Dr. Who's Powers Explained

Everything You Need To Know About Dr. Who's Powers

Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction series in the world, starting all the way back in 1963. What started as a simple show to teach kids some history through the magic of sci fi soon took off and eventually became a worldwide phenomenon. Ever since the show was revived with the Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccelston, the show has reached an even wider audience. Now on the Thirteenth Doctor in Jodi Whittaker, the Who train just keeps charging along. What exactly is a Time Lord and what is it a Time Lord can do? Well, we’re here to help you out with that. The Time Lord’s dual hearts and redundant organs give the Doctor enough abilities to qualify him for the Avengers. But solving problems by wearing a tight costume and punching bad guys isn’t really the Doctor’s way. Over a long life of traveling through time and the accompanying technologies and practices that go with being a time traveler, The Doctor is remarkably clever as well as having more than a few unconventional skills and abilities and a tongue that is okay licking rocks. If longevity and a robust body weren’t enough to be enticing, The Doctor can travel through all of space and time in the TARDIS, or Time And Relative Dimensions In Space, a time traveling spaceship shaped like a police box that’s bigger on the inside. Let’s break down some of the basic abilities that the Doctor has on Doctor Who.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:37 What a Time Lord
01:45 Superpowers
03:26 TARDIS
05:33 Master of Time
06:39 Regeneration

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Written by: Ryan Carbrey
Narrated by: Michael Neeb
Edited by: Travis G.

[backdooruk]

you've also undersold the doctors physical abilities. They're able to sense the flow of time, when the timeline changes, when there is a fixed point in time that cannot change. A lot of solutions to problems are facilitated by their expert knowledge of phycology. the doctor can share and erase memories and is somewhat telepathic.

[HarrySwinton]

It's been pretty much confirmed that time lords individually can get better or worse at deciding what kind of body they would like to regenerate into. The doctor is known for being particularly bad at this, but for timelords such as the master it is seen as a lot easier to have a vague idea of what to turn into. As for the 2nd doctor's regeneration, we all saw that the timelord council specifically chose the 3rd incarnation of the doctor.

[aragis]

Me doctor who are you
Doctor:I am who

[outatime]

The Doctor’s relationship history would be a video in itself lol

[twintek]

He also basically doesn't need to sleep and the Tardis can translate languages too.

[DJ-LD]

Heh. CBR explaining the timeless child feels more satisfying then most others.

[steamingaroundbritain]

the doctor didn't "forget" about their previous incarnations it's believed when they regenerated into Hartnell the timelords removed all memory of they're previous incarnations implanting them into the matrix and forcing the doctor to undertake Initiation to enter the academy "again" as a sort of poster boy to glorify the academy the doctor didn't want to take part in this and so stole a type 40 Tardis and ran away and never really stopped running until at last the 13th incarnation stumbled across the matrix while battling the master which still held all the memories of the doctors pre Hartnell incarnations the doctor then overloaded the matrix by adding the memories of all current 13 incarnations.

[luisvale]

Anyone who enjoys power scaling from anime to comics to sci-fi shows knows that the doctors are pretty much the strongest beings in all of fiction, with pretty much boundless power

[benjamingraham]

I love dr who I’ve watched it since I was 3-4 I’m now in my 20s I love David tennants era, the tenth doctor.

[ukjamesfairlie]

1 major thing wrong with the video is when you say 11th could regenerate anyway but they explained in the latest series all this, they changed the doctor and basically reset so the ‘first doctor’ thought they were the first and they sent him more regenerations, we’ve seen in 12th doctors end regeneration forces itself upon the person and he desperately tried to stop it. John Simm as the master also had to suppress the regeneration energy after being killed during 10ths run. If the time lords didn’t give him the energy then 11 would have died

[davisjackson]

I have never in my life heard a "My Favorite Martian" reference! This is awesome! It was such a good show!

[jimmiegiboney]

Mark 9:52. I just read the updated version of this article about the version in the now old movies. In them, his surname is, "Who"! In interviews, like with actor Tom Baker, he refers to his role as, "Doctor Who", when talking about having been in the series of the same name. Hmm.

I was at a convention, in which actor Kevin Sorbo, was a guest. During a Q&A, at first he was very good at distinguishing between being himself, his characters, "Hercules" and "Captain Dylan Hunt", and the title of the series with, "Hercules". But because of the way people asked their questions, he eventually stopped distinguishing between talking about himself and his characters. I've seen that happen enough times to notice when it happens to others, including the cast members of, "Doctor Who". Tom, seemed to me, to be very aware of what he meant. As did, Peter Davidson, for that matter. It is only those from 2005 onwards, that seem to be saying, "Doctor Who", is just a pun from a, "Knock! Knock!" joke! 🤔 That they prefer to be called, "The Doctor". Jodi's version, made a point if it, during her impression of, "James Bond"!

[lexruptor]

To clear up some misinfo: The Doctor didn't "forget" nor was the whole Karn bit useless, they haven't been the timeless child since Hartnell, and they don't remember because the Division turned them into a child again. At least try to get it right if you're gonna talk about it CBR.

[High-Overlord-Snarffie-Pug]

The Doctor stabbed my cousin and stole my spaghetti. He's a horrible person when not on TV.

[captainithano]

I clicked as soon as I saw tennant in the thumbnail haha

[AKIBAKEI]

all about the 13th Doctor has been ... a tad confusing for me. i even read the comic books of doctor who and see why is always a doctor i know to the 13 that I'm getting to know. like one of the latest comic books teams up the 10th doctor with the 13th doctor.

[ENetArch]

You forgot to mention that he's telepathic. that's how he communicates with the tardis, and know's a lot more than he let's on to knowing.

[SJ-dluc]

the TARDIS is sentient and the Doctor's true love (not sexually obviously), and she stole him as much as he stole her. the TARDIS noise is the result of the Doctor forgetting the breaks. and all Whovians ignore Chibnall's run as the show runner. I think Grade is the only one who's done Doctor Who wrong worse than him.

[unkowntee]

The Timeless Child irritates me. They need to fix that’s ASAP.

[crazykokebroz]

The Timeless Child is not cannon in my head.