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Throughout their history, Cybermen, for the most part, lacked individuality or names. This was a result of their emotions being removed during the conversion process. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Tenth Planet (TV story)}}, et al.) Removal of emotions was a necessary part of Cyber-conversion as otherwise the pain would be too much for those who were "upgraded". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)}}, {{cs|World Enough and Time (TV story)}}) Post-conversion, the Cybermen defended the removal of emotion as the removal of a weakness. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Tenth Planet (TV story)}}, {{cs|Earthshock (TV story)}}, et al.) Indeed, the Cybermen saw removing emotion as a way they helped those who were upgraded, becoming a part of the "evolution" the Cybermen believed they represented. Those who were converted would no longer suffer from emotions like — as listed off by [[John Lumic]] — "grief, and rage, and pain". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Age of Steel (TV story)}}) Another Cyberman once heralded its race as one that would "remove all fear", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Closing Time (TV story)}}) as did one [[Cyber-Leader One|Cyber-Leader]]. That Cyber-Leader also bluntly stated "You are proof that emotions destroy you" to the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}})

Early Cybermen had individual names such as [[Kreel (Way of the Burryman)|Kreel]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Way of the Burryman (audio story)}}) [[Krang]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Tenth Planet (TV story)}}) [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman (comic story)}}) [[Bremm]] and [[Gramm]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Silver Turk (audio story)}}) Eventually, the Cybermen abandoned individual names. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Way of the Burryman (audio story)}}) The later "Lone Cyberman" [[Ashad]] regarded his name as an old thing that no longer mattered. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)}})  

Cybermen no longer possessed [[emotion]]s and viewed them as a weakness. However, several of the Cyber-Leaders — specifically [[CyberNeomorph]] and [[CyberIsomorph]] design leaders — displayed characteristics that could be linked to emotions such as anger, amusement, and, at times, smugness. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Earthshock (TV story)}}, {{cs|Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)}}, {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}) [[Hegelia]] believed that "cybernetic instinct" developed to such an extent that it became something akin to emotion; pointing to a [[Cyber-Leader (Earthshock)|Cyber-Leader]] who wanted to make the [[Fifth Doctor]] "suffer for [the Cyber-race's] past defeats", Hegelia reasoned that the Neomporph Cyber-Leader saw torturing the Doctor as a "logical imperative" for his "offense against the Cyber-race." Meanwhile, Hegelia noted how a human being would see such an act as "malicious retribution."