Cyber - Controller A Cyber - Controller directed lesser - ranking Cybermen and Cyber - Leaders from the Cyber - Tombs and , later from Cyber - Control . Biography . Around the 1970s , a Controller remarkably similar to the one on Telos was activated on Isos II to lead the counter - invasion of Earth after the first one was repelled . ( AUDIO : " The Isos Network " , TV : " The Invasion " ) In 2006 , the Seventh Doctor met the Cyber - Controller in its original form as the Cyber Co - ordinator . ( PROSE : " Iceberg " ) In 2011 , a group of Cybermen almost converted Craig Owens into a Cyber - Controller , but his " love " for his son overloaded their emotional inhibitors and caused them to explode , saving Craig from the complete process . ( TV : " Closing Time " ) In the late 21st century , a Cyber - Controller led an attack on Space Station W3 . Zoe Heriot brought the Cybermen into the Land of Fiction . The Cyber - Controller realised the potential of converting fictional characters and led an invasion of the Land of Fiction until Grendel ' s mother ripped its limbs off and the Lady of the Lake beheaded it . ( AUDIO : " Legend of the Cybermen " ) In the 25th century , the Second Doctor and his companions found the Cyber - Controller in the Cyber - Tombs , and it immediately took charge of the Cybermen . Toberman , a partially cyber - converted human attacked the Controller just before the Doctor sealed off the Cyber - Tombs , freezing the Cybermen once more . ( TV : " The Tomb of the Cybermen " ) On returning to Telos , the Sixth Doctor met the Cyber - Controller again , this time in a more advanced body . A blast from a cyber - gun fired by the Doctor killed him . ( TV : " Attack of the Cybermen " ) During the Cyber - Wars a Super Controller , which the Sixth Doctor described as " bloated , " directed Cyber - forces from Telos before attempting to install Zoe as the new Controller since her mind was already compartmentalised . ( AUDIO : " Last of the Cybermen " ) A Cyber - Controller attended Bonjaxx ' s birthday party at Maruthea . ( COMIC : " Party Animals " ) In the far future , the Cyber - Controller took the Cybermen back in time to the early 21st century to convert all the humans on Earth . It was killed by the Eighth Doctor , who used the time vortex to turn it into dust . ( COMIC : " The Flood " ) A Cyber - Controller led the Cyberman invasion of Gallifrey . ( COMIC : " Supremacy of the Cybermen " ) At an unknown point in time , a Cyber - Controller on New Mondas was inspecting some converted Cybermen , along with the Cyberleader . Unfortunately , the recently converted Cybermen were tampered with by the Daleks and self - destructed , destroying Cyber - Command . ( COMIC : " Cyber Crisis " ) Alternative timeline . On the planet Chronos in the year 3286 , the Sixth Doctor encountered a version of his companion , Evelyn Smythe , who had become the Cyber - Controller long before . This Controller planned to convert the Doctor himself into the next Cyber - Controller . This Cyber - Controller had come into existence when , Evelyn , infected by a techno - virus created by her own future self , had landed on 1927 Earth . The techno - virus had allowed the cyber - conversion of the human s who survived the virus . The Cyber - Controller herself infected Evelyn , her former self . Reece Goddard , a Cyberman from this timeline who resembled a human , killed this Cyber - Controller . Neither the Doctor or Evelyn realised the connection between her and this Controller . ( AUDIO : " Real Time " , WC : " Real Time " ) Appearance . Taller than the others , the Controller found in the Cyber - tombs on Telos had an enlarged , dome - shaped semi - transparent brain case lit from the inside . He also lacked the Cyberman chest unit and the Cyberman head handles , and his head was grey instead of silver . The Cyber - Controller had such authority that , upon awakening , the other Cybermen appeared to salute him . ( TV : " The Tomb of the Cybermen " ) Later , when he co - ordinated actions from Telos , the Controller had changed physically , now having changed to resemble the other Cybermen of that era . He had a chest unit , but still lacked the Cyberman head handles . He also now had a metal , though still enlarged , brain case . ( TV : " Attack of the Cybermen " )