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If in Pete's World there's no Doctor, how is there a Torchwood?


Torchwood was founded because of The Doctor's interference with the Queen with the werewolf.


But in Pete's world, there is no Doctor. How is there still a Torchwood in this world if there is no Doctor?



Answer



There is no reason an institute such as Torchwood would be dependent on any single event to precipitate its existence. Since this is a parallel reality, it stands to reason, another event or even an entirely different person may have triggered the existence of Pete's Torchwood.





  • For all we know, the queen was indeed killed at Torchwood. This may have been the event needed to create Torchwood in Pete's World in her memory. There was such a stockpile of scientific and occult knowledge at the site already, it would have been a fitting site given the significance of the Queen's death.




  • Given the events of the episode, had the Doctor not been there, it is unlikely the queen would have survived. It was the Doctor who noticed at dinner something was amiss. It was the Doctor who figured out the house was a trap and it was the Doctor who put together the significance of the house, the NOT-A-Telescope in the observatory and the super-large diamond.




  • If their world was anything like our Universe, there were plenty of extraterrestrial, supernatural or other-dimensional attempts which may have taken place and were successfully thwarted WITHOUT the intervention of a Time Lord, I might add.





  • That universe's Humans were obviously quite capable and talented to have survived without the intervention of a Time Lord. Granted, many of the threats to Earth existed BECAUSE of the Doctor's presence there...so they may have had fewer such incursions to deal with.




  • Our world history is rife with people having the same idea around the same time even while the two people were in completely different countries at the same time. Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Grey were both working on the telephone at the same time. Bell simply managed to patent his earlier in the same day.




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