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In [[the Doctor]]'s [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], the [[Threshold]] took the Statue of Liberty and other items of Earth culture to the town of [[Wormwood (town)|Wormwood]] on [[the Moon]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Wormwood (comic story)|Wormwood]]'') | In [[the Doctor]]'s [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], the [[Threshold]] took the Statue of Liberty and other items of Earth culture to the town of [[Wormwood (town)|Wormwood]] on [[the Moon]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Wormwood (comic story)|Wormwood]]'') | ||
[[ | [[File:Weeping_angel.jpg|thumb|left|The Statue of Liberty at Winter Quay.]] | ||
Sometimes, when the Weeping Angels imprisoned victims in [[Winter Quay]] to use as food by constantly sending them back in time, the Statue of Liberty would travel from Liberty Island to the Quay (possibly to feed off of the potential energy with the other Angels). In [[1938]], when [[Rory Williams]] and [[Amy Pond]], whom the Angels had recently trapped in the Quay, jumped from the Quay's roof (to negate an [[alternate timeline]] in which Rory remained imprisoned at Winter Quay for the rest of his life), the [[paradox]] this created poisoned and killed the majority of the Weeping Angels at Winter Quay, including the Statue of Liberty. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'') | Sometimes, when the Weeping Angels imprisoned victims in [[Winter Quay]] to use as food by constantly sending them back in time, the Statue of Liberty would travel from Liberty Island to the Quay (possibly to feed off of the potential energy with the other Angels). In [[1938]], when [[Rory Williams]] and [[Amy Pond]], whom the Angels had recently trapped in the Quay, jumped from the Quay's roof (to negate an [[alternate timeline]] in which Rory remained imprisoned at Winter Quay for the rest of his life), the [[paradox]] this created poisoned and killed the majority of the Weeping Angels at Winter Quay, including the Statue of Liberty. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'') | ||
Revision as of 20:41, 29 September 2012
The Statue of Liberty was a landmark located on an island in the river contiguous to New York City, and secretly also one of the disguisedWeeping Angels which were using the city as a "farm".[fn 1]
Biography
The Doctor was only known to have visited the Statue of Liberty in situ once. In 1930, the Doctor's TARDIS materialised at the base of the statue, and remained parked there while the Tenth Doctor and Martha fought an attempt by the Cult of Skaro to rebuild the Dalek race. In showing off the statue to Martha, the Doctor quoted from the statue's famous inscription, saying, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free." (TV: Daleks in Manhattan)
In the Doctor's eighth incarnation, the Threshold took the Statue of Liberty and other items of Earth culture to the town of Wormwood on the Moon. (COMIC: Wormwood)
Sometimes, when the Weeping Angels imprisoned victims in Winter Quay to use as food by constantly sending them back in time, the Statue of Liberty would travel from Liberty Island to the Quay (possibly to feed off of the potential energy with the other Angels). In 1938, when Rory Williams and Amy Pond, whom the Angels had recently trapped in the Quay, jumped from the Quay's roof (to negate an alternate timeline in which Rory remained imprisoned at Winter Quay for the rest of his life), the paradox this created poisoned and killed the majority of the Weeping Angels at Winter Quay, including the Statue of Liberty. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)
Alternate timeline
In an alternative timeline in which Morbius conquered Earth, he took the Statue of Liberty in order to have it installed atop the palace of Morbius on Karn; this timeline was later erased from reality. (AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius)
Mentions and other appearances
The Doctor occasionally encountered it at different locations, or at least referenced its iconic design, at other points in his life. In his fifth body, he compared a statue of the Divine Empress of the Earth Empire to the Statue of Liberty on Earth. (PROSE: Cold Fusion)
During his tenth life, the Doctor noted that one of the features of the Gameslaves' pinball table was a life-sized Statue of Liberty. (COMIC: Pinball Wizard)
- ↑ The only filmed encounter of a TARDIS crew with the statue, Daleks in Manhattan, was silent as to the precise real-world location of the island on which the statue is located. The Tenth Tenth Doctor's exclamation, "Smell that Atlantic breeze!" and James Strong's camera angles — which ignored the statue's greater proximity to New Jersey — gave the impression that it was perhaps in the open Atlantic Ocean. In fact, of course, it sits in the Hudson River on Liberty Island.
