| abstract | - The Twelfth Doctor was the 13th incarnation of the renegade Time Lord known as The Doctor, and the 12th to be known by that name. A more disciplined and less extemporaneous individual than his previous incarnation, the Twelfth Doctor's personality was very reminiscent of that of his Ninth incarnation, with elements of his Third, Seventh, and Tenth incarnations present as well. This incarnation of the Doctor initially continued to travel with Clara Oswald, who was his previous incarnation's final companion, as well as occasionally travelling with Captain Jack Harkness, a UNIT operative with whom he'd traveled with in his Ninth and Tenth incarnations, and River Song, who traveled with him in his previous incarnation and whom he considered his "wife". Later, after Clara's departure, he would reunite with Jenny, a girl who was created from the DNA of his Tenth incarnation, whom he considered his "daughter". He would also travel with Michael Green, a young soldier whom he met during the Defense of Moscow in the final year of World War III. The Doctor began his journey to find his home planet, Gallifrey, in this incarnation. However, during the course of his journey, he became embroiled in a plot in which he was incriminated for war crimes that he did not commit by the Shadow Proclamation. This was, in reality, fabricated by Daleks of the New Dalek Paradigm, who had infiltrated and taken over the Shadow Proclamation, in order for Dalek law to be the only law in the universe and to prevent him from stopping them achieving galactic conquest. However, he managed to prevent this when he escaped his imprisonment and killed the Paradigm's leaders, leaving the Daleks scattered and leaderless. The Doctor soon discovered that this plot was instigated by The Captain, a rogue Time Lord assassin who'd been hunting the Doctor ever since this incarnation began, who in turn was acting on orders from an unknown source. Resuming his journey to find Gallifrey, the Doctor eventually found the planet, and the unknown source, revealed to be Rassilon, who, after his plan to initiate the Ultimate Sanction was foiled by the Doctor's Tenth incarnation, had returned to Gallifrey and taken over once again as an insane, heartless dictator, but wished to go even farther and establish a "Galactic Gallifreyan Empire", with himself as "Lord Emperor". However, he would be stopped by the Doctor as well, with help from his old friend, The Guardian, as well as the Captain, who allied with the Doctor after he was betrayed by Rassilon. After saving Gallifrey once again, he was appointed as their "Lord Protector", and promised to defend the planet from any and every threat. After several encounters with Abdul Alhazred and his Cult of the Black Flame, the Doctor successfully prevented a Second Time War from happening after defeating the Dalek Emperor and the Second Dalek Paradigm, which formed from the ashes of the fallen New Dalek Paradigm. However, the conflict does not end there, as the Doctor learns that the Daleks were being aided by a mysterious source. The Doctor, to his horror, soon discovers that it is The Valeyard, who wishes to undo all of the Doctor's victories to try and convince him that his continuous saving of the world was futile, as death and destruction were the only certain things in the universe. To this end, the Valeyard used the Eternity Clock to re-write the Doctor's personal history, including erasing his saving of Gallifrey at the end of the Time War and the deaths of most of his companions, past and present. Enraged, the Doctor fights the Valeyard, with the Valeyard fueling his fury by telling him that it was inevitable that the Doctor would become him. The Valeyard ends up fatally wounding the Doctor, and informs him that it was his final regeneration, so the only way he could continue to live on was if he willingly became the Valeyard, or else he would die. However, the Guardian reveals that River Song had given him her last ten regenerations, which was enough for an entirely new regeneration cycle, so the Doctor was able to continue on as the Doctor. Learning this, the Doctor allowed himself to regenerate into his thirteenth incarnation.
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