Cybermen
The Cybermen were a race of cybernetically augmented humanoids. They varied in design with different factions through time and space. The two main groups were the Mondasian Cybermen which originate on the planet Mondas, and the Cybermen created by Cybus Industries on Earth in an alternate universe known by the Doctor as Pete’s World.
Despite the different origins, the groups of Cybermen held some similarities. Cybermen had no emotions and held them as a weakness. They frequently attempted to remerge humans and other humanoids into Cybermen through a process known as Cyber-conversion or upgrading.
Cybermen of Mondas
These Cyberman were originally humanoids who lived on Earth’s twin planet Mondas. Because of the planet drifting out of the solar system, the inhabitants of Mondas turned themselves into cyborgs. Eventually everyone on the planet underwent this cyber-comversion. Many left the planet and developed into separate groups.
Most Cybermen of this type were silver except for one black variety that hid in the London sewers. They had external circuitry and tubing which may have contained hydraulic fluid.
This type had several major weaknesses, the most memorable one being an allergy to gold which choked their respiratory system. They could also be destroyed by explosives, bazookas lasers and energy weapons at close range.
John Lumic Design
These Cybermen originated in another universe. They believed that all humanity needed to be upgraded to cyber-form so that information would never be lost.
Cyber-conversion involved removing the brain from a subject and placing it within a suit of armour. These units had special implants that prevented them from feeling emotions.
The armour itself was constructed from bulletproof steel. It was thicker and heavier than the Cybermen of Mondas. The chest place housed a “heart of steel” and the emotional inhibitor chip. Artificially grown nervous systems were threaded throughout the body so that the Cyberman responded like a fully biological organism.
Missy’s Creations
Missy encased the bodies of the dead in exoskeletons and then downloaded their minds, minus their emotions, into the newly created being.
Cyber Legions
The Cyber Legions were a major power in space that possessed at least 12 different fleets. They resembled the Cybus Industries Cybermen except their chest logo was a simple circle instead of the Cybus logo. They used blasters on their wrists.
Appearances
The Tenth Planet (TV)
The Moonbase (TV)
The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV)
The Wheel in Space (TV)
The Invasion (TV)
Carnival of Monsters (TV)
Revenge of the Cybermen (TV)
Earthshock (TV)
The Five Doctors (TV)
Attack of the Cybermen (TV)
Silver Nemesis (TV)
Dalek (TV)
A Good Man Goes to War (TV)
Closing Time (TV)
Nightmare in Silver (TV)
Time of the Doctor (TV)
Dark Water/Death in Heaven (TV)
Face the Raven (TV)
Hellbent (TV)
The Lie of the Land (TV)
World and Time Enough/The Doctor Falls (TV)
The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV)
Ascension of the Cybermen/The Timeless Children (TV)
Revolution of the Daleks (TV)
Once, Upon Time (TV)
The Vanquishers (TV)
Power of the Daleks (TV)
Destiny of the Doctors (Video Game)
The Doctor and the Dalek (Video Game)
Iceberg (Prose)
No Future (Prose)
Killing Ground (Prose)
Illegal Alien (Prose)
Warmonger (Prose)
Vrs (Prose)
Sword of Orion (Audio)
Spare Parts (Audio)
The Harvest (Audio)
The Reaping (Audio)
The Gathering (Audio)
The Girl Who Never Was (Audio)
The Boy That Time Forgot (Audio)
Kingdom of Silver (Audio)
Forty-five (Audio)
Legend of the Cybermen (Audio)
The Silver Turk (Audio)
Scorpius (Audio)
Fear (Audio)
Conversion (Audio)
Telos (Audio)
Outsiders (Audio)
Terror (Audio)
Machines (Audio)
Extinction (Audio)
Bernice Summerfield - Silver Lining (Audio)
Bernice Summerfield - The Crystal of Cantus (Audio)
The Blue Tooth (Audio)
Human Resources (Audio)
Real Time (Audio)
The Comic of the Cybermen (Comic)
Flower Power (Comic)
Cyber-Mole (Comic)
The Cyber Empire (Comic)
Eskimo Joe (Comic)
Masquerade (Comic)
The Time Museum (Comic)
The Champion (Comic)
Test Flight (Comic)
Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman (Comic)
Deathworld (Comic)
Ship of Fools (Comic)
Black Legacy (Comic)
Junkyard Demon (Comic)
Exodus/Revelation/Genesis (Comic)
The Cybermen (Comic)
Time & Time Again (Comic)
The Good Soldier (Comic)
Unnatural Born Killers (Comic)
The Company of Thieves (Comic)
The Glorious Dead (Comic)
The Flood (Comic)
The Age of Ice (Comic)
Hunters of the Burning Stone (Comic)
Dreadnought (Comic)
Assimilation (Comic)
Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel (TV)
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday (TV)
Tardisode 5 (Webisode)
Tardisode 6 (Webisode)
Tardisode 13 (Webisode)
The Next Doctor (TV)
The Pandora Opens (TV)
The Day of the Doctor (TV)
Torchwood - Cyberwoman (TV)
Made of Steel (Prose)
Plague of the Cybermen (Prose)
Going Off the Rails (Prose)
The Power of the Cybermen (Comic)
Drones of Doom (Comic)
Enemy Mine (Comic)
Time of the Cybermen (Comic)
The Legacy of Torchwood One! (Comic)
In-Flight Entertainment (Comic)
The Beast is Back in Town (Comic)
Assimilation (Comic)
The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (Comic)
Save Paris (Video Game)
Cyber Assault (Video Game)
Return to Earth (Video Game)
The Mazes of Time (Video Game)
The Eternity Clock (Video Game)
Blood of the Cybermen (Video Game)
TARDIS (Video Game)
The Gunpowder Plot (Video Game)