The Doctor

Doctor Who

First Appearance:

• Television: An Unearthly Child, BBC1 (23rd November 1963)
• Comics: The Klepton Parasites, TV Comic #674 (14th November 1964)
• Marvel UK: The Iron Legion, Doctor Who Weekly #1 (17th October 1979)
• Marvel US: The Iron Legion, Marvel Premiere #57 (December 1980)
• First Interaction with Marvel Universe Character: The Neutron Knights, Doctor Who Monthly #60 (January 1982)

History of the Time Lords

When the universe was young, one of the first planets to sustain life was Gallifrey, a planet close to the center of the universe itself, orbiting twin stars. The Gallifreyan’s were extremely long lives people, bordering on immortality itself, they were naturally sensitive to time, the fourth dimension and extremely mentally advanced with psychic and telepathic powers unequaled.

For millennia the Gallifreyan’s were lead by the Pythia, a cult who ruled with a iron fist of occultism and sorcery, gradually, over many millennia an opposing cult spread, one which embraced science instead of magic. The opposing faction gained many members and slowly took control of the planet and led the Gallifreyan’s into a peaceful golden age where they mastered many technological marvels, the Gallifreyan’s spread throughout the known universe, mastering first space travel and then establishing the great Gallifreyan Empire.

In the fifth golden time of the Gallifreyan age, three Gallifreyan’s prodigy came to the attention of the science council. Omega, Rassilon and one known only as ‘The Other’. These three Gallifreyan’s mastered many of the realms of science that had eluded the Gallifreyan’s for so long, most notably the science of Time Travel.

With the technology of Time Travel now at their fingertips, the Gallifreyan empire spread throughout the universe, there was no secrets left that they could not unlock, they even dared to capture and use Black Holes for their own devices, one even said that they ‘looked upon the face of god’. Unfortunately, it was during this great and bountiful time that the Gallifreyan empire was brought to its knees.

The last member of the old cult of Pythia struck her last and deadliest blow against the Gallifreyan lords, she used her vast psychic powers to curse her own people with sterility before committing suicide, no more children would be born on Gallifrey, and The Gallifreyan people were doomed to extinction.

Rassilon turned his efforts to conquering this new danger, his answer to the threat toward his people was to create vast looms of primordial soup, capable of ‘decanting’ new Gallifreyan’s from the genetic material contained within. The first seven ‘loom born’ were named the ‘Special Executive’, but there was a problem, as more and more of the ‘loom born’ were created, their telepathic powers lessened, eventually becoming nonexistent. They also had lesser life spans, living now mere millennia but now could ‘regenerate’ their forms to live more millennia time and time again.

To combat the now growing ‘over crowding’ problem the Gallifreyan’s had themselves created, Rassilon created the Gallifreyan Houses, and decreed that each House could only have forty five ‘cousins’ at any one time.

Believing he had solved the problem of ‘sterility’ in his people, Rassilon turned his attention back to Time Travel, they had come to agree that a very special power source was needed to make Time Travel possible, that of a Black Hole. Turning their attention to this problem, the three prodigies created a new device capable of accelerating a star’s development and capturing the eventual Black Hole created by this action. They named their creation ‘The Hand of Omega’.

Unfortunately, several in the Gallifreyan council believed this to be sacrilege. “To destroy an entire solar system just for their own benefit should not be allowed.” They sabotaged the device and caused Omega’s ship to fall into the Black Hole he had just created, Omega was believed dead, but his technology was mastered, and the Gallifreyan’s became the first race to master time travel, and they created the new Lords of Time.

Back on Gallifrey, Rassilon was a hero; he had brought the Gallifreyan’s into a new prosperous age. A decade after the death of Pythia he ordered a massacre of her remaining followers, killing all who now stood in the way of ‘scientific progress’. He felt no pity towards her acolytes, now knowing that his wife had miscarried, and his child was dead now because of the curse.

‘The Other’ could not stand for the new view on life, the Gallifreyan’s were turning into a militaristic people and were conquering new galaxies every day to ease the spread of their ever growing population. He carried his sole surviving relative and his granddaughter Susan to a far off galaxy before throwing himself into the Loom’s, now mixing his own genetic material with the primordial soup that was within.

Millennia later, The Other was proven right. Rassilon fought war after war with any alien race that could, at any point in time, threaten the great Gallifreyan empire. Species such as The Charon and The Great Vampires were simply erased from time, their galaxies harvested for their sun’s to power the new ‘Time Ships’. Fearing Rassilon would turn on his own people one day, the ‘Loom Born’, now sick of being treated like second class citizens started a civil war, Loom Born against Womb Born.

The Civil War lasted for Millennia, and in the end the ‘Lomb Born’ exterminated all but a few of the Womb Born, though some still remain, hidden within the new Gallifreyan society even today, millennia after millennia, living secret lives, moving from place to place so that no one would know they weren’t aging instead of ‘regenerating’, immortals amongst their own people. 

The Past

The Oncoming Storm called The Doctor was born on the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous, to a Gallifreyan father and a human mother. Physically he is much like other Gallifreyans, with a bipulminary system which pumps blood that is definitely not human, and a respiratory bypass system which enables him to recycle oxygen for a brief time. The only physical characteristic which he inherited from his mother is his eyes, while their color may change when he regenerates, they retain a human retinal pattern. This may explain his occasional need for spectacles or magnifying glasses, which never seem to be used by full-blooded Gallifreyans such as Romana or The Master. The planet Gallifrey was much like Earth, but the trees have silver leaves which glisten in the twin sunlight, and its night sky is a burnt orange color. The Doctor has memories of lying on a hillside with his father while watching a meteor shower in this night sky. Aside from his granddaughter, Susan, and an uncle he once mentions, we hear of no other members of his family.

Susan Foreman, The Doctor's granddaughter

Time War

The range and scope of the Last and Great Time War is hard to explain as its nature, and the attacks cannot be linearly understood, from the time lords perspective they were attacked first, but to ‘The Orders’ perspective, they were attacked first and retaliated.

From the time lord’s view, they were attacked first in the past, as part of their history. An Agent of ‘The Order’ goes back in time and attacks the Time Lords when they are first testing their experiments to turn the star Qqaba into a Black Hole using the ‘Hand of Omega’. ‘The Order’ caused the ‘death’ of Omega and helped create the Time Lords as they stand today, from the Time Lords perspective they did nothing to cause the attack, so they theorized that either it was the first attack, or that is was in response to something they had yet to do.

Millennia later at a diplomatic meeting, a representative of ‘The Order’ is killed by the Sontarians, who then blamed the Time Lords for the attack providing ‘The Order’ with reason to attack the Time Lords in the past. It is unclear as to the events that happen during the time war, it is said several times that at one point the Dalek’s became involved, and the war engulfed entire galaxies, destroying all in its wake, leaving only the ‘Higher Beings’ unaffected.

• The Time Lords and the Dalek’s were the two major fronts in the time war, and in the end both lost.
• Towards the end of the time war the Dalek’s changed history in a final blow to the time lords, erasing Gallifrey from time itself.
• From what is known, there were only a handful of survivors from the Last Great Time War. The Doctor, and some Daleks who were ‘outside of time’ during the last strike.
• During the TV episodes, The Doctor has said many times that he was the one who caused the destruction of the Dalek fleet, and that he was on the Front Line of the war, quite what this means for a Temporal war is unclear.

The Doctor

The Doctor

"The Doctor is an underachiever who never saw the point of exams, brought up on a planet that was basically a big university. He was a member of the social elite, but never saw the point of the rituals and social structures that kept that elite in power. He's an aristocrat who has rejected the comforts of his former life and the role that was expected of him. He has no real powers other than a keen intelligence and a lot of learning. He solves problems not through violence, but through wit and reason. No one can be The Doctor, he's more than human, but we can try to be like The Doctor... peaceful, intelligent, witty, reasonable, aware of what is truly important."  - Lance Parkin

The Official 11 Incarnations of The Doctor 

During his time at the academy, Snail rose through the academy’s elite, showing time and time again an intelligence, and thirst for knowledge that was unmatched since the time of Rassilon and Omega. He was quickly given a new nickname, Theta Sigma, Thete for short. Rising through the academy, he soon came to the attention of the Deca, the brightest of the Gallifreyan people and, who like Thete, yearned for a life outside Gallifrey’s now stagnant unchanging world. While he was a member of the Deca, Thete now chose his own name, rather than letting his peers choose for him as was the Gallifreyan custom. He finally became known as The Doctor and erased his own name from history, now being the only one left who knew his name.

During his last year at the academy it came to his attention that Quences, the head of his House, had ambitions of High Office for The Doctor. Fearing that future, he deliberately sabotaged his own future, scraping by with only a passing mark in his exams at the academy. Furious with The Doctor, Quences disowned him and had the family Loom decant a new cousin to replace him. Angered by this, The Doctor informed the Head of the Time Lords of this illegal move and finally decided to leave Gallifrey for good. Stealing a TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) from the repair bays he left his home world for good, only later finding out that the rest of his House had been excommunicated for their illegal activity in creating a new cousin, their house stricken from all Time Lord records and his entire House buried alive.

During his travels, The Doctor found out that he had a stowaway on his TARDIS, The Hand of Omega. It had been in storage for millennia, not being used for fear that they would receive another attack, or the use of it itself would actually be the cause of the first attack. The Hand of Omega recognized The Doctor as one of its own creators, the genetic material of The Doctor being primarily made up of material from ‘The Other’, and overrode all safety protocols in the TARDIS, allowing time travel into Gallifrey’s past and future.

The Doctor, taking his first trip into Gallifrey’s past came across a young girl living on the streets. Susan, The Other’s grand daughter had not made it off planet after all, as soon as they met they shared a connection. Susan immediately took to calling The Doctor Grandfather, and somehow The Doctor knew it was right, even though it defied all logic that he had been taught.

The Doctor and Susan then left Gallifrey for the last time, using the TARDIS to travel the entire universe, seeing things no one had ever seen before. The Doctor took Susan to see the very birth of the universe, and its eventual death. The time was glorious, Susan and The Doctor saw everything they could in their time together, until finally Susan wanted to try and live life as a ‘normal’ teenager for once. They decided to stop on a relatively new planet, Earth. Where Susan enrolled in a school near to where the TARDIS had landed, Coal Hill in England, 1963 A.D.

While Susan was in school, The Doctor took this time to hide the Hand of Omega on earth somewhere, unknown to this day. But Susan’s strange alien nature had drawn the attention of two of her teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, who followed her home one night to the TARDIS and followed her inside. Realizing his predicament, The Doctor ‘kidnapped; the two teachers and took them with him on a quick ‘tour’ of the galaxy, eventually earning their trust The Doctor returned them to their own time.

Returning to earth, The Doctor soon acquired new companions, and saw more and more of the universe, frequently encountering aliens bent on universal destruction, he opposed as many as he could until his now millennia old body could take no more and regenerated.

Technology of the Time Lords

possibly the most recognizable of Time Lord technology is the TARDIS, the ‘vehicle’ for traveling in space and time. The Doctor’s TARDIS permanently looks like a police box, but other fully functioning TARDIS’s have chameleon circuits that adapt to any era they are in, camouflaging the TARDIS to look like a standard object for that time zone.

Most notable instances of this have been The Master’s TARDIS which has camouflaged itself as a Cupboard, a stone pillar and a Wardrobe on several occasions.

The inside of the TARDIS can be huge, some can even be city sized, and though this is limited be the amount of power that the TARDIS can generate. All TARDIS’s draw their power from a captured Black Hole, which can feed them unlimited power for an Infinite period of time.One of the most interesting characteristics of a TARDIS is the fact that they are not built, rather grown and are sentient creatures in their own right.

TARDIS’s are quite capable of movement, and even interstellar flight, though this does put an enormous strain on the TARDIS as its normal movement is to simple fade from one area of Space and Time and enter the time vortex, reappearing in another Space and Time.When The Doctor’s companions or enemies first encounter the TARDIS’s strange ‘Tesseract’ ability of warping space-time to fit the outside over the inside, they are understandably quite baffled. This feature of the TARDIS’s is possibly its most famous feature and can be explained quite easily using mathematics and Four Dimensional Engineering.

One of the most famous examples of theoretical four dimensional engineering is a ‘Hypercube’, or a ‘4D cube’.

this can be easily explained using a dimension that exists away from normal three dimensional space, and is only accessible to a fraction of three dimensional space. This is the theory behind the TARDIS, that the inside of the TARDIS is on another dimension, or realm, and the TARDIS itself only acts as a door to that dimension. Another amazing fact of the TARDIS is that the Regenerate with The Doctor, to a new ‘face’ or style with each new Doctor. This has been a running theme through the TV show and the Comic’s as each new Doctor appears, the TARDIS has a new, but familiar feel to it to match the new Doctor’s personality and appearance. 

Second incarnation

The First Regeneration

During this incarnation of The Doctor his personality had changed as well as his body, now preferring to act more the fool while manipulating time and people from the shadows. He continued to fight the evils of the galaxy and change time for the better, until he came up against an enemy he could not fight by himself.

Finally having to return home, he went to the Time Lords and he asked for their help.

Putting him on trial for breaking their own rules of Non-interference, The Doctor faced execution. Finally winning the argument after years of battle, the Time Lords agreed to assist him, but in return he would be exiled to a single planet, and a single time zone. The planet was earth so he was happy, and the era he was exiled to was when the earth would be under regular alien threat.

As a final punishment, the Time Lords forced another regeneration upon him.

The Doctor in Mythology

Merlin?

During his travels The Doctor has managed to immerse himself in the myths and legends of the planets he interacts with, this is mainly because of his Time Traveling and his ability to ‘Regenerate’ his appearance.

Frequently he will appear in Myths and Legends from species he has met, even though some of the things that have happened in the myths have yet to happen to The Doctor, if they even happen to him at all. A few of these note worthy appearances are documented well in the TV series and Comic’s.

• To the Dalek race he is known as the ‘Oncoming storm’, or ‘Destroyer of World’s’.
• To the Nestine Consciousness and ‘The Beast’ he is known as the ‘Killer of his own kind’
• But possibly most famously in both the comics and other media, he is known to Human’s as Merlin.

One of The Doctor’s future incarnation’s will become Merlin, during that time The Doctor will take on the name ‘Muldwych’ and has met several of his past incarnations while wearing this face. This Doctor will go on to give Captain Britain his power’s in the issue Daredevils #1.

Third Incarnation

The Second Regeneration

Landing on earth shortly after Humans had landed on the moon, The Doctor agreed to help UNIT, a United Nations task force specifically created to tackle the alien menaces that were now turning their attention towards earth.

He constantly worked to repair his TARDIS and beat his exile, finally his opportunity came when Omega returned and declared war on the Time Lords.

Unable to defeat Omega themselves, the Time Lords brought all three regenerations of The Doctor to one time frame to battle Omega, succeeding in defeating him, the time Lords granted the Doctor his freedom, and restored his ability to travel in Time and Space.

Technology of the Time Lords

Various incarnations of the Sonic Screwdriver

Another recognizable piece of Time Lord technology is the famous Sonic Screwdriver, like the TARDIS this piece of equipment has gone through change after change, above are four incarnation’s of this gadget.

The Sonic Screwdriver has been a piece of Doctor Who history since the second series of the show, where the doctor used it as a sort of multipurpose tool to unlock doors and other locks, as well as a variety of other uses.The Sonic Screwdriver has many uses, such as opening locks, repairing objects, detecting radio and other frequency transmissions, creating fire and amplifying sound waves and most notably of all, being used as a normal screwdriver.

The origins of the Sonic Screwdriver have never been properly addressed in either the TV series or any other media, though during the TV series ‘The Empty Child’ another character, Captain Jack Harkness uses a ‘Sonic Disrupter’ that appears to have the same uses as the Sonic Screwdriver, and more than likely share a common origin. The Sonic Disrupter was said to have come from ‘The Weapon Factories of Villengard’, which The Doctor later claims to have destroyed. It is possible that The Doctor picked up his Sonic Screwdriver there during this adventure, though this has never been shown on TV or any other media.

Companions

The Companions

The First Doctor - William Hartnell

The Second Doctor - Patrick Troughton

The Third Doctor - Jon Pertwee

The Fourth Doctor - Tom Baker

Surely there haven't been that many?

The Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison

The Sixth Doctor - Colin Baker

The Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy

The Eighth Doctor - Paul McGann

The Ninth Doctor - Christopher Eccleston

The Tenth Doctor - David Tennant

Fourth Incarnation

The Third Regeneration

After many years, The Doctor died again, and he suffered his third Regeneration.

This new incarnation of The Doctor was possessed with a thirst for knowledge that surpasses even his first incarnation, likely a reaction to his third incarnation’s enforced stay on earth in a specific time period. Finally able to return home to see Gallifrey for the first time (to this incarnation, he had never seen Gallifrey before) he was accused of murdering the President of the High Council upon landing for the first time, not exactly the welcome home he had been hoping for.

Remembering a law from the old days, The Doctor managed to prevent his execution by running for the post himself, the law preventing protecting him as it was put in place to prevent tyrants from murdering their rivals.

Doing his best to uncover the true killer while running for President, The Doctor finally uncovered the killer to be the other Presidential candidate, who was killed while trying to eliminate The Doctor. 

I'm a Time Lord... From the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I'm a former President of the High Council of the Time Lords, Keeper of the Legacy of Rassilon, Defender of the Laws of Time and Protector of Gallifrey.

With the other candidates dead, the only surviving candidate was elected President of the High Council of Gallifrey, The Doctor. Almost amused by this turn of events, The Doctor did the only thing he knew how to do when faced with something of this nature.

He ran.

Even though he had fled Gallifrey and the post of President of the High Council, the title remained his, as the Gallifreyan people had no laws in place to cover this.

Fleeing from known space, The Doctor and his companions arrived in another dimension known to the Gallifreyan’s as E-Space. During this time The Doctor battled The Master several times, the last time leaving him mortally wounded.

At the end of his last battle, The Doctor fell to the floor in front of a white clad person.

“It’s the end... but this moment has been prepared for.”

With that said, The Doctor and the White Clad male merged, regenerating himself into The Doctor’s fifth incarnation.

It has been said that the White Clad figure was actually one of The Doctor’s future incarnation’s who had come back in time in a predetermined paradox to save his own life, though this is unclear as it has yet to happen in the future, though it has happened in the past.

The End of the Time War

The Last Great Time War... Everyone lost...

The Time War came to an explosive end during the eighth Doctor’s regeneration. It has yet to be actually shown on screen but during the episode ‘Rose’ (The first episode of the ninth regeneration), The Doctor explains to Rose that the Nestine’s planet was destroyed in the war. 

The time war was mentioned as a running theme throughout the Doctor Who series, from the ninth Doctor to up to date in the tenth Doctor. During the Episode ‘The End of the World’, The Doctor encounters someone from the year 5,000,002,006 who is amazed that the there is still a Time Lord alive. At the end of the episode, The Doctor finally confesses to Rose that his home planet, Gallifrey was destroyed in the Last Great Time War. Leaving him, the only survivor.

During the episode ‘Dalek’, The Doctor finally reveals that the Time Lords adversaries during the last Time War were the Daleks, and that he believed that he had finally killed ever last Dalek in existence. One of the possible starts for this Time War was shown in the episode ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ when the fourth Doctor went back in time to destroy the Daleks before they actually evolved. This is the possible action that started the Time War, and may have been the direct cause of the Dalek’s wiping the Time Lords from history.

Much of the Time War has never been talked about in the TV show or the comics, several planets and species have been mentioned, and The Doctor, the last survivor of the Time Lords, is the only one now who remembers any of these species.

The Doctor was definitely on the front lines of the Time War in any case, it was said in the episode ‘Doomsday’ that he fought on the front lines and as present at the fall of Arcadia. The last battles of the Time War however are yet to be seen as The Doctor has yet to say what actually caused the fall of Gallifrey and the Dalek Home world, but it is certain that not only did the Doctor survive, but several Dalek's did as well.

Most promisingly of all to The Doctor, in the episode Gridlock, the Face of Boe tells The Doctor that ‘he is not alone’. The Master also survived taking on Human form as Professor Yana, he discovered who he was, took the Doctor's TARDIS but was shot and regenerated.

Many people have come up with thoughts on who else has survived the Time War, so that The Doctor is not alone in his adventures. Several possibilities include; The Daleks who we know survived, and The Doctor’s granddaughter.

Any of these are possible, and have yet to be proven or disproved in the current TV show or Comic.

Fifth Regeneration

The Fourth Regeneration

The fifth Doctor seemed to be more of a culmination of the previous Doctor’s rather than a fresh and new personality. During this Doctor’s incarnation we also were introduced to many of The Doctor’s most famous enemies, such as The Master, The Cybermen, Omega, The Guardians, The Sea Devils, The Silurians, and The Monk.

This Doctors dress sense was rather different to the bohemian style of the last Doctor, while the previous regeneration preferred a long coat and scarf with unruly hair, this doctor wore a modified cricket uniform complete with cricket ball in the pocket which saved his life on more than one occasion.

This Doctor was also one of the last to use the Sonic Screwdriver, as it was destroyed in one of the episodes after saving his life. In reality the tool was taken out of the show because the writers felt that it was being used as a ‘get out of jail free card’ for The Doctor, and felt that they needed to bring the character back to the basics of using his intelligence to get out of situations.

One notable facet of this Doctor’s character, was the fact that he often shyed away from violence and would try and work things out peacefully if there was a chance. More often than not he would actually consult with his companions, rather than acting as a commander as the previous Doctors had done.

Towards the end of this Doctor’s reign, both him and one of his companions, Peri were poisoned by spectrox, a poison from Adrozani Minor. Realizing that he only had enough antidote on board the TARDIS for one of them, The Doctor sacrificed himself, regenerating into the sixth Doctor so that Peri could use the antidote on herself.

It was perhaps this act of selflessness that actually defined the fourth regeneration as a Doctor, he was a kinder and more caring Doctor than any of the previous regeneration’s, and his conscience and character made him more human, and as such more liked by the fan’s.

Enemies

Daleks

Dalek

Before the Daleks can be mentioned, Davros must be examined. Davros is the only reason the Daleks exist. Davros is crippled humanoid creature who used his keen intellect to create a new race of creatures capable of destroying societies across the universe.

The Kaleds were hell-bent on conquering the worlds around them; however their blob like bodies were neither menacing nor efficient for this matter. Davros created the bodies that the Daleks live within. These bodies are technologically superior to anything seen within the Doctor Who universe. They can fly, numerous guns are fitted to the new bodies and they can communicate with each other vocally.

Cybermen

The Cybermen

There have bee 7 different versions of the Cybermen, each time they appear they are more mobile, sleeker and more deadly. The Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel (2006) reintroduce the world to the Cybermen, when the Doctor visits a parallel world where the Cybermen are being created.

“The Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel concern the efforts of John Lumick - a dying cybernetics genius in a parallel world - to prolong his life by downloading or replicating his consciousness in a mechanical body. This is described in terms of a brain welded to an exoskeleton. However, Lumick sees the Cybermen project as, not only, his way to circumvent the wheelchair we see him in and his immanent death, but also, as the future of the human species - what he refers to as his greatest step into cyberspace. In order to secure this future Lumick unleashes the Cybermen on human society where they go about suggesting that upgrading is compulsory and that humans are inferior and will be reborn as Cybermen.

The Cybermen are once again defeated by the Doctor, however the Cybermen manage to get back to the universe the Doctor is from and the threat may not be over. The Cybermen from that universe appear in an episode of Torchwood, where a Cyberwoman (not completed) tried to turn the Torchwood crew into more Cybermen, but ultimately fails.

The main goal of the Cybermen is not only the conquering of planets, but also to assimilate the inhabitants in order to make their armies stronger. They use human brains to power their soldiers under the command of the controller or emperor. The one flaw that the Cybermen do have is their weakness to gold dust. However, getting enough gold dust to clog the internal breathing of a Cybermen is quite a task and normally not the way they are defeated. One of the bragging rights that Cybermen claim to have is that they have removed all emotion from themselves. This is the key element that makes a human become a Cybermen. Although the Cybermen do show smugness, pride and anger quite often they are in fact emotionless for the most part. They do have some morality left within them, especially in the ones who were once human, so a person could talk themselves out of being killed, however that person would then become a Cybermen, there is no other choice, and these are their goals. 

The Seventh Doctor – Far more than just another Time Lord

In his seventh incarnation, The Doctor displayed the biggest personality change so far. A great change from the drastically over the top sixth incarnation, the seventh regeneration left The Doctor in a bumbling state to begin with and then progressed into an extremely driven character with a dark side that played out on his various adventures through time and space. He displayed an affable, curious, easygoing air. However, as he began to choose his battles and keep a tighter grip on his secrets, from his plans to his very identity, he also became a darker character, bringing along the impression that there was far more to him than meets the eye. In one of his final meetings with Davros, he is quoted as saying...

"Oh Davros, I am far more than just another Time Lord"

Thee Doctor would sometimes act like an idiot, preferring to manipulate events from behind the scenes, he was prepared to play the fool in order to trick his foes into underestimating him, inevitably leading to their defeat at his hands. He was empathetic to his friends and somewhat melancholic at times but placed greater burdens upon himself and began a deeper spiral into the darker nature of his character. This may have led him to surround his true intentions in mystery, subverting his more lighthearted qualities to complement his darker side.

The Seventh Doctor's was surprisingly capable of both directly and indirectly taking control of situations, using his greater intelligence to direct events. Concerned with the bigger picture, he would sometimes overlook the finer details and his planning, with sometimes fatal consequences. When he acted to end threats, it was usually a ruthless, destructive and final manoeuvre. He was also constantly hiding the truth from his friends and allies and using them in order to complete his schemes.

In keeping with his previous incarnations, he would use gadgetry of his own invention when the situation called for it, but never as his final gambit. Instead, he almost always managed to talk his enemies into submission, often into suicide, most memorably in Remembrance of the Daleks, where he taunts the seemingly last Dalek in existence until it self-destructs, or in Ghost Light, where he defeats the malevolent Light by ramming home the folly of trying to prevent.

It is definitely fitting and true to the overall character of The Doctor what his darkest incarnation should not directly use physical force to implement his actions, even though he seemed to have the universe's weight on his shoulders more often than any other Doctor.

Appearance and personality quirks

"Thank goodness in this regeneration I've regained my impeccable sense of haute couture"

The Seventh Incarnation’s uniform considsted of a white safari-styled jacket with a red scarf worn under its lapels and a handkerchief in the left pocket, a fob watch chained to the left lapel, sand-coloured tweed plaid trousers, white/brown brogued spectator shoes and an umbrella with a red question mark-shaped. Like most of his previous selves, the Seventh carried any number of random items in his pockets, including technological devices and books.

In the TV Movie the Doctor's costume changed again, with a return to a lighter jacket, now a light brown tweed. The question mark pullover, scarves, paisley tie and question mark umbrella were finally gone, replaced by a red waistcoat and a black zig zag pattern tie.

This Doctor also displays his more alien side on occasion as well, playing with the perception of his senses, as he smells an apple and listens to cheese in Survival. He also displayed a talent for hypnosis on various occasions.

Biography

When The Sixth Doctor was attacked by the Rani, the Doctor was injured and forced to regenerate. After a brief period of post-regenerative confusion and amnesia, the Seventh Doctor rejoined Mel. On the planet Svartos, Mel decided to leave the Doctor's company for Sabalom Glitz. Also the Doctor was joined by the time-stranded Ace. Growing more secretive from this point on, the Doctor took Ace under his wing and began teaching her about the universe, all the while keeping an eye out for Fenric's plot. The Doctor began taking a more scheming approach to defeating evil, using the Gallifreyan Hand of Omega as part of an elaborate trap for the Daleks which destroyed their home planet, Skaro.

The Seventh Doctor was finally given the responsibility of transporting the remains of his former enemy, the Master, to Gallifrey. The Master was able to take control of the Doctor's TARDIS and cause it to land in 1999 San Francisco, where the Doctor was shot in the middle of a gang shoot-out. He was taken to a hospital, where surgeons removed the bullets but mistook the Doctor's double heartbeat for fibrillation; their attempt to save his life instead caused the Doctor to die. Perhaps due to the anaesthesia, the Doctor did not regenerate immediately after death; he finally did so several hours later, while lying in the hospital's morgue.

The Seventh Doctor gives his age as 953 years, The later revival of the series, however, has contradicted the age given by the Seventh Doctor by establishing the Ninth Doctor as 900 years old, with the Tenth Doctor stating his exact age as 903 in Voyage of the Damned.