Clara Oswald
Clara Oswald is a female television character who features in Doctor Who.
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Biography
Clara Oswald was a female human who was born on 23 November 1986 in the Lancashire town of Blackpool as the daughter of Dave Oswald and Ellie Oswald. She was a young child when she accidentally kicked a football at a man's head in the park with this actually being the Eleventh Doctor.
On 5 March 2005, her mother was noted to had died which was an event that devastated Clara. Her father was noted to had comforted her during the funeral meanwhile the Doctor came to view in silence from a distance. (Episode: The Rings of Akhaten)
Clara had a poor knowledge of the internet. While attempting to log on to the Wi-Fi in the Maitland home, she used a mnemonic device, "Run you clever boy and remember", to help her recall the Wi-Fi password, rycbar123. She phoned a number for technical support, given to her by a woman in a shop, that reached the Eleventh Doctor in the year 1207. Perplexed, she believed that he was on a helpline, and so she requested that he go to her to help her figure out how to use the Internet. He attempted to assist her, but Clara clicked on the Wi-Fi connection being used by the Great Intelligence to harvest human minds. A Spoonhead, adopting the guise of a character from Summer Falls, a novel she read, uploaded her to the data cloud. The process was incomplete when the Doctor found her, allowing him to restore her. Clara found that her technical knowledge was greatly enhanced as a result of this. She used this new skill to hack the Great Intelligence's operatives, choosing "Oswin" as a username. She discovered their location in the Shard, before she was downloaded again by a Spoonhead, this time successfully. The Doctor had the entire cloud downloaded back where possible, restoring Clara once more. He invited her to come with him and she told him to return the next day and ask again. (Episode: The Bells of Saint John) When the Doctor returned for her, Clara was waiting eagerly. She rushed to meet the TARDIS outside the moment the Doctor knocked on her door. When the Doctor asked her where she wanted to go, she was stuck at first. She quickly recovered, replying "somewhere awesome". He took her to the Festival of Offerings near Akhaten. There, they explored the markets and watched the festival. When Merry Gejelh, whom Clara had comforted and encouraged to sing the Long Song at the Festival, was taken by the Mummy, Clara and the Doctor saved her. In doing so, Clara had to give up her mother's ring, which had extreme sentimental value to her. To destroy Akhaten, she was forced to sacrifice something even more precious: the leaf that brought her parents together, "the most important leaf in human history". After saving everyone on the planet, they thanked her by returning her ring. After the trip, the Doctor dropped her back off at her house in London, which she remarked looked different. (Episode: The Rings of Akhaten)
The Doctor later took her on another trip, but instead of landing in Las Vegas as planned, they landed on the Firebird, a Soviet submarine at the North Pole in 1983. While the Doctor brought the sinking submarine to safety, the TARDIS activated its Hostile Action Displacement System and it dematerialised, leaving the Doctor and Clara on the submarine. They quickly found that the Ice Warrior Grand Marshall, Skaldak, had been brought on board. The Doctor attempted to convince the submarine's crew to be peaceful to him, but Lieutenant Stepashin stunned Skaldak with a cattle prod. The Doctor ordered the crew to imprison Skaldak; Clara was sent to try and talk some sense into him, under the Doctor's guidance, but discovered Skaldak had managed to escape his capture and threatened to launch the submarine's nuclear missiles. The Doctor and Clara managed to make him hesitate his decision, and Skaldak and the submarine were rescued by an Ice Warrior ship. Skaldak left and remotely disarmed the submarine. The Doctor then confessed to setting the HADS, and found that it had sent the TARDIS to the South Pole; he had to ask the submarine captain for a lift, much to Clara's amusement. (Episode: Cold War)
Later, the Doctor took Clara to Caliburn House, the home of Major Alec Palmer, which was thought to have been haunted by the "Witch of the Well" for many years. Unknown to Clara, he took her there to speak to the psychic Emma Grayling and find out what Clara was. The Doctor took lots of photographs of the ghost throughout Earth's timeline. The Doctor used his photographs to explain that the 'ghost' was, in fact, a time traveller from the future called Hila Tacorien, who was trapped in a pocket universe and being chased by the Crooked Man. The Doctor used a crystal from Metebelis III to make Emma open up the portal to the pocket universe. Whilst there he saved Hila but got trapped himself; Clara argued with the TARDIS voice interface when the TARDIS would not let her in, Clara wanting to use the TARDIS to save the Doctor while the TARDIS was concerned for its own safety. Later, after revealing that Hila was a distant relative of Alec and Emma, the Doctor realised that the Crooked Man in the pocket universe was trying to get to another creature in the house, so he and Clara went back to pick it up. (Episode: Hide) After this, he and Clara made an arrangement: he would pick her up every Wednesday and they would have adventures, but unlike his previous companions, she wouldn't travel aboard the TARDIS on a permanent basis as she had responsibilities on Earth of being a nanny. (Episode: Nightmare in Silver)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Clara Oswald was a short, young Caucasian woman with big, brown eyes and long brunette hair that she usually kept down, but occasionally tied up in a ponytail or bun. During her final adventures with the Doctor, she trimmed her hair to a medium length which she would also ponytail on occasion. She also adopted a 1920s-style bob hairstyle briefly at one point, though this may have been a wig. (Episode: Mummy on the Orient Express)
She came to be known as the Impossible Girl as a result of the Doctor's first encounter with her. (Episode: Nightmare in Silver)
As a child, she liked travel books and science kits but did not like hair products. (TV: Last Christmas)
Powers and abilities
Due to interacting with the Doctor's timeline, Clara came to be splintered across his history and appeared in many forms. This meant that she had met and saved the lives of each of the Doctor's prior incarnations though he rarely noticed her. (Episode: The Name of the Doctor)
As Oswin, her hacking abilities were so great that she even managed to hack into the pathweb of the Dalek Empire and erase every memory of the Doctor, something that even the Time Lord himself was unable to do. (Episode: Asylum of the Daleks)
Notes
- Clara Oswald was created by Steven Moffat and portrayed by actress Jenna Coleman where she featured in the setting of the Doctor Who universe.
In other media
Audio Books
Books
Appearances
- Doctor Who: "Asylum of the Daleks" (2012)
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