#vicki zoe ace ryan nyssa

[sandymybeloved]

oh no, just realised rose is going to be in the next tournament, please no, I don't think I can bare to see her win again

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Alternate Doctor Who Companion Endings

The Hartnell Years

Barbara: becomes an Aztec queen

Ian: Stabbed by a TARDIS-possessed Susan running with scissors

Susan: Eaten by a normal-sized Earth woodlouse while shrunk

Vicky: Conscripted into a civil war between large-sized non-Earth moths and ants

Steven: arrested for mugging a man for his Rolex in 1066

Katerina: journeys with the Doctor for eight multi-part serials before falling in love with a Samurai and staying in Edo period Japan

Sara Kingdom: becomes a Golden Era Hollywood stunt actor

---

The Troughton Years

Polly: Becomes a fish person

Ben: Conscripted into being a Highlander

Jamie: New face new man

Victoria: Killed by a Cybermat

Zoe: vanishes in Foam

-----

The Pertwee Years

Liz Shaw: falls in love with a Silurian

Jo: accidentally drops the Doctor's tupperware box of anti-matter

------

The Baker Years v1

Sarah-Jane: stays on Peladon to pioneer feminism

Harry Sullivan: accidentally replaced by a Zygon

Leela: steamed

Romana 1: a Mishap with a giant squid on a methane refinery. Regenerates.

Romana 2: becomes a vampire

------

The Davison Years

Nyssa: stays on Earth to become a paleontologist

Tegan: goes home with the wrong Doctor (it was a choice of 5, whoops)

Adric: gets lost in an Escher building. Left behind.

Turlough: succeeds in killing the Doctor. Sent home by the Black Guardian with an extremely silly hat

------

The Baker Years v2

Peri: turned into a bird by a slug

------

The McCoy Years

Mel: stays and joins a rebel punk roller derby team and takes on alien!Thatcherite non-Britain

Ace: becomes a Time Lord (with a baseball bat)

------

The McGann Years

Grace: stays dead

Chang Lee: stays dead

------

The Eccleston Years

Adam: promoted and eaten by a gelatinous ceiling

Captain Jack: is so successful on Trinny and Suzannah that he gets and stars in his own future!TV show, How to Look Good Naked. Becomes a celebrity. Stays.

------

The Tennant Years

Rose: possessed by Cassandra

Martha: blows up Earth with the Oster Haagen key

Donna: refinds her real life husband from Silence in the Library after being downloaded

Mickey: becomes parts in a clockwork spaceship

------

The Smith Years

Amy: becomes an Angel

Rory: finds out his fiance sexually assaulted another man the night before their wedding and leaves to build a better life

------

The Capaldi Years

Clara: genuinely leaves and never comes back after that moon bullshit because she's fed up with his abuse

Bill: stays on the Cyber-infested spaceship to lead the colonists as they start a new society

Nardole: Cyber-converted, but is the quirky comic relief robot. The Doctor leaves him with Bill, in case he's useful.

------

The Whittaker Years

Yaz: joins Zheng Yi Sao, is now starring in Our Flag Means Death s3

Graham: stays in the frog universe with his dead frog wife

Ryan: seduced by King James VI and I, becomes prince consort

Dan: goes to space with his grumpy dog friend on new adventures

[companion-showdown]

Who is the best companion to get intoxicated with?

this tournament was suggested anonymously

GRAND FINAL

Ace McShane vs Donna Noble

SEMI FINALS

Ace McShane vs Wilfred Mott

Jack Harkness vs Donna Noble

QUARTERFINALS

Ace McShane vs Jamie McCrimmon

Wilfred Mott vs Bill Potts

Jack Harkness vs Jo Grant

Donna Noble vs Iris Wildthyme

previous rounds under the cut

ROUND 4

Ace McShane vs K9

Ruby Sunday vs Jamie McCrimmon

Wilfred Mott vs Liz Shaw

Dan Lewis vs Bill Potts

Jack Harkness vs Irving Braxiatel

Madam Vastra vs Jo Grant

Donna Noble vs Missy

Iris Wildthyme vs The TARDIS

ROUND 3

Ace McShane vs River Song

Charley Pollard vs K9

Ruby Sunday vs Dodo Chaplet

Rose Tyler vs Jamie McCrimmon

Delgado!Master vs Wilfred Mott

Romana II vs Liz Shaw

Barbara Wright vs Dan Lewis

Frobisher vs Bill Potts

Jack Harkness vs Martha Jones

Polly Wright vs Irving Braxiatel

Madam Vastra vs Koschei

Sarah-Jane Smith vs Jo Grant

Donna Noble vs Bernice Summerfield

Clara Oswald vs Missy

Iris Wildthyme vs Romana I

The TARDIS vs Tegan Jovanka

ROUND 2

Day 2

Jack Harkness vs Liv Chenka

Martha Jones vs Alan Turing

Polly Wright vs Mel Bush

Chris Cwej vs Irving Braxiatel

Madam Vastra vs Jason Kane

Koschei vs McQueen!Master

Sarah-Jane Smith vs Narvin

Ruth Leonidus vs Jo Grant

Donna Noble vs Vislor Turlough

Bernice Summerfield vs Steven Taylor

Wolsey vs Clara Oswald

Clarence the Angel vs Missy

Iris Wildthyme vs Karra

Romana I vs Romana III

Compassion vs The TARDIS

Hebe Harrison vs Tegan Jovanka

Day 1

Ace McShane vs God the Computer

Evelyn Smythe vs River Song

Sabalom Glitz vs Charley Pollard

Miranda Who vs K9

Ruby Sunday vs Hex Schofield

Dodo Chaplet vs Panna

Vicki Pallister vs Rose Tyler

Peri Brown vs Jamie McCrimmon

Delgado!Master vs Fitz Kreiner

Wilfred Mott vs Leela

The Brigadier vs Romana II

Liz Shaw vs The Black Dalek Leader

Barbara Wright vs Nyssa

Lucie Miller vs Dan Lewis

Father Kreiner vs Frobisher

Amy Pond vs Bill Potts

ROUND 1

(too many links for the post to work but all matches under the tag intoxication: round 1)

Day 1

Ace McShane vs Adric

Tegan Jovanka vs Victoria Waterfield

Delgado!Master vs Aris

Jo Grant vs Sutekh

Jamie McCrimmon vs Kamelion

Barbara Wright vs Harry Sullivan

The Black Dalek Leader vs Mother Francesca

Irving Braxiatel vs Elspeth (Where Angels Fear)

Iris Wildthym vs Peter Summerfield

C'rizz vs God the Computer

Romana III vs Carmen Yeh

McQueen!Master vs Mr Crofton

Wolsey vs Sam Bishop

Jack Harkness vs Rory Williams

Bill Potts vs Mickey Smith

Donna Noble vs Ryan Sinclair

Day 2

K9 vs Grace Holloway

Sabalom Glitz vs Sara Kingdom

Polly Wright vs Mike Yates

The Brigadier vs Morbius

Panna vs Varsh

Vicki Pallister vs Karuna

Father Kreiner vs Cousin Anastasia

Alan Turing vs Captain Magenta

Compassion vs Jack McSpringheel

Evelyn Smythe vs Renée Thalia

Frobisher vs Sabbath Dei

Narvin vs Lola Denison

Ruby Sunday vs Ianto Jones

Missy vs Yasmin Khan

Madam Vastra vs Sally Sparrow

Dan Lewis vs Graham O'Brien

Day 3

Steven Taylor vs Ben Jackson

Sarah-Jane Smith vs Zoe Heriot

Leela vs Ian Chesterton

Soldeed vs Vislor Turlough

Tremas vs Peri Brown

Dodo Chaplet vs Duggan

Bernice Summerfield vs Pandora

Koschei vs Valarie Lockwood

Lucie Miller vs The War King

Charley Pollard vs Joseph (The Doomsday Manuscript)

Miranda Who vs Eliza

Chris Cwej vs Adrian Wall

Death's Head vs Hebe Harrison

Jane Austen vs Amy Pond

River Song vs Gwen Cooper

The TARDIS vs Beep the Meep

Day 4

Romana II vs Chang Lee

The Three Who Rule vs Liz Shaw

The Kandyman vs Nyssa

Sergeant Benton vs Karra

Mel Bush vs Susan Foreman

Romana I vs Erato

Jason Kane vs V.M.McCrimmon

Clarence the Angel vs Scarlette

Hex Schofield vs Cousin Justine

John (Another Girl, Another Planet) vs Liv Chenka

Ruth Leonidus vs D'Eon

Fitz Kreiner vs The Original Golden Dalek Emperor

Martha Jones vs Bannakaffalatta

Wilfred Mott vs Toshiko Sato

Rose Tyler vs Vincent van Gogh

Clara Oswald vs Nardole

links to previous tournaments

[cringecompanionapologist]

Reasons Companions Left the TARDIS

Susan: Abandoned in a post-apocalyptic wasteland to get laid

Ian and Barbara: London 1965

Vicki: Chose to stay in the post-apocalyptic wasteland to get laid

Katarina: Yeeted out an airlock

Sara: Technically died of old age

Steven: Became king of a nameless planet

Dodo: Just fucking left, I guess...

Ben and Polly: Got the fuck out at the first possible opportunity

Victoria: Retired from adventuring after suffering a nervous breakdown

Jamie and Zoe: Memory wiped by Time Lords

Liz: Got sick of the Doctor's shit

Jo: Left the Doctor to marry a younger, more human quirky scientist and go on adventures with him instead.

Harry: Went back to the military

Sarah Jane: Left behind because the Doctor was scared she'd get memory wiped by Time Lords

Leela: Only living person who actively wants to be on Gallifrey.

K9: Leela got custody.

Romana: Stayed in another dimension to avoid Gallifrey.

K9 II: Romana got custody.

Adric: Killed the dinosaurs

Nyssa: Got a job at a leper colony

Tegan: Thought the show was getting too violent and stopped watching.

Kamelion: Put out of his misery.

Turlough: Got custody of his brother and decided he should live in a more stable environment.

Peri: Died, but then JNT wimped out and changed it so she married Brian Blessed

Mel: Switched time travelers with Ace.

Ace: There are many theories

Adam: Failed his TARDIS entrance exam

Mickey: Left for a universe where people respected him, before going back to the first one because they respected him now.

Rose: Got stuck in that other universe. Eventually got her own Doctor so she'd stop breaking reality trying to get back to the first one.

Martha: Was way too good for this shit.

Donna: Mindwiped to save her life, then later got unmindwiped and kept the Doctor that unmindwiped her.

Amy and Rory: Got Weeping Angeled

Clara: Died, but also didn't, became a Magic Time Lesbian

Bill: Became a Cyberman, unbecame a Cyberman, became a Magic Time Lesbian

Ryan and Graham: Got bored of being companions or something

Dan: Left because the finale had too many characters

Yaz: Abandoned so RTD could have a clean slate

Ruby: Seemingly abandoned because her parental issues have been resolved while the Doctor's have not. He's being an idiot about it.

[companion-showdown-dot-org]

okay new system (anyone can be eliminated in the group stage), new regulars, new groups for the regulars. There will be one elimination in each of these groups, a further 8 slots will be filled by nominations on a tournament be tournament basis, the structure of the nominee groups and the eliminations per group could potentially be very different to those of the regulars and will be highly dependant on the number of nominations.

Here is the new list of regulars, dashes indicate where the groups change. As always, constructive criticism is welcome.

Classic Who

Ian Chesterton

Barbara Wright

Susan Foreman

Vicki Pallister

Steven Taylor

--------------------

Katarina

Sara Kingdom

Dodo Chaplet

Ben Jackson

Polly Wright

--------------------

Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

The Brigadier

Sergeant Benton

--------------------

Liz Shaw

Mike Yates

Jo Grant

Sarah-Jane Smith

Harry Sullivan

--------------------

Leela

K9

Romana I

Romana II

--------------------

Adric

Nyssa

Tegan Jovanka

Vislor Turlough

Kamelion

--------------------

Peri Brown

Mel Bush

Ace McShane

Grace Holloway

Chang Lee

NuWho

Rose Tyler

Mickey Smith

Adam Michell

Jack Harkness

Martha Jones

--------------------

Wilfred Mott

Donna Noble

River Song

Amy Pond

Rory Williams

--------------------

Kate Stewart

Clara Oswald

Handles

Bill Potts

Nardole

--------------------

Yasmin Khan

Graham O'Brien

Ryan Sinclair

Dan Lewis

Ruby Sunday

EU

Charley Pollard

C'rizz

Evelyn Smythe

Lucie Miller

--------------------

Liv Chenka

Helen Sinclair

Hex Schofield

Bernice Summerfield

Chris Cwej

--------------------

Fitz Kreiner

Compassion

Anji Kapoor

Sam Jones

--------------------

Alison Cheney

Iris Wildthyme

Izzy Sinclair

Frobisher

[dw-companion-bracket]

Brackets Masterpost

THE FINAL

Rose vs Donna

Round 1: Groups

Group 1: Ian, Barbara, Susan, Vicki, Steven, Katarina, Sara, Dodo

Group 2: Ben, Polly, Jamie, Victoria, Zoe

Group 3: The Brig, Liz, Benton, Yates, Jo

Group 4: Sarah, Harry, Leela, K-9, Romana I, Romana II

Group 5: Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion

Group 6: Peri, Mel, Ace, Grace

Group 7: Frobisher, Evelyn, Charley, Lucie

Group 8: Rose, Adam, Jack, Mickey, Martha, Donna, Wilf

Group 9: Amy, Rory, River, Vastra, Strax, Jenny

Group 10: Clara, Nardole, Bill, Kate, Osgood, Missy

Group 11: Graham, Ryan, Yaz, Dan

Losers Round 1

Katarina vs Adam

Dodo vs Nardole

Yates vs Ben

Sara vs Mickey

Losers Semi-Final

Katarina vs Nardole

Yates vs Mickey

Losers Final

Nardole vs Mickey

Round 2

Susan vs Peri

Missy vs Jo

Nyssa vs Martha

Jamie vs K-9

River vs The Brigadier

Sarah Jane vs Rose

Ace vs Dan

Vicki vs Tegan

Clara vs Ian

Charley vs Zoe

Liz vs Donna

Rory vs Romana II

Barbara vs Amy

Polly vs Bill

Yaz vs Turlough

Frobisher vs Jack

Round 3

Susan vs Missy

Martha vs Jamie

The Brigadier vs Rose

Ace vs Tegan

Ian vs Zoe

Donna vs Romana II

Barbara vs Bill

Turlough vs Jack

Round 4: Quarter-Finals

Missy vs Martha

Rose vs Ace

Ian vs Donna

Bill vs Jack

Round 5: Semi-Finals

Martha vs Rose

Donna vs Jack

[madmanswords]

Challenge request!

Tell me the most CHARACTER DEFINING episodes of Doctor Who... For EVERY COMPANION. 1963 - 2024.

OK, so I worry this list will not satisfy you. It's been over a decade since I've done a full Doctor Who watch through, so there's a lot of companions I haven't seen in a long time. Some of these choices, as a result, will be a bit vibes based.

I was going to do some justification write-up on some, but I'm looking at a list of like 60 names (and that's after I omitted the 10th Doctor Specials companions since they're all only one episode). Feel free to ask me about any specific choices.

This will be TV Companions (counting plot-important Webisodes as TV, but most of those are just regular TV companions anyway), but I do reserve the right to have an audio adventure as the chosen episode (in one case, it's a Companion Chronicle). I am also including spin-off shows.

List under the cut

Susan Foreman - The Dalek Invasion of Earth (Maybe The Empire of Death if the theories are right, lol) Barbara Wright - The Romans Ian Chesterton - The Daleks Vicki Pallister - The Rescue Steven Taylor - The Celestial Toymaker Katarina - The Daleks' Master Plan Sara Kingdom - The Daleks' Master Plan Dodo Chaplet - The Gunfighters Polly - The Power of the Daleks Ben Jackson - The War Machines Jamie McCrimmon - The Mind Robber Victoria Waterfield - The Tomb of the Cybermen Zoe Heriot - The Mind Robber Liz Shaw - Inferno Jo Grant - The Death of the Doctor Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Spearhead from Space Sergeant John Benton - Invasion of the Dinosaurs Captain Mike Yates - The Dæmons Sarah Jane Smith - The Monster of Peladon Harry Sullivan - The Ark in Space Leela - The Talons of Weng-Chiang K9 - School Reunion Romana I - The Androids of Tara Romana II - Destiny of the Daleks Adric - Earthshock Nyssa - Castrovalva Tegan Jovanka - Time-Flight Vislor Turlough - Planet of Fire Kamelion - The King's Demons Peri Brown - Peri and the Piscon Paradox Mel Bush - The One Doctor Ace - A Death in the Family Grace Holloway - Doctor Who: The Movie (Mentioned in Night of the Doctor counts, so...) Charley Pollard - The Chimes of Midnight C'rizz - Creed of the Kromon Lucie Bleedin' Miller - Lucie Miller Tamsin Drew - Situation Vacant Molly "Dark Eyes" O'Sullivan - Dark Eyes 1 Rose Tyler - Journey's End Adam Mitchell - The Long Game Mickey Smith - The Age of Steel Donna Noble - The Fires of Pompeii Martha Jones - Last of the Time Lords Captain Jack Harkness - Captain Jack Harkness Wilfred Mott - The End of Time Amy Pond - The Beast Below Rory Williams - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship River Song - The Husbands of River Song Craig Owens - Closing Time Clara Oswald - The Magician's Apprentice Nardole - The Doctor Falls Bill Potts - World Enough and Time Missy - The Doctor Falls Graham O'Brien - The Woman Who Fell to Earth Ryan Sinclair - Spyfall Yasmin Khan - Survivors of the Flux Dan Lewis - Legend of the Sea Devils Ruby Sunday - 73 Yards (So Far)

This list is probably bad

[queersrus]

Hello!! ^^

Can I request names, pronouns, and titles inspired by doctor who? I’m currently hyper fixated on the show!! Thank you so much!!

yes!! i was fixated on dr who again for a bit idk why i didnt answer this sooner i love dr who <3

assuming you want the entire show for a theme not just the doctor themself ^^

names:

doctor, doc, dalek, dan, danny, davros, dodo, donna, doom, dregs ace, ada, adipose, adric, amy, ashad, ashildr, auton barbera/barbara/barbra, ben, bill, brian, boe captain, charles, clara, cyber, chaplet, cassandra jack, jackson, jones, jackey/jackie, jamie, jo, joseph, judoon, jane harkness, holloway, harriet/harriett/harriette, harry lovelace, lewis, leela, liz pond, potts, pink, peri, polly write, warp, willfred, william, who yates, yasmin oswald, one time, traveller, tardis, tyler, two, three, ten, twelve, thirteen, taylor, tempora, temporal, tegan noble eight, eleven, empty, elizabeth five, four, fourteen grace, graham, grant sullivan, shaw, shelley, song, sally, sparrow, sara/sarah, sea, seacole, six, seven, steven, susan, space ian, ice, idris k9, kamelion, kandy, karvanista, katarina, kate macra, mara, martha, mary, mel, mickey, mire, melody nickola, nine, noor, nyssa queen, queenie victoria, vicki, vincent river, romona/ramona, rory, rose, ryan universe zoe

titles:

the doctor, the doctors companion, the companion, the tardis, the time traveller, the time lord, the immortal, the dalek

(prn) who travels through time, (prn) who time travels, (prn) who fights aliens, (prn) who's seen the future, (prn) who comes from the past

1st pov prns: i/me/my/mine/myself

ti/time/times/timeself tri/trave/travels/travelself spi/space/spaces/spaceself di/doc/doctors/doctorself ti/tardi/tardis/tardiself sci/fi/scifis/scifiself ci/com/companions/companionself whi/who/whos/whom/whoself di/dale/daleks/dalekself

2nd pov prns: you/your/yours/yourself

to/timer/timers/timerself tro/traveller/travellers/travellerself to/tar/tardisr/tardisrself spo/spacer/spacers/spacerself sco/fir/scifirs/scifirself do/doctor/doctors/doctorself co/companionr/companionrs/companionrself who/whos/whoms/whomstself do/dalekr/dalekrs/dalekrself

3rd pov prns: they/them/theirs/themself

ti/time, ti/me, time/times, timey/wimey, time/travel, time/traveller travel/traveller, trav/el, trav/eller, travel/travelling, travel/travels, traveller/travellers tar/dis, tardis/tardis', tar/tardis spa/space, spa/ce, space/spaces sci/fi, science/fiction doc/tor, doc/doctor, dr/drs, doctor/doctors, doctor/who who/whos, wh/o, who/whom, who/whomst, whom/whomst co/companion, companion/companions, compan/ion, com/panion da/lek, dalek/daleks, dal/dalek

[truebluewhocanoe]

I saw someone in the comments of my Tales of the TARDIS uploads bitching about how every companion ends up in a position of authority so here's me going through every televised companion, what occupation they ended up with after leaving the Doctor, and then analyzing whether there is an uncalled for number of authority positions in the list. As this is televised companions only I will be prioritizing the canon of televised stories. Here we go:

Ian Chesterton: Professor at the University of Cambridge (Death of the Doctor)

Barbara Wright: Professor at the University of Cambridge (Death of the Doctor)

Susan Foreman: Member of the Earth Council world government (Audio: An Earthly Child), though this is contradicted by some other stories

Vicki Pallister: Farmer (Tales of the TARDIS)

Steven Taylor: King (Tales of the TARDIS)

Katarina: N/A

Sara Kingdom: N/A

Polly Wright: Co-running an orphanage (Death of the Doctor)

Ben Jackson: Co-running an orphanage (Death of the Doctor)

Jamie McCrimmon: There are way too many sources for him and none of them definitive; the Tales of the TARDIS episode he appears in does not confirm what he got up to, but does decanonize certain other sources such as The World Shapers

Victoria Waterfield: Head of New World University (Some home video called Downtime?)

Zoe Heriot: President, presumably of Earth (Tales of the TARDIS)

Liz Shaw: Multiple contradicting sources: includes but not limited to doing scientific research, teaching as a professor, or running P.R.o.B.e. (don't ask me what that is, I'm not deep enough down the rabbit hole yet)

Jo Grant: Climate activist (Death of the Doctor, multiple other sources)

Sarah Jane Smith: Reporter, defender of Earth (School Reunion, all of The Sarah Jane Adventures)

Harry Sullivan: This man's EU canon is a mess but we know at the very least that he stayed with UNIT for a while as a scientist (The Zygon Invasion)

Leela: Bodyguard (Gallifrey audios)

Romana: President of Gallifrey (Gallifrey audios)

Adric: N/A

Nyssa: Scientist/medical researcher on Termius (Terminus, multiple other audios), but she eventually returned to Earth, occupation unknown (Tales of the TARDIS)

Tegan: Airline attendant (multiple EU sources), later activist (Power of the Doctor)

Turlough: Astrophysicist (Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma)

Kamelion: N/A

Peri: Canonically multiple endings including brain death, talk show host, botanist, Queen of Krontep, married to Yrcanos in multiple different arrangements ranging from happily to unhappily (Mindwarp, Peri and the Piscon Paradox, Tales of the TARDIS, lots of other audios and books too, sheesh)

Mel: Unknown (multiple EU endings have been decanonized by Power of the Doctor)

Ace: CEO of A Charitable Earth (Death of the Doctor, At Childhood's End, Power of the Doctor)

Grace: Copyright hell

Chang Lee: Copyright hell

Rose Tyler: Marital bliss (Journey's End)

Mickey Smith: UNIT Agent (End of Time)

Martha Jones: UNIT Agent (End of Time)

Donna Noble: I'm posting this a week before the first of the 60th Anniversary Specials, so... TBD?

Amy Pond: Novelist (Angels Take Manhattan, The Bells of Saint John)

Rory Pond Williams: Not 100% determined but presumably nurse (Angels Take Manhattan, misc. EU sources)

Clara Oswald: Traveling the universe with her immortal girlfriend, also technically N/A (Hell Bent, Twice Upon A Time)

Bill Potts: See prior entry, crazy how that happened twice, huh (Twice Upon A Time)

Nardole: Implied to have ended up a farmer (The Doctor Falls, Twice Upon A Time)

Yasmin Khan: Presumably still a cop, unfortunately (Power of the Doctor)

Ryan Sinclair: Unknown, too recent, implied to have been studying to be a mechanic (Revolution of the Daleks)

Graham O'Brien: Presumably still a bus driver, also head of the companions group that never got an official name but we all agreed to call it Companions Anonymous (Power of the Doctor)

Dan Lewis: Presumably still unemployed and volunteering (Power of the Doctor)

Okay. Phew. That's all of them.

So, that's 41, not including K9 (there's too many K9s running around, sorry, also he's a robot dog.) Let's cut Katarina and Sara Kingdom, who I only really included to flex. That's 39. Okay, now let's cut Adric and Kamelion, who died before they could have a post-TARDIS career, as well as Grace and Chang Lee because c'mon, you need to actually travel in the TARDIS before you can have a post-TARDIS career. Now we're down to 35 companions.

Companions in a position of high authority, not just an expert in their field or whatever but with governmental authority are: Susan (choosing the specific EU canon where she's on the Earth Council), Steven, Zoe, Romana, Peri, and... oh wait, that's it! Just those five! And three of them are from sources that aren't the main show episodes! Considering that fiction usually follows interesting people rather than the average person, and both the Doctor and the TARDIS are picky about who they let on board, I'd say that 5/35 is a perfectly reasonable figure. Some people just want to complain.

[doctorwhocompanionsbracket]

Doctor Who Companions Bracket: Introduction

Hello all, and welcome to the Doctor Who Companions Bracket Tournament! We’re here to find out the people’s ultimate favorite companion from Doctor Who! All 58 companions from the tv show will be included (no tie in media like Big Finish stories will be included, as per an earlier quick poll I did)

I’ll be tagging every post with #dwcb so you can more easily find them or discuss the bracket in a uniformly tagged way!

This bracket has been seeded to the best of my (nonexistent) ability, so we’ll be going through the first round with some of the more top seeded character excluded until we get to the second round.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments, best of luck, and have fun!

All polls under the cut:

Round 1 (Complete)

Barbara VS Ian

Yaz VS Danny

Mickey VS Ryan

Jack VS Adam

John VS Vislor

Rory VS Rosita

Zoe VS Mike

Graham VS Dan

Leela VS Kate

The Brigadier VS Mel

Martha VS Vicki

Susan VS Ben

Jo VS Jackson

Wilfred VS Kamelion

Nyssa VS Polly

K9 VS Astrid

Romana II VS Katarina

Victoria VS Nardole

Jamie VS Adelaide

Liz VS Sara

Harry VS Grace

Bill VS Craig

Romana I VS Adric

Tegan VS Steven

Ace VS Christina

Peri VS Dodo

Round 2 (Complete)

Rose VS Barbara

Yaz VS Ryan

Jack VS John

Rory VS Zoe

Donna VS Dan

Leela VS The Brigadier

Martha VS Susan

Jo VS Wilfred

Sarah VS Nyssa

K9 VS Romana II

Victoria VS Clara

Jamie VS Liz

Amy VS Harry

Bill VS Romana I

River VS Tegan

Ace VS Peri

Round 3 (Complete)

Rose VS Yaz

Jack VS Rory

Donna VS The Brigadier

Martha VS Jo

Sarah VS K9

Clara VS Jamie

Amy VS Bill

River VS Ace

Quarterfinals (complete)

Rose VS Rory

Donna VS Jo

Sarah VS Jamie

Amy VS Ace

Semifinals (complete)

Rose VS Jo

Sarah VS Amy

Third place (Complete)

Sarah VS Jo

Finals

Rose VS Amy

[pottersofthefuture]

Round One

The Master vs Susan Foreman - The Master wins

Ian Chesterton vs Steven Taylor - Ian Chesterton wins

Barbara Wright vs Sara Kingdom- Barbara wins

Katarina vs Dodo Chaplet - Dodo wins

Vicki Pallister vs Polly Wright - Vicki wins

Ben Jackson vs Jamie McCrimmon - Jamie wins with 100% of votes

Victoria Waterfield vs Zoe Heriot - Zoe Heriot wins

Liz Shaw vs Jo Grant - Liz Shaw wins (just with just 2 votes between them)

Mike Yates vs. John Benton- John Benton wins

Sarah Jane Smith vs Leela- Sarah Jane Smith wins

Romana 1 vs Romana 2 - Romana 2 wins

Harry Sullivan vs The Brigadier - The Brigadier wins

K9 vs Kamelion - K9 wins with 100% of votes

Adric vs Vislor Turlough - Turlough wins (just, with a vote between them)

Nyssa of Trakken vs Tegan Jovanka (I know I'm evil) - Nyssa wins (just, 2 votes between them)

Peri Brown vs Melanie Bush - Melanie Bush (just, with a vote between them)

Ace McShane vs. Bernice Summerfield - Ace wins

Liv Chenka vs Grace Holloway - Liv wins (just, with a vote between them)

Helen Sinclair vs Charley Pollard - draw - Helen Sinclair goes on when discounting my vote

Iris Wildthyme vs Fitz Kreiner - Fitz wins (just, a vote between them)

Adam Mitchell vs Jackson Lake - Jackson wins

Astrid Peth vs Christina de Souza - Astrid wins (just, with 2 votes between them)

Adelaide Brooke vs Jenny - Jenny wins

Jackie Tyler vs Wilfred Mott - Wilfred Mott wins

Luke Smith vs Clyde Langer - Luke wins (just with 2 votes between them)

Rani Chandra vs Maria Jackson- Rani wins

Gwen Cooper vs. Toshiko Sato - Tosh wins (and this was the most popular poll)

Owen Harper vs Ianto Jones- Ianto wins

Jack Harkness vs River Song - River wins

Amy Pond vs Rose Tyler - Rose wins

Donna Noble vs Martha Jones- Donna wins

Mickey Smith vs Rory Williams- Rory wins

Craig Owens vs Strax - Strax wins

Madam Vastra vs Jenny Flint- Jenny wins (just with 2 votes between them)

Clara Oswald vs Bill Potts - Bill wins (just a vote between them)

Kate Stewart vs Petronella Osgood - Kate wins

Danny Pink vs Nardole- Danny wins

Lee Clayton vs Karvanista - Karvanista wibs

Dan Lewis vs Graham O'brien- Dan wins (just with a vote between them)

Ryan Sinclair vs Yasmin Khan- Yaz wins

[autoacafiles]

So who in totals travelled with the doctor? I know we saw donna, but what other companions are there?

This is gonna be a big one, so *Takes a deep breath* In his first incarnation, the First Doctor started his travels with his granddaughter Susan, accidentally taking her school teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. Along his travels, people would come and go, including Vicki Pallister, Steven Taylor, Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Oliver Harper, Dodo Chaplet, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright.

In his second incarnation, the Second Doctor would continue his travels with Ben and Polly, taking on Jamie McCrimmon, who would stick with him through his life. Along the way, The Doctor would also travel with Victoria Waterfield and Zoe Heriot. It was during this time that The Doctor would also meet Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, who would become an important figure during his most of his lives.

In exile is his third incarnation, the Third Doctor was forced to work with the Brigadier as UNIT's scientific advisor. Working initially with Liz Shaw, Mike Yates and John Benton, he would finally be able to travel again, first with Jo Grant, and later Sarah-Jane Smith.

In his fourth incarnation, continuing to travel with Sarah-Jane Smith and joined by Harry Sullivan, the Fourth Doctor would go on to travel with Naomi Cross, Leela of the Sevateem, Margaret Hopwood, two models of the robot dog K9, "Anne Kelso", Romana in two of her incarnations and Adric.

In his fifth incarnation, The Doctor continued travelling with Adric and took on Nyssa of Trakken and Tegan Jovanka, who he had met towards the end of his previous incarnation. Along the way, he would also travel with Marc, Thomas Brewster, Hannah Bartholomew, Vislor Turlough, Peri Brown and Erimem.

Still travelling with Peri in his sixth incarnation, The Doctor would travel with others including Frobisher, Evelyn Smythe, Charlotte Pollard (retroactively under the guise of Mila due to already travelling with his Eighth Incarnation), Flip Jackson, Constance Clarke, Melanie Bush and Hebe Harrison.

Continuing to travel with Mel in his seventh Incarnation, the Doctor would go on to be joined by Ace McShane, Bernice Summerfield, Hex Schofield, Sally Morgan, Lysandra Aristedes, Mags, Raine Creevy, Elizabeth Klein, Will Arrowsmith, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester, though ultimately ended up travelling on his home.

The Eighth Doctor would find himself starting afresh, briefly meeting Grace Holloway and Chang Lee, before going on to travel with Izzy Sinclair, Fitz Kreiner, Charlotte Pollard, C'rizz, Mary Shelley, Lucie Miller, Tamsin Drew, Molly O'Sullivan, Liv Chenka, Helen Sinclair, Tania Bell, Andy Davidson and Bliss.

The War Doctor would go on to make a point of travelling alone, never taking on a travelling companion during his life.

Though he would continue travelling alone for much of his life, the Ninth Doctor would finally yield and take on Rose Tyler as a companion, and later Adam Mitchell, Captain Jack Harkness and Tara Mishra

In his tenth incarnation, The Doctor would continue travelling with Rose, though would later go on to travel with Mickey Smith, Martha Jones, a returning Captain Jack, Donna Noble, Gabby Gonzalez, Cindy Wu, Anya Kingdom and Mark Seven.

The Eleventh Doctor would start his travels with Amy Pond, going on to take on Rory Williams, Alice Obiefune, John Jones, ARC, The Squire, Abslom Daak, The Sapling, Valerie Lockwood and Clara Oswald.

Clara Oswald would continue to travel with the Twelfth Doctor, who would go on to travel with Hattie Munroe, Nardole and Bill Potts.

In her Thirteenth Incarnation, the Doctor would spend her entire incarnation travelling Yasmin Khan, being joined by Ryan Sinclair, Graham O'Brien and Dan Lewis.

Throughout many of their lives, The Doctor would constantly meet River Song, though on many occasions would be forced to forget their encounters to preserve the web of time.

And with that, I'm taking a nap - Dev~

[companion-showdown]

Which companion is the most normal person?

a lot of companions would be getting into tv show worthy situations with or without the doctor, but some of them are just normal people, who if they weren't aboard the tardis they'd be living an ordinary, perhaps even boring, life. who is the most normal

SEMIFINALS

Leo Jones vs Ben Jackson

Barbara Wright vs Ian Chesterton

QUARTERFINALS

Leo Jones vs Sergeant Benton

Graham O'Brien vs Ben Jackson

Brian Williams vs Barbara Wright

Ian Chesterton vs Katarina

previous rounds under the cut

ROUND 4

K9 vs Leo Jones

Sergeant Benton vs Rory Williams

Alison Cheney vs Graham O'Brien

Rita Afzal vs Ben Jackson

Brian Williams vs Evelyn Smythe

Barbara Wright vs Wilfred Mott

Ian Chesterton vs Anji Kapoor

Peri Brown vs Katarina

ROUND 3

K9 vs Business Woman

Leo Jones vs Harry Sullivan

Sergeant Benton vs Kate Stewart

Duggan vs Rory Williams

Tegan Jovanka vs Alison Cheney

Liz Shaw vs Graham O'Brien

Rita Afzal vs Nyssa

Ryan Sinclair vs Ben Jackson

Mickey Smith vs Brian Williams

Evelyn Smythe vs Martha Jones

Grace Holloway vs Barbara Wright

Lucie Miller vs Wilfred Mott

Ian Chesterton vs Victoria Waterfield

Hex Schofield vs Anji Kapoor

Donna Noble vs Peri Brown

Dan Lewis vs Katarina

ROUND 2

Day 2

Mickey Smith vs Jamie McCrimmon

Chang Lee vs Brian Williams

Evelyn Smythe vs Romana I

Adric vs Martha Jones

Grace Holloway vs Izzy SInclair

The Brigadier vs Barbara Wright

Lucie Miller vs Headmaster

Ruby Sunday vs Wilfred Mott

Ian Chesterton vs Amy Pond

Mike Yates vs Victoria Waterfield

Hex Schofield vs Frobisher

Nardole vs Anji Kapoor

Donna Noble vs Liv Chenka

Leela vs Peri Brown

Dan Lewis vs Bridget Sinclair

Katarina vs Bill Potts

Day 1

K9 vs Charley Pollard

Business Woman vs Mel Bush

Leo Jones vs Rose Tyler

Laurence Scarman vs Harry Sullivan

Sergeant Benton vs Steven Taylor

Bernice Summerfield vs Kate Stewart

Duggan vs Helen Sinclair

Sarah-Jane Simth vs Rory Williams

Tegan Jovanka vs Dodo Chaplet

Handles vs Alison Cheney

Liz Shaw vs Adam Mitchell

Sam Jones vs Graham O'Brien

Rita Afzal vs Susan Foreman

Nyssa vs Kamelion

Ryan Sinclair vs Polly Wright

Fitz Kreiner vs Ben Jackson

ROUND 1 (Group Stage)

Group 1:

Susan Foreman

Barbara Wright

Ian Chesterton

Vicki Pallister

Steven Taylor

Group 2:

Katarina

Sara Kingdom

Dodo Chaplet

Ben Jackson

Polly Wright

Group 3:

Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

The Brigadier

Sergeant Benton

Group 4:

Liz Shaw

Mike Yates

Jo Grant

Sarah-Jane Smith

Harry Sullivan

Group 5:

Leela

K9

Romana I

Romana II

Group 6:

Adric

Nyssa

Tegan Jovanka

Vislor Turlough

Kamelion

Group 7:

Peri Brown

Mel Bush

Ace McShane

Grace Holloway

Chang Lee

Group 8:

Charley Pollard

C'rizz

Evelyn Smythe

Lucie Miller

Group 9:

Liv Chenka

Helen Sinclair

Hex Schofield

Bernice Summerfield

Chris Cwej

Group 10:

Fitz Kreiner

Compassion

Anji Kapoor

Sam Jones

Group 11:

Alison Cheney

Iris Wildthyme

Izzy Sinclair

Frobisher

Group 12:

Rose Tyler

Mickey Smith

Adam Mitchell

Jack Harkness

Martha Jones

Group 13:

Wilfred Mott

Donna Noble

River Song

Amy Pond

Rory Williams

Group 14:

Kate Stewart

Clara Oswald

Handles

Bill Potts

Nardole

Group 15:

Yasmin Khan

Graham O'Brien

Ryan Sinclair

Dan Lewis

Ruby Sunday

Group 16:

Vince Hawkins

Duggan

Damon

Group 17:

Rhos

Dr Summers

Laurence Scarman

Lowe

Mergrave

Headmaster

Group 18:

Tamsin Drew

Tania Bell

Business Woman

Kevin

Group 19:

Jackie Tyler

Francine Jones

Clive Jones

Tish Jones

Leo Jones

Group 20:

Sylvia Noble

Craig Owens

Brian Williams

Danny Pink

Rigsy

Group 21:

Tommy Connolly

Riley Vashtee

Hath Peck

Nephew

Rita Afzal

Group 22:

Elton Pope

Ursula Blake

Colin Skinner

Bridget Sinclair

Bliss

[midnatt-heronweather]

Where was ___ in “The Power Of The Doctor”

Ok, this is a rough list of each companion and where they were by the end of their run and why they werent at the reunion at the end of PTD for this the books are not cannon. and audios are only cannon if the show cannonises them (so only 8ths doctors companions are so far)

AD - actor Deceased (cold but best short hand i could think of) if theres no - it means they were at the reunion

Susan -  in the Future Ian  Babs - ad Vicky - ancient greece Stephen - different planet Katerina - died Dodo - unknown Jackie - died Sven -  - ad Polly - unknown jamie - in the past vic -  - ad zoe - future liz  - ad jo sjs -  - ad harry - - ad Leela - on Gallifrey (presumed dead) Roman - on gallifry (presumed dead) Adric - killed by the cybermen  nyssa - terminus (planet) tegan turloug - prison planet peri - killed mel ace _____ Grace Holloway - universial own the rights so even if she is classed as canon, the beeb cant use her ____

of the "new Era" the only ones missing were Martha - know one knows Ryan - off doing his own thing ___ A friend on tiktok did a simmilar list. i’ve edited mine because I included a few she didnt and I don’t want to get into the “what counts as a companion” argument for the umpteenth time, it was a headache when I did it for my dissertation and its not improved since. 

[companion-showdown-dot-org]

best entrance is doing well for the next tournament (it was winning when i started but not anymore) so i've tried to summarise everyone's that I can. i've attempted to do their first scene on the show. i wasn't able to do everyone, and some of them are probably not quite right as I mostly did it off memory so suggestions welcome

Ian and Barbara - flirting, then talking about their one weirdo student who lives in a junkyard

Susan - being that one weirdo student who lives in a junkyard

Vicki - waiting for rescue

Steven - being the lone captive of a bunch of chumblies is perhaps not great for the mind

Katarina

Sara

Dodo - im just going to have a look in this police box, oh its bigger on the inside, yeah that seems normal

Polly - evil computer's inventor's secretary, invites dodo to a club

Ben - sad and drunk, beats the shit out of someone being threatening to a woman he just met

Jamie

Victoria

Zoe - Jamie's babysitter

Brig - why are all these people running around the london underground

Benton - generic unit soldier

Liz - brigadier, aliens aren't real

Mike - generic unit soldier

Jo - unfortunately your new assistant is too endearing for you to hate

Sarah - stealing your aunt's identity is good investigative journalism

Harry - newly regenerated 4's babysitter

Leela - banished for herasy

K9 - just a robot dog

Romana I - one of the most poerful beings in the universe says the doctor needs a friend

Romana II - is regeneration supposed to be difficult

Adric - no adric you can't join our group of rebel outsiders, you're too much of a nerd

Nyssa - your dad's getting married and you're getting your step-mother's job

Tegan - just so excited to start her new job as an air stewardess

Turlough - steal the brigadier's car, crash the brigadier's car

Kamelion - king john

Peri - this holiday is boring, im going on a different one and nobody can stop me

Mel - already travelling with the doctor, also making him exercise

Ace - begging to join in on the adventure

Grace - opera performance interupted by emergency heart surgery

Lee - gang shoot out interuppted by the TARDIS

Charley - crossdressing so she can work aboard a doomed airship

C'rizz

Evelyn - stop disturbing my lecture on my favourite historical figure with that incessant beeping

Lucie

Liv

Helen

Hex

Benny

Chris

Fitz

Compassion

Anji

Sam

Alison - fed up bartender in mysterious town

Iris

Izzy

Frobisher

Rose - montage of her normal life

Mickey - i get that your workplace just exploded but i really want to go to the pub

Adam - look at all my weird trinkets

Jack - clearly not from the 1940s, but more importantly, bisexual

Martha - family drama phone call

Donna - just materialises on the tardis

Wilf - no amount of danger could get me to leave london

River - wait she knows the doctor

Amy - praying to santa

Rory - nutty nurse thinks coma patients are faking it

Kate - if i don't let the soldiers storm someones house every once in a while they get sad

Clara - its the one from contemporary earth whos sticking around

Handles - the doctor has a pet cyberhead now

Bill - meet this woman the doctor's taken an interest in

Nardole - river's sidekick

Yaz - resolving parking disputes is so boring

Ryan and Graham - ryan can'r ride a bike, but he is going to learn

Dan - this man gives tours of museums he doesn't work for

Ruby - so ruby, give us your backstory

[dw-companion-bracket]

A Doctor Who Companion Bracket

Yes, that's right, I'm jumping on the trend late and making one of these, but with one key difference: I'm making it more complicated. Not that much more complicated, you still just click on your favourite whenever you see a poll, but I'm going to be starting with an elimination round featuring every single TV companion, a few EU companions, and some extras that I like just to round the numbers out properly.

The first round will have 11 groups, divided up by era. The top half (rounding up) of compnions in each the group will then go through to the brackets, and from there it'll be business as usual and exactly the same as these have all been run.

The first polls (the group stage) will go live on Sunday, and then after those have been inputted the brackets will go out every day until we reach the final. I'll also make a masterpost of every poll

Breakdowns of the groups under the cut!

First Doctor Companions

Four will be chosen from Ian, Barbara, Susan, Vicki, Steven, Katarina, Sara, and Dodo!

Second Doctor Companions

Three will be chosen from Ben, Polly, Jamie, Victoria, and Zoe!

Third Doctor Companions

Three will be chosen from the Brigadier, Liz, Benton, Yates, and Jo!

Fourth Doctor Companions

Three will be chosen from Sarah Jane, Harry, Leela, K-9, Romana I, and Romana II!

Fifth Doctor Companions

Three will be chosen from Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, and Kamelion!

Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Doctor TV Companions

Two will be chosen from Peri, Mel, Ace, and Grace!

Big Finish Companions

Two will be chosen from Frobisher, Evelyn, Charley, and Lucie!

Ninth and Tenth Doctor Companions

Four will be chosen from Rose, Adam, Jack, Mickey, Martha, Donna, and Wilf!

Eleventh Doctor Companions

Three will be chosen from Amy, Rory, River, Vastra, Strax, and Jenny!

Twelfth Doctor Companions

Three will be chosen from Clara, Nardole, Bill, Kate, Osgood, and Missy!

Thirteenth Doctor Companions

Two will be chosen from Graham, Ryan, Yaz, and Dan!

May the best companion win (or at the very least not get knocked out immediately)