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Stern and ruthless, but also kind and forgiving, the '''Twelfth Doctor''' was the first [[incarnation]] of [[the Doctor]]'s second [[regeneration cycle]], bestowed upon him by the [[Time Lord]]s at [[Clara Oswald]]'s urging at the end of the [[Siege of Trenzalore]].

Assured of the survival of [[Gallifrey]], the Doctor was no longer chained down by guilt, becoming a less amiable character, as he no longer needed to cover the pain of what he thought was the extinction of the Time Lords, with a withdrawn attitude who habitually questioned his own goodness. He often dispensed with niceties in a tense situation, becoming cold and calculative when needed. However, despite his ruthless exterior, the Doctor was actually deeply caring and empathetic, always striving to help others for the sake of being kind.

It was not until his first battle with {{Gomez}} that the Doctor resolved his morality crisis, realising he was simply "an idiot with [[The Doctor's TARDIS|a box]] and [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|screwdriver]]" who went around helping others. Following this, the Doctor began to show his lighter side more clearly and forged a closer bond with Clara. After her death, he spent four and a half billion years in his [[confession dial]] to reach Gallifrey due to {{Sumpter}}'s concern with [[the Hybrid]]. Seeking revenge, the Doctor broke his own moral codes and unleashed his wrath upon the Time Lords in an ultimately futile attempt to save Clara, losing his memories of her as a price for his reckless actions.

After a final reunion with [[River Song]], the Doctor was charged with guarding Missy in a [[The Vault (The Pilot)|vault]] at [[St Luke's University]] with [[Nardole]]. Sometime into this role, he began tutoring [[Bill Potts]], who soon became his travelling companion, with Nardole joining them after an invasion by [[Monk (species)|Monks]]. When testing Missy's rehabilitation resulted in Bill becoming a [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]], Missy leaving with {{Simm}}, and Nardole having to be left behind, the Doctor was mortally wounded in [[Battle of Floor 0507|battle]] against the Cybermen.

Trying to halt the [[Regeneration|regenerative process]] after growing weary of constantly changing personas and losing companions, the Doctor crossed paths with his [[First Doctor|original incarnation]] and the [[Testimony]], and was encouraged to regenerate by [[glass avatar]]s of Bill and Nardole. Accepting his impending regeneration and his responsibility to life itself, the Doctor used his last moments to give his successor some words of advice, willingly accepting to carry on being the Doctor before finishing his regeneration into [[Thirteenth Doctor|a female body]].

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Returning to his TARDIS, the Doctor briefly left Clara behind ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') due to the calculations he had been working on through all his prior incarnations finally being completed, and he went to help his previous twelve incarnations place [[Gallifrey]] in a [[pocket universe]] at the end of the [[Last Great Time War]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') joining [[the General]] in the [[War Room]] to coordinate disaster relief. With Gallifrey saved, the Twelfth Doctor went to a [[tea]] party in the [[Under Gallery]] to celebrate with his other incarnations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') The Doctor then redecorated the TARDIS console room and settled on a new outfit, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') creating his new control console in a bathroom. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Body Electric (comic story)|The Body Electric]]'')

After getting slapped and lectured by Clara for his apathy, the Doctor realised he could turn Rusty good again by reawakening his memory of the star being born. Instructing Clara to find a way to restore Rusty's memories of the star, the Doctor made his way to the [[Kaled mutant]] within Rusty to mind link with him, causing Rusty to see the Doctor's hatred of the Daleks and destroy the Daleks that had responded to his distress beacon. Leaving to continue his crusade against the Daleks, Rusty commented that Doctor would have made a good Dalek before both of them left. After declining Journey's request to travel with him and Clara, the Doctor returned Clara home, both still unsure if the Doctor was a good man, but with Clara convinced he was at least trying to be one. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') The Doctor then thought about what kind of Dalek he would be. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek (short story)|Dalek]]'')

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After Clara accidentally dropped the TARDIS onto a train line, the Doctor activated the TARDIS' [[siege mode]] to protect it from an oncoming train. Now unable to even open the doors, which had been removed by the activation of siege mode, and with the life support systems failing as the power drain continued, the Doctor congratulated Clara for being worthy of the title "Doctor", unsure if she could hear him or even if she was still alive. Clara and Rigsy were able to trick the creatures into supplying the TARDIS with the necessary power to restore it to full working conditions. Naming his adversaries "the Boneless", the Doctor banished them back to their home universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'')

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[[Dra-Khan]], a Hyperion warlord, stormed the TARDIS and revealed the Hyperions survived the destruction of Hyperios by hiding on [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]]. The angel, in actuality the reanimated human [[Weir (The Hyperion Empire)|Weir]], regained her consciousness and attacked Dra-Khan and the other Hyperions, driving them away. The Doctor persuaded Weir to join their side, and after defeating an onslaught of Scorched in London, revealed he had weaponised a cold bomb to defeat the Hyperions. Back at the Sussex firewall, the Doctor released the human slaves from captivity as Clara and Sam attacked the base. Sam attempted to detonate the cold bomb, but it failed and he was killed. The Doctor conceded that the Hyperions had won, as the fusion web was completed. But when it was activated, he revealed that the bomb had merely been a distraction so that he could hack the TARDIS into the web and pull the Hyperions five billion years into the future, where the sun died. As the web began collapsing, the Doctor and Clara escaped to the TARDIS as Weir held off the Hyperions. However, unwilling to let anyone else die after Sam's death, the Doctor pulled Weir's psychic essence from the TARDIS' telepathic circuits, allowing her presence to be with her family. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hyperion Empire (comic story)|The Hyperion Empire]]'')

Travelling to [[Essex]] in [[1138]] A.D., ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') the Doctor gained a servant in [[Bors (The Doctor's Meditation)|Bors]] when he removed a splinter from him. After three hours of meditation in a castle, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') during which he thought back to his previous incarnations, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Full Stop (short story)|Full Stop]]'') the Doctor decided he needed better drinking water, and gathered the locals to dig a [[well]]. After eleven days of finding a supply of water, and another day to construct the well, the Doctor, rather than resume his meditation, decided to make improvements to the castle, such as adding a sunroof to the throne room, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (TV story)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'') building a first-class, child-friendly visitor centre, teaching the locals mathematics and introducing the word "[[Dude]]" to the [[12th century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') While additions to the throne room went underway, the Doctor had a conversation with Bors about him avoiding his meditation. Four days afterwards, the Doctor finally decided to begin mediating again before leaving the next day, and also divulged to Bors the reasons he had for being reclusive. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (TV story)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'')

As the TARDIS was redistributed, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') Davros mocked the Doctor for his compassion towards others resulting in his victory against him, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') but the Doctor, wielding a Dalek [[gunstick]], ignored Davros and forcibly removed him from his chair so he could ride in it and be safe from the Daleks' firepower. He then headed to the congregation of Daleks, and mocked them for being unable to shoot him when they tried. After his demand to know what happened to Clara was answered by the [[Supreme Dalek (The Magician's Apprentice)|Supreme Dalek]] in confirmation of her demise, the Doctor was restrained by Colony Sarff and brought back to Davros's infirmary, where Davros revealed that he was able to sustain his life by siphoning off the Daleks' heartbeats through his life support system, and offered to give the Doctor control of this to commit unprovoked [[genocide]] upon the Daleks. Though tempted, the Doctor chose to be compassioned and refused to act, taking the opportunity retrieve his [[sonic sunglasses]] when Davros presented him with his confessional dial.

Fully convinced that Davros was truly dying when the Kaled scientist looked upon him with his real eyes, the Doctor decided to give Davros his last wish of seeing the sunlight with his true eyes one last time. When Davros could no long keep his eyes open by the time the sun rose, the Doctor proceeded to give Davros a bit of regenerative energy, but was seized by Colony Sarff and drained to regenerate Davros and all the Daleks on Skaro. He was saved when Missy killed Sarff, and revealed to Davros that he had guessed his plan all along and had tricked Davros; the regenerative energy Davros had used to renew himself and his creations had also been distributed through the sewers beneath the city, and the decaying remains of the ancient Daleks they contained had awoken and begun to emerge. While fleeing the city, the Doctor and Missy came across a Dalek that Missy claimed had killed Clara. The Doctor demanded the Dalek tell him if this was true, but the Dalek kept babbling incoherently. When it began to beg for mercy, the Doctor, suspicious, demanded it open its casing, and found that Clara had been trapped inside the Dalek by Missy, and the Doctor told her to run as he freed Clara.

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The Doctor and Clara tracked mysterious energy fluctuations and disappearances to a comic store in London, where the Doctor was sucked into a comic book. Clara found that the missing people had also been pulled into comic books, and that the Boneless were the culprits. From within the comic, the Doctor told Clara to use the TARDIS' telepathic circuits to create a spatial and temporal flux. Teaming up with [[Natalie (The Fourth Wall)|Natalie]], a girl who was also trapped in his comic, the Doctor encouraged all the trapped people to use their love of comics to telepathically break free, imploding the Boneless back to their dimension and returning the victims to the real world. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fourth Wall (comic story)|The Fourth Wall]]'')

The Doctor eventually awoke in the [[Nevada]] desert, where [[Man (Hell Bent)|a man]] told him that Clara had asked him to look after the Doctor. Having forgotten Clara's face, but still having vague impressions of his time with her, the Doctor made his way to a diner in the desert, where he encountered a waitress. The Doctor told the waitress his story while playing [[Clara (song)|a song he composed for Clara]]. After his story ended, the waitress exited through a door, and the diner dematerialised, revealing to the Doctor that it had been the stolen TARDIS. Now outside, the Doctor found his own TARDIS, with a mural dedicated to Clara on it, whom the Doctor recognised as the waitress. Receiving a new sonic screwdriver from the TARDIS, and a final message of encouragement from Clara scrawled on one of the TARDIS' blackboards, the Doctor took off for new adventures on his own, with the mural unravelling as he dematerialised. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')

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While thinking of Clara as a "friend [he'd] lost", the Doctor also reminded himself of what it meant to be a good man. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Good Man (short story)|A Good Man]]'')

Guided by [[the Moment]], the Doctor rescued Gabby from the [[Time Vortex]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Good Companion (comic story)|The Good Companion]]'')

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The Doctor and Jess returned to the hospital and found Lloyd had mutated into a creature like Moan'na, who knocked the Doctor out and took Jess away. Upon awakening, the Doctor and Jess' mother, [[Devina Collins|Devina]], pursued them to [[Brixton]], as the infection began mutating more people. The Doctor used the telepathic node to allow Jess and Devina to communicate with Lloyd and break the infection's control over his mind, which, in conjunction with the TARDIS' telepathic circuits, rewrote the [[DNA]] infections to change Lloyd and the infected back to normal. However, the the TARDIS' systems overloaded and caused it to retreat within itself. The Collins family invited the Doctor to stay with them while the TARDIS recovered. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Pestilent Heart (comic story)|The Pestilent Heart]]'')

The Doctor dismantled the TARDIS' [[outer plasmic shell]] and put it back together in the Collins' back garden, where he left it to heal. While explaining to Lloyd what had happened when he was infected, the Doctor was caught off guard by the housecat [[Tibbsy]], and warned Tibbsy that he would be watching him. The next day, the Doctor ruined Devina's fish stew when he used his sonic screwdriver on it, but prepared his own stew for the family himself, and cleaned up the kitchen, with the Collins family impressed with his cooking.

Two days later, while trying to encourage the reweaving of the TARDIS' shell, the Doctor debated with Jess' bother, [[Maxwell Collins|Maxwell]], over who would win in a fight between [[Batman]] and [[Captain America]], with the Doctor choosing Captain America and debating his choice with Maxwell afterwards. Later, while Jess was reading [[M. C. Escher]] for her art history class, the Doctor recounted the times he met [[Claude Monet]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], and [[François Boucher]], and when he had his portrait done by the cubist artist [[Pablo Picasso]]. While trying to lighten Jess' book with his sonic screwdriver, but it ran out of power, and the Doctor was unable to use the TARDIS to recharge it. With no TARDIS to leave 1972 in, the Doctor instead offered to show Jess the universe through the art she was studying. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Moving In (comic story)|Moving In]]'')

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The Doctor tracked a crashed [[Q7 starship]] to the [[Wyoming]] desert in [[1899]] and encountered the bounty hunter [[Molly Zook]], who was tracking the big-time criminal [[Clint Currie]]. She showed the Doctor wanted posters of Currie and [[Jata|his horse]], which the Doctor recognised as an [[Osumaran]] masquerading as a horse. After buying a horse and painting a star on its forehead so it resembled an Osumaran, the Doctor went to where Currie's gang had tied up their horses and replaced the Osumaran with the real horse. Without the Osumaran to guide him, Currie was caught and arrested by [[Sheriff (From the Horse's Mouth)|the town's sheriff]]. The Doctor asked to keep Currie's horse as a reward for helping with the capture. The Osumaran introduced himself as Jata and thanked the Doctor for rescuing him, but the Doctor told Jata that his starship was too broken to work again and decided to take Jata back to [[Osumare]] in the TARDIS. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[From the Horse's Mouth (comic story)|From the Horse's Mouth]]'')

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The Doctor foiled a plot by [[the Master]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Winning (short story)|Winning]]'')

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The Doctor and Bill tracked what appeared to be a shooting [[star]] to the village of [[Little Smallington]]. Arriving at the village hall, they learned the star was actually a hog-shaped multi-function [[recycling drone]] on a rampage because of its overheated nuclear reactor. With the aid of the young [[Smallington Secret Squad]], they lured "[[Hangry]] the hog" into a trap using all the [[metal]] they could find that resulted in the mechanical hog landing in a river. After the Doctor retrieved him from the river and fixed his reactor, the Secret Squad decided to keep the now-friendly Hangry as a mascot. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Loose in the Lane (comic story)|Loose in the Lane]]'')

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== Alternate timelines ==

=== Multi-Doctor event ===

The [[Twelfth Doctor (fictional character)|Twelfth Doctor]] was portrayed by actor [[Peter Capaldi (A Letter from the Doctor)|Peter Capaldi]] in the [[BBC]] [[science fiction]] series ''[[Doctor Who (N-Space)|Doctor Who]]'', who was cast in [[2013]]; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Letter from the Doctor (DWM 464 short story)|A Letter from the Doctor 464]]'') [[:file:Doctor Who bus.jpg|an advert]] which had an obscured image of Capaldi in his role was applied to the side of a bus ([[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'') in [[November]] [[2014]]; ([[PROSE]]: [[The Time Lord Letters (novel)|"Assesing the Risk"]]) in [[October]] [[2015]], Capaldi was in the [[Doctor Who Series 9|ninth series]] of ''Doctor Who''; ([[WC]]: ''[[The Zygon Isolation (webcast)|The Zygon Isolation]]'') and on [[29 April]] [[2016]], Capaldi wrote [[Letter (A Letter from the Doctor)|a letter]] to be printed in the [[Doctor Who Magazine Issue 500|500^th issue]] of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine (periodical)|Doctor Who Magazine]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Letter from the Doctor (DWM 500 short story)|A Letter from the Doctor 500]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] also saved Capaldi from a [[Mandrel]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)|The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who]]'')

Burdened with a never ending anger, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'') and a fear of what his rage was capable of, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') the Twelfth Doctor started his journey as a gruff yet compassionate man, ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') who grew to embrace a more goofier side of himself, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (theatrical film)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'', ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'') until he became a true paragon of kindness and hope. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') With his main impetus for many adventures being to stimulate his scientific curiosity, ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') the Doctor would be forever enthralled by the strange beauties he found in a universe that birthed grand creations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'')

However, he never softened from his harsh attitude to those he saw as his intellectual inferiors with their short-sightedness, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') but he would try inspire his foes to better themselves. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') Beneath the fierce determination and adventurous persona, the Twelfth Doctor was a weary man who would succumb to despair when pushed to the brink, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') feeling ostracised from a universe that didn't "see" him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')

Blunt to the point of insensitiveness, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') the Doctor would allow actions to prove a point instead of alleviating a situation with false praise, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') though he knew the importance of giving people the hope they needed to ensure their survival. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') Though he tried to avoid pessimism, ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') the Doctor would not give his sympathies lightly. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') He could also be oblivious to his faults, while criticising the same faults he saw elsewhere. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'')

He struggled to disguise himself in the mundane world, failing to hide his alien nature by openly calling people "humans", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'') and had a tendency to resolve his problems with explosions, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') which he chalked up as a "childish impulse". ([[TV]]: ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'')

 

While he would not run from danger, ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') he would hide from his shame, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and shirk his responsibilities to indulge in more excitable activities, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (theatrical film)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') having trouble ignoring the call for adventure. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'')

 

After struggling with the inner turmoil of his questionable morality ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') and how his action could lead to devastating consequences, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') the Doctor made peace with himself, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') embracing his role as both warrior and protector, ([[TV]]: ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') even growing lax enough to use the contemporary slang ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') he had previously looked down upon. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'')

Preferring to keep his softer side hidden under a "reputation [of] grumpiness", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hyperion Empire (comic story)|The Hyperion Empire]]'') the Doctor would make people keep their emotions in check while they were distressed, ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') making him come across as callous and dismissive, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'') which he refused to be apologetic for. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') He himself tried to avoid his own emotions by preferring to talk about subjects he enjoyed during emotional moments. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') However, behind his cold exterior, he was extremely self-reflective, to the point where he even questioned whether he was a good man, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') knowing that he often found himself in situations that forced him to make terrible decisions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') Clara felt that "there were several layers to the Doctor's emotions." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'')

While he identified himself as a civilian, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') the Doctor did not hide how superior he felt with his intelligence, ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') unafraid to put people down with harsh comments upon meeting them, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') even claiming to have laughed at [[Orson Pink]]'s name. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') However, he was quick to call out his own idiocy when he realised he had made a mistake. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'')

 

While his personal views caused him to make unfavourable judgements of people moments after meeting them, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') the Doctor knew not to be judgmental of alien behaviour, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') and was quick to bond with fellow rebels. ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') However, he was not above saying how funny he found humans' "small brain[s]" ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') and telling them to panic over their "short lifespan" . ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'')

 

Because names were "not [his] area", ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') the Doctor could neglect to ask for names when he met someone, ([[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'') as he often chose to forget people, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') or didn't have time to remember individual names. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') As such, the Doctor made a habit of assigning nicknames to others based on their appearance, an accessory they carried or their profession, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') and would insist on addressing them as their nickname, such as calling Maths teacher [[Danny Pink]] "P.E." due to him being a former soldier, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'') though he dropped the nickname after Danny died. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') He also continued to address [[Rigsy]] as "Local Knowledge" when he was standing in front of him, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') and when they reunited years later, only dropping the nickname when he learned Rigsy's life was in danger. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'')

However, after embracing the idea of being "just a bloke in a box", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') the Doctor employed a wackier demeanour, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'') wearing more casual clothing, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (TV story)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') and often relaxed in the TARDIS by playing his guitar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'', ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'') He also began to accept Clara's attempts to hug him, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'') and even started hugging her on the odd occasion, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') as well as asking if he could hold her hand in frightful moments. ([[TV]]: ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'')

He made a better effort to be nicer through the use of [[apology cue cards]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') in order to live up to the idea of who he thought "the Doctor" should be. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') However, he did not entirely abandon his pragmatic ideology, ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') and would resume being hostile when angered. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')

After having his mind wiped by a [[neural block]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') caused him to decide to simply be "an old man messing about in time and space", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Haunted (short story)|Haunted]]'') the Doctor adopted a kinder approach to how he handled situations, though he did not wish to be seen as "sentimentalise[d]" ([[TV]]: ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'') and was still cynical on the never changing aspects of the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'') While he retained his crossness, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'') being against "cheerful[ness]" and "charm", ([[TV]]: ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') he was more willing to laugh at the silliness he found in his travels ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') and would be deliberately pedantic in the face of danger. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')  

Though he was against vengeance, ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'') the Doctor still stood in defiance of those "who contribute[d] nothing of worth to the world and crush[ed] the hopes and dreams of working people". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') Now content that "only idiots [had] the answers", ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') he was now comfortable with being open about his ignorance, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') and agreed that he was "completely out of [his] mind". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') While he "never notice[d ]the tears", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') he was better at making friends, ([[TV]]: ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'') even playing the part a playful jokester with Bill, ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') as he tried to avoid being serious. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'')

Having accepted that "times end", the Doctor found the courage in himself to finally face his night on [[Darillium]] with [[River Song]], embracing the bittersweet "happy ever after" for them that had previously been too hard to bear. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') After he left Darillium, the Doctor allowed Nardole to accompany him to avoid being lonely. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'') While normally in control of himself and disciplined in his actions, ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') the Doctor's longing to travel again while [[The Vault (The Pilot)|the Vault]] at [[St Luke's University]] led him to indulge in more impulsive and reckless actions that left his guard down. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')

[[File:Twelfth Doctor inside Aristotle.jpg|thumb|The Doctor's more wistful side manifests as he turns down [[Journey Blue]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'')]]

Even though he identified himself as a pacifist ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'') and believed necessary evils to be a last resort, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fractures (comic story)|The Fractures]]'') the Twelfth Doctor showed even less restraint than his predecessor and would get frank and physical with others. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') Hoping to find danger wherever he went, ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') he branded  solutions that he found easy to be "boring", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') though he did appreciate how the occasional anti-climax was good for his health. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'')

 

 

The Doctor also showed a strong compassionate streak, willing to put himself in a dangerous situation in the place of stranger as equally as a dear friend, ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') and make enormous personal sacrifices simply liberate others from suffering. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') He would also try to avoid harming those who were not in control of their actions, as well as defend them from their captors or those who would cause them further harm. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'', ''[[The Crawling Terror (novel)|The Crawling Terror]]'') He was just as quick to forgive those that had wronged him, ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'') and try to make peace with even his oldest enemies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'') believing that while "passion [fought], [it was] reason [that won]." ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'')

While he described himself as having had "sophistication and timeless sartorial elegance" restored, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'') the Doctor was not above acting childish by competing with others, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'') or deliberately annoying someone. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') He also let down his gruff guard to do a victory dance after moving the shrunken TARDIS off a train line with his hand, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') and ecstatically steer [[Santa Claus]]'s sleigh. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') [[Kevin Alperton]] noted that, while the Doctor looked old, he had an energy to him that made him seem younger and different. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crawling Terror (novel)|The Crawling Terror]]'')

Enjoying the "deep and lovely dark", ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') the Doctor enthusiastically tried to find out the cause of his childhood nightmares, ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') was delighted when he finally saw the [[Foretold]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') got giddy over possibly finding out the existence of ghosts, ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') was very eager to explore a mysterious house ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Playing House (comic story)|Playing House]]'') and gleefully laughed as he sped a ship into British waters. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')

Though he liked humanity for their optimism, ([[TV]]: ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'') the Doctor would insult humans when he saw them being slow-minded, greedy and violent, dubbing [[Earth]] the "planet of the pudding-brains." ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') Nonetheless, he tolerated the company of those who could engage with him intellectually, ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'') unless they got on his bad side first, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fractures (comic story)|The Fractures]]'') and claimed to respect humanity enough to allow it to determine its own future without any interference from him, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') giving insight and knowledge to those who would listen, while still leaving the decision up to them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') As with his previous incarnation, the Twelfth Doctor also liked people who got straight to the point.  ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') He though that someone who wasn't scared in a life-threatening situation was "an idiot", ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') though was aware that giving in to fear "[did]n't help", ([[TV]]: ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'') and would have them focus on their chances of survival, however slim, to encourage them to prevail. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'')

Heavily inclined to err toward a greater good, the Twelfth Doctor was willing to allow a few inevitable deaths if it meant saving the majority, acting like a pragmatist that would not hesitate to abandon someone whose fate was already sealed, nor mourn for an ally until his objective had been reached. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'', ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') However, the Doctor was still willing to go out of his way to try and save people if their deaths were not an immediate inevitability, even if it was the life of a caged bird. ([[WC]]: ''[[A Hero like the Doctor (webcast)|A Hero like the Doctor]]'')

As with his previous incarnations, he relied on his companions to keep him from succumbing to his darker nature, but, unlike his predecessors, the Twelfth Doctor actively praised them for it, even claiming that [[Clara Oswald]] needed a "raise" for dealing with him, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') and telling Bill that people like her encouraged him to put up with the rest of humanity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'') He also enjoyed it when his companions asked him obvious questions, claiming that it helped him think, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') but disliked it when they pointed out mistakes he made, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'') and identified them as his "social interface with the human race", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fractures (comic story)|The Fractures]]'') and the main reason he didn't need an army. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')

While he made it his mission to always stay with those he could help to be "kind", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') the Twelfth Doctor was more willing to leave a situation if he believed he had nothing to contribute, justifying himself by pointing out the dangers of everyday life and how he was not an authority figure, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') though he would justify his actions with the phrase "daddy knows best". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'')

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The Twelfth Doctor preferred to live in the moment, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') where "everything is huge, everything is so important, every detail, every moment, every life clung to [the moment]." He claimed to the [[Half-Face Man]] that the people of [[Earth]] "[were] never small to [him]," and, unlike his [[tenth incarnation]], he didn't think he deserved [[Final reward|a reward]] or a "promised land" because he had "already [gone] a very long way" to protect the people, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') and became a lost soul beyond redemption because of it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') He also cared for mortal lives, ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') however brief they seemed to him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'')

By his own testament, the Twelfth Doctor did not suffer fools gladly, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') nor did he tolerate poor manners, even when held at gunpoint, and believed that one should make requests politely, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') as well as avoid bad language, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') and gloating. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Doctor and the Dalek (video game)|The Doctor and the Dalek]]'') He "[found] it best to keep an open mind, unclouded by the opinions of others", favoured the direct approach when he encountered an obstacle, and believed it was always best to assume and plan for the worst-case scenario. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'')  

The Doctor believed that "hardly anything [was] evil, but [that] most things [were] hungry", and that "hunger look[ed] very [much] like evil from the wrong end of the cutlery". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') While he believed that "a good death [was] the best anyone [could] hope for", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') he didn't think it was possible to "die well". ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'') He was so stubborn in his beliefs that he would deny any evidence that contradicted his statements, even when the proof was in front of him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'')

He also viewed pain as a gift, telling a [[Cyber-converted]] [[Danny Pink]] that "without the capacity for pain, [you] can't feel the hurt [you] inflict," ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and also believed that "a bit of shame never hurt anyone," ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') and that true [[immortality]] was "everybody else dying". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') He also believed that one could always find something to be distracted by, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') felt invasions of Earth were justified after hearing about the horror film ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'', ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') and expressed the opinion that an enemy was "just a friend [one] didn't really know yet". ([[WC]]: ''[[Prologue (webcast)|Prologue]]'') He believed that education came quicker in life threating situations, and claimed that begging "wasn't [his] style", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'') unless his friends were threatened. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'')

The Doctor did not see himself as a "hero", merely someone who was "just passing the time" by passing by, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'') but would answer distress signals, believing that he only saw "the true face of the universe when it [was] asking for [his] help", ([[TV]]: ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') and deemed the Earth as his protectorate. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

The Doctor held a veneration of the dead, ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') ceasing all insults towards [[Danny Pink]] after being told of his passing, ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') was morally outraged with the [[Fisher King]] for using the souls of the dead as transmitters for his armada, ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') and become hurt when he thought the [[Testimony Foundation]] had duplicated Bill after she "gave her life so that people she barely knew could live". ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

Though he did not know the reason, believing it to simply be his old age, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') the Twelfth Doctor expressed a strong dislike for soldiers and military figures, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') being "decidedly prickly in his dealing with anything remotely military", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crawling Terror (novel)|The Crawling Terror]]'') though claimed his disdain was flexible in a crisis, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') and he eventually lost his disdain as he grew kinder. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'') He was also easily annoyed by swashbucklers who did not take things seriously and insisted on fighting pointless battles, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') and held a disdain towards businesspeople who valued profit above anything else. ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'')  

He was also "against" bantering. ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'') didn't like being saluted, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') wasn't "a fan" of the [[Tivolian]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') and disliked losing, even in a friendly game of [[chess]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'')

He also claimed to dislike the colour of his [[kidney]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') [[karaoke]], mime, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') tanks, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') songs that got stuck in his head, ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') [[racism]] and talking in the cinema. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')

He also voiced a hatred for being wrong in public, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') [[babysitter]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') ''[[Candy Crush]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') [[money]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'') missing the obvious, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]''), [[pantomime]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Behind You (short story)|Behind You]]'') [[cyclops|cyclopes]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor on the Menu (comic story)|Doctor on the Menu]]'') [[viking]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') gardening, ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') [[Christmas]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (comic story)|Relative Dimensions]]'') being sure of something, "lying-down people", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') charm, and "brave people". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'')

While he claimed to hate not knowing about something when faced with [[The Teller (Time Heist)|the Teller]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') he was known to admire the unexplainable. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') He also told [[Ohila]] that, while he trusted her, he didn't necessary like her, ([[WC]]: ''[[Prologue (webcast)|Prologue]]'') and confessed to [[Petronella Osgood]] that he considered [[London]] to be a "dump". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'') However, just before his regeneration, the Doctor denounced hate as "always foolish", and proclaimed that "love [was] always wise." ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

 

He liked [[roundel]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') working under pressure, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') "a show-stopping entrance", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'') a "good locked-room mystery", ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') puppets, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') the title "Doctor Mysterio", "pressing buttons and switches", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'') and rivets. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'') His "lucky number" was 12, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (TV story)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'') and he considered "maths and alcoholic beverages" to be the "best way to spend the morning". ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')

 

 

 

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While he could forget the consequences of time travelling when carried away, ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') the Twelfth Doctor was unwilling to alter the [[Web of Time]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') fearing that the ramifications from the tiniest changes could be catastrophic, spreading "carnage and chaos across the universe like ripples on a pond," ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') instead opting to create "ripples" instead of "tidal waves." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'')

 

 

The Twelfth Doctor was practical regarding [[death]], being quick to recover what he could when there was nothing he could do to save someone, instead focusing on what he could control when all [[hope]] seemed lost, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') even being willing to sacrifice others when he had broader goals in mind, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') sometimes even devising a plan in which others' [[skill]]s would prove useful. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') Though he initially stated that murder was against his "programming", ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') the Doctor knew there were "situations when the options available [were] limited" and death was unavoidable. ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'')

While he was adamant not to kill out of hatred, ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') specially when conflicts could be resolved diplomatically, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'') the Doctor was willing to kill to spare others from the burden of taking a life, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') or when acting in extreme selfishness and being assured they could recover with a [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') He once gave permission for UNIT to engage [[Zygon]]s with lethal force, so long as they kept fatalities to a minimum, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'') and left [[Ron Cordell]] and some [[Skink]]s to be devoured by a [[black hole]] after tampering with the [[black hole drive]]'s containment field. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Pirates of Vourakis (comic story)|Pirates of Vourakis]]'') He also viewed certain creatures as expendable, as he wanted to kill a [[dream crab]] to save Clara from slowly being devoured by it, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') and crushed a [[Love Sprite]] under his heel to prevent it attacking him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'')  

Diagnosed with "Attention Deficit [Disorder]" by Clara, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (theatrical film)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'') the Doctor would include mundane outcomes in his summarisations when explaining the consequences of actions taken, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'') had trouble recognising people's age group, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'') forgot people he had only recently met, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') and was also shown to have a poor concept on the passage of time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (theatrical film)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'')

 

Because of his more celibate nature, ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') he failed to notice when someone was asking him if they looked attractive, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'') but did call a female [[Tyrannosaurus rex]] a "big sexy woman" while in a post-regenerative state. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') He also considered [[Rona Bellows]] to be "sexy", ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') and shared a mutual attraction with [[River Song]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') He didn't care about [[sexuality]], instead being bothered by people hating each other, and didn't approve of revenge either. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Swords of Kali (comic story)|The Swords of Kali]]'')

Feeling it was his house, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') the Doctor redecorated his console room to have bookshelves, chairs and workbenches. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') The Doctor told [[Bill Potts]] that the TARDIS was a "technological marvel", "science beyond magic", and "the gateway to everything that ever was, or ever can be." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') He did, however, occasionally enact violence against his TARDIS out of frustration, striking its column with his fists hard enough to damage it after discovering Missy's coordinates to Gallifrey had been a lie, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and later struck the console with enough force to believe he had broken a finger. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deep Time (novel)|Deep Time]]'')

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While he preferred him to other incarnations, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'') the Twelfth Doctor disliked his [[Eleventh Doctor|immediate predecessor]] for his enjoyment of bow ties and [[fez]]zes, and overuse of the word "cool". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'') However, upon seeing [[Adrian Davies]], a teacher at [[Coal Hill School]] with a resemblance to his eleventh incarnation, the Doctor, mistaking Adrian as Clara's boyfriend, arrogantly assumed that Clara was dating Adrian because of his uncanny resemblance to "a certain dashing young time traveller", reflecting more favourably on his predecessor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') Additionally, he was, at times, critical of his previous incarnations' clothing, thinking that his [[fourth incarnation]]'s [[The Doctor's scarf|scarf]] "looked stupid", ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') and regarded the Eleventh Doctor's fondness for [[bow tie]]s as "a bit embarrassing", ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') though complimented Osgood's bow tie as "nice". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') According to [[Affinity]], the Doctor kept his predecessors "lodged in his head", and held a low opinion of them and himself, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'') even comparing a [[Multi-Doctor Event]] to ''[[The Krankies]]''. ([[WC]]: ''[[Doctors Assemble! (webcast)|Doctors Assemble!]]'')

While he reflected that the [[First Doctor]] was "not much fun", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Full Stop (short story)|Full Stop]]'') the Twelfth Doctor was delighted by some of his habits when he encountered him at the [[South Pole]], such as still calling the TARDIS "the ship". However, he was embarrassed by the First Doctor's habit of making comments that were inappropriate in the Twelfth Doctor's eyes, especially when he threatened to give Bill a "jolly good smacked bottom" if she kept on swearing. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

[[File:Four Doctors The Photo.jpg|thumb|The Doctor argues with his past selves. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'')]]

When he met his two previous incarnations, the Twelfth Doctor had a frosty accord with the [[Tenth Doctor]], who refused to consider the twelfth incarnation as a future incarnation until the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]] confirmed he was. Conversely, the Eleventh Doctor was willing to accept him as his next incarnation and was happy to know he had more life in the future. While he degraded them as "manic pixie dream Doctors", the Twelfth Doctor expressed concern that the two would come to know him as the "scary Doctor". He held the [[Ninth Doctor]] in higher regards, saying the Continuity bomb could not find a timeline where he wasn't "fantastic". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'') In a later encounter with his tenth incarnation, the Twelfth Doctor referred to him as "Bambi", being dismissive of how overtly emotional he had been and having some embarrassment for his obsession with [[Rose Tyler]], but seemed to retain a fondness for the Tenth Doctor's life. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]'') Even after undergoing a more positive outlook, the Twelfth Doctor still disliked the Tenth Doctor for his "excited puppy routine". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'')

The Twelfth Doctor held deep affection for [[Clara Oswald]], considering her to be his [[best friend]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') and cared for her to the point that her betraying him couldn't make a difference to how he felt about her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') His connection with her was so deep that, after her death by [[Quantum Shade]], he respected her wishes to not target [[Ashildr]] for her role in the incident, ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') However, after spending four billion years in a temporal loop mourning losing her, ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') he became unhinged, deciding no one would stop him bringing her back, threatening all who tried to prevent him restoring her to life, even forcing the [[Eleventh General]] to regenerate, until events forced him to lose his memories of Clara. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') When his memories of her were restored, he was delighted, thankful he could finally remember her face. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

Despite his grumpy nature, the Doctor had a soft spot for children, ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') trying to help them to overcome their fears ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') build them up when they thought little of themselves, ([[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'') and help their education. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'') He would stop to help them when he saw them in need, ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') and would feel regretful if he felt he had let them down, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') as well as great fury when finding babies unattended too. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'')

He also held a disregard for the [[Cybermen]], unceremoniously flattening two with his TARDIS. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Doctor and the Dalek (video game)|The Doctor and the Dalek]]'') He knew to be cautious around them, ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') though he would try to reason with the ones that were "fresh out the factory". ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')

When [[Rusty (Into the Dalek)|Rusty]] the [[Dalek]] looked into the Twelfth Doctor's mind, he saw hatred and noted that the Doctor was "a good Dalek", while Clara believed the Doctor was trying to be a good man, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') and claimed that he "always care[d]" by the time of her death. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') When questioned by [[Lisa Foster]], Clara reluctantly admitted she thought the Doctor was "kind of [cool], in a strange sort of way", which Lisa interpreted as meaning "an uncool sort of way". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fractures (comic story)|The Fractures]]'') [[Bill Potts]] once described the Twelfth Doctor as "part-cool professor, [and] part-cat chasing laser pointer". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Promise (FCBD comic story)|The Promise]]'')

While [[Ashildr]] considered the Doctor to be a "passionate and powerful Time Lord", ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') [[Perkins (Mummy on the Orient Express)|Perkins]] noted his inability to decide whether the Doctor was a genius "or just incredibly arrogant", ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') with [[Danny Pink]], in complete bitterness for his need to feel the pain he inflicted, compared the Doctor to a "blood-soaked old general". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')  

Much as his [[tenth incarnation]] expressed, the Twelfth Doctor associated [[regeneration]] with death, recalling [[Snowcap]] as "the place where [he] died". He viewed the process as "huge, [and] terrible", with his self-preservation preventing his memories of the experience from consuming him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Blood and Ice (comic story)|Blood and Ice]]'') He also believed that regeneration was to be used only when completely necessary, and to use it to fix a broken toe was "a waste of a life". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') Despite his beliefs, when pushed to extremes, the Doctor was willing to force a fellow Time Lord to regenerate if it benefited him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')

When faced with the prospect of dying without regenerating while facing the [[Fisher King]], the Doctor, though initially appearing distraught, quickly dismissed any concern, saying that he "had a good innings", and labelling himself a mere "clerical error" of a regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') When cornered by the [[Veil (Heaven Sent)|Veil]], the Doctor admitted that he was afraid of dying, ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') but was unafraid to sacrifice himself for the greater good. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

After the regeneration progress was triggered by an attack from a [[Mondasian Cyberman]], the Doctor, angry at the idea of constantly "being other people", refused to change into his [[Thirteenth Doctor|next body]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') When confronting the [[glass avatar]]s of [[Bill Potts]] and [[Nardole]], the Doctor confessed he was "tired of losing people" and, feeling "there [had] to be an end", seeing his long life as "[an] [empty] battlefield, because everyone else [had] fallen". After a final cuddle with the glass avatars, the Doctor decided it was "time to leave the battlefield", and entered the TARDIS alone. Upon looking at the "silly old universe" on the [[TARDIS scanner]], the Doctor, realising that the "more [he] save[d] it, the more it need[ed] saving", decided that "one more lifetime wouldn't kill anyone". Giving instructions to his successor to "never be cruel, [and] never be cowardly", that "hate [was] always foolish, and [that] love [was] always wise", to "never fail to be kind", and to never reveal their name, the Doctor "let [himself] go" and regenerated into a female body. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

Much like his [[seventh incarnation]], the Twelfth Doctor spoke with a [[Scottish]] accent, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') which was noted by [[Bernice Summerfield]] to be [[Glaswegian]] in contrast to the Seventh Doctor's [[Highlands]] one. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Big Bang Generation (novel)|Big Bang Generation]]'') Fully embracing his [[Scottish]] accent as an entitlement to complain about things, the Doctor would put down the English, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') and was known to "go all Scottish" when annoyed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'')

When proposing a theory or plan, the Doctor would use words such as "question", "proposition" or "proposal", and would begin his conclusion with "answer", "conjecture", "conclusion" or "plan". ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') After working out the important questions and the answers in his head, he waited for others to come to the same conclusion, only to give out the answer after they proposed the wrong reactions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'''', ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'')

When in a moment of realisation or thinking intensely, the Doctor would often tell people to "shut up/it", regardless if others would be speaking or not. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') He would also issue the instruction to those who had earned his ire, regardless of their status, occupation or how petty the ire was, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'') and when he wished to avoid a subject of conversation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')  

He frequently called those who annoyed him with their apparent unintelligence and poorly thought out actions an "idiot", ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'') and even used the term to describe himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

Wanting to avoid using foul language, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') the Twelfth Doctor often used "hell" as an intensive, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'', ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]''''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'', ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') and spoke the name of God in vain. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

The Doctor often made puns, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'', ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') though hypocritically would complain about others making them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'')

 

Like his [[fourth incarnation]], the Doctor would talk directly to himself, ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') and act like his was [[Fourth wall|being watched by someone]] when there was no evidence of him having company. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') He was also known for giving soliloquies. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

When in thought, he was also known to tap his teeth with his finger, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') cradle his face in his hand, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') or twiddle his thumb on his hand. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'', ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') He would also gesture by turning his hand with his fingers together and thumb stuck out, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'')

Upon seeing a vase of picked flowers, the Doctor would grab a few and smell them, holding them right up to his nose. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') When brooding, would lean his face into his right hand as he looked downwards while pulling at his face. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'')

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He would absentmindedly scratch at his right cheek,{{source}} and snap his fingers.{{source}}

 

When not out adventuring, the Doctor could be found jotting down equations and theories on various [[chalkboard]]s in the [[TARDIS console room]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') or on hard surfaces that could bear chalk markings. ([[TV]]:  ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') He also employed chalkboards as a form of non-verbal communication within a mind, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') and in his lectures at [[St Luke's University]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') He also utilised a [[yo-yo]] on occasion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'')

The Doctor kept a spare [[sonic screwdriver]] in case something happened to his first. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Big Bang Generation (novel)|Big Bang Generation]]'') Even after he discarded his old screwdriver for a pair of [[sonic sunglasses]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') he still carried a model of his screwdriver to use on the odd occasion, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ministry of Time (comic story)|The Ministry of Time]]'', ''[[The Dragon Lord (comic story)|The Dragon Lord]]'') after Clara returned one of his old spares to him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Clara Oswald and the School of Death (comic story)|Clara Oswald and the School of Death]]'') After receiving a new sonic screwdriver, he began to use it in conjunction with the sonic sunglasses. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')  

Highly observant, the Twelfth Doctor was able to notice certain individuals in a crowd, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') notice suspicious activity ahead of others, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') and pick up on details that helped him unearth others' deceptions and plans. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') Being a [[Time Lord]], the Doctor could also detect when a light shield aura was near him, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') and was also able to fiddle with equipment and pilot the TARDIS while completely blind. ([[TV]]: ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') However, when his attention was focused elsewhere, or he relied too much on his own brilliance or his technology, certain things around him would go amiss. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')  

As "devious" as ever, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Showdown (comic story)|The Stockbridge Showdown]]'') the Doctor was able to spin an apparent fatal outcome into an advantage, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') He was also able to organise a bank heist to save [[The Teller (Time Heist)|the Teller]] and its mate, even erasing his planning of the heist to guarantee success. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'')

The Twelfth Doctor was a capable fighter, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') being skilled in [[Venusian aikido]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and able to stun people with a single punch to their face, ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') with the [[Half-Face Man]] and [[Kali]] both to remarking that the Doctor was "stronger than [he] look[ed]." ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Swords of Kali (comic story)|The Swords of Kali]]'')  

Strong and durable, the Doctor was able to briefly support his own weight singlehandedly, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') withstand several blows from [[Abesse]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') upstage [[Michael Smith]] by easily holding two baskets of rocks, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'') smash up the [[TARDIS console]] with his bare hands in a grief-stricken rage, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and slam a door shut in a struggle with [[Veil (Heaven Sent)|the Veil]]. He was also capable of repeatedly striking a wall of [[Azbantium]] with his fists after breaking every bone in his hand, and was still able to use his hands to pull a lever afterwards. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') However, his durability was not absolute, with the Doctor being easily knocked to the ground when taken by surprise from behind, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') and unable to escape the grip of a [[CyberMondan]] without assistance. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

He also possessed lightning-fast reflexes, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crawling Terror (novel)|The Crawling Terror]]'') notably being able to snatch the sonic screwdriver back from [[Spider (Thin Ice)|Spider's]] hand seconds before he was devoured by [[sea creature (Thin Ice)|a sea creature]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') and discreetly change the codes on the Master's computer in a matter of seconds without either the Master or Missy noticing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') After being thrown out of [[Boat One]] in an explosion, the Doctor was able to skydive towards his descending TARDIS, even fighting against the wind currents to place the [[TARDIS key]] in the lock. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')

Like several of his predecessors, the Twelfth Doctor was a highly proficient swordsman, able to best [[Robin Hood]] in a duel using a spoon, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'') take on Kali's three swords with a single blade, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Swords of Kali (comic story)|The Swords of Kali]]'') and reportedly bested [[Bors (The Doctor's Meditation)|Bors]]' broadsword with a [[daffodil]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') He was also skilled with a [[Gunstick]], shooting several [[Handmine]]s from a distance while also avoiding hitting [[Davros]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')

Like his previous incarnations, the Twelfth Doctor also displayed telepathic abilities, being able to link his mind with [[Rusty (Into the Dalek)|Rusty]] to show him the beauty of the universe, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') put Clara through a telepathic scenario with the aid of a [[Mood drug|sleep patch]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') send a sedated Clara messages on blackboards by holding her hand, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') establish a [[psychic link]] with a door to unlock it, ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') and leave a message in [[Bill Potts]]'s subconscious from a small distance. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') With a quick touch to the head, the Doctor could render someone unconscious, and also leave their memories "scrambled" ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') to induce a [[mind wipe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'')  

 

Not only could he perform eye-fixation hypnotism with verbal commands, but also claimed that he could perform hypnosis that affected all the senses due to his Time Lord abilities. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Trust (comic story)|Trust]]'')  

The Twelfth Doctor was a skilled inventor, able to quickly build and assemble what he needed to achieve his goals. ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') He was also able to rebuild the TARDIS' radio into a clockwork squirrel. ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'')

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Despite denying being a doctor of medicine, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'') the Doctor possessed at least a limited medical knowledge, being able to resuscitate [[Lafcardio]] with [[CPR|artificial resuscitation]] after Lafcardio's lungs were filled up with soot, with the Governor noting that the Doctor worked on Lafcardio like an expert. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') He was also able to perform accurate post-mortems, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'', ''[[The Crawling Terror (novel)|The Crawling Terror]]'') and attach a [[Lothan]] [[prosthetic leg]] to [[Ram Singh]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')

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The Twelfth Doctor could play the [[electric guitar]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'', ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') even being able to play while blind. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'') He was proficient enough with his guitar to join the ''[[Space Pirates (band)|Space Pirates]]'' on stage, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Twist (comic story)|The Twist]]'') and keep up with [[Hattie Munroe]] when playing alongside her in the TARDIS. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Playing House (comic story)|Playing House]]'')

Despite initially forgetting how to pilot his TARDIS due to post-regenerative trauma, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') the Doctor soon mastered his way around the [[TARDIS console]], though admitted to [[Bill Potts]] that he mostly negotiated with the TARDIS when it came to "steer[ing]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'') Not only could he save people by piloting the TARDIS around them ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') and deposit them from the TARDIS during dematerialisation, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'') he was successfully able to return Clara home in time for her dates, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') though he had noticeable difficulty slowly fly the TARDIS above [[London]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'')

He could also ride a horse, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'') and drive a car, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'') being able to identify a vehicle by type and maker, and also summarise its capabilities. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'')

The Twelfth Doctor retained his predecessor's ability to converse in multiple languages, such as [[Dinosaur (language)|dinosaur]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') [[Donkey (language)|donkey]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All the Empty Towers (short story)|All the Empty Towers]]'') and [[Baby (language)|baby]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') He also claimed that he knew [[semaphore]], which had left [[British Sign Language]] "erased" from his mind, though he could still sign, just without the knowledge of what he had signed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'')

Despite believing himself not to be suited for the task, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'') the Doctor had a talent for holding a crowds' attention, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') having a strong sense of showmanship, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') and quick comedic timing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'')

Looking like a man in his fifties, ([[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy epilogue]]'') and being of a light build, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Chime Time (comic story)|Chime Time]]'') the Twelfth Doctor was a tall, thin-faced man with a tousled mop of [[silver]]-[[grey]] [[hair]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crawling Terror (novel)|The Crawling Terror]]'') and intense [[blue]] [[eye]]s framed by unruly, expressive [[eyebrow]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') which he called "attack eyebrows" that could "take bottle tops off" and were "ready to secede and set up their own independent state of eyebrows". ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') He also had a hooked [[nose]], with big [[ear]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') Recognising that he had "seen [his] face somewhere before", ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') the Doctor eventually realised that he had the face of [[Lobus Caecilius]], a man who's famly his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]] had saved from the destruction of [[Pompeii]] on [[Donna Noble]]'s insistence, and concluded that he had subconsciously chose Caecilius' face to remind himself that he always save[d] people. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') At some point, the Doctor appeared to have had his left earlobe pierced, as he had visible scarring on his ear by the time he extracted Clara from her timeline. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')  

With his "gaunt face". ([[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy epilogue]]'') the Twelfth Doctor was called a "boney [[rascal]]" and a "desiccated man-crone" by [[Robin Hood]], who also described him as being "pale as [[milk]]", ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'') with [[Shona McCullough]] calling him a "[[skeleton]] man". ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'')  

While she once noted that the Doctor's face "always looked serious", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'') [[Clara Oswald]] described him as looking like a "grey-haired [[stick insect]]", ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') and even used such an image for him on her caller ID. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'')

Aiming for "minimalism", ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') the Twelfth Doctor initially donned a navy blue Crombie coat with crimson lining and matching navy cardigan with a white collared shirt, midnight blue trousers, and black brogue boots. On his left hand ring finger, he had a pair of gold rings, a normal gold band and a second ring with a greenish amber setting that rested atop the first band, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') which the Doctor considered to be [[The Doctor's wedding ring|a wedding ring]] that symbolised his marriage to [[River Song]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') Occasionally, the Doctor would replace his cardigan with a 5-button Palmer Waistcoat, with colours ranging in dark blue and plain black, ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') and change his dark blue trousers to black. ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') His socks were either decorated with cartoon animals ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') or plain black, ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') and his underpants reportedly had question marks. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'') While Clara noted his clothes made him look Victorian, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'') the Doctor believed he looked like a [[magician]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'')  

In his "rock star" image,{{source}} the Doctor continued to wear his hoodie under his Crombie coat, but replaced his jumper with an [[Ivory (colour)|ivory]] T-shirt and a pair of baggy plaid trousers similar in style to those of his [[second incarnation]], either in a [[Gunmetal (colour)|gunmetal]] grey design, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (theatrical film)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'') a [[Prussian blue]] design with an [[Alabaster (colour)|alabaster]] plaid pattern, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]])'' a navy blue tartan pattern with crimson stripes, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'') or a [[Bottle (colour)|bottle]] green colour. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ministry of Time (comic story)|The Ministry of Time]]'') His vest wear included a dusty pink Henley top underneath a Misty Mountain T-shirt, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (theatrical film)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'') a Negative Flower T-shirt, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') a plain white T-shirt, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ministry of Time (comic story)|The Ministry of Time]]'') and a black T-shirt with a shark on it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'')

Following his regeneration, the Doctor was placed into a Victorian nightshirt and [[slipper]]s by the [[Paternoster Gang]] to help him rest. While investigating reports of [[spontaneous human combustion]], the Doctor exchanged his old watch for a coat from a [[Barney (Deep Breath)|a vagabond]], which he wore over his nightshirt. After infiltrating [[Mancini's Family Restaurant]], the Doctor stole a [[Clockwork Droid]]'s suit in order to masquerade as one to get close to the [[Half-Face Man]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')

After returning to [[Gallifrey]], the Doctor discarded his waistcoat and velvet Crombie coat in favour of a black overcoat, which he found in [[Barn (The Day of the Doctor)|his old barn]]. He later resumed wearing his Crombie coat when he returned to his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')

While imprisoned on [[the Prison]], the Doctor was fitted with a standard orange uniform. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') While visiting [[1963]] [[Las Vegas]], the Doctor donned a blue [[Fedora]] at Clara's urging. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Gangland (comic story)|Gangland]]'') When [[Zip Betterblast]] gave him a "re-design" for his TV appearance, the Doctor received blue jeans, a cap with a "DW" logo, and yellow sleeveless V-neck top with a palm tree island image on it. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time and PR in Space (comic story)|Time and PR in Space]]'')

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