Clara Oswald is certainly an interesting character on Doctor Who. She is the ‘Impossible Girl,’ the one who threw herself into the Doctor’s time stream, splitting herself into millions of fragments as she was scattered across all of time and space. It is a unique story, and one that would seemingly be ripe for quite the excellent story arc over quite a bit of time.
Instead, we have had a lot of focus on this version of Clara, not all of which has been positive. She has been seen as a lying, manipulative and domineering being, someone that has become truly polarizing in the annuls of Doctor Who. Yet, we know that not every incarnation of Clara is like that, especially given the glimpses of ‘Souffle Girl’ and the Clara who was a governess in the 1800’s. Chances are, of the multitude of Claras scattered across time and space, most would be somewhat different than the Clara Oswald seen as a companion.
Given the different travels that the Doctor has made, and how Clara is split among his past, present and future, it would seemingly make sense for the Doctor, and this incarnation of Clara, to run into another Clara at some point. Yet, aside from the comic strip in Doctor Who Magazine, that has not been the case.
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Perhaps, at some point in the future, and maybe even in Series Nine, Clara will get to meet herself, or one of her incarnations. Such a meeting would certainly make sense at some point. After all, it is not as though the Doctor has not met previous incarnations of himself over his various journeys throughout time and space.
It could be that, in meeting herself, we would end up with a different Clara than the one that we have had thus far in Doctor Who. The dynamic of the relationship between her and the Twelfth Doctor appeared to change at the end of Last Christmas, as they both seemingly realized how much they needed one another. Perhaps, if Clara saw another version of herself, she would realize what type of person she had become, and could go back being the lovable character that her previous incarnations had been.
Clara Oswald could seemingly learn a lot from the other incarnations of Clara. Perhaps, at some point in the near future, we can see a meeting of the Claras in an episode of Doctor Who.