Eleventh Doctor

The Eleventh Doctor was the eleventh incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. He was erratic in behaviour and very alien compared to his previous incarnation, yet he retained his youthful vigour for defending the universe. Shortly after he began his travels, this incarnation of the Doctor encountered and gained his first companion, Amy Pond and later, Rory Williams.

Regeneration
The Doctor's tenth incarnation regenerated some time after absorbing a vast amount of radiation. During regeneration, he released a massive amount of energy, causing severe damage to his TARDIS.

Despite the destruction going on around him inside the TARDIS, the new incarnation's first priority was to do a personal inventory of his body to make sure all the proper parts were in place.

He again moaned that he was still not ginger, something his previous incarnation had also wanted to be. (DW: The Christmas Invasion, NSA: Shining Darkness)

Slightly addled by the regeneration, the new incarnation did not immediately realize the TARDIS was on fire and about to crash. Once he did, he actually seemed to enjoy the thrill of the moment, gleefully calling out "Geronimo!" as his TARDIS plummeted to Earth. (DW: The End of Time)

Meeting Amy
Landing on Earth, the Doctor met Amy Pond, who helped him to capture Prisoner Zero for the Atraxi. Two years later, the Doctor returned to Amy to take her on an adventure. Unknown to him, the Doctor had arrived the night before her wedding. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)

Adventures with Amy and Rory
For their first trip, the Doctor took Amy Pond to the late 32nd century on the Starship UK, where he and Amy saved a Star Whale from the unintentional cruelty of the Starship's inhabitants. While preparing to leave Starship UK, the Doctor got a phone call from Winston Churchill, after which the Doctor and Amy headed off to World War II London. (DW: The Beast Below)

Arriving a month after the call, the Doctor and Amy met Churchill, who had previously met the Doctor. (PDA: Players, The Shadow in the Glass) Churchill revealed to the Doctor two Daleks that had survived the Medusa Cascade incident. The Daleks attempted to destroy Earth using a bomb. The Doctor and Amy managed to deactivate the bomb, but the Daleks escaped anyway, planning their next stratagem. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)

The Doctor and Amy then saved London from the Space Leeches by leading them to his TARDIS to take them to another planet. (DWA: Attack of the Space Leeches!)

The Doctor and Amy then travelled to the Blue Boar Services in 1959, where they encountered a gang of teenage Petrolions. The Doctor tricked them by waiting until they ran out of fuel, and changed the direction of the fuel, taking the Petrolions off of their bikes. He then ordered them to return to their home planet. (DWA: Madness on the M1!)

After arriving in the Delirium Archive in the 171st century, the Doctor found a Home Box with a message from River Song, who was trying to contact him. After discovering what had originally occured via the home box, the Doctor rescued River and chased the ship that she had been on, the Byzantium. The Byzantium had crashed on Alfava Metraxis. River revealed that there was a Weeping Angel on board. The Doctor eventually managed to defeat the Angel and its army of other angels by tricking them into falling into a crack in time. (DW: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone)

After finding out that Amy was getting married (DW: Flesh and Stone) the Doctor collected Amy's fiancé, Rory Williams, then the Doctor took them couple to Venice, calling it a "wedding present". Once there, they discovered a group of fish-like aliens masquerading as vampires, led by Rosanna Calvierri, who were attempting to flood Venice. The Doctor managed to foil their plans and as the group departed, the Doctor and Rory noticed that silence had fallen all around them. (DW: The Vampires of Venice)

While travelling, Amy, Rory, and the Doctor fell into the traps of the Dream Lord, a mysterious entity who antagonized the three by giving them a choice between a dream world and the real world. After dying in both "realities", all three awoke in the TARDIS. The Doctor then revealed that the Dream Lord was a manifestation of the Doctor's dark side by Psychic pollen. As the Doctor restarted his TARDIS, he briefly saw the Dream Lord's smirking face on the console, a reminder that he was still inside him somewhere. (DW: Amy's Choice)

Landing in Cwmtaff, Wales, the Doctor found that a drilling operation had disturbed a Silurian city and its inhabitants were retaliating. The Doctor failed to strike a treaty between humans and Silurians and resorted to putting the Silurians into deep sleep until a time when Earth would be ready for peace. On the way back to the TARDIS, Rory was shot by the Silurian Restac and his body was absorbed by a crack. The Doctor then tried to help Amy to remember Rory before he was erased from history, a task he failed in completing. (DW: The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood)

Out of guilt, the Doctor took Amy to visit Vincent van Gogh, where they found that his village was being attacked by a Krafayis, a beast only Vincent could see. The Doctor and Vincent's battle with the Krafayis ultimately resulted in the creature's death, which troubled Vincent deeply. (DW: Vincent and the Doctor)

The Doctor and Amy encountered Hubert Crimp, a slave trader, at the Trans-Vegas Casino, where they freed all of his slaves and won all of his money, giving it to his slaves as compensation. (DWA: Winning Hand) The Doctor then returned his books to the Library, where they encountered Book Monsters. They discovered that they needed to feed them stories, and they were saved by telling them a story about Space Wolves and Sky Sheep. (DWA: Booked Up) He then solved the problem of the TARDIS' arrival sound annoying the inhabitants by muffling the noise with a fire extinguisher. (DWA: Bad Vibrations)

After seemingly being abandoned by the TARDIS with Amy still inside, the Doctor was forced to rent an advertised room in Craig Owens' flat in order to solve the mystery of something on the top floor interfering with the TARDIS's ability to land. The Doctor found that the flat upstairs was actually a makeshift TARDIS and the ship's holographic computer was trying to find a suitable candidate to allow the ship to leave. The Doctor and Craig managed to stop the ship from killing anymore. When the TARDIS returned, the Doctor and Amy left, saying they might return one day. (DW: The Lodger)

Restarting the universe
After once again meeting up with River Song, the Doctor was lured to Stonehenge. At Stonehenge a group of the Doctor's enemies, including Dalek saucers, Cyberships, Sontaran flagships, Slitheen vessels, Judoon Rockets and Atraxi trapped the Doctor inside a prison known as the Pandorica in an attempt to stop the TARDIS from exploding. The TARDIS exploded anyway and every star in the universe began to go supernova. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)



The Doctor was released from the Pandorica by the Auton Rory on the orders of the Doctor's future self, using his future self's sonic screwdriver. Using River's vortex manipulator, the Doctor worked out a way to fix the universes' destruction using the Pandorica. The Doctor flew the Pandorica into the heart of the TARDIS' explosion. The Doctor then woke up in the TARDIS one week prior, rewinding through his timestream until he was erased from history.

At Amy's wedding reception, she remembered the Doctor's description thanks to River's diary, where she brought back the Doctor, using her memories of him. He arrived in the TARDIS, fully dressed in a tux and top hat. The Doctor then left the wedding with Amy and Rory for new adventures. (DW: The Big Bang)

Adventures during Amy and Rory's honeymoon
The Doctor left Amy and Rory on a honeymoon planet shortly before his TARDIS was taken by the Claw Shansheeth, leaving him trapped on the Wasteland of the Crimson Heart.

The Shansheeth pronounced the Doctor dead and held a funeral for him, planning to drain Sarah Jane Smith and Josephine Jones of their memories of him to create a TARDIS key using a Memory Weave. Using Artron energy within Clyde, the Doctor was able to perform a biological swap and travel to Earth. Once back, the Doctor instructed Jo and Sarah to think of their travels with the Doctor instead of the key. This overloaded the Weave, which exploded, killing the Shansheeth. The Doctor then reclaimed the TARDIS and took the group to Bannerman Road, where he, Jo and Sarah Jane shared goodbyes. (SJA: Death of the Doctor) The Doctor later met Kazran Sardick, a man who refused to help him save both his companions and 4001 others. The Doctor then used time travel to alter Kazran's life, hoping to change him into a better person. Every Christmas eve, the Doctor, Kazran and Abigail Pettigrew visited various places. At one point, the Doctor actually ended up marrying Marilyn Monroe, although later he was defiant that it was not a real chapel. Eventually, the Doctor's efforts paid off, and with Abigail's help, he was able to save his friends. (DW: A Christmas Carol)

Further travels
After Rory unintentionally caused it to falter, the Doctor's TARDIS acidentally materialised within itself. However, the Doctor was able to use the time differences to tell himself how to solve the problem. (DW: Space / Time)

Undated/Unchronicled events

 * There are several gaps in which a number of adventures may have happened:
 * Between Rory's death and visiting Planet One.
 * The Doctor and Amy visit Arcadia and the Trojan Gardens during this time.
 * After Amy and Rory's wedding.
 * The Doctor and Amy go in search of the Doctor's favourite painting. Rory is not present. (WC: The War of Art, WC: Amy's History Hunt)
 * The Doctor and Amy discover the Daleks have taken over Earth in 1963. Following them back to Skaro they are able to undo the damage they have done. (VG: City of the Daleks)
 * The Doctor and Amy discover an ancient Cybermen army hidden underground in the Arctic circle, being undug by Cyber Slaves - events occured on May 4th 2010. (VG: Blood of the Cybermen)
 * The Doctor and Amy visit Smyslov 3 for the first time, in their perspective, and learn that their future selves visited there. (WC: Wish You Were Here)
 * The Doctor and Amy fight the Entity inside the TARDIS. (VG: TARDIS)
 * The Doctor and Amy visit Smyslov 3 and disable Tanik's missiles. (WC: Wish You Were Here)
 * The Doctor gets captured in Vorgenson's minimiser, fights the Supreme Dalek and escapes. (SP: Doctor Who Live)

Personality
The eleventh incarnation was highly energetic and very lively, with additional liveliness during his post-regenerative period. He was extremely brash and unafraid to show his eccentricities, appearing to act alien. He was also easily agitated when people or objects did not do as he wished them to, and would resort to physical confrontation and somewhat reckless behaviour to achieve his goals. He had, like a number of his other incarnations, fantastic leadership qualities. Much like his ninth and tenth incarnations, he also had a large amount of knowledge of Earth slang and colloquialisms. He appeared to have remembered a few of his predecessor's catchphrases. He was extremely resourceful and quick thinking, able to spin things to his point of view, and could find positive outlooks in negative situations. He was somewhat more melodramatic in his brilliance. When thinking about a problem, he blocked out all outside distractions, to the point where he told Amy "you're dying, shut up" so he could solely concentrate on working out how to save her. (DW: Flesh and Stone)

Much like his second incarnation, this incarnation showed a childlike recklessness, but always had a grander scheme behind his actions. Also similar to his second incarnation, the eleventh had a knack for acting smug, occasionally boasting about his feats, knowledge, and reputation.

This incarnation also had a more serious side to his character. He showed little tolerance for dire mistakes and being belittled by others, even threatening to leave Amy back at home after one mistake, namely keeping information from him. (DW: The Beast Below) He often took his frustrations out on others by exploding with anger and coldness. (DW: The Beast Below, Flesh and Stone, Amy's Choice) He was also more prone to violent actions and sometimes used them as his first option to achieve his goals. He also appeared to be almost downright threatening to the Atraxi after they surveyed a projection of him, using his near-legendary reputation to his advantage. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)

This incarnation also possessed a sense of arrogance, stating to Amy that "time is not the boss of me" (DW: The Time of Angels) and "you don't ever decide what I need to know". (DW: The Beast Below) The eleventh incarnation shared many, but much milder, traits of the sixth incarnation, such as the solemn nature when not being taken seriously and the belittling of humans. Also reminiscent is the lack of interest in his companions, much more than his previous incarnation's, even ignoring them when busy with his work. He also largely preferred his companions to follow his instructions but usually fell back to his previous incarnation's habit of letting his companions try their own plans. (DW: The Vampires of Venice) This incarnation seemed slightly annoyed with River Song instead of enjoying her, as he could not stand that River knew more about his own future than he did, and resented her apparently superior control of the TARDIS. He also did not believe in using white lies, nor did he dabble around with the truth like his tenth incarnation. Also like his sixth incarnation, this incarnation occasionally badly misjudged people. (DW: Flesh and Stone, Attack of the Cybermen)

The eleventh incarnation's more extreme emotional moments seem linked to making hard choices and the potential that innocents might suffer and die as a result of them. When it appeared he had to lobotomise the Star Whale in order to save it more pain, he seemed disgusted with the situation and himself, remarking that he would have to change his name because he wouldn't be the Doctor any more. (DW: The Beast Below) He also had a tendency to think aloud when he was panicking or stressed. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)

Much like his fourth, sixth, and ninth incarnations, this Doctor was much more outwardly alien and wasn't as in touch with humanity as his fifth, eighth and previous incarnation were. The eleventh incarnation believed that a human's ability to feel pain and suffering defined their humanity. (DW: Victory of the Daleks) He was unable to comfort an upset Vincent Van Gogh (DW: Vincent and the Doctor) and found it difficult to act like an average human when staying with Craig Owens. (DW: The Lodger) This incarnation was also aware of the flaws humans had and reminded them of those flaws. He seemed to suggest that he saw humans as beneath him. (DW: The Time of Angels) The eleventh incarnation still showed a deep respect for humanity, calling them an "extraordinary species" and telling Alaya that it was dangerous to underestimate them (DW:The Hungry Earth)

The eleventh incarnation had shown a dislike of war and the use of weaponry, at least for violent means. He fired a gun to detonate a gravity globe and expressed no displeasure against weapons being used on the Weeping Angels, though this could have been because the weapons clearly had no effect on them. (DW: The Time of Angels) However, he became almost threatening when Ambrose Northover suggested they use weapons against the Silurians, claiming it wasn't how he solved problems. While posing as a normal human, the Doctor played football on Craig Owens' team and was upset and became threatening when one of Craig's friends asked him if he would help "annihilate" the other team. (DW: The Lodger) The eleventh incarnation had also shown a tendency to refer to Amy by her surname. This Doctor was not keen on hiding his emotions, usually making his anger obvious. However, unlike his previous incarnation, he seemed unable to respond well in a romantic situation with Amy Pond. (DW: Flesh and Stone) Despite this awkwardness in response to an attempted seduction, the eleventh incarnation did show an ability to be affectionate and comforting with Amy. (DW:Victory of the Daleks, Flesh and Stone/The Big Bang).

This incarnation was shown to have resolved much of the survivors guilt seen in his ninth and tenth incarnations, to the extent that he referred to the Last Great Time War as simply a 'bad day'. (DW: The Beast Below)

This incarnation seemed more willing to sacrifice himself. Several times he told Amy and Rory to return to the TARDIS in times of great danger, and sacrificed himself to create the big bang two. (DW: The Time of Angels, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice, Cold Blood, The Big Bang)

Habits and Quirks
This incarnation of the Doctor appeared to have incredibly good eyesight as well as an eidetic memory, and was able to scan an entire scene and pick up little details. He implored others to observe every detail in an area and make brilliant deductions from doing so.

He also showed a penchant for talking with his hands, being able to calculate a situation with hand gestures. (DW: Flesh and Stone) He also had a habit of spinning in circles when walking and spinning around in a complete counter clockwise circle to look in one direction instead of turning to the right. (DW: The Eleventh Hour, The Big Bang) This incarnation was also fond of bow ties. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)

This incarnation had also shown some concern about his legs. Immediately after his regeneration, his first act was to make sure that he still had legs. (DW:The End of Time). Later on, after he had thrown himself into the explosion in the heart of the TARDIS, the first thing he did was check to see if his legs were still there. (DW: The Big Bang)

Much like his tenth persona, this incarnation had horrible social skills. He went into detail about his encounter with Amy at Rory's Bachelor party, (DW: The Vampires of Venice) and often interrupted himself, and others, to tell someone to "shut up!" Also, this incarnation was frequently out-done verbally by Amy, to the point of becoming flustered at some of her wittier remarks. He also had a habit of making various subtle light-hearted innuendos with Rory (DW: The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice) but ended up clueless when Amy tried to flirt with him. (DW: Flesh and Stone) However, he had become a little more adept at dealing with, or at least deflecting, such innuendos by the time Amy and Rory were married. (DW: The Big Bang)

He also had a habit of rambling, making rapid amendments to his speech, to the point where it seemed like he was talking nonsense. (DW: The Time of Angels, The Vampires of Venice) A habit that seemed to mildly disturb the Doctor when Amy pointed it out to him was his propensity for tasting things in order to determine their chemical and mineral composition. This ability recalled one he displayed in the early days of his tenth life. (DW: The Christmas Invasion, Tooth and Claw, The Idiot's Lantern) Frequently, this incarnation had asked his companions and others to trust him before he began any plan. This Doctor also frequently hushed others while he trying to think. Before the eleventh incarnation pointed at someone or something, he usually clicked his fingers and then pointed. When he walked somewhere at a pace, he usually did so with his head looking at the ground. He also displayed a preference for sitting down casually and nonchalantly with leg crossed, appearing quite comfortable and in control during crises or tense situations, as with his reference to the "comfy chairs" in the Byzantium starship. (DW: Flesh and Stone)

This incarnation displayed a penchant for unexpectedly pulling miscellaneous objects out of his jacket when needed, akin to his fourth and tenth incarnations. This incarnation also had the habit of referring to his companions by their surname, much as his first incarnation had with Ian Chesterton. (DW: The Eleventh Hour, The Big Bang, SJA: Death of the Doctor)

The eleventh incarnation showed several uses of his telepathic powers, once apparantly using them to influence Amy's 'dream' of her younger self joining him so that she dreamed of Prisoner Zero's true form. (DW: The Eleventh Hour) On another occasion he filled Craig Owens in on his true past by head-butting him to apparently 'force' his memories into Craig's head, although this experience was apparently disorientating to both. (DW: The Lodger) He also used them to leave Amy a message when she woke up and was released from the Pandorica, telling her to rest. (DW: The Big Bang)

Appearance
This incarnation had long, dark hair which initially made him believe himself female. He confirmed that he wasn't by the presence of an adam's apple, but was still annoyed that he was not ginger. He had a large chin, which seemed to initially unsettle him, and green eyes. He commented on his nose though noted that he'd had worse. (DW: The End of Time)

Clothes
For most of his first adventure, the Doctor wore the tattered clothes of his previous incarnation. Like his third and eighth incarnations, (DW: Spearhead from Space, Doctor Who) he stole his clothing from the staff room of a hospital. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)

The eleventh incarnation's primary outfit consisted of a plain brown tweed jacket with elbow patches, a dress shirt, a bow tie, braces, a gold wrist watch, rolled up navy-blue trousers and black boots. He would then change the colour of his shirt, bow tie and braces from burgundy to blue.

His jacket had pockets which were bigger on the inside, as the Doctor was able to produce a large UV lamp from his inside pocket (DW: The Vampires of Venice) along with many other things.

His second jacket was checked in design (DW: Victory of the Daleks, The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone) though he lost it while escaping from Weeping Angels aboard the Byzantium starship. After that incident, he resumed wearing his first jacket. (DW: The Vampires of Venice onwards) The jacket became tattered after the Doctor was shot by a Dalek.

While in the National Museum, the Doctor found a fez in one of the displays. He decided to start wearing a fez with his outfit stating that "Fezzes are cool", as he had of bow ties. The fez was later removed by Amy and destroyed by River Song, both of whom disapproved of it. While rewinding through his own timeline, the Doctor felt for the fez on his head, but it was not there. He concluded to himself that he could easily buy another. (DW: The Big Bang)

While attending Amy and Rory's wedding, the Doctor wore a formal tuxedo and trousers, along with a white bow tie, white scarf, and a black top hat. (DW: The Big Bang)

At Christmas, because his other jacket had become tattered, the Doctor wore a new tweed jacket with a pattern, and also a checked shirt with his burgundy bowtie and braces, new black trousers and new boots. While visting Abigail Pettigrew every Christmas Eve, he wore a mutitude of different apparel, including a long multicoloured scarf similar to ones worn by his fourth incarnation, a white tuxedo and black bow tie while visting California in 1952, and a fez, which he previously expressed affection for. (DW: A Christmas Carol)

TARDIS

 * Main article: The Doctor's TARDIS

As a result of the damage caused by his tenth regeneration, the Doctor's TARDIS itself underwent a regeneration. While its interior radically altered, the exterior was also slightly affected. Most noticeably, the right exterior door was again emblazoned with a St. John Ambulance symbol, as it had been on the First Doctor's TARDIS. The light on the roof once again resembled a fresnel navigation lamp, the blue was brighter and the windows had changed to include white borders around the glass panels and alternating frosting on the bottom panes. Overall, the exterior configuration was similar to the design the first incarnation used.

At some point, the Doctor had thrown his much-abused TARDIS Instruction Manual into a Supernova. He later justified this action by saying he "disagreed with it". (DW: Amy's Choice)

Behind the scenes

 * The comic strip The Crimson Hand, published in Doctor Who Magazine from issue 416 in December 2009, was the last strip to feature the tenth incarnation. Similarly, the American comic book publisher, IDW Publishing, announced at the New York Comic Con in February 2009 that it will begin publishing original comic book adventures featuring the eleventh incarnation as of issue 18 of Doctor Who Ongoing, scheduled for publication in December 2010.
 * Benedict Cumberbatch (star of Sherlock, another show by Steven Moffat) was rumoured to have been offered the role of the eleventh incarnation and turning down the role, however, he denied this. Coincidentally Matt Smith auditioned for Sherlock for the role of John Watson but was rejected for being "more of a Sherlock Holmes." That audition ended up causing Smith to be a prime candidate for the eleventh incarnation.
 * British tabloid The Sun has reported that the eleventh incarnation's costume would be changed for Matt Smith's second series as the Doctor. The reason for this, the article cites, is that the majority of the series will be filmed in winter months and the tweed jacket isn't warm enough. The article does not specify if the entire costume will be changed or simply a warmer tweed jacket will be found, but language used in the article seemed to indicate the Doctor's "professor-style outfit" will be changed, suggesting the former. However, pictures from the filming of the 2010 Christmas Special revealed that the basic outfit had not changed.
 * Matt Smith has made several public statements — as on The Jonathan Ross Show and in the question-and-answer session following the New York theatrical premiere of The Eleventh Hour — taking credit for the tweed jacket, braces and bow tie that his incarnation eventually wore. He has also relayed that there was some reluctance from Steven Moffat and other top executives to the bow tie in particular, but that it nevertheless "sat right" with his performance. Smith's influence — according to CON: Call Me the Doctor and a mid-April 2010 appearance on Fox Broadcasting Company's Strategy Room — was the character of Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr., as he was most often clothed on the campus of Barnett College.
 * When queried about the exact nature of the bow tie, Karen Gillan told the audience of the 2nd April 2010 edition of the CBBC programme, Laugh Out Loud, that Smith's bow tie wasn't a "proper" bow tie, but instead a pre-tied dicky bow. This can be confirmed by carefully watching him put on the tie in The Eleventh Hour, although the action is somewhat obscured by the Atraxi projection.