List of minor Doctor Who villains

This is a list of fictional villains from the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who.

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Fenric

Fenric was a being described by the Seventh Doctor as "evil from the dawn of time," a malevolent force that survived the clash of energies present at the birth of the universe. In an untelevised adventure, the Doctor had encountered Fenric and defeated him by challenging him to solve a chess puzzle. When Fenric proved unable to solve it, the Doctor then trapped the being in a flask for where he remained for several thousand years.

Related Topics:
Seventh Doctor - Chess

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However, Fenric was still able to manipulate human minds and events through time and space. He set up pawns, bloodlines of families that were under his control and he could use, "The Curse of Fenric" stretching down through generations. These people were known as the "Wolves of Fenric", and their true purpose was unknown even to them. He also had the power to summon haemovores, vampires which were to be the evolutionary destiny of mankind in a possible far future. The haemovores were strong enough to be able to weld metal with their bare hands, and were also immune to bullets. They could be countered, however, with a psychic barrier caused by faith.

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Eventually, the flask was brought to a British Army base in Northumberland in 1942, where several Wolves, including the Doctor's companion Ace, were manipulated into freeing Fenric from his flask. He also summoned the Ancient One, the last of the Haemovores from the future, in an attempt to poison the world with a deadly chemical toxin. Eventually, the Seventh Doctor convinced the Ancient One to turn on Fenric, who destroyed both of them with the same toxin.

Related Topics:
British Army - Northumberland - 1942 - Ace

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In Norse mythology, Fenric is another name for Fenrisulfr, the monstrous wolf that will devour Odin during Ragnarök. The Virgin New Adventures novel All Consuming Fire by Andy Lane also equates Fenric with the Cthulhu mythos entity Hastur the Unspeakable. As with all spin-off media, the canonicity of this is unclear.

Related Topics:
Norse mythology - Fenrisulfr - Wolf - Odin - Ragnarök - Virgin New Adventures - Andy Lane - Cthulhu mythos - Hastur - Canonicity

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