Doctor Who’s Great Vampires Are More Terrifying Than Ever – Screen Rant

Doctor Who's Time Lord Victorious reveals the dark truth behind the Great Vampires, ancient enemies of the Time Lords of Gallifrey.

This article contains spoilers forDoctor Who: Time Lord Victorious - Monstrous Beauty, published inDoctor Who Magazine #556.

Doctor Who's "Time Lord Victorious" event has just made the Great Vampires more dangerous than ever before.Doctor Who has always maintained every legend has a basis in reality, and the Doctor has clashed with everything from alien werewolves to interdimensional ghosts. During the David Tennant era, he even met a monstrous creature who claimed to be the basis for every single Hell beast.

But one of the most fascinating mythical races are the Great Vampires, sometimes referred to as theYssgaroth. Originating from another dimension, these colossal creatures broke through to our plane of existence when the universe was young. They steal precious life-energy from other beings, and they can convert others into lesser vampires that serve them. The Time Lords waged a relentless war against the Great Vampires during the Dark Times, and successfully hunted them to the brink of extinction. Only one of them survived, fleeing to a pocket dimension called E-Space, where it was eventually encountered - and killed - by the Fourth Doctor in the classic story "State of Decay." Now,Doctor Who's "Time Lord Victorious" story is making the Great Vampires more dangerous than ever before.

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"Time Lord Victorious" has seen the barriers that prevent time travel to the Dark Times mysteriously fail, and various incarnations of the Doctor are stumbling into the resulting chaos. The September issue ofDoctor Who Magazine includes a bonus comic book,Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious - Monstrous Beauty,written by Scott Gray and featuring art by John Ross. It sees the Ninth Doctor and Rose stumble into the war between the Time Lords and the Great Vampires. Giving a sense of the danger, even the Doctor is so unnerved by the experience that he just wants to head straight back to the TARDIS and leave - possibly the first time any Doctor has wanted to do anything but interfere.

The vampire attack is fascinating to see. It seems they travel the cosmos in living spaceships called Cucurbites, vessels fueled by blood that can drink whole species, whole worlds dry. The ships are clearly organic, with barbed tendrils sweeping around them that they use to tear through the bodies of their victims. The Doctor and Rose watch in absolute horror as the Cucurbites tear through an entire Gallifreyan defense force, with disturbing ease. Fortunately, they navigate by sound, and the Doctor is able to drive them off with the help of the sonic screwdriver and a communications system.

But the Cucurbites are only half the problem, because they disgorge vampires who sweep across the battlefield, looking for prey. And the Doctor is just a little too slow fighting back against the Cucurbites - because one of them catches his companion, Rose Tyler. Clearly the Ninth Doctor will be forced to join the war against the Great Vampires, as he attempts to find his companion and friend.

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