List of Doctor Who villains
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This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. For other, related lists, see below.
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
Helen A
Helen A, seen in The Happiness Patrol (1988), was ruler of a human colony on Terra Alpha. Outlawing unhappiness, she brutally controlled the population through executions conducted by the Happiness Patrol and Gilbert M's Kandy Man. Joseph C was her consort and she had a pet Stigorax, called Fifi. Joseph C escaped the city when the Pipe People revolted against Helen A's rule. Fifi was killed, crushed in the pipes below the city during the uprising. Helen A, unable to escape, only came to understand the Doctor's notion that happiness can only truly be appreciated when counter-balanced with sadness when she discovered Fifi's remains.
Abzorbaloff
| Doctor Who character | |
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| Abzorbaloff | |
| Affiliated with | None |
| Race | Unknown |
| Home planet | Clom (twin planet to Raxacoricofallapatorius) |
| Home era | 2007 |
| Appears in | "Love & Monsters" |
| Portrayed by | Peter Kay |
The Abzorbaloff is a monster designed by nine-year-old William Grantham of Colchester, Essex for a "Design a Doctor Who Monster" competition held by Blue Peter.
The competition was announced in July 2005, and received 43,920 entries. These were judged by Blue Peter editor Richard Marson, presenter Gethin Jones, Doctor Who producer Russell T Davies and Tenth Doctor David Tennant. The first prize for the competition was to have the monster appear in an episode of Doctor Who. Tennant announced the winner on Blue Peter on 17 August 2005. Conditions of the competition meant that the monster had to be able to be made from prosthetics and not require CGI.
Russell T. Davies revealed on the Doctor Who Confidential episode "New World of Who" that Grantham imagined the Abzorbaloff to be the size of a double-decker bus, so was initially disappointed to see the final size of his creation. However, Grantham's design had not included size specifications (though the remains of the monster's victims on and within his body hinted at his being huge) and a larger size would not have fit the criteria of the competition unless the monster were superimposed on footage later on a larger scale. Ultimately, CGI was used for some shots of the talking faces on the Abzorbaloff.
Appearing in the episode "Love & Monsters", the Abzorbaloff, played by Peter Kay, was a creature that absorbed other living beings into his body with a simple touch. In doing so, the Abzorbaloff made his victims part of himself, adding their memories and knowledge to his own. The victims retain their identity and consciousness for at least several weeks after absorption, during which time their faces can be seen embedded in his flesh, but eventually, those too are eliminated as they are fully absorbed. During this period, however, the absorption process works both ways - in becoming part of the Abzorbaloff, they are able to access his thoughts, just as he is able to access theirs. To restrain his absorption ability, the Abzorbaloff requires the use of a "limitation field", which limits absorption to physical contact. The Abzorbaloff hails from Clom, the sister planet to Raxacoricofallapatorius, homeworld of the criminal Slitheen clan. Despite a passing resemblance to them, the Abzorbaloff spoke of the Raxacoricofallapatorians with contempt.
Seeking to absorb the Doctor and his hundreds of years of experience, the Abzorbaloff adopted a human disguise as "Victor Kennedy", his limitation field generated by the ornate cane he wielded. Taking charge of "LINDA" (London Investigation 'N' Detective Agency), a small group of ordinary people who followed the exploits of the Doctor, the Abzorbaloff steadily absorbed their numbers one by one, until only Elton Pope remained. Pursuing Pope through the back streets of London, the Abzorbaloff was confronted by the Doctor, who stirred the absorbed victims to fight against the monster. Pulling the Abzorbaloff's body in different directions, the victims made him drop his cane, which Elton snapped in two, destroying the limitation field and causing the Abzorbaloff's absorption power to run out of control. His body collapsed into liquid and was itself absorbed by the Earth.
"Abzorbaloff" is not the actual name of the species, but was coined independently by Elton Pope and the Doctor. The monster
was seen to approve of the term, however. Other names thrown at him by the Doctor and Elton included "Abzorbatron",
"Abzorbaling", "Abzorbatrix" and "Abzorbaclon".
Father Angelo
Father Angelo, played by Ian Hanmore, was the leader of the ninja monks who captured the Torchwood Estate and gave
refuge to a werewolf, as seen in "Tooth and Claw" (2006). He sought to take the
throne from
Animus
| Doctor Who character | |
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| The Animus | |
| Affiliated with | None |
| Race | Unknown |
| Home planet | Unknown |
| Home era | Unknown |
| Appears in | The Web Planet |
| Portrayed by | Catherine Fleming (voice) |
The Animus was an alien intelligence from an unknown planet which landed on the planet Vortis. It could take over any living creature that was in contact with gold and had already taken control of the ant-like Zarbi when the Doctor and his companions arrived on Vortis in the serial The Web Planet. One of Vortis' surviving lifeforms, the Optera, referred to the Animus as "Pwodarauk". The Animus manifested itself within an organic, self-healing palace called the Carcinome.
At the end of the story, the Animus's true form was revealed, as resembling an octopus with some arachnid features. The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki help the Menoptra to destroy the Animus using the Menoptra's secret weapon, the Isop-tope. After that, it is assumed that natives of Vortis managed to resolve their differences peacefully.
The Animus has returned or been mentioned in several spin-off stories. In the
Missing Adventure Twilight of the Gods by Christopher Bulis, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria return to Vortis and encounter a seed of the Animus which had survived. The
New Adventure All-Consuming
Fire by Andy Lane identified the Animus with the Great Old One Lloigor from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Finally, an article by
Russell T. Davies in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 says that the "Greater Animus
perished" in the Time War, "and its Carsenome (sic) Walls fell into dust."
These references, like the rest of the spin-off media, are of unclear canonicity.
Azal
Azal was the Dæmon that terrorised Devil's End in the Third Doctor story The Dæmons. Summoned by the Master, Azal had a gargoyle, by the name of Bok, as a servant. Azal was defeated by the Doctor and Jo Grant.
B
Baltazar
Baltazar, Scourge of the Galaxy, is a space pirate in the animated Tenth Doctor serial, The Infinite Quest, featured as part of the second series of Totally Doctor Who in 2007, voiced by Anthony Head. Using enhanced rust, the Doctor destroyed the ship Baltazar had built, Baltazar having destroyed the entire Earth defence. With his space piracy, cybernetics, robot parrot, and desire to crush planets into precious gems, Baltazar bears a striking resemblance to The Captain. a character from the Fourth Doctor adventure, The Pirate Planet. In Episode One of The Infinite Quest, The Doctor tells Martha Jones Baltazar destroyed a planet in the 40th century. Also, Baltazar crafted the ship he travelled in, proudly telling the time travellers he built it over numerous decades. At the end of Episode One, Baltazar was meant to end up on a prison planet, The Doctor predicted. In Episode Two, Caw took the TARDIS to his homeworld, Pharos. Caw claimed Baltazar had ended up on a prison planet. He gave Martha Jones a medallion, and the Doctor part of a black box recorder, which the Doctor said would eventually lead them to "The Infinite", a mythical ship that was made in the "Dark Times", as the Doctor put it. But when the TARDIS left, it was revealed Baltazar was hiding behind the TARDIS. He had asked Caw to give the doctor a tracking device. He laughed, claiming they would find "The Infinite" for them.
Once he discovers The Infinite, he orders Martha to find the hold to find the treasure. After the Doctor rescues Martha, he discovers an illusion showing "what the Heart desires". The Doctor, meanwhile, uses his sonic screwdriver to tear the ship apart. He then orders Squawk to escort him to Volag-Noc where he is imprisioned.
The title "Scourge of the Galaxy" previously belonged to the Macra race before their devolution into beasts.
Beast
| Doctor Who universe character | |
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| The Beast | |
| Affiliated with | The Ood |
| Race | Demon |
| Home planet | Unknown |
| Home era | Before Time |
| First appearance | "The Impossible Planet" |
| Last appearance | "The Satan Pit" |
| Portrayed by | Gabriel Woolf (voice) |
The Beast was an ancient being that had been trapped for millions of years in a pit at the centre of the planet named in the Scriptures of the Faltino as Krop Tor, orbiting the black hole designated K37 Gem 5 by humans. The centre of the planet, ten miles down, had a powerful energy source which kept it in constant gravitational balance against the pull of the black hole. This counterweight extended out in a funnel into open space.
The Beast claimed that he was the basis of the Devil-figure in all religions and mythologies, and originated from before this universe's creation. He had been defeated and trapped beneath the planet by the "Disciples of Light", who had crafted his prison such that if he ever freed himself, the gravitational force would collapse and the planet would be pulled into the black hole, destroying them both.
The Beast was awakened when a human expeditionary force flew their ship through the funnel to land on the planet, hoping to excavate and claim the power source for their Empire. The Beast exhibited the ability to telepathically possess and speak through other beings, in particular the empathic Ood, who became his "Legion of the Beast". He was also able to divine the hidden fears and secrets of those with whom he spoke, unnerving them greatly.
He possessed Toby Zed, a human member of the expedition while leaving his own body, which resembled a horned demon, still chained in the Pit at the heart of Krop Tor. In this way he hoped to escape his prison. However, the Tenth Doctor smashed the power source containing the Beast's prison, causing Krop Tor to be dragged into the black hole and the Beast's original body to burst into flames. At the same time, while fleeing the planet in a rocket with the survivors of the expedition, Toby's possession manifested itself, angrily proclaiming that as long as he was feared, he could never be destroyed. However, Rose Tyler shot out the cockpit window with a bolt gun, causing the possessed Toby to be sucked into space towards the black hole.
The Beast claimed that he had many names, among them Abaddon and Satan. It is unknown whether they are the same. Gabriel Woolf, who provided the Beast's voice, played Sutekh the Destroyer in the 1975 serial Pyramids of Mars, an entity who was also said to have been named Satan.
In the Torchwood episode "End of Days" a similar giant creature named Abaddon is released from the Cardiff spacetime Rift and is referred to as the "son of the great Beast". The Torchwood website alludes to the Beast by asking "Were there other beings like Abaddon? Are they also entombed underneath planets across the universe?".[1]
Beep the Meep
Bennett
Black Guardian
Margaret Blaine
Bok
Bok was the gargoyle servant of Azal in the Third Doctor story The Dæmons. Made of stone, he was bulletproof. He was blown apart by a UNIT bazooka, but reformed moments later. He reverted to his statue form when Azal was defeated.
Borad
Borusa
BOSS
BOSS or Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor, voiced by John Dearth, (who was later in Doctor Who as Lupton in Planet of the Spiders (1974)), appeared in The Green Death (1973). BOSS was a supercomputer with a meglomaniac personality, able to brainwash humans, including Captain Mike Yates who later suffered a nervous breakdown because of this. It was responsible for producing the polluting chemicals that mutated maggots into Giant Maggots. BOSS planned to link up with all the other computers on Earth and enslave humanity. Stevens, a human brainwashed by BOSS, sacrificed himself when his mental programming was partially broken by the Third Doctor, blowing himself and the computer up as the Doctor escaped.
C
Taren Capel
The Captain
The Captain was a space pirate who appeared in the fourth Doctor episode The Pirate Planet. He was a cyborg, with half of his body covered in cybernetics, and had a pet robot parrot that rested on his shoulder. He was prone to ridiculous expletives like "by the beard of the sky demon!" and "moons of madness!", and was directly served by a nurse and a nervous little man named Mr Fibuli. The Captain piloted an entire planet called Zanak, which would materialize around other planets and crush them into precious gems. The Captain kept a trophy room of the super-compressed planets he had conquered. Toward the end of the episode, it was revealed that the Captain's nurse was actually a projection of a queen named Xanxia, who was controlling the Captain and using the energy created by the crushing of plundered planets to fuel a machine that perpetually kept her a few seconds from death.
Matron Casp
- See: Sisters of Plenitude
Lady Cassandra
Celestial Toymaker
Harrison Chase
| Doctor Who character | |
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| Harrison Chase | |
| Affiliated with | Krynoids |
| Race | Human |
| Home planet | Earth |
| Home era | 20th century |
| Appears in | The Seeds of Doom |
| Portrayed by | Tony Beckley |
Harrison Chase was an eccentric millionaire whose primary hobby was botany. He was a madman with a disdainful attitude toward human life, and favouritism over another form of life, in this case plant life.
Through his vast resources, Chase learned that the seed pods of a Krynoid, an intelligent form of alien plant life, had been found in Antarctica. A collector of rare specimens, Chase became obsessed with obtaining a sample, and successfully acquired one. He allowed the Krynoid to possess one of his henchmen, who began to mutate into a Human-Krynoid hybrid. As the monster grew in size and power, Chase too became possessed by the Krynoid.
Convinced of a future where Krynoids are the dominant life form on Earth, Chase aided the monster in earnest. By this time,
the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith were
trapped on Chase's property. Chase eventually captured Sarah and attempted to kill her by throwing her into a compost shredder.
The Doctor stopped him, and the two fought, until Chase fell into the shredder and perished.
Mavic Chen
Chief Caretaker
The Chief Caretaker, played by Richard Briers, featured in Paradise Towers (1987), served the intelligence Kroagnon, the Great Architect of Paradise Towers. He sanctioned the robotic Cleaners' killings, but lost control of the situation and was killed by Kroagnon for his body.
The Collector
| Doctor Who character | |
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| The Collector | |
| Race | Usurian |
| Home planet | Pluto, Usurius |
| Appears in | The Sun Makers |
| Portrayed by | Henry Woolf |
The Collector, played by Henry Woolf, as seen in The Sun Makers (1977) was the finance-obsessed Usurian overlord of the humans on Pluto. In his humanoid form, he was diminutive in stature, bald with bushy eyebrows and was wheelchair-bound. He spoke with a squeaky voice and was receptive to the praises of his underling Gatherer Hade. He reverted to his natural seaweed-like state in shock after he was trapped inside his wheelchair when the Doctor collapsed his economy amidst a revolution.
George Cranleigh
D
Dalek Sec
Dalek Caan
Davros
De Flores
De Flores was a Neo-Nazi, based in South America, who aimed to establish a Fourth Reich, aided by a powerful Time Lord weapon, known as the Nemesis, as seen in Silver Nemesis (1988). He led a group of paramilitary men against Lady Peinforte, a group of Cybermen and the Seventh Doctor, who all vied to control the Nemesis. He possessed the bow - part of the Nemesis as it was in its statue form - which he and his men reunited with the statue body when it fell to England in a comet in 1988. After allying himself with the Cybermen, De Flores was killed by the Cyber Leader when he outlived his usefulness to them.
Destroyer
| Doctor Who character | |
|---|---|
| The Destroyer | |
| Affiliated with | Morgaine |
| Race | Otherdimensional demon |
| Home planet | Unknown |
| Home era | Arthurian age |
| Appears in | Battlefield |
| Portrayed by | Marek Anton |
The Destroyer was an otherdimensional entity summoned by the sorceress Morgaine in Battlefield (1989) to aid her in defeating the Seventh Doctor. Known by many titles, including "Destroyer of Worlds", he was kept subdued by chains of pure silver, and even Morgaine hesitated in unleashing him on the world until he allowed the Doctor to gain the upper hand, thus forcing Morgaine to free him in a desperate attempt to avoid defeat.
At the time, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart had been called out of retirement to assist UNIT against Morgaine's invasion. Taking a box of silver bullets meant for combating werewolves from UNIT stores, he loaded a revolver with them. The Destroyer taunted the elderly Brigadier for being the best Earth could offer as its champion; the Brigadier's response was to fire the silver bullets into the demon. The building the Destroyer was in subsequently exploded in a burst of magical energy, and presumably the creature was destroyed with it.
The design for the Destroyer was based on theatrical devil's mask, modfied so that an actor could speak through it. The cloak
that covered its chainmail armour disguised the mechanical parts needed for the costume's special effects. Script writer
Ben Aaronovitch originally intended the Destroyer to start off as a businessman who
gradually became more demonic as he fell under Morgaine's spell, but this was time-consuming and expensive, so he stayed in one
form throughout.
E
Editor
| Doctor Who character | |
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| The Editor | |
| Affiliated with | Badwolf Corporation |
| Race | Human |
| Home era | 2001st century |
| Appears in | "The Long Game" |
| Portrayed by | Simon Pegg |
The Editor was the mysterious manager of the space station Satellite 5, an orbital news station around Earth broadcasting across the whole of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire of the year 200,000. The character was played by Simon Pegg.
Little is known about the Editor, except that he managed the operations of Satellite 5 from Floor 500, unseen and unknown to the rank-and-file journalists who packaged and broadcast the news over six hundred channels. He also monitored the thoughts of all those connected to the archives of the station via chips implanted into people's heads, which were required to access the computer systems of the 2001st century. Through these implants, the Editor was able to instantly know whatever the person connected knew, and was even able to sense when a record was fictional or not, or that there was something out of place with a particular individual before a security check confirmed it.
The Editor was a smooth and sinister individual in the mould of an evil genius, but was not the true controller of the station. He reported to the monstrous slug-like extraterrestrial known as the Jagrafess. The Editor claimed that he represented a consortium of interstellar banks whose intent was to subtly control the Empire by means of manipulating the news. In the ninety years since Satellite 5 had been established, the social, economic and technological development of the human race had been retarded, making them inward looking and xenophobic. When the Ninth Doctor investigated this, he and Rose were captured by the Editor.
Initially, the Editor was both intrigued and frustrated at the fact that records of their existence did not seem to exist in the archives. However, because the Doctor's new companion Adam had accessed the archives of the Satellite, the Editor acquired the knowledge that the Doctor was a Time Lord and had a TARDIS capable of time travel.
Before he could gain the Doctor's secrets or claim the TARDIS, however, a human journalist named Cathica (who had been following the Doctor's investigation) reversed the environmental controls of Floor 500 that had been kept at an icy temperature vital for keeping the Jagrafess alive. Overheating, the Jagrafess exploded, apparently taking the Editor with him.
In the episode "Bad Wolf", taking place on Satellite 5 a century after "The Long Game", it
was revealed that the Badwolf Corporation was behind the Jagrafess, and that his masters were the Daleks.
Eldrad
Empress of the Racnoss
The Empress of the Racnoss featured in "The Runaway Bride" (2006). She was killed when Mr Saxon ordered her ship to be shot down. Her appearance resembled that of a huge red spider. She was portrayed by Sarah Parish.
- See also: Racnoss
F
Family of Blood
| Doctor Who character | |
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  Top: Mother of Mine in gaseous form, about to possess Jenny. Bottom: (From Left to Right) The Family possessing: Mr. Clark, Baines, Lucy, and Jenny. |
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| The Family of Blood | |
| Affiliated with | Scarecrows |
| First appearance | "Human Nature" |
| Last appearance | "The Family of Blood" |
| Portrayed by | Gerard Horan Harry Lloyd Lauren Wilson Rebekah Staton |
The Family of Blood are a family who appear in the
Ultimately, when trying to gain the immortality of the Time Lords, they pursued the last Time Lord: the Tenth Doctor, who chose to alter his biodata to become a human schoolteacher in England, 1913 until their
lifespans expired. On Martha Jones's Myspace, it is mentioned that the Family first found the Doctor and Martha when they went to
see the 2007 Eurovision song contest. When he was finally tracked down in human form, the Family possessed the forms of four
humans; Mr. Clark, a farmer, Jeremy Baines, a school prefect, Lucy Cartwright, a small girl holding a balloon and Jenny, a maid
at the school. The original souls of the beings were killed, the original bodies only existing as vessels for the Family, and the
Family attacked first a village dance and then the school to claim the Doctor. The Family's starship was eventually destroyed by
the Doctor once his human persona was convinced to reassume his Time Lord configuration. It was learnt at this point why the
Doctor chose to run from the Family; not out of fear but rather as an act of mercy; something the Doctor had now run out of. Each
of the Family were trapped for all of time, an irony considering that they sought immortality. "Father of Mine" was tied up in
unbreakable chains forged from dwarf star metal, "Mother of Mine" was trapped on the event horizon of a black hole, "Son of Mine"
was frozen in time and dressed as a Scarecrow, left in the fields to watch over England as its protector, and "Sister of Mine"
was trapped inside every mirror and unable to leave, still able to be glimpsed fleetingly by humans. "Son of Mine" mentions that
the Doctor visits the sister once every year, and he wishes that the Doctor may forgive her in time.
Fendahl
| Doctor Who character | |
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 The Fendahl Core |
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| The Fendahl | |
| Affiliated with | None |
| Race | Fendahl |
| Home planet | The Fifth Planet |
| Home era | 12 million B.C. |
| First appearance | Image of the Fendahl |
| Portrayed by | Wanda Ventham - Fendahl Core |
The Fendahl was an entity that devoured life itself. It originated on the fifth planet of Earth's solar system, which the ancient Time Lords placed in a time loop in an attempt to imprison the creature. However, the Fendahl escaped and, in the form of a humanoid skull, was buried under volcanic rock on prehistoric Earth 12 million years ago. The story of the Fendahl passed into Time Lord myth, and was forgotten. The Fendahl's power, contained in a pentagram-shaped neural relay in the bones of the skull, affected life on Earth via a biotransmutation field, influencing life forms in its vicinity (including the early hominids) to develop into forms it could use.
In the late 20th century, the Fendahl skull was discovered in Kenya by a team of
The Fendahl was a gestalt creature with multiple aspects. Thea Ransome was transformed into the Fendahl Core, a humanoid female with golden skin and blank, staring eyes. Several of the cult members became slug-like creatures called Fendahleen. All the aspects of the Fendahl had powerful psychotelekinetic ability, and can control the muscles of human victims. The Fendahleen were vulnerable to sodium chloride, which altered the creatures' conductivity and destroyed their electrical balance.
In its final form, the Fendahl would consist of the Core and twelve Fendahleen; however, the Doctor was able to prevent the creature from reaching its full manifestation. He rigged Fendelman's time scanner to implode, destroying the Core and the Fendahleen. He also removed the skull, planning to drop it into a star about to go supernova.
The Fendahl has also appeared in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel
The Taking of Planet 5 by Simon
Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, as well as in the Kaldor City series of audio plays and the Time Hunter
novella Deus Le Volt by Jon de Burgh
Miller.
Fenric
| Doctor Who character | |
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| Fenric | |
| Affiliated with | None |
| Race | Creature from before the dawn of time |
| Home planet | None |
| Home era | Dawn of time |
| First appearance | The Curse of Fenric |
| Portrayed by | Dinsdale Landen (controlling Dr Judson) Tomek Bork (controlling Captain Sorin) |
Fenric was a being described by the Seventh Doctor as "evil from the dawn of time", a malevolent force that survived the clash of energies present at the birth of the universe. In an untelevised adventure, the Doctor had encountered Fenric and defeated him by challenging him to solve a chess puzzle. When Fenric proved unable to solve it, the Doctor then trapped the being in a flask for where he remained for several thousand years.
However, Fenric was still able to manipulate human minds and events through time and space. He set up pawns, bloodlines of families that were under his control and he could use, "The Curse of Fenric" stretching down through generations. These people were known as the "Wolves of Fenric", and their true purpose was unknown even to them. He also had the power to summon Haemovores, vampires which were to be the evolutionary destiny of mankind in a possible far future. The haemovores were strong enough to be able to weld metal with their bare hands, and were also immune to bullets. They could be countered, however, with a psychic barrier caused by faith.
Eventually, the flask was brought to a British Army base in Northumberland in 1942, where several Wolves, including the Doctor's companion Ace, were manipulated into freeing Fenric from his flask. He also summoned the Ancient One, the last of the Haemovores from the future, in an attempt to poison the world with a deadly chemical toxin. Fenric then revealed that he had manipulated the Seventh Doctor's life upon several occasions as part of his game, including creating the time storm that originally took Ace to Iceworld and influencing the Cybermen in their attempts to gain the power of the Nemesis statue. Eventually, the Doctor convinced the Ancient One to turn on Fenric; the Ancient One then destroyed Fenric and himself with the same toxin.
In Norse mythology, Fenric is another name for Fenrisulfr (more commonly known simply as "Fenris" or "the Fenris wolf"), the monstrous wolf that will devour Odin during Ragnarök.
The Virgin New Adventures novel All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane also equates Fenric with the
Cthulhu Mythos entity Hastur the Unspeakable. As with all
spin-off media, the canonicity of this is unclear.
Mr Finch
| Doctor Who character | |
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| Lucas Finch | |
| Affiliated with | none |
| Race | Krillitane |
| Home era | 2007 |
| Appears in | "School Reunion" |
| Portrayed by | Anthony Head |
Mr Finch was an alias for Brother Lassar, the leader of a group of Krillitanes. His first and only appearance to date was in the
The Krillitanes had taken human characteristics to infiltrate the Deffry Vale comprehensive school. Taking the position of headmaster, Finch gradually replaced the staff members with disguised Krillitanes and then enacted a series of reforms, including specialised programmes of study and free, but compulsory, school dinners. The dinners were laced with Krillitane oil, which was designed to enhance the intelligence of the pupils in a bid to use them to decode the Skasis Paradigm, which would give the Krillitanes control over the structure of reality. The Krillitanes could not use the oil themselves because their constantly changing morphology had rendered it toxic to their systems.
The Tenth Doctor and his current companions investigated the school, meeting his old
companions Sarah Jane Smith and K-9 Mark III.
Finch squared off against the Doctor, offering the use of the solved Paradigm and tempting him with the power, but Sarah's
urgings helped the Doctor to refuse. In the midst of escaping, K-9 sacrificed itself by using its laser to blow up the barrels of
Krillitane oil in the kitchen, showering most of the Krillitanes with it before the kitchen exploded, apparently killing them
all. Finch is seen to be unnaffected by the oil (since he had taken permanent human form) but it is unclear if the subsquent
kitchen explosion killed him or not.
Florence Finnegan
| Doctor Who character | |
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| Florence Finnegan | |
| Affiliated with | Slabs |
| Race | Plasmavore |
| Home planet | Unknown |
| Home era | Early 21st century |
| Appears in | "Smith and Jones" |
| Portrayed by | Anne Reid |
Florence Finnegan was the name assumed by the Plasmavore, played by Anne Reid, who was hiding from the Judoon in the Royal Hope Hospital in London when it was transported to the Moon in "Smith and Jones". To avoid detection by the Judoon, she sucked the blood out of Mr. Stoker (a consultant working in the hospital, and his name possibly a reference to Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula), allowing her to assimilate human DNA and register as human on the Judoon scanners. The Doctor later tricked her into sucking his blood, meaning that she registered as non-human, having assimilated non-human blood, when re-scanned by Martha Jones in front of the Judoon. Her attempt to fry the brains of those within the hospital and on the half of the Earth facing the Moon using a converted MRI machine, allowing her to escape in a Judoon ship, was foiled as the Judoon executed her for the murder of an alien princess and the Doctor deactivated the MRI machine.
In the Seventh Doctor serial The Curse of
Fenric, set in 1945, actress Anne Reid played another character, Nurse Crane, who fell victim to another race of
creatures who fed on blood, the Haemovores. Haemovore victims
would often go on to become Haemovores themselves. However, there is no suggestion on screen that Florence Finnegan is intended
to be Nurse Crane's later vampiric self.
G
Gavrok
Gavrok was leader of the Bannermen who attempted to wipe out the Chimeron race in Delta and the Bannermen (1987). After pursuing the Chimeron Queen, Delta, to Earth in 1959, he was killed falling into his own booby-trap set around the TARDIS when he was overcome by a high-pitched scream produced by Delta's child, the Chimeron Princess, amplified by a PA system.
Sabalom Glitz
Gods of Ragnarok
| Doctor Who character | |
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| Gods of Ragnarok | |
| Affiliated with | Robot Clowns |
| Race | Omnipotent interdimensional beings |
| Home planet | Ragnarok |
| Appears in | The Greatest Show in the Galaxy |
| Portrayed by | David Ashford, Janet Hargreaves, Kathryn Ludlow |
The three Gods of Ragnarok appeared in the 1988 story, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy by Stephen Wyatt. They possess the ability to exist in multiple times and dimensions simultaneously: in the story, they appeared in both the Psychic Circus as a family consisting of a mother, a father and their young daughter and at the same time in their temple-like Dark Circus as a trio of statue-like beings. It is not known which, if any, are their true forms.
They seem to have a need to be entertained, using lesser beings for sport and allowing them to live as long as they continue to be amused. They are defeated when the Seventh Doctor uses a medallion to reflect the Gods' destructive energy back at them, destroying them and their Dark Circus.
The Virgin New Adventures novel Conundrum by Steve Lyons reveals that the Gods
of Ragnarok created the Land of Fiction. Like all Doctor Who spin-offs, the canonicity of this is unclear.
(The Gods also display some similarity with the Osirian race of Sutekh, including the use of Eye of
Horus symbol.)
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Magnus Greel
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| Magnus Greel | |
| Affiliated with | Tong of the Black Scorpion (as Weng-Chiang) |
| Race | Human |
| Home planet | Earth |
| Home era | 51st Century |
| Appears in | The Talons of Weng-Chiang |
| Portrayed by | Michael Spice |
Magnus Greel is the former Minister of Justice of the 51st century Supreme Alliance, responsible for the deaths of 100,000 enemies of the state, earning him the epithet "the Butcher of Brisbane". He appears in the 1977 serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
After the Filipino Army defeats the Supreme Alliance at the battle of Reykjavik, Greel flees to 19th century China by means of a time cabinet which utilises zygma beam technology, taking The Peking Homunculus with him. There he is given shelter by a peasant, Li H'sen Chang, who believes Greel to be the god Weng-Chiang. However, the zygma beam has disrupted Greel's DNA, hideously deforming him and requiring him to draw the life essence from others in order to live.
The time cabinet is captured by Imperial soldiers and passed on to an Englishman as a gift, neither of whom knows its true nature. Seeking to recover the cabinet and reverse his condition, Greel and Li pursue it to London, where Li poses as a stage magician. There, they enlist the Tong of the Black Scorpion to obtain victims for Greel's organic distillation chamber, which extracts their essences for him to feed on.
Greel's plans are opposed by the Fourth Doctor, who warns him that using the zygma beam will cause an implosion that will kill thousands. In a battle with the Doctor in which the Peking Homunculus goes beserk and turns on his master, Greel dies from total cellular collapse after being pushed into the distillation chamber.
Other consequences of Greel's time travel are explored in the spin-off
Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Shadow of Weng-Chiang by David A. McIntee,
in which the Doctor again encounters the Tong of the Black Scorpion. Greel is also mentioned in Simon A. Forward's Eighth Doctor Adventures novel
Emotional Chemistry, which is partly set in the 51st century.
Count Grendel
| Doctor Who character | |
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 Count Grendel of Gracht |
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| Count Grendel | |
| Affiliated with | Knights of Tara |
| Race | Human (Taran) |
| Home planet | Tara |
| Home era | Unspecified |
| Appears in | The Androids of Tara |
| Portrayed by | Peter Jeffrey |
Count Grendel of Gracht was a Knight of the nobility of the planet Tara and the Lord of Castle Gracht, his sole on-screen appearance was in the Fourth Doctor serial, The Androids of Tara, part of the Season 16 quest for the Key to Time. The character was played by Peter Jeffrey.
While searching for the fourth segment of the Key, Romana discovered that it was disguised as the head of a statue representing the family crest of Grendel's family. After Romana transformed it into its actual crystalline form, the segment was confiscated by Grendel. Grendel did not know of the segment's true nature; his real intent was to use Romana (who resembled the Princess Strella) in a complex plot to seize the throne of Tara from Prince Reynart.
His plans were ultimately defeated by the Doctor. Although Grendel was considered the finest swordsman on Tara, the Doctor managed to duel him to a standstill, and he made his escape by leaping into the moat of Castle Gracht and swimming away.
A cultured and charming villain, Gracht used his breeding to cover a ruthless and cunning personality. He used and discarded
people as easily as he would persuade them to do his bidding, and somehow always managed to live to scheme another day. He also
appeared in the spin-off short story The Trials of Tara by Paul Cornell, where another attempt to seize the throne of Tara with the help of the salvaged remains of
the Kandy Man was foiled by the Seventh Doctor and
Benny.
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Yvonne Hartman
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| Yvonne Hartman | |
| Affiliated with | Torchwood Institute Jack Harkness |
| Race | Human, later Cyberman |
| Home planet | Earth |
| Home era | Early 21st century |
| First appearance | "Army of Ghosts" |
| Last appearance | "Doomsday" |
| Portrayed by | Tracy-Ann Oberman |
Yvonne Hartman portrayed by Tracy-Ann Oberman in "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday" was the director of Torchwood One, the London branch of the Torchwood Institute founded by Queen Victoria, located in Canary Wharf. Whilst not a villain herself, she acted in the role of an antagonist, interfering with the Doctor's plans to stop what she was doing: widening the tear between her own world and that of an alternate Earth's, unknowingly helping to release a number of Cybermen into the world. When the TARDIS materialised within Torchwood HQ, she placed the Doctor as her prisoner and confiscated his TARDIS, although he was treated with much respect - as a guest, as the institute had much to learn from him. At the height of the war between the Daleks and Cybermen, she herself was cyber-converted, but the process was seemingly faulty as she turned on her fellow Cybermen, defending the Torchwood Tower "for Queen and country".
A report on the Torchwood Institute website about a motionless Cyberman by some stairs killed by Torchwood security personnel suggests she may have been killed.[2] The website also states that Hartman regularly collaborated with Jack Harkness and the other members of Torchwood Three.
The two-episode story-arc in which she appears was loosely based on His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. As such Yvonne's characters is similar to Marissa Coulter although considerably less villainous.
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Jagrafess
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 The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe |
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| Jagrafess | |
| Affiliated with | Satellite 5 |
| Race | Jagrafess |
| Home planet | Jagrafessfold Breeding Grounds |
| Home era | 2001st century |
| Appears in | "The Long Game" |
The Jagrafess, or, to give its full title, The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe (AKA Max) was a gigantic, gelatinous creature similar to a slug in shape. Its exact origins are not known, but it was sentient and able to communicate in a series of growls and screeches. It had a life span of about 3000 years, with sharp, vicious teeth and several vestigial eyes. Its metabolic rate, however, meant that it had to be kept at low temperatures to survive. Its first and only appearance to date was in the episode "The Long Game".
The Jagrafess was the supervisor of the mysterious and sinister Editor on board Satellite 5, a space station that broadcast news across the whole of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire of the year 200,000. The Editor (who called the Jagrafess "Max" for short) claimed that the Jagrafess had been placed with Satellite 5 some ninety years before by a consortium of interstellar banks. The intent was to use the news broadcasts to subtly manipulate the Empire, retarding its social, economic and technological growth and turning it more inward looking and xenophobic. Control was enhanced by the use of computer chips, installed in every human brain; chips that allowed the users to access the computer systems of the 2001st century, but at the same time allowed the Jagrafess and its cohorts to monitor people's thoughts. In this way, the human race was reduced to slavery without them even realising it.
The environmental systems of Satellite 5 had been configured to vent all heat away from Floor 500, keeping it cold enough for the Jagrafess to survive, attached to the ceiling of the main control room. When the Ninth Doctor, Rose and Adam arrived on board, the Doctor recognised that human development had been deliberately obstructed and began to investigate. Ultimately captured by the Editor and about to be killed by the Jagrafess, the Doctor and Rose were saved by the actions of Cathica, a human journalist, who reversed the environmental systems. The Jagrafess overheated, bloated up and exploded, apparently ending its threat and the scheme to hold back the human race.
In the episode "Bad Wolf", taking place on Satellite 5 a century after "The Long Game", it was revealed that the Badwolf Corporation was behind the Jagrafess, and that its masters were the Daleks.
The Jagrafess was designed and created by Jean-Claude Deguara, a middle-aged freelance animator from Croydon.[citation needed]
Sharaz Jek
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| Sharaz Jek | |
| Affiliated with | None |
| Race | Human |
| Home planet | Androzani Major |
| Home era | Unspecified |
| Appears in | The Caves of Androzani |
| Portrayed by | Christopher Gable |
Sharaz Jek was a genius robotocist and partner of businessman Trau Morgus. Together they planned to harvest the rare Spectrox drug on the planet Androzani Minor using androids built by Jek. Morgus, however, "cheaped out" on Jek, supplying him with substandard equipment and Jek was caught in a mud burst on Minor. He was only able to survive by locking himself in a Spectrox baking oven, leaving him hideously disfigured. Jek thereafter bore a pathological hatred for Morgus, believing (quite possibly correctly) that Morgus had provided the faulty equipment deliberately.
When the Doctor and Peri landed on Androzani Minor, they soon became entangled in a three way struggle between Jek's androids, drug runners and Androzani Major troops. Jek found Peri beautiful and coveted her strongly. When the Doctor and Peri were to be executed by the Major troops, Jek replaced them with realistic androids, and later cared for Peri while the Doctor tried to get an antidote for the disease that the two of them had accidentally contracted.
When Morgus and the leader of the drug runners, Stotz, arrived at Jek's base, Jek attacked Morgus and killed him, but was
himself shot by Stotz. He died in the arms of his Salateen replica robot.
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Kane
Kane, seen in Dragonfire (1987), one-half of the Xana-Kane criminal gang of the planet Proamon, was exiled after capture by security forces to the cold, dark side of Svartos, where he became ruler of the space trading colony Iceworld. His body temperature was so cold that one touch from him could kill and in order to cool down, he lay in a cryogenic chamber. He branded his employees with his mark iced into their skin and had an ice sculpture of his partner, Xana, made. After creating a cryogenic army, massacring most of Iceworld's populace and having the dragon that was guarding him slain, Kane released Iceworld from Svartos' surface as a spacecraft, setting a course for Proamon to exact his revenge for his exile and imprisonment. When it transpired that, during the millenia that he had been a prisoner, Proamon had been destroyed, Kane, now in a state of desperation, committed suicide by opening a screen and letting light rays in that melted him.
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Kroagnon
Kroagnon, or The Great Architect, (featured in Paradise Towers (1987)), was the designer of Paradise Towers and Miracle City. He took an aversion to people occupying his buildings for fear of them ruining them and hence rigged devices to kill them off. He existed as a disembodied intelligence stored in a tank in the basement of Paradise Towers, feeding off those he had killed, before killing and taking the body of the Chief Caretaker, in which he is killed by Pex when dragged into a trap.
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Professor Richard Lazarus
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| Lazarus | |
| Affiliated with | Mr Saxon |
| Race | Human later mutant human |
| Home planet | Earth |
| Home era | 21st century |
| Appears in | "The Lazarus Experiment" |
| Portrayed by | Mark Gatiss |
Professor Richard Lazarus, played by Mark Gatiss in "The Lazarus Experiment" (2007), is a 76 year old human scientist whose research concerns the use of sonic technology to enable rejuvenation. His work is funded by the enigmatic Harold Saxon. He is obsessed with ensuring his immortality, despite the risks being taken or any potential losses in terms of human life.
After a malfunction at the first public demonstration of his process, he appears to be young once more. However, the experiment mutates his DNA, activating long dormant characteristics within his genes. He undergoes repeated transformations into a large, insectoid creature, which needs to steal the life energy from other beings in order to revert to a youthful, human form, killing them in the process. His first victim is his partner, Lady Thaw. He attempts to make Martha Jones's sister, Tish, his next victim, but she is saved by Martha and the Doctor.
After going on a rampage, Lazarus is seemingly killed by the machine which effected his transformation, which has been modified by the Doctor. However, he recovers in the ambulance called to remove his body, whereupon he feeds on the medics before seeking sanctuary at