Ginger Doctor
"Bored!!"
First appearance: "Gravestone" (2015)
Debut: "BrokenMemories" (2016)
Played by: Creator/Kieran M. Jenkins (2015, 2016-present)
"Now, Barry, you've ssen what I can do with my bearings; imagine if I crack"
The first incarnation of yet a new regeneration cycle of the Renegade Time Lord Extraordinaire, The Doctor.
The happy-go-lucky kid who can inadvertently eradicate a race of extragalactic aubergines out of boredom.
Tropes associated with this Doctor:
- Deadpan Snarker: Oh, incredibly.
- Early Instalment Weirdness: in Gravestone, which is set after the series but was made before its official creation, he doesn't wear his iconic suit, sports a hat and heavy coat, and his character is slightly off.
- Fantastic Racism: Towards humans, Nardole-levels. And of course, as with Nardole, it's Played for Laughs.
- The Fog of Ages: Like all modern Doctors, he can't remember his proper age. On different occasions he gives his age as two thousand years old, or four, or five.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: he can really come off as a pompous jerk most of the time, as he treats all humans very condescendingly (even his companion). He is genuinely enthralled by an apparently unsolvable murder, to the point that his interference eventually causes the murder itself, considers genocide "fun" and declines solving world hunger by the simple reason that "I can't always be there to hold their (mankind's) hand"...and it's all Played for Laughs. He's actually a subversion of this trope, as this is all just a front, as evidenced in Episode 2: "Obsession for Murder". He is seriously depressed, after thousands of years of travelling and loss, and on the inside he's just as broken as his post-Time War incarnations. He also suffers from hallucinating and amnesia, and undoes a murder he accidentally caused just to regain a little bit of his sanity.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Once he's selected it as his official attire, he's never seen without his grey three-piece suit with black tie and white shirt. Well, except when it gets burnt, or he gets stuck two hundred years in the past and loses the outfit in favor of clothes that were seemingly stolen from Steve McQueen (actor) (which he loathes).
Barry Dalton
[[quoteright:241:"What!!"
Debut: "BrokenMemories" (2016)
Played by: Creator/Thomas Rainford (2016-present)
"Don't patronise me; I'm Barry, and I'm nineteen"
The amnesiac companion of the ginger Doctor. Possibly also the only sane man on the TARDIS.
Tropes associated with this guy:
- Badass in Distress: has proven himself at being quite capable of helping out in dangerous situations, and took down an Eldritch Abomination masquerading as a ghost (with some help) in Episode 3. Come Episode 4, he's kidnapped by the henchmen of the Arc Villain, and put through a The Running Man situation. Sure, he gives his captors hell and refuses to play by their rules, but is kidnapped once again and is saved only by the intervention of the Doctor (a past one, however).
- Butt-Monkey: the Doctor's personal one. He doesn't enjoy it.
- Deadpan Snarker: He has to be, to cope with the Doctor.
- Only Sane Man: To the Doctor.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: For the First two episodes he dons a similar suit to the Doctor's own, only black and without a jacket.
- You Look Familiar: In Gravestone, which is possibly set in a distant future of the show proper, the Doctor (already—or still?—played by Kieran Jenkins) meets a Victorian-era couple in which the husband looks very familiar to Barry (they are both played by Thomas Rainford, after all), but no mention of this resemblance comes up. Of course, the character of barry hadn't been written yet, and it's possible that the so-called "Pilot" is set in a parallel universe to that of the Series proper.
