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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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Are 8 snipers really enough to kill a Time Lord?
Yes, I think it is, if the snipers were properly trained and coordinated their effort. I think the timing is important.
Unfortunately, almost everything we know about Time Lord mortality comes ...
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Can a Time Lord survive with just one heart?
We see the Doctor survive having one heart stopped in The Shakespeare Code (Martha restarts it shortly after)
We see another in The Power of Three
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Can Time Lords regenerate as soon as they're born, or do they have to reach a certain age first?
Children can regenerate. For example, a very young
regenerates at the end of "Day of the Moon." The exact age of the character is not given, but she was played by Sydney Wade, who Google informs me ...
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How does River Song know The Doctor's name?
It seems it is still unknown, but...
ALMOST CERTAINLY: The Doctor did not tell River his name during their wedding.
At the end of The Wedding of River Song, River comes to Amy, at her Garden:
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Can a Time Lord survive with just one heart?
Time Lords (or at least properly educated ones, so perhaps not the Doctor) can voluntarily stop both their hearts and be fine. Romana demonstrates this in "Destiny of the Daleks."
DOCTOR: Romana. ...
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Why does the Doctor blame Rassilon for the Horrors of the Time War?
While never stated openly, it appears that Rassilon lead the Time Lords down a dark path where the ends justified the means and all sorts of abominations (we're never shown them) were created. Things ...
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Is this Doctor Who character the Nightmare Child?
Highly unlikely.
The Nightmare Child is a vague, unspecified threat that the Tenth Doctor mentions, along with a laundry list of other horrors, that the Daleks or Time Lords unleashed during the Time ...
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Who painted Clara’s portrait in Heaven Sent?
According to the TARDIS Wikia page for the episode:
Writing in Doctor Who Magazine #495, Moffat confirmed that the portrait of Clara was painted by the Doctor himself.
Somebody on Reddit has ...
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Are all Time Lords like the Doctor?
I'm going to assume Paul's edit to the question is an accurate representation of daniel's intent, as he has made it just specific enough that I can now go into a decent amount of detail.
The Doctor ...
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The risk of the TARDIS safeguard
While we've never seen the TARDIS explicitly enter a black hole and return, there is good reason to believe that she's perfectly capable of doing so.
1: The Eye of Harmony
Though continuity is a ...
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How does one calculate the age of a Time Lord?
A Time Lord cannot "live billions of years in 5 seconds." A Time Lord might move between two points in time billions of years apart, but they don't "get older" doing so. Time Lords age the same way ...
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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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Can a Time Lord survive with just one heart?
This exact scenario occurs in the Eleventh Doctor story "The Power of Three" (Series 7, Episode 4). In that episode, a bunch of black cubes from space (cosmic cubes, if you will) mysteriously arrive ...
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Why couldn't Clara see future incarnations past the "11th" doctor?
This is my expansion of the claim that the timescar is 11's death.
There are two versions of Trenzalore. The version where the Doctor died and the version where he didn't. Likewise there is a ...
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Are the Cloisters bells, or a race?
Most of what we know about the Cloisters comes from the series 9 finale Hell Bent. Obviously, spoilers ahead, with many quotes from this episode (all emphasis mine).
The Cloisters are a hellish place ...
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Is there any evidence of alternate-reality Time Lords?
Yes.
In the TV episode Turn Left (Series 4 episode 11), Donna enters a parallel universe in which the Doctor also exists, although he is killed during the events of the parallel universe's version of ...
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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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Has the Doctor ever communicated telepathically with this character before?
Yes, in The Deadly Assassin:
Well, don't you see what he's done? We Time Lords are telepathic. That's simply a brain storage system. He intercepted its forecast that the President was to be ...
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Is anything bigger on the inside apart from Time Lord technology?
The Dalek time machine first seen in "The Chase" was also dimensionally transcendent (bigger on the inside), as was the Genesis Ark seen in the New Series episode "Doomsday". I don'...
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Is the Doctor's Second Heart artificial?
The second heart is common to all Gallifreyans. However, this does not invalidate the Doctor's statement, because he is meeting Missy off of Gallifrey, and among Gallifreyans only the Time Lords (and ...
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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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Why does the Doctor make the pop sound in Heaven Sent?
I think that the sound is put in to indicate the suddenness of the event in his mind. It's the same way that people will say things like "I was confused and then POW it hit me."
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Can Time Lords regenerate as soon as they're born, or do they have to reach a certain age first?
The thing is that there are no baby TimeLords (with exceptions). There are born Gallifreyans, and then, they are made Timelords in the Academy.
I believe that only the TimeLords are able to ...
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Besides the seals of Rassilon, Omega, The Master, and The Time Lords, what other seals are in Doctor Who?
There is, of course, the Great Seal of Diplos, which is actually a segment of the Key to Time.
Like all the segments (except the fourth), it was an item of great power. Cessair the Diplos, the ...
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Can Time Lords decide not to regenerate?
The answer to this depends on the Time Lord and their degree of control over regeneration.
There are two instances when a Time Lord refused regeneration, or potentially refusing it as is the second ...
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Was Arabella Weir's appearance in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe an Easter egg?
It’s possible, but seems unlikely.
If she was chosen for that reason, the BBC have kept very quiet about it. Although fans often point to Weir’s role in Big Finish, I’ve been unable to find a mention ...
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How does River Song know The Doctor's name?
He whispers it in her ear during The Wedding of River Song.
DOCTOR: Amy, uncuff me now. Okay, I need a strip of cloth about a foot long. Anything will do. Never mind.
(The Doctor takes off his ...
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