![]() ![]() Bonnie? (The Doctor rejects that, choosing to call her "Zygella" instead.) Her name is intentionally mundane, since she is part of first generation of Zygons living in hiding on Earth, and her villainy is ascribed to having grown bitter over her minority status and her being forced to "act human" in order to be accepted by society. "The Zygon Invasion" introduces us to the cold-blooded leader of group of insurgent aliens willing to start a war on earth.unless they had heard of the woman they belong to. Neither "River Song" nor "Melody Pond" are names that would strike terror into the hearts of sentient beings. ![]() The Editor of Satellite 5 prefers to call him Max, as it's less of a mouthful. "The Long Game" has the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe: a giant slug-like creature with sharp teeth."The Happiness Patrol" gave us Helen A's vicious and downright ugly pet Stigorax called Fifi.The former is a subversion, since despite his appearance he's actually a harmless herbivore. The First Doctor's companion Vicki names a couple of her "pets" - "Sandy" (a "sand beast" that looks like a horrible googly-eyed crocodile) and "Zombo" (a Zarbi, an eight-foot-long ant monster).One is used in a scene highly reminiscent of the Ceti Eel scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan or the "boo box" scene from Hook. Despite their cutesy name, they're The Dreaded, being insects that eat your eyes out. ![]()
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