The Forgotten (comic story): Difference between revisions

|series= [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] mini-series and one-shots

|doctor = Tenth Doctor

|featuring= {{il|[[First Doctor]]|[[Second Doctor]]|[[Third Doctor]]|[[Fourth Doctor]]|[[Fifth Doctor]]|[[Sixth Doctor]]|[[Seventh Doctor]]|[[Eighth Doctor]]|[[Ninth Doctor]]}}

|enemy = {{il|[[Es'Cartrss]] of the [[Tactire]]|[[The Valeyard]] (impersonated by Es'Cartrss)}}<!---Please don't change to Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor because the villain claims to be the Valeyard, even if the Doctor doesn't believe it-->

}}

{{you may|The Forgotten (graphic novel)|n1=the graphic novel}}

== 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.

* [[Zoe Heriot]]

* [[Jo Grant]]

* [[John Benton]]

* [[Romana II]]  

=== Last Great Time War ===

* During the [[Eighth Doctor]] flashback, the Doctor is held prisoner on a [[Unnamed planet (The Forgotten)|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. Despite the similarities, the device could not be [[The Moment]], as that weapon was created by the ancients of Gallifrey and stolen by the [[War Doctor]] according to [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor]]''. It was later revealed in ''[[The Night of the Doctor]]'' that the Eighth Doctor never fought in the War until his next incarnation, merely helping out whenever he could.

* 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.

=== 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 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.

* 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 [http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=5303&highlight=], 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]], has added credence to the rumour that the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor could be destined to become the Valeyard. The Doctor himself however laughs at this idea in the story. Until such a time as a connection is actually made, the fact the villain chooses "the Valeyard" as his alias means that's the villain being impersonated here, no matter what he actually looks like.