K is for... Karl (2)

Karl Wright was a young man who worked as a crane operator in Sheffield. He suffered from low self-esteem and liked to read self-help books.

One night whilst he was travelling home by train he came under attack by a large energy creature which resembled a mass of coiled electrical cables. This attack coincided with the fall of the newly regenerated Thirteenth Doctor onto the train, having just fallen out of the crashing TARDIS. She detected that Karl seemed to be the main focus for the attack, but could not work out why.

She later discovered that the young man was being targeted by an alien Stenza named Tzim-Sha. The Stenza were hunters, and Karl had been selected at random to be Tzim-Sha's prey. The alien was cheating however, using the gathering coil which had attacked him on the train.

Once the Doctor worked out that Karl was the intended prey, she was able to go to his place of work and confront Tzim-Sha. The Stenza fell victim to his own weaponry and the young man was saved.

A couple of years later, whilst in Manchester for New Year's Eve, he was witness to the explosion of a self-storage facility which housed a large number of fireworks. He was unaware that this was the work of the Doctor again, defeating a Dalek execution squad.

Played by: Jonny Dixon. Appearances: The Woman Who Fell To Earth (2018), Eve of the Daleks (2022).