1 Early life 2 Doctor Who 3 Gallery 4 Trivia 5 Navigation Not much is known about Bill's early life apart from that she was born around 1991 to an unnamed woman, who later died. (TV: Deep Breath, Dark Water, Death in Heaven), However, there were a minority of Cybermen capable of converting other species; the Cybermen of the Cyberiad who recovered from the Cyber-Wars were capable of upgrading almost all forms of life, and were even capable of converting Time Lords. (TV: The Tenth Planet et al), In general, most Cybermen were only capable of converting humans and Mondasians, due to their near-identical physiologies (TV: The Tenth Planet et al), although the Cybermen that attempted to invade Earth via International Electromatics were converted from Isons (AUDIO: The Isos Network), and another group could convert Veridians (AUDIO: Hour of the Cybermen). They eventually chose Craig Owens but the conversion failed when Craig's paternal instincts were triggered by his son's crying. Not to mention the power of representation and how she is a queer woman of color traveling with the Doctor through time and space, calling out sexism, and talking about sexuality with Roman soldiers . Bill Potts is a lesbian character from Doctor Who. ‘You don’t remember me, do you?’, he said, peeling off his disguise – and confirming, as we suspected, that Missy is a future regeneration of the Master, rather than a past one. One way or the other, it seems we’re finally at the end of the road. After helping the Doctor destroy the Cybermen, Bill was rescued from her fate by Heather, who had returned for her and converted Bill into a sentient oil being like herself. She initially experienced frequent mental pain that nearly killed her due to the sheer amount of information that she received from the Cyber-Mainframe, (AUDIO: Code Silver) but was cured of this after she "received a brainstorm from Cyber-Control across every dimension" in response to the arrival of the Master. https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Cyber-conversion?oldid=3029586. The way he became Bill’s friend as Razor and then led her to her conversion as a Cyberman just before the Doctor could rescue her was fiendish. Cyber-commander Zheng shot the Cyberman, and, noting that her scapula was fractured, sent both the Cyberman he had shot and Constant to be repaired. A similar process used by the Borg from a parallel universe was called assimilation. Conversion was stopped by loss of power caused by proximity to the cherrybowl nebula, and Yvonne wandered back to her home, due to her pre-conversion desire for her Father to see her 'uniform'. This process worked on humans and even appeared to work on the Half-Face Man, despite him being a Clockwork Droid and not a human. However, the transfer of regeneration energy backwards through the Eye of Harmony by the Twelfth Doctor and Rassilon allowed for cyber-conversions to be reversed across this entire timeline, shortly before this timeline was erased. MORE : Doctor Who: Russell T. 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(TV: The Tenth Planet), After being drafted by the Mondasian government to work on the propulsion system, Yvonne Hartley was mostly converted. As companion to Peter Capaldi, the Twelfth Doctor, they faced the Mondasian Cybermen and one of the most heartbreaking plot twists in Doctor Who history. Conversions through this method were completed in about five seconds. (AUDIO: Master of Worlds), The dimension seeding protocols that these Cybermen used to begin upgrading other universes involved translocating dimension bridge technology (that resembled virtual reality headsets) to other universes, which, when used by a life-form, would transport their mental avatar to a Cyber-controlled world in another universe. (TV: Closing Time) Partial conversion, with the victim retaining autonomy and a human identity and body parts, was possible. The subjects were heard screaming as metal was grafted onto their flesh, possibly because the Cybermen had little time to place their victims in a trance state. The Cyber-planner half showed emotion. VIEWS. Mondas? Please help improve this article by editing it. The Cybermen of the Cyber-Mainframe utilised cyber-conversion methods that were significantly more different and advanced than the Cybermen of both N-Space and Pete’s World, although there were a few similarities. (COMIC: In-Flight Entertainment), The Cybermen begin their attempted conversion of Craig Owens. Hallett would have died if her lover, Ianto Jones, had not retrofitted a cyber-conversion unit into life support for her. (TV: The Invasion) The Cybermen would traverse t… At least one flock of pigeons was cyber-converted as well, though the method used was unknown. (AUDIO: Spare Parts) Toberman was Partially converted on Telos with his right arm replaced. Eventually Bill Potts - who having been injured had already been brought to the lowest level of the ship and had a chest unit fitted - was fully converted. Mondasian conversion. (AUDIO: Spare Parts), Sisterman Constant was originally responsible for draughting Mondasians for conversion, but was injured when a partially converted Cyberman tried to force her to divulge their purpose. This form of conversion was excruciating. Before the conversion was complete, however, Bernice Summerfield used the energy in the Crystal of Cantus to defeat the cybermen, reversing the conversion. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen). And what’s going on with Missy and the Master – are they working with him, or against him? So who else was watching this week and saying ‘Yes, but when’s John Simm gonna turn up?’. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen) The Cybermen of the Cyber Legions appeared to simply encase victims inside a Cyber-suit. The inside of a Mondasian cyberfication machine. Others notably converted were Bill and David. In this state, she retained her original personality but was loyal to the Cybermen and the "Cyber-Ideal" instead of UNIT, and became the second-in-command of the Cybermen’s invasion of the Earth of N-Space. 24 September 2020. in Uncategorized. The CyberKing was intended as a mass conversion unit, but the command unit Miss Hartigan, aided by the Tenth Doctor, destroyed it before it was put to use. (TV: The Pandorica Opens). (TV: Closing Time), Missy transformed the dead corpses of millions of humans into Cybermen, such as Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Danny Pink and Skarosa. In the end, Razor, in reality The Master in disguise, deceived her, and Bill suffered cyber-conversion alone. SHARES. That said, a few things are unclear. 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