Doctor Who Season 12 Villains Ranked Best To Worst

The internet has gone into meltdown in recent days after the significant lore changing events of the climatic episode. While the general feel is that the 12th season displayed some definite improvements on the previous season, the debate still rages pondering if the show is in a positive state moving forward, or if it is in as bad a position as it has been throughout its 57 year history.

While this fan of the show leans towards the latter more pessimistic camp, this doesn't mean that there can't be acknowledgment of the improvement in many aspects of the show this season, most notably in the villain department. While not all foes of the Doctor were utilised to their full potential and there was still the odd stinker in the midst, overall the choice of nemesis for our beloved Timelord was a series strongpoint.

For the purposes of this list we have chosen to group some villains and individualise others, depending on how they were addressed in the series and if they are appeared in multiple episodes. The Cybermen manage three separate entries, which does give an indication of a growing over reliance on the old foe.

So prepare to have your consciences deleted and upgraded into a retro metal shell, as we rank each of the Season 12 rankings from best to worst.

It couldn't really be any other villain at the bottom of the list, because this unfortunate creation with the all too fitting name just didn't work in any way. Perhaps with a better character arc and within a better story the dregs could have been a strong villain, but the episode just didn't allow these guys to work.

The idea of them being 'what humans would become' didn't make much sense within Who lore, nor did the explanation of them being 'one possibility.' But worst of all was the rather tenuous link to the environmental impacts that cause the dregs to turn out the way they do, somehow mutating to be like this because us naughty humans didn't look after the planet the way we should.

The whole episode is a mess, so it comes as no surprise that there is no real explanation for the origin of the dregs. The fact that almost all the shots of the dregs are in close ups as they roar seems lazy, as does the fact that the humans so easily escape them even after they had apparently had them 'surrounded'.

The visual design wasn't terrible, but it isn't enough to save them being relegated with the likes of The Abzorbaloff and Krasko to the Who villain scrapheap.