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[[File:Doctor Who - Classic Female Companions.jpg|thumb|600px|Oh, and there were a few male companions, too.]]
=== Susan "Foreman" (First Doctor) ===▼
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This is a list of the Doctor's companions during the "classic" run of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
{{quote|''Oh, grandfather!''}}
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* [[It Runs in The Family]]
* [[Long Bus Trip]]: Returns briefly in the 20th anniversary special ''The Five Doctors'' and the [[Big Finish Doctor Who|Big Finish audio]] ''An Earthly Child''.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Done at the end of the serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S2
** [[Bus Crash]]: The Doctor stated he was the [[Last of His Kind]] as early as "The End of the World". In the later episodes "The Empty Child", "Fear Her" and "The Doctor's Daughter", the Doctor reminisces about having had children once, and confirms that he considers every last Time Lord dead.
* [[Screaming Woman]]: The original screamer. That was why the actress left the show after only one season - she got tired of this role.
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* [[Thicker Than Water]]: She feels strongly about her duty to her grandfather.
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{{quote|'''Ian''': We'd better keep an eye on [the Doctor]. He seems to have a knack of getting himself into trouble.}}
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* [[Hot Librarian]]: Barbara.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Ian.
* [[Mistaken for Gods]]: Barbara, in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1
* [[Official Couple]]
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{{quote|''Oh, something else I forgot to tell you. I think I've poisoned Nero.''}}
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* [[Even Heroes Have Heroes]]: One of the rare companions with literal [[Squee]] moments, notably when she realizes that she's about to meet Nero.
* [[No Name Given]]: Her last name is never revealed on screen. The [[Expanded Universe]] has established her full name is Vicki Pallister.
* [[Plucky Girl]]: In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S2
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: For Susan.
* [[Teen Genius]]: She can talk to the Doctor at close to his own level about time travel theory.
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{{quote|''This is quite a ship you've got here, Doc.''}}
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* [[You Look Familiar]]: Purves plays a different character in an earlier episode of ''the same story'' in which Steven is introduced.
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{{quote|'''First Doctor''': She wanted to save our lives, and perhaps the lives of all other beings of the solar system. I hope she found perfection.}}
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* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]]
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{{quote|Played by: Jean Marsh (1965)}}
Outside of the [[Expanded Universe]], she appared in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S3
* [[The Atoner]]: After she kills her own brother and realizes she has worked for the [[Big Bad]] all along, leads to her transitioning into a more normal [[Action Girl]].
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{{quote|'''Steven''': If it isn't allowed, Dodo would be first in the queue!}}
{{quote|Played by: Jackie Lane (1966)}}
Rather a forgotten companion, she waltzed off in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3
* [[Break the Cutie]]: The [[Expanded Universe]] thrives on this trope ''anyway'', but Dodo comes in for more than her share. She comes away from her travels with a venereal disease and a nervous breakdown. [[It Got Worse|And that's just the start of it...]]
* [[Oop North]]: Famously invoked ([[Football Pop Music and Flat Caps|Manchester accent]]) and then [[
* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Didn't even get a leaving scene.
* [[Totally Radical]]: A 1960s variant of this trope. There's probably a good reason she was forgotten.
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{{quote|'''Ben''': The Doctor always wore this. If you are him it should fit... That settles it!
'''Second Doctor''': I'd like to see a butterfly fit into a chrysalis case after it spreads its wings.
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* [[No Name Given]]: Polly's surname is never mentioned on screen. It's [[Word of God|probably]] "Wright". (In "The Faceless Ones", an alien duplicate of her gave her name as "Michelle Leuppi", but given that she was using a different forename there's no reason to suppose she kept Polly's original surname).
* [[Only One Name]]: Polly's last name was never revealed on screen, but the scripts indicated it to be Wright, which has been adopted by the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]]. A few reference books in the 1980s gave her last name as Lopez, a mishearing of "Leuppi" as mentioned above.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: Polly gets told to "[[You! Get Me Coffee!|Go make some coffee]]" a lot when she asks how she can help. Worse, when they leave the TARDIS crew Ben gets told to find his ship and become an admiral, while Polly should take care of Ben.
* [[Totally Radical]]: Intended by the production team to show the new face of ''Doctor Who'' in the swinging mid-sixties.
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{{quote|''Me? Foreign? ''You're'' the one that's foreign - I'm ''Scottish''.''}}
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* [[Man in a Kilt]]: He's Scottish, what'd you expect?
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: Mostly with the Doctor, but sometimes with the female companions as well.
* [[The Nth Doctor]]: "The Mind Robber" replaced Frazer Hines, for an episode or two, for Hamish Wilson, who looked nothing like him. The story explained this by having him run afoul of a trap in the Land of Fiction that required the Doctor to try to reconstruct his face from a bunch of options (facial features hung on a blackboard), kind of like a Mr. Potato Head. He got it wrong the first time, and fixed it the second
* [[Security Cling]]: All the time, especially with the Doctor.
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{{quote|'''Second Doctor:''' You look very nice in that dress, Victoria.
'''Victoria:''' Thank you. Don't you think it's a bit...
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* [[I Choose to Stay]]
* [[Identical Grandson|Identical Daughter]]: She "looks just like" her late mother, and there's a portrait to prove it.
* [[Letting Her Hair Down]]: She's a proper Victorian woman at the beginning with all the baggage that entails. She loosens up quickly around the other two. She doesn't even seem to have any religious hang-ups, unusually for her time and background - in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S5
* [[Proper Lady]]
* [[Punny Name|Punny First Name]]: Even if it wasn't intentional.
* [[Screaming Woman]]: And how! Her screams are even used to resolve the plot of one serial.
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{{quote|''Just once, I'd like to face an alien menace that wasn't [[Immune to Bullets]].''}}
Some people consider him a companion, others don't. All acknowledge his significance as a character. The head of UNIT in the 70s ''([[Continuity Snarl|or was it the 80s?]])'', the Brig worked alongside the Doctor and many of his companions in that era and beyond - often defending the Earth from various threats. Retired from UNIT in 1976, though still met up with the Doctor and Sarah Jane (in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'') on occasion.
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* [[Agent Scully]]: Has a tendency to keep this up even when up to his eyeballs in aliens. First time in the TARDIS, he dismissed the inside view as "some kind of optical illusion".
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type IV. Normally he's clearly on the good team but he dives headlong into this in ''Doctor Who and the Silurians'' where he orders the total genocide of a hibernating race, and showed no hesitation about gunning down an unarmed prisoner in Battlefield.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Appeared as simply Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S5
* [[Badass Beard]]: In old age.
* [[Badass Mustache]]: Ironically, a fake one in almost all of his appearances outside "[[Doctor Who/Recap/20th AS the Five Doctors
* [[Badass Normal]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Despite his constant politeness, stiff upper lip and occasional goofy moments he's probably the most ruthless regular character in televised Who canon.
* [[The Brigadier]]: [[Trope Namer]]!
* [[The Character Died with Him]]: He is stated to have passed away offscreen in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32
* [[Colonel Badass]]: Before his promotion to [[The Brigadier]].
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: After he retired.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[The Eeyore]]: He can snark and be irritated by the Doctor and whatever catastrophe he now has to deal with, but it's clear that beneath it all, he's secretly having the time of his life.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: His scary alternate-universe self in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S7
* [[Five Rounds Rapid]]: Also the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Good-Looking Privates]]
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* [[The Snark Knight]]
* [[Stiff Upper Lip]]: No matter whatever weird menace the Universe throws against him, the Brig takes it completely in stride.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Nicholas Courtney played Bret Vyon in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3
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{{quote|''My head has been pumped full of facts and figures which I reel out automatically when needed, but I want to feel things as well.''}}
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* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Same as with Jamie, thanks to those Time Lords. Temporarily removed for the odd [[Big Finish]] adventure; usually returns.
**
* [[Little Stowaway]]
* [[Long Bus Trip]]: Much like Jamie above, Zoe is returning to the franchise for a [[Big Finish]] story ''27'' years after her last appearance in the franchise and about ''41'' years after the actual character left the TARDIS. Like Jamie, this has to be some sort of a record.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Her [[Everything's Better with Sparkles|sparkly catsuit]] is particularly fondly remembered, especially that bit in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6
* [[Photographic Memory]]
* [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses]]: In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Heriot or Herriot? [[Word of God|The original script]] used the single-R version.
* [[Straw Vulcan]]
* [[Teen Genius]]
* [[Vague Age]]: Depending what source you consult, she's anything from 12 to 21, though [[Word of God]] tends towards 15 or 16. The only onscreen mention of her age is in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6
* [[Waif Fu]]
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{{quote|Played by: John Levene (1968-75)<ref>a ''very'' young Darren Plant played the baby incarnation of Benton in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S9
One of two recurring characters during the UNIT years who were subordinate to the Brigadier, Benton was down-to-Earth and often had common sense that others around him seemed to lack. Apparently [[Doctor Who/Recap/S13
* [[The Fettered]]: He even lets the Doctor knock him out in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S11
* [[Good-Looking Privates]]
* [[Number Two]]: The Brigadier often confers to Benton when he needs something done, even though Mike Yates outranks him.
* [[Only One Name]]: John Benton was only "Sergeant Benton" until the 1987 spin-off video ''Wartime'', though his first name was decided upon back in the 1970s. The name was simply not used until then, but has subsequently appeared in the [[Expanded Universe]] as his name.
* [[Rank Up]]: [[Doctor Who/Recap/S7
* [[Sergeant Rock]]: Eventually became UNIT's Regimental Sergeant Major, and often served as the Brig's senior enlisted man in the field.
* [[Those Two Guys]]: With Yates.
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{{quote|'''Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart''': Nonsense. What you need, Doctor, as Miss Shaw herself so often remarked, is someone to pass you your test tubes, and to tell you how brilliant you are.}}
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* [[Put on a Bus]]: Left for Cambridge offscreen in ''Terror of the Autons'', apparently dissatisified with her job of "passing the Doctor test tubes". Returned to UNIT and was stuck in the moonbase as of the ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' story ''Death of the Doctor''. Barry Letts apparently didn't like the character, but she was already under contract, which he didn't renew.
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{{quote|'''Third Doctor:''' I thought you said you took science at [[British Education System|A-Level]].
'''Jo:''' I didn't say I passed. }}
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* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Combat Platforms, really; she spends most of her serials tackling mountains, quarries, and open fields in three-to-four-inch platform boots.
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: In ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S8
* [[Cute Clumsy Girl]]
{{quote|"I've really got off to a terrific start haven't I? I find the man everybody's looking for, I forget where he is, and I end up by trying to blow you all sky-high."}}
* [[The Ditz]]
* [[Escape Artist]]: She's a trained escapologist, and can often wriggle her way out of trouble. Thus, while she was hardly immune to being captured, this rarely did the bad guy any good.
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Was originally meant to be an [[The Avengers (TV series)|Emma Peel]]-[[Expy]]
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]: Even Rani points it out! (In ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'')
* [[Hair of Gold]]: She sports the classic 70's "lion-cut" shaggy hairdo.
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* [[Plucky Girl]]: Not many people can politely tell the Master that they aren't going to let themselves be hypnotized again.
* [[The Power of Love]]: Gigantic invincible intergalactic demon about to wipe out mankind? No problem.
* [[Walking the Earth]]:
* [[The Watson]]
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: She enjoys a mild flirtation with Mike Yates and in "The Curse of Peladon", she's all ready to go out on a date with him, until the Doctor whisks her away.
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{{quote|Played by: Richard Franklin (1971-74, 1983)}}
A recurring character during the UNIT years, Mike Yates was one of several subordinates to the Brigadier over the years. He left UNIT in shame, however, after being brainwashed and forced to assist with the destruction of the modern era with [[Doctor Who/Recap/S11
* [[Aborted Arc]]: Franklin currently believes that the original intention of the serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S11
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Whether or not he's straight, gay, or bi depends both on how you interpret his behavior and on [[All There in the Manual|which spinoff material you think is canon]].
* [[Brainwashed]]
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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]/[[Heel Realization]]: {{spoiler|In ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''}}
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{{quote|'''Sarah Jane:''' So, providing we don't burn up on re-entry and aren't suffocated on the way down, we'll probably be smashed to a pulp when we land.
'''Fourth Doctor:''' Exactly. Sarah, you've put your finger on the one tiny flaw in our plan.
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A journalist from South Croydon, who met the Doctor while posing as her virologist aunt Lavinia. Perhaps the most archetypal companion (many older fans grew up with her as their companion), and the longest-serving if you count by number of serials. So popular that she got ''two'' spinoffs: the didn't-go-anywhere ''[[K-9 and Company]]'' (1981), and the much more successful ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' (2007-2011).
* [[Brainwashed]]: Holds the companion record for most times hypnotized. It seemed like she was hypnotized in ''every'' episode. Lampshaded in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14
* [[Brick Joke]]: One that took around 30 years to land. When we last saw her in [[Tom Baker]]'s day, he'd dropped her off in a place he assured her was Croydon. We find out in [[David Tennant]]'s time that it was actually Aberdeen, Scotland.
* [[The Bus Came Back]]
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: After "[[Doctor Who
* [[Going for the Big Scoop]]: She typically runs into danger in order to get the story, especially early on.
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]
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* [[Older and Wiser]]: She's become increasingly Doctor-like.
* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[Rummage Sale Reject]]: The Andy Pandy outfit from "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14
* [[Straw Feminist]]: In her early appearances; this got toned down later.
* [[The Watson]]
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{{quote|'''Fourth Doctor''': ''Harry Sullivan is an imbecile!!!''}}
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* [[The Character Died with Him]]: Implied in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.
* [[Dude in Distress]]
* [[Informed Ability]]: He's a doctor,<ref>No, a literal one of medicine</ref>
* [[The Medic]]: He certainly does a fair bit of harm for someone who's medically trained, though.
* [[Mildly Military]]: He's a Royal Navy Surgeon-Lieutenant, but he rarely ever acts like it.
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* [[Quintessential British Gentleman]]: "I say!"
* [[Straw Misogynist]]: Can be pretty sexist and condescending towards Sarah Jane. Although this was deliberate by the production team in order to contrast with Sarah Jane's [[Straw Feminist]] traits.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Ian Marter had a minor part in the Third Doctor serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10
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{{quote|''Don't worry, Doctor. I found the answer: knife them in the neck!''}}
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* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Her fate in the Time War is unknown.
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{{quote|''I am not a dog. I dislike the terms "heel", "sit", and "boy".''}}
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* [[Badass Automaton]]; With a dash of [[Badass Adorable]].
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Affirmative." "Negative." "Master/Mistress?"
* [[Do-Anything Robot]]: Laser beam, hacking computers, defensive protocols, [[Doctor Who/Recap/S15
* [[Family-Friendly Firearms|Family Friendly Firearm]]: K-9's ever-convenient laser beam has a kill option, but is always set on [[Stun Guns|stun]].
* [[The Nth Doctor]]: Largely subverted in that each K-9 unit is essentially the exact same thing as the previous model (except the version in the ''K-9'' spinoff, which looks drastically different).
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* [[Think Nothing of It]]
* [[Zeerust]]: Lampshaded in "School Reunion".
{{quote|'''Rose:''' It looks so...[[Deader Than Disco|disco]].
'''Tenth Doctor:''' ''Oi! In the year 5000 this was cutting-edge!'' }}
{{quote|'''Fourth Doctor:''' Well, here we are. We've tracked him to his lair.
'''Romana I:''' Yes, we've got him exactly where he wants us. }}
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A Time Lord, or more properly a Time Lady, like the Doctor, and therefore has multiple regenerations. (Two were seen onscreen, dubbed Romana I and Romana II by fans; the [[Expanded Universe]] added a third.) Sent to assist the Doctor in [[Gotta Catch Em All|the search for]] the [[Cosmic Keystone|Key To Time]], she was initially what one would call "book-smart": extremely well-educated (her academic record trounced the Doctor's), but quite young and with little practical experience.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
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* [[Overly Long Name]]: "Romana" is actually short for "Romanadvoratrelundar".
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{{quote|'''Romana I:''' You have absolutely no sense of responsibility whatsoever!
'''The Doctor:''' What?
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* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
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{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' Psst, you are wonderful.
'''Romana II:''' Suppose I am. I've never really thought about it. }}
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* [[You Look Familiar]]: The actress was a guest star as Princess Astra of Atrios in the story immediately preceding her debut. This was referenced in-story as Romana choosing that form to regenerate into.
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{{quote|''Could anyone pass the sodium chloride, please?''}}
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* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Older Brother]]: Varsh. He keeps his belt as a memento.
* [[Dying Alone]]: On a crashing spaceship, thinking he just failed to save the world.
* [[Fake Defector]]: And '''HOW.''' Considering he does this ''three times'' over the course of his time in the TARDIS ("[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18
* [[Famous Last Words]]: "Now I'll never know if I was right..."
* [[A God Am I]]: In [[Big Finish]]'s ''The Boy That Time Forgot.'' Courtesy of [[Good with Numbers|applied mathematics]], [[Timey-Wimey Ball|timey-wimey stuff]], and alien technology that helps Adric ''bend an alternate reality to his will.''
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** [[Senseless Sacrifice]]
** The [[Expanded Universe]] audio adventures by [[Big Finish]] ''did'' wind up giving him one, though.
* [[Healing Factor]]: You'd think it'd be a massively useful trait for a companion to have, given the scrapes they get into, but Adric's [[Healing Factor]] is only mentioned twice - in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Towards [[Affably Evil|Monarch]] in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S19
* [[Human Aliens]]: Adric's species has three forms, only one of which is humanoid.
* [[Iconic Item]]: His mathematical excellence badge. Seeing it shattered on the floor of the TARDIS at the end of "Earthshock" makes the [[Silent Credits]] all the more powerful.
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* [[Reality Subtext]]: Adric's older brother Varsh dies in "Full Circle," just two years after Matthew Waterhouse's own older brother Nicholas had commited suicide.
* [[Teen Genius]]
* [[Took a Level
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{{quote|''Do you have any books on telebiogenesis?''}}
{{quote|Played by: Sarah Sutton (1981-83)}}
Daughter of Tremas, who got his body possessed by the Master at the end of Fourth Doctor serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18
* [[Eighties Hair]]
* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: The implications of her tragic backstory are barely mentioned in the show, but the [[Expanded Universe]] would make use of all her emotional baggage.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Was never intended to be a companion, until producer John Nathan-Turner decided otherwise.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S20
* [[Brainy Brunette]]
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: She rejoins Five, Tegan, and Turlough for a few audio adventures 50 years later (for her) and immediately after the events of "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S20
* [[Women Are Wiser]]
* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: In her [[Big Finish Doctor Who|Companion Chronicle]] ''The Darkening Eye.'' With Tegan.
* [[Expanded Universe]]: In the [[Big Finish]] audio series, teenaged Nyssa travels for a long time with the Doctor (presumably between the TV stories "Time-Flight" and "Arc of Infinity", during which interval Tegan as been kicked to the curb). Later, she rejoins the Doctor at a period after "Terminus", but
* [[Giant Poofy Sleeves]]
* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[Human Aliens]]
* [[I Choose to Stay]]: She leaves the TARDIS crew to stay on [[Doctor Who/Recap/S20
* [[Innocent Aliens]]
* [[Last of His Kind|Last Of Her Kind]]: The rest of Traken died in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18
* [[Nice Girl]]
* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Tegan, who is almost her polar opposite.
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* [[Teen Genius]]
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{{quote|'''Fifth Doctor:''' How do you feel now?
'''Tegan:''' Groggy, sore, and bad-tempered.
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{{quote|Played by: Janet Fielding (1981-84)}}
A brash [[Australia (
* [[Eighties Hair]]: The short, Sheena Easton variety.
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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Type 2 with Adric. They seem to care as much as they bicker, especially when one of them gets captured (or killed).
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{{quote|''What is it about Earth people that makes them think a futile gesture is a noble one?''}}
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* [[Deal with the Devil]]
* [[Dude in Distress]]: Done often because the writers couldn't figure out what to do with Turlough.
* [[Fan Service]]: He sure took a lot of clothes off in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S21
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: He starts out plotting to kill the Doctor for the Black Guardian, but eventually becomes the Doctor's loyal friend.
* [[Thicker Than Water]]
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* [[The So-Called Coward]]
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{{quote|''Unexpected as it may be, I do have a mind of my own.''}}
{{quote|Voiced by: Gerald Flood (1983-84)<ref>Over 6 episodes.</ref>}}
A shape-changing robot that the Master acquired as a sort of souvenir from the planet [[Doctor Who/Recap/S19
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]
* [[Expanded Universe]]: Actually fleshed-out in several novels.
* [[Forgotten Fallen Friend]]: Never mentioned again, whatsoever.<ref>
** [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]
* [[Mercy Kill]]: The less said about this one, the better.
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* [[Weak-Willed]]: [[Heel Face Revolving Door|Very easily manipulated]] by the willpower of others.
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{{quote|'''The Master:''' I am the Master!
'''Peri:''' So what? I'm Perpugilliam Brown, and I can shout just as loud as you can! }}
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* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Just ask [[Peter Davison]]. Some of her wardrobe is actually modest though.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: The [[Expanded Universe]] seems to delight in doing this to poor Peri. One tale winds up killing off her entire family. And not just that, but it was an utter afterthought in a story's epilogue where Peri had ''already'' lost some people who were like family to her.
** Another "perfect" example deals with the alternate possibilities coming from her final appearances.
* [[The Ditz]]: Season 22, mostly. Luckily, she improved drastically in her last season, not to mention her [[Big Finish Doctor Who|audio adventures]].
* [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe]]
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* [[Tsundere]]: A Type B with the [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Sixth Doctor]]. Also an example of [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] (Type 2).
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{{quote|'''''AAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!'''''}}
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{{quote|'''Seventh Doctor:''' I don't believe you've met my young friend Ace, an expert in calorification,<ref name="fire">setting things on fire</ref>
{{quote|Played by: [[Sophie Aldred]] (1987-89)}}
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** [[Badbutt]]
* [[Broken Bird]]: The girl had "issues".
* [[Butch Lesbian]]: [[Word of Gay|According to writer Rona Munro, anyway.]] Ace occasionally has chemistry with male guest stars (notably Captain Soren in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Enjoyed shouting "Ace!" (meaning "cool"). Since this is also her nickname, it almost seems like she is engaging in [[Pokémon-Speak]].
** She said "Wicked!" so often that the Doctor himself was inspired to say it once.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: The epitome of this trope, to the point where the type of Doctor Ace really needs is a therapist.
* [[Expanded Universe]]: has established that her full name is [[The Wizard of Oz|Dorothy Gale]] McShane.
* [[Girl of the Week]]: The children's TV [[Word of Gay]] version. Ace appeared in nine stories, and rapidly established a close friendship with an attractive young female character in at least five of them.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Much of the [[Totally Radical]] comes from the writers' attempts to have her insult people or express emotion without swearing.
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* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: In ''Ghost Light''.
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* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Ultimately, she decides not to go with the Doctor, and the Doctor refuses to stay on Earth with her.
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