Clara Oswald

Clara Oswin Oswald was the girl "born to save the Doctor." She was also known as the Impossible Girl and Soufflé Girl. First seen in the episode Asylum of the Daleks, Clara was "an enigma wrapped in a tight little skirt" according to the 11th Doctor.

She was born in the 21st century, where a mysterious women in a shop (later revealed to be the Mistress) gave her the Doctor's phone number as a computer helpline. She then called the Doctor when trying to find Internet on her computer and gained his attention by saying "run you clever boy and remember" to remember the Internet password rycbar123. The Doctor had previously met two mysterious echo versions of Clara, one in the far future having crash-landed in a Dalek Asylum who blew up the planet after teleporting the Doctor and his friends to safety and another in Victorian London whose death stopped the Great Intelligence from dominating the world with ice creatures. Both times, she died saving the Doctor's life; both times her final words to him her "Run you clever boy and remember."
Meeting her for a third time in the 21st century, the Doctor was confused when she didn't recognize him. He then saved her soul from being downloaded by the Great Intelligence's evil Internet cooperation.

The Eleventh Doctor took Clara on a series of adventures through time and space, including to places like the Rings of Akhaten, where people worshipped  a parasite sun as a god called "Grandfather", a sinking submarine in the Cold War period with a desperate Ice Warrior on their hands, and a sinister Victorian town called Sweetville run by a heretical old lady and her "partner", a bright pink leech from the dawn of time. In the process of doing this, he also attempted to figure out how it was possible for him to have met her twice before.

Finally, in The Name of the Doctor, it was revealed that the versions of Clara that the Doctor had previously met were a result of Clara walking into the Doctor's time stream in order to save him from the Great Intelligence. Millions of echo-versions of her lived and died all along the Doctor's time stream, saving him countless times from the Great Intelligence. The versions that the Doctor met were just two in the millions that he happened to notice.

Clara continued to travel with the Doctor and later shared one of his biggest adventures in The Day of the Doctor, where she interacted with multiple regenerations of the Doctor, and was one of the key factors in convincing the Doctor to save his own planet Gallifrey instead of burning it.

She was clearly a close companion to the Doctor, having been with him right from the start. She was one of the few companions on the show to learn the Doctor's true name (even though this was sort of an accident).

On the fields of Trenzalore, at the Fall of the Eleventh, when no creature could speak falsely or fail to answer, Clara convinced the Time Lords to send the Doctor more regenerations. He then regenerated into the Twelfth Doctor.

Clara was uncertain what to make of the Doctor's twelfth incarnation. Romance between Clara and the Eleventh Doctor was hinted at at several points in Season 7, so when he regenerated into an old man, she was understandably a bit displeased.

After a phone call from the Eleventh Doctor begging Clara not to abandon his successor, she agreed to continue travelling with Twelve, though no longer full time.

Clara began teaching at Coal Hill School in the episode The Day of the Doctor, and throughout Season 8 is frequently shown working there. She met and fell in love with a maths teacher named Danny Pink. The Twelfth Doctor expressed great disapproval towards Clara's boyfriend, chiefly because he had once been a soldier, but Clara did not listen.

Throughout Season 8, Clara struggled between ordinary life as a teacher with Danny and the more exciting, adventuresome life with the Doctor. More control-freakish qualities were shown in Clara during this season. Over the course of things, Clara began to understand the Doctor better. In the episode Flatline, the Doctor was trapped in a miniaturized version of the TARDIS, and Clara got to go around doing Doctorish things. In Death in Heaven, Season 8's final episode, Clara even told the Cybermen that she was the Doctor in disguise in order to keep them from killing her.

When Clara's boyfriend, Danny, was run over by a car, she betrayed the Doctor and tried to force him to change time and bring Danny back. The Doctor refused to change time but instead offered to investigate the superstition of the afterlife to see if they could bring Danny home from death.

As it turned out, Danny's dying mind had been uploaded to a data cloud created by the Mistress. Although it should have been possible for Danny to return, through certain circumstances, he did not. Clara then lied to the Doctor, telling him that Danny had returned so that he would return to Gallifrey. The Doctor, as it turns out, had lied to Clara so that she could live happily with Danny when he hadn't actually found Gallifrey.

This might have been their last encounter with each other, but when a dream crab attacked the Doctor and later Clara, the two were reunited and realized that they had lied to one another and made themselves miserable.


Realizing their mistake and seeing they'd been given a second chance, they seized it and began adventuring in the TARDIS together again. They had many more brilliant adventures together, including being captured by Daleks, assaulted by not-actually-ghosts, and attacked by carnivorous, humanoid lumps of sleep dust.

In each adventure, Clara was shown to be getting more and more reckless; more and more like the Doctor. Finally, in Face the Raven, Clara went a bit too far. She convinced a man doomed to die by a Quantum Lock to pass his death sentence onto her, thinking that it could later be removed. Realizing her mistake, Clara accepted her fate and said goodbye to the Doctor, giving him important instructions not to take revenge.



The Doctor, unable to accept her death, quickly deduced that the Time Lords were behind it. He convinced the Time Lords that he held valuable information about a Hybrid creature prophesied about on Gallifrey so that they trapped him in a confession dial trying to torture the information in out of him. Instead, the Doctor spent four and a half billion years punching through a 20-foot wall of Azbantium.

Upon arriving on Gallifrey, the Doctor tricked the Time Lords into extracting Clara at the end of her time stream, one heartbeat away from when the  Quantum Shade raven was about to kill her. They stole another TARDIS and ran away together.

Unfortunately, realizing that their friendship had grown too dangerous, that together they had become the fearsome "Hybrid", the Doctor and Clara decided that one of them had to go. Using a Time Lord neuroblock, they pressed it together to wipe one of their memories.

The Doctor's memory of Clara was then wiped, and she dropped him off on the side of the road in Nevada. The Doctor, vaguely piecing together what happened from the hole the memory wipe left in his brain, stumbled into Clara's TARDIS which she had disguised as an American diner.

Clara posed as a waitress and listened to the Doctor as he tried to remember as much as he could about her, not realizing that she was actually the one he was looking for.

The last we've seen of Clara Oswald was in the episode Hell Bent where she flew off in her own TARDIS with Me. Unfortunately, Clara's death by the Quantum Shade appears to fixed. Time cannot heal around her, so one day, she must return to Gallifrey and face the raven again.