Emotion or feeling was a response to an object or a situation that induced either a negative or positive mental state. Being able to identify and recognise other's emotions was called empathy.
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Examples of emotions included love, pride, hate, fear, (TV: The Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"]) comfort, (TV: The Smugglers [+]Loading...["The Smugglers (TV story)"]) revenge (TV: The Web of Fear [+]Loading...["The Web of Fear (TV story)"]) and hope. (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"])
Removal of emotions[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Although most species felt at least some kinds of emotions, others intentionally did not. Considering them to be "weaknesses", the Daleks were deliberately designed by Davros to have no emotions, (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"]) while the Cybermen removed theirs during cyber-conversion, (TV: The Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"]) some Cybermen using emotional inhibitors to do so. (TV: The Age of Steel [+]Loading...["The Age of Steel (TV story)"])
However, Missy explained that while Cybermen suppressed emotion, Daleks actually channelled them, using hate and rage and fear to exterminate everything that was not a Dalek. (TV: The Witch's Familiar [+]Loading...["The Witch's Familiar (TV story)"]) As such, some Cybermen could act emotional, such as one Cyber-Leader who used the phrase "excellent" and whom the Fifth Doctor considered "flippant", (TV: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"]) as well as the Cyberman Kroton who was able to regain his emotions. (COMIC: Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman [+]Loading...["Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman (comic story)"]) In the posthuman era, technosapiens abandoned the emotionless ways of their predecessors (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil [+]Loading...["Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)"]) and created emotions in the Data Forges of Mechanique II. (PROSE: Happily Ever After Is a High-Risk Strategy [+]Loading...["Happily Ever After Is a High-Risk Strategy (short story)"])
In some societies, emotion was forbidden. The people of the city of Zombos on the planet Zom had their emotions removed on the orders of the Brains Trust. (COMIC: City of the Damned [+]Loading...["City of the Damned (comic story)"]) The Gråttites banned emotion due to the threat of the Mörkön. (COMIC: The Whispering Gallery [+]Loading...["The Whispering Gallery (comic story)"])
The Masters of Space and Time left emotions behind when they evolved into non-corporeal entities. Indeed, they had forgotten about emotion until they were reminded of them by Victoria Waterfield feeling pity for them. They hoped that they could reproduce emotions as well as they could reproduce matter. (PROSE: Mastermind of Space [+]Loading...["Mastermind of Space (short story)"])
As a food source[[edit] | [edit source]]
Some species fed on emotion, or certain types of emotion, for sustenance. These included Cerebravores, (COMIC: Revolutions of Terror [+]Loading...["Revolutions of Terror (comic story)"]) Empathivores, (COMIC: The Whispering Gallery [+]Loading...["The Whispering Gallery (comic story)"]) the Fearmonger, (AUDIO: The Fearmonger [+]Loading...["The Fearmonger (audio story)"]) the Ilk, (AUDIO: The Forever Trap [+]Loading...["The Forever Trap (audio story)"]) the Isolus, (TV: Fear Her [+]Loading...["Fear Her (TV story)"]) Jalaphrons, (PROSE: Checkpoint [+]Loading...["Checkpoint (short story)"]) Kharitites, (COMIC: After Life [+]Loading...["After Life (comic story)"]) the Kresh, (AUDIO: Everybody Loves Reagan [+]Loading...["Everybody Loves Reagan (audio story)"]) the Lankin, (TV: Nightvisiting [+]Loading...["Nightvisiting (TV story)"]) the Lapino, (PROSE: Planet of the Bunnoids [+]Loading...["Planet of the Bunnoids (short story)"]) the Lobri, (COMIC: Ground Zero [+]Loading...["Ground Zero (comic story)"]) Pranavores, (COMIC: Revolutions of Terror [+]Loading...["Revolutions of Terror (comic story)"]) Psionovores, (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell [+]Loading...["Minuet in Hell (audio story)"]) the Qetesh, (TV: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith [+]Loading...["Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"]) the Scourge, (AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge [+]Loading...["The Shadow of the Scourge (audio story)"]) the Shroud, (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow [+]Loading...["Shroud of Sorrow (novel)"]) the Threckon, (PROSE: Inmate 280 [+]Loading...["Inmate 280 (short story)"]) and the Mara, which fed on raw emotion. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird [+]Loading...["The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)"])
Emotions were also extremely powerful, at least in human cases, and could be harnessed as weapons. An emotional surge from six billion people all at once was enough to cripple a Qetesh and destroy her stomach. (TV: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith [+]Loading...["Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"]) Emotions were also lethal to Cybermen, causing at least one's head to explode. (TV: The Age of Steel [+]Loading...["The Age of Steel (TV story)"]) An emotional amplifier discovered by Torchwood Three was capable of amplifying and transmitting emotions including hunger, aggression, lust, rage and pain, leading to numerous deaths. (PROSE: Slow Decay [+]Loading...["Slow Decay (novel)"])