Heather McCrimmon Heather McCrimmon was an early 21st century history student who was a descendant of Jamie McCrimmon . Heather accompanied the Tenth Doctor in his journeys through time and space ; for a portion of their time together Heather and the Doctor were joined by Wolfgang Ryter Biography . Early life . Heather was born in 1990 . ( COMIC : " The Chromosome Connection " ) When she was eight , Heather was a fan of " Unattended Article " . She saw them on television but never live . ( COMIC : " We Will Rock You " ) When Heather received her driving license , her dad took her to his company ' s car park to learn to drive . ( COMIC : " The Secret Army " ) Heather was present at the wedding of her cousin and thought it was a disaster . ( COMIC : " The Ball and Chain Gang " ) Heather worked in a supermarket as a summer job . ( COMIC : " Store Wars " ) Heather once went potholing with some college friends . ( COMIC : " The Abomination Game " ) By 2009 , Heather was studying history at the University of Edinburgh . ( COMIC : " The Chromosome Connection " ) Meeting the Doctor . In 2009 , ( COMIC : " The Chromosome Connection " ) on a day when she had free periods all afternoon , ( COMIC : " Dead - line " ) Heather visited the Edinburgh Catacomb Experience with her best friends Suze and Rob . In the Edinburgh catacombs , Heather became separated from her friends after she witnessed a temporal echo of Great - Great - Great Grandmother McCrimmon being chased by the Mozhtratta . The Tenth Doctor found Heather shortly afterwards and explained what she had witnessed . Using his sonic screwdriver , the Doctor determined that Heather had traces of both vortex energy and the Mozhtratta in her DNA . The Doctor determined that he needed Heather ' s help to deal with the Mozhtratta . He took her to his TARDIS - which was parked in the Edinburgh catacombs - and together they travelled to the Edinburgh High Street in 1815 . Heather used the trace of the Mozhtratta in her DNA to weaken the Mozhtratta of this era while the Doctor helped Heather ' s ancestor overcome the Mozhtratta . Through this short adventure , Heather saw the potential benefits of travelling with the Doctor . She asked if she could come with him . The Doctor said yes , saying that for a history student travelling with him would be an " extended field trip " . ( COMIC : " The Chromosome Connection " ) Travelling with the Doctor . Early adventures . One of the first locations Heather visited with the Doctor was London in an era when the Galactic Council had jurisdiction over Earth . The Doctor landed the TARDIS in the English Channel , so he and Heather had to put on diving suit s to exit the ship . Through a bit of exploration , Heather and the Doctor discovered that London - and the rest of Earth - had been flooded by the Spaeron shoal . They met the Spaeron in the House of Commons and learned that Harris was planning on wiping out all of the Spaeron . After a bit of negotiation , the Doctor and Heather took the Spaeron away from Earth using the TARDIS and gave them a new home on Kerun Za ( COMIC : " The Aquarius Condition " ) in the 29th Galaxy . ( COMIC : " Sea - Rah " ) Heather and the Doctor visited Podworld and discovered that thousands of the planet ' s human residents had been living malnourished lives for 20 years without the assistance of their Servobot s . They journeyed to Podworld ' s mayor , Maya De La Grotzka , and convinced her to help the starving residents of Podworld . ( COMIC : " Glum Culture " ) Heather got the Doctor to drop her off at her house in 2009 so that she could grab some more clothing to wear during their travels . After encountering her mother , Heather returned to the Doctor , who was uncovering a plot by the Cran to steal Earth ' s raincloud s . Heather and the Doctor boarded the Cran ship and disarmed the Cran by channeling lightning from the clouds they were stealing . They then brought the Cran to the Shadow Proclamation . In direct response to having an adventure involving a rainy day , ( COMIC : " The Great Rain Robbery " ) the Doctor took Heather to see the four sun s of Delquis . However , they found that Delquis was being attacked by the fiery birds of Parrion . Heather and the Doctor visited both the Shell Judge of Delquis and the Parrian Prince . Upon learning that the Parrian Prince intended the birds to be a romantic gesture , the Doctor and Heather helped repair the damage the birds had done to the Prince ' s relationship with the Shell Judge by getting the Prince to make the birds repair all the damage they had done to Delquis . ( COMIC : " The Parrian Proposal " ) Heather and the Doctor were drawn to Machu Picchu in 1911 when Incasaur s attempted to escape from a parallel universe to N - Space through a temporal cataclysm . They worked together to make a neutron loop in Machu Picchu to clean up the temporal cataclysm , but at the last minute the loop was disturbed by Hiram Bingham . With the loop broken , the Incasaur empire came through to the prime universe . Heather and the Doctor were captured by the Incasaurs . History was put back on track when the prime Hiram Bingham touched hands with an alternate Hiram Bingham from the Incasaur universe , causing a massive temporal discharge . ( COMIC : " Hitching Point " ) The Doctor took Heather to the Waltox Worldstore , to purchase some zongaberry jam , only to find that the computerised facilities of the supermarket believed Earth to be a competitor and were threatening to destroy it . Heather used her experience working at a supermarket to distract the robots running the Worldstore so that the Doctor could get to the computer room and alter the computer ' s behaviour . ( COMIC : " Store Wars " ) Heather and the Doctor landed in a sinking IXD2 U - Boat on 14 September 1944 , during the Battle of the Atlantic . Krigge suspected them of being British spies , but the Doctor was able to gain the trust of Captain Otto Lehman . The Doctor wanted to save the crew of the U - Boat , but Heather was reluctant because they were Nazi s . The Doctor was able to convince her otherwise by arguing that the crew had just as much a right to live as any other humans and that even after repairing the U - Boat ' s damage it was highly unlikely that the U - Boat would be able to rejoin with German forces . Heather and the Doctor left the U - Boat after the leak was fixed , leaving it to be captured by the HMS Worthy . ( COMIC : " The Submariners " ) The TARDIS duo visited Broadway in 2018 to see Wayne Rooney ' s musical adaptation of " Bleak House " . After the show , they noticed some members of the NYPD being possessed by agents of the Gavulav . The Doctor and Heather followed these agents to Wall Street and found that the Gavulav was trying to steal all of Earth ' s money with the Liquidation Worm . Heather disguised herself in a hard hat and bright yellow coat and distracted the Gavulav while the Doctor used a computer virus to take down the Worm and block the Gavulav ' s mind control . The Gavulav was then defeated by all the people it had possessed . ( COMIC : " The Greed of Gavulav " ) While parked in the Empty Nebula , the TARDIS was attacked by large green tentacled creatures and the Doctor was rendered unconscious . Heather left the TARDIS and attempted to negotiate with the creatures , but they thought she was a spy and they tried to eat her . The Doctor woke up in the nick of time and used the TARDIS ' dimensional control to rescue Heather and prevent the creatures from attacking the Empire of Whap . ( COMIC : " The Secret Army " ) The Doctor took Heather to Flexella to meet Professor Vexor . While there , they took the Silver Bullet through the Fluxos Desert . The train ride contained several alien experiences for Heather : she encountered ZX29 , tried Nebuloid mud - clam chowder , and had a misunderstanding with a Flexellan octopod . ( COMIC : " The Silver Bullet " ) While visiting Mohaga , Heather caught a retro - photonic virus which made her invisible . The Doctor took her to InFECT , where she was examined by Aldrin Strykt . Strykt determined that the virus was draining Heather ' s energy . The Doctor quickly recovered a cure for the virus from the Mohagan Horde ; while he was gone Heather contaminated the entire staff of InFECT , turning them all invisible . The Doctor returned with the cure and made everyone visible again . ( COMIC : " The Invisibles " ) Heather and the Doctor landed in an old people ' s home in space when it was under attack by Meerkat and Crab pirate s and witnessed the elderly inhabitants of the home defeat the pirates . ( COMIC : " Good Old Days " ) Heather and the Doctor went climbing on the Mountain of Death on a planet home to the Abomination Game . They journeyed inside the mountain and got past numerous deadly traps - some of which involved lava , robot guardians , and sharpened wood en stick s - to reach the vault of treasure at the mountain ' s centre . In the vault , they found a computer which controlled the Abomination Game and shut it down so that nobody else could be killed by the Game . ( COMIC : " The Abomination Game " ) The TARDIS brought Heather and the Doctor to Tranquility when the planet was being torn apart by a doomsday weapon from its prehistory . They met a group of the Bereft and helped them reach a safe zone . A Tactical Response and Offensive Leveller almost prevented the Bereft from crossing a light bridge to reach the safe zone , but Heather and the Doctor boarded it and took control . They piloted the T . R . O . L . to an ancient bunker at the core of Tranquility , where they learned why the planet was being torn apart and reset the planet ' s defence shield . ( COMIC : " T . R . O . L . " ) Heather and the Doctor landed on the USS Cyclops while it was sailing into the Bermuda Triangle in 1918 . Heather rescued the Doctor after he was found by Worley and locked in the hull of the ship . When the Cyclops entered the Triangle , it was attacked by a Rutan Octopod . Heather helped the crew of the ship fend off the Octopod by throwing manganese ore at it . While they did save the ship from the Octopod , the Doctor and Heather knew that the Cyclops was fated to disappear during its voyage through the Triangle ; they left the ship so as to not interfere with history . ( COMIC : " Cyclops " ) The Doctor tried to take Heather to the grand reopening of the Crystal Palace on 10 June 1854 , but he accidentally took her to the Palace on the day it burned down : ( COMIC : " The Crystal Palace " ) 30 November 1936 . ( COMIC : " The Eagle of the Reich " , PROSE : " Tomorrow ' s Fish and Chips " ) Heather and the Doctor walked in on negotiations between General Stoker and the Dominion Sisterhood . The Sisterhood had convinced Stoker to use military resources to build an Atomic Event Extender in the palace . Stoker believed the Extener to be a weapon which could be used in global warfare , but it was actually designed to free Victumas from the Antimatter Realm . Heather witnessed Victumas manifest herself in the Palace through the Extender . The Doctor defeated Victumas at the cost of causing the Palace to go down in flames . ( COMIC : " The Crystal Palace " ) While sightseeing at the tomb of Ashgar on Kroul , Heather and the Doctor encountered the benevolent spirit of Ashgar . ( COMIC : " The Spirit of Ashgar " ) The Doctor and Heather were drawn to the Monster Idol auditions on Space Station Apple Theta . While the Doctor joined the show ' s panel of judges , Heather went behind the scenes and investigated the dressing rooms . She got inside the room of the King and Queen of Meritoria and discovered the real King and Queen lying unconscious . Realising that the " King " and " Queen " on the panel of judges were impostors , Heather pulled her jumper over her head and held a plunger to make herself look like a monster to get onto Monster Idol . Once in front of the judges , Heather revealed herself and told the Doctor what she had found . Heather then tackled the impostor King and Queen , keeping them in place until law enforcers arrived . ( COMIC : " Monster Idol " ) Following a signal to Earth in 1969 , Heather and the Doctor found a stray Slakken Cat being hunted by the Hunter . After the Doctor proved to the Hunter that Slakken Cats were not dangerous , Heather and the Doctor travelled to Slakken with the Hunter and the Cat and freed all the Slakken Cats . ( COMIC : " The Slakken Cat " ) Heather and the Doctor responded to a distress signal from G - DELTA17 and encountered ByteMite s . ( COMIC : " Code Freeze " ) The day after they encountered a Slitheen on the Gherkin , the Doctor told Heather that he had lost his sonic screwdriver . Returning to London to try to find it , Heather and the Doctor found that the city was in a bubble of silence caused by a cancellation wave from the screwriver . Heather saved a little boy from being hit by a truck he couldn ' t hear . She joined the Doctor in Agnes Hardcastle ' s flat at Jubilee Court after the Doctor found the screwdriver there and had gotten Agnes to turn off the cancellation wave . Agnes handed the screwdriver over to Heather . ( COMIC : " Hear No Evil " ) When the interior of the TARDIS was warped by a time sickness , Heather and the Doctor were chased through the rooms of the TARDIS by three vicious gigantic chick s . Heather and the Doctor came to the TARDIS control room , where the Doctor cured the time sickness with his sonic screwdriver . ( COMIC : " Terror in the TARDIS " ) Heather got the Doctor to take her back to the University of Edinburgh so that she could attend the Summer Ball . However , the ball was interrupted by a Gumpii attempting to conquer Earth with a group of Kulgaris under her control . The Doctor defeated the Gumpii and made the Kulgaris explode , covering Heather in their purple innards . ( COMIC : " The Ball and Chain Gang " ) Heather was brought to Uriel along with the Doctor and the TARDIS when the planet was pulled together by a memory collective . Because - unlike the Doctor and the TARDIS - Heather had never been to Uriel before , she became covered in catalytic atomic residue . The glowing residue guided Heather to the memory collective . The residue allowed her to touch the collective and turn it off , preventing everyone that had ever visited Uriel from being dragged back to the planet . ( COMIC : " The Memory Collective " ) With the help of the private detective Jake Krumb , Heather and the Doctor tracked down a Blue Star bomb in 1938 Los Angeles . They found the bomb inside Esmerelda Krumb , Jake ' s mother . ( COMIC : " The Blue Star Bomb " ) With Wolfie . While using a bassophone to trace the sub - woofer warble of a Giurgeax at an Earth airport , Heather and the Doctor caught the attention of a young alien conspiracist named Wolfgang Ryter . Heather and the Doctor were almost consumed by the Giurgeax , but they were saved by Wolfie . Wolfie had missed his flight back to Salzburg because of the rescue ; this prompted Heather to ask the Doctor to invite Wolfie with them in the TARDIS . ( COMIC : " Flight of the Giurgeax " ) For Wolfie ' s first trip in the TARDIS , the Doctor brought Heather and him to a Stario Glowvit performance . During the performance , it was found out that the Stario on stage was a robot and that the real Stario was disguised in the crowd . ( COMIC : " Starstruck " ) Heather , the Doctor , and Wolfgang visited Edinburgh University ; in Heather ' s personal timeline it had been many months since she was last there . They found the whole campus addicted to the Tesseract . Heather tried to talk to her friends Rob and Suze , but found that they were too focused on their Tesseracts . The TARDIS trio found that the Bacothormeon was responsible for the Tesseracts . The Bacothormeon ' s intelligence was drained by the Doctor . After meeting up with UNIT ; the Doctor , Heather , and Wolfie took the Bacothormeon to its homeplanet . ( COMIC : " The Genius Trap " ) During an afternoon at a beach , Heather left the Doctor and Wolfie to get some ice cream from an ice cream van . While she was gone , the Octron began their invasion of Earth by the water . The Octron caused a dangerous sandstorm which reached the ice cream van ; Heather helped people get into the van to escape the storm . She then directed the ice cream van down to the beach , where she found the Doctor . The Doctor used the ice cream making technology in the van to defeat the Octron . ( COMIC : " The Rising Tide " ) The Doctor brought Heather and Wolfie to the mysterious Lurbos 3 , where they found a field of sleeping explorers . Heather was bitten by the same Dream Sucker which had attacked the other explorers , putting her in a deep sleep . The Doctor and Wolfie dealt with the Sucker while she slept . Heather woke up with the rest of the victims of the Sucker . ( COMIC : " Sweet Dreams " ) On Yellan , Heather was sucked up by a tentacled creature which created inferior duplicates of her . The Doctor and Wolfie easily saw that the duplicates weren ' t Heather because the duplicates did not have functioning brain s . The Doctor dived into the mouth of the creature and found Heather ; together they swam to the TARDIS - which had also been eaten - and used it to travel outside the creature to where Wolfie was . ( COMIC : " Copycat " ) The TARDIS trio visited Carnaby Street in 1967 . Heather used this as an opportunity to shop for miniskirt s . However , the shopping spree was interrupted when the Vaipid covered Earth in a shroud of misery - inducing gas . Heather , Wolfie , and the Doctor used the TARDIS to get to the Vaipid ship above Earth and get them to stop . ( COMIC : " Shadow of the Vaipid " ) Heather , Wolfie , and the Doctor visited the base of the 1920s America n gangster Fat Eddie , where they saw that Eddie and his men were in a turf war with the Sidewinder Syndicate . Heather disguised herself with a trenchcoat , sunglasses , a fedora and took on the alias " Big Jock McCrimmon " in order to distract the Syndicate with Wolfie - who was similarly disguised . Heather and Wolfie came to the front entrance of J . Python Snake Oil Sales , the base of the Syndicate , and attracted the attention of the Syndicate while the Doctor came in through the building ' s back door and fixed the Syndicate ' s navi - pod . Now having a working spaceship , the Syndicate fled Earth after a short conversation with the Doctor . ( COMIC : " Snakes Alive ! " ) Heather , the Doctor , and Wolfie met Bigfoot and discovered that it was a Blivariox lost on the way to its wedding . They got Bigfoot to the hyper - church on time . ( COMIC : " Lucky Heather " ) When the TARDIS landed on McKendrick ' s scavenger ship orbiting Adamas , Heather and Wolfie split up from the Doctor to explore . They found a box of anti - gravity yoyo s and an Adamasian in stasis . The Adamasian broke out and chased Heather and Wolfie to where the Doctor and McKendrick were . The Doctor lured the Adamasian to an airlock and got it to be sucked out of the ship . The airlock wasn ' t closed fast enough and the Doctor was also expelled from the ship . Heather and Wolfie got McKendrick to save the Doctor with a tractor beam by threatening to break McKendrick ' s salvaged items . ( COMIC : " The Sparkling Planet " ) Trying to get Wolfie to Salzburg , the TARDIS trio arrived in a medieval Europe an forest home to a cyborb slave . The Doctor used his screwdriver to make the cyborb friendly . Learning that the cyborb was working for Vladula of Castle Wraith , a plan was concocted to get inside Castle Wraith by having Heather pretend to be the cyborb ' s prisoner . The cyborb brought Heather inside the castle on its shoulder and placed her before Vladula . Very shortly afterwards , the cyborb rebelled against Vladula and Heather got out of the building to avoid the conflict . After Vladula fled ; Heather , the Doctor , and Wolfie watched as the cyborb became friends with a group of local villagers . ( COMIC : " The Curse of Vladula " ) Heather , the Doctor , and Wolfie visited the Whirling Wormhole of Wolverhampton in 1457 . ( COMIC : " Lucky Heather " ) The Doctor brought Heather and Wolfie to the home of the Brunswick family in 1880 London . The Brunswicks had been trapped in a photo and replaced by energy creature s from the Scree Dimension . While the Doctor wasn ' t looking , the creatures did just the same to Heather and Wolfie . The Doctor dealt with the creatures and freed Heather , Wolfie , and the Brunswicks . ( COMIC : " Photo Finish " ) Heather , the Doctor , and Wolfie spent a night in 21st century London tracking down a Gruutis . After finding the Gruutis , Heather suggested that they visit her aunt Jen before returning to the TARDIS . On the train ride to Jen ' s place , Heather and the Doctor noticed that everyone else on the train - Wolfgang included - was in a mindless trance . Heather and the Doctor went into the next carriage and found that a scientist was harnessing the electrical brain impulses of the passengers into limitless energy to power the train , making it go faster than the speed of light . The Doctor knew that a train breaking the light barrier within Earth ' s gravity well would be catastrophic , so he stopped the experiment . ( COMIC : " Brain Train " ) After the Doctor lost his shoe s on a volcano planet , the TARDIS trio came to a store on Earth for the Doctor to get new shoes . However , all the shoes at the store were robot shoe s planted there by the Rhastis . When the Doctor started being controlled by his shoes , Heather used setting 1042 of the sonic screwdriver to deactivate the shoes . The Doctor , Heather , and Wolfie then went to the shopping centre ' s security room and used the machinery to block the Rhastis signal . The Doctor negotiated with the Rhastis and convinced them to leave Earth . ( COMIC : " Foot Soldiers " ) Heather , the Doctor , and Wolfie visited Angkor Wat during its construction in 1135 . The Doctor and Heather wanted to go back to the TARDIS to hop forward a few decades and see the finished Angkor Wat , but Wolfie was attracted to an Aztlan Bio - casket and possessed by Lychaos . After the Doctor failed to save Wolfie , Heather approached Lychaos and helped Wolfie overcome the possession by asking Lychaos to remember all the fun he had travelling in the TARDIS . Wolfie returned to normal , but he was traumatised by the incident . Heather and the Doctor dropped Wolfie off at his home in Salzburg . Heather wiped a tear from her eye as she and the Doctor walked into the TARDIS to leave . ( COMIC : " Bad Wolfie " ) Further adventures with just the Doctor . Heather and the Doctor visited Luminous when it was being invaded by creatures that fed on solar energy . The Doctor increased the lighting levels of the TARDIS console room in order to attract all the creatures to the TARDIS . Heather and the Doctor then deposited the creatures at a star . ( COMIC : " City of Light " ) A trip to Edinburgh in 2009 took an extraterrestrial turn when all of Earth was covered in a terrainographical projection . Instead of visiting her friends Rob and Suze , Heather came with the Doctor to the Murcher Moon . Heather and the Doctor met the Murchalago s and helped them use their projection technology to fend off the Seebee s . ( COMIC : " The Guardian of Murcher " ) The Doctor took Heather to Hirnaltaan Tower , the tallest building in the galaxy , on the day of its grand opening . When the party was attacked by Acrylamide Assassin s , Heather and the Doctor followed the assassins to Vawn and Blubb . The Doctor deduced that Blubb had hired the assassins to attack the party and damage the structure of the tower . The assassins escaped , but Blubb was arrested by the Judoon . ( COMIC : " Night of the Burnt Toast " ) Heather and the Doctor followed a distress signal to the Nurburr Asteroid and found that Watnul , the asteroid ' s sole inhabitant , had been hearing what he thought to be a ghost . They discovered that Watnul had been hearing a robot which had built itself using materials in the asteroid . ( COMIC : " The Ghost Factory " ) On Sky City in the 453rd century , Heather was mistakenly arrested for being an associate of the Anti - Antigravity Activists and kept in a cell in Detention Area 51 . The Doctor met up with the AAA and negotiated an understanding between them and Sky City . Heather was freed with the other suspected activists . ( COMIC : " Skydive ! " ) Heather and the Doctor became stranded in a European forest in an era when highwaymen were common . They witnessed Lady Harrington - Fletcher being robbed by a robot disguised as a highwayman . The Doctor reprogrammed the robot ; the robot led Heather , the Doctor , and Lady H to its owner , a Cyrronak . Heather , the Doctor , and Lady H distracted a local mob from attacking the Cyrronak ship as it booted up and escaped Earth . ( COMIC : " Highway Robbery " ) While the TARDIS was drifting through space , Heather noticed a small white planet and asked the Doctor to pilot the TARDIS to it . They found that the planet was covered in the living silk of a large spider . Duplicates of the Doctor and Heather formed from the silk and attempted to wrap the Doctor and Heather in web . Heather and the Doctor were able to escape by covering themselves in the slime that the silk worshipped . ( COMIC : " Doomsilk " ) The Doctor brought Heather to a planet in the 208th century to visit " a fantastic museum " . While they were at the museum , the TARDIS was stolen by Ronnu Thanjess and put into his used spaceship yard . By the time Heather and the Doctor got to the yard , the TARDIS had been bought by Ludo Farltrati . Knowing that Farltrati wouldn ' t be able to get the TARDIS to work , Heather and the Doctor disguised as mechanic s and came into Farltrati ' s warehouse to " fix " the ship . When Farltrati and Thanjess came into the TARDIS to see how the " repairs " were going , the Doctor dematerialised the ship to a local prison where both Thanjess and Farltrati were arrested . Directly after leaving the prison , ( COMIC : " One Careful Owner " ) Heather and the Doctor came to Hyde Park in Heather ' s near future . London was being attacked by Gardenizen s at the time and Heather was separated from the Doctor . She found safety with a group of civilians while the Doctor found his way to the Gardenizen command centre and stopped the attacks entirely . ( COMIC : " The Garden Rebellion " ) Preparing for Christmas with her family , Heather got the Doctor to take her to a forest in 1965 Norway to get a Christmas tree . They found that Capranom were eating all the trees in the forest . The Doctor saved the forest by herding all the Capranom into a fenced area with a plastic Christmas tree . As thanks , Heather and the Doctor where given a real tree to use for Christmas . ( COMIC : " The Goats of Christmas Past " ) Heather came to Granny McCrimmon ' s house in Stillmuir with the tree . During the Christmas celebrations , the entire village of Stillmuir was shrunk and put into a giant snowglobe by Selby and Kernow . Heather , Alex , and Steven noticed Selby and Kernow and followed them to the edge of the snowglobe . Because they were in the village when it was shrunk , Heather and her relatives were tiny when they came out of the globe . Heather , Steven , and Alex went back into the globe before the Doctor returned Stillmuir to Earth . Heather then continued in spending Christmas with her family . ( COMIC : " A Merry Little Christmas " ) Heather and the Doctor came to Cardiff ' s Millennium Stadium in 2000 to attend the final performance of " Unattended Article " . However , they found that " Unattended Article " s support act , The Mondegreens , were a group of aliens planning to use a phonic boom to turn all the people in the audience into statues . Heather and the Doctor crowd surfed to the stadium ' s sound control tower . Using the technology in the tower , the Doctor reversed the phonic boom , turning the Mondegreens into stone so that they could be collected by the Shadow Proclamation . Afterwards , Heather got to see " Unattended Article " live on stage . ( COMIC : " We Will Rock You " ) While exploring Jelsen , Heather and the Doctor were captured by the Lords of Jelsen and forced to race to the death against Jossi and Karter . The Doctor was able to make the spaceship he and Heather were in cross the finish line at the exact moment as Jossi and Karter ' s spaceship , meaning that nobody died . ( COMIC : " The Highest Stake " ) Heather and the Doctor visited the Deep Ocean aquarium in Las Vegas . During their visit , a grown Thalatth broke out of its tank , flooding part of the facility . Heather and the Doctor lured the Thalatth out of the aquarium by playing the sound of whale song on a portable loudspeaker . In the Nevada desert , the Thalatth grew into a harmless Solarix Prizmatterfly . ( COMIC : " Hook , Line and Sinker " ) Heather and the Doctor came to a farm on a planet home to green three - armed humanoids who were not aware of life on other planets . Heather and the Doctor frightened a child named Graxel and were captured by the Defence Force . Seen as freaks , Heather and the Doctor were taken to Locale 51 to be dissected . They were saved from this fate by Grodax , who saw that they meant no harm and let them return to the TARDIS . ( COMIC : " The Unwelcome Visitors " ) The Doctor and Heather attended the opening of TRASH INC and became suspicious of Convert - o - Matic , a machine which could purportedly turn trash into food . While investigating later that night , Heather fell into the Convert - o - Matic and was teleported to the homeworld of the Benjix . There , she found an egg whisk and pretended it was a Dalek blaster in order to threaten a Benjix to tell her the true purpose of TRASH INC . After the confession , Heather used the teleport to return to the Convert - o - Matic on Earth . After Heather told him that the Benjix were planning to invade Earth through the Convert - o - Matic , the Doctor used his screwdriver to teleport all of the Benjix technology to the Benjix homeworld . ( COMIC : " Junk Food " ) Departure . During a visit to the University of Edinburgh to meet professor Bailey , Heather walked into a trap prepared for her by the Mozhtratta . The Mozhtratta took control of Heather ' s friends - Rob and Suze - and had them restrain her in front of a ReCohesion Cannon . When Heather began being bombarded by the cannon , temporal echoes of her spread throughout the university . The Doctor saw one of these echoes and used his sonic screwdriver to find where Heather was . The Doctor found the room where Heather was and turned the cannon on the Mozhtratta , destroying it . However , Heather time under the cannon had restructured her molecules to the point that she no longer had natural defences against vortex radiation . A single trip in the TARDIS would tear her apart . Heather bade an emotional goodbye to the Doctor , noting that at least she was back at home . After she hugg ed him , the Doctor departed in his TARDIS , leaving her to return to a normal life . ( COMIC : " Dead - line " ) Later life . In the years following her travels with the Doctor , Heather pursued a career in archaeology . By night , she was a freelance alien investigator . In 2014 , Heather came to the National Science Museum to deal with a meteorite superbrain . To her surprise , Wolfgang Ryter joined her in fighting the superbrain . After seemingly destroying the superbrain ' s body , Heather and Wolfie caught up over what they ' d been doing since leaving the Doctor and reminisced about their time with him . They didn ' t notice the superbrain ' s body rebuilding . The Tenth Doctor came to the museum as part of his final reward and obliterated the superbrain , saving Heather and Wolfgang one last time . Heather and Wolfgang tried to thank him , but he left without saying a word . ( COMIC : " Lucky Heather " ) Appearance . Heather had green eye s . ( COMIC : " Starstruck " ) For most of her travels with the Doctor , Heather had long blonde hair . ( COMIC : " The Chromosome Connection " - " A Merry Little Christmas " ) Near the end of her travels , Heather got her hair cut to a shorter length which didn ' t go further than her neck . ( COMIC : " Dead - line " , " We Will Rock You " - " Junk Food " ) Heather still had the shorter hairstyle when she encountered the Doctor and Wolfie in 2014 . ( COMIC : " Lucky Heather " ) Skills . Heather was knowledgeable of historical clothing . She was able to guess the exact year that Great - Great - Great Grandmother McCrimmon originated from just from seeing the clothing that Great - Great - Great Grandmother McCrimmon wore . ( COMIC : " The Chromosome Connection " ) Heather learned to use the sonic screwdriver while travelling with the Doctor . ( COMIC : " Cyclops " , " Foot Soldiers " ) Personality . Heather was a kind , caring woman who wanted adventure . ( COMIC : " The Chromosome Connection " ) However , she could be ruthless when anyone threatened her close friends or family , refusing to help save a gang of German naval officers in 1944 due to the fact that the Germans had been responsible for the death of her great - grandfather . ( COMIC : " The Submariners " ) Lychaos observed that Heather had " the heart of a warrior " . ( COMIC : " Bad Wolfie " ) Being a history student , Heather loved travelling into Earth ' s past relative to the 21st century . ( COMIC : " The Chromosome Connection " ) She considered seeing history to be just as exciting as seeing aliens . ( COMIC : " Snakes Alive ! " ) Initially , Heather possessed some prejudice towards non - humanoids - such as Flexellan octopod s . However , as Heather herself said , " travel broadens the mind " ; her experiences with the Doctor taught her to be more respectful to those of different body structures . ( COMIC : " The Silver Bullet " ) However , her encounter with the humanoid - hating Mohagan Horde was something which " stay [ ed ] with her for a long time " . ( COMIC : " The Invisibles " ) Heather developed a strong friendship with Wolfgang Ryter . ( COMIC : " Lucky Heather " ) She had sympathy for him even when they first met , convincing the Doctor to take him on as a companion . ( COMIC : " Flight of the Giurgeax " ) By the end of her time travelling with Wolfie , Heather was comfortable with hugging him when he was nude . ( COMIC : " Bad Wolfie " ) Heather didn ' t like the taste of haggis . ( COMIC : " The Silver Bullet " ) Behind the scenes . Heather was created by ten - year - old Joanne Hall in a competition sponsored by " Doctor Who Adventures " to create a new companion to appear in the magazine ' s comics . DWA 121 contained a collectible fact file on Heather McCrimmon . , Heather McCrimmon has the distinction of appearing in more individual stories — 58 in total — than any other companions original to " Doctor Who " comic strips since John and Gillian . However , Heather has not remained the companion to appear in the most " Doctor Who Adventures " comics ; becoming a regular in the strip directly after Heather ' s final story , Amy Pond went on to appear in 126 DWA comics . Later companions original to the DWA comic strip - Decky Flamboon and Jata - appeared in considerably less stories than Heather .