Proper Dave


 * For other individuals named Dave, see separate entry.

Proper Dave was a human pilot and explorer in the 51st century. With Strackman Lux, Other Dave, River Song, Anita and Miss Evangelista, he went to the Library to discover why more than four thousand people had vanished there a century earlier. He was killed by the Vashta Nerada, although his consciousness survived for a brief time as a Data Ghost.

Afterward, the Vashta Nerada animated his skeleton and he became a Suit Creature. It continued to utter Dave's final words, "Hey, who turned out the lights?" as a data ghost which had fallen into an infinite loop. (DW: Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead) He was returned to life in the computer core after CAL and Doctor Moon had saved him and the rest of the team.