10 Most Insanely Powerful Doctor Who Villains

10. The Silence

The Silence, and the wider religious sect led by Madame Kovarian, were incredibly powerful foes of the Eleventh Doctor. Hell bent on preventing the Doctor from reaching Trenzalore and restarting the Time War, they travelled back through time, manipulating human development along the way. This basically means that everything humanity achieved technologically until 1969 was due to the influence of the Silence.

It's also highly likely that a Silent saboteur was responsible for blowing up the TARDIS in The Pandorica Opens. Not even Genghis Khan's horde could make it through the doors of the TARDIS, so the Silence must be pretty damned powerful to get inside. We don't know how the TARDIS blew up, mind you, but maybe the sheer power of the Silence's sabotage is too much for our tiny human brains to comprehend.

On top of all this, they have the ability to make you forget that you ever met them, which would conceivably allow them to out-manouvre every other being in the Doctor Who universe. And with a flick of their spindly fingers they can make human beings burst like party balloons.

All in all, they make for a pretty formidable foe!