Balance between order and chaos

The balance between order and chaos, (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) known to the White Guardian as the universal balance (TV: The Ribos Operation ^[+]Loading...["The Ribos Operation (TV story)"]) and in a multiversal context as the Cosmic Balance or the Balance of Chaos and Law, (PROSE: The Coming of the Terraphiles ^[+]Loading...["The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)"]) was a central structure of reality. (TV: The Ribos Operation ^[+]Loading...["The Ribos Operation (TV story)"], The Giggle ^[+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"], PROSE: The Coming of the Terraphiles ^[+]Loading...["The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)"]) It was embodied by the Cosmic Balance, a form of the Roogalator. (PROSE: The Coming of the Terraphiles ^[+]Loading...["The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)"])

The Archangels of Law and the Archangels of Chaos engaged in the Battle of the Balance. The Eleventh Doctor believed himself to be an example of a recurring multiversal archetype who kept the Balance. (PROSE: The Coming of the Terraphiles ^[+]Loading...["The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)"])

The Fourteenth Doctor referred to the balance between order and chaos as defining the rules of the universe, with the Toymaker's rules of play being outside the binary. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

• The Balance was a central part of the cosmology of the Michael Moorcock Multiverse, having been introduced in the 1963 Elric of Melniboné story Black Sword's Brothers. This Cosmic Balance was officially integrated into the Doctor Who universe with The Coming of the Terraphiles ^[+]Loading...["The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)"], but Doctor Who essayists such as Elizabeth Sandifer in TARDIS Eruditorum have argued for it being a key inspiration for the duality of the White and Black Guardians in Season 16.