History Characters / DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor

* AbsentMindedProfessor: This Doctor tends to be very flighty at times. Most notably in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]], when he has to pretend to be a normal human while being a bit distracted by having to save the universe. His rather [[AwesomeAnachronisticApparel out of date clothes]] also [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance evoke]] this.
** Perfect example: in "The Pandorica Opens", he fails to notice that Rory is back from the dead and ''not erased from existence''.
-->'''The Doctor''': I'm missing something obvious, Rory. Something big! ''Something right smack in front of me''. I can feel it!
-->'''Rory''': [[DeadpanSnarker Yeah, you probably are]].
-->'''The Doctor''': I'll get it in a minute.

-->'''The Doctor''': Sorry madam... ''try that dress in red!''

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: The Doctor's SherlockScan in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol "A Christmas Carol"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler "Let's Kill Hitler"]].

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]]:

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]]:

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]]:

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]].

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]]:

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]]:

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten "The Rings of Akhaten"]]:

** In [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]:

** Just as he starts his regeneration in [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]], he delivers the boast to silence all the others.

(''Crack opens in the sky and golden regeneration energy flies into the Doctor's mouth.'')\\

'''The Doctor:''' You think you can stop me now Daleks?! IF YOU WANT MY LIFE, '''COME. AND. GET IT!''' (''starts regenerating, destroying all the Daleks'') Haha! LOVE FROM GALLIFREY, BOYS!

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Eleventh Doctor is an eccentric, fun-loving and kind-hearted individual, but he's also someone you ''really'' don't want to upset.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]]: The Doctor goes after a Dalek with a ''[[WrenchWhack Wrench]]'' after being driven over the edge by the Daleks' FalseFriend gambit.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone "Flesh and Stone"]]: The Doctor erases every Weeping Angel on the planet from existence.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon "Day of the Moon"]]: As punishment for [[BerserkButton kidnapping Amy]], screwing with humanity's development over centuries and all the people who died because of their actions over Series 5, the Doctor [[FinalSolution arranges the Silence's genocide]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]]: The Doctor's reaction to learning that [[EldritchAbomination House]] has lured hundreds of Time Lords to their death, consumed their [=TARDISes=] and used Time Lord corpses to repair his PeoplePuppets; but the final clincher is making the Doctor think there were ''other'' survivors from the Time War. He lets the TARDIS finish House off by devouring him, smiling as he dies screaming.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]]: The Doctor blows up an ''entire legion'' of Cyberships just to get Amy's location. He then forces the Colonel leading the forces who took Amy to tell his troops to "run away", just to humiliate the man.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"]]: As punishment for massacring all the Silurians aboard the ark, the Doctor leaves Solomon to die on an out of control ship right before it gets hit by a couple of nukes.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy "A Town Called Mercy"]]: Tries to force Kahler-Jex at gunpoint to walk to his death. What's really disturbing about this is that Kahler-Jex is more of an AntiVillain than anything else. He just reminds the Doctor too much of everything the Doctor hates about himself. It takes Amy with a gun to stop him.

** Borrows River Song's in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler "Let's Kill Hitler"]], where he states it to River Song when she meets him for the first time and [[StableTimeLoop leads her to adopt the phrase to begin with]]. He also states it to the Tenth Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]].

** He also likes to use Tenth's phrase of describing things as "Timey Wimey". Which is lampshaded by the Tenth Doctor when they meet in [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]].
--->'''War Doctor''' (''in disbelief''): Timey Wimey?\\
'''10th Doctor''': [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I've - I've no idea where he picks that stuff up]].
** Borrows one of the Master's in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E12ClosingTime "Closing Time"]], when he realises the "[[PlayingPossum deactivated]]" Cybermat is attempting to reboot itself ''again''. Borrows it once again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells of Saint John"]] when he's reversing Clara's upload into the data-cloud.

** Bluntly tells Amelia in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone "Flesh and Stone"]] that she's dying of Weeping Angel infestation.
** And Oswin in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks "Asylum of the Daleks"]] that [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie she was a Dalek the whole time]].

** "Bowties are cool". Morphs into: "It's an X. I wear an X now. Xs are cool." Or just: [[MadLibsCatchPhrase Xs are cool]]. The one exception to this is in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells of Saint John"]]. "Monks are not cool!"

-->'''The Doctor''': Not noticing, just going! Not noticing, just ''going!'' Not noticing, just '''going!'''

* DistressedDude: By the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]] Eleven is shoved inside the Pandorica by the enemy alliance and bolted inside.

-->'''The Doctor''': ''[[PreAsskickingOneLiner Love from Gallifrey, boys!]]''

* HiddenDepths: He often acts particularly young, cheerful and even childlike. But in episodes like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow "The Beast Below"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten "The Rings of Akhaten"]], as well as many more, we see that beneath this exterior he is very old and full of guilt, loneliness and grief.

*** He becomes obsessed with fezzes starting in "The Big Bang."

*** Two regenerations and at least one thousand years later, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E7Kerblam "Kerblam!"]] opens with the Thirteenth Doctor taking delivery of a fez that Eleven ordered but didn't hang around long enough to receive.

*** He wears a spiffy top hat at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], and the same outfit a few more times in "Night and the Doctor". Then in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler "Let's Kill Hitler"]], he completes the outfit with a cane. [[RunningGag River shoots the hat]] ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills off his head]]''.

** Tricorner hats are cool. He manages to acquire a pirate tricorner briefly, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot The Curse of the Black Spot]]".

* {{Hipster}}: He is regarded as the hipster Doctor, often picking out ridiculous fashion choices and declaring them to be cool.
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[invoked]][[MemeticMutation Bowties are cool!]]

-->'''Dream Lord:''' The bowtie, the cockamamie hair, the clothes designed by a first-year fashion student. If you had any more tawdry quirks you could open up a tawdry quirk shop.

'''Eleventh Doctor''': ''[exaggerated shrug]'' Yes! ''[claps emphatically]'' ..[[IResembleThatRemark No.]]

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Invoked by River Song in "A Good Man Goes To War", when she tells him his name became known as "Mighty Warrior" to the Gamma Forest.
-->'''River''': The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name.

** Mentioned as early as [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]]:

** Gives one to the Daleks in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory Of The Daleks"]], which doubles as a BadassBoast. However it's revealed [[NiceJobBreakingItHero that was what they wanted]]:

** Before another one in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks "Asylum of the Daleks"]]:

* RunningGag: He so desperately wants a fez, as he mentions and wears one in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]", and he demands one from ''the Secret Service'' in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut The Impossible Astronaut]]". Even when he survives the second Big Bang and begins his rewind in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], one of his first thoughts is his desire to buy a new fez. Hats in general are a running theme.
-->'''Clara:''' Someday, you could just walk past a fez.\\

** Also, when he gets a new hat, something will cause him to lose it. The first time he gets a fez, it gets destroyed. The second time he gets a fez, he throws it into a time portal. The first time he gets a stetson, River shoots it off his head. When he gets a tricorder hat, he is worried that the pirates surrounding him would shoot it off his head.

** He also spends most of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]] trying to get Craig and Sophie together.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]]. Almost a case of [[InnocentFanserviceGirl 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.)
** Much like [[Creator/DavidTennant the Tenth Doctor]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]], [[Creator/MattSmith the Eleventh Doctor]] gets a naked scene in [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor his final episode.]]

** It became more and more obvious ever since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]], and got focused on especially in Series 6. He was approaching the date of his death, and knew it. Matt Smith's thoughts on him make it even more clear:

** Lampshaded in the [=50th=] Anniversary Special. As the three Doctors [[LockedInARoom bicker with each other in the Tower of London]], Eleven chuckles that the jail sounds exactly like the inside of his own head.

** He seems to have a fondness for jammy dodgers, used memorably in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks}} "Victory of the Daleks"]]. Mentioned again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut "The Impossible Astronaut"]] when he asks the Secret Service for some, and in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E9NightTerrors "Night Terrors"]] when he asks if there's any whilst making tea. He leaves a whole plate of them for Clara in "The Bells of Saint John". Matt Smith admitted that jammy dodgers actually are his favourite food.
** There's also fish fingers and custard. Amy uses it as a sort of TrustPassword in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut "The Impossible Astronaut"]], and the TARDIS voice interface uses it to rally him in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler "Let's Kill Hitler"]].
** During "The Time of the Doctor", after being "reset" by his new regeneration cycle, the Eleventh Doctor is shown to have whipped up some fish fingers and custard, before he got around to changing his face into that of the Twelfth Doctor. It wound up being his last meal.

-> '''The Doctor''': "You gave me hope, and then you took it away, that's enough to make anyone dangerous, ''God knows what it will do to me''."

* {{Tsundere}}: Sweet version towards River in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]] and ''especially'' near the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone "Flesh and Stone"]]. Probably justified as when he's angriest is when he's worried about Amy.

-->'''River Song''': I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him.

** In ''Empire of the Wolf'', he gets to meet Rose one last time. He's less pleased when he realizes she traveled with Eight to get to him.

->''[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "I will not forget one line of this. Not one day. I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me."]]''

** It's also pretty unusual how innocent and oblivious he comes considering that it's implied he was invited to multiple Stag Parties for Captain Jack Harkness, who is almost comparable to Glenn Quagmire from Family Guy.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Eleven's an eccentric, fun-loving and kind-hearted individual, but he's also someone you ''really'' don't want to upset.

* LargeHam: He is found of big, dramatic speeches and ''incapable'' of speaking without flapping his hands about.

* ArchEnemy: The Silence and the Great Intelligence, both of whom play key roles in the overarching plot that surrounds the Eleventh Doctor's era.

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** Being the third mainline Doctor of NuWho, he can be compared to and contrasted with the Third Doctor. When compared to the professional, gentlemanly, and overall straightforward scientist that the Three was, Eleven is downright ''ridiculous'' yet clearly more conniving when push comes to shove. It should also be noted that Three began his era being exiled on Earth by the Time Lords, Eleven ended his era purposely exiling himself on Trenzalore for the sake of the Time Lords.

Despite his title of the Eleventh Doctor, he was the thirteenth and final incarnation in the Doctor's first regeneration cycle.[[note]]Between the War Doctor being retconned in during his tenure, and his predecessor burning through an extra regeneration in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]"[[/note]] However, thanks to [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor the intervention of the Time Lords,]] the Doctor was granted a new lease on life and a whole new set of regenerations.

*** Also to note their settings as well: Three was for the most of his life grounded to 1970s/1980s Earth, with an occasional outer-Earth mission due to the Time Lords and an accidental parallel universe trip on his own accord. While on Earth, Three openly worked with UNIT, establishing himself as their scientific advisor against all sorts of outer-space menaces, especially with plots involving The Master. It wasn't until near the end of his life when Three regained full knowledge of the workings of the TARDIS as a reward from the Time Lords during the events of "The Three Doctors". Eleven on the other hand could rarely sit still and spent most of his life traveling about, being less involved with his companions' contemporarily Earth affairs and more involved exploring humanity's far future or distant past (in relation to the 2010s anyways). Or being involved with reality-defying time paradoxes. It wasn't until the end of his life where he spent the end living on Trenzalore while intentionally separating himself from his TARDIS to protect the residents of the Town of Christmas as well as the remaining Time Lords sealed away within their time bubble as depicted in "Day of the Doctor" and "Time of the Doctor". Also, as noted above, Eleven got along great with his immediate predecessor Ten due to their similarities. In comparison, Three loathed Two due to how different they were from one another.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Averted. Eleven spent his past incarnation remembering and regretting the deaths of more than 2 billion innocent Gallifreyan children in the Time War to remind himself why he was protecting others. The "four knocks" prophecy changed him and he resisted regeneration. Then when he regenerated from Ten, he was faced with permanent death twice, first through an assassination attempt and then a future where he died in battle because he couldn't regenerate anymore. He also lost his companions to the Weeping Angels, and it broke him to the point he retired to Victorian London. After 200, maybe 300 years as this incarnation, thinking about death tore away at him, and he blanked out the memory until its impact was gone.

* IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: Towards Three... but averted with Six, since he still ''loves'' his old technicolor coat.

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* ChasteHero: The Doctor is usually innocent of all things sexual, especially when Amy Pond tried to make advances on him the night before her wedding to Rory. He is also oblivious to taboos around nudity and why it's considered awkward.

** When compared to the professional, gentlemanly, and overall straightforward scientist that the Third Doctor was, Eleven is downright ''ridiculous'' yet clearly more conniving when push comes to shove. It should also be noted that Three began his era being exiled on Earth by the Time Lords, Eleven ended his era purposely exiling himself on Trenzalore for the sake of the Time Lords.

* HeroesWantRedHeads: Mentions his love for gingers a few times, but, like Ten, mostly just wants to ''be'' one.

** When compared to the professional, gentleman scientist that the Third Doctor was, Eleven is downright ''ridiculous'' yet clearly more conniving when push comes to shove. It should also be noted that Three began his era being exiled on Earth by the Time Lords, Eleven ended his era purposely exiling himself on Trenzalore for the sake of the Time Lords.
*** Also to note their settings as well: Three was for the most of his life grounded to 1970s/1980s Earth, with an occasional outer-Earth mission due to the Time Lords and an accidental parallel universe trip on his own accord. While on Earth, Three openly worked with UNIT, establishing himself as their scientific advisor against all sorts of outer-space menaces, especially with plots involving The Master. It wasn't until near the end of his life when Three regained full knowledge of the workings of the TARDIS as a reward from the Time Lords during the events of "The Three Doctors". Eleven on the other hand could rarely sit still and spent most of his life traveling about, being less involved with his companions' contemporarily Earth affairs and more involved exploring humanity's far future or distant past (in relation to the 2010s anyways). Or being involved with reality-defying time paradoxes. It wasn't until the end of his life where he spent the end living on Trenzalore while intentionally separating himself from his TARDIS to protect the residents of the Town of Christmas as well as the remaining Time Lords sealed away within their time bubble as depicted in "Day of the Doctor" and "Time of the Doctor". Also, as noted above, Eleven got along great with his immediate predecessor Ten. In comparison, Three loathed Two.
*** Speaking of companions, Three's companions were obviously more earthbound, contemporary to the 1970s/1980s and profesional: Cambridge University Professor Elizabeth Shaw, escapologist Jo Grant, journalist Sarah Jane Smith, as well as the obvious UNIT staff members Brigadier Gordon Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, Captain Michael Yates, and Sergeant John Benton. Eleven's companions were also earthbound yet extremely non-professional and extremely reality-defying in comparison to UNIT: the time-crack exposed Amelia Pond, chronically dying and death-defying and once turned into an Auton who lived through 2000 years in an alternate universe Rory Williams, Professor of Archeology and human-Time Lady River Song, and the Impossible Time-Splintered Girl Clara Oswald. What's more interesting to note is that during the Battle of Demons Run, Eleven was able to rack up assistance to form a makeshift army from individuals across time and space. Notable in that said makeshift army involved a Silurian and a Sontaran. Both the Silurians and the Sontarans were introduced as villains or anti-villains during Three's life, but Madame Vastra and Strax have proven themselves to openly ally the Doctor regardless of the Doctor's incarnation.