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Fan gives 'Doctor Who' the strangest regeneration yet

YouTube user Dave Clipson used a fairly intricate process to blend the faces of all 13 Doctors together to create the average face. The result is a little creepy.

Anthony Domanico
CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is passionate about all kinds of gadgets and apps. When not making words for the Internet, he can be found watching Star Wars or "Doctor Who" for like the zillionth time. His other car is a Tardis.
Anthony Domanico

What do you get when you take the faces of every actor who has played The Doctor from the BBC's long-running series "Doctor Who" and mashed them together to create one super-Doctor? That's the question YouTube user Dave Clipson set out to answer, and he's released a video that definitively shows the average face of the first 13 Doctors.

To accomplish such a feat, Clipson used complicated algorithms to create an average face of the '60s-'90s Doctor, and one for the modern Doctor (including the "War Doctor" introduced in the "The Day of the Doctor" episode). Then, he mashed those two together in such a way that the resulting composite image was exactly one-thirteenth of each Doctor who has played the role. And, as you might expect, the resulting image of the Doctor is a little creepy and in desperate need of a haircut.

Fortunately, such a man doesn't (hopefully) exist, and we'll soon see a much more normal-looking Peter Capaldi doing the awkward dad dance as the Twelfth (or Thirteenth) Doctor in Season 8 of "Doctor Who," which airs on the BBC beginning August 23 in the US and UK.

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This is what the Average Doctor looks like. Video screenshot by Anthony Domanico/CNET

(Via Laughing Squid)