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    Donna Noble

    Character » Donna Noble appears in 60 issues.

    Companion to the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors.

    Short summary describing this character.

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    History

    Early Life

    Donna is the only daughter of Geoff and Sylvia Noble, and granddaughter to Wilfred Mott. She was always bossy and fiercely independent, and slightly mischievous, she used to boss her parents and family around when she was young, and on her first day of school she was sent home for biting. Aged six years old Donna's mother refused to take her on holiday, so she packed her bags and got onto a bus and headed to Strathclyde. Donna had missed out on previous alien invasions, on Christmas day with the Sycorax she was stuck in bed with a hangover and during the attack of the Cybermen she was in Spain scuba-diving, so her first contact with aliens was still rather shocking.

    Her career seems to mainly consist of temp jobs, but she has previously worked in a library and two years at a double-glazing firm. In the June of 2007 Donna was faced with the most important choice of her life, even if she didn't know it, the fate of the universe rested on her shoulders as to whether or not she turned right and became a full-time secretary with Jival Chowdry or a temporary secretary at H.C Clement's, a security firm. She chose the latter, due to the fact she thought she'd meet a man and fall in love, which she did, because on her first day of work she met Lance Bennett, who after time she pressured into marriage. Whilst she was planning her marriage her beloved Lance was slipping huon particles into her coffee, under the command of the Empress of Racnoss, whom he was secretly serving.

    First Meeting With The Doctor

    Whilst walking down the aisle with her father, the huon particles inside of her interacted with her elevated mental state and managed to teleport her into the TARDIS, moments after The Doctor had just said farewell to his beloved Rose. Both were flabbergasted by the event, Doctor not suspecting a bride to be teleported into his control room and Donna not expecting to be able to be teleported. Almost immediately she demanded to be taken back to her wedding ceremony in Chiswick. The Doctor tries to get her back but they end up near Oxford Street. When landed Donna storms from the TARDIS and goes straight for a public telephone to try and contact her family, whilst the Doctor tries to figure out how she got on board, when that fails she heads out into the road trying to get a taxi, but as she is in her wedding dress none want to lend a hand, though she eventually realises that she has no money. Trying to help solve the problem the doctor goes to an ATM to grab some cash, all during the time Donna borrowed some off a passerby and got in a cab. Leaving the Doctor to nearly be attacked, yet again, by robotic Santas.

    Unknown to Donna the taxi driver is also a robotic Santa, however she quickly realises that the taxi is not heading for her wedding church and finds the doctor pursuing the cab in the TARDIS. The Doctor catches up and Donna is able to jump aboard from the car, though the strenuous event puts the TARDIS out of use for some time. The Doctor then gave Donna a ring which would stop the robot Santas tracking her and the two get chatting as the Doctor tries to learn more about Donna. Much to the relief of Lance, her family and friends, the Doctor manages to return Donna to the reception. The Doctor learns that the H.C. Clement's building is owned by Torchwood Institute and, through examining the wedding photographer's footage that Donna was turned into huon particles (which haven't existed for billions of years).

    They find that the reception hall is surrounded by robot Santas and that they had rigged a Christmas tree's ornaments to fly off at people and explode. Using the reception's sound system and his sonic screwdriver the Doctor is able to shake the robots apart and trace their signal back to a star shaped ship hanging in the sky above but it shortly cuts off. So the Doctor asks Lance to take Donna and himself to the H.C. Clement's building, where they learn that the place had actually not been owned by Torchwood since Doomsday and that there is a basement level that's not on the floor plans. They find themselves in a long corridor which leads them to the Thames Barrier, where there is a laboratory in which huon particles are being made. This is when the Doctor deducts how Donna got on his ship and they find a huge laser dug hole spanning the room leading to the center of the Earth.

    Whilst exploring the lab a half-humanoid, half-spider teleports into the room which Doctor immediately recognises as being a Racnoss, a race believed extinct about the same time as huon particles. The Racnoss identifies herself as the Empress who has, above the pit, fashioned a giant web, from which the body of H.C. Clement's still hangs, Lance sneaks behind the Empress with an axe and goes to strike only to reveal he has been working with her the whole time and was the one putting huon particles in Donna's coffee. So the Empress could use their power to regain her ancient power. Then as more robot Santas enter and take aim at the Doctor and Donna the TARDIS materializes around them allowing for their escape. Though the Racnoss queen is not thwarted as she knows how to achieve the same effect with Lance and she force feeds him huon particles as he's trapped in her web.

    The Doctor decides to take Donna back to the creation of the Earth so they can see what is so important and find that a Racnoss ship is actually at the core of the Earth. Armed with the knowledge they return to the corridor and enter the lab only for Donna to get trapped in the web and Doctor held at gunpoint. The Empress activates the huon particles and awakes all of her species that had been trapped down in the Earths core, knowing they'll be hungry she drops Lance down the pit. Meanwhile the Empress' ship flies over london shotting things after originally being thought to be a Christmas star. The doctor manages to get back into the lab and gives the Empress one final offer to take her and her people far way where they are a threat to no one. She refuses and the doctor reveals himself to be Gallifreyan, a race which has already once defeated the Racnoss. Using explosive Christmas baubles he blows open the walls allowing water from the river Thames to flood in.

    The Doctor doesn't move until Donna says he can stop. The two escape in the TARDIS and the Empress teleports back to her ship moments before t is blown out of the sky by tanks from orders of " Mr. Saxon". The Doctor returns Donna to her home, a desolate woman as she has lost her job and fiance in one day, to cheer her up the Doctor makes it snow and offers her to join him in the TARDIS but she declines and encourages him to find someone as she recognizes that he has just lost someone close and he briefly opens up to her about Rose before jumping in his TARDIS and disappearing, thought never to be seen again.

    Novels

    Doctor Who: Ghosts of India

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    India in 1947 is a country in the grip of chaos - a country torn apart by internal strife. When the Doctor and Donna arrive in Calcutta, they are instantly swept up in violent events.

    Barely escaping with their lives, they discover that the city is rife with tales of 'half-made men', who roam the streets at night and steal people away. These creatures, it is said, are as white as salt and have only shadows where their eyes should be.

    With help from India's great spiritual leader, Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi, the Doctor and Donna set out to investigate these rumours.

    What is the real truth behind the 'half-made men'? Why is Gandhi's role in history under threat? And has an ancient, all-powerful god of destruction really come back to wreak his vengeance upon the Earth?

    Featuring the Tenth Doctor and Donna as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.

    • Written by: Mark Morris
    • Publisher: BBC Books (4 Sept. 2008)
    • ISBN 10: 1846075599
    • ISBN 13: 978-1846075599

    Doctor Who: The Doctor Trap

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    Sebastiene was perhaps once human. He might look like a nineteenth-century nobleman, but in truth he is a ruthless hunter. He likes nothing more than luring difficult opposition to a planet, then hunting them down for sport. And now he's caught them all - from Zargregs to Moogs, and even the odd Eternal...

    In fact, Sebastiene is after only one more prize. For this trophy, he knows he is going to need help. He's brought together the finest hunters in the universe to play the most dangerous game for the deadliest quarry of them all.

    They are hunting for the last of the Time Lords - the Doctor.

    Featuring the Doctor and Donna as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit series from BBC Television.

    • Written by: Simon Messingham
    • Publisher: BBC Books (4 Sept. 2008)
    • ISBN 10: 1846075580
    • ISBN 13: 978-1846075582

    Doctor Who: Shining Darkness

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    For Donna Noble, the Andromeda galaxy is a long, long way from home. But even two and a half million light years from Earth, danger lurks around every corner...

    A visit to an art gallery turns into a race across space to uncover the secret behind a shadowy organisation.

    From the desert world of Karris to the interplanetary scrapyard of Junk, the Doctor and Donna discover that appearances can be deceptive, that enemies are lurking around every corner - and that the centuries-long peace between humans and machines may be about to come to an end.

    Because waiting in the wings to bring chaos to the galaxy is The Cult of Shining Darkness.

    Featuring the Tenth Doctor and Donna as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit sci-fi series from BBC Television.

    • Written by: Mark Michalowski
    • Publisher: BBC Books (4 Sept. 2008)
    • ISBN 10: 1846075572
    • ISBN 13: 978-1846075575

    Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos

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    Donna Noble is back home in London, catching up with her family and generally giving them all the gossip about her journeys. Her grandfather is especially overjoyed - he's discovered a new star and had it named after him.

    He takes the Doctor, as his special guest, to the naming ceremony. But, the Doctor is suspicious about some of the other changes he can see in Earth's heavens - particularly that bright star, right there. No not that one, that one, there, on the left...

    The world's population is slowly being converted to a new path, a new way of thinking. Something is coming to Earth, an ancient force from the Dark Times. Something powerful, angry, and all-consuming!

    • Written by: Gary Russell
    • Publisher: Random House UK (26 Dec. 2008)
    • ISBN 10: 1846075637
    • ISBN 13: 978-1846075636

    Doctor Who: In the Blood

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    All over the world, people are venting their fury at one another on social media. Dropping their friends, giving vent to their hatred, and everywhere behaving with incredible cruelty. Even Donna has found that her friend Hettie, with her seemingly perfect life and fancy house, has unfriended her. And now, all over the world, internet trolls are dying...

    As more and more people give in to this wave of bitterness and aggression, it's clear this is no simple case of modern living. This is unkindness as a plague.

    From the streets of London to the web cafes of South Korea and the deepest darkest forests of Rio, can the Doctor and Donna find the cause of this unhappiness before it's too late?

    An original novel featuring the Tenth Doctor and Donna, as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

    • Written by: Jenny T Colgan
    • Publisher: BBC Books (12 May 2016)
    • ISBN 10: 1785941100
    • ISBN 13: 978-1785941108

    Doctor Who: Dr. Tenth: Christmas Surprise!

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    The greatest mash-up in the Whoniverse continues with this Christmas adventure starring the Tenth Doctor and fan-favourite companion, Donna!

    Doctor Who meets Roger Hargreaves' Mr Men in this fun and charming Christmas story; a seasonal special to compliment the twelve Dr Men titles in the ongoing series written and illustrated by Adam Hargreaves.

    A new keepsake hardback format makes this the perfect Christmas gift for any Doctor Who fan.

    • Written by: Adam Hargreaves
    • Publisher: BBC Children's Books (17 Oct. 2017)
    • ISBN 10: 140593414X
    • ISBN 13: 978-1405934145

    Doctor Who: Rose

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    Meet the new Doctor Who classics.

    “Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!”

    In a lair somewhere beneath central London, a malevolent alien intelligence is plotting the end of humanity. Shop window dummies that can move – and kill – are taking up key positions, ready to strike.

    Rose Tyler, an ordinary Londoner, is working her shift in a department store, unaware that this is the most important day of her life. She’s about to meet the only man who understands the true nature of the threat facing Earth, a stranger who will open her eyes to all the wonder and terror of the universe – a traveller in time and space known as the Doctor.

    • Written by: Russell T. Davies
    • Publisher: BBC Books (5 April 2018)
    • ISBN 10: 9781785943263
    • ISBN 13: 978-1785943263

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