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In "[[The End of Time (Doctor Who)|The End of Time]]", the Tenth Doctor mentions marrying [[Queen Elizabeth I]] and implies that they had sex, stating: "her nickname is no longer [the Virgin Queen]...". The joke continues in "[[The Beast Below]]", featuring future British monarch Queen Elizabeth X or Liz Ten, and the marriage is finally shown in "The Day of the Doctor" during an adventure with [[Zygon]]s. In the 2010 Christmas special, "[[A Christmas Carol (Doctor Who)|A Christmas Carol]]", the Eleventh Doctor accidentally marries [[Marilyn Monroe]] but later questions the authenticity of the chapel in which they were married. Steven Moffat did not consider the marriages to Elizabeth I and Marilyn Monroe to count when questioned on how many wives the Doctor had had, remarking that he was married to Susan's grandmother and River Song.

===An Adventure in Time and Space===

===Adventures===

An adventurous scientist, the Doctor usually solves problems with his wits rather than with force. With the exception of his [[sonic screwdriver]] (which cannot kill, wound or maim), the Doctor detests weapons and uses violence only as a last resort.<ref>{{cite book |last=Russel |first=Gary |date=2006 |title=Doctor Who: The Inside Story |publisher=BBC Books |pages=9–10 |isbn=978-0-563-48649-7 }}</ref> According to the alien villain Chedaki in the episode ''[[The Android Invasion]],'' "his entire history is one of opposition to conquest".

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In [[The War Games|his final serial]], the [[Second Doctor]] states that Time Lords can live forever, "barring accidents". When "accidents" do occur, Time Lords can usually [[Regeneration (Doctor Who)|regenerate]] into a new body. It is stated in ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' that Time Lords can only regenerate a total of twelve times,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/deadlyassassin/detail.shtml|title=BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Deadly Assassin - Details|website=BBC}}</ref> giving a theoretical final total of thirteen incarnations. However, The Doctor has a natural ability to regenerate an infinite number of times. It is possible to exceed this limit: in "The Five Doctors" the Time Lords offer the Master, who is inhabiting a Trakenite body after exhausting his original twelve regenerations, a new regeneration cycle as a reward for his help and cooperation, and at some point, during the Time War they resurrected him, with his new body having at least one regeneration of its own. Regeneration is apparently optional, as in "[[Last of the Time Lords]]" the Master refuses to regenerate despite the Tenth Doctor's pleading. In addition, there are ways of killing a Time Lord that do not permit regeneration; for example, more than once it has been implied that stopping both the Doctor's hearts simultaneously would accomplish this (as demonstrated in the Eleventh Doctor story "[[The Impossible Astronaut]]"). The Chancellery Guard (Gallifrey's equivalent of a police force) are armed with stasers, weapons capable of suppressing regeneration. In ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'', a serial from spin-off programme ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', the Eleventh Doctor flippantly responds to Clyde Langer that he can regenerate "507" times; writer Russell T. Davies intended this line as a joke.<ref name=507joke>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/10/26/interview-russell-t-davies-talks-about-that-sarah-jane-adventures-line/|work=[[SFX magazine]]|title=INTERVIEW Russell T Davies talks about THAT Sarah Jane Adventures line|access-date=5 August 2013}}</ref> Due to the retroactive creation of a numberless War Doctor and the Tenth Doctor's aborted regeneration in "[[The Stolen Earth]]"/"[[Journey's End (Doctor Who)|Journey's End]]", the Eleventh Doctor was the final incarnation in his natural cycle. The Time Lords used a crack in the universe to give him a new cycle consisting of an unknown number of regenerations in "[[The Time of the Doctor]]", triggering the regeneration into the Twelfth Doctor ([[Peter Capaldi]]). The Twelfth Doctor later claims to be uncertain he "won't keep regenerating forever" ("Kill the Moon"), and even Rassilon, the president of the Time Lords, expresses uncertainty about how many regenerations the Doctor has available to him.

Other skills include his mental communication with other Time Lords, in some cases over a galaxy's distance. His skill with hypnosis requires only a glance into the eyes to put the subject under a trance. The Doctor can read an entire book cover to cover in a second by thumb-flipping the pages before his eyes (''[[City of Death]]'', "[[Rose (Doctor Who episode)|Rose]]", "[[The Time of Angels]]"). Though medical skills he shows early in the programme are rudimentary, by ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' he can perform sophisticated medical diagnoses merely by touching someone's ear. He is an excellent [[cricket]] player (''[[Black Orchid (Doctor Who)|Black Orchid]]'') and in "[[The Lodger (Doctor Who)|The Lodger]]" he proves to be a prodigiously talented [[Association football|footballer]] despite unfamiliarity with some of the game's basic rules. Though reluctant to engage in combat against living opponents, this is not for lack of skill; the Doctor is conversant with both real and fictitious styles of unarmed combat (most obviously the "Venusian Aikido" practised by the Third, Twelfth and TwelfthThirteenth Doctors), has won several sword fights against skilled opponents, and is able to make extremely difficult shots with firearms and, in ''[[The Face of Evil]]'', with a crossbow. Thanks to exposure to many of history's greatest experts, including those from the future, the Doctor is a talented boxer, musician, organist, scientist and singer (able to shatter windows with his voice), and has a PhD in [[cheesemaking]] ("[[The God Complex]]").

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The recasting of actors playing the part of the Doctor is explained within the programme by the [[Time Lord]]s' ability to [[Regeneration (Doctor Who)|regenerate]] after suffering illness, mortal injury or old age. The process repairs all damage and rejuvenates the Doctor's body, but as a side effect it changes the Doctor's physical appearance and personality. This ability was not introduced until producers had to find a way to replace the ailing [[William Hartnell]] with [[Patrick Troughton]] and was not explicitly called "regeneration" until the third such instance, at the climax of ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'' (1974). On screen, the transformation from Hartnell to Troughton was called a "renewal" and from Troughton to Pertwee a "change of appearance".

The original concept of regeneration or renewal was that the Doctor's body would rebuild itself in a younger, healthier form. The Second Doctor was intended to be a literally younger version of the First; biological time would turn back, and several hundred years would get taken off the Doctor's age, rejuvenating him. In practice, however, since the Doctor stated his age in the Second Doctor serial ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'' (1967), his age has been recorded progressively (see [[#Age|below]]). InOn sevenmost out of eleven transitionsoccasions, theregeneration newhas actorseen wasa younger thanactor their predecessor had been when they beganassume the role. Inof the revived programme,Doctor; the patternonly isexceptions resumedto withthis are the transitionintroductions of the Ninth[[Third to the TenthDoctor|Third]], the Tenth[[Sixth to the EleventhDoctor|Sixth]], the[[Twelfth Doctor|Twelfth to the Thirteenth,]] and continued with the[[Fourteenth Doctor|Fourteenth]] to the Fifteenth DoctorDoctors, although [[Steven Moffat]] isinitially on record stating the intention wasintended to cast an actor in his mid-30s to 40s for the role of the [[Eleventh Doctor,]].<ref name="30sto40s">{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/s7/doctorwho/tubetalk/a184561/steven-moffat-talks-doctor-who-future.html|title=Steven Moffat talks 'Doctor Who' future|website=Digital Spy|date=1 November 2009}}</ref> despite casting [[Matt Smith]], who is the youngest actor to ever have played the role.

The 60th anniversary special episode "[[The Giggle]]" introduced a new twist on the regeneration concept called bi-generation, whereby a new Time Lord incarnation can be created by a new body emerging from and splitting off from the body of a previous incarnation. In the episode, the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] (David Tennant) underwent a bi-generation after being shot with UNIT's galvanic beam by [[The Toymaker (Doctor Who)|the Toymaker]] ([[Neil Patrick Harris]]), leading to the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] (Ncuti Gatwa) to effectively be birthed, while also allowing the previous incarnation to retain his physical form and exist independently.