Doctor Who: Where the ‘Time Lord Victorious’ Title Comes From – CBR – Comic Book Resources

Doctor Who is currently swept up in the massive Time Lord Victorious crossover, so let's look at where the title comes from.

WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the first episode of the Doctor Who animated series Daleks!, "The Archive of Islos," available now on YouTube.

Currently, the Doctor Who franchise is featuring a massive and ambitious crossover:Time Lord Victorious. The multi-platform event stretches across comics books, novels, audio stories, magazines and even a new animated series. While all of these stories can be understood on their own, they are interconnected and part of a tapestry that formsTime Lord Victorious.

So, with all of this attention being given to the "Time Lord Victorious," let's look at where the title comes from. As it turns out, the answer can be found in the past of the fan-favorite television series, as the title was previously mentioned in the Doctor Who episode "The Waters of Mars."

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"The Waters of Mars" aired in 2009, and it was the last special to air before David Tennant's two-part finale as the Tenth Doctor. In the episode, Tennant's Doctor was without a companion and paid a visit to Mars. There, he found the first human colony on the red planet, a group of scientists he knew, thanks to the history books, were fated to die very soon. However, since their deaths were such an important part of history, the Doctor couldn't do anything about it. While the Time Lord is known to save as many lives as he can, in this particular case, his hands were literally tied by the laws of time.

As the scientistsstarted to die one by one, the Tenth Doctor headed back to his TARDIS, ready to leave the moment as a fixed point in time. However,thisproved to be too torturous for the Doctor -- he simply couldn't let these people die, so he intervened and saved those he could, knowing full well what this would do to history. At the end of the episode, an angry Doctor, who was now contemplating his impending death, revealed why he had changed his mind because the laws of time were once enforced by the Time Lords. But he was now the only Time Lord left in existence, which means these laws were now his to command. With this, the Doctor declared himself the "Time Lord Victorious."

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