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=== Regeneration limit === | === Regeneration limit === | ||
[[File:RegenEnergyTOTD.jpg|thumb|"Regeneration number thirteen" indefinitely expanded the lifespan of the Doctor and the series. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')]] | |||
The 1976 serial [[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'' set a challenge in establishing that [[Time Lord]] have a twelve [[regeneration]] limit, consisting of thirteen incarnations. [[The Valeyard]] would later be introduced in [[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'' as a manifestation of the Doctor from "between his twelfth and final incarnations." Some readers have determined, as a result, that the [[The Doctor (Alien Bodies)|final Doctor]] seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'' would be the [[Thirteenth Doctor]], having used up all twelve regenerations by the time of [[War in Heaven|the War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/goth.htm|title=Goth Opera|author=Wilson, Anthony|website name=The Cloister Library|accessdate=12 January 2022}}</ref> | The 1976 serial [[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'' set a challenge in establishing that [[Time Lord]] have a twelve [[regeneration]] limit, consisting of thirteen incarnations. [[The Valeyard]] would later be introduced in [[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'' as a manifestation of the Doctor from "between his twelfth and final incarnations." Some readers have determined, as a result, that the [[The Doctor (Alien Bodies)|final Doctor]] seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'' would be the [[Thirteenth Doctor]], having used up all twelve regenerations by the time of [[War in Heaven|the War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/goth.htm|title=Goth Opera|author=Wilson, Anthony|website name=The Cloister Library|accessdate=12 January 2022}}</ref> | ||
