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-->'''The Doctor:''' Time Lord science... It's bigger on the inside!

* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E6FluxChapterSixTheVanquishers The Vanquishers]]": Though most of the episode's consequences are implied rather than explicitly focused on, the story- and the five that preceded it- have a ''huge'' impact on the universe. [[spoiler:While the Flux is stopped, [[AvertedTrope there is no]] ResetButton to undo the events, meaning that a big chunk of the universe is implicitly ''gone'' for the time. Most, if not all, of the forces of the Daleks, Cybermen, and Sontarans have been wiped out by the final Flux event. ''Time itself'' is officially revealed to be sentient and potentially malicious, leading to it being restrained by the Temple of Atropos. And the Doctor has access to a watch containing the memories of all her lost incarnations, although for now she has stored it away in the TARDIS so she won't be tempted to open it. And then there's Time's warning that once again, the Doctor's death is near]].

* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Doctor]]": The Thirteenth Doctor regenerates into the Fourteenth Doctor, the face of...[[spoiler:''the Tenth Doctor''?]]

** [[spoiler:Ruth Clayton is not only the titular fugitive, she's '''the Doctor'''... but neither she nor Thirteen have any memories of each other, so they have no idea where or how they relate to each other in the Doctor's timeline. And since Ruth is a fugitive from Gallifrey, the planet clearly isn't destroyed in her time.]]

* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]]: The poor Doctor loses Bill to Cyber-conversion and looks to lose his last chance at redeeming Missy to the allure of evil, on top of having to confront the Harold Saxon Master and the first generation of Cybermen... and all this is the beginning of the story of why he must regenerate into this thirteenth numbered self.

* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent "Heaven Sent"]]: The Doctor endures a nigh-unbelievable ordeal of grief, fear and defiance ''inside'' his own Confession Dial, but gets through to Gallifrey in the end. And warns the Time Lords that now, he's angry ''at them''. The first story since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin "The Deadly Assassin"]] in which the Doctor is without even a temporary companion, and the first ever in which (almost) every line of dialogue is his.