Twelfth Doctor


*The following article is written from an In Universe perspective.*

The Twelfth Doctor was renewed with a sense of optimism and adventure, after choosing to leave Gallifrey and explore the universe again.

Biography

Post-Regeneration

After ensuing himself into another battle with The Master, Eleventh Doctor challenged the Master to a mind bending contest and whoever won would gain control of The Sash of Rassilon. They met at the Outsider’s village at midday and the contest began. Eventually the Doctor lost, but Leela took his place and defeated the Master.

The strain killed the Doctor, but Ohilia revived him with a potion. The Doctor stood and walked out looking at the sunset. He smiled, stating “this is it”, and regenerated into his twelfth incarnation.

The new Twelfth Doctor confronted the also dying Master. The latter revealed that he was behind the Doctor’s exile many years ago. He regenerates into the incarnation that the Doctor first saw during his exile, much to the Doctor’s shock. The Master was sent off-world. (MOV: Doctor Who: Revelation)

The Doctor then spoke to The Rouge, as he spoke about continuing his run as Lord President, with a new face. However, as he entered his office - a woman who he would know later to be his future companion, Lizzie Clark jumped out of the window and killed herself. This, in turn would cause The Doctor to be labeled as a murderer - so he would have to leave the role of Lord President to the only suitable candidate, The Rouge. (DW: Mad World)

The Doctor made a speech at The Panopticon, to announce his resignation as President in favor of the Rogue. His final act was to give equal rights to the Outsiders.

Upon saying his goodbyes, he shed his ceremonial robes, and clad only in human clothing, he entered his TARDIS once more and sets off for new adventures. (MOV: Doctor Who: Revelation)

Meeting Angela Jensen

To be added. (DW: The Silurian Awakening)

Adventures with Angela

The Doctor tracked what he believed to be a n object of Shalkan origin to 1941 London, where, after Angela had wandered off, he discovered the TARDIS phone ringing; on the other side, there was a boy asking for his mother. Investigating further, he followed Nancy, a homeless young woman who was feeding homeless children by stealing from people's meals that were left fresh on their tables, as they hid during air raids. She was being chased by a child in a gas mask who was terrifying her and seemed to be endangering people. Nancy told the Doctor the "bomb that wasn't a bomb" landed near Limehouse Green station. Following Nancy's advice, the Doctor went to the nearby Albion Hospital. There, he found living dead creatures, with gas masks fused to their face, and identical symptoms, including a scar on the hand in the same place as the child that pursued Nancy.

Lt. Fassile, a Bellonsion who had found Angela, tracked down the Doctor, thinking that she was working with the Doctor, whom he believed to still be Lord President. He was convinced that they were there to help him and revealed that the object was a Gallifreyan Time ambulance, left over from the battle in the Medusa Cascade and that he wanted to sell it to the Time Lord high council before a German bomb could hit it, instead bringing the attention of the Doctor and Angela. Fassile teleported the Doctor and Angela to his ship, and they went to the bomb site near the hospital, where they realised the truth; the ambulance was in fact a Gallifreyan time ship and the Nanogenes in the ship had reanimated a dead boy and, due to their unfamiliarly with humans, had spread the Empty Child virus. The ambulance started its emergency protocols, calling in the creatures, who were ready to "tear the world apart" to find the boy's mother.

Every patient and soldier at the bombsite converged on the Doctor, Angela, Nancy and Fassile. The Doctor fixed the nanogenes' mistakes by comparing the DNA of the child and Nancy, who was his mother, restoring the infected zombies to normal. Fassile stopped the bomb from hitting the bombsite by placing it in stasis inside his ship and when everyone got to safety, the Doctor destroyed the ambulance, making sure that history said that a bomb hit that location. The Doctor then contacted the Rogue and ordered him to leave the Bellonsions alone, make sure that the time ships were secure and that the nanogenes have a record of all species that the matrix had catalogued. Afterwards, the Doctor attempted to take Angela home, but the TARDIS arrived on Miasimia Goria instead. (DW: The Empty Child)

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Personality

The Twelfth Doctor lost many human mannerisms of his previous incarnations. Talking with humans, he was very hard-hitting and openly complained about their behaviour. Actually, he often criticised humanity as a whole (DW: Jubilee) and was showing much more indulgence to the alien species (DW: The Whitechapel Murderer, Delayed Indefinitely). However, in crucial moments he was showing his care for humanity and every life being (DW: The Empty Child, The Scream). It is notable that he was gentle for the people he encountered only briefly, which left very good impression of him in their minds (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp, Delayed Indefinitely), and that he respected elder people, as well as their life experience (DW: The Scream, MOV: Doctor Who: Vengeance).

Feeling guilty about his actions as Lord President of Gallifrey, The Twelfth Doctor acted far harsher and snarkier than he actually was, sometimes becoming annoyed really suddenly (DW: The Scream, Delayed Indefinitely). Necessity of leaving his friend and companion, Sandra Armstrong, to a certain death hurted him so much that he couldn't get over this loss. He was seen pensive many times, and each time he had to remember it, he spoke with shame and despair (DW: The Empty Child, DW: Inquisition). In the moments of excitation, he often accidentally directed his words to Sandra instead of his current companions (DW: The Empty Child). Knowing how hard it can be to act decent, he often showed mercy to his enemies (DW: The Whitechapel Murderer, MOV: Doctor Who: Vengeance), tried his best to not let anyone do similar mistakes (DW: The Silurian Awakening, The Empty Child, Miasimia Goria, Cannon Fodder, MOV: Doctor Who: Vengeance). The events related to The Resistance left him with aversion to both Bellonsions (DW: Wirrn Dawn, The Fight for Survival) and soldiers (DW: The Empty Child, The Death of Jensen, Cannon Fodder), however, he was able to overcome it when the situation required it. Disputably, out of all the Doctors he was the most dedicated to his role as the Doctor, involving himself to the degree of obsession in saving people (DW: The Empty Child, The Scream, The Impossible Planet), saving Earth (DW: The Silurian Awakening, Cannon Fodder) and defeating the mad dictators (DW: Miasimia Goria, The Eternity Trap). He had a talent to make monologues and speeches, capturing the attention of the audience easily (MOV: Doctor Who: Revelation, DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp), He developed strong bonds with his companions, Angela Jensen and Lizzie Clarke, and became deeply affected by the death of the latter (DW: Mad World, MOV: Doctor Who: Vengeance). He seemed nostalgic, and always reacted with joy when he was meeting old friends (DW: Cannon Fodder, Delayed Indefinitely).

During his late adventures, he became more emotional, openly showing his fear (DW: The Facade, Delayed Indefinitely, The Impossible Planet), grief (DW: Inquisition, Mad World) and joy (DW: Delayed Indefinitely).

Physical Appearance

The Twelfth Doctor appeared to be dark skinned man in his forties and was considered 'handsome' by the likes of Agatha Christie and Lizzie Clarke (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp, The Scream). According to Angela Jensen, he had a "warm smile" (DW: Burning Books).

He was also the first of The Doctor's incarnations to be bald, much to his own dismay after his regeneration (MOV: Doctor Who: Revelation).

Clothing

The Doctor gave his final speech as Lord President of Gallifrey in ceremonial Time Lord robes. Before he got into the TARDIS, he took off his robes and was left in a simple shirt and trousers (MOV: Doctor Who: Revelation).

When the Doctor appeared on Earth during the Silurian invasion, he wore black shoes, black trousers, a white button up shirt, a black necktie and a black waistcoat. Over all of that he wore a trench coat with black piping similar to one he wore in his fourth incarnation, but in red instead of grey (DW: The Silurian Awakening).

In his final adventure, he wore a red paisley patterned suit with a red paisley tie not too dissimilar to his eighth incarnation's attire with a pale red shirt (MOV: Doctor Who: Vengeance).

Other Information

To be added.

Behind the Scenes

Casting

Before landing on Paterson Joseph, Gary Russell considered casting Alexander Siddig and Peter Capaldi in the role of Twelfth Doctor. Alexander Siddig went on to play Fassile starting in The Empty Child, and Peter Capaldi went on to play Lord President Gregori in Doctor Who: Vengeance.

In 2012, Tony Redston mentioned in an interview that he finds Imelda Staunton perfect for the role of The Doctor and if he had stayed on producer's seat for longer, he would have chosen her as the Twelfth.

Producer's Thought on Portrayal

Ultimate shape of this incarnation is a compromise between creative visions of various individuals involved in season 44 development. Producer Gary Russell was hell-bent to keep connections with The Doctor's past. In his head, the new incarnation's main goal was to recapture the essence of himself before he became Lord President. That pushed him to helping people and solving problem nearly obsessively, as he was desperate to become the Doctor once again. However, the presidential past was still haunting him wherever he went, and memories of crimes he commited as President, as well as leaving Sandra on Space Station Exotract 42, built a strong feeling of guilt inside him. The emotional instability caused him to be sarcastic and sometimes quirky. Most of staff writers supported the idea, however a few of them, including Gareth Roberts and Matt Jones, portrayed the Twelfth Doctor in his stories as very caring, emotional and gentle, which they justified with the idea of human-like Time Lords, found by Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner. This caused a feud with not just another writers, but also Paterson Joseph, who strongly believed that The Doctor should act strangely and alien-ish. Another picture of the Twelfth Doctor was developed by Paul Cornell. He also wanted the Doctor to act cynically and sometimes even grumpy, but at the same time still gentle. Paul believed that Doctor's affection for Earth, respect to any life and heroism with a bit of adventurer's enthusiasm survived his presidency and wanted them to show itself in critical moments. This concept managed to link the views for the Twelfth Doctor which seemed to be completely irreconcilable and created really three-dimensional character.

List of Appearances

Doctor Who

Season 44

Season 45

Season 46

Panopticon

Series 3

Movies