Are Time Lords immortal?

He travels through time and space, saves the Earth, and has millions of fans all over the world. But as every "Whovian" knows, the Doctor cannot last for ever: Time Lords are able to regenerate only 12 times before they die.
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How long can a Time Lord live?

Well, the way I see it, at least from the point of view as it's presented, is each timelord life gets around about 80-100 years, so they age normally, if a timelord regenerates due to injury (as every doctor bar Hartnell) has, the "extra years" stack up into the next regeneration, so they could potentially live twice ...
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Do Time Lords have infinite regenerations?

In The Deadly Assassin (1976), it is established that a Time Lord can only regenerate 12 times, for a total of 13 incarnations. This statement is later repeated in Mawdryn Undead (1983), the 1996 TV film and "The Time of the Doctor" (2013).
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Are the Time Lords gone forever?

To anyone who's not time sensitive, it never happened, because the Time Lords and Daleks never existed. To time-sensitive species, as the 10th Doctor explained somewhere or other, it's in the past of every timeline. There is no pre-War anything to meet anywhere or anywhen.
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Who was the oldest Time Lord?

The three oldest Time Lords were Rassilon, Omega, and the other the oldest of them presumably being Rassilon and the other (childhood friends) then Omega their age is unknown but it has subtle hint they say the doctor could be the other reason being in the episode Terror of the Autons of the classic Doctor who you get ...
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Can Time Lords have babies?

The Fourth Doctor's companion Leela married a Gallifreyan Time Lord, and in non-screen materials they had the first natural-born child on Gallifrey in millennia.
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Do Time Lords have two hearts?

The process allows them to disguise themselves as humans physiologically and psychologically, meaning they only have one heart and are stripped of non-human powers, and of any memory of having been a Time Lord.
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Can Time Lords refuse to regenerate?

Now in the penultimate episode of series 9, the Doctor states that when Time Lords are dying, even if they cannot regenerate their body tries to regenerate automatically - they have no choice.
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Why is Doctor Who flux so short?

Doctor Who: Flux was heavily influenced by the coronavirus pandemic, with showrunner Chris Chibnall forced to adapt season 13's format, and this resulted in a considerably shorter season with a single overarching narrative.
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How many regenerations does River song have?

Assuming they did not, it would appear that Melody Pond/River Song gave up TEN incarnations (9 regenerations) to save The Doctor. First Regeneration - while homeless, young Melody Pond apparently succumbed to hunger & illness, undergoing her first regeneration in the episode "Day of the Moon".
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Can Time Lords regenerate into children?

Yes. Show activity on this post. From what I've been able to find; Yes, a Time Lord can regenerate into a child-like form. The best example I've been able to find thus far is The Master regenerating into Professor Yana.
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Are Time Lords possible?

Time Lords walk among us. Two per cent of readers may be surprised to discover that they are members of an elite group with the power to perceive the geography of time.
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Is Julia Foster going to be the 14th Doctor?

Julia Foster is the 14th Doctor, with Tennant Back as Companion. Veteran actress Julia Foster will replace Jodie Whittaker after she bows out from Doctor Who in this year's festive special. Despite claims to the contrary, Whittaker in fact filmed her final scenes late last year.
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Do Time Lords sleep?

Time Lords can put themselves into a self-induced trance of sleep which reduces bodily functions to a minimum, while allowing them to still contemplate complex ideas.
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Why do Time Lords have two hearts?

One, it's exactly that, a coincidence, and both races – whatever the Timeless Child is, and the Shobogans of Gallifrey – have two hearts. Two, the genetic experiments Tecteun conducted to derive regeneration from the Timeless Child altered the Time Lords to have two hearts too.
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Is everyone on Gallifrey a Time Lord?

The basic idea is that all natives of Gallifrey are Gallifreyans, but only those who pass through the Time Lord Academy are Time Lords. That includes everyone from technicians to the President.
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Is the Doctor's daughter a Time Lord?

Jenny is not quite a Time Lord, but she is a pure genetic descendant of the Doctor. Jenny is played by Georgia Moffett, the daughter of the British actor Peter Davison. Peter Davison played the Fifth Doctor (1981–1984).
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Will the Doctor regenerate at the end of flux?

Dr Who: Flux starts on 31 October, so what can we expect from the latest series? It was confirmed in July that series 13 will be the last time Jodie Whittaker will play the Doctor. The character is set to regenerate and a new actor will take over the role in 2022.
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Who will be the 14th Doctor?

Doctor Who casts Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa as 14th Doctor - Polygon.
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Why was the 10th Doctor regeneration so violent?

The reason is Tenth doctor "didn't want to go". Due to him forcibly regenerating to save his life, the impact of the regeneration caused mass destruction, flames and violence.
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Why did the 10th Doctor not regenerate?

As Moffat also mentions in the video, this recalls the viewpoint of the Tenth Doctor (as played by David Tennant) on the idea of regeneration. He resisted changing for as long as possible because, as he said, regeneration “feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away.”
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What is the Doctor's real name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.
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Do Time Lords have 3 brains?

In the Peter Capaldi 12th Doctor episode "The Magician's Apprentice," Missy refers to her brainstem in the singular, implying she just has one brain, but then, in the episode "Extremis," when the 12th Doctor is tasked with executing Missy, we're told the fancy Time Lord-killing gizmo will "stop both hearts, and all ...
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Why is Gallifrey in a bubble?

At the conclusion of "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), Gallifrey is revealed to have actually survived the Time War, though it was frozen in time and transported into a bubble universe, before being unfrozen and arriving at the end of the universe at a chronological point before "Hell Bent" (2015).
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Who killed the Time Lords?

Doctor Who and the Time War

Davies for the Doctor Who Magazine before the 50th Anniversary, the short story set before 'Rose' depicts a different account of the Time War's outcome, with the Eighth Doctor using the Moment to destroy the Time Lords and Daleks alike and end the Last Great Time War once and for all.
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