Clockwork Droid

The Clockwork Androids are the villains of the Tenth Doctor episode The Girl in the Fireplace. They came to stalk and take Madame de Pompadour's brain in 18th Century France believing it could be used to repair their ship of the same name.

The Clockwork Androids most likely began as electronic robots on board the space ship called the Madame de Pompador. Their only purpose was to fix the ship they were on if it ever broke down. When the ship did break down they did not have the right parts and so they used the 50 crew members on board using their body parts to repair the ship and throwing the rest in the furnace for power. The last part they needed was a brain, and they believed that the 37 year old brain (the same age of their ship) would only work. So, they opened multiple time windows to 18th Century Frace trying to find the one that lead to Madame de Pompadour's 37th year. They followed a camoflage procedure to blend into the surroundings and to not bring advanced technology to the past. They rebuilt themselves giving them a more clockwork like look and wore french clothes, some looking like women others looking like men, and terrifying masks that are twisted into a grin, making them look like someone from a masquerade. They are equiped with a short range teleporter, scanners, can heat themselves up if they get frozen, tranquilizers, and their gloved hands hide sharp saw-knifes, so they can take human body parts to use in repairing their ship. Whenever they are in the room, they make a scary 'tick tock' noise from the clockwork parts. They often break the clock in the room they are in to hide themselves since the sound of two clocks may riase suspicion. The Doctor defeated them by disconnecting the time window that led back to the ship. Unable to carry out their purpose they shut down. They have many different names: The Elegant Androids, the Clockwork Robots, clockwork killers.