This approach obviously makes the article longer (hence the need to divide over more than one page).
Definitely the most quippy of all the genocidal maniacs inDoctor Who.
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More actively threatening is Harrison Chase, who actively preferred plants to people.
Tony Beckleys performance knows when to be calm but twitchy, and then let rip during the camper excesses.
Theres a balance to it, and its tremendously entertaining.
Compare it to the determinedly unbalanced performance Graham Crowden gives as Soldeed inThe Horns Of Nimon.
The Great Intelligence has a fondness for snow, traps, and possessing corpses.
Spin-off novelisations had connected it by name with one of H.P.
This is determinedly not the case when it comes to Magnus Greel.
Its a shocking a demonstration of power that is continually demonstrated throughoutPyramids Of Mars.
Bad laws are made to be broken.
TakeJubilee, for example, Rob Shearmans Sixth Doctor-starring Big Finish play which was later adapted into the episodeDalek.
Jubileeis a grotesque, pitch-black world which has broader aims than the streamlined efficiency of its TV counterpart.
Also facing off against the Sixth Doctor was Astrolabus in the pages ofDoctor Who Magazine.
Less subtle, but no less entertaining, Beep the Meep was a saucer-eyed fluffy bundle of murderous rage.
Imagine the rabbit fromMonty Python And The Holy Grailwith a laser blaster and aspirations to conquer the galaxy.
Then imagine a conceptual entity with the power to alter your perception.
The Shift is one of the latter, though it could still work on television.
What sounds like an irritatingly whimsical name becomes a devastating semantic weapon.
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Theres something unspokenly demonic about Fenric.
He attempts to bring about something like Hell on Earth according to both Norse and Christian tellings.
In Islam the Devil is a Jinn and causes people to do wrong by misleading them.
He really enjoys being out and about and killing all the people.
He knows hes a villain and that certain behaviour is expected of him.
While he was trapped in the Shadow Dimensions he clearly read up on postmodernism.
Unlike Fenric, the Mara sadly disappoints upon its actual manifestation, but it gets under the skin more.
There are nowhere near as many questions leftover afterThe Dmonsand the demise of Azal.
The Cybermen often infiltrate their opponents by finding/manipulating a willing conspirator, as demonstrated by Klieg and Kaftan.
In the case of Miss Hartigan the Cybermen are able to use her anger to help progress her plans.
The Cybermens claim that emotions are a weakness has some sway in these instances.
A scheming megalomaniac, he betrayed basically everyone he allied with, and died insisting he was immortal.
Jon Pertwee then saves the world with nothing more than relentless scorn.
Its all enough to make you question human nature.
Which brings us to The Young Silurian.
Aaah, you say, but he is not a man.
He is a Silurian with a fondness for violently jerky head motions and saying the word leader.
But, I say, is not the point that the Silurians have the same flaws as humanity?
That the Young Silurian and the Brigadier are two sides of the same coin?
The Young Silurian is impetuous and aggressive, dominating others without a seconds consideration that he might be wrong.
Rorviks final cry of Im finally getting something done!
Higher up the food chain than Rorvik isThe Caves Of Androzanis Morgus.
Its all quite legal of course.
Theres also the small matter of gun running, murder, treason and plot.
In the hands of another actor, Morgus could have been a tad boo-hiss.
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There are essentially two kinds of scientist inDoctor Who geeks and dickheads.
What Solon really lacks is a sense of autonomy, of doing the job for himself.
Fortunately Kate OMara was cast, giving a potentially thankless role some star quality.
Indeed, inMark Of The Raniit does feel like shes had her life interrupted by an episode ofDoctor Who.
He is, in effect, a Cyberman with a god complex.
He sells people their own dead relatives back to them as food.
He thinks that converting you into a Dalek is the highest form of compliment.
He wiped out his entire race to ensure the survival of his own invention.
He turned Dirty Den into a zombie.
He has beautiful eyes.
One of the most memorable of this subsect wasThe War Games General Smythe.
Similarly lethal from a position of power is Catherine de Medici.
Catherine manipulates her son, the King, into agreeing to this after arranging a series of assassination attempts.
The TARDIS crew never meet Catherine; Steven is powerless to do anything, and the Doctor is unwilling.
The First Doctor refuses to change history.
Call it Wholash, make it a thing).
The Warlord Tegana also kills himself in the end, rather than be killed by Marco Polos men.
He genuinely would have got away with it too, if it werent for those meddling kids.
His threat at the cliffhanger toThe Wheel Of Fortune The only pleasure left for you is death.
And death is very far away is utterly chilling.
Still, the Doctor stopped him in the end, and all was well.
Good job it was robots he was fond of and not an organic race though, eh?
That would have been much more awkward.
His powers become more ominous when you consider he was in a story calledThe Mind Robber.
Similarly, the Pirate Captains a lot scarier when you consider whatThe Pirate Planetactually means.
Hes being controlled, it transpires, but in this case the puppet is more memorable than its operator.
Its unlikely to happen, but imagine Nabil Shaban got ontoThe Apprenticein character and makeup as Sil.
Be honest, youd watch that.
First appearing inVengeance On Varos, Sil is a shamelessly amoral businessman, conniving and sycophantic.
Speaking of drastic cuts, Shockeye is like a slightly politer but more violent Gordon Ramsay.
If only hed turned up at Gabriel Chase, Josiah Samuel Smith could have offered him some soup.
Like BOSS, taking on the values of another species warped Josiah into something entertainingly monstrous.
Theyve taken human forms but theres an incongruity to their mannerisms and appearance thats unsettling.
Possibly being surrounded by pirates all the time just makes you jollier.
