The Strange Case of the Skinny Man (short story)

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The Strange Case of the Skinny Man was the third short story and seventh release exclusively published in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 on 7 September 2023 by Penguin Group[1] and written by Paul Lang.

The feature primarily detailed the three incarnations of the Doctor portrayed by David Tennant, those being the Tenth Doctor, the Meta-Crisis Doctor, and the Fourteenth Doctor, and also touched on the DoctorDonna.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

New Faces[[edit] | [edit source]]

Although usually, Time Lords only visit a face once, and once it's gone it becomes nothing more than a memory, the Doctor's repeatedly found themselves with the same physical appearance.

Handy Spare Hand[[edit] | [edit source]]

On the very first day of his life, the Tenth Doctor had a swordfight over London on a Sycorax spaceship, during which his hand was chopped off and fell to the ground. Fortunately, he had enough "transforming energy" to grow a new one. Eventually, he found the original and kept it in a jar aboard the TARDIS.

Exterminated[[edit] | [edit source]]

After being hit by a blast of Dalek gunfire, he wasn't killed, but a regeneration was triggered. Not ready to say goodbye, he "used just enough of the explosive oomph" to heal himself, and fired the rest into the spare hand.

Metacrisis![[edit] | [edit source]]

While trapped in the TARDIS under heavy Dalek bombardment, Donna Noble heard a single heartbeat coming from the jar, and reached out instinctively to touch it, causing biological metacrisis, with a whole new Doctor growing out of the spare hand.

Another Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

The new Doctor looked identical to the Tenth Doctor, but was different inside, thanks to a dose of Donna's human DNA, which also gave him some of her impulsive personality. The combination made him too dangerous to be left "wandering around", thus the Doctor took him to a parallel universe to be with Rose Tyler.

The DoctorDonna[[edit] | [edit source]]

Donna didn't escape unharmed, with her head now filled with Time Lord knowledge which it wasn't built to handle. The Doctor had to wipe every memory she had of him, with him warning her family that she would die if she ever recalled him.

Born Again[[edit] | [edit source]]

From the Thirteenth Doctor's regeneration, a new Doctor emerged with much the same appearance as the Tenth Doctor.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • To be added

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Two images of the Tenth Doctor are used to showcase his status as being two incarnations at the same time, as explained in The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"].

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]