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The '''causes of regeneration''', especially amongst [[Time Lord]]s, were many and varied. They ran the gamut from simple ''desire'' to change, to life-threatening maladies which typically resulted in [[human]] death. The following are the known causes of regeneration of specific Time Lords. This chart considers regeneration to be something which results in an ''actual'', ''irreversible'' transformation from one body to another. Things like the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s accidental creation of the [[Meta-Crisis Doctor]] are not included here.
The '''causes of regeneration''', especially amongst [[Time Lord]]s, were many and varied. They ran the gamut from simple ''desire'' to change, to life-threatening maladies which typically resulted in [[human]] death. The following are the known causes of regeneration of specific Time Lords. This chart considers regeneration to be something which results in an ''actual'', ''irreversible'' transformation from one body to another. Things like the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s accidental creation of the [[Meta-Crisis Doctor]], or the reversal of regeneration in ''[[The Touch of the Nurazh (short story)|The Touch of the Nurazh]]'', are not included here.


== The Doctor ==
== The Doctor ==
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|Claimed to be "wearing a bit thin"; apparently died of simple old age.
|Claimed to be "wearing a bit thin"; apparently died of simple old age.
|''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]''
|''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]''
* Second Doctor: Forced to change his appearance as part of his exile at the hands of the Time Lords. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'')
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* During third incarnation: Fell off a building during a struggle, and began to regenerate into the [[Fourth Doctor]] as the [[Nurazh]] attempted to take over the Doctor's mind; unable to cope with two Time Lord minds at the same time, the Nurazh perished, thus healing the Doctor back to his Third incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Touch of the Nurazh]]'')
|[[Second Doctor|2]]
* [[Fourth Doctor|Third regeneration/fourth incarnation]]: Caused by exposure to [[The Great One (Planet of the Spiders)|The Great One]]'s highly unstable web of [[Metebelis crystal]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'')
|Forced to change his appearance by [[Time Lord]] court order
** ''Alternate'' third regeneration/fourth incarnation: Shot by [[Magdalena]] on the [[planet]] [[Dust]] after defeating [[the Remote]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two]]'') This timeline was created when the [[Eighth Doctor]] accidentally diverted his third self's TARDIS, and was later undone. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'')
|Sentence passed in ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', carried out in ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]''
* [[Fifth Doctor|Fourth regeneration/fifth incarnation]]: Caused when {{Ainley}} rotated the [[Pharos Project]] [[radio telescope]] so as to force the [[Fourth Doctor]] to fall to the ground while he was manually programming it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
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* [[Sixth Doctor|Fifth regeneration/sixth incarnation]]: Caused by [[Spectrox toxaemia]], contracted after contact with unrefined [[spectrox]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'')
|[[Third Doctor|3]]
* [[Seventh Doctor|Sixth regeneration/seventh incarnation]]: Caused by injury from [[the Rani]]'s attack on [[the TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]'') Accounts indicated the Doctor hit his head ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games]]''); however, he was also suffering from a [[chronal energy]] drain after his confrontation with the [[Lamprey]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Spiral Scratch]]'').
|Radiation poisoning upon exposure to [[The Great One (Planet of the Spiders)|The Great One]]'s highly unstable web of [[Metebelis crystal]]s.  
* [[Eighth Doctor|Seventh regeneration/eighth incarnation]]: Uniquely for the Doctor, this regeneration happened after his physical death. A gang shootout in [[San Francisco]] caused him near-fatal injuries, exacerbated by surgery at [[Walker General Hospital]] surgery which attempted to explore his [[Gallifreyan physiology|unearthly physiology]]. The surgery only succeeded in damaging his cardiovascular system far beyond repair, with the [[anaesthetic]] damaging his physiology further by delaying the regeneration. He regenerated and came back to life in the morgue. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
|''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]''
** [[Johann Schmidt|Alternate seventh regeneration]]: In an [[Alternate timeline|alternative timeline]] in which the [[Nazi]]s used technology taken from [[Ace]] in [[Colditz]] to win [[World War II]], the Doctor arranged to be shot and killed in [[1955]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Colditz (audio story)|Colditz]]'') He subsequently infiltrated the Reich as "Johann Schmidt" to erase this new timeline. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Klein's Story]]'').
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* During eighth incarnation: Stabbed in one of his hearts and began to regenerate, but healed by the energies of [[Anti-Time]] then controlling his body ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''); chest was crushed by a sandbag, causing him to start regenerating again, but saved due to one heart having been transplanted into [[Sabbath]], giving him a link to life that allowed his body to heal. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Obscura]])
|[[Fourth Doctor|4]]
* [[War Doctor|Eighth regeneration/the "War Doctor"]]: Caused by crashing in a spaceship onto the planet Karn. His regeneration was assisted by the [[Sisterhood of Karn]] after they gave him potions and they persuaded him to be part of the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor]]'')
|Fell to the ground from great height at the [[Pharos Project]]; indirectly caused by {{ainley}}
* [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth regeneration/Ninth incarnation]]: Caused by his body growing weaker after helping to bring back Gallifrey from the Time War and place it in a different dimension. He remarked that his body had "grown a bit thin". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor]]'')
|''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''
* [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth regeneration/tenth incarnation]]: Caused by [[cellular degeneration]] from absorbing the energies of the [[time vortex]] from [[Rose Tyler]] in order save her life and restore the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'')
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* During tenth incarnation: Partial regeneration after being exterminated by a Dalek; ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'') aborted by channelling the energy into [[the Doctor's hand|his severed hand]] that would have changed his appearance after allowing it to heal the damage sustained by the attack. This led to the two-way biological metacrisis that spawned the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor]] and the [[Donna Noble|Doctor Donna]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
|[[Fifth Doctor|5]]  
* [[Eleventh Doctor|Eleventh regeneration/eleventh incarnation]]: Caused by [[radiation]] poisoning when the Doctor sacrificed himself to spare [[Wilfred Mott]]. He absorbed all the radiation from the nuclear bolt used to power the [[Immortality Gate]]. Trivial cuts healed instantly. The regeneration, though, took a long time rather than instantly. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
|Refusal to take antidote for [[spectrox toxaemia]] in order give it instead to [[Peri Brown]].  
|''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]''
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|[[Sixth Doctor|6]]
|Ambiguous injury consequent to [[the Rani]]'s attack on [[the TARDIS]]. Some accounts indicated the Doctor hit his head on the [[TARDIS console]]. Others suggest that he was also suffering from a [[chronal energy]] drain after his confrontation with the [[Lamprey]]  
|''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'', ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'', ''[[Spiral Scratch (novel)|Spiral Scratch]]''
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|[[Seventh Doctor|7]]
|Following a non-fatal shooting, the Seventh Doctor underwent open heart surgery in a [[San Francisco]] [[Walker General Hospital|hospital]]. Since [[Grace Holloway|the attending cardiologist]] had no knowledge of [[Time Lord]] physiology, she accidentally killed him.
|''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''
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|[[Eighth Doctor|8]]
|Died after a ship he was in crash-landed on [[Karn]]  
|''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]''
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|[[War Doctor|War]]
|As with the [[First Doctor]], he claimed to be "wearing a bit thin" and regenerated from what appeared to simply be old age.
|''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|]''
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|[[Ninth Doctor|9]]
|[[Cellular degeneration]] after absorbing [[time vortex]] energy from the [[Bad Wolf (entity)|Bad Wolf]] in order to save the life of [[Rose Tyler]]
|''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]''
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|[[Tenth Doctor|10]]
|Intentional radiation poisoning incurred in order to save the life of [[Wilfred Mott]]
|''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''
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== Romana ==
== Romana ==

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The causes of regeneration, especially amongst Time Lords, were many and varied. They ran the gamut from simple desire to change, to life-threatening maladies which typically resulted in human death. The following are the known causes of regeneration of specific Time Lords. This chart considers regeneration to be something which results in an actual, irreversible transformation from one body to another. Things like the Tenth Doctor's accidental creation of the Meta-Crisis Doctor, or the reversal of regeneration in The Touch of the Nurazh, are not included here.

The Doctor

Doctor Reason Story
1 Claimed to be "wearing a bit thin"; apparently died of simple old age. The Tenth Planet
2 Forced to change his appearance by Time Lord court order Sentence passed in The War Games, carried out in The Night Walkers
3 Radiation poisoning upon exposure to The Great One's highly unstable web of Metebelis crystals. Planet of the Spiders
4 Fell to the ground from great height at the Pharos Project; indirectly caused by the Tremas Master Logopolis
5 Refusal to take antidote for spectrox toxaemia in order give it instead to Peri Brown. The Caves of Androzani
6 Ambiguous injury consequent to the Rani's attack on the TARDIS. Some accounts indicated the Doctor hit his head on the TARDIS console. Others suggest that he was also suffering from a chronal energy drain after his confrontation with the Lamprey Time and the Rani, Head Games, Spiral Scratch
7 Following a non-fatal shooting, the Seventh Doctor underwent open heart surgery in a San Francisco hospital. Since the attending cardiologist had no knowledge of Time Lord physiology, she accidentally killed him. Doctor Who
8 Died after a ship he was in crash-landed on Karn The Night of the Doctor
War As with the First Doctor, he claimed to be "wearing a bit thin" and regenerated from what appeared to simply be old age. [[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|]
9 Cellular degeneration after absorbing time vortex energy from the Bad Wolf in order to save the life of Rose Tyler The Parting of the Ways
10 Intentional radiation poisoning incurred in order to save the life of Wilfred Mott The End of Time

Romana

The Master

Rassilon

K'anpo Rimpoche

Borusa


Chronotis

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


Rallon

Azmael

  • In his thirteenth and final body, Azmael regenerated past his limit, killing him and Mestor, who possessed Azmael's body after his own was destroyed. (TV: The Twin Dilemma)

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. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)

Because of this, he can no longer regenerate.

The Monk

Ruath

Innocet

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 the first twelve back to Gallifrey's past so that they fell from a great height and regenerated into the next one. (PROSE: Interference - Book One, Interference - Book Two)

The Corsair

River Song

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