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The term '''incarnation''' or '''regenerative state''' ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]'') was sometimes applied to the bodies/selves/lives of a [[Time Lord]]. While it was sometimes used interchangeably with "[[regeneration]]", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'', ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'') incarnations were actually the result of this process, with Time Lords regenerating from one incarnation to another. | |||
== Use of the term == | |||
{{first pic|Day of the Doctor end scene.jpg|Twelve of the Doctors who saved [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')}} | |||
Looking back on their previous lives, the Doctor occasionally used the word incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'', ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'', ''[[Dead London (audio story)|Dead London]]'', ''[[Scaredy Cat (audio story)|Scaredy Cat]]'') He also used it in reference to [[the Master]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') and others used it to talk about the Doctor's regenerations, as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'') | |||
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] thought he had never used the word incarnation in that capacity but was proven wrong by [[Ally (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|Ally]], a girl from a [[Parallel universe (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|parallel universe]] where the Doctor's adventures were instead [[Meta-fiction universe|a work of fiction]] who played a clip from ''[[Doctor Who (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|Doctor Who]]'' of the [[Sixth Doctor]] discussing his "last incarnation" in ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]''. He conceded but claimed that the word was hardly ever used. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)|The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who]]'') | |||
With the term being sometimes interchanged with the term regeneration, a Time Lord stating they were in their second regeneration would be synonymous in saying they were in their third incarnation, as the [[Third Doctor]] identified himself to his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Five Doctors (TV story)}}) Likewise, for a Time Lord to be nearing the end of their twelfth regeneration would equal their thirteenth and, generally, final life. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)}}) | |||
== | When referring to past incarnations, faces or lives, the Doctor would use "mes", plural of "me". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'') Time Lords might also use the term "bodies" or "body" when referring, generally, to either their own or other Time Lords' different incarnations. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'') On multiple occasions, the Doctor used the word "persona". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'', ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'') On one occasion, the [[Sixth Doctor]] used the word "[[iteration]]", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'') which he also used when he met a future Sixth Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrong Doctors (audio story)|The Wrong Doctors]]'') Both [[Tegan Jovanka]] and [[Clara Oswald]] once used the term "[[version]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time Trick (comic story)|Time Trick]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Time of the Doctor (TV story)}}) [[Clara Oswald]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Name of the Doctor (TV story)}}) and [[Bill Potts]] all used the term "[[face]]" as shorthand for preceding incarnations of the Doctor. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Twice Upon a Time (TV story)}}) | ||
Though the [[Twelfth Doctor]] was by ''some'' counts his "twelfth incarnation", according to [[Missy]], scholars have repeatedly gone to [[war]] over this numbering, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chaos Cascade (audio story)|The Chaos Cascade]]'') owing to the legitimacy of the [[War Doctor]] and the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s claim to have used up two incarnations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') | |||
Nonetheless, the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] thought of herself as "thirteenth in [her] line". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Secret in Vault 13 (novel)}}) | |||
== Limit == | |||
Barring special circumstances, a Time Lord could only have thirteen incarnations, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') before their [[Symbiotic nucleus|symbiotic nuclei]] started to break down. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trial of the Valeyard (audio story)|Trial of the Valeyard]]'') Some, like [[the Master]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') and [[the Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') have been given new [[regeneration cycle]]s, bypassing this limit. [[Rassilon (Hell Bent)|Rassilon]] was unsure how many regenerations the Doctor had been granted ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') as were [[Missy]] and {{Simm|n=the "Saxon" Master}}. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') The [[Twelfth Doctor]] conjectured he might be able to regenerate infinitely. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') | |||
The [[Timeless Child]], as the apparent source of regeneration, appeared to have been free from this regeneration limit, able to cycle between incarnations indefinitely when experimented on by the [[First Tecteun]], with {{Dhawan}} explaining the limit of twelve regenerations having been implemented by the [[Second Tecteun]] upon gene-splicing the power to create the Time Lord race. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] asked [[Awsok Tecteun|a later incarnation of Tecteun]] if "dozens", "hundreds", or even "thousands" of lives were being hidden from her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survivors of the Flux (TV story)|Survivors of the Flux]]'') However, another account claimed that Tecteun discovered the ability to regenerate with an inherent thirteen-incarnation limit. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret of the Timeless Child (short story)|The Secret of the Timeless Child]]'') | |||
[[Proto-Time Lord]]s created by the [[Kovarian Chapter]] had varying numbers of incarnations. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lady in the Lake (audio story)|The Lady in the Lake]]'') | |||
== Lifespan == | |||
Each incarnation was capable of lasting a few thousand years before wearing out and needing to regenerate, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') with the Time Lord [[Handrel]] specifying that a single incarnation could live for around [[10000 (number)|ten thousand]] [[year|years]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Lord's Story (short story)|The Time Lord's Story]]'') | |||
== Retro-regeneration == | |||
{{main|Retro-regeneration}} | |||
Retro-regeneration was the process of regenerations being forced in reverse, causing the [[Time Lord]] in question to revert to previous incarnations, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fountains of Forever (comic story)|The Fountains of Forever]]'') though it was not known to be permanent in any cases. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Timeslip (comic story)|Timeslip]]'', ''[[The Fountains of Forever (comic story)|The Fountains of Forever]]'', ''[[Outrun (comic story)|Outrun]]'') | |||
== Time Lords by incarnation == | |||
=== The Doctor === | |||
Calculating the number of [[the Doctor]]'s incarnations was complicated, as they rarely referred to themselves by number. Though the [[Seventh Doctor]] identified himself as "number seven”, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Defectors (audio story)|The Defectors]]'') the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s [[War Doctor|immediate successor]] did not use the title of ''[[The Doctor (title)|Doctor]]'' until the end of his life, leading to ambiguity from this point forward. Because of his actions during the Time War, his future selves completely denied his existence. In the presence of matrix projections of his past incarnations, including the War Doctor, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] still referred to the [[Tenth Doctor]] as his "tenth incarnation". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dead Man's Hand (comic story)|Dead Man's Hand]]'') The so-called Tenth Doctor also once [[regenerated]] and kept his [[face]], resulting in a distinct [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor|meta-crisis incarnation]]. Due to his war and meta-crisis incarnations, the Eleventh Doctor had expended all of his lives before being enabled to regenerate again by the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') The Doctor had regenerated a total of fifteen times. In total, including the Meta-Crisis Doctor, the Doctor had sixteen incarnations. The Thirteenth Doctor acknowledged upon regenerating that she might be referred to as "the Thirteenth Doctor", even if the title was not entirely accurate. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Many Lives of Doctor Who (comic story)|The Many Lives of Doctor Who]]'') | |||
Beyond this, a [[the Curator|further incarnation]] was yet to come. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Then and the Now (comic story)|The Then and the Now]]'') Some accounts suggested that the Doctor had more incarnations from before they became the [[First Doctor]], as well, adding to the count. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'', ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'', ''[[Survivors of the Flux (TV story)|Survivors of the Flux]]'') | |||
The [[Fourteenth Doctor's bi-generation]] resulted in two separate incarnations of the Doctor existing at the same time: the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] and the [[Fifteenth Doctor]]. While the Fifteenth Doctor continued the Doctor's adventures through time and space, the Fourteenth Doctor was able to retire on Earth. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) | |||
=== The Master === | |||
Having expended his original twelve regenerations, the Master sought other means to extend his life, by either gaining more regenerations ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') or possessing other bodies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' et al) Ultimately, the Master was able to regenerate again after he was [[Resurrection|resurrected]] by the Time Lords ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') as part of a complex deal made with one of his future selves during the Time War. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Day of the Master (audio story)|Day of the Master]]'') In her [[Spacebook]] profile, [[Missy]] identified herself as the nineteenth true incarnation of the Master. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') It was in this incarnation that she was apparently killed by her predecessor, denying her the opportunity to regenerate. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') However, she managed to survive the attack and changed into her [[The Lumiat|next incarnation]] by creating an [[Elysian field]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lumiat (audio story)|The Lumiat]]'') | |||
=== Others === | |||
[[Drax]] was known to have had the standard thirteen incarnations. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trouble with Drax (audio story)|The Trouble with Drax]]'') | |||
In his thirteenth and final incarnation, [[Azmael]] deliberately regenerated past his limit, killing him and [[Mestor]], who had been attempting to possess Azmael's body after his own was destroyed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') | |||
As her alias suggested, [[the Twelve]] was the twelfth incarnation of a [[Renegade Time Lord]] who suffered from [[regenerative dissonance]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet of the Ogrons (audio story)|Planet of the Ogrons]]'') Other than her, the [[Time Lord (World of Damnation)|Time Lord]] who lasted the longest with this condition shot out both his [[heart]]s with a [[staser]] in his eighth incarnation. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[World of Damnation (audio story)|World of Damnation]]'') | |||
[[The General]] was known to have had twelve incarnations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') | |||
== Contact between incarnations == | |||
{{main|Temporal meta-collision}} | |||
Contact between separate incarnations of the same [[Time Lord]] constituted a violation of the [[First Law of Time]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | |||
* The behind the scenes book ''[[A Celebration: Two Decades Through Time and Space]]'' (1983) had a feature entitled ''The Two Regenerations of the Master'', also referring to ''The Two Faces of the Master'', namely the {{Delgado|n=Delgado Master}} and the {{Ainley|n=Ainley Master}}. From a production standpoint, Delgado was identified as the "first Master", whilst Ainley was designated as both the "second incarnation" and the "second regeneration" of the Master, though the feature does also acknowledge the interim "twelfth and final regeneration" portrayed by [[Peter Pratt]] and [[Geoffrey Beevers]]. | |||
* The 2010 edition of ''[[The Visual Dictionary]]'' suggests that the then incumbent {{Simm|n=Simm Master}} is the seventeenth incarnation by stating that the Master has inhabited "at least [[17 (number)|17]] bodies" whilst acknowledging that he had stolen the [[body|bodies]] of [[Tremas]] and [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|Bruce]] after having used up his regenerations, which are curiously numbered at [[13 (number)|13]] rather than the commonly accepted [[12 (number)|12]]. | |||
* In the [[Cinema Introduction (The Day of the Doctor)|cinema introduction]] to ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', the [[Eleventh Doctor]] claimed that "[[The Doctor|all 57 Doctors]]" would appear in the 100th anniversary special of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in [[2063]]. | |||
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[[Category:Regeneration]] | [[Category:Regeneration]] | ||
[[Category:Jargon, slang and colloquialisms]] | [[Category:Jargon, slang and colloquialisms]] | ||
[[Category:Personal development]] | [[Category:Personal development]] | ||
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The term incarnation or regenerative state (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell) was sometimes applied to the bodies/selves/lives of a Time Lord. While it was sometimes used interchangeably with "regeneration", (TV: The Keeper of Traken, Extremis) incarnations were actually the result of this process, with Time Lords regenerating from one incarnation to another.
Use of the term[[edit] | [edit source]]
Looking back on their previous lives, the Doctor occasionally used the word incarnation. (TV: The Twin Dilemma, AUDIO: The Light at the End, The Chimes of Midnight, Dead London, Scaredy Cat) He also used it in reference to the Master, (TV: Doctor Who) and others used it to talk about the Doctor's regenerations, as well. (TV: The Ultimate Foe)
The Eleventh Doctor thought he had never used the word incarnation in that capacity but was proven wrong by Ally, a girl from a parallel universe where the Doctor's adventures were instead a work of fiction who played a clip from Doctor Who of the Sixth Doctor discussing his "last incarnation" in The Twin Dilemma. He conceded but claimed that the word was hardly ever used. (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)
With the term being sometimes interchanged with the term regeneration, a Time Lord stating they were in their second regeneration would be synonymous in saying they were in their third incarnation, as the Third Doctor identified himself to his first incarnation. (PROSE: The Five Doctors [+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (TV story)"]) Likewise, for a Time Lord to be nearing the end of their twelfth regeneration would equal their thirteenth and, generally, final life. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)"])
When referring to past incarnations, faces or lives, the Doctor would use "mes", plural of "me". (COMIC: Four Doctors) Time Lords might also use the term "bodies" or "body" when referring, generally, to either their own or other Time Lords' different incarnations. (COMIC: Doorway to Hell) On multiple occasions, the Doctor used the word "persona". (TV: The Twin Dilemma, Time and the Rani) On one occasion, the Sixth Doctor used the word "iteration", (AUDIO: The Light at the End) which he also used when he met a future Sixth Doctor. (AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors) Both Tegan Jovanka and Clara Oswald once used the term "version". (TV: The Five Doctors, COMIC: Time Trick) The Eleventh Doctor, (TV: The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"]) Clara Oswald, (TV: The Name of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"]) and Bill Potts all used the term "face" as shorthand for preceding incarnations of the Doctor. (TV: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])
Though the Twelfth Doctor was by some counts his "twelfth incarnation", according to Missy, scholars have repeatedly gone to war over this numbering, (AUDIO: The Chaos Cascade) owing to the legitimacy of the War Doctor and the Tenth Doctor's claim to have used up two incarnations. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
Nonetheless, the Thirteenth Doctor thought of herself as "thirteenth in [her] line". (PROSE: The Secret in Vault 13 [+]Loading...["The Secret in Vault 13 (novel)"])
Limit[[edit] | [edit source]]
Barring special circumstances, a Time Lord could only have thirteen incarnations, (TV: The Deadly Assassin) before their symbiotic nuclei started to break down. (AUDIO: Trial of the Valeyard) Some, like the Master (TV: Utopia, AUDIO: Eyes of the Master) and the Doctor, (TV: The Time of the Doctor) have been given new regeneration cycles, bypassing this limit. Rassilon was unsure how many regenerations the Doctor had been granted (TV: Hell Bent) as were Missy and the "Saxon" Master. (TV: The Doctor Falls) The Twelfth Doctor conjectured he might be able to regenerate infinitely. (TV: Kill the Moon)
The Timeless Child, as the apparent source of regeneration, appeared to have been free from this regeneration limit, able to cycle between incarnations indefinitely when experimented on by the First Tecteun, with the Spy Master explaining the limit of twelve regenerations having been implemented by the Second Tecteun upon gene-splicing the power to create the Time Lord race. (TV: The Timeless Children) The Thirteenth Doctor asked a later incarnation of Tecteun if "dozens", "hundreds", or even "thousands" of lives were being hidden from her. (TV: Survivors of the Flux) However, another account claimed that Tecteun discovered the ability to regenerate with an inherent thirteen-incarnation limit. (PROSE: The Secret of the Timeless Child)
Proto-Time Lords created by the Kovarian Chapter had varying numbers of incarnations. (AUDIO: The Lady in the Lake)
Lifespan[[edit] | [edit source]]
Each incarnation was capable of lasting a few thousand years before wearing out and needing to regenerate, (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) with the Time Lord Handrel specifying that a single incarnation could live for around ten thousand years. (PROSE: The Time Lord's Story)
Retro-regeneration[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Retro-regeneration
Retro-regeneration was the process of regenerations being forced in reverse, causing the Time Lord in question to revert to previous incarnations, (COMIC: The Fountains of Forever) though it was not known to be permanent in any cases. (COMIC: Timeslip, The Fountains of Forever, Outrun)
Time Lords by incarnation[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]
Calculating the number of the Doctor's incarnations was complicated, as they rarely referred to themselves by number. Though the Seventh Doctor identified himself as "number seven”, (AUDIO: The Defectors) the Eighth Doctor's immediate successor did not use the title of Doctor until the end of his life, leading to ambiguity from this point forward. Because of his actions during the Time War, his future selves completely denied his existence. In the presence of matrix projections of his past incarnations, including the War Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor still referred to the Tenth Doctor as his "tenth incarnation". (COMIC: Dead Man's Hand) The so-called Tenth Doctor also once regenerated and kept his face, resulting in a distinct meta-crisis incarnation. Due to his war and meta-crisis incarnations, the Eleventh Doctor had expended all of his lives before being enabled to regenerate again by the Time Lords. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) The Doctor had regenerated a total of fifteen times. In total, including the Meta-Crisis Doctor, the Doctor had sixteen incarnations. The Thirteenth Doctor acknowledged upon regenerating that she might be referred to as "the Thirteenth Doctor", even if the title was not entirely accurate. (COMIC: The Many Lives of Doctor Who)
Beyond this, a further incarnation was yet to come. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, COMIC: The Then and the Now) Some accounts suggested that the Doctor had more incarnations from before they became the First Doctor, as well, adding to the count. (TV: The Brain of Morbius, The Timeless Children, Survivors of the Flux)
The Fourteenth Doctor's bi-generation resulted in two separate incarnations of the Doctor existing at the same time: the Fourteenth Doctor and the Fifteenth Doctor. While the Fifteenth Doctor continued the Doctor's adventures through time and space, the Fourteenth Doctor was able to retire on Earth. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])
The Master[[edit] | [edit source]]
Having expended his original twelve regenerations, the Master sought other means to extend his life, by either gaining more regenerations (TV: The Deadly Assassin, The Five Doctors, Doctor Who) or possessing other bodies. (TV: The Keeper of Traken, Doctor Who et al) Ultimately, the Master was able to regenerate again after he was resurrected by the Time Lords (TV: Utopia, The Sound of Drums) as part of a complex deal made with one of his future selves during the Time War. (AUDIO: Day of the Master) In her Spacebook profile, Missy identified herself as the nineteenth true incarnation of the Master. (PROSE: Girl Power!) It was in this incarnation that she was apparently killed by her predecessor, denying her the opportunity to regenerate. (TV: The Doctor Falls) However, she managed to survive the attack and changed into her next incarnation by creating an Elysian field. (AUDIO: The Lumiat)
Others[[edit] | [edit source]]
Drax was known to have had the standard thirteen incarnations. (AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax)
In his thirteenth and final incarnation, Azmael deliberately regenerated past his limit, killing him and Mestor, who had been attempting to possess Azmael's body after his own was destroyed. (TV: The Twin Dilemma)
As her alias suggested, the Twelve was the twelfth incarnation of a Renegade Time Lord who suffered from regenerative dissonance. (AUDIO: Planet of the Ogrons) Other than her, the Time Lord who lasted the longest with this condition shot out both his hearts with a staser in his eighth incarnation. (AUDIO: World of Damnation)
The General was known to have had twelve incarnations. (TV: Hell Bent)
Contact between incarnations[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Temporal meta-collision
Contact between separate incarnations of the same Time Lord constituted a violation of the First Law of Time. (TV: The Three Doctors)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The behind the scenes book A Celebration: Two Decades Through Time and Space (1983) had a feature entitled The Two Regenerations of the Master, also referring to The Two Faces of the Master, namely the Delgado Master and the Ainley Master. From a production standpoint, Delgado was identified as the "first Master", whilst Ainley was designated as both the "second incarnation" and the "second regeneration" of the Master, though the feature does also acknowledge the interim "twelfth and final regeneration" portrayed by Peter Pratt and Geoffrey Beevers.
- The 2010 edition of The Visual Dictionary suggests that the then incumbent Simm Master is the seventeenth incarnation by stating that the Master has inhabited "at least 17 bodies" whilst acknowledging that he had stolen the bodies of Tremas and Bruce after having used up his regenerations, which are curiously numbered at 13 rather than the commonly accepted 12.
- In the cinema introduction to The Day of the Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor claimed that "all 57 Doctors" would appear in the 100th anniversary special of Doctor Who in 2063.
