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With a near-identical appearance to his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]], the '''Fourteenth Doctor''' embraced having a second chance with his old face, and responded to all calls of adventure. Energetic and curious, but also sentimental and compassionate, this [[incarnation]] of '''[[the Doctor]]''' battled [[psychoplasm]] [[Dalek-scape|constructs]] in the [[Dalek Dome]] before eventually reuniting with his old [[companion]] [[Donna Noble]] for new adventures, all while trying to unravel the mystery of his "new" appearance. After undergoing a [[bi-generation]] that created the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] and defeating [[the Toymaker]], the Fourteenth Doctor settled into a life of [[retirement]] on Earth with Donna, her family and [[Melanie Bush|Mel Bush]].
With a near-identical appearance to his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]], the '''Fourteenth Doctor''' embraced having a second chance with his old face, and responded to all calls of adventure. Energetic and curious, but also sentimental and compassionate, this [[incarnation]] of '''[[the Doctor]]''' battled [[psychoplasm]] [[Dalek-scape|constructs]] in the [[Dalek Dome]] before eventually reuniting with his old [[companion]] [[Donna Noble]] for new adventures, all while trying to unravel the mystery of his "new" appearance. After undergoing a [[bi-generation]] that created the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] and defeating [[the Toymaker]], the Fourteenth Doctor settled into a life of [[rehab]] on Earth with Donna, her family and [[Melanie Bush|Mel Bush]].


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
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After being shot by the Toymaker, unusually instead of regenerating, the Fourteenth Doctor experienced bi-generation, which his [[fifteenth incarnation]] emerged as a separate incarnation. Together, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors defeated the Toymaker and banished him from existence. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}})
After being shot by the Toymaker, unusually instead of regenerating, the Fourteenth Doctor experienced bi-generation, which his [[fifteenth incarnation]] emerged as a separate incarnation. Together, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors defeated the Toymaker and banished him from existence. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}})


=== Retirement ===
=== Rehabilitation ===
Following the defeat of [[the Toymaker]], the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] noted that they had not stopped going since the [[First Doctor]]'s encounter with the Toymaker. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}}) Listing a number of the fights that the Doctor had experienced as well as the people that they had lost, [[Adric]], [[Rose Tyler]] and [[River Song]] amongst them, the Fifteenth Doctor suggested that his fourteenth incarnation go into [[retirement]] on Earth and enjoy the one adventure he'd never gotten to have: a normal life. Recognising how emotionally exhausted the Doctor was by his experiences, [[Donna Noble]] expressed a belief that the Doctor had subconsciously taken on his old face again so that he could find her and come home. After the Fifteenth Doctor used a [[bi-generation]] and his prize for defeating the Toymaker to duplicate the TARDIS, the Fourteenth Doctor went into retirement on Earth with the Noble family and [[Melanie Bush|Mel Bush]] while the Fifteenth Doctor continued their adventures.
Following the defeat of [[the Toymaker]], the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] noted that they had not stopped going since the [[First Doctor]]'s encounter with the Toymaker. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}}) Listing a number of the fights that the Doctor had experienced as well as the people that they had lost, [[Adric]], [[Rose Tyler]] and [[River Song]] amongst them, the Fifteenth Doctor suggested that his fourteenth incarnation go into [[rehab]] on Earth and enjoy the one adventure he'd never gotten to have: a normal life. Recognising how emotionally exhausted the Doctor was by his experiences, [[Donna Noble]] expressed a belief that the Doctor had subconsciously taken on his old face again so that he could find her and come home. After the Fifteenth Doctor used a [[bi-generation]] and his prize for defeating the Toymaker to duplicate the TARDIS, the Fourteenth Doctor went into rehab on Earth with the Noble family and [[Melanie Bush|Mel Bush]] while the Fifteenth Doctor continued their adventures.


Although retired, the Doctor took [[Rose Noble]] on a trip to [[Mars]] and Mel to New York in the Gilded Age, treating his adopted family to smaller adventures and sharing his stories with them. The Doctor also took the time to enjoy more regular activities such as dinners with his adopted family and became fond of the [[mole]]s in the Noble house's backyard, protecting them from [[Wilfred Mott|Wilf]] with force fields. Finally seeing for himself the fruits of his labor to protect the universe, the Doctor admitted to Donna that he was the happiest he had ever been after giving up traveling for a normal life. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}})
Although in rehabilitation, the Doctor took [[Rose Noble]] on a trip to [[Mars]] and Mel to New York in the Gilded Age, treating his adopted family to smaller adventures and sharing his stories with them. The Doctor also took the time to enjoy more regular activities such as dinners with his adopted family and became fond of the [[mole]]s in the Noble house's backyard, protecting them from [[Wilfred Mott|Wilf]] with force fields. Finally seeing for himself the fruits of his labor to protect the universe, the Doctor admitted to Donna that he was the happiest he had ever been after giving up traveling for a normal life. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}})


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He retained the identity crisis [[Thirteenth Doctor|his predecessor]] had developed over the revelations of the [[Timeless Child]], agreeing with the [[Not-thing]] imitating Donna's assertion that he didn't know where he was from, also admitting to intense guilt over the [[the Flux]]. Though he didn't explicitly inform Donna of these events, he stated that it would be a million years before he'd feel better about it all. ([[TV]]: ''[[Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)|Wild Blue Yonder]]'')
He retained the identity crisis [[Thirteenth Doctor|his predecessor]] had developed over the revelations of the [[Timeless Child]], agreeing with the [[Not-thing]] imitating Donna's assertion that he didn't know where he was from, also admitting to intense guilt over the [[the Flux]]. Though he didn't explicitly inform Donna of these events, he stated that it would be a million years before he'd feel better about it all. ([[TV]]: ''[[Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)|Wild Blue Yonder]]'')


After the Doctor's [[bi-generation]], the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] revealed that the Doctor was emotionally exhausted by everything that they had been through during their lives and everyone that they had lost along the way which the Doctor had never stopped to deal with. At the suggestion of Donna and the Fifteenth Doctor, the Fourteenth Doctor decided to go into [[retirement]] on Earth to have the adventure of living a normal life for once, the one adventure he'd never had, although the Doctor would still take his adopted family on short trips in his TARDIS. The Doctor later admitted to Donna that he had never been so happy in his life. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}})
After the Doctor's [[bi-generation]], the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] revealed that the Doctor was emotionally exhausted by everything that they had been through during their lives and everyone that they had lost along the way which the Doctor had never stopped to deal with. At the suggestion of Donna and the Fifteenth Doctor, the Fourteenth Doctor decided to go into [[rehab]] on Earth to have the adventure of living a normal life for once, the one adventure he'd never had, although the Doctor would still take his adopted family on short trips in his TARDIS. The Doctor later admitted to Donna that he had never been so happy in his life. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}})


=== Habits and quirks ===
=== Habits and quirks ===

Revision as of 04:48, 10 December 2023

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With a near-identical appearance to his tenth incarnation, the Fourteenth Doctor embraced having a second chance with his old face, and responded to all calls of adventure. Energetic and curious, but also sentimental and compassionate, this incarnation of the Doctor battled psychoplasm constructs in the Dalek Dome before eventually reuniting with his old companion Donna Noble for new adventures, all while trying to unravel the mystery of his "new" appearance. After undergoing a bi-generation that created the Fifteenth Doctor and defeating the Toymaker, the Fourteenth Doctor settled into a life of rehab on Earth with Donna, her family and Mel Bush.

Biography

A day to come

When the Eleventh Doctor met the Curator in the Under Gallery and quipped how he "never forget[s] a face", the Curator cryptically replied that he "might find [him]self revisiting a few" in the "years to come", though only "the old favourites". (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

While facing being shot by guards of the Good Doctor, the Thirteenth Doctor claimed any attempt on her life would result in "a miracle". (PROSE: The Good Doctor [+]Loading...["The Good Doctor (novel)"]) She later considered regenerating to generate residual artron energy. (PROSE: The Maze of Doom [+]Loading...["The Maze of Doom (novel)"])

At the conclusion of the final Flux event, after the embodiment of Time disintegrated the Ravagers Swarm and Azure, the Thirteenth Doctor was warned that her "time [was] heading to its end". (TV: The Vanquishers [+]Loading...["The Vanquishers (TV story)"]) The Thirteenth Doctor later compiled a book about all of her lives to aid the her next incarnation if they "[felt] weird" after regeneration. (PROSE: A Short History of Everyone [+]Loading...["A Short History of Everyone (novel)"])

The Thirteenth Doctor remarked to Cleo Proctor that she would stand up again if she "clobber[ed]" her, remarking that she would regenerate "possibly several times". (AUDIO: Salvation [+]Loading...["Salvation (audio story)"])

The Thirteenth Doctor was made to undergo a forced regeneration into her fourteenth incarnation in a chamber by the Spy Master, who used the energy of a Qurunx as the power source for a cyber-conversion planet. This allowed him to obtain the energy needed to initiate and hijack the Doctor's regeneration, while also inserting himself as her fourteenth incarnation. However, due to a fail-safe the Doctor had enacted before her regeneration, a hologram of the Doctor was activated and able to work in conjunction with Yasmin Khan, Tegan Jovanka and Ace to undo the Master's Dalek Plan. Inston-Vee Vinder then helped Yaz force the Master back into the chamber, so that they could use the CyberMasters' regeneration energy to get the Master to degenerate back into the Thirteenth Doctor, returning him to his original body. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])

Post-regeneration

Main article: Thirteenth Doctor's regeneration
The Doctor's clothes change as they regenerate. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])

After the Doctor freed the Qurunx so it could destroy the cyber-conversion planet, the Master spitefully used his Tissue Compression Eliminator to redirect the Qurunx's destructive blast at the Doctor, fatally wounding her. Staving off the regeneration long enough to have a final conversation with Yaz, the Doctor then travelled alone to a cliff overlooking the sea, where she could enjoy the sunrise before she regenerated. Making peace with herself, the Doctor began to regenerate, with her outfit morphing into a completely different set of clothes with her. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"]) After the regeneration completed, the Fourteenth Doctor ran his tongue over his teeth (PROSE: A Letter from the Doctor 2024 [+]Loading...{"page":"6","1":"A Letter from the Doctor (DWAN 2024 short story)"}) and found himself taken aback by the fact that he was in a body remarkably identical to his tenth incarnation, (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"]) thinking how he should be "somebody new" instead of "somebody [he'd] been before", and also thought that his clothes changing too was "weird". (PROSE: "Heroes of Time" [+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Loading...{"namedpart":"Heroes of Time","1":"Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)"})

The Doctor returns to the TARDIS. (COMIC: "Liberation" [+]Part of Liberation of the Daleks, Loading...{"namedpart":"Liberation","1":"Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"})

After returning to the TARDIS, (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"]) the Doctor wrote a letter to the readers of an annual as he continued to question why he had regenerated back into an old body. While he acknowledged that he had new braincells, he wrote that he had regained his old teeth, hands, "fantastic" hair, "slightly quizzical left eyebrow" and "brilliant" grin, concluding that it was nice to have this face back, but that he was still unsure as to why. As he wrote down how his clothes had also changed for the first time since the First Doctor's renewal, he got distracted by something "making a right old racket" on the opposite side of the TARDIS control console. (PROSE: A Letter from the Doctor 2024 [+]Loading...{"page":"6","1":"A Letter from the Doctor (DWAN 2024 short story)"})

The first adventure

The Daleks fire upon the Doctor. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])

Seeing that the noise was a distress signal, the Doctor followed it to what seemed to be Wembley Stadium during the 1966 World Cup Final, where he found what he thought were time tourists watching the historical football tournament, using psychic shields to cover the fact they were a family of purple aliens. However, when a Dalek flying saucer appeared in the sky and started deploying a force of Bronze Daleks to start an invasion, the Doctor focused his efforts on getting the Supreme Dalek's attention so that the Daleks would abandon their attack in an attempt to exterminate him instead. Fleeing back to the TARDIS, the Doctor was handed the World Cup's Jules Rimet Trophy by Georgy Gold, who had mistook him for the police. Not having enough time for explanations, the Doctor bundled Georgy into the safety of the TARDIS, only for a Dalek saucer to seize it before he could follow her in, leaving him surrounded by the Daleks as the Supreme Dalek ordered them to exterminate him, only for their blasts to have no effect, surprising both them and the Doctor. With both wanting answers, the Doctor let himself be taken aboard the Dalek saucer, where he bargained for the invasion to be stopped in return for providing an explanation to the Supreme Dalek after scanning himself with the sonic screwdriver, which the Supreme Dalek agreed to. After scanning the Daleks, the Doctor realised that they were simulacra of real Daleks and and that he was in a simulation, though the Supreme Dalek refused to believe him and destroyed the Earth to prove they were real. However, Claire and Claudine then materialised on the bridge, captured the Doctor and teleported him away, as the Daleks watched in confusion, to the Dalek Dome, where the Doctor met Georgette Gold and learnt he had been in an attraction at a theme park based on Dalek history.

The Doctor sees his sonic screwdriver destroyed. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])

As Georgette showed him the attractions, the Doctor continuously voiced his displeasure at how the "suffering of countless billions" was being made a "fun day out for the family". When Georgette revealed she had lured him in with the distress signal, the Doctor attempted to return to his TARDIS until Georgette told him he couldn't return to the 66-scape until the psychoplasm had been vented, so he followed her to a control room and discovered Kaled mutants sleeping in tanks, with the one designated Specimen Six Sigma waking up, which the Doctor realised was due to his questioning of the Daleks' existence in the 1966 simulation, prompting Georgette to shut it down, depositing the TARDIS in the lobby. The Doctor rushed to the TARDIS, where they discovered Georgy, who was Georgette's simulacra in the 66-space, had been forced to let the Supreme Dalek into the ship in order for it to survive the shutdown and escape into reality. The Doctor tried to convince the Supreme Dalek the Daleks were still fakes by scanning them with his sonic screwdriver, only for the the Supreme Dalek to have one if its guards destroy it, with the gathering crowd convinced they were watching a live show and asking to be exterminated, ignoring the Doctor's warnings. However, it soon became apparent that the Daleks were becoming anatomically unstable and would soon dissolve once the residue from the artron energy in the TARDIS dissipated, along with Georgy. Unable to stop a tearful Georgy from running off due to needing to focus on the Daleks, the Doctor kept them distracted until they melted away, but was then forced to leave the Dalek Dome by the staff when he continued to advocate its closing.

As he planned to skip ahead in time, the Doctor was drawn into the Dalek Dome's Golden City Zone by Georgy, who had allied herself with the Golden Dalek Emperor in order to find a way for the simulacra to become real, and could only watch as a Dalek interrogator used a hypno-pulse in conjunction with Georgy's connection to her to hypnotise Georgette into transmitting the hypno-pulse into the Dalek Dome and allow the Golden Emperor to gain control as it began constructing a quantum-powered reality gate to enable it's escape from the simulation. However, the Doctor managed to trick the Golden Emperor into revealing its plan of conquest to Georgy, and she severed the hypnotic link to the Dome, though she was swiftly killed. As the Golden Emperor explained it would harvest the psychoplasm of the other Dalek Zones, the Doctor was rescued by Georgette, Claire and Claudine, and they escaped to a zone governed by the Dalek Emperor of the Dalek City, who the Doctor convinced to ally with him and a Dalek Alliance in order to stop the Golden Emperor, though the Alliance's attempt to destroy the Golden Emperor only incited chaos. Taking control of the situation, the Doctor teleported himself into the Golden Emperor's control centre and arranged the destruction of the quantum-powered reality gate, causing the psychoscape to collapse as he escaped in his TARDIS, which also destroyed the Daleks attacking the Earth. As Georgette lamented the destruction the Daleks had caused while free in reality, the Doctor left it up to her what to do with Dalek Dome as he made his leave. However, he found that the Jules Rimet Trophy that Georgy had left on the TARDIS control console had also melted, and he pondered if the fast return switch had been compromised. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])

The Doctor sees the first Dalek. (TV: Destination: Skaro [+]Loading...{"timestamp":"03:23","1":"Destination: Skaro (TV story)"})

After the TARDIS crash-landed on Skaro (TV: Destination: Skaro [+]Loading...["Destination: Skaro (TV story)"]) due to the compromised fast return switch, (COMIC: "The Nightmare Ends" [+]Part of Liberation of the Daleks, Loading...{"namedpart":"The Nightmare Ends","1":"Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"}) the Doctor emerged to greet Castavillian and ponder aloud why he had regenerated back into an "old face", only to discover that the TARDIS had collided with a Dalek in a Mark III Travel Machine casing and torn its multi-dextrous claw clean off, as he thought aloud about his fortunate at not being exterminated during the "genesis of the Daleks". Once he realised that Castavillian had been recording down his musings, and that he was creating a bootstrap paradox that could put ruptures in "the timelines and canon", the Doctor went to leave, but stopped to replace the multi-dextrous claw with a plunger before he left. (TV: Destination: Skaro [+]Loading...["Destination: Skaro (TV story)"])

Enjoying a second chance

The Doctor in combat with the Queen of the Sycorax. (COMIC: Into Control [+]Loading...{"page":"52","1":"Into Control (comic story)"})

After he obtained a new sonic screwdriver, (WC: The Fourteenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver [+]Loading...["The Fourteenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver (webcast)"]) the Doctor found himself in what appeared to be a cave, (PROSE: Under Control [+]Loading...{"page":"10-15","1":"Under Control (short story)"}) which he was compelled to explore due to remnants of his tenth incarnation's blood being used in blood control, (COMIC: Into Control [+]Loading...{"page":"53","1":"Into Control (comic story)"}) and he ended up saving a Strombok in peril and rescuing scared Vega Raptons from a pig he named Alfredo. As he and Alfredo rescued some humans and Sarnsquids, (PROSE: Under Control) the Doctor found himself facing the Queen of the Sycorax, who planned to use blood control and the blood taken from the blade that cut off the Tenth Doctor's hand to force the Doctor to take the place of the Sarnsquids that were moving her ship. However, because he had different blood from his tenth incarnation, the Doctor was able to resist the blood control and duelled the Queen until Alfredo knocked her into the ship's bile pit, with the Sycorax Queen teleporting away to escape the vengeful Sarnsquids. As the Sarnsquids took control of the ship, the Doctor urged all the lifeforms aboard to use it to get home as he left with Alfredo, saying that they should make the most of "second chances". (COMIC: Into Control [+]Loading...{"page":"48-55","1":"Into Control (comic story)"})

The Fourteenth Doctor on Planet Bedtime Stories. (TV: Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story [+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story (TV story)"])

The Doctor arrived on Planet Bedtime Stories and told The Way Back Home, a story written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, about a boy who befriended a Martian after they got stranded on the Moon. After concluding the story, he began to tell a story about himself before realising he didn't have enough time to tell it. (TV: Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story [+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story (TV story)"])

Reunion with Donna Noble

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Information from PROSE: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"], PROSE: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (novelisation)"], and COMIC: Untitled [+]Loading...{"noital":"1","1":"Untitled (DWM 598 comic story)","2":"Untitled"} needs to be added.

The Doctor was later reunited with his former companion Donna Noble when London was attacked by the Meep (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"]) in November 2023. (PROSE: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (novelisation)"]) Having had to wipe her memories of her adventures with him after a Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis turned her into the DoctorDonna as his tenth incarnation, the Doctor was anguished at the idea that his presence would potentially return her memories to her, thus overloading her mind and killing her. Nevertheless, the Doctor was forced to restore Donna's memories so she could help him save London and defeat the Meep. To his shock and delight, Donna survived the process, as her daughter, Rose, had inherited part the meta-crisis and shared her power.

After the Meep was defeated, Donna and Rose safely expelled the meta-crisis energy from their bodies, and Donna accepted the Doctor's offer of one last trip in the TARDIS to visit her grandfather Wilf. However, mere minutes after entering, Donna accidentally spilled coffee on the centre console and sent the TARDIS spinning out of control through time and space. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])

The Doctor and Donna briefly stopped in 1666 England, where they met Isaac Newton and inspired his theory of gravity, which he misheard as "mavity", before they were launched onto an empty spaceship at the edge of the universe. The TARDIS abandoned the pair due to its Hostile Action Displacement System being switched back on, and so they investigated the ship to defeat the threat the TARDIS had fled from, which led them to find two Not-Things from beyond the edge that frightened them as much as they could to feast on their fear and take their forms.

The Doctor discovered that the ship's captain had killed herself to stop them impersonating her, and had set the ship on a very slow self-destruct sequence so the Not-Things couldn't figure out what was happening and stop it. The Doctor sped up the countdown, which the TARDIS sensed and travelled back to the ship, picking up the Doctor and Donna just before the ship exploded and killed the Not-Things. They returned to 2023 London to meet Wilf, only to find the city in chaos and Wilf begging the Doctor to stop it. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])

Bi-generation

Main article: Fourteenth Doctor's bi-generation

After being shot by the Toymaker, unusually instead of regenerating, the Fourteenth Doctor experienced bi-generation, which his fifteenth incarnation emerged as a separate incarnation. Together, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors defeated the Toymaker and banished him from existence. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

Rehabilitation

Following the defeat of the Toymaker, the Fifteenth Doctor noted that they had not stopped going since the First Doctor's encounter with the Toymaker. (TV: The Celestial Toymaker [+]Loading...["The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)"]) Listing a number of the fights that the Doctor had experienced as well as the people that they had lost, Adric, Rose Tyler and River Song amongst them, the Fifteenth Doctor suggested that his fourteenth incarnation go into rehab on Earth and enjoy the one adventure he'd never gotten to have: a normal life. Recognising how emotionally exhausted the Doctor was by his experiences, Donna Noble expressed a belief that the Doctor had subconsciously taken on his old face again so that he could find her and come home. After the Fifteenth Doctor used a bi-generation and his prize for defeating the Toymaker to duplicate the TARDIS, the Fourteenth Doctor went into rehab on Earth with the Noble family and Mel Bush while the Fifteenth Doctor continued their adventures.

Although in rehabilitation, the Doctor took Rose Noble on a trip to Mars and Mel to New York in the Gilded Age, treating his adopted family to smaller adventures and sharing his stories with them. The Doctor also took the time to enjoy more regular activities such as dinners with his adopted family and became fond of the moles in the Noble house's backyard, protecting them from Wilf with force fields. Finally seeing for himself the fruits of his labor to protect the universe, the Doctor admitted to Donna that he was the happiest he had ever been after giving up traveling for a normal life. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

Undated events

Other realities

In the Daft Dimension, the Fourteenth Doctor, referred to as an "old Doctor", was mentioned in announcements about Doctor Who. (COMIC: The Daft Dimension 579 [+]Loading...["The Daft Dimension (DWM 579 comic story)","''The Daft Dimension'' 579"]) He later met his tenth incarnation at a birthday party. (COMIC: The Daft Dimension 597 [+]Loading...["The Daft Dimension (DWM 597 comic story)","''The Daft Dimension'' 597"])

Psychological profile

Personality

The Doctor is confused by his familiar body. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])

While he was initially surprised to have the same appearance as the Tenth Doctor, (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"]) the Fourteenth Doctor quickly adapted to having his old body, immediately looking to "respond to calls" of adventure. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"]) When questioned by Donna Noble about having his old face again, the Doctor admitted that he didn't know, but he was stuck with it now. In turn, Donna suggested that there must be a reason that it came back given the Doctor's life. One possible reason that Donna suggested was that it was "to say goodbye" and that the Doctor had been given a second chance to do things differently. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"]) Donna later believed that the Doctor's emotional exhaustion had subconsciously triggered his regeneration back into his old face so that the Doctor would find Donna and come home to live the one adventure he'd never had: a normal life. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

The Fourteenth Doctor opened his arms up to friendships of all sorts, (TV: Destination: Skaro [+]Loading...["Destination: Skaro (TV story)"]) offering a greeting as a show of friendliness, (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"]) as he moved to help all those he found in trouble. (PROSE: Under Control [+]Loading...["Under Control (short story)"]) He was also far more open about his feelings, stating that he platonically loved Donna Noble and later confessing to her that he was glad to have her back, as it "killed [him]" to have to wipe her memory. While confronted with the knowledge of what he assumed to be Wilfred Mott's passing, the Doctor reaffirmed that he "loved that man" and apologized for the Noble family's loss. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"]) When he saw Wilf again, he was overjoyed and hugged him, affectionately greeting him as “old soldier” and later calling Wilf "Grandad." (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"], The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

The Doctor had a tendency to crack jokes during intense situations, but underlining his initial blasé attitude to threats was a righteous fury that made him very dangerous when properly provoked. Despite being strongly pacifistic, he once implied he would deem violence "fit and proper" in a given circumstance. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"]) He threatened to eradicate the Daleks after he thought they had destroyed Earth to prove a point, and taunted the Golden Emperor's ability to escape destruction due to its large casing preventing it from entering the TARDIS. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])

The Doctor comforts Donna. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])

However, the Fourteenth Doctor did possess some qualities his tenth incarnation did not. Some qualities, such as his vanity and ego, were simply lessened in this incarnation, (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"]) others were completely different. He was far more open about his feelings and much more vulnerable, stating that he platonically loved Donna Noble and had been heartbroken after being forced to wipe her memory. He was also anguished when he thought he had lost both Donna and Wilf, but was later elated to discover they were alive and well. Donna later encouraged the Doctor to visit her family from time to time, and maybe even make some friends, which the Doctor admitted he'd consider. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"]) He was also more willing to show more intimate signs of affection to his loved ones, such as gently kissing Donna on the hand, and later on the top of her head, to comfort her when she was afraid. He was similarly quicker to express annoyance, such as when he engaged in argument when Donna snapped at him over the situation in the ship at the edge of creation. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])

The Doctor springs into action. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])

When he set himself up with a difficult task, he would look to find ways of making his mission easier on himself, though he was unafraid to do things "the hard way" when dealing with uncooperative people, though he would prefer to "chat" to solve an issue. He was quick to act when it came to saving people, hastily using himself as bait to draw the Daleks away from the crowd at Wembley Stadium, but could forget vital information when in the heat of the moment. While he would not be intentionally offensive, he was unafraid to use risqué humour. He would also leave people whom were in the midst of a breakdown to focus on dealing with larger and more immediate threats. He still held some of the vanity of his tenth incarnation, asking for an applause from the audience at the Dalek Dome when they mistook his defeat of the Simulacra Daleks for a rehearsed performance. He also rudely rebuffed the Dalek Dome staff when they refused his instructions to close the show down, and returned smugly when he thought they had called him back. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"]) He also strongly implied that he would deem violence "fit and proper" in a given circumstance, although he was still strongly pacifistic. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])

The Doctor admires a cave. (PROSE: Under Control [+]Loading...{"page":"48","1":"Under Control (short story)"})

He loved caves (PROSE: Under Control [+]Loading...{"page":"48","1":"Under Control (short story)"}) and time travel. (TV: Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story [+]Loading...{"timestamp":"00:00:52","1":"Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story (TV story)"})

Continuing the blasé attitude his tenth incarnation showed towards them, the Fourteenth Doctor called the Daleks "nasty children in metal suits", and elevated himself as a "grown-up" in comparison to them. He tried to belittle the Supreme Dalek by calling it "Di Ross", and then took joy in its inability to shoot him. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])

The Fourteenth Doctor retained the Tenth Doctor's fondness for Donna Noble and was anguished at the thought of his presence in her life causing the DoctorDonna to return and kill her. The Doctor only reluctantly restored Donna's memories when there was no other choice with clear reluctance and anguish, although he was elated when Donna survived due to part of the metacrisis having been passed down to her daughter. Donna later encouraged the Doctor to stick around more and spend time with her family, to try something new and have some friends, which the Doctor suggested that he might try. The Doctor also admitted that he remembered every second with Donna and that losing her had killed him. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])

To his own surprise, the Doctor's romantic inclinations appeared to be not entirely heterosexual, happily agreeing with Donna's assertion that Isaac Newton was "hot". Donna jokingly described this inclination as never being "that far from the surface". (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])

The Doctor's raw anguish. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])

He retained the identity crisis his predecessor had developed over the revelations of the Timeless Child, agreeing with the Not-thing imitating Donna's assertion that he didn't know where he was from, also admitting to intense guilt over the the Flux. Though he didn't explicitly inform Donna of these events, he stated that it would be a million years before he'd feel better about it all. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder)

After the Doctor's bi-generation, the Fifteenth Doctor revealed that the Doctor was emotionally exhausted by everything that they had been through during their lives and everyone that they had lost along the way which the Doctor had never stopped to deal with. At the suggestion of Donna and the Fifteenth Doctor, the Fourteenth Doctor decided to go into rehab on Earth to have the adventure of living a normal life for once, the one adventure he'd never had, although the Doctor would still take his adopted family on short trips in his TARDIS. The Doctor later admitted to Donna that he had never been so happy in his life. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

Habits and quirks

The Fourteenth Doctor often explained his jokes and wordplay, and made a habit of assigning cheeky nicknames to others. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"]) He also took on numerous traits of his tenth incarnation, including speaking in the same accent, using the phrase "allons-y", and loudly proclaiming "What!?" repeatedly when vexed by a situation. He was also prone to acting rather silly in serious situations, at one point pulling out a barrister's wig to conduct a mock trial against the Meep. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])

Skills

The Doctor escapes the Daleks. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks)

The Doctor had the agility to outrun pursing Daleks while simultaneously avoiding their gunstick fire. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"]) He also possessed the swordsmanship skills needed to fight off the Queen of the Sycorax. (COMIC: Into Control [+]Loading...["Into Control (comic story)"])

He could determine the date by smelling the air, (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"]) and focus all his senses to pinpoint the origin of a sound. (PROSE: Under Control [+]Loading...["Under Control (short story)"]) He could also analyse blood by taste. (COMIC: Into Control [+]Loading...["Into Control (comic story)"])

Without the aid of the TARDIS's translation circuit, the Doctor could speak German. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"]) The Doctor later confirmed that he could speak over 57 billion languages without the TARDIS translation circuit. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder)

Appearance

The Doctor realises he has an old body. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])

The Fourteenth Doctor greatly resembled a slightly older version of his tenth incarnation, sharing his tall, slim frame, finely boned hands and face, and large, dark brown eyes, as well as his thick brown hair with sideburns, though with a slight copper tinge. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"]) He instantly recognised the similarity from running his tongue over his teeth (PROSE: A Letter from the Doctor 2024 [+]Loading...{"page":"6","1":"A Letter from the Doctor (DWAN 2024 short story)"}) and by the familiar feeling of his face, which also had a five-o'clock shadow of stubble. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])

His kidneys remained their normal blue colour, (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"]) but he had distinct braincells (PROSE: A Letter from the Doctor 2024 [+]Loading...{"page":"6","1":"A Letter from the Doctor (DWAN 2024 short story)"}) and blood to his other incarnations. (COMIC: Into Control [+]Loading...{"page":"52","1":"Into Control (comic story)"})

Although initially in denial about returning to an old body, (PROSE: "Heroes of Time" [+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Loading...{"namedpart":"Heroes of Time","1":"Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)"}) the Fourteenth Doctor was pleased to have regained the hands he "hadn't realised he had missed", familiar face, "fantastic" hair, "slightly quizzical left eyebrow", and "brilliant grin" by the time he wrote about himself in a letter. (PROSE: A Letter from the Doctor 2024 [+]Loading...{"page":"6","1":"A Letter from the Doctor (DWAN 2024 short story)"})

Clothing

Main attires

The Doctor inspects his new clothes. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])

As his clothes manifested with him from his predecessor's regeneration, the Fourteenth Doctor emerged wearing a navy blue trenchcoat over a white button-up shirt, with a grey knitted tie, a brown and turquoise checkered-tartan waistcoat with lapels along with a pair of matching trousers , and papyrus colored Converse shoes. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"]) He also owned a pair of tortoise shell glasses. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])

Behind the scenes

Casting

Regeneration

  • The Fourteenth Doctor is the first incarnation since the Second Doctor to emerge from their regeneration with a new outfit. This deviation from the usual norm of the newly-regenerated Doctor still donning the clothes worn by their predecessor led to some confusion among viewers until Russell T Davies clarified that "[he] was very certain that [he] didn't want David [Tennant] to appear in Jodie [Whittaker]'s costume", explaining that his reason for the Doctor's clothes changing during regeneration was to avoid stereotyping "the notion of men dressing in 'women's clothes', [and] the notion of drag", describing it as a "very delicate" matter, expressing that "it has to be done with immense thought and respect", and that the media would make it "look like mockery" of that culture, especially as David Tennant is taller than Jodie Whittaker.[1]
  • The Fourteenth Doctor is the first Doctor to have their immediate post-regeneration story be depicted in a medium other than television, in the form of the Doctor Who Magazine comic story, Liberation of the Daleks.

In popular culture

The Fourteenth Doctor in Fall Guys.
  • Following the post-regeneration scene in The Power of the Doctor, the Fourteenth Doctor appeared as a character-skin in the free multiplayer battle royale video game Fall Guys, released on 1 November 2022.
  • Tennant portrayed a Doctor in the Fourteenth Doctor's clothing in the Red Nose Day sketch Comic Relief 2023, which saw Lenny Henry suddenly burst into a full on regeneration from stomach pains while preparing to host the Comic Relief live-show, and transform into Tennant, in a partial re-enactment of his scene in The Power of the Doctor, who runs off when he notices he has to host the show. However, Henry being listed as playing the 9.5th Doctor brings ambiguity on whether Tennant was meant to be playing the Fourteenth Doctor or his previous Tenth Doctor character.

Merchandise

Other matters

Footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-david-tennant-regeneration-costume-twist-newsupdate/
  2. ↑ David Tennant is the Doctor! on doctorwho.tv via the Wayback Machine
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