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| 1 | /base/doctorwho | /common/topic/description | Welcome to Doctor Who, a shared, online source of facts and information built by fans, enthusiasts and experts around the world. Join us and be a part of building and improving it! /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 2 | /m/02hpyr_ An Unearthly Child | /common/topic/description | An Unearthly Child was the first televised story of Doctor Who. It premiered on Saturday, 23 November, 1963 and first introduced viewers to the Doctor, played by William Hartnell, and his fantastic machine, the TARDIS. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 3 | /m/038m6 Gnosticism in modern times | /common/topic/description | Gnosticism (from Greek gnosis, knowledge) is a term to describe a diverse religious movement often associated with Christianity. Gnosis refers to a very specialised form of knowledge. In a religious context, to be 'Gnostic' should be understood as being reliant not on knowledge in a general sense, but as being specially receptive to mystical or esoteric experiences of direct participation with the divine. Indeed, in most Gnostic systems the sufficient cause of salvation is this 'knowledge of' ('acquaintance with') the divine. This is commonly identified with a process of inward 'knowing' or self-exploration. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 4 | /m/02hk5y8 Doctor Who Season 1 | /common/topic/description | The first season of Doctor Who consisted of eight serials containing 42 episodes. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 5 | /m/02hpyzf The Firemaker | /common/topic/description | See An Unearthly Child (TV Series Serial). /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 6 | /m/02hpyz6 The Forest of Fear | /common/topic/description | See An Unearthly Child (Doctor Who Serial). /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 7 | /m/02hpyyx The Cave of Skulls | /common/topic/description | See An Unearthly Child (Doctor Who Serial). /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 8 | /m/02hk8m9 Professor Zaroff | /common/topic/description | Professor Zaroff is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Professor Zaroff was a mad scientist who planned to destroy the world in the 1967 Second Doctor story The Underwater Menace by Geoffrey Orme. Some of his scientific inventions included food made from plankton, and the ability to graft gills to humans to enable them to breathe underwater.As part of his diabolical plans, he allied himself with the leaders of Atlantis telling them he would raise their city back to the surface or lower the ocean level by draining the water through a fissure in the Earth's crust.The Doctor immediately realised that this would create super heated steam that could destroy the Earth. Zaroff was defeated when the Doctor and his companions sabotaged the generator he was using to pump the water. Zaroff was left to drown when his laboratory filled with water after the sea walls protecting it collapsed.He is fondly recalled by Doctor Who fans as one of the most over-the-top, hammy villains in the entire history of the show. He spoke, with an exaggerated faux-German accent (which was actually actor Joseph Furst's real accent), his now-infamous line, "Nuzzink in ze vorld can shtop me now!" Ironically, only one episode from this story survives, which includes the infamous line. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 9 | /m/02hk8ll Xoanon | /common/topic/description | Xoanon is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Xoanon was a malevolent artificial intelligence encountered by the Fourth Doctor in The Face of Evil (1977), written by Chris Boucher. Xoanon was inadvertently created by the Doctor on a previous visit to its unnamed planet centuries prior, when he had programmed the computer belonging to a Mordee expedition that had crashed on the planet. The Doctor forgot to wipe his personality print from the computer's data core, and as a result the computer developed multiple personalities, half of them based on the Doctor himself.For generations, technicians extended Xoanon's capabilities, until it evolved beyond their control and became almost a living creature. It utilised the appearance of the Fourth Doctor, to the extent of having an effigy in the Doctor's image carved out on a cliff-face. Its split personality was reflected in it dividing the expedition into two tribes of technicians (who became the Tesh) and the survey team (the Sevateem), justifying its madness by thinking it was part of an experiment to create a superhuman race, with the Tesh providing mental powers and the Sevateem with their strength and independence. Enslaving the tribes, it earned the name of "The Evil One".When the Doctor returned to the maddened world and saw the fruits of his mistakes, Xoanon tried to destroy itself and the entire planet rather than be defeated by the Doctor. However, the Doctor managed to remove his personality print from the core, restoring the computer intelligence to sanity. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 10 | /m/02hk8kd Queen Xanxia | /common/topic/description | Queen Xanxia is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 11 | /m/02hk8jp War Lord | /common/topic/description | The War Lord is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 12 | /m/02hk8h_ War Chief | /common/topic/description | The War Chief is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The War Chief was a renegade Time Lord who assisted a group of aliens known as the War Lords in the 1969 serial The War Games by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks, which was the last to feature the Second Doctor.The War Lords had been kidnapping soldiers from various wars in Earth's history to play war games on an unknown planet. The War Chief provided the War Lords with basic TARDIS-like travel machines, which they used to kidnap the human soldiers and travel between era-specific zones they had created.When the War Chief and the Doctor came face to face, they recognised each other. The War Chief wanted the Doctor's help to double-cross the War Lords and seize power for himself. The Doctor immediately refused, and instead reluctantly summoned the Time Lords for help. The War Lords found out the War Chief's plans to betray them, and executed him.Although the War Chief was shot and apparently killed at the end of The War Games, some fans choose to believe that the Master (the Doctor's arch-enemy, introduced in Terror of the Autons a couple of years later) is the War Chief in a new guise, due to similarities between their appearances and modi operandi and the fact that the War Chief's body is removed immediately and not seen thereafter.The spin-off novels, however, include a novel featuring the return of the War Chief (Timewyrm: Exodus by Terrance Dicks), a novel featuring the Master set before The War Games (The Dark Path by David A. McIntee), and a novel featuring younger versions of both characters (Divided Loyalties by Gary Russell) establishing that the two are not the same person, at least in the continuity of the novels, which are themselves of uncertain canonicity when it comes to the television series. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 13 | /m/02hk8h8 WOTAN | /common/topic/description | WOTAN is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.WOTAN, an acronym for Will Operating Thought ANalogue (The W was pronounced as a V), this malevolent supercomputer resided in the Post Office Tower in London and appeared in the 1966 First Doctor story The War Machines by Ian Stuart Black (based upon an idea by Dr. Kit Pedler). It was installed in the Tower in 1966 by Professor Brett; and was described by him as being "at least ten years ahead of its time".On "C-Day" WOTAN would be linked to other computers around the world, including Parliament, the White House, the European Free Trade Organisation, Woomera, Telstar, the European Launcher Development Organisation, Cape Kennedy and the Royal Navy.WOTAN soon became sentient and, concluding that machines were superior to mankind, used mind-controlled and hypnotised humans to spread its influence and construct War Machines that would wipe mankind out. WOTAN was eventually destroyed after the Doctor gained control of a War Machine and changed its programming to destroy its master. Upon its destruction, the humans under WOTAN's control were freed and the existant War Machines froze.For the first three episodes of the serial, the voice of WOTAN was uncredited, with the cast listing merely adding "and WOTAN". This was the only time a character was credited and not its operator or actor. WOTAN is the only character in the programme's history to refer to the main character as "Doctor Who" rather than the more conventional "Doctor". /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 14 | /m/02hk8gl Tobias Vaughn | /common/topic/description | Tobias Vaughn is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Tobias Vaughn, played by Kevin Stoney, appeared in The Invasion, (1968). He was the head of International Electromatics and he aided the Cybermen invasion of Earth, although he planned to double-cross the Cybermen, taking control of them with the 'cerebration mentor', placing himself in rule over the Earth. He became partially cybernised and was eventually persuaded by the Doctor to aid humanity. He was killed fighting an army of Cybermen shortly before their defeat. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 15 | /m/02hk8dx Sutekh | /common/topic/description | Sutekh is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Sutekh, a member of an alien race called the Osirans, was encountered by the Fourth Doctor in the 1975 story Pyramids of Mars by "Stephen Harris" (a pseudonym for Robert Holmes and Lewis Griefer). The Osirans were an ancient and highly powerful but now extinct race. The renegade Sutekh was a crazed super-being who feared all forms of life might one day challenge his hegemony and so became Sutekh the Destroyer, the destroyer of all living things. This included his home planet Phaester Osiris and ancient Mars.Sutekh's brother Horus and the remaining 740 Osirans tracked Sutekh down to Ancient Egypt and used their powers to restrain and imprison him in a pyramid on the planet Earth. He was placed in a remote location with the Eye of Horus beaming a signal from Mars to suppress Sutekh's powers and hold him an immovable prisoner. The tales of the Osirans were remembered in Egyptian mythology — Sutekh as the god Set, brother of Horus; and in the designations Sados and Satan.In the year 1911, the archaeologist Professor Marcus Scarman broke into the inner chamber of the Pyramid of Horus on Earth, discovering Sutekh and allowing him a chance of escape. Scarman's cadaver was used to construct Osiran service robots and a rocket aimed at the controlling Eye of Horus on Mars. The Doctor was successful in destroying the rocket, but then taken over by Sutekh and made to take Scarman and the Robots to Mars, where they succeeded in destroying the Eye and freeing Sutekh. The Doctor was eventually able to defeat the freed Sutekh by trapping him in a time tunnel for thousands of years — longer even than the extended life span of an Osiran.Sutekh has also appeared in two Faction Paradox audio dramas from Magic Bullet Productions. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 16 | /m/02hk8d6 Henry van Statten | /common/topic/description | Henry van Statten is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Henry van Statten was an American billionaire from the year 2012. His first and only appearance to date was in the Ninth Doctor episode Dalek by Rob Shearman.Van Statten was a man who wielded enormous wealth and influence, apparently enough even to sway the course of presidential elections. Intelligent, arrogant and self-assured, he treated his employees like chattels, to the point of mindwiping them when they left his employ so they could not betray his secrets. His personal helicopter had the callsign "Bad Wolf One" and his corporation was called Geocomtex.Van Statten had been collecting extraterrestrial artefacts on the grey market for several years, buying bits and pieces of alien technology at auctions and then reverse engineering them to create "new" technologies which he would then exploit commercially. He claimed to "own" the Internet, and said that broadband was derived from technology scavenged from the Roswell crash. He kept these artefacts in a private collection, inside a bunker called the Vault, more than fifty floors below ground in Utah near Salt Lake City.When the Ninth Doctor and Rose arrived in the Vault in answer to a distress call, the Doctor discovered to his horror that Van Statten's sole living specimen (which he had dubbed a "metaltron") was in fact a Dalek. Van Statten had acquired the Dalek at an auction some time before and had been torturing it to try and get it to speak, but it had refused to do so until it recognised the Doctor as the mortal enemy of its race.Despite his warnings to destroy it, Van Statten captured the Doctor instead, to examine his alien physiology. The Dalek managed to regenerate itself by absorbing the DNA of the time travelling Rose and escaped, killing two hundred personnel before it eventually self-destructed. Van Statten's personal assistant, Diana Goddard, took charge at this point and ordered that Van Statten be taken away, mindwiped and dumped on the streets, "somewhere beginning with an 'S'." When last seen, Van Statten was being escorted away by his own guards to his fate. The website of Van Statten's company can be seen at Geocomtex.net /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 17 | /m/02hk8bj Mehendri Solon | /common/topic/description | Mehendri Solon is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Mehendri Solon was a human physician and scientist of great renown, and a follower of the Time Lord tyrant Morbius. After writing a famous paper on microsurgical techniques in tissue grafting, Dr. Solon went into hiding on the planet Karn. There, he developed the techniques which enabled him to create a new body for the brain of Morbius, which had survived his execution. In an isolated castle on Karn, Solon was assisted by his simple servant Condo. Spaceships often crashed on the planet, and Solon constructed a horrendous patchwork body out of the alien survivors' body parts. He planned to house Morbius' brain in it. When the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith arrived, Solon needed only a head to finish his monstrous creation, and hoped to use the Doctor's. Sarah prevented this, and Solon was forced to use a glass bowl instead.Solon was killed when the Doctor created cyanide gas and blew it into his laboratory.The Past Doctor Adventures novel Warmonger by Terrance Dicks depicts Solon's earlier life as a follower of Morbius, and shows how he saved his brain. The canonicity of the novels is uncertain. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 18 | /m/02hk89k Josiah Samuel Smith | /common/topic/description | Josiah Samuel Smith is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Thousands of years in the past a being called Light launched a survey expedition to catalogue all forms on the planet Earth. Josiah Samuel Smith was a member of the crew of Light's ship.In the late 1880s, Smith began to evolve towards a human form, discarding husks of previous insect-like bodies. He planned to seize power in the British Empire by assassinating Queen Victoria, but his plans were thwarted when Light was reawakened from his slumber, and another member of the survey team's crew known as Control escaped Smith's imprisonment. When Light was defeated by the Seventh Doctor, Control, who was also evolving into a human, departed in Light's ship, taking Smith with her as a prisoner. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 19 | /m/02hk88w Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen | /common/topic/description | Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, a relative of Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day and Sip Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, posed as Joseph Green MP, the real Joseph Green having been murdered for his skin, in Aliens of London and World War Three (2005) and was responsible for the murder of many alien experts at a briefing held at 10 Downing Street. He was presumed killed when a missile struck 10 Downing Street. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 20 | /m/02hk885 Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen | /common/topic/description | Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen portrayed by Annette Badland and Alan Ruscoe, was a member of the nefarious Slitheen crime family. She appropriated the identity and appearance of Margaret Blaine, an MI5 official who was killed by the Slitheen so that her skin could be used as a disguise. The Ninth Doctor met her in Downing Street in "Aliens of London" when she and her family tried to push the Earth into a nuclear war, and use the remains of the planet for fuel. She was apparently killed when the Doctor helped Mickey Smith blow up No. 10 with a missile. It was later revealed in "Boom Town" that while the rest of her family had been killed, she had teleported out at the last minute. She had then gone on to become the lord mayor of Cardiff in the six months between the stories, and was planning to use the Cardiff Rift in conjunction with a planned nuclear power station to destroy the planet and use a tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator to ride the shockwave into space, to find any surviving members of her family. The Doctor stopped this, and was going to send her back to her home planet, even though she would be executed. She tried to use the extrapolator in conjunction with the Rift and the TARDIS to execute her plan without the Power Station, however the TARDIS console broke open and she was exposed to the "heart of the TARDIS" the time vortex and with the Doctor's encouragement was regressed to an egg. The Doctor, Rose Tyler, and Jack Harkness then took her to the nurseries of Raxacoricofallapatorius so that she could start her life afresh. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 21 | /m/02hk87h The Sisters of Plenitude | /common/topic/description | The Sisters of Plenitude are fictional characters in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Sisters of Plenitude are humanoid cats which dressed like nuns and worked in the New Earth Hospital and, driven to desperation at their ineffective methods of disease treatment, bred living humans that they tested on to find cures for ever more deadly diseases. The Sisters appeared in New Earth (2006). At the conclusion of that episode, the Sisters were arrested for testing and experimenting on humans. In the episode Gridlock (2007), the last surviving Sister reappears, Novice Hame, having received penance for her sins, protected by the Face of Boe as his nurse in the dying New New York. Both the Face Of Boe and Hame stayed at the Senate, who all died in 7 minutes by an air-born virus. The Face Of Boe protected Hame in his smoke. During time, Hame had become very attached to the Face Of Boe, and wept when he died.Matron Casp, played by Doña Croll, was the leader of the Sisters, as seen in New Earth. She hid a farm of humans, infected with all known diseases, used to cure the people of New Earth. Lady Cassandra released the Flesh who killed Matron Casp by touching her leg, thus infecting her, when she was climbing up a lift shaft. Consumed by diseases, she fell to her death.Multiple times in both New Earth and Gridlock is "The Godess Santori" mentioned, who seems to be their deity. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 22 | /m/02hk86r The Shadow | /common/topic/description | The Shadow is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Shadow appeared in the 1979 Fourth Doctor story, The Armageddon Factor, by Bob Baker and Dave Martin; he was a servant of the Black Guardian, and at least partially responsible for a war between the planets Atrios and Zeos. The extent of the Shadow's involvement with starting the war was unstated, but when the Zeons eventually abandoned their planet rather than continue the war, he had a Time Lord named Drax build a computer named Mentalis which would co-ordinate the remaining Zeon forces. Once Drax completed work on Mentalis he realised just who he was working for, but was imprisoned by the Shadow so as not to disrupt his plan. The Shadow then hid on a space station in orbit of Zeos (invisible to either the Atrians or Mentalis) and waited for the Doctor to arrive. In the meantime, Mentalis was more successful in fighting the war than the Zeons and pushed the Atrians to the brink of defeat.The Shadow knew that the royal family of Atrios held the secret of the sixth segment of the Key to Time, and when the Fourth Doctor arrived he arranged for the Doctor and the last survivor of the family, Princess Astra to be kidnapped. With this done, the Shadow ordered Mentalis to cease its attacks and duped Atrios' military leader, the Marshall, into making a nuclear attack on Zeos — the result of which would have been that Mentalis would set off an explosion powerful enough to destroy both planets.Eventually the Shadow worked out that Astra herself was the sixth segment, and transformed her into the segment. Before he could attach it to the other five (which he had stolen from the Doctor), the Doctor stole the segments back and with Drax's aid dismantled Mentalis. Finally, using the TARDIS, the Doctor set up a force field which diverted the Marshall's missiles into the Shadow's space station, destroying it. The Shadow perished in the explosion, but not before informing the Black Guardian of what had happened. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 23 | /m/02hk861 Scaroth | /common/topic/description | Scaroth is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Scaroth was the last of the Jagaroth, a vicious and callous warlike race, appearing in the serial City of Death. The last Jagaroth spacecraft exploded upon takeoff on prehistoric Earth. The energy from that explosion ignited the primordial soup that led to life developing on Earth and also fractured Scaroth into 12 aspects, scattered throughout Earth's history. Each splinter had the ability to communicate with the others, and disguising themselves as human, together they influenced Earth's technological development to the point where the last Scaroth (who had taken the alias of Count Scarlioni) could construct a time machine, travelling into the past to prevent his ship from taking off and thus saving his species and himself.The scheme was financed by his earlier selves arranging for priceless art treasures to be passed down to Scarlioni. One such scheme involved his 1505 persona, Captain Tancredi, persuading Leonardo da Vinci to paint six copies of the Mona Lisa, so that in 1979 Scarlioni could steal the original from the Louvre and sell all seven copies on the black market.Sensing the fractures used by the time travel experiments, the Fourth Doctor and Romana stumbled upon Scaroth's plans for the painting and foiled them. Scaroth used the prototype time bubble to travel back into the past anyway to stop his ship from taking off. However, Duggan, a private investigator who was aiding the two Time Lords, punched out Scaroth at the crucial moment. Scaroth was then sent back to 1979 where the time machine exploded, killing him. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 24 | /m/02hk85c Salamander | /common/topic/description | Salamander is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Salamander was a ruthless Mexican-born politician who attempted to take control of the United Zones Organisation, a supranational World government that exists in 2030.He gained influence through an invention he developed that diverts solar energy to barren parts of the world increasing food production. He also built a secret underground lair in Australia with technology that allowed him to trigger volcanoes and earthquakes. The lair is staffed by scientists who believe the world has been irradiated by a nuclear war, and for some reason they must fight back against the surface by causing natural disasters. Salamander uses these disasters to his advantage - he unseats one rival, Alexander Denes, the Controller of the Central European Zone, by causing a dormant volcano in Hungary to erupt and having Denes blamed for negligence. He then tries to force Denes's deputy to poison him through blackmail.As the Second Doctor was the spitting image of Salamander, an opposing faction sought the Doctor's help to gain more evidence of his misdeeds. It later transpires that the group's leader Giles Kent, the former Deputy Security Leader for North Africa and Europe who was undermined by Salamander, is just as power-hungry. He had previously worked with Salamander in developing the secret bunker and corralling the underground scientists.At the end of the story Salamander tries to flee justice in the TARDIS by impersonating the Doctor; however, Jamie sees through his deception, and Salamander is sucked out of the ship when the TARDIS dematerialises with its doors open. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 25 | /m/02hk84h Lady Peinforte | /common/topic/description | Lady Peinforte is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Lady Peinforte, from the Stuart era, sought to gain control of the Nemesis, a powerful Time Lord weapon, as seen in Silver Nemesis, (1988). She fashioned the Nemesis into a statue in her own image when a living silver metal known as Validium fell to Earth. Having knowledge of black magic, she and her manservant, Richard, travelled from 1638 Windsor to 1988 Windsor by drinking a magic potion, in order to reunite the arrow - part of the Nemesis in its statue form - with the statue body when it crashes back down to Earth in a comet. She was an expert archer, wielding a bow and arrows. When the Cybermen took control of the Nemesis, enraged and distraught, she merged herself with it. In doing so, she was killed as the Nemesis destroyed the fleet of Cyber-warships. She knew the Doctor's secret regarding his mysterious past as the Nemesis had told her, but when she threatened to reveal it, the Cybermen were not interested. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 26 | /m/02hk83p Morgaine | /common/topic/description | Morgaine is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Morgaine, or Morgaine, the Sunkiller, Dominator of the Thirteen Worlds and Battle Queen of the S'rax, portrayed by Jean Marsh in Battlefield, (1989), was a sorceress from another dimension, who had previously battled Merlin, whom she recognised as the Doctor from his personal future. She directed her knights led by Mordred to Avallion, (Earth) through a rift in time and space, where she summoned The Destroyer, the Devourer of Worlds, from Hell and got hold of Excalibur. When Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart defeated the Destroyer, Morgaine and Mordred attempted to detonate a nuclear missile that was in convoy. However, the Doctor persuaded Morgaine that there was no honour in killing with this modern weaponry and she realised her fight was futile when the Doctor informed her that King Arthur, her lover and foe, had been dead for over a thousand years. She and Mordred were locked up by Brigadier Bambera as punishment for their killings. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 27 | /m/02hk82f Morbius | /common/topic/description | Morbius is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.In The Brain of Morbius, Morbius was a renegade Time Lord from the Doctor's birthplace, Gallifrey. He had been a member of the High Council of Time Lords, and attempted to move the Time Lords' policy towards the rest of the universe from observation to conquest. When the Time Lords rejected him, he formed an army of his own. He promised his followers the secrets of time travel and immortality. Morbius was eventually defeated and executed by his fellow Time Lords for his crimes. However, his brain survived. The remaining organ was taken away by the fanatical scientist Solon, who was planning the resurrection of Morbius.The Fourth Doctor and Sarah found Morbius in Solon's castle on the planet Karn. Solon had built a freakish Frankenstein's monster body from parts of crashed space travellers and planned to place Morbius's brain in it. Solon drugged the Doctor, intending to use his head for Morbius's brain, but insisted that it would be "no cruel butchery."Sarah foiled Solon's original plan, but he had an alternative container for Morbius' brain — a large glass bowl with two eyestalks. He attached this to the patchwork body, and this time round, the plan worked. However, during the operation, Morbius' brain was dropped, apparently causing Morbius further brain damage.The ghoulishly resurrected Morbius fought the Doctor in a series of violent encounters. Their final confrontation was a dangerous Time Lord mental contest called "mind-bending". Both Morbius and the Doctor were badly injured in the conflict. The Sisterhood of Karn, longtime opponents of Morbius, chased the monster to a clifftop, from which he fell and died. The Sisterhood then used the Elixir of Life (a substance of which they were guardians) to revive the Doctor.Morbius's war against the Time Lords and his execution (including how Solon saved his brain and the Fifth Doctor's involvement in his defeat) are depicted in the Past Doctor Adventures novel Warmonger by Terrance Dicks. The canonicity of the novels is uncertain. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 28 | /m/02hk81r Monarch | /common/topic/description | Monarch is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Monarch was the megalomaniac leader of the Urbankans from the planet Urbanka. He was encountered in the Fifth Doctor story Four to Doomsday. His greed and ego were highly dangerous. The Urbankans originated from the Inokshi system but their own planet was destroyed through over mining, and destruction of its ozone layer, both caused by Monarch's desire for minerals to improve his craft. He had similar plans for the Earth, which he had visited four times in the past, each time halving the length of the journey time.The Urbankans were a green-skinned lizard people, four billion of whom - apart from Monarch himself - had been converted into androids. Monarch wasn't totally converted, retaining fancies of the "flesh time" such as the belief that if he could pilot his vast craft faster than light, he would be able to travel back before the dawn of time and meet God, whom he believed would be himself (However, his extreme longevity - over forty thousand years - may point to partial cybernisation, or his species could just be naturally long-lived).Being of the "flesh time" he was succeptible to the virulent toxin he had planned to unleash to wipe out mankind, and was reduced in size to minute proportions. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 29 | /m/02hk80k Mawdryn | /common/topic/description | Mawdryn is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 30 | /m/02hk7_w Master of the Land of Fiction | /common/topic/description | The Master of the Land of Fiction is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Master of the Land of Fiction was a human writer from the year 1926 who was drawn to the Land of Fiction and forced to continuously write stories which were enacted within that realm. The Master's name was never revealed, but he did identify himself as the writer of "The Adventures of Captain Jack Harkaway" in The Ensign, a magazine for boys. He was freed by the Second Doctor, and returned to his own time.The Master of the Land of Fiction should not be confused with the renegade Time Lord known as the Master. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 31 | /m/02hk7_1 The Malus | /common/topic/description | The Malus is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Malus appeared in the Fifth Doctor story The Awakening (1984) by Eric Pringle. At one point the Doctor describes this demonic entity as "a living being re-engineered as an instrument of war." He seems to pity the Malus, claiming that killing is "the only thing it knows how to do" (suggesting that it was originally a more benevolent creature). Possessing vast power and capable of combining various time zones, it uses its powers to allow real people to pass through down the centuries and create energies, including fear, that it can feed on. To this end, it psychically projects hallucinations to sustain itself.The Malus was travelling on a Hakol ship, which crashed centuries before the English Civil War. In 1643 it was briefly roused by a battle at the village of Little Hodcombe, but it subsided once both sides had massacred each other. When its companion, Hutchinson, dies and its means of "feeding" blocked by the Doctor's TARDIS, it knows it has been defeated. It then panics and reverts to its original programming to destroy all that it can; the church that housed it for so long is annihilated in an explosion. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 32 | /m/02hk7zc Commander Lytton | /common/topic/description | Commander Lytton is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Commander Lytton is a mercenary whom the Doctor encountered twice. He was born on a satellite called Riften 5, orbiting the planet Vita 15 some centuries in the future.When the Fifth Doctor met Lytton during Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), he was working for the Daleks in a plot to rescue Davros from imprisonment following the events in Destiny of the Daleks. When Davros altered some of the Daleks to be loyal to him and tried to seize control from the Dalek Supreme, Lytton was one of the few survivors of the ensuing battle.The Sixth Doctor then encountered Lytton planning to rob a diamond merchant in the story Attack of the Cybermen (1985). The sewers through which he planned to make his heist also contained a squad of Cybermen, and Lytton's actions helped revive them. After being taken to Telos with Lytton and the Cybermen, the Doctor encountered the Cryons, who revealed that Lytton was in fact working for them. The Cybermen had travelled back in time to prevent the destruction of their home planet Mondas in 1986. However, once they did so the Cybermen intended to destroy and leave Telos. Lytton's mission was to prevent this by stealing the time machine.Once Lytton's treachery to the Cybermen was exposed, the Cyber Controller ordered that Lytton undergo the cyber-conversion process. When the Doctor tried to free Lytton from his fate as a Cyberman, a partially converted Lytton died fighting the Cyber Controller, who snapped his neck. The Doctor later admitted that he had badly misjudged Lytton. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 33 | /m/02hk7yp John Lumic | /common/topic/description | John Lumic is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.John Lumic was an insane, physically disabled genius and megalomaniac who was the head of Cybus Industries on a parallel Earth. Among his many inventions were the EarPods, a highly popular and widespread communications and entertainment device which allowed the downloading of news and other information directly into the brain. Confined to a wheelchair, dependent on his ventilator and slowly dying, Lumic researched into gaining immortality by bonding the human brain to a robotic exoskeleton, creating his world's Cybermen. He experimented on human subjects, homeless people kidnapped off the streets.When the President of Great Britain refused approval for his conversion programme, Lumic took matters into his own hands. He first sent a force of Cybermen to assassinate the President and prominent members of society and government, then broadcast a hypnotic signal through the EarPods that directed the population of London to march towards the factories and begin cyber-conversion. In the process, one of his employees turned against Lumic and smashed his ventilator; rather than repairing it the Cybermen then took him unwillingly to be "upgraded".Lumic was transformed into the Cyber-Controller, a Cyberman with glowing eyes and a transparent brain-case. However, Mickey Smith managed to introduce emotions back into the Cybermen's makeup, causing them to go insane and destroy themselves. The Cyber-Controller was, for unexplained reasons, unaffected by this (possibly due to his insanity-finding this form desirable). In the resulting conflagration, the Cyber-Controller attempted to escape by climbing into Mickey's zeppelin as it left the factory. The lower portion of the rope ladder was severed before he could so, and the Cyber-Controller fell back into the burning factory, seemingly to perish.The character bears some parallels to Davros, the creator of the Daleks in the Doctor's own universe. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 34 | /m/02hk7x_ Lilith | /common/topic/description | Lilith is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Lilith, played by Christina Cole, leads the Carrionite witches in The Shakespeare Code (2007). Although disguised in human form for most of the episode, her natural form appears more like that than that of other Carrionites. Her human form is of a young, attractive woman, which she uses to manipulate others for long enough to obtain a sample of their hair, which can be used to control them using technology similar to puppets. Using this, she drowns a play censor on dry land and causes one of the Doctor's two hearts to suffer cardiac arrest.She is eventually trapped within her crystal ball, which the Doctor locks in the attic of the TARDIS. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 35 | /m/02hk7x9 Light | /common/topic/description | Light is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Light was an extremely powerful, almost God-like alien being. Long ago, he took a survey of all organic life in the universe, but almost as soon as he finished 'it all started changing.' Light went into hibernation in his spaceship, hidden in the basement of Gabriel Chase. Light began to campaign against evolution and change, deciding to destroy all life so that his catalogue would never be out of date again. Before he could carry out his plan, though, the Doctor told Light that even he was changing. Unable to cope with this fact, Light 'dissipated' in the main hallway of the house. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 36 | /m/02hk7wm Richard Lazarus | /common/topic/description | Professor Richard Lazarus is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Richard Lazarus, played by Mark Gatiss in The Lazarus Experiment (2007), was a 76 year old human man who began his work in medical studies using sonic technology to rejuvenate his cells in order to be young again. He demonstrated his experiment in 2008 where, after a malfunction, he appeared to be young once more. However, the experiment had a deadly impact upon his cells which began to mutate and activating long dormant genetic characteristics within his body. He turned into a large, monstrous, insectoid-looking creature that needed to steal the energy from other beings in order to remain young and Human which he did so through his scorpion-like tail. His first change resulted in him transforming before the Lady Thaw who he killed. He then transformed back and took Martha's sister, Tish, to the roof, only to meet the Doctor and Martha. He then transformed and stormed into the party, where he kills a party girl. He was stunned by the Doctor but awoke in an ambulance where he fed on the medics to seek sanctuary at the bell tower where he met the Doctor and his companion Martha Jones. He attempted to feed on Martha who managed to flee to the top of the tower, at which point the Doctor played the organ at maximum volume which caused Lazarus, who was under the strong resonance of the church bell, great pain and fell to his death whereupon he reverted back to his aged Human form.Lazarus was obsessed with ensuring his immortality and saw it as his one goal to accomplish despite losses in terms of life or the risks being taken. He would do anything in order to survive. He was funded in his research by the enigmatic Mr Harold Saxon. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 37 | /m/02hk7vw Kroagnon | /common/topic/description | Kroagnon is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Kroagnon, or The Great Architect, (featured in Paradise Towers, (1987)), was the designer of Paradise Towers and Miracle City. He took an aversion to people occupying his buildings for fear of them ruining them and hence rigged devices to kill them off. He existed as a disembodied intelligence stored in a tank in the basement of Paradise Towers, feeding off those he had killed, before killing and taking the body of the Chief Caretaker, in which he is killed by Pex when dragged into a trap. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 38 | /m/02hk7v5 Lord Kiv | /common/topic/description | Lord Kiv is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 39 | /m/02hk7th Kane | /common/topic/description | Kane is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Kane, seen in Dragonfire, (1987), one-half of the Xana-Kane criminal gang of the planet Proamon, was exiled after capture by security forces to the cold, dark side of Svartos, where he became ruler of the space trading colony Iceworld. His body temperature was so cold that one touch from him could kill and in order to cool down, he lay in a cryogenic chamber. He branded his employees with his mark iced into their skin and had an ice sculpture of his partner, Xana, made. After creating a cryogenic army, massacring most of Iceworld's populace and having the dragon that was guarding him slain, Kane released Iceworld from Svartos' surface as a spacecraft, setting a course for Proamon to exact his revenge for his exile and imprisonment. When it transpired that, during the millenia that he had been a prisoner, Proamon had been destroyed, Kane, now in a state of desperation, committed suicide by opening a screen and letting light rays in that melted him. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 40 | /m/02hk7st Sharaz Jek | /common/topic/description | Sharaz Jek is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Sharaz Jek was a partner of businessman Trau Morgus. Together they planned to harvest the rare Spectrox drug on the planet Androzani Minor using androids built by Jek. Morgus, however, "cheaped out" on Jek, supplying him with substandard equipment and Jek was caught in a mud burst on Minor leaving him hideously disfigured. Jek thereafter bore a pathological hatred for Morgus.When the Doctor and Peri landed on Androzani Minor, they soon became entangled in a three way struggle between Jek's androids, drug runners and Androzani Major troops. Jek found Peri beautiful and coveted her strongly. When the Doctor and Peri were to be executed by the Major troops, Jek replaced them with realistic androids, and later cared for Peri while the Doctor tried to get an antidote for the disease that the two of them had accidentally contracted.When Morgus and the leader of the drug runners, Stotz, arrived at Jek's base, Jek attacked Morgus and killed him, but was himself shot by Stotz. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 41 | /m/02hk7s1 The Jagrafess | /common/topic/description | The Jagrafess is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Jagrafess, or, to give its full title, The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe (AKA Max) was a gigantic, gelatinous creature similar to a slug in shape. Its origins or home planet (or even the name of its species) are not known, but it was sentient and able to communicate in a series of growls. It had a life span of about 3000 years, with sharp, vicious teeth and several vestigial eyes. Its metabolic rate, however, meant that it had to be kept at low temperatures to survive. Its first and only appearance to date was in the episode The Long Game.The Jagrafess was the supervisor of the mysterious and sinister Editor on board Satellite 5, a space station that broadcast news across the whole of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire of the year 200,000. The Editor (who called the Jagrafess "Max" for short) claimed that the Jagrafess had been placed with Satellite 5 some ninety years before by a consortium of interstellar banks. The intent was to use the news broadcasts to subtly manipulate the Empire, retarding its social, economic and technological growth and turning it more inward looking and xenophobic. Control was enhanced by the use of computer chips, installed in every human brain; chips that allowed the users to access the computer systems of the 2001st century, but at the same time allowed the Jagrafess and its cohorts to monitor people's thoughts. In this way, the human race was reduced to slavery without them even realising it.The environmental systems of Satellite 5 had been configured to vent all heat away from Floor 500, keeping it cold enough for the Jagrafess to survive, attached to the ceiling of the main control room. When the Ninth Doctor, Rose and Adam arrived on board, the Doctor recognised that human development had been deliberately obstructed and began to investigate. Ultimately captured by the Editor and about to be killed by the Jagrafess, the Doctor and Rose were saved by the actions of Cathica, a human journalist, who reversed the environmental systems. The Jagrafess overheated, bloated up and exploded, apparently ending its threat and the scheme to hold back the human race.In the episode Bad Wolf, taking place on Satellite 5 a century after The Long Game, it was revealed that the Badwolf Corporation was behind the Jagrafess, and that its masters were the Daleks. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 42 | /m/02hk7rc The Isolus | /common/topic/description | The Isolus is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Isolus are empathic beings of intense emotion; when their spores are birthed from their mother, their need for each other sustains them for the thousands of years they need to grow to maturity. Each Isolus travels inside a pod, riding the heat and energy of the solar tides, and use their ionic power to create virtual worlds to play in, feeding off each other's love.The ionic power of an Isolus to create these virtual worlds can bring inanimate objects like drawings to life, as well as transform living things into drawings as well. Even when reduced to inanimate forms, those transformed appear to be capable of limited movement and can, to an extent, communicate with the outside world.The Isolus can also draw power from others' emotions, and even when dormant the Isolus pod emits an intense heat signature. In the episode, the emotions surrounding the passage of 2012 Olympic Games torch were enough to recharge the Isolus pod and send it on its way back into deep space. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 43 | /m/02hk7q9 Yvonne Hartman | /common/topic/description | Yvonne Hartman is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Yvonne Hartman portrayed by Tracy-Ann Oberman in Army of Ghosts and Doomsday was the director of Torchwood One, the London branch of the Torchwood Institute founded by Queen Victoria, located in Canary Wharf. While technically not a villain, she intervened with the Doctor's plans to stop what she was doing: widening the tear between her own world and that of an alternate Earth's, she unknowingly helped to release a number of Cybermen into the world. When the TARDIS materialised within Torchwood HQ, she placed the Doctor as her prisoner and confiscated his TARDIS, although he was treated with much respect - as a guest, as the institute had much to learn from him. At the height of the war between the Daleks and Cybermen, she herself was cyber-converted, but the process was seemingly faulty as she turned on her fellow Cybermen, defending the Torchwood Tower "for Queen and country".It is unknown if she was sucked into the void, or if like fellow "Cyberwoman" Lisa Hallett, she stayed behind after the Doctor pulled almost all Cybermen and Daleks back into the void. A report on the Torchwood Institute website about a motionless Cyberman by some stairs killed by Torchwood security personnel suggests she may have been killed.[2] The website also states that Hartman regularly collaborated with Jack Harkness and the other members of Torchwood Three. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 44 | /m/02hk7pm Count Grendel | /common/topic/description | Count Grendel of Gracht is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Count Grendel was a Knight of the nobility of the planet Tara and the Lord of Castle Gracht, his sole on-screen appearance was in the Fourth Doctor serial, The Androids of Tara, part of the Season 16 quest for the Key to Time. The character was played by Peter Jeffrey.While searching for the fourth segment of the Key, Romana discovered that it was disguised as the head of a statue representing the family crest of Grendel's family. After Romana transformed it into its actual crystalline form, the segment was confiscated by Grendel. Grendel did not know of the segment's true nature; his real intent was to use Romana (who resembled the Princess Strella) in a complex plot to seize the throne of Tara from Prince Reynart.His plans were ultimately defeated by the Doctor. Although Grendel was considered the finest swordsman on Tara, the Doctor managed to duel him to a standstill, and he made his escape by leaping into the moat of Castle Gracht and swimming away.A cultured and charming villain, Gracht used his breeding to cover a ruthless and cunning personality. He used and discarded people as easily as he would persuade them to do his bidding, and somehow always managed to live to scheme another day. He also appeared in the spin-off short story The Trials of Tara by Paul Cornell, where another attempt to seize the throne of Tara with the help of the salvaged remains of the Kandy Man was foiled by the Seventh Doctor and Benny. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 45 | /m/02hk7ny Magnus Greel | /common/topic/description | Magnus Greel is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Magnus Greel was Minister of Justice (probably for the Supreme Alliance) in the 51st century, responsible for the deaths of 100,000 enemies of the state and earning himself the nickname of the Butcher of Brisbane. He also almost started World War VI when he used the Peking Homunculus to murder the Commissioner of the Icelandic Alliance. His first and only appearance was in the 1977 serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang.Eventually the Filipino Army defeated the Supreme Alliance at the battle of Reykjavik. Fleeing from prosecution to the 19th century, Greel used a time cabinet created by his scientists based on zygma beam technology to flee into the past. However, the zygma beam disrupted his DNA, making him hideously deformed and needing to draw the life essence from others to maintain his damaged genetic structure. He was given shelter by a Chinese peasant, Li H'sen Chang, who mistook Greel for the god Weng-Chiang.The time cabinet was captured by Imperial soldiers and passed on to an Englishman as a gift, neither of whom guessed its true nature. Seeking to recover the cabinet and reverse his condition, Greel and Li pursued it to London, where Li posed as a stage magician. There, they enlisted the Tong of the Black Scorpion to obtain victims for Greel's organic distillation chamber, which extracted their essences for him to feed on.Greel's plans were opposed by the Fourth Doctor, who warned him that using the cabinet again would cause an implosion that would kill thousands. In a battle with the Doctor, Greel fell into his own distilation chamber and perished.Although Greel was dead, the Doctor met the Tong of the Black Scorpion again and dealt with other consequences of Greel's time travel in the spin-off Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Shadow of Weng-Chiang by David A. McIntee. Greel is mentioned in Simon A. Forward's Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Emotional Chemistry, which is partly set in the 51st century. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 46 | /m/02hk7n7 Gravis | /common/topic/description | Gravis is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 47 | /m/02hk7mk Gods of Ragnarok | /common/topic/description | The Gods of Ragnarok is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The three Gods of Ragnarok appeared in the 1988 story, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy by Stephen Wyatt. They possess the ability to exist in multiple times and dimensions simultaneously: in the story, they appeared in both the Psychic Circus as a family consisting of a mother, a father and their young daughter and at the same time in their temple-like Dark Circus as a trio of statue-like beings. It is not known which, if any, are their true forms.They seem to have a need to be entertained, using lesser beings for sport and allowing them to live as long as they continue to be amused. They are defeated when the Seventh Doctor uses a medallion to reflect the Gods' destructive energy back at them, destroying them and their Dark Circus.The Virgin New Adventures novel Conundrum by Steve Lyons reveals that the Gods of Ragnarok created the Land of Fiction. Like all Doctor Who spin-offs, the canonicity of this is unclear. (The Gods also display some similarity with the Osirian race of Sutekh, including the use of Eye of Horus symbol.) /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 48 | /m/02hk7lt Gavrok | /common/topic/description | Gavrok is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Gavrok was leader of the Bannermen who attempted to wipe out the Chimeron race in Delta and the Bannermen, (1987). After pursuing the Chimeron Queen, Delta, to Earth in 1959, he was killed falling into his own booby-trap set around the TARDIS when he was overcome by a high-pitched scream produced by Delta's child, the Chimeron Princess, amplified by a PA system. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 49 | /m/02hk7l3 Florence Finnegan | /common/topic/description | Florence Finnegan is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Florence Finnegan was the name assumed by the Plasmavore, played by Anne Reid, who was hiding from the Judoon in the Royal Hope Hospital in London when it was transported to the Moon in Smith and Jones. To avoid detection by the Judoon, she sucked the blood out of Mr. Stoker (a consultant working in the hospital, and his name possibly a reference to Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula), allowing her to assimilate human DNA and register as human on the Judoon scanners. The Doctor later tricked her into sucking his blood, meaning that she registered as non-human, having assimilated non-human blood, when re-scanned by Martha Jones in front of the Judoon. Her attempt to fry the brains of those within the hospital and on the half of the Earth facing the Moon using a converted MRI machine, allowing her to escape in a Judoon ship, was foiled as the Judoon executed her for the murder of an alien princess and the Doctor deactivated the MRI machine.Interestingly, in the Seventh Doctor serial The Curse of Fenric, set in 1945, actress Anne Reid played a character, Nurse Crane, who fell victim to another race of creatures who fed on blood, the Haemovores. Haemovore victims would often go on to become Haemovores themselves. However, there is no suggestion on screen that Florence Finnegan is intended to be Nurse Crane's later vampiric self. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 50 | /m/02hk7kf Mister Finch | /common/topic/description | Mister Finch is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Mister Finch was an alias for Brother Lassar, the leader of a group of Krillitanes. His first and only appearance to date was in the 2006 series episode School Reunion, where he was portrayed by Anthony Head. His first name of "Lucas" is given on the Deffry Vale School website. According to an on-line interview with Head, Finch's original name in the script was "Hector", but this had to be changed when a check found a real headmaster named "Hector Finch". He is also aware of the Time War and the Time Lords' near-extinction.The Krillitanes had taken human characteristics to infiltrate the Deffry Vale comprehensive school. Taking the position of headmaster, Finch gradually replaced the staff members with disguised Krillitanes and then enacted a series of reforms, including specialised programmes of study and free, but compulsory, school dinners. The dinners were laced with Krillitane oil, which was designed to enhance the intelligence of the pupils in a bid to use them to decode the Skasis Paradigm, which would give the Krillitanes control over the structure of reality. The Krillitanes could not use the oil themselves because their constantly changing morphology had rendered it toxic to their systems.The Tenth Doctor and his current companions investigated the school, meeting his old companions Sarah Jane Smith and K-9 Mark III. Finch squared off against the Doctor, offering the use of the solved Paradigm and tempting him with the power, but Sarah's urgings helped the Doctor to refuse. In the midst of escaping, K-9 sacrificed itself by using its laser to blow up the barrels of Krillitane oil in the kitchen, showering most of the Krillitanes with it before the kitchen exploded, apparently killing them all. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 51 | /m/02hk7jr Fenric | /common/topic/description | Fenric is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Fenric was a being described by the Seventh Doctor as "evil from the dawn of time," a malevolent force that survived the clash of energies present at the birth of the universe. In an untelevised adventure, the Doctor had encountered Fenric and defeated him by challenging him to solve a chess puzzle. When Fenric proved unable to solve it, the Doctor then trapped the being in a flask for where he remained for several thousand years.However, Fenric was still able to manipulate human minds and events through time and space. He set up pawns, bloodlines of families that were under his control and he could use, "The Curse of Fenric" stretching down through generations. These people were known as the "Wolves of Fenric", and their true purpose was unknown even to them. He also had the power to summon Haemovores, vampires which were to be the evolutionary destiny of mankind in a possible far future. The haemovores were strong enough to be able to weld metal with their bare hands, and were also immune to bullets. They could be countered, however, with a psychic barrier caused by faith.Eventually, the flask was brought to a British Army base in Northumberland in 1942, where several Wolves, including the Doctor's companion Ace, were manipulated into freeing Fenric from his flask. He also summoned the Ancient One, the last of the Haemovores from the future, in an attempt to poison the world with a deadly chemical toxin. Fenric then revealed that he had manipulated the Seventh Doctor's life upon several occasions as part of his game, including creating the time storm that originally took Ace to Iceworld and influencing the Cybermen in their attempts to gain the power of the Nemesis statue. Eventually, the Doctor convinced the Ancient One to turn on Fenric; the Ancient One then destroyed Fenric and himself with the same toxin.In Norse mythology, Fenric is another name for Fenrisulfr, the monstrous wolf that will devour Odin during Ragnarök. The Virgin New Adventures novel All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane also equates Fenric with the Cthulhu Mythos entity Hastur the Unspeakable. As with all spin-off media, the canonicity of this is unclear. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 52 | /m/02hk7j0 The Fendahl | /common/topic/description | The Fendahl is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Fendahl was an entity that devoured life itself. It originated on the fifth planet of Earth's solar system, which the ancient Time Lords placed in a time loop in an attempt to imprison the creature. However, the Fendahl escaped and, in the form of a humanoid skull, was buried under volcanic rock on prehistoric Earth 12 million years ago. The story of the Fendahl passed into Time Lord myth, and was forgotten. The Fendahl's power, contained in a pentagram-shaped neural relay in the bones of the skull, affected life on Earth via a biotransmutation field, influencing life forms in its vicinity (including the early hominids) to develop into forms it could use.In the late 20th century, the Fendahl skull was discovered in Kenya by a team of anthropologists under the leadership of one Dr. Fendelman. Fendelman brought the skull to an English research facility at Fetch Priory, near the village of Fetchborough. The Priory was built on a time fissure, causing psychic ability in some nearby residents. In the Priory, Fendelman and his fellow researchers Thea Ransome, Adam Colby and Maximillian Stael performed experiments on the skull, attempting to unlock its secrets. Fendelman used a crude time scanner to examine the skull, a dangerous activity which drew the attention of the Fourth Doctor. Stael attempted to capture the power of the Fendahl for himself by means of black magic rituals, performed with the aid of a local coven, but he, Fendelman and Ransome were all being used by the Fendahl to recreate itself.The Fendahl was a gestalt creature with multiple aspects. Thea Ransome was transformed into the Fendahl Core, a humanoid female with golden skin and blank, staring eyes. Several of the cult members became slug-like creatures called Fendahleen. All the aspects of the Fendahl had powerful psychotelekinetic ability, and can control the muscles of human victims. The Fendahleen were vulnerable to sodium chloride, which altered the creatures' conductivity and destroyed their electrical balance.In its final form, the Fendahl would consist of the Core and twelve Fendahleen; however, the Doctor was able to prevent the creature from reaching its full manifestation. He rigged Fendelman's time scanner to implode, destroying the Core and the Fendahleen. He also removed the skull, planning to drop it into a star about to go supernova.The Fendahl has also appeared in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Taking of Planet 5 by Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, as well as in the Kaldor City series of audio plays and the Time Hunter novella Deus Le Volt by Jon de Burgh Miller. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 53 | /m/02hk7hb Empress of the Racnoss | /common/topic/description | The Empress of the Racnoss is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Empress of the Racnoss featured in The Runaway Bride. She was killed when Mr. Saxon ordered her ship to be shot down. She was a huge red spider. She was portrayed by Sarah Parish. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 54 | /m/02hk7gn The Editor | /common/topic/description | The Editor is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Editor was the mysterious manager of the space station Satellite 5, an orbital news station around Earth broadcasting across the whole of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire of the year 200,000. The character was played by Simon Pegg.Little is known about the Editor, except that he managed the operations of Satellite 5 from Floor 500, unseen and unknown to the rank-and-file journalists who packaged and broadcast the news over six hundred channels. He also monitored the thoughts of all those connected to the archives of the station via chips implanted into people's heads, which were required to access the computer systems of the 2001st century. Through these implants, the Editor was able to instantly know whatever the person connected knew, and was even able to sense when a record was fictional or not, or that there was something out of place with a particular individual before a security check confirmed it.The Editor was a smooth and sinister individual in the mould of an evil genius, but was not the true controller of the station. He reported to the monstrous slug-like extraterrestrial known as the Jagrafess. The Editor claimed that he represented a consortium of interstellar banks whose intent was to subtly control the Empire by means of manipulating the news. In the ninety years since Satellite 5 had been established, the social, economic and technological development of the human race had been retarded, making them inward looking and xenophobic. When the Ninth Doctor investigated this, he and Rose were captured by the Editor.Initially, the Editor was both intrigued and frustrated at the fact that records of their existence did not seem to exist in the archives. However, because the Doctor's new companion Adam had accessed the archives of the Satellite, the Editor acquired the knowledge that the Doctor was a Time Lord and had a TARDIS capable of time travel.Before he could gain the Doctor's secrets or claim the TARDIS, however, a human journalist named Cathica (who had been following the Doctor's investigation) reversed the environmental controls of Floor 500 that had been kept at an icy temperature vital for keeping the Jagrafess alive. Overheating, the Jagrafess exploded, apparently taking the Editor with him.In the episode Bad Wolf, taking place on Satellite 5 a century after The Long Game, it was revealed that the Badwolf Corporation was behind the Jagrafess, and that his masters were the Daleks. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 55 | /m/02hk7fz The Destroyer | /common/topic/description | The Destroyer is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Destroyer was an otherdimensional entity summoned by the sorceress Morgaine in Battlefield (1989) to aid her in defeating the Seventh Doctor. Known by many titles, including "Destroyer of Worlds", he was kept subdued by chains of pure silver, and even Morgaine hesitated in unleashing him on the world until he allowed the Doctor to gain the upper hand, thus forcing Morgaine to free him in a desperate attempt to avoid defeat.At the time, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart had been called out of retirement to assist UNIT against Morgaine's invasion. Taking a box of silver bullets meant for combating werewolves from UNIT stores, he loaded a revolver with them. The Destroyer taunted the elderly Brigadier for being the best Earth could offer as its champion; the Brigadier's response was to fire the silver bullets into the demon. The building the Destroyer was in subsequently exploded in a burst of magical energy, and presumably the creature was destroyed with it.The design for the Destroyer was based on theatrical devil's mask, modfied so that an actor could speak through it. The cloak that covered its chainmail armour disguised the mechanical parts needed for the costume's special effects. Script writer Ben Aaronovitch originally intended the Destroyer to start off as a businessman who gradually became more demonic as he fell under Morgaine's spell, but this was time-consuming and expensive, so he stayed in one form throughout. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 56 | /m/02hk7f8 De Flores | /common/topic/description | De Flores is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.De Flores was a Neo-Nazi, based in South America, who aimed to establish a Fourth Reich, aided by a powerful Time Lord weapon, known as the Nemesis, as seen in Silver Nemesis (1988). He led a group of paramilitary men against Lady Peinforte, a group of Cybermen and the Seventh Doctor, who all vied to control the Nemesis. He possessed the bow - part of the Nemesis as it was in its statue form - which he and his men reunited with the statue body when it fell to England in a comet in 1988. After allying himself with the Cybermen, De Flores was killed by the Cyber Leader when he outlived his usefulness to them. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 57 | /m/02hk7dj Dalek Sec | /common/topic/description | Dalek Sec is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Dalek Sec was a Dalek Supreme and the leader of the Cult of Skaro. He was first shown in Army of Ghosts / Doomsday and re-appeared in Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks. Sec escaped the Time War in a void ship and reapeared in 21st Century Earth with the rest of the Cult. His plan was to unlock a Time Lord prison ship called the Genesis Ark which contained millions of captive Daleks, using background radiation on Rose Tyler, but then Rose mentioned that the Dalek Emperor survived much to his surprise and became enraged when Rose told him how she killed him. A furious Sec was about to exterminate her when The Doctor intervened and summoned a squad of Cybermen to cover his escape; unfortunately Mickey Smith accidentally placed his hand on the Ark priming it. Sec was the leader of the Dalek attack during the Battle of Canary Wharf against the Cybermen. He escaped the Void by initiating an Emergency Temporal Shift. Along with the rest of the Cult of Skaro, he ended up in New York in 1930 and established a base beneath the Empire State Building.Taking control of the Empire State construction and forcibly converting humans into "pig slaves" to serve as a labor force, the Cult of Skaro also worked on experiments designed to evolve Dalek-kind into a new form. The Cult recruited the power-hungry Mr Diagoras, who seemed to think like a Dalek the most. Sec turned against the concept of Dalek genetic purity, viewing survival as more important and seeing human DNA as holding useful attributes, as the humans thrive as a species whereas the Daleks become extinct. Using himself and Mr Diagoras as the test for the Final Experiment, he was transformed into the first Hybrid Dalek. While in his new body, he began to feel humanity, asked the Doctor to help him create more hybrids using human bodies, and started to express his feelings that their creator was wrong. He decided to have the new race live on, different from the Daleks, since if they continued to try to be superior, they would eventualy die. However, the other Daleks came to reject Sec's theories, and eventually betrayed him, while Dalek Caan took control and fueled the other human bodies with pure Dalek DNA. When the Daleks tracked the Doctor down, they took Sec with them, and accidentally exterminated him, when he saved the Doctor by sacrificing himself. The Doctor showed his respect for Sec by calling him the "cleverest Dalek ever" and the only creature that could have led the Daleks from the darkness. Due to his transformation from Dalek to human, Dalek Sec has been the only Dalek to repent the deaths he caused, and the only Dalek who willingly sacrificed himself to save the Doctor. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 58 | /m/02hk7cv Chief Caretaker | /common/topic/description | The Chief Caretaker is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Chief Caretaker, played by Richard Briers, featured in Paradise Towers, (1987), served the intelligence Kroagnon, the Great Architect of Paradise Towers. He sanctioned the robotic Cleaners' killings, but lost control of the situation and was killed by Kroagnon for his body. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 59 | /m/02hk7c4 Harrison Chase | /common/topic/description | Harrison Chase is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Harrison Chase was an eccentric millionaire whose primary hobby was botany. He was in many ways similar to James Bond villain Karl Stromberg; a madman with a disdainful attitude toward human life, and favouritism over another form of life, in this case plant life.Through his vast resources, Chase learned that the seed pods of a Krynoid, an intelligent form of alien plant life, had been found in Antarctica. A collector of rare specimens, Chase became obsessed with obtaining a sample, and successfully acquired one. He allowed the Krynoid to possess one of his henchmen, who began to mutate into a Human-Krynoid hybrid. As the monster grew in size and power, Chase too became possessed by the Krynoid.Convinced of a future where Krynoids are the dominant life form on Earth, Chase aided the monster in earnest. By this time, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith were trapped on Chase's property. Chase eventually captured Sarah and attempted to kill her by throwing her into a compost shredder. The Doctor stopped him, and the two fought, until Chase fell into the shredder and perished. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 60 | /m/02hk7bb The Captain | /common/topic/description | The Captain is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Captain was a space pirate who appeared in the fourth Doctor episode The Pirate Planet. He was a cyborg, with half of his body covered in cybernetics, and had a pet robot parrot that rested on his shoulder. He was prone to ridiculous expletives like "by the beard of the sky demon!" and "moons of madness!", and was directly served by a nurse and a nervous little man named Mr Fibuli. The Captain piloted an entire planet called Zanak, which would materialize around other planets and crush them into precious gems. The Captain kept a trophy room of the super-compressed planets he had conquered. Toward the end of the episode, it was revealed that the Captain's nurse was actually a projection of a queen named Xanxia, who was controlling the Captain and using the energy created by the crushing of plundered planets to fuel a machine that perpetually kept her a few seconds from death. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 61 | /m/02hk79n Taren Capel | /common/topic/description | Taren Capel is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 62 | /m/02hk78x Borad | /common/topic/description | Borad is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 63 | /m/02hk786 Bok | /common/topic/description | Bok is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Bok was the gargoyle servant of Azal in the Third Doctor story The Dæmons. Made of stone, he was bulletproof. He was blown apart by a UNIT bazooka, but reformed moments later. He reverted to his statue form when Azal was defeated. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 64 | /m/02hk77g Bennett | /common/topic/description | Bennett is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 65 | /m/02hk76p The Beast | /common/topic/description | The Beast is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Beast was an ancient being that had been trapped for millions of years in a pit at the centre of the planet named in the Scriptures of the Faltino as Krop Tor, orbiting the black hole designated K37 Gem 5 by humans. The centre of the planet, ten miles down, had a powerful energy source which kept it in constant gravitational balance against the pull of the black hole. This counterweight extended out in a funnel into open space.The Beast claimed that he was the basis of the Devil-figure in all religions and mythologies, and originated from before this universe's creation. He had been defeated and trapped beneath the planet by the "Disciples of Light", who had crafted his prison such that if he ever freed himself, the gravitational force would collapse and the planet would be pulled into the black hole, destroying them both.The Beast was awakened when a human expeditionary force flew their ship through the funnel to land on the planet, hoping to excavate and claim the power source for their Empire. The Beast exhibited the ability to telepathically possess and speak through other beings, in particular the empathic Ood, who became his "Legion of the Beast". He was also able to divine the hidden fears and secrets of those with whom he spoke, unnerving them greatly.He possessed Toby Zed, a human member of the expedition while leaving his own body, which resembled a horned demon, still chained in the Pit at the heart of Krop Tor. In this way he hoped to escape his prison. However, the Tenth Doctor smashed the power source containing the Beast's prison, causing Krop Tor to be dragged into the black hole and the Beast's original body to burst into flames. At the same time, while fleeing the planet in a rocket with the survivors of the expedition, Toby's possession manifested itself, angrily proclaiming that as long as he was feared, he could never be destroyed. However, Rose Tyler shot out the cockpit window with a bolt gun, causing the possessed Toby to be sucked into space towards the black hole.The Beast claimed that he had many names, among them Abaddon and Satan. It is unknown whether they are the same. Gabriel Woolf, who provided the Beast's voice, played Sutekh the Destroyer in the 1975 serial Pyramids of Mars, an entity who was also said to have been named Satan.In Torchwood episode End of Days a similar giant creature named Abaddon is released from the Cardiff spacetime Rift and is referred to as the "son of the great Beast". The Torchwood website alludes to the Beast by asking "Were there other beings like Abaddon? Are they also entombed underneath planets across the universe?". /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 66 | /m/02hk75_ Baltazar | /common/topic/description | Baltazar is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Baltazar, Scourge of the Galaxy, is a space pirate in the animated Tenth Doctor serial, The Infinite Quest, featured as part of the second series of Totally Doctor Who in 2007, voiced by Anthony Head. Using enhanced rust, the Doctor destroyed the ship Baltazar had built, Baltazar having destroyed the entire Earth defence. With his space piracy, cybernetics, robot parrot, and desire to crush planets into precious gems, Baltazar bears a striking resemblance to The Captain. a character from the Fourth Doctor adventure, The Pirate Planet. In Episode One of The Infinite Quest, The Doctor tells Martha Jones Baltazar destroyed a planet in the 40th century. Also, Baltazar crafted the ship he travelled in, proudly telling the time travellers he built it over numerous decades. At the end of Episode One, Baltazar was meant to end up on a prison planet, The Doctor predicted. In Episode Two, Caw took the TARDIS to his homeworld, Pharos. Caw claimed Baltazar had ended up on a prison planet. He gave Martha Jones a medallion, and the Doctor part of a black box recorder, which the Doctor said would eventually lead them to "The Infinite", a mythical ship that was made in the "Dark Times", as the Doctor put it. But when the TARDIS left, it was revealed Baltazar was hiding behind the TARDIS. He had asked Caw to give the doctor a tracking device. He laughed, claiming they would find "The Infinite" for them. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 67 | /m/02hk759 Azal | /common/topic/description | Azal is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Azal was the Dæmon that terrorised Devil's End in the Third Doctor story The Dæmons. Summoned by the Master, Azal had a gargoyle, by the name of Bok, as a servant. Azal was defeated by the Doctor and Jo Grant. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 68 | /m/02hk74m The Animus | /common/topic/description | The Animus is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Animus was an alien intelligence from an unknown planet which landed on the planet Vortis. It could take over any living creature that was in contact with gold and had already taken control of the ant-like Zarbi when the Doctor and his companions arrived on Vortis in the serial The Web Planet. One of Vortis' surviving lifeforms, the Optera, referred to the Animus as "Pwodarauk". The Animus manifested itself within an organic, self-healing palace called the Carcinome.At the end of the story, the Animus's true form was revealed, as resembling an octopus with some arachnid features. The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki help the Menoptra to destroy the Animus using the Menoptra's secret weapon, the Isop-tope. After that, it is assumed that natives of Vortis managed to resolve their differences peacefully.The Animus has returned or been mentioned in several spin-off stories. In the Missing Adventure Twilight of the Gods by Christopher Bulis, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria return to Vortis and encounter a seed of the Animus which had survived. The New Adventure All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane identified the Animus with the Great Old One Lloigor from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Finally, an article by Russell T. Davies in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 says that the "Greater Animus perished" in the Time War, "and its Carsenome (sic) Walls fell into dust." These references, like the rest of the spin-off media, are of unclear canonicity. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 69 | /m/02hk73y Father Angelo | /common/topic/description | Father Angelo is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Father Angelo, played by Ian Hanmore, was the leader of the ninja monks who captured the Torchwood Estate and gave refuge to a werewolf, as seen in Tooth and Claw (2006). He sought to take the throne from Queen Victoria, but she shot and killed him. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 70 | /m/02hk737 Abzorbaloff | /common/topic/description | The Abzorbaloff is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.The Abzorbaloff is a monster designed by nine-year-old William Grantham of Colchester, Essex for a "Design a Doctor Who Monster" competition held by Blue Peter.The competition was announced in July 2005, and received 43,920 entries. These were judged by Blue Peter editor Richard Marson, presenter Gethin Jones, Doctor Who producer Russell T Davies and Tenth Doctor David Tennant. The first prize for the competition was to have the monster appear in an episode of Doctor Who. Tennant announced the winner on Blue Peter on 17 August 2005. Conditions of the competition meant that the monster had to be able to be made from prosthetics and not require CGI.Russell T. Davies revealed on the Doctor Who Confidential episode "New World of Who" that Grantham imagined the Abzorbaloff to be the size of a double-decker bus, so was initially disappointed to see the final size of his creation. However, Grantham's design had not included size specifications (though the remains of the monster's victims on and within his body hinted at his being huge) and a larger size would not have fit the criteria of the competition unless the monster were superimposed on footage later on a larger scale. Ultimately, CGI was used for some shots of the talking faces on the Abzorbaloff.Appearing in the episode Love Monsters, the Abzorbaloff, played by Peter Kay, was a creature that absorbed other living beings into his body with a simple touch. In doing so, the Abzorbaloff made his victims part of himself, adding their memories and knowledge to his own. The victims retain their identity and consciousness for at least several weeks after absorption, during which time their faces can be seen embedded in his flesh, but eventually, those too are eliminated as they are fully absorbed. During this period, however, the absorption process works both ways - in becoming part of the Abzorbaloff, they are able to access his thoughts, just as he is able to access theirs. To restrain his absorption ability, the Abzorbaloff requires the use of a "limitation field," which limits absorption to physical contact. The Abzorbaloff hails from Clom, the sister planet of Raxacoricofallapatorius, homeworld of the criminal Slitheen clan. Despite a passing resemblance to them, the Abzorbaloff spoke of the Raxacoricofallapatorians with contempt.Seeking to absorb the Doctor and his hundreds of years of experience, the Abzorbaloff adopted a human disguise as "Victor Kennedy," his limitation field generated by the ornate cane he wielded. Taking charge of "LINDA", a small group of ordinary people who followed the exploits of the Doctor, the Abzorbaloff steadily absorbed their numbers one by one, until only Elton Pope remained. Pursuing Pope through the back streets of London, the Abzorbaloff was confronted by the Doctor, who stirred the absorbed victims to fight against the monster. Pulling the Abzorbaloff's body in different directions, the victims made him drop his cane, which Elton snapped in two, destroying the limitation field and causing the Abzorbaloff's absorption power to run out of control. His body collapsed into liquid and was itself absorbed by the Earth.Note that "Abzorbaloff" is not the actual name of the species, but was coined independently by Elton Pope and the Doctor. The monster was seen to approve of the term, however. Other names thrown at him by the Doctor and Elton included "Abzorbatron", "Abzorbaklon", "Abzorbatrix" and "Abzorbalot". /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 71 | /m/02hk72k Helen A | /common/topic/description | Helen A is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Helen A, seen in The Happiness Patrol, (1988), was ruler of a human colony on Terra Alpha. Outlawing unhappiness, she brutally controlled the population through executions conducted by the Happiness Patrol and Gilbert M's Kandy Man. Joseph C was her consort and she had a pet Stigorax, called Fifi. Joseph C escaped the city when the Pipe People revolted against Helen A's rule. Fifi was killed, crushed in the pipes below the city during the uprising. Helen A, unable to escape, only came to understand the Doctor's notion that happiness can only truly be appreciated when counter-balanced with sadness when she discovered Fifi's remains. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 72 | /m/02pcf8b Donna Noble | /common/topic/description | Donna Noble is a fictional character played by Catherine Tate in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A secretary from London, she is a companion of the Tenth Doctor appearing in two episodes in 2006. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 73 | /m/02hk6rz Animus | /common/topic/description | The Animus was an alien intelligence from an unknown planet which landed on the planet Vortis. It could take over any living creature that was in contact with gold and had already taken control of the ant-like Zarbi when the Doctor and his companions arrived on Vortis in the serial The Web Planet. One of Vortis' surviving lifeforms, the Optera, referred to the Animus as "Pwodarauk". The Animus manifested itself within an organic, self-healing palace called the Carcinome.At the end of the story, the Animus's true form was revealed, as resembling an octopus with some arachnid features. The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki help the Menoptra to destroy the Animus using the Menoptra's secret weapon, the Isop-tope. After that, it is assumed that natives of Vortis managed to resolve their differences peacefully.The Animus has returned or been mentioned in several spin-off stories. In the Missing Adventure Twilight of the Gods by Christopher Bulis, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria return to Vortis and encounter a seed of the Animus which had survived. The New Adventure All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane identified the Animus with the Great Old One Lloigor from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Finally, an article by Russell T. Davies in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 says that the "Greater Animus perished" in the Time War, "and its Carsenome (sic) Walls fell into dust." These references, like the rest of the spin-off media, are of unclear canonicity. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 74 | /m/02630g Gannett Company | /common/topic/description | Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded media holding company based in the United States and is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper USA TODAY, and the weekly USA WEEKEND. The company was founded in 1906 by Frank Gannett, and started in newspaper ownership. Its headquarters are in McLean, a community in Fairfax County, Virginia, which is a suburb of Washington, D.C. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 75 | /m/02hj__7 Technology & Learning | /common/topic/description | Articles, reviews of software, new products and news of note on technology for teachers, media specialists and librarians, curriculum supervisors and school computer coordinators. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 76 | /m/02hfkr_ Science | /common/topic/description | In the broadest sense, science (from the Latin "to know") refers to any systematic methodology which attempts to collect accurate information about reality and to model this in a way which can be used to make reliable, concrete and quantitative predictions about future events and observations. In a more restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research.[1] Science as defined above is sometimes termed pure science to differentiate it from applied science, which is the application of scientific research to specific human needs. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 77 | /m/01hddb National Geographic | /common/topic/description | The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded. It has become one of the world's best-known magazines and is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow border running around the edge of its cover.There are 12 monthly issues of National Geographic per year, plus additional map supplements. On rare occasions, special editions are also issued. It contains articles about geography, popular science, history, culture, current events, and photography. The current Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic Magazine is the renowned photographer, Chris Johns, who has photographed extensively in Africa. The foreword to Johns' own illustrated book on Africa was written by Nelson Mandela.Society Executive Vice President John Q. Griffin, and President of the Magazine Group, has overall responsibility for the English language magazines at National Geographic. Terry B. Adamson, a Society Executive Vice President who also is the Society's chief legal officer and heads governmental relations, has overall responsibility for the Society's international publications.With a worldwide circulation in all languages of nearly nine million, more than fifty million people read the magazine every month. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 78 | /en/liberty_magazine_cover | /common/topic/description | Liberty: magazine cover /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 79 | /m/02f6x5 Liberty | /common/topic/description | libertarian journal founded in 1987 by R. W. Bradford (who was the magazine's publisher and editor until his death from cancer in 2005) in Port Townsend, Washington, and currently edited from San Diego by Stephen Cox. Unlike Reason, which is printed on glossy paper and has full-color photographs, Liberty is printed on uncoated paper stock and has line drawing cartoons by S. H. (Scott) Chambers and Rex F. "Baloo" May, no photographs except for advertisements, and only one extra color (blue), which is limited to the cover and occasionally a few ads. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 80 | /m/01x82t Reason | /common/topic/description | Reason was founded in 1968 by Lanny Friedlander as a more-or-less monthly mimeographed publication. In 1970 it was purchased by Robert W. Poole, Manuel S. Klausner, and Tibor R. Machan, who set it on a more regular publishing schedule. As the monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets", it covers politics, culture, and ideas with a mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews. The magazine now has a circulation of around 60,000 and has twice been named one of the (US) country's "50 best magazines" by the Chicago Tribune. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 81 | /m/02yxk3 Foreign Policy | /common/topic/description | Foreign Policy is a bimonthly American magazine founded in 1970 by Samuel P. Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel. It is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Its topics include global politics, economics, integration and ideas. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 82 | /m/01d6m_ The Weekly Standard | /common/topic/description | The Weekly Standard is an American magazine popular among the politically conservative and is published 48 times per year. It made its debut on September 17, 1995 and is owned by the public company News Corporation. Its current editors are founder William Kristol, chairman of the Project for the New American Century, and Fred Barnes. The Weekly Standard produces "The Daily Standard" with commentary and articles written for the magazine's website. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 83 | /m/06rb5c Once every two months | /common/topic/description | Bimonthly is a reference to the interval between events; once every two months. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 84 | /en/university_of_wisconsin_parkside_logo | /common/topic/description | This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as fair use under United States copyright law. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 85 | /m/02h9ctb Robert Anton Wilson | /common/topic/description | Photo courtesy of Robert Altman (altmanphoto.com/robert@altmanphoto.com) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 86 | /m/05mqkg Business-to-business | /common/topic/description | Business-to-business involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses, as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, for example consumers or public administration. B2B transactions tend to take place within one category of products or service. For example, an enterprise dealing with agricultural products will for a bulk buyer within the agriculture category. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 87 | /m/02h98v8 Title Wave Books | /common/topic/description | Title Wave Books is the largest independent bookstore in Alaska, and one of the largest new-and-used bookstores in the entire country. Title Wave is located in mid-town Anchorage, with a second location in downtown Anchorage opening up by the end of May, 2007. Title Wave stocks a half-million titles, plus discounted audiobooks, music CDs, and movies. Title Wave offers an events calendar filled with author appearances, live music, readings and presentations. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 88 | /m/02bb_4 Alessandria | /common/topic/description | Alessandria is a city in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria and is a major railway hub. The city is sited on the river Tanaro, 55 miles southeast of Turin. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 89 | /m/01zvdw Douglas Rushkoff | /common/topic/description | Douglas Rushkoff is a New York-based writer, columnist and lecturer on technology, media and popular culture.Rushkoff graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. He moved to Los Angeles and pursued a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from California Institute of the Arts. Later he took up a post-graduate fellowship from the American Film Institute.Today, he teaches media theory at New York University's (NYU) Interactive Telecommunications Program. Rushkoff is known for being an active member of the cyberpunk movement and was the online associate of Timothy Leary. His rooted, often insightful, views on cyberculture and the media made him a sought after advisor and consultant with many organizations and companies, including the United Nations Commission on World Culture and the Sony corporation. Though an advocate for new technologies, his views lean towards a rational, creative and open source use of technology, making him a founding member of Technorealism. This extends to his broader philosophy as the founder of an online community for discussion of Judaism and related issues, called Open Source Judaism.In 2003 Rushkoff was keyboard player for a short-term line-up of Psychic TV. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 90 | /m/016lh0 Ron Paul | /common/topic/description | Ronald Ernest “Ron” Paul is a 10-term Congressman, medical doctor (M.D.), and a 2008 presidential candidate from the U.S. state of Texas. As a Republican, he has represented Texas's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997, and had previously served as the representative from Texas's 22nd district in 1976 and from 1979 to 1985.Congressman Ron Paul advocates the limited role of government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to monetary policies based on commodity-backed currency. He has earned the nickname "Dr. No" for voting against any bill he believes violates the Constitution. In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the "one exception to the Gang of 535" on Capitol Hill. He has never voted to raise taxes or congressional pay; He voted against the Patriot Act and the Iraq War. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 91 | /m/0cc8j7 George Nelson Tremper High School | /common/topic/description | George Nelson Tremper High School was named after Mr. George Nelson Tremper, who was the principal of Kenosha High School from 1911 to 1944. The 272,786 square foot Tremper High School was completed in the fall of 1964 and opened in January 1966. The first class to graduate from Tremper High School did so in June 1965. Tremper High School was designed by John J. Flad Architects in Madison, Wisconsin, and built by Camosy Incorporated, Kenosha, Wisconsin, for a cost of approximately $4,860,000. The Tremper Trojans compete in the WIAA Southeast Conference.Tremper High School is a comprehensive high school in a diversely supportive and respectful environment that encourages students to succeed in core and elective subjects while developing life skills and experiences through intense study, exploration of personal talents, and a commitment to life-long learning.Tremper is part of Kenosha Unified School District. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 92 | /m/02h98q4 Penton Media | /common/topic/description | Founded in 1886, Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. Penton's objective is to connect and enhance business communities, helping the customers we serve to grow through our market-leading media products and services.The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 96 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Penton has 30 office locations and employs more than 1,600 editors, publishers, sales representatives, marketers, and other professionals.Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein Co., LP, and its co-investors. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 93 | /m/07vw5 Umberto Eco | /common/topic/description | Umberto Eco is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays.Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont. His father, Giulio, was an accountant before the government called upon him to serve in three wars. During World War II, Umberto and his mother, Giovanna, moved to a small village in the Piedmontese mountainside.His family name is supposedly an acronym of ex coelis oblatus (lat: a gift from the heavens), which was given to his grandfather (a foundling) by a city official.His father was the son of a family with thirteen children, and urged him to become a lawyer, but he entered the University of Turin in order to take up medieval philosophy and literature, writing his thesis on Thomas Aquinas and earning his BA of philosophy in 1954. During this time, Eco left the Roman Catholic Church after a crisis of faith.After this, Eco worked as a cultural editor for the state broadcasting station Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) and also lectured at the University of Turin (1956–64). A group of avant-garde artists—painters, musicians, writers—whom he had befriended at RAI became an important and influential component in Eco's future writing career. This was especially true after the publication of his first book in 1956, Il problema estetico di San Tommaso, which was an extension of his doctoral thesis. This also marked the beginning of his lecturing career at his alma mater.In September 1962 he married Renate Ramge, a German art teacher. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 94 | /m/019gpb The Name of the Rose | /common/topic/description | The Name of the Rose, a novel by Umberto Eco, is a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327. First published in Italian in 1980 under the title Il nome della rosa, it appeared in 1983 in an English translation by William Weaver.Along with his apprentice Adso of Melk (named after the Benedictine abbey Stift Melk), the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville journeys to an abbey where a murder has been committed.As the plot unfolds, several other people mysteriously die. The protagonists explore a labyrinthine medieval library, the subversive power of laughter, and come face to face with the Inquisition. It is left primarily to William's enormous powers of logic and deduction to solve the mysteries of the abbey.On one level, the book is an excellent exposition of the scholastic method which was very popular in the 14th century. William demonstrates the power of deductive reasoning, especially syllogisms. He refuses to accept the diagnosis of simple demonic possession despite demonology being the traditional monastic explanation. Despite the abbey being under the misapprehension that they are experiencing the last days before the second coming of Christ (a topic closely examined in the book), William, through his empirical mindset, manages to show that the murders are, in fact, committed by a more corporeal instrument. By keeping an open mind, collecting facts and observations, following pure intuition and the dialectic method, he makes decisions as to what he should investigate, exactly as a scholastic would do. The story also demonstrates the crucial importance of chance in any investigative endeavor. Though William's theorized solutions do not exactly match the actual events of the cases, he could not have solved the abbey's mysteries without them. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 95 | /m/02h8_6g Book Sense Book of the Year Award | /common/topic/description | The Book Sense Book of the Year Award, formerly known as the American Booksellers Book of the Year (ABBY) Award, was inaugurated at BookExpo America 2000. The American Booksellers Association renamed the award in recognition of both a new era in bookselling, heralded by the Book Sense program, as well as the important role that the Book Sense Picks List (formerly the Book Sense 76) has played for independent booksellers in discovering and spreading the word to all stores about books of quality. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 96 | /m/02h8zyb Libertarian Futurist Society | /common/topic/description | The Libertarian Futurist Society was founded in 1982 to recognize and promote libertarian science fiction. LFS presents the annual Prometheus Award for Best Novel, the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award for best classic literary works of liberty and occasional Prometheus Special Awards for other categories (short fiction, dramatic presentations, life achievement and similar awards) and publishes the quarterly journal, Prometheus. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 97 | /m/06196 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award | /common/topic/description | The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given out annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society, which also publishes a quarterly journal, Prometheus. The award was founded in 1979 by L. Neil Smith, but was not awarded regularly until the newly-founded Libertarian Futurist Society revived it in 1982. A Hall of Fame Award (for classic works of libertarian science fiction, not necessarily novels) was created in 1983, and the Society also presents occasional one-off awards. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 98 | /m/0cq04 Hagbard Celine | /common/topic/description | Captain Hagbard Celine is afictional character from the Illuminatus trilogy of books/prophecies by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, named after the legendary Viking hero Hagbard who died for love. In the Schrödinger's Cat trilogy, the sequel to Illuminatus!, it is stated that 'Hagbard Celine' is a pseudonym, and his legal name is 'Howard Crane'. However, given the fact that the trilogy passes through many very different universes, it may be, and seems likely in light of other facts, that this is not true in the universe in which Illuminatus! and The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles are set.Parallels to Jules Verne's character, Captain Nemo, are apparent. Both are genius captains aboard a fantastic submarine. Both are rogues who have mostly broken off from society, yet help the oppressed. Some have even theorized that Hagbard Celine is, in fact, Capt. Nemo himself. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 99 | /m/01l0p5 Yog-Sothoth | /common/topic/description | Yog-Sothoth (The Lurker at the Threshold, The Key and the Gate, The Beyond One, Opener of the Way The All-in-One and the One-in-All) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos. The being was created by H.P. Lovecraft and first appeared in his novella The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. The being is said to take the form of a conglomeration of glowing bubbles.Yog-Sothoth also occasionally appears in fiction outside the Cthulhu Mythos milieu. The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, Yog-Sothoth describe as an extradimensional entity, whose attributes differ widely from those described in the Mythos. Worshipped as a god by some incarnations of the Illuminati, it is known as the Eater of Souls for its habit of feeding from human sacrifices. It is bodiless and invisible, but can possess humans, and can be imprisoned in pentagonal shapes; for several decades, it was imprisoned in The Pentagon by the Illuminati, and fed on traffic fatalities.Other non-Mythos appearances are allusions or in-jokes. Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Moving Pictures mentions an "outerdimensional being" named Yob Soddoth. A graffito in Stephen King's 1991 book Needful Things proclaims "Yog-Sothoth Rules," while a sign in his 1980 short story "Crouch End" reads "Yogsoggoth." "Eggs Sothoth" are served in H.P.'s Cafe, mentioned several times in the novels of Christopher Moore. In Zenith, a series in the comic 2000 AD, Iok Sotot is one of the Many-Angled Ones, extradimensional entities who correspond, in the Zenith universe, to the ancient gods described by Lovecraft.The Doctor Who novel Millennial Rites by Craig Hinton identifies the Doctor Who villain the Great Intelligence as, in actuality, Yog-Sothoth. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
| 100 | /m/09j7c The Illuminatus! Trilogy | /common/topic/description | The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson primarily between 1969 and 1971. The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex- and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, which hinge around the authors' version of the Illuminati. The narrative often switches between third and first person perspectives and jumps around in time. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology and Discordianism.The trilogy comprises the books The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple and Leviathan. They were first published starting in September 1975, as three separate volumes, and in 1984 as an omnibus; they are now more commonly reprinted in the latter form. The trilogy won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, designed to honor classic libertarian fiction, in 1986. The authors went on to create several works, both fiction and nonfiction, that further discussed the themes of the trilogy, but no direct sequels were produced. Illuminatus! has been adapted for the stage, and has influenced several modern writers, musicians and games-makers. The popularity of the word "fnord" and the 23 enigma can both be attributed to the trilogy. It remains a seminal work of conspiracy fiction, predating Foucault's Pendulum and The Da Vinci Code by decades. /lang/en | /user/techgnostic | none | |
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