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According to some accounts, the regenerative process could only kick in when the body was still alive to some extent; as a result, final deaths could occur too quickly for the body to regenerate, as evidenced by how an [[Tenth Doctor (Donna's World)|alternate version of the Tenth Doctor]] died because he was drowned confronting the [[Empress of the Racnoss (Donna's World)|Empress of the Racnoss]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'') When facing the [[Word Lord]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] sacrificed himself to stop [[Nobody No-One]] by using a tablet linked to the Trans-Galactic net to hit Nobody with the full force of the stories collected about himself, at the cost of frying his own mind, causing so much damage that he expressed a belief that this would kill him even before the Word Lord tricked a UNIT soldier into declaring "Nobody can stop the Doctor from regenerating" which gave the Word Lord the power to do just that. Fortunately, this sacrifice was undone when the Seventh Doctor's future self - currently present at the death of his past self after his own attempt to trap the Word Lord - set up a complex plan that allowed [[Ace]] to subvert the Word Lord's power to rewrite reality so that she could undo the Doctor's death, restoring him to life in his seventh body with no need for regeneration. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Death in the Family (audio story)|A Death in the Family]]'') However, in other accounts, regeneration could occur even after the previous incarnation's body had completely died, or indeed, been dead for some time — although this could result in some "growing pains" for the new incarnation, who might deal with such conditions as [[amnesia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | According to some accounts, the regenerative process could only kick in when the body was still alive to some extent; as a result, final deaths could occur too quickly for the body to regenerate, as evidenced by how an [[Tenth Doctor (Donna's World)|alternate version of the Tenth Doctor]] died because he was drowned confronting the [[Empress of the Racnoss (Donna's World)|Empress of the Racnoss]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'') When facing the [[Word Lord]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] sacrificed himself to stop [[Nobody No-One]] by using a tablet linked to the Trans-Galactic net to hit Nobody with the full force of the stories collected about himself, at the cost of frying his own mind, causing so much damage that he expressed a belief that this would kill him even before the Word Lord tricked a UNIT soldier into declaring "Nobody can stop the Doctor from regenerating" which gave the Word Lord the power to do just that. Fortunately, this sacrifice was undone when the Seventh Doctor's future self - currently present at the death of his past self after his own attempt to trap the Word Lord - set up a complex plan that allowed [[Ace]] to subvert the Word Lord's power to rewrite reality so that she could undo the Doctor's death, restoring him to life in his seventh body with no need for regeneration. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Death in the Family (audio story)|A Death in the Family]]'') However, in other accounts, regeneration could occur even after the previous incarnation's body had completely died, or indeed, been dead for some time — although this could result in some "growing pains" for the new incarnation, who might deal with such conditions as [[amnesia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | ||
By some accounts, stabbing or shooting a Time Lord through both hearts at the same time would kill them. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'', ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') {{Roberts|c}}, having already gravely wounded the [[Eighth Doctor]] by shooting him in one of his hearts, threatened to take out the other if he attempted to regenerate. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Day of the Master (audio story)|Day of the Master]]'') {{Gomez}} recommended eight [[sniper]]s, with two trained on each of her hearts and three for her [[brain stem]], so that [[Clara Oswald]] could feel safe while speaking to her, noting that they'd have to "switch [her] off fast" before she could regenerate. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') Plans to execute a Time Lord relied on technology that would destroy both hearts, sever all three brain stems, and deliver a cellular shock to prevent regeneration, after which the subject would be left in a quantum vault for no less than a thousand years to ensure that regeneration would not occur. ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'') | |||
Time Lords could also be injured beyond the point of regeneration, with copies of the Twelfth Doctor dying after contact with [[the Veil]] inside his [[confession dial]]. In such cases, the Doctor claimed that every cell in a Time Lord's body would continue attempting to regenerate, which could prolong their actual death for several days. In his case, this gave each copy time to use the last of their energy to trigger a teleportation device and "create" a new body for their essence to continue trying to escape. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') | Time Lords could also be injured beyond the point of regeneration, with copies of the Twelfth Doctor dying after contact with [[the Veil]] inside his [[confession dial]]. In such cases, the Doctor claimed that every cell in a Time Lord's body would continue attempting to regenerate, which could prolong their actual death for several days. In his case, this gave each copy time to use the last of their energy to trigger a teleportation device and "create" a new body for their essence to continue trying to escape. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') | ||
