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|affiliation = [[Magnus Greel]] | |affiliation = [[Magnus Greel]] | ||
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|appearances = [[AUDIO]]: ''[[How The Other Half Lives (audio story)|How the Other Half Lives]]'' | |appearances = [[AUDIO]]: ''[[How The Other Half Lives (audio story)|How the Other Half Lives]]'' | ||
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}}'''Giant rats''' were created from common [[London]] [[rat]]s by [[Magnus Greel]] in the [[19th century]], using [[51st century]] science. He then used the rats to guard the entrance to his laboratory in the [[London sewers]]. | }}'''Giant rats''' were created from common [[London]] [[rat]]s by [[Magnus Greel]] in the [[19th century]], using [[51st century]] [[science]]. He then used the rats to guard the entrance to his [[laboratory]] in the [[London sewers]]. | ||
One rat pursued [[Leela]] and bit her leg. The [[Fourth Doctor]] shot and killed it with a [[Chinese fowling gun]]. | One rat pursued [[Leela]] and bit her [[leg]]. The [[Fourth Doctor]] shot and killed it with a [[Chinese fowling gun]]. | ||
[[Li H'sen Chang]], Greel's henchman, threw himself to the rats as a means of [[suicide]] after his master had dismissed him from service. The rats fatally | [[Li H'sen Chang]], Greel's henchman, threw himself to the rats as a means of [[suicide]] after his master had dismissed him from service. The rats fatally [[wound]]ed him, though he did not [[Death|die]] right away. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'') [[Henry Gordon Jago]] and Professor [[George Litefoot]] later went down into the [[sewer]]s with a [[Gatling gun]] to kill the rest of the rats. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Victorian Interlude]]'') | ||
On seeing the rats that [[Richard Harries]] was experimenting on, the [[Eighth Doctor]] recalled the attack on Leela. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Banquo Legacy]]'') | On seeing the rats that [[Richard Harries]] was experimenting on, the [[Eighth Doctor]] recalled the attack on Leela. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Banquo Legacy]]'') | ||
The Doctor's [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]] mentioned giant rats to [[ | [[The Doctor]]'s [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]] mentioned giant rats to [[Amy Pond]] as an example of things that could be found on the [[London Underground]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
It is likely that the giant rat in ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'' was inspired by a line in the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story ''The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire'' by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], in which Holmes alludes to "the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared". In ''Talons'', the Doctor dons a deerstalker and cape, and is assisted by a medical doctor whose housekeeper is named [[Hudson (The Talons of Weng-Chiang)|Mrs Hudson]], all of which appear to allude to Conan Doyle's detective. | * It is likely that the giant rat in ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'' was inspired by a line in the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story ''The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire'' by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], in which Holmes alludes to "the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared". In ''Talons'', the Doctor dons a deerstalker and cape, and is assisted by a medical doctor whose housekeeper is named [[Hudson (The Talons of Weng-Chiang)|Mrs Hudson]], all of which appear to allude to Conan Doyle's detective. | ||
* In his work of modern British history, ''State of Emergency'', [[Dominic Sandbrook]] called the giant rat "one of the worst-realised monsters not merely in [[Doctor Who|the show's]] history, but in the history of human entertainment.” | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
