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|species      = Time Lord
|individual name= The Corsair
|origin        = [[Gallifrey]]
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|first mention = The Doctor's Wife (TV story)
|race= [[Gallifreyan]] ([[Time Lord]]/[[Time Lady]])
|first        = Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair (short story)
|origin= [[Gallifrey]]
|appearances  = [[PROSE]]: ''[[One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes (short story)|One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes]]''
|appearances= [[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'' (arm)
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The '''Ninth Corsair''' was the final incarnation of the [[Renegade Time Lord]] known as [[the Corsair]]. He was often described as being a "strapping big fellow".


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==Biography==
'''The Corsair''' was a [[Renegade Time Lord|Renegade]] [[Time Lord]], described by the the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as "one of the good ones". The Corsair took on different genders throughout many incarnations.
The final incarnation of the Corsair visited the [[Supreme Leader]] to collect the [[feather]] left behind by his [[Parrot (One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes)|Parrot]] companion. He also collected a [[reward]] for supplying information on the mysterious woman and bird whom had escaped the Supreme Leader (in actuality [[Seventh Corsair|one of his own past incarnations]]). He disappeared, and was never heard from again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes (short story)|One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes]]'')


== Biography ==
The Corsair drew their name from frequently going on unofficial missions for the [[Time Lord]]s, with their status as a Renegade meaning that the Time Lords could claim they had no responsibility for the Corsair's actions. One such mission saw the Ninth Corsair taking part in the [[Fourth Universal Survey Expedition]], an effort on the part of the Time Lords to keep tabs on all of reality. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair (short story)|Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair]]'') Like many Time Lords before him, the Corsair was lured by distress calls seemingly coming from other Time Lords, and left [[N-Space|his home universe]] through a [[Bubble universe rift|rift in the Vortex]] and into a [[bubble universe]].  
[[File:Corsair_tattoo.jpg|thumb|The Corsair's [[Ouroboros]] tattoo. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')]]
The Corsair had an [[Ouroboros]] tattooed on each of his or her incarnations.


The final incarnation of the Corsair was described by [[Auntie (The Doctor's Wife)|Auntie]] as "a strapping big bloke." His left arm had been stitched onto the composite humanoid being known as "Auntie" who served as [[House|House's]] slave. The other composite humanoid slave, "[[Uncle (The Doctor's Wife)|Uncle]]" received "the spine and the kidneys." The loss of these organs was presumably lethal and the Corsair went the way of House's numerous other Time Lord victims.
[[File:The Corsair's arm.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Eleventh Doctor]] sees [[Auntie (The Doctor's Wife)|Auntie]] has the Corsair's arm. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')]]
There, the Corsair went the way of House's numerous other Time Lord victims who had fallen into House's [[bubble universe]] and was marooned when [[The Corsair's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] was drained of energy by the parasitic entity known as "[[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]]". The Corsair had only just enough time to get a message together before he was finally killed. The two "patchwork-people" created by House, "[[Auntie (The Doctor's Wife)|Auntie]]" and "[[Uncle (The Doctor's Wife)|Uncle]]", received the Corsair's left arm and "the [[spine]] and the [[kidney]]s", respectively.  


The Eleventh Doctor discovered the Corsair's fate after being contacted by a [[hypercube]] and following its psychically encoded distress message to House. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')
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. He eventually discovered the Corsair's remains in Auntie and Uncle; this and the stockpile of hypercubes House used as bait cemented his fury in confronting and defeating House with [[Idris]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
===Legacy===
The Corsair's name comes from the historical [[wikipedia:Corsair|Corsairs]], nautical privateers who raided the shipping of France's enemies on behalf of the French crown.
During one adventure, while pushing a heavy [[crate]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] said that if he kept up this habit, he would develop big [[arm]]s like the Corsair. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'')


On his blog, [[Neil Gaiman]] stated that before he began writing the first draft, he wanted to make sure the idea of the Corsair was okay with [[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|Amy]] in which the Doctor talks about the Corsair. 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 asked the Corsair if he could travel with him and act as his "[[companion|assistant]]", but the Corsair just laughed. Steven 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</ref>
==Appearance==
=== The Brilliant Book 2012 ===
In their [[Seventh Corsair|seventh incarnation]], the Corsair stated that she wanted one of her next incarnations to have "a body with [[muscle]]s [...] with one of those faces people just [[trust]]". Indeed, when the [[Supreme Leader]] later encountered the final Corsair, he immediately trusted him upon seeing his face. The Corsair was also described as a "strapping big fellow" who also had a [[tattoo]] of "a snake-swallowing-its-tail" on his inner left [[wrist]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes (short story)|One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes]]'') [[Auntie (The Doctor's Wife)|Auntie]] also thought that the Corsair was a "strapping big bloke", and had the Corsair's left arm with the [[Ouroboros]] tattoo grafted onto her body comprised of limbs and organs taken from many individuals. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
According to ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]],'' a book that contains [[Tardis:Canon policy|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. The largest of these was during the third incarnation in which a multi-coloured variant covered a third of The Corsair's back; with the smallest being no bigger than a ten-pence coin on the Fifth incarnation's upper thigh.


Amongst their missions for the Time Lords, the Corsair stole the [[Callisto Pulse]] from the [[Callistan Kleptocracy]].
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Although she denied ever having fought the [[Dalek]]s, she was spotted in her seventh incarnation on [[Clarkor Nine]] when the Dalek scout ship arrived. It is highly likely that she was involved in those Daleks having their suction-cups and manipulator arms removed in the night and fused into a shape resembling a [[Skaro]]sian profanity.
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He visited [[Earth]] several times. He was worshipped as a [[god]] by the [[Assyrian]]s until he became bored and departed with the sacred temple [[cat]].
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The Doctor and Corsair had many adventures together, getting drunk in the Corsair's fourth, fifth and eighth incarnations. Each time, the Doctor swore never to do it again. Twice, they woke up in jail and the other time they woke up in the [[Bank of England]] vaults.
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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.
 
Gaiman expanded on the history of the Corsair in the ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012|The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012]]'', in which he indicates that the Corsair had a total of nine regenerations, several of which were female.
 
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Latest revision as of 04:20, 10 October 2024

The Ninth Corsair was the final incarnation of the Renegade Time Lord known as the Corsair. He was often described as being a "strapping big fellow".

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

The final incarnation of the Corsair visited the Supreme Leader to collect the feather left behind by his Parrot companion. He also collected a reward for supplying information on the mysterious woman and bird whom had escaped the Supreme Leader (in actuality one of his own past incarnations). He disappeared, and was never heard from again. (PROSE: One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes)

The Corsair drew their name from frequently going on unofficial missions for the Time Lords, with their status as a Renegade meaning that the Time Lords could claim they had no responsibility for the Corsair's actions. One such mission saw the Ninth Corsair taking part in the Fourth Universal Survey Expedition, an effort on the part of the Time Lords to keep tabs on all of reality. (PROSE: Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair) Like many Time Lords before him, the Corsair was lured by distress calls seemingly coming from other Time Lords, and left his home universe through a rift in the Vortex and into a bubble universe.

The Eleventh Doctor sees Auntie has the Corsair's arm. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)

There, the Corsair went the way of House's numerous other Time Lord victims who had fallen into House's bubble universe and was marooned when his TARDIS was drained of energy by the parasitic entity known as "House". The Corsair had only just enough time to get a message together before he was finally killed. The two "patchwork-people" created by House, "Auntie" and "Uncle", received the Corsair's left arm and "the spine and the kidneys", respectively.

The Eleventh Doctor discovered the Corsair's fate after being contacted by a hypercube with their peculiar Ouroboros symbol and following its psychically encoded distress message to House. He eventually discovered the Corsair's remains in Auntie and Uncle; this and the stockpile of hypercubes House used as bait cemented his fury in confronting and defeating House with Idris. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

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)

Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]

In their seventh incarnation, the Corsair stated that she wanted one of her next incarnations to have "a body with muscles [...] with one of those faces people just trust". Indeed, when the Supreme Leader later encountered the final Corsair, he immediately trusted him upon seeing his face. The Corsair was also described as a "strapping big fellow" who also had a tattoo of "a snake-swallowing-its-tail" on his inner left wrist. (PROSE: One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes) Auntie also thought that the Corsair was a "strapping big bloke", and had the Corsair's left arm with the Ouroboros tattoo grafted onto her body comprised of limbs and organs taken from many individuals. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)

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