Regenerating Doctor Who: Part Ten

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Regeneration

Wilfred: Still with us?
The Tenth Doctor: System’s dead.  I absorbed it all.  Whole thing’s kaput.  Oh!  Now it opens…yeah.
Wilfred: Well, there we are then!  Safe and sound.  Mind you, you’re in a hell of a state. You’ve got some battle scars there.  [The Doctor runs his hands down his face, and his injuries vanish] But they’ve…your face!  How did you do that??
The Tenth Doctor: It’s started.

Story (from “The End of Time (Parts 1 and 2)” and “The Eleventh Hour”):

After hearing the prophesy that his life will end after hearing a man knock four times, the Doctor goes on numerous trips through time and space to avoid his fate. Finally, Ood Sigma contacts the Doctor and convinces him to come to the Ood Sphere. Once there, Ood Sigma informs the Doctor of not only the Master’s reincarnation but a dark force threatening to wipe out all of existence (again).

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Regenerating Doctor Who: Part Nine

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Doctor Who: The Ninth Regeneration

Rose: You’re not making sense.
The Ninth Doctor: I might never make sense again. I might have two heads, or no head.  Imagine me with no head – and don’t say that’s an improvement. It’s a bit dodgy, this process. You never know what you’ll end up with. [The Doctor is struck with energy]
Rose: Doctor!
The Ninth Doctor: Stay away!
Rose: Doctor, tell me what’s going on.
The Ninth Doctor: I absorbed all the energy of the time vortex and no one’s meant to do that. Every cell in my body is dying.
Rose: Can’t you do something?
The Ninth Doctor: Yeah, I’m doing it now. Time Lords have this little trick; sort of a way of cheating death.

Story (from “Bad Wolf”, “The Parting of the Ways”, the 2005 Children In Need special, and “The Christmas Invasion”):

The Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack are kidnapped from the TARDIS and forced to play reality game shows in the far future, where the penalty for losing is death. The Doctor breaks out and discovers that the whole network of game shows are situated in a space station, and that the network controller kidnapped him in the hopes of using him to defeat her masters, who are revealed to be the Daleks.

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Regenerating Doctor Who: Part Eight

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Doctor Who: The Eighth Regeneration

“Leaps down”?  Falls down, more like.  No one could survive that.’
‘The Doctor could.’
‘I can’t even imagine how he hopes to beat them.’
‘That, Rachel, is your problem, not his,’ Trix tells her.
‘Nothing ever ends,’ Fitz says.  ‘Especially not him.’
‘He’ll die.’
‘If he does, he’ll do it saving the Earth and then he’ll come back, all new and better than ever.’
‘With a bit of fashion sense this time,’ Trix suggests.
- The Gallifrey Chronicles, by Lance Parkin

Story (from the novels):

All through out the Eight Doctor’s travels, he was noticing the sudden appearance of paradoxes and traps laid out for him, in such a devious manner that it was undoubtedly from an enemy he had never before faced.

Soon the enemy is revealed as the Faction Paradox; a segment of Time Lord society who had decided on anarchy and felt the Time Lord order must be eradicated. A brutal civil war ensued, and the Doctor came face-to-face with their leader, Grandfather Paradox, who was the embodiment of a paradox (and may be an alternate version of himself). It was revealed that he had travelled back in time and murdered his grandfather, and the resulting paradox had corrupted him entirely.

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Regenerating Doctor Who: Part Seven

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Doctor Who: The Seventh Regeneration

The Seventh Doctor: Whatever you’re about to do, stop!
Grace: Mr. Smith, you’re going to be all right.
The Seventh Doctor: No, I am not human.  I am not like you!
Grace: Nobody’s like you, Mr. Smith…

Story (from “Doctor Who”):

The Master has been caught and placed on trial on Skaro. Before the Dalek’s execute him, he asks that his remains be taken back to Gallifrey by the Doctor. The Daleks (for some odd reason) grant this request.

As the TARDIS heads to Gallifrey, a slimy creature breaks out of the box containing the Master’s remains, and sabotages the TARDIS. The ship loses its bearings and crash-lands in San Francisco in 1999. The Doctor realizes he needs a to realign the TARDIS’ timing mechanism, and the closest approximation on Earth is a Beryllium Atomic Clock. As he steps out of the ship, he is caught in the cross-fire of a gang shooting.

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Regenerating Doctor Who: Part Six

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Doctor Who: The Sixth Regeneration

Story (from “Time and The Rani”):

As the TARDIS flies through time and space, energy bolts start pounding it, forcing it down to the planet Lakertya. A woman forces her way inside, where the Doctor and his companion Mel are unconscious. The woman, a renegade Time Lord who calls herself the Rani, commands a creature to take the Doctor back to her lab. The creature rolls the prostrate Doctor over to reveal that he is regenerating.

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