# List of Doctor Who villains

This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. For other, related lists, see below.
| Villain | Appearance(s) | Notes |
| Helen A | The Happiness Patrol | |
| Abzorbaloff / Victor Kennedy | "Love & Monsters" | The concept of the Abzorbaloff was the winner of a fan competition, and while it was considered "a marvellous idea" its slapstick-heavy execution was criticised as "juvenile clowing" and "an insult to the intelligence of the viewers" and negatively compared to the antagonists in "Blink" with its "dark adult humor". |
| Lady Adrasta | The Creature from the Pit | Sociology researcher Lindy A. Orthia argued that the series showcases individuality as a virtue, exemplified by the unconventional approach of the Doctor, and that thus Lady Adrasta, the autocratic ruler of a matriarchal society, functions as a villain because she "asserts her power via force not individualism". |
| Akhaten | "The Rings of Akhaten" | |
| Alaya | "The Hungry Earth" / "Cold Blood" | A Silurian. |
| Ambulance | "Boom" | Designation of machine utilised by the Villengard corporation. |
| Animus | The Web Planet | |
| Ashad | "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" "Ascension of the Cybermen" / "The Timeless Children" "The Power of the Doctor" | |
| Ashildr / Me | "Face the Raven" | Credited in the episode as "Ashildr", though canonically named "Me". Me is primarily allied with the Doctor in her other appearances, although acts as a soft antagonist in "Face the Raven", assisting a plan by the Time Lords. Remorseful, she returns to an ally by the end of the episode. |
| Axos | The Claws of Axos | |
| Azal | The Dæmons | |
| Azaxyr | The Monster of Peladon | |
| Lord Azlok | Dreamland | Leader of Viperox. |
| Azure | Flux | |
| Daniel Barton | "Spyfall" | |
| The Beast | "The Impossible Planet" / "The Satan Pit" | |
| Beep the Meep | Doctor Who Weekly comic strip "The Star Beast" (2023), voiced by Miriam Margolyes | |
| Bennett | The Rescue | |
| Black Guardian | The Armageddon Factor Mawdryn Undead Terminus Enlightenment | |
| Margaret Blaine / Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen | "Aliens of London" / "World War Three" "Boom Town" | One of the Slitheen. |
| Bogeyman | "Space Babies" | Ceases to be a villain by the end of the episode. |
| Borad | Timelash | |
| Borusa | The Deadly Assassin The Invasion of Time Arc of Infinity "The Five Doctors" |
| Rosanna Calvierri | "The Vampires of Venice" | Assumed name of a Sister of the Water. |
| Taren Capel | The Robots of Death | See also: Kaldor City |
| Matron Casp | "New Earth" | |
| Max Capricorn | "Voyage of the Damned" | |
| Lady Cassandra | "The End of the World" "New Earth" | Lady Cassandra was voiced by Zoë Wanamaker; the character was largely computer-generated. |
| Mavic Chen | The Daleks' Master Plan | |
| Suki Cheng | "Praxeus" | |
| Chief Caretaker | Paradise Towers | |
| Mr Clever / The Cyberiad | "Nightmare in Silver" | Split personality of the Doctor after being partially 'upgraded' by Cybermen. |
| The Collector | The Sun Makers | |
| General Cobb | "The Doctor's Daughter" | |
| George Cranleigh | Black Orchid | |
| The Creature | The God Complex | An unnamed, Minotaur-like alien, credited in the episode as 'The Creature'. |
| The Crooked Man | "Hide" | |
| Davros | See Davros § List of appearances | Creator of the Daleks. |
| The Dream Lord | "Amy's Choice" | Apparition created by psychic pollen. |
| Charlie Duffy | "Kerblam!" | |
| Eldrad | The Hand of Fear | |
| Fendahl | Image of the Fendahl | |
| Fenric | The Curse of Fenric | |
| Figure | "Listen" | An unseen, unnamed creature, credited in the episode as 'Figure'. The episode is ambiguous as to whether the Figure actually exists. |
| Mr Finch | "School Reunion" | Assumed identity of a Krillitane. |
| Florence Finnegan | "Smith and Jones" | Assumed identity of a Plasmavore |
| The Fisher King | "Under the Lake" / "Before the Flood" | |
| The Foretold | "Mummy on the Orient Express" | |
| Ms. Foster / Matron Cofelia | "Partners in Crime" | Matron of the Adipose. |
| Gat | "Fugitive of the Judoon" | |
| Winifred Gillyflower | "The Crimson Horror" | |
| The Gods of Ragnarok | The Greatest Show in the Galaxy | |
| Reverend Golightly | "The Unicorn and the Wasp" | Assumed identity of a Vespiform. |
| Grand Serpent | "Once, Upon Time" "Survivors of the Flux" "The Vanquishers" | |
| The Gravis | Frontios | |
| Grayle | "The Angels Take Manhattan" | Collector of Weeping Angels |
| The Great Intelligence | See Great Intelligence § List of appearances | |
| Count Grendel of Gracht | The Androids of Tara | |
| The Gunslinger | "A Town Called Mercy" | |
| Roger ap Gwilliam | "73 Yards" | |
| The Half-Face Man | "Deep Breath" | |
| Mr Halpen | "Planet of the Ood" | |
| Yvonne Hartman | "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday" | Director of the Torchwood Institute. |
| Hawthorne | "The Beast Below" | Creator and leader of the Smilers and Winders. |
| Heather | "The Pilot" | Sentient oil taking the form of a student, proven benign. Reappeared as an ally in "The Doctor Falls". |
| House | "The Doctor's Wife" | A sentient asteroid. |
| King Hydroflax | "The Husbands of River Song" | |
| Iraxxa | "Empress of Mars" | An Ice Warrior Empress. |
| The Jagrafess | "The Long Game" | |
| Sharaz Jek | The Caves of Androzani | |
| Kal | An Unearthly Child | |
| Madame Karabraxos | "Time Heist" | |
| King Goblin | "The Church on Ruby Road" | Leader of the goblins. |
| Lord Kiv | Mindwarp | |
| Madame Kovarian | "A Good Man Goes to War" "The Wedding of River Song" | Allied with the Headless Monks in A Good Man Goes to War. |
| Krasko | "Rosa" | |
| Kroagnon | Paradise Towers | |
| The Landlord | "Knock Knock" | |
| Professor Lazarus | "The Lazarus Experiment" | |
| Leandro | "The Woman Who Lived" | |
| John Lumic | "Rise of the Cybermen" / "The Age of Steel" | |
| Maestro | "The Devil's Chord" | Child of the Celestial Toymaker. |
| Malus | The Awakening | |
| Mara | Kinda Snakedance | |
| The Master / Missy | See The Master (Doctor Who) § List of appearances | "egotistical villain", "insane" and "unbalanced", who symbolizes one of "the great fears of modern humanity - the ego run amok", which "can dominate and destroy the weak willed (which would be most of the rest of us)". |
| Mawdryn | Mawdryn Undead | |
| Meglos | Meglos | |
| Monarch | Four to Doomsday | |
| The Monk | The Time Meddler The Daleks' Master Plan | |
| Morbius | The Brain of Morbius | |
| Morgaine | Battlefield | |
| Morgus | The Caves of Androzani | |
| The Nestene Consciousness | "Rose" | Creator of the Autons. |
| Odin | "The Girl Who Died" | Leader of the Mire, posing as the Norse god Odin. |
| Omega | See Omega (Doctor Who) § List of appearances | |
| Pangol | The Leisure Hive |
| Prisoner Zero | "The Eleventh Hour" | |
| The Racnoss Empress | "The Runaway Bride" | Empress of the Racnoss. |
| Rakaya | "Can You Hear Me?" | |
| The Rani | See The Rani (Doctor Who) § List of appearances | "egotistical villain", "insane" and "unbalanced", who symbolizes one of "the great fears of modern humanity - the ego run amok", which "can dominate and destroy the weak willed (which would be most of the rest of us)". |
| Rassilon | See Rassilon § List of appearances | |
| Gagan Rassmussen | "Sleep No More" | Creator of Morpheus pods, transformed into a Sandman after using one. |
| Restac | "Cold Blood" | A Silurian. Restac doesn't appear in "The Hungry Earth", the first episode of the two-part story, whose antagonist was Restac's sister Alaya. |
| Jack Robertson | "Arachnids in the UK" "Revolution of the Daleks" | |
| Scaroth / Count Scarlioni | City of Death | Last of the Jagaroth. |
| The Sheriff of Nottingham | "Robot of Sherwood" | |
| Sil | Vengeance on Varos Mindwarp | |
| The Siren | "The Curse of the Black Spot" | Ultimately proven benign, being a virtual doctor for a spaceship. |
| Skagra | Shada |
| Grand Marshal Skaldak | "Cold War" | An Ice Warrior. |
| Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen | "Aliens of London" / "World War Three" | One of the Slitheen. |
| The Shadow | The Armageddon Factor | |
| Queen Skithra | "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror" | |
| Soldeed | The Horns of Nimon |
| Solomon | "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" | |
| General Staal | "The Sontaran Stratagem" / "The Poison Sky" | Sontaran general. |
| General Stark | Dreamland | Switches allegiance and sides with the Doctor from the end of episode 4. |
| Styggron | The Android Invasion |
| Lord Sutcliffe | "Thin Ice" |
| Sutekh | Pyramids of Mars "The Legend of Ruby Sunday" / "Empire of Death" | The God of Death who is a member of an alien race called the Osirans. Based on the Egyptian deity Set. |
| Swarm | Flux | |
| Mr Sweet | "The Crimson Horror" | |
| Tecteun / Awsok | "The Timeless Children" "Once, Upon Time" "Survivors of the Flux" | |
| The Toymaker | The Celestial Toymaker "The Giggle" | |
| The Trickster | The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith | Leader of The Trickster's Brigade. |
| Professor Tryst | Nightmare of Eden |
| Tzim-Sha / Tim Shaw | "The Woman Who Fell to Earth" "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos" | |
| The Valeyard | See Valeyard § List of appearances | |
| Tobias Vaughn | The Invasion | |
| Veil | "Heaven Sent" | An unnamed creation of the Doctor's confession dial, designed to evoke confessions from the Doctor. Credited in the episode as "Veil". |
| The War Chief | The War Games | |
| The War Lord | The War Games | |
| Weng-Chiang / Magnus Greel | Television: The Talons of Weng-Chiang Novel: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang Audio play: The Butcher of Brisbane | Weng-Chiang poses as a Chinese god but is actually a time traveller whose real name is Magnus Greel. Played by Michael Spice, A.V. Club reviewer Christopher Bahn the character saw inspiration from Gothic horror figures Jack the Ripper, Dracula and the Phantom of the Opera in the character. is the former Minister of Justice of the 51st century Supreme Alliance, responsible for the deaths of 100,000 enemies of the state, and was known as "the Butcher of Brisbane". He appears in the 1977 serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Greel fled to 19th century China by means of a time cabinet, taking The Peking Homunculus with him. Consequences of Greel's time travel are explored in the spin-off Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Shadow of Weng-Chiang by David A. McIntee. Greel is also mentioned in Simon A. Forward's Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Emotional Chemistry, which is partly set in the 51st century. Greel's days as The Minister of Justice are explored in the 2012 prequel audio story The Butcher of Brisbane. |
| The Wire | "The Idiot's Lantern" | |
| WOTAN | The War Machines | |
| Queen Xanxia | The Pirate Planet | |
| Professor Zaroff | The Underwater Menace | "egotistical villain", "insane" and "unbalanced", who symbolizes one of "the great fears of modern humanity - the ego run amok", which "can dominate and destroy the weak willed (which would be most of the rest of us)". He is fondly recalled by fans as one of the most over-the-top villains in the entire history of the programme. Particularly well remembered is his cry of "Nothing in the world can stop me now!"in a noticeable Austrian accent. Only two of the four episodes from this story survive, but the surviving material includes that infamous line. |
| Zellin | "Can You Hear Me?" | |