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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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Why did the 11th Doctor hate the War Doctor?
Not only did the War Doctor join the Time War, he finished the Time War by detonating The Moment and wiping out both Daleks and Time Lords.
Or at least that's what he thought, after he regenerated ...
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Why did the Time Lords lose the Time War?
The Time Lords didn't 'lose' the Time War - it was effectively halted by The Doctor because he foresaw, not a loss, but a stalemate that would potentially end the entire universe.
The Ninth Doctor ...
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How many beings died during the Time War?
As @UncleMikey says in his answer, it's impossible to get a serious figure for all the deaths from all the species involved (including as 'collateral damage') in all the years (centuries? millenia? ...
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Did the Doctor in fact kill the Time Lords?
Major spoilers below!
The Doctor did honestly believe that he destroyed Gallifrey and the Timelords. In addition to the example you gave, he says it all few times over the rest of the series.
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Why weren't the Sontarans allowed to fight in the Last Great Time War?
The Time Lords had a pretty proud leader: Rassilon. Keep in mind, the Time Lords were pretty desperate towards the end of the war (the Tenth Doctor listed the horrors they would revisit upon the ...
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Why weren't the Sontarans allowed to fight in the Last Great Time War?
The Sontarans do not have access to the kind of spacetime travel that the Time Lords and the daleks possess. That the Time Lords possess this kind of technology goes without saying. The daleks, on ...
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How many beings died during the Time War?
Is it ever revealed how many beings died during the Time War?
No. There are only hints as to the incomprehensible scale.
It effected multiple civilizations across multiple galaxies. Neither side ...
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How many beings died during the Time War?
There is no canonical or out-of-universe statement of the total number of casualties across the entirety of the Time War. We certainly know that entire species were wiped out or nearly so--the Zygons, ...
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Why does the Doctor blame Rassilon for the Horrors of the Time War?
Some prose evidence of Rassilon's guilt:
The Doctor took Cinder to Gallifrey in order to warn the Time Lords of the Daleks' plan. The Doctor told Rassilon and the High Council of the Daleks' plan, ...
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Why weren't the Sontarans allowed to fight in the Last Great Time War?
In the Big Finish The War doctor series specific 3. Doctor Who: The War Doctor - Agents of Chaos, in the second of the three 3 stories on the disc called The Eternity Cage, The Sontarens did try to ...
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Winning the Time War By Regenerating
In a Big Finish Eighth Doctor Time War vol 1 in the story called The Conscript it is explained by the Doctor that the Daleks used Regeneration inhibitor incorporated in their gunsticks. You got hit ...
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