Frobisher
The Whifferdill Frobisher (formerly known as Arvan Taklu, later Bish) travelled with the the Doctor in his sixth and (briefly) seventh incarnations.
Biography
Early Life
He was once married to another Whifferdill named Francine. Francine left him as she believed she was a better detective. (source?)
Meeting the Doctor
Living as Arkan Taklu, he came across the Doctor when Dogbolter placed a bounty on the Doctor. After infiltrating the TARDIS, instead of turning [[[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] in for the money, Tarklu decided that he liked the Doctor and helped him to escape yet still get the bounty money which they split evenly. (DWM: The Shape Shifter) He then joined the Doctor on his journeys. He assumed the name of Frobisher because he felt that it sounded British and thought that the Doctor would like that. A this point he also settled on the form of a penguin. He saved the Doctor from drowning in the sea by hoisting him onto a rock. (DWM: Voyager)
Frobisher took on a case to investigate Arthur Gringax. (BFA: The Maltese Penguin) Frobisher and the Doctor would visit Peri Brown's descendants several times. (DWMS: The Age of Chaos)
Frobisher ran a bar later, having morphed into the form of a human. He met the Eighth Doctor there but did not recognise him. He talked with the Doctor trying to find out why he looked so sad. When a robot called Zalda entered the bar, threatening to blow herself up, the Doctor convinced her otherwise. Frobisher then called for drinks on the house. When everyone had left the bar apart from his wife Caralla who worked there, he morphed back into his penguin form. (DWM: Where Nobody Knows Your Name)
Other information
Forms
Frobisher's originally appeared as a pale yellow humanoid, three to four feet in height, with an egg-shaped featureless head, wearing spectacles. Inside the TARDIS, he somehow managed to change into the central console of the TARDIS console. After Francine left him he adopted the form of a penguin as she had been fond of that shape. He did this to remember her. In order to pretend to have captured the Doctor, he assumed with shape, and later that of W.C. Fields. Traveling with the Doctor, Frobisher later adopted the shape of a penguin almost all of the time. (DWM: The Shape Shifter)
He temporarily took on the form of a the Doctor again in order to investigate a murder. (A penguin detective would be shocking.) (BFA: The Maltese Penguin) On two occasions he morphed to extend his arms to perform strong punches. (DWM: The Shape Shifter/Frobisher's Story). Frobisher later developed Mono-Morphia, this prevented him from shape-changing for some time. (DWM: Genesis!) He temporarily turned into a hulking barbarian-style Near-Human on the primitive planet Actinon. (DWM: War-Game_
Frobisher later morphed into the form of a big cat to combat a Kymbra Chimera. He then changed into a dinosaur. (DWM: Changes). Frobisher stretched his penguin form to one similar to a hang-glider. He used this form to save Jamie McCrimmon. (DWM: The World Shapers)
Key Life Events
- Marries Francine.
- Meets the Doctor and joins him on his travels. (DWM: The Shape Shifter)
- Adopts the name Frobisher. (DWM: Voyager)
- Leaves the Doctor. (DWM: A Cold Day in Hell)
- Marries Caralla. (Mentioned DWM: Where Nobody Knows Your Names)
- Unknowingly meets the Eighth Doctor. (DWM: Where Nobody Knows Your Name)
Behind the Scenes
- Robert Jezek voiced Frobisher with a Brooklyn accent.
- Frobisher was a companion of the Doctor before Trial of a Time Lord but is absent during the course of it. This suggests he left the Doctor but then rejoined him after as he appears in The Maltese Penguin.
- It has been reported that a character by the name of Mr. Frobisher will appear in Torchwood.
