Valeyard is a fictional character from the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who.
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12 Facts About Valeyard
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Valeyard is described by the Master as an amalgamation of the Doctor's darker sides from between his twelfth and final incarnations.
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Valeyard appears in all four segments of the 1986 serial The Trial of a Time Lord – The Mysterious Planet, Mindwarp, Terror of the Vervoids and The Ultimate Foe.
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The Valeyard used these extracts as evidence of the Doctor's meddling in time and space.
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The Valeyard argued that this meant the Doctor had committed genocide.
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Valeyard was revealed to be acting at the behest of the High Council of Time Lords to cover its corruption in the Ravalox affair.
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The subsequent whereabouts of the Valeyard have never been disclosed in the television series.
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The Valeyard is eventually killed by a lightning bolt being generated by his damaged TARDIS as it collapses while the Dark Matrix tries to escape, his body disappearing as the spirits of the other twelve Doctors seemingly depart in spectral versions of the TARDIS around the Seventh, and history is restored to normal.
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IDW Doctor Who comic series The Forgotten written by Tony Lee featured another individual calling himself "The Valeyard", who claimed to be the Meta-Crisis Doctor, but this was revealed to be a disguise taken by a cranial parasite while it and the Tenth Doctor were trapped in the TARDIS' matrix.
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Time Traveller's Companion, a supplement for the Doctor Who – Adventures in Time and Space: The Roleplaying Game, implies that the Valeyard is a rogue Watcher, similar to the one produced in Logopolis, generated during the regeneration of the Twelfth Doctor into the Thirteenth.
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Valeyard is able to escape through the Matrix, retreating to Eta Rho and attempting to kill the Doctor with a bomb disguised as the 'Black Scrolls' of the Doctor's future self, the Valeyard posing as a senile old man who was apparently the Thirteenth Doctor.
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Valeyard's memory damaged by the weapon, the Valeyard comes to believe that he is the Doctor, fighting the illusionary Daleks created by the weapon's destruction.
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