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Weeping Angels voted fans’ favourite monsters
Doctor Who: Weeping Angels voted fans’ favourite ever monsters
From the www.radiotimes.com
Even the Daleks couldn’t overcome the living statues in our poll of over 10,000 Doctor Who fans…
Blink and you could miss them but the Weeping Angels are the best loved (or should that be most feared?) monsters in the Doctor Who universe, according to a RadioTimes.com poll.
Created by current Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat, and first appearing in 2007 episode Blink, the Angels are living statues, unable to move as long as they are being watched. But close your eyes or look away and they’re instantly on the move, stone fangs and claws bared. And if the lights go out…
More than 10,000 fans voted in the RadioTimes.com poll, with nearly half (49.4 per cent) choosing the Angels as their favourite monsters. Classic Who adversaries the Daleks were in second place with 17 per cent of the vote, followed by another Moffat creation, The Silence, in third place with almost 12 per cent.
The Doctor’s fellow Time Lord, The Master, and Moffat’s microscopic swarm The Vashta Nerada, were in fourth and fifth place, respectively, with the Cybermen, Davros, the Zygons, the Ice Warriors and the Sontarans completing the top ten.
RadioTimes.com editor Tim Glanfield commented on the results: “The Daleks had generations of children cowering behind the sofa in the past, but our poll shows Steven Moffat’s terrifying Weeping Angels are the stuff of modern nightmares – remember, don’t blink!.”
The greatest Doctor Who monsters of all time
1. The Weeping Angels (49.4%)
2. The Daleks (17%)
3. The Silence (11.84%)
4. The Master (8.66%)
5. The Vashta Nerada (6.81%)
6. The Cybermen (2.53%)
7. Davros (2.2%)
8. The Zygons (0.69%)
9. The Ice Warriors (0.54%)
10. The Sontarans (0.33%)
Angel Bob
April 7th, 2014 - 3:48pmThank you all for your votes. And as for the Daleks… I don’t see why you are so loved. You are all weak, sorry. The angels were very keen for you to know that.
Anthony
June 19th, 2012 - 9:02pmi think there a worvvy foe as they are creepy scary and evil they could even kill the daleks cause u cant exstermintate a stone but then its eye stalk looks into the yes of an angel then it becaomes infected
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
June 10th, 2012 - 8:27pmDidn’t vote, but i would have gone for the silence or angels
Bigger on the Inside
June 10th, 2012 - 6:03pmweeping angels are supreme |
Anonymous
June 10th, 2012 - 6:50pmjust becuase fans voted for the weeping angels does not mean that no one likes the daleks any more
other monsters have beaten the daleks
the daleks will always be the definitive dr who monster(and the cybermen)
the weeping angels might be the scaryist and THIS YEARS fav but the daleks(yes and the cybermen) will always be the top monsters
besides years ago fans would be cross if the cybermen had beaten the daleks
Dalek of Doom
June 10th, 2012 - 5:44pmThe Doctor Who Monsters don’t scare me that much! The only Episode I was only ever scared of was The Waters of Mars!
The Stetson of Chaos
June 12th, 2012 - 6:13pmWow I was scared of that one too! The freak me out the Flood!
The Only Good Dalek is a Dead Dalek (GreenAnchorRedWaterfall)
June 14th, 2012 - 9:22pmI loved that one…
I hated Night Terrors though! *shudders at thought*
The Stetson of Chaos
June 15th, 2012 - 7:44amNight Terrors is in my top 5 all time favourite episodes of Doctor Who. It’s in 4th place. Peg Dolls were creepy, but I liked it. I disliked the Waters of Mars not because of the storyline (cause the plot was quite good) but cause of the Flood. They are too scary!
Time lord of Doom
June 15th, 2012 - 7:45amSorry that was me above. 😀
Will
June 10th, 2012 - 3:09pmI like the angels but c’mon, the daleks are the definitive doctor who monster. The cybermen are a close second
booboo
June 10th, 2012 - 3:35pmperhaps we should do our own and see
Silence Will Still Fall
June 10th, 2012 - 1:09pmMy Top 10
1. The Master (not including eric roberts)
2. The Daleks (including davros)
3. The silence
4. The trickster (needs to appear in doctor who properly as he was always awesome in sja)
5. The sontarans
6. The autons
7. Weeping angels
8. The cybermen
9. Omega
10. The Sycorax
TNDNR
June 10th, 2012 - 12:33pmThe Daleks suffer from the fact that they are an easy target for parody and jokes. Same with the Cybermen because they are both well known. It’s much harder to take something seriously which you’ve seen have the mick taken out of it on many comedy shows so I suspect that helped the weeping angels top the poll. As for a lot of Moff monsters being in the Top 10, well he’s the current showrunner so his vision for Doctor Who is the one in people’s mind. I also don’t think RTD was great at creating monsters which stuck in the mind of the public, he was more concerned with characters.
Doctor Stu
June 10th, 2012 - 11:44ampersonally my list of favourite monsters goes:
Cybermen
Daleks
Silence
Sontatans
Silurians
Peg-dolls
Weeping angels
Autons
Anonymous
June 10th, 2012 - 11:46amalthough I like the cybermen
YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tardis’nt
June 10th, 2012 - 9:47amMy top ten:
1. Cybermen
2. Daleks
3. Sontarans
4. The Master
5. Weeping Angels
6. Omega
7. Vashta Nerada
8. Sycorax
9. Silurians
10 The Silence
p.s booboo i fixed my name by copying and pasting it from an old comment 🙂
Whovian100
June 9th, 2012 - 8:30pmWEEPING ANGELS ARE TERRIBLE!
3 Reasons Daleks are better then the Weeping Angels
1. Weeping Angels are Quantom-Locked, but Daleks (or Cybermen) don’t blink.
2. If you put a Mirror infront of a Weeping Angel it can’t move as it is being looked at by it’s reflection.
3. Weeping Angels are not a BIG NAME in Who, they have been in only 2 Stories so far. Monsters like Daleks and Cybermen have been with us for YEARS Now and have been in a number of different stories.
My Top 10 List of Monsters.
1. DALEKS
2. CYBERMEN
3. KRYNOIDS
4. SONTARANS
5. ZYGONS
6. ICE WARRIORS
7. THE MASTER (PETER PRATT)
8. VASHTA NERADA
9. THE MASTER (ROGER DELGADO)
10. DAVROS
Anonymous
June 9th, 2012 - 8:52pmTHIS IS THE EMPROR DALEK
I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR THE WEEPING ANGELS
ALTHOUGH YOU ARE INFERIOR YOU ARE POWERFULL
JOIH FORCES WITH THE DALEKS AND WE CAN FINALY EXTERMINATE THE DOCTOR
IN RETURN YOU WILL RECEVE A SUTIBAL EXSTAGE OF PLANETS AND SLAVES
IF YOU DO NOT CO-OPERATE YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!
JOIN US NOW!
Anonymous
June 10th, 2012 - 11:03amif you put a mirror in front of an angel, millions will flood out (an image of an angel becomes it’s self an angel).Daleks are better though.
Anonymous
June 10th, 2012 - 11:41amDALEKS ARE THE GREATIST DOCTOR WHO MONSTER EVER
WEEPING ANGELS ARE WEAK
NO MATTER WHAT
ALL HAIL THE DALEKS
ALL WEEPING ANGEL FANS WILL BE EXTERMINATED!!!!!!!
Anonymous
June 10th, 2012 - 11:46amYOU WOULD MAKE A GOOD DALEK
matt smithy
June 10th, 2012 - 11:54ameveryone has forgoten that if you (or a dalek) looks into the angles eyes you will become possesed by the angle. Tghis means the angles can take over daleks.
DalekSkaro
June 10th, 2012 - 2:21pmI agree XD
DALEKSKITTLES
June 14th, 2012 - 5:30pmwrong the weeping angle would have to look at the actual dalek mutant in the eye it wouldnt work by just looking into the eye on the machine
the 13th Doctor
June 9th, 2012 - 8:00pmi like the angels but daleks will either the master or the daleks will be my number one
Anon
June 9th, 2012 - 5:26pmhas anyone noticed a lot of these are Moffats creations? they shouldnt be on there!
DALEKSKITTLES
June 9th, 2012 - 3:03pmYou serious weeping angles ?? Daleks are far better
Angle vs DALEK …DALEK would win in a second what’s the angle gonna do try to scratch the daleks new paint work? daleks are the best and supreme
Alex_The_Geek
June 9th, 2012 - 10:17amToday is Weeping Angel Day! 5 years since Blink first aired, Weeping Angels voted top Doctor Who monster and I’m watching Time Of Angels tonight!
Bigger on the Inside
June 9th, 2012 - 10:55amIt’s day of the angels, this should be a official day for whovians
Anonymous
June 9th, 2012 - 11:11amhow could they vote for the weeping angels
the daleks are better monsters
the daleks WOULD beat the weeping angels in a fight
unless your a school kid who thinks the weeping angels are cool because only school children like them
all the weeping are nothing but monsters that pull funny faces and zap you back into time( yes and break your necks) but the daleks are genocidal maniacs how are bent on killing every body
Bigger on the Inside
June 9th, 2012 - 11:15amBut the angels don’t look evil so you don’t expect anything, but they also look creepy, unlike the ‘smarties’ daleks
With the angels you can’t defeat them easily as guns don’t kill them, but do with a dalek it you shoot it in the eyestalk, and they only have to touch you to kill you
What do you think booboo, angel or dalek?
booboo
June 9th, 2012 - 11:22amDavros
The Daleks
The Master (Roger Delgado)
The Ice Warriors
The Zygons
The Cybermen
The Silence
The Sontarans
The Weeping Angels
The Vashta Nerada
but i would have had see devils in 3r place
The most frightening ever?
The doll when it came alive from terror of the autons
best ever scene?
Victor Meldrews gas mask transformation
Anonymous
June 9th, 2012 - 11:32amDALEKS ARE SURPREM
DALEKS ARE SURPREM
THE DALEKS ARE SURPREM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALL HAIL THE DALEKS
DALEK SURPREMACY 1000000000000000
ANGEL SURPREMACY 0
Bigger on the Inside
June 9th, 2012 - 12:19pmi agree with it if it were the old daleks or even the gold ones, but the colourful ones are not threatening at all, but i hope the new episode will have the old daleks destroying the new ones as they fail their plan or something!!!
do you like the new daleks?
DALEKSKITTLES
June 9th, 2012 - 2:59pmDaleks aren’t easily killed although there eye is weak it still is covered by the daleks powerful force Sheild 5 million cybermen couldn’t kill one DALEK so the weeping angles would be dead in a second
Bigger on the Inside
June 9th, 2012 - 3:21pmyeah it would beat the angel, but the angel stories seem more thought out for me and it is more exciting as they dont just go around shooting anything that moves
anyway i like the daleks, just noe the new ones, they just arent as scary
DALEKSKITTLES
June 9th, 2012 - 3:26pmOk fair but to be honest I used to be scared of the daleks when I was 8 but I think because they have been used so much that the daleks have lost their scare abit but I think their great and I reckon as their bringing back the old daleks that’s gonna refresh them abit because even I was getting bored of “one ship survived” or “emergency temporal shift” always bringing them back so I agree with you about saying the weeping angles stories are better thought out
Anonymous
June 9th, 2012 - 7:49pmthe fans who voted for the weeping angels are triators
THE DALEKS ARE BETTER ALL HAIL THE DALEKS
Bigger on the Inside
June 9th, 2012 - 8:36pmThanks what if thy both joined to destroy the doctor!!!! as if a dalek looked at it, it won’t freeze as they have no emotion, or not proper eyes or something stupid like that
Tardis’nt
June 10th, 2012 - 9:37am@booboo how do you write in bold?
booboo
June 10th, 2012 - 11:58amcopy the code below but where it says text put the words you want
you can also do colours in the same way and change the colour you want form red to blue etc
eg
Hello
Hello
Hello
Tardis’nt
June 11th, 2012 - 2:58pmthanks booboo
for this
🙂
Tardis’nt
June 11th, 2012 - 3:03pmcan it only have red and blue?
booboo
June 11th, 2012 - 3:14pmno quite few
Tardis’nt
June 11th, 2012 - 3:05pmwhy are the colours not showing up? test
booboo
June 11th, 2012 - 3:15pmyou haven’t used the code
Tardis’nt
June 11th, 2012 - 4:28pmtest i did for this
booboo
June 11th, 2012 - 4:30pmcant be working then
Tardis’nt
June 11th, 2012 - 4:37pmtestIII
i tried it differently then but it probably wont work.
booboo
June 11th, 2012 - 4:40pmjust tried it myself and it doesn’t work, i will try to find out why
I altered yours manually
Tardis’nt
June 11th, 2012 - 4:42pmokay thanks, hope you find out why 🙂
Anonymous
June 9th, 2012 - 9:44amTRIATORS! you voted for the weeping angels how could you
YOU WILL BE EXTER-MIN-ATE=TED
cyber contoller
June 9th, 2012 - 10:06amexeterminate
Blackadder The Whovian
June 9th, 2012 - 9:19amAm i the only one who is surprised that The Vashta Nerada got in there at all?
They were a good villian and very creepy , but not in the top 10.
Quite pleased on the other hand on seeing The Zygons & Ice Warriors in the list though 🙂
Jason doctorwhoone
June 9th, 2012 - 9:09amYou know why the Dalek are in 2nd place ?.
Stupid Teleltubbie colour scheme, that’s why 😛
DALEKSKITTLES
June 9th, 2012 - 3:34pmI LOVE THE NEW COLOURS !!!!!!
DalekSkaro
June 10th, 2012 - 2:22pmThe colour are okay, the worst part of the new dalek design is the shape and size of the daleks 🙁
dr who fan 4 ever
June 9th, 2012 - 8:28ami would put sontarans and zygons higher on the list(also vashta nerada should be 3rd)
The Stetson of Chaos
June 9th, 2012 - 6:31amI would have put them 2nd and the Silence 1st, but besides that, great top 10! 🙂
Give me a Dalek any day
June 9th, 2012 - 5:45amPerfect timing! Today is 5 years since Blink first aired. 😀
Handbot Scott
June 9th, 2012 - 8:24amYes because when Blink aired I was at my town’s Gala Day and it is my town’s Gala Day today.
Dalek of Doom
June 10th, 2012 - 5:42pmI wasn’t a Who fan then!
I first got into Doctor Who with, Partners in Crime, 3rd April 2010, when I rushed home to realise i’d practically missed it!
I’ve got to say the only episode I haven’t watched since then was the Waters of Mars! The Flood scared me!
jamiethewierdo
June 9th, 2012 - 2:19amthe weepig angels arent my most favourite doctor who monsters but there still some pretty cool monsters
georgia-doctor
June 9th, 2012 - 1:12ami’m glad other people think the weeping angels are scary 🙂
sapk
June 9th, 2012 - 12:21amyes!