Rose Tyler

Rose Tyler, portrayed by Billie Piper, becomes the Doctor's first companion of the 2005 reboot of Doctor Who. Rose was the first Doctor Who companion many young fans had ever experienced, and so she now holds a special place for them.
She is the first companion to have a family as a significant part of her life, and the first to experience domestic conflict surrounding her travels with the Doctor. While she is not the first companion to kiss the Doctor, she is the first companion to canonically consider a romantic relationship with the Doctor; for this, and other reasons, her character can be a source of conflict among fans, and she can often be the target of character bashing. 
== Canon ==
In Series 1, Rose is established as being 19 years old. This makes her the first contemporary Earth teenager to travel with the Doctor since Dodo Chaplet in 1966.
Rose grew up on the Powell Estate in London. Her father died when she was a baby, leaving her mother Jackie to raise her alone. When the Doctor first meets her, she is working in a retail shop and dating Mickey Smith, a neighbor she has known all her life, after leaving school early.
As the Bad Wolf, Rose is briefly able to see all of time and space. What she does with this ability outside of canon - and how much she remembers afterwards - are open to fannish speculation.
During the second series Rose is separated from The Doctor and left behind in Pete's World, an alternative universe. There Rose goes to work for Torchwood.
==Fandom==
For many new fans, Rose was their first companion and took on a special significance. She appears regularly on the first two seasons of the new Doctor Who series, and has several guest appearances in later seasons.
Some, including showrunner Steven Moffat, give Rose and actress Billie Piper a share of the credit for the successful return of Doctor Who.Moffat Explains
===Fan Reaction===
For much of seasons 1 & 2, Rose was the primary companion of the Doctor. There were many fans who identified with Rose's regular-girl origins. Plenty of people have unexciting jobs and annoying family members, and dream of running away with the Doctor. Rose has her flaws - for example, she is unkind to Sarah Jane before finally befriending her - and her struggles make her human.
==== Critical or Negative Reactions ====
As with any new addition to the canon of Doctor Who, her character was not universally loved. Some fans disliked Rose as a character, believing her to be a Mary Sue.Rose Tyler post at the CanonSues on Livejournal, 2008. This post inspired considerable debate. In the first season, Rose was able to absorb the energies of the TARDIS. While this almost killed her, and did not leave her with lasting powers, the fandom reaction was split. Some fans disliked the idea that the human companion had saved the day, believing it was not reflective of her actual ability. In other sections of fandom, this scene led to Mary Sue-ish tropes gaining popularity in Rose centric fanfiction. It also led some fans to view Rose as a companion who was essentially the Doctor's equal. 
Many fans disliked this focus on Rose, as the one true companion to the Doctor. They also disliked the focus on her romantic attraction to the Doctor and their relationship: 
===Pairings===
Rose is popularly shipped with some incarnations of the Doctor (Doctor/Rose), usually Nine, Ten, or Ten II (the meta-crisis Tenth Doctor). She has not canonically met other incarnations, but she's shipped with them as well. In fact, Rose/Doctor is usually within the top ten ships for almost every incarnation of the Doctor, from the first to thirteenth, on Ao3, with the fourteenth and fifteenth Doctor being the exceptions. 
She is also sometimes paired in crossover fic with other characters played by Tenth Doctor actor David Tennant, such as Alec Hardy of Broadchurch. These works are often tagged Teninch. Works pairing any version of the Doctor with a character played by Rose Tyler actress Billie Piper is tagged Doctor Piper. RPF pairing Piper and Tennant is popular as well.
Rose has also been shipped with Captain Jack Harkness, Mickey Smith, and Donna Noble. The threesome pairing of Rose/Jack/Doctor was also quite popular, particularly during Nine's run.
===Common Tropes & Storylines===
* Bad Wolf Rose: Bad Wolf altered Rose, sometimes becoming a Timelady, with a Timelords lifespan and telepathic ability
* Inter-dimensional Travel: Dimension hopping Rose often meets different iterations of the Doctor, other companions, or River Song.
**During the time Rose was trapped in Pete's World, she made numerous efforts to contact the Doctor. Evidence of these efforts appeared in S4. Beyond that, little is explained in canon about what she did in that time, leaving it a rich setting for fanworks. While she is working for Torchwood, some fans believe that she studied physics and engineering, becoming adept enough to build the dimension cannon that allowed her to return to the Doctor's universe.
* Life in Pete's World: Post-Doomsday many works focused on her life with the half-human Metacrisis Doctor (Tentoo) on Pete's World.
** Works often included her growing relationship with Tentoo, with many of these works slow burn domestic fics
**Some fic authors headcanoned that Rose was already pregnant in Doomsday, leading to angst but also pregnancy and kidfics
* Past relationships: Rose's former boyfriend Jimmy Stone often appears in fanfic, even though he never appeared on screen. Fandom consensus is that Jimmy was not a good boyfriend.
* Hurt/Comfort: there is a great deal of fanworks with emotional hurt/comfort where Rose is being comforted after canon events or some other type of angst. However, there is also fanworks where Rose is the one providing comfort to The Doctor or other humans who are scared by circumstances.
* Canon Divergence AU: stories diverging from canon are popular. Where to diverge varies, but the episode Doomsday is a popular choice, these may include Rose not being separated from the Doctor or finding a way back to him.
=== Challenges ===
* The Rose Tyler Ficathon (2006)
==Fanworks==
===Fanfics===
*The Polar Bears' Golf Club by Doyle -- gen adventure with Ace
*Stardust Girl by riversrunthroughme - She's doing this to him because she loves him - well, some other version of him. The one in the real world - but she's doing this because she loves him. Really. Really, really. He'll understand soon. Just not right now. But he'll understand. Eventually, Rose Tyler will make him understand everything, even this. Words: 9548. Rose/10.5. Dark!fic
*An Ordinary Life in the AU by Elwyne - Rose and the Doctor's adventures in Pete's World
*Non-Linear Love Story by bendingsignpost
*The Many Names of Rose Tyler by JustAnotherGhostwriter
===Fanart===
* Rose Tyler by Ptolemie
* Bad Wolf by janey-jane
* The Bad Wolf by naturalshocks
* "Are you afraid of the big bad wolf?" - digital painting by alicexz
* Rose and Nine by Tissine
* Rose Tyler, Bad Wolf* by eringarey
* Rose Tyler by taardisblu
* Rose by MoishPain
=== Vids ===
* This is Your Life (Doctor Who vid) by thehush
===Meta===
* I only take the best. I've got Rose an Idol Reflection essay by Belle (2006)
* Essay explaining that Rose isn't "vain" in 2nd Season
* Essay explaining that Rose was acting characteristically like Rose in Journey’s End
* Doctor Who 50th anniversary: 5 reasons why Rose Tyler is the show's best companion ever
* Doctor Who Theory – Was “The Moment” in Day of the Doctor Actually Bad Wolf?
* A fanon family tree, version one and two. by an Unknown Artist
File:TylerFamily.jpeg|Doctor Who Family Tree 1, artist unknown
File:Family Tree.jpg|Doctor Who Family Tree 2, artist unknown
==Example Art Gallery==
File:Enlightenment no.137.jpg|Cover art of Enlightenment no.137 by Erin Allen (2006)
File:Rose by ontv.jpg|alt=drawing of a head shoulders portrait of Rose Tyler on a black and white background|Rose by ONTV (2008)
==Archives and Communities==
* Rose Tyler works at FFN
* Bad Wolf works at FFN
* Rose Tyler works at AO3
* Bad Wolf works at AO3
* Dimension Hopping Rose works at Tumblr
===LiveJournal Communities===
* rose_lives - Rose Tyler
* billie_love - Billie Piper
* available_very - Rose / Captain Jack Harkness
* See Doctor/Rose for pairing communities.
===Deviantart groups===
* Rose Tyler Love
* Rose x Clara
* Donna x Rose Love
==References==
Category:Whoniverse Characters