Dummy Run (comic story)

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Dummy Run

Doctor:

Eleventh Doctor

Companion(s):

Amy, Rory

Main setting:

Spaceship

Key crew

Release details

Printed in:

DWA 269

Release date:

17 May 2012

Format:

Comic - 1 parts (4 pages)

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Dummy Run was a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2012.

Summary

The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams arrive aboard a spaceship in deep space. It is heading for total destruction in an impact with a planet. The crew of robots do not want to be saved. They look forward to their own destruction so their masters may learn from the destruction and improve future safety.

The Crashbots are the crash test dummies of space. The Doctor uses the safety features of the ship against the Crashbots (quick setting foam, airbags). When the Crashbots plead to be allowed to be destroyed lest they would “feel wretched”, it is confirmation that they have been built too well and now have feelings. Therefore they deserve to live as people.

With the spaceship saved from crashing the Crashbots begin to see a new way of living — travelling the universe and seeking out new dangers and disasters — just like the Doctor and his friends!

Characters

References

The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to activate the ship's airbags safety feature.

Notes

As usual the Doctor arrives in time to save a space ship from crashing — this time, however, the crew of Crashbots don't want to be saved and see crashing as their purpose in life.

Original print details

Publication with page count and closing captions

DWA 269 (4 pages) DON'T MISS ANOTHER NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!

No reprints to date.

Continuity

to be added

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	Amy	Attack of the Space Leeches! • Madness on the M1! • Winning Hand • Booked Up • Bad Vibrations • About Face • Track Attack • Nowhere Man • Money Troubles • Fashion Victims • The Collector • The Stray • Mistaken Identity • Foul Play • Attack of the GateBots! • Blue Skies Thinking • Samurai's Secret • A Mess of Trouble • In the Stars • Most Haunted • The Living Storm • The Scarecrow • Sky Scraper • The Purrfect Crime • The Steel Web • In the Can • Snow Globe • Wave Machine • Cell Shock • The Trick • The Lunar Tyk • Pencil Pusher • The Cleverest King • Seeing Things • Pirates of the Seven Seeds • Rough Waters • Red Christmas

	Amy & Rory	First Foot First • Random History • The Salt Solution • Rory's Story • Sub-species • Quite Interesting • Earworm • If You Go Down to the Woods Today • Ghost World • Power of the Mykuootni • Mine, All Mine! • Golden Slumbers • Sound Bytes • Chasing Rainbows • Pier Head From Space • The Evergreen Death • The Rage • The Peace Strike • Extinction Event • Hot Stuff! • The Very Cool Bow Tie! • Reality Cheque • Road Rage • The King and the Tripeberry • Danger Flight • Dinosaurs in New York! • Screamers! • Grow Your Own • The Golesterkol Collection • Missing in Action • Peril on the Sea • Rock Quasar and the Mudslugs of Gurrn • Dino World • The Upper Deck • The Moon of Lost Hope • Vacuum Packed • Funny Phone Call! • The Deadly Mutant • The Mutant Turnip • The Secret Star Trail • Agent 99 • Dimension Warp • The Kchrusivour Gambit • Trapped in the Pages of History • Dawn of the Living Bread • Air Force Gone • The Frankenstein Particle • Dog of War! • Harvest of Doom • The Atomon Invasion • Wait Until Morning • Humans Aren't Just for Christmas • Vengeance of the Atomon • Picture Imperfect • The Star Serpent • The Home Store • Cold Comfort • Faster Than Light • The Fairest of Them All • New and Improved • Malthill Way • The Demons of Repton Abbey • The Punch & Judy Trap • Buy, Buy, Baby! • Ghosts of the Never-were • The Parasites • Doomland • Buying Time • Island of the Cyclopes • Trouble on the Orion Express • Dummy Run • Finders Keepers • The Mirror War • Ghost Train • I Scream • Le Tour de Death • The Sky is Falling! • The Time Gallery • The Cliff Face • Bumble of Destruction • The Light Catcher • Dungeon of the Lost • The Intergalactic Trials • 24-Hour News Invasion • The Panic Room • Terror from the Swamp • The Planet That Slept • Planet of the Rorys • Dawn of Time! • TV Hell! • Pondnium!

	Solo	Bite of the Morphuse! • Garbage Day! • The Greedy Gulper

	Decky	Meteorite Meeting • Tower of Power • The Shark Shocker • The Toybox • The Runaway Bogey • On the Cards • Decky the Halls • Snowball! • Museum Piece • All Change! • An Ill Wind • The Water World • Pet Panic • Space Race • Love is in the Air • Toothache! • Terror in the Taj Mahal • Eye Spy • Colossus of the Colosseum • The Tail of Decky Flamboon

	Solo	The Egg Hunt

	Clara	The Mystery of the Mould • The Planet That Went Backwards • Teacher's Pet • Coral Maze • Sandblasted • Tunnel Terrors! • Nova • Line of Battle • The Curse of the Gibwyn • Gumfight • The Hat Trick • Gnome Guard • Strictly Fight Monsters • Planet Void • Reprogramme • Shipwrecked • Eye of the Storm • Whale Tale • Faceache • Time Trick • Dragon Attack • The Holly and the Ivy • By the Book • Creatures from the Deep • Invaders of the Vortex • A Tangled Web • Ball-Pit Beast • T-Shirt Terror • Fans • Universally Known • Thrill-Seeker • Wintervention • A Long Way Down • The Killer Weed • Eternity Springs • Robot vs Robot • Jungle Jam • Swarm

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 |companions     = [[Amy Pond|Amy]], [[Rory Williams|Rory]]
 |enemy             =
-|setting              =
+|setting              = Spaceship
 |writer            = [[Glen Dakin]]
 |editor            = [[Natalie Barnes]]
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 == Summary ==
-[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] arrive aboard a spaceship in deep space. It is heading for total destruction in an impact with a planet. The crew of robots do not want to be saved. They look forward to their own destruction so their masters may learn from the destruction and improve future safety.
+The [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] arrive aboard a spaceship in deep space. It is heading for total destruction in an impact with a planet. The crew of robots do not want to be saved. They look forward to their own destruction so their masters may learn from the destruction and improve future safety.
-The [[Crashbot]]s are the crash test dummies of space. The Doctor uses the safety features of the ship against the Crashbots (quick setting foam, airbags). When the Crashbots plead to be allowed to be destroyed lest they would “feel wretched”,  it is confirmation that they have been built too well and now have feelings. Therefore they deserve to live as people.
+The [[Crashbot]]s are the crash test dummies of space. The Doctor uses the safety features of the ship against the Crashbots (quick setting foam, airbags). When the Crashbots plead to be allowed to be destroyed lest they would “feel wretched”, it is confirmation that they have been built too well and now have feelings. Therefore they deserve to live as people.
 With the spaceship saved from crashing the Crashbots begin to see a new way of living — travelling the universe and seeking out new dangers and disasters — just like the Doctor and his friends!
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 == References ==
-* The Doctor uses his [[sonic screwdriver]] to activate the ship's airbags safety feature.
+* The Doctor uses his [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]] to activate the ship's [[airbag]]s safety feature.
 == Notes ==

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