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|appearances = [[DW]]: ''[[The God Complex]]''
|appearances = [[DW]]: ''[[The God Complex]]''
|actor = [[Amara Karan]]}}
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'''Rita''' was an [[English]] medical student who was abducted as her shift was starting and brought abroad the [[Prison ship (The God Complex)|Prison Ship]]. She was astute, quickly diagnosing a situation based on her observations. [[The Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] immediately took a liking to her.
'''Rita''' was an [[English]] medical student who was abducted as her shift was starting and brought abroad the [[Prison ship (The God Complex)|Prison Ship]]. She was astute, quickly diagnosing a situation based on her observations. [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] immediately took a liking to her.


==Biography==
==Biography==
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==Behind the scenes==
==Behind the scenes==
*Since ''Doctor Who'' returned to television in 2005, each Doctor has encountered at least one female character who charms him to the extent that he offers her the chance to be a companion, only to have her die soon after. The [[Ninth Doctor]] invited [[Lynda Moss|Lynda "with a Y" Moss]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' shortly before she was killed by the [[Dalek]]s; the [[Tenth Doctor]] invited [[Madame de Pompadour]] to join him in [[DW]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'' but she dies of illness before she can do so; later, he also invites [[Astrid Peth]] to join him in [[DW]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' before she sacrifices herself to defeat [[Max Capricorn]]. [[Jenny]], who was the Doctor's biological daughter as a result of rapid cell cloning, was also set to travel with her father before she took a bullet from [[Cobb]] which was meant for the Doctor.
*Since ''Doctor Who'' returned to television in 2005, each Doctor has encountered at least one female character who charms him to the extent that he offers her the chance to be a companion, only to have her die soon after. The [[Ninth Doctor]] invited [[Lynda Moss|Lynda "with a Y" Moss]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' shortly before she was killed by the [[Dalek]]s; the [[Tenth Doctor]] invited [[Madame de Pompadour]] to join him in [[DW]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'' but she dies of illness before she can do so; later, he also invites [[Astrid Peth]] to join him in [[DW]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' before she sacrifices herself to defeat [[Max Capricorn]]. [[Jenny]], who was the Doctor's biological daughter as a result of rapid cell cloning, was also set to travel with her father before she took a bullet from [[Cobb]] which was meant for the Doctor.
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Revision as of 08:53, 29 September 2011

Rita was an English medical student who was abducted as her shift was starting and brought abroad the Prison Ship. She was astute, quickly diagnosing a situation based on her observations. The Doctor immediately took a liking to her.

Biography

Rita was a devout Muslim. Though she accepted the Doctor's claims that the "hotel" did not exist on Earth, Rita thought it was actually Jahannam (the Muslim equivalent of the Christian Hell). She was observant and told the Doctor he had a "god complex". Her admirable qualities led the Doctor to jokingly fire Amy and offer Rita her place in the TARDIS.

Rita had already become the the third human the Doctor encountered to be possessed by the Minotaur. Her fear was revealed to be her father, a medical doctor whose constant berating her over her grades made her feel deep shame.

Subsequently, Rita hid her devotions to the Minotaur from the Doctor and the others. She separated herself from them. She asked the Doctor to turn off the camera before she died, to remember her as she was, before her faith was stolen from her. The Doctor shut of the camera so they could not witness her death. (DW: The God Complex)

Behind the scenes