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| “ | Geronimo! | „ |
| ~ The Eleventh Doctor's catchphrase. |
| “ | I've lived a long life. And I've seen a few things. I walked away from the Last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No time, no space. Just me! I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a madman! And I watched universes freeze and creation burn! I have seen things you wouldn't believe! I have lost things you will never understand! And I know things, secrets that must never be told, knowledge that must never be spoken! Knowledge that will make parasite gods blaze! | „ |
| ~ The Doctor's speech in "The Rings of Akhaten." |
The Eleventh Doctor is the main protagonist of Series 5-7, the 2013 Specials and a minor character in Series 8 of the Doctor Who revival series, as well as a minor character in Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures spin-off series.
His tenure lasted from 2010-2013 as he first appeared at the end of the 2-parter 4th and final Series 4 Special, The End of Time (2009/2010).
He is portrayed by Matt Smith, (who also portrayed Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in the first two seasons of The Crown). The Eleventh Doctor was voiced in Big Finish's audios by Jacob Dudman in The Doctor Chronicles. and Miles Taylor in the Eleventh Doctor Adventures.
Biography
Series 5
The Eleventh Doctor emerged from his previous incarnation's explosive regeneration, and after familiarising himself with his new body, found gleefully that he was crashing into Earth. As his damaged TARDIS flew above London, the Doctor was left hanging out of the ship, before he managed to pull himself back in. The TARDIS crashed in the back garden of Amelia Pond, whom the Doctor befriended, working his tastebuds out with her, until he settled on Fish fingers and Custard. However, he realised that Amelia was frightened of the Crack in her wall, which he discovered was a crack in time and space. He returned to Amelia's house twelve years later from her perspective, and he managed to convince the now adult Amy to trust him and help find Prisoner Zero before the Atraxi destroy Earth. Managing to do so with the help of her hapless boyfriend Rory Williams, with it warning that "Silence will fall" when the Pandorica opened, the Doctor proceeded to scare the Atraxi away while settling into his new persona.
After taking his rebuilt TARDIS for a test run, the Doctor fulfilled his promise to take Amy travelling with him in 2010, with heading to Starship UK and discovered a moral dilemma involving an exploited Star Whale that Amy helped him see through. Summoned by Winston Churchill, the Doctor discovered that the Daleks had infiltrated 1941 as "Ironsides", and was manipulated into spawning a new generation of Daleks. While he was able to prevent them destroying Earth, the Paradigm Daleks escaped to rebuild their empire, and the Doctor was concerned that Amy had never heard of the Daleks.
Series 6
Series 7
After losing Amy and Rory, the Doctor became darker and more depressed, claiming he was "retired". His attitude changed as he got to know Clara Oswald, whom he then invited to join him in the TARDIS before she fell to her death, breaking the Doctor's hearts again. He later became aware that Clara was, impossibly, scattered through time - he had previously encountered another incarnation of Clara who had died as a Dalek convert. Later, he found a third Clara, this one living in modern-day London, and together they visited Akhaten, encountered an Ice Warrior and solved the mystery of a haunted house and the two were eventually able to learn why she was scattered through time via visiting his own tomb in his personal future.
In the 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor teamed up with the Tenth and War Doctors to come up with an alternate way of ending the Time War without actually destroying Gallifrey and sent it to another universe under the guise of it being completely destroyed by the Daleks. Although War and Ten were unable to remember this, the Eleventh Doctor found himself relieved of centuries of guilt and with a new purpose which was to go home the long way around and find Galifrey.
His search for Galifrey led him to spend nine centuries as the guardian of a town called Christmas on the planet Trenzalore that was under siege by old enemies in fear of him freeing the Timelords and restarting the Time War. There, he aged into an ancient old man and prepared to meet his prophesized death as the final incarnation of the Doctor. The Time Lords of Gallifrey, however, on Clara's request, sacrificed their chance to return to their universe and granted the Doctor a new regeneration cycle, and he was able to transform once more.
Personality
An old man in a young man's body, the Eleventh Doctor's youthful appearance and energy often clashed with his more discerning and world-weary temperament. He often failed to pick up on social cues, which would lead to him saying something insensitive or offensive, and generally gave off a childish demeanour when socialising with others.
Appearance
After emerging from the regeneration, he had longer hair and noted that he was still not ginger. His other incarnations pointed out he had a "chin". He was also much younger looking and was less skinny. In The End Of Time and The Eleventh Hour, he wore his predecessors clothes now all battered up. When Crashing to Earth, the top part of the suit was gone. After calling back the Atraxi, he settled on his current attire of brown coat, pinstriped dress shirt, red overalls with either black pants or brown pants, some boots, and a bowtie. In Series 7 since The Snowmen or The Bells of Saint John, he had changed the attire to a dark purple variant.
Age (907-2000+)
Shortly after the Regeneration and The Eleventh Hour (presuming its a couple of days or weeks), his age was 907 in Flesh and Stone. In The Impossible Astronaut he claimed to be 908 then 909, then again in the same episode as 1103. In A Town Called Mercy he was 1200 Years old and would round his age to around 1000 throughout Series 7. He would also state to be 1200 and something in The Day of the Doctor. He spent 300 years on Trenzalore before the TARDIS returned to him and a total of 800-900 Years on Trenzalore, making his age at least 2000 to 2100 at the end of his life.
Quotes
| “ | I am definitely a madman with a box. | „ |
| “ | In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important. | „ |
| ~ The Eleventh Doctor |
| “ | Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many. | „ |
| “ | Bring them. Daleks, Cybermen, mad gods, whatever you can arrange. I'll beat them all and you'll still be dead. I've fought every abomination in the universe and the only thing that's ever stopped me is my conscience. | „ |
| ~ The Doctor, The Inheritance, |
Trivia
- Unlike the Tenth Doctor, this one considered his death as just a necessity to defeat enemies if it came down to it.
- Eleven threatened to regenerate to burn out Mr Clever and the Cybermen nanotechnology in his head. This would have been suicide like Azmael.
- The 900 years on Trenzalore helped the Doctor learn to lie by telling the truth and even adapt to outright lying despite the compellingly force of a Truth Field.
- This would explain why the Twelfth and Thirteenth Doctor got a lot better at withholding the truth.
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