The Ninth Doctor jokingly referred to Rose Tyler as "Barbarella" when she was going to go out in Cardiff on 24 December 1869 wearing her early 21st century attire. He said that she would "start a riot". (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
Following her death from eating a Kaled mutant, Iris Wildthyme, a renegade Time Lord, regenerated into a Barbarella-like incarnation. She encountered the Eighth Doctor in this form in the Obverse. (PROSE: The Blue Angel)