Background
Height: Varies across regenerations. 6’1 as the 10th Doctor
Age: At least over 1900 years old, over a billion if you count his time in the torture chamber in Heaven Sent.
Species: Time Lord
-Holds a degree in Cosmic Science and Higher Dimensional Physics.
Across all of time and space, one name appears. One name for a healer, a warrior, a genius, a madman, and someone who brings equal parts hope and terror: The Doctor.
Much of this ‘Doctor’s’ history is clouded in mystery due to conflicting backstories, memories, and time shenanigans. What’s generally agreed upon is he was born a Time Lord, growing up on his species’ home planet, Gallifrey. In his youth, he attended the Time Lords Academy, originally intending to learn medicine, taking the hippocratic oath of an actual doctor. However, he later chose to pursue science instead, and gained a degree in Cosmic Science and Higher Dimensional Physics. During this time, he also met his friend turned nemesis, The Master.
Sometime after, The Doctor stole a Type-40 TARDIS and left Gallifrey with his granddaughter, Susan. Allegedly, he did this because ‘he was bored’, but more likely he departed due to his rising dismay towards the Time Lords, and becoming a wanted man due to his participation in a riot. Regardless, with the TARDIS at his disposal, The Doctor began traveling through time, space, and the greater multiverse, getting into all sorts of trouble, often returning to Earth, and even being exiled to the planet by the Time Lords for time.
He would regularly bring companions along with him, but inevitably, all these companions would part ways with him, happily or not so happily. Every now and then, The Doctor would also undergo a regeneration, each time taking on a new appearance and a slightly (or drastically) different personality. It was on his 8th regeneration that The Doctor experienced the Last Great Time War between the Time Lords and his arch-nemesis, the Daleks. The battle spanned countless timelines across centuries (of linear time at least), reducing Billions of galaxies to nothing.
Though The Doctor tried to avoid involvement in this war, he was ultimately killed when helping a pilot aboard a spacecraft that was being attacked. When the ship crashed on the planet Karn, the Sisterhood of Karn revived him, offering him an elixir that would give him an extra regeneration in return for fighting in the Time War. The Doctor hesitated at first, but agreed, regenerating from a Doctor into a ‘Warrior’.
This War Doctor, believing his involvement in the Time War broke the promise his title entails, relinquished the name ‘Doctor’, and set about fighting against the Daleks for countless years. In the final days of the war, The War Doctor obtained his weapon of ultimate destruction: The Moment, to wipe out every combatant in the Time War in an instant, forever scarring him.
Or at least that’s what the War Doctor thought. As it turned out, The Moment ACTUALLY summoned the 10th and 11th Doctors to The War Doctor. And rather than use The Moment’s almighty destructive power to wipe out the Daleks and The Time Lords as was prophesied, The Doctor used the efforts and calculations of all his past incarnations to freeze Gallifrey in a single moment in time. Transporting the planet out of the Dalek’s gunfire, causing the Daleks to destroy themselves in the crossfire. The day was saved, but The War Doctor’s imperfect memories ensured he would continue to live with the guilt of believing he had wiped out countless lives, only discovering the truth in his later incarnations.
With the war over, The War Doctor finally regenerated, this time into one who distanced himself away from the atrocities his former self committed, retaking the name of The Doctor. So, The Doctor’s time-spanning travels continued, never far away from the next threat to the greater universe, and time at large.
Note: Many of the oldest Doctor Who episodes are lost, with their original reels having been deleted due to lack of space (among other reasons). However, the audio to all of these episodes still exist, as do reconstructions from that audio, which are what was used for research. Most of these reconstructions can be found on Archive.org here.
Research was done primarily using the television series, but the novels and anything from the expanded universe that doesn’t contradict the show is fair game.
Skill & Experience
There are too many adventures and wild experiences to count for The Doctor, but we’ll do our best to list off some of the most notable. The Doctor’s age is inconsistent at times, but it’s generally agreed he’s at least hundreds, approaching thousands of years old (barring the billions of years he spent in the episode Heaven Sent).
-Early in his life, The Doctor attended a Time Lord Academy, gaining a degree in Cosmic Science (Season 8, Episode 1, Part 1, Terror of the Autons, 13:10)
-The Doctor has met and received training from numerous historical figures, folk figures, and historic institutions. Among them are…
The Doctor got a degree in medicine in Glasgow in 1888. (Season 4, Episode 6, Part 2, The Moonbase, 17:30)
The Doctor claims to have taken boxing lessons from John L. Sullivan, a famous American boxer. (Season 10, Episode 2, Part 2, Carnival of Monsters, 5:10)
The Doctor claims William Tell, a famous folk figure, taught him how to shoot crossbows. (Season 14, Episode 4, Part 2, The Faces of Evil, 17:00)
The Doctor learned how to compress and contort his body to escape from bindings, thanks to Harry Houdini. (Season 11, Episode 5, Part 5, Planet of the Spiders, 5:35)
As opposed to being taught himself, The Doctor claims he taught wrestling to ‘The Mountain Mauler of Montana’, a fictitious wrestler. (Season 2, Episode 4, ‘All Roads Lead to Rome’, The Romans, 2:00)
-The Doctor once met and dueled Robin Hood using only a spoon.
-The Doctor is skilled in hand to hand, having mastered Venusian Karate. (Season 7, Episode 4, Part 2, Inferno, 16:14)
-The Doctor is just as skilled with melee weapons as he is in hand-to-hand, able to disarm and defeat a master champion in spear combat. (Season 9, Episode 2, Part 3, The Curse of Peladon, 20:36)
-This skill extends to sword fighting as well. (Season 20, Episode 4, Part 1, Terminus, 22:18)
-The Doctor was mentored for a time by a timelord turned abbot. (Season 11, Episode 5, Part 6, Planet of the Spiders, 8:45)
-The Doctor is adaptable, able to make a bomb capable of destroying robots from just some chemicals found in a medical kit. (Season 6, Episode 1, Part 5, The Dominators, 14:22)
-The Doctor is a quick learner, able to, in a brief span of time, learn the laws of a futuristic civilization quickly enough to defend his companion Ian in court. (Season 1, Episode 5, ‘Sentence of Death’, The Keys of Manus, 8:50)
The Doctor is knowledgeable of many languages throughout the universe. (Season 8, Episode 2, Part 2, The Mind of Evil, 11:38) Allegedly, he knows how to speak every language in the universe. (Planet of the Dead)
-The Doctor’s knowledge is so vast, a futuristic machine meant to test a lifeform’s knowledge spiked when used on The Doctor. (Season 6, Episode 3, Part 2, The Krotons, 12:20) In the same episode, The Doctor and his companion Zoe had enough intellect or ‘Mental Energy’ to power a 1000+ year old supercomputer. The act of which would normally kill someone (16:00)
-The Doctor has regularly bested and outwitted rival Time Lords such as The Master, The Rani, and Omega. He once took the velocity regulator to the Rani’s TARDIS, causing it to malfunction and continue to increase in speed, while she and The Master were in it.
-When battling an enemy Time Lord, Morbius, The Doctor engaged in a ‘Mind-Bending’ mental battle with him via a machine. The battle of which was so intense it overloaded said machine. (Season 13, Episode 5, Part 4, The Brain of Morbius, 17:40)
-The Doctor has faced off against and outwitted many cosmic threats. Such as The Celestial Toymaker. (Season 3, Episode 7, ‘The Final Test’, The Celestial Toymaker, 12:30) During which time, he had to do a 1023 move puzzle perfectly without making any mistakes. (Season 3, Episode 7, ‘The Celestial Toyroom’, The Celestial Toymaker, 12:08)
-He was also clever enough to discern he was being deceived by The Black Guardian disguised as the White Guardian. (Season 16, Episode 6, Part 6, The Armageddon Factor, 21:30)
-While not a feat of intellect per-say, The Doctor has an impressive amount of willpower. He very infamously spent well over a billion years in a torture chamber, being pursued by a ‘Veil’ monster and being inflicted with his childhood fears and getting disintegrated. All while slowly punching through a wall of pure Azbantium, a material significantly stronger than diamond, until he eventually broke through to his TARDIS after an unfathomable amount of time.
-Perhaps one of the most unique feats of intellect is in the The Day of The Doctor, where 13 of The Doctor’s incarnations, used their combined intellect to perform hundreds of years’ worth of calculations to generate a stasis from their TARDISes to freeze the entire planet Gallifrey in a single moment in time. Transporting it out of the Dalek’s fire, saving the entire civilization from certain doom.
Equipment
Type 40 TARDIS
Standing for Time And Dimensions In Relative Space, the TARDIS is The Doctor’s primary method of traveling through space and time, and arguably his one and only permanent companion. That’s not an exaggeration, as the TARDIS possesses a will of its own, along with a multitude of valuable features. It's repeatedly stated these TARDISes exist in 5 dimensions (Deep Time), and all primary functions can be operated from its Control Room. (Season 21, Episode 3, Part 4, Frontios, 18:00)
TARDIS Abilities
Time & Dimensional Travel: TARDISes can freely travel forwards, backwards, and 'sideways' in time to other parallel worlds. (Season 7, Episode 4, Part 4, Inferno, 8:18)
TARDISes can use an individual's timeline information to travel along their timeline (Listen), and even have its course altered so it follows a continuous time loop. (Season 8, Episode 3, Part 4, The Claws of Axos, 17:20)
Dematerialization: The TARDIS normally travels through time by altering its temporal state, letting it appear and disappear from any point in space and time. It can even materialize around someone in order to defend them. (Doctor Who Movie (1996), 7:20) This method allows TARDISes to also ‘park’ themselves out of sync with time, making it so they’re always 1 second in the future, and therefore untouchable by traditional means. (End of Time)
Size Alteration: As seen throughout the entire show, The TARDIS is ‘Bigger On The Inside (™)’ (Season 1, Episode 1, Part 1, An Unearthly Child, 14:30) and can vary the size of its interior and exterior, as well as alter the size of anyone within it freely. (Season 2, Episode 1, Part 3, Planet of the Giants, 23:30) Should the TARDIS need additional power, it can use up rooms and parts it has created within itself to increase thrust and power. (Season 19, Episode 1, Part 2, Catrovalva, 7:20)
This spatial manipulation can get so mind-bending that The Doctor can warp his TARDIS into another TARDIS, creating a paradoxical effect in which both TARDISes are within each other. (Season 9, Episode 5, Part 4, The Time Monster, 8:37) This size and interior alteration is achieved via a device in the TARDIS called the Time Vector Generator. (Season 5, Episode 7, Part 1, The Wheel in Space, 3:55)
Phasing: The TARDIS can phase through solid matter. (Season 2, Episode 3, Part 1, The Rescue, 5:48)
Invisibility: The TARDIS can make itself invisible. (Season 6, Episode 3, Part 1, The Invasion, 4:00)
Telepathy: TARDISes are telepathic to some extent, able to communicate with The Doctor with just its mind. (Season 9, Episode 5, Part 4, The Time Monster, 19:20) This telepathy lets the TARDIS relay The Doctor's thoughts, even when he is trapped in the Time Vortex. (Season 9, Episode 5, Part 5, The Time Monster, 1:24)
Time Manipulation: The TARDIS can manipulate the present time around itself, able to freeze entire planets in a single moment in time (The Day of The Doctor), as well as speed up the flow and perception of time for those inside it, to the point that those outside are practically frozen still. (In the Blood)
Force Fields: The force field the TARDIS generates is regularly described as a 'Double Curtain Trimonic' barrier (Season 14, Episode 3, Part 1, The Deadly Assassin, 2:48) It can block and repel most forms of concussive force, block out radio communications (Season 10, Episode 1, Part 2, The Three Doctors, 17:20), and make the TARDIS undetectable to advanced Sontaran technology. (Poisoned Sky)
By messing with the TARDIS' defensive shields (read: Wrecking it), The Doctor can also extrude the defensive barrier to make platforms and other constructs. (Season 17, Episode 5, Part 1, The Horns of Nimon, 11:00). The barrier can keep just about anything out, including a creature made from stabilized antimatter. (Season 10, Episode 1, Part 2, The Three Doctors, 6:06) At full power, the shields can even keep out all powerful reality warpers like The Black Guardian. (Season 16, Episode 6, Part 6, The Armageddon Factor, 21:30)
However, these force fields are not indestructible, and have been broken by powerful entities such as the Quantum Archangel.
Hyperspace: The TARDIS is capable of accessing Hyperspace, a plane where objects are able to achieve massively faster than light speeds and move to different points in the universe. (Season 10, Episode 3, Part 1, Frontier in Space, 2:01) Other ships such as the Cargo Ship C982 have used this technology to travel between galaxies in a short span of time.
Temporal Grace: A defense feature of the TARDIS that makes The Doctor and everyone in it 'multidimensional', effectively making them pseudo-nonexistent, and immune to all forms of conventional attack. (Season 14, Episode 2, Part 3, The Hand of Fear, 18:50) While nobody can hurt The Doctor in this state, The Doctor cannot hurt anyone as well.
Time Manipulation Immunity: The TARDIS is naturally immune to the effects of the Time Destructor, which rapidly accelerates time, and other forms of time manipulation. (Season 3, Episode 4, Part 12, The Daleks' Master Plan, 20:55)
Genetic Stabilization: The TARDIS’ energy can stabilize genetics, even on imperfect human clones called Gangers. (The Almost People)
Weather Manipulation: The TARDIS can manipulate the weather to make snow through ‘Atmospheric Excitation’. (The Runaway Bride)
Underwater Survival: Unsurprisingly, the TARDIS can survive unaffected by water as well. (Season 2, Episode 9, Part 4, 8:28)
TARDIS Devices
The Eye of Harmony: The source of the TARDIS' power, and one of the most powerful artifacts in the series. (Doctor Who Movie (1996), 43:00)
It's said that the eye simply being open would be enough to suck in the entire planet it's on. (Doctor Who Movie (1996), 46:45) In The 3 Doctors, the Eye of Harmony was able to temporarily halt the Omega, who was draining the cosmic energy of the universe.
Architectural Reconfiguration System: A room that reconstructs particles to make any kind of machine so long as it can figure out how to arrange the matter. (Journey to the Center of the TARDIS) With this room, The Doctor could, in theory, have access to a multitude of weapons he doesn't normally carry.
Tractor Beam: A device built into the TARDIS that lets it grab, pull, and control the gravity of anything the beam hits. (Season 24, Episode 3, Part 1, Delta and the Bannermen, 11:00) The beam is strong enough to halt the kinetic energy of a colliding neutron star. (Season 17, Episode 2, Part 4, City of Death, 20:00)
Scalpels: Attachments to the TARDIS that are 'large enough to dissect stars’, and capable of slicing off parts of a universe. (Taking of Planet Five)
Randomizer: A device that completely randomizes the function to what it is attached to. When attached to the TARDIS, it changed its destination to such a random extent that not even a reality warper like the Black Guardian, or The Doctor himself (who normally can view timelines and see the future) knew where the TARDIS was going. (Season 16, Episode 6, Part 6, The Armageddon Factor, 22:30)
The Doctor did get rid of this device because he 'likes knowing where he's going' (Season 18, Episode 1, Part 4, The Leisure Hive, 19:19), but in theory could always get it back, or make a new one using the TARDIS' Architectural Reconfiguration System.
Chameleon Circuits: The device that controls the outward appearance of the TARDIS. The Chameleon Circuits to The Doctor's TARDIS are broken, hence why it normally appears as a police box, but The Doctor has managed to partially repair them in the past. (Season 22, Episode 1, Part 1, Attack of the Cybermen, 2:40)
Security Features
Even without its barriers and natural sturdiness, The TARDIS has many security measures that make it very difficult to get into. Such as...
A 'Double Lock' feature that makes it so even someone with the TARDIS' key cannot get into it. (Season 2, Episode 2, Part 6, The Dalek Invasion, 21:22)
An Emergency Power switch. (Season 6, Episode 2, Part 1, The Mind Robber, 2:28)
The ability to see through illusions and let anyone within it see through illusions (Deep Time)
A self repair feature for the exterior.
The ability to survive in spaces without basic particles (Infinity Doctors)
An Emergency Unit that moves it outside of the space-time dimension in sight of danger. (Season 6, Episode 2, Part 1, The Mind Robber, 17:24) This may be the Hostile Action Displacement System (HADS), which warps the TARDIS away from danger when The Doctor isn't present. (Season 6, Episode 4, Part 3, The Krotons, 15:00)
An emergency red handle that can rescue The Doctor, even while he's trapped in the Time Vortex. (Season 9, Episode 5, Part 5, The Time Monster, 2:10)
The ability to prevent any type of teleportation, or spatial transference into itself. (The Infinity Doctors)
Sensory Instruments
A Geiger Counter (Season 1, Episode 1, Part 2, An Unearthly Child, 5:36)
An Astral Map that perfectly charts out stars across the entire universe (Season 2, Episode 5, Part 6, 11:22)
A screen that gives a full view of the environment outside the TARDIS. (Season 1, Episode 1, Part 2, The Cave of Skulls, 4:48)
A Cloister Bell that alerts crew members of impending danger. (Season 18, Episode 7, Part 1, Logopolis, 2:00)
A Space-Time Visualizer to see any point in space or time. (Season 2, Episode 7, Part 4, The Space Museum, 19:09)
A Time Scanner that can glimpse the future. (Season 4, Episode 6, part 4, The Enemy of the World, 21:56)
A Time Path Detector that surveys the time path it's on. (The Chase)
Scanners to detect entities around it. (Season 1, Episode 2, Part 1, The Daleks, 14:35)
These scanners are able to scan a planet (God Complex), multiple planets in a solar system (Season 21, Episode 3, Part 4, Frontios, 21:36), or even an entire universe. (The Infinity Doctors)
Miscellaneous features
A food creator and dispenser. (Season 1, Episode 2, Part 1, The Daleks, 13:20)
A Memory Bay to record all The Doctor's journeys (Season 1, Episode 3, Part 1, The Edge of Destruction, 17:25)
A lab with various chemical compounds. (Season 1, Episode 7, Part 4, The Sensorites, 2:48)
A secondary control room. (Season 14, Episode 1, Part 1, The Masque of Mandragora, 1:20)
A self-destruct timer (Season 22, Episode 1, Part 2, Attack of the Cybermen, 1:48)
A Zero Room where The Doctor can recuperate during regenerations, that can cut out any outside interference. (Season 19, Episode 1, Part 1, Catrovalva, 15:09)
An onboard medical kit containing a Healing Beam that can heal wounds and stop internal hemorrhaging. (Season 21, Episode 7, Part 2, The Twin Dilemma, 5:18)
A Transmat Beam that can warp The Doctor to different places. (Time of The Doctor)
Sonic Screwdriver
Perhaps The Doctor’s second most iconic piece of equipment. It primarily uses soundwaves to move objects. (Season 5, Episode 6, Part 1, Fury From the Deep, 3:23) These same sound waves can be emitted at a high frequency to stun creatures with sensitive hearing. (Season 10, Episode 5, Part 5, The Green Death, 16:18)
But the device has shown many other capabilities over the years, including…
Cutting: The edge of the screwdriver appears to have a cutting feature, letting it cut through bonds that are tough as steel. (Season 13, Episode 4, Part 3, The Android Invasion, 6:45)
Lasers: The Sonic Screwdriver is able to make a laser that can weld through a steel wall. (Season 6, Episode 1, Part 5, The Dominators, 14:22)
Hacking: The Sonic Screwdriver has been used to hack and manipulate many pieces of technology, including...
Disrupting machinery (Season 12, Episode 4, Part 1, Genesis of the Daleks, 13:32)
Opening electronic doors (Season 12, Episode 5, Part 2, Revenge of the Cybermen, 1:07)
Deactivating a machine called a 'Generator Loop Barrier' (Season 13, Episode 3, Part 3, Pyramids of Mars, 6:12)
Molecule Manipulation: The device can vibrate people’s molecules, causing enough discomfort to disarm them, as well as stabilize the molecules of intangible beings to make them tangible.
Scanning: The Sonic Screwdriver has various scanning and sensory functions. (Season 10, Episode 1, Part 1, The Three Doctors, 10:28)
Memory Manipulation: The Sonic Screwdriver can selectively erase lifeform’s memories, even for something as fundamental as what species that lifeform is.
Electromagnetism: The Doctor can reverse the polarity of the Sonic Screwdriver’s power source to make it an electromagnet. (Season 10, Episode 3, Part 1, Frontier in Space, 15:52)
Other Equipment
TARDIS Key
The TARDIS normally can only be opened with a key. (Season 1, Episode 1, Part 1, An Unearthly Child, 11:52)
Remote
An unnamed remote The Doctor has used to call his TARDIS to him. (Season 22, Episode 4, Part 3, The Two Doctors, 42:00)
Psychic Paper
A blank sheet of paper that psychically creates any credentials The Doctor needs to get access to a certain place. Though individuals of high intellect can see through it.
Signet Ring
Used primarily by the 1st Doctor. The Ring appears to have some connection to the TARDIS, able to control its power. (Season 2, Episode 5, Part 5, 2:10)
Cane
Used by the 1st Doctor, who would occasionally wield it to fight with foes and knock people out. (Season 1, Episode 5, Part 6, The Keys of Marinus, 16:44)
Binoculars
The 1st Doctor had a set of special glasses that functioned as binoculars. (Season 1, Episode 2, Part 2, The Daleks, 7:40)
Homing Watch
A special watch used by the 2nd and 3rd Doctor that lets him home in on the TARDIS' location. (Season 7, Episode 1, Part 2, Spearhead From Space, 18:30)
Bessie
A modified car The 3rd Doctor used during his exile on Earth. Comes with a variety of features, including being able to cancel out inertia, be controlled remotely, and an ‘anti-theft’ forcefield. In addition it has an Increased Gravity Stabilizer.
Scarf
Used by the 4th Doctor. Can be used to grab foes. (Season 14, Episode 1, Part 2, The Masque of Mandragora, 1:17)
Sonic Sunglasses
Used by the 12th Doctor. Sunglasses that can utilize all the features of a Sonic Screwdriver.
Invisibility Watch
Used by the 12th Doctor. The watch does exactly what you’d think. It can make the owner invisible.
Chronodyne Generator
Used by the 12th Doctor. A mine of sorts that rapidly accelerates the time of anyone who steps on it, transporting them up to billions of years into the future.
Time Ring
A device built by the Time Lords that lets the user freely travel through time. The ring also lets The Doctor return to the TARDIS whenever he wants. (Season 12, Episode 4, Part 1, Genesis of the Daleks, 3:09)
Time Sensor
A device that lets The Doctor detect disturbances in space and time. (Season 9, Episode 5, Part 1, The Time Monster, 11:35)
Unbreakable Chains
Chains forged from the heart of a dwarf star that are exceptionally durable and difficult to break.
De-Mat Gun
One of the deadliest weapons devised by The Doctor. It was built using the Key of Rassilon. Anyone or anything hit by it will have their entire timeline, every particle they've ever interacted with, scanned, and the entirety of reality overwritten, effectively erasing them from temporal existence. (Season 15, Episode 6, Part 6, The Invasion of Time, 17:40)
While the original De-Mat gun used by the 4th Doctor could only be used once, because the Key of Rassilon's energy was too powerful, later advancements allowed Time Lords and Daleks to use facsimiles of the De-mat tech enmasse, and the War Doctor later modified the Key of Rassilon, and the technology for the De-Mat gun, into The Moment.
Time Ruse
Using Kontron Crystals, The Doctor built a device that lets him timeslip 10 seconds into the future, creating a false projection of his current self in his non-existent place. (Season 22, Episode 5, Part 2, Timelash, 13:19)
From this same crystal he made a telescopic device that can track people slipping through time with the crystal (and potentially without). (Season 22, Episode 5, Part 2, Timelash, 14:22)
As well as a weapon that can absorb energy and direct it back at enemies through a time loop. (Season 22, Episode 5, Part 2, Timelash, 14:22)
This crystal can redirect energy from a time acceleration beam, meaning it can absorb more than just concussive and offensive energy based weapons. (Season 22, Episode 5, Part 2, Timelash, 27:00)
Anti-Plastic
A material that dissolves any and all plastics it comes in contact with.
Species Matcher
A device that can identify any species in the universe and their planet of origin. It can also detect invisible entities.
2Dis
A device that can change the dimensions of objects and people, turning 2-D objects back to their 3-D state and vice versa. (Flatline)
Writer’s Block
A stasis field The Doctor created that freezes anyone imprisoned in it in time.
Anti-Radiation Pills
Drugs that get rid of any adverse effects from radiation, and make one immune to radiation. (Season 2, Episode 2, Part 3, The Daleks, 5:00) The Doctor keeps these onboard the TARDIS. (Season 17, Episode 1, Part 1, Destiny of the Daleks, 4:15)
Tissue Compression Eliminator
A device used primarily by The Doctor's nemesis, The Master. Able to shrink anybody to the point of death if they become small enough. While not something The Doctor typically employs, he has stolen and used it in the past (Season 21, Episode 5, Part 4, Planet of Fire, 17:00), and should theoretically be able to access it through The TARDIS' Architectural Reconfiguration System.
Time Lock
A device that prevents areas in space and time from being reached or escaped from through time travel. It normally can't be removed by anyone except the person who put the lock in place.
The Moment
Possibly the most powerful device The Doctor has ever used. Using the De-Mat technology, the device that can temporally erase entire galaxies in a single instance. It has a mind of its own, is speculated to be omniscient, and, in addition to its temporal erasure, can manipulate time and space to create rifts capable of bringing multiple incarnations of The Doctor together.
Abilities
Genius Intellect: The Doctor is nothing short of a cosmic genius, possessing knowledge of Astronomy (Season 1, Episode 2, Part 1, The Daleks, 6:22), 3-Dimensional Graph Geometry (Season 2, Episode 2, Part 2, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, 19:00), and Cosmic Science. (Season 8, Episode 1, Part 1, Terror of the Autons, 13:10)
Precognition and Future Visions: Time Lords view time differently from ordinary lifeforms, allowing them to look into humans' futures and use pseudo-precognition (Doctor Who Movie (1996), 1:00:00) (The Parting of Ways)
Respiratory Bypass System: Time Lords possess a unique respiratory system that lets them go long periods without breathing. (Season 13, Episode 3, Part 4, Pyramids of Mars, 10:40) The Doctor has used this quirk to avoid breathing in gasses such as helium. (Season 14, Episode 5, Part 4, The Robots of Death, 22:20)
Hand to Hand Mastery: The Doctor has learned how to fight from many different teachers (see above), and is a master of hand to hand, able to disarm assailants with Venusian Karate. (Season 8, Episode 4, Part 3, Colony in Space, 1:14)
He’s just as proficient with melee weaponry, able to fight with swords (The Christmas Invasion), spears (Season 9, Episode 2, Part 3, The Curse of Peladon, 20:36), and… Spoons.
Pressure Points: Thanks to The Doctor's training in Venusian Karate, he can incapacitate multiple guards with a simple nerve pinch (Season 7, Episode 4, Part 7, Inferno, 15:42), or a press to the forehead (Season 26, Episode 1, Part 4, Battlefield, 21:07)
Regeneration: One of the defining abilities of the Time Lords. Any time a Time Lord approaches death, they are able to regenerate, maintaining their memories while taking on a new form and sometimes a different personality. This regeneration heals any wounds or afflictions the Time Lord suffered in their previous form, and even lets him regenerate lost limbs during the first 15 hours of the regeneration (The Christmas Invasion). Should the situation call, The Doctor can even utilize the energy of a regeneration to make powerful blasts of energy, enough to take out an entire fleet of Daleks, and produce a tremendous shockwave.
It has been stated that Time Lords normally have 13 regenerations (Doctor Who Movie (1996), 1:45), though The Doctor has gained more over the years, and as of now can regenerate indefinitely. While this ability has let The Doctor stick around for ages, it doesn’t make him invincible. If The Doctor or any Time Lord is harmed enough during their regeneration process, they won’t come back.
Hypnosis: The Doctor can both hypnotize people (Season 5, Episode 2, Part 6, The Abominable Snowman, 7:58), and break others out of hypnosis (Season 3, Episode 10, Part 2, The War Machines, 15:30). It's likely The Doctor can mind control people with just a stare, similar to what The Master can do. (Season 8, Episode 1, Part 1, Terror of the Autons, 20:19)
Transmigration: A lesser used power of The Doctor's where he can just... Pull objects out of thin air. (Season 7, Episode 3, Part 2, The Ambassadors of Death, 1:45) The exact limits of this ability are frustratingly unexplored, but presumably The Doctor could use it to quickly grab ahold of weaponry he has at his disposal. Makes one wonder why he never uses it.
Enhanced Senses: The Doctor can sense 'magnetic pulls'. (Season 3, Episode 10, Part 1, The War Machines, 3:33), has night vision, and can tell planets apart just from their taste and smell. (The Year of Intelligent Tigers)
Atmospheric Survival: The Doctor's physiology is accustomed to different environments, letting him adapt more quickly than humans. (Season 3, Episode 4, Part 7, The Daleks' Master Plan, 2:28) He can also survive the vacuum of space for a time. (Season 19, Episode 2, Part 4, Four to Doomsday, 15:55)
Extended Lifespan: Because of The Doctor's Time Lord longevity, he has greater resistance to having his age accelerated than normal humans. He can still be killed if he becomes too old, but is able to survive things like the Time Destructor longer than most. (Season 3, Episode 4, Part 12, The Daleks' Master Plan, 18:00)
Stealth Proficiency: The Doctor is reasonably sneaky, able to regularly stealth his way past threats. (Season 1, Episode 4, Part 4, Marco Polo, 15:10) He's also a master of sleight of hand. (Doctor Who Movie (1996) 53:00)
Time Manipulation Resistance: The Doctor is able to withstand and resist phenomena that messes with the traditional flow of time. This includes time stops (Spiral Scratch Novel) (Season 11, Episode 2, Part 6, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, 21:40), and time being slowed down (The Time Monster Novel).
It’s also heavily implied his Time Lord physiology means if someone were to kill him in a different era, his future self will not cease to exist, continuing on as a temporal anomaly (Season 22, Episode 4, Part 1, The Two Doctors, 17:38)
Acausality: Time Lords can act out of the normal chain of causal events. Because of this, it's difficult for their reality to be manipulated, and even for their actions to be predicted by precognitive machines. (The Also People)
Mind Manipulation Resistance: The Doctor's mind is very powerful and able to stave off most forms of mind manipulation. He managed to resist being brainwashed by a supercomputer (Season 3, Episode 10, Part 2, The War Machines, 13:04), a Truth Helmet (Season 6, Episode 7, Part 8, The War Games, 6:00), an alien creature that feeds off peoples' hatred (Season 8, Episode 2, Part 4, The Mind of Evil, 13:40), a mind controlling bio virus called The Nucleus of The Swarm (Season 15, Episode 2, Part 2, The Invisible Enemy, 0:50), The Daleks' nanite cloud (Asylum of the Daleks), and even once took control of the Master Brain, which presided over a world housing everything fictitious (Season 6, Episode 2, Part 5, The Mind Robber, 8:42)
Existence Erasure Resistance: The Doctor has managed to partially resist the effects of a Time Crack (Cold Blood). The light of which normally erases anything it touches from existence, making it so they were never born.
Physiology Control: Time Lords have a minor healing factor that can heal small wounds. (Human Nature) Thanks to his training with Harry Houdini, The Doctor can also escape bonds by contorting his body. (Season 11, Episode 5, Part 5, Planet of the Spiders, 5:35) In addition, he can fix dislocated parts of his body (Season 4, Episode 1, The Smuggler, Part 1, 8:53)
Radiation Resistance: Time Lords are resistant to most forms of radiation, able to contain, neutralize, and expel it from themselves. (Smith and Jones)
Intoxication Resistance: Time Lord physiology makes The Doctor abnormally tolerant of the effects of alcohol. (City of the Dead)
4th Wall Awareness: The Doctor is aware of the 4th wall, and has sometimes directly acknowledged the audience. (Season 3, Episode 4, Part 7, The Daleks' Master Plans, 23:35) (Season 13, Episode 1, Part 1, Terror of the Zygons, 0:22)
Voice Mimicry: The Doctor can mimic voices almost perfectly. (Season 6, Episode 2, Part 4, The Mind Robber, 8:00)
Feats
Strength & Destructive Power
The Doctor
-The newly regenerated 8th Doctor broke down a steel door. (Doctor Who Movie (1996), 23:10)
-It took well-over a billion years to do, but The Doctor managed to crack and punch through 20 feet of pure Azbantium, a material 400 times harder than diamond.
-While not something he normally does, The Doctor is capable of accessing and absorbing the Time Vortex (The Flood). The 9th Doctor took on the Time Vortex after Rose absorbed it. He had to regenerate after use, but with it he has a nigh-limitless source of energy, and reality warping. The Time Vortex is stated to be 5th dimensional, and holds together all realities across the multiverse. (The Domino Effect)
With The TARDIS
-The TARDIS' Time Vector Generator was a powerful enough power source to destroy a cyberman spaceship. (Season 5, Episode 7, Part 6, The Wheel in Space, 18:26)
-Pulled the Earth halfway across the universe. (Journey's End)
-With the TARDIS’ tractor beam, halted the kinetic energy of a colliding neutron star. (Season 17, Episode 2, Part 4, City of Death, 20:00)
-Absorbed a supernova for extra power. (Doomsday)
-Using scalpel attachments, the TARDIS can slice off portions of the universe. Including Mictlan, an extradimensional hide away. (Taking of Planet Five)
-Utilizing vortex energy, the TARDIS managed to temporarily halt The Flux, an anti-matter wave which could destroy the universe. (The Halloween Apocalypse)
-Through its size and spatial manipulation, the TARDIS was able to form around and contain the Celestial Toymaker’s Toy Room, which is its own universe. (Doctor Who, The Twelfth Doctor, Issue 16, Page 26 & 28)
Speed & Agility
The Doctor
-Early on as the 1st Doctor, dodged a laser from the Daleks after the blast was fired. (Season 2, Episode 8, Part 2, The Chase, 21:30)
-Evaded lasers on a three-wheeler. (Season 9, Episode 1, Part 3, Day of the Daleks, 22:07)
-Reacted to and piloted the TARDIS to avoid a ship that was flying through hyperspace at massively faster than light speeds. (Season 10, Episode 3, Part 1, Frontier in Space, 2:50)
-Dodged and blocked psychic energy blasts. (Season 11, Episode 5, Part 5, Planet of the Spiders, 19:36)
-Evaded laser blasts from 4 different directions, ducking within 'nanoseconds' while also moving his arms to intercept the lasers with his Sonic Screwdriver, and teleport himself. (Witch's Familiar)
With The TARDIS
-Kept up with Haley's Comet. (Season 22, Episode 1, Part 1, Attack of the Cybermen, 8:55)
-When the Earth was displaced in Medusa Cascade, which is 'halfway across the universe', the TARDIS pulled Earth back to its normal place in space in under a minute. (Journey's End)
-Capable of accessing Hyperspace to achieve massively faster than light speeds. (Season 10, Episode 3, Part 1, Frontier in Space, 2:01)
-The TARDIS flew to the edge of the universe in an unspecified amount of time. We see it approaching the edge through normal space travel at the start of the episode, so this was likely done without dematerializing. (Season 15, Episode 5, Part 1, Underworld, 2:08)
-The Doctor asserts the TARDIS has out-ran the Big Bang itself.
-The Time Lords' planet Gallifrey is 250 million light years away from Earth. The Doctor asserts it would take 10 minutes to reach it in the TARDIS. (Doctor Who Movie (1996), 1:20:10)
Durability & Survivability
The Doctor
-Survived a large amount of rubble falling onto him (Season 6, Episode 4, Part 3, The Krotons, 20:45)
-survived an extended surge of electricity from a long range communication device he hooked up. (Season 13, Episode 1, Part 4, Terror of the Zygons, 9:14)
-Survived a large explosion from a motorcycle collision. (Season 26, Episode 4, Part 3, Survival, 15:10)
With The TARDIS
-Effortlessly deflected laser blasts from the Daleks. (Season 2, Episode 5, Part 3, The Web Planet, 2:00)
-Even at half power, with no dematerialization capabilities, or shields, The TARDIS survived an impact with a meteor by rapidly spinning and redirecting some of the kinetic force. (Season 17, Episode 5, Part 2, The Horns of Nimon, 2:34)
-Can fly through black holes (Time Works)
-Shielded a planet from a blast designed to wipe out all life on said planet. (Season 22, Episode 5, Part 2, Timelash)
-Allegedly can shield against Quasars, supermassive black holes located in the center of galaxies. (Original Sin)
Scaling
-Axos, an alien hivemind who The Doctor technically reacts to, traveled from the far rim of the galaxy 'an uncountable number of light years away' to Earth sometime in the 20th century. (Season 8, Episode 3, Part 1, The Claws of Axos, 19:38)
-Dalek tech, which is inferior to the TARDIS and Time Lord tech, managed to pull the TARDIS to the center of the universe via a time corridor. Later in the same episode, The Doctor regains control of the TARDIS, disconnects it from the Time Corridor, and travels to the center of the universe (Earth) through normal travel. (Season 21, Episode 4, Part 1, Resurrection of the Daleks, 3:03 & 7:45)
-After taking the Velocity Regulator to The Rani's TARDIS, it malfunctioned and accelerated out of control. According to The Doctor, The Rani and The Master would be outside of the milky way, potentially the edge of the universe, by the time they fix it. (Season 22, Episode 3, Part 2, The Mark of the Rani)
-The Doctor and The Master’s TARDISes’ combined power could overpower the Quantum Archangel. (Quantum Archangel) The Quantum Archangel could casually throw around planets, used reality as her plaything, and was described as an 11th dimensional being. (Quantum Archangel)
Weaknesses
-The Doctor can be killed during his regeneration if he takes enough damage.
-While The Doctor is intellectually brilliant, physically, he’s normally not much stronger than most athletically capable humans (though he of course has some superhuman feats), relying more so on his wits and technology to overcome obstacles.
-While not an outright pacifist, The Doctor takes the vow he made as very seriously, and normally will not engage in violence or take a life unless absolutely necessary.
-Despite the Sonic Screwdriver’s incredible hacking capabilities, it ironically doesn’t work on wood.
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