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Lazarus' main desire was to obtain immortality. This was motivated by his traumatic experiences as a child during World War II, which left him with an intense case of thanatophobia. He was willing to go to any lengths to obtain his ultimate goal, having worked his whole life on his machine. Once he mutated, this trait of his character only worsened, as he was more than willing to succumb to his hunger and feed off innocent people, even those closest to him, just to prolong his own life. When the Doctor told Lazarus about the burdens of a long lifespan such as a [[Time Lord]]'s and the horror of seeing everyone he cared about die around him, Lazarus simply brushed it off and called it "a price worth paying". | Lazarus' main desire was to obtain immortality. This was motivated by his traumatic experiences as a child during World War II, which left him with an intense case of thanatophobia. He was willing to go to any lengths to obtain his ultimate goal, having worked his whole life on his machine. Once he mutated, this trait of his character only worsened, as he was more than willing to succumb to his hunger and feed off innocent people, even those closest to him, just to prolong his own life. When the Doctor told Lazarus about the burdens of a long lifespan such as a [[Time Lord]]'s and the horror of seeing everyone he cared about die around him, Lazarus simply brushed it off and called it "a price worth paying". | ||
Another prominent aspect of his personality was his womanising tendencies. Even when he was 76 years old, he flirted with Tish Jones, who originally viewed him as a repulsive old man when he made such advances and made her disgust obvious. It should be noted that all members of his staff appeared to be young women in their twenties. Once he was rejuvenated, he became more openly flirtatious and was seen having his picture taken with numerous young women around him. He would resort to womanising on two occasions before his death, the first with Lady Thaw (where he utilised it in an argument they were having though he stopped kissing her because of her age) and Tish Jones (only minutes later, showing he had essentially discarded Lady Thaw after killing her). However, in his mutated form, Lazarus outright discarded any adoration for women (or, indeed, human beings), citing their slaughter to be a necessary sacrifice, even though their deaths achieved nothing but showing him to be so much of a monster. | Another prominent aspect of his personality was his womanising tendencies. Even when he was 76 years old, he flirted with Tish Jones, who originally viewed him as a repulsive old man when he made such advances and made her disgust obvious. It should be noted that all members of his staff appeared to be young women in their twenties. Once he was rejuvenated, he became more openly flirtatious and was seen having his picture taken with numerous young women around him. He would resort to womanising on two occasions before his death, the first with Lady Thaw (where he utilised it in an argument they were having though he stopped kissing her because of her age) and Tish Jones (only minutes later, showing he had essentially discarded Lady Thaw after killing her). However, in his mutated form, Lazarus outright discarded any adoration for women (or, indeed, human beings at all), citing their slaughter to be a necessary sacrifice, even though their deaths achieved nothing but showing him to be so much of a monster. | ||
Lazarus was also incredibly vain, to the point of developing a God complex: after he had become younger, he developed the concept that he was immediately superior to everyone else. He paid no attention to the Tenth Doctor's warnings about the uncertainty of the machine's process and once he had transformed, he called his mutation "progress" and believed he had changed history, ignoring the notion that the people whom he'd fed on could have done so as well. He even mockingly suggested to the Doctor that he would undergo the process three or four more times simply in order to deride him. In a successful attempt to provoke him and spare Martha's family, the Doctor called Lazarus "a vain old man who thought he could outsmart nature" and "a joke", which actually was a completely accurate observation: Lazarus was too narcissistic and too callous to realise that his process had not only failed, but it had destroyed him. He wouldn't destroy his own work, not even when the Doctor and Martha had taken refuge inside. | Lazarus was also incredibly vain, to the point of developing a God complex: after he had become younger, he developed the concept that he was immediately superior to everyone else. He paid no attention to the Tenth Doctor's warnings about the uncertainty of the machine's process and once he had transformed, he called his mutation "progress" and believed he had changed history, ignoring the notion that the people whom he'd fed on could have done so as well. He even mockingly suggested to the Doctor that he would undergo the process three or four more times simply in order to deride him. In a successful attempt to provoke him and spare Martha's family, the Doctor called Lazarus "a vain old man who thought he could outsmart nature" and "a joke", which actually was a completely accurate observation: Lazarus was too narcissistic and too callous to realise that his process had not only failed, but it had destroyed him. He wouldn't destroy his own work, not even when the Doctor and Martha had taken refuge inside. | ||
