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| {{Infobox Species
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| |name = Empty Child
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| |type=[[Human]] with altered DNA
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| |aka = Gas Mask Zombie
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| |affiliation = [[Nanogene]]s
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| |origin = [[Earth]]
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| |appearances = [[DW]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'' / ''[[The Doctor Dances]]
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| |mentions = <ul><li>[[DW]]: ''[[School Reunion]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]</li></ul>
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| |individuals = [[Jamie (The Empty Child)|Jamie]]
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| :''See also [[Jamie (The Empty Child)|Jamie]], the first individual affected, see [[The Empty Child]] for the television story''
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| The '''Empty Child''' plague was a [[technological plague]] which spread around a part of [[London]] in [[1941]]. The [[Ninth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] encountered the Empty Child and helped play a part in its cure.
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| == History ==
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| [[Chula]] [[nanogene]]s, who had never previously encountered [[human]]s, infected a dying human boy named Jamie caught in the [[London Blitz]], and created an "Empty Child" with a [[gas mask]] for a face. The nanogenes also gave the child the standard abilities of Chula soldiers, specifically super-human strength, [[Telepathy|telepathic abilities]] and the ability to communicate using [[Communications devices|other items]]. The Empty Child still had a child-like mentality and escaped to search for its mother.
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| The Empty Child compulsively searched for his mother, and in doing so contaminated other humans with the nanogenes. Those who were infected did likewise so that the nanogenes spread in a fashion similar to a virus. The child, and all victims of it, were infamous for repeating the phrase "Are you my Mummy?" endlessly.
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| All of the victims grew faces like gas masks and developed the same wounds as the original child, as well as the same compulsion. This plague was finally stopped when the Doctor reunited the Empty Child with his mother and the nanogenes recognised the proper sequence for a human in [[1941]] [[London]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'' / ''[[The Doctor Dances]]'')
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| == References ==
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| * When given a gas mask, during [[Sontaran invasion of Earth]] the [[Tenth Doctor]] states "Are you my mummy?", a reference to these events. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| * <!--can someone please write out the exact reference from The Next Doctor -->This occurs again in ''[[The Next Doctor]].''
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| == Known victims ==
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| * [[Jamie (The Empty Child)|Jamie]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'')
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| * [[Constantine (The Empty Child)|Doctor Constantine]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'')
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| * [[Algy (The Empty Child)|Algy]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances]]'')
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