Who is the Valeyard? (Doctor Who's Biggest Unsolved Mystery) 

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With Bi-generation an established concept in the modern series, I could definitely see the Valeyard as being spawned from the doctor's final regeneration wherein he bi-generates, with all the negative and dark parts of the doctor being channeled into the Valeyard.

I hope the Valeyard shows up again in New Who. It would be great to have an enemy so dangerous that both the Master and the Doctor would have to team up against. Also, If the Valeyard was born a culmination of all of the Doctor’s negative traits solidified into a single entity then I wonder if the key to defeating him would be to create a being who was the culmination of all of the Doctor’s positive traits so as to keep the Valeyard at bay for all eternity.

Personally I like to think he's like the Curator or Merlin. Like the Doctor's future is a moving target and constantly in flux. That's why 6 met the Valeyard. 6 was pretty dark so his most probable future was the Valeyard. 7's most probable was Merlin. 11 had the Curator AND Trenzalore. Not that they all have one but I feel like you can see it for a few of them.

I like your take on it. The Meta-Crisis Doctor can be an example of how the Valyard can exist as another "splinter" of him, yet not-quite-him. To be honest, other than slinging nasty looks and failing to prosecute him in court, he never had the real Doctor vibes of capability and intelligence. I haven't imbided the wine of his Big Finish incarnations, so maybe he became more capable, but it neatly fits the idea of why he takes personal interest in taking the Doctor down and getting his regenerations for himself. Yes, a very good explanation, dwfan91!

I have a theory that the Valeyard is related to the 10th doctor. In his final days he bacame a selfish vein monster that was so determined not to regenerate that links up with your final explanation of the valeyard's true identity. He splintered off during 10's regeneration and to further my theory i think that the 14th doctor is also an incarnation of the valeyard. But is the positive counter to the pure evil of the valeyard.

'He Jests At Scars' is definitely one of my Favourite Big Finish DW stories. I highly recommend it, especially for the insight that it gives to the Valeyard's character.

RIP Valeyard. He passed away today Feb. 5th, 2024.

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I expect to see Valeyard in the newest season, dark Doctor who comming.....

Now we have bigeneration, the valeyard could be the result of that in the doctor's far future.

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Technically the 10th Doctors regeneration into the 11th Doctor was his final regeneration before the Time Lords granted him more lives. Could it be possible that the Valeyard was conceived then?

Well shit now with bigeneration with one doctor holding onto all his pain and another leaving it behind this could work

I know your not a big fan of Trial of a Time Lord but it's one of my all-time favorites. The Tom Baker through Sylvester McCoy series were showing on public television in America when I was a young kid back in the 80's/90's. These were my first experience with classic Who and I love them. Also, the Talons of Weng-Chiang is fantastic and I won't hear otherwise :) :). Keep up the great work.

I know all signs point to NPH being the Toymaker for the upcoming celebration. But part of me wants NPH to be a new version of the Valeyard, out to steal the Doctor's seemingly unlimited regenerations as the Timeless Child. I think that would be way to inside continuity for everyone but I'd love it.

I greatly enjoyed the *new doctor who* (2005 onwards) but i never watched ANY of the classic doctor who pre 2005. These videos are super interesting little insights into the stuff i missed out on but at the same time. it feels a shame the new series kind of just ignores all the old stuff and doesn't really bring it up or at least doesn't seem to anyway.

The Shedinja comparison was on point lol, great video.

1:50 I don't mean to sound rude, but you're simply misunderstanding this; It doesn't matter that we've now passed 12, as the Valeyard is an amalgamation of the Doctor's dark persona BETWEEN his twelfth and final incarnations. That is not saying "twelfth & final" are one in the same, as you know... the basis was 13 incarnations, not 12, AND they don't say "between the 12th and 13th incarnations"... its ambiguously placed sometime after David Tennant's second incarnation (War doctor is the 9th, Eccleston is 10th, Tennat is 11th and then also 12th after regenerating in The Stolen Earth). Thats all it means. Amalgamation of the Doctor's darker side collected anywhen from Matt Smiths incarnation to the Doctor’s far future death. fter all there are normally 13 incarnationsIts

I have a theory that the Valeyard is going to be explored in Season 1 of the Disney+ Era, revealed as the One Who Waits. It would make sense for this dualistic opposite of the Doctor to be played by a drag queen, pulling on a duality of man idea. The Rani wouldn’t work nearly as well and they’ve already brought back Mel. I think it would make the most sense for the Valeyard be a byproduct of the bigeneration, a splinter off of the fourteenth doctor transforming into the fifteenth. Shedding the shadow ego if you will

So, is Valeyard the one who waits? After watching most recent episode, it seems legit.

So...is the Valeyard the result of Bigeneration

It's all explained in the Trial of a Time Lord. The High Council have been up to no good and correctly deduce that eventually the Doctor would uncover it. So they scan all the possible routes the Doctor's life could take after his current incarnation (The Valeyard has all the 6th Doctors memories) and pick one that is at the end of its life that embodies all his darkest impulses. They offer him all the sixth Doctors remaining lives if he can legally ensnare the Doctor. The Master has already had run ins with the Valeyard. The Master is amused that an Evil version of his nemesis exists but doesn't like the idea of a rival. So helps the Doctor defeat the Valeyard and uncover the hypocrisy of the High Council. After the battle The Valeyard steals a body and starts an existence seperate from the Doctor but still having all the memories of at least the first 6 incarnations of the Doctor.

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I imagine the Valeyard is an alternate version of the 11th Doctor who left Trenzalore to rot. The Great Intelligence did namedrop him after all.

A parallel doctor that gave into his darker urges. Like the six doctor but he strangles perry to death. The doctor keeps trying to save the master cuz he knows he could be just like the master.

Another amazing video ! Actually didn't know anything about the Valeyard before this, just that he was mysterious...Keep up the good work ! :))

Having just watched "The Giggle", you might be right.

You explained it very well I’m a big fan of looking back on old who villains who never made a second or third appearance. Would be the Rani explained make a good video?

11th doctor was using the black scrolls of rassilon which could tie into the creation of the valeyard somehow It's a background easter egg in the snowman, you can see it in the tardis after he's been all depressed and whatnot over being in his last life/body and over losing the ponds

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4:55-5:13 After watching The Giggle this exact description sounds awfully familiar doesn't it?

In my headcanon, Series 6B Troughton was asked to do something extremely evil by the Time Lords, so he went back in time and made it so that he got exiled instead of doing that tasks that the Time Lords gave to him, making him become a paradox. He then lived in the shadows until he regenerated into the Valeyard, and he slowly started fading away. (Because he was a paradox.) He then tires to kill the mainline Doctor, because if he kept existing, The Valeyard will fade out of time. That's just by theory though.

My personal fan theory is that the Valeyard is a failed Watcher that manifested during the episode "The Waters of Mars". The 10th doctor (Who has regenerated 11 times at this point and is therefore the 12th) is at his darkest here. The Tremas master would have assumed that the Doctor only gets 13 lives, so "somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation" would mean kinda a 12.5. Basically the Valeyard would have become the Doctor if he didn't see the error of his ways as "The Time Lord Victorious". However, since he came to his senses, the Valeyard never got a chance to properly manefest as a Watcher, and so traveled back in time along his timeline to try and become an earlier form of the Doctor (the 6th) by putting him on Trial.

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Sometimes the show doesn't stick the landing, but there are pleanty or awesome concepts they come up with in the ideas phase. I loved the idea of trial of a timelord. Haven't seen it yet, but I hear it struggled with the writers that year as the main writer passed away and others had to stick the landing. So a hard story to do justice over so many episodes.

Soooo, twelfth doctor regeneration was too quick that its like a pressure burst of energy that spawned as Valeyard

Ive always heard the valeyard in comment sections and never knew what it was until now thanks for the video

Welp you cracked the code 😂 looking like the final doctor bi generates the valeyard

Was the dream-Lord supposed to be an interation of the valeyard?

My head canon is that the events of Heaven Sent created the Valeyard. All those times Twelve spent dying would create a near limitless reserve of hate and anger -- what if something took all those bad feelings and personified them? Even if this isn't the case, Pantheon makes everything easier.

I believe the character of Roger Ap Gwilliam whom is linked with the Albion Party in Ncuti's first series will be a regenerated Valeyard due to him being in a new incarnation thanks to him taking over the Keeper of the Matrix.

in the audio books, Missy uses a rare type of forced regeneration. it's extremely painful and is the most dangerous type. she regenerated into an amalgamation of all good, (I believe she calls herself the Illuminate?) so it makes sense for the opposite to happen to the doctor at some point

It would be cool to see the Valeyard in the new series. It would be nice to see the dark side of the "Doctor" meet Ncuti's Doctor who as of right now seems very upbeat and happy only to confront his dark side.

My understanding is that the valeyard was created when the 11th doctor was given his new regeneration cycle by the time lords during The Time of the Doctor, as if you include the war doctor then the 11th doctor was the 12th incarnation of the doctor.

It’s like Star Trek where there were 2 Kirks: Good Kirk & Evil Kirk. Then add bigeneration & you have the Valeyard.

Jack's death is locked between being left behind by 9 and 10 watching Boe die in gridlock before Jack finds 10 again in Utopia. Bad wolf also causes the doctor to become a fixed event by allowing 11 to save Gallifrey creating the cracks in time leading 11 to Trenzalore, regenerating into 12. 12 convinced the first doctor to regenerate. Meaning 11 must save gallifrey to allow 1 to meet 12 to regenerate into 2, making the doctor a fixed point. This caused the Tardis to react by dropping 13 to earth as an immortal Time-lord with the ability to regenerate. - therefore imo Fugitive is the Future

Clearly, the valley yard is the most recent doctor.

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With the new Bigeneration that just happened, do you think that the 14th Doctor might become the Valeyard at some point?

Oddly I see the valeyard as an inverted Zagreus, that fragments of the doctor’s mind somehow merged with a more malevolent timelord. That the valeyard won, and with knowledge once known to the doctor he seeks immortality. Admittedly I don’t have that much to back it up but with the war Valeyard claiming that the part of him that is the doctor is more a mask or false-identity combined win what happened to Jackson lake. I see the idea as a real possibility. I don’t like the timeless child but endless regenerations is a good motive for an evil timelord who knows it to be real.

I find it a bit similar to the Warlord and the Master. Are they the same person? I'm also getting some Valeyard vibes with the upcoming specials and maybe the Ncuti doctor. The Tennent doctor shouldn't be there, it's like something has gone wrong.

Soooooooo, could he then be the other DavindTennant that went off with BilliePiper at the end of the PartingOfWays episode ? The one that was grown from the cut-off hand ?

My view is that the tenth doctor regenerates an extra time in Journeys End because the Valeyard is who he would have become otherwise.

4:55 sorry to come back to this so late... but could it link to the bigeneration?

If they were ever going to tell this particular story, it should have been in Matt Smith's era, when it would have made sense. But given that the show has basically wiped its arse on its own canon, I suppose they may as well.

I used to think he was the half human doctor that was sent to the other universe it grew old and it turned out to have at least one regeneration

I have managed to accept that Doctor was centuries Old. able to regenerate into new face and body, yet still retain past memories. Even turn up with Evil incarnation. But when he suddenly becames a She with no previous indication the Time Lords can do that, I am Sorry but totally confused now.

The problem with Doctor Who EU is that, the only portions that are accepted as canon are the adventures of the 8th Doctor, and the War Doctor (due to their lack of coverage, and references in the show). So even then things get a little wibbly wobbly

He's a future regeneration of Tennant's 14th split Doctor... Deep regrets as he walks of with Donna - And the inclusion of Mel both in The Giggle.. 😉👍

The Valeyard is an awesome villain who really must return asap

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soundtrack in your video is from the movie itself? i never watched Dr. Who, so idk

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I've been a fan of Doctor Who since I was very young. My earliest tv memories are of it. That's over 40 years of it. I think the Valeyard has something to do with Trenzalore. We see them visit where the Doctor dies as a tear in reality. What if when the Doctor changes his fate on Trenzalore, that tear healed and became the Valeyard? An odd theory but what did happen to that alternative Trenzalore? I think that was the birth of the Valeyard.

I know the Valeyard! That face I will not let come back again

He's what the watcher became.

"Somewhere between your 12th and final incarnation" So that's between 10 after Stolen Earth and Eleven, so slap bang in the middle of that whole "Time Lord Victorious" storyline.

Omg after watching the giggles this makes soooo much sense 🤯

Hmm, makes me think if the same thing could happen with The Master. Could he pull off a 'Meta-Crisis' move? The Master has also had countless forms and regenerations, so who knows what he's capable of!

Sounds a lot like bi-regeneration

Shadows and devils of impossible turns in the circle of regeneration any time lord doesn't know what they'll get in a regenerate form if stable that is? A climpering moment of transformation whichever is triggered by a near death event on a level of unknown outcomes if not stabled by the tiniest bit of mind control. Only thereafter, the time lord become a new personality, and depending on the status of the regeneration process, he or she is the same only in mind but not in body, or in some cases another factor could interrupt the regeneration process like a state of flux where a deep depression of something from a mental breakdown or a imbalance from a past injured memory that could trigger a string of corruption in regeneration this would break the circle of any regeneration into a second possible regeneration. Many different versions of one-time lord from a future event to there is a possibility of different doctors from different areas in time we see them as 15 regeneration but they live in their own timelines so if one of them say somehow regenerated to soon after a major change in his timeline could this be a case of becoming a different doctor or a single different version with a darker side to his or hers natural process? Valeyard 01 and with this version a second regeneration later on different timelines, but sometimes there's an odd one out here or there?

My 2 questions are who was the lady at the end of time, and why couldn't the doctor save Adric.

So seems kinda like the meta crisis doctor ?

Is this the same as what happened yesterday with the doc the bi regeneration .

He is the Doctor

The Valeyard is a nightmare.

The Bi-Generation opens up possibilities of the VALEYARD

The Valeyard is The Doctor's equivalent of "Onslaught"from X-Men, thr dark sides of Charles Xavier and Magneto merged.

4:54 With RTD’s new Dr. Who introducing bi-generation, I can infer than the Doctor’s last regeneration was either an accidental or forced bi-generation that created the Valeyard as well as his final incarnation.

I think the Valeyard is still yet to exist as I don't think the timeless child is the doctor I think it's obvious it's the Master and this being is the far future doctor who like many people when you get old you regret the wasted youth

The dream Lord is the valley yard

He's a Branch off from the doctor

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Osea que valeyard fue la primera encarnacion separada antes del 15.

Given the Doctor can remember his encounters with the Valeyard, he cant be his future self, as in a full future incarnation. He could be part of him though obviously

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I say at this point the we can pinpoint the creation of the vallyard with the episode journeys end when Donna sparked the to way meta crisis with herself and the doctor’s severed hand that got cut off in the Christmas invasion something not meant to happen and since then creation of john hurts new 9th regeneration in the 50th anniversary special due to not being able to get christopher eccleston back to play his doctor again it pushes back each regeneration where Christopher became the 10th regeneration and David became the 11th and 12th regenerations due to wasting the last time being able to regenerate on healing himself from being shot by a dalek and the meta crisis doctor acting darker in the episode does track with the valleyard and the doctor being willing to lock him away in a parallel universe with rose in fear of him would make sense with the valleyard and the parallel peat and Mickey being able to find a way back over here twice in is a safe bet thst at some point he found a way back here and got trapped here but having the tardis the doctor gave him he was able to go back in time and intergrade himself into timelord society cause of looking like a version of the doctor that hasn’t appeared yet in his regeneration cycle nobody suspected him to be created from the doctor’s severed hand cause the event hadn’t happened yet

It is possibe he may be the final incarnation of the doctor of a diff regeneration cycle. Excluding the timeless BS, the 14th is currently technically the 3rd incarnation of his new cycle

My view has been for over a decade now, The Valeyard is The Watcher of his final incarnation The Emperor. The path of the unavoidable darkness to come. That dark fate The Doctor is so desperately trying to avoid, but knows, it's the path he journeys towards. The End of his Greek Tragedy... Or at least it would be if it wasn't for the timeless child retcons & all that cringe.

can 'The One Who Waits' be the Valeyard?

I like mysteries, not everything should be explained

Okay what if the valeyard is associated with the pre first doctor what if he is in fact the product of the experimentation of the time lord that found the doctor at the reality gate you know if you seen flux we sent all the other versions of forced regenerations to learn the way for them to mimic what the doctor can do so they time lords don't just suffer permadeath and the watch and the valeyard both come into being then and they brought about the darkness that exists to become manifest into being long before the first doctor ever stole the tardis on the word of the impossible girl that the one he did steal was the better one we get to know

The Doctor's penis detached during 12's regeneration & grew into the Valeyard. Continuity solved.

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I think the recent Bi-Generation seals this as fact. The Doctor at some point bi-generates again and this one is a bad dude

Metacrisis Dr probably

why is the Valeyard had get to made for when DR who #6 had bet weed the watcher and others had be into life of his time life is odd and cool and seeing had his room when his stuff is and art too had be pics of past life his be too, like to had Tom and Jon and others too,