Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman): Difference between revisions

Created in [[1979]] during the early issues of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', Kroton's story was initially meant to be a one-off, but his story saw brief continuations over the years. This eventually ended with him becoming a brief companion of the [[Eighth Doctor]], more than twenty years after his creation. The character's creator, [[Steve Moore]], had said that he was not aware of the characters use outside of ''[[Ship of Fools (comic story)|Ship of Fools]]'' in real time, and that he thought of that later stories to be too far a removal of the initial concept.

{{Quote|I probably wouldn’t have approved. From what little I’ve seen of this stuff, it looks to be a complete transformation of the original character… he’s now less a ‘Cyberman with a soul’, more just a human being in a funny suit. It’s far too far a move away from the original. If I’d done anything else with him, it would have been to continue with the character pretty much as he was… only a little different from a normal Cyberman, and still very much the “innocent abroad” that he was in Ship of Fools. The later characterisation just seems far too knowing to me. But I don’t know if I ever would have done anything else with Kroton… I never really thought that far ahead at the time. <ref>http://www.alteredvistas.co.uk/html/steve_moore_doctor_who_strip_i.html</ref>|[[Steve Moore]]}}Kroton isn't the only Cyberman companion, the next will be [[Handles]] who appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Tales of Trenzalore]]''.