Shaun Temple
Shaun Temple was Donna Noble's husband and Rose Noble's father.
Biography
Going out with Donna
Shaun and Donna were engaged and living together, in a small flat, as they had very little income — Shaun was on minimum wage and Donna was earning "tuppence". He was unaware of Donna's life with the Tenth Doctor because Donna herself wasn't aware of it, (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) as the Doctor had had to reset Donna's memories after her mind began overloading after she became the DoctorDonna. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])
On Christmas Eve 2009, the Tenth Doctor saw Shaun and Donna shopping. The following day — Christmas Day — they went to the Nobles' house to give Wilfred and Sylvia their presents: Wilfred's gift was Joshua Naismith's Fighting the Future. Shaun was talking with Donna and Sylvia while Wilfred was trying to watch the Queen's speech. Later that day, when the Master walked into the Immortality Gate, he took over Shaun and turned him into another member of the Master Race. When Rassilon reversed the Master's transfer of genetic code, Shaun returned to normal along with the rest of the human race, before finding the now-unconscious Donna, bringing her to the Nobles' home. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])
Donna and Shaun's wedding
- Main article: Donna Noble and Shaun Temple's wedding
In the Spring of 2010, he married Donna. As he exited the church, he high fived a man, was kissed on the cheek by Wilf, before posing for a photograph with Donna and her friends. Wilf and Sylvia spoke to the Doctor, who was watching the wedding from afar, and he gave them an envelope containing a lottery ticket to give to Donna, to solve her and Shaun's financial issues. After Wilf and Sylvia gave the ticket to Donna, she hollered to Shaun to remind him that they were on a tight schedule as oxtail soup was being served at 02:30pm. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])
Raising a family
Within the next few years, Shaun had a daughter, Rose. (PROSE: We Are Family [+]Loading...{"page":"34-35","1":"We Are Family (short story)"}) He also watched the Venom films, complaining to Donna about how characters seemed to gain extra mass when growing in size, questioning the science behind it. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"]) He also became a taxi driver after he and Donna moved into their new home. He was baffled that Donna donated the vast majority of her lottery winnings to charity. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])
Meeting the Doctor
In November 2023, (PROSE: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (novelisation)"]) Shaun was working his night shift as a taxi driver when the Doctor leapt towards him and insisted he drive him to the site of a crashed spaceship. Perplexed at his identity card claiming he was a woman, Shaun let him in. During the drive, Shaun realised the Doctor knew Donna, though the Doctor convinced him it was through a mutual friend, Nerys.
Later that night, Shaun returned home from work to discover the Doctor was in his house, along with Donna, Rose, Sylvia and the Meep. Confused by the Doctor, Shaun listened as he communicated with the Meep while bandaging his paw. The Soldiers of the Psychedelic Sun and Wraith Warriors suddenly attacked the house, Shaun fleeing upstairs to the attic with the others and crossing through the walls to escape the destruction. The group then fled in Shaun's taxi cab. Shaun later witnessed the Doctor's trial between the Meep and the Wraith Warriors, the former of whom soon captured them, having revealed he was evil.
At the Meep's warehouse, Shaun believed they would be imprisoned by Shirley Anne Bingham rescued them. Despite his efforts, Donna insisted she help the Doctor and he save Rose and Sylvia. Soon after, Shaun watched as Rose's meta-crisis consciousness was released, enabling her to stop the Meep's Dagger Drive. Shaun commented he felt the luckiest man alive to have both Rose and Donna in his life. By morning, he watched in horror as Donna and the Doctor appeared to be taken to parts unknown by the TARDIS. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"], PROSE: We Are Family [+]Loading...{"page":"34-35","1":"We Are Family (short story)"}, The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (novelisation)"])
Later, Shaun and the others went into hiding as the world appeared to fall into madness, (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"]) caused by the Toymaker. After the Doctor and his successor defeated the entity, (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"], PROSE: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (novelisation)"]) Shaun prepared a meal of a chicken dish, a vegan dish, poppadoms and cauliflower cheese for a garden party at the Doctor's home in the countryside, to which Melanie Bush was also invited. (PROSE: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (novelisation)"])
Personality
According to Wilfred Mott, Shaun was "sweet enough", being a dreamer, (TV: The End of Time (part one) [+]Loading...{"part":"One","1":"The End of Time (TV story)"}) and a "kind man". (PROSE: We Are Family [+]Loading...{"page":"35","1":"We Are Family (short story)"})
Donna Noble thought of him as a nice and lovely man, who would keep going back to the place where she was last seen every single day in case she returned. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"]) He was also a family man, adoring both his wife and daughter. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])
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