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Companions

    Kevin 

Kevin (Eleventh Doctor)

One of the stranger companions to grace the TARDIS, Kevin is a giant animatronic replica of a Tyrannosaurus rex who travelled with the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams.


  • Awesome, but Impractical: As cool as it sounds on paper, travelling with a realistically proportioned robot Tyrannosaur proves to be completely impractical for a number of reasons. For one, he's too large to fit through the TARDIS doors without the Doctor expanding the exterior dimensions. He can't blend into the vast majority of locales the TARDIS travels to without generating panic. His arms are too small to operate any kind of machinery. Lastly, his fearsome visage causes most aliens and monsters to run away, making adventures more boring for the other companions.
  • Big Damn Heroes: He appears at the last minute to save the day on a few occasions, most notably from the Sontarans and later from a giant space squid.
  • Classically-Trained Extra: He's actually a talented actor, so he finds his designated role as a fake T. rex at a holiday resort to be restrictive. He travels with the Doctor to find a better role in life.
  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Kevin resents the fact that everybody judges his outward appearance and desperately wishes to find a meaningful purpose. He eventually finds one by becoming chief of security at Nebula Base space station.
  • Kaiju: The locals mistake him for one when he arrives in Japan.
  • My Instincts Are Showing: Not that he's particularly good at blending into any scenario, but his first adventure saw him lose control due to a temporal rift and start acting like an actual T. rex.
  • Powered Armor: The Doctor builds Kevin a cyborg exoskeleton with an extra set of longer, more opposable arms.

    Ally 

Ally (Eleventh Doctor)

A nerdy young girl from a parallel universe in which Doctor Who is just a television show. One day, she encounters the real Eleventh Doctor and helps him track down a Cyberman before he goes back to his own dimension.


  • I'm Your Biggest Fan: To the Doctor, obviously. Though she also meets Matt Smith at a convention, which is where things get a bit confusing.
  • Nerd Glasses: In case you didn't get the signs that she's a massive Doctor Who geek.
  • Refugee from TV Land: The Doctor is one in this scenario, and Ally becomes his temporary companion as he tries to find a way back to his home universe.
  • Self-Insert Fic: Invoked. The plot of her debut comic story is a pretty standard "real life Doctor Who fangirl meets the Doctor and becomes his companion" fanfiction narrative.
  • The Watson: She asks the Doctor the sort of trivial questions most real life fans would endeavour to ask if they could meet him, such as whether or not Sarah Jane Smith is still alive in the Doctor Who universe after Elisabeth Sladen's tragic passing, how the Doctor perceives the cheap rubber-suit monsters from the Classic era, etc.

Villains

    Hooded Figure (Prisoners of Time) 

Adam Mitchell (First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors)

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The villain in Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time. Actually Adam Mitchell in disguise, seeking revenge against the Doctor for abandoning him on Earth.
  • Alas, Poor Villain: He seeks revenge against the Doctor for preventing his attempt to save his mother from terminal illness. This was originally meant to be part of Adam's motivation in stealing the information from the future in "The Long Game", but it was omitted in favour of making Adam look more selfish. Here, he has an understandable reason for hating the Doctor. The Doctor comes to sympathise with him and honours his redemptive sacrifice with a proper burial.
  • Big Bad: The main villain of a large multi-Doctor event.
  • Black Cloak: Wears one to conceal his identity.
  • The Bus Came Back: Few were expecting Adam Mitchell to be the Hooded Figure's true identity, as he disappeared after only two stories in Series 1 of the television show.
  • Death by Adaptation: Whether or not this is Adam's true fate is up to you.
  • Death Equals Redemption: After Adam gives his life to save the Doctor's incarnations and their companions, they bury him and erect a memorial gravestone in the shape of the TARDIS that reads: "Adam Mitchell: A Companion True".
  • Evil Former Friend: For a given definition of "friend".
  • Evil Makes You Ugly: The years have not been kind to Adam. His haggard, aged appearance is completely unrecognisable as the handsome young man from the TV show.
  • Face–Heel Turn/Heel–Face Turn: Enraged because the Ninth Doctor kicked him out of the TARDIS for stealing information about future technology that could have saved his dying mother from illness, a detail that was omitted from the script of "The Long Game". However, he was at fault for being dishonest with the Doctor, who could have arranged something to stop this death from coming to pass (as he would later do for Miranda Cleaves). Adam later discovers that the Master is so insane that he would willingly wipe out the universe, which causes a change of heart.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: The older Adam has a change of heart when the Master attempts to finish out their evil plan and allows himself to be killed to stop it.
  • In the Hood: It's in the name.
  • Walking Spoiler: His real identity is a huge blindsider.

Alternative Title(s): Doctor Who Prisoners Of Time

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