Beep the Meep
Beep the Meep, also known as Beep and the Meep interchangeably, was the leader of the Meeps and a galactic criminal who referred to themself as "the Most-High".
Biography
In 1980, Beep led the Meep armada to conquer the galaxy, but they were defeated by the Wrarth Warriors. Beep, the most cruel and despicable of all Meepkind, was the only Meep to survive. (TV: The Star Beast) Fleeing, Beep was pursued to Earth. Their neutron drive star cruiser crashed at the Blackcastle steel mills. They were found by Sharon Davies and Fudge Higgins, who assumed the cute creature was harmless and took them back to Fudge's home. Beep used their ship's black orb to take control of the people of Blackcastle to make them repair Beep's ship. The Fourth Doctor sabotaged the engines and Beep was captured by the Wrarth Warriors. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Star Beast)
Beep was rude towards the jury during their trial and was sentenced by Judge "Stickler" Scraggs to three thousand years in a top security prison. (PROSE: Beep the Meep gets 3000 years) In 1995, Beep convinced the parole board that they had been rehabilitated and was released after only fifteen years. Beep returned to Blackcastle to retrieve their spare starship drive, but the Doctor trapped them in a Lassie film. (COMIC: Star Beast II) A copy of the film was kept at the Wrarth Institute. (AUDIO: The Ratings War)
In the early 21st century, Beep convinced a girl from the Wrarth Institute to release them. They went to Earth and took over Roger Lowell, a television executive, and made them change his programming schedules to appeal to the lowest common denominator. His goal was to gain a massive viewing audience and hypnotise them with subliminal messages on Audience Shares and commands to kill on Beep and Friends. The Sixth Doctor stopped him by confronting Beep and claiming he already had disabled the subliminal messages. This enraged Beep so much that he tried to kill Lucy and Todd, the contestants on Audience Shares. The Doctor only had disabled Beep's laser pistol; the subliminal message went out when it looked like Beep was murdering the contestants, turning the audience against him. Beep was arrested by security and Beep and Friends was never broadcast. (AUDIO: The Ratings War)
Beep was fleeing galactic police when he activated a dimensional warp, sucking them, the Eighth Doctor and Izzy Sinclair into a parallel universe, where they all arrived at the BBC Television Centre. Beep planned to use raw black star energy to enslave humanity, and ultimately the galaxy. Although Beep captured the Doctor, Izzy recruited Tom Baker to act as a distraction long enough for her to reprogram Beep's machines and defeat them. The authorities then took Beep away to a zoo. (COMIC: TV Action!)
In winter of 2023 (TV: The Star Beast), Rose Noble's life changed when she "stumble[d] upon something alien". (PROSE: We Are Family [+]Loading...{"page":"35","1":"We Are Family (short story)"}) This "something alien" was Beep, who at this point identified only as "the Meep". The Meep had crash-landed on Earth while once again fleeing the Wrarth Warriors. Planning to escape his pursuers, the Meep brainwashed several UNIT soldiers using black star energy to turn them into his Soldiers of the Psychedelic Sun. The Meep then tricked the Fourteenth Doctor (who did not remember him) and the Noble family into helping him escape.
Once his deception was exposed, the Meep killed Zogroth and Zreeg before preparing to escape using his double-bladed dagger drive, which would destroy all of London in the process. Following his defeat by the Doctor and the DoctorDonna, the Meep was taken into custody to be imprisoned for 10,000 years, with the deaths that had occurred during the incident being included in the Meep's litany of crimes. The Meep swore to escape and have his revenge, stating that "a creature with two hearts is such a rare thing. Just wait till I tell the Boss." As the Meep was teleported away, the Doctor noted that he hated cryptic warnings. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])
Undated events
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Beep attended Bonjaxx's birthday party at Bonjaxx's Bar on Maruthea. In a drunken state and wielding a bottle of Blackcastle brown ale, Beep approached the Seventh Doctor and his future incarnation to claim some kind of bounty. The Freefall Warriors attacked them and everyone began fighting each other, beginning a bar fight. (COMIC: Party Animals)
Legacy
Years later, when a Vortex parasite attacked the Doctor's TARDIS, it summoned images of the Doctor's enemies, including Beep. (COMIC: A Life of Matter and Death)
Personality
Beep was a sadist, enjoying inflicting pain on others for no real purpose. They resented being thought of as cute, but used it to their advantage when manipulating people. Beep also disliked other cute things and would go out of their way to destroy them. (AUDIO: The Ratings War)
Behind the scenes
Name
In Doctor Who and the Star Beast, the Meep is never explicitly named. The Meep refers to himself as "the supreme Beep of all the Meeps!" to which his drones respond, "Hail, Beep of all the Meeps!" This could imply "Beep" is a title, not a name of this specific Meep.
However, in nearly every subsequent appearance, the Meep is referred to as "Beep the Meep". Beep the Meep gets 3000 years uses "Beep the Meep", "Beep", and "the Meep" interchangeably. The Doctor refers to him as "Beep" in Star Beast II and "Beep the Meep" in TV Action!. The manifestation in A Life of Matter and Death is named as "Beep the Meep".
In the television adaptation, the Meep is only credited as "the Meep" and again refers to themself as "the Beep of all the Meeps", as if Beep were a title.
Information from invalid sources
Beep was interviewed for Doctor Who Magazine by Ken Book, celebrating thirty years since their first appearance in The Star Beast. The interview contained a clipping from Gallifrey Guardian of Beep's trial after the events of The Star Beast. Beep hurled abuse at the jury and was given three thousand years imprisonment. Fifteen years later, Beep hacked off the judge's leg and beat the judge to death with it. At the end of the interview, they tricked the interviewer into scratching behind Beep's ear, allowing Beep to grab the recorder the interview was taped on, used it to produce a burst a sound of ultra-high-frequency sound to release their cuffs and took out a laser pistol from beneath their fur to kill the interviewer. Presumably, they escaped the prison after that. (PROSE: Who on Earth is... Beep the Meep [+]Loading...["Who on Earth is... Beep the Meep (short story)"])
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