Weapon
A weapon was an object designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage.
The Moment was the most powerful and most dangerous weapon in all of creation. It was held in the Omega Arsenal on Gallifrey, a collection of deadly and ancient Time Lord weapons that were forbidden to be used. During the course of the Last Great Time War, all of these weapons were removed from the Arsenal and deployed against the Dalek threat. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) Their usage of the Arsenal led to the creation of the Dalek Eternity Circle who constructed the Temporal Cannon as a counter. (PROSE: Engines of War [+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"]) During the closing days of the war, the Daleks made an effort to claim the weapon factories at Villengard only for the War Doctor to detonate a molecular fruit bomb that turned the area into a banana grove. (COMIC: The Whole Thing's Bananas [+]Loading...["The Whole Thing's Bananas (comic story)"]) This adversarial relationship with the Time Lords caused the Daleks to view TARDISes as weapons. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])
Branches of black ash and dieback rounds were used to make weapons for Grave Diggers. (PROSE: The Secret in Vault 13 [+]Loading...["The Secret in Vault 13 (novel)"])
The Deathsmiths of Goth were venerated, even by the Daleks, for their ability to create weapons. (COMIC: Black Legacy [+]Loading...["Black Legacy (comic story)"]) When the New Dalek Paradigm was created, they claimed Goth's weapon production capabilities to quickly construct a galaxy conquering army. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"])
The Doctor, largely a believer in non-violence, normally eschewed the usage of conventional weapons and voiced a dislike of them, (TV: The Sensorites [+]Loading...["The Sensorites (TV story)"]) not carrying any aboard his TARDIS, (AUDIO: Last of the Romanovs [+]Loading...["Last of the Romanovs (audio story)"] with even the War Doctor refusing to affix any to his craft during the Last Great Time War. (AUDIO: Light the Flame [+]Loading...["Light the Flame (audio story)"]) This was such a hallmark of their character that a Dalek Supreme openly mocked the Twelfth Doctor when he brandished a Dalek gunstick at it, confident that it was in no danger of being fired on. (TV: The Witch's Familiar [+]Loading...["The Witch's Familiar (TV story)"]) Rassilon would later make the claim that words were the Doctor's true weapon (TV: Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"]) while Davros, after seeing the lengths that the Children of Time went to to stop the New Dalek Empire, believed that the Doctor made weapons out of their companions. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) The Tenth Doctor once claimed that books were the "best weapons in the world". (TV: Tooth and Claw [+]Loading...["Tooth and Claw (TV story)"])
Madame Kovarian's intent behind the genetic manipulation of Melody Pond was to create a weapon that could provide hope in an "endless, bitter war". (TV: A Good Man Goes to War [+]Loading...["A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)"], The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"])
After the Dummy Massacre, the new webmaster of Who is Doctor Who? was unsure if the dummies were alien or were weapons. (PROSE: Dummy Massacre [+]Loading...["Dummy Massacre (short story)"])
During the 2009 Sontaran invasion of Earth, General Staal noted that the ATMOS device had turned every car on Earth into a weapon for the Sontaran Empire. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem [+]Loading...["The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)"])
After being given one of the Doctor's sonic screwdrivers in his youth, (TV: The Magician's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"], The Witch's Familiar [+]Loading...["The Witch's Familiar (TV story)"]) Davros increased the output of the screwdriver's defensive laser, turning it into an offensive weapon. (PROSE: The Last of the Dals [+]Loading...["The Last of the Dals (short story)"])
When Addison Delamar sought to auction off the Doctor's memories, she banned the presence of weapons. As she counted the body of a Cyberman as a weapon, the Cyber-Empire was forced to attend by hologram. To aquire the Doctor's memories, they smuggled a cybermat onto Nomicae to partially upgrade Delamar and allow them control of the auction. (COMIC: The Bidding War [+]Loading...["The Bidding War (comic story)"])
