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|type        = Reptile
|type        = Reptile
|first cs    = The Didus Expedition (comic story)
|first cs    = The Didus Expedition (comic story)
|appearances = {{il|[[TV]]: ''[[The Mind Robber (TV story)|The Mind Robber]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of Shadows (short story)|The Book of Shadows]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Farewell, Great Macedon (audio story)|Farewell, Great Macedon]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emerald Tiger (audio story)|The Emerald Tiger]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'' / ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]''}}
|appearances = {{il|[[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Jokers (comic story)}}|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Mind Robber (TV story)}}|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of Shadows (short story)}}|[[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Farewell, Great Macedon (audio story)}}|[[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Emerald Tiger (audio story)}}|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)}} / {{cs|The Witch's Familiar (TV story)}}}}
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{{Looks like|Mara|Oroborus|Sand snake|Ice Snake|lava snake|Metebelis snake|Colony Sarff|Sythak}}
{{Looks like|Mara|Oroborus|Sand snake|Ice Snake|lava snake|Metebelis snake|Colony Sarff|Sythak}}
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[[Snakes and ladders]] was a game which used images of snakes. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)}})
[[Snakes and ladders]] was a game which used images of snakes. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)}})


Some [[Belt|belts]] had snake-themed buckles; one of which was worn by the [[Eighth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Pictures of Josephine Day (comic story)|The Pictures of Josephine Day]], [[A Matter of Life and Death (comic story)|A Matter of Life and Death]], [[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'') His successor, the [[War Doctor]], wore it for some time; ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]];'' [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Light the Flame (audio story)|Light the Flame]];'' [[WC]]: ''[[Doctors Assemble! (webcast)|Doctors Assemble!]])'' before switching for a belt with a box frame. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Clockwise War (comic story)|The Clockwise War]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
Some [[belt]]s had snake-themed buckles, one of which was worn by the [[Eighth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Pictures of Josephine Day (comic story)}}, {{cs|A Matter of Life and Death (comic story)}}, {{cs|The Lost Dimension (comic story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Night of the Doctor (TV story)}}) His successor, the [[War Doctor]], wore it for some time; ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Night of the Doctor (TV story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Light the Flame (audio story)}}, [[WC]]: {{cs|Doctors Assemble! (webcast)}}) before switching for a belt with a box frame. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Clockwise War (comic story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}})


The [[Ouroboros]] was the symbol of a snake eating its own tail. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Falls the Shadow (novel)}})
The [[Ouroboros]] was the symbol of a snake eating its own tail. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Falls the Shadow (novel)}})
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== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
While [[PROSE]]: ''[[My Special Book (short story)|My Special Book]]'' claims that there was a snake in ''[[Harry Potter]]'', it was actually a [[basilisk]]; this, however, can be explained by [[George Thompson]] simply misremembering the story.
While [[PROSE]]: {{cs|My Special Book (short story)}} claims that there was a snake in ''[[Harry Potter]]'', it was actually a [[basilisk]]; this, however, can be explained by [[George Thompson]] simply misremembering the story.


[[Category:Species from the real world]]
[[Category:Species from the real world]]
[[Category:Snakes| ]]
[[Category:Snakes| ]]

Latest revision as of 23:06, 11 August 2024

Snake

Snakes were a variety of reptiles.

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

Earth snakes[[edit] | [edit source]]

A snake from Brazil was one of the animals on board the Ark. (TV: The Ark [+]Loading...["The Ark (TV story)"])

In Australia in 1987, Tegan Jovanka's father was hospitalised after a snake bite. (PROSE: Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat [+]Loading...["Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat (short story)"])

In Haiti in 1915, Charles Oscar Etienne was killed by a snake intended for the Doctor. (PROSE: White Darkness [+]Loading...["White Darkness (novel)"])

One snake which resided in Twycross Zoo was draped around Wanda's shoulders when she first met the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler; Rose was afraid of it. (COMIC: Untitled [+]Loading...["Untitled (10DY3 4 comic story)"])

George Thompson believed that the noise that the lift made (PROSE: My Special Book [+]Loading...["My Special Book (short story)"]) in the Rowbarton Estate (PROSE: Night Terrors [+]Loading...["Night Terrors (short story)"]) was actually a dragon or a monster, living in the walls like the snake in Harry Potter. (PROSE: My Special Book [+]Loading...["My Special Book (short story)"])

Snakes on other planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

A type of giant snake was native to Metebelis III at some point in its history. (TV: The Green Death [+]Loading...["The Green Death (TV story)"])

Giant purple Ice Snakes lived on Centuria. (COMIC: Enemy Mine [+]Loading...["Enemy Mine (comic story)"])

The Church once fought lava snakes. (TV: The Time of Angels [+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"])

A giant species of snake called the Oroborus was able to consume time. (TV: Oroborus [+]Loading...["Oroborus (TV story)"])

Another giant species of snake known as the Sythaks were native to the swamps of Palliox, a planet near Trion. In 1905, the travelling showman Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer had two Sythaks in his freakshow. (AUDIO: Freakshow [+]Loading...["Freakshow (audio story)"])

In a jungle on an unnamed planet, Gillian was threatened by a hooded snake, but the First Doctor saved her by throwing his coat over it. (COMIC: The Didus Expedition [+]Loading...["The Didus Expedition (comic story)"])

As part of his magic act for the Gods of Ragnarok in the Dark Circus, the Seventh Doctor appeared to conjure a snake, then transform it into his umbrella. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Loading...["The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)"])

Colony Sarff was a creature comprised of many snakes working together to mimic one humanoid individual. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"] / The Witch's Familiar [+]Loading...["The Witch's Familiar (TV story)"])

Usages[[edit] | [edit source]]

On Thoros Beta, sand snakes were consumed by the Mentors, such as Kiv. (TV: Mindwarp [+]Loading...["Mindwarp (TV story)"])

On Earth snake skin was sometimes used to to make shoes. (PROSE: Eternity Weeps [+]Loading...["Eternity Weeps (novel)"], Mad Dogs and Englishmen [+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"])

Emotive responses[[edit] | [edit source]]

Colony Sarff in his snake form. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"])

Styre's experiments into fear on Sarah Jane Smith caused her to hallucinate a snake on her arm. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment [+]Loading...["The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)"]) Polly Wright was also always afraid of snakes. (AUDIO: House of Cards [+]Loading...["House of Cards (audio story)"])

When the Mara took physical form away from Dark Places of the Inside it took the form of a giant snake, both as a tattoo and as a physical snake. (TV: Kinda [+]Loading...["Kinda (TV story)"], Snakedance [+]Loading...["Snakedance (TV story)"])

Clara Oswald confessed she hated snakes. (PROSE: Into the Nowhere [+]Loading...["Into the Nowhere (short story)"])

References[[edit] | [edit source]]

In an alternate Paris of 1804, Randolph Eging compared the DNA molecule to two snakes coiled together. (PROSE: The Man in the Velvet Mask [+]Loading...["The Man in the Velvet Mask (novel)"])

In Greek mythology, Medusa (TV: The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"]) and the Gorgon had snakes for hair. (COMIC: The Gaze of the Gorgon [+]Loading...["The Gaze of the Gorgon (comic story)"])

Snakes and ladders was a game which used images of snakes. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead [+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)"])

Some belts had snake-themed buckles, one of which was worn by the Eighth Doctor. (COMIC: The Pictures of Josephine Day [+]Loading...["The Pictures of Josephine Day (comic story)"], A Matter of Life and Death [+]Loading...["A Matter of Life and Death (comic story)"], The Lost Dimension [+]Loading...["The Lost Dimension (comic story)"], TV: The Night of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Night of the Doctor (TV story)"]) His successor, the War Doctor, wore it for some time; (TV: The Night of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Night of the Doctor (TV story)"], AUDIO: Light the Flame [+]Loading...["Light the Flame (audio story)"], WC: Doctors Assemble! [+]Loading...["Doctors Assemble! (webcast)"]) before switching for a belt with a box frame. (COMIC: The Clockwise War [+]Loading...["The Clockwise War (comic story)"], TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

The Ouroboros was the symbol of a snake eating its own tail. (PROSE: Falls the Shadow [+]Loading...["Falls the Shadow (novel)"])

The lower half of Qataka's cybernetic body was that of a snake. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

While PROSE: My Special Book [+]Loading...["My Special Book (short story)"] claims that there was a snake in Harry Potter, it was actually a basilisk; this, however, can be explained by George Thompson simply misremembering the story.