Fifteenth Doctor
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This page is a collection of quotations from the era of the fifteenth official incarnation of The Doctor from the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who, during which the role of the Fifteenth Doctor was played by Ncuti Gatwa, who played the role during a series of specials aired over the course of November 2023. He is the second actor of color to take on the role of the Doctor, with the first being Jo Martin.
2023 Specials[edit]
The Giggle [0.X][edit]
- (9 December 2023)
- The Fifteenth Doctor: [first words] No way!
- The Fourteenth Doctor: You're me!
- The Doctor: No, I'm me... I think I'm really, really me! Oh-ho, I am completely me!
- The Doctor: Hello! So good to see you! So good! Now... someone tell me what the hell is going on here?!
- The Doctor: Our whole lifetime... That first Doctor that met the Toymaker never, ever stopped. Put on trial. Exiled. Key to Time. All the devastation of Logopolis...
- The Fourteenth Doctor: Adric...
- The Doctor: Adric. River Song. All the people we lost... Sarah Jane is gone, can you believe that for a second?
- The Fourteenth Doctor: I loved her.
- The Doctor: I loved her. And Rose. But the Time War, the Pandorica, Mavic Chen... We fought the Gods of Ragnarök, and we didn't stop for a second... to say "what the hell?"
- The Fourteenth Doctor: But you're fine!
- The Doctor: I'm fine because you fix yourself. We're Time Lords, we're doing rehab out of order.
- The Doctor: Now, you two, if you don't mind, there is a great big universe out there calling, and I've gotta get going. So off you pop, old man.
- The Fourteenth Doctor: You're the old man; you're older than me!
- Donna: Actually, that is true. He's younger, 'cause you came after him, so you're the older Doctor.
- The Doctor: Okay, kid. I love you, get out.
Series 14[edit]
The Church on Ruby Road [0.X][edit]
- (25 December 2023)
- The Doctor: Okay. Name: "The Doctor". Occupation: "Not a doctor". Current status: "Just passing by". Employer: "Myself". Address: "That blue box over there". Now, if you don't mind, I just got snowmanned, and I would like to go home.
- Police Officer: Um... Uh, Doctor what would that be?
- The Doctor: Just the Doctor!
- The Doctor: Who sees a ladder and just hops on? A ladder in the sky, and you thought "Yeah, I'll give that a go, babes!"
- The Doctor: What's your name?
- Ruby: Ruby. Ruby Sunday.
- The Doctor: Hello, Ruby Sunday. And it's a Sunday right now! That's a coincidence. I'm the Doctor. Hi!
- Ruby: No, but who are you? Why are you an expert in time-traveling goblins and--
- The Doctor: Oh! Pssh... They are not time-travelers, excuse me! Time travelers are great. Like, the best -- like, wow. This lot's just bimble.
- The Doctor: I am learning the vocabulary of rope!
- The Doctor: I'm adopted.
- Ruby: Were you?
- The Doctor: Yeah! Yeah, I, uh... I only found out recently.
- Carla: That's a coincidence!
- Ruby: Oh, don't be saying that!
- Carla: So, uh you know who your parents are?
- The Doctor: No. No, I was, uh, I was abandoned.
- Mrs. Flood: Busy man, sweetheart! You and your box of tricks... You look like you've lost a pound and found a sixpence. What's wrong?
- The Doctor: Just wondering... Maybe I'm the bad luck.
- Ruby: Who are you?
- The Doctor: I'm the Doctor!
- Mrs. Flood: Never seen a TARDIS before?
Space Babies [14.1][edit]
- The Doctor: My world is called Gallifrey.
- Ruby: "Gallifrey"! And where's that?
- The Doctor: Gone! Ruby, it's gone. It's gone. They died. It was a genocide, and they died. So the one that was adopted was the only one left. I am the last of the Time Lords. And I am so, so glad to be alive.
- Ruby: How do you keep going?
- The Doctor: For days like this, Ruby Sunday. I don't have a people, I don't have a home... But I don't have a job, either. I don't have a boss, or taxes, or rent, or bills to pay. I don't have a purpose, or a cause, or a mission, but I have... freedom. That's why I keep moving on, to see the next thing, and the next, and the next. And sometimes... It looks even better through your eyes.
- Ruby: Is that a monster?!
- The Doctor: No. No, don't be silly -- There's never any such thing as monsters, they're just... Just creatures you haven't met yet.
- Captain Poppy: We're not meant to be like this; did we grow up wrong?
- The Doctor: Oh, Poppy... Oh, Popsicle. Look at me, look at me. Nobody grows up wrong. You are what you are, and that is magnificent.
- Captain Poppy: But Mummy and Daddy left us...
- The Doctor: That's okay! Mine did, too.
- Captain Poppy: What happened?
- The Doctor: Well, I was found.
- Captain Poppy: Hooray!
- The Doctor: Little baby me was left alone in the middle of outer space, and guess who took me in?
- Captain Poppy: I don't know!
- The Doctor: The Time Lords!
- Captain Poppy: Oooooh...
- The Doctor: Can you say it like me?
- Captain Poppy: "Time Lords"!
- The Doctor: That's in! Bah-bah-bah-bah-bah! But the point is... that it doesn't matter where I come from, because I am absolutely lovely, aren't I? [Poppy yawns] That wasn't rhetorical, Pops.
- Captain Poppy: Yes, you are!
- The Doctor: And you wanna know my secret? There's no one like me in the whole wide universe. No one like me exists, and that's true of everyone. That's not a problem, Captain Pops. It's a superpower.
The Devil's Chord [14.2][edit]
- Timothy Drake: Who are you?
- Maestro: My notation is... Maestro.
- Timothy Drake: But... what are you?
- Maestro: I am music.
- The Doctor: In the past, right now, I live in a place called Totter's Lane. 1963, I parked the TARDIS in a junkyard, and I lived there with my granddaughter, Susan.
- Ruby: Oh...!
- The Doctor: Okay?
- Ruby: Your what?
- The Doctor: My granddaughter.
- Ruby: Susan?
- The Doctor: We could go and have a look, but y'know... timelines, [mimics explosion]
- Ruby: Well, y-- you've got children?
- The Doctor: I did have -- I will have. Time Lords get a bit complicated.
- Ruby: Yeah, but you've got a granddaughter! Like, now? Like, today? Back in our time? My time. Gah! Where is she?!
- The Doctor: I don't know.
- Ruby: How do you not know?
- The Doctor: Time Lords were murdered. Genocide rolled across time and space like a great big cellular explosion; maybe it killed her, too.
- Ruby: Doctor! God...
- Maestro: Can you find it? The lost chord? Are you enough of a genius?
- The Doctor: Oh, I would never call myself that, Maestro. But I have lived. And I have loved. And I can only smile like this because I have lost so much. I've experienced everything. Every single thing. And if that's where music comes from... I can find the chord to banish you.
Boom [14.3][edit]
- Ruby: Where are we?
- The Doctor: In the middle of a war.
- Ruby: Oh. I was kind of hoping for a beach.
- The Doctor: Ah! What do you think this is?
- Ruby: It's not a beach!
- The Doctor: Give it time. Everywhere's a beach eventually.
- The Doctor: You are brave. And you are wonderful. And I forgive you for being incredibly stupid.
- Ruby: Good, then.
- The Doctor: And if it does work... I'm going to be very cross at you, for a very, very long time.
- Ruby: Not that long, babes; you're standing on a land mine.
- The Doctor: War is business, and business is booming.
- The Doctor: I'm a Time Lord! Not a human, I'm a Time Lord!
- [Mundy shoots.]
- Ruby: Doctor!
- The Doctor: I am a higher dimension lifeform. I am a complex space-time event!
- Mundy: I'm Anglican.
- [Mundy shoots again, twice.]
- Ruby: No! No, stop it!
- [The ambulance turns towards him.]
- The Doctor: I'm a much bigger bang than you bargained for. I'm a lot more explosive than I look, and, honey, I know how I look. Put a quantum chain reaction through me, and I will shatter this silly little battlefield of yours into dust. All of it, in a heartbeat, into dust.
- Mundy: That's not possible.
- The Doctor: Everything is possible! Everything is possible. Everywhere is a beach eventually. Scan me! Scan me, see for yourself!
- [Mundy drops her gun, scans:]
- Mundy: You could blow up half of this planet!
- The Doctor: I mean, most armies would notice that they were fighting smoke and shadows, but not this lot, Ruby! You know why? 'Cause they have faith.
- Mundy: Shut up!
- The Doctor: "Faith"! The magic word that keeps you never having to think for yourself! Just surrender, Mundy. Just stop... and it's all over.
- Mundy: Prove it.
- The Doctor: What, seriously? Now you need proof, faith girl?
- Ruby: Do you think she'll be alright.
- The Doctor: Splice? Frickin' future President or something. 'Til then, she's got Mundy and her dad.
- Ruby: But her dad's dead. No, I know-- I know he's not gone, and that's sweet and everything, it's just-- he is, he's just really, actually, he's dead.
- The Doctor: We're all dead eventually. There's hardly any time that we're not dead. Which is a a good thing, too! We've got to keep the pace up, otherwise nothing would get done. Dying defines us. Snow isn't snow until it falls.
- Ruby: Snow?
- The Doctor: Yeah, snow. We all melt away in the end. But something stays. Maybe the best part. A sad old man once told me, "What survives of us, is love."