Explosive, exuberant, emotionally unpredictable and adventurous, the Eleventh Doctor was the final incarnation of the Doctor's original regenerative cycle. By this point in his life, the Doctor's reputation had grown immense, attracting a new strain of conflicts. Wishing to withdraw from the dangers it created, he became a secretive and guileful individual for the sake of himself and those he held close.
This incarnation's most notable enemy was the Silence, who were responsible for destroying his TARDIS, causing the cracks in time, which eventually consumed the universe, though he restored it with the Pandorica. His multi-century war with the Silence critically involved companions Amy Pond, Rory Williams and their daughter, River Song. Ultimately, the most significant defeat of the Silence required him to marry River in a dubious wedding ceremony, but one that they both seemed to regard as genuine.
After the touch of a Weeping Angel robbed him of Amy and Rory, a heartbroken Doctor retired to Victorian London and associated himself with the "Paternoster Gang". During this period, he rediscovered a woman named Clara Oswald, whom he thought had died previously in the distant future; she once again died here. Fascinated by this "impossible girl", he set off to solve the mystery of her multiple lives, and take her on as his latest travelling companion. He discovered her to be part of his timeline, having entered it in order to save him from the Great Intelligence. In doing so, he revealed to her his secret incarnation, who had fought in the Time War.
With his previous incarnation, the Doctor revisited the Time War, and discovered that he and his past incarnations had actually saved the Time Lords from destruction, but lost knowledge of the event with only the Eleventh Doctor retaining his memories of what had actually happened. This allowed him to cleanse his hands of a genocide he never enacted and happily accept the incarnation he once renounced, becoming the first incarnation to know the Time War's true conclusion.
After receiving a message broadcast throughout time and space by the Time Lords, the Doctor spent the last nine hundred years of his life defending the planet Trenzalore from his greatest enemies. Though the Time Lords wished to be released from their pocket universe, the Doctor feared a new Time War would start but also refused to abandon the planet to destruction. Growing old, weak and frail, the Doctor faced his imminent demise as witnessed during a trip into his own personal future. At the pleading of Clara, the Time Lords granted the Doctor a new regeneration cycle at the end of his life, enabling the Doctor to undergo an explosive change into his next incarnation, changing his personal future but leaving the Time Lords trapped outside the universe.
Appearance[]
The Eleventh Doctor was one of the Doctor's more youthful looking incarnations, resembling a young man in his mid twenties. He had softer features than his previous incarnation, with green eyes, a big nose and a large chin, (TV: The End of Time) which was the subject of much ridicule, (TV: The Doctor's Wife, Asylum of the Daleks, The Day of the Doctor) thought Rose Tyler thought that he had a "fantastic jaw". (PROSE: Rose) Like his ninth incarnation, he had large ears, which became more prominent when his head was shaved. They were described as "rocket fins", and the Doctor was proud of them. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) He claimed his feet were size 10, but quite wide, when asking for a replacement pair of shoes. (TV: The Rebel Flesh)
Because of his youth, Mels considered him hot, (TV: Let's Kill Hitler) and Amy Pond once tried to seduce him. (TV: The Time of Angels) Clara Oswald also felt an attraction to him based on his appearance, even wanting him to be her boyfriend. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
During the Siege of Trenzalore, his age had caught up with him: his hair greyed, wrinkles had formed on his face and he used a walking stick. By the siege's end the Doctor had become an old man, his hair having turned white, grown longer with slight balding and his face having deeper wrinkles, and needed to use his walking stick just to get about. After receiving his second regeneration cycle and undergoing an explosive regeneration "reset" the Doctor's youth was returned to him before his regeneration started properly. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
When he received a psychic image of him, the Second Doctor saw his eleventh incarnation as "a young man, [with] his fringe hanging over one eye, his face [being] long and angular, [and] his eyes glittering with intelligence and mischief." (AUDIO: Shadow of Death) George Litefoot described him as "a rangy man with a face that seemed simultaneously ancient and youthful." (AUDIO: The Jago & Litefoot Revival)
When Affinity took on the Eleventh Doctor's appearance, the Twelfth Doctor noted that his eleventh incarnation was "a young man in a tweed jacket and mismatched bow tie, with a flop of hair that looked as if it was about to detach itself from his head and go solo." (PROSE: Silhouette)
Hair and grooming[]
The eleventh incarnation had long, dark hair, which was initially long and combed back, (TV: The End of Time) but was later cut short and stylised as a comb over parted in the right. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
In a moment of boredom, the Doctor shaved his head clean, but his hair grew back during his time on Trenzalore, eventually turning grey. Before being granted a second regeneration cycle, the Doctor's hair had turned white, and began balding in the centre of his head, with him stylising his remaining hair in a backcomb similar to the style he had used in his original body. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
When imprisoned, he would grow a scruffy beard, which he always shaved off at the first opportunity. One of these instances where he had a "beard" was faked, as the Doctor was inhabiting the Tesselecta at the time and had the crew imitate hair growth to avoid revealing the deception. (TV: Day of the Moon, The Wedding of River Song)
Clothing []
Main attires[]
The eleventh incarnation's first outfit, which he stole from Royal Leadworth Hospital, consisted of a plain brown tweed jacket with elbow patches, a checkered dress shirt, a red bow tie, braces, rolled up navy-blue trousers and black tan loafers. (TV: The Eleventh Hour) He also wore a gold wristwatch with an expansion band on his left wrist, wearing the face on the back of his wrist rather than the front. (TV: Victory of the Daleks) According to Clara Oswald, this was the Doctor's favourite watch; she expressed disappointment in the Twelfth Doctor for trading it with a homeless man for his coat. (TV: Deep Breath)
He later wore a checked tweed jacket, (TV: Victory of the Daleks) but lost it while escaping the Weeping Angelsaboard the Byzantium. (TV: Flesh and Stone) After that, he resumed wearing his plain jacket, (TV: The Vampires of Venice) occasionally wearing a replacement checked tweed jacket. (GAME: City of the Daleks) Following Amy and Rory's honeymoon, the Doctor began wearing a new tweed jacket with a distinct striped pattern. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
He would accompany his tweed jackets with braces and bowties, with colours ranging from burgundy to navyand blue. (TV: The Eleventh Hour, Victory of the Daleks, The Impossible Astronaut) His shirt pattern also varied from checkered, striped, and plain. (TV: The Eleventh Hour, Amy's Choice, A Christmas Carol) On at least one occasion, he wore a white undershirt beneath his attire. (TV: The Vampires of Venice) He wore a variety of trousers, such as navy-blue roll ups, (TV: The Eleventh Hour) black combats, (TV: The Time of Angels) blue jeans, (TV: Vincent and the Doctor) and black slim fits. (TV: Night Terrors) He would also switch his loafers for a pair of black lace up boots. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
During his retirement to the Victorian era, the Doctor wore a battered felt top hat, a burgundy frock coat, a waistcoat with collars and a pocket watch with a fob chain. He initially discarded his bow tie for a regular tie, but inadvertently resumed wearing a purple bow tie after he regained his sense of adventure. (TV: The Great Detective, The Snowmen)
After meeting Clara Oswald while wearing a monk's robe, the Doctor adopted a new attire, featuring an aubergine cashmere frock coat that reached mid-thigh with a corduroy collar, wearing it with a purple bow tie and braces, black jeans and a new pair of brown leather boots. (TV: The Bells of Saint John) He later added a grey waistcoat, complete with a fob watch, (TV: The Rings of Akhaten) but later replaced it with a 6-buttoned black velvet collared vest, (TV: Nightmare in Silver) before switching it with a light check pattern black waistcoat. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
He varied the patterns of his bow ties, coming in squared, polka-dotted, flowered, plain, and flecked patterns, (TV: The Rings of Akhaten, Cold War, Nightmare in Silver, The Name of the Doctor, The Day of the Doctor) as well as various other patterns. (TV: The Bells of Saint John, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, The Crimson Horror) He also wore cuffs on his sleeves. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)
Whilst on Trenzalore, the Doctor resumed wearing the frock coat from his time in Victorian London. During the Siege of Trenzalore, as the Doctor aged drastically, his clothes grew steadily worn out as well. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) To cope with the cold temperatures, the Doctor would also wear a woollen cap, scarf, gloves and a fur coat. (PROSE: Strangers in the Outland)
Before completing his regeneration into his next incarnation, the Doctor's final outfit consisted of his purple cashmere frock coat, a blue shirt, black jeans, the black waistcoat with the light check pattern, one of his black pairs of boots, grey braces and a purple polka-dot bow tie, which he removed shortly before regenerating into his next incarnation. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
Other clothes[]
Hats []
While in the National Museum, the Doctor found a fez and, stating that "fezzes are cool", began wearing it, until it was destroyed by River Song. (TV: The Big Bang) He later obtained a new fez from Albert Einstein, (TV: Death Is the Only Answer) and wore it during a trip with Kazran Sardick and Abigail Pettigrew. (TV: A Christmas Carol) Upon spotting a fez in the National Gallery, he immediately donned it, and later used it to test the safety of a time fissure. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
He was given a Stetson hat by Craig Owens, which he wore inside the Teselecta, who replicated it for his trip in America, where the replica was shot by River, but the original Stetson remained intact. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut, Closing Time, The Wedding of River Song) He later wore a different one while Marshal of Mercy, but gave it to Kahler-Tek upon making him the new Marshal. (TV: A Town Called Mercy)
He wore a top hat at Amy and Rory's wedding, (TV: The Big Bang) after being poisoned by River, (TV: Let's Kill Hitler) and for nights out with her. (HOMEVID: Night and the Doctor)
Other accessories[]
After losing the Ponds, the Doctor started wearing Amy's glasses. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan, The Snowmen, The Rings of Akhaten, The Day of the Doctor)
Personality[]
The Eleventh Doctor was energetic, lively, eccentric, resourceful, and quick-thinking, able to spin things to his point of view and find positive outlooks in negative situations, (TV: The Eleventh Hour) and, while he preferred to settle problems through negotiation rather than violence, (TV: The Hungry Earth, The Day of the Doctor) he was willing to result to violence when he deemed it necessary. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
More childish in nature than his previous incarnations, the Doctor frequently defined himself as a "a mad man with a box", (TV: The Eleventh Hour) and was too childish for the psychic paper to register him as a "mature and responsible adult". (TV: A Christmas Carol) His inner-child was most prominent when travelling with his in-laws, Amy Pond and Rory Williams, with the duo often taking a parental responsibility over him. (TV: The Power of Three, The Angels Take Manhattan) After a bout with depression in Victorian era London, the Doctor began to behave more maturely, (TV: The Snowmen) preparing extensively, calculating the odds and calling for help when needed, but still maintained a childlike outlook on life on occasion. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, The Time of the Doctor) After he had saved Gallifrey, he pointedly chose to stay on Trenzalore and age into an old man, as if unconsciously deciding to grow up. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
Much like his second incarnation, the Eleventh Doctor showed a childlike recklessness, but always had a grand scheme behind his actions. (TV: The Vampires of Venice, Vincent and the Doctor) He was often deceptive and manipulative: lying, habitually putting elaborate plans in place and executing them, even if his plans emotionally hurt his loved ones. (TV: The Almost People, The Girl Who Waited, The Wedding of River Song) He thought aloud when he was panicking or stressed, and tended to babble about what he knew about a current situation to come up with a plan, believing that he would have one when he finished talking. (TV: The Pandorica Opens) He showed a strong dislike for people who used 'just following orders' as an excuse for crimes; when this was revealed to be true of the Smilers and Winders, the Doctor said "And with that sentence, you just lost the right to even talk to me." (TV: The Beast Below), a line previously said by the Ninth Doctor (TV: Bad Wolf)
The Doctor was admired by children for his eccentric, tender, playful and childlike personality. (TV: The Eleventh Hour, The Hungry Earth, The Big Bang, A Christmas Carol, Closing Time, The Rings of Akhaten, The Time of the Doctor) He showed a great deal of compassion for children, unable to resist helping if one was upset or scared, (TV: The Beast Below, Night Terrors, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe) and being greatly irritated when he found children, such as Yalala Gluck, unattended. (PROSE: Strangers in the Outland) He also showed great sympathy for those who had suffered terribly at the hands of others. (TV: The Beast Below, A Town Called Mercy)
Much like his previous incarnation, the Doctor felt his age when it took him a longer time to figure things out. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe) Because of his age, he was sometimes pessimistic, looking at the negative things about life. (TV: Closing Time) However, he admitted he could see the positive things with help from companions. (HOMEVID: Meanwhile in the TARDIS)
The Doctor was extremely impatient, (TV: Vincent and the Doctor) needing to keep himself entertained because he'd "lose his mind out of boredom", and had a poor concept of time, doing a series of tasks in an hour without realising the amount of time that had passed. (TV: The Power of Three) Despite his childlike impatience, he enjoyed reading. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan, The Wedding of River Song, The Snowmen) After a growth in maturity, the Doctor's patience increased, to the extent that he eventually settled down in the town of Christmas on the planet Trenzalore for nine hundred years. As he put it, "never been somewhere for long where I'm needed." (TV: The Time of the Doctor; PROSE: Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand)
When things looked bleakest, he liked to have those around him focus on hope and survival, usually with reverse psychology and brutal honesty. (TV: Flesh and Stone, The Lodger) When thinking about how to solve a problem, the Doctor blocked out all outside distractions, even his companions' comments. (TV: Flesh and Stone) He fully expected his companions to disobey him, as most his previous ones had, (TV: The Beast Below) and was surprised when Clara Oswald listened to his instructions. (TV: Cold War) He also took a liking to people who were observant and good at making deductions, (TV: The God Complex; PROSE: An Apple a Day..., The Dreaming) but disliked being around people who were too slow to figure things out. (TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
Openly describing himself as "obsessive compulsive", (TV: The Time of the Doctor) the Doctor was known to let his curiosity over enigmas get the better of him, often putting himself and others in harms way for answers. (TV: Flesh and Stone, Cold Blood, Closing Time) His insistence on solving mysteries also led him to take on Amy Pond(due the cracks making her life odd) and Clara Oswald (who existed as multiple different versions of herself) as companions. (TV: The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang, The Bells of Saint John)
When facing a personal problem, or when seeing a situation as too dangerous for his companions, the Doctor would demand they return to the TARDIS, (TV: The Vampires of Venice) or would leave them in the safest place possible. (TV: Victory of the Daleks) At times, he would trick them into doing so, (TV: The Doctor's Wife) or have someone else return them to safety for him. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)
Much like his sixth incarnation, the Eleventh Doctor was willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good, closing the Time Fields knowing he would end up on the wrong side and be erased from reality, (TV: The Big Bang) and would have blown up the Firebird to keep the Earth from being destroyed by Skaldak. (TV: Cold War) He often put aside his own safety if his companions were endangered, going the one place he said he must never go to rescue the Paternoster Gang and risking the collapse of his entire time stream to get Clara back. (TV: The Name of the Doctor) Despite all this, the Doctor admitted that he could be selfish at times, telling Amy that he had taken her with him because he was vain and wanted to be adored. (TV: The God Complex) The Doctor also showed arrogance at times, though his arrogance was a façade to hide his insecurities, (TV: The Beast Below, The Wedding of River Song) and the guilt he felt over ruining his past companions' lives. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)
The Doctor also showed a fondness for music, and claimed to have played with various composers and musicians. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship) Amy Pond even once caught him attempting to conceal a Euphonium behind his back. (HOMEVID: Good Night) He also liked music more contemporary, at one time visiting a studio to contribute some urban backing vocals. (WC: Pond Life) However, he appeared to greatly dislike the "Chicken Dance", even grimacing upon hearing it and plugging his ears. (TV: The Power of Three) He also had a fondness for strange words, such as "Shenanagins", "Toggle", "Vim" and "vigour". (TV: The Almost People, Hide; PROSE: The Dreaming)
Despite all of the above, the Eleventh Doctor didn't think of himself as a good man, (TV: A Good Man Goes to War) seeming more susceptible to changes in personality; he grew more vicious, unforgiving, and developed a short temper when he didn't have company to restrain his dark side. (TV: A Town Called Mercy) He could also be ruthless at times, and would strike down those who committed horrific acts, even with an almost sadistic smile. (TV: Day of the Moon, The Doctor's Wife, A Good Man Goes to War, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
Though he showed disdain for them, claiming they "made people stupid", (COMIC: Assimilation²) the Eleventh Doctor lost his predecessor's complete aversion to guns, being willing to use them in a non-harmful ways, such as shooting a gravity globe to allow himself and several others to escape from the Weeping Angels, (TV: The Time of Angels) and to threaten his adversaries, holding one on Kahler-Jex to force him to surrender to the Gunslinger. (TV: A Town Called Mercy) He also disliked knives, but believed them useful for spreading butter and jam on crumpets. (PROSE: The Dreaming) However, in his later years, especially during the Siege of Trenzalore, he would use violence more frequently. (TV: The Time of the Doctor; PROSE: Strangers in the Outland)
The Doctor also had a very distrusting nature, especially towards River Song. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut) However, the two eventually grew to love one another, even marrying on the battlefield of a broken timeline. (TV: The Wedding of River Song) The Doctor came to love River so much that he couldn't bear to think of her death and the prospects of never seeing his eccentric wife again. (TV: The Name of the Doctor) He also delayed what he knew to be their final date for as long as possible to keep from losing her, repeatedly cancelling them going to Darilium. He had also given River a diary with just enough pages for their adventures, knowing how many pages she would need in the end. (TV: The Husbands of River Song)
His lack of trust in others was also shown by the way he acted with Clara Oswald. Although he was nice to her whenever they were together, the Doctor grew brooding and suspicious whenever Clara's back was turned, (TV: The Rings of Akhaten, Hide) until he finally confronted Clara about her impossible nature, and realised that Clara genuinely had no idea that she had lived other lives and was very happy to find out that she wasn't part of whatever had happened to her. (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS) This also led the Doctor to think of Clara as a person and not just a puzzle that needed solving, leading him to start trusting her. (TV: Nightmare in Silver) The Twelfth Doctor later indicated that the Eleventh Doctor thought of himself as Clara's boyfriend as the Twelfth Doctor clarified to Clara that "I'm not your boyfriend" and that it wasn't her mistake he was referring to when he said that. (TV: Deep Breath)
The Eleventh Doctor had a tendency towards self-loathing for his actions, realising that the Dream Lord was an aspect of his unconscious because "nobody in the universe could hate [him] as much as [he did]." (TV: Amy's Choice) He also hated himself for being merciful due to the deaths that always followed, seeing that victims of the Master and the Daleks could have been saved if he hadn't been so merciful to them. (TV: A Town Called Mercy) He was also more self-deprecating than his predecessors, stating "there must be someone's life I haven't screwed up yet" when thinking about past companions. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler) In an imaginary interrogation session with his previous numbered incarnations, the Doctor imagined them all leaving him in disgust and disgrace after he made the claim that he always left things better than he found them - while attempting to defend himself over an accusation of wiping out generations of the Overcast during the Time War. (COMIC: Pull to Open)
The eleventh incarnation also had an intense sadness that was almost an exhausted pain, as though his hearts had taken too much strain over the years. (COMIC: Hunters of the Burning Stone) After losing Amy and Rory, he fell into a depression that even the Paternoster Gang could not get him out of, vowing never to help the universe again after becoming fed up of losing everything, until he met Clara Oswin Oswald. (TV: The Great Detective, The Snowmen) When he interrogated Alaya, the Doctor revealed that he still felt the loneliness of being the last of his kind. (TV: The Hungry Earth) When the Doctor was given a ray of hope that he wasn't the last of the Time Lords, and it turned out to be a trap, he began to tear up. He also expressed a desire to be forgiven for what he had done in the Time War. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
The Eleventh Doctor also felt distressed when the subject of his future came into question, stating that he "did not like endings". (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan) Reflecting on bygone times or thinking about a season of his life coming to a close saddened him, especially if it concerned his own mortality. (TV: The Name of the Doctor) Despite his dislike of looking back on his previous lives, he was comfortable with keeping mementos of his past. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor, Death of the Doctor; GAME: TARDIS, The Gunpowder Plot)
The Eleventh Doctor was very hostile to the Daleks, even more so than his predecessors, saying they were "the worst thing[s] in all creation" and attacking one to provoke it into revealing its true nature to Winston Churchill. (TV: Victory of the Daleks) He showed considerable brutality towards them and seemed to take sadistic enjoyment in destroying them. (TV: The Wedding of River Song) He was also disgusted when he learned the Daleks considered hatred to be beautiful, having previously thought they had "run out of ways to make [him] sick". However, the Doctor felt genuine pity for Oswin Oswald after he realised that she had been turned into a Dalek and, although he told her that she was no longer human, he still treated her as such due to her still retaining her humanity. He was grateful to her for allowing him and his friends to escape and reluctant to leave her behind, only doing so when she ordered him to run. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)
No longer able to regenerate, as the Tenth Doctor regenerated but kept the same face, (TV: Journey's End) the Doctor now felt something he never did before: the fear of death. Although he kept the fact he knew in the back of his mind. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler) When he heard about his supposed death at Lake Silencio, he lost all composure. (TV: The Almost People) Regardless, when bestowed a new regeneration cycle, he was much more peaceful when nearing his end, remarking change was good. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) He also expressed joy when finding out he had a future in the Twelfth Doctor, although he forgot this encounter. (COMIC: Four Doctors)
During his time on Trenzalore, the Doctor grew to love the people of the town of Christmas, (PROSE: The Dreaming) repairing and building toys for the town's children, (TV: The Time of the Doctor) as well as becoming a parental and protective figure to them, (PROSE: Strangers in the Outland, The Dreaming) telling them tales of his exploits, making an ice skating ring for them, (PROSE: An Apple a Day...) celebrating his victories with them, receiving drawings of his achievements, teaching them the Drunk giraffe dance and being the centre of the celebrations group hugs. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
The Doctor also assisted the adults of the town, repairing Barnable's family barn, and making it bigger on the inside, (TV: The Time of the Doctor) fixing the Snow Farm after it was sabotaged by Ice Warrior Zontan, (PROSE: Let it Snow) and venturing into the Outland with the Trenzalore Lifeboat crew to find Tiberius Gluck's body. (PROSE: Strangers in the Outland)
He especially developed a friendship with a child named Barnable. In his final days, when he was in a senile state, the Doctor still remembered Barnable and looked for him, Amy and Clara in those around him. (TV: The Time of the Doctor; PROSE: The Dreaming) He also grew close to Handles, seemingly carrying him everywhere with him, (PROSE: An Apple a Day...) with the head's deactivation reducing him to tears. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
Afraid for his life every day, (PROSE: Let it Snow) the Doctor would stand and look down from his Clock Toweronce a day to remind him of what he was protecting, eventually seeming to "forget he'd lived any other life". However, during the first three hundred years of the siege, the Doctor would argue with himself about protecting the town, eventually concluding that every life he saved was a victory in and of itself, (TV: The Time of the Doctor) but felt guilty over the casualties that came in the siege's wake, especially those directly caused by himself. He forcibly suppressed his memories of these deaths so he could enjoy himself. (PROSE: Let it Snow)
Growing protective of the people of Christmas, the Doctor refused to leave them at the mercy of the Papal Mainframe, (TV: The Time of the Doctor) and insured they remained out of the way of the siege's incursions, (PROSE: Let it Snow) informing them to tell him of anything out of the ordinary. (PROSE: An Apple a Day...)
Slowing turning senile in his inhabiting of the planet, the Doctor would have trouble determining the meaning of questions directed at him, forgetting the details of his plans, (PROSE: Let it Snow) taking a while to register information, (PROSE: An Apple a Day...) and forgetting people he had met. (PROSE: Strangers in the Outland) After seven hundred and fifty years of the siege, the Doctor took to whittling to keep his senile mind focused. (PROSE: The Dreaming) However, he would regain his youthful vigour whenever he felt there was danger. (PROSE: An Apple a Day..., The Dreaming)
Nearing the end of his life, the Doctor grew weary and accepting of his fate, (TV: The Time of the Doctor) but still maintained his inner-child mannerisms. (PROSE: The Dreaming) Unlike his previous incarnation, he did not try to avoid his death, knowing when and how he was supposed to die and resigned himself to that fate as he refused to abandon both the Time Lords and the people of Trenzalore. When the time came, the Doctor faced the Daleks fearlessly, wanting to protect Clara and the people of Christmas one last time. However, when the Time Lords unexpectedly granted him a new cycle of regenerations, the Doctor regained his old vigour and fighting spirit, using his regeneration to destroy the Dalek flying saucer and the attacking Daleks with it. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
Though restored to his youthful form, the Doctor continued to accept his forthcoming regeneration, (TV: The Time of the Doctor) though was unhappy to hear his next incarnation would be old and grey haired. He tried comforting Clara, first by phoning her future self to assure her his new incarnation would still be him, (TV: Deep Breath) and then telling her present self that people change throughout their lives and what was important was to remember who they were, promising to always remember when "the Doctor was [him]".
Seeing hallucinations of Amy Pond, the Doctor removed his beloved bow tie as a sign of his passing, closed his eyes and prepared for the change. When Clara still protested, his last act was to smile back at her and offer his hand, but he regenerated before she could reach. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
Habits and quirks[]
The Eleventh Doctor talked in a voice described by Henry Gordon Jago as "all 11 years old" which "[spoke] of education at one of our nobler public schools", (AUDIO: The Jago & Litefoot Revival) with his hands and calculated with gestures. (TV: Flesh and Stone, The Day of the Doctor) He also tended to twirl around in 360 degree spins on his heels, sometimes to get a panoramic view of an unfamiliar room, (TV: The Vampires of Venice) wishing to leave an area in a hurry, (TV: Closing Time) or simply a whimsical act done out of excitement. (TV: Nightmare in Silver) He even used his habitual twirling as a dance move, dubbed the "Drunk giraffe". (TV: The Big Bang, The Time of the Doctor) He also spun in circles when walking, if showing off or needing time to think. (TV: Amy's Choice)
Like his predecessor's repetition of the word "Allons-y", the Eleventh Doctor displayed a liking for the word "Geronimo", exclaiming it when diving into a new or unexpected situation, (TV: The End of Time, The Eleventh Hour, The Beast Below, Hide, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS) when about to do something risky and dangerous, (TV: The Big Bang, A Christmas Carol, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, The Power of Three, The Day of the Doctor) or simply as a sign of approval. (TV: The Wedding of River Song) He occasionally used the word "Yowzah" as well, (TV: The Almost People, The Angels Take Manhattan, The Name of the Doctor) and would repeat the word "No" if something went horribly wrong, or say it as a warning. (TV: The Eleventh Hour, Victory of the Daleks, Vincent and the Doctor, Night Terrors, The Wedding of River Song, Cold War) He also had a habit of referring to his companions by surname, though this was a sign of affection rather than to annoy them. (TV: Victory of the Daleks, The Big Bang, A Christmas Carol, Death of the Doctor, The Impossible Astronaut) Like his ninth incarnation, the Doctor also used minor curses freely, often uttering "God knows" or "for God's sake", (TV: The Doctor's Wife, The Bells of Saint John, The Name of the Doctor) or using "Hell" as an intensive and noteworthy example. (TV: The Rebel Flesh, The Name of the Doctor)
The Doctor would try to offer a metaphoric statement or a simile, but often disapproved of his own contrived explanations and rejected them just as quickly, asking those in earshot to forget them as well. (TV: The Time of Angels, The Vampires of Venice, A Christmas Carol, The Almost People, A Good Man Goes to War, Night Terrors, The Day of the Doctor) He occasionally uttered malapropisms, (TV: The Vampires of Venice) and often made speeches. (TV: The Pandorica Opens, The Rings of Akhaten, The Time of the Doctor) Another habit of his, noted by River Song, was that he would always end up walking into the TARDIS when it was cloaked. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)
The Eleventh Doctor favoured an unusual dish he created at the start of this incarnation, fish fingers and custard, which he called Fish custard, (TV: The Eleventh Hour, The Power of Three, The Time of the Doctor) and Jammie Dodgers, (TV: Victory of the Daleks, The Bells of Saint John) but disliked drinking any kind of wine. (TV: The Lodger, The Impossible Astronaut) Though he originally hated certain foods, such as apples, bacon, bread and carrots because of post-regenerative trauma, (TV: The Eleventh Hour) he eventually began to like them. (TV: The Lodger, The God Complex)
He was fond of especially unusual hats and often tried to find one to wear. Such prominent hats included a fez, a top hat, (TV: The Big Bang) a Stetson, (TV: The Impossible Astronaut) and, on one occasion, a bowler hat. (TV: The Crimson Horror) He was very fond of wearing bow ties, often insisting, "Bow ties are cool", (TV: The Eleventh Hour, Amy's Choice, Vincent and the Doctor) usually when someone recommended getting rid of it. (TV: The Lodger) He usually referred to things as "cool"; said things were generally unpopular, such as astronautequipment, bunk beds, and eyeglasses, (TV: The Impossible Astronaut, The Doctor's Wife, The Girl Who Waited) though he regarded monks as "not cool". (TV: The Bells of Saint John) Towards the end of his time, however, he renounced "coolness", telling a group of celebrating children that "Cool is not cool." (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
The eleventh incarnation also got distracted easily. Usually, it applied to something only he found fascinating, even disregarding important matters. (TV: A Christmas Carol) He also had the occasional habit of bopping someone on the head when they did something stupid, (TV: Amy's Choice, The Rebel Flesh) or holding someone's head when attempting to console them. (TV: Cold Blood, The Almost People)
When upset, he tended to shift his jaw in bemusement,[source needed] and would accidentally walk a few paces beyond people he was talking to without noticing. (TV: The Eleventh Hour, The Big Bang, The Snowmen) When he felt the need to affirm someone's faith in him, he liked to "cross his hearts". (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)
The Doctor, in a show of vanity, would often admire himself in a mirror. (TV: The Vampires of Venice, Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger, Night Terrors) However, he became annoyed when the TARDIS, in Idris's body, looked at herself in a mirror, as Amy and Rory were in danger at the time. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
Much like his previous incarnation, the Eleventh Doctor also had an apparent affinity for Earth pop culture, striking up friendships with the likes of Frank Sinatra, (TV: A Christmas Carol) appearing with Laurel and Hardyin a movie, (TV: The Impossible Astronaut) and even recording backing vocals for a rap singer. He also had a dalliance with Mata Hari, (WC: Pond Life) and married Marilyn Monroe, though he was of the opinion the wedding wasn't official. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
More flirty than his predecessor, the Eleventh Doctor was fond of kissing his companions' foreheads, dancing with strangers, and kissing people square on the mouth, regardless of their gender, sexuality or marital status. (TV: Cold Blood, The Big Bang, Let's Kill Hitler, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, The Crimson Horror) He also used cheek-kissing as a form of greeting, albeit without any physical contact. (TV: The Lodger, Closing Time)
More prone to silently crying than his pervious incarnations, the Doctor would sometimes cry without even noticing, (TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, The Rings of Akhaten) or have an emotional breakdown in moments of horror and sadness. (TV: The Doctor's Wife, The Angels Take Manhattan, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, The Name of the Doctor)
Biography []
A day to come[]
The First Doctor would occasionally have premonitions of his future incarnations, the Eleventh Doctor included. (PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor)
The First Doctor was shown footage of the Eleventh Doctor, as well as his ten other successors, by the Testimony when he expressed doubt over the Twelfth Doctor's identity. (TV: Twice Upon a Time)
During a visit to the Heligan Structure, the Fourth Doctor saw a statue of his eleventh incarnation, and expressed surprise at his future self's choice of clothing. He also learnt of his future self's actions on the Heligan Structure from Director Sprawn. (PROSE: The Roots of Evil)
Mawdryn attempted to force the Fifth Doctor to use up his eight remaining regenerations to end his follower's cycle of perpetual rebirth, but this was rendered unnecessary when Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart made physical contact with his younger self and a discharge of temporal energy was released that allowed Mawdryn and his followers to die. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)
After the TARDIS became "stalled in the equivalent of a galactic lay-by", the Sixth Doctor had a worried thought of Peri Brown growing old and dying in the TARDIS, while he would "go on regenerating until all [his] lives [were] spent." (TV: Vengeance on Varos)
When the Master exposed the Valeyard's alliance with High Council to the Sixth Doctor at his trial, he revealed that the Valeyard was acting as the prosecutor for the trial in exchange for the Doctor's remaining regenerations. The Master then made the claim that the Valeyard was an "amalgamation of the darker sides of [the Doctor's] nature, [taken] somewhere between [his] twelfth and final incarnation". (TV: The Ultimate Foe) The Valeyard would later claim he was created when the Doctor, in his thirteenth incarnation, was experimenting with ways to break the twelve-regeneration limit. (AUDIO: Trial of the Valeyard)
When Ace was sent into the Seventh Doctor's mind, she discovered a room with thirteen cubicles, seven of them empty, while the other six contained shadowy white figures, representing the Doctor's future incarnations. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation)
After sealing Gallifrey away in a pocket dimension, (TV: The Day of the Doctor) the Seventh Doctor was able to recall teaming up with his other twelve incarnations to save Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Cold Fusion)
During tea with River Song, the Seventh Doctor was told that one of his future incarnations had given River strict instructions not to interfere with their history. The Doctor was "glad to hear [he] retain[ed] a sense of temporal responsibility". (AUDIO: The Eye of the Storm)
After using a Deathworm Morphant to posses a human body, the Mastertried to use the Eye of Harmony to steal the Eighth Doctor's remaining regenerations to heal himself, but his plans were foiled when Grace Holloway sent the TARDIS into a temporal orbit. (TV: Doctor Who)
This incarnation was among the incarnations of the Doctor that Clive Finchshowed to Rose Tyler. (PROSE: Rose)
The Ninth Doctor saw the Eleventh Doctor when he hijacked a giant television screen in New Vegas to tell the Ninth Doctor to save the life of Police Chief James McNeil. By this point, the Doctor could identify his future incarnation on sight. (AUDIO: Night of the Whisper)
When meeting River Song, the Tenth Doctor was told of adventures she had had with his future self, and was told that it was against "[his] rules" for him to look at her diary. (TV: Silence in the Library) He later overheard River tell Anita how "[her] Doctor" had "whole armies turn and run away", while "he'd just swagger off back to his TARDIS and open the doors with a snap of his fingers." (TV: Forest of the Dead)
When the Tenth Doctor was wounded by a Dalek's energy blast, it triggered a regeneration, (TV: The Stolen Earth) but the process was stopped when the Doctor siphoned the excess energy that would have changed his appearance into his severed hand. (TV: Journey's End)
Upon meeting Jackson Lake, a man who believed himself to be the Doctor due to tampering with an infostamp to protect himself from the Cybermen, the Tenth Doctor believed Lake to be "the next Doctor", with Lake telling him that he "regenerated" when the Cybermen "made [him] change". However, the Doctor eventually figured out Lake was not a future incarnation after finding many inaccuracies about him, finally confirming Lake's true identity with his initialised fob watch. (TV: The Next Doctor)
The Eleventh Doctor later appeared to the Tenth Doctor in a dream. He said that they would both be fine. (COMIC: To Sleep, Perchance to Scream)
Post-regeneration[]
After absorbing a vast amount of radiation from the Immortality Gate in order to save Wilfred Mott, the Tenth Doctor regenerated in his TARDIS, with the energy released causing great damage to the vessel, the Eleventh Doctor emerging from the regeneration seemingly screaming in pain before quickly recovering. Focused initially on his new form, the Eleventh Doctor did not immediately realise the TARDIS was on fire and about to crash. When he did, he seemed to enjoy the thrill of the moment, gleefully shouting, "Geronimo!", as his TARDIS plummeted to Earth. (TV: The End of Time)
As the TARDIS spiralled out of control above London, the Doctor was nearly thrown through the doors of his damaged ship, clutching his sonic screwdriver between his teeth. He clawed his way back into the TARDIS after nearly crashing into Big Ben.
Crashing in Leadworth in 1996, the Doctor met Amelia Pond, a lonely little Scottish girl with a mysterious crack in her bedroom wall. Once he had expelled a breath of lingering regeneration energy, he noticed his new body needed sustenance and asked Amelia to feed him. The Doctor had trouble choosing what to eat with his new tastes, until he was satisfied by his unique concoction of fish fingers and custard.
After seeing how his mysterious appearance and disturbing idiosyncrasies didn't bother Amelia, he decided the crack was worth his attention. He found that, on the other side of the crack, an alien convict called Prisoner Zero had escaped from the Atraxi into Amelia's house. Before the Doctor could investigate further, the cloister bell brought him back to the TARDIS, as the engines were in danger of phasing out of existence. Needing to travel in order to cool them down, the Doctor promised Amelia he would return in five minutes.
Unfortunately, he accidentally arrived twelve years later, where he was knocked unconscious by the adult Amelia, who now worked as a kissogram and called herself Amy. She had spent her childhood waiting for him to return. Finding Prisoner Zero was still hiding in Amelia's house, the Doctor persuaded Amy and her boyfriend, Rory Williams, to help him capture Prisoner Zero before the Atraxi incinerated the Earth.
Trying to use the alien technology of his sonic screwdriver to draw the Atraxi's attention, the screwdriver accidentally overloaded and exploded. The Doctor instead used the laptop of Jeff Angelo to speak to several distinguished intellectuals on Earth. With their help, he coordinated every clock in the world to revert to zero by distributing a slightly intelligent computer virus he created on Rory's phone. This summoned the Atraxi to the Royal Leadworth Hospital, where the Atraxi found and recaptured the convict.
Agitated by the Atraxi's negligent actions toward Earth, the Doctor stole replacement clothes from the hospital locker, summoned the Atraxi back to Leadworth, and scolded them for holding billions of innocent lives to ransom. As he donned his new outfit, he reminded them of the many other species who had posed a threat to humanity and how he had thwarted them in his past incarnations. Fearing retribution from the Doctor, the Atraxi fled the Earth.
Afterwards, the Doctor took his newly regenerated TARDIS, which had a refurbished exterior and a new console room, (TV: The Eleventh Hour) and spent seven and a half hours in the TARDIS looking for a mirror. Examining his new face, the Doctor was delighted with his new features. However, once he told himself this was his eleventh face, he heard his war incarnation's voice challenging his claim. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor) After a short trip to the Moon to run the new TARDIS engines in, the Doctor returned to Amy and invited her to join him on his travels. Though he accidentally arrived two years later, Amy agreed to join him anyway. Upon his return with Amy, the TARDIS gifted the Doctor with an upgraded sonic screwdriver to replace the ruined model he lost. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
The first adventures[]
After dealing with Amy's numerous questions, (HOMEVID: Meanwhile in the TARDIS) the Doctor took her to the Starship UK in the 33rd century. Initially resistant to getting involved in events on board the ship, the Doctor was moved by a child in distress. Investigating why adults ignored the obviously-distraught child, the Doctor discovered the ship had no engines. He made an ally of Liz 10, who was also investigating the mysterious affairs on the ship. Further investigating, the Doctor, Liz and Amy learned the last of the star whales was being tortured into transporting the ship. However, they discovered that Liz herself had allowed the star whale to be tortured, erasing it from her mind every ten years because she couldn't bear to think of its suffering. Amy had also earlier learned of the situation, and chose to erase it from her memory as well. The situation angered the Doctor, as did Amy's choice to withhold the information from herself and from him. Faced with the impossible choice of saving millions of humans or freeing an innocent tormented creature, the Doctor planned to fry the star whale's brain so it wouldn't be in any further pain. However, finding the ancient and lonely creature to be reminiscent of the Doctor himself, Amy realised the Star Whale had originally come to Earth to save the children of humanity. She released the whale from its torment, and it chose to continue piloting Starship UK.
Preparing to leave, the Doctor got a phone call from his old friend Winston Churchill, asking for assistance. (TV: The Beast Below) The Doctor and Amy arrived in 1941 a month after Churchill's summoning to discover that the Daleks were aiding Britainagainst the Nazis in the Second World War, and had also convinced Professor Edwin Bracewell that he had created them when, in reality, they had created him. Trying to force the Daleks into revealing their true nature, the Doctor fell victim to their trap, providing a testimony that allowed the Daleks to use a Progenitor device to rebuild their empire. Forced to choose between saving Earth from being destroyed by an Oblivion Continuum planted inside Bracewell or finishing off the Daleks before they could rebuild, the Doctor chose Earth and let the Daleks escape through a time corridor, which deeply distressed him. When his attempts to deactivate the bomb by forcing Bracewell to focus on his pain failed, Amy succeeded by making Bracewell think of Dorabella, a girl he was in love with. Leaving Winston to "win the war", he was perplexed by Amy not recognising the Daleks despite living through the War in the Medusa Cascade. (TV: Victory of the Daleks)
The Doctor took Amy to Primrose Hill to see a view of London, but accidentally materialised the TARDIS around a young boy called Stephen and discovered giant Space Leeches had swarmed the city. Realising Stephen was unaffected because of his cold, the Doctor used his virus to weaken the Space Leeches and drew them into the TARDIS to deposit them on another planet. (COMIC: Attack of the Space Leeches!)
Afterwards, the Doctor battled alien joyriders in 1959, (COMIC: Madness on the M1!) and bought a street in New York City in Amy's name to get the best burgers in all of history for free. (PROSE: The Forgotten Army)
The Doctor and Amy went to the Moon to investigate an astronaut in a shopping centre and, with Professor Jackson's help, the Doctor was able to prevent the jelly-like Talerians from taking over the bodies of the humans on the base. After he revived Jackson from being brainwashed and controlled, Jackson smashed the large windows of his office, killing the Talerians with the low atmosphere, and, to the Doctor's dismay, simultaneously sacrificing himself. (PROSE: Apollo 23)
The Doctor next brought Amy to a junk-made asteroid known as the Gyre. There, they encountered the Sittuunand a primitive society of humans; they believed they were on Earth. The Doctor tried convincing them they weren't, offering to save them from a bomb the Sittuun were going to set off to destroy the Gyre. Unsuccessful, he found Dirk Slipstream after the Mymon Key holding the Gyre together. Though successful in stopping Dirk, the Doctor felt remorseful for being unable to save the humans. (PROSE: Night of the Humans)
Their next trip saw them preventing the Cei from terraforming 1864 Earth into an aquatic world to use as an outpost during their war with another planet. (AUDIO: The Runaway Train)
After an encounter with Skeleton People, the Doctor and Amy returned to 2010 for a visit, only to find that Earth was under the ownership and control of the Kin, and that humanity was extinct. They travelled back to 1984, where the divergence point was, to investigate. Amy was captured by the Kin, who wanted to trap the Doctor in a house for the rest of his life. The Doctor escaped the prison and reunited with Amy in the TARDIS, who wanted to travel back to the dawn of time. The Doctor complied, but knew Amy was just a disguised Kin. When the Kin exited the TARDIS, it ended up being trapped before time and thus its actions were undone. Reuniting with Amy in the corrected timeline, the Doctor suggested they get some gazpacho. (PROSE: Nothing O'Clock)
The Doctor next took Amy to New York City for the best burgers in all of history, and to also look for any cracks in the city. However, his attention was drawn to a recently thawed mammoth causing havoc; it was later revealed to be a spaceship piloted by the Vykoids. They captured the Doctor, planning to use him and kidnapped humans as enslaved miners. After being rescued by Amy, the Doctor reversed their teleporter and sent the Vykoids back to their origin. (PROSE: The Forgotten Army)
Discovering a Home Box containing River Song's calling card in a 171st century museum, the Doctor was led into a hunt with River and the Church for a Weeping Angel in the 51st century. Neither of them realised that they were surrounded by an entire army of Angels, who had been waiting for them in a mortarium on Alfava Metraxis. As the Angels were gradually being revived by the leaking radiation from the crashed ship's engine, the Doctor shot a light bearing gravity globe (TV: The Time of Angels) and led his allies into the remains of the Byzantium.
Inside, they discovered a crack in time similar to the one in Leadworth. The Doctor began to realise that it had been erasing certain events from history, including the War in the Medusa Cascade. A scan showed it had been caused by an explosion cracking all of time and space, which occurred on 26 June 2010. Needing a complicated space-time event that could shut the crack, the Doctor knew it would take him or the entire army of Angels, so he waited for them to drain the Byzantium's power until the artificial gravity shut off and they fell into the crack. (TV: Flesh and Stone)
The fiancée and fiancé[]
After learning Amy was getting married and fighting off her sexual advances, (TV: Flesh and Stone) as well as explaining his need to see the wonders of the universe through her eyes and showing her images of his past companions, (HOMEVID: Meanwhile in the TARDIS) the Doctor collected her fiancé, Rory Williams, gatecrashing his stag night by jumping out of a fake cake meant for a stripper.
He took them to Venice in 1580 as a wedding present, but found what seemed to be vampires there, led by Rosanna Calvierri. Investigating, he discovered they were actually Saturnyns from the planet Saturnyne who fled through a crack in time to escape "the silence"; they were converting human girls into Saturnynian hybrids through blood transfusions to make them compatible for breeding with Rosanna's sons, and intended to sink Venice in order to re-create Saturnyne. After the girls were killed in an explosion by Guido, and the Doctor sabotaged Rosanna's weather control devices, the Doctor was grudgingly unable to prevent Rosanna from committing suicide by feeding herself to her sons. Soon after, Rory decided to join the Doctor and Amy on their travels instead of immediately returning to Leadworth. While leaving Venice, the Doctor became concerned when the busy market he parked the TARDIS at suddenly became empty, with Rory noting that nothing was to be heard except silence. (TV: The Vampires of Venice)
The Doctor next visited Kenya in 2013 and saved a farm and its owners from giant hornets. (COMIC: Buzz!)
Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor, Amy and Rory came under the influence of psychic pollen and appeared between two dreams, one in 2015 Leadworth after Amy and Rory had returned to home life, and another with Amy and Rory travelling in the TARDIS hurtling towards a cold star. Both dreams appeared real, and a being called the Dream Lord ordered them to choose which world was real, either to freeze towards the cold star, or be killed by the Eknodine in Leadworth.
As the Dream Lord taunted him, the Doctor realised he was a manifestation of his own self-hatred and had no power over the real world, meaning both worlds were dreams. He killed himself, Amy and Rory in both dreams to wake them. He revealed to them that psychic pollen created the Dream Lord from the abundant darkness in his mind; he blew the pollen into space to prevent repeats. While preparing to set a new course, the Doctor saw the Dream Lord in place of his reflection for a moment. (TV: Amy's Choice)
The Doctor next came across a fake town with undercover robot assassins for residents; a bomb was to destroy them. As this would've killed them along with the robots, the Doctor used the TARDIS to take the bomb backwards in time to disperse its force. He eventually entered the military base the robots came from and warned them of an incident the robots would cause, preventing the scientist that created them from being killed. With this done, the Doctor rescued his companions from the robots and allowed the bomb, now with a great amount of its force gone, to explode. (PROSE: Nuclear Time)
On a trip to Geath, the Doctor found that the society of the city had changed from politics to royalty. It was caused by a dragon made of enamour, a mineral that made people love having it in their possession to the point of kleptomania. Both a herald and a regulator claimed the device belonged to them and not the false king. The Doctor learned the regulator and her people were once slaves to the herald's now deceased masters because of the enamour. He allowed it to be taken along with the herald, allowing Geath to return to normal; however, they formed an alliance with the regulator to prevent future repeats. (PROSE: The King's Dragon)
The Doctor encountered a ship with Glamour technology he had previously met in a previous incarnation. He found that Oliver Marks had been chosen as host for its properties and created a false reality that he was wed to his love, Daisy. The Doctor encountered the Weave once again and helped repair their ship. (PROSE: The Glamour Chase)
Trying to take Amy and Rory to Brazil, the Doctor accidentally took them to Cwmtaff in Wales and found a drilling operation had disturbed a Silurian city and its inhabitants were retaliating. Capturing a Silurian Hunter named Alaya, (TV: The Hungry Earth) the Doctor went to the Silurian city to negotiate a treaty between humans and the Silurians. However, due to Ambrose Northover accidentally killing Alaya and threatening the city by reactivating the drill, Alaya's sister Restac decided to retaliate with war. The Doctor destroyed the drill with an energy pulse, and had the Silurian leader Eldane put the Silurians to sleep for another thousand years while humanity prepared for them.
On the way out of the Silurian habitat, the Doctor found another crack in time and fished a piece of shrapnel from its explosion. Before he could properly examine it, however, Rory took a blast shot by a dying Restac meant for the Doctor, and died in Amy's arms. The Doctor left Rory's body behind as it became absorbed by the crack, dragging a distraught Amy into the TARDIS and ignoring her plea to save Rory. He tried to help Amy remember Rory when he was erased from history, but failed. Alone, the Doctor examined the piece of shrapnel, and was horrified to discover it was part of the TARDIS' outer shell. (TV: Cold Blood)
Forgetting Rory[]
Restarting the universe[]
While visiting Planet One, the Doctor found a message from River Song, that led Amy and him to 102 AD England, where River showed him The Pandorica Opens, a painting by Vincent van Gogh that showed a premonition of the TARDIS exploding.
Reminded of Prisoner Zero's warnings of silence falling, the Doctor was led to Stonehenge, where an alliance of alien species that he had defeated in the past imprisoned him in the Pandorica, the ultimate prison built to contain the most feared thing in creation. This was to prevent the cracks in time from occurring as the Doctor was the only one they knew able to pilot the TARDIS. When the Doctor was sealed away, the TARDIS exploded anyway with River inside; everything but the Earth vanished. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)
The Doctor was immediately released by an Auton copy of Rory, who had survived his death and erasure from history, on orders from the Doctor's future self. After placing a dead Amy inside the Pandorica, he used River's vortex manipulator to travel to an alternate version of Earth in 1996. In a museum where the Pandorica was now stored, he resurrected Amy using the DNA of her seven-year-old self and they reunited with Rory, who had lived two-thousand years since their last encounter. The Doctor managed to save River from his exploding TARDIS, but was unable to stop the explosion itself.
After a confrontation with an echo of a Dalek, he was non-fatally shot by the Dalek. Using the Vortex manipulator to separate himself from his three friends, he wired himself into the Pandorica to restart the universe with its restoration field powered by the exploding TARDIS, which would also erase him from the universe. He piloted the Pandorica into the explosion and found his time stream was unravelling as a side-effect. Before skipping the rest of his "rewind" to oblivion, he left a psychic imprint in Amy's mind to allow her to remember him back into existence.
On Amy and Rory's wedding day, the Doctor was returned to the restored universe by Amy and attended her wedding reception, where he met her parents. After the party, he once again attempted to discover who River Song was, but was left with more vague answers. (TV: The Big Bang) Returning to his restored TARDIS, he received a call for help from Gus concerning an "ancient Egyptian goddess" loose on the space Orient Express, but decided to dismiss the summons, (TV: The Big Bang, Mummy on the Orient Express) and, with his mind concerned on other matters, the Doctor left Amy and Rory to themselves on their wedding night. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)
Amy and Rory's honeymoon[]
Rewriting Kazran's history[]
Receiving a distress signal from Amy, the Doctor discovered the starliner they were honeymooning on was trapped in a cloud belt that prevented the TARDIS from landing aboard. Seeking help from the man who could unlock the barrier, Kazran Sardick, the Doctor was refused. Inspired by Charles Dickens' tale, A Christmas Carol, the Doctor used time travel to make Kazran's otherwise unhappy childhood better by befriending him as a child, taking him on trips in the TARDIS every Christmas Eve and letting him fall in love with Abigail Pettigrew, who also joined them on their adventures. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
Before one such Christmas adventure, the Doctor visited Winston Churchill and invited him on a trip to ancient Britain with him and Kazran. However, as Winston and Kazran stepped out ahead, the TARDIS was repulsed by a time lock and sent out of phase. The Doctor returned immediately after only to find that hours had passed for Winston and Kazran, during which they had rallied the warring Romans and British against the "Bronze God", arriving just in time to save them from the destruction of the crashed Dalek ship which caused the time lock. (AUDIO: Living History) Much to his own embarrassment, the Doctor accidentally married Marilyn Monroe during one of his Christmas trips with Kazran and Abigail; however, he did not count it as valid due to not using a real chapel.
However, Abigail revealed that she was dying and would only live one more day outside her ice box; a broken-hearted Kazran still ended up the cruel old man the Doctor tried to change. However, he managed to succeed by showing child Kazran the mirror image of his father that he would become, and the elder Kazran was forced to let Abigail out as her singing would open the belt. With Kazran now a better person, the Doctor collected Amy and Rory and continued to take them to romantic destinations for their honeymoon. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
Ponds' extended honeymoon[]
Plagued by SERVEYOUinc[]
After leaving Amy and Rory, the Doctor ended up in London during 2014 where he had followed a Kharitite that he suspected of falling through a dimensional rift. As he chased it down the street he enlisted the help of Alice Obiefune. Just as he was gaining on the creature he caught a glimpse of the Talent Scout in a doorframe, who took the shape of a Time Lord. Surprised and having never met the shape-shifting Talent Scout before, the Doctor ran into a light pole which gave him a bloody nose. After accepting a tissue from Alice, the Doctor got into his TARDIS and left.
He later found Alice again by landing the TARDIS in her flat, making her tea, and listening to the problems that had recently occurred in her life. Afterward he handed her a TARDIS key and asked if she would once again help him to catch the Kharitite. The Doctor noted Alice's cleverness in the fact that the first thing she noticed about the inside of the TARDIS was that it was upside down instead of being bigger on the inside. When she became overwhelmed with emotion, he offered to take her to the TARDIS swimming pool where they talked about the Doctor's friends and the Kharitite. Alice accidentally gave the Doctor an idea of how to stop the Kharitite by asking who would tag a dog which made the Doctor realise the Kharitite was a pet. He dropped Alice off at the House of Commonsand used the TARDIS to trace the Kharitite's signal back home. He picked up the creature's owner and returned just in time to stop UNIT from destroying the Kharitite. He then offered to take Alice anywhere she wanted to go. (COMIC: After Life)
The Doctor took Alice to the planet Rokhandi for her first adventure, but was disappointed to discover that Rokhandi World, a theme park, had been built over the previously untouched beautiful planet. They discovered that troublemakers in the park were being brainwashed to become park employees or work in toxic waste mines through the use of the Entity and stopped it. During this adventure, they met Chief Security Officer August Hartworking for SERVEYOUinc, who had met the Doctor and Alice previously from his perspective and was bitter at them for that earlier incident. (COMIC: The Friendly Place)
The Doctor and Alice next visited 1962 London, to see the first performance of John Jones, Alice's mother's favourite singer. They were left disappointed by the performance, however. Jones overheard them criticising his show outside, and he angrily followed them into the TARDIS, accidentally being brought along with them to 1931 Mississippi Delta. The Doctor, Alice and Jones discovered a large group of possessed people, who were being taken over in search of talent, by a mysterious man known as the Talent Scout. The Doctor realised that they would die soon if he did not reverse the effects of the crude life-force enhancement. He told Alice and Jones to return to the TARDIS, stayed behind, found the reprogramming frequency and saved his friend, singer Robert Johnson, but was coerced by the Talent Scout to join the ranks of the possessed. Due to him sending Johnson to the TARDIS with the sonic screwdriver, his friends managed to free him and everyone else from the Scout's control. Although the day was saved, the Doctor was disturbed by the fact that several of the recent incidents had been connected to the mysterious SERVEYOUinc corporation and could not remember what he was coerced with. (COMIC: What He Wants...)
Attempting to return to Alice's flat, the trio ended up on the United System Research Base, where they met August Hart ten years prior to the events on Rokhandi. While Alice and Jones explored the station, the Doctor posed as an inspector and learnt that members of the crew had fallen into comas. Hart brought the Doctor to Janet Rutherford, who was chosen to be the fall guy. The Doctor didn't believe Rutherford was responsible and suspected Hart was attempting to cover something up. Hart then pulled a gun on the Doctor, telling him he knew too much. (COMIC: Whodunnit?)
The Doctor and Janet overpowered Hart, and went to investigate the cause of the comas. They came to a testing facility, in which the Doctor realised that a creature had been tortured aboard. They returned to Hart, who was holding Alice and Jones hostage, as the creature revealed itself. The Doctor faced the creature, whom the research files called "Autonomous Reasoning Center" or ARC, and realised ARC had no intentions of violence, merely learning from people's minds. The Doctor, Alice and Jones brought ARC aboard the TARDIS with them and left. (COMIC: The Sound of Our Voices)
The TARDIS received a distress call from the planet of Datastore 8 and picked up a Nimon. The Nimon had destroyed the planet by draining it of its resources, knowledge and energy to create materials for a black hole bomb to destroy the Nimon homeworld. He just needed the TARDIS engines to power it up. The Nimon killed Jones and began to power the black hole. Disguised as the Doctor, ARC let the Nimon attack him, but he was unable to handle all of ARC's energy and exploded, and the black hole was safely ejected into the Time Vortex.
This would have been the sad end of the adventure if not for the Time Vortex leech, that attached itself to the exterior of the TARDIS causing time inside to go backward in jumps. The Doctor, being the only one to possess the secondary backward consciousness to register the jumps and remember the original events, then used a vortex manipulator to engineer the Nimon blowing up much earlier, before it could kill Jones. The Doctor used the Nimon's temporal armour to get rid of the leech and thereby prevent the TARDIS from exploding. The Doctor then took the TARDIS crew to Datastore 8 before the arrival of the Nimon and prevented the destruction of the planet. (COMIC: Space in Dimension Relative and Time)
Intending to visit 1945 Berlin, the Doctor, Alice and Jones found themselves in 2015 London on Free Comic Book Day, where there was a massive craze for comics, books and magazines about the story of Zzagner. Acquiring a book, the Doctor found that the stories had a narrative virus to hypnotise humans. He came to the thought that Zzagner was alive within the story. Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor had ARC vomit waste matter, and using the telepathic circuits, brought Zzagner out of the book and into life, deleting the stories as a result. Zzagner wondered if he was any good, which led Alice and the Doctor to deduce he was just a writer. The Doctor encouraged him to allow humanity to judge his work for themselves. (COMIC: Give Free or Die)
The Doctor returned Alice to her flat in Hackney, but found that two duelling alien races, the Amstrons and the J'arrodic, had brought their ongoing air-war to Earth. Leaving Alice at her home, the Doctor took Jones and ARC to space with him to investigate. Aboard an Amstron mothership, Jones ate a cream doughnut he found, and soon fell ill. Escaping an onslaught from Amstrons, ARC fell under a mysterious possession, but the Doctor broke it out of it. ARC then told the Doctor it would "serve him", reminding the Doctor once again of SERVEYOUinc. The trio then entered an Amstron library to seek a legal rule that could end the war, only for Alice to suddenly join them - with her "resurrected" mother. (COMIC: The Eternal Dogfight)
The Doctor deduced that Alice's mother was not real. Alice discovered a note in a legal book calling for Earth to send an "infinite astronaut" through the Gate of Creation. The Amstrons explained that the infinite astronaut would find what happened to an Amstron and J'arrodic that disappeared in space on a mission, which sparked the war. The Amstrons requested that Alice and Jones, as humans, were the only ones who could go through the gate. "Alice's mother" revealed herself to be the Talent Scout, who then teleported away, telling the Doctor they would meet again. Alice and Jones then travelled through the gate, finding nothing but lights, while Jones recovered from his illness. The Amstrons and J'arrodic founded peace and ended the battle, but the Doctor, having had enough of SERVEYOUinc's mysteries, took his companions en route to their headquarters. (COMIC: The Infinite Astronaut)
With all his money and a few favours, the Doctor saved up enough money to purchase a fifty-one percent share in SERVEYOUinc before taking his companions to their headquarters in SERVEYOUinc City. In preparation of his plans going wrong, the Doctor gave Alice a special watch to use if something went wrong. The Doctor revealed to a SERVEYOUinc employee his shares deal, thus making him the majority shareholder and self-declared owner of the company. Leaving his companions, the Doctor was summoned to see Enoch Thorne, the company's CEO. Upon arriving at the office, the Doctor discovered Thorne had been killed by the Talent Scout, who revealed he had been woken by the Doctor and saw talent in him. When Alice, Jones and ARC saw the Doctor next, he had changed his hairstyle, was wearing a black version of his suit and calling himself the Chief Executive, saying he would help and rule the whole world. (COMIC: The Rise and Fall)
As the Chief Operating Officer of SERVEYOUinc, the Doctor converted his TARDIS into an office skyscraper over SERVEYOUinc City, and drained the world of its creativity. However, a back-up of the Doctor's true personality existed inside a watch he had given Alice, who helped the companions figure out a solution. Alice meanwhile took on the Doctor's role to encourage the enslaved people of the city. The Doctor and the Talent Scout had control of the Entity, which held the city and its people together. The Doctor had his companions captured and bought to him so he could assimilate their memories. Using her memories of her mother's passing, Alice convinced the Doctor that he had to accept what he had done and take back control of himself. Alice's words transformed the Doctor back into his normal self, and the return of his memories caused the entity to overload, destroying the city and apparently killing the Talent Scout. With the restored TARDIS, the Doctor and his companions brought the people of the city to a paradise planet. (COMIC: The Other Doctor)
Feeling guilty for giving in to SERVEYOUinc, the Doctor planned to find the Entity. He connected ARC to the TARDIS's telepathic circuits to allow ARC to use its connection with the Entity to locate it. However, ARC, under an influence, piloted the TARDIS to before its separation from the Entity, and crashed into a ship carrying it. The resulting paradox flung the Doctor outside into space, knocked out of phase with the rest of reality and into a non-corporeal state. In this state, the Doctor witnessed the past Talent Scout stun the Entity, causing the fraction of ARC to break away. Back in the TARDIS, the future Talent Scout, having survived the destruction of SERVEYOUinc City by hiding in the TARDIS, appeared and attempted to manipulate the companions, but ARC, still connected to the TARDIS, threw him out. The Doctor reentered the TARDIS and everything came back together. However, the Doctor knew that the Talent Scout was still out there and suspected they would meet again soon. (COMIC: Four Dimensions)
Tracking the Entity through time, the TARDIS was caught in a crashing comet, having bonded with the Entity to punish the Doctor for harming it. ARC was able to break the TARDIS free, but the comet crashed into 312 AD Rome. The quartet were locked out of the TARDIS as the Doctor realised that the comet had in fact been a Cyberman ship intercepted by the Entity. The Doctor and Jones fell under the Entity's possession but Roman soldiers, led by Constantine I, arrived to fight off the Cybermen. The Doctor and ARC bonded together to combine with the Entity. Through this, the Doctor showed those possessed by the Entity to see what scared them most. Those possessed were released and the Cybermen escaped in their ship. The Entity jettisoned itself from ARC and ran away through the time stream. However, the TARDIS refused to open its doors and Jones had vanished in the confusion, leaving the Doctor, Alice and ARC stranded in Rome. (COMIC: Conversion)
The Doctor begged the TARDIS to let him in, but it responded by dematerialising of its own accord. The Doctor knew it would travel to the nearest Time Lord, despite there being none left. ARC deduced that Jones had been absorbed into the Entity and using psychic contact, the Doctor was able to help Jones gain control of it. An older Jones then arrived in Rome, having "sang" to the Entity to form his own spaceship. The Entity ship tracked the TARDIS to 2015 London, where the Doctor rushed out to find it. He was shocked to find it was now in the possession of a Time Lady he recognised as his own mother. The Doctor knew it was just the Talent Scout in disguise, but the Scout told him the image was good enough for the TARDIS, and threw him out.
With no TARDIS, the Doctor resorted to walking aimlessly around rainy London in depression, until he ran back into Alice, who informed him Jones and ARC were piloting the Entity as a monster to prevent the Talent Scout from escaping. The Doctor realised that Alice's psychic link to the TARDIS' telepathic circuits could be used to communicate with it. Through the link the Doctor apologised to the TARDIS, and it responded by returning to him. The Doctor and Alice entered and confronted the Talent Scout, taking him to the Entity, which re-absorbed him. ARC decided to stay behind with the Entity as the Doctor, Alice and Jones returned to 1962, where Jones had originally come from. Jones had decided to resume his musical career, and invited the Doctor and Alice to see his show, knowing Alice's mother would be in attendance. After the show, the Doctor and Alice set off for further adventures. (COMIC: The Comfort of the Good)
Preventing a bad future[]
The Doctor and Alice visited 1923 Paris, where they defeated radioactive monsters coming out of the Seine. Afterwards, the Doctor, disappointed that his enemies mental stability made him unable to make a pun on their choice of river, suggested Alice get some coffee in a café, (COMIC: Four Doctors) while he visited a local newsstand to pick up an order of comics. While there, he was briefly puzzled by a statement from the newsagent that he had left the cafe only moments before, but soon forgot this after the agent handed him what he believed to be his standing order, which he had found under the counter. The Doctor payed for the bundle with pirates gold before heading back. (COMIC: The Doctor Shops for Comics)
Going to meet Alice in a café, the Doctor ran into his previous and next incarnations, who were also heading to meet their respective companions. When the three Doctors barged into the café to confront each other, Alice, Clara Oswald and Gabby Gonzalez explained what an alternative Gabby from a bad future had said and the six attempted to plan a way to avoid the original timeline. Realising that the picture still existed of the three Doctors arguing, they decided that going to Marinus was still part of the new timeline, and the three left Paris calmly, avoiding the Blinovitch Limitation Effect that summoned the Reapers and destroyed the café.
On Marinus, the Doctors posed for the picture and purposefully fell into the continuity bomb, entering the Eleventh Doctor's alternate timeline and used the TARDIS to go to the Voord's pocket universe. Met with Voord soldiers, the Twelfth Doctor pretended to be his alternate self to gain authority, but a Voord soldier, believing the deception, connected the Twelfth Doctor to the Voord's group mind, while the Eleventh Doctor, Clara and Alice ran to the city's dimensional control room.
When the Twelfth Doctor found his alternate self to powerful to fight alone, he summoned the others to help him. Inside the group mind, the Tenth Doctor turned off the city's forcefield, threatening to wipe them out with acid lest he change the timeline, and the Eleventh Doctor reprogramed the dimensional controls to return the Voord to the main universe. After Clara apologised to him, the alternate Twelfth Doctor agreed and let history take its normal course, regressing the Voord and Marinus back to their primitive evolution. The deed done, the Tenth Doctor spoke his regret at taking the Voords' development from them, and the Eleventh Doctor said he would arrange for them to receive support and advice from the wider community of species.
Back in Paris, the six considered eating at the café, until they saw the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler seated inside, with the Twelfth Doctor saying that the Ninth Doctor had been left out of the plot due to there being no timeline that even the continuity bomb could find where he was anything but "fantastic." The groups departed, the Eleventh and Tenth Doctors aware they would lose their memories of the event, but Gabby and Alice would not. (COMIC: Four Doctors)
Before he lost his memories, the Doctor and Alice bought a Weeping Angel from the Weeping Angel Museum and packaged it with a viewing device in identical packaging to the comics package to keep it docile. Returning to Paris at a time before their younger selves did, the Doctor distracted the newsagent while Alice swapped the comic package with the Angel package. Happy to have his comics, the Doctor's memory of the encounter with his other selves faded and he began to tell Alice of a café he knew of. (COMIC: The Doctor Shops for Angels)
On the run[]
More adventures with Alice[]
Protecting the Sapling[]
While attempting to retrieve John Jones' last album on the planet Britzit-247, the Doctor and Alice found the coordinates for his funeral. There, they met a Cwrier, who gave them an invitation to a forest planet. (COMIC: The Scream)
After the Sapling[]
The power of the Silence[]
The Doctor had arranged to either have a knitting or biplane lesson in 1911, but didn't make it when he got an anonymous invitation leading him to an American diner in 2011. There, he reunited with Amy, Rory and River Song, who he knew were hiding something from him. He reluctantly agreed to find the fifth guest, Canton Everett Delaware III, in 1969. They arrived in the Oval Office in Washington DC where US President Richard Nixonwas consulting Canton about a mysterious call. Taking Canton with him in the TARDIS, the Doctor traced it to Florida, where the caller, a little girl, was kept in a biomechanical "spacesuit". There, he finally encountered the Silence, who were occupying Earth because the human race was unable to memorise the species of Silents, and was told by Amy that she was pregnant, not long before she shot at the little girl in the astronaut suit, (TV: The Impossible Astronaut) but missed the girl by a hair.
For the next three months, the Doctor played the part of a perfectly-secured prisoner in Area 51 to give the Silence a false sense of security as part of a greater plan to uncover their plot. His plan included Canton and the FBI mercilessly hunting down Amy, Rory and River in a nationwide search. He sent River and the Ponds on their own nationwide search to find information about the Silence.
Once his companions had been rounded up, the Doctor decided to search for the little girl, sending his four friends off on separate leads, which led to Amy's kidnapping. However, he managed to capture a wounded Silent and trick it into saying, "You should kill us all on sight". He had Canton record this and spliced it into footage of the 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing, planting a post-hypnotic order in the minds of every human who would ever watch it. With this in place, he rescued Amy, returned Canton to the White House, and returned River to Stormcage prison. Much to his shock, she kissedhim. After this, he resumed his travels with the Ponds. However, he was left wondering about the identity of the little girl and Amy's pregnancy, which Amy told him she had got wrong. (TV: Day of the Moon)
New adventures with the Ponds[]
Discovering the origin of River Song[]
Search for Agent 99[]
Further adventures with the Ponds[]
Teaming up with the USS Enterprise[]
The Doctor and the Ponds went to Ancient Egypt, where they stopped an escaped alien prisoner from destroying the planet. Through the use of a green crystal, the Doctor learned of horrible events: the Cybermen had joined forces with the Borg. The trio arrived on the USS Enterprise in another universe and learnt of the combined Borg and Cybermen threat and the attack on Federation planet Delta IV, troubling the Doctor as he had never heard of such a planet. Through painful flashbacks, the Doctor learnt from himself that he came to this universe in his fourth incarnation and met Captain James T. Kirk along with three of his crew. An attack of the Cybermen was stopped which then caused the Doctor to vanish.
Back in the present, the Doctor met Guinan and both discussed the events unravelling. The Doctor, his companions and an away team went to Cogen V, where both teams found Borg and Cybermen casualties scattered across the planet's surface. The Cybermen betrayed the Borg. Later, a Borg ship that survived the betrayal tried to reason with Picard. Picard refused at first but thanks to counselling from Guinean and Amy, and seeing the horrible future to come Captain Picard finally agreed to an alliance.
A plan was made and the Doctor, his companions, along with the crew of the Enterprise went on the Cybership. The Doctor got a copy of the Borg Executive Library from the battle of Wolf 359. He and the Ponds even had a near run in with Picard's assimilated form Locutus. The Borg were revived with the Cybermen defeated. The Doctor and friends went back to their universe, not knowing that the reactivated Borg had decided to attempt to master time travel. (COMIC: Assimilation²)
Prolonging the inevitable[]
Cheating death[]
Before going to Lake Silencio, the Doctor wanted to know why the Silence wanted him dead. After getting information from a damaged Dalek and the Teselecta, he was led to Dorium Maldovar by Gantok, where the Doctor learned that the Silence wanted him dead out of fear of him answering a question only he knew the answer to: "Doctor Who?" Realising the ramifications of this discovery, the Doctor decided to extend his farewell tour, phoning up Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart for a night out, only to find that he had recently passed away. This prompted the grieving Doctor to then cancel his extended tour. After asking the Teselecta captain to deliver letters to River, Amy, Rory, Canton and his younger self, the Doctor was inspired by the captain to have himself and the TARDIS miniaturised and taken into the Teselecta, while it took on his appearance and mannerisms. Hiding inside the Teselecta, (TV: The Wedding of River Song) the Doctor reunited with Amy and Rory in the middle of the Utah desert, and had his Stetson shot off by River.
At a café, the Doctor and River compared diaries, and the Doctor told his friends that they were going to have a picnic and then they would go on a trip to "Space 1969". (TV: The Impossible Astronaut) Picnicking by Lake Silencio, Canton arrived, and a younger version of River appeared in an astronaut suit, ready to unwillingly kill the Doctor. Ordering his friends not to interfere, the Doctor told the young River that he forgave her for her part in his assassination and prepared for his faked death. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut, The Wedding of River Song)
However, instead of shooting, River emptied the suit's weapon system, causing time to collapse, making the date and time always 22 April 2011, 5:02 PM. The Doctor assumed the identity of a soothsayer and spoke before the Winston Churchill of the gestalt timeline, who held the title of Holy Roman Emperor at Buckingham Palace. The Doctor was repeatedly thrown in the Tower of London until Churchill began to see the hidden logic in the Doctor's warnings, and summoned the Doctor from the Tower to elaborate why time remained trapped on the same moment without moving forward and all history was happening at once. Their discussion was interrupted when the two men discovered evidence of a fight they were forgetting, and found an entire nest of Silents, and the Doctor was forcibly recruited by an alternate version of Amy, who retained enough memories of her original existence that she knew about travelling with the Doctor.
Brought to Area 52, the Doctor discovered that River and her associates had defeated Madame Kovarian and were trying to restart time without killing him. She had the Doctor handcuffed, knowing that even the slightest physical contact between them would cause them, as the opposite poles of the disruption, to short out their temporal differential and reboot the progression of time. However, numerous Silents broke out of their holding tanks and attacked the base, killing the soldiers and technicians in the group. River guided the group to safety before the Silents broke through to the control room. She, Amy, and Rory took the Doctor to the top of the pyramid housing Area 52, where they had built a timey-wimey distress beacon. The Doctor was angry that River would risk the suffering and death of everyone and then embarrass him by futilely broadcasting for help, but decided to marry River and revealed the charade to her.
Now that she knew the Teselecta would be shot and not the Doctor, River kissed the robot, erasing the broken reality, and restoring time to the point before she drained the weaponry system. (TV: The Wedding of River Song) After River shot the Teselecta, Canton confirmed the body was the Doctors, and he, River, Amy and Rory set the body ablaze on a boat in the lake to prevent the Time Lord's body being dissected. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)
Escaping the Teselecta, the Doctor visited Dorium and told him he would "return to the shadows" and allow the universe to forget him. Dorium warned him that he would fall after answering "The Question" on the fields of Trenzalore, calling it the "fall of the eleventh". However, the Doctor simply paid no mind to his warnings, (TV: The Wedding of River Song) and went on to attend the Brigadier's funeral. (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow)
Return to the shadows[]
Living with the Ponds[]
Final adventures with the Ponds[]
Moving On[]
A new companion[]
Retirement []
While looking into the matter of a hypercube he received from an unknown messenger, the TARDIS picked up a distress call from a married couple, but arrived on their ship too late to save them. The ship's logs revealed they had committed suicide to prevent the Daleks from learning a formula, and the Doctor found the couple's children — Sabel, Jenibeth and Ollus Blakely — hiding in an escape pod, and took them home to Carthedia, where he learned the Daleks were considered a force for good after establishing the Dalek Foundation and the Sunlight Worlds following a recession. The Doctor was charged with a hate crime for publicly announcing the Daleks' evil, forcing him and the children to escape off the planet. He tried again on Sunlight 349 and the Dalek Litigatorarrived to subject him to another public trial. Completely outwitted by the Litigator, the Doctor was made to leave alone.
Still not convinced that the Daleks had reformed, the Doctor arrived on Gethria, the location of the Cradle of the Gods, where he was taken prisoner by an aged Dalek puppet Jenibeth and the Dalek Time Controller, who revealed the Daleks had been manipulating the Doctor so that he could activate the Cradle of the Gods for them and use it to transform the Sunlight Worlds into copies of Skaro. However, Jenibeth managed to resist Dalek control and fought off the Time Controller and the Doctor set the Cradle to self-destruct, causing the Daleks to abandon the plan and retreat. Before exploding, the Cradle reverted the Sunlight Worlds to how Jenibeth remembered them as a child, with herself and her siblings turning back into children and their parents being recreated. The Doctor realised afterwards how much his interference put all the citizens of the Sunlight Worlds in danger and thought of what would happen if the Daleks had succeeded. He left in the TARDIS without a farewell, decreeing, "No more meddling. No more." (PROSE: The Dalek Generation) Already depressed about losing Amy and Rory, the realisation that his travels put billions of people's lives in danger led the Doctor to retire from his constant adventuring, much to the dismay of others, in Victorian England. (TV: The Great Detective)
To ensure that he would have solitude, the Doctor parked the TARDIS on a cloud; he also changed the interior of the control room from its whimsical layout to a more plainly mechanical design, discarding the console room that he had used while travelling with the Ponds, which no longer befit his darkened outlook, and to stop it from reminding him of his losses. (TV: The Snowmen) As they lived in Victorian London, Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Strax, who had been resurrected from his death at Demons Run, tried constantly to get the "old" Doctor back by explaining weird happenings that could pique his interest. However, most of them were unimportant or mediocre, but no matter how often the Doctor told them he had retired, they kept trying. (TV: The Great Detective)
The Doctor eventually came out of retirement to investigate the Christmas snow, which had a telepathic quality to it - the snow could remember, and could even form imitations of other things - when he met a woman named Clara Oswald. Clara grew a fast attachment to him, both out of curiosity of who he was and what the snow was, and was able to convince the Doctor to help investigate a pond at a house she was governing for, only for them to discover that the previous governess, who had died in the pond and had been trapped when it froze, had come back as an ice duplication. With the help of the Paternoster Gang, the Doctor was able to stop their opposing enemy, but not before Clara was killed by the Ice Governess.
Facing the man controlling the snow, Dr. Walter Simeon of the Great Intelligence Institute, the Doctor erased Simeon's memories by letting a Memory worm bite him. Doing so allowed the Doctor to discover the real mastermind was the Great Intelligence, but the telepathic snow caused the grief those felt for Clara's death to defeat it. Reading Clara's gravestone, the Doctor recognised her as the same woman he had met in the Dalek Asylum, and set off in the TARDIS to find a third version of her somewhere in the universe. (TV: The Snowmen)
The search for Clara[]
Unwinding the mystery[]
Reminders of the past[]
Revisiting the Time War[]
Reuniting with Clara after her working hours at Coal Hill, the Doctor was contacted by Kate Stewart and UNIT, who transported the TARDIS to the National Gallery via helicopter. He saw the credentials of Elizabeth I, a 3-D portrait entitled Gallifrey Falls, which showed the fall of Gallifrey's second city, Arcadia, during the Last Great Time War. Disturbed by the painting's existence on Earth, the Doctor was then taken by Kate to see figures had disappeared from paintings.
However, a time fissure opened, and the Doctor was transported back to 1562, where he met his previous incarnation, who was investigating Zygon activity. Both incarnations were then met by the War Doctor, who had also travelled through the time fissure. However, before they could work out why they'd been thrown together, they were then arrested by the guards of Elizabeth I, who was apparently being impersonated by a Zygon. The three Doctors were imprisoned in the Tower of London, where the Eleventh Doctor inscribed numbers in the cell which would enable the vortex manipulator UNIT possessed to be activated. Clara used this to travel back to 1562 and met the three Doctors. Elizabeth showed them the Zygons were hiding in pictures until Earth was more suitable for conquest, and also revealed she had killed her Zygon impersonator and been impersonating it. She then married the reluctant Tenth Doctor, who left in the TARDIS with his past and future selves and Clara.
Back in the 21st century, Kate had activated the countdown to a nuclear warhead inside the Black Archive that would prevent the Zygons taking over the world, but also destroy London. As the TARDIS was unable to enter the Archive, the Doctors called Kate on the space-time telegraph that he had given to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in his fourth incarnation, but she refused to halt the countdown. The War Doctor then had the idea to have the Eleventh Doctor call UNIT officer McGillop in the past to move Gallifrey Falls to the Black Archive. The three Doctors and Clara froze themselves in the painting and forced their way out as Kate and her Zygon double argued over the countdown. The three Doctors caused everybody else in the room, save Clara, to forget whether they were Zygon or not, causing both Kates to stop the countdown and begin work on a treaty. (TV: The Day of the Doctor) Secretly, he gave the Osgood Box to Osgood and her Zygon double to prepare for a possible Zygon uprising. (TV: The Zygon Invasion) The War Doctor travelled back to the Time War to use the Moment to destroy Gallifrey, having realised how many lives his regret had saved.
However, the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors followed him back to use the Moment with him, until Clara tearfully objected and the Moment projected an image of the war around them while the Doctors were reminded by Clara of who they were. The Eleventh Doctor decided not to use the Moment and formed a plan to save Gallifrey; by making Gallifrey disappear, and with the Daleks firing on Gallifrey being destroyed in the crossfire, it would appear to the rest of the universe that they had annihilated each other. Calling all his previous incarnations, and a future incarnation, to use all their TARDISes to save Gallifrey, the Eleventh Doctor's plan worked, and Gallifrey was sent into a different universe.
The Doctor later met up with the War and Tenth Doctors in the National Gallery, unaware if they had succeeded or failed in saving Gallifrey. The previous Doctors left, knowing they wouldn't remember these events as the timeline was out of synch. Finally rid of the pain and guilt that the war had left him with and now knowing the real truth, the elated Doctor met the familiar looking Curator of the Gallery, who explained that the two titles of the painting, No More and Gallifrey Falls were in fact one title — Gallifrey Falls No More. Realising that the attempt at freezing Gallifrey worked, the Curator explained to the Doctor that Gallifrey was lost and the Doctor had "a lot to do" and congratulated the Doctor. The Curator also hinted that he was a future incarnation of the Doctor. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
Final travels[]
The siege of Trenzalore[]
Eventually, the Doctor, along with thousands of other ships, discovered a mysterious message being broadcast across the universe from a planet. After boarding both Dalek and Cyberman ships to find out more, and barely managing to escape, he visited Clara at Christmas and met her family to pose as her boyfriend. After helping her prepare Christmas dinner, the Doctor and Clara travelled to the Papal Mainframe, where the Doctor met up with Tasha Lem, an old friend of his. Tasha sent the Doctor and Clara to a town on the planet, Christmas, to investigate the message.
Arrving at the town's clock tower, the Doctor was horrified to find a crack in time, through which the message was being broadcast - "Doctor Who?". The Doctor found it was the Time Lords, trapped in a pocket universe, trying to get out. If he spoke his name they would come out, but then the other ships would descend on the planet, beginning a new Time War. He then found the planet was in fact Trenzalore, centuries before his and Clara's first visit. He finally discovered this was the meaning of the "Silence Will Fall" prediction and was why the Silence had tried to kill him for such a long time.
Realising the battle that lay ahead of him, the Doctor tricked Clara into going home in the TARDIS, but she clung on to the exterior and the TARDIS didn't return due to extending its force field to protect Clara. With his ship gone, the Doctor lived on Trenzalore for 300 years, defending the planet against Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels and Sontarans, in what was known as the Siege of Trenzalore. During this time, Handles was the Doctor's only companion, but he was forced to keep repairing him without the necessary spare parts. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
During this siege, he prevented Lord Ssardak and his Ice Warriors, Essbur and Zontan, from burying Christmas through an avalanche, (PROSE: Let it Snow) lost his left leg fighting a blind Tsunami Snake and replaced it with a wooden one he whittled, (PROSE: The Dreaming) and battled a Krynoid with the help of ten-year-old boy Theol Willoughby and the townspeople of Christmas. After the Krynoid's defeat, Theol made a special walking stick for the Doctor in memory of the farmer Pieter who had been taken over by the Krynoid the walking stick was made from. (PROSE: An Apple a Day...) On a later occasion, the Doctor fought the Autons in the Outland. (PROSE: Strangers in the Outland)
When the TARDIS returned with Clara clinging onto the door, he and Clara reconciled, and watched the short dawn as Handles broke down completely, which reduced the Doctor to tears. The Doctor and Clara returned to the Papal Mainframe, discovering it was now the Church of the Silence. He also told her that he had used up all twelve regenerations and that he will die on Trenzalore. There, he discovered Tasha and her crew had been killed and turned into Dalek puppets, but Tasha was able to retain her mind and fought back against the Daleks, but was unable to stop them damaging the Papal Mainframe's shielding, allowing all out war on Trenzalore. Not wanting her to die in battle, the Doctor tricked Clara back home again.
After this, the Doctor spent a further 600 years on Trenzalore and fought back-to-back with his former enemies, the Silents, and eventually all but the Daleks were destroyed or retreated. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) The Doctor defeated the Krotons after a grain warehouse was destroyed and the villagers hiding inside were killed, with the loss of life standing as a reminder for the townspeople that the Doctor could not save everyone. With his mind now deteriorating from old age, the Doctor encountered the Mara, who attempted to make a new body for itself, but it was defeated when it melted from the salt-flavoured snow. (PROSE: The Dreaming)
The fall of the eleventh[]
As the Doctor began ageing to death, Tasha returned Clara to Trenzalore, not wanting the Doctor to die alone. Though very close to dying from old age, the Doctor still refused to leave Christmas or release the Time Lords. Realising he would die soon anyway with no means of survival, the Doctor decided to surrender to the Daleks.
At the top of Christmas' clock tower, the Doctor accepted his fate, knowing that he had no weapons or any regenerations left to him. However, seconds after he admitted this to the Daleks, and as they began their final attack on the town, another crack from Gallifrey opened in the sky, and the Time Lords granted the Doctor a new cycle of regenerations, Clara having appealed to them to aid the Doctor. Recovering from the initial shock of seeing his hands glowing with regenerative energy, the Doctor taunted the Daleks about breaking the rules with "regeneration number thirteenth" before using the explosive discharge of energy from his hands to destroy their fighter pods, and channelling the remaining energy to destroy the saucer above the clock tower, accompanied by a triumphant shout of "Love from Gallifrey, boys!" The shock-wave resulting from his regenerative energy was so powerful, it obliterated the Daleks' ground forces, and even rocked the TARDIS. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
Death []
His youth temporarily restored due to the regenerative "reset", the Doctor returned to his TARDIS, where he quickly changed out of his battered old clothes, and dragged the still-unpatched TARDIS telephone handset from the exterior call box into the control room. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) Knowing that, even with his youth restored, he was still going to regenerate, the Doctor took a moment to call Clara's future self, asking her to stay with the Twelfth Doctor, assuring her that the Twelfth Doctor was still him, but that he would be even more scared of the transformation than she was. Disappointed to learn he would become older in his next incarnation, and dismayed when Clara confirmed that his successor had grey hair, the Doctor told Clara that he would need her more than ever in his new body. (TV: Deep Breath)
When the present Clara arrived in the TARDIS, the Doctor confirmed that he was still regenerating, with his current return to youth just his body resetting itself in preparation for the new cycle of regenerations. Finally free to leave Trenzalore now that the siege had ended, the Doctor set the TARDIS in-flight and, reminiscing about this incarnation, he enjoyed one last bowl of fish custard and made a promise to never to forget "when the Doctor was me", while experiencing hallucination of "the first face this face saw" - Amy Pond, who wished her "Raggedy man, Goodnight."
As a sign of his changing days, the Doctor then removed his bow tie and dropped it to the floor. With a final smile to Clara, the process begun. Clara tearfully objected, reaching for him and begging him not to change, but, after one last reassuring "Hey...", he suddenly regenerated, in a quick burst, into his next incarnation (TV: The Time of the Doctor) subconsciously choosing to change into Lobus Caecilius's form to remind himself that he "saved people." (TV: The Girl Who Died)
Post-mortem[]
While the Twelfth Doctor was on the planet Eed'n, he became infected with pollen from the plants and possessed by the entity that controlled all of Eedin's plants, but he was able to fight off the possession by summoning the memories of his past incarnations, such as the Eleventh Doctor. (COMIC: Petals)
When he was exposed to energy from a time storm, the Twelfth Doctor degenerated through all of his previous incarnations, including the Eleventh Doctor. (AUDIO: The Lost Magic)
Undated events[]
- The Eleventh Doctor and Amy encountered a king who had a robot duplicate of himself. While initially thinking that the robot had lost its head, it turned out to be the actual king; the Doctor somehow managed to reattach his head while keeping him alive. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
- The Doctor took River Song on a birthday outing that involved Stevie Wonder playing at a frost fair in London in 1814. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)
- The Eleventh Doctor visited the planet Golrandonvar when it was being terraformed for human colonists, but discovered that the terraforming process would wipe out the native race, the Thara, and helped to defend the planet. (PROSE: The Roots of Evil)
- The Eleventh Doctor had an encounter with Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart that was caught on video. (PROSE: Avatars of the Intelligence)
Alternate timelines[]
Multi-Doctor event[]
In the version of time where the alternate Gabby Gonzalez hailed from, the Doctor returned to the café, and overheard a conversation Alice was having with two girls claiming to be companions of the Doctor. One of them, Clara Oswald, warned of an event where the Doctor's previous and next incarnations would all meet with him. The Doctor broke into the conversation at exactly the same moment as his tenth incarnation, who initially did not believe he was his real successor, until a scan by his sonic screwdriver confirmed it. The Twelfth Doctor then entered the café, annoyed at Clara for going behind his back. The Tenth and Twelfth Doctors broke into an argument, which caused a spark of the Blinovitch Limitation Effect between them. As the three Doctors realised that they had all caused a paradox within a fixed point in time, a flock of Reapers appeared.
The Reapers singled out the Eleventh Doctor for pursuit, and he was able to lead them away while the other Doctors and companions made it to the TARDIS, which the Reapes had cut off from them. Once he met up with them, the three Doctors channelled the effect's energy through each other to restore the TARDIS. After being chased through the TARDIS, the Twelfth Doctor used the controls of the Tenth Doctor's control room to expel the Reapers and send everyone back to their own TARDIS. (COMIC: Four Doctors)
While Clara, Alice and Gabby went elsewhere, (COMIC: The Meeting) the three Doctors participated in an open microphone night, (COMIC: Open Mic Night) for some "me time" that Clara had recommended. (COMIC: Four Doctors) While the Eleventh Doctor tried to tell observational humour on the concept of observational humour, the Twelfth Doctor left after the audience did not take to his set up. (COMIC: Open Mic Night) The Doctors then tried their hand at classical comedy, though the twelfth incarnation's sense of humour turned sour, to which the tenth incarnation turned apologetic for. (COMIC: The Doctors Do... Classic Comedy)
Back in Paris, Clara revealed that the three Doctors had had an encounter on the planet Marinus in the circumstances of a catastrophic event. Unable to contain their curiosity, the Doctors travelled to Marinus to find out what would happen. There, after they were attacked by a mysterious beam, the Doctors began bickering and inadvertently ended up in the pose for the photo.
Forced to split off into groups in a maze by their attackers, the Eleventh Doctor found himself with Clara, and, noting that she was familiar with him in particular, admitted to her that he was relieved to know he was no longer in his last incarnation. Navigating the maze, the six met up at the middle of the maze, where a continuity bomb detonated and turned them all into time ghosts, travelling to different timelines made by the Doctors' decisions. After seeing a timeline where the Tenth Doctor never sacrificed himself to save Wilfred Mott, the Eleventh Doctor saw a timeline where he and River were a married couple in a world where it was always 22 April 2011. They moved onwards to the Twelfth Doctor's future, where he had become a bitter hermit after being betrayed by Clara. In order to escape from the loop, the Doctors committed to the twelfth incarnation's future, as it seemed to be the least dangerous of the three, so the Twelfth Doctor poked his alternate self to become whole again. The alternative Twelfth Doctor was surprised to see Clara again, but recognised everyone else and agreed to give everyone a lift, which the Eleventh Doctor accepted on everyone's behalf. They materialised in a small pocket universe and were approached by the Voord, who offered the alternative Twelfth Doctor a capsule. All of them were horrified to see the alternative Doctor merge with the suit, revealing that he planned all of this from the start and that he was the leader of the Voord.
After the alternative Twelfth Doctor revealed how he found companionship and healing in the Voord city, and had arranged the meeting of the Doctors to ensure his timeline would be whole, which the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors found a very timey wimey plan, he announced his intent to erase Gabby, Alice and their Doctors' memories of the event, but implant mental commands in the Twelfth Doctor and Clara's minds to ensure they would fall out in the betrayal, allowing the Twelfth Doctor to become his alternate self and lead the Voord on a universal conquest. As they were being led to have their memories altered, the Tenth Doctor tried to kill himself by jumping off a ledge in a distraction, allowing the Eleventh Doctor to deactivate the six's handcuffs. During a brief struggle, during which the Eleventh Doctor dropped his sonic screwdriver and comics, Gabby and Alice were able to escape, with Gabby accidentally taking the Doctor's comics with her. The Doctors and Clara were then taken to the Conscience, where the alternative Twelfth Doctor altered their memories, and sent them back to their own universe to live out their new destinies.
After Alice was killed trying to get back to the TARDIS, Gabby began to frantically open the Doctor's comics in the hope they could help her. Much to her horror, inside the bundle was a miniature Weeping Angel, which grew to full size and sent her back in her own personal timeline to the café before the three Doctors arrived to greet their companions. Gabby warned the companions of what would occur if things went the way they had before, before fading from existence. (COMIC: Four Doctors)
Living in River Song's world[]
In an alternative timeline envisioned by a continuity bomb, the Doctor allowed River to prevent his death at Lake Silencio. The two then married and settled down for a domestic life in River Song's World, where time was frozen and all of history was happening at once. Even though he could feel the universe dying from this, the Doctor decided not to care about it. This timeline never saw fruition as the bomb was confused by the presence of three Doctors within it at once. (COMIC: Four Doctors)
TARDIS salvaged[]
While trying to teach Clara how to operate the TARDIS, the time machine was caught in a magnetic hobble-field from a space salvage ship, operated by the Van Baalen Bros. The TARDIS was successfully captured by the Van Baalen Bros., causing the TARDIS to leak the past and future. In the confusion, the Doctor made it out of the TARDIS, while Clara ended up lost in it, her hand burnt from a mysterious device she touched beforehand. After taking the remote control for the magno-grab out of Gregor's pocket, the Doctor forced the brothers, Gregor, Bram and Tricky, to help him find her by putting the TARDIS in lock-down and setting a non-existent self-destruct program.
Despite the Doctor's warnings, Gregor convinced Bram to salvage the console. While doing so, Bram was killed by a Time zombie, and the remaining three ended up in an echo of the console room. Discovering Clara in another echo room, the Doctor pulled her to safety from being killed by another zombie, and revealed the apparent self-destruct program had been a ruse, but found the engines had become unstable due to time leakage triggered by the incident, requiring a trip to the engine room to fix the problem.
While travelling through the Eye of Harmony, the quartet were trapped by the zombies. The Doctor revealed the zombies were echoes of himself and the others, burnt by the Eye. Gregor and Tricky ended up turning into them, and the Doctor and Clara were forced to run away from them, ending up in a chasm. Believing they were going to die, the Doctor admitted that he knew her two previous incarnations and demanded to know what she really was. Clara didn't understand anything, leading the Doctor to deduce to himself there couldn't be a connection.
Realising the chasm wasn't really a chasm, but the TARDIS "snarling", the duo jumped from the chasm, ending up in the engine room. The Doctor found that the burn marks on Clara's hand had formed words: "Big friendly button". The Doctor realised they needed to go back to the point of the disaster and activate the magno-grab remote, which had caused the burn marks on Clara's hand before, to stop the field and prevent the disaster. After he promised Clara that she wouldn't remember any of the events that had happened, the Doctor passed through a time rift to give the device to his past self. After instructing his past self to use the device, the future Doctor disappeared back through the rift.
After the younger Doctor pressed the button, the TARDIS disappeared, escaping the Van Baalens and preventing its engine failure. (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS) The Doctor later displayed knowledge of both timelines. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
In a different version of this alternative timeline, the Doctor was turned into a Time zombie when exposed to the Eye of Harmony along with Clara Oswald, Gregor Van Baalen and Tricky Van Baalen. (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS)
Death on Trenzalore[]
In an alternate timeline where the Time Lords never gave the Doctor more regenerations, the Doctor died on Trenzalore and was buried in a giant tomb made out of his own dying TARDIS. The tomb was surrounded by a battlefield graveyard containing the fallen from the Siege of Trenzalore, with the size of each gravestone proportionate to the rank of the buried soldier, the TARDIS being the largest. The planet itself became a desolate wasteland covered with molten cracks, and without its original rings or moons, all of them destroyed. The Doctor and Clara visited this future, due to the Great Intelligence forcing them to visit the Doctor's grave by kidnapping Jenny, Strax and Vastra. The Doctor stated that his grave in this timeline was the one place he must never visit as a time traveler. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
After landing on Trenzalore, the Doctor quickly realised he was on a path towards this future but was ultimately unable to save himself, unwilling to abandon the planet to its fate to save himself. With the Doctor on the verge of death, Clara convinced the Time Lords to grant him a new regeneration cycle. With the Daleks destroyed by his regeneration energy and Trenzalore saved, the Doctor was able to survive and depart the planet. In doing so, the Doctor changed this future, leaving him as the Twelfth Doctor and Trenzalore as it was when he arrived. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
Other information[]
Copies []
The Eleventh was likely the incarnation of the Doctor who had met his own incarnation or copies of himself the most times. Very often through copying himself, the Doctor encountered (and occasionally battled) himself at the very least seven times. Amongst those instances were:
- Almost immediately after his regeneration, Prisoner Zero imitated the Eleventh Doctor's form through Amy Pond's mind. He did not recognise himself, having not yet had the time to study his new appearance. When the Doctor made Amy remember the alien's true form, Prisoner Zero immediately reverted to it. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
- The Doctor later encountered a version of himself from a few minutes later who claimed to be dying. In reality, the older Doctor was buying himself time to enter the Pandorica by letting the Dalek chase his younger self and his friends. (TV: The Big Bang)
- The Doctor again met himself when a Doctor from a few seconds later told him to use the wibbly lever to fix the space and time loops occurring within the TARDIS. (TV: Time)
- A Ganger replica of the Doctor was made when he and his companions arrived at St John's Monastery. These two Doctors worked together to battle the fighting between the humans and the Gangers, even switching roles to prove a point. The Ganger was destroyed saving his Time Lord self from Jennifer Lucas' Ganger. (TV: The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People)
- While River Song was on her first date with the Doctor, another River and Doctor entered the TARDIS. The two Doctors exchanged a dialogue about River's fate and their last date with her at Darillium. (HOMEVID: Last Night)
- Knowing he was to die, the Doctor hid in a Tesselecta copy of himself to keep himself safe. He interacted with his companions through the Tesselecta, and then was supposedly murdered by River Song safe inside the robot duplicate. His "body" was also supposedly burned, but both the real Doctor and the ship remained unscorched and unharmed. He used this to pretend as if he were dead, and decided to keep a low profile from then on. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)
- The Doctor once again used a copy of himself to battle against the Great Intelligence and its human slave Kizlet, this time in the form of a Spoonhead. While still at a café controlling the Spoonhead remotely, the Doctor made his other self enter the Shard and release Clara Oswald from the Intelligence's databanks. He achieved this by uploading Kizlet herself so she'd want desperately to leave, and then using Kizlet's tabletto get Mahler to obey Kizlet's orders to release everyone. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)
Reference in literature[]
In 1954, his former companion Amy, now a published author under her married name Amelia Williams, published Summer Falls, a novel for children in which the lead character meets a man called the Curator. The Curator is based upon the Doctor, right down to his physical description and his use of the word "cool" to describe things. A later edition of the book included an introduction by Amy/Amelia directly addressed to the Doctor in which she describes meeting a woman with knowledge of the Doctor. This book at one point was read by Clara Oswald (who would call it one of her favourites), and later Angie Maitland. (PROSE: Summer Falls, PROSE: Summer Falls and Other Stories; TV: The Bells of Saint John)