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{{first pic|Day of the Doctor end scene.jpg|The Eleventh Doctor [[dream]]s of standing with his previous incarnations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')}} | {{first pic|Day of the Doctor end scene.jpg|The Eleventh Doctor [[dream]]s of standing with his previous incarnations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')}} | ||
[[ | {{Regenerations of the Doctor}} | ||
In accounts where [[the Doctor]] had [[Gallifreyan]] origins, they possessed a '''[[regeneration cycle]] of twelve [[regeneration]]s and thirteen possible [[incarnation]]s''' of which the [[First Doctor]] was the first incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | |||
As noted by the [[Eleventh Doctor]], the [[Tenth Doctor's siphoned regeneration]] led to this cycle only having twelve incarnations, ending with the [[Eleventh Doctor]], rather than reaching "thirteen silly Doctors". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Regeneration (feature)|Regeneration]]'') Indeed, during the [[fall of Gallifrey]], the [[Eleventh General]] believed that "all twelve" Doctors had appeared, only for [[Androgar]] to point out [[Twelfth Doctor|the thirteenth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') | |||
[[Izzy Sinclair]], a [[companion]] of the [[Eighth Doctor]], possessed a copy of a [[video game]] entitled ''[[Thirteen Doctors]]''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Happy Deathday (comic story)|Happy Deathday]]'') | |||
== Origins == | == Origins == | ||
By most accounts, the [[First Doctor]] possessed his regeneration cycle from the moment of his creation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', | By most accounts, the [[First Doctor]] possessed his regeneration cycle from the moment of his creation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', etc.) | ||
By one account, the Doctor received his regeneration cycle when he got his [[Rassilon Imprimatur]] after graduating [[Prydon Academy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') | By one account, the Doctor received his regeneration cycle when he got his [[Rassilon Imprimatur]] after graduating [[Prydon Academy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') | ||
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== Incarnations == | == Incarnations == | ||
=== First incarnation === | === First incarnation === | ||
The [[First Doctor]] was, by many accounts, the Doctor’s first incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | The [[First Doctor]] was, by many accounts, the Doctor’s first incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') His [[Thal-Dalek battle|first encounter]] with the [[Dalek]]s on [[Skaro]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') and his thwarting of their [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth|invasion]] of [[22nd century]] [[Earth]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') were attributed to the [[human]] [[scientist]] [[Dr. Who]] in a "[[Dr. Who's reality (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|version of history B]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Survival Guide (novel)|Dalek Survival Guide]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'', ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)|Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'') | ||
=== Second incarnation === | === Second incarnation === | ||
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=== Third incarnation === | === Third incarnation === | ||
During the [[Second Doctor's change of appearance]], he was offered many options for his third incarnation, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') eventually ending up with the [[Third Doctor]] as the third incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') | During the [[Second Doctor's change of appearance]], he was offered many options for his third incarnation but rejected them all, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') eventually ending up with the [[Third Doctor]] as the third incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') | ||
In the [[Inferno universe]], the [[Second Doctor (Inferno Earth)|Second Doctor]] chose one of the faces offered to him, with his next incarnation becoming a dictatorial [[President of Great Britain]] known only as "[[the Leader]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'') Another account indicated that the Leader was in actuality a human with a strong [[propaganda]] machine, and was ultimately killed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'') | |||
In [[Parallel universe (Exile)|another universe]], the [[The Doctor (Exile)|third Doctor]] was a woman. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exile (audio story)|Exile]]'') | In [[Parallel universe (Exile)|another universe]], the [[The Doctor (Exile)|third Doctor]] was a woman. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exile (audio story)|Exile]]'') | ||
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=== Fifth incarnation === | === Fifth incarnation === | ||
The [[Fourth Doctor's regeneration]] created the [[Fifth Doctor]], the Doctor's fifth incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') | The [[Fourth Doctor's regeneration]] created the [[Fifth Doctor]], the Doctor's fifth incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') [[Mawdryn]] attempted to force the Doctor to use up his eight remaining [[regeneration]]s to end his follower's cycle of perpetual rebirth, but this was rendered unnecessary when [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] made physical contact with his younger self and a discharge of temporal energy was released that allowed Mawdryn and his followers to die. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'') | ||
In [[The Warrior's universe|one reality]], the Fourth Doctor was forced to regenerate prematurely during the [[Genesis Incident]], becoming [[the Warrior]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Devil (audio story)|Dust Devil]]'') | |||
The [[Lord of the Manor]] was a possible version of the [[Fifth Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eternal Summer (audio story)|The Eternal Summer]]'') | |||
=== Sixth incarnation === | === Sixth incarnation === | ||
The [[Fifth Doctor's regeneration]] created the [[Sixth Doctor]], the Doctor's sixth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') | The [[Fifth Doctor's regeneration]] created the [[Sixth Doctor]], the Doctor's sixth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') After the TARDIS became "stalled in the equivalent of a galactic lay-by", the Doctor had a worried thought of [[Peri Brown]] growing old and dying in the TARDIS, while he would "go on regenerating until all [his] lives [were] spent". ([[TV]]: ''[[Vengeance on Varos (TV story)|Vengeance on Varos]]'') | ||
When {{Ainley}} exposed [[the Valeyard]]'s alliance with [[High Council]] to the Sixth Doctor at his trial, he revealed that the Valeyard was acting as the prosecutor for the trial in exchange for the Doctor's remaining [[regeneration]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'') | |||
Another [[Sixth Doctor (The People Made of Smoke)|sixth incarnation]] was briefly created after [[Fifth Doctor's regeneration (The People Made of Smoke)|a premature regeneration of the Fifth Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The People Made of Smoke (audio story)|The People Made of Smoke]]'') | Another [[Sixth Doctor (The People Made of Smoke)|sixth incarnation]] was briefly created after [[Fifth Doctor's regeneration (The People Made of Smoke)|a premature regeneration of the Fifth Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The People Made of Smoke (audio story)|The People Made of Smoke]]'') | ||
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=== Eighth incarnation === | === Eighth incarnation === | ||
The [[Seventh Doctor's regeneration]] created the [[Eighth Doctor]], the Doctor's eighth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') | "[[Fred]]" was the name eventually chosen by a [[time travel]]ler ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)|Cyber-Hunt]]'') who was a potential future of the [[Seventh Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Party Animals (comic story)|Party Animals]]'') However, the same man ultimately made a deal with a mysterious [[man in black (Cyber-Hunt)|man in black]] to restore [[Gallifrey|his homeworld]] after it was destroyed. The price he paid was to be separated from his past completely, with his former name taken from him and a different individual being brought into existence to fill the void he'd left. He continued travelling in time and space, now exclusively under the name of Fred, though as a side-effect of the process he was prone to [[amnesia]] about his former life. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)|Cyber-Hunt]]'') | ||
The [[Seventh Doctor's regeneration]] created the [[Eighth Doctor]], the Doctor's eighth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') In an [[alternate timeline]] where the Seventh Doctor regenerated prematurely, the Eighth Doctor was known as [[Johann Schmidt]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Klein's Story (audio story)|Klein's Story]]'') | |||
After using a [[Deathworm Morphant]] to possess [[Bruce Gerhardt|a human body]], {{Roberts}} tried to use the [[Eye of Harmony]] to steal the Eighth Doctor's remaining regenerations to heal himself, but his plans were foiled when [[Grace Holloway]] sent the TARDIS' into a [[temporal orbit]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | |||
When talking about the future, the Eighth Doctor noted he would die again, and that one day he would "run out of deaths". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gift (audio story)|The Gift]]'') | |||
[[File:Gloria Swannicker.jpg|thumb|left|[[Gloria Swannicker]]'s guise as the Doctor's eighth incarnation. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Life of Crime (audio story)|A Life of Crime]]'')]] | [[File:Gloria Swannicker.jpg|thumb|left|[[Gloria Swannicker]]'s guise as the Doctor's eighth incarnation. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Life of Crime (audio story)|A Life of Crime]]'')]] | ||
[[Gloria Swannicker]] once faked the Seventh Doctor's death and pretended to be his successor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Life of Crime (audio story)|A Life of Crime]]'') | [[Kasgi]] briefly claimed to be a regenerated Doctor after capturing the Seventh Doctor and his TARDIS. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Who's That Girl! (comic story)|Who's That Girl!]]'') [[Gloria Swannicker]] once faked the Seventh Doctor's death and pretended to be his successor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Life of Crime (audio story)|A Life of Crime]]'') | ||
Performing [[Eighth Man Bound]], the [[First Doctor]] once saw all of his potential future incarnations up to the Eighth Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') | Performing [[Eighth Man Bound]], the [[First Doctor]] once saw all of his potential future incarnations up to the Eighth Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') | ||
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The [[Eighth Doctor's regeneration]] led to [[the Doctor's ninth incarnation]], although the complex temporal lifetime of the [[Eighth Doctor]] led to their being multiple candidates for this incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') | The [[Eighth Doctor's regeneration]] led to [[the Doctor's ninth incarnation]], although the complex temporal lifetime of the [[Eighth Doctor]] led to their being multiple candidates for this incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') | ||
[[ | After the Eighth Doctor decided to sacrifice himself to save [[Gallifrey]] by throwing himself into the heart of [[Luther (The Final Chapter)|Luther]]'s Watchtower, [[Fey Truscott-Sade]] and [[Izzy Sinclair]] witnessed him seemingly [[regeneration|regenerating]] into the [[Fred|balding Doctor]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Final Chapter (comic story)|The Final Chapter]]'') who had met the [[Seventh Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Party Animals (comic story)|Party Animals]]'') However, after keeping up the pretence partway through the subsequent adventure, the "new Doctor" revealed that he was actually the shapeshifting construct [[Shayde]], who had switched place with the real Eighth Doctor at the Doctor's suggestion as part of a plot to defeat the [[Threshold]]. [[The Pariah]] speculated that Shayde pulled a persona imprint from [[The Matrix|the Matrix]] in order to impersonate this Doctor so well. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Wormwood (comic story)|Wormwood]]'') | ||
The [[Ninth Doctor]] was, | In a [[The Doctor's reality (The Curse of Fatal Death)|possible future]] for the Eighth Doctor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'') the [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|"listless-looking" Doctor]] who traveled with [[Emma (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Emma]] was, as [[The Master (The Curse of Fatal Death)|the Master]] knew, the "ninth body" with "many, many more" to come. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'') | ||
In another [[The Doctor's reality (Scream of the Shalka)|possible future]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'') [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|the Doctor who travelled with an android Master]] once mused that, like a [[Oswald (Scream of the Shalka)|cat]], he had used up his nine lives. ([[WC]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'') | |||
[[Ace]] once saw the ninth incarnation in [[the Doctor's mind]] in its preformed state as a [[Watcher (Logopolis)|Watcher]], a blurred pale man not yet of fixed face. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)| Revelation]]'') | [[Ace]] once saw the ninth incarnation in [[the Doctor's mind]] in its preformed state as a [[Watcher (Logopolis)|Watcher]], a blurred pale man not yet of fixed face. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)| Revelation]]'') | ||
[[The Nine]], the ninth incarnation of another [[Renegade Time Lord (The Eleven)|Renegade Time Lord]] who had himself recently regenerated from [[the Eight]], briefly deceived the Eighth Doctor's [[companion]]s, [[Liv Chenka]] and [[Helen Sinclair]], into believing that he was the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crucible of Souls (audio story)|The Crucible of Souls]]'') | |||
[[File:DoctorHurtWide.jpg|thumb|left|The [[War Doctor]], the incarnation the Doctor tried to forget ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')]] | |||
The [[Ninth Doctor]] was, by some accounts, the Doctor's ninth incarnation. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'') In one account on the [[Last Great Time War]], the Eighth Doctor used [[the Moment]] to destroy [[Gallifrey Original]] and believed this had made his existence fixed, preventing him from ever [[regeneration|regenerating]] again. However, a [[The Doctor's saviour|saviour]] had passed [[the Restoration]] to him, thereby "resetting his life cycle" and allowing him to regenerate. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]'') | |||
However, most accounts indicated the [[War Doctor]] was the Doctor's ninth incarnation. As the War Doctor did not call himself "the Doctor," the immediate post-Time War Doctor was able to take up the title of "Ninth Doctor" despite being the Doctor's tenth incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Regeneration (feature)|Regeneration]]'') The Doctor did not like thinking of his Time War era self, so the Doctor would only refer to eight selves existing before the Ninth Doctor, when in reality the War Doctor existed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'', ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') However, upon visiting the [[Fall of Gallifrey]] in a [[Multi-Doctor event]], the Doctor accepted his War-era self. The Eleventh Doctor and Tenth Doctor admitted the War Doctor "was the Doctor on the day it wasn't possible to get it right". Multiple Doctors would then join together to save their homeworld. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') | |||
=== Tenth incarnation === | === Tenth incarnation === | ||
The [[Tenth Doctor]], created by the [[Ninth Doctor's regeneration]], was by some accounts the Doctor's tenth incarnation | The [[Tenth Doctor]], created by the [[Ninth Doctor's regeneration]], was by some accounts the Doctor's tenth incarnation ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'', ''[[The Age of Ice (comic story)|The Age of Ice]]'') but in most their eleventh: in the wake of the [[War Doctor's regeneration]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] was the Doctor's tenth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Regeneration (feature)|Regeneration]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', et. al) | ||
In the future in which they traveled with Emma, the "listless-looking" Ninth Doctor regenerated into the [[Tenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Tenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'') | |||
[[Greeneye]] once pretended to be the Doctor's tenth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') | [[Greeneye]] once pretended to be the Doctor's tenth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') | ||
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=== Eleventh incarnation === | === Eleventh incarnation === | ||
The [[Eleventh Doctor]], created by the [[Tenth Doctor's regeneration]], was shown to believe that he could still [[regenerate]] | The [[Eleventh Doctor]], created by the [[Tenth Doctor's regeneration]], was shown to believe that he could still [[regenerate]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') as he rejected his memories of the [[War Doctor]]'s life. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') His successor the [[Twelfth Doctor]] was often called the Doctor's twelfth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (graphic novel)|Four Doctors]]'') However, while [[Clara Oswald]] believed he was "number eleven", the Eleventh Doctor would dispute this: ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') by accounts created by the [[Ninth Doctor's regeneration]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] was the Doctor's eleventh incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Regeneration (feature)|Regeneration]]'') The [[Tenth Doctor's siphoned regeneration]] was the Doctor's eleventh regeneration, meaning the Tenth Doctor's "vanity", in the words of the Eleventh Doctor, prevented the regeneration cycle from having thirteen incarnations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') This siphoned regeneration transformed the [[Tenth Doctor's hand|Tenth Doctor's severed hand]] and [[Donna Noble]] into the [[Meta-Crisis Doctor]] and [[the DoctorDonna]] respectively. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') | ||
In the future in which they traveled with Emma, the Tenth Doctor regenerated into the [[Eleventh Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Eleventh Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'') | |||
[[Ace]] once saw the eleventh incarnation in [[the Doctor's mind]] in its preformed state as a [[Watcher (Logopolis)|Watcher]], a blurred pale man not yet of fixed face. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)| Revelation]]'') | [[Ace]] once saw the eleventh incarnation in [[the Doctor's mind]] in its preformed state as a [[Watcher (Logopolis)|Watcher]], a blurred pale man not yet of fixed face. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)| Revelation]]'') | ||
[[The Nun]], formerly [[the Monk]], posed as a regenerated Doctor to [[Anya Kingdom]] and [[Mark Seven]] after first using a [[psychic cloak]] to assume the form of the Tenth Doctor before faking his regeneration. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Buying Time (audio story)|Buying Time]]'', ''[[The Wrong Woman (audio story)|The Wrong Woman]]'') | |||
=== Twelfth incarnation === | === Twelfth incarnation === | ||
Created by the [[Tenth Doctor's regeneration]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] was identified as the twelfth incarnation ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Regeneration (feature)|Regeneration]]'') | Created by the [[Tenth Doctor's regeneration]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] was identified as the twelfth incarnation ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Regeneration (feature)|Regeneration]]'') but the final life of the regeneration cycle which began with the First Doctor ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'') due to the [[Tenth Doctor's siphoned regeneration]]. Indeed, while [[Clara Oswald]] said that he was "number twelve", he was fated to be [[the Doctor's final incarnation]], but was saved from this by the Time Lords granting [[the Doctor's new regeneration cycle]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') which they recorded as being the Doctor's second regeneration cycle. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)}}) | ||
The [[Tremas Master]] once told the [[Sixth Doctor]] that [[the Valeyard]] was "an amalgamation of [[Dark Design|the darker sides of your nature]], somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'') The Valeyard once told the [[Ashmael]] about the role of the Doctor’s twelfth incarnation in the Valeyard's creation. Ashmael told the Sixth Doctor that it was fascinating, and asked the Sixth Doctor if he had any idea what his twelfth incarnation would be like. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'') | The [[Tremas Master]] once told the [[Sixth Doctor]] that [[the Valeyard]] was "an amalgamation of [[Dark Design|the darker sides of your nature]], somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'') The Valeyard once told the [[Ashmael]] about the role of the Doctor’s twelfth incarnation in the Valeyard's creation. Ashmael told the Sixth Doctor that it was fascinating, and asked the Sixth Doctor if he had any idea what his twelfth incarnation would be like. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'') | ||
In the future in which they traveled with Emma, the Eleventh Doctor regenerated into the [[Twelfth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'') | |||
[[Ace]] once saw the twelfth incarnation in [[the Doctor's mind]] in its preformed state as a [[Watcher (Logopolis)|Watcher]], a blurred pale man not yet of fixed face. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)| Revelation]]'') | [[Ace]] once saw the twelfth incarnation in [[the Doctor's mind]] in its preformed state as a [[Watcher (Logopolis)|Watcher]], a blurred pale man not yet of fixed face. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)| Revelation]]'') | ||
=== Thirteenth incarnation === | === Thirteenth incarnation === | ||
[[Ace]] once saw the thirteenth incarnation in [[the Doctor's mind]] in its preformed state as a [[Watcher (Logopolis)|Watcher]], a blurred pale man not yet of fixed face. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)| Revelation]]'') However, by most accounts, this cycle never reached that thirteenth incarnation due to the [[Tenth Doctor's siphoned regeneration]], meaning that the [[Eleventh Doctor]] was the final new incarnation of the cycle. When the [[Twelfth Doctor]] came into existence as the Doctor's thirteenth incarnation, he was the first of [[The Doctor's new regeneration cycle|a new cycle]] that the [[Time Lord]]s granted to the Eleventh Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Regeneration (feature)|Regeneration]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') | |||
By several accounts, the Doctor's thirteenth incarnation would be [[the Doctor's final incarnation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe (novelisation)|The Ultimate Foe]]'') [[Tremas Master|The Master]] told the [[Sixth Doctor]] that [[the Valeyard]] was "an amalgamation of [[Dark Design|the darker sides of your nature]], somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'') This phrasing would be repeated by the [[Seventh Doctor]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Matrix (novel)|Matrix]]'') and ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') By one account, the Master said that the Valeyard came from between the Doctor's twelfth and thirteenth incarnations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (novelisation)|The Ultimate Foe]]'', ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'') | |||
In a story related by the Valeyard, the thirteenth and final incarnation of the Doctor supposedly composed a [[The Doctor's Black Scrolls|set of scrolls]] which detailed his work to bypass the limit of twelve regenerations and that the Valeyard himself was created as a [[Time Tot]] on a mud planet orbiting [[Etarho]] as a result of the Doctor's experiments. The Valeyard's claim, however, was doubted by the Sixth Doctor. Indeed, the Doctor found what appeared to be his final incarnation on Etarho to have been the Valeyard masquerading as him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trial of the Valeyard (audio story)|Trial of the Valeyard]]'') | |||
[[ | In the future in which they traveled with Emma, the Twelfth Doctor regenerated into the [[Thirteenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Thirteenth Doctor]] after being exposed to a [[zectronic beam]], much to the astonishment of [[The Master (The Curse of Fatal Death)|the Master]], who understood that the zectronic energy would destroy the ability to regenerate. Earlier, whilst the Doctor was in his [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|ninth body]], the Master noted that he had "many, many more". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'') | ||
=== Incarnations of ambiguous numbering === | === Incarnations of ambiguous numbering === | ||
The [[Father of Time]] was an impossibly powerful [[humanoid]] being of [[Gallifrey|Gallifreyan]] lore, who identified himself as the one who had kept watch over [[Time]] itself before the inception of the earliest [[Time Lord]]. He once made the first six [[incarnation]]s of [[the Doctor]] go through an ordeal he called "the [[Test of Time]]", shaping the Doctor's destiny in the process; at the end of this adventure, the [[First Doctor]] recognised the Father of Time as a future incarnation of himself. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Test of Time (comic story)|The Test of Time]]'') | |||
[[The Doctor (An Army of Shadows)|One bearded Doctor]] was grouped along with the Doctor's first seven incarnations in UNIT files. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[An Army of Shadows (short story)|An Army of Shadows]]'') | [[The Doctor (An Army of Shadows)|One bearded Doctor]] was grouped along with the Doctor's first seven incarnations in UNIT files. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[An Army of Shadows (short story)|An Army of Shadows]]'') | ||
== Beyond the regeneration cycle == | == Beyond the regeneration cycle == | ||
{{Main| | {{Main|List of incarnations of the Doctor}} | ||
The [[Vortex Butterfly]] once told the [[Tenth Doctor]] that, in the [[Ocean of Time]], he had far more than just thirteen lives. In truth, he extended both forwards and backwards, infinitely and looping. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]'') | The [[Gabby Gonzalez|Vortex Butterfly]] once told the [[Tenth Doctor]] that, in the [[Ocean of Time]], he had far more than just thirteen lives. In truth, he extended both forwards and backwards, infinitely and looping. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]'') | ||
According to the [[mindbending]] duel with [[Morbius]], there had been [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|eight earlier faces]] of the Doctor before the [[First Doctor]], a sequence in which the [[Fourth Doctor]] numbered twelfth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'') | According to the [[mindbending]] duel with [[Morbius]], there had been [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|eight earlier faces]] of the Doctor before the [[First Doctor]], a sequence in which the [[Fourth Doctor]] numbered twelfth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'') | ||
The Fourth Doctor told [[Romana II]] that [[Time Lord]]s had [[90 (number)|ninety]] lives, and that he had already gone through "about [[130 (number)|a hundred and thirty]]" of them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Creature from the Pit (TV story)|The Creature from the Pit]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] would remember this statement as being connected to the faces seen in the mind duel with Morbius. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') | The Fourth Doctor told [[Romana II]] that [[Time Lord]]s had [[90 (number)|ninety]] lives, and that he had already gone through "about [[130 (number)|a hundred and thirty]]" of them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Creature from the Pit (TV story)|The Creature from the Pit]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] would remember this statement as being connected to the faces seen in the mind duel with Morbius. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') | ||
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] claimed to [[Clyde Langer]] that he could change [[507 (number)|507]] times. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
* Following the introduction of the [[War Doctor]] and the dialogue of ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', the incarnation numbering of this life cycle was thrown into question, with the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as the twelfth incarnation, something repeated in sources such as ''[[Doctor Who: The Essential Guide]]''. ''[[The Time Lord Letters (novel)|The Time Lord Letters]]'' would refer to the [[Twelfth Doctor]] as the Doctor's twelfth or thirteenth incarnation, depending on accounts. However, ''[[Terror Moon (novel)|Terror Moon]]'' has the Twelfth Doctor referring to the Tenth Doctor as his "tenth incarnation". Later sources such as [[DWM 584]] would start capitalizing the numbers of incarnations, referring to the Tenth Doctor as the Doctor's | * Following the introduction of the [[War Doctor]] and the dialogue of ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', the incarnation numbering of this life cycle was thrown into question, with the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as the twelfth incarnation, something repeated in sources such as ''[[Doctor Who: The Essential Guide]]''. ''[[The Time Lord Letters (novel)|The Time Lord Letters]]'' would refer to the [[Twelfth Doctor]] as the Doctor's twelfth or thirteenth incarnation, depending on accounts. However, ''[[Terror Moon (novel)|Terror Moon]]'' has the Twelfth Doctor referring to the Tenth Doctor as his "tenth incarnation". Later sources such as [[DWM 584]] would start capitalizing the numbers of incarnations, referring to the Tenth Doctor as the Doctor’s tenth incarnation. | ||
** A cut scene from ''[[Return of the Cybermen (audio story)|Return of the Cybermen]]'' would have had the [[Time Lord messenger (Genesis of the Daleks)|Time Lord messenger]] inform the [[Fourth Doctor]] that fallout from the coming [[Time War]] would result in his "seventh and eleventh bodies" "living out the same events twice", referring to the novel ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'' and the televised adaptation ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' featuring the [[Seventh Doctor|Seventh]] and Tenth Doctor respectively. | |||
* In the [[DWM 76]] ''[[Matrix Data Bank (feature)|Matrix Data Bank]]'', [[Richard Landen]] suggested that the [[First Doctor's rejuvenation|First Doctor's rejuvenation]] was not a regeneration and therefore did not use up one of the Doctor's regenerations, meaning that the [[Fifth Doctor]] had eight remaining regenerations. | |||
=== Notvalid incarnations of this regeneration cycle === | === Notvalid incarnations of this regeneration cycle === | ||
[[File:Richard Griffiths Eighth Doctor.jpg|thumb|The Eighth Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[What If? (feature)|What If?]]'')]] | |||
* [[Trevor Martin]]'s [[The Doctor (Seven Keys to Doomsday)|incarnation of the Doctor]] was shown to be a successor to the [[Third Doctor]] in ''[[The Seven Keys to Doomsday]]''. | * [[Trevor Martin]]'s [[The Doctor (Seven Keys to Doomsday)|incarnation of the Doctor]] was shown to be a successor to the [[Third Doctor]] in ''[[The Seven Keys to Doomsday]]''. | ||
* [[Lenny Henry]]'s [[Seventh Doctor (The Lenny Henry Show)|incarnation of the Doctor]] was shown to be a successor to the [[Sixth Doctor]] in ''[[The Lenny Henry Show]]''. | * [[Lenny Henry]]'s [[Seventh Doctor (The Lenny Henry Show)|incarnation of the Doctor]] was shown to be a successor to the [[Sixth Doctor]] in ''[[The Lenny Henry Show]]''. | ||
* The [[Eighth Doctor (What If?)|Eighth Doctor]], envisioned as being played by [[Richard Griffiths]], was the result of the [[Seventh Doctor]] [[regenerating]] on the asteroid [[Alixion (asteroid)|Alixion]] after going mad while bound and gagged in a straight jacket. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[What If? (feature)|What If?]]'') | |||
=== Notvalid imposters === | |||
* [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]] ([[John Barrowman]]) found [[Sao Til]] ([[Tim Ingham]]) in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], who claimed to be the Doctor having regenerated. Captain Jack understood otherwise and confronted him, only for the pair to be interrupted by [[Tenth Doctor]] actor [[David Tennant]]. ([[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Untitled (Tonight's the Night)|Tonight's the Night]]'') | |||
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