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==Personality == | ==Personality == | ||
Donna's first encounter with the Doctor was bewildering for both: the Doctor was shocked into speechlessness by her sudden appearance in his TARDIS; Donna was furious with him for "kidnapping" her and twice slapped him in the face when he was overexcited in the face of her missed wedding and imminent danger or death. ([[TV]]: | Donna's first encounter with the Doctor was bewildering for both: the Doctor was shocked into speechlessness by her sudden appearance in his TARDIS; Donna was furious with him for "kidnapping" her and twice slapped him in the face when he was overexcited in the face of her missed wedding and imminent danger or death. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}}) Though Donna's sharp tongue and hair-trigger temper kept the Doctor at arm's length for most of their first adventure, quieter moments showed a more level-headed and perceptive woman. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}}) | ||
Although she sometimes | Although she sometimes thought herself "stupid" ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}, {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) and persistently referred to herself as "only a temp", ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}}, {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}} the Doctor responded by calling her "brilliant" ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}, {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) and she was actually quite smart; she mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days of work at a library ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)}}) and remarked that she could walk around an office blind-folded, quickly picking up on an important clue others might have missed in that no one ever gets sick or has days off at an [[ATMOS factory]] raided by [[UNIT]], impressing [[Martha Jones]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)}}) When she joined the Doctor in his journeys, her quick and sometimes dry wit often came out, syncing with his own. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Partners in Crime (TV story)}} etc.) | ||
Donna's quick, sharp wit, sarcastic quips and, above all else, fiery temper hid a deep well of compassion. She reached out to [[Agatha Christie]], trying to share her own story of failed marriage. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)}}) She helped free the Ood from mass slavery. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of the Ood (TV story)}}) When the Doctor was forced to make the terrible choice of destroying [[Pompeii]] to save the world, Donna took some of the burden on herself by helping him push the lever to trigger the eruption of Mount [[Vesuvius]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)}}) | Donna's quick, sharp wit, sarcastic quips and, above all else, fiery temper hid a deep well of compassion. She reached out to [[Agatha Christie]], trying to share her own story of failed marriage. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)}}) She helped free the Ood from mass slavery. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of the Ood (TV story)}}) When the Doctor was forced to make the terrible choice of destroying [[Pompeii]] to save the world, Donna took some of the burden on herself by helping him push the lever to trigger the eruption of Mount [[Vesuvius]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)}}) She also was willing to "burn the world down" if anyone brought harm to her daughter, [[Rose Noble]]. This protection stretched to her forbidding her from traveling with the Doctor in the TARDIS, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}}) and scolded the Doctor for taking her to Mars against her permission, showing her maturity in the danger of traveling with the Doctor. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) | ||
Though most companions were, to some degree, the Doctor's conscience, Donna adopted this role more openly and forcefully than her predecessors. She pleaded with the Doctor to save the inhabitants of [[Pompeii]] — if not all of them, then a single family — and got her way with [[Caecilius]]' family, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)}}) although by the time of the Great Smog of London, Donna had come to accept that the Doctor could only do so much when dealing with established historical events and appreciated his assurance that he would do what he could to save lives. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Creeping Death (audio story)|The Creeping Death]]'') On another occasion, Donna insisted that the Doctor acknowledge [[Jenny]] as his daughter, no matter how she was created or what job she was trained for. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)}}) She also convinced the Doctor to leave the Racnoss and her children after he began to drown them, rather than keep going. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}}) | Though most companions were, to some degree, the Doctor's conscience, Donna adopted this role more openly and forcefully than her predecessors. She pleaded with the Doctor to save the inhabitants of [[Pompeii]] — if not all of them, then a single family — and got her way with [[Caecilius]]' family, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)}}) although by the time of the Great Smog of London, Donna had come to accept that the Doctor could only do so much when dealing with established historical events and appreciated his assurance that he would do what he could to save lives. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Creeping Death (audio story)|The Creeping Death]]'') On another occasion, Donna insisted that the Doctor acknowledge [[Jenny]] as his daughter, no matter how she was created or what job she was trained for. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)}}) She also convinced the Doctor to leave the Racnoss and her children after he began to drown them, rather than keep going. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}}) | ||
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[[File:Donna Meets Martha.jpg|thumb|right|Donna meets [[Martha Jones|Martha]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)}})]] | [[File:Donna Meets Martha.jpg|thumb|right|Donna meets [[Martha Jones|Martha]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)}})]] | ||
Donna tended to get on well with the Doctor's former companions. When [[Martha Jones]], recalled the Doctor to Earth, she and Donna became fast friends; neither was jealous of one another, and both were willing to share experiences. The Doctor found this disconcerting. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)}}) Her relationship with [[Rose Tyler]] was initially abrasive in the [[Donna's World|parallel world]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) but friendly in [[N-Space|the Doctor's world]]. She also enjoyed an attraction to Captain [[Jack Harkness]], which at one point involved her pushing [[Sarah Jane Smith]] out of the way to get a hug from him. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) Donna also quickly became friends with [[Melanie Bush]] at UNIT. ([[TV]]: | Donna tended to get on well with the Doctor's former companions. When [[Martha Jones]], recalled the Doctor to Earth, she and Donna became fast friends; neither was jealous of one another, and both were willing to share experiences. The Doctor found this disconcerting. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)}}) Her relationship with [[Rose Tyler]] was initially abrasive in the [[Donna's World|parallel world]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) but friendly in [[N-Space|the Doctor's world]]. She also enjoyed an attraction to Captain [[Jack Harkness]], which at one point involved her pushing [[Sarah Jane Smith]] out of the way to get a hug from him. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) Donna also quickly became friends with [[Melanie Bush]] at UNIT. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) | ||
Unlike Rose and Martha, Donna was intent on maintaining a platonic relationship with the Doctor, reacting with disgust when she misinterpreted his comment, "I just want a mate", (friend) as, "I just want to mate", (breed). ([[TV]]: {{cs|Partners in Crime (TV story)}}) Both the Doctor and Donna also corrected many people who thought they were married, saying things like, "We're so not married. Never". ([[TV]]: | Unlike Rose and Martha, Donna was intent on maintaining a platonic relationship with the Doctor, reacting with disgust when she misinterpreted his comment, "I just want a mate", (friend) as, "I just want to mate", (breed). ([[TV]]: {{cs|Partners in Crime (TV story)}}) Both the Doctor and Donna also corrected many people who thought they were married, saying things like, "We're so not married. Never". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)}}, {{cs|Planet of the Ood (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)}}) However, they did pretend to be married so they could appear on the TV show ''[[Haunted Makeovers]]. ''([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place (audio story)|No Place]]'') She did [[kiss]] him, but only to give him a shock as part of his cure for cyanide poisoning. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)}}) She was very supportive of the Doctor, at one point forcing him to admit that despite the potential collapse of universes, Rose's return was still a good thing. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}) She also supported the Doctor when the time came to leave the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor|Meta-Crisis Doctor]] and Rose behind on [[Pete's World]]. [[Dalek Caan]] referred to Donna as "the most faithful companion". Just before her memories were wiped, she tearfully echoed Rose's earlier desire to travel with the Doctor "forever". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) The Doctor reciprocated Donna's feelings, referring to her as his best friend. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}}) The [[Fourteenth Doctor]] later admitted that he remembered every second of his time with Donna and that losing her had killed him. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}}) Donna repaid his compassion, stepping forward into the face of the Toymaker's attack to ensure she was with him after the entity mortally wounded him with a [[Galvanic beam]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) | ||
The Meta-Crisis Doctor, working from his original template's memories, recognised that Donna's brash attitude arose from her belief that she was unimportant; she was "shouting at the world, 'cause [she thought] no one's listening." The original Doctor attributed this to her mother never telling Donna she was important to her and told Sylvia to tell her that more often. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) | The Meta-Crisis Doctor, working from his original template's memories, recognised that Donna's brash attitude arose from her belief that she was unimportant; she was "shouting at the world, 'cause [she thought] no one's listening." The original Doctor attributed this to her mother never telling Donna she was important to her and told Sylvia to tell her that more often. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) | ||
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The Doctor would later remember Donna as being impossibly stubborn, refusing to ever give in. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All Flesh is Grass (novel)|All Flesh is Grass]]'') | The Doctor would later remember Donna as being impossibly stubborn, refusing to ever give in. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All Flesh is Grass (novel)|All Flesh is Grass]]'') | ||
Even after her memories were wiped, Donna retained some of her old personality, in part due to the subconscious influence of [[the DoctorDonna]] which tried to make her be more like the Doctor. This included her selfless attitude when others were in danger, telling the Fourteenth Doctor that her life was nothing when compared to her family's and the nine million other people in danger in London. Donna was also confused why the Doctor would care about her, once again expressing a belief that she was just no one which the Doctor | Even after her memories were wiped, Donna retained some of her old personality, in part due to the subconscious influence of [[the DoctorDonna]] which tried to make her be more like the Doctor. This included her selfless attitude when others were in danger, telling the Fourteenth Doctor that her life was nothing when compared to her family's and the nine million other people in danger in London. Donna was also confused why the Doctor would care about her, once again expressing a belief that she was just no one which the Doctor denied. | ||
After regaining her memories, Donna's original personality came back with full force, starting with Donna instantly complaining about how the meta-crisis had caused Donna to give away all of her lottery winnings. However, while Donna admitted that she would love nothing more than to travel with the Doctor again, she was content with the adventure that she was having as a wife and a mother, although Donna accepted one last trip when it was to see her grandfather, excited at being able to show Wilf that her memories were back and to see the Doctor again | After regaining her memories, Donna's original personality came back with full force, starting with Donna instantly complaining about how the meta-crisis had caused Donna to give away all of her lottery winnings. However, while Donna admitted that she would love nothing more than to travel with the Doctor again, she was content with the adventure that she was having as a wife and a mother, although Donna accepted one last trip when it was to see her grandfather, excited at being able to show Wilf that her memories were back and to see the Doctor again. Donna encouraged the Doctor to take his second chance and do things differently by sticking around and having friends this time ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}}) and even settle down, demonstrating her intuition in how the Doctor had become worn down from his constant traveling. {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) | ||
During her encounters with the [[Not-thing|not-things]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) and the [[The Toymaker|Toymaker]], Donna came to realise that the Doctor had become emotionally exhausted from the stress of his more recent adventures and encouraged him to retire from his travels. She happily let her best friend move in with her family, allowing him to become a surrogate uncle to her daughter. ([[TV]]: | During her encounters with the [[Not-thing|not-things]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) and the [[The Toymaker|Toymaker]], Donna came to realise that the Doctor had become emotionally exhausted from the stress of his more recent adventures and encouraged him to retire from his travels. She happily let her best friend move in with her family, allowing him to become a surrogate uncle to her daughter. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) | ||
==Behind the scenes== | ==Behind the scenes== | ||
