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'''Blood control''' was a method of controlling beings via their [[blood type]]. It was used by the [[Sycorax]].

Another trick, borrowed from the Sycorax, was [[blood hypnosis]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Never the End Is (audio story)}})

On [[Christmas]] morning [[2006]], the [[Sycorax]] used [[blood]] control against one third of the population of [[Earth]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') over [[2000000000 (number)|2000000000]] individual people. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Life (short story)|Alien Life]]'') They captured the Earth probe ''[[Guinevere One]]'', which carried a sample of [[A-positive]] [[human]] blood. They inserted the sample into a [[control matrix]], which sent out signals that had to be obeyed by all those with that blood type. In this way, they were able to make all the people on Earth with A-positive blood stand on top of roofs, apparently ready to jump to their deaths.

On this occasion, the [[Tenth Doctor]] called blood control a "cheap bit of [[voodoo]]" that he hadn't seen in "years", and likened it to [[hypnosis]]. Blood control, he said, could not overcome the basic human survival instinct. Although Earth's A-positive population might have ''appeared'' to have been in danger of jumping off roofs, in truth blood control was not strong enough to have actually made them jump. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'')

 

 

The [[Queen of the Sycorax (Into Control)|Queen of the Sycorax]] attempted to us blood control on the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] by using blood from his tenth incarnation to get him into the bile pit that [[Sycorax spaceship (Under Control)|her ship]] used as propulsion by fear. Despite closely resembling that incarnation, his genes and therefore blood were different and thus failed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Into Control (comic story)|Into Control]]'')