Doctor Who has quite the tradition of ladies who don't conform to normal, but my favourite has probably got to be Ace, the companion of the Seventh Doctor. So here I bring you some lovely Ace picspam, in chronological order - kind of! Most of the pictures are clickable thumbnails so it shouldn't take too long to load!
Ace related - but not to the picspam as such - in one of my
fic universes an older Ace has become leader of Torchwood 4, which is now in Liverpool.
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These are various promo pics from Ace's first proper series. She became even more interesting in the next season, which included my favourite episode, Battlefield.
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This is Ace and Shou Yuing - it was great to see 2 women bonding over things that go *boom* for a change.
And she got some great costumes in this season too
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The end of Doctor Who on our screens for the time being was not however the end of Ace - she turned up in the New Adventures novels growing older, wiser and harder.
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As an aside to this, Sophie Aldred did a photoshoot dressed in Dalek-Hunter Ace's combat gear. These were in the book called Ace: The Inside Story of the End of an Era.
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holo_daxy has done a wonderful banner using these pics...
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The last time Ace turned up in the New Adventures Novels she was Time's Vigilante - on a time-travelling motorbike no less as can be seen in the artwork from the novel 'Lungbarrow' available as a BBC ebook.
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she was also in contact with both Romana and Leela - artwork again from
Lungbarrow.
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Now Sophie is reprising Ace in the Big Finish Audios. The Ace of the New Adventures doesn't exist - or not yet - in the BF universe, but I like to think she will, in some way.
And to finish - it's not an Ace pic as such, but it could be...
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