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1. Time Lord High Council Controlled Regenerations



Doctor Who Time Lord High Council members

2. River Gave the Doctor Extra Regenerations



Doctor Who River Song ( Alex Kingston) Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith)

3. Second to Third Doctor Was Not A Regeneration

Doctor Who Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) regenerates

4. The Ninth Doctor's Hand Regeneration



Doctor Who Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) sends excess regeneration energy to hand

5. The Doctor Regenerated When He Was Shot



Doctor Who Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) shot

6. The Doctor Took Over Another Body



Doctor Who TV Movie (1996) Chang Lee (Yee Jee Tso) , The Master ( Eric Roberts )

Doctor Who

7. The Eighth Doctor Didn't Regenerate



Doctor Who TV Movie (1996) Eight Doctor (Paul McGann)

Destiny of the Daleks

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8. The First Doctor Regenerated Before



Doctor Who First Doctor (William Hartnell) Falls

9. The Doctor Regenerated While Healing River

Doctor Who Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) heals River Song ( Alex Kingston)

10. The Valeyard



Doctor Who (Colin Baker) and The Valeyard



The Valeyard isn't real. He was just a creation of The Master.

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11. The Doctor Counts Are All Lies





Do any of these theories make sense? What do you think Mofatt meant by what we

"missed?" Did you have your own theory about the Doctor? Does it make sense? Are you confused yet?

If you're a fan ofthen you know about regenerations: the process that the alien Doctor goes through when he's mortally injured to rebuild his body and take on a slightly different personality. It was established in "The Deadly Assassin" (1976) that a Gallifreyan can regenerate twelve times in a cycle. Since Peter Capaldi would become the Twelfth incarnation, that meant there couldonly be one more actor in the role. Or so we thought.Recently, in a RadioTimes interview, lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat said we missed something . He said, "I think you should go back to your DVDs and count [the number of regenerations] correctly this time. There’s something you’ve all missed."So a bunch of fans did. Here are the most interesting and inexplicable fan theories for what we "missed."For reference, here are the thirteen incarnations of The Doctor in order: William Hartnell Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi will be the next one.The Time Lord High Council controlled regeneration limits, and they're all stuck in the "Time War" along with the Daleks. Without the High Council, Gallifreyans can regenerate as many times as they need to.In "The Five Doctors" (1983), the Time Lord High Council offers the Master a new cycle of regenerations. In "The Sound of Drums" (2007), we find that the Time Lords gave him a new body. In "War Games" (1969), they force the Doctor to regenerate. In fact, the BBC FAQ said, "Now that his people are gone, who knows? Time Lords used to have 13 lives."The Regeneration limit is biological and not political . The Time Lords have been able to overcome the limit, but without them, there's no way to do it.In the episode "Let's Kill Hitler," River Song (a human with Time Lord characteristics) uses her regeneration energy to heal the Doctor.This gives him extra regenerations to work with.Amy Pond said she used all her remaining regenerations "in one go." Since she was on her third regeneration, this means she gave the Doctor the rest of her regenerations.No one said she "gave" her regenerations to him. They only said that she used the energy. She wasn't dying and couldn't have been using full regeneration energy.In "The War Games," the Second Doctor is exiled by the Time Lord High Council to Earth. When he complains that he's known on Earth and it might be "awkward," they tell him "the time has come for you to change your appearance." This wasn't a regeneration, but just a change in his look.If the Doctor didn't regenerate, then that gives him an extra incarnation to work with. That would make Peter Capaldi the Eleventh Doctor and not the Twelfth.In several episodes, different regenerations of the Doctor meet each other. In the 1973 episode "The Two Doctors," "The Five Doctors" (1983), and "The Two Doctors" (1985), multiple regenerations of the Doctor appear and Troughton was one of them. In the first two appearances, he was working with Jon Pertwee's Doctor who he called "Fancy Pants." So, they couldn't have been the same person and Troughton is clearly another regeneration.In "The Stolen Earth," the Doctor is wounded and goes into the TARDIS. He transfers "excess" regeneration energy into a jar with his severed hand. He actually regenerated, even though he didn't change his appearance. That makes Smith the Twelfth Doctor and Capaldi the Thirteeth Doctor. He's already gone past the regeneration limit.The idea that he can stop regeneration is ridiculous, since he has no control over it. He must have regenerated.In "The Lodger," Matt Smith's Doctor points to his face and said, "Eleventh." That means Tennant was the Tenth Doctor.In "The Impossible Astronaut," the Eleventh Doctor is shot twice. While we know he didn't die, he did regenerate. This would make him the Twelfth Doctor.The Doctor was clearly regenerating since we see energy pouring out of him.It wasn't the Doctor, but a mechanical replica of the Doctor. The Teselecta, a shapechanging robot, took the Doctor's place and faked his death.In between his Eighth and Ninth regenerations, the Doctor took over the body of another to extend his regenerations.We know it's possible to take over another body since the evil Time Lord (known as The Master) was able to overcome his regeneration limit by taking over the body of another person. In "The Keeper of Traken" and "Logopolis," the Master merges with Tremas. In theTV movie, the Doctor says "A Time Lord has thirteen lives and The Master's used all of his." But that didn't stop the Master from taking over the body of an ambulance driver. There's nothing stopping the Doctor from doing the same thing.In order to do that, the Doctor would have to do something heinous and cruel, by intentionally killing another person to save his life. This goes against everything the Doctor believes in. If he's done this in the past, that might be why The Doctor hates the John Hurt Doctor, but it seems unlikely.The only regeneration we haven't seen is Paul McGann regenerating into the Eccleston Doctor (or the John Hurt Doctor). In the first episode of the Ninth Doctor, "Rose," he seems surprised by his appearance, so we assume he recently regenerated. But what if he just changed his appearance and didn't regenerate?The Time Lord companion Romana, could change her appearance at will and, in, tried on several different appearances before changing from Mary Tamm to Lalla Ward. If we believe the theory that the Doctor can change appearance without regenerating, then it makes sense. What are the odds he changed right before meeting Rose? Plus, he didn't act like he was in mortal danger recently. If he'd just regenerated, then who killed him?There's no proof the Doctor can change form without regenerating. Plus, several people refer to Matt Smith as being the Eleventh Doctor meaning Eccleston must have been the Ninth Doctor.: The new webisode "Night of the Doctor" established that the Eight Doctor did force a controlled regeneration. It still doesn't explain the Ninth Doctor regeneration, but all will be revealed soon hopefully.We assume the First Doctor only regenerated the first time into Patrick Troughton, which would make Peter Capaldi the Twelfth Doctor. But if it's not, then he's already broken the regeneration limit.In the episode "War Games," when he says he doesn't want to change his appearance, the Time Lords say " Your appearance has changed before, it will change again." This means the Doctor regenerated.It's been said many times Hartnell is the first Doctor. In "Mawdryn Undead" the Fifth Doctor says he has eight incarnations left. In "The Five Doctors," Peter Davison's Doctor says that he is the fourth regeneration while the First Doctor refers to himself as the "original." Also in the Doctor Who movie, the Doctor says, "In all my travels through space and time, and nearing the end of my seventh life..."In "Angels Take Manhattan," when Matt Smith's Doctor sees River's hand is broken, he uses his regeneration energy to heal it. This means he partially regenerated and became the Twelfth Doctor.River says it "was a stupid waste of regeneration energy," meaning that he tapped into a finite amount of energy used in transformations.He didn't change. Plus, in "Name of the Doctor," Claire calls him the Eleventh Doctor after seeing images of all of the Doctors running by. Clara says, "I saw all of you. Eleven faces, all of them you! You're the eleventh Doctor!"In "The Trial of a Time Lord," the Master shows the Doctor " an amalgamation of the darker side of the Doctor's nature " from between his twelfth and final incarnations. The Valeyard is a future regeneration and shows the Doctor can have more than 12 lives.We already known the Twelfth Doctor is Capaldi, so the Valeyard is a Doctor we haven't seen yet.The Valeyard is a future regeneration and the physical manifestation of the Doctor’s dark side. But that means he can't be the regeneration Moffat was talking about. if he was a real Doctor, or [something else]." :)Everyone that ever said the number of the Doctor is lying. Matt Smith isn't the Eleventh Doctor.If everyone that said the number of Doctors was wrong, then we don't really know what regeneration the Doctor is at. He might be the third, eighth, or even the 607th Doctor. Inthe Doctor is shown a series of incarnations of the Doctor that "lost" and there are eight regenerations from before Hartnell. That means there are more regenerations than we know and the limit has already been broken.This theory means every reference to the number of Doctors and regenerations is a lie. That means everyone, including when the Doctor's talking to himself, is lying about the number of regenerations. Not likely.Please use the buttons below to tell your friends about this post. 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