Regeneration: Difference between revisions

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]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) 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]]: {{cs|A Death in the Family (audio story)}}) 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]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}})