Doctor Who: EVERY NuWho Villain And Monster Ranked Worst To Best
161. Flesh/Plague Carriers
Appear in: New Earth.
These poor souls easily had the worst existence out of everyone: artificially-grown people who were unethically experimented on like lab rats by the Sisters of Plentitude in order to keep humanity healthy and happy. Touch one and you'd get every disease and, well, die.
During the New Earth watchalong in 2020, Russell T Davies tweeted that he originally planned on killing them off, but Steven Moffat mentioned how Davies loved slaughtering his characters. That comment thus prompted the happy ending where the Doctor cures all the sickly humans with his medicine cocktail.