Dr who regenerations how many

TV : Death of the Doctor. As with most such "rules", there were occasional exceptions to the twelve regeneration limit: although Rassilon had originally found the twelve-regeneration cap to be absolute, forcing him to retreat into the Matrix as a disembodied mind to survive his final death, PROSE : The Legacy of Gallifrey the High Council , at later points in history, was capable of offering Time Lords a new lease of life in the form of a new regeneration cycle.

The Council offered the Master a new regeneration cycle if he rescued the various incarnations of the Doctor from the Death Zone. COMIC : Fast Asleep , TV : Utopia , Dark Water It was indicated that the Master possessed at least one more regeneration after this as he told his future self "don't bother trying to regenerate" after mortally wounding her with his laser screwdriver.

TV : The Doctor Falls. The Spy Master 's discoveries about the Timeless Child in the Matrix suggested that the Child had originally possessed more regenerations than the typical twelve, and that it had been the Second Tecteun 's decision, when the Founder had shared the genetic gift of regeneration with his people , to limit the common folk's regenerations to a maximum of twelve times.

The Master believed that the Child had later become the Doctor , who had gone through a number of lives which even he couldn't even guess at. Despite not being able to regenerate any further, a Time Lord in their final incarnation retained a small amount of regeneration energy; just enough to mend broken bones once.

TV : The Angels Take Manhattan Time Lords could will themselves to die by attempting to regenerate when they had no more regenerations left to use, as Azmael who was hosting the evil consciousness of Mestor , chose to do so to prevent it from escaping. TV : The Twin Dilemma The Eleventh Doctor likewise threatened to use regeneration to hold off Mr Clever from taking over his mind, fully aware that he had expended his first regeneration cycle's allotted lives. TV : Nightmare in Silver A Time Lord on their last regeneration could will themselves to effect a pseudo-regeneration which would cause their body to vanish into thin air.

TV : Shada. If they attempted to regenerate in earnest beyond their thirteenth and final body, a Time Lord's flesh could break down into degenerate matter and then into random molecules , as was the case for one particular Time Lord.

When the Third Doctor was too weak to regenerate, K'anpo Rimpoche gave him a "little push" to jump-start the process. However, doing so scrambled the Doctor's brain a bit. In an attempt to end their perpetual cycle of rebirth, Mawdryn and his crew attempted to force the Fifth Doctor to sacrifice all eight of his remaining regenerations so that they could take his 'deaths' for themselves.

Although the Doctor rejected that request because he was unwilling to essentially kill himself eight times over in order to save this crew from their own mistake, he was willing to do so in order to cure his companions of an infection they had contracted from exposure to Mawdryn's crew. However, the same necessary energy was released when the Brigadiers of and made contact with each other, the temporal energies released in the subsequent paradox serving the same purpose as the Doctor's eight regenerations.

While regeneration was a natural Time Lord function, it was not an intrinsic part of their genetic makeup that could be acquired through simple DNA samples. When the Forge created a clone of the Sixth Doctor , the most successful clone retained the Doctor's knowledge but was incapable of regenerating, although this may have been due to flaws in the Forge's cloning technology. AUDIO : Project Lazarus The Doctor was initially uncertain whether his "daughter" Jenny grown from harvested genetic material of his tenth incarnation could regenerate, and when he witnessed her dying of a gunshot wound, commented she wasn't "enough" like him with a fatalistic tone.

Jenny later returned to life unbeknownst to the Doctor in a burst of golden shimmering energy, but without changing her face; the energy resembled regeneration energy , but also the life-giving gasses of the Source. After the Master was executed by the Daleks and transferred his essence into a human body , he attempted to use the Eye of Harmony in the Doctor's TARDIS to transfer the Eighth Doctor 's five remaining regenerations to him to restore himself to full life.

This plan failed when the Doctor's ally Grace Holloway set the TARDIS into temporal orbit , severing the link between the Eye and the Master, returning the Doctor's regenerations to him and leaving the Master once again trapped in a dying body, which was subsequently lost when he fell into the Eye. During the War in Heaven , the Time Lords granted many of the lesser species the ability to regenerate, creating the regen-inf.

When the Eleven discovered the Matrix print of the Time Lord scientist Artron , he was able to use the knowledge on the Matrix print and the Crucible of Souls - a space station previously designed to absorb life energy from the dying universe - to grant the entire universe of the present the ability to regenerate to become a new food source for the Ravenous.

The Doctor and three different incarnations of the Master were able to undo the Eleven's actions and restore mortality to the universe. The Sontarans were able to use the resulting artron energy released to power various temporal weapons, with the goal of opening a third front in the Time War, but the War Doctor was able to make telepathic contact with Vassarian as his mind was still active on some level.

While technically frozen in time, Vassarian revealed that he had lost so much energy through the Sontarans' actions that he would be unable to regenerate. The War Doctor helped him end his life so that the Sontarans would be destroyed by the Daleks.

When the Third Doctor was drawn to a time period shortly after the Tenth Doctor had regenerated, the Tenth Doctor unknowingly drew on the energy of his past self to stabilise his own regeneration simply because the two Doctors were in close proximity to each other without either Doctor coming face-to-face. The Third Doctor described the experience as energy osmosis as the weaker incarnation took energy from the stronger.

The process caused the Third Doctor to feel a brief fatigue before returning to normal, whereas the Tenth Doctor was restored to full health. In one instance, the Tenth Doctor used up his first cycle's eleventh regeneration while still keeping the same face by channelling it into a hand TV : Journey's End , The Time of the Doctor which had been sliced off by the leader of the Sycorax , TV : The Christmas Invasion allowing himself to heal his body, yet avoid physical changes.

This energy remained active and was accidentally interacted with by a human , Donna Noble , triggering a two-way human-Time Lord meta-crisis which caused the hand to regenerate the missing body of its owner, creating a human-Time Lord copy of the Doctor and causing Donna to gain the mind of a Time Lord. However, the presence of two minds inhabiting Donna at once nearly destroyed her and the Doctor was forced to block all memories of him from her consciousness to stop her Time Lord half from remaining active.

TV : Journey's End. Dead Time Lords could be revived with regenerative energy, though the amount of energy required to do this was very large and took a physical toll on the donor. Doing this, Melody Pond , in her third incarnation, sacrificed her ten remaining regenerations to save the Doctor's life after he was dying from a poison that would normally immobilise his ability to regenerate, and was hospitalised as a result.

Even after having used all twelve of his regenerations, the Eleventh Doctor possessed enough regenerative energy to heal River Song's broken wrist , although she was angered at what she considered a waste of the energy.

Regenerative energy is transferred into Daleks, creating Time Lord-Dalek hybrids. TV : The Witch's Familiar. The Twelfth Doctor attempted to donate a small portion of regenerative energy to the dying Davros to give him the strength to see a final sunrise, speculating that this would cost him an arm or a leg at some future date or make him diminutive in stature , but Davros used this opportunity to siphon regeneration energy from the Doctor, and transmit it to all the Daleks across Skaro.

While the Daleks grew stronger, Davros gained several more years of life. TV : The Witch's Familiar It is unknown if the Doctor suffered any long-term consequences from this, as he was subsequently able to regenerate without complication, TV : Twice Upon a Time although the Thirteenth Doctor noted that "[her] legs definitely used to be longer" after attempting to jump between two cranes.

An illusionary version of the Twelfth Doctor attempted to temporarily cure his current blindness by transferring energy from his own future, noting that it may cost him the ability to regenerate in a worst-case scenario. The long-term consequences of this were not important as this Doctor was only a digital recreation.

The Twelfth Doctor also demonstrated the ability to release regenerative energy at will without transferring it to anyone else, instead simply allowing it to dissipate. This allowed him to essentially fake a regeneration without changing.

It is unclear how much energy this used, or how it may have affected his ability to regenerate in the future. TV : The Lie of the Land. Generally, the regenerative process triggered itself when a Time Lord was too badly injured to survive; however, in some cases, Time Lords exercised control over the process. Romana I seemed to regenerate on a whim, TV : Destiny of the Daleks while Azmael deliberately attempted a thirteenth regeneration to end his life.

TV : The Twin Dilemma When badly injured without actually sustaining regeneration-inducing injuries, the regenerative platelets in a Time Lord's blood could activate to accelerate their ability to heal, allowing them to recover from serious injuries more quickly than a human would, AUDIO : The Bride of Peladon although particularly serious yet non-fatal damage would require the Time Lord to enter a healing coma to recuperate. When Rallon was taken as a host by the Celestial Toymaker , he began to die after centuries bonded to the powerful entity, but was eventually able to die as himself by triggering all twelve of his regenerations at once after receiving a boost of telepathic energy, expelling the Toymaker from his body even if the strain of it killed him.

After this mass regeneration, Rallon's Watcher - which had previously manifested as part of Rallon's plan against the Toymaker - merged with the Toymaker in Rallon's place, with the Watcher essentially acting as a new incarnation of Rallon, thus causing a similar change to the Toymaker's personality as though he had regenerated himself. Unaware of his appearance, the Eleventh Doctor examines himself.

TV : The End of Time. The degree of control that Time Lords had over their end appearance was unclear. Her attempt failed, however, because she was not in love with the man she was engaged to, which was the catalyst for Phasing.

She also commented that she might "take down the age a bit, just to freak people out," although she did not elaborate whether this was a joke or a literal intention. TV : Let's Kill Hitler Romana I seemed adept enough at the process to custom design her new form during what seemed to be a voluntary regeneration. The Doctor criticised Romana II for taking on the form of another person, suggesting such things were not unheard of.

TV : Destiny of the Daleks On an earlier occasion, Lord Roche was able to influence his next incarnation to be a double of the Third Doctor 's appearance when he regenerated after being hit by a bus despite having only briefly seen the Doctor. PROSE : Lungbarrow Lake observed his fellow clones sometimes exhibited control over aspects of their next bodies and realised he could influence his own regeneration by focusing on a specific appearance he desired as he was regenerating.

He used this knowledge to influence one of his incarnations into the identical form of a man he murdered in order to steal his identity. When it came to changing sexes during regeneration, however, a Time Lord had no say in the matter, unless the regeneration was triggered willingly.

In contrast to Romana , the Doctor did not seem to have much control over their post-regeneration appearance; after their fourth regeneration, the Fifth Doctor commented, "That's the trouble with regeneration, you never quite know what you're going to get. TV : The Parting of the Ways They also nearly always examined themselves or asked about their appearance. While skilled Time Lords could choose their new form with a voluntarily induced regeneration, the process could go horribly wrong and leave the Time Lord in a severely misshapen body.

This problem could be exacerbated by the Time Lord immediately starting another regeneration instead of obtaining medical assistance, amplifying the defects in the regeneration.

The end result of these abortive regenerations was inevitably a mutated monstrosity that could only be put out of its misery by complete disintegration. In cases where Time Lords could not choose their new appearance, it appeared that their bodies still had some degree of natural "control" over the forms they would take upon regenerating.

The Third and Seventh Doctors were once given glimpses of what their next incarnations would look like without actually meeting their future selves, when the Third was briefly possessed by the Nurazh and nearly regenerated before his injuries were healed PROSE : The Touch of the Nurazh and when the Seventh encountered Elizabeth Klein and learned about her relationship with the version of him that existed in the timeline where Ace died at Colditz.

It was also suggested that the Time Lords had a subconscious control over their appearances; after the Twelfth Doctor's regeneration, he believed that he recognised his new face from somewhere, TV : Deep Breath but it took some time until he recognised it TV : The Girl Who Died as the face of Caecilius , TV : The Fires of Pompeii speculating that he 'chose' the face to remind himself that his purpose as the Doctor was to save people. Some Time Lords were capable of momentarily regenerating, or partially regenerating.

Though this could use up a lot of regenerative energy , it would give the Time Lord a new set of genes , allowing them to fool genetic sensors. The Seventh Doctor used this method on the planet Purgatory to fool the genetic scanner used by the Imperial Landsknechte.

Forcing an individual to regenerate could be used as a form of punishment and in these cases, the new appearance could be chosen or influenced by the condemned. Rassilon's gauntlet could be used to remove regenerations, or at least force a Time Lord to repeatedly regenerate until their remaining lives were exhausted.

The Sisterhood of Karn had elixirs that could trigger and control regeneration in a Time Lord who was dying and unable to regenerate normally or, in extreme cases, already dead.

These elixirs could determine traits to be held by the new incarnation such as appearance, sex, apparent age, and personality.

TV : The Night of the Doctor Though some "elixirs" were fake; a Time Lord could be tricked into willingly regenerating into the person they wished to become. With effort, Time Lords could resist regeneration, effectively committing suicide. TV : Last of the Time Lords Similarly, the Fifth Doctor once threatened System with resisting regeneration to stop the device from learning the biological details of the act.

TV : Vengeance on Varos Both the First and Twelfth Doctors at first refused to regenerate, with the First Doctor's appearance being slightly changed as a result, but eventually relented and went on to become their successive selves. Rassilon had discovered a form of true immortality beyond the regenerations known to the Time Lords, but kept this a secret, believing it would be too dangerous to share. He went to the extreme of entombing the secret with himself in the Death Zone of Gallifrey and petrifying all those who came to inquire of the method.

Borusa described Rassilon 's immortality as a "timeless, perpetual, bodily regeneration". The ancient Gallifreyan scientist Artron found means of perfecting his own version of the regenerative process, which allowed the subject to regenerate swiftly but retain their original appearance and personality, with no limits on the number of times they could regenerate.

The Master agreed to this deal in return for them restoring his past self's ability to regenerate, although the Time Lords insisted that he only give himself a new regeneration cycle under the standard rules. After deciding to help the Doctor, Missy stabbed her past self in such a way that the wound was "precise", forcing him to regenerate but giving him a period of time before the process was triggered. According to the Twelfth Doctor , there was a period of time that he called "a state of grace" when a dying Time Lord could resist regeneration for a period of time without consequence and were restored to full strength.

During this period of time, the Time Lord had to choose whether or not they would ultimately regenerate or else they would grow weaker as time passed by. At this period's end, the Time Lord would either regenerate or die permanently. TV : Twice Upon a Time While a state of grace could be voluntary, some forms of death could induce a similar state unless they received aid.

The First Doctor , fearing the change, held off his own regeneration for several hours. However, unlike his future incarnations, the Doctor's face did not stay the same, becoming "mixed up" while in the state of grace. When the Doctor regenerated, he passed out as his state of grace ceased. TV : Twice Upon a Time However, his regeneration was comparatively peaceful compared to when his future selves regenerated after halting the process.

TV : The Tenth Planet. The Fifth Doctor was able to hold off his regeneration from Spectrox toxaemia for several hours AUDIO : Winter while trying to retrieve the bats' milk needed for the antidote, but finally accepted the need to regenerate when he was only able to acquire enough for his companion, Peri. TV : The Caves of Androzani. The Ninth Doctor momentarily delayed his impending regeneration to explain what was happening to Rose Tyler.

After subjecting his body to a lethal amount of radiation, the Tenth Doctor delayed the regenerative process long enough to revisit each of his former companions, TV : The End of Time including those of his past selves, TV : Death of the Doctor before he finally regenerated, which severely damaged the TARDIS.

A few minutes before the regeneration began, his "state of grace" ended causing the Doctor to experience excruciating pain, resulting in him collapsing to the ground, barely possessing the strength to reach his TARDIS. When the Eleventh Doctor was granted a new regeneration cycle on Trenzalore, he was able to use the energy from the resulting "reset" to regress his body to a younger state and hold back the regenerative process for a time.

TV : The Time of the Doctor During such, he phoned his personal future to ensure Clara Oswald stayed with his future self, TV : Deep Breath and later said goodbye to his companion before finally undergoing a full regeneration. The Twelfth Doctor regenerates; the process would soon cause the control room to explode.

When severely injured by a Cyberman, the Twelfth Doctor was able to resist regeneration for several weeks despite struggling to walk.

He further resisted it despite numerous Cybermen mortally wounding him, buying himself time to ignite Floor TV : The Doctor Falls He then encountered the First Doctor , who was also in a state of grace, holding back his regeneration as he feared regenerating. Throughout this time, the Twelfth Doctor steadily grew weaker, nearly collapsing at one point while at Villengard and having to sit down for a few minutes to recover.

After the adventure, both Doctors chose to regenerate. While holding his regeneration back a little longer to make an advisory speech to his future incarnation, the Twelfth Doctor continued to grow weaker and collapsed to the floor just before his regeneration occurred, though he managed to stand up once more by leaning on the TARDIS console to help him to his feet.

While most regenerations seemed to cause moments of mental instability, with temporary amnesia often noted, some offered particularly profound instances of physical peril. Ambient complexity could also contribute to the failure of a regeneration. TV : Castrovalva The Eighth Doctor claimed that anaesthesia had "nearly destroyed the regenerative process" during his seventh regeneration as an explanation for the particularly severe amnesia he suffered afterwards.

TV : Doctor Who During the Tenth Doctor 's post-regenerative state, he suffered an arrest in one of his hearts and began to exhale regenerative energy when Rose Tyler revived him too early. After this, he said that he was having a neural implosion , and slipped into a coma-like state for most of the day. TV : The Christmas Invasion Upon hearing of this, the Third Doctor suggested that his future self was suffering from a regeneration crisis. The Master regenerates.

TV : Utopia. Regeneration, especially later ones, could be painful. After trying to deflect the question, he quickly said, "It always hurts," before, in the same breath, continuing with the task at hand. TV : The Night of the Doctor After being asked if regeneration was painful when she described the process, the Thirteenth Doctor replied that "you have no idea. In some cases, it was possible for the regenerative process to be restarted by another Time Lord if it failed, such as when K'anpo Rimpoche gave the Third Doctor's body "a little push" to initiate the regeneration process after he was exposed to the radiation of the Metebelis crystals , although he warned that the new Doctor would be somewhat shaken up as a result of this method.

There were many ways to reverse a regeneration. One way involved the sacrifice of another, causing the regeneration to reverse. One example of this was when the Third Doctor had an encounter with the Nurazh. As the Doctor battled the Nurazh's main host, the two fell off a building, killing the Doctor. As the Third Doctor nearly regenerated into the Fourth , the Nurazh possessed the Time Lord's body; however, it found itself unable to cope with the two Time Lord minds within the body and it soon perished, restoring the Doctor to his previous incarnation in the process.

When trapped in a dimensionally-unstable pocket universe created and controlled by Iam and the First Rani , the Sixth Doctor's morphic print was destabilised, causing him to unwillingly and painfully regress back through his previous selves as his body sought a stable morphic print.

He was forced to rely on the stabilising atmosphere of the TARDIS and a personal morphic stabiliser he designed to operate in this realm until it was returned to the real universe. Some Time Lords of the first rank attempted retro-regeneration, reverting from their current incarnation back into a prior body, but this procedure was relatively rare, to the extent that the Sixth Doctor was unable to recall any examples of it.

Moments later, he changed back, but wondered if he got back the regeneration he wasted. On rare occasions, it was possible for Time Lords to deliberately allow themselves to mentally regress back to the personas of previous selves while remaining the same incarnation physically. When he was trapped in Iam's unstable realm, the Sixth Doctor was able to use his current morphic instability to allow the Third Doctor 's persona to take control, allowing him to draw on his past self's skill for hand-to-hand combat.

PROSE : State of Change On another occasion, the Seventh Doctor used the TARDIS telepathic circuits to bring the Third Doctor to the fore so that he could use his past self's skill with technology to disarm a dangerous bomb, although his control sometimes slipped as his current self tried to assert itself, resulting in the Third Doctor referring to his current associates by the names of his own companions.

Considered as a rare mental illness, Time Lords might not lose their past personas when they regenerate. As a result, these Time Lords acquired new physical bodies, but the past personas remained conscious and active in their minds, rather than simply retreating into the Time Lord's subconscious. The regenerations in the new series are different from the original series. The Master even managed to regenerate. So a different type of regeneration may be in use allowing many more regenerations.

Andrew Swallow. I mean, from that point of view, that rule has already been broken by adding John Hurt as the forgotten regeneration between McGann and Eccleston, which makes Capaldi already the 13th Doctor.

Jovana Filipovic. There can be one more. Though I know two ways the whole 13 Doctors thing can be broken. Both are possible. One is River's regenerations, the other is that the rule is a law that was passed in Gallifrey, not a biological thing. Isabelle Frater. Written by legendary Doctor Who script editor Robert Holmes during the 4th Doctor era, " The Brain of Morbius " saw The Doctor battle the titular renegade Time Lord, who had been sentenced to disintegration for his crimes against the universe, only to have his brain saved by one of his followers.

Intending to have his brain transplanted into The Doctor's head, Morbius engaged The Doctor in a psychic battle. As the two struggled against each other, Morbius tried to rip The Doctor's memories apart, conjuring up images of his past selves - including the faces of eight men who had never been seen on the show before. Producer Philip Hinchcliffe later confirmed to the Radio Times that the intention was to suggest The Doctor lived several lives before the show started.

Introduced in the season 12 episode " Fugitive of the Judoon ," Ruth was a seemingly normal British tour guide who became the target of the Judoon's rhino-like mercenary police force for some unknown reason. As The 13th Doctor tried to help Ruth unravel that mystery, it became apparent that Ruth was a Time Lord who had used a device called a Chameleon Arch to become human and gone into hiding.

However, the twist of the episode was that Ruth was apparently an incarnation of The Doctor, and she claimed to have no memory of having ever looked like the 13th Doctor in her past. While it's possible that Ruth is mistaken about both points being The Doctor or existing before the 13th Doctor , the revelation of the Timeless Child makes it entirely possible Ruth is a Doctor from the time before The Doctor's televised adventures began.

Played by William Hartnell, the first incarnation of the Time Lord who would later become known as The Doctor was an elderly man with a granddaughter named Susan as the original Doctor Who series opened.

This Doctor was a decidedly different figure than the Doctors who followed him, being a grumpy old man who looked down on humanity and only tolerated the primitive 20th century to humor his granddaughter's love of Earth culture. Though he was largely content to observe and experiment as befit his nature as a scientist , even this Doctor could not help but play the hero when faced with evil aliens like the Daleks and the Cybermen.

The concept of regeneration began with the 2nd Doctor, who was introduced after William Hartnell was forced to retire from the show because of health reasons. Patrick Troughton started the tradition of each successive Doctor having a different personality than his predecessor, allowing each actor the freedom to play The Doctor as they saw fit, so long as they stayed true to the character's ethos of never being cowardly or cruel.

This allowed Troughton to turn the Doctor into a more comedic figure - "a cosmic hobo" who was a wacky uncle to his young companions rather than a grumpy grandfather. Sadly, for all Troughton did to develop The Doctor, most of his tenure on the show is lost to history.

The first Doctor to have his adventures broadcast in color, Jon Pertwee was perhaps the most dashing of Doctors. Yet while he was famed for his frilly shirts and velvet jackets, the 3rd Doctor was no dainty dandy. Indeed, he needed little excuse to showcase his mastery of Venusian martial arts both aikido and karate and was the only Doctor to directly weaponize the Sonic Screwdriver.

Exiled to Earth for most of his life, the 3rd Doctor was also the first version of The Doctor to cross swords with The Master. Played by the irrepressible Tom Baker, the 4th Doctor is perhaps the most famous incarnation of the character among mainstream audiences. This is partly due to Tom Baker having the longest tenure of any actor to play The Doctor at seven seasons, and partly due to his being the first Doctor to have his adventures aired in the United States.

Yet, wish we knew the specific details. As for the 'new set of lives' This new set of regenerations judging by the first story will be the politically correct set. You will see women very very soon playing the doctor not too mention every colour of the rainbow.

And possibly shock horror an American in the role all depends 'where' the viewing figures are. And why not! The precedent set in the classic series, when the Master was given a new set of regenerations, was just that - an entirely new set. The young Matt Smith that appears just before Capaldi does not appear to be a "new" doctor, so the logical conclusion is that the Doctor has another 12 regenerations ahead of him.

We don't know. The writers intend for it to be unknown. Probably at least one more. In Kill the Moon, the Doctor says he doesn't know how many times he may regenerate, and that he could very well regenerate forever.

You'll have to spend a lot of time shooting me because I will keep on regenerating. In fact, I'm not entirely sure that I won't keep on regenerating for ever. And in Hell Bent, the second most recent episode at the time of this answer, Rassilon doesn't know, but implies the Doctor will regenerate at least once more. When he's about to kill the Doctor, he says,. The writers were clearly very intentional about establishing that the Doctor has an unknown number of regenerations.

The show will never again have to deal with the problem of the Doctor running out of regenerations unless a future writer wants to make another story out of it. But in any case, we can be certain that the Doctor will never run out of regenerations for as long as the show continues. During the final scene of Series 10, Twelve is rather ambivalent about whether he wants to regenerate at all, but at no point does he mention running out of regenerations.

Thirteen also has not discussed it during Series 11, and out of universe statements by new showrunner Chris Chibnall have repeatedly emphasized the importance of accessibility to new viewers. Series 11 has heavily focused on introducing new characters and settings rather than returning to past continuity, so it's unlikely that they will bring up the "number of regenerations" issue any time soon.

So in Time of The Doctor, Smith said that 10 aka Tennant was having vanity issues so he regenerated twice. I see the first as healing himself since he got shot by a dalek.

The Sisterhood of Khan triggered a regeneration. They also said timelord science was advanced. And right before McGann changes he says physician heal thy self.

So I see the War Doctor as Doctor 8. So really Capaldi could be the last doctor, or the new first doctor of a new regeneration cycle. I myself believe that Capaldi being old means a whole new cycle and it will keep the series going on for a few more decades.

Probably by 75th Anniversary or th Anniversary this will all be explained. Or it will all end with Capaldi. I think Peter Capaldi is the first the new regeneration cycle Matt Smith was the 12th and final doctor if not counting John Hurt he will be still considered the eleventh doctor Peter Capaldi stays the 12th doctor so he has one more regeneration left or dies in the 8th series after the master returns.

A regeneration is when you take a new form, right? The doctor had 12 regenerations. When he was "born" he didn't regenerate into the 1st doctor, which means 1st reincarnation- 2nd reincarnations is one regeneration and so on.

So when the 11th doctor Matt turned into the 12th doctor Capaldi , he still has one more regeneration before he has used all 12 regenerations. If what you say that he got a new regeneration to regenerate into Capaldi, the doctor would have only regenerated 10 times before he regenerated into Capaldi, which can't be right. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

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