Cybermen

A Pair of Cybermen

## 1.06: City of Metal
Outside of the Eyoho Verse: Various Doctor Who media including appearances in the TV show, video games and audio dramas.

The Cybermen were a "race" of cybernetically augmented humanoids. They varied greatly in design between numerous different Cyber-subspecies, and originated independently through parallel evolution from various locations across time, space and universes.

## Characteristics

Almost all Cybermen lack emotions, as they consider them to be a weakness and instead embraced pure logic, they are often born out of a human civilisation's, or an individual's, fear for survival, which was often inflicted by threats such as poverty or the degradation of a civilisation's world. Other times, the Cybermen are born out of an extreme desire for immortality, other times Cybermen can be created through the misuse of technology.

## Powers and abilities

* Advanced technology - Cyber-technology is alot more advanced then standard human technology.
* Invulnerability - Cybermen are immune to conventional human weapons.
* Laser blasters - A Cyberman's main weapon that can be found on one of their arms, it can kill someone with just one shot.
* Superhuman strength and endurance - Being cyborgs, Cybermen can withstand alot of offense and Cybermen are known to have superhuman strength and they can kill and overpower humans with ease.

## Weaknesses

* Electromagnetic pulses - These can fry a Cyberman, thus disabling it making it unable to carry out an attack or its plan.
* Emotional inhibitor - Many versions of Cybermen can be weakened by damage to their emotional inhibitor which makes them feel all emotions they removed from themselves, this usually drives effected Cybermen insane and will often cause their heads to explode.
* Explosives - Powerful explosives like tank shells, grenades and rocket launchers can destroy a Cyberman.
* Gold - Kasuti used gold daggers on the damaged Cybermen that tried to launch an upgrade plan in Lincoln City, the material is a weakness to Cybermen as it chokes their respiratory systems making them unable to function, it is believed though that not all Cybermen are vulnerable to the material however.
* Radiation - Excessive levels of radiation can be fatal to a Cyberman.

## Official Media appearances

The Cybermen are from the Doctor Who universe and have made several appearances in the Whoniverse and are one of its main recurring villains, they have appeared in almost all forms of media since their introduction in 1966 in the William Hartnell episode, "The Tenth Planet" and have appeared in the main Doctor Who TV show as well as video games, audio dramas, comedy sketches, books and comics among other media appearances.

A Cyberwoman even appeared in the Torchwood episode of the same name and was seen trying to balance her human side with "Cyber perfection" only to be killed by Torchwood Cardiff, it is believed that she was smuggled into the Cardiff base by Ianto Jones who believed he could help her after she was only partly converted during the events of the Doctor Who episodes: "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday" in The Battle of Canary Wharf.

## Episodes

### 1.05: Dark Times

Following a strange infection that swept Lincoln City, which caused victims' skin to be replaced with metal and caused many other mutations along with the victim becoming more aggressive, Torchwood found the source at a bar in the city which was acting as a trap for unsuspecting victims through its bartender (who mixed the virus into drinks) but they soon deactivated as a failsafe upon Torchwood's arrival, only for one of the infected people there to emerge as a fully converted Cyberman who aimed its laser blaster at the Torchwood team.

### 1.06: City of Metal

The Cyberman itself though merely dismissed the team and marched out of the bar however at a farm elsewhere: Torchwood member Zach sees two infected humans turn into Cybermen and he heads for cover, the Cybermen don't notice him and just march down the road presumably to meet up with the other Cyberman however one appears behind Zach and a struggle ensues as he makes a molotov cocktail and uses it on the Cyberman, sacrificing himself in the process as the barn they are both in explodes which leads to the implosion of the Torchwood team back in Lincoln City.

The rest of the Cybermen keep terrorizing the people of Lincoln City by merely scanning everyone however they start to kill people that they deem not to have any progression or people they "predict" won't get very far in life according to their systems in a very hypocritical and cynical way, it is then revealed that the Cybermen that are in Lincoln City had crashed on Earth many years ago and were looking to rebuild their ranks, they are confronted by Kasuti who is armed with a weapon made of gold and is almost apprehended by the cyborgs.

Shane then soon joins Kasuti underground in the Cyber-ship however the two bicker about potentially sacrificing themselves however Shane ends up finding a fuel tank filled with the silver liquid conversion virus claiming that the virus is nothing more than a "backup plan" as the Cyberman ship and Cybermen themselves are too damaged to convert in their usual ways with Shane explaining that its organic matter that turns anything it touches into Cybermen in a slow process, Shane then continues to waffle on as the Cybermen claim their plan has been exposed before Shane admits that he talks too much before two Cybermen are taken out by Kasuti using golden daggers with Shane using his former lightning abilities to send the ship into energy overdrive.

As Shane and Kasuti sprint out of the ship, the crashed spaceship explodes and thus ending the Cybermen's plans.