Dummy

Dummies, (PROSE: Dummy Massacre ^[+]Loading...["Dummy Massacre (short story)"], The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre ^[+]Loading...["The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"], etc.) mannequins (PROSE: Operation Mannequin ^[+]Loading...["Operation Mannequin (short story)"], AUDIO: Night of the Fendahl ^[+]Loading...["Night of the Fendahl (audio story)"], COMIC: A Little Help from My Friends ^[+]Loading...["A Little Help from My Friends (comic story)"], etc.) display dummies, (PROSE: Operation Mannequin ^[+]Loading...["Operation Mannequin (short story)"]) shop window dummies, (TV: Rose ^[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], Born Again ^[+]Loading...["Born Again (TV story)"], Love & Monsters ^[+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"]) or simply shop dummies. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen ^[+]Loading...["Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)"]) were artificial humanoid figures, constructed from plastic, generally used to display clothing. As such, they were typically seen behind the windows of Earth shops.

Though naturally inanimate, their plastic bodies made them to susceptible to manipulation by the Nestene Consciousness, who used them to attack humans during its numerous attempts to conquer the planet Earth. To that end, the Autons were fitted with a concealed wrist-gun within their hands. (TV: Spearhead from Space ^[+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"], Rose ^[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])

After the so-called "Dummy Massacre" on 26 March 2005, (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre ^[+]Loading...["The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"]) there were reports of mass burnings of dummies (PROSE: Dummy Massacre ^[+]Loading...["Dummy Massacre (short story)"]) and people vowed to boycott shops with dummies, but soon went back on their word, although the shops did remove the hands of the dummies, a glimmer of acknowledgement of the attack that had unfolded not long before. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre ^[+]Loading...["The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"])

During a visit to Ealing Broadway in 1990, the Seventh Doctor eyed the window displays of store manikins with curiosity and suspicion. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible ^[+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)"])