Best Monster/Villain: Season 1

It’s time to pick your favourite monster or villain from the very first series of Doctor Who!

(As usual, you get two votes, use them wisely.)

  • Za
  • The Daleks
  • Tegana
  • The Voord
  • Tlotoxl
  • The Sensorites
  • Robespierre
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By the way, please let me know if I’ve made any mistakes or omissions!

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Shouldn’t the Sensorite villain be in here?

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I was literally about to put them in the poll and then it just zoomed out of my brain!

I’ll add them.

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I wouldn’t say the Sensorites are the villains, rather the Administrator.

I think the Daleks are very effective in season 1, as are both Tegana and Tlotoxl, though Tlotoxl takes it for me.

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Maybe I should have phrased this poll better.

From now on, read monsters as creatures.

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Ooh, now that makes it tricky. I wouldn’t say the Administrator is a favourite villain but the Sensorites are a really interesting alien species. Don’t know how I can compare them to the human villains so leaving my answer as is!

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Now I’m just sitting here thinking about who the villain is in “The Aztecs”.
It’s actually Barbara isn’t it?
She prances around claiming to be a living god trying to force her own morals on an unwilling foreign culture.
Tlotoxl is actually totally justified in his actions, he’s the antagonist of that story but not really a villain.

Anyway, 1 vote for Tlotoxl here :person_raising_hand:

Edit: Plus Barbara is a tomb raider…

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Erm… Za’s not the villain. Kal is the villain.

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Have to vote for the Voord because I love the stupid, rubbery maniacs.

Tlotoxl will always win for me. He is brilliant!

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Sorry for being unable to remember the names of some random cavemen from one of my least favourite Doctor Who stories!

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It’s okay, Delta is the only one who remembers the villain of An Unearthly Child anyway :wink:

Tlotoxl is one of the GOATS, and the Daleks deserve a vote as well, even though they will be much better later on.

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Tegana would be doing better if the story existed

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My vote for Tegana represents my actual vote, the true villain of Marco Polo; trying not to die of thirst in the middle of the desert. I love how low-stakes yet materially horrifying some of the threats are in Season 1. Honorable mention goes to the secondary antagonist of The Daleks, dying of radiation poisoning.

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My vote goes to the TARDIS fast return switch…

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(Also, yes, Barbara is the actual villain of The Aztecs. That’s one of the reasons the serial is so good.)

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She’s as much the villain of The Aztecs as the Meddling Monk is of The Time Meddler…

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