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=== Spin-offs === The Cybermen have appeared in various [[Doctor Who spin-offs|spin-off]] media. ==== Novels ==== The Cybermen were also featured in the novel ''Iceberg'' by actor [[David Banks (actor)|David Banks]], who played the Cyber Leader in the television series from ''Earthshock'' to ''Silver Nemesis''. Banks had previously written, in 1988, ''Cybermen'', a fictional history of the Cybermen which included a "future" design for them. The Missing Adventure Novel ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'' also features Cybermen of the type seen in ''Revenge of the Cybermen''. During this novel, the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s new companion [[Grant Markham]] returns to his home planet and learns that a group of Cybermen have hidden on it for centuries, with his robophobia being based around the repressed memory of witnessing a Cyberman kill his mother before he escaped. In two Virgin Missing Adventures novels by [[Craig Hinton]], the Cybermen become Cyberlords at some point in their history. They are mentioned in passing in Hinton's ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus]]'', where the Cyberlord Hegemony is a peaceful future version of the Cybermen who have an empire in the [[Milky Way]]; their description was modelled after Banks's designs. In ''[[The Quantum Archangel]]'', there are numerous unexplained references to the Cyberlords as an extremely advanced race. At one point, they are referred to as the Time Lords' greatest ally in the Millennium War, though because that war was supposed to have taken place a very long time before the modern era, it is unclear how this bit of Cyberhistory fits in or whether or not they have achieved advanced time travel capabilities. While not explicitly mentioned, Hinton may have adopted this idea from the aborted script for the [[Five Doctors]] by [[Robert Holmes (scriptwriter)]], which would have had the Cybermen adopting [[Time Lord]] DNA to achieve their higher state of being. The Past Doctor Adventures novel ''[[Illegal Alien (Doctor Who)|Illegal Alien]]'' featured Cybermen and Cybermats in London during [[the Blitz]]. Cyber-technology left over from that adventure was subsequently misused in ''[[Loving the Alien (Doctor Who)|Loving the Alien]]'', written by the same authors. The Fifth Doctor story ''[[Warmonger (Doctor Who)|Warmonger]]'' by [[Terrance Dicks]] has the Cybermen join the Doctor's alliance against [[Morbius (Doctor Who villain)|Morbius]]. The First Doctor story ''[[The Time Travellers]]'' by Simon Guerrier, set in an alternate reality, has the Cybermen (who are never named) living at the South Pole and trading advanced technology to South Africa. The [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''[[Hope (Doctor Who)|Hope]]'' by Mark Clapham features the Silverati, a group of cybernetically enhanced humans heavily reminiscent of the Cybermen, in existence in the very far future as the universe approaches its end, with some evidence suggesting that the Silverati were adapted from remnants of the Cybermen of the present. ==== Audio dramas ==== The Cybermen have appeared in several Big Finish audio plays battling the Doctor, the first of which was ''[[Sword of Orion]]'' (released on CD in 2001 and broadcast on [[BBC 7]] in 2005), where the [[Eighth Doctor]] deals with humans and androids engaged in a war who seek Cyber-technology to improve their sides. The 2002 play ''Spare Parts'' explored aspects of the Cybermen's origin, revealing that the design was ironically only perfected after their creator, Doctorman Allan, studied the biology of the Fifth Doctor and duplicated a third lobe to the Doctor's brain that controlled his body functions. They were the villains in the company's [[bbc.co.uk|BBCi]] webcast ''[[Real Time (Doctor Who)|Real Time]]'', which was released on purely audio in December 2002. The first instalment of a four-CD series titled ''[[List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish#Cyberman|Cyberman]]'', which does not feature the Doctor, was released in September 2005. ''Sword of Orion'' and the ''Cyberman'' series are set around the "Great Orion Cyber-Wars" of the 26th century, when androids rebelled against humanity in the Orion System and both human and android turned to the Cybermen to gain a military advantage. In ''Sword of Orion'', the Cybermen are still entombed on Telos and are mostly forgotten, setting it before ''Earthshock''; by the time of ''Cyberman'', Telos has been destroyed by an asteroid collision, placing that series after ''Attack of the Cybermen''. The Cybermen appeared in a linked trilogy of plays entitled ''[[The Harvest (Doctor Who audio)|The Harvest]]'' (2004), ''[[The Reaping (Doctor Who audio)|The Reaping]]'' (2006) and ''[[The Gathering (Doctor Who audio)|The Gathering]]'' (2006), where small groups of Cybermen attempt to manipulate humans into setting up conversion factories on Earth. The [[Bernice Summerfield]] play ''[[The Crystal of Cantus]]'' features a former human colony turned into Cybermen, with [[Irving Braxiatel]] planning to use them as a private army. A Cyberman tomb also appeared in the Bernice Summerfield play ''Silver Lining'', which came free with ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' #351. They appear in ''[[Human Resources (Doctor Who audio)|Human Resources]]'', which Big Finish produced for radio [[BBC 7]] and subsequently released on CD, and sees the Eighth Doctor averting a plan to take control of a new weapons system. The Sixth Doctor joins forces with the Second Doctor's companions Jamie and Zoe to deal with two different Cybermen assaults in ''[[Legend of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Last of the Cybermen]]''; ''Legend'' sees Zoe made into the new Mistress of the Land of Fiction, bringing in the Sixth Doctor and a fictional version of Jamie to stop the Cybermen conquering the Land, and ''Last'' depicts the Sixth swapping places with the Second just as the younger Doctor discovers a Cybermen plot to alter the outcome of the last battle of the Cyber-Wars. In the [[Fourth Doctor Adventures]] audio ''The Fate of Krelos''/''Return to Telos'', the Fourth Doctor, Leela and K9 discover that the Cybermen planted nanobots on Jamie during their past trip to Telos that allow the Cybermen to infect K9 and subsequently use the TARDIS to take over the machinery of the planet Krelos, but the Doctor is able to use a robot drone to go back to his original trip to Telos and prevent Jamie being exposed to the nanites, undoing these events. In March 2018, the Cybermen had their first encounter with the [[Third Doctor]] (this time played by Tim Treloar) in ''The Tyrants of Logic'', one of the stories in Volume 4 of Big Finish's ''The Third Doctor Adventures'' series. In the story, the Doctor and companion [[Jo Grant]] ([[Katy Manning]]) arrive in the town of Port Anvil on the planet Burnt Salt. They come across a mysterious crate, which the Cybermen set about to reclaim as it contains the "Cyber Leveler," a type of tactician similar to the Cyber Controller. In the ensuing adventure, the Doctor is exposed to "Cyber Smoke," a poisonous gas that prepares a body for cyber conversion. The Doctor is able to fight off the infection for a time, and develop a cure, which he then uses against the Cybermen, defeating them. The Cybermen battle the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith in the Audio Novel ''Scourge of the Cybermen''. David Banks reprised his role as the Cyber-Leader in ''Hour of the Cybermen'', against the Sixth Doctor and UNIT, and ''Conversion'', which served as a follow-up to ''Earthshock''. ==== Comics ==== They have also appeared in the various ''Doctor Who'' comic strips, beginning with ''The Coming of the Cybermen'' in ''[[TV Comic]]'' #824-#827. TV Comic cashed in on their frequent presence in the TV series in the late 1960s by featuring them regularly, and they appeared in ''Flower Power'' (TVC #832-#835), ''Cyber-Mole'' (TVC #842-#845), ''The Cyber Empire'' (TVC #850-#853), ''Eskimo Joe'' (TVC #903-#906), ''Masquerade'' (TVC Holiday Special 1968), ''The Time Museum'' (TVC Annual 1969), ''The Champion'' (TVC Holiday Special 1969) and ''Test-Flight'' (TVC Annual 1970). Their absence from the TV show for most of the 1970s was reflected in a lack of appearances in the strip: they eventually returned in the early 1980s in the ''[[Doctor Who Monthly]]'' strip ''Junk-Yard Demon'' (DWM #58-#59). They made further appearances after the publication was re-titled ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'': ''Exodus''/''Revelation''/''Genesis'' (DWM #108-#110), ''The World Shapers'' (DWM #127-#129, written by [[Grant Morrison]], which revealed that the [[Voord]] were the race that evolved into the Cybermen and that Mondas was previously the planet Marinus),<ref>Lance Parkin, ''Whoniverse'', Aurum Press, 2015</ref> ''The Good Soldier'' (DWM #175-#178) and ''The Flood'' (DWM #346-#353). In addition, a Cyberman named [[Kroton (Cyberman)|Kroton]], who originally appeared in a couple of ''[[Doctor Who Weekly]]'' back-up strips called ''Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman'' (DWW #5-#7) and ''Ship of Fools'' (DWW #23-#24), was reintroduced in ''Unnatural Born Killers'' (DWM #277) and was briefly a companion of the [[Eighth Doctor]] in ''The Company of Thieves'' (DWM #284-#286) and ''The Glorious Dead'' (DWM #287-#296). The Cybermen had their own one-page strip in DWM from issues #215-#238, written by Alan Barnes and drawn by Adrian Salmon. In 1996, the ''[[Radio Times]]'' published a ''Doctor Who'' comic strip. The first story, entitled ''Dreadnought'', featured the Cybermen attacking a human starship in 2220 and introduced the strip companion [[Stacy Townsend]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/comics/cuttings/rt_strip/dnough01.htm |title=RT 8th Doctor Comic strip - Dreadnought Part 1 |access-date=6 November 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502115541/http://cuttingsarchive.org.uk/comics/cuttings/rt_strip/dnough01.htm |archive-date=2 May 2006 }}</ref> In 2006/2007, the Trading Cards magazine [[Doctor Who - Battles in Time]] issues 8 - 11 ran a sixteen-page comic strip consisting of four linked stories featuring the Cybermen, written by Steve Cole, drawn by [[Lee Sullivan (comics)|Lee Sullivan]] and coloured by Alan Craddock.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} In the ''Doctor Who''/''[[Star Trek]]'' crossover, [[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2|''Assimilation2'']], the Cybermen join forces with the [[Borg (Star Trek)|Borg]], forcing the [[Eleventh Doctor]] to join forces with the crew of the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|''Enterprise''-D]] to stop them.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.whoviannet.co.uk/2012/02/doctor-who-star-trek-crossover-comic-revealed/ |title=Doctor Who, Star Trek crossover comic revealed β’ Doctor Who News β’ WhovianNet |publisher=News.whoviannet.co.uk |date=2012-02-14 |access-date=2013-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120408180000/http://news.whoviannet.co.uk/2012/02/doctor-who-star-trek-crossover-comic-revealed/ |archive-date=8 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Borg and Cybermen have begun to attack and convert worlds without warning, with the apparent 'leader' being a Cyber-Controller with Borg components. The Doctor also recalls a past incident where he helped the crew of the original ''[[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|Enterprise]]'' defeat a Cyberman infiltration of a Federation outpost in his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]], although it would appear that this is a recent addition to his history as the Eleventh Doctor also remembers ''not'' remembering that encounter. The Cybermen attempt to subvert and take over the Borg Collective, forcing the Doctor and the ''Enterprise'' to ally with the Borg to stop the Cybermen and restore the Collective to normal. The Cybermen also feature in the Titan Comics 2016 multi-Doctor event story ''Supremacy of the Cybermen'', which depicts the last Cybermen at the end of the universe forming an alliance with [[Rassilon]]- after he was exiled from Gallifrey by the Twelfth Doctor in "[[Hell Bent (Doctor Who)|Hell Bent]]"- with the goal of conquering Gallifrey and using Time Lord energy to regenerate the universe into one under Cyber-control. Although Rassilon's insight allows the Cybermen to conquer history and defeat all of the past Doctors, the Twelfth Doctor is able to convince Rassilon to help him after the Cybermen betray Rassilon, the two turning the Cybermens' equipment against them so that the universe is 'regenerated' to a point before the Cybermen conquered Gallifrey, with only the Twelfth Doctor (and possibly Rassilon) remembering these events. ==== Video games ==== The 2010 video game ''[[Doctor Who: The Adventure Games|Blood of the Cybermen]]'' features Cybermen of the 2006 design without the Cybus Industries chest plate. These Cybermen are unearthed in the Arctic in 2010; their ship is said to have been damaged by a time-storm and crashed 10,000 years earlier. The player plays as the Eleventh Doctor and his companion Amy, who work to defeat the Cybermen. They also appear on Telos in both the android games ''[[Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time]]'' and Doctor Who and the Dalek. The Cybermen appear as enemies in ''[[Lego Dimensions]]'', and one was added as a playable character in Wave 3.
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