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The '''Meta-Crisis Doctor''' was a [[human]]-[[Time Lord]] hybrid of the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble]] who was created by an instantaneous biological [[Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis|metacrisis]] and was the final result of the Tenth Doctor's aborted [[regeneration]]. Unlike the original Doctor, this one possessed only one [[heart]], aged as humans would, and had no [[Regeneration|regenerative]] ability.
 
However, he was born in a separate body from the original Doctor, existing as a separate person with [[DNA]] sampled from Donna. After destroying the [[Dalek]]s, he was "banished" to [[Pete's World]] to live out his life with [[Rose Tyler]].
 
== Name ==
This Doctor's name was different between accounts.
 
According to some, he was merely '''[[the Doctor]]'''. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)}}, {{cs|Flight Into Hull! (audio story)}})
 
According to others, he was known as the '''Meta-Crisis Doctor'''. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth/Journey's End (game)|page=219-226}}) In [[Clara Oswald]]'s [[Guide (The Companion's Companion)|guide]] for future [[companion]]s, this Doctor was named the '''Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Companion's Companion (novel)|namedpart=Not the Doctor!|page=78}})
 
According to another account, he later went by the name '''Corin'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Turning of the Tide (short story)}})
 
According to different account, he went by the name '''[[Aliases of the Doctor#John Smith|John Smith]]''', ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Empire of the Wolf (comic story)}})
 
In other accounts, he was known as the '''Duplicate Doctor'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=144-145}}, {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)|ed=2011 reprint|page=101}},  {{cs|The Children of Time... Where Are They Now? (feature)|page=9}}, {{cs|The Duplicate Doctor and Rose (feature)|anthology=The Doctor's Data (series)|series=[[DWA 72]]|page=27}}, {{cs|The Children of Time (feature)|anthology=Fact Files|series=[[DWA 74]]|page=4}}, {{cs|The Doctor's Companions! (DWA 275 feature)|''The Doctor's Companions!'' 275|page=20}}, {{cs|Doctors Doubles (feature)|page=7}}) Some accounts referred to him as "a duplicate Doctor." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Companions and Allies (reference book)|namedpart=The Children of Time|page=92}}, {{cs|Know Your Companions (feature)|page=8}})
 
== Biography ==
=== A day to come ===
<!-- While this section is usually for the hints and teases the Doctor finds out about his future regenerations, the Meta-Crisis Doctor, due to the nature of his existence, is the exception to the rule, as he is not officially part of the linage. Instead, only references to being one of the Doctor's original regenerations can and will be documented here.-->
Shortly before his regeneration, the [[First Doctor]] was told of "a few false starts" before he became the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Twice Upon a Time (TV story)}})
 
=== Origin ===
On [[25 December|Christmas]] [[2006]], the newly regenerated [[Tenth Doctor]] lost his [[The Doctor's hand|hand]] in a sword fight against the [[Sycorax]] leader. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}}) [[Jack Harkness]] later retrieved the hand and returned it to the Doctor in a jar in the year [[100,000,000,000,000|100 trillion]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Utopia (TV story)}}) The Doctor's hand remained in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] until the Doctor was grazed by the blast from a [[Dalek]] [[gunstick]], triggering the Time Lord's eleventh regeneration. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}) After healing the damage to his body with the regeneration energy, the Doctor channelled the excess energy into his hand, a bio-matching receptacle, allowing him to heal but keep his appearance and personality. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) However, the Doctor used up the same amount of regenerative energy as a full regeneration. This, as the [[Eleventh Doctor]] later told [[Clara Oswald]], meant that his previous incarnation used up two regenerations due to "vanity issues." ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Time of the Doctor (TV story)}})
 
Shortly after this aborted [[regeneration]], the [[Dalek]]s attempted to destroy [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. Still inside the TARDIS during this apparent destruction, [[Donna Noble]] touched the energised [[The Doctor's hand|hand]]'s container. The regenerative energies present within the hand combined with Donna's human [[DNA]], causing an instantaneous biological [[Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis|metacrisis]]. The force of the reaction shattered the container, allowing the energy to regenerate the entire missing body of the Doctor. In this process, the "metacrisis Tenth Doctor" was created. He immediately dematerialised the TARDIS, saving it and Donna.
 
After putting on a blue [[suit]], the Doctor and [[Donna Noble|Donna]] left the TARDIS and tried to attack Davros and the Daleks with his [[Z-Neutrino Biological Inversion Catalyser|new weapon]]. Both were given an electric shock by Davros. After the now-part-Time Lord Donna defeated the Daleks, she, the metacrisis Doctor and the original Doctor teamed up to return all but one of the planets to their rightful places. The metacrisis Doctor was then prompted by [[Dalek Caan]] to fulfil a prophecy by destroying the Daleks. He chose to do so and ignored pleas from both [[Davros]] and Donna. He proceeded to overload the [[Dalekanium power feed]]s, causing virtually the entire [[New Dalek Empire]] to explode, from individual Daleks to the [[Crucible]] itself. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})
 
=== Exile in Pete's world ===
[[File:RoseandMetaTen1.jpg|left|thumb|Rose Tyler and the half-human Tenth Doctor ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})]]
Feeling his new, part-human counterpart was too dangerous to be left to his own devices, the Doctor entrusted him to [[Rose Tyler]], taking the two of them back to [[Bad Wolf Bay]] in [[Pete's World]]. The Doctor told Rose that his part-human self-needed her, that he was angry and vengeful as he himself had been when he first met Rose. He told her she had made him better, and now she had to do the same for his other, part-human self. Rose objected to this at first, insisting that the new Doctor was not really him, despite the Doctor's assurance that they were the same man and the part-human Doctor offering to spend the rest of his life with her. Rose asked both Doctors what the last thing they had said to her was when they were originally standing on Bad Wolf Bay. The Doctor was unable to give her a direct answer: "Does it need saying?" She posed the same question to the part-human Doctor, who whispered it in her ear.
 
Seemingly overcome with the revelation of his answer, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) and a desire to test to see if he was a good as "the real thing", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Duplicate Doctor and Rose (feature)|anthology=The Doctor's Data (series)|series=[[DWA 72]]|page=27}}) Rose grabbed the lapels of the part-human Doctor and pulled him into a kiss, which he reciprocated. The Doctor looked on sadly yet stoically for a moment before returning with Donna to the TARDIS and leaving the parallel world. As the doors of the TARDIS slammed shut, Rose and the part-human Doctor broke from their kiss. The part-human Doctor took Rose's hand and watched the TARDIS dematerialise. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})
 
==== Settling down with Rose ====
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[[File:The Turning of the Tide (short story).jpg|thumb|right|Rose and Corin ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turning of the Tide (short story)|The Turning of the Tide]]'')]]
While he would continue to be addressed as "the Doctor" by others, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)|The Siege of Big Ben]]'', ''[[Flight Into Hull! (audio story)|Flight Into Hull!]]'') some accounts said that the Doctor decided that he would personally go by a different name, by which Rose would also refer to him. By one account, he chose the name "Corin", a name that Rose considered to be "solid and true". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turning of the Tide (short story)|The Turning of the Tide]]'') Another account posited that he chose his [[Aliases of the Doctor|old alias]] of "John Smith". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Empire of the Wolf (comic story)|Empire of the Wolf]]'') Both accounts agreed they eventually had a child, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turning of the Tide (short story)|The Turning of the Tide]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Empire of the Wolf (comic story)|Empire of the Wolf]]'') a [[girl]] they named [[Mia (Empire of the Wolf)|Mia]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Empire of the Wolf (comic story)|Empire of the Wolf]]'')


==== Working with UNIT ====
The Doctor, [[Jackie Tyler]], [[Peter Tyler (Pete's World)|Peter Tyler]], and Rose later joined the newly established [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce (Pete's World)|UNIT]], created when [[the Preachers]] were combined with [[Torchwood (Pete's World)|Torchwood]] by President [[Harriet Jones (Pete's World)|Harriet Jones]]. The Doctor was given a lab at the top of UNIT's base at [[Big Ben]], where he attempted to build a [[TARDIS]]. At one point [[Brigadier]] [[Krista Lateef]] attempted to force him to use his time machine to change her personal [[history]], but the Doctor and Jackie were able to affirm that the machine wasn't ready yet, even if the rules of time travel didn't forbid such an act. The Doctor subsequently reported Krista's actions, much to Jackie's anger as she'd agreed to forgive Krista for the deception. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)|The Siege of Big Ben]]'')


In an attempt to get the Doctor and Jackie to talk to each other after their disagreement, Rose and Pete tricked the Doctor into getting on a [[zeppelin]] with Jackie headed for [[Hull (Pete's World)|Hull]]. During the flight, an alternate Jackie from a different universe appeared and threatened to shoot Jackie and take her place in Pete's World. The Doctor shot the zeppelin's flight controls, forcing the alternate Jackie to go back to her own universe to save her own life. The Doctor and Jackie then leapt from the zeppelin and into the water moments before the zeppelin crashed into the [[Humber Bridge]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flight Into Hull! (audio story)|Flight Into Hull!]]'')


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During Mia's teenage years, Rose began experiencing visions of another life before one day vanishing. After nearly three hours of the Doctor trying to figure out what had happened, Rose suddenly returned and began telling her husband about the adventure she'd just had. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Empire of the Wolf (comic story)|Empire of the Wolf]]'')
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The '''Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor''' was created as a result of an instantaneous biological [[Time Lord#Meta-Crisis|Meta Crisis]]. Regenerative energies present within [[The Doctor's hand|The Doctor's severed hand]] combined with the Human [[DNA]] of [[Donna Noble]] when she touched the hand's casing. The force of the reaction shattered the case allowing the energy to regenerate the entire missing body of the Doctor creating a [[Time Lord]]/Human hybrid, a hybrid that possessed one heart, aged as Humans do and with no [[Regeneration|regenerative]] ability to avoid death.


== Personality ==
As a result of growing partially from [[Donna Noble|Donna's]] [[DNA]], the Meta-Crisis Doctor inherited some of Donna's mannerisms. He claimed he had the same [[memory|memories]], thoughts and [[feeling]]s of the original Doctor up to the point of his aborted regeneration, making them essentially the same man with physiological differences. However, the original Doctor was quick to point out that his new double was "born in [[battle]], full of blood, [[anger]] and revenge". In this way, the Tenth Doctor described his duplicate as representing the way he had been during his [[Ninth Doctor|former incarnation]] before meeting [[Rose Tyler|Rose]]. This motivated the Meta-Crisis Doctor to commit attempted genocide against the Daleks, an act the original Doctor condemned after the events of the [[Last Great Time War]]. Regardless of their differences, he still firmly declared he was the Doctor, seeing he had a right to the title even if Donna Noble wasn't so certain. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})


Much like the incarnation he was born from, the Doctor seemed to have a fondness for a certain word, as he used the uncommon adjective "[[Wizard]]" to describe something abnormal multiple times. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)|The Siege of Big Ben]]'')


[[Jackie Tyler]] thought that he was "a lot less rational" than the original Doctor as he often rushed into things without thinking it through. She also felt that he was less willing to forgive than the original Doctor; when [[Krista Lateef]] attempted to force him to use a time machine to save her daughter, the Doctor allowed her to get arrested after she was talked down where Jackie felt that the true Doctor would have let her off as having just made a mistake. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)|The Siege of Big Ben]]'')


He often got headaches, as sometimes all he could think about was fire and war. When his zeppelin was crashing, the Doctor cried, telling Jackie Tyler that he loved Rose unconditionally. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flight Into Hull! (audio story)|Flight Into Hull!]]'')


==Profile==
Though the Doctor had all the knowledge of his progenitor, he found it difficult to properly express Time Lord knowledge via a human brain. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Empire of the Wolf (comic story)|Empire of the Wolf]]'')


As a result of growing partially from Donna's DNA the new Doctor inherited  parts of Donna's mannerisms but maintained that he possessed the same memories, thoughts and feelings of the original Doctor up to the point of his aborted regeneration, making them essentially the same man with physiological differences. However, the original Doctor was quick to point out his new double was born in battle, full of blood, anger and revenge which enabled him to commit genocide against the Daleks; an act the original Doctor greatly condemns after the events of the [[Last Great Time War]]. Feeling his new half-Human counterpart was too dangerous to be left to his own devices, the Doctor entrusts him to [[Rose Tyler]] taking the two of them back to [[Bad Wolf Bay]] in the parallel universe dubbed [[Pete's World]].  
== Behind the scenes ==
* In the ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' episode ''[[End of an Era (CON episode)|End of an Era]]'', executive producer [[Julie Gardner]] confirmed that the intention was that the new Doctor did indeed say "I love you" when he whispered in Rose's ear.
* On screen, this character was only ever referred to as the Doctor. To avoid confusion, fans used varying terms to address him but only "Meta-Crisis Doctor" received any official recognition from show runners. In the shooting script for the episode, he is simply named as "THE DOCTOR #2". David Tennant in ''Doctor Who Confidential'' acknowledged that the name of this particular incarnation of the character was expected to be a topic of much debate as time went on.
** As recently as 28 March 2018, official social media accounts for ''Doctor Who'' have referred to this incarnation by the fandom name "Tentoo".<ref>Doctor Who Tumblr - [http://doctorwho.tumblr.com/post/172349657071/16-faces-one-doctor-our-march-madness-bracket-is 16 faces, one Doctor. Our March Madness bracket is here!] - 28 March 2018 </ref>
** Since 17 April 2014, the video game ''[[Legacy (video game)|Legacy]]'' uses "Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor".
** In the ''[[The Target Storybook (anthology)|Target Storybook]]'' short story ''[[Citation Needed (short story)|Citation Needed]]'', the ''[[Encyclopedia Gallifreya]]'', a sentient [[encyclopaedia]] aboard [[the TARDIS]] who chronicles [[the Doctor]]'s travels, has an entry about this incarnation's impact on [[the Doctor's time stream|the Doctor's timeline]] marked "Metacrisis, numerical confusion of", which it references each time it makes a statement about numbered [[incarnation]]s.
** Another ''Target Storybook'' short story, ''[[The Turning of the Tide (short story)|The Turning of the Tide]]'', also posited that the new Doctor chose, shortly after the events of {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}, to go by the name Corin.
** Promoting the 60th anniversary celebrations, official [[Titan Merchandise|Titan]] merchandise from the "[[Diamond Collection]]", sold through Urban Planet, also prominently called him "The Meta-Crisis Doctor" (as seen on a large print [[t-shirt]]).
* A number of fans have speculated whether Corin would eventually become [[the Valeyard]], which was referenced in the comic story ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'', in which [[Es'Cartrss]] took the form of a bearded Tenth Doctor claiming to be both Corin and the Valeyard, though the Tenth Doctor himself found the idea unbelievable.
* The concept that a Doctor would grow from the Doctor's severed hand who would end up with Rose was planned since {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}}. [[Russell T Davies]] states on the commentary track for ''Journey's End'' that he had the idea in mind that just prior to the Tenth Doctor's regeneration, a scene would depict him growing a clone of himself from his severed hand, and sending him off to live his life with Rose. The concept was ultimately brought forward, and was developed into its own entire story arc, due to the "timing being perfect".
* For years it was unknown if the aborted regeneration that resulted in the Meta-Crisis Doctor's existence had actually used up one of the Doctor's regenerations, considering the Tenth Doctor's appearance hadn't changed following him syphoning the regeneration energy that would have changed his appearance into the spare hand that would create the Meta-Crisis Doctor, while using the healing portion of the regeneration to fix the damage done by the Dalek blast. It wasn't until {{cs|The Time of the Doctor (TV story)}} five years later that the [[Eleventh Doctor]] revealed that the aborted regeneration that created the Meta-Crisis Doctor did use up a regeneration. Therefore, the creation of the Meta-Crisis Doctor had used up the Doctor's penultimate regeneration in his [[First Doctor's regeneration cycle|first regeneration cycle]].


The Doctor told Rose that his half-Human self needed her, as he was angry and vengeful like he himself once was when he met Rose as the [[Ninth Doctor]]. He told her that she made him better, and now she had to do the same for his other half-Human self. Rose first objected to this at first, insisting that the new Doctor was not really him, despite the Doctor's assurance that they are the same man, and the half-Human Doctor offering to spend the rest of his life with her. Rose then asked both Doctors what the last thing they said to her was when they were originally standing on Bad Wolf Bay ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]''). The Doctor was unable to give her a direct answer, only allowing himself to hint: "Does it really need saying?" At this point she turns to the half-Human Doctor and poses the same question, to which he steps forward and whispers the answer his other self could not say in her ear.
=== A "Pete's World" TARDIS ===
In the original script, the Doctor was meant to give [[TARDIS coral]] to the Meta-Crisis Doctor, on the assumption that a whole new TARDIS could be grown from it, but this was cut. Nevertheless, the idea has popped up in several places:


Seemingly overcome with the revelation of his answer, Rose grabbed the lapels of the half-Human Doctor and pulled him into a passionate kiss, which he reciprocated. The Doctor looked on sadly, yet stoically, for a brief moment before returning with Donna to the [[TARDIS]] and leaving the parallel world. As the doors of the TARDIS slam shut, Rose and the half-Human Doctor broke from their kiss. The half-Human Doctor took Rose's hand and watched the TARDIS dematerialise.([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
* "The Doctor's Data" section of a ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' magazine.{{which}}
* The Fact File for the episode on the official [[Doctor Who website|''Doctor Who'' website]], which stated that it was in the original script but later removed.
* Inside the magazine{{which}}, there is an excerpt of the script with a statement that this part of the scene made it all the way to the final cut, but that the [[producer]]s decided that it just complicated the tone of the scene too much. However, the scene was filmed, and it was included in the [[series 4 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 4]] DVD box set, as a bonus feature. The magazine quoted Russell T Davies' opinion that the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor and [[Rose Tyler]] do indeed have a piece of TARDIS coral, which they can use to grow their own TARDIS.
* In Russell T Davies' book ''[[The Writer's Tale]]'', the full original draft of the Bad Wolf Bay script has the Doctor stating that it takes "thousands of years" to grow a TARDIS. However, Donna uses her newfound Time Lord knowledge enhanced by human intuition to overcome this problem by suggesting: ''"...if you shatterfry the [[outer plasmic shell|plasmic shell]] and modify the [[dimensional stabiliser]] to a foldback harmonic of 36.3, you accelerate growth by the power of 59!"''. (This dialogue made it into the [[deleted scene]] on the series 4 DVD, as mentioned above.)
* In [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)|The Siege of Big Ben]]'', the Doctor is growing a TARDIS in his UNIT lab.
* By contrast, [[COMIC]]: ''[[Empire of the Wolf (comic story)|Empire of the Wolf]]'' has the Doctor explicitly mention that he and Rose do not have access to a TARDIS, though given the original deleted scene stated it would take time, it is possible he meant they simply lacked a TARDIS at that moment.


==Family==
== External links ==
The Meta-Crisis Doctor, being in most respects a copy of the original Doctor, can claim the same familial ties as the original, up to and including his most recent offspring, [[Jenny]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'') However the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor can also claim Donna Noble as a relation, given that he was created in part through the link with her.
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==Behind the scenes==
== Footnotes ==
* Although he has the same appearance, memories, and basic personality of the Tenth Doctor, the new Doctor also exhibits several personality changes, in particular based upon that of Donna Noble. It is left deliberately ambiguous as to whether the new Doctor is actually a new incarnation of the original Doctor (if not strictly speaking a new regeneration) or a copy.
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* In the [[Doctor Who Confidential]] installment, "End of an Era", executive producer [[Julie Gardner]] confirms that the new Doctor does indeed say "I love you" when he whispers in Rose's ear.
{{NameSort}}
* On screen, this character is only ever referred to as the Doctor. To avoid confusion, fans have taken to referring to him by names such as the Clone Doctor, New Doctor, Meta-Crisis Doctor, Doctor Two or Doctor 10.5, though none of these names are considered official, particularly references to him as the 11th Doctor, although David Tennant, in ''Doctor Who Confidential'', acknowledges that this is expected to be a topic of much debate as time goes on.
{{Children of Time}}
* The mini-episode ''[[Music of the Spheres]]'' features the Doctor wearing the blue suit worn by the Meta-Crisis Doctor. Although considered a possible continuity error, or an indication that ''Music of the Spheres'' takes place before the events of ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]'', if the "growing TARDIS" scenario is canonical, it's also conceivable that ''Music of the Spheres'' could feature the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor at some point in the future, travelling in his own TARDIS. It could also indicate, that the Doctor has more than one similiar suits in the TARDIS' closet, since this Doctor uses his Sonic Screwdriver and arrives to our universe's proms.
* The clothes that the new Doctor chooses reflect the proposed outfit Tennant was to wear in Season Three opener Smith And Jones, with the Doctor wearing a red t-shirt under his blue suit as opposed to the light blue shirt/tie combo that was eventually used. ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]] (commentary)'')
* The revelation that Time Lord/Human hybrids are incapable of regenerating and only have one heart has put to rest the long debate over the validity of the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s claim of being half-human, although it is still suggested that the Doctor himself is more than a Time Lord as shown [[DW]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'' when he discovers his abilities are evolving beyond what Time Lords are normally capable of; although it could be assumed that other Time Lords may also have such capabilities after extended ownership and interaction with their TARDIS, but was never shown.
* A number of fans have begun speculating as to whether or not this Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor is the figure that would eventually become the enigmatic figure known to the [[Sixth Doctor]] as the malevolent [[Valeyard]]. However, if the Meta-Crisis Doctor did succumb to his darker impulses, he still would not become the actual Time Lord Valeyard that the Sixth Doctor encountered; as the Meta-Crisis Doctor cannot regenerate into becoming the Eleventh, or Twelfth Doctors. This theory would seem to have gained some ground due to the events of the comic book mini-series, [[IDW]]: ''[[The Forgotten]]'', in which a character resembling a bearded Meta-Crisis Doctor appeared and was addressed as "Valeyard" by the Doctor; ultimately, however, this ended up being a form taken on by an insectoid creature that assumed his form inside the TARDIS matrix; the comic contains no dialogue or textual references connecting the Valeyard to the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor. However, the Meta-Crisis could always have used his TARDISes chameleon arc to become a full Time Lord.


===Grow Your Own TARDIS===
In the original script the Doctor was meant to give a [[TARDIS coral]] to the half-Human Doctor under the assumption that a whole new TARDIS could be grown from it, but it was later cut. However, the canonicity of this event is somewhat ambiguous.
*This was mentioned in "The Doctor's Data" section of a Doctor Who Adventures magazine.
*It was mentioned in the original draft of the script available in Russell T. Davies' book 'The Writer's Tale'.
*It was mentioned in the Fact File for the episode on the official website, which stated that it was in the original script but later removed.
*In addition, if one looks carefully at the 4th cover of the August 2008 Doctor Who Magazine, featuring Rose, Mickey, Jackie, and the Meta-Crisis 10th Doctor, it appears that, although covered up by actors' names, that the duplicate Doctor seems to be holding something. This could possibly be a piece of TARDIS.
*Inside the magazine, there is an excerpt of script with a statement that this part of the scene made it all the way to the last cut, but the producers decided that it was just complicating the scene too much. However, the scene was filmed, and it will be included in the Series 4 Box Set, so, the magazine quotes Russell T. Davies, it is perfectly fine to assume that the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor and [[Rose Tyler]] have a piece of TARDIS coral, which they can use to grow their own TARDIS.
*In Russell T. Davies' book 'The Writer's Tale', the full original draft of the Bad Wolf Bay script has the Doctor stating that it takes 'thousands of years' to grow a TARDIS. However, Donna uses her newfound Time Lord knowledge enhanced by human intuition to overcome this problem by suggesting: ''"...if you shatterfry the plasmic shell and modify the dimensional stabiliser to a foldback harmonic of 36.3, you accelerate growth by the power of 59!"'' Which would presumably enable a TARDIS to grow within a human lifetime. The scene is included as an bonus feature with the Season 4 DVD box set released in November 2008.
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The Meta-Crisis Doctor was a human-Time Lord hybrid of the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble who was created by an instantaneous biological metacrisis and was the final result of the Tenth Doctor's aborted regeneration. Unlike the original Doctor, this one possessed only one heart, aged as humans would, and had no regenerative ability.

However, he was born in a separate body from the original Doctor, existing as a separate person with DNA sampled from Donna. After destroying the Daleks, he was "banished" to Pete's World to live out his life with Rose Tyler.

Name[[edit] | [edit source]]

This Doctor's name was different between accounts.

According to some, he was merely the Doctor. (AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben [+]Loading...["The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)"], Flight Into Hull! [+]Loading...["Flight Into Hull! (audio story)"])

According to others, he was known as the Meta-Crisis Doctor. (GAME: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End [+]Loading...{"page":"219-226","1":"The Stolen Earth/Journey's End (game)"}) In Clara Oswald's guide for future companions, this Doctor was named the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor. (PROSE: "Not the Doctor!" [+]Part of The Companion's Companion, Loading...{"page":"78","namedpart":"Not the Doctor!","1":"The Companion's Companion (novel)"})

According to another account, he later went by the name Corin. (PROSE: The Turning of the Tide [+]Loading...["The Turning of the Tide (short story)"])

According to different account, he went by the name John Smith, (COMIC: Empire of the Wolf [+]Loading...["Empire of the Wolf (comic story)"])

In other accounts, he was known as the Duplicate Doctor. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"144-145","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}, Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"page":"101","ed":"2011 reprint","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}, The Children of Time... Where Are They Now? [+]Loading...{"page":"9","1":"The Children of Time... Where Are They Now? (feature)"}, The Duplicate Doctor and Rose [+]Loading...{"series":"[[DWA 72]]","anthology":"The Doctor's Data (series)","page":"27","1":"The Duplicate Doctor and Rose (feature)"}, The Children of Time [+]Loading...{"series":"[[DWA 74]]","anthology":"Fact Files","page":"4","1":"The Children of Time (feature)"}, The Doctor's Companions! 275 [+]Loading...{"page":"20","1":"The Doctor's Companions! (DWA 275 feature)","2":"''The Doctor's Companions!'' 275"}, Doctors Doubles [+]Loading...{"page":"7","1":"Doctors Doubles (feature)"}) Some accounts referred to him as "a duplicate Doctor." (PROSE: "The Children of Time" [+]Part of Companions and Allies, Loading...{"page":"92","namedpart":"The Children of Time","1":"Companions and Allies (reference book)"}, Know Your Companions [+]Loading...{"page":"8","1":"Know Your Companions (feature)"})

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

A day to come[[edit] | [edit source]]

Shortly before his regeneration, the First Doctor was told of "a few false starts" before he became the Twelfth Doctor. (TV: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])

Origin[[edit] | [edit source]]

On Christmas 2006, the newly regenerated Tenth Doctor lost his hand in a sword fight against the Sycorax leader. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"]) Jack Harkness later retrieved the hand and returned it to the Doctor in a jar in the year 100 trillion. (TV: Utopia [+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"]) The Doctor's hand remained in the TARDIS until the Doctor was grazed by the blast from a Dalek gunstick, triggering the Time Lord's eleventh regeneration. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"]) After healing the damage to his body with the regeneration energy, the Doctor channelled the excess energy into his hand, a bio-matching receptacle, allowing him to heal but keep his appearance and personality. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) However, the Doctor used up the same amount of regenerative energy as a full regeneration. This, as the Eleventh Doctor later told Clara Oswald, meant that his previous incarnation used up two regenerations due to "vanity issues." (TV: The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"])

Shortly after this aborted regeneration, the Daleks attempted to destroy the Doctor's TARDIS. Still inside the TARDIS during this apparent destruction, Donna Noble touched the energised hand's container. The regenerative energies present within the hand combined with Donna's human DNA, causing an instantaneous biological metacrisis. The force of the reaction shattered the container, allowing the energy to regenerate the entire missing body of the Doctor. In this process, the "metacrisis Tenth Doctor" was created. He immediately dematerialised the TARDIS, saving it and Donna.

After putting on a blue suit, the Doctor and Donna left the TARDIS and tried to attack Davros and the Daleks with his new weapon. Both were given an electric shock by Davros. After the now-part-Time Lord Donna defeated the Daleks, she, the metacrisis Doctor and the original Doctor teamed up to return all but one of the planets to their rightful places. The metacrisis Doctor was then prompted by Dalek Caan to fulfil a prophecy by destroying the Daleks. He chose to do so and ignored pleas from both Davros and Donna. He proceeded to overload the Dalekanium power feeds, causing virtually the entire New Dalek Empire to explode, from individual Daleks to the Crucible itself. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

Exile in Pete's world[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rose Tyler and the half-human Tenth Doctor (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

Feeling his new, part-human counterpart was too dangerous to be left to his own devices, the Doctor entrusted him to Rose Tyler, taking the two of them back to Bad Wolf Bay in Pete's World. The Doctor told Rose that his part-human self-needed her, that he was angry and vengeful as he himself had been when he first met Rose. He told her she had made him better, and now she had to do the same for his other, part-human self. Rose objected to this at first, insisting that the new Doctor was not really him, despite the Doctor's assurance that they were the same man and the part-human Doctor offering to spend the rest of his life with her. Rose asked both Doctors what the last thing they had said to her was when they were originally standing on Bad Wolf Bay. The Doctor was unable to give her a direct answer: "Does it need saying?" She posed the same question to the part-human Doctor, who whispered it in her ear.

Seemingly overcome with the revelation of his answer, (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) and a desire to test to see if he was a good as "the real thing", (PROSE: The Duplicate Doctor and Rose [+]Loading...{"series":"[[DWA 72]]","anthology":"The Doctor's Data (series)","page":"27","1":"The Duplicate Doctor and Rose (feature)"}) Rose grabbed the lapels of the part-human Doctor and pulled him into a kiss, which he reciprocated. The Doctor looked on sadly yet stoically for a moment before returning with Donna to the TARDIS and leaving the parallel world. As the doors of the TARDIS slammed shut, Rose and the part-human Doctor broke from their kiss. The part-human Doctor took Rose's hand and watched the TARDIS dematerialise. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

Settling down with Rose[[edit] | [edit source]]

This section's awfully stubby.

Needs more info from The Turning of the Tide.

Rose and Corin (PROSE: The Turning of the Tide)

While he would continue to be addressed as "the Doctor" by others, (AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben, Flight Into Hull!) some accounts said that the Doctor decided that he would personally go by a different name, by which Rose would also refer to him. By one account, he chose the name "Corin", a name that Rose considered to be "solid and true". (PROSE: The Turning of the Tide) Another account posited that he chose his old alias of "John Smith". (COMIC: Empire of the Wolf) Both accounts agreed they eventually had a child, (PROSE: The Turning of the Tide, COMIC: Empire of the Wolf) a girl they named Mia. (COMIC: Empire of the Wolf)

Working with UNIT[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor, Jackie Tyler, Peter Tyler, and Rose later joined the newly established UNIT, created when the Preachers were combined with Torchwood by President Harriet Jones. The Doctor was given a lab at the top of UNIT's base at Big Ben, where he attempted to build a TARDIS. At one point Brigadier Krista Lateef attempted to force him to use his time machine to change her personal history, but the Doctor and Jackie were able to affirm that the machine wasn't ready yet, even if the rules of time travel didn't forbid such an act. The Doctor subsequently reported Krista's actions, much to Jackie's anger as she'd agreed to forgive Krista for the deception. (AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben)

In an attempt to get the Doctor and Jackie to talk to each other after their disagreement, Rose and Pete tricked the Doctor into getting on a zeppelin with Jackie headed for Hull. During the flight, an alternate Jackie from a different universe appeared and threatened to shoot Jackie and take her place in Pete's World. The Doctor shot the zeppelin's flight controls, forcing the alternate Jackie to go back to her own universe to save her own life. The Doctor and Jackie then leapt from the zeppelin and into the water moments before the zeppelin crashed into the Humber Bridge. (AUDIO: Flight Into Hull!)

During Mia's teenage years, Rose began experiencing visions of another life before one day vanishing. After nearly three hours of the Doctor trying to figure out what had happened, Rose suddenly returned and began telling her husband about the adventure she'd just had. (COMIC: Empire of the Wolf)

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

As a result of growing partially from Donna's DNA, the Meta-Crisis Doctor inherited some of Donna's mannerisms. He claimed he had the same memories, thoughts and feelings of the original Doctor up to the point of his aborted regeneration, making them essentially the same man with physiological differences. However, the original Doctor was quick to point out that his new double was "born in battle, full of blood, anger and revenge". In this way, the Tenth Doctor described his duplicate as representing the way he had been during his former incarnation before meeting Rose. This motivated the Meta-Crisis Doctor to commit attempted genocide against the Daleks, an act the original Doctor condemned after the events of the Last Great Time War. Regardless of their differences, he still firmly declared he was the Doctor, seeing he had a right to the title even if Donna Noble wasn't so certain. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

Much like the incarnation he was born from, the Doctor seemed to have a fondness for a certain word, as he used the uncommon adjective "Wizard" to describe something abnormal multiple times. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"], AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben)

Jackie Tyler thought that he was "a lot less rational" than the original Doctor as he often rushed into things without thinking it through. She also felt that he was less willing to forgive than the original Doctor; when Krista Lateef attempted to force him to use a time machine to save her daughter, the Doctor allowed her to get arrested after she was talked down where Jackie felt that the true Doctor would have let her off as having just made a mistake. (AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben)

He often got headaches, as sometimes all he could think about was fire and war. When his zeppelin was crashing, the Doctor cried, telling Jackie Tyler that he loved Rose unconditionally. (AUDIO: Flight Into Hull!)

Though the Doctor had all the knowledge of his progenitor, he found it difficult to properly express Time Lord knowledge via a human brain. (COMIC: Empire of the Wolf)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • In the Doctor Who Confidential episode End of an Era, executive producer Julie Gardner confirmed that the intention was that the new Doctor did indeed say "I love you" when he whispered in Rose's ear.
  • On screen, this character was only ever referred to as the Doctor. To avoid confusion, fans used varying terms to address him but only "Meta-Crisis Doctor" received any official recognition from show runners. In the shooting script for the episode, he is simply named as "THE DOCTOR #2". David Tennant in Doctor Who Confidential acknowledged that the name of this particular incarnation of the character was expected to be a topic of much debate as time went on.
    • As recently as 28 March 2018, official social media accounts for Doctor Who have referred to this incarnation by the fandom name "Tentoo".[1]
    • Since 17 April 2014, the video game Legacy uses "Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor".
    • In the Target Storybook short story Citation Needed, the Encyclopedia Gallifreya, a sentient encyclopaedia aboard the TARDIS who chronicles the Doctor's travels, has an entry about this incarnation's impact on the Doctor's timeline marked "Metacrisis, numerical confusion of", which it references each time it makes a statement about numbered incarnations.
    • Another Target Storybook short story, The Turning of the Tide, also posited that the new Doctor chose, shortly after the events of Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"], to go by the name Corin.
    • Promoting the 60th anniversary celebrations, official Titan merchandise from the "Diamond Collection", sold through Urban Planet, also prominently called him "The Meta-Crisis Doctor" (as seen on a large print t-shirt).
  • A number of fans have speculated whether Corin would eventually become the Valeyard, which was referenced in the comic story The Forgotten, in which Es'Cartrss took the form of a bearded Tenth Doctor claiming to be both Corin and the Valeyard, though the Tenth Doctor himself found the idea unbelievable.
  • The concept that a Doctor would grow from the Doctor's severed hand who would end up with Rose was planned since The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"]. Russell T Davies states on the commentary track for Journey's End that he had the idea in mind that just prior to the Tenth Doctor's regeneration, a scene would depict him growing a clone of himself from his severed hand, and sending him off to live his life with Rose. The concept was ultimately brought forward, and was developed into its own entire story arc, due to the "timing being perfect".
  • For years it was unknown if the aborted regeneration that resulted in the Meta-Crisis Doctor's existence had actually used up one of the Doctor's regenerations, considering the Tenth Doctor's appearance hadn't changed following him syphoning the regeneration energy that would have changed his appearance into the spare hand that would create the Meta-Crisis Doctor, while using the healing portion of the regeneration to fix the damage done by the Dalek blast. It wasn't until The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"] five years later that the Eleventh Doctor revealed that the aborted regeneration that created the Meta-Crisis Doctor did use up a regeneration. Therefore, the creation of the Meta-Crisis Doctor had used up the Doctor's penultimate regeneration in his first regeneration cycle.

A "Pete's World" TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the original script, the Doctor was meant to give TARDIS coral to the Meta-Crisis Doctor, on the assumption that a whole new TARDIS could be grown from it, but this was cut. Nevertheless, the idea has popped up in several places:

  • "The Doctor's Data" section of a Doctor Who Adventures magazine.[which?]
  • The Fact File for the episode on the official Doctor Who website, which stated that it was in the original script but later removed.
  • Inside the magazine[which?], there is an excerpt of the script with a statement that this part of the scene made it all the way to the final cut, but that the producers decided that it just complicated the tone of the scene too much. However, the scene was filmed, and it was included in the series 4 DVD box set, as a bonus feature. The magazine quoted Russell T Davies' opinion that the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler do indeed have a piece of TARDIS coral, which they can use to grow their own TARDIS.
  • In Russell T Davies' book The Writer's Tale, the full original draft of the Bad Wolf Bay script has the Doctor stating that it takes "thousands of years" to grow a TARDIS. However, Donna uses her newfound Time Lord knowledge enhanced by human intuition to overcome this problem by suggesting: "...if you shatterfry the plasmic shell and modify the dimensional stabiliser to a foldback harmonic of 36.3, you accelerate growth by the power of 59!". (This dialogue made it into the deleted scene on the series 4 DVD, as mentioned above.)
  • In AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben, the Doctor is growing a TARDIS in his UNIT lab.
  • By contrast, COMIC: Empire of the Wolf has the Doctor explicitly mention that he and Rose do not have access to a TARDIS, though given the original deleted scene stated it would take time, it is possible he meant they simply lacked a TARDIS at that moment.

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Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Doctor Who Tumblr - 16 faces, one Doctor. Our March Madness bracket is here! - 28 March 2018
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