Doctor Who: The Complete Story of 'The Cybermen'

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  • @thewhoaddicts
    @thewhoaddicts  3 роки тому +252

    I hope you enjoyed The Story of the Cybermen! Yes a lot is still missing (including their appearance in A Good Man Goes to War) but from what I could gather, that legion was a part of the Cyber Wars, a topic we may tackle in a future video!

    • @jamiethomas3768
      @jamiethomas3768 3 роки тому +6

      The Who Addicts love ❤️ it guys!

    • @jamiethomas3768
      @jamiethomas3768 3 роки тому +2

      The Who Addicts maybe the angels next? They are your favorite villain 🦹‍♂️ Matthew.

    • @ElleCirano
      @ElleCirano 3 роки тому +3

      Wasn't expecting this until Saturday, glad we get it now!!! 😁😁

    • @phantomsidious2934
      @phantomsidious2934 3 роки тому +5

      Well that can't be helped, the modern Cybermen have a very convoluted history, are they the lumic versions still? Are they a combination of mondas and lumic Cybermen? The modern series really has made a mess of them in my opinion

    • @jefferyyoung2580
      @jefferyyoung2580 3 роки тому +2

      A!

  • @edwardreed67
    @edwardreed67 3 роки тому +996

    Only in Doctor Who can you have the major difference between two planets being one is upside down, and inhabited by lizard people who cybernetic-ally enhance apes who time travel and play it completely straight faced.

    • @shabnamrafique3638
      @shabnamrafique3638 3 роки тому +9

      I know we might as well put monkeys in tin cans; there you go you got your cybermen.

    • @VirginPrince
      @VirginPrince 2 роки тому +28

      You're going to love the Celestial Toymaker.

    • @splorpmguffins6052
      @splorpmguffins6052 2 роки тому +2

      Yeah like most of doctor who is just straight up retarded plot wise, great to watch when you are high

    • @naubolos8426
      @naubolos8426 2 роки тому +36

      In fairness, both planets were inhabited by ''lizard people''.

    • @redneckwithajeep5001
      @redneckwithajeep5001 Рік тому

      Earth has lizard people to the only one I actually remember is a lesbian in the 19th century

  • @mb2000
    @mb2000 3 роки тому +452

    Drinking game: take a shot every time he says “Cyber...”

    • @shebbs1
      @shebbs1 3 роки тому +59

      I would need a cyber replacement for my liver!

    • @EndoClaw
      @EndoClaw 3 роки тому +26

      Owain Shebbeare so you would need a cyver

    • @madabbafan
      @madabbafan 3 роки тому +16

      I don't have enough bottles of whisky

    • @kurankrishan8971
      @kurankrishan8971 3 роки тому +17

      We’re screwed
      Breaking news: mass deaths are linked to damaged organs by drinking too much alcohol

    • @nightmarekiller3699
      @nightmarekiller3699 3 роки тому +2

      Dead by minute 4

  • @Xegethra
    @Xegethra 3 роки тому +340

    It's funny how these "emotionless" beings have a lot of anger and irritability with a strong instinct to survive. You can't really write emotionless, because you need to write a reason for them to live, something to care about.

    • @MajorWagz418
      @MajorWagz418 2 роки тому +47

      You can remove as much as possible but some things still stick around

    • @galarstar052
      @galarstar052 2 роки тому +60

      i assume it's more basic programming. They're just computers carrying out what they're programmed to do.

    • @alphatrion100
      @alphatrion100 2 роки тому

      @@galarstar052 that would make them un interesting

    • @VictorGreinvolfe48
      @VictorGreinvolfe48 2 роки тому +15

      @@alphatrion100 depends who you ask. I prefer the more organic mondasian cybermen

    • @alphatrion100
      @alphatrion100 2 роки тому +19

      @@VictorGreinvolfe48
      the antagonist having a somewhat relatable motivation or having doubts about his motivation can give a story so much more depth when done right than just having mindless drones as baddies.
      And the first cybermen are the scariest because they are so obviously part human.
      The later ones just look like robots
      When big movies have hordes of drones i dont know anything about i feel nothing during the action

  • @royhay5741
    @royhay5741 3 роки тому +338

    It's implied that all Cybermen from Series 6 onwards are from our universe lacking the Cybus Industries logo and instead having the circular designed chest piece. However, it's also implied in Series 7's Nightmare in Silver that the Mondasian and Parallel Earth Cybermen had met one another and allied themselves fighting in the Great Cyber Wars together. So from Series 7 onwards excluding Series 10 we Areias fact seeing both types of Cybermen, a nice tie off for the Parallel Earth Cybermen.

    • @Gojirawars03
      @Gojirawars03 2 роки тому +38

      I feel it likely started with the Series 5 and 6 Cybermen, since it wouldn’t make any sense for the Mondasians to somehow invent the exact same design as their Cybus counterparts.
      Seeing Cybus designs flying Mondasian style starships in Series 5 and 6 makes me think that the Cybus Cybermen met their Mondasian counterparts in the space-time vortex after the events of “The Next Doctor.”

    • @sorrenblitz805
      @sorrenblitz805 Рік тому +13

      @@Gojirawars03 It does make sense. Mondasians are technically human. Convergent evolution is a thing on our world where different things evolve into the same shape. Earth Humans and Mondasian Humans being basically the same thing the Cyberman shape may just be what shape Mechanized humans will take. Like Ichthyosaurs weren't fish but looked like fish.

    • @cement_eater
      @cement_eater 10 місяців тому +3

      I hope someday we see the first interaction between the mondasians and cybusmen

  • @wcapewell3089
    @wcapewell3089 3 роки тому +107

    To quote Count Dooku from star wars:
    "I've been looking forward to this".

  • @CoolCat8927
    @CoolCat8927 3 роки тому +21

    when the daleks met the cybermen, it wasn't war, it was pest control

  • @killy1
    @killy1 3 роки тому +76

    I am sure in one episode they addressed the cybermen being all over the place suggesting that it is an inevitable branch of evolution across many planets.

    • @chao5996
      @chao5996 Рік тому +13

      Correct. There are multiple differrnt subspecies of Cyberman.
      The original Mondasians Cyberman. The Telosian Cyberman from Tomb of the Cybermen. The CyberFaction from The Invasion. The CyberNomads from Revenge of the Cybermen, and the CyberNeomorphs from Earthshock to Silver Nemesis. Then there's the Parallel Earth Cybermen, and the hybrids in Nightmare in Silver. And now the Galifreyan Cybermen.

    • @cement_eater
      @cement_eater 10 місяців тому

      @@chao5996 didn’t all of them originate from Mondas until 2006?

  • @Squicx
    @Squicx 3 роки тому +185

    I want to see a doctor who episode with the casing removed and it shows a walking corpse.
    It's dark but HOLY HELL THAT WOULD BE FREAKY COOL!!!

    • @jameslegault9398
      @jameslegault9398 2 роки тому +15

      The cyber men is just a brain in a suit with artificial nerves, haven't you been paying attention?
      Edit:not talking about the ones missy created

    • @Detson404
      @Detson404 2 роки тому +23

      @@jameslegault9398 Or the cyber woman from Torchwood or the time when that chubby guy with the baby was being converted. It’s dr. Who, the show laughs at canon.

    • @jameslegault9398
      @jameslegault9398 2 роки тому +9

      @@Detson404 chubby guy is Craig

    • @erikduvmo8137
      @erikduvmo8137 2 роки тому +8

      series 5 ep 12 the pandorica opens:
      ua-cam.com/video/EOjsH16k-v8/v-deo.html

    • @jamesbarras3834
      @jamesbarras3834 Рік тому +2

      @@jameslegault9398 you’re new to Dr who huh, there is no cannon

  • @thehorrorcounselors4747
    @thehorrorcounselors4747 3 роки тому +769

    The Cybus Cybermen are without a doubt the best incarnation of the cybermen for me and that’s cos they don’t look like flimsy plastic silvery cheap looking cybermen they look like literal metal men and that iconic stomping they do is amazing and just shows their weight and strength.

    • @ftumschk
      @ftumschk 3 роки тому +78

      The stomping is what I dislike about them most. Technology usually gets quieter and slicker as it improves, so their noise and stiff movements come across as rather silly to me.

    • @jellybabiesarecool4657
      @jellybabiesarecool4657 3 роки тому +99

      Most people say the flimsy plastic cybermen are better because they feel more like humans shoved inside a suit rather than normal robots.

    • @MrRobertoMoir
      @MrRobertoMoir 2 роки тому +66

      I’d disagree. The stomping and “delete” nonsense feel like bad additions to the cyberman lore to me. They were always desperate, slinking and sneaking to survive before that.

    • @davidgeisler9885
      @davidgeisler9885 2 роки тому +43

      Also not a fan of the stomping here. They aren’t robots. It’s a key point that so often gets lost when they are presented in stories.

    • @davidgeisler9885
      @davidgeisler9885 2 роки тому +26

      @Ricky Gaughen metal is heavy on earth. Some metals are heavier than others. I'd like to think in SciFi land that a civilisation that can build Cybermen has found a way to build "metal" / armour that is light.

  • @ishaandw
    @ishaandw 3 роки тому +110

    Was it a complete coincidence that I watched a Classic Cybermen story, a modern Cybermen story and listened to a Big Finish Cybermen audio yesterday? Yes, it was.

    • @nelsonunit7000
      @nelsonunit7000 3 роки тому +4

      Which were they?

    • @cement_eater
      @cement_eater 10 місяців тому

      If you still remember, yeah, which were they?

  • @Legendary3Dgamer
    @Legendary3Dgamer 3 роки тому +128

    This feels like a movie specially with the music

    • @antcoloniesofearth7295
      @antcoloniesofearth7295 3 роки тому +5

      I like how doctor who has so much rich history and detail behind it, that is what happens when you have a very flexible show with 50 years of content and many writers, but Gallifrey was done badly, I used to imagine it like Middle Earth from Lord of the Rings, a magical mysterious planet with rich history, but the show handled it badly and made it feel empty and cheap which is why I am glad they destroyed Gallifrey, because it was already ruined and the timecards felt weak, but now we know the doctor is from another mysterious world with proper timecard like beings. Now that new mysterious world doesn't feel boring and empty like Gallifrey, because we know nothing about it, if the show ever explores it, they would have to do it properly or it will be ruined like Gallifrey.

  • @bcr4503
    @bcr4503 3 роки тому +252

    Imagine if Who Addicts wrote Doctor Who stories for BBC. 👌👌👌

    • @macturner2196
      @macturner2196 3 роки тому +36

      I work in Hollywood. I've had arguments with execs. One was CEO of Warner Bros.
      They don't know to target an audience and create, They try to please everyone, but end up pleasing nobody.

    • @Steph.98114
      @Steph.98114 3 роки тому +13

      @@macturner2196 exactly, they need to realise it's better to focus on the fans and if the fans like it, more people will come. A great example of this is the Mandalorian tv show, rather then trying please everyone it tries to give the fans what they want and has seen critical success

    • @macturner2196
      @macturner2196 3 роки тому +4

      @@Steph.98114 Yeah, Dave and Jon have given the fans what they want. What a concept, right? If DW had a young, attractive man, it would do better. Even Paul McGann in an 8th Doctor mini series would do better. That, or REVIST an old face, and have Paul come in. He's still attractive to women, even for his age.
      But I think 45 and under would be right. Smith was in his 20's.
      But that would bring back female fans. Boys would want to play with the action figures. It would bring back the success of the old days if they cast Kris Marshall. He is just right for that type of thing. But, he's not getting younger. Anyway, that's my thoughts on WHO. He should be a guy, boys want to be, and girls want to be with.

    • @bcr4503
      @bcr4503 3 роки тому +1

      @SoapCanMan who

    • @morphor
      @morphor Рік тому +1

      @SoapCanMan even fugitive outshined despite the issues.

  • @tmntleo
    @tmntleo 3 роки тому +88

    Say what you want about the Cybermen, they got some banging good music.

  • @clugirl86
    @clugirl86 3 роки тому +225

    I love this video. It was very informative. Daleks (space Nazis), Cybermen (humans with no feelings), and The Master are the villains that are creepy, but we love it when they appear. I am going to watch this video again!

    • @majodkajavs6977
      @majodkajavs6977 3 роки тому +15

      Cyber men are comunists/socialists

    • @fjccommish
      @fjccommish 2 роки тому

      DALEKS (space Nazis), Cybermen (space communists), the Master (space tyrant) - all forms of leftists.

    • @2345mat
      @2345mat 2 роки тому +1

      Space nazis lmaooo

    • @cannaweallgetalong7168
      @cannaweallgetalong7168 Рік тому +5

      I never thought of Daleks as Supremacists in space but you are right. They are flipping Conservatives 🤣🤣🤣

    • @gaminganimators7000
      @gaminganimators7000 Рік тому +2

      I never thought of the Daleks being nazis but that makes sense

  • @penninefilms4714
    @penninefilms4714 3 роки тому +40

    The Cybermen are for me the most horrific Doctor Who villain, the true body horror element of them I don’t think has yet to be realised on screen.

    • @naubolos8426
      @naubolos8426 2 роки тому +5

      Truly! Shame that they keep getting badly used. Even in some of the great stories of the Classic series they were a little off; such as when they are shouty and angry in 'Earthshock'. The weakness to gold was a terrible idea from Holmes, who hated Cybermen, as well; it was better when they were killed by radiation.

    • @maverickhistorian6488
      @maverickhistorian6488 11 місяців тому +4

      They are rather tragic figures, who were taken by force and 'upgraded ' against their wills

    • @Anayvin
      @Anayvin Місяць тому

      literally the weeping angels

  • @Mintlicious
    @Mintlicious 5 місяців тому +10

    A design aspect of the Cybus Cybermen, that I feel is often overlooked, is that the faceplate's design was specifically intended to evoke the shape of a skull. It really helps to emphasize the human aspect while still getting to enjoy full cyberization. It's chilling creature design.

  • @corneliuscrewe677
    @corneliuscrewe677 3 роки тому +118

    I honestly think the original Tenth Planet are the most terrifying. As cheesy as those gauze-like masks were, it actually worked to humanize them just to enough to really underline the horror of what they did to themselves.

    • @choco.__.cat8088
      @choco.__.cat8088 6 місяців тому +9

      honestly!! but i feel like it was just a bit better in world enough and time. just because we got to witness the genesis of the cybermen,, how they started, how they ended up the way they were, the amount of pain they were in throughout the conversion process. i feel like the fact that we got to see it made it more real

    • @Biodebatable
      @Biodebatable 5 місяців тому +4

      Agreed, the tenth planet and the moonbase designs build into the uncanny, the modern Cybermen feel too mechanical imo, too far removed from humanity to represent the fear of assimilation.

    • @mrtuber8207
      @mrtuber8207 4 місяці тому +4

      I actually think gauze masks are creepier than the metal ones. Makes it look more medical like and surgical. Which emphazises the body horror

  • @lizbmusic11
    @lizbmusic11 2 роки тому +90

    I discovered your wonderful channel today. I'm 60 and still a Dr Who addict. It was always my favorite programme as a kid. I found the cybermen terrifying! My parents wouldn't allow me to watch for a time snd I protested so much thry had to give in. I still remember the argument lol!

    • @13th_Ghostly_Grimm
      @13th_Ghostly_Grimm Рік тому +2

      A real cool boomer you are

    • @Goodiesfanful
      @Goodiesfanful Рік тому +3

      The girl who played Ace was also terrified of the Cybermen as a kid. Her mother banned her from watching Dr Who because she was getting Cybermen nightmares.

    • @CloudyNight2156
      @CloudyNight2156 10 місяців тому

      What was the argument?

    • @kaylaskreations4973
      @kaylaskreations4973 7 місяців тому +1

      You won the battle my friend

  • @jzanimates2352
    @jzanimates2352 3 роки тому +81

    You should do the complete story of Rassilon or the timelords

  • @Uajd-hb1qs
    @Uajd-hb1qs Рік тому +9

    I really loved how they carried over the original Mondasian design into the modern day. A lot of tv series that started in the late 20th century try to make up for the technical limitations of the time by revamping costumes into intricate and updated designs or simply using cgi. The doctor who team was like “you know how the original cybermen looked like guys in fabric costumes with cardboard boxes strapped to their chests? Well that’s how the cybermen look canonically. Here’s one now to prove it.”

  • @hglasier
    @hglasier 2 роки тому +11

    The Cybermen were invented by my late great uncle Kit Pedler I believe. A man of vision.

    • @naubolos8426
      @naubolos8426 2 роки тому +1

      Yes, along with Gerry Davis. Your uncle came up with the race with the best concept in DW!

    • @megatron8449
      @megatron8449 Рік тому +1

      Cool!

  • @kryten1016
    @kryten1016 3 роки тому +60

    I personally think though the lone cyber man looks cool half faced human, i think id be more scared if it it was completely cyber, it looks to emotional.

    • @antcoloniesofearth7295
      @antcoloniesofearth7295 3 роки тому +12

      I liked the lone Cyberman but I agree, I think it is because he had emotions, he looked like an evil guy in a cyber suit a not a walking zombie.

    • @crimsondynamo615
      @crimsondynamo615 3 роки тому +8

      The only thing i really liked about him was how his armor looked like an amalgamation of different cyber designs

    • @eukgaming8914
      @eukgaming8914 3 роки тому +1

      bruh thats its gimmick

  • @elizabethspedding1975
    @elizabethspedding1975 3 роки тому +14

    The Cybermen wonderful! I'm 58 and I remember hiding behind the sofa as a little girl.

  • @angelicagaldos
    @angelicagaldos 3 роки тому +39

    Cybermen are scary just like the Daleks. Thank you for the awesome video The Who Addicts. I'm now an addict to your channel. Keep up the awesome content.

  • @leeannturner494
    @leeannturner494 3 роки тому +23

    Thank you for this wonderful video. I really enjoyed it. I have Autism & can easily get confused & overwhelmed with information, but the complete story of the Cybermen was explained perfectly, so I never felt I was getting confused or overwhelmed.

  • @gavinburr6213
    @gavinburr6213 5 місяців тому +3

    Great video.
    My 2¢ is the cybermen are more of an inevitable concept rather than a specific race.
    Like how carcinisation leads creatures to evolve to crab like beings. Humans in the Whoniverse just end up creating Cybermen sooner or later so snuffing them out is effectively impossible.

  • @nelsonunit7000
    @nelsonunit7000 3 роки тому +22

    The harvesters big finish 7th doctor story, where the cybermen seek to return to the flesh might have warranted a mention here? Also the sword of orion stories?

  • @taleyajoinson4703
    @taleyajoinson4703 3 роки тому +10

    David Bank's *Cybermen* is a pretty goddamn good bible for the timelines up to Varos. Even works after that fact with stuff like Spare Parts and The Doctor Falls slotting into it very neatly

    • @naubolos8426
      @naubolos8426 2 роки тому +2

      Indeed. David Banks's work works beautifully and the makers of DW should use it as a bible along with 'The Terrestrial Index' by Jean-Marc Lofficier.

  • @DCSMedia
    @DCSMedia 3 роки тому +51

    Once again, I have to applaud you for another incredible video. These story of videos are fantastic. No wonder Liv goes on about them in live-streams, they’re just so damn good. Or should I say.........
    EXCELLENT

  • @simonking2869
    @simonking2869 3 роки тому +27

    Your 'Complete Story..." series is very well made and fascinating. Thank you!

    • @thewhoaddicts
      @thewhoaddicts  3 роки тому +4

      Thank you so much! I put a lot of effort into them so that means a lot

  • @swedishbloke
    @swedishbloke 2 роки тому +7

    My favourites are the Mondasian Cybermen (the ones Capaldi’s doctor encounters on the colony ship) and the Cybus Cybermen

  • @directeducation2890
    @directeducation2890 3 роки тому +5

    My favourite moment while watching The invasion on my 4K TV was not just seeing those Cyber-wetsuits, but in a close-up of their feet, seeing that their Cyber-boots were held on by Cyber-laces! I remember the size of TV we had when that was first on, and no-one would have noticed on a TV like that.

    • @naubolos8426
      @naubolos8426 2 роки тому

      They got Cyber-laces again after 'Earthshock'. They have them in 'The Five Doctors' and 'Attack of The Cybermen'. They make sense as if the foot is damaged, it is easier to untie or cut open laces. Though I am not sure how they'd tie them with those big Cyber-hands!

  • @SargentRail
    @SargentRail 7 місяців тому +4

    I love the wheel in space Cybermen. Especially the scene where the second doctor says to Jamie “I’ve got company” then the camera pans to the Cybermen. They may not be the creepiest or the funniest (cough cough earthshock) but the letterbox Cybermen I think are the most cyber-y. They had 3 whole serials which greatly took advantage of the less plastic like look.

  • @ariktaranis8855
    @ariktaranis8855 2 роки тому +6

    i could be wrong here but im pretty sure the mondassian cybermen didn't use inhibitor chips or anything like that but instead just cut off the part of the brain that processes emotions. which is what made the original conversions so dangerous which they show in spare parts.

  • @phantomsidious2934
    @phantomsidious2934 3 роки тому +24

    Excellent video, the Cybermen are my third favorite villains after the Master and Davros, although I must confess I like the classic Cybermen way more than the stomping robots of the modern series. Apart from the two parter in series 2 the Cybermen haven't had a proper story in the modern series very much, and their last 3 outings the Master was the screen stealer, I just Hope one day we get a proper story with Cybermen like the mondas ones from the series ten finale, the classics still work..

    • @nightowl8477
      @nightowl8477 3 роки тому +2

      The Master always makes an Alliance with another species, the Cybermen are just the most interesting for him to team-up with.

    • @phantomsidious2934
      @phantomsidious2934 3 роки тому +4

      @@nightowl8477 interesting yes but the Cybermen become sidelined and forgettable which Cybermen should never be

  • @deathblade909
    @deathblade909 10 місяців тому +2

    That one episode that showed us the first cybermen was crazy and the best

  • @nightowl8477
    @nightowl8477 3 роки тому +101

    My favourite villains! The body horror, the creepiness, the communism, the exploration of humanity and emotion. They rarely get utilised properly, but (like Martha) I love them all the same.

    • @theentity5201
      @theentity5201 3 роки тому +29

      You got it there, the cybermen are effectively technological communists. The whole speech from the cyber leader in doomsday about humans being removed of their sex, colour, class and creed, you will become identical, you will become like us. Thats nearly what Marx imagined give or take a Frankenstein idea or two, if the daleks are the fascist nazis/imperial Japan/Italy then the cybermen feel like the soviet union and china in a way, true communism would be the cybermen. Identical and equal save for the commanding leaders or cyber planners/hive mind.

    • @antcoloniesofearth7295
      @antcoloniesofearth7295 3 роки тому +8

      My favourite Cyberman stories:
      -Spare Parts
      -World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
      -Tomb of the Cybermen
      -The Haunting of Villa Diodatti, Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children

    • @robertsimpson8292
      @robertsimpson8292 3 роки тому +9

      I really don't see much parallel to communism

    • @nightowl8477
      @nightowl8477 3 роки тому +12

      @@robertsimpson8292 - it's there, but it's probably unintentional.
      Think of the Cybermen as the opposite to the Daleks (nazism being the polar opposite to communism.)

    • @nightowl8477
      @nightowl8477 3 роки тому

      @@antcoloniesofearth7295 - yeah, they're bloody brilliant stories. Really unique take on the Cybermen in all of them, except perhaps The Timeless Children, but the idea of Cyberfreyans is something I've been hoping for for a while.

  • @chaosboxproductions-scotti7153
    @chaosboxproductions-scotti7153 3 роки тому +11

    It's videos like this that make you realise how utterly amazing, creative, clever and just mind blowing Dr Who and it's lore is. Great stuff. Great video.

  • @misterjakester
    @misterjakester 3 роки тому +11

    Great video! Something I’d be interesting in seeing is you doing a video on all the companions in the series, from the show, audios, comics, and stories. I think it would be really cool.

  • @alexfletcher5192
    @alexfletcher5192 9 місяців тому +3

    The obvious tragedy of the Cybermen is that they were probably always Dr Who's most grisly concept, but increasingly sidelined as robots. And there are a mere handful of stories that explore what they actually mean in terms of humanity. But there is still scope. You see it in modern politics and the psychopathy of that. And the inability to design societies around humans rather than machines.

  • @jellybabiesarecool4657
    @jellybabiesarecool4657 3 роки тому +8

    There was also that race of cybermen in The War Master that Cole started who fought in the time war but got wiped out of history.

  • @OverlordMalarkey
    @OverlordMalarkey 3 роки тому +2

    The flaw of cybermen is they wish to improve humanity, which is a noble goul but it they "upgrade" humans by force, taking away the one thing that makes humans human. The freedom of choice

  • @stevepashley795
    @stevepashley795 3 роки тому +6

    This video was brilliant. Thank you. I've been a Dr Who fan from day one. I have every episode from the first till Jodie, and still downloading. So I have subscribed. Thank you. I was 10 when the first episode aired. Never missed one since

  • @Log-On-Line
    @Log-On-Line 7 місяців тому +3

    i loved the design for the cybermen in capaldis last season
    i loved that they brought back the old design and it really looks creepy with that cloth mask

  • @rushstone5670
    @rushstone5670 3 роки тому +1

    This is a brilliant video. Keep it up dude, you're on your way to gaining even more subs!

  • @chriscaygill6331
    @chriscaygill6331 3 роки тому +8

    Fantastic episode of "The Story Of" guys!!! Gave me a lot of information I didn't already know (particularly at the beginning of the video about the very start of the Cybermen). 20:35. Lol.😂😂
    I'd LOVE to see a Sarah Jane story of. That would be great as I haven't seen much of the classic era and my knowledge is limited.

  • @cosmichobo4216
    @cosmichobo4216 3 роки тому +24

    Great Video five thumbs up
    👍👍👍👍👍
    Request:Can you do U.N.I.T. Next

  • @PlanetNateGaming
    @PlanetNateGaming 3 роки тому +19

    The Cybermen with the brain windows still creep me out to this day (Just imagine being able to see your brain)

  • @lunaflower4507
    @lunaflower4507 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for this amazing video I love cybermen so much. Your content is fantaic keep up the amazing work x

  • @ReiverBlue1971
    @ReiverBlue1971 2 роки тому

    Nicely done! Interesting information all through out. Good work

  • @KimPossibleShockwave
    @KimPossibleShockwave 3 роки тому +15

    IIRC the Lumic Cybermen were reverse-engineered/re-developed from corpses of the Modasian Cybermen, found by Lumic.
    Ironically, he improved on the design: Only the brain was used compared to full-body conversion (even through they later did this during the Battle of Canary Wharf and beyond), and he eliminated their weakness to gold.

  • @ianmangham4570
    @ianmangham4570 Рік тому +3

    I was cybermen crazy in the 70s, still am. Best cybermen ever were with Tom Baker in 1975 era

  • @andreaswheeler
    @andreaswheeler 2 роки тому

    this is a great video, loads of information presented as clearly as possible , nice one

  • @jayanderson9375
    @jayanderson9375 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks, just rewatching this, what a resource!

  • @TheDankee75
    @TheDankee75 2 роки тому

    confusion started in the beginning of video with ape vs reptiles. But it a great video and so much still to clear up, keep up the good work!

  • @SFS1009
    @SFS1009 2 роки тому

    Some very good points made here...Plus those few, As yourself, Who mentioned material from David Banks "Excellent!" Cybermen book.

  • @LSween7573
    @LSween7573 3 роки тому +15

    The cyber men are an amazing doctor who villain

  • @HappyCodingZX
    @HappyCodingZX 3 роки тому +4

    I don't know if you mentioned if but the Cybermen's cameo in the Five Doctors is probably worth including.

  • @darrenwilliams5615
    @darrenwilliams5615 11 місяців тому +1

    spare parts is one of the greatest pieces of work ever written in who lore. very emotional and scary which is a big deal for an audio story.

  • @adamcrombleholme6180
    @adamcrombleholme6180 3 роки тому +17

    Say what ya want about the timeless child but the cyber masters were amazing! I loved the concept and design, gave me goosebumps

  • @ragewielder3098
    @ragewielder3098 3 роки тому +8

    I thought that the tomb of the cybermen was the first appearance of them on tv with the second doctor?, it’s also lucky that the upgraded ones from the nightmare in silver and all the other episodes after never moved as fast as they did in that one episode ever.

    • @TheAutisticBrony
      @TheAutisticBrony 3 роки тому +1

      Tenth Planet with the 1st Doctor and Moonbase with 2 are the first 2 appearances of The Cybermen.

    • @directeducation2890
      @directeducation2890 3 роки тому +1

      Moonbase is half lost, though, so Tomb is the first fully surviving 2nd Doctor Cyberman story.

  • @D1n0nlyD1v94
    @D1n0nlyD1v94 3 роки тому +4

    17:10 can we all just acknowledge how utterly uffed up this is ?

  • @hailander09
    @hailander09 3 роки тому +4

    Very nice, great work once more! I watched happily until the timeless children were mentioned, at which point i hastily vomited, shut the computer down and assumed the fetal position, weeping quietly while contemplating what an absolute trainwreck my once favorite show has become.

  • @royhay5741
    @royhay5741 3 роки тому +2

    It's implied that all Cybermen from Series 6 onwards are from our universe lacking the Cybus Industries and instead having the circular chest piece. However, it's also implied in Series 7 Nightmare in Silver that the Mondasian and Parallel Earth Cybermen had met one another and allied themselves fighting in the Great Cyber Wars together. So from Series 7 onwards including Series 10 we are seeing both types of Cybermen, a nice tie of for the Parallel Earth Cybermen.

    • @SFS1009
      @SFS1009 2 роки тому +1

      It makes a lot of sense...Or as the cyber leader would say..."Excellent!".

    • @royhay5741
      @royhay5741 2 роки тому

      @@SFS1009 motivational video from the Cyberleader ua-cam.com/video/Mt67k3AEl1s/v-deo.html

  • @StarWarsJay
    @StarWarsJay 2 роки тому

    Brilliant mate. I really enjoyed that.

  • @EdgyShooter
    @EdgyShooter 7 місяців тому +1

    I like the theory of the mondasian colony ship cybermen being the origin of the cybermen as that implies it all came down to the master again

  • @twistedmindsteam1449
    @twistedmindsteam1449 3 роки тому +6

    Biography of k9 anybody? I feel like it would be a lovely light-hearted adventure

  • @thomasmoran6547
    @thomasmoran6547 3 роки тому +10

    The cybermen are my favourite dw villains

  • @ChuckNorrisDragonborn
    @ChuckNorrisDragonborn 3 роки тому +2

    I always thought that the parallel universe cybermen joined forces with the normal cybermen and that's why there designs are similar in later seasons.

  • @Ethanc905
    @Ethanc905 3 роки тому

    Love these!!! Can’t wait for the next

  • @Regulus985
    @Regulus985 2 роки тому +1

    It's a story as old as time.
    Doctor meets cyberman.
    Doctor defeats cyberman.
    Doctor loses cyberman.
    Doctor meets cybermen again.

  • @vergil3687
    @vergil3687 3 роки тому +1

    "UPGRADE OR BE DELETED"-a cyberman

  • @thedon2441
    @thedon2441 3 роки тому +4

    New to the channel as of today see a few videos i like this season and was woundering can you do a river age video like you did with the doctor

  • @kafeimewtwo2410
    @kafeimewtwo2410 Рік тому +1

    I just realized, the reason he Master calls it the Genesis of the Cybermen in World Enough and Time is likely because the cybermen in the main universe come from that colony ship, especially post-Mondas destruction.

    • @kafeimewtwo2410
      @kafeimewtwo2410 Рік тому

      also small tangent, I dont think in World Enough and Time and The Doctor Falls, I don't think the Master upstages the Cybermen. If anything, they're upstaged by the cybermen and are honestly a great addition to the episode.

  • @eliotreader8220
    @eliotreader8220 Рік тому +1

    I did like the new sleeker appearance of the cybermen when they appeared in night mere in sliver. I think the lights in the armour look better than what they had before

  • @jamesbarras3834
    @jamesbarras3834 Рік тому +1

    I have a vague memory of reading a doctor who book that called the cyber men a phenomenon thats happened to countless worlds across the universe and said that it’s something ingrained into all living things. I might be completely making this memory up who knows

  • @keithnorris6348
    @keithnorris6348 2 роки тому

    I remember the popular antic of putting a smiley face on the frost on the outside of the thermos flask liners which moved around on a magnetic monorail held to the rail. Held by their lids which carried the long pressure ventilation hoses down to near the ground giving them the appearance of men moving on a fog cloud in a vast military bio lab the torso carried the samples in monitoring radio stations giving the appearance of a chest.

  • @Eltonlaleham
    @Eltonlaleham 3 роки тому +1

    AWESOME CYBERMEN VIDEO IN BILLIONS OF WAYS

  • @michaelhalford2640
    @michaelhalford2640 3 роки тому +3

    Yep couldn’t agree with you more, I’ve tried to make a timeline incorporating the audio Big Finish stories with the David Banks timeline. Next to impossible.

    • @naubolos8426
      @naubolos8426 2 роки тому

      Generally I take Banks' as authoritative. It is the only timeline that makes sense.
      I do think you can make Big Finish fit (at least early ones that were inspired by Banks's timeline), though, when you factor in time travel.

  • @willadeefriesland5107
    @willadeefriesland5107 2 роки тому +1

    International Electromatics... Tobias Vaughn... The Invasion... St Paul's steps... What an iconic image...

  • @sk1ppman
    @sk1ppman 3 роки тому +4

    Man, the Cybermen have a bad case of Power Creep. Now there's Time Lord Cybermen? Come on man.

  • @Direwolf-pg7wx
    @Direwolf-pg7wx 10 місяців тому +2

    I dont really know why but the original modasian cybermen absolutely terrify me for some reason

  • @juliecrockford1046
    @juliecrockford1046 2 роки тому

    The cyberman on the left are the nightmares of my childhood. i used to wake up screaming as i tried to trap them in a coffin. my most scariest nightmares, but thanks for reminding me of them.

  • @DiscoTimelordASD
    @DiscoTimelordASD 3 роки тому +5

    Thank you so much for providing me with a much better history and set of timelines for The Cyberman - it is very confusing to follow, but that's what makes them scary because of the unknown parts...

  • @alisonsmith4436
    @alisonsmith4436 Рік тому

    I love your videos so much information 😊

  • @alkinurdotran1053
    @alkinurdotran1053 Рік тому +1

    I see you also added the fan fiction at the end

  • @entwistlefromthewho
    @entwistlefromthewho Рік тому +1

    I wish that, when they revived Doctor Who in 2005, they had just started over with a new First Doctor.

  • @willadeefriesland5107
    @willadeefriesland5107 2 роки тому +2

    I've always believed that the 'main' universe Cybermen merged technologies with 'Pete's' universe ones that crossed over. This could explain why the main universe Cybermen look the way they do in the later modern Who era... They are STILL the deadliest foes of the Doctor... The only ones that we could REALLY become! Brrr! Scary!

  • @wcapewell3089
    @wcapewell3089 3 роки тому +5

    Maybe do a video on a classic villain, Sutekh

  • @thedoctor4949
    @thedoctor4949 3 роки тому +1

    The old rusty normal cybermen looked so cool and they always survive .

  • @nightowl8477
    @nightowl8477 3 роки тому +18

    Ascension of the Cybermen comes before Nightmare in Silver, doesn't it?

    • @jasondavidson9491
      @jasondavidson9491 3 роки тому +10

      I believe nightmare in silver comes after all stories as those Cybermen were more powerful than their predecessors and had super speed, therefore the blew up the planet as nothing could stop them. I believe Ascension and TTC come before the Cybermen that appear in Dark Water and Nightmare in Silver is when the Cybermen finally died as we've never seen the versions from that episode which had superspeed and basically invincible. Honestly its all confusing but that's basically how I see it

  • @akamundi864
    @akamundi864 Рік тому +1

    Small mistake, there was no cyber fleet when the 11th doctor regenerated, it was clearly stated that only the daleks were fighting at that point (i think)

  • @JAProductions494
    @JAProductions494 3 роки тому +5

    Yeees the Cyber-Wars next plz

  • @greg2961
    @greg2961 9 місяців тому +1

    We need you back during this wilderness period!

  • @WhiteChevy4.8
    @WhiteChevy4.8 Місяць тому

    These guys were always the most terrifying doctor who villains to me when I was younger.

  • @roberthicks1612
    @roberthicks1612 2 роки тому

    I am not certain where you got your information, but according to the doctor who episodes, the cybermen were created (by the master) in the ship that was carrying survivors of their planet (that was slug out of earths orbit) that ran into a black hole orbit. The surviving bridge crew set up to back it away, but that was going to take time. Because of time dilation between the bridge and the engine room, the parts of the ship further from the black hole had many generations in the hours the crew was trying to get the ship to move away. By the time the ship cleared, it was wholly cybermen, who then returned to their planet (not being affected by the cold, and they created the engine to return it to earths orbit.
    Bill Potts was one of the first cybermen.

  • @tonycavanagh1929
    @tonycavanagh1929 7 місяців тому +1

    The Cyber men, was the only Dr who monsters that scared me in the 60s

  • @chrisbuckley7345
    @chrisbuckley7345 Рік тому

    In 10th Planet, the Cybermen launch an entire fleet from Monday towards Earth before Mondas is destroyed, but it is said to be unable to reach Earth when they are cut off from the power being broadcast to them from Mondas.
    If I recall correctly, in Silver Nemesis they imply that the fleet in orbit is that very same fleet - with enough power to mask their presence, but not enough to safely land, which is why they want the power of the Nemesis.

  • @LexiTheLeo
    @LexiTheLeo 3 роки тому +15

    Is it just me or are the Cybermen more scary than the Daleks? Idk id rather come into contact with a Dalek than the Cybermen 🤣 thank you for your video by the way!

    • @thebostonterrierdude1585
      @thebostonterrierdude1585 3 роки тому +6

      Dying would be much preferred to having my head cut open WHILE IM ALIVE AND AWAKE and living the rest of my days a robot zombie.

    • @bob_the_bomb4508
      @bob_the_bomb4508 Рік тому

      Well cybermen are certainly more able to deal with stairs…

    • @pikachufantastic
      @pikachufantastic 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@bob_the_bomb4508darleks have been shown to have the ability to fly so stairs mean nothing to those crazy flying disco trash cans.

    • @bob_the_bomb4508
      @bob_the_bomb4508 11 місяців тому

      @@pikachufantastic they had to retcon the flying ability after the famous Birkett cartoon “well this buggers our plan to conquer the universe…”

    • @pikachufantastic
      @pikachufantastic 11 місяців тому

      @@bob_the_bomb4508 oh I didn't know that little bit, cool bit of information thanks for sharing.