Black Guardian
The Black Guardian is a male television villain who features in Doctor Who
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Biography
The Black Guardian
The White Guardian gave the Fourth Doctor the task of finding the scattered six segments of the Key. Once the Doctor had assembled the Key, the Black Guardian disguised himself as the White and attempted to trick the Doctor into handing it over. The Doctor saw through the deception after the Guardian appeared indifferent to the fact that the sixth segment — Princess Astra of Atrios — had ceased her independent existence by becoming part of the Key. The Doctor then dispersed the Key, earning the Black Guardian's eternal enmity and forcing the Doctor, for a period, to attach a randomiser to his TARDIS to avoid being tracked through time and space.
Overview
Personality and attributes
The Black Guardian is an anthropomorphic personification of the forces of entropy and chaos, the counterpart of the White Guardian, a personification of order. The two Guardians balance out the forces in the universe, although the Black Guardian seems to desire to upset the balance in favour of chaos and evil while the White Guardian prefers to maintain the status quo.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- The Black Guardian was portrayed by actor Valentine Dyall where he featured in the setting of the Doctor Who universe.
In other media
Books
- In Doctor Who: The Well-Mannered War, the Black Guardian appeared in the setting of the Virgin Missing Adventures spin-off novel by Gareth Roberts. He was shown catching up with the Fourth Doctor and Romana following the loss of the Randomiser, trapping them in a situation where they must either remain in the TARDIS and the Time Vortex for all eternity or release a powerful telepathic insect hive on 26th-century Earth, and they are forced to leave the known universe as a consequence.
- In Doctor Who: The Quantum Archangel, the Black Guardian appeared briefly in the BBC Books spin-off novel by Craig Hinton. He was shown alongside the White Guardian and four others, who form a Council of Guardians that oversaw reality. The other four Guardians were first mentioned in Divided Loyalties which stated that one of them was the Celestial Toymaker.
Appearances
- Doctor Who:
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