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->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild "An Unearthly Child"]]

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** The TARDIS has, on two occasions, survived the Doctor regenerating inside her ''extremely'' violently (Ten to Eleven, Twelve to Thirteen), and the shockwave of Eleven's even ''more'' violent regeneration-explosion. Not bad for something the Time Lords described as "obsolete".

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The "Hostile Action Displacement System", or "HADS" for short, will activate when under direct attack or if she senses something particularly dangerous. It will either cause her to dematerialise or simply refuse to land in the first place. The Doctor keeps it switched off most of the time because if it ''was'' on they'd never land. It's been reactivated a few times when the Doctor wasn't paying attention (mostly when the writers want an excuse to strand the Doctor somewhere).

* SilverVixen: She was old when the First Doctor was a young spring chicken in his pre-700s, and with the reveal of "Fugitive of the Judoon" may be older still. They fell in love with her at first sight, and still thinks so over two thousand years later.

-->-- '''The Twelfth Doctor''', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot "The Pilot"]]

A sapient, sentient StarfishAlien with a symbiotic link to the Doctor. One of the centrepieces of ''Series/DoctorWho'', the TARDIS has been there since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild day one]] — and remained ever since, stuck in the form of a British police telephone box. Sure, she's a temperamental old[[note]]The word "old" is an understatement, since she was considered antiquated when the First Doctor was young. The Doctor says they're around 2,000 years old — but they lie about their age, and have forgotten how old they really are, so they're probably ''much'' older, something which "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]" confirms; they have had ''several'' regeneration cycles prior to the First Doctor and the TARDIS has apparently been there for at least one of these pre-Doctors, meaning she might nearly be as old as Time Lord civilisation itself.[[/note]] Type-40 TARDIS and has almost been through more face-lifts than the Doctor themself (the interior set has changed a lot, while the outer prop has had [[http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/tardis-police-box.html minor changes to its police box form]]), but the TARDIS is a constant of the franchise, and the {{Trope Namer|s}} for TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace [[PhraseCatcher and]] BiggerOnTheInside.

* BiggerOnTheInside: If not the Trope Namer, definitely the Trope Codifier; it is also the image on the main page for this trope. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E10JourneyToTheCentreOfTheTARDIS At least once]] described as "infinite", though other episodes suggest it's just "very large". The House Entity which earned her ire inhabited a large planet. She still surpassed it. Practically everyone who enters says this, or a variation of this, upon first seeing how massive it truly is. The handful who don't say "It's bigger on the inside" either Lampshade (Isn't it obvious?) or invert (It's smaller on the outside!) the trope. It's been said so many times that it's gotten to the point where the 10th Doctor mouths along [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones when]] Martha says the words.

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* StarshipLuxurious: Thanks to being BiggerOnTheInside, surely has the most impressive "ship floor space to number of occupants" ratio of any series ''ever''. There's enough space inside a TARDIS to house ''an entire literal star''! We know for sure it has a library, pool, bedrooms, closet with any clothing you can imagine, and the ship itself is capable of producing basically anything its occupants could ever need. We may only see the control room most of the time, but there's a lot of stuff in there. It's only appropriate for the ships produced at the height of the power of the richest, most powerful civilization in the history of the universe. That is not a boast. It is simply a description of the real situation. Ironically, the Doctor's TARDIS, a Type 40, is considered a literal antique by their people. We never actually get a look at a truly cutting-edge TARDIS.

A sapient, sentient StarfishAlien with a symbiotic link to the Doctor. One of the centrepieces of ''Series/DoctorWho'', the TARDIS has been there since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild day one]] — and remained ever since, stuck in the form of a British police telephone box. Sure, she's a temperamental old[[note]]The word "old" is an understatement, since she was considered antiquated when the First Doctor was young. The Doctor says they're around 2,000 years old — but they lie about their age, and have forgotten how old they really are, so they're probably ''much'' older, something which "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]" confirms; they have had ''several'' regeneration cycles prior to the First Doctor and the TARDIS has apparently been there for at least one of these pre-Doctors, meaning she might nearly be as old as Time Lord civilisation itself.[[/note]] Type-40 TARDIS and has almost been through more face-lifts than the Doctor themself (the interior set has changed a lot, while the outer prop has had [[http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/tardis-police-box.html minor changes to its police box form]]), but the TARDIS is a constant of the franchise, and the {{Trope Namer|s}} for TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace.

A sapient, sentient StarfishAlien with a symbiotic link to the Doctor. One of the centrepieces of ''Series/DoctorWho'', the TARDIS has been there since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild day one]] — and remained ever since, stuck in the form of a British police telephone box. Sure, she's a temperamental old[[note]]The word "old" is an understatement, since she was considered antiquated when the First Doctor was young. The Doctor says they're around 2,000 years old — but they lie about their age, and have forgotten how old they really are, so they're probably ''much'' older, something which "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]" confirms; they have had ''several'' regeneration cycles prior to the First Doctor and the TARDIS has apparently been there for at least one of these pre-Doctors, meaning she might nearly be as old as Time Lord civilisation itself.[[/note]] Type-40 TARDIS and has almost been through more face-lifts than the Doctor themself (the interior set has changed a lot, while the outer prop has had [[http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/tardis-police-box.html minor changes to its police box form]]), but the TARDIS is a constant of the franchise. TropeNamer for TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace.

The 2011 episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]" unveiled many previously unknown facets about the TARDIS when her consciousness was briefly transferred into a human female's body, including the confirmation (after first being hinted at in the 1960s) that she's very much alive, that she feels affection for the Doctor and that, despite claims to the contrary, she's ''not'' actually broken or faulty (well, aside from being stuck in police box form, of course[[note]]And even ''that'' is up for debate as some stories suggest she's ''not'' broken and just stays that way because the Doctor ''likes the design.'' Eight ''confirms that to be true'', that he likes the design, to Grace in [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the 1996 TV Movie]] and Nine later tells this to Mickey in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown Boom Town]]". Implications are that, even if it's not broken, the TARDIS refuses to change her appearance more than a certain amount, to account for the differences in the Police Boxes' styles, to make sure her Thief doesn't forget where they parked her. ''Again''.[[/note]]) — she's just temperamental and, being able to see all of Time and Space at the same time, takes the Doctor where they need to go — even if they don't particularly ''want'' to go there.

A sapient, sentient StarfishAlien with a symbiotic link to the Doctor. One of the centrepieces of ''Series/DoctorWho'', the TARDIS has been there since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild day one]] — and remained ever since, stuck in the form of a British police telephone box. Sure, she's a temperamental old[[note]]The word "old" is an understatement, since she was considered antiquated when the First Doctor was young. The Doctor says they're around 2,000 years old — but they lie about their age, and have forgotten how old they really are, so they're probably ''much'' older, something which "The Timeless Children" confirms; they have had ''several'' regeneration cycles prior to the First Doctor and the TARDIS has apparently been there for at least one of these pre-Doctors, meaning she might nearly be as old as Time Lord civilisation itself.[[/note]] Type-40 TARDIS and has almost been through more face-lifts than the Doctor themself (the interior set has changed a lot, while the outer prop has had [[http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/tardis-police-box.html minor changes to its police box form]]), but the TARDIS is a constant of the franchise. TropeNamer for TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace.

The 2011 episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]" unveiled many previously unknown facets about the TARDIS when her consciousness was briefly transferred into a human female's body, including the confirmation (after first being hinted at in the 1960s) that she's very much alive, that she feels affection for the Doctor and that, despite claims to the contrary, she's ''not'' actually broken or faulty (well, aside from being stuck in police box form, of course[[note]]And even ''that'' is up for debate as some stories suggest she's ''not'' broken and just stays that way because the Doctor ''likes the design.'' Eight ''confirms that to be true'', that he likes the design, to Grace in the 1996 TV Movie and Nine later tells this to Mickey in "Boom Town". Implications are that, even if it's not broken, the TARDIS refuses to change her appearance more than a certain amount, to account for the differences in the Police Boxes' styles, to make sure her Thief doesn't forget where they parked her. ''Again''.[[/note]]) — she's just temperamental and, being able to see all of Time and Space at the same time, takes the Doctor where they need to go — even if they don't particularly ''want'' to go there.

-->'''Greg Sutton:''' Well, I thought it'd be a bit more impressive than that.\\[[note]]In fairness, the Doctor had disconnected the console from the rest of the ship.[[/note]]