Cyberman: Difference between revisions

=== Focus on survival ===

{{Simplequote|A technologically augmented human being, designed to survive in a hostile environment. Perfectly sound idea. Unfortunately all they want to do is to turn everyone else into Cybermen too.|The [[Twelfth Doctor]] summarizes the Cybermen|The Doctor Falls (TV story)}}

Cybermen made survival their central objective. Since they could not reproduce naturally, they needed to create new members of their population through [[cyber-conversion]]. At times they tended to focus on converting the population of Earth, at other times on simply destroying it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') They deemed "upgrading" compatible lifeforms to be a necessity: not only did it help ensure their survival by growing their numbers, they also deemed it to be logical to remove emotion and natural mortality from others, seeing it as a way to bring about true equality and peace. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') The Cyberman [[Krail]] believed that its race had achieved "true mastery" through "freedom from disease", a lack of pain, and "protection against heat and cold", suggesting that the alternative was to "die in misery". Overall, Krail remarked that "[people] will have no need of emotion", which he saw as a weakness anyway, post-conversion. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')