The Ultimate Doctor Who Monster or Villain: Nomination #6: The Ood

Just over a week ago we announced that we want your vote to help definitively discover, who is the ultimate Doctor Who villain?

We’re revealing the top ten contenders over the course of ten days and following the full line-up of nominations, we’ll ask you to vote on this site to decide the outcome with the winner being revealed in the ‘Doctor Who: Monsters and Villains Weekend’ on BBC Three in November, as part of the celebrations to mark 50 years of Doctor Who!

So far the nominees have been Cybermen, Daleks, the Silence, the Master and Silurians. Today’s addition to that list first appeared on our screens in 2006 in one Doctor Who’s scariest stories – The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit. They are the Ood!

Ood are not monsters. They are a peaceful species, intelligent and intuitive who proved to be staunch allies of the Doctor, even helping the Tenth Doctor as he struggled to return to the TARDIS and regenerate in The End of Time.

But when Ood are taken over and controlled by external forces they can become monstrous creatures, acting against their instinct with lethal intent! It is the Ood in this state that receive the nomination of Doctor Who’s ultimate villains. We’re talking about the sinister red-eyed Ood of The Satan Pit; the instruments of evil who turned on the humans of Krop Tor and called themselves, ‘the Legion of the Beast’. These are the Ood we are nominating but as always, the choice will be yours!

You can find out more about the Ood, watch moments from their first adventure or enjoy some memorable moments, photos and more from their later stories including Planet of the Ood, and The End of Time.

Tomorrow we’ll be bringing you the seventh monster or villain to be nominated and remember to visit the site over the next few days so you can discover the complete top ten contenders… and then vote for the one you think is Doctor Who’s ultimate baddie!