Doctor Who Names the 5 Episodes That Changed the Doctor Forever

Summary Free Comic Book Day: Doctor Who reveals the five most important stories in The Doctor's life, answering long-standing questions for fans.

By referencing key moments like battling the Daleks and facing the concept of faith, the comic challenges The Doctor's morals and identity.

Through exploring pivotal moments in Doctor Who history, readers get closer to understanding the complex psyche of The Doctor.

Warning: Spoilers for Free Comic Book Day: Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor!After 60 years of taking fans around the globe, Doctor Who finally reveals the adventures that stand out best in The Doctor's mind. Anyone who finds themselves a regular viewer of Doctor Who content during the 60 years it's been on the air surely has their favorite adventures from The Doctor. However, rather than debating about the best Doctor Who stories, it's even more titilating to ponder which stories were most significant to The Doctor.

Free Comic Book Day: Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor by Dan Watters, Kelsey Ramsay, and Valentina Bianconi answers that curiosity by revealing the five most important stories in The Doctor's life, according to The Doctor. The story sees The Doctor called to places he has particular resonance with, as readers are transported to moments that changed him forever.

By identifying which stories these references come from and then analyzing why they would be important to The Doctor, it gets readers one step closer to understanding the psyche of one complicated Time Lord.

The Five Most Important Stories in Doctor Who History

Which Adventures Left the Biggest Impression on the Doctor?

First, the Doctor Who one-shot brings The Doctor to Skaro, the home planet of the Daleks' birth. This is a reference to "Genesis of the Daleks," the six-part serial starring the Fourth Doctor. Not only did The Doctor watch the inception of his greatest foes, but he was tasked with the ethical dilemma of preventing the creation of the Daleks on orders from the Time Lords. While The Doctor disobeyed this order, this decision would haunt the Doctor years later, considering the Daleks' role in the Time War against the Time Lords.

Next, the Doctor Who comic references "Planet of the Spiders," which marked the death of the Third Doctor as he regenerated into the Fourth. After that, "The Impossible Planet" is referenced, where the Tenth Doctor met The Beast. This encounter forced The Doctor to question the concept of faith in ways he never had before. Then readers get a glimpse of "Silence in the Library," another Tenth Doctor storyline that introduced The Doctor's Wife. Finally, Trenzalore's mention harkens back to the Eleventh Doctor's "Name of the Doctor," where he not only gazed upon his grave, but revealed the existence of the War Doctor.

All of These Moments Challenge Who The Doctor Is

To Himself and Others

If there is one connecting thread that brings all of these Doctor Who adventures together, it's that these are all moments that forced either The Doctor or those around him to question the kind of person he truly is. Whether he was debating the existence of Satan or questioning if he has the right to wipe out an entire race of Daleks and change history in the process, these Doctor Who moments saw The Doctor question his morals and what he's willing to do with the powers of time and space at his fingertips.

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