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-|members           = [[The Trickster]], [[Time Beetle]], [[Krampus]], [[the Toymaker]], [[Maestro]], [[Reprobate]], the [[Mara]], [[Incensor]], [[Doubt]], [[Dread]], [[Threefold deity|the threefold deity]]
+|members           = [[The Trickster]], [[Time Beetle]], [[Krampus]], [[the Toymaker]], [[Maestro]], [[Reprobate]], the [[Mara]], [[Incensor]], [[Doubt]], [[Dread]], [[threefold deity|the threefold deity]]
 |clip              = The Pantheon of Gods from the Whoniverse - Doctor Who
-}}'''The Pantheon''', ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Imaginary Enemies (comic story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}, etc.) also known as the '''Pantheon of Discord''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)|ed=2011 reprint|page=264}}, {{cs|Doctor, Doctor! (DWA 273 short story)|namedpart=Time for Friends!|page=29|name="dwa"}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Pantheon of Discord (audio story)}}) were an "extra-dimensional enclave"'s worth ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)|ed=2011 reprint|page=264}}) of "vast powers", "creatures from beyond the universe", ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}) reluctantly acknowledged as [[god]]s by [[the Doctor]], who sometimes referred to this group simply as "'''the gods'''". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}})
+}}'''The Pantheon''', ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Imaginary Enemies (comic story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}, etc.) also known as the '''Pantheon of Discord''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)|ed=2011 reprint|page=264}}, {{cs|Doctor, Doctor! (DWA 273 short story)|namedpart=Time for Friends!|page=29|name="dwa"}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Pantheon of Discord (audio story)}}) were an "extra-dimensional [[enclave (concept)|enclave]]"'s worth ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)|ed=2011 reprint|page=264}}) of "vast powers", "creatures from beyond the universe", ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}) reluctantly acknowledged as [[god]]s by [[the Doctor]], who sometimes referred to this group simply as "'''the gods'''". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}})
+[[Mr Smith]] defined the Pantheon of Discord as being a coalition of semi-mythical extra-dimensional beings. ([[TV]]: {{cs|SJAF 1}})
 [[Sutekh]], originally a member of the [[Osirian Court]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Pyramids of Mars (TV story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Judgment of Sutekh (audio story)}}) came to hold himself to be the [[King]] of the other gods making up this group. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}})
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 Several accounts of the Pantheon of Discord showed them as being largely aligned with [[the Trickster]] and his behaviour. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Companion Compendium (reference book)}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Imaginary Enemies (comic story)}}) When the [[Tenth Doctor]] first met the Trickster, the Trickster declared it to be "the meeting of the Pantheon of Discord and the [[last of the Time Lords]]", with the Doctor agreeing that he had only heard legends of the Pantheon and never met one of their members. The Doctor said that the Trickster was "one of" the Pantheon, but also said that he was "looking a bit lonely for a pantheon", to which the Trickster retorted by saying "I embody multitudes", indicating that the Pantheon was composed of himself. To get the Trickster's attention, [[Clyde Langer]] later declared "I wish to serve you. I wish to join the Pantheon." ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}})
-One account indicated the Pantheon of Discord was a name for "the creatures" that worked for the Trickster, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Companion Compendium (reference book)}}) a group elsewhere called [[the Trickster's Brigade]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) The [[Time Beetle]], a creature that worked for the Trickster, was said to be a member of the Pantheon of Discord, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Companion Compendium (reference book)}}, {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)|ed=2011 reprint|page=264}}) which the [[Eleventh Doctor]] corroborated. Prompted by a letter asking if the Time Beetle might have "a friend" in the form of a [[Time Worm]] or [[Time Spider]], the Eleventh Doctor once speculated that, given the Time Beetle was a member, there could also be "[[Time Worm]]s, [[Space Parrot]]s and [[Dimension-Jumping Cheese Weasel]]s" within the Pantheon. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|name="dwa"}})
+One account indicated the Pantheon of Discord was a name for "the creatures" that worked for the Trickster, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Companion Compendium (reference book)}}) a group elsewhere called [[the Trickster's Brigade]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})
-[[Krampus (Imaginary Enemies)|Krampus]] identified himself as a member of a "Pantheon" whose principles were founded on chaos and altering history such that it was twisted into darker shapes; ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Imaginary Enemies (comic story)}}) these were the same principles on which the Trickster acted. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)}})
-=== As a Pantheon of gods ===
-The [[Fifteenth Doctor]] had several encounters with a group of gods he referred to as "the Pantheon", ([[TV]]: {{Cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}) with members of the Pantheon being gods of specific domains.
-Listing the gods of the group to whom [[Sutekh]] acted as "[[King]]", as well as the symbolic "father and mother and other", of, [[Harriet Arbinger]], Sutekh's own [[Harbinger]], cited:
-* [[The Toymaker]], "god of [[game]]s";
-* [[The Trickster]], "god of [[trap]]s";
-* [[Maestro]], "god of [[music]]";
-* [[Reprobate]], "god of [[spite]]";
-* The [[Mara]], "god of [[beast]]s";
-* [[Incensor]], "god of [[disaster]]";
-* [[Doubt]] and [[Dread]], children of Incensor;
-* The "threefold deity of malice, mischief, and misery".
-Last of Harriet's list was Sutekh himself, the "god of death". She also cited an unknown number of unnamed "gods of skin and shames and secrets". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}})
+The [[Time Beetle]], who worked for the Trickster, was said to be a member of the Pantheon of Discord, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Companion Compendium (reference book)}}, {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)|ed=2011 reprint|page=264}}) which the [[Eleventh Doctor]] corroborated. Prompted by a letter asking if the Time Beetle might have "a friend" in the form of a [[Time Worm]] or [[Time Spider]], the Eleventh Doctor once speculated that, given the Time Beetle was a member, there could also be "[[Time Worm]]s, [[Space Parrot]]s and [[Dimension-Jumping Cheese Weasel]]s" within the Pantheon. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|name="dwa"}})
-One account showed the Toymaker to have a sister, [[Hecuba]], who was known as [[the Queen of Time]] and was timepiece-themed in the same way her sibling was toy-themed. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Queen of Time (audio story)}})
+[[Krampus (Imaginary Enemies)|Krampus]] identified himself as a member of a "Pantheon" whose principles were founded on chaos and altering history such that it was twisted into darker shapes; ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Imaginary Enemies (comic story)}}) these were the same principles on which the Trickster ([[TV]]: {{cs|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)}}) and the Time Beetle acted. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})
+=== As a Pantheon of Gods ===
+The [[Fifteenth Doctor]] had several encounters with a group of gods he referred to as "the Pantheon", ([[TV]]: {{Cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}) with members of the Pantheon being gods of specific domains. By these accounts, according to [[Harriet Arbinger]] [[Sutekh]] was the "[[King]]" of the Pantheon, as well as the apparently-symbolic "father and mother and other of them all". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}})
+{{quote|There is [[the Toymaker]], the god of games. There is [[The Trickster|Trickster]], the god of [[trap]]s. There is [[Maestro]], the god of [[music]]; there is [[Reprobate]], the god of [[spite]]. There is [[the Mara]], the god of [[beast]]s, and the [[threefold deity|threefold deity]] of [[malice]] and [[mischief]] and [[misery]]. There are [[gods of skin and shame and secrets]]. There is [[Incensor]], the god of [[disaster]], and her children, called [[Doubt]] and [[Dread]]. And standing on high is the mother and father and other of them all, for the God of All Gods has returned — and his names are many. His name has been Set, and Seth, and Sithifer — and his one true name forevermore is… ''[[Sutekh]]''.|[[Harriet Arbinger]] ([[TV]]: [[The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)|The Legend of Ruby Sunday]]}}
+In spite of the assertion of Sutekh as "father and mother and other of them all", ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}) [[Maestro]]'s father was none other than [[the Toymaker]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}) A previous account had depicted another relative of the Toymaker's, his sister [[Hecuba]], as having a similar ''modus operandi'' to him, but with a different theme — in her case, [[time]] and [[clock]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Queen of Time (audio story)}})
 === Residence ===
 As "one of the Pantheon of Discord", [[the Trickster]] was described by the [[Tenth Doctor]] as "a creature from beyond the universe, forever trying to break into [[the Doctor's universe|our reality]]". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}}) The [[Fifteenth Doctor]] similarly described the Pantheon as "vast powers beyond [[the universe]]". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}) [[Amy Pond]] referred to [[Krampus]] as having come from some "dirty little corner of existence" when he crossed over into [[Leadworth]]; Krampus himself had previously referred to the [[Walls of reality|walls]] between the respective "worlds" of himself and [[Veronica Stackmore]], which had proven easier to pierce thanks to [[Crack in time|the crack]] which had formed nearby. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Imaginary Enemies (comic story)}})
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 [[Sutekh]], though claimed by [[Harriet Arbinger]] to be the oldest and highest-ranking member of the group, was seemingly an exception to this rule, as ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}) his own narrative of his activities since battling the [[Fourth Doctor]] asserted that he had only "evolved" into his "true godhood" after beginning to cling to [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], after which he spent millennia actively travelling within the universe — never spending any significant time outside it prior to the point at which he was spoken of as a member of the Pantheon. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Empire of Death (TV story)}})
+=== Members ===
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
+! Name
+! Debut
+! Identified as Pantheon member
+! Notes
+|-
+|[[Dimension-Jumping Cheese Weasel]]s
+|N/A
+|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor, Doctor! (DWA 273 short story)|namedpart=Time for Friends!|page=29|name="dwa"}}
+|Mentioned only as a possibility. The plural form may be rhetorical.
+|-
+|[[Doubt]]
+|rowspan=4|N/A
+|rowspan=4|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}
+|rowspan=2|Mentioned only.
+|-
+|[[Dread]]
+|-
+|"[[Gods of skin and shame and secrets]]"
+|Mentioned only. The dialogue in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}} does not clarify whether this is an expedient way of listing three distinct gods — one of skin, one of shame, one of secrets — or if they constitute a group who together attend to a mixture of all three concepts, which, taken as one, would seem to imply that these unspecified entities would be gods of [[sexuality]].
+|-
+|[[Incensor]]
+|Mentioned only.
+|-
+|[[Krampus]]
+|colspan=2|[[COMIC]]: {{cs|Imaginary Enemies (comic story)}}
+|Although the mythological figure had been mentioned before in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' media, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Imaginary Enemies (comic story)}} was both his debut as a diegetically real character within [[the Doctor's universe]] and his first mention as a Pantheon member. The later confrontation [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Holiday Special (comic story)}} dealt with Krampus in much the same way as ''Imaginary Enemies'' but did not directly mention that story's events, nor explicitly reassert Krampus's identification as a Pantheon member.
+|-
+|[[Maestro]]
+|colspan=2|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}
+|rowspan=2|N/A
+|-
+|[[The Mara]]
+|[[TV]]: {{cs|Kinda (TV story)}}
+|rowspan=2|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}
+|-
+|[[Reprobate]]
+|N/A
+|Mentioned only.
+|-
+|[[Space Parrot]]s
+|N/A
+|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|name="dwa"}}
+|Mentioned only as a possibility. The plural form may be rhetorical.
+|-
+|[[Sutekh]]
+|[[TV]]: {{cs|Pyramids of Mars (TV story)}}
+|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}
+|First mentioned in relation to the Pantheon as "[[the One Who Waits]]" in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}} and as "[[the Oldest One]]" in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}, but these monikers were not revealed to apply to Sutekh until [[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}.
+|-
+|"[[Threefold deity of malice and mischief and misery]]"
+|N/A
+|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}
+|Widely interpreted as a veiled allusion to the three [[Gods of Ragnarok]] introduced in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}, although this has yet to be confirmed by any official source.
+|-
+|[[Time Beetle|The Time Beetle]]
+|[[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}
+|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)|ed=2011 reprint|page=264}}
+|Depicted in its debut as a member of [[the Trickster's Brigade]] but not stated to be a member of the Pantheon in its own rate. Its identification as one in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)|ed=2011 reprint|page=264}} and [[PROSE]]: {{cs|name="dwa"}} may relate to [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Companion Compendium (reference book)}}'s conflation of the Pantheon with the Brigade altogether, as subordinates to the Trickster, but nothing in either of the sources actually states as much, leaving open the reading that the Beetle is indeed being asserted as a being on a level with the Trickster, albeit in his employ.
+|-
+|[[Time Spider|The Time Spider]]
+|rowspan=2|N/A
+|rowspan=2|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|name="dwa"}}
+|Mentioned only as an inquisitive hypothetical. Plural "Time Spiders" would go on to appear in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The End (11DC audio story)}}, most probably by coincidence.
+|-
+|[[Time Worm|The Time Worm]]/[[Time Worm]]s
+|Mentioned only, in the singular as an inquisitive hypothetical, and in the plural by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as a possibility. Even the plural form may only be rhetorical. A singular, godlike [[Timewyrm]] had previously been a nemesis of the [[Seventh Doctor]] starting in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)}}, while the [[Crinis]], a species seen in ''[[The Twelfth Doctor Interactive Story]]'', were designed as "'time worm'-style monsters".
+|-
+|[[The Toymaker]]
+|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}}
+|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}
+|{{il|[[Russell T Davies]]'s conception of [[the Toymaker]], in line with which he would go on to reintroduce the Pantheon, debuted in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}, but that story remained ambiguous about the Toymaker's exact nature, only coming as close as calling him "an elemeental force with the power of a god" rather than a god outright.|Long before the introduction of the Pantheon in any form, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Endgame (DWM comic story)}} suggested that the Toymaker originated in the [[Dark Places]], also home to [[the Mara]].}}
+|-
+|[[The Trickster]]
+|[[TV]]: {{cs|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)}}
+|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}}
+|The Trickster in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}} replied "I embody multitudes" when the Doctor remarked that he was "looking a bit lonely for a Pantheon", seemingly suggesting the Pantheon and the Trickster were synonymous.
+|}
 === Subordinates ===
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 ==== Others ====
-Both the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Captain]] [[Jack Harkness]] were familiar with [[the Trickster's Brigade]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}, {{cs|Immortal Sins (TV story)}}) a shadowy group of nonhuman beings who enjoyed interfering with time to feed on potential energy. As per their name, they claimed allegiance to [[the Trickster]]; they were more widely, visibly active than their patron, with Jack Harkness privately doubting whether there even ''was'' a Trickster or if he was simply a symbol and figurehead for the group. ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Trickster's Brigade (webcast)}}) The [[Time Beetle]] was a member of the Brigade, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) as were at least some of the [[Graske]]; ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Trickster's Brigade (webcast)}}) the Graske once infiltrated [[Earth]] using [[Changeling]]s, only to be fought by the [[Tenth Doctor]], ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Attack of the Graske (video game)}}) who later stated that he had fought the Trickster's "shadows and Changelings" prior to meeting him in person. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}}) The Trickster's Brigade also once smuggled a [[Brainspawn]] to [[Earth]] in an effort to throw off [[United States of America|American]] history in the [[1920s]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Immortal Sins (TV story)}})
+Both the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Captain]] [[Jack Harkness]] were familiar with [[the Trickster's Brigade]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}, {{cs|Immortal Sins (TV story)}}) a shadowy group of nonhuman beings who enjoyed interfering with time to feed on potential energy. As per their name, they claimed allegiance to [[the Trickster]]; they were more widely, visibly active than their patron, with Jack Harkness privately doubting whether there even ''was'' a Trickster or if he was simply a symbol and figurehead for the group. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Monster File: The Trickster's Brigade (webcast)}}) The [[Time Beetle]] was a member of the Brigade, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) as were at least some of the [[Graske]]; ([[WC]]: {{cs|Monster File: The Trickster's Brigade (webcast)}}) the Graske once infiltrated [[Earth]] using [[Changeling]]s, only to be fought by the [[Tenth Doctor]], ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Attack of the Graske (video game)}}) who later stated that he had fought the Trickster's "shadows and Changelings" prior to meeting him in person. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}}) The Trickster's Brigade also once smuggled a [[Brainspawn]] to [[Earth]] in an effort to throw off [[United States of America|American]] history in the [[1920s]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Immortal Sins (TV story)}})
 [[File:Minions of Krampus.png|thumb|left|Three of the "[[Minion of Krampus|minions of Krampus]]", as identified by the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Holiday Special (comic story)}})]][[Krampus]] had a trio of burly [[Goblin]]s called [[Otto (Imaginary Enemies)|Otto]], [[Ludwig (Imaginary Enemies)|Ludwig]] and [[Siegfried]] under his command, carrying them into reality with Krampus themself inside [[dimensionally transcendental]] [[Christmas tree]] [[ornament]]s when he emerged in [[Leadworth]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Imaginary Enemies (comic story)}}) The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] encountered a swarm of many identical [[Minion of Krampus|minions of Krampus]], who appeared as small [[imp]]-like creatures. Having entered reality alone through their own means, Krampus once had to resort to abducting and hypnotising alien workers to build a machine through which to summon their "minions" into the universe. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Holiday Special (comic story)}})
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 The Doctor claimed to have fought the Trickster’s “shadows and [[changeling]]s”. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}}) A [[Time Beetle]] of [[the Trickster's Brigade]] targeted [[Donna Noble]] on [[Shan Shen]], creating [[parallel world (Turn Left)|a parallel world]] where she never met the Tenth Doctor resulting in [[the Doctor's death|his death]] and Earth suffering under numerous alien incursions without his aid. Via time travel Donna was able to correct the event which had altered the timeline, killing the beetle. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}}) [[William (Doctor, Doctor! 273)|William]] wrote a letter to ''[[Doctor Who Adventures (in-universe)|Doctor Who Adventures]]'', asking if the Time Beetle had any friends, such a [[Time Worm]] or a [[Time Spider]]; the [[Eleventh Doctor]] responded, firstly explaining that the Time Beetle belonged to the Pantheon of Discord, alongside the Trickster. Further speculating that, given their love of chaos, other members could include the aforementioned Time Worms, or [[Space Parrot]]s or [[Dimension-Jumping Cheese Weasel]]s. He confessed that he would like to be friends with everyone, so long as they gave up their life of meddling with [[time]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|name="dwa"}})
-Other members of the Brigade organised a plot in [[1927]] involving a [[Brainspawn]] driving future American President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] insane, causing him to drop America out of [[World War II]] resulting in Nazi Germany winning the war. This plan was foiled by [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Angelo Colasanto]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Immortal Sins (TV story)}})
+Other members of the Brigade organised a plot to create a [[History (Immortal Sins)|new history]] in [[1927]] involving a [[Brainspawn]] driving future American President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] insane, causing him to drop America out of [[World War II]] resulting in Nazi Germany winning the war. This plan was foiled by [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Angelo Colasanto]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Immortal Sins (TV story)}})
 === Krampus ===
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 == Behind the scenes ==
-* In an early draft of ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'', the [[Tenth Doctor]] was to say that, beyond the Trickster, other members of the Pantheon of Discord were the [[Reaper]]s, [[Time Beetle]]s, [[Graske]]s, and [[Guardian of Time|the Guardians]]. ([[DWMSE 28]])
+=== Origins in the 2000s ===
-* In the ''[[Doctor Who: Unleashed]]'' episode associated with {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}, [[Russell T Davies]] mentioned that he and other writers liked to call the Pantheon "the Gods of Chaos", but was not sure that this was "official". He also clarified that, although he liked to come across as the [[Supreme Being]] of the Pantheon, [[the Toymaker]] was not actually its most powerful member, as hinted in ''The Devil's Chord'' itself with mentions of [[the Oldest One]]. The ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' story {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}} had previously used the name of "Pantheon of Discord", but no link was established between the two groups until the airing of {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}, which conflated them by citing the Trickster among the members of the (not-so-)new Pantheon.
+* The Pantheon of Discord was originally conceived of by [[Gareth Roberts]] while writing {{cs|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}}. The name was mentioned in early drafts of that story, but removed for the finished version.<ref name="DWMSE">{{cite book
-* Although the "threefold deity of malice, mischief and misery" may be read as a reference to the [[Gods of Ragnarok]], and was interpreted as such by some<ref>{{cite web
+|author=[[Andrew Pixley|Pixley, Andrew]]
+|title=[[DWMSE 28]] - [[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]
+|date=[[20 April (releases)|20 April]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]]
+|publisher=[[Panini Magazines]]
+|page=24, 28
+}}</ref>
+* In an early draft of {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}}, the [[Tenth Doctor]] was to say that, beyond the Trickster, other members of the Pantheon of Discord were the [[Reaper]]s, [[Time-Beetle]]s, [[Graske]]s, and [[Guardian of Time|the Guardians]].<ref name="DWMSE"/>
+** A connection between the Trickster and the Guardians had already been hinted in the Trickster's first appearance in {{cs|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)}}, with the Trickster paraphrasing a statement of power made by the [[Black Guardian]] in {{cs|Mawdryn Undead (TV story)}}, "Waking or sleeping. I shall be with you..."
+** As noted elsewhere on this page, fiction in the early 2010s would sometimes call the [[Time Beetle]] a member of the Pantheon of Discord.
+=== 2020s reimagining ===
+* In the ''[[Doctor Who: Unleashed]]'' episode associated with {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}, [[Russell T Davies]] mentioned that he and other writers liked to call the Pantheon "the Gods of Chaos", but was not sure that this was "official". He also clarified that, although he liked to come across as the supreme being of the Pantheon, [[the Toymaker]] was not actually its most powerful member, as hinted in ''The Devil's Chord'' itself with mentions of [[the Oldest One]]. The ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' story {{cs|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}} had previously used the name of "Pantheon of Discord", but no link was established between the two groups until the airing of {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}, which conflated them by citing the Trickster among the members of the (not-so-)new Pantheon.
+* Although the "threefold deity of malice, mischief and misery" may be read as a reference to the [[Gods of Ragnarok]], and was interpreted as such by some,<ref>{{cite web
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-}}</ref>, this has yet to be confirmed in any official source.
+}}</ref> this has yet to be confirmed in any official source.
 * The episode ''Gods of the Whoniverse'' of ''[[New to Who?]]'' suggested several more entities than those mentioned in {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}} as being [[god]]s in the same sense as those gods. These were [[Zellin]] (suggested to be the god of [[nightmare]]s), the [[Gods of Ragnarok]], the [[White Guardian|White]] and [[Black Guardian]]s, and [[the Beast (The Impossible Planet)|the Beast]].
 [[File:The Trickster and the Beast.png|thumb|right|[[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|The Beast]] apocryphally construed as a member of the organisation in the thumbnail of the official ''Doctor Who'' YouTube channnel's compilation of clips of Pantheon members.]]