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=== Species === | === Species === | ||
By some early accounts, | By some early accounts, Dr. Who was a [[human]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)|Doctor Who and the Daleks]]'', [[TV]]: "[[The Chase (TV story)|Journey into Terror]]", {{source}}, et al.) from the [[49th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') He built ''Tardis'' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[]]'') | ||
However, according to the vast majority of accounts, the Doctor was a [[Time Lord]] from the planet [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'', {{source}} et al.) By some of these accounts, both [[the Doctor's mother|mother]] and [[the Doctor's father|his father]] were Time Lords.{{source}} By others, he was half-Time Lord and half-human, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', et al.) born to a human mother, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', et al.) [[Penelope Gate|Penelope]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') and a Time Lord father, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Grimm Reality (novel)|Grimm Reality]]'', et al.) [[Ulysses]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') By still others, he was [[Loom]] | However, according to the vast majority of accounts, the Doctor was a [[Time Lord]] from the planet [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'', {{source}} et al.) By some of these accounts, both [[the Doctor's mother|his mother]] and [[the Doctor's father|his father]] were Time Lords.{{source}} By others, he was half-Time Lord and half-human, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', et al.) born to a human mother, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', et al.) [[Penelope Gate|Penelope]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') and a Time Lord father, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Grimm Reality (novel)|Grimm Reality]]'', et al.) [[Ulysses]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') By still others, he was not born but instead woven from a [[Loom]] and grew up in the [[House of Lungbarrow]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'', ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | ||
[[Post-War universe|After the end]] of the [[War in Heaven]], following the erasure of the Time Lords from [[history]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') the Doctor was originally [[Soul (Sometime Never...)|Soul]], a member of the [[Council of Eight]], who suffered [[amnesia]] and, after the two landed the ''[[Jonah (ship)|Jonah]]'' in a [[junkyard]] in [[London]], [[1963]], believed that [[Zezanne]] was his [[granddaughter]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'') | [[Post-War universe|After the end]] of the [[War in Heaven]], following the erasure of the Time Lords from [[history]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') the Doctor was originally [[Soul (Sometime Never...)|Soul]], a member of the [[Council of Eight]], who suffered [[amnesia]] and, after the two landed the ''[[Jonah (ship)|Jonah]]'' in a [[junkyard]] in [[London]], [[1963]], believed that [[Zezanne]] was his [[granddaughter]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'') | ||
The [[Eighth Doctor]] was often confused as to whether he was Loomed or born to parents, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'', ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') sometimes remembering both at the same time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') | The [[Eighth Doctor]] was often confused as to whether he was Loomed or born to parents, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'', ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') sometimes remembering both at the same time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') | ||
=== Past lives === | === Past lives === | ||
According to most accounts, the Doctor's trip with his [[granddaughter]] [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] to a [[junkyard]] in [[London]], [[1963]], occurred before his first [[regeneration]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', et al.) | According to most accounts, the Doctor's trip with his [[granddaughter]] [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] to a [[junkyard]] in [[London]], [[1963]], occurred before his first [[regeneration]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', et al.) | ||
However, by some accounts, the Doctor had already [[regeneration|regenerated]] several times before he went with Susan to the junkyard. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Something at the Door (short story)|Something at the Door]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (audio story)|Cold Fusion]]'') | |||
A renowned explorer, he lived in the [[House of Blyledge]] with his wife [[Patience (Cold Fusion)|Patience]]. Together, they had thirteen children across several incarnations, and multiple grandchildren, although most of their family was killed in a government culling of the [[womb]]-born. The Doctor barely escaped with his newborn granddaughter in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|a stolen TARDIS]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') | |||
Additionally, some accounts said that the Doctor's [[biodata]] included memories from a [[Triumvirate|founder]] of Time Lord society called "[[the Other]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', et al.) | Additionally, some accounts said that the Doctor's [[biodata]] included memories from a [[Triumvirate|founder]] of Time Lord society called "[[the Other]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', et al.) | ||
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According to one account, these memories indicated that the Other was an [[Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|"Old Man"]] from [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[England]] who invented the TARDIS to help the [[police]], then left Earth to introduce [[civilisation]] to a [[jungle planet]] called Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') By another account, the Doctor's secret was that he was [[Nyarlathotep]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Death of Art (novel)|The Death of Art]]'') | According to one account, these memories indicated that the Other was an [[Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|"Old Man"]] from [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[England]] who invented the TARDIS to help the [[police]], then left Earth to introduce [[civilisation]] to a [[jungle planet]] called Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') By another account, the Doctor's secret was that he was [[Nyarlathotep]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Death of Art (novel)|The Death of Art]]'') | ||
By one account, the Doctor had these memories because, after the Other committed [[suicide]] by throwing himself into the [[Prime Distributor]] for the Looms, he was reincarnated as the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') According to other accounts, the Other was instead just an [[The Doctor's aliases|alias]] used by the Doctor when he travelled back in time to influence [[Rassilon]] in early [[Gallifreyan history]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scrolls of Rassilon (short story)|The Scrolls of Rassilon]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') | By one account, the Doctor had these memories because, after the Other committed [[suicide]] by throwing himself into the [[Prime Distributor]] for the Looms, he was [[reincarnation|reincarnated]] as the Doctor. The [[First Doctor]] eventually travelled back in time to early Gallifreyan history to pick up the Other's granddaughter, who instinctively recognized him as her grandfather. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') According to other accounts, the Other was instead just an [[The Doctor's aliases|alias]] used by the Doctor when he travelled back in time to influence [[Rassilon]] in early [[Gallifreyan history]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scrolls of Rassilon (short story)|The Scrolls of Rassilon]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') | ||
The [[Fifth Doctor|Fifth]] and [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth Doctor]]s had only vague memories of their life from before what they remembered to be their [[Third Doctor|second regeneration]]; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'') further back, great chunks were missing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] was sure that he had regenerated only twelve times. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') | The [[Fifth Doctor|Fifth]] and [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth Doctor]]s had only vague memories of their life from before what they remembered to be their [[Third Doctor|second regeneration]]; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'') further back, great chunks were missing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] was sure that he had regenerated only twelve times. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') |