1. Donna Noble is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
28 Facts About Donna Noble
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Donna Noble becomes an asset to the Doctor on his adventures and on being merged with Time Lord energy, becomes the DoctorDonna Noble and ultimately saves the universe, albeit at the cost of the memories of her travels with the Doctor.
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Donna Noble's memories are restored years later, when the Doctor returns as a new incarnation with a similar appearance, and the Doctor ultimately settles down with her and her family after bi-generating another incarnation.
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Donna Noble makes her first appearance, credited as "The Bride", in the closing scenes of the 2006 series finale "Doomsday"; she appears in a wedding dress, outraged to be inexplicably aboard the Doctor's TARDIS.
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Donna Noble's story is picked up in 2006 Christmas special "The Runaway Bride".
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Donna Noble is a temporary secretary at HC Clements in London, a security firm which, unbeknownst to her, is a front organisation for the alien-investigating Torchwood Institute.
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Donna Noble's parents are Geoff and Sylvia Noble.
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Donna Noble discovers that she is a pawn in a scheme of the Empress of the alien Racnoss, having been manipulated by her fiance, Lance.
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Donna Noble is upset, having lost her job and her fiance, and declines the Doctor's offer to become his companion, though she advises he find one.
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The Doctor and Donna Noble meet Agatha Christie in "The Unicorn and the Wasp" and have to solve their very own murder mystery with Agatha Christie and a giant alien wasp.
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Donna Noble then falls in love with Lee McAvoy and has two children with him.
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The episode "Turn Left" features a parallel universe wherein Donna Noble never met the Doctor; consequently, the Doctor died, and the world comes to an end much sooner.
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Donna Noble reappears in the two-part "The End of Time".
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Early in the story, she buys her grandfather a book written by the episode's villain, which the Doctor takes to mean that the "DoctorDonna Noble" is still trying to subconsciously lend a hand.
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When every member of the human race becomes a clone of the Doctor's nemesis the Master, Donna Noble's memories are nearly restored; however, a fail-safe installed by the Doctor protects her, as Donna Noble generates a brief telepathic pulse that knocks out herself and the Masters in the vicinity.
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In "The Star Beast", Donna Noble is reunited with the recently-regenerated Fourteenth Doctor, who has the face of the Tenth Doctor.
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Donna Noble and Rose safely expel the metacrisis, and Donna Noble accepts the Doctor's offer of one last trip in the TARDIS to see Wilfred.
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Donna Noble realises his mistake and rescues Donna just in time.
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Donna Noble accompanies the Doctor to UNIT's headquarters in "The Giggle", where she meets UNIT's new leader Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and the Doctor's former companion Mel Bush.
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Donna Noble accepts and moves in with the Noble-Temple family, later acknowledging to Donna that his time with them is the happiest he's ever been.
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In "The Giggle," Kate Stewart, impressed with Donna Noble's skills, had offered her a job.
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Outside of the television series, Donna Noble appears in some of the BBC Books New Series Adventures novels, alongside the Tenth Doctor, in stories set in between episodes of series four.
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Donna Noble first appears in Ghosts of India by Mark Morris, The Doctor Trap by Simon Messingham, and Shining Darkness by Mark Michalowski in September 2008.
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Donna Noble makes a fourth and final appearance in the novels in Beautiful Chaos by Gary Russell in December 2008; subsequent Tenth Doctor novels in the New Series Adventures range feature the Doctor travelling alone.
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Donna Noble appears in Big Finish Productions' fiftieth-anniversary mini-series Destiny of the Doctor, appearing in the tenth story, Death's Deal, released in October 2013, with Tate returning to play the role.
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In 2019, Donna was featured in the third volume of the Tenth Doctor Adventures alongside The Tenth Doctor, Wilfred Mott and Sylvia Noble, with a story featuring the Judoon.
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Donna Noble appears in three original audiobooks published by BBC Books: Pest Control, The Forever Trap and The Nemonite Invasion.
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Donna Noble was voted the second best companion of all time in Doctor Who Magazine Issue 414 and Issue 474.