Despite their many transgressions villains are pretty cool in Doctor Who. True, some have more depth than others but let’s just be honest, not every hero is quality with a lot of interesting villains. A hero is sometimes defined the large roster of antagonistic enemies that’s pitted against them and no one has a larger roster than that of the Doctor. Throughout time and space he battles some of the meanest, cruelest, and sickest creatures to have ever grace the universe.
15. The Great Intelligence
A disembodied entity that has the ability to communicate with other characters both by itself and interact with its environment through possession of living creatures.
14. Abzorbaloff
A creature that absorbs other living beings into his body with a simple touch. In doing so, the Abzorbaloff makes his victims part of himself, adding their memories and knowledge to his own. Their faces can be seen embedded in his flesh.
13. Empress of the Racnoss
Empress of the ancient race of huge half-humanoid, half-arachnid aliens that act as an invasion force who once consumed everything on the planets they conquer.
12. Sutekh
Said to have influenced ancient Egyptian mythology, Sutekh the Destroyer is the last of a powerful alien race called the Osirans imprisoned on Mars.
11. Omega
Known as one of the founders of the Time Lords of the planet Gallifrey, he was a Time Lord scientist who was accidentally sent through a event horizon into an antimatter universe where was trapped. His exile and solitude turned him insane, seeking revenge on the Time Lords for “abandoning” him.
10. Cyber-Planner
The Eleventh Doctor undergoes a partial cyberconversion by the new Cybermen with the Cyber-Planner controlling his body.
9. The Cybermen
Originally a wholly organic species of humanoids originating on the planet Mondas, they began to implant more and more artificial parts into their bodies as a means of self-preservation resulting in them becoming robot-like. Completely calculating and coldly logical they have deleted every emotion from their minds.
8. Signora Rosanna Calvierri
Signora Rosanna Calvierri is a Saturnyne who flees the destruction of her planet along with her offspring.
7. Professor Richard Lazarus
A 76-year-old human scientist using sonic technology to enable rejuvenation who is obsessed with immortality. But when the experiment goes wrong, Lazarus is transformed into a horrific product of genetic manipulation, a huge scorpion-like being that drains the life energy of its victims to keep his DNA stable.
6. The Master (John Simm)
Renegade alien Time Lord and the archenemy of the title character the Doctor.
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5. The Silence
Their existence is a secret because anyone who sees them immediately forgets about them after looking away, but retains suggestions made to them by the Silence. This allows them to have a pervasive influence across human history while being difficult to locate or resist.
4. The Vashta Nerada
Vashta Nerada, “the shadows that melt the flesh”, are a swarm of thousands of carnivorous microscopic beings. Though no threat in small numbers, in large numbers they could strip a creature to its bare bones in milliseconds. They mimic the shadows of their prey to get close and if someone has an extra shadow, it’s already too late.
3. The Daleks
The Daleks are merciless and pitiless cyborg aliens, demanding total conformity, bent on conquest of the universe and the extermination of what they see as inferior races.
2. Weeping Angels
The Weeping Angels were an extremely powerful species of quantum-locked humanoids, so called because their unique nature necessitated that they often covered their faces with their hands to prevent trapping each other in petrified form for eternity by looking at one another. This gave the Weeping Angels their distinct “weeping” appearance. They were known for being “kind” murderous psychopaths, eradicating their victims “mercifully” by dropping them into the past and letting them live out their full lives, just in a different time period. This, in turn, allowed them to live off the remaining time energy of the victim’s life.
1. Missy
Renegade alien Time Lord and the archenemy of the title character the Doctor.
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