The Doctor has encountered his fair share of crazy monsters over the years. From the hilarious and intentionally comedic, to the dark and calculated inducers of fear. The fact that Doctor Who can theoretically cover any period in time and any location in space (while also, let’s not forget, being a work of fiction) the imagination of its creators is its only barrier.
We’ve ranked ten of the most prominent monsters aliens from the time travel-heavy world of the show from least to most intelligent.
The Abzorbaloff
Possibly the worst monster Doctor Who managed to come up with happened to be played by one of the best guests they ever attracted to the show, Peter Kay. However, all this comedic green blob could do was absorb people into his skin and have their faces sit there forever. There was none of the usual fear of interest in the episode ‘Love And Monsters’, and we’re glad we didn’t have to sit through another appearance from this guy.
The Slitheen
These tall green weirdos managed to work themselves into way too many episodes of season two than they deserved.
An inbuilt ability to look exactly like humans gave them a bit of an intelligence boost, but the fact that they couldn’t disguise their own constant need to fart and could be killed by having vinegar thrown on them means they certainly can’t be considered intelligence.
The Adipose
In fairness to the Adipose, they didn’t really know what they were doing. However, the whole concept of Adipose Industries creating a pill that caused cute little blobs of fat to quite literally fall off of your body and wander off was just insanity. They didn’t really have the power to do anything at all, so they pretty much had no intelligence to begin with.
The Pig Slaves
One of the species who were created by and worked for the Daleks during the episode ‘Daleks Of Manhattan’ was the Pig Slaves. They were humans crossed with rabid pigs by a Dalek group called the Cult Of Skaro. They rank so low on this list because they pretty much couldn’t think for themselves, and were controlled by the Daleks to do their bidding.
The Sontarans
The Sontarans might have been a long-standing Doctor Who classic, but they had very little going for them aside from a warmongering attitude and some fairly standard guns.
They had to enlist the help of a teenager when they returned to earth in season three of the rebooted show, and their little potato heads never made much of an impact.
The Weeping Angels
We’re starting to move towards the realms of true intelligence in the world of Doctor Who now. Not only were the Weeping Angels one of the most well-loved and terrifying of all the new monsters The Doctor has faced, but they also displayed some impressive intelligence. They could move in the blink of an eye, capturing their victims when they couldn’t see them. The only reason they can’t be higher up on this list is because they couldn’t really do a lot else.
Dalek Sec
Dalek Sec was one of the first Daleks we ever saw break away from his affiliation to the ancient species of robot-confined aliens.
His genius was such that he was able to turn himself into a strange hybrid between a Dalek and a human, but wasn’t able to survive execution at the hands of his former species.
The Ood
The Ood were one of the strangest creatures introduced in the new era of Doctor Who. The first episode in which we saw them showed them to be gentle, but able to be converted to evil. However, we soon learned that they were incredible future-seers, with a wealth of knowledge about space and time. In fact, they were the ones who told the tenth Doctor about his forthcoming demise.
The Face Of Boe
Considering The Face Of Boe is one of the oldest creatures ever introduced into Doctor Who, it is clear that he has an incredible amount of knowledge.
Combining that with the fact that he is (apparently) the incredibly aged form of Captain Jack, a clever and experienced guy in himself, means The Face Of Boe is one of the most impressive life forms we were ever introduced to. Especially for a big head in a box.
Dalek Caan
Dalek Caan ended up being the reason for the demise of Davros and the eventual catalyst in the saving of Earth. He was supposed to think freely like the rest of the Cult Of Scaro, but after going insane after breaching the Time Lock of the Time War, he was exposed to feelings of guilt and regret over the actions of his species. As such, his pretend affiliation was able to bring down the Daleks in ‘Journey’s End’.