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The '''Tenth Doctor''' is the latest known incarnation of the [[Time Lord]] known as [[the Doctor]].
The '''Tenth Doctor''' was the latest known incarnation of the [[Time Lord]] known as [[the Doctor]].


==Profile==
==Profile==
When [[Ninth Doctor|the Doctor]] absorbed the [[Time Vortex]] from his companion, [[Rose Tyler]], it began to destroy every cell in his body, causing him to [[regeneration|regenerate]] to save his life ([[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''). He piloted [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] back to [[Powell Estate]] on [[Christmas Eve]] and, as he had after some of his other regenerations, fell into a coma, watched over by Rose and her mother, [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]]. He sprang into action again to save Rose from the [[robotic Christmas Tree]] before lapsing into the coma again, then awoke on board the [[Sycorax]] ship where he defeated their [[Sycorax leader|leader]] in a sword fight, making him promise to never return to earth. Afterwards, he deposed the regime of [[Harriet Jones]], his former ally. He then spent [[Christmas Day]] with [[Mickey Smith]] and the Tylers. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')
===Biography===
====Regeneration====
When [[Ninth Doctor|the Doctor]] absorbed the [[Time Vortex]] from his companion, [[Rose Tyler]], the forces contained himself him began to destroy every cell in his body. He [[regenerate]]d to save his life. The Doctor immediately de-materialized [[the TARDIS]] from its location on [[Satellite 5]], leaving the now-immortal [[Jack Harkness]] (made so by the [[Bad Wolf entity|Bad Wolf]]) behind. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''). (The Doctor would later say that the presence of such an un-natural being as Jack caused a form of instinctive distress. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') The Doctor piloted the ship back to [[Powell Estate]] in [[London]] on [[Christmas Eve]] and lapsed into a comatose state, but snapped out of it briefly and then for a longer time in order to beat back an invasion of [[planet]] [[Earth]] by the [[Sycorax]] on [[Christmas Day|Christmas morning]]. During this adventure he had his [[the Doctor's hand|hand cut off]] but, still retaining special healing abilities from his regeneration, grew it back. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'').


The Doctor and Rose travelled to [[New Earth]], where they found a hospital run by [[Sisters of Plenitude|cat nuns]] and found out that they were experimenting on humans. The Doctor met the [[Face of Boe]], who predicted they would meet one last time. ([[DW]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'')
====Adventures with Rose====
The Doctor and Rose embarked on adventures together through time and space. During a trip to [[1879]] [[Scotland]], he inadvertently inspired [[Queen Victoria]] to found the [[Torchwood Institute]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]''. Back on [[21st century]] Earth, the Doctor went undercover as [[Aliases of the Doctor#John Smith|John Smith]], a physics teacher at a high school which the [[Krillitane]]s had infiltrated. The Doctor had a chance reunion his old friends [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[K-9 Mark III|K-9]]. He also took alowed [[Mickey Smith]] to accompany him at Sarah Jane's suggestion. ([[DW]]: ''[[School Reunion]]'')  


Intending to take Rose to [[1979]] they arrive in [[1879]] [[Scotland]], he and Rose met [[Queen Victoria]] and inadvertently inspired the Queen to create the [[Torchwood Institute]], an organisation unfriendly to the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw]]'')
The Doctor met and fell in love with [[Reinette]] (also known as Madame de Pompadour) a beautiful noblewoman living in [[18th century]] [[Versailles]] and saved her from the [[Clockwork Droid]]s. Both circumstances did not permit them to continue their relationship. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'')  
 
Under cover as [[Aliases of the Doctor#John Smith|John Smith]], a physics teacher at a high school which the [[Krillitane]]s had infiltrated, the Doctor re-united with his old friends [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[K-9 Mark III|K-9]]. He also took alowed [[Mickey Smith]] to accompany him at Sarah Jane's suggestion. ([[DW]]: ''[[School Reunion]]'')
 
He met [[Reinette]], also known as Madame de Pompadour, a beautiful noblewoman in [[18th century]] [[Versailles]] and saved her from the [[Clockwork Droid]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'')  


On [[Pete's World|a parallel Earth]], he witnessed the birth of [[Cybus Cyberman|that universe's Cybermen]] and saw off Mickey, who decided to stay on the other world. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]''/''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
On [[Pete's World|a parallel Earth]], he witnessed the birth of [[Cybus Cyberman|that universe's Cybermen]] and saw off Mickey, who decided to stay on the other world. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]''/''[[The Age of Steel]]'')


He visited [[1953]] [[England]], at the time of [[Queen Elizabeth II]]'s coronation. There, he stopped [[The Wire]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Idiot's Lantern]]'').
Later, through a series of events, the Doctor found himself captured and taken to [[Torchwood Tower]] and kept prisoner by the Torchwood Institute considered the Doctor their enemy. Nevertheless, he helped the Institute to fight off two opposing invasions, one by the [[Dalek]]s led by the [[Cult of Skaro]], the other by Cybermen from the world where he had left Mickey. To order to exile the Daleks and Cybermen to [[the Void]], he also lost Rose to the parallel universe with Mickey and [[Jackie Tyler|her mother]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]/ ''[[Doomsday]]'')
 
At [[Krop Tor]] an asteroid in orbit of a [[black hole]] he encountered [[The Beast]], stopped an army of possessed [[Ood]], and saved some of the remaining crew of [[Sanctuary Base 6]] from the black hole. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Planet]]/[[The Satan Pit]]'')
 
The Doctor destroyed an [[Elemental Shade]] and was witnessed doing so by [[Elton Pope]] the Doctor later found Pope once more assisting him in destroying the limitation field of the [[Abzorbaloff]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'')
 
The Doctor witnessed the [[2012]] Olympics, and carrying the Olympic torch himself. On the same day, he had stopped the [[Isolus]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Fear Her]]'')
 
The Doctor returned Rose to see her mum only to find 'ghosts' on the streets. He discovered that the 'ghosts' were being brought through by the [[Torchwood Institute]]. As the ghosts achieved full coalessence the Doctor discovered that they were [[Cybus Cybermen]], and that the Torchwood Institute also held a [[Void Ship]] in their building. The Void ship contained the [[Cult of Skaro]] and a [[Genesis Ark]]. The Doctor witnessed the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] and threw the Daleks and Cybus Cybermen back into the Void, but also lost Rose to the parallel universe. ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]/ ''[[Doomsday]]'')
 
While he was grieving over Rose, a bride named [[Donna Noble]] mysteriously appeared aboard the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. The Doctor was as shocked as she was, and tried to take her back to her wedding. Donna was used in a plot to destroy the [[Earth]] and revive the [[Racnoss]]. The Doctor had used the water from the [[River Thames]] to flood the [[Racnoss]] and drown them. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')


He encountered [[Martha Jones]], a medical student who was working at the Royal Hope Hospital, which the [[Judoon]] had transported to the moon. He almost died in a bid to convince the Juddon the [[Plasmavore]] was not human. He invited Martha to travel with him. ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')
====Life after Rose====
While he was grieving over Rose, a bride named [[Donna Noble]], to his shock, appeared inside the TARDIS during her [[wedding ceremony]]. The Doctor discovered the involvement of the ancient [[Racnoss]]. After their destruction by the Doctor, and largely because of the Doctor's ruthless treatment of them, Donna decided not to travel with him. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')  


The Doctor first took Martha to see a work of [[Shakespeare]]'s, where Shakespeare worked with the Doctor and Martha to banish the [[Carrionite]]s. The Doctor was also chased by [[Queen Elizabeth I]], who claimed he was her greatest enemy (but he had not yet encountered her). ([[DW]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'')
The Doctor met [[Martha Jones]], a London medical student, and, after defeating a [[Plasmavore]] on [[the Moon]], invited her along to travel with him in the TARDIS. ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'') On [[New Earth]], which he had previously visited with Rose, he heard the final words of the [[Face of Boe]] to him: ''You are not alone''. ([[DW]]: ''[[Gridlock]]'') In [[1930]] [[New York City]], the Doctor once more met and defeated the [[Cult of Skaro]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'') [[Dalek Caan]] survived. ([[DW]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
 
Then the Doctor took Martha back to [[New Earth]], where he encountered a colony of [[Macra]] hiding under the [[Motorway]] along with [[Hame|Novice Hame]] and the [[Face of Boe]]. After rescuing Martha from the motorway and reopening it and the abandoned city of New New York, he discovered the Face of Boe's final secret: You are not alone. ([[DW]]: ''[[Gridlock]]'')
 
The Doctor and Martha visited [[New York]] in the 1930s where he encountered the [[Cult of Skaro]], who had emergency temporal shifted from the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. The Doctor attempt to assist them, only to be thwarted in this attempt by [[Dalek Caan]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'' / ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
 
The Doctor returned Martha to her home but was intruiged by[[Richard Lazarus|Professor Richard Lazarus]] and his technology that he claimed to be able to make himself younger. The Doctor defeated him, met Martha's family and then offered Martha the chance to be a permanent companion which she gladly accepted. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]'')


[[Image:Sad Doc.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Doctor in a suit.]]
[[Image:Sad Doc.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Doctor in a suit.]]


The Doctor and Martha picked up a distress signal in the [[42nd century]] and saved the [[S.S. Pentallian]] from crashing into a sun. The Doctor became possessed by the [[Torajii]] sun system, though he recovered. ([[DW]]: ''[[42]]'')
The Doctor hid from the [[Family of Blood]] by using a [[chameleon arch]] to transform himself mentally and physically into a [[Human]] schoolteacher called [[John Smith]]. He fell in love with a woman, [[Joan Redfern (TV story)|Joan Redfern]] and would have spent the rest of his life with her. The Doctor was forced to retake his Time Lord body, and sought suitable punishment for the Family of Blood. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]/''[[The Family of Blood]]'')


The Doctor temporarily hid from the [[Family of Blood]] by disguising as a man called [[John Smith]] and fell in love with a woman, [[Joan Redfern (TV story)|Joan Redfern]]. The Doctor was forced to retake his Time Lord body, and sought suitable punishment for the Family of Blood. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]/''[[The Family of Blood]]'')
=====Return of the Master=====
In [[Cardiff]], where he had gone to "re-fuel" the TARDIS using the [[Cardiff rift]], Jack Harkness jumped onto and physically clung to the exterior of the TARDIS, hitching a ride to the planet [[Malcassairo]] in the far distant future. On Malcassairo, he found [[Professor Yana]], actually the Doctor's nemesis, turned Human by another chameleon arch. The Master escaped using the Doctor's own TARDIS. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')


The Doctor and Martha Jones were temporarily trapped in [[1969]]. The Doctor left a series of clues provided him by [[Sally Sparrow]] to assist in his rescue. ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
Using the Human name Harold Saxon, the Master made himself [[Prime Minister]] of [[Great Britain]] and invited in a [[Toclafane|army]] to [[Toclafane invasion|take over the world]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') The Master imprisoned the Doctor for [[Year That Never Was|a year]], during the end of which time, he used his [[laser screwdriver]] to artificially age the Doctor 900 years, turning him into a small creature. The Master was later defeated by manipulation of the Master's [[Archangel Network]] to the Doctor's own advantage, thus effectively committing suicide, making the Doctor truly the last of the Time Lords. Shortly thereafter, Martha left him, thinking that she should go off and live his own life, though they parted amiacably. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')  
 
After a long time believing he was the last Time Lord, he encountered [[the Master]], who became a [[Human]] via [[Chameleon Arch]] and was hiding at the temporal end of the universe. The Master escaped in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] but the Doctor had tampered with it so the machine could only go to the place it last visited. The Master infiltrated the political systems of [[Earth]] as "Harold Saxon" and then used his [[Toclafane|army]] to [[Toclafane invasion|take over the world]]. The Master artificially aged the Doctor 900 years, turning him into a small creature. The Master was later defeated by manipulation of the [[Archangel Network]] to the Doctor's own advantage, thus effectively committing suicide, making the Doctor truly the last of the Time Lords. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'' / ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' / ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')


The Doctor encountered his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]] when their TARDISes merged. ([[DW]]: ''[[Time Crash]]'')
Only minutes after she departed the TARDIS, the Doctor encountered his own [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]] when their TARDISes merged. ([[DW]]: ''[[Time Crash]]'') Shortly afterwards, he made a new friend, [[Astrid Peth]], on board an alien spacecraft, the ''[[Titanic (spacecraft)|Titantic]]'' (modeled after the Earth original) but, just managing to save her before her death, could only save her by transforming her into a being of light. ([[DW]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'')  


==Characteristics==
===Personality===
===Personality===
Like his predecessor, this Doctor was capable of boundless enthusiasm, though in his case often at inappropriate times. While many Doctors have intentionally flouted social conventions, the Tenth seems to be genuinely surprised when he is rude or uncouth. Charismatic and manic and with boundless energy, he retained and even exceeded his last incarnation's capacity for righteous anger, especially when Rose was threatened, as when [[the Wire]] stole her face. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Idiot's Lantern]]''). When driven by anger or righteousness, he would act without hesitation to strike down those who opposed him; for example, he toppled the regime of [[Harriet Jones]] with just six well-chosen words after she committed what the Doctor considered mass murder ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''). He also showed his anger when he gave each member of the Family of Blood an eternal punishment, fulfilling their wish for immortality in a twisted way ([[DW]]: ''[[The Family of Blood]]''). While he had resolved much of the survivor's guilt felt previously, he is beginning to feel his age and, behind the outward playfulness, he feels a deep loneliness. His keen sense of loss leads him to empathise with those who have also suffered.
Like his predecessor, this Doctor was capable of boundless enthusiasm, though in his case often at inappropriate times. While many Doctors have intentionally flouted social conventions, the Tenth seems to be genuinely surprised when he is rude or uncouth. Charismatic and manic and with boundless energy, he retained and even exceeded his last incarnation's capacity for righteous anger, especially when Rose was threatened, as when [[the Wire]] stole her face. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Idiot's Lantern]]''). When driven by anger or righteousness, he would act without hesitation to strike down those who opposed him; for example, he toppled the regime of [[Harriet Jones]] with just six well-chosen words after she committed what the Doctor considered mass murder ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'').  
 
The Doctor also showed his anger when he gave each member of the Family of Blood an eternal punishment, fulfilling their wish for immortality in a twisted way ([[DW]]: ''[[The Family of Blood]]''). While he had resolved much of the survivor's guilt felt previously, he is beginning to feel his age and, behind the outward playfulness, he feels a deep loneliness. His keen sense of loss leads him to empathise with those who have also suffered.


There was an undeniable shadow cast over the jollity of the Doctor. He had a ruthlessness, bordering on arrogance, that was almost eerie to behold. Beneath his youthful veneer, the Doctor is a very old man who has seen many terrible things; and in some matters, his patience has worn out. His usual jolly demeanor has somewhat disappeared since the departure of Rose. He was a little angrier, darker, and not as friendly towards Donna or Martha. This suggests that he never really got over Rose's leave-taking.
There was an undeniable shadow cast over the jollity of the Doctor. He had a ruthlessness, bordering on arrogance, that was almost eerie to behold. Beneath his youthful veneer, the Doctor is a very old man who has seen many terrible things; and in some matters, his patience has worn out. His usual jolly demeanor has somewhat disappeared since the departure of Rose. He was a little angrier, darker, and not as friendly towards Donna or Martha. This suggests that he never really got over Rose's leave-taking.
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==Key Life Events==
==Key Life Events==
*Still in the first 15 hours of his new regeneration, he defeated the [[Sycorax]] Leader and lost his hand in the process, quickly growing another. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')
*Still in the first 15 hours of his new regeneration, the Doctor defeats the [[Sycorax]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')


*Knighted and exiled by Queen Victoria ([[DW]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw]]'')
*Reunites with [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[K-9 Mark III|K-9]] was joined for a short time by [[Mickey Smith]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[School Reunion]]'')


*Reunited with [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[K9]], and later was joined for a short time by [[Mickey Smith]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[School Reunion]]'')
*Sees [[Mickey Smith]] off on a [[Pete's World|parallel Earth]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]/[[The Age of Steel]]'')
 
*Witnessed the birth of the [[Cybus Cybermen|Cybermen]] on a [[Pete's World|Parallel Earth]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]/[[The Age of Steel]]'')
 
*Fought the [[Cybus Cybermen|Cybermen]] and [[Cult of Skaro]] at [[Canary Wharf]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]/[[Doomsday]]'')
      
      
*Separated from [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] when he sent the Cybermen and Daleks into the void. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
*Separation from [[Rose Tyler|Rose]], who also remains in the other Earth. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
 
*Met [[Donna Noble]], and at the same time wiped out the [[Racnoss]] survivors. Donna rejected his first invitation. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')
 
*After the disappearance and reappearance of [[Royal Hope Hospital]], [[Martha Jones]] joined him on his travels. ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')  


*Met the [[Cult of Skaro]] a second time, and tried to help the [[Human-Dalek]] breed a new race, but the new race were killed by the last Dalek in existence, Dalek Caan. ([[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]] / [[Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
*First meeting with [[Donna Noble]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')


*Became a human temporarily to hide from the [[Family of Blood (species)|Family of Blood]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]] / [[The Family of Blood]]'')
*In [[Royal Hope Hospital]], medical student [[Martha Jones]] joins the Doctor travels. ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')  


*Met [[the Master]], who became had become human and was hiding at the end of the universe, near to the end of time. The Master escaped with the [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
*Becomes the [[Human]] [[John Smith]] and meets [[Joan Redfern (TV character)|Joan Redfern]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]] / [[The Family of Blood]]'')


:*The Master took over the [[Earth]], and artificially aged the Doctor 900 years. The Master later died making the Doctor the last [[Time Lord]] once more. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]] / [[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
*Is imprisoned for [[Year That Never Was|a year]] by the newly-reborn [[the Master|Master]] on Earth until his rescue by [[Martha Jones]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')


*Met his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth Incarnation]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Time Crash]])
*Martha decides to leave the Doctor to travel alone. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')


*Met [[Astrid Peth]] on board the space ship Titanic. ([[DW]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'')
*Met [[Astrid Peth]] on board the space ship Titanic. ([[DW]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'')

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The Tenth Doctor was the latest known incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor.

Profile

Biography

Regeneration

When the Doctor absorbed the Time Vortex from his companion, Rose Tyler, the forces contained himself him began to destroy every cell in his body. He regenerated to save his life. The Doctor immediately de-materialized the TARDIS from its location on Satellite 5, leaving the now-immortal Jack Harkness (made so by the Bad Wolf) behind. (DW: The Parting of the Ways). (The Doctor would later say that the presence of such an un-natural being as Jack caused a form of instinctive distress. (DW: Utopia) The Doctor piloted the ship back to Powell Estate in London on Christmas Eve and lapsed into a comatose state, but snapped out of it briefly and then for a longer time in order to beat back an invasion of planet Earth by the Sycorax on Christmas morning. During this adventure he had his hand cut off but, still retaining special healing abilities from his regeneration, grew it back. (DW: The Christmas Invasion).

Adventures with Rose

The Doctor and Rose embarked on adventures together through time and space. During a trip to 1879 Scotland, he inadvertently inspired Queen Victoria to found the Torchwood Institute. (DW: Tooth and Claw. Back on 21st century Earth, the Doctor went undercover as John Smith, a physics teacher at a high school which the Krillitanes had infiltrated. The Doctor had a chance reunion his old friends Sarah Jane Smith and K-9. He also took alowed Mickey Smith to accompany him at Sarah Jane's suggestion. (DW: School Reunion)

The Doctor met and fell in love with Reinette (also known as Madame de Pompadour) a beautiful noblewoman living in 18th century Versailles and saved her from the Clockwork Droids. Both circumstances did not permit them to continue their relationship. (DW: The Girl in the Fireplace)

On a parallel Earth, he witnessed the birth of that universe's Cybermen and saw off Mickey, who decided to stay on the other world. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel)

Later, through a series of events, the Doctor found himself captured and taken to Torchwood Tower and kept prisoner by the Torchwood Institute considered the Doctor their enemy. Nevertheless, he helped the Institute to fight off two opposing invasions, one by the Daleks led by the Cult of Skaro, the other by Cybermen from the world where he had left Mickey. To order to exile the Daleks and Cybermen to the Void, he also lost Rose to the parallel universe with Mickey and her mother (DW: Army of Ghosts/ Doomsday)

Life after Rose

While he was grieving over Rose, a bride named Donna Noble, to his shock, appeared inside the TARDIS during her wedding ceremony. The Doctor discovered the involvement of the ancient Racnoss. After their destruction by the Doctor, and largely because of the Doctor's ruthless treatment of them, Donna decided not to travel with him. (DW: The Runaway Bride)

The Doctor met Martha Jones, a London medical student, and, after defeating a Plasmavore on the Moon, invited her along to travel with him in the TARDIS. (DW: Smith and Jones) On New Earth, which he had previously visited with Rose, he heard the final words of the Face of Boe to him: You are not alone. (DW: Gridlock) In 1930 New York City, the Doctor once more met and defeated the Cult of Skaro. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan) Dalek Caan survived. (DW: Evolution of the Daleks)

File:Sad Doc.jpg
The Doctor in a suit.

The Doctor hid from the Family of Blood by using a chameleon arch to transform himself mentally and physically into a Human schoolteacher called John Smith. He fell in love with a woman, Joan Redfern and would have spent the rest of his life with her. The Doctor was forced to retake his Time Lord body, and sought suitable punishment for the Family of Blood. (DW: Human Nature/The Family of Blood)

Return of the Master

In Cardiff, where he had gone to "re-fuel" the TARDIS using the Cardiff rift, Jack Harkness jumped onto and physically clung to the exterior of the TARDIS, hitching a ride to the planet Malcassairo in the far distant future. On Malcassairo, he found Professor Yana, actually the Doctor's nemesis, turned Human by another chameleon arch. The Master escaped using the Doctor's own TARDIS. (DW: Utopia)

Using the Human name Harold Saxon, the Master made himself Prime Minister of Great Britain and invited in a army to take over the world. (DW: The Sound of Drums) The Master imprisoned the Doctor for a year, during the end of which time, he used his laser screwdriver to artificially age the Doctor 900 years, turning him into a small creature. The Master was later defeated by manipulation of the Master's Archangel Network to the Doctor's own advantage, thus effectively committing suicide, making the Doctor truly the last of the Time Lords. Shortly thereafter, Martha left him, thinking that she should go off and live his own life, though they parted amiacably. (DW: Last of the Time Lords)

Only minutes after she departed the TARDIS, the Doctor encountered his own fifth incarnation when their TARDISes merged. (DW: Time Crash) Shortly afterwards, he made a new friend, Astrid Peth, on board an alien spacecraft, the Titantic (modeled after the Earth original) but, just managing to save her before her death, could only save her by transforming her into a being of light. (DW: Voyage of the Damned)

Personality

Like his predecessor, this Doctor was capable of boundless enthusiasm, though in his case often at inappropriate times. While many Doctors have intentionally flouted social conventions, the Tenth seems to be genuinely surprised when he is rude or uncouth. Charismatic and manic and with boundless energy, he retained and even exceeded his last incarnation's capacity for righteous anger, especially when Rose was threatened, as when the Wire stole her face. (DW: The Idiot's Lantern). When driven by anger or righteousness, he would act without hesitation to strike down those who opposed him; for example, he toppled the regime of Harriet Jones with just six well-chosen words after she committed what the Doctor considered mass murder (DW: The Christmas Invasion).

The Doctor also showed his anger when he gave each member of the Family of Blood an eternal punishment, fulfilling their wish for immortality in a twisted way (DW: The Family of Blood). While he had resolved much of the survivor's guilt felt previously, he is beginning to feel his age and, behind the outward playfulness, he feels a deep loneliness. His keen sense of loss leads him to empathise with those who have also suffered.

There was an undeniable shadow cast over the jollity of the Doctor. He had a ruthlessness, bordering on arrogance, that was almost eerie to behold. Beneath his youthful veneer, the Doctor is a very old man who has seen many terrible things; and in some matters, his patience has worn out. His usual jolly demeanor has somewhat disappeared since the departure of Rose. He was a little angrier, darker, and not as friendly towards Donna or Martha. This suggests that he never really got over Rose's leave-taking.

Habits and Quirks

The Doctor made frequent reference to twentieth century pop culture, from the Ghostbusters theme (DW: Army of Ghosts) to the song "The Circle of Life" from The Lion King (DW: The Christmas Invasion). He had also read the Harry Potter books, saying that he cried after reading the seventh book (DW: The Shakespeare Code). He's fond of rock and roll, trying to take Rose to see concerts by both Elvis Presley (DW: The Idiot's Lantern) and Ian Drury (DW: Tooth and Claw), and dresses in the manner of an indie Brit-pop musician. He wore trainers and faux reading glasses — both deliberate homages to his fifth incarnation. (DW: Time Crash) He often remarks that exotic technology or life is "beautiful" and is genuinely enthralled by such discoveries, sometimes to the extent that he places himself or his companions in danger.

Until they left his life, he continued his previous incarnation's habit of mildy abusing both Mickey and Jackie, though generally in a more obviously playful fashion.

Key Life Events

  • Separation from Rose, who also remains in the other Earth. (DW: Doomsday)

Behind the Scenes

The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler are drawn walking down a London street with Rose Tyler in a panel of a the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #6 comic book, taking place during the "No Future For You" story arc. A red phone box is seen behind them, most likely as a reference to the TARDIS.

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