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|first mention = The Doctor's Wife (TV story)
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|first        = Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair (short story)
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'''The Corsair''' was a [[Time Lord]], described by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as "one of the good ones". The Corsair apparently took on different sexes throughout many incarnations. The Doctor noted that when the Corsair was female, "she was a bad girl."
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 ==
==Biography==
The [[Fourth Doctor]] once said to [[Romana]] that he should meet up with the Corsair sometime; he described the Corsair as both male and female in the same sentence, implying one of his [[Regeneration|regenerations]] had already been female. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]'')
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]]'')


The Corsair had the symbol of the [[Ouroboros]] [[tattoo]]ed on each of his or her incarnations and also imprinted on his [[hypercube]]. The final incarnation of the Corsair was described by [[Auntie (The Doctor's Wife)|Auntie]], a composite [[humanoid]] servant of [[House]], as "a strapping big bloke." She was a good authority on the matter; after all, she had the Corsair's left arm stitched on to 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 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]].  


The [[Eleventh Doctor]] discovered the Corsair's fate after being contacted by a [[hypercube]] and following its [[psychic]]ally encoded distress message to House. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')
[[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.


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]]'')
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 Brilliant Book 2012 ===
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]]'')
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; the smallest was 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.
==Appearance==
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]]'')


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 arm]]s removed in the night and fused into a shape resembling a [[Skaro]]sian profanity. The Daleks departed shortly afterward.
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He visited [[Earth]] several times. He was worshipped as a [[god]] by the Assyrians 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 vaults of the [[Bank of England]].
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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.
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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. It was actor [[Jon Pertwee]]'s own tattoo from his [[Royal Navy]] service during the [[Second World War]]. ([[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.
* 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 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 [[The Shopkeeper|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.
 
== Trivia ==
*It is possible that the Corsair did not change genders at all and is just a Hermaphrodite.
*The Corsair is the first Time Lord to be mentioned to change genders in the Doctor Who Franchise.
*It is unknown if the Corsair changed gender through [[Regeneration]] or by other means.
*It is possible the Doctor was lying when he said the Corsair had changed genders.
 
== Footnotes ==
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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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