Doctor Who/Characters/New Series Doctors

In General

• Adorkable: It came and went with Classic Doctors, but it's become permanent in the new series.
  • The Ninth Doctor, easily the most serious of all the Doctors, head-bopped to Soft Cell in "The End of the World" and had two uncomfortable first attempts at dancing in "The Doctor Dances". Also the moments of slightly awkward, raw emotional honesty ("I could save the world but lose you."; "You just assume I'm... You just assume I don't... 'dance'.") and the sweet, childlike glee and fanboyish squee he's capable of.
  • The Tenth Doctor is particularly Adorkable when he whips out the Purely Aesthetic Glasses.
  • Words of Writer and Actor have described Eleven as thinking he's much cooler than he really is. See "WHO DA MAN?!" and "Bow Ties Are Cool!" Also, his dance moves.
• Berserk Button: He HATES Daleks. How much depends on the Doctor: Ten was more willing to forgive, while Nine and Eleven hate them with a passion.
  • Nine is by far the most. Whereas Eleven tries to negotiate/scare them into fleeing (granted, after attacking a tea-bearing Dalek with a spanner), Nine flies into a rage and stays that way.
  • Twelve starts out hating them but later just seems to become annoyed by them.
• Big Damn Kiss: Started with Nine's final episode.
• Catch Phrase: "Run!". Nine, Ten, and Eleven all have used this on multiple occasions.
  • The Ninth Doctor's first line in the revived series was actually "Run!"
  • The Tenth Doctor often gave this as a suggestion to his opponents.

• Hurting Hero
• Just Friends: Strives for this after losing Rose Tyler. It works well enough, on his end, until he meets Clara.
• The Knights Who Say Squee: Though Classic Series Doctors loved to name-drop, they were much more low-key about meeting famous people. Nine had his first big Squee when he met Charles Dickens; Ten went into major squee Mode When He Met Captain Adelaide (though it was very much Played For Drama). And Eleven was reduced to actual incoherent squee noises when he finally realized who River Song was. Eleven also really enjoys watching Amy Squee over befriending Vincent van Gogh.
• Last of His Kind
• Living Relic
• Mr. Fanservice
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: He knows if there's a mole on his back! And he can regrow limbs in the first phase of his regeneration cycle, or whatever! And he can relate his entire life story by head-butting you. This is more common in the new series, where writers have toyed around with the implications of regeneration.
• Precursor Killer
• Sad Clown
• Stepford Smiler
• Survivor Guilt: The Ninth Doctor left the Time War with a Thousand-Yard Stare. The Tenth and Eleventh also suffer this on occasion, the Tenth in particular after the loss of Rose and the Eleventh after Rory dies.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Bananas have been popular with Nine , Ten and Eleven, and all three use the fruit to distract overly gun-happy people with.
• Where I Was Born and Razed: "I was the only one who could end it. And I tried, I did, I tried everything…"

The War Doctor

"Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame."

Played by: John Hurt (2013)

• Badass Pacifist: A Time Lord soldier notes that, despite the trope below, the War Doctor usually went into battle unarmed. It's noteworthy that the only time he grabs a gun, he never shoots anyone with it. And while he's often drawn with one in the comics, he's never actually seen firing it.
• Batman Grabs a Gun: The whole point of this incarnation. The Time War was so awful that the universe had no need of a doctor but a warrior.
• Beard of Sorrow: Notably the only Doctor to have any form of facial hair.
• Byronic Hero
• Dark Secret: To the post-Time War Doctors.
• Deadpan Snarker: Good lord. Everything to him is an excuse for snark.
• Death Seeker: Claims to have no desire to live beyond the Time War.
• The Dreaded: The Daleks always fear the Doctor but they're really sacred of this one.
• Go Out with a Smile: He regenerates knowing that, just for a brief second, he did save Gallifrey and gets to be the Doctor again.
• Freudian Excuse: He is this for Nine, Ten and Eleven being Manchilds. He was an adult and lived through horrible things in the Time War so they retreated behind the masks of goofy children.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Subverted. It's just the Time Lord High Council (being huge glory hogs) who hate him. The rest of the planet is incredibly grateful for everything he did.
• Hurting Hero: He's the living incarnation of this. A Doctor who has to fight and kill instead of heal.
• I Did What I Had to Do: The other Doctors fully acknowledge that he made the best of an impossible situation but they still don't view destroying Gallifrey as right.
• Informed Attribute: Though he certainly has a higher death toll than the other Doctors, he's very rarely more ruthless than any of his other incarnations. A few characters, even the Twelfth Doctor, have commented on this.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Clara Oswald. Granted all of the Doctor's friendships with humans qualify as this, but he's notably formed a close bond with a future companion. It's even implied that Nine got his Northern Accent from the Warrior thinking of Clara as he died.
• Retcon: His existence disproves the fandom belief of the Eight Doctor fighting the Time War and bumps the subsequent Doctors up one number in the regeneration cycle.
• That Man Is Dead: Insists that he's not the Doctor anymore despite pretty much everyone else calling him that.
• Unperson: Until "The Day of the Doctor", his successors don't want to think about him. Clara Oswald was the first companion to know about him and when she started travelling with the Doctor, it had been four hundred years since the Time War. It's reflected by his successor saying he's the ninth incarnation. After "The Day of the Doctor" however, Eleven proudly acknowledges him as having been the Doctor.

Ninth Doctor

Time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guidebook, you've gotta throw yourself in! Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers - or is that just me?

Played by: Christopher Eccleston (2005)

Riddled with Survivor Guilt from the Time War, the Ninth Doctor was dark and moody at times, but also at times lovably affable and showing great affection and empathy for people. He was prone to mood swings, vacillating between Nice Guy and Jerkass within the breadth of the same conversation. Most normally-dressed Doctor, with close cropped hair and beat-up leather jacket. A much more street-smart Doctor than previous versions, even outright stating that he doesn't "do domestic". Made a Heroic Sacrifice the Fifth would be proud of, and was generally fantastic. Not counting Eight, Nine has had the shortest tenure on the series out of all the other Doctors.

• Adventure Rebuff: Rose. Mickey and Adam in a shorter version.
• Always Save the Girl: Protecting Rose is an instinct even stronger than his hatred of Daleks, or wanting to protect the entire planet. Initially seems to be limited to girls when he leaves Jack behind (which Jack later quite vocally complains about), but it turns out that the TARDIS just fundamentally disagreed with Jack after he Came Back Wrong.
• The Atoner
• Back-to-Back Badasses: With Rose on the Series 1 box art.
• Badass Arm-Fold: Nine loves a good brood. Played for hilarity when he stood under a reality television Death Ray and dared the producers to dust him.
• Badass Boast: "Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld? 'The Oncoming Storm'. You may have removed all your emotions, but I bet that deep down in your DNA there's one spark left, and that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me?"

• Break the Cutie: Broken. During the Last Great Time War the Eighth Doctor regenerated into a warrior who caused the death of his entire race and the Ninth Doctor is trying to get over that.
• Byronic Hero: Subverted, inverted, averted, and played straight, depending on the episode.
• Catch Phrase: "Fantastic!"
• Changed My Jumper: Trope Namer.
• Character Development: Thanks to Rose, he softens and becomes much less rude and angry toward the end of his life.
• Chewing the Scenery: His rant about the end of the Time War to the Dalek in "Dalek":
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Can often come across as this with respect to Rose.
• Death Glare: He could make you feel very sorry indeed, doesn't matter if you're a villain or a misbehaving Companion.
• Death Seeker: The Ninth has subtle shades of this in his first few appearances; after the Time War, he seems almost gleeful at the prospect of mortal danger.
  • Unless he dies in a dungeon... in Cardiff.

• Depending on the Writer: "The Day of the Doctor" establishes that the War Doctor is 800 years old which would suggest the Ninth Doctor lived for a century prior to Aliens of London. Despite this, he's often referred to as the shortest lived Doctor meaning he either lived for a few months or 100 years.
• Distressed Dude: For being in only 13 episodes, he got captured and cornered quite often. Plus, he was shackled and shirtless in a scene in "Dalek".
• Doesn't Like Guns: But has an in-depth knowledge about them and will (try to) use the most powerful BFG he can find if Daleks are involved or someone harmed Rose. And he won't forbid others to use them, if the enemy really is a threat.
• Dramatic Irony: He's plagued by guilt for destroying Gallifrey but in reality, he never did such a thing.
• The Dreaded: To the point where in his presence, even the Daleks took a step back to try to get away from him.
• Everybody Lives: Trope Namer.
• Famous Last Words: "You were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I."
• Guile Hero: Definitely qualifies as this.
• Hell-Bent for Leather
• He Who Fights Monsters
• Hidden Depths: In the first few episodes, he is very aloof and stand offish with Rose, then he slowly reveals what happened in the Time War to her and why he's sometimes a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
• Irony: When regenerating, the War Doctor wished for smaller ears. Everyone will comment on how big Nine's ears are.
• It's All My Fault: There's hardly an episode where he doesn't end up apologizing to someone for getting them killed, failing to save somebody else, or just snapping at someone he likes. It gets especially Egregious in "The Unquiet Dead". He'll even apologize first if the other party in a quarrel is the one who first messed up. Though he expects the same kind of owning up to your mistakes from everyone else, and heaven help you if you don't
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Nice as he is, he got really picky with who he let into the TARDIS.
  • As the people he didn't like initially or let in only reluctantly were all guys Rose had become interested in, this could also be seen as a mild, male form of Clingy Jealous Girl. Note that he was perfectly okay with Jack as soon as the man started flirting with them both, instead of threatening to seduce Rose into leaving.
  • He also has a tendency to shift between varying levels of Nice Guy and Jerkass depending on his level of respect for the party in question. For instance, he is generally a nice guy to Rose except for the time she cocked up history in "Father's Day" and most people he meets by default, but if the party in question is antagonistic or smug from the get go, his Jerkass side comes out, hence why he has zero patience for Jackie Tyler. Finally, in a variation, if he's dealing with someone who thinks they are smarter than than they really are (or are someone he's trying to piss off on purpose), he shifts into being a really pleasant sounding smartass.
  • Despite Twelve's I Hate Past Me attitude, he often expresses fondness for this incarnation.
• Jerkass: At his worst, Nine can be awful to anyone who's not Rose Tyler or Jack Harkness. Mickey even says that, despite some few nice moments, he hated the Ninth Doctor while loving the Tenth.
  • Jerkass Realization: In the comics, when he meets a Tenth Doctor-era Mickey, Nine comes to terms with a douche he can be and how he uprooted Mickey's life.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Starts out as this, until the universe decides to show mercy for once.
• Living Forever Is Awesome: Averted; its just part of his Stepford Smiler act. He puts on a show of how great it is to travel all over the place and have adventures and save people forever when he's a border Death Seeker.
• Love Triangle: With Jack and Rose. Jack and Rose are both in love with the Doctor, and also fancy each other. The Doctor cares about Rose in his own way, but the show leaves it ambiguous whether it's deep friendship or romantic love, and the Doctor Cannot Spit It Out either way. All three pairings get sweet and emotional kissing scenes.
• Morality Chain: Needs one when faced with Daleks (at least the first time).
  • Rose is this to him. He doesn't seem to care all that much about his own survival, but he'll stop at nothing to keep her safe and bring her back home if she's in danger.
• No Indoor Voice
• Not So Different: To the Daleks.
• Oop North: "Lots of planets have a North!", and the Trope Namer for the quote.
• Out of Focus: He's featured the least in multi-Doctor comic events and is outright absent from others.
• Rousing Speech: To inspire individual people. Usually in the form of a quiet, understated Dare to Be Badass or, if that doesn't work, scathing Reverse Psychology (for example in "The Long Game"). It has more impact than usual because the Ninth Doctor can be quite cynical about humanity as a whole, so you know it's not just general idealistic gushing.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Though after their first few days traveling together, Rose is usually the one more vocal with the denial. Complete with Everyone Can See It (Even the Daleks!) and Shipper on Deck (Jack: "You two are so sweet. [...] Continue with what you were... doing.")
• Stepford Smiler: Half the time, that lovely smile of his is a put-on meant to make others feel at ease. This means that someone is in a lot of trouble when he decides not to bother.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Blows up a department store, causes the last pure human to combust, bombs Downing Street (well, okay, that last one was Mickey, but the Doctor gave him the code to do so), allows a medium to blow up a house on top of the Rift, overheats the Mighty Jagrafess, and was at Krakatoa (offscreen). The Ninth Doctor loves explosions. Rose lampshades that it's how he communicates.
• Survivor Guilt
• Thousand-Yard Stare: After something particularly horrific has happened or when he's talking about the Time War and his Survivor Guilt over the whole thing he'll often have a vacant, far-away, haunted expression.
• Tranquil Fury: Very good at this, when he's angry he becomes very calm.
  • The trailer for series 1 had him running down a corridor with the look of utmost serenity. Then around the corner, came the massive fireball...
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Only appeared in one series consisting of thirteen episodes.
• When He Smiles: Generally rough and angular features, though handsome. But all the flaws just disappear with that truly glorious smile.
• World of Cardboard Speech: At the end of "Bad Wolf" - though it's also for Rose's benefit.

Tenth Doctor

You need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up "genocide". You'll find a little picture of me there, and the caption'll read "Over my dead body"!

Played by: David Tennant (2005-10, 2013)

Beware the Nice Ones personified, the Tenth Doctor was rather manic: prone to speaking very quickly, peppering his speech with pop culture references and foreign words, and going off on long rambling tangents. Despite his bubbly personality, he could and did subject villains to a Fate Worse Than Death if they passed up the one chance at redemption he always offered them. He hated his past self for his actions in the Time War, and would become very cold whenever he was confronted with it. An accidental and often reluctant Chick Magnet, something that also applies to his actor. Considered by many fans to be one of the greatest Doctors.

As a result of technically regenerating twice, Eleven describes it as vanity issues, he counts as two incarnations of the Doctor, bumping up all his successors incarnation by two.

• The Ace: Where the Eleventh Doctor tries to be cool, Steven Moffat has said the Tenth Doctor is genuinely cool.
• Ambiguous Innocence: Certainly seems more innocent than his previous incarnation, but is later revealed to be a little on the Cute and Psycho side.
  • His more child like nature also winds up being the cause of a lot of his suffering throughout his run on the show.
• Apologises a Lot: Whenever he realizes that someone's about to die.
• Ascended Fanboy: Both meta and canon, as in "Time Crash" he gushes to the fifth Doctor that he had modeled his regeneration after him.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Done with a clone of himself and Jackson Lake on two seperate occasions.
• Badass
• Badass Boast: "You're in the biggest library in the universe. Look me up!"
  • Also, "What do monsters have nightmares about?" "Me."
• Badass Grandpa: Got turned into one (appearance wise) briefly by The Master
• Badass Longcoat: Given to him by Janis Joplin.
• Badass Minds Think Alike: With the two mentioned above, neither really coordinated their activities with him all that much but since they had his memories, it wasn't all that hard to figure out how to work in sync on the fly.
• Badass Normal: During his stint as John Smith.
• Beware the Nice Ones: The Family of Blood found this out the hard way....
  • So did the Sycorax leader, the Abzorbaloff, the Wire, the Cybermen, the Racnoss children, the Carrionites, and the Weeping Angels, the Daleks and the Sontarans, with varying degrees of deadness or worse-than-deadness.
• Big Damn Kiss: Practically his signature move. However, Russell T. Davies typically included some kind of excuse for him to do so, in order to keep the fans happy. To date: Cassandra (she kissed him), Reinette (she kissed him), Martha (to distract aliens with his DNA on her), Joan (he wasn't himself), Astrid (she kissed him, and then he kissed her into stardust to thank her), Donna (she kissed him, because he would die unless he was "shocked"), Rose (it was his half-human clone) and Lady Christina (she kissed him).
  • Russell T. Davies deliberately started this trope Played for Laughs with Cassandra, because he wanted people to get used to the idea that the Doctor can be kissed.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: Borrows his previous incarnation's catchphrase "Fantastic!" at the end of "The Christmas Invasion" to subtly remind Rose that he's still the same person she first met.
• Break the Cutie: Good lord. Notable moments include almost being murdered in "Midnight", being forced to become a father very suddenly, seeing another version of himself commit genocide on the Daleks all over again, saying goodbye to Donna, and all of "The Waters Of Mars".
• Byronic Hero: He develops into this as the show progresses. Not surprising after all the times he got broken and losing his companions.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Is absolutely incapable of telling Rose how he feels about her. His half-Donna clone whispers it into her ear, but we never hear it.
  • "Tell Rose, tell her... Oh, she knows."
  • "And I suppose... Since it's my last chance to say it... Rose Tyler, I--"
  • "Does it really need saying?"
• Cartwright Curse: Chick Magnet...of Doom!
• Catch Phrase: "Brilliant!", "Allons-y!", "Molto bene!"
  • "Well..."
  • Sorry... I'm so sorry...
  • Don't forget his very very exaggerated "HOHYES!"
• Character Development: He starts off as a kind, cheerful, adventure-loving chap with a motormouth. None of this goes away completely, and is still very prevalent in his character. However, as more and more people start to die around him, and as he loses Rose, pushes Martha away inadvertently, and is eventually forced to wipe Donna's memories, he slowly and subtly starts to develop a darker side. He gains an almost obsessive desire for saving people and preventing death at any cost to him.
• Character Tics: Glasses on, glasses off, glasses on, glasses off... Played With in "Doomsday", when his new glasses actually do something. Also shifts his jaw a lot.
• Chekhov's Hand: Who knew that after getting his hand cut off in '05, we'd see the Doctor's severed hand again all the way at the end of Series 4 in '08...?
• Chewing the Scenery: "The Laws of Time are mine and THEY WILL OBEY ME!"
• Chick Magnet: Yes. And hates it after a while. He even temporarily stops taking on companions because they keep falling in love with him, or having their lives ruined by him, or both. Effortlessly and very accidentally seduces anyone he meets, ranging from Cassandra to the freaking Madame de Pompadour. He even shagged Queen Elizabeth I.
• Crazy Awesome: In-universe, as Donna lampshades in "Fires of Pompeii".
• Death Seeker: He catches a bit of this after his separation from Rose. Especially in series 4, where he regularly attempts heroic sacrifices and puts his life in danger. Ironically, at the very end of his life, he realizes that this is exactly the opposite of what he wanted all along.
• Depending on the Writer: Whether he lived for 6 years or 106 years. See the Ninth Doctor's entry for more details.
• Disorganized Outline Speech: Twice.
• Distressed Dude: Not as frequent as his predecessors, but still continuing the tradition.
• Don't Make Me Destroy You
• Dying Alone
• Even the Guys Want Him
• Expy: Of Zero.
• Famous Last Words: "I don't wanna go."
• Fingertip Drug Analysis: Often skips the fingertips and licks the "evidence" directly. This comes back to bite him when, at one point, the "evidence" turns out to be dust made of corpses.
• Flanderization: Overtime, his pacifism reached ridiculous levels to the point where he was appalled that companions were willing to cause untold death to stop the Daleks from destroying the universe. And after that, he treats his clone like a monster for destroying all the Daleks even though their army could have conquered the galaxy through sheer numbers. Sure genocide and killing are wrong but those were Daleks. Worse than that is he seemingly planned to just leave them there with a universe destroying machine that they very well could have reactivated and restarted their whole plan with.
• Flat What / Big "What?": It's almost a Catch Phrase.
• Geek Physique: Of the skinny variety.
• Gibbering Genius: Especially when things get stressful.
• A God Am I: In "The Waters of Mars", he has a five-minute period where he decides that, as the last Time Lord, he now decides all the laws of time. It is terrifying and awesome in equal measure.
  • Screw the Rules, I Make Them
• Good Thing You Were In The First Fifteen Hours Of Your Regeneration Cycle
• Godzilla Threshold: Tied direct to his hatred of guns in that he tries to avoid them if at all possible. You know he feels this trope is met when he either tolerates others using guns or he himself picks one up.
• Heel Realization: Has perfected being a Technical Pacifist, and eventually -- eventually -- realizes that this can be much worse than directly killing people.
• Heroes Want Redheads: "Loves a redhead, our naughty Doctor... Has he told you about Elizabeth I? Well, she thought she was the first."
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Hot Scientist
• Hotblooded Sideburns
• I Always Wanted to Say That: "Take me to your leader" and "Allons-y Alonzo"
• I Hate Past Me: The Tenth Doctor finds his previous incarnation -- the hate-filled soldier who fought in the Time War -- abhorrent; this affects how he responds to Jenny and Clone!Doctor.
• Innocently Insensitive: As part of his new Motor Mouth, The Doctor now tends to say what's on his mind as soon as it enters it, making him quite rude at times. He often recognizes this mid sentence. "Am I being rude again?"
• I Was Quite a Fashion Victim: His response to Five's celery stalk corsage.
• I'm Mr. Future Pop Culture Reference: "I Am Spartacus" joke in "The Fires of Pompeii", among others.
• It's All About Me: The Tenth Doctor was very comfortable being himself and was loathe to regenerate. When he first regenerated, he used the energy to heal himself but then shunted the rest into his spare hand before regenerating again in "The End of Time" meaning he used up two of his regenerations. Eleven later referred to it as "vanity issues".
• Keet: Provided he's in a good mood rather than being angry or angsty, the only box on the Keet checklist he can't tick is "short" (he's 6'1" according to IMDB).
• Kill'Em All: Same problem as the Fifth. Quite a lot of them are Heroic Sacrifices, too.
• Let's Get Dangerous: He usually comes off as a scatterbrained goofball until things really start to get serious or one of his Berserk Buttons is pressed, at which point Beware the Nice Ones comes into full effect.
• Living Emotional Crutch: To Rose Tyler. She feels she lost him when he regenerated and she becomes very desperate to hold onto him.
• Martyr Without a Cause: On many occasions.
• Master of the Mixed Message: Yes. Just ask Rose. As a result of the whole Rose thing, he's extremely clear to both Martha and Donna that they should not fall in love with him, and that they'll be kicked out of the TARDIS if they do... but of course, this never works out as neatly as he plans it. Jack and Martha both lament that the Doctor keeps making them fall in love with him, then acts completely oblivious to it.
• Messianic Archetype: Evokes a lot of Christian imagery, and re-enacts multiple Bible scenes, especially whenever he's on New Earth. Seems to be aware of it in "Voyage Of The Damned", when he commands the robotic angels to carry him up to the control room.
• Mind Rape: Both given and received. What he was forced to do to Donna continues to haunt him.
• Morality Chain: It's outright stated that he needs his Companions in order not to act cruelly or give in to his god complex and become The Unfettered. Only Donna seems to realise this and (eventually) successfully fulfill this role by frequently asking What the Hell, Hero?.
• Motor Mouth: At times, especially when he gets excited.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Was usually thrilled to meet new and bizarre monsters, often calling them "beautiful". Queen Vicky had a problem with this, and banished him and Rose from the kingdom for treating deadly aliens threats as fun and games.
• Not Himself: Has been possessed, brainwashed, DNA-altered, cloned and generally displaced more than any other Whoniverse character.
• Not So Different: The Tenth and The Master often are depicted as such, particularly in Waters of Mars when the Doctor flat-out becomes him for a brief moment with the quote "The laws of time are mine! And they will obey me!"
• Oral Fixation Fixation: Oh yes.
• Preemptive Apology: So often that it's a Catch Phrase.
• Promoted Fanboy: David Tennant, a child during the era of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors, decided to become an actor at age three largely because of Doctor Who.
  • Cranked Up to Eleven when he was fortunate enough to perform opposite his favorite Doctor (Five) and say so in character.
    • Taken Up to Eleven Million when he acted opposite Davison's daughter, proposed to her (making him Five's eventual son-in-law), and now has a child with her. Currently the undisputed champion of Promoted Fanboy.
• Prophecy Twist: "He will knock four times."
• Resuscitate the Dog: His Heroic Sacrifice had strong overtones of this.
• Rousing Speech: Good at these. Tends to occasionally get lost a bit on the way though.
• She's Not My Girlfriend: A running gag with Donna. For once, it's absolutely true, and they really are Platonic Life Partners. (Which is why, when he needs a "shock" to save his life, her snogging him does the trick quite well. They never speak of it again.)
• Shipper on Deck: Usually tells Jack Harkness to stop flirting with everyone, but eventually plays wingman to hook Jack up with Midshipman Alonso Frame.
• Shirtless Scene: In "The Stolen Earth/Journey's End". (Actually a naked scene, but we only get to see his upper half.)
• Sociopathic Hero: Turned into this briefly during "The Waters Of Mars", being heroic (if arguably so) and disturbing in equal measure. Also, while this is ordinarily a Badass subtrope, it's done so as an utterly disturbing deconstruction.
• Specs of Awesome
• Stepford Smiler: Something which Donna frequently lampshades.
• Slasher Smile: Briefly adopts one when the goes off the deep end during "Waters of Mars".
• Sword Fight: Right after regenerating, the Doctor takes on the leader of an alien invasion force in a Christmas invasion.
• Tranquil Fury: And No Indoor Voice. He's loud when he's in a good mood and quiet when he's pissed off.
• Trauma Conga Line: Ten's entire career could be described this way--which is saying a LOT considering the Doctor in general.
• Truly Single Parent: To Jenny, a daughter-clone harvested from his cells in "The Doctor's Daughter". Is not happy about being forced into parenthood at gunpoint.
  • Almost-single parent to The Doctor Clone, who is technically the offspring of him and Donna.
• Unkempt Beauty: He'd be a Sharp-Dressed Man if he did his tie up and stopped wearing trainers. David Tennant intentionally skipped different buttons each episode.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Breaks his own rules in "The Waters of Mars" by saving the people whose death would have inspired the human race to spread out into space. Is called out on it in the most horrific way possible: The key person who was supposed to die fully understands what happened, and quietly walks off to kill herself. Which leads to the Doctor having a nervous breakdown.
• Wicked Cultured: Acknowledged in "Fires of Pompeii" when he easily wins a verbal sparring match with Lucius Petrus Dextrus, who notes that the Doctor clearly shows himself to be a man of learning.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Appears tired of his existence and actively suicidal at times (especially during Series 3), but also desperately runs from "death" when his time seems to be up.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Invoked countless times over the course of his six years. As soon as he thought he'd finally triumphed over it, someone knocks four times...

Eleventh Doctor

Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a madman with a box!

Played by: Matt Smith (2010-2013)

Frequently tripping over his own tangled thoughts, words and limbs, Eleven is definitely a lot more alien when compared to Ten. But he's also quite friendly and personable, and still very liable to snap into Tranquil Fury mode if you annoy him. He has a distinct air of an old man in a young man's body, enjoying his unexpected youth and hopping and skipping all over the place. Takes a lot of inspiration from Two in behaviour and in appearance.

• Absent-Minded Professor: This Doctor tends to be very flighty at times. Most notably in "The Lodger", when he has to pretend to be a normal human while being a bit distracted by having to save the universe.
  • His outfit of choice essentially evokes this .
• Adorkable: Extremely.
• Adult Child: Best exemplified in "A Christmas Carol" when the psychic paper fails to say that the Doctor is "universally recognised as a mature and responsible adult" because that lie is just too big.
• Allergic to Routine: Linear time doesn't agree with him, and he actively hates having to wait for things in chronological order, or having to bother remembering the natural order of centuries when talking to humans.
• Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Quite a lot.
• Awesomeness By Analysis: The Doctor's instant-replay vision in "The Eleventh Hour", "A Christmas Carol" and "Let's Kill Hitler."
• Back-to-Back Badasses: With River.
• Badass: Just look below at all the subcategories he qualifies for!
• Badass Army: Can assemble an impressive one.
• Badass Boast: Seems quite fond of these: "Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically... run."
  • Arguably the best comes in "The Pandorica Opens":

"Look at me! No plan, no backup, no weapons worth a damn. Oh, and something else I don't have. Anything. To. Lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica, tonight, just remember who's standing in your way. Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, AAAAAND THEN... do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first."

• Badass Family By the end of "The Wedding Of River Song, he's married to River, and Amy and Rory are his mother-in-law and father-in-law!
• Badass Grandpa: He's 906 when he starts life and starts again after about 300 years to the point of losing all his hair and needing glasses and a cane when he reaches the end of his life at 2000 years old.
• Badass Longcoat: Starts wearing an awesome, suitably long, green coat as of "Let's Kill Hitler".
• Batman Gambit: In "Day of the Moon", he has one in mind from the beginning. Neil Armstrong's foot. Or, to flesh it out a bit further, capture a Silent, wait until it says something he can use against them - in this case, "You should kill us all on sight." - then have it broadcast when Neil Armstrong arrives on the Moon, reaching as many people as possible. The Silence's post-hypnotic influence takes care of the rest.
• Battle Couple: With River
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Apparently he's the inspiration for the Easter Island statues.
• Berserk Button: If you do anything to mess with the Doctor's True Companions just to try to hurt him, God help you.
  • It's also a bad idea to mock him. When Angel Bob mentioned that he died afraid and alone, breaking a promise that the Doctor made to non-Angel Bob, and began taunting the Doctor about it, the Doctor didn't just defeat the Weeping Angels, he wiped them from history and made sure they never even existed.
  • Also, do not ever even suggest that someone, anyone, is not just as important as everyone else.
  • It's not a very good idea to mess with his TARDIS, as the Silence and House learned.
  • The Doctor's reaction to being fooled that there were other living Time Lords on House's asteroid and that some of the dead were his very close friends;

Doctor: You gave me hope and then took it all away. That would make anyone dangerous, God knows what it would do to me! Basically... RUN!

• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Rory's Betty, though not intentionally.
• Beware the Nice Ones: "Day of the Moon". Up until this episode, the Eleventh has been a silly and giddy character. This changes once the final confrontation with the Silence occurs, whereupon he tells them he plans on giving them a chance to repent. He was lying. He had no intention of letting them go and, as punishment for kidnapping Amy, and causing his TARDIS to explode in The Big Bang, he arranges their genocide.
  • What he did to the Weeping Angels. See above.
  • This Doctor attacked a Dalek with a spanner.
  • Series 6: Amy and her baby are kidnapped and taken to a base on an asteroid. The Doctor blows up an entire legion of Cyberships to prove a point, then assembles an army to storm the base.
  • And when he finds one of the people responsible, he doesn't stop at just forcing a retreat. He forces the Colonel to tell his troops to run away just to humiliate him (see Berserk Button). Ouch.
  • He's not always nice to his companions, either. In 'The Impossible Astronaut' he becomes very pissed off at his friends, after losing Melody he becomes adamant and demanding to River, and basically the entirety of 'The Girl Who Waited' is him manipulating his companions.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He can be quite the goofball, but if you manage to drain all the humor out of him and piss him off, you (or your race) will wind up rather gratuitously dead or given a Fate Worse Than Death.
• Bi the Way: Steven Moffat has, by now, explicitly stated that the Doctor doesn't care about words like "gay" or "straight" and has some trouble grasping what they mean. Eleven is the first Doctor to actively try kissing a male companion (in the TV show, at least -- Eight beat him to it in the novels), but fails.
• Big Damn Kiss: After over 700 years of deep mutual love, he finally gets to kiss the TARDIS. Who promptly bites him on the ear.
• Blatant Lies: "Rule one: the Doctor lies." He doesn't lie about lying, though.
• Buffy-Speak: "Big flashy lighty thing," among others.
• Bow Ties Are Cool: Trope Namer.
  • Also, unlike regular ties, they don't allow your companion to grab them and then trap you in a car door.
• The Cast Showoff: The football match in "The Lodger" highlights that Matt Smith was headed to be a professional footballer before he had a career-ending injury.
• Catch Phrase:
  • "Bow Ties Are Cool".
  • The occasional utterance of "It's a thing...", usually referring to one of his many Indy Ploys.
  • "I wear (item of clothing) now. (Items of clothing) are cool." Says it about a fez in The Big Bang, and about a stetson in The Impossible Astronaut.
    • A variation: X's are cool.
  • "It's an X. Love an X."
  • "Come along Pond(s)!"
    • "Come along, Bitey!" -- to a Cybermat.
  • Much like Ten's Preemptive Apology, Eleven's "Trust me" crops up now and again.
  • "Imagine a... but don't, because it's nothing like that."
  • "Rubbish."
  • "Shut up!"
• Character Tics: The Eleventh has many noticable ones, such as spinning a whole 270 degrees right in order to turn to simply left, dashing a few steps beyond someone (often a few steps up a flight of stairs) when he approaches them, walking or standing with his arms straight down, generally flailing, doing entirely unrelated stuff with his hands while he's kissing someone, holding up both his index fingers when he explains things (often while spinning), slouching smugly in a chair when he's talking to a villain, shifting his jaw when he's upset and scratching his face when he's utterly perplexed.
• Chick Magnet: In a completely different way than Ten, half of the time he appears to be completely oblivious to people hitting on him.
• Comically Missing the Point: After winning a football match, a team member says that they'll annihilate their next opponents if the Doctor plays with them. The Doctor then rants about how he won't tolerate that for about ten seconds before he realizes what the man meant.
• Contrived Coincidence / There Are No Coincidences: A Meta-example. Matt Smith is listed as Matt Smith (XI) on the IMDb.
• Cool Old Guy: Despite appearing young he seems to style himself as this. "Don't let the cool gear fool you, I am getting on a bit."
• Covert Pervert: He cannot keep his hands off Clara to the point where the girl probably has indents of his hands on her hips. He also seems to like slapping her big butt and is very eager about hugging her, especially when they're naked in the snow.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: He handles it much better than Nine but he really doesn't like anyone coming between him and Clara.
• Cuddle Bug
• Dark Secret: Until he's backed into a corner and forced to tell Clara the truth, he hides the fact that he's on his last incarnation.
• Dating Catwoman: He's currently Happily Married to a self-professed psychopath raised to assassinate him! She actually succeeds. Sort of.
• Deadpan Snarker: Happy chap, but quite capable of dropping the snark when the situation calls for it.
• Death Seeker: In a different way than Nine and Ten. The Doctor honestly appears tired of his long life by this point, he wants to be around to save everyone he can but is more than willing to sacrifice himself to the multiverse in Series 5 and ''time itself'' in Series 6. Before he gets his new regenerations, he's resigned to dying.
• Despair Event Horizon: After having seen his future tomb in The Name of the Doctor and being totally out of regenerations, he doesn't even try to fight the Daleks and walks up to be exterminated. Then the Time Lords give him a new regeneration cycle and his fighting spirit returns.
• Determinator: He takes a stand at Trenzalore to not only defend the inhabitants but the Time Lords who want to return to the universe from the myriad of hostiles races. He stays there for 900 years and ages to the point of natural death.
• Dissimile: Used so often it's a Catch Phrase.
• Distracted by the Sexy: When pondering the mystery of what Clara is, he trails off when he remembers her Hartman Hips.
• Distressed Dude: By the end of "The Pandorica Opens" Eleven is shoved inside the Pandorica by the enemy alliance and bolted inside.
• The Dreaded: Often invokes this, when he's involved, basically run!
  • Horribly deconstructed in Series 6, where this reputation comes back to kick him in the ass.
• Everything's Better with Spinning: Loves stuff that spins. Has a habit of spinning around a little when he goes from one topic to the next. Tends to turn a full 270 degrees to simply go left.
• Failed a Spot Check: With some frequency. A notable one after Rory very unexpectedly comes back from being erased from existence:
• Faking the Dead: In the Series 6 finale.
• Fate Worse Than Death: Can dish them out just as well as Ten, though (so far) not as frequently. Just ask the Weeping Angels or Colonel Run Away.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • Sanguine: Amy.
  • Choleric: River.
  • Melancholic: The Doctor.
  • Phlegmatic: Rory.
• Fun Personified: Really tries to be this, although much of it is a Stepford Smiler façade. Is especially fun and nice and happy towards Amy after Rory's first death, to the point where she gets suspicious of it.
• Gibbering Genius: In a slightly different way than Ten. Whereas Ten loves to talk about the inner mechanisms of things and bounce ideas off of his companions, Eleven's preferred method is to let his mouth run completely wild with questions and tangents until he arrives at an answer, while his companions shut. up.
• Guile Hero: Sometimes played in combination with his Trickster Mentor tendencies, sometimes not... this aspect of him becomes much more apparent in later episodes.
• Happily Married: To the TARDIS.
• Heroes Want Redheads: Mentions his love for gingers a few times, but, like Ten, mostly just wants to be one. When a manifestation of his dark thoughts and dreams shows up, it's quite clear that he's at least thought about Amy.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He drives the Pandorica back to the source of the explosion in order to reset the universe back to the way it was. Of course, he is brought back.
• He Who Fights Monsters: When his dark side manifests itself as a separate person, it's quite dark indeed.
• Iconic Item: The bow tie. The fez. The Stetson. Why? They're cool!
• It's All My Fault: Views the cracks in time as his fault considering it was his TARDIS that caused them.
• Indy Ploy: His absolute favourite way to solve stuff.
• Innocent Fanservice Guy: Has his moments.
• Irony: He started out with the youngest face of any Doctor and was the only one to die of old age and expend the natural life cycle of a Time Lord body.
• Jerkass Facade: When humans around him seem to be confused or losing hope, he sometimes employs Reverse Psychology and openly dismisses them as useless or unimportant. But his real intention is to encourage them to "prove him wrong".
• Keet: Bounces, hops, skips, flails, stumbles a lot and sometimes runs like a girl.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice
• Like Brother and Sister: Occasionally slips into this with Clara when she's not acting like his mother or he like her father.
• Like an Old Married Couple: His interactions with River Song and Clara Oswald smack of this.
• Love Triangle: Amy thinks she's in one with Rory and the Doctor. The Doctor tries to explain that he's 907, she's human, and Rory would really just like to marry her now. Provided that she's not actively trying to kiss him again, he's actually quite amused by it and tries to get Rory to see it all as a nice joke.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: "Oh an X! Love an X!"
• The Masochism Tango: Once he and River are married, they get along very well and happily date. Encounters where either of them isn't yet married to the other (due to their messed-up Timey-Wimey Ball) tend to go... less spectacularly, and involve a lot of snarking, yelling and lying at best and a lot of handcuffing, punching and assassinating on a bad day.
• Master of the Mixed Message: Not much better than his immediate predecessor, as Amy points out in "Meanwhile In The TARDIS Part 2" (DVD-only).
• The Matchmaker / Shipper on Deck: Between his efforts to ensure that Amy and Rory's relationship remains on track and his obvious efforts and glee when Craig and Sophie finally hook up, Eleven seems to like playing matchmaker.
  • He possibly does it again in "A Christmas Carol", though the chronology of that episode is even harder to work out than usual.
• Metaphorgotten: At least he notices when he's not making very much sense.
• The Midlands
• Moment Killer: "The Lodger". Almost all of it.
• Money to Throw Away: The Doctor very hastily attempting to pay rent.
• Motor Mouth: Constantly asks himself questions and tries to analyse situations by rapid-fire deduction, then stumbles over his own thoughts and keeps himself talking with more questions until he reaches an answer, which it turn leads to more questions.
• Nice Hat: Fezzes. But dons a Stetson every now and then.

• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Way to revive the Daleks, Doctor. Victory indeed.
  • At the end of "A Good Man Goes to War," River implies that his whole career is made of this, raising more enemies against himself and his loved ones with every new display of fearsomeness.
  • Again in "The Girl Who Waited" where he doesn't bother to check that there's a plague on the planet they land, and his attempts to save Amy just end up with creating a second, older and bitter Amy. Rory calls him out on this. Hard.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Maybe not to the extent of Ten, but his first reaction upon being surrounded by pale creepy girls with fangs who cast no reflections is one of utter glee.
• Obfuscating Insanity: Tied directly into his Cloudcuckoolander status.
• Out of Continues: Owing to hiding the War Doctor's existence and Ten's meta-crisis regeneration, Eleven is the last incarnation of the Doctor's natural regeneration cycle. Until he's stuck on Trenzalore he hides this fact.
• Papa Wolf: Several times for humanity as a whole.
• Promoted Fanboy: Averted; he's pretty much the first Doctor since Davison who didn't grow up watching Doctor Who. Helps that he was only seven when "Survival" was broadcast. Once he got cast, though, he watched the classic series and called up Steven Moffat to spend twenty minutes raving about Tomb of the Cybermen. Then asked to wear a bow tie.
• Reality Warper: Uses his ability to influence the past (and subsequently the present) very freely, particularly in "The Big Bang" and in "A Christmas Carol". Gets called out on it in the latter episode.
• Robo Ship: The Doctor and the TARDIS. Pretty much confirmed in-universe as of The Doctor's Wife.
• Running Gag: He so desperately wants a fez, as he mentions and wears one in "A Christmas Carol", and he demands one from the Secret Service in "The Impossible Astronaut". Even when he survives the second Big Bang and begins his rewind in "The Big Bang", one of his first thoughts is his desire to buy a new fez.
  • Hats in general, really.
• Security Cling: The Eleventh Doctor and Amy have a variation. Because Amy's story is one traumatic Break the Cutie moment after another, the Doctor develops a habit of clinging tightly to her and rubbing her back while delivering each new piece of bad news. Asking permission from her husband Rory every time, of course.
• Sherlock Scan: Eleven does this occasionally, most notably in The Beast Below and A Christmas Carol. Not surprising, considering who the executive producer is.
• Ship Tease: With Clara Oswald.
• Shirtless Scene: in "The Eleventh Hour".
  • Almost a case of Innocent Fanservice Guy, as Eleven only turned around and told Amy and Rory to look away if it bothered them. (Rory did. Amy did not.)
• Shower Scene: To add to the Shirtless Scene above, Eleven gets a shower scene, complete with shower singing and three minutes in nothing but a towel in "The Lodger".
• Socially Awkward Hero: More scatterbrained than most previous incarnations (though still not quite as much as Four), and quite socially awkward as a result. Occasionally on purpose, because he really doesn't want to deal with Amy all the time.
• Squee: Makes actual squee noises when River Song finally reveals who she is. Then takes another long look at her and makes a few more.
• Stay in the TARDIS: The Eleventh Doctor seems particularly protective of Amy and is frequently given to ordering her to stay in the TARDIS. Naturally, she rarely listens.
• Stepford Smiler: Shows signs of this in Series 6. Justified by the fact that he's approaching his death. he's approaching the date of his death, and knows it.

• Team Dad: He even refers to Amy and Rory as "the kids", never mind that they eventually become his parents-in-law.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: As a lodger, he proves to be a handful. Justified in that he's very busy saving the universe, and can only do so out of that specific house.
• Trademark Favourite Food: He seems to have a fondness for jammy dodgers, used memorably in "Victory of the Daleks" and mentioned again in "The Impossible Astronaut" and in "Night Terrors" when he asks if there's any whilst making tea.
  • There's also fish fingers and custard. Amy uses it as a sort of Trust Password in "The Impossible Astronaut", and the TARDIS voice interface uses it to rally him in "Let's Kill Hitler".
• Trickster Mentor: Likes to dole out Secret Tests of Character.
• Tsundere: Sweet version towards River in "The Time of Angels" and especially near the end of "Flesh and Stone." Probably justified as when he's angriest is when he's worried about Amy.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Has this trope perfected at times. Is very calm about running into himself on occasion.
• Viking Funeral: His last testament instructs Rory and Amy to perform one. A Time Lord's remains are way too valuable to leave unattended on a hapless planet. Subverted when the Doctor is revealed to still be alive, and protected from the fire.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Rory, where half of their interaction revolves around trying to out-snark the other.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Not only did he see his own grave, without the full power of the Time Lords, he can't affect the reality altering paradox that comes from negating his own death. He's resigned to die but fortunately Clara isn't and convinces the Time Lords to get off their arse and give him more regenerations.

Twelfth Doctor

"“Winning?" Is that what you think it’s about? I’m not trying to "win". I’m not doing this because I want to beat someone — or because I hate someone, or because I want to blame someone. It’s not because it’s fun. God knows it’s not because it’s easy. It’s not even because it works because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it’s right! Because it’s decent! And above all, it’s kind! It’s just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live — maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey — maybe there’s no point in any of this, at all, but it’s the best I can do, so I'm going to do it — and I will stand here doing it until it kills me."

Played by: Peter Capaldi (2013-2017)

• Ace Pilot: Despite his regeneration messing up his knowledge of how to operate the TARDIS, he quickly proves himself the best pilot.
• Almighty Janitor: When he goes undercover as a janitor.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: In Dark Water, he says this to Clara.
• Back From the Dead: In The Doctor Falls, he detonates a whole deck to kill a group of Cybermen and dies soon after. Bill brings him back with her tears allowing his regeneration to restart and heal him.
• Badass Boast: Gives one to the Cybermen saying, no matter where they are in time and space, the Cybermen always lose as he runs across a field blowing them up. Then one of them shoots him in the back when he stands still for a moment.
• Badass Longcoat: He has two of them. Clara likes the one lined with red better.
• Batman Gambit:
  • Lets Davros leech some of his regeneration energy so it will revitalize the decayed Daleks in the sewers and they'll attack the living Daleks and Davros.
  • Spends 4.5 billion years, trapped in his confession dial so he can gain access to the Time Lord technology he needs to revive Clara.
• Being Good Sucks: See the quote above. He may get his hearts broken several times a week but he still helps out anyone he can just because it's a nice thing to do.
• Berserk Button:
  • If you so much as bump into Clara Oswald with malicious intent, you're likely to lose a large number of organs that you need to live.
  • War. After having fought in the Time War, he has no patience for it and loathes to see someone trying to start one.
  • Missy pushes this button pretty hard when she lies to him about Gallifrey's location (or more accurately, fails to provide the temporal coordinates). So much so that he silently batters the ever-living crap out of the freaking TARDIS, before breaking down emotionally.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: "They're attack eyebrows!"
• Composite Character: Personality wise he seems to take cues from all his original cycle of incarnations.
• Cool Shades: Sonic Sunglasses.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Like his predecessor, he doesn't like watching other men flirt with Clara.
• Cuddle Bug: While averted in Series 8, he dives right into it in Series 9.
• Deadpan Snarker: Dear lord, this guy qualifies. Literally nothing will keep the Doctor from snarking his way out of a situation. "Anyone for dodgems?"
• Death Seeker: He wants to "rest." Everyone he asks this to says it's his right to die if he wants to and the universe won't hold it against him.
• Despair Event Horizon: In The Doctor Falls, he's lost the chance to redeem the Master/Missy, has had to send Nardole away and believes Bill to be lost to the Cybermen. As such, he has no wish to regenerate and keep going. He eventually gets over it by seeing that there's still a lot of good he can do and that Bill and Nardole are preserved by the Testimony.
• Determinator: He let himself be tortured for 4.5 billion years so he could get Clara back.
• Future Me Scares Me: It's unclear how long he's been this incarnation (though it seems to be a few hundred years) but he's very resistant to the idea of regenerating and suppresses it as long as he can.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He changes the Cybermen assimilation protocol from human to Time Lord to thwart the Masters. One of the Cybermen grabs him and shocks him with such intensity that it triggers his regeneration.
• Hypocrite: While unwilling to regenerate, he has no problem triggering someone else's regeneration.
• I Hate Past Me: He's really not too fond of any of his past selves.
  • Averted for the Ninth Doctor who he seems to think of fondly. Likely due to both their predecessors regenerating in similar circumstances.
  • When it looks like Clara is dating someone who's very similar in appearance to the Eleventh Doctor however, he gives her his seal of approval.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: If Clara is going to be with Danny Pink, the Doctor will suck it up because she'll be happy.
• In-Series Nickname: Missy calls him "Eyebrows."
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Gets all his memories of Clara wiped in Hell Bent after nearly risking all of time/space to get her back. He views this as a suitable punishment and takes it with pride. Owing to Clara's unfamiliarity with Time Lord technology however, he slowly gets it back over the years and remembers her before his regeneration is triggered. The Testimony gives him all his memories of her back in perfect detail as a peace offering.
• Love Makes You Evil: The lengths he goes to to get Clara Oswald back make Ten's "Time Lord Victorious" look downright humble in comparison.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After the two flee Gallifrey, he starts to realize the horrible depths he's plunged to in his quest to get Clara back. It's why he views losing his memories of her as proper atonement, claiming he broke all his own rules and went way too far.
• Never Speak Ill of the Dead: No matter how much he may have disliked the person.
• Not So Different:
  • In the Four Doctors comic event, he frequently butts heads with the Tenth Doctor owing to their differing styles of heroism. Despite this, Twelve is as opposed to regeneration as Ten was.
  • In Series 9, he dresses not unlike his second incarnation.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: He swaps out his usual coat for an orange one being fully convinced Clara won't recognize him and is caught off-guard when she does.
• Promoted Fanboy: Peter Capaldi grew up watching the First Doctor. Fittingly, Twelve goes out after an adventure with One.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In Hell Bent, he goes on one against the Time Lord High Council for all the crap they've put him through, their bad leadership, their arrogance in the Time War, and playing a role in Clara's death. He outright says banning Rassilon from the planet is the absolute least of what he's going to unleash.
• Running Gag:
  • He cannot tell someone's age.
  • What is in his browser history?
• Self-Deprecation: Often prone to this.
• Strong Flesh Weak Steel: In The Doctor Falls, he detonates a whole deck of a starship to kill a platoon of Cybermen. When the dust settles, the Cybermen are dead and blackened and the Doctor dies soon after. But he's only slightly bruised when he should be just a collection of bones.
• Sympathy for the Devil: He would really like the Master to stand with him again. He also seems to have some sympathy for the Cybermen since they started out just as scared people who wanted to survive.
• Take a Third Option: After wondering whether or not he's a good man, he eventually decides he's neither good nor bad, just an idiot who passes through and helps out.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Literally. He gives a speech to the Half-Faced Man about something being changed so much and so often that nothing is left of the original. He then holds up a tray for the Half-Faced Man to examine himself only to see his face in the other side of the tray and realize his speech applies to himself as well.
• Took a Level In Kindness: From Deep Breath onward he becomes nicer and kinder. It's very jarring (and very heartwarming) to compare how he is in Series 8 and Series 9.
• Tranquil Fury: As Missy calls it "Mister Volcano."
• Troll: Eventually stops trying to tell River who he is and just goes along with being the companion until she can figure it out.
• Undying Loyalty: If it's within the realm of physics (and even if it's not he's still willing), he'll do it for Clara Oswald.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: He compares his long life to a battlefield and he's the only one left standing.

Thirteenth Doctor

Played by: Jodie Whittaker (2017-)

• Adorkable: Just look at her face when she gets her fez.
• Adult Fear: When she and her "fam" end up in 1950s Alabama, she's clearly terrified by the racial prosecution Yaz and Ryan might face.
• Ambiguously Gay: While Time Lords are bisexual as a whole, the Doctor has always seemed to prefer the company of women and that trend seems to have continued here.
• Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Much like Eleven, she can go on long tangents for no good reason.
• Badass Boast: Like her predecessor, she reminds the Cybermen of how many times she's defeated them.
• Badass Longcoat: Well it's actually Twelve's and he regenerated in it. She gets a grey one later on.
• Blatant Lies: Her Catchphrase of "It'll be fine."
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: As she says in her debut, she will never ignore someone in need of help.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Even by Doctor standards, she's a little out there.
• Doesn't Like Guns: And no, Ryan, she will not let that go.
• Double Standard: Will usually lampshade that her job is now twice as hard as it was when she was a man.
• Foil: To the Third Doctor. He was an old man trapped on Earth but she's a young woman who willingly comes back to that Sheffield suburb.
• Foreshadowing: The Doctor becoming a girl has been hinted at since it was established that Time Lords could change genders during regeneration.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Lost her sonic when she regenerated. She just goes to an auto-shop and builds a new one.
• Gender Bender: After thirteen male bodies, the Doctor gets to be a girl. To her credit, she takes the change in stride.
• Good Is Not Soft: Much like Two and Eleven, Thirteen is a giant ball of fun... until you push her too far. This woman roasted a Dalek in its casing and when that failed to kill it, she threw the mutant into a supernova.
• Moral Myopia: Often does Necessary Evil actions which she bans others from doing.
• OOC Is Serious Business: This Doctor is a lovable goofball... until she learns a Dalek is on Earth. Then it's all business.
• Oop North: Like Nine, it's implied to be from her predecessor thinking of Clara as he regenerated.
• Rummage Sale Reject: Literally how she makes her outfit.
• Sad Clown: The pain of losing Missy, Bill, and Nardole is still very evident in her early episodes.
• She Who Fights Monsters: Bitterly acknowledges she fell victim to this in her encounters with the Daleks.
• Thirteen Is Unlucky: After she pressed one button, the TARDIS fell apart from the damage of Twelve's regeneration and sent her falling above London.
• Took a Level In Kindness: Seems to have learnt from Twelve's doubts on his morality and goes out of her way to be a Technical Pacifist and offers second chances when she can.
• Troll: Enjoys ticking off villains with sarcasm.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: One of Thirteen's defining traits is that she always believes someone can rise up and be better than how they present themselves. Whether it's rewarded or not varies on the episode.