Second Doctor's change of appearance: Difference between revisions

|first mention    = The War Games (TV story)

|first            = The Night Walkers (comic story)

|appearances      = {{il|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the War Games (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the War Games]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)|Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]''|[[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Devious (home video)|Devious]]''|[[GAME]]: ''[[LEGO Dimensions (video game)|LEGO Dimensions]]''}}

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{{Regenerations of the Doctor}}

Following [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|the Doctor's trial]], the [[Second Doctor]] was sentenced by the [[Time Lord]]s to undergo a '''"[[change of appearance]]"''' into the [[Third Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion]]'', etc.) a process which later sources referred to as a '''[[regeneration]]''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)|Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]'', ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Final Beginning (audio story)|The Final Beginning]]'', etc.) the second of what the [[Eleventh Doctor]] understood to be his original [[life cycle]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')

==Nature==

By early accounts, this event was termed a "[[change of appearance]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion]]'', ''[[Lourdwater Cottage Hospital case summary (short story)|Lourdwater Cottage Hospital case summary]]'', ''[[The Three Doctors (novelisation)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Giant Robot (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Giant Robot]]'')

Later sources clarified this event as a [[regeneration]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)|Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]'', ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Final Beginning (audio story)|The Final Beginning]]'', etc.) This type of regeneration was [[the Disciplinary]], which involved spinning visions of the regenerating Time Lord. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|How to be a Time Lord (novel)}})

== History==

===Sentencing & choice of appearance ===

The Time Lords noted his affinity to [[Earth]] and told him he would be [[Exile on Earth|exiled there]] as well as forced to [[regenerate]]. The Time Lords gave the Doctor several choices for [[Third Doctor|his new body]] but he declined all of them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')

===The change===

====At the courtroom====

In the public account of the trial, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') the Second Doctor, after rejecting the choice of faces offered to him, then lost control of his speech and facial muscles, finding himself babbling and involuntarily gurning. As he fought to regain control of his body, resisting the process, the Doctor found himself in a dark void, orbited by swirling images of his own face. His head then abruptly vanished, leaving him clutching with both hands at the empty space where his face had been, but still able to speak. He exclaimed that he felt "giddy", and told the Time Lords they "[could]n't do this to [him]" Finally, the headless Doctor was sent twirling into nothingness. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') This was, by some accounts, the Doctor's regeneration, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') a typical example of [[the Disciplinary]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[How to be a Time Lord (novel)|How to be a Time Lord]]'')

By one account, the Doctor's life passed before his eyes as he regenerated, thinking of all his past companions from his incarnation's lifetime. Just before the Doctor's regeneration ended, his "mind was opened, and his entire past and future shone, cruel and clear, before him" and, realising what he had done on the [[Panjistri]] homeworld, he sent a telepathic warning to the [[Seventh Doctor]] about the [[Timewyrm]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)|Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]'')

====On Earth====

By one sequence of accounts, the [[Second Doctor's exile on Earth|Second Doctor was exiled to Earth]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Action in Exile (comic story)|Action in Exile]]'', etc.) but managed to escape the Time Lords before they could carry out the second half of their sentence. He managed to live for some time on Earth, but was eventually attracted to a mystery involving [[animated scarecrow (The Night Walkers)|animated scarecrow]]s

The scarecrows dragged him to his waiting TARDIS, where they forced him to [[regenerate]]. During the process, the scarecrows programmed the TARDIS for a final flight. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'')

===Recovery===

The TARDIS travelled to an [[English]] field, where it was found, along with the [[Third Doctor|newly regenerated Doctor]], by [[UNIT]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'')

==Legacy==

Seeking to enlist the Second Doctor to assist the [[Third Doctor]] in the [[First Omega Crisis]], the [[President (The Three Doctors)|Lord President]] instructed a [[Time Lord (The Three Doctors)|Junior Time Lord]] to access the section of [[the Doctor's time stream]] "for his earlier self before he changed his appearance". Upon coming face to face with the Second Doctor again, [[the Brigadier]] initially believed that the Third Doctor had [[retro-regeneration|changed back to his earlier appearance]] before learning that this Doctor was from the [[past]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'')

== Other realities==

 

 

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