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Oblivion

Key crew

Publisher:

Marvel Comics UK

Writer:

Scott Gray

Artist:

Martin Geraghty, David A. Roach

Release details

Number of parts:

6

Printed in:

DWM 323-328

Release date:

17 October 2002 - 6 March 2003

Cover date:

13 November 2002 - 2 April 2003

Reprinted in:

Oblivion

Format:

Comic

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Oblivion is a Doctor Who Magazine comic story featuring the Eighth Doctor and the departure of Izzy Sinclair.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor and Izzy's adventures reach their apotheosis as the TARDIS is brought to the mysterious world known only as Oblivion.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Izzy Sinclair awakens in a bizarre court populated by grotesque animal/human hybrids who believe her to be the Primatrix Destrii, daughter of the Matriax Scalamanthia - a violent matriarch who orders her "daughter" to prepare for her coming wedding. Outside the court, the Doctor's TARDIS materialises in an urban wasteland festooned with skulls, on a world which isn't listed in the TARDIS data banks. Fey Truscott-Sade sets off in search of Izzy, but Destrii then flees, telling a group of passing peasants that the Eighth Doctor is from the castle. The angry peasants attack him, but he is rescued by the leonine Jodafra, Destrii's uncle, who detected the arrival of the Doctor's TARDIS. Jodafra is also a scientist who built the chronon capsule that first enabled Destrii to escape Oblivion, and as her test flight has proven that his theories are sound, he needs only a suitable power source in order to escape the planet himself.

Fey enters the palace, where Scalamanthia, assuming that she's trying to help Destrii escape, orders Helioth and Hassana, the twin energy-based beings who kidnapped Izzy from Kyrol, to destroy the intruder. With Shayde's guidance, Fey survives the assault and retreats to safety outside the city's protective dome. Outside the city, the twins are no longer bound to obey the Matriax, and instead they greet Fey as one who is like them, two minds co-existing as one. Fey explains why she's there, and the twins return to the city to "fix" the broken Destrii.

Destrii learns that this is the day of her wedding and rushes to the palace, unwilling to see her old body destroyed. Izzy is shocked when she's marched into a killing arena where she must prove her worthiness to wed by fighting a duel to the death with the vengeful Lady Tetronnia. At the last moment, Destrii arrives and stabs Tetronnia in the back, and then Hassana and Helioth arrive and use their powers to switch Destrii and Izzy's minds back into their own bodies. In the process, they momentarily share each other's memories. Destrii sees how Izzy withdrew into herself after learning she was adopted, and was never able to trust herself or reveal her homosexuality, and Izzy sees how Destrii was punished and abused all her life, forced to fight duels to the death in the arena and treated with reverence and fear by everyone but her uncle Jodafra.

The Doctor and Jodafra arrive in the arena just as the enraged Scalamanthia begins to beat her daughter for making a mockery of their traditions -- but Destrii, finally pushed too far, stabs her mother to death. At the moment of the Matriax's death, a horde of creatures just like the twins, ten billion strong, descends upon the city, melting away anyone and anything in their path. Fey rescues the others and takes them back to Jodafra's laboratory, where he explains that the ruling families of this world once unleashed upon their enemies a biological weapon that stripped away its victims' minds. The elite sealed themselves inside this citadel to wait until the plague burned itself out, but instead it transformed its victims into psychic generators with no sense of individual identity. The Horde's power shielded Oblivion from the rest of the universe and transformed the royal family into monsters, and they've been forced to fight for the Horde's amusement ever since. Presumably some vestige of memory kept them deferential to their Matriax, and there's nothing holding them back in the wake of her death.

Destrii, shaken by her experiences, surrenders to the Horde, but they pour all of their energy into her. The Doctor realises that the people of the Horde have no identities of their own, and that the gladiatorial combats were meant to weed out a leader. Destrii now has all the power of the Horde at her disposal, but as she prepares to strike back at the cruel palace that destroyed her childhood, Izzy reminds her that she's always wanted to be free, and as long as she's the core of the Horde, they'll be with her for the rest of her life. Destrii, confused, follows her uncle back to his laboratory, where the Doctor has just realised the truth; Jodafra sent Destrii into the Vortex as a distraction, and while the twins were searching for her, he constructed a psionic extractor with which he intends to use to drain the psychic energy out of the Horde and into his chronon capsule. Realising that even her uncle has used her, Destrii makes her own decision what to do next - she grabs the capsule with Jodafra inside, carries it up above the city, and draws the Horde into it. The capsule vanishes in a burst of psychic energy, and Destrii recovers inside, mortal once again. Now she and her uncle are free to travel throughout time and space together.

The surviving courtiers flee in terror as the peasants raid the palace, realising that their rule is at an end. Izzy has come to terms with who she really is at last, and, after kissing Fey farewell, she asks the Doctor to take her home so she can set things right with her adoptive parents. The Doctor returns her to Stockbridge at the moment she first started travelling with him, and after bidding him a fond farewell, she returns home, having grown and learned from her travels.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor compares Izzy's past trousers to Rupert the Bear's.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Izzy's last memories before awakening on Oblivion were of being at Alpha's secret Dalek society on Kyrol. (COMIC: Children of the Revolution)
Until she sees her in-person, Izzy still thought Destrii had been killed by the Mobox. (COMIC: Ophidius)
Destrii informs the Doctor that Izzy told her about Grace Holloway. (COMIC: Ophidius)
The Doctor remembers his promise to taker Izzy to the Library of Alexandria. (COMIC: The Company of Thieves)
Before returning her to the very time she left Stockbridge, the Doctor repeats Izzy's joke that he "really [hasn't] got this time-travel lark sussed out" to her. (COMIC: By Hook or By Crook)
When asked about her day, Izzy thinks back on her travels, seeing images of the Toymaker, (COMIC: Endgame) the Pariah, (COMIC: Wormwood) Varney, (COMIC: Tooth and Claw) Donald Stark, (COMIC: The Fallen) Frida Kahlo, (COMIC: The Way of All Flesh) Sister Chastity, (COMIC: Fire and Brimstone) Kroton, (COMIC: The Company of Thieves) Emperor Zero, (COMIC: The Autonomy Bug) Sato Katsura, (COMIC: The Road to Hell) and a Torajenn. (COMIC: The Way of All Flesh)

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+|companions      = [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]], [[Fey Truscott-Sade|Feyde]]
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+'''''Oblivion''''' is a ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic story featuring the [[Eighth Doctor]] and the departure of [[Izzy Sinclair]].
-{{Infobox Comic|
+== Summary ==
-comic name= Oblivion|
+The Doctor and Izzy's adventures reach their apotheosis as the TARDIS is brought to the mysterious world known only as Oblivion.
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-series= [[Doctor Who Magazine comic strips|Doctor Who]] -<BR> [[Eighth Doctor comic strip stories]]|
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-companions= [[Izzy Sinclair]]|
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-artist= [[Martin Geraghty]], [[David A. Roach]]|
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-publication dates= 13 November [[2002]] - 2 April [[2003]]|
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-format= Comic - 6 parts |
-previous story= [[Uroboros]]|
-next story= [[Where Nobody Knows Your Name]]|
-}}
-==Summary==
+== Plot ==
-Izzy, trapped in Destrii’s body, is punished by the Matriax, but saved further torment by the arrival of Destrii’s uncle, Count Jodafra. However, Jodafra’s casual manner to the Matriax infuriates one of the lords, who challenges him to a sword fight. But the Matriax has her own defenders, glowing aliens called Helioth and Hassana who appear hand-in-hand and vaporise the lord. The Matriax tells Izzy that her wedding will commence at dawn. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Feyde and Destrii arrive on Oblivion. The Doctor is puzzled because no planet is recorded at those spatial coordinates during any time period. It is a dead, stale world.
+[[Izzy Sinclair]] awakens in a bizarre court populated by grotesque animal/human hybrids who believe her to be the [[Primatrix]] [[Destrii]], daughter of the [[Matriax]] [[Scalamanthia]] - a violent matriarch who orders her "daughter" to prepare for her coming wedding. Outside the court, [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] materialises in an urban wasteland festooned with skulls, on a world which isn't listed in the TARDIS data banks. [[Fey Truscott-Sade]] sets off in search of Izzy, but Destrii then flees, telling a group of passing peasants that the [[Eighth Doctor]] is from the castle. The angry peasants attack him, but he is rescued by the leonine [[Jodafra]], Destrii's uncle, who detected the arrival of the Doctor's TARDIS. Jodafra is also a scientist who built the chronon capsule that first enabled Destrii to escape Oblivion, and as her test flight has proven that his theories are sound, he needs only a suitable power source in order to escape the planet himself.
-Discovering a palace, Feyde shadow-slips inside, but Destrii gets away from the Doctor by setting some of the locals on him. He is saved by Jodafra, who detected his arrival, but Jodafra insists that the Doctor accompany him to the palace. Destrii, meanwhile, sees Izzy on a screen, realises she has been gone a lot longer than she planned and races to save her own skin. Feyde shadow-slips into Izzy’s chamber and prepares to rescue her, but the Matriax knew deceit was planned and summons Helioth and Hassana who blast Feyde.
-Using Shayde’s skills, Fey fights back, but cannot hurt the aliens. Swearing to return for Izzy, she flees, but the Matriax sends Helioth and Hassana after her. While Jodafra tells the Doctor of a plague that transformed the royal house into bizarre creatures and shows him the chronon capsule he has been building as part of his obsessive scheme to create a working time machine, Izzy is escorted to an arena. Here she sees her future husband, but is even more shocked when she realises she must fight to the death against the Lady Tetronnia in order to marry him. She loses the fight and Tetronnia is about to slay her when Destrii stabs Tetronnia in the back. Consumed with rage for the anguish Destrii has caused, Izzy attacks her, intending to kill the bitch.
-Feyde has shifted as far as possible to escape Helioth and Hassana, materialising on the outside of a vast dome that covers the city. The aliens appear but no longer wish to kill her as she is now outside the Empire. Feyde explains about the mind swap and the aliens determine to fix things. As the Doctor and Jodafra race to the area, Helioth and Hassana halt the duel and place the minds back in their respective bodies, though there is a moment when Izzy and Destrii’s memories mix. The Matriax is furious that Destrii has made a mockery of the ceremony and attacks the girl, but Destrii takes a knife and stabs her mother in the guts. Jodafra is horrified; the thread has been cut. Feyde sees aliens like Helioth and Hassana emerge from the landscape around the dome. There are ten billion of them, and Shayde detects that they are angry.
-The beings advance on the domed city, scattering the molecules of anything in their path. Feyde joins the Doctor and Izzy. The Doctor has a plan. He tells Feyde to fire at Helioth and Hassana’s hands to separate them. She does, which leaves them powerless and blind. Heading for Jodafra’s home, the Count explains that Oblivion was once a rich world where the ruling houses made proud war. But weapons were created that ate the flesh from within, mutating minds, destroying memories. The capital city was sealed off in a dome, leaving the population to die. Six months later, a masked ball was held in the palace, with everyone disguised as a beast, but a psychokinetic pulse reshaped their molecular structure so they became the creatures they resembled. The cause was the Horde, the transformed remnants of the population. They were childlike and eager for entertainment, hence the arena, but also held some memory of the Matriax as their ruler. Izzy tries to comfort Destrii, now knowing what she went through, but Destrii rounds on her - at least she had parents who cared. Destrii goes outside to offer herself to the Horde for punishment for killing her mother. But the punishment transforms Destrii into the queen of the Horde.
-Izzy attempts to talk Destrii round, while the Doctor follows Jodafra. The Count plans to escape in his chronon capsule. He has adapted the engines to feed on the psionic energy generated by the Horde, but Destrii senses his plan and goes to him. She raises the chronon capsule into the air and the Horde follow, but it is a trick and Destrii is returned to flesh and blood and the Horde become fuel for Jodafra’s ship which takes off for worlds anew. Izzy has learned a lot from her experiences, including people can’t help being who they are and shouldn’t be afraid of who they are. She proves she no longer is by kissing Fey, but she wants now to go home to Stockbridge to try to put things right between her and her parents. The Doctor returns her the same night she left in the TARDIS.
-==Characters==
+Fey enters the palace, where Scalamanthia, assuming that she's trying to help Destrii escape, orders [[Helioth]] and [[Hassana]], the twin energy-based beings who kidnapped Izzy from [[Kyrol]], to destroy the intruder. With [[Shayde]]'s guidance, Fey survives the assault and retreats to safety outside the city's protective dome. Outside the city, the twins are no longer bound to obey the Matriax, and instead they greet Fey as one who is like them, two minds co-existing as one. Fey explains why she's there, and the twins return to the city to "fix" the broken Destrii.
-*[[Eighth Doctor]]
-*[[Izzy Sinclair]]
-*[[Destrii]]
-*[[Feyde]]
-*[[Jodafra]]
-*[[Matriax Scalamanthia]]
-==References==
+Destrii learns that this is the day of her wedding and rushes to the palace, unwilling to see her old body destroyed. Izzy is shocked when she's marched into a killing arena where she must prove her worthiness to wed by fighting a duel to the death with the vengeful Lady [[Tetronnia]]. At the last moment, Destrii arrives and stabs Tetronnia in the back, and then Hassana and Helioth arrive and use their powers to switch Destrii and Izzy's minds back into their own bodies. In the process, they momentarily share each other's memories. Destrii sees how Izzy withdrew into herself after learning she was adopted, and was never able to trust herself or reveal her [[homosexuality]], and Izzy sees how Destrii was punished and abused all her life, forced to fight duels to the death in the arena and treated with reverence and fear by everyone but her uncle Jodafra.
-*The Doctor mentions Alpha's [[Dalek ]]civillisation on [[Kyrol]].
-==Notes==
-*This strip confirms [[Izzy]]'s orientation as a homosexual hinted way back since [[DWM]]: [[Tooth and Claw|''Tooth and Claw'']].
-==Continuity==
+The Doctor and Jodafra arrive in the arena just as the enraged Scalamanthia begins to beat her daughter for making a mockery of their traditions -- but Destrii, finally pushed too far, stabs her mother to death. At the moment of the Matriax's death, a horde of creatures just like the twins, ten billion strong, descends upon the city, melting away anyone and anything in their path. Fey rescues the others and takes them back to Jodafra's laboratory, where he explains that the ruling families of this world once unleashed upon their enemies a biological weapon that stripped away its victims' minds. The elite sealed themselves inside this citadel to wait until the plague burned itself out, but instead it transformed its victims into psychic generators with no sense of individual identity. The Horde's power shielded Oblivion from the rest of the universe and transformed the royal family into monsters, and they've been forced to fight for the Horde's amusement ever since. Presumably some vestige of memory kept them deferential to their Matriax, and there's nothing holding them back in the wake of her death.
+Destrii, shaken by her experiences, surrenders to the Horde, but they pour all of their energy into her. The Doctor realises that the people of the Horde have no identities of their own, and that the gladiatorial combats were meant to weed out a leader. Destrii now has all the power of the Horde at her disposal, but as she prepares to strike back at the cruel palace that destroyed her childhood, Izzy reminds her that she's always wanted to be free, and as long as she's the core of the Horde, they'll be with her for the rest of her life. Destrii, confused, follows her uncle back to his laboratory, where the Doctor has just realised the truth; Jodafra sent Destrii into the Vortex as a distraction, and while the twins were searching for her, he constructed a psionic extractor with which he intends to use to drain the psychic energy out of the Horde and into his chronon capsule. Realising that even her uncle has used her, Destrii makes her own decision what to do next - she grabs the capsule with Jodafra inside, carries it up above the city, and draws the Horde into it. The capsule vanishes in a burst of psychic energy, and Destrii recovers inside, mortal once again. Now she and her uncle are free to travel throughout time and space together.
+The surviving courtiers flee in terror as the peasants raid the palace, realising that their rule is at an end. Izzy has come to terms with who she really is at last, and, after kissing Fey farewell, she asks the Doctor to take her home so she can set things right with her adoptive parents. The Doctor returns her to [[Stockbridge]] at the moment she first started travelling with him, and after bidding him a fond farewell, she returns home, having grown and learned from her travels.
+== Characters ==
+* [[Eighth Doctor]]
+* [[Izzy Sinclair]]
+* [[Fey Truscott-Sade]]
+* [[Destrii]]
+* [[Shayde]]
+* [[Matriax]] [[Scalamanthia]]
+* [[Count]] [[Jodafra]]
+* [[Helioth]]
+* [[Hassana]]
+* Duke [[Borvathorius]]
+* Lady [[Tetronnia]]
+* Lord [[Kaluthis]]
+* [[Dolt]]
+* [[Sandra Sinclair]]
+* [[Les Sinclair]]
+* [[Maxwell Edison]]
+== Worldbuilding ==
+* The Doctor compares Izzy's past trousers to [[Rupert the Bear]]'s.
+== Notes ==
 ''to be added''
-==[[Eighth Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]]==
+== Continuity ==
-*This story takes place after [[DWM]]: ''[[Uroboros]]''
+* Izzy's last memories before awakening on [[Oblivion (planet)|Oblivion]] were of being at [[Alpha (The Evil of the Daleks)|Alpha]]'s secret [[Dalek]] society on [[Kyrol]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Children of the Revolution (comic story)|Children of the Revolution]]'')
-*This story takes place before [[DWM]]: ''[[Where Nobody Knows Your Name]]''
+* Until she sees her in-person, Izzy still thought Destrii had been killed by the [[Mobox]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ophidius (comic story)|Ophidius]]'')
+* Destrii informs the Doctor that Izzy told her about [[Grace Holloway]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ophidius (comic story)|Ophidius]]'')
+* The Doctor remembers his promise to taker Izzy to the [[Library of Alexandria]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Company of Thieves (comic story)|The Company of Thieves]]'')
+* Before returning her to the very time she left Stockbridge, the Doctor repeats Izzy's joke that he "really [hasn't] got this time-travel lark sussed out" to her. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[By Hook or By Crook (comic story)|By Hook or By Crook]]'')
+* When asked about her day, Izzy thinks back on her travels, seeing images of [[the Toymaker]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'') [[the Pariah]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Wormwood (comic story)|Wormwood]]'') [[Varney]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (comic story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') [[Donald Stark]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'') [[Frida Kahlo]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Way of All Flesh (comic story)|The Way of All Flesh]]'') [[Sister Chastity]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fire and Brimstone (comic story)|Fire and Brimstone]]'') [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Company of Thieves (comic story)|The Company of Thieves]]'') Emperor [[Zero (The Autonomy Bug)|Zero]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Autonomy Bug (comic story)|The Autonomy Bug]]'') [[Sato Katsura]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'') and a [[Torajenn]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Way of All Flesh (comic story)|The Way of All Flesh]]'')
-==External links==
+{{Eighth Doctor DWM comics}}
-''to be added''
+{{TitleSort}}
-{{comic stub}}
+[[Category:Eighth Doctor DWM comic stories]]
-[[Category:Eighth Doctor comic stories]]
+[[Category:2002 comic stories]]
+[[Category:2003 comic stories]]
+[[Category:Stories set in Stockbridge]]
+[[Category:Six part comics]]

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