Black Guardian

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## Production stats

### Appearances

DW: The Pursuit of HistoryDW: Casualties of Time

DW: Enlightenment

DW: The Destroyer of Delights

DW: The Chaos Pool

CW: Planet of Bones

DW: Helix of Destruction

DW: The Death Planet

### Other actors

David Troughton

The Black Guardian was a being that represented the universal force of chaos. He was opposed by the White Guardian.

## Appearance

In the "main" universe, the Black Guardian resembled a humanoid being cloaked in black robes. (DW: The Armageddon Factor, Enlightenment) However, this wasn't his true form. The Guardian's main form was that of an insectoid being with multiple eyes on one side of its head, a long tapering proboscis, a wheel of flesh surrounded by hundreds of arms, and a cylindrical body ending in a round bottom with thousands of tiny legs on the bottom (CW: Planet of Bones; DW: The Death Planet)

## History

Legends stated that the Black Guardian - along with the five other Guardians - were formed with the creation of the universe.

It was theorized that the Black Guardian played some part in the concept of vampires, seeing their potential as creatures of chaos, and somehow being responsible for the law of vampires not becoming "true" vampires until a full moon. (DW: *Goth Opera*) Other accounts placed the infestation of the universe by the first and greatest of vampires at an early point in Gallifreyan history. (DW: *State of Decay*, FAC: *The Book of the War*, etc.)

The Black Guardian, collectively with the other Guardians, removed Prometheus from existence and imprisoned Kronos, then known as Avatar, in the crystal of Kronos and threw it into the Time Vortex. They later answered the call of the survivors of the Millennium War and granted their request to erase their memory of the war. (DW: The Quantum Archangel)

The White Guardian sent the Fourth Doctor and Romana I on a quest to find the six segments of the Key to Time, transmuted into a variety of forms and scattered across time and space. He warned them of the Black Guardian who would try to prevent the assembly of the Key. (DW: *The Ribos Operation*)

Circa 1778, the Black Guardian saved the Captain when his ship crashed on Zanak. Two hundred years later, he served Queen Xanxia and pirated dozens of planets, including the second segment of the Key to Time, disguised as Calufrax. (DW: *The Pirate Planet*)

The sixth and final segment took the form of a living being, Princess Astra of Atrios. The Black Guardian used the Shadow to try to prevent the Doctor and Romana from re-assembling the Key. After the Doctor defeated the Shadow and re-assembled the Key, the Black Guardian posed as the White Guardian and asked for the Key. Observing the Black Guardian's casual indifference to the life of Princess Astra, the Doctor saw through this ruse and scattered the Key through time instead. The Black Guardian swore revenge on the Doctor. (DW: *The Armageddon Factor*)

To evade the Black Guardian's revenge, the Doctor fitted the TARDIS with a randomiser to prevent the Guardian from knowing where they would materialise next. (DW: *The Armageddon Factor*) While he and Romana took up residence in a London townhouse in 1929, K9 programmed the TARDIS to visit approximately 1,000 planets, which took about a month, in order to lead the Guardian on a false chase, (DW: *The Auntie Matter*) although the Black Guardian later claimed this was a failed endeavour.

He posed as an aide for Neville Sanders and helped him to get an emergency bunker. (DW: *The Pursuit of History*)

The Black Guardian created the construct known as Cuthbert, a "self-made" man because his timeline was a temporal paradox, whereby he created his own existence. As such, his company the Conglomerate was so entwined with history that to destroy it would cause chaos throughout the universe. Using the alias "Mr. Edge" and believing the Doctor must follow a moral code, he tried to trick the Doctor into shooting Cuthbert and killing him, preventing him from influencing history. However, he Doctor realised the truth because Edge couldn't kill Cuthbert himself, and refused to stop Cuthbert from firing on a Salonu ship. Although he missed, the ship still crashed on 6th century Earth, and history continued, foiling the Guardian. (DW: *Casualties of Time*)

A second attempt at revenge occurred when he lured the Doctor and Romana to Barclow. He engineered the war between the humans and the Chelonians as well as manipulating Galatea to create the concept of consular privilege to allow K9 to become a presidential candidate. Menlove Stokes was used in the plans to destroy the femdroids' controls and set the TARDIS' controls to take them to Dellah in the 26th century. He bargained on the Doctor's rash decisions to set the Darkness on the universe when the Doctor dematerialised the TARDIS, planning to send them into deep space. The Doctor foiled his plans again by using the emergency unit to take himself out of time and space. (DW: *The Well-Mannered War*)

Later on, the Black Guardian had some part in organising Ruath and Yarven's scheme to restore Gallifrey to power in an era after it had ceased to exist, turning humanity into vampires and spreading out across the universe. When they were defeated by the Doctor, he met with the White Guardian on Gallifrey and confided that he would need a different method to defeat the Doctor. (DW: Goth Opera)

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### Category War

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Jonathan, Category War Jonathan, The Pillar Lord, Category War Pillar Lord, Y'ohm Sohkoth, **The Black Guardian**, Eyea, servant, Jane, Reach, Geist worm, Dorcha Aon, The Worldbuilders, The Unity, Great Old Ones, The Mirik, Pillar god, The Jester, Rassilon, The Conglomeration, Helios, The Spectre, L", The Furies, Dark TARDIS, commander, Death

**Powerful**
The Daleks, The Master, Roko, The Eversiscendants, Admiral Quartz, Mr. Sweet, Sabrithara Mortimore, Omega, Thalleous Sendaris, Category War Quartz, The Pillars, Darkness, memory eater, Central Control, Any/All circuit, U'j, Pillar Stellar Consumer, The Deathoids, Paradox Feeders, The Jessaulax, The Kalirathra, Stanis, The Cybermen, Azdrathara, Solians, The Orb, The Kleister, Temporal parasite, CrOsswavE, The Metademons, The Replicus, Sin Eater, The Informatus, The Island, Sentient Time Loop, Memory parasite, Shadus, The Dark One, Time hunters, The Kataformians, The Time Men, The Wyranens, The Perfectionists, Lord of the Darkworld

**Semi-Powerful**
Drasabar, The Wreck, Scrawler, Eversiscendant bots, Evil Ankarstian, Evil Poseidon, Evil GreaterA, The Evil Resistance, The Rani, Tygren Voltaris, Ingressus Voltaris, Sephulchre (being), Decay nanogene, Pillar biomechanoid, Interdimensional predators, The Arbiter, 0.5, The X-Sultan, Osalus, Cthelex, The Council of the Dead, The Unknown Men, Umbra, The Bathala, Skreevers, The Functional, The Gosth, Brantus' monsters, Category War Thalleous, The Osexspiravit, King Chronos, Beings of the Outside, Recruiter AI, The Legion, The Necromancers, Dorman, The Rutans, Shads, Rays, Lady Diavola, Aztorian computer, Ghosts, The Litch Queen, The Veritiseans, Saul, Korrman Dreck, The Teetonians, The Bibilovores, The Replicus, St. Dragon, The Lycanites, The Dreiyns, The Solanaceans, sentient radiation, The Demons, The Hellians, Archaeplastidus, Glex, The Spindleman, The Visual, The Aulem, Materiavore, Amorphoid, The Malorians, Borgian transponder, being, Ghost, The Blue, The Insiders, The Newlogicals, The Taurades, The Nonexistance, Time mites

**Non-powerful**
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