Monk (Doctor Who)

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The Monk is a male extraterrestrial character who features in Doctor Who.

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Biography

The Monk

He had said that he used his anti-gravitational lift to help the ancient Britons build Stonehenge with them incapable of achieving such a feat without his aid. During one of his trips through time, he came to meet Leonardo da Vinci in the middle ages of Earth where he discussed with him the principles of powered flight. According to the Monk, it was him who suggested to da Vinci that he try to build a flying machine that became a sort of aeroplane. Making money by using time travel to exploit compound interest; and, when the Doctor first encountered him, attempting to prevent the Norman Conquest as part of a plan to guide England into an early age of technological prosperity. (Episode: The Time Meddler)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Though not give a name, he came to be referred to as the Monk. (Episode: The Time Meddler)

The Monk was a flagrant breaker of the golden rule about space and time travelling which was to never interfere with the course of history. According to him, it was more fun his way which would see civilisations making progress earlier than their appointed time. He would claim that he was only trying to help in his actions. (Episode: The Time Meddler)

Powers and abilities

The Monk kept a logbook that which operated as a kind of diary of his various exploits. (Episode: The Time Meddler)

He had in his possession his own TARDIS which he used to travel through time. (Episode: The Time Meddler)

Within his TARDIS, he was show to possess a fantastic private collection consisting of furniture, statues, artwork and objet d'art. It was known that he had something from every period and every place. (Episode: The Time Meddler)

Notes

  • The Monk was portrayed by actor Peter Butterworth where he featured in the Doctor Who universe.
  • Spooner studied the background of the Doctor as originally stated in the writers' guide developed for the programme in 1963 by Sydney Newman, Donald Wilson, and C. E. Webber, and created the Monk as the antithesis of the Doctor; while the Doctor was serious about interfering with the past, the Monk finds it amusing. He envisaged the characters as a schoolboy prankster from the Billy Bunter books.

In other media

Novels

  • In Doctor Who: No Future, the Monk appeared in the setting of the Virgin New Adventures novel that was written by Paul Cornell. This version of the character had his real name being revealed to be Mortimus. After becoming an agent provocateur for the High Council, Mortimus found an interest in intervening in history. Becoming aware of other worlds where everything they believed in was meaningless, Mortimus turned to politics, attempting to "create a purpose out of nothing". Finding politics to be full of betrayal, they retreated into hedonism, out of a desire for harmless fun. Through "some sort of controversy", the High Council betrayed Mortimus. After an attempt to kill the Third Doctor just created an alternate timeline, the Monk is able to change history in the prime universe by ensuring the creation of the Garvond- a creature born from the darkness of the Time Lords' Matrix that was initially catalysed by the Doctor's own Matrix print before he erased it-, bonding the Doctor to an ancient entity, and saving the Land of Fiction from destruction. The Monk's powers are aided by a captured Chronovore named Artemis, and he has infiltrated UNIT while assisting the Vards in attacking Earth in revenge for their past defeat, but the Doctor's companion Ace tricks the Monk into thinking that she will defect to join him while in reality working to release Artemis.

Comics

Audio dramas

Other

  • In The Doctor Who Role Playing Game The Master (1985), the Monk was referenced in the setting of the RPG published by FASA. This version of the 'Meddling Monk' was stated to be a disguise of an earlier incarnation of the Master, who was depicted as being his sixth incarnation which he personally chose after a failed rebellion on Gallifrey forced him to flee. After the events of The Time Meddler, the Master was able to replace the missing dimensional components, but a minor miscalculation sent him, and his TARDIS to a planet in the "crack" between realities, a planet which he later named "Merast" and used as a base of operations. It also cost him a full regeneration, however he was able to keep his current appearance. After the Master's next encounter with the First Doctor on the planet Tigus, he regenerated into a "strikingly handsome, middle-aged man".

Appearances

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