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Weeping Angel
The Weeping Angels are a race of fictional predatory alien creatures from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Weeping Angels look like stone statues to an observer since they only can move when unobserved. Weeping Angels feast by touching a victim; the victim is sent back in time, and the Angel feeds on the resulting time energy from the time travel caused. The Weeping Angels were introduced in the 2007 episode "Blink" and became recurring characters across a variety of Doctor Who media. These later episodes expand the Angels' list of abilities, which include the ability for an image of an Angel to become another Weeping Angel, the ability to turn other statues into Weeping Angels, and the ability to kill others by touching them twice.
The Angels were created by writer Steven Moffat. Moffat was inspired by a variety of sources, including an encounter with a statue of a crying angel in a graveyard, which had mysteriously disappeared when he returned to view it at a later date. The Weeping Angels are portrayed by actresses who portray the Angels physically, with freeze frames being used to make the Angels appear entirely still in the final product. The Weeping Angels were planned to act as the overarching, main antagonists of the spin-off series Class; however, due to the series's cancellation, this never came to fruition.
Since their initial appearance, the Weeping Angels have been repeatedly nominated as one of the most popular and frightening Doctor Who monsters. They have been praised for their concept and fear factor, but have been criticized for the expansion of their abilities and their overexposure across Doctor Who media. They have been significantly analyzed since their debut. The computer hacking tool Weeping Angel, which was leaked as part of Vault 7, is named after the Angels.
The Weeping Angels are a race of aliens that feed off temporal energy. They obtain this energy by touching their victims and sending them back in time, feeding on the energy caused by the resultant time travel. The Angels can only move when unobserved since they are "quantum-locked".
The Weeping Angels role in the series has varied. When first introduced in the Doctor Who episode "Blink" they are initially portrayed as scavengers who are merely acting out to survive and who act independently of each other, but later episodes depict the Angels in more organized roles. Later appearances also add more abilities to the Angels, including the ability for an image of a Weeping Angel to become another Weeping Angel, the ability for Angels to convert statues into other Weeping Angels, and the ability for Angels to snap someone's neck and use their vocal cords to communicate.
The episode "Village of the Angels" adds many more abilities, including the ability to direct where in time a person is sent, the ability to kill a victim by touching them twice, the ability to communicate telepathically, and the ability to turn other lifeforms into Angels to allow them to be transported. Their appearances in Flux depict them as working for an external organization, depicting them for the first time having organized motivations beyond survival. A smaller version of Weeping Angels, known as Cherubs, appear in later appearances as well.
The Weeping Angels first appear in the 2007 episode "Blink". In the episode, they have sent the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones back in time, separating the Doctor from his time machine known as the TARDIS. The Angels intend to harness the TARDIS for food, but the Doctor is able to place messages for a woman named Sally Sparrow to find in the future, which guide her to stopping the Angels. The TARDIS returns to the past for the Doctor, and the Angels are trapped within each other's vision, rendering them unable to move.
The Angels reappear in the 2010 two-part episode "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone". An Angel is held aboard a ship known as the Byzantium, which crashes into a planet. The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, River Song, and a group of militant clerics enter the wreckage to recover the Angel, but the clerics are picked off by the Angel. An Angel is able to enter Amy's mind through a video recording and threatens to take form using the image left in her brain. It is revealed that the Angel crashed the ship into a large maze containing a large number of dormant Weeping Angels, which are revived by the power that is contained within the ship. A "crack in time" begins to expand aboard the ship, which the Angels feast on, but soon begin to flee from as the crack expands. The Doctor is able to trick the Angels into falling into the crack, erasing them, including the Angel in Amy's head, from existence.
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Weeping Angel
The Weeping Angels are a race of fictional predatory alien creatures from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Weeping Angels look like stone statues to an observer since they only can move when unobserved. Weeping Angels feast by touching a victim; the victim is sent back in time, and the Angel feeds on the resulting time energy from the time travel caused. The Weeping Angels were introduced in the 2007 episode "Blink" and became recurring characters across a variety of Doctor Who media. These later episodes expand the Angels' list of abilities, which include the ability for an image of an Angel to become another Weeping Angel, the ability to turn other statues into Weeping Angels, and the ability to kill others by touching them twice.
The Angels were created by writer Steven Moffat. Moffat was inspired by a variety of sources, including an encounter with a statue of a crying angel in a graveyard, which had mysteriously disappeared when he returned to view it at a later date. The Weeping Angels are portrayed by actresses who portray the Angels physically, with freeze frames being used to make the Angels appear entirely still in the final product. The Weeping Angels were planned to act as the overarching, main antagonists of the spin-off series Class; however, due to the series's cancellation, this never came to fruition.
Since their initial appearance, the Weeping Angels have been repeatedly nominated as one of the most popular and frightening Doctor Who monsters. They have been praised for their concept and fear factor, but have been criticized for the expansion of their abilities and their overexposure across Doctor Who media. They have been significantly analyzed since their debut. The computer hacking tool Weeping Angel, which was leaked as part of Vault 7, is named after the Angels.
The Weeping Angels are a race of aliens that feed off temporal energy. They obtain this energy by touching their victims and sending them back in time, feeding on the energy caused by the resultant time travel. The Angels can only move when unobserved since they are "quantum-locked".
The Weeping Angels role in the series has varied. When first introduced in the Doctor Who episode "Blink" they are initially portrayed as scavengers who are merely acting out to survive and who act independently of each other, but later episodes depict the Angels in more organized roles. Later appearances also add more abilities to the Angels, including the ability for an image of a Weeping Angel to become another Weeping Angel, the ability for Angels to convert statues into other Weeping Angels, and the ability for Angels to snap someone's neck and use their vocal cords to communicate.
The episode "Village of the Angels" adds many more abilities, including the ability to direct where in time a person is sent, the ability to kill a victim by touching them twice, the ability to communicate telepathically, and the ability to turn other lifeforms into Angels to allow them to be transported. Their appearances in Flux depict them as working for an external organization, depicting them for the first time having organized motivations beyond survival. A smaller version of Weeping Angels, known as Cherubs, appear in later appearances as well.
The Weeping Angels first appear in the 2007 episode "Blink". In the episode, they have sent the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones back in time, separating the Doctor from his time machine known as the TARDIS. The Angels intend to harness the TARDIS for food, but the Doctor is able to place messages for a woman named Sally Sparrow to find in the future, which guide her to stopping the Angels. The TARDIS returns to the past for the Doctor, and the Angels are trapped within each other's vision, rendering them unable to move.
The Angels reappear in the 2010 two-part episode "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone". An Angel is held aboard a ship known as the Byzantium, which crashes into a planet. The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, River Song, and a group of militant clerics enter the wreckage to recover the Angel, but the clerics are picked off by the Angel. An Angel is able to enter Amy's mind through a video recording and threatens to take form using the image left in her brain. It is revealed that the Angel crashed the ship into a large maze containing a large number of dormant Weeping Angels, which are revived by the power that is contained within the ship. A "crack in time" begins to expand aboard the ship, which the Angels feast on, but soon begin to flee from as the crack expands. The Doctor is able to trick the Angels into falling into the crack, erasing them, including the Angel in Amy's head, from existence.