Ace's Death

Timey Wimey

I generally agree with Moffat in that it's impossible for a show about Time Travel, paradoxes and time wars to have a hard canon and I don't really worry about continuity, either enjoying or disliking the stories on their own merits rather than judging them as a small part of a whole.

Well with Ace's death, there is a theory that when the Doctor takes he back to the Tardis, he's restoring her to life in someway off panel and it allows it to set up one of the other series i think

Here's my version of Ace's entire life with the Doctor. The only thing I don't include here is Death Comes to Time - other than that, every TV story, audio drama, novel and comic is represented.

Not long after his run-in with the Master on Cheetah World, the Doctor decided to clear out his memory a bit. Unfortunately, in doing so, he wiped that of his companion, Ace. He restored it fully and they continued to travel together. (Timewyrm: Genesys) They travelled to many different worlds, occasionally accompanied by a safecracker named Raine Creevy. (Crime of the Century)

Not long after her departure, the Doctor began to show signs of fatigue and even considered settling down to retire. (Nightshade) However, it was not to be, and the Doctor and Ace continued their travels, eventually finding themselves on the planet Heaven. On Heaven, Ace fell in love with a traveller named Jan, who ended up dying as a result of the Doctor's machinations. (Love and War) She left the Doctor and found a new life in the 26th century, before rejoining him three years later and eventually forgiving him and becoming friends (or at least less bitter enemies) with his new travelling companion, Bernice. (Deceit etc.)

When she was 26, ten years after joining the Doctor, Ace finally left. (Set Piece) The Doctor visited her in her adult years time and time again. Even after Ace had moved on, the Doctor kept going back for her. (Happy Endings, Lungbarrow, etc.)

One day, he sent her on a mission to a planet called Erratoon. There, Ace's memory was lost. She remembered bits of her travels with the Doctor, but had forgotten large chunks - even their friend Bernice. Ultimately, she was still the Ace she had become, but had no idea how she had gotten there. (The Prisoner’s Dilemma)

The Doctor returned for Ace and helped her regain her memories, using the same blueprint he had used before when he accidentally wiped her memory all those years ago. Thus, Ace was given the memories of her former self from the days following the Cheetah World incident.

They continued travelling together, the Doctor never hinting that Ace had lost around eight years of her life. She witnessed atrocities (Colditz), changed her name (and back again) and made new friends in Bev Tarrant (Dust Breeding) and Hector Schofield (The Harvest). To the latter, she admitted that she had been travelling with the Doctor for an unbelievably long time and that she didn't even know her own age anymore.

Eventually, they lost a friend and the Doctor fell back on an old solution, offering to wipe her memory clean once more. This time, Ace refused. Ace instead showed how much she had grown since the incident with Jan – she did not leave and instead demanded that the Doctor face the consequences of his actions. (Afterlife)

And so, the Doctor and Ace travelled on, reuniting with old friends along the way and making new ones. At one point, Ace caught a glimpse of her potential futures - being surrounded by giant fleas, ending up on Gallifrey, dying of old age in the TARDIS and riding a motorbike through Paris. The Doctor had already averted one of these timelines by taking Ace out of Paris, but dismissed them as alternate timelines. (Signs and Wonders)

But finally, they found themselves facing an enemy too great for them. The Threshold, a powerful force unfamiliar to the Doctor, had gathered companions from his past, and used their collective minds to unleash the Lobri - a monstrous race of giant fleas - on the late 21st century. Ace struck out against the Lobri and was killed in the process. (Ground Zero)

The Doctor took Ace's body back to the TARDIS and when she awoke, she found herself on Gallifrey. She could not remember how she got there, but she was alive and knew the Doctor had to be connected. She remembered many different pasts and understood many different timelines, and once again recognised Raine Creevy and Bernice Summerfield. (Intervention Earth, UNIT: Dominion, The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield)

No-one yet knows what happened to Ace after this, during the many crises that faced the Time Lords in the years following the Second Romana's Presidency. Some claim she found her way to Earth, where she is running a charity. (Death of the Doctor) Whether this is a front for the Time Lords or for UNIT or just an unsubstantiated rumour remains to be seen.

Dang yall, dang yall, and if you didn't hear me DANG YALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't have time for doctor who comics, dang yall! I want you to know, there is a part of me right now, that hates yall...ok I'm over the hate...now is there a collected edition I can pick up...You blankety blanks...yall talked me right into that...seriously, is there a collected edition, preferably hardback, I'm hard on tpb's

And if comics is in anyway cannon, then all the novels have to be...meep meep meep...

Fortunately, that's pretty much sorted by Unnatural History and/or Sometime Never.

I reckon it was part of the events of The Glorious Dead, which I won't go into for spoilers. Suffice to say that things are not quite right timeline-wise when it comes to the Eighth Doctor for a variety of reasons and it more often than not bleeds backwards into other lives as well.

I like the idea he takes Ace's body to Gallifrey, and the Time Lords revive her using regeneration energy.

I think the only thing we can say with any definitive proof is that stories are canon within themselves (most of the time).

As someone with little knowledge of Ace, I always thought it would be ironic if The 7th Doctor rewrote time to stop Ace from dying then dropped off on Gallifrey to begin her timelord training...only for