Endgame ( DWM comic story ) Endgame was the first Eighth Doctor strip in " Doctor Who Magazine " . It reintroduced the character of Maxwell Edison , absent since the Fifth Doctor ' s " DWM " run and linked him to the Eighth Doctor ' s new companion , Izzy Sinclair . Furthermore , the story depicted the first comic - based story encounter between any incarnation of the Doctor and the Celestial Toymaker . Summary . Returning to Stockbridge , the Doctor is reunited with an old friend , gains a new companion and comes into conflict with an old enemy . Plot . On horseback , Knight Templar Marwood pursues and kills a man named Felix . The TARDIS arrives in the valley below , in the village of Stockbridge , but things are not as familiar as they should be , and the Eighth Doctor is soon attacked by grotesquely doll - like people . He is saved by Izzy Sinclair and Maxwell Edison who tell him that Stockbridge has been invaded by aliens . However , Marwood arrives and disputes this . Izzy has a pendant named the Focus that belongs to him . He and his fox - headed huntsmen give chase as the Doctor , Max and Izzy run for the TARDIS . But the Celestial Toymaker is waiting for them . The Toymaker reveals that the village is not the real Stockbridge and demands a rematch , but the Doctor and Izzy escape into the TARDIS . Max is sadly caught . Izzy explains that two days before , she and Max returned to Stockbridge to find it strangely changed and all the people either missing or possessed . They met Felix , who was Marwood ' s adjutant , who had stolen the Focus . He charged Izzy and Max with getting it away from Stockbridge . The Doctor thinks the real Stockbridge is close by and disengages the TARDIS ' s sub - spatial gyros to get there , but the Toymaker has them and the whole village trapped in a snow globe . Realising the stakes , the Doctor and Izzy return to the Toymaker ' s version of Stockbridge to play the games set for them . Entering a floating castle , they are drawn into the Toymaker ' s domain where the Toymaker forces the Doctor to play a deadly game of hangman . . . with Izzy on the gallows . He loses and surrenders the Focus , which is part of a contraption known as the Imagineum , a device capable to transmuting raw light into matter itself . The Toymaker uses it to create a champion to defeat the Doctor . . . a twisted version of the Time Lord himself . Izzy and Max are pursued by the fox - headed huntsmen in a game of Mousetrap while the Doctor battles himself . However , as his destruction seems inevitable , he tells his evil duplicate that the Toymaker will never set him free and will always keep him as a plaything . The duplicate stops to listen . Izzy and Max , meanwhile , turn the tables on the huntsmen and drop a large weight on them , just as in the traditional game . Marwood is distraught at the demise of his little foxes and turns on the Toymaker , who casually kills him . This act is enough to convince the Doctor ' s duplicate that the Doctor speaks the truth . While he distracts the Toymaker , the Doctor uses the Imagineum to create a duplicate Toymaker who drags the real Toymaker back to the Shadow Dimensions , locked in perpetual stalemate . The Doctor ' s duplicate then destroys the Imagineum and himself . With the Toymaker gone , the fake Stockbridge begins to break apart . Max finds the real village locked in the snow globe , actually a macro - dimensional linkage device and the Doctor is able to transpose the containment vectors to restore the village . The Doctor invites both Max and Izzy aboard the TARDIS , but only Izzy accepts .