History Characters / DoctorWhoWeepingAngels

** In their first appearance, the Doctor tricks them into looking at each other, freezing them forever.
** In their second appearance, they try to draw energy from one of the omnipresent "cracks in the universe" to become a universe-devouring army of death. This backfires badly on them. The crack is "the end of the universe" and releases time energy which wipes anything it consumes out of existence. They drain all of the power from the ship to try and escape... which switches off the artificial gravity, resulting in them all being hurled into the crack and erased from time. That is, until the universe was rebooted, allowing for their return.

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* NeckSnap: The primary method this Angel kills.

* YourMindMakesItReal: Even of you perceive an Angel within your mind, it will gain sentience and possess you.

!!The Weeping Angels (Fifth Doctor, Eighth Doctor)

* NightmareFace: They look very UncannyValley up until the point when they prepare to feed on someone's temporal energy — that's when they sprout monstrous fangs and bare a set of claws at their target.

* TheVirus: Weeping Angels can convert any regular statue into more of themselves. Additionally, anything that depicts the image of an angel ''becomes'' an angel. This can include photographs, recordings and the images formed inside [[EyeScream your eyes]].

* AndIMustScream: Angels cannot look at themselves or other Angels, because it triggers their quantum-locking functions. As long as nothing disrupts the line of sight of an Angel that has suffered the misfortune of locking eyes with a mirror or its brethren, they will remain stone ''permanently''. Well, at least until they starve to death and corrode into dust.

* ManipulativeBastard: Is able to lure in clerics towards by using their voices, where it then promptly snaps their necks.

* VoiceChangeling: He demonstrates that Angels have the ability to literally rip out a human's conscience and use their voices to communicate.

* ShownTheirWork: While Doctor Who's sci-fi is on the whole as [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness soft]] as they come, the notion of quantum-locking appears to be grounded in a relatively obscure bit of real physics known as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Zeno_effect quantum Zeno effect.]] At the subatomic level, staring at a particle really does stop it from moving.

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** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E4FluxChapterFourVillageOfTheAngels "Flux Chapter Four: Village of the Angels"]], they suddenly have the ability to isolate an entire town from time and space, while also connecting it to the present with a barrier that dissolves anything that goes through it. It is revealed that if someone gets touched by a Weeping Angel ''again'' after they've been sent back in time by another, they turn into stone and crumble into dust. They're also able to turn people ([[spoiler:including the Doctor!]]) into Weeping Angels and also change them back none the worse for wear.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E4FluxChapterFourVillageOfTheAngels "Flux Chapter Four: Village of the Angels"]], they suddenly have the ability to isolate an entire town from time and space, while also connecting it to the present with a barrier that dissolves anything that goes through it. They're also able to turn people (including the Doctor!]]) into Weeping Angels and also change them back none the worse for wear.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E4FluxChapterFourVillageOfTheAngels "Flux Chapter Four: Village of the Angels", they suddenly have the ability to isolate an entire town from time and space, while also connecting it to the present with a barrier that dissolves anything that goes through it. They're also able to turn people (including the Doctor!) into Weeping Angels and also change them back none the worse for wear.

* TouchOfDeath: The first time an Angel touches someone, they're booted into the past. If that happens and an Angel touches that person again, the victim petrifies and crumbles into dust.

* VagueAge[=/=]AmbiguousSituation: They're called "the babies", but it's unknown if they are actually Weeping Angels at a younger age than the other Angels we've seen, or if they just look different.

* AdorableAbomination: They look like cute little baby Cupids, but their just as alien and monstrous as their angelic-looking counterparts.

* MadeOfIron: Though the obvious logic would just be to smash them into dust as stone statues, they are a lot tougher than statues should be. A group of soldiers unloading on them doesn't even scratch them. It's somewhat justified in this case. It was a dark hallway and the muzzle flash from the bullet was lighting them up, meaning they were stone when the bullets struck them. The split second of darkness between shots caused them to revert to their natural form, then reform back into unblemished stone when the next flash occurred. Their natural defence mechanism can therefore double as a rather effective HealingFactor. Then we get to see their true form is very stonelike as well, so they're immensely tough all the time. As the Doctor says, "You can't kill a stone."

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard:

* MadeOfIron: Though the obvious logic would just be to smash them into dust as stone statues, they are a lot tougher than statues should be. A group of soldiers unloading on them doesn't even scratch them. It's somewhat justified in this case. It was a dark hallway and the muzzle flash from the bullet was lighting them up, meaning they were stone when the bullets struck them. The split second of darkness between shots caused them to revert to their natural form, then reform back into unblemished stone when the next flash occurred. Their natural defense mechanism can therefore double as a rather effective HealingFactor. Then we get to see their true form is very stonelike as well, so they're immensely tough all the time. As the Doctor says, "You can't kill a stone."