|affiliation= The [[Cyber-Force]]<br>[[Cybus Industries]]<br>[[The Alliance]]
|origin = [[Pete's World|Parallel Earth]]
|origin= [[Mondas]]<br>[[Pete's World]]
|appearances = [[Cybermen (Pete's World) - List of Appearances|List of Appearances]]
|appearances= See [[Cybermen - List of Appearances|List of Appearances]]
|mentions = <ul><li>[[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]''</li><li>[[TW]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts]]''</li><li>[[SJA]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]''</li></ul>
|individuals = [[CyberKing]]<br>[[Lisa Hallett]]<br>[[Cyber-Control (Cybus)]]<br>[[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lord]]<br>[[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)]]<br>[[John Lumic]]<br>[[Cybershade]]<br>[[Mercy Hartigan]]
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'''Cybermen''' are a type of [[cyborg|cybernetically]] augmented humanoids. They have varied greatly in design, with different offshoots factions throughout time and space. However, the two major groups, from which all other known versions are derived, are the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Mondasian Cybermen]], which originated on the planet [[Mondas]], [[Earth]]'s [[twin planet]] in [[the Doctor]]'s [[universe]], and the [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybus Cybermen]], which originated on Earth in an [[Pete's World|alternate universe]].
:''For the Original Cyberman, see [[Cyberman]]. See [[Cyberman (disambiguation)]] also.''
One type of '''Cyberman''' originated in [[Pete's World|another universe]], where they were created by [[John Lumic]], the owner of [[Cybus Industries]]. 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.
Despite the different origin and other differences, there is a number of similarities between both groups of Cybermen. For the most part, they have both lacked individuality or names. Cybermen no longer possessed emotions and viewed them as a weakness. They have frequently attempted to physically and mentally re-engineer humans and other humanoids into Cybermen, via a process called "[[cyber-conversion]]" or "[[upgrade]]"
==Characteristics==
==Characteristics==
===Conversion===
===Mondasian Cybermen===
[[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 exo-skeleton, to which cyber-kinetic impulses were bonded. 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. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
{{Main|Cybermen (Mondas)}}
These Cybermen were originally a wholly organic species of Near-Humans who originated on Earth's former twin planet, Mondas. Mondas drifted into the outer solar system and to survive, the natives of that world adapted by turning themselves into cyborgs. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') Eventually, all of the Mondasians underwent forced cyber-conversion. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Spare Parts]]''). Many of them left Mondas and eventually developed into separate groups without connection with one another.
In times of emergency, cyber-conversion consisted of only constructing a Cyber-suit around a living being with some internal modifications. ([[TW]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'') The living being would eventually age, die and decay, but the suit would still function, searching for a new living being to assimilate. Once found, the suit would eject its previous inhabitant and forcefully take over the new component. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
===Operation===
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 was contained within the head. Artificially grown nervous tissue was threaded throughout the body so the Cyberman responded like a fully biological organism. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
Without a brain inserted, the Cyber-suit was a robot which apparently had sufficient processing capacity to pursue and attack a human target. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'', ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
Typically, Cybermen were led by a [[Cyber-Leader (Cybus)|Cyber Leader]] during conversion missions. If the Cyber Leader was terminated then the Cybermen downloaded the shared files and nominated a new Cyber Leader. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
Unlike the [[Cybermen]] of the main universe, these Cybermen were created by taking the brains of [[human]]s and placing them in robotic bodies. These exo-structures were built from [[High Content Metal]] and were stauncher and more heavily built than the Cybermen of Mondas. The Mondas Cybermen's weakness for [[gold]] was not present in these alternate Cybermen, though the initial models had indeed suffered from heavy impairment when exposed to gold. This defect was purged from the finished model.
[[file:Cyberman_attacking.png|left|thumb|"Cybus" Cyber-Weapons. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')]]Originally, their only weapons were their [[Electro Attack|electrified hands]], ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'') but they later gained [[Cyber Wrist Blaster|a small wrist-mounted energy weapon]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday]]'') At some point the Cybermen gained the abililty to fire a tranquilizer dart from their mouth. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|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 ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]''). 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]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')
At some point, a scattered group developed space-travel but their technology was incapatible with [[time travel]], as demonstarted when their ship was destroyed by a Dalek Time Axis. ([[VG]]: [[Return to Earth|''Return to Earth'']]) Overtime, however, the Cybermen did gather an increased knowledge of space-travel. ([[DW]]: [[The Pandorica Opens|''The Pandorica Opens'']])
===Voice===
These Cybermen spoke in a electronic 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!". The Cybermen were shown to misunderstand emotional terms. For example, the [[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lord]] couldn't understand the word 'best' so Miss Hartigan had to say "I will operate at maximum efficiency". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')
==History==
====[[file:Cyberman2006.jpg|thumb|right|"Cybus" Cyberman. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')]][[Rise of the Cybermen|Creation]]====
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, 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.
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 (Pete's World)|Mr. Crane]], Lumic was converted into the Cyber-Controller. 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. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
====[[Battle of Canary Wharf|The Battle of Canary Wharf]]====
Despite this, some of the 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 ours, 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.
[[file:Cybermen_in_France.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen in France. ([[DW]]: ''[[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. 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".
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, proceeded to "exterminate all life-forms below", killing human and Cyberman alike. ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday]]'') 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, some instances as part of an ambush. ([[DWBIT]]: [[DWBIT #17|#17]], [[Daleks vs Cybermen Special]]) 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]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')
The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler opened [[the Void]] and anything contaminated with [[Void stuff]] was pulled in. This included the Cybermen. ([[DW]]: ''[[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. ([[TW]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')
After the battle, two boys, [[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 his 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 leftover 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. ([[DWF]]: ''[[Going Off the Rails]]'')
Other [[humans]], like [[Lisa Hallett|Lisa]], were converted during [[Battle of Canary Wharf|the battle]], but fully. As they did not originate from the [[Pete's World|Cybermens' original universe]], they had not corssed [[the Void]], were not contaminated with Voidstuff, and therefore were not sucked into the Void. 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 Doctor|the Doctor]] to them for aid. Some Cybermen were destroyed by the army but the [[Cyber-Leader (Cybus)|Cyber-Leader]] and a few others escaped to the Millenium Dome and kept the army out with a forcefield. [[Tenth Doctor|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 are instead sent back to the time of the dinosaurs where they are 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. ([[NSA]]: [[Made of Steel|''Made of Steel'']])
====[[2009 Dalek invasion of Earth|Escape From the Void]] & the Future====
Due to the Daleks' damaging the barriers between realities ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/[[Journey's End|''Journey's End'']]), the Cybermen were able to escape the Void, assisted by technology stolen from the Void-trapped Daleks. Landing accidentally in [[1851]] London, 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, during which time an [[infostamp]] was misused, leading to Lake believing he was [[the Doctor]]. Lake and his new companion tried to defeat them, but were unsuccessful until the [[Tenth Doctor |real 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 being sent to be disintegrated in the Time Vortex. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'') This event was then temporarily erased from history by the [[Time Field]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]''), but later restored due to the Doctor's efforts. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
Other Cybermen, which seemed to possess a more advanced knowledge and experience of space travel, joined [[the Alliance]] at some point, formed to imprison The [[Eleventh Doctor]] in the [[Pandorica]] in order to save the [[Universe]]. They had previously placed one of their own as a sentry to the Pandorica, and later their representatives were among those who arrived at [[Stonehenge]] in 102 AD to confront the Doctor. The Alliance proceeded with their plans and imprisoned the Doctor in the Pandorica. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') The explosion of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] which caused the Universe to end however still happened, and the Alliance's plan failed, causing all races involved and all others throughout the universe, including the Cybermen, to be removed from existance. Only stone "after-images" remained. When the Doctor [[Big Bang Two|reset]] the universe and timeline, the Cybermen, and everything else that was destroyed throughout history, were restored to their original form and place in space and time. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
An 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. ([[VG]]: ''[[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 artifact they could not identify, which was in fact a Dalek Time Axis. As their technology was incapatible with [[Time travel|time travel]], their ship was destroyed. The Cybermen escaped and took over the ship, the ''SS Lucy Grey''. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond|Amy]] were also attracted to the ''SS Lucy Grey'' by the singal from the Time Axis. The Doctor was able to overload the ship's systems destroy the Cybermen before the Daleks arrived. ([[VG]]: [[Return to Earth|''Return to Earth'']])
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. ([[VG]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]'')
One Cyberman ended up of [[Philjax III]] in the year [[9000]], deep in the oceans during the Daleks' [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time Dalek Wars|battle]] with the [[Squeeth]]. ([[DWBIT]]: [[DWBIT #9|#9]])
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 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. ([[SP]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Monsters Are Coming!|The Monsters Are Coming!]]'')
Nearly all were silver in colour, with the exception of a a black variety which also existed in the London sewers ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]''). They also exhibited exposed circuitry and tubing which may contain hydraulic fluids for motion, covering a rubber or mylar-like outer skin. The [[CyberMondasian]]s which [[First Doctor|the Doctor]] met on [[Snowcap Base]] in [[1986]] had undergone a less radical conversion and still retained biological hands; it is possible these Cybermen were prototypes. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') All other Cybermen were entirely covered up in their metallic suits. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'' onwards)
====Cybermen on [[Centuria]]====
These Cybermen had a number of major weaknesses, of which the most notable was the element [[gold]]. Gold, having a non-corrosive nature, choked their respiratory systems. ([[DW]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]''). 20th century guns barely phased Cybermen, though explosives and bazooka shells were capable of taking them down. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'') [[UNIT]] would develop gold-tipped rounds for Cybermen. ([[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'') In later centuries, the Cybermen would take hits from laser guns and energy weapons: at close range, this could destroy them. ([[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
[[file:BITCS11.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Cybermen on Centuria. ([[DWBIT]]: ''[[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 blowthe restraint circuits; the Cybermen factory (Factory Zero One) was destroyed. ([[DWBIT]]: ''[[The Power of the Cybermen]]'')
===Cybus Cybermen===
{{Main|Cybermen (Pete's World)}}
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. ([[DWBIT]]: ''[[Drones of Doom]]'')
This type of Cyberman originated in [[Pete's World|another universe]], where they were created by [[John Lumic]], the owner of [[Cybus Industries]]. His Cybermen believed that all people must be "upgraded" to Cyber-form so that information is never lost and that the Humans physical and emotional weaknesses are abolished.
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. ([[DWBIT]]: ''[[Enemy Mine]]'')
[[Cyber-conversion]] usually involved painfully removing the [[brain]] of the subject and placing it within a suit of armour. Once complete, the newly developed Cyberman had a special implant placed within them, which prevented them from feeling their emotions. However, if the implants were disrupted, then the Cybermen entered into a traumatic state as they were overloaded by the pain of the conversion, resulting in them dying in agony or their heads exploding from the overload of emotions. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel]]'').
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. ([[DWBIT]]: ''[[Time of the Cybermen]]'')
The Cyber-suit was constructed from bulletproof steel. These exo-structures were stauncher and more heavily built than the Cybermen of Mondas. 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 was contained within the head. Artificially grown nervous tissue was threaded throughout the body so the Cyberman responded like a fully biological organism. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'') Without a brain inserted, the Cyber-suit was a robot which apparently had sufficient processing capacity to pursue and attack a human target, even it's head alone. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'', ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') The weakness for [[gold]] was not present in these alternate Cybermen.
==Other Information==
===Unification?===
*The [[Tenth Doctor]] kept one of the [[Cybus Industries|Cybus]] logos from a Cyberman chest plate in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'', [[NSA]]: ''[[The Taking of Chelsea 426]]'').
While no contact between the two major groups of Cybermen has been documented yet, there exist some Cybermen that share characteristics of both, which indicates that such contact could have taken place. While they greatly resemble the Cybus Cybermen and are said to be brains in metal shells like the Cybus creations, their use of [[Cybermat]]s and their awareness of the fact that the Doctor is a Time Lord, and his reference to "races" conquered by them further indicate Mondasian origin.
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An army of such Cybermen was buried under the ice in the [[Arctic Circle]] for tens of thousands of years after being hit by a temporal storm. An excavation began to awaken the army, releasing [[Cybermat (Blood of the Cybermen)|Cybermats]] which in turn created [[Cyberslave]]s. [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] arrived on May 4th 2010 and stopped their awakening. He blew up their base and put them back into stasis. ([[VG]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen]]'')
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Cybermen are a type of cybernetically augmented humanoids. They have varied greatly in design, with different offshoots factions throughout time and space. However, the two major groups, from which all other known versions are derived, are the Mondasian Cybermen, which originated on the planet Mondas, Earth's twin planet in the Doctor's universe, and the Cybus Cybermen, which originated on Earth in an alternate universe.
Despite the different origin and other differences, there is a number of similarities between both groups of Cybermen. For the most part, they have both lacked individuality or names. Cybermen no longer possessed emotions and viewed them as a weakness. They have frequently attempted to physically and mentally re-engineer humans and other humanoids into Cybermen, via a process called "cyber-conversion" or "upgrade"
These Cybermen were originally a wholly organic species of Near-Humans who originated on Earth's former twin planet, Mondas. Mondas drifted into the outer solar system and to survive, the natives of that world adapted by turning themselves into cyborgs. (DW: The Tenth Planet) Eventually, all of the Mondasians underwent forced cyber-conversion. (BFA: Spare Parts). Many of them left Mondas and eventually developed into separate groups without connection with one another.
Nearly all were silver in colour, with the exception of a a black variety which also existed in the London sewers (DW: Attack of the Cybermen). They also exhibited exposed circuitry and tubing which may contain hydraulic fluids for motion, covering a rubber or mylar-like outer skin. The CyberMondasians which the Doctor met on Snowcap Base in 1986 had undergone a less radical conversion and still retained biological hands; it is possible these Cybermen were prototypes. (DW: The Tenth Planet) All other Cybermen were entirely covered up in their metallic suits. (DW: The Moonbase onwards)
These Cybermen had a number of major weaknesses, of which the most notable was the element gold. Gold, having a non-corrosive nature, choked their respiratory systems. (DW: Revenge of the Cybermen). 20th century guns barely phased Cybermen, though explosives and bazooka shells were capable of taking them down. (DW: The Invasion, Silver Nemesis) UNIT would develop gold-tipped rounds for Cybermen. (DW: Battlefield) In later centuries, the Cybermen would take hits from laser guns and energy weapons: at close range, this could destroy them. (DW: Earthshock)
This type of Cyberman originated in another universe, where they were created by John Lumic, the owner of Cybus Industries. His Cybermen believed that all people must be "upgraded" to Cyber-form so that information is never lost and that the Humans physical and emotional weaknesses are abolished.
Cyber-conversion usually involved painfully removing the brain of the subject and placing it within a suit of armour. Once complete, the newly developed Cyberman had a special implant placed within them, which prevented them from feeling their emotions. However, if the implants were disrupted, then the Cybermen entered into a traumatic state as they were overloaded by the pain of the conversion, resulting in them dying in agony or their heads exploding from the overload of emotions. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel).
The Cyber-suit was constructed from bulletproof steel. These exo-structures were stauncher and more heavily built than the Cybermen of Mondas. 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 was contained within the head. Artificially grown nervous tissue was threaded throughout the body so the Cyberman responded like a fully biological organism. (DW: The Age of Steel) Without a brain inserted, the Cyber-suit was a robot which apparently had sufficient processing capacity to pursue and attack a human target, even it's head alone. (DW: The Age of Steel, The Pandorica Opens) The weakness for gold was not present in these alternate Cybermen.
Unification?
While no contact between the two major groups of Cybermen has been documented yet, there exist some Cybermen that share characteristics of both, which indicates that such contact could have taken place. While they greatly resemble the Cybus Cybermen and are said to be brains in metal shells like the Cybus creations, their use of Cybermats and their awareness of the fact that the Doctor is a Time Lord, and his reference to "races" conquered by them further indicate Mondasian origin.
An army of such Cybermen was buried under the ice in the Arctic Circle for tens of thousands of years after being hit by a temporal storm. An excavation began to awaken the army, releasing Cybermats which in turn created Cyberslaves. The Doctor arrived on May 4th 2010 and stopped their awakening. He blew up their base and put them back into stasis. (VG: Blood of the Cybermen)
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