History Characters / DoctorWhoImmortalsAndEldritchAbominations

* EldritchAbomination: A sentient star whose gas can possess humans and even Time Lords, though the latter can resist with sheer willpower. Temporarily.

* WizardsFromOuterSpace: The "Blood Will Our" short story had Daughter Of Mine freeing most of the family using magic she learned from studying an alien wizard from his mirror.

[-[[caption-width-right:'''Twelfth Doctor:''' 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!]]-]

->''"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!"''

* TheDreaded: The Toymaker is notable for being one of the few enemies the Doctor is genuinely terrified of.

* {{Expy}}: In a rather fun case of something coming full-circle, the original portrayal of the Celestial Toymaker as played by Creator/MichaelGough was cited as a major inspiration for [[Franchise/StarTrek Q]], and in turn, Creator/NeilPatrickHarris's portrayal took quite a few of [[RhymesOnADime Q's cues]], most notably his hamminess, childish antics, and god-like power cranked up to eleven.

* OutsideContextProblem: In the most extreme way possible. The Doctor is a ''hard'' man of science. Even creatures like The Beast (aka, the Devil), he can ultimately rationalize as an incomprehensibly ancient alien. Even the Carrionites, who are for the lack of a better descriptor witches that use spells, incantations and curses, simply use a different ''kind'' of science that he pretty quickly gets the hang of. The Toymaker isn't a being of science, magic, or anything even coming close to ''logical.'' He simply thinks things, and they happen. Apart from a few rote rules the Toymaker ''has'' to abide by, the Doctor can't even ''remotely'' begin to understand or rationalize how he does the things he does, [[TheDreaded and that alone scares him half to death of the Toymaker.]]
* 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.

* OutsideContextProblem: In the most extreme way possible. The Doctor is a ''hard'' man of science. Even creatures like The Beast (aka, the Devil), he can ultimately rationalize as an incomprehensibly ancient alien. Even the Carrionites, who are for the lack of a better descriptor witches that use spells, incantations and curses, simply use a different ''kind'' of science that he pretty quickly gets the hang of. The Toymaker isn't a being of science, magic, or anything even coming close to ''logical.'' He simply thinks things, and they happen. Apart from a few rote rules the Toymaker ''has'' to abide by, the Doctor can't even ''remotely'' begin to understand or rationalized how he does the things he does, [[TheDreaded and that alone scares him half to death of the Toymaker.]]

* BreakoutVillain: Despite only appearing in one story in the main series for [[LongRunner over a half-century]], he became a prominent recurring villain EU material, and would eventually be made the BigBad to the 60th anniversary special.

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

* TranquilFury: Despite Creator/NeilPatrickHarris playing him as a bombastic LargeHam for most of "The Giggle", the moment The Doctor essentially calls him out as petty and wasting his powers, he delivers his whole AboveGoodAndEvil speech in a poisonous tone, his rage being ''very'' obvious in how the Toymaker ''literally'' bristles at the choice of words and his whole form is seen [[GlamourFailure wavering slightly as in a heat shimmer]] but he never rises his tone from that quietly furious tone despite being clear that this is at his angriest.

* AmbiguousSituation: Whether or not the individual underneath Rupert's bedsheets was the hypothetical creature or just one of his friend's playing a prank is never made clear. Or perhaps [[TakingAThirdOption it was neither of the former two options?]]

* AWizardDidIt: Jacqueline Rayner's short story, "Trick Or Treat" has him trying to convince The Doctor that he was trapped in the Toyroom for the last few centuries with all his adventures being faked by the Toymaker. He says his reality filters failing explains various {{Special Effects Failure}}s like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks plastic Daleks]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs wobbly dinosaurs]], the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang giant plush rat]] and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E5Timelash time tunnel decorated with Christmas tinsel]]. The Daleks repeated appearances were due to the Toymaker reusing his favourite enemy when he's run out of ideas. This all turns out to be a lie though.

* PsychopathicManchild: He uses his powers to turn people into living dolls and make them play his twisted games, out of sheer boredom. When he's defeated in "The Giggle", he's reduce to petulantly complaining that it's not fair and the Doctors must have somehow cheated.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The revival phased out his YellowPeril elements due to the racism of the archetype and makes ot a character trait that the Toymaker adopts caricaturist elements of different human nationalities and cultures.

* 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.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The revival phased out his YellowPeril elements due to the racism of the archetype and implies it was an affectation.

* BlueandOrangeMorality: In his own words: "your good and your bad are nothing to me. All that exists is to win, or to lose."

* EvilerThanThou: In "The Giggle", he states the Master played his game [[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor to escape death]], lost, and was imprisoned in the Toymaker's gold tooth as punishment.

** To the Patten Screamers of the Website/SCPFoundation universe. Both come from a place of emptiness and non-existence, both start out as formless shapeless non-beings that slowly gain shape and form by acclimatizing to humanity and become hateful reflections of whoever observe them.