Clara Oswald
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Clara Oswald was a companion to the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors. According to the former, she was "not possible" due to their meetings previously in his personal timeline, with two such encounters seeing her die. Though assured by the empathic psychic Emma Grayling and the TARDIS scanner that Clara was just an "ordinary girl", the Doctor couldn't believe that to be true and thought her to be "the only mystery worth solving". (TV: Hide)
While a physically ordinary human woman from the 21st century, Clara chose to enter the Doctor's timeline in his tomb on Trenzalore in order to try to reverse the damage done to his timeline by the Great Intelligence. This caused the time winds to shatter her into millions of what River Song referred to as "echos" that were dispersed throughout his personal timeline. These echos corrected the damage caused by the Great Intelligence, but were not the original Clara. She was trapped in the Doctor's timeline, but rescued shortly there after. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
After Trenzalore, Clara became a school teacher, though she still travelled with the Doctor. Clara met the Doctor's War and tenth incarnations. (TV: The Day of the Doctor) She was with him when he regenerated into his twelfth incarnation, and continued to travel with him thereafter. (TV: The Time of the Doctor, Deep Breath) Clara met fellow schoolteacher Danny Pink, whom she fell in love with. (TV: Into the Dalek, The Caretaker) However, she lost him to a car accident despite her best efforts to bring him back. (TV: Dark Water, Death in Heaven)
Biography
Childhood
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Clara Oswald was born on 23 November 1986 (TV: Death in Heaven) in the Lancashire town (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS) of Blackpool. (TV: Robot of Sherwood) She first met the Eleventh Doctor as a young child when she accidentally kicked a football at his head at a park. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten) She loved to attend Sunday School, taught by a "nice lady teacher" in a small church room that smelt of oak polish and had felt-tip colouring on the walls. (PROSE: Into the Nowhere) As a child, she liked travel books and science kits, but did not like hair products. (TV: Last Christmas) Several years later, Clara met the Eleventh Doctor again, when an earlier version of him was sad about not being able to locate Clara. He did not realise her identity, nor did she know that she herself was the "friend" for whom he was looking. She thought the idea of him finding his friend by destiny was "rubbish". As a child, she claimed she was always losing things: her "best pencil", her school bag, her gran and her "mojo", which she managed to get back. Whenever she would lose something, she'd go to a quiet place, close her eyes, then would find where she'd put it. The Doctor considered that he might follow her advice on this to find his friend, an idea she thought made sense.
Clara's mother, Ellie, told her that she "shouldn't talk to strange men", but she spoke to the Doctor regardless. (WC: The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel) Her worst fear as a child was getting lost. While on a bank holiday visit to Blackpool beach, her nightmares came true, but her mother eventually found her. Ellie comforted her by saying that she would always find her, wherever she was. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten) She passed her driving test on her first try. (COMIC: The Fractures)
Clara was left devastated on 5 March 2005 when her mother died. Clara's father, Dave Oswald, comforted her at her funeral, and the Doctor watched in silence from a distance. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)
Becoming a nanny
She wanted to travel after university, but before she left, she spent a week with a family friend in Chiswick, London to nanny for her children, Artie and Angie Maitland. Mrs Maitland died that week and, as the Doctor later put it, Clara felt duty-bound to look after the children. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)
Meeting the Doctor
Clara had a poor knowledge of the internet. While attempting to log on to the Wi-Fi in the Maitland home, she created a mnemonic device, "Run you clever boy and remember", to help her recall the Wi-Fi password, rycbar123. She phoned a number for technical support, given to her by a woman in a shop, that reached the Eleventh Doctor in the year 1207. Perplexed, she believed that he was on a helpline, and so she requested that he go to her to help her figure out how to use the Internet.
He attempted to assist her, but Clara clicked on the Wi-Fi connection being used by the Great Intelligence to harvest human minds. A Spoonhead, adopting the guise of a character from Summer Falls, a novel she read, and uploaded her to the data cloud. The process was incomplete when the Doctor found her, allowing him to restore her. Clara found that her technical knowledge was greatly enhanced as a result of this.
She used this new skill to hack the Great Intelligence's operatives, choosing "Oswin" as a username. She discovered their location in the Shard, before she was downloaded again by a spoonhead, this time successfully. The Doctor had the entire cloud downloaded back where possible, restoring Clara once more. He invited her to come with him and she told him to return the next day and ask again. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)
Travels with the Eleventh Doctor
When the Doctor returned for her, Clara was waiting eagerly. She rushed to meet the TARDIS outside the moment the Doctor knocked on her door. When the Doctor asked her where she wanted to go, she was stuck at first. She quickly recovered, replying "somewhere awesome". He took her to the Festival of Offerings near Akhaten.
There, they explored the markets, and watched the festival. When Merry Galel, whom Clara had comforted and encouraged to sing the Long Song at the Festival, was taken by the Mummy, Clara and the Doctor saved her. In doing so, Clara had to give up her mother's ring, which had extreme sentimental value to her. To destroy Akhaten, she was forced to sacrifice something even more precious: the leaf that brought her parents together, "the most important leaf in human history". After saving everyone on the planet, they thanked her by returning her ring. After the trip, the Doctor dropped her back off at her house in London, which she remarked looked different. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)
The Doctor later took her on another trip, but instead of landing in Las Vegas as planned, they landed on the Firebird, a Soviet submarine at the North Pole in 1983. While the Doctor brought the sinking submarine to safety, the TARDIS activated its Hostile Action Displacement System and it dematerialised, leaing the Doctor and Clara on the submarine.
They quickly found that the Ice Warrior Grand Marshall, Skaldak, had been brought on board. The Doctor attempted to convince the submarine's crew to be peaceful to him, but Lieutenant Stepashin stunned Skaldak with a cattle prod. The Doctor ordered the crew to imprison Skaldak; Clara was sent to try and talk some sense into him, under the Doctor's guidance, but discovered Skaldak had managed to escape his capture and threatened to launch the submarine's nuclear missiles. The Doctor and Clara managed to make him hesitate his decision, and Skaldak and the submarine were rescued by an Ice Warrior ship. Skaldak left and remotely disarmed the submarine. The Doctor then confessed to setting the HADS, and found that it had sent the TARDIS to the South Pole; he had to ask the submarine captain for a lift, much to Clara's amusement. (TV: Cold War)
At some point, Clara went to Baghdad in 1930 with the Doctor.
Clara and Amy Johnson were attacked by sand creatures that took their form. Clara tried to defeat them by pushing a hotel trolley into them. It slowed them down enough for Clara and Amy to escape in a red car. While driving to meet the Doctor at Omar's place, the sand creatures caught up with them. They continued to take the girls' form, but Amy and Clara drove through them, temporarily disabling them. Just as the Doctor and Omar ran out onto the street, Clara and Amy drove up. The Doctor and Omar hopped into the car. The stopped when they saw Arnold Bradshaw, with his extremely powerful new arm. He introduced them to Koragatta, and the Doctor remarked that they were "going to need a bigger fez".
The Doctor, Amy, Omar and Clara decided to retreat, and Koragatta disposed of the "mindless" Clara and Amy sand drones. They watched as Koragatta froze other insects of his species. He soon grabbed Omar in a beam. Shook by this, the Doctor told Koragatta that he was the one that the monster was looking for. Koragatta agreed that the Doctor's mind was more powerful, and that if the Doctor granted access to his mind, he would spare Omar. The Doctor agreed, despite Omar's protests. Arnold revealed his plan to be able to fly again, and that he was assisting Koragatta because they were both soldiers. Clara and Amy watched in disbelief as Koragatta took off, with Arnold on his back, and the Doctor and Omar in his grasp. Clara and Amy ran to her plane. As Arnold realised that Koragatta wasn't a soldier, but a coward, he punched him with his extremely powerful arm. This gave the Doctor and Omar a chance to escape. They fell in the vortex with almost no hope of survival, until Clara and Amy caught them in the plane. The Doctor, Amy, Clara and Omar returned to Earth. They realised, however, that the Prime Mother had arrived. She was pleased that Koragatta was dead, but held Earth accountable for Arnold Brandshaw helping Koragatta. She planned to consume the world. The Doctor convinced her otherwise by explaining the story of the ant. He told her that they were the world dominant life form and convinced her to give them a chance. The Doctor insisted that he was telling the truth that ants were the dominant life-form. Clara bade a sad farewell to Amy, knowing that she wouldn't see Amy again until Amy's death. Clara wanted to let Amy live a longer life, but knew that history recorded her drowning in the Thames. She soon found a loophole, in that they never found her body. A few years later, as Amy Johnson was drowning, the TARDIS materialised around her. The Doctor and Clara took Amy to Cornucopia. (COMIC: A Wing and a Prayer)
Later, the Doctor took Clara to Caliburn House, the home of Major Alec Palmer, which was thought to have been haunted by the "Witch of the Well" for many years. Unknown to Clara, he took her there to speak to the psychic Emma Grayling and find out what Clara was. The Doctor took lots of photographs of the ghost throughout Earth's timeline. The Doctor used his photographs to explain that the "ghost" was in fact a time traveller from the future called Hila Tacorien, who was trapped in a pocket universe and being chased by the Crooked Man. The Doctor used a crystal from Metebelis III to make Emma open up the portal to the pocket universe. Whilst there he saved Hila but got trapped himself; Clara argued with the TARDIS voice interface when the TARDIS would not let her in, Clara wanting to use the TARDIS to save the Doctor while the TARDIS was concerned for its own safety.
Later, after revealing that Hila was a distant relative of Alec and Emma, the Doctor realised that the "Crooked Man" in the pocket universe was trying to get to another creature in the house, so he and Clara went back to pick it up. (TV: Hide)
While the Doctor was out, the TARDIS demonstrated her antagonism toward Clara by deleting her bedroom and creating a holographic leopard while she was in the bathroom. It also created multiple versions of Clara simply to annoy her. (HOMEVID: Clara and the TARDIS) After this, he and Clara made an arrangement: he would pick her up every Wednesday and they would have adventures, but unlike his previous companions, she wouldn't travel aboard the TARDIS on a permanent basis as she had responsibilities on Earth of being a nanny. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)
Timelines in the TARDIS
While trying to teach Clara how to operate the TARDIS, the time machine was caught in a magnetic hobble-field from a space salvage ship, operated by the Van Baalen Bros. A future version of the Doctor arrived through a time rift, throwing his present self a magno-grab remote with "BIG FRIENDLY BUTTON" brandished into it to stop the ship's magno-grab. After the Doctor pressed the button, the TARDIS disappeared, escaping the Van Baalens and preventing its engine failure. The Doctor said aloud to Clara that two days had been compressed into the space of one. The Doctor asked Clara if she felt safe travelling with him, and after a long conversation she admitted that she did. (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS)
In an alternative timeline however, the TARDIS was successfully captured by the Van Baalen Bros., causing the TARDIS to leak the past and future. In the confusion, the Doctor made it out of the TARDIS, while Clara ended up lost inside, her hand burnt by the scorching metal of a magno-grab remote that had mysteriously appeared in the TARDIS and rolled towards her shortly before she was separated from the Doctor. Inside, she travelled through the TARDIS' rooms, running away from a time zombie threatening to harm her. She eventually arrived in the TARDIS library and hid there. She read a book called The History of the Time War, and found out the Doctor's true name.
She kept travelling inside the TARDIS, eventually arriving in an echo of the control room. She was pulled through to another echo room and reunited with the Doctor, meeting Bram and Tricky Van Baalen. The Doctor switched off the countdown to the TARDIS' non-existent self destruct sequence, but realised that the magno-grab had caused the engine to start malfunctioning. On the way to the "centre of the TARDIS", the four kept running from the time zombies, and reached the Cloister Room, where they found out what the time zombies really were: them. The Doctor managed to trick the time zombies and make them fall to their deaths inside the Eye of Harmony. The Doctor and Clara ran to the heart of the TARDIS. There, the Doctor told Clara about her uniqueness, and about her multiple lives and deaths.
The Doctor found that the burn marks on Clara's hand had formed words: "BIG FRIENDLY BUTTON". The Doctor then realised they needed to go back to the point of the disaster and activate the magno-grab remote, which had caused the burn marks on Clara's hand before, to stop the field and prevent the disaster. The Doctor passed through a time rift to give the device to his past self, who successfully activated it, undoing the damage to the engine and making Clara forget about the Doctor's name. The Doctor did not want Clara to go searching for his name, because an important secret was connected to it. (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS) This adventure, although negated, was later recalled by Clara when the TARDIS leaked time energy. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
Continued adventures
The Doctor and Clara travelled to 1893 Yorkshire and reached a new little town, Sweetville, run by Winifred Gillyflower and her mysterious partner. While investigating the town, the two were taken by Gillyflower's guards into a creepy dungeon, where they were lowered down into a strange red liquid — known locally as "the Crimson Horror". Clara was successfully preserved by the matter and was placed with another survivor into a glass dome in one of the Sweetville houses, awaiting the next part of Mrs Gillyflower's insane plan. After Jenny Flint rescued the Doctor from being held by Ada Gillyflower in an almost catatonic condition , they eventually found Clara. The Doctor broke the glass, took Clara out and pulled her out of her "puppet" condition. Clara, the Doctor and Jenny set off to finally defeat Mrs Gillyflower in a tower in the town; Gillyflower, along with her mysterious partner — the repulsive red leech, Mr Sweet — planned to fire a rocket that would spread the "Crimson Horror" all around the world, wiping humanity out except for those preserved by being lowered into the liquid. Clara broke a chair on Mrs Gillyflower's control console preventing her triggering the rocket. After the Crimson Horror was safely removed from the rocket, Mrs Gillyflower threatened to kill the Doctor and Clara anyway. She was shot by Strax and fell to the ground, suffering fatal injuries. Mrs Gillyflower died and Mr Sweet was also killed by Mrs Gillyflower's daughter, Ada.
The Doctor brought Clara back to the 21st century to the Maitland family house. Angie and Artie, the children she looked after, found photos from her adventures with the Doctor on her laptop and found out that she was a time traveller. When going through the photos, Clara saw one of her past lives, Clara Oswald, in Victorian London. Realising that both her physical appearance and where the picture took place in was different, Clara began to suspect something wasn't right. Before she could process the thought entirely, the kids begged her to take them to an adventure, or else they would tell their father that their nanny was a time traveller. Clara, lacking any other choice, agreed. (TV: The Crimson Horror)
The Doctor took Clara, Artie and Angie to the abandoned theme park, Hedgewick's World of Wonders, where Angie and Artie were taken by the Cybermen, who had been reawakened from their tombs after being presumed long-extinct. The Doctor put Clara in charge of the punishment platoon to fight the Cybermen and began a game of chess to end the stalemate over his mind with the Cyber-Planner, Mr Clever.
The Doctor released the children in exchange for one of his chess pieces and pulled in the "local resources" to stop the Cybermen. The missing Emperor, Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI, revealed himself as having been their short-statured friend Porridge and activated the planet-destroying bomb. This summoned his spaceship, transmatting the humans on Hedgewick's World to safety while the Cybermen were left behind on Hedgewick's World. Porridge proposed to Clara, but she declined. The Doctor returned Clara, Angie and Artie home. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)
Clara visited Tickle Town with the Doctor, and was trapped in a roller coaster. She eventually escaped in the TARDIS. (COMIC: Welcome to Tickle Town)
Some time later, whilst at home with Angie and Artie, Clara received a letter from Vastra laced with a soporific that took her into a "conference call". There, she learnt that the murderer Clarence DeMarco had said "The Doctor has a secret, you know. He has one he will take to the grave. And it is discovered," and showed Vastra the co-ordinates to where the Doctor's tomb was. The call was interrupted by the Whisper Men attempting to murder Jenny. River woke up Vastra and Strax, and the Great Intelligence appeared, using the face of Walter Simeon, to tell Clara that to save his friends, the Doctor had to come to Trenzalore - the place of his grave. When she woke up from the conference, River stayed connected. Using the telepathic circuits to get the co-ordinates, the Doctor and Clara went to Trenzalore, crossing the Doctor's timeline. The Great Intelligence was waiting there, and wished to enter the tomb of the Doctor, a future, decaying version of the TARDIS.
Entering the decaying TARDIS through a hidden passageway, Clara began to remember the events of a deleted timeline, in which the Doctor told her about her multiple lives, causing her to panic slightly. They eventually made their way to the Doctor's tomb, where the Great Intelligence demanded the Doctor tell him his true name. When he refused, River uttered it, and the door opened. Inside the tomb, the Intelligence entered the Doctor's timeline, rewriting his history, changing all his victories into losses. The universe began decaying, all the people and civilisations saved by the Doctor now destroyed. With no other choice, Clara did what she was meant to do, saying, "Run you clever boy, and remember me", she walked into the timeline as well, scattering her across time and space. This action projected her across time, creating many other versions of her that saved the Doctor time and time again. Meanwhile, the Eleventh Doctor decided to jump into the timeline as well in order to save her. Hearing the Doctor's comforting voice, she approached him. As they were just about to leave, Clara noticed an incarnation of the Doctor that she'd never met. This version was the only one to break the promise of the name "the Doctor". Clara and the Eleventh Doctor then departed, with the mysterious Doctor watching them leave. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
After she escaped the Doctor's timeline, Clara could only remember bits and pieces of her echoes' lives. Some memories were more vivid, others she only recalled as dreams. (PROSE: Into the Nowhere)
Becoming a teacher
Eventually, after returning to Earth, Clara left her job looking after the Maitland children, and became a teacher at Coal Hill School. (TV: The Day of the Doctor) In at least one lesson, she lost control of the class and tried to use empty threats to make the children behave. This was unsuccessful, and later this memory would help her when facing threats against her in a further adventure. (TV: Deep Breath)
The Doctor and Clara went on an adventure where they got very wet, and Clara had to change in the TARDIS. When she came out, the fought the evil Shroud. (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow)
Clara rendezvoused with the Eleventh Doctor after school some days, and was with him when his TARDIS was air lifted by UNIT to the National Gallery. There, Clara met Kate Stewart and consoled the Doctor when he was reminded of the Last Great Time War. She travelled with a Zygon impersonating Kate Stewart to the Black Archive unaware that the scientific leader of UNIT was being impersonated. Using the code scraped into the wall of the Tower of London, Clara activated Captain Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator and escaped the menacing Zygons by travelling to 1562. There, she met the War Doctor, Tenth Doctor and Queen Elizabeth I and attended the wedding of the latter two.
She was inserted into the Gallifreyan stasis cube Gallifrey Falls No More with the Doctors to surreptitiously re-enter the Black Archive in the 21st century. When the War Doctor left for his own time to activate the Moment, Clara told the two remaining Doctors that she could see in his eyes that the ending of the Time War was still in the old incarnation's future. She travelled through the Time Lock with the Doctors and begged them to reconsider when they decided to cause the genocide together. They took this advice to heart. She was therefore present when the Doctor changed history as he remembered it, and saved Gallifrey instead of destroying it. Back on Earth, she briefly met the mysterious Curator, unaware that anything was extraordinary about him. She bade farewell to the past Doctors, and kissed her Doctor on the cheek; when the Doctor asked how she knew he needed time alone with the painting, she told him, "I always know."
Clara visited the Black Archive twice, but only had memory of visiting once. As a result of the visit she did not remember, she already had security access during the visit she did remember. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
At some point, Clara took tae kwon do lessons with the year sevens after school. (TV: Robot of Sherwood)
On her travels with the Doctor, Clara was attacked by a mind parasite. It caused her to have a horrible dream, which she knew it was fake. The Doctor said that it was probably because of all the lives she had lived. (COMIC: John Smith and the Common Men)
Clara visited the Obsidian Mainframe, and attended the auction for various creatures. She was with the Doctor when the TARDIS was sold, and the Doctor gained a lot of money. They were then forced to travel "the normal way" to the Cornucopia's airport, when Amy Johnson lived. (COMIC: Pay the Piper, The Blood of Azrael)
Trenzalore
Needing a fake boyfriend, Clara called the Doctor twice while he was orbiting a planet surrounded by the universe's most dangerous enemies. She convinced him to come but was shocked to find him naked, which he fixed for her by putting a holographic filter on her so she'd see him with clothes. Clara introduced him to her family, who saw him naked because he hadn't put the filter on them. Learning from the Handles that the planet was apparently Gallifrey, Clara and the Doctor travelled there where Clara pointed out the Doctor believed he may have saved Gallifrey though it was in a different universe. When the Papal Mainframe arrived, the Doctor made Clara swallowed a holographic projector to generate holographic clothes around her, as it was considered very courteous for visitors to appear naked. Once on board they meet Tasha Lem, the leader of the Mainframe. Tasha agreed to teleport the two to the planet.
On the planet, Clara found a statue in the snow which the Doctor quickly realised was a Weeping Angel. Surrounded by Angels, the Doctor pulled a secret key out of the wig he was wearing and summoned the TARDIS, saving them. He then flew the TARDIS to the nearby town of Christmas, where they learnt that the town was surrounded in a truth field. Searching for the source of the transmission that brought everyone to the planet, the two found a crack in time, and the Doctor realised that it was the Time Lords trying to return from the pocket universe he and his other incarnations had sent them to. This was confirmed when Handles translated the message as "Doctor who?" The Doctor then explained that if he said his real name the Time Lords would return but all hell would then break loose as the species surrounding the planet tried to stop the return of the Time Lords. After learning that the planet was Trenzalore — where he was fated to die — the Doctor has Clara return to the TARDIS.
In the TARDIS, Clara inserted a device the Doctor gave her and was returned home, but grabbed onto the TARDIS as it dematerialised again. Clara hung on all the way through the Time Vortex back to Trenzalore, protected by the TARDIS' shields extending around her but nearly frozen to it.
Clara returned to Trenzalore three hundred years after she left — due to her presence causing the TARDIS to go much slower — and found the Doctor middle-aged and needing a walking stick. The Doctor had been defending Trenzalore from various threats and revealed to Clara that this would be the end of him: he would die of old age and had no more regenerations to fall back on. Clara begged him to let someone else take up the job of protecting the planet and change the future they saw where he died in battle on Trenzalore, but he refused. Clara watched the planet's brief sunrise with him, during which Handles died and the two were invited by Tasha to return to the Papal Mainframe.
On the Papal Mainframe, Clara and the Doctor were led into a trap, as the Daleks had already taken over the Mainframe and converted everyone — including Tasha — into Dalek puppets three days earlier. Tasha's Dalek programming was activated and three Daleks accosted the Doctor and Clara. When the Doctor threatened to release the Time Lords if the Daleks tried to kill him, Tasha took Clara hostage to stop him, and the Doctor claimed not to care if she died. Bravely, Clara declared she would die anyway, telling him to do what he had to. Using Clara as an example of bravery, the Doctor helped Tasha regain control of herself and she teleported them back to the planet after disposing of the Daleks.
The Doctor and Clara returned to the TARDIS where they found Clara's turkey cooked, and he returned her home once again. Although Clara made the Doctor promise not to leave her behind again, he did just that, leaving her devastated. At dinner, Clara had her grandmother repeat the story of how she fell for her grandfather and was relieved to hear the TARDIS again, grabbing a Christmas cracker to take to the Doctor. To her surprise, she discovered Tasha piloting the TARDIS, and Tasha returned her to Trenzalore some time further into the future than she left. By now, the Daleks had overrun most of the town's defences. Tasha told Clara to go find the Doctor, as he shouldn't have to die alone.
Upon reuniting with the Doctor, Clara found him very old and weak — too weak to even open a cracker. He was also slightly senile, as he initially mistook her for Barnable. While they sat together, Clara opened the cracker and read the poem inside. When the Daleks demanded his surrender, he agreed but asked Clara to remain behind so he could at least have one last victory by saving her. Desperate to change the future, Clara pleaded to the Time Lords through the crack, telling them that "the Doctor" was the only name of his that mattered, and that if they cared about him at all, they should save him. To her surprise, the crack disappeared.
Clara watched tearfully as the Doctor stood on top of Christmas' Clock Tower and surrendered to the Daleks, prepared to finally die either by old age or Dalek. As the Daleks hesitated and the Doctor goaded them on, the Time Lords granted the Doctor a new regenerative cycle. To Clara's relief, the Doctor began to regenerate, using his regeneration energy to destroy the Daleks. When the dust cleared, there was no sign of the Doctor, so Clara checked the TARDIS where she found him restored to his youthful self. However, the Doctor told her that he would still regenerate — his restoration to his original physical age being a "reset" function of regeneration. She watched confused as he hallucinated Amy Pond as child and adult. Finally, the regeneration started, and he removed his bowtie. Clara ran to his side in tears, begging him not to change.
However, despite her pleas, the Doctor suddenly regenerated into a new, older incarnation who left Clara confused by staring at her face to face, and then making comments about his new kidneys. The TARDIS suddenly began crashing, and to Clara's horror, the new Doctor asked her if she knew how to pilot the TARDIS, having apparently forgotten how himself. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
The new Doctor
After crashing in prehistoric times, the new Doctor and Clara were chased by a Tyrannosaurus rex. They managed to escape into the TARDIS, which the dinosaur then swallowed. The TARDIS then relocated to Victorian London, bringing the dinosaur with them, which spat out the time machine after choking on it. The Doctor, suffering from severe post-regenerative confusion, stepped out and met Madame Vastra, Jenny, and Strax, who had arrived to investigate the dinosaur. An equally befuddled Clara joined him.
Back at Paternoster Row, the Doctor was put to bed to recover. Vastra confronted Clara over her attitude to the Doctor's new face, and Clara admitted that it was a big change for her. Upstairs, the Doctor awoke, escaped his room in his nightshirt, and attempted to communicate with the dinosaur in the Thames, when it suddenly burst into flames and died. The Doctor promptly "borrowed" a cabby's horse to get to the scene and find out what was happening. Clara and the Gang left separately and ended up right next to him. The Doctor, still rather confused, vowed to investigate the dinosaur's death and the other mysterious spontaneous combustions in London, and disappeared into the Thames.
The next morning, Clara found a newspaper advertisement that called her the "Impossible Girl" and invited her to "dinner on the other side"... of the page, which turned out to be an advert for Mancini's Family Restaurant. Believing it was a message planted by the Doctor, Clara travelled to the restaurant and indeed found the Doctor there, though he denied leaving the message and thought she had.
Clara and the Doctor were taken down to the restaurant "larder" so that the droids could harvest their organs. After being separated from the Doctor, the Half-Face Man interrogated her with threats of death, but remembering what happened when she had unsuccessfully threatened her rebellious students, dared him to, calling him on his bluff and saying that if the new Doctor was really the Doctor, he'd save her. The Doctor suddenly revealed himself, having disguised himself as a droid. She and the Doctor called the Paternoster Gang into action, and they began fighting off the droids. The Half-Face Man escaped, but the Doctor followed. Clara and the Gang seemed to be overpowered by the droids, but before they could be killed they all suddenly deactivated; the Half-Face Man had died after being impaled on the spire of Big Ben, shutting down the entire droid network as a result.
Clara and the Gang returned to Paternoster Row, finding that the Doctor and the TARDIS had vanished. Clara prepared to ask for a vacancy, believing the Doctor wouldn't come back. However, he did, and Clara happily ran to the TARDIS. Inside, she was surprised to find the Doctor, like his predecessors, had renovated the control room, and declared she didn't like it. The Doctor admitted he wasn't too sold on the changes yet, either. Confessing that he had grown attached to her in an affectionate way, he affirmed to Clara he was not her boyfriend. Still having great trouble dealing with the sudden changes to the Doctor's regenerated self, Clara showed trepidation to continue travelling with him when the TARDIS landed on Earth.
After she regretfully decided to leave the Doctor's company, Clara's phone started ringing. The Doctor, aware of the likely origin of the call, teased her to get the call because it might be her "boyfriend". Stepping outside, Clara answered the phone and was shocked to hear the voice of the Eleventh Doctor. He told her he was calling from Trenzalore before he had yet finished regenerating, explaining how Clara had found the TARDIS phone off the hook. He told her the new Doctor would be just as scared after the change as she would, and urged her to help him, with the two of them finally exchanging a belated goodbye.
This call finally convinced Clara to accept the new Doctor, and she gave him a big hug, despite him protesting he was no longer a "hugging person". The two then realised that instead of Clara's home, they had landed in Glasgow, and they set off to get coffee. (TV: Deep Breath)
Travels with the Twelfth Doctor
When the Doctor failed to return with the coffee, Clara returned to her teaching duties. Mr Armitage introduced her to a new maths teacher, Danny Pink, and following an awkward conversation, asked each other out. Clara returned to her office and found the Doctor with the coffee. The Doctor told her he needed her help and bought her aboard the TARDIS. He asked her if he was "a good man", but she told him she didn't know. Aboard a ship called the Aristotle, Clara and the Doctor joined a team to be shrunk and deposited into a malfunctioning Dalek called "Rusty". The shrunken Doctor and Clara entered Rusty through its eyestalk in order to determine how it became good and attempt to repair the Dalek so that it could help the efforts of the resistance. When the Doctor's repairing of Rusty caused it to kill several of the Aristotle|s soldiers, Clara entered the Dalek's memory banks and allowed the Doctor to link minds with it, causing it to turn against its kind and order a nearby Dalek ship to retreat. After this Clara and the Doctor returned to their normal size. The Doctor then returned Clara to Coal Hill School, again asking if he was a good man. Again she admitted she didn't know, but pointed out that he tried to be, which was what really counted. Back at Coal Hill, she met up with Danny again, agreeing to go on a date with him and insisting she had nothing against soldiers. (TV: Into the Dalek)
The Doctor offered Clara the choice of their next visit. She requested to meet Robin Hood, having grown up reading the stories about him, despite the Doctor's insistence that he was a fictional character. They arrived in Sherwood Forest, to indeed find Robin Hood, but the Doctor refused to believe he was real. Following an archery contest, the Doctor, Clara and Robin were captured by the Sheriff of Nottingham and his robot knights, and taken to his castle, which was actually a spaceship. The Doctor and Robin argued in the cell, leading the guard to believe Clara was the most responsible and mature one of the three - and therefore their leader - so he took her out to the Sheriff. Clara tricked the Sheriff into revealing to her his plans to take over the kingdom. She managed to escape with Robin, who brought her to his campsite and demanded he tell her what the Doctor knew about the Robin Hood legends, though she ended up telling them about the Doctor's life as well, having been unable to stop once she started. They returned to the castle in the middle of a revolt led by the Doctor, where Robin defeated the Sheriff in a battle. Clara, the Doctor and Robin then teamed up to launch a golden arrow to allow the ship to fly into space. Clara and the Doctor farewelled Robin and set off on more adventures. (TV: Robot of Sherwood)
Clara went on a date with Danny, but miscommunication caused her to storm off. Returning home, Clara met the Doctor, who convinced her to help him learn if there was a creature that can perfectly hide; he believed this to be why people talk out loud when alone. Using the telepathic circuits, Clara accidentally landed the TARDIS at the West Country Children's Home in the 1990s when a call from Danny distracted her. Clara and a young boy called Rupert Pink, who was a younger version of Danny, and they encountered a mysterious figure hidden by a bed sheet sitting on Rupert's bed. The Doctor, Clara and Rupert turned away from the figure as it left Rupert's bedroom, and they were unable to find out if it was a creature or a child playing a prank. Clara asked the Doctor to take her back to the moment she left Danny, so she could attempt patching things up. However, not only did she mess things up, but the Doctor called her back to the TARDIS, where she met Orson Pink, who came from 100 years later in Clara's timeline.
Orson was a time traveller who had been trapped at the end of time, where the Doctor's theory seemed possible, as something wanted in. However, the Doctor was knocked out when the door opened and the oxygen field collapsed. Clara piloted the TARDIS via the telepathic circuits, accidentally landing in the Doctor's own childhood. Hiding under his bed, Clara convinced the young First Doctor it was a dream. Fear, she told him, can make one kind instead of cruel and cowardly, and a day would come when he was the most afraid. Inside the TARDIS, Orson asked the Doctor what was outside Orson's ship, but Clara entered and asked the Doctor what if there was nothing behind the door, or under everyone's beds, and "What if the big bad Time Lord doesn't want to admit he's just afraid of the dark?" Clara made the Doctor promise to leave and never find out where they had landed. She returned to the 21st century where she decided to make her relationship with Danny a romantic one. She leaned in and kissed Danny, allowing both of them to overcome their separate fears of becoming a couple. (TV: Listen)
Dating life and companion life collide
While Clara was preparing for a date with Danny, she refused to go sightseeing with the Doctor. However, when the Doctor received a call from an elderly Madame Karabraxos, who asked him to rescue the Teller and its imprisoned mate from the Bank of Karabraxos before the solar storm would destroy it, Clara joined the Doctor on the mission. The Doctor recruited mutant human-shapeshifter Saibra and augmented human Psi and, disguising himself as "the Architect", orchestrated a bank heist for himself and his new team to commit. The Doctor, Clara and Saibra used memory worms to erase their recent memories, while Psi deleted his recent memories manually. This allowed them to break into the Bank of Karabraxos without revealing their plan to the Teller, who could detect guilt and was forced to work as the bank's telepathic guard by Ms Delphox, the Head of Bank Security. Following the instructions left by the Architect, the team discovered six devices which they believed were atomic shredders. Preferring a quick and painless death, Saibra was soon forced to use one of them before the Teller could liquefy her brain, as later was Psi.
Left alone, the Doctor and Clara entered the bank's vault, where they found the payment which the Architect had promised to Psi and Saibra - a neophyte circuit to restore Psi's lost memories and a gene suppressant to stabilise Saibra's shapeshifting genes. The pair was soon captured by the Teller and Ms Delphox, who ordered their execution. However, they were rescued by Saibra and Psi, who had survived and disguised themselves as guards. They revealed that "atomic shredders" were actually teleporters. Reunited, the team ventured into the bank's private vault, where they discovered the bank's director, a younger Madame Karabraxos. Realising the true identity of the Architect, the Doctor wrote down his phone number and gave it to Karabraxos, who fled the bank as it was about to be destroyed by the solar storm.
No longer subjected to Karabraxos, the Teller used its psychic powers to restore the Doctor's lost memories, allowing him to learn the true objective of their mission. After freeing the Teller and its mate, the Doctor and his team escaped the planet using the teleporters. Reunited with his TARDIS, the Doctor dropped the two creatures off on an isolated planet, where they would be free from the telepathic "noise" of the universe. After giving Psi and Saibra their payment and having a meal with them and Clara in the TARDIS, the Doctor returned his companions to their respective times and places, allowing Clara to be back home on time for her date. (TV: Time Heist)
Although the Doctor always returned her home soon after they left, leading a double life didn't prove to be easy for Clara. During one of their adventures, the Doctor and Clara were held prisoner on a desert planet. As a result, Clara acquired a tan, which surprised Danny. After meeting fish people with the Doctor, Clara turned up on a date with Danny in a wet dress and with seaweed in her hair. One day Danny came round to Clara's flat to go running with her, not knowing that she was already exhausted after running for her life on another outing with the Doctor. On another occasion Danny saw Clara wearing a space helmet. By that time, the rumours of Clara's and Danny's romantic relationship were travelling among the students of Coal Hill School. Clara's two lives finally collided when one morning the Doctor informed her that they were not going to have an adventure that day, explaining that he had a "thing" to do. To her horror, when Clara arrived at Coal Hill School, Mr Armitage introduced her, Danny and other teachers to the school's new caretaker, who was actually the Doctor going undercover. He had discovered a Skovox Blitzer killer robot in the surrounding area and was planning to lure it into the school, where he was going to trap it using chronodyne generators and send it into the Time Vortex. However, his plans were spoiled when Danny, whom the Doctor didn't like and whom he claimed he didn't recognise despite his strong resemblance to Orson Pink, discovered and switched off some of the chronodyne generators.
The Doctor was still able to temporarily send the Blitzer into the Time Vortex. Noticing that Clara was familiar with the Doctor and was not taken aback by the sight of an alien robot, Danny demand explanations. Clara had to tell him the truth about her life with the Doctor. The Doctor's dislike for Danny increased when he learned that Danny was Clara's boyfriend. Declining his proposal to erase Danny's memories of these events, Clara took the shocked Danny home, leaving the angry Doctor to work on a new plan to stop the Blitzer.
Danny was uncomfortable with the fact that Clara "eloped" with the Doctor when he wasn't seeing her. This prompted her to give him an invisibility watch and take him with her into the TARDIS the next day, so that he could observe her interactions with the Doctor. However, the Doctor sensed Danny's presence, stating that Time Lords could feel light-shield auras, and a heated confrontation arose between the two men. As Danny stormed out of the TARDIS, Clara reminded him that it was Parents' Evening at Coal Hill School that day, and the pair had to return to their duties.
During the Parents' Evening, the Skovox Blitzer suddenly emerged from the Time Vortex earlier than expected, which the Doctor detected. He summoned Clara and gave her his sonic screwdriver, instructing her to use it to attract the Blitzer's attention and lure it towards the TARDIS. After telling Danny, who had followed Clara out of the Parents' Evening hall, not to interfere, the Doctor used the device that he had built to make the Blitzer think of him as of its superior. This accidentally triggered the Blitzer's self-destruct protocol. However, Danny appeared at the last moment and distracted it, giving the Doctor enough time to input the final authorisation code and deactivate the Blitzer. The Doctor had to acknowledge that Danny had saved the world, while Danny claimed that he didn't need the Doctor to like him, but needed to prove himself a worthy boyfriend for Clara in the Doctor's eyes.
The Doctor took one of Clara's students, Courtney Woods, on a trip in the TARDIS to send the deactivated Skovox Blitzer drifting in space, while Clara shared an evening with Danny. He told her that when he was a soldier, he knew officers like the Doctor, and made Clara promise to tell him if the Doctor would ever push her too hard. (TV: The Caretaker)
Clara volunteered to supervise a school ski trip with Danny, so the Doctor brought her to the planet Isen VI, where she could practise. Upon arriving, however, they found that the planet had become warm and tropical. Clara was attacked by a monkey-like species but was rescued by the Doctor, who had found that the planet had been terraformed by a rich human called Kano Dollar to create his own paradise. Clara and the Doctor were brought into custody by Dollar's associates. The Doctor warned them that as a result of the conversion, a global cataclysm was imminent, but Dollar refused to hear his warnings. Using the TARDIS, they rescued two workers from an underground earthquake and moved to a cavern beneath Dollar's tower to investigate a Gallifreyan signal, which the Doctor had detected earlier. They stumbled upon a giant terraformer, which had fused with a ship. It opened, revealing a Hyperion called Rann-Korr, who announced the universe would fall.
With his sonic screwdriver, the Doctor released the ship's coolant gases, allowing everyone to escape to the TARDIS. In the process, Clara used her fencing skills to defeat a robot possessed by Rann-Korr. The Doctor explained that Rann-Korr's reanimation was a result of the terrorformer's work, and despite Clara's hopes the Doctor told her he had no plan to defeat him. They returned to the surface and made plans with the workers. While the Doctor returned to confront Rann-Korr, Clara helped the workers reverse-engineer the terrorformer, allowing the area of Isen VI around Rann-Korr to return to its original icy state, extinguishing Rann-Korr. Clara and the Doctor farewelled the workers and left. (COMIC: Terrorformer)
Shunning the Doctor
When the Doctor told Courtney that she wasn't special, she became upset and inconsolable. Noticing this, Clara asked the Doctor to tell Courtney that she was special, which prompted him to take both Clara and Courtney to the Moon in the year 2049, so that Courtney could become the first girl to step on the lunar surface. The TARDIS landed on board a space shuttle that Captain Lundvik and her crew were piloting to the Moon, which recently had been gaining weight and creating chaos on Earth due to its increasing gravity. Investigating an abandoned moonbase, the Doctor, Clara, Courtney and the astronauts were attacked by spider-like creatures, who soon killed Lundvik's crew.
After scanning the Moon's core, the Doctor discovered that the Moon was actually an egg that was about to hatch and release a giant creature. Believing that it was a threat to humanity, Lundvik desired to kill it using the nuclear bombs which her crew brought to the Moon in their shuttle. Unwilling to kill a yet-to-be-born and potentially innocent organism, Clara asked for the Doctor's advice - but to her horror, he proclaimed that it was not his place to decide the fate of Earth's Moon and departed in the TARDIS, leaving Clara, Courtney and Lundvik to make a decision on behalf of humankind.
Clara sent a video message to Earth, asking humanity to vote whether they should destroy the creature or not. Although the human race unanimously voted for killing it, Clara could not bear such a decision and, much to Lundvik's dismay, cancelled the countdown mere seconds before the timer ran out. At the same moment, the TARDIS arrived back, and the Doctor took the three women to a beach on Earth, from where they could observe the consequences of Clara's decision. The creature harmlessly emerged from its egg, its eggshell dissolving without doing any damage to Earth, and laid another egg, which the Doctor called "the New Moon". He explained that the sight of such a creature being born would fascinate humanity and inspire it to pioneer into space and spread across the universe.
After the Doctor took Courtney back to Coal Hill School, Clara confronted the Doctor, demanding to know what he really knew and threatening to hit him "so hard he would regenerate". The Doctor replied that he knew that the creature wouldn't harm Earth and that Clara "would always make the right choice". Angered by the fact that the Doctor, whom she considered her friend, had put her in a terrible situation in which she nearly caused the death of an innocent creature, and tired of his patronising attitude, Clara told him to leave and never return for her, exiting the TARDIS in tears.
When Danny came to see Clara in her class, she recounted the story to him. She claimed that she had finished with the Doctor, but Danny pointed out that she was still angry and stated that "you can never finish with anyone while they can still make you angry". He told Clara to calm down first, and only then tell the Doctor that their relationship was over. (TV: Kill the Moon)
Forgiving the Doctor
Clara remained angry at the Doctor for several weeks, but eventually she realised that although she couldn't carry on travelling with him, she didn't want to part with him on bad terms, and agreed to make one final trip with him as "a goodbye to the good times". The Doctor took Clara to the space-bound recreation of the Orient Express, where they soon learned that one of the passengers, Mrs Pitt, had recently died. Theorising that she was killed by the mythical Foretold, the Doctor set off to investigate, while Clara followed Maisie, Mrs Pitt's granddaughter, to the luggage car, where the two got themselves trapped.
After several more people were killed by the Foretold, the Doctor discovered that the Orient Express was actually a trap orchestrated by Gus, the computer who controlled the train, to collect some of the greatest scientists in one place, provide them with a laboratory and force them to study the Foretold and ascertain its weaknesses and abilities. Learning that Maisie would be the next victim and planning to make use of her death in order to study the Foretold, the Doctor phoned Clara and told her to bring Maisie to the lab, making Clara lie to her that the Doctor would be able to save her. Gus unlocked the luggage car door, allowing Clara and Maisie to the lab, where the Doctor admitted knowing all along, or at least suspecting, that this wouldn't be just a relaxing voyage, as he had received suspicious invitations on this train before. Clara realised that the Doctor had once again placed her into a dangerous situation.
The Doctor was able to make the Foretold attack him instead of Maisie and, identifying it as an "ancient soldier being driven by malfunctioning tech", surrendered to it, freeing it from its duty and allowing it to disintegrate without any further victims. Having no more need for the scientists, Gus proceeded to remove all the air from the train, making Clara and the rest of the passengers pass out. However, before the Doctor could pass out himself, he retained oxygen long enough to rewire the Foretold's teleport and use it to rescue everyone on board.
Upon waking up, Clara found herself with the Doctor on a beach on a nearby planet. He explained that he was unable to save the other passengers from the Foretold, and that there was a big chance that he wouldn't be able to save Maisie as well, but he still had to risk her life to stop the Foretold, because "sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose".
Back in the TARDIS, Clara asked the Doctor if he loved the fact that his life was full of dangerous situations and hard decisions, and whether it was like an addiction for him, to which he replied that you couldn't tell if something was an addiction until you tried to give it up. Upon receiving a call from Danny, Clara indicated to him that she had finally broke up with the Doctor. However, unable to really give up her life in the TARDIS, she lied to the Doctor that Danny wouldn't mind if she continued travelling with the Doctor as long as he brought her home safe and on time, and much to his joy and delight, asked him to take her on a new adventure. (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)
Secret adventures
The Doctor landed on the Pollyanna, the first of the Ninth Era sunships, which had been on an expedition to circumnavigate the Sun. Because the temperature was kept cold in spite of the Doctor telling Clara he was taking her "somewhere warm", Clara went back inside the TARDIS to change in warmer clothing, while the Doctor ran off without her. Clara met the boss of the expedition, the egotistical "handsome quadrillionaire" Rudy Zoom, and was shown the Pollyanna's flight deck. When the Umbra, a group of "psychic predators" who fed off self-loathing, began attacking the Pollyanna, Clara used the TARDIS to translate a looped signal Sandy Tanaka had been trying to decode. The signal was a message recorded by an alien scientist whom had created the Umbra. He said that originally, the Umbra had been a psychic fabric fashioned into a cloak which drained guilt. However, the Umbra gained intelligence and devoured his people's "spirits".
The scientist as a last ditch effort tried burning them in the Sun, but they survived, trapped inside the Sun's chromosphere. The Umbra began swarming the Pollyanna, anchoring the ship to the Sun to try and hijack it and use it as a way of reaching Earth. As the rest of the crew on the flight deck headed to auxiliary control, Clara destroyed the navigation system, stopping the Umbra from finding Earth. After the crew was surrounded, Clara realised that because Rudy was too much of an narcissist to have any self-loathing in his mind for the Umbra to feed on, and sent Rudy to speak to the Umbra. As a result, the inside of Rudy's mind was "like poison" to the Umbra and the Umbra on board were destroyed while trying to feed on his mind. Meanwhile, the Doctor had used the graviton inverter on the Pollyanna to destroy the Umbra which had swarmed on the ship's hull by freezing them to death. (COMIC: The Eye of Torment)
While attempting to return Clara home, the Doctor accidentally took the TARDIS to Bristol instead of London, and the pair discovered that the TARDIS exterior had reduced in size. Staying behind in the TARDIS to investigate the effect, the Doctor sent Clara to look around and find the cause. Clara met Rigsy and his community service crew and learned that people had been disappearing in the area, with murals of them appearing on the walls of a pedestrian tunnel. On returning Clara discovered that the TARDIS had shrunk further, preventing the Doctor from getting out or taking off. However, the doorway was still large enough for him to pass Clara his sonic screwdriver, his psychic paper and a nanotechnological device that allowed him to communicate with Clara and see through her eyes. Putting the small TARDIS in her handbag, Clara set off to find the source of the dimensional leeching.
Clara once again met Rigsy, and they investigated the disappearances. The Doctor realised that they were dealing with beings from a two-dimensional universe, who were trying to understand three-dimensional space and were sucking people into flat surfaces to dissect and experiment on them. As the two-dimensional entities were advancing on Clara and Rigsy, Clara received a call from Danny and, telling him that she was busy helping a community worker find his missing aunt, quickly hung up. Although she technically didn't lie, it disturbed the Doctor, who realised that Clara had been lying to both him and Danny.
Clara and Rigsy escaped the danger and, when the Doctor realised that the murals were actually the two-dimensional creatures taking forms of their victims, Clara and the rest of the community service crew at the tunnel hid in a nearby engine repair warehouse. While the group was confused and disoriented, Clara became the leader and attempted to bring them to safety. As the creatures had gradually picked off the community service workers, Clara, the community support overseer Fenton and Rigsy became the only survivors left. The Doctor claimed that he had discovered a way to send the creatures back to their dimension but didn't have enough power to do so. In the chaos, the TARDIS was dropped down a shaft onto a railway. Unable to move it before an approaching train would hit it, the Doctor put the TARDIS in siege mode.
Fleeing from the creatures, Clara found the TARDIS in siege mode on the tracks and devised a plan to restore its power. She asked Rigsy to paint a fake door with a flattened handle and placed the TARDIS behind it. Attempting to de-flatten the fake handle so that they could open the "door", the creatures pumped dimensional energy into it, not realising that they were actually feeding it back into the TARDIS, restoring it to its proper size and full power, as the "door" was never flattened to two dimensions to begin with and their energy passed straight through the door into the TARDIS. The Doctor emerged from the TARDIS and, taking his sonic screwdriver back from Clara, named the creatures "the Boneless" and sent them back to their dimension. When the threat was over, the Doctor took the survivors to the surface. (TV: Flatline)
The Doctor tried taking Clara to the frost fair in 1641, but instead, was drawn off course and landed in the Sahara Desert in 1941, where they were captured by Nazis. After the Doctor spoke to their field marshall, Erwin Rommel, and learnt of Germany's Tuareg allies making friends with "men from the stars", Clara stayed behind at the base because of the Tuareg's hostility towards women. Eventually, though, after the Rutan spy Heinz Bruckner framed the Doctor and Clara as spies, Clara was taken prisoner and joined Bruckner, ostensibly in a mission to find the Doctor and Field Marshall Rommel. Instead, Bruckner drove to the site of the Sontaran world engine weapon, the Warsong, using the chronal energy inside Clara to pinpoint the location of the Warsong so he could claim it for the Rutans. The Doctor and Rommel broke through the defences of the Warsong, but Bruckner held Clara hostage. The Doctor stopped Bruckner from conducting the milennia-old preset programming of the Warsong by using a Sontaran osmic projector to send Bruckner's trigger mechanism through time, and Clara broke free. Rommel threw Bruckner into the Warsong, killing him, while the Doctor destroyed the "orchestra" of the Warsong by using his sonic screwdriver to blow it up. Afterwards, he brought Clara to the frost fair. (COMIC: The Instruments of War)
Clara and Danny chaperoned a school trip to a museum, and upon leaving, discovered a forest had grown all over the world. One of the students, Maebh Arden was missing. Clara, Danny and the students met up with the Doctor at Trafalgar Square, and she and the Doctor set off to find Maebh. Following a trail Maebh left they caught up to her, but were trapped by a tiger. Danny saved them. Maebh claimed to have been behind the forest, and the solar flare headed for Earth that had come to her in the thoughts Maebh found after her sister Annabel went missing. Believing there was no hope for humanity, Clara convinced the Doctor to leave her and Earth behind. The Doctor began to leave, but realised the trees were protecting Earth, rather than destroying it with the solar flare. With the Doctor's help, Maebh sent out a message to humanity urging to leave the trees alone. The Doctor and Clara then watched as Earth was shielded from the solar flare by the trees. Back at her flat, the Doctor revealed to Clara that humanity would forget the incident. (TV: In the Forest of the Night)
Losing Danny
Clara decided it was time to come clean to Danny about her secret adventures with the Doctor. While he was out walking, she phoned him. She began to tell him the truth and that she loved him, however the line fell silent during the call. A panicked woman took the call and informed her that Danny had been hit by a car while crossing the road on the call. Clara rushed to the scene in time to see Danny's lifeless body being taken away by paramedics. Several days later, Clara attempted and failed to blackmail the Doctor to save Danny's life.
Despite the fact she had betrayed their friendship, the Doctor agreed to use the telepathic circuits to find a way to save Danny. The TARDIS took them to 3W, a mausoleum of water tanks holding dead people. They were greeted by Missy, who said that she was a greeting droid and passed them on to Dr Chang. Dr Chang established a communication to the Nethersphere, and the voice of Danny came through. The Doctor left with Chang to investigate the centre while Clara spoke with Danny.
Clara asked Danny to say something which only he could say, so that she knew that it was definitely him. She vowed to find a way to be with him, even if it meant taking her own life. In fear that she would die for him, Danny repeatedly told Clara he loved her, prompting her to end the call. Turning around, she found that the dark water had drained from the tank containing Dr Skarosa, revealing him to be a Cyberman. (TV: Dark Water)
To save herself, Clara used her knowledge of the Doctor to try to convince the Cybermen that she was him, but ultimately failed. However, another Cyberman stunned her, killed the others and took her to a graveyard.
In the graveyard, Clara avoided the Cybermen rising from their graves and her savior revealed itself to be Danny. As Danny hadn't deleted his emotions, his emotional inhibitor was deactivated and he retained control of himself. However, Danny couldn't stand the pain of being a Cyberman and asked Clara to activate his inhibitor for him. Clara activated his inhibitor to allow Danny to clearly see the Cybermen's plan, and afterwards hugged Danny who retained control even with the inhibitor due to his love for her. Danny revealed that the Cybermen planned to have the Cyber-pollen cyber-convert the living as well
As Clara hugged Danny, Missy, who was in fact a female incarnation of the Doctor's boyhood friend the Master, arrived to reveal her plan was to convert all of humanity and have them march across the universe, conquering and converting, an unstoppable army. During the confrontation, Clara got ahold of Missy's weapon. Danny then sacrificed himself to stop Missy's plans by flying into the clouds with all of the Cybermen and self-destructing, burning up the clouds. Following her plan being thwarted, Missy revealed the location of Gallifrey and asked to join the Doctor. However, the devastated Clara decided to kill her as she felt Missy was too dangerous to live. The Doctor decided to do it to spare Clara, but they were both spared when a rogue Cyberman, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart disintegrated Missy with his wrist blaster.
Two weeks later, Clara awoke to Danny's voice and followed it to a portal. Clara was excited as the Doctor had told her that Missy's bracelet, which Danny had on him when he self-destructed, allowed Missy to travel between the Nethersphere and Earth and would thus allow him to come back. However, Danny chose to send back the boy he killed, asking Clara to get him home as there was only enough power left for one person one trip.
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Meeting with the Doctor, Clara nearly told him about what happened with Danny when the Doctor assumed he returned and she would be ending her adventures with him for a life with Danny. However, she stopped herself when he told her he found Gallifrey. Clara said goodbye to the Doctor and watched him depart once more as she didn't want to spoil his happiness. However, what Clara didn't know was that the Doctor was lying about finding Gallifrey because he didn't want to spoil her supposed happiness. (TV: Death in Heaven)
Second chance with the Doctor
When Clara was attacked by a dream crab who slowly fed on her brain, she had a dream where she became an old woman filled with regrets. She turned down many marriage proposals, taught in every school in Europe and learnt how to fly an aeroplane. She was then attacked by a dream crab, and in the dream within the dream was a young woman who saw Santa Claus' sleigh crash on her roof. The Doctor arrived and invited Clara into the TARDIS, and they arrived at a base on the North Pole on Christmas Eve. The Doctor, Clara and the scientists at the polar base were again attacked by dream crabs, and had a dream within this dream where Santa saved everybody's life. Clara told the Doctor that Danny was in fact dead, while the Doctor explained that he lied about finding Gallifrey. While trying to fetch a dream crab specimen for the Doctor to examine, Clara realised the specimen had come to life, and attacked her face, causing her to have a dream within this dream. In the dream, Clara had woken up on Christmas morning to an alive Danny, and the Doctor had used a dream crab to enter this dream. Clara assured the Danny in the dream that she would miss him for five minutes every day while for the rest of the time she would "get the hell on with it".
After leaving Danny, the Doctor realised that the dream crab had left no wound on either of them and everyone at the polar base still had the pain in a spot on the head, which meant that they was still dreaming. The Doctor, Clara and the scientists woke up, but before they left, Clara asked the Doctor how Santa could have been on her roof if he was a part of the dream. Ashley Carter signalled Santa with a flare to get them away from the dream constructs that were psychic representations of the dream crabs' attack, and as they rode on Santa's sleigh, the base's scientists, who weren't actually scientists, woke up in the real world. Inside Clara's dream as an old woman, the Doctor pulled the dream crab off her face while she failed to wake up, and he realised that he had arrived sixty-two years after he had last met her. As Clara told the Doctor about her life and the Doctor wished he could have come back for her earlier, Santa arrived, asking the Doctor, "How much do you wish that?" The Doctor woke up again, and pulled the dream crab off of Clara's face again at her home, revealing a young Clara. The Doctor offered Clara to travel through time and space in the TARDIS again, and she agreed. (TV: Last Christmas)
The Doctor and Clara travelled to a galactic auction in Earth's orbit where unclaimed storage was being bidded on. One of the storage pods belonged to the reclusive collector Hyphen T Hyphen. When the pod was opened, a mother Rigellan Hyper-Kraken emerged and began killing everyone. Her eggs were jolted after being transported with the station's dimensional shunt and began to hatch. Clara helped distract the Hyper-Kraken along with the station's auctioneer as the Doctor safely transported the Hyper-Kraken, her eggs and the storage pods to a backwater world. (COMIC: Space Invaders!)
The Doctor and Clara went on a tour of Snowcap University in Antarctica in 2048. While taking a helicopter ride, they learnt that one of the students, Polly Evans, had stayed behind at the end of term to join the classified Project Sub-Zero. When another student, Quinn Norton, who also a part of Project Sub-Zero, was killed in a helicopter crash the Doctor and Clara narrowly avoided being on along with Polly's father George, they returned to Snowcap U to investigate. Clara met a research graduate called Winnie Clarence, short for "Oswin Clarence". Winnie looked exactly like Clara and recalled dreams of living a thousand lives in a thousand places. Winnie overheard a discussion between the Doctor and Clara over whether or not this meant she was one of her splinters who was born to die based on a decision Clara made and ran off on a snowmobile. Clara tried following after Winnie but the two fell down a crevasse into an ice cavern where the missing students had been experimented on, engineered by Dr Patricia Audley to survive in extreme cold. Along with the spy Paul South, Winnie released most of the imprisoned humans from captivity.
The Doctor transmitted a signal with his sonic causing Dr Audley's animals to go wild. After feigning betrayal of the two, Winnie threw the Doctor the key to free the hybrid subjects from their cells, and saved the Doctor's life by pulling Dr Audley into a vat of liquid ice after Audley pulled a gun on him. Dr Audley was killed, but Winnie survived when she unwittingly had a syringe of Dr Audley's experimental blue blood serum injected into her, allowing her to live inside the ice. Clara realised that this meant that not all of the splinters died saving the Doctor, and several of them had lives of their own. (COMIC: Blood and Ice)
Clara joined the Doctor in a mission to help Mr Hitch recover the sentient superweapon the Hadax Ura. The Hadax Ura shot down the landing craft the team were inside, revealing the weapon's location on the planet Unnamed BX-4, but the team were able to escape using jetpacks. While piloting a jetpack, Clara got separated from the team when she was attacked by pterosaurs, causing her to fall into the Jungle.
Clara met the Jungle's organic avatar, who took the form of Danny in an attempt to get Clara to trust him. Although this didn't work, the Doctor found Clara and the organic avatar, and the avatar told them that the Hadax Ura had been "devouring" the Jungle, and turning its indigenous life into an army, and asked them either to destroy the weapon, or to take it elsewhere. The Doctor realised that this meant it intended to end the war between the Hub Alliance and the Axis Worlds, and the Hadax Ura began augmenting the crew to become its footsoldiers. Believing it had augmented Clara as well, the Hadax Ura had actually linked the Jungle's computer systems to its own after augmenting the avatar. The avatar appeared to shut down the Hadax Ura and its augmented soldiers, but in fact, the Hadax Ura had tricked Hitch's team to bring it on board the lander as a means of escape for the Hadax Ura. With Clara surrounded by the converted Gela and Wiremu and about to be killed by them, the avatar saved her life by destroying them with the entire Jungle's wildlife. When the Doctor returned, Clara kissed goodbye to the Danny avatar, who told her he would always be in her memories. (COMIC: Spirits of the Jungle)
Moving on
When all the planes of Earth were frozen, UNIT requested Clara's help. They eventually discovered that Missy was behind the freezing of the planes. Missy proposed a meeting with Clara. However, she would not reveal how she was still alive. Clara and Missy managed to track the Doctor down to Essex in 1138, and Missy used a vortex manipulator to get them there.
After finding out that the Doctor had been having a 3-week party there, they were captured by Colony Sarff who imprisoned the three in a hospital building on Skaro, and later took the Doctor to Davros. After escaping, Clara and Missy were captured by a Dalek and taken to the Supreme Dalek who ordered for their "extermination". (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)
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Despite the appearance that she had been killed, Clara ended up far away from the Dalek City with Missy. The latter led them into a Dalek burial ground, where she attacked and killed a Dalek. She told Clara to get in it, and so she obliged, leading Missy through the city as her "prisoner". When she was found by the Doctor, Missy attempted to convince him that the Dalek that in fact was Clara had in fact murdered Clara. The Doctor told her to open the Dalek casing, and found Clara in it and told Missy to run. Later on Clara stood with the Doctor and watched the Dalek city burn. (TV: The Witch's Familiar)
She travelled with the Doctor to the Drum, an underwater mining base in Scotland, in the year 2119, where they were met with a group of murderous ghosts, who had been repeating coordinates to the location of a stasis pod inside a nearby church. After the ghosts were captured inside a Faraday cage, the pod was brought inside. Meanwhile, the ghosts' meddling with the Drum's day-night cycle caused the base to be flooded, and cutting Clara off from the Doctor. As the Doctor travelled back to before the nearby town was flooded, Clara saw a ghostly Doctor outside in the water, (TV: Under the Lake) who was actually a hologram created by the Doctor's sonic sunglasses, and gave the Doctor the idea to hide in the stasis pod in 1980 to be released that night, which the Doctor told his ghostly doppelganger to do so because he was told via Clara's phone that the ghost was saying, "The chamber will open," a bootstrap paradox. The Doctor saved Clara and the Drum's crewmembers using Security Protocol 712. (TV: Before the Flood)
On another adventure with the Doctor, she spent too long in the Spider Mines and ended up with a Love Sprite crawling up her spacesuit. She was rescued by the Doctor, and they landed on Earth where they were captured by Vikings and brought to their village. Clara met Ashildr, a Viking girl, and they were transported to the spaceship of the Mire, where Ashildr foolishly declared war on the Mire and their leader, who was disguised as Odin. The Doctor trained the Vikings to fight against the Mire, and used Clara's phone to record their humiliation and retreat. After returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor revealed that the Viking girl he saved, Ashildr, may have become immortal. (TV: The Girl Who Died)
Clara later took selfie with Evie Hubbard, a student who the Doctor had "helped" with her homework. She later entered the TARDIS and showed the Doctor the selfie, oblivious to the fact that Ashildr was in the background. (TV: The Woman Who Lived)
In her apartment building, she checked her iPhone and saw that she had missed 127 calls from the Doctor. At the top of the building's stairs, she met Sandeep, a child who lived in the building. Sandeep was sad because he couldn't find his mummy and daddy. Entering his apartment, Clara found his "mum", who was actually a Zygon. She was then attacked by the aliens and replaced with Bonnie. (TV: The Zygon Invasion)
Maintaining a live link with Bonnie inside a Zygon pod, Clara caused Bonnie to stall for long enough to allow the Doctor and Osgood to escape Boat One before it was destroyed by a rocket launcher Bonnie fired from. She then used Bonnie's fingers to secretly send a text message to the Doctor's phone to say she was still alive, and in a video call between the Doctor and Bonnie, manipulated Bonnie's eyelids to inform the Doctor that she was being kept in a tunnel under London. Bonnie successfully got the location of the Osgood Boxes in the Black Archive from Clara's mind, and Clara revealed that her body-print, and therefore Bonnie's as well, was the key to enter the Black Archive with. When the Doctor convinced both Bonnie and Kate Stewart not to use either Osgood Box, which were in fact empty, he explained that Bonnie let Clara get inside her head. (TV: The Zygon Inversion)
Although his trust in her had been damaged by her attempted blackmail and imagined attempt at destroying the TARDIS keys following the death of Danny, at some point the Doctor entrusted Clara with her own TARDIS key which she wore around her neck. (TV: Sleep No More)
Death
Clara left the TARDIS and the Doctor when she sacrificed herself for Rigsy. She took the Chronolock from Rigsy and was subsequently killed after The Raven attacked her. Rigsy was later seen painting a memorial for her on the TARDIS doors (TV: Face the Raven)
Splinters
Because of her interaction with the Doctor's timeline, Clara Oswald met the Doctor in many forms, each time being born and dying. She met every one of the Doctor's first eleven incarnations, each time saving his life. She noted, however, that he rarely ever noticed her. (TV: The Name of the Doctor) However, Clara realised that not all of these splinters died after saving the Doctor, and many lived their own lives. (COMIC: Blood and Ice)
Her many lives and encounters with the Doctor included, but were certainly not limited to:
- The First Doctor as he was stealing a TARDIS from Gallifrey. She told him not to steal the one he intended to take but the one next to it, as he would have much more fun with it even though the navigation system was broken.
- The Second and Eighth Doctors were both present in a park with palm trees.
- The Third Doctor driving past her in Bessie. When she tried to shout his name, he turned to his rear view mirror, catching a glimpse of her.
Illustration of some of Clara's echoes along with Winnie Clarence. This illustration includes the Oswin Oswald and Clara Oswin Oswald splinters. (COMIC: Blood and Ice) - The Fourth Doctor on Gallifrey where Clara tried to catch up to him (it is not known if this was the same splinter that guided the First Doctor to his TARDIS).
- The Fifth Doctor battling Omega inside the Matrix.
- The Sixth Doctor walking through the TARDIS and past one of Clara's splinters; she called out to him, but he did not immediately react.
- Clara spotted the Seventh Doctor clinging onto the edge of a cliff on Iceworld in the far future (TV: Dragonfire) and he seemed to notice her.
- She watched the Tenth Doctor while in the Library. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
- As a queen or monarch of some sort.
- As a Morestran.
- As an inhabitant of Atlantis.
- As a member of the Happiness Patrol.
- As a woman on the Ark during the 57th Segment of Time.
- As a primitive or caveman, similar to those in the Tribe of Gum.
- As an Egyptian, possibly a monarch.
- As a military officer, circa World War II.
- As a 51st-century astronaut. (COMIC: Blood and Ice)
At one point after Amy Pond and Rory Williams were sent to the past in New York City, an elderly echo of Clara noticed that Amy had a similar "glow" about her that the Doctor had, but Amy's was fading. She decided to follow Amy, in case she ever needed help. One Fall, when Amy and Rory vacationed at Lake Erie, Amy finally spoke to her and the echo asked her to pass on a message: "Run you clever boy, and remember..." Amy later wrote about this encounter in a foreword to an edition of her book Summer Falls, addressing it to the Doctor; her description of the encounter and her quoting of Clara, leaves it unclear as to whether this echo ever actually encountered the Doctor. (PROSE: Summer Falls and Other Stories)
Oswin Oswald
In one of her lives in which the Doctor did notice her, she went by Oswin Oswald. She once claimed that the first boy whom she ever fancied was called Rory, but quickly admitted that "actually, she was called Nina. I was going through a phase."
At some point, Oswin joined the starliner Alaska's crew as Junior Entertainment Manager to see the universe. When the Alaska crashed on the Dalek Asylum, Oswin escaped down a shaft into the lower levels of the Asylum, where she was found and captured by the Dalek inmates. Unlike the other crew members of the Alaska, who were partially converted by the nanocloud into Dalek puppets, Oswin was fully converted due to her exceptionally high intelligence, something they valued over exterminating her. Due to the horror of what had happened to her, Oswin created a dream world for her human mind to dwell in, to forget the truth. Under this life, Oswin assumed that she was surviving on soufflés in the Alaska. She also hacked into the Asylum's fully-automated systems, heavily damaging it and reducing it to a ruin.
A year later, Oswin aided the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams in finding safe passage through the Dalek Asylum. She later wiped all the information about the Doctor from the Daleks' Pathweb at one point to save him from the Daleks in Intensive Care. The Doctor attempted to rescue her, until he found her and discovered she was a Dalek. The Doctor explained this to Oswin, who first nearly gave in to her Dalek conditioning by attempting to exterminate the Doctor, then broke down over what she had become.
Oswin lowered the Asylum's defences so the Parliament of the Daleks could destroy the planet and asked the Doctor to remember her as the human she once was, with her last words, "Run. Run, you clever boy... And remember." Presumably, Oswin died when the Daleks destroyed the Asylum. When Amy, Rory and the Doctor escaped back to the Parliament, they found out that Oswin had erased the Doctor from the memories of all the Daleks in the Parliament as well as the Dalek inmates in the Asylum. Her efforts were later undone when the Daleks harvested information about the Doctor from Tasha Lem. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks, The Time of the Doctor)
Clara Oswin Oswald
In another life, Clara Oswin Oswald appeared as a barmaid and governess in 19th century London.
Clara was born on 23 November 1866 in Victorian England. She claimed that her birth occurred behind the face of Big Ben, and that the location accounted for her "acute sense of time". By 1892, she was working as a barmaid at The Rose & Crown. She also maintained a secret life (with a different accent) as "Miss Montague", a governess looking after the upper class Latimer family after their last governess was drowned in the pond on their estate.
She met the Eleventh Doctor outside the pub's rear exit on 23 December, and they examined a snowman which had appeared from nowhere. Clara then chased the Doctor down the street when he left. The Doctor locked her in his cab and ordered Strax to get a memory worm to erase the last hour of her memory. After Strax kept forgetting to put on gauntlets, the Doctor got the memory worm himself, but then a Snowman attacked, followed by several more. Together, the Doctor and Clara caused the Snowmen to melt by imagining them doing so, and then the Doctor told Strax to take Clara back to the pub. Instead, Clara followed the Doctor to a ladder that led to a spiral staircase which took her up where the Doctor had parked the TARDIS. After knocking, Clara ran back down the spiral staircase when the Doctor came to investigate.
Clara returned to her job as a governess the next day and learned that Captain Latimer's daughter, Francesca, had been dreaming about her previous governess, who had drowned in Latimer's pond a year earlier, return from the dead to kill her. Francesca's brother Digby suggested she needed a doctor, so Clara hurried to find the Doctor. While shouting up at his cloud, she caught the attention of Jenny Flint who took her to see Madame Vastra. Vastra and Jenny forced Clara to do the "one-word test", where she would only be allowed to use one word to answer whatever question Vastra asked. With several well-chosen words, Clara explained why she was interested in the Doctor and mentioned the word "Pond", the surname of the Doctor's former companion, as well as a clue to the mystery. Impressed, Vastra called the Doctor and told him what Clara had said. The Doctor decided to investigate while Clara went back to Latimer's house.
The Doctor arrived to investigate the pond that the former governess had drowned in and then rescued Clara and the children from the Ice Governess, who had been created from the frozen corpse of the drowned woman. He melted her with his sonic screwdriver, but the Ice Governess recovered and chased them down the stairs, where they met Captain Latimer. The Doctor claimed to be Clara's "gentleman friend" in order to explain his presence in the house, before Vastra, Jenny and Strax arrived to help. Jenny trapped the Ice Governess behind a force field, and everyone hurried into Latimer's office. The Doctor quickly explained the situation, and then told everyone to stay in the office and left. Clara followed and kissed him. The Doctor then confronted Dr Walter Simeon at the front door, who demanded that he give him the Ice Governess. The Doctor and Clara led the Ice Governess up to the roof, where Clara used an umbrella to pull down the ladder that led to the TARDIS. They led the Ice Governess up the spiral staircase and the Doctor tried to trap her under the cloud supporting the TARDIS. He then showed Clara the inside of the TARDIS and she commented, "It's smaller on the outside" before asking if there was a kitchen, explaining that she liked making soufflés. When the Doctor gave her the TARDIS key, the Ice Governess attacked Clara from behind. She dropped the key and was pulled off of the cloud, falling to her death in the Latimer's courtyard. (TV: The Snowmen)
The Doctor used his TARDIS to retrieve Clara's body and the shattered remains of the Ice Governess and took her into Latimer's office. Strax brought her back to life using the resurrection device, but only for a short time. The Doctor asked Clara to become his companion and she agreed. After the Doctor and Vastra confronted Simeon in his institute and, with help from Clara's tears and the tears of the Latimer family, defeated Simeon and the Great Intelligence, Clara died with the Doctor by her side. Her last words were "Run. Run, you clever boy... And remember" — the same as the last words of the original Clara before she entered the Doctor's time stream, and, by extension, of the incarnation that the Doctor met in the Dalek Asylum. The Doctor believed that Clara was somehow "the same woman" he had met in the Dalek Asylum. After Clara's funeral, he rushed off to investigate the mystery, leaving Vastra and Jenny looking at the gravestone and its words, "Remember me... For we shall meet again", in puzzlement. In the 21st century, her grave was unknowingly visited by her original self. By that time, the graveyard had become overgrown and the grave very worn. (TV: The Snowmen)
Winnie Clarence
Another life of Clara's was Winnie Clarence, a student, later a research graduate, at Snowcap University in Antarctica by 2048. Her name was short for "Oswin Clarence". When she was eighteen, Winnie came to Antarctica because she wanted to explore.
In 2048, Winnie rescued the Twelfth Doctor and the original Clara after they narrowly escaped a helicopter crash near Snowcap, not recognising Clara's appearance underneath her heavy snow gear. When Clara entered inside Winnie's room to clean up and get changed, the two got out of their uncomfortable snow gear and they realised that they were doppelgangers of one another. Later, after overhearing the Doctor and Clara discuss that Winnie was born to die so that the Doctor might live because of Clara splintering herself throughout time and space, Winnie, upset by what they were saying, ran off on a snowmobile. Clara tried following after Winnie but the two fell down a crevasse into an ice cavern where the missing students had been experimented on, engineered by Dr Patricia Audley to survive in extreme cold. Along with the spy Paul South, Winnie released most of the imprisoned humans from captivity after Clara allowed herself to be captured while posing as Winnie, causing Dr Audley to drop her guard as she didn't know about the two of them.
Winnie pretended to side with Dr Audley and betray the Doctor and Clara by letting the Doctor die, and instead tricked Dr Audley into showing the Doctor the signal that caused the animals to go wild. The Doctor transmitted this signal with his sonic screwdriver, and in the confusion, Winnie threw the Doctor the key so he could rescue the remaining prisoners from their cells, stopping Dr Audley's plans. Winnie saved the Doctor's life by pulling Dr Audley into a vat of liquid ice after Audley pulled a gun on him. Dr Audley was killed, but Winnie survived when she unwittingly had a syringe of Dr Audley's experimental blue blood serum injected into her, allowing her to live inside the ice. Winnie's roommate Marianne pulled her out of the ice, where she reunited with her mother, Mabel. Clara realised that this meant that not all of the splinters died saving the Doctor, and several of them had lives of their own. Winnie, thus, became the first splinter to meet Clara "prime" and be made aware of her purpose. (COMIC: Blood and Ice)
Personality
Clara was a very feisty, brave, clever and warm-hearted young lady with a sharp wit and a thirst for adventure. During her first encounter with the Doctor from her point of view, she was somewhat reserved and didn't reveal her true feelings easily. Although she was noted for being very clever, she had no computer skills at first, only becoming a computer genius after being uploaded into the Wi-Fi by a Spoonhead. She was wary of the Doctor at first, believing him to be some kind of internet freak. She was also very good at looking after children. She followed Merry Galel, a small lost child, to help her find her way. This demonstrated her impulsive inclination to help children, also proved by her becoming a nanny (and later a school teacher). However, she thought things through carefully at first, as shown when she didn't instantly agree to join the Doctor on his adventures and told him to come back the next day. Clara was also quite cautious at first and was unsure what to make of the Doctor's bizarre personality. Clara was flirtatious, but during her first adventure with the Doctor she seemed to react to situations rather than initiate them, unlike her other more proactive incarnations. She seemed touched that the Doctor was guarding her, although she was unsure what the danger was. As time went on, however, and she adapted to life with the Doctor, she developed a reckless streak; when the Doctor told her that that anything could happen to her when travelling with him, she merely replied "That's what I'm counting on." She also became more curious, as shown when she opened a door with an explosion, which she admitted to herself was a bad decision. (TV: The Bells of Saint John, The Rings of Akhaten, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS)
Clara had close relationships with her mother and father, and kept the leaf that had started their relationship for many years after her mother's death. Clara had a great strength of character and was very brave and selfless, even more so than the Doctor at times. She was easily willing to give up things extremely important in order to save people she hardly knew. Although she was frightened of Akhaten, she showed great courage by standing up to it and helping the Doctor defeat it. She gave up both her leaf and her mother's ring in order to defeat the Old God, although she later got the ring back. Clara's selfless and loyal nature led her to make a huge sacrifice for the Doctor by jumping into his time stream to save him from the wrath of the Great Intelligence, even after River Song told her that her real self would die, leaving only echoes. The Doctor shortly thereafter jumped in to save her. Her selflessness was reflected by her echoes, especially her Dalek-self who brought down the shields of the Asylum, allowing the Doctor to complete his mission of destroying it and escaping with Amy and Rory. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks, The Rings of Akhaten, The Name of the Doctor)
Clara was also very caring and compassionate. She felt genuinely sorry for the Ice Warrior Skaldak when she was told about the death of his daughter and later managed to convince him not to destroy the Earth by reminding him of how many daughters he would kill. She was also disgusted by Winifred Gillyflower's abuse of her daughter, Ada and comforted Porridge when he said he felt like a monster. She also assured Robin Hood that he would be reunited with his love, an instinct that turned out to be correct. (TV: Cold War, The Crimson Horror, Nightmare in Silver, Robot of Sherwood)
Clara was willing to stand up to people to defend her rights and disliked being seen as anything less than a person. When the Doctor later revealed that she reminded him of a "friend" who had died (actually the Victorian-era version of Clara herself), Clara told him that she would be happy to travel with him, but not if she were viewed as a ghost of someone else. She said that she was a separate, unique individual, and wanted to be treated as such. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten) Clara again showed her dislike of being seen as a "ghost" by the Doctor when the two travelled throughout the Earth's history, and the Doctor compared life in the TARDIS to being outside of time. She felt rather emotional about seeing the entire life cycle of Earth and wondered if her body was in the ground somewhere. (TV: Hide) Her willingness to defend her rights was also shown when she scolded the Twelfth Doctor for abandoning her and forcing her to make an extremely difficult decision about whether or not to let the creature that emerged from the Moon live, especially since he knew all along that the creature was harmless. She claimed that it wasn't his right to patronize humanity and that, since he breathed their air, it was his responsibility to help them out when they needed it. This shows that she was willing to be blunt towards a friend when she felt that they had crossed a line.(TV: Kill the Moon)
Clara initially disliked the TARDIS, calling her a "grumpy old cow", in reaction to the TARDIS' apparent dislike of her. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten) Clara once confided to the Doctor that she felt the TARDIS was looking at her. However, she did try to be civil to the TARDIS, unless she was frustrated or desperate like when the Doctor was trapped in a pocket universe, and apologised when she shook water all over her floor from her umbrella. (TV: Hide) She later kissed the TARDIS console when she thought that the TARDIS had brought her to the control room. (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS) After sacrificing herself for the Doctor on Trenzalore, (TV: The Name of the Doctor) Clara finally managed to earn the TARDIS' respect, being the only person apart from the Doctor known to be able to open and close her doors with a snap of her fingers. (TV: The Day of the Doctor) The TARDIS also extended its shields to protect her when she hung on to return to the Doctor, despite the fact that doing so slowed the TARDIS' travel severely. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
Clara was quite observant, being the first person to notice that the ghost in Caliburn House was always in the same position and easily recognising a romantic attraction between two people, saying that Alec Palmer's feelings for Emma Grayling stuck out like "a big chin". Clara's keen sense of observation made her the first person to realise that Sweetville had a chimney that didn't blow smoke. She was also very resourceful and could use anything to her advantage, as shown by her use of a chair to smash Winifed Gillyflower's machine. Her resourcefulness was even enough to impress the Doctor, who remarked that 'chairs are useful'. Clara also had a knack for playing politics, as shown when she reminded Skaldak that he listened to her when she begged him to spare Grisenko's life and convinced the Half-Face Man that killing her would not help it in the slightest. (TV: Cold War, Hide, The Crimson Horror, Deep Breath)
Clara was happy to try alien food in the Festival of Offerings, though she didn't like it. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten) She could frequently be found making and drinking tea, (TV: The Bells of Saint John, The Name of the Doctor, The Day of the Doctor) but considered whiskey to be "the eleventh most disgusting thing ever invented". (TV: Hide)
When alone, Clara would sometimes talk to herself. Her curiosity even led her to learn the Doctor's true name, although she forgot it when the Doctor rewrote time. Clara was terrified when she was cornered by a mysterious zombie creature, and after the Doctor rescued her she punched him on the arm. She was shocked and devastated when she realised the burning zombie that had chased her was herself from an alternate reality. (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS)
When left in charge of a group of soldiers by the Doctor, Clara showed that she was a natural leader, adapting to the situation very quickly and keeping the soldiers in line. However, she did seem unprepared for the possibility of someone disobeying her. She was a good strategist and could use anything available to her advantage, using a cable to electrocute the Cybermen in a moat, although this idea failed due to the Cybermen's ability to upgrade their defences on the spot. Clara was very protective of Angie and Artie Maitland and at one point even referred to them as "my children", suggesting that she considered them to be her daughter and son, despite Angie constantly pointing out that she wasn't their mother. Clara was also humble and had no interest in being queen of the universe, gently refusing Porridge's offer of marriage. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)
Despite their rather uneasy start, Clara and the Eleventh Doctor formed a strong bond very quickly. She also showed great trust in the Doctor, even after Emma Grayling warned her that he had "a sliver of ice in his heart".(TV: Hide) She viewed him as her best and most trusted friend, even going so far to sacrifice her own life for his safety. (TV: The Name of the Doctor) Throughout their adventures, Clara and the Doctor apparently never discussed the Doctor's attraction to Clara, and she appeared to appreciate the signs of affection he occasionally showed her, (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, The Crimson Horror) although she once said in one of their earlier adventures that she didn't see the Doctor as a love interest. (TV: Hide) However, over the course of their adventures together, they developed something akin to a relationship. Clara also once remarked that she really enjoyed hugging the Doctor. (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS) The idea of personal space was constantly forgotten between the two of them. After the events that transpired at his tomb at Trenzalore, Clara and the Eleventh Doctor apparently grew much closer and trusting to each other, with the latter showing an enormous amount of trust in Clara. Although Clara was aware that he had wiped out his own people and the Daleks to end the Time War, she had never been able to picture his eleventh incarnation doing it, and persuaded him to reconsider the decision he made that day. (TV: The Day of the Doctor) She often poked fun at the Doctor with a flirtatious undertone, rather enjoying seeing him squirm. (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow, TV: The Bells of Saint John) Clara later admitted she fancied the Doctor while under the influence of a Truth Field, and refused to accept his impending death. Her pleading to the Time Lords to help caused them to intervene and save the Doctor by granting him more regenerations. However, his regeneration saddened her deeply, as she had formed a strong bond with this particular incarnation of the Doctor and the idea of the Eleventh Doctor dying distressed her greatly. Before he changed, she reached out for him and begged him not to change. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) The Twelfth Doctor later indicated that the Eleventh Doctor thought of himself as Clara's boyfriend as the Twelfth Doctor clarified to Clara that "I'm not your boyfriend" and that it wasn't her mistake he was referring to when he said that. At the same time, Clara told him that she never thought the Doctor was. (TV: Deep Breath)
According to Strax' medical evaluation, Clara had travelled with the Eleventh Doctor for approximately three years; by the time of the Eleventh Doctor's regeneration, she was 27 years old. She viewed this particular incarnation as "her" Doctor and shared a strong bond with him. However, this later transpired as a problem when his next incarnation proved to be vastly different than his predecessor. Clara appeared to be in slight denial of his regeneration and struggled for a while with losing "her" Doctor. She also appeared to have been ready to stop travelling with the Doctor after his regeneration and first adventure, claiming that she "[wasn't] sure who the Doctor [was] any more". However, the Eleventh Doctor phoned Clara, reassured her about his next incarnation and said his goodbyes to her. This led to Clara finally accepting the new Doctor and agreeing to stay on with him. (TV: Deep Breath) However, she still took some time to get used to the new Doctor and even went so far as to slap him on one occasion (TV: Into the Dalek)
She wasn't a fan of boy bands in spite of Linda claiming that everyone her age was. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) In fact, she had had a poster of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius on her bedroom wall when she was fifteen. (TV: Deep Breath)
Clara implied that her feistiness was partly due to her home town being Blackpool. When questioned by Sheriff of Nottingham in 1190, she told him that "you can take the girl out of Blackpool". (TV: Robot of Sherwood)
Clara loved Sunday School, but hated snakes. (PROSE: Into the Nowhere) She also enjoyed reading books, as various tabletops in her room were covered with them. One of her favourite books was 101 Places to See, a keepsake book that previously belonged to her mother. (TV: The Bells of Saint John, The Rings of Akhaten) She was also an admirer of the children's novel Summer Falls by Amelia Williams (unaware that it was written by a former companion of the Doctor's). She had a keen interest to travel, as that was what she intended to do after her brief visit to the Maitlands, although after the children's mother died, she decided to stay and help look after the children in return. (TV: The Bells of Saint John) Clara enjoyed baking too, determined to master her mother's soufflé frequently, although the results never turned out how she planned. She insisted that she would be "soufflé girl" and that "the soufflé [wasn't] the soufflé; the soufflé [was] the recipe", something that she had learnt from her mother, to which Angie Maitland reacted saying that she thought her mother was "deep on puddings". (TV: The Name of the Doctor) That love of soufflés carried over to her Oswin Oswald echo and proved pivotal to forcing her to remember what had happened to her and, to a lesser extent, her Clara Oswin Oswald echo. Likewise, she had trouble cooking a Christmas turkey for her family, and had to call the Doctor for help. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) Clara showed an interest in the life of the pilot Amy Johnson, and her knowledge that Johnson's body had never been found allowed the Doctor to rescue her as she drowned. (COMIC: A Wing and a Prayer)
Despite her compassion and strong morals, her travels with the Doctor changed her, numbing her in a way to the requirements and challenges of a normal human life, such as when she declared Danny's death to be boring, (TV: Dark Water) or when she eagerly jumped on the TARDIS to witness the solar storm, forgetting her duties to her students. (TV: In the Forest of the Night) Some of the Doctor's inhuman traits rubbed off on her, especially in moments where she took on the role of the Doctor. She told Rigsy to forget George when he was taken by the Boneless. (TV: Flatline) When Clara used Rudy Zoom's mind and its absence of self-loathing as a weapon against the Umbra, she didn't know for certain if the plan would have worked, but knew it was at least worth a try. The Twelfth Doctor, claiming that Clara wasn't aware of this, pointed out that she was "definitely" starting to think like him. (COMIC: The Eye of Torment) Her grief over Danny's death drove her to the limits of her loyalty and enabled her to betray the Doctor's trust for her own selfish reasons. In the end, she resembled the Doctor at his darkest, using her clever mind in a ruthless manner, though this is lessened somewhat by the fact that she blamed herself for Danny's death. Furthermore, she immediately regretted her decision afterwards, believing that she had betrayed the Doctor which he acknowledged although he assured her that it didn't make a difference. After this incident, she made a vow to never compromise her kindness and honesty to others ever again. (TV: Dark Water)
Habits and quirks
Occasionally, Clara would have a bad case of foot-in-mouth syndrome, uttering an offensive joke or remark when in the heat of a good moment. (TV: Into the Dalek, Listen, The Magician's Apprentice)
Clara was also an accomplished liar, which she occasionally used to her advantage, most notably when she lied to Danny about giving up travelling with the Doctor.(TV: Mummy on the Orient Express) and she also lied the Doctor about being reunited with Danny so that the Doctor would be free to find Gallifrey without being tied down to her (TV: Death in Heaven, Last Christmas)
Abilities
Both Oswin and Clara Oswald were notable for their brilliant hacking skills. Clara gained the ability from being uploaded by a Spoonhead. Oswin's hacking abilities were so great that she even managed to hack into the pathweb of the Daleks and erase every memory of the Doctor from every Dalek in the universe, something that even the Time Lord himself was unable to do. Clara's hacking skills also enabled her to quickly and successfully use Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator to escape from the Zygons, despite having no prior knowledge of the 51st century device. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks, The Bells of Saint John, The Day of the Doctor)
Clara's various incarnations were very good at looking after children. Her Victorian incarnation could change her accent easily and was able to play the part of both a London barmaid and a governess. Victorian Clara's fake accent would only slip when she was shocked or frightened, such as when the Ice Governess barged into the Latimer children's bedroom. (TV: The Snowmen)
Clara quickly mastered the ability to pilot an unfamiliar alien vehicle, having previously only watched the Doctor piloting it. She demonstrated the ability to ride a Moped (TV: The Rings of Akhaten), and later obtained a motorbike. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
Clara was skilled at using guns and was a good strategist. She could use anything around her to her advantage - such as when she suggested lowering an electric cable into a moat — but when she tried to attack a Cyberman with a mace, it just wrenched it out of her hands. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)
At some point, Clara gained the ability to operate the TARDIS doors by snapping her fingers, an ability previously demonstrated only by the Doctor. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, The Caretaker) She also learned how to pilot the TARDIS using its telepathic interface, becoming the first known companion to do so, though without the Doctor guiding her she wasn't accurate in her destinations - though she nonetheless was able to pilot the TARDIS to Gallifrey and a point early in the Doctor's lifetime (TV: Listen). She later used the circuits again to pilot the TARDIS to a specific location in Paris in 1923, and managed pinpoint accuracy, though it would seem the TARDIS assisted her. (COMIC: Four Doctors) The Doctor also appeared comfortable enough to allow Clara to not only help operate the TARDIS (TV: The Woman Who Lived, et al) but fiddle with settings on the control console (TV: The Zygon Inversion).
At some point during her encounters with the Paternoster Gang, Clara learned the art of lockpicking from Jenny Flint. (PROSE: The Crawling Terror). During her time with the Doctor, learned self defense skills, as demonstrated when she used her fencing skills to defeat a robot possessed by Rann-Korr with a ski pole, (COMIC: Terrorformer) and when she stated that she had been learning tae kwon do after school, though she had little opportunity to display her skills. (TV: Robot of Sherwood, COMIC: The Hyperion Empire) She was later said to be aiding her students in learning the martial art (TV: The Woman Who Lived)
Clara was one of the few human companions known to have become proficient in the use of the sonic screwdriver, as she used several of its functions, including scanning and influencing objects such as lights and other equipment. (TV: The Caretaker, Flatline) She later similarly became versed in the use of the sonic sunglasses (TV: The Girl Who Died).
At some point after assisting the War, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors in stopping a Zygon incursion in UNIT's Black Archive (TV: The Day of the Doctor), Clara, in her capacity as the Doctor's companion, was given considerable authority for a civilian within UNIT. This included being given authority to act on behalf of the Doctor and later command of a team of UNIT snipers in an encounter with Missy (TV: The Magician's Apprentice, and she was also one of only four individuals known to have access to the so-called "Osgood Box", which also led to her being given authority to enter the Black Archive at will (TV: The Zygon Inversion, a privilege at one point even denied the Doctor.(TV: The Day of the Doctor)
Appearance
Clara was a young woman with big, brown eyes and long brunette hair that she usually kept down, but occasionally tied up in a ponytail or bun. She also adopted a bob haircut briefly at one point. (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express) Clara's appearance attracted the attention of Latimer and Porridge. Kizlet and Emma Grayling also referred to her as pretty and the Eleventh Doctor himself noted she was beautiful and showed that he was attracted to her when he said, "A mystery wrapped in an enigma squeezed into a skirt that's just a little too ... tight" and smiled happily afterwards. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)
She also had big, round, brown eyes. She appeared to wear very little makeup; the Twelfth Doctor was very confused when she had put some on for a date with Danny Pink, asking why she had coloured her face. (TV: Time Heist) She wore a variety of jewellery including rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Dresses were her main item of clothing, along with tights, jackets and skirts. Early in her travels with the Doctor, regularly carried around a red bag that sometimes held her keepsake book that used to belong to her mother. As time went on, however, she no longer carried the bag or the book with her.
Clara was five feet and one inch tall, (TV: Deep Breath) which was nearly a foot shorter than the Eleventh Doctor (TV: The Snowmen) and a "very similar" height to the Sontaran Strax, (TV: Deep Breath) according to her Victorian incarnation and the Twelfth Doctor, respectively. The Eleventh Doctor referred to her as being small, (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow) while the Twelfth Doctor said that she was "sort of small and roundish" (TV: Into the Dalek) and realised her legs were much shorter than her predecessor, Amy Pond. (TV: Deep Breath) The Wolf made a crack about Clara's height being about the same as one of Santa Claus' elves when he said it was hypocritical that someone of her height would say a "racist" remark towards elves. (TV: Last Christmas) According to Clara, she was average height. (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow)
Clara was not oblivious to her appearance and on several occasions acknowledged that she knew she was physically attractive, at one point accusing Madame Vastra of being attracted to her "pretty face" (TV: Deep Breath) and joking with the Doctor, after correctly surmising the origin of the Morpheus machine's name, "Oh yeah, not just this [indicates her face]". (TV: Sleep No More)
Other information
- Clara picked up at least two nicknames from students while teaching at Coal Hill School: "Ozzie", of which she appeared oblivious (TV: The Caretaker), and "Miss Oddbod", of which she was made aware of by the Doctor and found annoying (COMIC: Terrorformer).
- Clara once walked past the tombstone of her 19th century self, which had been overgrown. (TV: The Snowmen)
Behind the scenes
- Clara has been said to have seen every incarnation of the Doctor throughout her various lives. Actual meetings have been depicted on screen with the First Doctor, War Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, and Twelfth Doctor. She is also shown to have caught the Third Doctor's attention, and to have been in close proximity to the Second Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Eighth Doctor and Tenth Doctor, not to mention manifestations of all past incarnations while in the Doctor's time stream. In the video game The Eternity Clock, River Song sought out every pre-Twelfth incarnation of the Doctor she hadn't met on screen, except the War Doctor, and wrote entries about their meetings in her diary. Clara goes on to encounter the Twelfth Doctor. As such, as of 2014, and taking into account that all of Clara's "splinters" were in fact manifestations of the same person, she is the only known character in the history of the franchise (barring the unique case of the TARDIS) who is confirmed to have encountered each of the Doctor's thirteen known incarnations.
- Victorian Clara's headstone in 1892 states that she was born on 23 November 1866 and died 24 December 1892, meaning she not only shared the same birth date as Doctor Who itself but that she was also 26 years old when she died. This is both the same age as Doctor Who was when it was cancelled in 1989, and Jenna Coleman's age at the time of filming.
- Like Madame de Pompadour, Lynda Moss, Astrid Peth, Rita, and the Doctor's daughter Jenny, the echo of Clara in Victorian London was invited to travel with the Doctor, but died before she was ever able to take her first trip. Unlike the other four characters, however, the Doctor gave her the TARDIS key.
- In The Rings of Akhaten, Clara speaks of being a child who got separated from her mother on a bank holiday in Blackpool — the town in which Jenna Coleman was actually born.
- Clara, along with River Song, was one of only two television companions shown to know the Doctor's real name at some stage. However, Clara's memory of this was erased soon after due to the Doctor rewriting the timeline. Some of Clara's memories from Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS have returned to her, but it is unknown whether or not the memory of discovering the Doctor's name has. In the novels, companion Samantha Jones also learns the Doctor's true name.
- Also like River Song, Clara is one of the few companions whose identity has been a major mystery over at least one series.
- Clara is unusual in that she doesn't live full-time on board the TARDIS. In her early days of travelling with the Doctor, she would be brought back to 30 Oak Street in Chiswick between adventures, just as Amelia and Rory returned to their own home between their later adventures with the Doctor, so that she could continue her work as a nanny. The minisode Clara and the TARDIS indicated that she does have quarters aboard the ship; however, it is indicated that her sleeping aboard was not at that point a usual occurrence. After her establishment as a teacher at Coal Hill School, the Doctor continued to bring her home between adventures - sometimes to the school directly, sometimes to her flat - so that she could continue teaching and living a normal life outside her adventures.
- Following Jack Harkness, Rory Williams and Amy Pond, Clara is yet another companion who has had multiple deaths.
- Clara was the first companion to debut in an American comic before her first appearance in Doctor Who Magazine. Though her first global comic book appearance was in DWA 314, she appeared in IDW Publishing's Sky Jacks, published in May 2013; her debut in DWM did not occur until July's A Wing and a Prayer.
- The 2013 book The Doctor: His Lives and Times includes images of Clara appearing in the background of at least one photo for every chapter related to each Doctor, sometimes directly interacting with him (in at least one photograph, she is shown to be blonde, while in another she appears identical -- even in dress -- to the 21st century Clara). The policy of this wiki, however, is to not treat this book as a source for in-universe biographical information.
- Due to the events of Listen, Clara is technically the first companion the Doctor ever encountered (his own granddaughter Susan notwithstanding).
- Clara is the first full-time companion to die on-screen since the 2005 revival, not counting events when companions were revived in some way later. Amy and Rory died off-screen at some point after being permanently separated from the Doctor.
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