How did Missy regenerate?

Using a device called the Elysium field, Missy was able to get a new regeneration cycle. This created not only a weird super good future incarnation of herself "called Lumiat," but also gave an added dimension to the biggest mystery behind The Master's return in Season 12.
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How did Missy survive a regenerate?

Missy's future

Unable to regenerate, Missy will use an Elysium Field – technology that's forbidden by the Time Lords – to survive. It grants her a new regeneration cycle, but it also destroys almost everything that Missy is. The only thing that survives of her is goodness.
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How does the Master regenerate into Missy?

Knowing that he was about to die and regenerate into Missy, the Master took it upon himself to shoot Missy in the back with his laser screwdriver. Two Masters, dying by their own hand – a fitting end to two incarnations of one of the greatest villains in all of time and space…
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How did Missy regenerate Doctor Who?

Although the Master believed that the blast had disabled Missy's ability to regenerate, Missy managed to use an Elysian field, forbidden technology that could break a Time Lord's body down into atoms and molecules then reform it anew, to grant herself a new regeneration cycle and kickstart her next regeneration.
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Why can the Master hear drums?

We know that the Master had been hearing it since childhood when he looked into the Untempered Schizm on Gallifrey. More importantly, we know that the sound itself is nothing more than a tiny signal – a link for Gallifrey to escape from the Time War, or at least, to break the time lock on it.
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Is Clara the Doctor's daughter?

Clara is the future child of the Doctor and River who's had her memory erased. The two Time Lords must be up to something on their nights away from River's prison cell.
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Why does Missy not remember the Master?

The Master and Missy aren't supposed to cross paths, and in doing so, it would result in Simm's Master losing any memories of the event going forward — which would mean that the eventual Missy wouldn't remember any of it.
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How many regenerations has the Master gone through?

One is River's regenerations, the other is that the rule is a law that was passed in Gallifrey, not a biological thing. The regeneration limit was a rule enforced by the high counsel, not a biological limit. The master exceeded his 12 so the doctor can too. River gave him all but three of her regenerations.
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Is Captain Jack the Face of Boe?

In-universe, however, we only have Captain Jack's testimony. On May 30, 2020, during the New Earth and Gridlock #NewNewYork tweetalong on Twitter, Davies officially confirmed that Jack is indeed the Face Of Boe.
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Is the Doctor the last Time Lord?

He has experienced the cutting-off (the end of experience, i.e. "death") of every other timeline of every other Gallifreyan who lived while he was alive, and as we go forward in his own timeline, no new Gallifreyans can be born. So in this sense, The Doctor is indeed the last of the Time Lords.
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Is davros a Time Lord?

Born into war

The Time Lords placed Davros's life up to his apparent death at the hands of the Daleks as concurrent to Earth's ancient history, prior to the 2nd century.
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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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Does the Master regenerate?

While the Master has regenerated many times, the process is generally different to the Doctor's, usually occurring unnaturally or off-screen. Nevertheless, the Master's fictional regeneration history is just as fascinating as that of the Doctor and full of dark twists and turns.
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How did Missy survive the Daleks?

Missy and Clara teleport out of the city using the energy emitted by the Daleks, revealing how Missy survived after being shot by the Brigadier at the end of "Death in Heaven".
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Will Missy return to Doctor Who?

Michelle Gomez is set to return as Missy for a third Doctor Who spin-off series. The actress, who played the female incarnation of The Master during Peter Capaldi's time on the BBC show, will reprise her role for a new three-part audio drama from Big Finish, titled Missy and the Monk.
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Why did David Tennant leave Doctor Who?

The Doctor, however, must regenerate eventually, and Tennant decided that time should come on his own terms. Like so many of his fellow Britons, he has been a Doctor Who fan his entire life, and being able to be The Doctor was a supreme childhood dream fulfilled.
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Can all Gallifreyans regenerate?

As much as it annoys me to say it, the evidence points towards Gallifreyans not being able to regenerate, at least without Symbiotic Nuclei. One case of such is when we see Gallifreyan citizens being slaughtered by Daleks. On the other hand, Daleks have some pretty goddamn good weapons.
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Does the Doctor have infinite regenerations?

Doctor Who Just Removed One Of The Original Show's Most Frustrating Time Lord Rules. Doctor Who just undid one of its major rules regarding the Time Lord regeneration process, allowing The Doctor to have unlimited regenerations. Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Doctor Who "The Timeless Children."
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Who gave Clara the Doctor's number?

The woman in the shop who gave Clara the Doctor's number is brought up in "Deep Breath". The Twelfth Doctor remarks it seems as if someone is trying to bring the Doctor and Clara together. The episode "Death in Heaven" reveals it was the Master (as Missy) who gave the number to Clara.
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What's 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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Why did the Master destroy Gallifrey?

The Master claims he burned Gallifrey as revenge for some dark secret the Time Lords were hiding. "They lied to us," The Master says. "The founding fathers of Gallifrey...
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Is River a Time Lord?

No. River Song is not a Time Lord. The title and distinction belongs solely to those beings from the world of Gallifrey who have been indoctrinated, trained and introduced to the Time Vortex via a particular set of rituals, instruction and guidance.
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Why does the Tardis not like Clara?

In answering that question in Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat suggested that the TARDIS' dislike of the current companion may be due to her sceptical nature and how she did not seem suitably awed by the Doctor's spaceship. Or, as he said, “It's almost like it's all building to something…
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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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