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John Smith is a minor but significant character in Doctor Who, serving as the main protagonist of the novel Human Nature, and it's TV adaptation Human Nature/The Family of Blood. He is the human identity of the Doctor, with his name being taken from his main alias, who acts as a teacher in pre World War I England, whose simple life would become irreversibly disrupted when aliens seeking the Doctor's Time Lord DNA invade.
He is portrayed by David Tennant.
History[]
According to the mini-sode Shadow of a Doubt the story of Human Nature, and thus of John Smith occurred multiple times in different ways.
Virgin New Adventures[]
The Seventh Doctor decided to take on a human identity after Bernice Summerfield lost the Medival Knight Guy de Carnac, who she had fallen in love with, due to being unable to connect with her grief on a human level. John Smith was a Scotsman who supposedly came from Aberdeen. He taught history, specifically that of the Bronze Age, at Hulton College in Farringham, Norfolk.
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Doctor Who[]
The Tenth Doctor takes on the identity of John Smith in Human Nature due to being pursued by the Family of Blood, who wish to use his Time Lord DNA to extend their lives. He uses a Time Lord device, the Chameleon Arch, to transform his biology, entrusting his companion Martha Jones to look after his essence, stored in a fobwatch, and the TARDIS creating a history and setting for John. According to these faked memories, John was born in the 1880s to Sydney and Verity. He was raised in the Radford Parade district of Nottingham, on Broadmarsh Street. The Smith family retained a maid, Martha Jones, who continued to serve John after his parents' deaths. John received an excellent classical education and became a schoolteacher himself. He studied art in Ireland, in an area known as "Gallifrey".
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Gallery[]
_kisses_Joan_Redfern.jpeg "John Smith (Tenth Doctor) kisses Joan Redfern.jpeg (336 KB)")
Trivia[]
- The name John Smith, as of 2013, is now an unintentional Easter egg in the list of actors who play the Doctor
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