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[[folder:The Old Woman (Unmarked Spoilers Ahead)]]
!!The Old Woman (Fifteenth Doctor)
->'''Played by:''' Hilary Hobson
An enigmatic figure that appears before Ruby after the Doctor breaks a fairy circle. She always stays precisely 73 yards away from Ruby and anyone who interacts with her runs away in terror.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: The woman, even if she is Ruby's future self, can teleport to wherever Ruby is, never sleeps or eats, doesn't show up as anything but a blur on photos (even on UNIT's high-tech cameras), and causes anyone who talks to her to run away screaming and refuse to speak to Ruby again. Even when Ruby's mother gets close enough to describe her, all she can say is "She looks like what she looks like [...] She looks like what she is."
* AmbiguousSituation: After her episode aired, popular opinion is that the old woman was actually Ruby's future self coming to warn her. This is at odds with future Ruby having a different actress and being able to sporadically travel back in time, along with the repeated timeline being altered as soon as future Ruby arrives. This raises the possibility that the old woman is a completely different time traveller who was setting Ruby up to take her place.
* TheDreaded: The woman turns Ruby into this for anyone who speaks to her.
* GoodAllAlong: Ruby understandably fears her thanks to appearing right after the Doctor vanished and driving away her loved ones. It turns out she's actually guiding Ruby towards stabilising the future.
* RiddleForTheAges: What exactly did she say to make all those people run away?
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The woman has this effect on people, causing them to completely run away and/or abandon Ruby and only cryptically say "Ask her!" when begged for a reason. Roger ap Gwilliam resigns as Prime Minister and seemingly becomes a recluse after Ruby manipulates him into talking to her.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Ruby meets the old woman one last time in her 80s, during which she's teleported to the exact time and location where they first spotted each other. Ruby then realises she's taken the woman's place and uses this gift to save the Doctor from breaking the fairy circle.
* TheUnreveal: Her FaceRevealingTurn in her final appearance is obscured by the flickering lights, though it's implied Ruby got a glimpse of her true face right before being spirited away.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: While the Not-Things themselves are one-off villains, the Doctor's interactions with them are implied to have changed the law of the universe itself; namely, by convincing them they can't cross a line of salt. This violation of the laws of existence single-handedly caused the ripple effect that shifts the series from being mostly sci-fi to intentional FantasyCreep, which allows reality-warping beings like [[spoiler: the Toymaker and his children]] to be released, and forces UNIT to adapt their techniques to include strategies more akin to folk lore and thaumaturgy than hard science.
