Doctor Who/Characters/Villains

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Amy: So, you have enemies, then?
Eleventh Doctor: Everyone's got enemies.

Amy: Yeah, but mine's the woman outside Budgens with the mental Jack Russell. You've got, you know, arch-enemies.
—"Victory of the Daleks"
You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies.
—Seventh Doctor, "Remembrance of the Daleks"

Villains introduced in the original series.

Borusa

To lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose.

Played by: Angus MacKay (1976); John Arnatt (1978); Leonard Sachs (1983); Philip Latham (1983)

One of the Doctor's oldest friends, and a beloved mentor, Borusa has shown up several times throughout the franchise in the 1970s and 1980s. Each time with a different face. While he was obviously on the Doctor's side during his first two appearances, Borusa appeared to be a little shady during "Arc of Infinity" and turned out to be outright evil in "The Five Doctors". While he certainly survived until the end of the Time War, he didn't do much beyond his last appearance.

Chancellor Goth

You're finished, Doctor! You're finished!

Played by: Bernard Horsfall (1969, 1976)

A ruthless Time Lord politician who organized the Doctor's banishment to Earth and later teamed up with the Master to seize control of Gallifrey.

  • Fake Ultimate Hero: Borusa gives him credit for the Master's fake death in order to maintain public confidence in the Time Lord government.
  • Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: In his first appearance he's simply doing his duty for the Time Lords (albeit a rather grim one) but in The Deadly Assassin he's stooped to allying with the Master and murdering the president.
  • Retcon: The character was conceived purely for the 1976 story The Deadly Assassin, but as Horsfall had played a nameless Time Lord politician in The War Games it led to much fan speculation that they were the same character, which was made (somewhat) canon by Marc Platt in the Doctor Who Yearbook story "Future Imperfect".


Davros

Today the Kaled race is ended, consumed in a fire of war but, from its ashes will rise a new race, the supreme creature, the ultimate conquerer of the universe, the Dalek!!!

Played by: Michael Wisher (1975); David Gooderson (1979); Terry Molloy (1984-88); Julian Bleach (2008)

The creator of the Daleks, a Kaled from the planet Skaro. His genius is matched only by his insanity. Actor Julian Bleach has described him as a cross between Hitler and Stephen Hawking. Hell, not even death could stop this guy from coming back over and over again.

Sixth Doctor: We're not friends, Davros.

  • Genius Cripple: Emphasis on genius. Despite appearances, he's actually a normal Kaled, yet is easily on the Doctor's level when it comes to brainpower.
  • Genre Blind: Fails to realise that Daleks are xenophobic towards him along with the rest of creation. And he made them like that.
  • A God Am I: What he thinks total Dalek conquest will make him.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Time and time again. He has a bit of a blind spot when it comes to the Daleks.
  • Hypocrite: In his first appearance, wherein he was prepared to exterminate all creation, but was shocked when the Daleks turned on him. This aspect of his personality has left as he has gotten more and more insane.
  • It's All About Me: He really does not care about anyone but himself; he was willing to sacrifice all of his own people just to ensure his Dalek project would go through. He's also so self-centered that he keeps forgetting that the Daleks (with exceptions) are not slavishly loyal to him.
  • Karmic Death: Well, not quite death, but his defeats are typically ironic.
  • Large Ham: He screams a lot - possibly to try and be as much like his creations as possible. (Alternately: they learned it from him.)
  • Last of His Kind: Not stated to in-universe, but he is the last known surviving Kaled. Since he never gave a damn about the Kaleds, don't expect much angst from him about it.
  • Mad Scientist: Notice the trend?
  • Man in a Kilt: Well, the first actor was when he played the character wore a kilt underneath the "Dalek wheelchair". Also applies to the "wheelchair", as it's been continually referred to as one during filming. And he was Scottish during his second appearance for some reason.
  • Mutant: Looks nothing like the rest of his species.
  • Noodle Incident: The Freak Lab Accident which mutated him.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: Especially in "The Stolen Earth" / "Journey's End", when he planned "THE DESTRUCTION! OF REALITY! ITSELF!!!"
    • This was alluded to back in "Genesis of the Daleks", where he admitted that, if he could wipe out all life with his own creation, he would. Explains the Daleks
  • The Other Darrin: Played by four different actors over the years, the only one decidedly off being the Gooderson Davros, who was suddenly Scottish.
  • The Unfettered: There is absolutely nothing he's not prepared to do to ensure the survival of the Daleks.
  • Start of Darkness: Big Finish gave him an entire mini-series dedicated to his upbringing.
  • Super Wheelchair: Based the Daleks' armor on his own bionic eye and life-support chair.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: He was the head of the Kaled Scientific Elite, and later took on the guise of the "Great Healer" on Necros (working hard to avoid creating "consumer resistance")

The Master

I am the Master and you will obey me.

The Doctor's evil arch-nemesis, the Moriarty to the Doctor's Sherlock Holmes. Is a Time Lord, so has had several incarnations: on-screen six, off-screen unknown. Whilst the Doctor's incarnations are generally referred to as "The Nth Doctor", the Master's incarnations are most often distinguished by the name of the actor. This is probably because it is unclear just what incarnation he starts on, though he is on his last by the Fourth Doctor's run, and since then has returned and endured mostly by cheating death or being resurrected in various ways.

In General

  • Arch Enemy: The most recurring individual adversary for the Doctor.
  • Badass: We are talking about the Doctor's evil counterpart. This is kinda required to stand up that obstacle to your plans.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: A villainous example, but each incarnation of The Master has a few touches of this.
    • Delgado's Master actually took The Clangers seriously.
    • Eric Roberts' Master, much like the Sixth Doctor, truly believed his Time Lord getup wasn't a fashion accident.
    • Simm's Master liked partying at highly inappropriate times and bopping his head to odd music choices. And, in a Shout-Out to Delgado, praised the Teletubbies as the height of evolution.
  • Determinator: This crossed with Why Won't You Die? is a major reason why The Master will always be a threat to the Doctor, if for no other reason than sheer tenacity and his refusal to permanently die.
  • Expy: In "The War Games", we are introduced to the War Chief, a Time Lord who has past history with the Doctor, who is working with a group of aliens to take over the galaxy, and who plans to betray them the first chance he gets. And he's got an evil moustache too. Then, a couple of seasons later, the Master shows up: A Time Lord who has past history with the Doctor, who routinely teams up with aliens and then betrays them, is noted to have changed his name to The Master since the previous time the Doctor encountered him, and even has a similar taste in clothes and facial hair. Word of God is quite insistent that they're different people.
  • Evil Counterpart: The most notable example for the Doctor.
  • Evil Former Friend: Bordering on Psycho Ex Boyfriend at times.
  • Evil Laugh
  • Evil Plan
  • For the Evulz: In the old series. The new series gave him the Freudian Excuse of being the victim of a Timey-Wimey Ball Plan organized by a Chessmaster to forge a link to escape death.
  • Grammar Nazi / Wicked Cultured
  • Killed Off for Real: A master at averting this. Delgado's Master was reduced to a degraded, decaying version of himself yet still didn't die, but eventually transferred himself to another body. Ainley's version survived several No One Could Survive That instances, was rendered Only Mostly Dead by the TV Movie, and was then thrown into the Eye Of Harmony, which one would think was the end of him. But no, he was apparently rescued by the Time Lords, Chameleon Arched, then sent to the end of the Universe as Professor Yana. Simm's Master initiated a Thanatos Gambit to avoid permanently dying after "Last Of The Time Lords", and even though he does a Heroic Sacrifice in The End of Time, we can be pretty sure he'll be back since they Never Found the Body. In short, do not expect this guy to permanently die.
  • Manipulative Bastard
  • The Master: Duh.
  • Master of Disguise: The Delgado and Ainley incarnations used this often, at least, including one occasion where the Ainley Master disguised himself as a magician for no apparent reason.
  • More Than Mind Control: "I am the Master, and you will obey me." Nearly always works.
  • Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Not only is his name "The Master", but most of his Significant Anagram aliases involve plays on either the word "death" or "master".
  • Really Seven Hundred Years Old
  • Resurrected for a Job
  • Rival Turned Evil: It's established that the Master and the Doctor were in school together.
  • Significant Anagram: Both in-universe and out of it. In order to not give away the Plot Twist that the villain of a story was the Master, a false name would appear in the credits. These were usually anagrams involving either "Master" or the actor's name. In-universe, the Master seems to like inventing anagrams of "Master" to use as names.
  • Staying Alive: Good Lord, yes. "I'm indestructible, the whole Universe knows that." Indeed.
  • Unexplained Recovery: Almost guaranteed, no matter what happens. He laughs at death. Evilly.
  • Worthy Opponent: He sees the Doctor as one.
  • Villains Out Shopping: Can be caught watching children's television when not actively being evil. Delgado enjoyed the Clangers, while Simm was impressed by the Teletubbies. "Television...in their stomachs. Now that is evolution."

Roger Delgado's/Peter Pratt's/Geoffrey Beevers' Master (1971-73, 1976, 1981)

I am usually refered to as the Master...universally.

The first appearing incarnation of the character, this Master was a frequent adversary of the Doctor and UNIT during the former's exile on Earth. By The Deadly Assassin, he had taken on a rotting form.[2] Being on his final life, the Master attempted to harness the power of the Eye of Harmony in order to renew himself. Failing that, he escaped from Gallifrey in and appeared again in The Keeper of Traken, this time succeeding in his renewal by stealing the body of the Trakenite consul Tremas.

Anthony Ainley's Master (1981-89)

A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.

  • Badass Beard
  • Beard of Evil
  • Card-Carrying Villain: He has fun with it.
  • Didn't See That Coming: Wait, what do you mean a quarter of the universe?
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: The Expanded Universe of Big Finish audio adventures did this offscreen on this incarnation of the Master, stripping away his Traken body and forcing him to revert to the Pratt/Beevers Master incarnation - fortunately retaining the voice of Beevers as well. This was somewhat reasonable, though, as Anthony Ainley had passed away some time prior.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: There's a scene in "Mark of the Rani" where the Master actually apologizes to Peri for getting her mixed up in what was supposed to be a tussle between just him and the Doctor.
  • Executive Meddling: Anthony Ainley wanted to play The Master as serious and understated, but the producers wanted a retread of Roger Delgado's over-the-top villain. It wasn't until Survival that Ainley was allowed to give the performance he wanted.
  • Eyes of Gold
  • Fangs Are Evil: Vampire fangs.
  • Fountain of Youth: Tremas promptly de-ages about forty years once the Master takes him over.
  • Grand Theft Me: Manages to steal the body of an aged scientist named Tremas (an anagram of "Master").
  • Large Ham: Ainley once said, "I'm not a ham. A ham can be cured." Toned down in his final appearance... and then turned Up to Eleven in his appearance in the 1999 video game "Destiny Of The Doctors".
  • Limited Wardrobe: Subverted in Ainley's final appearance in "Survival", when he resumes wearing Delgado-style suits.
  • Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: He had a tendency to sound as if he'd swallowed a thesaurus. Of course, this does take place during John Nathan-Turner's run as producer, and two of his appearances were written by Pip and Jane Baker (no relation to any of the other Bakers in Who). They're rather well-known for using huge words and neat scientific concepts that make sense for the time the shows were made... and both the Sixth Doctor and the Master wind up sounding insanely smart.
  • Unexplained Recovery: While it doesn't always need to be stated, it should be said that this trope especially applies to Anthony Ainley's incarnation. While most of the other incarnations were all Time Lords, this body of the Master's came from Traken. And it still survived things like being crushed, thrown around in time, burned alive and so forth!
    • In Planet of Fire, he legitimately dies on screen- we actually see him get incinerated. He was brought back with a Hand Wave.

Eric Roberts' Master (1996)

Life is wasted on the living!

Sir Derek Jacobi's Master ...or Professor Yana (2007)

Oh...! Now I can say...I was provoked.

Yana's watch: The drums, the drums, the never ending drum beat. Open me, you human fool, open the light, summon me and receive my majesty!

John Simm's Master ...or Harold Saxon (2007-10)

Shall we decimate them? That sounds good, nice word, decimate. [to the Toclafane] Remove one tenth of the population!

  • Assimilation Plot: Hijacking the Immortality Gate lets him turn most of humanity into duplicates of himself.

"Breaking news...I'm everyone. And everyone in the world is me!"

"Why don't we stop and have a nice little chat while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me, I don't think!"

"And look, it's the girly and the freak, although I'm not sure which one's which."

The Monk

Played by: Peter Butterworth (1965-66); Graeme Garden (voice only; 2010-2011)

In-universe referred to as "the Monk", out-of-universe "the Meddling Monk". The first other member of the Doctor and Susan's (at that point, still-unnamed) species ever seen on-screen. In his first appearance, Meddling Monk liked to "improve" history, or rather Earth's history with advanced technology. (He didn't ever mention altering any other planet's history.) In his second, he jointly wished for revenge against the Doctor and allied with the Daleks and a third, human villain, as self-preservation. He re-appeared in two Doctor Who Magazine comics and then in the New Adventures novel No Future by Paul Cornell and a series of Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas.

Morbius

Played by: Michael Spice (1976); Stuart Fell (1976); Samuel West (2008)

Morbius of House Dvora was a high-ranking Time Lord. His career was the first in millennia to dramatically alter Gallifrey's relations with the wider universe. He briefly moved Gallifrey's policy away from observation and manipulation and towards a brutal restructuring of the universe to suit Gallifrey's interests. His career ended in ignominy and destruction. He escaped a death sentence only by a secret brain transplant, subsequent to which he encountered the fourth incarnation of the Doctor.

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Omega

A hero?! I should have been a god!

Played by: Stephen Thorne (1973); Ian Collier & Peter Davison (1983)

One part of a triumvirate that founded modern Time Lord society, he was believed to have been killed after being sucked into a black hole while performing an experiment to provide the Time Lords with time travel. Like with other Time Lords, this didn't stick. Instead, he wound up in an anti-matter universe, and tried to return to our own universe twice—once in "The Three Doctors", and again in "Arc of Infinity". The bad part is that he believes his fellow Gallifreyans forgot and abandoned him, and he is obsessed with getting revenge. The Doctor Who Expanded Universe has given him a few more visits, including one where he just wants to go back to the anti-matter universe again.

The Rani

Oh, what's [the Master] up to now? It'll be something devious and overcomplicated ... he'd get dizzy if he tried to walk in a straight line.

Played by: Kate O'Mara: (1985-87, 1993)

An evil Time Lady and contemporary of both the Doctor and the Master at the Academy. Would dearly love to rule her planet and experiment on various other species (including humans) in peace and quiet, but the Doctor and the Master keep getting in the way. She only appears in two serials and a Jossed special, but is notable for being one of the few Time Ladies hanging around.

  • Berserk Button: Do not mention her exile from Gallifrey. She isn't over it. And as the Master learns, keep your hands off her TARDIS.
  • Distaff Counterpart: To the Master, more or less.
  • Eighties Hair
  • Emperor Scientist: The Rani rules Miasimia Goria and experiments on her subjects. Her accidental elimination of their ability to sleep is what kick-starts the plot of "Mark of the Rani".
  • Evilutionary Biologist: Her giant pet mice ate the Lord President's cat, and got her exiled from Gallifrey. She's a bit pissed about that. She also starts kidnapping geniuses to power a giant brain.
  • Groin Attack: Remains the only person in the Whoniverse to have the sense to knee the Master in the groin.
  • Lady in Red
  • Rival Turned Evil: With both the Doctor and the Master. She teams up with the Master, but only because he's Blackmailing her.
  • Ubermensch: The Rani may be an amoral scientist, but even the Doctor admits she's a genius—shame he can't stand her.
  • The Vamp

Rassilon

This day was the day upon which the whole of creation would change forever.

Played by: Richard Matthews (1983); Timothy Dalton (2009-10)

You know that guy everything in Time Lord society (and we do mean everything) is named after? Yeah, this is him. Rassilon, like Omega, is one of the triumvirate who founded all of Time Lord society. As this was in the distant past, even for Time Lords, he's mostly not in the franchise, despite his name showing up everywhere in the old show and showing up at times in the revived series. Despite not being a blatant villain or antagonist for the Doctor, he has consistently been portrayed with darker motives and a rather more sinister reputation than most Time Lords, and easily makes the villain list for his latest actions.

Celestial Toymaker

Played by: Michael Gough (1966); David Bailie (2009)

The Celestial Toymaker was a powerful being who ensnared sentient beings in apparently childish games, with their freedom as the stakes. However, the Toymaker hated to lose and every game ended in Heads I Win, Tails You Lose.

Black Guardian

Played by: Valentine Dyall (1979, 1983); David Troughton (2009)

The Black Guardian was an anthropomorphic personification of forces opposed to the powers of light, as embodied by the White Guardian. Together with the White Guardian and four others, he was part of the Six-Fold God known as the Guardians of Time.

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Commander Gustave Lytton

Played by: Maurice Colbourne (1984-85)

A semi-villainous figure, the Doctor and Lytton crossed paths twice. Lytton ran into the Fifth Doctor during "Resurrection of the Daleks",[4] while the Sixth Doctor encuontered him in "Attack of the Cybermen".[5] Thought to be a villain through and through by the Doctor, Lytton actually surprised the Doctor in his final appearance by having a somewhat Heroic Sacrifice. Supposedly left behind a woman in 1985 carrying his child, according to The Sarah Jane Adventures' main website.

  • Badass Normal
  • Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Partially Cyber-Converted into a Cyberman during his final encounter, Lytton experienced this one personally.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Rather heroic for the character, as he was partially turned into a Cyberman at the time and near-death.
  • Only One Name: Commander Lytton had only one name in the televised adventures of the Doctor, but the novelization of Attack of the Cybermen gave him the first name of "Gustave". The story also goes further in-depth on Lytton's character, even expanding his relationship with the Doctor somewhat.

Sil

Played by: Nabil Shaban (1985-86)

A Mentor (read: lizard-slug-alien) and corrupt capitalist, Sil was a perfect compliment to the 1980s, and a good foil for the Sixth Doctor. His first episode had Sil bilking an entire planet out of billions because he could, while his final appearance so far left Sil as an understudy to a quickly-evolving member of his own species named Kiv... who then stole Peri's body for his own. Sil may be dead, but a script the Who crew was forced to discard during the 18-month hiatus of Doctor Who would have had Sil teaming up with the Ice Warriors[6] too, while a script pitched for the never-produced Season 27 would have had Sil showing up with the Autons and UNIT. Until he shows up again in an actual, televised episode, however, we still don't know if he survived.

The Valeyard

There is nothing you can do to prevent the catharsis of spurious morality.

Played by: Michael Jayston (1986)

Oh, boy. Where to begin? Well, his first appearance suggests that the Valeyard is merely another Time Lord, and a particularly antagonistic one at that. As The Trial of a Time Lord (featuring the man in a starring role) progressed, things slowly started to change. As it was eventually revealed in Part 13, the Valeyard is really the Doctor. Or, rather, a future version of the Doctor from between his 12th and final regenerations, a concentrated being of all the Doctor's evil and malice that he never expressed. The Valeyard only showed up in the main series for that serial, presumed dead and alive at the same time, but so long as the series continues...

  • As Long as There Is One Man: Subverted entirely from the Valeyard's origin alone.
  • Bad Future: A literal representation of it!
  • Evil Counterpart: Played literally straight for this one.
  • Evil Feels Good: Considering who he comes from...
  • Evil Gloating
  • Evil Knockoff
  • Face Heel Turn
  • Future Me Scares Me: It's been argued that the Doctor is petrified of him returning, in any form. The Expanded Universe went further on this, to the point that an entire incarnation's personality was locked away for a time because of that fear.
    • Hell, even the Master fears him.
  • Hanging Judge
  • Large Ham: And reveling in it. Not that anyone's complaining...
  • Meaningful Name: The name Valeyard is said to mean "Doctor of Law" (although good luck finding it in any dictionary).
  • The Plan: The Valeyard is arguably the best at this entire concept in the franchise, as his whole plan revolves around setting up a trial to frame the Doctor for the illegal actions of the Time Lord High Council, which he uses to try and steal the Sixth Doctor's remaining regenerations for himself—so that he can become a full being once again. However, on top of this, the Valeyard also uses the setup of the trial to jack into the computer that records all of time, warp the records, and setup a death trap to kill off the entire Time Lord leadership in one blow! Oh, and this was all set up to begin a coup d'état of the entire Time Lord society! Yeah, he's good.
    • All of that, while pretending to be The Dragon for everyone but the Doctor, and everyone but the Doctor being powerless to stop him once they realize his intent.
  • Put on a Bus: It's been over 20 years since the Valeyard last appeared in his "am I dead or not" ending.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: See Put on a Bus, above.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Ties in directly with his Large Ham status. And, wow, it's fun to watch.

Villains introduced in the new series.

Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17

Played by: Zoë Wanamaker (2005-06)

Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17 was a human in the far future. Along with other rich and powerful peoples of the universe, Cassandra was on Platform One, a space station orbiting Earth five billion years in the future, set up to witness the final destruction of the planet by the expansion of the Sun. When the Doctor destroyed her body, she retreated into a hospital back room and waited for a chance to reappear. Rose was that chance, and Cassandra merrily took over Rose's body and mind for a while. When the Doctor protested, she made the jump to the Doctor's body instead, enjoying every moment of it.

The Beast
"I am the rage and the vile and the voracity. I am the Prince and the Fallen. I am the Enemy, I am the Sin and the fear and darkness. I shall never die."
—Voiced by: Gabriel Woolf (2006)

A being of great power who claims to have fought the Disciples of the Light before the Universe was created, and was later imprisoned on the planet Krop Tor, circling a black hole. Describes itself as the Devil, which greatly upsets the Doctor's belief system, although he ends up using the description himself for lack of a better explanation. It is given the chance to escape when human explorers fly onto its planet and drill through the planet to its cell. Its mind plans to escape in the team's archaeologist Toby, leaving its body safely behind in its prison, but is eventually prevented by the Doctor opening the Beast's cell, activating its failsafe and causing the planet to fall into the black hole, along with the Beast and possessed Toby.

The Beast: This is the Darkness. This is MY domain. You little things that live in the Light, clinging to your feeble Suns... which die. Only the Darkness remains.
The Beast: I am the sin; and the temptation. And the desire. And the pain and the loss.

  • Beyond the Impossible: It claims to have lived before the universe created, which the Doctor rejects on the grounds that nothing could have survived that.
  • Big Red Devil: It claims to be Satan, and it certainly looks the part. No sign of a pitchfork though
  • Body Surf: After screaming orders at the Ood telepathically, it travels into three of them as smoke from Toby to possess the entire hive mind.
  • Cardboard Prison: Averted, its prison was designed to be VERY difficult to get out of.
  • Demonic Possession: First it possesses Toby after he handles ancient artifacts, then it possesses the empathic Ood. Toby manifests runes on his skin, red eyes and grey lips, but the Ood gain red glowing eyes and speak through their orbs in The Beast's voice
  • Devil but No God: If you believe that the Beast actually is the Devil, then the only proof for a God is that the Beast fought the Disciples of the Light, who possibly could be followers of a God.
    • He does have one of the Ood mention that he will rise from the pit and make war on God.
  • Devil in Disguise: When it hides in Toby
  • Dug Too Deep: How Humanity, and by extension, the Doctor cross his path.
  • Eldritch Abomination: It has a hideous physical appearance, and its origin is logically impossible.
  • Empty Shell: The Beast's body, as its mind has escaped to possess Toby and the Ood.
  • Flaming Devil
  • I Am Legion: It even says the exact quote
  • I Have Many Names:

The Ood: Some may call him Abaddon. Some may call him Krop Tor. Some may call him Satan. Or Lucifer. Or the King of Despair. The Deathless Prince. The Bringer of Night.

  • Legions of Hell: Averted. It's hinted that the Beast was so powerful that it waged war on the Disciples of Light (and possibly God) on its own.
    • The Ood serve as this on the space statio while his body is chained. They even call themselves the Legion of the Beast
  • Lovecraft Lite
  • Manipulative Bastard: The Doctor quickly calls out the Beast out on playing on basic fears, such as fear of the dark or an abusive parent.
  • Many Spirits Inside of One: Inverted. The single Beast possesses many Ood as well as Toby at once.
  • Mark of the Beast: Toby is covered in glyphs that the Tardis can't translate when the Beast possesses him.
  • Mysterious Past: Up to eleven. The only hints at the Beast's past are its claims (which can't exactly be trusted or proven), some vague cave drawings the Doctor finds nears its cell, and humanity's own Devil myths.
  • Nigh Invulnerability: It's strongly hinted that the mind of the Beast can never be destroyed, that it will live on in the minds of every being in the universe.

The Beast: I shall never die! The thought of me is forever: in the bleeding hearts of men, in their vanity, obsession, and lust! Nothing shall ever destroy me! NOTHING!

  • Our Demons Are Different
  • Outside Context Villain: In a strictly sci-fi series, a creature appears claiming to be Satan himself.
  • Playing with Fire: Toby breathes fire when the Beast possesses him and is ranting when the Doctor destroys the gravity field, dooming himself, the Beast and the human survivors.
  • Psychic Powers: The Beast possesses telekinesis, technopathy and telepathy, which it uses to attack, possess and terrify the Sanctuary base crew once its mind separates itself from its body. It also foretells Rose's death announcement after the battle of London between the Cybermen and Daleks.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Its a sign that the Beast has taken someone over. He can hide it when he wants to though.
  • Satan: The Beast claims it is one of his names, and apparently inspired not only Christianity's Devil, but the Devil figures in every religion in the universe.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: it's so powerful it was sealed miles underground the surface of a planet orbiting a black hole. These Disciples of the Light guys really didn't want this guy to escape
  • Shout-Out: A homage to The Event Horizon.
  • Technopath: voluntarily or not, it makes the A.I. controlled doors, the hologram display, the Ood's speech devices and Rose's mobile phone announce its imminent release.
  • Telepathic Spacemen
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: If it escapes from its prison, then it falls into a black hole. Although the Doctor states that the Devil is really an idea shared among societies, so even this may not truly kill it. In any case, the Beast's prison planet falls into the black hole, apparently with its body, while its mind possessing Toby follows it to the same fate.
  • Time Abyss: It existed before the universe, though the Doctor claims that is impossible. Nevertheless he concedes it could have existed at the start of the universe.
  • Ultimate Evil: If the Beast is what it claims, then it is the first and most powerful evil being to have existed, corrupting every sentient being in the universe.
  • Voice of the Legion: the Ood speak in this when possessed
  • You Cannot Kill an Idea: Although the Beast is defeated, it still possesses psychic influence over every being in time and space.

Lucy Saxon

Dying. Everything dying. The whole of creation was falling apart and I thought there's no point. No point to anything. Not ever.

Played by: Alexandra Moen (2007, 2009)

The Master's wife in The Sound Of Drums, Last of the Time Lords and The End of Time. She was his "faithful companion" until she shot him, after Francine Jones and Jack Harkness were stopped trying to do so by the Doctor.

Madame Kovarian

Oh Doctor, fooling you once was a joy. But fooling you twice, in the same way? It's a privilege.

Played by: Frances Barber (2011)

An enemy of the Doctor who seems to regard him as a threat to the rest of existence and will resort to any means to destroy him. She commands a legion of Clerics in her first appearance, and is later revealed to be part of the Order of the Silence.

  • Church Militant / God Save Us From the Queen: In her first full-length appearance, she appears to be the militant leader of the religious coalition against the Doctor in "A Good Man Goes to War". Really, she's just an agent of the Silence.
  • The Dragon: The most recognizable lackey of the Silence.
  • Entitled Bastard: Has the nerve to ask the woman whose kid she kidnapped and raised into a psychopathic Laser Guided Tykebomb (to kill said woman's best friend, to boot) to spare her because that's what the Doctor (again, the very man she's been plotting to kill) would do. She gets exactly what she deserved.
  • Evil Gloating: Loves to do this, first to the Doctor in "A Good Man Goes to War", then to River Song in "Closing Time".
  • Eyepatch of Power: It's an "eye drive" that lets her interact with the Silence without forgetting them.
  • Karmic Death: Of a sort. In the alternate timeline created by River not killing the Doctor, Amy lets her die from the eyepatch, which the Silence boobytrapped. Since that timeline is erased, though, she's presumably alive.
  • Knight Templar
  • Large Ham: Starts coming across as one in "Closing Time", though compared to some of the other hams on this list she's still pretty subdued.
  • Manipulative Bitch: Has proved herself quite capable of manipulating the Doctor — and relishes it. Just read the quote.
  • No Name Given: Prior to "A Good Man Goes to War", she was never named on-screen and listed only as "Eye-Patch Lady" in the credits.
  • Villains Want Mercy: Actually has the gall to beg Amy for help when her booby-trapped eyepatch is triggered. Amy refuses and puts the eyepatch back in.
  • Woman in Black
  • Xanatos Gambit: Every possible outcome of her plan in "A Good Man Goes To War" includes either the Doctor's death or her escaping with Amy's daughter, meaning her ultimate goal is either accomplished or still easily attainable.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When the Silence have the Doctor in their grasp, they decide they don't need her anymore, and trigger the kill switch in her eyepatch.
  1. ↑ Probably because the Doctor is the only man he's met who is on his level, intelligence wise
  2. ↑ According to the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Legacy of the Daleks
  3. ↑ and it's also rumored that the Doctor and Master would have been revealed to be part of the same person... or something
  4. ↑ In this adventure, Lytton worked for the Daleks, much to the Doctor's distaste.
  5. ↑ And in this adventure, Lytton actually tried to help an alien species fight the Cybermen, though refused to team up with the Doctor.
  6. ↑ Said script was novelized and will soon be turned into an audio drama
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