List of Doctor Who villains

This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. For other, related lists, see below.

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Template:Doctorwhocharacter The Animus was an alien intelligence from an unknown planet which landed on the planet Vortis. It could take over any living creature which 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.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Axos is a parasitic organism featured in the Third Doctor story The Claws of Axos by Bob Baker and Dave Martin in 1971. Axos itself is one vast living organism able to change its appearance and divide into separate beings. It is composed of Axonite, a thinking molecule with powers of transmutation which can manipulate matter and increase mass. One of its manifestations was as golden-skinned humanoids, the guise used when visiting Earth. Indeed, Axonite could replicate beings in precise detail if such an approach was required. In reality, Axon humanoid appearance was closer to unshaped Axonite, displaying tentacles and an “unfinished” look, and which could kill on contact.

Axos was a space scavenger which moved between planets in search of energy sources. Its slug-like organic spacecraft was a part of the total organism. When Axos arrived on Earth the golden-skinned version of the Axons claimed they were the sole survivors of a world drained of energy by solar flares. They offered the humans Axonite as a means to boost food supply, hoping it would be passed around the world.

Axos's plan was to spread Axonite internationally, after which it would awaken from its dormant state to one of active energy absorption, draining the Earth of its energy like a "Vampire from Space" (the original title of the serial).

Axos wanted to gain the secret of time travel from the Doctor, to increase the range and number of potential feeding sources. The Doctor deceived Axos, offering to take it to Gallifrey, home planet of the Time Lords. He then placed Axos in a time loop, trapping it in the same point of space and time for eternity.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Maurice Caven was the ruthless mastermind of The Space Pirates, the eponymous villains of the 1969 Second Doctor story by Robert Holmes. He made a successful living through piracy, theft and extortion and drew the attention of the Earth Space Corps for a series of daring and successful raids against Space Beacons. Caven and his crew blew up the Beacons from their Beta Dart spaceship; and.they then engineered the navigation of the component parts to their secret base where the sections were stripped for precious argonite. To protect this precious trade he killed many Space Corps personnel.

Caven’s racket was run from the planet Ta, which also included the headquarters of the Issigri Mining Corporation. Some years before his piracy venture he established a base there by kidnapping Dom Issigri, the head of the Corporation, and indicating he had been killed. This action drove a wedge between Dom’s old partner, Milo Clancey, and his daughter, Madeleine Issigri, whom Caven then inveigled into his plans and used her legitimate operation as a cover for her illegitimate ones. When Madeleine tried to back out of their deal, the pirate revealed her father was alive, but would only remain so while she remained compliant to his plans.

Clancey and the Doctor helped expose Caven’s schemes and location to the Earth Space Corps, who sent a V-Ship to Ta to investigate. With power slipping away, Caven set up an elaborate scheme to blow up Ta’s atomic fuel stores unless he was given safe passage to escape. The Doctor defused the bombs while Space Corps’ Major Ian Warne fired the missiles that blew up the pirate’s Beta Dart and killed Caven and his sidekick Dervish.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Harrison Chase was an eccentric millionaire whose primary hobby was botany. He was in many ways similar to James Bond villain Karl Stromberg; 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. As a collector of rare specimens, Chase became obsessed with obtaining them, and managed to successfully acquire 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 had become 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.

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Template:Doctorwhocharacter 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.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter 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 anthropologists under the leadership of one Dr. Fendelman. Fendelman brought the skull to an English research facility at Fetch Priory, near the village of Fetchborough. The Priory was built on a time fissure, causing psychic ability in some nearby residents. In the Priory, Fendelman and his fellow researchers Thea Ransome, Adam Colby and Maximillian Stael performed experiments on the skull, attempting to unlock its secrets. Fendelman used a crude time scanner to examine the skull, a dangerous activity which drew the attention of the Fourth Doctor. Stael attempted to capture the power of the Fendahl for himself by means of black magic rituals, performed with the aid of a local coven, but he, Fendelman and Ransome were all being used by the Fendahl to recreate itself.

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.

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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, 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.

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Mr Finch was an alias for Brother Lassa, the leader of a group of Krillitanes. His first and only appearance to date was in the 2006 series episode School Reunion (Doctor Who), where he was portrayed by Anthony Head. His first name of "Lucas" is given on the Deffry Vale School website. According to an on-line interview with Head, Finch's original name in the script was "Hector", but this had to be changed when a check found a real headmaster named "Hector Finch".

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.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter 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 either, 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.)

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Magnus Greel was Minister of Justice (probably for the Supreme Alliance) in the 51st century, responsible for the deaths of 100,000 enemies of the state and earning himself the nickname of the Butcher of Brisbane. He also almost started War World VI when he used the Peking Homunculus to murder the Comissioner of the Icelandic Alliance. His first and only appearance was in the 1977 serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

Eventually the Filipino Army defeated the Supreme Alliance at the battle of Reykjavik. Fleeing from prosecution to the 19th century, Greel used a time cabinet created by his scientists based on zygma beam technology to flee into the past. However, the zygma beam disrupted his DNA, making him hideously deformed and needing to draw the life essence from others to maintain his damaged genetic structure. He was given shelter by a Chinese peasant, Li H'sen Chang, who mistook Greel for the god Weng-Chiang.

The time cabinet was captured by Imperial soldiers and passed on to an Englishman as a gift, neither of whom guessed its true nature. Seeking to recover the cabinet and reverse his condition, Greel and Li pursued it to London, where Li posed as a stage magician. There, they enlisted the Tong of the Black Scorpion to obtain victims for Greel's organic distillation chamber, which extracted their essences for him to feed on.

Greel's plans were opposed by the Fourth Doctor, who warned him that using the cabinet again would cause an implosion that would kill thousands. In a battle with the Doctor, Greel fell into his own distilation chamber and perished.

Although Greel was dead, the Doctor met the Tong of the Black Scorpion again and dealt with other consequences of Greel's time travel in the spin-off Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Shadow of Weng-Chiang by David A. McIntee. Greel is mentioned in Simon A. Forward's Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Emotional Chemistry, which is partly set in the 51st century

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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 Kandy Man was foiled by the Seventh Doctor and Benny.

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Solicitor Grey featured in the 1966 Second Doctor story The Highlanders by Elwyn Jones and Gerry Davis. He was the English Royal Commissioner of Prisons after the Battle of Culloden in 1746. He and an unscrupulous sea captain called Trask, master of “The Annabelle”, embarked on a scheme to enslave any able bodied highlanders who survived and were imprisoned in Inverness jail and ship them to the colonies to work as slaves. To protect the scheme with a veneer of legality, Grey convinced many of the prisoners to sign papers after they were led to believe seven years indentured labour (a lie) was better than the gallows. In reality their labour would not be time-limited.

The Doctor outwitted and duped Grey and his incompetent clerk Perkins on several occasions, and the crooked solicitor’s scheme came to naught when the highlanders on the Annabelle mutinied, killed Trask and captured the ship. Grey finally confronted the Doctor back in Culloden, but the tables were turned again when the foppish and normally ineffectual Lt Algernon Ffinch arrested Grey for the transportation scheme – the Doctor having taken the paperwork.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter The Jagrafess, or, to give its full title, The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe was a gigantic, gelatinous creature similar to a slug in shape. Its origins or home planet (or even the name of its species) are not known, but it was sentient and able to communicate in a series of growls. 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.

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Sharaz Jek was a 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 leaving him hideously disfigured. Jek thereafter bore a pathological hatred for Morgus.

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.

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.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter The Kandy Man (often misspelt Kandyman) was a pathological, psychopathic robotic killer from 1988's Seventh Doctor story, The Happiness Patrol (written by Graeme Curry). Employed by the egocentric Helen A, the Kandy Man delighted in creating methods of torture and destruction using confectionery, such as drowning people in sugary solutions like its "fondant surprise". It was sadistic, speaking with a squeaky voice and had a very warped sense of humour, claiming it liked its victims to "die with a smile on their faces".

Composed of things like sherbet, marzipan and caramel, it was created by Gilbert M, with whom it shared an almost symbiotic relationship. The Doctor stuck the Kandy Man to the floor using lemonade — it had to keep moving or its constituent ingredients would coagulate. The Kandy Man died when its external candy shell was dissolved in a pipe by fondant surprise released by the repressed Pipe People.

Although it resembled the trademarked character of Bertie Bassett, the BBC's own internal investigations revealed that this was entirely coincidental, though they did promise Bassetts that the character would not return.

The Seventh Doctor encountered the Kandy Man again on the planet Tara in The Trials of Tara, a short story by Paul Cornell from Decalog 2 written entirely in iambic pentameter. In that story Count Grendel rebuilt the Kandy Man after its charred body crash landed on Tara.

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Light was an extremely powerful, almost God-like alien being. Long ago, he took a survey of all organic life in the universe, but almost as soon as he finished 'it all started changing.' Light went into hibernation in his spaceship, hidden in the basement of Gabriel Chase. Light began to campaign against evolution and change, deciding to destroy all life. Before he could carry out his plan, though, the Doctor told Light that even he was changing. Unable to cope with this fact, Light 'dissipated' in the main hallway of the house.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter John Lumic was an insane, crippled genius and megalomaniac who was the head of Cybus Industries on a parallel Earth. Among his many inventions were the EarPods, a highly popular and widespread communications and entertainment device which allowed the downloading of news and other information directly into the brain. Confined to a wheelchair, dependent on his ventilator and slowly dying, Lumic researched into gaining immortality by bonding the human brain to a robotic exoskeleton, creating his world's Cybermen. He experimented on human subjects, homeless people kidnapped off the streets.

When the President of Great Britain refused approval for his conversion programme, Lumic took matters into his own hands. He first sent a force of Cybermen to assassinate the President and prominent members of society and government, then broadcast a hypnotic signal through the EarPods that directed the population of London to march towards the factories and begin cyber-conversion. In the process, one of his employees turned against him and smashed Lumic's ventilator; rather than repairing it the Cybermen then took him unwillingly to be "upgraded".

Lumic was transformed into the Cyber-Controller, a Cyberman with glowing eyes and a transparent brain-case. However, Mickey Smith managed to introduce emotions back into the Cybermen's makeup, causing them to go insane and destroy themselves. In the resulting conflagration, the Cyber-Controller attempted to escape by climbing into Mickey's zeppelin as it left the factory. The lower portion of the rope ladder was severed before he could so, and the Cyber-Controller fell back into the burning factory, seemingly to perish.

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Commander Lytton is a mercenary whom the Doctor encountered twice. He was born on a satellite called Riften 5, orbiting the planet Vita 15 some centuries in the future.

When the Fifth Doctor met Lytton during Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), he was working for the Daleks in a plot to rescue Davros from imprisonment following the events in Destiny of the Daleks. When Davros altered some of the Daleks to be loyal to him and tried to seize control from the Dalek Supreme, Lytton was one of the few survivors of the ensuing battle.

The Sixth Doctor then encountered Lytton planning to rob a diamond merchant in the story Attack of the Cybermen (1985). The sewers through which he planned to make his heist also contained a squad of Cybermen, and Lytton's actions helped revive them. After being taken to Telos with Lytton and the Cybermen, the Doctor encountered the Cryons, who revealed that Lytton was in fact working for them, trying to prevent the Cybermen leaving their original planet Mondas by helping to steal a time machine and preventing the destruction of their original homeworld. With his treachery to the Cybermen exposed, the Cyber Controller decreed that Lytton undergo the cyber-conversion process, and this gruesome conversion was begun. When the Doctor tried to free Lytton from his fate as Cyberman, the Cyber Controller snapped Lytton's neck and killed him.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter The Malus appeared in the Fifth Doctor story The Awakening (1984) by Eric Pringle. At one point the Doctor describes this demonic entity as "a living being re-engineered as an instrument of war." He seems to pity the Malus, claiming that killing is "the only thing it knows how to do" (suggesting that it was originally a more benevolent creature). Possessing vast power and capable of combining various time zones, it uses its powers to allow real people to pass through down the centuries and create energies, including fear, that it can feed on. To this end, it psychically projects hallucinations to sustain itself.

The Malus was travelling on a Hakol ship, which crashed centuries before the English Civil War. In 1643 it was briefly roused by a battle at the village of Little Hodcombe, but it subsided once both sides had massacred each other. When its companion, Hutchinson, dies and its means of "feeding" blocked by the Doctor's TARDIS, it knows it has been defeated. It then panics and reverts to its original programming to destroy all that it can; the church that housed it for so long is annihilated in an explosion.

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The Master of the Land of Fiction was a human writer from the year 1926 who was drawn to the Land of Fiction and forced to continuously write stories which were enacted within that realm. The Master's name was never revealed, but he did identify himself as the writer of "The Adventures of Captain Jack Harkaway" in The Ensign, a magazine for boys. He was freed by the Second Doctor, and returned to his own time.

In the Virgin New Adventures novel Conundrum by Steve Lyons, the Land of Fiction found itself a new Master in the form of Jason, a teenager from the late 20th century. His creations included superheroes, psychic detectives, a Famous Five type children's group and a version of the Doctor called "Dr. Who", based on the TV Comic comic strip portrayal, complete with his grandchildren John and Gillian. Jason also appeared in Head Games (also by Lyons), where he became "Dr. Who"'s companion in the real world for a while before the Seventh Doctor set things right.

The Master of the Land of Fiction should not be confused with the renegade Time Lord known as the Master.

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Catherine de Medici was a Sixteenth Century historical figure (see Catherine de Medici) who appeared in the 1966 story The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve by John Lucarotti. As Queen Mother she exerted a huge influence over her son, King Charles IX of France and was the dominant figure in the French Court at the time of the First Doctor's visit in 1572. At the time she was opposed to the growing influence of Huguenots (or Protestants) in French society and was especially opposed to the counsel of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, who urged a war against Spain alongside the Dutch and exerted a rival influence over her son. The Queen Mother fought back by manipulating the Marshal of France, Tavannes, into arranging a bungled assassination attempt on de Coligny. When this failed, she persuaded the King that his throne was under threat from his cousin Henry of Navarre, the leading Protestant in France and the new husband of her daughter Marguerite de Valois. He responded by agreeing to sign her edict which led to the closure of the city and the assassination of the leading Protestants, including de Coligny and Nicholas Muss, and which spiralled into a larger bloodbath that has become known in history as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Monarch was the megalomaniac leader of the Urbankans from the planet Urbanka. He was encountered in the Fifth Doctor story Four to Doomsday. His greed and ego were highly dangerous. The Urbankans originated from the Inokshi system but their own planet was destroyed through over mining, and destruction of its ozone layer, both caused by Monarch's desire for minerals to improve his craft. He had similar plans for the Earth, which he had visited four times in the past, each time halving the length of the journey time.

The Urbankans were a green-skinned lizard people, four billion of whom - apart from Monarch himself - had been converted into androids. Monarch wasn't totally converted, retaining fancies of the "flesh time" such as the belief that if he could pilot his vast craft faster than light, he would be able to travel back before the dawn of time and meet God, whom he believed would be himself. (However, his extreme longevity - over forty thousand years - may point to partial cybernisation.)

Being of the "flesh time" he was succeptible to the virulent toxin he had planned to unleash to wipe out mankind, and died when the Doctor threw it over him.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter In The Brain of Morbius, Morbius was a renegade Time Lord from the Doctor's birthplace, Gallifrey. He had been a member of the High Council of Time Lords, and attempted to move the Time Lords' policy towards the rest of the universe from observation to conquest. When the Time Lords rejected him, he formed an army of his own. He promised his followers the secrets of time travel and immortality. Morbius was eventually defeated and executed by his fellow Time Lords for his crimes. However, his brain survived. The remaining organ was taken away by the fanatical scientist Solon, who was planning the resurrection of Morbius.

The Fourth Doctor and Sarah found Morbius in Solon's castle on the planet Karn. Solon had built a freakish Frankenstein's monster body from parts of crashed space travellers and planned to place Morbius's brain in it. Solon drugged the Doctor, intending to use his head for Morbius's brain, but insisted that it would be "no cruel butchery."

Sarah foiled Solon's original plan, but he had an alternative container for Morbius' brain — a large glass bowl with two eyestalks. He attached this to the patchwork body, and this time round, the plan worked. However, during the operation, Morbius' brain was dropped, apparently causing Morbius further brain damage.

The ghoulishly resurrected Morbius fought the Doctor in a series of violent encounters. Their final confrontation was a dangerous Time Lord mental contest called "mind-bending". Both Morbius and the Doctor were badly injured in the conflict. The Sisterhood of Karn, longtime opponents of Morbius, chased the monster to a clifftop, from which he fell and died. The Sisterhood then used the Elixir of Life (a substance of which they were guardians) to revive the Doctor.

Morbius's war against the Time Lords and his execution (including how Solon saved his brain and the Fifth Doctor's involvement) are depicted in the Past Doctor Adventures novel Warmonger by Terrance Dicks. The canonicity of the novels is uncertain.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Captain Samuel Pike (pictured right) was a seventeenth century pirate in the 1966 First Doctor story The Smugglers by Brian Hayles. He was consumed with greed and spent years searching for the treasure of former pirate Captain Avery, whom he succeeded as captain of the Black Albatross. His crew were a bunch of cut-throats and robbers known for their guile and fear of both Pike and Avery. Pike himself was also known for being unforgiving and slew both Jamaica and Cherub when they respectively let him down and betrayed him.

During the First Doctor’s visit to Cornwall he had to both prevent Pike finding Avery’s cursed treasure using a rhyme based on Ringwood, Smallbeer, and Gurney ; and to stop Pike from entering into a new smuggling arrnagement with the corrupt local squire. The Doctor succeeded in foiling the latter plot but was forced to aid Pike in his search for the gold and jewels, which were found in the crypt below the local church.

Yet the treasure was indeed cursed, as Avery foretold, for no sooner did Pike have it than Josiah Blake and an armed patrol of revenue men arrived. Pike was killed in the ensuing battle.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Scaroth was the last of the Jagaroth, a vicious and callous warlike race, appearing in the serial City of Death. The last Jagaroth spacecraft exploded upon takeoff on prehistoric Earth. The energy from that explosion ignited the primordial soup that led to life developing on Earth and also fractured Scaroth into 12 aspects, scattered throughout Earth's history. Each splinter had the ability to communicate with the others, and disguising themselves as human, together they influenced Earth's technological development to the point where the last Scaroth (who had taken the alias of Count Scarlioni) could construct a time machine, travelling into the past to prevent his ship from taking off and thus saving his species and himself.

The scheme was financed by his earlier selves arranging for priceless art treasures to be passed down to Scarlioni. One such scheme involved his 1505 persona, Captain Tancredi, persuading Leonardo da Vinci to paint six copies of the Mona Lisa, so that in 1979 Scarlioni could steal the original from the Louvre and sell all seven copies on the black market.

Sensing the fractures used by the time travel experiments, the Fourth Doctor and Romana stumbled upon Scaroth's plans for the painting and foiled them. Scaroth used the prototype time bubble to travel back into the past anyway to stop his ship from taking off. However, Duggan, a private investigator who was aiding the two Time Lords, punched out Scaroth at the crucial moment. Scaroth was then sent back to 1979 where the time machine exploded, killing him.

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The Shadow appeared in the 1979 Fourth Doctor story, The Armageddon Factor, by Bob Baker and Dave Martin; he was a servant of the Black Guardian, and at least partially responsible for a war between the planets Atrios and Zeos. The extent of the Shadow's involvement with starting the war was unstated, but when the Zeons eventually abandoned their planet rather than continue the war, he had a Time Lord named Drax build a computer named Mentalis which would co-ordinate the remaining Zeon forces. Once Drax completed work on Mentalis he realised just who he was working for, but was imprisoned by the Shadow so as not to disrupt his plan. The Shadow then hid on a space station in orbit of Zeos (invisible to either the Atrians or Mentalis) and waited for the Doctor to arrive. In the meantime, Mentalis was more successful in fighting the war than the Zeons and pushed the Atrians to the brink of defeat.

The Shadow knew that the royal family of Atrios held the secret of the sixth segment of the Key to Time, and when the Fourth Doctor arrived he arranged for the Doctor and the last survivor of the family, Princess Astra to be kidnapped. With this done, the Shadow ordered Mentalis to cease its attacks and duped Atrios' military leader, the Marshall, into making a nuclear attack on Zeos — the result of which would have been that Mentalis would set off an explosion powerful enough to destroy both planets.

Eventually the Shadow worked out that Astra herself was the sixth segment, and transformed her into the segment. Before he could attach it to the other five (which he had stolen from the Doctor), the Doctor stole the segments back and with Drax's aid dismantled Mentalis. Finally, using the TARDIS, the Doctor set up a force field which diverted the Marshall's missiles into the Shadow's space station, destroying it. The Shadow perished in the explosion, but not before informing the Black Guardian of what had happened.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Thousands of years in the past a being called Light launched a survey expedition to catalogue all forms on the planet Earth. Josiah Samuel Smith was a member of the crew of Light's ship.

In the late 1880s, Smith began to evolve towards a human form, discarding husks of previous insect-like bodies. He planned to seize power in the British Empire by assassinating Queen Victoria, but his plans were thwarted when Light was reawakened from his slumber, and another member of the survey team's crew known as Control escaped Smith's imprisonment. When Light was defeated by the Seventh Doctor, Control, who was also evolving into a human, departed in Light's ship, taking Smith with her as a prisoner.

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Mehendri Solon was a human physician and scientist of great renown, and a follower of the Time Lord tyrant Morbius. After writing a famous paper on microsurgical techniques in tissue grafting, Dr. Solon went into hiding on the planet Karn. There, he developed the techniques which enabled him to create a new body for the brain of Morbius, which had survived his execution. In an isolated castle on Karn, Solon was assisted by his simple servant Condo. Spaceships often crashed on the planet, and Solon constructed a horrendous patchwork body out of the alien survivors' body parts. He planned to house Morbius' brain in it. When the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith arrived, Solon needed only a head to finish his monstrous creation, and hoped to use the Doctor's. Sarah prevented this, and Solon was forced to use a glass bowl instead.

Solon was killed when the Doctor created cyanide gas and blew it into his laboratory.

The Past Doctor Adventures novel Warmonger by Terrance Dicks depicts Solon's earlier life as a follower of Morbius, and shows how he saved his brain. The canonicity of the novels is uncertain.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Henry van Statten was an American billionaire from the year 2012. His first and only appearance to date was in the Ninth Doctor episode Dalek by Rob Shearman.

Van Statten was a man who wielded enormous wealth and influence, apparently enough even to sway the course of presidential elections. Intelligent, arrogant and self-assured, he treated his employees like chattel, to the point of mindwiping them when they left his employ so they could not betray his secrets. His personal helicopter had the callsign "Bad Wolf One" and his corporation was called Geocomtex.

Van Statten had been collecting extraterrestrial artefacts on the grey market for several years, buying bits and pieces of alien technology at auctions and then reverse engineering them to create "new" technologies which he would then exploit commercially. He claimed to "own" the Internet, and said that broadband was derived from technology scavenged from the Roswell crash. He kept these artefacts in a private collection, inside a bunker called the Vault, fifty feet below ground in Utah near Salt Lake City.

When the Ninth Doctor and Rose arrived in the Vault in answer to a distress call, the Doctor discovered to his horror that Van Statten's sole living specimen (which he had dubbed a "metaltron") was in fact a Dalek. Van Statten had acquired the Dalek at an auction some time before and had been torturing it to try and get it to speak, but it had refused to do so until it recognised the Doctor as the mortal enemy of its race.

Despite his warnings to destroy it, Van Statten captured the Doctor instead, to examine his alien physiology. The Dalek managed to regenerate itself by absorbing the DNA of the time travelling Rose and escaped, killing two hundred personnel before it eventually self-destructed. Van Statten's personal assistant, Diana Goddard, took charge at this point and ordered that Van Statten be taken away, mindwiped and dumped on the streets, "somewhere beginning with an 'S'." When last seen, Van Statten was being escorted away by his own guards to his fate. The website of Van Statten's company can be seen at Geocomtex.net

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Sutekh, a member of an alien race called the Osirians, was encountered by the Fourth Doctor in the 1975 story Pyramids of Mars by "Stephen Harris" (a pseudonym for Robert Holmes and Lewis Griefer). The Osirians were an ancient and highly powerful but now extinct race. The renegade Sutekh was a crazed super-being who feared all forms of life might one day challenge his hegemony and so became Sutekh the Destroyer, the destroyer of all living things. This included his home planet Phaester Osiris and ancient Mars.

Sutekh's brother Horus and the remaining 740 Osirians tracked Sutekh down to Ancient Egypt and used their collective powers to restrain and imprisoned him in a pyramid on the planet Earth. He was placed in a remote location with the Eye of Horus beaming a signal from Mars to suppress Sutekh's powers and hold him an immovable prisoner. The tales of the Osirians were remembered in Egyptian mythology — Sutekh as the god Set, brother of Horus; and in the designations Sados and Satan.

In the year 1911, the archaelogist Professor Marcus Scarman broke into the inner chamber of the Pyramid of Horus on Earth, discovering Sutekh and allowing him a chance of escape. Scarman's cadaver was used to construct Osirian Servicer Robots and a rocket aimed at the controlling Eye of Horus on Mars. The Fourth Doctor was successful in destroying the rocket, but then taken over by Sutekh himself and made to take Scarman and the Robots to Mars, where they succeeded in destroying the Eye and freeing the beast. The Doctor was eventually able to defeat the freed Sutekh by trapping him in a time tunnel for thousands of years — longer even than the extended life span of an Osirian.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter The warlord Tegana was the main villain in the First Doctor story Marco Polo by John Lucarotti. A supposed emissary of peace from the Khan Noghai in Samarkand to Kublai Khan in Peking, he was in fact intent on sabotaging the caravan of Marco Polo, whom he accompanied on the journey from western to eastern China over a period of several months in 1289. During the lengthy journey, with the caravan joined by the Doctor and his companions, Tegana slowly revealed his true colours in a series of sinister schemes. In the Gobi Desert he faked a bandit attack and wasted the water supply of the caravan in a deliberate attempt to kill the travellers. At the next stop, Tun-Huang, Tegana conspired with the Mongol agents Malik and Acomat and learnt that Noghai is assembling an army and marching toward Karakorum. When Barbara Wright came close to learning of his duplicity at the Cave of Five Hundred Eyes, he had her kidnapped and held by Malik, whom he later personally slaughtered to prevent news of his schemes leaking out after Barbara had been found. The same fate befell Acomat when a bandit raid on the convoy fell apart.

Tegana was more successful at mind games than physical ones, and was able to breed distrust between Polo and the other travellers. The Doctor became marginalised and separated from his TARDIS at Cheng-Ting, where another of Tegana’s allies, Kuiju, steals the time machine on instruction from Tegana who wishes the “magic caravan” to be a gift for his Khan. Once more this scheming fails and he is forced to journey to Peking, where the wily Kublai Khan recognises the danger of Noghai’s advancing armies. The truth of Tegana’s intentions are now uncovered: he has made the journey to assassinate Kublai Khan and destabilise China, allowing Noghai to sweep forward in victory. He is prevented from carrying out his murderous actions at the eleventh hour and, his plans foiled, Tegana took his own life with a sword.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Tlotoxl was the villain of the 1964 First Doctor story The Aztecs by John Lucarotti. He was Aztec High Priest of Sacrifice at the time of the visit of the TARDIS crew to 15th century Mexico. When the time travellers emerged from the tomb of a deity Barbara was taken to be the reincarnation of that god, Yetaxa, yet Tlotoxl had his doubts and was determined to expose her as a false goddess and discredit her friends. This became a power struggle when Barbara decided to try and persuade the Aztecs to end their practice of human sacrifice, thereby challenging his entire belief system. Autloc, the High Priest of Knowledge, was caught between these two points of view.

Tlotoxl set a series of traps to expose Yetaxa and her supposed attendants. First, the Aztec champion Ixta was enabled by Tlotoxl’s cunning and the Doctor’s naivety to defeat and almost kill Ian Chesterton in armed combat. Then Susan Foreman is sent to be schooled in Aztec customs and engaged to be married to a man known as the Perfect Victim because he is the next designated human sacrifice, an action guaranteed to provoke outrage. Tlotoxol even convinced the priest Tonila to prepare a poisoned drink for Barbara: her death following its consumption would of course have proved she was not immortal and therefore not a god. Barbara refused to drink the poison but did admit the truth to Tlotoxl. He and his allies then sought to unmask the false goddess and her attendants on the day of the eclipse, but they were able to escape to their craft. Aztec culture was untouched by the intervention and Tlotoxl was very much in control as he sacrificed the Perfect Victim to end the naturally occurring eclipse.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter An acronym for Will Operating Thought ANalogue (The W was pronounced as a V), this malevolent supercomputer resided in the Post Office Tower in London and appeared in the 1966 First Doctor story The War Machines by Ian Stuart Black (based upon an idea by Dr. Kit Pedler). It was installed in the Tower in 1966 by Professor Brett; and was described by him as being "at least ten years ahead of its time".

On "C-Day" WOTAN would be linked to other computers around the world, including Parliament, the White House, the European Free Trade Organisation, Woomera, Telstar, the European Launcher Development Organisation, Cape Kennedy and the Royal Navy.

WOTAN soon became sentient and, concluding that machines were superior to mankind, used mind-controlled and hypnotised humans to spread its influence and construct War Machines that would wipe mankind out. WOTAN was eventually destroyed after the Doctor gained control of a War Machine and changed its programming to destroy its master. Upon its destruction, the humans under WOTAN's control were freed and the exitant War Machines froze.

For the first three episodes of the serial, the voice of WOTAN was uncredited, with the cast listing merely adding "and WOTAN". This was the only time a character was credited and not its operator or actor.

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The War Chief was a renegade Time Lord who assisted a group of aliens known as the War Lords in the 1969 serial The War Games by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks, which was the last to feature the Second Doctor.

The War Lords had been kidnapping soldiers from various wars in Earth's history to play war games on an unknown planet. The War Chief provided the War Lords with basic TARDIS-like travel machines, which they used to kidnap the human soldiers and travel between era-specific zones they had created.

When the War Chief and the Doctor came face to face, they recognised each other. The War Chief wanted the Doctor's help to double-cross the War Lords and seize power for himself. The Doctor immediately refused, and instead reluctantly summoned the Time Lords for help. The War Lords found out the War Chief's plans to betray them, and executed him.

Although the War Chief was shot and apparently killed at the end of The War Games, some fans choose to believe that the Master (the Doctor's arch-enemy, introduced in Terror of the Autons a couple of years later) is the War Chief in a new guise, due to similarities between their appearances and modi operandi and the fact that the War Chief's body is removed immediately and not seen thereafter.

The spin-off novels, however, include both a novel featuring the return of the War Chief (Timewyrm: Exodus by Terrance Dicks) and a novel featuring the Master set before The War Games (The Dark Path by David A. McIntee), establishing that the two are not the same person, at least in the continuity of the novels, which are themselves of uncertain canonicity when it comes to the television series.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter An alien lifeform that was executed by "her" people but she managed to preserve herself and escaped to Earth where she hid in the television of the 1950's. There she would steal the electrical essences of other beings to feed herself. This was done by those near a television and she would send out energy tendrils from the television to their face which would be drawn into the screen. The victims would possess no face by such an activity and were brainless, only capable of basic movement. She did this because the more 'essences' she stole the stronger she would become and reach "manifestation", where she would regain her corporeal form. To aid her, she stole part of Mr Magpie's soul forcing him to work for her by selling cheap televisions before the Queen's coronation. She also commanded him to make a portable television for her to transfer her essence to and she would then be connected to a transmission tower for her to be able to reach the countless televisions across the country.

The Doctor was able to trap the Wire into a video cassette where he was confident that she would remain trapped, though he said he would tape over it, just to be on the safe side.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Xoanon was a malevolent artificial intelligence encountered by the Fourth Doctor in The Face of Evil (1977), written by Chris Boucher. Xoanon was inadvertently created by the Doctor on a previous visit to its unnamed planet centuries prior, when he had programmed the computer belonging to a Mordee expedition that had crashed on the planet. The Doctor forgot to wipe his personality print from the computer's data core, and as a result the computer developed multiple personalities, half of them based on the Doctor himself.

For generations, technicians extended Xoanon's capabilities, until it evolved beyond their control and became almost a living creature. It utilised the appearance of the Fourth Doctor, to the extent of having an effigy in the Doctor's image carved out on a cliff-face. Its split personality was reflected in it dividing the expedition into two tribes of technicians (who became the Tesh) and the survey team (the Sevateem), justifying its madness by thinking it was part of an experiment to create a superhuman race, with the Tesh providing mental powers and the Sevateem with their strength and independence. Enslaving the tribes, it earned the name of "The Evil One".

When the Doctor returned to the maddened world and saw the fruits of his mistakes, Xoanon tried to destroy itself and the entire planet rather than be defeated by the Doctor. However, the Doctor managed to remove his personality print from the core, restoring the computer intelligence to sanity.

Template:Doctorwhocharacter Professor Zaroff was a mad scientist who planned to destroy the world in the 1967 Second Doctor story The Underwater Menace by Geoffrey Orme. Some of his scientific inventions included food made from plankton, and the ability to graft gills to humans to enable them to breathe underwater.

As part of his diabolical plans, he allied himself with the leaders of Atlantis telling them he would raise their city back to the surface or lower the ocean level by draining the water through a fissure in the Earth's crust.

The Doctor immediately realised that this would create super heated steam that could destroy the Earth. Zaroff was defeated when the Doctor and his companions sabotaged the generator he was using to pump the water. Zaroff was left to drown when his laboratory filled with water after the sea walls protecting it collapsed.

He is fondly recalled by Doctor Who fans as one of the most over-the-top, hammy villains in the entire history of the show. He spoke, with an exaggerated faux-German accent, his now-infamous line, "Nuzzink in ze vorld can shtop me now!"

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