Monster

Monster was a term for a frightening lifeform.
== The Doctor and monsters ==
The Fifth Doctor claimed to fight monsters as he "zoom[ed]" through time and space. (TV: ) The Seventh Doctor said to Bernice Summerfield that he was what monsters had nightmares about. (PROSE: ) The Eighth Doctor said to Destrii that he was not scared of monsters, but that monsters were scared of him. (COMIC: ) He later repeated this claim to Elliot Northover while in his eleventh incarnation. (TV: ) The Tenth Doctor said that monsters had nightmares about him. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson realised that one could not have the Doctor without the monsters, but that the Doctor was worth the monsters. (TV: ) The Twelfth Doctor once identified himself as "the man who stops the monsters". (TV: )
== Those named as monsters ==
=== Species ===
The Tenth Doctor called the human race monsters after Harriet Jones had the Sycorax destroyed. (TV: ) called the human race the "greatest monsters of them all." (TV: )
Clara Oswald called the Time Lords monsters. (TV: )
Among the life forms which were called monsters were the mutated Yend, (PROSE: ) dinosaurs, (TV: , ) Silurians, (TV: ) Aggedor, (TV: , ) Kronos, (TV: ) Linx, (TV: ) the Exxilon City, (TV: ) the Mutos and the Daleks, (TV: ) Erato, (TV: ) the Process, (PROSE: ) the Krafayis, (TV: ) the Gangers, (TV: ) the Minotaur, (TV: ) the Crooked Man, (TV: ) the Foretold, (TV: ) the Boneless, (TV: ) the Sandmen, (TV: ) a creature living in the River Thames (TV: ) and the Eaters of Light. (TV: )
 was aware that the Ogrons feared Rock Creatures who he described as an "orange scrotum monster", as recorded in the Masterplan Journal. (PROSE: )
In 1879, Queen Victoria asked Sir Robert MacLeish to tell her about monsters, and so he told her of the Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform. (TV: )
In 1930, Lazlo believed that he had become a monster after being transformed into a pig slave by the Cult of Skaro. (TV: ) A Hooverville sentry described the pig slaves as monsters. (TV: )
In 1953, Tommy Connolly described the faceless human victims of the Wire as monsters. His mother, Rita Connolly, believed her mother had been replaced by a monster. (TV: )
Sarah Jane Smith recalled meeting anti-matter monsters. (TV: )
In 1987, during Mickey Smith's childhood, he described the Reapers as monsters that had come to eat him. Suzie asked him if the monsters were aliens. (TV: )
Bog monster was a term used by Mickey Smith to refer to the Slitheen. (TV: , )
=== Persons and groups ===
The term was also given to immoral persons or groups. Sharaz Jek called Morgus an inhuman monster. (TV: ) The Seventh Doctor thought of Heinrich Himmler's darkened office as "a cave for a monster." (PROSE: )
Ianto Jones called Jack Harkness "the biggest monster of all." (TV: )
Martha Jones described Richard Lazarus as a monster after he had been transformed by the hypersonic soundwave manipulator. (TV: )
Mr Copper observed to the Tenth Doctor that anyone who decided who was to live or die would be a monster. (TV: )
Carla Langer called her ex-husband Paul a monster. (TV: )
Donna Noble called the Meep a monster after the Meep murdered Zogroth and Zreeg. (TV: )
Yarvell called Davros a monster when his only interest in their father's death was using the corpse for his experiments. (AUDIO: )
== In culture ==
George Thompson was terrified of monsters and pleaded for someone to save him from them. (TV: , PROSE: , ) Gilgamesh jokingly called Enkidu a "hairy monster." (PROSE: ) Ada Gillyflower called the Eleventh Doctor her "dear monster". (TV: ) Erik set up recordings of monsters around his cottage so that his daughter Hanne wouldn't leave it. (TV: )
Sea monster was an umbrella term for mythological monsters which resided in the seas. (TV: )
Vorg called his miniscope "the monster show" and "a carnival of monsters". (TV: )
The Loch Ness Monster was a mysterious animal claimed to inhabit Loch Ness, a lake in Scotland. (TV: )
== Behind the scenes ==
In the DVD commentary to Fear Her, writer Matthew Graham noted that, according to then-executive producer Russell T Davies, the scribble creature was never to be called a scribble monster, as the Doctor would never call anything a monster.
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