Other incarnations of the Doctor
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Apart from the main ten, other incarnations of the Doctor have existed.
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[edit] List of other incarnations
[edit] Existing in the Doctor's timeline
[edit] Prior to first incarnation
- The Other, a Time Lord contemporary with Rassilon and Omega, thought to have reincarnated himself as the Doctor after the former jumped in a Loom. (NA: Lungbarrow)
- Though this remains unclear, the Other had either regenerations or had been reincarnated prior to the Doctor. The faces of these incarnations appeared during the Doctor's mindwrestling tournement with Morbius. (DW: The Brain of Morbius, explained MA: Cold Fusion)
[edit] After first incarnation
- The Watcher was an interim version of the Doctor between his fourth and fifth incarnations. (DW: Logopolis).
- DoctorDonna was the result of a Time Lord meta crisis, following human companion Donna Noble coming into contact with the Doctor's hand. (DW: Journey's End)
- The Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor was a half-Human clone. (DW: Journey's End)
- Jackson Lake was a Human infused with part of the Doctor's personality and memories. (DW: The Next Doctor)
[edit] Alternative
- The Valeyard was revealed to be a potential future Doctor, existing somewhere between his twelfth and final incarnations and embodying the evil of the Doctor's dark side. (DW: The Trial of a Time Lord)
- The legendary Merlin was a future or alternative version of himself known to Ancelyn and Morgaine. (DW: Battlefield)
- A future incarnation of the Doctor appeared at Bonjaxx's birthday party. (DWM: Party Animals)
- Muldwych spent many hundreds of years stranded on Earth. (NA: Birthright, Happy Endings)
- This is possibly the same incarnation as Merlin.
- The Relic was the corpse of a possible future Doctor. (EDA: Alien Bodies)
[edit] Other
[edit] Dr. Who
The Doctor encountered Dr. Who in the Land of Fiction. (NA: Head Games)
[edit] Unknown incarnations
Several accounts exist of adventures experienced by unspecified incarnations of the Doctor; these could be future regenerations, permutations of The Other, or alternate-universe incarnations. (TN: The Cabinet of Light, PDA: The Infinity Doctors, and others).
[edit] Alternative Doctors
[edit] First Doctor
- In a reality created by the Black Guardian, the Doctor occupied the position of puppet Lord President of Gallifrey, serving the Dalek Empire and sitting idly by as armies of alien invaders squabbled over Earth. (DWM: Time & Time Again)
[edit] Third Doctor
- During his trial the Doctor was shown a series of portraits from which he might choose the form of his next regeneration before the Time Lords exiled him to Earth. None was to his liking, nor did any of them look like his third incarnation. (DW: The War Games)
- One of these potential third incarnations took over Britain as a fascist military dictator. Though not known at the time when the Doctor visited there (DW: Inferno), this was later revealed. (NA: Timewyrm: Revelation, The Face of the Enemy)
- An alternative who never joined UNIT as its scientific advisor, but instead met and befriended the Brigadier long after his UNIT heyday, is also known to exist. (DWU: Sympathy for the Devil, Masters of War)
- The machinations of Faction Paradox created an earlier death on the planet Dust for the Third Doctor than had occurred in the Doctor's established timeline. He still regenerated into the same fourth incarnation, and almost everything else remained the same, but it created a paradox which left his eighth incarnation susceptible to Faction Paradox's plans. (EDA: Interference - Book One, Interference - Book Two)
[edit] Fourth Doctor
- An alternative fourth incarnation, who, having just regenerated, and his new companions Jenny and Jimmy prevented the Daleks from gaining the Crystal of All Power. (SP: Doctor Who and the Daleks in The Seven Keys to Doomsday)
[edit] Eighth Doctor
- The Doctor's awareness passed through various alternative visions of himself, ranging from Humans to a violent cyborg to talking cartoon cats. (DWM: The Glorious Dead)
- A version of the Doctor lived on Gallifrey. (PDA: The Infinity Doctors)
- Not strictly speaking, a version of the Doctor's eighth incarnation, this version nevertheless looked identical to him, except that he had short-cropped hair.
[edit] Ninth Doctor
- A melancholic incarnation, haunted by some unexplained recent event and inexplicably travelling with an android recreation of The Master, reluctantly fought the Shalka on Earth, and in so doing acquired a new travelling companion, Alison Cheney. (WC: Scream of the Shalka, EDA: The Tomorrow Windows)
[edit] Other versions and Incarnations
- Apparitions of various alternative possibilities from his first through to his eighth incarnations appeared to the Seventh Doctor and his companions. (NA: So Vile a Sin)
- A 1980s-style "contemporary" Doctor in a Greenpeace t-shirt. (SP: Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure)
- Grandfather Paradox, the patriarch of Faction Paradox, may have his origins as a warped-timeline version of the Doctor. (NA: Christmas on a Rational Planet onwards).
- This association remains speculative.
- A Doctor who never left Gallifrey. (DWU: Auld Mortality) Then, deciding to do so, changed Earth history with disastrous results. (DWU: A Storm of Angels).
- A Doctor who, while not really evil, is nonetheless far from heroic. This Doctor believes that the ends justify the means. (DWU: Full Fathom Five").
- An alternate reality version of the Valeyard who won his battle with the Doctor. (DWU: He Jests at Scars...)
- A Doctor who turns out to be the fantasy world alter ego of a failed televison writer recollecting his script for a proposed television series about a science fiction television character tentatively called Doctor Who. (DWU: Deadline)
- The main timeline has a similar fictional television space-time traveller to the character of Doctor Who, known as Professor X.
- An alcohol-addled female Doctor who has escaped punishment by the Time Lords. (DWU: Exile)
- Grandfather Halfling. The Halfling in his title refers to his dual nature: half Human, half Gallifreyan. (FP: Of the City of the Saved)
- Identity heavily implied, but not directly stated.
- A ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and finally a thirteenth (and female) incarnation. (DW: The Curse of Fatal Death)
[edit] Behind the Scenes
[edit] Television
- The "Morbius Doctors", who apparently came before the First Doctor, came about as a mischievous joke on the part of the production team Doctor Who to tweak with established continuity. Fans who don't accept the novels as canon still debate where they came from.
- See Morbius Doctors.
[edit] Theatrical films
- Dr. Who, an alternative version of the First Doctor, was played by Peter Cushing in two theatrical films.
[edit] Plays
- An unofficial Fourth Doctor, played by Trevor Martin, appeared in Doctor Who and the Daleks in The Seven Keys to Doomsday. (The play ran between Planet of the Spiders (at the end of which the Third Doctor had regenerated) and the Fourth Doctor's debut in Robot.
- The Greenpeace Doctor appeared when Jon Pertwee's understudy, David Banks, had to fill in when Pertwee felt too ill to perform the main role in the stage play Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure.
[edit] Prose fiction
- The character of the Other originated in a document explaining the Doctor's true origins written up by later Script Editor Andrew Cartmel with input from a few other Doctor Who writers. He first appeared in the novelisation of Remembrance of the Daleks.
- See the Other.
- Inferno depicted a fascist alternative England as having a nameless leader who never appears in person, only on posters. The identification of this leader as the Doctor came in the Virgin New Adventures novel Timewyrm: Revelation in part to explain why the Doctor did not seem to exist in that world.
- The character of "Dr. Who" in the series existed as a way to reconcile the more adult world of the Doctor (especially in the novels and other media other than television) with the more light-hearted children's comics versions and with Peter Cushing's Dr. Who.
[edit] Other
- The future Doctor and Ria, who met the Seventh Doctor and Ace, both originated from the Audio Visuals, fan audio plays produced by Nicholas Briggs, and later appeared in Doctor Who Magazine. Nicholas Briggs had voiced and served as visual model for the character.
