The Weeping Angels

Home Planet: Unknown
Appearance: Solid Stone
Weaknesses: Looking At Each Other / Energy Starvation

"Don't blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink. Good Luck."

The Weeping Angels first appeared in season three of the new Doctor Who series with David Tennant as the doctor. Blink was probably one of the best episodes of the new Doctor Who series to date because of the gripping story line and the fear that the Weeping Angels brought to our TV screens.

The Weeping Angels are a species of winged humanoids from the early universe, so called because they cover their faces, giving them a weeping appearance, to prevent trapping themselves in stone form for eternity. The Doctor described them as being "the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely", and apparently it was rare for them not to use this method of murder. The Doctor was caught off guard when the consciousness of a murdered soldier told him that the Angel snapped his neck.

The Weeping Angels evolved near the beginning of the universe, and were (as the Doctor put it) the kindest of killers and psychopaths since their method of killing was to let their victims "live to death". This perhaps make them the loneliest beings in existence as, due to their defence mechanism, they could not even look at each other. In that respect the Doctor appears to pity them.

In 2007, a quartet of Weeping Angels managed to strand the Doctor in 1969 and captured his TARDIS with the goal of using the Time Lord technology for its near-unlimited temporal energy, in a process which is capable of turning off the sun. Despite gaining the TARDIS, the Angels could not find a way into the police box-shaped construct, however they later found the TARDIS's key. Unfortunately for the Angels, Sally Sparrow gained the key from one of the Angels before they could reach the TARDIS. The Angels started stalking Sally in their attempt to gain access to the TARDIS. They managed to corner her in the basement of the Wester Drumlins estate building where the TARDIS was stored by the Angels. She managed to enter it and send it back to the Doctor. When it finished dematerialising the Angels gazed at each other across the empty space where the TARDIS was, which turned each other into stone perpetually thereby ending the group's menace.

Because they are turned to stone when observed, any statue in the Universe could be a Weeping Angel, though most likely just the ones that looked like Weeping Angels.

During the crash of the space ship Byzantium, Doctor River Song attempted to stop an Angel from taking the people onboard but failed, as the staff on that ship knew that she was a criminal. In doing this, the Angel caused the ship to crash on the planet Alfava Metraxis on top of a temple which contained a Maze Of The Dead inside. The Doctor and Amy Pond along with River and soldiers from the Church, entered the temple to find it. Inside the Maze, numerous worn statues were found inside and the Doctor deduced that the Angel must have hidden itself among them to avoid being found. The Angel would go on to kill 3 different soldiers, using the consciousness of one to communicate with the Doctor. During the group's foray into the temple, the Doctor described the builders as beings he had known, and went on to relate the complexities the Church had forced upon them over their two headed physiology. Unfortunately, after a short while, the Doctor and River Song realised the problem with the multitude of statues and their knowledge of the original builders; the statues only had one head, where as the builders came from a race with two, meaning that every statue was in fact an extremely old Weeping Angel. They had laid dormant for years and years, aging and dying from not being able to consume potential energy. The Byzantium's energy leaking reactor core woke them and they too began to stalk the Doctor and the others in the hope of consuming their energy to become strong again. The Angels had the group surrounded just as the Doctor carried out his idea in order to escape. By destroying the Gravity globe, the Doctor created an "updraft" that carried his group onto the Byzantium. The Angels followed them, only for both groups to encounter a crack in one of the ship's walls. The Crack was bleeding pure time energy, something the Angels could not feast upon. Fearing the crack, the Angels fled to the other side of the ship, and told the Doctor that only he could seal the crack by throwing himself into it. Instead, the Doctor turned off the Byzantium's artificial gravity, causing the entire Angel army to fall into the Crack, sealing it and removing them from history.

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