How many times can you recall the Doctor using "Super Powers?"

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Jack_Ramone

30-10-2015

The ridiculous times he used "regeneration energy" to heal others.

There was River's broken hand, and I think another I can't remember?

It's just ... stupid. River berated him for using regeneration energy, but where did it come from? He didn't have any other regenerations left at that point, and what would it mean if he did?

adams66

30-10-2015

Originally Posted by davidnumen:
“Think about it - why else would we not see what really triggered the regeneration? The subtext had to be that it was to disturbing for us to know...”

Ewwww......

nebogipfel

30-10-2015

Originally Posted by adams66:
“Four's very handy respiratory bypass system - very useful in a tight squeeze when throttled by robot Mummies.

Three and Four also managed to put themselves into self-induced comas on a number of occasions.
The Monster Of Peladon, after being assaulted by the Security Disco Lights, has one such instance (though maybe the Doctor had just seen the scripts for the rest of that story and simply shut himself down to spare himself from further agony....). Another was when the virus was attempting to take him over in the Invisible Enemy.

Incidentally, the clear way of reviving a comatose Time Lord is to lay your head on their chest and sob. Your tears soaking said Time Lord's shirt will somehow have magical healing properties and will undoubtedly cause you say "Oh Doctor, I thought you were dead".”

The self-induced coma thing is what I was thinking of in my post- 3rd Doctor loved a bit of comatose problem solving. Bloody hippy.

Originally Posted by chuffnobbler:
“Ambassadors of Death: "transmigration of object"

The Seventh Doctor hypnotises a soldier by pressing a finger to the man's forehead (Curse of Fenric) and fixes Ace's twisted ankle by twitching her ear (Remembrance of the Daleks). Do these count?”

Yes. Yes they do.

Originally Posted by davidnumen:
“Sexual exhaustion.”

Simply the best yet most disturbing post I've seen on this forum.

sandydune

31-10-2015

The Doctor uses his annoying powers on people and then says calm down. What's that all about?

JAS84

31-10-2015

Originally Posted by andy1231:
“Why did the sixth Doctor regenerate after falling off his exercise bike ?”

He didn't. Big Finish has the real reason.

Vetinari

12-11-2015

Third or fourth doctor hid something (I think it was a computer mag-tape) he was holding by simply sticking his hand in the air, at which point it vanished. He later retrieved it in the same way.

An ability that would have been useful on numerous occasions (not to mention it would enable him to keep a little stash of essentials readily available).

Corwin

12-11-2015

Originally Posted by Vetinari:
“Third or fourth doctor hid something (I think it was a computer mag-tape) he was holding by simply sticking his hand in the air, at which point it vanished. He later retrieved it in the same way.

An ability that would have been useful on numerous occasions (not to mention it would enable him to keep a little stash of essentials readily available).”

It was the 3rd.

I put that one down to sleight of hand and pockets that are bigger on the inside.

Vetinari

12-11-2015

Originally Posted by Corwin:
“It was the 3rd.

I put that one down to sleight of hand and pockets that are bigger on the inside.”

I'm pretty sure that he actually gave some very brief explanation.

adams66

12-11-2015

Originally Posted by Vetinari:
“I'm pretty sure that he actually gave some very brief explanation.”

Yup - transmigration of object, if I remember correctly. Whatever that means!
To be honest he might just as well have said magic for all the sense it makes.

Maybe it's yet another Time Lord thingy that's simply too complex for us lesser mortals to understand...

Corwin

12-11-2015

Originally Posted by Vetinari:
“I'm pretty sure that he actually gave some very brief explanation.”

"Transmigration of object"

Quote:
“No, no, no. No, that was simply transmigration of object. There's a great deal of difference between that and pure science,”

So nothing more than a sleight of hand trick IMO.

adams66

12-11-2015

Originally Posted by Corwin:
“"Transmigration of object"

So nothing more than a sleight of hand trick IMO.”

Well, it was more a fairly bad bit of editing...

but I agree that the implication was that it was meant to be some sort of extra clever conjuring trick...

alphonsus

12-11-2015

The 7th hypnotises two security guards in Silver Nemesis by staring and talking sternly at them.
The 5th survives in a vacuum in Four to Doomsday. And displays mastery of the cricket ball.
The 4th survives multiple strangulation attempts. His voice is unaffected by helium in Robots of Death.
The 1st,2nd?,3rd,4th,5th,6th,7th,8th?,9th,10th,11th display regeneration.

sebbie3000

13-11-2015

Originally Posted by JAS84:
“He didn't. Big Finish has the real reason.”

Big Finish has a reason - but as they are personal canon at best, and a minimal reach compared to the show itself... He regenerated after falling off an exercise bike.

pferreira

15-11-2015

Doesn't The Doctor and The Master shoot energy beams at each other in The End of Time?

mrprosser

15-11-2015

Originally Posted by Daniel Dare:
“Four To Doomsday. The Doctor manages to spacewalk from a freighter airlock to the TARDIS wearing only a space helmet and no spacesuit.”

That in itself isn't a superpower http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/ask_ast...ce_travel.html
NASA experiments on animals showed that your blood wouldn't boil, you wouldn't immediately freeze. Indeed if you were only exposed to a hard vacuum for a minute the thing to be most wary of would be severe sunburn.

Wearing a helmet to provide the body with air would increase the length of time you could survive in the vacuum.

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