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{{quote|''Oh, grandfather!''}}

* [[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.}}

* [[Official Couple]]

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{{quote|''Oh, something else I forgot to tell you. I think I've poisoned Nero.''}}

* [[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.''}}

* [[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.}}

* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]]

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{{quote|'''Steven''': If it isn't allowed, Dodo would be first in the queue!}}

* [[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!

* [[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''.''}}

* [[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.

* [[Security Cling]]: All the time, especially with the Doctor.

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{{quote|'''Second Doctor:''' You look very nice in that dress, Victoria.

* [[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]].''}}

* [[You Look Familiar]]: Nicholas Courtney played Bret Vyon in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3/E04 The Daleks Master Plan|The Daleks' Master Plan]]" before he got the role of the Brigadier, making him the ''only'' actor to act alongside all seven (eight if you count the audio drama "Minuet in Hell") of the original Doctors at some point in his career.

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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.''}}

** {{spoiler|[[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: In just about any [[Expanded Universe]] work where this is undone, she's amnesiac again (and stands a good chance of being worse off in other respects) by the end.}}

* [[Little Stowaway]]

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Her [[Everything's Better with Sparkles|sparkly catsuit]] is particularly fondly remembered, especially that bit in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6/E02 The Mind Robber|The Mind Robber]]".

* [[Photographic Memory]]

* [[Waif Fu]]

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* [[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.}}

* [[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]].

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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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* [[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.

* [[The Watson]]

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{{quote|'''Fourth Doctor''': ''Harry Sullivan is an imbecile!!!''}}

* [[The Character Died with Him]]: Implied in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.

* [[Dude in Distress]]

* [[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.

* [[You Look Familiar]]: Ian Marter had a minor part in the Third Doctor serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10/E02 Carnival of Monsters|Carnival of Monsters]]" before being cast as Harry.

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{{quote|''Don't worry, Doctor. I found the answer: knife them in the neck!''}}

* [[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".''}}

'''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. }}

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]]

* [[Overly Long Name]]: "Romana" is actually short for "Romanadvoratrelundar".

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{{quote|'''Romana I:''' You have absolutely no sense of responsibility whatsoever!

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]

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{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' Psst, you are wonderful.

* [[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?''}}

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: His TARDIS-induced cameo in the comic ''The Forgotten'': Saves the Doctor from one of the clockwork robots from "The Girl in the Fireplace." [[Heroic Sacrifice|By throwing himself at it and blowing it up.]] ''With a can of'' ''[[Iconic Item|Ace's Nitro-9.]]'' And he goes out ''smiling.''

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{{quote|''Do you have any books on telebiogenesis?''}}

* [[Teen Genius]]

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{{quote|'''Fifth Doctor:''' How do you feel now?

* [[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?''}}

* [[The So-Called Coward]]

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{{quote|''Unexpected as it may be, I do have a mind of my own.''}}

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]

* [[Expanded Universe]]: Actually fleshed-out in several novels.

** [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]

* [[Mercy Kill]]: The less said about this one, the better.

* [[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!

* [[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|Played by: [[Sophie Aldred]] (1987-89)}}

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: In ''Ghost Light''.

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{{quote|''Doctor, I only have ''one'' life. Can you try to keep that in mind?''}}