The Glory (Doctor who)

### Affiliation

It maintained the structure of the omniverse. Whoever controlled it would control all of creation.

### Occupation

Focal point and heart of the omniverse Maintained the structure of the omniverse as long as there was a living being directing it.

## Appearances

### Appears in

The Glorious Dead (comic story)

**The Glory,** also known as the **Omniversal Spectrum**, was the focal point and heart of the Omniverse. It contained every multiverse and the totality of existence. Whoever controlled the Glory would oversee and have power over all of Creation.

## history

At one point, Esterath became controller of the Glory and kept it safe from all who would use it for evil. Esterath grew weary after a nearly infinite long life since the Glory refused to give its controller complete immortality and sought a successor. He found the Master floating in the Time Vortex and saved him. Esterath gave the Master a new body and told him that there would be a fight over the Glory, with the victory able to control the Glory itself. The Master assumed the battle would be between him and the Eighth Doctor. After the Doctor arrived in the higher state of existence where the Glory was, the Master duelled him in a fierce swordfight across countless dimensions and states of being before stabbing his archenemy in the chest. However, the Master was mistaken: the true battle in the meantime was between his companion, Sato, and the Doctor's companion, the Cyberman Kroton. Kroton was the ultimate winner of this contest. His first acts as controller of the Glory were to heal the Doctor's injuries and restore Earth to how it should have been before the Master’s intervention, banishing him somewhere unknown in the process. Kroton then stayed behind with the Glory to watch over the omniverse as the Doctor departed afterward. A shard of the Glory was among the collected powers and objects in the possession by the Crimson Hand.

#### The Doctor Who Omniverse

The omniverse was the totality of all existence, every individual multiverse. It included infinite dimensions. The Glory maintained the omniverse's structure as long as there was a living being directing it. The Last Great Time War between the Time Lords and Daleks was fought "for the sake of all creation", meaning the omniverse. Towards the war's end, Rassilon planned to collapse all of creation behind the Time Lords to save them. The Doctor's actions helped prevent Rassilon and end the Time War before they could destroy the omniverse.Later, the Daleks also planned to destroy all atoms in the omniverse with a reality bomb but were stopped.

## Powers

* Omniverse Manipulation
* Omni-Manipulation: The Glory, as described in Doctor Who, acts as the focal point and heart of the entire omniverse. The omniverse that The Glory exists within and maintains the structure of is said to be infinite-dimensional. Whoever controls The Glory would have control over the entirety of creation
* Omnipresence
* Cosmic Keystone
* Duality Transcendence

## Weakness

It needs a living consciousness to direct it and maintain the structure of the omniverse. Whenever the controller is near death, there must be a battle to decide the next controller. If there is no controller, the omniverse could fall apart.

## Notes

* When Esterath (the previous controller) explains to the Doctor about The Omniversal Spectrum (another name for The Glory), one of the images that appears from The Glory is a panel from Marvel Comics' Amazing Spider-Man #12 from 1964.
* In this panel, Spider-Man is seen battling Doctor Octopus. However, the panel is distorted and flipped both horizontally and vertically within the image appearing from The Glory.
* This use of imagery from Marvel Comics is said to support the concept that the Doctor Who universe takes place within the larger Marvel Comics multiverse.
* So in other words, the appearance of a specific panel from a Marvel comic within the visualization of The Glory provides evidence/support for a connection or relationship between the Doctor Who universe and the Marvel multiverse according to this lore/canonical explanation.
* It directly links and places the Doctor Who universe within the greater Marvel multiversal cosmology/reality according to this note referencing the comic story where The Glory first appeared in the Doctor Who continuity.