There were 14 canonical Doctors in Doctor Whoall facing their first and last villains. Doctor WhoThe game's biggest stories have seen the titular Time Lord cross paths with all sorts of antagonistic figures, and often encounter them on multiple occasions. Each incarnation of the Doctor has fought valiantly against these villains, although there have been a few cases where the battle has been fatal and they have regenerated.
Whether it was during a Doctor Who Christmas or New Year's special, or just a regular episode, the Doctor didn't always know when he would face his last villain before changing his appearance. The first and last antagonist each Doctor encountered often resembled their incarnation's character arc and over the past 61 years the Time Lord saved the universe from some of the most dangerous villains of all time.
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First Doctor
The Daleks and the Cybermen
The First Doctor's introductory series, “An Unearthly Child,” didn't actually include a villain. Although Team TARDIS encountered trouble with a Stone Age tribe, the Doctor only faced his first true villains in his second series, “The Daleks.” Considering that they have always been one of the most notable Doctor Who villains, it made sense that the Daleks were the first aliens the first incarnation of the Doctor faced.
The Doctor said goodbye to his first body after crossing paths with the Cybermen in “The Tenth Planet”. Although the Cybermen did not cause the Doctor's regeneration, his battle against them at Snowcap Antarctic Station and saving Ben and Polly from the villains was the final straw and resulted in his incarnation's death.
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Second Doctor
The Daleks and the Warlord
A newly regenerated Second Doctor also faced the Daleks again in the series “The Power of the Daleks”, and all 6 installments later became part of the Missing Collection. Doctor Who episodes. While some footage was recovered, “The Power of the Daleks” was remade into animated form, where the Second Doctor encountered the Daleks as servants on the planet Vulcan.
The Second Doctor withdrew into the Doctor Who series “The War Games”, after a fight against the Warlord, an enigmatic figure who kidnapped Earth's soldiers and pitted them against each other in what was essentially a historical dramatization. Technically, Warlord's army of unknown aliens were also the villains, but their leader was the true mastermind. The Warlord was also part of the reason the Time Lords exiled the Doctor to Earth for stealing the TARDIS.
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Third Doctor
Nestene/Autons Consciousness and The Great
The first villain the Third Doctor faced were the Autons from the “Spearhead from Space” series, although the Time Lord encountered the fictional shop window villains in his previous incarnation. The plastic figures had weapons in their hands and attacked many civilians, which caused fear among the public and made them hesitant to go shopping.
The Doctor and Sarah Jane visited a Tibetan monastery on “Planet of the Spiders”, where they encountered a race of mutated alien spiders called the Eightlegs. However, the real villain was their leader, The Great. The giant goddess of the Eight Legs used Metebelis crystals to open her mind, but once she obtained the Doctor's crystal, she burned from the radiation, which also caused the Doctor to regenerate.
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Fourth Doctor
Hilda Winters and the Master
Doctor WhoThe series' Fourth Doctor began his long tenure on “Robot,” but while adapting to his new form, Sarah Jane encountered the director of the National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research. Hilda Winters was an underrated human villain, and although the series mainly focused on the tyranny of the robot K1, she was the true threat of the story. Winters was cruel and her creation even accidentally destroyed her because of her confusing orders.
The last villain the Fourth Doctor crossed paths with was the Master in “Logopolis”. Anthony Ainley's version of the Master in Doctor Who was nothing short of fantastic, and in this series he caused all sorts of chaos by trapping the Doctor's TARDIS in a time loop and even manipulating Nyssa with mind control. However, the Doctor did not stop the Master this time.
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Fifth Doctor
The Master and Morgus
The Fourth Doctor's last villain was also the Fifth Doctor's first villain. “Castrovalva” began with the slow-healing Doctor and his companions falling into a trap planned by the Master. The Master brilliantly demonstrated his ability to hide in different forms in this series, especially when he pretended to help the Doctor as the elderly suspect Portreeve.
The Fifth Doctor in Doctor Who ended his career in the series “The Caves of Androzani”, where he and Peri were involved in a war between the businessman Morgus and the creator of the android Sharaz over spectrox, a substance that prolonged the user's life, but unfortunately also caused the death of the user. Doctor. regeneration. Morgus sold spectrox to the people of Androzani Minor at a huge price and even killed the planet's president, all in the name of control.
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Sixth Doctor
The Gastropods and the Valeyard
In the series “The Twin Dilemma”, the Sixth Doctor stumbled upon a race of humanoid slugs called Gastropods. The aliens and their leader, Mestor, worked to spread the Gastropod eggs throughout the universe. Mestor attempted to take control of the Time Lord's body, but failed and was killed by the power of the Doctor's recent regeneration cycle. To no one's surprise, the Gastropods never returned to Doctor Who.
The Sixth Doctor's final villain was Doctor Whogreatest unsolved mystery, the Valeyard. In “The Trial of a Time Lord”, the Doctor returned to Gallifrey and was put on trial for destroying the Vervoid, and the Valeyard manipulated the Matrix to ensure he was found guilty. TIt was revealed that Valeyard is a version of the Doctor's darker side, but several unanswered questions about who he really was were left behind.
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Seventh Doctor
The Rani and the Master
The Seventh Doctor's first adventure was extremely exciting. “Time and the Rani”, saw the return of another Doctor Who Time Lord called Rani, who grew up on Gallifrey with the Doctor. The First Rani was an iconic character but her morals were similar to the Master's which resulted in the Seventh Doctor having to stop her from collecting the minds of geniuses throughout history, such as Albert Einstein.
The last time the Seventh Doctor faced the Master was in “Survival”, which saw the Doctor suddenly transported to a sentient planet where humans had been converted into Cheetah, and the Master needed help to escape. However, it was later revealed that the Master led the Cheetah people to Earth, where they kidnapped Ace's friends, and it was a surprise that the Doctor didn't notice their villainy before then.
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Eighth Doctor
The Master and the Lords of Time
The Eighth Doctor fought the Master once again in the last of Doctor Whothree films. The Doctor spent most of the 1996 film trying to stop the Master from opening the TARDIS's Eye of Harmony and destroying the universe, but he put an end to this plan before New Year's Day arrived. The Master once again took over the body of another during this adventure, where he took the form of an ambulance driver, Bruce.
Although the Eighth Doctor has only faced the Master as an on-screen villain, canonically, the last antagonist he fought were technically the Time Lords. Perhaps the Daleks were the real enemy in Doctor WhoIt was the first Time War, but the Gallifreyan species were just as destructive and manipulative behind the scenes. Without their interference, the Eighth Doctor would not have regenerated into the War Doctor.
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Ninth Doctor
The Nestene/Autons Consciousness and the Daleks
When the Ninth Doctor was introduced in Doctor WhoIn the 2005 reboot, he met Rose Tyler while saving her from a group of Autons. “Rose” was also the first time that the Nestene Consciousness was properly seen. With the Nestene's powerful mind, London fell into chaos, until Rose launched an incredible gymnastics move that caused the Doctor's anti-plastic vial to fall and destroy him.
The Ninth Doctor's death was because of Rose capturing the Time Vortex, but she only did it to stop the Daleks on Satellite Five. The Daleks had ruthlessly taken control of the massive space station and were collecting dead humans to create new soldiers, but hid under the pretext of creating TV programming for the planet's consumption. This was a groundbreaking moment considering the Doctor believed the Daleks had been destroyed in the war.
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Tenth Doctor
The Sycorax and the Master
The Tenth Doctor's first full episode, “The Christmas Invasion”, saw the Time Lord battle leader Sycorax in a dramatic sword fight. The aliens had the ability to control a third of humanity with a blood sample and were generally disgusted by Earth's residents, but the newly regenerated Doctor still sent them away.
The Tenth Doctor's last story, the two-parter “End of Time”, saw him save Earth from the Saxon Master once again. The Master, who was shot by his wife at the end of Season 3, was brought back to life by one of his followers. The unhinged antagonist was wilder than ever, and the Master converted most of humanity, so they shared an apparition with him. Although the Time Lords were also villains in these episodes, the Master was the biggest danger.
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Eleventh Doctor
Prisoner Zero and the Time Lords
The Eleventh Doctor was lucky enough to find a new villain in “The Eleventh Hour.” After years of hiding in the crack of Amelia's bedroom wall, Prisoner Zero escaped and wreaked havoc on the village of Leadworth. Prisoner Zero was unique and took many forms, although the original snake appearance was definitely the scariest.
Technically, there were multiple villains in “The Time of the Doctor.” Daleks, Cybermen, the Silence and Weeping Angels appeared throughout the episode, as the Doctor defended Trenzalore from them. However, this only happened because the Time Lords were trying to escape their small universe through yet another rift in time. Even though the Doctor didn't come face to face with the other members of his species, they were still the true villains of the episode.
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Twelfth Doctor
The Half-Face Man and the Cybermen
“Deep Breath” saw the return of the Clockwork Droids from “The Girl in the Fireplace”, with Half-Face Man being the first villain the Twelfth Doctor faced. Unlike their Season 2 counterparts the Half-Face Man had better communication skills and was partially composed of biological components. While this was interesting, the Doctor didn't like him harvesting human organs for himself.
Strangely, the final encounter with the Twelfth Doctor's villain was not in his last episode, but rather in his penultimate. Although there were threats in “Twice Upon a Time,” the Testimony and the glass avatars weren't actually villains. Due to the Master and Missy's chaos, the Doctor faced the Cybermen aboard a Mondasian colony ship. The design of these Cybermen was strange and disturbing, which made Bill's conversion all the more painful.
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Thirteenth Doctor
Tzim-Sha and the Master
The Thirteenth Doctor's first villain was the warrior Stenza Tzim-Sha, who threatened her when she hindered him in hunting a human. Tzim-Sha was an imposing and cruel creature, although the Doctor's nickname, “Tim Shaw”, lessened his terrifying aura. When Tzim-Sha returned in “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos”, the Doctor remembered him, especially as he caused Grace's death.
The Thirteenth Doctor's final villain was the Master of Doctor Who“The power of the doctor”. Although the Master worked alongside the Daleks and Cybermen, he was in charge and caused many deaths, volcanic eruptions across Earth, and even the Doctor's regeneration. The Master has always been, ironically, a mentor, but this episode proves that more than most.
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Fourteenth Doctor
Meep and the Toymaker
Shortly after the familiar-looking Fourteenth Doctor regenerated, he faced off against the Meep in “The Star Beast.” The initially adorable creature seemed harmless, but it was later revealed that the Meep were planning to destroy London to fuel their ship. Hilariously, the Meep blended in with Rose Noble's toy creations, but their appearance took away the Doctor's scent, and they were actually a villain.
The last villain the Fourteenth Doctor faced was the Toymaker, whose tyranny later caused Doctor WhoIt's shocking bi-generation. The Toymaker was a detrimental villain to the show, and he made his first appearance since the First Doctor era in “The Giggle.” The savage antagonist was one of the most unpredictable figures in the Doctor Whoand his ability to slip between realms made him a great danger.