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|title1= The Doctor

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|aka= Dr. Who<br>Fred<br>Theta

In some universes, “Doctor Who [was] fictional”, and the stories told about them there were highly varied and inconsistent. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So You're Jenny Everywhere (short story)|So You're Jenny Everywhere]]'') They existed as a real being in several universes, and indeed, could change bodies even within a single universe through a process of mental and physical “regeneration” that granted them a form of immortality. As a perpetual traveller who had lived in many different physical forms and often took human companions, [[Jenny Everywhere|the Shifter]] viewed several versions of the Doctor as kindred souls and vice versa.

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[[Jenny Everywhere#Late for her "shift"|Jenny Everywhere]] once noted that "some people" got into even more trouble than she did. For proof, she pointed to the Doctor’s [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] which, with supreme bad luck, was materialising in the middle of the very firing squad Jenny had just escaped in [[Third Universe|one universe]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Late Shift (comic story)|The Late Shift]]'')

After her earlier visits to the Fourth and Seventh Doctors, Jenny finally visited the Twelfth Doctor and [[Clara Oswald (Third Universe)|Clara Oswald]], keeping out of sight but graffitiing “Ace Rules OK!” on the doors of the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ace Rules OK! (short story)|Ace Rules OK!]]'', ''[[Photo shoot (short story)|Photo shoot]]'')

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In [[Universe B (Shifting)|another universe]], after having been separated from [[Rose Tyler (Shifting)|Rose Tyler]] when she was trapped in [[Pete's World (Shifting)|Pete's World]] (at some point later than the “[[Bad Wolf]]” incident), the Doctor was reunited with her in a later incarnation.

This Thirteenth Doctor was a woman with “bright hazel eyes” who wore “eclectic clothing”. [[Jenny Everywhere (Shifting)|Jenny Everywhere]] collected Rose from Pete's World and [[shift]]ed her directly into the control room of [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Shifting)|the TARDIS]], cryptically stating by way of explanation that it would be “better for everyone” if Rose and the Doctor resumed their adventures forthwith. The Doctor recognised Jenny, though she told Rose that she didn't really know ''what'' Jenny was beyond being an “interdimensional hitchhiker”. After Jenny left, the Doctor and Rose went to the TARDIS library to catch up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shifting (short story)|Shifting]]'')

{{main|The Doctor (Shippy Shifter Snippets}})

In [[Universe B (Shippy Shifter Snippets)|one reality]], the Doctor was familiar with [[Jenny Everywhere#Fun with Clara|Jenny Everywhere]] of old, with her familiarly calling him “[[w:c:tardis:Theta Sigma|Theta]]”. At some point, the Doctor regenerated into a male incarnation whose costume prominently included a bowtie, and started travelling with [[Clara Oswald#Fun with Jenny|Clara Oswald]], a woman who ended up “splintered” throughout time so that she had a great number of alternative selves in other time periods, somewhat similar to Jenny's interdimensional incarnations.

On one occasion, the Jenny he knew arrived in the control room of [[the Doctor's TARDIS#Clara and Jenny's fun|the Doctor's TARDIS]], intending to speak with him about something. However, he was out at the time, and she instead met Clara. When the Doctor returned, he was shocked to see that, once the two women realised they both had a bevy of identical counterparts, Jenny had summoned matching numbers of her other selves and Clara's into the control room, and they were all engaging in various adult activities. After the prime Clara explained the situation to the Doctor, the prime Jenny saucily asked him if he wanted to join the fun. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shippy Shifter Snippets (novel)|Shippy Shifter Snippets]]'')

{{main|The Doctor (Jenny Everywhere meets Peter Griffin)}}

{{main|The Doctor (Wednesday and the Doctor)}}

In [[Universe (Strange Encounters)|one universe]], the Doctor coexisted with the [[Addams Family]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wednesday and the Doctor (short story)|Wednesday and the Doctor]]'') and the [[Jenny Everywhere (Wednesday and the Shifter)|local incarnation]] of [[Jenny Everywhere]] was familiar with them. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wednesday and the Shifter (short story)|Wednesday and the Shifter]]'') This Doctor met [[Wednesday Addams (Wednesday and the Weeping Angel)|Wednesday Addams]] as the [[The Doctor (Wednesday and the Doctor)|Eleventh Doctor]], a bowtie-wearing young man; when entering [[the Doctor's TARDIS (Wednesday and the Doctor)|his TARDIS]], Wednesday caught psychic glimpses of other incarnations of the Doctor, including “[[First Doctor (Wednesday and the Doctor)|an old man]] with [[Susan Foreman (Wednesday and the Doctor)|a teenage girl]], [[Second Doctor (Wednesday and the Doctor)|one playing a recorder]], [[Fourth Doctor (Wednesday and the Doctor)|one with a very long scarf]], [[Sixth Doctor (Wednesday and the Doctor)|one wearing a multi-colored coat]], [[Eighth Doctor (Wednesday and the Doctor)|one]] that resembled [[Lord Byron]], [[War Doctor (Wednesday and the Doctor)|one that looked like an old soldier]], and [[Twelfth Doctor (Wednesday and the Doctor)|one drawing on a chalkboard]]”, as well as a “[[Thirteenth Doctor (Wednesday and the Doctor)|blonde woman]]”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wednesday and the Doctor (short story)|Wednesday and the Doctor]]'')

* An [[w:c:Fred|alternative Ninth Doctor]] was portrayed by [[w:c:tardis:Nicholas Briggs|Nick Briggs]] in the unlicensed [[w:c:tardis:Audio Visuals|''Audio Visuals'']] audio dramas, and later appeared in licensed DWU media, established to have severed himself from the mainline Doctor's timeline and adopted the name of "Fred" as part of a deal with [[the Man in Black]]. This is the “balding man in a floral print jacket” seen in a photograph with [[the Man in Black]] in ''[[Open Sourcing (short story)|Open Sourcing]]''. This is why [[The Man in Grey (925th Universe)|the Man in Grey]] reacts oddly to the name of "Fred" when it is mentioned elsewhere in ''Open Sourcing'' (which gestures at an ambiguous but meaningful relationship existing between the Man in Grey and the Man in Black).

The character was cited in 2002 as an inspiration for Jenny by [[Steven Wintle]] in one of the original Barbelith forum-threads where Jenny was created — specifically for the notion that like the Doctor's, Jenny's birth name should remain a mystery, with it being assumed that "Jenny Everywhere" was an alias.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070408170025rn_1/www.barbelith.com/topic.php?id=5491#post86048 Post by “Moriarty” on Barbelith (Archived)]</ref>

The [[Zanzibar the Magician|portrayal]] of the public-domain character of [[w:c:pdsh:Zanzibar|Zanzibar the Magician]] in ''[[Ruthless Ro-Man (comic story)|Ruthless Ro-Man]]'' leaned strongly into the preexisting resemblance that existed between him and the Eleventh Doctor, a reference made explicit in the author's notes for the page, where Epps quipped that “Zanzibar has a fez, so that makes him cool” (mirroring the Eleventh Doctor's famous claim that “fezzes are cool”).

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