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Evil? Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the Destroyer. Where I tread, I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good!
~ Sutekh justifying himself.

Sutekh the Destroyer is a member of an god-like alien race called the Osirans, and was encountered by the Fourth Doctor in the Doctor Who story "Pyramids of Mars". He is a crazed and blasphemous super-being who feared all forms of life might one day challenge his rule.

He was portrayed by Gabriel Woolf, who later provided the voice of the Beast in the revival series.

History[]

The Osirans were an ancient and incredibly powerful but now extinct race, their end was caused by Sutekh, who destroyed their homeworld Phaester Osiris and left a trail of destruction across the Galaxy. However, Sutekh's brother Horus and the remaining 740 Osirans tracked Sutekh down to Ancient Egypt and used their powers to restrain and imprison him in a Pyramid with the the Eye of Horus beaming a signal from Mars to suppress Sutekh. The tales of the Osirans were remembered in Egyptian mythology with Sutekh as the basis of god Set.

Pyramids of Mars[]

In the year 1911, when a archaeologist named Professor Marcus Scarman broke into the inner chamber of the Pyramid of Horus on Earth, Sutekh killed Scarman and brought his corpse back to life to serve him by having the Osiran service robots build a rocket aimed at the Eye of Horus on Mars. Though the Fourth incarnation of the Doctor was successful in destroying the rocket, deliberately appearing before him to break his mental holding of an explosion caused by Sarah Jane, Sutekh places the Doctor under his control to take Scarman and the remaining service robot to Mars, where they succeeded in destroying the Eye and freeing Sutekh. The Doctor was eventually able to defeat the freed Sutekh by trapping him in a time tunnel so the Osiran would cease to be from aging beyond his race's lifespan.

Old Girl[]

Sutekh was the main overarching antagonist of the events of the 2016 Doctor Who comic story series Old Girl. It was revealed the Sutekh was the mastermind behind a long plan to free himself from the time tunnel by sending a fragment of himself through space-time to recover his original body. He was successful, temporarily causing mass destruction throughout universe before being re-banished back into oblivion by the Doctor and his allies.

The Triumph of Sutekh[]

In Big Finish's audio boxset, it was revealed that only the body of Sutekh was defeated by the Doctor. Years later, his consciousness found a way into a new body created for him using an Osirian flesh loom. He escaped from Mars and travelled back in time to the reign of Hatshepsut, in order to coerce Tutmosis to usurp his mother's throne and start his reign of terror on the world. He thought he had destroyed the world by the time of the 21st century which surprised Russell Courtland who had predicted it. He went across the Earth devouring in his wake but left his worshippers till last. In fact, the Seventh Doctor tricked him and showed him the solar flare ravaged earth in the 29th century. He went back in time to start over again but this created an ouroboros loop.

The Age of Sutekh[]

In Big Finish's Fourth Doctor Adventures series, in the two parter "Kill the Doctor!"/"The Age of Sutekh", Sutekh encountered the Fourth Doctor and Leela on the planet Drummond, having mentally connected with the colonist Rania Chuma. He used the Rene.net to control the populace to "Kill the Doctor!" and to transform Drummond into the new home of the Osirans. However, Sutekh was still reliant on the other minds in the network to reshape reality, allowing those outside it's influence to fight back. In his weakened state, he and Rania fought for control of her, and while Sutekh did mange to reform her body into a copy of his own, he was still weakened, only able to hunt Leela through conventional means. In the end, Drummond wa restored, and Rania took her own life, banishing Sutekh, seemingly for good.

Personality[]

Sutekh was among the most destructive and evil beings in the cosmos according to the Fourth Doctor. He was somewhat paranoid, fearing that all lifeforms might potentially rise up against him. This paranoia led to his decision to destroy all life wherever he found it, with his name being known and abominated on all civilized worlds throughout the universe. Despite this, he was still extremely intelligent and patient.

When speaking to the Tenth Doctor about the reasons for all his actions, Sutekh justifies himself by claiming that evil and cruelty are inevitable in life, so he was merely taking everything to its logical end of becoming dust and darkness. He further claimed he was liberating all life from having the terror of choice and the tyranny of hope to give them the certainty of death instead. Therefore for Sutekh, he was being good by ending suffering throughout the universe, a logic that the Doctor noted was wrong in the end.

Abilities[]

Sutekh possessed immense power: he could change the course of history and destroy entire star systems. The Fourth Doctor once took Sarah Jane Smith to an alternate 1980, where the Earth had become a ruined and abandoned wasteland orbiting a dead star due to the destruction Sutekh caused. According to the Doctor, not even the Time Lords could stop Sutekh when he was in possession of his full powers, essentially making him among the single greatest threats ever to life in the universe.

After emerging back into the universe on one occasion, Sutekh was capable of obliterating a whole planet with merely a hand gesture and was a powerful enough warrior to overpower a group of other god-like abominations from the Void itself. He had the ability to blast beams of green energy from his eyes and hands to kill or disintegrate his enemies into dust.

Sutekh was extremely intelligent, with an immense knowledge of Osiran technology, time-travel, and other alien sciences. He was very charismatic and manipulative when he wants to, capable of creating a long and complex plan of recovering his original body, have revenge on the Doctor, and tricking other god-like beings to ally with him before betraying them.

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Trivia[]

  • Gabriel Woolf, the actor who played Sutekh, later provided the voice of the Beast from "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit", another Doctor Who villain who serves as a basis for the Devil.
  • Sutekh's name is an alias of the ancient Egyptian god of the desert Set, also shared by the demon god from the unrelated Puppet Master series.
    • Sutekh's characterisation acts as a cross between Set and Apep.

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