Donna Noble

Donna Noble was one of The Doctor's companions during the Tenth Doctor era of Doctor Who.
Her relationship with the Doctor in canon was a strong friendship, without the shippy vibes that cropped up with several of the other New Who companions.
==Canon==
Donna Noble first meets the Tenth Doctor when she is mysteriously transported into his TARDIS as she walks down the aisle to get married. Following the defeat of the Racnoss, Donna is upset and grieving, and she declines to travel with the Doctor. 
She does meet the Doctor again and they save the world from the Adipose. This time Donna accepts his invitation to travel with him.
In the Library, Donna meets River Song, and River provides the first hints that Donna's days with the Doctor could be numbered. 
When Donna visits a fortune teller, she is infected by a Time Beetle, which causes her to make a different choice in her own past. As a result, an alternate timeline is created where she never meets the Doctor. He is killed in his encounter with the Racnoss; without his intervention, the world is drastically changed from the world Donna previously knew. Ultimately Donna time travels to change her own fate for the better of the world. 
In the battle against Davros and the Daleks, Donna witnesses a partial regeneration - in which the Doctor channels the extra energy into the dismembered hand he lost during his last regeneration. Trapped in a dissolving TARDIS with the strangely glowing hand, she accidentally touches it, bringing about the Meta-Crisis. A second Doctor grows from the hand, a part-human version with many of Donna's personality traits and a single heart, while Donna herself gets the Doctor's mind. Together, Donna and the Meta-Crisis Doctor return to Davros' ship, where Donna distracts the Daleks and the Meta-Crisis destroys them, saving the Time Lord Doctor and his companions. 
As the Time Lord mind burns her brain, they realize the only way to save her is to destroy every shred of the Doctor in her mind, including every memory of her time with him. She begs him not to do it, but the Doctor can't let her die. Donna wakes up at home with her mother and Wilf, and briefly greets their friend John Smith, of whom she has no memory. 
Later Donna goes on to marry Shaun Temple.
During the 60th anniversary specials, the Doctor runs into Donna, and because of a crisis situation where the were trying to stop an alien called The Meep, Donna was forced to remember her original time with the Doctor, but it did not destroy her as it should have, because she had shared her power/memories with her daughter. They went on to have more adventures, and then Fourteen settled down in semi-retirement with Donna and her family. 
==Fandom==
Donna Noble is generally very well received in the fandom, and became a much beloved companion.
{Initial negative reaction viz Runaway Bride, turning into much-beloved companion over the course of Series 4?}
Fans often debated Donna's canonical departure from the show, where her memories of travelling with the doctor are removed for her own survival. Some have called it misogynist. In the essay Double Trouble: The Death of Doctordonna by PlaidAdder, she argues that "of all the companions (in the new series) up to this point, Donna comes the closest to being the Doctor’s peer; and I would suggest that this is a major part of her appeal to the viewers," and that by erasing her memories the writers indicate that "this partnership thing was fun as an experiment; but they’re not going to make it permanent."Quoted text from: Double Trouble: The Death of Doctordonna by PlaidAdder. AO3, posted 2013-10-17.
=== Common Tropes and Storylines in Fanworks ===
* Donna Gets her Memories Back: Probably the most common trope in Donna Noble stories was fixing the end of series 4, which many fans were unhappy with for taking away Donna’s memories and thus the character development that had happened over the course of the series.
* Humor: fanworks focusing on Donna often have a humorous bent, or contain humorous scenes, similar to canon.
* Donna Meeting Other Incarnations of The Doctor: although the majority of fanworks feature the Tenth (and later the Fourteenth) Doctor, it is not uncommon in fanworks to have Donna meet other iterations of the Doctor, from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth.
* Donna Meeting Other Characters: having Donna meet other Whoverse characters that she did not meet in canon is common, a popular choice being Amy Pond.
=== Pairings ===
The majority of fanworks are often focused on the canonical friendship between The Doctor and Donna, or on shipping the two of them together. There is also a small number of fanworks that feature Donna's relationship with her later canonical husband Shawn Temple. Femslash pairings are very small, but the largest ones are with Rose Tyler and Martha Jones, both of whom Donna met canonically.
* The Doctor & Donna Noble
* Doctor/Donna Noble
* Donna Noble/Shaun Temple 
* Donna Noble/Rose Tyler
* Martha Jones/Donna Noble
=== Challenges ===
* Donna Noble Ficafest (2008)
==Fanworks==
=== Fanart ===
* Donna Noble - Citizen of the Universe by Cotterill23
* Donna Noble by slugette
* Donna Noble - Painter IX by Girl-on-the-Moon
* I'd travel in the TARDIS... - PAINTING by BakaSara
* Doctor Who Month #2: Donna Noble by andepoul
* Doctor Donna by Chouchanna
* Doctor Who - Donna Noble by art-by-Shiela
===Fanfiction===
* Experimental Science by Corona.
* A Change is as Good as a Rest by netgirl. Rose/Donna femslash.
* Turning Left Again by dotfic. Short gen coda to episode 4x13.
* Displacement (The Longest Three-Week Day) by michelel72. Crossover with SGA
* A Salt, Rice Flour and Dextrose Rebirth by Adrian Tullberg
===Vids===
* Don't Slow Down by seduff, dashafeather said of Don't Slow Down, "This is very well edited, fast paced, and truly captures the YAY-BFF feeling series 4 had."fanvid recs, part 1 post by dashafeather, 21 Feb 2010. (Accessed 4 Feb 2012)
==Meta==
* All About Donna by shaggydogstail, an essay on Donna's fate.
* by torn_eledhwen
* Double Trouble: The Death of Doctordonna by PlaidAdder
* by karla-land (2012)
* by gorengal, posted to het_reccers (2011)
==Archives==
* Works tagged Donna Noble @ Archive of Our Own
* Tenth Doctor era fic @ A Teaspoon and an Open Mind
* Works tagged Donna Noble @ FanFiction.net
*Married on Mars LiveJournal community
==Resources==
*Character bio at TARDIS Index File (canon resource)
*Donna Noble page at Wikipedia (canon resource)
*Being Magnificent: the journey of Donna Noble essay by torn_eledhwen at Idol Reflection (8/2009)
*Character Manifesto: Donna Noble - Doctor Who post by gorengal (includes fic recs) at Het Reccers (2/2011)
==References==
Category:Whoniverse Characters