Tenth Doctor
The Tenth Doctor is the latest known incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor.
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When the Doctor absorbed the Time Vortex from his companion, Rose Tyler, it began to destroy every cell in his body, causing him to regenerate to save his life (DW: The Parting of the Ways). He piloted his TARDIS back to Powell Estate on Christmas Eve and, as he had after some of his other regenerations, fell into a coma, watched over by Rose and her mother, Jackie. He sprang into action again to save Rose from the robotic Christmas Tree before lapsing into the coma again, then awoke on board the Sycorax ship where he defeated their leader in a sword fight, making him promise to never return to earth. Afterwards, he deposed the regime of Harriet Jones, his former ally. He then spent Christmas Day with Mickey Smith and the Tylers. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)
The Doctor and Rose travelled to New Earth, where they found a hospital run by cat nuns and found out that they were experimenting on humans. The Doctor met the Face of Boe, who predicted they would meet one last time. (DW: New Earth)
Intending to take Rose to 1979 they arrive in 1879 Scotland, he and Rose met Queen Victoria and inadvertently inspired the Queen to create the Torchwood Institute, an organisation unfriendly to the Doctor. (DW: Tooth and Claw)
Under cover as John Smith, a physics teacher at a high school which the Krillitanes had infiltrated, the Doctor re-united with his old friends Sarah Jane Smith and K-9. He also took alowed Mickey Smith to accompany him at Sarah Jane's suggestion. (DW: School Reunion)
He met Reinette, also known as Madame de Pompadour, a beautiful noblewoman in 18th century Versailles and saved her from the Clockwork Droids. (DW: The Girl in the Fireplace)
On a parallel Earth, he witnessed the birth of that universe's Cybermen and saw off Mickey, who decided to stay on the other world. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel)
He visited 1953 England, at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. There, he stopped The Wire. (DW: The Idiot's Lantern).
At Krop Tor an asteroid in orbit of a black hole he encountered The Beast, stopped an army of possessed Ood, and saved some of the remaining crew of Sanctuary Base 6 from the black hole. (DW: The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit)
The Doctor destroyed an Elemental Shade and was witnessed doing so by Elton Pope the Doctor later found Pope once more assisting him in destroying the limitation field of the Abzorbaloff. (DW: Love & Monsters)
The Doctor witnessed the 2012 Olympics, and carrying the Olympic torch himself. On the same day, he had stopped the Isolus. (DW: Fear Her)
The Doctor returned Rose to see her mum only to find 'ghosts' on the streets. He discovered that the 'ghosts' were being brought through by the Torchwood Institute. As the ghosts achieved full coalessence the Doctor discovered that they were Cybus Cybermen, and that the Torchwood Institute also held a Void Ship in their building. The Void ship contained the Cult of Skaro and a Genesis Ark. The Doctor witnessed the Battle of Canary Wharf and threw the Daleks and Cybus Cybermen back into the Void, but also lost Rose to the parallel universe. (DW: Army of Ghosts/ Doomsday)
While he was grieving over Rose, a bride named Donna Noble mysteriously appeared aboard the TARDIS. The Doctor was as shocked as she was, and tried to take her back to her wedding. Donna was used in a plot to destroy the Earth and revive the Racnoss. The Doctor had used the water from the River Thames to flood the Racnoss and drown them. (DW: The Runaway Bride)
He encountered Martha Jones, a medical student who was working at the Royal Hope Hospital, which the Judoon had transported to the moon. He almost died in a bid to convince the Juddon the Plasmavore was not human. He invited Martha to travel with him. (DW: Smith and Jones)
The Doctor first took Martha to see a work of Shakespeare's, where Shakespeare worked with the Doctor and Martha to banish the Carrionites. The Doctor was also chased by Queen Elizabeth I, who claimed he was her greatest enemy (but he had not yet encountered her). (DW: The Shakespeare Code)
Then the Doctor took Martha back to New Earth, where he encountered a colony of Macra hiding under the Motorway along with Novice Hame and the Face of Boe. After rescuing Martha from the motorway and reopening it and the abandoned city of New New York, he discovered the Face of Boe's final secret: You are not alone. (DW: Gridlock)
The Doctor and Martha visited New York in the 1930s where he encountered the Cult of Skaro, who had emergency temporal shifted from the Battle of Canary Wharf. The Doctor attempt to assist them, only to be thwarted in this attempt by Dalek Caan. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks)
The Doctor returned Martha to her home but was intruiged byProfessor Richard Lazarus and his technology that he claimed to be able to make himself younger. The Doctor defeated him, met Martha's family and then offered Martha the chance to be a permanent companion which she gladly accepted. (DW: The Lazarus Experiment)
The Doctor and Martha picked up a distress signal in the 42nd century and saved the S.S. Pentallian from crashing into a sun. The Doctor became possessed by the Torajii sun system, though he recovered. (DW: 42)
The Doctor temporarily hid from the Family of Blood by disguising as a man called John Smith and fell in love with a woman, Joan Redfern. The Doctor was forced to retake his Time Lord body, and sought suitable punishment for the Family of Blood. (DW: Human Nature/The Family of Blood)
The Doctor and Martha Jones were temporarily trapped in 1969. The Doctor left a series of clues provided him by Sally Sparrow to assist in his rescue. (DW: Blink)
After a long time believing he was the last Time Lord, he encountered the Master, who became a Human via Chameleon Arch and was hiding at the temporal end of the universe. The Master escaped in the Doctor's TARDIS but the Doctor had tampered with it so the machine could only go to the place it last visited. The Master infiltrated the political systems of Earth as "Harold Saxon" and then used his army to take over the world. The Master artificially aged the Doctor 900 years, turning him into a small creature. The Master was later defeated by manipulation of the Archangel Network to the Doctor's own advantage, thus effectively committing suicide, making the Doctor truly the last of the Time Lords. (DW: Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords)
The Doctor encountered his fifth incarnation when their TARDISes merged. (DW: Time Crash)
Characteristics
Personality
Like his predecessor, this Doctor was capable of boundless enthusiasm, though in his case often at inappropriate times. While many Doctors have intentionally flouted social conventions, the Tenth seems to be genuinely surprised when he is rude or uncouth. Charismatic and manic and with boundless energy, he retained and even exceeded his last incarnation's capacity for righteous anger, especially when Rose was threatened, as when the Wire stole her face. (DW: The Idiot's Lantern). When driven by anger or righteousness, he would act without hesitation to strike down those who opposed him; for example, he toppled the regime of Harriet Jones with just six well-chosen words after she committed what the Doctor considered mass murder (DW: The Christmas Invasion). He also showed his anger when he gave each member of the Family of Blood an eternal punishment, fulfilling their wish for immortality in a twisted way (DW: The Family of Blood). While he had resolved much of the survivor's guilt felt previously, he is beginning to feel his age and, behind the outward playfulness, he feels a deep loneliness. His keen sense of loss leads him to empathise with those who have also suffered.
There was an undeniable shadow cast over the jollity of the Doctor. He had a ruthlessness, bordering on arrogance, that was almost eerie to behold. Beneath his youthful veneer, the Doctor is a very old man who has seen many terrible things; and in some matters, his patience has worn out. His usual jolly demeanor has somewhat disappeared since the departure of Rose. He was a little angrier, darker, and not as friendly towards Donna or Martha. This suggests that he never really got over Rose's leave-taking.
Habits and Quirks
The Doctor made frequent reference to twentieth century pop culture, from the Ghostbusters theme (DW: Army of Ghosts) to the song "The Circle of Life" from The Lion King (DW: The Christmas Invasion). He had also read the Harry Potter books, saying that he cried after reading the seventh book (DW: The Shakespeare Code). He's fond of rock and roll, trying to take Rose to see concerts by both Elvis Presley (DW: The Idiot's Lantern) and Ian Drury (DW: Tooth and Claw), and dresses in the manner of an indie Brit-pop musician. He wore trainers and faux reading glasses — both deliberate homages to his fifth incarnation. (DW: Time Crash) He often remarks that exotic technology or life is "beautiful" and is genuinely enthralled by such discoveries, sometimes to the extent that he places himself or his companions in danger.
Until they left his life, he continued his previous incarnation's habit of mildy abusing both Mickey and Jackie, though generally in a more obviously playful fashion.
Key Life Events
- Still in the first 15 hours of his new regeneration, he defeated the Sycorax Leader and lost his hand in the process, quickly growing another. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)
- Knighted and exiled by Queen Victoria (DW: Tooth and Claw)
- Reunited with Sarah Jane Smith and K9, and later was joined for a short time by Mickey Smith. (DW: School Reunion)
- Witnessed the birth of the Cybermen on a Parallel Earth. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel)
- Fought the Cybermen and Cult of Skaro at Canary Wharf (DW: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday)
- Met Donna Noble, and at the same time wiped out the Racnoss survivors. Donna rejected his first invitation. (DW: The Runaway Bride)
- After the disappearance and reappearance of Royal Hope Hospital, Martha Jones joined him on his travels. (DW: Smith and Jones)
- Met the Cult of Skaro a second time, and tried to help the Human-Dalek breed a new race, but the new race were killed by the last Dalek in existence, Dalek Caan. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks)
- Became a human temporarily to hide from the Family of Blood. (DW: Human Nature / The Family of Blood)
- Met the Master, who became had become human and was hiding at the end of the universe, near to the end of time. The Master escaped with the the Doctor's TARDIS. (DW: Utopia)
- The Master took over the Earth, and artificially aged the Doctor 900 years. The Master later died making the Doctor the last Time Lord once more. (DW: The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords)
- Met his fifth Incarnation. (DW: Time Crash)
- Met Astrid Peth on board the space ship Titanic. (DW: Voyage of the Damned)
Other Media
- Is depicted walking down a London street with Rose Tyler, in a single panel of Dark Horse's Buffy The Vampire Slayer #6. A red phonebox is seen behind them, most likely a reference to the TARDIS.
