Doctor Who Lorebook

1. #1The 10th Doctor

   Keys: The Doctor, NuWho, Doctor Who, David Tennant, Incarnations of the Doctor

   The first of the "skinny man" iterations, the Tenth Doctor projected a convivial and frivolous front to conceal the inner fury and wistful melancholy that spawned from his underlying guilt of the Last Great Time War and the additional deaths and misery that followed in his wake. Indeed, once his easy-going attitude had been overwhelmed by conflict, the Doctor's energies would shift to reveal a fiercely protective man who resolutely guarded what he held dear, and who could be viciously unforgiving to the forces that dared menace them until he was victorious. However, he held deep respect for pacifism, and had zero tolerance towards anyone who wanted to engage in violence to resolve conflicts and disapproved of guns unless they were unquestionably a last resort. He also had vanity issues that made him attached to his current body, an attachment that was so strong that he became the only incarnation of the Doctor to willingly abort one of his regenerations midway through the process itself, by way of siphoning the remaining regeneration energy that would have given him a new body into a matching bio-receptacle, allowing him to heal himself while avoiding the change of appearance after he was struck by the neutronic energy of a Dalek's gunstick.

   Biography

   Starting out as a manic who was prone to speaking quickly in rambling tangents while peppering his speech with pop culture references, the Doctor resumed his travels with Rose Tyler after ending a Sycorax invasion of Earth, where he also deposed Prime Minister Harriet Jones when they disagreed on her destroying the retreating Sycorax ship. The Doctor and Rose's relationship veered more towards romance than before after they travelled to New Earth and saved Queen Victoria from a werewolf at Torchwood House. However, a chance reunion with Sarah Jane Smith while undercover at Deffry Vale High School reminded him of his friends' mortality and, with Mickey Smith deciding to join him and Rose in the TARDIS, the Doctor entered a doomed romance with Madame de Pompadour that ended when she passed. Mickey would ultimately leave the TARDIS to stay in a parallel universe to help fight the Cybermen created by Cybus Industries, leaving the Doctor and Rose to travel and face menaces such as the Wire, the Beast of Krop Tor and an Abzorbaloff.

   After sensing that "a storm [was] approaching" when they saved the 2012 Olympics from the Isolus, the Doctor and Rose, along with Jackie, were drawn to Torchwood One amid a ghost conspiracy that turned out to be an invasion by the Cybus Industries Cybermen that had followed a Void ship containing the Cult of Skaro through the multiverse. As Torchwood, the Cybermen and the Daleks fought each other, the Doctor was able to banish the Daleks and the Cybermen to the Void after Torchwood fell, but Rose and Jackie were trapped on "Pete's World" as a consequence, where Jackie got together with her late husband's counterpart. After finding a way to say goodbye to Rose, the Doctor was thrusted into a scheme by the Empress of the Racnoss to infuse Donna Noble with Huon particles and release her children from the centre of the Earth, which he managed to stop by drowning them.

   While still lamenting Rose, the Doctor invited Royal Hope Hospital medical student Martha Jones to join him for a single trip in the TARDIS after she helped him save the hospital from the Judoon, taking her to meet William Shakespeare and foil a Carrionite plot, and then extended her trip to New Earth and then 1930 New York City, where they stopped the Cult of Skaro from turning people into Human-Dalek hybrid and saw the Cult destroy itself, though Dalek Caan managed to escape. When the Doctor returned Martha home, they worked together to stop Richard Lazarus's experiments with rejuvenation and the Doctor officially made Martha a companion, though he remained oblivious to her crush on him as they saved the SS Pentallian from the Torajii sun, stopped Baltazar from weaponising the Infinite and hid from the Family of Blood in 1913 England, where the Doctor turned himself into a human with a Chameleon Arch and entered into a romance with Joan Redfern until the Family found him and he had to turn back, with Joan rebuffing him.

   Sometime after escaping being banished to 1969 by the Weeping Angels, the Doctor and Martha were forced to the end of the universe when Captain Jack Harkness latched onto the TARDIS, and they helped the last of humanity reach Utopia to survive, only for the head of the Utopia Project to turn out to be the War Master hiding under a Chameleon Arch. After prodding from Martha caused him to open the Arch, the Master stole the TARDIS as he regenerated into the Saxon Master, forcing the Doctor, Martha and Jack to follow him with Jack's vortex manipulator, only to arrive after he had won the election and became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and initiated his takeover of Earth with the Toclafane after capturing the Doctor and Jack, with Martha escaping to enact the Doctor's contingency plan for a year, allowing the Doctor to topple the Master's regime and revert time to remove his rule from history, though the Master was swiftly killed by his abused wife. Jack decided to return to Torchwood Three, and Martha, realising she had responsibilities at home, elected to leave the TARDIS, but not before telling the Doctor she had outgrown her crush on him.

   As he processed Martha's leaving, the Doctor had to separate his TARDIS from the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS and then stop the spaceship Titanic from crashing into Buckingham Palace, though he lost a potential companion in waitress Astrid Peth when she gave her life to save him. The Doctor then adopted Rose-the-Cat to help him finally overcome his depression on losing Rose, was saved from fluctuating timelines by the Thirteenth Doctor, and ensured Hotel Historia manager Majenta Pryce was arrested for tax evasion.

   While investigating Adipose Industries, the Doctor was reunited with Donna, who asked to join him in the TARDIS, an offer he accepted on the terms that their relationship remained platonic. Together, they found themselves having to destroy Pompeii to stop the Pyroviles taking over the world and freed the Ood of the Ood Sphere from enslavement. Upon being recruited by Martha for Operation Blue Sky, in which he helped UNIT investigate the ATMOS factories, the Doctor was introduced to Donna's grandfather, Wilfred Mott, as he saved the world from the Sontarans' ATMOS plot. While bidding farewell to Martha, the TARDIS was suddenly drawn to Messaline, where the Doctor's DNA was harvested to create Jenny, a new soldier for the Human-Hath War, but the Doctor, Jenny, Martha and Donna were able to bring the war to a peaceful ceasefire, though Jenny appeared to perish. After dropping Martha back home, the Doctor and Donna continued their travels, such as solving a murder mystery with Agatha Christie. However, their carefree adventures grew darker after they answered a call from River Song to the Library, where Donna lived a married life in the Library's data core and the Doctor was forced to watch River sacrifice her life to free the other people trapped in the data core after he negotiated a peace with the Vashta Nerada. A trip to Midnight also ended in disaster when the Doctor was almost killed by paranoid humans bedevilled by a mysterious entity.

   After Donna was sent to a parallel world by the Trickster's Brigade, the Doctor learnt that the universe was at risk when Donna told him Rose had helped her. With the Earth vanishing, the Doctor and Donna ventured into the Medusa Cascade, where they found UNIT, Torchwood Three and the Bannerman Road gang repelling an invasion by the New Dalek Empire, spearheaded by Davros and Dalek Caan. Joined by Rose and Jack, the Doctor narrowly avoided regenerating when a Dalek shot him by siphoning off the remaining energy into "instantaneous biological meta-crisis" that made contact with Donna, growing a new Doctor and giving Donna the mind of a Time Lord, allowing the two Doctors and Donna to cripple the New Dalek Empire, with the Meta-Crisis Doctor destroying it fully when pushed on by Caan. After exiling the Meta-Crisis Doctor to Pete's World to be with Rose, the Doctor was forced to erase all trace of himself from Donna's memory to prevent her brain from burning up, and returned her home, only to find a message she had left in advance telling him to find a new companion, = which he did in the form of Heather McCrimmon and Wolfie Ryter, until they were forced to leave his company.

   Having sworn off travelling with companions, the Doctor was aided by Jackson Lake and Rosita Farisi in toppling the CyberKing, saved the Royal Albert Hall from a Graske, and was helped by Lady Christina de Souza in returning the 200 bus to Earth from San Helios, during which he was warned by the psychic Carmen that his "song [was] ending". Now aware that his time was short, the Doctor saved Sarah Jane from the Trickster, helped Majenta reconcile with her past in the Crimson Hand, and shared an adventure with Emily Winter and Matthew Finnegan after he saved them from their historical deaths, and then took a trip to Mars, where he managed to prevent a fixed point in time by saving Adelaide Brooke from her death and proclaimed himself the Time Lord Victorious, until Adelaide killing herself snapped him back to his senses, causing him to begin the Kotturuh crisis by wiping out the Kotturuh in the Dark Times.

   As he continued to avoid a summons to the Ood Sphere, the Doctor decided to take Gabby Gonzalez on as a companion, which resulted in him being caught in the lives of Cleopatra Hunsicker, Dorothy Bell and Anubis. Gabby's friend Cindy Wu eventually joined them in the TARDIS, just as the Doctor faced the masterplans of Sutekh and the Time Sentinels, resulting in him loosing Gabby when she fell out of the TARDIS into the Time Vortex. The Doctor then spent some time travelling in the Pre-Time War universe with Anya Kingdom and Mark Seven. He also defeated the Viperox at Area 51.

   When he decided to answer the Ood's call, the Doctor learnt that the Master had been resurrected, and bumped into Wilf while trying to find him, with Wilf electing to help the Doctor after he was told of Carmen's prophecy. However, it quickly transpired that the Master was just a pawn in Rassilon's plan to destroy the universe to escape the Time War. Though the Doctor was able to send the Time Lords back into the war with the Master's aid, he decided to sacrifice himself to save Wilf from a radiation shield that was about to be flooded with radiation, absorbing a huge quantity of nuclear radiation into himself and starting his regeneration. However, he held back the process long enough to visit all of his companions, and finally regenerated in the TARDIS as the Ood "[sang him] to [his] sleep".

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