10 Doctor Who Villains With Terrifying Abilities

7. Reach Through Your Body And Grab Your Heart (The Whisper Men)

Doctor Who the Whisper Men
BBC

When we saw the first images of the Whisper Men back in 2013, many fans had them pegged as the next great Doctor Who villain. After all, writer Steven Moffat had already created the Empty Child, the Clockwork Droids, the Vashta Nerada, the Weeping Angels, and the Silence - so his track record spoke for itself.

Frustratingly though, the Whisper Men were criminally under-utilized in their debut appearance, The Name Of The Doctor, where they served as mindless henchmen to the Great Intelligence. And even more frustratingly... they haven't been seen since.

It's a right old shame that we never got to see more of these mysterious creatures, because their potential was never fully realised. Their pale, featureless faces, top hats, and dark coats made for a truly striking design, and they also had some pretty strong abilities to back up their intimidating looks.

The Whisper Men are capable of passing through the flesh of their victims, which might not sound too useful on paper, but in practice, it's devastating. In The Name Of The Doctor, we see them use this ability when they attack the Doctor's friends by reaching inside their bodies, and directly grabbing their hearts.

They then attempt to stop those hearts, presumably by giving them a jolly good squeeze. Definitely not a nice move to be on the receiving end of - especially when you can't even stop the perpetrator from doing it.

In this post: 
Doctor Who
 
First Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!