The Ninth Doctor

"Fantastic!"

**The Ninth Doctor,** or Nine, is a major protagonist from **Doctor Who.**

## Canon

A Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, The Doctor grew up a poor orphan in an old barn far outside the Capitol. Eventually, after growing dissatisfied with their people and heartbroken over the loss of his good friend The Master, decided to leave their home with their granddaughter, Susan. Stealing an old Type 40 TARDIS, they took to the stars and set out to see the universe. The TARDIS, of course, didn't mind: It too had longed to see the stars, and the three of them went on a grand journey throughout existence, making the planet Earth their resting point—and the place where Susan attended school, at Coal Hill Secondary.

Since then, The Doctor has traveled the breadth and width of time and space, made many friends and many allies, and made their mark on the universe: The Doctor and the sound of their little blue box bring hope wherever they go—to even the darkest of hours, to the end of time and space and the birth of stars and civilisations, The Doctor has been there to defend against the darkness. They have brought along with them many companions, from the fellow Time Lord Romana, to the extraordinary humans like Rose Tyler, Sarah-Jane Smith and Jo Grant, and even the shape changing android Kamelion and the loyal robot dog K9.

The Doctor's brilliant intelligence allows them to devise schemes to save the day from unstoppable entities, like the reality-warping Rassilon, the Great Old Ones that held the universe in place known as the Grace, the walking paradox Time Lord boogieman, the Then and The Now, and even dark copies of themself like Zagreus and the Valeyard. Perhaps even more impressive is that they have defeated such insurmountable enemies while upholding their moral code of honour, justice and kindness; They will only kill as a last resort, and for someone like The Doctor, they are rarely pushed to their last resort.

With a robust set of abilities at their disposal like the space and time travelling TARDIS, the weird and wonderful Sonic Screwdriver, and two hearts beating with love for the universe and all who live in it, The Doctor will give their life if it means just one is saved—and that courage and determination is their true strength.

## Pre-Paradise

The Ninth Doctor in Multiverse Paradise: Dystopia is taken from a point in the timeline before the first episode of series 1, *Rose.* He has spent a significant amount of time alive, however, and has experienced the events of the Big Finish Ninth Doctor Adventures and Ninth Doctor Chronicles, as well as the popular fan audio *Exhausted Supplies*. After battling the Cybermen on the set of Metropolis and reuniting with the Brigadier, the Ninth Doctor set off into the universe once more inside his TARDIS—but suddenly found himself pulled off course. His ship had collided with itself from another point in time, and the resulting blast of energy from the Blinovitch Limitation Effect threw the TARDIS out of the Vortex and sent it tumbling down into the Dystopia's pocket universe.

## Gallery

The TARDIS, The Doctor's time machine and home.
## Trivia

* Multiverse Paradise is not the Ninth Doctor's first crossover—most notably, he appeared in Lego Dimensions, alongside several other MP characters such as Batman and Sonic The Hedgehog. His voice clips were not recorded for the game, however, and instead make use of archive audio from the television show.