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{{First pic|The_Cybermen_Evoluion_DWM_Part_4.jpg|Carvings on the walls of the [[Lizard King]] on [[Mondas]] showed the evolution of the planet's [[ape]]s into Cybermen. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dead Heart (comic story)|The Dead Heart]]'')}}{{You may|Genesis of the Cybermen (TV story)|n1 = the unproduced TV story of the same name}}Although {{Simm}} once referred to [[Bill Potts]]' [[cyber-conversion]] as the "'''genesis of the Cybermen'''", ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') the [[Twelfth Doctor]] corrected {{Gomez}}'s repeating of the statement by calling the Cybermen a product of [[parallel evolution]], as they "always get started" where there were people, such as on [[Mondas]], [[Telos]], [[Earth]], [[Planet 14]] and [[Marinus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'') | {{First pic|The_Cybermen_Evoluion_DWM_Part_4.jpg|Carvings on the walls of the [[Lizard King]] on [[Mondas]] showed the evolution of the planet's [[ape]]s into Cybermen. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dead Heart (comic story)|The Dead Heart]]'')}}{{You may|Genesis of the Cybermen (TV story)|n1 = the unproduced TV story of the same name}}Although {{Simm}} once referred to [[Bill Potts]]' [[cyber-conversion]] as the "'''genesis of the Cybermen'''", ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') the [[Twelfth Doctor]] corrected {{Gomez}}'s repeating of the statement by calling the Cybermen a product of [[parallel evolution]], as they "always get started" where there were people, such as on [[Mondas]], [[Telos]], [[Earth]], [[Planet 14]] and [[Marinus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'') | ||
These various groups of Cyberman were created for many different reasons. By most accounts, the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] of [[Mondas]] were born out of desperation to survive in an unsustainable environment. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') The Cybermen of [[Telos]] were created as an attempt to gain [[immortality]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Cybermen]]'') while the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] of [[Earth]] in an [[Pete's World|alternate universe]] were created for at least partially commercial reasons — a drive to find [[human]]ity's next "[[upgrade]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'') | These various groups of Cyberman were created for many different reasons. By most accounts, the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] of [[Mondas]] were born out of desperation to survive in an unsustainable environment. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') The Cybermen of [[Telos]] were created as an attempt to gain [[immortality]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Cybermen]]'') while the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] of [[Earth]] in an [[Pete's World|alternate universe]] were created for at least partially commercial reasons — a drive to find [[human]]ity's next "[[upgrade]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'') | ||
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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
=== Continuity contradictions === | === Continuity contradictions === | ||
Taken at face value, the origins of the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] given in the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comics feature ''[[The Cybermen]]'' conflicts with that given in ''[[Spare Parts]]'' and neither accords very well with ''[[The World Shapers]]'', which had earlier appeared in ''Doctor Who Magazine''. [[Lance Parkin]] has speculated that perhaps Cybermen have originated in different planets and times independently, just as they had in different universes, as illustrated by the [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|parallel universe Cybermen]] having no connection with the Cybermen of the main universe. The twin television stories ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'' and ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'' later confirmed this interpretation, as while showing the creation of the Cybermen on a Mondasian colony ship, it also had the [[Twelfth Doctor]] stating that "like cellphones and [[Donald Trump]]", Cybermen "happened wherever there were people", as a sort of unnatural [[parallel evolution]]. | Taken at face value, the origins of the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] given in the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comics feature ''[[The Cybermen]]'' conflicts with that given in ''[[Spare Parts]]'' and neither accords very well with ''[[The World Shapers]]'', which had earlier appeared in ''Doctor Who Magazine''. [[Lance Parkin]] has speculated that perhaps Cybermen have originated in different planets and times independently, just as they had in different universes, as illustrated by the [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|parallel universe Cybermen]] having no connection with the Cybermen of the main universe. The twin television stories ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'' and ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'' later confirmed this interpretation, as while showing the creation of the Cybermen on a Mondasian colony ship, it also had the [[Twelfth Doctor]] stating that "like cellphones and [[Donald Trump]]", Cybermen "happened wherever there were people", as a sort of unnatural [[parallel evolution]]. | ||
Alternatively, the Cybermen shown in ''The World Shapers'' may have preceded the ones in ''The Cybermen'', though they do not match visually. (The former resemble the sleeker, later Cybermen while the Cybermen of ''The Cybermen'' resemble the ones of ''[[The Tenth Planet]]''.) The explanation of the creation of Mondas by the [[Constructors of Destiny]] in ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'' also contradicts that given in ''The World Shapers''. | Alternatively, the Cybermen shown in ''The World Shapers'' may have preceded the ones in ''The Cybermen'', though they do not match visually. (The former resemble the sleeker, later Cybermen while the Cybermen of ''The Cybermen'' resemble the ones of ''[[The Tenth Planet]]''.) The explanation of the creation of Mondas by the [[Constructors of Destiny]] in ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'' also contradicts that given in ''The World Shapers''. | ||
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=== "Genesis of the Cybermen" storyline === | === "Genesis of the Cybermen" storyline === | ||
[[Gerry Davis]], who had co-created the Cybermen with [[Kit Pedler]], had written "[[Genesis of the Cybermen (TV story)|Genesis of the Cybermen]]", an outline for a Cybermen origin story which [[David Banks]] included in his ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]''. | [[Gerry Davis]], who had co-created the Cybermen with [[Kit Pedler]], had written "[[Genesis of the Cybermen (TV story)|Genesis of the Cybermen]]", an outline for a Cybermen origin story which [[David Banks]] included in his ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]''. | ||
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[[Category:Cybermen (Pete's World)]] | [[Category:Cybermen (Pete's World)]] | ||
