10Doctor WhoVillains That Really Deserve To Make A Comeback

Doctor Who has a story of overusing its most popular scoundrel , going back to the age of Dalekmania . But meanwhile , some villains have n’t get virtually enough screentime , or have n’t achieved their full potential . Here are 10 Doctor Who villains who ought to have another go at stamp down the universe .

1) The Dream Lord (from “Amy’s Choice”)

Yes , before anybody indicate it out , this baddie who plunges Amy , Rory and the medico into a yoke of deadly dream Earth in “ Amy ’s Choice ” is just sort of an vista of the Doctor ’s ego - loathing psyche , brought on by some uncanny psychic pollen . But that does n’t make him any less dangerous or creepy . He ’s a more dangerous materialisation of the Doctor ’s grim side than , say , the Valeyard , the evil alternating future Doctor who puts the Doctor on trial in “ Trial of a Time Lord . ” And what if the Dream Lord found a way to gain independent existence , and could still trap hoi polloi in frightful pipe dream worlds ?

2) Fenric (from “The Curse of Fenric”)

This is one of those villain who seems like he ought to be the Doctor ’s arch - foe , but we still only see him the one time . The Doctor describes Fenric as “ vicious from the dayspring of meter , ” whom the Doctor pin down long ago with a weird cheat trouble ( whose solution has never made sense to me . ) Fenric is a master copy schemer , who creates fabulously complex traps , like sending superintendent - vampire back in meter from a post - apocalyptic future tense , that the superintendent - vampires themselves are doomed to create . He ’s unforced to utilise people ’s avaritia for knowledge , as well as their bad nature , against them — and he ’s one of the better “ obscure God ” part that Who has ever featured .

3) The Master Brain (from “The Mind Robber”)

In “ The Mind Robber , ” the Doctor and his companion become trapped in the Land of Fiction , where stories become real — and unless they ’re careful , they ’ll be turned into stories themselves . The Master of Fiction is an quondam pulp magazine writer who ’s been trapped there for years , make up narration to populate this otherwise blank existence — but who ’s trapping him there ? We never learn that much about this creepy-crawly reckoner that sits in another universe and turns genuine mass into its tool . How did this figurer come up its way into a clean pouch universe , and why does it require to turn substantial people into tale ? It feel like there ’s a captivating narrative to be told there — even without overtly referencing the original story .

4) The creature (from “Midnight”)

We learn basically nothing about the creature in “ Midnight ” , except that it ’s telepathic , and it can have people , and it ’s run to the Doctor ’s intelligence activity . It ’s also very cunning , and adept at manipulating people to deform against each other . Possibly , if we saw this creature again , it would lose all its secret and just become another comfortable baddie , and that would be kind of a pity . But it might almost be worth the jeopardy , to see what would have pass , if this creature had made it back to the urban center .

5) The Rani (from “Mark of the Rani” and “Time and the Rani”)

The Rani is one of those type who ’s really nerveless in concept — but neither of her two stories really does her justice . She ’s another phallus of the Doctor ’s wash , a Time Lady , who love to do immoral experiments on people and planet and thing . She does n’t desire to conquer any planet , or demolish anything for its own sake — she ’s just a really unethical scientist , who does n’t like who gets smart when she reap wit chemicals from citizenry or stress to build a super - time - mentality - thingy . In her two on - sieve appearance , she does a lot of scenery - chew in close pants , when she ’s not wear a crazy mullet - wig and impersonating the Doctor ’s comrade Mel . But the core of the character is wonderful , including her despite for the Doctor as well as his enemies .

6) Skagra (from “Shada”)

Douglas Adams only drop a line three Doctor Who stories , and two of them feature villains that it would be strong to imagine recurring . But the third , the never - completed “ Shada , ” has a villain with legs . ( Which are mostly see in shiny disco knickers . ) Skagra is a sarcastic , sardonic brainiac , who takes over a think - tank of other superstar to arise a equipment that will allow him to slip other people ’s minds . Then he sets about trying to break into the lost Time Lord prison house , Shada , to happen a psychic outlaw named Salyavin , who can project his mind into other the great unwashed . Skagra basically wants to turn the universe into a unmarried group - mind , with his consciousness in control over everybody . It ’s a canny plot , but what puts Skagra into the “ merit another shot ” refugee camp is his swaggering egomania . What if he in reality get to turn his mind into a virus , infect tons of others and broadcast across the extragalactic nebula ? That would be kind of cool .

7) Gus (from “Mummy on the Orient Express”)

Here ’s another baddie — and another malign figurer — that we never learned enough about . Gus is the computer on board the Orient Express , who traps the Doctor and Clara on a replication train in quad , and storm them to figure out the nature of the mummy that keeps killing people . What lay down Gus so great is his plummy straight-laced - gent vox , coupled with a horrific mercilessness when he does n’t get his own way . And as the Doctor remarks at the end , we never rule out “ who position this up ” — and who ’s so horribly compulsive to understand and retroflex the mummy ’s pestilent powers .

8) Kronos, the Chronovore (from “The Time Monster”)

OK , so Kronos is n’t rigorously - verbalise a baddie — it ’s more of a devil . If Kronos is pull up stakes alone , everything is copacetic . But when the ancient Atlanteans keep Kronos interlock off for aeons , Kronos is pretty pissed when it escape , and ruin Atlantis solely . ( Thathappens a loton Doctor Who . ) What ’s great about Kronos is , it ’s sort of an elder god , and sort of an primary force , and sort of a mad titan . “ The Time Monster , ” like the two Rani stories , is kind of underwhelming , and Kronos does n’t really get to smoothen — but you sense there ’s some outstanding mythos there , about elemental beings from outside clip , who sometimes stop in to feed up on fourth dimension or plaything with soul . It would n’t be hard to imagine a history about the terrible thing that come about when Kronos , or another Chronovore , gets athirst .

9) The Wirrn (from “The Ark In Space”)

Like the extraterrestrial being in Ridley Scott ’s Alien , the Wirrn are found on parasitical wasps that lay their eggs inside other animal . That ’s correct , Doctor Who has its own version of the Xenomorphs , just pose mighty there . The Wirrn are also telepathic , and can absorb memories and cognition from the species they consume — and they can turn over hoi polloi into Wirrn . The whole business of the Wirrn place egg in people is just macabre , but then add to that the visual of hundreds of them swarming through space … you have to marvel if the reason they ’ve never get back is because they ’re in reality too horrifying . ( And yes , before anyone else says it : there ’s house of cards wrapper in this story . In 1974 , multitude had n’t seen house of cards wrap as much . Plus , whatever . )

10) The Krillitane (from “School Reunion”)

These bat - corresponding creatures , that can take on the attributes of all the mintage they conquer , stay a bit vague in their one and only field day . The focal point in “ School Reunion ” is mostly on the Doctor reconnecting with Sarah - Jane Smith . ( And K-9 ! ) But the Krillitane have a few neat concepts to them , including the matter of extreme adaptability . And their aspiration , to solve the most basic par of the universe and accomplish godlike powers , is something that seems like it could support more narrative . Plus they ’re aliens who turn fry into super - genius using Gallic tike . That ’s something that really necessitate to be explored further .

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