How did the doctor win the Time War?

In this context, the President formulated 'the Final Sanction' which would destroy all creation and elevate the Time Lords into beings of pure consciousness. When the War Doctor learned of this plan, he stole 'the Moment', and used it to destroy Gallifrey and the Daleks to end the Time War.
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How did the Doctor survive the Time War?

The Doctor was killed in the crash, but was restored to life temporarily by the Sisterhood of Karn, who finally convinced him that for the sake of the universe, he had to take a stand and fight. They further offered an elixir that would control his regeneration and allow him to take a form best suited for the task.
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How did the Time Lords lose the Time War?

The Doctor used a weapon called 'The Moment' to wipe out all the Time Lords and Daleks. However, the events of Day of The Doctor result in that past being changed, and the Doctor 'saves' the Time Lords by capturing them inside a bubble universe.
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How long was the Doctor in the Time War?

lasting 30,000 years. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors) The Time Lords destroyed one such race, the Charon, before they even existed. Another unnamed species which was eliminated created the reality bomb.
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Did the Daleks win the Time War?

Throughout the show, The Daleks have been shown as being particularly cruel and evil. Yet they've never been very bright. The Doctor has (nearly) single handedly defeated them time and time again, with little more than a sonic screwdriver and a few trusty companions.
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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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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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Why do the Time Lords hate the Doctor?

The Daleks are genetically programmed to consider themselves the supreme beings in the universe, and they never forgot that moment of vulnerability, hating the Doctor for being - in their view - superior to them.
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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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How did Dalek Caan break the time lock?

The Doctor explained that he got in the way of the gamma strike which had brought them to life. His DNA had become mixed with theirs, giving them a dose of Time Lord freedom. A battle broke out between two Cult members and the Dalek-humans.
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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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How many times can a Time Lord regenerate?

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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Is Dr Who a Time Lord?

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Over the years, though, the Doctor's history has gradually been revealed. She's a renegade Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous, who grew dissatisfied with her race's refusal to intervene in galactic affairs.
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How old was the Doctor during the Time War?

The "900" discrepancy

The discrepancy was finally addressed in the short story Doctor Who and the Time War released in 2020, which explained that in the Last Great Time War the Doctor was aged and de-aged multiple times. Eventually "feeling around one thousand" by the end of the War, he rounded his age down to 900.
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How many Time Lords survived the Time War?

Some say this act was the beginning of the Time War. We may never know for certain, but whatever its genesis, the outcome of this epic conflict was horrifying and only two Time Lords survived - the Doctor and the Master.
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Why can't Doctor Who say his name?

Long story short: the Doctor lies. Recently, fans have hypothesized that the reason why the Doctor never speaks their own name is for their own safety. And the hypothesis also suggests that the only occasion for which a Time Lord would reveal their name is at the moment of their final death.
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What did the Doctor whisper to River?

On The Wedding of River Song he whispers, "Look into my eye." and then lies and says that he just told her his name. That's when River realized that what he whispered to her when they first met was his name.
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What is the Doctor's IQ?

What is the average IQ for a doctor? According to research studies, the average IQ for medical doctors is around 120 to 125. It can vary between physicians and nurses. Generally, doctors can also score on IQ tests above 85, and top doctors can score over 105.
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How do Time Lords reproduce?

The TL;DR is that in non-screen materials Gallifreyan reproduction is largely aided by cloning-like technology, but that this seems to be contradicted by some on-screen evidence that they reproduce more like we do. At very least cloning is possible, as with the Doctor's daughter.
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What is the lifespan of a Time Lord?

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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Why did the DR destroy Gallifrey?

Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor managed to eventually find his way home, but the 2-part premiere of season 12 (now under the leadership of Chris Chibnall) changed the game again, revealing Gallifrey had been destroyed by the Master in anger after he found out the secret of the Timeless Child.
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What did the Doctor whisper to Martha?

It is revealed that when the Doctor whispered to Martha in the previous episode, he said: "Use the countdown." Docherty's betrayal was planned — engineered by Martha so that she would be brought on board the Valiant to rejoin the Doctor.
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Is the Doctor actually Gallifreyan?

The Doctor, as explained at length by the Master, was not Gallifreyan at all. She was discovered as a child on another planet by a Gallifreyan scientist called Tecteun (Seylan Baxter), who – after bringing her back home – extracted her power to regenerate in order to form the basis of Time Lord society.
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Are the Weeping Angels Time Lords?

The Weeping Angels are dead Time Lords

One scene in 2010's 'The End of Time - Part Two' has two Time Lords punished by being forced to stand stock still "as monuments to their shame" – like "the weeping angels of old."
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