Doctor Who: 10 Bizarre Powers You Forgot The Doctor Has

Two hearts, big brain, regeneration- what else can a Time Lord do? #DoctorWho

[@callmev3531]

“Of course the real question is where did I get the cup of tea? Answer? I’m the Doctor. Just accept it.”

[@Lior353]

@Maher Ahmed yes.

[@mgthestrange9098]

I wonder if the cup in the pocket moment was inspired by Harpo Marx’s surrealist comedy moment. In one of the Marx Brothers’ films, can’t remember which one, they approach a homeless guy who says he could sure go a cup of hot coffee and Harpo produces one from his inside pocket. ☕️

[@Bowswa]

@Maher Ahmed uhhh... in the 50th anniversary the war doctor is officially the doctor again. So he is number 13. But wait... there be more! David Tennant regenerated into himself. Now I have seen some debate on weather or not he is a different doctor both times or not but in this case no he is not. Capaldi is the 13th, Jodie is the 14th. Thanks doctor who lore! EDIT: for this example I am not counting timeless child stuff waiting on chipnell to see if he will brush it off, say the master was wrong somehow, or something. But i personally hope he develops it and y’all stop raging on change

[@Azoth86730]

Doctor: I'll explain later

[@clarasage8787]

@@Bowswa I mean yeah Jodie is technically the 14th, Capaldi is the 13th, Smith is the 12th, Tennant is the 11th and Eccleston is the 10th but it's generally accepted that you can refer to them with the old numbers that skip the War Doctor. Mostly cuz it's confusing to redo the numbering system, but the Doctor also kind've explains it in the show. They don't think of the War Doctor as a version of the Doctor because of what he did (or thought he did) to Gallifrey, the Doctor just wanted to ignore that version of themself so doesn't count him. We know that the old number system (pre-war doctor reveal) is the one the Doctor uses because in The Lodger Smith refers to himself as "The Eleventh."

[@Cyberlisk]

The doctor / time lords can put their whole consciousness into a stopwatch, that's pretty impressive imo.

[@user-ym6lf7xy8x]

I think that it's just something the watch does and not the time lords themselves

[@caddan4175]

The watch is just the USB drive for storage. It's the chameleon arch that does the process.

[@StealthyGamerGirl2020]

It was a pocket watch. In series 12 Ruth/Doctors consciousness was stored somewhere else. Can't remember where though.

[@caddan4175]

@@StealthyGamerGirl2020 It looked almost like Ruth's consciousness was stored in a "break in case of emergency" fire box.

[@StealthyGamerGirl2020]

@@caddan4175 That was it! Thank you. I honestly couldn't remember what it was. I just remembered it not being a pocket watch 😊

[@PlanetNateGaming]

11th Doctor: How do humans cope with one heart?..its pitiful

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

10th says the same thing, too... in more than one episode. 10-2 said it as soon as he realized he is human(ish), too.

[@sarawithnoh9449]

It's pitiful that he needs 2 hearts just to function but that's none of my business 👀

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

@@sarawithnoh9449 um, because that's what Timelords *have.* It would be like you suddenly having one lung, instead of two, and being a competitive cross-country skier. It takes away a huge part of their anatomy.

[@sarawithnoh9449]

@@MaryAnnNytowl Yeah obviously they need it to live I know that, but if all of a sudden one of my lungs stopped working, I wouldn't go calling everyone around me with 1 lung pitiful. And I know them having 2 hearts makes them a superior species because they literally have superpowers but still. It's like someone with double the amount of money you have saying something like,"What?! You don't have Netflix, Disney +, five Lamborghinis, and a mansion?! How do you cope?!" When in reality you can easily get by with the amount of money you have.

[@pivotdude324hi]

@@sarawithnoh9449 alternatively, humans are so brittle that if literally anything happens to our heart, we fucking kick it, instead of having a second heart to lean on until we can get the other working. It also probably dramatically increases blood flow and thus brain activity. It really would seem like a handicap to someone with those advantages to only have one heart.

[@erobed21]

David Tennant was able to expel radiation out of his body into his shoe in the 1st episode of Series 3...

[@Crimnyx]

wait didnt 10 die cause of radiation??

[@jimmyalfonzo]

@@Crimnyx that radiation was probably the wrong size for the shoe

[@ebitlagger8840]

@@Crimnyx no???

[@ebitlagger8840]

@@Crimnyx that's not what I remembered

[@willc6295]

@@ebitlagger8840 yeah. He absorbed the radiation so Donna's dad wouldn't have to. In the chamber where only one door would happen

[@thelivingbarfpoo2363]

Capaldi also had a big pocket moment when he pulled a glass of water out of his pocket for the kid in doctor mysterio

[@PokerPlayerJames]

Also probably the cup of tea when 12 meets Davros.

[@phoebebracken6359]

Yeah how did it not spill in there?

[@TheWiseCollector]

Not power just hover on the inside pockets

[@bobthesnotling8647]

Another weird pocket moment is when The eleventh doctor pulls out the huge ultra violet light out of his inside pocket in vampires of Venice.

[@philnewton-england7795]

It’s the same Timelord power as the TARDIS ...They’re bigger on the inside !!!!

[@Squicx]

I'd like to think some of these powers aren't biological but rather things they learnt in the academy while growing up. Like studying other species and how to do that too.

[@patchworkfellow4262]

*Some were definitely biological, but yeah I like that theory 👍*

[@mayotango1317]

No in the Academy, but in his travels.

[@artsysundae]

ooh that’s a good theory

[@Squicx]

@@mayotango1317 oh true yeah!

[@patrickmccurry1563]

Time Lord Academy was a bigger part of being a Time Lord rather than a mere Galifreyan in the original series. At least that's how my very poor memory recalls things.

[@Pulsarnix]

He can also speak Dinosaur "Come on Clara, you know that I speak dinosaur!"

[@DanBen07]

The doctor once said he could speak animal.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Same episode, he talks to a horse, too.

[@lauragoehl8233]

He speaks baby as well

[@thejester9808]

headcannon that dinosaur and baby are the same language with different accents

[@burritoman6064]

“I speak everything”

[@patchworkfellow4262]

*The Doctor’s Abilities* : _Literally anything the plot needs_ *My Abilities* : _Breathing- Wait no, that’s not an ability. Ok then, um.... nothing_

[@lapelcelery42]

Breathing is definitely an ability.

[@judithsixkiller5586]

Got to admit,Tom Baker hypnotizing Sarah to keep her alive was kind of a personal moment for that era of Doctor/ Human companion relationship.

[@patchworkfellow4262]

@@lapelcelery42 *No offence meant, breathing is NOT an ability, it’s a natural attribute almost everything does in some fashion*

[@Belboz99]

I give you the gift of air from my lungs.

[@lapelcelery42]

@@patchworkfellow4262 An ability can be natural.

[@okidokidraws]

Donna: Can you smell its 1920 orrr did that Vintage car give it away Donna has super temp abilities XD

[@GoddessOfWhim2003]

best temp in all of Chiswick

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@GoddessOfWhim2003 Ha! I beat her in typing by two words and it's officially documented! Went for an interview back in the 1980s at a law firm. When I finished the typing test, the personnel person told me I had done 102 word/minute. Yes, I was surprised.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

@@kalinystazvoruna8702 congrats! I NEVER got close to 100 wpm, LOL! But I do know what kind of high mark that is, so, yes, definitely, congratulations!

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@MaryAnnNytowl Thanks. Nowadays I can barely do 60 wpm.

[@fireofdawn3515]

Nah- that’s just the abilities Sass and Sarcasm gives you

[@LaurelRSmith]

The Doctor can store extra air, allowing him to survive in the absence of oxygen, for about eight minutes. This ability played a crucial part in the climax of "The Caves of Androzani". This ability also seemed to be on display in "Smith and Jones", when the Doctor not only did not pass out like the humans, even though he had just been revived by Martha with one sole breath, but he managed to carry Martha throughout the hospital. I believe this ability first surfaced during a Fourth Doctor story when he stowed away on a ship, but I don't recall which one. Also, a bit unusually even for the Doctor, he survived deep space without a space suit -- and I think without oxygen -- in the climax to Four to Doomsday.

[@MaguireMemes]

Also in Mummy on the Orient Express he managed to stay conscious after everyone else passed out once the oxygen was removed from the train

[@JezzzaGamez]

Plus didn’t the eleventh doctor put on a space suit WHILE falling to earth in ‘The Doctor The Widow and The Wardrobe’?

[@nekoq3209]

Thus why in series 1 episode 2, 2004 version the 9th doctor gives air from his lungs

[@zaarthwren]

@@nekoq3209that’s exactly what I was thinking

[@Fairly-odd-kel]

I love the fact that the Doctor has a bunch of eclectic powers, makes it more fun and I love seeing the Doctor taste random stuff.

[@ProfArmitage218]

Romana was generally portrayed as having been a better student at the Academy then the Doctor was and had learned tricks that he hadn't. For example, her ability to change her appearance multiple times during a single regeneration until she found a face she liked and completed the process.

[@nicholi8933]

She even makes mention of his poor grades, barely scraping by. Romana was one of my favorite companions.

[@i_exist_i_guess8006]

To be fair, the regeneration thing is only with Time Ladies so we can't really blame the doctor for that one

[@BrunoEwok]

Sorta funny when you also consider that River Song was MUCH better at flying the TARDIS.

[@oscarknight2564]

Having the Doctor headbutt everyone they meet would certainly make for some interesting encounters... Well relatively brief encounters really

[@thedoctor4949]

80s fan as I can see

[@spacecowboy8877]

@@thedoctor4949 how's Clara doc ?

[@jmurray1110]

Or has just watched the lodger

[@Silverlightlive]

Why does no one ever reference Christopher Eccleston's doctor slowing down time to walk through the fan? That seems like a pretty major power that explains a lot!

[@ThatCoalSoul]

He wasn't though (slowing down time), he was just super aware of it (time). Nine's thing about feeling the rotations of some (?) planets could also be highlighted as a gift ...or curse!

[@laigron7884]

@@ThatCoalSoul I would say its not just 9th doctor. But inherent for all of them. Besides he can see timelines. 10th say that.

[@jpratt8676]

If it's something about changing their experience of time it could go some way to helping explain the reading the book thing.

[@Silverlightlive]

@@jpratt8676 Thats the point. Its just dropped as a plot point and never mentioned again when it should be a pretty major feature - I'm not saying the Doctor should be like a Jedi dodging blaster bolts, but he/she should feel special!

[@jpratt8676]

@@Silverlightlive totally agree. This should be used to explain the 'super intelligence', the planning, the speed reading etc maybe even some dodging of things (with preparation, we don't want a super man situation). The writers are pretty cool but I would love some more consistency

[@Atomicrow]

The Doctor canonically has insane strength if you remember in Nightmare In Silver when he crushed the detonator to fine dust when his hand was being controlled by the Cyber Controller. The amount of force you would need to crush a plastic and metal detonator to DUST is insane.

[@kylevanzyl6452]

Clara: exists Rich: And I took that personally

[@modboyhenry1]

The fifth doctor technically levitated himself in his first episode in the zero room and made himself weigh less in zero room cabinet so he could be carried.

[@TheHufflepuffSaint]

That could've made a return in Series 8's episode Listen when The Doctor was meditating on top of the TARDIS. Missed opportunity, I think weird meditation levitation would've fit Capaldi's Doctor.

[@NicholasKaufmann]

I think that was a property of the Zero Room itself rather than an ability of the Doctor's. At least, that's how I always interpreted it.

[@dexterhill5843]

Thank you !

[@lexezlao]

@@TheHufflepuffSaint but the zero room was destroyed

[@TheHufflepuffSaint]

@@lexezlao I was talking about The Doctor levitating. Not the zero room.

[@gregf9160]

Time Lords can all use suggestion and hypnosis to some extent, The Master being particularly good at it. But Gallifreyans (not just the Time Lords) are also touch-telepaths by nature.

[@dwoktheraynejonsohn4849]

Me, looking at the thumbnail: "Honestly, given that he wears the same clothes everyday, he WOULD have magic clothes powers!"

[@minotostar]

Not all the time, the Doctor, if he wants to, can wear different clothing from his wardrobe. For example, in "The Two Doctors", 6 swapped his, er, colorful coat, into a shorter more lookable colored jacket, still with a cat-pin.

[@toryslapper69]

The doctor actually fucking Stinks most of the time but the tardis febreze circuit makes it so no one can conciously perceive it

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@toryslapper69 "Fabreze circuit?" Ha HA HA HA HA HA! I hate Febreze and never use the cat litter with it in my cat's litter box. Can't stand the smell.

[@corastone9820]

Thirteen changes her t-shirt from episode to episode, but yeah!

[@minotostar]

@@corastone9820 Let's not forget Eleven's bow ties

[@lightbearer313]

The Doctor can sense time itself, and for instance can sense if historical time line has been altered. He has also occasionally exhibited telepathic abilities over a long range. He can take an ordinary mobile phone (US cell phone) and tinker with it to make it able to call someone on 21st century Earth from anywhere in time. He has tinkered with other machines or devices to give them some special ability; the female Doctor did this also. As for the communicating with babies, I think he is pulling the leg of his companion(s) - maybe. The third Doctor knows Venusian aikido.

[@thirdofherne9232]

I always assumed the 'baby language' thing was part of the psychic powers.

[@d.n.c.6647]

The Tardis can’t translate certain languages. The same way it can’t translate gallifyean but the time lords learn basically all of them on Gallifrey. They have nothing else to do they’re sworn only to watch and never interfere.

[@DyrianLightbringer]

When the 10th Doctor levitates, it's because the Master had set up a nearly world-wide communications network and the Doctor, being psychic, had a full year to mentally use that network to connect with every human on Earth. Martha had them all think about the Doctor at the same time, so it fed a lot of psychic energy to the Doctor at once.

[@alli9286]

Still such a weird plot point

[@JoshSweetvale]

4 and 10 are the most psychic doctors. Others like 3 and 11 have their moments, but the rest got by with heaps of applied psychology.

[@imgkmsrn]

it was still such a weird episode. felt like a fever dream.

[@thec-m]

As much as I love seasons 1-4, that plot point was definitely weird. Psychic energy is a pretty vague thing, so using it to explain how it can reversed the ageing and made him levitate didn’t make a ton of sense in the show - even with the network of mind control satellites (linking to subliminal messaging in phones). A lot of these powers shown seem to just be throwaway abilities, occasionally referenced again for eagle-eyed viewers. Not the kind of thing he’d use to get out of a tricky situation - at least, not the main obstacle of the episode - whatever that may be.

[@danthemeegs8751]

Another great power: surviving cancellation

[@shades292]

Didn’t “Fear Her” display the 10th doctor able to make people shut up once?

[@jackjordan5833]

He also did this in 'closing time' to craig's baby Alfie and the shop worker.

[@craytherlaygaming2852]

Not the only time he does it

[@kendellalexander7222]

Im pretty sure thas an application of the hypnosis/mind control thing, he also comments that it only works on those with weak minds

[@Bowswa]

Shh

[@lukasperuzovic1429]

@@kendellalexander7222 Like Jedi Mind tricks

[@TheHufflepuffSaint]

The Doctor:- "Guess what I've got, Donna?" **The Doctor pulls the Santa controller out his suit pocket** Donna:- "How did that fit in there?" The Doctor:- "They're bigger on the inside." The Runaway Bride did answer your last point; that The Doctor's pockets are bigger on the inside just like The TARDIS apparently.

[@craytherlaygaming2852]

Don't forget Rory's "Your's is bigger than mine" line from Vampires of venice when the doctor pulls out a UV lamp from his pocket

[@ralexcraft990]

The TARDIS is actually smaller on the outside the whole outside dimensions thing etc

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@craytherlaygaming2852 Eleventh Doctor, "Let's not go there." :)

[@ultimategames_nl1891]

Pocket Universe...

[@newta5208]

And in the snowmen the doctor and clara climb up a spiral staircase that's taller on the inside. He says so when Clara asks how they got so high so fast.

[@calculator17]

You should do a video going through all the rooms in the tardis. Not just rooms seen on screen that everyone knows about but instead highlighting lesser known rooms such as how the tardis has a full sized cheese factory (I heard that it was in a comic or something with strax being stuck in the tardis).

[@ruew2743]

Oh... my sister would love that, she has a cheese obsession

[@janelhartman1145]

This is an awesome idea

[@doctordeathdefying132]

The Doc probably likes Macaroni and cheese

[@fenris1420]

In I think Tennant's era, someone asked him whether he was a medical doctor and not got a doctorate in cheese making or something. He replies with something along the lines that he has a doctorate in both.

[@lilyjustham]

The TARDIS is literally infinite

[@andrewsmart4491]

I think a lot of these "powers" can be attributed to The Doctor trying to impress people or to give him extra thinking time. The tasting is a bit of theatre to bamboozle his enemies or to impress his companions, put simply The Doctor loves to be adored.

[@CharlotteSunshine94]

I sort of zoned out then heard "the doctor can shat a glass" and was like waitwhat

[@lilar1053]

😂😂😂 must have hurt that one ..

[@Newt.--.Jaeden]

Anyone else ever notice that in "The Doctor's Wife" Amy believes that The Doctor has a second jacket despite the fact he stole his one from the Hospital in Leadworth?

[@idkwhattosaysamehere5155]

well he can make colthes from the tardis edit:oh ye the doctor is he/her well i got the gender wrong

[@EvK_27]

@@idkwhattosaysamehere5155 Correct

[@EvK_27]

@@idkwhattosaysamehere5155 Not make. The TARDIS has her own closet full of clothes

[@TheHufflepuffSaint]

I seriously wish we could see The TARDIS wardrobe again. I can't speak for the Classic Series but I think the only time it was shown is back in Christmas Invasion where Ten looks for his iconic outfit.

[@jbear4433]

The jacket he wears in Series 6 isn’t actually the same one in Series 5, well, at least costume wise. The two jackets are similar but still have differences so he does actually have two different jackets unless they’re meant to be the same one and the viewers weren’t meant to notice the differences.

[@NicholasKaufmann]

I don't know if this counts because technically it's a part of regeneration, which is certainly not a power anyone forgot the Doctor has, but I was very, very surprised in "The Christmas Invasion" when it was revealed that if the Doctor loses a limb within fifteen hours of regenerating it will just grow back!

[@danthemeegs8751]

Yeah I think this would be lumped in with regenerations... but still a good one!

[@zeallust8542]

This could go in a "Regeneration Side-Effects you forgot about" list or something lol

[@the0siren0of0night]

What super power from The Doctor do you want? Everyone: Bigger Pockets!!!

[@Blackpearlmatt]

Of course the sonic doesn’t work on wooden doors, they are notoriously cross

[@evadale8503]

I love that pretty much all of these can be broken down into a) being super smart/crazy brain processing speed, b) psychic abilities, or c) superior time lord technology

[@nateloken6000]

Wasn’t the doctor able to share his memories with James Corden in their first episode together?

[@danthemeegs8751]

yes

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Contact! By a sort of more prone to head trauma than usual, version...

[@ZlothZloth]

He also does something like that with his other selves in the 3 and the 5 Doctors.

[@MagicCardboardBox]

Telepathic abilities are here and there

[@JoshSweetvale]

Ten was a lot better at telepathy than Eleven. :v

[@eivilmt]

the funniest Douglas Adams quotes. “There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

[@nix.i]

My favourite explanation for the pockets comes from an Eighth Doctor Adventures book, Alien Bodies: _‘He reached into his jacket pocket. Over the years, people had often commented on his ability to produce exactly the right item from his pockets at exactly the right time. Some had speculated that his pockets were extensions of the TARDIS, others had guessed he was just lucky. But then, they‘d never read Yeltstrom‘s Karma and Flares: The Importance of Fashion Sense to the Modern Zen Master. They didn‘t appreciate the things a sentient life-form could achieve, if he was totally at one with the lining of his jacket.’_

[@raphaelwolff885]

In Vampires of Venice the 11th Doctor pulled out a huge light out of his pockets

[@craytherlaygaming2852]

And makes a dick joke

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

@@craytherlaygaming2852 well, no... Rory makes the joke, and the Doctor says "let's not go there."

[@craytherlaygaming2852]

@@MaryAnnNytowl Well Rory wasn't making a joke, just stating a fact. It was the doctor that made it sxual

[@AstraIVagabond]

@@craytherlaygaming2852 Ugh, don't remind me. @.@

[@jupamoers]

Let's not go there, Rory^^

[@JCGaming1994]

What about when the 9th Doctor slows down time to go through the massive fans in the episode The end of the world

[@JOCoStudio1]

I think that was more him speeding up his perception of time. Sort of like the reading a book instantly and that whole spotting Rory thing in the 11th hour, it's a case of just being able to take in information very quickly, with a phenomenal reaction time.

[@JCGaming1994]

@@JOCoStudio1 yh that is true

[@asvarien]

Humans can shatter wine glasses with their voice.

[@julieeverett7442]

mostly women bu tyes they can, and he made the comment he learnt that from Dame Nelly Melba, who was a famous opera singer!

[@elijahbrown3096]

Girls pockets: **can't even fit a dime** Boys pockets: 10:46

[@christopherwilson3754]

I've always felt that the Doctor's "sense powers" was him screwing around.

[@hamie58]

That's what I though too, the one where he smells that it's the 1920's Donna calls him out for it since there is a car coming toward them that would indicate it's the 20's.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Yes, we can never be sure the Doctor is not 'cheating' at certain times...

[@gildedbear5355]

Rule one: the doctor lies. 8)

[@artsysundae]

true although In the eleventh hour, he could tell how old Amy’s shed was. and i think she used those powers a few times in series 11/12

[@AstraIVagabond]

It may be somewhere in-between. The Doctor can tell a lot of things about a smell/taste, but takes liberties in how much they infer. Induction as an art more than a science.

[@CharlotteSunshine94]

Speaks: baby, horse, Judoon, cat, Ancient Greek Doesn't speak: British Sign Language *looks at camera *

[@k.stewart007]

Apparently he can just delete languages. Which does kind of make sense. For the doctor to have all the knowledge s/he does memories and everything. Physically s/he would need a bigger brain. Thus a bigger head. A much bigger head. So having the ability to delete things and retrieve them at will is quite plausible. Maybe some things have to be installed by the tardis. Meaning he could just retrieve sign language from a tucked away corner.

[@robertabarnhart6240]

Maybe he learned American Sign Language instead.😄

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@k.stewart007 My guess is that he really doesn't speak half of what he's telling people, but since he's symbiotically and telepathically linked to the TARDIS, it's the TARDIS that's doing the translating, and he's just repeating what the TARDIS tells him. In our world it's called "channeling".

[@stephenpriest2766]

Don't forget, he can also speak dinosaur 🦕. Peter Capaldi's first full episode when the Doctor regenerated and the TARDIS was spat up by a female tyrannosaurus rex. The Doctor spoke to the 🦖 T-Rex and translated what the dinosaur was saying.

[@CharlotteSunshine94]

@@stephenpriest2766 amazing, yet still couldn't speak to the deaf lady on her ship!

[@reversethepolarityoftheneu773]

You left out the healing coma The thing where he freezes himself and heals Was used in the dæmons,planet of the daleks,and 42

[@Caroniver_Robocacci]

I've not yet seen _Planet of the Daleks_ , but I can tell you that in _The Dæmons_ he was frozen by Azaal absorbing the heat of the surrounding area. He recovered after a while, but he didn't induce the freezing state and it's not what healed him. In _42_ he's asking to be frozen with a machine (very obviously not self-induced) in order to kill the heat-based parasite living inside of him. It has nothing to do with healing himself. The others even worry he might die.

[@reversethepolarityoftheneu773]

The planet of the daleks one is definitely the healing coma I described it was after he was grazed by a laser the master shot at him then he froze for a few hours then was fine a very similar thing happened in spearhead from space when a unit guard shoots him(the bullet again only grazing his forehead) and he went into a deep self induced coma(although didn’t freeze himself) and i may be mistaken but i thought he was frozen in 42 to assist him with his healing process as he was infected with a bit of a sun

[@reversethepolarityoftheneu773]

K nevermind I was wrong about 42 and dæmons

[@reversethepolarityoftheneu773]

Though the doctor being able to survive at low temperatures like that adds to the narrative of freezing coma since it makes sense for him to freeze and go into coma if hes seriously injured because then his body could divert more resources to restoring himself

[@tommiddleton6590]

You had me with ‘old people have the Royal Mail’ 🤣🤣

[@RedBlitzen]

Definitely the pockets. Every time, the pockets.

[@timothygeorge5806]

I don't know if you can count the 'Your's is bigger than mine' UV torch moment with Matt Smith as a giant pocket moment, but either way, he hid it well!

[@craytherlaygaming2852]

Lets not go there

[@TammyJRizzo]

@@craytherlaygaming2852 Oh, why not? They did on the show!

[@craytherlaygaming2852]

@@TammyJRizzo I was quoting it yes, the doctor says that exact line when rory says "Yours is bigger than mine"

[@doctor49152]

long list of things you missed off the top of my head... - Respiratory Bypass. 6th Doctor used this when gassed in The Two Doctors (also how I assume the 13th survived drowning in a witch trial) - Being able to appear and disappear shocking people. (Seventh Doctor in Rememberance of the Daleks as an example) - Slowing down time to slip between the blades of a giant fan (Ninth Doctor in End of the World) - Fires of Pompeii after using the water pistol to escape the 10th Doctor says he can generally see alternate realities of how things happen (can see what is, what was, what could be and what must not) Borussa mentions that the Timelord chapter the Doctor belongs too also has this ability better than most Timelords. I also see this as why he's able to pull of amazing stunts. He knows the exact thing to do to get the desired result. Like throwing a cricket ball to drop a piano to save a life (even though he was human at the time in the Family of Blood) or fire the cross-bow bolt without looking in Face of Evil. Or knowing when Margaret Slitheen is going to expel poison breath and fire nail finger darts - 10th Doctor knows when Mickey is watching on the monitor in Age of Steel - Wiping peoples memories - Talking horse in The Girl in the Fireplace and A Town Called Mercy - Fight off Alien possessions in many stories - Not have helium change his voice (Robots of Death) - Survive long falls when it serves the story (the Satan pit and the End of Time) - Absorb radiation and expel it through his feet (Smith and Jones, but not the End of Time) - Program a virus on a cell phone to reset everything to 0, reprogram a computer so Cybermen target Timelords and not humans (The Doctor Falls) and reprograms nanogenes to restore humans to factory condition - Smell when Martha was a Sontaran clone - The Doctor didn't hypnotize Sarah to not breath, He slowed her breathing down so she wouldn''t use so much oxygen. - Another taste example would be the 2nd Doctor in The Two Doctors knowing what type of anesthetic he was given. - I always thought that the Doctor (being an entity of the higher dimension of time) would have 4 dimensional abilities which would explain the pockets and being able to slip in and out past people. - In the Audio Play Colditz Nazi guards search the 7th Doctors pockets and find nothing. The next scene he pulls the sonic out and says he can do this. - in Full Circle the 4th Doctor finds a giant 'marsh melon' and tries to steal it by putting it into his coats pocket. It's too big.

[@badbloodkiller3471]

The Third Doctor demonstrated transmigration, aka summon objects out of thin air.

[@mgthestrange9098]

It’s reasonable to think that if one doctor could shatter glass with their voice, its going to be the 4th doctor.

[@MrDarthT]

The Doctor and Romana have a conversation about flying in "The City of Death"

[@DanBen07]

Interesting 🤔

[@KennAKALeo]

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[@chrissonofpear1384]

And likely a reference to writer Douglas Adam's third Hitchhiker novel.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

I always took that as just a bit of joking between the two Timelords, myself. Not an actual reference to an actual ability.

[@EditedAF987]

@@MaryAnnNytowl but the third doctor learns how to levitate in a comic back in the 70’s so it is entirely possible that they can indeed fly

[@Nem01]

The doctor sounds a bit like the one kid at school that is able to sound confident enough to sell it to the other kids like 'Huh, of course I can do this. You're about to tell me you can't?' 10 seconds later class starts so he/she doesn't need to prove it...

[@AstraIVagabond]

The Timeless _That_ Child.

[@RaggedyDoctor11]

I also have the power to look REALLY sexy in a bow tie, just sayin.

[@dwoktheraynejonsohn4849]

Especially when you make the face that's in your profile pic

[@secretsquirrel7374]

Bow ties are cool

[@Bowswa]

@@secretsquirrel7374 it ain’t no lie

[@colinp2238]

Have you got a fez? Fezes are cool.

[@madmanwithouthisbox]

So already have the functional Sonic... Does Amazon have a working bow tie and fez...🖖🤓🥃💭🤦🏼

[@ThatCoalSoul]

It may be a thing that's only been seen in one regeneration but Eleven's strength is of note - Rings of Akhaten "This is a very heavy door!"

[@gyver8448]

Melody ripped open that suit of armour when she was only 6 years old with her bare hands.

[@Jedi_Spartan_38]

7:03 Maybe it's just that certain languages are too primitive for the TARDIS to translate... it would also explain the Judoon not speaking English a few steps away from the TARDIS in Stolen Earth. 8:08 I think that a random Time Lord did it in the Master's first story and there's a reference to Time Lords having the ability in City of Death with Romana II and the Doctor talking at the top of the Effiel Tower. "Should we take the lift or fly?"

[@DanBen07]

Well i think the name is incognito Timelord and he hovered in the air because the coordinates where off so he moves nearer to where the doctor is. You do hear the sound of a Tardis when he arrives. Something on him could be a Tardis in disguise. Could be teleported there by someone but i don't think he's actually flying.

[@TxSonofLiberty]

The Judoon speak a slang which IS translated to be heard in English. It would be like translating Cockney Rhyming Slang. You can learn Judoon IRL.

[@lunammoon8503]

I think I can give you some quite conclusive evidence that the Doctor can't fly

[@jennypack217]

The TARDIS translates when the Doctor is around and conscious. I think it only translates what the Doctor wants it to. Remember in the Christmas Invasion? The 10th Doctor is unconscious so the TARDIS doesn't translate. Later when he wakes up they start hearing English. Despite that, in the same episode, he challenges the aliens. Most of it is English but then he switches to the alien language. It isn't translated. Of course there are exceptions. In Demon's Run the Doctor left with the TARDIS but yet the TARDIS circuits still translated the language.

[@gildedbear5355]

His pockets are, of course, timelord technology.

[@fnsmike]

Gallifrean clothing is made from the fabric of spacetime. *drumroll*

[@KasMolenaar]

The power to "speak baby" is mostly a fun gag in the episodes with the 11th Doctor, but said power makes up for a powerful scene in The Girl Who Died, where the 12th Doctor translates the frightened baby as they cry to Clara.

[@paulharries9558]

Respiratory bypass system, anyone?

[@Neli42]

Yes! That's what I came here to say. This is one of his most impressive powers, and really underutilised.

[@JoshSweetvale]

5:45 Romana had significantly more training than the Doctor. She could adapt/reshape her Regeneration too.

[@BorisVladimirov]

Doctor bringing a glass of water filled to the brim out of his pocket Kid: how did you do that? Doctor: skills...

[@CupidGaming522]

"I've got to invent a wood setting, it's getting embarrassing..." -Doctor

[@robinredd7734]

I think the low telepathy Time Lords possess is often forgotten as well, it seems to come up a lot more in the audio dramas and even more so in the books (probably because it works better in written form) than in the TV series.

[@williamjfrancefilm]

Wouldn't it be awesome and interesting if each Doctor had a specific set of powers unique to that Regeneration. It means you could recycle them too, for example 13 may have superhuman licking, levitation and Banshee screaming while 14 could have mind reading, super sight and animal communication that 11 does.

[@AstraIVagabond]

I think that is what happens, to an extent. The Doctor loses a few aptitudes/memories, gains a few aptitudes and possibly memories when they regenerate. Since regeneration is kind of like super-accelerated growth/aging, it makes sense for it to trigger atrophy in some areas - or for a lack of practice over centuries from incarnations with less interest in the skill to do that. For example, Venusian aikido. Three was the most martial arts-oriented Doctor, so presumably the most martial arts-adept - and can you imagine Eleven taking someone out with those kinds of moves? Probably not, but Thirteen got at least a bit of that skill back - from training early on, training in her previous incarnation or just recovering the (muscle) memory for it.

[@brettjohnson536]

“Can hypnotise and mind control people”; Feels like there’s quite a few instances in the show were that could’ve been useful....

[@AstraIVagabond]

So would a gun. I imagine they avoid mind-control for the same kind of reason.

[@AstraIVagabond]

But yeah, what about hypnotizing companions to be more survivable?? The Doc might not want to do that _all_ the time to preserve their companions' autonomy, but I definitely got the sense there have been times in the modern series when that would be worth it. Similar situations off the top of my head: helping Clara hold her breath in Deep Breath or Bill in Oxygen. In Doylist terms, it comes down to the same reason as the sparsity of use of many other Doctor/TARDIS abilities: they'd be overpowered if they used it more often.

[@fadikhoory5350]

Here's another- his fast memory, like in Planet of the Ood, he mentions the sense-sphere which he met once back in 1964 in The Sensorites. How could he have remembered them when he met them so many years ago and so quickly? If someone mentioned a person who you haven't met for years like a childhood friend or teacher, you would take a moments to remember.

[@keithmichael9965]

"The answer. I'm the Doctor. Just accept it."

[@gestaltdude]

The Doctor (to Aggedor) Kolkeeda partha menna klatch, ablark araan aroon. Klokleeda partha teerinatch, araan aroon araan aroon. Aroon araan aroon." Jo Grant: What were you singing? The Doctor: An old Venusian lullaby. Roughly translated it goes, "Close your eyes my darling, well three of them at least. I hate myself for being able to remember this for 40 years.

[@tetraquark2402]

He's linked to the Tardis so maybe he is just the way he gets it to initiate a scan on what he indicates and tell him telepathically without talking

[@ihavekalashnikovyoudomath9275]

There's also psychic memory transfers. I don't know if it can be done from Time Lord to Time Lord, but it was used by the Doctor to catch up with himself about what's going on. They would concentrate and go "Contact," to set up the link. It was later _maybe_ referenced in the 50th anniversary when the Doctors suddenly put together the plan to cup of soup Gallifrey. They all start to cheer while no one says anything out loud. 11 also used the transfer on Craig to give Craig a quick rundown on who he is and what he's doing. Though instead of going "Contact" or touching Craig's head with his hands, the Doctor just headbutts Craig

[@chloej1611]

Also their apparent immunity to any sort of temperature change? He's in the middle of a volcano, Donna is sweating buckets in a lightweight dress, and the Doctor is still wearing his suit. Then, they show up on the Ood Sphere, and the Doctor just stands there in the suit and coat (which is still open, as usual), while Donna goes off to find a parka.

[@MrRonald327]

Dude is a man of mystery.

[@DanBen07]

Interesting 🤔

[@CassiusStelar]

"Ah, wood... My age old enemy" -Sir Lord Quentin Trembley III Esquire but probably The Doctor as well

[@Richard_Jones]

Has mad cricketting skills. See both Davidson and Tennant for proof.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Um, that's Davison, without the extra d in the middle.

[@Richard_Jones]

@@MaryAnnNytowl Thanks Mary Ann, I guess if I didn't want to be corrected I should've kept my mouth shut.

[@Bowswa]

Nah mate, smith presented god everything skills in The Lodger

[@TanzPolydactyl]

In the third Doctor episodes "The Time Monster" and "The Dinosaur Invasion", The Doctor is seen to be immune, or at least highly resistant, to the effects of time ripples from machines, while the humans around him are not. I believe this was used in later classic episodes as well, but I can't think of any examples off the top of my mind. In the Fifth Doctor episode "Four to Doomsday", the Doctor is able to briefly go out into the vacuum of space without wearing a space suit, by meditating a bit beforehand. I am not sure whether this was used again, but I have been looking for it.

[@sunniebelle9570]

In "The Unicorn and the Wasp" the Doctor was able to reverse the inhibited enzymes and purge his body of a deadly poison, cyanide. (Season 4, episode 7)

[@thec-m]

Ah, I thought it was called Unicorn and the Wasp. I mentioned it in another comment, but wasn’t sure on the name. Yeah, I remember this too, with him miming salt and Donna getting it absurdly wrong. Oh! Just came back to me - Harvy Wallbanger... I think. Sorry, this comment was a trainwreck. Ha

[@finnstewart4747]

We actually have seen a Time Lord levitate, Kan'po Rimposhe was seen to levitate in Planet of the Spiders. Then again, in the same story he is seen to be able to regenerate into a mental projection of himself, and he is pretty well known as a pretty powerful user of Time Lord psychic abilities, so this might not be a standard ability that all Time Lords can do on a whim.

[@megansmith1993]

Also in Peter Davison's debut episode, Castrovalva. The Doctor goes to the Zero Room in the TARDIS to rest, and we see him levitate into a horizontal position. He is later put into a box to be carried by Nyssa and Tegan, and the Doctor actually makes himself weightless so that they can carry him to Castrovalva more easily; which I guess is another power!

[@finnstewart4747]

@@megansmith1993 I saw that more as an effect of the zero room, especially since the box he was put into was taken from parts of the zero room. I saw it as something that everyone could do provided they tried to if they were in the zero room.

[@heathercroft3543]

The Doctor's pockets being bigger on the inside is my absolute favourite thing. I loved when Eleven pulled a giant light out of his pocket.

[@theLovelyEddie]

the doctor: *pulls giant light out of his pocket* Rory: yours is bigger than mine The doctor: lets not go there by far one of my favourite scenes lol

[@Telgar_]

The Doctor, in one of the Christmas specials, starts scanning wood as the 'War Doctor', Tennant's doctor looks and still can't do wood, and then Smith's Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver dings, having updated to be able to do wood. This process took 1,200 years, if I recall correctly.

[@bleach_pocky]

finally someone pointed that out! wasn't a Christmas special though it was the 50th-anniversary movie/episode day of the doctor.

[@ashleyowen7664]

here's one for you, we all say that the doctor is only about two to three thousand years old, but, my question is, what about the Confession Dial, he told Clara he was in there for 4 and a half billion years, so is the doctor a few thousand years old, or just over 4.5B years old? or does the time in the Dial not count as "time"? i'd love to know

[@anshsharma2652]

The thing is... He never lived those 4.5B years at once... He died several billion times! The last doctor that actually escaped and is the doctor we all know... Stayed there for months tops. So... The doctor is actually only a few thousand years old, even in the episode it's stated that from the doctor's perspective, he have time travelled 4.5B years into the future

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

@@anshsharma2652 there's also the concept that the events inside the disc aren't actual *time* events, even if he remembers all of the time(s) he went through those events.

[@anshsharma2652]

@@MaryAnnNytowl he doesn't though... He just knows it's the only way he survived

[@Bowswa]

Could you not roast my brain over fire?

[@ashleyowen7664]

@@anshsharma2652 he may not of lived them all at once, but he still "lived" them in order for the events to happen the way they happened

[@rscb6457]

I'm currently reading 'The lovely bones' sp that made me smile. The book is making me cry

[@LuneAnimations]

the eleventh doctor shutting people up by saying shush (works on all lower life forms), and the fact that they automatically know how to heal, like the 10th doctor asking for a list of stuff to heal from cyanide poisoning. 11 not only speaks baby, but also horse.

[@Enivri]

11:16 with the bigger on the inside pockets, there is a scene in Vampires of Venice where the Doctor pulls out a giant UV portable sunlight device out of his jacket pocket. Rory then says “yours is bigger than mine”

[@ryancoulter4797]

I’m still looking for a jacket with that many pockets.

[@TaeSunWoo]

The Doctor is built different.

[@plaidty9772]

Speaking "baby" was good for this list because it allowed the one-off question of "if the Tardis translates everything, why not that", but let's not forget that each time in the new series he's asked "you speak baby?" he replies "I speak everything". And we see him on multiple occasions talking to animals. For example, the cat in the same Stormeggedon episode, and the horse "Susan".

[@AlmightyCRJ]

The respiratory bypass was a significant one which could have very followed the stopping of the two hearts.

[@biglou6799]

The 5th Doctor could also levitate in the Zero room in his first episode.

[@danthemeegs8751]

I think that’s more to do with the zero room than the Doctor himself... right?

[@biglou6799]

@@danthemeegs8751 I'm not sure. The way the Doctor explains it to Tegan it's as if its just something he knows how to do. In fact he says to Nissa and Tegan he would be levitating in the Zero cabinet as well. I always thought it was just because he was in the Zero room too...but I'm not so sure.

[@AstraIVagabond]

There was also City of Death, where the Doctor and Romana considered flying off the Eiffel Tower... and didn't just because it'd be too conspicuous! Other mentions/instances of Time Lords being able to fly were in Terror of the Autons and The Armageddon Factor.

[@lunammoon8503]

I bet the dude wished he had been able to levitate a thirty minutes ago if you know what I mean

[@johnkeyes1774]

I wonder why Rich didn't know this fact?

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

Young people (showing my age here) don't get the "bigger on the inside pockets" because it's a direct reference to the ongoing old joke about womens' pocketbooks being able to hold all sorts of stuff so it appears, on the surface, that they're "bigger on the inside."

[@craytherlaygaming2852]

Nah, Marry Popins was just a Timelord, heh

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@craytherlaygaming2852 Well, you've got a typo. It's "Mary" (one "r") but considering that Missy did something similar, you're probably right! :)

[@robertabarnhart6240]

Gee, that describes my purse very well! And since it's crocheted, it's kinda stretchy, making it (a tiny bit) bigger on the inside.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@robertabarnhart6240 There's an ongoing joke with my friends about how my car is "bigger on the inside" because I can stuff all sorts of things one shouldn't be able to, into it. Same goes for my backpack. In many ways, my backpack is like the 4th Doctor's pockets because I have things like a screwdriver (unfortunately, not sonic [wait! I take that back. If the "definition" according to the Next Doctor is that it "makes a noise" I can say my electric screwdriver ***is*** sonic because "it makes a noise" ::grin::) and a can with flint and steel in it, and a drawing book and pencils, etc. etc.

[@fatesse3135]

The mind control came back, played for laughs, in the same episode with Stormageddon. His ability to hush people, saying it only works once and only on lower lifeforms. (Which, come to think of it, maybe that's why they're able to stun some beings into temporary stillness when he yells at them forcefully enough - thinking of the episode with the Wire, the Sycorax, the opening of the Pandorica....)

[@ZlothZloth]

He's also got an aspiratory bypass system that kept him alive after two mummies strangled him in Pyramids of Mars. I'm not sure what the point of it is if a Timelord can go several minutes without either heart beating as Romana did but it's there.

[@cowbearcreations9513]

Bigger on the inside pockets. Definitely want that power. I could fill them up with kittens.

[@danthemeegs8751]

sounds like you’d have a lot of dead kittens

[@robertabarnhart6240]

@@danthemeegs8751 And a lot of poop and pee in the meantime.

[@darth_kal-el]

Praise Beebo the blue god. The god of war. Beebo want cuddles. I wonder how many people will get this reference.

[@modboyhenry1]

I definitely get it lol

[@darth_kal-el]

@@modboyhenry1 nice. Granted I think of you like Doctor Who there is a good chance you’ll like LoT.

[@modboyhenry1]

@@darth_kal-el yeah I’ve watched Lot all 5 seasons.

[@darth_kal-el]

@@modboyhenry1 I’ve watched every season every episode of the entire Arrowverse.

[@modboyhenry1]

@@darth_kal-el same

[@stephendean3556]

The Doctor levitating was also seen in the classic series in Castrovalva when the 5th Doctor played by Peter Davison is in the Zero Room and he levitates before he falls asleep in order to aid his recovery from his regeneration and in The Five Doctors the second Doctor is in a cave with the Brigadier and the second Doctor empties his pockets and eventually finds something which he refers to as "A galactic glitter" being that it's actually a stick of dynamite

[@TwistyTris]

11 also has a big pocket moment when he pulls a huge torch out of his coat

[@ther0n1nnamed47]

Never looking at Rich again without thinking "sup... big milk mommy, hi..." haha couldn't stop laughing

[@screeb0746]

*the amount of happiness I get from hearing him reference the doctor with they/them pronouns knows no bounds*

[@jessehamilton5042]

Matt smith also had a big pocket moment in vampires of venice when he pulls out a really big light

[@olliemoore7508]

love this channel!!!

[@EvK_27]

Who is YOUR most favourite and least favourite doctor?

[@EvK_27]

My favourite is Tennant and least is Jodie(Mostly 'cause of Chibnall)

[@modboyhenry1]

@@EvK_27 same for me for favorite I can’t choose between Tennant and Capaldi but yeah least favorite is Jodie.

[@EvK_27]

@@modboyhenry1 Capaldi is a bit too serious, but.. yeah he's good

[@aymankdr5375]

11th doctor

[@EvK_27]

@Gavin star Get lost fool

[@glorious77iguana2]

Well the answer to that is simple, it's he/she is THE DOCTOR just accept it.

[@shibolinemress8913]

That's why I LOVE the reverse gag in Runaway Bride about Donna's wedding dress not having any pockets! 🤣🤣

[@robinvik1]

Don't forget that Tennant could also make people do whatever he told them to. That was pretty OP.

[@ChrystineHolcomb]

LOL Nice one, Kilgrave.