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|image = Power behind the throne.jpg | |image = Power behind the throne.jpg | ||
|main character = [[Cyber-Controller (The Tomb of the Cybermen)|The Cyber-Controller]] | |main character = [[Cyber-Controller (The Tomb of the Cybermen)|The Cyber-Controller]] | ||
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|enemy = [[The Doctor]] | |enemy = [[The Doctor]] | ||
|setting = | |setting = | ||
|writer = | |writer = Gary Russell, Marcus Hearn, Warwick Gray | ||
|editor = | |editor = | ||
|illustrator = | |illustrator = | ||
|publication = [[DWPM 2]] | |publication = [[DWPM 2]] | ||
|anthology = | |anthology = | ||
|release date = | |release date = 1995 | ||
|publisher = Marvel Comics | |publisher = Marvel Comics | ||
|series = ''[[Doctor Who Poster Magazine|DWPM]]'' short stories | |series = ''[[Doctor Who Poster Magazine|DWPM]]'' short stories | ||
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* [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] | * [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] | ||
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* The [[Cyber-Controller (The Tomb of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Controller]] possesses a "special [[cranium design]]", giving him his enhanced [[intelligence]]. | * The [[Cyber-Controller (The Tomb of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Controller]] possesses a "special [[cranium design]]", giving him his enhanced [[intelligence]]. | ||
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[[Category:1995 short stories]] | [[Category:1995 short stories]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:05, 10 February 2024
The Powers Behind the Throne was the second short story in DWPM 2, which was devoted to the Cybermen. It cast a look back at the story of the Cyber-Controller, here construed, as in a few other sources, as a singular individual (implicitly equivalent to the Daleks' singular Emperor) rather than a title.
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As discovered by the Second Doctor, the true mastermind behind the Brotherhood of Logicians plot on Telos is actually the malevolent Cyber-Controller. The Controller is seemingly destroyed, leading to further Cyberman plans having to be carried out under the leadership of non-sapient, non-humanoid Cyber-Planners, but the Controller is only biding his time until he resurfaces to oppose the Sixth Doctor. Again he appears to be annihilated, but is it another trick?
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Cyber-Controller possesses a "special cranium design", giving him his enhanced intelligence.
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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The narrative briefly goes over the ill-fated alliance between Tobias Vaughn and the Cybermen. (TV: The Invasion)
- The Second (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen) and Sixth Doctors believe, at various points, that they have destroyed the Cyber-Controller. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen)
