Hoix

A Hoix

 Outside of the Eyoho Verse:
 Various appearances in both official Doctor Who and Torchwood media.

**Hoix** were a race of humanoid creatures, they had a strange habit of falling through rifts and ending up on Earth and were often treated as a minor threat by the Torchwood Institute as they tend to fall into abandoned or uninhabited places where they could be easily dealt with.

## Characteristics

Hoix have brown skin, sharp teeth, claw-like fingers and large exposed gums. Hoix couldn't speak; they were only capable of growling and roaring, files in the Torchwood Institute suggested that the Hoix lived to eat thus making it a scavenger for anything it could find, it was also noted by Owen Harper of Torchwood Cardiff how unintelligent they were as he once called one "Stupid."

## Powers and Abilities

* Enhanced durability - A Hoix's durability is enhanced through this allowing them to take more damage then some other aliens, one once recovered from a single shot from a firearm and recovered in mere seconds however multiple in a short span of time can be fatal.
* Sharp teeth - A Hoix's teeth can cause severe injury and can even be fatal to humans however there has been no record of a Hoix willingly attacking a human and only in cases where the creature has been startled or scared has this happened.

## Vulnerabilities

* Electricity - Strong electric currents can render a Hoix unconscious but are not fatal to them.
* Firearms - Shooting a Hoix with alot of bullets in a short space of time (thus not giving it time to recover) is the only certain way of killing one.
* Tranquilizer - Torchwood's alien sedative can render a Hoix unconscious in mere seconds, especially if the sedative is inserted into the back of a Hoix's neck.

## Episodes

### 1.01: City Life

Shane and new Torchwood members: Lewis and Zach, encountered a Hoix in an abandoned building outside of Lincoln City with Shane using his former lightning abilities and a pole to effectively tase the creature into submission with the three then taking it into confinement however someone proceeded to break the creature out whilst the team were incapacitated due to the rift freakishly opening above the base.

The team however were able to stop the Hoix from rampaging on the streets of Lincoln City by unloading two entire ammunition clips into the creature, thus killing it.

### 2.06: Christmas of the Damned

Shane encountered a starved Hoix during Director John Sharp's christmas challenge that had been set for Shane in a refrigeration unit in the back of the Lincoln City Market building, the creature could not attack Shane due to the fact that its lack of food had made it weak, upon realizing later that Sharp was using these challenges for his own game, Shane locked Sharp in the unit with the starved creature as the rift took both Sharp and the Hoix.

## In Official media

The Hoix has made several appearances in the official Torchwood show and Doctor Who, with one appearing in the Series 2 finale of Torchwood "Exit Wounds" with two more appearing in Doctor Who episodes "Love and Monsters" and "The Pandorica Opens" respectively, they have also appeared in a single Torchwood novel as well as two Doctor Who comics.