No he isnt. Not even slightly. This bit of nonsense was written into the 1996 television movie starring Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor: presumably producers believed that making this weird, dandified alien half-human would render him more relatable and less eccentric for that all-important US audience. The same rationale was brought to bear in Marvel Comics for the daywalking vampire hunter Blade, and Star Trek did it over and over again Deanna Troi is half-Betazoid, half human, Spocks mother is human, BElanna Torres is half Klingon. Even Worf was raised by humans from an early age you know, to take some of the edge off of all that foreign. Ever since the 1996 movie, the Doctor Who extended universe of books, audio plays, comics etc has been trying to explain this tidbit of information. Eventually, someone simply elected to handwave the snafu out of existence, by having the 8th Doctor airily claim to have faked the whole thing. Yet youll still find the occasional Who fan determinedly insisting that anything in the TV shows continuity must be canon and that the Doctor must therefore be half human. However, it seems naïve to take that position given that the TV shows alone contradict each other over and over again, and given that the Doctor himself has admitted to having lied about his past on occasion when its more interesting that way Every Doctor Who fan has their own pet peeves: ideas that they think were rubbish from the very beginning. What are yours? Let us know in the comments!
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