Wire frame

By the time of Earthdeath in the year 5,000,000,000, Lady Cassandra, having undergone 708 surgeries, existed as nothing more than a thin area of skin hanging tautly across a metal wire frame, with only her eyes and mouth left functioning. The frame served to connect nerve fibres to Cassandra's brain, which was kept safely in a jar of preserving solution beneath her skin, and she was regularly moisturised by her two surgeons. (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (2007 reference book)"], The Visual Dictionary ^[+]Loading...["The Visual Dictionary (2007 reference book)"])

Following the incident on Platform One, Cassandra was left without her surgeons, causing her skin to burst. (TV: The End of the World ^[+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"]) However, her brain and frame were later rescued by her servant Chip, who recreated Cassandra using skin salvaged from the posterior of her body. In 5,000,000,023, Cassandra used a psychograft to transplant her mind and consciousness from her dying brain into the body of Rose Tyler, converting her skin into energy which allowed Cassandra to leave Rose's body and inhabit others. Meanwhile, Cassandra's brain meat expired as the psycho-graft was activated, leaving Cassandra unable to return to it as she abandoned her frame within the New New York Hospital. (TV: New Earth ^[+]Loading...["New Earth (TV story)"], PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (2007 reference book)"])

Behind the scenes

• As well as an action figure depicting her active self within the frame, Character Options released a figure depicting the post-psychograft "Destroyed Cassandra" from New Earth.