Regeneration

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The Doctor is tough enough to survive the fall from the atmosphere, bolts of lightning, and a full strike from a laser beam.

As The Doctor has proven in almost all situations, they are tough to control or kill. Thanks to some of his Time Lord biology, the Doctor has shown a lot of resistance to many hax and abilities over their time-fighting.

The Doctor could resist time being frozen by Kronos and Lamprey. The Doctor could also move in when time was being reversed and stopped time in “Invasion of the Dinosaurs”.

Because the Time Lords bonded with time, it makes them harder to erase. The Doctor once put his hand in one of the Cracks of Time; the effects of the cracks were erasing things from life itself, including time and memories of their past.

Regeneration allows the Doctor to essentially cheat death by having every cell in their body undergo “a renewal”, completely changing his physical appearance as well as bringing different aspects of his personality to the forefront for each each incarnation.

While still within the regenerative process, Time Lords can grow back lost limbs and even survive being riddled with bullets.

The Doctor has an infinite number of regenerations.

The biggest downside is that they can still be killed if they refuse to do it at all, or fatally hit in the expelling of regenerative energy phase.

Despite being nearly impossible to erase from any timeline, burning out both the Doctor’s hearts will stop him from regenerating, as well as killing him before he can finish regenerating. [1] [2]

If The 15th Doctor Bi-generated from the 14th Doctor. . .

How is this going to affect future Incarnations of The Doctor?

Will they Regenerate like every prior incarnation from 1-14; or will any Future Incarnation of The Doctor Bigenerate like the 15th Doctor did; when he split off from the 14th Doctor?!!

Comment down which Regeneration scene is the best & why.

This is my personal ranking of every doctors first full story (not necessarily post-regeneration story).

I’d love to hear everyone else’s rankings

1. An unearthly Child :ONLY PART 1 and it’s a perfect first story, introducing us to the doctor, TARDIS , and companions perfectly

2. The Eleventh Hour: a great jumping on point for new viewers, and Smith understood the role immediately and introducing us to Amy as well was done perfectly with a great story to boot.

3. Spearhead from Space: a new breath of life to the show and a fun, earth-based story which establishes what type of stories we will continue to see from Pertwee’s run moving forward. Pertwee is fantastic right off!

4. Power of the Daleks: the story that could have ended the show if done wrong, but Troughton and the daleks created an amazing story which kept the show going for so long

5. Rose: nostalgia might affect my views on this story but much like an unearthly child it has to introduce people to the doctor, companion, and TARDIS while having a good story. While the story isn’t as good, it’s still a dang good time and got me hooked when I watched it.

6. Deep Breath: I like this story more than most. I like how Capaldi questions his morality and has to figure out who he is more than any other doctor before him had. So much so that it ends up being his arc throughout his run. Plus I love the paternoster gang.

7. RoboT: Tom’s first story feels more like a lost Pertwee story, howeve that’s not to say it’s bad, but I’m glad that we get a nice transition from Pertwee’s earthbound era to Tom’s time and sapce era

8. Doctor Who (the movie): once again I like this story more than most. McGann is great as the doctor and the “who am I” scene gives me chills every time. Of course the story itself is not great, but I enjoy it.

9. Castrovalva: nothing inherently wrong with this story, but I kind of feel like Davisons post-regeneration trauma was a bit drawn out so we didn’t get a proper taste of his doctor. But I love the look of the story and Ainley is fantastic as well.

10. The church on Ruby Road: it’s fun. Ncuti steals the scenes he’s in and immediately felt like the doctor, I actually like that we don’t get the traumatic post-regeneration for him as some time has passed since the giggle. The story itself though is quite generic

11. The Woman Who Fell to Earth: again, not inherently bad, I just enjoy others more. Jodie I feel was great for her first episode and the stunt on the crane is one of the best “I am the doctor” moments for a post-regeneration doctor

12. The Star Beast: a fun return to form with a rushed third act. Tennant was great to have back and you really felt like this doctor was different just because of little things he did. The story was good for the first two-thirds, but then it got rushed and deus-ex-machina’d the meta crisis.

13. The Christmas Invasion: yeah I don’t really care for this story. I feel like having the doctor absent for most of it doesn’t work for me when it’s his first story. That being said when he does wake up, Tennant was fantastic and immediately felt like the doctor

14. Time and The Rani: this story’s bad but I LOVE IT! I just love how campy and ridiculous it is and Sylvester was not as bad as people say in this story. Plus I feel he can work that multi-color coat.

15. The twin Dilemma: When you have your new doctor’s first action be strangling their companion, it’s hard to see past that and makes them completely unlikable. The story itself is not as bad as people say (definitely not the worst of classic who) but it’s still pretty bad. Plus putting this at the end of a season rather than the beginning was a very bad choice.

This is just my list and my opinion. I did not count “Day of the Doctor“ of “fugitive of the Judoon” as they are more debatable.

When a Time Lord is dying - either due to old age or mortal injury - they are able to use a process called regeneration, gaining a new healthy body.

With this regeneration:

1. The Doctor has regrown lost limbs while his lost limb regenerated the entire missing body of the Doctor

2. Got a superhuman strength boost during regeneration to knock down a steel doors

3. Once used his regeneration energy to destroy a Dalek Saucer and damaged his TARDIS

4. Underwent a bi-generation, in which he was split into two versions; himself

If a Time Lord dies during regeneration, that ends the process permanently.

I was rewatching the giggle again and when I got to the regeneration part I realized something that made me a bit sad…

The last three regenerations have all had the same cause of death.

12: laser from cyberman

13: laser from the master

14: laser from the toymaker

I’m a bit disappointed now because up until this point we only had two occasions where doctors died of similar causes

First, War, 11: old age

3 and 10: radiation poisoning

But these were far enough apart that (excluding war and 11) that it didn’t feel like rehashing. But having three regenerations in a row be caused by lasers feels a bit lazy and generic.

Now that I’ve noticed that I want to hear what others think, I just like when they’d get more creative with the causes of regeneration.

Heres hoping that Ncuti will have a better cause of regeneration

I understand Davies isn't going to retcon the Timeless Child arc, but in a few years time, a future writer/showrunner could use my theory.

We know Ruth comes before the 13th Doctor, and 2 popular theories include her being pre-Hartnell, and the other being her being in between the second and third Doctor. However, both of these are flawed as Ruth's TARDIS is stuck as a police box, and the first Doctor was the one who first realised this, while Ruth being between 2 and 3 doesn't work as it would mean that David Tennant wouldn't be able to regenerate into Matt Smith since his aborted regeneration in The Stolen Earth was supposed to be the last one, rather than 11's regeneration in Time of The Doctor.

So, here is my idea. We never saw the old 11th Doctor deaging back to his younger self at the end of Time of The Doctor, so this could very well have been where the Fugitive Doctor appeared. She might have flew the TARDIS out of Trenzalore, lived her secret life then regenerated. The Time Lords never disclosed how many extra regenerations the Doctor got in Hell Bent, so who knows if Ruth had regenerated several times before regenerating back into Matt Smith's Doctor, returning to Clara where he would become Peter Capaldi's Doctor. This would also mean that the Curator's promise of revisiting old faces in the 50th anniversary special would be fulfilled a lot sooner!

Before you ask, Ruth could have changed the TARDIS interior to the one seen in Series 12 back to 11's before she returned to Clara. As for 13 not recognising Ruth, the Doctor could always have lost his/her memory after Ruth's incarnation died.

Any flaws you find in this idea are welcome to be shared so I can improve the idea.