Cobb (The Doctor's Daughter)

Cobb was a general encountered by the Tenth Doctor, Donna, and later Martha on the planet Messaline. He commanded Cline and the Doctor's daughter, Jenny.

Biography
When Cline captured the Doctor and Donna, he took them see Cobb who assumed they, along with Jenny, were pacifists from the Eastern Zone.

Cobb asked the Doctor to join his army in the war against the alien Hath. He sought "the Source" and it was his mission to get it. He believed the Source would give him the power to kill every Hath on the planet. When the Doctor refused to help, and instead spoke of stopping him, Cobb had the Doctor and Donna arrested along with Jenny for not supporting him in the war.

Cobb later found Cline tied up on the floor of the cell, discovering that the three of them had broken out. Cline explained that Jenny had tricked him.

Cobb and his soldiers chased the Doctor, Donna, and Jenny down into secret passageways uncovered by the Doctor. When Jenny tried to buy them some more time by holding up the soldiers, she hesitated to kill Cobb. He tried to convince her to join his cause, stating that it was "in her blood." Jenny was already loyal to her father (the Doctor), and he had told her before that there was always a choice in killing someone or not. Instead, she hit a pipe to hold up Cobb and his troops. When the Doctor told Cobb that if the Source was a weapon he'd never let him have it, Cobb threatened to kill him.

The Doctor, Donna, and Jenny were reunited with Martha, and found the Source first. They discovered it was a Terraforming device. The Doctor declared the war to be over and released the Terraforming device.

Cobb blamed the Doctor for taking away his chance of victory, and tried to shoot him. Jenny stood in the way to protect her father but Cobb shot her anyway. She was shot through one of her hearts and was (temporarily) killed.

Devastated and desiring revenge for Jenny's death, the Doctor held a gun to Cobb's head and contemplated killing him. The Doctor managed to stop himself, telling Cobb that "[He] never would" and that it was on that basis that the new society of human and Hath should he founded. Cobb was demoted, arrested, and imprisoned for Jenny's murder. (DW: The Doctor's Daughter)

Behind the scenes
Russell T Davies suggested in the pod cast for the episode that, as well as creating a child from a parent, the machines were able to clone important figures. Therefore General Cobb could be the fifth Cobb of that week.