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Doctor Whooves

Doctor Whooves
Doctor Whooves id.png
From the episode Call of the Cutie
Kind Earth pony
Sex Male
Doctor Whooves is the fan-given name of a background Earth pony with an hourglass cutie mark, named due to his resemblance to actor David Tennant, who potrayed the tenth incarnation of The Doctor in the British science-fiction TV series Doctor Who.[1][2] The name was eventually adopted by the show's crew.[3] Hasbro acknowledged the character's popularity in the Comic Con 2011 promotional poster, where he is explicitly posed in a way that his cutie mark is clearly visible.[4] Doctor Whooves also shares his design with Lucky.

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Depiction in the seriesEdit

Doctor Whooves appears in the background in multiple episodes. His only speaking role as an Earth pony is when he rejects Apple Bloom's offer of buying apples in Call of the Cutie, and gets pressured into buying one in return for getting her to leave him alone. He was placed in the scene by storyboard artist Sabrina Alberghetti for his colors and design.[5]

"If I buy some apples, will you please leave me alone?"
— Doctor Whooves to Apple Bloom

He makes a somewhat prominent appearance in Green Isn't Your Color, carrying Photo Finish's palanquin together with Twilight Sky. In The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, he makes another somewhat prominent appearance where he is in charge of spinning the hourglass that starts the competition between the Flim Flam Brothers and the Apple family. During this scene he wears a green tie. He was intentionally placed into the scene by the storyboarding supervisor for the episode.[6] Doctor Whooves later appears a few times in Hearts and Hooves Day. He is seen running past Apple Bloom and Scootaloo while accidentally splashing mud on them in the musical sequence. Reappears in Apple Bloom's imagination while running around in a panic. Also appears in three village shots. Once standing next to an unknown stallion and twice standing next to Derpy on the bridge. He also appears in It's About Time laughing at Twilight's idea of time travel. His latest cameo was in A Canterlot Wedding Part 2 as he was seen running across the street from a changeling .

Re-use of design and colorEdit

Doctor Whooves is usually seen as an adult Earth pony, but his character design and color scheme is sometimes used for other pony kinds, or for differently aged ponies. A Pegasus pony sharing his character model with a lighter version of his color scheme appears in Sonic Rainboom, Green Isn't Your Color, Hearth's Warming Eve, Hearts and Hooves Day, and Hurricane Fluttershy. Another Pegasus pony sharing his character model, color scheme, and cutie mark is featured in Sonic Rainboom. Rainbow Dash switches numbers with him when she tries to delay her performance in the Best Young Flyer competition. The character is voiced differently than in its previous speaking role. His design is later used for a colt in Over a Barrel. At the end of the second episode of season one, when Twilight Sparkle talks to Princess Celestia, there are several ponies with Doctor Whooves' color scheme and design in the background.

AppearancesEdit

Times are approximate and taken from videos with no prolonged transition for commercial breaks.

GalleryEdit

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Doctor Whooves image gallery

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. BBCAmerica blog post (2012-02-07). Retrieved on 2012 March 18.
  2. BBCAmerica blog post (2012-03-13). Retrieved on 2012 March 18.
  3. Jason Thiessen Q&A on reddit, Doctor Whooves (2011-08-27). Retrieved on 2011 August 28.
  4. Q&A with the Comic Con poster artist. Retrieved on 2011 August 27.
  5. Sabrina Alberghetti discussing Apple Bloom's market scene (2011-09-22). Retrieved on 2011 September 23.
  6. Sabrina Alberghetti on Doctor Whooves' positioning with the hourglass (2012-01-31). Retrieved on 2012 January 31.
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  • one of the episodes should be about the doctor whooves

  • I love that he laughs at Twilight's idea of time travel.

  • I'm not sure whether I should put this comment on this page or changeling page but I will put it here. Am I the only one who can't help but think of multiforms ( see The Eleventh Hour) when I see them? After all they are both shape changers. I still wonder how they can turn into the Ponyville Six without time to develop a psycic link, and how they can do it with them not in a comatic state.... but there I go being the Whovian I am.

    • Well they aren't the same thing, so I guess they don't need a psychic link, but you are right, they are similar.

    • My word. I just realised that the term 'changelings' is used on Doctor Who. (Though MLP changelings are more like multiforms.)

  • How exactly is Derpy a good enough companion for Doctor Whooves? He only brings companions that are brilliant. From what I saw in Derpy, she isn't good enough.

    • Minor spoilers, maybe? Sorry...


      I think they're depicting Derpy in DW&A as the ditzy, clumbsy girl character who nevertheless manages to be totally brilliant half the time and lucky the other half. There was that reference in ep. five about the psycic paper only working on her half the time. And in the Doctor Who episode "The Shakespeare Code" the Doctor regards the fact that the paper doesn't work on william shakespeare as a sign of the playwright's genius. Make what you will of it. I for one LOVE the Derpy/Whooves combo.

    • >Implying Derpy isn't the most amazing and brilliant pony, ever.

  • Doctor Running from the Changling is so funny! (MLP:FIM Canterlot Wedding part 2)

    • I can't imagine he found it funny...but knowing how brave and eccentric he is I almost wonder if he did. No, no, the look on his face didn't look like he was enjoying it.

  • I remember in one episode, seeing him as a pegasus. And in another episode, seeing two of him... WTF?

  • I was actually at the University of Washington campus when I suddently saw Doctor Whooves drawn onto the concrete. Best day of my life.

  • The more doctor who I watch, the more thing in MLP:FIM i undrstand.

  • Do Derpy and Dr. Whooves like eachother? cause,who is dinky's dad!! anypony know?

  • What if Derpy Whooves and Doctor Whooves were brother and sister? But then again Derpy is a pegasus. Although Maybe Pegasism is a recesive gene along with Unicornism so it could work. Kind of like how you have that one kid in a family of brown haired people who has blond hair? That's Derpy. So.....

    Derpy Hooves and Doctor Hooves = Brother and Sister. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

    • Then the fanmade flash depicting Dr. Whooves as the actual Dr. Who with Derpy Hooves as his assistant will be really messed up. :(

  • I just saw The Master judge a cake compitition what is he planing

  • Here's an idea: a Doctor Whooves/Rule 63 mashup episode! Picture this...

    The mane 6 (possibly Spike as well) stay up really late to listen to a Doctor Whooves radio show, but because it's so late at night they all fall asleep. Due to the fact that the radio is still playing they all have self-insert dreams about the Doctor's adventures, which because of the plot of the curent episode all involve them meeting their genderbent selves, and possibly even meeting each other in the dream world.

    What do you think?

  • Seems like we have the entire 'Dr. Whooves' episode planned out! To the TARDIS!!

  • Also, Derpy and Doctor would team up!

  • They should make an episode in season 3 where Doctor Whooves could be introduced for real, as he crashes into Twilights house and walks out, dazed, while Derpy was flying by, going to ask Twilight for a book about muffins, and Spike burps his flames, scared, and almost sets ablaze the Doctors 'mane'. And the episode could be called, The Arrival of 'The' Doctor. Oh please, Hasbro, please let this happen!

  • I would squeal like the fangirl I am if David Tennant voiced Doctor Whooves. Please, Hasbro, just one "Allons-y"? Pretty please? :3

  • Anybody else ship Doctor Whooves/Derpy?

    • Yep! They are so cute together!

    • Despite the fact that the Doctor is asexual and uninterested in romance?

    • Eeyup!

      And SalaComMander, please try to be not such a downer. ;)

    • @SalaComMander

      Do you watch Doctor Who?

      The 10th Doctor was in love with Rose Tyler (but never got to tell her ;_;) and the 11th loved River Song.

    • Everything I know about Doctor Who comes from what I've read, and I've read that the Doctor is asexual.


      Now, since his personality changes each time he regenerates, it's highly likely that some form of the Doctor is a romantic type, but that doesn't change his overall disinterest in it, or his asexualtiy, and it's unreasonable to believe that the ponified regeneration of the Doctor would be the one to break the trend.

    • Hmm, Doctor Whooves could break the trend in the Doctor's personalities. 10 and 11 were a bit of the romantic type, I think 9 was (not quite sure, though), and I have no idea about the previous Doctors (I really should watch the older episode!). It would be quite possible, as most people view him as a regenerated Doctor. I personally view Doctor Whooves as his own person (or should I say pony?) in an alternate dimension, kind of like a "doppleganger". As for Derpy and Doctor Whooves, even though they are one of my favorite shipping, it is a bit odd shipping since we don't know much about either pony.

    • From the episodes I watched, I know that the 10th Doctor had a daughter named Jenny, and she was a "Child of the Tardis" since she was created when the Tardis had taken DNA from the Doctor's hand. I'm not sure how helpful that info is, but oh well. :).

    • Jenny was not created within the Tardis, she was made from DNA taken from The Doctor. River Song aka Melody Pond was the "child of the tardis" because thats where amy and rory... well you know.

    • Before Jenny came along he had a granddaughter, Susan. So he had at least one other kid too.

    • me!

    • @SalaComMander

      Before the Doctor was the last timelord left, the Doctor had children/a child, with a wife. And their children/that child had a child. (His granddaughter, Susan Foreman.) Unless the Doctor and his wife only did you-know-what for a child, then I'm guessing they were in a romantic relationship.

      Also remember that the 10th Doctor, who Doctor Whooves is based on, fell in 'love' with Rose Tyler.

  • In the episode "Sonic Rainboom" he had wings, but in "Call of Cutie" (call of duty parody name lol) he didn't have wings?! wha?

  • Not completly sure but I think I saw him and the moon cutie mark pony together around 20:12 to 20:15 as they were landing after completing the hurricane... then again I could be mistaken...

  • In "Hurricane Fluttershy", he is a Pegasus. Incarnations now canon?

  • He does an awful lot of running

  • Why Doctor Whooves is Derpy's mate/love and Dinky's father?

    • Because their last names rhyme. That's it. That's the only reason they were shipped together.

      (Also, these shippers know nothing of Doctor Who)

    • Cuz he was seen standing with her on multiple ocassions

    • No, actually that has nothing to do with it.

      That's why Lyra and Bon Bon are shipped. For Derpy and the Doctor, it's the other way around.

    • Doctor Whooves and Derpy are both popular characters with some amount of legitimacy because of the fans. Fans thought Derpy would make a good companion for Doctor Whooves, as The Doctor often has bumbling companions. I've never heard of Dinky being his daughter, as I'd always heard that Derpy adopted Dinky in the fannon.

    • I ship The Doctor and Rose. Because... well Sala knows.

    • I ship the Doctor and Leela because she was always grabbing for a weapon to kill someone and it would be a pretty funny actual shipping.

    • i'm talking about Rose from MLP... you know; Lily, Daisy, and Rose?

    • Yea I figured that after I posted it lol

  • My only problem with Doctor Whooves is his Cutie Mark. I don't associate an hourglass with medicine,... unless time has something to do with Dr. Who? I don't know, never seen Dr. Who.

    • The Doctor is a Time Lord, and travels through time. To my knowledge, I don't think the Doctor actually has any experience in medical science. He is skilled in medicine, but that's not the reason he's called "the Doctor". He's called "the Doctor" because that's his name.

      "Dr. Who" is just the name of the series, based off of a joke from the second episode where some people assumed his name was "Doctor Foreman" to which he replied "Doctor Who?"

    • He is called Doctor because he tries to help and save anyone like a Doctor

    • He is called the Doctor because at a very young age Time Lord children are forced to stare into the deep abyss of a black hole (or was it something else?) and then choose their name based on this experience. Some Time Lords will go mad from this, like the Master.

      The Doctor has many degrees, some in a medical field, most (if not all) are honorary though.

      Later it is revealed that the word Doctor (which may or may not have meant what we know it today to have meant at the time of his name choosing) only became defined as someone who helps someone (sometimes medically) because of the Doctor being called this.

    • I love this fanbase. So much.

    • @Felinoel: They have to stare into the Untempered Schism, which is a gap in the fabric of reality where they can see straight into the time vortex, through which TaRDiSes travel. But yeah, that's semantics.

    • Staring into the Time Vortex!!! That is what it was, silly me.

    • Does time ever have something to do with Doctor Who!!!!!!!!!!! The whole show is about time and space!!!!!!!!

  • Not quite positive if this is considered relevant or not, but BBC America recognized Doctor Whooves in their blog not once but twice. Does that count ad BBC recognizing the fan character? http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/02/doctor-whos-day-roundup-fan-made-wholock-trailer-will-blow-your-mind/ http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/03/doctor-whos-day-roundup-season-7s-special-guests

  • I would pay him fifty gazillion dollars to say "Allon-sy!" just once.

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