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The Eleventh Doctor was the eleventh incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. He was sporadic and very alien compared to his previous incarnation, yet he retained his youthful vigor for defending the universe.
Biography
Regeneration
The Doctor's tenth incarnation regenerated after absorbing a vast amount of radiation. After this, he released a massive amount of energy during regeneration, causing severe damage to his TARDIS. Despite the destruction going on around him inside the TARDIS, the new incarnation's first priority was to do a personal inventory of his body to make sure all the proper parts were in place. He kissed one of his knees in relief of finding he still had legs, then counted his fingers. He momentarily worried that he had regenerated as female due to having longer hair, until he confirmed the presence of an adam's apple. He found he had two eyes and a nose which he noted to be better than some previous, though seemed unsettled by his chin. He again moaned that he was still not ginger, something his previous incarnation had also wanted to be. (DW: The Christmas Invasion, NSA: Shining Darkness)
Slightly addled by the regeneration, the new incarnation did not immediately realize the TARDIS was on fire and about to crash. Once he did, he actually seemed to enjoy the thrill of the moment, gleefully calling out "Geronimo!" as his TARDIS plummeted to Earth. (DW: The End of Time)
Unlike most of his recent regenerations, the Doctor was not rendered unconscious or otherwise greatly incapacitated after the change. Aside from developing an odd taste in food, the only apparent ill effects included a temporary "steering problem" with his body, and the occasional spasm. He was, however, knocked unconscious by a cricket bat. (DW: The Eleventh Hour) He indicated that being hit with the cricket bat aided him in his recovery.yes siree bob!!!
Meeting Amy
The Doctor could not control the TARDIS, which crashed in Amelia Pond's garden. The Doctor emerged and ate fish-fingers and custard while sitting with Amelia Pond. After discovering that the crack in Amelia's bedroom wall was a crack in time and a prison and also noticing a perception filtered door, the Doctor heard the cloister bell and left in the TARDIS. He promised young Amelia that he would return in five minutes. 12 years later, the Doctor materialized the TARDIS and entered Amelia's house and knew where Prisoner Zero had hidden. A police officer arrested him and found Doctor's sonic screwdriver, encountering Prisoner Zero. After escaping the house, the Doctor discovered the police officer was Amelia, now called Amy, and that the Atraxi would incinerate Earth in 20 minutes. After failing to attract the Atraxi's attention, the Doctor figured out a new strategy to save Earth. He used Jeff's laptop and Rory Williams' Blackberry Storm to create a trackable computer virus. It brought the Atraxi to Prisoner Zero's location and they captured it. After calling back the Atraxi and convincing them never to return, the TARDIS key alerted the Doctor to the TARDIS's reconstruction being completed. He then made a quick trip to the moon to "run in" the TARDIS. He returned for Amy, two years later, and, unknown to him, the night before her wedding. He offered to take her anytime and anywhere in the universe and they set off. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
Adventures with Amy and Rory
For their first trip, the Doctor took Amy Pond to the late 32nd century, a time when all the Humans had evacuated Earth due to solar flares roasting the planet in the 29th century. They landed on Starship UK, which housed the entirety of the UK, except Scotland. The Doctor discovered the ship was running without an engine, actually being transported by the last Star Whale, driven through torture methods. The Doctor believed he had to lobotomize the Star Whale, thus killing it as painlessly as possible and allowing the ship to still be intact. Amy noticed the similarities between the Doctor and the Star Whale and realized that the Whale was there of its own accord and freed it from the pain. They were leaving the ship before being interrupted by a phone call from Winston Churchill, who informed the Doctor that he was in need of his help. The Doctor told him they were on their way and the two headed off for World War II London. (DW: The Beast Below)
Arriving in 1941, the Doctor and Amy found Churchill, who had previously met the Doctor. (PDA: Players, The Shadow in the Glass) There the Doctor discovered two Daleks that had survived the Medusa Cascade incident. They then created an android, Edwin Bracewell, who claimed to have created the Daleks, and used him to infiltrate Churchill's bunker and get a testimony from the Doctor. They activated a progenitor, creating a new league of pure Daleks. The five new Daleks destroyed the 'inferior' Daleks, and attempted to destroy Earth using Bracewell as a bomb. The Doctor managed to deactivate the bomb, but the Daleks escaped, planning their next stratagem. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)
Intending to watch London from Primrose Hill, a boy called Stephen appeared in the TARDIS, ruining his plans. Stephen told the Doctor and Amy about Space Leeches attacking everyone in London. The Doctor realised why they had not attacked Stephen, as he had a cold, stopping him from being possessed by them. He made the cold super infectious using his sonic screwdriver, while Amy and Stephen touched everyone in London, freeing them from the Leeches. He then led the Leeches to the TARDIS to take them to another planet. (DWA: Attack of the Space Leeches!)
The Doctor and Amy then travelled to the Blue Boar Services in 1959, where they encountered a gang of teenage Petrolions. The Doctor tricked them by waiting until they ran out of fuel, and changed the direction of the fuel, taking the Petrolions off of their bikes. He then ordered them to return to their home planet. (DWA: Madness on the M1!)
After arriving in the Delirium Archive in the 171st century, the Doctor found a Home Box with the message from River Song, trying to contact him. He rescued her and they chased a ship, the Byzantium. It crashed on, Alfava Metraxis the seventh planet of the Dundra system, where River Song revealed there was a Weeping Angel on board. Inside the Aplan's Temple catacombs the Doctor, along with a group of clerics and Bishop, discovered that this maze of the dead was filled with statues. Further inside, the Doctor and River noticed they were weak and starving Weeping Angels. The statues began awakening due to the Starliner's radiation, trapping the group beneath the Byzantium. After a Weeping Angel used the voice of one of the dead clerics to taunt him, the Doctor borrowed Octavian's gun and shot a gravity globe.
The gravity updraft brought the group to the underside of the Byzantium, where they managed to climb inside and briefly elude the Angels. Contacted by Angel Bob, the Doctor realised that there was a crack in the wall of the Byzantium. He was cornered by Angels but escape by talking and distracting them. Reunited with Amy, he discovered that an Angel has invaded the vision centres of her brain, slowly killing her. Instructing her to keep her eyes shut, and leaving her with a number of clerics, the Doctor went with River and Octavian to the flight deck. As River found a way in, Octavian was ambushed by a Weeping Angel. The Doctor, was forced to let it kill Octavian. Once inside the flight deck, the Doctor postulated that the only way to stop the crack from feeding was to feed it a complicated space-time event such as himself. He eventually allowed the Angels to drain all the ship's power, resulting in the loss of the artificial gravity, causing the Angels to fall into the crack and be erased from existence, at the same time curing Amy. After bidding River farewell, the Doctor was asked by Amy to bring her home, where she revealed to him that she was getting married, and attempted to seduce him. Resisting her advances, the Doctor, knowing the explosion that caused the cracks happened on her wedding day, realised that sorting her out might be the most important thing in the universe. (DW: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone)
Collecting Amy's fiancé, Rory, the Doctor took them on a romantic trip to Venice, calling it a "wedding present". Once there, they discovered a group of fish-like aliens masquerading as vampires who were attempting to take over the city. Learning from their matriarch, Rosanna, that their world had been destroyed by another crack, and that they had ran from the silence, the Doctor stopped their plans to flood Venice. However, he was unable to stop Rosanna from committing suicide, asking him if his conscience could bear the weight of another dead species, and told him to dream of them. As the group departed for the TARDIS, the Doctor and Rory noticed that silence had fallen all around them. (DW: The Vampires of Venice)
While travelling with Amy and Rory the Doctor fell into the traps of the Dream Lord, a mysterious entity, who antagonized the three, by giving them a choice between a dream and the real world. After discovering the murder of a group of schoolchildren in a Leadworth scenario and realizing the TARDIS was on a collision course with a cold sun in the other, the Doctor confronted the Dream Lord, telling him he knew his identity. As the crew got colder in the TARDIS, they came under threat from body-snatching Eknodine in Leadworth. The Eknodine managed to kill Rory, who's death caused Amy to realize she had been romanticizing the Doctor, and could not live without Rory. She crashed a van into her house, killing herself and the Doctor, ending the scenario. All three time-travellers awoke in the TARDIS, which the Doctor proceeded to overload and destroy, claiming the Dream Lord had no influence over reality. The Doctor revealed who the Dream Lord was, the Doctor's dark side. Psychic pollen had it to manifest as the Dream Lord, a smug, manipulative man who had a tremendous hatred for the Doctor. As the Doctor started the TARDIS, he briefly saw the Dream Lord's smirking face on the console, a reminder that he was still inside him somewhere. (DW: Amy's Choice)
Although the Doctor planned to take Amy and Rory to Rio de Janeiro in the year 2020, the TARDIS took them almost 6,000 miles off-course, depositing them in Cwmtaff, Wales. The Doctor investigated strange patches of blue grass growing in the village and the disappearance of a worker from the drilling station nearby. Amy was dragged underground by an unknown menace, saving geologist Tony Mack from the same fate. When a scan of the crust around Cwmtaff revealed a network of tunnels leading up from deep below 21 kilometers, where the drill was, an energy barrier blocked the village off from the outside world. The Doctor attempted to marshal a defence with a group of people, but was unable to prevent the attackers from abducting a boy, Elliot Northover. He and Rory succeeded in taking a hostage of their own, a Silurian. The hostage, Alaya informed him that she planned to wipe the Human race from the planet, the Doctor explained to Nasreen, Ambrose, Tony, and Rory that the Silurians were not a bad species and told them he planned to travel underground and negotiate the exchange of Alaya for Amy, Elliot, and Elliot's father, Mo. He warned that they must refrain from hurting or killing their antagonistic hostage. Nasreen elected to join the Doctor in the TARDIS, which was pulled underground into a subterranean cavern deep in the Earth's crust, where they happened upon a sprawling Silurian city.
The Doctor was shocked that Alaya's tribe appeared so vast and apparently intact after hundreds of millions of years spent dormant below the surface. The Doctor and Nasreen were captured by Silurian soldiers lead by Alaya's sister Restac and taken first to a laboratory of the scientist Malokeh where he was nearly killed during a 'decontamination' process. They were then taken to the Silurian court where after a failed rescue attempt by Amy and Mo, Restac threatened to kill them all should Alaya not be returned safely. The firing squad of soldiers were about to dispatch the Doctor and his friends when Silurian leader Eldane arrived and ordered they stand down. The Doctor then left Eldane, Nasreen and Amy to discuss the possibility of Human-Silurian co-habitation of the planet while he and Mo retrieved Elliot and Rory, Ambrose and Tony descended underground. Despite his efforts to broker peace, Ambrose killed Alaya which helped prompt an insurrection by Restac. Eldane helped the Doctor and his companions escape to the TARDIS by forcing the Silurians back into stasis using an emergency poison gas mechanism. Nasreen remained behind with Tony who was mutating in due to Silurian venom. Before Amy, Rory and the Doctor could get safely into the TARDIS, a crack appeared in the cavern wall next to it. The Doctor reached into it and pulled out a piece of shrapnel from the explosion. Unseen, a dying Restac crawled out of a passage and fired her weapon at the Doctor, however Rory pushed him out of the way and took the blow. Rory died and was consumed by the time field emanating from the crack. The Doctor forced a distraught Amy into the TARDIS and despite his best efforts, she forgot Rory. The shrapnel was revealed to be a burnt fragment of the TARDIS. (DW: The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood)
Out of guilt, the Doctor took Amy to several peaceful and beautiful places including the Trojan Gardens and Arcadia. He then took her to an exhibition of Vincent van Gogh's most famous works, held at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, 2010. While there the Doctor noticed a mysterious 'evil' face peering from the window of the Church at Auvers in Vincent's painting of the same name. After inquiring Dr Black, the curator, about the date it was painted on, the Doctor decided to go back to June, 1890 to find van Gogh. They found the artist and after introductions the Doctor and Amy invited themselves to stay the night in his quarters, to which he grudgingly agreed. Later that night Amy was attacked by an invisible monster which Vincent alone could see. When the Doctor and Amy asked Vincent to sketch the monster, he swiftly painted over a still-life to their chagrin. The Doctor attempted to identify it using a Visual Recognition System. He had no luck with the painting but the next day identified it as an alien being, a Krafayis. He encouraged Vincent to paint the Church assuming the monster would come. Vincent agreed and painted the Church. The trio discovered it was blind and afraid, and Vincent inadvertently and regrettably killed it with his easel in self-defence. The next day the three friends prepared to say goodbye, despite Vincent light-heartedly attempting to convince Amy to stay and marry him. The Doctor decided to take Vincent to see his exhibition in 2010 as an attempt to assure him he would become loved and remembered as one of the world's greatest artists. He was overcome with emotion and the Doctor left him back in 1890 seemingly resolved to have a brighter outlook on his life and future. Amy believed he would live to have a longer and have a productive career but found he still killed himself at the same time. The Doctor consoled her and explained that the sadness and bad in life does not detract from the good, implying they did enrich his existence but ultimately could not heal his spirit. It was revealed that Vincent dedicated his Vase with Twelve Sunflowers to Amy, who had encouraged him to paint them. (DW: Vincent and the Doctor)
The Doctor and Amy encountered Hubert Crimp, a slave trader, at the Trans-Vegas Casino, where they freed all of his slaves and won all of his money, giving it to his slaves as compensation. (DWA : Winning Hand) The Doctor then returned his books to the Library, where they encountered Book Monsters. They discovered that they needed to feed them stories, and they were saved by telling them a story about Space Wolves and Sky Sheep. (DWA: Booked Up) He then solved the problem of the TARDIS' arrival sound annoying the inhabitants by muffling the sound with a fire extinguisher. (DWA: Bad Vibrations)
The Doctor was left behind when the TARDIS dematerialized in a park in Colchester, with Amy still inside. The Doctor rented an advertised room in Craig Owens' flat in order to solve the mystery of something on the top floor interfering with the TARDIS's ability to land. The Doctor attempted to act like a normal Human with the help of Amy using an earpiece to communicate with her while he in turn helped Amy work the TARDIS. Within a few days the Doctor began to impose on and change Craig's boring, if secure life. The Doctor protested Craig's asking him to leave by showing him who he really was, banging their heads together twice. Craig's friend, whom he had long been secretly in love with, Sophie, went upstairs to discover a TARDIS-like control room of a space ship on the top floor. The ship's holographic computer program had been attempting to find a suitable pilot for the craft, but the brains of the Humans it lured in were insufficient and they were burned up. Sophie almost met the same fate but the Doctor and Craig saved her. The Doctor began to get pulled in, being the suitable pilot the computer had been searching for, but was in fact too powerful. Realizing that the computer only targeted people who wanted to leave, he convinced Craig to touch the console and think about what was keeping him there. Craig and Sohpie admitted they loved each other then kissed. They all exited the building to see the ship implode, finding there was never a second floor, only a perception filter. The Doctor bode farewell to his new friends and returned to the TARDIS, asking Amy to find a red pen and write a note for him that would lead his past self to Craig's flat, however she found her engagement ring from Rory in his jacket pocket. (DW: The Lodger)
Restarting the Universe
The Doctor and Amy visited Planet One, where they found "hello sweetie" and temporal co-ordinates written on the oldest cliff face in history. He followed the co-ordinates to 102 AD where he found River Song, acting as Cleopatra. She gave him a painting of the Doctor's TARDIS exploding. The Doctor deduced that the name, "The Pandorica Opens", meant that the legendary Pandorica was real. He knew that if someone had built it, they would want to remember where it was. From that, he, River and Amy rode to Stonehenge. There, he found the entrance to the underhenge, a secret passage underneath Stonehenge. In the cavern, the Doctor found the Pandorica. When he touched it, it began to open. River detected signals from the pillars in the cavern, which revealed at least ten thousand ships were orbiting the planet, including at least Dalek saucers, Cyberships, Sontaran flagships, Slitheen vessels, Judoon Rockets and Atraxi. The Doctor sent River back to the Romans to gain their help and bring the TARDIS to him. In the chamber, the Doctor and Amy were attacked by a Cyber arm. The Doctor stopped it, but was electrocuted, while Amy was attacked by a Cyberman head that sought to use her as the new Human component, and eventually, a damaged Cyberman. They were saved by Rory, who had become a Roman.
The Doctor awoke and passed over Rory before noticing it was him. He wondered how Rory had survived being erased but dismissed thinking about it, calling it a miracle. When ships arrived at Stonehenge, the Doctor addressed them and warned them. The fleet left to discuss how to proceed. River phoned the Doctor and told him about her discovery. She had tried to pilot the TARDIS but was taken to 26th June 2010 to Amy's house, where she found a book, "Pandora's Box" and another picturing the Romans. The Doctor ordered her to leave that time, but she could not, and was locked inside the TARDIS. At Stonehenge, the Romans were revealed to be Autons, including Rory, and were activated and captured the Doctor. Many aliens then teleported into the chamber and revealed that they were there to stop the Doctor from exploding the TARDIS and destroying every universe. They locked the Doctor inside the Pandorica despite his protests. The TARDIS exploded and every star in the universe began to go supernova. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)
The Doctor was released from the Pandorica by the Auton version of Rory on the orders of the Doctor's future self, using his future self's sonic screwdriver. Rory showed the Doctor his sonic screwdriver that his future self had told him to let him out. They put Amy in the Pandorica so she would be healed, and the Doctor used River's vortex manipulator to travel to 1996, Rory staying on the linear timeline, protecting the Pandorica. The Doctor arrived at the museum to find a young Amelia Pond and Amy both there and found a fez, putting it on. A Stone Dalek was brought to life by the restoration field from the Pandorica. Rory arrived, dressed as a night guard and shot the Dalek, shutting it down. The Doctor lead the group away as the Dalek began to restore. The Doctor held a mop when Rory told him that that is how he looked when he told Rory to let him out of the Pandorica. The Doctor then travelled back to 102 AD and told the past version of Rory to let him out. He returned and Amelia told him she was thirsty. He asked how Amelia knew to go there, so she gave him a leaflet and note, both with his handwriting on it. He travelled in time to Amelia's house one night before she visited the museum and left her the leaflet telling her to go there. He then visited her while she was visiting the museum, stole the drink she had at the time and left her the note. He returned and found Amelia had disappeared, as time was shrinking. They began to head for the roof when a future version of the Doctor arrived at the top of the stairs, injured. The future Doctor fell down before dying. They three went to the roof and found the TARDIS still exploding, acting as a sun to the Earth. The Doctor found that River was inside, locked in a time loop. He teleported in and saved her. River returned and destroyed the Doctor's fez with the help of Amy. The Dalek hovered to the roof so the four then returned inside.
Inside the Doctor worked out a way to fix the universes' destruction using the Pandorica. The Dalek shot the Doctor and he travelled back in time to the stairs. There he told his past self to pretend he was dead, creating a distraction. River, having killed the Dalek, Rory and Amy returned down to the Pandorica and found the Doctor inside it, having fixed up the vortex manipulator. The Doctor said farewell to Amy before flying the Pandorica into the heart of the TARDIS' explosion. The Doctor then woke up in the TARDIS one week prior, rewinding through his timestream. He passed through several events, attempting to talk to Amy, before being able to do so aboard the Byzantium. He then returned to 1996, finding young Amelia asleep in the garden. He took her to her bed and talked to the sleeping child about the TARDIS, that he had borrowed it and that it was "ancient and new, and the bluest blue ever". He entered the crack in Amelia's wall, closing them forever. At Amy's wedding reception, Amy remembered the Doctor's description, thanks to River's diary and the old wives saying, "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue". She brought back the Doctor, using her memories of him. He arrived in the TARDIS, fully dressed in a tux and top hat. The Doctor introduced himself to her friends and family before moving his box and dancing on the dance floor. Later, outside Amy's cottage, the Doctor encountered River and returned her diary. He asked if River was married, to which she gave an ambiguous answer. The Doctor asked who she was, so she replied by telling him he would find out soon and then teleported away. The Doctor returned to the TARDIS and Rory and Amy entered. They told him to take the day off, though the Doctor was still concerned about "the silence". The Doctor then recieved a call from a queen about an Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express. He told Amy and Rory that he must now say goodbye, so Amy opened the TARDIS door and waved goodbye to her life in Leadworth as the Doctor started up the TARDIS. (DW: The Big Bang)
Appearance
Characteristics
This incarnation had long dark hair which initially made him believe himself female. He confirmed that he wasn't with the presence of an adam's apple, but was still annoyed that he was not ginger. He had a large chin, which seemed to initially unsettle him. He commented on his nose though noted that he'd had worse.
Clothes
For most of his first adventure, the Doctor wore the tattered clothes of his previous incarnation. Like his third and eighth incarnations, (DW: Spearhead from Space, Doctor Who) he stole his clothing from the staff room of a hospital. Unlike the previous occasions, however, this particular theft, was at least meekly protested by one of that hospital's staff.
The eleventh incarnation's primary outfit consisted of a plain brown tweed jacket with elbow patches, a dress shirt, a bow tie, braces, a gold wrist watch, rolled up navy-blue trousers and black boots. (DW: The Eleventh Hour) He would later vary the colour of the shirt, bow tie and braces from maroon to teal. The tweed jacket had pockets which were bigger on the inside, as the Doctor was able to produce a large UV lamp from his inside pocket (DW: The Vampires of Venice) along with many other things. He also managed to put a large piece of the TARDIS into his pocket. (DW: Cold Blood)
His second jacket was checked in design (DW: Victory of the Daleks, The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone) though he lost it while escaping from Weeping Angels aboard the Byzantium starship. After that incident, he resumed wearing his first jacket. (DW: The Vampires of Venice onwards) The jacket became tattered after the Doctor was shot at by a Dalek. At one point, after having lost his second jacket, he was seen to be wearing his first jacket, as well as wearing a black wristwatch instead of his gold one. This was later shown to be the Doctor from the future who came back in time to talk to Amy. (DW: Flesh and Stone)
- The Doctor from the future donned a black wristwatch instead of a gold one. This was a production error.
While in the National Museum, the Doctor found a fez in one of the displays. He decided to start wearing a fez with his outfit stating that "Fezzes are cool", in the same way he had with bow ties. The fez was later removed by Amy and destroyed by River Song, both who disapproved of it. While rewinding through his own timeline, the Doctor felt for the fez on his head, but it was not there. He concluded to himself that he could easily buy another. (DW: The Big Bang)
While attending Amy and Rory's wedding, the Doctor wore a formal tuxedo and trousers, along with a white bow tie, white scarf, and a black top hat. (DW: The Big Bang)
Psychological Profile
Personality
The eleventh incarnation was highly energetic and very lively, much like his predecessors, with additional liveliness during his post-regenerative period. He was extremely brash and unafraid to show his eccentricities, appearing to act alien. He was also easily agitated when people or objects did not do as he wished them to, and would resort to physical confrontation and somewhat reckless behaviour to achieve his goals. He had, like a number of his other incarnations, fantastic leadership qualities. Much like his ninth and tenth incarnations, he also has a large amount of knowledge of Earth slang and colloquialism as he was aware of Facebook, Twitter and Bebo. He appeared to have remembered a few of his predecessor's catchphrases, such as "Fantastic!", "There's been some cowboys in here", and repetition of the word "What!". He was extremely resourceful and quick thinking, able to spin things to his point of view, and could find positive outlooks in negative situations. He was somewhat more melodramatic in his brilliance, going so far as to prove Fermat's last theorem, faster-than-light travel and why electrons had mass, just to prove he could be trusted. When thinking about a problem, he blocked out all outside distractions, to the point where he told Amy "you're dying, shut up" so he could solely concentrate on working out how to save her. (DW: Flesh and Stone) He also remarked about how he saved the world "for about the millionth time". (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
Much like his second incarnation, this incarnation showed a childlike recklessness, but always had a grander scheme behind his actions. Also similar to his second incarnation, the eleventh had a knack for acting smug, occasionally boasting about his feats, knowledge, and reputation.
This incarnation also had a more serious side to his character. He showed little tolerance for dire mistakes and being belittled by others, even threatening to leave Amy back at home after one mistake. (DW: The Beast Below) He often took his frustrations out on others by exploding with anger and coldness. (DW: The Beast Below, Flesh and Stone, Amy's Choice) He was also more prone to violent actions and sometimes used them as his first option to achieve his goals. He repeatedly attacked a Dalek with a spanner in order to provoke it into showing its true nature and immediately struck Dr. Bracewell in order to incapacitate his detonation. (DW: Victory of the Daleks) He also appeared to be almost downright threatening to the Atraxi after they surveyed a projection of him. Using his near-legendary reputation to his own advantage. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
This incarnation also possessed a sense of arrogance, stating to Amy that "time is not the boss of me" (DW: The Time of Angels) and "you don't ever decide what I need to know". (DW: The Beast Below)
The eleventh incarnation shared many, but much milder, traits of the sixth incarnation, such as the solemn nature when not being taken seriously and the belittling of Humans. Also reminiscent is the lack of interest in his companions, much more than his previous incarnation was, even ignoring them when busy with his work. He also largely preferred his companions to follow his instructions but usually fell back to his previous incarnation's habit of letting his companions try their own plans. He scolded Amy for her initial refusal to go back to the TARDIS with Rory while he tried to stop the Saturnynian's plan. (DW: The Vampires of Venice) Unlike his previous incarnation, this Doctor seemed slightly annoyed with River Song instead of enjoying her company, as he could not stand the fact that River knew more about his own future than he did, and resented her apparently superior control of the TARDIS. He was also mildly callous like his sixth and ninth incarnations, not believing in using white lies nor did he dabble around with the truth like his tenth incarnation. He was straight to the point and did not beat around the bush, no matter how bad the situation was. He held up an awestruck Rory by his collar in order to stop him from babbling and get information out of him quickly, (DW: The Eleventh Hour), calmly told Amy that she was on the verge of dying despite River Song's attempt to calm her by lying, (DW: Flesh and Stone) and casually explained that even if the TARDIS fell into a threatening cold star, it wouldn't matter because everyone inside would have already frozen to death. (DW: Amy's Choice) Also like his sixth incarnation, this incarnation occasionally badly misjudged people. Similar to how the sixth misjudged Lytton, the eleventh stated he wished he had known Father Octavian better just before he was killed by a Weeping Angel. (DW: Flesh and Stone)
The eleventh incarnation's more extreme emotional moments seem linked to making hard choices and the potential that innocents may suffer and die as a result of them. When it appeared he had to lobotomise the Star Whale in order to save it more pain, he seemed disgusted with the situation and himself, remarking that he will have to change his name because he wouldn't be the Doctor any more. (DW: The Beast Below) He also had a tendency to ramble when he was panicking or stressed. When discovering that countless Dalek craft were situated outside Stonehenge, he rambled on about how "they'll never expect three people to attack twelve thousand Dalek battleships, because we'd be killed instantly, so it would be a fairly short surprise. Forget Surprise", turning the Daleks and Cybermen against each other because the Daleks "are always so cross", and when he heard the Sontarans he asked the question "Who stole all their hammocks?". (DW: The Pandorica Opens (TV story))
Much like his fourth, sixth, and ninth incarnations, this Doctor was much more outwardly alien and wasn't as in touch with Humanity as his fifth, eighth and previous incarnation were. The eleventh incarnation believed that a Human's ability to feel pain and suffering defined their Humanity. (DW: Victory of the Daleks) He was unable to comfort an upset Vincent Van Gogh (DW: Vincent and the Doctor) and found it difficult to act like an average Human when staying with Craig Owens. (DW: The Lodger) This incarnation was also aware of the flaws Humans had and reminded them of those flaws, a trait his ninth incarnation had. He seemed to suggest that he saw Humans as beneath him, unlike his tenth incarnation. When speaking with Father Octavian about Alfava Metraxis, he compared Humans to rabbits and claimed he would never be done saving them. (DW: The Time of Angels) When Amy suddenly forced herself upon the Doctor and kissed him he immediately responded with "But you're Human!". (DW: Flesh and Stone) The eleventh incarnation still showed a deep respect for Humanity, calling them an "extraordinary species" and telling Alaya that it was dangerous to underestimate them (DW:The Hungry Earth), subsequently allowing Amy and Nasreen to represent Humanity in the debate with the Silurian elder to find a common ground for both species, rather than representing Humanity himself. (DW: Cold Blood)
The eleventh incarnation had shown a dislike of war and the use of weaponry, at least for violent means. He fired a gun to detonate a gravity globe and expressed no displeasure against weapons being used on the Weeping Angels, though this could have been because the weapons clearly had no effect on them. (DW: The Time of Angels) However, he became almost threatening when Ambrose Northover suggested they use weapons against the Silurians, claiming it wasn't how he solved problems. As she protested, he told her firmly with a small smile that she was better than using weapons and was asking nicely. Later he told Alaya that there was a "peace to be brokered" and that he wouldn't let her provoke a war. (DW: The Hungry Earth) While posing as a normal Human being, the Doctor played football on Craig Owens' team and was disgusted and became threatening when one of Craig's friends asked him if he would help "annihilate" the other team. However, the Doctor soon realised that Craig's friend meant simply beat the other team at a football game. (DW: The Lodger)
The eleventh incarnation had also shown a tendency to refer to Amy by her surname, much as his first incarnation did with Ian Chesterton. Also similar to his first incarnation, this Doctor was not keen on hiding his emotions, usually making his anger obvious through violent actions and tone of voice. However, unlike his previous incarnation, he seemed unable to respond well in a romantic situation with Amy Pond. (DW: Flesh and Stone) Despite this awkwardness in response to an attempted seduction, the eleventh incarnation did show an ability to be affectionate and comforting with Amy, such as when he kissed her on the forehead (DW:Victory of the Daleks, Flesh and Stone/The Big Bang) and held her hand. (DW: Amy's Choice)
This incarnation had also shown some concern about his legs. Immediately after his regeneration, his first act was to make sure that he still had legs. (DW:The End of Time). Later on, after he had thrown himself into the explosion in the heart of the TARDIS, the first thing he did was check his legs were still there. (DW: The Big Bang)
This incarnation was shown to have resolved much of the survivors guilt seen in his ninth and tenth incarnations, to the extent that he referred to the time war as simply a 'bad day'. (DW: The Beast Below)
This incarnation seemed more willing to sacrifice himself. Several times he told Amy and Rory to return to the TARDIS in times of great danger, and sacrificed himself to create the big bang two. (DW: The Time of Angels, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice, Cold Blood, The Big Bang)
Habits and Quirks
This incarnation could tell how old something was by taste, a trademark of the fifth and tenth incarnations. He was often late, for example arriving twelve years later than he intended (DW: The Eleventh Hour), like his fifth, ninth and tenth incarnations. He also appeared to have incredibly good eyesight as well as an eidetic memory, and was able to scan an entire scene and pick up little details. He implored others to observe every detail in an area and make brilliant deductions from doing so.
He also showed a penchant for talking with his hands, being able to calculate a situation with hand gestures. While trying to understand the Cracks appearing in the Byzantium and what it could mean, he made a circular gesture as if he was forming a clock then erasing it. (DW: Flesh and Stone) He also shaped out a large nose with his hands when he referred to Rory Williams, whom he had a habit of patting chummily on the face. He also had a habit of spinning in circles when walking and spinning around in a complete counter clockwise circle to look in one direction instead of turning to the right. (DW: The Eleventh Hour, The Big Bang)
Like his tenth incarnation's fondness for bananas and little gift shops, this incarnation was fond of bow ties.
Much like his tenth persona, this incarnation had horrible social skills. He went into detail about his encounter with Amy at Rory's Bachelor party, (DW: The Vampires of Venice) and often interrupted himself, and others, to tell someone to "shut up!" Also, this incarnation was frequently out-done verbally by Amy, to the point of becoming flustered at some of her wittier remarks. He also had a habit of making various subtle light-hearted innuendos with Rory (DW: The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice) but ended up clueless when Amy tried to flirt with him. (DW: Flesh and Stone) However, he had become a little more adept at dealing with, or at least deflecting, such innuendos by the time Amy and Rory were married. (DW: The Big Bang)
He also had a habit of rambling, making rapid amendments to his speech, to the point where it seemed like he was talking nonsense. (DW: The Time of Angels, The Vampires of Venice)
A habit that seemed to mildly disturb the Doctor when Amy pointed it out to him was his propensity for tasting things in order to determine their chemical and mineral composition. This ability recalled one he displayed in the early days of his tenth life. (DW: The Christmas Invasion, Tooth and Claw, The Idiot's Lantern) Once, when Amy asked him if he'd always "been this disgusting," he replied, "No, that's... recent." (DW: The Hungry Earth)
Frequently, this incarnation had asked his companions and others to trust him before he began any plan. This Doctor had also frequently hushed others while he trying to think. Before the eleventh incarnation pointed at someone or something, he usually clicked his fingers and then pointed. When he walked somewhere at a pace, he usually did so with his head looking at the ground. He also displayed a preference for sitting down casually and nonchalantly with leg crossed, appearing quite comfortable and in control during crisis' or tense situations, something he alluded to with a reference to the "comfy chairs" in the Byzantium starship. (DW: Flesh and Stone)
This incarnation had displayed a penchant for unexpectedly pulling miscellaneous objects out of his jacket when needed, akin to his fourth and tenth incarnations. These items included:
- A magnifying glass. (DW: The Beast Below)
- A Jammie Dodger biscuit. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)
- A library card. (DW: The Vampires of Venice)
- A large UV light wand. (DW: The Vampires of Venice)
- A red and yellow rubber ball. (DW: Amy's Choice)
- A pair of binoculars .(DW: The Hungry Earth, The Pandorica Opens)
- A slingshot. (DW: The Hungry Earth)
- A pair of infrared thermal imaging sunglasses. (DW: The Hungry Earth)
- A red handkerchief with white polka dots. (DW: Cold Blood)
The eleventh incarnation had shown several uses of his telepathic powers, once apparently using them to influence Amy's 'dream' of her younger self joining him so that she dreamed of Prisoner Zero's true form, although this may have been influenced by him speaking to her rather than any telepathic ability. (DW: The Eleventh Hour) On another occasion he filled Craig Owens in on his true past by head-butting him to apparently 'force' his memories into Craig's head, although this experience was apparently disorientating to both. He may have used this method due to a lack of time for more subtle measures. (DW: The Lodger) He also used them to leave Amy a message when she woke up and was released from the Pandorica, telling her to rest. (DW: The Big Bang)
TARDIS
As a result of the damage caused by his tenth regeneration, the Doctor's TARDIS seemed to regenerate itself. While its interior radically changed, the exterior was also slightly affected. Most noticeably, the right exterior door was again emblazoned with a St. John Ambulance symbol, as it had been on his initial incarnation's TARDIS. The light on the roof also once again resembled a fresnel navigation lamp, the blue was brighter and the windows had changed to include white borders around the glass panels and alternating frosting on the bottom panes. The exterior configuration was similar to the design the first incarnation used.
At some point the Doctor threw his much-abused TARDIS Instruction Manual into a Supernova. He later justified the move by saying he "disagreed with it". (DW: Amy's Choice)
Key Life Events
- The Doctor regenerates. (DW: The End of Time)
- The TARDIS destruction makes the Doctor crash on Earth in 1996, where he meets a young Amelia Pond. (DW: The End of Time / The Eleventh Hour)
- Meets Amy Pond and her boyfriend Rory Williams 12 years later and saves the world from Prisoner Zero and the Atraxi. The TARDIS regenerates on the inside and outside. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
- Travels 2 years to the future, and invites an older Amy to travel with him in the TARDIS. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
- Travels to the Starship UK with Amy where he helps Liz Ten to discover the truth about the ship. (DW: The Beast Below)
- Re-encounters Winston Churchill and the Daleks in World War II and witnesses their resurrection. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)
- Re-encounters River Song and assists her in escaping the Byzantium while rediscovering the Weeping Angels. (DW: The Time of Angels)
- Uses his Sonic Screwdriver to scan a crack on board the Byzantium and discovers that the Cracks can unwrite time. Resists Amy's romantic advances, claiming to be 907 years old. (DW: Flesh and Stone)
- Invites Rory aboard the TARDIS and takes him and Amy to Venice on a romantic getaway. Unintentionally causes the extinction of the Saturnynian race and hears the silence for the first time. (DW: The Vampires of Venice)
- Faces a manifestation of his dark side controlled by psychic pollen given the name the Dream Lord. (DW: Amy's Choice)
- Faces a threat from the Silurians. (DW: The Hungry Earth))
- Examines the Crack and decides to put his hand inside and reached inside it to find a piece of the TARDIS door. The Doctor's life is saved by Rory after Restac fires her weapon at the Doctor and Rory pushes him out of the way, taking the blow at the cost of his own life. Witnesses Rory's body being absorbed into a Time Field. (DW: Cold Blood)
- The Doctor and Amy Pond visit Arcadia and the Trojan Gardens. (DW: Vincent and the Doctor)
- Meets Vincent Van Gogh. With Amy, takes Van Gogh to the year 2010 in an attempt to make a difference in his life but ends with Vincent still committing suicide at the age of 37. (DW:Vincent and the Doctor)
- The Doctor is trapped on Earth for some time and tries his best to have a normal "human" life but is trying to solve the mystery of the staircase with Craig Owens. (DW: The Lodger)
- The Doctor and Amy visit Space Florida. (DW: The Big Bang)
- Travels to Planet One to read the very first words of the universe, translated by the TARDIS. The Doctor is trapped inside the Pandorica for the wrong reason, by his allies and greatest enemies, the Alliance. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)
- The Doctor escapes the Pandorica with the help of Auton Rory, and uses a vortex manipulator to travel through time to save Amy and the entire Universe almost sacrificing himself to the cracks in the process, but is remembered by Amy at her wedding reception and brought back. The Doctor asks River Song who she is River responds and answers "You will find out very soon" and adds "I'm sorry but that's when everything changes". The Doctor receives a call from "[Your] Majesty" that an Egyptian goddess has escaped on the Orient Express, the Doctor, Amy and Rory go on another adventure in the TARDIS. (DW: The Big Bang)
Undated/Unchronicled events
- There are several gaps in which a number of adventures may have happened:
- Between Rory joining the Doctor and Amy on the TARDIS and his death. (DW: The Vampires of Venice, Cold Blood)
- Amy's Choice took place during this time.
- Between Rory's death and visiting Planet One.
- The Doctor and Amy visit Arcadia and the Trojan Gardens during this time.
- The events of Vincent and the Doctor and The Lodger take place during this time.
- After Amy and Rory's wedding.
- The Doctor and Amy go in search of the Doctor's favourite painting. Rory is not present. (WC: The War of Art, WC: Amy's History Hunt)
- Between Rory joining the Doctor and Amy on the TARDIS and his death. (DW: The Vampires of Venice, Cold Blood)
- The Doctor and Amy discover the Daleks have taken over Earth in 1963. Following them back to Skaro they are able to undo the damage they have done. (VG: City of the Daleks)
- The Doctor and Amy discover an ancient Cybermen army hidden underground in the Arctic circle, being undug by Cyber Slaves - events occured on May 4th 2010. (VG: Blood of the Cybermen)
- The Doctor and Amy visit Smyslov 3 for the first time, in their perspective, and learn that their future selves visited there. (WC: Wish You Were Here)
- The Doctor and Amy fight the Entity inside the TARDIS. (VG: TARDIS)
- The Doctor and Amy visit Smyslov 3 and disable Tanik's missiles. (WC: Wish You Were Here)
Behind the scenes
- The comic strip The Crimson Hand, published in Doctor Who Magazine from issue 416 in December 2009, was the last strip to feature the tenth incarnation. Similarly, the American comic book publisher, IDW Publishing, announced at the New York Comic Con in February 2009 that it will begin publishing original comic book adventures featuring the eleventh incarnation as of issue 18 of Doctor Who Ongoing, scheduled for publication in December 2010.
- On 19th April, it was confirmed that Matt Smith would be appearing in the fourth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures as the eleventh incarnation, alongside Katy Manning as former companion Jo Grant.
- Benedict Cumberbatch (star of Sherlock, another show by Steven Moffat) was rumoured to have been offered the role of the eleventh incarnation and turning down the role,[1] however, he denied this.[2] Coincidentally Matt Smith auditioned for Sherlock for the role of John Watson but was rejected for being "more of a Sherlock Holmes."[3] That auditioned ended up causing Smith to be a prime canidate for the eleventh incarnation.
- British tabloid The Sun has reported that the eleventh incarnation's costume would be changed for Matt Smith's second series as the Doctor. The reason for this, the article cites, is that the majority of the series will be filmed in winter months and the tweed jacket isn't warm enough. The article does not specify if the entire costume will be changed or simply a warmer tweed jacket will be found, but language used in the article seemed to indicate the Doctor's "professor-style outfit" will be changed, suggesting the former.[1] However, pictures from the filming of the 2010 Christmas Special revealed that the basic outfit had not changed.[4]
- On the cover of Death of the Doctor, the Doctor is seen wearing a plain white shirt under his tweed jacket. A trailer for the series showed him wearing the white shirt.[5]
- Matt Smith has made several public statements — as on The Jonathan Ross Show and in the question-and-answer session following the New York theatrical premiere of The Eleventh Hour — taking credit for the tweed jacket, braces and bow tie that his incarnation eventually wore. He has also relayed that there was some reluctance from Steven Moffat and other top executives to the bow tie in particular, but that it nevertheless "sat right" with his performance. Smith's influence — according to CON: Call Me the Doctor and a mid-April 2010 appearance on Fox Broadcasting Company's Strategy Room — was the character of Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr., as he was most often clothed on the campus of Barnett College.
- When queried about the exact nature of the bow tie, Karen Gillan told the audience of the 2nd April 2010 edition of the CBBC programme, Laugh Out Loud, that Smith's bow tie wasn't a "proper" bow tie, but instead a pre-tied dicky bow. This can be confirmed by carefully watching him put on the tie The Eleventh Hour, although the action is somewhat obscured by the Atraxi projection.
External links
- ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1298040/New-Sherlock-Holmes-Benedict-Cumberbatch-turns-Doctor-Who-role.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
- ↑ http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/08/20/sherlock-star-benedict-cumberbatch-wouldn-t-fancy-being-doctor-who-115875-22500295/
- ↑ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a201372/matt-smith-rejected-for-bbcs-sherlock.html
- ↑ http://www.geeknative.com/12624/first-pictures-doctor-whos-new-costume/
- ↑ http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/sarah-jane-series-4-autumn-teaser-9057.htm