Doctor Who: EVERY Version Of The Cybermen Explained

The Cybermen encountered by the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors still hailed from Mondas, but moved and spoke in a less robotic way.

They wore more flexible suits covered in vein-like piping, carried tubular blasters, and overall there was very little to hint at their organic origins when compared to their previous models.

These Cybermen first showed up in the 26th century, plotting to sabotage an Earth conference where their enemies were gathering (initially by planting a Cyber-bomb, then by crashing their freighter into the planet). They were partially successful – though thanks to Adric’s intervention, the freighter was sent back 65 million years, where it instead wiped out the dinosaurs.

Neomorph Cybermen were then transported to the Death Zone on Gallifrey, as part of Time Lord President Borusa’s plot to achieve immortality. Some were slaughtered by a pure killing machine known as the Raston Warrior Robot, while the rest teamed up with the Master… who tricked them into stepping on an electrified chess board.

A later contingent of these Cybermen, encountered by the Seventh Doctor and Ace, had upgraded suits and a shinier finish.

Overall the Neomorph Cybermen were much more mobile and capable than earlier models, although functionally they were still your standard Cyberman soldier.