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'''Donna's World''' is a rewritten version of the official timeline created when [[Donna Noble]] turned right instead of left while deciding which of two different job interviews to attend. It is not actually a parallel world since the walls between realities were sealed in [[Doomsday]]. This was made explicit by the production team.
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A '''[[parallel world]]''' centred around the life of [[Donna Noble]] was created, despite parallel worlds being typically sealed off, by the [[Time Beetle]], one of [[the Trickster]]'s [[the Trickster's Brigade|Brigade]]. This was unusual, as most times when the Brigade changed time, the [[universe]] just compensated around it. In this world, Donna turned right instead of left while deciding which of two different job interviews to attend. As a result, the [[Tenth Doctor (Turn Left)|Tenth Doctor]] never met Donna and died underneath the [[River Thames (Turn Left)|Thames]] on [[24 December|Christmas Eve]] [[2007]]. These events resulted in devastating effects for [[Earth (Turn Left)|Earth]]. Using the surface technology of [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Turn Left)|the Doctor's TARDIS]], Donna [[Time travel|travelled back in time]] to make her younger self turn left again. According to both the Doctor and Donna, this world subsequently ceased to exist. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


:''This name is conjectural and is not is actually used by any of the characters.''
== Nature ==
The exact nature of this parallel world was unclear.


==Origin==
When the [[Tenth Doctor]] explained the nature of it to [[Donna Noble]] after its negation, he specifically used the term "[[parallel world]]", noting that the creation of such worlds was normally impossible due to [[the universe]] compensating for the actions of [[the Trickster]]'s [[the Trickster's Brigade|Brigade]] and that parallel worlds were sealed off from one another. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) A connected account also referenced Donna's parallel world in relation to [[Rose Tyler]]'s [[Pete's World|parallel world]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}})
While on [[Shan Shen]], [[Donna Noble]] was unknowingly fitted with a [[time beetle]], part of the [[Trickster's Brigade]]. A [[fortune teller]] selected a point in her life where making seemingly random choice had enormous ramifications.


In June [[2007]] Donna had to make a choice between two jobs. The moment she chose between the jobs was at a junction. Her agency had offered her a contract with [[H.C. Clements]], which while temporary, was posh and in the centre of [[London]], which Donna enjoyed. Her mother, [[Sylvia Noble]], had managed to get her another job opportunity to become the personal secretary of [[Jival Chowdry]], owner of a photocopying business. Although this would be a permanent job, Donna found it less interesting.
One described it as an "[[alternative timeline]]", created following the [[Time Beetle]]'s alterations to [[Donna Noble's timeline|Donna's timeline]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded (reference book)|page=41}}) in an attempt to feed off the [[time energy]] caused by the disruption. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=132}}) Another called it an "alternate timeline". ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Planet of the Dead (game)|page=234}})


While driving and in discussing the dilemma, Sylvia pressured her into "turning right" to stop by Jival Chowdry for a chat. While in the regular timeline Donna ignored her mother and turned left, in this timeline she turned right, resulting in her taking the PA job.
One account referred to it as both a "parallel world" and "[[alternative time line]]" interchangeably. It also detailed how [[Rose Tyler]] travelled between universes. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Know Your Companions (feature)|page=8-10}})


==Alternate Timeline==
Another account described it as an "[[alternative reality]]", seemingly as a synonym for "[[universe]]"; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)|ed=2011 reprint|page=248}}) another account also used the terms "reality" and "universe" in association with this parallel world. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Companions and Allies (reference book)|namedpart=What will you be?|page=90}}) A further account referred to it as a "whole new reality", also linking it to how [[history]] had been changed. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|What If? (short story)|page=91}}) Another account identified it as a "parallel universe". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)|namedpart=Monsters of Time}})


'''24th December 2006''' - The first indication that the timeline is different occurs during the [[Racnoss]] crisis of Christmas 2006. Just as in the main timeline the [[Webstar]] was destroyed. However, [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] did not survive his encounter with the [[Empress of the Racnoss]], because without Donna there to tell him to leave, the Doctor stayed behind too long to make a clear escape. [[UNIT]] recovered the body, declaring him dead, and speculating he died too fast to [[regenerate]].  
A different account referred to it as a "[[parallel Earth]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Doctor and... Donna (feature)|page=49}})


Donna witnessed the recovery, and met [[Rose Tyler]] for the first time. At this point, Rose was not aware of Donna's importance. Some time after this [[UNIT]] recovered the [[TARDIS]] from the [[Thames]].
== History ==
While on the [[planet]] [[Shan Shen]], Donna was unknowingly fitted with the [[Time Beetle]], one of the [[Trickster's Brigade]]. A [[fortune teller (Turn Left)|fortune teller]] selected a point in her life where making a seemingly random choice had enormous ramifications.


:''In the main timeline, Donna met the Doctor due to working at [[H.C. Clements]] which turned out to be a conspiracy of the [[Empress of the Racnoss]]. Donna's help saved the Doctor's life in that timeline. ([[DW]]: [[The Runaway Bride]]).''
On [[Monday]] [[25 June]] [[2007]], Donna had to make a choice between two jobs. The moment she chose between the jobs was at a junction on [[Little Sutton Street]]. Her agency had offered her a contract with [[H.C. Clements]], which while temporary, was posh and in the centre of [[London]], which Donna enjoyed. Her mother, [[Sylvia Noble]], had got her a job opportunity to become the personal secretary of [[Jival Chowdry]], owner of [[Capital Copies Ltd|a photocopying business]]. Although this would be a permanent job, Donna found it less interesting.


'''April 2007''' - By this time the Thames was still closed off due to the Racnoss incident. This made business very hard for [[Jival Chowdry]]'s company and she is sacked from her post as his personal assistant.
While driving and in discussing the dilemma, [[Sylvia Noble (Turn Left)|Sylvia]] pressured her into turning right towards [[Griffin's Parade]] to stop by [[Jival Chowdry#Other realities|Jival Chowdry]] for a chat. While in the regular world Donna ignored her mother and turned left towards the [[Chiswick High Road]], here she turned right, resulting in her taking the PA job. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


At the same time, the [[Judoon]] [[H2O Scoop|H<sub>2</sub>O Scooped]] the [[Royal Hope Hospital]] to [[the Moon]]. All patients and staff present the hospital died of oxygen starvation, with the exeption of [[Oliver Morgenstern]], who was passed the last oxygen cylinder by [[Martha Jones]]. Martha herself died, as did [[Sarah Jane Smith]], who was investigating strange occurrences in the hospital. Sarah Jane's companions, [[Luke Smith]], [[Maria Jackson]] and [[Clyde Langer]] were also assumed dead.  It is assumed that it was them, not the Doctor, that prevented the Plasmavore from destroying half the Earth, but died in the attempt.
[[File:The Doctor is dead.jpg|thumb|left|[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] is dead... ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})]]
On [[Christmas Eve]], the [[Tenth Doctor (Turn Left)|Tenth Doctor]] tracked down the [[Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride)#Alternate realities|Empress of the Racnoss]] to her lair beneath [[Thames Flood Barrier (Turn Left)|Thames Flood Barrier]] and blew it up, causing the Thames to be drained. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}}) Although he succeeded in defeating the Racnoss, the Doctor drowned in the process. For some reason, he didn't [[regenerate]]. It was speculated by [[Harris (Turn Left)|Private Harris]] that he drowned too fast to regenerate. His body was retrieved by [[UNIT (Turn Left)|UNIT]] soldiers and [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Turn Left)|his TARDIS]] was salvaged from under the Thames, later being sent to a UNIT base in [[Leeds (Turn Left)|Leeds]]. Donna stumbled across [[Rose Tyler]], who arrived on the scene too late to do anything. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


During the evening of this day, Donna again met Rose Tyler. During this encounter she started to suspect that Donna might have some importance, and warned her to leave London for the far-off Christmas holidays.
[[File:The last person.jpg|thumb|[[Oliver Morgenstern#Parallel World|Oliver Morgenstern]], the last survivor of the Royal Hospital tells the World what has happened on the Moon. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})]]
The [[Royal Hope Hospital (Turn Left)|Royal Hope Hospital]] was transported to [[the Moon]] by the [[Judoon]]. [[Sarah Jane Smith (Turn Left)|Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Luke Smith (Turn Left)|Luke Smith]], [[Maria Jackson (Turn Left)|Maria Jackson]], and [[Clyde Langer (Turn Left)|Clyde Langer]], who had been in the hospital when it was transported, disarmed the MRI, but they died, along with the rest of the hospital, when their [[oxygen]] ran out. The only survivor was [[Oliver Morgenstern#Parallel World|Oliver Morgenstern]], who was passed the last oxygen tank by medical student [[Martha Jones#Parallel World|Martha Jones]], who gave up her life to save him.


:''In the original timeline, [[the Doctor]] (under the alias Mr Smith) investigated the hospital instead of Sarah Jane Smith, and saved all the people by finding the [[Plasmavore]] culprit in time. He took on Martha Jones as a companion. ([[DW]]: [[Smith and Jones]])''
[[File:London destroyed.jpg|thumb|left|The mushroom cloud from ''[[Titanic (Turn Left)|Titanic's]]'' impact. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})]]
Rose visited Donna and advised her to persuade her family to spend [[Christmas]] some place other than London. On Christmas morning, [[Titanic (Turn Left)|a replica of the ''Titanic'']] crash-landed onto [[Buckingham Palace (Turn Left)|Buckingham Palace]]. It destroyed the [[London (Turn Left)|Greater London Area]] and flooded the whole of Southern [[England (Turn Left)|England]] with [[radiation]]. Donna's family, who did decide not to stay in London for Christmas, having won a luxury getaway in a raffle, watched the events on television and were able to see the mushroom cloud of the explosion from a distance.


:''[[The Master]]'s reappearance ([[DW]]: [[The Sound of Drums]]) presumably never happened, as the Doctor, Martha and Captain [[Jack Harkness]] never went to [[Malcassairo]] in the year 100,000,000,000,000 to remind [[Professor Yana]] that he was the Master, as they did in the main timeline. This means that [[Mr Saxon]]'s regime could never have started, so in this reality, the Master was still alive but he was yet to know of his true identity - if he ever did. It is unknown what happened to Dr [[Richard Lazarus]], as Mr Saxon was unable to finance his experiment as he did in the main timeline. ([[DW]]: [[The Lazarus Experiment]])''
[[File:Adipose usa destroyed.jpg|thumb|The [[Adipose]] wreak havoc in the [[United States (Turn Left)|United States]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})]]
Britain went under martial law in order to deal with the crisis caused by the nuclear explosion. Many citizens fled to [[France (Turn Left)|France]], until France closed its borders. The [[United States (Turn Left)|United States]] promised fifty billion pounds in financial help for [[Great Britain (Turn Left)|Great Britain]] but this plan was abandoned when sixty million Americans were killed and fully converted into [[Adipose]] children. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


'''24th and 25th December 2007''' - Donna and her family are out of the city, as they have won a Christmas holiday. A ''[[Titanic (spaceship)|Titanic replica]]'' crashes into Buckingham Palace, destroying the entire city of [[London]], and flooding the lower half of [[England]] with radiation.
The [[Sontaran]]s activated [[ATMOS (Turn Left)|ATMOS]] devices, the [[Torchwood Three (Turn Left)|Torchwood Three]] team, Captain [[Jack Harkness#Other realities|Jack Harkness]], [[Gwen Cooper (Turn Left)|Gwen Cooper]] and [[Ianto Jones (Turn Left)|Ianto Jones]], worked to stop the scheme. The team destroyed the Sontaran flagship and successfully reverted the atmosphere to its previous state, but Gwen and Ianto died in the attempt; Jack, being immortal, survived and was captured by the Sontarans and transported to their homeworld as a prisoner. Britain was largely unaffected due to its poverty and hence its lack of petrol. Rose once more appeared to Donna, telling her that Donna knew the Doctor and travelled with him "in [[N-Space|a different world]]", and Donna was "meant to be there" under the Thames — the Doctor needed someone to stop him and save his life, and that was Donna. Rose asked Donna to come with her. Donna refused, but Rose told Donna that she will agree to come along in three weeks' time and that she was going to die. Rose subsequently disappeared.


In the weeks thereafter, an emergency government was set up and seven million people were evacuated to cities such as [[Leeds]] and [[Glasgow]]. People in these places were evicted for small reasons such as missing a single mortgage repayment, to make up for the lack of housing. The Nobles are moved into a house in Leeds. Refugees lived with several families cramped together in these houses and had no voting rights. Sylvia noted that it was as if they didn't exist.
Roughly three weeks after the Sontaran invasion, the British government made a new law ("England for the English") forcing all non-British citizens in Britain to go to "labour camps". Donna's grandfather [[Wilfred Mott (Turn Left)|Wilfred]] lamented that labour camps was "what they called them last time", and "it's happening again." ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


:''The regular timeline had the disaster closely averted by the Doctor ([[DW]]: [[Voyage of the Damned]]). While the city was nearly abandoned in the regular timeline, this seems to not have been the case in the alternate timeline.''
In [[N-Space|the Doctor's world]], as a result of [[Davros]]'s [[reality bomb]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) also referred to as "the darkness", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) using the rift at the heart of the [[Medusa Cascade]] to blast the bomb's [[Z-Neutrino]] wavelength into "every dimension", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) "every single universe" was in danger of being destroyed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) Dimensions started to collapse, destroying everything; not just in the Doctor's world or [[Pete's World|the world Rose was in]], but "[[Multiverse|the whole of reality]]". Even [[the Void]] was dead. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) Rose was "pulled across from a different universe" because of this. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


[[America]] promised 50 billion pounds in financially help for Britain, however this fell through when the [[Adipose]] chose America for their [[March of the Adipose|birthing program]], and sixty million Americans across the country were fully transformed into fat.
With UNIT's help, Rose scraped off the surface technology of the TARDIS and planned to use a [[Lodestone]] to bounce [[chronon energy]] into the centre of a circle of mirrors, controlling the destination to send Donna back to Monday 25 June 2007.


:''In the regular timeline the Adipose chose the United Kingdom for their scheme, but were stopped by the Doctor and Donna before their plan could be put into full swing, as shown in ([[DW]] [[Partners in Crime]]). Supposedly the change of location was the result of the crisis in Southern England.''
UNIT and Rose sent Donna back to the point where Donna made her decision. According to Rose, Donna had to make her past self turn left instead of right at the point where she decided whether to follow her mother's advice or her own instincts on Little Sutton Street. Donna arrived in 2007, but too far away from her past self to directly influence her; instead, she orchestrated an accident by stepping out in front of a [[lorry]], which blocked [[road traffic|traffic]] and forced the earlier Donna to turn left. Just before Donna's death, Rose appeared and whispered a message for her to give the Doctor. Donna woke up on Shan Shen, and the Time Beetle was forced off her back. The fortune teller ran away, questioning what Donna would become. Both the Doctor and Donna believed that the world created by the Time Beetle ceased to exist. Donna [[history-proofing|struggled to remember]] much of her parallel world, "like when you try and think of a [[dream]], and it just sort of goes". She managed to remember Rose telling her that the Doctor thought she was brilliant. Not knowing Rose's name, Donna told the Doctor about the blonde woman at the lorry who said to warn the Doctor about the end of the universe with two words: "[[Bad Wolf meme|Bad Wolf]]". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


As Britain is in such an unstable situation and other countries have closed their borders-- so deportation is out of the question-- they start sending "immigrants" to labor camps. The Nobles lived with one of the families getting sent away. [[Wilfred Mott|Wilf]], who served during [[World War II]], is in horror. Seeing parallels between this and the [[Nazi]] regime which caused the Holocaust, saying that it had the same reasoning as "the last time".
== Aftermath ==
On the ''[[Crucible]]'' in the Doctor's world, Donna prevented the reality bomb from ever being detonated by closing all [[Z-Neutrino energy loop]]s using an [[internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop]]. The collapse of dimensions closed up again because of [[dimensional retroclosure]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})


'''2008''' - The [[Sontarans]] [[Sontaran invasion of Earth|invaded the Earth]]. Due to the crisis, the United Kingdom is hit less by the [[ATMOS]] gases than other nations such as [[China]], [[South Africa]] and those in [[Europe]], since they had less petrol. [[Torchwood 3]] successfully tries to stop them. However, [[Gwen Williams]] and [[Ianto Jones]] sacrificed their lives in the process. [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]] is shipped of to [[Sontar]]. Presumably Torchwood, at least the Cardiff branch, has now disbanded.
== Behind the scenes ==
[[file:Auteur in the City.jpg|thumb|[[Auteur]] in the [[Sanctum of the Heretic]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Resurrection of the Author (short story)}})]]
This parallel world and several characters from ''Turn Left'' were reused in [[Aristide Twain]]'s ''[[Doctor Who: Lockdown!]]'' short story ''[[w:c:lockdown:A Better World (short story)|A Better World]]'', where the events of ''Turn Left'' were recontextualised as part of a masterplan by [[Auteur]]. The short story, while not covered by this Wiki as of this time, concluded with Auteur's entrapment within the parallel world; the story received a sequel, ''[[Resurrection of the Author (short story)|Resurrection of the Author]]'', where it was shown that the world Auteur was trapped in (now never explicitly connected to ''Turn Left'' and the associated concepts from that story) decayed, and soon became known as the [[Sanctum of the Heretic]].


Rose Tyler met with Donna Noble again, this time apparently aware of her importance, and working with [[UNIT]]. Rose remarked to Donna that they were the last ones left.
== External links ==
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:''The Sontaran Invasion of [[Earth]] was, in the original timeline, stopped by the Doctor with the help of UNIT, Martha Jones and Donna Noble. The Doctor managed to clear the atmosphere from ATMOS much the same way. ([[DW]]: [[The Sontaran Strategem]] / [[The Poison Sky]])''
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== Negation ==
[[Category:Parallel universes]]
UNIT and Rose Tyler sent Donna back to the time where the worlds split. To make her past self turn left, she headed from her landing location to the road where her past self was in her car. Running out of time, Donna jumped out in front of a lorry. Although she died, a traffic jam quickly blocked the route right from the past Donna, so the past Donna chose to turn left. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'') Presumably, Donna's World was negated, however the ongoing existence of [[Pete's World]] suggests it might continue to exist in a parallel universe. Rose is later seen communicating with an entity called "Control" as she teleports around the main, "Donna Turned Left" Earth, and it's not known on which world "Control" exists. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')
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==See Also==
*[[Turn Left]]
*[[Donna Noble]]
*[[Rose Tyler]]
[[Category:Alternative timelines]]

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You may be looking for Sanctum of the Heretic, an Oxbow World implied to be this parallel world.

A parallel world centred around the life of Donna Noble was created, despite parallel worlds being typically sealed off, by the Time Beetle, one of the Trickster's Brigade. This was unusual, as most times when the Brigade changed time, the universe just compensated around it. In this world, Donna turned right instead of left while deciding which of two different job interviews to attend. As a result, the Tenth Doctor never met Donna and died underneath the Thames on Christmas Eve 2007. These events resulted in devastating effects for Earth. Using the surface technology of the Doctor's TARDIS, Donna travelled back in time to make her younger self turn left again. According to both the Doctor and Donna, this world subsequently ceased to exist. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

Nature[[edit] | [edit source]]

The exact nature of this parallel world was unclear.

When the Tenth Doctor explained the nature of it to Donna Noble after its negation, he specifically used the term "parallel world", noting that the creation of such worlds was normally impossible due to the universe compensating for the actions of the Trickster's Brigade and that parallel worlds were sealed off from one another. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"]) A connected account also referenced Donna's parallel world in relation to Rose Tyler's parallel world. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"])

One described it as an "alternative timeline", created following the Time Beetle's alterations to Donna's timeline, (PROSE: The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded [+]Loading...{"page":"41","1":"The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded (reference book)"}) in an attempt to feed off the time energy caused by the disruption. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"132","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) Another called it an "alternate timeline". (GAME: Planet of the Dead [+]Loading...{"page":"234","1":"Planet of the Dead (game)"})

One account referred to it as both a "parallel world" and "alternative time line" interchangeably. It also detailed how Rose Tyler travelled between universes. (PROSE: Know Your Companions [+]Loading...{"page":"8-10","1":"Know Your Companions (feature)"})

Another account described it as an "alternative reality", seemingly as a synonym for "universe"; (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"page":"248","ed":"2011 reprint","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}) another account also used the terms "reality" and "universe" in association with this parallel world. (PROSE: "What will you be?" [+]Part of Companions and Allies, Loading...{"page":"90","namedpart":"What will you be?","1":"Companions and Allies (reference book)"}) A further account referred to it as a "whole new reality", also linking it to how history had been changed. (PROSE: What If? [+]Loading...{"page":"91","1":"What If? (short story)"}) Another account identified it as a "parallel universe". (PROSE: "Monsters of Time" [+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Loading...{"namedpart":"Monsters of Time","1":"Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)"})

A different account referred to it as a "parallel Earth". (PROSE: The Doctor and... Donna [+]Loading...{"page":"49","1":"The Doctor and... Donna (feature)"})

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

While on the planet Shan Shen, Donna was unknowingly fitted with the Time Beetle, one of the Trickster's Brigade. A fortune teller selected a point in her life where making a seemingly random choice had enormous ramifications.

On Monday 25 June 2007, Donna had to make a choice between two jobs. The moment she chose between the jobs was at a junction on Little Sutton Street. Her agency had offered her a contract with H.C. Clements, which while temporary, was posh and in the centre of London, which Donna enjoyed. Her mother, Sylvia Noble, had got her a job opportunity to become the personal secretary of Jival Chowdry, owner of a photocopying business. Although this would be a permanent job, Donna found it less interesting.

While driving and in discussing the dilemma, Sylvia pressured her into turning right towards Griffin's Parade to stop by Jival Chowdry for a chat. While in the regular world Donna ignored her mother and turned left towards the Chiswick High Road, here she turned right, resulting in her taking the PA job. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

The Doctor is dead... (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

On Christmas Eve, the Tenth Doctor tracked down the Empress of the Racnoss to her lair beneath Thames Flood Barrier and blew it up, causing the Thames to be drained. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"], The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"]) Although he succeeded in defeating the Racnoss, the Doctor drowned in the process. For some reason, he didn't regenerate. It was speculated by Private Harris that he drowned too fast to regenerate. His body was retrieved by UNIT soldiers and his TARDIS was salvaged from under the Thames, later being sent to a UNIT base in Leeds. Donna stumbled across Rose Tyler, who arrived on the scene too late to do anything. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

Oliver Morgenstern, the last survivor of the Royal Hospital tells the World what has happened on the Moon. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

The Royal Hope Hospital was transported to the Moon by the Judoon. Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith, Maria Jackson, and Clyde Langer, who had been in the hospital when it was transported, disarmed the MRI, but they died, along with the rest of the hospital, when their oxygen ran out. The only survivor was Oliver Morgenstern, who was passed the last oxygen tank by medical student Martha Jones, who gave up her life to save him.

The mushroom cloud from Titanic's impact. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

Rose visited Donna and advised her to persuade her family to spend Christmas some place other than London. On Christmas morning, a replica of the Titanic crash-landed onto Buckingham Palace. It destroyed the Greater London Area and flooded the whole of Southern England with radiation. Donna's family, who did decide not to stay in London for Christmas, having won a luxury getaway in a raffle, watched the events on television and were able to see the mushroom cloud of the explosion from a distance.

The Adipose wreak havoc in the United States. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

Britain went under martial law in order to deal with the crisis caused by the nuclear explosion. Many citizens fled to France, until France closed its borders. The United States promised fifty billion pounds in financial help for Great Britain but this plan was abandoned when sixty million Americans were killed and fully converted into Adipose children. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

The Sontarans activated ATMOS devices, the Torchwood Three team, Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones, worked to stop the scheme. The team destroyed the Sontaran flagship and successfully reverted the atmosphere to its previous state, but Gwen and Ianto died in the attempt; Jack, being immortal, survived and was captured by the Sontarans and transported to their homeworld as a prisoner. Britain was largely unaffected due to its poverty and hence its lack of petrol. Rose once more appeared to Donna, telling her that Donna knew the Doctor and travelled with him "in a different world", and Donna was "meant to be there" under the Thames — the Doctor needed someone to stop him and save his life, and that was Donna. Rose asked Donna to come with her. Donna refused, but Rose told Donna that she will agree to come along in three weeks' time and that she was going to die. Rose subsequently disappeared.

Roughly three weeks after the Sontaran invasion, the British government made a new law ("England for the English") forcing all non-British citizens in Britain to go to "labour camps". Donna's grandfather Wilfred lamented that labour camps was "what they called them last time", and "it's happening again." (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

In the Doctor's world, as a result of Davros's reality bomb, (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) also referred to as "the darkness", (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"]) using the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade to blast the bomb's Z-Neutrino wavelength into "every dimension", (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) "every single universe" was in danger of being destroyed. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"]) Dimensions started to collapse, destroying everything; not just in the Doctor's world or the world Rose was in, but "the whole of reality". Even the Void was dead. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) Rose was "pulled across from a different universe" because of this. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

With UNIT's help, Rose scraped off the surface technology of the TARDIS and planned to use a Lodestone to bounce chronon energy into the centre of a circle of mirrors, controlling the destination to send Donna back to Monday 25 June 2007.

UNIT and Rose sent Donna back to the point where Donna made her decision. According to Rose, Donna had to make her past self turn left instead of right at the point where she decided whether to follow her mother's advice or her own instincts on Little Sutton Street. Donna arrived in 2007, but too far away from her past self to directly influence her; instead, she orchestrated an accident by stepping out in front of a lorry, which blocked traffic and forced the earlier Donna to turn left. Just before Donna's death, Rose appeared and whispered a message for her to give the Doctor. Donna woke up on Shan Shen, and the Time Beetle was forced off her back. The fortune teller ran away, questioning what Donna would become. Both the Doctor and Donna believed that the world created by the Time Beetle ceased to exist. Donna struggled to remember much of her parallel world, "like when you try and think of a dream, and it just sort of goes". She managed to remember Rose telling her that the Doctor thought she was brilliant. Not knowing Rose's name, Donna told the Doctor about the blonde woman at the lorry who said to warn the Doctor about the end of the universe with two words: "Bad Wolf". (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

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On the Crucible in the Doctor's world, Donna prevented the reality bomb from ever being detonated by closing all Z-Neutrino energy loops using an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop. The collapse of dimensions closed up again because of dimensional retroclosure. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

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Auteur in the Sanctum of the Heretic. (PROSE: Resurrection of the Author [+]Loading...["Resurrection of the Author (short story)"])

This parallel world and several characters from Turn Left were reused in Aristide Twain's Doctor Who: Lockdown! short story A Better World, where the events of Turn Left were recontextualised as part of a masterplan by Auteur. The short story, while not covered by this Wiki as of this time, concluded with Auteur's entrapment within the parallel world; the story received a sequel, Resurrection of the Author, where it was shown that the world Auteur was trapped in (now never explicitly connected to Turn Left and the associated concepts from that story) decayed, and soon became known as the Sanctum of the Heretic.

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