When does donna noble die

From the many men and women who have accompanied the hero for decades, the companion is as important to Doctor Who as the Doctor themselves. The show would not work if the Doctor were on their own. In the modern era of Doctor Who , which was revived in , multiple companions have become huge fan favorites during and after their run.

However, some companions' time on Doctor Who was shorter than others', especially in the Russell T. Davies era. While Martha and Donna did return for guest spots after their respective seasons, why were these companions short-lived on Doctor Who?

By the end, Martha makes the decision to leave the TARDIS , as she saw no point in following a man that didn't feel the same way for her as she did for the Doctor. Her memories of the visit were subsequently erased and she was sent on her way. The Day of the Doctor. The Choice, Endgame. The Time of My Life. When The Doctor discovered what the Manus Maleficus was capable of doing, he was momentarily tempted to use it to save Donna from burning up without wiping her memories.

The Crimson Hand. The Doctor still felt guilty over what travelling with him had done to Donna, feeling that he had screwed up her life; these feelings persisted into his next incarnation. At some point, he also told River Song about Donna and what happened to her. When River eventually encountered the Tenth Doctor and Donna, she was visibly moved when she realised who Donna was.

Silence in the Library. Hidden Human History. Shortly before regenerating, the Twelfth Doctor dreamt of Donna along with some of his other companions. The Doctor Falls. She told him she had the time of her life and not to find someone to stop him as she said at Christmas, but someone to keep him going.

This message was played to The Doctor when he travelled on his own again. The Turning of the Tide. A Brief History of Time Lords.

All Flesh is Grass. In a parallel world in June , Donna decided to work for Chowdry instead of H. She was promoted to his personal assistant the December when she saw the Racnoss Webstar attack central London. Over the next two years, Donna met Rose at several alien encounters which The Doctor would have prevented, had he not died in After Mr Chowdry laid off Donna, she won a trip to Firbourne House on a raffle ticket she found with the office supplies she had taken.

While there, over Christmas , the Titanic crashed into London, destroying it. Rose knew she needed Donna as well as The Doctor to stop the stars from going out throughout the multiverse as timelines had been converging on Donna since her birth.

In , Donna agreed to be sent back to June in a jury-rigged time machine; her task was to prevent her younger self from turning right on Little Sutton Street and taking the fatal job with Chowdry, instead, getting a job at H.

Clements by turning left towards the Chiswick High Road. Unable to get there in time, the alternate Donna Noble threw herself in front of a lorry to cause a traffic jam that would physically prevent her younger self from making that decision.

Just before her death, Rose appeared to Donna and gave her a message for The Doctor. Turn Left Alternate timelines. Sibling Same and Sibling Different once visited a timeline in which Donna never existed.

The Paradox Moon Career. Donna worked as a temp secretary in several places, including H. Clements and a double glazing firm. Partners in Crime At some point, she worked for six months at Hounslow Library, where she learned the Dewey Decimal System in two days. The Sontaran Stratagem When she joined The Doctor in his journeys, her quick and sometimes dry wit often came out, syncing with his own. She reached out to Agatha Christie, trying to share her own story of failed marriage. The Unicorn and the Wasp She helped free the Ood from mass slavery.

Planet of the Ood When The Doctor was forced to make the terrible choice of destroying Pompeii to save the world, Donna took some of the burden on herself by helping him push the lever to trigger the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The Fires of Pompeii. The Creeping Death On another occasion, Donna insisted that The Doctor acknowledge Jenny as his daughter, no matter how she was created or what job she was trained for. Likewise, travelling with The Doctor made Donna a better person.

He tempered her sharp tongue and brought out a more clever, compassionate aspect of her personality. She acknowledged that in the past, she had been selfish, always putting herself first. Travelling with The Doctor changed that: she started looking out for others, automatically helping where she might not have before.

In some instances, she became almost motherly towards The Doctor, telling him to take care, reprimanding him when his actions were found wanting, automatically fixing his tie, etc.

The Doctor found this disconcerting. She also enjoyed an attraction to Captain Jack Harkness, which at one point involved her pushing Sarah Jane Smith out of the way to get a hug from him. No Place She did kiss him, but only to give him a shock as part of his cure for cyanide poisoning.

The Doctor would later remember Donna as being impossibly stubborn, refusing to ever give in. The name Donna Noble was not revealed to the public until promotional material began to circulate for The Runaway Bride. Originally the new companion for Series 4 was meant to be a completely new character, and showrunner Russell T Davies had begun thinking of a Donna-like character called Penny Carter.

After Catherine Tate indicated that not only had she had a great time filming The Runaway Bride but was interested in doing a full series, Donna was brought back as a series regular. Penny Carter was later rewritten as a minor role in Partners in Crime.

This scene was removed to avoid creating a discontinuity; it had just seconds earlier been explicitly established that if Donna remembered anything about The Doctor or her travels with him, her mind would burn up. God save you. In Donna's final episode with the 10th Doctor, Journey's End , her memory was wiped by the Doctor, in order to protect her from burning up her head.

So why did so many people feel sorry for her? Improve this question. Tony Meyer I know I felt sorry for her. Her plot line is somewhat tragic in that she is the hero of the Universe and doesn't even know it. Awesome to see that others loved Donna as much as I did. Great character. And she can never be brought back. The Doctor will actively avoid contact with her, for her sake.

Who wouldn't feel sorry for her? Unlike other assistants, she was truly out of place back in London, and travelling with the Doctor gave her a sense of purpose. She lost not only the opportunity to continue travelling with him, but also all memories of the event. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Tango Tango k 81 81 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. You wouldn't know you had. We feel sorry, she does not. While she may never be able to know what she's lost, I bet she has a nagging bit at the back of her mind that something isn't what it should be.

Just think, most of us all feel sorry for her, for all the reasons Tango so eloquently stated. Imagine how much sorrier for her Gramps must feel, who is actually her flesh and blood.

I imagine whenever he looks at her there is a small bit of pity in his eyes, sorrow even. Even as small and petty as "old" Donna was, I imagine she still picks up on that a little, and on some level, questions why that is.

I asked if you the generic you would like having that happen to you. I think the worst part of it would be that one moment when you had it all and realized you were going to lose it. Donna dubbed the "daughter" that resulted from the synthesis Jenny as the Doctor had called her a "generated anomaly". Donna was the first to realise that the war going on between the humans and the Hath had only been going on for a week. She witnessed the end of hostilities between humans and Hath when the Doctor opened the terraforming device the Source inside the Temple.

She also watched General Cobb shoot Jenny when he refused to lay down arms, which led to her apparent death. Donna left Messaline with Martha and the Doctor, believing Jenny had perished. They soon after dropped Martha back off on Earth before continuing their travels. TV : The Doctor's Daughter. Donna met Agatha Christie in and killed a Vespiform by throwing the Firestone into a lake to save Agatha's life.

During this adventure, she influenced the creation of Miss Marple and Murder on the Orient Express by mentioning them to Christie years before they were created; although Christie's memories of the incident were wiped, some unconscious memories remained. Donna muttered that she should have gotten Christie to sign a contract when she had the chance so they could split the copyright.

She also comforted Agatha when she stopped believing in herself and over her marital problems, recounting some of the events that happened between her and Lance.

TV : The Unicorn and the Wasp. Donna's adventures with the Doctor involved visiting India in and encountering Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi , who helped them stop a Zytron energy outbreak. Donna watched a magic performance by Fergus Antelect at the Galactic Royal Hotel when Antelect appeared to confess to stealing from wealthy people at his shows, and subsequently got arrested when his assistant Ood, Ood Delta , telepathically projected memories of Antelect's crimes being committed to everyone in the room.

The Doctor was reading a collection of short stories when he realised that the words of one of them, Variations by David Banderson , changed each time it was read. The Doctor and Donna broke into Banderson's house when there was no answer at the door, and they discovered he was being influenced to write stories by a creature in the computer screen that was kept alive by stories.

Donna was nearly caught in the creature's trap too, but the Doctor intervened, freeing Banderson from the creature. The Doctor and Donna went behind the stage to ask the Child, what he wanted. The man, who had performed for years since he was little, answered: "I want to die".

The Doctor and Donna were thrown out. Upon breaking back into the church, the Doctor explained to Donna that there was a creature trapped inside the Child's musical instrument the lassimater and that the creature passed on its life energy to the Child as it slept.

He also said the music being played was its cry for freedom. Upon reaching the Child's room, the Doctor broke the lassimater with his sonic screwdriver. The room was filled with what the Doctor called "the sound of freedom," and the Child drew his last breath. The Doctor and Donna visited Shadow Cay on Earth, which was really a disguised Sycorax spaceship occupied by a group of widows of the Sycorax invasion which hypnotised humanity into believing the "island" had been discovered by Columbus.

Separated from the Doctor, Donna and several other tourists were trapped inside the Church of the Sycorax. Donna and Norah escaped capture but followed the Sycorax to see where the humans were being taken. Donna saw the Sycorax play a video from the invasion ship's Foraxi Yox which showed the humans betraying the men of their clan. The grieving widows prepared to spread the "widows' curse" using a captured aircraft boarded by zombies, or human abstracts, who carried a virus that would turn the Earth into "a world of never-ending suffering" by preventing death, leaving humanity in agony for centuries.

Donna and Norah freed the prisoners, and Donna told them to head for the ferry. Donna and Norah boarded the plane and hijacked it from the abstract pilots as it took off for London. They flew the plane back to Shadow Cay and were captured by the Doctor, who used the ship's magma-sculptor to catch Donna and Norah by replicating the hands of a "drowning giant" sculpture.

The Doctor used the magma-sculptor to overload the ship, and before the ship exploded, the Doctor, Donna, Jean and Norah escaped the ship after the Doctor set its controls to take off. She became slightly concerned when Brian was paranoid about the new tablet computer.

She watched as other people were becoming paranoid about computers. She told the Doctor this before he started to succumb to the Koggnossenti influence. She worked out a plan to destroy the Koggnossenti which involved Kevin Jones 's train driving into their power source.

She wanted to go to the Planet of the Boys because she thought it would exist due to her logic, and dressed as a wench. She compared the planet to a space version of King's Cross station. She gave her watch to a Busker to get him to stop playing. She saw the effects of a Time Reaver gun and found them disgusting. After finding Cora , she had to escape from Gully. She became lost in the tunnels with Cora, where she found out why Cora was selling the Guns.

Gully strapped a Time Reaver bomb on her back but the Doctor managed to remove it before it blew up. The Doctor received a message on his psychic paper from Professor River Song. She called him to the Library in the 51st century to help a team of archaeologists representing the Felman Lux Corporation to investigate the planet, which had been sealed off a century earlier with the message " saved.

No survivors. The group discovered the Library was infested by Vashta Nerada. Her face was used as the face of an information robot, repeating the warning message "Donna Noble has left the library. Donna Noble has been saved. Miss Evangelista , whose data ghost had been uploaded via the Library's Wi-Fi , warned Donna that her world wasn't real.

When River sacrificed her life to rescue the "saved" people inside the hard drive, Donna assumed that her husband " Lee McAvoy " was just a part of her simulation like her children. The real "Lee" saw Donna but was teleported away before he could call to her or reach her. TV : Forest of the Dead. After the trauma of the Library, Donna returned to Chiswick to see friends and family. Donna was signed up to One's no Fun speed-dating event with her old school friend Natalie by Sylvia to help her return to her old self.

Donna successfully arrived back in Chiswick surprised to find Sylvia under the false impression that she had scored a successful job mapping trends in big data with Nat's husband Garrison Lord. However, Donna and Nat soon discovered Earth was in the middle of an alien invasion after receiving a message on the Doctor's psychic paper from the Collectors who had been using duplicates. The Doctor and Donna visited China during the Qin dynasty , where they were thrown into a crater for being foreigners and faced a robotic soldier made of ceramics.

Donna defeated it by disrupting the control signal with her mobile phone. Donna was threatened by the Emperor's general Meng Tian , who was really an alien gangster, and Meng remotely awakened the soldiers of the Terracotta Army and shut down Qin Shi Huang. Donna made a call on her mobile phone, stopping the signal that paralysed Qin Shi Huang, waking him up again. While Qin Shi Huang and Meng were fighting each other, Meng shot at the warp converter , which shut down the Emperor and the Army, while also burying the whole palace in an explosion.

The Doctor and Donna escaped the exploding palace. They travelled to the French Rivera in the s and went to a casino. There, they met Rudolph of Goritania and Donna started dating him. She eventually became the Queen of Goritania. She told the Doctor of her exploits as Queen, including being annoyed by the Queen Mum about procedure. After getting annoyed by her maids, she got them to be taught to read and write instead of embroidery. Seeing the death cloud she ordered that all of the peasants into the castle to protect them.

When the Queen Mum said that the coronation would still be going ahead, Donna chastised her because of the danger outside. She told Rudolph that he was sending his troops to their deaths.