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| A Weeping Angel |
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 Name: The Weeping Angels, known in some circles
as the ‘Lonely Assassins’.
Format:
Television show, Book, Audio and Comic
Time of Origin: Exact origins unknown, but The Doctor suggests they have been around since the beginning of the universe; they have been shown to be active in the vicinity of Earth at least a hundred thousand years in the past and on the planet Alfava Metraxis in approximately the fifty-first century, as well as Trenzalore in the distant future.
Appearances: "Stone Cold", "Fallen Angels", "Doom Coalition 4" - "The Side of the Angels", "Connections - Albie’s Angels", "Blink", "Out of Time 3 - Wink", "The Time of Angels/Flesh
and Stone", "Touched
by an Angel", "Magic
of the Angels", "The Angels Take Manhattan", "The Time of The Doctor" and "A Little Help From My Friends", "Flux Chapter 3 - Once, Upon Time", "Flux Chapter 4 - Village of the Angels"; illusionary versions of them appeared in "The God Complex".
Doctors: Fourth
Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor and Thirteenth Doctor.
Companions: Leela, Margaret Hopwood, Liv Chenka, Helen Sinclair, Martha Jones, Amy Pond, River Song, Rory
Williams, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan and Dan Lewis.
History: As a race, the Weeping Angels are definitely
one of the most mysterious adversaries The Doctor has ever encountered,
possessing a truly unique relationship with time and the rest of
the universe, their origins a mystery even to the Time Lords and
The Doctor describing them as being irredeemably evil. The most distinctive
detail about the Angels is that they exist in a state that The Doctor
described as ‘quantum locked’,meaning that they do not
exist when they are being observed by other beings but instead freeze
into solid rock. While the Angels cannot do anything in this state
- although it has never been specified what would happen if an Angel
was shattered while it was rock, presumably because the Angels would
always get out of the way of attempts to shatter them -, they move
at such a fast rate that they could easily eliminate anyone who found
them if their potential victims so much as blinked while looking
at them. Their apparently preferred method of feeding was to send
people back in time to essentially live themselves to death - The
Doctor described them as ‘the only psychopaths in the universe
to kill you nicely’ -, the Angels consuming the potential energy
of the days their victims would have lived if they’d remained
in the present (It was implied that each Angel had a particular ‘target
date’ it sent victims back to, one Angel sending someone back
to 1920 while another sent victims back to 1969, The Doctor himself
noting that another man who came back to that date must have been
attacked by the same Angel that sent him and Martha to the past).
On
an interesting note, the Angels always sent their victims back in
time by around forty years at least under normal circumstances in
order to limit the possibility of their victims interfering in their
own pasts and creating a temporal paradox that would contaminate
the Angels’ ‘food supply’, although some Angels
were capable of feeding on temporal paradoxes so long as they simply
created the potential for the paradox to occur without taking direct
action themselves (If the Angels became involved they would ‘feed’ on
themselves). Interestingly enough, the only person to record the
history of the Angels - apparently a madman - stated that anything
that held the image of an Angel became an Angel in itself, to the
point where people could even be ‘infected’ by Angels
if they stared at an Angel’s eyes for too long as the image
would become ‘imprinted’ on their retinas. The Angels
could also gain power by absorbing excess radiation from their surroundings,
although this method would not provide them with sufficient sustenance
to exist under normal circumstances unless they were in an area with
a particularly high amount of radiation, such as a crashed spaceship.
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Stone Cold
(Roland Moore) |
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The Doctor’s first recorded encounter with the Angels occurred when the Fourth
Doctor attempted to take his companions Leela and Margaret Hopwood to a jungle planet, only to arrive on a barren world that had been decimated by solar flares a century ago ("Stone Cold"). Exploring the planet, the three discovered a crashed luxury liner where the crew and passengers were being picked off by an unknown killer, some of the survivors initially assuming that The Doctor, Leela and Margaret were the killers before one of the crew was heard screaming and was found disappeared while the three were in front of another member of the crew. Leela attempted to hunt for the killer while The Doctor helped Captain Felsa Mavelock confirm that the distress beacon was broadcasting and Margaret checked the security cameras for any sign of the killer. In the process, Margaret was attacked by a projection of a Weeping Angel, but The Doctor realised what they were dealing with when he found a stone hand belonging to an injured Angel.
Margaret was saved when The Doctor had power shut down to the security room so that the monitors projecting the Angel were disabled, speculating that the Angel that manifested from the monitors was just a projection of the ‘prime’ Angel. Realising that the Angels were actively weak despite having ‘fed’ from the crew they had displaced so far, such as one Angel having lost an arm and its face basically worn away, The Doctor theorised that they were suffering from some kind of virus that prevented them from properly gaining sustenance as they fed (he admitted that this was just a theory, but it was the only explanation anyone offered for the Angels’ weakened condition). The Doctor attempted to stop the Angel by taking mirrors from the ship’s bar and using them to set up a trap, but the mirrors were broken by Huthro, a passenger who had fallen under the Angels’ control. While they were too weak to control Huthro completely, enough Angels in proximity could make Huthro act on their behalf, such as shutting down the ship’s power to disable the force field. Eventually, after the entire ship’s crew had been banished into the past (with one Angel having been pushed into lava as it banished the last of the crew), The Doctor, Leela and Margaret were able to escape the planet and leave the Angels trapped, The Doctor having modified the distress beacon to warn ships to stay away from that planet.
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Fallen Angels
(Phil Mulryne) |
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Some time after this, the Fifth Doctor encountered the Angels once again while investigating temporal anomalies as various prominent artists, such as Raphael or Caravaggio, vanished from Earth's history, The Doctor determining that the earliest recorded disappearance was Michaelangelo, whose famous painting of the Sistine Chapel roof was now incomplete after he vanished in 1511 ("Fallen Angels"). Arriving in that time, The Doctor - aided by Joel and Gabby, a couple on their honeymoon in 2015 who had been sent back to 1511 by an Angel that had replaced Michaelangelo's statue of Moses - was able to determine that three Angels had crash-landed on Earth in the distant past and been frozen in marble for centuries. When the area where they crashed became a mining quarry, the most 'intact' surviving Angel was seen as a miracle by priests, allowing the Angel to bring them under its influence and direct them to the other two Angels. The resulting 'Order of the Three Angels' commissioned Michaelangelo to sculpt the marble into the other two Angels, the artist doing enough work to partially recreate one Angel so that it could restore its full power and its 'colleague' after displacing Michaelangelo's assistant. Realising that the Angels would gain greater power than usual by displacing Michaelangelo and other artists, as removing the artists would also undo the potential energy of the work they would create, The Doctor and his allies trapped the Angels in the Order's catacombs underneath the Chapel, using some mirrors that Michaelangelo had ordered from the Pope earlier on a suggestion from Joel to surround the three angels and prevent them looking away from each other. With the Angels' great night-vision meaning that the mirrors would trap them all even in total darkness, Michaelangelo made plans to have the catacombs sealed up to contain the Angels for good, although The Doctor was forced to leave Joel and Gabby in the past due to the potential temporal paradox if he tried to bring them back (They had been directed to the statue of Moses after talking with The Doctor in the Sistine Chapel in a world where the Angels' plans had succeeded, their knowledge of the true timeline despite the change only explainable if they had been temporal anomalies who would live out their futures in the past, particularly since The Doctor hadn't met them in 2015 yet from his perspective).
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The Side of the Angels
(Matt Fitton) |
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While tracking a Time Lord conspiracy set up by The Doctor's former friend Padrac, who had become convinced that Gallifrey could only survive in the future if all other worlds were destroyed, the Eighth Doctor discovered a group of Time Lords working with the Angels in 1970s New York ("Doom Coalition 4 - The Side of the Angels"). Although these Time Lords were opposed to Padrac's plans to destroy everything else, they had concluded that there was no way to oppose his plans, and so, under the guidance of The Doctor's old friend-turned-foe the Meddling Monk ("The Time Meddler"), the Time Lords had set themselves up as business figures financing construction projects in New York. With the Monk acting as their public face, the Time Lords arranged for a temporally protected Enclave to be constructed in New York in the form of buildings secretly infused with artron energy. With Angels hiding throughout the city, the Time Lords intended for the Angels to wait until the last few moments before the universe ended, then allowing the Angels to feed on the remaining humans on Earth on the grounds that the humans would die anyway, channelling the resulting temporal energy into the Enclave so that the buildings could protect their residents from the destruction of the universe, allowing those Time Lords to oppose Padrac's group. The Monk expressed certainty that the plan would work, but The Doctor rejected the idea that the Angels could be controlled, and was proven correct when the Time Lord criminal known as 'the Eleven' - so named due to his unique mental defect where all of his past incarnations' personalities were active in his mind at once - an affiliated associate of Padrac's scheme, made a deal with the Angels where they would feed on the Time Lords and humans right now. When The Doctor's companions Liv Chenka and Helen Sinclair were nearly 'sold' by the Monk to a group of Angels in a museum exhibition, they were saved by a Time Lady agent who had been sent back a few decades by the Angels when they turned on the Time Lords when she planted the tools needed for a basic torch in the exhibit, allowing them to escape the museum. As The Doctor 'rang the dinner bell' to lure the Angels to the Enclave rather than leave them running wild in the city, the Monk was 'fed on' by the Angels as he tried to escape, the centuries' worth of energy the Angels gained from feeding on the Monk 'jump-starting' the enclave as it absorbed the temporal energy taken by the Angels. As a result, the Enclave became a major source of temporal energy, the Angels so hungry that they couldn't help but feed on the power they had created. The following drain of temporal energy erased the Enclave and undid the Time Lords' changes to Earth's history, while The Doctor used the feedback of the Enclave's destruction to give the TARDIS the boost it needed to go back to Gallifrey and confront Padrac.
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Albie’s Angels
(Roy Gill) |
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Later in his eighth body, The Doctor, Liv and Helen had another encounter with the Angels when the TARDIS detected a temporal anomaly in London in 2025 ("Albie’s Angels"). Tracing the anomaly to an old records shop, Helen was sent back to 1963 by a Weeping Angel kept in the storage area of the shop, only to find her brother Albert ‘Albie’ Sinclair working there (Albie had been kicked out by their father when Helen was young and Helen’s last news of him had been that he was arrested for homosexuality). Although Helen swiftly bonded with Albie and his lover Bailey, they were separated again when it was revealed that Jack Harper, the owner of the records store, had been given the plans that would allow him to capture a Weeping Angel as part of a family legacy. Helen unwittingly helped this plan by luring an Angel on to a frozen lake and using a borrowed sonic screwdriver to break the ice so that the Angel was trapped by its own reflection until Jack Harper retrieved it, using a sonic device powered by the screwdriver (based on plans sent back to his grandfather) to keep it weak. With the Angel trapped in the storeroom, future generations would be able to order rare records in the future and then send those orders back in time by tricking people into ‘feeding’ the Angel while carrying the order forms, allowing the Harper ancestors to order the records when they were cheap and keep them in storage. Back in 2025, The Doctor and Liv gained unexpected aid in finding Helen from another Weeping Angel, which identified itself as the lover of the Angel trapped in the shop, the Angel latching on to the TARDIS as it couldn’t send itself back to rescue its lover. By the time the TARDIS was able to find Helen in the past, the captured Angel had already displaced Albie and Bailey, but the other Angel helped its lover escape. The subsequent paradox as the Angel’s escape invalidated the future timeline where it had been captured erased Jack Harper’s descendant from existence, the Angels absorbing the paradox of a life that no longer existed to return to their own dimension. Although Helen had to accept that she would never see Albie again, she took comfort in The Doctor’s assurance that the two had made a good life for themselves in the 1890s with the aid of his old friend Professor George Litefoot ("The Talons of Weng-Chiang").
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| Blink |
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Some time after this, a small group of four Angels, apparently 'living' in a house called Wester Drumlins on the outskirts of London, stole the TARDIS key and sent the Tenth Doctor and his companion Martha Jones back to 1969 during a visit to 2007 when they arrived at Wester Drumlins, the Angels hoping to use the TARDIS's time energy as a power
source to increase their food supply. Fortunately, a complicated time
loop that The Doctor and Martha had set up in their future resulted in
a young woman called Sally Sparrow - whose best friend had been sent
into the past by an Angel, Sally’s subsequent investigations revealing
that various cars had been found abandoned around Wester Drumlins in
the last two years - acquiring information from them about the Angels’ plot,
The Doctor having acquired that information from Sally during a brief
encounter between the two in 2008 before the Angels sent him and Martha
back to 1969. Using Sally’s notes - which included a transcript
of a ‘conversation’ that the two had thanks to The Doctor
recording himself saying his part of the conversation and setting it
up as an ‘Easter egg’ hidden on the seventeen DVDs she owned
thanks to The Doctor helping a friend set himself up in a DVD production
company, Sally responding to it as she watched it for the first time
-, The Doctor and Martha were able to record the message to warn Sally
of the threat posed by the Angels and provide instructions on how to
stop them. By tracking down the TARDIS in the Wester Drumlins cellar
- Sally having acquired the TARDIS key when she found it hanging from
an Angel’s hand earlier -, Sally and her friend Larry Nightingale
were able to activate an emergency recall circuit that The Doctor had
encoded on the DVDs along with the message, causing the TARDIS to travel
back to 1969. At the same time, the four Angels that had been trying
to attack the TARDIS as it dematerialised were left trapped in a circle
facing each other, all four of them frozen forever as they were stuck
staring at each other, unable to look away and restore their ability
to move.
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Out of Time 3 - Wink
(Lisa McMullin) |
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During the Tenth Doctor's 'farewell tour' after he received warnings about his imminent death ("Planet of the Dead" and "The Waters of Mars"), he was drawn to the planet Lucidius Silvara by temporal distortions, where he encountered his own sixth incarnation ("Out of Time 3 - Wink"). The planet was surrounded by a thousand small suns that left it in a constant state of illumination, the light so bright that the inhabitants had never even developed the sense or concept of sight as it would have been of no use to them, which left The Doctors concerned when they realised that the Weeping Angels were on the planet. While a race of beings without sight were obviously perfect prey for the Angels, by sheer apparent coincidence the walls of the main city were made of a reflective surface that meant the advancing Angels were kept immobilised by the sight of themselves... until someone decided to move one of the statues. By the time The Doctors made contact with the locals, there were only two people left in the entire city, as the lone Angel that had been brought inside had banished the rest of the population into the past. Even worse, that Angel had used the energy gained by its earlier displacement of the Sixth Doctor to generate new Angels based on the potential of The Doctor's remaining seven regenerations of his natural cycle. The Doctors were able to keep the new Angels at bay for a while as the planet was in the middle of a yearly eclipse that dimmed the lights enough to let The Doctors see, allowing them to lure the Angels into positions where they would see themselves, but the eclipse faded with three Angels still active, along with the Angel that had originally banished the Sixth Doctor. The Doctors and their allies tried to retreat to the TARDIS, but the adult Angel banished The Doctors back to the past once again, leaving their allies to use an emergency system to take the TARDIS back after them. With the entire native population now trapped three centuries in their past, and the displacement of both Doctors having created fifty-one new Angels (the square of The Doctor's remaining regenerations), the Sixth Doctor rallied the locals to start work on creating the city's future reflective walls while the Tenth lured the prime Angel into the TARDIS. Exposing the Angel to the heart of the TARDIS, the Tenth Doctor essentially overfed it, killing the prime Angel and immobilising all the other Angels for the next few hours as they were gorged on the TARDIS's energy. This gave the locals time to finish the city walls to keep the Angels out, although since they were now trapped in the past they would have to essentially become their own ancestors, but The Doctors observed that the time gap between the two eras made this a relatively minor temporal anomaly, in the form of a stable temporal loop paradox where the planet's population created itself.
The
Doctor’s next encounter with the Angels took place when a long-dormant
Angel that had been salvaged in an archaeological dig on the planet
Razvahan was discovered on the spaceship Byzantium in the
fiftieth century shortly before it crashed. The Eleventh Doctor was alerted to the presence of the Angels by the mysterious River Song, who infiltrated
the ship and carved a message in Gallifreyian in its ‘home
box’ - a black box that homed in on a habitable planet after
ejection-to provide The Doctor with the necessary coordinates to
rescue her when she ejected out the ship after being caught. Tracking
the ship to the planet Alfava Metraxis, where it crashed after its
warp drive suffered a phase shift, River revealed the presence of
the Angel to The Doctor, The Doctor quickly realising that the Angel
could gain strength by feeding on the energy of the damaged engine.
Aided by a platoon of Clerics - the soldiers of a future version
of the church - that had been dispatched to help River stop the Angel,
the team found the Angel in the Maze of the Dead, a series of catacombs
underneath the palace where the Byzantium had crashed filled
with statues of the dead built by the Aplan race before they died
out
four centuries ago. When a four-second clip that River had recovered
from the Byzantium’s security cameras began to move
as the Angel in it became ‘animated’, it nearly attacked Amy Pond when
she was studying the recording out of a lack of anything else to
do, but Amy was
able to stop the Angel by freezing the tape in the moment before
the four-second loop could repeat itself again,
although she was left with the feeling of having something in her
eye.
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| The Time of Angels/Flesh and
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Exploring the Maze of the Dead, The Doctor realised that
the statues in the Maze were actually ‘recharging’ Angels
as every statue had only one head where the Aplans had possessed
two (The Doctor speculated that the team had either been stupid or
a perception filter had been used to stop them noticing), the Angels
using the radiation from the warp drive to restore themselves. Using
the cerebral cortex of a murdered Cleric, the Angels were able to
communicate with The Doctor over the radio, using a variation of
the Cleric’s personality to tell The Doctor what they were
planning to do. Having reached the Byzantium, The Doctor was able
to get the Clerics up to the ship and away from the Angels by destroying
the gravity globe - a device to create illumination while floating
in the air-to create an ‘updraft’ that drew the team
up to the Byzantium due to the ship’s still-active artificial
gravity after they jumped on The Doctor’s signal. Arriving
in the secondary control room, The Doctor discovered a crack in time
similar to the one that existed in Amy’s room when she and
The Doctor first met ("The Eleventh Hour"). Retreating
into the artificial forest the Byzantium used to supply oxygen, The
Doctor learned that the Angels were drawing on the energy of the
crack in time, which was caused by a temporal explosion (The Doctor
would later learn that this crack was caused by the TARDIS exploded
("The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood") due to the manipulations
of an outside source ("The Pandorica Opens/The
Big Bang")),
intending to use that power to spread their domain across all of
time and space. Realising that Amy was ‘infected’ by
an Angel from her previous encounter with the recording, The Doctor
had her close her eyes in an attempt to ‘starve’ the
Angel out of the vision centre of her brain before it killed her,
although this required her to keep her eyes closed so that the Angel
couldn’t finish the job.
With the Clerics keeping guard of Amy, The Doctor and
River set out for the primary drive control room - the Bishop of
the team being killed during the journey -, but after the crack erased
Amy’s guards, Amy was left trapped in the forest surrounded
by Angels. Communicating with Amy, The Doctor attempted to guide
her to the primary control room by turning her radio into a ‘radar’ to
try and trick the Angels into thinking that she could see, but this
idea failed when she dropped the radio, Amy only just being saved
when River managed to activate the ship’s teleport with some
of the last of the ship’s power as the Angels confronted them
directly. Although the Angels could feed on the residual energy of
the crack, the crack itself would consume them unless it was sealed,
prompting them to try and force The Doctor - a complex event in time
and space - to hurl himself into the crack so that his death could
seal it. However, The Doctor was able to use the Angels to seal the
crack by deactivating the ship’s artificial gravity, casing
the Angels to fall into the crack, their combined presence serving
as a complicated enough time/space event to amount to the same ‘level’ of
complexity as The Doctor himself. With the Angels erased after they
fell into the crack, Amy was cured of her ‘infection’ by
the Angels as the Angel that had infected her now never existed,
although The Doctor, Amy and River retained memory of it due to their
experience as time travellers.
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| The Time of Angels/Flesh
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The Doctor confronted the Angels once again when a small
group of six Angels who fed on temporal paradoxes attempted to trigger
a paradox by sending Mark Whitaker - a lawyer from 2011 whose wife
Rebecca was killed in a car accident in 2003 - back in time to 1994,
just after he had received an envelope containing several fifty-dollar
bills dated before 1994 and a note that appeared to be from his future
self, containing instructions on what he should do in the past as
well as suggesting that he could save Rebecca. Although The Doctor
was able to track Mark down in the past, he decided to leave Mark
in the past after Mark told him about the note - neglecting to mention
the note's suggestion that Mark could save Rebecca -, reasoning that
Mark’s involvement in the events described in the note was
essential to preserve his own timeline. Although The Doctor was able
to follow Mark by using Mark’s CV to monitor his activities
and ensure he didn’t make too many changes to his history,
dropping in during such occasions as Mark’s first kiss with
his future wife or an incident where Mark won sixteen thousand pounds
due to a lottery ticket he found in a magazine, Mark generally stuck
to his own rules by adhering to the instructions in the letter, setting
himself up as a business consultant using his knowledge of the future
and occasionally helping his younger self’s career.
However, The Doctor was alerted to a problem when Mark’s
past self unexpectedly tracked down his future self’s role
in his life in May 2001, young-Mark making physical contact with
his future
self and triggering a Blinovitch-level explosion (Similar to the
energy triggered when The
Brigadier met his future/past self ("Mawdryn
Undead")). With the resulting fire having destroyed most of
Mark’s property, including the original note he received from
his future self and the copy he’d made to leave in the envelope
he’d received before the Angel sent him back, The Doctor realised
that the Angels must have left the note as it was otherwise impossible
for Mark to rewrite it; the note had been written on psychic paper,
and thus its contents were displayed in the handwriting of whoever
held it. With Mark having vanished while The Doctor was busy hypnotising
his past self to forget this encounter, The Doctor, Amy and Rory - guided by a future version of Rory who had been sent back from
2003 due to an encounter with an Angel - tracked Mark to the moment
when he was planning to save Rebecca by delaying the lorry that would
have crashed into her. Although The Doctor was able to convince Mark
that his actions would undo his own timeline, as saving Rebecca would
mean that he never had a reason to want to go back in time - thus
potentially undoing their relationship as it had been at least partly
prompted along by the indirect intervention of his future self -,
they were then cornered by the Angels before they could move Mark’s
car to give the lorry the chance to continue on its route.
Fortunately, The Doctor was able to give Rory instructions
to set a trap for the Angels before Rory allowed himself to be sent
back
in time to become the future version they’d encountered earlier.
While trapped in the past, Rory spent the month he’d needed
to wait to catch up with his companions persuading the farmer who
owned the field where they’d confronted the Angels to set up
a series of concealed cameras and monitors, The Doctor activating
them just as Rory was sent into the past, the monitors trapping all
six Angels in a circle as they were arranged in such a manner that
a monitor was always showing at least one Angel to one other Angel.
With all but one of the Angels trapped in the camera circuit before
The Doctor destroyed it by trapping the system in a loop as he had
a camera record its own monitoring signal, The Doctor concluded that
the situation was resolved; the missing Angel would go on to become
the Angel that sent Mark into the past in the first place in a desperate
attempt to change its own past. As compensation for everything that
Mark had gone through over the last nine years, The Doctor took him
back to his university days so that he could have one last conversation
with Rebecca even if she wouldn’t know who he was, Rebecca
assuring the stranger that, if she was his dead wife, she would have
wanted him to move on after her death and find someone new rather
than spend his life mourning her. In an unexpected bonus twist, contact
with Rebecca shorted out the time differential caused by Mark’s
time in the past, resulting in him regressing back to the age he
had been before the Angels attacked him, allowing him to start his
life over in the present using the resources he had gathered in the
past.
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| The God Complex |
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The Eleventh Doctor faced a solo Angel once again when he
discovered that aspiring magician Sammy Star was using an Angel that
he had discovered in his act, causing his various assistants to 'disappear'
on-stage when it was really the Angel - which he kept in a box when
it wasn't 'in use' - sending the girls into the past. Although The
Doctor attempted to warn Sammy about the danger of making a 'deal'
with the Angel, Sammy was unconcerned with anything other than his
upcoming television debut... a fact which greatly concerned The Doctor
and Amy, as the result of an Angel appearing on television would
be the creation of multiple Angels manifesting from the resulting
image. Fortunately, with the aid of some of the Angel's past victims
- who had 'lived' their way back to the present -, Amy was able to
delay the Angel by taking the current assistant's place while wearing
dark glasses, thus delaying the Angel as it didn't know when she
wasn't looking at it. Although the Angel sent Sammy into the past
when he tried to attack Amy for interrupting the act, The Doctor
was able to stop it taking any more people by putting it in front
of a mirror, subsequently leaving the new Angel that manifested from
the reflection staring constantly at the original Angel, disguised
as a statue that The Doctor identified as Memorial for the Missing
to reflect those that the Angel had banished into the past (The Doctor
unconcerned about Sammy as the fact that nobody had heard of him
in the present suggested that he died in the past in obscurity) ("Magic
of the Angels").
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| The Angels Take Manhattan |
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Although the Weeping Angels did not appear in person,
they played a small but significant role in "The God Complex";
when the TARDIS was drawn to a prison ship that created illusions
of peoples' fears, Gibbis, an alien whose race is known for its pathological
desire to surrender, encountered illusions of the Angels as his greatest
fear, most likely due to the fact that the Angels are completely
relentless and will simply kill their victims where other aliens
might allow their vanquished foes to live as slaves
The Doctor, Amy and Rory faced the Angels once again in "The Angels Take Manhattan", when they discovered that the Angels
had set up such a strong presence in the city in the 1930s that The
Doctor couldn’t pilot the TARDIS directly into the city without
creating a significant temporal disruption. For the first time, the
Angels manifested in a wider variety of appearances than straightforward
angel statues, the images they assumed including a maid, a young
boy, and other statues; one Angel even assumed the appearance of
the Statue of Liberty. With the aid of River Song - who wrote a book
about the events disguised as a noir thriller, having infiltrated
the disruption via her vortex manipulator’s ability to create
a smaller ‘ripple’ than the TARDIS allowing her to ‘slip
through the cracks’, subsequently sending a signal that the
TARDIS could home in on -, The Doctor, Amy and Rory were able to
discover that the Angels had set up a tower for their victims to
live in after they were sent into the past, thus keeping their ‘food
supply’ contained so that they could draw on the temporal energy
of their victims’ unlived lives for as long as they wanted.
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| The Time of The Doctor |
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However, after witnessing the death of his older self as one of the
Angel’s victims, Rory hit upon a solution to defeat the Angels
by running up to the top of the building and jumping off, his death
in those circumstances creating a paradox that not only saved his
life but simultaneously poisoned the Angels’ food supply so
that they destroyed themselves (Although a single survivor managed
to escape, separating Amy and Rory from The Doctor forever by sending
them back into New York’s past after they discovered their
graves in the present, ensuring that The Doctor could never risk
recovering them due to the potential temporal paradox that would
result if the TARDIS tried to penetrate the disruption in that area
again).
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| A Little Help From My Friends |
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The Doctor briefly encountered the Angels on the planet Trenzalore, which had been broadcasting a mysterious signal into the universe that prompted all beings that heard it to track its source ("The Time of The Doctor"). Although an anti-technology field had been erected around the planet, the Angels were still able to reach it - most likely due to their abilities being natural rather than technological - but they apparently never found the signal, their brief attempt to kill The Doctor failing when he summoned the TARDIS to him and his new companion Clara while the Angels surrounded them.
Two lifetimes later, the Thirteenth Doctor faced the Angels again when the TARDIS was drawn to a temporal anomaly in London in 1969, at the same time as the Tenth Doctor and Martha were trapped in that era waiting for Sally Sparrow to send the TARDIS back to them ("A Little Help From My Friends"). While investigating the anomaly, the two Doctors were shocked to find that the Angels and the Autons were active on Earth at the same time, each quickly appreciating the dangers of London getting caught in such potential crossfire. However, they were able to use the Angels to deal with the bigger threat by tricking an Angel into banishing the Nestene Consciousness into the distant past, thus shutting down the attacking Autons. With this threat dealt with, the two Doctors were able to use the Thirteenth's TARDIS to trap the four Angels active in London and drop them into the heart of a nearby star, a force field keeping the Angels trapped so that they couldn't drain the star themselves.
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Flux
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The Thirteenth Doctor faced the Angels once again while tracking the mystery of the Flux, a mysterious event that was causing time to collapse all over the universe. The Doctor and Yasmin Khan were unaware of the Angels' initial role in events, but they encountered a woman named Claire Brown who appeared to know them already, only to be unaware that the Angels had attacked Claire after they left. As The Doctor and Yaz attempted to investigate the threat of the Flux with new companion Dan Lewis, at one point the TARDIS was essentially 'hijacked' by an Angel, forcing The Doctor to trigger a manual reboot of the TARDIS interior to try and expel the Angel from the interior, leaving the TARDIS grounded in the village of Medderton in 1967. Dan and Yaz soon started to assist in the investigation of Peggy, a little girl who had gone missing, while The Doctor discovered Claire, who had been sent back from 2021 to 1965, was now sketching the future in the form of images of Angels (which The Doctor subsequently tore up to stop them becoming new Angels). Dan and Yaz were attacked by an Angel and sent back to 1901 while The Doctor and Claire were trapped in the house of Professor Jericho, who had been studying Claire to try and find the nature of her premonitions. Claire revealed that she had already determined that everyone in Medderton was destined to vanish in 1901 and 1967 based on research and her past visions, with villagers rapidly vanishing in 1967 while The Doctor, Claire and the Professor tried to secure the house against the Angels. The Doctor was able to destroy an Angel that manifested from one of Claire's sketches by burning it, but Claire's visions of Angels began to manifest as another Angel within her own mind. The Doctor engaged in telepathic contact with Claire to try and draw the Angel out, but learned that the Angel in Claire's mind was the Angel that had drawn the TARDIS to Medderton in the first place. The Angel claimed that it needed The Doctor's help, and it was hiding in Claire to escape the others of its kind, claiming that they were all representatives of the Division that The Doctor had belonged to in an unknown past incarnation ("Fugitive of the Judoon"). The Angel claimed to have full knowledge of the Division's history, including The Doctor's lost memories, but The Doctor was forced to break telepathic contact as the Angels entered the basement. Using the Professor's equipment, The Doctor was able to trap the Angels while she, Claire and Jericho fled through a secret tunnel in the house, but the tunnels were filled with Weeping Angels.
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Flux
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During their own investigation, Yaz and Dan were banished back to 1901 by an Angel themselves, but soon found Peggy in the past city, who revealed that the Angels spoke to her in her mind and revealed that they had quantum extracted the village from the rest of the universe. Yaz, Dan and Peggy found a rift leading to 1967 where they met Mrs Hayward, a woman from 1967 who was actually Peggy's future self, who revealed that the burial site in the area was actually the broken fragments of Weeping Angels, who left those three alive just to tell the story of their power. Back in 1967, Professor Jericho was sent to 1901 as he, The Doctor and Claire tried to escape the tunnels, The Doctor emerging from the tunnel to find the rift leading to 1901 and Claire surrounded by an army of Weeping Angels. Yaz and Dan were able to explain the situation to The Doctor, allowing her to confirm that the village had been taken out of time to find the rogue Angel in Claire, but the rogue Angel had already agreed to trade The Doctor to the other Angels for its own safety. With The Doctor recalled to Division, she was transformed into a Weeping Angel herself, leaving her companions only able to watch at the other side of the rift before they were returned to history themselves. Despite this, The Doctor was eventually able to defeat the Division and reunite with her companions after ending the threat of the Flux, even managing to undo its impact on history altogether.
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