Doctor Who: Doctor Who Creatures And Aliens

Abzorbaloff

This alien could absorb any living thing into its body by touch and then digest the organism

[edit] Adipose

Doctor Who alien

Adipose
Type	Living Fat
Affiliated with	Matron Cofelia
Home planet	Born on Earth but are sent home to Adipose 3
First appearance	"Partners in Crime"

The Adipose are aliens composed of living fat, featured in the episode "Partners in Crime". Their breeding world, Adipose 3, was lost, causing them to turn to "Miss Foster", or Matron Cofelia of the Five Straighten Classabindi Nursery Fleet, Intergalactic Class, to create a new generation. She formulated a drug that would cause human fat (adipose tissue) to morph by parthenogenesis into Adipose children. The process is generally harmless to the host beyond the loss of body fat; in emergencies the process can be accelerated, converting the host's entire body, which is fatal to the host and produces ill and weak Adipose children.^[1] The official Doctor Who website's Monster Files feature states that the baby Adipose were taken into care by the Shadow Proclamation.^[2]
In the parallel universe created in "Turn Left", the Adipose incident happened in America instead of the United Kingdom, as London was destroyed when the Titanic crashed into Buckingham Palace because of the absence of the Doctor ("Voyage of the Damned"). Over 60 million Americans (roughly 20% of the total population of the United States) were killed in this timeline as a result.
In "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End" it is revealed that the breeding planet, Adipose 3, was one of the 27 planets relocated to the Medusa Cascade by the New Dalek Empire. After their defeat, Adipose 3 and the other planets were returned to their original positions.
In "The End of Time", an Adipose is shown in a bar along with other aliens the Tenth Doctor had previously encountered. Five Adipose action figures were released as part of the first series 4 wave.

[edit] Aggedor

Main articles: The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon

Doctor Who alien

Aggedor
Type	Alien mammal
Home planet	Peladon
First appearance	The Curse of Peladon

[edit] Alpha Centauri

Main articles: Alpha Centauri, The Curse of Peladon, and The Monster of Peladon

Doctor Who alien

Alpha Centauri
Type	Alien reptile
Affiliated with	Galactic Federation
Home planet	Alpha Centauri
First appearance	The Curse of Peladon

[edit] Alzarian

Main article: Full Circle

Doctor Who alien

Alzarian
Type	Mutated Marshmen
Home planet	Alzaria
First appearance	Full Circle

[edit] Androgum

Main article: The Two Doctors

Doctor Who alien

Androgum
Type	Alien Humanoids
First appearance	The Two Doctors

[edit] Anethan

Main article: The Horns of Nimon

Doctor Who alien

Anethan
Type	Alien Humanoids
Home planet	Aneth
First appearance	The Horns of Nimon

[edit] Anti-Man

Main article: Planet of Evil

Doctor Who alien

Anti-Man
Type	Mutated Human
Affiliated with	Anti-Matter
Home planet	Most likely born on Earth
First appearance	Planet of Evil

[edit] Arcturus

Main article: The Curse of Peladon

Doctor Who alien

Arcturus
Type	Alien Amphibian
Affiliated with	Galactic Federation
Home planet	Arcturus
First appearance	The Curse of Peladon

[edit] Argolin

Doctor Who alien

Argolin
Type	Humanoid
Affiliated with	The Foamasi
Home planet	Argolis
First appearance	The Leisure Hive

The Argolin, who appeared in the Fourth Doctor story The Leisure Hive by David Fisher, are the inhabitants of Argolis. In 2250, the Argolin, led by Theron, fought and lost a 20-minute nuclear war with the Foamasi. As a result of this war, the Argolin became sterile. They were long-lived, but when they neared the end of their life they aged and declined very rapidly.
The Argolin who survived the war put aside their race's traditional warlike ways and remade Argolis as "the first of the leisure planets", catering to tourists from many worlds. They built a "Leisure Hive" dedicated to relaxation and cross-cultural understanding; due to radioactive fallout from the war, the Argolin planned to live in the Hive for at least three centuries. Argolis continued to struggle financially, and by 2290 faced possible bankruptcy. A rogue faction of Foamasi known as the West Lodge attempted to purchase the entire planet to use as a criminal base, sabotaging recreation facilities to encourage the Argolin to sell. The criminal nature of the offer was exposed by a Foamasi agent, aided by the Fourth Doctor and Romana.
Since the Argolin were sterile, they attempted to renew their race using cloning and tachyonics, but only one of the clones, Pangol, survived to adulthood. Pangol was mentally unstable and obsessed with the Argolin's former warrior culture. He attempted to create an army of tachyonic duplicates of himself, but was unsuccessful and was eventually restored to infancy through the same tachyonic technology that had created him.
In appearance, Argolin are humanoids with greenish skin. Their heads are covered with what appears to be elaborately coiffed hair capped with small domes covered in beads, which fall off when the Argolin become sick or die.

[edit] Aridian

Main article: The Chase

Doctor Who alien

Aridian
Type	Alien Amphibians
Home planet	Aridius
First appearance	The Chase

[edit] Atraxi

Main article: The Eleventh Hour

Doctor Who alien

Atraxi
Type	Partially crystalline eyes
Home planet	Other dimension
First appearance	The Eleventh Hour

The Atraxi are a galactic police force, resembling eyeballs attached to crystalline structures; it is unclear whether these structures are their spaceships or the creatures themselves. These structures also appear briefly in The Pandorica Opens.

[edit] Axons

Main article: The Claws of Axos

Doctor Who alien

Axos
Type	Individual entity, able to change form and split into autonomous units
Home planet	Axos
First appearance	The Claws of Axos

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[edit] Bandril

Main article: Timelash

[edit] Bannerman

Main article: Delta and the Bannermen

[edit] The Beast

Main articles: The Satan Pit and List of Doctor Who villains#Beast

The Beast is a creature whose true identity is unknown. It claims to be the inspiration for all the ideas of the Devil in the universe and to have come from before time (an idea the Doctor rejects, claiming it to be impossible). At the end of "The Satan Pit", it is caught in the event horizon of a black hole, presumably resulting in its death. The beast also has the ability to take over minds (archaeologist Toby Zed and the Ood). When beings are posessed by the beast their eyes glow red.

[edit] Bees

Main article: Bee

A story arc in Series 4 referred to the disappearance of bees, culminating in "The Stolen Earth", where it was revealed that some were aliens from Melissa Majoria that created a path the Doctor could follow to find Earth and the other planets stolen by the Daleks.

[edit] Blade Fin

Main article: Doctor Who: The Adventure Games#Shadows of the Vashta Nerada

The Blade Fin was a shark-like creature that prowled the waters around the flooded 23rd century London, now little more than a network of underwater tunnels codenamed 'Poseidon'. When the Doctor and Amy land the TARDIS in Poseidon, the Blade Fin immediately attacks, attempting to ram its way into the glass tunnels. While constantly having to evade the monster, the two slowly unravell the mystery of Poseidon, which has fallen under threat from not only the Blade Fin, but also the Vashta Nerada and otherworldly radiation. They eventually discover that all the anomalies arrived at the city when the USS Eldridge, an American WWII-era ship which had vanished through a wormhole to another world hundreds of years ago, suddenly jumped back through into the sea several days ago. However, the ship became lodged in the wormhole and held it open, allowing the creatures and the radiation to seep through. The Doctor and Amy travel to the wreckage of the Eldridge and are able to close the wormhole; the Blade Fin is seen being dragged back to its own world, while the other anomalies disappear with it.

[edit] Brain of Morphoton

Main article: The Keys of Marinus

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[edit] Canisian

Doctor Who alien

Canisian
Type	Humanoid
Affiliated with	General Tannis
Home planet	Alpha Canis One
First appearance	Death Comes to Time

The Canisians are a humanoid war-like race which hail from the planet Alpha Canis One. They were led by the renegade Time Lord, General Tannis. They first appeared in the story Death Comes to Time.

[edit] Carrionite

Doctor Who alien

Carrionites
Type	Witch-like humanoids
Home planet	Rexel 4
First appearance	"The Shakespeare Code"

The Carrionites, as seen in "The Shakespeare Code", are a race of witch-like beings. The species originates from the Fourteen Stars of the Rexel Planetary Configuration. They use advanced science which appears much like magic and voodoo. The Carrionites use words to manipulate the universe and defy physics. They possess the ability to discover a person's true name; however, when attempting to name the Doctor, the Carrionite Lilith remarked "there is no name", but then mentioned Rose's name, apparently sensing his connection to her. In the "old" times of the universe, they were banished through powerful words by the Eternals.
The three Carrionites shown in "The Shakespeare Code" were Lilith, Mother Doomfinger and Mother Bloodtide. They are defeated by William Shakespeare with the help of the Doctor and Martha, who helped him find the right words to defeat the Carrionites, ending with "expelliarmus". The Carrionites were re-trapped in a crystal ball by this. According to Lilith, Shakespeare accidentally released Doomfinger, Bloodtide and Lilith while he was distraught over his son Hamnet's death from the Black Plague.
According to the audio commentary of the third season of Doctor Who, Carrionites are all female and call each other "mother" or "sister" according to their relative ages. In the novel Forever Autumn, it is revealed that they were banished for warring with a similar race, the Hervoken, who also used a science resembling magic.

[edit] Castrovalvan

Main article: Castrovalva (Doctor Who)

[edit] Cat People

Doctor Who alien

Cats
Type	Humanoid felines
Affiliated with	Humans
Home planet	New Earth
First appearance	"New Earth"

"Cat People" are felines in the future that have evolved into humanoids. They are capable of interbreeding with the humans of the future. Cat People have hair-covered bodies, feline facial features and retractable claws. Their young resemble typical domestic kittens, with humanoid features emerging after ten months.^[3]
In "New Earth", a group of Cat People called the Sisters of Plenitude ran a hospital near the city of New New York. In "Gridlock", a Cat Person, Thomas Kincade Brannigan, has a human wife and a litter of kittens.

[edit] Caxtarids

The Caxtarids are humanoids with metallic red hair and eyes, who appear in the Virgin New Adventures novels Return of the Living Dad and The Room with No Doors, both by Kate Orman. They come from the star system Lalande 21185, and are expert torturers. Amongst the planets they have conquered is Kapteyn 5, home of more than sixty sentient species including avians and butterfly-people.
The Caxtarids were wiped out by a virus that destroyed DNA. This was created by the government to be used against "the rebels". The Doctor attempted to prevent its use, but it was activated ten years after his involvement, during another rebellion.
A green-eyed Lalandian, who says she is a "different caste" from the Caxtarids, appears in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Seeing I, by Orman and Jonathan Blum. The same book states that the Caxtarids (or Ke Caxtari) do not deal in weapons, but do trade in people.

[edit] Chameleon

Main article: The Faceless Ones

[edit] Cheetah People

Main article: Survival

Doctor Who alien

Cheetah People
Type	Humanoid feline cheetahs
Affiliated with	The Master

The Cheetah People were a group of aliens featured in the final episode of Doctor Who's original run, Survival. Like many more recent aliens, such as the Judoon and Hath, the Cheetah People strongly resembled a real animal, cheetahs. The Cheetah People were depicted as savages and had the ability to turn others into Cheetah People, including for a while the Master and Ace. The Cheetah People in Survival had been kidnapping people and taking them to their planet.
In the 1996 Doctor Who film that followed the episode, it was implied by his glowing eyes that the Master retained some of the Cheetah People's influence.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Chelonian

Doctor Who alien

Chelonians
Type	Cybernetic humanoid tortoise
Affiliated with	None
Home planet	Chelonia
First appearance	The Highest Science

The Chelonians are a race of cybernetic humanoid tortoises who have appeared in various spin-off novels. The first appearance of the Chelonians was in the Seventh Doctor Virgin New Adventures novel The Highest Science by Gareth Roberts. They returned in Zamper and also featured in the Fourth Doctor missing adventure The Well-Mannered War; as well as in the short stories The Hungry Bomb, Fegovy, and The Body Bank, all by Gareth Roberts and published in the Doctor Who Magazine Yearbook 1995, the anthology Decalog 3: Consequences, and the Doctor Who Storybook 2008 respectively. They are also mentioned in the New Adventures book Beyond the Sun featuring Bernice Summerfield.
The Chelonians are a war-like race from the planet Chelonia. They are hermaphroditic and lay eggs. Some of their cybernetic enhancements include X-ray vision and improved hearing. Chelonians consider humans to be parasites and often try to eliminate them. There is a pacifistic faction, however, and at some point following the Doctor's recorded encounters with them, they took control and the society began devoting its energies towards flower arrangement. River Song listed the Chelonians amongst the races with fleets orbiting Earth in "The Pandorica Opens".

Chula were referenced in "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances" two-parter as a race of aliens using nanogenes to heal their soldiers in war. Following Captain Jack stealing a Chula medical ship as part of his hoax, thousands of Blitz-era Londoners were converted incorrectly. Jack's ship was also a Chula war ship.

[edit] Crespallions

Crespallions are a blue-skinned humanoid alien race from the planet Crespallion. They were seen in "End of the World" working on Platform One.

[edit] Cryon

Main article: Attack of the Cybermen

[edit] Cyberman

Main article: Cyberman

The Cybermen were originally a race of humanoids originating on Earth's twin planet Mondas. As they implanted more and more artificial parts into their bodies, as a means of self-preservation, they became coldly logical and calculating, with emotion all but deleted from their minds. The Cybermen also have a rivalry with the Daleks.
In the 2nd new series (tenth doctor) the Cybermen originated from a parallel version of earth and were created by John Lumic, a genius obsessed with immortality. He forcible 'upgraded' everyone in the parallel earth.
They were created by Dr. Kit Pedler (the unofficial scientific advisor to the programme) and Gerry Davis in 1966, first appearing in the serial The Tenth Planet. They have since been featured numerous times in their efforts to conquer and convert humanity to cyborgs like themselves.

[edit] Cyber-Controller

Main article: Cyberman

The Cyber-Controller was John Lumic (the creator of the Cybermen) after being upgraded himself.

[edit] Cybershades

Main article: The Next Doctor

Cydershades were upgraded animals that served as slaves of the Cybermen.

[edit] Cybermats

Main article: Cyberman#Cybermat

[edit] Cyberking

Main article: The Next Doctor

The Cyberking is a dreadnought class ship with powerful weapons attached to each arm as well as a cyber factory in the chest cavity. It was first seen in The Next Doctor where it intended to convert Victorian London and then the Earth.

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[edit] Dals

The original name for the Daleks.

[edit] Dalek

Main article: Dalek

[edit] Dalek Humans

Main article: Evolution of the Daleks

The Dalek Human race were created by the Cult of Skaro in New York in the year 1930. They were human bodies, with Dalek minds inside. The Cult was relying on a gamma strike from the sun to release the energy needed to splice the human and Dalek genomes together. However, Dalek Sec, with the Doctor's help, wanted to change the process to give them emotions. The other members of the Cult of Skaro believed that Sec was no longer a true Dalek and turned on him. The Doctor held onto the spire of the Empire State Building as the gamma strike occurred, resulting in his Time Lord DNA mixing with the Dalek Humans' DNA, giving the Dalek Humans the potential for free will. Dalek Caan deemed the experiment a failure, and put all of the Dalek Humans to death.

[edit] Data Ghost

Main article: Silence in the Library

A data ghost is an echo of a dead human's last few moments alive. Data ghosts are the result of an imprint of a person's consciousness at the moment of their death, stored on a neural relay incorporated in Commander Lux suits. In "Silence in the Library", Data Ghosts appear at the death of Miss Evangelista and Proper Dave. Data Ghosts typically only last up to a few minutes. The Data Ghost of Miss Evangelista was "saved" onto the Library's hard-drive as a result of mixed wireless signals. As a result of data corruption, the version of Miss Evangelista saved in the library's computer appeared deformed and possessed superior intelligence.

[edit] Davros

Main article: Davros

[edit] Delta Magnan

Main article: The Power of Kroll

[edit] Demon

Demons have appeared in Doctor Who several times. Originally in Third Doctor serial The Dæmons, in which they were specifically aliens from the planet Dæmos who had come to Earth in the distant past and ingrained their existence as myth, with "demon" Azal summoned at the Master's will.
In 2006, both the Tenth Doctor series of Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood expanded upon a notion of actual malicious supernatural entities existing in the Doctor Who universe. "The Impossible Planet" introduced the Beast, a Satan-like demon remaining from the universe before our own, sealed in planet Krop Tor by the "Disciples of Light". Later, in the Torchwood episode "End of Days"', the mysterious Bilis Manger frees "Abaddon, son of the great Beast" from within the Rift, where he, like the Beast, had been imprisoned since "before time".
Earlier in the first series of Torchwood, demonic supernatural entities, referred to by humans as "fairies", were established in "Small Worlds" as a non-alien presence on Earth since before mankind came to exist.

[edit] Destroyer

Main article: Battlefield

[edit] Didonian

Main article: The Rescue

[edit] Dominator

Main article: The Dominators

[edit] Draconian

Main article: Draconian

[edit] Dragon

Main article: Dragonfire (Doctor Who)

[edit] Drahvin

Main article: Galaxy 4

[edit] Drashig

Main article: Carnival of Monsters

[edit] Dulcian

Main article: The Dominators

[edit] E

[edit] Eknodine

The "Eknodines" appear in the episode "Amy's Choice". They are a race of aliens who can inhabit human bodies, keeping them alive for a long time. The Eknodine appear as green eye-stalks that look out of their host's mouth. The Eknodine attack by breathing a gas upon their victims that turns them to dust.
The Eknodine are only seen in the fictional version of Upper Ledworth created by the Dream Lord. However the Doctor recognises them, suggesting they exist in his reality.

[edit] Elder

Main article: The Savages

[edit] Entity

Main article: Doctor Who: The Adventure Games#TARDIS

The Entity was a gaseous form capable of 'eating' the whole of time and space. In an attempt to stop it, the Doctor had imprisoned it in a vase which he kept in the TARDIS's Drawing Room. Amy accidentally broke the vase and released it, and it consequently attempted to devour her. The Doctor warned that he would contain it once again if it did not release her; after it obliged, he let it out into space to feed on 'Chronomites', tiny krill-like creatures that, after being killed, will 'rewind' and regenerate to the moment before they were killed. This allows the Entity to feed harmlessly for eternity.

[edit] Eternal

Main article: Eternal (Doctor Who)

[edit] Exxilon

Main article: Death to the Daleks

[edit] F

[edit] The Family of Blood

Main articles: Human Nature and The Family of Blood

The Family of Blood was an alien race that feasted on Time Lords to prolong their own lifespan and increase their powers. Shortly before World War I, a "family" of them came to Easton Boy's School, where they took over people's bodies in order to get to the Doctor. They used animated scarecrows for henchman and to find bodies for the family in order to take them over. When they located the Doctor (who had converted his biology from Time Lord to human, they sent an army of scarecrows to hunt him. The Doctor eventually resumed his Time Lord form and imprisoned all of the family's members.

[edit] Fish People

Main article: The Underwater Menace

[edit] Flay Fish

A sea creature native to Thoros Beta.

[edit] Flesh/New Humans

The Flesh were a group of human clones used by the Sisters of Plenitude for the development of cures for the people of New Earth, as seen in "New Earth" (2006). They were initially seen incarcerated in pods, but after their release by Lady Cassandra, they began infecting patients in the hospital. Cured of their diseases by the Doctor, they were named as an entirely new race, New Humans.

[edit] The Flood

Doctor Who alien

The Flood
Type	unknown
Affiliated with	Ice Warriors
Home planet	Mars
First appearance	The Waters of Mars

Main article: The Waters of Mars

[edit] Foamasi

Doctor Who alien

Foamasi
Type	Reptilian biped
Affiliated with	The Argolin
Home planet	Unknown
First appearance	The Leisure Hive

The Foamasi are an intelligent, bipedal race of reptiles resembling humanoid chameleons who appeared in the 1980 Fourth Doctor story The Leisure Hive by David Fisher. The race's name is a near-anagram of the word "mafioso". The Foamasi fought and won a 20-minute nuclear war with the Argolin. They communicate by means of chirps and clicks, translated by an interpreting device held in the mouth. Although they became mostly a peaceful race from having learned the error of their ways from the devastating war, a renegade faction called the West Lodge exists and frequently attempted to arouse hostilities between the two races.
After their victory, the Argolin's home planet of Argolis was officially owned by the Foamasi government. Two saboteurs from the West Lodge tried to force the Argolins to sell them the Leisure Hive, so they could use it as a new base. They were thwarted by a group of Foamasi, one claiming to be a member of the Foamasi government, who used a web-spewing gun to ensnare them and return them to their home planet. Some Foamasi disguise themselves as humanoids by fitting into skin-suits which are smaller than the Foamasi's own bodies.
A Foamasi assassin appears in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Placebo Effect by Gary Russell. In this novel, it is explained that the Foamasi can fit into disguises smaller than their bodies because their bones are hollow and collapsible.

[edit] Forest of Cheem

Doctor Who alien

Forest of Cheem
Type	Bipedal arboreals
Affiliated with	None
Home planet	Earth
First appearance	"The End of the World"

The Forest of Cheem is a race of sentient, bipedal trees that are direct descendants of the Old Earth Trees. The trees were sold to the Brotherhood from the Panjassic Asteroid field, who experimented on the trees, and, after hundreds of years the trees grew arms and started walking. Eventually, the entire race of Trees got on their Barkships after they heard the Great Calling, travelling through space for five thousand years. The word 'cheem' means 'tree' in the forest's language.^[4] Members of the Forest of Cheem appear in the Ninth Doctor episode "The End of the World" by Russell T Davies. According to the Ninth Doctor, they are of huge financial importance due to their land holdings and forests on various planets; and they have "roots" everywhere.
The Forest respect all forms of life, but neither respect nor understand various technologies such as computers. They were aware of the Time Lords and their fate in the Time War. The Doctor Who Annual 2006 classifies them as one of the higher species who were aware of the course of the Time War and its history-changing effects and also states that they were mortified by the bloodshed.
The group of Trees seen on Platform One was led by Jabe Ceth Ceth Jafe (named in Doctor Who: Monsters and Villains), and also included Coffa and Lute. Coffa and Lute appear again in the comic strip story "Reunion of Fear" in Doctor Who - Battles in Time #6.

[edit] Futurekind

Doctor Who character

Futurekind
Affiliated	Humans
Home planet	Presumably Malcassairo
Home era	The End of the Universe
First appearance	"Utopia"

The Futurekind are a barbaric humanoid race with pointed teeth and primitive language skills, who appear in the 2007 episode "Utopia", set in the year 100 trillion when the universe is coming to an end. The human survivors describe the Futurekind as what they may become if they do not reach 'Utopia', though that seems to be just a myth. The Futurekind are aggressive towards normal humans and hunt them for food.

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[edit] Garm

Main article: Terminus

[edit] Gastropod

The Gastropods, as seen in The Twin Dilemma are a race of giant slugs who kidnapped two maths geniuses to pilot their planet into a sun, creating an explosion that will scatter their eggs across the universe.

[edit] Gaztak

Main article: Meglos

[edit] Gee-Jee Fly

An insect native to the planet Varos.

[edit] Gel Guard

Main article: The Three Doctors

[edit] Gelth

Doctor Who alien

Gelth
Type	Gaseous lifeform
Affiliated with	None
Home planet	Unknown
First appearance	"The Unquiet Dead"

The Gelth appeared in the Ninth Doctor episode The Unquiet Dead. They were a new race of alien villains that the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler encountered in the 2005 series. They were the first element of the new series that attracted attention for being "too scary". Following complaints, many of which were made by Mediawatch UK, the BBC stated that in future, episodes of that nature would be forewarned by a statement of "may not be suitable for under 8s".^{[citation needed]}
The Gelth are blue gaseous life-forms. They claimed to have lost their corporeal forms as a consequence of the Time War, though later actions by the Gelth put the truth of this statement in doubt. They arrived on Earth via the spacetime rift at an undertaker's house in Cardiff in 1869. Their forms could not be maintained in Earth's atmosphere without suspension in a gaseous medium. They proceeded to take possession of recently deceased corpses and in gas pipes common to Victorian era households. When they are possessing these corpses, they look close to being ordinary humans (provided that the corpse has yet to enter the autolytic stage of decomposition) , with only two fundamental differences: their irises vanish or turn white, and blue veins are clearly visible on their ghastly pale skin. Gelth make an unearthly shrieking noise for an unknown reason, particularly when they've possessed someone.
Claiming to be on the verge of extinction, the Gelth convinced the Doctor to aid their entrance to Earth via Gwyneth, the undertaker's servant girl who had developed psychic powers due to growing up near the rift. The Gelth actually numbered in the billions and intended to take the Earth by force, and to use its murdered population as vessels for themselves. The Gelth were thwarted when Gwyneth sacrificed herself, blowing up the building and sealing the rift. Whether all the Gelth that came through the rift perished is unclear.
In "Army of Ghosts", Rose asked whether "ghostshifting" Cybermen might have been Gelth, which the Doctor stated was not the case.

[edit] GENIE

In the BBC Books novel The Stone Rose, the GENIEs (Genetically Engineered Neural Imagination Engines) are artificial life forms developed by a scientist working in artificial reality. They resemble a cross between a small dragon and a platypus ensconced in a box, and are capable of altering reality and perception according to people's desires, whether spoken or thought. Lacking free will, they are thus compelled to grant "wishes", potentially causing disruption when in the presence of human beings.

[edit] Giant Maggot

Main article: The Green Death

[edit] Giant Spider of Metebelis 3

Main article: Planet of the Spiders

[edit] Gond

Main article: The Krotons

[edit] Graske

Doctor Who alien

Graske
Type	Changeling
Affiliated with	The Trickster
Home planet	Griffoth
First appearance	"Attack of the Graske"

A Graske is a member of a race of diminutive aliens from the planet Griffoth. They are able to transmat through time and space, abducting individuals out of their own time and replacing them with their own kind in disguise as their victims. A disguised Graske can be identified by an occasional green glow in its eyes.
An unnamed Graske appears in the interactive Doctor Who episode "Attack of the Graske" and the Proms special episode "Music of the Spheres".
Krislok is a Graske who first appeared in The Sarah Jane Adventures episodes Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? and The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith. He became a servant of the Trickster after it saved him from dying, but later gained his freedom.

[edit] Great Vampire

Main article: State of Decay

The Great Vampire is one of the many Vampire lords. It is the last of its kind, the rest of them having been killed by being shot with large metal spears launched by spacegoing warships known as 'bowships'. The Doctor killed the last one with one of the scoutships from the lords tower, actually a grounded space vessel.

[edit] Guardian

Main articles: White Guardian and Black Guardian

[edit] Gumblejack

An alien, fish-like water creature that is redish-orange in color. The Doctor has fished for this creature on several occasions, as he mentioned to Peri.

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[edit] Haemo-goth

In "The Pandorica Opens", Haemo-goths are the only creatures gathered at Stonehenge, mentioned by River Song, which did not appear in any previous written or television adventure of the Doctor.

[edit] Haemovore

Doctor Who alien

Haemovore
Type	Decayed humanoid
Affiliated with	Fenric
Home planet	Earth
First appearance	The Curse of Fenric

Haemovores appeared in the Seventh Doctor story The Curse of Fenric by Ian Briggs. Vampiric creatures that fed on blood, they were the end result of human evolution in a possible far future, caused by millennia of pollution. As part of his final game against the Doctor, the entity known as Fenric transported the most powerful Haemovore, called the "Ancient One", through time to Viking Age Northumbria. There it waited, trapped beneath the North Sea for centuries, occasionally drawing victims into the water and transforming them into Haemovores.
Soon after the transformation, victims appeared much as they did in life, except for elongated fingernails and a corpse-like pallor. Later they became deformed blue-grey humanoids covered in octopus-like suckers. The Ancient One was the least human in appearance; in its own time, it was the last living thing on Earth.
During World War II, Fenric released the Ancient One. Fenric's plan was that the Ancient One was to release the toxin which would pollute the world and thus create its own future.
The Haemovores had the ability to hypnotically paralyse their victims so they could feed and drain them of blood. Not all of their victims were turned into Haemovores, although the selection process was never explained. The Haemovores were impervious to most forms of attack, surviving being shot at close range by a submachine gun at one point. They could be destroyed in the traditional vampire-killing fashion of driving a stake through their chests. They could also be repelled by their victim's faith, which formed a psychic barrier, like the Doctor's faith in his companions, Ace's faith in the Doctor, Captain Sorin's faith in the Communist Revolution, and even the Reverend Wainwright's failing faith in God.
Ultimately, the Seventh Doctor convinced the Ancient One to turn against Fenric, and it released the toxin within a sealed chamber, destroying itself and Fenric's host. Whether this means that the future the Ancient One came from was averted is not clear, although the Doctor seemed to think so.

[edit] Hath

Doctor Who alien

Hath
Type	Humanoid fish
Affiliated with	Humans
Home planet	Messaline
First appearance	"The Doctor's Daughter"

Main article: The Doctor's Daughter

They appear as roughly humanoid fish-like creatures, with canisters of green liquid fitted to their faces. They are intelligent, emotional creatures — one formed a friendship with Martha Jones, and saved her life at the cost of its own. They seem fully sentient and while they do not speak a language intelligible to humans ( due to anything spoken being muffled by their breathing apparatus), the two races planned to colonize the planet Messaline together. However, they later turned on each other before their eventual reconciliation.
The Monster Files feature states the Hath joined and assisted early human space colonisation.^[5]
The Hath returned briefly in the second part of The End of Time where they are seen in an alien bar.

[edit] Hoix

Main article: Love & Monsters

Race of aggressive exo-skeletal aliens. Elton Pope encountered the Doctor and Rose Tyler trying to contain one in Woolwich, London. A Hoix later appears in the Torchwood episode "Exit Wounds", where it is described as a creature which "lives to eat, doesn't matter what." It makes another appearance in the Eleventh doctor story "The Pandorica Opens".

[edit] Hop Pyleen

Main article: The End of the World

Brothers from the exalted clifftops of Rex Vox Jax who invented and are copyright holders of Hyposlip Travel Systems. They were guests aboard Platform One to see the Earthdeath spectacle.

[edit] Horda

Main article: The Face of Evil

Carnivorous creatures that crawl on the ground of Leela's World.

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[edit] Ice Warrior

Main article: Ice Warrior

[edit] Isolus

Main article: Fear Her

The Isolus are an alien species, tiny spore-like creatures traveling through space, first appearing in the 2006 episode "Fear Her". In that episode, one of them was separated from the swarm and the creature wound up on Earth, inhabiting a young English girl named Chloe Webber. The Isolus was confused by Chloe's fears of her father and, acting through her, trapped neighborhood children in Chloe's pencil drawings. The Isolus released Chloe when the Doctor showed it the love the human race could produce in the events just before the 2012 Summer Olympics. An Isolus is a creature of intense emotion and it's sheer need to be together that keeps them alive. In their featuring episode, the Doctor states that, on average, they have a family the size of around 4 billion.

[edit] J

[edit] Jacondan

Main article: The Twin Dilemma

[edit] Jagaroth

Doctor Who alien

Jagaroth
Type	Monocular biped
Affiliated with	Unknown
Home planet	Unknown
First appearance	City of Death

The Jagaroth are an ancient and extinct race of aliens introduced in the Fourth Doctor serial City of Death. The Doctor remarked that the Jagaroth were “a vicious, callous, warlike race whom the universe won't miss.” The story reveals that life on Earth moved from being amino acids in a primordial soup to functioning cells because a Jagaroth space ship exploded on earth 400 million years ago. (Due to an error by production, it should have been 4,000 million years, or 4 billion years ago.)
The sole surviving Jagaroth, Scaroth, manipulated human civilization to advance the species technologically, in an effort to eventually create a time machine which he could use to prevent the initial explosion.

[edit] Jagrafess

Main article: List of Doctor Who villains#Jagrafess

[edit] Jixen

Doctor Who alien

Jixen
Type	Reptile
First appearance	"Regeneration"

Jixen are a race of turtle-like warriors which first appeared in the K9 episode "Regeneration". They are in a war against the Merons which has gone for centuries across the galaxy. They are able to use sonar type movement that makes them look like they're shuddering and can emit a sonic wave when they use their high pitched battle cry which renders their enemies defenceless.^[6]

[edit] Judoon

Main article: Judoon

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[edit] Kaled

Main article: Kaled

The Dalek were originally Kaled, from the planet Skaro.

[edit] Karfelon

Main article: Timelash

[edit] Kastrian

Main article: The Hand of Fear

[edit] Kinda

Main article: Kinda

[edit] Kraal

Main article: The Android Invasion

[edit] Krafayis

Main article: Vincent and the Doctor

A griffin-like creature that could only be seen by Vincent van Gogh in Vincent and the Doctor, the Krafayis was rendered blind by unknown means and as a result was abandoned by its own kind. Acting out of loneliness and fear, it lashed out and attacked people before being finally subdued by Vincent with help from the Eleventh Doctor and Amy.

[edit] Krillitane

Doctor Who alien

Krillitane
Type	Composite race
Affiliated with	None
Home planet	Krillia
First appearance	"School Reunion"

The Krillitanes are an alien race that first appeared in the episode "School Reunion". They had infiltrated the Deffry Vale comprehensive school on present day Earth, increasing the intelligence of the pupils with Krillitane oil. Using the children as part of a giant computer programme, they hoped to crack the secrets of the Skasis Paradigm, the Universal Theory that would give them control over the basic forces of the universe and turn them into gods. Their scheme was foiled by the Tenth Doctor and his companions, though not before they attempted to ask the Doctor to join them in remaking the universe.
The Krillitanes are a composite race who pick and choose physical traits they find useful from the species they conquer, incorporating them into their own bodies. When the Doctor last encountered them they looked like humans with very long necks, but by the time of "School Reunion", they possessed a bat-like form which they obtained from the conquest of Bessan ten generations prior. However, they were able to maintain a morphic illusion of human form, which could be discarded if needed.
A side effect of their rapid evolution made the very oil they were using to enhance the intelligence of Deffry Vale's children toxic to their own systems, reacting with them like an acid. As bat creatures, they sleep in a way similar to Earth bats, hanging from a ceiling with wings covering their bodies. Like Earth bats, they are sensitive to loud or high frequency noises, as demonstrated when they were temporarily disabled by the school's fire alarm. They are also carnivorous and have no qualms in devouring other sentient life-forms for food.

[edit] Kroll

Main article: The Power of Kroll

A giant squid that has been mutated and enlarged due to ingesting one of the pieces of the Key To Time. The green-skinned citizens of the planet worship Kroll as a god.

[edit] Kroton

Main article: The Krotons

[edit] Krynoid

Doctor Who alien

Krynoids
Type	Enormous plant with telepathic/telekinetic powers
Affiliated with	Its hosts
Home planet	Unknown volcanic world
First appearance	The Seeds of Doom

The Krynoids appeared in the Fourth Doctor story The Seeds of Doom by Robert Banks Stewart. They are a highly dangerous, sentient form of plant life which are renowned amongst galactic botanists. They spread via seed pods which travel in pairs and are violently hurled through space by frequent volcanic eruptions on their unnamed home planet. The pods when opened are attracted to flesh and are able to infect and mingle their DNA with that of the host, taking over their body and slowly transforming them into a Krynoid. The species can also exert a form of telepathic control over other plant life in the surrounding area, making it suddenly dangerous and deadly to animal-kind. In the later stages of development the Krynoid can also control the vocal cords of its victims and can make itself telepathically sympathetic to humans. Fully grown Krynoids are many meters high and can then release hordes of seed pairs for further colonisation.
Two pods arrived on Earth at the South Pole during the prehistoric Pleistocene era and remained dormant in Antarctica until discovered at the end of the twentieth century. One of them hatched after being exposed to ultra-violet light, and took control of a nearby human scientist. The Fourth Doctor intervened in the nick of time and ensured the Krynoid was destroyed in a bomb, but the second pod was stolen and taken to the home of millionaire botanist Harrison Chase in England. Chase ensured the germination of the second pod, which overtook his scientific adviser Arnold Keeler, and transformed its subject over time into a virtually full-sized Krynoid. Unable to destroy the creature by other means, and with the danger of a seed release imminent from the massive plant, the Doctor orchestrated an RAF bombing raid to destroy the creature before it could germinate.
The Krynoid are also featured in the Eighth Doctor audio story for Big Finish entitled Hothouse. Also featured in BBV audios 'The Root of all Evil', and 'The Green Man'.

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[edit] Lakertyan

Main article: Time and the Rani

[edit] Lamprey

Main article: Spiral Scratch (Doctor Who)

[edit] Logopolitan

Main article: Logopolis

Doctor Who alien

Logopolitan
Affiliated with	Fourth Doctor
Home planet	Logopolis

The Logopolitans of the planet Logopolis were featured in the episode of the same name. The Logopolitans were a race of strange looking mathematicians concerned with entropy to make sure heat death of the universe did not occur. This was disturbed by the Master and the Logopolitons were killed, although the universe was saved.

[edit] Lurman

Main article: Carnival of Monsters#Lurman

[edit] Lukoser

Main article: Mindwarp

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[edit] Macra

Doctor Who alien

Macra
Type	Giant crustaceans
Affiliated with	None
Home planet	Earth Colony World New Earth
First appearance	The Macra Terror

The Macra first appear in the 1967 Second Doctor story The Macra Terror by Ian Stuart Black. They are an intelligent, giant crab-like species from an unnamed planet colonised by humanity in the future. The Macra invade the control centre of the colony and seize the levers of power without the colonists — including their Pilot — knowing what had happened. Thereafter the Macra only appear at night, when the humans are in their quarters, observing a curfew. They have strong hypnotic powers which alter human perception. They also have the ability to ensure messages are vocalised through electronic apparatus such as television or sensor speakers. Both these tools are used to keep the human colonists under control, believing they are blissfully happy. This provides a cover for the Macra to use the colonists as miners in a vast gas mine. The gas is deadly to the miners but vital to the Macra, enabling them to move more quickly and rejuvenating their abilities. The Second Doctor effects a revolution on the Macra planet and helps engineer an explosion in the control centre, destroying the Macra in charge.
The Macra are also featured in the 2007 episode "Gridlock", becoming the only one-off opponent of the Doctor in the classic series to appear in the revived series so far. In the episode, some Macra are found to be alive below New New York, a city of New Earth. They live in the thick fog of exhaust gases on the main motorway under the city, tracking the flying cars by their lights and snatching at them when they get too close. The Doctor says that the species is billions of years old and once developed a mighty empire as "the scourge of this galaxy", but the Macra beneath New New York must have devolved into nothing more than beasts. The status of the Macra beyond "Gridlock" is yet to be seen.

[edit] Malmooth

Doctor Who alien

Malmooth
Type	Humanoid insects
Affiliated with	None
Home planet	Malcassairo
First appearance	"Utopia"

The Malmooth are a race of humanoid insectoids native to the planet Malcassairo, who are all but extinct by the year one hundred trillion. The last surviving member of their race, Chantho, played by Chipo Chung, appears in "Utopia". A devoted assistant to Professor Yana for seventeen years, when the Professor is revealed to be the Master and proceeds to turn on the Doctor and his companions, Chantho threatens to kill him. He electrocutes her, but she manages to shoot him before dying, forcing him to regenerate.
A feature of Chantho's speech is that she starts with "chan" and ends her sentences with "tho". She considers it "rude" to do otherwise, tantamount to swearing.
Physical features of the Malmooth include an insectoid exoskeleton and mandibles, and the ability to survive by drinking their own internal milk.
The Eighth Doctor encountered another of the Malmooth during a flashback sequence in IDW's 'Doctor Who: The Forgotten' issue 5.

[edit] Mandragora Helix

Main article: The Masque of Mandragora

[edit] Mandrel

Main article: Nightmare of Eden

[edit] Marshman

Main article: Full Circle

[edit] Marshspider

Main article: Full Circle

[edit] Megara

Main article: The Stones of Blood

[edit] Megropolis

Main article: The Sun Makers

[edit] Menoptra

Doctor Who alien

Menoptra
Type	Bipedal insects
Affiliated with	Zarbi, Optera
Home planet	Vortis
First appearance	The Web Planet

The Menoptra (spelled Menoptera in the novelisation of the serial) appeared in the First Doctor story The Web Planet, by Bill Strutton (1965). They are an intelligent, bipedal insectoid species from the planet Vortis. In appearance, they resemble a cross between giant butterflies and bees, with each Menoptra possessing four large wings. They have yellow and black stripes around their bodies and appear to be around six feet tall, but do not seem to have typical insect body parts (such as mandibles or an abdomen).
Peaceful and kindly by nature, the Menoptra move in a unique, stylised way and their vocal inflections are stilted. They were very welcoming of the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki; but showed an animosity towards their fellow insectoids, the Zarbi, as well as an abhorrence for the Animus, a hostile alien intelligence that had taken over the originally passive Zarbi and almost all of Vortis. Once it was clear that the Doctor was willing to help them defeat the Animus, they were only too glad to assist in any way they could.
The assumption is that once the Animus was defeated, the Menoptra, Zarbi and the rest of the inhabitants of Vortis were able to live together in peace.

[edit] Mentiad

Main article: The Pirate Planet

[edit] Mentor

Doctor Who alien

Mentors
Type	Amphibious humanoids
Affiliated with	Galatron Mining Corporation
Home planet	Thoros Beta
First appearance	Vengeance on Varos

The Mentors are an amphibious race native to the planet Thoros Beta. They have two arms with a large tail in place of their lower limbs, and speak to other species through a translation device worn around their necks. The most notable of the Mentors is Sil, whom the Sixth Doctor and Peri encountered first on the planet Varos in Vengeance on Varos, and then again on Thoros Beta in Mindwarp. Both stories were written by Philip Martin. Other Mentors include Lord Kiv, their leader. Typical Mentor business practice includes arms dealing and slave trading. In Mindwarp, Lord Kiv has his brain transplanted into a primitive Mentor body, which has retained the tail sting that modern Mentors no longer have.

[edit] Midnight creature

Doctor Who alien

Unknown
Type	Unknown
Affiliated with	None
Home planet	Midnight
First appearance	Midnight

An unnamed and unseen creature, found on the surface of the planet Midnight, an environment supposedly inimical to all life. Described briefly as a "shadow" glimpsed running across the landscape, it was encountered in Shuttle Bus 50 in "Midnight". It violently boarded and took over the body and mind of Sky Silvestry, repeating the speech patterns of the passengers, influencing them, and then consuming the Doctor's voice. The shuttle's hostess ultimately sacrificed herself by opening a door and sucking them both out of the bus, where Silvestry's body was presumably vaporised by the deadly Xtonic sunlight. Though its hold on the Doctor and the other passengers was broken, the nature and fate of the creature itself remains uncertain. Disturbingly, even the Doctor had no idea what the creature was.

[edit] Minyan

Main article: Underworld

[edit] Mire Beast

Main article: The Chase

[edit] Mogarian

Main article: Terror of the Vervoids

[edit] Monoid

Main article: The Ark

[edit] Morestran

Main article: Planet of Evil

[edit] Morlox

Main article: Timelash

[edit] Morok

Main article: The Space Museum

[edit] Movellan

Main article: Destiny of the Daleks

The Movellans, who made their first and only appearance to date in the Fourth Doctor serial Destiny of the Daleks, originated from outside the galaxy and were adversaries of the Daleks.
The Movellans outwardly resemble physically attractive humans, of various ethnicities and both genders. All of the Movellan androids and gynoids wear white, form-fitting uniforms and wear their hair in silver braids. Being androids, the Movellans are stronger and have more endurance than normal humans. However, the major weakness of the Movellan design is that each android's external power pack, carried on its belt, can be easily removed to completely shut down the android. The power pack circuitry can also be modified, reprogramming the android to obey human orders.
They are mentioned again in Resurrection of the Daleks, as a virus of their invention was central to that story's plot.

[edit] Moxx of Balhoon

Main article: The End of the World (Doctor Who)

One of the aliens visiting Platform One to witness the destruction of planet Earth.

[edit] Myrka

Main article: Warriors of the Deep

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[edit] Naglon

Main article: The Paradise of Death#Naglon

[edit] Nanogene

Main articles: The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances

[edit] Navarino

Main article: Delta and the Bannermen

[edit] Nestene

Main article: Auton

The Nestene are a blob-like aliens who can control all forms of plastic, creating Autons.

[edit] Nimon

Main article: The Horns of Nimon

[edit] O

[edit] Ogri

Main article: The Stones of Blood

[edit] Ogron

Main article: Ogron

[edit] Olympian

Doctor Who alien

Olympian
Type	tall near-humans
Home planet	Olympus
First appearance	The Life Bringer

Olympians (also known as Gods) were a race of tall near-humans from the planet Olympus and one of the most powerful races in the universe. They were responsible for controlling certain parts of the universe and could change certain things at their will. Olympians were immortal and could never die of old age. They could also use powers on a massive scale including controlling the TARDIS by simply emitting electricity at the console and also appear in a gigantic form amongst clouds which they could then unleash massive amounts of power. All Olympians served Zeus although some were known to go on their own will. They were very advanced however some of their methods were primitive. The Olympian Prometheus was the one responsible for starting life in the universe.
The Fourth Doctor and K9 met them in the story The Life Bringer which they freed Prometheus and travelled to their home planet.

[edit] Ood

Main article: Ood

[edit] Optera

Doctor Who alien

Optera
Type	multipedal insects
Affiliated with	Zarbi, Menoptra
Home planet	Vortis
First appearance	The Web Planet

The Optera appeared in the First Doctor story The Web Planet by Bill Strutton. These caterpillar-like creatures were once Menoptra, but they elected to instead burrow under the ground and abandon the world of light and flight above. It is implied that they may have been driven there by the malevolent Animus.
They have larger eyes than their Menoptra brethren, and have no wings. However, they have numerous arms and appear to "hop" in a stylised way. They speak with inflection different to that of their bee-like cousins, but their speech is a strange dialect of the language of the "upper world" and words and phrases they have coined for themselves.
At the story's end, the Animus is defeated and the Optera are persuaded to return to the surface, where they look forward to their children learning the joys of flight; implying that once back on the surface the Optera will redevelop wings. It is assumed that all of species indigenous to Vortis are now living peacefully together.

[edit] Osiran

Main article: Pyramids of Mars

The Osirans were a powerful alien race who were equal to the Time Lords and much of whose history became encoded in Egyptian mythology. Sutekh, a renegade who became evil, was one of them. He was pursued across the galaxy by his brother Horus and was finally defeated on Earth by the combined might of 740 Osirans. Sutekh was trapped in a hidden black pyramid in Egypt, held in place by an energy beam transmitted from a pyramid on Mars. Once the beam was disabled, the Doctor managed to travel back to earth before it released Sutekh and using a control from the TARDIS was able to set the end of the transit tunnel millions of years into the future so when it released Sutekh he was dead.

[edit] P

[edit] Pel

Main articles: The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon

[edit] Pig slave

Doctor Who alien

Pig slave
Type	Humanoid pig
Affiliated with	Cult of Skaro
Home planet	Earth
First appearance	"Daleks in Manhattan"

In "Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks" (2007), the Cult of Skaro experimented on humans and turned them into Pig Slaves if they possessed a low level of intelligence. Just why the Daleks chose such a form for their slaves is unknown. The Pig Slaves captured subjects for the Dalek experiments, taking them through the sewers of Manhattan to the basement of the Empire State Building. Some pigs hid in the Broadway theatre where the showgirl Tallulah performed. Tallulah later sees her "missing" boyfriend, Laszlo, but does not immediately recognize him because he has been mutated into a half-pig/half-man form. Laszlo still retains most of his memory and personality since he managed to escape from the Daleks before the process could be completed. He leaves a single white rose for Tallulah in her dressing room each night before her performance and is able to resist the Daleks, unlike the other mutants. True Pig Slaves are extremely aggressive and savage creatures, and according to Laszlo, capable of slitting a throat with their bare teeth. However, they are also vulnerable and have very short lifespans, only surviving a few weeks.
The Torchwood Institute website states that 1930s New York suffered an infestation similar to the Weevil infestation of Cardiff in the late 2000s, and that it was covered up by rumours of sewer crocodiles.^[7] This is presumably intended by the website's producers to tie in the New York's Pig Slave infestation of Daleks in Manhattan with the stories of the Torchwood universe.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Plasmavore

Doctor Who alien

Plasmavore
Type	Shape-changing
Affiliated with	Florence Finnegan
Home planet	Unknown
First appearance	"Smith and Jones"

[edit] Primord

Main article: Inferno

[edit] Prisoner Zero

Main article: The Eleventh Hour

Doctor Who alien

Prisoner Zero
Type	Multiform
Affiliated with	Atraxi
Home planet	Unknown
First appearance	"The Eleventh Hour"

Prizoner Zero is a shapeshifting alien resembling an hagfish that hid from the Atraxi in the house of Amy Pond for twelve years in a room she never noticed. In its normal form, it hangs from the ceiling.

[edit] Proamon

Main article: Dragonfire

[edit] Pyrovile

Doctor Who alien

Pyrovile
Type	Molten golems
Home planet	Pyrovilia
First appearance	"The Fires of Pompeii"

The Pyroviles are a race of aliens which appeared in the episode "The Fires of Pompeii". With a stone skin held together by living magma, their shape resembles Roman Centurions. One of their ships fell to Earth thousands of years ago, shattering them into dust. The earthquake that caused Mount Vesuvius to erupt in the year 79 re-awakened them, and they possessed human hosts in nearby Pompeii. These hosts helped the few adult Pyroviles who had survived to construct an energy conversion matrix to use lava inside Mount Vesuvius to conquer Earth and power the conversion of the whole human race into adult Pyroviles in order to replace their homeworld of Pyrovilia, which was "lost". Throwing water over them is fatal, since it causes their magma to cool. They are also capable of breathing fire; their breath is shown as powerful enough to incinerate a human in seconds. The invading Pyroviles were supposedly destroyed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
In "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End", it is revealed that Pyrovilia was among the 27 planets snatched into the Medusa Cascade by the New Dalek Empire. After their defeat, all the planets were returned to their rightful places. With the reappearance of their homeworld, there may be hope for any remaining Pyroviles.

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[edit] Raak

The Raak was a sea monster experimented on by Crozier in Mindwarp (1986).

[edit] Racnoss

Doctor Who alien

Racnoss
Type	Humanoid arachnids
Affiliated with	Racnoss Empire
Home planet	Racnoss
First appearance	"The Runaway Bride"

The Racnoss appeared in the Tenth Doctor story "The Runaway Bride" in 2006.
The Racnoss were an ancient race of aliens from the Dark Times of the universe. Half-humanoid, half-arachnid in appearance, they were an invasion force who consumed everything on the planets they conquered. Their race was wiped out by the Fledgeling Empires, including the Time Lords, over 4.6 billion years ago. Nearly all of the survivors of the race escaped in their ship to where the Earth would later form, serving in place of a planetesimal as its core, hibernating for billions of years, with the exception of their Empress. She would later come to Earth in her ship, the Webstar, seeking to use the Huon particles which had been recreated by the Torchwood Institute as a means of resurrecting her "children" before feasting on the human population of Earth. The last Racnoss were presumed wiped out when the Doctor drained the waters of the Thames down the shaft leading to their ship; the Empress was killed when her own ship was destroyed by the British army at the order of Mr. Saxon.
The Empress appears briefly in a flashback in "Turn Left". In the parallel universe created by Donna Noble, she has still been defeated, but the Doctor, taking too long to escape without Donna's assistance, was drowned and died with her, the water killing him too quickly for him to regenerate, causing the Earth to become a dystopia over the next few years.

[edit] Raxacoricofallapatorians

Main article: Slitheen

Native to Raxacoricofallapatorius, Raxacoricofallapatorians are grouped by extended family names which are sometimes used to refer to their species generically. They hatch from eggs and are composed of living calcium. Capital punishment is practiced on the home world, which involves immersion of convicted criminals in acid that slowly dissolves them while still alive.
The Slitheen family are a ruthless criminal sect motivated by profit. Convicted for their crimes on Raxacoricofallapatorius, they face execution if they return.
The Blathereen family are sworn enemies of the Slitheen, and have infiltrated the prison on the planet Justicia.^[8]

[edit] Reaper

Doctor Who alien

Reapers
Type	Extradimensional flying reptiles
Affiliated with	None
Home planet	None (Outside of time and space)
First appearance	"Father's Day"

Reapers appeared in the Ninth Doctor episode "Father's Day", written by Paul Cornell. Although not named on screen, they were referred to as "Reapers" in the publicity material for the episode. The production team based their design on the Grim Reaper, with their tails shaped like scythes.
Reapers are multi-limbed, flying creatures similar to pterosaurs, with a large wingspan, sharp teeth both in the form of a beak and a secondary mouth in their torsos, coupled with a rapacious attitude. The Reapers are apparently extradimensional, materialising and dematerialising out of the spacetime vortex. They are attracted to temporal paradoxes that damage time, like bacteria swarming around a wound. They then proceed to "sterilise" the wound by consuming everyone in sight.
Once in this dimension, however, they can be blocked by material barriers. The older the barriers, the more effective they are, but even the oldest of barriers cannot stop them forever. Paradoxes can also allow them to directly materialise at the spot of the paradox. If the timeline is restored, they vanish, with their actions reversed as if they had never happened.
In "Father's Day", the Doctor explained that when the Time Lords were still around, there were laws to prevent the spread of paradoxes and that such paradoxes could be repaired. This implies that the Reapers are a natural phenomenon whose manifestation could be prevented if the paradox was resolved quickly. However, with the elimination of the other Time Lords in the Time War, there was no longer any agency that could repair time.

[edit] Refusian

Main article: The Ark

[edit] Rill

Main article: Galaxy 4

[edit] Rutan

Main article: Rutan Host

[edit] S

[edit] Sand beast

Main article: The Rescue

[edit] Savage

Main article: The Savages

[edit] Scarecrow

Doctor Who alien

Scarecrow
Type	Straw-filled humanoid
Affiliated with	The Family of Blood
Home planet	Earth
First appearance	"Human Nature"

Main articles: Human Nature and The Family of Blood

Straw-filled foot soldiers created by Son of Mine, using molecular fringe animation. They were relentless and untiring, with rudimentary intelligence. Even after being cut down by machine-gun fire, they could be reanimated.
Another type of scarecrow which came alive were set to appear in the unmade movie Doctor Who Meets Scratchman.

[edit] Sea Devil

Sea Devils were turtle-like humanoids that lived in Earth's oceans millions of years before humans evolved. They believed that a small planet would crash into Earth, which became Earth's moon. Like the Silurians, they went into hibernation and wanted to take the planet back from humans when they awoke.

Main article: Sea Devil

See also: The Sea Devils and Warriors of the Deep

[edit] Seaweed creature

Main article: Fury from the Deep

[edit] Selachian

Main articles: The Murder Game and The Final Sanction

[edit] Sensorite

Main article: The Sensorites

[edit] Shalka

Doctor Who alien
imagesize = alt = Shalka, with the leader Prime on the left.
Shalka
Type	Bioplasmic entities
Affiliated with	Shalka Confederacy
Home planet	Unknown
First appearance	Scream of the Shalka

The Shalka appear to be a serpentine alien race made of living rock and magma, but they are actually bioplasmic entities, living plasma, their physical appearance merely a "crust" concealing their true forms. They breathe volcanic air and prefer high temperatures, being most comfortable underground where lava meets metamorphic rock. They communicate through high-pitched screaming, which they can use for a variety of effects, like tunneling through rock or mentally controlling other life forms. They also use sound as a part of their technology.
In an alternate timeline, the Shalka arrived on Earth via meteorite, initially landing near Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand, subsequently establishing a beachhead for their planned invasion of Earth beneath the Lancashire town of Lannet. They also created a stable wormhole for landing their invasion force, which could also be converted into a black hole to dispose of their enemies, as they tried to do with the Doctor.
As they claimed to have done to billions of planets before, they intended to implant Shalka larvae into key segments of the population, mind controlling them into emitting a scream that would destroy the ozone layer. In this way, the Shalka intended to raise the surface temperature of the planet to the point where the human race would perish but the Shalka could thrive. The Shalka would then live beneath the surface, with the rest of the universe believing that Earth's inhabitants had died of self-inflicted ecological damage. The Doctor defeated their plans with the help of the British military and a Lannet barmaid named Alison.

[edit] Shambonie

Main article: Midnight

An alien race said to have big foreheads.

[edit] Shrivenzale

Main article: The Ribos Operation

[edit] Silurian

Main article: Silurian (Doctor Who)

[edit] Sisterhood of Karn

Main article: The Brain of Morbius

[edit] Skith

The Skith are ice-based, telepathic aliens. They see themselves as explorers and seekers of knowledge, but their methodology is to pull information from the minds of others. They appear as humanoid figures made of blue ice, except the Skith Leader, who is a larger figure made of red ice, and the Mindcore, which transmits telepathic information to and from the Worldmind on their homeworld, and resembles a giant, tentacled head, made out of blue ice. Those infected by Skith telepathic ice gradually become Skith-like drones themselves.
They first appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "The First" (#s 385-389), where they are based at the South Pole, and intercept the Ernest Shackleton expedition, before being stopped by the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. In the story "Age of Ice" (#s 408-410), the surviving Skith Leader reappears in present-day Australia, when he believes his people have come to rescue him. However, in the time that has passed since "The First", the Skith philosophy has changed, and they are now initialising a fullscale invasion. Based on the information absorbed from the Doctor's mind in the earlier story, they have constructed a duplicate TARDIS.
In "The Crimson Hand" (#s 416-420), it is revealed that the first action of the Hand was to destroy the Skith Throneworld.

[edit] Skonnan

Main article: The Horns of Nimon

[edit] Slitheen

Main articles: Aliens of London and World War Three (Doctor Who)

The Slitheen are a family of large bipedial extraterrestrials. They first appeared in "Aliens of London" and "World War Three" (both in 2005). The Slitheen are able to wear a human's skin as a disguise; in "Aliens of London" they use the Prime Minister's skin to attempt to take over the British government. The Slitheen are mostly made of calcium so they have a weakness to acetic acid (vinegar).

[edit] Slyther

The Slyther was a monster that served the Daleks. It was seen in episodes four and five of The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964), guarding the Dalek mines in Bedfordshire. After the Slyther attacked a small group of humans, killing Ashton, Ian hit it with a rock, causing it to fall down a pit to its death.

[edit] Smilers/Winders, The

Main article: The Beast Below

Doctor Who alien

The Smilers
Type	Android
Home planet	Starship UK
First appearance	"The Beast Below"

The Smilers are androids which are mounted inside booths across Starship UK (a country which abandoned the Earth after a series of dangerous solar flares in the 29th century). The Smilers rotate their heads to show three faces; happy, warning or very dangerous. They let the people of Starship UK know what's good and what's bad, and if the Starship is under a security threat, The Smilers can leave their booths and move around.

[edit] Solonian

Main article: The Mutants

[edit] Sontaran

Main article: Sontaran

[edit] Spiridon

The Spiridons featured in the serial Planet of the Daleks (1973). They were the dominant species of sentient humanoids on planet Spiridon in the Ninth System. They had developed a form of invisibility but became visible after death. They had been subjugated, to be used as experimental subjects and slaves, by the Daleks who were attempting to discover the secret of the Spiridons' invisibility and reproduce it for their own use. Some of the Spiridons, including one called Wester, resisted. They wore furs to keep themselves warm. The Doctor returns to Spiridon in spin-off audio adventures Return of the Daleks and Brotherhood of the Daleks.

[edit] Star whale

Doctor Who alien

Star whale
Type	Large alien whale
Affiliated with	Starship UK
Home planet	Unknown
First appearance	"The Beast Below"

[edit] Stigorax

Main article: The Happiness Patrol

[edit] The Swarm

Main article: Planet of the Dead

Also know by the Unified Intelligence Task-Force (U.N.I.T) as Stingrays, they are flying manta ray-like creatures, with metal exoskeletons that allow them to travel from planet to planet via wormholes. They consume everything on a planet, turning it into desert; and then swarm over the planet's surface, generating a wormhole which allows them to travel to the next planet.
The Stingrays are apparently arthropods, as they are exothermic, and possess an exoskeleton composed of metal that has been ingested then exuded to the exoskeleton. They are voracious feeders, eating both organic and inorganic materials ranging from flesh and bone to plant matter to metals and plastic. They also produce vast numbers of young and grow from birth to adult in under a year, as shown when the doctor shows a year-old clip of San Helios before its Stingray infestation.
They travel to other planets through wormholes created in the fabric of Spacetime by circling a planet faster and faster, and as each swarm can contain billions of giant stingrays, they rip a hole in space. Their wormholes can transport the whole swarm an infinite distance through space.

[edit] Swarm (virus)

Main article: The Invisible Enemy

[edit] Swampie

Main article: The Power of Kroll

[edit] Sycorax

Doctor Who alien

Sycorax
Type	Humanoid
Affiliated with	Unknown
Home planet	Fire Trap (JX82 system)
First appearance	"The Christmas Invasion"

[edit] Other media

In issue #1 of the IDW published Doctor Who comic book, a Sycorax is collecting near-extinct species to use with shape-shifters for expensive hunts. The Sycorax race also make a return in the Tenth Doctor comic strip "The Widow's Curse", in Doctor Who Magazine #395. The DWM comic story is the first appearance of female Sycorax, who seem to operate separately from the males.

[edit] T

[edit] Taran beast

Main article: The Androids of Tara

[edit] Terileptil

Doctor Who alien

Terileptil
Type	Reptilian humanoid
Affiliated with	Galactic Federation?
Home planet	Terileptus
First appearance	The Visitation

The Terileptils appeared in the Fifth Doctor serial The Visitation by Eric Saward. They are a reptilian humanoid species, they cannot survive long without breathing soliton gas, which is highly combustible when combined with oxygen. As an advanced society, they enjoy a heightened appreciation of both aesthetics and warfare, and have been known to employ bejeweled androids. Criminal punishment in Terileptil society includes life imprisonment working in tinclavic mines on the planet Raaga, often with sub-standard medical care.
In 1666, a group of Terileptil prison escapees hidden near London attempted to use a genetically enhanced version of the Black Plague to destroy humanity. The destruction of their lab in Pudding Lane, with help from the Doctor, causes the Great Fire of London.
The Terileptils destroyed the Sonic Screwdriver which did not appear again until the Doctor Who TV Movie.
According to the Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Dark Path by David A. McIntee, by the 34th century, their homeworld Terileptus is a member of the Galactic Federation, and a noted builder of starships. A Terileptil also appears as the chief engineer on a Federation starship. The planet is destroyed during the events described in the novel.

[edit] Terradonian

Main article: Full Circle

[edit] Tetrap

Doctor Who alien

Tetrap
Type	Bat-like humanoids
Affiliated with	The Rani
Home planet	Tetrapyriarbus
First appearance	Time and the Rani

The Tetraps are a bat-like race from the planet Tetrapyriarbus. A pack of Tetraps was employed by the Rani to help defend her Giant Brain in the Seventh Doctor's debut story, Time and the Rani (1987) by Pip and Jane Baker. The Rani armed a pack of Tetraps for this purpose and used them as general henchmen to terrorise the native Lakertyans.
Tetraps have four eyes, one on each side of their head, giving them all-round vision, and put this to good use in stalking fugitives. Like bats, they sleep by hanging upside-down in a cavern. They feed off a dark red-coloured sludge that the Lakertyan leader releases down a chute into a trough.
Tetraps possess limited intelligence, but they soon realise that the Rani's plans would have them all killed on Lakertya. This is confirmed when their leader, Urak, hears of her plans and she later leaves him to guard over her laboratory rather than take him with her in her TARDIS, thus condemning him to death. Urak and the enraged Tetraps capture the Rani in her ship and take her back to their home planet, to force her to help solve their natural resource shortages.

[edit] Thal

Main article: Thal

[edit] Tharil

Main article: Warriors' Gate

[edit] Tigellan

Main article: Meglos

[edit] Time Beetle

Doctor Who alien

Time Beetle
Type	Time-sensitive insectoids
Affiliated with	The Trickster Fortune teller
First appearance	"Turn Left"

The Time Beetle^[10] is a member of the Trickster's Brigade, a group of aliens that serve the Trickster. The Time Beetle, similar to the Trickster himself, feeds on time energy and can cause a victim to change a decision they made in the past, thereby altering history. The change in history is usually very minor, affecting only the person the beetle attaches to, and the universe usually "compensates" for the discrepancy.
When the beetle attaches to Donna in "Turn Left", it prevents her from ever meeting the Doctor, resulting in disaster for Earth. The Doctor, Martha Jones, Sarah Jane Smith, and Torchwood staff Ianto Jones and Gwen Cooper were all killed, the city of London was completely destroyed when the Titanic crashed into Buckingham Palace, Captain Jack Harkness was taken to the Sontaran homeworld, and millions of people died from threats the Doctor would have otherwise prevented. If the alternative future had continued, reality would have been destroyed by Davros.
In an accompanying "Monster Files" episode, Captain Jack raised doubts over whether the whole of the Trickster's Brigade consists of beetles, suggesting all individuals are of different species.

[edit] Toclafane

Doctor Who alien
The interior of a Toclafane, showing the human face
Toclafane
Type	Humans integrated into metallic spheres
Affiliated with	The Master
First appearance	"The Sound of Drums"

The Toclafane^[11] are the last remnants of humanity from the year 100 trillion. Originally intending to travel to Utopia, the last refuge of a dying universe, they find nothing but "the dark and the cold" of space. Losing the last shred of hope they had, they turned on themselves, cannibalising their own bodies to create a new cyborg race. As part of this process they regress into little more than children with shared memories. The name Toclafane is given to them by the Master, who takes it from the Gallifreyan equivalent of the bogeyman.
The Toclafane's cyborg forms possess energy devices capable of killing and disintegrating targets. They are equipped with numerous retractable blades. The first four to be seen also exhibit apparent teleportation or cloaking abilities, not displayed by others of their race. All that remains of their bodies are barely recognisable human faces wired into basketball-sized mechanical spheres.
In "The Sound of Drums"/"Last of the Time Lords", the Master rescues four Toclafane from the end of the universe prior to an eventual Big Crunch, using them to fake a first contact situation in order to draw the world's leaders into one place for easy capture. He then uses a "paradox machine" to allow the future of the human race to slaughter many in the present, in short bringing the six billion humans that are alive in the year 100 trillion to return in the form of the Toclafane. The paradox machine creates a temporal paradox, allowing them to kill their ancestors without damaging themselves, and thus establish the Master's rule over Earth. After subduing Earth, the Master aims to establish a new Time Lord empire with himself as the leader and the Toclafane as his people and ground troops. This plan is foiled when the paradox machine is destroyed, causing time to rewind and trapping the Toclafane back at the end of the universe.
The Toclafane feature on the cover of the New Series Adventures novel, The Story of Martha, which chronicles Martha's adventures during The Year That Never Was.

[edit] Torajii

A sentient star featured in the episode 42. The crew of a cargo ship uses a sun scoop on Torajii to refuel their ship, unaware that it is actually a living creature. Torajii then uses the stolen particles to possess crewmembers and kill them.

[edit] Tractator

Main article: Frontios

[edit] Trakenite

Main article: The Keeper of Traken

[edit] Trion

Main article: Planet of Fire

[edit] Tritovore

Main article: Planet of the Dead

Humanoid fly creatures, they trade with other civilizations for their excrement. They communicate with clicks that the TARDIS didn't translate because it was not on the same planet as The Doctor and Lady Christina de Souza. The Doctor speaks with them through their own language while they understand The Doctor through a one-way telepathic translating communication device.

[edit] Tythonian

Main article: The Creature from the Pit

[edit] U

[edit] Urbankan

Main article: Four to Doomsday

[edit] Usurian

Main article: The Sun Makers

The Usurians from the planet Usurius are a species that abandoned military conquest in favour of economic conquest. They enslaved humanity after their engineers made Mars suitable for human habitation, humans having depleted the Earth's resources. Once humanity had depleted Mars's resources as well, the Usurians engineered Pluto so that humans could inhabit it. They created six artificial "Suns" around it and installed the Collector to oversee the collection of taxes from their human workforce. They intended to abandon Pluto and leave humanity to become extinct once the humans had exhausted its resources, there being no economically viable planet to relocate humanity to once more. The humans on Pluto revolted against the Collector and seized control of Pluto. The revolutionaries intended to relocate to Earth as the Doctor assured them it would have regenerated in their absence.
The Usurians have knowledge of the Time Lords, graded as "Grade 3" in their "latest market survey", considering Gallifrey to be of low commercial value. Usurians can adopt a humanoid form but in their natural state they resemble seaweed. Shock can force them to revert to their natural form. According to the Doctor, Usurians are listed in a "flora and fauna" of the universe written by a Professor Thripthead under poisonous fungi.

[edit] V

[edit] Validium

Main article: Silver Nemesis

[edit] Vampire

A number of different types of vampire have appeared in televised Doctor Who:

In the fourth episode of the 1965 First Doctor serial The Chase, the Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki encounter Count Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster, who make short work of a pursuing party of Daleks. The Doctor speculates that the monsters and the haunted mansion that they inhabit are the products of nightmares created from the human psyche. As the TARDIS and the Daleks' time capsule leave, it is revealed that the monsters are in fact funfair robots.

The Fourth Doctor encounters vampires whilst travelling in E-Space in the 1980 serial State of Decay. The Doctor, Romana, Adric and K-9 encounter three vampires, Aukon, Camilla and Zargo. It is revealed that the three are servants of the giant King Vampire, a member of the Great Vampires who once fought a great war against the Time Lords but were eventually defeated. By escaping to E-Space, the King Vampire was the sole surviving member of its race. The Doctor defeats the King Vampire by launching the lesser vampires' tower — actually the command module of the ship piloted by the originally human trio — and using it as a stake to pierce the giant vampire's heart. The three servant vampires perish along with their king.

The Eleventh Doctor, Rory Williams and Amy Pond encountered vampiric, lobster-like aliens in 16th century Venice in "The Vampires of Venice". They were able to breathe underwater and had vampire-like qualities such as a vulnerability to sunlight, no reflections and a thirst for [human blood]. Their leader, Signora Rosanna Calvierri, has a perception filter that allows herself and her family to take humanoid forms, except for her brood which lived under the river. They planned to flood Venice in an attempt to continue their civilization since their own planet Saturnyne was destroyed by cracks. When the Doctor foiled their plan, Rosanna committed suicide by allowing her brood to devour her.

Vampires have also appeared in Doctor Who stories in other media. Vampires related to the Great Vampires seen in State of Decay are featured prominently in the Virgin New Adventures novel Blood Harvest, the Missing Adventure Goth Opera, the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Vampire Science, and the Big Finish Productions audio dramas Project: Twilight and Project: Lazarus. The Eighth Doctor Adventure The Eight Doctors also features them in a flashback to State of Decay; in addition, the war between the vampires and the Time Lords is a significant plot element in the New Adventure Damaged Goods. Other vampires or vampire-like creatures have been featured in the Missing Adventure Managra, the audio drama UNIT: Snake Head, the BBCi webcast Death Comes to Time, the short story The Feast of the Stone (featuring an alternate Ninth Doctor), the Bernice Summerfield anthology The Vampire Curse, and the Torchwood website.

[edit] Vanir

Main article: Terminus

[edit] Vardan

Main article: The Invasion of Time

[edit] Varga plant

Doctor Who alien

Varga Plants
Type	Animal/plant hybrid
Affiliated with	Daleks
Home planet	Skaro
First appearance	"Mission to the Unknown"

The Varga plants (sometimes Vaarga) appeared in the First Doctor episode "Mission to the Unknown" and the serial The Daleks' Master Plan, which were essentially a prologue and main epic respectively. They were created by Terry Nation.
Varga Plants grew naturally on the Daleks' homeworld, Skaro, and when the Daleks set up a base on the planet Kembel they brought some Varga plants with them to act as sentries in the jungle surrounding their base. They were suited to this as they could move around freely by dragging themselves along with their roots.
Varga plants resemble cacti; they are covered in fur and thorns. Anyone pricked by a Varga thorn will be consumed by the urge to kill, while simultaneously becoming a Varga plant themself. This grisly fate befell astronauts Jeff Garvey and Gordon Lowery, and their commander, Marc Cory, was forced to kill them.
The plants later made an appearance in the Big Finish audio I, Davros: Purity. In this, it was revealed that the Varga plants were one of the oldest species on Skaro, but for most of their history had been immobile. Since the start of the Kaled-Thal war however, exposure to radiation and chemical weapons had caused them to rapidly evolve into a much deadlier form, capable of self-locomotion. It was this discovery that caused Davros to become interested in genetically engineering creatures in order to create weapons of war. In Dalek Empire II: Dalek War, they were found on a terraformed Jupiter where they infected earth troops. They appeared in City of the Daleks where after the Time War they infested the ruined Dalek city of Kaalann on Skaro but here their appearance was much different.

[edit] Varosian

Main article: Vengeance on Varos

[edit] Vashta Nerada

Doctor Who alien

Vashta Nerada
Type	Carnivorous swarm
Affiliated with	Unknown
Home planet	Practically universal
First appearance	"Silence in the Library"

Main articles: Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead

Vashta Nerada (literally: the shadows that melt the flesh) are microscopic swarm creatures which, when present in a high enough concentration, are totally indistinguishable from shadows, and use this to their advantage in approaching and attacking prey. They are described as the "piranhas of the air", able to strip their victims to the bone in an instant in high enough densities. The Doctor says that almost every planet in the universe has some, including Earth, and claims that they can be seen as the specks of dust visible in unusually bright light. On most planets, however, Vashta Nerada exist in relatively low concentrations, feeding primarily on carrion, with attacks on people being comparatively rare. In the episode "Silence in the Library", an unusually high concentration of Vashta Nerada had completely overrun the 51st century "Library", resulting in the apparent death of everyone inside at the time.
Vashta Nerada normally live in forested areas, and reproduce by means of microscopic spores which can lay dormant in wood pulp. In the episode "Forest of the Dead", this is revealed to be the reason for their unusual prevalence in The Library, as it is made known that the books and The Library itself were constructed of wood from the Vashta Nerada's native forest feeding grounds. Individually, Vashta Nerada are non-sapient, but if a large enough concentration come together, they can form a group mind of human-level intelligence capable of communication.
The fourth episode of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games, called Shadows of the Vashta Nerada, will also feature them as a leading villain.

[edit] Venom grub

Main article: The Web Planet

[edit] Vervoid

Main article: Terror of the Vervoids

Artificially created plant-based humanoids who possess problem-solving intelligence and the power of speech; they were intended to perform tasks usually carried out by robots, but for a fraction of the cost. Unfortunately they instead decided to eradicate all of 'animalkind'. Vervoids had about the size and strength of humans, but were covered in leaves which provided them with energy through photosynthesis. They possessed thorns so poisonous they could kill a human on contact, and could produce copious amounts of methane-based swamp gas.

[edit] Vespiform

Doctor Who alien

Vespiform
Type	Morphing insectoids
Home planet	Unknown, Silfrax Galaxy
First appearance	"The Unicorn and the Wasp"

Main article: The Unicorn and the Wasp

The Vespiform are a insectoid species resembling giant wasps, born en masse in hives in the Silfrax Galaxy. Each possesses the ability to morph into other species. It also has the ability to breed with other species, including humans, to produce offspring. The Monster Files feature establishes them as an ancient race and that they have fought the Quarks.^[12]
Vespiform have a telepathic connection to objects called firestones, which contain part of their mind. Like Earth's wasps, the Vespiform are vulnerable to water. A Vespiform-human hybrid can live a normal life as a human until a burst of intense emotion awakens its alien biology. They are said to be at war with the Quark rebels. When the Vespiform morphs into another species it emits a purple light.
In "The Unicorn and the Wasp", when the Vespiform appears it goes on a killing spree (in the style of Agatha Christie's murder mystery books) to keep anybody from revealing that it is actually the son of the rich Lady Eddison. The Vespiform attempts to kill the Doctor by poisoning his drink with cyanide. The drink was poisoned by Reverend Golightly, the human version of the Vespiform. In the end the Vespiform is killed by Donna Noble who drowns it in a lake.

[edit] Vinvocci

Main article: The End of Time

The Vinvocci are a race of spiky green aliens who first appeared in The End of Time. A pair of Vinvocci came to Earth as part of a salvage operation to recover Vinvocci techonology—a medical device for healing entire planets, which Joshua Naismith named the "Immortality Gate". They possess disguise technology referred to by the Doctor as a Shimmer. When the Doctor notes a similarity to Bannakaffalatta from Voyage of the Damned, noting the distinction that "he was small, and red", the Vinvocci are quick to differentiate themselves from the Zocci.

[edit] Viperox

Main article: Dreamland

Insectoid creatures that attempted to destroy Earth in 1958, in the Dry Springs of Nevada.

[edit] Virus

Main article: The Invisible Enemy

[edit] Viyrans

The Viyrans are an elusive race of aliens heard in Big Finish Productions audio stories. They originate from a distant galaxy that waged a huge war using a wide variety of powerful technologically advanced biological weapons. A final peace agreement was reached and the biological weapons were gathered together at the Amethyst Viral Containment Station with the intention of destroying them. But then there was an incident involving the Sixth Doctor and the Daleks and all of the dangerous virus weaponry was spread throughout the universe, landing on various worlds and causing havoc.
The Viyrans come from that distant galaxy. Their job is to seek out all the stray viruses, neutralize them and cure any victims, if possible. They also feel it's their duty to make sure no one finds out anything about any of this, in case someone of low morals tries to track down some of these viruses themselves.
They have no real spoken language, but communicate psychically or through hand motions or sometimes by trying to replicate an individual's voice. They can also time travel. What they actually look like is a mystery, but they are humanoid in shape, always appearing in a white type of hazmat suit. When they find an infected location, they block off the area and work in secret, never letting anyone know they were there, before, during or after. They collect all the victims in flying glass coffins and attempt to cure them. If the infected individuals can be cured, they are returned and their memories of the events are erased. If not, they are destroyed.
The first appearance of The Viyrans was in a short story called No One Died from the 2007 Doctor Who Storybook, featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler. Their first appearance in an audio story was Mission of the Viyrans with the Fifth Doctor and Peri Brown. The viral explosion is witnessed in Patient Zero. In Blue Forgotten Planet it is revealed that Charley Pollard is employed by the Viyrans after they cure a virus she contracted.
Although they did not appear themselves, their engineered viruses were featured in Urgent Calls, Urban Myths and The Wishing Beast & The Vanity Box. These one part stories (and Mission of the Viyrans) were listed in their booklets as being part of the "Virus Strand" arc. Some of the viruses they've tried to neutralize include a virus that can destroy the minds of an entire planet (No One Died), a particle that can induce beneficial coincidences for communications devices (Urgent Calls), an exaggerating frenzy illness (Urban Myths), a living wish-granting device (The Wishing Beast & The Vanity Box) and a rapidly spreading contagion that crudely distorts DNA, slowly killing its victims (Mission of the Viyrans).

[edit] Vogan

Main article: Revenge of the Cybermen

[edit] Voord

Main article: The Keys of Marinus

[edit] Vortisaur

Main article: Vortisaur

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[edit] Waterhive

The Waterhive is the description given to an unnamed alien race from the New Series Adventures novel The Feast of the Drowned. They are composed of water and can take over the body of a drowned being. The body is thus preserved, although the eyes of their host will become "pearly", forcing glasses to be worn. They infiltrated the high ranks of the Navy in order to send sailors and their loved ones to their watery graves. Their plan was to use the living drowned as human incubators for their larvae, this failed when the Doctor reduced the hive to atoms.

[edit] Weeping Angels

Main article: Weeping Angels

Doctor Who alien

Weeping Angel
Type	Winged humanoids
Affiliated with	None
Home planet	Unknown
First appearance	"Blink"

The Weeping Angels are hunters featured in the Tenth Doctor episode, "Blink", and the Eleventh Doctor episodes, "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone". They resemble the stone angel statues that can be seen in some Christian cemeteries. When they are not being observed by another sentient being, they can move very quickly and silently, but when they sense they are being observed they become "quantum-locked". In this state, they are frozen and indestructible. They cannot suppress this reaction. If two Weeping Angels were to look at each other at the same time, they would be trapped in stone form forever. To prevent this, they often cover their eyes when freezing — this makes them look like they are weeping. They are described by The Doctor as "the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely," as their method of killing is quite literally to let their victims "live to death". They are also known as the 'Lonely Assassins'.

[edit] Werewolf

Main article: Werewolf

[edit] Wirrn

Doctor Who alien

Wirrn
Type	Parasitic insectoids
Affiliated with	Noah
Home planet	Somewhere in Andromeda
First appearance	The Ark in Space

The Wirrn are an insectoid race that made their debut in the 1975 Fourth Doctor story The Ark in Space. The name is sometimes spelled Wirrrn, which is a spelling originating from the novelisation of the story.
The Wirrn claim to have originated from Andromeda (whether they meant the galaxy, the constellation, or even a planet named "Andromeda" is unclear), but were driven into space by human settlers. They are slightly larger than humans, dark green and wasp-like in appearance, and live mostly in space, although their breeding colonies are terrestrial. Their bodies are a self-contained system, their lungs being able to recycle waste carbon dioxide and only needing to touch down occasionally on planetary bodies for food and oxygen. The Wirrn's life cycle involves laying their eggs in living hosts; the larvae emerge to consume the host, absorbing its memories and knowledge. A Wirrn larva is a green slug-like creature, varying in size from a few inches to 1 or 2 metres across. It can "infect" another organism through contact with a substance it excretes, mutating them into an adult Wirrn and connecting their consciousness to the hive mind.
In The Ark in Space, the Wirrn found Space Station Nerva in orbit around an Earth devastated centuries before by solar flares. The survivors had lain in suspended animation waiting for the planet to recover, but had overslept by several millennia. The Wirrn intended to use the sleepers as a food source and claim the empty Earth for their own, as both a means of survival and an act of revenge against the human race for taking their former territories. In the course of their plan, Noah, leader of Nerva, was infected and converted to their kind. However, Noah still retained "more than a vestige of human spirit", probably thanks to the encouragements of the Doctor, and led the Wirrn into Nerva's transport ship even though he knew it was rigged to explode. It did so, ending the Wirrn threat.
The Wirrn have also appeared in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Placebo Effect by Gary Russell, and in the audio play Wirrn: Race Memory, produced by BBV and the Big Finish audio story Wirrn Dawn by Nicholas Briggs. A dead Wirrn appears briefly in The Stones of Blood.

[edit] X

[edit] Xeraphin

Doctor Who alien

Xeraphin
Type	Gestalt humanoid
Affiliated with	The Master
Home planet	Xeriphas
First appearance	Time-Flight

The Xeraphin were an ancient species encountered by the Fifth Doctor in the story Time-Flight by Peter Grimwade. Originating from the planet Xeriphas, they possessed immense psychokinetic and scientific powers. The Doctor believed the race to have been wiped out during the crossfire during the Vardon/Kosnax war. Instead, the entire race fled to Earth in an escaping spacecraft. The ship crashed near present day Heathrow some 140 million years ago. When the Xeraphin emerged they built a Citadel to mark their new home but the Xeraphin were so plagued with radiation that they abandoned their original humanoid bodies and transformed into a single bioplasmic gestalt intelligence within a sarcophagus at the heart of the Citadel.
The arrival of the Master coincided with their emergence from the gestalt state when the radiation effects had subsided, and his influence caused the emergence of a split personality of good and evil, each side competing for their tremendous power while yearning to become a proper species once again. The Master, who was stranded on Earth at the time too, succeeded in capturing the Xeraphin as a new power source for his TARDIS. However, the Doctor's intervention meant his nemesis' TARDIS was sent to Xeriphas where events became out of his control.
Before fleeing Xeriphas and the Xeraphin, the Master took with him Kamelion, a Xeraphin war weapon with advanced shape-changing abilities dependent on the will of its controller. Kamelion was freed from the Master and joined the Doctor's TARDIS crew in The King's Demons.

[edit] Xeron

Main article: The Space Museum

[edit] Xylok

The Xylok is a crystal like race that live under the Earth, it must have a purpose. Sarah-Jane Smith has a Xylok that has taken the form of a super computer.

Main article: Mr Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

[edit] Y

[edit] Z

[edit] Zarbi

Doctor Who alien

Zarbi
Type	Insectoid
Affiliated with	Animus
Home planet	Vortis
First appearance	The Web Planet

The Zarbi appeared in the 1965 First Doctor story The Web Planet written by Bill Strutton, and are an ant-like insectoid species, with some characteristics associated with beetles, from the planet Vortis, which were controlled by the power of the Animus. They are roughly eight feet long, and the Menoptra claim, perhaps a little callously, that they are "little more than cattle".
They possess little intelligence but were not at all aggressive until the Animus arrived. They were enslaved to the alien consciousness and considered the butterfly-like Menoptra their mortal enemies. Only they could control the woodlouse-like venom grubs, also known as larvae guns.
They returned to their normal ways after the Animus was defeated by the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki. It is presumed that the various species on Vortis are now living peacefully together.

Stranice

Doctor Who Creatures And Aliens

[edit] Adipose

[edit] Aggedor

[edit] Alpha Centauri

[edit] Alzarian

[edit] Androgum

[edit] Anethan

[edit] Anti-Man

[edit] Arcturus

[edit] Argolin

[edit] Aridian

[edit] Atraxi

[edit] Axons

[edit] B

[edit] Bandril

[edit] Bannerman

[edit] The Beast

[edit] Bees

[edit] Blade Fin

[edit] Brain of Morphoton

[edit] C

[edit] Canisian

[edit] Carrionite

[edit] Castrovalvan

[edit] Cat People

[edit] Caxtarids

[edit] Chameleon

[edit] Cheetah People

[edit] Chelonian

[edit] Chimeron

[edit] Chronovore

[edit] Chula

[edit] Crespallions

[edit] Cryon

[edit] Cyberman

[edit] Cyber-Controller

[edit] Cybershades

[edit] Cybermats

[edit] Cyberking

[edit] D

[edit] Dals

[edit] Dalek

[edit] Dalek Humans

[edit] Data Ghost

[edit] Davros

[edit] Delta Magnan

[edit] Demon

[edit] Destroyer

[edit] Didonian

[edit] Dominator

[edit] Draconian

[edit] Dragon

[edit] Drahvin

[edit] Drashig

[edit] Dulcian

[edit] E

[edit] Eknodine

[edit] Elder

[edit] Entity

[edit] Eternal

[edit] Exxilon

[edit] F

[edit] The Family of Blood

[edit] Fish People

[edit] Flay Fish

[edit] Flesh/New Humans

[edit] The Flood

[edit] Foamasi

[edit] Forest of Cheem

[edit] Futurekind

[edit] G

[edit] Garm

[edit] Gastropod

[edit] Gaztak

[edit] Gee-Jee Fly

[edit] Gel Guard

[edit] Gelth

[edit] GENIE

[edit] Giant Maggot