Summer , The Haunting of Thomas Brewster choosing it as the place of their exile during most of their third incarnation , TV: The Forgotten Army They favoured Great Britain as a frequently visited location, taking most of their companions from there. Even before the disappearance of Gallifrey, the Doctor spent much more time on Earth than on their homeworld.
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The Doctor's personal history was constantly changing and contradicting itself. Despite the varying personality traits of each incarnation, the Doctor always retained "a bit of adrenaline, a dash of outrage and a hint of panic" which helped define who they were TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth along with the promise of sticking to everything that their name stood for. The Day of the Doctor. Though taste in fashion did change with each Doctor, one thing that was an almost constant were jackets, either as part of an outfit TV: The Time of the Doctor they did not use it, even in the formal setting of legal trials.
The Sound of Drums Missy claimed to know the Doctor's real name from their time together on Gallifrey; she said it was "Doctor Who" , and the Doctor had chosen it to be mysterious but dropped the "Who" when he realised it was too on-the-nose. World Enough and Time. The Eleventh Doctor told Clara Oswald that his real name was not so important, since he specifically chose in its place the title of "Doctor", "like a promise you make".
Never give up, never give in. The Day of the Doctor The Twelfth Doctor claimed that when he originally adopted the title it was "just a name," which held no real significance until his first visit to Skaro. It was through his opposition to the Daleks that the Doctor was able to define himself and realise who he was. The title "Doctor" was not undeserved; they did hold one or more doctorates of some sort, TV: The Moonbase and frequently displayed detailed medical knowledge. Remembrance of the Daleks Although their first , TV: The Krotons fourth TV: Red Dawn had claimed not to be a doctor of medicine, their third , TV: The Cruel Sea and tenth incarnations TV: Utopia claimed to be a doctor of practically "everything", and by their eleventh incarnation , the Doctor claimed to hold doctorates in at least medicine and cheesemaking.
The God Complex In their thirteenth incarnation , they claimed to be a doctor of a number of concepts and ideas, notably hope. According to Evelina , the Doctor's name was written in the stars of the Medusa Cascade. The Fires of Pompeii Members of an unidentified race of pan-dimensional beings also knew the Time Lord's real name, at one point. In one account, he had taken the moniker after his first contact with humans.
He failed to correct them. After they left the planet, "the Doctor" simply kept the name he had been given by the humans. Frayed In another, he had already been introducing himself by that name after his first trip in the TARDIS, which gave an alternative account of meeting humans for the first time on the Moon.
The Name of the Doctor. River Song believed that the Doctor had influenced the etymology of the noun doctor , and was, in several languages, the original source of the word. A Good Man Goes to War. According to Dorium Maldovar and the Silence , the oldest and most dangerous question in the universe was "Doctor who?
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Dorium claimed the Doctor had been running from the question all his life. According to the Silence, "silence must fall when the question is asked," TV: The Wedding of River Song because if the question was answered, it could lead to destruction on a universal scale; through several methods, each of which were located on the planet Trenzalore. The first was that the Doctor's name could be used to open his grave and alter his timeline, potentially undoing the countless times the Doctor had saved the universe.
The Name of the Doctor The second was that his name could be used to confirm to the Time Lords, who were sealed in a pocket universe and had been broadcasting the question throughout the entirety of time and space, that it was safe for them to return; which could result in another Time War. At some point River Song learned his name, prompting the Doctor to claim that there was only one reason he ever would or could reveal it.
Forest of the Dead Indeed, even while spending hundreds of years in a town permeated by a Truth Field and hearing the question asked multiple times, the Doctor would not or could not answer. The Time of the Doctor However, River later stated that she "made him" tell her his true name and that it "took a while".
She subsequently lost the information when time was rewound. The Happiness Patrol His classmate Drax called him by this nickname. Moments before regenerating into the Thirteenth Doctor , the Twelfth Doctor used his last words to leave his future self some advice. Amongst these last words was that the future Doctor must not tell anyone their name, but that they couldn't understand it even if the Doctor did tell them.
The Doctor went on to state that " children can hear it, sometimes. If their hearts are in the right place and the stars are too. Children can hear your name. But nobody else, nobody else ever. Twice Upon a Time.
The Doctor's age was a matter of great confusion, as they provided many inconsistent statements. The Second Doctor once gave his age in Earth terms as The Tomb of the Cybermen On two separate occasions, the Third Doctor implied that he may have been several thousand years old. Pyramids of Mars Immediately after his sixth regeneration , the Seventh Doctor claimed to be Time and the Rani The War Doctor considered himself years younger than the Eleventh Doctor , who was purportedly 1, at that time.
The God Complex the Eleventh Doctor maintained an age of , less than his seventh incarnation. Flesh and Stone , The Impossible Astronaut. A Town Called Mercy but clarified to Clara Oswald that he'd lived so long he'd forgotten whether or not he was lying about his age. The Day of the Doctor The Twelfth Doctor , after spending years defending Trenzalore , stated his age to be over 2, The Twelfth Doctor spent approximately four and a half billion years TV: Hell Bent trapped inside his confession dial in an energy loop.
In each loop, the Doctor would die, providing energy to a teleporter which would "print" another copy of himself as he was when he first arrived. Although this kept his body from ageing, he claimed to remember the living through every single version of the loop. The Ribos Operation while the Eighth Doctor once flatly admitted that he didn't necessarily use the same definition of the word year each time he gave his age to someone, usually changing his age depending where he was in the universe.
The Eleventh Doctor once told Solomon that he was probably a Sagittarius. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. Proper references to the Doctor's father and mother are to be made. The Doctor's familial relations were unclear at best. According to one account, the Doctor was one of the forty-five cousins created by the Loom of the House of Lungbarrow on Gallifrey.
Lungbarrow , Celestial Intervention: The Thirteenth Doctor recalled once having had sisters. Arachnids in the UK. The Doctor had at least one brother, Irving Braxiatel [ source needed ] , who became an associate of the Doctor's companion Bernice Summerfield. At the Doctor's wedding to Scarlette in the post-War universe , the Man with the Rosette sat at the table reserved for the Doctor's family.
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street. The Tenth Doctor told Sally Sparrow that he was "rubbish at weddings, especially [his] own". Cold Fusion to Patience and they were said to have had a number of children and grandchildren. Fear Her and "a father ". The Doctor's Daughter These children were "sons or daughters, or both. Listen Clara Oswald also claimed the Doctor had "children". The Doctor also had several grandchildren , TV: An Unearthly Child , et al. John Who, and Gillian Who. Some accounts referred to Susan as " the Other 's" granddaughter. At one point, the Doctor became the adoptive father to a female Time Lord named Miranda Dawkins , whom the Eighth Doctor reared until her mid-teens.
Father Time Miranda later gave birth to a daughter, Zezanne , and died while trying to protect the Doctor. Legacy of the Daleks. Much of the Doctor's family died or went missing. To the Death , TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth After the last day of the Time War , the Tenth Doctor, while telling Donna that he'd been a father before, explained that he "lost all that a long time ago along with everything else. Dark Horizons Even after the Doctor realised that Gallifrey and the Time Lords were not destroyed at the end of the Time War, the Doctor still believed their missing children and grandchildren to be dead.
Genetic material from the Doctor in their tenth incarnation was used to create a daughter, Jenny , via progenation. Before she could join him, however, she was shot by General Cobb. The Doctor believed Jenny to have died, and departed. The Doctor's Daughter Unbeknownst to him, she survived and set out on her own life of adventure. Stolen Goods , et al. When the Earth was relocated to the Medusa Cascade , an instantaneous biological meta-crisis was created; this meta-crisis Doctor was later was exiled by the Time Lord to an alternate universe.
Technically, the meta-crisis could be considered a relative of the Doctor's. Sarah Jane Smith referred to the Doctor's companions as his family, saying, "You act like such a lonely man, but you've got the biggest family on Earth! The First Doctor was accidentally engaged to Cameca in the 15th century. After Gallifrey was destroyed in the War in Heaven , the Eighth Doctor married Scarlette in order to ceremonially tie himself to the planet Earth. The Tenth Doctor romanced and later married Elizabeth I. Suspicious Minds She later declared him an enemy after he failed to return as promised.
The Shakespeare Code The Tenth Doctor implied he had been married several times prior to Queen Elizabeth, as he remarked to Sally Sparrow about being "rubbish at weddings, especially [his] own". Blink In his eleventh incarnation , the Doctor accidentally became engaged to Marilyn Monroe , and married her the same night in what he later claimed was not a real chapel.
River Song often hinted that she and the Doctor had a physical relationship somewhere in her past and his future relative to the Eleventh Doctor's encounter with the Silence in Florida. They repeatedly referred to each other as husband and wife after the ceremony.
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Asylum of the Daleks Prequel , TV: According to Clara Oswald , by the time of the Doctor's twelfth incarnation , he had been "married four times, all deceased". The Ninth Doctor said he could speak five billion languages. The Mind Robber always with an accent that was similar to accents used in the British Isles. For example, both the Seventh TV: The Time of the Doctor spoke with an accent similar to one used in Scotland.
Rose while Harriet Jones described it as "a northern accent", TV: World War Three both of them referring to the north of England. The Doctor once retorted to Rose that "lots of planets have a north". The Time of Angels a skill unusual even among Time Lords. Spearhead from Space several Chinese languages , TV: Black Orchid and Tritovore. The Christmas Invasion and a language of Tiaanamat , which sounded like canine barking to human ears.
The War Games but later became fluent in it across several periods of French history. Sick Building " baby ", TV: The Lodger " horse " TV: A Town Called Mercy and " dinosaur ". Deep Breath The Eleventh Doctor claimed that he "spoke everything". A Good Man Goes to War , Closing Time The Doctor once understood British Sign Language ; by their twelfth incarnation , though, they had lost the skill, saying that it had been "deleted" and replaced with semaphore.
The Deadly Assassin They had a profound influence on many worlds and was written into their histories; TV: Forest of the Dead as a result, the Doctor was the recipient of many honours, including being made a noble of Draconia TV: Frontier in Space and a knight and enemy of the British Empire. Tooth and Claw An incarnation of the Doctor once pulled Excalibur from the stone. Having broken the Time Lords' non-interference policy , the Second Doctor was put on trial as a renegade.
The War Games Subsequently, for a time, he acted as an agent of the Time Lords' Celestial Intervention Agency before the beginning of his sentence on 20th century Earth. Players , World Game Following his defeat of Omega , which saved Gallifrey, he was granted a pardon and given his freedom. The Fourth Doctor , as part of a ploy to outwit invaders of Gallifrey, was a candidate for the position of Lord President of the Supreme Council.
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The Five Doctors Prior to the Sixth Doctor 's trial, he was deposed in absentia and put on trial for breaking the non-interference policy and later in the same trial, for genocide. The validity of the trial was called into question when it was discovered it had been orchestrated by an evil future manifestation of the Doctor, the Valeyard , and mooted. However, due to the Doctor's efforts to save Gallifrey and the Time Lords, they seemed to forgive his actions.
The Day of the Doctor During the Siege of Trenzalore , when the Eleventh Doctor was on the verge of his final death, the Time Lords responded to Clara Oswald 's plea to help him, a plea in which she stated that after all he'd done he'd earned their help and if they loved him, which they should, then to help. The Time of the Doctor rather than letting him die permanently as had happened in an alternate timeline.
The Name of the Doctor After returning to Gallifrey by means of his confession dial , the Twelfth Doctor stood against Lord President Rassilon who tried to execute him. However, the Gallifreyan military hailed him as the man who ended the Time War and also respected him for his reputation during the Time War as someone who didn't need to go into battle armed to win and sided with him. Rassilon's own firing squad, the General and a squadron of military ships backed the Doctor against Rassilon who was overthrown and exiled from Gallifrey along with the High Council.
The Doctor's influence on the universe was seen most notably while in River Song's World: River told the Doctor that his impact on the universe was so profound that if he ever needed its help, he just had to ask. This was also shown in how the crew of the Teselecta , though formerly enemies of the Doctor, were willing to aid him in any way they could and kept his secret of being alive from the rest of the universe despite their past, just because he asked them to.
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