User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Tales from the Tardis/@comment-188432-20130325173913/@comment-188432-20130408133549

Cult Of Skaro wrote: Look at it this way. There's a Pete Tyler in the Doctor Who Universe and in Pete's World. Whose to say it's not the same with the appearing Marvel characters? Whereas we know this to be the same version of Vienna that appears in the DWU story The Shadow Heart. No. The Pete's World example is irrelevant. Pete's World is explicitly another dimension of the mainstream DWU. Rose Tyler's story works only if you understand that she's in the same narrative universe as the Doctor, but a parallel version of it. There has never been an effort by anyone owning control over the Rose Tyler character to suggest that she's divorced from the DWU.

By contrast, both Spragg and Richardson have now used the phrase "this isn't a Doctor Who spin-off" in connection with Vienna. What's happening with Vienna is precisely the same as what happened with Death's Head. The Doctor had an adventure with a character. That/Those adventure(s) had a lasting impact upon the character, but the new stories with the character do not refer back to the Doctor, and in fact the character is no longer in the same universe as the Doctor.

If we allow Vienna we logically have to allow in Marvel and the Transformers and that's not gonna happen.