Beep the Meep
Beep the Meep, also known as Beep or simply the Meep interchangeably, was the leader of the Meeps and a galactic criminal who self-described as "the Most-High", also holding the title of "Beep of All the Meeps".
Biography
Two distinct but similar accounts described "the Meep" as the last survivor of Meepkind after the entire species was driven to murderous psychosis by their sun going mad. Fleeing to Earth, the Meep was then found by a young human, pretending to be a cute and harmless creature, only for the Doctor to get involved and uncover the creature's true identity and motivations. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Star Beast, TV: The Star Beast) One placed his initial landing in 1980, featured the Fourth Doctor, (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Star Beast, AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Star Beast) and dovetailed into accounts which referred to him as "Beep the Meep"; this version of the Meep was said to be male. (PROSE: Beep the Meep gets 3000 years, COMIC: Star Beast II, etc.) Another set of accounts depicted the event occurring in the 2020s and involving the Fourteenth Doctor; these accounts referred to the being as simply "the Meep" and claimed that the creature did not have human pronouns. (TV: The Star Beast)
Interactions with the Fourth Doctor onwards
In 1980, Beep led the Meep armada to conquer the galaxy, but they were defeated by the Wrarth Warriors. Fleeing, Beep was pursued to Earth. The Meep's neutron drive star cruiser crashed at the Blackcastle steel mills. Beep was found by Sharon Davies and Fudge Higgins, who assumed the cute creature was harmless and took him back to Fudge's home. Beep used his ship's black orb to take control of the people of Blackcastle to make them repair the 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 he had been rehabilitated, and he was released after only fifteen years. Beep returned to Blackcastle to retrieve the Meep's spare starship drive, but the Doctor trapped him 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 him from the film. Beep went to Earth and took over Roger Lowell, a television executive, who he forced to change his programming schedules to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Beep's 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 Beep by confronting him 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 him, 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!)
Interaction with the Fourteenth Doctor
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 the Meep, who had crash-landed into a London steel mill while fleeing the Wrarth Warriors. Planning to escape the pursuing foes, the Meep brainwashed several UNIT soldiers using black star energy to turn them into the Meep's Soldiers of the Psychedelic Sun. According to this account, the Meep and the Doctor had never met before. The Meep then tricked the Fourteenth Doctor and the Noble family into helping the Meep escape.
Once the Meep's deception was exposed, the Meep killed Zogroth and Zreeg before preparing to escape using a double-bladed dagger drive, which would destroy all of London in the process. Following the Meep's defeat by the Doctor and the DoctorDonna, with Rose reversing the Meep's brainwashing of the soldiers, 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 claim 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 commented that he hated cryptic warnings. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])
Undated events
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 a bounty made by Shaman Kahn. 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. Beep resented being thought of as cute, but used it to his advantage when manipulating people. Beep also disliked other cute things and would go out of the Meep's 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 self-describes as "the supreme Beep of all the Meeps!" to which the 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 the individual 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", who is again described 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 the Meep's 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, the Meep 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 the Meep's cuffs and took out a laser pistol from beneath Beep's fur to kill the interviewer. Presumably, Beep 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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