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Madame Vastra is a Silurian detective, the wife of Jenny Flint, a member of the Paternoster Gang and a recurring protagonist in Doctor Who, as well as serving as the main protagonist of Big Finish's audio drama series The Paternoster Gang, and a supporting character in Doctor Who: Redacted.
She is played by Neve McIntosh, with Doon Mackichan voicing her in Redacted.
History[]
Backstory[]
She is a Silurian who was hibernating below London but was awoken in the 1880's by tunnel workers who were extending the London Underground and killed some of them to avenge the accidental deaths of her "sisters" but was stopped by the Ninth Doctor who convinced her not to give into her rage. After this incident, Vastra integrated herself into the community and became a detective and lived at Paternoster Row and employed Jenny Flint as her maid but eventually the two fell in love and got married. She and the Doctor became close friends, with the Doctor even sharing many details of Time Lord biology.
A Good Man Goes to War[]
After killing and eating Jack the Ripper, Vastra along with Jenny were summoned by the Eleventh Doctor to help him save Amy Pond and her baby daughter Melody from Demons Run. Wanting to repay her debt to the Doctor for helping her change her ways Vastra arrived at Demons Run with an army of Silurian soldiers. She and Jenny siezed the control room, and plunged Demons Run into darkness, allowing the Doctor's forces to invade. The pair awaited the Doctor in the control room, preventing one of the guards from escaping in the meantime
. When their allies finally arrived, Vastra was shocked at how enraged the Doctor was at Colonel Manton and Kovarian. Shortly after, Vastra and Dorium Maldovar hacked into Kovarian's files and discovered scans of Melody's DNA, noting that Amy's child had been born with traces of Time Lord DNA. Using her knowledge of the Time Lord biology, Vastra and the Doctor speculated as to when Amy and her husband Rory had conceived their child. The Doctor deduced that their child had been conceived on their wedding night aboard his TARDIS whilst it was traversing the Vortex, resulting in Melody inheriting Time Lord qualities.
Realising that their enemies had given up too easily, Vastra and Dorium left for the main hangar to meet up with the remainder of the Doctor's army. It was here Vastra met the eccentric Sontaran Nurse Strax. At this point, Headless Monks began surreptitiously slaying the Doctor's allies as they made for the TARDIS. Thanks to Lorna Bucket, Vastra and her comrades had some warning about the trap, allowing them to prepare. Vastra urged them to protect the child at all costs, and used her vast skill with sword fighting to survive the battle. During this incident, Strax died in action but afterwards he was resurrected a became Vastra's butler.
The Paternoster Gang forms[]
Encounters with the Doctor and Clara[]
The Snowmen[]
The Crimson Horror[]
The Name of the Doctor[]
Deep Breath[]
Heritage[]
Redacted[]
Trivia[]
- Vastra is the third Silurian to be portrayed by Neve McIntosh. The first and second Silurians were sisters Alaya and Restac.
- With the title of "Great Detective", Vastra is implied to be the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes in the Doctor Who universe.
- While it is not specified in TV which incarnation first met Vastra, the comic The Lost Dimension depicts it being the Ninth Doctor, as at that point in their lives they believe that they are the last of their respective kind.
- "A Good Man Goes to War" and "Deep Breath" there's some jokes due to double meaning words due to Vastra being a Detective.
- Vastra claims Jack the Ripper is no longer and threat, prompting Jenny to ask "how did you find him"; she tells her "stringy, but tasty all the same", even though it came off as "how where you able to locate him"
- Jenny informs Clara that Vastra is "having the child poisoner for dinner", but Clara takes it as having the criminal over as a guest; Jenny clears it up by saying "after interrogating him. Best stay out of the larder. It will be loud later."
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