came across regardless of his connection to them, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Orbis (audio story)|Orbis]]'', ''[[Prisoner of the Sun (audio story)|Prisoner of the Sun]]'') and sacrifice himself for the sake of others, as his was the only life he felt he had the right to give, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)|The Resurrection of Mars]]'') to the point that even his TARDIS began scolding him for it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') He told Grace to leave him at the Master's mercy so she could reroute the power of the TARDIS and close the [[Eye of Harmony]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') ran back into [[Adisham]] to save its residents from the [[Red Death]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') was going to kamikaze a helicopter to destroy [[Donald Stark]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'') and was willing to surrender his life so the Cybermen would copy his regenerative pattern and abandon their invasion of Earth. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'')
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| In contrast to his scheming predecessor, the Eighth Doctor had little patience and could not stay on one train of thought for more than a few seconds, getting distracted by the comfort of his new shoes when recalling his childhood, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') reading books too fast to realise what he was reading, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') going days without eating due to his forgetfulness, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Obscura (novel)|Camera Obscura]]'') and could easily begin rambling when in conversation, going into soliloquies without noticing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face-Eater (novel)|The Face-Eater]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'') He also bored of things easily, making an omelette for [[Anji Kapoor]] and then proclaiming to be bored with cooking before he could make another for anyone else. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timeless (novel)|Timeless]]'') Sam theorised that the Doctor took on companions because he "couldn't think in a straight line without [them]", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') but he was able to make sound decisions when the need called for it, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') and was both aware and annoyed that he "[kept] missing the important bits". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'')
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| Though he felt that [[talking]] helped him to concentrate, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Sun (audio story)|Prisoner of the Sun]]'') he would sometimes naively say and do things without taking the situation in, such as suddenly reaching into his pocket for a [[jelly baby]] in front of an armed [[motorcycle policeman]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') unironically telling Detective Inspector [[Foster (The Eight Doctors)|Foster]] he was a [[Time Lord]] while being interrogated for drug possession, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') stopping to oink at pigs in the company of Inspector [[Bengt Nordenstam]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dominion (novel)|Dominion]]'') and almost ruining his cover story by pointing out the brilliance of his interrogator's deduction. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'')
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| The Doctor's mental health was somewhat questionable; while he usually acted like an eccentric gentleman, he also had moments of certifiable insanity, with him describing himself as an "ethnomethodologist", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') and [[Compassion]] noting that he was "prone to flights of fancy". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Frontier Worlds (novel)|Frontier Worlds]]'') While he dismissed [[Julya]]'s question of his madness as him being "very, very clever", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Janus Conjunction (novel)|The Janus Conjunction]]'') he believed he "must be insane" when asked by Anji, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eater of Wasps (novel)|Eater of Wasps]]'') and [[Fitz Kreiner]] worried that the Doctor was aware of his breakdowns, just unconcerned by them. Both the Doctor and Fitz shared a worrying moment when they realised the Doctor seemed to be "unbalanced" to the point of [[schizophrenia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Slow Empire (novel)|The Slow Empire]]'')
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| The Doctor was a fan of [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[X-Men]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') ''[[Transformers]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'') [[model train]] sets, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The City of the Dead (novel)|The City of the Dead]]'') ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'') and ''[[Zap Daniel]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'') but disliked ''[[Babylon 5]]'' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Escape Velocity (novel)|Escape Velocity]]'') and the ''[[Aggrotron!]]'' comics. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Izzy's Story (audio story)|Izzy's Story]]'') He enjoyed reading Victorian literature, such as ''[[The Time Machine]]'', ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') [[Sherlock Holmes]] novels, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'') [[The Strand (magazine)|''The Strand'' magazine]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]'') ''[[The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Option Lock (novel)|Option Lock]]'') and ''[[Cold Comfort Farm]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All Flesh is Grass (novel)|All Flesh is Grass]]'') and had a liking for the [[opera]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'', ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Longest Day (novel)|Longest Day]]'', ''[[The Janus Conjunction (novel)|The Janus Conjunction]]'', ''[[Demontage (novel)|Demontage]]'', ''[[Coldheart (novel)|Coldheart]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack (comic story)|The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack]]'')
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| He also liked [[turkish delight]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'') [[Darjeeling tea]], dry-roasted [[gumblejack]] fritters, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'') [[chocolate]]s with soft centres, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beltempest (novel)|Beltempest]]'') [[ice cream]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') [[walnut muffin]]s, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack (comic story)|The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack]]'') Manhattan [[cocktail]]s, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invaders from Mars (audio story)|Invaders from Mars]]'') [[plum pudding]], and [[custard]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'')
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| He favoured [[Custard Creams]] above all [[biscuit]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Deadstone Memorial (novel)|The Deadstone Memorial]]'') and preferred [[tea]] to [[coffee]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dominion (novel)|Dominion]]'') specifically "hot, sweet tea", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Deadstone Memorial (novel)|The Deadstone Memorial]]'') with lemon tea being his preference. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Casualties of War (novel)|Casualties of War]]'') He also liked to have his tea with milk and either two sugars ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Thinking Warrior (short story)|Thinking Warrior]]'') or six sugars, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)|The Zygon Who Fell to Earth]]'') but preferred it white without sugar. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eight Truths (audio story)|The Eight Truths]]'') He also enjoyed drinking [[ginger beer]] and [[lemonade]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'', ''[[Parallel 59 (novel)|Parallel 59]]'') but disliked [[tizer]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'')
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| The Eighth Doctor believed that "the universe [hung] [on] such a fragile thread of [[coincidence]]s" that it was "useless to meddle with it", unless the meddler was a Time Lord, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') but he later confided in Grace that even he shouldn't meddle in the affairs of others, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'') but maintained that it was good to change the universe for the better. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tales of the Dark Times (comic story)|Tales of the Dark Times]]'') He also didn't believe in [[ghost]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') coincidences, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fire and Brimstone (comic story)|Fire and Brimstone]]'') or curses. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice (audio story)|The Stones of Venice]]'')
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| Though he would pray to "whatever gods he [had]" every day, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'') the Doctor didn't have a "faith", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'') claimed not to understand the idea of gloating, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'') and insisted he was psychologically incapable of experiencing survivor's guilt, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') despite evidence to the contrary. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hothouse (audio story)|Hothouse]]'') He though that [[honour]] was a matter of "recognising your mistakes and being aware that you [had] to fix them" regardless of the consequences. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'')
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| He deemed "class war[s]" to be "stupid", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Descendance (comic story)|Descendance]]'') was a firm believer in manners, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') thought that "pride and stupidity [were] indistinguishable", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'') tried to keep an open mind, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') didn't view himself as a family man, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives (audio story)|Other Lives]]'') claimed to hold a distain for clairvoyants ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Uroboros (comic story)|Uroboros]]'') and an admiration for "enquiring mind[s]", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack (comic story)|The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack]]'') and hated being "cooped up in one place for so long", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') such as when being locked up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[EarthWorld (novel)|EarthWorld]]'') Towards the end of his life, he began to think that everything happened for a reason. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Traitor (audio story)|The Traitor]]'')
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| He considered eight to be his "lucky number" ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') due to it becoming an infinity symbol when turned. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)|The Knight, The Fool and The Dead]]'') He was not against theft if he saw it in his power to return what he stole, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') but would avoid stealing if he thought it would cause more trouble than it would solve. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dominion (novel)|Dominion]]'')
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| Despite his enthusiasms, the Doctor had a fear of heights, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') [[hospital]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Kursaal (novel)|Kursaal]]'', ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') [[spider]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') and his TARDIS being shattered into a million shards. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Faith Stealer (audio story)|Faith Stealer]]'') He also disliked [[diving]] because he "[didn't] like the constriction of being cocooned in a diving suit." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Race (novel)|The Infinity Race]]'') He could be deeply unnerved when imprisoned, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]'', ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference: The Hour of the Geek]]'') and acknowledged that he was corruptible when he realised how much he wanted [[the Glory]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
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| Like his previous incarnations, the Eighth Doctor stood against wanton violence, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') and was insistent on solving solutions in a peaceful manner, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'', ''[[Revolution Man (novel)|Revolution Man]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'') but knew that that would not be an option all the time, and was not above resulting to violence when needed, even attacking [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]] with lethal intend before he knew he was a sentient [[Cyberman]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Company of Thieves (comic story)|The Company of Thieves]]'') and massacring some [[Torajenn]] during their attack on [[Coyoacan]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Way of All Flesh (comic story)|The Way of All Flesh]]'') He killed a pair of vampires, commentating on how melodramatic it was, aware that he couldn't try anything less fatal due to the vampires' strength and healing abilities. However, [[Romana II]] noted the regret in his eyes, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') and the Doctor later remarked that he killed them due to "[not] [knowing] [himself] well enough at the time" to know different. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'')
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| He later talked [[Anton la Serre]] into death for his part in the deaths on the [[Dreamstone Moon]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dreamstone Moon (novel)|Dreamstone Moon]]'') and killed [[Ed Hill]] with a gun to prevent the imminent destruction of the Earth, and in part to save [[Fitz Kreiner]] from having to bear the responsibility of killing him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revolution Man (novel)|Revolution Man]]'') When his memories were gone, he pushed murderer [[Roger Nepath]] to his death without remorse while Nepath pleaded for his life, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Burning (novel)|The Burning]]'') allowed a guard to be shot in his place, telepathically convinced his interrogator's heart to stop beating, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'') and killed [[Hilary Pink]] to save him from possession. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eater of Wasps (novel)|Eater of Wasps]]'') He didn't complain when he thought someone being attacked deserved the retribution, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Final Chapter (comic story)|The Final Chapter]]'') or hold any qualms about destroying a non-living entity. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'')
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| While he sometimes "yearend" for the ability to "hit a rewind button" and fix the pain he had seen, the Doctor knew he couldn't undue the pains of the past, and that he had the accept time's impact as it "move[d] through [him]". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Beautiful Freak (comic story)|Beautiful Freak]]'')
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| In touch with his feminine side, the Doctor was sometimes called a "ponce," ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turing Test (novel)|The Turing Test]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blood of the Daleks (audio story)|Blood of the Daleks]]'') or a "poof" on one occasion, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timeless (novel)|Timeless]]'') and had a maternal urge to see to it that everyone around him was well-fed, even carrying food around in his pockets to give to his companions on a moment's notice. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)|The Year of Intelligent Tigers]]'') He often got teary-eyed around his adopted daughter, [[Miranda Dawkins]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'')
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| Though it was thought{{who}} that he was trying to distract himself from its sudden loss, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Coldheart (novel)|Coldheart]]'') the Doctor allowed himself to become a darker and angrier person with the loss of his TARDIS in the dimensional barrier between [[Earth]] and [[Avalon (The Shadows of Avalon)|Avalon]], and his then reliance on [[Compassion]] as a means of travel, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') with Fitz noting the Doctor's tendency to throw himself into others' problems to avoid facing his own. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Space Age (novel)|The Space Age]]'')
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| During his time stranded on Earth following Gallifrey's destruction, the Doctor fell into a deep state of [[depression]] due to his failure to get off the planet, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'') and often dreamt of his TARDIS, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'') though he reacted with terror when offered the chance to have his memories restored. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'') Throughout his time on Earth, the Doctor was unable to feel "at home", knowing that he didn't belong on the planet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fear Itself (novel)|Fear Itself]]'') Once he adopted [[Miranda Dawkins]], he decided to improve his situation in order to be able to provide for her, such as working as a business consultant and taking up beekeeping. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'') The Doctor would later realise his behaviour was similar to the symptoms of [[Albrecht's Ennui]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the Still (novel)|The Book of the Still]]'') and would come to look back on his time stranded with fondness, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Deadstone Memorial (novel)|The Deadstone Memorial]]'') but did not wish to be stranded a second time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'') Once he was able to travel off Earth, the Doctor was keen to encounter "monsters" again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vanishing Point (novel)|Vanishing Point]]'')
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| After being able to leave Earth in his TARDIS, the Doctor became more open to violent acts, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eater of Wasps (novel)|Eater of Wasps]]'', ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)|Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'') and would have brief periodic spells of frailty. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Grimm Reality (novel)|Grimm Reality]]'') He felt he no longer had the right to interfere in the affairs of the universe due to him no longer having the authority of a Time Lord. Seeing it as the only way for him to continue righting wrongs, the Doctor decided to become "Earth's Champion" and planned to marry [[Juliette Vierge]] in a symbolic ceremony in which he would root himself on Earth, until Juliette was lured away by [[Sabbath Dei]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'')
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| After the loss of his second heart to Sabbath, the Doctor became an even darker, though more humane, person. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hope (novel)|Hope]]'', ''[[Anachrophobia (novel)|Anachrophobia]]'', ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'', ''[[Camera Obscura (novel)|Camera Obscura]]'') He felt weaker on his feet, worried about his lifespan shortening, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hope (novel)|Hope]]'') felt greater frailty, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Anachrophobia (novel)|Anachrophobia]]'') had chest pains when in close proximity to his severed heart, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Anachrophobia (novel)|Anachrophobia]]'', ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'') and panic attacks brought on by the single pulse in his body, but felt that the "hollow absence" was the worst of the side effects. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Obscura (novel)|Camera Obscura]]'') He thought that losing his heart to Sabbath was his "biggest regret". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Anachrophobia (novel)|Anachrophobia]]'') Though he eventually regrew a second heart after Sabbath removed the original from himself, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Obscura (novel)|Camera Obscura]]'', ''[[Time Zero (novel)|Time Zero]]'') Fitz noticed that its long absence had left a change in the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Reckless Engineering (novel)|Reckless Engineering]]'')
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| After Miranda's death, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'') the Doctor became angry at anything that reminded him of her, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Halflife (novel)|Halflife]]'') but ultimately chose to move on for the sake of his adopted granddaughter, [[Zezanne]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
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| Though he vowed that he would never travel alone again as he did not want to forget how precious life was after his predecessor's manipulative nature isolated him, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)|The Resurrection of Mars]]'') after the deaths of his great-grandson, [[Alex Campbell]], and his companions, [[Tamsin Drew]] and [[Lucie Miller]], at the hands of the [[Dalek]]s, the Doctor decided to travel on his own to limit the deaths that came in his wake. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]'') Lucie's death left the Doctor in such a state that he went to the [[end of the universe]] just to see what would happen. However, he started having hope again after meeting [[Molly O'Sullivan]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]'') not wanting her killing herself to stop the Daleks plan because he didn't want to lose anyone else to the Daleks, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'') though he did get annoyed when he found Molly squatting in his house. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Room (audio story)|The White Room]]'') Even after he had been joined by [[Liv Chenka]] in his travels, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'') the Doctor greatly missed Molly when [[Narvin]] forced them apart. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Life in the Day (audio story)|A Life in the Day]]'')
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| Towards the end of his life, the Doctor began to reminisce about his adventures with previous companions. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The End (short story)|The End]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'') He also developed an extreme distaste for war, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Music of the Spherions (comic story)|Music of the Spherions]]'') with [[River Song]] claiming that the outbreak of the [[Last Great Time War]] brought down his optimism and robbed him of the joy in his travels. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies in Ruins (audio story)|Lies in Ruins]]'')
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| The Eighth Doctor remembered his [[first incarnation]] as a "fierce old man", his [[second incarnation]] as a "gentle little fellow who had sacrificed his own freedom so that others might be free", his [[third incarnation]] as an "elegant dandy struggling bitterly against the chains of his exile but unable to resist defending the planet that had become his prison", and his [[fourth incarnation]] as a "casual bohemian" who "dared to take on the evil that stalk[ed] the dark". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'')
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| The Eighth Doctor had no love for the Third Doctor, describing him to [[Josie Day]] as having "no appreciation of art," and that he "spent all his time taking things apart and leaving bits lying about," concluding that Josie wouldn't like him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Pictures of Josephine Day (comic story)|The Pictures of Josephine Day]]'') However, he had a fondness for the Fourth Doctor, sharing a lot of his tastes in common, and the two got along easily, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'') though he did not enjoy the idea of seeing his fourth incarnation when [[George Litefoot]] brought it up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'') Also, while he found the [[Sixth Doctor]] obnoxious and embarrassing, he had a great deal of respect for him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')
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| He viewed his [[seventh incarnation]] as "terrible old duffer who wouldn't tell [anyone] what was going on, would shout [at] [someone] as soon as look at [them], would expect [his companions] to be quiet and do what [he] said, and be there to untie [him] in cellars and scream out when [they] saw danger heading [their] way". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') He also distastefully looked at his immediate predecessor as being "a man with the master plan" working for the "greater good" under the belief of the ends justifying the means, unfavourably comparing him to {{Garden}} in that regard. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)|The Resurrection of Mars]]'')
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| When meeting his [[Ninth Doctor|ninth]], [[Tenth Doctor|tenth]] and [[twelfth incarnation]]s, the Eighth Doctor was pleased to see them acting "as childish as ever." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'')
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| The Doctor had "intrinsic faith" in his friends, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'') and took their well-being as his primary concern, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Perceptions (comic story)|Perceptions]]'') almost giving the TARDIS to the Cybermen to protect [[Stacy Townsend]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dreadnought (comic story)|Dreadnought]]'') helping Izzy adjust to Destrii's body, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Beautiful Freak (comic story)|Beautiful Freak]]'') giving up the power of the [[Time Vortex]] the second he noticed Destrii needed his help to escape an exploding [[Cyber-ship]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'') and stealing [[the Master's TARDIS]] to save [[Liv Chenka]] and [[Molly O'Sullivan]] from the [[Dalek Time Controller]] at a Dalek retreat on the [[Eye of Orion]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eye of Darkness (audio story)|Eye of Darkness]]'') Not wanting to repeat the mistakes of the [[Seventh Doctor]], the Eighth Doctor did not order his companions around. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference: The Hour of the Geek]]'')
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| The Eighth Doctor showcased his love for humanity by admiring how they "always [saw] patterns in things that [weren't] there", ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') and how they were "one of the most adaptable, versatile, [and] adventurous species in the galaxy", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Halflife (novel)|Halflife]]'') but also was aware that some were "barbarians" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dreamstone Moon (novel)|Dreamstone Moon]]'') who "never lost their inability to learn from their mistakes", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Halflife (novel)|Halflife]]'') degrading them for "heading towards [an [[Ice Warrior]]] ship like moths to the flame", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') and found a [[police officer]]'s refusal to believe him as "typical". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game]]'')
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| Due to his regeneration "[shaking] up his molecules so comprehensively that certain aspects of his character had come to the fore that had previously been buried so deeply within him they had seemed virtually nonexistent", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'') the Eight Doctor was a romantic at heart, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') though he thought it an "unpleasant problem" to fall in [[love]] with humans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'') It was during his eighth incarnation that the Doctor began feeling a desire for [[romance]] — "the excitement of being close to someone, the need to exchange ideas on a more personal level, to be able to tell someone what you really believe". While he told [[I.M. Foreman]] it would be unfair to get [[sexual]]ly involved with his companions, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference: The Hour of the Geek]]'') the Doctor shared an experience with [[Bernice Summerfield]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Benny's Story (audio story)|Benny's Story]]'') and also proclaimed his love for [[Charley Pollard]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'') but when she tried to broach the subject, he claimed that it was merely an urge brought on by his belief that she was about to die. Although uncomfortable with Charley's "yearning" for him, the Doctor did later admit to loving her, but then told her that they couldn't pursue a romantic relationship, opting to remain friends instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scherzo (audio story)|Scherzo]]'') For a time, [[Sam Jones]] had a [[crush]] on the Doctor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Longest Day (novel)|Longest Day]]'', ''[[Dreamstone Moon (novel)|Dreamstone Moon]]'', ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]'') something that he was aware of. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'') [[Alan Turing]] likewise developed feelings for the Doctor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turing Test (novel)|The Turing Test]]'') who would later recall being "more than friends" with Turing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Domino Effect (novel)|The Domino Effect]]'') During his time in [[1951]], the Doctor became to desire of [[Penny (Endgame)|Penny]], a [[waitress]] at the [[Café des Artistes]], with [[spy]] [[Guy Burgess]] also eyeing him up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'') On one occasion, he was described by [[Daqar Keep]] as someone who used flattery to deceive. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'')
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| Viewing them as "the worst thing [one] [could] possibly imagine," the Doctor saw the [[Dalek]]s as "cold, ruthless killers", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fire and Brimstone (comic story)|Fire and Brimstone]]'') believing that they "[had] no interest in anything but conquest and war," with "art, decoration, poetry, music all [being] irrelevant to them." He also had no qualms with killing Daleks with high frequency shock waves. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') His hatred of the Daleks escalated after they started to pursue him and Molly through time, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]'') though he considered a war between the Daleks and the Time Lords to be a ridiculous thought. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tangled Web (audio story)|Tangled Web]]'') However, when he thought that [[the Eminence]] was a greater threat to the universe, he decided to ally himself with the [[Dalek Time Controller]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') After their alliance ended, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'') they resumed their animosity to each other, with the Doctor being particularly angry with the Time Controller's plans to make a New Dalek Paradigm from the artists of [[Montmartre]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Monster of Montmartre (audio story)|The Monster of Montmartre]]'')
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| [[Sam Jones]] described the Eighth Doctor as a "hero" who "never does anything wrong", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revolution Man (novel)|Revolution Man]]'') and [[Charley Pollard]] referred to him as "an unbelievable, impossible, marvellous man." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]'') While [[Lucie Miller]] originally took against him, describing him as a "patronising git," and a "spineless fish", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blood of the Daleks (audio story)|Blood of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Skull of Sobek (audio story)|The Skull of Sobek]]'') she claimed that the Eighth Doctor was "the best bloke [she'd] ever met" just before her death. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]'') [[The Doctor's first TARDIS]] described the Eighth Doctor as "the idealist". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Prisoners of Fate (audio story)|Prisoners of Fate]]'') While the {{Manning}} called him a "dilettante fop", [[Jo Grant]] though the Eighth Doctor was "very dashing". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Elixir of Doom (audio story)|The Elixir of Doom]]'') [[Destrii]] described the Eighth Doctor as "quite the package" due to him possessing "brains, buns and barrel-loads of bravado". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ophidius (comic story)|Ophidius]]'')
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| [[Jacob Hynes]] believed that, "despite his weird nineteenth-century costume, [the Doctor] had the air of a man from the [[Golden Age]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]'') Upon staring into the Doctor's eyes, [[Daniel O'Ryan]] saw "the alienness of [the] so often warm and human-seeming [Doctor]." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dreamstone Moon (novel)|Dreamstone Moon]]'') A [[Kulan]] assumed the Doctor to be "some sort of congenital idiot". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Escape Velocity (novel)|Escape Velocity]]'') When he had a [[tarot]] card reading, the Eighth Doctor was identified as "the Magician". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The City of the Dead (novel)|The City of the Dead]]'')
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| By his own admittance, the Doctor "mustn't" think about death, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Longest Day (novel)|Longest Day]]'') and wished to die alone. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scherzo (audio story)|Scherzo]]'') Unafraid to die due to having "died many times before", the Doctor could think of no better epitaph than to have inspired others to hold back death and go forward in all their beliefs. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') When faced with execution, the Doctor confided in Izzy that one of his few regrets was being unable to show her more of the universe's wonders. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[By Hook or By Crook (comic story)|By Hook or By Crook]]'') When he though he felt a [[regeneration]] coming, he likened the feeling to "a caterpillar wrapping itself in a chrysalis". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fear Itself (novel)|Fear Itself]]'')
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| When the Eighth Doctor met his demise, he had been thoroughly broken by the breakout of the Time War, to the point that he decided to remain onboard a crashing spaceship, pleading with [[Cass Fermazzi]] to put aside her hatred of the Time Lords for him to save her. When it ended in failure, the Doctor died in the crash, having lost the will to regenerate until the [[Sisterhood of Karn]] temporarily restored him to life. Though he continued to refuse joining the Time War, seeing Cass's lifeless body caused the Doctor to finally lose all hope, claim the deceased Cass's [[bandolier]] and abandon the title of "Doctor" with extreme disparity after being coaxed by [[Ohila]] to embrace his regeneration into a warrior, expressing bitter delight when informed the change would hurt him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'') Thinking back to times he was not alone to comfort himself, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') the Doctor saluted his past companions, and apologised to Cass, before drinking the Elixir. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'')
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| In an account where he fought to the very end of the Time War, the Doctor was driven to destroy the [[Time Lord]]s and the [[Dalek]]s with [[the Moment]], and feared he had "fixed" his existence by using the Moment, though was content to permanently die. As he found comfort in being in his "home" in the TARDIS, the Doctor found that [[the Restoration]] had reset his life-cycle, enabling him to [[regenerate]]. While he first thought that "last words [were] useless", as he began to regenerate, the Doctor spoke his final words aloud. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]'')
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| === Habits and quirks ===
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| The Eighth Doctor made a habit of randomly [[kiss]]ing or getting kissed by others, such as [[Grace Holloway]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') [[Bernice Summerfield]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') [[Sam Jones]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Longest Day (novel)|Longest Day]]'', ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]'') [[Fitz Kreiner]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dominion (novel)|Dominion]]'') [[Destrii]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Uroboros (comic story)|Uroboros]]'', ''[[Sins of the Fathers (comic story)|Sins of the Fathers]]'') the [[Master-Maid]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Grimm Reality (novel)|Grimm Reality]]'') and [[Charley Pollard]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scherzo (audio story)|Scherzo]]'') He also kissed [[Anji Kapoor]] when she and him were possessed by the spirits of [[Hanstrum]] and [[Elizabethan]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[EarthWorld (novel)|EarthWorld]]'') Much to Charley's annoyance, the Doctor himself had a penchant for platonically kissing people on the lips when excited. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Aliens (audio story)|Enemy Aliens]]'')
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| Because he was a Time Lord, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Queen of Eros (short story)|The Queen of Eros]]'') the Doctor occasional had "flashes" of people's future, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dominion (novel)|Dominion]]'', ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') and made a habit of giving people hints about their future, while not expressing outright the nature of that future, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'', ''[[Option Lock (novel)|Option Lock]]'', ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'', ''[[Timeless (novel)|Timeless]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice (audio story)|The Stones of Venice]]'') though he dropped this habit after Grace called him out on being cryptic about her future. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'') He could also see into someone's past, at least in the case of [[Guy Adams (Timeless)|Guy Adams]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timeless (novel)|Timeless]]'')
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| Often repeating himself due to his enthusiasms, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') the Eighth Doctor was unafraid to raise his voice when he needed to heard or was unable to contain his emotions, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'') though his voice would turn "icy" when he was taking authority over someone. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') He would often lean towards making a sarcastic quip, especially when in the company of [[Lucie Miller]], leading her to nickname him "Sarcasmo". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Vengeance of Morbius (audio story)|The Vengeance of Morbius]]'')
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| He would often utter, "blazes", when annoyed or surprised, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'', ''[[The Company of Thieves (comic story)|The Company of Thieves]]'', ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'', ''[[Ophidius (comic story)|Ophidius]]'', ''[[Beautiful Freak (comic story)|Beautiful Freak]]'', ''[[The Land of Happy Endings (comic story)|The Land of Happy Endings]]'') and was known to say also "good grief". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference: Shock Tactic]]'', ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'', ''[[The Way of All Flesh (comic story)|The Way of All Flesh]]'', ''[[Uroboros (comic story)|Uroboros]]'')
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| He would sing or hum to himself when travelling to a location, or to simply relax himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'', ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'', ''[[Longest Day (novel)|Longest Day]]'', ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'', ''[[The Janus Conjunction (novel)|The Janus Conjunction]]'', ''[[The Fall of Yquatine (novel)|The Fall of Yquatine]]'', ''[[Coldheart (novel)|Coldheart]]'')
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| Like many of his predecessors, the Doctor would often flick the long tails of his frock coat back and stand with his hands in his pockets, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Ascendance (comic story)|Ascendance]]'', ''[[Perceptions (comic story)|Perceptions]]'', ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'', ''[[Fire and Brimstone (comic story)|Fire and Brimstone]]'', ''[[By Hook or By Crook (comic story)|By Hook or By Crook]]'', ''[[Tooth and Claw (comic story)|Tooth and Claw]]'', ''[[The Final Chapter (comic story)|The Final Chapter]]'', ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'', ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'', ''[[TV Action! (comic story)|TV Action!]]'', ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'', ''[[The Autonomy Bug (comic story)|The Autonomy Bug]]'', ''[[Ophidius (comic story)|Ophidius]]'', ''[[Beautiful Freak (comic story)|Beautiful Freak]]'', ''[[Uroboros (comic story)|Uroboros]]'', ''[[Where Nobody Knows Your Name (comic story)|Where Nobody Knows Your Name]]'', ''[[Bad Blood (comic story)|Bad Blood]]'', ''[[Sins of the Fathers (comic story)|Sins of the Fathers]]'', ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'', ''[[The Body Politic (comic story)|The Body Politic]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'') or stand with his arms crossed behind his back. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'', ''[[The Keep (comic story)|The Keep]]'', ''[[Tooth and Claw (comic story)|Tooth and Claw]]'', ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'', ''[[The Company of Thieves (comic story)|The Company of Thieves]]'') Like his [[first incarnation]], the Eight Doctor was known to grasp the lapels of his frock coats. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ascendance (comic story)|Ascendance]]'', ''[[Coda (comic story)|Coda]]'', ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'', ''[[Wormwood (comic story)|Wormwood]]'', ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'', ''[[The Body Politic (comic story)|The Body Politic]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'', ''[[Beltempest (novel)|Beltempest]]'', ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference: Shock Tactic]]'')
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| Like his [[fourth incarnation]], the Eighth Doctor could be pedantic at times, focusing on a minor annoyance when under a greater threat, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dominion (novel)|Dominion]]'', ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[TV Action! (comic story)|TV Action!]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game]]'', ''[[The Power of Thoueris! (comic story)|The Power of Thoueris!]]'', ''[[Briarwood (comic story)|Briarwood]]'') making a quip in the face of danger, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'') or cracking jokes that unnerved those around him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]'', ''[[Parallel 59 (novel)|Parallel 59]]'') Also like the Fourth Doctor, the Eighth Doctor was known to clutter his pockets with random objects. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'', ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', ''[[Kursaal (novel)|Kursaal]]'', ''[[The Janus Conjunction (novel)|The Janus Conjunction]]'', ''[[Coldheart (novel)|Coldheart]]'', ''[[Dark Progeny (novel)|Dark Progeny]]'', ''[[The City of the Dead (novel)|The City of the Dead]]'', ''[[Hope (novel)|Hope]]'', ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Something Inside (audio story)|Something Inside]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]'')
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| He could be literal minded, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') and would often explain or answer a rhetorical question asked to him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'', ''[[The Taint (novel)|The Taint]]'')
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| The Eighth Doctor regularly suffered with bouts of [[amnesia|memory loss]], either brought on by trauma, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]'', ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]'', ''[[Orbis (audio story)|Orbis]]'') forced on him by another, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'', ''[[Something Inside (audio story)|Something Inside]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[One Life (audio story)|One Life]]'', ''[[In the Garden of Death (audio story)|In the Garden of Death]]'', ''[[Darkness and Light (audio story)|Darkness and Light]]'') self-inflicted, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') or brought on by natural circumstances. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lost Property (audio story)|Lost Property]]'', ''[[Dreadshade (audio story)|Dreadshade]]'')
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| === Skills ===
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| The Eighth Doctor had a talent in pick-pocketing, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Company of Thieves (comic story)|The Company of Thieves]]'', ''[[The Way of All Flesh (comic story)|The Way of All Flesh]]'', ''[[The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack (comic story)|The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives (audio story)|Other Lives]]'', ''[[The Monster of Montmartre (audio story)|The Monster of Montmartre]]'') and claimed his skills were "well-honed" enough for him to know a fake jostle on contact. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'') He was also skilled at [[transmigration]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'', ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'', ''[[Demontage (novel)|Demontage]]'', ''[[Frontier Worlds (novel)|Frontier Worlds]]'', ''[[EarthWorld (novel)|EarthWorld]]'') lock picking, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', ''[[The Crooked World (novel)|The Crooked World]]'') and [[hacking]] and code-breaking. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]'', ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wild Animals (audio story)|Wild Animals]]'')
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| Like his predecessor's manipulative streak, the Eighth Doctor could convince others to follow his train of thought, such as convincing the [[Celestis]] that [[The Relic (Alien Bodies)|the Relic]] was a temporal paradox, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') haggling for a lower price of a dying [[begonia]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taint (novel)|The Taint]]'') and tricking [[the Eminence]] into destroying itself. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'') He was also still skilled at [[chess]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'') but substituted his seventh incarnation's planning and foreword thinking with his great improvisation skills, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'', ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game]]'') being able to assess a situation and calculate a way around it with relative ease. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'')
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| While he mostly abandoned his predecessor's manipulative tendencies, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Threshold (short story)|The Threshold]]'') the Doctor possessed the cunning to lead his foes into a battlefield of his choosing, tricking the [[Threshold]] into lowering their guard by letting them think he had regenerated by switching places with [[Shayde]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Wormwood (comic story)|Wormwood]]'') turning [[Andrelina Hastoff]]'s minions against each other with a few choice words, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Autonomy Bug (comic story)|The Autonomy Bug]]'') and stalling his execution by the [[Ophidian]]s so a [[servicer drone]] he had left in the [[anti-gravity regulator]] could disable their ship and allow him to escape. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ophidius (comic story)|Ophidius]]'')
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| While fighting wasn't his "forte", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Worldwide Web (audio story)|Worldwide Web]]'') the Eighth Doctor was both a highly proficient swordsman and skilled in the art of [[Venusian aikido]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') even using it on instinct when an amnesiac. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Burning (novel)|The Burning]]'', ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'', ''[[Grimm Reality (novel)|Grimm Reality]]'', ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)|Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'', ''[[The Book of the Still (novel)|The Book of the Still]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') He was also able to restrain [[Homunculette]] with his finger, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') jump-kick an armoured guard through a broken window, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallel 59 (novel)|Parallel 59]]'') sword-fight {{Fallen}} across the [[omniverse]] at equal strength, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') quickly overpower [[Destrii]] with Venusian aikido, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Oblivion (comic story)|Oblivion]]'') and knock out [[North]] with a single jab to the face. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'') However, when he used Venusian aikido on [[C'rizz]], he injured himself due to being "out of practice." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Faith Stealer (audio story)|Faith Stealer]]'')
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| He was also stronger than the average human, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'') being able to punch his way out of a morgue, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') knock out two [[Zygon]]s barehanded with ease, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'') throwing [[Axel (Endgame)|Axel]] out of a vehicle, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'') and lift a heavy lectern with ease. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'') He once boasted the ability to "break a human in two". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Demontage (novel)|Demontage]]'') He could also dress himself in record time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Janus Conjunction (novel)|The Janus Conjunction]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'')
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| The Doctor could sing in [[Italian language|Italian]], and sing the [[Venusian lullaby]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'', ''[[Longest Day (novel)|Longest Day]]'') speak [[Esperanto]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'') [[Martian]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'') and [[Russian (language)|Russian]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Natural History of Fear (audio story)|The Natural History of Fear]]'') and sign in the language of the [[Delphon (species)|Delphon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beltempest (novel)|Beltempest]]'') He also claimed to be skilled in speaking the "local patter." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invaders from Mars (audio story)|Invaders from Mars]]'')
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| The Doctor could deduce his location by studying his surroundings, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'') and how fast a spaceship was travelling by feeling its vibrations. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'') He noticed that his body healed faster than [[Seventh Doctor|his previous one]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scaredy Cat (audio story)|Scaredy Cat]]'')
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| Being a Time Lord, the Doctor could will his respiration, heartbeat, brain activity, lindal gland, and reflex response systems to shut down, though he would require a few days to fully recover to full strength afterwards. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') He could also sense fissures in time, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Benny's Story (audio story)|Benny's Story]]'') and will his hearts ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death in Blackpool (audio story)|Death in Blackpool]]'') and even half of his body to shut down. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nevermore (audio story)|Nevermore]]'')
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| He could imitate others' voices, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dominion (novel)|Dominion]]'', ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'') juggle, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[EarthWorld (novel)|EarthWorld]]'') escape handcuffs with ease, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'') and stitch up his clothing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fallen Gods (novel)|Fallen Gods]]'')
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| The Doctor had an [[eidetic memory]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'') and was able to remember all the Liverpool F.C. strikers and goals from 1964-1965 and 2013-2014, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') as well as the inspirational fifth victory of [[European Cup]] by Liverpool's football club in [[2005]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Something Inside (audio story)|Something Inside]]'')
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| == Appearance ==
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| [[File:EightHeadOn.jpg|thumb|The Doctor shortly after his regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
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| According to [[Grace Holloway]], the Eighth Doctor looked like a man in his mid-thirties. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') [[Bernice Summerfield]] thought "his long [[face]] was angular, with a jutting [[chin]] and aristocratic [[nose]], but it was softened by a mass of dark [[brown]] [[hair]] that swept back down all the way from his high [[forehead]] to his broad [[shoulder]]s". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') He weighed approximately 180 [[pound]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') and was ambidextrous. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turing Test (novel)|The Turing Test]]'') It was claimed that he smelled of "[[sandalwood]]", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dominion (novel)|Dominion]]'') "old exitronic [[circuitry]]", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'') and [[honey]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'')
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| The Doctor had [[blue]] [[eye]]s after he regenerated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') However, due to [[Faction Paradox]] interfering with the Doctor's [[biodata]], his eye [[colour]] was changed to [[green]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') before reverting to blue after the majority of Faction Paradox was erased from the timeline. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') During his travels with [[Mary Shelley]], his eyes were ice blue, the left eye being slightly darker than the right. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'') When asked about where he came from, the Doctor's eye colour would change between [[grey]] and blue, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)|Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'') and they sometimes appeared as [[brown]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Matter of Life and Death (comic story)|A Matter of Life and Death]]'') When discussing it, [[Adrienne Kramer]] and [[Carolyn McConnell]] were unable to agree on what colour the Doctor's eye were. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'')
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| He once wore blue eye-shadow, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Growing Higher (short story)|Growing Higher]]'') and had a [[tattoo]] of a man transforming into a [[jaguar]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The City of the Dead (novel)|The City of the Dead]]'')
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| [[File:Eight Returns.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor during the Time War. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'')]]
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| As the Time War reached its height, the Doctor's face showed prominent crow's feet and some wrinkling as a result of his fatigue. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'')
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| [[Carolyn McConnell]] described the Eighth Doctor as "tall, dark, [and] handsome". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'') [[Coldicott]], in comparisons to his other incarnations, described the Eighth Doctor as "the Young [[Edwardian]] version". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference: Shock Tactic]]'') [[Constance Clarke]] thought the Eighth Doctor was attractive. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The End of the Beginning (audio story)|The End of the Beginning]]'')
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| The [[First Doctor]] described his eighth incarnation as the "younger, handsome one, with hair dangling to his shoulders". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Five Card Draw (short story)|Five Card Draw]]'')
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| === Grooming and hair ===
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| [[File:8th_Doctor_short_hair.jpg|thumb|The Doctor's shorter hair. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]'')]]
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| The Doctor had long, wavy hair after his regeneration, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') but, after falling in the ocean at [[Dunkirk]], he had his wavy hair cut short. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]'') He grew it out so that he again had curls. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eleven (audio story)|The Eleven]]'', ''[[The Gift (audio story)|The Gift]]'')
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| Towards the end of his life, the Doctor's hair started to go grey, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'', ''[[Not in My Back Yard (short story)|Not in My Back Yard]]'', ''[[DS Al Fine (short story)|DS Al Fine]]'') and, after cutting his hair again, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Natural Regression (short story)|Natural Regression]]'') he had regained enough length to form messy curls drooping over his forehead. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'')
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| He grew a beard shortly before his wedding to [[Scarlette]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') but later shaved it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hope (novel)|Hope]]'')
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| === Clothing ===
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| [[File:Eighth Doctor jacket Doctor Who.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor's original jacket. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
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| After walking around with a white sheet following his regeneration, the Doctor stole a [[Wild Bill Hickok]] costume from [[Ted Kriechel]]'s locker at [[Walker General Hospital]]. Though he discarded the cap and gunbelt, he kept the sacramento green velvet frock coat, white dress shirt with a high collar, loden green high-waist trousers, floppy battleship grey cravat with a bronze pin, and double breasted waistcoat of silver paisley-brocade with 10 gold buttons and a golden fob watch. After walking around the hospital barefoot, he was given a pair of black ankle-high dress shoes by [[Grace Holloway]] that originally belonged to her ex-boyfriend, [[Brian (The TV Movie)|Brian]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') He also took to wearing [[question mark]]-fashioned [[Underpants|boxer shorts]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') and would occasionally discard the cravat and leave his top buttons undone. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Uroboros (comic story)|Uroboros]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game]]'', ''[[The Land of Happy Endings (comic story)|The Land of Happy Endings]]'') The Doctor had replacement jackets, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'') made for him by a tailor on [[Savile Row]] in [[1892]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]'', ''[[Seeing I (novel)|Seeing I]]'')
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| The Doctor varied the colour scheme of his costume, such as wearing a navy blue frock coat, a violet waistcoat, an indigo cravat, mauve trousers, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dreadnought (comic story)|Dreadnought]]'') a plum purple cravat, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Descendance (comic story)|Descendance]]'') an [[Amber (colour)|amber]] cravat, an olive green frock coat, a cream waistcoat ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ophidius (comic story)|Ophidius]]'') an emerald green frock coat, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') a gold cravat, an ochre yellow waistcoat, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice (audio story)|The Stones of Venice]]'') a bottle-green cravat, a bracken green waistcoat, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Caerdroia (audio story)|Caerdroia]]'') blue trousers, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time Works (audio story)|Time Works]]'') green trousers, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absolution (BFM audio story)|Absolution]]'') and a [[burnt orange]] waistcoat. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Audacity (audio anthology)|Audacity]]'')
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| Immediately following the [[War in Heaven]], the Doctor began to wear a shirt and trousers, but felt that they did not suit him, and soon changed back into his Wild Bill Hickok clothes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Burning (novel)|The Burning]]'')
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| [[File:Eighth_Doctor_Titan_comics_issue_1.jpg|thumb|The Doctor makes his presence known to Josie. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Pictures of Josephine Day (comic story)|The Pictures of Josephine Day]]'')]]
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| During his travels with Fitz and Trix, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[We Can't Stop What's Coming (short story)|We Can't Stop What's Coming]]'') the Doctor took on another outfit that was more rugged and unkempt than his Wild Bill outfit, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'') which the [[War Doctor]] described as being "swashbuckling". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') The look consisted of a double-breasted moleskin overcoat coloured in either bottle green ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'') or Prussian blue, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not (audio story)|He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not]]'') with a single-breasted velvet waistcoat done in mustard yellow moleskin, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Pictures of Josephine Day (comic story)|The Pictures of Josephine Day]]'') [[Wine (colour)|wine]] paisley-brocade, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not (audio story)|He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not]]'') [[vermillion]] paisley-brocade, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Meanwhile, Elsewhere (audio story)|Meanwhile, Elsewhere]]'') or bronze-grey paisley-brocade with a fob watch. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'') In place of a cravat, he wore an [[ascot tie]] of dupioni done in flaxen yellow, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Pictures of Josephine Day (comic story)|The Pictures of Josephine Day]]'') eggplant purple, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Matter of Life and Death (comic story)|A Matter of Life and Death]]'') dark [[teal]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') sapphire blue, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cass (audio anthology)|Cass]]'') [[Ebony (colour)|ebony]] black ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Meanwhile, Elsewhere (audio story)|Meanwhile, Elsewhere]]'') or midnight blue. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'') He left the points of the shirt's collar drooped across his shoulders as he left it open-necked and wore the ascot crookedly on his own naked [[neck]]. He also sported wrinkled tan trousers haphazardly secured by a slouching belt only buckled by an S-link chain, with a pair of caramel brown British Army Calvary boots with a set of matching leather gaiters strapped across his shins, all of which were loosely laced and knotted improperly. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'') After a period of wearing his Wild Bill Hickok costume, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghost of Christmas Past (short story)|Ghost of Christmas Past]]'') the Doctor continued to wear his swashbuckling outfit throughout the Time War and to the end of his life, the clothes growing battered and frayed from action and abuse. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'')
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| After ruining his clothes during [[World War I]], the Doctor began wearing a white t-shirt under a royal blue leather peacoat with anchor symbols three golden buttons, with navy blue jeans and sandy-brown trainers. He also took to carrying a brown messenger bag, wearing the single strap over his left ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]'') or right shoulder. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eleven (audio story)|The Eleven]]'')
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| ==== Other clothes ====
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| When bathing, the Doctor would wear a baggy, all-in-one, stripy outfit. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Kursaal (novel)|Kursaal]]'')
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| During his holidays, the Doctor wore long shorts and a straw cap in [[Egypt]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Power of Thoueris! (comic story)|The Power of Thoueris!]]'') a black tie and top cap with his blue coat and yellow-grey double-breasted waistcoat in [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[London]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack (comic story)|The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack]]'') and a black leather duster coat, a cream neckerchief, with a stetson cap, boots and gloves in [[America]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Bad Blood (comic story)|Bad Blood]]'')
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| While in [[India]], the Doctor wore a grey homburg cap with scarlet trousers, stout boots and a linen jacket. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eye of the Tyger (novel)|The Eye of the Tyger]]'') While visiting a village on the [[Cornwall|Cornish coast]] in [[2003]], he dressed in a loose cotton shirt and trousers, with a floppy white sun-hat, but later changed into a white shirt and jeans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rip Tide (novel)|Rip Tide]]'')
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| In [[New Orleans]], he wore a dark shirt and trousers with a dove grey coat made out of an alien synthetic, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The City of the Dead (novel)|The City of the Dead]]'') and changed into a dark red coat and shorts whilst in [[Barcelona]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'')
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| He also owned a black velvet coat ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vanishing Point (novel)|Vanishing Point]]'') that he won in a bet with a member of Faction Paradox. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') He wore this coat with a green waistcoat and boots in [[Marpling]] in [[1933]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eater of Wasps (novel)|Eater of Wasps]]'') After having his clothes ruined in the [[Slow Empire]], the Doctor put on a dark suit and a [[greatcoat]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Slow Empire (novel)|The Slow Empire]]'')
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| While forcibly recruited by [[Kim Philby]] in [[1951]] during his amnesic "exile", the Doctor wore an old brown corduroy suit, but soon changed into a brown checked sports jacket, grey flannel trousers and an old cloth cap, before again changing into a dark suit, white shirt and tie, with a bowler hat and an umbrella. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'')
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| When the Doctor first arrived on [[Hitchemus]], he wore a dark brown frock coat with metallic green highlights, buff flannel trousers, low-heeled boots and a grey silk cravat. He later wore a loose white shirt over hemp trousers and a black waistcoat embroidered with orange designs. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)|The Year of Intelligent Tigers]]'')
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| While infiltrating [[Hulbert Logistics]] as a new member of the board, the Doctor wore a blue suit he found in a wardrobe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources (audio story)|Human Resources]]'')
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| ==== Hats ====
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| [[File:8th_Doctor_Fez.jpg|thumb|The Doctor with a [[fez]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game]]'')]]
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| Occasionally, the Doctor wore a top hat, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack (comic story)|The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives (audio story)|Other Lives]]'') and, along with [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]], once wore wide-brimmed hats. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Obscura (novel)|Camera Obscura]]'')
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| When intending to travel to Egypt, the Doctor wore a fez so he could fit in with the locals. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game]]'')
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| == Mysteries and discrepancies ==
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| During the early hours of his life, the Eighth Doctor remarked that he was half-human on [[the Doctor's mother|his mother]]'s side, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') a statement he would affirm several more times, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'', ''[[Grimm Reality (novel)|Grimm Reality]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'') and reaffirmed by the [[Bruce Master]] when he saw the Doctor's [[retinal structure]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
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| Since his past was being rewritten simultaneously by the [[Faction Paradox]], the [[Matrix Rassilon]], [[the Enemy]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') he had memories of both being [[loom]]ed and having parents. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'', ''[[Autumn Mist (novel)|Autumn Mist]]'') Patriarchal psychic river jellyfish-like creatures on the planet [[Hyspero]] once told him that he only thought he had a human mother, having actually been [[loom]]ed in reality. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') Later, it was suggested the Doctor subconsciously made himself half-human in order to better experience life and reject the Seventh Doctor's role as [[Time's Champion]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'') Changes made to his biodata such as this would have rewritten his history ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') [[Flavia]] mentioned the Eighth Doctor's heritage from "his mother's side" in her book ''Tales from the Matrix - True Stories from TARDIS Logs Retold for Time Tots. ''([[PROSE]]'': [[Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)|Apocrypha Bipedium]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * In ''[[AHistory]]'', [[Lance Parkin]] explained how a deleted line from his 2009 novel ''[[The Eyeless (novel)|The Eyeless]]'' would have revealed that the Eighth Doctor was betrayed by his [[companion]]s during the [[Last Great Time War]], leading him to ending his life alone.
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| === Casting ===
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| [[File:Richard Griffifths Doctor.jpg|thumb|A depiction of Richard Griffiths as a potential Eight Doctor. ([[DWM 255]] ''[[Alixion (TV story)|Alixion]]'')]]
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| {{w|Richard Griffiths}}, who once expressed interest in playing the [[Fifth Doctor]] before having to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts, was the BBC's top choice to play the Eighth Doctor, had the show continued after 1989. He was later approached for the role of the Eighth Doctor in the TV movie, but was unavailable. [[Ian Richardson (actor)|Ian Richardson]] was also a popular choice for the Eighth Doctor, had the show continued after 1989. In the early 1990s, [[Verity Lambert]] was approached by the BBC to revive the series, with her choice for a new Doctor at the time being {{w|Peter Cook}}, but she eventually declined involvement.
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| {{w|Michael Crawford}}, {{w|Tim Curry}}, {{w|Eric Idle}}, {{w|Billy Connolly}}, {{w|Trevor Eve}}, [[Michael Palin]], {{w|Robert Lindsay (actor)|Robert Lindsay}} and [[Jonathan Pryce]] were all considered for the role of the Eighth Doctor. Lindsay actually auditioned for the role, together with {{w|Eddie Murphy}}, [[Anthony Head]], [[Tim McInnerny]], {{w|Tony Slattery}}, [[Liam Cunningham]], {{w|Nathaniel Parker}} and {{w|Mark McGann}}.{{facts}} {{w|Harry Van Gorkum}} came close to being cast and met with the approval of Fox and Universal but was vetoed by the BBC.<ref>http://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-the-eighth-doctor-casting-newsupdate/</ref> Future Doctor actors [[Christopher Eccleston]] and [[Peter Capaldi]] were offered the chance to audition for the role, but both declined.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T1szXb6e2g |title=Peter Capaldi: I Turned Down Doctor Who - DVD Launch Q&A |date of source=18 November 2014 |website name=YouTube - Doctor Who |accessdate=20 November 2014}}</ref>
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| === Claim for the most prolific Doctor ===
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| Although the eighth incarnation has only appeared onscreen twice so far, he has appeared in more stories than any other Doctor {{as of|2018|lc=y}}, due to the fact that he was the ''de facto'' "current Doctor" from [[1996]] to [[2005]], and naturally became the focus of attention in all non-televised media, including a nine-year tenure as the star of the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip, an eight-year 73-book [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|novel series]], and, beginning in [[2001 (releases)|2001]], regular releases from [[Big Finish Productions]].
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| Indeed, the Big Finish situation was particularly favourable to McGann, as their license with the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] at the time did not allow them to use any incarnations of the Doctor who originated from [[BBC Wales]] series. Consequently, McGann was their "current" Doctor, and effectively made the "first amongst equals," with his adventures treated as ongoing, and eventually giving him his own series. Unlike the other Doctors, most of his Big Finish releases were deliberately organised into "seasons" and his annual output was typically greater than that afforded to the others.
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| His adventures with [[Lucie Miller]] received far greater exposure than any of [[Big Finish]]'s prior output, due to the fact that they were commissioned by [[BBC Radio]] and employed [[Sheridan Smith]], an actor who already had a following from her work in mainstream British comedy. Four series were made in all, with most stories eventually being broadcast on radio and the internet. Given that the web broadcasts were not {{w|region lock}}ed, they had the potential to reach the most people worldwide of any performed ''Doctor Who'' adventures ever made.
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| === Continuity across mediums ===
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| The Eighth Doctor's adventures after the TV movie took place across three different branches of media: comics in the form of the ''[[DWM comic stories|Doctor Who Magazine]]'' and [[Radio Times comic strips|Radio Times]] comic strips, prose in the form of a ''[[Virgin New Adventures]]'' novel, the ''[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'', a ''[[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]]'' novel, and audio adventures from the [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|Big Finish series]]. The continuity between these three separate mediums, however, remains complicated to integrate.
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| The second [[BBC Books]] novel ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'' established that the Doctor left his companion, [[Sam Jones]], at a rally for a few hours from her perspective while he travelled for approximately one year without her. The stories ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'' and the ''Radio Times'' comic strips were all referenced within the novels as taking place during this gap.
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| [[Big Finish Productions]]' Eighth Doctor stories, which were published after the start of the EDAs in [[2001(releases)|2001]], initially made subtle references to the continuity of the books, including a reference in ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]'' to a companion named [[Sam Jones|Sam]]. This approach suddenly changed with ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'', which placed the other ranges in alternate universes, only converging with this one on occasion, and later going so far as to make the ''Minuet'' reference uncertain by retroactively inserting a new companion called [[Samson Griffin|Samson]]. However, later audios ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'' and ''[[The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)|The Zygon Who Fell to Earth]]'' made references to the events of the ''DWM'' strips and the EDAs, respectively.
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| The 2009 audio ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'' offered some detail on the extent of these convergences, depicting a "future" Eighth Doctor directly referring to comic strip and novel companions. Going through a list of his previous companions in chronological order, he places novel companions before audio ones. However, the comic strip companion Destrii was later mentioned separately to the others, still leaving the placement of the comic strips in relation to the EDAs uncertain. In addition, the anthology ''[[The Company of Friends (audio anthology)|The Company of Friends]]'' contained the stories ''[[Fitz's Story (audio story)|Fitz's Story]]'' and ''[[Izzy's Story (audio story)|Izzy's Story]]'', firmly establishing the books and comics as part of the same continuity as Big Finish's releases.
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| However, there are many cases where the significant contradictions in the Eighth Doctor's media were embraced by the continuity of the BBC Books. Throughout their encounters in the novels, [[Faction Paradox]] often altered the Doctor's history, or at the very least his perception of it. [[Lance Parkin]]'s ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', while supposedly set in an alternate universe, featured many important lore connections with the ''[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'', subtly proving Omega's belief in the novel that contradictions and alternate timelines still coexisted with their opposites and melded together in a single universe. [[Kate Orman]] and [[Jon Blum]]'s ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', a spiritual successor to Parkin's novel, showed that all of the Doctor's conflicting origins and adventures exist in differing degrees of temporary priority within strands of his biodata. In Lance Parkin's ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', the Time Lord [[Marnal]] established that the Eighth Doctor's life was so tangled due to paradox and temporal manipulations that no one could make sense of it. Many of these stories, intentionally or not, managed to make the concept of the Eighth Doctor's inherent media contradictions part of his narrative.
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| === Other matters ===
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| * Many authors for the [[BBC Books]] lent a degree of ambiguous [[sexuality]] and [[gender]] to the Eighth Doctor in the themes and implications of their writing, adding an element of the character unique to the novels. The Doctor's relationships with [[Alan Turing]] in [[Paul Leonard]]'s ''[[The Turing Test (novel)|The Turing Test]]'' and [[Karl Sadeghi]] in [[Kate Orman]]'s ''[[The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)|The Year of Intelligent Tigers]]'' are implied to be deeper than platonic friendships, and many novels{{which}} imply (but never explicitly state) something deeper in his relationship with [[Fitz Kreiner]]. Regarding gender, [[Jim Mortimore]]'s ''[[Beltempest (novel)|Beltempest]]'' and [[Paul Magrs]]' ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'' both assert that the Doctor was "not a [[man]]." Lawrence Miles' duology of ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'' and ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'' showed the Doctor blatantly denying a [[cisgender]] male identity.
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| * An actor called [[David Burton]] claimed to have been filmed as "the Eighth Doctor" in one company's own version of the ''Doctor Who'' show in 1988. The pilot episode was allegedly called ''Doctor Who and the Monsters of Ness''. ([[DWM 209]]) According to David Burton, his version of the Doctor was similar to the [[First Doctor]] and the show was more of a children's programme. The pilot episode was sent to the BBC but Burton was never officially confirmed as the new Doctor by the BBC.
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| == Footnotes ==
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