War Doctor

The War Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor between his Eighth and Ninth incarnations. He serves as a supporting character in the revived series of Doctor Who, serving as a minor character in Series 7, the 2013 TV Short, The Night of The Doctor and a major character in the 2013 50th Anniversary Special. 
He was portrayed by the late , who would later voice him for Big Finish. His younger self is voiced by Jonathan Carley. 
==Biography==
The War Doctor came to be when the Eighth Doctor chose to drink an elixir from the Sisterhood of Karn that would cause him to regenerate into a "warrior" so he could enter the Time War and put an end to it. In doing so, the Doctor renounced the name of "the Doctor" as he felt he no longer deserved it now that he had become a warrior.
However, even with the War Doctor on their side, the Time Lords were unable to fight back the Daleks and the Time War dragged on, with the Dalek fleet eventually laying siege to Arcadia, Gallifrey's second city. It was at that point that the War Doctor reluctantly sought out the only superweapon in the Time Lord vault that the Time Lords had not used, a "galaxy eater" named "the Moment." The War Doctor retrieved the Moment and brought it back to his childhood home to prepare to use it. However, sensing doubt within the War Doctor, the Moment's AI (taking the form of his future companion, Rose Tyler) created a portal to the future for the Doctor to meet his tenth and eleventh incarnations. 
After helping the two put an end to a Zygon invasion, the War Doctor and his future incarnations went back to Gallifrey to decide whether or not to use the Moment. Deciding not to use it, the three instead devised a plan to rescue Gallifrey by summoning their ten past incarnations, plus their future next incarnation and positioning their TARDISes around Gallifrey before teleporting it to another dimension right before the Dalek fleet fired upon it simultaneously, causing the ships to destroy each other instead and give the impression that the Doctor had used the Moment.
After bidding farewell to his future counterparts, the War Doctor returned to his time, beginning his regeneration into the Ninth Doctor due to his body's age, but losing his memories of saving Gallifrey, and coming to believe he did in fact use the Moment to destroy both sides. 
==Gallery==
File:WarDoctorForgedInFire.jpg|The War Doctor in the audio boxset Forged in Fire. 
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==Trivia==
*He is the first incarnation to be what the Doctor wanted out of a regeneration; having specifically asked Ohilia for an elixir to make him a warrior.
**A novel would later have Ohilia state the elixir was just lemonade and dry ice; having tricked the Eighth Doctor into willingly regeneraing into his chosen persona.
*While he was annoyed with the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors acted childish, the War Doctor was given some peace when they forgave him and told him that they truly looked at him as the version of "the Doctor" who fought to to embody their oath the hardest he could. 
*The War Doctor was created to compensate for the inability to use the Ninth Doctor as the one who ended the Time War.
**Christopher Eccleston refused to reprise his role. If he had, it would have been the first one screen adventure with every Doctor since the Revival began.
*The image used for the newly regenerated War Doctor first seen at the end of The Night of the Doctor is taken from the 1979 BBC adaptation of Crime and Punishment, where Hurt played Rodion Raskolnikov.
*The War Doctor lost his memory of everything from when he met the Bad Wolf avatar of the Moment till being in his TARDIS regenerating.
*Strax notably likes the War Doctor, stating he has the greatest potential.
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