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Valarie Lockwood

It’s cyborg versus Cybermen as the Eleventh Doctor’s new best friend meets the monsters from Mondas in Everywhere and Anywhere.

Who is she?

A bisexual cybernetics engineer from Research Rig 6 on 54th-century Earth, Valarie became the Doctor’s companion after he’d abandoned his retirement to Victorian London. She’s snarky, hot-headed and impatient, but also brave, resourceful, and a dab hand with a plasma cutter.

She used to enjoy Christmas with her mother but doesn’t know where Lapland is.

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