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|image       = Wwface.jpg
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|name = Werewolf
|type       = Lupine [[shapeshifter]]s
|type         = Vulpine [[metamorph]]s
|aka         = Lycanthrope
|aka         = Lupine wavelength haemovarioform
|affiliation =  
|affiliation = Various
|origin     = [[Earth]], [[Saturnia Regina]], [[Vulpana]]
|origin       = [[Earth]], [[Saturnia Regina]], [[Vulpana]], etc
|first       = Nature of the Beast! (comic story)
|first       = The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)
|appearances = [[Werewolf - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
|appearances = [[DW]]: ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'', [[TS]]: ''[[Tardisode 2]]'', [[BFA]]: ''[[Loups-Garoux]]'', [[EDA]]: ''[[Kursaal (novel)|Kursaal]]'', [[PDA]]: ''[[Wolfsbane (novel)|Wolfsbane]]'', [[DYD]]: ''[[Empire of the Wolf (novel)|Empire of the Wolf]]''
|individuals = {{csl|[[Flinthair]]|[[Emmeline Neuberger]]|[[Roberta Sampson]]|[[Jacob Travers]]|}}
|individuals  = [[Mags]]}}
|clip        = Queen Victoria & the Werewolf - Doctor Who - Tooth and Claw - BBC
'''Werewolves''' were creatues that could [[metamorph|shapeshift]] from [[humanoid]] form to that of a wolf, voluntarily or otherwise. We do not know their ultimate origin or even if the various werewolves found across the universe have any common link to each other.
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'''Werewolves''' were creatures that could [[shapeshifter|shapeshift]] from [[humanoid]] form to that of a [[wolf]], voluntarily or otherwise.
 
Their condition was usually called '''lycanthropy''', ([[TV]]: ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Loups-Garoux (audio story)|Loups-Garoux]]'') with one source treating "'''lycanthropes'''" as a broader category encompassing werewolves. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)}})
 
The [[universe]] was home to several types of werewolf, including [[Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform|Lupine Wavelength Haemovariforms]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') [[Were Lord]]s, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Brightly Shone The Moon That Night (audio story)|Brightly Shone The Moon That Night]]'') the [[Werelox]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom]]'') [[loups-garoux]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Loups-Garoux (audio story)|Loups-Garoux]]'') and some [[Vulpanan]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Moons of Vulpana (audio story)|The Moons of Vulpana]]'') The [[Iytean Change]] could also manifest similarly, with some speculating that some of Earth's legends of werewolves and lycanthropes had been inspired by [[Iytean]] incursions. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)}})
 
== Legend ==
Werewolves were creatures that appeared [[human]] but transformed into beasts in the light of a full [[moon]]. The bite of a werewolf would turn the victim into a werewolf. The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] speculated that this might have happened to [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]] when they met her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'')
 
Because they existed in myths, they were present in the [[Land of Fiction]]. The [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] converted them as woodsmen, but under the full moon they turned into monsters of plastic and flesh and fur. This showed the Cybermen the potential of converting other fictional creatures. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'')


== History ==
== History ==
There were several types of werewolf to be found in the [[universe]].
[[File:Flinthair as a Werewolf.jpg|thumb|left|A werewolf in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Loop the Loup (short story)|Loop the Loup]]'')]]
[[File:Flinthair_as_a_Werewolf.jpg|thumb|left|A werewolf in [[the TARDIS]]. ([[DWY]]: ''[[Loop the Loup]]'')]]
During the [[Eternal War|Vampire Wars]], the [[Time Lord-People Treaty|Time Lords]] created a race of lycanthropic Gallifreyan soldiers to fight the vampires. They eventually deserted and settled in [[Greece]] in [[1500|1500 BC]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Brightly Shone The Moon That Night (audio story)|Brightly Shone The Moon That Night]]'')
The [[Second Doctor]] encountered a werewolf in [[BC#Prehistory|3300 BC]] [[Italy]]. ([[DWY]]: ''[[Loop the Loup]]'')
 
The [[Second Doctor]] encountered a [[Flinthair|werewolf]] in [[BC#Prehistory|3300 BC]] [[Italy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Loop the Loup (short story)|Loop the Loup]]'')
 
[[File:Wwface.jpg|thumb|The Werewolf the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] encountered. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'')]]
The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] encountered a [[Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform]] in [[1879]] [[Scotland]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'')


The [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Harry Sullivan]] encountered werewolves in [[World War II]] [[Germany]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Wolfsbane (novel)|Wolfsbane]]'')
In the early 1890s [[Henry Gordon Jago]] and [[George Litefoot]] defeated an army captain who had been bitten by a werewolf in [[India]]. ([[AUDIO]]: '' [[The Bloodless Soldier (audio story)|The Bloodless Soldier]])''


The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] encountered a [[Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform]] in [[1879]] [[Scotland]]. (''[[DW]]: [[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'')
In [[1903]], after receiving a wealth of information from the future, [[Grigori Rasputin]] saw werewolves. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wanderer (audio story)|The Wanderer]]'')


[[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] may possibly have fought werewolves before or at least know about them, given that by the [[1990s]] their arsenal contained, amongst other exotic armaments, [[silver]] bullets. ([[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'')
Werewolves were apparently prevalent in pre-[[World War II]] [[Germany]], where [[Emmeline Neuberger]] remembered being forcibly recruited by the government along with other werewolves as a death squad before she escaped to England, although she later reflected that her memories could have been altered by [[Hester Stanton]]. Emmeline helped the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Harry Sullivan]] prevent Hester's plan to take over the world, and may have turned Harry into a werewolf, but Harry was subsequently taken away by the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. The Eighth Doctor attempted to arrange help for Emmeline via his government contacts, but they held her prisoner to try and find a way to force the change until she was rescued by the Fourth Doctor (who would go back to rescue Harry in his future). During this time the Fourth Doctor learned how to force and reverse the change to trigger Emmeline's transformation and later turn her back, and it is possible that he was able to devise a permanent cure for Harry. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wolfsbane (novel)|Wolfsbane]]'')


The [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Turlough]] encountered [[Earth]]-based werewolves in [[21st century]] [[Brazil]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Loups-Garoux]]'')
The [[First Doctor]] and [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] encountered a werewolf in [[1963]] and the Doctor was put on trial after they killed it, forcing the Doctor's future selves to act as jurors to cast doubt on the case. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Juror's Story (short story)|The Juror's Story]]'')


The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] met and befriended a [[Vulpana]]n werewolf named [[Mags]] in an era of space travel. Though good-natured, she had little control over her transformations. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]'')
[[Iris Wildthyme]] and [[Edwin Turner]] encountered a werewolf in [[1970s]] [[Flanders]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium (audio story)|An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium]]'')


The [[Eighth Doctor]], on a visit with [[Sam Jones]] to [[Saturnia Regina]], encountered the [[Jax]], a species thought extinct, who had in ancient times developed a [[virus]] controlled with technology that could turn people into werewolves. ([[EDA]]: ''[[Kursaal (novel)|Kursaal]]'')
The [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Turlough]] encountered [[Earth]]-based werewolves in [[21st century]] [[Brazil]], with these wolves so tied to Earth that they couldn't even ascend too high without being killed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Loups-Garoux (audio story)|Loups-Garoux]]'')


=== Werewolf-Like Creatures ===
The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] met and befriended a [[Vulpana]]n werewolf named [[Mags (The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)|Mags]] in an era of space travel. Though good-natured, she had little control over her transformations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]'')
* The [[Dalek]]s employed the [[Werelox]]. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Dogs of Doom]]'')
 
* [[Stahlman's ooze]] transformed some humans into degenerated humanoid creatures, the [[Primord]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'')
The [[Eighth Doctor]], on a visit with [[Sam Jones]] to [[Saturnia Regina]], encountered the [[Jax]], a species thought extinct, who had in ancient times developed a [[virus]] controlled with technology that could turn people into werewolves. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Kursaal (novel)|Kursaal]]'')
* Biological experimentation turned [[Yrcanos]]'s faithful servant into a vulpine humanoid known as the [[Lukoser]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Mindwarp]]'')
 
* [[Windigo]] are similar in biological concepts to Werewolves. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Bad Blood (comic story)|Bad Blood]]'')
An old werewolf costume was one of the props stored in the understage area of one theatre where the [[Thirteenth Doctor]], [[Yasmin Khan]] and [[Dan Lewis]] came to see ''[[Cinderella]]''. After the Doctor used a link from [[Spacebook]] in an effort to bring "the magic of pantomime" to the performance, the props and costumes were replaced with real versions, "snatched" from other places and realms; as a result [[Werewolf (It's Behind You!)|a real version of the werewolf]] was summoned. It attacked the group alongside several other pantomime villains. After the Doctor found a [[Genie (It's Behind You!)|Genie]]'s [[magic lamp]] among the props, she was able use one of her three [[wish]]es to "wish" her friends safe, resulting in all the pantomime characters being returned to whence they came. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[It's Behind You! (comic story)|It's Behind You!]]'')
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=== Werewolf-like creatures ===
The [[Dalek]]s employed the [[Werelox]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom]]'')
 
Biological experimentation turned [[Yrcanos]]'s faithful servant into a vulpine humanoid known as the [[Lukoser]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]'')
 
[[Windigo]] were similar in biological concepts to werewolves. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Bad Blood (comic story)|Bad Blood]]'')
 
[[Wardog]], [[parahuman member]] of the [[Special Executive]]s, affiliated to early [[Gallifrey]], was considered a werewolf lookalike. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Black Sun Rising (comic story)|Black Sun Rising]]'')
 
On a distant planet, the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]] discovered that the local creatures were essentially inverted werewolves, as they were wolf-like beings who turned into a primitive, feral humanoid in the day. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Red House (audio story)|The Red House]]'')


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Werewolf

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Werewolves were creatures that could shapeshift from humanoid form to that of a wolf, voluntarily or otherwise.

Their condition was usually called lycanthropy, (TV: Mindwarp, AUDIO: Loups-Garoux) with one source treating "lycanthropes" as a broader category encompassing werewolves. (GAME: The Iytean Menace [+]Loading...["The Iytean Menace (game)"])

The universe was home to several types of werewolf, including Lupine Wavelength Haemovariforms, (TV: Tooth and Claw) Were Lords, (AUDIO: Brightly Shone The Moon That Night) the Werelox, (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom) loups-garoux, (AUDIO: Loups-Garoux) and some Vulpanans. (AUDIO: The Moons of Vulpana) The Iytean Change could also manifest similarly, with some speculating that some of Earth's legends of werewolves and lycanthropes had been inspired by Iytean incursions. (GAME: The Iytean Menace [+]Loading...["The Iytean Menace (game)"])

Legend[[edit] | [edit source]]

Werewolves were creatures that appeared human but transformed into beasts in the light of a full moon. The bite of a werewolf would turn the victim into a werewolf. The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler speculated that this might have happened to Queen Victoria when they met her. (TV: Tooth and Claw)

Because they existed in myths, they were present in the Land of Fiction. The Cybermen converted them as woodsmen, but under the full moon they turned into monsters of plastic and flesh and fur. This showed the Cybermen the potential of converting other fictional creatures. (AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen)

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

A werewolf in the TARDIS. (PROSE: Loop the Loup)

During the Vampire Wars, the Time Lords created a race of lycanthropic Gallifreyan soldiers to fight the vampires. They eventually deserted and settled in Greece in 1500 BC. (AUDIO: Brightly Shone The Moon That Night)

The Second Doctor encountered a werewolf in 3300 BC Italy. (PROSE: Loop the Loup)

The Werewolf the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler encountered. (TV: Tooth and Claw)

The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler encountered a Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform in 1879 Scotland. (TV: Tooth and Claw)

In the early 1890s Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot defeated an army captain who had been bitten by a werewolf in India. (AUDIO: The Bloodless Soldier)

In 1903, after receiving a wealth of information from the future, Grigori Rasputin saw werewolves. (AUDIO: The Wanderer)

Werewolves were apparently prevalent in pre-World War II Germany, where Emmeline Neuberger remembered being forcibly recruited by the government along with other werewolves as a death squad before she escaped to England, although she later reflected that her memories could have been altered by Hester Stanton. Emmeline helped the Eighth Doctor and Harry Sullivan prevent Hester's plan to take over the world, and may have turned Harry into a werewolf, but Harry was subsequently taken away by the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith. The Eighth Doctor attempted to arrange help for Emmeline via his government contacts, but they held her prisoner to try and find a way to force the change until she was rescued by the Fourth Doctor (who would go back to rescue Harry in his future). During this time the Fourth Doctor learned how to force and reverse the change to trigger Emmeline's transformation and later turn her back, and it is possible that he was able to devise a permanent cure for Harry. (PROSE: Wolfsbane)

The First Doctor and Susan encountered a werewolf in 1963 and the Doctor was put on trial after they killed it, forcing the Doctor's future selves to act as jurors to cast doubt on the case. (PROSE: The Juror's Story)

Iris Wildthyme and Edwin Turner encountered a werewolf in 1970s Flanders. (AUDIO: An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium)

The Fifth Doctor and Turlough encountered Earth-based werewolves in 21st century Brazil, with these wolves so tied to Earth that they couldn't even ascend too high without being killed. (AUDIO: Loups-Garoux)

The Seventh Doctor and Ace met and befriended a Vulpanan werewolf named Mags in an era of space travel. Though good-natured, she had little control over her transformations. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)

The Eighth Doctor, on a visit with Sam Jones to Saturnia Regina, encountered the Jax, a species thought extinct, who had in ancient times developed a virus controlled with technology that could turn people into werewolves. (PROSE: Kursaal)

An old werewolf costume was one of the props stored in the understage area of one theatre where the Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan and Dan Lewis came to see Cinderella. After the Doctor used a link from Spacebook in an effort to bring "the magic of pantomime" to the performance, the props and costumes were replaced with real versions, "snatched" from other places and realms; as a result a real version of the werewolf was summoned. It attacked the group alongside several other pantomime villains. After the Doctor found a Genie's magic lamp among the props, she was able use one of her three wishes to "wish" her friends safe, resulting in all the pantomime characters being returned to whence they came. (COMIC: It's Behind You!)

Werewolf-like creatures[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Daleks employed the Werelox. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom)

Biological experimentation turned Yrcanos's faithful servant into a vulpine humanoid known as the Lukoser. (TV: Mindwarp)

Windigo were similar in biological concepts to werewolves. (COMIC: Bad Blood)

Wardog, parahuman member of the Special Executives, affiliated to early Gallifrey, was considered a werewolf lookalike. (COMIC: Black Sun Rising)

On a distant planet, the Sixth Doctor and Charley discovered that the local creatures were essentially inverted werewolves, as they were wolf-like beings who turned into a primitive, feral humanoid in the day. (AUDIO: The Red House)