Why no alternate Doctors?

[The Wormhole]

That makes no sense. Given that the Timelords have been shaping history since the dawn of time, if they didn't exist everything would be completely unrecognizable.

Well, clearly RTD felt otherwise.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Maybe its just the one Gallifrey altering events across the multiverse?

 

[The Wormhole]

Well, the Doctor did say in Rise of the Cybermen that travel between universes used to be a thing back when the Time Lords were around.

 

[Solariabsg25]

That's been the suggestion (and the often-seen posters were him), but there's no on-screen evidence to support that. I don't remember if that was a musing from writer Don Houghton, script editor Terrance Dicks, or Barry Letts, or if it was just fan speculation.

Haven't dug the DVD out for a while, but I did think it was mentioned in the extras for Inferno that The Doctor was indeed the Leader. Given the fact that Alternative Liz, Benton and the Brig never recognised him, it's possible it was another incarnation (assuming the regenerations would have been the same).

As already said, those Daleks weren't from the alternate universe. Indeed, when "Pete's World" was first introduced earlier in the Cybermen story, RTD addressed fan questions about the existence of Time Lords or a Doctor native to that universe, and RTD stated that the Time Lords are unique to our universe and there aren't any in other universes, by extension, no alternate Doctors.

Granted, RTD's not in charge anymore, and it remains to be seen what Chibnall's views on this matter are, but considering in over fifty years the closest thing to an alternate Doctor is what some sources say about the Dictator in Inferno, and even that's been debunked in the recent Lethbridge-Stewart novel series, I don't think there's any desire to bring in Doctor(s) or Time Lords from any alternate realities.

Indeed the Time Lords could well exist in the alternative universe, but there's nothing to say that The Doctor would ever be encountered. The Universe is a big place, and assuming The Doctor ever fled Gallifrey at all, there's always the possibility that he landed on, and gained an affection for, another race out there in the cosmos. However, the catalyst that led to the formation of Torchwood in our universe was The Doctor, and Pete's World did have their own version, so who knows?

 

[Lonemagpie]

Haven't dug the DVD out for a while, but I did think it was mentioned in the extras for Inferno that The Doctor was indeed the Leader.

It's mentioned that the NA Revelation says the Leader's face was one offered to the Doctor at his trial, and therefore he was the mirror-Doctor. However, the photo of Jack Kine used as the Leader looks nothing like any of the ink drawings shown in The War Games, so clearly the Doctor was delusional when he thought that.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

It's mentioned that the NA Revelation says the Leader's face was one offered to the Doctor at his trial, and therefore he was the mirror-Doctor. However, the photo of Jack Kine used as the Leader looks nothing like any of the ink drawings shown in The War Games, so clearly the Doctor was delusional when he thought that.

That's hardly conclusive. Perhaps in the Inferno universe, The Doctor regeneration by different means, or simply had a different selection of faces to chose from.

 

[Lonemagpie]

That's hardly conclusive. Perhaps in the Inferno universe, The Doctor regeneration by different means, or simply had a different selection of faces to chose from.

Well, it's our universe's Doctor, so if the Infernoverse's one was dealt with differently or was offered a different set, he wouldn't recognise the face from this universe's set...