Morbius (Doctor Who)

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Morbius is an extraterrestrial television character who features in Doctor Who.

Biography

Morbius was a member of the Time Lords civilisation where he came to into power on Gallifrey.

It was said that a number of people including neurosurgeons such as Mehenderi Solon had joined the cult of Morbius.

For his crimes in leading a rebellion, Morbius was sentenced for execution with him being placed in a dispersal chamber to atomise his body.

Morbius featured as an antagonist in the episode "The Brain of Morbius" where his voice was provided by actor Michael Spice.

In Warmonger (2002), Morbius appeared in the non-canon BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel written by Terrance Dicks. According to one account, President Morbius's own High Council, disapproving of the path he had taken, decided to betray him and attempted to have him exiled. In return, he and his followers abandoned Gallifrey and attacked the cultures of the outside universe with renewed fervour. Taking on the alias of 'the General', Morbius recruited an army of space pirates with which he ransacked more and more planets, gaining more followers and more proper armies in the process. Gallifrey knew that he must be stopped, but, uncomfortable with being seen to act directly in the universe, the Time Lord High Council eventually chose to fight this war by proxy. The Fifth Doctor, who had travelled into Gallifrey's past, was appointed "Supreme Coordinator of the Alliance Battle Fleet" and directed an unlikely army of humans, Draconians, Cybermen, Ogrons, Ice Warriors and Sontarans against Morbius, with the Time Lords providing the Doctor with financial support and a flagship.

In The Legacy of Gallifrey (1985), Morbius appeared in the non-canon short story written by Gary Russell and published in Doctor Who Magazine 100. Following Rassilon's abdication from the head of the Presidency, the nature of the High Council's membership was refined and codified with Rassilon's former Cardinal and fellow Prydonian, Pandad, as the first regular Lord President. The Council would now include four Councillors, and the charismatic Morbius was one of those four. However, unlike his fellow members of the High Council, Morbius disapproved of much of Rassilon's new order, wanting a more equalitarian Gallifreyan society. He argued that all Chapters should be represented on the Council equally, and also that the Eye of Harmony should be unlocked so that all remaining Gallifreyans could be given the ability to regenerate, rather than it remaining a privilege of the bloodlines which Rassilon had personally favoured. Almost despite himself, Morbius became a sort of populist cult-leader as he continued defending these policies. Though he might have considered granting Morbius his earliest demands for better Chapter representation and the spreading of regeneration, Lord President Pandad could not condone Morbius's eventual demand for the Presidency itself. Pandad ordered him exiled, alongside some of his more vocal supporters, hoping that this show of force would quench the brewing rebellion. According to one account, Pandad was successful.

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