Doctor Who: 10 Great Villains Who Were Badly Wasted

7. Victor Kennedy

Peter Kay as a sinister villain: who'd have thought it? It's arguably one of the most bone-chilling moments of the second series though when Victor Kennedy descends on LINDA, declaring quietly, "I am your salvation." 'Love and Monsters' spiralled into a Benny Hill chase scene between Elton and Kennedy, now in his natural, green form. The Absorbaloff may have looked awful - it was designed by a child, remember - but the concept behind it was fantastic, and Kay really was threatening: could we not have seen more of Victor Kennedy and less of his alter-ego from Klom? What if Kennedy absorbed his victims and not the Absorbaloff? It would have been a bigger twist too: all the time Elton was concerned with alien attacks, he'd missed one that looked human, right under his nose. Perhaps none of that would have worked; maybe there's no saving the episode. Or maybe you don't have 'Love and Monsters' quite as much as the abysmal 'The Curse of the Black Spot'. Surely we can all agree that Victor Kennedy was the scariest character in the episode though?