| “ | Donna: Just promise me one thing: Find someone. The Doctor: I don't need anyone. Donna: Yes you do. Because sometimes... I think you need someone to stop you. |
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| ~ Donna asking the Doctor to find another companion to keep him grounded. |
| “ | I'm Donna; I'm a human being. Maybe not the "stuff of legend", but every bit as important as Time Lords, thank you. | „ |
| ~ Donna, asserting the importance of ordinary people. |
| “ | I just want you to know there are worlds out there, safe in the sky because of her. That there are people living in the light, and singing songs of Donna Noble, a thousand million light years away. They will never forget her, while she can never remember. And for one moment, one shining moment, she was the most important woman in the whole wide universe. | „ |
| ~ The Doctor on Donna after being forced to wipe her memory. |
Donna Noble is a deuteragonist of the Doctor Who franchise, serving as a companion of the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors.
She was portrayed by Catherine Tate.
Her Good Ranking[]
What Makes Her Close to Being Pure Good?[]
In General[]
- While her personality could easily be called abrasive, this is surface-level, as it toned down greatly as she developed, and she's an incredibly empathetic and selfless person underneath it.
- She acted as the Doctor’s morality chain.
Series 3[]
- When the Empress of the Racnoss ordered the Doctor to be shot, she stood in her way, exclaiming that she wouldn’t let her hurt him.
- When the Doctor drowned all of the Racnoss babies and was prepared to die himself, she snapped him out of his resulting near-catatonia and urged him to escape the collapsing lair with her.
- Despite her groom Lance exploiting her feelings, betraying her and helping the Empress to nearly destroy humanity, Donna still (hesitantly) expressed some sympathy for him after the Empress killed him.
- She made the Doctor promise to find another companion to act as a morality chain, to prevent him from going too far again as he had when killing the Racnoss children.
Series 4[]
- She gave the Doctor the pendant he needed to stop the Adipose, saving the lives of one million people.
- During her time with the Doctor in Pompeii on the eve of Mount Vesuvius' eruption, she wholeheartedly wanted to save the citizens from the historical disaster and she repeatedly chafed at the Doctor's efforts to make her understand that Pompeii's destruction and the massive loss of life it entailed were a fixed point in time that they couldn't change, even attempting to warn a family that they bonded with to leave Pompeii on the day of the eruption.
- She ultimately helped the Doctor erupt Mount Vesuvius, in order to stop the Pyroviles remaking Earth in their own image and causing even more suffering and destruction than Vesuvius would have, which killed Pompeii's citizens. Donna notably did this very somberly, and partly so that the Doctor wouldn't have to make such a terrible decision and bear the weight of it by himself. Furthermore, while they unfortunately didn't listen to her, Donna afterwards desperately tried to guide the citizens to safety during the eruption, and she successfully convinced the Doctor to save the family they befriended.
- Years later, Donna convincing the Doctor to save the family ended up reminding the Twelfth Doctor to save anyone he could, no matter how impossible it seemed.
- She had great empathy for the Ood from the start, being appalled at the slavery they were subjected to, and she ultimately gained their respect for the rare human sympathy that she showed them.
- She helped save Earth from onboard the Sontaran flagship when the Sontarans unleashed poison gas on the planet.
- She was kind to the Doctor’s clone daughter, Jenny, and convinced the Doctor, who was reluctant to accept her partly for the feelings she brought back, to open up to her after he told Donna about the family he lost in the Time War.
- She saved the Doctor when he was poisoned.
- She tried to comfort Agatha Christie, and stopped Agatha from sacrificing herself to kill the Vespiform.
- She was kind to Miss Evangelista when everyone else bullied her, and she tried her best to comfort her as her digitized consciousness died.
- She comforted the Doctor after the Midnight Entity brainwashed him and nearly got him killed.
- After a Time Beetle used her to create an alternate timeline where she never met the Doctor, causing his death and dooming the universe, the alternate version of Donna agreed to go back in time to restore the normal timeline, and when her chances of success were on the verge of slipping away, she sacrificed her life to reset the timeline back to normal.
- While she attempted to use the Metacrisis Doctor's device that would kill Davros and all of the Daleks, an action the Doctor would later deem as genocide, Davros is Pure Evil and the Daleks are biologically incapable of feeling anything other than hate towards all other forms of life, and it has been proven every time by the Doctor’s failures to do so throughout the series that their species at large are completely unable to be redeemed or reasoned with. Furthermore, they were on the verge of destroying the entire multiverse at the time, and alternative ways to save it were at that point exhausted.
- When she became the DoctorDonna, Donna disabled Davros’ Reality Bomb, saving the entire multiverse from complete disintegration.
- The DoctorDonna afterwards went on to assist the Doctors in teleporting the twenty-seven planets that the Daleks stole, some of which were inhabited, back to their original places and orbits.
60th Anniversary Specials[]
- She was completely supportive of her transgender daughter Rose.
- She nearly sacrificed her life to prevent the Meep’s ship from destroying London, by letting the Doctor turn her back into the DoctorDonna, and they disabled the ship together.
- She helped the the Doctor heal from all his past experiences by letting him live with her family.
What Prevents Her From Being Pure Good?[]
- While she killed the Vespiform to save Agatha Christie, she was too sadistic for this to be completely justified.
- She has a highly rude and abrasive demeanor, at least at first. However, she grows out of this over her character development, and it doesn't detract from her displays of empathy when people around her are hurt, so this is a small deterrent.
Trivia[]
- She and Ood Sigma are currently the only Doctor Who characters to be Near Pure Good.
External Links[]
- Donna Noble on the Heroes Wiki
- Donna Noble on the Doctor Who Wiki