--AleXM 09:59, December 5, 2010, There isn't an episode that suggests that timelords can't reproduce, and the fact that they only have 12 regenerations, and didn't go extinct before the time war proves that they can reproduce. The Doctor confronts the supreme Dalek in Davros' chair to get back Clara. i think that it hasnt been described becauses it is something too terible for the human mind to concieve, (like one of the previous posts said) born in the fires of war, pain, suffering and hate, literaly the child of nightmares.217.23.232.194 09:07, July 27, 2010 (UTC). (PROSE: Twice Upon a Time), Rassilon's plan to return Gallifrey to the universe would have allowed the Nightmare Child and other horrors to come out of the Time War and into reality. Because the Midnight entity is incorperal, and the Nightmare Child is described as having been something corperal: they knew it was male, they mentioned jaws, they could see it. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor) The Nightmare Child quickly became out of control, wanting to consume everything like a hungry child. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War) The War Doctor fought to prevent the rise of the Nightmare Child (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor) and made arrangements for it "to never arise and [to] forever be aware of its non-existence". 'Grandfather!' He was created by screenwriter Terry Nation, originally for the 1975 serial Genesis of the Daleks. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The Nightmare Child The Last Great Time War. Death itself appeared in Torchwood series 2, literally came from the darkness itself. Picture [edit source] kSteed ☎ 03:39, 29 November 2020 (UTC) Why is Dalek Emperor concept art from Series 1 art being used or the Nightmae Child? --Catkind121 21:47, January 8, 2010 (UTC), Wait a sec, can anyone tell me if this was mentioned anywhere apart from in The End of Time? The Gates of Elysium were an antimatter cascade, a pit of clashing realities. Or something like that and was used by the Time Lords as a weapon agianst the Daleks. Even if they couldn't, that is not something that they would be worrying about during the timewar, since they could bring people back to life to fight in it anyway, without waiting for them to grow up. The Nightmare Child's Lullaby (Poem) DoctorDalek. Back from the Dead: Davros, who at this point has to be considered a professional resurrector. And it is dipicted as a child, like a demonic child. The Daleks first appeared on television in 1963, in the second serial of Doctor Who. Davros was believed to have been killed. In this case, Dalek Caan fished him (and possibly his ship) out of the Nightmare Child's mouth. But the name is damn creepy. Feumas 11:08, February 17, 2010 (UTC), I actully think the nightmare child is a demon, like monster, or some sort of giant thingy that floats around in space eating things all around. (TV: Planet of the Daleks) Amongst the humanised Daleks of Kyrol, scientists such as … "Don't call me 'Doctor' Davros. also the Master ran from the time war before the Nightmare child was introduced so i doubt he had any involvement in its creation/construction/or birth... As for the creature from midnight, it had to be somewhat corporal as it managed to rip off the entire front section of the train. Davros saw it as the "perfect Dalek," rising above the flaws of every other Dalek. So presumably it's some sort of mutated Dalek creation. (PROSE: Twice Upon a Time). Like a crack of some sort. Elsa kept up the barrage of ice until the Monster froze solid inside the Zoo. Summary: Hush now, darling...go to sleep... Work Text: May father guide you through your dreams. Unfortunately for Davros, this arrangement was short-lived, as his ship would be devoured by the Nightmare Child in the first year of the War, though unlike his guards he would be saved at the last moment by an insane Dalek Caan, leaving his devotees to meet their fiery end. Though, saying a metaphor will return with the breaking of the Time Lock seems to stretch it a little :P Cannon881 21:09, March 6, 2010 (UTC), The Nightmare Child was born in the most firerce war in history (as in, BORN?! In my mind the nightmare child is a white skinned demon with flesh rotting and falling off it's black bones with a face like The Beast in The Satan Pit. "Not only will I escape from the Nightmare Child but I shall… If the timelords did create the nightmare child, than they meant for it to be some kind of monster, or whatever it was, so that they could use it against the Daleks.Icecreamdif 00:25, December 7, 2010 (UTC), it might be the devil himself that the timelords somehow released, The Nightmare child wasn't featured in the day of the doctor so i don't know. 17:29, January 2, 2010 (UTC), While that's very possible, I think that it's some sort of entity, think Unicron from Transformers, it doesn't strike me as being small enough to be a monster.Excalibur-117 17:40, January 2, 2010 (UTC). Even among the Daleks the twisted abomination known as the Nightmare Child was feared and avoided. Davros’ command ship flew into the jaws of the Nightmare Child, and the Gates of Elysium closed behind them. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Maybe the Nightmare Child is simply death. The Nightmare Child thought that this reluctance to push the limits of regeneration had no justification other than squeamishness, and increasingly felt it an indulgence her people could no longer afford. The ultimate demise to which nothing can escape, a neverending cataclysim...either that or it's one REALLY scary bloody monster. In 2540, a scientific group of no more than twelve grey Daleks, led by a Dalek Section Leader, attempted to learn the technique of invisibility from the natives of Spiridon, operating from a laboratory. He called the War Doctor there, gloating as he and his command ship were swallowed by the Nightmare Child, despite the Doctor's efforts to save Davros. (PROSE: The Third Wise Man) Another account claimed the Eighth Doctor, the incarnation of the Doctor before the War Doctor, had been present instead. (The Third Wise Man) In actuality, Davros was saved when Dalek Caan broke the War’s time-lock and took him to the post-war universe. I've always imagined it as a large, demonic child head, but that's just me. Davros is a major enemy of the series' protagonist, the Doctor, and is the creator of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, the Daleks. https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Howling:What_IS_the_Nightmare_Child%3F?oldid=1914552, the Army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres: People (possibly only Daleks due to the Master's stance) erased in the Time War due to time manipulation on both side as said in The End of Time...or more abstractly, just people trapped in the Time War (since they can no longer affect other time periods, so they are sort separated from the current timeline of the Doctor and the Master), the Could've Been King: The could've been victor of the War (possibly Dalek Emperor due the Master's stance), the Horde of Travesties: Just bad stuffs in general that costed many lives during the War. We have no idea what kind of creature this was, or if it was even alive. The Doctor had always described it as something not nice at all. That is generated from child time lords fear. Lutennant Vell the jugde. 'Cos I cannae remember it being mentioned previously! The whole "birth" of the nightmare child could've just been in reference to the construction of a vessel so powerful, as the time lords are supposed to be a peaceful race. Elsa returned to her human form and the now Frozen Nightmare Child shattered into a million pieces just as the bomber plane arrived. (PROSE: The Third Wise Man), Cass Fermazzi had an encounter with the Nightmare Child. That really freaks me out when I think about it. The Nightmare Child was born during the Last Great Time War. I'm A Hydroponic Tomato! The single greatest conflict to ever blemish the universe, simultaneously existing throughout all of time and yet none of it. As Dalek Caan recounted, "[he] flew into the wild, and the fire; [he] danced and died a thousand times." I think the nightmare child was a timelord(or other faction) super ship, (somewhat like a vorlon planet crusher), and the whole "devros" flying into its jaws was akin to the crucible attempting to take it out while it was firing its primary weapon (like in independence day, where they took down the ships by destroying the main weapon as they fire) but failed and was obliterated. https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Nightmare_Child?oldid=3069914, Coincidentally, the Nightmare Child backstory from. In the short episode, The Dalek that Time Forgot, it actually shows what the Nightmare Child looks like. Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Davros saw it as the "perfect Dalek," rising above the flaws of every other Dalek. The Time War. (PROSE: The Third Wise Man) Cass Fermazzi had an encounter with the Nightmare Child. Davros planned to destroy it by luring it to the Gates of Elysium. I don't think it's very likely that it's a literal animate creature...as the Doctor said Davros' ship flew into the jaws of Nightmare Child, people usually don't fly into an animate creature....and it's a pretty odd image to conjure up. Some sort of dalek/cthulhian horror hybrid of some sort. The Nightmare of Black Island is a BBC Books original novel written by Mike Tucker and based on the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. (Video Archive: The Stolen Earth) The Tenth Doctor said "I saw Arcadia destroyed. The Tenth Doctor believed, in 2008's The Stolen Earth, that Davros' command ship had flown into the jaws of the Nightmare Child - an often discussed but never depicted monstrosity from the Time War. So the two most powerful civilizations in the universe ever are going at it with the gloves off; bad enough. 'The nightmare child will follow!' Some of the weapons are creepifying just by their names — the Dalek fleet that "flew into the jaws of the Nightmare Child" is one hell of a Noodle Incident to ponder. That would make sense as Davros' ship was swallowed by the nightmare child and that could mean it crashed into the star or sucked into a black hole. ''EMERGENCY! So keep imagining, but as yet you haven't quite got there!Feumas 23:52, February 20, 2010 (UTC), I think it is some sort of large creature capable of consuming planets and ships,it has been said it has Jaws and i remember hearing on this wiki somewhere that in a comic strip the doctor claimed to have 'laughed in the face of the nightmare child'.Now if something has jaws and a face that sounds like some sort of creature to me.Something else from the time war i would like to know more about is the could've been king and his armies of meanwhiles and never weres,i assume from the names that he is an entity which creates alternative and rejected timelines in a simmilar way to the trickster.--666hotline 13:53, February 27, 2010 (UTC), To agree with 6666hotline, I thought of him as similar to Faction Paradox from the novels 86.183.23.10 17:37, February 27, 2010 (UTC), Unless ofcourse when the Doctor meantions it has a face, and jaws, its like reffering to "the jaws of defeat" or "the face of evil" ya know? But what … But this time the Doctor appeared a bit more... frightened when mentioning it. It was published on 21 September 2006, alongside The Art of Destruction and The Price of Paradise . In my mind the nightmare child is a white skinned demon with flesh rotting and falling off it's black bones with a face like The Beast in The Satan Pit. the Command Dalek screeched, and with good reason. Do you get what I mean :P ? A possiblitiy is that: we don't know all of the factions in the Time War. The nightmare child also does not care about good or evil it simply kills everything and its large enough to grab a small comand ship out … The Nightmare Child shrugged it off but it was clearly slowing down. Its first alien villains, the Daleks became an instant hit. The Prime Minister's memory of the Doctor had b… The evil dude. The nightmare child also does not care about good or evil it simply kills everything and its large enough to grab a small comand ship out of the sky and eat it so I'd say 700 ft esily. 'No I won't let her!' Except, the freaking thing is, how on Earth did it knock when it didn't have a physical form? The Nightmare Child ripped, tore, blasted, oozed, burned, and lashed at the massive Dalek fleet that opened fire on it. The Daleks are not any better: progenitor machine that have the intelligence of accepting testimony from a deceitful enemy but not good enough to automatically generate Daleks when the Dalek race is about to extinct; control panels that could disable or control all Daleks are always placed in a location convenient to the enemies and made so that Doctor/DoctorDonna could operate it; and make a reality bomb because they have too much time on their hands...sorry, I mean plungers (come on, if you have enough time to steal planets across all of time and space then you probably have enough time to just invade the Universe...especially when you know that the Doctor will come across one of these missing planets at some point because he also has too much time on hand, and you bloody stole Earth, the planet that he is always on). A certain horror of the Last Great Time War is only mentioned in passing, the name only remembered in legend. Once this had been achieved by the human-turned-Dalek, Oswin Oswald, the Parliament launched an attack to destroy the Asylum. In the Writer's Tale book by RTD, he mentions the full name being the Dalek Emperor's Nightmare Child. (TV: The End of Time), When reliving a memory from his eighth incarnation, the Tenth Doctor recalled "laugh[ing] in the face of the Nightmare Child". The cell door began to open and a red Dalek was waiting. And with a new face no less?" For the most part, in the early days of the Time War the Time Lords had not shown much interest in pushing the boundaries of what regeneration could entail. Bait-and-Switch Comment: Thanks! (PROSE: The Third Wise Man) However, the Child survived. The Prime Minister ordered the abduction of the Eleventh Doctor and his companions, Amy Pond and Rory Williams, summoning them to the Parliament of the Daleks and granting them a mission to lower the indestructible force field of the Dalek Asylumso it could be destroyed to prevent the Daleks in the Asylum from breaking out. ), so perhaps it was born from the bloodshed and hatred? There is no more need for a doctor." CONDUCT EMERGENCY MANEUVERS!'' I would imagine it would resemble a child, but would be a giant monster, about the size of a building. Their scheme involves treachery at the highest levels, and a weapon capable of destroying the very fabric of time. "You cannot escape from the jaws of the Nightmare Child!" Of golden threads and silver streams. Even its name really creeps me out, sounds pretty weird/creepy/sinister, in my opinion. (TV: The End of Time), By the end of the Time War, Earth was duplicated thousands of times over to be used as bullets to fire at the Nightmare Child. It was the location where Davros tried to kill the Nightmare Child during the Last Great Time War. With Rod Serling, Janice Rule, Shepperd Strudwick, Terry Burnham. Hence thats why Davros flew into it. Dalek; A TARDIS; Additional Tags: Prose Poem; Language: English Stats: Published: 2014-11-30 Words: 87 Chapters: 1/1 Kudos: 4 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 104. Russel has said so about the events of the Time War, it is beyond visualisation, otherwise there is no mystery to it. As the Doctor said that he felt the room getting longer and longer, he looked down and noticed an energy ball surrounding him blocking his sight. Delton Menace 01:28, March 7, 2010 (UTC), I think the Nightmare Child is an ancient crap head, rather like the Beast, Abaddon and Durac. "So you've finally joined the war Doctor? Legend of the Nightmare Child: Doctor Who. The whole army of meanwhiles and neverwheres could just be timelord soilders, recall the council members did say that at the very heart of the time war people were dieing, and being revived only to die in another more dire way, these "people" would of course have been driven mad by the constant war. It defenantly has a face and jaws, which are bigger than a borg cube. It smashed open saucers as if they were soggy lentils, burst open War TARDISes as if they were confetti bags, and pulled them in to its cavernous maw from which there is … Jim393 19:57, January 8, 2010 (UTC), I recon it is a giant bug like thing that Davros flew into. 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