David Ward the empty people I think they were called, they were terrifying still remember watching that episode when I was 10 scared the shit out of me. Honestly I would love to see them again though they were an interesting creepy villain
Ghyll Hamilton Cooper for kids ya for adults no, when I was 10 it made me piss myself but now I’m 19 and I rewatched it last week and thought it was hilarious.
I agree with the others voting for Midnight. But I also wanted to point out Capaldi's clever callback in the Orient Express episode when he asks the mummy, "Are you my mummy?"
Yeh but the trouble with that joke, which tennant also quotes in the poison sky is that only he knows what he's talking about since Jack and Rose, the only other two who would get the joke, are never there so its kinda stupid for him to say it cos its almost a 4th wall break as within the pretence of the show whose he talking to with that remark?
I still find it funny when the Doctor himself referenced the child. It was just one moment of one scene when the Doctor put on a gas mask and asked “are you my mummy?”
He referenced it at least twice, as far as I know. In the episode Mummy in the Orient Express he tells the mummy 'Are you my mummy?' and I just lost it. :D
And yet he managed to threaten them into giving him one day to evacuate the survivors before leaving them to swarm. I wonder what they were afraid he was going to do.
I love how from the 1st season of the revived series onwards, that eyestalk weakness becomes less and less exploit-able to the point where you'd still need The Doctor to defeat the Daleks.
The Vashta Nerada was the episode that scared the heck out of me the most. I remember watching it on it's first release in 2008 when I was 7... I think that episode may be the reason I still have a fear of the dark at 21 years old, I know it's not real - but my brain makes up figures with the shadows (especially in the corner of the room) and I get terrified.
Aged 7 or 47... I watched it when I was staying in a hotel room on my own, and was so scared I had to sleep (or try and sleep) with the lights on, for the first time since my childhood decades before. It wasn't just fear of the dark, but being in an unfamiliar building, and on my own and knowing no one.
Actually I wasn't scared, I turned with these episodes into a Doctor Who fan. I had briefly watched the first episode of Matt Smith and found it way to silly, but after watching Silence and Forrest, I was whoked. Pun intended.
@@user-uq1fq6gs3i But didn't they age super-fast, "like mayflys?" It was literally why they needed to possess a Timelord. Once released from being frozen in time, locked in a mirror, orbiting a dwarf star...and whatever the other one was, wouldn't they age rapidly? Say like, 12 years in a day...by the end of the ep. even the youngest might look a hundred. There's already potential here because (I don't know if you could really call it canon, but) the writer of Human Nature recently had a shory story follow-up on the Doctor Who: Lockdown channel, where...ok, I won't spoil it, but it was read by the same actress who carried the red balloon ;)
What’d be interesting is if The Dream Lord, being a dark reflection of the Doctor, slowly grew and evolved into the Valeyard. And this was currently the Valeyard in its infancy.
I loved the clockwork droids from the girl in the fireplace personaly, you learn what their trying to do and why and their is a very real broken logic which is actualy tragic.
Adipose agreed, series 11 sucked because there were no past villains to ease in the transition to Chibnall’s era as head writer, while Moffat made sure that there were past villains for Matt Smith’s first series. And we all know what went wrong with series 12. Bringing in villains from all fronts of the Whoniverse would actually bring back the viewership but the writing also needs a massive improvement because it’s shambolic at this point. I have no problems with the actors, it’s not their fault most of the scripts they’re given are actually piss-poor.
Two things have really REALLY Terrified me on Who - the Weeping Angels (duh) and those creepy wooden dolls that could turn you into one at just a touch
The peg dolls from night terrors scared the absolute shit out of me. It’s the simplicity of something so innocent and unassuming being able to twist your body into an empty being forced to lumber around a doll house for all eternity that got under my skin so much I didn’t watch the episode again for 8 years. They’re not the best villains but I genuinely lost sleep and used to leave a pillow by the door in case the ground turned to liquid and I had to make a quick escape. I was 8 don’t judge me I was also scared shitless for the same reasons by the flood but you already mentioned that.
5:03 "They never put the word “space” in front of something just because everything's all sort of hi-tech and future-y. It's never space restaurant or space champagne or space, you know, hats. It's just restaurants, champagne, or hats, even if this was a restaurant." - 12th Doctor
I've always really enjoyed the family of blood story, the entire time you're led to believe that running and hiding is the only option, only to find out that the doctor does this out of mercy not fear.
If anyone remembers the Krynoid and Harrison Chase from The Seeds of Doom, they should be on this list. That serial is one of the best and had some of the best cliffhangers for a classic Who episode.
I was always disturbed by the Weeping Angels. I feel like it got more disturbing when one was literally inside Amy’s mind trying to kill her. Plus the whole “image of an angel becomes an angel” thing which makes it creepy even from across the screen.
THANK YOU for putting the Celestial Toymaker on here! There are a lot of elements from Classic Who that I wish would show up more in Nuwho, but my favorite is probably the puzzle-master villain. There's just something so delightful about seeing the Doctor in a battle of cleverness alone--no violence, no existential threats to entire planets, just pure riddle. Unsurprisingly, The Mind Robber is also one of my favorite Doctor Who stories of all time--it's such a good fit for Troughton's tricky and manipulative Doctor.
Great list! I was excited to see Sutekh included. I always thought he was one of the most compelling villains of Classic Who. In that same vein, my own pick for best one-time villain would be the Fendahl. "Image of the Fendahl" is one of the most frightening stories of the classic era, and the Fendahl itself is terrifying.
I would personally love another Sycorax story, make it a two parter so they can be fully explored and give them a more threatening goal. Maybe even don’t set it on Earth, excluding a brief cameo in Pandorica Opens they haven’t appeared since 2005 which just sounds mental
@@Haleyog123 yeah but there can be more of the species out there potentially, I don’t know what the story could be but it would be interesting to see another take on them
And let's not forget that both the voice of Sutekh and the Beast from Satan Pit were both chillingly provide by the same actor, Gabriel Woolf! Even now, the Pyramids of Mars makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck... More of him, please!
You missed the most underrated, best one-shot - The Reapers from _Father's Day._ Creatures living in the Time Vortex that emerge when a paradox occurs in order to cleanse the paradox and reset the timeline. These things _killed_ the Doctor, and only Pete sacrificing himself fixed the timeline and restored all those who lost their lives. Brilliant visual and sound design.
@@x-menlol1613 Wait, really? Can you get me a comic name and issue number? The Reapers are easily my favorite _Doctor Who_ monster, so I'd love to see more of them.
@@SerathDarklands I didnt read the comic, sorry. I just looked them up, and found the comic. You can read it on readcomiconline if it's there, most likely is. But just search them up and it should tell you the comic name. I think it's about them hunting down doctors who come together from different times.
@@SerathDarklands also if you go on readcomiconline, warning ads pop up sometimes and some might be inappropriate but when you can skip, skip then you ar sorted.
Me too! It's one of my favourite episodes, I loved the insight of him revealing aspects of the doctor he'd been hiding, also I generally love "dreaming or awake" themes in media, kind of Inception scenario
I too had terrifying nightmares about the empty child, was jumpy when people called out mummy for months afterwards and I still have a slight fear of gas masks and that episode was 15years ago. That was borderline traumatizing and the only moffatt episode that I respect.
Me. I'm scared more by body horror rather than traditional spooky things. None of the traditional "scary" villains (Weeping Angels, Empty Child, etc) scared me at all, but that scene where Dalek Sec eats/absorbs/whatevers that dude disturbed me for a few days.
I think the actor who played as Toby had a massive hand in making The Beast character so fantastic. That guy was amazing in my opinion, and I would've (and still would) loved to see him reprise his role as the vessel of The Beast.
Mavic Chen from The Daleks Masterplan should be on this list just for the way he treats the Daleks as inferiors during the whole story. I especially love the bit where he just casually slaps a Dalek's eyestalk out of the way when they refuse to listen to him. The same actor, Kevin Stoney was also equally great as Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion.
Scarlet canary squad V2 He’s just gross and is seen as the point in which a light, breezy episode about fandom went off the rails and became something kind of gross and unpleasant. He was *never* going to be popular monster, sorry kid who made him for Blue Peter, the BBC writers room let you down.😣
Three things. One: you're missing the Midnight Entity, SO scary, especially for people like me who love psychological horrors/thrillers -- it kind of reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode. Two: I still get nightmares about The Flood and The Empty Child every once in awhile, genuinely terrifying for 13-year-old me and still kinda freaky to this day. Three: the mouse part of my brain still gets anxious every single time I notice myself having two shadows, even though I now know at 20 that it's just a question of light sources. Thanks Moffat.
The Vashta Nerada spacesuit incarnation shocked me most (and that's not easy to do). It was just creepy with the one line "Who turned out the lights?" and the blue lit skull.
The empty child scared me so badly when I was little that I wouldn’t let my family watch the second episode and we just skipped over it. I ended finishing that story like 3 years later
I loved watching Silence in the library as a kid, even though I was scared of the dark. I could never watch The waters of Mars to this day, Same with Rebel flesh and The almost people
Rebel Flesh could have had some of their aggression reduced if Captain Harkness was there: Two of the Jennifers are fighting, with the implication that one of the identical women is a Ganger) Jennifer 1: "Help me out here!" Jennifer 2: "No, help me!" Jennifer 1: "At least think of something that will help!" Captain Harkness: "Oh, I'm thinking of something that would definitely help out" Both Jennifers suddenly pause in their fighting, look at each other, then look at Harkness. They know exactly what he meant by that comment, come to an understanding/truce, then walk over and slap him.) Captain Harkness: "See, you two are no longer fighting. Now, both of you sit down and talk to each other."
well night terror was kinda just a rip off of the empty child, like there weren't really any villains since it's all just the kid's imagination, so i wouldn't say they were technically villains
Omg yes, they should have included them! I thought it was a great story line, and the dolls and the gas mask children still scare the hell out of me ._.
After I finished watching the Episodes with the Empty child with my cousin, they turned to me and said "Are you my mummy?" and I threw a pillow at them and screamed. same thing for the Midnight episode when they just repeated what I said without moving. 😰 truly terrifying
It upsets and disturbs me that you left out the midnight entity. That episode was the most chilling out of pretty much any dr who episode. It took away the doctors most powerful weapon. His voice. The fact we didn’t know what it was is scary. The even more chilling thing is how the people act. This might be one of the ones who left such a large impact on the doctor after. He was terrified and even when Donna repeated after him you could see the dread and fear on his face
I love that we not only got a name drop in the drop of The Toymaker in Power of the Doctor, but that it may have been foreshadowing for the 60th Anniversary character played by Neil Patrick Harris!!! You called it!
I'm very fond of the creepy Voord, from 'The Keys Of Marinus', the robotic Mechonoids, from 'The Chase'; the Seaweed Monster, from 'Fury From The Deep'; the Primords from 'Inferno'; the Axons, from 'Claws Of Axos', the Wirrn, from 'The Ark In Space'; the Anti-Matter being, from 'Planet Of Evil', and the Kaldorian Sandminer Robots, from 'The Robots Of Death'.
Out of the list you made, Vashta Nerada, but then I see messages about the mysterious entity of Midnight. That entity still freaks me out to this day. Maybe that's why I get so disturbed when things happen in unison. Dancing, speaking, and spellcasting are among a few of the many things that can happen in unison, and even copying everything said word for word is just freaky too.
Satan from the satan pit is such a classic who episode, and it still has a lot of mysteries that have carried on until this day, with one of the obvious main stay's being the ood themselves!
Before your list started I was thinking about the Weeping Angels, and then you said what I was thinking. Yes! (Maybe we need ten villains who should have only been a one time villain, but wasn't.) Of course the danger of a list like this is some writer, trying to think of a new story, may see it and... (Sadly it happens all the times in comics.) And yes, I think the Vashta Nerada were the best, worst, once only (so-far) villains. As always, thank you so very much for your efforts, observations, and the video they create.
I don’t know if they’re one-shot baddies, but The Silence have always scared me. The electrokinesis, the shape of their heads and the fact that you forget that you saw them at all is terrifying
they were part of a series-wide plotline but only really appeared at the beginning and end of it, they kinda count because I don't think they've been seen since
Not necessarily a scary villain but a fun one, the Captain from "The Pirate Planet" penned by the great cosmic hitchhiker himself, Douglas Adams. "BY THE CURLED FANGS OF THE GREAT SKY DEMON!" Also, speaking of Douglas Adams, Scarroth, aka Count Scarlioni from "City of Death". Using a heist of the Mona Lisa to fund time experiments that would have prevented any life from having formed on Earth at all.
I agree with your Angels rant, but Angels take Manhattan was brilliant. Even if they did go a little overboard with the amount of angels in secret, but it was such a brilliant episode, with a heartbreaking twist at the end
Silence in the library and the forest of the Dead are just the best episodes! technically the first and last of River Song! Definitely in my top three! I count them as a single episode/story
The Vashta Nerada also made an appearance in one of the Doctor Who video games. The Doctor had to navigate an underwater base with them hiding in the shadows
Ironically, as traumatic as the encounter with the Veil likely was, the Veil wasn't exactly enjoying itself either; after seven millennia of stalking the same victim over and over, it was really getting bored, so much that it actually tried to direct him to a shovel that could break through the wall of the sealed prison faster than he could with just his fists, but the Doctor just never caught on.
I love the Kandy man! Great ranking though, The Celestial Toymaker, Sutekh and The Dream Lord are among the best villains ever to exist in the show. I personally think they are all above the Daleks.
Ok so I've never been scared of the dark but I have always been a little bit scared of what might be in the dark and after seeing silence in the library I was more than just a little bit scared of what might be in the dark
the unquiet dead's greatest line...maid has clairvoyance and agrees to communicate with the gelth. Doc asks if she's comfortable with this...and says "I love a happy medium"
The Tereleptils from Peter Davison's Visitation. OK, not particularly scary, that they had a great back story (Terileptil prisoners mined tinclavic for the Hakolian, and these ones had escaped...) and, although mentioned in the Pandorica episodes, they'd be great to bring back with a modern look.
I agree with the Empty Child, I was also scared of the clockwork robots. I always worried that there was a space ship somewhere in the future with my name on and the robots were going to come and take my brain, however I think this was just me.
"Are you my mummy?....... Muuuuuummmmyyyyyy!" Scared the living shit out of me when I was ten lol
yeah same not really the best episode to see as a 9 year old child I had nightmares for months and I couldn't enter a room without a second thought
David Ward the empty people I think they were called, they were terrifying still remember watching that episode when I was 10 scared the shit out of me. Honestly I would love to see them again though they were an interesting creepy villain
I was like 5 when I watched the doll episode and holy shit was I scared it was my first doctor who episode as well
Ghyll Hamilton Cooper for kids ya for adults no, when I was 10 it made me piss myself but now I’m 19 and I rewatched it last week and thought it was hilarious.
Same I was scared of gas masks for to long
I agree with the others voting for Midnight. But I also wanted to point out Capaldi's clever callback in the Orient Express episode when he asks the mummy, "Are you my mummy?"
Doesnt the 10th doctor also do this in the Atmos episode?
@@mrtjm1152 yeah he does, he puts on the mask at the factory and goes "are you my mummy?"
@@bosh__ I think I remember reading somewhere that Tennant did that because he forgot the next line
Yeh but the trouble with that joke, which tennant also quotes in the poison sky is that only he knows what he's talking about since Jack and Rose, the only other two who would get the joke, are never there so its kinda stupid for him to say it cos its almost a 4th wall break as within the pretence of the show whose he talking to with that remark?
It’s hardly clever
The empty child messed me up too.
I went as him one Halloween and actually heard doors lock as I walked past calling " mummy, are you my mummy "
You were an evil child
Omg that's hilarious 😂
Great idea :D
I still find it funny when the Doctor himself referenced the child. It was just one moment of one scene when the Doctor put on a gas mask and asked “are you my mummy?”
He referenced it at least twice, as far as I know. In the episode Mummy in the Orient Express he tells the mummy 'Are you my mummy?' and I just lost it. :D
How do you leave off the Midnight Entity? A perfect villain that created one of the best episode of the Tennant Era
How do you leave of the Midnight Entity? A perfect villain that created one of the best episode of the Tennant Era
@@Halbed_Lemons Okay, can you stop?
@@Halbed_Lemons what are you trying to do here?
@Sam Brooks what are you trying to do here?
@Sam Demille Okay, can you stop?
The toymaker appeared once? WELL THATS ALRIGHT THEN
This list was made during the Chinball era before Tennant returned
The video is 4 years old and the toymaker appeared again 6 or so months ago.
@@Canada_Goose 🥴🥴🥴
sutekh too now xd
The Midnight entity should be on here
We never even saw it yet it made such an impression
there were so many to choose from that some great ones had to be cut :( The Midnight Entity was one of them
that one was bloody scary !!!
Yeah was a brilliant episode and bad guy!
Cosmic horror right there
we actually did see it
"Against the Vashta Nerada you run. You just run"
Piranhas of the Dark... Ooh the library episode.. 'look me up' 😍
And yet he managed to threaten them into giving him one day to evacuate the survivors before leaving them to swarm. I wonder what they were afraid he was going to do.
You could make the universe transparent and a light source to shine across the universe,
but that’s all I can think of to win against them.
Definitely the Vashta Nerada. "Daleks go for the eyestalk, Sontarran, Back of the neck. Vashta Nerada... basically Run!"
How you deal with the Doctor?
*Eleventh shows up* "Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically ... run!"
You got the quote wrong
I love how from the 1st season of the revived series onwards, that eyestalk weakness becomes less and less exploit-able to the point where you'd still need The Doctor to defeat the Daleks.
@@DoctorWhoKage or be really lucky and fire a shot to the eye while it's waking up like river song did as she made a DALEK BEG FOR MERCY
vashta nerada.... run... just run (get it right pls)
For me the Empty Child and Weeping Angles were eerie but the Flood is what always kept me up at night
Chills
What about the Vast a Nerada
Sorry,autocorrect, it was Vashta Nerada
I love that the description is literally "This is the ONLY time Satan will get a good review" xD
The Vashta Nerada was the episode that scared the heck out of me the most. I remember watching it on it's first release in 2008 when I was 7... I think that episode may be the reason I still have a fear of the dark at 21 years old, I know it's not real - but my brain makes up figures with the shadows (especially in the corner of the room) and I get terrified.
Aged 7 or 47... I watched it when I was staying in a hotel room on my own, and was so scared I had to sleep (or try and sleep) with the lights on, for the first time since my childhood decades before. It wasn't just fear of the dark, but being in an unfamiliar building, and on my own and knowing no one.
Actually I wasn't scared, I turned with these episodes into a Doctor Who fan. I had briefly watched the first episode of Matt Smith and found it way to silly, but after watching Silence and Forrest, I was whoked. Pun intended.
That episode made me cry as a kid no joke 😂
What this list is missing is (sniff)
Family of blood
Those weren't really scary, they are really only memorable cause of their demise
Doooooooc-trrrrrrr! Unforgettable
They can’t, the actors would have aged 10 years or so. The little girl couldn’t be in it however they can obviously get new forms
@@user-uq1fq6gs3i But didn't they age super-fast, "like mayflys?" It was literally why they needed to possess a Timelord. Once released from being frozen in time, locked in a mirror, orbiting a dwarf star...and whatever the other one was, wouldn't they age rapidly? Say like, 12 years in a day...by the end of the ep. even the youngest might look a hundred.
There's already potential here because (I don't know if you could really call it canon, but) the writer of Human Nature recently had a shory story follow-up on the Doctor Who: Lockdown channel, where...ok, I won't spoil it, but it was read by the same actress who carried the red balloon ;)
Lol the guys a scarecrow
What’d be interesting is if The Dream Lord, being a dark reflection of the Doctor, slowly grew and evolved into the Valeyard. And this was currently the Valeyard in its infancy.
I loved the clockwork droids from the girl in the fireplace personaly, you learn what their trying to do and why and their is a very real broken logic which is actualy tragic.
Would love a list of Torchwood villains and monsters that should appear in a Doctor Who story.
BURKE MEDIA same with SJA. The trickster is actually really interesting and would probably work really well with Jodie
Adipose having villains from Torchwood and SJA are probably needed to bring back viewers, just as long as the writing is improved.
BURKE MEDIA I think that the Wedding of Sarah Jane is better than a lot of series 11/12 😂😂😂
Adipose agreed, series 11 sucked because there were no past villains to ease in the transition to Chibnall’s era as head writer, while Moffat made sure that there were past villains for Matt Smith’s first series. And we all know what went wrong with series 12. Bringing in villains from all fronts of the Whoniverse would actually bring back the viewership but the writing also needs a massive improvement because it’s shambolic at this point. I have no problems with the actors, it’s not their fault most of the scripts they’re given are actually piss-poor.
@@adamburke4738 let's just forget orphan-55 and praxius
Come on ! No mentioning for Midnight? This episode is so disturbing.
Yeah
Yeah! And what about the monks from space? (peter capaldi) They where super creepy!
90855jkj well they made the list, it’s their opinion, but i still would. midnight was amazing!
Interesting point re: Midnight. What actually was the villain in that called? Such was its power it mainly inhabited the character's minds.
@kiekebe Cool - that's a general name, rather than specific but works :-)
Two things have really REALLY Terrified me on Who - the Weeping Angels (duh) and those creepy wooden dolls that could turn you into one at just a touch
The wooden dolls still terrify me to this day
god those dolls scared me
pls dont remind me
The peg dolls from night terrors scared the absolute shit out of me. It’s the simplicity of something so innocent and unassuming being able to twist your body into an empty being forced to lumber around a doll house for all eternity that got under my skin so much I didn’t watch the episode again for 8 years.
They’re not the best villains but I genuinely lost sleep and used to leave a pillow by the door in case the ground turned to liquid and I had to make a quick escape. I was 8 don’t judge me
I was also scared shitless for the same reasons by the flood but you already mentioned that.
Me to. I was freaked out.
I recently watched it to face my fears
The peg dolls are my biggest fears and it is something I will never conquer
These are the one villain that give The Empty Child a run for his money.
5:03 "They never put the word “space” in front of something just because everything's all sort of hi-tech and future-y. It's never space restaurant or space champagne or space, you know, hats. It's just restaurants, champagne, or hats, even if this was a restaurant." - 12th Doctor
Yeah but the orient express was literally in space same for the titanic soooooooo
I've always really enjoyed the family of blood story, the entire time you're led to believe that running and hiding is the only option, only to find out that the doctor does this out of mercy not fear.
Oh my god and him trapping the wee girl in "every mirror" *shudders*
If anyone remembers the Krynoid and Harrison Chase from The Seeds of Doom, they should be on this list. That serial is one of the best and had some of the best cliffhangers for a classic Who episode.
I agree. The Seeds of Doom is one of my favorites
“Count the shadows.” So creepy!
The vent chase scene in ‘the satan pit’ still scares me to this day. Incredible episode
And the Toymaker in a way did come back...
I was always disturbed by the Weeping Angels. I feel like it got more disturbing when one was literally inside Amy’s mind trying to kill her. Plus the whole “image of an angel becomes an angel” thing which makes it creepy even from across the screen.
Their episode in Flux was properly scary, it was good (and terrifying) to see
THANK YOU for putting the Celestial Toymaker on here! There are a lot of elements from Classic Who that I wish would show up more in Nuwho, but my favorite is probably the puzzle-master villain. There's just something so delightful about seeing the Doctor in a battle of cleverness alone--no violence, no existential threats to entire planets, just pure riddle. Unsurprisingly, The Mind Robber is also one of my favorite Doctor Who stories of all time--it's such a good fit for Troughton's tricky and manipulative Doctor.
I know this is veryyy late but are you looking forwards to the 60th then?? As it’s great to see them back
possibly the Celestial Toymaker is in the 60th
"GO TO YOUR ROOM!! I AM VERY CROSS WITH YOU!!"
I mean it. I am very, very angry with you. I am very, very cross.
GO
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@@3Dboneprinting man i'm so glad that worked those would have been terrible last words
I would also give a mention to The Wire (played by Maureen Lipman) in The Idiot's Lantern. Genuinely terrifying.
good call.
Hun-ger-yyyyyyYYYYY
I thought she was part of the great intelligence from the snowmen, the bells of saint john, and name of the doctor
FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Great list! I was excited to see Sutekh included. I always thought he was one of the most compelling villains of Classic Who. In that same vein, my own pick for best one-time villain would be the Fendahl. "Image of the Fendahl" is one of the most frightening stories of the classic era, and the Fendahl itself is terrifying.
They NEED to bring back classic one-time villains. That'd just be really interesting
No because it's better to have them cos then they wont ruin them example a weeping angels
The Monk
@@jinjaskillz2222 what?
sutekh would be ruined
it would be a fun link for those of us who only know New Who and have read up on some of these creatures and beings
I would personally love another Sycorax story, make it a two parter so they can be fully explored and give them a more threatening goal. Maybe even don’t set it on Earth, excluding a brief cameo in Pandorica Opens they haven’t appeared since 2005 which just sounds mental
Yeah! Technically not actual villains, but even the Doctor said he was scared.
Harriet Jones had Torchwood blow them up in David Tennant's first episode.
@@Haleyog123 yeah but there can be more of the species out there potentially, I don’t know what the story could be but it would be interesting to see another take on them
And let's not forget that both the voice of Sutekh and the Beast from Satan Pit were both chillingly provide by the same actor, Gabriel Woolf! Even now, the Pyramids of Mars makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck... More of him, please!
The empty child scared the shit out of me when I was younger, I cried for many nights lol
What about The Boneless from the 12th Doctor episode "Flatline"?
great monster! Only had 10 slots though so they just didn’t make the cut :(
@@danthemeegs8751 Also really creative in design, it should return.
TheQnebra i agree 100%
Omg yes that one SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME
Yea the boneless gave me nightmares for a week
You missed the most underrated, best one-shot - The Reapers from _Father's Day._ Creatures living in the Time Vortex that emerge when a paradox occurs in order to cleanse the paradox and reset the timeline. These things _killed_ the Doctor, and only Pete sacrificing himself fixed the timeline and restored all those who lost their lives. Brilliant visual and sound design.
I don't know if they counted the comics or not, but the Reapers appear in the comics, so they are not one off villains
@@x-menlol1613 Wait, really? Can you get me a comic name and issue number? The Reapers are easily my favorite _Doctor Who_ monster, so I'd love to see more of them.
@@SerathDarklands I didnt read the comic, sorry. I just looked them up, and found the comic. You can read it on readcomiconline if it's there, most likely is. But just search them up and it should tell you the comic name. I think it's about them hunting down doctors who come together from different times.
@@x-menlol1613 Thanks for the tip! I'll check it out!
@@SerathDarklands also if you go on readcomiconline, warning ads pop up sometimes and some might be inappropriate but when you can skip, skip then you ar sorted.
The Vashta Nerada and the Midnight monster were my first Doctor who villans that got me into the show, great nostalgia for me
I wish they'd bring the Dream Lord back. Brilliant villain.
Maybe could be portrayed by Richard ayoade and go up against Jodie Whittaker as the mastermind of series 13.
@@kurankrishan8971 I'd cast Richard Ayoade actually as the Doctor himself.
Me too! It's one of my favourite episodes, I loved the insight of him revealing aspects of the doctor he'd been hiding, also I generally love "dreaming or awake" themes in media, kind of Inception scenario
I too had terrifying nightmares about the empty child, was jumpy when people called out mummy for months afterwards and I still have a slight fear of gas masks and that episode was 15years ago. That was borderline traumatizing and the only moffatt episode that I respect.
I Feel Like *The Flood* from *‘The Waters Of Mars’* are pretty good
* + I Was Traumatised By It*
Same, Jesus that mouth effect scared the living **** out of me, even just seeing a still frame is a nightmare to glance at
The only Flood species I know of is from Halo
I remember watching the episode late at night at scared the absolute fuck outta younger me
As a kid, the food and the vasna arada legit filled me with so much ****
@@greyson2344 Ah, a man of culture I see! :)
The vashta nerada was the entire reason I'm scared of death. It made me cry and weep everytime I even heard the name as a kid.
I...ice cream...ice cream...
who does the empty child not scare the crap out of.
Honestly, it seemed more silly to me. But I did adore the transformation FX. No idea why it didn't scare me as normally I'm a giant chicken.
Me. I'm scared more by body horror rather than traditional spooky things. None of the traditional "scary" villains (Weeping Angels, Empty Child, etc) scared me at all, but that scene where Dalek Sec eats/absorbs/whatevers that dude disturbed me for a few days.
Me
The empty child itself
@@DamorahTalset But the transformation/s of the Empty Child involved body horror!
I think the actor who played as Toby had a massive hand in making The Beast character so fantastic. That guy was amazing in my opinion, and I would've (and still would) loved to see him reprise his role as the vessel of The Beast.
100% agree with the weeping angels, was actually thinking that as this video started.
7:19 did anyone else see the hand on the chair?
OMG I've watched this story SO many times and never noticed it before! lol
I watched it back, yep you are not alone.
Ah yes, the infamous Hand of Sutekh
ewwww that's so creepyyyyy
Lol😂
Mavic Chen from The Daleks Masterplan should be on this list just for the way he treats the Daleks as inferiors during the whole story. I especially love the bit where he just casually slaps a Dalek's eyestalk out of the way when they refuse to listen to him.
The same actor, Kevin Stoney was also equally great as Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion.
"Let's just forget about the Kandy Man"
I feel hurt
BearEight same
If only we could
Big Finish didn't ;)
I’m hurt by him saying the absorbalof was bad. I thought it was cool
Scarlet canary squad V2 He’s just gross and is seen as the point in which a light, breezy episode about fandom went off the rails and became something kind of gross and unpleasant. He was *never* going to be popular monster, sorry kid who made him for Blue Peter, the BBC writers room let you down.😣
I was going to be so mad if the flood wasn't on this list
Imo best episode of Doctor Who ever
Three things. One: you're missing the Midnight Entity, SO scary, especially for people like me who love psychological horrors/thrillers -- it kind of reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode. Two: I still get nightmares about The Flood and The Empty Child every once in awhile, genuinely terrifying for 13-year-old me and still kinda freaky to this day. Three: the mouse part of my brain still gets anxious every single time I notice myself having two shadows, even though I now know at 20 that it's just a question of light sources. Thanks Moffat.
I love the Family of Blood. Particularly the Son/Brother of Mine and the Mother/Wife of Mine. The Acting was great.
The flood was the reason I never got sleep in the late 2000s
The Flood seems very 28 Days Later inspired. They look cool as hell
The Vashta Nerada spacesuit incarnation shocked me most (and that's not easy to do). It was just creepy with the one line "Who turned out the lights?" and the blue lit skull.
The Empty Child still to this day makes me uneasy! I used to get nightmares 🤣 but I loved the Midnight Entity has to be one of my favourites!
Waters of Mars. One of many episodes that left me crying in tears...
I love the gas mask child, it's one of my favourite story's but I still get scared every time (bear in mind I have watched it over 9 times )
The Waters of Mars is a fantastic, underrated episode that I think gets forgotten because it was non-Christmas special
The nimon is my favourite doctor who villain since he is basically a space minitaur. the story is really well written too
The empty child scared me so badly when I was little that I wouldn’t let my family watch the second episode and we just skipped over it. I ended finishing that story like 3 years later
I loved watching Silence in the library as a kid, even though I was scared of the dark.
I could never watch The waters of Mars to this day, Same with Rebel flesh and The almost people
The Rebel Flesh and the Almost People absolutely terrified me the first time I watched them. And the second. And still to this day.
@@Highkey-Loki I had to stop watching Flesh and Stone, as well as The Idiots Lantern and Waters Of Mars.
Rebel Flesh could have had some of their aggression reduced if Captain Harkness was there:
Two of the Jennifers are fighting, with the implication that one of the identical women is a Ganger)
Jennifer 1: "Help me out here!"
Jennifer 2: "No, help me!"
Jennifer 1: "At least think of something that will help!"
Captain Harkness: "Oh, I'm thinking of something that would definitely help out"
Both Jennifers suddenly pause in their fighting, look at each other, then look at Harkness. They know exactly what he meant by that comment, come to an understanding/truce, then walk over and slap him.)
Captain Harkness: "See, you two are no longer fighting. Now, both of you sit down and talk to each other."
The creature one of the gangers mutates into at the end was so horrifying, reminds me of Professor Lazarus in the third series
i first saw the empty child when i was like 10 on pbs at like 11pm that shit scared the crap out of me and made me fall in love with dr who.
At 3:38 I immediately thought of Jim Moriarty lol
“In a world full of locked doors the man with key is king... and honey you should see me in a crown”
What about the dolls from “Night Terror”
@[UFOP] AnkGrooger I agree
well night terror was kinda just a rip off of the empty child, like there weren't really any villains since it's all just the kid's imagination, so i wouldn't say they were technically villains
big mood
The dolls were creepy but the “villain”, the “monster” was the child.
Omg yes, they should have included them! I thought it was a great story line, and the dolls and the gas mask children still scare the hell out of me ._.
Yeah, I think they are worse than Empty Child or Weeping Angels.
After I finished watching the Episodes with the Empty child with my cousin, they turned to me and said "Are you my mummy?" and I threw a pillow at them and screamed. same thing for the Midnight episode when they just repeated what I said without moving. 😰 truly terrifying
Lol!
You’re cousin is a jerk
@@Krahe08 not really. we laugh about that now, and i know i would have done the same thing anyway
It upsets and disturbs me that you left out the midnight entity. That episode was the most chilling out of pretty much any dr who episode. It took away the doctors most powerful weapon. His voice. The fact we didn’t know what it was is scary. The even more chilling thing is how the people act. This might be one of the ones who left such a large impact on the doctor after. He was terrified and even when Donna repeated after him you could see the dread and fear on his face
For me the midnight entity is the best villain the show has produced so far
I love that we not only got a name drop in the drop of The Toymaker in Power of the Doctor, but that it may have been foreshadowing for the 60th Anniversary character played by Neil Patrick Harris!!! You called it!
I'm very fond of the creepy Voord, from 'The Keys Of Marinus', the robotic Mechonoids, from 'The Chase'; the Seaweed Monster, from 'Fury From The Deep'; the Primords from 'Inferno'; the Axons, from 'Claws Of Axos', the Wirrn, from 'The Ark In Space'; the Anti-Matter being, from 'Planet Of Evil', and the Kaldorian Sandminer Robots, from 'The Robots Of Death'.
How do you leave of the Midnight Entity? A perfect villain that created one of the best episode of the Tennant Era
bro the candy man came back in a 7th doctor story and i knew that off the top off my head your supposed to be researching
Out of the list you made, Vashta Nerada, but then I see messages about the mysterious entity of Midnight. That entity still freaks me out to this day. Maybe that's why I get so disturbed when things happen in unison. Dancing, speaking, and spellcasting are among a few of the many things that can happen in unison, and even copying everything said word for word is just freaky too.
The scariest part of the lonely child is the part with the tape in his room how it continues when it's actually broken...
Satan from the satan pit is such a classic who episode, and it still has a lot of mysteries that have carried on until this day, with one of the obvious main stay's being the ood themselves!
Before your list started I was thinking about the Weeping Angels, and then you said what I was thinking. Yes! (Maybe we need ten villains who should have only been a one time villain, but wasn't.)
Of course the danger of a list like this is some writer, trying to think of a new story, may see it and... (Sadly it happens all the times in comics.)
And yes, I think the Vashta Nerada were the best, worst, once only (so-far) villains.
As always, thank you so very much for your efforts, observations, and the video they create.
I don’t know if they’re one-shot baddies, but The Silence have always scared me. The electrokinesis, the shape of their heads and the fact that you forget that you saw them at all is terrifying
they were part of a series-wide plotline but only really appeared at the beginning and end of it, they kinda count because I don't think they've been seen since
How could you forget SALAMANDER!
Not necessarily a scary villain but a fun one, the Captain from "The Pirate Planet" penned by the great cosmic hitchhiker himself, Douglas Adams. "BY THE CURLED FANGS OF THE GREAT SKY DEMON!"
Also, speaking of Douglas Adams, Scarroth, aka Count Scarlioni from "City of Death". Using a heist of the Mona Lisa to fund time experiments that would have prevented any life from having formed on Earth at all.
toymaker aged well
I agree with your Angels rant, but Angels take Manhattan was brilliant. Even if they did go a little overboard with the amount of angels in secret, but it was such a brilliant episode, with a heartbreaking twist at the end
Watching this list after just watching NPH in the Giggle as the Toymaker.
The robots from The Robots of Death always freaked me out, it's their faces I think. Except D84, D84 is a good boy and should be protected.
Silence in the library and the forest of the Dead are just the best episodes! technically the first and last of River Song! Definitely in my top three! I count them as a single episode/story
YES to the Vashta Nerada being number one! Also happy to see the Flood and the Gelth on this list - the latter are especially underrated imo.
An underrated monster is the Boneless from Flatline. One of the most creative and messed up Who villains we've had.
The flood was the first character that really scared the shut out of me
Imagine if the Ice Warriors were in a story fighting the Flood infection.
there was actually an official comic about what you just said
Anganoff Really? Niiiice
The Vashta Nerada also made an appearance in one of the Doctor Who video games. The Doctor had to navigate an underwater base with them hiding in the shadows
The Gelth were the only DW monster that scared me so much I had nightmares for years XD
Impossible planet was always my favorite. One of those plot lines where I would’ve loved to see more but probably a great idea to never go back
The toymaker, one time only. That aged well
Ironically, as traumatic as the encounter with the Veil likely was, the Veil wasn't exactly enjoying itself either; after seven millennia of stalking the same victim over and over, it was really getting bored, so much that it actually tried to direct him to a shovel that could break through the wall of the sealed prison faster than he could with just his fists, but the Doctor just never caught on.
I love the Kandy man! Great ranking though, The Celestial Toymaker, Sutekh and The Dream Lord are among the best villains ever to exist in the show. I personally think they are all above the Daleks.
I have never seen a single doctor who episode but I am obsessed with these videos and I don't even know why!
Ok so I've never been scared of the dark but I have always been a little bit scared of what might be in the dark and after seeing silence in the library I was more than just a little bit scared of what might be in the dark
the unquiet dead's greatest line...maid has clairvoyance and agrees to communicate with the gelth. Doc asks if she's comfortable with this...and says "I love a happy medium"
Lol toymaker's back
THE FLOOD MADE ME SO SCARED I HAD NIGHTMARES FOR DAYS
The Tereleptils from Peter Davison's Visitation. OK, not particularly scary, that they had a great back story (Terileptil prisoners mined tinclavic for the Hakolian, and these ones had escaped...) and, although mentioned in the Pandorica episodes, they'd be great to bring back with a modern look.
Where were they mentioned?
@@blobfish5730 Clara asked Twelve if he started the Great Fire of London in 1666 and he replied that it was not he, but the Tereleptils
@@oneblankspace4919 What episode was that?
My top 5:
5. Dolls in dollhouse (matt smith)
4. The reapers (christopher eccleston)
3. The flood
2. The empty child
1. Vashta nerada
From the future seeing the toymaker on the list makes me laugh now lol
I agree with the Empty Child, I was also scared of the clockwork robots. I always worried that there was a space ship somewhere in the future with my name on and the robots were going to come and take my brain, however I think this was just me.