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Companions

David Alexander "Alex" Campbell (Eighth Doctor)

Voiced by: Jake McGann (2008-present)

Susan's son and the Doctor's great-grandson. Seems to have taken the whole "Surprise! You're half-alien!" thing quite well, considering Earth was pretty xenophobic while he was growing up.

• Book Dumb: Alex isn't doing especially well in school.
• Half-Human Hybrid: A very rare example of nonhuman Mom, human Dad.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Alex performed one of these, planning for the Daleks to destroy the very important console he was "trying" to sabotage for him when they shot him to stop him. It worked.
• It Runs in The Family
• Real Life Relative: Jake McGann is the son of Eighth Doctor actor Paul McGann.
• Tell Me About My Father
• Wonder Child: Shades of this. Doctor Who canon varies on whether or not humans and Time Lords are interfertile; at the very least, human/Time Lord children are unusual enough that Eight asks Susan exactly how she managed it.

Susan Campbell (Eighth Doctor)

Voiced by: Carole Ann Ford (2008-present)

Susan's had a busy 20-odd years since her grandfather left her with freedom fighter David Campbell--raising her half-human son, Alex, and eventually rising quite high in Earth's fledgling government.

• Give Him a Normal Life: Susan doesn't give up her son, but she does pretend to be human for his sake.
• Mama Bear
• Reasonable Authority Figure

C'rizz (Eighth Doctor)

Voiced by: Conrad Westmass (2004-07)

Pronounced KER-izz.

• The Atoner
• Break the Cutie: Something the Expanded Univers excels at, it seems.
• The Empath
• Heroic Sacrifice
• I See Dead People: Originally played straight at the start of The Last, where C'rizz is but one of a few who see the spirits of the dead surrounding them. Later actually twisted somewhat at the end of Terror Firma, where it's revealed that C'rizz sees each and every person he's killed, or rather "saved," as a ghost around him.
• Lizard Folk
• Mercy Kill: Originally played painfully straight in his first story, where C'rizz is forced to kill his loved one to alleviate her suffering and release her from what is essentially an undeath. However, the repeated trauma that C'rizz undergoes twists that inside him, eventually showing the audience that he believes each person that he's killed is also one that he's "saved." This includes a Dalek.
• Punctuation Shaker
• Trauma Conga Line: First, his beloved is horrendously mutated before his eyes, forcing C'rizz to kill her off out of mercy. As he begins to travel to other worlds, though, it seems like each subsequent author and story was continually trying to out-do the previous one.

Erimem (Fifth Doctor)

Voiced by: Caroline Morris (2001-08)

Rescued by the Fifth Doctor and Peri from Ancient Egypt 1400BC after her coronation went awry, Princess Erimemushinteperem travelled the galaxy with the Doctor to learn about different times and places, before settling down with a nice young Prince.

• Abusive Parents: Comes with the time period, but it's revealed in The Roof of the World that her father planned to have her tossed to the lepers for accidentally seeing something she wasn't supposed to. And she only finds out about this in limbo.
• Action Girl: She was trained in sword(wo)manship by the Captain of the Royal Guard. Comes in handy when they visit Three Musketeer-era France.
• Ancient Egypt
• Everything's Better with Princesses
• Faking the Dead
• Heterosexual Life Partners: Mainly with Peri. They're the equivalent of gossiping girls when around each other.

Elizabeth Klein (Seventh Doctor)

Voiced by: Tracey Childs (2001, 2010)

A companion (of sorts) of the Seventh Doctor, Elizabeth Klein is an anomaly of time travel. She comes from an alternate future where the Nazis won the second World War, a future that never happened thanks to a meddling alternate Doctor who convinced her to go back into the past to use the Seventh Doctor to figure out how the TARDIS, now in Nazi hands, worked. Abandoned by the Doctor just before WWII started, the Doctor later ran into her in 1950s Kenya and took her aboard the TARDIS...

• Cosmic Retcon: Not only in dealing with her own timeline, but with what she does to the universe at large after a few jumps in her TARDIS.
• Dr. Jerk: ...without many of those Pet the Dog moments other examples are known for.
• Badass Normal: One of the few humans to outsmart the Doctor.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite fully believing the Nazi "master race" rhetoric, Klein herself finds similar actions taken by characters in both "A Thousand Tiny Wings" and "Survival of the Fittest" to be abhorrent.
• Fan of the Past: Well, her past.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
• Last of Her Timeline
• Ret-Gone: Inverted, in that her entire original universe is gone, replaced by the "wrong" one: ours. Played straight when the Doctor's hand is forced, choosing to wipe Klein from ever having existed in order to restore the universe to order. Klein herself does still exist in some form in our universe - as a member of UNIT. But still.
• Timey-Wimey Ball

Lucie Miller (Eighth Doctor)

Voiced by: Sheridan Smith (2007-2011)

• Commuting on a Bus: She was absent for the first half of the fourth season (see Put on a Bus below), then returned for two more and is scheduled for a fourth in March 2011. Sheridan Smith also played two androids the Doctor had programmed to have her voice in Prisoner of the Sun, the January 2011 episode.
• Deadpan Snarker: Extra emphasis on 'snarker'.
• Future Me Scares Me: subverted, it's suggested that Lucie is destined to become a ruthless dictator, but then it turns out it was someone else.
• Handicapped Badass: As of 'Lucie Miller', she contracted a plague while on holiday with Alex, which left her blind in one eye and dependent on leg braces. In spite of this, she, Alex, and Susan staged several raids on Dalek forces. With nuclear submarines.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Taking a doomsday nuke into the heart of a Dalek time engine while shouting out her name so the Daleks knew just who screwed them over made this an awesome one.
  • Notably, she's a rare case of Heroic Sacrifice survivor. Once things started going to hell, she expected to die on the mission, and didn't particularly care...until she found out Susan's TARDIS key was active, and the Doctor was (finally) coming. But, lest you think Big Finish was only kidding with the title, she ends up dying anyway.
• Noodle Incident: More of a Jelly Incident, in her case.

Lucie: "... It's just I've got a thing about jelly. Incident at a children's party, 1992. Trust me, you don't wanna know."

• Of Corsets Sexy - Subverted in 'Scapegoat', in which Lucie, having donned Gorgeous Period Dress for what is meant to be a night at the Moulin Rouge, has this exchange with the Doctor:

Doctor: "You look very...uh...very...uh..." Lucie: "Say 'cheap' and I'll have you."

• Oop North: Lucie is from Blackpool.
• Put on a Bus: She voluntarily leaves the Doctor and returns home after an incident that makes her believe she can't trust him anymore. Her aunt Pat, whom she first met in 1974, was killed on their second visit to her and replaced by the shape-shifting alien who had been her boyfriend. The Doctor knew this and opted not to tell Lucie, against his better judgment, and she eventually found out. This broke her trust in him, until she ran into him again on a moonbase on Deimos, where she had been abandoned by another Time Lord with whom she'd been traveling. She then spends Christmas with him, Susan, and Susan's son Alex, and by the end has forgiven him, though rather than resume traveling with him she opts to explore 22nd-century Earth with Alex.
  • He's somewhat amusingly alarmed by that, telling Alex to look after her in one breath, and warning him not to let her teach him any bad habits in the next.
• The Ladette: Particularly in her first episode.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With the Doctor. For all they snark at one another, they're self-admittedly each other's best friend.
• Why Did It Have To Be Crocodiles?
• You Put the X In XY: In "The Skull of Sobek", she starts seeing strange visions. The Doctor's comment: "You put the Lucie in hallucination."

Charlotte "Charley" Pollard (Eighth Doctor and the Sixth Doctor)

Voiced by: India Fisher (2001-2010)

Ran away from her boring life among the upper crust in 1930, only to be nearly killed in an airship crash. Fortunately, the Eighth Doctor was around...

• Edwardian Adventuress: She even calls herself this.
• Faking the Dead
• Lady of Adventure
• Reality Ensues: Several episodes have her dealing with the realization that she will never see her family again.
• Temporal Paradox: Was saved from the crash of the R101 by the Doctor, and went on to travel with him. Time appears to proceed normally, until we find out that the Doctor saving her from certain firey doom caused a ripple in the Web of Time. History wrote that Charley was supposed to go down with the ship, but because of her survival, the ripple lead to all sorts of paradoxes and tons of "things-that-shouldn't-have-happened" to happen throughout the whole of history. All this, plus causing the Web of Time to slowly unravel itself due to her merely existing.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: Thanks to the fun of time travel in Doctor Who, Charley is perhaps the only companion to know the Doctor before he knows her. Sorta.
• Tomboyish Name
• You Can't Go Home Again: See Reality Ensues.

Thomas Hector "Hex" Schofield (Seventh Doctor)

Voiced by: Philip Olivier (2004-2010)

A staff nurse from 2021, Hex is compassionate and good at keeping a cool head, even during his Oh My God freakouts. Companion to Seven with Ace.

• Badass Normal: Considering the fact that he's just a nurse and is more than often in over his head, Hex does some pretty awesome stuff.
• Break the Cutie: Villains love to torture poor Hex. Especially Nimrod, Telling him enough of the truth about how his mother died to make him distrust the Doctor and then tricking him into resurrecting her as a mindless vampire monster. This would have been bad enough had he not just recovered from being shot. He has also been mind raped in an English Military Hospital, and nearly burned as a witch by Oliver Cromwell.
• Big OMG: Not always big, but a bit of a catch phrase. Used to dramatic effect in The Settling with Oliver Cromwell.
• Heroic BSOD: After finding out the fate of his mother, not to mention the fact that the Doctor had chosen to lie by omission about her fate for so long.
• Hospital Hottie

Evelyn Smythe (Sixth Doctor)

Voiced by: Maggie Stables (2000-present)

One of the Doctor's rare older companions, sixtyish history professor Evelyn Smythe could also match the Sixth Doctor's acid tongue--a rare bird indeed!

• Badass Teacher: She's a history teacher. And she's badass.
• Christmas Cake: One of the oldest companions the Doctor has ever had.
• Cool Old Lady: Cool enough to chill out Six.
• Deadpan Snarker: She is naturally quite straightforward, but the Doctor's more boastful rants tend to bring out this side of her.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Helping the Doctor take out a being of nearly ultimate power, at the cost of her own life... as she was already dying, Evelyn was more than willing to ensure her end happened on her terms.
• It Gets Easier / It Never Gets Any Easier: Evelyn's main arc revolves around her coping with all the death that follows in the Doctor's wake. He seems to take it all in his stride, while she, well, doesn't.
• Not That Kind of Doctor: She often has the same problem as the Doctor when describing herself.
• Older Sidekick: She seems noticeably older than the 40ish Sixth Doctor, though she technically isn't.
• Screw Politeness, I'm A Senior: Usually, Evelyn's a perfectly friendly old dear, but when she needs to get her way...

Villains

Grayvorn

Voiced by: Anthony Head (2002)

The principal villain of the Excelis audio trilogy, Grayvorn is initially a clever and ambitious (if violent) warlord during his planet's medieval period, he becomes immortal through rather complicated circumstances and proceeds to guide the history of Excelis through its renaissance and ultimately its nuclear destruction. Was encountered by the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors.

• Genius Bruiser: He's violent and boorish when the Fifth Doctor first encounters him, but he is a canny and driven leader.
• Go Mad From the Revelation: "It was only then that I can say that I lost my mortal mind."
• I Have Many Names: Three, at least. (Lord Grayvorn, Reeve Maupassant, Lord Sutton.)
• Large Ham: Oh yes.
• Narrator: In "Excelis Dawns."
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old
• Who Wants to Live Forever?

Nimrod

Voiced by: Stephen Chance (2001, 2003, 2010)

A Mad Scientist encountered by the Sixth Doctor in "Project: Twilight," "Project: Lazarus" and "Project Destiny," Nimrod was originally Dr. William Abberton, a scientist working for an organization known as the Forge, which was then conducting experiments with vampire DNA in order to create a super-soldier serum. Not to be confused with the character of the same name from the Seventh Doctor episode "Ghost Light".

• Automatic Crossbows: His weapon of choice.
• Bald of Evil
• Determinator
• Hollywood Cyborg
• Mad Scientist
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Mad scientist vampire zombie robot, to be precise.
• Our Vampires Are Different

The Word Lord or Nobody No-One

Voiced by Paul Reynolds (2008) & Ian Reddington (2010)

Think of a Time Lord, only one coming from a reality made of words and verb structure rather than space and time. You now have the makings of a Word Lord. This particular name goes by the name of Nobody No-One, and rather likes to be a thorn in the side of the 7th Doctor. The awkward twist is that his abilities are derived from words uttered or written down. So, for example, if someone were to write "Nobody could stop me from finishing the next sentence," then he would. Come to think of it, adding him to this wiki might be a mista

• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: A Nightmare Fuel varient, rather than comedy. The Word Lord is very clever in manipulating people into saying things in his favour.

Evelyn: Nobody should have that kind of power. Nobody: Oh! Thanks!

• For the Evulz: Pretty much the only reason Nobody No-One is antagonizing the Doctor. Sure, he's taken a double-job from the Daleks (who want his dead body) and Cybermen (who want his brain), but his real reward will be to see the joy the Daleks get from their worst enemy dead at their feet.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: At first he seems harmless. Then you utter something like... say... Nobody can kill the Doctor. Whoops.
• Large Ham: Paul Reynolds plays his Word Lord as a lethal 10th Doctor. It is as awesome and fearful as it sounds. Reddington plays his version of Nobody No-One as a more restrained Word Lord, but eventually goes over the deep end as well.
• NobodyDies
• The Nth Doctor: His second appearance is a regeneration, forced upon him when he crashed into the 27th letter of the English Alphabet.
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Nobody knows how old he is. No, really. But he's not telling.
• Ret-Gone: A walking version of it, should someone be ignorant enough to give him that much power.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Once you realize the power of language...

Quadrigger Stoyn

Voiced by: Terry Molloy (2013-2014)

A TARDIS technician, his job was to dismantle the engines of old TT capsules before they were sent off to the breaker's yard. Had the misfortune of being aboard a certain Type 40 when it was borrowed.

• Absolute Xenophobe: Comes with being raised on Gallifrey.
• Almighty Janitor: Quite crafty for a man whose job was just to dismantle engines.
• Never My Fault: While the Doctor did steal the TARDIS, the only reason Stoyn hasn't returned home is his own petty need for revenge.
• Villain Ball: If he wasn't so caught up on humiliating the Doctor, his brain could have returned him to Gallifrey long ago.

Ollistra

Voiced By: Jacqueline Pearce (2015–2018), Carolyn Pickles (2017)

The Cardinal of the High Council of Time Lords during the Last Great Time War. Determined to win at any cost, she comes into conflict with the War Doctor regarding her methodology.

• Anti-Villain: Wants to destroy the Daleks but has no scruples in accomplishing this goal.
• I Did What I Had to Do: How she justifies her actions. Up to and including unleashing the Great Vampires on the universe again.
• Put on a Bus: Owning to Jacqueline Pearce's Author Existence Failure and her incarnation of the character interacting with both the Eighth and War Doctors, she can't appear in the latter run of Eight's Time War stories.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With the War Doctor. They're, nominally, on the same side but have nothing but contempt for the other's methods.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The incarnation that preceded this hardliner was quite genial.
• We Have Reserves

Unbound Audio Plays

Alternate First Doctor

Voiced by: Geoffrey Bayldon (2003, 2005)

An alternate version of the First Doctor, this Doctor was originally a novelist on Gallifrey who spent his time in fictional versions of Earth while Susan went off to have a career in Time Lord politics. When this Doctor eventually left Gallifrey, he did so alone. Without having someone to reign him in however, or someone for him to reign in, this Doctor went about changing history as he pleased.

• Cool Old Guy: He markets himself off as this and his childish glee at the cosmos is undeniable.
• Didn't Think This Through: The problem with this Doctor. He does what he thinks is right in the moment, uncaring as to the long-term consequences his actions could have across time and space.
• Karma Houdini: For all the trouble he's caused, the Doctor gets to reunite and make amends with Susan, travelling the universe with her.

Alternate Third Doctor

Voiced by: David Warner (2003, 2007, 2008, 2016-2022)

An alternate incarnation of the Third Doctor who accidentally arrived for his banishment to Earth a few decades too late. This Doctor appeared in two Big Finish Unbound tales: "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Masters of War" - the former dealing with the consequences to the Earth over the Doctor's inability to interfere with the events of time, with the latter showing off how the Daleks evolved without the Doctor's interference. Took on the Brigadier as a companion, astonishingly.

Later in his life, he fought his reality's version of the Last Great Time War, simply called the Great War, a conflict that came to its end when the Master unleashed a weapon that destroyed most of the universe. Finding himself as the ruler of his half-dead reality, the Doctor became President of the Universe. Trying to escape his hellish existence, the Doctor made contact with Bernice Summerfield in the Prime reality, accidentally bringing her to his realm. After a series of adventures that ended in him duping the Master into becoming President of the Universe, he escaped into N-Space with Bernice.

• Adaptational Badass: Admittedly he was helped by his reality's Time Lords being a bit more Stupid Evil but he managed to give them the slip within hours, relatively speaking, of "The War Games" while his mainline self needed the Last Great Time War to get out from under them. Though this later seemed to backfire as he never met Romana who would have corrected, to a degree, the societal decay of Time Lord society.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Zig-zagged compared to the mainline Third Doctor. He starts out as much more personable, likely because his exile was so much shorter, but the sheer Crapsack World he lives in and the sacrifices he's had to make to keep it even half-alive have turned him into a particularly short-tempered Doctor.
• Ambiguous Situation: It's not entirely clear why the Doctor would up in 1997 Hong Kong. Maybe the Time Lords were just a bit more spiteful or it was just the TARDIS malfunctioning again.
• Badass Grandpa
• Beware the Nice Ones: A Quintessential British Gentleman who helps out however he can but has no hesitation being a Manipulative Bastard who subjects people to a Fate Worse Than Death.
• Breakout Character: Of the Unbound line. He and his Master even got a Sequel Series.
• Broken Ace: What he becomes following his universe's version of the Last Great Time War. He's the smartest man in the universe whom everyone expects to fix things but he's tired of doing that, compounded by the loss of his people. He relishes a villain who won't back down from him and eventually decides to leave his universe for greener pastures.
• The Chessmaster
• Composite Character: Though he's his reality's Third Doctor, he fights in the Great War, also making him his reality's War Doctor.
• The Exile: Like in N-Space, the Second Doctor was forced to regenerate into the Third. Unlike N-Space, this Doctor landed in Hong Kong in 1997, instead of England in the 1970s, and simply had an inhibitor placed on his TARDIS' temporal drive, meaning it could still move in space, unlike the N-Space craft which was grounded. Hitting the inhibitor hard enough eventually breaks it and he's free within twenty-four hours of being on Earth.
• For Want of a Nail: For his first two incarnations, his life was exactly the same as in N-Space. But then his second self was forced to regenerate...
  • The last time that the Doctor was on Earth prior to "Sympathy for the Devil", set in 1997, was in 1968. All the alien invasions of the Pertwee era still occurred but without the Doctor to apply a Badass Pacifist attitude to them, humanity's Nuke'Em policies led to Earth becoming a Crapsack World. There's a lake in the middle of London, a series of mile-wide craters litter the United States and plastic has been banned worldwide. He also starts his life much more like the Second Doctor, not getting the chance to experience the Third Doctor's Character Development that taught him to love Earth.
  • Without the Fourth Doctor leading him to double down on his intial idea, the Davros of the Unbound Universe was able to see that merciless Daleks would never be loyal to him, subsequently making the later generations of Daleks much more reasonable creatures.
  • He never met Romana. Without her to spread his more liberal attitude to Time Lord society, the Time War came much sooner, even without Daleks, as Time Lord society became ever more stagnant and traditionalist.
• I Warned You: Screams "I told you so" at the ruins of Gallifrey, noting that if they'd shared their awesome powers with the universe for good, the Great War wouldn't have happened.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Engaged in some sort of deal to buy his dying universe a few more centuries at the cost of his own memories as to how the Master ended his reality's Time War.
• Last of His Kind: Though, of course, the Master also survived.
• Not That Kind of Doctor: Actually subverted somewhat in "Sympathy for the Devil" in that the Doctor uses it as an excuse to get close to an injured man to obtain more information.
• Omniglot
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Attempted to leave his dying reality for the main universe. After briefly dragging Bernice into his world, he managed to escape to N-Space.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: When last seen, this Doctor had been stranded in the main universe and blowing up Cybermen with Bernice Summerfield. Where he is now is unclear.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • The Doctor knew Chairman Mao back when the man was just a librarian. The Master calls him out on not stopping the man before he rose to power and enacted a horrible autocracy across China.
  • ...teaming up with Daleks? Even the Brigadier calls the Doctor out on this one.
  • His therapist calls him out on playing god in her life, even if his interfering with her past led to her being happier.

Alternate Third Doctor

Voiced by: Arabella Weir (2003)

A female Doctor who came about after the Second Doctor (Nicholas Briggs) killed himself and escaped to avoid the trial at the end of "The War Games". Appears in "Exile".

• Ambiguous Ending: The story ends with her getting captured and sentenced to confinement in her TARDIS for the rest of her life. Should she try to escape, she will dematerialize forever, and it would be as if she never exists. She then finds a note saying that the controls are not set so and she takes the risk, unsure of who was telling the truth. Maybe it was a Downer Ending or maybe the universe was being kind.
• Bottle Fairy: Eventually leads to her downfall.
• Gargle Blaster: The "speckled goat".
• Gender Bender: In this reality, Time Lords change gender if they commit suicide.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: From a galaxy saving hero to a drunken barmaid.
• Idiot Ball: The Doctor's given a BIIIIIIG one...and in fact, the entire story is a big, giant Idiot Plot. To be fair, the entire audio play is intended to be humorous and stupid.
• It Tastes Like Feet: "Cheese" got his nickname because of what vodka makes his mouth taste like.
• Not-So-Great Escape: The Doctor is soon discovered, thanks in part to her incredible stupidity.
• Talking to Himself: She frequently talks to a possible hallucination of her previous incarnation. He isn't that reliable, so it's likely she's just dead drunk.
• Took a Level In Dumbass
• What Did I Do Last Night?

Alternate Sixth Doctor

Voiced by: Michael Jayston (2003)

Only appearing in He Jests at Scars, this Sixth Doctor is the end result of what might have happened had the Valeyard actually won the events of The Ultimate Foe, thus becoming the Doctor himself. Rather than gallivant around the universe like the Doctor would normally do, this Valeyard-Doctor instead decided to run around, blowing everything out of existence - eventually killing every single one of his previous incarnations. A walking paradox, this Doctor was finally defeated (technically) by a Future Badass version of Mel.

• Byronic Hero
• Evil Counterpart: Subverted for perhaps the only time in the franchise, seeing how he's finally the real article.
• Evil Feels Good
• Fate Worse Than Death: Doomed to spend an eternity in the TARDIS control room (the only remaining aspect of reality left), unable to move or even do much more than breathe or think while reality slowly sorts itself out...with MEL?! This Mel may at least be somewhat of a lesser annoyance, and kinda cool, but damn. This just takes the cake.
• Kill'Em All
• Large Ham
• Survivor Guilt: Considering the ending, this one actually makes sense.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: After assuming control of what's left of space-time, the Doctor-Valeyard can literally do whatever he desires. This is, of course, because it's all an illusion.

Johann Schmidtt

Voiced by: Paul McGann (2001)

A Doctor from an alternate timeline where Ace died during a trip to Colditz Castle and the Nazis wound up winning World War II as an accidental aftereffect. While never declared to be the Doctor in a flashback told by Elizabeth Klein, it's pretty blatant and the Seventh Doctor figures it out.

• The Atoner: This alternate Eighth Doctor spends pretty much his entire regeneration trying to correct time to it's proper course. It's up to interpretation if he's trying to attone for the corruption of the timeline, or if he's trying to prevent Ace's untimely death by meddling. Probably both.
• The Chessmaster: "Johann" spends over 10 years just trying to find a person whom he can potentially convince to step back in time and correct things. He then spends the next several months slowly convincing her to go back in time to "save" the Doctor from the original timeline on the pretense of using him to explain how the TARDIS works. He's good.
• Faking the Dead: Done quite easily, considering he regenerated into another body.
• Heroic Sacrifice: "Johann" gets at least shot trying to get Klein into the TARDIS, not to mention essentially erased from history once his plan works.
• Name's the Same: Not to be confused with the Red Skull, although both of their backstories involved Nazis.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: Apart from the obvious described above, "our" Seventh Doctor eventually reveals that Johann's memories have gradually settled in his mind, as Klein's meddling makes time more and more unstable and he's working to fix it.

The Warrior

Voiced by: Tom Baker, Colin Baker (2022)

An alternate version of the Doctor whose Sarah Jane Smith convinced him to touch those two wires in "Genesis of the Daleks". Caught off-guard by an already functional Dalek prototype, the Doctor was brought back to Gallifrey before he could retrieve the Time Ring. When the races of Skaro discovered the Imported Alien Phlebotinum, the Time War came early. Already wounded, the Doctor was given an Elixir of Life to regenerate into a new body to fight in the conflict: the Warrior.

• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In his final story, he becomes the new Key to Time alongside his reality's Davros.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: When he becomes the Key to Time, he becomes aware that he's a fictional character and speaks to the audience, wondering what will become of him when the audio play finishes.
• Composite Character: While he's the Doctor's fifth incarnation, he's a warrior like his N-Space counterpart's ninth incarnation and looks like the Sixth Doctor.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: The Time War is erased from reality, he becomes the Doctor again with a Literal Split Personality getting to resume his adventures with Sarah and Harry.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Fully acknowledges that he's no better than the tyrants he once fought against.
• Literal Split Personality: While the bulk of who he is ascends to become the new Key to Time, a splinter of him is returned to a "Close Enough" Timeline and allowed to resume his travels.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Forgetting his Time Ring on Skaro proved to the Kaleds, Thals and the few already created Daleks that there was hostile alien life in the universe. After they unified, they reverse engineered the Time Ring to fight the Time Lords on equal footing.
• That Man Is Dead: He refuses to identify as the Doctor.
• Took a Level In Jerkass: Deliberately. Then the Time War only made it worse.
• Visions of Another Self: As he ascends, he sees alternate versions of himself known as "The Pilgrim" and "The Wanderer".
• What You Are in the Dark: At the very end of his life and the Time War, the Warrior sheds his title and becomes the Doctor again, choosing to spend his last moments comforting a dying Davros.

Colonel Ross Brimmicombe-Wood

Voiced by: David Tennant (2003, 2005)

A somewhat thuggish soldier who appears in both the UNIT audios and the Alternate Universe audio "Sympathy For The Devil". In the alternate history he becomes head of UNIT after The Brigadier retires. In the UNIT audios, he's a senior UNIT officer {ho's secretly working for ICIS. Most notable for being played by David Tennant (but not Hey, It's That Voice!, because he doesn't sound like the Tenth Doctor at all).

Unbound Universe

• Hair-Trigger Temper: It takes only the barest of things to set him off.
• No Sympathy: All but says he has none for the Master and is only too happy to leave the Time Lord with angry Chinese who would tear him apart.
• The Peter Principle: An adept, if bull-headed, colonel but out of his depth when faced with the Doctor and the Master.

N-Space

• The Mole
• Patriotic Fervor: The bad kind. He hates UNIT because they work for the UN.

Seven Keys to Doomsday

This is a stage production that was later recorded by Big Finish, starring an alternate Doctor.

Jimmy (or Dave) Forbes (Companion of the Alternate Fourth Doctor)

From the stageplay and audio adventure "Seven Keys to Doomsday".

• Agent Scully
• The Danza: Named after James Mathews, who played him in the original stage production. In later stage productions, he was called Dave, but reverted to Jimmy for the audio.
• From Beyond the Fourth Wall: He and Jenny are (supposedly) members of the audience, who answer the on-stage Doctor's call for help and are drawn into his world.

Jenny Wilson (Companion of the Alternate Fourth Doctor)

From the stageplay and audio adventure "Seven Keys to Doomsday".

• Dressing as the Enemy: At one point, she ends up in a Dalek casing, complete with ring-modulated voice.
• From Beyond the Fourth Wall: As for Jimmy.
• Ordinary A-Level student
• Plucky Girl
• You Look Familiar: Played in the original stage production by Wendy Padbury (Zoe).
  • Real Life Relative: To herself, in a sense. In the audio version, she's played by Charlie Hayes — Wendy Padbury's daughter.

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