10 Doctor Who Villains Who Should NEVER Return

Tzim-Sha was a Stenza warrior first introduced in The Woman That Fell To Earth, the debut episode of the Thirteenth Doctor played by Jodie Whitaker. The Stenza warrior sought to become the next leader of his race and to become so, was tasked with travelling to Earth to claim a human trophy, without the use of weapons or assistance. Naturally, he cheated from the offset and used a swarm of gathering coils to track down his target – a human named Karl Wright, living in Sheffield.

His face covered for the first half of the episode, Tzim-Sha worked his way across Sheffield and claimed a couple of human kills across the way, taking a trophy from each victim; that trophy being a tooth. Under his helmet, it was revealed that Tzim-Sha in fact had his face adorned with the teeth of his previous human trophies, a perfectly chilling concept that was arguably one of the episode’s greatest strengths, in a rather safe opening episode for the Thirteenth Doctor.

However, while the Doctor is known for quipping with their enemies, the moment the nickname 'Tim Shaw' came into the frame, that was it for this would-be villain.

He may have been the first villain that the Thirteenth Doctor encountered and defeated, but he was later brought back in a surprise return in the season finale, which felt like the writers were attempting to create a new, recurring villain that could lead the new era of Doctor Who in the same way that the Master and Davros had closed seasons before him. Sadly, they were mistaken. Sha never had the same gravitas as his predecessors.

He had the look, but not enough substance, and despite surviving their last encounter, should probably be left trapped in that trophy case.