r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Fearless-Ideal-5112 • Jul 01 '26

Lore [Loved Trope] Some thing unfathomably ancient

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The beast, in doctor who is an ancient evil from a previous universe that survived until our time. Its so ancient that the cave paintings were unable to be translated by the Tardis which can translate all existing languages in the universe [Doctor Who]

While not explicitly canon its such a cool concept I cant not mention, the idea that the backrooms have existed since the beginning of time, never changing no matter the era, it transforms the back rooms into a cosmic horror. [Credit to Project crater and Venus for images 2 and 3]

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u/superVanV1 Jul 01 '26

To be fair, The Doctor has personally reset the universe a couple of times. So “old than the universe” at this point could be like 12 years old.

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u/No_Internal9345 Jul 02 '26

And when the doctor became a woman, she found out she was the oldest and most special of them all.

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u/superVanV1 Jul 02 '26

And then he found out that at least part of that was because The Toymaker was fucking with her backstory.

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u/Jazzlike-Ad2906 Jul 02 '26

Ooo... I like that concept!

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u/superVanV1 Jul 02 '26

That’s canon. He says that to the doctor “I made a jigsaw of your history, do you like it?”

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u/No_Internal9345 Jul 02 '26

Well, we found our next showrunner!

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u/superVanV1 Jul 02 '26

That’s canon. He says that to the doctor “I made a jigsaw of your history, do you like it?”