Does the Doctor have unlimited regenerations?

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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Does the Doctor have infinite regenerations now?

The current incarnation of the Doctor is played by Jodie Whittaker, following the regeneration of the Twelfth Doctor (portrayed by Peter Capaldi) during the 2017 Christmas special "Twice Upon a Time". A new regeneration to Ncuti Gatwa will occur in 2022 when Jodie Whittaker steps down from the role.
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How many regenerations does the Doctor have 2020?

The idea that the Doctor has 12 regenerations is first mentioned in The Deadly Assassin, a 1976 episode from the Tom Baker era. The Master - an evil Time Lord close to his final regeneration - is said to have been offered a new cycle of lives in exchange for helping to rig the election of a new Time Lord leader.
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How many times can Doctor Who regenerate?

The Season 14 serial "The Deadly Assassin" explained the Doctor Who regeneration cycle as a rule that was a part of Time Lord biology. A Time Lord can only regenerate 12 times, meaning after the 13th incarnation, they would truly die.
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Does the timeless child have infinite regenerations?

Tecteun was eventually able to replicate this regenerative ability, regenerating herself into a new incarnation. The Second Tecteun eventually spread this power to other Shobogans, who would go on to become Time Lords, and artificially limited the number of regenerations to a maximum of twelve.
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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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Is the Doctor Tecteun?

Incarnations of Tecteun

After becoming the foster parent of the Timeless Child, a mysterious being who eventually became the Doctor, she extracted the regeneration code from her child, splicing it into her own body and into other Shobogans'.
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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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Is the Doctor immortal?

The extra-terrestrial being known only as The Doctor - whose adventures are chronicled in the cult sci-fi series 'Doctor Who' - has officially been revealed as an immortal.
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Can Time Lords regenerate at will?

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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Will there be a 15th Doctor?

Whittaker's time as the Doctor is coming to an end and, according to the BBC, the 15th Doctor will be revealed in "the coming weeks," though a specific date was not provided. It was also revealed that two former Doctor Who companions, Tegan and Ace, will return for Whittaker's final episodes as the 13th Doctor.
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Will the 13th Doctor regenerate?

Jamie Magnus Stone, the director of the currently untitled centenary special, revealed (via Digital Spy) that the 13th Doctor will regenerate outside of the TARDIS for the first time in recent history.
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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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How many regenerations does the Master have left?

Despite being the first Master to appear on screen, this iteration of the character is actually the Master's final natural regeneration, having previously renewed himself 12 times off-screen.
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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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Will Doctor Who ever end?

The 2021 season of Doctor Who will be shorter than usual as it will be Jodie Whittaker's third and final outing as the Time Lord, as she is set to exit the sci-fi series in 2022, following a trio of specials.
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Is Clara immortal?

Still without a heartbeat, Clara realizes she's technically immortal because her death has already been written, and the duo resolve to go off adventuring on their own before Clara has to return to the Time Lords and face her own time stream as intended.
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Did Rose make Captain Jack immortal?

After he was shot and killed by a Dalek, Jack was revived by Rose Tyler, who at the time was transformed into a nearly omnipotent being. Unable to control her powers, she accidentally turned him into an immortal being.
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How old is the Doctor currently?

Before the Eleventh Doctor's 200-year farewell tour between TV: The God Complex and Closing Time, the writers of the 2005 revival of the series explicitly described the Doctor as around 900 years old, despite contrary statements on TV and expanded media.
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Why is the Doctor afraid of regenerating?

Fan theory states that the tenth Doctor's unusual fear is a sign that he's expecting his own final death, not another regeneration. That fear of the true unknown is what causes his ultimate reluctance.
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Why is the 13th Doctor a woman?

So why can't the Doctor be female? Simply because he isn't. He is a male Time Lord, so that means all of his past and future incarnations will be male. If he were to regenerate into a female, then he would have to have been born as a female, and all his past incarnations would have to have been female as well.
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What happens to the old Doctor when he regenerates?

He has all the memories of his past incarnations, but he isn't them. In a very real way, the Doctor IS DYING. Once the regeneration kicks in, he will be dead, and a new him will be there.
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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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Is Tecteun the woman from the end of time?

Now that more of the Doctor's distant past has been discovered, it is possible that this woman is not the Doctor's mother or father, as the Doctor was discovered to have been a being from another universe adopted by Tecteun (who is a possible but slightly unlikely candidate for the identity of the woman).
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What is the division in Dr Who?

The Division is a top-secret group of Time Lords led by a Gallifreyan called Solpado. After their interference on other worlds had drastic consequences in the past, the Time Lords vowed only to observe events across space and time.
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