Doctor Who: The Time Lords May Not Be Wiped Out After All
This article contains spoilers for Doctor Who: Origins #2.
Doctor Who has hinted the Time Lords may not have been wiped out after all. The Time Lords of Gallifrey considered themselves the most advanced race in the universe. They only ever took action when they believed their own interests were threatened — as in the classic Doctor Who episode Genesis of the Daleks, where they sent the Doctor back to ancient Skaro in an attempt to prevent the creation of the Daleks.
The Doctor chose to spare the Daleks, clinging on to hope that even the evil of the Daleks would ultimately lead to something good. Tragically, his optimism was proven to be naivete; the Time Lords had correctly predicted a day when the Daleks would threaten even Gallifrey, and all creation wound up caught in a cataclysmic Time War. Gallifrey vanished, banished to another dimension by the Doctor, and — as seen in Doctor Who season 11 — it was ultimately destroyed by the Master.
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Doctor Who: Origins #2, by Jodie Houser, Roberta Ingranata, and Warnia K. Sahadewa, reveals the Time Lords may not be gone after all. Solicits have suggested the comic will finally explain why Jo Martin's forgotten Doctor became a fugitive from her own race, and the second issue sees her brought face-to-face with a secret the Time Lords have hidden from the galaxy. She visits a Time Lord colony on the planet Kreb, where the Doctor learns another secret of Time Lord regeneration; that Time Lord regenerations serve to accelerate evolution, with each incarnation evolving to suit the environment they are in. This means every Time Lord colony will swiftly evolve in a different direction, essentially becoming a
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