Ashad is a recurring antagonist in Season Twelve of the modern revival of Doctor Who, serving as the main antagonist of the episodes "The Haunting of Villa Diodata" and "Ascension of the Cybermen" and the secondary antagonist of the episode "The Timeless Children". A clone of him also serves as the secondary antagonist of the 2022 centenary special "The Power of the Doctor".
He was portrayed by Patrick O'Kane.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He willingly offered himself up to join the ranks of the Cybermen in their universal campaign to convert or destroy all organic life, but retains his moral agency because he was only partially converted and lacks an emotional inhibitor.
- He slit his children's throats when they refused to join the Cybermen.
- In his hunt to obtain the Cyberium to aid him in his goal of restoring the Cyber Empire, he kills several people and seriously contemplates Cyber-converting the infant William Shelley, only refraining because he would have no use for such a weak Cyber convert.
- When the Doctor refuses to hand over the Cyberium he forces her to relent by threatening to summon his ship to destroy Earth, uncaring of the potential damage that would be caused to space-time if Earth was destroyed in 1816.
- He uses the Cyberium to alter history so that the Cybermen win the Cyber Wars, resulting in the genocide and Cyber-conversion of almost all non-Cyber life in the universe, before returning to the future to lead the Cybermen in hunting down and eradicating the few survivors of the war.
- Viewing even part-organic life as inferior, he tortures his loyal Cybermen by painfully tearing the organic parts from their bodies while they scream in order to render his soldiers fully automated.
- Furthermore, he does not undergo this process himself because he's only partially converted and never shows any intent of fully undergoing Cyber-conversion, meaning he does not even meet his own vision of superior life.
- He creates the Death Particle, a weapon that can render any planet a lifeless wasteland, in order to completely annihilate all organic life in the universe.
- He agrees to assist the Master in his plans for universal domination by allowing him to turn the corpses of Time Lords into CyberMasters - Cybermen with the ability to regenerate - in order to render the Cyber Empire immortal.
- Resurrected as a clone, he tries to conquer Earth so he can turn the entire planet into a cyber-conversion facility.
- He slaughters dozens of UNIT soldiers and converts the survivors into Cybermen.
- When Kate Stewart agrees to be converted in return for her men being released, Ashad agrees while fully intending to convert the others anyway.
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 Pure Evils
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