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Burdened with a never ending anger, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'') and a fear of what his rage was capable of, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') the Twelfth Doctor started his journey as a gruff yet compassionate man, ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') who grew to embrace a more goofier side of himself, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (theatrical film)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'', ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'') until he became a true paragon of kindness and hope. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') With his main impetus for many adventures being to stimulate his scientific curiosity, ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') the Doctor would be forever enthralled by the strange beauties he found in a universe that birthed grand creations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'')

However, he never softened from his harsh attitude to those he saw as impulsive and reckless due to their shortsightedness, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') but would try to inspire his foes to better themselves when he could. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') However, beneath the fierce determination and adventurous persona, the Twelfth Doctor was a weary man who would succumb to despair when pushed to the brink, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') feeling ostracised from a universe that didn't "see" him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')

Blunt to the point of insensitiveness, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') but reluctant to lie to alleviating a situation, ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') the Doctor would allow actions to prove a point instead of false praise, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') though he knew the importance of giving people the hope they needed to ensure their survival. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') Though he tried to avoid pessimism, ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') the Doctor would not give his sympathies lightly. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') He could also be oblivious to his faults, while criticising the same faults he saw elsewhere. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'')

Preferring to keep his softer side hidden under a "reputation [of] grumpiness", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hyperion Empire (comic story)|The Hyperion Empire]]'') the Doctor would make people keep their emotions in check while they were distressed, ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') making him come across as callous and dismissive, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'') which he refused to be apologetic for. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') He himself tried to avoid his own emotions by preferring to talk about subjects he enjoyed during emotional moments. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') However, behind his cold exterior, he was extremely self-reflective, to the point where he even questioned whether he was a good man, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') knowing that he often found himself in situations that forced him to make terrible decisions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') Clara felt that "there were several layers to the Doctor's emotions." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'')

While he identified himself as a civilian, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') the Doctor did not hide how superior he felt with his intelligence, ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') unafraid to put people down with harsh comments upon meeting them, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') even claiming to have laughed at [[Orson Pink]]'s name. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') While his personal views caused him to make unfavourable judgments of people moments after meeting them, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') the Doctor knew not to be judgmental of alien behaviour, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') and was quick to bond with fellow rebels. ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') However, he was not above saying how funny he found humans' "small brain[s]" ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') and telling them to panic over their "short lifespan" . ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') However, he was quick to call out his own idiocy when he realised he had made a mistake. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'')

However, after embracing the idea of being "just a bloke in a box", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') the Doctor employed a wackier demeanour, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'') wearing more casual clothing, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (TV story)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') and often relaxed in the TARDIS by playing his guitar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'', ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'') He made a better effort to be nicer through the use of [[apology cue cards]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') in order to live up to the idea of who he thought "the Doctor" should be. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') He also began to accept Clara's attempts to hug him, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'') and even started hugging her on the odd occasion, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') as well as asking if he could hold her hand in frightful moments. ([[TV]]: ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'') However, he did not entirely abandon his pragmatic ideology, ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') and would resume being hostile when angered. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')

After having his mind wiped by a [[neural block]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') caused him to decide to simply be "an old man messing about in time and space", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Haunted (short story)|Haunted]]'') the Doctor adopted a kinder approach to how he handled situations, though he did not wish to be seen as "sentimentalise[d]" ([[TV]]: ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'') and was still cynical on the never changing aspects of the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'') While he retained his crossness, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'') being against "cheerful[ness]" and "charm", ([[TV]]: ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') he was more willing to laugh at the silliness he found in his travels ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') and would be deliberately pedantic in the face of danger. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')  

Even though he identified himself as a pacifist ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'') and believed necessary evils to be a last resort, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fractures (comic story)|The Fractures]]'') the Twelfth Doctor would get frank and physical with others. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') Hoping to find danger wherever he went, ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') he branded  solutions that he found easy to be "boring", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') though he did appreciate how the occasional anti-climax was good for his health. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'')

He was willing to place his companions in danger if it meant appeasing his curiosity, often leaving them out of the details in his plans, or using them to distract attention away from himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'') However, if he believed the situation was too dangerous for them, the Doctor would send his companions to the safety of the TARDIS while staring down the threat alone. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

Viewed as an egotist by [[Clara Oswald]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'') the Doctor had a consistently anti-authoritarian attitude, only ever asking who was in charge so he could "know who to ignore", ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') seeing it as his place to give the explanations, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') and also did not like it when somebody else tried to "do the naming." ([[TV]]: ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'') As he "hardly ever listen[ed] when other people [were] talking", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'') the Doctor tended to stop listening to ongoing conversations when he lost interest, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') as he saw only himself as being "someone worth talking to". ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') He enjoyed his privacy, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') and preferred to be left alone when on a mission. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'')

Enjoying the "deep and lovely dark", ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') the Doctor enthusiastically tried to find out the cause of his childhood nightmares, ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') was delighted when he finally saw the [[Foretold]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') got giddy over possibly finding out the existence of ghosts, ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') was very eager to explore a mysterious house ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Playing House (comic story)|Playing House]]'') and gleefully laughed as he sped a ship into British waters. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')

Though he liked humanity for their optimism, ([[TV]]: ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'') the Doctor would insult humans when he saw them being slow-minded, greedy and violent, dubbing [[Earth]] the "planet of the pudding-brains." ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') Nonetheless, he tolerated the company of those who could engage with him intellectually, ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'') unless they got on his bad side first, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fractures (comic story)|The Fractures]]'') and claimed to respect humanity enough to allow it to determine its own future without any interference from him, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') giving insight and knowledge to those who would listen, while still leaving the decision up to them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') As with his previous incarnation, the Twelfth Doctor also liked people who got straight to the point. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') He though that someone who wasn't scared in a life-threatening situation was "an idiot", ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') though was aware that giving in to fear "[did]n't help", ([[TV]]: ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'') and would have them focus on their chances of survival, however slim, to encourage them to prevail. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'')

As with his previous incarnations, he relied on his companions to keep him from succumbing to his darker nature, but, unlike his predecessors, the Twelfth Doctor actively praised them for it, even claiming that [[Clara Oswald]] needed a "raise" for dealing with him, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') and telling Bill that people like her encouraged him to put up with the rest of humanity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'') He also enjoyed it when his companions asked him obvious questions, claiming that it helped him think, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') but disliked it when they pointed out mistakes he made, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'') and identified them as his "social interface with the human race", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fractures (comic story)|The Fractures]]'') and the main reason he didn't need an army. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')

The Twelfth Doctor preferred to live in the moment, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') where "everything is huge, everything is so important, every detail, every moment, every life clung to [the moment]." He claimed to the [[Half-Face Man]] that the people of [[Earth]] "[were] never small to [him]," and, unlike his [[tenth incarnation]], he didn't think he deserved [[Final reward|a reward]] or a "promised land" because he had "already [gone] a very long way" to protect the people, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') and became a lost soul beyond redemption because of it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') He also cared for mortal lives, ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') however brief they seemed to him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'')

The Doctor was so stubborn in his beliefs that he would deny any evidence that contradicted his statements, even when the proof was in front of him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') He believed that "hardly anything [was] evil, but [that] most things [were] hungry", and that "hunger look[ed] very [much] like evil from the wrong end of the cutlery". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') While he believed that "a good death [was] the best anyone [could] hope for", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') he didn't think it was possible to "die well". ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'') When giving life advice, the Doctor would say to laugh hard because everything was "always funny", to run fast "like hell" because people always needed to never fail at being kind, and to always make amends if they acted cruel and cowardly. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

He also viewed pain as a gift, telling a [[Cyber-converted]] [[Danny Pink]] that "without the capacity for pain, [you] can't feel the hurt [you] inflict," ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and also believed that "a bit of shame never hurt anyone," ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') and that true [[immortality]] was "everybody else dying". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') He also believed that one could always find something to be distracted by, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') felt invasions of Earth were justified after hearing about the horror film ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'', ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') and expressed the opinion that an enemy was "just a friend [one] didn't really know yet". ([[WC]]: ''[[Prologue (webcast)|Prologue]]'') He believed that education came quicker in life threating situations, and claimed that begging "wasn't [his] style", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'') unless his friends were threatened. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'')

Though he did not know the reason, believing it to simply be his old age, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') the Twelfth Doctor expressed a strong dislike for soldiers and military figures, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') being "decidedly prickly in his dealing with anything remotely military", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crawling Terror (novel)|The Crawling Terror]]'') though claimed his disdain was flexible in a crisis, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') and he eventually lost his disdain as he grew kinder. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'') He was also easily annoyed by swashbucklers who did not take things seriously and insisted on fighting pointless battles, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') and held a disdain towards businesspeople who valued profit above anything else. ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'')  

The Doctor was "against" bantering. ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'') didn't like being saluted, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') wasn't "a fan" of the [[Tivolian]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') and disliked losing, even in a friendly game of [[chess]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'') He also claimed to dislike the colour of his [[kidney]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') [[karaoke]], mime, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') tanks, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') songs that got stuck in his head, ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'') [[racism]] and talking in the cinema. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'') He also voiced a hatred for being wrong in public, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') [[babysitter]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') ''[[Candy Crush]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') [[money]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'') missing the obvious, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]''), [[pantomime]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Behind You (short story)|Behind You]]'') [[cyclops|cyclopes]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor on the Menu (comic story)|Doctor on the Menu]]'') [[viking]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') gardening, ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') [[Christmas]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (comic story)|Relative Dimensions]]'') being sure of something, "lying-down people", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'') and "brave people". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'')

He liked [[roundel]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') working under pressure, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') "a show-stopping entrance", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'') a "good locked-room mystery", ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') [[puppet]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') the title "Doctor Mysterio", "pressing buttons and switches", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'') and [[rivet]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'') His "lucky number" was [[12 (number)|12]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (TV story)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'') and he considered "maths and alcoholic beverages" to be the "best way to spend the morning". ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')

He was interested in [[Maths]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') and [[insect]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'') and had a liking for books, particularly ones about ''[[Garfield]]'', reacting with anger towards those he believed burned books, and also believed that women who liked books to be the best kind. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blood Cell (novel)|The Blood Cell]]'') When he redecorated the TARDIS control room, he included numerous shelves full of a variety of books, and a recliner to enjoy reading them in, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') sometimes even leaving his books scattered around the console room. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'')

While he could forget the consequences of time travelling when carried away, ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') the Twelfth Doctor was unwilling to alter the [[Web of Time]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') fearing that the ramifications from the tiniest changes could be catastrophic, spreading "carnage and chaos across the universe like ripples on a pond," ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') instead opting to create "ripples" instead of "tidal waves." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'')

He believed it was okay to send people to their deaths if history recorded them as deceased, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crawling Terror (novel)|The Crawling Terror]]'') and told [[Mason Bennett]] that he "[couldn't] just go back and cut off tragedy at the root because [then] you find yourself talking to someone you just saw dead on a slab, [and] then you really do see ghosts". ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') However, he knew "to hold [himself] to the mark" on how to save a single soul despite the Web of Time due to [[Donna Noble]]'s words to his [[tenth incarnation]] at [[Pompeii]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') and was willing to change certain points he encountered if "even a ghastly future [proved] better than no future at all". ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') Emotionally broken after the death of Clara, the Doctor used an [[extraction chamber]] on [[Gallifrey]] to save her from the [[Quantum Shade]], and also attempted to prevent her from returning to her death, despite it being a [[fixed point in time]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') and engineered events to prevent [[Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart]] and [[German soldier (Twice Upon a Time)|a German soldier]] from killing each other, claiming that "a couple fewer dead people on the battlefield" would not "hurt". ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')  

While he was adamant not to kill out of hatred, ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') specially when conflicts could be resolved diplomatically, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'') the Doctor was willing to kill to spare others from the burden of taking a life, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') or when acting in extreme selfishness and being assured they could recover with a [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') He once gave permission for UNIT to engage [[Zygon]]s with lethal force, so long as they kept fatalities to a minimum, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'') and left [[Ron Cordell]] and some [[Skink]]s to be devoured by a [[black hole]] after tampering with the [[black hole drive]]'s containment field. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Pirates of Vourakis (comic story)|Pirates of Vourakis]]'') He also viewed certain creatures as expendable, as he wanted to kill a [[dream crab]] to save Clara from slowly being devoured by it, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') and crushed a [[Love Sprite]] under his heel to prevent it attacking him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'')  

Diagnosed with "Attention Deficit [Disorder]" by Clara, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (theatrical film)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'') the Doctor would include mundane outcomes in his summarisations when explaining the consequences of actions taken, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'') had trouble recognising people's age group, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'') forgot people he had only recently met, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'', ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'') and was also shown to have a poor concept on the passage of time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Meditation (theatrical film)|The Doctor's Meditation]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'')

Feeling it was his house, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') the Doctor redecorated his console room to have bookshelves, chairs and workbenches. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') The Doctor told [[Bill Potts]] that the TARDIS was a "technological marvel", "science beyond magic", and "the gateway to everything that ever was, or ever can be." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') He did, however, occasionally enact violence against his TARDIS out of frustration, striking its column with his fists hard enough to damage it after discovering Missy's coordinates to Gallifrey had been a lie, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and later struck the console with enough force to believe he had broken a finger. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deep Time (novel)|Deep Time]]'')

While he preferred him to other incarnations, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'') the Twelfth Doctor disliked his [[Eleventh Doctor|immediate predecessor]] for his enjoyment of bow ties and [[fez]]zes, and overuse of the word "cool". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Terrorformer (comic story)|Terrorformer]]'') However, upon seeing [[Adrian Davies]], a teacher at [[Coal Hill School]] with a resemblance to his eleventh incarnation, the Doctor, mistaking Adrian as Clara's boyfriend, arrogantly assumed that Clara was dating Adrian because of his uncanny resemblance to "a certain dashing young time traveller", reflecting more favourably on his predecessor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') Additionally, he was, at times, critical of his previous incarnations' clothing, thinking that his [[fourth incarnation]]'s [[The Doctor's scarf|scarf]] "looked stupid", ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') and regarded the Eleventh Doctor's fondness for [[bow tie]]s as "a bit embarrassing", ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]'') though complimented Osgood's bow tie as "nice". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') According to [[Affinity]], the Doctor kept his predecessors "lodged in his head", and held a low opinion of them and himself, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'') even comparing a [[Multi-Doctor Event]] to ''[[The Krankies]]''. ([[WC]]: ''[[Doctors Assemble! (webcast)|Doctors Assemble!]]'')

The Twelfth Doctor held deep affection for [[Clara Oswald]], considering her to be his [[best friend]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') and cared for her to the point that her betraying him couldn't make a difference to how he felt about her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') His connection with her was so deep that, after her death by [[Quantum Shade]], he respected her wishes to not target [[Ashildr]] for her role in the incident, ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') However, after spending four billion years in a temporal loop mourning losing her, ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') he became unhinged, deciding no one would stop him bringing her back, threatening all who tried to prevent him restoring her to life, even forcing the [[Eleventh General]] to regenerate, until events forced him to lose his memories of Clara. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') When his memories of her were restored, he was delighted, thankful he could finally remember her face. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

Despite his grumpy nature, the Doctor had a soft spot for children, ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') trying to help them to overcome their fears, ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') build them up when they thought little of themselves, ([[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'') and help their education. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'') He would stop to help them when he saw them in need, ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') and would feel regretful if he felt he had let them down, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') as well as great fury when finding babies unattended too. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'')

When [[Rusty (Into the Dalek)|Rusty]] the [[Dalek]] looked into the Twelfth Doctor's mind, he saw hatred and noted that the Doctor was "a good Dalek", while Clara believed the Doctor was trying to be a good man, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') and claimed that he "always care[d]" by the time of her death. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') When questioned by [[Lisa Foster]], Clara reluctantly admitted she thought the Doctor was "kind of [cool], in a strange sort of way", which Lisa interpreted as meaning "an uncool sort of way". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fractures (comic story)|The Fractures]]'') [[Bill Potts]] once described the Twelfth Doctor as "part-cool professor, [and] part-cat chasing laser pointer". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Promise (FCBD comic story)|The Promise]]'')

When faced with the prospect of dying without regenerating while facing the [[Fisher King]], the Doctor, though initially appearing distraught, quickly dismissed any concern, saying that he "had a good innings", and labelling himself a mere "clerical error" of a regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'') When cornered by the [[Veil (Heaven Sent)|Veil]], the Doctor admitted that he was afraid of dying, ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') but was unafraid to sacrifice himself for the greater good. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

He frequently called those who annoyed him with their apparent unintelligence and poorly thought out actions an "idiot", ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'') and even used the term to describe himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

Wanting to avoid using foul language, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') the Twelfth Doctor often used "hell" as an intensive, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'', ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'', ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') and spoke the name of God in vain. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'', ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

When not out adventuring, the Doctor could be found jotting down equations and theories on various [[chalkboard]]s in the [[TARDIS console room]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') or on hard surfaces that could bear [[chalk]] markings. ([[TV]]:  ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') He also employed chalkboards as a form of non-verbal communication within a mind, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last Christmas (TV story)|Last Christmas]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') and in his lectures at [[St Luke's University]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') He also utilised a [[yo-yo]] on occasion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'')

The Doctor kept a spare [[sonic screwdriver]] in case something happened to his first. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Big Bang Generation (novel)|Big Bang Generation]]'') Even after he discarded his old screwdriver for a pair of [[sonic sunglasses]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') he still carried a model of his screwdriver to use on the odd occasion, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ministry of Time (comic story)|The Ministry of Time]]'', ''[[The Dragon Lord (comic story)|The Dragon Lord]]'') after Clara returned one of his old spares to him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Clara Oswald and the School of Death (comic story)|Clara Oswald and the School of Death]]'') After receiving a new sonic screwdriver, he began to use it in conjunction with the sonic sunglasses. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'', ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')  

Highly observant, the Twelfth Doctor was able to notice certain individuals in a crowd, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'', ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') notice suspicious activity ahead of others, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') and pick up on details that helped him unearth others' deceptions and plans. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') Being a [[Time Lord]], the Doctor could also detect when a light shield aura was near him, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') and was also able to fiddle with equipment and pilot the TARDIS while completely blind. ([[TV]]: ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') However, when his attention was focused elsewhere, or he relied too much on his own brilliance or his technology, certain things around him would go amiss. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]'', ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]'', ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')  

Like several of his predecessors, the Twelfth Doctor was a highly proficient swordsman, able to best [[Robin Hood]] in a duel using a spoon, ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'') take on Kali's three swords with a single blade, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Swords of Kali (comic story)|The Swords of Kali]]'') and reportedly bested [[Bors (The Doctor's Meditation)|Bors]]' broadsword with a [[daffodil]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') He was also skilled with a [[Gunstick]], shooting several [[Handmine]]s from a distance while also avoiding hitting [[Davros]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')