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By roughly 100,000 BC, fire had become a precious commodity, as relatively few humans knew how to recreate it once it was snuffed out; in some tribes this knowledge was held only by a select few. [[First Doctor|The Doctor]] and his companions [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Barbara Wright]] and [[Susan Foreman]] encountered a tribe looking for this knowledge; Chesterton ultimately showed [[Za]], a tribal leader whose predecessor was unable to give him the secret before dying, how to make fire. ([[DW]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'') | By roughly 100,000 BC, fire had become a precious commodity, as relatively few humans knew how to recreate it once it was snuffed out; in some tribes this knowledge was held only by a select few. [[First Doctor|The Doctor]] and his companions [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Barbara Wright]] and [[Susan Foreman]] encountered a tribe looking for this knowledge; Chesterton ultimately showed [[Za]], a tribal leader whose predecessor was unable to give him the secret before dying, how to make fire. ([[DW]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'') | ||
The [[Tenth Doctor]] once commented that fire was "so fun to look at! But bad for the skin!" ([[IDW]]: ''[[Ground Control]]'') | |||
==Incidents involving fire== | ==Incidents involving fire== | ||
Revision as of 13:03, 2 April 2011
Fire was energy produced by oxidation.
The earliest splinter of Scaroth showed mankind how to make fire. (DW: City of Death)
By roughly 100,000 BC, fire had become a precious commodity, as relatively few humans knew how to recreate it once it was snuffed out; in some tribes this knowledge was held only by a select few. The Doctor and his companions Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman encountered a tribe looking for this knowledge; Chesterton ultimately showed Za, a tribal leader whose predecessor was unable to give him the secret before dying, how to make fire. (DW: An Unearthly Child)
The Tenth Doctor once commented that fire was "so fun to look at! But bad for the skin!" (IDW: Ground Control)
Incidents involving fire
- The Doctor accidentally inspired Nero to start the Great Fire of Rome in 64. (DW: The Romans)
- The Doctor also accidentally started the Great Fire of London in 1666. (DW: The Visitation)
- The Doctor saw an alternate Earth consumed by fire. (DW: Inferno) This memory was used against him by the Keller Machine. (DW: The Mind of Evil)
- Ky used fire to ward of Mutts. (DW: The Mutants)
- During the Doctor's sacrifice by the Deons, fire was used to burn the ropes holding a rock above him. (DW: Meglos)
- In Victorian era London, Leela savagely attacked the Linktons' teleportation device, it sparked, and started a fire. This fire then went on to melt the Linktons present, as they were mostly made of wax. (PHS: The Living Wax)
