Mickey Smith (Auton)

Mickey Smith (Auton)
Species:	Auton
Place of origin:	Earth
Appearance:	Rose
Main actor:	Noel Clarke

For the human the Auton was based on, see Mickey Smith

Auton Mickey Smith was an Auton replicant of the human Mickey Smith.

Biography

As Mickey was waiting in his car while Rose Tyler was talking to Clive Finch, a plastic garbage bin near Mickey became animated. Mickey got out to investigate, but was swallowed by the bin and taken to the Nestene Consciousness' lair. He was replaced by an Auton facsimile that took Rose out for pizza. Rose, who strangely didn't notice that her "boyfriend" was plastic, tried not to talk about the Doctor, but the Auton persisted. After it began to use violence against Rose, the Ninth Doctor showed up, and shot a wine cork at the Auton, which merely absorbed it and spat it out.

It tried to kill the Doctor by melting its hands and reforming them as paddles. The Doctor beheaded it, but it still rampaged. The Doctor and Rose temporarily shut it in the restaurant and escaped in the TARDIS with the head. The Doctor plugged the head into the TARDIS's control panel to track the Consciousness's lair. However, the head melted and the body did with it. The Doctor and Rose did find the Consciousness's lair underneath the London Eye, and found the Consciousness had kept Mickey alive in order to work the facsimile. (TV: Rose)

Behind the scenes

• Mickey is the first of two male companions to be made into a Auton. Rory Williams was resurrected as an Auton in the Series 5 episodes The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang.