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|image = The Corsair (Chris Riddell illustration).jpg
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|species = Time Lord
|species= Time Lord
|origin = [[Gallifrey]]
|origin= [[Gallifrey]]
|first = Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair (short story)
|first mention = The Doctor's Wife (TV story)
|appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes (short story)|One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes]]''
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}}'''The Corsair''' was a [[Time Lord]], described by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as "one of the good ones". The Corsair took on different sexes throughout their many incarnations. The Doctor noted that when the Corsair was female, "she was a bad girl." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
The '''Seventh Corsair''' was a female incarnation of the [[Renegade Time Lord]] known as [[the Corsair]], who travelled with a [[Parrot (One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes)|parrot]] as her [[companion]]. On at least two occasions, she opposed the [[Dalek]]s, something the Corsair did rarely, although on neither occasion did she face them directly.
== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Like all [[Time Lord]]s, the Corsair was taken from his family at the age of eight for the selection process in the [[Drylands]]. Starring into the [[Untempered Schism]] as part of a Time Lord initiation rite, the Corsair reacted by running away from what he saw in the Schism. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')
This incarnation of the Corsair was "spotted" on [[Clarkor Nine]] on the night a [[Dalek scout ship]] landed there. Sneaking aboard, she detached the nine Dalek occupants' [[manipulator arm]]s and [[gunstick]]s and then welded them together into "a shape that meant something very rude in [[Dalek (language)|Skarosian]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair (short story)|Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair]]'')
One of the Corsair's incarnations was female. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Keeping up with the Joneses (short story)|Keeping up with the Joneses]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] once said to [[Romana II]] that he should meet up with the Corsair sometime, referring to the Corsair as both male and female when he did so. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]'') The Corsair had the symbol of the [[Ouroboros]] [[tattoo]]ed on each of their incarnations. According to the [[Eleventh Doctor]], the Corsair was female a couple of times, saying she was "a bad girl" each time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
As a favour for the [[First Doctor]], the Corsair travelled to the [[City Obsidian]] in the [[Imperial Edifice of Infinite Steps]] to steal the [[Hand of Omega]]. Although pursued by troop ships belonging to the [[Supreme Leader (One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes)|Supreme Leader]], she escaped with the Hand of Omega and managed to deliver it to the [[First Doctor]] prior to him [[The Doctor and Susan's escape from Gallifrey|leaving]] [[Gallifrey]] as instructed. However, her Parrot companion did leave a single blue feather behind, which was discovered by the Supreme Leader. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes (short story)|One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes]]'') The Doctor subsequently buried the Hand of Omega on [[1963]] [[Earth]], setting in motion a centuries-long plan to destroy the Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', et al)
According to the [[Ninth Doctor]], the Corsair kept a [[sub-dimensional void]] in a [[hatbox]] in [[23rd century]] [[Swindon]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Weapons of Past Destruction (comic story)|Weapons of Past Destruction]]'')
== Appearance ==
This Corsair was a dark-skinned woman with [[scarlet]] hair. She wore a [[Viridian (colour)|viridian]] [[coat]], with [[Tan (colour)|tan]] [[leather]] and dark [[Cherry (colour)|cherry]] coloured clothes which were patched and bartered. She also wore a [[Tricorn|tricorn hat]] with hyacinth blue plumes that were donated by her Parrot companion after a moult. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes (short story)|One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes]]'')
The final incarnation of the Corsair was described by [[Auntie (The Doctor's Wife)|Auntie]], a composite [[humanoid]] servant of [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]], as "a strapping big bloke". She was a good authority on the matter; after all, she had the Corsair's left [[arm]] stitched onto her torso in place of her own, while the other composite humanoid slave, "[[Uncle (The Doctor's Wife)|Uncle]]", received "the [[spine]] and the [[kidney]]s". The loss of these organs was presumably lethal, and the Corsair went the way of House's numerous other Time Lord victims.
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] discovered the Corsair's fate after being contacted by a [[hypercube]] with their peculiar Ouroboros symbol and following its [[psychic]]ally encoded distress message to House. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
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== Later references ==
During one adventure, while pushing a heavy crate, the Eleventh Doctor said that if he kept up this habit, he would develop big arms like the Corsair. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
=== The Brilliant Book 2012 ===
According to ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'', a book that contains [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] information, the Ouroboros tattoo trademark of the Corsair — a [[snake]] eating its own tail, symbolising eternity — moved around the Corsair's body with each regeneration.
Amongst his secret missions for the Time Lords, the Corsair stole the Callisto Pulse from the Callistan Kleptocracy.
He visited [[Earth]] several times and was worshipped as a [[god]] by the [[Assyria]]ns.
The Doctor and Corsair had many adventures together, getting drunk in the Corsair's fourth, fifth, and eighth incarnations.
The Corsair was formally censured by the Time Lords after they may have been linked to the theft of the Portrait of Rassilon. This was overturned by [[Lord President|Lady President]] [[Flavia]], perhaps due to the Corsair's smile.
The Corsair's final adventure was when he was working on the Time Lords' Fourth Universal Survey. He was in his ninth incarnation when House killed him.<ref>[http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/30786184930/eleven-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the Neil Gaiman's Journal: Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair]</ref>
=== Other matters ===
* The Corsair was not the only Time Lord to bear a snake tattoo on his arm. Whereas the Corsair tattooed an ouroboros on each of his new bodies, [[the Doctor]]'s [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]] came with a tattoo of a snake in the shape of a question-mark on his right arm. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead From Space]]'')
* On his blog, ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'' scriptwriter [[Neil Gaiman]] stated that before he began writing the first draft, he wanted to make sure the idea of the Corsair was okay with series [[show runner]] [[Steven Moffat]] before he became fixed in the story, so he sent him an email with a piece of dialogue between the Doctor and [[Amy Pond]] in which the Doctor discussed the Corsair. In this draft, the Doctor explained that the Corsair did not have a name and used to travel, exploring the limits of [[time]] and [[space]]. The Doctor said that when he was twelve he had asked the Corsair if he could travel with him and act as his "[[companion|assistant]]", but the Corsair had just laughed. Moffat replied that he wanted the Corsair to be less like the Doctor because the Doctor "does what he does for reasons too vast and terrible to relate".<ref>[http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/06/fairly-humongous-doctor-who-q-mostly.html Neil Gaiman's Journal: A Fairly Humongous Doctor Who Q&A Mostly]</ref>
* According to Neil Gaiman, [[Russell T Davies]] liked the idea that [[The Shopkeeper (Lost in Time)|the Shopkeeper]] from [[Sarah Jane Adventures]] episode ''[[Lost in Time (TV story)|Lost in Time]]'' was actually the Time Lord known as the Corsair, although no in-scene references have been made.
* The Corsair, being the first confirmed example of a Time Lord changing genders on regeneration, was frequently cited in media and online discussions in 2013 as to whether any future incarnation of the Doctor could be played by a woman. The Doctor would not get a female incarnation until 2017, with [[Jodie Whittaker]]'s [[Thirteenth Doctor]].
* The Corsair's [[hypercube]], with [[Ouroboros]] motif, was among the variants of toy hypercube produced by [[Character Options]].
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The Seventh Corsair was a female incarnation of the Renegade Time Lord known as the Corsair, who travelled with a parrot as her companion. On at least two occasions, she opposed the Daleks, something the Corsair did rarely, although on neither occasion did she face them directly.
