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[[file:TurnRight.JPG|thumb|250px|Under the influence of a [[time beetle]], [[Donna Noble]] turned right. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'') ]]
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'''Donna's World''' was a rewritten version of the timeline, created when [[Donna Noble]] turned right instead of left while deciding which of two different job interviews to attend. As a result, [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] never met Donna and died underneath the [[Thames Barrier]]. He also never met [[Martha Jones]]. These events resulted in devastating effects for [[Earth]] and the [[universe]].
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A '''[[parallel world]]''' centred around the life of [[Donna Noble]] was created, despite parallel worlds being typically sealed off, by the [[Time Beetle]], one of [[the Trickster]]'s [[the Trickster's Brigade|Brigade]]. This was unusual, as most times when the Brigade changed time, the [[universe]] just compensated around it. In this world, Donna turned right instead of left while deciding which of two different job interviews to attend. As a result, the [[Tenth Doctor (Turn Left)|Tenth Doctor]] never met Donna and died underneath the [[River Thames (Turn Left)|Thames]] on [[24 December|Christmas Eve]] [[2007]]. These events resulted in devastating effects for [[Earth (Turn Left)|Earth]]. Using the surface technology of [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Turn Left)|the Doctor's TARDIS]], Donna [[Time travel|travelled back in time]] to make her younger self turn left again. According to both the Doctor and Donna, this world subsequently ceased to exist. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


== History ==
== Nature ==
While on the [[planet]] [[Shan Shen]], Donna was unknowingly fitted with a [[time beetle]], part of the [[Trickster's Brigade]]. A [[fortune teller]] selected a point in her life where making a seemingly random choice had enormous ramifications.
The exact nature of this parallel world was unclear.
 
When the [[Tenth Doctor]] explained the nature of it to [[Donna Noble]] after its negation, he specifically used the term "[[parallel world]]", noting that the creation of such worlds was normally impossible due to [[the universe]] compensating for the actions of [[the Trickster]]'s [[the Trickster's Brigade|Brigade]] and that parallel worlds were sealed off from one another. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) A connected account also referenced Donna's parallel world in relation to [[Rose Tyler]]'s [[Pete's World|parallel world]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}})


In June [[2007]], Donna had to make a choice between two jobs. The moment she chose between the jobs was at a junction. Her agency had offered her a contract with [[H.C. Clements]], which while temporary, was posh and in the centre of [[London]], which Donna enjoyed. Her mother, [[Sylvia Noble]], had managed to get her another job opportunity to become the personal secretary of [[Jival Chowdry]], owner of a photocopying business. Although this would be a permanent job, Donna found it less interesting.
One described it as an "[[alternative timeline]]", created following the [[Time Beetle]]'s alterations to [[Donna Noble's timeline|Donna's timeline]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded (reference book)|page=41}}) in an attempt to feed off the [[time energy]] caused by the disruption. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=132}}) Another called it an "alternate timeline". ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Planet of the Dead (game)|page=234}})


While driving and in discussing the dilemma, Sylvia pressured her into turning right to stop by Jival Chowdry for a chat. While in the regular timeline Donna ignored her mother and turned left, in this timeline she turned right, resulting in her taking the PA job. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
One account referred to it as both a "parallel world" and "[[alternative time line]]" interchangeably. It also detailed how [[Rose Tyler]] travelled between universes. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Know Your Companions (feature)|page=8-10}})


== Timeline ==
Another account described it as an "[[alternative reality]]", seemingly as a synonym for "[[universe]]"; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)|ed=2011 reprint|page=248}}) another account also used the terms "reality" and "universe" in association with this parallel world. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Companions and Allies (reference book)|namedpart=What will you be?|page=90}}) A further account referred to it as a "whole new reality", also linking it to how [[history]] had been changed. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|What If? (short story)|page=91}}) Another account identified it as a "parallel universe". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)|namedpart=Monsters of Time}})
===[[25th December]] [[2007]] ===
The [[Tenth Doctor]] tracked down the [[Empress of the Racnoss]] to the [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]] base underneath the [[Thames Barrier]] and blew it up, which flooded the whole thing. Although the Empress of the Racnoss and her offspring drowned, the Doctor was unable to escape and died too quickly to [[regenerate]]. Donna stumbled across [[Rose Tyler]], who arrived on the scene too late to do anything. [[The Doctor's TARDIS]] was salvaged from under the Thames and sent to a [[UNIT]] base in [[Leeds]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
[[file:The_Doctor_is_dead.jpg|thumb|left|[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] is dead... ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')]]


:''In the original timeline, the Doctor met [[Donna Noble]] who saved his life when she told him to stop after the Doctor blew up the [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]] base. Also, there was a hole drilled to the centre of the Earth so the hole may have been sealed off. Rose Tyler is not believed to have been present in this timeline.'' ([[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')
A different account referred to it as a "[[parallel Earth]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Doctor and... Donna (feature)|page=49}})


=== [[2008]] ===
== History ==
[[file:The_last_person.jpg|thumb|[[Oliver Morgenstern]], the final survivor of the Royal Hospital tells the World what has happened on the Moon. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')]]
While on the [[planet]] [[Shan Shen]], Donna was unknowingly fitted with the [[Time Beetle]], one of the [[Trickster's Brigade]]. A [[fortune teller (Turn Left)|fortune teller]] selected a point in her life where making a seemingly random choice had enormous ramifications.
The [[Judoon]] [[H2O Scoop|H<sub>2</sub>O Scooped]] the [[Royal Hope Hospital]] to the Moon to find [[Florence Finnegan|a Plasmavore criminal]] and her [[Slab]] accomplices. Although they found and killed the alien criminals, the Plasmavore had already armed the MRI. [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Luke Smith]], [[Maria Jackson]], and [[Clyde Langer]], who had been in the hospital when it was transported, managed to disarm it; but they died, along with the rest of the hospital, when their [[oxygen]] ran out. The only survivor was [[Oliver Morgenstern]] who was passed the last oxygen tank by medical student [[Martha Jones]], who gave up her life to save him. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')


:''In the original timeline, [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] investigated the hospital instead of Sarah Jane, Luke, Maria and Clyde under the alias "Mr Smith" and no one suffocated because he found the Plasmavore in time. Shortly after, he took on Martha Jones as a companion.'' ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')
On [[Monday]] [[25 June]] [[2007]], Donna had to make a choice between two jobs. The moment she chose between the jobs was at a junction on [[Little Sutton Street]]. Her agency had offered her a contract with [[H.C. Clements]], which while temporary, was posh and in the centre of [[London]], which Donna enjoyed. Her mother, [[Sylvia Noble]], had got her a job opportunity to become the personal secretary of [[Jival Chowdry]], owner of [[Capital Copies Ltd|a photocopying business]]. Although this would be a permanent job, Donna found it less interesting.


:''Because those events hinged on the Doctor meeting Martha Jones, in this timeline, the events created by [[Harold Saxon]] also would never have occurred and the [[Archangel Network]] or the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'' were never designed or built, among other changes such as Captain Jack Harkness never reuniting with the Doctor. The status of certain other events post-Thames Barrier such as the incident with the [[Weeping Angel]]s'' ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]'') ''remain unclear, especially in the aftermath of [[25th December]] [[2008]] (see below) (although, in the case of ''Blink'', that event also hinged on the Weeping Angels meeting the Doctor).''
While driving and in discussing the dilemma, [[Sylvia Noble (Turn Left)|Sylvia]] pressured her into turning right towards [[Griffin's Parade]] to stop by [[Jival Chowdry#Other realities|Jival Chowdry]] for a chat. While in the regular world Donna ignored her mother and turned left towards the [[Chiswick High Road]], here she turned right, resulting in her taking the PA job. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


[[Rose Tyler]] visited Donna and advised her to persuade her family to spend [[Christmas]] some place other than London. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
[[File:The Doctor is dead.jpg|thumb|left|[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] is dead... ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})]]
On [[Christmas Eve]], the [[Tenth Doctor (Turn Left)|Tenth Doctor]] tracked down the [[Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride)#Alternate realities|Empress of the Racnoss]] to her lair beneath [[Thames Flood Barrier (Turn Left)|Thames Flood Barrier]] and blew it up, causing the Thames to be drained. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}}) Although he succeeded in defeating the Racnoss, the Doctor drowned in the process. For some reason, he didn't [[regenerate]]. It was speculated by [[Harris (Turn Left)|Private Harris]] that he drowned too fast to regenerate. His body was retrieved by [[UNIT (Turn Left)|UNIT]] soldiers and [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Turn Left)|his TARDIS]] was salvaged from under the Thames, later being sent to a UNIT base in [[Leeds (Turn Left)|Leeds]]. Donna stumbled across [[Rose Tyler]], who arrived on the scene too late to do anything. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


=== 25th December, 2008 ===
[[File:The last person.jpg|thumb|[[Oliver Morgenstern#Parallel World|Oliver Morgenstern]], the last survivor of the Royal Hospital tells the World what has happened on the Moon. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})]]
[[file:London_destroyed.jpg|thumb|left|The Mushroom cloud from ''[[Titanic (spaceship)|Titanic]]'' impact. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')]]
The [[Royal Hope Hospital (Turn Left)|Royal Hope Hospital]] was transported to [[the Moon]] by the [[Judoon]]. [[Sarah Jane Smith (Turn Left)|Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Luke Smith (Turn Left)|Luke Smith]], [[Maria Jackson (Turn Left)|Maria Jackson]], and [[Clyde Langer (Turn Left)|Clyde Langer]], who had been in the hospital when it was transported, disarmed the MRI, but they died, along with the rest of the hospital, when their [[oxygen]] ran out. The only survivor was [[Oliver Morgenstern#Parallel World|Oliver Morgenstern]], who was passed the last oxygen tank by medical student [[Martha Jones#Parallel World|Martha Jones]], who gave up her life to save him.
[[Titanic (spaceship)|A replica of the ''Titanic'']] crash-landed onto [[Buckingham Palace]] and destroyed the [[London|Greater London Area]] and flooded the whole of Southern [[England]] with [[radiation]]. Donna's family, who did decide not to stay in London for the holidays, having won a luxury getaway in a raffle, watched the events on television and were able to see the mushroom cloud of the explosion from a distance. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
:''In the original timeline, this crisis was averted thanks to the Doctor. Although the city was nearly abandoned in the main timeline, this seems not to be the case here. Also, The Doctor had stated that if the Titanic crash-landed on Earth, it would wipe out all life, but it appears he was mistaken or exaggerating, as only southern England was affected directly.'' ([[DW]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'')


=== [[2009]] ===
[[File:London destroyed.jpg|thumb|left|The mushroom cloud from ''[[Titanic (Turn Left)|Titanic's]]'' impact. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})]]
[[file:Adipose_usa_destroyed.jpg|thumb|The [[Adipose]] wreak havoc in the [[United States]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')]]
Rose visited Donna and advised her to persuade her family to spend [[Christmas]] some place other than London. On Christmas morning, [[Titanic (Turn Left)|a replica of the ''Titanic'']] crash-landed onto [[Buckingham Palace (Turn Left)|Buckingham Palace]]. It destroyed the [[London (Turn Left)|Greater London Area]] and flooded the whole of Southern [[England (Turn Left)|England]] with [[radiation]]. Donna's family, who did decide not to stay in London for Christmas, having won a luxury getaway in a raffle, watched the events on television and were able to see the mushroom cloud of the explosion from a distance.
England went under martial law in order to deal with the crisis caused by the nuclear explosion. Many citizens fled to France, until France closed its borders. The [[United States]] promised fifty billion pounds in financial help for Great Britain but this plan was abandoned when sixty million Americans were fully converted into [[Adipose]] children. [[Miss Foster]]'s plan was not only successful, but sixty times as successful as was planned in the original timeline. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')


:''In the original timeline, the Adipose plan targeted Great Britain and was stopped before it was put in full swing thanks to the Doctor and [[Donna Noble]].'' ([[DW]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'') ''The change in location was due to England no longer being viable for breeding due to the nuclear disaster.''
[[File:Adipose usa destroyed.jpg|thumb|The [[Adipose]] wreak havoc in the [[United States (Turn Left)|United States]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})]]
Britain went under martial law in order to deal with the crisis caused by the nuclear explosion. Many citizens fled to [[France (Turn Left)|France]], until France closed its borders. The [[United States (Turn Left)|United States]] promised fifty billion pounds in financial help for [[Great Britain (Turn Left)|Great Britain]] but this plan was abandoned when sixty million Americans were killed and fully converted into [[Adipose]] children. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


The [[Sontaran]]s activated [[ATMOS (Turn Left)|ATMOS]] devices, the [[Torchwood Three (Turn Left)|Torchwood Three]] team, Captain [[Jack Harkness#Other realities|Jack Harkness]], [[Gwen Cooper (Turn Left)|Gwen Cooper]] and [[Ianto Jones (Turn Left)|Ianto Jones]], worked to stop the scheme. The team destroyed the Sontaran flagship and successfully reverted the atmosphere to its previous state, but Gwen and Ianto died in the attempt; Jack, being immortal, survived and was captured by the Sontarans and transported to their homeworld as a prisoner. Britain was largely unaffected due to its poverty and hence its lack of petrol. Rose once more appeared to Donna, telling her that Donna knew the Doctor and travelled with him "in [[N-Space|a different world]]", and Donna was "meant to be there" under the Thames — the Doctor needed someone to stop him and save his life, and that was Donna. Rose asked Donna to come with her. Donna refused, but Rose told Donna that she will agree to come along in three weeks' time and that she was going to die. Rose subsequently disappeared.


[[file:Jacks_death.jpg|thumb|left|Rose and Donna see [[Torchwood Three]] save the world, at the cost of their lives. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')]]
Roughly three weeks after the Sontaran invasion, the British government made a new law ("England for the English") forcing all non-British citizens in Britain to go to "labour camps". Donna's grandfather [[Wilfred Mott (Turn Left)|Wilfred]] lamented that labour camps was "what they called them last time", and "it's happening again." ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})
The [[Sontaran]]s activated the [[ATMOS]] devices in the cars to convert [[Earth]] into a [[Sontaran Breeding Planet|breeding ground]]. The surviving members of the [[Torchwood 3]] team worked to stop the scheme. The team destroyed the Sontaran flagship and successfully reverted the atmosphere to its previous state, but [[Gwen Cooper]] and [[Ianto Jones]] died in the attempt; [[Jack Harkness]], being immortal, survived and was captured by the Sontarans and transported to [[Sontar]] as a prisoner. [[Britain]] was largely unaffected due to its poverty and hence its lack of vehicles with ATMOS devices. Rose Tyler once more appeared to Donna to try to persuade her to help change back the timeline. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')


:''Without "Harold Saxon" to design it, the UNIT vessel the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'', which helped turn the tide against the Sontarans in the original timeline, was never built. In the original timeline, the [[Sontaran invasion of Earth]] was prevented by the Doctor, Donna, [[Martha Jones]] and [[UNIT]]. The Doctor was able to clear the atmosphere without the assistance (or sacrifice) of any Torchwood members.'' ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
In [[N-Space|the Doctor's world]], as a result of [[Davros]]'s [[reality bomb]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) also referred to as "the darkness", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) using the rift at the heart of the [[Medusa Cascade]] to blast the bomb's [[Z-Neutrino]] wavelength into "every dimension", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) "every single universe" was in danger of being destroyed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) Dimensions started to collapse, destroying everything; not just in the Doctor's world or [[Pete's World|the world Rose was in]], but "[[Multiverse|the whole of reality]]". Even [[the Void]] was dead. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) Rose was "pulled across from a different universe" because of this. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


Roughly three weeks after the [[Sontaran invasion of Earth|Sontaran invasion]], the British government made a new law ("England for the English") forcing all non-British citizens in Britain to go to "labour camps". Donna's grandfather lamented that "he never thought he would see this happen again", and when Donna chided him, saying that they are just relocation camps, he replies that "that's what they said [[Wikipedia:The_Holocaust|last time]]". Soon afterwards, the stars began going out. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
With UNIT's help, Rose scraped off the surface technology of the TARDIS and planned to use a [[Lodestone]] to bounce [[chronon energy]] into the centre of a circle of mirrors, controlling the destination to send Donna back to Monday 25 June 2007.


:''After the timeline was corrected, the stars' fading was discovered to be an effect of the [[reality bomb]], breaking through the Medusa Cascade into Donna's parallel world .'' ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
UNIT and Rose sent Donna back to the point where Donna made her decision. According to Rose, Donna had to make her past self turn left instead of right at the point where she decided whether to follow her mother's advice or her own instincts on Little Sutton Street. Donna arrived in 2007, but too far away from her past self to directly influence her; instead, she orchestrated an accident by stepping out in front of a [[lorry]], which blocked [[road traffic|traffic]] and forced the earlier Donna to turn left. Just before Donna's death, Rose appeared and whispered a message for her to give the Doctor. Donna woke up on Shan Shen, and the Time Beetle was forced off her back. The fortune teller ran away, questioning what Donna would become. Both the Doctor and Donna believed that the world created by the Time Beetle ceased to exist. Donna [[history-proofing|struggled to remember]] much of her parallel world, "like when you try and think of a [[dream]], and it just sort of goes". She managed to remember Rose telling her that the Doctor thought she was brilliant. Not knowing Rose's name, Donna told the Doctor about the blonde woman at the lorry who said to warn the Doctor about the end of the universe with two words: "[[Bad Wolf meme|Bad Wolf]]". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


Rose Tyler, through methods and reasoning unknown, was working with UNIT on reverse-engineering the TARDIS, creating a time machine with which Rose hoped to restore the timeline. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
== Aftermath ==
On the ''[[Crucible]]'' in the Doctor's world, Donna prevented the reality bomb from ever being detonated by closing all [[Z-Neutrino energy loop]]s using an [[internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop]]. The collapse of dimensions closed up again because of [[dimensional retroclosure]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})


:''Rose's relationship with UNIT was unique to this timeline, as there's no indication that she ever worked with the UNIT of the normal timeline.''
== Behind the scenes ==
[[file:Auteur in the City.jpg|thumb|[[Auteur]] in the [[Sanctum of the Heretic]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Resurrection of the Author (short story)}})]]
This parallel world and several characters from ''Turn Left'' were reused in [[Aristide Twain]]'s ''[[Doctor Who: Lockdown!]]'' short story ''[[w:c:lockdown:A Better World (short story)|A Better World]]'', where the events of ''Turn Left'' were recontextualised as part of a masterplan by [[Auteur]]. The short story, while not covered by this Wiki as of this time, concluded with Auteur's entrapment within the parallel world; the story received a sequel, ''[[Resurrection of the Author (short story)|Resurrection of the Author]]'', where it was shown that the world Auteur was trapped in (now never explicitly connected to ''Turn Left'' and the associated concepts from that story) decayed, and soon became known as the [[Sanctum of the Heretic]].


== Negation ==
== External links ==
[[file:Donna_is_dead.jpg|thumb|[[Donna Noble (Donna's World)|Alternate Donna]] dies. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')]]
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UNIT and Rose Tyler sent Donna back to the point where the timelines diverged. According to Rose, in order to restore the timeline, Donna had to make her past self turn left instead of right at the point where she decided whether to follow her mother's advice or her own instincts. Donna arrived in 2007, but too far away from her past self to directly influence her; instead, she orchestrated an accident by stepping out in front of a lorry, which blocked traffic and forced the earlier Donna to turn left. Just before her death, Rose Tyler appeared and whispers a message for her to give the Doctor when the timeline was fully restored. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')


==Behind the scenes==
[[Category:Parallel world (Turn Left)| *]]
*It is not actually a parallel world since the walls between realities were sealed in [[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]''. This was made explicit by the production team. Rather it is an altered version of the Doctor's world. According to quantum physics, every decision we make creates multiple realities - one for each option of that decision. This theory implies that, despite the timeline being restored, the Donna's World reality still continued to exist in some form.
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You may be looking for Sanctum of the Heretic, an Oxbow World implied to be this parallel world.

A parallel world centred around the life of Donna Noble was created, despite parallel worlds being typically sealed off, by the Time Beetle, one of the Trickster's Brigade. This was unusual, as most times when the Brigade changed time, the universe just compensated around it. In this world, Donna turned right instead of left while deciding which of two different job interviews to attend. As a result, the Tenth Doctor never met Donna and died underneath the Thames on Christmas Eve 2007. These events resulted in devastating effects for Earth. Using the surface technology of the Doctor's TARDIS, Donna travelled back in time to make her younger self turn left again. According to both the Doctor and Donna, this world subsequently ceased to exist. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

Nature[[edit] | [edit source]]

The exact nature of this parallel world was unclear.

When the Tenth Doctor explained the nature of it to Donna Noble after its negation, he specifically used the term "parallel world", noting that the creation of such worlds was normally impossible due to the universe compensating for the actions of the Trickster's Brigade and that parallel worlds were sealed off from one another. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"]) A connected account also referenced Donna's parallel world in relation to Rose Tyler's parallel world. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"])

One described it as an "alternative timeline", created following the Time Beetle's alterations to Donna's timeline, (PROSE: The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded [+]Loading...{"page":"41","1":"The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded (reference book)"}) in an attempt to feed off the time energy caused by the disruption. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"132","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) Another called it an "alternate timeline". (GAME: Planet of the Dead [+]Loading...{"page":"234","1":"Planet of the Dead (game)"})

One account referred to it as both a "parallel world" and "alternative time line" interchangeably. It also detailed how Rose Tyler travelled between universes. (PROSE: Know Your Companions [+]Loading...{"page":"8-10","1":"Know Your Companions (feature)"})

Another account described it as an "alternative reality", seemingly as a synonym for "universe"; (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"page":"248","ed":"2011 reprint","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}) another account also used the terms "reality" and "universe" in association with this parallel world. (PROSE: "What will you be?" [+]Part of Companions and Allies, Loading...{"page":"90","namedpart":"What will you be?","1":"Companions and Allies (reference book)"}) A further account referred to it as a "whole new reality", also linking it to how history had been changed. (PROSE: What If? [+]Loading...{"page":"91","1":"What If? (short story)"}) Another account identified it as a "parallel universe". (PROSE: "Monsters of Time" [+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Loading...{"namedpart":"Monsters of Time","1":"Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)"})

A different account referred to it as a "parallel Earth". (PROSE: The Doctor and... Donna [+]Loading...{"page":"49","1":"The Doctor and... Donna (feature)"})

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

While on the planet Shan Shen, Donna was unknowingly fitted with the Time Beetle, one of the Trickster's Brigade. A fortune teller selected a point in her life where making a seemingly random choice had enormous ramifications.

On Monday 25 June 2007, Donna had to make a choice between two jobs. The moment she chose between the jobs was at a junction on Little Sutton Street. Her agency had offered her a contract with H.C. Clements, which while temporary, was posh and in the centre of London, which Donna enjoyed. Her mother, Sylvia Noble, had got her a job opportunity to become the personal secretary of Jival Chowdry, owner of a photocopying business. Although this would be a permanent job, Donna found it less interesting.

While driving and in discussing the dilemma, Sylvia pressured her into turning right towards Griffin's Parade to stop by Jival Chowdry for a chat. While in the regular world Donna ignored her mother and turned left towards the Chiswick High Road, here she turned right, resulting in her taking the PA job. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

The Doctor is dead... (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

On Christmas Eve, the Tenth Doctor tracked down the Empress of the Racnoss to her lair beneath Thames Flood Barrier and blew it up, causing the Thames to be drained. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"], The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"]) Although he succeeded in defeating the Racnoss, the Doctor drowned in the process. For some reason, he didn't regenerate. It was speculated by Private Harris that he drowned too fast to regenerate. His body was retrieved by UNIT soldiers and his TARDIS was salvaged from under the Thames, later being sent to a UNIT base in Leeds. Donna stumbled across Rose Tyler, who arrived on the scene too late to do anything. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

Oliver Morgenstern, the last survivor of the Royal Hospital tells the World what has happened on the Moon. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

The Royal Hope Hospital was transported to the Moon by the Judoon. Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith, Maria Jackson, and Clyde Langer, who had been in the hospital when it was transported, disarmed the MRI, but they died, along with the rest of the hospital, when their oxygen ran out. The only survivor was Oliver Morgenstern, who was passed the last oxygen tank by medical student Martha Jones, who gave up her life to save him.

The mushroom cloud from Titanic's impact. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

Rose visited Donna and advised her to persuade her family to spend Christmas some place other than London. On Christmas morning, a replica of the Titanic crash-landed onto Buckingham Palace. It destroyed the Greater London Area and flooded the whole of Southern England with radiation. Donna's family, who did decide not to stay in London for Christmas, having won a luxury getaway in a raffle, watched the events on television and were able to see the mushroom cloud of the explosion from a distance.

The Adipose wreak havoc in the United States. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

Britain went under martial law in order to deal with the crisis caused by the nuclear explosion. Many citizens fled to France, until France closed its borders. The United States promised fifty billion pounds in financial help for Great Britain but this plan was abandoned when sixty million Americans were killed and fully converted into Adipose children. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

The Sontarans activated ATMOS devices, the Torchwood Three team, Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones, worked to stop the scheme. The team destroyed the Sontaran flagship and successfully reverted the atmosphere to its previous state, but Gwen and Ianto died in the attempt; Jack, being immortal, survived and was captured by the Sontarans and transported to their homeworld as a prisoner. Britain was largely unaffected due to its poverty and hence its lack of petrol. Rose once more appeared to Donna, telling her that Donna knew the Doctor and travelled with him "in a different world", and Donna was "meant to be there" under the Thames — the Doctor needed someone to stop him and save his life, and that was Donna. Rose asked Donna to come with her. Donna refused, but Rose told Donna that she will agree to come along in three weeks' time and that she was going to die. Rose subsequently disappeared.

Roughly three weeks after the Sontaran invasion, the British government made a new law ("England for the English") forcing all non-British citizens in Britain to go to "labour camps". Donna's grandfather Wilfred lamented that labour camps was "what they called them last time", and "it's happening again." (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

In the Doctor's world, as a result of Davros's reality bomb, (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) also referred to as "the darkness", (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"]) using the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade to blast the bomb's Z-Neutrino wavelength into "every dimension", (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) "every single universe" was in danger of being destroyed. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"]) Dimensions started to collapse, destroying everything; not just in the Doctor's world or the world Rose was in, but "the whole of reality". Even the Void was dead. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) Rose was "pulled across from a different universe" because of this. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

With UNIT's help, Rose scraped off the surface technology of the TARDIS and planned to use a Lodestone to bounce chronon energy into the centre of a circle of mirrors, controlling the destination to send Donna back to Monday 25 June 2007.

UNIT and Rose sent Donna back to the point where Donna made her decision. According to Rose, Donna had to make her past self turn left instead of right at the point where she decided whether to follow her mother's advice or her own instincts on Little Sutton Street. Donna arrived in 2007, but too far away from her past self to directly influence her; instead, she orchestrated an accident by stepping out in front of a lorry, which blocked traffic and forced the earlier Donna to turn left. Just before Donna's death, Rose appeared and whispered a message for her to give the Doctor. Donna woke up on Shan Shen, and the Time Beetle was forced off her back. The fortune teller ran away, questioning what Donna would become. Both the Doctor and Donna believed that the world created by the Time Beetle ceased to exist. Donna struggled to remember much of her parallel world, "like when you try and think of a dream, and it just sort of goes". She managed to remember Rose telling her that the Doctor thought she was brilliant. Not knowing Rose's name, Donna told the Doctor about the blonde woman at the lorry who said to warn the Doctor about the end of the universe with two words: "Bad Wolf". (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

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On the Crucible in the Doctor's world, Donna prevented the reality bomb from ever being detonated by closing all Z-Neutrino energy loops using an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop. The collapse of dimensions closed up again because of dimensional retroclosure. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

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Auteur in the Sanctum of the Heretic. (PROSE: Resurrection of the Author [+]Loading...["Resurrection of the Author (short story)"])

This parallel world and several characters from Turn Left were reused in Aristide Twain's Doctor Who: Lockdown! short story A Better World, where the events of Turn Left were recontextualised as part of a masterplan by Auteur. The short story, while not covered by this Wiki as of this time, concluded with Auteur's entrapment within the parallel world; the story received a sequel, Resurrection of the Author, where it was shown that the world Auteur was trapped in (now never explicitly connected to Turn Left and the associated concepts from that story) decayed, and soon became known as the Sanctum of the Heretic.

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