Is a Time Lord a God?

The Time Lords are no longer god-like but pompous and classist – self-serving bureaucrats who scramble over each other for power.
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Is the Doctor a time god?

The Doctor is a Time Lord

That's right – while this episode reveals that the Doctor is not Gallifreyan, it also confirms that the term "Time Lord" is simply a label that Tecteun bestowed upon himself and his elite sect with the power to regenerate.
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Do Time Lords have powers?

For a start, Time Lords have two hearts, a respiratory bypass system - enabling them to survive without breathing for long periods - and have low-level telepathic abilities. However, their physiology also gives them a unique ability, regeneration. Regeneration is the Time Lord's way of staving off death.
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Are Time Lords human?

The Time Lords are a fictional humanoid species originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Time Lords are so called because they are able to travel in and manipulate time through prolonged exposure to the time vortex.
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What is Time Lord?

The Time Lords are a fictional ancient race of extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' main protagonist, the Doctor, is a member. Time Lords are so named for their command of time travel technology and their non-linear perception of time.
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What kills a Time Lord?

The most effective way to kill a Time Lord is to stab them in both hearts before the regeneration starts.
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How are Time Lords born?

Time Lords aren't born, they're crafted. At the age of eight, every Gallifreyan child is brought before the Untempered Schism, a tear in the fabric of time and space. To look upon it is to see eternity. Needless to say, not everyone's mind survives that experience.
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How many Time Lords are left?

BTW, ALL THE TIME LORDS ARE DEAD (AGAIN)

But, all of those Cyber Lords are killed in the end, too. So, just like in 2005, with the Ninth Doctor, the Thirteenth Doctor is once again, the Last of the Time Lords, even though she's also the first of the Time Lords, too.
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How many lives can a Time Lord have?

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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Can Time Lords reproduce?

The colonists there speak of evolution "with each regeneration, with each new child born on Kreb." It seems to confirm the Time Lords do indeed reproduce biologically - and, therefore, that there really are Time Lord children.
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Are Time Lords smarter than humans?

Time Lords are capable of neurological feats and performances that mere humans have no hope of emulating. They clearly have superior brains, but what of the actual science that would underpin these impressive thinking engines?
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Why do Time Lords look human?

So why do Time Lords appear human? My favorite personal theory is that they look human because we are the ones looking at them! Using something similar to the TARDIS' chameleon circuit / perception filter, the Time Lords alter our perception to appear as humans.
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Do Time Lords have gender?

In Doctor Who, Time Lords are canonically genderfluid, in that their genders can change between incarnations. Time Lords transform their bodies in order to prevent death, giving them a new personality each time they undergo this process.
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Why do Time Lords have two hearts?

A binary vascular system was a type of circulatory system in which the blood vessels led to two hearts. Time Lords had a binary vascular system.
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Are all Time Lords Gallifreyan?

The majority of Time Lords were genetically Gallifreyans, since they arose from the species; they considered themselves to be the elite of Gallifreyan society, (PROSE: Interference - Book Two) as only a select few bloodlines had been granted the privilege of becoming Time Lords when Rassilon originally unveiled the Eye ...
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Are Time Lords immortal?

It eventually became clear that, while regeneration had given the Doctor a way of evading multiple deaths, Time Lords were not immortal and there were still ways they could die.
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Who will be the next Time Lord?

Gatwa will make his debut as the Time Lord in 2023. Showrunner Russell T Davies said Gatwa had impressed him in a "blazing" audition. "It was our last audition.
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Can Time Lords breed with humans?

But the books which are non-canon are clear that Time Lord's and Humans can produce children, and a number of the books say the Doctor's father was a Time Lord and his mother was an Earth woman.
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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. Twenty minutes in this state is thought to be the equivalent of 8 hours of sleep for humans, and so they could survive on a very small amount.
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Are the Time Lords evil?

Time Lords are not evil, generally speaking. Certain Time Lord individuals are evil, most famously Rassilon who came up with the idea of destroying time itself (which would've killed all non-Time Lord life in the universe). Morbius was also morally bankrupt (he tried to establish an empire through conquest).
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How powerful is a Time Lord?

The Time Lords are basically Demigods. They are at least 13 times harder to kill than a human, they have almost unlimited time manipulation powers and they can throw around temporal paradoxes like confetti at a wedding. There are three main points that demonstrate their power.
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What language do Time Lords speak?

Gallifreyan is the language spoken by the Time Lords of Gallifrey from the British TV show Doctor Who. The Time Lords are a time-aware species capable of traveling through time and space who have taken upon themselves to protect the Web of Time from other time traveling species.
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Are there black Time Lords?

Doctor Who has introduced its first black portrayal of the titular Time Lord in its illustrious 57-year history. Sunday's episode of the BBC sci-fi series saw the current incarnation of The Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, meet a previously-unknown past version of the character, in the form of actress Jo Martin.
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Do Time Lords have religion?

The Time Lords seem to have used science as a substitute for religion. The Matrix, for example, is the Time Lord equivalent of an afterlife; it's the Time Lords' most sophisticated computer system, and any dying Time Lord's mind is uploaded into it so they live on after death.
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