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|first            = The Armageddon Factor (TV story)
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|voice actor      = Ray Brooks
The '''Second Drax''' was a [[renegade Time Lord]] with a knack for tinkering and [[engineering]].
|other voice actor = [[John Challis]], [[Hugh Fraser]], [[John Leeson]], [[Miranda Raison]]
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'''Drax''' was a [[renegade Time Lord]] with a knack for tinkering and [[engineering]]. He knew [[the Doctor]] before either had left their home [[planet]] of [[Gallifrey]].


== Biography ==
== Alternate timeline ==
Drax had already escaped from Gallifrey when the Doctor was expelled from the [[Time Lord Academy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') Unlike other renegades like his contemporaries, [[the Master]] and [[the Rani]], Drax purchased [[Drax's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] instead of stealing one. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor]]'')
In an [[alternate timeline]] Drax cooperated alongside [[the Master]], [[the Monk]], and [[the Rani]] to try to destroy the world using a DNA recombinator, turning the human race into a [[gestalt]] [[consciousness]] which could be used as a weapon to conquer the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')


Upon becoming a renegade, Drax travelled the [[universe]], doing repair and maintenance work in the fields of [[cybernetics]], guidance systems and armaments. He also committed cons. When [[Drax's TARDIS]] suffered a breakdown in its [[hyperbolics]], Drax was stranded on [[Earth]]. He engaged in criminal activity to procure replacement parts and did time in [[Brixton]] prison for over ten years where he acquired a [[Cockney English|Cockney accent]] to help him survive inside, which would later become a trademark through several of his regenerations, though the Twelfth Drax would tell [[Romana II]] he had lost it a few regenerations ago, from that incarnation's perspective, during a con.
== Personality ==
Drax showed great technological aptitude. However, he could not grasp [[temporal theory]] and failed the class. While Drax could not grasp temporal theory, he had worked out enough about the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect limiter|Blinovitch Limitation effect limiter]] to know its limitations and also to create an endless paradox from his third incarnation onwards to his thirteenth to possess the device and also commit numerous crimes with two or more of his future lives.


Later, the [[Black Guardian]]'s agent, [[the Shadow]], imprisoned Drax and forced him to build and maintain a giant [[computer]] called [[Mentalis]] on the deserted [[planet]] [[Zeos]]. Mentalis carried out a war against the neighbouring planet of [[Atrios]].
He also showed disrespect towards the [[Laws of Time]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'')


450 years later in their personal timelines, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'') Drax, then in his second incarnation, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'') and the Doctor met again. While searching for the last segment of the [[Key to Time]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana I]] arrived on Zeos. Drax, under the Shadow's orders, reluctantly led the Doctor into a trap. Drax claimed he hadn't expected the one looking for the Key to be the Doctor. Briefly, the two reminisced though at first, the Doctor needed a moment to remember him. Easily seeing through Drax's pretence, the Doctor talked him into joining forces against the Shadow. With Drax's assistance, the Doctor recovered [[Astra of Atrios|the final segment of the Key to Time]]. Afterwards, Drax stayed on Atrios to help rebuild that world. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]]'') During that time Drax had hacked the directional unit of the Doctor's TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'')
During his ten-year prison stay, Drax picked up Brixton's local accent and idioms, which remained part of his speech patterns after he left Earth and resumed his travels. This cockney accent would last for a number of regenerations, but by the twelfth, it would be gone. When Drax met [[K9 Mark II]] and marvelled at the "little tin dog", K9 noted Drax's silliness. Although Drax was not above criminal activity and weapons dealing for personal gain, he displayed a sense of what was morally right and bemoaned having to assist the Shadow in his schemes. He was quick to assure others that he didn't involve himself with armaments on a regular basis. The Doctor talked him round into joining him against the Shadow without much trouble. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor]], ''[[AUDIO]]'': [[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'')


== Alternate timeline ==
Despite some differences, the incarnations of Drax seemed more amiable to one another compared to cases whenever the Doctors met, and despite the dangers of interacting with their own past and future they planned for events that happened in their future, such as having a female incarnation and later reminiscing about the gender switch being worth it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'')
In an [[alternate timeline]] Drax cooperated alongside [[the Master]], [[the Monk]], and [[the Rani]] to try to destroy the world using a DNA recombinator, turning the human race into a [[gestalt]] [[consciousness]] which could be used as a weapon to conquer the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
* Although [[Drax's TARDIS]] is somewhere around in ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'', only components from it are seen on-screen. The interactive ''[[Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who]]'' book [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Search for the Doctor (novel)|Search for the Doctor]]'' included Drax as a character, and described his TARDIS as taking the shape of a convertible [[car]], the registration plate of which read: "TARDIS".
* Although Drax's TARDIS is somewhere around in ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'', only components from it are seen on-screen. The interactive ''[[Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who]]'' book [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Search for the Doctor (novel)|Search for the Doctor]]'' included Drax as a character, and described his TARDIS as taking the shape of a convertible [[car]], the registration plate of which read: "TARDIS".
* According to [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Dalek: Spoof Scenes (short story)|Dalek: Spoof Scenes]]'', in a version of events where the [[Last Great Time War]] was fought against the [[Drashig]]s rather than the [[Dalek]]s, the [[Ninth Doctor]] cited Drax as one of the people who'd perished in the War, alongside [[Damon (Arc of Infinity)|Damon]], [[Spandrell]] and [[the Monk|the Meddling Monk]].
* According to [[John Dorney]], who wrote ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'', the proper plural for describing several incarnations of Drax is "Draxes" (as opposed to "Draxi").<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/doctorwho/comments/oa3k48/john_dorney_big_finish_actorwriter_ama/h3plc2s/</ref>
 
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Drax was a renegade Time Lord with a knack for tinkering and engineering. He knew the Doctor before either had left their home planet of Gallifrey.

Alternate timeline

In an alternate timeline Drax cooperated alongside the Master, the Monk, and the Rani to try to destroy the world using a DNA recombinator, turning the human race into a gestalt consciousness which could be used as a weapon to conquer the universe. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel)

Personality

Drax showed great technological aptitude. However, he could not grasp temporal theory and failed the class. While Drax could not grasp temporal theory, he had worked out enough about the Blinovitch Limitation effect limiter to know its limitations and also to create an endless paradox from his third incarnation onwards to his thirteenth to possess the device and also commit numerous crimes with two or more of his future lives.

He also showed disrespect towards the Laws of Time. (AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax)

During his ten-year prison stay, Drax picked up Brixton's local accent and idioms, which remained part of his speech patterns after he left Earth and resumed his travels. This cockney accent would last for a number of regenerations, but by the twelfth, it would be gone. When Drax met K9 Mark II and marvelled at the "little tin dog", K9 noted Drax's silliness. Although Drax was not above criminal activity and weapons dealing for personal gain, he displayed a sense of what was morally right and bemoaned having to assist the Shadow in his schemes. He was quick to assure others that he didn't involve himself with armaments on a regular basis. The Doctor talked him round into joining him against the Shadow without much trouble. (TV: The Armageddon Factor, AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax)

Despite some differences, the incarnations of Drax seemed more amiable to one another compared to cases whenever the Doctors met, and despite the dangers of interacting with their own past and future they planned for events that happened in their future, such as having a female incarnation and later reminiscing about the gender switch being worth it. (AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax)

Behind the scenes

Footnotes