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To provide an external point of view of someone who never thought about this category before, I am at a loss to find what unites all these entries. I mean Chronovore and Quill Goddess, the existence of the latter being a bit, shall we say, metaphysical?

I'm sure the creators and contributors to the category had something in mind, maybe, indeed, they thought of "god-like" as suggested upthread. But the name of the category did not suggest this reading to me.

And I agree with OS25 that an attempt to rename it will most probably lead to splitting into more specific and, hence, better defined categories.

The only thing that can save this category, IMHO, is to use it in a literal sense: if the Doctor (or someone else) says that this creature is "transcendental", only then is it allowed in the category. But I doubt very much that's how it was formed. And I bet that this would just shift the mismatch in understanding the word "transcendental" from us, editors, to writers of the stories involved.