Theory:Timeline - The Great Intelligence

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This page lists appearances of the Great Intelligence in the order in which he experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

According to PROSE: Legacies, The Great Intelligence was an imprint of an inter-dimensional being, which existed in many realities, always ending up as the Great Intelligence and sharing the same basic attributes, although the Intelligences originated in various ways, including an immortal soul, and various Great Old Ones.

It's linear timeline starts with TV: The Abominable Snowmen and ends with PROSE: The Forgotten Son after being splintered across the Doctor's Timeline. PROSE: The Forgotten Son also explains that the Intelligence lost its memory and somehow ended up in 1842. This explains how the intelligence was in London in 1892 when it possesed the body of Padmasambhava in Tibet between the 17th century and the 1920's/30's.

Timeline

• Between c.1925 and c.1935 TV: The Abominable Snowmen

This is the immortal soul Intelligence also known as Yog-Sothoth. At some point in the 18th century, it possessed the Tibetan lama Padmasambhava while it was travelling the astral plane and forced him to build its Robot Yeti over the next two centuries.

• 1968 - TV: The Web of Fear
  • PROSE: Legacies
• COMIC: Yonder... The Yeti
• HOMEVID: Downtime/PROSE: Downtime

The Intelligence plots revenge on Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.

• PROSE: Millennial Rites

The Intelligence mentions being recently repelled from Earth.

• TV: The Snowmen

The Eleventh Doctor shows the Intelligence a map of the London Underground but it does not recognise it. According to PROSE: The Forgotten Son, the Intelligence forgot its memories and ended up in 1842, where Walter Simeon began speaking to a snowman created with a low-level telepathic field. The snowman reflected his most dark of beliefs and thoughts, and he eventually formed his own consciousness. So this is not the original intelligence who was based in Tibet at this time.

• TV: The Bells of Saint John

The Intelligence remembers UNIT.

• TV: The Name of the Doctor

The Intelligence is scattered across the Doctor's Time stream.

• PROSE: The Forgotten Son

Currently Unplaced

• PROSE: Dr. Second