10 Doctor Who Characters You Didn't Realise Probably Died Horrible Deaths

10. The Corsair

The Corsair dying offscreen is one of the driving incidents in The Doctor’s Wife, but most people probably don't appreciate just how grim this Time Lord’s death is implied to be.

At some point before The Doctor’s Wife begins, the Corsair is lured into a bubble universe by House, where they are killed and their body is used as spare parts to repair Auntie and Uncle.

Now, an issue with this otherwise straightforward plan is that the Corsair is a Time Lord, and so their body regenerates when it’s damaged. And with expanded media indicating that it was only the Ninth Corsair that was killed by House, it's not even like they were on their final life.

So what exactly do you have to do to a Time Lord to kill them and remove certain body parts without triggering the explosive regeneration process at any point?

It’s worth remembering that the Tenth Doctor had his hand chopped off in The Christmas Invasion while he was still alive and it grew back pretty much straight away, but only because he was still within the first few hours of his regeneration, which wouldn't have been an option for the Corsair.

In other words the poor bloke must've been absolutely butchered, and it makes you wonder just how many tiny pieces he was carved into.