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| [[File:The Hybrid Confession - Heaven Sent - Doctor Who - BBC|thumb|The [[Twelfth Doctor]] confesses about his knowledge of the Hybrid. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'')]]
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| The '''Prophecy of the Hybrid''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') otherwise shortened to simply '''the Hybrid''', was a [[Gallifreyan]] legend that said all [[the Matrix|Matrix]] [[prophecy|prophecies]] [[War prediction|predicted]] that a [[hybrid]] creature, thought to be crossbred from two [[warrior race]]s, would stand over the ruins of [[Gallifrey]] and unravel the [[Web of Time]], breaking a billion billion [[heart]]s to heal its own. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') According to the ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'', the text of the legend dated back to the [[Cloister Wars]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') while [[A Brief History of Time Lords|another account]] claimed it was the first prophecy that was made by the Matrix, but it was ignored at the time given that it was forecasted to occur billions of years in the future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') Nonetheless, the Time Lords were certain it would come eventually. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'')
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| The ''Dalek Combat Manual'', even despite being part of a confidential chapter intended only for [[section leader]]s, blanked out what the text of the legend actually entailed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') On the last day of the [[Last Great Time War]], [[the Visionary]] had predicted Gallifrey would fall. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') When the planet survived the Time War, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') {{Sumpter}} began to fear that the Hybrid would bring about the prophesied fall. Convinced by {{Gomez}} that the Twelfth Doctor knew about the creature, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') he trapped and imprisoned the Doctor in his [[confession dial]] for information about the Hybrid. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')
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| == References ==
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| [[File:The Daleks Regenerate.jpg|thumb|left|The Daleks receive the Doctor's regeneration energy from [[Colony Sarff]] on [[Skaro]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')]]
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| It was popularly supposed that the two warrior races would be the [[Time Lord]]s and the [[Dalek]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') [[Davros]] attempted to fulfil the prophecy by giving some of his Daleks [[regeneration energy]] taken from the [[Twelfth Doctor]], transforming them into Time Lord hybrids. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') However, the Doctor later believed that the Daleks would never allow anything to be half-Dalek. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') Davros was left to imagine the hybrid creature that could have been made if he and the Doctor worked together. However, now that he had access to [[regeneration]] energy, Davros believed he had great possibilities for future experiments. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Secrets of the Dalek Laboratory (short story)|Secrets of the Dalek Laboratory]]'')
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| The Twelfth Doctor claimed at various points to possess special knowledge about the Hybrid, going so far as to one point stating that the Hybrid was "me". ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') It was suggested that knowledge of the Hybrid prophecies from the [[Cloisters]] originally drove the Doctor from Gallifrey, and [[Ashildr]] proposed that the Doctor himself was a half-human half-Time Lord hybrid. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') However, [[Boy (Heaven Sent)|the author]] of the [[Time Lord Academy]] [[A Brief History of Time Lords|textbook]] on [[Gallifreyan history]] believed that the Doctor was bluffing when he said that he was the Hybrid and went onto further theorise that the Doctor had no idea what the Hybrid was, merely using the Time Lords' fear of it against them as [[revenge]] for killing Clara Oswald. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')
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| Other possible candidates for the hybrid included the part-[[human]] part-[[Mire]] [[Ashildr]] (at one point proposed by the Doctor) ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]''); the simultaneously-human-and-[[Zygon]] [[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Zygon Invasion (TV story)|The Zygon Invasion]]''); the part-[[organic]] part-[[sleep dust]] [[Sandman (Sleep No More)|Sandmen]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Sleep No More (TV story)|Sleep No More]]''); the "part-human part-[[Bad Wolf (entity)|wolf]]" [[Rose Tyler]]; the post-[[Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis|metacrisis]] [[Donna Noble|Doctor Donna]]; and the half-Time Lord [[River Song]]. However, none of these quite fit the prophecy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') [[Dalek Caan]] stated that even he did not know who the Hybrid really was. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Caan (short story)|Dalek Caan]]'')
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| In the Cloisters at the [[end of the universe]], Ashildr posited to the Twelfth Doctor that the Hybrid could be interpreted as referring to more than one being: specifically, the pairing of the Doctor and his companion [[Clara Oswald]]. Just prior to losing his memories of Clara, the Doctor indicated that his reckless actions in trying to prevent her death made him the Hybrid. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') A Time Lord author agreed with this theory, noting it was the only one that truly fit the prophecy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')
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| In [[2002]], [[Sam Jones]] told [[Griffin (Unnatural History)|Griffin]] about a Gallifreyan prophecy concerning a hybrid. She said the Doctor was a hybrid, [[the Doctor's father|his father]] a Time Lord and [[the Doctor's mother|his mother]] a human, and that he was destined to unite the two races and "bring good old human niceness into their alien society". Though she thought she was bluffing to stall Griffin, the [[Eighth Doctor]] later asked her who had told her about the prophecy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') {{Simm|n=The Master}}, who intended for the human-turned [[Toclafane]] to establish his [[New Time Lord Empire]], suggested in conversation with the [[Tenth Doctor]] that the Doctor had always dreamt of "Time Lords and humans combined". ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * Although ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', among other [[series 9 (Doctor Who)|series 9]] episodes, offered multiple possibilities as to the identity/nature of the Hybrid, showrunner [[Steven Moffat]], in an interview for [[DWM 504|''Doctor Who Magazine'' #504]], confirmed that he intended that the Hybrid was the pairing of the Doctor and Clara. He retroactively linked this fact to the reason why [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] exhibited some hostility towards Clara in [[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|series 7]].
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| * The events of ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'' fit multiple aspects of the Hybrid. For example, {{Dhawan}}'s fusing with the [[Cyberium]] made him a hybrid between two warrior races, the [[Time Lord]]s and the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]]. Additionally, the [[CyberMaster]]s were [[Cyber-Warrior]]s [[Cyber-conversion|converted]] from [[Death|dead]] Time Lords, thereby making them a hybrid [[species]] of Time Lord and Cyberman. Furthermore, the Master stood over the ruins of [[Gallifrey]] after learning the story of the [[Timeless Child]] and [[murder]]ing the Time Lords in his rage, thereby "breaking a billion hearts to heal [his] own". However, no official source, in-universe or not, has made any correlation between the events of ''The Timeless Children'' and the Hybrid. rip clara
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