The Thirteenth Doctor is the main protagonist of series 11 to 13 and the 2022 Specials of revived Doctor Who.
She was portrayed by Jodie Whittaker, the first woman to assume the role.
History[]
Series 11[]
Shortly after regeneration, the Doctor was ejected from the Tardis which teleported away, leaving the Doctor plummeting to Earth. In The Woman Who Fell to Earth, The Doctor crash lands in Sheffield, where she befriends Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin "Yaz" Khan and Grace (Ryan's grandmother) and Graham O'Brien. After losing the sonic screwdriver in the fall, the Doctor makes a new one. The Doctor and her new friends come up against T'zim Sha (whom the Doctor dubs Tim Shaw) a member of the Stenza warrior race, who came to Sheffield to hunt a human trophy. With the help from her friends, the Thirteenth Doctor defeated Tim Shaw, but at the price of Grace's life. Afterwards the Doctor attempts to find the Tardis by using a teleporter, but accidentally takes Ryan, Yaz and Graham with her.
In The Ghost Monument, The Doctor and her friends find out that the Stenza forced scientists on the planet Desolation to make weapons for them. As well as this, the Doctor was taunted over the "Timeless Child". After finding the redecorated TARDIS, the Doctor headed for Sheffield. After a few adventures, where they encountered Rosa Parks, and the corrupt businessman Jack Robertson, the Doctor's friends all agreed to stay with the Doctor. Over the course of their travels, the Doctor helped her new "fam" take on issues with their families, and eventually they faced the vengeful Tzim Sha again. In the New Year's special Resolution the Doctor and her "fam" faced a Recon Scout Dalek that had been buried on Earth for centuries.
Series 12[]
The Doctor discovered her old foe the Master had returned, plaguing the Doctor and Team TARDIS with a plot to wipe out humanity. Furthermore, the Master revealed he destroyed Gallifrey, on the basis of the secret of the Timeless Child, a mysterious and pivotal figure in the birth of the Time Lords. Some time after, the Doctor became involved in a Judoon raid to capture an Earthside fugitive, only to discover the fugitive was a previously unknown incarnation of herself. Shaken by the discovery (neither Doctor remembers the other), the Doctor is further shocked by her companions' meeting Captain Jack Harkness and his warning of the Lone Cyberman.
After dealing with the Praxeus virus, and defeating a pair of immortals, the Doctor took her team to Villa Diodati to meet Mary Shelly and her friends. There, they encountered the Lone Cyberman, who sought the Cyberium to rebuild the Cyber race. Forced to give him the Cyberium to protect history, the Doctor took off after the Cyberman to stop his schemes. Her chase after the Lone Cyberman ultimately draws back to Gallifrey, where the Master greets her and reveals her origin as the Timeless Child and the progenitor of the Time Lord race, and that she worked for a mysterious agency called the Division. With encouragement from her Fugitive self, the Doctor defeated the Master and his CyberMaster creations. Forced to send her companions away, the Doctor managed to get herself arrested by the Judoon.
In the New Year special Revolution of the Daleks, The Doctor is freed by Captain Jack and reunites with Yaz, Ryan and Graham. Together they face the threat of a Defence Drone Daleks created from the Recon Scout, and was forced to bring in Death Squad Daleks to deal with them. The Doctor managed to prevent the Daleks invading Earth, tricking the Death Squad into going into a spare Tardis that folded in on itself. Afterwards, Ryan and Graham decide to return to their normal lives and bid a sad farewell to The Doctor and Yaz, each given psychic paper by The Doctor as parting gifts.
Doctor Who: Flux[]
In Series 13, Flux, The Doctor began looking for answers about the Division, tracking down a surviving former operative, Karvanista. However, the Doctor had a vision of Swarm, an enemy from her forgotten past, and had a brief encounter with Claire, who seemed to recognise them. Joined by Dan Lewis, the Doctor found herself facing the Flux, a force bringing about the end of everything. Managing to survive the Flux's first wave, albeit being brought to the Crimean War, the Doctor found herself separated from Yaz and Dan. The Doctor and Dan both worked independently thwart a Sontaran invasion in two time zones, with the Doctor being aided by Mary Seacole. Afterwards the Doctor and Dan sought out Yaz, and was brought to the Temple of Atropos, where she confronted the Ravagers Swarm and Azure. To save Yaz and Vinder, the Doctor plunged them into their own timestreams, where she was haunted by a Weeping Angel, and began experiencing the Siege of Atropos from her Fugitive self's perspective, but was pulled out before she could get answers.
Shortly after, a Weeping Angel brought the Doctor to Medderton in 1967, where she reencountered Claire and met Professor Jericho. Finding the village under siege from the Angels, the Doctor discovered that Claire was being used as a hiding place by a Rogue Angel, who revealed the Angels in the village worked for the Division. While the Doctor made a bargain with the Rogue Angel, it sold out the Doctor, and she was transformed into an Angel. After being transported to the Division's ship, she discovered the leader of the Division was Tecteun. Disgusted at Tecteun and the Division's actions, the Doctor rejected her. After Tecteun was killed by Swarm, the Doctor was split into three, and the three Doctors, together with her allies, managed to defeat the Sontarans and Grand Serpent, and prevent the final Flux event.
The Doctor continues travelling with Yaz and Dan, encountering vengeful Daleks in a time loop, and Sea Devils in the 19th century, while dealing with her growing awareness of Yaz’s feelings for her. Eventually, the Doctor, Yaz and Dan managed save a train from the CyberMasters, whom managed to escape with what seemed to be a child, and due to the danger he had faced, Den elected to leave them. The Doctor, Yaz, Tegan, Ace and UNIT found themselves involved in the Master's plot to erase the Doctor. After capturing her using a defecting Dalek as bait, the alliance of the Daleks, Cybermen and the Master used the Qurunx, the creature the CyberMasters had captured, to cause her to undergo a forced regeneration into the Master. However, the Thirteenth Doctor survived within her mind scape, and with the aid of her previous selves and her friends, managed to undo the Regeneration. The Doctor and her allies managed to defeat the alliance's plots, and free the Qurunx, but the embittered Master managed to mortally wound her. Holding on long enough to bid farewell to Yaz, the Doctor regenerated looking at a "last sunrise“, wishing luck to her successor.
Personality[]
The Thirteenth Doctor was energetic, excitable and fun-loving, eager to explore the universe and enjoying every moment of her adventures. More so than her previous incarnations, she was a passionate inventor and frequently constructed various devices on her travels. Beneath her friendly exterior, however, the Thirteenth Doctor was deeply secretive, preferring not to talk about her past to her friends unless pressed on the matter, and even then keeping her answers brief.
Quotes[]
| “ | Planet Earth. Seven billion lives. Separate, and connected, from the edge of the atmosphere to the depths of the ocean. | „ |
| ~ The Thirteenth Doctor reflects on humanity, Praxeus. |
| “ | You think you've broken me? You'll have to try harder than that. You've given me a gift. Of myself. You think that could destroy me? You think that makes me lesser? It makes me more. I contain multitudes more than I ever thought or knew. You want me to be scared of it because you're scared of everything. But I am so much more than you. | „ |
| ~ The Doctor to the Master, The Timeless Children. |
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- This is the first Doctor to be a female instead of a male.
- The Thirteenth Doctor loathed being alone. Whenever she dropped off Yaz, Graham and Ryan, she would hop to their next meet up; lying that she had adventures on her own.
- It may be leftover trauma from the 900 years on Trenzalore, as the Eleventh Doctor had to watch everyone he got close to die over and over. The Twelfth had River and guarding Missy to keep him from being too miserable.
- The Thirteenth fully embraced her new gender, finding it fun to try things that her male predecessors couldn't.
- Despite having gotten the fob watch holding her Timeless Child/Pre-numbered Doctor memories, she decided to not take them back and had the TARDIS toss it somewhere deep inside itself. The Flux event just made the idea of remembering who she was before the First Doctor too much to bare; part of the universe had been destroyed by her sociopath adopted mother Tectun just to attempt killing the Doctor out of annoyance that she had been searching for answers about the past.
- Notably, unlike her predecessors, who stole clothes or got them out of the TARDIS, the Thirteenth had hers paid for by Yaz.
- Much like her predecessors, the Thirteenth Doctor is given a fitting fate in her regeneration story. The Doctor saves the Qurunx, who parallels the Timeless Child, due to both being a unique entity being exploited for selfish ends, The Doctor's final act before being mortally wounded is sparing it from the same fate as her original self.
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