Host body

A Host body is a body used/infected/possessed by another creature, usually one who is incorporeal or very small in size.

Host bodies

• Lady Cassandra used several bodies as hosts, including Rose's and the Doctor's when she had left her own body. (DW. New Earth)

• The Gorgon had used the Abbess as a host body for a long time, and chose Sarah Jane Smith as a replacement. (SJA: Eye of the Gorgon)

• The Sex gas possessed the body of Carys Fletcher. (TW: Day One)

• Sorin acted as the host body fot the Fenric. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)

• Toby Zed and the Ood were possessed by the Beast. DW: (The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit)

• The Gelth took many corpses in Gabriel Sneed's mortuary as host bodies including Mr Redpath and his grandmother Mrs Peace. (DW: The Unquiet Dead)

• The Host was an human boy who got infected by a lupine wavelength haemovariform that had managed to survive a crash landing on Earth by passing into the bloodstream of several hosts and adapting through the generations. (DW: Tooth and Claw)

See Also

• Possession