10 Times Doctor Who Wasted Great Villains
5. Sycorax
The Sycorax attempts to invade Earth on Christmas Day while a very newly regenerated Doctor is out of action. Rose and her family are forced to fight the aliens, with the help of Harriet Jones who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain at the time.
With The Doctor out of action, the Sycorax should have been able to easily take over the planet, though they seem to have procrastinated until The Doctor felt better to fight the leader in a sword fight - ultimately defeating him by throwing a satsuma to a button which caused the leader to fall off his ship.
As the first villains in the Tenth Doctor era, they seemed to be very easy to defeat, with The Doctor literally besting them in under five minutes.
Even without The Doctor, Rose and her family seemed to easily dodge the attacks the Sycorax plant, causing them to be one of the weaker villains we’ve been introduced to in the Who universe. There could’ve been a fully fleshed alien invasion of the Sycorax, but instead they were watered down to easily beatable villains.