The Beast (The Impossible Planet)


 * For the parasitic species of the same name, see The Beast.

"I shall never die! The thought of me is forever, in the bleeding hearts of men, in their vanity and obsessions and lust! Nothing shall ever destroy me! Nothing!"

- The Beast. The Beast was a colossal demon imprisoned in the heart of the planet Krop Tor who claimed that he existed before the universe. He identified himself as Satan, among many other religious representations of evil.

Origins
The Beast claimed to have existed before the Universe, a claim the Doctor found troubling to accept or consider as he believed nothing could have existed before the universe.


 * The Ancient Lights, among other beings, may also have originated before the universe.

The Beast had a son known as Abaddon (TW: End of Days), also a name for the Best himself. (DW: The Impossible Planet)


 * See spearate entry.


 * Some also called the Beast itself Abbadon. Abaddon had a "nemesis" or "evil twin" known as Pwccm. It is unknown if Pwccm is also the son of the Beast. (TWN: The Twilight Streets)

Imprisonment
"I have been imprisoned for an eternity; but no more. The pit is open; and I am free!"

- The Beast.

Though the exact circumstances are unknown, it is known that the Beast had been at battle with the Disciples of the Light. The Disciples, who themselves existed before the universe, confined him to a pit in the centre of Krop Tor, a planet in orbit around K37 Gem 5, a black hole. If he ever tried to escape, the field holding the planet in orbit would break and the planet would be sucked into the black hole. (DW: The Satan Pit)

Influence
He said that he had many names, including Satan, and claimed to be the essence of all Devil-like figures in religion and myth. He also claimed to have been imprisoned since before the universe. The beast said that Rose Tyler would die in battle, but she didn't recently so the Doctor said that he lied, but we see that he didn't because Rose went to a parallel world but in the world that Rose is really from she was on the list of the dead.

The Beast spread his influence throughout the cosmos. He claimed that the devils and demons that appear in various religions were based on him. (DW: The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit)

Encounter with the Walker Expedition
The Beast possessed Toby Zed, a crew member of the Walker Expedition Sanctuary Base 6, via the text transcribed into the Krop Tor Notebook.

Through Zed, the Beast's first action was to kill Scooti Manista by breaking one of the windows (the Beast and those he possesses can survive in a total vacuum indefinitely). The Base's Ood were taken over. Upon the Ood's defeat, the Beast planned to escape by keeping his spirit in Toby's body, leaving his physical body behind. The Doctor deactivated the force holding Krop Tor in orbit.

The Beast's original body was destroyed when Krop Tor fell into K37 Gem 5 and his spirit is believed to have been destroyed when Toby's body was pulled into K37 Gem 5, although he claimed that he would never be truly destroyed. (DW: The Satan Pit)

Physical form
"You will die; and I shall live."

- The Beast

When the Doctor encountered him, the Beast resembled a gargantuan crimson horned figure with a corpse-like face, bound by giant chains. While possessed by the Beast, its hosts had eyes with crimson irises.

Powers and abilities
"I am the sin; and the temptation: and the desire. I am the pain and the loss."

- The Beast.

The Beast could manifest himself through electronic media, including computer voices and, crudely through hologram viewers. Its mind could leave its body and possess a single hive mind of the Ood collectively or a single Human individually, though not more than one at one time. He had the power of telepathy and, through a host, telekinesis. Possession of a human subject affected the host's skin, causing strange markings to appear all over their face and body; and vocal chords, allowing them to speak with different pitches simultaneously. Whether a single human or a hive mind, the eyes of those possessed by the beast glowed a fiery red. The Beast could also project fire from his mouth. His hosts could also physically survive in a vacuum indefinitely. (DW: The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit) The Doctor realized that the Beast, or the Devil, or Satan was "an idea in the minds of men", and not a physical form, and that is why it could manifest into others, and could survive indefinitely after the destruction of its body.

Other names of the Beast
The Beast stated that he had gone by many names: the Devil, Krop Tor, Legion, Lucifer, the King of Despair, the Deathless Prince, the Bringer of the Night, He Who Bathes in the Black Sun, the Sin, the Temptation, the Deceiver, the Pain, the Loss, the Death of Hope, Fury, Rage, the Vile, the Ferocity, the Price, the Fool, the Agony, the Fear, the Vanity, the Obsession, the Urge to Jump and the Urge to Fall. (sources?)

He also identified himself as Abaddon, also given as the name of his own son (TW: End of Days), Satan, a name which the Doctor identified with the Osirian Sutekth (DW: Pyramids of Mars), the Darkness (a name used by another being) (TWN: The Twilight Streets) and Death, a name claimed both by an Eternal and by Duroc (TW: Dead Man Walking) Legion, another claimed name of the Beast had another claimant, though, the Beast probably had a better claim to it. (NA: Lucifer Rising)

The Beast also inspired the Kaled god of war and a god feared by the Dæmons. (DW: source?)

Minor appearances
When Drew Blayney, leader of the Brimstone Skulls motorcycle club,was possessed by one of the ritual motorcycles, he drew upon the image of the Beast as one of his childhood fears. (TWM: Jetsam)