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The most notable was the element [[gold]] which, being non-corrosive, choked their [[respiratory system]]s, a property exploited by the [[glittergun]] used during the [[Cyber-Wars]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|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 [[coin]]s, gold-tipped [[arrow]]s, or gold particles could destroy (or, in the case of the particles, at ''least'' weaken) them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]], [[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]'') Gold (and gold particles) also blocked their sensors and caused [[Cybermat]]s to malfunction. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') | The most notable was the element [[gold]] which, being non-corrosive, choked their [[respiratory system]]s, a property exploited by the [[glittergun]] used during the [[Cyber-Wars]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|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 [[coin]]s, gold-tipped [[arrow]]s, or gold particles could destroy (or, in the case of the particles, at ''least'' weaken) them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]], [[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]'') Gold (and gold particles) also blocked their sensors and caused [[Cybermat]]s to malfunction. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') | ||
During the Cyber-Wars, these Cybermen merged technology with the Cybus variety, eliminating more of their lingering organic needs, like the respiratory system; though contact with gold could still briefly scramble the operating systems. They were also still vulnerable to [[electromagnetic pulse]]s from hand devices, especially when amplified by [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|the Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver]]. An enemy anti-cyber cannon was also capable of outright destroying them, though they later evolved and became immune to it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'') These models were vulnerable to their own blasters. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') These models could also be disabled when attacked by a Mondasian's cybernetic laser beam and [[the Master]]'s [[laser screwdriver]] after several seconds. The [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s sonic screwdriver and | During the Cyber-Wars, these Cybermen merged technology with the Cybus variety, eliminating more of their lingering organic needs, like the respiratory system; though contact with gold could still briefly scramble the operating systems. They were also still vulnerable to [[electromagnetic pulse]]s from hand devices, especially when amplified by [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|the Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver]]. An enemy anti-cyber cannon was also capable of outright destroying them, though they later evolved and became immune to it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'') These models were vulnerable to their own blasters. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') These models could also be disabled when attacked by a Mondasian's cybernetic laser beam and [[the Master]]'s [[laser screwdriver]] after several seconds. The [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s sonic screwdriver and [[Missy]]'s [[sonic umbrella]] could also combine to form a barrier around the Cybermen to slow them down. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') A special [[wood]]en variant of these Cybermen could also be destroyed by the [[flamethrower]] on its own wrist. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') | ||
Other fatal weaknesses of the Cybermen included the combination of [[solvent]]s known as [[Polly Cocktail]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'') excessive levels of [[radiation]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Telos (audio story)|Telos]]'') and the scent of a particular type of [[flower]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Flower Power (comic story)|Flower Power]]'') | Other fatal weaknesses of the Cybermen included the combination of [[solvent]]s known as [[Polly Cocktail]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'') excessive levels of [[radiation]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Telos (audio story)|Telos]]'') and the scent of a particular type of [[flower]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Flower Power (comic story)|Flower Power]]'') | ||
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The Cybermen started as the [[Patient (World Enough and Time)|patients]], who escorted humans from the city to the hospital for conversion, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and also travelled to the higher floors and captured any other humans on the colony ship for [[cyber-conversion]], including the remaining Mondasian crew members on Floor 0000. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Jorj (short story)|Jorj]]'') During their development, the Master incorporated a number of functions into the patients that would allow him to control the patients upon their evolution into full Cybermen, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') in a bid to use the Cybermen that would arise on Floor 1056 as his personal [[army]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') to conquer the [[galaxy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') | The Cybermen started as the [[Patient (World Enough and Time)|patients]], who escorted humans from the city to the hospital for conversion, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and also travelled to the higher floors and captured any other humans on the colony ship for [[cyber-conversion]], including the remaining Mondasian crew members on Floor 0000. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Jorj (short story)|Jorj]]'') During their development, the Master incorporated a number of functions into the patients that would allow him to control the patients upon their evolution into full Cybermen, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') in a bid to use the Cybermen that would arise on Floor 1056 as his personal [[army]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') to conquer the [[galaxy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') | ||
[[File:Missy, the Master and cyber-converted Bill.jpg|thumb| | [[File:Missy, the Master and cyber-converted Bill.jpg|thumb|[[Missy]] and {{Simm}} declare [[Bill Potts]]'s [[cyber-conversion]] as "the [[genesis of the Cybermen]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')|alt=|left]] | ||
When the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] landed on Floor 0000, [[Bill Potts]] was taken by some patients to Floor 1056, and after being partially-converted into a patient, Bill spent ten years living in the hospital with Razor, until being fully converted into a [[CyberMondan|Mondasian Cyberman]]. Two [[hour]]s later, the Doctor and [[Nardole]] found Bill in the hospital's [[Conversion Theatre]], before | When the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] landed on Floor 0000, [[Bill Potts]] was taken by some patients to Floor 1056, and after being partially-converted into a patient, Bill spent ten years living in the hospital with Razor, until being fully converted into a [[CyberMondan|Mondasian Cyberman]]. Two [[hour]]s later, the Doctor and [[Nardole]] found Bill in the hospital's [[Conversion Theatre]], before [[Missy]] and the Master confronted them. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') Shortly before being knocked out by the two Masters, the Doctor expanded the Cybermen's definition of humanity to register [[lifeform]]s with two [[heart]]s as humans; later, while the Cybermen were mass-converting the [[Person|people]] of Floor 1056, several newly-converted Mondasian Cybermen attacked the hospital, although the Doctor, the two Masters, and the converted Bill escaped with Nardole in a [[SL-16|shuttlecraft]], before crashing on [[Floor 0507]]. Following this, the Cybermen began evolving themselves further in preparation for their [[Battle of Floor 0507|final assault on Floor 0507]], whose inhabitants the patients had previously failed to convert. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') | ||
After a [[Cyber-Planner (Alit in Underland)|Cyber-Planner]] was created on Floor 1056, the Master, Missy and [[Alit]] were detected on [[Floor 0508]]; in response, the Cyber-Planner sent seven [[CyberNeomorph]]s to Floor 0508 to capture the Master and Missy for [[interrogation]] concerning the Cybermen's changed definition of humanity, as well as to unleash a swarm of [[Cybermat]]s to attack Floor 0507. However, after destroying the patrol's [[Cyber-Lieutenant (Alit in Underland)|Cyber-Lieutenant]] and escaping capture by the Cybermen, Missy and Alit escaped to Floor 0508's weather control hub, where Missy hacked into, and [[Deadlock seal|deadlocked]] active, an old failsafe system that her predecessor programmed into the patients - which had also been inherited by the evolved Cybermen and the Cybermats - and sent the Cybermats back to Floor 1056. Afterwards, Missy sacrificed "[[Topknot]]", a patient from Floor 0507, as a distraction for the CyberNeomorphs, before rescuing the Master. When the remaining Cybermen returned and tried to kill the Master, Missy and Alit, the Master fired his [[laser screwdriver]] at the floor's steel deck; as Missy had already hacked Floor 0508's [[weather]] settings to generate a strong [[rain]]storm, the resultant [[Electricity|electrical]] burst destroyed all the CyberNeomorphs and allowed the two Masters and Alit to escape before more Cybermen could arrive. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') | After a [[Cyber-Planner (Alit in Underland)|Cyber-Planner]] was created on Floor 1056, the Master, Missy and [[Alit]] were detected on [[Floor 0508]]; in response, the Cyber-Planner sent seven [[CyberNeomorph]]s to Floor 0508 to capture the Master and Missy for [[interrogation]] concerning the Cybermen's changed definition of humanity, as well as to unleash a swarm of [[Cybermat]]s to attack Floor 0507. However, after destroying the patrol's [[Cyber-Lieutenant (Alit in Underland)|Cyber-Lieutenant]] and escaping capture by the Cybermen, Missy and Alit escaped to Floor 0508's weather control hub, where Missy hacked into, and [[Deadlock seal|deadlocked]] active, an old failsafe system that her predecessor programmed into the patients - which had also been inherited by the evolved Cybermen and the Cybermats - and sent the Cybermats back to Floor 1056. Afterwards, Missy sacrificed "[[Topknot]]", a patient from Floor 0507, as a distraction for the CyberNeomorphs, before rescuing the Master. When the remaining Cybermen returned and tried to kill the Master, Missy and Alit, the Master fired his [[laser screwdriver]] at the floor's steel deck; as Missy had already hacked Floor 0508's [[weather]] settings to generate a strong [[rain]]storm, the resultant [[Electricity|electrical]] burst destroyed all the CyberNeomorphs and allowed the two Masters and Alit to escape before more Cybermen could arrive. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') | ||
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Another invasion was attempted in [[2013]]. When the Cybermen landed in [[Cardiff]] however, they abandoned their plan upon discovering the [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] bereft of power. Unable to fight back the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Rory Williams]] were brought to the flaghship which was set to self-destruct as the Cybermen evacuated. Despite their efforts, the Doctor and Rory managed to escape the vessel before it was destroyed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)|The Doctor and the Nurse]]'') | Another invasion was attempted in [[2013]]. When the Cybermen landed in [[Cardiff]] however, they abandoned their plan upon discovering the [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] bereft of power. Unable to fight back the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Rory Williams]] were brought to the flaghship which was set to self-destruct as the Cybermen evacuated. Despite their efforts, the Doctor and Rory managed to escape the vessel before it was destroyed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)|The Doctor and the Nurse]]'') | ||
Later in the 2010s, | Later in the 2010s, [[Missy]] engineered a new breed of Cybermen, ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]], [[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') whom she personally referred to as her "[[Cyberdear]]s". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet Missy! (short story)|Meet Missy!]]'') Creating a paranoia that the minds of the deceased remain alive and conscious of what is happening to them, even after death, she created the [[3W Institute]], with the purpose of caring for the bodies of dead humans. The organisation had facilities all around the world. Its main base of operations was in [[St Paul's Cathedral]], hidden by use of dimensional engineering. A dying person's mind would be uploaded to a [[matrix data slice]] called the [[Nethersphere]] where their emotions would be removed while their bodies would be upgraded into Cybermen. The people that paid the organisation to preserve their bodies, would be placed inside tanks filled with a substance called [[dark water]] to hide their nature as Cybermen, while their minds were uploaded. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]], [[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') | ||
In the ensuing [[3W Institute Affair]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Missy on Trial (short story)|Missy on Trial]]'') the institute was discovered by [[Clara Oswald]] and the [[Twelfth Doctor]], who were trying to find [[Danny Pink]], who was also uploaded to the Nethersphere upon death. Missy activated the tanks, and drained away the dark water, revealing the Cybermen. They were then released, flying into the sky and exploding over major populated areas, creating clouds to produce [[cyber-pollen]] for converting those who had not been preserved. Missy also planned for a next wave of pollen to kill and convert every human on Earth. The [[Cyber-Army]] was offered by Missy as a "[[gift]]" to tempt the Doctor to enforce "[[good]]" throughout the universe. This was rejected by the Doctor, who maintained that he was just "an [[idiot]]" who "help[ed] out" before handing control of the army to the [[cyber-converted]] Danny Pink, who had the Cybermen fly into the clouds and [[self-destruct]], destroying both them and the clouds. Missy teleported away after the cyber-converted [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] fired his wrist-blaster at her, powering her [[Missy's vortex manipulator|vortex manipulator]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]], [[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') | In the ensuing [[3W Institute Affair]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Missy on Trial (short story)|Missy on Trial]]'') the institute was discovered by [[Clara Oswald]] and the [[Twelfth Doctor]], who were trying to find [[Danny Pink]], who was also uploaded to the Nethersphere upon death. Missy activated the tanks, and drained away the dark water, revealing the Cybermen. They were then released, flying into the sky and exploding over major populated areas, creating clouds to produce [[cyber-pollen]] for converting those who had not been preserved. Missy also planned for a next wave of pollen to kill and convert every human on Earth. The [[Cyber-Army]] was offered by Missy as a "[[gift]]" to tempt the Doctor to enforce "[[good]]" throughout the universe. This was rejected by the Doctor, who maintained that he was just "an [[idiot]]" who "help[ed] out" before handing control of the army to the [[cyber-converted]] Danny Pink, who had the Cybermen fly into the clouds and [[self-destruct]], destroying both them and the clouds. Missy teleported away after the cyber-converted [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] fired his wrist-blaster at her, powering her [[Missy's vortex manipulator|vortex manipulator]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]], [[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') |