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| {{Infobox Individual | | {{Infobox Individual |
| |name = Drax
| | |species = Time Lord |
| |image = Drax 2.jpg
| | |origin = [[Gallifrey]] |
| |species = Time Lord | | |first mention = The Trouble with Drax (audio story) |
| |origin = [[Gallifrey]] | | }}{{Draxes}} |
| |first = The Armageddon Factor (TV story) | | The '''Eleventh Drax''' was one of [[Eighth Drax|Inspector McCormick]]'s "half a dozen best men". |
| |appearances = {{il|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]''}}
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| |actor = Barry Jackson (actor)
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| |voice actor = Ray Brooks
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| |other voice actor = [[John Challis]], [[Hugh Fraser]], [[John Leeson]], [[Miranda Raison]]
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| |leitmotif = {{soundcloud|https://soundcloud.com/jamierobertson/dw-drax}}
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| |leitmotif name = "Drax's Theme"
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| '''Drax''' was a [[renegade Time Lord]] with a knack for tinkering. He knew [[First Doctor|the Doctor]] before either had left their home [[planet]] of [[Gallifrey]]. | |
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| == Biography ==
| | As such, he was present when McCormick was called to arrest the [[Third Drax|third]], [[Fifth Drax|fifth]], [[Ninth Drax|ninth]] and [[Twelfth Drax|twelfth incarnations]] of Drax. They later all ran away in [[Drax's TARDIS|McCormick's TARDIS]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'') |
| === Youth ===
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| Drax attended the [[Prydonian Academy]] with [[First Doctor|the Doctor]] in the [[Class of 92]]. They took the tech course together. Though his practical work was satisfactory, he failed his exams, done in by [[temporal theory]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]''). Whilst he was at the academy, Drax became a member of [[the Deca]] and had his own self-made skimmer. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
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| === As a renegade ===
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| Drax had already escaped from Gallifrey when the Doctor was expelled from the [[Time Lord Academy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') Upon becoming a renegade, Drax travelled the [[universe]], doing repair and maintenance work in the fields of [[cybernetics]], guidance systems and armaments. When Drax's [[TARDIS]] suffered a breakdown in its [[hyperbolics]], Drax was stranded on [[Earth]]. He engaged in criminal activity to procure replacement parts and did time in [[Brixton]] prison.
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| Later, the [[Black Guardian]]'s agent, [[the Shadow]], imprisoned Drax and forced him to build and maintain a giant [[computer]] called [[Mentalis]] on the deserted [[planet]] [[Zeos]]. Mentalis carried out a war against the neighbouring planet of [[Atrios]].
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| 450 years later in their personal timelines, Drax and the Doctor met again. While searching for the last segment of the [[Key to Time]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana I]] arrived on Zeos. Drax, under the Shadow's orders, reluctantly led the Doctor into a trap. Easily seeing through Drax's pretence, the Doctor talked him into joining forces against the Shadow. With Drax's assistance, the Doctor recovered [[Astra of Atrios|the final segment of the Key to Time]]. Afterward, Drax stayed on Atrios to help rebuild that world. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
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| The Fourth Doctor was later used as a fall guy in a con involving the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth incarnation of Drax, who used a [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]] [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect limiter|limiter]]. The fifth Drax was using the identity "Galdron Cabot" (a criminal-turned-businessman), the eighth - "Fleur McCormick" (galactic police officer, the only female incarnation of Drax), the twelfth - "Charles Kirkland" (businessman and Cabot's rival), and the ninth - "Rosser" (Kirkland's butler). The fourth, sixth, seventh, tenth, eleventh and thirteenth incarnations were McCormick's "half a dozen best men". The Doctor was conned into stealing the Blinovitch Limitation Effect limiter, which was what allowed so many Draxes to successfully cooperate on this scheme in the first place. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'')
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| == Alternative timeline ==
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| In an [[alternate timeline]] Drax cooperated alongside [[the Master]], [[the Monk]], and [[the Rani]] to try to destroy the world using a DNA recombinator, turning the human race into a gestalt [[consciousness]] which could be used as a weapon to conquer the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
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| == Personality ==
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| Drax showed great technological aptitude. However, he could not grasp [[temporal theory]] and failed the class.
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| During his prison stay Drax picked up Brixton's local accent and idioms, which remained part of his speech patterns after he left Earth and resumed his travels. When Drax met [[K9 Mark II]] and marvelled at the "little tin dog", K9 noted Drax's silliness. Although Drax was not above criminal activity and weapons dealing for personal gain, he displayed a sense of what was morally right and bemoaned having to assist the Shadow in his schemes. The Doctor talked him round to joining him against the Shadow without much trouble. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * Although Drax's TARDIS is somewhere around in ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'', only components from it are seen on-screen. The interactive ''[[Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who]]'' book ''[[Search for the Doctor]]'' included Drax as a character, and described his TARDIS as taking the shape of a convertible [[car]], the registration plate of which read: "TARDIS".
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| * Lawrence Miles intended for the character [[Qixotl]] in ''[[Alien Bodies]]'' to be Drax.
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| {{Time Lords}}
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| [[Category:Individual Time Lords]]
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| [[Category:Renegade Time Lords]] | | [[Category:Renegade Time Lords]] |
| [[Category:Prydonians]] | | [[Category:Drax incarnations| 11]] |
| [[Category:Prisoners]]
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| [[Category:Residents of Gallifrey]]
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| [[Category:The Deca]]
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