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== Limiting Factors ==
== Limiting Factors ==
According to John Dorney, who wrote for and script edited ''[[Dalek Universe (audio series)|Dalek Universe]]'', he stated that due to numerous reasons including the Time War and also meddlings in their own personal timeline, that he approached the Monk as having no linear timeline.<ref>https://twitter.com/MrJohnDorney/status/1382654100316250113?s=19</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/MrJohnDorney/status/1382660294229512193?s=19</ref>
According to [[John Dorney]], who wrote for and script edited ''[[Dalek Universe (audio series)|Dalek Universe]]'', the Monk has no linear timeline due to meddling in their own personal timeline and the [[Last Great Time War]].<ref>https://twitter.com/MrJohnDorney/status/1382654100316250113?s=19</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/MrJohnDorney/status/1382660294229512193?s=19</ref>


== Incarnations ==
== First incarnation ==
=== Early life ===
=== Early life ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]''
: At the age of eight, Mortimus is taken from his family for the selection process into the [[Time Lord Academy]]. Staring into the [[Untempered Schism]], Mortimus is driven mad.
: At the age of eight, Mortimus is taken from his family for the selection process into the [[Time Lord Academy]]. Staring into the [[Untempered Schism]], Mortimus is driven mad.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]''
:: (<u>FLASHBACK</u>)
: Mortimus leaves the Academy shortly after the Doctor is expelled.
:: ''Mortimus leaves the Academy shortly after the Doctor is expelled. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]''
:: (<u>REFERENCES</u>)
: Mortimus works for the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]].  
:: ''Mortimus works for the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') and works as an agent provocateur for the [[High Council]], until "some sort of controversy" results in his dismissal. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'')''


:: ''Mortimus works as an agent provocateur for the [[High Council]], until "some sort of controversy" results in his dismissal. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'')''
=== Early meddlings as a renegade ===
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
:: ''Mortimus encounters the [[Celestial Toymaker]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')''


=== As a renegade ===
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
==== Early meddlings ====
:: ''Mortimus meets [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and discusses the principles of powered flight with him. He also deposits £200 in a bank in [[1968]] and then collects the interest two hundred years later, and then lands in [[1066]].'' ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]'')
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]''
: Mortimus encounters the [[Celestial Toymaker]].
 
:: ''Mortimus meets [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and discusses the principles of powered flight with him, deposites two hundred pounds in a bank in [[1968]] and then collects the interest two hundred years on, and lands in [[1066]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Monk's Diary (short story)|The Monk's Diary]]'')''


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]''
: Mortimus, while disguised as a Monk, encounters the [[First Doctor]] in [[1066]] [[Northumbria]] while trying to prevent the [[Norman]]s from winning the [[Battle of Hastings]], and is given the nickname of "the Monk" by [[Vicki]]. After thwarting his plan, the Doctor sabotages the [[dimensional control]] of [[the Monk's TARDIS]], stranding the Monk in the [[11th century]].  
: Mortimus, while disguised as a [[monk]], encounters the [[First Doctor]] in [[1066]] [[Northumbria]] while trying to prevent the [[Norman]]s from winning the [[Battle of Hastings]], and is given the nickname of "the Monk" by [[Vicki]]. After thwarting his plan, the Doctor sabotages the [[dimensional control]] of [[the Monk's TARDIS]], stranding the Monk in the [[11th century]].  


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[4-Dimensional Vistas (comic story)|4-Dimensional Vistas]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[4-Dimensional Vistas (comic story)|4-Dimensional Vistas]]''
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* [[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]''
: The Monk meets the First Doctor again on the [[volcanic]] [[planet]] [[Tigus]], referring to the Monk's escape from 1066, and has his direction controls stolen. Captured by the [[Dalek]]s in [[Egypt]], the Monk is saved by the Doctor, but gets stuck on [[Planet (The Daleks' Master Plan)|an ice planet]] in his escape due to the stolen [[directional unit]].
: The Monk meets the First Doctor again on the [[volcanic]] [[planet]] [[Tigus]], and has his direction controls stolen. Captured by the [[Dalek]]s in [[Egypt]], the Monk is saved by the Doctor, but gets stuck on [[Planet (The Daleks' Master Plan)|an ice planet]] in his escape due to the stolen [[directional unit]]. According to [[The Mutation of Time (novelisation)|the novelisation]], the Monk is still in his first incarnation.


==== Death's Champion ====
=== Death's Champion ===
:: (<u>FLASHBACK</u>)
:: ''Wanting revenge for being trapped on the ice planet, the Monk makes himself a champion to the [[Eternal]] [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]], and captures the [[Chronovore]] [[Artemis (No Future)|Artemis]]. He also begins using his real name of "Mortimus" again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'')''
:: ''Wanting revenge for being trapped on the ice planet, the Monk makes himself a champion to the [[Eternal]] [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]], and captures the [[Chronovore]] [[Artemis (No Future)|Artemis]]. He also begins using his real name of "Mortimus" again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'')''


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* [[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]''
: Teaming up with the [[Vardan]]s to get direct revenge on the [[Seventh Doctor]], Mortimus is tricked by [[Ace]] intro freeing Artemis, who takes Mortimus away to be punished for imprisoning her.
: Teaming up with the [[Vardan]]s to get direct revenge on the [[Seventh Doctor]], Mortimus is tricked by [[Ace]] into freeing Artemis, who takes Mortimus away to be punished for imprisoning her.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tramp's Story (short story)|The Tramp's Story]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tramp's Story (short story)|The Tramp's Story]]''
: Mortimus tries to get [[Antonio Salieri]] to kill a young [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], but flees before he can see if the plan succeeded.
: Mortimus tries to get [[Antonio Salieri]] to kill a young [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], but flees before he can see if the plan succeeded.


=== Grander schemes ===
== Grander schemes ==
:: (<u>NOTE</u>)
:: ''The Monk takes on [[Lucie Miller]] as a companion, and the two go on various adventures until the Monk's TARDIS malfunctions and crash-lands in [[1006]] [[Ireland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)|The Resurrection of Mars]]'')''
:: ''The Monk takes on [[Lucie Miller]] as a companion, and the two go on various adventures until the Monk's TARDIS malfunctions and crash-lands in [[1006]] [[Ireland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)|The Resurrection of Mars]]'')''


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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lucie Miller (audio story)|Lucie Miller]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lucie Miller (audio story)|Lucie Miller]]''
: Joining forces with the [[Dalek Time Controller]], the Monk unleashes a virus on the Earth in the [[22nd century]], and has Tamsin retrieve several artefacts for his personal collection.
: Joining forces with the [[Dalek Time Controller]], the Monk unleashes a virus on the Earth in the [[22nd century]], and has Tamsin retrieve several artifacts for his personal collection.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]''
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: Wanting revenge on the Doctor for Tamsin's death, the Monk attempts to remove him from history by targeting the [[Fifth Doctor]] in [[540]] [[Constantinople]].
: Wanting revenge on the Doctor for Tamsin's death, the Monk attempts to remove him from history by targeting the [[Fifth Doctor]] in [[540]] [[Constantinople]].


=== A female body ===
== Moustachioed meddling ==
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Buying Time (audio story)|Buying Time]]''
=== Early schemes ===
: Ending leads directly into ''The Wrong Woman''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Prints of Denmark (audio story)|The Prints of Denmark]]''
: The Monk puts to action a plan he had devised prior to ''The Time Meddler'', to see the premiere of [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Hamlet]]'' broadcast on television instead of on stage, implying that he has only recently regenerated. His alternation to history, however, is corrected by [[Zoe Heriot]] and the [[Second Doctor]], who collect and destroy every remaining piece of the broadcast's existence.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrong Woman (audio story)|The Wrong Woman]]''
: In a female body, and unaware of the Time War, the Monk seeks to fix her TARDIS after [[George Sheldrake]] stole a component of it, by kidnapping the [[Tenth Doctor]] and using a psychic shroud to assume his identity, temporarily convincing [[Anya Kingdom]] and [[Mark Seven]] that she is the Eleventh Doctor. She is convinced by the Doctor to release him after her theft causes Sheldrake’s machine to break time however refuses to stay and help and escapes in her TARDIS. Due to her personal history changing so much due to her own meddling, she claims not to know what number regeneration she is now in, and believes she may be erasing her own past.
=== Moustachioed meddling ===
==== Early schemes ====
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Subterfuge (audio story)|Subterfuge]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Subterfuge (audio story)|Subterfuge]]''
: The Monk lacks an animosity towards the [[Seventh Doctor]], suggested he has only recently regenerated and abandoned his old grudges.
: The Monk lacks an animosity towards the [[Seventh Doctor]], suggested he has only recently regenerated and abandoned his old grudges.
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[How to Win Planets and Influence People (audio story)|How to Win Planets and Influence People]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[How to Win Planets and Influence People (audio story)|How to Win Planets and Influence People]]''
: The Monk becomes head chairmen of the Darkon Corporation, but loses his business to a hostile takeover from the [[Fourth Doctor]].
: The Monk becomes head chairmen of the Darkon Corporation, but loses his business to a hostile takeover from the [[Fourth Doctor]].
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Past Lives (audio story)|Past Lives]]''
: The Monk seems unaware of the Time War, which is implied to be in his future and appears to be contemporary to the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]].


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Black Hole (audio story)|The Black Hole]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Black Hole (audio story)|The Black Hole]]''
: The Monk allies himself with the [[Seeth]], but his plan is foiled by the [[Second Doctor]].
: The Monk allies himself with the [[Seeth]], but his plan is foiled by the [[Second Doctor]].


==== Vengeful exploits ====
=== Vengeful exploits ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Outlaws (audio story)|The Outlaws]]''
: The Monk begins his crusade for revenge against the Doctor. The [[First Doctor]] once again strands his TARDIS.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Blame Game (audio story)|The Blame Game]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Blame Game (audio story)|The Blame Game]]''
: Hearing of his trial and exile to Earth, the Monk visits the [[Third Doctor]] to see his new incarnation and get revenge for the events of ''The Time Meddler''. However, his TARDIS is sabotaged by [[Liz Shaw]], with the Doctor commenting that the Monk's TARDIS will break down someday because of it.
: Hearing of his trial and exile to Earth, the Monk visits the [[Third Doctor]] to see his new incarnation and get revenge for the events of ''The Time Meddler''. However, his TARDIS is sabotaged by [[Liz Shaw]], with the Doctor commenting that the Monk's TARDIS will break down someday because of it.
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Side of the Angels (audio story)|The Side of the Angels]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Side of the Angels (audio story)|The Side of the Angels]]''
: Hiding in [[1970s]] [[New York City]], the Monk forges an alliance with [[Lord Cardinal|Cardinal]] [[Ollistra]] and the [[Weeping Angel]]s to construct [[Gallifreyan]] structures that would protect them from the destruction of the universe. However, the Monk betrays Ollistra to [[the Eleven]], only to then be betrayed by the Angels, who send him several centuries back in time. The Monk wishes to "start afresh" with the Eighth Doctor, but his request is refused.
: Hiding in [[1970s]] [[New York City]], the Monk forges an alliance with [[Lord Cardinal|Cardinal]] [[Ollistra (The Side of the Angels)|Ollistra]] and the [[Weeping Angel]]s to construct [[Gallifreyan]] structures that would protect them from the destruction of the universe. However, the Monk betrays Ollistra to [[the Eleven]], only to then be betrayed by the Angels, who send him several centuries back in time. The Monk wishes to "start afresh" with the Eighth Doctor, but his request is refused.


==== After the Time War ====
=== After the Time War ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated (audio story)|Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated (audio story)|Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated]]''
: The Monk has escaped from the Time War and is hiding in [[Tudor]] [[England]] using Chameleon circuit technology. {{Gomez}} steals several parts from his TARDIS, causing the Monk to swear vengeance on her.
: The Monk has escaped from the Time War and is hiding in [[Tudor]] [[England]] using Chameleon circuit technology. [[Missy]] steals several parts from his TARDIS, causing the Monk to swear vengeance on her.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Treason and Plot (audio story)|Treason and Plot]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Treason and Plot (audio story)|Treason and Plot]]''
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Too Many Masters (audio story)|Too Many Masters]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Too Many Masters (audio story)|Too Many Masters]]''
: The Monk attempts to take his revenge on Missy for the events of ''Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated'', but they are immediately captured by the [[Ogron]]s. They escape in [[the Monk's TARDIS]], with Missy suggesting that this is the beginning of "a horrible friendship".
: The Monk attempts to take his revenge on Missy for the events of ''Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated'', but they are immediately captured by the [[Ogron]]s. They escape in [[the Monk's TARDIS]], which Missy has reprogrammed to only respond with them both aboard. Missy proclaims this the start of a "horrible friendship".
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Body and Soulless (audio story)|Body and Soulless]]''
: Missy has extracted the Monk's brain from his body, which he has assumed is to bypass the need for them both to pilot his TARDIS. He is soon returned to his body, however.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[War Seed (audio story)|War Seed]]''
: Set immediately after ''Body and Soulless'', with the Monk still recovering from having his brain extracted from his body.  


=== Post-War incarnation ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Two Monks, One Mistress (audio story)|Two Monks, One Mistress]]''
: The Monk escapes from Missy with the aid of the Nun, who claims to be one of his future incarnations.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Union (audio story)|The Union]]''
: The Monk is kidnapped by [[The Union (The Union)|The Union]] and taken to the Diamond Array where she intends to experiment on him. However he is rescued by the War Doctor who he sends to find his past self, setting this after ''Past Lives''. The Monk recalls escaping the Time War, setting this after ''Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated''. The Monk recalls wiping knowledge of the Time War from all his other incarnations, explaining why the Nun isn't aware of it.
 
== The Interfering Nun ==
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Buying Time (audio story)|Buying Time]]''
: The Nun kidnaps the Tenth Doctor and takes the identity of a supposed Eleventh Doctor. Ending leads directly into ''The Wrong Woman''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrong Woman (audio story)|The Wrong Woman]]''
: The Nun is in the pre-Time War timeline and is seemingly unaware of existence of the war. Due to her personal history changing so much due to her own meddling, she claims not to know what number regeneration she is now in, and believes she may be erasing her own past.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Two Monks, One Mistress (audio story)|Two Monks, One Mistress]]''
: The Nun seems to have a much clearer idea of her incarnations, referring to the "moustachioed" Monk as her previous self.
 
== Post-War incarnation ==
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Persistence of Memory (short story)|The Persistence of Memory]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Persistence of Memory (short story)|The Persistence of Memory]]''
: The Monk mentions surviving the [[Last Great Time War]]. He has regenerated into a body unfamiliar to the [[Twelfth Doctor]].
: The Monk mentions surviving the [[Last Great Time War]]. He has regenerated into a body unfamiliar to the [[Twelfth Doctor]].
== Currently unplaced ==
:: ''These entries are placed here due to being part of ongoing storylines that have yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of the Monk's timeline, unless further evidence arises in the stories to come.''
== Awaiting placement ==
:: ''These entries are placed here until a suitable position in the timeline can be determined based on the available evidence.''


== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==

Latest revision as of 22:38, 11 August 2024

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This page lists appearances of Mortimus in the order in which he experienced them. This timeline is based on observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events in each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed, much like their TV story counterparts, that each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in[statement unclear]. Due to the fact that he has no respect for the Laws of Time the Monk does not meet the Doctor in the correct order. In arcs involving the Monk, he often fails to appear in certain stories, while being involved "behind the scenes." In these cases, the stories are listed in sequence.

Limiting Factors[[edit source]]

According to John Dorney, who wrote for and script edited Dalek Universe, the Monk has no linear timeline due to meddling in their own personal timeline and the Last Great Time War.[1][2]

First incarnation[[edit source]]

Early life[[edit source]]

At the age of eight, Mortimus is taken from his family for the selection process into the Time Lord Academy. Staring into the Untempered Schism, Mortimus is driven mad.
(FLASHBACK)
Mortimus leaves the Academy shortly after the Doctor is expelled. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)
(REFERENCES)
Mortimus works for the Celestial Intervention Agency, (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel) and works as an agent provocateur for the High Council, until "some sort of controversy" results in his dismissal. (PROSE: No Future)

Early meddlings as a renegade[[edit source]]

(REFERENCE)
Mortimus encounters the Celestial Toymaker. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)
(REFERENCE)
Mortimus meets Leonardo da Vinci and discusses the principles of powered flight with him. He also deposits £200 in a bank in 1968 and then collects the interest two hundred years later, and then lands in 1066. (TV: The Time Meddler)
Mortimus, while disguised as a monk, encounters the First Doctor in 1066 Northumbria while trying to prevent the Normans from winning the Battle of Hastings, and is given the nickname of "the Monk" by Vicki. After thwarting his plan, the Doctor sabotages the dimensional control of the Monk's TARDIS, stranding the Monk in the 11th century.
The Monk allies with the Ice Warriors and has transformed his TARDIS into a police box. He recognizes the Fifth Doctor even though his face has changed, and is blasted into another dimension.
The Monk is pursued by the Sleeze Brothers and the Seventh Doctor until his TARDIS implodes at the Bermuda Triangle.
The Monk meets the First Doctor again on the volcanic planet Tigus, and has his direction controls stolen. Captured by the Daleks in Egypt, the Monk is saved by the Doctor, but gets stuck on an ice planet in his escape due to the stolen directional unit. According to the novelisation, the Monk is still in his first incarnation.

Death's Champion[[edit source]]

(FLASHBACK)
Wanting revenge for being trapped on the ice planet, the Monk makes himself a champion to the Eternal Death, and captures the Chronovore Artemis. He also begins using his real name of "Mortimus" again. (PROSE: No Future)
Mortimus creates a world ruled by Silurians after giving Morka the power to kill the Third Doctor.
Mortimus resurrects the Garvond.
Mortimus empowers Huitzilin.
Mortimus restores the Land of Fiction.
Teaming up with the Vardans to get direct revenge on the Seventh Doctor, Mortimus is tricked by Ace into freeing Artemis, who takes Mortimus away to be punished for imprisoning her.
Mortimus tries to get Antonio Salieri to kill a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but flees before he can see if the plan succeeded.

Grander schemes[[edit source]]

(NOTE)
The Monk takes on Lucie Miller as a companion, and the two go on various adventures until the Monk's TARDIS malfunctions and crash-lands in 1006 Ireland. (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars)
The Monk uses a time scoop to the draw in the Eighth Doctor while searching for the Book of Kells to repair his TARDIS.
Following an argument, the Monk leaves Lucie on the Deimos Moonbase in the 23rd century, and takes Tamsin Drew on as a companion as he leaves to form an alliance with the Daleks against the Doctor.
Joining forces with the Dalek Time Controller, the Monk unleashes a virus on the Earth in the 22nd century, and has Tamsin retrieve several artifacts for his personal collection.
Following on from Lucie Miller, Tamsin is killed by the Daleks, and the Monk decides to save the Doctor and Susan Foreman, but is dismissed when the Doctor realises his part in the Dalek invasion.
Wanting revenge on the Doctor for Tamsin's death, the Monk attempts to remove him from history by targeting the Fifth Doctor in 540 Constantinople.

Moustachioed meddling[[edit source]]

Early schemes[[edit source]]

The Monk puts to action a plan he had devised prior to The Time Meddler, to see the premiere of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet broadcast on television instead of on stage, implying that he has only recently regenerated. His alternation to history, however, is corrected by Zoe Heriot and the Second Doctor, who collect and destroy every remaining piece of the broadcast's existence.
The Monk lacks an animosity towards the Seventh Doctor, suggested he has only recently regenerated and abandoned his old grudges.
The Monk becomes head chairmen of the Darkon Corporation, but loses his business to a hostile takeover from the Fourth Doctor.
The Monk seems unaware of the Time War, which is implied to be in his future and appears to be contemporary to the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.
The Monk allies himself with the Seeth, but his plan is foiled by the Second Doctor.

Vengeful exploits[[edit source]]

The Monk begins his crusade for revenge against the Doctor. The First Doctor once again strands his TARDIS.
Hearing of his trial and exile to Earth, the Monk visits the Third Doctor to see his new incarnation and get revenge for the events of The Time Meddler. However, his TARDIS is sabotaged by Liz Shaw, with the Doctor commenting that the Monk's TARDIS will break down someday because of it.
Confronting the Third Doctor again, the Monk has his dimensional buffers stolen by the Doctor, stranding him in the 1970s. When talking with the Doctor about his companions, the Monk mentions "brassy birds from Blackpool", a reference to Lucie Miller.
Hiding in 1970s New York City, the Monk forges an alliance with Cardinal Ollistra and the Weeping Angels to construct Gallifreyan structures that would protect them from the destruction of the universe. However, the Monk betrays Ollistra to the Eleven, only to then be betrayed by the Angels, who send him several centuries back in time. The Monk wishes to "start afresh" with the Eighth Doctor, but his request is refused.

After the Time War[[edit source]]

The Monk has escaped from the Time War and is hiding in Tudor England using Chameleon circuit technology. Missy steals several parts from his TARDIS, causing the Monk to swear vengeance on her.
The Monk plucks Missy from November 1605 into his space station. Ending leads directly into Too Many Masters.
The Monk attempts to take his revenge on Missy for the events of Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated, but they are immediately captured by the Ogrons. They escape in the Monk's TARDIS, which Missy has reprogrammed to only respond with them both aboard. Missy proclaims this the start of a "horrible friendship".
Missy has extracted the Monk's brain from his body, which he has assumed is to bypass the need for them both to pilot his TARDIS. He is soon returned to his body, however.
Set immediately after Body and Soulless, with the Monk still recovering from having his brain extracted from his body.
The Monk escapes from Missy with the aid of the Nun, who claims to be one of his future incarnations.
The Monk is kidnapped by The Union and taken to the Diamond Array where she intends to experiment on him. However he is rescued by the War Doctor who he sends to find his past self, setting this after Past Lives. The Monk recalls escaping the Time War, setting this after Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated. The Monk recalls wiping knowledge of the Time War from all his other incarnations, explaining why the Nun isn't aware of it.

The Interfering Nun[[edit source]]

The Nun kidnaps the Tenth Doctor and takes the identity of a supposed Eleventh Doctor. Ending leads directly into The Wrong Woman.
The Nun is in the pre-Time War timeline and is seemingly unaware of existence of the war. Due to her personal history changing so much due to her own meddling, she claims not to know what number regeneration she is now in, and believes she may be erasing her own past.
The Nun seems to have a much clearer idea of her incarnations, referring to the "moustachioed" Monk as her previous self.

Post-War incarnation[[edit source]]

The Monk mentions surviving the Last Great Time War. He has regenerated into a body unfamiliar to the Twelfth Doctor.

Currently unplaced[[edit source]]

These entries are placed here due to being part of ongoing storylines that have yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of the Monk's timeline, unless further evidence arises in the stories to come.

Awaiting placement[[edit source]]

These entries are placed here until a suitable position in the timeline can be determined based on the available evidence.

Footnotes[[edit source]]

  1. ↑ https://twitter.com/MrJohnDorney/status/1382654100316250113?s=19
  2. ↑ https://twitter.com/MrJohnDorney/status/1382660294229512193?s=19
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