Rose Marion Tyler is the deuteragonist of both the Ninth and Tenth Doctor's eras of Doctor Who. She serves as the deuteragonist of Series 1 and 2, the overarching character of Series 3, the tritagonist of Series 4 and as a minor character in the 2008-2010 Specials.
Rose was a nineteen-year-old living on a London council estate who met the Doctor following his participating in the Last Great Time War.
She is played by Billie Piper.
History
Rose was born in 1986 in London to Jackie and Pete Tyler. A year later in 1987, Pete died in a hit and run incident whilst on his way to join Jackie and one-year-old Rose to attend a wedding, leaving Jackie to raise Rose alone.
By 2005, Rose now 19, was living with Jackie in a council estate called The Powell Estate. One day, she went to her workplace at a department store named Henrik's, where, whilst looking for one of her co-workers, she was pursued by living shop window dummies which were in fact Autons, but was saved by a man who introduces himself as The Doctor. The Doctor blew up the department store to destroy the Autons and, after being helped in defeating the Nestene Consciousness, invited Rose to travel with him in his ship, the TARDIS. Without trying, she helped the Doctor work through some of the pain he had as the sole survivor of the Last Great Time War. During her travels, Rose encountered Daleks (whom The Doctor battled in The Time War), the Slitheen and even met her father (whom she saved, but this caused Reapers to appear, resulting in Pete having to die in order to get rid of them). Indeed, when she met the Doctor, she was the girlfriend of Mickey Smith, but that relationship immediately began to decay after she started to spend some more time travelling in the TARDIS. As Mickey himself noted, she transferred her romantic attention to the Doctor.
A major facet of her travels in the TARDIS was the fact that she had caused a temporal paradox by which she was the reason she became the so-called "Bad Wolf". Leaving herself a trail of clues throughout history, she was able to recognise when all her hope had evaporated that she needed to find her way back to the Doctor — even though he had abandoned her and the TARDIS together in order to protect her. Unable to actually fly the time machine, she was forced to simply stare into its heart, which enfolded her in time vortex energy and turned her into a new and seemingly omnipotent being called "Bad Wolf" that could rescue the Doctor. This action nearly killed her as the vortex energy was destroying her from the inside out. Only the Ninth Doctor could absorb the time vortex energy and transfer it back to the TARDIS (via kissing Rose) — a traumatic act that naturally triggered his regeneration.
After the Doctor regenerated into the Tenth Doctor, Rose continued to travel with him. Whilst on a visit to New Earth, she was briefly possessed by Lady Cassandra who she had previously encountered on Platform One.
During what began as an ordinary visit back home on Earth, Rose and the Doctor became invoved with the Torchwood organization and discovered Earth was secretly being invaded by Cybermen from a parallel-universe and later Daleks from the Cult of Skaro. Although the Doctor was able to defeat these enemies, Rose was literally pulled into a parallel universe, separating her from the Doctor seemingly forever. She spent years trying to find a way back to the Doctor, only when she found one, the Doctor explained that she had to remain in her new universe with her mother, brother and that universe's Pete Tyler. Ultimately, however, she got most of her wishes fulfilled when a human "Metacrisis" Tenth Doctor came to reside with her.
Appearances
TV
- Doctor Who: Series 1 (2005, 13 appearances)
- Doctor Who: Children in Need (2005, 1 appearances)
- Doctor Who: Series 2 (2005-2006, 14 appearances)
- Doctor Who: Series 4 (2008-2010, 7 appearances)
Comics
- Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition (2005-10, 6 appearances)
- Doctor Who Magazine (2005-13, 26 appearances)
- Doctor Who Storybook (2006, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who: Battles in Time (2006, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who Annual (2006-07, 2 appearances)
- Doctor Who Adventures (2006-09, 30 appearances)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight (2007, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who: The Forgotten (2008, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who Graphic Novel (2008, 1 appearance)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight: No Future for You (2008, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who: The Forgotten (2009, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who: The Hunters of the Burning Stone (2013, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time (2013, 2 appearances)
- Doctor Who: The Cruel Sea (2014, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor (2015, 5 appearances)
- Doctor Who Event 2015: Four Doctors (2015, 1 appearance)
- Whoah! (2015, 1 appearances)
- Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor: Weapons of Past Destruction (2016, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who: Four Doctors Special FCBD (2016, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor: Doctormania (2016, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who Event 2015: Four Doctors (2016, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who Archives: Prisoners of Time (2016, 1 appearance)
- Tales from the TARDIS: Doctor Who Comic (2016, 3 appearances)
- Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Ongoing (2016-17, 10 appearances)
- Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Year Three (2017, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor: Official Secrets (2017, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Special (2017, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor: Sin Eaters (2017, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor (2018, 1 appearance)
- Doctor Who (2020-21, 4 appearances)
Games
- Doctor Who: Legacy (2013)
Gallery
Trivia
- Rose's birth year is confirmed to be 1986 as in the Series 1 episode "Dalek", which is set in 2012, Rose tells the Doctor that she would be 26 that year.
- Rose in The Parting of the Ways is one of only three companions — along with Peri Brown and Wilfred Mott — to be the proximate cause of the Doctor's regeneration.
- At 2015 Wizard Comic Con, David Tennant reportedly said that even if there was no on-screen confirmation, the Doctor and Rose were dating until they were seperated
- Rachel Stevens (best known as a member of pop group S Club (previously known as S Club 7)) auditioned for the role of Rose before the role was given to Billie Piper.
- Due to her accent and socioeconomic status, she was a chav - as lamented by Lady Cassandra when she possessed her.
- While she didn't appear in Day of the Doctor, the Moment took Rose's appearance when she was the Bad Wolf.
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