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| '''Adric''' was a [[companion]] to the [[Fourth Doctor|Fourth]] and [[Fifth Doctor]]s. He grew up in another [[Universe]] called [[E-Space]]. He died trying to stop Captain [[Briggs (Earthshock)|Briggs]]' [[space freighter]] from crashing into [[Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
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| == Biography ==
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| === Early life on Alzarius ===
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| Adric was an [[Alzarian]] born on the [[planet]] [[Alzarius]] in the [[parallel universe]] of E-Space in the [[32nd century]]. He was ranked as an elite and was awarded a blue star-shaped badge with gilt edging for mathematical excellence. His brother [[Varsh]] belonged to a gang of teenage thieves. Adric wanted to join them, but was refused. Varsh asked him the embarkation question: "Where will you be when the starliner leaves Alzarius?" Adric replied he would be somewhere else entirely. This would prove to be true; he would be on board [[the TARDIS]] when it took off. To prove himself to the gang, he tried to steal some [[riverfruit]], but failed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]'') | |
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| === E-Space adventures ===
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| Adric stowed away on the TARDIS and was discovered by the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana II|Romana]]. He pretended to share the agenda of the [[Three Who Rule]], a trio of [[vampire]]s who ruled over a small community. He tried to save Romana from being sacrificed but failed; both were saved by the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'')
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| === After Romana ===
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| [[File:FourthAdricK9Conundrum.jpg|left|thumb|In the wake of [[K9 Mark II]]'s departure, the [[Fourth Doctor]] and Adric enjoy the company of a replacement. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Conundrum (short story)|Conundrum]]'')]]
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| After Romana left, Adric and the Doctor travelled together. They left E-Space and entered [[Normal Space|the Doctor's universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate (TV story)|Warriors' Gate]]'') Soon after, they went to [[Traken]] and met [[Nyssa]]. They saved Traken from {{Delgado}} and returned the [[Keeper of Traken|Keepership]] to its rightful heir. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'')
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| The Doctor assembled another version of [[K9]], who joined them on their journeys. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Inter-Galactic Cat (short story)|Inter-Galactic Cat]]'', ''[[Conundrum (short story)|Conundrum]]'', ''[[Planet of Paradise]]'', ''[[Plague World]]'', ''[[Just a Small Problem]]'') At some point before the Fourth Doctor's attempt to fix [[the TARDIS]]' [[chameleon circuit]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''), he sent this K9 to Sarah Jane Smith, care of her Aunt Lavinia. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)|A Girl's Best Friend]]'')
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| Adric and the Doctor encountered {{Ainley}} again shortly after leaving Traken. The Doctor made plans to use the mathematical skills of the [[Logopolitan]]s to repair the faulty TARDIS [[chameleon circuit]]. They met Nyssa again, as well as [[Earth]] stewardess [[Tegan Jovanka]], both of whom joined them on their travels. Although they again defeated the Master, the Doctor was badly injured. All three companions watched him [[Regeneration|regenerate]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
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| === With the Fifth Doctor ===
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| [[File:AdricRightProfile.jpg|thumb|left|Adric in the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s [[the TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'')]]
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| Immediately after the Doctor's regeneration, the Master kidnapped Adric and held him in the [[Hadron web]]. The Master planned to use Adric's mathematical prowess to produce his own version of [[Block Transfer Computation]]s. With this power, the Master made the town of [[Castrovalva]] as a trap for the Fifth Doctor. However, the Doctor saw through the Master's plan and rescued Adric. Without Adric in the web, the city began to collapse. The Doctor, Adric, Tegan and Nyssa escaped, while the Master seemed to be destroyed in the city. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
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| Adric's relationship with the Doctor deteriorated after the [[Fourth Doctor]] regenerated and Tegan and Nyssa began travelling in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') Adric believed the girls were a hindrance to his relationship with the Doctor. He also had a clear preference for the Fourth Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
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| [[File:Adric pirate.jpg|left|thumb|Adric dresses as a pirate for the [[Cranleigh Hall]] party. ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'')]]
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| While visiting [[Cranleigh Hall]] in [[Buckinghamshire]] on [[11 June]] [[1925]], Adric attended the fancy dress party thrown by Lady [[Madge Cranleigh]] and her son [[Charles Cranleigh]], wearing a [[pirate]] costume. ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'') During the party, he briefly met the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s companion [[Ace]], who was searching for one of the segments of the [[Key to Time]], and began to flirt with her. However, Ace was not receptive to his advances and threatened to give him a permanent limp if he continued. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'')
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| On one occasion, the Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan spent [[Christmas]] with the [[renegade Time Lord|renegade Time Lady]] [[Iris Wildthyme]] aboard the TARDIS. Iris was fond of Adric and was devastated to hear of his untimely death. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Excelis Dawns (audio story)|Excelis Dawns]]'')
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| === Death ===
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| [[File:Adric - Earthshock.jpg|thumb|Adric, seconds before his death. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')]]
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| Adric was often fiercely competitive, yet frustrated by his clumsiness as he struggled to find a useful role in the TARDIS crew. He finally told the Doctor that he wanted to return to E-Space. After showing the Doctor his computations to engineer the return, Adric admitted he really wished to remain on the TARDIS. He was caught up in a failed plan of the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] to bombard the Earth with [[Briggs (Earthshock)|Briggs]]' [[Briggs' freighter|freighter]] in [[2526]], while the Doctor and his companions were stuck on the TARDIS with a Cyber-Leader that had forced its way onto the ship, who decided to kill them. The Doctor took Adric's star badge and broke it into pieces, which he jammed into the leader's chest unit to stop his breathing, but this caused the Cyber-Leader to convulse from asphyxiation. In a panic, it fired its gun wildly, blasting the TARDIS console with one of its wayward shots. The Doctor wrested the gun from the Cyberman and killed it, but the damage to the TARDIS console made it impossible to operate and go after Adric.
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| On his own, Adric attempted to steer the freighter away from the Earth, but a wounded Cyberman quietly limped into the control room and opened fire on him before it succumbed to its injuries. Adric ducked and the laser blast destroyed the freighter control system, leaving him doomed to go up with the ship. Adric resigned himself to his fate and clutched his fallen brother's sash. He died by remaining on board the crashing, [[time travel]]ling ship. With Adric on board, it crashed into prehistoric Earth, causing the [[extinction]] of the [[dinosaur]]s. Nyssa and Tegan wept at his loss, while the Doctor was at a loss for words over his failure to save a close friend. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
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| === Legacy ===
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| An illusion of Adric appeared to Nyssa and Tegan to dissuade them from entering [[The Master|Kalid]]'s inner sanctum, warning them to turn back or they would destroy him. The girls thought at first this was the real Adric, until they noticed the illusion was wearing Adric's by-now-destroyed star-shaped badge. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'')
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| Adric's death led the Doctor to swear that he would not allow any of his other companions to die during his fifth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]'')
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| Just before he [[Regeneration|regenerated]], the last word the Fifth Doctor said was "Adric?" ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'') Adric's death haunted the Doctor for many years. His [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]] watched Adric die again — this time as a manifestation of the TARDIS Matrix. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'')
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| Nyssa named her only son Adric in his honour. He had one older sister named [[Neeka]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Heroes of Sontar (audio story)|Heroes of Sontar]]'')
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| Adric's failure to prevent Briggs' freighter from crashing into the Earth ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') arguably fulfilled a [[Silurian]]s' prophesy of the Earth's devastation and the extinction of the dinosaurs (which [[the Moon]] had not fulfilled as originally interpreted). The result was the proliferation of mammals and their evolution, which ultimately led to the rise of humanity. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'', ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'', ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'')
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| While in the [[Divergent Universe]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] was shown an illusory version of Adric by the [[Kro'ka]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last (audio story)|The Last]]'')
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| It infuriated the [[Tenth Doctor]] when the [[the Advocate]] used Adric's death against him in order to estrange him from his companions. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tesseract (comic story)|Tesseract]]'')
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| === Alternate history ===
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| In an alternate version of these events{{disputed}}, after the Fifth Doctor interfered to try to recover his TARDIS, his sub-consciousness helped Adric break the final logic code on the Cybermen's computer. This let Adric land - and survive - on Earth. Adric created a City of Excellence and ruled over a sentient race of scorpions which evolved in place of the dinosaurs. Adric created this world with Block Transfer Computations. Five hundred years later, Adric met the the Doctor and Nyssa. He accompanied them back to the [[Victorian era]]. Adric finally died after helping the Doctor recover his TARDIS from [[Thomas Brewster]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Boy That Time Forgot (audio story)|The Boy That Time Forgot]]'')
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| == Personality ==
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| Adric was a mathematical genius. He was very proud of his [[Elite]] status. He wished to be accepted by his brother [[Varsh]]'s gang, the Outlers, and tried to steal fruit to prove himself, but failed. When his brother died, he kept his belt, a symbol of Outler membership. ([[TV]]: ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]'') Otherwise, the belonging to that rebel party, as well as later attempts to provoke revolutionary riots ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'') denoted him as a young turk.
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| He pretended to go along with the plans of the vampires in a ploy to rescue Romana, with whom he got on well. ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'') [[Aukon]] sensed Adric had the strength of spirit to survive becoming a vampire. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'')
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| Adric was fiercely loyal to the Doctor and had a generally amicable relationship with the [[Time Lord]], who acted as his mentor. His relationship with the other companions in the crowded TARDIS was often strained. Adric wanted desperately to be brave and accepted; he defied the Master ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') and died trying to solve a math/computer problem, in order to prevent a freighter from crashing into the Earth. As he crashed to his death, unable to access the computer system to input his last mathematical calculation, he held his brother's belt and said almost wistfully, "Now I'll never know if I was right." ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
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| == Other information ==
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| Adric watched recordings of ''[[Monty Python]]'' in the TARDIS' television lounge and often quoted from the series. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (short story)|Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life]]'')
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| == Alternative timeline ==
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| * In an [[alternate timeline|alternative timeline]], the Doctor was able to save Adric. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * [[Matthew Waterhouse]] has said that the reason he thought the Doctor found Adric annoying was that he noticed some of himself in the boy. Waterhouse theorised that Adric had many qualities of the comparatively young and arrogant [[First Doctor]], whom the Fifth Doctor in particular seemed to want to distance himself from. ([[DOC]]: ''[[The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor (documentary)|The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor]]'')
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