Cannibalism
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Cannibalism was the act of eating members of one's own species. While this was sometimes a choice or a lifestyle, for some species this was a natural activity. Mayflies practised sibling cannibalism, leaving only the strongest of them left in the end. (TV: Reset [+]Loading...["Reset (TV story)"]) The term could also be applied to the act of forcibly using parts of a being's physical form to create something else; the Tenth Doctor stated that the Saxon Master had "cannibalised" his TARDIS to create his paradox machine. (TV: The Sound of Drums [+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"])
Cannibalism was a cultural practice of the Valethske, ordinarily as a form of execution, but occasionally occurred during feeding frenzies. (PROSE: Superior Beings [+]Loading...["Superior Beings (novel)"])
The Brynblaidd cannibals killed and ate wanderers near their village every ten years, until 2007. (TV: Countrycide [+]Loading...["Countrycide (TV story)"])
At some point in Tennessee, there was a case of cannibalism, though the culprit claimed not to remember the crimes. (PROSE: The Juror's Story [+]Loading...["The Juror's Story (short story)"])
Alan Jackson at first thought the Slitheen were cannibals when he saw their skin suits lying around. (TV: The Lost Boy [+]Loading...["The Lost Boy (TV story)"])
Exposure to the Rift caused Paul Talbot's DNA to mutate and his metabolism to run wild. He became ravenously hungry and was unable to stop himself eating his flatmate, a pedestrian, and attempting to eat Jack Harkness. (PROSE: Monster [+]Loading...["Monster (short story)"])
Mother Nothing was a cannibal who resorted to consuming her entire race, including her hatchlings, when her home planet was struck by a great famine. (AUDIO: One Enchanted Evening [+]Loading...["One Enchanted Evening (audio story)"])
According to the Second Doctor's recollection, humans in the Far Indies ate their own kind. He and Shockeye also wrongly (PROSE: The Drosten's Curse [+]Loading...["The Drosten's Curse (novel)"]) believed that shepherd's pie was made from a shepherd. (TV: The Two Doctors [+]Loading...["The Two Doctors (TV story)"]) Tree and Leef Slitheen-Blathareen thought the same thing. (TV: The Gift [+]Loading...["The Gift (TV story)"])
The Rezzies of Paradise Towers practised cannibalism and tried to eat Melanie Bush. (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Loading...["Paradise Towers (TV story)"])
The Mutos on Skaro were cannibals. (AUDIO: Davros [+]Loading...["Davros (audio story)"], Innocence [+]Loading...["Innocence (audio story)"]) Davros told a shocked Shan how food tablets eaten by their fellow Kaleds were made of their kind, (AUDIO: Davros [+]Loading...["Davros (audio story)"]) and eventually turned some humans into food, encouraging cannibalism in return for funds to forge his Daleks. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)"])
