Doctor Who: Series 13 Trailer Breakdown - 20 Things You Must See

10. Galactus Joins The Whoniverse!

Doctor Who Series 13 (Flux) decayed Master theory
BBC

Back to the more polished special effects now. One of the trailer's money shots is this image of a dark cloud enveloping a blue planet (Earth?), which surely can't be good news for the people on the surface.

It almost looks like that horrible version of Galactus from Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer, doesn't it? Let's pray that Series 13 isn't as bad as that movie though.

Galactus Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer
20th Century Studios

This Doctor Who cloud could be a visual representation of the Flux - perhaps the Flux is a sentient, malevolent force, rather than a timey-wimey event.

Alternatively, the cloud could be that "Swarm" Chibnall referred to when describing the series at Comic-Con. There's a popular theory that "Swarm" is an acronym (S for Sontarans, W and A for Weeping Angels, R for Ravagers, and M for Master), but it could just as easily be its own individual thing.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.