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Furthermore, maybe a legal quibble, but the Timeless Child pre-mindwipe had infinite lives, infinite regenerations. Does this count as a "regeneration cycle" per se? If not, then the 12-shot regeneration cycle that begins with Hartnell and was clearly failing with Smith is the Doctor's first regeneration cycle as such even if some of the pre-Hartnell Timeless Children already called themselves the Doctor.