Monster
Monster was a term for a frightening lifeform.
The Doctor and monsters[[edit] | edit source]
The Fifth Doctor claimed to fight monsters as he "zoom[ed]" through time and space. (TV: Time Crash [+]Loading...["Time Crash (TV story)"]) The Seventh Doctor said to Bernice Summerfield that he was what monsters had nightmares about. (PROSE: Love and War [+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"]) The Eighth Doctor said to Destrii that he was not scared of monsters, but that monsters were scared of him. (COMIC: Uroboros [+]Loading...["Uroboros (comic story)"]) He later repeated this claim to Elliot Northover while in his eleventh incarnation. (TV: Cold Blood [+]Loading...["Cold Blood (TV story)"]) The Tenth Doctor said that monsters had nightmares about him. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson realised that one could not have the Doctor without the monsters, but that the Doctor was worth the monsters. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"]) The Twelfth Doctor once identified himself as "the man who stops the monsters". (TV: Flatline [+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"])
Those named as monsters[[edit] | edit source]
Species[[edit] | edit source]
The Tenth Doctor called the human race monsters after Harriet Jones had the Sycorax destroyed. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"]) The Saxon Master called the human race the "greatest monsters of them all." (TV: Last of the Time Lords [+]Loading...["Last of the Time Lords (TV story)"])
Clara Oswald called the Time Lords monsters. (TV: Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"])
Among the life forms which were called monsters were the Zarbi (PROSE: The Lair of Zarbi Supremo [+]Loading...["The Lair of Zarbi Supremo (short story)"]), the mutated Yend, (PROSE: The Sons of the Crab [+]Loading...["The Sons of the Crab (short story)"]) Zilgans, (PROSE: The Monsters from Earth [+]Loading...["The Monsters from Earth (short story)"]) Grukkers, Peril in Mechanistria [+]Loading...["Peril in Mechanistria (short story)"]) dinosaurs, (TV: The Underwater Menace [+]Loading...["The Underwater Menace (TV story)"], Invasion of the Dinosaurs [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)"]) Silurians, (TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)"]) Aggedor, (TV: The Curse of Peladon [+]Loading...["The Curse of Peladon (TV story)"], The Monster of Peladon [+]Loading...["The Monster of Peladon (TV story)"]) Kronos, (TV: The Time Monster [+]Loading...["The Time Monster (TV story)"]) Linx, (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)"]) the Exxilon City, (TV: Death to the Daleks [+]Loading...["Death to the Daleks (TV story)"]) the Mutos and the Daleks, (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"]) Erato, (TV: The Creature from the Pit [+]Loading...["The Creature from the Pit (TV story)"]) the Process, (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible [+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)"]) the Krafayis, (TV: Vincent and the Doctor [+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"]) the Gangers, (TV: The Almost People [+]Loading...["The Almost People (TV story)"]) the Minotaur, (TV: The God Complex [+]Loading...["The God Complex (TV story)"]) the Crooked Man, (TV: Hide [+]Loading...["Hide (TV story)"]) the Foretold, (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express [+]Loading...["Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)"]) the Boneless, (TV: Flatline [+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"]) the Sandmen, (TV: Sleep No More [+]Loading...["Sleep No More (TV story)"]) a creature living in the River Thames (TV: Thin Ice [+]Loading...["Thin Ice (TV story)"]) and the Eaters of Light. (TV: The Eaters of Light [+]Loading...["The Eaters of Light (TV story)"])
The Sensorites (PROSE: The Monsters from Earth [+]Loading...["The Monsters from Earth (short story)"]) and the Voord (PROSE: The Fishmen of Kandalinga [+]Loading...["The Fishmen of Kandalinga (short story)"]) regarded the First Doctor as a monster.
The Master was aware that the Ogrons feared Rock Creatures who he described as an "orange scrotum monster", as recorded in the Masterplan Journal. (PROSE: The Secret Diary of the Master [+]Loading...["The Secret Diary of the Master (short story)"])
In 1879, Queen Victoria asked Sir Robert MacLeish to tell her about monsters, and so he told her of the Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform. (TV: Tooth and Claw [+]Loading...["Tooth and Claw (TV story)"])
In 1930, Lazlo believed that he had become a monster after being transformed into a pig slave by the Cult of Skaro. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan [+]Loading...["Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)"]) A Hooverville sentry described the pig slaves as monsters. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)"])
In 1953, Tommy Connolly described the faceless human victims of the Wire as monsters. His mother, Rita Connolly, believed her mother had been replaced by a monster. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern [+]Loading...["The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)"])
Sarah Jane Smith recalled meeting anti-matter monsters. (TV: School Reunion [+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"])
In 1987, during Mickey Smith's childhood, he described the Reapers as monsters that had come to eat him. Suzie asked him if the monsters were aliens. (TV: Father's Day [+]Loading...["Father's Day (TV story)"])
Bog monster was a term used by Mickey Smith to refer to the Slitheen. (TV: World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"], The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"])
Persons and groups[[edit] | edit source]
The term was also given to immoral persons or groups. Sharaz Jek called Morgus an inhuman monster. (TV: The Caves of Androzani [+]Loading...["The Caves of Androzani (TV story)"]) The Seventh Doctor thought of Heinrich Himmler's darkened office as "a cave for a monster." (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)"])
Ianto Jones called Jack Harkness "the biggest monster of all." (TV: Cyberwoman [+]Loading...["Cyberwoman (TV story)"])
Martha Jones described Richard Lazarus as a monster after he had been transformed by the hypersonic soundwave manipulator. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment [+]Loading...["The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)"])
Mr Copper observed to the Tenth Doctor that anyone who decided who was to live or die would be a monster. (TV: Voyage of the Damned [+]Loading...["Voyage of the Damned (TV story)"])
Carla Langer called her ex-husband Paul a monster. (TV: The Mark of the Berserker [+]Loading...["The Mark of the Berserker (TV story)"])
Donna Noble called the Meep a monster after the Meep murdered Zogroth and Zreeg. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])
Yarvell called Davros a monster when his only interest in their father's death was using the corpse for his experiments. (AUDIO: Innocence [+]Loading...["Innocence (audio story)"])
In culture[[edit] | edit source]
George Thompson was terrified of monsters and pleaded for someone to save him from them. (TV: Night Terrors [+]Loading...["Night Terrors (TV story)"], PROSE: Night Terrors [+]Loading...["Night Terrors (short story)"], My Special Book [+]Loading...["My Special Book (short story)"]) Gilgamesh jokingly called Enkidu a "hairy monster." (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"]) Ada Gillyflower called the Eleventh Doctor her "dear monster". (TV: The Crimson Horror [+]Loading...["The Crimson Horror (TV story)"]) Erik set up recordings of monsters around his cottage so that his daughter Hanne wouldn't leave it. (TV: It Takes You Away [+]Loading...["It Takes You Away (TV story)"])
Sea monster was an umbrella term for mythological monsters which resided in the seas. (TV: Partners in Crime [+]Loading...["Partners in Crime (TV story)"])
Vorg called his miniscope "the monster show" and "a carnival of monsters". (TV: Carnival of Monsters [+]Loading...["Carnival of Monsters (TV story)"])
The Loch Ness Monster was a mysterious animal claimed to inhabit Loch Ness, a lake in Scotland. (TV: Terror of the Zygons [+]Loading...["Terror of the Zygons (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | edit source]
In the DVD commentary to Fear Her, writer Matthew Graham noted that, according to then-executive producer Russell T Davies, the scribble creature was never to be called a scribble monster, as the Doctor would never call anything a monster.
