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The Time Lord's personality also sometimes goes through a period of instability following a regeneration, such as in The Christmas Invasion. It was first stated in The Deadly Assassin that a Time Lord can regenerate twelve times (thirteen incarnations in all). [61]
A Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, she is a companion to the Fourth Doctor. As a Time Lord, [1] Romana is able to regenerate, having had two on-screen incarnations with somewhat different personalities (dubbed Romana I and Romana II by fans). Romana I was played by Mary Tamm from 1978 to 1979. When Tamm chose not to sign on for a second ...
Rassilon returns to Gallifrey in the Titan Comics 2016 multi-Doctor event story Supremacy of the Cybermen, which depicts the last Cybermen at the end of the universe forming an alliance with Rassilon with the goal of conquering Gallifrey and using Time Lord energy to regenerate the universe into one under Cyber-control. Although Rassilon's ...
Whether Time Lords could change gender in regeneration was never addressed onscreen during the classic series and not explicitly focused on for much of the revival. In The Hand of Fear (1976), the Kastrian Eldrad compared his transformation, from female to male, to Time Lord regeneration, possibly suggesting the process could produce a sex ...
When "accidents" do occur, Time Lords can usually regenerate into a new body. It is stated in The Deadly Assassin that Time Lords can only regenerate a total of twelve times, [22] giving a theoretical final total of thirteen incarnations. However, The Doctor has a natural ability to regenerate an infinite number of times.
As a result, the younger Doctor is exposed to radiation that is deadly to Time Lords, with his death and subsequent regeneration into the Seventh Doctor killing the parasites, stopping the Valeyard from succeeding with his plan as the regeneration 'kills' the link the parasites had created to the Doctor, but also setting up the events of Time ...
He was then put on trial by the Time Lords, for breaking their laws of non-interference. Despite the Doctor's argument that the Time Lords should use their great powers to help others, he was sentenced to exile on 20th century Earth, the Time Lords forcing his regeneration into the Third Doctor in the process. Jamie and Zoe were returned to ...
[5] [21] Time Lord regeneration is a device used by the series since 1966 to accommodate the recasting of prominent characters like the Doctor. [22] The 1987 novelisation of Time and the Rani explains that after the events of The Mark of the Rani , the Rani and the Master escaped the Tyrannosaurus rex because it broke its spine on the ceiling ...