It is teased at in Hell Bent.
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If it was teased (which I don't remember at all), it was probably to try to tease the "Hybrid" thing, before it was revealed what that actually was (which I'll stay vague about because of spoilers, but it wasn't The Doctor being half-human).
I've long considered Cushing to be the First Doctor from the Age of Steel parallel universe. Something had obviously happened to him before his tenth regeneration. I could kind of fit The Stranger stories into this too.
The 'hand' regenerated Doctor fills the gap nicely. I wonder if he grew a Tardis, or maybe found Cushing's ?
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Yeah, that doesn't confirm anything. Its like I said, that is just a little bit of Hybrid teasing, before we got the actual (very stupid) explanation for the Hybrid. Its far from even a mild hint. If Moffat actually wanted to make The Doctor half human, he would have done it. His main goal in the Capaldi era seems to be to show how The Doctor's whole life revolves around Moffat's stories and creations, even the lives The Doctor had before Moffat was around. i'm sure a half human Doctor would have gotten a series of teasing, then (knowing Moffat) the reveal that The Doctor's human mother was a Clara splinter.
You know Cushing could very well be a future Doctor, trapped to "play" a version of himself in an endless loop of revisioned plays of his past, in a trap set by the Toymaker.
Wouldn't that have been a neat "twist"? That an entire incarnation was wasted on him being set in a trap by one of his more obscure villains?
Wouldn't that have been a neat "twist"? That an entire incarnation was wasted on him being set in a trap by one of his more obscure villains?
Also, it doesn't help that, at the end of the end, the whole business with the Hybrid was both nonsensical and stupid beyond belief. If they didn't fear it, whatever the hell it is, coming for the Time Lords during the Time War, why would they worry about it after they'd been brought back miraculously after Day?
Furthermore, the Time Lords have a far more tangible threat to be scared of, such as the little thing of most of the universe's spacefaring races hating them and wanting to wipe them out. One would think this would be a higher-priority than an abstract concept that none of them even fully understand.
- "This "thing" is hunting us down!"
- "What about the Daleks and/or Cybermen?"
- "No time! We have to worry about this "thing" that we don't understand and not even sure its even real."
Then the First Doctor barges in, and adds "Well, I certainly didn't leave Gallifrey for THAT," before the rest of the Doctor sans 12 barge in and nod profusely.
I've never bought that idea-Peter Cushing looked identical to David Tennant when he was in his mid 30s?
Just as much as Robert de Niro looked likes a young Marlon Brando. 
