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If you cut Deadpool exactly in half, which half would regenerate?
Deadpool - Volume 10: Evil Deadpool, Amazon
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Would the real Wade Wilson please stand up? Deadpool returns to America, but he's not coming home alone! When a ...
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How were the Doctor's regenerations revealed to the public in the past?
The identity of the new Doctor has always been newsworthy, it's only with the new series that they've been made into true media events (such as the worldwide live broadcast for the announcement of ...
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Is it true that The Doctor can only regenerate 12 times?
After the release of series 8 and 9, this question is in need of an updated answer.
Firstly, the 12-regeneration limit is definitely still in canon and not Moffetconned. From the 2013 Christmas ...
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Can Time Lords Regenerate Into Children?
Yes.
From Series 6 episode 8, "Let's Kill Hitler" (emphasis mine):
(Melody begins to regenerate.)
RORY: What the hell's going on?
DOCTOR: Back! Back! Back! Get back!
MELODY: Last time I did ...
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If you cut Deadpool exactly in half, which half would regenerate?
During the Dark Reign storyline Deadpool has a cross over with the Thunderbolts which ends with his head being cut off. Everyone is left to believe that this act would leave him dead as he would not ...
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Wouldn't Matt Smith be the 12th Doctor and not the 11th because David Tennant is both 10 and 11?
Here's the "regeneration" you're referring to:
The key here is that, while the Doctor did use up one of his regenerations, he didn't actually regenerate. He used ...
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How many times can Capaldi's Doctor regenerate, post-S9E2?
In-universe, we don't know. Exactly what the Time Lords gave him in Time of the Doctor has never been made completely clear: it could be anything from one, to thirteen, to infinitely many new ...
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Wouldn't Matt Smith be the 12th Doctor and not the 11th because David Tennant is both 10 and 11?
It's complicated, more complicated than anyone knows exactly and this is why:
In the episode "The Brain of Morbeus" The Doctor faced a Timelord, a criminal mastermind who had survived execution ...
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Is regeneration unique to Time Lords or can all Gallifreyans do it?
Regeneration is technological in origin. A closely-guarded secret of the Time Lords.
We see in The Deadly Assassin and Heaven Sent that low-born Gallifreyans do not have access to Time Lord technology....
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If you cut Deadpool exactly in half, which half would regenerate?
In addition to Evil Deadpool, there was also the case where it was revealed that (due to an incident in 2008) Deadpool had been merged with Madcap, when Thor disintegrated them both into a pile of ...
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Does Cull Obsidian have limb regeneration?
In the scene that you're referring to, his arm is now made of metal topped with a three-pronged claw. Clearly it's a prosthetic device to replace his lost (real) arm.
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Foreign film about a dystopian future where people age 30 or over can get "regenerations"
You may be thinking of Ad Vitam (2018).
From Wikipedia:
Ad Vitam is a 2018 French-language TV series starring Yvan Attal, Garance Marillier and Niels Schneider. The plot is set in a world where a ...
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Examples in Doctor Who of the Doctor acquiring or losing abilities with different regenerations?
Save for the most recent regeneration, there's no evidence that any skills are "lost" as much as the new regeneration chooses to use other skills.
There's been several examples of things being "...
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Why wasn't the Second Doctor's regeneration shown on screen?
We don't know
This is a tough one, because it's very hard to prove a negative, but in the 48 years since this happened, we have not received any (well documented) conclusive answer to this question.
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How many lives of the Doctor have been confirmed?
If by "lives" you mean regenerations - incarnations that are a continuation of the life lived by the lead character of the show - then, as of the end of Season 12, there are 16 confirmed ...
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How many regenerations does the Doctor have after The Time of the Doctor?
The series 9 finale, "Hell Bent", strongly implies that he has more than one:
However an explicit number has not been confirmed.
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Is The Doctor on her 3rd set of regenerations?
The answer is, we don't know yet.
We know that the Time Lords can bestow an entirely new regeneration cycle. There's nothing to say they can't also add regenerations to the current cycle.
Clever ...
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How could the regeneration effect have changed over time?
"Regeneration effects are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." -Forrest Gump
If you want some attempt at a canonical answer, though, the best I've seen is that the first ...
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Is it true that The Doctor can only regenerate 12 times?
In Series 12, this has been (apparently) retconned.
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How much can regeneration change the Doctor (any timelord)?
Well, we certainly know that The Doctor will get - at least - darker, if not outright evil in at least one future regeneration (even The Master agrees, sort of):
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Are Time Lords vulnerable or invulnerable during regeneration?
As usual, Doctor Who always plays fast and loose with the rules, but there is a bit of consistency here over how this regeneration works.
The general idea appears to be, if you can kill a Time Lord ...
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Will The Doctor deteriorate now that he's past his 12th regeneration?
As long as the show is on the air, they'll figure out a reason to keep The Doctor regenerating, so it's unlikely this new regeneration cycle will suddenly begin falling apart.
The show, particularly ...
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Wouldn't Matt Smith be the 12th Doctor and not the 11th because David Tennant is both 10 and 11?
Canonically, there only is, was, and will ever be one Doctor. The numbering is simply a referencing device for commentating on the show.
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Does each incarnation of the Doctor have a different natural lifespan depending on how "old" they look?
The Doctor's physical appearance is neither linked with their actual age nor their accumulated age since the last regeneration. How old they look in human terms after regeneration (presumably along ...
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Can Time Lords Regenerate Into Children?
From what I've been able to find; Yes, a Time Lord can regenerate into a child-like form.
The best example I've been able to find thus far is The Master regenerating into Professor Yana.
Yana was ...
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How were the Doctor's regenerations revealed to the public in the past?
As far as I have heard, the first regeneration was a big surprise to the audience, since the Doctor had never regenerated before. But it would take a more knowledgeable Who fan to say for certain.
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What is the limit of Deadpool's regenerative ability?
It's varied a lot over the years. It's generally good enough to reattach severed limbs and in fact, he's shown it to be a trick he does in bars. At one point, his healing factors starts breaking down ...
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Could The Doctor's daughter Jenny and Jenny Flint be the same person?
Can it be true? Sure, any theory can be true, that's the beauty of a theory. Is it true? Probably not.
We've no reason to believe that Jenny can actually regenerate/change her face and we've also no ...
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How many non-Doctor regenerations have we seen on-screen?
Not many
Although the actual regeneration isn't shown on-screen, in "Planet of the Spiders" we see that the Doctor's old mentor K'anpo Rimpoche has regenerated into Cho-Je, a character introduced ...
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Is regeneration unique to Time Lords or can all Gallifreyans do it?
There would appear to be a hereditary component - for instance, in the TV show Jenny was considered by the Doctor to potentially be able to regenerate and she was half-Gallifreyan. If it was solely ...
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