Fall of the War Chief
During the War Chief incident, the War Chief was shot dead by the War Lords. (TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"]) Though the court of Time Lords presumed that he had not survived, (PROSE: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (novelisation)"]) other accounts showed that the War Chief went on to regenerate into a new incarnation. (GAME: The Legions of Death [+]Loading...["The Legions of Death (game)"], PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)","Timewyrm: Exodus"])
One account showed that the regeneration process had audibly began shortly after the War Chief was shot. (TV: The War Games in Colour [+]Loading...["The War Games in Colour (TV story)"]) According to another, he did not start to regenerate until his body had been moved aboard a ship by the War Lords; this process was an aborted regeneration into a deformed body in which would spend some time in Nazi Germany before circumstances led to his transformation to a form which was "young, tall, dark and satanically handsome". (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)"]) Yet another claimed that he was able to stagger back to his TARDIS before he regenerated into his next incarnation. (GAME: The Legions of Death [+]Loading...["The Legions of Death (game)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Fall of the War Chief is the title of the tenth chapter of the novelisation The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (novelisation)"].
- The War Games in Colour, which features the Second Doctor's regeneration into the Third Doctor, has the War Chief accompanied by incidental music associated with the Master, who was originally introduced as a nemesis to the Third Doctor. However, whilst establishing that the War Chief begins to regenerate after being shot, The War Games in Colour stops short of showing what became of him.
