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{{Quote|Fear no more, Hogan... After this dreadful night has passed | {{Quote|Fear no more, Hogan... After this dreadful night has passed your scarecrows will not walk again!|The Second Doctor's last words|The Night Walkers (comic story)}} | ||
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They noted his affinity to [[Earth]] and told him he would be [[Exile on Earth|exiled there]] as well as forced to [[regenerate]]. The Time Lords gave the Doctor several choices for [[Third Doctor|his new body]] but he declined all of them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') | They noted his affinity to [[Earth]] and told him he would be [[Exile on Earth|exiled there]] as well as forced to [[regenerate]]. The Time Lords gave the Doctor several choices for [[Third Doctor|his new body]] but he declined all of them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') | ||
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In the public account of the trial, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') the Second Doctor, after rejecting the choice of faces offered to him, then lost control of his speech and facial muscles, finding himself babbling and involuntarily gurning. As he fought to regain control of his body, resisting the process, the Doctor found himself in a dark void, orbited by swirling images of his own face. His head then abruptly vanished, leaving him clutching with both hands at the empty space where his face had been, but still able to speak. He exclaimed that he felt "giddy", and told the Time Lords, " | In the public account of the trial, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') the Second Doctor, after rejecting the choice of faces offered to him, then lost control of his speech and facial muscles, finding himself babbling and involuntarily gurning. As he fought to regain control of his body, resisting the process, the Doctor found himself in a dark void, orbited by swirling images of his own face. His head then abruptly vanished, leaving him clutching with both hands at the empty space where his face had been, but still able to speak. He exclaimed that he felt "giddy", and told the Time Lords theu, "[could]n't do this to [him]" Finally, the headless Doctor was sent twirling into nothingness. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') This was, by some accounts, the Doctor's regeneration, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') a typical example of [[the Disciplinary]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[How to be a Time Lord (novel)|How to be a Time Lord]]'') | ||
By one account, the Doctor's life passed before his eyes as he regenerated, thinking of all his past companions from his incarnational lifetime. Just before the Doctor's regeneration ended, his "mind was opened, and his entire past and future shone, cruel and clear, before him" and, realising what he had done on the [[Panjistri]] homeworld, he sent a telepathic warning to the [[Seventh Doctor]] about the [[Timewyrm]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)|Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]'') | By one account, the Doctor's life passed before his eyes as he regenerated, thinking of all his past companions from his incarnational lifetime. Just before the Doctor's regeneration ended, his "mind was opened, and his entire past and future shone, cruel and clear, before him" and, realising what he had done on the [[Panjistri]] homeworld, he sent a telepathic warning to the [[Seventh Doctor]] about the [[Timewyrm]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)|Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]'') | ||
