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|alias      = '''''[[The Doctor's aliases#Twelfth Doctor|see list]]'''''

|job        = Caretaker

|job2        = President of Earth

|affiliation = Coal Hill School

|affiliation2 = High Council

|affiliation3 = St Luke's University

|spouse      = River Song

|appearances = [[Twelfth Doctor/Appearances|'''''see list''''']]

|actor      = Peter Capaldi

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Unique amongst his incarnations, the Twelfth Doctor would not travel full time with the large majority of his companions, with some like [[Clara Oswald]] and [[Bill Potts]] taking breaks from the TARDIS between travels, some like [[Hattie Munroe]] taking the occasional trip, and some like [[Jata]] being involved in various side quests during a longer trip. He was also known to go long periods of time in one location, such as the town of [[Краснодар]], his [[confession dial]], 1970s [[Brixton]], [[Darillium]] and [[St Luke's University]].

== Biography ==

=== A day to come ===

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After sealing [[Gallifrey]] away in a [[pocket dimension]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') the [[Seventh Doctor]] was able to recall teaming up with his other twelve incarnations to save Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (audio story)|Cold Fusion]]'')

Seeing an ad in a newspaper placed by {{Gomez}}, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') which seemed to be a message from Clara, the Doctor infiltrated a suspicious restaurant, where he and Clara learned that time travelling [[Clockwork Droid]]s, under the leadership of the [[Half-Face Man]], had been harvesting [[human]]s to repair themselves and reach the [[Promised Land]]. Trying to speak on peaceful terms, the Doctor snapped the Control Node out of his illusion of the Promised Land by revealing the true state of his existence. Conflicted and unsure, the Half-Face Man fell out of his [[escape pod]], either jumping or having been pushed by the Doctor.

Returning for Clara, the Doctor spoke of the suspicious way Clara had met him in his previous incarnation, only for Clara to likewise voice her uncertainty of the Doctor's identity and asked to be returned home. Attempting to return Clara home, the Doctor ended up in [[Glasgow]] by mistake. However, Clara decided to go out for coffee with the Doctor after the Eleventh Doctor called her and encouraged her to help the Doctor through his regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')

Joined by Journey and two other soldiers named [[Gretchen Carlisle]] and [[Ross (Into the Dalek)|Ross]], the Doctor and Clara used a [[moleculon nanoscaler]] to miniaturise themselves and enter the Dalek, whom the Doctor nicknamed "[[Rusty (Into the Dalek)|Rusty]]". After losing Ross to the [[Dalek antibody|Rusty's antibodies]], the Doctor discovered a radiation leak from within Rusty and learned that he had turned good after seeing a star being born. Following the radiation, the Doctor discovered damage to Rusty's power source was slowly killing him, and repaired the damage with his [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]]. However, fixing Rusty's power core resulted in the malfunction that turned Rusty good to be reversed, with Rusty's destructive nature returning, and causing Rusty to go on a killing spree, as well as send a distress beacon to summon the Daleks to the rebels' base.

The Doctor joined a crew of six travellers, including a young [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], on a journey to the church at [[Santiago de Compostela]] to avoid the plague. At the church, one of the travellers gave birth, and then the group was attacked by life-feeding aliens disguised as wooden skeletons. However, the aliens recoiled in horror upon seeing the new baby. The Doctor realised the church was actually the aliens' disguised spaceship, and he and the crew escaped as the ship took off. The Doctor explained to Chaucer that the baby, representing new life, was enough to frighten away the death-conquering aliens. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mercy Seats (short story)|The Mercy Seats]]'')

=== New adventures with Clara ===

After he was forced to disguise himself as a [[nun]] to escape the [[Church of Vindication's Inquisitors]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Swords of Kali (comic story)|The Swords of Kali]]'') the Doctor became alerted to a creature that disguised itself as a motorway to consume planets into other dimensions. Summoning Clara to assist him, the Doctor was surprised when the creature disappeared, unaware that Clara had tricked the creature into consuming itself. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Road Rage (Twelfth Doctor comic story)|Road Rage]]'')

=== Resumed travels with Clara ===

Picking up a signal, the TARDIS arrived on the [[Quartz Wastes]] of [[Asmoray]]. Although the Doctor believed it was an uninhabited wasteland, Clara pointed out there was a harvester nearby extracting [[electricity]] from the quartz. The Doctor and Clara were brought aboard the harvester by two workers, where beings within the electricity had broken through and killed four workers. Their leader, [[Luther (The Body Electric)|Luther]], was insistent on continuing their work regardless. Investigating, the Doctor and Clara found the creatures were only attacking because they were being sucked into the harvester's storage batteries. With Clara's help, the Doctor was able to free the electricity beings back into the quartz. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Body Electric (comic story)|The Body Electric]]'')

After discovering that Clara had lied to him about Danny's approval, the Doctor realised that a mural dedicated to local missing people was the missing people, killed and worn by the creatures as camouflage. With Clara leading a gang of surviving community servers, the Doctor theorised that the creatures were trying to communicate, and that the deaths were but a mere misunderstanding. When the theory was proved wrong, the Doctor invented a device that could reverse the creatures' flattening abilities, which he called a [[2Dis]], as Clara and her gang retreated to an underground tunnel.

The Doctor landed on the ''[[Pollyanna]]'', the first of the [[Ninth Era]] [[sunship]]s, which had been on an expedition to circumnavigate [[Sol|the Sun]]. Seeing one of the [[Umbra (The Eye of Torment)|Umbra]] come out of the Sun and enter a [[plasma intake]], the Doctor rushed to the [[plasma lab]] and carried the injured [[Professor]] [[Alice Dubrovnik]] to safety. The Umbra, who had been trapped in the [[chromosphere]] for millions of years, began swarming the ''Pollyanna'', anchoring the ship to the Sun to try and hijack it and use it as a way of reaching Earth. As the Umbra on board took on more humans as vehicles, the Doctor was ejected out of a plasma intake to attract the Umbra to his regret. He set up the final link to Alice's [[graviton inverter]] on the hull of the ship, allowing Alice to briefly boost the inverter and create a secondary [[gravity]] envelope, which inverted the gravity and the heat, freezing the Umbra on the ship to death. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Eye of Torment (comic story)|The Eye of Torment]]'')

=== Second chance with Clara ===

[[File:Clara Birthday Comic Back Up Story.jpg|thumb|The Doctor reveals the alien duplicates of Clara. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Partying of the Ways (comic story)|The Partying of the Ways]]'')]]

The Doctor, Clara and Sam bypassed the Sussex firewall with the TARDIS and found that captured humans were being enslaved by the Hyperions to build a fusion web. Clara tried to intervene, but in doing so caused Hyperion "angels" to appear. Fleeing back to the TARDIS, an angel got on board, but Sam knocked her out by spraying her with a fire extinguisher. Deducing that the angel had been transmogrified by the Hyperions, the Doctor bio-linked her to the TARDIS telepathic circuits to restore her human consciousness. The TARDIS materialised by the sun, where the Hyperions were building the fusion web to consume its energy. Although the Doctor believed they were out of range, the web was already powerful enough to attack the TARDIS.

Arriving on the ''[[SS Berry Gordy]]'' in the [[53rd century]], the Doctor and Clara saved pop-star [[India Summer]] from being kidnaped by a band of [[Skink]]s hired by her manager, [[Gavor Vek-Haart]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hyperballad (comic story)|Hyperballad]]'')

The Doctor arrived on the hospital planet [[Gehenna]] while it was under siege from the [[Weeping Angel]]s in the form of a marble dust storm that spread a plague that turned others into Weeping Angels, and discovered that Chief Medical Officer [[Perinne]] had been keeping an Angel prisoner for experiments, with the networked Salus masks the medics wore creating a Weeping Angel virus. Unable to salvage the situation, Perinne forced the Doctor to leave as he succumbed to the Angels' virus. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Grey Matter (short story)|Grey Matter]]'')

[[File:Supergirl Meets E.T. (webcast).jpg|thumb|The Doctor joins a proposed "[[alien club]]". ([[WC]]: ''[[Supergirl Meets E.T. (webcast)|Supergirl Meets E.T.]]'')]]

While looking for a bookshop, the Doctor found himself on a battlefield during the [[Thousand Year War]] on [[Skaro]], and encountered a young boy trapped in a field of [[Handmine]]s, and, during the rescue attempt, learned that the boy was [[Davros]]. When he "should have been brave enough, [and] strong enough to do something better", the Doctor fled the battlefield, unwilling to save or kill the boy who would create the Daleks. Afterwards, an older Davros, having become "very sick", asked to see the Doctor "while there [was] still time", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (TV story)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and sent [[Colony Sarff]] to search for him. The Doctor prepared a [[confession dial]] to be delivered to {{Gomez}}, and went to the planet [[Karn]] to meet with [[Ohila]] and the [[Sisterhood of Karn]]. After hiding from Colony Sarff behind a rock, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') the Doctor was told by Ohila that he owed Davros nothing by partaking in a confrontation, warning him his actions would spell his end. Giving Ohila his confession dial before departing, the Doctor proclaimed that he would find a rock to meditate on in preparation for his possible destruction. ([[WC]]: ''[[Prologue (webcast)|Prologue]]'')

[[File:Twelve and Davros.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor meets with a dying Davros. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'')]]

=== Final adventures with Clara ===

The Doctor and Clara arrived in [[Highgate Cemetery]] in [[1972]], where, intruding upon a cult meeting, they were attacked by vampire-like creatures called the [[Corvid]]s, which petrified the TARDIS and fed on people's psychic essence, but were trapped inside the cemetery. The Doctor discovered that Clara's exposure to his time stream had rendered her toxic to the Corvids' powers, and that exposing themselves to her left a psychic corridor open. Using the psychic signature of the dead amplified by the ley line the cemetery was built on, the Doctor banished the Corvids back to the Time Vortex with the aid of [[Jess Collins]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Highgate Horror (comic story)|The Highgate Horror]]'')

The Doctor and Clara landed on the space station ''[[Le Verrier]]'' in the [[38th century]], and joined a rescue crew that were looking for the station's crew. Attacked by [[Sandman (Sleep No More)|Sandmen]], the group ran into a laboratory housing [[Morpheus pod]]s and, after rescuing Clara from one, found Professor [[Gagan Rassmussen]] hiding in a pod. After questioning Rassmussen on his pods, the Doctor concluded that the Sandmen were made up of [[sleep dust]], and a direct result from use of the pods. As they made their way to destroy the pods, the station's [[gravity shield]]s failed, Rassmussen was killed by a Sandman, and the Doctor, Clara and Chief [[Jagganth Daiki-Nagata|Nagata]] became separated from the group after the Doctor rebooted the gravity shield. Re-evaluating the situation, the Doctor hacked into what he believed to be the rescue crew's helmet cams to review the footage, only for Nagata to reveal that none of them were wearing cameras. The Doctor then realised that the sleep dust in the air was being used as cameras to store images of the rescue mission, and that Rassmussen was behind the entire thing. Going to the crew's rescue ship, the Doctor, Clara and Nagata found Rassmussen had plans to spread the Sandmen to other planets. Surviving Rassmussen's attempt to kill them with his [[Patient Zero (Sleep No More)|Patient Zero]], Nagata killed Rassmussen, and the trio fled the station in the TARDIS, intending to destroy all Morpheus machines to prevent any more Sandman conversions. The Doctor, however, was confounded by the loose ends and how choreographed the event had been. ([[TV]]: ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'')

While Clara attended an end-of-term Christmas party, the Doctor met a young [[Clive Finch]] on [[24 December|Christmas Eve]] [[1979]], and took him to see the [[Loch Ness Monster]], during which the Doctor encountered [[the Monk]] and thwarted his latest scheme. The Doctor partially wiped Clive's memory of the event, but left just enough of a recollection that would kick-start the boy's life of trying to find the Doctor again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Persistence of Memory (short story)|The Persistence of Memory]]'')

[[File:Twelve Clara diner.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor tells his story to Clara in the diner. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')]]

=== Moving on ===

The Doctor received a call from Osgood, asking for his assistance in dealing with the [[Experimental Prototype Robot]] [[K2]] that was running amok in [[2016]] London. The Doctor was able to dismantle K2 with his sonic screwdriver, ending the threat. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Robo Rampage (comic story)|Robo Rampage]]'')

=== Rescuing Gabby ===

Summoning his [[tenth incarnation]] to an uninhabited planet, the Twelfth Doctor, having taken precautions to ensure that his predecessor would remember the important parts of their meeting, informed the Tenth Doctor of [[Gabby Gonzalez]]'s importance and wrote out the answers in [[Gallifreyan (language)|Gallifreyan]] before sending him on his way, gifting him a piece of [[chalk]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]'')

=== Travelling alone ===

The Doctor visited [[Shivani Bajwa]] at her flower garden at [[Coal Hill School]], and learnt that {{Gomez}} had secretly assisted him when his [[first incarnation]] fought off the [[Space Wolf|Space wolves]] with Shivani in [[1963]]. When he saw Missy across the street from him, the Doctor bade his farewells to Shivani has he ran after her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill (short story)|Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill]]'')

Wanting to visit a music performance in [[1972]] [[London]], the Doctor was playing his [[guitar]] on the streets when he was sighted by [[Jess Collins]], who followed him to the TARDIS, despite his attempts to avoid her. When the TARDIS picked up an alien distress signal in the [[London Underground]], where Jess' father, [[Lloyd Collins|Lloyd]], worked, Jess followed him to investigate the signal. In the tunnels, they were caught by Lloyd and then attacked by a skeletal [[Hakuai|bird creature]], but the Doctor disabled the creature with [[electricity]] from the Underground, noting it was an animated cadaver. Lloyd, injured by the creature, was taken to hospital, where the Doctor scanned him and realised he had an unidentifiable bacterial infection. Returning to the Underground with Jess, the Doctor found a telepathic node on the creature's body, which explained that the creature was an alien called [[Moan'na]], who had fled his kind and disguised himself as a human in [[17th century]] London. The Doctor determined that Moan'na had died of the [[bubonic plague]] as a human in [[1665]], but his alien body had enhanced the illness and caused Lloyd to fall under it.

The Doctor took Jess and Maxwell to the [[National Gallery]] to show them a [[John Constable]] painting, when an alien creature was released by hunters from [[Kolothos]], where hunting was outlawed, who sent [[Hound (Bloodsport)|hounds]] to chase it into the gallery. The Doctor, Jess and Maxwell followed the creature outside into [[Trafalgar Square]], and witnessed the hunter [[Skadi]] murder a policeman. The Doctor used a dog whistle to incapacitate the hounds, and when Skadi's husband, [[Broteas]], killed another policeman, the Doctor knocked him out by pulling his electric whip into a fountain. Skadi murdered the small creature she was hunting, and she and her son, [[Tarquel]], took Jess and Maxwell aboard their spaceship.

=== A return to travelling ===

The Doctor visited the planet [[Lahn]] to travel the Spice Route of Shalabar Stone. However, his party was ambushed by alien scavengers led by the Lord [[Boabdil]], who kidnapped the Doctor's fellow traveller, [[Estrella]], sentencing her to be executed the following day by a monster. The Doctor gatecrashed the execution and disorientated the monster, freeing Estrella. Chased into the city, Estrella bought a flying carpet, allowing her and the Doctor to escape their pursuers. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Spice Route (comic story)|The Spice Route]]'')

=== Returning Jata home ===

During the trip to Osumare, Jata mentioned he was interested in educational systems, which prompted the Doctor to show him an [[England|English]] school in the [[21st century]]. Much to the Doctor's surprise, the school they landed in was filled with students put into a violent trance by their [[ear bud]]s. The Doctor and Jata hid in the school's chapel with three teachers and [[Ralph (Fear Buds)|a student]]. The Doctor knew about a secret room in the chapel and guided the student, Jata, and [[Swain|one of the teachers]] to it when the mind-controlled students broke through the chapel's doors. In the hidden room, the Doctor realised that the student was a [[Mkali]]. He confronted the Mkali and asked him to reverse what he had done to the other students. When that didn't work, the Doctor called the Mkali's mother, who became very angry at her son and fixed everything he did. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fear Buds (comic story)|Fear Buds]]'')

=== Temporary companions ===

After seeing an [[opera]] in [[1695]] [[Paris]], the Doctor was confronted by [[Julie d'Aubigny]] after the show when he refused to take part in the standing ovation, with the Doctor escalating the situation by insulting her singing and having Julie challenge him to a sword duel. The duel was interrupted by [[Lord Cardinal|Cardinal]] [[Richelieu]], who wanted to question the Doctor, but was stabbed by Julie and exposed as being possessed by dark forces. The Doctor fled to the TARDIS and took Julie with him, knowing that there were mysterious forces at work. The Doctor and Julie went to the Bibliotheque Mazarine library to find information on the forces, with the Doctor using his psychic paper to get the library's curator, Bishop Mazarin, to tell him that Richelieu had created an intelligence network called the Cabinet Noir to intercept the mail of Paris and instructed Mazarin to build a secret library to store confiscated mail, and that Richelieu had experimented with magic and opened a realm of beings, which granted him the ability to not age. Mazarin gave the Doctor the keys to the secret library and told him that Richelieu was plotting to create another portal to plunge the entire world into darkness, but he was suddenly killed by gargoyles before he could say anymore. The gargoyles attacked the Doctor, but Julie managed to destroy the head of one, revealing them to be robots, as the Doctor looked at a chart in the secret library and found an astrological prediction that predicted an eclipse, which the darkness planned to use for their invasion.

=== Solo adventures ===

The Doctor chased Missy across Earth in different times and places as she stole numerous valuables, from the [[British Crown Jewels]] to [[diamond]] rings. The Doctor retraced his steps and discovered Missy had left [[Cybermat]]s as she went. Missy was disappointed that the Doctor had foiled her plan despite not even knowing what the plan was. The Doctor then went off in his TARDIS to have lunch, not even bothering to let Missy explain her plan to him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr. Twelfth (novel)|Dr. Twelfth]]'')

The Doctor ventured to [[Catrigan Nova]] to warn Queen [[Lydia (The Mondas Touch)|Lydia]] that her prized gauntlet was part of a Cyberman, but arrived too late to prevent her upgrading her guards and castle, linking her kingdom to the [[Cyberiad]] hive mind. Lydia initially imprisoned the Doctor for trying to take the gauntlet from her, but eventually came to listen to him after her daughter, [[Mida]], was unintentionally upgraded by her touch. The Doctor instructed Lydia to lead her fully-converted citizens to the gilded whirlpools of Catrigan Nova, with the nuggets of [[gold]] within the pools wearing away the Cybermen into nothingness. Lydia then destroyed the gauntlet, freeing Mida from the Cyberiad. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mondas Touch (short story)|The Mondas Touch]]'')

=== Reunion with River ===

==== Adventures from St Luke's University ====

In [[1996]], the Doctor was contacted by [[James Stevens]], who convinced him to alter the coordinates of a [[Time Ring]] he had acquired from {{Delgado}}, so that Stevens could travel to [[11 August]] [[1971]] and prevent [[Francis Cleary]] from killing [[Dodo Chaplet]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy epilogue]]'')

=== Early adventures with Bill ===

After Bill asked him to help her move into a student house, the Doctor grew suspicious of the fact that an old, large house was being rented to Bill and five other students for so little. Investigating, the Doctor found that the house was eating the students, eventually leaving only him and Bill. They discovered that [[John (Knock Knock)|the Landlord]] was using [[Dryad|strange insects]] to keep his mother alive in a wooden form by feeding people to them every twenty years. Convincing the mother that her son was wrong to keep her alive this way, the Doctor was able to free the house's recent victims, while the Landlord and his mother were consumed by the insects and the house collapsed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'')

=== Threats from the Dreamspace ===

  [[File:DWM 512 The Soul Garden Bill and the Doctor learn to fly 1.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor and Bill "swim" on the low-gravity atmospheres of [[Titan]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Soul Garden (comic story)|The Soul Garden]]'')]]

The Doctor took Bill to [[Plex]]'s [[Planet (The Promise)|adopted home planet]] to see the first generation born independently, only to find them to be hostile. With the [[Chameleon Arch]] [[biodata module]] having broken since he last used it, the Doctor instead brought the planet to peace by telling the clones a glamourised version of their history. As they flew away in the TARDIS, the Doctor told Bill about his history with Plex. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Promise (FCBD comic story)|The Promise]]'') The Doctor then took Bill to see the [[coronation]] of Queen [[Elizabeth II]] in [[1953]]. When he asked her what she thought, Bill stated that she preferred [[Victoria]]'s coronation. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Where's the Doctor? (comic story)|Where's the Doctor?]]'')

[[File:Twelfth Doctor and Clara under Stonehenge.jpg|thumb|left|Due to a temporal crisis, the Doctor and Clara share one last adventure in the tunnels beneath [[Stonehenge]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Lost in Time (video game)|Lost in Time]]'')]]

=== Final adventures ===

The Doctor was tricked by [[Ziggy (Bill and the Three Jackets)|Ziggy]] when she swapped bodies with Bill, but her plan was foiled by Bill and [[Lou (Bill and the Three Jackets)|Lou]], who were able to reverse the body swap. Ziggy then explained that she had wanted them return her to her home planet, [[Onhwhie]], as she had been exiled for speaking up against the unjust government. After some persuading from Bill and Lou, the Doctor agreed to return Ziggy to Onhwhie. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Bill and the Three Jackets (short story)|Bill and the Three Jackets]]'')

* The Twelfth Doctor visited the [[Chibolg Mega-Stamps Convention]] on [[Ghent]], and prevented a massacre that would have resulted in a war. He then paid the staff to cater to the [[Ninth Doctor]], who arrived soon after, and give him a room to relax in. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Day to Yourselves (short story)|A Day to Yourselves]]'')

In an alternate [[1997]], a [[Dalek War Saucer]] crashed into St Luke's University, killing the Doctor and Nardole. This timeline was negated when the original timeline's Doctor and Bill, as well as two Bills from the new timeline were able to stop the initial crash from happening in the first place. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Emancipation of the Daleks (audio story)|Emancipation of the Daleks]]'')

[[File:Four Doctors Ten and Twelve argue.jpg|thumb|The Tenth and Twelfth Doctors argue. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'')]]

In the version of time where the alternate [[Gabby Gonzalez]] hailed from, the Doctor followed Clara to a café and barged in after his two previous incarnations had. The [[Tenth Doctor]] refused to consider the Twelfth Doctor as a possible incarnation of himself, as he had already confirmed the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as his successor, and knew that he had only one regeneration left. Although the Eleventh Doctor tried to break them up, the tenth and twelfth incarnations argued until they brushed fingers, causing a spark of the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]], resulting in the appearance of the [[Reaper]]s.

== Other references ==

== Psychological profile ==

=== Personality ===

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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, 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]]'')

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]]'')

The Doctor also hoped to one day find [[Gallifrey]] and reacted with devastation when his hope of finding it turned out to be a false lead. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') When he finally did manage to find his way to Gallifrey after enduring "4.5 billion years" of torture within his [[confession dial]], he first returned to his [[Barn (The Day of the Doctor)|old barn hideaway]] in the [[Drylands]] and then lead a [[coup against Rassilon]] to banish him and the [[High Council]] for their part in escalating the Time War. After using the Time Lords' technology to save Clara from the [[Quantum Shade]], the Doctor fled from Gallifrey once again. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')

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]]'') While his personal views caused him to make unfavourable judgments of people upon 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]]'') though 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]]'')

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 relaxing by playing his guitar in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'', ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'') 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]]'') 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]]'') 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]]'')

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Viewed as an egotist by [[Clara Oswald]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'') the Doctor had a consistently anti-authoritarian attitude, only ever asking who was in charge so he would "know who to ignore", ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') seeing it as his place to give the explanations, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') and also did not like it when somebody else tried to "do the naming." ([[TV]]: ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'') As he "hardly ever listen[ed] when other people [were] talking", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'') the Doctor tended to stop listening to ongoing conversations when he lost interest, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'') as he saw only himself as being "someone worth talking to". ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') He enjoyed his privacy, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') and preferred to be left alone when on a mission. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'')

[[File:TITAN 12th 1 TheDoctor.jpg|thumb|The Doctor compares himself to his predecessor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'')]]

While he described himself as having had "sophistication and timeless sartorial elegance" restored, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'') the Twelfth 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]]'')

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]]'') though he preferred to create "ripples" instead of "tidal waves." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'')

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He claimed that taking charge was his "superpower", ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') and listed "investigating", "playing with time" and "resistance" among his specialities, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'', ''[[The Swords of Kali (comic story)|The Swords of Kali]]'', ''[[The Fractures (comic story)|The Fractures]]'') with Clara also adding "interfering and infuriating" to the list. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'')

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Initially thinking he was "overbearing, manipulative and consciously aware of his own intelligence", ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') the Twelfth Doctor came to see himself a "scary, handsome genius from space" ([[TV]]: ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'') who was "adorable, hugely intelligent, but still approachable". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'')

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Although he tended to be dismissive of [[Nardole]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') the Doctor still took his advice in stock ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') and chose to sacrifice his own life so Nardole could escape certain death. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

The Doctor also grew close with [[Bill Potts]], making her his personal student while at [[St Luke's University]], even going back in time to obtain pictures of her mother as a Christmas gift in gratitude for her gifting him a [[carpet]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') even though he did not like the carpet. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') He confided in Bill about his concerns over Missy and made it his personal mission to save Bill from death at the hands of the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') He also didn't like Bill seeing him physically vulnerable, going as far as not telling her about his blindness, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'') or his impending regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

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The Twelfth Doctor's hatred toward the [[Dalek]] species was rigid, with Clara describing it as "prejudice", ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') though he did stop to mourn [[Lumpy]], a Dalek that had deceived him into friendship. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Doctor and the Dalek (video game)|The Doctor and the Dalek]]'') He believed Daleks were incapable of change and was closed-minded as he dealt with their presence, and would refuse to help a Dalek unless his interests were peaked. After his act of fixing a [[Rusty (Into the Dalek)|malfunctioning "good" Dalek]] caused it to revert to "bad", the Doctor was almost pleased that his belief of there being "no such thing as a good Dalek" was vindicated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') Despite his hatred of them, the Doctor admitted to [[Governor (The Blood Cell)|the Governor]] that the [[Dalek Emperor]] "[was] nothing compared to your average mobile phone sales assistant". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'')

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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 [a] laser pointer". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Promise (FCBD comic story)|The Promise]]'')

[[The Oracle (The Blood Cell)|The Oracle]] described the Twelfth Doctor as "a man of taste and discrimination," ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') while [[Orestes Milton]] believed the Doctor "affect[ed] an air of ignorance and indifference, but beneath it [were] undercurrents of knowledge and curiosity". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'') [[Aphasia|Daughter of Mine]] considered him "the worst". ([[WC]]: ''[[Shadow of a Doubt (audio story)|Shadow of a Doubt]]'')

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=== Habits and quirks ===

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During his early life, the Twelfth Doctor would often accuse things, even other people, of developing faults, errors and malfunctions when he didn't think they were working the way he though they were meant to, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') and would call people "[[pudding-brain]]s", or "pudding headed", when he found them slow-minded or stupid. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'')

When instructing someone to pay attention, the Doctor would command them to "listen". ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'', ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'', ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') He also made a habit of saying, ''"Well..."'', to start his sentences. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (theatrical film)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'', ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'', ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

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]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[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]]'')

Like his [[fourth incarnation]], the Twelfth 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]]'')

In a deviation from his stagnant posture, he would wring his hands together in a fidgety manner, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (theatrical film)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[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]]'', ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') but also kept his fingers interlocked together when explaining or contemplating something. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[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]]'', ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'')

Much like previous incarnations, the Twelfth Doctor would often flick back his coat and rest his hands in his pockets. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'', ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')

He was also known to cross his arms together, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'',''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'', ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'') rest one hand or both on his hips, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'',''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'', ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'') and stand with his hands crossed behind his back. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

Much like his fourth and ninth incarnations, the Twelfth Doctor would grin when he was pleased or amused, flashing his upper teeth widely as he smiled in his giddiness. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[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]]'', ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

[[File:Twelve Drink.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor offers [[Half-Face Man]] a drink of whisky. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')]]

Something of a foodie, the Twelfth Doctor would stop to help himself to food and drinks during his adventures, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') sometimes carrying food on his person to eat at a moment's notice ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') or indulging in a takeaway meal. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'') Unlike his previous incarnation, he had a tolerance for alcoholic beverages, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') and took his tea with extra sugar, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') due to his high blood pressure, ([[TV]]: ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'') once having seven sugars in his tea. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shining Man (novel)|The Shining Man]]'')

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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 markings. ([[TV]]:  ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') 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]]'')

In his later life, the Doctor spent time using [[Wi-Fi]] to pass the time, but didn't want anyone seeing his [[browser history]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') as it contained a series of cat photos that he and [[River Song]] had used to communicate, which he found somewhat embarrassing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

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[[File:Foretold Approaches Twelve.jpg|thumb|The Doctor faces the Foretold's riddle. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'')]]

He was also able to make accurate [[deduction]]s from keenly observing his surroundings, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'') and could also correctly [[deduce]] others' histories and how they felt in their environments from sheer observation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') He noticed that [[Orestes Milton]] was a time traveller due to his choice of words, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'') and solved the riddle of the [[Foretold]] within sixty-six seconds. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'')

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The Doctor also had a good sense of smell, which he used to assess his surroundings to [[deduce]] the time period he was in, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Swords of Kali (comic story)|The Swords of Kali]]'') which he could also do by putting his finger in the wind. ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'', ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'') He could detect a [[plasmic discharge field]] on scent alone. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'')

[[File:Doctor playing electric guitar in the TARDIS.jpg|thumb|The Doctor plays [[The Doctor's guitar|his electric guitar]] in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'')]]

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A credited escapologist, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') the Doctor boasted at teaching [[Harry Houdini]] "everything he [knew]", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Swords of Kali (comic story)|The Swords of Kali]]'') and was repeatedly able to escape from his cell at [[the Prison]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') He was also a talented gambler, being able to win $800,000 in less than an hour using "simple mathematics", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Gangland (comic story)|Gangland]]'') and dancer, with Clara noting that he could apply for ''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Trust (comic story)|Trust]]'') His performing abilities extended into acting, notably in how he fooled the [[Monk (species)|Monks]] into believing that he wanted to assist them as a figurehead for their propaganda, even fooling Bill. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')

Similar to his [[ninth incarnation]], the Twelfth Doctor could slow down his perception of time by locking himself in a secure location in his mind, embodied as his [[TARDIS control room]] with his companion present, where he could take the time to re-evaluate the predicament he was in to his companion and find a way out of it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'')

== Appearance ==

[[File:Twelfth Doctor in Black Archive The Zygon Inversion.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor defends peace in the [[Black Archive]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'')]]

The Twelfth Doctor's hair was a silvery shade of grey, kept short and combed down, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') though occasionally styled into a coif. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') However, he later let his hair grow out, and become curlier, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (TV story)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'') but had it cut down by the time he met River on [[Mendorax Dellora]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') After he left Darillium, ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'') his hair had grown back to its old length. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') When his body began to [[Regeneration|regenerate]], his [[regeneration energy]] caused his hair length to grow out immensely. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

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[[Governor (The Blood Cell)|The Governor]] believed the Doctor had "a face for [[fury]]", and that it was "made up of storms" and "[boiled] away like a dying [[star]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') [[Ross McNamara]] compared the Doctor's "craggy" face to "the surface of [[the Moon]]." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Haunted (short story)|Haunted]]'')  

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[[File:The Doctor's New Look.jpg|thumb|The Doctor shows off his new look inside his refurbished TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')]]

Though his Crombie coat remained a constant staple of his appearance, he would wear them in a variety of colours and materials, with colours coming in navy blue, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') black, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Eye of Torment (comic story)|The Eye of Torment]]'') lapis blue, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hyperion Empire (comic story)|The Hyperion Empire]]'') maroon, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Highgate Horror (comic story)|The Highgate Horror]]'') black velvet, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'') and worn-out grey. ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'') To go with his maroon Crombie coat, the Doctor also owned a scarlet waistcoat with matching trousers and shoes. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Highgate Horror (comic story)|The Highgate Horror]]'')  

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==== Other costumes ====

[[File:Orient dress.jpg|left|thumb|The Doctor and Clara dress formally for a journey aboard the ''[[Orient Express (spacecraft)|Orient Express]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'')]]

When going into "deep cover" as [[Coal Hill School]]'s temporary [[caretaker]], the Doctor donned an ocher brown warehouse coat over his black crew neck jumper, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') and was photographed wearing the same coat while brandishing a [[mop]] at some point before [[5 March]] [[2005]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rose (novelisation)|Rose]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==

* Writing in [[DWM 495]], Moffat confirmed that the photo-realistic painting of Clara seen during ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'' was painted by the Doctor himself. Capaldi himself is a trained artist, although his style is more on the caricature side.

* According to the ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2018]]'', which is not accepted as a [[Tardis:Valid sources|valid source for in-universe articles on this wiki]], the Doctor and River had a home on [[Darillium]] during their final night; their address was "Flat 40, Singing Towers View, Darillium".

=== Casting ===

=== Costume influences ===

* Peter Capaldi wanted to wear his wedding ring as part of the Doctor's attire, and requested a prop to disguise it. He was given an amber ring with a gemstone that fitted over the top of his original band. It was revealed in the ''[[Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)|Twice Upon a Time]]'' novelisation that the ring was the Doctor's wedding ring from his marriage to [[River Song]].

* His costume was revealed in [[DWM 470]] and online earlier than planned to preempt a tabloid scoop.{{source}}

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