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'''The Valeyard''' | '''The Valeyard''' is the thirteenth and final incarnation of the [[Doctor]]. Unlike his predecessors, he was pure evil, twisted and cruel, an expression of the Doctor's dark side, | ||
as he was nearing the end of his regenerative cycle. | |||
==Profile== | ==Profile== | ||
===Biography=== | ===Biography=== | ||
====Origins==== | |||
The Valeyard was born when the [[Twelfth Doctor]]/[[Muldwych]] regenerated for what-ever reason. He despertely needed to get more regenerations and so he decided he would travel | |||
back in time and create a scheme to still the remaining regenerations from one of his past incarnations and live longer similiar to the Master's plot. He would have to transform his TARDIS into a [[Paradox machine]] for this to work. | |||
====First meeting with the Doctor==== | ====First meeting with the Doctor==== | ||
The Valeyard served as the prosecutor during the trial of [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]]. He presented extracts from [[the Matrix]] depicting past events in the Doctor's life as evidence of the Doctor violating the [[non-interference policy]] of the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]'', ''[[Mindwarp]]'') Later in the trial he added a charge of [[genocide]] against the [[Vervoid]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Vervoids|The Trial of A Time Lord]]''). | The Valeyard served as the prosecutor during the trial of [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]]. He presented extracts from [[the Matrix]] depicting past events in the Doctor's life as evidence of the Doctor violating the [[non-interference policy]] of the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]'', ''[[Mindwarp]]'') Later in the trial he added a charge of [[genocide]] against the [[Vervoid]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Vervoids|The Trial of A Time Lord]]''). | ||
The Valeyard had secretly tampered with the Matrix extracts to show the Doctor in the worst possible light and steer the trial to a guilty verdict. The Valeyard was acting on behalf of the [[High Council]] to cover up the [[Ravolox]] affair. As payment, the Valeyard was to have received the Doctor's remaining [[regeneration]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]''). [[The Master (Tremas)|The Master]] stepped in and revealed the Valeyard's true origins. | The Valeyard had secretly tampered with the Matrix extracts to show the Doctor in the worst possible light and steer the trial to a guilty verdict. The Valeyard was acting on behalf of the [[High Council]] to cover up the [[Ravolox]] affair. As payment, the Valeyard was to have received the Doctor's remaining [[regeneration]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]''), | ||
as the villian had planned. [[The Master (Tremas)|The Master]] stepped in and revealed the Valeyard's true origins however runing everything. | |||
The Valeyard escaped into [[the Matrix]] via the [[Seventh Door]], which he opens using a copy of the [[Key of Rassilon]]. He is pursued and finally defeated by [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] when an explosion the Valeyard had intended to destroy the court is fed back into the Matrix due to the Doctor's tampering. | The Valeyard escaped into [[the Matrix]] via the [[Seventh Door]], which he opens using a copy of the [[Key of Rassilon]]. He is pursued and finally defeated by [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] when an explosion the Valeyard had intended to destroy the court is fed back into the Matrix due to the Doctor's tampering. | ||
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===Other timelines=== | ===Other timelines=== | ||
In one timeline, the Valeyard did manage to defeat the Doctor and went on to wreak havoc throughout time and space. ([[DWU]]: ''[[He Jests at Scars...]]'') | In one timeline, the Valeyard did manage to defeat the Doctor and went on to wreak havoc throughout time and space. ([[DWU]]: ''[[He Jests at Scars...]]'') | ||
===Personality=== | |||
The Valeyard was saddistic and cruel, just as evil as the [[Master]]. As the Doctor was reaching the end of his regenerative cycle, his dark side began to show very, very clearly. | |||
==Behind the Scenes== | ==Behind the Scenes== | ||
Revision as of 11:23, 19 May 2009
.......Or as I've always known him, The Doctor.......
The Valeyard is the thirteenth and final incarnation of the Doctor. Unlike his predecessors, he was pure evil, twisted and cruel, an expression of the Doctor's dark side, as he was nearing the end of his regenerative cycle.
Profile
Biography
Origins
The Valeyard was born when the Twelfth Doctor/Muldwych regenerated for what-ever reason. He despertely needed to get more regenerations and so he decided he would travel back in time and create a scheme to still the remaining regenerations from one of his past incarnations and live longer similiar to the Master's plot. He would have to transform his TARDIS into a Paradox machine for this to work.
First meeting with the Doctor
The Valeyard served as the prosecutor during the trial of the Doctor. He presented extracts from the Matrix depicting past events in the Doctor's life as evidence of the Doctor violating the non-interference policy of the Time Lords. (DW: The Mysterious Planet, Mindwarp) Later in the trial he added a charge of genocide against the Vervoids (DW: The Trial of A Time Lord).
The Valeyard had secretly tampered with the Matrix extracts to show the Doctor in the worst possible light and steer the trial to a guilty verdict. The Valeyard was acting on behalf of the High Council to cover up the Ravolox affair. As payment, the Valeyard was to have received the Doctor's remaining regenerations (DW: The Ultimate Foe), as the villian had planned. The Master stepped in and revealed the Valeyard's true origins however runing everything.
The Valeyard escaped into the Matrix via the Seventh Door, which he opens using a copy of the Key of Rassilon. He is pursued and finally defeated by the Doctor when an explosion the Valeyard had intended to destroy the court is fed back into the Matrix due to the Doctor's tampering.
However, as Inquisitor Darkel dismissed the trial and the Doctor and his companion departed, the Valeyard was also present, disguised as the Keeper of the Matrix. (DW: The Ultimate Foe).
Return
The Valeyard returned and tangled with the Doctor in his seventh incarnation, revealing now his mastery of the Dark Matrix, a counterpart of the normal Matrix. (PDA: Matrix)
Impersonation
Years later, a creature called the Es'Cartress of the Tactire assumed the form of the Valeyard while attempting to steal the Doctor's memories. Oddly, although the Doctor initially addressed the apparation as the Valeyard, the creature actually resembled a bearded version of the Doctor's tenth incarnation. (IDW: The Forgotten)
Other timelines
In one timeline, the Valeyard did manage to defeat the Doctor and went on to wreak havoc throughout time and space. (DWU: He Jests at Scars...)
Personality
The Valeyard was saddistic and cruel, just as evil as the Master. As the Doctor was reaching the end of his regenerative cycle, his dark side began to show very, very clearly.
Behind the Scenes
On screen
- Because of creative differences which occurred between the writing of the original version of The Ultimate Foe and its production between John Nathan-Turner, Doctor Who's Producer at the time, and his Script Editor Eric Saward (who, with Robert Holmes, wrote the script), some of the background behind the Valeyard got lost. With Saward refusing to allow any elements of the second episode (the fourteenth and final episode of Trial of a Time Lord as a whole), Pip and Jane Baker ended up patching up the continuity without (for legal reasons) reference to the scripts. An earlier draft of The Ultimate Foe had made it clear that the Doctor would definitely, at some stage, turn into the Valeyard, desperate to extend his life after his remaining regenerations had run out. (A not dis-similar situation to the one faced by the Master.) The creative dispute had arisen from the dark nature of these and other developments in the script, with John Nathan-Turner not favouring such a downbeat approach.
- With the events of Journey's End, some fans have begun to wonder as to whether or not Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor will eventually become the Valeyard.
Other media
- Writer's guidelines for the Virgin New Adventures specifically asked writers not to discuss about the continuity issues created by the Valeyard or the Doctor's trial in The Trial of a Time Lord and took the official line that those events had taken place in the Doctor's personal future. Some novels, however, such as Love and War by Paul Cornell, among others, did, however.
- The Valeyard appeares in the un-authorized fan novel charity publication Time's Champion begun by Craig Hinton and completed by Chris McKeon.
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