The Doctor's TARDIS (or "The Ship" or just "The TARDIS") is a major vehicle/character within Doctor Who.
Specifics[]
Appearance[]
Due to her chameleonic circuit being broken, the outside of the Doctor's TARDIS appears as a 1960s-era blue police box most of the time. The Doctor has attempted numerous times to fix the circuit.[1]
The inside of the TARDIS is extremely variable - with its console room frequently flexing and changing.
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Character[]
The TARDIS is shown to have a somewhat mutualistic relationship with her pilot and her passengers. The Doctor has claimed (possibly facetiously) that the TARDIS is linked to his psyche and materializes in the wrong location due to his unconscious desires[2] and it has been suggested that the TARDIS chose the Doctor instead of simply being stolen by him.[3]
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Abilities[]
Due to its nature as a time-ship, the TARDIS is able to materialize anywhere in time and space. The inside of the TARDIS has a temporal grace system which makes weapons unable to work within its confines.[4] Due to its somewhat archaic state, the TARDIS does not have weapons.
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History[]
Early life[]
In at least one version of history, the TARDIS fought alongside her "sister" Lolita in the Vampire Wars. During this fighting, Lolita began to look down at her sister due to her compassion for her pilots.[3]
Most stories suggest that the Doctor stole the TARDIS - which was not his first TARDIS[5] - while fleeing Gallifrey alongside his granddaughter. Though it is suggested that the TARDIS chose the Doctor (which dissapointed both Lolita and "the Mother", a mysterious figure linked in some way to the TARDISes[3]), it is also stated that the Doctor nearly chose another TARDIS before being told by a mysterious woman to chose the TARDIS next to it.[6]
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Travels with the First Doctor[]
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Travels with the Second Doctor[]
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Travels with the Third Doctor[]
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Travels with the Fourth Doctor[]
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While trying to land on the planet Shalonar for a vacation, the Doctor landed in Europa's version of the Sistine Chapel. While the Doctor and Sarah looked around the Chapel, the TARDIS was captured by the Vatican and experimented on by the Convocation Extraordinary - who actually managed to enter into its internal dimensions. It was later used by Cardinal Agostini in an attempt to escape the Vatican after his treachery was revealed. Though Agostini was able to throw the TARDIS into "the Pit", Agostini was sucked out of it and Sarah Jane Smith - after jumping into the Pit - was able to take control of the TARDIS and save the Doctor from sacrificing himself to defeat Doctor Sperano in the Time Vortex itself.[7]
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Travels with the Fifth Doctor[]
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Travels with the Sixth Doctor[]
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Travels with the Seventh Doctor[]
Due to the damage caused by the Process' invasion of the TARDIS, the Doctor landed it on the extremely polluted Earth of the 2000s. During this, the Doctor stopped a plan by the malign Butler Corporation to convert themselves into cybernetic lifeforms and escape the pollution of Earth.[8]
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Shortly after landing on the "Silurian Earth", the Doctor's TARDIS fell into a tar pit. This forced the Doctor to use the TARDIS of his slain alternate self.[9] Unbeknownst to the Doctor, the Charrl had formed a civilization within his TARDIS after being trapped inside of it[10] and managed to escape the Silurian Earth due to a Fortean Flicker right before the Doctor destroyed the "Silurian Earth" using his new TARDIS. They landed in the village of Cheldon Bonniface. They later returned the original TARDIS to the Doctor during the wedding of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane.[11]
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Travels with the Eighth Doctor[]
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While the Doctor and his new companions slept, the TARDIS was visited by her sister. Using Compassion as an interface, the two talked about the upcoming War in Heaven which the TARDIS had witnessed.[12] Lolita tried to get her sister to join her and the Mother in usurping the order of the Time Lords after the chaos of the War ended. Due to the influence of the Doctor, the TARDIS refused - dissapointing Lolita, who left. The TARDIS then returned Compassion to her bed.[3]
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After the Doctor discovered that the existence of Lovecraft's Elder Things had been verified, he piloted the TARDIS to prehistoric Antartica and discovered the Elder Things' city - which had been taken over by a platoon of Time Lords involved in the War in Heaven. The Doctor left the TARDIS behind in the Antarctic jungles. After the Doctor jumped into the Time Vortex using left behind pieces of another TARDIS, Fitz Kreiner and Holsred used the TARDIS to follow him. This led to the Doctor's TARDIS influencing the other TARDISes (in a revolutionary mood due to the influence of Compassion) to not kill the Doctor before it landed back in Antarctica in the far future year of 1999. Holsred was killed in battle with the Celestis Investigator Two - who was then defeated by Fitz and "Nathaniel Hume". Fitz, accompanied by Compassion (who had been sent to 1999 by the TARDIS that the Doctor had entered into) then used the TARDIS to save the Doctor from dying in the voids of space. The Doctor then used the TARDIS to check the damage caused by the unleashing of a Memeovore from Planet 5.[13]
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The TARDIS was seemingly destroyed by a rift between Earth and Avalon, stranding the Doctor and companions in Avalon. Unbeknownst to the Doctor, the TARDIS had been editing Compassion's biodata - making her into a sentient TARDIS. As such, the Doctor was able to escape Avalon and used Compassion as his new TARDIS.[14] The TARDIS actually survived its destruction - warping into a structure known as the Edifice after materializing in the skies of Gallifrey. The Time Lords sent the Doctor into the Edifice to discover its nature. After figuring out that the Edifice was his TARDIS, the Doctor used her weaponry to destroy Gallifrey (then overran by Faction Paradox).[15] The TARDIS survived this, but was severly crippled and shrunk to the size of a matchbox. After being rescued by Compassion and placed onto Earth, the TARDIS rejuvenated itself over the span of a century.[16]
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During the Doctor's time in the Henrietta Street bordello, the Doctor was largely separated from his TARDIS. He was able to teleport his companions out of the TARDIS and later (with the help of Nie Who), brought the TARDIS to Earth through ritualistic means. Though the Doctor was convinced that this would end his illness, it did nothing to allieve the sickness. Shortly before the Doctor's wedding, the Doctor spent two months in its sickbay and Scarlette used the TARDIS to summon the babewyns to the island of St. Belique to be hunted by the wedding guests.[17]
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After landing in 1930s Spain to discover the source of an anomaly within Picasso's Guernica, the Doctor used the TARDIS to search for information. This caused the TARDIS to accidentally make contact with the Absolute. To protect herself from potential damage, the TARDIS shut herself down, stranding the Doctor and Anji in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. The TARDIS slowly rejuvenated herself over these months - being used by Sasha (who was absorbed by the Absolute still within the TARDIS) and Fitz to ensure the firebombing of Guernica and saving the Doctor from being killed in the fires of Guernica.[18]
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Sources[]
- ↑ Attack of the Cybermen
- ↑ Managra by Stephen Marley: Chapter 2 (Page 20-29)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Toy Story by Lawrence Miles
- ↑ The Hand of Fear
- ↑ Prisoners of Fate by Jonathan Morris
- ↑ The Beginning by Marc Platt
- ↑ Managra by Stephen Marley
- ↑ Cat's Cradle: Warhead by Andrew Cartmel
- ↑ Blood Heat by Jim Mortimore
- ↑ Birthright by Nigel Robinson
- ↑ Happy Endings by Paul Cornell
- ↑ Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles
- ↑ The Taking of Planet 5 by Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham
- ↑ The Shadows of Avalon by Paul Cornell
- ↑ The Ancestor Cell by Steve Cole and Peter Anghelides
- ↑ Escape Velocity by Colin Brake
- ↑ The Adventuress of Henrietta Street by Lawrence Miles
- ↑ History 101 by Mags L. Halliday