The Forgotten (comic story)

The Forgotten
Doctor:	Tenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Martha Susan Ian Barbara Jamie Zoe Jo the Brigadier Yates Benton Romana II Tegan Turlough Peri Ace Rose
Featuring:	First Doctor Second Doctor Third Doctor Fourth Doctor Fifth Doctor Sixth Doctor Seventh Doctor Eighth Doctor Ninth Doctor
Main enemy:	Es'Cartrss The Valeyard
Main setting:	The Matrix The Doctor's TARDIS Giza, 26th century B.C. A space station England, 1972 and the 1990s France, 1914 and 2000 Agrovan Seven A planet
Key crew
Publisher:	IDW Publishing
Editor:	Denton J. Tipton
Writer:	Tony Lee
Artist:	Pia Guerra, Stefano Martino, Kelly Yates
Colourist:	Charlie Kirchoff
Letterer:	Richard Starkings
Release details
Printed in:	Doctor Who: The Forgotten 1-6
Release date:	August 2008 - January 2009
Format:	Comic Book - 6 issues
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The Forgotten was a Tenth Doctor comic published by IDW from 2008 to 2009. It is notable for its inclusion of many historical Doctor Who elements.

Summary

The Tenth Doctor discovers a museum dedicated to his lives and has to remember events from his previous incarnations in order to restore his fading memories.

Issues

• Amputation
• Renewal
• Misdirection
• Survival
• Revelation
• Reunion

Characters

• First Doctor
• Second Doctor
• Third Doctor
• Fourth Doctor
• Fifth Doctor
• Sixth Doctor
• Seventh Doctor
• Eighth Doctor
• Ninth Doctor
• Tenth Doctor
• Ian Chesterton
• Barbara Wright
• Susan Foreman
• Jamie McCrimmon
• Zoe Heriot
• Jo Grant
• The Brigadier
• John Benton
• Romana II
• Tegan Jovanka
• Vislor Turlough
• Peri Brown
• Ace
• Rose Tyler
• Martha Jones
• Buikhu

References

• It is revealed that it is the TARDIS Matrix that has taken the form of Martha throughout the story; the Matrix proceeds to take on the forms of Harry Sullivan, Leela, Mel, Steven Taylor, Sarah Jane Smith, Adric, Nyssa, Kamelion, and, finally, Susan Foreman. Although he isn't impersonated, Sabalom Glitz is also mentioned, creating confusion as to whether Glitz has travelled with Doctor or not.

Last Great Time War

• During the flashback featuring the Eighth Doctor, he is shown being held prisoner on a planet at some point during the Last Great Time War. He manages to escape and steal the Great Key. The Doctor intends to use this key to create a device similar to a De-mat Gun that will seal the Medusa Cascade and somehow end the war.
• The Tenth Doctor refers to Romana II's involvement in the war, and claims that it didn't turn out well for her.
• The Tenth Doctor states that he succeeded in ending the Last Great Time War using the Great Key. It is implied that this key was used to create the time lock, which closed off the war from the rest of the universe and repelled any time travellers from entering by normal means.

Species

• The First Doctor mentions that the Egyptian gods Sutekh and Horus were aliens.
• A Sea Devil is seen as a prisoner during the Eighth Doctor flashback.
• The Controller of the museum unleashes a number of 'relics' to attack the Doctor and Martha. These include: Clockwork Droids, members of the Eight Legs, an Auton, and a Voc Robot.
• Inside relic cases are a number of familiar creatures and devices, including a Cybermat, a Cybus Cyberman, Sister of Mine of the Family of Blood, a Weeping Angel, the head of a Mondasian Cyberman, what appears to be a Time Lord breastplate, an Ice Warrior helmet, a Quark head, and a Vespiform.
• The Fifth Doctor encounters a team of Judoon.
• The Fourth Doctor faces a Minotaur.

The Doctor

• During the Eighth Doctor flashback, the Doctor claims he created the fiction of being half-human using a chameleon arch in order to deceive an enemy.
• The Second Doctor says he "always hated" the song Jamie started to sing in order to distract the snake aliens, the song being "Who is the Doctor" by Rupert Hines.

The Doctor's items

Each of the previous Doctors had a display dedicated to their particular incarnation. The display consisted of their outfit, plus an item associated with them. These items include:

• The First Doctor's walking stick
  • The First Doctor was given his walking stick by Kublai Khan. The Tenth Doctor at first claims he obtained it in an unchronicled adventure involving Oscar Wilde and "midget assassins", but he later admits it was a ruse to trick "Martha."
• The Second Doctor's recorder
• The Third Doctor's keys to Bessie
• The Fourth Doctor's bag of jelly babies
• The Fifth Doctor's cricket ball
• The Sixth Doctor's cat brooch
  • Used by the Doctor to covertly collect a blood sample.
• The Seventh Doctor's umbrella
  • Used by the Doctor for its secret compartment, containing an elixir.
• The Eighth Doctor's cravat
• The Ninth Doctor's psychic paper
• The Tenth Doctor's Chameleon Arch fob watch
  • Since the Tenth Doctor was the current incarnation, he did not have a display in the museum.

Other relics of the Doctor's past adventures include:

• the Seal of Rassilon
• a Voord helmet

Notes

• The Forgotten was a comic book mini-series produced by the American company IDW Publishing in the fall of 2008, following on from its initial Doctor Who title Agent Provocateur.
• This was the first officially sanctioned spin-off to feature all ten (at the time) of the Doctor's incarnations.
• It was collected and reprinted as the graphic novel The Forgotten in April 2009.
• Due to a printing error, the dialogue balloons on Page 1 of Issue 6 were left blank. The absence of the dialogue had caused confusion over whether the villain was meant to be the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor or the Valeyard, since most references to it were on this page (although the Doctor refers to the villain as the Valeyard on a later page). Tony Lee posted the missing dialogue on IDW's web forum [1], and the dialogue was fixed in the trade paperback release.
• The fact the villain takes the form of the Meta-Crisis Doctor, and refers to himself as the Valeyard, added credence to the theory that the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor could be destined to become the Valeyard. The Doctor, however, laughs at the idea. Until such a time as a connection is actually made, the fact the villain chooses "the Valeyard" as his alias means that, regardless of his appearance, the villain being impersonated here is indeed the Valeyard.
• This story contains several plot points reminiscent of the novel The Eight Doctors.
  • The Tenth Doctor loses his memory, like the Eighth Doctor.
  • The Doctor revisits, after a fashion, the events of his past adventures.
  • The Doctor has an encounter with his previous incarnations, though in this case it is mental projections of them rather than the genuine articles.

Continuity

• During the First Doctor's vignette, presented in monochrome as a reference to the early seasons of the series being aired as such, the Doctor hopes the TARDIS team doesn't end up in an Aztec temple. The Doctor and his companions did this in TV: The Aztecs.
• The Doctor encountered Kublai Khan in TV: Marco Polo.
• The Tenth Doctor recalls Susan's departure in TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth and the return of Ian and Barbara to more-or-less their original time in TV: The Chase. The Doctor states that he doubts that Susan is still alive, and adds that, although he "can't prove it", he believes all the Time Lords are gone. This follows on from his earlier discussion of the Time War with Martha in TV: Gridlock and the return and death of the Saxon Master in TV: Utopia and Last of the Time Lords.
• The Third Doctor tale is set in 1972 during the Doctor's exile on Earth.
• The mysterious man at the controls in Issue 1 sports a beard similar to that sported by the Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley incarnations of the Master. The Doctor himself comments on the similarity when he tries to use one of the Master's devices on him. Later, the character's identity is revealed to be an insectoid creature impersonating the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor.
• The Tenth Doctor has experienced heart stoppage on prior occasions, beginning in TV: The Christmas Invasion.
• During the Eighth Doctor's flashback, it is suggested that his statement of being "half-human" in TV: Doctor Who was a ruse.
• The final issue establishes that the events of The Forgotten occur immediately following the final scene of TV: Journey's End.
• In the Ninth Doctor tale, Captain Jack Harkness is mentioned. A soldier mentions a Captain Harkness being shot in the head and surviving with "not a scratch to be seen", suggesting this is the version of Jack who is already immortal. According to Jack's backstory in TV: Small Worlds, Fragments, and Immortal Sins, Jack left Torchwood Three to fight in both World Wars. At this point in their timeline, the Doctor and Rose have not met Jack yet. (TV: The Empty Child)
• Also during the Ninth Doctor tale, the Doctor uses the name of "Bambera" to pass in World War I.
• The Advocate later claims that the modified De-mat Gun becomes the Moment. (COMIC: Don't Step on the Grass) Statements made by the Time Lords suggest otherwise, indicating it was created by the ancients of Gallifrey. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
• A Heavenly Host's disk is in a glass case in the TARDIS Matrix. (TV: Voyage of the Damned)
• The Doctor tells the fake Martha that he was all alone when his eighth incarnation died. This was shown in [TV]]: The Night of the Doctor, where he was indeed alone and companionless when dying, losing his life after travelling by himself, avoiding the Time War. After dying in a spaceship crash, the Doctor was briefly resurrected by the Sisterhood of Karn, and was given the chance to choose the nature of his next incarnation before he truly perished. Opting to become a warrior, he demanded to be alone before he began to regenerate.
• The Tenth Doctor indicates his plan to use the Great Key as a way of ending the Time War failed. His war incarnation eventually chose to prime the Moment for detonation as a last resort after he had exhausted all other alternatives. (PROSE: Engines of War, TV: The End of Time, The Day of the Doctor)

Cover gallery

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  Part 1: Amputation

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  Part 1 (Cover RI)

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  Part 2: Renewal

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  Part 2 (Cover RI)

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  Part 3: Misdirection

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  Part 3 (Cover RI)

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  Part 4: Survival

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  Part 4 (Cover RI)

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  Part 5: Revelation

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  Part 5 (Cover RI)

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  Part 6: Reunion

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  Part 6 (Cover RI)

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