Is Doctor Who the first Time Lord?

The Doctor, it transpires, was the very first of the Time Lords as we know them, exhibiting the ability to regenerate forms indefinitely. Her DNA was subsequently spliced into other Time Lords, but through genetic engineering, their number of regenerations was capped at 12.
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Is Dr Who a Time Lord?

The Doctor Is The Timeless Child

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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When was the Doctor first revealed as a Time Lord?

The series 12 finale "The Timeless Children" (2020) reveals the Time Lords were originally members of the Shobogan race who were genetically altered with the genetic code of "The Timeless Child", a being that later came to be as the Doctor.
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Is the Doctor the last Time Lord?

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. With the latter's apparent death the Doctor is left to continue his travels with the lonely knowledge that he is the last 'child of Gallifrey'.
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Does the Doctor ever meet another Time Lord?

Yes. He occasionally meets the master. But if the time lords were once an advanced race that used the tardis's.
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Are all Gallifreyans Time Lords?

There are still Gallifreyans whom are not Time Lords, some which lived outside of the Capital Cities. There are also non-Timelord farmers in the series such as in the episode Hell Bent. Essentially from all this we can determine that Time Lords are Gallifreyan but a Gallifreyan may not always be a Time Lord.
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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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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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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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Why was the 2nd Doctor exiled?

At the close of his final series, The War Games, the Second Doctor is sentenced to exile on Earth as punishment for his rebellion against the laws of Gallifrey, planet of the Time Lords, and consequently forced to regenerate so that he will not be recognized.
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What race is the timeless child?

The Timeless Child's species were a largely unknown species from another universe or dimension, being, according to the Spy Master, the Doctor's original species as the Timeless Child.
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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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Is the timeless child the other?

The Timeless Child was a title used to refer to the mysterious being from whom, across several regenerations, the First Tecteun extracted the secret of regeneration. According to the Spy Master, the Timeless Child's incarnations were none other than the original incarnations of the Doctor, long before the First Doctor.
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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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Did the timeless child ruined Doctor Who?

Season 12's Timeless Child reveal was so big because it completely altered the very foundations of Doctor Who. First, it changed history, by revealing that the Doctor had an unknown number of lives prior to who fans know as William Hartnell's First Doctor.
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Who is the other Time Lord?

The Other, or sometimes simply "the other", also referred to in some tellings as the Stranger, was one of the original founders of Time Lord society, along with Rassilon and Omega. The origin of the Other remained a mystery for later Time Lords.
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Why did the Doctor kiss Martha?

The Doctor, played by David Tennant, kisses Martha Jones, newcomer Freema Agyeman, on the lips but then says: "It means nothing, it was just a genetic transfer." The kiss is in the first episode of the third series, which had a special screening at the Mayfair hotel.
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Did Martha Jones love the Doctor?

Martha Jones is one of the most relatable Doctor Who companions. Like many fans, she fell in love with The Doctor, had sibling relationships, sass, sarcasm, and aspirations. She graced the screen after the beloved Rose, but never considered herself as second best.
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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 the TARDIS translate Gallifreyan?

River Song explicitly mentions that High Gallifreyan writing "doesn't translate" -- even the TARDIS can't do it for someone who doesn't read it.
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How does the Master know the Doctor is the timeless child?

That's the setup - The Master has The Doctor in a loopy-energy-force-field-trap-thing. While in that trap, The Doctor is able to inject The Doctor into The Matrix. The purpose of all this is to show The Doctor the true history of his/her life, so that The Master can show The Doctor about the Lie of the Timeless Child.
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What is the Doctor's real name in Gallifreyan?

Is Theta Sigma the Doctor's real name? Theta Sigma was the Doctor's unique nickname when he was studying at the Time Lord Academy on Gallifrey. Although this identified the Doctor from all the other Time Lords at the academy, the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) dismisses it as just a nickname in The Happiness Patrol.
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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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Is the Doctor's mother a Weeping Angel?

In a fascinating wrinkle to the theory, one of the two shamed Time Lords in "The End of Time" was later confirmed by Russell T. Davies to be The Doctor's mother. This means The Doctor's own parent could've been among the very first Weeping Angels.
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Who is the female Time Lord in the end of time?

In the final script, the identity of the Woman is not revealed. In a March 2009 email reprinted in Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter, on pages 622-623, Russell T Davies states that he created the character as the Doctor's mother and that this is what actress Claire Bloom was told when she was cast.
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