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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| Played by: Carole Ann Ford (1963-64, 1983, 1993)}}▼
The Doctor's granddaughter. When the series began, she attended Coal Hill School in London as a student for a few months in 1963, posing as a human.
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: While Susan has certainly been on a [[Long Bus Trip]], she did return for one adventure in 1983. There is also an audio adventure featuring her and the Eighth Doctor together, but that's of debatable canon.
* [[Human Aliens]]: From the same race as the Doctor. Never seen regenerating, though.
* [[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
** [[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.
* [[Shipper
* [[Thicker Than Water]]: She feels strongly about her duty to her grandfather.
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Two teachers at Susan's school (history and science, respectively); together with Susan, the first three companions.
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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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Survivor of a spaceship crash on the planet Dido (so she did go down with the ship...), she was a teenage girl who then traveled with the Doctor. She decided to stay in ancient Troy and married Trolius, becoming Cressida (yep, the one from [[Greek Mythology]]).
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* [[Hands Off My Fluffy]]
* [[I Choose to Stay]]
* [[
* [[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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A marooned pilot from Earth's future, he eventually leaves the TARDIS to mediate between two opposing factions of humans (or [[Human Aliens]]).
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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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Came from ancient Troy and thought the Doctor was a god. Her character was considered too limiting and she only appeared in two stories.
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* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]]
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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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** Several [[Big Finish]] audio dramas featuring her are set after her death. Somehow.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]
* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: Dressed as a badass with a zap gun, but doesn't really do much of anything after her introductory episode.
* [[Putting
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Jean Marsh had already played a different character, and returned in 1989 to play a third.
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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
* [[Totally Radical]]: A 1960s variant of this trope. There's probably a good reason she was forgotten.
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'''Second Doctor''': I'd like to see a butterfly fit into a chrysalis case after it spreads its wings.
'''Polly''': Then you ''did'' change. }}
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From 1966. The pair - he was a sailor, she was a secretary - helped the Doctor through his first regeneration. They joined and left the TARDIS crew at the same time as each other.
* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Ben comes to Polly's assistance when another man at the nightclub won't leave her alone.
* [[Good
* [[In Harm's Way]]: When he first appears, Ben's moping every night in the nightclub because he's been given a shore posting.
* [[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
* [[Totally Radical]]: Intended by the production team to show the new face of ''Doctor Who'' in the swinging mid-sixties.
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The longest running male companion. Or the longest running of all if you count by episode instead of by years active. A piper of the Clan McLaren, who came from 18th century Scotland.
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* [[Brave Scot]]
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: To an extent; he was a quick learner.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: One of Jamie's ultimate fates in an [[Expanded Universe]] tale penned by [[Grant Morrison]]. Many fans were ''not'' happy... but most seem to agree that it was a pretty damned badass way to go.<ref>In fact, it was the most beloved story from [[
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: He appears in all but the first of Troughton's serials, and this pairing is remembered as one of the best ever.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Had all but his first adventure mind-wiped by the Time Lords.
* [[Long Bus Trip]]: Appeared as a companion to the Sixth Doctor's [[Big Finish]] adventures 25 years since his last appearance in the series; 41 years since his last appearance as a Companion proper. This must be some kind of record.<ref>Well, Frazer winds up playing a ''fictional'' version of Jamie back in the Land of Fiction ... but that's fine, he's got all the same memories of Jamie. Awesome.</ref>
* [[Man in
* [[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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'''Second Doctor:''' A bit short? Oh, I shouldn't worry about that. Look at Jamie's. }}
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A well-brought-up young lady from 1866. Taken in by the Second Doctor after the Daleks blew up her home and exterminated her father.
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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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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 ''[[
* [[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
* [[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
* [[Porn Stache]]: Interestingly, his fascist [[Mirror Universe]] counterpart is clean-shaven.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: In ''[[
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* [[Retired Badass]]: In SJA, just because he retired doesn't mean he won't remind you of just ''why'' he is the Brig.
* [[Running Gag]]: In both ''Doctor Who'' and ''[[
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Very much so in ''Doctor Who and the Silurians''.
* [[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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A teenaged astrophysicist from the 21st century ([[Zeerust|as seen from 1968]]). Stowed away on board the TARDIS.
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* [[Future Spandex]]: Her uniform in "The Wheel in Space", and her [[Memetic Outfit|sparkly catsuit]] in "The Mind Robber" and "The Invasion".
* [[Genius Ditz]]: She doesn't know much history.
* [[Good
* [[Hair Decorations]]: She always wears an Alice band.
* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Same as with Jamie, thanks to those Time Lords. Temporarily removed for the odd [[Big Finish]] adventure; usually returns.
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* [[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
* [[Photographic Memory]]
* [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses]]: In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6
* [[Spell My Name
* [[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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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
* [[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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The Third Doctor's first assistant when he was exiled to Earth. Scientific advisor to UNIT, before the Doctor showed up and casually took her job. Eventually got her own debatably canon direct-to-video spinoff, ''P.R.O.B.E.'', in 1994.
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* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: If her penchant for mini-skirts is any indication.
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: She holds degrees in medicine, physics, and "a dozen other subjects".
* [[Put
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'''Jo:''' I didn't say I passed. }}
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Assistant to the Third Doctor during his exile on Earth. Ostensibly a scientist, but it's later revealed that a high-placed uncle got her the job.
* [[Badass Damsel]]: By virtue of swinging between [[
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Incredibly charming, equally disarming.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]
* {{spoiler|[[The Bus Came Back]]}}
* [[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 ''[[
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S8
* [[Cute Clumsy Girl]]
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* [[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 ''[[
* [[Hair of Gold]]: She sports the classic 70's "lion-cut" shaggy hairdo.
* {{spoiler|[[Happily Married]]:}} {{spoiler|She stayed with Dr. Jones and had seven kids with him. They went on to have thirteen grandchildren.}}
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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
* [[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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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]]
* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]: Flirted on and off with Jo Grant for his time on the show, and looks utterly crestfallen when she announces her marriage...according to an interview with Richard Franklin, the stage directions actually called for this.
* [[Good
* [[Those Two Guys]]: With Benton.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]/[[Heel Realization]]: {{spoiler|In ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''}}
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'''Fourth Doctor:''' Exactly. Sarah, you've put your finger on the one tiny flaw in our plan.
'''Sarah Jane:''' ''Our'' plan? It's your 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 ''[[
* [[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
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]
* [[Hot Scoop]]: Sarah Jane features highly in the sexy companion polls on a regular basis.
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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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A brief companion of the Fourth Doctor, the character was brought in just in case the Doctor cast was an elderly Doctor rather than… well… [[Tom Baker]]. As such, Harry was fairly redundant in some ways, but the bumbling naval officer is still fondly remembered for his chemistry with Tom Baker and Lis Sladen, making up one of the most memorable TARDIS teams.
* [[Badass Normal]]
* [[The Character Died
* [[
* [[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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A human [[Noble Savage]], descendant of an ill-fated colonization expedition. Primarily remembered for her [[Fan Service]] leotard and trying to kill anything that looked hostile - however, though she was (initially) quite ignorant, she was ''not'' stupid and made up for her inferior intellect with her own insights and [[Simpleminded Wisdom]].
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* [[Screaming Woman]]: Subverted. ''Hard.'' She screams exactly once, and that was when a [[Rodents of Unusual Size|giant mutant rat]] started chewing on her leg. This does not count war cries.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Her knife.
* [[What Happened to
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The first robot-buddy of the franchise, hailing from the 51st century. Shared a [[K-9 and Company
* [[The Cat Came Back]]: The first K-9 (Mark I) was left with Leela on Gallifrey, the second K-9 (Mark II) was left with Romana II, a third and fourth K-9 (Mark III and IV) were given to Sarah Jane Smith...
* [[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".
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'''Tenth Doctor:''' ''Oi! In the year 5000 this was cutting-edge!'' }}
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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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'''The Doctor:''' What?
'''Romana I:''' You're capricious, arrogant, self-opinionated, irrational, and you don't even know where we're going!
'''The Doctor:''' ''Exactly!'' }}
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A tall, leggy, dark-haired woman; the initial concept of her was a "[[Grace Kelly]]" sort of character. Could be called "the skirt Romana", preferring these.
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* [[Love Redeems]]: The whole thing with the Shadow.
* [[Pimped-Out Cape]]: Made of [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers|white feathers]]
* [[Put
* [[Rich Bitch]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
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Shorter, with strawberry blonde hair. Preference for trousers rather than skirts.
* [[Bifauxnen]]: At times.
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: Wears a very [[St Trinian]]'s style uniform in the "City of Death" serial. Lalla Ward, judging by interviews and the production notes, came up with the idea and had no concept it was a fetish.
* [[Expanded Universe]]: several novels and audio dramas have attempted to explain why Romana regenerated into the Lalla Ward version. These range from the short story "The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe" suggesting the TARDIS forced her to in a fit of jealousy (after impersonating Romana during the events of Destiny of the Daleks), to other ideas.
* [[Gendered Outfit]]: Wore a pink version of The Doctor's outfit.
* [[I Choose to Stay]]: After three serials of trying to get out of E-Space, she decides to stay at the end of "Warriors' Gate" to help a race of [[King of Beasts|enslaved time-traveling lion people.]]
* [[Lady of Adventure]]: More keen on adventuring than her first incarnation.
* [[Nerves of Steel]]: An adventurous Time Lady like her picked them up really quickly after jousting against The Daleks
* [[Never Found the Body]]
* [[Romance
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Deadness]]: She gets a 1.833333.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Although she just likes men's clothes rather than actually being a transvestite. Described in one DVD extra as the only woman who could pull off wearing a fruit salad on her head.
* [[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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A snotty teenage maths geek from E-Space, annoying in the way that snotty teenage geek-boys usually are, but a well-meaning kid all the same. He is most notable for being the longest serving companion to be killed off.
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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
* [[Good
* [[Guile Hero]]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Or it would have been, had it actually achieved anything.
** [[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.
* [[Informed Ability]]: For a supposed genius, Adric doesn't come off as being particularly intelligent.
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Most fans place the emphasis firmly on 'insufferable'.
* [[Jerk
* [[Little Stowaway]]: how he got on the TARDIS in the first place.
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: In ''The Boy That Time Forgot,'' he tells Nyssa that he had the entire City of Excellence built so that he could bring her back to him and make her his bride.
* [[Mr. Vice Guy]]: Driven by a desire for approval and acceptance.
* [[New Powers
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Adric was played by Andrew Sachs in ''The Boy That Time Forgot'' because Matthew Waterhouse didn't want to work for [[Big Finish]].
** This will apparently be the case for any subsequent appearances of Adric as Waterhouse has stated that him returning to the role would be "ridiculous" by this point, even for audios, seeing as he was 18 when he played him and is pushing 50 now.
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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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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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* [[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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* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: He even gets some in various [[Expanded Universe]] tales. Lord knows it'd never happen on camera.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Particularly towards Tegan, who's [[Tsundere|just as capable]] of snarking right back.
* [[Deal
* [[
* [[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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* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[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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* [[Robot Buddy]]: Literally.
* [[Shapeshifting]]
* [[Shoo Out the New Guy]]: Technically he was a companion for nearly a full year. In practice, he only showed up in 2 stories, the one where he joined and the one where the writers [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Was conceived as a successor to K-9, just not looking like a dog.
* [[Weak-Willed]]: [[Heel Face Revolving Door|Very easily manipulated]] by the willpower of others.
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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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* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?|Shouldn't Peri Be Back In School Right Now?]]: Depending on what her fate really is. See the alternate possibilities above.
* [[Tsundere]]: A Type B with the [[Jerk
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* [[I Choose to Stay]]: With Sabalom Glitz, for some reason.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Mel supposedly had a [[Photographic Memory]], but this never came up.
* [[Love Freak]]: In the audio play ''[[Big Finish Doctor Who|The Juggernauts]]'' she tries to redeem ''Davros''. Of course, she doesn't exactly have the long history with him the Doctor has, but ''still''...
** [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: {{spoiler|However, once it turns out Davros is a lying sack of crap and reverts to form, Melanie decides to leave him at the so-called mercy of his own creations: the Juggernauts. Whom are basically anti-Dalek Daleks made from human remains.}} Just don't piss her off, really.
* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: Possible real-world example; it has been mentioned that she was hired because she had a scream "that could tear the paint off walls". It's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8928yni-Cl0 not far from the truth].
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A "typical" [[The Eighties|late-eighties]] teenager rescued from an ice planet where she was working as a waitress (long story). Notable as one of the relatively few classic series girls who actively attempted to beat up the monsters rather than scream at them. She also liked to deploy her favourite weapon, a homemade explosive she called Nitro-9. Always called the Doctor "Professor", even after he asked her not to. This started out as an example of her anti-authority bent, then turned into an affectionate nickname between them.
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* [[Eighties Hair]]
* [[Aborted Arc]]: According to [[Word of God]], had the show not been placed on hiatus, the Doctor would have enrolled Ace in ''the Time Lord Academy'' so she could undergo training to become a Time Lord. Oh yes.
** Her [[What Happened to
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type II
* [[Badass]]: She once beat up a Dalek. ''With a baseball bat''. Inspired the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] trope.
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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.
* [[Mad Bomber]]: She's very quick to whip out those homemade explosives of hers. The Doctor is more than aware of this.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Her name's Dorothy, and she ends up in the future by a "time storm". Does this [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
** Taken further via [[Word of God]]: her middle name is "Gale".
* [[The Nicknamer]]: She's best known for calling the Doctor "Professor", but she invented names for other characters as well. Mel ended up as "Doughnut".
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* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: In ''Ghost Light''.
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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]
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* [[At the Opera Tonight]]: She's attending the opera when she's called to operate on the Doctor.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Due to being hit by the Master's poison/acidic saliva.
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* [[Hospital Hottie]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Her attempt to save the Seventh Doctor was the ''cause'' of his death, forcing him to regenerate into Eight.
* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: Forever averted. She and the Doctor happily make out.
* [[Redheaded Hero]]
* [[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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