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{{Quote| | {{Quote|No! Stop, you’re making me giddy! No, you can’t do this to me! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!|The Second Doctor's last words|The War Games (TV story)}} | ||
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Following [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|the Doctor's trial]], the [[Second Doctor]] was sentenced by the [[Time Lord]]s to undergo a '''"[[change of appearance]]"''' into the [[Third Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion]]'', etc.) a process which later sources referred to as a '''[[regeneration]]''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)|Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]'', ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Final Beginning (audio story)|The Final Beginning]]'', etc.) the second of what the [[Eleventh Doctor]] understood to be his original [[life cycle]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') | Following [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|the Doctor's trial]], the [[Second Doctor]] was sentenced by the [[Time Lord]]s to undergo a '''"[[change of appearance]]"''' into the [[Third Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion]]'', etc.) a process which later sources referred to as a '''[[regeneration]]''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)|Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]'', ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Final Beginning (audio story)|The Final Beginning]]'', etc.) the second of what the [[Eleventh Doctor]] understood to be his original [[life cycle]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') | ||
== Nature == | ==Nature== | ||
By early accounts, this event was termed a "[[change of appearance]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion]]'', ''[[Lourdwater Cottage Hospital case summary (short story)|Lourdwater Cottage Hospital case summary]]'', ''[[The Three Doctors (novelisation)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Giant Robot (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Giant Robot]]'') | By early accounts, this event was termed a "[[change of appearance]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion]]'', ''[[Lourdwater Cottage Hospital case summary (short story)|Lourdwater Cottage Hospital case summary]]'', ''[[The Three Doctors (novelisation)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Giant Robot (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Giant Robot]]'') | ||
Later sources clarified this event as a [[regeneration]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)|Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]'', ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Final Beginning (audio story)|The Final Beginning]]'', etc.) | Later sources clarified this event as a [[regeneration]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)|Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]'', ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Final Beginning (audio story)|The Final Beginning]]'', etc.) | ||
== History == | == History== | ||
=== Sentencing & choice of appearance === | ===Sentencing & choice of appearance === | ||
{{Main|The Doctor's trial (The War Games)}} | {{Main|The Doctor's trial (The War Games)}} | ||
The Time Lords 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]]'') | |||
=== The change === | ===The change=== | ||
==== At the courtroom ==== | ====At the courtroom==== | ||
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 they "[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 | By one account, the Doctor's life passed before his eyes as he regenerated, thinking of all his past companions from his incarnation's 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]]'') | ||
==== On Earth ==== | ====On Earth==== | ||
{{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)}} | |||
[[File:SecondRegen.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Second Doctor]] is forced into a [[change of appearance]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'')]] | [[File:SecondRegen.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Second Doctor]] is forced into a [[change of appearance]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'')]] | ||
By one sequence of accounts, the [[Second Doctor's exile on Earth|Second Doctor was exiled to Earth]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Action in Exile (comic story)|Action in Exile]]'', etc.) but managed to escape the Time Lords before they could carry out the second half of their sentence. He managed to live for some time on Earth, but was eventually attracted to a mystery involving [[animated scarecrow (The Night Walkers)|animated scarecrow]]s | By one sequence of accounts, the [[Second Doctor's exile on Earth|Second Doctor was exiled to Earth]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Action in Exile (comic story)|Action in Exile]]'', etc.) but managed to escape the Time Lords before they could carry out the second half of their sentence. He managed to live for some time on Earth, but was eventually attracted to a mystery involving [[animated scarecrow (The Night Walkers)|animated scarecrow]]s | ||
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The scarecrows dragged him to his waiting TARDIS, where they forced him to [[regenerate]]. During the process, the scarecrows programmed the TARDIS for a final flight. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'') | The scarecrows dragged him to his waiting TARDIS, where they forced him to [[regenerate]]. During the process, the scarecrows programmed the TARDIS for a final flight. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'') | ||
=== Recovery === | ===Recovery=== | ||
During the change of appearance, the Time Lords had edited the Doctor's memory to remove his knowledge of how to work his TARDIS, ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'') restrict what he knew about other alien species ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death (novelisation)|The Ambassadors of Death]]'') and events beyond the [[1970s]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Devil Goblins from Neptune (novel)|The Devil Goblins from Neptune]]'') | During the change of appearance, the Time Lords had edited the Doctor's memory to remove his knowledge of how to work his TARDIS, ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'') restrict what he knew about other alien species ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death (novelisation)|The Ambassadors of Death]]'') and events beyond the [[1970s]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Devil Goblins from Neptune (novel)|The Devil Goblins from Neptune]]'') | ||
The TARDIS travelled to an [[English]] field, where it was found, along with the [[Third Doctor|newly regenerated Doctor]], by [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') | The TARDIS travelled to an [[English]] field, where it was found, along with the [[Third Doctor|newly regenerated Doctor]], by [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') | ||
== Legacy == | ==Legacy== | ||
[[File:Twinkle Twinkle.jpg|thumb|The Third Doctor is brought into contact with his previous self. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'')]] | [[File:Twinkle Twinkle.jpg|thumb|The Third Doctor is brought into contact with his previous self. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'')]] | ||
Later Doctors would remember being executed at the trial. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Stage Fright (audio story)|Stage Fright]]'') | Later Doctors would remember being executed at the trial. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Stage Fright (audio story)|Stage Fright]]'') | ||
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The [[Spy Master]], whilst preparing to subject the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] to a [[forced regeneration]], noted that it was the ultimate sanction for breaking the [[Time Lord]]s' [[law]]s and recalled that they had punished the Doctor accordingly once before. He went on to suggest that they had done this [[The Doctor's early life|more than once]], and that the Doctor [[The Doctor's memories|would have not have known]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'') | The [[Spy Master]], whilst preparing to subject the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] to a [[forced regeneration]], noted that it was the ultimate sanction for breaking the [[Time Lord]]s' [[law]]s and recalled that they had punished the Doctor accordingly once before. He went on to suggest that they had done this [[The Doctor's early life|more than once]], and that the Doctor [[The Doctor's memories|would have not have known]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'') | ||
== Other realities == | == Other realities== | ||
In a [[Inferno Earth|parallel universe]], the Second Doctor had regenerated into one of the faces offered to him by the Time Lords. This new incarnation became known as [[the Leader]], the [[President of Great Britain|President]] of the [[Republic of Great Britain]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') Another account indicated that the Leader was not the Doctor but rather a human, and was ultimately killed on Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'') | In a [[Inferno Earth|parallel universe]], the Second Doctor had regenerated into one of the faces offered to him by the Time Lords. This new incarnation became known as [[the Leader]], the [[President of Great Britain|President]] of the [[Republic of Great Britain]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') Another account indicated that the Leader was not the Doctor but rather a human, and was ultimately killed on Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'') | ||
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In [[parallel universe (Exile)|another universe]], [[Previous Doctor (Exile)|the Doctor]] escaped the Time Lords and committed [[suicide]], regenerating into a [[The Doctor (Exile)|female incarnation]] in an attempt to elude them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exile (audio story)|Exile]]'') | In [[parallel universe (Exile)|another universe]], [[Previous Doctor (Exile)|the Doctor]] escaped the Time Lords and committed [[suicide]], regenerating into a [[The Doctor (Exile)|female incarnation]] in an attempt to elude them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exile (audio story)|Exile]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | ==Behind the scenes== | ||
[[File:Devious.jpg|thumb|The Third Doctor is born, as seen in ''Devious''.]] | [[File:Devious.jpg|thumb|The Third Doctor is born, as seen in ''Devious''.]] | ||
* The fan serial ''[[Devious (home video)|Devious]]'', part of which was featured on the DVD release of ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', featured [[Tony Garner]] as "Second-and-a-Half Doctor", an amalgam of the Second and Third Doctors created when the regeneration of the former into the latter was stopped halfway. This Second-and-a-Half Doctor came face to face with the Third Doctor, with [[Jon Pertwee]] reprising his role, before completing his transformation into him, leading directly to ''Spearhead from Space'' using footage from that story. The commentary of ''Devious'' acknowledged that Pertwee appeared visibly older than he did in ''Spearhead from Space'' whilst deriving an explanation from the television story ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', a comparison being drawn between the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s [[regeneration cycle|replacing]] his [[Tenth Doctor's hand|lost hand]] and the Third Doctor growing "younger." | *The fan serial ''[[Devious (home video)|Devious]]'', part of which was featured on the DVD release of ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', featured [[Tony Garner]] as "Second-and-a-Half Doctor", an amalgam of the Second and Third Doctors created when the regeneration of the former into the latter was stopped halfway. This Second-and-a-Half Doctor came face to face with the Third Doctor, with [[Jon Pertwee]] reprising his role, before completing his transformation into him, leading directly to ''Spearhead from Space'' using footage from that story. The commentary of ''Devious'' acknowledged that Pertwee appeared visibly older than he did in ''Spearhead from Space'' whilst deriving an explanation from the television story ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', a comparison being drawn between the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s [[regeneration cycle|replacing]] his [[Tenth Doctor's hand|lost hand]] and the Third Doctor growing "younger." | ||
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