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* During the [[Last Great Time War]], the [[Time Lord]]s resurrected the Master, apparently giving him a new regeneration cycle in the process ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') as, when {{Jacobi}} was shot by [[Chantho]], he regenerated into a {{simm|n=new incarnation}}. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
* During the [[Last Great Time War]], the [[Time Lord]]s resurrected the Master, apparently giving him a new regeneration cycle in the process ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') as, when {{Jacobi}} was shot by [[Chantho]], he regenerated into a {{simm|n=new incarnation}}. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
* After being shot by his wife, [[Lucy Saxon]], the Master was able to consciously prevent himself from regenerating. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]''), though this is later implied to have been a ploy to allow his resurrection at later date ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''). It it not clear if this resurrection can be considered a regeneration or not; although his face remains the same, the Master tells a pair of humans (before killing them) that he is a new Master stuck with the same appearance.
 
* After being shot by his wife, [[Lucy Saxon]], the Master was able to consciously prevent himself from regenerating. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]''), though this is later implied to have been a ploy to allow his resurrection at later date ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''). It it not clear if this resurrection can be considered a regeneration or not; although his face remains the same, the Master tells a pair of humans (before killing them) that he is a new Master stuck with the same appearance.
: ''Note: other occasions in which the Master has appropriated a new body ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'') are not considered regenerations.''
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: ''Note: Other occasions in which the Master has appropriated a new body, ''([[TV]]:'' [[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'','' [[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'')'' are not considered regenerations.''
   
 
== Rassilon ==
 
== Rassilon ==

Revision as of 19:43, 25 February 2014

The causes of regeneration, especially amongst Time Lords, were many and varied. They ran the gamut from simple desire to change, to life-threatening maladies which typically resulted in human death. The following are the known causes of regeneration of specific Time Lords.

The Doctor

This chart considers regeneration to be something which results in an actual, irreversible transformation from one body to another. Things like the Tenth Doctor's accidental creation of the Meta-Crisis Doctor, or the reversal of regeneration in The Touch of the Nurazh, are not included here, even though the former is acknowledged in The Time of the Doctor as counting as a full regeneration. Also not considered here are Doctors from alternative timelines.

Doctor Reason Story
1 Claimed to be "wearing a bit thin"; apparently died of simple old age. The Tenth Planet
2 Forced to change his appearance by Time Lord court order Sentence passed in The War Games, carried out in The Night Walkers
3 Radiation poisoning upon exposure to The Great One's highly unstable web of Metebelis crystals. Planet of the Spiders
4 Fell to the ground from great height at the Pharos Project; indirectly caused by the Tremas Master Logopolis
5 Refusal to take antidote for spectrox toxaemia in order to give it instead to Peri Brown. The Caves of Androzani
6 Ambiguous injury consequent to the Rani's attack on the TARDIS. Some accounts indicated the Doctor hit his head on the TARDIS console. Others suggest that he was also suffering from a chronal energy drain after his confrontation with the Lamprey Time and the Rani (explained in Head Games, Spiral Scratch)
7 Following a non-fatal shooting, the Seventh Doctor underwent open heart surgery in a San Francisco hospital. Since the attending cardiologist had no knowledge of Time Lord physiology, she accidentally killed him. Doctor Who
8 Died after a ship he was in crash-landed on Karn The Night of the Doctor
War As with the First Doctor, he claimed to be "wearing a bit thin" and regenerated from what appeared to simply be old age. The Day of the Doctor
9 Absorbed time vortex energy from the Bad Wolf to save the life of Rose Tyler The Parting of the Ways
10 Intentional radiation poisoning incurred in order to save the life of Wilfred Mott The End of Time
11 As with the First and War Doctors, his body succumbed to old age. This marked the beginning of a new regeneration cycle granted by the Time Lords. The Time of the Doctor

Romana

The Master

  • Shot by Ace after receiving a new set of regenerating nanites from the Tzun. However, these were apparently only effective in the short term. (PROSE: First Frontier)
  • During the Last Great Time War, the Time Lords resurrected the Master, apparently giving him a new regeneration cycle in the process (TV: The Sound of Drums) as, when the War Master was shot by Chantho, he regenerated into a new incarnation. (TV: Utopia)
  • After being shot by his wife, Lucy Saxon, the Master was able to consciously prevent himself from regenerating. (TV: Last of the Time Lords), though this is later implied to have been a ploy to allow his resurrection at later date (TV: The End of Time). It it not clear if this resurrection can be considered a regeneration or not; although his face remains the same, the Master tells a pair of humans (before killing them) that he is a new Master stuck with the same appearance.
Note: Other occasions in which the Master has appropriated a new body, (TV: The Keeper of Traken, Doctor Who) are not considered regenerations.

Rassilon

K'anpo Rimpoche

Borusa

Chronotis

  • Salyavin used up his thirteenth and final incarnation when he was attacked by the Sphere. However, when his Type 12 TARDIS was sent backwards, it altered his personal timeline and brought him back to life. (HOMEVID: Shada/WC: Shada)

Rallon

Roche

  • Lord Roche was caught in a traffic accident while on Earth; he retained enough control over the process after it began to deliberately shape his new appearance so that he was the exact duplicate of the Third Doctor (PROSE: The Suns of Caresh).

Azmael

  • In his thirteenth and final body, Azmael regenerated past his limit, killing him and Mestor, who possessed Azmael's body after his own was destroyed. (TV: The Twin Dilemma)

Iris Wildthyme

The War Chief

  • The War Chief underwent a faulty regeneration after being shot by War Lords; lack of medical care and the scale of the damage sustained resulted in his new form appearing like two bodies fused together. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)

The Monk

Ruath

Innocet

I.M. Foreman

  • As a priest, I.M. Foreman had been given the gift of regenerations. This made twelve different individuals, who were created by his body absorbing the DNA around him; all regenerations were caused by the Third Doctor sending the first twelve back to Gallifrey's past so that they fell from a great height and regenerated into the next one. (PROSE: Interference - Book One, Interference - Book Two)

The Corsair

  • The Corsair regenerated several times, with "a couple" of his incarnations being female. He was back to male by the time he was killed by House. He/she either created or acquired the same snake tattoo in each incarnation. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)

River Song

  • First to second incarnation: As a little girl, Melody Pond, later known as River Song, regenerated on the streets of New York City in 1970 due to a terminal illness. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon)
  • Second to third incarnation: Melody later regenerated in Hitler's private study in 1938 after the Führer accidentally shot her while aiming for the Teselecta. She later used up all of her remaining regenerations to heal the Doctor from a poison with which she had infected him. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler) As a result, she was unable to regenerate when she later suffered a fatal electric shock (TV: Forest of the Dead), although her consciousness lived on within The Library's supercomputer.

Narvin

  • Coordinator Narvin tells Romana that he has used up all of his regenerations by the time he and the Lord President are able to return to their version of Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Extermination)