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Barbara Wright

• one of THE OGS!!!!!! and theeeee reason the doctor is who we know them as now - she told him off for being an asshole in story THREE!!! can we get a wahoo!!!!!!

Bill Potts

• She's kind, she's curious, she's intelligent, she's funny, she's gay. What more could you ask for in a companion?

Oliver Harper

• Brilliant extended universe companion of the First Doctor. His story is both something that is both true to how the 60s were and yet could never have been explored by the TV series at that time. A perfect combination and a wonderful addition to the First Doctor and Steven's history. Very well played and I wish he could come back for more. (@hartnellwho / @elden-12 )

Steven Taylor

• He suffers so much I want him thrown out the window!!! He’s see all his friends die in front of him and is constantly getting tortured and being hurt. He should be shot in the face and survive I love him so much!!!
• What if there was a man who could never win. What if there was a man who had so much love in his heart but nobody to give it to because they all kept dying. What if there was a man who was such a bitch. What if he was mentally ill. And bisexual. And missing 28 episodes. And did I mention that everyone around him is constantly dying. This is Steven Taylor. I haven't made it past the first doctor's era because I got too attached to him and sobbed and wailed when he left. He's a single mother (to dodo) he's a big brother (to vicki) he's a wifeguy (to sara) he hates his fucking grandpa (the doctor). I'm shaking (@abominandus )

River Song

• Don't be fooled by her skills & accomplishments, this is the disaster to bi all & end all (not a typo). Brags about sneaking around her husband to his face bc she doesn't recognise him. Gets a gun pointed at her by mum bc she dramatically withheld an identity reveal for the drama, dramatically. Wouldn't know 'subtlety' if it crashed a spaceship in front of her. Also Alex Kingston's smugsmirkface is a thing of glory 😍😍😍 (@buggreawlthys )

K9

• Who doesn't love a talking dog with sass?

Fitz Kreiner

• Silly smoking hot goober who takes the doctor up the arse

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Oliver Harper

• Brilliant extended universe companion of the First Doctor. His story is both something that is both true to how the 60s were and yet could never have been explored by the TV series at that time. A perfect combination and a wonderful addition to the First Doctor and Steven's history. Very well played and I wish he could come back for more. (@hartnellwho / @elden-12 )

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Barbara Wright

• one of THE OGS!!!!!! and theeeee reason the doctor is who we know them as now - she told him off for being an asshole in story THREE!!! can we get a wahoo!!!!!!

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Vislor Turlough

• The worst assassin in the entire universe who honestly has some of the funniest lines in the Fifth Doctor's era. Just a Strange Guy™️. (@gothicacetheatrekid )
• he's a self-professed selfish coward of COURSE he's the kindest and bravest person you'll ever meet
  (remember that time he went back alone to face off the creatures that literally had him CATATONIC with ancestral trauma based fear half an hour earlier, giving away his only good luck charm as he went?! And people still think he's a selfish coward! Please! it's a mask!!!)
  stunning character development
  snark absolutely off the charts. you like Donna Noble? try Vislor Turlough! also the real first unambiguous redhead companion
  total freak. he once paused while SCUTTLING (only word for it) away from monsters for his life in order to rebutton his jacket, the jacket that is the school uniform from a school he utterly and openly HATED, which for some incomprehensible reason is the only thing he wears. There's nobody else in the universe like Vislor Turlough
• There are so many angles I could take with this. He's a bitchy gay alien and the least deadly assassin. He is a meme. Also he's the first Fifth Doctor companion to get a sort of happy ending. In the constant tragedy of Five's era, he finds his brother and makes it home safe. He is a rare moment of hope in a very grim, cynical era of the show, while also being the last person you'd expect to be a moment of hope. (@cringecompanionapologist )

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The Brigadier

• This man should get an award for the amount of Doctor-related nonsense he put up with in his life. He met the second Doctor while fighting yetis in the London underground, was the third Doctor's boss, and went on to put up with many of his other incarnations (mostly against his will). Despite how much the Doctor annoys him, he's one of the Doctor's oldest friends and is always there to help them if they need it. He also built UNIT from the ground up.

Katarina

• She is Katarina and she is dead. She is the first to die and from the moment she entered the TARDIS she knew she was dead. Doom from the start. She saw the Doctor as a god taking her to the afterlife. And he took her there. She died 5000 years for when she was born alone in the Vacuum of space. Her death was written the moment she met Vicky, Stevan and the Doctor. And she knew it. She was the First of many Companions to die. Her name is Katarina and she is dead. (@familyparadox )

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Dodo Chaplet

• "Dodo's annoying" "Dodo sucks" SHUT UP EVERYBODY SHUT UP RIGHT NOW. Those who believe Dodo to be one of the worst companions ever will not see the light of heaven. There are literally worse companions. Dodo is just some guy. She waltzes into the TARDIS and is like "Oh, it's a Time Machine? Okay! yaaaay!" Right after Steven has had the worst year of his life. Dodo provides much needed joy and whimsy after an ESPECIALLY dark era of the 60s. She's silly and fun and gets along great with both the Doctor and Steven, but also holds her own! Threatening Doc Holliday at gunpoint into taking her back to Tombstone? GO GIRL GIVE US EVERYTHING. YES she gave a future society the plague, it was an accident. YES she was all over the place during the Toymaker, you would be too if you had all those rules to follow and undiagnosed ADHD! She's a sweetheart she's the world she deserved such a better ending than she got. Who Killed Kennedy is not canon in my heart and her audios rule. Please listen to The Secrets of Det-Sen. She commands a Yeti army. Dodo Chaplet get behind me (@abominandus )

Romana I

• I LOVEEEEE ROMANAAAAA!!!! Shes so green and haughty when she comes to the TARDIS but grows and learns while never letting the Doctor get away with anything!! Her eyebrows could write NOVELS. Her all white aesthetic makes her one of the most striking companions of all time in m y opinion. Also I couldnt find the clip by itself but in her first episode, The Ribos Operation, my absolute fave Romana moment: https://youtu.be/O6J6xYB030s?si=4cbrzBsLJvvEGl3N at about 15:10 of the video, her and the Doctor discuss her name and she wants to be called Fred 🤣🤣🤣 THE OG GENDER NONCONFORMING TIME LORD

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Oliver Harper

• Brilliant extended universe companion of the First Doctor. His story is both something that is both true to how the 60s were and yet could never have been explored by the TV series at that time. A perfect combination and a wonderful addition to the First Doctor and Steven's history. Very well played and I wish he could come back for more. (@hartnellwho / @elden-12 )