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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Part of how it lures people into it, but eventually it finds a form ''its'' comfortable with. [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext A talking frog.]]
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* DemonicPossession: It rips the TARDIS' soul out of her shell, stuffs her into a human body, and then takes over the shell itself when it finds out there are no more [=TARDISes=].
* GeniusLoci: As the Doctor puts it:
-->"This asteroid is sentient."
* SicklyGreenGlow: Represented by this. When it possesses the TARDIS, the normally golden lighting, inside and out, changes to green, most noticeably when it tracks the Doctor, Amy, Rory and Idris to the old console room they're in.
* DemonicPossession: It rips the TARDIS' soul out of her shell, stuffs her into a human body, and then takes over the shell itself when it finds out there are no more [=TARDISes=].
* GeniusLoci: As the Doctor puts it:
-->"This asteroid is sentient."
* SicklyGreenGlow: Represented by this. When it possesses the TARDIS, the normally golden lighting, inside and out, changes to green, most noticeably when it tracks the Doctor, Amy, Rory and Idris to the old console room they're in.
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* GeniusLoci: The best way to describe it, is that it's an ''intelligent universe''.
* TragicMonster: It ultimately doesn't mean any harm to the people it abducts, it's simply UNFATHOMABLY lonely. It even is willing to let the Doctor, it's last remaining companion, go free for both their sakes.
* TragicMonster: It ultimately doesn't mean any harm to the people it abducts, it's simply UNFATHOMABLY lonely. It even is willing to let the Doctor, it's last remaining companion, go free for both their sakes.
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* GeniusLoci: The best way to describe it, it is that it's an ''intelligent universe''.
* TragicMonster: It ultimately doesn't mean any harm to the people it abducts, it's simply UNFATHOMABLY lonely. It even is willing to let the Doctor,it's its last remaining companion, go free for both their sakes.
* TragicMonster: It ultimately doesn't mean any harm to the people it abducts, it's simply UNFATHOMABLY lonely. It even is willing to let the Doctor,
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A sentient and parasitic {{Genius Loci}} Planetoid that primarily feeds on [=TARDISes=].
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* DeathSeeker: In his final appearance, the Great Intelligence has grown weary of eternal life, and is quite pleased to have found a way to end it. That he can take a cruel revenge on the Doctor in the bargain just makes it all the more irresistible.
* EvilIsHammy: In "The Snowmen", Creator/IanMcKellen's portrayal sees the Great Intelligence pile on a bit of ham, although afterwards, Creator/RichardEGrant sticks to a cold-blooded, SoftSpokenSadist performance.
* EvilIsPetty: To take revenge on the Doctor for his interference in his plans, the Great Intelligence tries to avert every single one of the Doctor's victories throughout his life, not caring in the least that he's destroying himself in the process, or that doing so will mean the end of time and reality themselves.
* EvilIsPetty: To take revenge on the Doctor for his interference in his plans, the Great Intelligence tries to avert every single one of the Doctor's victories throughout his life, not caring in the least that he's destroying himself in the process, or that doing so will mean the end of time and reality themselves.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The ([[{{Narcissist}} self-described]]) Great Intelligence devours human minds, uses people up and tosses them aside, and shamelessly kills innocent people for the sake of his own selfish goals. He's even fine with reversing all of the Doctor's victories, endangering all of time and space, to end his own life (because he's tired of it) and to avenge himself upon the Doctor.
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* PetTheDog: Takes Subverted. The Great Intelligence the time to say goodbye to Ms Kizlet before wiping her memories, rather than doing it there and then.then, but given that he's still erasing her entire life, this can hardly be called an act of compassion.
* SoftSpokenSadist: After taking Simeon's appearance, the Great Intelligence never so much as raises his voice, always speaking in a low, chilling tone that displays his immense cruelty.
* SoftSpokenSadist: After taking Simeon's appearance, the Great Intelligence never so much as raises his voice, always speaking in a low, chilling tone that displays his immense cruelty.
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* EvilSoundsDeepEvilSoundsDeep: Sutekh's voice is deep and booming, as befits any self-respecting would-be god and OmnicidalManiac.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Once it has the Doctor at its mercy, the entity speaks up, pretending to be Sky, grateful for being freed from a state of helplessness, all in a tone that drips with malevolence.
* SmugSnake: Once it has a voice of its own, it revels in the Doctor's helplessness, but quickly says too much, cluing the Hostess in to the truth of the situation and earning itself a one-way ticket back out into "the dark, and the cold, and the diamonds".
* UncertainDoom: It could already survive on the surface of Midnight, so it's not entirely clear if being dragged out there while possessing Sky might have killed it. The Doctor isn't willing to take any chances and makes sure that the entire planet is evacuated and declared off-limits.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's really unclear why they decided to enter our dimension, whether they want to communicate with us, study us or eliminate us one by one. The Doctor ponders this question for a while, but eventually lands on them as aware of their actions, but too callous to care, and banishes the Boneless to their home dimension to keep them from causing any more damage.
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An impossibly old form of consciousness, born alongside the universe itself. But it's sheer alien nature was a threat, so it was banished to its own plane of existence.
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* GeniusLoci: The best way to describe it, is that it's an ''intelligent universe''.
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* GeniusLoci: The best way to describe it, is that it's an ''intelligent universe''.
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* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Their real name is unknown due to being unable to communicate, the communicate. The Doctor gave the name of dubs them "The Boneless" since he found "Killer Graffiti" rubbish.
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* EldritchAbomination: They come from outside time, and appear when paradoxes are created to feast, and can' be damaged or destroyed.
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Winged dragon-like monsters from the Time Vortex who feed on temporal paradoxes. Completely invincible, the Doctor describes them as being like bacteria infecting a wound in history, running rampant in the aftermath of the Time War now that the Time Lords are gone.
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* AllThereInTheScript: They are never identified by name in-universe; the name "Reaper" comes from the script, as well as other sources such as ''Doctor Who Legacy'' and the comic ''The Four Doctors''.
* ClockRoaches: They "sterilize the wound" left by a temporal paradox Rose created.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Reapers feel like an important addition to a show that revolves around time travel, but they're never seen or mentioned after this episode, even in cases a where a paradox should lead to their appearance.
* EldritchAbomination: They come from outside time, and appear when paradoxes are created to feast, and can' be damaged or destroyed.
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Winged dragon-like monsters from the Time Vortex who feed on temporal paradoxes. Completely invincible, the Doctor describes them as being like bacteria infecting a wound in history, running rampant in the aftermath of the Time War now that the Time Lords are gone.
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* AllThereInTheScript: They are never identified by name in-universe; the name "Reaper" comes from the script, as well as other sources such as ''Doctor Who Legacy'' and the comic ''The Four Doctors''.
* ClockRoaches: They "sterilize the wound" left by a temporal paradox Rose created.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Reapers feel like an important addition to a show that revolves around time travel, but they're never seen or mentioned after this episode, even in cases a where a paradox should lead to their appearance.
* EldritchAbomination: They come from outside time, and appear when paradoxes are created to feast, and can' be damaged or destroyed.
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!!The Boneless (Twelfth Doctor)
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->''"I tried to reach out, I tried to understand you, but I think that you understand us perfectly. And I think that you just don't care!"''
-->-- '''Twelfth Doctor'''
Creatures from another plane that only understand two dimensions, and have entered our world through Bristol and have started taking people and turning them flat.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's really unclear why they decided to enter dimension, whether they want to communicate with us, study us or eliminate us one by one.
* EldritchAbomination: Creatures that come from a 2-D plane of existence.
* FlatWorld: Their universe is two-dimensional, so they're from a very literal version of this trope.
* ForTheEvulz: As enigmatic as they are, it is made clear that they are gleefully aware of the harm they're causing.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Their motives are left deliberately unclear and many hypotheses are brought up during the episode; perhaps they're here to contact us, [[KillAllHumans kill us all]], dissect or study us and [[ObliviouslyEvil don't even know that we require 3 dimensions to survive]].
* HumanoidAbomination: Eventually they take the form of those they've killed when they finally understand 3 dimensions.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Their real name is unknown due to being unable to communicate, the Doctor gave the name of "The Boneless" since he found "Killer Graffiti" rubbish.
* PaperPeople: Comes with being 2-D lifeforms.
* StarfishAliens: Beings from a 2-D dimension that are attacking Earth.
* StarfishLanguage: The TARDIS is unable to translate their language because being aliens who don't understand the concept of a third dimension are even too bizarre for her standards.
* StealthPun: They're two-dimensional in more ways than one.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Rare alien-on-human example. They turn humans into 2-D and dissect them to understand their bodies so they can become 3D.
* ZombieGait: When they take the appearance of those they've killed, the creatures run after everyone this way. Having a rudimentary understanding of 3D and human anatomy, their walking style is crude and zombie-like.
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!!The Boneless (Twelfth Doctor)
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->''"I tried to reach out, I tried to understand you, but I think that you understand us perfectly. And I think that you just don't care!"''
-->-- '''Twelfth Doctor'''
Creatures from another plane that only understand two dimensions, and have entered our world through Bristol and have started taking people and turning them flat.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's really unclear why they decided to enter dimension, whether they want to communicate with us, study us or eliminate us one by one.
* EldritchAbomination: Creatures that come from a 2-D plane of existence.
* FlatWorld: Their universe is two-dimensional, so they're from a very literal version of this trope.
* ForTheEvulz: As enigmatic as they are, it is made clear that they are gleefully aware of the harm they're causing.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Their motives are left deliberately unclear and many hypotheses are brought up during the episode; perhaps they're here to contact us, [[KillAllHumans kill us all]], dissect or study us and [[ObliviouslyEvil don't even know that we require 3 dimensions to survive]].
* HumanoidAbomination: Eventually they take the form of those they've killed when they finally understand 3 dimensions.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Their real name is unknown due to being unable to communicate, the Doctor gave the name of "The Boneless" since he found "Killer Graffiti" rubbish.
* PaperPeople: Comes with being 2-D lifeforms.
* StarfishAliens: Beings from a 2-D dimension that are attacking Earth.
* StarfishLanguage: The TARDIS is unable to translate their language because being aliens who don't understand the concept of a third dimension are even too bizarre for her standards.
* StealthPun: They're two-dimensional in more ways than one.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Rare alien-on-human example. They turn humans into 2-D and dissect them to understand their bodies so they can become 3D.
* ZombieGait: When they take the appearance of those they've killed, the creatures run after everyone this way. Having a rudimentary understanding of 3D and human anatomy, their walking style is crude and zombie-like.
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A trio of statue-like beings who possess phenomenal cosmic power, the "family" manipulate lesser beings into entertaining them in their Dark Circus, allowing them to live as long as they fulfil their craving for amusement.
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* CompleteImmortality: The Eternals dwell in the domain of Eternity, rather than the smaller one of Time. This means they are unaffected by Time and thus unaging. Another factor is that Eternals cannot be destroyed, only transferred back to Eternity. However, in the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic ''Uninvited Guest'', the Seventh Doctor might have found a loophole.
* EldritchAbomination: Exist outside of time and space in eternity, have great RealityWarper powers and they are to ''Time Lords'' what Time Lords are to other races.
* ForTheEvulz: As shown in the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' story ''Uninvited Guest'', the more sadistic Eternals sometimes pose as gods and doom whole worlds in the process.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[AllThereInTheManual Supplemental material]] states they left reality after the Time War and never came back.
* SealedEvilInACan: They were the ones who locked away the Carrionites.
* {{Telepathy}}: They could use telepathy and create objects from the memories of Ephemerals, but their powers were not limitless and they could not read minds from great distance or from strong minds (though Adrenaline from the mind they're accessing helps greatly).
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Eternity is boring, so they have to find ''something'' to do to occupy their time.
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A trio of statue-like beings who possess phenomenal cosmic power, the "family" manipulate lesser beings into entertaining them in their Dark Circus, allowing them to live as long as they fulfil their craving for amusement.
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* CompleteImmortality: The Eternals dwell in the domain of Eternity, rather than the smaller one of Time. This means they are unaffected by Time and thus unaging. Another factor is that Eternals cannot be destroyed, only transferred back to Eternity. However, in the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic ''Uninvited Guest'', the Seventh Doctor might have found a loophole.
* EldritchAbomination: Exist outside of time and space in eternity, have great RealityWarper powers and they are to ''Time Lords'' what Time Lords are to other races.
* ForTheEvulz: As shown in the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' story ''Uninvited Guest'', the more sadistic Eternals sometimes pose as gods and doom whole worlds in the process.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[AllThereInTheManual Supplemental material]] states they left reality after the Time War and never came back.
* SealedEvilInACan: They were the ones who locked away the Carrionites.
* {{Telepathy}}: They could use telepathy and create objects from the memories of Ephemerals, but their powers were not limitless and they could not read minds from great distance or from strong minds (though Adrenaline from the mind they're accessing helps greatly).
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Eternity is boring, so they have to find ''something'' to do to occupy their time.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Based off what Possesed!Sky Possessed!Sky said about it, Midnight is ''not'' a pleasant place to live. When it realizes that [[spoiler:it's going back outside,]] it lets off an absolutely terrified scream.
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* CompleteImmortality: The Intelligence has no physical form that can degrade or be destroyed. This has allowed it to survive despite losing multiple "receptacles" since the 1800s. Scattering itself across the Doctor's personal timeline, though, is implied to have finally killed it.
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* CompleteImmortality: The Intelligence has no physical form that can degrade or be destroyed. This has allowed it to survive despite losing multiple "receptacles" since the 1800s. Scattering itself across the Doctor's personal timeline, though, is implied to have finally killed it.it, [[FridgeHorror unless it truly is the consciousness of Yog-Sothoth, in which case it's likely that it simply was reabsorbed into its original body, which exists across the fabric of time and space]].
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!!Fenric (Seventh Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' Dinsdale Landen (as Dr. Judson) and Tomek Bork (as Captain Sorin) (1989)
An evil entity from the beginning of the Universe that plans to make humans evolve into the Vampiric Haemovores. Defeated, but returns in the 2012 Big Finish audio "Gods and Monsters".
!!Fenric (Seventh Doctor)
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!!Light (Seventh Doctor)
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An
* ArchivePanic: Light gets a severe case of this when he tries to catalogue all of Earth's life forms.
* {{Camp}}: Just take a look at his appearance, not to mention his LargeHam tendencies.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Light is not really an angel, or even humanoid; like an Eternal he's simply "naturalised into" human form.
* LightIsNotGood: Literally. Although Light appears as a heavenly vision of white and gold, his motives are anything but pure, and he soon reveals himself to be insane, murderous and irrational.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Light is infuriated by the fact that the Earth has changed, making the inventory he was working on meaningless. He resolves to destroy the Earth so it will stop changing. The Doctor points out the idiocy of thinking that you can stop change, and that everything in the universe is changing, including Light. Light commits suicide because he considers change a FateWorseThanDeath.
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!!Fenric (Seventh Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' Dinsdale Landen (as Dr. Judson) and Tomek Bork (as Captain Sorin) (1989)
An evil entity from the beginning of the Universe that plans to make humans evolve into the Vampiric Haemovores. Defeated, but returns in the 2012 Big Finish audio "Gods and Monsters".
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* {{Camp}}: Just take a look at his appearance, not to mention his LargeHam tendencies.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Light is not really an angel, or even humanoid; like an Eternal he's simply "naturalised into" human form.
* LightIsNotGood: Literally. Although Light appears as a heavenly vision of white and gold, his motives are anything but pure, and he soon reveals himself to be insane, murderous and irrational.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Light is infuriated by the fact that the Earth has changed, making the inventory he was working on meaningless. He resolves to destroy the Earth so it will stop changing. The Doctor points out the idiocy of thinking that you can stop change, and that everything in the universe is changing, including Light. Light commits suicide because he considers change a FateWorseThanDeath.
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!!Fenric (Seventh Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' Dinsdale Landen (as Dr. Judson) and Tomek Bork (as Captain Sorin) (1989)
An evil entity from the beginning of the Universe that plans to make humans evolve into the Vampiric Haemovores. Defeated, but returns in the 2012 Big Finish audio "Gods and Monsters".
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!!Light (Seventh Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' John Hallam (1989)
An Eternal who manifests himself in the form of an angel, Light has made it his fanatical duty to travel through time and space, documenting every single species in the universe in his exhaustive "Catalogue of Life". Light detests change; so much so that that the process of evolution turns him completely genocidal.
!!Light (Seventh Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' John Hallam (1989)
An Eternal who manifests himself in the form of an angel, Light has made it his fanatical duty to travel through time and space, documenting every single species in the universe in his exhaustive "Catalogue of Life". Light detests change; so much so that that the process of evolution turns him completely genocidal.
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!!The Beast (Tenth Doctor)
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An Eternal
-->''"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!"''
A being of great power who
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* ArchivePanic: Light gets a severe case of this when he tries to catalogue all of Earth's life forms.
* {{Camp}}: Just take a look at his appearance, not to mention his LargeHam tendencies.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Light is not really an angel, or even humanoid; like an Eternal he's simply "naturalised into" human form.
* LightIsNotGood: Literally. Although Light appears as a heavenly vision of white and gold, his motives are anything but pure, and he soon reveals himself to be insane, murderous and irrational.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Light is infuriated by the fact that the Earth has changed, making the inventory he was working on meaningless. He resolves to destroy the Earth so it will stop changing. The Doctor points out the idiocy of thinking that you can stop change, and that everything in the universe is changing, including Light. Light commits suicide because he considers change a FateWorseThanDeath.
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[[folder:The Beast]]
!!The Beast (Tenth Doctor)
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->'''Voiced by:''' Gabriel Woolf (2006)
-->''"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!"''
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 to its cell. Its mind plans to escape by possessing the team's archaeologist Toby Zed, leaving its original body 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 Toby.
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* {{Camp}}: Just take a look at his appearance, not to mention his LargeHam tendencies.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Light is not really an angel, or even humanoid; like an Eternal he's simply "naturalised into" human form.
* LightIsNotGood: Literally. Although Light appears as a heavenly vision of white and gold, his motives are anything but pure, and he soon reveals himself to be insane, murderous and irrational.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Light is infuriated by the fact that the Earth has changed, making the inventory he was working on meaningless. He resolves to destroy the Earth so it will stop changing. The Doctor points out the idiocy of thinking that you can stop change, and that everything in the universe is changing, including Light. Light commits suicide because he considers change a FateWorseThanDeath.
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!Revival Series Debut
[[folder:The Beast]]
!!The Beast (Tenth Doctor)
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->'''Voiced by:''' Gabriel Woolf (2006)
-->''"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!"''
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 to its cell. Its mind plans to escape by possessing the team's archaeologist Toby Zed, leaving its original body 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 Toby.
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[[folder:The Celestial Toymaker]]
!!Celestial Toymaker (First Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelGough (1966)
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.
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* AffablyEvil: Unfailing polite to the Doctor and his companions. He doesn't want to ''kill'' the Doctor, he just wants to keep him around as his perpetual opponent because his intelligence makes playing games more fun and challenging.
* ForTheEvulz: Everyone he does is just because he's bored.
* TheGMIsACheatingBastard: Downplayed somewhat. He actually does abide by a certain set of rules throughout the story, though that's not to say that going through his games is a pleasant experience.
* GracefulLoser: '''Defied'''. If he loses a game, his world is destroyed, and he simply creates a new one. However the victor is usually destroyed with the old world too.
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum if he loses; AndIMustScream if he wins.
* HumanoidAbomination: We never find out what the Toymaker actually ''is'', only that's he immortal with god-like powers. In an expanded universe novel, the Toymaker is said to be a Great Old One, alongside Nyarlathotep, Hastur, and others from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. A young Doctor, Master, and others read about them and being young and impulsive decide to seek him out, totally underestimating his power.
** Another story claimed the Toymaker was really one of the six [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Guardians of Time]], like the White and Black Guardians. He is supposed to represent dreams and fantasy.
* MonsterClown: He isn't as actively cruel and malicious as a lot of examples of this trope, but he's certainly a horrible person all the same.
* 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.
* PsychopathicManchild: He uses his powers to turn people into living dolls and make them play his twisted games, out of sheer boredom.
* WeWillMeetAgain: In his only televised appearance, the First Doctor mentions that the Toymaker is immortal, and that he fully expects to run into him again. Sadly he never did, at least not on screen, anyway.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: He's driven to his villainy by the sheer boredom of immortality. He doesn't even mind the Doctor destroying his realm because at least rebuilding it will mean he has something to do.
* WickedToymaker: He abducts people to his little dimension, forces them to play lethal games, and threatens to destroy them utterly if they don't comply.
* WorldLimitedToThePlot: His story takes place in his own personal dimension, his "toy room".
* WorthyOpponent: Considers the First Doctor one due to his brain power. It's why he wants to keep him around as his perpetual opponent.
* {{Yellowface}}: Borderline example, in that Michael Gough dressed as a mandarin and adopted the title of "Celestial", a word that the English associated with UsefulNotes/{{Chin|a}}ese culture. But he did not adopt a Chinese-sounding accent or wear makeup.
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[[folder:The Great Intelligence]]
!!The Great Intelligence (Second and Eleventh Doctors)
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->'''Played by:''' Wolfe Morris (as Padmasambhava) (1967); Jack Woolgar (as Staff Sgt. Arnold) and Jack Watling (as Prof. Travers) (1968); Sir Creator/IanMcKellen (2012); Creator/RichardEGrant (as Walter Simeon) (2012–2013)
-->''"Now the dream outlives the dreamer and can never die. Once I was the puppet... Now I pull the strings!"''
The Great Intelligence, which usually referred to itself simply as the Intelligence, was a disembodied sentience who attempted to find a body and physical existence. It first (from its own perspective) encountered the Eleventh Doctor, followed by the Second, and it got quite complicated from there.
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* 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.
* AndIMustScream: Padmasambhava is fully conscious while the Intelligence spends hundreds of years using his body to carry out its plans.
* ArchEnemy: To Clara Oswald, who spends most of her reincarnated lives stopping the damage that he did to the web of time.
* BadBoss: Eats the hired hands who obtain samples for it in [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen "The Snowmen"]], and mindwipes its minions in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells of Saint John"]] once the Doctor ruins its plans.
* BigBad: He's the main antagonist of the second half of series 7. And for Season 5. (The Cybermen also appear in two stories, but GI appears in more.)
* BodySurf: One of its goals is to obtain a suitable physical body for itself.
* BrainFood: Feeds on human minds.
* TheBusCameBack: Became the main antagonist of series 7 after disappearing from the show for 44 years.
* TheChessmaster: He can play the role of a puppetmaster and manipulate countless humans to carry out his endeavours. He is responsible for a large amount of the events in Series 7. As of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], technically he was partially responsible for everything that ever went wrong for the Doctor.
* CompleteImmortality: The Intelligence has no physical form that can degrade or be destroyed. This has allowed it to survive despite losing multiple "receptacles" since the 1800s. Scattering itself across the Doctor's personal timeline, though, is implied to have finally killed it.
* EldritchAbomination: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen "The Abominable Snowmen"]], he was introduced as a monster that existed outside time and space that possessed Padmasambhava through AstralProjection for 300 years. The [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] even suggests he is the disembodied conscience of [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Yog-Sothoth]].
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: What he did to Staff Sgt. Arnold, and Edward Travers.
* EvilCounterpart: Moffat's reinvention of the Great Intelligence is a dark mirror of the Doctor, taking young "companions" it manipulates and feeds on for its own ends.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Creator/IanMcKellen's portrayal has a deep, booming voice.
* 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.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The very image of a polite Victorian gentlemen. Doesn't stop him from eating human minds and treating his minions like dirt.
* HaveWeMetYet: Meets the Eleventh Doctor, the Second Doctor (twice) and... well, then things get really, really complicated as he is ripped into a million pieces across the Doctor's entire timeline.
* HellBentForLeather: Wears very stylish leather gloves, and makes a point of grabbing the Doctor's face with them.
* IAmLegion: Often refers to itself in the plural.
* InternalHomage: To the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] novel ''Unnatural History'', in which the Doctor’s lifeline becomes a scar woven through space and time, which the villain — dressed as a Victorian undertaker — is going to attempt to use to rewrite his life, until the Doctor’s companion (who he’s met before in a different version) saves the day by leaping into it at the cost of her own existence.
* 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 him into tears, thus leaving Dr. Simeon's subconscious mind as a being of pure intelligence.
* MechaMooks:
** Its Yeti are actually robots, as it realized snowmen weren't going to cut it.
** Later the walking wi-fi base station "Spoonheads", robots that camouflage themselves to look human.
* MindControl: Many of its plots involve brainwashing humans to do its bidding.
* MoreThanMindControl: Dr. Simeon and Ms. Kizlet were fully aware of the Intelligence's influence on them, and yet wished to do its bidding anyway.
* NiceHat: Wears a top hat in its Dr. Simeon form.
* NotBrainwashed: It's revealed that the mind exuding from the alien snow speaking to Dr. Simeon throughout his life wasn't the alien's ''own'' mind, but the mirroring of Dr. Simeon's subconscious mind, thus meaning he was doing his ''own'' childish bidding; and when his memories were being erased, the Great Intelligence/Dr. Simeon transferred to the EldritchAbomination that was taking the shape of snow, only to be kicked out of said alien EldritchAbomination by a grieving family on Christmas Eve.
* OriginsEpisode: [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen "The Snowmen"]] explains how the Intelligence first came to Earth, adding to its debut earlier in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen "The Abominable Snowmen"]].
* PeoplePuppets: Many of the humans its machines brainwash don't remember anything they did while under its control.
* PerpetualFrowner: The only time we see his Simeon form so much as smirk is right after he proves his point about not having a body.
* PetTheDog: Takes the time to say goodbye to Ms Kizlet before wiping her memories, rather than doing it there and then.
* SoreLoser: Wants to [[FateWorseThanDeath undo all the good the Doctor has ever done]] (which would undoubtedly wreck the timeline) just to get back at the Doctor for being constantly beaten.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Part of his 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 his eternal life.
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[[folder:Nestene Consciousness]]
!!Nestene Consciousness (Third and Ninth Doctors)
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NicholasBriggs (2005)
->'''Rose:''' And this living plastic, what's it got against us?\\
'''Ninth Doctor:''' Nothing, it loves you. You've got such a good planet! Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air, perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs.
The actual mind behind the Autons. After a couple of stabs at invading Earth in the Third Doctor's era, they returned in 2005 out of sheer desperation, having lost their "protein planets" in a [[GreatOffscreenWar mysterious war]].
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* AntiVillain: To a degree, it comes across as this in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose "Rose"]]. After losing its planets during the Time War, something the Doctor claims he's [[ItsAllMyFault partially responsible]] for [[NiceJobBreakingItHero failing to prevent]], it plans to cannibalise Earth out of desperation to rebuild its race, rather than wanting to do so out of malevolence.
* CombatTentacles: They nearly throttled the Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace "Spearhead from Space"]].
* EldritchAbomination: According to the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse expanded universe]], the Nestene Consciousness is the offspring of Shub-Niggurath, an actual [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] creation.
* HiveMind: Controlling the Autons.
* StarfishAliens: Whenever it (they?) takes a physical form, it's a decidedly weird one. Sometimes it's a space-squid, sometimes it's just a vat of talking molten plastic.
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[[folder:Sutekh]]
!!Sutekh (Fourth Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' Gabriel Woolf (1975)
->'''Fourth Doctor:''' You use your powers for evil.\\
'''Sutekh:''' Evil? Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the destroyer. Where I tread, I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good!
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, paralyzed 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.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He's so powerful that if he gets loose, not even the full power of the Time Lords will be able to stop him. It took the combined efforts of seven hundred and forty one of his fellow Phaester Osirians to imprison him the first time — Sutekh is ''that'' powerful.
* AncientAstronauts: The Osirians inspired Egyptian Culture.
* AndIMustScream: Was physically immobile the whole time trapped in a pyramid.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: How he sees things.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Sutekh's battle with Horus and the last of the Osirians inspired Egyptian mythology.
* BigNo: He lets one of these rip before his death.
* CardCarryingVillain: "Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the Destroyer. Where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good."
* ColdHam: He manages to out-ham Tom Baker without ever raising his voice above a malevolent whisper.
* EldritchAbomination: At the time, the Doctor describes him as the worst threat he has ever faced, the greatest time of peril in the history of the Earth, and given his awakening would have rendered the planet a barren wasteland before he spread across the universe to kill everything, his concern was very much justified.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: If Sutekh's last stab at bargaining with the Doctor is any indication — he offers to spare the planet Earth (just Earth) and give it to him as "a plaything".
* EvilSoundsDeep
* InvisibleMeansUndodgeable: His magic.
* KneelBeforeZod: If you refuse, he'll just psychically torture you into obeying.
* KnightOfCerebus: He's bad enough to make the Fourth Doctor scared.
* LastOfHisKind: Destroyed his home planet, and the remaining 740 survivors have by now died.
* MindOverMatter: He uses telekinesis throughout the story to counter his own paralysis; at one point, he even uses his mind to contain the blast from a gelignite explosive. Doubly impressive considering the explosion is occurring in England and Sutekh's pyramid is in Egypt!
* MistakenForGods: The Osirians became the Gods of Ancient Egypt.
* NephariousPharaoh: He's a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien with an Egyptian theme and {{Mooks}} disguised as {{Mumm|y}}ies.
* OmnicidalManiac: Sutekh the Destroyer was a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien with these tendencies to preclude the possibility that something that could challenge him ''might evolve''.
-->'''Sutekh:''' The alien who dares to intrude, the humans, animals, birds, fish, reptiles... all life is my enemy. All life shall perish under the reign of Sutekh the Destroyer!
* PhysicalGod: Incredible mental powers, telekinesis even when paralyzed, and it is shown if he escaped he would be capable of destroying entire worlds. Not even the Time Lords could stop him.
* Really700YearsOld: Really 7000 Years Old.
* SealedEvilInACan: Imprisoned in a pyramid in Egypt.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Despite already being one of the most powerful beings in the Universe takes this to extremes, he wants to destroy all life to prevent something that could kill him evolving.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Starts off as this. Frankly, it's a relief when he breaks out the [[LargeHam ham]].
* TranquilFury: He creepily and effectively whispers every word, even when torturing the Doctor. Until he's freed, when [[LargeHam predictable]] [[KneelBeforeZod characterization]] [[ChewingTheScenery developments]] occur.
* WhatIsEvil: Folder quote for Sutekh. He finds spreading destruction to be "good".
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[[folder:Black Guardian]]
!!Black Guardian (Fourth and Fifth Doctors)
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->'''Played by:''' Valentine Dyall (1979, 1983)
The Black Guardian was an anthropomorphic personification of forces opposed to the powers of light, as embodied by the White Guardian. According to the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], he was, together with the White Guardian and four others, part of the Six-Fold God known as the Guardians of Time.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Represents chaos and evil.
* TheAntiGod: He serves as an EvilCounterpart to [[GodOfGood the White Guardian]].
* ArcVillain: For two different {{Story Arc}}s: The Key to Time and the Black Guardian trilogy.
* BadassBaritone: Villainous example. Any deeper and he'd be a Badass Bass.
* BigBad: Of both the Guardian arcs.
* CardCarryingVillain: The Shadow admits that both he and the Black Guardian have no desire for political power, they just love watching stuff getting blown up and people killed.
* CreepyCrows: Yeah, that's right. There's a crow on his head. Wanna make something of it?
* DealWithTheDevil: Partly how the Black Guardian gets mortals to do things for him.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Valentine Dyall was well-known for his deep, rich, baritone voice.
* GodOfEvil: He represents chaos and darkness in the ''Doctor Who'' universe.
* GodsHandsAreTied: Can't be seen to intervene directly.
* LargeHam
* ManipulativeBastard: He's bound by rules that prevent him from acting directly, so he tricks unwitting pawns like Turlough and Captain Wrack to do his dirty work for him.
* NoIndoorVoice: He apparently doesn't think making your mole conspicuous might in any way get in the way of success.
* OrderVersusChaos[=/=]YinYangClash: He takes the side of chaos in an endless, cosmic chess match versus the White Guardian.
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[[folder:The Gods of Ragnarok]]
!!The Gods of Ragnarok (Seventh Doctor)
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A trio of statue-like beings who possess phenomenal cosmic power, the "family" manipulate lesser beings into entertaining them in their Dark Circus, allowing them to live as long as they fulfil their craving for amusement.
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* ActionFigureSpeech: The three Gods of Ragnarok indicate which of them is talking by raising and lowering their arms.
* ClarkesThirdLaw: They're an alien species powerful enough to be considered gods.
* EldritchAbomination
* EvilSoundsDeep: All three have deep, booming voices.
* ForTheEvulz: The Gods of Ragnarok who were trapped in a parallel dimension (possibly by the Doctor himself) and take over a circus to force people to perform for them, just to alleviate their boredom. When they lose interest in an act, they kill the performer.
* NoodleIncident: The Doctor's previous encounter with them.
* SiliconBasedLife: They appear to be made of stone.
* TheStoic: Any kind of emotion at all is rare.
* TakeThatAudience: The Gods of Ragnarok can be read as this to the general audience at large. In the circus tent, they're presented as a rather dull family with no imagination of their own who just sit disinterestedly in front of a parade of entertainment moaning about how nothing's ever good enough to interest them no matter how creative it is, and anything they vote down is pretty much wiped out of existence. Could also be a TakeThat at the producers of the show, never satisfied by entertainers (*cough* such as John Nathan-Turner *cough) no matter how hard they try to perform.
* TennisBoss: The Doctor defeats the Gods of Ragnarok by using the mirror amulet to reflect their energy blasts and collapse the roof of their balcony seat on them.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Like the Toymaker, they are immortals whose prime motivation is boredom.
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[[folder:Fenric]]
!!Fenric (Seventh Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' Dinsdale Landen (as Dr. Judson) and Tomek Bork (as Captain Sorin) (1989)
An evil entity from the beginning of the Universe that plans to make humans evolve into the Vampiric Haemovores. Defeated, but returns in the 2012 Big Finish audio "Gods and Monsters".
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* ArcWelding: Revealed Ace being transported to Iceworld and Lady Peinforte's magic were his doing.
* ArchEnemy: To the Seventh Doctor.
* BatmanGambit: Plans for his Wolves to open the flask once again.
* BadFuture: Trying to force one where humanity evolve into Haemovores. It's not clear whether this has been averted.
* BigBad: Serves as this to the Seventh Doctor's era despite not appearing till his third season.
* BodySurf: Can do this between his "Wolves".
* TheChessmaster: He and the Doctor, who literally played chess. Though subverted with the Doctor tricking him with a blatantly illegal move.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Haemovores can be held back by faith.
* DemonicPossession: How he manifests.
* EldritchAbomination: Fenric is supposed to have been something from the dawn of time, possibly even earlier. The [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] gives us a more accurate identification: ''Hastur'', the Unspeakable One, the Ragged King. YES, ''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos that one]]''!
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When he takes possession of a new host.
* IHaveManyNames: Fenric, according to the Doctor.
* KneelBeforeZod:
-->'''Fenric:''' The choice is yours, Time Lord. I shall kill you anyway, but if you would like the girl to live... kneel before me.\\
'''Ace:''' I believe in you, Professor.\\
'''Fenric:''' Kneel if you want the girl to live!\\
'''The Doctor:''' [[WhamLine Kill her.]]
* MeaningfulName: Fenric comes from Fenrir, a wolf in Norse Mythology who would break free at the end of the world. And the Haemovores are called "Wolves of Fenric".
* NoodleIncident: The Doctor imprisoned him around the 3rd century after tricking him in a game of chess. It's not revealed exactly what happened.
* OutGambitted: He thinks that he's TheChessmaster, but the Doctor has an [[{{Pun}} Ace]] up his sleeve.
* PsychicPowers: Despite being imprisoned, he can still transport people through time.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When he possesses Judson.
* SealedEvilInACan: And the can got opened...
* StableTimeLoop: Apparently trying to perform one. The Ancient One getting transported back and spreading poison will enable the Haemovores to evolve. Subverted when the Ancient One performs a HeelFaceTurn and destroys Fenric's host body in a HeroicSacrifice.
* ViralTransformation: How the Haemovores are created.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When Fenric no longer needs the Haemovores, he orders the Ancient One to kill them all.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Light]]
!!Light (Seventh Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' John Hallam (1989)
An Eternal who manifests himself in the form of an angel, Light has made it his fanatical duty to travel through time and space, documenting every single species in the universe in his exhaustive "Catalogue of Life". Light detests change; so much so that that the process of evolution turns him completely genocidal.
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* ArchivePanic: Light gets a severe case of this when he tries to catalogue all of Earth's life forms.
* {{Camp}}: Just take a look at his appearance, not to mention his LargeHam tendencies.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Light is not really an angel, or even humanoid; like an Eternal he's simply "naturalised into" human form.
* LightIsNotGood: Literally. Although Light appears as a heavenly vision of white and gold, his motives are anything but pure, and he soon reveals himself to be insane, murderous and irrational.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Light is infuriated by the fact that the Earth has changed, making the inventory he was working on meaningless. He resolves to destroy the Earth so it will stop changing. The Doctor points out the idiocy of thinking that you can stop change, and that everything in the universe is changing, including Light. Light commits suicide because he considers change a FateWorseThanDeath.
[[/folder]]
!Revival Series Debut
[[folder:The Beast]]
!!The Beast (Tenth Doctor)
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->'''Voiced by:''' Gabriel Woolf (2006)
-->''"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!"''
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 to its cell. Its mind plans to escape by possessing the team's archaeologist Toby Zed, leaving its original body 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 Toby.
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* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: See the above quote. Rose decides to put this to the test.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Look at that picture. That's the Doctor between the two pillars standing in front of it.
* BadassBaritone: Even the Doctor compliments his voice.
* BadassBoast: Almost everything it says.
-->'''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.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Humans possessed by it can.
* BigRedDevil: It claims to be {{Satan}}, and it certainly looks the part. No sign of a pitchfork though.
* BodySurf: After screaming orders at the Ood telepathically, it travels into three of them as smoke from Toby to possess the entire hive mind, while still hiding in Toby.
* BreakThemByTalking: Reading people's minds and taunting them by playing on fears and insecurities.
-->'''The Beast:''' Mr. Jefferson, tell me, sir: Did your wife ever forgive you?\\
'''Jefferson:''' I don't know what you mean.\\
'''The Beast:''' Let me tell you a secret. She never did.
* CardboardPrison: Averted, its prison was designed to be VERY difficult to get out of, and if broken, it would fall into a black hole before it could properly escape.
* DemonicPossession: 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.
* DevilButNoGod: If you believe that the Beast actually is the Devil, then the proof for a God is that the Beast fought the Disciples of the Light, who '''possibly''' could be followers of a God. Also, the Ood mention that "he will rise from the pit and make war on God."
* DevilInDisguise: When it hides in Toby it sounds like him when it wants to.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Rose and Doctor throw a being claiming to be Satan into a black hole.
* DugTooDeep: How Humanity, and by extension, the Doctor cross his path.
* EldritchAbomination: It claims to be older than time itself, and its origin is logically impossible even by the Doctor's standards.
* EmptyShell: The Beast's body, as its mind has escaped to possess Toby and the Ood.
* EvilIsNotWellLit: Invoked by the Beast and discussed by the Doctor. The Beast preys on basic, childish fears within people to defeat them, such as fear of the dark. As soon as the humans get the lights in the Sanctuary Base working again they feel better.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He shares a voice actor with Sutekh.
* 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.
* ForTheEvulz: Why it kills Scooti.
* GameFace: As Toby, having red eyes, blue lips and glyphs on his skin.
* GeniusBruiser: When it faced the Disciples of the Light, it was with that giant monster form. In order to escape its prison the Beast split itself into its Genius and Bruiser parts to let the Genius escape.
* GodOfEvil: What it inspires in some religions, as well as war gods and devil figures.
* IAmLegion: It even says the exact quote.
* IHaveManyNames:
-->'''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.
* LeakingCanOfEvil: It possesses Toby and dozens of Ood even before its prison door opens up.
* LegionsOfHell:
** In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' season 1 finale, Abbadon the "Son of the Beast" is revealed to have been imprisoned in a similar manner in the Cardiff Rift on Earth. [[AllThereInTheManual In supplementary materials]], Tosh speculates that there might be other demons trapped elsewhere in the universe in secret prisons...
** The Ood serve as this on the space station while his body is chained. They even call themselves the Legion of the Beast.
* LovecraftLite: The Doctor and Rose send its body and mind flying into a black hole.
* ManipulativeBastard: The Doctor quickly calls out the Beast out on playing on basic fears, such as fear of the dark or an abusive parent.
-->'''Danny:''' But that's how the devil works.\\
'''The Doctor:''' ''Or'' [[Franchise/HannibalLecter a good psychologist]].
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: Inverted. The single Beast possesses many Ood, as well as Toby, at once.
* MarkOfTheBeast: Toby is covered in glyphs that are so old that the TARDIS can't translate them when the Beast possesses him.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is he really the Devil, or just a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who happens to resemble our popular conception of the Devil and perhaps was even the basis for our and other Devil myths? Never established for certain, though the episode hovers closer to the former explanation.
* MindControl: His signature power.
* MindOverMatter: Telekinetically shatters reinforced windows, cuts cables and opens its pit.
* MysteriousPast: The only hints at the Beast's past are its claims (which can't be trusted or proven), some vague cave drawings the Doctor finds nears its cell, and humanity's own Devil myths.
* NamesTheSame:[[invoked]] According to the Great Intelligence, "the Beast" is one of the aliases the Doctor collects over time.
* NighInvulnerability: 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!
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: This one may be the inspiration for all the ones who followed.
* OutsideGenreFoe: In a strictly sci-fi series, a creature appears claiming to be Satan himself. Even better, there is more evidence for the idea it really is the Devil.
* PlayingWithFire: 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.
* PsychicPowers: The Beast possesses [[MindOverMatter 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.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: It's 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 to have one in the entire universe.
-->'''Toby:''' It was so angry. It was fury and rage and death. It was ''him.'' It was the Devil.
* ScaryTeeth: Big scary demon teeth!
* SealedEvilInACan: It's so powerful it was sealed miles underground the surface of a planet precariously orbiting a black hole, meaning that any attempt to escape would send the Beast and the planet to fall into it. These Disciples of the Light guys ''really'' didn't want this guy to escape — and one can see why.
* ShoutOut: A homage to ''Film/EventHorizon'' and ''Film/PrinceOfDarkness'' as well.
* SlasherSmile: When it gets to do its first kill in eons.
* SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat: At least universal when unbound and possessing its own body. Its mind alone is certainly a planetary threat, possibly greater.
* {{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.
%%* TelepathicSpacemen
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: If it escapes from its prison, then it falls into a black hole. 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.
* TimeAbyss: It existed before the universe, though the Doctor claims that is impossible (it lampshades his ArbitrarySkepticism). Nevertheless he concedes it could have existed at the start of the universe.
* UltimateEvil: 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.
* VillainousBreakdown: When the Doctor dooms it to fall into the black hole, both the Beast's mind and body rant, thrash and breathe fire.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Ood speak in this when possessed.
%%* VolcanicVeins
* YouCannotKillAnIdea: Although the Beast is defeated, it still possesses psychic influence over every being in time and space.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Midnight Entity]]
!!The Midnight Entity (Tenth Doctor)
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-> '''Played by:''' Lesley Sharp, Creator/DavidTennant (2008)
-->''"It's inside his head. It killed the driver, and the mechanic, and now it wants us. He's waited so long. In the dark, and the cold, and the diamonds. Until you came. Bodies so hot, with blood, and pain."''
A strange creature found on the inhospitable planet Midnight, which possesses Sky Silvestry. Its physical appearance is never shown, if it has one at all. While possessing Sky, she repeats everything that is said, then she speaks at the same time as others, before finally focusing on just the Doctor and speaking before him, stealing his voice.
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* DemonicPossession: While it doesn't appear to be a demon, its hold on Sky Silvestry is pretty much this.
* TheDisembodied: It's suggested the creature might simply be a disembodied consciousness, as the Doctor asked if it wanted a body. Which would explain how it could survive in X-Tonic radiation and how it entered Sky's mind, although it doesn't explain how it can knock on the hull and rip the ship apart.
* TheDreaded: This thing ''terrifies'' the Doctor in a way almost no other villain in the ''history of the show'' can match.
* EldritchAbomination: Manages to achieve this status without any special effects whatsoever.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: [[TropesAreTools Done effectively]] — ''nothing'' is known about what it plans to do or where it comes from, and it comes off as all the scarier for it.
* NoNameGiven: Not even a nickname, the term "Midnight Entity" comes from the ''Doctor Who'' Wiki.
* NothingIsScarier: When the Doctor tells Sky to turn around, any experienced viewer will know that something terrible will have happened to her appearance. The fact that there's no obvious change to her just adds to the fear of the moment. Also on a meta level. We don't know what species it is, we don't know where it came from, we don't even know if it ''died''. All told, we know next to nothing about it.
* PsychologicalHorror: The creature is never physically shown, and all the fear mechanism stems from the way its possessed victim behaves.
* StopCopyingMe: Played for maximum horror. First it repeats you, then it mimics your words ''in perfect sync''... and then it starts talking ahead of you.
* UltimateEvil: By the end of the episode, the Doctor has no idea what it was or if it's still out there. He can only recommend that the entire planet be evacuated.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Based off what Possesed!Sky said about it, Midnight is ''not'' a pleasant place to live. When it realizes that [[spoiler:it's going back outside,]] it lets off an aboslutely terrified scream.
-->'''Sky:''' Cast him out. Into the sun. And the night. The starlight waits. The emptiness. The midnight sky.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Akhaten]]
!!Akhaten (Eleventh Doctor)
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Also known as "The Old God", Akhaten is a parasitic, monstrous creature that's as large as a planet. It's so big, in fact, that it has its own centre of gravity, and has several inhabited asteroids surrounding itself. Akhaten awakes from its slumber every thousand years at the Festival of Offerings on Tiaanamat, where it feeds off the memories and experiences of the inhabitants.
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* EldritchAbomination: Akhaten is actually revealed to be an unbelievably ancient, sentient, planet-sized parasitic monstrosity of immense power with formless features that must be kept asleep, otherwise it will devour everything.
* EmotionEater: "Grandfather"/the Old God feeds on emotions and stories.
* GodIsEvil: Akhaten's true nature is a merciless parasite that has to be appeased with memories and kept asleep with MusicMagic. When the mummy stirs, the songs changes to a much more urgent "never wake from slumber".
* GodIsGood: Akhaten, the sentient planet god of the seven systems, is referred to as "my warrior" and "my hero" in the songs. This suggests that the songs are to assure him that everything's fine and he can continue to rest his "holy head".
* GeniusLoci: It's either a sentient planet or simply a being so gigantic that it might as well be.
* PhlebotinumOverload: The Old God feeds on the life experiences of others. The Doctor tried to invoke this with his own memories, and came pretty close, but the planet survived that. When Clara offers it "the most important leaf in human history", containing not only the experiences of its owner but all the experiences they could have had, it implodes.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: The Doctor's 1200 years of far flung adventures are not quite spicy enough to bring down Akhaten. Clara's leaf of infinite possibilities does the trick.
[[/folder]]
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[[foldercontrol]]
!Classic Series Debut
[[folder:The Celestial Toymaker]]
!!Celestial Toymaker (First Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelGough (1966)
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.
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* AffablyEvil: Unfailing polite to the Doctor and his companions. He doesn't want to ''kill'' the Doctor, he just wants to keep him around as his perpetual opponent because his intelligence makes playing games more fun and challenging.
* ForTheEvulz: Everyone he does is just because he's bored.
* TheGMIsACheatingBastard: Downplayed somewhat. He actually does abide by a certain set of rules throughout the story, though that's not to say that going through his games is a pleasant experience.
* GracefulLoser: '''Defied'''. If he loses a game, his world is destroyed, and he simply creates a new one. However the victor is usually destroyed with the old world too.
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum if he loses; AndIMustScream if he wins.
* HumanoidAbomination: We never find out what the Toymaker actually ''is'', only that's he immortal with god-like powers. In an expanded universe novel, the Toymaker is said to be a Great Old One, alongside Nyarlathotep, Hastur, and others from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. A young Doctor, Master, and others read about them and being young and impulsive decide to seek him out, totally underestimating his power.
** Another story claimed the Toymaker was really one of the six [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Guardians of Time]], like the White and Black Guardians. He is supposed to represent dreams and fantasy.
* MonsterClown: He isn't as actively cruel and malicious as a lot of examples of this trope, but he's certainly a horrible person all the same.
* 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.
* PsychopathicManchild: He uses his powers to turn people into living dolls and make them play his twisted games, out of sheer boredom.
* WeWillMeetAgain: In his only televised appearance, the First Doctor mentions that the Toymaker is immortal, and that he fully expects to run into him again. Sadly he never did, at least not on screen, anyway.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: He's driven to his villainy by the sheer boredom of immortality. He doesn't even mind the Doctor destroying his realm because at least rebuilding it will mean he has something to do.
* WickedToymaker: He abducts people to his little dimension, forces them to play lethal games, and threatens to destroy them utterly if they don't comply.
* WorldLimitedToThePlot: His story takes place in his own personal dimension, his "toy room".
* WorthyOpponent: Considers the First Doctor one due to his brain power. It's why he wants to keep him around as his perpetual opponent.
* {{Yellowface}}: Borderline example, in that Michael Gough dressed as a mandarin and adopted the title of "Celestial", a word that the English associated with UsefulNotes/{{Chin|a}}ese culture. But he did not adopt a Chinese-sounding accent or wear makeup.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Great Intelligence]]
!!The Great Intelligence (Second and Eleventh Doctors)
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->'''Played by:''' Wolfe Morris (as Padmasambhava) (1967); Jack Woolgar (as Staff Sgt. Arnold) and Jack Watling (as Prof. Travers) (1968); Sir Creator/IanMcKellen (2012); Creator/RichardEGrant (as Walter Simeon) (2012–2013)
-->''"Now the dream outlives the dreamer and can never die. Once I was the puppet... Now I pull the strings!"''
The Great Intelligence, which usually referred to itself simply as the Intelligence, was a disembodied sentience who attempted to find a body and physical existence. It first (from its own perspective) encountered the Eleventh Doctor, followed by the Second, and it got quite complicated from there.
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* 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.
* AndIMustScream: Padmasambhava is fully conscious while the Intelligence spends hundreds of years using his body to carry out its plans.
* ArchEnemy: To Clara Oswald, who spends most of her reincarnated lives stopping the damage that he did to the web of time.
* BadBoss: Eats the hired hands who obtain samples for it in [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen "The Snowmen"]], and mindwipes its minions in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells of Saint John"]] once the Doctor ruins its plans.
* BigBad: He's the main antagonist of the second half of series 7. And for Season 5. (The Cybermen also appear in two stories, but GI appears in more.)
* BodySurf: One of its goals is to obtain a suitable physical body for itself.
* BrainFood: Feeds on human minds.
* TheBusCameBack: Became the main antagonist of series 7 after disappearing from the show for 44 years.
* TheChessmaster: He can play the role of a puppetmaster and manipulate countless humans to carry out his endeavours. He is responsible for a large amount of the events in Series 7. As of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], technically he was partially responsible for everything that ever went wrong for the Doctor.
* CompleteImmortality: The Intelligence has no physical form that can degrade or be destroyed. This has allowed it to survive despite losing multiple "receptacles" since the 1800s. Scattering itself across the Doctor's personal timeline, though, is implied to have finally killed it.
* EldritchAbomination: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen "The Abominable Snowmen"]], he was introduced as a monster that existed outside time and space that possessed Padmasambhava through AstralProjection for 300 years. The [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] even suggests he is the disembodied conscience of [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Yog-Sothoth]].
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: What he did to Staff Sgt. Arnold, and Edward Travers.
* EvilCounterpart: Moffat's reinvention of the Great Intelligence is a dark mirror of the Doctor, taking young "companions" it manipulates and feeds on for its own ends.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Creator/IanMcKellen's portrayal has a deep, booming voice.
* 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.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The very image of a polite Victorian gentlemen. Doesn't stop him from eating human minds and treating his minions like dirt.
* HaveWeMetYet: Meets the Eleventh Doctor, the Second Doctor (twice) and... well, then things get really, really complicated as he is ripped into a million pieces across the Doctor's entire timeline.
* HellBentForLeather: Wears very stylish leather gloves, and makes a point of grabbing the Doctor's face with them.
* IAmLegion: Often refers to itself in the plural.
* InternalHomage: To the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] novel ''Unnatural History'', in which the Doctor’s lifeline becomes a scar woven through space and time, which the villain — dressed as a Victorian undertaker — is going to attempt to use to rewrite his life, until the Doctor’s companion (who he’s met before in a different version) saves the day by leaping into it at the cost of her own existence.
* 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 him into tears, thus leaving Dr. Simeon's subconscious mind as a being of pure intelligence.
* MechaMooks:
** Its Yeti are actually robots, as it realized snowmen weren't going to cut it.
** Later the walking wi-fi base station "Spoonheads", robots that camouflage themselves to look human.
* MindControl: Many of its plots involve brainwashing humans to do its bidding.
* MoreThanMindControl: Dr. Simeon and Ms. Kizlet were fully aware of the Intelligence's influence on them, and yet wished to do its bidding anyway.
* NiceHat: Wears a top hat in its Dr. Simeon form.
* NotBrainwashed: It's revealed that the mind exuding from the alien snow speaking to Dr. Simeon throughout his life wasn't the alien's ''own'' mind, but the mirroring of Dr. Simeon's subconscious mind, thus meaning he was doing his ''own'' childish bidding; and when his memories were being erased, the Great Intelligence/Dr. Simeon transferred to the EldritchAbomination that was taking the shape of snow, only to be kicked out of said alien EldritchAbomination by a grieving family on Christmas Eve.
* OriginsEpisode: [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen "The Snowmen"]] explains how the Intelligence first came to Earth, adding to its debut earlier in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen "The Abominable Snowmen"]].
* PeoplePuppets: Many of the humans its machines brainwash don't remember anything they did while under its control.
* PerpetualFrowner: The only time we see his Simeon form so much as smirk is right after he proves his point about not having a body.
* PetTheDog: Takes the time to say goodbye to Ms Kizlet before wiping her memories, rather than doing it there and then.
* SoreLoser: Wants to [[FateWorseThanDeath undo all the good the Doctor has ever done]] (which would undoubtedly wreck the timeline) just to get back at the Doctor for being constantly beaten.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Part of his 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 his eternal life.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nestene Consciousness]]
!!Nestene Consciousness (Third and Ninth Doctors)
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NicholasBriggs (2005)
->'''Rose:''' And this living plastic, what's it got against us?\\
'''Ninth Doctor:''' Nothing, it loves you. You've got such a good planet! Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air, perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs.
The actual mind behind the Autons. After a couple of stabs at invading Earth in the Third Doctor's era, they returned in 2005 out of sheer desperation, having lost their "protein planets" in a [[GreatOffscreenWar mysterious war]].
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* AntiVillain: To a degree, it comes across as this in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose "Rose"]]. After losing its planets during the Time War, something the Doctor claims he's [[ItsAllMyFault partially responsible]] for [[NiceJobBreakingItHero failing to prevent]], it plans to cannibalise Earth out of desperation to rebuild its race, rather than wanting to do so out of malevolence.
* CombatTentacles: They nearly throttled the Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace "Spearhead from Space"]].
* EldritchAbomination: According to the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse expanded universe]], the Nestene Consciousness is the offspring of Shub-Niggurath, an actual [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] creation.
* HiveMind: Controlling the Autons.
* StarfishAliens: Whenever it (they?) takes a physical form, it's a decidedly weird one. Sometimes it's a space-squid, sometimes it's just a vat of talking molten plastic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sutekh]]
!!Sutekh (Fourth Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' Gabriel Woolf (1975)
->'''Fourth Doctor:''' You use your powers for evil.\\
'''Sutekh:''' Evil? Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the destroyer. Where I tread, I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good!
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, paralyzed 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.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He's so powerful that if he gets loose, not even the full power of the Time Lords will be able to stop him. It took the combined efforts of seven hundred and forty one of his fellow Phaester Osirians to imprison him the first time — Sutekh is ''that'' powerful.
* AncientAstronauts: The Osirians inspired Egyptian Culture.
* AndIMustScream: Was physically immobile the whole time trapped in a pyramid.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: How he sees things.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Sutekh's battle with Horus and the last of the Osirians inspired Egyptian mythology.
* BigNo: He lets one of these rip before his death.
* CardCarryingVillain: "Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the Destroyer. Where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good."
* ColdHam: He manages to out-ham Tom Baker without ever raising his voice above a malevolent whisper.
* EldritchAbomination: At the time, the Doctor describes him as the worst threat he has ever faced, the greatest time of peril in the history of the Earth, and given his awakening would have rendered the planet a barren wasteland before he spread across the universe to kill everything, his concern was very much justified.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: If Sutekh's last stab at bargaining with the Doctor is any indication — he offers to spare the planet Earth (just Earth) and give it to him as "a plaything".
* EvilSoundsDeep
* InvisibleMeansUndodgeable: His magic.
* KneelBeforeZod: If you refuse, he'll just psychically torture you into obeying.
* KnightOfCerebus: He's bad enough to make the Fourth Doctor scared.
* LastOfHisKind: Destroyed his home planet, and the remaining 740 survivors have by now died.
* MindOverMatter: He uses telekinesis throughout the story to counter his own paralysis; at one point, he even uses his mind to contain the blast from a gelignite explosive. Doubly impressive considering the explosion is occurring in England and Sutekh's pyramid is in Egypt!
* MistakenForGods: The Osirians became the Gods of Ancient Egypt.
* NephariousPharaoh: He's a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien with an Egyptian theme and {{Mooks}} disguised as {{Mumm|y}}ies.
* OmnicidalManiac: Sutekh the Destroyer was a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien with these tendencies to preclude the possibility that something that could challenge him ''might evolve''.
-->'''Sutekh:''' The alien who dares to intrude, the humans, animals, birds, fish, reptiles... all life is my enemy. All life shall perish under the reign of Sutekh the Destroyer!
* PhysicalGod: Incredible mental powers, telekinesis even when paralyzed, and it is shown if he escaped he would be capable of destroying entire worlds. Not even the Time Lords could stop him.
* Really700YearsOld: Really 7000 Years Old.
* SealedEvilInACan: Imprisoned in a pyramid in Egypt.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Despite already being one of the most powerful beings in the Universe takes this to extremes, he wants to destroy all life to prevent something that could kill him evolving.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Starts off as this. Frankly, it's a relief when he breaks out the [[LargeHam ham]].
* TranquilFury: He creepily and effectively whispers every word, even when torturing the Doctor. Until he's freed, when [[LargeHam predictable]] [[KneelBeforeZod characterization]] [[ChewingTheScenery developments]] occur.
* WhatIsEvil: Folder quote for Sutekh. He finds spreading destruction to be "good".
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[[folder:Black Guardian]]
!!Black Guardian (Fourth and Fifth Doctors)
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->'''Played by:''' Valentine Dyall (1979, 1983)
The Black Guardian was an anthropomorphic personification of forces opposed to the powers of light, as embodied by the White Guardian. According to the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], he was, together with the White Guardian and four others, part of the Six-Fold God known as the Guardians of Time.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Represents chaos and evil.
* TheAntiGod: He serves as an EvilCounterpart to [[GodOfGood the White Guardian]].
* ArcVillain: For two different {{Story Arc}}s: The Key to Time and the Black Guardian trilogy.
* BadassBaritone: Villainous example. Any deeper and he'd be a Badass Bass.
* BigBad: Of both the Guardian arcs.
* CardCarryingVillain: The Shadow admits that both he and the Black Guardian have no desire for political power, they just love watching stuff getting blown up and people killed.
* CreepyCrows: Yeah, that's right. There's a crow on his head. Wanna make something of it?
* DealWithTheDevil: Partly how the Black Guardian gets mortals to do things for him.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Valentine Dyall was well-known for his deep, rich, baritone voice.
* GodOfEvil: He represents chaos and darkness in the ''Doctor Who'' universe.
* GodsHandsAreTied: Can't be seen to intervene directly.
* LargeHam
* ManipulativeBastard: He's bound by rules that prevent him from acting directly, so he tricks unwitting pawns like Turlough and Captain Wrack to do his dirty work for him.
* NoIndoorVoice: He apparently doesn't think making your mole conspicuous might in any way get in the way of success.
* OrderVersusChaos[=/=]YinYangClash: He takes the side of chaos in an endless, cosmic chess match versus the White Guardian.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Gods of Ragnarok]]
!!The Gods of Ragnarok (Seventh Doctor)
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A trio of statue-like beings who possess phenomenal cosmic power, the "family" manipulate lesser beings into entertaining them in their Dark Circus, allowing them to live as long as they fulfil their craving for amusement.
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* ActionFigureSpeech: The three Gods of Ragnarok indicate which of them is talking by raising and lowering their arms.
* ClarkesThirdLaw: They're an alien species powerful enough to be considered gods.
* EldritchAbomination
* EvilSoundsDeep: All three have deep, booming voices.
* ForTheEvulz: The Gods of Ragnarok who were trapped in a parallel dimension (possibly by the Doctor himself) and take over a circus to force people to perform for them, just to alleviate their boredom. When they lose interest in an act, they kill the performer.
* NoodleIncident: The Doctor's previous encounter with them.
* SiliconBasedLife: They appear to be made of stone.
* TheStoic: Any kind of emotion at all is rare.
* TakeThatAudience: The Gods of Ragnarok can be read as this to the general audience at large. In the circus tent, they're presented as a rather dull family with no imagination of their own who just sit disinterestedly in front of a parade of entertainment moaning about how nothing's ever good enough to interest them no matter how creative it is, and anything they vote down is pretty much wiped out of existence. Could also be a TakeThat at the producers of the show, never satisfied by entertainers (*cough* such as John Nathan-Turner *cough) no matter how hard they try to perform.
* TennisBoss: The Doctor defeats the Gods of Ragnarok by using the mirror amulet to reflect their energy blasts and collapse the roof of their balcony seat on them.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Like the Toymaker, they are immortals whose prime motivation is boredom.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fenric]]
!!Fenric (Seventh Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' Dinsdale Landen (as Dr. Judson) and Tomek Bork (as Captain Sorin) (1989)
An evil entity from the beginning of the Universe that plans to make humans evolve into the Vampiric Haemovores. Defeated, but returns in the 2012 Big Finish audio "Gods and Monsters".
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* ArcWelding: Revealed Ace being transported to Iceworld and Lady Peinforte's magic were his doing.
* ArchEnemy: To the Seventh Doctor.
* BatmanGambit: Plans for his Wolves to open the flask once again.
* BadFuture: Trying to force one where humanity evolve into Haemovores. It's not clear whether this has been averted.
* BigBad: Serves as this to the Seventh Doctor's era despite not appearing till his third season.
* BodySurf: Can do this between his "Wolves".
* TheChessmaster: He and the Doctor, who literally played chess. Though subverted with the Doctor tricking him with a blatantly illegal move.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Haemovores can be held back by faith.
* DemonicPossession: How he manifests.
* EldritchAbomination: Fenric is supposed to have been something from the dawn of time, possibly even earlier. The [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] gives us a more accurate identification: ''Hastur'', the Unspeakable One, the Ragged King. YES, ''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos that one]]''!
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When he takes possession of a new host.
* IHaveManyNames: Fenric, according to the Doctor.
* KneelBeforeZod:
-->'''Fenric:''' The choice is yours, Time Lord. I shall kill you anyway, but if you would like the girl to live... kneel before me.\\
'''Ace:''' I believe in you, Professor.\\
'''Fenric:''' Kneel if you want the girl to live!\\
'''The Doctor:''' [[WhamLine Kill her.]]
* MeaningfulName: Fenric comes from Fenrir, a wolf in Norse Mythology who would break free at the end of the world. And the Haemovores are called "Wolves of Fenric".
* NoodleIncident: The Doctor imprisoned him around the 3rd century after tricking him in a game of chess. It's not revealed exactly what happened.
* OutGambitted: He thinks that he's TheChessmaster, but the Doctor has an [[{{Pun}} Ace]] up his sleeve.
* PsychicPowers: Despite being imprisoned, he can still transport people through time.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When he possesses Judson.
* SealedEvilInACan: And the can got opened...
* StableTimeLoop: Apparently trying to perform one. The Ancient One getting transported back and spreading poison will enable the Haemovores to evolve. Subverted when the Ancient One performs a HeelFaceTurn and destroys Fenric's host body in a HeroicSacrifice.
* ViralTransformation: How the Haemovores are created.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When Fenric no longer needs the Haemovores, he orders the Ancient One to kill them all.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Light]]
!!Light (Seventh Doctor)
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->'''Played by:''' John Hallam (1989)
An Eternal who manifests himself in the form of an angel, Light has made it his fanatical duty to travel through time and space, documenting every single species in the universe in his exhaustive "Catalogue of Life". Light detests change; so much so that that the process of evolution turns him completely genocidal.
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* ArchivePanic: Light gets a severe case of this when he tries to catalogue all of Earth's life forms.
* {{Camp}}: Just take a look at his appearance, not to mention his LargeHam tendencies.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Light is not really an angel, or even humanoid; like an Eternal he's simply "naturalised into" human form.
* LightIsNotGood: Literally. Although Light appears as a heavenly vision of white and gold, his motives are anything but pure, and he soon reveals himself to be insane, murderous and irrational.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Light is infuriated by the fact that the Earth has changed, making the inventory he was working on meaningless. He resolves to destroy the Earth so it will stop changing. The Doctor points out the idiocy of thinking that you can stop change, and that everything in the universe is changing, including Light. Light commits suicide because he considers change a FateWorseThanDeath.
[[/folder]]
!Revival Series Debut
[[folder:The Beast]]
!!The Beast (Tenth Doctor)
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->'''Voiced by:''' Gabriel Woolf (2006)
-->''"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!"''
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 to its cell. Its mind plans to escape by possessing the team's archaeologist Toby Zed, leaving its original body 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 Toby.
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* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: See the above quote. Rose decides to put this to the test.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Look at that picture. That's the Doctor between the two pillars standing in front of it.
* BadassBaritone: Even the Doctor compliments his voice.
* BadassBoast: Almost everything it says.
-->'''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.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Humans possessed by it can.
* BigRedDevil: It claims to be {{Satan}}, and it certainly looks the part. No sign of a pitchfork though.
* BodySurf: After screaming orders at the Ood telepathically, it travels into three of them as smoke from Toby to possess the entire hive mind, while still hiding in Toby.
* BreakThemByTalking: Reading people's minds and taunting them by playing on fears and insecurities.
-->'''The Beast:''' Mr. Jefferson, tell me, sir: Did your wife ever forgive you?\\
'''Jefferson:''' I don't know what you mean.\\
'''The Beast:''' Let me tell you a secret. She never did.
* CardboardPrison: Averted, its prison was designed to be VERY difficult to get out of, and if broken, it would fall into a black hole before it could properly escape.
* DemonicPossession: 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.
* DevilButNoGod: If you believe that the Beast actually is the Devil, then the proof for a God is that the Beast fought the Disciples of the Light, who '''possibly''' could be followers of a God. Also, the Ood mention that "he will rise from the pit and make war on God."
* DevilInDisguise: When it hides in Toby it sounds like him when it wants to.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Rose and Doctor throw a being claiming to be Satan into a black hole.
* DugTooDeep: How Humanity, and by extension, the Doctor cross his path.
* EldritchAbomination: It claims to be older than time itself, and its origin is logically impossible even by the Doctor's standards.
* EmptyShell: The Beast's body, as its mind has escaped to possess Toby and the Ood.
* EvilIsNotWellLit: Invoked by the Beast and discussed by the Doctor. The Beast preys on basic, childish fears within people to defeat them, such as fear of the dark. As soon as the humans get the lights in the Sanctuary Base working again they feel better.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He shares a voice actor with Sutekh.
* 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.
* ForTheEvulz: Why it kills Scooti.
* GameFace: As Toby, having red eyes, blue lips and glyphs on his skin.
* GeniusBruiser: When it faced the Disciples of the Light, it was with that giant monster form. In order to escape its prison the Beast split itself into its Genius and Bruiser parts to let the Genius escape.
* GodOfEvil: What it inspires in some religions, as well as war gods and devil figures.
* IAmLegion: It even says the exact quote.
* IHaveManyNames:
-->'''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.
* LeakingCanOfEvil: It possesses Toby and dozens of Ood even before its prison door opens up.
* LegionsOfHell:
** In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' season 1 finale, Abbadon the "Son of the Beast" is revealed to have been imprisoned in a similar manner in the Cardiff Rift on Earth. [[AllThereInTheManual In supplementary materials]], Tosh speculates that there might be other demons trapped elsewhere in the universe in secret prisons...
** The Ood serve as this on the space station while his body is chained. They even call themselves the Legion of the Beast.
* LovecraftLite: The Doctor and Rose send its body and mind flying into a black hole.
* ManipulativeBastard: The Doctor quickly calls out the Beast out on playing on basic fears, such as fear of the dark or an abusive parent.
-->'''Danny:''' But that's how the devil works.\\
'''The Doctor:''' ''Or'' [[Franchise/HannibalLecter a good psychologist]].
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: Inverted. The single Beast possesses many Ood, as well as Toby, at once.
* MarkOfTheBeast: Toby is covered in glyphs that are so old that the TARDIS can't translate them when the Beast possesses him.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is he really the Devil, or just a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who happens to resemble our popular conception of the Devil and perhaps was even the basis for our and other Devil myths? Never established for certain, though the episode hovers closer to the former explanation.
* MindControl: His signature power.
* MindOverMatter: Telekinetically shatters reinforced windows, cuts cables and opens its pit.
* MysteriousPast: The only hints at the Beast's past are its claims (which can't be trusted or proven), some vague cave drawings the Doctor finds nears its cell, and humanity's own Devil myths.
* NamesTheSame:[[invoked]] According to the Great Intelligence, "the Beast" is one of the aliases the Doctor collects over time.
* NighInvulnerability: 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!
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: This one may be the inspiration for all the ones who followed.
* OutsideGenreFoe: In a strictly sci-fi series, a creature appears claiming to be Satan himself. Even better, there is more evidence for the idea it really is the Devil.
* PlayingWithFire: 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.
* PsychicPowers: The Beast possesses [[MindOverMatter 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.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: It's 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 to have one in the entire universe.
-->'''Toby:''' It was so angry. It was fury and rage and death. It was ''him.'' It was the Devil.
* ScaryTeeth: Big scary demon teeth!
* SealedEvilInACan: It's so powerful it was sealed miles underground the surface of a planet precariously orbiting a black hole, meaning that any attempt to escape would send the Beast and the planet to fall into it. These Disciples of the Light guys ''really'' didn't want this guy to escape — and one can see why.
* ShoutOut: A homage to ''Film/EventHorizon'' and ''Film/PrinceOfDarkness'' as well.
* SlasherSmile: When it gets to do its first kill in eons.
* SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat: At least universal when unbound and possessing its own body. Its mind alone is certainly a planetary threat, possibly greater.
* {{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.
%%* TelepathicSpacemen
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: If it escapes from its prison, then it falls into a black hole. 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.
* TimeAbyss: It existed before the universe, though the Doctor claims that is impossible (it lampshades his ArbitrarySkepticism). Nevertheless he concedes it could have existed at the start of the universe.
* UltimateEvil: 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.
* VillainousBreakdown: When the Doctor dooms it to fall into the black hole, both the Beast's mind and body rant, thrash and breathe fire.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Ood speak in this when possessed.
%%* VolcanicVeins
* YouCannotKillAnIdea: Although the Beast is defeated, it still possesses psychic influence over every being in time and space.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Midnight Entity]]
!!The Midnight Entity (Tenth Doctor)
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-> '''Played by:''' Lesley Sharp, Creator/DavidTennant (2008)
-->''"It's inside his head. It killed the driver, and the mechanic, and now it wants us. He's waited so long. In the dark, and the cold, and the diamonds. Until you came. Bodies so hot, with blood, and pain."''
A strange creature found on the inhospitable planet Midnight, which possesses Sky Silvestry. Its physical appearance is never shown, if it has one at all. While possessing Sky, she repeats everything that is said, then she speaks at the same time as others, before finally focusing on just the Doctor and speaking before him, stealing his voice.
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* DemonicPossession: While it doesn't appear to be a demon, its hold on Sky Silvestry is pretty much this.
* TheDisembodied: It's suggested the creature might simply be a disembodied consciousness, as the Doctor asked if it wanted a body. Which would explain how it could survive in X-Tonic radiation and how it entered Sky's mind, although it doesn't explain how it can knock on the hull and rip the ship apart.
* TheDreaded: This thing ''terrifies'' the Doctor in a way almost no other villain in the ''history of the show'' can match.
* EldritchAbomination: Manages to achieve this status without any special effects whatsoever.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: [[TropesAreTools Done effectively]] — ''nothing'' is known about what it plans to do or where it comes from, and it comes off as all the scarier for it.
* NoNameGiven: Not even a nickname, the term "Midnight Entity" comes from the ''Doctor Who'' Wiki.
* NothingIsScarier: When the Doctor tells Sky to turn around, any experienced viewer will know that something terrible will have happened to her appearance. The fact that there's no obvious change to her just adds to the fear of the moment. Also on a meta level. We don't know what species it is, we don't know where it came from, we don't even know if it ''died''. All told, we know next to nothing about it.
* PsychologicalHorror: The creature is never physically shown, and all the fear mechanism stems from the way its possessed victim behaves.
* StopCopyingMe: Played for maximum horror. First it repeats you, then it mimics your words ''in perfect sync''... and then it starts talking ahead of you.
* UltimateEvil: By the end of the episode, the Doctor has no idea what it was or if it's still out there. He can only recommend that the entire planet be evacuated.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Based off what Possesed!Sky said about it, Midnight is ''not'' a pleasant place to live. When it realizes that [[spoiler:it's going back outside,]] it lets off an aboslutely terrified scream.
-->'''Sky:''' Cast him out. Into the sun. And the night. The starlight waits. The emptiness. The midnight sky.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Akhaten]]
!!Akhaten (Eleventh Doctor)
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Also known as "The Old God", Akhaten is a parasitic, monstrous creature that's as large as a planet. It's so big, in fact, that it has its own centre of gravity, and has several inhabited asteroids surrounding itself. Akhaten awakes from its slumber every thousand years at the Festival of Offerings on Tiaanamat, where it feeds off the memories and experiences of the inhabitants.
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* EldritchAbomination: Akhaten is actually revealed to be an unbelievably ancient, sentient, planet-sized parasitic monstrosity of immense power with formless features that must be kept asleep, otherwise it will devour everything.
* EmotionEater: "Grandfather"/the Old God feeds on emotions and stories.
* GodIsEvil: Akhaten's true nature is a merciless parasite that has to be appeased with memories and kept asleep with MusicMagic. When the mummy stirs, the songs changes to a much more urgent "never wake from slumber".
* GodIsGood: Akhaten, the sentient planet god of the seven systems, is referred to as "my warrior" and "my hero" in the songs. This suggests that the songs are to assure him that everything's fine and he can continue to rest his "holy head".
* GeniusLoci: It's either a sentient planet or simply a being so gigantic that it might as well be.
* PhlebotinumOverload: The Old God feeds on the life experiences of others. The Doctor tried to invoke this with his own memories, and came pretty close, but the planet survived that. When Clara offers it "the most important leaf in human history", containing not only the experiences of its owner but all the experiences they could have had, it implodes.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: The Doctor's 1200 years of far flung adventures are not quite spicy enough to bring down Akhaten. Clara's leaf of infinite possibilities does the trick.
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