dr. who monsters and aliens: which were your scariest, which were your favourites?

[butters]

the ones i remember giving me total nightmares (actually, one but it repeated on several occasions) i have just today discovered the names of: the Varga, or Vaarga. I was 6, and they looked different in my dreams, but i was truly noble-hearted as I was scratched and knew i'd turn into one and so had to keep my family away in case I infected them. bless

Varga Plant​

The Varga Plants (sometimes Vaarga) appeared in the First Doctor episode "Mission to the Unknown" and the serial The Daleks' Master Plan (1965–66), which were essentially a prologue and main epic respectively. They were created by Terry Nation.

Varga Plants grew naturally on the Daleks' homeworld, Skaro, and when the Daleks set up a base on the planet Kembel they brought some Varga plants with them to act as sentries in the jungle surrounding their base. They were suited to this as they could move around freely by dragging themselves along with their roots.

Varga plants resemble cacti; they are covered in fur and thorns. Anyone pricked by a Varga thorn will be consumed by the urge to kill, while simultaneously becoming a Varga plant themself. This grisly fate befell astronauts Jeff Garvey and Gordon Lowery, and their commander, Marc Cory, was forced to kill them.

my favourites? the Adipose! so freakin' cute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_universe_creatures_and_aliens

 

[LeeKee]

the ones i remember giving me total nightmares (actually, one but it repeated on several occasions) i have just today discovered the names of: the Varga, or Vaarga. I was 6, and they looked different in my dreams, but i was truly noble-hearted as I was scratched and knew i'd turn into one and so had to keep my family away in case I infected them. bless

Varga Plant​

my favourites? the Adipose! so freakin' cute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_universe_creatures_and_aliens

Only in summer months could we get signal to see Dr Who...long long ago. But my brother and I were fans, the only kids it seemed, to know who Dr. Who was. Of course, the darrlik were terrifying.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

I love the really old ones that look like they were a craft project. Behold the Representative from Alpha Centauri!

 

[Rainblow]

Daleks. Hands down.

 

[stxjimmy]

Back in the day it was always the cybermen who were most scary. Don't watch the newer ones much.

 

[jarigi]

I was about 5 when Dr.Who started and the Daleks were pretty much THE bad guys. Their deep electronic 'voice', the ray gun and inanimate, visored 'face' meant they were pretty scary for in infant like me. Yet as kids we pretended to be them and get in 'fights' with our school friends in the playground. Nowadays I rarely see the show, but I agree that the Cybermen are disconcertingly sinister. I don't know their name but there was an episode where statues of 'angels' came to life and moved towards you when the lights went out until they killed you with dracula like teeth!!!

 

[stxjimmy]

The early daleks were flawed, they could be spun around and weren't good with stairs. They became more fearsome later when they began to hover.

 

[stickygirl]

Don't blink!
The Weeping Angels were stylish and introduced the phrase Wibbly-Wobbly-Timiwimey

 

[Trubbycat]

Way back when they first started showing Who in the US (or at least our market) they started with the Tom Baker ones. One of the earliest serials was The Ark In Space, where the last humans were trapped in a space ark (duh) with an insectoid alien called the Wirrn (I think) that would infect people and turn them into more Wirrn. It hit a lot of the same notes that Alien would a few years later. Pretty scary for the time.

 

[Trubbycat]

The early daleks were flawed, they could be spun around and weren't good with stairs. They became more fearsome later when they began to hover.

Daleks work when you totally buy into the story and can forget how goofy they are. The solo Dalek locked in the bunker during the Ninth Doctor's run was terrifying.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Daleks work when you totally buy into the story and can forget how goofy they are. The solo Dalek locked in the bunker during the Ninth Doctor's run was terrifying.

When the Cybermen meet the Daleks a few seasons later, the Cybermen calls the Daleks "inelegant". The Daleks basically say "We don't care about elegance" and start killing Cybermen:

"You are superior to the Daleks in only one respect--you are better at dying."

 

[butters]

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I love the really old ones that look like they were a craft project. Behold the Representative from Alpha Centauri!

those appendages look like some kind of scary penes! on a par with vagina dentata

I was about 5 when Dr.Who started and the Daleks were pretty much THE bad guys. Their deep electronic 'voice', the ray gun and inanimate, visored 'face' meant they were pretty scary for in infant like me. Yet as kids we pretended to be them and get in 'fights' with our school friends in the playground. Nowadays I rarely see the show, but I agree that the Cybermen are disconcertingly sinister. I don't know their name but there was an episode where statues of 'angels' came to life and moved towards you when the lights went out until they killed you with dracula like teeth!!!

they were scary, but got kind of boring as newer aliens/monsters were introduced. i think we should go with the term aliens, now, since calling aliens 'monsters' is not really pc nowadays, lol

 

[Sean]

What was the Chris Eccleston one set in WW2? "Are you my mummy?" That was creepy as fuck.

 

[butters]

What was the Chris Eccleston one set in WW2? "Are you my mummy?" That was creepy as fuck.

the empty child... 2 parter, written by steve moffat. don't recall it having another name, but, yeah, that whole child/fused gas mask thing damned creepy