# The Meep (Doctor Who)

The Meep (also known by his real name Beep the Meep) is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its associated spin-off works. He is a galactic criminal and also the leader of the Meeps, an alien species which had a war with the Wrarth Warriors.

## Character biography
### Background

"The Meep" is the last survivor of Meepkind after the entire species was driven to murderous cruelty by their sun going mad. Fleeing to Earth while pursued by the Wrarth Warriors, the Meep was then found by a young human, pretending to be a cute and harmless creature, only for the Doctor to get involved and uncover the creature's true identity and motivations.

### Television

The Meep debuts his full television appearance in The Star Beast (2023), when the Meep crash-landed into the London Millson Wagner Steelworks, but jettisoned from the Meep's ship in an escape pod. While planning to escape the Wrarth Warriors, the Meep was found by Rose Noble. The Meep convinced Rose that the Meep was a harmless alien being hunted by the "monsters", as the psychedelic sun with the Meep's ship placed UNIT soldiers under Solar Psychedelia and made them the Meep's Soldiers of the Psychedelic Sun. Needing to wait for the Meep's soldiers to retrieve the Meep, the Meep hid in Rose's shed until Donna Noble stumbled upon the Meep, and then the Doctor arrived. The Meep then tricked the Doctor and the Noble family into helping the Meep escape when the Wrarth Warriors interceded the Soldiers of the Psychedelic Sun.
However, the Doctor became suspicious when he realised that the Wrath Warriors were using non-lethal attacks, and he summoned Zogroth and Zreeg, who explained about the Meep's corrupted nature. Once the Meep's deception was exposed, the Meep killed Zogroth and Zreeg before preparing to escape using a double-bladed Dagger Drive, which would destroy all of London in the process. Following the Meep's defeat by the Doctor and the DoctorDonna, with Rose reversing the Meep's brainwashing of the soldiers, the Meep was taken into custody to be imprisoned for 10000 years for the Meep's litany of crimes. Before being teleported away, however, the Meep swore to escape and claim revenge, stating that "a creature with two hearts [such as the Doctor was] such a rare thing" and that the Meep would tell "the Boss" about him.

### In other media

The Meep debuts in The Star Beast comic strip (1980), where The Meep led the Meep armada to conquer the galaxy, but they were defeated by the Wrarth Warriors. Fleeing, the Meep was pursued to Earth in 1980, where his neutron drive star cruiser crashed at the Blackcastle steel mills. Beep was found by Sharon Davies and Fudge Higgins, who assumed the cute creature was harmless and took him back to Fudge's home. The Meep used his ship's black orb to take control of the people of Blackcastle to make them repair the ship. The Fourth Doctor sabotaged the engines and the Meep was captured by the Wrarth Warriors.
The Meep returns in the sequel, Star Beast II (1995), where in 1995, Beep convinced the parole board that he had been rehabilitated, and he was released after only fifteen years. Beep returned to Blackcastle to retrieve his spare starship drive, but the Doctor trapped him in a Lassie film.
The Meep once again returns in the Sixth Doctor Adventures audio "The Ratings War," where Beep convinced a girl from the Wrarth Institute to release him from the film. Beep went to Earth and took over Roger Lowell, a television executive, who he forced to change his programming schedules to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Beep's goal was to gain a massive viewing audience and hypnotise them with subliminal messages on Audience Shares and commands to kill on Beep and Friends. The Sixth Doctor stopped Beep by confronting him and claiming he already had disabled the subliminal messages. This enraged Beep so much that he tried to kill Lucy and Todd, the contestants on Audience Shares. However, the Doctor had only disabled Beep's laser pistol, and the audience turned against him when the subliminal message went out and it looked like Beep was murdering the contestants. Beep was arrested by security and Beep and Friends was never broadcast.
In the comic Party Animals, Beep attended Bonjaxx's birthday party at Bonjaxx's Bar on Maruthea. In a drunken state and wielding a bottle of Blackcastle brown ale, Beep approached the Seventh Doctor and his future incarnation to claim a bounty made by Shaman Kahn. The Freefall Warriors attacked Beep and everyone began fighting each other, beginning a bar fight.
In the comic TV Action!, Beep was fleeing galactic police when he activated a dimensional warp, sucking him, the Eighth Doctor and Izzy Sinclair into a parallel universe, where they all arrived at the BBC Television Centre. Beep planned to use raw black star energy to enslave humanity, and ultimately the galaxy. Although Beep captured the Doctor, Izzy recruited Tom Baker to act as a distraction long enough for her to reprogram Beep's machines and defeat him. The authorities then took Beep away to a zoo.
The Meep also appears in the audio adaptation of The Star Beast (2019), which the story is same as the comic strip.

## Personality

Beep was a sadist, enjoying inflicting pain on others for no real purpose. He resented being thought of as cute, but used it to his advantage when manipulating people. He also disliked other cute things and would go out of his way to destroy them. The Meep also liked to mock and insult those around it, once calling Donna Noble a "stupid woman" and Rose Noble a "weird child".

## Reception

The depiction of Beep the Meep in The Star Beast was met with near unanimous praise from critics.