Final Sacrifice (comic story)

Final Sacrifice was the concluding story of the arc begun in Doctor Who (2009) #1. It was the last story of that publication and ended the Tenth Doctor's continuous run in IDW Publishing's comics. It also wrote out the IDW-only companions, Matthew Finnegan and Emily Winter, and served as a semi-sequel to an early one-shot story, The Time Machination.

Publisher's summary
Solicitation summary for part one: On a war-ravaged alien world, the Doctor and Emily fight to save Matthew from the Advocate, while avoiding a planetwide civil war and a space-and-time misplaced Edwardian Torchwood, still hunting the Doctor since The Time Machination ! Everything leads to this point—but who will die?

Solicitation summary for part two: Long live the Queen! As the war between the Soul Free and the Terror builds, the Doctor discovers who's really pulling the strings behind the scenes! And as 'Mr. Finch' faces off against Emily, Alexander Hugh and the Edwardian Torchwood agents choose their own sides in the coming war...

Solicitation summary for part three: War! What is it good for?! The Doctor discovers the truth about Kol'Ne Wah and finds Matthew, while Emily and Hugh try to stop the world from rebooting! But what is the Advocate's terrible plan-and why are the fifth-dimensional Tef'Aree involved?

Solicitation summary for part four: Tragic loss... Final issue! Final appearance of the Tenth Doctor! Sad farewells. A song ends. People die.

What, you thought we'd end on a high note? It's called 'Final Sacrifice,' guys! Multiple Eagle Award-nominated writer Tony Lee and Matthew Dow Smith close the book on the tenth Doctor...

Plot
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Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Matthew Finnegan
 * Emily Winter
 * The Advocate
 * Alexander Hugh

Continuity

 * The Terror Farmers and the Soul Free are similar to the Tesh and the Sevateem from DW: The Face of Evil; both were descended from a human colony which split into two and whose descendants forgot their origins.
 * The Doctor says he doesn't carry money with him and gives Emily a list of winning racing horses to bet on. This would be repeated in DW: The End of Time, when he gave the Noble family a winning lottery ticket.
 * The Doctor is wearing his space suit at the end of this story, and decides to take a trip to Mars. This leads directly into DW: The Waters of Mars.

Timeline

 * Final Sacrifice occurs after IDW: Don't Step on the Grass and "Old Friend"
 * Final Sacrifice occurs before: DW: The Waters of Mars