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Betraying his boss, [[Crane (Rise of the Cybermen)|Mr Crane]] severely damaged the life-support systems. Inadvertently, Lumic made his Cybermen aware of the fact he was in pain, and the latter judged him as unfit to carry on living in human form, thus promptly had him [[upgrade|converted]] into the [[Cyber-Controller]]. After conversion, the wheelchair was presumably incinerated along with Lumic's body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')
Betraying his boss, [[Crane (Rise of the Cybermen)|Mr Crane]] severely damaged the life-support systems. Inadvertently, Lumic made his Cybermen aware of the fact he was in pain, and the latter judged him as unfit to carry on living in human form, thus promptly had him [[upgrade|converted]] into the [[Cyber-Controller]]. After conversion, the wheelchair was presumably incinerated along with Lumic's body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')
==Behind the scenes==
John Lumic was not originally intended to use a wheelchair. It was written in after actor [[Roger Lloyd Pack]] broke his leg shortly before filming on ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]''/''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'' was set to commence.<ref name="Wheelchair">[https://web.archive.org/web/20231118183319/https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a27386/dr-who-part-revised-after-accident/ 'Dr Who' part revised after accident], ''Digital Spy'', [[17 December (production)|17 December]] [[2005 (production)|2005]]</ref>


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