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[[File:Kroton_Human.jpg|thumb|left|Kroton before the Cyber-conversion process. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')]] | [[File:Kroton_Human.jpg|thumb|left|Kroton before the Cyber-conversion process. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')]] | ||
Little was known about Kroton's original life. He had a family and a wife named [[Shallia]], who was also his childhood friend. At some point, he was taken from them by the Cybermen and converted. He himself forgot all of his past, including his real name, and only knew life as a Cyberman. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Unnatural Born Killers (comic story)|Unnatural Born Killers]]'', ''[[The Glorious Dead]]'') | Little was known about Kroton's original life. He had a family and a wife named [[Shallia]], who was also his childhood friend. At some point, he was taken from them by the Cybermen and converted. He himself forgot all of his past, including his real name, and only knew life as a Cyberman. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Unnatural Born Killers (comic story)|Unnatural Born Killers]]'', ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') | ||
=== Early life as a Cyberman === | === Early life as a Cyberman === | ||
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Kroton met with the traitor [[Zarach]], a humanoid who sold secrets of the resistance to the Cybermen in exchange for his life. He questioned why Zarach would betray his own kind, to which Zarach explained that he was like the Cybermen — emotionless. | Kroton met with the traitor [[Zarach]], a humanoid who sold secrets of the resistance to the Cybermen in exchange for his life. He questioned why Zarach would betray his own kind, to which Zarach explained that he was like the Cybermen — emotionless. | ||
[[File: | [[File:Doctor Who DWM 6 Throwback Shalia.jpg|thumb|left|Kroton with [[Pendar]] and [[Marilka]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman (comic story)|Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman]]'')]] | ||
The information from [[Zarach]] was used to arrest the leader of the resistance, [[Pendar]]. Kroton went to speak with Pendar, and chose to save him from the prison and take him away from [[Mondaran City]], where he let Pendar go. Kroton then began to sulk quietly, not sure what he had done or why. | The information from [[Zarach]] was used to arrest the leader of the resistance, [[Pendar]]. Kroton went to speak with Pendar, and chose to save him from the prison and take him away from [[Mondaran City]], where he let Pendar go. Kroton then began to sulk quietly, not sure what he had done or why. | ||
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== Personality == | == Personality == | ||
Early on in his life he showed a child-like innocence to everything around him. He was often bothered and horrified by death or tragedy that surrounded him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman]]'', ''[[Ship of Fools (comic story)|Ship of Fools]]'') In his later life, however, he grew more cocky and confident. | Early on in his life he showed a child-like innocence to everything around him. He was often bothered and horrified by death or tragedy that surrounded him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman (comic story)|Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman]]'', ''[[Ship of Fools (comic story)|Ship of Fools]]'') In his later life, however, he grew more cocky and confident. | ||
[[File:Knowsall.jpg|thumb|Kroton on the [[Knowsall]] screen. (top centre) ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Thinktwice (comic story)|Thinktwice]]'')]] | [[File:Knowsall.jpg|thumb|Kroton on the [[Knowsall]] screen. (top centre) ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Thinktwice (comic story)|Thinktwice]]'')]] | ||
Kroton appreciated beauty. Upon leaving [[Telos]] for his mission on [[Mondaran]], he considered out loud if he would ever see the skies of his home planet again. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman]]'') These qualities made the Doctor realise Kroton was no ordinary Cyberman. He also withstood the impression of the interior of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]; when the Doctor asked him if it struck him as "illogical", Kroton happily cast away the word, stating, "To hell with logic!". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Company of Thieves (comic story)|The Company of Thieves]]'') | Kroton appreciated beauty. Upon leaving [[Telos]] for his mission on [[Mondaran]], he considered out loud if he would ever see the skies of his home planet again. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman (comic story)|Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman]]'') These qualities made the Doctor realise Kroton was no ordinary Cyberman. He also withstood the impression of the interior of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]; when the Doctor asked him if it struck him as "illogical", Kroton happily cast away the word, stating, "To hell with logic!". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Company of Thieves (comic story)|The Company of Thieves]]'') | ||
He had a balanced sense of right and wrong, becoming utterly infuriated at the possibility of a Sontaran plan for [[genocide]] of innocent natives and the Church of the Glorious Dead's atrocities against the alien ambassadors on the planet [[Paradost]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Unnatural Born Killers (comic story)|Unnatural Born Killers]]'', ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') | He had a balanced sense of right and wrong, becoming utterly infuriated at the possibility of a Sontaran plan for [[genocide]] of innocent natives and the Church of the Glorious Dead's atrocities against the alien ambassadors on the planet [[Paradost]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Unnatural Born Killers (comic story)|Unnatural Born Killers]]'', ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') | ||
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{{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]]}} | {{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 would be [[Handles]], who appeared in the television story ''[[The Time of the Doctor]]'' and in short stories in ''[[Tales of Trenzalore]]''— though Handles is not (or no longer) a cyber-conversion victim, but the head of a Cyberman with all Cyberman protocols and organic parts cleansed out. The [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s companion [[Bill Potts]] would also later undergo cyber-conversion in the television story ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]''. | * Kroton isn't the only Cyberman companion; the next would be [[Handles]], who appeared in the television story ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'' and in short stories in ''[[Tales of Trenzalore]]''— though Handles is not (or no longer) a cyber-conversion victim, but the head of a Cyberman with all Cyberman protocols and organic parts cleansed out. The [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s companion [[Bill Potts]] would also later undergo cyber-conversion in the television story ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]''. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
