Alice Obiefune Alice Uwaebuka Obiefune was a 21st century British library assistant who travelled with the Eleventh Doctor . Alice ' s time as a long - term companion of the Doctor saw many other companions coming and going : John Jones , ARC , Abslom Daak , the Squire , and River Song . Alice helped the Doctor face SERVEYOUinc and the Talent Scout , ( COMIC : " The Rise and Fall " , " The Comfort of the Good " et al ) stop the Voord plot to take over all of time and space , ( COMIC : " Four Doctors " ) outrun the the Then and the Now and discover the fate of the Cyclor s , ( COMIC : " The Then and the Now " , " Physician , Heal Thyself " et al ) and raise the Sapling . ( COMIC : " The Scream " et al ) Biography . Early life . Alice was born to Ada Obiefune ( COMIC : " After Life " ) and Ijezie Obiefune . Her father passed away when she was a small child , leaving her to be raised solely by her mother . One year Maddie Potter told Alice that her parents " should go back to where [ they ] came from . " Alice responded that her father was dead and Maddie stated that her father said it was " good riddance . " At her father ' s grave , Alice cried about Maddie and her father ' s cruel comments and when her mother asked what was wrong , she told her it was nothing . Ada insisted that it ' s not right to keep things inside and if something is wrong , a person should speak up about it . Alice recounted the story to her mother , as well as the fact that when she told their teacher about Maddie ' s behaviour , it was dismissed as " teasing " and indicated that the teacher always dismissed similar incidents . Alice declared that it was unfair and expressed a desire to run away to space and never come back . Ada challenged her daughter , asking , " And what happens to the rest of us , then ? Who have to stay behind ? " ( COMIC : " Whodunnit ? " ) In June 1982 , Ada told Alice that a person must always speak up when they think something is wrong , no matter how hard or painful it might be . ( COMIC : " The Infinite Astronaut " ) Alice never passed a driving test . ( COMIC : " What He Wants . . . " ) As an adult she worked as a library assistant , often helping people who had been turned away by the Department for Work and Pensions and reading books to children during storytime . In 2014 , prior to August , her mother passed away and gradually her life began to fall apart : she lost her job to cutbacks , her landlord Mr Badura evicted her from her flat , and her friend moved away . ( COMIC : " After Life " ) The eviction forced her to hire a solicitor . ( COMIC : " Whodunnit ? " ) Meeting the Doctor . Stuck in the depths of depression , Alice received a spark of joy in her life when she encountered a Kharitite while walking down the sidewalk . While Alice was drawn into the Eleventh Doctor ' s adventure , the Doctor was drawn into Alice ' s life . After chasing the Kharitite through the House of Commons , the Doctor offered Alice the chance to travel with him and she accepted . ( COMIC : " After Life " ) Travelling with the Eleventh Doctor . Rokhandi was the first planet the Doctor took Alice to . There they met August Hart for the first time , though he already knew them . They also encountered the sinister corporation called SERVEYOUinc . Alice assisted the Doctor in freeing the local people from the influence of the Entity . ( COMIC : " The Friendly Place " ) New companions join . To console Alice , who was missing her mother , the Doctor took her to 1962 to visit a concert of Ada ' s favourite musician , John Jones . He was so unremarkable that he managed to follow them into the TARDIS undetected . To cheer Alice up , the Doctor took her on a second trip to the past , this time for Delta blues music from another of Ada ' s favourites and his personal friend , Robert Johnson , in 1931 Mississippi Delta . There the Doctor fell victim to the influence of the Talent Scout . Only Alice ' s quick thinking saved him and the company . ( COMIC : " What He Wants . . . " ) After visiting two ice planet s and a dinosaur civilisation , Alice insisted on going back home , but instead of her apartment , the TARDIS materialised on the United System Research Base ten years before the events on Rokhandi World . August Hart was the Chief of Security of the base . Several employees had been sent to a coma by ARC , the subject of one of SERVEYOUinc ' s cruel experiments . ( COMIC : " Whodunnit ? " ) After saving Jones from ARC using a fire extinguisher , Alice was almost shot on Hart ' s orders : they were to serve as a bait for the Doctor . The latter , however , managed to neutralise both threats from Hart and ARC , to befriend ARC , and to sneak it out of the station in his TARDIS . Although the Doctor offered to finally take Alice to the meeting with her landlord , Alice decided she ' d like to have a little more fun before going back home . ( COMIC : " The Sound of Our Voices " ) Adventures with Jones and ARC . Following a distress call , the TARDIS crew picked up the sole " survivor " from the planet Datastore 8 , a Nimon who in reality was responsible for the planet ' s destruction . Knowing about his sinister plans from alternate timelines , the Doctor dealt with the intruder , after which the TARDIS crew went back in time and prevented the destruction of Datastore 8 . ( COMIC : " Space in Dimension Relative and Time " ) Alice finally returned to her flat in 2015 with the intention of staying only a few days to sort out her affairs , but discovered Earth skies had been invaded by the Eternal Dogfight between the Amstron and the J ' arrodic in her absence . The Doctor left Alice with an old mobile phone promising to return soon . In his absence , exploiting her grief , the Talent Scout appear in her kitchen , first in the form of a Time Lord and then pretending to be her mother come back from the dead . He took Alice to the " Great Wheel " to the Doctor , Jones and ARC . ( COMIC : " The Eternal Dogfight " ) Using her librarian skills , Alice managed to find in Amstron sacred library a way to force a ceasefire by becoming an Infinite Astronaut on behalf of Earth and claiming the right to pilot the " Infinite " through the Gate of Creation to another universe . Distressed at discovering the Talent Scout ' s deceit , Alice was impervious to the beauty of that universe , which saved her and Jones from the fate of all other Infinite Astronauts who chose to die rather than leave the " face of the creator " . Alice ' s description of the other universe put an end to the dispute that initiated the Eternal Dogfight . As a result , Amstrons and the J ' arrodic Federation finally negotiated peace . ( COMIC : " The Infinite Astronaut " ) Multiple Doctors and the Voord . The Doctor and Alice visited Paris in 1923 and saved the world from radiation monster s coming out of the Seine . Afterwards , Alice went to a café while the Doctor shopped for comics ; a café which Gabby Gonzalez and Clara Oswald were also at . Clara and Gabby beckoned Alice to their table , knowing that she too was a companion of the Doctor . Clara began sharing with Alice and Gabby what she had learned at the Museum of Terrible Fates and how she thought the Doctor ' s " terrible fate " could be averted , but she was interrupted by a version of Gabby from a potential future timeline in which the companions had failed to stop the Twelfth Doctor from joining with the Voord . This Gabby described what had occurred in her timeline ( including Alice ' s death ) , giving Alice , Clara , and Gabby the information to prevent that future from happening . When the Tenth , Eleventh , and Twelfth Doctor s came to the café , the three companions explained the Voord situation . All three Doctor - companion duos came to Marinus and got themselves caught in the blast of a continuity bomb like they had done in the previous timeline , except this time they decided on letting the bomb reshape the Eleventh Doctor ' s continuity so that he never prevented River Song ' s World . From 22 April 2011 , they went to the Voord pocket dimension to confront the alternate Twelfth Doctor leading the Voord . They were all absorbed into the Voord group mind , where they convinced the alternate Twelfth Doctor to regress the Voord timeline to a point before the mutations caused by the Last Great Time War , saving the Doctor from the fate of joining the Voord . The six time travellers then briefly visited Marinus and returned to the Parisian café in 1923 , but didn ' t stay because the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler were already there . After short goodbyes , they parted ways . While Alice would remember this multi - Doctor event , the Doctor naturally lost his memories of it . ( COMIC : " Four Doctors " ) Before he completely forgot , Alice and the Doctor picked up a Weeping Angel from the Weeping Angel Museum , put it in a paper package , and planted it back at the newsagent ' s shop in 1923 Paris for the Doctor ' s past self to find . ( COMIC : " The Doctor Shops for Angels " ) Running from the Then and the Now . The Doctor and Alice were joined in their travels by the Squire and Abslom Daak . During this time they were chased by the Then and the Now . With the War Doctor . Alice entered the Last Great Time War and aided the War Doctor in fighting the Cyclor s and the Volatix Cabal . ( COMIC : " First Rule " et al ) More adventures with the Eleventh Doctor . Encountering Cyber - Silurians . Alice and the Doctor visited prehistoric Earth to obtain a fruit for Jenny Flint to give to Vastra as an anniversary gift . Alice found a Nanjura fruit hoping it would be suitable , but the Doctor told her that it would be toxic to Vastra . Before they could continue , Alice and the Doctor were found by a large dinosaur and forced to run for their lives . However , they ran into a greater danger : a group of Cyber - Silurian s . Alice and the Doctor escaped the Cyber - Silurians after the Doctor distracted them with his sonic screwdriver . Alice wanted to return to the TARDIS , but the Doctor insisted that the Cyber - technology in this era was an anachronism that had to be investigated . They found that the Cyber - Silurians were planning on seeding the universe with Silurian Ark s filled with cyber - technology . After the Doctor opened a teleportal to the inside of one Ark , he and Alice went inside to discover a room where hundreds of Silurian s were being cyber - converted . Their presence awakened the converted Silurians and the Doctor - deciding that the situation was too dangerous for Alice - teleported her outside with instructions to initiate the Librarian Protocol of the TARDIS . Alice couldn ' t get in the TARDIS and she could do nothing but watch as the Doctor failed to stop the Arks from being launched . Actions of the Twelfth Doctor and Rassilon on Gallifrey erased the Cyberman presence on prehistoric Earth from history , but Alice and the Doctor retained their memories of the event . ( COMIC : " Supremacy of the Cybermen " ) The Scream and the Sapling . Alice and the Doctor came to Britzit - 247 to obtain the only copy of John Jones ' final album , but ran into some trouble with its angry inhabitants . Alice had to take the wheel of Bessie 2 and drive the Doctor to safety . They managed to escape to the TARDIS , but the album was damaged in the commotion . Once back in the TARDIS , the Doctor set it to go to coordinates hidden in Jones ' song " Whitestar " : the location of John Jones ' funeral . After mourning for Jones , Alice and the Doctor were approached by a Cwrier and given an invitation summoning them to a forest planet . Alice and the Doctor came to the forest planet , where they fell into a trap set by the Scream ( COMIC : " Remembrance " ) and had their memory energies drained into a Memory Engine Machine . This created the Sapling . ( COMIC : " The Scream " ) The Doctor took Alice and the Sapling to Plex ' s planet and found that its inhabitants were at war . They went into the ruins of Plex ' s laboratory and retrieved a biodata nodule , which the Doctor used to to turn a Plex into a new leader who would bring an end to the war . ( COMIC : " The Promise " ) Alice was playing chess with the Sapling when Ood Sigma mentally contacted the Sapling and brought the TARDIS to the Devil ' s Eye . Alice and the Doctor left the Sapling to recover in the TARDIS while they explored the Devil ' s Eye . They found that the pleasure club was being menaced by 15 Ood in a violent red - eye state . Jonni Halburton teleport ed Alice and the Doctor to the maintenance room of the Devil ' s Eye and explained to them what she had done to the 15 Ood . Halburton planned on shooting Alice and the Doctor , but she was killed by an Ood before she had the chance . On the Doctor ' s instruction , Alice returned to the TARDIS and put the psychic paper and Halburton ' s data - slice onto the Sapling ' s forehead , using his unconscious body as a conduit between Ood Sigma and the 15 Ood , bringing them out of the red - eye state . Alice , the Doctor , and the Sapling then brought the 15 Ood to the Ood Sphere . The Doctor introduced Alice to Ood Sigma during the visit . ( COMIC : " Time of the Ood " ) Alice and the Doctor attempted to talk to the Sapling about how he had killed the Wayfarer while the TARDIS was parked in the Antrozenus Zone , but they were interrupted when a Memory Ark drifted into the area . The TARDIS trio journeyed into the Ark and - after some encouragement from Alice - decided to explore . They found a Thrake infestation and discovered the body of the Xerxes being carried by the Ark . The Doctor purged the Ark of the Thrake by getting them to kill themselves by overfeeding on the Xerxes memoryweb . ( COMIC : " The Memory Feast " ) After having an adventure involving an " old friend " of the Doctor in an English town in 1189 , Alice , the Doctor , and the Sapling decided to spend an afternoon at a Village Green Festival . Alice enjoyed herself at the festival ; she played hook - a - duck , had ice cream , rode on a carousel , and participated in an event involving love and archery . The afternoon was not all fun and games , as the TARDIS trio had an encounter with a Krovian who was stealing the memories of festival - goers . ( COMIC : " Fooled " ) Undated events . The Doctor showed Alice a book with pictures of all of his past selves so that she would be familiar with them . ( COMIC : " Four Doctors " ) Alice once attended a meeting of many of the Doctor ' s companion s . ( COMIC : " The Meeting " ) The Doctor once took Alice to the " Gilmore " to retrieve a mug which had been left there by Drax . With the help of two criminals , Lenora and Critchlow , Alice and the Doctor got through the starliners ' many unusual defence protocols and found the mug . ( COMIC : " Something Borrowed " ) Alice got the Doctor very excited by introducing him to Fray Bentos pie s . ( COMIC : " The Memory Feast " ) Alternate timelines . The Nimon incursion . There were several timelines of the incident involving the exiled Nimon who infiltrated the TARDIS while Alice and the Doctor were travelling with John Jones and ARC . In the original history , Alice stole the Nimon ' s black box and tried to escape in the maze of corridors that made up the interior of the TARDIS . The Nimon found Alice and knocked her to the floor . The Nimon almost killed Alice by absorbing her energy , but she was saved by Jones , who sacrificed his life by jumping into the Nimon ' s energy - draining beam . Worried that the Nimon would do the same to the Doctor , she knocked him out by hitting him on the head with the geranium Dave . After ARC defeated the Nimon , Alice sat with the Doctor on the edge of the TARDIS ' exterior doorway , contemplating Jones ' death . However , as the Time Vortex leech sent the Doctor ' s consciousness back in time in increments , the Doctor began changing the events of the events of the Nimon incursion . During many of these increments , the Doctor confused Alice by talking about what he was going through . In one increment , Alice slapped the Doctor for - as she saw it - joking about Jones ' death . In one timeline which came into being during these events , Alice was in the TARDIS when it was destroyed in the explosion of Datastore 8 . ( COMIC : " Space in Dimension Relative and Time " ) Personality . As a library assistant , Alice had to help a variety of people with a variety of problems and therefore honed skills in kindness and patience . ( COMIC : " After Life " ) Despite her patience , Alice could be forceful if the situation needed her to be . When she noticed that the Eleventh Doctor was being rude to the Rokhandi World employees , she called him out on his behaviour and pointed out that they were just trying to do their jobs , most likely for minimum wage like many of the people that she ' s helped at work , and that he should be more respectful of them and what they do . She was also quick to stand up to the Doctor when she felt he was treating her as an accessory or rudely refusing to acknowledge her job as a library assistant . ( COMIC : " The Friendly Place " ) She even slapped him in an alternate timeline when he disrespected the ashes of John Jones to test whether he could change things . ( COMIC : " Space in Dimension Relative and Time " ) Alice was fan of the musical " Hamilton " ; she was familiar with the contents of the official soundtrack and - although not proud of it - shipped Hamilton / Angelica . ( COMIC : " The Long Con " ) Age . Alice was not always consistent describing her age . While chiding John Jones for running too slowly , she called herself a " forty - year - old library assistant " . ( COMIC : " The Sound of Our Voices " ) Later she described herself as being in her 30s . ( COMIC : " Space in Dimension Relative and Time " ) Behind the scenes . A few alternate covers for issues of " " featured real life models representing Alice .