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|affiliation2 = Torchwood Three
|home era        = [[51st century]]
|partner      = Jack Harkness
|appearances     = <ul><li>[[TW]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]''</li><li>[[TW]]: ''[[Fragments]]'' (cameo)</li><li>[[TW]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]''</li><li>[[TWN]]: ''[[In the Shadows]]''</li><li>[[TWM]]: ''[[Shrouded]]''
|partner2     = TARDIS (The War Master)
|actor           = [[James Marsters]]
|job          = Time Agent
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:''For the [[Royal Navy]] officer of the same name, see: [[John Hart (The Sea Devils)|here]]. For other individuals named Hart, see [[Hart]].''
|first cs     = Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)
Captain '''John Hart''' was a rogue [[Time Agent]] who traveled to [[Cardiff]] in [[2008]]. He was an old friend and lover of [[Jack Harkness]]. Like Jack, his real name is unknown. The name 'John Hart' was an alias he made up when hearing Jack's name, his intentions were to make it the same but different as an attempt of sarcasm. ([[TW]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'')
|appearances  = {{appears}}
|actor       = James Marsters
|clip        = Captain John is Injected with Torchwood DNA Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Torchwood
|clip2        = Booby trapped building 2 - Torchwood - BBC
}}{{you may|John Hart (The Sea Devils)|n1=a navy captain|John Hurt|n2 = the actor who played the War Doctor}}
"'''Captain John Hart'''" was an alias adopted by a rogue [[Time Agent]] after hearing his friend and lover [[Jack Harkness]]' choice of name. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)}})


==Biography==
== Biography ==
===With the Time Agency===
=== Childhood ===
Hart was a former partner of Jack Harkness during their time in the [[Time Agency]], both professionally and sexually. During their time in the Agency, Hart was trapped in a two-week [[Time loop|time loop]] with Harkness for a period of five years; after a brief argument, Hart agreed that he had been "a good wife, too". ([[TW]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'') He had been in rehab for drink, drugs, sex and even murder. By the time Hart re-united with Jack, the Agency had closed.
John Hart, an alias he would later adopt, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)}}) was a "naughty boy" as a child. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The War Master (audio story)}})
[[file:15.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Captain John Hart coming through the rift. ([[TW]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'')|200px]]


===After the Agency===
=== With the Time Agency ===
In [[2008]], Captain John Hart appeared through the [[Cardiff Rift]] to ask for Jack's help in locating three [[radioactive]] cluster bombs, apparently scattered across Cardiff. Jack told the [[Torchwood 3]] team Hart could not be trusted, but agreed to help him. John seized the containers, trying to kill [[Gwen Cooper]] using a [[paralyzing lip gloss]], shooting Owen and pushing Jack off the top of a building, thinking he was dead. However, the containers, which were supposed to contain the location of an [[Arcadian diamond]] hidden by the woman he had murdered, instead contained an explosive, which latched onto the [[DNA|DNA signature]] of her killer. Using the DNA of the [[Torchwood 3]] crew, John superficially altered his DNA. Jack and Owen were able to save John's life before forcing him back through the Rift, but not before he revealed he had found Jack's brother, [[Gray]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'')
[[File:John_Hart_and_Jack_Harkness_Time_Agents.jpg|thumb|left|The two time agents, long before either chose their respective names. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Secret Agent Man (comic story)}})]]
[[file:Kiss_Kiss_Bang_Bang.jpg|thumb|200px|John realising that the diamond he was hoping for is actually a bomb. ([[TW]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'')]]
Hart was a former partner of Jack Harkness during their time in the [[Time Agency]], both professionally, and sexually. During their time in the Agency, Hart was trapped in a two-week [[time loop]] with Jack for a period of five years. While briefly arguing over who the "wife" was in the relationship, Hart agreed that he had been "a good wife, too". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)}})
John found Jack's younger brother [[Gray]], who, consumed by wrath at Jack for having supposedly abandoned him, had turned against him. [[Gray]] used John as an instrument of revenge. He molecularly bonded John's [[vortex manipulator]] to the skin on John's wrist and added a Ninth Generation Detenator to it. Gray then threatened to activate the detenator if John did not comply with his plans. ([[TW]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]'')
[[file:20.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Captain John Hart in hologram form. ([[TW]]: ''[[Fragments]]'')|200px]]
John planted several bombs in an abandoned warehouse and the Torchwood team detected it as having came through the rift. At first they assumed it was [[Weevils]], but as they investigated, they found bombs which detonated with the team inside the building. The team escaped from the rubble, injured but alive. Jack's vortex manipulator started to bleep and revealed John in a hologram form showing that he had Gray and told Jack he was going to wreak havoc in his world. ([[TW]]: ''[[Fragments]]'')
[[file:32.jpg|thumb|right|200px|John in 27 A.D. ([[TW]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]'')]]
John lured Jack back to the Hub and killed him. With the others dealing with various aliens in Cardiff, John took Jack, who had came back to life, to 27 AD, Cardiff, where he met Gray. He was then ordered by Gray to bury Jack alive, but refused as he still loved his old friend, but Gray threatened to activate the detonator if he did not comply. Before he filled in the grave he threw a ring, which was really a tracking device, into the hole. John was then set free by Gray. He decided to go back to Torchwood and find Jack to save him, calling it a matter of honour. He was briefly imprisoned by Gray along with Gwen Cooper and [[Ianto Jones]], during which time he sent out a recall signal that stopped a [[Weevil]] infestation of Cardiff. After Gray's defeat, and the subsequent deaths of [[Toshiko Sato]] and [[Owen Harper]], Hart left the Hub. Jack offered to help pinpoint a Rift event that John could use to return to his own time, but Hart reflected that it might be interesting to explore the world and get a better feel for what Jack found so fascinating about this time period. ([[TW]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]'')


John Hart visited Ianto's funeral in 2009, watching from a distance and saying "Take care, Eye Candy". Sometime afterwards, John ended up in [[Mexico]], making a living from buying and selling alien artefacts from a rift off the Gulf. There, he met [[Beatrice]] and experienced "love at first sight". However, she stole an old-model [[vortex manipulator]] and went after Ianto Jones, two years prior to his death, in an attempt to make him change the timeline. Hart teamed up with [[Rhys Williams]], as Gwen was now a young mother, and sought out Ianto. ([[TWM]]: ''[[Shrouded]]'')
On another occasion, the two time agents faced off against a horde of [[Weeping Angel]]s.


==Items==
After two years of Jack's memory had been erased, John and other Time Agents refused to discuss it with him. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Secret Agent Man (comic story)}})
Hart wielded a [[samurai sword]] from feudal Japan, along with 21st century day pistols that he kept in holsters from the American Old West. He also had a vortex manipulator. He wore a red Hussar's jacket and boots from ancient Italy. The jacket's top left hand button was missing. ([[TW]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'')


==Special abilities==
He had been in rehab for drink, drugs, sex and even murder. By the time that Hart reunited with Jack, the Agency had closed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)}})
Captain John's [[vortex manipulator]] allowed him to [[Time travel]] and teleport. The manipulator's other functions allowed him to assume control of nearby technology, such as CD players, trigger long-distance explosives and project and receive [[hologram|holographic]] messages. As a 51st century male, John possessed evolved pheromones which made him more sexually attractive. ([[TW]]: ''[[Fragments]]'')


==Behind the scenes==
=== After the Agency ===
* [[James Marsters]] originally wanted to be in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' after catching an episode of the new series with his agent, but was cast in ''[[Torchwood]]'' instead.
At some point, John found Jack's younger brother [[Gray (Fragments)|Gray]] in a city on the [[Bedlam Outlands]]. Gray, consumed with wrath at his brother for having supposedly abandoned him, had turned against Jack. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Exit Wounds (TV story)}})
* Marsters has expressed interest in returning as Hart. It remains to be seen if Hart will appear in [[Series 4 (Torchwood)|Series 4]].
 
[[File:15.jpg|thumb|left|Captain John Hart coming through the Rift. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)}})]]
Captain John killed [[hologram woman|the owner]] of canisters containing an explosive that latched onto the [[DNA|DNA signature]] of her killer, thinking that they would lead to an [[Arcadian diamond]]. She created a [[Rift storm]] and they came through the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|Cardiff Rift]] into [[Cardiff]]. He followed them through and asked [[Torchwood Three]] to help find these canisters, which he told them were radioactive bombs.
 
John stole the canisters from under Torchwood's noses, paralysing [[Gwen Cooper]] with [[paralysing lip gloss]] and wounding [[Owen Harper]]. He attempted to kill Jack, but he had become immortal. He sent [[Ianto Jones]] off to see if he could save the others and he succeeded.
 
[[File:Somebody set up john the bomb.jpg|thumb|John realising that the diamond he was hoping for is actually a bomb. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)}})]]
Finding the last piece on a [[Blowfish]], the contents of the canisters formed into a [[DNA bomb|bomb]], and a [[hologram]] of the canisters' [[hologram woman|owner]] told him the truth about them. Using the [[DNA]] of the Torchwood Three crew, John superficially altered his DNA. Jack and Owen were able to save John's life and safely dispose of the bomb before forcing him back through the Rift, but not before he revealed to Jack he had found Gray. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)}})
 
Gray used John as an instrument of revenge. He molecularly bonded [[John Hart's vortex manipulator|John's vortex manipulator]] to the skin on John's wrist and added a Ninth Generation Detonator to it. Gray then threatened to activate the detonator if John did not comply with his plans. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Exit Wounds (TV story)}})
 
[[File:20.jpg|left|thumb|Captain John Hart in [[hologram]] form. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Fragments (TV story)}})]]
Returning to Cardiff, John planted several bombs in an abandoned warehouse to trick the Torchwood team into being caught in. The team escaped from the rubble, injured but alive. At that point, [[Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator|Jack's vortex manipulator]] started to beep, revealing John in hologram form, showing that he had Gray. John told Jack he was going to wreak havoc in his world. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Fragments (TV story)}})
[[File:John Hart Exit Wounds.jpg|thumb|right|John in [[27]] A.D. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Exit Wounds (TV story)}})]]
Later, John lured Jack back to the Hub and killed him. With the others dealing with various aliens in Cardiff, John took Jack, who had came back to life, to [[27]] AD Cardiff, where he had met Gray. He was then ordered by Gray to bury Jack alive, but refused as he still loved his old friend, but Gray threatened to activate the detonator if he did not comply. Before he filled in the grave he threw a ring, which was really a tracking device, into the hole. John was then set free by Gray. He decided to go back to Torchwood and find Jack to save him, calling it a matter of honour. He was briefly imprisoned by Gray along with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones, during which time he sent out a recall signal that stopped a [[Weevil]] infestation of Cardiff. After Gray's defeat, and the subsequent deaths of [[Toshiko Sato]] and Owen Harper, Hart left the Hub. Jack offered to help pinpoint a Rift event that John could use to return to his own time, but Hart reflected that it might be interesting to explore the world and get a better feel for what Jack found so fascinating about the time period. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Exit Wounds (TV story)}})
 
John Hart visited Ianto's funeral in [[2009]], watching from a distance and saying "Take care, Eye Candy". Some time afterwards, John ended up in [[Mexico]], making a living, by buying and selling alien artefacts from a rift off the Gulf. There, he met [[Mairwyn]] who introduced herself as "Beatrice", and experienced "love at first sight". However, she stole an old-model vortex manipulator and went after Ianto Jones, two years prior to his death, in an attempt to make him change the timeline. Hart teamed up with Gwen's partner [[Rhys Williams]], as Gwen was now a young mother, and sought out Ianto. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Shrouded (comic story)}})
 
In [[2016]], Hart turned up at [[Torchwood House]]. He shot [[James Stirling III]] and stole the [[Astrolabe]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|World Without End (comic story)}})
 
After helping Torchwood defeat the [[Navigator (species)|Navigators]], John stole [[Karina Stirling]]'s TARDIS. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Station Zero (comic story)}})
 
=== Legacy ===
At some point John Hart's status as a thief became known to the [[Bank of Karabraxos]]. The bank's file on Hart was one of several accessed by [[augmented human]] hacker [[Psi]] when attracting the attention of the [[The Teller (Time Heist)|Teller]] away from [[Clara Oswald]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time Heist (TV story)}})
 
== Other realities ==
After travelling back to [[1887]], John created [[Alternate timeline (The Death of Captain Jack)|an alternate timeline]]. He was [[knight]]ed [[Sir]] John Hart by Queen [[Victoria]], and later [[marriage|married]] her. At one point, Jack Harkness came after him to stop this, but John shot him and trapped him in a device which sucked his life energy out of him. Following Victoria's death, John ascended to the throne of the [[British Empire]] after declaring himself [[King of the United Kingdom|king]].
 
In [[2017]], 130 years after his arrival in 1887, he came back to a dying Jack and told him what he did with Torchwood. In the [[1940s]] he told [[Norton Folgate]] to kill some witnesses to an alien landing. He later had Torchwood fake the [[Roswell crash]] to amuse him. He then planned to extend the British Empire and defended the Earth. After forcing [[Torchwood One]] to open the [[Void Ship]] he relocated to Cardiff after the [[Dalek]]s destroyed the [[home counties]]. He had [[Gwen Cooper]] and [[Toshiko Sato]] killed and had [[Ianto Jones]] walk round the Torchwood Hub in kinky outfits. When [[the 456]] came, he gave them ten [[percent]] of the children. When he was shown [[the Blessing]], he didn't care much of it. Jack later told him that when he died, John would be left in this alternative reality and the world would reset to the original timeline. Ultimately, this timeline was negated as a result of John's tampering with a [[fixed point in time]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Death of Captain Jack (audio story)}})
 
== Appearance ==
John described the colour of his [[eye]]s as baby blue. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The War Master (audio story)}})
 
== Personality ==
For the most part, Captain John Hart was a selfish, hedonistic sociopath prone to being treacherous and unreliable, to such an extent that Jack Harkness had three rules when dealing with him: the first was never trust anything he said, the second was to always keep him in front of you and the third was to never let him kiss you, which Hart accused Jack of making so he could have his lover all to himself. Hart had amazing physical strength, being able to lift a grown man in one hand and drop him off a roof. Like Jack, he was [[omnisexual]], taking a sexual interest in both males and females, and, once, even a [[poodle]], which he found "gorgeous". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)}}) At the side of a dying [[Queen]] [[Victoria]] in [[Alternate timeline (The Death of Captain Jack)|an alternate timeline]], he proposed "one last bit of [[sex|how's your father]]" after she "[[death|shuffle[d] off]]." ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Death of Captain Jack (audio story)}}) He and Jack were once lovers and, according to Jack, John was the wife in their relationship. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)}})
 
Although Hart was selfish and treacherous, he was not heartless and genuinely cared for Captain Jack Harkness, turning against Jack's brother Gray as soon as he was freed from his control. He also told Jack that he loved him and the only reason he assisted Gray was that he would get blown up if he didn't. John also felt sorry for Jack after the deaths of Toshiko and Owen. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Exit Wounds (TV story)}})
 
John also proved to be easily bored by things and would move from committing one terrible act to another whenever the mood suited him; his access to time travel technology meant he also didn't hold temporal continuity in high regard, resorted to stealing Jack's immortality and turning loose various alien threats on the world just to appease himself, demonstrating that he also possessed psychopathic tendencies. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Death of Captain Jack (audio story)}})
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* [[James Marsters]] originally wanted to be in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' after catching an episode of the new series with his agent, but was cast in ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' instead.<ref>[https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a92592/james-marsters-torchwood/ Digital Spy]</ref>
* John Hart appears to be aware of the [[fourth wall]] on occasion. The first instance happened during ''[[The Sins of Captain John (audio anthology)|The Sins of Captain John]]'' boxset, such as him dismissing his and Jack's name continuity as "boring" and refusing to elaborate. He also broke the fourth wall and spoke to the director. During {{cs|The War Master (audio story)}}, Hart referred to [[the Doctor]] as the man "with his name in the title".
 
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Latest revision as of 01:10, 30 November 2024

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"Captain John Hart" was an alias adopted by a rogue Time Agent after hearing his friend and lover Jack Harkness' choice of name. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [+]Loading...["Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)"])

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Childhood[[edit] | [edit source]]

John Hart, an alias he would later adopt, (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [+]Loading...["Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)"]) was a "naughty boy" as a child. (AUDIO: The War Master [+]Loading...["The War Master (audio story)"])

With the Time Agency[[edit] | [edit source]]

The two time agents, long before either chose their respective names. (COMIC: Secret Agent Man [+]Loading...["Secret Agent Man (comic story)"])

Hart was a former partner of Jack Harkness during their time in the Time Agency, both professionally, and sexually. During their time in the Agency, Hart was trapped in a two-week time loop with Jack for a period of five years. While briefly arguing over who the "wife" was in the relationship, Hart agreed that he had been "a good wife, too". (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [+]Loading...["Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)"])

On another occasion, the two time agents faced off against a horde of Weeping Angels.

After two years of Jack's memory had been erased, John and other Time Agents refused to discuss it with him. (COMIC: Secret Agent Man [+]Loading...["Secret Agent Man (comic story)"])

He had been in rehab for drink, drugs, sex and even murder. By the time that Hart reunited with Jack, the Agency had closed. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [+]Loading...["Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)"])

After the Agency[[edit] | [edit source]]

At some point, John found Jack's younger brother Gray in a city on the Bedlam Outlands. Gray, consumed with wrath at his brother for having supposedly abandoned him, had turned against Jack. (TV: Exit Wounds [+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"])

Captain John Hart coming through the Rift. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [+]Loading...["Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)"])

Captain John killed the owner of canisters containing an explosive that latched onto the DNA signature of her killer, thinking that they would lead to an Arcadian diamond. She created a Rift storm and they came through the Cardiff Rift into Cardiff. He followed them through and asked Torchwood Three to help find these canisters, which he told them were radioactive bombs.

John stole the canisters from under Torchwood's noses, paralysing Gwen Cooper with paralysing lip gloss and wounding Owen Harper. He attempted to kill Jack, but he had become immortal. He sent Ianto Jones off to see if he could save the others and he succeeded.

John realising that the diamond he was hoping for is actually a bomb. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [+]Loading...["Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)"])

Finding the last piece on a Blowfish, the contents of the canisters formed into a bomb, and a hologram of the canisters' owner told him the truth about them. Using the DNA of the Torchwood Three crew, John superficially altered his DNA. Jack and Owen were able to save John's life and safely dispose of the bomb before forcing him back through the Rift, but not before he revealed to Jack he had found Gray. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [+]Loading...["Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)"])

Gray used John as an instrument of revenge. He molecularly bonded John's vortex manipulator to the skin on John's wrist and added a Ninth Generation Detonator to it. Gray then threatened to activate the detonator if John did not comply with his plans. (TV: Exit Wounds [+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"])

Captain John Hart in hologram form. (TV: Fragments [+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"])

Returning to Cardiff, John planted several bombs in an abandoned warehouse to trick the Torchwood team into being caught in. The team escaped from the rubble, injured but alive. At that point, Jack's vortex manipulator started to beep, revealing John in hologram form, showing that he had Gray. John told Jack he was going to wreak havoc in his world. (TV: Fragments [+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"])

John in 27 A.D. (TV: Exit Wounds [+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"])

Later, John lured Jack back to the Hub and killed him. With the others dealing with various aliens in Cardiff, John took Jack, who had came back to life, to 27 AD Cardiff, where he had met Gray. He was then ordered by Gray to bury Jack alive, but refused as he still loved his old friend, but Gray threatened to activate the detonator if he did not comply. Before he filled in the grave he threw a ring, which was really a tracking device, into the hole. John was then set free by Gray. He decided to go back to Torchwood and find Jack to save him, calling it a matter of honour. He was briefly imprisoned by Gray along with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones, during which time he sent out a recall signal that stopped a Weevil infestation of Cardiff. After Gray's defeat, and the subsequent deaths of Toshiko Sato and Owen Harper, Hart left the Hub. Jack offered to help pinpoint a Rift event that John could use to return to his own time, but Hart reflected that it might be interesting to explore the world and get a better feel for what Jack found so fascinating about the time period. (TV: Exit Wounds [+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"])

John Hart visited Ianto's funeral in 2009, watching from a distance and saying "Take care, Eye Candy". Some time afterwards, John ended up in Mexico, making a living, by buying and selling alien artefacts from a rift off the Gulf. There, he met Mairwyn who introduced herself as "Beatrice", and experienced "love at first sight". However, she stole an old-model vortex manipulator and went after Ianto Jones, two years prior to his death, in an attempt to make him change the timeline. Hart teamed up with Gwen's partner Rhys Williams, as Gwen was now a young mother, and sought out Ianto. (COMIC: Shrouded [+]Loading...["Shrouded (comic story)"])

In 2016, Hart turned up at Torchwood House. He shot James Stirling III and stole the Astrolabe. (COMIC: World Without End [+]Loading...["World Without End (comic story)"])

After helping Torchwood defeat the Navigators, John stole Karina Stirling's TARDIS. (COMIC: Station Zero [+]Loading...["Station Zero (comic story)"])

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

At some point John Hart's status as a thief became known to the Bank of Karabraxos. The bank's file on Hart was one of several accessed by augmented human hacker Psi when attracting the attention of the Teller away from Clara Oswald. (TV: Time Heist [+]Loading...["Time Heist (TV story)"])

Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

After travelling back to 1887, John created an alternate timeline. He was knighted Sir John Hart by Queen Victoria, and later married her. At one point, Jack Harkness came after him to stop this, but John shot him and trapped him in a device which sucked his life energy out of him. Following Victoria's death, John ascended to the throne of the British Empire after declaring himself king.

In 2017, 130 years after his arrival in 1887, he came back to a dying Jack and told him what he did with Torchwood. In the 1940s he told Norton Folgate to kill some witnesses to an alien landing. He later had Torchwood fake the Roswell crash to amuse him. He then planned to extend the British Empire and defended the Earth. After forcing Torchwood One to open the Void Ship he relocated to Cardiff after the Daleks destroyed the home counties. He had Gwen Cooper and Toshiko Sato killed and had Ianto Jones walk round the Torchwood Hub in kinky outfits. When the 456 came, he gave them ten percent of the children. When he was shown the Blessing, he didn't care much of it. Jack later told him that when he died, John would be left in this alternative reality and the world would reset to the original timeline. Ultimately, this timeline was negated as a result of John's tampering with a fixed point in time. (AUDIO: The Death of Captain Jack [+]Loading...["The Death of Captain Jack (audio story)"])

Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]

John described the colour of his eyes as baby blue. (AUDIO: The War Master [+]Loading...["The War Master (audio story)"])

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

For the most part, Captain John Hart was a selfish, hedonistic sociopath prone to being treacherous and unreliable, to such an extent that Jack Harkness had three rules when dealing with him: the first was never trust anything he said, the second was to always keep him in front of you and the third was to never let him kiss you, which Hart accused Jack of making so he could have his lover all to himself. Hart had amazing physical strength, being able to lift a grown man in one hand and drop him off a roof. Like Jack, he was omnisexual, taking a sexual interest in both males and females, and, once, even a poodle, which he found "gorgeous". (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [+]Loading...["Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)"]) At the side of a dying Queen Victoria in an alternate timeline, he proposed "one last bit of how's your father" after she "shuffle[d] off." (AUDIO: The Death of Captain Jack [+]Loading...["The Death of Captain Jack (audio story)"]) He and Jack were once lovers and, according to Jack, John was the wife in their relationship. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [+]Loading...["Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)"])

Although Hart was selfish and treacherous, he was not heartless and genuinely cared for Captain Jack Harkness, turning against Jack's brother Gray as soon as he was freed from his control. He also told Jack that he loved him and the only reason he assisted Gray was that he would get blown up if he didn't. John also felt sorry for Jack after the deaths of Toshiko and Owen. (TV: Exit Wounds [+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"])

John also proved to be easily bored by things and would move from committing one terrible act to another whenever the mood suited him; his access to time travel technology meant he also didn't hold temporal continuity in high regard, resorted to stealing Jack's immortality and turning loose various alien threats on the world just to appease himself, demonstrating that he also possessed psychopathic tendencies. (AUDIO: The Death of Captain Jack [+]Loading...["The Death of Captain Jack (audio story)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • James Marsters originally wanted to be in Doctor Who after catching an episode of the new series with his agent, but was cast in Torchwood instead.[1]
  • John Hart appears to be aware of the fourth wall on occasion. The first instance happened during The Sins of Captain John boxset, such as him dismissing his and Jack's name continuity as "boring" and refusing to elaborate. He also broke the fourth wall and spoke to the director. During The War Master [+]Loading...["The War Master (audio story)"], Hart referred to the Doctor as the man "with his name in the title".

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Digital Spy
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timelines
The monarchs are listed in rough chronological order by the time of their coronation.
Please note that this template only uses information from DWU sources. Real world information should not enter into this.
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Torchwood Three personnel
Turn of the 20th century
Mid-late 20th century
21st century
Notable associates
Pets
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