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Benefitting from the [[rehab]] his [[Fourteenth Doctor|preceding incarnation]] had undertaken, the '''Fifteenth Doctor''' was freed from the emotional baggage and deteriorating mental state of his predecessors, and journeyed [[the universe]] with invigorated optimism following a fabled [[Fourteenth Doctor's bi-generation|bi-generation]] that saw him help the Fourteenth Doctor defeat [[the Toymaker]], though not without the threat of [[the Toymaker's legions]] "coming". Charismatic, suave and adventurous, this [[incarnation]] of [[the Doctor]] would eagerly anticipate this new chapter in his life, even while knowing of the threats ahead.

Soon after bi-generation, the Doctor became acquainted with [[Ruby Sunday]], and together they defeated the [[Goblin]]s that were abducting and eating children, before she joined him on his further adventures. These adventures saw them facing many dangers, ranging from the [[Bogeyman (Space Babies)|Bogeyman]] to "powers beyond the universe" such as [[Maestro]], a member of [[the Pantheon]] and the child of the Toymaker, and [[Sutekh]], the king of this Pantheon. Throughout their travels, a mystery involving Ruby's origins before she was abandoned at the [[Church, Ruby Road|church]] on [[Ruby Road]] began to unfold. This manifested as visions of the night of Ruby's abandonment, as well as a [[Snow (The Church on Ruby Road)|snowstorm]] that followed Ruby throughout [[space]] and [[time]]. After helping Ruby make contact with her birth mother, the Doctor left her so she could come to terms with things and travelled on alone.  

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Asking her for a set of numbers they landed on [[Baby Station Beta]] in [[21506]], where they encountered a space station that was slightly debilitated. They encountered its crew of babies that were stunted in their growth, but had the intelligence of a 6 year old. He also found himself scared of the [[Bogeyman (Space Babies)|Bogeyman]], which he found odd. Learning from [[Jocelyn Sancerre]] that the ship had been abandoned due to budget cuts, he vowed to find a way to get them to a neighbouring planet which accepted refugees, and to stop the Bogeyman. From analysing the shed skin of the creature, he discovered that it was made of bogeys, and theorised that the parthengensis machine made it to create something to make the babies afraid as part of their upbringing. He closed the airlock that Jocelyn had opened to remove it from the station, realising it was two a baby that needed protecting. He had realised that the pressure build up was methane that came from the babies decomposing nappies, and used that as a fuel to move the ship to a neighbouring planet. He subsequently took Ruby home to talk to her family, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Space Babies (TV story)}}) and promised Carla he would keep Ruby safe on their travels. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rogue (TV story)}})

Entering the Mayor's office, the Mayor vocalised her belief that they had been a deliberate distraction to enable the Exchange to sneak [[assault ship (Mancopolis)|an assault ship]] into the city, which she promptly had destroyed. She offered a [[negotiation]], but, after realising they weren't [[non-human]]s since they weren't going shift into another form, she threatened to dismember one of them. As they tried to escape through a [[lift]], she had the duo teleported to a dark space filled with "massive people-eating [[silkworm]]s".

Escaping from them, the duo found themselves in the real Manchester underneath before they're pursued by moths and Ruby is teleported away. With Zhi, he found his way to Ruby and frees her. He then uploaded footage of Mulberry being a Moth-person causing a revolution to overthrow her. She retaliated by using weather control to smite them, but he summoned the auditors down. Panicking, the Doctor was able to grab her weather controller and have the weather orbs zap it causing them to collapse. She teleported away to be eaten by her young while the Doctor dealt with the auditors who want to take over Mancopolis. He was able to disperse them using Ruby's bank interests. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Mancopolis (comic story)}})

[[file:15 in Wonder Central.png|thumb|left|The Doctor in [[Wonder Central]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Wonder Chase (video game)|ed=First Edition}})]]

At this time, there were [[advertisement]]s for ''[[Doctor Who (in-universe)|Doctor Who]]'' in the Deep Space Zone, as well as in [[Castle, Wonder Central|a castle]], depicting the Doctor. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Wonder Chase (video game)|ed=First Edition}})

 

Later tellings of this account instead had the portal to the Deep Space Zone in a more central location, away from the shop, with the Doctor and Ruby still standing near it. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Wonder Chase (video game)|ed=Larry The Cat Election Update!}})

 

The Doctor and Ruby landed on a wrecked [[Luxury liner (Fragmented Chaos)|luxury liner]] on the [[Asterion Field]] and came across [[Navitrix]] [[Ortega (Fragmented Chaos)|Ortega]]. They encountered a [[Kua'Mara (Fragmented Chaos)|Kua'Mara]] but were able to freeze it and escape. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Fragmented Cosmos (episode)}})

 

Following an alien distress signal to [[Lake Peipus]] in [[1242]], the Doctor and Ruby met [[Ranavere Rentara]] who was attempting to escape her family of mercenaries. Whilst trying to make peace between her and her sisters who had arrived to force her to fight as ordered, they discovered the [[Genetrix (Ruby Red)|Genetrix]], a parasitic enemy of the Rentara, was also on Earth and was spreading its parasites among [[Novgorod|Novgordian]] soldiers. After a failed mental contact, the Doctor finally located the Genetrix as latched onto his TARDIS on the frozen lake and managed to separate it, forcing it back into hibernation beneath the ice. With peace now established between the sisters, he left them to guard the lake against any return of the Genetrix when the ice thawed, choosing not to tell them he actually intended to use the TARDIS to take it off-world as he wanted them to use the time to bond. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Ruby Red (novel)}})

Landing on [[Kastarion 3]], the Doctor heard a scream and ran out of the TARDIS to investigate. In his haste, he stepped on a [[landmine]] but didn't fully set of the trigger due to it needing to confirm that the Doctor was alive. He managed to balance his weight enough to stop the countdown for a while. When Ruby arrived he asked her to find something heavy to help him balance and trick the algorithm in the mine. She arrived with what she thought in an [[urn]], but he realised it was a smelted down body. They discover that it was of [[John Francis Vater]] when AI hologram of him appears. They learn that he was killed by the Ambulance algorithm as a mercy killing as his temporary blindness reduced his operational efficiency. When Vater's daugher, [[Splice Alison Vater]] came hearing her father's voice he tried to stop her from coming closer to him, spiking his adrenaline causing the countdown to move. An ambulance sensing conflict came over to assess the situation, sensed the Doctor but couldn't work out how to treat due to alien biology. Ruby tried to distract the machine, but was shot by [[Canterbury James Olliphant]]. The Doctor became distraught at the situation, as the countdown was entering a fail safe. Knowing that the conflict was being perpetuated by the [[Villengard]] motive for profit and keeping the casualties at a constant rate to allow more equipment to be bought, as the human's enemy didn't exist, he asked the Vater AI to enter the ambulance computers to get the systems to surrender stopping the war. This deactivated the landmine. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Boom (TV story)}})  

The Doctor and Ruby attended a party organised by the [[Duchess of Pemberton]]. He was delighted at the spectacle. After Ruby experienced interference in her [[psychic earrings]], he traced it to [[Rogue (Rogue)|Rogue]]. He learnt that he was there to find a [[Chuldur]] and showed the Doctor his ship. Rogue accused him of being the Chuldur he was searching for, but after teasing him for a bit, the Doctor changed the settings on Rogue's ships scanner to show multiple previous incarnations and that he was from Gallifrey. They teamed up to find the Chuldur by creating a scandal in regency society. They discovered that there was a [[Chuldur family]] at work. He expanded Rogue's trap to work for up to six occupants. He managed to corner the family during the wedding between Lord [[Barton (Rogue)|Barton]] and Ruby trapping them all, thinking that Ruby had been killed by the Chuldur. Rogue captured the last Chuldur placing her in the trap. Rogue and the Doctor kissed, allowing him to gain the trigger. He watched as Rogue replaced Ruby in the trap and set it off. He set Rogue's ship off to wait for its pilot. Ruby asked if he would go searching for Rogue. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rogue (TV story)}})  

Hearing a sound as the TARDIS flew through the [[Time Vortex]], the Doctor followed it to a variety of planets he’d had bad experiences on and finally leading to [[Yorkshire]] in [[1739]]. There he found [[Dick Turpin]] had been gifted [[Cyber-technology]] and stopped him escaping his execution using it. Studying the weapon, the Doctor found it programmed with coordinates which Ruby suggested was meant as a trap. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Untitled (FCBD2024 comic story)|"Free Comic Book Day 2024"}}) Nevertheless, the two of them followed the coordinates to [[Sanctum Shopping & Dining]], the last shopping mall on Earth in the [[29th century]]. There they encountered a battalion of [[Cybermen]], which turned out to be a construct of the [[Scream Sommelier]], a [[Pantheon of Discord|being from outside the universe]] who fed on screams.([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Everyone Must Go! (comic story)}})

 

Arriving in [[19th century]] [[Copenhagen]], the Doctor and Ruby met [[Hans Christian Andersen]] and encountered the [[Snedronningen]]. After the entity kidnapped Ruby when she defended Hans, the Doctor followed them through a [[sub-dimensional fissure]] with Hans. They encountered soldiers led by Hans’ captive father, who decided to turn on their master after she took Hans. With their aid the Doctor reached Ruby and together they realised they could defeat Snedronningen by having everyone assert that they did not believe in her. Her realm then disappeared, returning them all to Copenhagen. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Hans of Fear (comic story)}})

 

The Doctor and Ruby arrived in [[CoHurtCo™]]’s focus group facility for creating monsters for armies. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Monster Makers (comic story)}})

 

[[File:We did it! (TLoRS).jpg|thumb|right|The Doctor and Ruby in [[UNIT]]’s [[Time Window]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}})]]

The Doctor returned to [[UNIT HQ, City of London|UNIT HQ]] to ask for their help investigating a woman who kept appearing in different forms across recent travels, citing [[Gina Scalzi]] and [[Penny Pepper-Bean]] amongst his examples. [[Kate Lethbridge-Stewart]] and [[Morris Gibbons]] were quick to point out that they already knew as it was [[Susan Triad]]. He noticed he noticed her name was an anagram of TARDIS, and Ruby wondered if she was his granddaughter, due to having the same first name. Of learning of Susan's age, he wondered it she might be [[Ruby Sunday's mother]] and ask to use UNIT's time window to help learn more about that night. After a glitch stopped them from seeing her face, he got Colonel [[Winston Chidozie]] to look closer at what she was pointing at. After encountering a large particulate cloud which killed Chidozie, he went with [[Mel Bush]] to confront Susan before the launch of her product. He asked her if her dreams matched the people she did, which she confirmed. When Kate informed him that there was something living around the TARDIS, and realised that UNIT archivist [[Harriet Arbinger]] was a harbinger. He deduced that he was right that there was something in her name, but it wasn't an anagram but a different abbreviation SUsan Triad TECHnology, referring to [[Sutekh]], the [[Osiran]] who was a God of Death. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}})

The Doctor and Mel escaped Sutekh's sands of death returning to the Time Window in UNIT HQ. There he encountered the [[Remembered TARDIS]], and asked Ruby to remember the TARDIS to make it stronger. After taking one of the CRT screen from the TV that was playing the VHS, Sutekh came to taunt him explaining how he survived their first encounter, and how he created [[Susan Triad]] and her other forms using the TARDIS perception filter.  The Time Window briefly showed the Doctor a memory from his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]] before showing him of several landings in the TARDIS, on [[Ribos]], [[Gallifrey]], [[Thoros-Beta]], [[Paradise Towers]] and multiple landings on [[Earth]]. The Doctor, Mel and Ruby escaped in the Remembered TARDIS, stabilising it from falling apart. Talking to Ruby about what to do, the Time Window showed them [[Roger ap Gwilliam]] prompting him to realise that his DNA programme would help them stop Sutekh, by finding the identity of Ruby's mother. However, this was interupted after Mel became one of Sutekh's angels of Death, returning them to UNIT HQ. He used a rope and the [[Intelligent glove]] he found in the remembered TARDIS, to leash Sutekh to the TARDIS console, and puled him though the Vortex restoring life to the Universe before casting him in the Vortex being torn up by the Time Winds. He took Ruby back to Earth, where they learnt the true identity of Ruby's mother [[Louise Miller]]. The Doctor realised he has to leave Ruby behind to so that she could be with both sets of parents to come to terms with things. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Empire of Death (TV story)}})

The [[Eleventh Doctor]] secured the Fifteenth Doctor’s help to free [[Nora Wicker]] from the [[Time Bubble]] placed around [[Nora Wicker's home|her home]] on [[16 December]] [[2033]] as the younger Doctor had miscalculated the size of the bubble when he erected it to contain the [[seed]] of the [[World Tree]] that had landed in her [[garden]]. From outside the bubble, the Fifteenth Doctor was ready to use [[Fifteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]] at the same time as the Eleventh Doctor to produce a precise [[frequency]] to create a crack in the bubble, however, at the last possible moment, Nora confided to the Eleventh Doctor that she wanted to remain in the bubble to look after the tree, distracting the younget Doctor and causing the sync to fail. The Fifteenth Doctor lowered his screwdriver and returned to the TARDIS, planning to return the next day, but ultimately did not to respect Nora's wishes. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The World Tree (audio story)}})

The Doctor appeared on ''[[Match of the Day]]'' with a [[cyborg]] [[Gary Lineker (in-universe)|Gary Lineker]] and a [[hologram|holographic]] [[Ian Wright (in-universe)|Ian Wright]], seemingly commenting on a [[football]] match. He remarked that a [[goalkeeper (Match of the Who)|goalkeeper]]'s cybernetically extendable [[arm]]s created a difficult atmosphere, which Wright agreed with. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Match of the Who (TV story)}}) He later provided continuity announcements for [[BBC One (in-universe)|BBC One]], introducing ''[[EastEnders]]'', ''[[Pointless]]'', and ''[[The One Show]]''. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Untitled 1 (May 2024 TV story)|Untitled|noital=1}})

 

 

* The Doctor once welcomed [[individual (Travel Through Time and Space)|an individual]] into [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] in [[21st century London|London]]. ([[EXHIBIT]]: {{cs|Travel Through Time and Space (exhibit)}})

The Doctor landed the TARDIS on the South Wales coast, and was delighted that he was in Wales. He started to tell Ruby that he loved the Welsh but started to warn her about [[Roger ap Gwilliam]], before realising it was a spoiler for her immediate future. Not paying attention he walked into a [[fairy circle]] disrupting it. After she started reading the offerings, he vanished. This [[timeline (73 Yards)|entire timeline]] was averted after that version of Ruby decades later returned to that moment in time through [[The Woman (73 Yards)|a mysterious woman]] and was able to nudge her past self into warning the Doctor not to step on the circle. ([[TV]]: {{cs|73 Yards (TV story)}})

The Fifteenth Doctor took pride in his status as a time traveller, taking offence when Ruby called the Goblin's time travellers. He corrected her that their time-surfing capabilities were a mere "bimble" in comparison to "cool" time travellers like himself. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) He also knew that time travel could be incredibly dangerous. While he was fascinated by the mystery of Ruby Sunday's birth and its status as an important [[Fixed point in time|fixed point]] in time, he refused to travel back to it a second time to help Ruby Sunday discover the identity of her birth mother, as it would be too dangerous ([[TV]]: ''[[Space Babies (TV story)|Space Babies]]'', ''[[The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)|The Legend of Ruby Sunday]]''). The Fifteenth Doctor also took pride in his [[TARDIS]], and laughed at the rudimentary nature of [[UNIT]]'s [[Time Window]] in comparison to his own ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)|The Legend of Ruby Sunday]]'')

The Fifteenth Doctor was a [[Black person|black]] man, [[height|standing]] at "about [[5 (number)|five]]-[[10 (number)|ten]]", ([[TV]]: {{cs|73 Yards (TV story)}}) with a "nice" new [[face]] which fitted well into place, his [[hair]] being short and his [[nose]] being "just right". His [[leg]]s were firm and his eyes were bright ([[POEM]]: {{cs|Contents (poem)|page=16}}) and brown in colour. A thin [[black]] [[moustache]] rested on top his upper lip, and he had a faint scar around his right eye. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}})

[[Melanie Bush]] described the Fifteenth Doctor as looking "beautiful", ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) and [[Cherry Sunday]] likewise found him attractive. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) [[Susan Triad]] described the Fifteenth Doctor as "handsome," and said she would have remembered meeting a man of his looks. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)|The Legend of Ruby Sunday]]'')

The Fifteenth Doctor primarily wore a [[burnt orange]] double-breasted [[leather]] [[Fifteenth Doctor's trenchcoat|trenchcoat]], complete with [[pocket]]s and belted cuffs, but he also owned a [[black]] [[leather jacket]]. However, he would sometimes dispense with leather and instead don a plaid print coat with pleated checked jacquard trousers and an [[Orange (colour)|orange]] sweater. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dot and Bubble (TV story)|Dot and Bubble]]'')

He also wore [[blue]] [[trousers]], with long black socks under a pair of [[Men's Sneaker 51|colourful trainers]] on his feet. He was often found wearing boots.

While out at a nightclub, the Doctor wore his black leather jacket over an orange [[tank top]] and also wore a blue tartan [[kilt]], knee-high green socks and Grenson Fred boots. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}})

The question of which incarnation constitutes the "first gay Doctor" is a matter of debate; the friendship between the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] and [[Yasmin Khan]] became romantically tinged towards the end of the [[Chris Chibnall]] era, though the pair never acted on their attraction to one another, while the [[Eighth Doctor]] was implied to be non-heterosexual in the ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' series of novels, as was the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] just one episode prior to Gatwa's debut, who was surprised to discover that he found [[Isaac Newton]] "hot". Furthermore, many stories released in the 1990s and beyond reiterate that the Time Lords' concept of [[gender]] differs to that of humanity, and a number of stories hinted that there had been a romantic dimension to the Doctor's youthful relationship with [[the Master]] before they drifted apart. The [[Ninth Doctor]] was confirmed to be queer in {{cs|Swipe Right (audio story)}} as [[River Song]] helps him realise that he is both aromantic and asexual, as he said the he could never see himself marrying her.

*The pink-painted TARDIS that appeared as part of {{cs|Come on TARDIS, let's go party (exhibit)|a cross-promotion exhibit|noital=1}} with the 2023 film ''[[Barbie (film)|Barbie]]'' could be argued to be that of the Fifteenth Doctor, owing to the fact that Ncuti Gatwa also played a Ken in the film; Russell T Davies claimed the exhibit depicted genuine in-universe events.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CulxGYONsZM @russelltdavies63 on Instagram]</ref>

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