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'''"{{PAGENAME}}"''' was the name the [[Twelfth Doctor]] gave to creatures from a [[two-dimensional universe]]. They were able to reduce both lifeforms and other three-dimensional objects to two-dimensions. After taking on three-dimensional forms themselves, they were also able to restore objects back from two-dimensional to three-dimensional. They also demonstrated the ability to drain dimensional energy from [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], causing its external shell to be drastically reduced in size and weakened.

In their natural form, an individual Boneless manifested as a mass of transparent, writhing tendrils that could only travel across flat surfaces such as floors, walls or ceilings. In this form they had the ability to reduce a three dimensional object or person to two dimensions on physical contact, literally flattening the target against whatever surface they were standing on. This process appeared extremely painful as one such victim, [[Forrest (Flatline)|PC Forrest]], screamed in agony when she was flattened. This process also resulted in the death of living targets, their corpses appearing as a mural flattened against a surface.

The Boneless could also restore a flattened object to its normal three-dimensional shape by firing what appeared to be an orange electrical stream of energy from their hands onto the target. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'')

The Boneless experimented on and dissected three-dimensional lifeforms and objects, eventually learning how to exist as three-dimensional beings themselves. Their transformation into 3-D beings was not perfected however, resulting in an appearance where they seemed partially 3-D and partially 2-D.

The Doctor and Clara once again encountered the Boneless in [[London]], where they were pulling people into comic books to send them into their realm. After the Doctor himself was trapped in a comic, he used the combined minds of all the trapped comic fans and a spatial and temporal flux in the TARDIS to free everybody, imploding the Boneless back to their dimension once again. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fourth Wall (comic story)|The Fourth Wall]]'')

As one of the aliens she had met during her travels with the Doctor, the Boneless were included in a series of notes written by Clara when she was planning to confess to [[Danny Pink]] via [[phone]] call about her continued adventures with the Doctor after previously telling him that she has ceased travelling with him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'')