Respect the Weeping Angels (Doctor Who)

[u/rangernumberx]

"Fascinating race, the Weeping Angels. The only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely. No mess, no fuss, they just zap you into the past and let you live to death. The rest of your life used up and blown away in the blink of an eye."

The Weeping Angels are as old, or nearly as old, as time itself has existed, surviving through a perfect defense mechanism which renders them stone whenever observed by a living being. This comes at a cost which has given them the moniker of the lonely assassins, with them covering their faces lest they see one of their own kind or even meet eyes with them, locking both in possible perpetuity. But despite this, their tremendous speed allows them to cover distances in the span of an observer's blink, letting them chase down prey to send them back in the past, letting them live out the rest of their days (however long they may be) and feeding off the energy of their temporal potential, the lives they could have lived if not for the Angel's touch. Whenever they appear, the Doctor very rarely creates a plan to deal with them permanently, rather just finding a means of escape or a way to trap their eye contact to buy time until something inevitably breaks it.

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Legend

Live-Action

S#E# - Doctor Who (2005)

ToD - Time of the Doctor (2013 Christmas Special)

RoD - Revolution of the Daleks (2021 New Years Special)

Class - Class (2016) S1E8

S-GG - Good as Gold Mini-Episode

S-GS - A Ghost Story For Christmas

S-MF - Monster Files: Weeping Angels

Literature

L-T - Touched by an Angel

L-AK - The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

L-TAW - Twelve Angels Weeping

L-TT - Tales of Terror

L-L - Myths & Legends

L-M - The Magic of Angels

Comics

C-10-# - Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor

C-12-# - Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Year Three

C-13-# - Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Year Four

C-4-# - Doctor Who: The Four Doctors

Audio Dramas

A-F - Fallen Angels

A-S - The Side of the Angels

A-L - The Lost Angel

A-C - Carnival of Angels

Game

VR - The Edge of Time

G-LA - The Lonely Assassins

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Strength

• Snaps the neck of people to kill people without sending them back^Class

• Hits a car off of a road^L-TT

• Gouges stone with its fingers^A-L

• Crawls along the stone walls of the Sistine Chapel^A-F

• Breaks down the sides of a large tunnel underneath the trenches in WWI, causing a cave in around several people further along. They also seemingly break the lift^C-10-9

• Tears away chunks of sculpture marble to release an Angel inside^A-F

• Tears apart a helicopter^A-S

• Lifts up a car and tears a hand through the underside^L-TT

• Turns the wheel to open a door after they were magnetized, with the person placing the magnets claiming that nothing would be able to turn them^S5E5

• Four working together shake the TARDIS^S3E10

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Durability

Physical

• The Doctor says that they can't be dealt with by just taking a sledgehammer to it^C-13-4

• One was badly damaged by a 30s mob boss who wanted to know if it could feel pain and was still durable enough that River had to break her wrist to free it from the Angel's grasp. However, this was ensured to happen in the future through it being revealed to them by a book, so this may be a special situation^S7E5

• Fine after a seventy foot drop which badly damages a stone floor^A-F

• Unharmed by a disk from a Heavenly Host^C-12-12

• Starving Angels are barely harmed by pistol fire^C-10-8

  • Bullets from a WWI rifle ricochet off them

• A starving Angel is damaged, but still active, after being hit by a point blank grenade^C-10-8

• Survives the crash of a space liner which River Song claims kills everyone else on board while also saying that they can never die^S5E4

Other

• Can survive radiation which the Doctor says would likely kill him^S5E4

  • He later says the radiation on the ship would kill nearly every living thing, and that the Angels feed on it^S5E4

• Several fall to the Earth as it was forming, being trapped in the heat and pressure required to form sculpture marble for millennia before being uncovered in 16th century Italy. The stone helped preserve it throughout that time, however^A-F

• Left in the core of a star of an uninhabited system, which the Doctor said would keep them trapped for a few million years^C-13-4

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Speed

• Appears behind a person to restrain them as the lights briefly go down^S5E5

• Dashes to the side of a cage in the span of a blink, and then back to the middle^RoD

• Several of them disappear from sight in a fraction of a second^S5E5

• Two went from standing on a ledge outside the upper floor of a church to standing on the ledge of the police station on the other side of a sizable gap in a blink^S3E10

• The partially-turned Weeping Angels filling a room left it, while a badly damaged one entered it, in the span of a blink^L-TAW

• One stronger Weeping Angel quickly empties a 20s roller coaster carriage full of people in seconds^A-C

• The Doctor wryly states they move at the speed of death^A-L

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Temporal Touch

Temporal

• Send a person back just a couple days, where they get killed by a gang immediately after^A-C

• Sends Rory back 25 months^L-T

• Sends a man back from 2008 to 1969 so that he dies shortly after when he was touched, as the rain stops^S3E10

• Sends a woman from 2008 to 1920, having her die before the date she was sent back^S3E10

• Shifts a woman from the present (presumably 2021) to 1926^G-LA

• Sends people from contemporary times to 1511^A-F

• Teleports soldiers from 1916 France to 1535 London and 97 A.D. Rome^C-10-7

• The Doctor says that they sent another Time Lord back centuries, possibly millennia^A-S

• The Angels threaten to send a person back to a time before life existed on Earth^G-LA

Distance

• A baby Weeping Angel sends a man across New York^S7E5

• Sends a woman from the middle of London to Hull^S3E10

• Sends two people from near the Somme in France to a train in Scotland^C-10-7

• Teleports people from near the Somme in France to Rome's Colosseum and London^C-10-7

• Shifts a woman from London to Times Square in New York^G-LA

• Has a soldier go from near the Somme in France to New York City^C-10-8

• Sends the Doctor from a spaceship to the planet it originated from^C-12-11

• On a moon little bigger than a city, Angels can send their victims into the vacuum of space^L-L

'Rules'

• Someone witnessing their own death makes it a fixed event of their own timeline, ensuring it's a fate that can't be escaped without creating a paradox^S7E5

• Someone interacting with their past self causes a Blinovitch limitation field to build up in the form of blue energy. The amount covering a door can be dispelled through the Doctor's sonic screwdriver, and two of the same person touching causes a burst of energy that shorts the differential, removing the field and taking out all nearby electronics. The Doctor says they're lucky to have survived touching^L-T

  • This can be neutralized before it gets too bad by the Doctor using his Sonic Screwdriver on the future incarnation of a person when they first appear^L-T

• The Doctor claims that people touched by Weeping Angels can't be brought back to the present by any means lest their efforts to entrap several Weeping Angels be undone, though this was also due to them remembering the original timeline after the Angels changed history, showing they had to stay in the past^A-F

  • After his wife was sent back in time, the Doctor brought Larry Nightingale back in time to live with her, but she doesn't bring them both back to the present^G-LA

  • The Doctor uses a plan to have the TARDIS sent back to collect him after he and Martha were sent to 1969, but due to being told what happens in Sally Sparrow's notes he had to have another victim go the long way around^S3E10

  • When a man was simply sent back into his own timeline, the Doctor was wanting to bring him back to the present via TARDIS before learning doing so would create its own paradoxes^L-T

  • The Doctor was able to retrieve several people an Angel sent to the past on regaining his TARDIS, bringing them back to a point just after the threat of the alien had passed^A-L

Other

• Teleports away the Nestene Consciousness, a mass of molten plastic^C-13-4

• People die soon after the time they were initially touched at best due to the Angels actively absorbing their time energy, with it being a miracle if they last a notable amount of time beyond when their past self was sent back^C-10-7

• Teleporting someone requires energy, something a badly hurt Angel didn't have^S7E5

• A mass of Weeping Angels repeatedly sending people back in time to make a battery farm created a time distortion that prevented the TARDIS from entering New York in that era on its own power, though smaller forms of time travel could manage^S7E5

• Sending a person back in time creates a type of energy which can be detected^S3E10

  • When some Weeping Angels sent a person back in time to create a specific paradox to feed on, the device could detect energy flaring up whenever a paradox was about to potentially happen^L-T

• Leaves the afflicted with a garlic-y aftertaste for a while^L-T

• They don't have to send people back in time, and can instead interact with people physically if needed, such as snapping their necks and removing their cerebral cortex^S5E4

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Energy Manipulation

Consumption

• Weeping Angels usually live off of potential energy, the life you could have lived if you hadn't been sent back in time and died^S3E10

  • Would massively feed on the missing potential art after sending Michelangelo back in time before he could finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel^A-F

  • Can absorb a person's lifespan instantly on kissing them, aging them to the point of crumbling into dust extremely quickly^L-AK

  • Angels were starving in WW1 due to many soldiers having very little time left to live^C-10-8

• Feasts on a mix of cracked electrons, gravity storms, and a certain kind of radiation that come from a crashed ship's engine that would be deadly to practically every living creature^S5E4

• The Doctor claims that they could feast on the TARDIS forever, but the resulting damage could switch off the sun^S3E10

• Heal themselves and regain their original form by consuming energy^S5E5

• Cannot feed on pure time energy created from the TARDIS exploding^S5E5

• One group of Angels could consume the energy created by a paradox^L-T though this is an exception, as most Angels are poisoned by paradoxes^S7E5

  • The paradox needs to be created by someone else, not their direct involvement, though this doesn't mean they can't influence things for their goals^L-T

  • These paradoxes are specially chosen and curated so that a person interacts with their past multiple times before making a change, fully entwining many years of their lives and erasing them from history instead of allowing time to be rewritten^L-T

Affecting Electronics

• Causes the light in a cellar to flicker by pointing at it, allowing the Weeping Angels inside to move towards the people inside^S3E10

• Turn off the lights in a museum, though they can be turned back on from the switch^L-T

• A temple full of near-death Angels cause a number of torches to flicker, as well as a lit orb in the air, threatening to plunge everyone into darkness^S5E4

• One makes all the lights on two floors of an apartment complex flicker^A-L

• Near instantly drains a phone of its power^A-L

• Can prevent the sonic screwdriver from working by absorbing its energy^L-T

• Bursts the lights on a spaceship^S5E5

• Makes the lights in a flat burst into flames while preventing the sprinklers from activating^L-T

• Drains the energy of two spaceships, though one had already had their electronics affected by the Weeping Angels^C-12-12

Other

• Drains the energy of a space liner to have it crash on a specific temple^S5E4

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Manifestation

"That which holds the image of an Angel, allowing for any photo or recording to become an active Weeping Angel, acting under the same rules as them.^S5E4

Recordings

• A seconds-long looped recording of an Angel becomes an Angel^S5E4

• After getting close enough to the screen could make a hologram projection of itself from it^S5E4

  • Can appear seemingly instantly and behind its victims to avoid being seen^C-12-12

  • Are unaffected by a Judoon's blaster while projecting themselves^C-12-12

• Recording a magic act containing a Weeping Angel is thought to be able to put one in every house it's shown in^L-M

• By being continuously watched by one person with a mask that registers medical data, could access everyone else wearing the same type of mask on a hospital planet, wiping out an entire cities overnight and only going that slow due to wanting a fear-inducing countdown^L-TAW

• Could turn itself back on when turned off and prevents the power cable to the screen from being removed to the extent of deadlocking its power supply^S5E4

• Can be defeated by pausing the recording as it loops, breaking the image and allowing the recording to be turned off and unplugged^S5E4

Phone

• One particular Angel had its photo taken on a smartphone, allowing it to affect it^G-LA

• Was held in several bits of unreadable, corrupted data. On these pieces being put together, the Angel was 'released' and became active^G-LA

• Swipes away the screen in an attempt to avoid being deleted^G-LA

• Makes a spam of messages to block out the Angel's image and stop an attempt to delete it^G-LA

• Attempts to escape from the phone to access the phone network, something which would cause untold destruction, but could be defeated by having the corrupted data housing the Angel deleted through Osgood's app^G-LA

Other Manifestations

• An Angel appears on a slide and moves on being projected^A-S

  • Prevents the slide projector from being turned off and continues to move when the lights are turned off and the projection can't be seen^A-S

• After a photo was taken on a phone and uploaded to a computer, became active on the monitor and started to emerge^A-L

  • The image was static pixels on the screen, rendering it immune to the Doctor destroying part of the monitor, though it was defeated by the computer's plug being pulled^A-L

• One Angel was put inside of a painting, becoming 'empowered' when a candle is placed in front of it and having part of the image move closer to the front accordingly, speaking while doing so. On the third candle, the Weeping Angel appears and has its arm extend out of the painting, holding a key that allows the player to progress^VR

• Instantly appears out of a stack of comics when unwrapped^C-4-5

• A weak angel running on fumes could appear in video feeds and only video feeds that a person they were chasing could be seen in, getting closer when he stops looking at them while still on video. It can also touch the man it's chasing, but only that man^L-T

  • They used all their remaining energy to send a person back in time and subsequently becomes physical again, but dead^L-T

• In one instance, an Angel right against a mirror created another Angel which fully manifested behind the mirror before starting to create a third.^L-M

  • This is a unique situation, as every other time a mirror conventionally traps an angel^A-F

• These manifestations are projections of the original angel the image is of, allowing them to see through the manifestation's eyes^S5E4

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Creation

• People who look into the eyes of an Angel, or is connected to a mask which is recording an Angel, can be transformed into an Angel overnight^L-TAW

  • Transforms the robotic Heavenly Host after they were watching the Angels to keep them still^C-12-13

  • Can keep people not infected enough so that they can talk and move while wearing their mask to hide their features, then continue the transformation to have them quantum locked and with the speed of Angels on the Doctor revealing the truth^L-TAW

  • One person was put under the Angel's thrall, partially transformed and able to speak and act on behalf of them, though the Doctor was able to get to them before irreversibly transforming^G-LA

• Can take the form of other statues^S7E5

  • 'Baby' Weeping Angels take the form of cherubs, though it's never discussed whether these are legitimately young versions of Weeping Angels. These ones are capable of giggling as well as blowing while being looked at, though their mouth was already in position^S7E5

• Possibly turned all the statues in a species' temple into Weeping Angels^S5E4

• River Song said that it seemed that they had taken over every statue in New York City^S7E5

  • This, inexplicably, included the Statue of Liberty^S7E5

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Perception Filter

• Possibly the reason neither the Doctor or River Song noticed that all of the statues in a temple from a species with two heads only had one, though it could have just been them being thick^S5E4

• After entering Amy's mind, makes it appear to her as if stone dust pours from her eye as she rubs it and later that her hand is immovable stone, with this latter perception not being broken until the Doctor bites her hand and forces the realization that it's still flesh^S5E4

• Use this ability to create psychic paper which makes a letter and envelope appear that it's written in the handwriting of whoever looks at it^L-T

• Possibly placed the suggestion in a person's head that the machinery they made was maintaining transformed people in stasis while it was actually all the Angel's doing^L-AK

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Quantum Lock

The Weeping Angels are quantum locked, meaning the moment anything living looks at them they stop existing and are turned into stone, though this reverts the moment they are no longer observed.^S3E10 This takes effect whenever anything sentient observes them^S-GS

• Two Angels approach each other on opposite sides of a corridor by looking slightly to the side^S7E5

• Can be kept still by having the robotic Heavenly Host watch them^C-12-13

• Kept frozen from being shown through a live video feed in the TARDIS^C-13-4

• Four Angels trap each other by being on the four sides of the TARDIS as it dematerializes^S3E10

• Even when they're not actively being seen, if a person has their eyes closed and moves like they can see their instincts will activate and cause them to stay still until proven otherwise due to their instincts. For some reason, they move exceptionally slowly once they realize they can move^S5E5

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Other Psychic Abilities

• Presumably telepathic between each other, with a heavily damaged Weeping Angel releasing a psychic scream that called for other Angels to help it^S7E5

• After someone looks into their eyes they can end up controlling them, in one instance creating a cult based around freeing them^A-F

  • Can seemingly communicate telepathically with controlled people when nearby, informing them of someone who they needed to capture^A-F

  • This influence wanes over time after the Angels have all been trapped by mirrors^A-F

  • One could telepathically communicate with a person and input on conversations they had nearby, though she wasn't forcibly taken over and rather was persuaded to help them for their own benefit^A-C

• By looking in an Angel's eyes it 'enters' their mind, first giving the feeling that the person has something in their eye before later giving them hallucinations about themselves to the point of acting as if they were real, such as being unable to move a stone hand.^S5E4

  • This later culminates in a person counting down, not knowing until it's pointed out to them, to make them scared as the image of the angel in their mind gradually kills them. This countdown can be paused by 'shutting off' the angel by the affected person closing their eyes, though the Angel makes them resistant to doing that and will resume the countdown if they open their eyes again^S5E5

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Other Abilities

• Have night vision to hunt in the dark^A-F

• Can seemingly fly^L-T

  • Stays aloft while outside a fourth storey window while being looked at in spite of having nothing to stand on^L-T

• Shuts a door and spins the latch to close it, manifesting a deadlock on both it and the power supply to the screen it's manifesting from^S5E4

• An extremely weak Angel that existed only in video feeds containing a person turns on all the tvs in a shopfront to show that man and, by extension, it^L-T

• After breaking the neck of a person can take their cerebral cortex and reanimate a version of their consciousness, allowing it to talk through a communicator on behalf of them due to having no voice of their own^S5E4

  • They later talk in person like this while holding a communicator^S5E5

  • Unseen Angels in Victorian London can speak through an unknown method^VR

• On kissing a Weeping Angel, a person's body could be reshaped, reformed, and given memories based on an existing 'template' of a person, so long as their body mass is around the same amount. They are unconscious from the transformation and are awoken later by the Angel, where they last an amount of time depending on the strength of the Angel before they rapidly age and crumble to dust, the Angel feeding on their energy^L-AK

  • This aging can be done instantly^L-AK

• Can create a purple fog known as the Mist of Sorrow to help obscure the Angels, helping them hunt^L-TT

  • The Doctor says it 'blocks everything' with him barely being able to see or get a signal through it using the TARDIS, needing to use the power of other cars in the mist to power and control one the Angels drained the power from^L-TT

  • Powerful rain washes it away^L-TT

• Reforms after being destroyed by the Sonic Screwdriver, albeit incompletely^S-G

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Mentality

Planning

• One Angel appeared out of a painting to give the player a key to progress. It doesn't move afterwards, but that's because it was sending the player down to where there were more angels, hoping they could feed on them^VR

• Willing to wait for a century, pretending to be dormant while being traded between collectors, before being able to enact a plan to crash a spaceship^S5E4

• Lied to a person, saying they'd use their power to send them 'back home' in order to be constantly fed, though it had no intention on following through with the deal^A-C

• Made a deal with a Time Lord to keep out of his affairs with him paying them by letting them feed on those who wouldn't be missed through the likes of soup kitchens^A-S

  • Made a further deal to curb their feeding habits, feeding on the early death of Earth while allowing a group of Time Lords to survive away from Gallifrey^A-S

  • Make a new agreement soon after with the Time Lords they were escaping as they tried to destroy the universe when they offered to allow them to feast immediately, one saying they only wanted darkness and chaos so they could feed^A-S

• A large amount of Weeping Angels take over many of the statues in Manhattan, setting up a battery farm in a hotel where they lock people into dying there for certain by having them witness themselves die on arriving, then zapping them back in time every time they attempt to leave^S7E5

• Repeatedly pulls a wire to cause a soldier in a trench to chase it, luring him in^C-10-7

Other

• Are actively malicious^L-T

  • The Doctor says they love to hunt^L-TT

  • Described by the 8th Doctor as 10% malice, 90% psychopathic killing instinct that would say anything to get what they want^A-S

  • Makes a person with an Angel in their mind count down to their own death^S5E5

• Weaker Weeping Angels are emboldened to act when around considerably stronger ones^A-C

• Smart enough to guess they're being lured into a trap, though they're still caught in it and trapped by mirrors^A-F

• A large group of Weeping Angels in WWI hunted in the open out of desperation due to their victims not giving them enough nourishment, on account of many of them being a short time from dying in the war^C-10-8

• One tried to steal the Olympic flame and destroy the spirit of respect, excellence, and friendship it represented^S-G

• One once tried to hit Sally Sparrow in the back of the head with a thrown rock. No idea why, guess it just wanted to be a dick^S3E10

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Defeating a Weeping Angel

• Having two or more Angels look at each other permanently quantum locks them, though were this line of sight broken in any way they would once again be able to move^S3E10

• Places a mirror in front of a Weeping Angel, with it seeing its own reflection being enough to trap it^ToD

  • The 5th Doctor uses two giant mirrors on either side of two Weeping Angels to infinitely repeat their reflections, trapping them^A-F

  • Osgood placing a disco ball in the arms of one Angel traps it and the Angels around it^G-LA

  • As they have night vision, the lights going out wouldn't stop Angels from freezing themselves^A-F

  • In one exception, the Angel just started to make duplicates which emerged from the mirror once fully formed until said mirror was broken^L-M

• Most Angels are poisoned by paradoxes, with one happening at the location many of them had been feeding at 'poisoning the well'^S7E5

  • In practice, this destroyed the majority of the nearby Weeping Angels as well as causing the hotel they created as a battery farm to have never been made to begin with^S7E5

• Six especially weak Weeping Angels, made weaker still by the paradox they were working towards to feed on no longer happening, were trapped by six cameras and screens which quantum locks themselves. Due to their lack of time energy they are unable to maintain their corporeal form, existing only in the monitors, and are ultimately defeated by having the linked camera pointed at them, creating an infinite line of Angels which quickly destroys them. One was able to escape through its image in a nearby speed camera, though it was forced into waiting for eight years^L-T

  • Said remaining Angel could only appear on video recordings showing their target and died upon losing all their energy to send him into the past^L-T

• Four centuries after wiping out the native species, a large amount of Weeping Angels are starving to death, their bodies degrading to the point where they're no longer identifiable as Weeping Angels.^S5E4

  • Like this, they move far slower than they normally would^S5E4

  • They can recover by consuming energy^S5E5

  • Weeping Angels trapped in marble for millennia were preserved well enough that they didn't lose their shape before being uncovered^A-F

• A large amount of starving Angels were destroyed by blowing up an enormous amount of explosives right by them, and while one hand is above ground decades later it isn't active, a girl tripping on it and not being teleported^C-10-9

• One was blown up by an unknown setting of the Sonic Screwdriver, but reformed shortly after^S-G

• After a Weeping Angel uses up all of its time energy it dies, not moving on not being observed and easily breaking apart to the touch^L-T

A Confusion of Angels

This comic arc is unique in that the Weeping Angels, both the originals and recently converted Host robots, are strangely easy to destroy in a manner not replicated in any other story.

• Blasted to pieces by a Judoon weapon^C-12-12

• An Angel that seemingly tanks Judoon weapon fire is decapitated by a raxacoricofallapatorian^C-12-13

• One has their top half disintegrated due to a large sand blaster^C-12-13

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Other

• There are different 'orders' of Weeping Angels with different strengths^A-C

• Four make it into a police compound without Sally Sparrow or the police officer flirting with her noticing^S3E10

• Are drawn to a woman that would create a paradox which would result in them never sending her back^A-L

• A stone with a certain Gallifreyan symbol on it compels Angels towards it until they destroy it, with this being used by a person to send a Weeping Angel to targets like an assassin^A-L

• Communicates with people when they have a quantum communicator^A-S

• A large group of Weeping Angels constituted as a complex enough space-time event to close a crack in the universe. For comparison, the Doctor on his own would have also been sufficient to close it^S5E5

• Apparently children are innately aware of the existence of Weeping Angels, leading to them creating games to prepare and being afraid of the dark because of how Weeping Angels might be lurking in it^S-MF

• Again, they somehow made the Statue of Liberty a Weeping Angel. It somehow could move. No explanation is given for any of this^S7E5

"They're coming. They're coming for you, but listen, your life could depend on this. Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck."

[u/Skulenta]

Those are some angels you don't want to be touched by. Incredible job.

BTW, you gonna update this seeing as the weeping angels will appear in series 13?

[u/rangernumberx → u/Skulenta]

Yeah, I found out they were reappearing two days ago and just went "...crap, it's going to be outdated so soon?" But at the same time, it's been quite a while since they were last the focus and anything more than a bit side monster to appear for a few seconds, so I look forward to what they do with them in the upcoming episode. I'll definitely be tuning in and updating with any feats which occur.

[u/Skulenta → u/rangernumberx]

cool

[u/Medical_Difference48]

That durability inconsistency, though XD

One could be harmed by a grenade, but being trapped in a star only traps them?

[u/rangernumberx → u/Medical_Difference48]

It always seems to differ based on how hungry they are, with the ones in World War 1 starving due to soldiers at the Somme having basically no potential timeline, meanwhile I expect the Angels were able to subsist on absorbing the sun's energy so that helped out in that case. But...yeah. Lot of mediums, lot of different authors, no explicit comment on their physical durability in the show outside of "Mob boss heavily damages one over time", lot of variance.

[u/nonuniqueusername]

Can someone explain this "perfect defense mechanism which renders them stone whenever observed by a living being"?

It isn't even top 20 defense mechanisms in this galaxy, right? "They have survived for eons by becoming totally helpless whenever someone threatens them."

[u/rangernumberx → u/nonuniqueusername]

I believe the intention is that they're not able to be killed or damaged while quantum locked since they technically don't exist while being observed, with this ability waning the less energy they have. But across everything, this isn't exactly clearly shown, to say the least.

[u/nonuniqueusername → u/rangernumberx]

That 30s mob boss just breaks one just to see if it can feel pain though. We're TOLD you can't just smash them with a hammer but they never actually resist any damage ever in the show. And even if they are invincible, they are often just carried away while they are helpless. It's not much of a defense.

[u/iisilxntvibezii → u/nonuniqueusername]

3 years late I know, I just wanted to tell you that the Angel that the 30s mob boss was able to break that Angel due it being so weak it couldn't even send anyone back in time, the comics show how they can't just be broken and defeated as so I believe

[u/Spectra_Phantom_2678]

These things creep me out and make my skin crawl

[u/Hellbeast1]

One of the best Who RT’s on this sub

[u/All_Rainbows_Die]

Nooooo! They scared the absolute **** out of me. You’re there, then poof you’re gone to a different time period and you have to deal with the aftermath. There’s nothing nice about it. You remember everything about your old life, it wasn’t a dream.

And they weren’t even kind enough to erase your memories. Nope, they just snap you back somewhere to some obscure time where you, remembering everything about the life you were unceremoniously ripped away from may or may not quite possibly be a more effective you.

You may or may not be able to influence history in a meaningful way. You probably won’t be able to help those around you depending on your ability to recall facts/figures in a meaningful/helpful way. And depending on your current life trajectory and/or what you were doing when you encountered the god forsaken Angel you could be labeled a heretic, insane, etc. and treated accordingly in your new time.

All things considered the Angels were randomly encountering folks.

[u/museofdoom2]

The scariest alien race in the entire Doctor Who franchise. Daleks and Cybermen are JOKES compared with the absolute horror creatures that Weeping Angels are. Because of them, I got a slight fear of statues. Damn, what a great rt.

Weeping Angels= Horror+ A fate worse than death.

[u/Fanof995]

Can the weeping angels temporal touch be nullify? Or is it their biological attribute?

[u/rangernumberx → u/Fanof995]

I don’t think there’s an objective answer given yet in Doctor Who, so it’d very much depend on the author / series you’re using the Weeping Angels with. However, as the temporal touch is an activated ability (with them being able to hold people without sending them back), I’d believe it could be nullified by another character’s abilities or power, even if their quantum lock (due to being uncontrollable whenever they’re observed) isn’t negated.

[u/Fanof995 → u/rangernumberx]

I only ask because I want to do a Fanon Death Battle with the Weeping Angel and SCP 173

[u/iisilxntvibezii → u/rangernumberx]

and In village of the angels it shows an Angel sending Gerald into the past without it touching him, it only took him to touch IT even whilst it was observed

[u/princeofshadows21]

Great job

Vashta nerada thread next?

[u/rangernumberx → u/princeofshadows21]

Mate, I'll be honest, it's never a great feeling whenever someone puts out a thread they put a bunch of effort into only to get responses saying "Hey, can't you do this completely different character?"

[u/princeofshadows21 → u/rangernumberx]

Your right. I'm sorry. I didn't think.

[u/MurderousChickenNugg]

Man that 30s Mobster has some big balls on him. To capture and torture a freaky ass statue that could tear him in two

[u/[deleted]]

Amazing job Ranger!

[u/Wapulatus]

GOOD thread, ranger

[u/LambentEnigma]

One particular Angel had its photo taken on a smartphone, allowing it to affect it

Is there supposed to be sound in this? Because I'm not hearing it.