63 Facts About Cybermen

Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are among the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who.

Cybermen have seen many redesigns and costume changes over Doctor Whos long run, as well as a number of varying origin stories.

Mainstay of Doctor Who since the 1960s, the Cybermen have appeared in related programs and spin-off media, including novels, audiobooks, comic books, and video games.

Cybermen stories were produced in officially licensed Doctor Who products between 1989 and 2005, when the TV show was off the air, with writers either filling historical gaps or depicting new encounters between them and the Doctor.

Cybermen got the opportunity to develop this idea when, in 1966, after an appearance on the BBC science programmes Tomorrow's World and Horizon, the BBC hired him to consult on the Doctor Who serial The War Machines.

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The Cybermen were originally imagined as human but with plastic and metal prostheses.

Variety of specialized forms of Cybermen have been shown, in particular Cyber Leaders and Cyber Controllers, with power to command other Cybermen.

Cybermen first appear in the serial The Tenth Planet in 1966, set in 1986.

Cybermen next appeared later in the same television season in The Moonbase opposite the Second Doctor.

Cybermen did not face the Third Doctor during his era, but one is shown as part of an exhibit in Carnival of Monsters.

Cybermen were not seen again until Earthshock, in which the Fifth Doctor encounters Cybermen in Earth in the year 2526.

The Cybermen appear once more in the Fifth Doctor's era, alongside the four previous Doctors, in The Five Doctors, when they are transported to the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey by the Time Lord President Borusa.

Attack of the Cybermen is set much earlier in the Cyber-Wars than Revenge—during a time when the Cybermen faced defeat following the human invention of the glittergun and the discovery of gold-rich Voga.

Cybermen appeared for a final time in the classic series in Silver Nemesis, in which a fleet of Cybermen warships assemble to convert Earth into a new Mondas.

Between the series' cancellation and its subsequent revival, the Cybermen make one brief appearance, in the 1993 Children in Need special Dimensions in Time, as one of several enemies used by evil Time Lady the Rani to hunt the Doctor.

For Series 2 in 2006, Cybermen were reintroduced with a new origin story set in a parallel universe.

The Cybermen are created by the owner of Cybus Industries, the dying transhumanist mad scientist John Lumic.

Lumic's Cybermen successfully convert much of the world's population by placing their human brains into robotic shells.

Cybermen next appear in the 2008 Doctor Who Christmas special "The Next Doctor", emerging in 1851 London after the Daleks damaged the walls of reality in the previous episode, "Journey's End".

Cybermen are next seen in "Face the Raven", among the various alien refugees hiding in London, and in series finale "Hell Bent", in which a rusted Cyberman is imprisoned in the Cloisters of Gallifrey.

The origin of another group of Cybermen is told in the two-part Series 10 finale "World Enough and Time" and "The Doctor Falls", when a Mondasian colony ship is stuck escaping the gravity of a black hole for many years.

Ultimately, this encounter with the Cybermen proves brutal: the Doctor's companion Bill Potts is cyberconverted; two incarnations of the Master kill one another in a disagreement over standing alongside the Doctor; and the Doctor's companion Nardole is left behind on the ship to look after human colonists, for whom inevitable cyberconversion has been delayed but not averted, though the Doctor manages to destroy most of the Cybermen in a massive explosion.

Cybermen ignores Jack's warning and gives him the Cyberium, the total knowledge of the defeated Cyberman empire, to save human history.

Cybermen were featured in the novel Iceberg by actor David Banks, who played the Cyber Leader in the television series from Earthshock to Silver Nemesis.

The First Doctor story The Time Travellers by Simon Guerrier, set in an alternate reality, has the Cybermen living at the South Pole and trading advanced technology to South Africa.

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Cybermen have appeared in several Big Finish audio plays battling the Doctor, the first of which was Sword of Orion, where the Eighth Doctor deals with humans and androids engaged in a war who seek Cyber-technology to improve their sides.

The 2002 play Spare Parts explored aspects of the Cybermen's origin, revealing that the design was ironically only perfected after their creator, Doctorman Allan, studied the biology of the Fifth Doctor and duplicated a third lobe to the Doctor's brain that controlled his body functions.

In Sword of Orion, the Cybermen are still entombed on Telos and are mostly forgotten, setting it before Earthshock; by the time of Cyberman, Telos has been destroyed by an asteroid collision, placing that series after Attack of the Cybermen.

Cybermen appeared in a linked trilogy of plays entitled The Harvest, The Reaping and The Gathering, where small groups of Cybermen attempt to manipulate humans into setting up conversion factories on Earth.

In March 2018, the Cybermen had their first encounter with the Third Doctor in The Tyrants of Logic, one of the stories in Volume 4 of Big Finish's The Third Doctor Adventures series.

The first story, entitled Dreadnought, featured the Cybermen attacking a human starship in 2220 and introduced the strip companion Stacy Townsend.

The Borg and Cybermen have begun to attack and convert worlds without warning, with the apparent 'leader' being a Cyber-Controller with Borg components.

Cybermen appear as enemies in Lego Dimensions, and one was added as a playable character in Wave 3.

The Cybermen are humanoid, but have been altered until they have few remaining organic parts.

Some parallel Earth Cybermen did retain some memories of their pre-conversion lives, although their emotional response varied.

In "Doomsday", Yvonne Hartman retains at least some elements of her personality to prevent the advance of a group of other Cybermen, and is last seen weeping what appears to be either an oil-like substance or blood.

In "The Age of Steel", the Doctor defeats the Cybermen by shutting down their emotional inhibitors, enabling them to "see" what had become of them.

The Doctor turns it on to gain intelligence and reveal that the Cybermen have developed a way to cyber-convert dead human remains.

Virgin Missing Adventures novel Killing Ground, by Steve Lyons suggests that some Cybermen imitate emotions to intimidate and unnerve their victims.

The Big Finish Productions audio play Spare Parts suggests that the Cybermen deliberately remove their emotions as part of the conversion process to stifle the physical and emotional trauma of becoming a Cyberman.

Cybermen have had a number of weaknesses since their introduction.

The revived series's Cybermen have no such weakness, though the tie-in website for the episode mentions it.

Cybermen are efficiently killed when shot with their own guns, or by a Dalek.

The Cybus Cybermen are bullet-proof and are very resilient, but are not indestructible – they are vulnerable to high explosives, electromagnetic pulses, specialised weaponry and Dalek weapons.

An unmodified The Tomb of the Cybermen suit was used to swell the Cybermen's numbers during the spacewalk scene, and was positioned at the back to hide the difference from the other two costumes.

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The Revenge of the Cybermen head was reshaped and recut by Richard Gregory of the freelance company Imagineering to add more details.

Redesign of the Cybermen in "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel" was a month-long process involving nearly every part of the design team.

Cybermen further explained that in The Tenth Planet it was hard to tell if they had skintone gloves or not to justify their addition.

Unlike the Doctor's other foes, the Cybermen costumes have changed substantially in appearance over the years, looking more and more modern, although retaining certain commonalities of design, the most iconic being the "handles" attached to Cybermen heads.

The Doctor Who Role Playing Game "Cyber Files" worked around the contradiction by stating that in The Tenth Planet, the oldest designs of Cybermen were used for the attack while the later more sophisticated models remained on Mondas.

Cybermen's body is encased in metal structures but much of her flesh, including her face, is visible.

Cybermen has clearly visible metallic breasts, though it is not clear how much of her own flesh has been replaced and how much is merely covered.

Early Cybermen had an unsettling, sing-song voice, constructed by placing the inflections of words on the wrong syllables.

Voices for the 2006 return of the Cybermen are similar to the buzzing electronic monotone voices of the Cybermen used in The Invasion.

Since "The Next Doctor" in 2008, the Cybermen have had nasally-sounding electronic voices; this continued all the way until "Closing Time" in 2011.

Cybermen technology is almost completely oriented towards weaponry, apart from their own bodies.

Hand discharge was present in The Tomb of the Cybermen, which featured a smaller, hand-held Cyber-weapon shaped like a pistol that was described as an X-ray laser.

Cybermen have access to weapons of mass destruction known as cobalt bombs, sometimes as Cyber-bombs, which were banned by the galactic Armageddon Convention.

In Earthshock, the Cybermen used android drones as part of their plans to invade Earth.

In "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday", the Cybermen are equipped with retractable energy weapons housed within their forearms, but use advanced human weapons to battle the Daleks.

Two Cybermen sent to parley with Dalek Thay at the Battle of Canary Wharf shot the Dalek but were promptly exterminated.

In "The Pandorica Opens", the Cybermen again have the wrist-blaster, but regain the modified human weapons.

Third model, seen in Revenge of the Cybermen, was a much larger, snake-like cybermat that could be remotely controlled and could inject poison into its victims.