Barbarella

Barbarella was a comic-strip heroine created by Jean-Claude Forest. She was famed for not wearing "very much at all". (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...{"page":"16","ed":"2007 edition","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}, Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...{"page":"22","ed":"2011 edition","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"})

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Rose Tyler wearing contemporary clothes from the 21st century, which the Ninth Doctor compares to Barbarella as she attempts to go out in Cardiff, 1869. (TV: The Unquiet Dead ^[+]Loading...{"timestamp":"05:05","1":"The Unquiet Dead (TV story)"})

The Ninth Doctor jokingly referred to Rose Tyler as "Barbarella" when she was going to go out in Cardiff on 24 December 1869 wearing her early 21st century attire. He said that she would "start a riot". (TV: The Unquiet Dead ^[+]Loading...["The Unquiet Dead (TV story)"])

Evelyn once remarked that the clothes in the TARDIS wardrobe looked like "Barbarella's cast-offs". (AUDIO: The Feast of Axos ^[+]Loading...["The Feast of Axos (audio story)"])

Following her death from eating a Kaled mutant, Iris Wildthyme, a renegade Time Lord, regenerated into a Barbarella-like incarnation. She encountered the Eighth Doctor in this form in the Obverse. (PROSE: The Blue Angel ^[+]Loading...["The Blue Angel (novel)"])

Barbarella in a Barbarella comic.

As stated in Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"], Barbarella is a comic strip character created by Jean-Claude Forest. Barbarella is a science fiction erotic series, hence her description as being "famed for wearing not very much at all" in The Encyclopedia.