Great Intelligence

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The Great Intelligence is an entity that features in Doctor Who.

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Biography

The Great Intelligence

During the 18th century, the Great Intelligence possessed a Tibetan lama Padmasambhava whilst travelling through the astral plane and forced him to build the robotic Yeti over the next two centuries. (TV: The Abominable Snowmen)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Powers and abilities

Among its many servants were the Whisper Men which were humanoids with white featureless faces depressions where the eyes should be and a mouth with sharp teeth. They were dressed in Victorian era garb where they moved slowly and had a number of abilities such as appearing or disappearing at will along with the capacity to phase their hands into a persons body to clutch organs inside. The Whisper Men often spoke in rhyme and they could morph into an appearance resembling Walter Simeon at will with this one being an avatar for the Great Intelligence. (Episode: The Name of the Doctor)

Notes

  • The Great Intelligence was originally created by Henry Lincoln and Mervyn Haisman where it made its first appearance in the 1967 serial episode "The Abominable Snowmen" a an enemy of the Second Doctor.

In other media

Novels

  • In Millennial Rites, the Great Intelligence appeared in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel. According to the book, the Great Intelligence was originally Yog-Sothoth who was a member of a race of beings called the Great Old Ones and was their military strategist. Their kind were akin to the Time Lords of the previous universe where they shunted themselves into a parallel universe allowing them to survive the end of their cosmos. Upon emerging in the current universe, they discovered that they had been transformed into god-like beings were each enacted their own schemes as well as plans for the cosmos. Over the course of millennia, the Great Intelligence had mounted millions of campaigns against inhabited worlds across space.

Appearances

  • Doctor Who: "The Abominable Snowmen" (1967)

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