History ComicBook / DoctorWhoSupremacyOfTheCybermen

* WhamLine: In the Seventh Doctor prologue.

!!Spoiler warning: This comic book follows up on certain events of the Series 9 finale of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' television series, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]". Those who have not yet seen it may wish to avoid this story and the following list of tropes to avoid many {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s, all of which are unmarked below.

'''Spoiler warning: This comic book follows up on certain events of the Series 9 finale of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' television series, "Hell Bent". Those who have not yet seen it may wish to avoid this story and the following list of tropes to avoid many {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s, all of which are unmarked below.'''

* CastHerd: Part One alone has four Doctors, five companions, Jackie Tyler, the Cybermen, Ohila and the Sisterhood of Karn, the Sontarans, the Silurians, and Rassilon and the Time Lords. The prologues from different ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' series adds all of the Classic Doctors, the Thirteenth Master, Susan Foreman, Polly Wright, K-9, Peri, Mel, Ace ([[spoiler:albeit as a fully converted Cyberman]]) and Josie Day. Part Two adds [[spoiler:the General]].

* CosmicRetcon: The Cybermen intend to recreate the universe by channelling regenerative energy through the Eye of Harmony.

* EasilyConqueredWorld: Gallifrey fell to the Rassilon-led Cybermen almost instantly, as established at the start of Part Three. Justified because 1) Rassilon ''was'' the previous, much-feared ruler, 2) the only person gutsy and respected enough to successfully overthrow him turned out to be TheMentallyDisturbed (though he got better) and chose to run away shortly after his installation as the new Lord President, 3) the Cybermen are a mighty military force and started mowing down the Gallifreyan military as soon as they arrived, and 4) less-than-noble Time Lords likely jumped at the chance to reclaim their former standing as a mighty, feared people after the Last Great Time War made them hated by most of the universe.

-->''"There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought!"'' '''''(original line)'''''
-->''"There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be...'' [[spoiler:'''''like us!''''']]''"'' '''''(changed line)'''''

*** In ''The Twelfth Doctor'' 2.8, a knock-down fight between the Third Doctor and the Master is interrupted when the latter is helplessly transformed into a Cyberman and pleads for the Doctor's help. Meanwhile, the War Doctor uses the Moment not to end the Last Great Time War, but to defeat Cybermen -- possibly cyber-converted Time Lords -- who have tracked him down to the barn on Gallifrey.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Cyberdinosaurs, that is!

* {{Faceship}}: Rassilon encounters a stone asteroid spaceship reshaped into a giant Cyberman head.
* {{Flashback}}: There's a quick flashback to the early scenes of "Hell Bent" in Part Two (the Doctor telling Rassilon "Get off my planet", the General warning that he may have no place to go), followed by Rassilon explaining what he did as soon as he was exiled, which set up the current story's events. Part Three opens with one to Rassilon and the Cybermen conquering Gallifrey, as recounted by the leader of LaResistance.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Part One alone has four Doctors, five companions, Jackie Tyler, the Cybermen, Ohila and the Sisterhood of Karn, the Sontarans, the Silurians, and Rassilon and the Time Lords. The prologues from different ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' series adds all of the Classic Doctors, the Thirteenth Master, Susan Foreman, Polly Wright, K-9, Peri, Mel, Ace ([[spoiler:albeit as a fully converted Cyberman]]) and Josie Day. Part Two adds [[spoiler:the General]].

* WritingForTheTrade: With FourLinesAllWaiting and LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters compounded by a great deal of exposition as to what Rassilon and the Cybermen are doing, how they're doing it, and the effect it has on the established timelines, this five-part miniseries has little actual plot and CharacterDevelopment; the only real question is how Twelve finds and pushes the metaphorical ResetButton to undo the Cybermen's meddling. Plus, the Prologues featuring other characters only appear in solo titles and other miniseries (though the 2016 Convention Special issue collected all nine to serve as its back half along with the exclusive story "The Long Con"). The biweekly release schedule should have compensated for the extremely slow pace, but then ScheduleSlip kicked in.

* MythologyGag: The Cybermen who menace the Fourth Doctor are based off the monstrous version from the cancelled “The Dark Dimension” 30th anniversary special. The radically redesigned Cybermen who the War Doctor fights meanwhile take after scrapped concept art for the Cybus Cybermen.

The second ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' crossover miniseries, written by Creator/GeorgeMann and Cavan Scott, is a five-issue story that launched July 6, 2016 (intended as a biweekly release, it suffered ScheduleSlip starting with Part Two). It's a 50th anniversary MilestoneCelebration for one of the franchise's most popular recurring villains, the Cybermen, who first appeared in the 1966 First Doctor serial "The Tenth Planet". The story is set within the "Year Two" continuity of the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctor Titan Comics titles, and incorporates the new Ninth Doctor title as well. (In addition, prologues published in other ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' ongoing series details how it affects all Doctors from the Classic series.)

The Twelfth Doctor, tragically, had a key role in the events that led to this unfolding catastrophe: He was the man who bloodlessly overthrew Rassilon when he returned to Gallifrey "the long way 'round", after a horrifying ordeal at his hands that also claimed the life of his beloved companion Clara[[note]]Oddly, however, the story makes no reference to Clara. Although the Doctor's memories of her have been suppressed, the same shouldn't be true of the Time Lords and Ohila[[/note]]. Now he is in a very different universe...as are his previous selves and their respective companions/associates: in particular, Nine with Rose and Jackie Tyler and Captain Jack Harkness, Ten with Gabby Gonzalez and Cindy Wu, and Eleven with Alice. How can things be set to rights?

* BerserkButton: When he thinks Gabby and Cindy have been killed by the Cybermen the 10th Doctor goes berserk, using the Cyberking warsuit he is in to brutally attack the other Cyberkings.
* BigBadEnsemble: Rassilon and the Cybermen. The Silurians in a way, as they have been Cyber-Converted.

* DramaticIrony: In Part Two, Jackie accuses the Ninth Doctor of being the cause of the crisis in London, and he replies that it isn't his fault. Technically it ''is'' the Doctor's fault, but Nine doesn't know his own future.
* DrivingQuestion: How will the Twelfth Doctor undo the Cybermen's conquest of the universe now that Rassilon is their leader and they have Time Lord technology at their disposal? He can't undo his choice to exile Rassilon due to the RealityBreakingParadox it would create, nor can he enlist the help of his previous selves (for one thing, Nine, Ten, and Eleven have no idea Gallifrey and the Time Lords still exist) -- but it's a ForegoneConclusion that there ''must'' be a way to fix things.

* EasilyForgiven: The Twelfth Doctor seems to be easily forgiven by [[spoiler: the General]] for his [[spoiler: shooting her and forcing her to regenerate so he could escape the extraction chamber with Clara]], as that incident is ''never'' brought up and he is immediately re-accepted as Lord President of Gallifrey again. It's possible that the larger threat everyone's facing is forcing them to put such issues aside, but it's still bizarre.

* FaceRevealingTurn: For the Second Doctor prologue. [[spoiler:As he is giving his famous monologue from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase The Moonbase]]", he reveals that he has been Cyber-converted, which is reminiscent of his appearance [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver many incarnations later.]] Even worse, his famous line has been changed due to the Cybermen's meddling in the timeline. [[Main/NightmareFuel It manages to be genuinely terrifying.]]]]

** In 2006 London, the Ninth Doctor, Captain Jack, and Rose are travelling by hovercar, rescuing Jackie Tyler from cyber-creatures in the ruins of their council estate, and headed to a mysterious tower where the TARDIS has been taken.
** In the 24th century, the Tenth Doctor, Gabby, and Cindy's expedition to the greatest, largest shopping mall in the universe is spoiled -- it's now a ruin being ransacked by Sontarans. He has no access to his TARDIS.

** And on Karn at a point near the end of Time and Space, the Twelfth Doctor is trying to return to Gallifrey (which is not directly accessible by TARDIS due to a transduction barrier) to figure out why a number of {{World Wrecking Wave}}s are overtaking the universe...and in the Part One {{Cliffhanger}} he arrives to find it has fallen to the Cybermen and their new leader Rassilon. With his TARDIS back on Karn, where Ohila is already a cyber-slave as well, how can he escape and start fixing all of this?

*** In Issue 2.12 of ''The Tenth Doctor'', Susan Foreman heads home to Totter's Lane and sees that her grandfather, the First Doctor, has been captured by Cybermen. He tells her to run and save herself.
*** ''The Fourth Doctor'' Issue 4 (a miniseries) has two: The Eighth Doctor and Josie Day are captured by Cybermen, and they cannot access the TARDIS due to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E12ClosingTime Cybermats]] surrounding it. The Fourth Doctor orders K-9 to blast invading Cybermen all while he claims that there is something wrong ([[SkewedPriorities he is all out of jelly babies]]). Cue K-9 about to shoot the Doctor instead, [[FaceHeelTurn revealing that he has been Cyber-converted.]]

*** In ''The Twelfth Doctor'' 2.8, a knock-down fight between the Third Doctor and the Thirteenth Master is interrupted when the latter is helplessly transformed into a Cyberman and pleads for the Doctor's help. Meanwhile, the War Doctor uses the Moment not to end the Last Great Time War, but to defeat Cybermen -- possibly cyber-converted Time Lords -- who have tracked him down to the barn on Gallifrey.

** In the climax of Part One the Twelfth Doctor narrowly escapes a Cyberman attack on Karn and returns to Gallifrey via a portal door to summon the Time Lords' help -- but then Ohila shuts the door behind him and the reader realizes she has already been Cyber-converted...
** In Part Two the Ninth Doctor and his friends return to their TARDIS, but when he tries to use it to figure out what's going on, the console explodes...

** It's possible that Rassilon went along with being exiled with this trope in mind, since he immediately heads off to team up with the Cybermen.

The second ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' crossover miniseries, written by Creator/GeorgeMann and Cavan Scott, is a five-issue story that launched July 6, 2016 (intended as a biweekly release, it suffered ScheduleSlip starting with Part Two). It's a 50th anniversary MilestoneCelebration for one of the franchise's most popular recurring villains, the Cybermen, who first appeared in the 1966 First Doctor serial "The Tenth Planet". The story is set within the "Year Two" continuity of the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctor Titan Comics titles, and incorporates the new Ninth Doctor title as well. (In addition, prologues published in other ''Comic/DoctorWhoTitan'' ongoing series details how it affects all Doctors from the Classic series.)

*** ''The Tenth Doctor'' 2.13 details the Fifth Doctor and Peri landing on Skaro, only to find out that it is different, where a nearby Cyberman identifies the Doctor and orders to kill him. The Seventh Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis is ready to blow an entire Cyber-Fleet]], reminiscing that Ace would have loved this, only to be spotted by a Cyberman which responds with "[[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Professor?]]" revealing it to be a [[spoiler:fully Cyber-converted Ace.]]

'''Cyberman/[[spoiler:[[Creator/SophieAldred Ace]]]]:''' [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Professor?]]

* FaceRevealingTurn: For the Second Doctor prologue. [[spoiler:As he is giving his famous monologue from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase The Moonbase]]", he reveals that he has been Cyber-converted, which is reminiscent of his appearance [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver twelve incarnations later.]] Even worse, his famous line has been changed due to the Cybermen's meddling in the timeline. [[Main/NightmareFuel It manages to be genuinely terrifying.]]]]

* TheCameo: During the run-up to the event, other Titan ''Doctor Who'' comics issues included single page vignettes showing the earlier Doctors having their lives horribly changed by the Cyber-retcon, which were collected in the ''Supremacy'' TPB. They featured:

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Justified as he was insane at the time he did so, but the Twelfth Doctor apparently never considered that exiling Rassilon from Gallifrey might come back to bite him on the butt later -- much less that other enemies of his might still be around at that point in time.

* FaceRevealingTurn: For the Second Doctor prologue. [[spoiler:As he is giving his famous monologue from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase The Moonbase]]", he reveals that he has been Cyber-converted, which is reminiscent of his appearance [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver twelve incarnations later.]] Even worse, his famous line has been changed due to the Cybermens' meddling in the timeline. [[Main/NightmareFuel It manages to be genuinely terrifying.]]]]
-->''[[spoiler:"There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought."]]'' '''''(original line)'''''
-->''[[spoiler:"There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be...'' '''''like us!''''']]''"'' '''''(changed line)'''''

* BerserkButton: When he thinks Gabby and Cindy have been killed by the Cybermen the 10th Doctor goes beserk, using the Cyberking warsuit he is in to brutally attack the other Cyberkings.

* ForegoneConclusion: ExpandedUniverse ''Doctor Who'' works, with the exception of certain Big Finish audio plays, cannot make substantial alterations/additions to the televised canon, so nothing that happens in this story as a result of Rassilon and the Cybermen's meddling would be able to stick. It doesn't help suspense that ''The Twelfth Doctor: Year Two'' comics released alongside this miniseries included the storyline "The Twist", in which he takes on a new, original companion who does not appear in ''Supremacy''. Combined with a ContinuityNod (see above) and the same writer (George Mann) on both stories, this story appears to be set before "The Twist". And Cybermen aren't decimating the universe in "The Twist", so... Sure enough history gets returned to its usual state at the end.