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== Realities ==
== Realities ==
When it comes to continuity, tone, and worldview, the ''Doctor Who'' universe's many spin-offs and sub-series have usually been more concerned with themselves than each other. Within a series such as ''[[The Monthly Adventures]]'', one can expect to find more references to previous audios and the Classic show than, for instance, the [[Virgin Decalogs]] or [[Doctor Who annual]]s. As a result, each series presents a relatively self-contained chunk of [[the Doctor's reality]]. Sometimes these pieces have ebbed and flowed into each other through shared characters or references; other times, they have gone out of their way to paint each other as separate timelines or universes.
When it comes to continuity, tone, and worldview, the ''Doctor Who'' universe's many spin-offs and sub-series have usually been more concerned with themselves than each other. For instance, within a series such as ''[[The Monthly Adventures]]'', one can expect to find more references to previous audios and the Classic show than the [[Virgin Decalogs]] or [[Doctor Who annual]]s. As a result, each series presents a relatively self-contained chunk of [[the Doctor's reality]]. Sometimes these pieces have ebbed and flowed into each other through shared characters or references; other times, they have gone out of their way to paint each other as separate timelines or universes.


While acknowleding that most sources suggest these chunks all to be the same reality, covering them separately helps to highlight the ways in which they stand on their own. [[User:TheChampionOfTime|TheChampionOfTime]] has paved the way for this with the creation of pages like [[Virgin reality]].<ref>To emphasize the fact that these are ''not'' necessarily separate realities, perhaps it would be better to use subpages such as [[The Doctor's reality/Virgin reality]] etc.</ref> To help myself keep it all straight, this table matches the "reality" pages, both created and relinked, with the approximate stories and series they cover.
While acknowleding that most sources suggest these chunks all to be the same reality, covering them separately helps to highlight the ways in which they stand on their own. [[User:TheChampionOfTime|TheChampionOfTime]] has paved the way for this with the creation of pages like [[Virgin reality]].<ref>To emphasize the fact that these are ''not'' necessarily separate realities, perhaps it would be better to use subpages such as [[The Doctor's reality/Virgin reality]] etc.</ref> To help myself keep it all straight, this table matches the "reality" pages, both created and relinked, with the approximate stories and series they cover.
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|[[The Doctor's reality (The Not-So-Sinister Sponge)]]
|[[The Doctor's reality (The Not-So-Sinister Sponge)]]
|[[Doctor Who annual]]s seen through the lens of ''[[Short Trips and Side Steps]]''.
|[[Doctor Who annual]]s<br />"Special Occasions" from ''[[Short Trips and Side Steps]]''
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|[[2-D universe]]
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|[[Virgin reality]]
|[[Virgin reality]]
|[[Virgin Books]] ''[[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]]'', ''[[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]]'', and ''[[Virgin Decalogs|Decalogs]]''
|[[Virgin Books|Virgin]] ''[[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]]'', ''[[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]]'', and ''[[Virgin Decalogs|Decalogs]]''
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|[[Braxiatel Collection's revised timeline]]
|[[Braxiatel Collection's revised timeline]]
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|[[The Doctor's reality (The Eight Doctors)]]
|[[The Doctor's reality (The Eight Doctors)]]
|[[BBC Books]] ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures (prose series)|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]''; perhaps the ''[[BBC Past Doctor Adventures|Past Doctor Adventures]]'' as well
|rowspan=3|[[BBC Books|BBC]] ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures (prose series)|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]''<br />Perhaps the ''[[BBC Past Doctor Adventures|Past Doctor Adventures]]'' as well?
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|[[War in Heaven]]
|''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]''?
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|[[Post-War universe]]
|[[Post-War universe]]
|''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' beginning with ''[[The Burning (novel)|The Burning]]''
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|[[Council of Eight's universe]]
|[[Council of Eight's universe]]
|Following the [[multiverse collapse (Time Zero)|multiverse collapse]]
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|[[War in Heaven]]
|''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]''?
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|[[Positive-time universe]]
|[[Positive-time universe]]
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|[[Post-Time War universe]]
|[[Post-Time War universe]]
|''Doctor Who'' [[series 1 (Doctor Who)|series 1]]–[[series 4 (Doctor Who)|4]]; ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''; ''[[Torchwood (series)|Torchwood]]''
|rowspan=3|''[[Doctor Who]]'' (2005–)
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|[[Cracked universe (The Eleventh Hour)]]
|[[Cracked universe (The Eleventh Hour)]]
|''Doctor Who'' [[series 5 (Doctor Who)|series 5]]
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|[[Rebooted universe (The Big Bang)]]
|[[Rebooted universe (The Big Bang)]]
|''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'' onwards
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|[[Lethbridge-Stewart's universe (The Forgotten Son)]]
|[[Lethbridge-Stewart's universe (The Forgotten Son)]]
|''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]''
|''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]''
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|[[Collapsing Universe]]
|''[[Collapsing Universe Cycle]]''
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== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}

Revision as of 19:51, 13 July 2022

Novelisation character names

This is a list of pages that could be renamed under the policy change I suggested in Thread:231243. By no means is it complete!

The above grouping only includes characters whose names are currently not unique on the wiki. Characters whose names were already unique are listed below; the issue of whether the longer titles should be used regardless as "future-proofing" is probably best decided case-by-case, as described in the policy about "When not to disambiguate".

It's worth noting that there are already a ton of pages which use names from novelisations. An incomplete sample: Archie Sylvest; August Lilt; Cairn; Cass Fermazzi; Cedric (The King's Demons); Colin Redmayne; Derek Johnson; ECCO; Edith Randall; Fariah Neguib; Frank Harris; Fyodor Nikolai Kerensky; George Morris; Heidi Scarlioni; Jason Overton; Jebal; Joanna; Joshua Jobel; Justin Vogel; Lancelot Takis; Lee Lin; Mary Smith; Megara One; Megara Two; Odessa Smith; Owen Bywater; Owen Watson; Palmer; Ram Vermas; Robert Lines; Sakkib; Simon Metcalf; Smith; Sylvia Gribbins; Tasambeker Brown; Theodore Benik; Vincent Russell; Vorn; and Wilkins. Let them serve as not only demonstrations of the practicality of novelisation names being used more generally but also prompts for us to reconsider the current policy which forbids their existence!

Thinly-veiled characters

Doctors

Masters

Other DWU characters

Non-DWU characters

Gerry Anderson universe

Main article: Talk: The Indestructible Man (novel)#Parallels

Blake's 7

Alien

Valid references to invalid stories

"The Pilot Episode"

Dr. Who and the Daleks

Too many to name, including

A Fix with Sontarans

Search Out Space

Dimensions in Time

The Skivers (1995)

Death Comes to Time

Scream of the Shalka

whoisdoctorwho.co.uk

Attack of the Graske

The Twelfth Doctor Interactive Story

Time Fracture

Realities

When it comes to continuity, tone, and worldview, the Doctor Who universe's many spin-offs and sub-series have usually been more concerned with themselves than each other. For instance, within a series such as The Monthly Adventures, one can expect to find more references to previous audios and the Classic show than the Virgin Decalogs or Doctor Who annuals. As a result, each series presents a relatively self-contained chunk of the Doctor's reality. Sometimes these pieces have ebbed and flowed into each other through shared characters or references; other times, they have gone out of their way to paint each other as separate timelines or universes.

While acknowleding that most sources suggest these chunks all to be the same reality, covering them separately helps to highlight the ways in which they stand on their own. TheChampionOfTime has paved the way for this with the creation of pages like Virgin reality.[1] To help myself keep it all straight, this table matches the "reality" pages, both created and relinked, with the approximate stories and series they cover.

Page Series
The Doctor's reality (The Not-So-Sinister Sponge) Doctor Who annuals
"Special Occasions" from Short Trips and Side Steps
2-D universe Doctor Who Magazine comics
Virgin reality Virgin New Adventures, Missing Adventures, and Decalogs
Braxiatel Collection's revised timeline Bernice Summerfield
Barusa's universe Leekley Bible
Infinity Doctor's reality The Infinity Doctors
The Doctor's reality (The Eight Doctors) BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
Perhaps the Past Doctor Adventures as well?
Post-War universe
Council of Eight's universe
War in Heaven Faction Paradox?
Positive-time universe Big Finish's Monthly Adventures and so on
Unbound Universe Sympathy for the Devil and so on
Parallel universe (Full Fathom Five) Full Fathom Five
2040 timeline (The Nuclear Option) Short Trips: 2040
Post-Time War universe Doctor Who (2005–)
Cracked universe (The Eleventh Hour)
Rebooted universe (The Big Bang)
Lethbridge-Stewart's universe (The Forgotten Son) Lethbridge-Stewart
Collapsing Universe Collapsing Universe Cycle

Footnotes

  1. ↑ To emphasize the fact that these are not necessarily separate realities, perhaps it would be better to use subpages such as The Doctor's reality/Virgin reality etc.
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