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[[WMG: Nyssa never had a mother and was'nt born the "normal" way]]

By the way, since Edward Travers is played by Deborah Watling's father, and there's also a resemblance between Anne and Victoria too, I wonder if Victoria would be related to them, through Victoria's mother whose maiden name would be Travers. And was'nt Victoria's father also called Edward? I know it's a common name but, well, I already headcanon Polly being Pollard Wright and being Charley's niece.

Right down to the frolicking in fields and the [[FoeYay gay]] and the mutual adversarial respect.

If anything, the Whoniverse versions of John Noakes and Valerie Singleton\Lesley Judd were presenting BP as a duo.

Eventually, one of Robert's descendants, Michael Taylor, marries one of Peter Purves' descendants, Laura Purves. They settle somewhere near New Longton in a new type of housing called an Hiveblock, then in 2336 Valerie Taylor is born, followed in 2339 by her little brother Steven!

Which way they went (the Balkan peninsula or the eastern Mediterranean Sea) will only be determined if and when archaeologists discover precisely when the early Italic tribes (in particular the early Latīnoi) migrated from what is now Austria and[=/=]or Hungary to what is now Italy.

Either way, human lifespans being what they are, the Doctor winds up alone again. So he hits random on the TARDIS and ends up stranded on Earth for 100 years, thus becoming Muldwych. (He chose to call himself Muldwych because he knew he would tell his past self that this was his name.) These hundred years were in the time of KingArthur, explaining why he also took the name Merlin.

Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic, Dil Bole Hadippa and Bollywood/{{Saawariya}} all contain clues as to her true identity. In TPTM she is a nearly immortal being. In Dil Bole Hadippa she spends much of the movie in disguise, hinting that Creator/RaniMukherji is not as she seems. And in Bollywood/{{Saawariya}} she plays a character that's narrating (from afar!) a story that may or may not be true; sounds pretty Time Lord, right?

Every so often, two deity-level beings sit down to play a game called "Key to Time." One takes the form of the White Guardian; the other, Black. The White Guardian finds a Hero somewhere in time and space and sends him on a quest for the Key to Time. The Black Guardian, meanwhile, has control of obstacles (monsters, traps, that one guard, etc.), and the White Guardian resolves things. The ultimate goal is to see what the Hero does when the key is completed. If he returns the key to the White Guardian, so much the better. If he decides to use the power of the key, the White Guardian strips it of its power and gives the Hero some kind of bad juju to follow him around for a while. In the case of the Doctor, the Black Guardian's either 1) adding a SecretTestOfCharacter to spice it up a little or 2) going off-script, just to see what would happen. The Doctor was the first Hero to neither return nor use the Key, instead opting for the [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly "Detente, comrade!"]] option.

[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks "Genesis of the Daleks"]] has them already be as evil as the Daleks we know now, even exterminating the remaining Kaleds they were descended from. They even had the current design. The 4th Doctor delayed their emergence by about a thousand years, which already changes history, but there were probably other ripple effects. The reason Davros is never mentioned in-universe is because originally, his plan ''failed''. He never was able to commit GenocideFromTheInside, or maybe realized he made a mistake and shut down the Daleks. However with Skaro a radioactive wasteland, the Kaleds continued to mutate and used his blueprints and designs in order to survive, thus becoming the Daleks. Davros was insane, [[VillainHasAPoint but he was right in the Kaleds needing to adapt and become Daleks to survive]]. The problem was that he wanted to speed up the physical and moral decay of his people, [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed and didn't take kindly to his fellow Kaleds disagreeing with him]]. The initial vitriol of the Daleks before this change is more JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope than anything. Unfortunately this probably means that had the 4th Doctor violated HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct it'd be AllForNothing. It also means that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero he made thing worse]] since [[PsychoPrototype the more vicious early Daleks]] decided to cut out the middle man and wipe out the Kaleds/their humanity centuries before [[CrapsackWorld Skaro did the job for them]]. Unsurprisingly, they were absolutely livid to learn the Time Lords tampered with their history in such a way, and the Time War eventually broke out.

As soon as they saw a Dalek, they would have known the Earth was in deep shit. What they couldn't have known is that this is a different faction for whom the mud-on-the-lens trick doesn't work. They were probably [[BadassGrandpa awesome to]] [[NeverMessWithGranny the last]], and likely [[HeroicSacrifice died bravely]].

While this may be contradicted outside the show, we never get concrete proof beyond the Kaleds/Daleks and Thals saying so. [[ForeverWar Having fought for a thousand years]], not even remembering why the war started and the original motives, a lot of history was lost. Originally Kaled and Thal was the name of their ''nations'', and they were different races of the same Skarosian inhabitants. In other words, the war wasn't FantasticRacism, but literal racism. Even for a series that overuses the HumanAliens trope, [[PeopleOfHair being distinguished by hair color alone]] seems too little a difference for even species that evolved on a different planet. And unless some interbreeding/minor mutations are to blame, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician' Apprentice"]] have more physically diverse Kaleds show up in the scene with young Davros, so it might just be certain ethnicities are more common for Kaleds and Thals. Or worse; eugenics and/or [[FinalSolution straight up ethnic cleansing]] during the long war are to blame. That racism is why they continue to consider each other separate species, and any scientist who says otherwise is indulging in little more than scientific racism. The Daleks may have figured this out or are in denial, but already mutating into a species other than the Kaleds and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks regarding them as extermination-worthy anyway]] means they don't care and want them dead for AbsoluteXenophobe and "our Kaled progenitors hated them anyway" reasons.

While this may be contradicted outside the show, we never get concrete proof beyond the Kaleds/Daleks and Thals saying so. [[ForeverWar Having fought for a thousand years]], not even remembering why the war started and the original motives, a lot of history was lost. Originally Kaled and Thal was the name of their ''nations'', and they were different races of the same Skarosian inhabitants. In other words, the war wasn't FantasticRacism, but literal racism. Even for a series that overuses the HumanAliens trope, [[PeopleOfHair being distinguished by hair color alone]] seems too little a difference for even species that evolved on a different planet. And unless some interbreeding/minor mutations are to blame, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician' Apprentice"]] have more physically diverse Kaleds show up in the scene with young Davros, so it might just be certain ethnicities are more common for Kaleds and Thals. Or worse; eugenics and/or [[FinalSolution straight up ethnic cleansing]] during the long war are to blame. That racism is why they continue to consider each other separate species, and any scientist who says otherwise is indulging in little more than scientific racism. The Daleks may have figured this out or are in denial, but already mutating into a species other than the Kaleds and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks regarding them as extermination-worthy anyway]] means they don't care and want them dead for AbsoluteXenophobe and "our Kaled progenitors hated them anyway" reasons.

The Time Lords said they were going to change his face. Regeneration is supposed to be a means of the body healing itself, either from trauma or natural causes. If it's used to alter the personality and appearance instead, that may not use up regeneration energy(or a lot less of it). It's the reverse of how "Journey's End" gives 10 a get-out in changing his face, but he still suffers physical trauma so it uses up regeneration energy. This would allow a potential "2 and a half" Doctor as some proponents of the Season 6b theory suggest to exist, [[spoiler:possibly the "Ruth" Doctor]]. Alternatively it does use up regeneration energy, but only part of the amount needed to regenerate. Which fits the above theory that the trial caused the Doctor's regenerations to be unstable then on. Maybe it used up half a regeneration and the Meta-Crisis Doctor used up half as well. Might explain how explosive 10's regeneration was; his body was finally normalized.

* Which, come to think of it, might show Pex in a somewhat more sympathetic light- not so much preening coward as just a scared young lad running from a war he's not old and mentally equipped enough to fight in, but acting all heroic to disguise the fact and/or in a misguided attempt to impress the girls.

Or ''male'' ChildSoldiers at any rate. Judging by the fact the Kangs are mysteriously all female, and (ignoring the possibility of DawsonCasting) don't seem much different in age from Pex, the MilesGloriosus army deserter, presumably in the late teens or early twenties. It seems they've been stuck there for years. Either we can assume that the boys managed to get themselves killed off fairly quickly treating their games as SeriousBusiness, as opposed to [[WomenAreWiser the more sensible girls]], or they were called up pretty quickly. Of course, it's not like we see many male elderly residents either, and the war seems to have ended in annihilation so it might be desparate enough that any surplus male not needed to guard the home front (i.e. the Caretakers) who could hold a gun was signed up and sent off.

This was before the first time WOTAN called the Doctor "Doctor Who". Naturally, WOTAN overhearing the conversation just assumed that was his name.

Specific speculation on the latest series goes into [[AC:WMG/DoctorWhoWithSpoilers]] (contains '''[[CaptainObvious spoilers]]''').

If the Doctor finds out what led to the Valeyard's creation whether [[EvilMeScaresMe it be his evil taking form]] [[FutureMeScaresMe or himself turning to evil]], he'll do whatever it takes to stop it. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Maybe that's what causes the Valeyard in the first place]], but there's just as much a chance it will RetGone the Valeyard away. Obviously an evil future Doctor would be GenreSavvy and make sure the past Doctor can't try to stop his existence until it's too late and/or he's able to exist independently of him. Out of universe, this is probably how they'd justify the MultipleChoicePast and the various paradoxes involved.

However, the TranslatorMicrobes indicated it was a food dish.

He'd just been betrayed by Captain Cook and the Psychic Circus staff, his greatest idols.

Nicholas Courtney thought that the Brig should have been elevated to the peerage for commanding UNIT and saving the planet. But the Queen would have known her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria's opinion of the Doctor. Either the monarch or her staff would have decided that the Brig, a great friend of that dangerous Doc, would just have to stay a Knight. (This works as a fictional story, or a daft conspiracy theory involving the real BBC and monarchy.)

And "The Moon doesn't fall out of the sky" was a Literature/NewJediOrder reference, as he was trying to get Fedorin's guard down.

During his time with Jo Grant, the Doctor observed something in her. She may have seemed dim, but he could tell she was smarter than she let on, and she had a fierce spirit that reminded him of himself. After the Time-Lords returned the use of his TARDIS to him, the Doctor started thinking about submitting her for the Academy, but these plans were cut short when Jo got married, thus him looking so broken up after. He soon, however, found another potential candidate in Sarah Jane, who had a similarly fierce spirit, and was more open about her intelligence. After what happened with Jo, though, the Doctor was on the fence for a long time about whether to submit Sarah, and, when finally forced to make a decision, the Doctor decided not to, hence him telling her humans weren't allowed on Gallifrey.

We know from the Revived series episodes "The Doctor's Wife" and "Journey to the Center of the TARDIS" that the TARDIS's interior can contain discontinuities in time as well as space. Near the end of "The Invasion of Time", Four is evading the Sontarans with Leela, Andred and Borusa, and there's a brief ScoobyDooDoors gag in which the group split up and enter three different doors that face different ways, only to meet up in the same room an apparent instant later. Borusa scolds Four for letting such anomalies occur in his ride.