Revolutions of Terror (comic story)
Revolutions of Terror was a three-part premiere story of Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor comic strip series published in 2014. It debuted the Tenth Doctor's companion, Gabriella "Gabby" Gonzalez.
Summary
Gabriella Gonzalez is stuck in a dead-end job in her family's New York Laundromat, dreaming of college and bigger, better and brighter things.
So when a strange man with an even stranger big blue box barges into her life on the eve of the Day of the Dead celebrations - talking about an infestation of psychic aliens - she seizes her chance for adventure with both hands.
After Donna's tragic exit, the Doctor thought he was done with new companions. But Gabby Gonzalez is going to prove him wrong... if she survives the night!
Plot
Part One
The day before Halloween, and the annual Day of the Dead celebration by Mexicans, Gabby is working at her father's laundromat together with her friend, Cindy, when the tumble dryers go haywire. Gabby sees a sort of monster-like shadow coming out of the machines, but they evaporate before her eyes.
Later that day, while Gabby is having an argument with her parents in the kitchen of their restaurant, "The Castillo Mexicano", the Doctor orders some food from her sister. Before he can eat it, he dashes out of the restaurant after receiving a signal on a device of his. Shortly afterwards, Gabby's grandmother claims to have seen her deceased husband's soul writing in agony in a photograph of him. Her future brother-in-law, Hector, also sees a monster.
In the city, while following the signal, the Doctor sees a baby change into a horrific creature, before abruptly reverting to normal when the Doctor's device registers a signal coming from it.
When taking the subway back from accounting class the same evening, a monstrous creature overtakes the subway, and Gabby runs into the Doctor, who takes her hand and pulls out his sonic screwdriver.
Part Two
The sonic has no effect on the monster (a horrific manifestation of Gabby), and as the train approaches the platform they run and leap off onto the station. It uses a psychic field to create the illusion of no escape, however by not looking at the monster and reflecting its face onto itself, she shortens out the psychic field. Gabby is intrigued by who the Doctor is, however he leaves for his TARDIS, telling her to forget about him.
On Halloween, Gabby avoids her work shift and goes exploring, knocks on the TARDIS in the park but backs out. She finds the laundromat is unlocked, and raises a baseball bat. The Doctor emerges from the backroom wearing a headset, as she whacks him on the head. Gabby asks more questions, and he says that he is the Doctor. In the park, he passes Gabby the headset to see the Pragnavores, a non-corporeal alien that exists in a interdimensional psychosphere surrounding the earth at various faults and feeds off human empathy. The Cerebravores attack the Pragnavores, and the Doctor takes back the headset and grabs a microphone to confront the Pragnavores, telling them the planet is protected under the Shadow Proclamation.
The Pragnavores manifest themselves within a group of city workers, turning them into their worst fears. Gabby theorises that they came through the washing machines, so they head to the laundromat. Suddenly, a Cerebravore attacks Gabby's mind, and she and the Doctor flee from monsters into the laudromat. The Doctor realises that the kinetic movement of the washing machine creates a bridge into their world, and if they increased their power, they would be able to invade the earth from multiple points. The Doctor travels through the portal, only to find murdered Fleshkind hosts of the Cerebravores. Whilst Gabby barricades herself from a possessed version of her friend Cindy, a Cerebravore wraps its tongue around the Doctor.
Part Three
to be added
Characters
- Tenth Doctor
- Gabby Gonzalez
- Miguel Gonzalez
- Maria Gonzalez
- Blanca Gonzalez
- Hector
- Fernanda Gonzalez
- Ricardo Mendoza
- Cindy
References
- Sunset Park is a public park in Brooklyn.
- Gabby says she was teased about "cartoon mice with the same surname as me" in school.
Notes
- Gabby Gonzalez is the Doctor's first companion of Mexican descent.
Original print details
to be added
Continuity
- This series takes place in the period between Journey's End and The End of Time. The Doctor is reflective on Donna Noble, whose memories he was forced to wipe in that episode. The Doctor is hesitant to travel with Gabby, alluding to the fact that "recently... friends of mine have been hurt." The Doctor had a number of companions during this period, including Heather McCrimmon, Majenta Pryce, Emily Winter and Matthew Finnegan.
- The Doctor mentions he wants a device that goes "ding". (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
- The Doctor told Gabby that his "dear friend" Cameca was from Mexico and that he went back to visit her now and then. (TV: The Aztecs)
- The Doctor said he visited Frida and Diego after the incident on the Day of the Dead in 1941. (COMIC: The Way of All Flesh)
- The Doctor compares the Cerebravore on the subway to Zuul and himself to Peter Venkman, both characters from Ghostbusters. He previously expressed interest in the film to Rose Tyler. (TV: Army of Ghosts)
- The Doctor cites convention fifteen of the Shadow Proclamation. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
- The Doctor says he is slightly telepathic.
- In his mind battle with the Cerebravore, the Doctor experiences visions of the Master (TV: The End of Time), a Time Lord, The Beast (TV: The Satan Pit), Sutekh (TV: Pyramids of Mars), a Cyberman (TV: Rise of the Cybermen, et al), and Rassilon pointing his gauntlet. (TV: The End of Time).
- Trinity Wells, the AMNN newscaster in Series 1-4, cameos in issue #3. Her last appearance was in The Forgotten Army.
- The Doctor gives a worried glance at an angelic statue covering its eyes while running through a park. (TV: Blink)
- The Doctor tells Gabby to "go home" and "pretend you never met me." (TV: Rose)
- Gabby's sister Cindy suspects her and the Doctor are dating. Similarly, Jackie Tyler suspected Rose and the Doctor had a physical relationship in TV: Aliens of London.
- The Doctor says there is an "oncoming storm", alluding to the epithet to describe the Doctor used by the Draconians and the Daleks (PROSE: Love and War, TV: The Parting of the Ways).
- Gabby says to the Doctor a phrase her grandmother taught her: "No song should end too soon." Carmen gave a similar prophecy (TV: Planet of the Dead), and it was later referenced in TV: The Waters of Mars.
