History Characters / DoctorWhoRevivalSeriesDoctors

Incarnations of the Time Lord known as the Doctor introduced after the revival of ''Series/DoctorWho'' in 2005, posted in regeneration order. Owing to size issues, the page has been split into the following:

* [[Characters/DoctorWhoRevivalSeriesDoctorsGeneral General tropes]]
* [[Characters/DoctorWhoRevivalSeriesDoctorsNineAndTen The Ninth and Tenth Doctors (2005-2010)]]
* [[Characters/DoctorWhoRevivalSeriesDoctorsElevenTwelveAndWar The Eleventh, Twelfth and War Doctors (2010-present)]]

'''Warning:''' Almost all spoilers up to and including series 8 are unmarked.

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Incarnations of the Time Lord known as the Doctor introduced after the revival of ''Series/DoctorWho'' in 2005, posted in regeneration order. Owing to size issues, general tropes regarding these Doctors are discussed here, while tropes specific to these Doctors are discussed on the following pages:

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[[folder:Revival series Doctors (general)]]

->''"[[BadassCreed Never cruel, nor cowardly. Never give up, never give in.]]"''

* {{Adorkable}}: It came and went with Classic Doctors, but it's become permanent after Eccleston.
** Even the War Doctor engaged in this. His overall personality was grim and applied, but he was nearing the shift toward the adorkable phase. He seemed interested in the fez that fell through the time window, and had a doting grandpa moment when he confused his future selves as companions. Better yet, he made snappy jokes at his captors. He also grinned like a delighted child when he sonicked the memory controls in the Black Archive because it was probably the first time in that life he got to act like his old self again and make peace instead of war. Overall, War was a very humorous and well-meaning chap. But the icing on the cake was when War started cheering with unadulterated delight when he learned that saving Gallifrey was still possible. And after saving Gallifrey, the last problem he ran into was [[DudeWheresOurCar which TARDIS was his among the other Doctors' police boxes.]]
** The Ninth Doctor, easily the most serious of all the New Doctors, head-bopped to Soft Cell in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]] and had two uncomfortable first attempts at dancing in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "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 [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee fanboyish squee]] he's capable of.
--->'''Ninth Doctor:''' Just this morning you were all tiny and small and made of clay! Now you can expand!
** The Tenth Doctor is particularly Adorkable when he whips out the PurelyAestheticGlasses.
** Eleven thinks he's much cooler than he really is. See "WHO DA MAN?!" and "{{Bowties are cool}}!" Also, his dance moves.
** Twelve seems a bit bashful when on the receiving end of a hug, and keeps up Eleven's dorky dancing.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Eleven learns that he's known as "The Predator of the Daleks", by the Daleks ''themselves''.
* TheAtoner: Previously, the Doctor saved planets for the fun of it, as well as out of a hazy sense of justice. Prior to "Day of the Doctor", the Doctor was driven to make up for every single death he supposedly caused during the Time War. (See "Deus Angst Machina" below)
* BerserkButton: He HATES Daleks. How much depends on the Doctor: Ten was more willing to forgive, while Nine and Eleven hate them with a passion. 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, ''literally'' foaming at the mouth. War? They're dead the ''second'' he runs into them... or they run into him. Twelve is closer to Ten: he hates them just as much as his previous selves, but some part of him wants to believe that they can be redeemed.
* BigDamnKiss: Started with Nine's final episode, and has been repeated many times over since then. Ten usually had it happen to him unexpectedly. Eleven actively loves kissing people left and right. Twelve, meanwhile, finally gets a BigDamnKiss with longtime source of FoeYay the Mistress.
* BiTheWay: WordOfGod from both Creator/RussellTDavies and Creator/StevenMoffat have stated that gender doesn't much matter to the Doctor or to Time Lords in general, the latter saying "gender is 'fluid' on Gallifrey". Creator/NeilGaiman confirmed that Time Lords sometimes change sex when they regenerate, which gives some cultural context for the idea, and this eventually gets shown onscreen in series 8 with the Mistress. Nine and Eleven (who both happily kiss their male companions) are a bit more obvious about it than Ten.
** The idea was carried over from the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'', in which the Eighth Doctor is blatantly bisexual and spends a lot of time kissing his companions regardless of their gender. ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'', which was supposed to be an official continuation of the classic series, had [[RichardEGrant a different Ninth Doctor]] and [[DerekJacobi the Master]] as a couple (though it's subtle enough that PaulCornell needed to confirm it via WordOfGay). Although Eccleston's Ninth Doctor essentially overrides Grant's, the road was paved for massive amounts of HoYay between the Tenth Doctor and John Simm's Master. (It should be noted that Cornell also intended as unspoken back-story for the Shalka Doctor that he recently lost a wife back on Gallifrey, hence his sour disposition and reluctance to engage emotionally with the android Master or the new companion until right when the serial was about over, so it was easy to miss the nuances.)
* CartwrightCurse: If he offers you the chance to come with him after an adventure, you're (relatively) safe. If he makes the offer when you're in the middle of one, you have a very good chance of being a MauveShirt.
-->'''Rory:''' Every time the Doctor gets pally with someone, I feel the urge to notify their next of kin.
* CatchPhrase: "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 split this suggestion between his allies and his opponents.
---> '''Doctor''': But in fairness, I'll give you one bit of free advice... Run!
** The Eleventh invokes this when facing the Atraxi.
---> '''Doctor''': I'm the Doctor. [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Basically... Run!]]
** This evolution from caution to threat is a major part of the Doctor's darkening spiral that leads to several races outright ''fearing'' the Doctor.
*** Avoided with the War Doctor. As the steadfast warrior incarnation, he does ''NOT'' run, since he isn't bound by the same principles of the Doctor to flee.
* TheCowl: On the one hand, the Doctor is a hero who protects children and saves the day. But equally, he does it by being even scarier than the monsters. This process began a bit with the Seventh Doctor's ''[[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures New Adventures]]'' novels and was cemented by Nine's "Oncoming Storm" speech.
* CrazySane: As noted in StepfordSmiler below, Creator/MattSmith believes the Doctor, especially the Eleventh, tends to act absolutely [[CloudCuckoolander bonkers]] simply as a defense mechanism to stop himself from going ''really'' [[SanitySlippage off the deep end]].
* CreepyGood: The Seventh Doctor was already ''plenty'' creepy in the classic series, Eight's [[TranquilFury eerily tranquil moments of anger]] followed by [[RageBreakingPoint frothing outbursts]] in the Big Finish audios made him go from creepy to chilling, and War, Nine, Ten, and Eleven add quite a few more notable moments. War's very presence on a battlefield made a whole Dalek platoon abort a mass extermination to find him because they ''knew'' they were toast if they ignored him (they still got wiped out when the War Doctor brutally ran them down with his TARDIS), Nine scared the bumps off an entire army of Daleks, Ten became intensely scary during "The Waters Of Mars", and Eleven's extremely secretive nature terrifies his companions at times. But Twelve, dear God, ''Twelve''... he scares '''himself''' with his own inner darkness and starts questioning if he's good at all.
* DeathSeeker: The first four revival Doctors have been more inclined to self-sacrifice than their predecessors (War had no intention of living through the Time War but the Moment judged that he would live; Nine admitted that he didn't actually choose to survive the end of the Time War). Neither Ten nor Eleven appreciates an outside force telling them YourDaysAreNumbered, but they're still pretty cavalier about their own survival.
** 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... [[AcceptableTargets in Cardiff.]]
*** His first reaction to a distant scream is to run towards it:
----> '''Doctor''': ''That's'' more like it!
** Ten catches a bit of this after his separation from Rose. Especially in series 4, where he regularly attempts [[HeroicSacrifice heroic sacrifices]] and puts his life in danger. Toward the very end of his life, though, he became very attached to this regeneration and goes to questionable lengths to keep it. Probably because WordOfGod confirmed that Ten only lasted ''nine years'' in-universe. [[note]]Six years, plus three more on Volag-Noc.[[/note]]
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: In a sense, Time Lord regeneration has been [[TakingYouWithMe weaponized]] -- a far cry from the kaleidescope dirt naps of previous Doctors. The new regeneration effect is a massive buildup and release of energy. War's regeneration was the first to erupt with a flood of energy spouting from his arms and head. When Nine died, he warned Rose to keep at a safe distance, and Ten's expelled radiation and energy blasts caused the TARDIS console room to explode. Eleven receives a power-up from Gallifreyan benefactors, giving him enough juice to blast a Dalek fleet to smithereens.
* DeusAngstMachina: The War Doctor, when presented with a chance to undo the time lock on Gallifrey and TakeAThirdOption, is given pause once he considers how many lives he ''saved'' because of his guilt over killing his people. He elects to save them anyway -- but the parting of the Doctors will erase each of their memories. This means that once the War Doctor regenerates, he will damn the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors to centuries of guilt for a genocide they ''think'' they caused. "I'll have to live with that."
* FallenAngel: The War Doctor and, to some extent, the [=10th=] Doctor. More to the point, the popularity of handsome, beatific David Tennant coupled with his Doctor's frequent about-faces in morality contributed, in an odd way, to his HazyFeelTurn later on down the line.
* FallingIntoTheCockpit: These Doctors have a bad habit of regenerating while the TARDIS is still in mid-flight. Ten's landing was particularly rocky, bouncing around the streets of Rose's tower block like a pinball. Eleven nearly pitched himself out through the front door, flailed around while the ship hurtled across London's skyline, managed to claw his way back into the console room, fell ''through'' the console room and into the TARDIS' upturned swimming pool, and finally landed in someone's garden... [[ParkingProblems sideways]]. Poor Twelve is struck by an inopportune senior moment when glancing at the controls, causing the TARDIS to become swallowed by a dinosaur(!).
** The War Doctor regenerated mid-flight as well, though we don't see the outcome of that one.
* FisherKing: A non-magical example. The War Doctor and his TARDIS become shabby from lack of upkeep, with a dingy, bare-bones TARDIS console cobbled together from scrap, and restoring the original roundels to signal a return to his scientific roots. Nothing too fancy, not even a whole lot of order to where things are placed. In his Ninth and Tenth incarnations, the Doctor begins to flesh out the console room into a coral layout, but it arguably gets a lot less inviting as he sulks from postwar trauma, looking shabbier than ever, with exposed wiring, rusty rails, and mechanical groans. Mind you, the Tenth does ''not'' appreciate people calling attention to it (he hits the roof when Wilfred criticizes his housekeeping, and again when War is aghast to see Ten has "let this place go a bit" and Eleven dismisses it all as his counterpart's "[[PostCyberpunk grunge phase]]"). The [=11th=] Doctor finds himself with a new lease on life, and the TARDIS changes into a brightly-lit rumpus room to reflect this frivolity.
** In "The Snowmen" we see that after the loss of Amy and Rory the Doctor has remodeled the TARDIS interior with a darker colour scheme, the decoration has become more spartan and sterile and he's not bothering to turn on the lights. It has ''[[BlatantLies nothing]]'' to do with his depression, [[SarcasmMode seriously!]]
*** But then Twelve comes along following the revelation he has saved Gallifrey and decides the TARDIS needs some elegance and warmth again. He changes the time rotor lighting to an inviting amber and sets up all sorts of shelves and furniture, making the room ''far'' more attractive and pleasant. It's now cozy and padded, taking the best bits from every console room of the series.
* TheFogOfAges: His age was always uncertain in the classic era, largely due to Who's lax attitude to continuity. For the new series they fixed on 900 years, give or take a few, until Eleven jumped several centuries during his life.
-->'''War Doctor:''' How old are you now?\\
'''Eleventh Doctor:''' I don't know...I lose track. Twelve hundred and something unless I'm lying. I can't remember if I'm lying about my age, that's how old I am.
* FriendToAllChildren: Every Doctor has a soft spot for children, especially 11. The one thing that haunts the War Doctor is how many children will die if he activates the Moment. Come Twelve's time, though he may be the most abrasive and aloof regeneration of the revival series thus far, even he can still connect with them, as seen in "Listen." Generally speaking, this seems to be the one trait that transcends every shift in personality.
* GoingNative: The groundwork was already there in the classic series, but post-Time War Earth really is the closest thing to a home he's got. Ten came close to outright saying this in "Voyage of the Damned"; Twelve basically ''did'' say it in "In the Forest of the Night", referring to Earth as his planet.
* HeelRealization: Has perfected being a TechnicalPacifist, but eventually realizes this ''can be'' much more insidious than simply killing people.
** Twelve in particular has begun questioning his morality, wondering aloud whether he is a 'good man'.
* TheHomewardJourney: Since the epilogue of "Day of the Doctor", his primary mission is finding Gallifrey and freeing its people for good. It's [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption not going too well]].
* HurtingHero: The Time War left very deep emotional scars. In one line of dialog Moffat manages to say everything you need to know about the New Doctor, and it's [[YouRemindMeOfX not even the Doctor who's talking]]: ("The Empty Child")
-->"Before this war I was a father and a grandfather. Now I’m neither. But I’m still a Doctor."
* InsecureLoveInterest: More often than not.
* InternalHomage: So far, each of the revival series Doctors have inherited traits from and taken inspiration from a particular classic series Doctor:
** The War Doctor homages [[Creator/WilliamHartnell Hartnell's]] First Doctor: a curmudgeonly, critical old man who is exasperated by his younger companions, but who has a hidden heart of gold underneath. 1 and War both remarked they were "wearing a bit thin", with One stubbornly putting off regeneration, but War was actually happy about running out his natural body clock.
** Although Eccleston [[http://www.whoviannet.co.uk/info/didyouknow.php is quoted as having watched]] the Fourth Doctor serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang "The Talons of Weng-Chiang"]] to prepare for his role, some consider the Ninth Doctor to be a refinement of Creator/ColinBaker's controversial Sixth Doctor: an impatient, sharp-tongued fellow who gradually cools as the audience grows to trust him. Indeed, the 9th Doctor's sojourns to Satellite 5 ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame "The Long Game"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf "Bad Wolf"]]) are essentially a modernized retelling of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros "Vengeance on Varos"]] and other politically themed Who stories from the Eighties. In [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E3TheUnquietDead}} "The Unquiet Dead"]], he meets and inspires a famed fiction writer from the 19th century, just like Six did in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS22E5Timelash}} "Timelash"]]. In his sixth adventure, Nine is duped by a distress signal sent from a captive Dalek, similar to the Sixth Doctor's plight in Big Finish's ''Jubilee''. Even Colin Baker himself has commented that the Ninth is the sort of Doctor he wished he'd [[ExecutiveMeddling been allowed to play]]. Colin also said he wished he'd been allowed to dress like Eccleston's Doctor; a dignified black ensemble rather than an eye-melting rainbow suit.
** The Tenth Doctor is most similar to [[Creator/PeterDavison Davison's]] Fifth Doctor, whom David Tennant grew up watching. Both Doctors are the most emotional and human, deadly-accurate with a cricket ball, have bad luck with commuter planes, put glasses on when focusing, broke their sonic screwdrivers, inexplicably wear trainers to accompany their formal wardrobes, semi-frequently encounter the Master, and face [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani tragic endings]] to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime their lives]]. (Most of these traits are lampshaded when the Doctors [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash meet up]].) Davies' [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E11Utopia}} "Utopia"]] also owes a debt to [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS21E3Frontios}} "Frontios"]], in which the TARDIS “drifts too far into the future” and discovers a colony of humans struggling to survive on the outer rim. Other obvious homages include [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid}} "Black Orchid"]]/[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp}} "The Unicorn and the Wasp"]] (Merchant Ivory whodunnits) and [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead}} "Mawdryn Undead"]]/[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E3SchoolReunion}} "School Reunion"]] (both set at a boarding school and showcasing a semi-retired companion).
** The Eleventh Doctor greatly resembles Creator/PatrickTroughton, the Second Doctor, right down to the bow tie and awkward, clownish demeanor. Matt Smith's favorite classic Doctor serial is the Second Doctor's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E1TheTombOfTheCybermen Tomb of the Cybermen]]. Additionally, the names of their primary companions sound similar (Two had Scottish Jamie and English Zoe, while Eleven had [[GenderFlip Scottish Amy and English Rory]]). Both the Second and the Eleventh Doctors [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen battled]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear against]] [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen the]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn Great]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor Intelligence]]. And then there's his final episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor Time of the Doctor]]", a.k.a. the longest "Base Under Siege" '''ever'''.
** Twelve draws most of his inspiration from [[Creator/JonPertwee Jon Pertwee's]] Third Doctor. This incarnation has even less patience for [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E6TheCaretaker flatfooted military types]] than he used to, [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionoftheDinosaurs}} tangles with dinosaurs]], and brooks no disrespect from mortals. His interaction with others seems to flit between gentlemanly charm and sledgehammer-like arrogance (see his banter with Robin Hood and Psi for the best examples), and he's inherited Three's DeadpanSnarker tendencies as well. Clara's blossoming romance with Danny Pink adds to the homage; Twelve meddles with Clara's love life much like Three gloomily looked on as Jo and Cliff sealed the deal or interrupting Jo's planned nights out with Captain Yates. Externally, he wears costumes with jewelry and red inner lining. The most blatant sign of this homage is the fact that Twelve's primary antagonist in his first season is a Delgado/Ainley-inspired new regeneration of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater the Master.]]
*** Capaldi's Doctor is somewhat of an homage to the First Doctor, symbolizing a "reboot" of the character's bimillenial lifespan. (The Eleventh Doctor expired once his regeneration cycle was up, whereupon he was given a fresh set of lives by the Time Lords.) This incarnation can no longer be defined as the War Doctor, or the Last of the Time Lords, or the "Oncoming Storm." He's starting from square one: [[HistoryRepeats aged, runaway Time Lord in a TARDIS he doesn't know how to fly, with a companion who teaches at Coal Hill School.]] With the addition of ex-soldier Danny Pink and absentee student Courtney, he has a complete set. (Barbara, Ian, and Susan, respectively.)
* JustFriends: To his companions from Martha onwards. Rose, not quite as much. River is also an exception (given that they're ''married''), if you count her as a "companion".
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Though Classic Series Doctors loved to name-drop, they were much more low-key about meeting famous people. In "The Unquiet Dead", Nine is practically beside himself upon discovering the horse and carriage he's just hopped into and demanded to "[[FollowThatCar Follow that hearse!]]" belongs to none other than ''Creator/CharlesDickens''. His fanboy squeeing even causes him to briefly forget that he's ''supposed'' to be rescuing Rose! Ten boasts of snogging France's most famous mistress, is excited by the prospect of seeing WilliamShakespeare perform live for a crowd, and went into major histrionics when he met Captain Adelaide (though it was very much PlayedForDrama); Eleven was reduced to actual incoherent {{squee}} noises when he finally realised who Melody Pond grew up to be. Eleven also really enjoys watching Amy {{squee}} over befriending Creator/VincentVanGogh.
** Unlike previous Doctors, Ten is fascinated by the whole idea of meeting past and future incarnations of himself, and follows them about like a bad smell. ("Time Crash", "The Next Doctor") Gloriously reversed in the 50th anniversary special: He's already in a foul mood when Eleven turns up, making wisecracks at his torrid love life.
* LastOfHisKind: For centuries, the Doctor thought the others were destroyed in the Time War, and sealed in a time lock for good measure.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: With the exception of The War Doctor, all of their FamousLastWords can also be taken as the actor expressing their thoughts on leaving the role behind on a meta level.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: There is more of this in the original series Doctors but the revival Doctors feel it on their better days. The Doctor experiences a lot of heartbreak, but still feels that life is worth living so long as there's something left to see in the Universe. Besides, if he were dead, who would protect the Earth?
* LivingLegend: Known and feared across all of time and space. It's no small thing that the ''Daleks'' refer to him in their ancient legends as "[[TheDreaded The Oncoming Storm]]" and "[[AlwaysABiggerFish The Predator of the Daleks]]".
** Notable in that by this point, he's come to realize this and openly use it against his enemies as a way to attempt ending conflicts without actual fighting; ie: make enemy realize he's the Doctor --> enemy runs away/gives up/puts up far less resistance. Eleven found himself on the fast track of learning how much this ''bit him in the ass.''
* LivingRelic: As the LastOfHisKind.
* MadeOfIron: Ten and Eleven seem to possess some great durability, as they are able to withstand attacks to their bodies and not regenerate because of it. For example, Ten was hit by one of the Master's electro beams and was able to go on, while Eleven was hit with a weakened [[OneHitKill Dalek beam]] and ''survived''.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: He's a madman in a magical box who takes those he meets out of their hum-drum existences to see the wonders of the universe, changing their lives forever.
* MrFanservice: Goes shirtless -- or naked -- with some frequency.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: He knows [[MundaneUtility if there's a mole on his back]] and the color of his ''kidneys''! And he can regrow limbs in the first phase of his regeneration cycle, or [[HandWave whatever]]! And he can [[ExpositionBeam relate his entire life story]] by [[UseYourHead head-butting you]]. This is more common in the revival series, where writers have toyed around with the implications of regeneration.
* PhraseCatcher: Everyone seems to ask "Doctor Who?". It was used in the classic series as well (in episode 1, even) but became more important after Eccleston and Tennant.
* PopularityPower: The Doctor and his TARDIS seem to grow in power as ratings increase. On two occasions, the Tenth Doctor saved the day thanks to hundreds, if not thousands of people chanting his name ("Last of the Time Lords", "The Next Doctor"), and the TARDIS is now a registered tow truck for planets.
* PrecursorKillers: After the Time War since he killed everyone in it. Then a temporal paradox makes him a Precusor ''savior'' that thinks himself to be a killer.
* Really700YearsOld: A RunningGag from the First Doctor onward is that the Doctor is so old that he has trouble calculating his age- and the writers haven't the faintest clue, either.
** The War Doctor billed himself as 800 at the end of his life- either how old he thought he was in general or an approximation how long he fought the Time War and the age of his incarnation. His memory got screwed up after regenerating.
** The Ninth Doctor locks on to 900 exactly at some point following the LaserGuidedAmnesia his predecessor received at the end of his life, this Doctor's estimate coincidentally starting with 9 like his incarnation's billing. The 100 year differential possibly happened during the time between when he left Rose on Earth after she at first chose not to go with him, before coming back to tell her the TARDIS can travel through time.
** After regenerating again, the Tenth Doctor begins to count up his age from there, apparently 906 in the end. This would make sense if you went by his tenure (2005-2010; 6 years), but he apparently lived longer than six years because a comment he makes in the animated special "The Infinite Quest" reveals he spent about 3 more years living on Volag-Noc, which he apparently did not factor into his age.
** Once he regenerated again, Eleven lived for a year and gave his age as 907, adding on to what Ten believed he was. Then Eleven spent around 200 years running from the attempt on his life and stopped running at age 1103. Somehow, Eleven kept track of his age on Trenzalore even when growing senile- the siege lasted 900 years according to "[[AllThereInTheManual Tales of Trenzalore]]".
** Twelve stated he was over two thousand, logically adding on to the 1100 or so previously stated by Eleven.
*** The joke became a meta example when Peter Capaldi put down his age in-character as the Doctor as 2055, for a [[http://io9.com/peter-capaldi-wrote-the-doctor-a-report-card-and-it-isn-1588741329 charity sponsored event]]. He filled out a Gallifreyan-styled report card. It displays his real age at the time he was cast as the Doctor, with the Doctor's 2000 years estimate tacked on.
* RunningGag: A few.
** Ten and Eleven are both disappointed they're not ginger post-regeneration.
** On a similar note, the Doctors get self-deprecating over some part of their new bodies post-regeneration (Nine his ears, Ten his teeth, Eleven his chin and hair, Twelve his kidneys(!) and eyebrows).
** The Doctor's relationship with Queen Elizabeth I, as referenced in "The Shakespeare Code", "The End of Time", "The Beast Below", "Amy's Choice", "The Wedding of River Song", and "The Name of the Doctor". Particular attention is drawn to her nickname, and how she "cannot use it anymore". (Interestingly, people always think of the nickname "The Virgin Queen", which points to an obvious conclusion, but the nickname the Doctor actually cites is the much less specific "Good Queen Bess".)
* SadClown: Ten and Eleven, in particular, keep up a bit of an act. The act is dropped with Twelve, however, who no longer hides behind silliness.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Often combined with ScrewDestiny and TakeAThirdOption. Perhaps the most magnificent example occurs in the 50th anniversary special, when the War, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors call the War Council of Gallifrey and assure them that they'll do [[RedemptionQuest everything they can to save the planet and its commoners]], [[ScienceHero without so much as firing a shot]]. While the members of the council admire the bravery and resolve of the Doctors, they question the technical feasibility of the idea, and especially the reasoning. Cue the following lines from the Tenth and Eleventh Doctor:
--> '''Eleventh Doctor''': Because the alternative is [[EarthShatteringKaboom burning]]...
--> '''Tenth Doctor''': ...and [[HeroicBSOD I've seen]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone that]]...
--> '''Eleventh Doctor''': ...and [[BadassBoast I never want to see it again!]]
* ShippingTorpedo: The trope is {{played for laughs}} whenever Captain Jack Harkness is around, given that Jack is a LovableSexManiac and an ExtremeOmnisexual. It became a RunningGag that the Doctor (both Nine and Ten) would torpedo Jack's attempts at flirting with, well, everyone.
* StepfordSmiler: A constant with each of the new Doctors. Eleven went so far as to manifest his subconscious, who proceeded to mock his new TARDIS decor, cockamamie outfit and mid-life crisis.
* SuperCellReception: Some Doctors occasionally use the Sonic Screwdriver or other alien tech to give a phone Universal Roaming, allowing it to make a call from anywhere, anywhen to anywhere, anywhen. Without any special dialling code or anything. Only interference either from Satan or the nearby black hole in "The Impossible Planet" is able to put it out of range.
* SurvivorGuilt: The Ninth Doctor left the Time War with a ThousandYardStare. The Tenth and Eleventh also suffer this on occasion, the Tenth in particular after the loss of Rose and River Song but it likely hits him harder as Eleven, and the Eleventh after Rory dies in Season 5 and especially after both Rory AND Amy die (so to speak) in Season 7.
* TerrorHero: The War Doctor simply had to ''appear'' on a battlefield to get his enemies running scared in "The Day of the Doctor". And not long after he had regenerated, the Ninth Doctor held onto that threatening presence in "Rose". It made the Nestene Conciousness freak out because it knew what the Doctor was like during the Time War, which only just ended. The Doctor, fresh out of that war, was stewing with anger and wrath that magnified his menacing qualities even further. Later on, the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors both used their reputation to scare off the Vashta Nerada in "Forest of the Dead" and the Atraxi in "The Eleventh Hour" respectively. Finally, in "Deep Breath", the Twelfth Doctor could terrify an emotion-lacking android into acknowledging the human feelings it had acquired by defeating its own logic, or merely freak out a vagabond by acting crazy and just on the sheer scare factor of his scowling face!
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bananas have been popular with Nine ("Bananas are good!"), Ten ("I think I just invented the Banana Daiquiri!") and Eleven, and all three use the fruit to distract overly gun-happy people with. (This was notably also a favorite tactic of the Eighth Doctor in the novels, before the revival series started. He'd run up to a guard, wielding a banana, and yell "bangbangbangbangbang!" while his companion stole the confused guard's gun.)
* WhereIWasBornAndRazed: By the end of the Time War, the conflict had become so unmanageable that the only way out was to destroy ''everything'', either via Rassilon's plan to collapse time into itself--thereby elevating the Time Lords to incorporeal gods--or trapping the planet inside a moment in time, effectively ziploc-bagging the war in perpetuity. The Doctor opted for the latter, leaving him the last Time Lord still alive. Rassilon managed to FlingALightIntoTheFuture in an attempt to revive their homeworld, but as that would also bring back the nightmarish hordes still fighting the war, the Doctor (with help from [[EvenEvilHasStandards the Master]]) put the kibosh on that pretty quick. Thankfully, while the war is still sealed off, Gallifrey survives, somewhere outside the universe; the Daleks destroyed themselves in their own crossfire.
-->'''The Doctor:''' You weren't there. In the final days of the war. You never saw what was born. But if the time lock's broken then ''everything'' is coming through. Not just the Daleks, but the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child. The Could-Have-Been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres. The war turned into hell! And that's what you’ve opened. [[{{Hellgate}} Right above the Earth]].
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Nu Who's Doctor appears tired of his lonely, blood-soaked existence and actively suicidal at times (especially Ten), but also desperately runs from "death" when his time seems to be up. Part of it is the Doctor's not-entirely-false suspicion that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and that Time Lords are too powerful and dangerous to be trusted with immortality.
* YouShallNotPass: Many, many notable episodes. The Ninth Doctor held off the Dalek Emperor and his half-crazed legion of hybrids until he was literally the last man standing. (Cap. Jack went out like a champ, but was soon brought back via the time vortex.) The Tenth Doctor held his own war-mongering President at gunpoint rather than allow him to set foot on Earth. Eleven once shook fists at ''all'' of the Doctor's accumulated enemies and dared them to try and take the Pandorica away from him; and then he did it ''again'' on Trenzalore.
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