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Survivor

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In most contexts, a survivor referred to one who had lived through a cataclysmic event. Survivors could sometimes manifest survivor's guilt, feeling shame at having survived when so many had died.

Time Lords[[edit] | [edit source]]

Believing the Last Great Time War had ended by his detonation of the Moment, (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) the Doctor considered himself to be the Last of the Time Lords, the only survivor of his people. (TV: The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"])

In his tenth incarnation, the Doctor discovered that the Master had survived the Time War by hiding at the end of the universe via a Chameleon Arch. (TV: Utopia [+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"], The Sound of Drums [+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"])

In his next incarnation, the Doctor ventured to Shada, learning that several Time Lord criminals had survived the Time War by being held in suspended animation. (COMIC: The One [+]Loading...["The One (comic story)"]) In the later part of his life, the Eleventh Doctor learnt that the Time War had truly ended when all his selves had shunted Gallifrey into a pocket universe, allowing it and its people to survive the Time War. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

When Missy fled Gallifrey once again, she learnt that the Monk had survived the Time War in a similar manner as her earlier self had. (AUDIO: Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated [+]Loading...["Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated (audio story)"])

Following the Razing of Gallifrey, the Doctor again believed themselves to be the last Time Lord, (TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"]) though he noted the possibility that Susan Foreman might still be alive. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"], Empire of Death [+]Loading...["Empire of Death (TV story)"])

In the Unbound Universe, the Doctor and the Master were the only Time Lords to survive the Great War. (AUDIO: Asking for a Friend [+]Loading...["Asking for a Friend (audio story)"])

Daleks[[edit] | [edit source]]

At the time of the Thal-Dalek battle, the Daleks considered themselves the only survivors of the wars that had ravaged Skaro before they learnt of the Thals' survival. (AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro [+]Loading...["The Lights of Skaro (audio story)"]) The subsequent battle's only Dalek survivor was the hidden Dalek Supreme who had been automatically put into stasis when the Dalek City's main power supply was knocked off-line. (AUDIO: Return to Skaro [+]Loading...["Return to Skaro (audio story)"])

Following the repulsion of the 2150 Dalek invasion of Earth, only two of the Dalek Earthforce were known to survive, a drone, (AUDIO: After the Daleks [+]Loading...["After the Daleks (audio story)"]) and the Black Dalek Leader. (PROSE: The History of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The History of the Daleks (short story)"]) The Black Dalek Leader was likewise recorded as one of three Dalek survivors of the Time Destructor Incident. (AUDIO: Fugitive of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Fugitive of the Daleks (audio story)"])

During the Kotturuh crisis, a Dalek thought itself the sole survivor of the Dalek Time Squad. (PROSE: The Last Message [+]Loading...["The Last Message (short story)"]) Unbeknownst to it, the Dalek Prime Strategist had also survived. (PROSE: Exit Strategy [+]Loading...["Exit Strategy (short story)"])

Like the Time Lords, the Daleks were considered extinct following the Last Great Time War before the Ninth Doctor discovered a survivor. Though initially thinking this unit to be the sole survivor, (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"]) the Doctor later found that the Dalek Emperor had also survived, his flagship falling through time to the year 200000 in the solar system. (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"])

In his next incarnation, the Doctor discovered that the Cult of Skaro had also survived, holding with them the Genesis Ark, a Time Lord prison ship containing millions of Dalek drones. (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"]) The Cult's attempts to resurrect the Dalek race eventually resulted in the New Dalek Empire which quickly collapsed. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) Three of the New Empire's drones survived, masterminding a project that led to the birth of the New Dalek Paradigm. (TV: Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"])

The intensive care section of the Dalek Asylum was composed of Daleks who had survived battles with the Doctor. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Others[[edit] | [edit source]]

Eve was the last survivor of a species exterminated during the Last Great Time War. (TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic [+]Loading...["The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)"])

A single Weeping Angel survived the destruction of the Winter Quay, sending Amy Pond and Rory Williams back in time. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan [+]Loading...["The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)"])

A historical account of the universe postulated that the CyberMondans who had survived the death of Mondas and surviving Cybusmen had unified into what would eventually become the Cyberiad. (PROSE: The Whoniverse [+]Loading...["The Whoniverse (novel)"])

The Meep appeared to be a survivor of the crash landing of a spaceship. (PROSE: The Doctor's Busiest Day [+]Loading...{"page":"9","1":"The Doctor's Busiest Day (short story)"})

In the Unbound Universe, a starship crashed on Earth 150 years before 1997. It was survived by the parasites that would eventually be used to fuel the Keller Machine. (AUDIO: Sympathy for the Devil [+]Loading...["Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)"])

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