Appearance
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Historians who had been allowed access to the "Monster Vaults" of the databanks in the Doctor's TARDIS observed that the Abzorbaloffs had the ability to conceal their appearance using a type of morphic illusion. (PROSE: The Monster Vault [+]Loading...["The Monster Vault (novel)"], TV: Love & Monsters [+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"])
The Cheshire Rug had been "thrown carelessly" upon a windowsill which "looked for all the world like it was trying to escape into the spring-time country outside". (PROSE: I'm Dreaming of a Cheshire Easter [+]Loading...["I'm Dreaming of a Cheshire Easter (short story)"])
The Not-things looked like the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble, but with extra-long arms. (PROSE: The Doctor's Busiest Day [+]Loading...{"page":"8","1":"The Doctor's Busiest Day (short story)"})
Ruby Sunday once recalled celebrating at Christmas at a club, not being able to take her eyes off of the Fifteenth Doctor in the middle of the packed dancefloor, who was "spinning round in a vest and a kilt". She rhetorically asked who could carry off a look like that, before answering "The Doctor, that's who!". Ruby also noted that although the Doctor may look human, he was "so much more", as well as that although he may look young he'd "been around for a long time". The Doctor's appearance was once given as "awesome". (PROSE: Who's the Doctor? [+]Loading...{"page":"6 - 7","1":"Who's the Doctor? (short story)"})
Other realities
Joe Smith's universe
In one parallel universe, when a Cyberman appeared outside Joe Smith's door, Smith observed that they "look[ed] like a big guy wearing door handles on his head". (COMIC: The Glorious Dead (part 5) [+]Loading...{"part":"5","1":"The Glorious Dead (comic story)"})