Seventh Doctor

Originally a man with the demeanour of an eccentric, light-hearted buffoon who delighted in humorous reverie, the Seventh Doctor darkened into a Machiavellian manipulator to combat Fenric's return, becoming a sombre genius of frightful calibre who could tactfully use his mind to manipulate almost any situation into reaching his favoured outcome for the "greater good", actively seeking out evil to vanquish instead of traveling aimlessly. 
However, he could also show profound warmth and affection to his companions, and built a strong bond with many of them, almost becoming a substitute parent-like figure in his handling of them, even if he had to hurt some of his closest friends by toying with their minds as part of his schemes.
== Biography ==
In his early days, the Doctor was little more than a carefree traveller seeing the universe with Mel Bush after escaping the scheme of the First Rani on Lakertya, (TV: ) with the pair arriving at the likes of Paradise Towers and Shangri-La Wales as the Doctor began to change from a clown to a schemer, (TV: , ) until they came to Iceworld and met Ace, a troubled teenager from 1980s Earth (TV: ) who the Doctor recognised as a Wolf of Fenric, and the Doctor, realising he could no longer avoid his rematch with Fenric, nudged Mel into leaving (PROSE: ) with Sabalom Glitz while he took Ace on as a companion. (TV: ) 
Treating her both as his protégé and a pawn in Fenric's game, (TV: ) the Doctor did his best to heal Ace's psychological wounds by helping her come to terms with her past misdeeds and fears, aiding her in maturing and supporting her in moments of difficulty, (TV: , , , , ) while he descended more into a dark deceiver, even tricking Davros into destroying Skaro with the Hand of Omega to end the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, (TV: ) killing Helen A's pet Stigorax to topple her regime on Terra Alpha (TV: ) and destroying a Cyber-Fleet with Nemesis. (TV: )
After they freed the Psychic Circus from the Gods of Ragnarok with the Vulpanan werewolf Mags, (TV: ) the Doctor left Ace in the Cretaceous period (COMIC: ) and reunited with Frobisher for some brief adventures until they parted ways again. (COMIC: ) As he travelled alone, the Doctor ran into the likes of Death's Head (COMIC: ) and Abslom Daak, (COMIC: ) until he retrieved Ace. (PROSE: ) In their continued adventures, they assisted UNIT in stopping Morgaine from obtaining Excalibur (TV: ) and prevented Josiah Samuel Smith's plan to assassinate Queen Victoria, (TV: ) before they had their fated showdown with Fenric at 1943 Maiden's Point, where they emerged victorious. (TV: ) The Doctor then brought Ace back to her home of Perivale in time to face the Tremas Master on the Cheetah Planet. After the Master was left on the Cheetah Planet as it exploded, accounts differ on the Doctor and Ace's exploits after they departed Perivale with "work to do". (TV: )
According to one account, the Doctor and Ace quickly found themselves caught in the schemes of the Mandragora Helix (COMIC: ) and attended a party on Maruthea. (COMIC: ) In conjunction with another account, the Doctor began to embrace his role as Time's Champion, in which he worked in the service of the Eternal known as Time, (PROSE: ) by the time he faced the Timewyrm. (PROSE: ) Although he did many good deeds while under the title of Time's Champion, his manipulative ways and amoral decisions cost him dearly, with Ace leaving him as he was joined by Bernice Summerfield on Heaven. (PROSE: ) Ace would eventually return, (PROSE: ) though the Doctor was unable to regain her trust until they defeated and his plot to corrupt the Doctor's timeline. (PROSE: ) Ace would eventually leave to become "Time's Vigilante" (PROSE: ) and Bernice would depart to marry Jason Kane, (PROSE: ) leaving the Doctor to travel with Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej (PROSE: ) until Roz died in battle (PROSE: ) and Chris left to see the universe with a Time Ring after a trip to the House of Lungbarrow, where the Doctor was also asked to collect the Old Master's remains from Skaro. (PROSE: )
In a differing account, the Doctor tried to have Ace join the Time Lord Academy, though she rejected going, just as they were embroiled in a series of adventures involving Raine Creevy. (AUDIO: ) After some brief adventures with Bev Tarrant (AUDIO: ) and foiling Elizabeth Klein's temporal scheme at Colditz Castle, (AUDIO: ) the Doctor and Ace were joined by Hex, (AUDIO: ) who became a key player in the Doctor's feud with the Forge and the Elder Gods. (AUDIO: , ) After Hex left to start a family, (AUDIO: ) the Doctor was re-joined by Mel. (AUDIO: ) In this account, the Doctor still went on to have adventures with Bernice, (AUDIO: ) Roz and Chris, (AUDIO: ) and he reunited with Bernice and Ace for a few more adventures, (AUDIO: ) while also taking on Klein as a companion (AUDIO: ) until her actions rewrote her timeline. (AUDIO: ) As Ace had decided to become a Time Lord, (AUDIO: ) the Doctor found himself reconnecting with old friends like Mags, Harry Sullivan and Naomi Cross to have as companions as he tended to the universe. (AUDIO: , )
Eventually, after all his friends had left him, the Doctor dedicated himself to his mission of protecting the history of the universe, (AUDIO: ) even traveling back down his own timeline to attend to his unfinished business and clean up after his previous incarnations. (AUDIO: ) Though he asked some people to become his new companion, (AUDIO: , ) the Doctor resigned himself to a solitary existence, only seeking out his old companions when they proved useful to his plans, which only alienated him further away from them. (AUDIO: ) However, after an encounter with the Eight Legs, the Doctor decided to embrace his older jollier side before he met his fate, (PROSE: ) allowing him to face his final adventures with high spirits. (WC: )
After many years of schemes and manipulations, the Doctor ironically met his end in events out of his control after being caught at the wrong place at the wrong time due to crash-landing in San Francisco on 31 December 1999 while taking the Master's remains to Gallifrey. As he realised the Master had somehow survived his execution, the Doctor was shot by a San Francisco gang on the streets and then fatally injured when Dr. Grace Holloway's exploratory surgery on his gunshot wounds accidentally clogged a vein. Due to the anaesthetic in his system, he did not properly regenerate into his next incarnation until several hours had past. (TV: )
== Other realities ==
=== Alternate timelines ===
In an alternative timeline, the Doctor was able to save Jan Rydd and his fellow Travellers on Heaven in 2570, and, in another alternative timeline, was beheaded by an Ice Warrior on Peladon in 3985. (PROSE: )
In one alternative timeline, the Doctor and Ace were captured in Colditz Castle in October 1944. When they tried to escape, Ace was killed, and left behind her walkman. This provided the Nazis with laser technology, which they exploited to win the Second World War. Immediately afterwards, the Doctor returned to Germany in 1955, where he was shot by Nazi soldiers. He later regenerated into an alternative version of his eighth incarnation. (AUDIO: , )
=== Averted timelines ===
In a timeline where Elizabeth Klein used the Doctor's TARDIS to rewrite history so that the Nazis won the war, and helped the Galactic Reich conquer potential threats by travelling back in time to give them forewarning, the Doctor, who remembered the correct timeline, was captured and imprisoned on the Moon, but managed to secretly contact the Selachians and supplied them with the necessary technology to destroy the Moonbase. When Klein came to visit the Doctor to find out where his TARDIS was, the Selachians attacked the base. The Doctor and Klein escaped in the TARDIS, where the Doctor informed her that the Time Lords had tried her and found her guilty, and she was erased from history, along with the alternate Doctor, restoring things to their correct order. (AUDIO: )
When the Cybermen allied with to take over history, (COMIC: ) the Seventh Doctor was planting Nemesis mines across the Cyber-Fleet when he discovered that Ace had been cyber-converted. (COMIC: ) He was then attacked by Ace. This timeline was eventually unwritten by Rassilon and the Twelfth Doctor. (COMIC: )
=== Undone events ===
thumb|left|The Seventh Doctor and Ace arrive in the Master's trap. (AUDIO: )
In a negated timeline, the Doctor and Ace were drawn to land in a pocket universe built on 23 November 1963, where they began to see images of the past and future of the TARDIS, and encountered the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown, who had also been brought there. Investigating further, the Seventh Doctor discovered that was also present, and found out that the Master's plot was to erase his timeline by planting a conceptual bomb inside Bob Dovie so that Dovie's inability to accept the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS would cause the TARDIS to explode across its own timeline. After Ace vanished due to the timelines changing, the Seventh Doctor attempted to contact the Time Lords, but was unable to when his TARDIS began to explode. However, the Sixth Doctor was able to bring the Seventh Doctor and his other incarnations together using a dimensional stabiliser, and the Fifth Doctor stopped the bomb from going off by showing Dovie the inside of the TARDIS in 1962, ensuring that he would not consider it impossible when he entered it in 1963. The Seventh Doctor then joined his other seven incarnations in preparing to time ram the Master's TARDIS. However, rather than kill the Master, the First Doctor instead turned off the automatic distress actions, which had brought all of the Doctors to the pocket dimension and triggered the TARDIS' destruction, making it so none of that had happened. (AUDIO: )
=== Parallel universes ===
Events similar to the Doctor's adventure on the Silurian Earth (PROSE: ) were experienced by Doctor Jon St. Myth of the Collapsing Universe. (PROSE: )
== Psychological profile ==
=== Personality ===
The Seventh Doctor was originally light-hearted and prone to clownish behaviour (TV: , , ) that masked his true intellect and courage. (PROSE: ) However, as he matured, he became a grumpy and melancholy manipulator (TV: , , ) who saw the battle between good and evil as a game of chess or a stage play, and everyone around him as pawns in the game of fighting evil that he directed, (PROSE: , , , ) though he hated himself for it, (PROSE: , ) instead desiring a life of playing the spoons and acting as a children's entertainer with his magic tricks. (PROSE: , , ) Despite his darker demeanour, the Seventh Doctor was "not without [his] share of mirth and joviality", and claimed to Ace that he could be "quite the funny fellow", (PROSE: ) though he found it hard to put his trust in others. (COMIC: )
Seeing himself as a "chess master", (PROSE: ) the Seventh Doctor was a consummate fan of chess, to the point of treating his companions and enemies as pieces on a chess board, (TV: , , ) until he tired of the game in favour of hopscotch. (PROSE: ) He habitually lied to keep others at ease, (TV: , ) and preferred to explain "one thing at a time". (TV: ) While he was known for his preference on using words to resolve a problem instead of violence, (TV: , ) and preferred to fight fairly, (PROSE: ) the Doctor was not adverse to letting his adversaries be the architects of their own unmaking. (TV: , , )
Although his more whimsical tendencies disappeared over time, the Doctor maintained a fondness for idiosyncratic speeches that occasionally referred to literature, ordinary places and even food and drink amidst the weightier concerns on his mind. (TV: ) When deducing grandiloquent plans to rule the universe, he considered their destruction of small everyday pleasures, like art and music, (TV: ) and often mocked his enemies' grandiose plans by incorporating foods into their list of ambitions. (TV: , ) In his more serious moments, however, the Doctor would sombrely reflect the ramifications of time and the consequences of interfering in history, (TV: , ) as well as his life of aimless travel. (COMIC: )
While his previous incarnations would stumble upon trouble by happenstance, the Seventh Doctor actively sought out villains to vanquish and dictatorships to dethrone, (TV: , , , ) getting involved in local affairs without question, (PROSE: ) and was much less forgiving than his preceding incarnation, (AUDIO: ) due to the Sixth Doctor's decision to let his morality and scruples die with him in his final moments. (AUDIO: ) The Doctor would claim that he served as Time's Champion because of "principles, truth, love and harmony, peace and goodwill, [and] the best of intentions." (PROSE: )
Despite viewing himself as "a nice little man in a silly jumper", (AUDIO: ) he was viewed as being the most dangerous of the Doctors by UNIT, (AUDIO: ) and would often only see the "bigger picture" rather than the world before him, (PROSE: ) which resulted in him causing much grief, such as devastating Ace by labelling her an "emotional cripple" to weaken Fenric's power by making her abandon her faith in him. (TV: ) However, he was not totally unfeeling, appearing apprehensive about his decision to destroy Skaro, (TV: ) was genuinely agonised that he had to convince Ace that he did not care about her, (TV: ) and told Ellen Woodworth that "the end[s] never [justified] the means, [as] the means used [determined] the kind of end produced." (PROSE: )
Nearing the end of his life, the Doctor decided to retire from his niche of manipulation. Feeling guilty and tired from his plotting, (TV: ) he acknowledged he had lived past his prime and would soon regenerate. Fearing that his next incarnation would not want to continue plans that he had set in motion, the Doctor put all his affairs in order to leave nothing unsung when his time drew to a close. (AUDIO: ) However, after being saved from one of the Eight Legs by the Eighth Doctor, he became determined to enjoy every minute he had left. After the Eighth Doctor warned him of a trap by , the Seventh Doctor decided not to think about it, and let fate decide when and how his life would end, instead of despairing over being alone. (PROSE: )
Feeling that he "belong[ed]" in open space, (AUDIO: ) the Seventh Doctor longed for exploration, and bemoaned how young people had "no spirit of adventure", distaining at taking downtime when he could be experiencing enjoyment in new scientific discoveries. (TV: , ) He also had a soft spot for jazz music, (TV: ) conkers, (COMIC: ) the Beatles, cats, (PROSE: ) science fiction, (PROSE: ) baseball, (PROSE: ) composer J. S. Bach, (PROSE: ) and The Wizard of Oz. (AUDIO: ) He also admired rats (TV: ) and enjoyed collecting pins. (PROSE: )
Though the Doctor initially encouraged Ace not to call him "Professor", (TV: , ) he later confessed that he liked the nickname. (AUDIO: ) He also told Bernice Summerfield that he loved "chaos, big explosions, and rebellions", (PROSE: ) described E flat minor as his favourite musical key, gave blue as his favourite colour, (PROSE: ) and claimed that having his hair cut relaxed him more than anything. (PROSE: ) He also enjoyed playing nine dimensional scrabble, (PROSE: ) and "doing interviews". (PROSE: ) When thinking about rewards he could seek for his actions, the Doctor thought about "the smile of a baby child, the first sunset on a soft and new-born world, [and] the taste of the purest spring water, untouched by any pollution of Man's making." (PROSE: ) 
The Doctor hated wasted journeys, (COMIC: ) unrequited love, tyranny, cruelty, (TV: ) the writings of Stanoff Osterling, (PROSE: ) the over usage of semicolons, (COMIC: ) swimming, (PROSE: ) and goodbyes. (PROSE: ) He also saw bus stations as "terrible places full of lost luggage and lost souls", (TV: ) and had little respect for those who chose not to fight injustice when they had the power to. (PROSE: )
Maintaining a strict vegetarian diet, (PROSE: , , , , , , ) the Doctor enjoyed almond slices, (PROSE: ) liquorice, and apricotts. (PROSE: ) He took five to six sugars in his tea, (AUDIO: ) with his favourite teas being Arcturan, Earl Grey and Lapsang souchong, (PROSE: ) his favourite ice cream being boysenberry ripple, (PROSE: ) and his favourite biscuits being chocolate HobNobs. (PROSE: ) While he didn't like peppermint tea, he drank some when it was a gift from a friend. (PROSE: }) He preferred having water to drink when at Maruthea, (COMIC: ) but did have an enjoyment for Fizzade (TV: ) and lemonade. (PROSE: ) However, he "[couldn't] stand" burned toast, (TV: ) or the taste of pears. (PROSE: )
The Seventh Doctor though that "anybody remotely interesting [was] mad in some way or another", (TV: ) believed evil to be a genuine force, (PROSE: ) and considered pacifism to be a "noble ideal". (AUDIO: )
Seeing the future as being built by one's own hands, he believed that there was always hope for a tomorrow in which "life [was] worth living". However, when faced with the truly nihilistic, the Doctor would abandon them to the fates they did not want to escape. (COMIC: )
According to Ace, while the Doctor "wasn't scared of monsters or pain or dying, he was scared of being alone," (PROSE: ) though he would decide later in life to travel alone after a devastating incident made him realise that he couldn't trust himself with anyone's life. (AUDIO: ) He once had a frightful experience in Rita Hawks's bubble car, (PROSE: ) and also admitted to the Mi'en Kalarash that he was afraid of the Old Time, the Times of Night and Chaos. (AUDIO: )
Believing that "two wrongs [didn't] make a [right]", (TV: ) the Seventh Doctor was opposed to violence of any sort, although he proved capable of rendering an opponent unconscious with a touch to the forehead (TV: , ) by using the Venusian nerve pinch. (PROSE: ) While he was completely against the use of firearms, (TV: ) seeing them as the "tinker toy resort of frustrated [and] hopeless individuals", (COMIC: ) the Doctor was willing to use a Tissue Compression Eliminator to defend himself against Death's Head, (COMIC: ) and used a gun to kill Legion (PROSE: ) and to disable Eva Jericho. (PROSE: )
While he protested that no one had the right to kill, (TV: ) he would orchestrate a death if it benefited his plans, (TV: ) believing "killing [to be] wrong except when it's right". (PROSE: ) While he refused to shoot the Master when it served no purpose, (PROSE: ) the Seventh Doctor was not averse to manipulating events that resulted in the loss of life, (PROSE: , ) taking a life by himself, (PROSE: ) or convincing someone to commit suicide. (PROSE: , , , ) He also played a part in the destruction of many planets, such as Skaro, (TV: ) the Seven Planets, (PROSE: ) and the Silurian Earth, (PROSE: ) and confessed to Red that a part of him enjoyed destroying worlds, (AUDIO: ) though he regretted their destruction either way. (PROSE: )
The Doctor did his best to keep history on track, such as by ensuring he left nothing anachronistic behind when in the past. (TV: )
The Doctor would attempt to embrace the customs of the cultures he visited, (TV: , ) and greet anything he thought was sentient with a friendly smile. (TV: ) However, he could get so caught up in the moment that he overlooked the finer details of the situation. (TV: )
While combating Adam Mitchell's Autons, the Seventh Doctor associated himself with his first and second incarnations, combining with them to think of a solution to the situation. (COMIC: )
While he was of the opinion that his third and fourth incarnations were not unattractive, (PROSE: ) he regretfully felt that his fourth incarnation had "condemned untold billions to death by not destroying the Daleks at the moment of their birth", and resented that his fifth incarnation "could have saved billions more by shooting down Davros like a mad dog when [he] had the chance". (PROSE: ) He also thought he himself looked more "respectable" than his fourth and sixth incarnations, (PROSE: ) and thought his third incarnation was "a real dandy of a fellow". (COMIC: ) However, when he encountered an incarnation he did not recognise, the Seventh Doctor acted civil towards him and engaged in a pleasant conversation while a fight erupted around them. (COMIC: )
The Seventh Doctor was generally disliked by his other incarnations. (AUDIO: ) The Fifth Doctor was repulsed by his manipulative nature, (PROSE: ) and the Sixth Doctor told Evelyn Smythe that his successor was "always blowing up planets", something he was "not looking forward to". (AUDIO: ) The Eleventh Doctor described his seventh incarnation as "probably one of [his] more circumspect periods." (AUDIO: )
The Eighth Doctor described his immediate predecessor as "a paranoid chap at times, but then often with good reason[s]", (PROSE: ) and eventually came to view his manipulative nature with disdain, telling Lucie Miller that he was always "the man with the master plan," arranging the destruction of his enemies and the toppling of dictatorships in order to serve the greater good, to the point where he began to countenance sacrificing the lives of the few to save the many, in which he negatively compared the Seventh Doctor to . (AUDIO: )
Despite his manipulative actions, such as using psychic powers to make Mel leave with Sabalom Glitz, (PROSE: ) the Seventh Doctor did care for his companions, (AUDIO: ) focusing on their wounds before his own, (PROSE: ) and even sought their approval on occasion. (PROSE: ) He believed he would act as a surrogate granddad to Bernice Summerfield's children, (PROSE: ) and later gave her away at her wedding to Jason Kane. (PROSE: ) He did not like others fiddling with his TARDIS, even slapping Ace's hand when she tried using the console control. (TV: )
Although he originally invited her to travel with him to combat Fenric, (PROSE: ) the Doctor developed a paternal relationship with Ace, (TV: , ) eventually coming to trust Ace with his life. (AUDIO: ) Ace, considering the Doctor to be her "guru", (AUDIO: ) believed that he had the "deepest, saddest eyes", (AUDIO: ) and even told him that she loved him. (AUDIO: ) However, after she found herself unable to deal with his growing emotional coldness, (PROSE: ) Ace walked out on the Doctor after he had arranged for the death of Jan Rydd, whom she had fallen in love with. (PROSE: ) Even after she re-joined his company, (PROSE: ) it was only so she could use him for her own goals, (PROSE: ) believing it to be poetic justice for his own manipulations. (PROSE: ) Their relationship would remain sour, (PROSE: ) until they worked together to defeat , (PROSE: ) after which they realised how much they needed each other's friendship. (PROSE: ) Ace eventually decided that, whilst the Doctor "may be a bastard", he was "still [her] bastard", (PROSE: ) and that she could trust him "to sort out anything". (PROSE: )
While his favourite planet was Earth, (COMIC: ) the Doctor could also be critical of human nature, stating that humans had "the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by [their] ingenuity when trying to destroy [themselves]", (TV: ) that "among all the varied wonders of the universe, [there was] nothing so firmly clamped shut as the military mind", (TV: ) and that their expectation that "everything [had] to be within [their] comprehension" was their "most irksome trait." (PROSE: ) While he once voiced his opinion that their evolution was a "miscalculation", (TV: ) the Doctor admitted to Mikey that, despite their illogical behaviour, he found human beings irresistible. (PROSE: )
While his human counterpart fell in love with Joan Redfern, (PROSE: ) the Doctor himself was decidedly celibate, (PROSE: ) failing to understand human attraction and affection, (PROSE: ) except when it came to Ace, (PROSE: ) of whom he loved in a paternal way. (TV: ) However, Ace noted that the Doctor had chemistry with Maid Mackenzie of the Campbell Ancestral Home, with the Doctor also appearing crestfallen when he had to say goodbye to her. (COMIC: )
Seeing them as the "most evil race in the universe", (COMIC: ) the Seventh Doctor harboured a strong hatred for the Daleks, refusing to believe that a single timeline existed where they were benevolent. (PROSE: ) He also distrusted the Ice Warriors, even after they renounced conflict. (PROSE: )
While Ace frequently described the Seventh Doctor as an "aging hippy", (TV: ; PROSE: , ) Guy de Carnac compared the Doctor to an owl, observing that "he [was] comfortable in the darkness", and also though the Doctor "[was] equally as adept at hunting down prey in cold blood". (PROSE: ) Fakrid believed the Doctor had "the mind of a genius", but also "prattle[d] like any other parasite". (PROSE: ) Dr. Smith, who initially saw the Doctor as a "great scientist", quickly changed her opinion of him to that of "an entertainer who might be hired for a children's party" after the Doctor started enthusiastically rambling. (PROSE: ) Lieutenant Frethil believed he "reek[ed] of subversion and dissent." (COMIC: )
The described the Seventh Doctor as "a portentous little feller, swaggering around, thinking he's got all the world's darkest secrets under his hat." (PROSE: ) Brigadier General Adrienne Kramer described him as "a manipulative little weirdo who was always up to something behind [her] back." (PROSE: ) When she encountered the Seventh Doctor shortly before her death, Evelyn Smythe criticised him for his scheming, manipulative nature, (AUDIO: ) while Melanie Bush described the man he became as "a liar and a user and quite possibly a murderer", and proclaimed that she wanted nothing more to do with him. (PROSE: ) When the Eighth Doctor had a tarot card reading, the Seventh Doctor was identified as "the Hanged Man". (PROSE: )
The Reborn Master described the Seventh Doctor as a "tiresome little man with [an] umbrella", (AUDIO: ) and as "a wily one", (AUDIO: ) while the Tremas Master described him as being "too busy setting plans and traps" to realise the ones "set for him". (GAME: ) Jason considered the Seventh Doctor "no fun" due to his secret keeping and "tantrums". (PROSE: )
Alan Fitzgerald, a summer intern at the Gogglebox, believed that the Seventh Doctor knew everything. (AUDIO: ) The Black Dalek considered the Doctor's apparent ruthlessness to be "impressive". (AUDIO: ) The Doctor's first TARDIS described the Seventh Doctor as "the schemer". (AUDIO: ) Helen referred to him as "the Thinker". (AUDIO: )
Though he was afraid of it, (PROSE: ) the Doctor wished to die alone, (PROSE: ) unconscious and on his own terms, (PROSE: ) and also believed it would be best if all traces of him were erased. (PROSE: ) While the Doctor originally thought he would "beat chance and choose the moment to die", he later confessed to Benny that he knew he would die "[without] control, surrounded by strangers, [and] helpless." (PROSE: ) He later told Chris Cwej that he viewed regenerating as both a good and bad feeling in the same way that driving a car very fast was exhilarating despite the potentially fatal outcome, with the Doctor calling regeneration a "miniature death". (PROSE: )
As he pleaded with Grace Holloway not to operate on him after he got shot in a gang shootout in San Francisco, (TV: ) the Doctor privately despaired how it was "not [his] time" and that he had "too much left to do". (AUDIO: ) Before he let out a final scream as he died, (TV: ) Holloway noted that the Doctor seemed "very clear, very determined and very powerful", while also looking "very serious, but also very frightened of something", and felt that he was "rarely afraid of anything". (PROSE: ) A mental manifestation of the Seventh Doctor within the Doctor's mind later lamented that his demise was "[un]dignified" and expressed annoyance that he "[hadn't seen] that one coming". (AUDIO: )
=== Habits and quirks ===
The Seventh Doctor spoke with a Scottish accent, (TV: ) which Bernice Summerfield noted was of the Highlands. (PROSE: ) However, when necessary, the Doctor adopted other accents too. (PROSE: , , , ) When talking about Daleks, his voice would develop a harder edge to it. (PROSE: )
He occasionally displayed a tendency to mangle and combine Earth idioms, creating s. (TV: , ) After Mel described the habit as "really annoying", the Doctor promised that he would try to stop doing it, (AUDIO: ) though would later slip up on his promise long after she had left the TARDIS. (PROSE: , , , )
The Seventh Doctor would often introduce himself by saying, "I'm the Doctor, and this is my friend…" (TV: , , , )
He sometimes described a situation as "splendid", (TV: , , ) and would say that "monsters" feared him in their "nightmares". (PROSE: , , , ; AUDIO: )
The Doctor was fond of using the term "grubby" when explaining his mission to keep an artefact away from his adversaries, such as when keeping the Hand of Omega out of the Daleks' "grubby little protuberances", (TV: ) when he sent the TARDIS away to keep the Robot Ants from getting their "grubby little mandibles" on it, (PROSE: ) and when preventing the fake skull of Jesus Christ from falling into Louis de Citeaux and Francisco Guzman's "grubby little protuberances". (PROSE: )
While he sometimes rested both hands on his hips, (TV: , , , ) the Seventh Doctor would more often place a single hand on his hip while gesturing with his other hand, (TV: , , , , , , , ) such as by grasping a single hand on his lapel. (TV: , , , , , , )
He also made a habit of propping himself up on an arm when lounging on something, (TV: , , , , , ) and leaning on his umbrellas with both hands. (TV: , , , , , , )
While he would mostly raise his hat as a friendly greeting and a farewell, the Doctor would also raise his hat in mockery as he escaped a defeated adversary or when his enemies retreated. (TV: , , , )
He often held his hands crossed behind his back as he leaned forwards, (TV: , , , , , , , ) and strutted about with his hands in his trouser pockets. (TV: , , , , )
As a show of affection, the Doctor would gently tap his friends on the nose. (TV: , , , ,, )
When in thought, he would rub his fingers with his thumb, (TV: , , , , , , ) tug at his ear, (TV: , , , ) scratch at his mouth, (TV: , , , , , , , , ) or use his umbrella to play with his lips. (TV: , , , )
The Seventh Doctor made a habit of randomly reading books with "Doctor" in the title, (TV: , ) and would sometimes backflip his hat onto his head. (TV: , , , )
When his companions acted in a way that was detrimental to his plans by reacting prematurely, the Doctor would warn them not to act with a stern, "Not now".
=== Skills ===
The Seventh Doctor was a grand manipulator, often utilising his choice of words to persuade others into a decision of his choosing, (TV: , ) or devising an unscrupulous scheme to defeat his adversaries. (TV: , , , ) He had a tendency to play the long game in his schemes, preferring to keep his plans subtle and "behind the scenes", (PROSE: , ) but would often focus on overcomplicating his plans to the point that he overlooked a more simpler approach. (PROSE: ) When his plans went awry, or an unexpected element developed, the Doctor was efficient at improvising solutions. (TV: , ) However, as he got older, his power of persuasion weakened, with the Doctor unable to convince Grace Holloway not to operate on him. (TV: )
Despite his stature, the Doctor was capable of both directly and indirectly taking control of situations involving strangers, using his greater intelligence to assess and direct events. (TV: , , ) Even though he loathed using violence, (TV: , ) he also showed a skill at unarmed combat, being able to briefly overpower a judo trained Mel, (TV: ) wrestle a Cheetah virus infected Master, (TV: ) strike down two Hitler Youths with a series of slaps, (PROSE: ) and disarm Aoi using martial arts. (PROSE: ) He also possessed the strength to bend a gun barrel as a demonstration, (PROSE: ) and could still best Grendel of Gracht in a swordfight. (PROSE: )
Something of a showman, the Seventh Doctor was an adept physical performer, and deployed a repertoire of magic tricks, illusions and escape artistry as part of his plans. (TV: , , ) He could escape from handcuffs, (COMIC: ) juggle five balls with his feet while standing on his head and gargling "The Star-Spangled Banner" (PROSE: ) and whistle with a small bomb in his mouth, (PROSE: ) but he could not dance. (PROSE: ) He also possessed the necessary accuracy to lasso a small target and improvise a zip wire, (TV: ) was capable of picking a lock with a hairpin, (PROSE: ) and could crack a safe by listening to the turns of its dial. (AUDIO: )
With a thought process that worked faster than his mouth, (PROSE: ) the Doctor could memories entire files after flicking through them, (PROSE: , ) and was capable of mentally keeping up with a ship that thought picoseconds was a long time. (PROSE: )
With a touch to the head, the Doctor could read minds, (PROSE: ) calm a person, (PROSE: , , ) erase memories, (PROSE: ) induce someone to sleep, (PROSE: ) and read a person's dreams, (PROSE: ) though he could also influence people's decisions with just a stare and a quiet voice. (TV: ) He was also able to receive telepathic distress call, (COMIC: ) telepathically link himself with the Silurians, (PROSE: ) and set up a psychological block in Sally Morgan's limbic system by touching her forehead. (AUDIO: ) However, his powers of hypnotism had different results on different cultures in different ages, and he occasionally needed aide to successfully hypnotise someone. (PROSE: )
After opening a surgery in the alternate universe TARDIS, the Doctor was able to remove genetic implants from soldiers modified by the Skrak, and sew Sareth's hand back on to him while doing so. (PROSE: ) He could also perform CPR. (PROSE: )
The Doctor could see in the dark, (PROSE: ) and his sense of smell was sensitive enough for him to differentiate between ketones, ammonia, amino acids, aldehydes, butyric acid and geosmin in cheese, though he could choose to switch off the part of his brain that identified the chemicals to enjoy the taste of the cheese. (PROSE: ) He could also identify blood samples by taste, (PROSE: ) see ultraviolet light, (PROSE: ) and perform a biochemical analysis by drinking chemicals. (PROSE: )
The Seventh Doctor also showed a knack for playing the spoons as a musical instrument, (TV: , , , ) though he was known to play them less as he matured into schemer. (AUDIO: ) Representing Earth in lieu of Nicky Newman, he won the 309th Intergalactic Song Contest by playing the spoons, (AUDIO: ) and also broke the galactic record for continuous spoon-playing, with sixty-seven hours to his name. (PROSE: ) He could also play the harmonica, (PROSE: ) and the piano. (PROSE: )
He could ride a motorcycle, (TV: ) drive a van, (TV: ) and was still capable of driving Bessie. (TV: ) He could also ride a horse, (TV: ) and pilot a helicopter. (PROSE: )
He was also an admired chief, able to work as a cook on the Schirron Dream, (PROSE: ) with Ace saying he made "great omelettes". (AUDIO: ) He also knew how to make sofrit pages and could mix a good sangria, (AUDIO: ) and make scrambled eggs (PROSE: ) and a cappuccino. (PROSE: )
Claiming to be "fluent in everything", (PROSE: ) the Doctor could speak the ancient dialect of the Japanese royal family, (PROSE: ) read the writing of the Silurians, (PROSE: ) swear in Old Low Gallifreyan, (PROSE: ) knew sign language, (PROSE: ) and could use his eyebrows to communicate with Benny. (PROSE: ) He could also perfectly mimic the local fauna of his surroundings, (TV: ) such as a lion's roar. (PROSE: )
Without the aid of the TARDIS's translation circuit, he could speak Welsh (TV: ) Russian, (TV: ) German, (PROSE: ) Tewa, (PROSE: ) French, (PROSE: ) Berberese, (PROSE: ) ancient Betelgeusian, (PROSE: ) plain Anglo-Saxon, (PROSE: ) and Draconian. (PROSE: )
The Doctor could levitate off the ground whilst in meditation, (PROSE: ) deliberately lower his intelligence, (PROSE: ) and sculpture a sandcastle in the shape of the Great City of the Exxilons. (PROSE: ) While he could forget names, the Doctor never forgot what someone looked like. (AUDIO: )
== Appearance ==
The Seventh Doctor was a short man, who initially appeared to be in his mid-forties, (TV: ) with his human counterpart being able to pull off being 48-years-old. (PROSE: ) By the end of his life, however, the Doctor had aged significantly. (TV: ) He was ambidextrous, (PROSE: ) and had a small tattoo. (PROSE: )
With an animated face, the Doctor had expressive bulgy eyebrows, (TV: ) and, according to Ace, three distinctive smiles: his "cartoon grin", his "secret freak-the-enemy-smile" and his "halfway smile", the last of which unnerved Ace. (PROSE: )
Though his eyes were naturally blue, (PROSE: ) they would often change colour, (PROSE: ) appearing as grey, (PROSE: ) green, (PROSE: ) brown, (PROSE: ) black, (PROSE: ) and a mix of blue and grey. (PROSE: )
Despite the fact his body could heal at an accelerated rate, (PROSE: ) the Doctor acquired a number of scars on his person, (PROSE: ) from the removal of Ship's flower, (PROSE: ) a bullet shattering one of his hearts, (PROSE: ) and Ace stabbing his left shoulder, (PROSE: ) with the Doctor occasionally feeling pain emanating from the wound. (PROSE: , , )
Ace thought that in his "get-up", the Seventh Doctor resembled a "dance-hall comic". (PROSE: ) Peri Brown described him as a "goofy little guy in a weird pullover", (AUDIO: ) and Josiah W. Dogbolter also considered him a "pipsqueak". (COMIC: ) Adrienne Kramer described the Seventh Doctor as being a "short and dark-haired [man], [looking] somewhere in his forties, [and] with a Scottish accent." (PROSE: )
The First Doctor described his seventh incarnation as the "short Scottish fellow" who would "turn things to his own ends". (PROSE: )
=== Hair and grooming ===
While he had a full set of brown hair after his regeneration, (TV: ) the Doctor allowed his greying hair to grow out into tufts on the sides of his head, while it thinned a bit at the top of his scalp, by the end of his life. (TV: )
=== Clothing ===
==== Main attires ====
After many failed attempts to find a new look, the Seventh Doctor eventually settled on a single breasted ivory safari-styled jacket with a red paisley handkerchief in his left pocket, a Clan Wallace tartan scarf under his lapels, with a beige pullover adorned with cherry question marks and turquoise zigzag patterns, with grey-brown tweed plaid trousers and a pair of burgundy braces either pulled over (TV: ) or tucked under the pullover. (TV: ) Under the pullover, he wore a white shirt with a scarlet paisley necktie, and completed his outfit with a pair of two-tone white and brown brogued spectator shoes. He also had a chained fob watch attached to his left lapel, while the watch itself rested in his upper left breast pocket, (TV: ) that could function as a gadget to aid in his adventures. (TV: , ) After losing his tartan scarf during his clash with the First Rani, (PROSE: ) he replaced it with a crimson paisley one. (TV: ) He wore either matching polka-dot socks (COMIC: ) or one navy blue sock and one Rocky and Bullwinkle sock. (PROSE: )
As he matured into more of a schemer, the Doctor began wearing a chocolate brown jacket, and changed his hatband, handkerchief and necktie to ones in more subdued shades of burgundy (TV: ) and brown. (TV: ) Occasionally, he would remove his pullover as well, (COMIC: , , ) and would wear a tan brown duffle coat when caught in the rain. (TV: ; PROSE: , )
During his escapades as Time's Champion, the Doctor replaced his usual attire with a wrinkled cream-coloured linen suit, with a glistening silk shirt worn with a green silk cravat, and a paisley banded white fedora (PROSE: ) that he had had made especially for him. (PROSE: ) Worn on his lapel would be either Cameca's brooch, (PROSE: ) or a Smiley Face pin badge. (PROSE: ) He would later replace his cravat for four-in-hand ties coloured in rust orange, (PROSE: ) ruby, (PROSE: ) sapphire blue, (PROSE: ) lime green, (PROSE: ) Prussian blue paisley, (PROSE: ) or solid red. (PROSE: )
After his confrontation with the Brotherhood of the Immanent Flesh, (PROSE: ) the Doctor began wearing a peanut brown tweed jacket, with a scarlet brocade waistcoat, an ivory shirt, green plaid trousers and a black and brown zigzag patterned tie. (TV: )
On his head, the Doctor wore battered cream colonial-styled Panama hat with an identical paisley handkerchief folded into a hatband and an upturned brim. (TV: ) He later replaced his battered hat with a newer one. (TV: ) He also wore a black Tank-styled wristwatch on his right wrist, (TV: ) which he later replaced with a sportier round watch, (TV: ) and then with a rectangular faced tank watch. (TV: )
After finding his old signet ring in the TARDIS console, (COMIC: ) the Doctor started wearing it again through numerous adventures, (COMIC: , ) until he gave it to Joan Redfern. (PROSE: )
==== Other clothes ====
Whilst in Nazi Germany, the Doctor briefly donned a black leather trenchcoat and a black soft hat. (PROSE: )
During his time in Chicago in 1929, the Doctor donned a grey striped suit and fedora. (PROSE: )
Whilst visiting Betrushia, the Doctor wore an orange waistcoat, a white shirt with a Gladstone collar and a black cravat with his dark jacket. (PROSE: )
On Youkali, the Doctor wore a burgundy waistcoat and a tweed jacket. (PROSE: )
=== Umbrellas ===
After his regeneration stabilised, the Doctor took to carrying around an umbrella as part of his day-to-day outfit, using them as physical props, usually to disarm and trip opponents, (TV: , , , ) as well as using them as grappling hooks, (TV: ) and as measuring rods. (TV: )
He initially carried his previous incarnation's rainbow umbrella, but was forced to leave it in 's base on Lakertya, where it was destroyed. (TV: ) During a clear out, he found a replacement within the TARDIS wardrobe: (PROSE: ) a black umbrella with a whangee handle. (TV: )
After his black umbrella was damaged, (AUDIO: ) the Doctor acquired a new umbrella with an elaborate handle in the shape of a large, cherry coloured question mark. (TV: ) The handle could split in half and unfold into a makeshift stool, (COMIC: ) could fire a small gold pellet that contained a hallucinogenic truth drug, (PROSE: ) and was also detachable, hiding a secret compartment containing a vial of Time Lord restorative. (COMIC: )
Attempting to "wean himself off" his umbrella, the Doctor took to carrying a walking-cane as his reign as Time's Champion drew to an end. (PROSE: )
== Behind the scenes ==
=== Information from invalid sources ===
In COMIC: , the Seventh Doctor is shown to be travelling with Frobisher, a companion of the Sixth Doctor, and Frobisher refers to Peri Brown as if she had recently left. The timeline given in the Doctor Who Magazine article Stripped for action? claims that the Seventh Doctor had picked up Peri and Frobisher to travel with him until Peri left to live with Yrcanos.
=== Casting ===
* Actors considered for the role of the Seventh Doctor before Sylvester McCoy was cast included Chris Jury, Tony Robinson, McCoy's mentor Ken Campbell, Rowan Atkinson and Alexei Sayle, with Andrew Sachs and Dermot Crowley also auditioning for the role. Sayle had previously played the DJ in TV: , and Atkinson would later played the Ninth Doctor in TV: .
=== In popular culture ===
* After the original series ended, Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred played characters called the Professor and Ace, respectively, in the Audio Adventures in Time & Space audio series produced by BBV Productions. The stories were initially implied to be a continuation of Doctor Who, but these connections decreased when the Professor was renamed the Dominie and Aldred's character Alice.
* In the BBC medical soap opera , McCoy guest-starred as Graham Capelli, an actor who had played the titular role in The Amazing Lollipop Man, a cult 1980s children's television series. The character of the Lollipop Man had many similarities to the Doctor.
* An Easter Egg referencing the Seventh Doctor appears in the seventh episode of the first season of the Nickelodeon children's horror series, Are You Afraid of the Dark? , "The Tale of the Captured Souls" , in which the Seventh Doctor's hat and coat can be seen hanging from a hatstand at two points in the episode.
=== The Cartmel Masterplan ===
Season 25 and 26 had broad hints that the Doctor was not simply a Time Lord, as previously shown and stated. This overarching plot, conceived by Script Editor Andrew Cartmel and referred to by fans as the Cartmel Masterplan, was designed to restore an element of mystery in the Doctor and his true nature as in the stories of the first and second incarnations. Although the cancellation of the series at the end of Season 26 prevented further on-screen exploration of this arc, it was later given full rein in the Virgin New Adventures novel series.
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