Character
The Twelfth Doctor
The Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who (2005), played by Peter Capaldi.
He arrives brusque and bewildered, unsure of his own face, asking Clara whether he's a good man rather than assuming it. Older, sharper-tongued than his predecessor, he has no patience for social niceties, wields a guitar and sunglasses like armour, and treats kindness as something to be worked out rather than felt.
Capaldi plays the alien strangeness first and the warmth second, so every scrap of tenderness feels earned rather than given. The scripts let him be genuinely rude, genuinely unsure, genuinely funny in a caustic register no era had tried before, and he commits to all three without softening the edges for likability.
Exploiting his vast intelligence and experiences without a fear of hiding his age, he could be difficult to deal with when there was work to be done, but remained capable of incredible compassion towards even the least likely of folk, determined to save anyone he could if it was an option, while not wasting time trying to save someone who was doomed beyond salvation.
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Doctor Who2005