Third Tuesday 2019-10: The Eleventh & War Doctors Event Cache

The Eleventh Doctor

Portrayed by: Matt Smith Years: 2010-2013 Series: 3 Number of Episodes: 44 Companions: Amy Pond, Rory Williams, River Song, Craig Owens, Madge Arwell, Clara Oswald

Explosive, exuberant, emotionally unpredictable and adventurous, the Eleventh Doctor was the final incarnation of the Doctor's original regenerative cycle. By this point in his life, the Doctor's reputation had grown immense, attracting a new strain of conflicts. Wishing to withdraw from the dangers it created, he became a secretive and guileful individual for the sake of himself and those he held close.

The Eleventh Doctor was energetic, lively, eccentric, resourceful, and quick-thinking, able to spin things to his point of view and find positive outlooks in negative situations, and, while he preferred to settle problems through negotiation rather than violence, he was willing to result to violence when he deemed it necessary.

More childish in nature than his previous incarnations, the Eleventh Doctor frequently defined himself as a "a madman with a box", and was too childish for the psychic paper to register him as a "mature and responsible adult". His inner-child was most prominent when travelling with Amy Pond and Rory Williams, with the duo often taking a parental responsibility over him. After he lost them, the Doctor began to behave more maturely, preparing extensively, calculating the odds and calling for help when needed, but still maintained a childlike outlook on life on occasion. After he had saved Gallifrey, he pointedly chose to stay on Trenzalore and age into an old man.

The Eleventh Doctor was one of the more youthful looking incarnations, with Amy Pond describing him as a man in his "mid-twenties". He had softer features than his previous incarnation, with green eyes, a big nose and a large chin, which was the subject of much ridicule. Like his ninth incarnation, he had large ears, which became more prominent when his head was shaved. They were described as "rocket fins", and the Doctor was proud of them. He claimed his feet were size 10, but quite wide, when asking for a replacement pair of shoes.

The Eleventh Doctor's first outfit, which he stole from the Royal Leadworth Hospital, consisted of a plain brown tweed jacket with elbow patches, a checkered dress shirt, a red bow tie, braces, rolled up navy-blue trousers and black tan loafers. He also wore a gold wristwatch with an expansion band on his left wrist, wearing the face on the back of his wrist rather than the front.

The War Doctor

Portrayed by: John Hurt Years: 2013 Series: n/a Number of Episodes: 3 Companions: none

Originally young and robust, the ninth incarnation of the Doctor, christened the War Doctor by some, set upon the warrior path for which he had been intended, and disavowed the name "the Doctor". Though the Time Lords and Daleks continued to refer to him by that name, he was also referred to as "the Warrior", the "Doctor of War", and "the Renegade", but, as far as the Doctor was concerned, he had no name.

Full of self-doubt and self-loathing, the War Doctor not only thought himself unworthy of the name of "the Doctor", dispatching the moniker immediately after regeneration, along with the "philosophies and ideals" shared with it, in favour of the title of "Warrior", but also of any identity at all, eventually leaving it to others to choose how they wished to address him, as he did not carry a name "as a rule". He would show great irritation, and even extreme bouts of anger, if anyone called him by his former title, especially if they did so after he committed what he considered an atrocity.

Rather than a "good man", the War Doctor saw himself as a "lost cause" that did what was necessary to end a "sorry chapter of cosmic history", as it was his "reason for being." His inability to find an alternative to end the Time War consumed him with so much guilt he considered it easier to view himself as a different man to the Doctor. He even made himself believe that he had "killed" "the Doctor" on Karn. He did not see himself as a "hero", instead thinking himself as a "monster" that was "steeped in the blood of war", becoming "the stuff of nightmares" and "a demon let loose on the time streams". However, he would immediately turn apologetic when he realised that he had stepped out of place, and considered himself on the side of the collateral in the war, with the idea of having to sacrifice innocents weighing heavily on him.

The War Doctor originally had a stern and determined face, green-brown eyes and messy brown hair following regeneration. Though he started off cleanly shaven, he let his stubble grow until he grew a full brown Van Dyke beard. However, after spending "a very long time" fighting in the Time War, he became jaded and tired, with his beard having gone grey and pronounced wrinkles on his craggy, careworn face, resembling a man in his seventies. However, Clara noticed his eyes were younger than those of his future selves, in that they were more hopeful. His hair colour turned largely into a deep silver, which he slicked up in peaks at the top of his head, leading Kalan to nickname him "Greybeard".

The War Doctor wore a distressed leather overcoat, coloured in either light brown or black, and a dark green-brown velvet waistcoat with golden buttons, which had a fob chain attached to it. He also wore aged trousers, a box-frame belt with several fastener pins and studded pinholes, and combat boots adorned with weathered gaiters, which had a few buttons missing. For neckwear, the Doctor wore a scarf knitted in a herringbone pattern. His oldest article of dress was a bandolier across his left shoulder, taken off the body of Cass mere seconds after his regeneration was finished. He housed his sonic screwdriver in the bandolier, securing it in a pocket that rested on the far left side of his chest.