History Characters / DoctorWhoImmortalsAndEldritchAbominations

* AbusiveParents: One of his children, the Maestro thanks the Doctor for banishing him, saying he was "very bad to them."

!!The Maestro (Fifteenth Doctor]]

!!The Maestro (Fifteenth Doctor]]

The Celestial Toymaker was a mysterious superbeing 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 HeadsIWinTailsYouLose. The First Doctor had encountered him briefly before. He appeared in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E7TheCelestialToymaker "The Celestial Toymaker"]], and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would have returned]] in a {{sequel}} entitled "The Nightmare Fair". Due to ExecutiveMeddling, ''Doctor Who'' then went into an involuntary eighteen month-long hiatus and the production team scrapped all previously commissioned storylines and decided to start afresh. The Toymaker returned in comics in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'', a ''Literature/PastDoctorAdventures'' novel, and ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio plays. ''The Nightmare Fair'' was eventually released as one of Target's Doctor Who novelisations and adapted to audio by Creator/BigFinish.

The Toymaker returned in the 60th anniversary specials, specifically as the main antagonist of [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle "The Giggle"]], portrayed by Creator/NeilPatrickHarris.

--> '''The Toymaker:''' You know full well this is merely a face concealing a vastness that will never cease, because your Good and your Bad are nothing to me. All that exists is to Win, or to Lose.

* AbortedArc: "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear The Web of Fear]]" strongly implies that there will soon be a third encounter with the Intelligence. In fact, such a story was being worked on under the working title of "The Laird of [=McCrimmon=]" (as the name suggests, it would also have been Jamie's farewell story). This was abandoned following Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln falling out with Creator/TheBBC over the abridgement of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators "The Dominators"]], and a dispute over the ownership of the IP relating to the Quarks. Nonetheless, the arc was un-aborted decades later in stories with the Eleventh Doctor.

* BigBad: For [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen "The Abominable Snowmen"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear "The Web of Fear"]] of the original series. It returns as this for Series 7 of the revival, which showcases the Intelligence's first and last encounters (from its point of view) with the Doctor.

* EvilHasGoodTaste: Likes wearing Victorian-era dress suits. Its minions in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells of Saint John"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]] also dress in nice suits.

* LivingDream: [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen "The Snowmen"]] suggests the Intelligence is the "darkest dreams" of a lonely, hateful man come to life. Dr. Simeon had his subconscious mind mirrored by alien snow which is implied in the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] to be [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Yog-Sothoth]]. The Great Intelligence is later forced to separate from Dr. Simeon and possess Yog-Sothoth/the alien snow due to Dr. Simeon having his memories erased, and is later stripped even of Yog-Sothoth when the tears of an entire family take over the Outer God converting it into tears, thus leaving Dr. Simeon's subconscious mind as a being of pure intelligence.

* OriginsEpisode: [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen "The Snowmen"]] explains how the Intelligence first came to Earth, adding to its debut earlier in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen "The Abominable Snowmen"]].

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Part of its motivation for breaking into the Doctor's tomb in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]] is a desire to find a way to end its eternal life.

Sutekh is the last of the Osirians, a powerful race from Phaester Osiris. Sutekh destroyed his planet and left a trail of destruction across the galaxy. In Egypt 7000 years ago he was imprisoned by the remaining 740 Osirians led by Horus beneath a pyramid, paralysed by a power source from Mars. When archaeologist Marcus Scarman entered his tomb in 1911, Sutekh took control of him, planning to destroy the power source. However, when he was finally escaping his prison the Doctor sent the entrance far into the future, ageing Sutekh to death. Sutekh appeared in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsofMars "Pyramids of Mars"]]. He also shows up in the ''Literature/FactionParadox'' series, though he also appears in the ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'' series by Big Finish, both with their own rather exclusive conclusions to him.

* ArcVillain: Of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]].

* TheAce: Self-described as such in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]].

* ActionGirl: She was pretty badass as a normal Viking girl, willing to declare ''war''. Eight centuries later, she's a gun-toting highwaywoman who fought at Agincourt. A few more centuries, and she effectively runs the trap street inhabited by aliens in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]].

* BrokenBird: Oh yes. With over 1,000 years of trauma, she's broken more than any human should ever be. When she breaks '''the Doctor''' in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]] over what happens to Clara, she risks living the rest of eternity in fear of the wrath of the man who saved her life and believed in her the most.

* CreateYourOwnVillain: By the time of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]], she's become bitter towards the Doctor for making her immortal and then just moving on and refusing to make her a companion. They reconcile by the end... and ''then'' she invokes this trope by inadvertently having a hand in the death of Clara and turning him against her. For bonus points, where he was still willing to help her and did his best to understand her situation once he realized the pain she was in, she doesn't do ''anything'' to try and make up for what she did to him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Gives the Doctor this treatment in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]] when he tries to play the JustFriends card with regards to Clara -- despite his actions screaming otherwise.

* EasilyForgiven: By Clara at least, as when last seen they have become travelling companions. {{Forgiveness}} was a theme in Series 9, after all. While the Doctor never forgives her onscreen, he doesn't keep her from following him into the second stolen TARDIS in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]] when he could easily have left her behind to the fate of DyingAlone at the end of the universe.
* EvilWearsBlack: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]] she wears only black, including black tattoos from a contract with her supernatural executioner. While she is not ''evil'' in this episode, she is definitely an antagonist and uses a sinister power.

** Her similarity to [[Characters/DoctorWhoJackHarkness Jack Harkness]] is noted by the Doctor by the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]].

** She suffered a great loss and briefly became cruel and reckless in response, just like Clara did after Danny's death in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater "Dark Water"]]. Of course, immortality means "briefly" has a very different scale in Ashildr's case.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She starts as a brave innocent in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied "The Girl Who Died"]]. By the time of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]] she is callous, robbing people for kicks and willing to kill to escape the planet. She is brought back to empathy by the Doctor, and decides she'll take TheSlowPath to look after those he leaves behind. Alas, while she has noble intentions as Mayor Me, she's willing to go to extreme measures to protect the trap street -- executing anyone who steps out of line no matter how noble their intentions and betraying the Doctor to the Time Lords (resulting in horrific torture for him), which also inadvertently paves the way for Clara's death. In the end, however, she is EasilyForgiven by the semi-resurrected Clara and becomes her companion.
* HeelRealization: During the climax of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]], seeing the terrified villagers running for their lives from the attacking starships helps Ashildr realize how callous and detached she'd become.

* MirrorCharacter: From the Doctor -- both are immortal RenaissanceMan types, doomed to lose everyone they love, and prone to suffering detachment from beauty and kindness without the aid of mortals -- with the last point the reason why he refuses to take her with him in the TARDIS. The events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]] bring the "sliver of ice in his heart" forward when it comes to self-interest. Also, both of them are storytellers in different ways -- she an imaginative weaver of heroic adventures (this fades to TheFogOfAges), he "a bloke in a box, telling stories" who created the identity of the Doctor for himself -- which is one reason he became so fond of her to the point of saving her life via extreme measures. Both also give up their original names at some point, and felt/were out of place in their original societies. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]], each argues that the other could qualify as the Hybrid of the Gallifreyan prophecy, though it was later confirmed to be the Doctor and Clara. In the end, she gets to be a companion to Clara.

* NeverMyFault: Claims that she is not responsible for what happened to Clara in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]] -- granted, she uses that statement to also absolve the Doctor of ''his'' guilt over that, and Clara has no problem forgiving her in any case.

* NoSympathy: It's a downplayed case. When they meet one more time in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]], she not only fails to apologize to the Doctor for betraying him and all the misery that came after, but like Ohila and the Time Lords does not understand why he doesn't ''just get over'' Clara's death. Like them, her immortality and detachment means she cannot fully comprehend how deeply he cares for her, although she has a better understanding of it than they. Unlike them, she tries to absolve the Doctor of any guilt over Clara's death by reassuring him that it wasn't his fault, even saying that Clara died for "who she loved", which of course directly referred to the Doctor.

* TheSociopath: For a long time she was desensitized to the world, seeing no value in human life and even claiming that she had forgotten what sorrow feels like. [[SubvertedTrope The Doctor helps her realize]] [[NotSoAboveItAll that she does still care about human life]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]].

* TrappedInVillainy: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]], she's forced to deliver the Doctor to the Time Lords in order to keep her alien community safe from harm.

** Chews the Doctor out twice -- first for "trapping" her in immortality in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]], and second for becoming TheUnfettered and risking the universe just to save Clara in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]]. While he is shaken and heartsbroken by the first speech, the second has no effect on him because she has NoSympathy for the suffering he's gone through -- which she ''was'' partially, albeit indirectly, responsible for, after all.
** The Doctor gives her this treatment during her Knightmare days, even threatening to become her enemy if she follows through with killing a man. Needless to say, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]] he's not happy with her behaviour as the trap street's mayor and hanging judge, and ''then'' she betrays him to an unknown party, '''and then''' she isn't able to save Clara from an unjust execution...

-->'''The Toymaker''': [[SuddenlyShouting WELL, THAT'S ALRIGHT THEN!]]

-->'''The Toymaker''': WELL, THAT'S ALRIGHT THEN!

-->'''The Toymaker''': But then the Doctor met Bill. Not Stooky Bill, but lady Bill. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime But she was killed by the Cybermen!]]

-->'''The Toymaker''': [[RuleOfThree OH WELL, THAT'S ALRIGHT THEN!]]

-->'''The Toymaker''': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E1FluxChapterOneTheHalloweenApocalypse Und then there came the Flux.]] Oh, Donna Noble, the poor Doctor... ''(Snips a planet)'' The Flux... ''(And again)'' ...was killing everything. ''(And three more)''

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He checks off quite a few boxes here. He's unapologetically racist, sexist, and at the very least anti-trans. Whether or not he genuinely possesses these views or is merely playing the role as part of the 'Game of the 21st Century', however, is more ambiguous

-->'''The Toymaker''': The show is just beginning. Worldwide premiere! Donna Noble, this is for you. Let me tell you what happened. When the Doctor, he was leaving you, he met eine friend called Amy Pond. Und he loved Amy Pond. [[FieryRedhead Yes, he be liking the redheads.]] Und they went to and fro in time und space, but... [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan Amy Pond was touched by der Weeping Angel, und she died!]]

-->''(Brings out a puppet of Clara)''
-->'''The Toymaker''': Und then he was meeting Clara. Ooh! [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven But she was killed by a bird.]]

-->''(Brings out a puppet of Bill)''
-->'''The Toymaker''': But then the Doctor met Bill. Not Stooky Bill, but lady Bill. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime But she was killed by the Cybermen.]]

* SeriousBusiness: Games are the "only" thing that matter to him, and despite his RealityWarper abilities, he "has" to play them fair, SoreLoser or not. If it wasn’t for this, he’d be practically unstoppable.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: This is a complicated one. Series 9 didn't really have any specific ArcVillain or FinalBoss, the closest thing to a BigBadEnsemble was AntiVillain Me, RogueProtagonist The Doctor and BigBadWannabe Rassilon. However there's no big dramatic confrontation between her and The Doctor, they simply talk things through at the end of the Universe and part ways seemingly for good. Like most end of season enemies [[MirrorCharacter she was a lot in common with The Doctor]] but instead of being a full on EvilCounterpart she's more of [[ShadowArchetype a darker take at what being like The Doctor could do to someone's psyche]]. Also while The Doctor generally defeats the latest threat and moves on to the next adventure Me actually [[EarnYourHappyEnding get's exactly what she wanted]].

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Casually establishes himself as more powerful than the Time Lords, the Guardians of Time, and (maybe?) ''God''. More specifically, he turned the Doctor's history into a convoluted mess, and beat the Master, the Guardians in games. However, he makes mention of ''his'' better, "The One Who Waits".

* PetTheDog: Despite snidely referring to Donna and Mel as the Doctor's "handmaidens", he [[spoiler:allows them to approach Fourteen and be with him as he regenerates, despite threatening everyone present with the Galvanic Beam just moments prior.]]

'''Not-Donna:''' It limits. It is limiting.]]

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[[caption-width-right:781:''"The notion of shape is strange."'' ''"It limits. It is limiting."'']]

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Casually establishes himself as more powerful than the Time Lords, the Guardians of Time, and ''God''. More specifically, he turned the Doctor's history into a convoluted mess, and beat the Master, the Guardians, and God in games. However, he makes mention of ''his'' better, "The One Who Waits".

* TheDreaded: The Toymaker is notable for being one of the few enemies the Doctor is genuinely terrified of. Considering he took out the Master, the White and Black Guardians, and ''God'', it's more than justified.

* PhysicalGod: The First Doctor claims that the Toymaker is an immortal and can't be killed. Even if his world is destroyed if he's defeated, he survives and just creates a new one. Considering he took out ''God'', this may actually be an understatement.

* EvilHasGoodTaste: Likes wearing Victorian-era dress suits. Its minions in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells of Saint John"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]] also dress in nice suits.

* InterimVillain: The Great Intelligence was the BigBad for Series 7, the only season of the Eleventh Doctor's tenure without the Silence.

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** However, they are a little below the White and Black Guardians in the universe's SuperWeight scale as the Guardians can offer them powers and desires that even they cannot grant themselves.

* FantasticRacism: The Beast treats human beings as nothing more than pathetic, fearful monkeys that are no danger to it. The only character it treats with even a hint of respect is the Doctor, and only because he can insightfully analyse it and form a plan to fight it.

* MindControl: His signature power.

* {{Expy}}:
** To the Pattern Screamers of the Website/SCPFoundation universe. Both come from a place of emptiness and non-existence, both start out as formless shapeless non-beings that slowly gain shape and form by acclimatizing to humanity and become hateful reflections of whoever observe them.
** Also to the creatures of the Dungeon Dimensions in the {{Literature/Discworld}} universe. They are both shapeless chaotic non-things that want to invade our reality and become "real", and both have to conform to the rules of our universe if they do manage to break in.
** To the Alternates of ''WebVideo/MandelaCatalogue''. Both rely on igniting the fear and paranoia within their prey using their own deepest insecurities against them. Both species' ability to assume form is also imperfect to varying degrees, resulting in the BodyHorror they're known for.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Neil Patrick Harris' Toymaker is one to John Simm's Master. Both were enemies of an incarnation of The Doctor played by David Tennent as well as EvilCounterpart's to The Doctor in general, both treat their conflicts with The Doctor [[ForTheEvulz like one big game]] and both were [[PsychopathicManChild psychopathic man children]] who loved [[DynamicEntry making big entrances]], [[LargeHam changing tones]] [[ColdHam unexpectedly]], making everyone in the world LaughingMad and lip-syncing British pop songs.

* TimeAbyss: She eventually becomes ''billions'' (100 Trillion if the timeline of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia Utopia]] holds up]] of years old and witnessing the end of the universe, having outlived all the other immortals.