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{{pullout|{{Update|Information from [[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime: Child of the New World (novel)|Downtime: Child of the New World]]'', ''[[Avatars of the Intelligence (novel)|Avatars of the Intelligence]]'', ''[[Night of the Intelligence (novel)|Night of the Intelligence]]'', ''[[An Ordinary Man (novel)|An Ordinary Man]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Web of Time (audio story)|The Web of Time]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[Legacy (video game)|Legacy]]''}}}} | |||
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|image = GreatIntelliFace.jpg | |image = GreatIntelliFace.jpg | ||
|alias = The Master, Staff Sergeant [[Albert Arnold|Arnold]], [[Yog-Sothoth]], the Hollow Man, Maha | |alias = The Master, Staff Sergeant [[Albert Arnold|Arnold]], [[Yog-Sothoth]], the Hollow Man, Maha | ||
|first = The Abominable Snowmen (TV story) | |first = The Abominable Snowmen (TV story) | ||
|appearances = {{Appears}} | |appearances = {{Appears}} | ||
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=== The London Event === | === The London Event === | ||
{{Section stub|[[Fear of Light (novel)]]}} | |||
Accounts that claimed the Great Intelligence to be a Great Old One held that the [[London Event]] was launched when the being was placed under pressure from the other Old Ones, who themselves embarked on similar campaigns and conquered other planets. The Intelligence was forced to use the Yeti in London, an environment to which they were not well suited. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'') By other accounts that foregrounded alternate origins, it believed the London Underground was a good strategic point to launch a new campaign. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') | Accounts that claimed the Great Intelligence to be a Great Old One held that the [[London Event]] was launched when the being was placed under pressure from the other Old Ones, who themselves embarked on similar campaigns and conquered other planets. The Intelligence was forced to use the Yeti in London, an environment to which they were not well suited. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'') By other accounts that foregrounded alternate origins, it believed the London Underground was a good strategic point to launch a new campaign. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') | ||
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Its operation fell apart when the Eleventh Doctor used a captured Spoonhead to trick Miss Kizlet into being trapped in the Wi-Fi after she refused to release the uploaded Clara Oswald, who was under the Doctor's protection. The workers downloaded Clara, Kizlet and others captured in the server, returning them to their bodies. | Its operation fell apart when the Eleventh Doctor used a captured Spoonhead to trick Miss Kizlet into being trapped in the Wi-Fi after she refused to release the uploaded Clara Oswald, who was under the Doctor's protection. The workers downloaded Clara, Kizlet and others captured in the server, returning them to their bodies. | ||
When [[ | When [[UNIT]] arrived at the Shard, the Great Intelligence ordered Kizlet to restore their employees to their "factory settings", effectively erasing everyone's [[memory|memories]] to avoid detection. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'') | ||
=== Entering the Doctor's time stream === | === Entering the Doctor's time stream === | ||
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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
* [[Yog-Sothoth]] is a cosmic entity created by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], part of a pantheon of alien "gods" that appear in his fiction. First mentioned in ''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'', Yog-Sothoth is described in ''The Dunwich Horror'' as "the gate" and "the key" through which the [[Old One]]s entered the universe. He is described in ''The Horror in the Museum'' as resembling "a congeries of iridescent globes". In [[Andy Lane]]'s novel ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'', the Doctor mentions having met Yog-Sothoth "[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|in Tibet]] and [[The Web of Fear (TV story)|again in London]]", implying that Yog-Sothoth is the Intelligence. [[Craig Hinton]]'s ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'', which featured the Intelligence, later made this explicit. | * [[Yog-Sothoth]] is a cosmic entity created by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], part of a pantheon of alien "gods" that appear in his fiction. First mentioned in ''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'', Yog-Sothoth is described in ''The Dunwich Horror'' as "the gate" and "the key" through which the [[Old One]]s entered the universe. He is described in ''The Horror in the Museum'' as resembling "a congeries of iridescent globes". In [[Andy Lane]]'s novel ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'', the Doctor mentions having met Yog-Sothoth "[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|in Tibet]] and [[The Web of Fear (TV story)|again in London]]", implying that Yog-Sothoth is the Intelligence. [[Craig Hinton]]'s ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'', which featured the Intelligence, later made this explicit. | ||
* Whether the Great Intelligence should be referred to as "it" or "he" is perhaps best left to personal preference. Being emphatically inhuman and having not only no body, but no set physical avatar when it does incarnate itself, it is doubtful as to whether the Intelligence can be said to have a fixed gender; it is certainly genderless in a biological sense. The most that can be said is that, through borrowing the face of its progenitor [[Walter Simeon]] long after the man's death, the Intelligence as depicted in [[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|Series 7]] can be said to be male-presenting. | * Whether the Great Intelligence should be referred to as "it" or "he" is perhaps best left to personal preference. Being emphatically inhuman and having not only no body, but no set physical avatar when it does incarnate itself, it is doubtful as to whether the Intelligence can be said to have a fixed gender; it is certainly genderless in a biological sense. The most that can be said is that, through borrowing the face of its progenitor [[Walter Simeon]] long after the man's death, the Intelligence as depicted in [[Series 7 (Doctor Who 2005)|Series 7]] can be said to be male-presenting. | ||
* Writer [[Neil Gaiman]] disclosed in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 448|#448]] that earlier drafts of his script for ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' implied that [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]], the villain of that story, was actually the Great Intelligence. These hints did not make it into the episode as aired. The idea of the Great Intelligence as a villain for the revived series ''Doctor Who'' would later lead to ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]''. | * Writer [[Neil Gaiman]] disclosed in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 448|#448]] that earlier drafts of his script for ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' implied that [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]], the villain of that story, was actually the Great Intelligence. These hints did not make it into the episode as aired. The idea of the Great Intelligence as a villain for the revived series ''Doctor Who'' would later lead to ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]''. | ||
* With a gap of | * With a gap of forty-four years, the Great Intelligence held the record for longest period of time between televised ''Doctor Who'' appearances, until the return of [[the Toymaker]] in ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]'', which aired fifty-seven years after his [[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|one and only previous television appearance]]. | ||
* Unusually, unlike other monsters that have appeared in both the classic and revived series, the original creators of the Great Intelligence ([[Mervyn Haisman]] and [[Henry Lincoln]]) have never been credited at the end of an episode of the revival. | * Unusually, unlike other monsters that have appeared in both the classic and revived series, the original creators of the Great Intelligence ([[Mervyn Haisman]] and [[Henry Lincoln]]) have never been credited at the end of an episode of the revival. | ||
* Another origin for the Great Intelligence was to be featured in the cancelled novel ''[[Day of the Intelligence (novel)|Day of the Intelligence]]''. | * Another origin for the Great Intelligence was to be featured in the cancelled novel ''[[Day of the Intelligence (novel)|Day of the Intelligence]]''. |