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== Romana ==
== Romana ==
* [[Romana I|First]] to [[Romana II|second incarnation]]: Decided it was time for a change, another account said unknown to the Doctor, Romana was harmed by the [[Key to Time]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]], [[AUDIO]]: [[Lies (audio story)|Lies]], [[The Key 2 Time - The Chaos Pool]], [[PROSE]]: [[The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe (short story)|The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe]]'')
* [[Romana I|First]] to [[Romana II|second incarnation]]: Decided it was time for a change, another account said unknown to the Doctor, Romana was harmed by the [[Key to Time]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]], [[AUDIO]]: [[Lies (audio story)|Lies]], [[The Key 2 Time - The Chaos Pool]], [[PROSE]]: [[The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe (short story)|The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe]]'')
* Second to [[Romana III|third incarnation]]: In one timeline she regenerated in preparation for [[the War]], developing a body and attitude more suited for combat. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon]]''). In another timeline she regenerated to give a power boost to the [[Moros]] engine shields in order to stop a black hole being formed. This regeneration was rewritten due to the her Third Incarnation wanting to stop the Omega war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'')  
* Second to [[Romana III|third incarnation]]: In one timeline she regenerated in preparation for [[the War]], developing a body and attitude more suited for combat. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon]]''). In another timeline, she regenerated to give a power boost to the [[Moros]] engine shields in order to stop a black hole being formed. This regeneration was rewritten due to her Third Incarnation wanting to stop the Omega war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'')  
** The second incarnation once started to regenerate due to contact with the decaying [[Eye of Harmony]] inside [[the Matrix]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]])''. This regeneration didn't take hold due to [[K9 Mark II]] removing her from the Matrix. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ascension (audio story)|Ascension]]'')  
** The second incarnation once started to regenerate due to contact with the decaying [[Eye of Harmony]] inside [[the Matrix]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]])''. This regeneration didn't take hold due to [[K9 Mark II]] removing her from the Matrix. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ascension (audio story)|Ascension]]'')  
* Third to [[Romana IV|fourth incarnation]]: Managed to survive [[the War]], although this may have entailed a regeneration. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'')
* Third to [[Romana IV|fourth incarnation]]: Managed to survive [[the War]], although this may have entailed a regeneration. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'')
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* '''{{Ainley|n=The incarnation in the body of Tremas of Traken}}''': Shot by [[Ace]] after receiving a new set of regenerating [[nanite]]s from the [[Tzun]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier]]'') However, these were apparently only effective in the short term, as he was later shown attempting to restore his ability to regenerate using the Sacred [[Loom of Rassilon's Mouse]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'')
* '''{{Ainley|n=The incarnation in the body of Tremas of Traken}}''': Shot by [[Ace]] after receiving a new set of regenerating [[nanite]]s from the [[Tzun]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier]]'') However, these were apparently only effective in the short term, as he was later shown attempting to restore his ability to regenerate using the Sacred [[Loom of Rassilon's Mouse]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'')
* '''Child incarnation during the [[Last Great Time War]]''': Regenerated into an {{Jacobi|n=older body}} after being unable to survive the energies at the heart of a paradox. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'')
* '''Child incarnation during the [[Last Great Time War]]''': Regenerated into an {{Jacobi|n=older body}} after being unable to survive the energies at the heart of a paradox. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'')
* '''{{Jacobi|n=An incarnation in hiding from the Last Great Time War}}''': Fatally shot by [[Chantho]], he regenerated into a {{simm|n=new incarnation}}. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
* '''{{Jacobi|n=An incarnation in hiding from the Last Great Time War}}''': Fatally shot by [[Chantho]], he regenerated inside [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] after locking [[Tenth Doctor|him]] out. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
* '''{{Simm|n=The incarnation once known as Harold Saxon}}''': Stabbed in the back with a small knife by his {{Gomez|n=next incarnation}} in such a precise way that he had time to reach his TARDIS before regenerating ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') or mortally wounded while fighting [[Rassilon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pandoric's Box (short story)|Pandoric's Box]]'')
* '''{{Simm|n=The incarnation once known as Harold Saxon}}''': Stabbed in the back with a small knife by his {{Gomez|n=next incarnation}} in such a precise way that he had time to reach his TARDIS before regenerating ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') or mortally wounded while fighting [[Rassilon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pandoric's Box (short story)|Pandoric's Box]])                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Note: Occasions in which the Master has appropriated a new body, ([[TV]]: [[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]], [[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]], [[COMIC]]: [[The Glorious Dead]], [[AUDIO]]: [[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]], [[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]) are not considered regenerations.''
 
*'''The incarnation once known as Missy''''
After returning to his TARDIS, the Master regenerated into the incarnation that had fatally wounded him. The The Doctor Falls  As such, she adapted her name of "the Master" into "Missy", short for "Mistress". (TV: Dark Water) Due to the presence of her older self during the events surrounding her regeneration, she was left unable to recall the exact specifics of it due to their timelines being out of sync. (TV: The Doctor Falls)
 
 
:: ''Note: Occasions in which the Master has appropriated a new body, ([[TV]]: [[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]], [[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]], [[COMIC]]: [[The Glorious Dead]], [[AUDIO]]: [[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]], [[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]) are not considered regenerations.''


== Rassilon ==
== Rassilon ==
* [[Rassilon]] was said to have achieved immortality in the form of a "timeless, perpetual, bodily regeneration." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') He appeared to have been reduced to a mind within the Matrix, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') but he was able to manifest a new body in his [[Rassilon's Foundry|workshop]], and was later restored to full corporeal form to lead Gallifrey in the [[Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War]]'')  
* [[Rassilon]] was said to have achieved immortality in the form of a "timeless, perpetual, bodily regeneration." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
* He appeared to have been reduced to a mind within the Matrix, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') but he was able to manifest a new body in his [[Rassilon's Foundry|workshop]], and was later restored to full corporeal form to lead Gallifrey in the [[Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War]]'')  
* Rassilon was attacked by {{Simm}} with powerful energy blasts as the Time Lords were sent back into the Time War by the [[Tenth Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and had regenerated into a much older body by the time of the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s finding of the planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent]]'')
* Rassilon was attacked by {{Simm}} with powerful energy blasts as the Time Lords were sent back into the Time War by the [[Tenth Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and had regenerated into a much older body by the time of the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s finding of the planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent]]'')


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== Azmael ==
== Azmael ==
* In his thirteenth and final body, [[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]]'')
* In his thirteenth and final body, [[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]]'')
== The Eleven ==
* In his eighth incarnation, who called himself [[the Eight]], whilst hiding in the Clocksmith's TARDIS, he was discovered by [[the Clocksmith]], who killed him. He went into [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] and regenerated into [[the Nine]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eighth Piece (audio story)|The Eighth Piece]]'' / ''[[The Doomsday Chronometer (audio story)|The Doomsday Chronometer]]'')


== Iris Wildthyme ==
== Iris Wildthyme ==
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== River Song ==
== River Song ==
* As a little girl, Melody Pond, later known as [[River Song]], regenerated on the streets of [[New York City]] in [[1970]] due to a terminal illness. She ended up as a toddler upon her regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
* As a little girl, Melody Pond, later known as [[River Song]], regenerated on the streets of [[New York City]] in [[1970]] due to a terminal illness. She ended up as a toddler upon her regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
* In an incarnation known to [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] as [[Mels]], Melody regenerated in [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler's]] private study in [[1938]] after the Führer accidentally shot her while aiming for the ''[[Teselecta]]''. She later used up all of her remaining regenerations to heal the [[Eleventh Doctor]] from a poison with which she had infected him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
* In her second incarnation, known to [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] as [[Mels]], Melody regenerated in [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler's]] private study in [[1938]] after the Führer accidentally shot her while aiming for the ''[[Teselecta]]''. She later used up all of her remaining regenerations to heal the [[Eleventh Doctor]] from a poison with which she had infected him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')


== Karlax ==
== Karlax ==

Revision as of 21:23, 7 January 2018

The causes of regeneration, especially amongst Time Lords, were many and varied. File:The General's Regeneration - Hell Bent - Doctor Who - BBC They ran the gamut from simple desire to change, to sentencing for convictions, to life-threatening maladies, to blunt-force trauma. While all of these might have been cause for alarm in humans, Time Lords sometimes expressed much less concern. As the Twelfth Doctor once told Clara: "We're on Gallifrey. Death is Time Lord for 'man-flu'." (TV: Hell Bent) That said, he was much less casual about regeneration when it came to his own—an event he fully tried to resist. (TV: The Doctor Falls)

Though the First, (TV: Twice Upon a Time) Second, (TV: The War Games) and Tenth Doctors agreed with him, (TV: The End of Time) most incarnations of the Doctor were more at peace with regeneration. In particular, the Third, (TV: Planet of the Spiders) Fourth, (TV: Logopolis) Fifth, (TV: The Caves of Androzani) Eighth, (TV: The Night of the Doctor) War (TV: The Day of the Doctor) and Eleventh Doctors (TV: The Time of the Doctor) accepted their ends with varying degrees of equanimity.

The following are the known causes of regeneration of specific Time Lords.

The Doctor

File:The Third Doctor Regenerates - Jon Pertwee to Tom Baker - Planet of the Spiders - Doctor Who - BBC

Romana

The Master

File:The Master Regenerates - Derek Jacobi to John Simm - Doctor Who - BBC

Rassilon

K'anpo Rimpoche

Chronotis

  • Salyavin used up his thirteenth and final incarnation when he was attacked by the Sphere. However, when his Type 12 TARDIS was sent backwards, it altered his personal timeline and brought him back to life. (WC: Shada)

Ailla

Rallon

  • Rallon initiated all twelve of his regenerations at once to force the Celestial Toymaker out of his body; his Watcher subsequently merged with the Toymaker to keep him in check in future, the Doctor noting that this would mean that the Toymaker himself had essentially regenerated as a person. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)

Roche

  • Lord Roche was caught in a traffic accident while on Earth; he retained enough control over the process after it began to deliberately shape his new appearance so that he was the exact duplicate of the Third Doctor. (PROSE: The Suns of Caresh)

Azmael

  • In his thirteenth and final body, 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)

The Eleven

Iris Wildthyme

The War Chief

  • The War Chief underwent a faulty regeneration after being shot by War Lords; lack of medical care and the scale of the damage sustained resulted in his new form appearing like two bodies fused together, the damage preventing him from ever regenerating again. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)

Ruath

  • Ruath drained every drop of her blood from her body to restore Vampire Lord Yarven. Yarven subsequently turned her new incarnation into a vampire. (PROSE: Goth Opera)

Innocet

Glospin

  • Glospin force-regenerated himself into the double of the First Doctor after acquiring a genetic sample to influence the appearance of his next incarnation. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)
  • Having killed Quences in disguise as the Doctor, Glospin regenerated again to conceal his role in the murder. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)

I.M. Foreman

  • As a priest, I.M. Foreman had been given the gift of regenerations. This made twelve different individuals, who were created by his body absorbing the DNA around him; all regenerations were caused by the Third Doctor sending Foreman's first twelve bodies back to Gallifrey's past so that they fell from a great height, each regenerating into their next body, the trauma of the regeneration causing each incarnation to lose their memories. (PROSE: Interference - Book One, Interference - Book Two)

Cavisadoratrelundar

  • A Time Lord agent, Cavis nearly regenerated after she was decapitated by Queen Regent Mab, but Mab also stabbed her in both hearts to ensure that she remained dead. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon)

Gandarotethetledrax

  • A Time Lord agent, Gandar was stabbed in the heart by Margwyn, but regenerated as Margwyn missed his second heart. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon)
  • Gandar regenerated again shortly after his previous regeneration when he received a fatal sword wound; his new incarnation resembled a hybrid of human and Silurian, and was far more peaceful than his previous violent selves. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon)

Louis

Elbon

River Song

Karlax

Volstrom

Ollistra

The General

  • The General had already regenerated ten times before his sole male incarnation led the War Council during the final day of the Last Great Time War. Later, the Twelfth Doctor triggered an eleventh regeneration by shooting the General, resulting in him returning "back to normal" as her twelfth incarnation emerged in a female form once more. (TV: Hell Bent)

Thessalia

Larissa

Pavo

Trave