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|name        = Cyberman
|name        = Cyberman
|aka        =  
|type        = [[Human]]-derived [[cyborg]]
|type        = [[Cyborg]]s
|aka        = Human.2
|affiliation = The [[Cyber-Force]], The [[Cyberiad]]
|affiliation = [[Cybus Industries]], [[The Alliance (The Pandorica Opens)|The Alliance]], the [[CyberKing]], [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Alternative Cybermen]]
|origin      = [[Mondas]]
|origin      = [[Pete's World|Parallel Earth]]
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|first      = Tardisode 5
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|appearances = [[Cybermen (Pete's World) - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
|individuals = {{il|[[Zheng]]|[[Cyber-Controller]]|[[Cyber-Planner]]|[[Cyber-Leader (Mondas)|Cyber-Leader]]|[[Cyber-Lieutenant]]|[[Regos Krang]]|[[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]]|[[Mr Clever]]|[[Handles]]|[[Rassilon]]}}
|individuals = {{il|[[Lisa Hallett]]|[[Cyber-Control (Pete's World)|Cyber-Control]]|[[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lord]]|[[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)|Cyber-Leader]]|[[John Lumic]]|[[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie Tyler]]|[[Yvonne Hartman]]|[[Cybershade]]|[[Mercy Hartigan]]|[[Sally Phelan]]}}
|clip       = Cybermen Ambush The Doctor & Master - Doctor Who Classic - The 5 Doctors - BBC
|clip       = Surrounded by the Cybermen - Doctor Who - Rise of the Cybermen - BBC
|clip2     = The End Game - Doctor Who - Nightmare in Silver - Series 7 - BBC
|clip2       = Escape from the Cybermen - Doctor Who - The Age of Steel - BBC
|bts        = Special Feature - Origin of the Cybermen - Doctor Who - Tomb of the Cybermen - BBC
|clip3      = Here come the Ghosts! - Doctor Who - Army of Ghosts - Series 2 - BBC
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The '''Cybermen''', also referred to as '''Cybrmn''' when they released a computer virus which destroyed all vowels,([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vrs (short story)|Vrs]]'') of [[the Doctor]]'s [[universe]] were a race of artificially modified [[human]]s who originated from the [[planet]] [[Mondas]], [[Earth]]'s [[twin planet]]. The reason behind their modifications was due to the increasingly cold atmosphere of their planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')
One type of '''Cyberman''' originated in [[Pete's World|another universe]], where they were created by [[John Lumic]], the owner of [[Cybus Industries]] and the original Cyber Controller of this breed. His Cybermen believed that all people must be "upgraded" to Cyber-form, so that information would never be lost and that the humans' physical and emotional weaknesses would be abolished. Beyond this, it remains unknown what the cyber-race would do if they completed conversion of humanity. If there was such a goal, it perished with John Lumic. Although the [[Tenth Doctor]] said "all you'll be left with is a metal earth, with metal people, with metal thoughts;  you won't advance, you'll stop. "


Their original goal was simply to return Mondas to the solar system; they would destroy the Earth and have Mondas replace it. The Doctor's first and sixth incarnations prevented this, and their attempt to destroy Earth with a comet. (TV: ''[[The Tenth Planet]], [[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
Most Cybermen escaped from their home dimension and into the Doctor's, beginning their goal anew. Likely, because the technology on their home world was too advanced to counter.
 
With nothing else left to them, the Cybermen took it as their primary aim to conquer the universe, converting where possible to boost their numbers. Fear of such conversion was prevalent on many worlds and so the Cybermen came to be objects of terror. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
 
Many species fought against them in the [[Cyber-Wars]]. (TV: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') After the wars were over, they had upgraded their technology, which overcame many weaknesses present in their original models. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')


== Characteristics ==
== Characteristics ==
=== Variants ===
The Cybermen were [[cyborg|cybernetically]] augmented [[humanoid]]s. Though they varied greatly in design over time (most likely due to the technology available to them), the many versions had several things in common. Nearly all were silver in colour, except for a black variety in the [[London sewers]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'', et al.)
Cybermen also exhibited exposed circuitry and tubing covering a rubbery or mylar-like outer skin. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') Cybermen frequently attempted to increase their numbers by [[cyber-conversion]].
[[File:Tenth_Planet_2_001.jpg|thumb|left|A Mondasian. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')]]
The [[Mondasian]]s which the [[First Doctor]] met on [[Snowcap Base]] in [[December]] [[1986]] had undergone a less radical conversion and still retained biological hands. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')
All other Cybermen were entirely covered by their metallic suits. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'' onwards) Some partial conversions were known to exist that still held human features, among them [[Tobias Vaughn]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
The Cybermen on the [[Moonbase]] and those released by [[Eric Klieg]] on [[Telos]] were slim. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'', ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') The ones which infiltrated [[Briggs' freighter]] in [[2526]] had bulkier, more imposing forms. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'') Cybermen like these also existed in the [[1980s]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')
[[File:Black_Cyberman.jpg|thumb|A black Cyberman. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')]]
Mondasian Cybermen had a quavering voice which put inflected syllables in a seemingly random, sing-song manner. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') Later Cybermen spoke in more of a monotone, emphasising their lack of emotion. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'')
After recovering from the [[Cyber-Wars]], the Cybermen had advanced suits. Their chest units glowed blue. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
=== Conversion ===
=== Conversion ===
[[Cyber-conversion]] was the process by which compatible beings were physically and mentally altered into Cybermen. This process was necessary for the Cybermen to increase in number and was carried out at many locations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
Unlike the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] of [[the Doctor]]'s [[N-Space|universe]], these Cybermen were created by taking the brains of humans and placing them in robotic bodies. These exostructures were built from [[High Content Metal]] and were stauncher and more heavily built than the Cybermen of [[Mondas]].
[[File:Cyber-conversion_A.jpg|thumb|left|Cyber-conversion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')]]
Partial conversions occurred. In a partial conversion, the subject took on several features of the Cybermen. For example, [[Tobias Vaughn]]'s torso was immune to gunfire. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
 
A great weakness of the conversion was they could only convert species close to humans. This left [[Time Lord]]s like the Doctor safe for a time. (TV: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'') However, the post-Cyber Wars variety no longer had this drawback, and were able to temporarily incorporate his mind to create the [[Cyber-Planner]] [[Mr Clever]]. (TV: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'') A further upgrade to their process was being able to convert corpses, no matter how decayed or what age the victim died at. (TV: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')


=== Vulnerabilities ===
[[Cyber-conversion]] involved painfully removing the [[brain]] of the subject and placing it within a suit of armour. The brain was preserved in a cradle of Cybus-copyrighted chemicals and welded to the exoskeleton, to which cyber-kinetic impulses were bonded. The remaining human body was simply incinerated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') Once complete, the newly developed Cyberman had a special implant placed within them. The implant prevented them from feeling their emotions, but, if the implants were disrupted, the Cybermen entered a traumatic state as they were overloaded by the pain of the conversion. This would make them die in agony or cause their heads to explode from the overload of emotions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
[[File:Cyberleader_2.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Fifth Doctor]] uses [[Adric]]'s gold badge against the Cyber-Leader. ([[TV]]: [[Earthshock]]) ]]
Cybermen had major weaknesses. The most notable was the element [[gold]] which, being non-corrosive, choked their respiratory systems, a property exploited by the [[glittergun]] used during the [[Cyber-Wars]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'') ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Last of the Cybermen (audio story)|Last of the Cybermen]]'') On occasion, the mere touch of gold was toxic to them. Gold coins or gold-tipped arrows might destroy them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'') Gold also blocked their sensors and caused the [[cybermat]]s to malfunction. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') However, at some point, the Cybermen developed a patch to counteract this weakness, which was available to the post-Cyber Wars variety of the species. (TV: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')


Other weaknesses of the Cybermen included the combination of solvents known as [[Cocktail Polly]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'') and excessive levels of [[radiation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')
In times of emergency, cyber-conversion consisted of only constructing a Cyber-suit around a living being with some internal modifications. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')


Cybermen affected by the [[Cerebration Mentor]], an emotion-enhancing device, went "mad". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
=== Operation ===
[[File:Damaged_by_gunfire.jpg|thumb|Some Cybermen could be damaged (but not killed) by ordinary gunfire. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')]]
[[File:Cyber-vision.jpg|thumb|A Cyberman's vision through its eyepieces. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
20th century guns could damage Cybermen, but did not kill them. Explosives and bazooka shells took them down easily. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'') [[UNIT]] developed gold-tipped rounds to combat Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'') At close range, attacks with energy and laser weapons could kill Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')


[[Raston Warrior Robot]]s counted Cybermen among the many beings they could kill. Although equipped only with javelins and blades, the technology of the robots allowed them to easily destroy several Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
The Cyber-suit was constructed from bulletproof steel. A chest plate with the Cybus Industries logo housed a "heart of steel", the function of which is unclear, and the emotional inhibitor chip. The brain remained contained within the suit's head, though the skull was included in more hastily converted units. Artificially grown nervous tissue was threaded throughout the body so the Cyberman responded like a fully biological organism. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'') The eyepieces of a Cyberman allowed it to see the world as blue, digital graphics. The hearing of a Cyberman let it hear things similar to radio, albeit slightly garbled. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')


== Technology ==
[[File:Cyberface2.jpg|thumb|left|Inside the Cyberman's helmet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
The Cybermen forces in [[2526]] used the Cyberlance, a powerful, hand-held cutting weapon. They also used the Cyberscope, a device that allowed Cyber commanders to view the battlefield remotely and access a computer database (containing, among other data, information on their race's encounters with [[the Doctor]]). ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')


[[File:Cyber-distress.jpg|thumb|left|The Cyberman's distress signal is activated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')]]
Without a brain inserted, the Cyber-suit was a robot which apparently had sufficient processing capacity to pursue and attack a human target. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'') Cybermen heads were programmed to seek out 'fresh meat" and try assimilating a compatible new head into the body if the original organic part rotted away. Because the victim would obviously fight back, the heads were outfitted with tranquilliser darts; wires from the head could also operate as tentacles to restrain the victims as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
Cybermen in [[1986]] had a built-in distress signal in their heads that could be activated manually. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')


The chest unit of a Cyberman was vital to the operation of its life support system. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Telos (audio story)|Telos]]'')
If a Cyberman was dismantled, its body parts were still capable of operating independently and rejoining together, so long as they remained in working condition. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')


The head of Cybermen in [[1873]] contained a neural generation unit. When removed from the head and with a suitable power source, this unit could be adapted to transmit a signal to distances up to 200 light years. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')
Typically, Cybermen were led by a [[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)|Cyber Leader]] during conversion missions. If the Cyber Leader was terminated then the Cybermen downloaded the shared files and nominated a new Cyber Leader. However, this would take time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'') Other leader variations are [[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lords]] and [[Mercy Hartigan|Cyber-Kings]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')


The Cybermen's eyes in 1873 were photocell. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')
=== Weapons and technology ===


While the Cybermen were capable of [[time travel]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'') it was still primitive, limited and even dangerous as late as the [[30th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Illegal Alien (novel)|Illegal Alien]]'') Should the Cybermen have mastered time travel, they would have become strong enough to crush the [[Draconian]]s, the [[Sontaran]]s, the [[Time Lord]]s and even the [[Dalek]]s. ([[WC]]: ''[[Real Time (webcast)|Real Time]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Real Time (audio story)|Real Time]]'')  
[[File:Cyberman arm blaster.jpg|thumb|left|A Cyberman [[Cyber Wrist Blaster|wrist blaster]] operating on its own. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
Originally, their only weapons were their [[Electro Attack|electrified hands]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'') but they later gained [[Cyber Wrist Blaster|a small wrist-mounted energy weapon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]''/''[[Doomsday]]'') They could act on their own, or be commanded by a wireless signal from the head. To keep victims from escaping, the Cybermen eventually equipped their heads with tranquilliser darts to sedate them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')


=== Weapons (short range) ===
The Cybermen were capable of wirelessly communicating with each other, and when a Cyber-Leader was killed, their files were transferred to an appointed Cyberman, who would subsequently be upgraded to a new Cyber-Leader. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'') They could wirelessly control electronics, such as John Lumic's wheelchair and the "Ghost Shift" control levers at Torchwood Tower; this function was associated with a Cyberman bringing its closed fist to its chest. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]], ''[[TV]]: [[Army of Ghosts]]). They were also capable of using [[infostamp]]s, allowing them to communicate information to other Cybermen when they were low on power. They were also able to steal other technology from the [[Dalek]]s whilst inside [[the Void]], such as a [[Dimension Vault]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'') They eventually developed Cyber-weapons of their own, although bulkier and more rifle-like than the Mondasian versions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
[[File:Cyb_gun1.jpg|thumb|A Cyberman with a gun. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')]]
When they attacked Earth in [[1986]], Cybermen carried large, hand-held, energy weapons. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')


On the [[Moon]] in [[2070]], Cybermen could produce [[Electro Attack|arcs of electricity]] from their hands to stun, disable and kill. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'', ''[[Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')
They eventually developed means of space travel and ventured into space. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]'') However, their technology was initially quite primitive and incompatible with [[Time-travel|time travel]], as demonstrated when their ship was destroyed by a [[Dalek]] [[Time Axis]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]'') By the time they joined [[The Alliance (The Pandorica Opens)|the Alliance]], their space travel seemed more advanced, similar to that of the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] from [[Mondas]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')


In the [[21st century]], the Cybermen who attacked [[Space Station W3]] had death rays built into their chest units. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space]]'')
=== Voice ===
These Cybermen spoke in an electronic, monotone voice, far more emotionless and deeper than the Cybermen of the Doctor's universe. Because of their lack of emotions, the Cybermen used technical terms like "compatible" and their battle cry, "DELETE!". ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'') The Cybermen were shown to misunderstand lower-level, spoken language terms, instead preferring higher-level language. For example, the [[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lord]] couldn't understand the word 'best' so [[Mercy Hartigan|Miss Hartigan]] had to say "I will operate at maximum efficiency". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')


The Cybermen encountered by [[UNIT]] in the late 20th century displayed these same built-in death ray weapons. They also carried large rifles that emitted a flame for medium range combat on [[London]]'s streets. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
=== Hierarchy ===
 
* [[John Lumic|John Lumic/Cyber Controller]] - founder of [[Cybus Industries]] and creator of the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')
The Cybermen who attacked the [[Nerva Beacon]] had their weapons built into their helmets. They were activated with the touch of a hand. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
* [[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)|Cyber-Leader]] - Cyber commander of a Cyber Unit/Army (rank and appearance may vary). ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
 
** [[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lord]] - Cyber commander, a form of Cyber Leader, presumably of a higher rank. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'')
In time, the Cybermen came to favour the hand-held [[cyber-gun]] over the built-in weapon. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'' onwards)
* [[CyberKing]] - control unit of a Dreadnought ship, integrated into it, making it the CyberKing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]'')  
 
* Cyberman - standard fighting unit of the Cyber Army. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' et al.)  
The Cybermen used [[Cyber wrist blaster]]s on their wrists. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
* [[Cyberdog]]s - search and guard units of converted [[Dog|dogs]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enemy Mine (comic story)|Enemy Mine]]'')  
 
* [[Cybershade]] - primitive, beast-like worker unit, converted by using a brain of a [[dog]] or a [[cat]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]'')
=== Weapons (other) ===
* [[Cyberdrone]] - partially converted humans, worker units who were used for the [[Miner|slave labour]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enemy Mine (comic story)|Enemy Mine]]'')
In the 20th century, the Cybermen invasion fleet had a [[megatron bomb]] that could destroy all life on Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
* [[Lisa Hallett]] - a partially converted human who was sustained by life support system under the Torchwood base in Cardiff. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman (TV story)|Cyberwoman]]'')
 
* [[Cyberslave]] - humans converted by being infected with a nano-form. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'')
In [[2070]], the Cybermen had a cannon which could operate in the vacuum of [[Space]]. They used it on the surface of [[the Moon]]. Due to its mass, it required two Cybermen to operate it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'')
* Controlled [[human]]s - humans controlled at the brain which are often only kept until fulfilling the required purpose, then killed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'', ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
 
Cybermen in [[2526]], the invaders of [[Voga]], and the Cybermen removed by [[Time Scoop]] to the [[Death Zone]] had portable [[cyber-bomb]]s that could devastate planets. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
 
[[Neurotrope X]] incapacitated humans before the Cybermen made an overt move. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'')  Cybermen sometimes used [[Cybermat]]s to spread the virus to the population. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
 
The Cybermen were strong enough to kill with their hands without any extra weaponry or electric-based attack. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
 
== Culture ==
Cybermen made survival their central objective. Since they could not reproduce naturally, they needed to create new members of their population by other means, via [[cyber-conversion]]. At times they tended to focus on converting the population of Earth, at other times on simply destroying it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')
 
Cybermen tended toward covert activity, scheming from hiding and using human or other agents, cybermats or [[android]]s to act as their proxies until they deemed it necessary to appear in person. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
 
=== Individuality and emotion ===
Throughout their history, Cybermen, for the most part, lacked individuality or names. This was a result of their emotions being removed during the conversion process. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'', et al.)
 
A few Cybermen had individual names such as [[Krang]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]''), [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman (comic story)|Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman]]''), [[Bremm]] and [[Gramm]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')
 
:''In the script and cast listings for [[The Tenth Planet]] the individual Cybermen had names. They were [[Krail]], [[Talon]], [[Shav]], [[Krang]], [[Jarl]] and [[Gern]].'' ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia]]'')
 
[[File:Cyber-Leader7.jpg|thumb|left|A Cyber-Leader. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')]]
Cybermen in positions of authority included the ground level [[Cyber-Leader (Mondas)|Cyber-Leader]] who commanded a group of ordinary Cybermen. Cyber-Leaders were sometimes aided by a [[Cyber-Lieutenant]]. Immobile [[computer]]-like [[Cyber-Planner]]s would sometimes make decisions and long term plans. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space]]'', ''[[The Invasion]]'') The [[Cyber-Controller]]s, who possessed enlarged craniums, had the position of highest possible authority. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
 
Cybermen no longer possessed [[emotion]]s and viewed them as a weakness. However, several of the Cyber-Leaders displayed characteristics that could be linked to emotions such as anger, amusement, and, at times, smugness. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')


== History ==
== History ==
=== Early history ===
==== Creation and expansion ====
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[[File:Rise-of-the-cybermen.jpg|thumb|Cybermen shortly after their creation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')]]
[[File:Voord Cybermen.jpg|thumb|right|The Sixth Doctor watches the [[Voord]] transform into the first Cybermen. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'')]]
The Cybermen were created in a [[Pete's World|parallel universe]] by [[John Lumic]], a terminally ill and insane genius. To find a way to survive, by [[2007]] he perfected a method to sustain the human brain indefinitely in a cradle of chemicals, bonding the synaptic impulses to a metal exoskeleton. Lumic began to trick and abduct [[homeless]] people and convert them into Cybermen. He assassinated the [[President of Great Britain|President]] of [[Great Britain]] after the President rejected his plans. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
Cybermen were originally a wholly organic species of [[humanoid]]s who arose on [[Earth]]'s former [[twin planet]], [[Mondas]]. Mondas drifted into the outer solar system to become an orphan planet. The Mondasians adapted by turning themselves into cyborgs. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') Eventually all of the [[Mondasian]]s underwent forced [[cyber-conversion]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts]]'') According to another account, they evolved from the [[Voord]] and Mondas was once the planet [[Marinus]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'')
 
:''See [[Creation of the Cybermen]] for more details.''
 
The original Mondasians retained more of their organic form. They had personal names. Another group, [[the Faction]], left Mondas and headed for [[Planet 14]]. These developed into groups without connection to one another. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
 
The Cybermen fired missiles at a pod which descended through Mondas' [[mesosphere]] after a [[cosmic cloud]] appeared. The missile attack missed, but the recoil damaged the pod and the [[Ape-servant|ape creature]] inside. The Cybermen examined the ape being, whose vocal cords were damaged in the crash, through vivisection, and sent a [[Cyber-Scout craft]] through the cloud to see if the ape beings on the other side were suitable for [[cyber-conversion]]. This was, in fact, Mondas in the time it was ruled by the [[Lizard King]]s back when Earth was still Mondas' sister planet. The Lizard Kings wounded the Cyberman inside the craft and examined it with vivisection. They salvaged the Cyber-Scout craft to send an augmented [[ape-servant]] through the cloud in their era to see if it would help their people avoid the incoming [[The Moon|rogue planet]] that threatened Earth. This was the very same ape that inspired the Cybermen to go through the cosmic cloud in the future. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Prodigal Returns (comic story)|The Prodigal Returns]]'')
 
The Cybermen refused to attend the [[Armageddon Convention]], and destroyed the robot messengers who sent the invitations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'')
 
=== Return to Earth ===
Mondas developed a drive propulsion system. This was placed in the [[planet]]'s core to move the entire world. As the original Cybermen were limited in numbers and were continually being depleted, they decided to invade [[Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')
 
[[Zogron]] was one of the first Cybernauts. During his pioneering of the instellar Cyber-empire, Zogron became stranded on [[AS4]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Junk-Yard Demon (comic story)|Junk-Yard Demon]]'')
 
==== Scouting missions ====
[[File:Cyberman Silver Turk.jpg|thumb|left|[[Gramm]], a Cybermen scout who crashed on Earth circa [[1873]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')]]
[[Scout ship|Scout crafts]] were sent to find its location. The first expedition to find Earth crash-landed in the mountains of [[Austria]] around [[1873]]. However, due to the extensive damage sustained during the landing, they failed to report the location of Earth to [[Cyber-Control (Mondas)|Cyber-Control]] on Mondas, which was 200 light-years away. The [[Eighth Doctor]] made sure that all [[Cyber-Technology]] from the expedition was destroyed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')
 
In [[1903]], after receiving a wealth of information from the future, [[Grigori Rasputin]] saw people made of metal. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wanderer (audio story)|The Wanderer]]'')
 
The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] fought Cybermen in [[London]] in [[1940]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Illegal Alien]]'')
 
They would later fight them again in [[Nevada]] in [[1954]]. These Cybermen were from Mondas, trying to invade. Their attack was delayed until [[1986]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Good Soldier (comic story)|The Good Soldier]]'')
 
==== International Electromatics invasion ====
[[File:CybermanRisesFromSewer.jpg|thumb|A Cyberman rises from a London sewer. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')]]
By [[1970]], Cybermen, specifically the Faction led by a [[Cyber-Planner]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]''), had established a base on the dark side of [[the Moon|Earth's Moon]]. The Cyber-Planner had contacted the industrialist [[Tobias Vaughn]], the head of the [[International Electromatics]] corporation. Vaughn installed mind control circuits in his company's appliances, paving the way for an invasion. He also grafted cybernetic arms onto several of his workers.
 
Vaughn had a Cyber-Planner installed in his office. The plot was uncovered by the newly formed [[United Nations Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] and the [[Second Doctor]], who helped avert the invasion on the Earth and at the Cyberman base on the Moon. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
 
From the mid [[1970s]] through [[1985]], Cybermen lurked in the [[London sewers|sewers below London]], awaiting another invasion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'') This would happen in [[December]] [[1986]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') One of these Cybermen attempted to convert the staff and patients of a hospital using [[Cybermite|Cyberworms]]. The [[Third Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant]] foiled this attack by reprogramming a [[Cybermat|Cyber rat]] to emit a signal which shut down cyber technology. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Piper (short story)|The Piper]]'')
 
In [[1975]], a Cyberman's head was found in the London sewers and stored in [[Henry van Statten]]'s [[The Vault (Dalek)|Vault]], where he held alien artefacts. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'') Another Cyberman head was also found that year in [[Deffry Vale station]] and stored in the [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Security Bot (video game)|Security Bot]]'')
 
==== Mondas destroyed ====
[[File:Tenth planet.jpg|thumb|left||A Cyberman encounters the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')]]
In [[December]] [[1986]], the [[First Doctor]] met an advance force of Mondans near [[Snowcap Base]] in [[Antarctica]]. This force was to prepare for Mondas' return to the [[Sol system]] and to drain Earth's energy for the Cybermen. Mondas absorbed too much energy and was destroyed, as were the Cybermen on Earth who depended on Mondas for power. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')
 
One account also claims that the Cyberships were examined and exploited by humans, allowing them to make advances in space travel. [[Sarah Jane Smith]] described the invasion as "both the greatest disaster and most
astonishing blessing ever to have happened to the human
race." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]'')
 
Following the destruction of Mondas, the Cyberman would make [[Lonsis]] their new home. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources]]'')
 
=== Further attacks on humanity ===
==== Late 20th century ====
The Cybermen and a group of [[Mercenary|mercenaries]] led by [[Karl (The Ultimate Adventure)|Karl]] made an alliance with the [[Dalek]]s in a gambit to sabotage a peace conference on Earth in [[1988]] and have the planet destroyed. The Cybermen and the mercenaries had a much more active role than the Daleks, as they were tasked with kidnapping an [[United States of America|American]] envoy on whom the success of the conference depended and in capturing [[the Doctor]] whom the [[Dalek Emperor]] declared a vital part of the plan. The Daleks took a more behind-the-scenes approach as they planned to use the mercenaries and Cybermen as nothing more than scapegoats who could be blamed for the destruction of Earth by the [[Galactic Council]] while the Dalek involvement remained a secret. When the [[Sixth Doctor]] revealed this information to the Cybermen and the mercenaries, they immediately turned on the Daleks. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ultimate Adventure (audio story)|The Ultimate Adventure]]'')
 
[[File:Cybermen Silver Nemesis.jpg|thumb|Cybermen on Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'')]]
In [[November]] [[1988]], a scouting party was sent to Earth in search of a statue made of [[validium]] called [[Nemesis]], a [[Time Lord]] weapon. The Cybermen met [[Peinforte|Lady Peinforte]], who brought many of their number down with gold-tipped arrows. The Leader apparently forced the [[Seventh Doctor]] to surrender the Nemesis. Their force was destroyed by Nemesis as the Doctor had instructed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')
 
==== 21st century ====
In [[2000]], the Cybermen infected the Earth computers with a virus that removed all vowels. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vrs]]'')


In [[2006]], Cybermen again invaded Earth's [[South Pole]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'') In the same year, the Cybermen on [[Lonsis]] tried to invade Earth via the [[portal]] in the main branch of [[Hulbert Logistics]].The Eighth Doctor and [[Lucie Miller]] destroyed them. They used a [[quantum crystalliser]] to make the Cybermen and their ship rapidly rust into dust. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources]]'')
Using the [[EarPod]]s he designed and sold, Lumic took mental control of the people of [[London]], marching thousands to be cyber-converted. After his life-support systems were damaged by his assistant, [[Crane (Rise of the Cybermen)|Mr. Crane]] in an act of betrayal that cost him his life, Lumic was converted into the Cyber-Controller by his own Cybermen against his own wishes to preserve his flesh form. By the Cybermen's cold logic, it was impractical to cling to an already dying body. Once converted and revitalised, Cyberman instinct merged with his megalomanical mind and he planned to convert all of the parallel Earth. However, the [[Tenth Doctor]] and his companions, having accidentally landed on the parallel Earth, managed to foil his plans. They freed London from mental control and disabled the Cybermen's emotional inhibitors, causing them to go insane and in some cases explode. Lumic himself fell to his apparent death into the burning remains of his factory. A human resistance group, [[the Preachers]], then set about to clean up the remainder of Lumic's factories around the world. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')


In [[2008]], several Cybermen and a [[Cyber-Planner]] who were allergic to gold attempted to gain [[time travel]]. They converted [[Byron (The Girl Who Never Was)|Byron]], but their ship was destroyed by [[Charlotte Pollard]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]'')
Following the destruction of the Cybus Factory and the Cyber Controller in [[Great Britain|Britain]], [[the Preachers]] moved around the rest of the [[Pete's World|world]] to carry out assaults on the rest of the Cybus Factories. One of their earliest victories came in [[Paris]], where a stolen Cybus [[airship]] under the command of [[Mickey Smith]] fought its way through the streets, saving civilians and destroying attacking Cybermen along the way with a new weapon attached to the ship. Once the airship reached the factory, it destroyed it using an [[EMP]]. After the Cyber threat in Paris was ended, Mickey sent a video message to those who were sent on the mission, congratulating and thanking them. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Save Paris]]'')


In [[2010]], UNIT [[Underbase]] contained a Cyberman salvaged from a past alien invasion of Earth. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Age of Ice (comic story)|The Age of Ice]]'')
Eventually, the Preachers had Cyber resistance and bases set up all over the world, just as the Cybermen had factories. Soon they were ready to begin their assault on what remained of Lumic's legacy. The mission was commanded overall by [[Jake Simmonds]]. The Preachers managed to develop [[Firearm|firearms]] which were effective against the Cybermen and sent troops into other countries, where they recruited others to aid them in their cause. Battles ensued when a squad moved into Cyber territory but successful battles ultimately gained them control of countries where a Cyber Factory was located. From there, the Preachers would surround the factory while a single commando unit entered the factory and fought their way to the emotion inhibitor and taking it out, thus destroying the factory and all the Cyber units converted there.


In the [[2010s]], a Cyberman was a resident of the hidden [[Trap Street, London|trap street]] in [[London]] which housed lost aliens on [[Earth]] under the protection of [[Ashildr|Mayor Me]]. As with the rest of the inhabitants it appeared cloaked in human form through use of the [[lurkworm]]s. It was observed by the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] as it had maintenance performed on it by an [[Ood]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'')
However, the Cybermen also sought to do the same thing: expand, [[Cyber-conversion|"recruit"]], take over, and destroy the Preacher bases. The conflict was fought all over the planet. Ultimately though, the Preachers were victorious as they succeeded in sealing the Cybermen inside their factories. Jake congratulated the resistance, but it was known that the Cybermen were not completely defeated, they had only been delayed, as Jake seemed aware of when he gave his congratulations: "You did it! The Cybermen are sealed up in their factories. We're safe for now." ([[GAME]]: ''[[Cyber Assault]]'')


In [[2021]] a group of Cybermen claimed to want to become organic again. A space program used this to their advantage. However the [[Subject One|Cyberleader]] lied, in fact having tricked the agency into creating a conversion chamber. The [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Hex]] foiled this scheme. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'')
==== The Battle of Canary Wharf ====
Despite their defeat, at least five million Cybermen survived and were able to infiltrate [[Pete's World|their universe]]'s [[Torchwood Institute]]. They found a crack in the universe, caused by the passage of the [[Void Ship]]. The Cybermen were able to travel from their dimension into the Doctor's, and infiltrated the planet in the guise of benign ghosts of deceased humans. They established a base inside the [[Torchwood Tower]] at [[Canary Wharf]]. While there, they started making new Cybermen, using what materials they could find.


By [[2070]], the Cybermen were known and feared in several galaxies ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cybermen]]'') but were thought extinct by Earth. At this time the Earth's weather was controlled by the [[Gravitron]] installation in the [[Moonbase]], the Faction planned to use the Gravitron to disrupt Earth's weather and destroy all life on the planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'') According to [[Terri Willis]] in [[2136]], the Cybermen practically disappeared from human space after this event. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Murder Game (novel)|The Murder Game]]'')
[[File:Cybermen_in_France.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen in France. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'')]]
After two months (three years in parallel Earth time), the Cybermen suddenly appeared in their true form, occupying every landmass on the planet before breaking into houses and promising to upgrade all humans, commanded by the new Cyber-Leader. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'') Simultaneously, the [[Cult of Skaro]] had exited the Void Ship with the [[Genesis Ark]]. The Cult, led by [[Dalek Sec]] communicated with the Cybermen via [[Dalek Thay]] and declared war, or in Dalek Sec's words, "pest control".


[[File:Cybermen in Land of Fiction.jpg|thumb|left|Cybermen in the Land of Fiction. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'')]]
[[File:Cybermen and daleks meet.jpg|thumb|The Cybermen encounter Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')]]
In [[2079]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Second Chances (audio story)|Second Chances]]'') [[Space Station W3]] was the site of a takeover by the Faction, but were defeated by the Second Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space]]'') In a second attack on the wheel, the Cybermen were sent into the [[Land of Fiction]] by [[Zoe Heriot]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen]]'')
After a skirmish between humans, Cybermen and [[Dalek]]s, the Cult travelled to the main room in Torchwood's Canary Wharf, elevated outside above the roof, and opened the Genesis Ark, releasing millions of Daleks who, under Sec's command, started to "exterminate all life-forms below", killing human and Cyberman alike. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'') Towards the end of the Cybermen-Dalek battle, the Cybermen, desperate for more troops, began directly converting people rather than transplanting their brains into Cybershells. One victim of this process was [[Lisa Hallett]], girlfriend of [[Ianto Jones]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')


==== Post-21st century ====
The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler opened [[the Void]] and anything contaminated with [[void stuff]] was pulled in. This included the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
The [[Space Marines]] fought the Cybermen on [[Titan 317]] in the latter half of the [[22nd century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Janus Conjunction]]'')
[[File:ClassicCybermen.jpg|thumb|The Cybermen on [[Aprilia III]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'')]]
The [[Sixth Doctor]] encountered Cybermen in [[2191]]. By using a [[Selachian]] ship the Cybermen had conquered [[Agora]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground]]'')


The Cybermen had all but passed into legend when an archaeological expedition on the planet [[Telos]] found the [[Cyber-tomb]]s. Hordes of Cybermen waited in [[cryogenic suspension]]. Earth's [[Brotherhood of Logicians]] intended to awaken them, believing the Cybermen would be receptive to their cause. The tomb would be sealed again ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') and later re-activated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
However, this was not the last of the Cybermen. The Cybermen that were made on Earth, like Lisa Hallett, had never passed through the Void, therefore they were not sucked in. Ianto took Lisa away from the battle and hid her in the basement of [[Cardiff]]'s [[Torchwood Three]] facility, setting up a life-support system, planning to restore her humanity. He was unsuccessful. She killed Dr. [[Tanizaki]], fought with Torchwood staff and eventually transplanted her brain into the body of a pizza delivery girl. Lisa was finally killed by the Torchwood team. Ianto had desperately tried to salvage what was left of his girlfriend's former identity, but could not succeed. He mourned Lisa's death, moved on, and eventually set his romantic attentions [[Captain Jack Harkness|elsewhere]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')


==== Cyber-Wars ====
After the battle, two children, [[Harry (Going Off the Rails)|Harry]] and [[Sam (Going Off the Rails)|Sam]], were working on a model train set when they found stuff from Harry's dad's previous job. Inside the box was a Cyberman, in all its individual pieces. Not knowing what it was, Sam decided to put it back together so it could watch them play. Eventually, it awoke, threatening to upgrade both Harry and Sam. It forced Sam to help build a "Cyber-Conversion Unit" using the other left-over electronics from the Torchwood Tower in the box. They, however, managed to knock the Cyberman into the Cyber-Conversion unit, causing the latter two to be destroyed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Going Off the Rails]]'')
{{main|Cyber-Wars}}
During the [[Orion War]] of the early [[26th century]], humans tried to salvage [[Cyber-Technology]] from derelict ships to defeat the androids. This led to both sides nearly wiped out and the temporary conquest of Earth before the Cybermen resurgence was stopped. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cyberman (audio series)|Cyberman]]'')


[[File:Earthshock.jpg|thumb|right|Cybermen and a [[Cyber-Leader (Mondas)|Cyber-Leader]].([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')]]
Other humans were converted during [[Battle of Canary Wharf|the battle]], but fully. These survivors stole teleportation technology from Torchwood Institute in order to gather technology to help them re-open the Void and free the trapped Cybermen. They did not know how to do this, however, and so they stole [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], trying to lure the [[Tenth Doctor]] to them for aid. Some Cybermen were destroyed by the army but the [[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)|Cyber-Leader]] and a few others escaped to the [[Millennium Dome]] and kept the army out with a forcefield. The Doctor and [[Martha Jones|Martha]], however, having recovered the TARDIS, were able to enter. The Doctor was able to trick the Cybermen, allowing them to link up their equipment with the TARDIS and giving them instructions. However, the Cybermen were instead sent back to the time of the [[dinosaur]]s where they were attacked and killed by a ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]''. The Cyber-Leader was destroyed after Martha damaged the forcefield and the Doctor used an electrical cord from it to destroy the leader. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Made of Steel]]'')
In [[2526]], several planets united to oppose the Cybermen in an event called the [[Cyber-Wars]]. A force of Cybermen tried to devastate Earth with a [[Cyberbomb]] and convert the survivors. Failing this, they hoped to crash the freighter into Earth and cause an ecological disaster. Although the effort failed, the freighter was catapulted back in time to become the "[[meteor]]" that wiped out the [[dinosaur]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')


One of the last acts of the Cybermen in this war the attempt to blow up the planet [[Voga]] to stop the production of [[glittergun]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') In the aftermath of their failure, the Cybermen were reduced to scattered remnants. One group relentlessly hounded the remaining fragment of Voga. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
==== Escaping the Void ====


The war ultimately ended when the [[Tiberian spiral galaxy]] was blown up, destroying apparently all of the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver]]'')
[[File:Cyberking.jpg|thumb|The Cyberman-created CyberKing stomps Victorian London. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')]]
Due to the Daleks' [[Dalek invasion of Earth (The Stolen Earth)|damaging the barriers between realities]] by using the [[Reality bomb]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]''), a small number of Cybermen were able to escape the Void, assisted by technology stolen from the Void-trapped Daleks while the rest of the Cybermen, along with the Daleks trapped in the Void, perished. Landing accidentally in London, in the year [[1851]], these Cybermen, under the leadership of a [[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lord]], made an alliance with the human [[Mercy Hartigan|Miss Hartigan]], created a minion race known as [[Cybershade]]s and began construction of a dreadnought robot called the [[CyberKing]] with which they planned to conquer the Earth. They also came across [[Jackson Lake]] and his family, who in his fugue state absorbed knowledge of [[the Doctor]] from an [[infostamp]]. Lake and his new companion tried to defeat them, but were unsuccessful until the real, Tenth Doctor arrived. When Miss Hartigan was converted into the CyberKing and the ship became mobile, the Doctor showed Hartigan what she had done and in her anguish she destroyed herself and the Cybermen, with the CyberKing sent to be disintegrated in the Time Vortex before it fell on London. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'') This event was then erased from history by the [[Time Field]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]''), resulting in no one but the Doctor remembering it.


=== Later history ===
An army of Cybermen were located in [[Incan Temples]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]'')
[[File:Attack 3.jpg|thumb|The Cybermen on Telos, planning to change history. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')]]
On Telos, the Cybermen plotted to change history and divert Halley's Comet to Earth to destroy it and to save Mondas. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'') At some point, Telos was shattered by an [[asteroid]] impact. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Telos (audio story)|Telos]]'')


Telos was not the only site of Cyber-Tombs. There were dozens across the galaxy and more wars were started. [[Bernice Summerfield]] spoke of the Telos expedition and other tombs being discovered in the past tense. She was sent to one by [[Irving Braxiatel]] in the early [[27th century]]. Braxiatel intended to use the Cybermen as a private army but was thwarted. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crystal of Cantus (audio story)|The Crystal of Cantus]]'')
Another army of Cybermen invaded medieval England, they began converting the locals by creating large statues of themselves to make the locals gather to see them. When the Doctor and [[Amy Pond]] arrived, they activated the Cybermen's power systems and used electrical currents to disable the Cybermen. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]'')


{{Ainley|c}} sent [[The Graak]] to a Cyber-Tomb populated by Cybermen to steal a [[Cybermat]]. These Cybermen were either going in- or coming out of the tombs. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')
Other groups of Cybermen apparently managed to escape the Void, but into a different point in time and space. Eventually these Cybermen would become a space-faring race. One group, during what appeared to be an early period for them in space-travel, possibly around the [[26th century]], were attracted towards an artefact they could not identify, which was in fact a Dalek [[Time Axis]]. As their technology was incapatible with [[time travel]], their ship was destroyed. The Cybermen escaped and took over the ship, the ''SS Lucy Grey''. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and Amy were also attracted to the ''SS Lucy Grey'' by the signal from the Time Axis. The Doctor was able to overload the ship's systems, destroying the Cybermen before the Daleks arrived. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Return to Earth]]'')


[[File:Original_Cyberman_with_cyber-lider_Revengecybermen.jpg|thumb|left|Post wars Cybermen and a [[Cyber-Leader (Mondas)|Cyber-Leader]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')]]
[[File:Cybus Cyber-tomb.png|thumb|left|The Cybermen in suspended animation in Cyber-Tombs on Telos. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]'')]]
The remaining Cybermen from the Cyber-Wars ship finally caught up to Voga, now in orbit around [[Jupiter]]. Their attempt to destroy it would be defeated and their craft and themselves detroyed due to the involvement of the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]], and [[Harry Sullivan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
The Doctor later encountered these Cybermen on [[Telos]], where the earlier arrival of [[Billy Jones]] had caused the "advanced guard" to awake from the cyber-tombs early to defend the others. The Cybermen tried to convert Billy, but he was saved by the Doctor before they could do so. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]'')


[[File:Doctor in Real Time.jpg|thumb|A Cyberman with the [[Sixth Doctor]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[Real Time (webcast)|Real Time]]'')]]
The Cybermen were among the species that made up the [[the Alliance (The Pandorica Opens)|the Alliance]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') However, the Alliance was never formed after the [[Big Bang Two]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
By [[3286]], the Cybermen had been thought dead for centuries. A group of these Cybermen led by a [[Cyber-controller]] attempted to gain time travel. Around this time, Goddard arrived. Goddard was a super developed Cybermen,from an [[Alternate timeline|alternate]] [[1930s]] where the human race had become cyborgs indistinguishable visually from humans thanks to a Cyber virus. The Cybermen managed to reverse-engineer the virus Goddard brought but were defeated by the [[Sixth Doctor]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[Real Time (webcast)|Real Time]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Real Time (audio story)|Real Time]]'')


[[File:The Flood.jpg|thumb|left|A number of Cybermen crowd around a beaten [[Destrii]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'')]]
The dead shells of some of these Cybermen were recovered after the [[Cyber-Wars]] and put on display at [[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')
Cybermen from the far future would use time travel to return in time to the [[2000s]] to convert Earth. They used rain that caused extreme emotions (sadness, fear, anger) to convince the humans that emotions were bad and to accept conversion willingly. The reason they needed humans from a past era was clear to the Doctor; in the future of the Cybermen, the human genetic template had been corrupted and augmented by their interactions with many alien races. The Cyber-conversion protocols were keyed to human or Mondasian biology; the number of available converts would drop dramatically.


The Doctor offered to regenerate for them so they could gather the data of his regeneration and upgrade their conversion protocols to include other races, in exchange for leaving the Earth alone. The Cybermen agreed, but betrayed him at the last moment (the Doctor was expecting this). Using the fragment of the Time Vortex the future Cybership used as a power source, the Doctor destroyed the Cyberfleet and dissolved them into rain. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'')
One Cyberman fell through the void into a universe where the Doctor was the main character in a television show called "Doctor Who". The [[Eleventh Doctor]] sent the Cyberman back into the Void to "its own home". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)|The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who]]'')


The Cybermen were notable customers of the information regarding [[the Doctor]] held by the [[Inforarium]]. When the Eleventh Doctor discovered the Cybermen, as well as the [[Dalek]]s and [[Sontaran]]s, had been purchasing this information, he infiltrated the Inforarium and memory-proofed their database using methods he learned from [[Silent|the Silence]]. The information sold was thus instantly forgotten. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[The Inforarium (home video)|The Inforarium]]'') This led to the Cybermen losing data on the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')
==== Cybermen on Centuria ====
[[File:BITCS11.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen on Centuria. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time of the Cybermen]]'')]]


[[File:Cyberman_Nightmare.jpg|thumb|A Cyberman on [[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')]]
During the [[41st century]] an interplanetary info-thief stole Cyberman blueprints from the [[Torchwood Archive]] and used them to build a new Cyber army on [[Centuria]] with the intent of auctioning them of as hi-tech soldiers. However they turned on him and made him a half-converted slave. They started to kidnap hundreds of tourists and convert them. However, the Doctor discovered this while on Centuria for a holiday and the beach he was on was attacked. He and the other beachgoers were thrown into a van. [[Jayne Kadett]], who was tracking down interplanetary Info Theft when the Cybermen caught her, revealed to the Doctor what had happened. The Doctor and Jayne managed to escape the Cybermen and blow the restraint circuits; the Cybermen factory ([[Factory Zero One]]) was destroyed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Power of the Cybermen]]'')
A thousand years after the destruction of the [[Tiberian spiral galaxy]] and the end of the Cyber-Wars, the Cybermen were thought to be extinct. Yet surviving Cybermen lay beneath the future site of [[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]]. When the theme park was built, the Cybermen began using [[Cybermite]]s to kidnap people as "spare parts". [[Angie Maitland|Angie]] and [[Artie Maitland]] arrived on Hedgewick's World with the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and their nanny, [[Clara Oswald|Clara]], and were taken by the Cybermen. With enough components to reawaken them, after being presumed extinct for a thousand years, the Cybermen awoke from their tombs.
[[File:Cybermen Nightmare2.jpg|thumb|left|Cybermen attacking [[Natty Longshoe's Comical Castle]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')]]
The Cybermen began attacking [[Natty Longshoe's Comical Castle]] to convert the humans there, but the Doctor, in a battle for his mind with the [[Cyber-Planner]], [[Mr Clever]], had them stop in place to bring in the local resources to win the [[chess]] game. The Doctor used a [[hand pulse]] to redistribute Clever among the rest of the Cybermen. Angie and Artie were also released. Emperor [[Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI]] gave the verbal command to start the countdown of a planet-imploding bomb. This drew the attention of his ship, which [[transmat]]ted the Doctor and the humans on the planet while the Cybermen were left behind. The planet and the Cybermen were destroyed; however, one Cybermite survived the destruction. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver]]'')


=== Final evolution ===
[[File:Tpofc.jpg|thumb|The Cybermen attempt to upgrade. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Drones of Doom]]'')]]
By the [[101st century]], the Cybermen had nearly died out. Several centuries earlier, they had chosen a [[Cyberlord|new name]] for their species and become pacifists. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Synthespians™]]'')
The Doctor and Kadett followed the Cyberman's signal, taking a robot-run airship across the now-deserted [[continent]] of [[Azlon]] on the planet Centuria. Before arriving at the airbus terminal (a Cyber-conversion factory), the conductor/law enforcer became influenced by the Cybermen's hypnotic signal, which was being used to subjugate the arriving humans. The Doctor, Kadett and a reprogrammed robot conductor pretended to be hypnotised and follow the other arrivals. Seizing the right moment, the Doctor disrupted the hypnotic signal and the conductor robot attacked the Cybermen. A stray shot from the conductor ruptured the fuel banks, causing a huge explosion which killed most of the newly converted Cyber-drones (basic work units) as their humanity started to become more dominant. As the Doctor and Kadett fled the explosion, they found a bit of a map in a Cyberman's hand. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Drones of Doom]]'')


The Cybermen would ultimately transcend into pure energy. They would redeem the whole of sentient life and become the most peace loving-species in the whole of creation, purely thought with no physical presence. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'')
Using the TARDIS, the Doctor and Kadett followed the Cybermen's map to Centuria's arctic zone where the Cybermen planned to ship upgraded human drones. [[Homaj]], a half human, half Cyber drone, escaped the Cybermen who forced him and others to mine Hargstones. A giant purple [[Ice Snake]] attacked, but Cybermen with [[Cyberdog]]s deleted it. Homaj ran off into the frozen wasteland but the Doctor and Kadett were captured and taken to a huge mine below the ice. Inside the mine, the Doctor created a distraction while Kadett stole some explosives. The distraction caused a Cyberman to split one of the cave walls, disturbing a nest of Ice Snakes which attacked them. Escaping the mine, the Doctor and Kadett saw the Cybership has already departed with its cargo. Homaj waited for them and informed them he had intercepted a message saying that the cargo was going to Centuria Central. He then took the explosives from Kadett and headed back to the mine. In an act of self-sacrifice, he permanently sealed it. The Doctor and Kadett left in the Tardis in pursuit of the Cybership. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enemy Mine]]'')


=== Remnants of the Cybermen ===
[[File:Totc.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen threaten to kill. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time of the Cybermen]]'')]]
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The TARDIS landed in Centuria Central in a temporal stasis field. Kadett was caught in the frozen moment but the Doctor, being a Time Lord, could resist the field. Cybermen in a patrol aircar spotted him moving around and pursued. The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to bring the aircar crashing down, drawing the attention of other Cybermen, who arrived to salvage parts and take them back to base. The Doctor smuggled himself into the base with the salvage. The base was the Triplanetary base which the Doctor suspected had been robbed of its Hargstone reserves to enable the Cybermen to maintain a stasis machine. The Doctor learned from the Cybermen that they had built the stasis machine from Torchwood files and used the device to subdue opposition. Choosing the most secure place for the machine, the Doctor escaped and headed for the bank's vault, but it was made of titanium and was protected by laser-proof glass and destructor rays. When the Doctor couldn't get in he used the sonic screwdriver to turn the destructor rays inwards, destroying the stasis machine. The Cybermen had a mental link with the machine that enables them to move around inside the stasis field, so when the machine was destroyed the temporal feedback overloaded their circuits. However, a Cyber-helmet in the shadows glowed red, suggesting that the Cybermen presence on Centuria wasn't completely destroyed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time of the Cybermen]]'')
[[File:TARDIS Cam 1.jpg|thumb|A dead [[Cyberman]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[TARDIS Cam No.1 (webcast)|TARDIS Cam No]].1'')]]
A Cyberman head was once seen destroyed on a desert planet that the TARDIS once visited. The Cyberman lay dead with his silver wires on his face stretched. ([[WC]]: ''[[TARDIS Cam No.1 (webcast)|TARDIS Cam No.1]]'')


On [[Gallifrey]], a Cyberman became ensnared by the "[[fibre-optic cable]]s" within [[the Matrix]] and begged for [[Clara Oswald]]'s help, but she went looking for the Doctor instead. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')
== Other information ==
 
* The [[Tenth Doctor]] kept one of the [[Cybus Industries|Cybus]] logos from a Cyberman chest plate in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Chelsea 426]]'') More specifically the [[Eleventh Doctor]] kept one in the [[TARDIS drawing room|TARDIS drawing room]]. ([[GAME]]: [[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]])  
=== Undated events ===
[[File:Miniscope.jpg|thumb|left|A Cyberman inside [[Vorg]]'s [[Miniscope]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters]]'')]]
A Cyberman was among the life-forms exhibited in [[Vorg]]'s [[Miniscope]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters]]'')
 
The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Catherine Broome]] battled a squad of Cybermen in the Prenadene asteroid belt. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Companion Piece (novel)|Companion Piece]]'')
 
The remains of one Cyberman were put on sale at [[the Maldovarium]] market. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] purchased the Cyberman's head and called him "[[Handles]]". ([[TV]]:'' [[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
 
[[File:Wooden cyberman.jpg|thumb|A wooden Cyberman on [[Trenzalore]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')]]
The Cybermen were involved in the [[Siege of Trenzalore]]. After being summoned to [[Trenzalore]] by [[the First Question]], the Cybermen attempted to pass through the [[Papal Mainframe]]'s [[force field]]. One attempt involved a [[Wooden Cyberman]] as it was low-tech and would not trigger any alarm system but the Doctor tricked the Cyberman into destroying itself. Later, the Daleks attacked the Mainframe and learned how to break the [[force field]]. The Cybermen followed them and fought the Doctor and the [[Silent]]s until all the Cybermen, like many other species involved in the battle, were either killed or saw fit to retreat. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
 
A [[Cyber Ship]] was chased by a [[Dalek flying saucer]]. Inside the ship, two Cybermen interrogated a Dalek [[Lumpy]] about the whereabouts of the [[Orb of Fates]] before be flattened by [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. The [[Twelfth Doctor]] sent Lumpy on Telos to retrieve a second element of the Orb. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Doctor and the Dalek (video game)|The Doctor and the Dalek]]'')
 
==== Rassilonian Era ====
During the [[Gallifreyan history#The Dark Time|Dark Times on Gallifrey]], the Cybermen were excluded from the games in the [[Death Zone]], because the Time Lords believed they had an unfair advantage over other victims of the games. [[Borusa]], having found the [[Game of Rassilon]], transported a squadron of Cybermen to the Death Zone to threaten and harass the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. These Cybermen were mostly destroyed by a similarly transported [[Raston Warrior Robot]]. The survivors allied with {{Ainley}}, but he betrayed and destroyed them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
 
The Cybermen were part of the [[Fifth Doctor|Supremo]]'s alliance in the war against [[Morbius]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warmonger (novel)|Warmonger]]'')
 
[[File:Birth of a Renegade illustration 2.jpg|thumb|right|The Cybermen with {{Ainley}}. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'')]]
During the Doctor's era, the Cybermen allied themselves with {{Ainley}} to become the rulers of Gallifrey. After they kidnapped [[Susan Foreman]], they were stopped by the [[Fifth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'')
 
After the [[Last Great Time War]] had ended the Cybermen fought other races for control over time. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Weapons of Past Destruction (comic story)|Weapons of Past Destruction]]'')
 
=== Other realities ===
==== Alternate timelines ====
{{Section stub|It is impossible to tell, as the temporal discrepancy featured has never been resolved, but  ''[[Real Time (webcast)|Real Time]]'' may involve a divergent timeline.}}
In an [[Alternate timeline (Time & Time Again)|alternate timeline]] created by the [[Black Guardian]], the [[First Doctor]] never left [[Gallifrey]]. He became [[Lord President]]. The Cybermen were one of many aliens which invaded [[Earth]], and fought over the planet with other races. This timeline was destroyed when the [[Seventh Doctor]] retrieved the [[Key to Time]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'')
 
In another alternate timeline in which a successful [[WOTAN]] paved the way for [[World War III]], the Cybermen successfully occupied the [[Arctic]] in their 1986 invasion. They came to agreements with the [[South Africa]]n forces fighting the [[United Kingdom|British]], supplying them with [[Cyber-Technology|technology]] and [[Cyber-gun|weapons]] that gave the former a huge advantage in the war, particularly in the South African invasion of [[Great Britain|Britain]]. The First Doctor averted this timeline by halting the world on its road to war in [[1972]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Travellers (novel)|The Time Travellers]]'') and later averted its causes altogether by defeating WOTAN in [[1966]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines (TV story)|The War Machines]]'')
 
If the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Jean-Luc Picard]] did not defeat the Cybermen and [[the Borg]], the Cybermen would eventually defeat the Borg, and invade both the Doctor's universe and the [[Federation universe]], with planets invaded incluing; [[Raxacoricofallapatorius]], [[Qo'noS]], the [[Judoon]] homeworld, and finally Starfleet Academy in [[San Francisco]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation²]]'')
 
In an [[alternate timeline (The Ripple Effect)|alternate timeline]] where the [[Dalek]]s were peaceful, the Cybermen remained a dangerous force in the universe in the universe alongside the [[Sontaran]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ripple Effect (short story)|The Ripple Effect]]'')
 
==== Parallel universes ====
In the [[Federation universe]], the Cybermen invaded an Archaeological site on [[Aprilia III]] and began to convert the people onboard into Cybermen. They encountered the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[James T. Kirk|Captain James T. Kirk]], [[Spock]], [[Leonard McCoy|McCoy]] and [[Montgomery Scott|Scotty]]. The Fourth Doctor stopped them by using the gold on Kirk's [[communicator]] to clog the Cybermen's respiration. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'')
 
[[File:Cybermen and Borg.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen with [[the Borg]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation²]]'')]]
The Cybermen entered into an alliance with another [[cyborg|cybernetic]] species, [[the Borg]], from a [[Federation universe|Federation]] due to their identical goals of assimilating other species. On [[Stardate]] 45635.2 in [[2368]], a joint Borg/Cyberman assault force attacked the [[United Federation of Planets|Federation]] planet [[Delta IV]] and quickly overran it. This attack made the Cybermen known to the Federation. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation²]]'')
 
=== Other references ===
An image of a Cyberman was one of the fears pulled from the Doctor's mind when he faced the Keller machine. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'')
 
In their war with the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen of another universe]], the [[Cult of Skaro]] noted their resemblance to the Cybermen from our universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
 
=== Mysteries and discrepancies ===
On [[Telos]], the [[Second Doctor]] seemed to have knowledge, if not foreknowledge, of the Cyber-Tombs. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') The [[Cyber-Planner]]'s reference to having met the Doctor on [[Planet 14]] also remains obscure, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'') though one account tries to explain this in a way which contradicts previously disclosed information about the [[creation of the Cybermen]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'') By the time the Cybermen invaded [[Space Station W3]], the [[Second Doctor]] was "known and recorded as an enemy of the Cybermen". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
=== Inspiration for the Cybermen ===
* The [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] based work ''Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary'' revealed much more:
The idea for the Cybermen came from [[Kit Pedler]]'s interest in new medical advances and his fears of where they might lead. Early concepts of the Cyberman design emphasised the "man" part of the name, but the proposed design would have cost too much money. Indeed, the televised version of ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'' featured much more human-like Cybermen with human hands.


Prologues to certain [[Target Books]] novelisations reflect the earlier ideas about the Cybermen and state they perfected the science of cybernetics to gain immortality. The Cybermen were the result: immortal, but at the price of loss of their humanity.
:The Cybermen are powered by thermionic generators, their brain was kept in a patented protein solution at 6 °C, and their armor made from a very, very durable manganese-steel alloy.


=== Development of the characters ===
:The points of weakness on Cybermen were the ankle joint and the exposed coolant lines on the inner (right) side of their left knee.
The second appearance of the Cybermen in ''[[The Moonbase]]'' (pre-planned by the production team even before ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'' had aired), re-designed them radically, making them much more [[robot]]ic in appearance. The Cybermen went through another major re-design in ''[[The Invasion]]'', yet another in ''[[Earthshock]]'', one in the comic strips in ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'' and one more in ''[[Nightmare in Silver]]''. Minor re-designs would take place as well. As the Cybermen stories do not appear in a chronological order, this makes their evolution rather confusing; more 'advanced' Cybermen are around at the same time as more 'primitive' ones. This can be explained by time travel, though the Cybermen only captured one time ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')


=== The Brilliant Books ===
:Their fingertips incorporate touch sensitive pads and their voice-box was located in their metal mouth (that doesn't open, obviously, only lights up blue when they talk).
The [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] sources ''[[The Brilliant Book 2011]]'' and ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'' had further information about Cybermen.


* According to ''[[The Brilliant Book 2011]]'', at Blenheim Palace, the [[Fourth Doctor]] was hunting [[Cybermat]]s, suggesting Cybermen activity.
:The coolant lines were Kevlar-lined and were bullet-resistant.
* According to ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'', at one point, [[Vastra]] and [[Jenny Flint|Jenny]] battled the Cybermen.


=== ''Cybermen'' ===
:The particle-beam gun technology is capable of being handheld with an outsized grip (because Cybermen are so big) or being incorporated into their forearm. The particle beam guns were top of the arms market and were constructed in John Lumic's Blue Skies laboratory.
The non-narrative source ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'', by [[David Banks]], went into further detail about Cybermen and Cyberman factions. Banks created a number of terms — CyberFaction, CyberNomad, CyberTelosian, CyberMondasian, and others — to explain the differences in the Cybermen's costumes on television.  Some of the terms, in adapted forms, appear in his later novel, [[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]''. It is these forms — [[Mondan]] and [[the Faction]], which this wiki prefers, according to our [[T:CAN|canon policy]].


The history Banks presented as "non-fiction" was largely ignored by other authors and so can't be considered in the writing of most of our articles. Here are some of the points that Banks made which never made it beyond ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'':
* According to non-narrative information in [[DWBIT 17|''DWBIT'' 17]] and the ''[[DWBIT Daleks vs Cybermen Special]]'', during the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]], the weaponry of the Cybermen was mostly ineffective to [[Dalek]] casing, but there were some Dalek casualties as the Cybermen were able to tear the domes of some Daleks right off, in some instances as part of an ambush.
* The departure of the CyberFaction (that is, [[the Faction]]) from Mondas was thought to have occurred around 5000 BC in what Banks called the "First Divergence".
* In another ''Dalek Wars'' page in ''Battles in Time'', a single Cyberman ended at the bottom of the oceans of Philjax III during the Daleks' battle with the Squeeth.
* In a website launched by the BBC for the promotion of season 2, International Electromatics, it was indicated that Cybus Industries derived their Cyberman technology from the deactivated bodies of alien Cybermen found at the North Pole.
* In the stage play ''[[The Monsters Are Coming!]]'', the [[Lurman]] [[Vorgenson]] used his machine, the [[Minimiser]], to capture several Cybermen to be part of his travelling show dedicated to the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. The Cybermen were one of many mind-controlled versions of his recently encountered enemies. It was revealed that the [[New Dalek Paradigm|New Paradigm Daleks]] had planted the idea in his head to attract the Eleventh Doctor to the show with his monsters, and capture him in the Minimiser. This plan worked, although Vorgenson learned the truth. The audience managed to save the Doctor and helped him to release the Cybermen from the Minimiser to destroy the Daleks.
* [[Neil Gaiman]] has stated<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/05/07/exclusive-neil-gaiman-talks-doctor-who-and-cybermen/|title=EXCLUSIVE – Neil Gaiman Talks Doctor Who And Cybermen|date of source=May 7th, 2013|website name=SFX|accessdate=January 5th, 2014}}</ref> that he has the theory that, at one point, the Cybus Cybermen encountered the [[Mondas]]ian/[[Telos]]ian [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] and the two races merged into one, explaining why, in [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] and [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]], the Cybermen share characteristics of both the originals and the Cybus versions. It may also explain why the Cybus Cybermen appear in the ice tombs on Telos (in ''[[The Mazes of Time (video game)|The Mazes of Time]]'') and why the Cybermen have connections with Mondas Cybermen in the past but have the Cybus design (in ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]''). This merged Cyber race is implied in Gaiman's [[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|Series 7]] episode ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', where the Cyber-suits of two Cybus Cybermen are seen and said to have been found after the [[Cyber-Wars]] (a Mondasian Cyberman conflict) along with the suit of a Cyberman of the Cyber Legions. However, no explicit confirmation of this theory is given in the episode.


* In the "Second Divergence", a group which author [[David Banks]] called "CyberNomads"<!--REF term; do not link--> diverged from the Faction. These so-called "Nomads" searched for the [[validium]] statue [[Nemesis]] and tried and failed to destroy [[Voga]].
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* Possibly after the 21st century, the Faction abandoned their home in the Sol system and journeyed into the galaxy to colonise a suitable planet. The Cybermen which colonised Telos, possibly in 2175, split from the Faction and were called the CyberTelosians<!--REF term; do not link-->. This group united with the CyberNomads after they discovered the frozen CyberTelosians, and became CyberNeomorphs<!--REF term; do not link-->. These Cybermen planned to use Halley's Comet against Earth and were taken to the Death Zone on Gallifrey.
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In other words, what Banks was trying to do was create terms for each of the different costumes he and his fellow performers had worn throughout the years.  In effect he was saying that the costumes in ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'' were of CyberNeomorphs, the ones worn in ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'' were of CyberTelosians, and so forth. 
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The idea has not been widely ignored by other works.  Even he did not in his book,  ''Iceberg'', which mentioned none of his terms precisely.  It did not reference the CyberNeomorphs and CyberTelosians, and called the CyberFaction, "[[the Faction]]", and CyberMondasians, "[[Mondan]]s".
 
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* Mondasian Cybermen are among Cyberman enemies used in [[Legacy (video game)|Doctor Who Legacy]] mobile game.
 
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You may be looking for a Cyberman overview or the Cybermen from Mondas.

One type of Cyberman originated in another universe, where they were created by John Lumic, the owner of Cybus Industries and the original Cyber Controller of this breed. His Cybermen believed that all people must be "upgraded" to Cyber-form, so that information would never be lost and that the humans' physical and emotional weaknesses would be abolished. Beyond this, it remains unknown what the cyber-race would do if they completed conversion of humanity. If there was such a goal, it perished with John Lumic. Although the Tenth Doctor said "all you'll be left with is a metal earth, with metal people, with metal thoughts; you won't advance, you'll stop. "

Most Cybermen escaped from their home dimension and into the Doctor's, beginning their goal anew. Likely, because the technology on their home world was too advanced to counter.

Characteristics

Conversion

Unlike the Cybermen of the Doctor's universe, these Cybermen were created by taking the brains of humans and placing them in robotic bodies. These exostructures were built from High Content Metal and were stauncher and more heavily built than the Cybermen of Mondas.

Cyber-conversion involved painfully removing the brain of the subject and placing it within a suit of armour. The brain was preserved in a cradle of Cybus-copyrighted chemicals and welded to the exoskeleton, to which cyber-kinetic impulses were bonded. The remaining human body was simply incinerated. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) Once complete, the newly developed Cyberman had a special implant placed within them. The implant prevented them from feeling their emotions, but, if the implants were disrupted, the Cybermen entered a traumatic state as they were overloaded by the pain of the conversion. This would make them die in agony or cause their heads to explode from the overload of emotions. (TV: The Age of Steel)

In times of emergency, cyber-conversion consisted of only constructing a Cyber-suit around a living being with some internal modifications. (TV: Cyberwoman)

Operation

A Cyberman's vision through its eyepieces. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

The Cyber-suit was constructed from bulletproof steel. A chest plate with the Cybus Industries logo housed a "heart of steel", the function of which is unclear, and the emotional inhibitor chip. The brain remained contained within the suit's head, though the skull was included in more hastily converted units. Artificially grown nervous tissue was threaded throughout the body so the Cyberman responded like a fully biological organism. (TV: The Age of Steel) The eyepieces of a Cyberman allowed it to see the world as blue, digital graphics. The hearing of a Cyberman let it hear things similar to radio, albeit slightly garbled. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

Inside the Cyberman's helmet. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

Without a brain inserted, the Cyber-suit was a robot which apparently had sufficient processing capacity to pursue and attack a human target. (TV: The Age of Steel) Cybermen heads were programmed to seek out 'fresh meat" and try assimilating a compatible new head into the body if the original organic part rotted away. Because the victim would obviously fight back, the heads were outfitted with tranquilliser darts; wires from the head could also operate as tentacles to restrain the victims as well. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

If a Cyberman was dismantled, its body parts were still capable of operating independently and rejoining together, so long as they remained in working condition. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

Typically, Cybermen were led by a Cyber Leader during conversion missions. If the Cyber Leader was terminated then the Cybermen downloaded the shared files and nominated a new Cyber Leader. However, this would take time. (TV: Doomsday) Other leader variations are Cyber-Lords and Cyber-Kings. (TV: The Next Doctor)

Weapons and technology

A Cyberman wrist blaster operating on its own. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

Originally, their only weapons were their electrified hands, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) but they later gained a small wrist-mounted energy weapon. (TV: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday) They could act on their own, or be commanded by a wireless signal from the head. To keep victims from escaping, the Cybermen eventually equipped their heads with tranquilliser darts to sedate them. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

The Cybermen were capable of wirelessly communicating with each other, and when a Cyber-Leader was killed, their files were transferred to an appointed Cyberman, who would subsequently be upgraded to a new Cyber-Leader. (TV: Doomsday) They could wirelessly control electronics, such as John Lumic's wheelchair and the "Ghost Shift" control levers at Torchwood Tower; this function was associated with a Cyberman bringing its closed fist to its chest. (TV: The Age of Steel, TV: Army of Ghosts). They were also capable of using infostamps, allowing them to communicate information to other Cybermen when they were low on power. They were also able to steal other technology from the Daleks whilst inside the Void, such as a Dimension Vault. (TV: The Next Doctor) They eventually developed Cyber-weapons of their own, although bulkier and more rifle-like than the Mondasian versions. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

They eventually developed means of space travel and ventured into space. (TV: The Pandorica Opens, GAME: Return to Earth) However, their technology was initially quite primitive and incompatible with time travel, as demonstrated when their ship was destroyed by a Dalek Time Axis. (GAME: Return to Earth) By the time they joined the Alliance, their space travel seemed more advanced, similar to that of the Cybermen from Mondas. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

Voice

These Cybermen spoke in an electronic, monotone voice, far more emotionless and deeper than the Cybermen of the Doctor's universe. Because of their lack of emotions, the Cybermen used technical terms like "compatible" and their battle cry, "DELETE!". (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) The Cybermen were shown to misunderstand lower-level, spoken language terms, instead preferring higher-level language. For example, the Cyber-Lord couldn't understand the word 'best' so Miss Hartigan had to say "I will operate at maximum efficiency". (TV: The Next Doctor)

Hierarchy

History

Creation and expansion

Cybermen shortly after their creation. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

The Cybermen were created in a parallel universe by John Lumic, a terminally ill and insane genius. To find a way to survive, by 2007 he perfected a method to sustain the human brain indefinitely in a cradle of chemicals, bonding the synaptic impulses to a metal exoskeleton. Lumic began to trick and abduct homeless people and convert them into Cybermen. He assassinated the President of Great Britain after the President rejected his plans. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

Using the EarPods he designed and sold, Lumic took mental control of the people of London, marching thousands to be cyber-converted. After his life-support systems were damaged by his assistant, Mr. Crane in an act of betrayal that cost him his life, Lumic was converted into the Cyber-Controller by his own Cybermen against his own wishes to preserve his flesh form. By the Cybermen's cold logic, it was impractical to cling to an already dying body. Once converted and revitalised, Cyberman instinct merged with his megalomanical mind and he planned to convert all of the parallel Earth. However, the Tenth Doctor and his companions, having accidentally landed on the parallel Earth, managed to foil his plans. They freed London from mental control and disabled the Cybermen's emotional inhibitors, causing them to go insane and in some cases explode. Lumic himself fell to his apparent death into the burning remains of his factory. A human resistance group, the Preachers, then set about to clean up the remainder of Lumic's factories around the world. (TV: The Age of Steel)

Following the destruction of the Cybus Factory and the Cyber Controller in Britain, the Preachers moved around the rest of the world to carry out assaults on the rest of the Cybus Factories. One of their earliest victories came in Paris, where a stolen Cybus airship under the command of Mickey Smith fought its way through the streets, saving civilians and destroying attacking Cybermen along the way with a new weapon attached to the ship. Once the airship reached the factory, it destroyed it using an EMP. After the Cyber threat in Paris was ended, Mickey sent a video message to those who were sent on the mission, congratulating and thanking them. (GAME: Save Paris)

Eventually, the Preachers had Cyber resistance and bases set up all over the world, just as the Cybermen had factories. Soon they were ready to begin their assault on what remained of Lumic's legacy. The mission was commanded overall by Jake Simmonds. The Preachers managed to develop firearms which were effective against the Cybermen and sent troops into other countries, where they recruited others to aid them in their cause. Battles ensued when a squad moved into Cyber territory but successful battles ultimately gained them control of countries where a Cyber Factory was located. From there, the Preachers would surround the factory while a single commando unit entered the factory and fought their way to the emotion inhibitor and taking it out, thus destroying the factory and all the Cyber units converted there.

However, the Cybermen also sought to do the same thing: expand, "recruit", take over, and destroy the Preacher bases. The conflict was fought all over the planet. Ultimately though, the Preachers were victorious as they succeeded in sealing the Cybermen inside their factories. Jake congratulated the resistance, but it was known that the Cybermen were not completely defeated, they had only been delayed, as Jake seemed aware of when he gave his congratulations: "You did it! The Cybermen are sealed up in their factories. We're safe for now." (GAME: Cyber Assault)

The Battle of Canary Wharf

Despite their defeat, at least five million Cybermen survived and were able to infiltrate their universe's Torchwood Institute. They found a crack in the universe, caused by the passage of the Void Ship. The Cybermen were able to travel from their dimension into the Doctor's, and infiltrated the planet in the guise of benign ghosts of deceased humans. They established a base inside the Torchwood Tower at Canary Wharf. While there, they started making new Cybermen, using what materials they could find.

The Cybermen in France. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

After two months (three years in parallel Earth time), the Cybermen suddenly appeared in their true form, occupying every landmass on the planet before breaking into houses and promising to upgrade all humans, commanded by the new Cyber-Leader. (TV: Army of Ghosts) Simultaneously, the Cult of Skaro had exited the Void Ship with the Genesis Ark. The Cult, led by Dalek Sec communicated with the Cybermen via Dalek Thay and declared war, or in Dalek Sec's words, "pest control".

The Cybermen encounter Daleks. (TV: Doomsday)

After a skirmish between humans, Cybermen and Daleks, the Cult travelled to the main room in Torchwood's Canary Wharf, elevated outside above the roof, and opened the Genesis Ark, releasing millions of Daleks who, under Sec's command, started to "exterminate all life-forms below", killing human and Cyberman alike. (TV: Doomsday) Towards the end of the Cybermen-Dalek battle, the Cybermen, desperate for more troops, began directly converting people rather than transplanting their brains into Cybershells. One victim of this process was Lisa Hallett, girlfriend of Ianto Jones. (TV: Cyberwoman)

The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler opened the Void and anything contaminated with void stuff was pulled in. This included the Cybermen. (TV: Doomsday)

However, this was not the last of the Cybermen. The Cybermen that were made on Earth, like Lisa Hallett, had never passed through the Void, therefore they were not sucked in. Ianto took Lisa away from the battle and hid her in the basement of Cardiff's Torchwood Three facility, setting up a life-support system, planning to restore her humanity. He was unsuccessful. She killed Dr. Tanizaki, fought with Torchwood staff and eventually transplanted her brain into the body of a pizza delivery girl. Lisa was finally killed by the Torchwood team. Ianto had desperately tried to salvage what was left of his girlfriend's former identity, but could not succeed. He mourned Lisa's death, moved on, and eventually set his romantic attentions elsewhere. (TV: Cyberwoman)

After the battle, two children, Harry and Sam, were working on a model train set when they found stuff from Harry's dad's previous job. Inside the box was a Cyberman, in all its individual pieces. Not knowing what it was, Sam decided to put it back together so it could watch them play. Eventually, it awoke, threatening to upgrade both Harry and Sam. It forced Sam to help build a "Cyber-Conversion Unit" using the other left-over electronics from the Torchwood Tower in the box. They, however, managed to knock the Cyberman into the Cyber-Conversion unit, causing the latter two to be destroyed. (PROSE: Going Off the Rails)

Other humans were converted during the battle, but fully. These survivors stole teleportation technology from Torchwood Institute in order to gather technology to help them re-open the Void and free the trapped Cybermen. They did not know how to do this, however, and so they stole the Doctor's TARDIS, trying to lure the Tenth Doctor to them for aid. Some Cybermen were destroyed by the army but the Cyber-Leader and a few others escaped to the Millennium Dome and kept the army out with a forcefield. The Doctor and Martha, however, having recovered the TARDIS, were able to enter. The Doctor was able to trick the Cybermen, allowing them to link up their equipment with the TARDIS and giving them instructions. However, the Cybermen were instead sent back to the time of the dinosaurs where they were attacked and killed by a Tyrannosaurus rex. The Cyber-Leader was destroyed after Martha damaged the forcefield and the Doctor used an electrical cord from it to destroy the leader. (PROSE: Made of Steel)

Escaping the Void

The Cyberman-created CyberKing stomps Victorian London. (TV: The Next Doctor)

Due to the Daleks' damaging the barriers between realities by using the Reality bomb (TV: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End), a small number of Cybermen were able to escape the Void, assisted by technology stolen from the Void-trapped Daleks while the rest of the Cybermen, along with the Daleks trapped in the Void, perished. Landing accidentally in London, in the year 1851, these Cybermen, under the leadership of a Cyber-Lord, made an alliance with the human Miss Hartigan, created a minion race known as Cybershades and began construction of a dreadnought robot called the CyberKing with which they planned to conquer the Earth. They also came across Jackson Lake and his family, who in his fugue state absorbed knowledge of the Doctor from an infostamp. Lake and his new companion tried to defeat them, but were unsuccessful until the real, Tenth Doctor arrived. When Miss Hartigan was converted into the CyberKing and the ship became mobile, the Doctor showed Hartigan what she had done and in her anguish she destroyed herself and the Cybermen, with the CyberKing sent to be disintegrated in the Time Vortex before it fell on London. (TV: The Next Doctor) This event was then erased from history by the Time Field (TV: Flesh and Stone), resulting in no one but the Doctor remembering it.

An army of Cybermen were located in Incan Temples. (GAME: The Mazes of Time)

Another army of Cybermen invaded medieval England, they began converting the locals by creating large statues of themselves to make the locals gather to see them. When the Doctor and Amy Pond arrived, they activated the Cybermen's power systems and used electrical currents to disable the Cybermen. (GAME: The Mazes of Time)

Other groups of Cybermen apparently managed to escape the Void, but into a different point in time and space. Eventually these Cybermen would become a space-faring race. One group, during what appeared to be an early period for them in space-travel, possibly around the 26th century, were attracted towards an artefact they could not identify, which was in fact a Dalek Time Axis. As their technology was incapatible with time travel, their ship was destroyed. The Cybermen escaped and took over the ship, the SS Lucy Grey. The Eleventh Doctor and Amy were also attracted to the SS Lucy Grey by the signal from the Time Axis. The Doctor was able to overload the ship's systems, destroying the Cybermen before the Daleks arrived. (GAME: Return to Earth)

The Cybermen in suspended animation in Cyber-Tombs on Telos. (GAME: The Mazes of Time)

The Doctor later encountered these Cybermen on Telos, where the earlier arrival of Billy Jones had caused the "advanced guard" to awake from the cyber-tombs early to defend the others. The Cybermen tried to convert Billy, but he was saved by the Doctor before they could do so. (GAME: The Mazes of Time)

The Cybermen were among the species that made up the the Alliance. (TV: The Pandorica Opens) However, the Alliance was never formed after the Big Bang Two. (TV: The Big Bang)

The dead shells of some of these Cybermen were recovered after the Cyber-Wars and put on display at Hedgewick's World of Wonders. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)

One Cyberman fell through the void into a universe where the Doctor was the main character in a television show called "Doctor Who". The Eleventh Doctor sent the Cyberman back into the Void to "its own home". (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)

Cybermen on Centuria

The Cybermen on Centuria. (COMIC: Time of the Cybermen)

During the 41st century an interplanetary info-thief stole Cyberman blueprints from the Torchwood Archive and used them to build a new Cyber army on Centuria with the intent of auctioning them of as hi-tech soldiers. However they turned on him and made him a half-converted slave. They started to kidnap hundreds of tourists and convert them. However, the Doctor discovered this while on Centuria for a holiday and the beach he was on was attacked. He and the other beachgoers were thrown into a van. Jayne Kadett, who was tracking down interplanetary Info Theft when the Cybermen caught her, revealed to the Doctor what had happened. The Doctor and Jayne managed to escape the Cybermen and blow the restraint circuits; the Cybermen factory (Factory Zero One) was destroyed. (COMIC: The Power of the Cybermen)

The Cybermen attempt to upgrade. (COMIC: Drones of Doom)

The Doctor and Kadett followed the Cyberman's signal, taking a robot-run airship across the now-deserted continent of Azlon on the planet Centuria. Before arriving at the airbus terminal (a Cyber-conversion factory), the conductor/law enforcer became influenced by the Cybermen's hypnotic signal, which was being used to subjugate the arriving humans. The Doctor, Kadett and a reprogrammed robot conductor pretended to be hypnotised and follow the other arrivals. Seizing the right moment, the Doctor disrupted the hypnotic signal and the conductor robot attacked the Cybermen. A stray shot from the conductor ruptured the fuel banks, causing a huge explosion which killed most of the newly converted Cyber-drones (basic work units) as their humanity started to become more dominant. As the Doctor and Kadett fled the explosion, they found a bit of a map in a Cyberman's hand. (COMIC: Drones of Doom)

Using the TARDIS, the Doctor and Kadett followed the Cybermen's map to Centuria's arctic zone where the Cybermen planned to ship upgraded human drones. Homaj, a half human, half Cyber drone, escaped the Cybermen who forced him and others to mine Hargstones. A giant purple Ice Snake attacked, but Cybermen with Cyberdogs deleted it. Homaj ran off into the frozen wasteland but the Doctor and Kadett were captured and taken to a huge mine below the ice. Inside the mine, the Doctor created a distraction while Kadett stole some explosives. The distraction caused a Cyberman to split one of the cave walls, disturbing a nest of Ice Snakes which attacked them. Escaping the mine, the Doctor and Kadett saw the Cybership has already departed with its cargo. Homaj waited for them and informed them he had intercepted a message saying that the cargo was going to Centuria Central. He then took the explosives from Kadett and headed back to the mine. In an act of self-sacrifice, he permanently sealed it. The Doctor and Kadett left in the Tardis in pursuit of the Cybership. (COMIC: Enemy Mine)

The Cybermen threaten to kill. (COMIC: Time of the Cybermen)

The TARDIS landed in Centuria Central in a temporal stasis field. Kadett was caught in the frozen moment but the Doctor, being a Time Lord, could resist the field. Cybermen in a patrol aircar spotted him moving around and pursued. The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to bring the aircar crashing down, drawing the attention of other Cybermen, who arrived to salvage parts and take them back to base. The Doctor smuggled himself into the base with the salvage. The base was the Triplanetary base which the Doctor suspected had been robbed of its Hargstone reserves to enable the Cybermen to maintain a stasis machine. The Doctor learned from the Cybermen that they had built the stasis machine from Torchwood files and used the device to subdue opposition. Choosing the most secure place for the machine, the Doctor escaped and headed for the bank's vault, but it was made of titanium and was protected by laser-proof glass and destructor rays. When the Doctor couldn't get in he used the sonic screwdriver to turn the destructor rays inwards, destroying the stasis machine. The Cybermen had a mental link with the machine that enables them to move around inside the stasis field, so when the machine was destroyed the temporal feedback overloaded their circuits. However, a Cyber-helmet in the shadows glowed red, suggesting that the Cybermen presence on Centuria wasn't completely destroyed. (COMIC: Time of the Cybermen)

Other information

Behind the scenes

  • The non-narrative based work Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary revealed much more:
The Cybermen are powered by thermionic generators, their brain was kept in a patented protein solution at 6 °C, and their armor made from a very, very durable manganese-steel alloy.
The points of weakness on Cybermen were the ankle joint and the exposed coolant lines on the inner (right) side of their left knee.
Their fingertips incorporate touch sensitive pads and their voice-box was located in their metal mouth (that doesn't open, obviously, only lights up blue when they talk).
The coolant lines were Kevlar-lined and were bullet-resistant.
The particle-beam gun technology is capable of being handheld with an outsized grip (because Cybermen are so big) or being incorporated into their forearm. The particle beam guns were top of the arms market and were constructed in John Lumic's Blue Skies laboratory.
  • According to non-narrative information in DWBIT 17 and the DWBIT Daleks vs Cybermen Special, during the Battle of Canary Wharf, the weaponry of the Cybermen was mostly ineffective to Dalek casing, but there were some Dalek casualties as the Cybermen were able to tear the domes of some Daleks right off, in some instances as part of an ambush.
  • In another Dalek Wars page in Battles in Time, a single Cyberman ended at the bottom of the oceans of Philjax III during the Daleks' battle with the Squeeth.
  • In a website launched by the BBC for the promotion of season 2, International Electromatics, it was indicated that Cybus Industries derived their Cyberman technology from the deactivated bodies of alien Cybermen found at the North Pole.
  • In the stage play The Monsters Are Coming!, the Lurman Vorgenson used his machine, the Minimiser, to capture several Cybermen to be part of his travelling show dedicated to the Eleventh Doctor. The Cybermen were one of many mind-controlled versions of his recently encountered enemies. It was revealed that the New Paradigm Daleks had planted the idea in his head to attract the Eleventh Doctor to the show with his monsters, and capture him in the Minimiser. This plan worked, although Vorgenson learned the truth. The audience managed to save the Doctor and helped him to release the Cybermen from the Minimiser to destroy the Daleks.
  • Neil Gaiman has stated[1] that he has the theory that, at one point, the Cybus Cybermen encountered the Mondasian/Telosian Cybermen and the two races merged into one, explaining why, in Series 5 and Series 6, the Cybermen share characteristics of both the originals and the Cybus versions. It may also explain why the Cybus Cybermen appear in the ice tombs on Telos (in The Mazes of Time) and why the Cybermen have connections with Mondas Cybermen in the past but have the Cybus design (in Assimilation²). This merged Cyber race is implied in Gaiman's Series 7 episode Nightmare in Silver, where the Cyber-suits of two Cybus Cybermen are seen and said to have been found after the Cyber-Wars (a Mondasian Cyberman conflict) along with the suit of a Cyberman of the Cyber Legions. However, no explicit confirmation of this theory is given in the episode.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ EXCLUSIVE – Neil Gaiman Talks Doctor Who And Cybermen. SFX (May 7th, 2013). Retrieved on January 5th, 2014.
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