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You are wrong - the Silence is the most forgettable monster in Doctor Who...

I'm actually kind of sad the absorbaloff was so bad because Elton and the other members of LINDA were so sweet and interesting over the course of that one episode they deserved to be more than a footnote in a joke about a bad villain

I think Reapers would make more sense as 'vultures' opportunistically feeding off of paradoxes. It'd explain why they don't always show up while allowing them to work in largely the same way.

Honestly pretty surprised not to see the Dregs from "Orphan 55" on here. I know you've mentioned in a few instances that they were a monster that did *not* benefit from being fully shown on camera in broad daylight, and I agree. They would've worked much better if they had been left shown in fleeting, incomplete glances, and just left for viewers' imaginations to fill in the rest.

The funny thing on the Wire is that it isn't even the first one off electronic villain that repeatedly says "Hungry!" in Doctor Who. Paradise Towers did it first...

The Wire to be you can basically split in half. In the first half of the episode I think she can be quite intimidating, when she’s quieter. Not bone chillingly terrifying, but she has that calm polite posh sneer to her. All of that gets flushed down the bog once she starts screaming. It is *not scary*

Repost. I love The Wire, mainly because of the actress: Maureen Lipman. Who was having so much fun while playing the character, along with the concept of basing a character on a real life good person: Annette Mills (a children’s presenter back in the 40s and 50s) and turning her into something evil.

The fact that I don't remember several of these characters (lion guy, guy you forgot to talk about initially, crispy zombies) even after you talked about them just makes your point even more for me.

I remember liking the idea of Dr Lazarus when I was younger. I think I was about 12 at the time and I've never been the most critical of CGI, so I think the bits before he transformed stuck in my head. I feel like my choice of weakest would be the Pyrovores, but I think that's just another case of 'the monster isn't as interesting as the other elements that surround it' and the Roman theming strained my disbelief at times.

The reason why I think the Reapers only appear on Father's Day and never again is due to the Doctor and Rose being there twice, which the Doctor explains as being dangerous.

So fun fact: up until the mid-Chibnall era, there was apparently some kind of editorial mandate on Doctor Who that every episode HAD to include a monster in some capacity. I get the distinct feeling that a few of these monsters are the result of this mandate meaning we had to crowbar something in.

The sure sign of a bad one off villain is when you watch the episode and are constantly thinking of an established monster that you'd rather see. There's a bunch of stories that aren't great, but I would have cut some slack if the bad guys had been the Sontarions or the Quarks. Random, additional thoughts: I like The Wire. I keep hoping some companion will find that VHS tape in the Tardis and accidentally set her free. The lion is awful, but they had to have a monster, otherwise people would realize that Lady Me is the monster and since Moffatt loved her, we needed a distraction. Shame it was a crap distraction.

I'd like to see the Wire and Absorbaloff species reappear, at least to see how other individuals act. Can't fairly judge them based on a single showing. The Wire in particular has potential since we know so little about it/them. The idea of Reapers being a sort of "white blood cell" for time wounds was interesting in concept, but let down in execution. They should have been some kind of non-sentient force, making them actual monsters really detracted from them. And they absolutely should have appeared or been referenced to more. Torchwood would have been a good opportunity, what with the Cardiff Rift.

I love whenever you rant on The Idiot's Lantern because growing up it was one of my favourite episodes! Great how people can have such different opinions.

Calling the Reapers "Langoliers: is spot on. It was the first thing I thought of. The Absorbo-whatever, always looked like a Fat Bastard knockoff from Austin Powers. "Get in my belly!" The simple way to deal with presenting a "perfect killing machine" is POV with a scroll text. Now we know a robot isn't going to need text, but at least it is less annoying.

According to the end credits, the guys from Journey to the Centre of the Tardis are called time zombies, which got a laugh out of me. Pretty terrible name.

I honestly love hearing you rant haha it’s so entertaining 😂 LOVED this video girl! 💕

Since ‘flux’ is technically one story, I’m surprised the ravagers didn’t make the list. But then again, that might’ve kicked off the Absorbaloff, and that kind of needs to be on the list.

Wow that’s an absolutely amazing intro!!

One thing you always have to remember about the Absorbaloff is that it was designed by a kid, who has a yt channel now: @ChannelPup He made a retrospective about the monster a couple of years ago

Idea for a video: Top Companion family members! Jackie (and maybe Pete), Martha's parents and siblings, Sylvie and Wilf, Brian (skipping Amy's unknown family), maybe Clara's parents (though we barely see them, so maybe not), Bill's mom (a presence through her absence), Grace, and Dan's parents. I have definite favorites (*cough* Wilf *cough*), but it would be interesting to see your takes.

4:24 I get what you're saying, but there has to be something tangible for them to run from. There has to be something terrifying out in the dark. There has to be a reason they’re hiding in the military base, and something that the Master can let in for the cliffhanger. You can’t just say "entropy is collapsing, we literally cannot stay here." That’s telling without showing.

I feel like the Slitheen deserve an honorable mention. While they appeared multiple times, the reasons that the writers decided to include them in multiple stories stumps me.

I think the burnt reflections should have been there from maybe the end of the first act, and have the doctor figure it out, I mean. These 5 people are the only LIVING things in the Tardis, so it was REALLY obvious what these creatures are. Just suggest that with the tardis' systems you can't age or DIE in the tardis so these creatures are simply forced to live on long since their bodies burnt and formed into cancer and their minds turned to dust reforming and dying an endless, and the paradox of one touching it's former self would be cataclysmic.

It’s amazing how many of these I had straight up forgotten about. Or maybe I didn’t “forget”, per se, but SELECTIVELY REMEMBERED episodes of the show that were better.

Okay, right off the bat, I want to say (before I forget) that I love the new intro for the 60th Anniversary 💎🌌♥♥. I agree with you about Leandro (Leondro?), but (except for the fact that the _Doctor Who_ writers *tried* to make her a recurring villain, so that she doesn't fit the criteria you set here), I'd say "Me" is an even weaker adversary. Ashildr's character arc is implied clearly enough in the last few moments of "The Girl Who Died," as her facial expression darkens as the world changes around her. In that one closing scene, we can *see* the Doctor's intervention had turned from hope to bitterness. "The Woman Who Lived" didn't need to be told at all. Especially since they tried to make her into some sort of living "mystery box" threat through the rest of the series that ends up not paying off, at all.

Reapers are only bad *because* they're a one off. But they don't have to be used for every paradox. The doctor described them as like bacteria taking advantage. So i think of it as when you get cut... you don't always get infected.

For me the worst one off monster was the weird chicken thing from Vincent and the Doctor. They should've at least kept it invisible so there was more of a mystery if it was real or if it was only in Vincent's mind

my head canon about the reapers is that they’re more like bacteria that are getting in through a wound in time as opposed to beings that sterilise it which would explain why they don’t appear every time

I thought the Reapers was actually a great idea. This physical threat that materializes when time is fractured. It opens up a lot of questions about the unknowns and the physics of the universe, which is cool.

14:50 Auto captions straight up making up words 💀

Here's a spinoff Idea: "Space Janitor Mackey Smith: Dinosaur Shit on a Spaceship".

"The Lazarus Effect" would have been 10x better if he'd just become an energy vampire that glowed (like he was regenerating, as a fun hint to what he is actually working on for Saxon) when he siphoned his victims. THAT'S a monster, why did they go so big?

Lazarus I remember watching and being confused what is going on. The 10th villian though I actually really liked and thought worked well with the episode, it was such an emotional story that having a comedic villian balanced it out IMO. I don't remember the villian much but what I remember is the sense of community you could feel of these characters had developed out of a common interest.

Um...Daleks famously yell 'Exterminate' first', and in Dalek 'Elevate!' ...which they never do again prior to flying...

The Caretaker, I feel, mostly existed to introduce the Doctor to Danny Pink...and to throw him off by a guy who dressed himself up like the 11th Doctor. And then they decided to have the Doctor and Danny Pink butt heads. I didn't think about it but this killing machine that made it to number 1 is almost like the Daleks' special cousin.

Good new intro.

Hosts. The Angels were called Hosts.

Just... bravo! Excellent list.

I'm glad you just went into the list stating it was the modern era of Doctor Who. My worst was when John Nathan-Turner was the showrunner. Hope you have a great day Ms Vera!!!

I was gonna nominate Mary Whitehouse, then I realised that (sadly) she stuck around like a bad smell/Syler from Heroes or Reverse Flash

I can't disagree with your list. I thought I would when you started talking about the Wire, because I remember the villain being good, but I'd forgotten just how annoying she got at the end. I think I edited that part out of my brain because I enjoyed the actress' performance so much, and I was excited to recognize her, even if it was "That's Rita's roommate from Educating Rita and I loved that movie!". I know she's done so much more, but there was a time I could recite most of that film from memory, I'd watched it so much. It's one of my favorites. But with the wasted potential in the back half of the Idiot's Lantern, I have to agree with putting her at #2. Thank you for sharing, Vera!

I'm personally offended you compared the Lion dude to us Furries! Our costumes are way more colourful and creative! XD

I liked the wire. I even have a cool idea for a sequel with them.

Another monster I think that could fall into the category of not necessarily being needed for the story was the Krafayis from Vincent and the Doctor given how much of the focus is on Vincent Van Gogh in that episode.

Ah firstly, Vera, your cosplay in this one is great! But secondly, I like the idiots lantern but not because of the wire but how the dad was played & portrayed, and how the mum had the courage to kick him out. That was great story telling. Then 10s “Rubber sole! Swear by them!” lives rent free inside my brain and pops up every now and then for no reason.

How do you feel about Diana Rigg's Mrs Gillyflower from Crimson Horror? I can see why people should dismiss her as a one dimensional cackling pantomime villain but after so many amorphous misunderstood monsters in s7 that's why I loved her.

I really like your lists. As a small request can you do recurring villains, I would like to see why you don’t put the Daleks at number 1. If not that’s okay to thanks for the video

Good list! I too forgot about your 4th and 1st place villains! The Wire did indeed start off excellent, and then got more annoying than when new Cybermen say 'delete' over and over, or when Daleks of any period spam us with too many 'Exterminates'!

What was cool about the asorbalof was that they were designed by a kid who submitted there work on a kids show called blue peter.

I agree with you regarding most of the villains on the list who aren't necessary for the plot and could have been left out. However I disagree with you about the Futurekind. They do initially push the narrative forward by helping o get the main characters to the base wher ethe primary story develops. Their presence also helps to sell the idea that they are the main threat thereby distracting the audience from the big reveal and ultimately the real villain.

I really thought the scribble monster would top the list!

I actually never forgot about the Shakri, because from the end of the Power of Three I was expecting it to come back and pay off at some point. If you look at what happens in the story, a transdimensional being from Timelord mythology collects a bunch of data on Earth, tells the Doctor that humanity has to be culled for the sake of the universe, the Doctor threatens it into retreating, and it menacingly says that "the tally shall be met", so it still intends to go through with the cull eventually. It wasn't handled very well, and I guess the writers realised it and decided never to revisit the concept, but to me this felt like a set up for something bigger. Honestly, when the Monks storyline happened in series 12, I was convinced that was the payoff. They'd modeled perfectly believable simulations of the Earth and orchestrated a plan to make humanity give them control over them and create an Orwellian dystopia where they could stop humanity from getting out of hand. But no, they were their own thing and were never really given a clear motivation, that's just what they do I guess. And then Chibnall took over, and Power of Three was a Chibnall story, so surely that was when he was going to bring the Shakri back and pay off that set up, right? He even referenced the Eternals, the Guardians and the Toymaker, so that kind of being was on his mind. Maybe make them a season-arc villain? Hell, we've got kind of a Thanos-level cull going on with the Flux, cleaning the slate of the universe across time, perfect way of dealing with the humanity problem in a way the Doctor can't stop and that causes way more suffering than just nipping the bud in the 21st Century, so there's a potential for character drama for the Doctor maybe having made the wrong decision all the way back in series 7. But no, they never come up again, and with Chibnall gone I've accepted it's never going to happen now.

I don’t like the Idiot’s Lantern much but Maureen Lipman in this role is so iconic and camp and scary. I also don’t agree that the absorbaloff should make the list as it’s designed to be the epitome of dr who monster and the fact it’s shit is part of the metafiction. Whilst there is no right way to enjoy the show if you are looking for serious or realistic or non-camp, Doctor Who probably isn’t the show for you. I’d say being forgettable is the worst crime a Doctor Who monster can commit.

Totally agree about some monsters not being necesssary to their episodes. Perhaps you should do another ranking: "Top 10 Modern Who Episodes that should've had no monsters".

Love the new Doctor Who intro 👌

I have to agree on the what's-it-called-again from The Power of Three, because I saw them in the thumbnail and had no idea who what or wherefrom that is. And I have watched that episode. Admittedly, I haven't ever rewatched it. It's not one of the episodes that I ever feel like rewatching or even one of the episodes that ever come to my mind.

"Rosa", "The Witchfinders", and "Demons of the Punjab" all have the same problem stopping them being great. They didn't need the scifi stuff, they should've been pure historicals.

Another reason why the "loudly announcing what it's doing" didn't work in the caretaker is that they played it straight. In Voyage of the damned it's very much tied to the comedic part of the Angel Robots, and that maked it work.

I guess I totally agree because with the exception of the Wire and the Absorbaloft I had completely forgotten the rest!😂😂😂

What is that Sonic in the intro?? It looks very cool

The skovox blitzer never really bothered me because it’s not really the focus of that episode. Not that it being crap is excusable, its just less offensive to me.

The Wire actually scared me.

Was expecting #5. Amusingly Mark Gatiss was in Jekyll! (The Moffat series)

If you accept individuals, I’d go with some of the Slitheen family from the two parter as worthy contenders. They get better the more they’re expanded upon, but those from the first story spend most of their time farting

i think it says a lot that i barely remembered most of these

I find it interesting that Utopia can generally be considered a strong episode despite the presence on the list.

Wow. I'm actually stunned that I don't remember, at all, having watched two thirds of these one offs. Still, out of hundreds of Doctor Who episodes, if that's the worst the villains get, we're doing pretty well.

The Futurekind seems like RTD continuing to channel his inner Joss Whedon by nicking the Reavers concept from Firefly.

I might actually have to give it to Cube Man. Not only is he hugely forgettable and bland, he also ruins the episode he appears in. I really like Power of Three apart from him.

I have absolutely no recollection of that lion guy lol

Are you going to make a video of jinkx monsoon being a major character on doctor who

i LOVE the skovox blitzer 😭😭😭

My most hated villain is probably gonna end up getting me kicked out the fandom...... Daleks. Overused and repetitive, they're only interesting when theres a big twist but usually its just "oh no, we have to fight the Daleks". Is there something in the contract that says every Doctor must fight them? I would be happy if they never appeared again.

Such a good outro

I reallly like the reapers

the wire is an antagonist who is particularly memorable to me if only because of my own particular childhood circumstances. i was not a doctor who fan until a few months ago, but everyone else in my family is a really big fan and has been for a long. as a child i remember being in the room while my mom was watching some episodes, and i remember it being really terrifying to me as a child because the image of the people with no faces was very scary to my 7 year old self. so i can't judge this episode objectively because of how strongly of an impact it had on me as a stupid idiot child

The Shakree or whatever he's called from the Power of Three should have been way better had that been a two parter. I remember watching it and coming back the next week, and the next episode was the one in the west. I remember thinking what happened to the second part. It's like Chibnall just gave up writing the resr of the story. Father's Day was one of my favorite stories.

The villains from The Power of Three are so forgettable that I don't even retain any memory of the end of the episode. I've seen it 5 times at least and I remember scenes I liked and fun dialogue and what not, but if you asked me right now what the resolution is to this episode - I couldn't. The forgettableness is contagious 😅

11:28 Did you just almost say that he turned into his mom??😂

Honestly expected the red-monster-thing (forgot it’s name) from The Runaway Bride to make this list. Like, from what I remember, all she does is scream.

Series 11 has a big problem with historicals that are hurt by the presence of scifi villains. Demons of the Punjab is the one that frustrates me the most because the human story was great but the Thijarians are just kinda dumb throughout the whole thing and everything about them reeks of being a late addition to a script that initially WAS a pure historical. I really wish NuWho wasn't so against pure historical episodes honestly

It's a bit weird and I can't even put my finger on why, but the Abzorbaloff's design actually does it for me. Probably because I'm thinking of the early days Power Rangers villain terror toad, though.

Series 7 might've had the weakest villains out of the revival. Some of them had some cool designs, but most of them were just goofy in stories that didn't warrant goofiness

Always appreciate the "Nothing against furries". Hard agree on these for the most part, too. It's always dissapointing when you get to the end of an episode and feel like the writing was just kinda lazy.

16:39 The worst part being that Doctor Who already has a villain that has that moniker! I've said it before when discussing Nightmare in Silver. But the Raston Warrior Robot should have debuted in Nu Who by now.

I kinda like the Wire. She's so over the top it's fun.

I think the aliens in the Witchfinders could have worked better if it had been a two parter, because when it's in one episode it made the ending and resolution to the problem feel a bit rushed. I totally believe that a person like Rebecca Savage would have resorted to witch hunting and scapegoating to hide the fact that she herself effectively "made a deal with the devil" and wasn't as holy as she wanted to portray herself. It shows her hypocrisy. They could have had part 1 play out essentially the same, where the Doctor and the fam are getting a lay of land/a sense of the people in this town. Have the scene where Rebecca Savage transforms be the cliffhanger for part 1, and have part 2 explore the alien threat now that we've established and fleshed out the human characters. Basically, part 1 for the human stuff part 2 for the alien stuff. Would have maybe given more time to what was otherwise a decent story with some solid yet slightly undercooked ideas.

The Skovox Blitzer is so disappointing to me because generally, as a sci-fi aesthetic, I LOVE spider robots

i literally forgot nr 6 (and for a lesser extent 3/1) existed

Your point on the morax could apply to today

With the Morax, I'd recommend the novelisation. If you're still unsatisfied, Fate/Grand Order's Salem chapter is a better execution of the exact same feel. Oh well. At least Grand Order made THEIR spider drone a legitimate threat.

The Absorbaloff... I imagine the creator of that monster, a young compeition winner, cringes whenever that's brought up. The only notable thing about the (sp?) Skovox Blitzer, IMHO, is that I've actually seen it up close at a recent museum exhibition, and it was underwhelming. It's proximity to the Kettelwell K1, the Giant Robot from "Robot" didn't help either - seeing taht was the highlight of the whole thing.

Even though I agree that the future kind are unnecessary. I can't hate them because of there theme music is incredible imo

The only time that The Wire can be rightly derided

"Futurekind" sounds like some sort of early '80s concept. Like they should be characters in a New Wave music video or something.

Wasn't the absorbalof a fan made submission/contest? That's why it's so different from all the other episodes. Tbh I really enjoyed that episode, it was always meant to be stand alone and I found it enjoyable as a kid

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If you could translate my cats in the morning their dialogue would probably be very similar to the Wire