History Characters / DoctorWhoRevivalSeriesCompanions

* BreakTheCutie: "73 Yards" hits her with this hard. [[spoiler: The Doctor disappears, and she's stalked by a mysterious woman who always remains 73 yards away. Anyone who approaches her and acknowledges her parents runs away screaming, clearly terrified. This includes her own mother, who files a restraining order against her, and even Kate and UNIT, depriving her of any help. As a result, she spends the rest of her life holding others at a distance even claiming at the end of her life that she's been abandoned all her life. However, she does make her peace with the figure after a decade or two, even treating the figure in an almost friendly manner.]]

** Also serves as one to Rose Tyler. Both are working class nineteen year olds from 21st century Earth with similar styles, who are central to the story arcs of their first seasons. However, with Ruby this is made explicit at the start, whereas [[spoiler: Rose becoming the Bad Wolf entity]] is the twist in the series finale. Rose has a close, but at times contentious relationship with her birth mother and a father she knows to be deceased, whereas Ruby has a close relationship with her adoptive mother and Grandfather and doesn't know who her birth parents are. Rose is explicitly human and becomes something more towards the end of her debut season, while there's something strange about Ruby from her first episode. Rose began her travels with the Ninth Doctor, first meeting him as a traumatized veteran in the immediate aftermath of the Time War, whereas Ruby begins her travels with the light-hearted and fun-loving Fifteenth Doctor, who benefited greatly from the Fourteenth Doctor's therapeutic retirement. As with Yaz, Rose also had a romantic connection with the Ninth Doctor, which has yet to be echoed with Ruby and 15.

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MillieGibson[[spoiler:, Hillary Hobson[[note]]As her elderly self and, later, the woman who appears throughout "73 Yards".[[/note]]]]

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Serves as one to Yaz. Yaz was a woman of colour who travelled with a blonde white Doctor, while Ruby is a blonde white woman who travelled with the Black Fifteenth Doctor. Both of them ended up joining the Tardis while investigating a strange event, but in Yaz's case the event was brought to her attention through work and strictly alien, whereas in Ruby's case the event directly affected her family and was drawn from fantasy. Thirteen treated Yaz as a close friend while keeping her at a distance, whereas Fifteen is much more openly affectionate towards Ruby, consistently calling her nicknames such as "Babes" and "Honey," and is more willing to bond with her on a deeper level. Finally, Yaz was hinted to harbor romantic feelings for Thirteen - feelings that were later confirmed, and even reciprocated. Despite their playful teasing which occasionally borders on flirting, there's no hint that Ruby and Fifteen have any romantic or sexual attraction towards each other, with Fifteen implied to be gay.
* Also serves as one to Rose Tyler. Both are working class nineteen year olds from 21st century Earth with similar styles, who are central to the story arcs of their first seasons. However, with Ruby this is made explicit at the start, whereas [[spoiler: Rose becoming the Bad Wolf entity]] is the twist in the series finale. Rose has a close, but at times contentious relationship with her birth mother and a father she knows to be deceased, whereas Ruby has a close relationship with her adoptive mother and Grandfather and doesn't know who her birth parents are. Rose is explicitly human and becomes something more towards the end of her debut season, while there's something strange about Ruby from her first episode. Rose began her travels with the Ninth Doctor, first meeting him as a traumatized veteran in the immediate aftermath of the Time War, whereas Ruby begins her travels with the light-hearted and fun-loving Fifteenth Doctor, who benefited greatly from the Fourteenth Doctor's therapeutic retirement. As with Yaz, Rose also had a romantic connection with the Ninth Doctor, which has yet to be echoed with Ruby and 15.

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MillieGibson

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Serves as one to Yaz. Yaz was a woman of colour who travelled with a blonde white Doctor, while Ruby is a blonde white woman who travelled with the Black Fifteenth Doctor. Both of them ended up joining the Tardis while investigating a strange event, but in Yaz's case the event was brought to her attention through work and strictly alien, whereas in Ruby's case the event directly affected her family and was drawn from fantasy. Thirteen treated Yaz as a close friend while keeping her at a distance, whereas Fifteen is much more openly affectionate towards Ruby, consistently calling her nicknames such as "Babes" and "Honey," and is more willing to bond with her on a deeper level. Finally, Yaz was hinted to harbor romantic feelings for Thirteen - feelings that were later confirmed, and even reciprocated. Despite their playful flirting, there's no hint that Ruby and Fifteen have any romantic or sexual attraction towards each other, with Fifteen implied to be gay.

* GeneHunting: She is introduced looking for her birth parents through a genealogy programme. When this fails and she realizes the Doctor is a time traveler, she joins him with the clear intention of getting some answers.

* DrivingQuestion: Centered around her birth: who were her birth parents, and what was going on the night she was born? She's not alien - the genetic tests Davina [=McCall's=] team run don't pick up anything strange, and the TARDIS scan confirms she's ''homo sapiens'' - but [[spoiler:someone or something powerful doesn't seem to want her origins investigated seriously: in "Space Babies", it starts snowing in the space station when the Doctor recalls his encounter with Ruby's birth mother in "The Church on Ruby Road", which the Doctor takes as a warning, and then later inside the TARDIS when he has the old girl run a scan on Ruby. In "The Devil's Chord", Maestro hints that The One Who Waits might have been involved in her being found at the church. In "Boom", Ruby is scanned as being 3082 years old by the Anglican Ambulance, but the context doesn't make it clear if she's ReallySevenHundredYearsOld or if the episode is set in 5087 and it's simply counting chronologically from her birth year of 2004.]]

* DrivingQuestion: Centered around her birth: who were her birth parents, and what was going on the night she was born? She's not alien - the genetic tests Davina [=McCall's=] team run don't pick up anything strange, and the TARDIS scan confirms she's ''homo sapiens'' - but [[spoiler:someone or something powerful doesn't seem to want her origins investigated seriously: in "Space Babies", it starts snowing in the space station when the Doctor recalls his encounter with Ruby's birth mother in "The Church on Ruby Road", which the Doctor takes as a warning, and then later inside the TARDIS when he has the old girl run a scan on Ruby. In "The Devil's Chord", Maestro hints that The One Who Waits might have been involved in her being found at the church. In "Boom", Ruby is revealed to actually be 3082 years old when scanned by the Anglican Ambulance.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:She's physically 20, but "Boom" reveals that her actual age is 3082 years.]]
** [[spoiler:It's possible that the Ambulance was recording her age against her birth year of 2004. If you add 3082 years onto 2004 you'd end up in the 51st Century, which corresponds to other episodes featuring the Cleric Marines (such as "A Good Man Goes to War" or "The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone").]]

** She bears a lot of similarities to Rose Tyler: Both are young, blonde British women who become companions to The Doctor and have "R" names associated with the color red. The biggest difference is that Rose was just an ordinary Londoner, while something mysterious is clearly going on with Ruby.

* HatesBeingNicknamed: Played for laughs. In "Space Babies" she's more disgusted at The Doctor calling her Rubes than in being covered in an (at the time) unknown slime.

->''"It's taking me all this time to realize what I'm meant to do. I'm going to save the world."''

** [[spoiler:Its possible that the Ambulance was recording her age against her birth year of 2004. If you add 3082 years onto 2004 you'd end up in the 51st Century, which corresponds to other episodes featuring the Cleric Marines (such as "A Good Man Goes to War" or "The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone").]]

* DrivingQuestion: Centered around her birth: who were her birth parents, and what was going on the night she was born? She's not alien - the genetic tests Davina [=McCall's=] team run don't pick up anything strange, and the TARDIS scan confirms she's ''homo sapiens'' - but [[spoiler:someone or something powerful doesn't seem to want her origins investigated seriously: in "Space Babies", it starts snowing in the space station when the Doctor recalls his encounter with Ruby's birth mother in "The Church on Ruby Road", which the Doctor takes as a warning, and then later inside the TARDIS when he has the old girl run a scan on Ruby. In "The Devil's Chord", Maestro hints that The One Who Waits might have been involved in her being found at the church.]]

* DoorstepBaby: Was left by the door of a church as a baby.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Her attempts at rescuing Lulubelle ends with her dangling from a ladder hanging above the city. Notably, even The Doctor calls her out on this.

* Trekkie: Downplayed, but she's familiar enough with the show that she draws comparison between The Tardis and Star Trek.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Her attempts at rescuing Ruby ends with her dangling from a ladder hanging above the city. Notably, even The Doctor calls her out on this.

* {{Expy}}: She bears a lot of similarities to Rose Tyler: Both are young, blonde British women who become companions to The Doctor and have "R" names associated with the color red. The biggest difference is that Rose was just an ordinary Londoner, while something mysterious is clearly going on with Ruby.

* RetGone: Briefly happens to her during "The Church on Ruby Road" when the goblins go back and kidnap her as a baby before she can be found by the priest, the change in the timeline making things much worse for everyone around her. The Doctor is the only one who remembers her thanks to having RippleEffectProofMemory and goes back himself to rescue her and [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong fix the timeline]].

* [[spoiler:AmbiguouslyHuman]]: [[spoiler: An odd case, in that a DNA test in her debut episode makes it clear that Davina McCall couldn't find her birth parents, but shows no surprise at the results. The Doctor's scan of her in Space Babies likewise shows her species as homo sapiens. Regardless, there's certainly something odd about her. On several occasions, it begins snowing around her, even indoors, and Maestro even hints that The One Who Waits was involved in her being found at the church.]]

** He ends up being the white passenger who Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for, which he's understandably not too happy about.