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{{Infobox Comic|
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comic name= Final Genesis |
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series= [[Doctor Who Magazine comic strips|Doctor Who]] -<BR> [[Seventh Doctor Comic Strip Stories]]|
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doctor= [[Seventh Doctor]]|
|range = DWM comic stories{{!}}DWM Comics
companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield]]|
|number in range = 75
enemy= |
|image= Final gen.jpg
year= Alternate [[Earth]]|
|series=[[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]
writer= [[Warwick Gray]]|
|doctor= Seventh Doctor
editor=|
|companions= [[Ace]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
artist= [[Colin Andrew]]|
|enemy= [[Mortakk]]
colourist=|
|setting= [[Parallel Earth (Final Genesis)|Alternate Earth]]
lettering=|
|writer= Warwick Gray
publication_title= [[Doctor Who Monthly]] [[DWM Issue 203|203]] - [[DWM Issue 206|206]]|
|editor=
publication_dates= 1 September - 24 November [[1993]]|
|artist= [[Colin Andrew]]
publisher= |
|colourist=  
format= Comic - 4 parts|
|letterer=
previous story= [[Emperor of the Daleks]]|
|publication= [[DWM 203]] - [[DWM 206|206]]
next story= [[Time & Time Again]]|
|release date= 5 August - 28 October 1993
|cover date= 1 September - 24 November 1993
|publisher= Marvel Comics
|format= Comic
|prev= Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)
|next= Time & Time Again (comic story)
|series2        = [[Interweaving with the New Adventures|''DWM'' "New Adventures order"]]
|prev2          = Lucifer Rising (novel)
|next2          = White Darkness (novel)
|epcount = 4|reprint=Emperor of the Daleks (graphic novel)
}}
}}
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a [[1993 (releases)|1993]] ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic. A part of the brief run of comics that were closely integrated into the ''[[Virgin New Adventures]]'' continuity, it starred the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]], and, for the first time, a post-[[Dalek Wars]] [[Ace]].


==Summary==
The story itself posited the notion of the Doctor watching over a parallel Earth in which [[Third Doctor (Final Genesis)|a dead, alternative Third Doctor]] had brokered a successful peace between [[human]]s and [[Earth Reptile]]s at the end of [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. This story therefore offered a second [[parallel Earth (Final Genesis)|parallel Earth]] within the ''[[Virgin New Adventures]]'' continuity that had to do with a more dominant Silurian race.
''to be added''


==Characters==
== Summary ==
*[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]]
''Then: ''A bomb explodes, killing the [[Third Doctor (Final Genesis)|Third Doctor]] and [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]].
*[[Ace]]
*[[Bernice Summerfield]]


==References==
''Now: ''[[The Doctor's TARDIS]] arrives with a rising tone, rather than the usual "vworp, vworp", the first sign for [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] that something is not quite right. Unable to get a straight answer out of the [[Seventh Doctor]], they find the world itself isn't quite right. They see [[dinosaur]]s and are arrested by strangely familiar soldiers working for [[URIC]] rather than [[UNIT]]. The Doctor ingratiates himself into the URIC command; the late Doctor's assistant is familiar enough with regeneration and time travel to work out that although this is a Doctor, he is not their Doctor.
''to be added''


==Notes==
The Doctor becomes embroiled in the prevailing mystery. People across the globe — [[human]]s, [[Silurian]]s and [[Sea Devil]]s — have disappeared and unnatural beasts are attacking URIC. After an attack, one is captured and autopsied. It is a gestalt, a combination of the best genetic features of all three dominant species. After capturing a double-agent in URIC, they discover [[Mortakk]], a rogue Silurian scientist and eugenicist, is behind the creation of the hybrid beasts. He has developed a gas he plans to release across London and then the globe. It will kill two-thirds of the infected and mutate the survivors. However, during a URIC attack on his base, an accident releases the gas, killing Mortakk. The Doctor watches coldly, protected by his Time Lord immune system and [[Respiratory bypass system|respiratory-bypass ability]].
''to be added''


==Continuity==
Before returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor visits his other self's grave, leaving Ace and Benny to muse about their "accidental" arrival and how for the Doctor, his parallel selves could be the closest thing he has to family.
''to be added''


==External Links==
== Characters ==
''to be added''
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Ace]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Colonel]] [[Muriel Frost (Final Genesis)|Muriel Frost]]
* [[Professor]] [[Thactus]]
* [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Paris]]
* [[Mortakk]]
* [[Wilcox]]
* [[Doris (Final Genesis)|Doris]]
* [[Liz Shaw (Final Genesis)|Liz]]
* [[Third Doctor]]
* [[Brigadier]] [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]]
* [[Liz Shaw]]


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== Worldbuilding ==
[[Category:Seventh Doctor comic stories]]
* Doris speaks to [[Liz Shaw (Final Genesis)|Liz]] at [[Cambridge]].
* [[Mortakk]] is based out an abandoned [[nuclear]] research station in [[Darkmoor]]. This is taken from [[Captain Britain]], who used to work there.
* [[URIC]], which stands for United Races Intelligence Command, is the alternate universe's equivalent to [[UNIT]] from [[The Doctor's universe]]
* Despite having his [[exile on Earth]] lifted, [[Third Doctor (Final Genesis)|the other Third Doctor]] chose to stay on Earth and help cement the peace between humans and [[Earth reptile]]s.
* Mortakk's mutagen gas affects all Earth sentients - humans, Silurians and Sea Devils - mutating them an amalgamation with traits of all three or killing them outright.
 
== Notes ==
[[File:Final_Genesis_TARDIS_control_room_grey.jpg|thumb|Part 2 ([[DWM 204]])]]
[[File:Final_Genesis_TARDIS_control_room.jpg|thumb|Part 3 ([[DWM 205]])]]
* The TARDIS [[console room]] from the parallel word changes appearance in the middle of the story with no explanation.
* The opening page shows the Brigadier's house from [[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'' and refers to his "retirement... being ancient history". With the parallel universe not revealed as such until Part 2, this was as red herring to trick the audience into thinking the Brigadier had been killed off.
* This story features a parallel Earth that was created by an alternate ending to ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. It should not, however, be confused with the [[Silurian Earth]] of ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]''. In ''Silurians'', the titular species is destroyed. In ''Blood Heat'', the humans are destroyed. This Earth is the middle ground of peaceful co-existence between ''Homo sapiens'' and ''Homo reptilia'' that the [[Third Doctor]] failed to achieve at the end of ''Silurians''.
** The strip was almost cancelled when the magazine learned of ''Blood Heat''. [[Scott Gray]] successfully argued to his editor that as parallel universes, both stories could happen and contradict each other.<ref>Commentary in the ''Emperor of the Daleks'' trade</ref>
* As the Doctor hooks up Benny into the machine that will link her mind to [[Kathryn Paris]]', she says, "No, not the [[Mind probe|mind-probe]]!". The Doctor takes this as a joke. Indeed, the [[letterer]] goes out of her way to put the phrase in quotation marks so that the audience knows Benny is quoting the infamous line from ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''. Neither the Doctor nor Benny present for that scene in ''The Five Doctors'', making this line an explicit [[fourth wall]] break.
* In the backmatter commentary for [[Emperor of the Daleks (graphic novel)|a 2017 trade collection]], Gray asserted that he "would have preferred to stick with the TV version of Ace" in this strip, partly as the New Adventures Ace "wasn't much fun" and partly because he felt tying into the books didn't make sense when the comic strip had more readers.
* The Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield travel to another alternate universe where Silurians and Sea Devils are present in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]''. In a possible nod to this, ''Final Genesis'' states the number of possible futures and divergent timelines from the first Silurians story is near endless.
 
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor recalls his first meeting with the [[Silurian]]s at [[Wenley Moor]], and his inability to stop the human military from destroying them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'')
* Benny says human and Earth Reptile "don't get together for another five centuries" in the original timeline. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'')
* The Doctor's [[Respiratory bypass system]] leaves him unaffected by airborne chemicals, such as how the [[Fourth Doctor]] was immune to [[helium]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Robots of Death (TV story)|The Robots of Death]]'')
 
== Footnotes ==
{{reflist}}
 
{{Seventh Doctor DWM comics}}
{{Homo Reptilian stories}}
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[[Category:Bernice Summerfield sources]]
[[Category:Bernice Summerfield comic stories]]
[[Category:Silurian and Sea Devil comic stories]]
[[Category:1993 comic stories]]
[[Category:Seventh Doctor DWM comic stories]]
[[Category:UNIT comic stories]]
[[Category:Stories set in parallel universes]]
[[Category:Four part comics]]

Latest revision as of 18:58, 9 November 2023

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Final Genesis was a 1993 Doctor Who Magazine comic. A part of the brief run of comics that were closely integrated into the Virgin New Adventures continuity, it starred the Seventh Doctor and Benny, and, for the first time, a post-Dalek Wars Ace.

The story itself posited the notion of the Doctor watching over a parallel Earth in which a dead, alternative Third Doctor had brokered a successful peace between humans and Earth Reptiles at the end of TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians. This story therefore offered a second parallel Earth within the Virgin New Adventures continuity that had to do with a more dominant Silurian race.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Then: A bomb explodes, killing the Third Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

Now: The Doctor's TARDIS arrives with a rising tone, rather than the usual "vworp, vworp", the first sign for Ace and Benny that something is not quite right. Unable to get a straight answer out of the Seventh Doctor, they find the world itself isn't quite right. They see dinosaurs and are arrested by strangely familiar soldiers working for URIC rather than UNIT. The Doctor ingratiates himself into the URIC command; the late Doctor's assistant is familiar enough with regeneration and time travel to work out that although this is a Doctor, he is not their Doctor.

The Doctor becomes embroiled in the prevailing mystery. People across the globe — humans, Silurians and Sea Devils — have disappeared and unnatural beasts are attacking URIC. After an attack, one is captured and autopsied. It is a gestalt, a combination of the best genetic features of all three dominant species. After capturing a double-agent in URIC, they discover Mortakk, a rogue Silurian scientist and eugenicist, is behind the creation of the hybrid beasts. He has developed a gas he plans to release across London and then the globe. It will kill two-thirds of the infected and mutate the survivors. However, during a URIC attack on his base, an accident releases the gas, killing Mortakk. The Doctor watches coldly, protected by his Time Lord immune system and respiratory-bypass ability.

Before returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor visits his other self's grave, leaving Ace and Benny to muse about their "accidental" arrival and how for the Doctor, his parallel selves could be the closest thing he has to family.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Part 2 (DWM 204)
Part 3 (DWM 205)
  • The TARDIS console room from the parallel word changes appearance in the middle of the story with no explanation.
  • The opening page shows the Brigadier's house from TV: Battlefield and refers to his "retirement... being ancient history". With the parallel universe not revealed as such until Part 2, this was as red herring to trick the audience into thinking the Brigadier had been killed off.
  • This story features a parallel Earth that was created by an alternate ending to Doctor Who and the Silurians. It should not, however, be confused with the Silurian Earth of Blood Heat. In Silurians, the titular species is destroyed. In Blood Heat, the humans are destroyed. This Earth is the middle ground of peaceful co-existence between Homo sapiens and Homo reptilia that the Third Doctor failed to achieve at the end of Silurians.
    • The strip was almost cancelled when the magazine learned of Blood Heat. Scott Gray successfully argued to his editor that as parallel universes, both stories could happen and contradict each other.[1]
  • As the Doctor hooks up Benny into the machine that will link her mind to Kathryn Paris', she says, "No, not the mind-probe!". The Doctor takes this as a joke. Indeed, the letterer goes out of her way to put the phrase in quotation marks so that the audience knows Benny is quoting the infamous line from The Five Doctors. Neither the Doctor nor Benny present for that scene in The Five Doctors, making this line an explicit fourth wall break.
  • In the backmatter commentary for a 2017 trade collection, Gray asserted that he "would have preferred to stick with the TV version of Ace" in this strip, partly as the New Adventures Ace "wasn't much fun" and partly because he felt tying into the books didn't make sense when the comic strip had more readers.
  • The Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield travel to another alternate universe where Silurians and Sea Devils are present in PROSE: Blood Heat. In a possible nod to this, Final Genesis states the number of possible futures and divergent timelines from the first Silurians story is near endless.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Commentary in the Emperor of the Daleks trade
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