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== The War Chief is a prior regeneration of the Master. ==
A renegade Time Lord himself, the War Chief's modus operandi is almost identical to the Master's: form an alliance for power with a very powerful alien race, bringing time travel technology and hypnosis to the table.
This idea has been pretty entrenched and has a lot of history behind it. In fact, [[Word of Dante|the roleplaying game]] assumed the War Chief and the Master were one and the same.
== Zoe is a descendant of sherlock holmes. ==
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== The fifth Doctor is the final incarnation of the original Doctor. The Sixth Doctor is a reincarnation, and the beginning of a new 13 body lifecycle. ==
In ''The Brain Of Morbius'', we are introduced to several of the Doctor's before the first. If these are to be believed, then the fourth Doctor is actually the ''twelfth'' Doctor, and the fifth Doctor is the ''thirteenth''. This is why his regeneration ends with him claiming "it feels different this time", and why the sixth Doctor has such a hard time trying to settle down: because he's just reincarnated into a new lifecycle, and he's essentially been reset to his factory settings. No wonder his mind is a bit
* The First Doctor is definitively and officially the first (as he explicitly mentions in ''The Five Doctors''), with no prior regenerations. On the other hand, there may be more than one "First Doctor."
** He says that he is the ''original'' Doctor. The First Doctor. But he wasn't always called the Doctor...
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* Unfortunately for this theory, <s> the majority</s> ''all but one'' of the complete Second Doctor serials are from the Jamie/Zoe season. And it wouldn't account for the loss of episodes from before Jamie joined.
** Time war. It explains ''everything.'' Thanks, Russell!
*** [[media:
**** Wait - does this mean that the Time War was caused by Superboy Prime punching history, or was Superboy Prime caused by the Time War?
* The Time Lords specifically preserved their first encounter of The Doctor, thus giving an illusion that The Doctor came to them but they never went with him. At the time of writing
**
== The Time Lords screwed up and wiped everyone's memories ''except'' Jamie and Zoe's. ==
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One's regeneration had suspiciously few side effects. Instead of his getting direct amnesia (which would happen a lot to the Doctor later), he wiped many of the ''records'' of his adventures telepathically. (Most of the ones with Susan survived because she was a Time Lady.)
Two wiped his records telepathically the same way, but Jamie was a ''stabilizing'' influence. If Two hadn't met Jamie, we would have no more televised records of his adventures than we have televised records of Eight's.
== The missing episodes are missing because someone from the future travelled to the past to save them from being wiped/tossed out/burned, thereby causing them to be missing in the first place. ==
== "Dr. Who And The Daleks" is a TV show in the [[
First, we must combine four pieces of information:
# Due to (among another things) a cameo by The Doctor and Rose in the Buffy comic, the two shows take place in the same universe. (See [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer
# In the Buffy episode "Smashed", Andrew says that he's seen "every episode of Doctor Who" on DVD. Now, this sounds contradictory with #1. But remember that it's impossible for him to have seen every episode on DVD: Not only are there [[Missing Episode|missing episodes]], but the reconstructions of said episodes by [http://www.recons.com/ Loose Cannon Productions] are only available on VHS. So it can't be the [[
# The Doctor Who episode "Rememberance Of The Daleks" has an announcer on TV introduce an episode of "Doctor Who". But again, it can't be ''the'' Doctor Who for obvious reasons.
# John Peel, who novelized most of the early Dalek serials, states in his book that in the Doctor Who universe, the movie "Dr. Who And The Daleks" was created by Barbara Wright as a way of making some money from her adventures and alerting people to the existence of the Daleks, without giving away too much about the real Doctor.
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Now, all of this creates a gigantic timey-wimey ball of contradictory canon weirdness. But wait!
So, in the [[
This may set a record for the largest ever density of [[Fan Wank]]. Or would if the Cartmel Masterplan didn't exist.
* The ''[[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]'' mission ''Hidden Truths, Hidden Lies'' establishes that the spread of missing episodes varies from universe to universe. It's quite possible that in some [[The Verse|'verses,]] [[The BBC]] never junked a frame. In others, there are missing and B&W episodes right up until the advent and popularization of the VCR (which would mean that only Six and Seven would have complete runs).
== In [[The Verse]] of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]],'' ''[[
This was threatened in [[Real Life]]. And the Buffyverse is usually worse than [[Real Life]].
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The First Doctor is the only one who died of being "worn out" (the Time Lord equivalent of "natural causes"). Two was forced to regenerate. The rest all died after suffering massive physical trauma (radiation, a violent fall, poisoning, being murdered by Michael Grade, etc...).
Perhaps "dying before your time"
In other words, if the Doctor had lived a calmer, less dangerous life, then his regenerations would have gone far smoother.
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There's the off-screen relationship between [[Tom Baker]] and Lalla Ward, but let's look at the canon evidence. She's a [[Hot Scientist]], she's a [[Defrosting Ice Queen]], she's a Time Lord, and she (in her second incarnation) [[Heroes Want Redheads|was a redhead]]. Since the Doctor has expressed a desire to have red hair himself, it's obvious he fancies redheads.
* That doesn't explain his second love, the peroxide blonde Rose.
** He likes both redheads and blondes. By the way, his peroxide blonde count stands at two, with Madame de Pompadour as number two. (Incidentally, the [[Real Life]] Madame de Pompadour wasn't a peroxide blonde, judging by her portraits. Perhaps the production team stuck with Sophia Myles' adopted hair colour because it would add to the "courtesan"
*** There's Astrid, too. Another blonde.
* The Doctor and the first Romana also had a [[Slap Slap Kiss]] thing going on.
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There is other evidence for 6B in-series. In ''The Three Doctors,'' Two is brought over without any companions. But he always had a companion during his original run until the Time Lords took them away in the last serial. He started with Ben and Polly; and once he met Jamie, the pair stuck together.
And in "The Two Doctors," there are two difficulties that can only be explained [[In
The other is that Two in "The Two Doctors" has a remote controlled
* It can get convoluted. For instance, there's a reference in "The Two Doctors" to Victoria being temporarily away, which is obviously meant to imply that the Doctor and Jamie were from the Jamie/Victoria era and that this is why Victoria isn't in the story. If they're from season 6B, the Doctor must have picked up Victoria again just so that the story can explain why she's not there.
** On the other hand, the Doctor had absolutely no control over the TARDIS during the period when he traveled with Victoria, so the idea of having dropped her off somewhere (before Season 6B) with the intention of coming back for her seems unlikely.
** In some variants of the theory, Victoria didn't rejoin the TARDIS; rather, Jamie thought she should be there because of all the tampering that's been done to his memory. This is the case in ''World Game'', for example.
* The "Five Doctors" scene doesn't make sense even if 6B explains why the Doctor knew about the mind wipe. Jamie and Zoe could have been taken from a time period before their memories were
** It doesn't matter if Two's reasoning in "The Five Doctors" is valid; what matters is, ''he knew about the mind wipe!'' It doesn't matter that Jamie and Zoe ''could'' have been scooped out from before "The Invasion"; what matters is that Two ''believes'' that they would have taken after a mindwipe that, without Season 6B, would've happened ''shortly before Two ceased to be Two.'' ''Someone'' scooped him out from under the noses of the Gallifreyan justice system; it's better if that someone is the CIA.
** Note that the Second Doctor can SEE that both Jamie and Zoe are clearly a bit older than they were when the Time Lords sent them home, and thus knows that they absolutely MUST come from a time post-mindwipe. And he himself is clearly older than he was during the
* In "The War Games" itself, it seems obvious that the scenes happened at the same time.
** The usual explanation for this is that we ''don't'' see the Doctor
* This is canon in some parts of the [[Expanded Universe]]: back in '69-70, the comic strip saw the Second Doctor begin the exile on Earth, only later having his face changed by sentient scarecrows. Terrance Dicks has also written a novel -- ''World Game''
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== The Doctor is part human by way of [[Stable Time Loop]]. ==
A love affair between Susan Foreman and [[Torchwood
* That makes it [[
== Sutekh the Destroyer (from "Pyramids of Mars") is aware of the Beast (from "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit") and is consciously imitating him. ==
He goes by the name "Satan" and sounds like Gabriel Woolf. That can't be coincidence. Since the Osirians are a bunch of [[Ancient Astronauts]] posing as gods, it's likely Sutekh decided to [[Costume Copycat|take the identity]] of an even more [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] that fitted his place in the pantheon.
* Somewhat like the Daemons, you mean?
* Isn't there a line in "The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit" where the Doctor mentions the various races who have taken on the characteristics of gods and demons (Like the Daemons and the Osirans), and the Beast claims to have inspired them all? Sutekh and his race may be acting on some race memory in adopting a simmilar MO. They may even be related to the Beast and his species (such as his "Son" who showed up in ''Torchwood'' series 1), or literally inspired by him.
== Everything after the end of "Trial of a Time Lord" takes place in the Matrix. ==
At the end of "Trial of a Time Lord", the Doctor pops up from out of nowhere, having staged a miraculous escape from the Matrix as it was imploding after a battle with his Evil Dark Half, The Valeyard. He then leaves with his companion Mel, bidding the Inquisitor at his trial a warm farewell and suggesting that she should run for
Hold on, hold on, hold on. There's more than a few things wrong with this picture:
# Where did the Doctor come from?
# Why is he leaving with
# Why would he be inclined to wish the Inquisitor well at all, much less suggest that he'd vote for her? The woman just presided over a [[Kangaroo Court]] whose sole purpose was to shop him to disguise the crimes of the Time Lords in destroying Earth to protect their secrets. The
# The Valeyard was last seen dying... somehow... in the Matrix. How did he escape? How did he take over the Keeper's body? And how come no one has noticed that the Keeper now looks like a totally different man (a younger and taller one for a start) and, in fact, looks exactly like the Valeyard?
Possible
This explains a fair bit about the rest of series. The Sixth Doctor's curiously unexplained regeneration? Forced by the Valeyard as part of his torture. The Seventh Doctor's [[Character Development]] from cheeky little Scots chappie to angsty, tortured Time's Champion? The Valeyard making the Doctor's life increasingly difficult and complex. We can even bring in the new series if we
Or, you know, possibly not.
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The Doctor could have had one or two regenerations before the first episode of the series.
* [[Jossed]] by "The Five Doctors":
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* But hinted at in "The Brain of Morbius", in the mind-battle thing that the Doctor fights Morbius in; after the Doctor's first four selves a lot of faces we don't recognize appear, and as the Doctor seems to be losing that battle it seems heavily implied that they're previous incarnations of him. Ah, the wonders of ''Doctor Who'' and consistent continuity...
** It has been suggested that the other faces were those of the Doctor's past reincarnation known as the Other (from Virgin's line of books). Alternatively, the other faces were Morbius's.
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We do see the real One in "The Five Doctors", and he does look and act similar to the "One" of the original run. But he's not quite the same.
This is why, in "The Three Doctors," "One" is forced to teleconference. The CIA tried to pull the wrong "One" into the scene, and the Blinovitch Limitation Effect wouldn't allow an extra Two in the immediate area, even if he ''looked'' like One.
== Rose Tyler is one of the Wolves of Fenric. ==
The Wolves of Fenric were introduced in the original series episode "The Curse of Fenric". In that serial, various descendents of Viking settlers were touched by the titular Curse, which made them psychically suggestable and also connected to the Vortex (it is this that enabled Ace to accidentally create a Time Rift with a chemistry set). Rose can open her mind to the "heart of the TARDIS", ride the powers of the Vortex and become "the Bad Wolf".
* Not only that, but the rest of her family line (and, therefore, Wolves of Fenric) includes precognative Martha Tyler (from the original series serial "Image of the Fendahl"), time traveler Sam Tyler (''[[Life On Mars]]''), "magic" user and time traveler Stephen Tyler ([[CBBC]] drama ''The Magician's House''), powerful psychic Gabriel Tyler (DW [[Expanded Universe]] novel ''Damaged Goods'' by [[Russell T. Davies]]) and demon-posessed Johnny Tyler (''[[Second Coming]]'', an ITV serial also by Davies).
== Romana's soul is connected to Smith's watch. ==
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== Time Lords regenerate into different people so they can safely meet themselves when travelling through time. ==
In "Father's Day," it's
* In "The Three Doctors," it is implied that it takes a great deal of energy to break the First Law of Time in this fashion. This may be a property of TARDIS travel, however - a safety feature, as it were. In "The Five Doctors," a Time Scoop is used to break the First Law of Time, and no one's especially fussed.
* Breaking the First Law of Time can happen accidentally. It may have happened accidentally in "The Two Doctors" - Six didn't go to Seville specifically to rescue Two and Jamie, and Two certainly wasn't told his future self would be there.
== The Doctor was being metaphorical when he said he was half-human. ==
Let's face it, he's saved Earth specifically how many times? How many of his companions were humans? And he's probably dealt with the Earth many more times offscreen? He meant it in an affectionate way, not a literal way.
* However, being half human was not just a line of dialog, but a plot
** Clearly, that jibe of Eight's about the half-broken chameleon arch is true...
*** Wouldn't a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] have an eye that's also a hybrid, and thus he wouldn't have a human eye? My solution is that, when he regenerated, he absorbed nearby human DNA. Or some other regeneration mishap altered his biology.
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This theory has some [[Unfortunate Implications]]: it implies that each of them is dysfunctional without the other two. That's not that far off. The Master is already insane and out of control, the Rani is a merciless tyrant, and the Doctor himself can teeter along the edge of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]-style spookiness if there's no one to hold him back. In fact, the Doctor seems sanest during the season three finale when he has the Master to bounce off of and use for comparison. This also makes shipping any of them with each other even weirder than it already is.
* Corollary: ''[[Life On Mars]]'' and ''[[
* Specify please - New Who S3, not Old Who, (i.e. Ten, not One) yes?
** All three of them are archetypes who change slightly based on trauma/experience/growth etc. just like in an actual psyche. That's regeneration. The trio from any one time period "fit" each other. So yes, both old and new Who. Or did you mean which season 3? In that case, yes, Ten, because the Master didn't show up in the classic series until Three's era. Unless you think the War Chief is the Master, but that's a whole different WMG.
== Timelords use Regeneration to diversify their gene pool ==
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** If the 'real' doctor can be wrong, the half-human one definitely can.
* The reason 10.5 had only one heart and the "remarkably similar to the seventh" form has two is, a Time Lord only grows their second heart when they regenerate for the first time. (This is a well-known theory.) Also, the reason the movie Doctor says he is half human is that he ''is'' half-human. 'On his mother's side' is referring to Donna's contributing the human half.
* It's been confirmed on the show that the Eighth Doctor in the movie was a previous incarnation of the REAL 10th Doctor, not the 10.5 model.
* Nonononono, It's been confirmed that the Doctor's Eighth Incarnation bears an astonishing resemblance to the Doctor seen in the TV movie. Nothing more, nothing less.
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It was cut from the final broadcast, but it's [[Fanon|generally accepted]] that Tenth has an Estury accent because he picked up Rose's. So obviously, Ninth's accent indicates that the last person Eighth was talking to regularly was from [[Oop North]]. And the most likely candidate is Blackpool-accented Lucie.
* So when was Seven hanging around with Liverpudlians?
** There's [
** Seven must have loved Hex. And Six knew Jamie McCrimmon, if only briefly.
** We don't see the adventure that led up to Six's regeneration, so it could easily have been one with Six, Mel, and Jamie. Hopefully one in which Six and Mel went back to Culloden to rescue Jamie and restore his memories.
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But it is done, and there is still the question of Jamie and Zoe. They decide to start fresh, regressing their ages (or making them regenarate into babies, one or the other) and sending them back to be contemporaries with the young first Doctor. They all meet and become friends as young children, and the Time Lords forget about it - if there's no famous Doctor in their time, what's going to introduce Jamie and Zoe, who now use other names (say, X for Jamie and Y for Zoe) to the universe, providing everyone keeps to the rules? All predictions on them as children say that they probably will follow the rules.
But the mind-wiped-ness is not as stable as hoped, and when X and Y turn 8 and look into the fabric of space time, all hell breaks loose. X and Y now have subconscious memories of being Jamie and Zoe, and this affects them differently - both become subconsciously angry at the Doctor for not being the Doctor they know. Y turns to knowledge, science and being a genius again. X tries to push the Doctor into being the 'hero' by being the 'villain'. Also, all the time changing and identity shifts have given X and Y issues with their identities, and they create new names, or titles - 'The Master' and 'The Rani'.
== Twelve regenerations isn't a physical limit; it's a legal limit ==
The Time Lords are able to regenerate forever; however, this created a huge population problem. Therefore, the Gallifreyan government imposed a strict twelve-regeneration limit. It's clear that Time Lords can voluntarily NOT regenerate (as the Master showed), and this was made compulsory for Time Lords who have lived out all thirteen lives. However, with the Time Lords gone, there's no-one to enforce the law any more; the Doctor can regenerate as many times as he likes.
== Every story after "The Mind Robber" is just dreams of the Doctor -- just fiction. ==
Recently suggested by The [[
== Susan is the Doctor's granddaughter... ''and also the granddaughter of Jack Harkness.'' ==
In "Everything Changes", the first episode of ''[[
* You need to stop skipping biology class. His "pregnancy" was probably similar to Gwen's in "Something Borrowed". Also, isn't Susan canonically from Gallifrey? And where did Jack ditch that poor child after it was born? And how did Susan end up with the First Doctor?
** Yes, Susan is from Gallifrey. Jack ditched her mother somewhere where One would find her. Susan is with One because humans are ''much'' shorter-lived than Time Lords, and her mother had the lifespan of a normal human. (Being a fixed point in the universe is not hereditary.)
== The Doctor IS half human ==
That's why he always tries to protect the Earth and praises humanity - obviously, he was mocked for his ancestory as a child, and he feels the need to constantly prove that humans are great. Or else go [[Star Trek
== Time Lords only gain their second heart after their first regeneration. ==
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* Alternatively, before the first story, and perhaps before he left Gallifrey in the first place, the Doctor had some medical emergency which, for some reason, required one of his hearts to be removed/disabled. When he regenerated into the Second Doctor, it just got fixed.
== Gallifrey is the world of ''[[
Gaspar was the first Time Lord, and the End of Times is within his TARDIS.
== Not everyone is a Time Lord. ==
This theory is way-way out there, but it's entirely possible that not every single fictional character ever created is a Time Lord.
* For example, [[Transformers|Vector Prime]], as a living machine that can bend the fabric of time and space, is obviously a TARDIS, though probably only because he chose one to transform into.
* What about the idea that [[Poison Oak Epileptic Trees
* Obviously. Only some characters are; the rest are companions.
* Of all the [[Epileptic Trees|crazy theories]] floating around here, this is the most absurd!
== The first regeneration was a symbol of maturity in Gallifreyans. ==
Romana regenerates, giving much thought to her form, after the quest for the Key of Time - not because she's hurt, but because she considers herself a mature Gallifreyan. This is why two hearts is considered the default for Gallifreyans - that one-heart stage is childhood. One was rebelling against Gallifrey when he held onto his first form as long as he could (unless he was a chameleon-arched Two(a), in which case all bets are off).
== The entire history of the Doctor has been one long game of [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] against the creatures of the [[
The [[Expanded Universe|Expanded Whoniverse]] novels not only drew the Old Ones and Endless Ones into the ambiguous canonicity of the novels, but also stated that Rassilon himself named them. The Vortex opening that drove the Master mad was obviously closed after a while because of its connection to the domains of Nyarlathotep and so forth. Each of the Doctor's recurring enemies, as well as many of the one-shots, is connected to one of the more powerful beings - the Daleks to Hastur, some of the more hideous aliens to Shub-Niggurath, and so forth. On an early visit to Earth, the First Doctor found himself on a steam yacht named the ''Alert'' and was able to arrange Cthulhu being [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|rammed]]. Since then, he has been attempting to deal with them however necessary. His death in ''Turn Left'' was due to being caught by Deep Ones while regenerating and stabbed in both hearts; through [[Heroic Willpower]] and at least one of the regeneration WMGs above, the regeneration limit simply no longer applies, because this is someone who has repeatedly ''forced the abyss to avert its gaze''.
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== The Doctor is The Doctor mkII - or, in modern parlance, the Doctor 2.0. ==
Recently suggested by the ''[[
== The First Doctor had a heart attack from which he never recovered. ==
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== The Fifth Doctor is a rampant sociopath trying to work for the forces of good. ==
Let's examine this one, ok? He decides the only way to deal with a mostly-harmless obese frog-alien [[Doctor Who
Perhaps finally, the Fifth also [[Doctor Who
Oh, and [[Doctor Who
Come on. The Fifth is a rampant sociopath, but it seems to only be obvious in retrospect. And even then, most of the survivors forgive him because he did mean well and because he's cute.
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** To further expand, one can even see this explaining why the Fifth was so damned energetic at times... sure, he just killed off god-knows-how-many people averting this adventure's disaster, but at least he saved so many others through his actions - or tried to save them, at least. In fact, Nine and Ten are kinda like this - Tenth even ''more'' than Five. Although Nine and Ten at least show remorse ''before'' someone points out what they did... which also makes Five seem like a little like a child given a loaded gun and not understanding why the loud noise made their dog die. Again, lending credence to the theory.
*** So, Tegan was the primary force keeping Five from losing touch with reality completely?
*** Honestly, [[Newtype S 3|this troper]] ''(and creator of this WMG)'' would not be shocked one bit. Right after Tegan leaves, [[Doctor Who
== Davros is Stephen Hawking ==
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== Time Lord names are granted only after they become Time Lords ==
Before, they use whatever name they were born with or are used to. They enter the Academy, go through hell, and emerge as a Time Lord; then they are given a new name that suits their personality, and they embrace this new identity and never look back.
== The link from Old Who to New Who is not direct -- it goes through a severe [[Temporal Paradox]] ==
So, according to New Who [[Word of God]], nothing is explicitly non-canonical. That means the Faction Paradox novels are true. And that means that one of the Eighth Doctor's former companions killed the Third Doctor about one series arc too early.
Problem: The last serial of the Third Doctor's almost certainly cannot be solved without someone dying. It cannot be prevented,
So, from getting Four early, we are forced to get someone like old-series Five early. This is why Sarah Jane was able to fall hopelessly in love with the Doctor. We'll get at least parallel Sarah Jane episodes and parallel Romana episodes (including E-
This Five will not die by radio tower.<ref>Perhaps rather than regenerating, he'll use the Zero Room to heal himself - similar to how he needed it in Castrovalva to finish off his regeneration.</ref> He'll be ''hurt,'' perhaps severely, but he won't regenerate. He may refuse to (he managed to delay regeneration on Androzani for some time the first time around). So we'll get variants of the normal Five episodes, likely up to and including the Androzani disaster.
If the Time War hadn't already been violently settled when Five had the Key Of Time, then the Time War will gain heat about when "Trial of a Time Lord" happened in the original timeline. Six will cast the killing blow here like he did to
* Excellent theory - but this troper is a little more worried about how Genesis of the Daleks would have unfolded than Key to Time... though that's possibly due to the fact that he's yet to ''see'' the Key to Time arc. Either way, a longer tenure for Five also means a much ''higher'' death count throughout the stories thanks to how his own stories happened...
** "Genesis of the Daleks" couldn't get much more bloody than it already is and still allow for NuWho canon (we still ''have'' Daleks, after all). Maybe Harry dies.
** Remember how powerful the Time Vortex is? The Key of Time has the same power to change space-time, only it doesn't kill the Time Lord incarnation who's using it. (Probably.... though, given that Romana regenerated at the beginning of the next season...)
** And a higher death count would help explain how the Doctor of New Who sees himself ("The Oncoming Storm") and how surviving higher lifeforms see him. Four did get caught in a few genocides (he once reprogrammed a computer because he felt like
** Also, perhaps the Fifth Doctor would have been ''much'' more jaded by the time of his 'original' stories in this new continuity. After all, 7 more years of death and destruction around him could not be good for the psyche - even for one as well-adjusted as the Fifth's tended to be. Maybe he'd be (gasp!) [[Genre Savvy]] enough to notice when the Master showed up.
* One more side effect of this
* The Third Doctor-died-early paradox was settled in the novels themselves: {{spoiler|the Doctor who died early would become Grandfather Paradox, but the timeline was reset to normal (or approaching normal) when the Doctor defeated Grandfather Paradox and destroyed Gallifrey the first time in the novels.}}
** Okay, general theory confirmed, details jossed? (Ontological inertia being what it is, defeating Grandfather Paradox probably ''shouldn't'' bring Three
== The Rani is [[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Holly Marshall]]. ==
In the 1974 ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]'' episode "Elsewhen", Holly encounters a blonde woman, apparently in her twenties, who calls herself "Rani", who turns out to be Holly's older self come back in time to help her. Rani admits that she can time travel at will and understands the technology of the Land. Given that the pylons of the Land display TARDIS-like properties, it seems plausible that at least one ''is'' a TARDIS; the future Holly used it to escape the Land to Gallifrey where she became a Time Lady (just as Ace would have if the classic series had never been cancelled).
== Adric has Aspergers ==
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== The Eighth Doctor partially foretold the events of ''Journey's End'' in the TV Movie ==
The Hand Doctor is half-human. His human side comes from Donna, making her his mother. As the Eighth Doctor was very prone to prognostication, this is what he was actually talking about.
* Possibly [[Jossed]] by the comic mini-series ''Doctor Who: The Forgotten''. It is revealed in a flashback involving The Eighth Doctor that The Doctor's claims to be half-human, as well as his erratic behavior during the TV Movie, were all part of a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to throw The Master off-guard, accomplished in part through a half-broken Chameleon Arch (a.k.a. The Eighth Doctor's trademark fob watch!)
** Well, you picks your [[Expanded Universe]] [[Alternate Continuity]] and you takes your choice. The BBC Books Eighth Doctor Adventures had already explained that the reason the Doctor said he was half-human was ... that he was half-human, son of a Time Lord called Ulysses and a human called Penelope. (Penelope Gate from the Virgin novels? Could be...)
== Ian and Barbara were killed in ''The Stolen Earth''/''Journey's End'' ==
As soon as they saw a Dalek, they would have known the Earth was in deep shit. What they couldn't have known is that this is a different faction for whom the mud-on-the-lens trick doesn't work. They were probably [[Badass Grandpa|awesome to]] [[Never Mess
* As depressing as this is, [[Newtype S 3|I]] put this in my own personal Canon. Along with the WMG of the Dr. Who movies being anti-Dalek warning movies, this just makes too sense to not be true. Ian and Barbara, you shall be missed.
** Jossed in Sarah Jane Adventures "Death of the Doctor".
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* The Real Master: ''First Frontier'' -> ''Happy Endings'' -> ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'' (as the Man with the Rosette) -> New series.
** Note that the Man with the Rosette says that he is clean shaven because the Doctor has a beard. Therefore the last time he met the Doctor they can't have ''both'' been clean shaven, therefore he isn't the TVM Master.
* Clone #1: ''First Frontier'' -> ''Dust Breeding'' -> ''Master''
** [[Big Finish]] audios version, who reverts to the Geoffrey Beevers incarnation.
* Clone #2: ''First Frontier'' -> ''The Eight Doctors'' -> The TV Movie -> ''Sometime Never...'' -> ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' -> ''The Glorious Dead'' (''[[
** This is the version who got trapped in the Eye of Harmony and spent a couple of novels appearing on a screen in the TARDIS. In an alternate timeline where the Doctor regenerated into Richard E. Grant, his conciousness was transferred into a robot body that couldn't leave the TARDIS (''Scream of the Shalka'').
== Melanie, known as 'Mel,' was a companion of the ''Seventh'' Doctor first. ==
Ok, bear with me on this one. During the [[Doctor Who
Unlike practically every other companion to be there for a regeneration, ''Mel doesn't bat an eye at this.''
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In terms of how this fits the timeline, it must be further along the Seventh Doctor's lifespan after the show was placed on hiatus.<ref>Obviously after Ace left the TARDIS, unless Mel somehow forgot about Ace... which is unlikely).</ref> The Seventh Doctor, being incredibly clever at this sort of thing, realizes that this is ''before'' the Master snatches Mel randomly from time and space and gives her a small explanation about some key things before she's dragged back in time later on. Odds are also good that many of the Seventh-and-Mel audio dramas and novels can take place in this time unless specified - especially considering there wasn't a whole lot of offscreen time given to Mel and Seventh. Of course, Mel is eventually ripped from her time with the Seventh and sent to help testify his case, and time unfolds as we've already seen before.
...ok, so it's a little convoluted to explain away why Mel doesn't seem all that disturbed at the Doctor regenerating,;<ref>he is, after all, turning into the Doctor she's more familiar with</ref>
== The Meddling Monk worked with Cessair of Diplos for a time. ==
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== The Rani has never appeared in the new series because she's too busy being [[Rani Mukherji]] ==
Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic, Dil Bole Hadippa and [[Saawariya]] all contain clues as to her true identity. In TPTM she is a nearly immortal being. In Dil Bole Hadippa she spends much of the movie in disguise, hinting that [[Rani Mukherji]] is not as she seems. And in [[Saawariya]] she plays a character that's narrating (from afar!) a story that may or may not be true; sounds pretty Time Lord, right?
* None of these movies did well financially, meaning few people are picking up on these hints; eventually, she'll go crazy in 2012 and cause the end of the world.
== [[Avatar: The Last Airbender
Right down to the frolicking in fields and the [[Foe Yay|gay]] and the mutual adversarial respect.
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When she returns to Gallifrey, The Doctor has some of her regenerations restored and becomes someone who looks an awful lot like Seven, and then the person we call Eight.
Now for the interesting part. During the heat of the War, the TARDIS saved the Doctor from Gallifrey, forcibly removing him from the battle and refusing to return to Gallifrey.
Angry at the TARDIS, the Doctor ejects the Eye of Harmony (possibly trying to kill it) and ends the war.
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== Doctor Who is a TV Show [[Recursive Canon|within its own canon.]] ==
Don't ask me how [[The BBC]] managed to get a hold of this info.
* It is; ''[[Eastenders]]'' exists within ''[[
== The events of ''Curse of the Fatal Death'' were [[All Just a Dream|all just a weird dream]] had by the Eighth Doctor. ==
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So, the Seventh Doctor... kind of gets killed for no reason in the [[Made for TV Movie]]. ''Or does he?!''
The Seventh Doctor, as we all know, fancies himself [[The Chessmaster]], and he's certainly the kind of [[Manipulative Bastard]] who'd have all kinds of plans and schemes for dealing with the Time War and the various problems arising from such an eventuality, both Dalek ''and'' Time Lord (particularly those keen on a bit of Ultimate Sanction and [[A God Am I|ascending to Godhood]]) related. And he's pretty good at them as well, which means he's exactly the kind of dangerous threat that has to be dealt with or at least neutralized. The ''Eighth'' Doctor, however, is a bit flighty, not really the sort for planning ahead, a bit sensitive and
Here's how it goes; whoever's behind it first makes a deal with the Master. You're dying, pretty much on your last legs
Part B concerns those gangsters who try to kill Chang Lee. At least, that's apparently why they're there,and certainly why we ''assume'' they were
So who's behind it? Obvious money's on the
Either way, the Seventh Doctor did not die randomly. He got put into checkmate.<ref>
== Ian and Barbara knew about regeneration. ==
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== Zoë negated her own timeline in ''The Invasion''. ==
One problem that crops now and again in ''[[
* ''Wheel'' comes before ''Moonbase'', because in ''Moonbase'' everyone knows about Cybermen but in ''Wheel'' no-one does.
* ''Moonbase'' comes before ''Seeds'', because the weather control's less sophisticated and the plot wouldn't work if T-Mat had been around at the time of ''Moonbase''.
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== That woman who griped at Seven right after the climax of "Survival" was Jackie Tyler. ==
The one who shows up [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbQa8C9t4mY here] at the 1:55 mark. She's just credited as "Neighbour"...
* [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Survival "Survival"] took place in Perivale around 1989, while [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102132224/http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Father%27s_Day "Father's Day"] indicates that Jackie moved to the Powell Estate in Peckham some time after 1987. Not too difficult to reconcile, one way or another.
== Romana didn’t waste ANY regenerations in “Destiny of the Daleks” ==
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