Terrible Zodin: Difference between revisions

Zodin was involved in an adventure which caused the Doctor to interact with multiple incarnations of himself. Following this she erased their memories of the incident using "mind rubbers", preventing the later Doctors involved from remembering having experienced the events before ([[MA]]: ''[[Cold Fusion]]'').

This did not prevent the Doctor from remembering enough of the adventure to frequently bore people to sleep with a long-winded account of it, although he was incapable of consistently recalling whether she was assisted in her schemes by [[mutant kangaroo]]s or by [[giant grasshopper]]s ([[NA]]: ''[[Legacy]]'').

When the Doctor's [[Second Doctor|second incarnation]] visited a [[UNIT]] reunion in the early-mid 1980s, he described Zodin to [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]], and indicated the Brigadier would have his own encounter with the Zodin alongside the Doctor in his personal future. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]''). (The Brigadier however may have assisted [[Iris Wildthyme]] against Zodin in a separate adventure on the planet [[Mars]].)

The [[Third Doctor]] disputes that ever took place ([[PDA]]: ''[[Verdigris]]'') although concedes that accounts of his own conflict with Zodin may not be entirely accurate when confronted with the implausibility of her motives and of grasshoppers jumping eighteen-storey buildings ([[NA]]: ''[[Legacy]]'').

The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones]] at some point met the Terrible Zodin. (Martha Jones Blog July 1)

 

[[Sarah Jane Smith]] had an unspecified encounter with a species named the Zodin, but they may not be related. ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'')

The [[Seventh Doctor]] once described Zodin as a celebrated sword-swallower at the [[Grand Festival]] of [[Zymymys Midamor]] and by no means any kind of actual villain, who did an impressive trick with a [[scimitar]] ([[NA]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]''), although the Doctor did consider her to have ego-maniacal and megalomaniac tendencies ([[MA]]: ''[[Millennial Rites]]''). She possessed claws, or talons ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Colony of Lies]]''). The Doctor considered her a villain of rare guile and cunning, he stated that they didn't make villians like her anymore. At one point his unstable memory caused him to call [[Peri Brown|Peri]], Zodin. ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'').