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[[File:Back to life - Torchwood - BBC|thumb|Hearing the TARDIS materialise, Captain Jack leaves the Hub. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'')]] | [[File:Back to life - Torchwood - BBC|thumb|Hearing the TARDIS materialise, Captain Jack leaves the Hub. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'')]] | ||
The '''vwoorpy''' was the name given by [[Alice Obiefune]] to the | The '''vwoorpy''' was the name given by [[Alice Obiefune]] to the distinctive grinding and whirring sound made by the [[TARDIS]] [[dematerialisation circuit]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Then and the Now (comic story)|The Then and the Now]]'') It was alternatively refered to by [[Cindy Wu]] as the '''sexy [[elephant]] noise''' and the '''elephant-and-ancient-[[piano]]-dance sound''' ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Old Girl (comic story)|Old Girl]]'') [[Ace]] compared the noise to the sound of a [[key]] scraping a [[wire]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'') | ||
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] voiced that he loved the noise, describing it as "brilliant". To his confusion, the sound, which he imitated by breathing heavily, was not heard when [[River Song]] piloted the TARDIS. River claimed that the TARDIS was not supposed to make that noise which was a result of the Doctor "leav[ing] the brakes on." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'') | |||
However, other TARDISes of newer design than [[the Doctor]]'s [[Type 40]] [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]], flown by other pilots such as [[the Master]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'') [[the Rani]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'') and [[the Monk]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'') made the same sound in the course of their normal operation, as did the Doctor's when piloted by other [[Time Lord]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'', ''[[The Pirate Planet]]'') The [[Minyan]]s' computer recognised the sound as associated with Time Lord ships. ([[TV]]: ''[[Underworld]]'') | |||
This sound was also made by other devices: [[SIDRAT]]s, a craft similar to TARDISes used by the [[War Lord]]s; ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games]]'') [[Time Lord messenger|a Time Lord]] who appeared to the [[Third Doctor]] (without using any visible means of transport) to warn him of the appearance of {{Delgado}}; ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'') when the Time Lords provided the Third Doctor with a new dematerialisation circuit, it appeared on a table making this sound; ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]'') and when the [[Fourth Doctor]] modified [[Skagra]]'s invisible spaceship to travel like a TARDIS, again, this sound was heard. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'') | |||
Having required a recording of the Doctor's TARDIS dematerialising, [[Victor Kennedy]] played it to [[LINDA]], describing it as the "sound of the [[universe]]". [[Elton Pope]], who first heard the sound as a child when the [[Tenth Doctor]] came to his home, believed it to be the "most beautiful sound in [[Earth|the world]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters (TV story)|Love & Monsters]]'') | |||
Observing a reaction in [[the Tenth Doctor's hand]], [[Captain]] [[Jack Harkness]] realized that the Doctor had returned to [[Cardiff]] as the TARDIS' materialisation sounded, promptly leaving [[the Hub]] to intercept him. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') | Observing a reaction in [[the Tenth Doctor's hand]], [[Captain]] [[Jack Harkness]] realized that the Doctor had returned to [[Cardiff]] as the TARDIS' materialisation sounded, promptly leaving [[the Hub]] to intercept him. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') | ||
The consciousness of the Doctor's TARDIS, when briefly transposed into the body of the [[human]]oid [[Idris]], performed a perfect vocal replication of the sound in order to identify herself to the Doctor. The noise was also heard when the TARDIS consciousness was transferred to and from Idris' body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'') | The consciousness of the Doctor's TARDIS, when briefly transposed into the body of the [[human]]oid [[Idris]], performed a perfect vocal replication of the sound in order to identify herself to the Doctor. The noise was also heard when the TARDIS consciousness was transferred to and from Idris' body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'') | ||
