Howling:No Cybus Cybermen?

The Howling → No Cybus Cybermen?

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It's shown in The Pandorica Opens that Amy Pond doesn't appear to recognise a Cybermen of the Cybus variety when she sees one, and I think this is also the case in one of the Adventure Games, despite them having appeared in large numbers across the world only a couple of years earlier. And most recently, in Closing Time, we see that Craig Owens doesn't know what they are either. This is similar to Amy's reaction to the Daleks in Victory of the Daleks, where it was eventually revealed to be due to the Time Cracks erasing things from existence. Now if we assume that the same thing happened with the Cybus army in Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, we're left with some problems. For one, without the Cybusmen, how could the Battle of Canary Wharf have occured, in which Torchwood 1 fell? And how could Ianto Jones' girlfriend Lisa have been Cyberised? Ianto's issues with finding a cure for Lisa hugely affected his interactions with the rest of the Torchwood team, and him losing her when and how he did was part of what lead to his developing relationship with Jack. My point is that without the Cybus army, the past lives of various characters are heavily distorted. I, for one, would like the events of Cyberwoman to still have occured, if only for the characters' lives to make sense and for such past stories to still be a worth a damn. 82.2.136.93 11:11, November 6, 2011 (UTC)

This is one of several issues under discussion having to do with the effects of the cracks and rebooting the Universe in The Big Bang. I suggest you take a look at Howling: If the Doctor Never Existed and see if the answer lies there.Boblipton ^{talk to me} 11:51, November 6, 2011 (UTC)

Damnit, Boblipton, with your conflicting edits... I'm still putting my post though.

It was frequently stated in Series 5 that while things were erased from history by the Cracks that the effects of the things they erased still happened. In other words Torchwood 1 still fell even though there was never any Cybermen or Daleks, Amy still existed even though she never had any parents, the Byzantium still crashed even though there was never any Weeping Angels, and Earth still existed even though stars had never existed. This issue has been discussed Ad nauseum and there is even a current on-going discussion about the issue. The Light6 ^{talk to me} 11:58, November 6, 2011 (UTC)

It's also possible that she either managed to miss the Cyber-invasion like Donna did, or she just didn't recognize a disembodied Cyberarm. If any Cybermen she encountered only referred to themselves as human 2.0, then she wouldn't recognize the name Cyberman either, and when she saw a cyberhead or a giant one armed headless cyberman coming to attack her, she was hardly going to say "oh so that's a cyberman. Yeah, I've seen those before."Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 19:11, November 6, 2011 (UTC)

uh...Amy lives in a remote village with no airport...do we even need an explanation for her to not know about the Cybermen?

Yes because the Cybermen were all over the world. The Light6 ^{talk to me} 01:40, November 12, 2011 (UTC)

Were they all over the world? I don't think we actually saw them anywhere but major cities, although we didn't see anything but London except on the News. Still, it's very plausible that a small town like Leadworth only had one or two "ghosts," and Amy could have easily missed them turning into Cybermen.Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 02:56, November 12, 2011 (UTC)