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I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old, and I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?
Biography
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Companions
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Personality
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Habits and Quirks
The Doctor made frequent reference to twentieth century pop culture, including the Ghostbusters theme (DW: Army of Ghosts), the song "Circle of Life" from The Lion King (DW: The Christmas Invasion), and one of Kylie Minogue's songs, "Never Too Late". (DW: The Idiot's Lantern) He had also read the Harry Potter books, saying that he cried after reading the seventh book (DW: The Shakespeare Code) Even though he knows so much of pop culture he has been shown to not understand certain remarks, such as being called a "science geek". (DW:The Lazarus Experiment) 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 Dury (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. When this Doctor is faced with an occurrence that dumbfounds him he says, "What?" repeatedly increasing the confused expression on his face each time (He has said this a total of 10 times) . While attempting to explain something he'll often interrupt himself with a "Well..." and further elaborate what it was he was talking about (see DW: Blink for an example).
Until they left his life, he continued his previous incarnation's habit of mildly abusing both Mickey and Jackie, though generally in a more obviously playful fashion.
The Doctor is also fond of the phrase "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry". He has said the phrase a total of 20 times. Another favoured phrase is "Allons-y!". He also often responds "I'm always all right" even when all evidence points to the contrary (a response which the Seventh Doctor also used to deflect the same question). He has also been known to often refer to things as "brilliant", a variation on his previous incarnation's favourite exclamation, "Fantastic!". Soon after his regeneration, the Doctor discovered that his physical changes - specifically the new teeth - made it difficult for him to utter the catchphrase, though he eventually managed to do so. (DW: The Christmas Invasion - deleted scene, although his successful utterance is in the broadcast version)
The Doctor has a stated fondness for "little shops", the gift stores usually found in hospitals and other public places. (DW: New Earth, Smith and Jones, Silence in the Library)
This incarnation of the Doctor relies heavily upon his sonic screwdriver, pushing it to limits not seen in previous incarnations and even chiding his fifth incarnation for going "hands free". (DW: Time Crash) Other tools he uses frequently include psychic paper (also used by his predecessor) and, incongruously since he is not a medical doctor, a stethoscope (although the Doctor's stethoscope appears to have additional abilities; for example he used it to assist his phone in receiving a signal from the relocated Earth. (DW: The Stolen Earth) Like previous incarnations, he appears to have the ability to carry a large and diverse number of objects in his pockets, stating once that they're bigger on the inside. (DW: The Runaway Bride) At one point he produces a wind-up mouse from a pocket. (DW: The Doctor's Daughter)
He had taken to carrying a GSM cell phone with him; the number can be used to contact him anywhere in space and time. (DW: The Sontaran Strategem, The Stolen Earth) Like his previous incarnation did with Rose Tyler's "superphone", this incarnation has also taken to "upgrading" the mobile phones of his later companions in order to facilitate communication with their families and with the Doctor: both Martha Jones and Donna Noble's phones were so modified and, like Rose's mother, their close relatives were aware that they could communicate through time and space as a result. (DW: The Stolen Earth) The phone he carries is Martha Jones' superphone, given to him by her so she could contact him if need be, apparently he can be called using any standard phone. (DW: The Sontaran Strategem The Stolen Earth)
He also follows the trend of his immediate successors in displaying increasing skill for using the TARDIS, on several occasions even using it in the form of a standard spaceship rather than simply dematerializing it every time. (DW: The Runaway Bride, Partners in Crime) He is told by a future companion that he will one day be able to command the TARDIS by a click of his fingers and initially believes this to be nonsense, but later finds out that he does possess such abilities. (DW: Forest of the Dead)
The Doctor also had the small quirk of intending to go to one destination, but walking in the opposite direction, leading to more than a few corrections from others (example: DW: Army of Ghosts). This was similar to his Sixth incarnation's habit of declaring to go one way but then going a different way; this was more of a personal quirk than a bad sense of direction, though.
Appearance
Body
This incarnation had brown eyes. He had a mole between his shoulder blades that he noticed post-regeneration that he was initially bothered by but quickly warmed to. (DW: Children in Need Special) On several occasions, Donna Noble remarked about his slender build. (DW: Partners in Crime, et al)
Grooming and hair
He was happy that he had hair unlike his previous incarnation, whose hair was very close-cut. The Doctor seemed disappointed that his tenth incarnation was not "ginger" (red-headed), but has worn his own dark brown hair in various ways throughout the series: unstyled (DW: The Christmas Invasion), a fifties-style quiff (DW: The Idiot's Lantern), and flattened forwards (DW: The Runaway Bride).
Clothes
This Doctor had several variations of dress.
He had been seen wearing a dark brown (with blue pinstripes) suit (DW: The Christmas Invasion through Doomsday), a blue (with red pinstripes) suit (DW: Smith and Jones through Journey's End) and on rare occasions, a tuxedo. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, The Lazarus Experiment, Voyage of the Damned)
To go with his suits he usually wore a shirt and a tie (otherwise, open-shirted with a light grey t-shirt/vest) (DW: Tooth and Claw), (DW: Planet of the Ood), a red-hued t-shirt. (DW: 42) or a black t-shirt ((DW: Midnight). Both brown and blue suits are often accompanied by a light brown overcoat (which he claims was given to him by Janis Joplin). (Source?)
The blue suit was obtained by the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor upon his generation and was last seen being worn by this clone Doctor in Pete's World. (DW: Journey's End) However, there is an unconfirmed report that suggests the Doctor may own more than one of these suits. (DW: Music of the Spheres)
His choice of footwear was trainers (more specifically Converse All Stars), in colours ranging from cream (to go with his brown suit), black (for wearing with a tuxedo and on one occasion with his brown suit) or burgundy to go with the blue suit). Another part of the Doctor's attire was a pair of dark tortoise-shell rectangular frame glasses which he called "brainy specs". Although he has been seen to put them on numerous occasions, he once confessed that he didn't need them, they just made him look smarter. (DW: Time Crash)
Alternate timeline
- In the parallel timeline known as Donna's World, this incarnation of the Doctor was the last, as he was killed as a result of his defeating the Empress of the Racnoss without the aid of Donna Noble (who in this timeline never met the Doctor). His former companion, Rose Tyler, along with the alternate timeline version of Donna, eventually restored the original timeline. (DW: Turn Left)
Key Life Events
- The Doctor regenerates. (DW: The Parting of the Ways)
- Less than a day after his regeneration, the Doctor defeats the Sycorax. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)
- Reunion with Sarah Jane Smith and K-9. He welcomes Mickey Smith aboard the TARDIS. (DW: School Reunion)
- On a alternative Earth, meets that Earth's Cybermen. Sees off Mickey on the other Erath.(DW: Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel)
- Defeated the Daleks and [[Cybus Cybermen] by sending both into the Void and was unwillingly separated from Rose, who also remains trapped on a parallel Earth.DW: Army of Ghosts/ Doomsday)
- Met Donna Noble for the first time and invites her to travel him him. (He is refused.) (DW: The Runaway Bride)
- Meets Martha Jones, who joins him on his travels. (DW: Smith and Jones)
- Re-unites with Captain Jack and the Master, transformed into the Human Professor Yana. (DW: Utopia)
- Spends a year on Earth, prematurely aged, following the Toclafane invasion led by the Master, who had taken over as British Prime Minister. The Master (voluntarily) dies. (DW: Last of the Time Lords)
- Reunited with Donna, who this time joins him on his travels. (DW : Partners in Crime)
- Caused the creation of his daughter, Jenny on Messaline, but erroneously believed her to be dead when she was shot while saving his life. (DW : The Doctor's Daughter)
- Met River Song, a woman from his future who knows his true name and may have married him. Discovered that his abilities are evolving beyond what Time Lords are usually capable of. (DW : Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead)
- Moments after finally being reunited with Rose, he was shot by a Dalek and began tenth regeneration, but managed to halt it by projecting the energy into his severed hand contained within a jar which was found and kept for years by Captain Jack in the Torchwood Hub. This caused another Doctor, the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, to be born from the energy in the hand when it was in danger of being destroyed with Donna and the TARDIS. Defeats Davros who may or may not have emergency temporal shifted himself out of the explosion (DW : The Stolen Earth / Journey's End)
- Returned Rose to her alternate earth, in the company of the Meta-Crisis Doctor and is again unable to tell her his feelings toward her. Removed Donna Noble's memories of their time together to prevent her death and left her behind on Earth. (DW: Journey's End)
Behind the Scenes
Casting
David Walliams was the second choice for the role of the Tenth Doctor but he had to turn it down because he was stuck in the tight scheduele of the third season of his show Little Britain. The original choice for the role of the Tenth Doctor was an unknown and (unnamed by the BBC) actor who spoke in a cockney accent, but he didn't get the role because he moved down to Australia with his wife and daughter, his name has never been revealed publicly to protect his privacy, however Tennant has stated in interviews he's been told who the original choice for the role was, knows who he is and greatly admires him, even calling that near casting decision a more perfect casting than him being cast.
Costuming
David Tennant described his costume "geek chic". According to an interview on Parkinson, David Tennant and Russell T. Davies got the idea for the Tenth Doctor's costume from an outfit Jamie Oliver had worn on Parkinson just after David had taken the role.