Category talk:Individuals who know The Doctor's Real Name
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I thought I'd start off this discussion by asking which stories claim that the Doctor's real name is "Dr. Who" or "Doctor Who"? The Doctor's aliases only ever implies that it was used as an alias, much like "The Doctor", and that was the impression I'd previously been under. Anyone know more about this area that is able to provide some sources?
A perhaps more pertinent issue could be the definition of the word "real", because having changed their name to "the Doctor" (or "Dr. Who" in some niche examples), I'm sure the "the Doctor" is now considered to be their "real" name. This could easily be solved by switching "real" for "original" in the title. Danochy ☎ 12:08, May 25, 2020 (UTC)
- In The Name of the Doctor, the Doctor's "original" name is clearly mentioned as still being his true name. The Eleventh Doctor points out that "the Doctor" is the more important name, but he doesn't deny that whatever name opened his Tomb is his real name:
My name, my real name, that is not the point. The name I chose is "the Doctor".
- Similarly, in World Enough and Time, Bill Potts states that “nobody knows the Doctor's real name”.
- As for "Dr. Who", well, look no further than World Enough and Time, where Missy says two contradictory things which the Doctor neither confirms nor denies, one of which is unambiguously that Doctor Who is "the Doctor's real name", which she knows because she grew up with him. But any and all 60's stories where the Doctor introduces himself as "Dr. Who", or where the omniscient third-person narrator calls him "Dr. Who", could also be used.
- (Of particular interest might be Beware the Trods! where the last name of the Doctor's grandson is "Who".) --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 13:19, May 25, 2020 (UTC)
