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== The Doctor and monsters == | == The Doctor and monsters == | ||
The [[Fifth Doctor]] claimed to fight monsters as he "zoom[ed]" through [[time]] and [[space]]. ([[TV]]: | The [[Fifth Doctor]] claimed to fight monsters as he "zoom[ed]" through [[time]] and [[space]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time Crash (TV story)}}) The [[Seventh Doctor]] said to [[Bernice Summerfield]] that he was what monsters had [[nightmare]]s about. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love and War (novel)}}) The [[Eighth Doctor]] said to [[Destrii]] that he was not scared of monsters, but that monsters were scared of ''him''. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Uroboros (comic story)}}) He later repeated this claim to [[Elliot Northover]] while in his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Cold Blood (TV story)}}) The [[Tenth Doctor]] said that monsters had nightmares about him. [[Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson]] realised that one could not have the Doctor without the monsters, but that the Doctor was worth the monsters. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}}) The [[Twelfth Doctor]] once identified himself as "the man who stops the monsters". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Flatline (TV story)}}) | ||
== Those named as monsters == | == Those named as monsters == | ||
=== Species === | === Species === | ||
The [[Tenth Doctor]] called the [[human]] race monsters after [[Harriet Jones]] had the [[Sycorax]] destroyed. ([[TV]]: | The [[Tenth Doctor]] called the [[human]] race monsters after [[Harriet Jones]] had the [[Sycorax]] destroyed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}}) {{Simm|c}} called the human race the "greatest monsters of them all." ([[TV]]: {{cs|Last of the Time Lords (TV story)}}) | ||
[[Clara Oswald]] called the [[Time Lord]]s monsters. ([[TV]]: | [[Clara Oswald]] called the [[Time Lord]]s monsters. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Hell Bent (TV story)}}) | ||
Among the life forms which were called monsters were the mutated [[Yend]], ([[PROSE]]: | Among the life forms which were called monsters were the [[Zarbi]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Lair of Zarbi Supremo (short story)}}), the mutated [[Yend]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Sons of the Crab (short story)}}) [[Zilgan]]s, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Monsters from Earth (short story)}}) [[Grukker]]s, {{cs|Peril in Mechanistria (short story)}}) [[dinosaur]]s, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Underwater Menace (TV story)}}, {{cs|Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)}}) [[Silurian]]s, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)}}) [[Aggedor]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Peladon (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Monster of Peladon (TV story)}}) [[Kronos]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Time Monster (TV story)}}) [[Linx]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)}}) the [[Exxilon City]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Death to the Daleks (TV story)}}) the [[Muto]]s and the [[Dalek]]s, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)}}) [[Erato]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Creature from the Pit (TV story)}}) the [[Process]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)}}) the [[Krafayis (Vincent and the Doctor)|Krafayis]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)}}) the [[Ganger]]s, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Almost People (TV story)}}) the [[Minotaur (The God Complex)|Minotaur]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The God Complex (TV story)}}) the [[Crooked Man (Hide)|Crooked Man]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Hide (TV story)}}) the [[Foretold]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)}}) the [[Boneless]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Flatline (TV story)}}) the [[Sandman (Sleep No More)|Sandmen]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Sleep No More (TV story)}}) a [[sea creature (Thin Ice)|creature]] living in the [[River Thames]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Thin Ice (TV story)}}) and the [[Eater of Light|Eaters of Light]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Eaters of Light (TV story)}}) | ||
The [[Sensorite]]s ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Monsters from Earth (short story)}}) and the [[Voord]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Fishmen of Kandalinga (short story)}}) regarded the [[First Doctor]] as a monster. | |||
{{Delgado|c}} was aware that the [[Ogron]]s feared [[Rock Creature]]s who he described as an "[[orange (colour)|orange]] [[scrotum]] monster", as recorded in the [[Masterplan Journal]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Secret Diary of the Master (short story)}}) | |||
In [[ | In [[1879]], [[Queen]] [[Victoria]] asked [[Sir]] [[Robert MacLeish]] to tell her about monsters, and so he told her of the [[Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Tooth and Claw (TV story)}}) | ||
In [[ | In [[1930]], [[Lazlo]] believed that he had become a monster after being transformed into a [[pig slave]] by the [[Cult of Skaro]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)}}) A [[Hooverville]] [[sentry]] described the pig slaves as monsters. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)}}) | ||
[[ | In [[1953]], [[Tommy Connolly]] described the [[face]]less human [[victim]]s of [[the Wire]] as monsters. His [[mother]], [[Rita Connolly]], believed [[Grandma Connolly|her mother]] had been replaced by a monster. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)}}) | ||
[[Sarah Jane Smith]] recalled meeting [[anti-matter monster]]s. ([[TV]]: {{cs|School Reunion (TV story)}}) | |||
[[Bog monster]] was a term used by Mickey Smith to refer to the [[Slitheen]]. ([[TV]]: | In [[1987]], during [[Mickey Smith]]'s [[childhood]], he described the [[Reaper]]s as monsters that had come to eat him. [[Suzie (Father's Day)|Suzie]] asked him if the monsters were aliens. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Father's Day (TV story)}}) | ||
[[Bog monster]] was a term used by Mickey Smith to refer to the [[Slitheen]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|World War Three (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}}) | |||
=== Persons and groups === | === Persons and groups === | ||
The term was also given to immoral persons or groups. [[Sharaz Jek]] called [[Morgus]] an inhuman monster. ([[TV]]: | The term was also given to immoral persons or groups. [[Sharaz Jek]] called [[Morgus]] an inhuman monster. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Caves of Androzani (TV story)}}) The [[Seventh Doctor]] thought of [[Heinrich Himmler]]'s darkened office as "a cave for a monster." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)}}) | ||
[[Ianto Jones]] called [[Jack Harkness]] "the biggest monster of all." ([[TV]]: | [[Ianto Jones]] called [[Jack Harkness]] "the biggest monster of all." ([[TV]]: {{cs|Cyberwoman (TV story)}}) | ||
[[Martha Jones]] described [[Richard Lazarus]] as a monster after he had been transformed by the [[hypersonic soundwave manipulator]]. ([[TV]]: | [[Martha Jones]] described [[Richard Lazarus]] as a monster after he had been transformed by the [[hypersonic soundwave manipulator]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)}}) | ||
[[Mr]] [[Copper (Voyage of the Damned)|Copper]] observed to the [[Tenth Doctor]] that anyone who decided who was to live or die would be a monster. ([[TV]]: | [[Mr]] [[Copper (Voyage of the Damned)|Copper]] observed to the [[Tenth Doctor]] that anyone who decided who was to live or die would be a monster. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Voyage of the Damned (TV story)}}) | ||
[[Carla Langer]] called her ex-husband [[Paul Langer|Paul]] a monster. ([[TV]]: | [[Carla Langer]] called her ex-husband [[Paul Langer|Paul]] a monster. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Mark of the Berserker (TV story)}}) | ||
[[Yarvell]] called [[Davros]] a monster when his only interest in [[Nasgard|their father's]] death was using the [[corpse]] for his experiments. ([[AUDIO]]: | [[Donna Noble]] called [[the Meep]] a monster after the Meep murdered [[Zogroth]] and [[Zreeg]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}}) | ||
[[Yarvell]] called [[Davros]] a monster when his only interest in [[Nasgard|their father's]] death was using the [[corpse]] for his experiments. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Innocence (audio story)}}) | |||
== In culture == | == In culture == | ||
[[George Thompson]] was [[fear|terrified]] of monsters and pleaded for someone to save him from them. ([[TV]]: | [[file:Hercules Attacks (The Man from MI.5).png|thumb|"''[[Hercules Attacks|[...]les [...]ks]]''" on the cover of [[Kine Weekly issue (The Man from MI.5)|an issue]] of [[Kine Weekly|a magazine]], featuring the word "Monster...". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Man from MI.5 (TV story)}})]] | ||
Promotion for a piece of media whose title included "''[[Hercules Attacks|[...]les [...]ks]]''" on the cover of [[Kine Weekly issue (The Man from MI.5)|an issue]] of [[Kine Weekly|a magazine]] in [[1965]] used the word "Monster...". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Man from MI.5 (TV story)}}) | |||
[[George Thompson]] was [[fear|terrified]] of monsters and pleaded for someone to save him from them. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Night Terrors (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Night Terrors (short story)}}, {{cs|My Special Book (short story)}}) [[Gilgamesh]] jokingly called [[Enkidu]] a "hairy monster." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)}}) [[Ada Gillyflower]] called the [[Eleventh Doctor]] her "dear monster". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Crimson Horror (TV story)}}) [[Erik (It Takes You Away)|Erik]] set up recordings of monsters around his cottage so that his daughter [[Hanne (It Takes You Away)|Hanne]] wouldn't leave it. ([[TV]]: {{cs|It Takes You Away (TV story)}}) | |||
[[Sea monster]] was an umbrella term for mythological monsters which resided in the [[sea]]s. ([[TV]]: | [[Sea monster]] was an umbrella term for mythological monsters which resided in the [[sea]]s. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Partners in Crime (TV story)}}) | ||
[[Vorg (Carnival of Monsters)|Vorg]] called his [[miniscope]] "the monster show" and "a carnival of monsters". ([[TV]]: | [[Vorg (Carnival of Monsters)|Vorg]] called his [[miniscope]] "the monster show" and "a carnival of monsters". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Carnival of Monsters (TV story)}}) | ||
The [[Loch Ness Monster]] was a [[cryptid|mysterious animal]] claimed to inhabit [[Loch Ness]], a lake in [[Scotland]]. ([[TV]]: | The [[Loch Ness Monster]] was a [[cryptid|mysterious animal]] claimed to inhabit [[Loch Ness]], a lake in [[Scotland]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Terror of the Zygons (TV story)}}) | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Latest revision as of 15:41, 27 September 2024
Monster was a term for a frightening lifeform.
The Doctor and monsters[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Fifth Doctor claimed to fight monsters as he "zoom[ed]" through time and space. (TV: Time Crash [+]Loading...["Time Crash (TV story)"]) The Seventh Doctor said to Bernice Summerfield that he was what monsters had nightmares about. (PROSE: Love and War [+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"]) The Eighth Doctor said to Destrii that he was not scared of monsters, but that monsters were scared of him. (COMIC: Uroboros [+]Loading...["Uroboros (comic story)"]) He later repeated this claim to Elliot Northover while in his eleventh incarnation. (TV: Cold Blood [+]Loading...["Cold Blood (TV story)"]) The Tenth Doctor said that monsters had nightmares about him. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson realised that one could not have the Doctor without the monsters, but that the Doctor was worth the monsters. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"]) The Twelfth Doctor once identified himself as "the man who stops the monsters". (TV: Flatline [+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"])
Those named as monsters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Species[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Tenth Doctor called the human race monsters after Harriet Jones had the Sycorax destroyed. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"]) The Saxon Master called the human race the "greatest monsters of them all." (TV: Last of the Time Lords [+]Loading...["Last of the Time Lords (TV story)"])
Clara Oswald called the Time Lords monsters. (TV: Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"])
Among the life forms which were called monsters were the Zarbi (PROSE: The Lair of Zarbi Supremo [+]Loading...["The Lair of Zarbi Supremo (short story)"]), the mutated Yend, (PROSE: The Sons of the Crab [+]Loading...["The Sons of the Crab (short story)"]) Zilgans, (PROSE: The Monsters from Earth [+]Loading...["The Monsters from Earth (short story)"]) Grukkers, Peril in Mechanistria [+]Loading...["Peril in Mechanistria (short story)"]) dinosaurs, (TV: The Underwater Menace [+]Loading...["The Underwater Menace (TV story)"], Invasion of the Dinosaurs [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)"]) Silurians, (TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)"]) Aggedor, (TV: The Curse of Peladon [+]Loading...["The Curse of Peladon (TV story)"], The Monster of Peladon [+]Loading...["The Monster of Peladon (TV story)"]) Kronos, (TV: The Time Monster [+]Loading...["The Time Monster (TV story)"]) Linx, (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)"]) the Exxilon City, (TV: Death to the Daleks [+]Loading...["Death to the Daleks (TV story)"]) the Mutos and the Daleks, (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"]) Erato, (TV: The Creature from the Pit [+]Loading...["The Creature from the Pit (TV story)"]) the Process, (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible [+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)"]) the Krafayis, (TV: Vincent and the Doctor [+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"]) the Gangers, (TV: The Almost People [+]Loading...["The Almost People (TV story)"]) the Minotaur, (TV: The God Complex [+]Loading...["The God Complex (TV story)"]) the Crooked Man, (TV: Hide [+]Loading...["Hide (TV story)"]) the Foretold, (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express [+]Loading...["Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)"]) the Boneless, (TV: Flatline [+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"]) the Sandmen, (TV: Sleep No More [+]Loading...["Sleep No More (TV story)"]) a creature living in the River Thames (TV: Thin Ice [+]Loading...["Thin Ice (TV story)"]) and the Eaters of Light. (TV: The Eaters of Light [+]Loading...["The Eaters of Light (TV story)"])
The Sensorites (PROSE: The Monsters from Earth [+]Loading...["The Monsters from Earth (short story)"]) and the Voord (PROSE: The Fishmen of Kandalinga [+]Loading...["The Fishmen of Kandalinga (short story)"]) regarded the First Doctor as a monster.
The Master was aware that the Ogrons feared Rock Creatures who he described as an "orange scrotum monster", as recorded in the Masterplan Journal. (PROSE: The Secret Diary of the Master [+]Loading...["The Secret Diary of the Master (short story)"])
In 1879, Queen Victoria asked Sir Robert MacLeish to tell her about monsters, and so he told her of the Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform. (TV: Tooth and Claw [+]Loading...["Tooth and Claw (TV story)"])
In 1930, Lazlo believed that he had become a monster after being transformed into a pig slave by the Cult of Skaro. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan [+]Loading...["Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)"]) A Hooverville sentry described the pig slaves as monsters. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)"])
In 1953, Tommy Connolly described the faceless human victims of the Wire as monsters. His mother, Rita Connolly, believed her mother had been replaced by a monster. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern [+]Loading...["The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)"])
Sarah Jane Smith recalled meeting anti-matter monsters. (TV: School Reunion [+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"])
In 1987, during Mickey Smith's childhood, he described the Reapers as monsters that had come to eat him. Suzie asked him if the monsters were aliens. (TV: Father's Day [+]Loading...["Father's Day (TV story)"])
Bog monster was a term used by Mickey Smith to refer to the Slitheen. (TV: World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"], The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"])
Persons and groups[[edit] | [edit source]]
The term was also given to immoral persons or groups. Sharaz Jek called Morgus an inhuman monster. (TV: The Caves of Androzani [+]Loading...["The Caves of Androzani (TV story)"]) The Seventh Doctor thought of Heinrich Himmler's darkened office as "a cave for a monster." (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)"])
Ianto Jones called Jack Harkness "the biggest monster of all." (TV: Cyberwoman [+]Loading...["Cyberwoman (TV story)"])
Martha Jones described Richard Lazarus as a monster after he had been transformed by the hypersonic soundwave manipulator. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment [+]Loading...["The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)"])
Mr Copper observed to the Tenth Doctor that anyone who decided who was to live or die would be a monster. (TV: Voyage of the Damned [+]Loading...["Voyage of the Damned (TV story)"])
Carla Langer called her ex-husband Paul a monster. (TV: The Mark of the Berserker [+]Loading...["The Mark of the Berserker (TV story)"])
Donna Noble called the Meep a monster after the Meep murdered Zogroth and Zreeg. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])
Yarvell called Davros a monster when his only interest in their father's death was using the corpse for his experiments. (AUDIO: Innocence [+]Loading...["Innocence (audio story)"])
In culture[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Promotion for a piece of media whose title included "[...]les [...]ks" on the cover of an issue of a magazine in 1965 used the word "Monster...". (TV: The Man from MI.5 [+]Loading...["The Man from MI.5 (TV story)"])
George Thompson was terrified of monsters and pleaded for someone to save him from them. (TV: Night Terrors [+]Loading...["Night Terrors (TV story)"], PROSE: Night Terrors [+]Loading...["Night Terrors (short story)"], My Special Book [+]Loading...["My Special Book (short story)"]) Gilgamesh jokingly called Enkidu a "hairy monster." (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"]) Ada Gillyflower called the Eleventh Doctor her "dear monster". (TV: The Crimson Horror [+]Loading...["The Crimson Horror (TV story)"]) Erik set up recordings of monsters around his cottage so that his daughter Hanne wouldn't leave it. (TV: It Takes You Away [+]Loading...["It Takes You Away (TV story)"])
Sea monster was an umbrella term for mythological monsters which resided in the seas. (TV: Partners in Crime [+]Loading...["Partners in Crime (TV story)"])
Vorg called his miniscope "the monster show" and "a carnival of monsters". (TV: Carnival of Monsters [+]Loading...["Carnival of Monsters (TV story)"])
The Loch Ness Monster was a mysterious animal claimed to inhabit Loch Ness, a lake in Scotland. (TV: Terror of the Zygons [+]Loading...["Terror of the Zygons (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the DVD commentary to Fear Her, writer Matthew Graham noted that, according to then-executive producer Russell T Davies, the scribble creature was never to be called a scribble monster, as the Doctor would never call anything a monster.
