Everyone has their favorite Doctor Who Companions, whether it’s an old school throwback like Ace, Astra, or Sarah Jane, or the more modern contenders like Rose Taylor, Martha Jones, and Donna Noble. But some of the best Doctor Who companions don’t even appear in the TV show.
How much like Doctor Who Known as a television property, the study expands into several high-quality comic books, where the Doctor’s adventures continue alongside companions who never made it to the screen. Nevertheless, without a TV debut, some of ​​the companions are the most intriguing, captivating and charismatic the Doctor has encountered in any of his life. Which means fans deserve to know these Doctor Who Companions that never made it on TV.
10
Josie Day
Debuts in “The Pictures of Josephine Day” by George Mann and Emma Wisely
Believe it or not, one of these Doctor Who’s Best Companions was a painting. in The Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor miniseries, the title Incarnation finds Josephine “Josie” one day in his cottage, painting cryptic pieces of art depicting alien worlds. Further examination by the Doctor reveals that her body is full of particles created by the alien species Artificers of Wrall, as The original Lady Josephine asked one of the artists to paint her portrait, one that would literally take a life from her..
After the death of the real Lady Josephine, her portrait was auctioned off to an elderly gentleman who was the Twelfth Doctor. After dropping Josephine’s portrait off at his cottage, she decides to live again as Josie in search of purpose and a doctor to help her.
9
Gabby Gonzalez
Debuts in “Revolution of Terror” by Nick Abadzis ad Elena Casagrande
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Introduces Gabby Gonzalez, entering the Doctor’s life not long after Donna Noble’s exit. She’s an accounting student with bigger dreams of the art life, working out of her father’s laundry (ironically, Gabby’s encounter with Ten’s laundry system exposes the Doctor costume’s secret origin story). An alien attack in local Brooklyn is how she meets the Doctor and joins his escapades, but her life changes forever in more ways than one.
Unknown to her, Gabby possesses block transfer energy, allowing her to manifest levitating talking mouths and butterflies. As her powers continue to transform and evolve, so does Gabby, which eventually Transform into the Vortex Butterfly, an omnipotent creature possessing reality-warping powers.
8
Olla
Debuts in “A Cold Day in Hell!” By Simon Furman, John Ridgway and Tim Perkins
During the Seventh Doctor’s adventures held in the classic Doctor Who magazinesHe and his literal penguin companion Frobisher (don’t worry, we’ll get to it) visit the planet A-Lux hoping to find fun and heat. Instead, they find invading Ice Warriors turning the usually warm planet to snowy cold, and in less pleasant terms, they run into a heat vampire who is trying to drain the Doctor of his body temperature.
Not the friendliest of terms for any companion to meet the Doctor, but they grow friendly by the end of the story and she winds up traveling with him. Over time, readers learn that she is actually on the run from A-Lux, having stolen money and evaded the crimes she was expected to answer for. A vampire on the run, she lies and schemes her way into the TARDIS, convincing Seven that her cohort is actually a master who enslaved her.. The doctor ends up sending her back on the condition she is given a fair trial.
7
ARC
Debuts in “Whodunit?” By Al Ewing and Bob Cook
The Doctor is no stranger to having companions of the robotic persuasion, or sporting some kind of technological, artificial intelligence. Characters like K-9 immediately come to mind, but in the comics, the Eleventh Doctor has ARC: Autonomous Reasoning Center. At SERVEYOUinc’s United System Research Base, ARC spent years being tortured by Dr. Ballard until he finally managed to escape.
In the process, ARC would accidentally send the staff members into comas just in hopes of trying to communicate and read minds. When ARC meets the Doctor, the latter would allow the former to travel with him (after ending the comas). Even by AI robot standards, ARC is one of the more unique companions for the Doctor, with the circumstances of their meeting all the more unique..
6
Kevin the Robot Tyrannosaurus
Debuts in “When Worlds Collide” by Tony Lee and Matthew Dow Smith
Speaking of unique robot companions, it’s hard to get more unique than a combination between advanced technology and the prehistoric era. Kevin is not so much a dinosaur, and doesn’t consider himself one, but an actor pretending to be a dinosaur. An animatronic dinosaur with advanced brain capacity instilled in his head to give him a real personality, Kevin decides he’s done playing a theme park dinosaur for everyone else’s entertainment.
Kevin wanted more with his life than to roar like some Neanderthal of a creature. So, when he meets the Doctor, Amy and Rory Pond, he decides to join the TARDIS in his search for something more. Even for a T-Rex sized actor, he was amazed that it was bigger on the inside.
5
The sapling
Debut in “The Scream” Rob Williams, Leandro Casco and Wellington Diaz
A virus called the plant would produce real saplings that would slowly grow into fully grown adults. One such Sapling, officially known as ‘The Sapling’, was destined to produce genocide until its development was interrupted by an advanced member of the Silence called The Shout. The Scream influenced the memories of both the Doctor and one Alice Obiefune (another companion to the Eleventh Doctor) in hopes of inhabiting the Sapling’s body, thus using its virus potential to take over and consume entire planets.
Perhaps the influence of the doctor was enough to reach the sapling. In helping Sapling escape the Scream, Elf would allow Sapling to travel with him and Alice.
4
tentative
Debuts in “The Shape Shifter” by Steve Parkhouse and John Ridgway
As promised before, it’s time to talk about an actual talking penguin resident of the TARDIS. Frobisher had the pleasure of helping both the Sixth and Seventh Doctors, but he and the Doctor do have something in common: both are stranger than meets the eye. The so-called Penguin Frobisher is actually an alien shapeshifter from the planet Xenon. The member of the Whifferdill race could transform into any form he pleased… he just felt most pleased to be a penguin.
He was also happy to join the Doctor on his adventures when they met in the 82nd century, when Frobisher was masquerading as Avan Tarklu hoping to collect a bounty on the Doctor’s head. However, Six’s personality was too kind to turn in. Instead, they stole the bounty money, split it, and decided to stop hanging out.
3
Anubis
Debut in The sands of time By Justin Richards
Yes, it’s about the Anubis, but not the Anubis that audiences might be most familiar with. Not to be confused with the classical depiction of the Egyptian deity, This version of Anubis (nickname Neubis) was an alien member of the Osirian race who possessed god-like abilities and, thus, was praised as such in ancient Egypt on Earth. Anubis’ father, Sutekh the Destroyer, lived up to that name, wanting to destroy all life in the universe. But his son did not want to follow the same path as his father.
Against his will, however, his father’s essence would take control of Anubis’ body until he was destroyed by the Doctor. The Tenth Doctor would resurrect Anubis before giving him the chance to travel the galaxy with him.
2
Croton the Cyberman
“Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman” by Steve Moore and Steve Dillon
The Doctor has spent several centuries and incarnations fighting the evil Cybermen, but Croton may have the distinction of being the only Cyberman the Doctor would call a friend. Speaking of distinctions, Krotons still retained his feelings and emotions after becoming a Cyberman. He came to this realization when he saw that his superiors were targeting resistance fighters and spontaneously decided to turn against them. After sacrificing himself, he travels the galaxy helping those in need and saving people.
He eventually catches the attention of the Eighth Doctor while on the Qutrusian Cargo Freighter X-703 when they need help. Afterwards, he would join Eight and his then-companion Izzy in their travels. He would eventually move on to become a Guardian to the Omniverse, leaving the Doctor as a hero.
1
Destruction
Debuts in “Ophidius” by Scott Gray, Martin Geraghty and Robin Smith
Destrii (or Destrilantos) is an Oblivion of the Oblivion alien race, who are genetically modified into human-animal forms. When the Doctor’s TARDIS is sunk inside the Ophidius, Eight meets the owner of the ship to be destroyed. Initially, as she was on the run herself, she tried to trick the Doctor into allowing her to run away with him by transferring her mind into that of his companion, Izzy. The Eighth Doctor would reverse the trick when he learned the truth, but as it turns out, he could have let Destruction on board if she’d only asked.
She manages to change the Doctor’s opinion of her when she helps him stop the Zeronites. He offers her a place on the TARDIS only if she follows his rules. She agrees, and in time, the Doctor’s more positive character traits rub off on Destri, comparing her as one of the best companions in Doctor Who History.