Valeyard
The Valeyard is a male television villain who features in Doctor Who.
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Biography
Valeyard was a mysterious Time Lord who was actually an amalgamation of the darker aspects of the Doctor. (Episode: The Ultimate Foe)
After the Ravolox incident, the corrupt High Council of Time Lords looked to cover up the incident that the Sixth Doctor had accidentally uncovered. Thus, they tasked the Valeyard with serving as a prosecutor in the Doctor's trial in exchange for his seven remaining regenerations. (Episode: The Ultimate Foe)
The Great Intelligence came to mention the 'Valeyard' as one of the names by which the Doctor will be known by before the end of his life. (Episode: The Name of the Doctor)
Overview
Personality and attributes
According to the Master, the Valeyard was an amalgamation of the darker sides of the Doctor's nature with him culminating somewhere between his twelfth and final incarnation. (Episode: The Ultimate Foe)
Powers and abilities
Notes
- The Valeyard was portrayed by actor Michael Jayston where he appeared in the episode "The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet" (1986).
In other media
Novels
- In Doctor Who: Millennial Rites, the Valeyard appeared in the setting of the Virgin Missing Adventures written by Craig Hinton. The Sixth Doctor found himself in an alternate version of London created by Ashley Chapel's use of the Millennium Codex. He manifested magical powers suitable to the new, unstable universe's laws of physics. Using these powers began to transform him into a variant of the Valeyard. The Doctor's fears of becoming the Valeyard allowed his potential in the Doctor to combine with the Great Kingdom's unique physical properties and the Doctor's ability to regenerate. This temporarily made him the Valeyard. The Doctor's true self was able to re-manifest with the aid of the TARDIS as he forced down the aspect of the Valeyard within himself, the Doctor acknowledging the Valeyard's argument that the ruthless course of action was sometimes necessary but rejecting the idea that he had to enjoy such actions to do it.
- In Doctor Who: The Eight Doctors, the Valeyard was referenced in the setting of the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures written by Terrance Dicks. An account embracing the notion that the Valeyard was an artificial projection of the Doctor's darkness, rather than an incarnation of the Doctor, stated that he had reportedly being brought into being by the High Council of Time Lords.
Audio Dramas
- In Doctor Who: Trial of the Valeyard, the Valeyard appeared in the setting of the 2013 Big Finish Productions where he was voiced by actor Michael Jayston. According to the Valeyard himself, he was created as a Time Tot on a mud planet orbiting Etarho during a period when the thirteenth incarnation of the Doctor was experimenting with ways to break the twelve-regeneration limit imposed on Time Lords by Rassilon. At the young age of twenty, the Valeyard was found wandering the mud swamps of the planet by a group of scavengers, who kindly gave him food to eat and, when they learned what race he belonged to, sent him to Gallifrey. The Time Lords examined the Valeyard's biodata and found that it was an exact match with the Doctor's sample. Knowing that this meant that the Valeyard was a temporal anomaly, they sent him to a Shadow House where they sent all failed regenerations. In the Shadow House, the Valeyard met a Time Lord who had been damaged due to temporal interventions by his future self and therefore had his regeneration permanently stuck in a paradox. The man told the Valeyard to study the science of regeneration, in order to gain revenge on the Time Lords for what they had done to every member of the Shadow House.
- In Doctor Who: The Brink of Death, the Valeyard appeared in the setting of the 2015 Big Finish Productions where he was voiced by actor Michael Jayston. The Time Lord technician Genesta seemingly claimed that the Valeyard was created by the Time Lords using black ops technology to be used possibly as a weapon.
Other
Appearances
- Doctor Who: "The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet" (1986)
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