David Tennant (in-universe)

David Tennant
Species:	Human
Job:	Actor
Place of origin:	Earth
First mentioned in:	The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+]Loading...["The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"]
First appearance:	Untitled [+]Loading...["Untitled (Tonight's the Night)"]
Appearances:	COMIC: Doctor What 5 [+]Loading...["Doctor What (Whoah! comic story 5)","''Doctor What'' 5"]
Main actor:	David Tennant

You may wish to consult David Tennant (disambiguation) for other, similarly-named pages.

David Tennant (PROSE: "Scene 12" ^[+]Part of The Book of the Snowstorm, Loading...{"name":"TBotS","page":"367","namedpart":"Scene 12","1":"The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"}) was an actor.

Legacy

In early 2005, following the Dummy Massacre, Steve Woolfall responded to Doctor Who?'s request for sightings of the then missing Rose Tyler, reporting that he had seen a girl that looked like Rose in the Grosvenor Museum in Chester that afternoon with "a chap" that reminded him of "that Casanova bloke". Steve suggested that it might not have been the same girl, but that it was strange nonetheless. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre ^[+]Loading...{"writer":"Steve Woolfall","1":"The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"})

In the M.F.S. Scottish Division building in the 925th Universe, after Tetra-None Hepta-Oct didn't anticipate the feedback loop generated by the Data Core when searching for Coloth's friends, the Library, and the Snowstorm on Doctor Know's computer, she apologised by saying "I am so so sorry," also telling him that she didn't mean to go all "David Tennant" on him. (PROSE: "Scene 12" ^[+]Part of The Book of the Snowstorm, Loading...{"name":"TBotS","page":"367","namedpart":"Scene 12","1":"The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"})

Behind the scenes

A photograph of David Tennant. (WC: Peter Capaldi and Simon the Shy Cyberman Invite You to Breakfast with 7 Doctors)

Evidently, "David Tennant" was intended to be an in-universe version of the real David Tennant, who portrayed the Tenth Doctor. Although he was not given a clear in-universe illustration during the narrative of WC: Peter Capaldi and Simon the Shy Cyberman Invite You to Breakfast with 7 Doctors, the end of the webcast included a screen featuring photographs of each Doctor who would be present at the event, in-costume as "the Doctor".

Information from invalid sources

Tennant reminds Barrowman to keep out of his TARDIS set. (TV: Tonight's the Night)

David Tennant had a mole called Daniel. When he showed him off to Billie Piper, she freaked out. (COMIC: Doctor What 5)

He filmed a scene from New Earth with Billie Piper, during which the design department tested out their plans to have "ultra-realistic" cat people. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah! 370)

In October 2007, he filmed a Children in Need special alongside Peter Davison. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah! 388)

While on tour with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Tennant was forced to sign every issue of a fan's extensive Doctor Who Magazine collection, driving him to exhaustion. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah! 400)

When John Barrowman pretended to fight Sao Til on the TARDIS set, Tennant reminded the two that they were no longer filming, and then reminded them that it was "[his] TARDIS" to discourage them from staying. (TV: Tonight's the Night)

Being an actor who portrayed "Doctor Who" in a television programme of the same name, Tennant was brought together, along with many other actors to portray "Doctor Who", for a special breakfast in "London's glittering West End". The Twelfth Doctor, who thought Tennant to be one of the greatest actors on Earth, considered making an appearance, to "see what these fictions [were] like." (WC: Peter Capaldi and Simon the Shy Cyberman Invite You to Breakfast with 7 Doctors)