Death's Head

Death's Head was a mechanoid life-form who worked as a 'freelance peacekeeping agent' (effectively, a mercenary, bounty hunter, and assassin) in a number of dimensions and time zones. He did not take pleasure in killing, merely in being professional and financially astute, and possessed a rather pedantic personality. He was a habitual traveller between alternate realities, spending most of his career in universes other than N-Space.

Personal History
Death's Head's robotic body was originally constructed on the planet Styrakon to hold the life-essence of a techno-mage named Lupex. However, a woman named Pyra planned to use the body against Lupex and was responsible for installing the Death's Head personality within it to this end. However, the body was stolen, enlarged to giant size, and launched into the Time Vortex.

While travelling through the vortex en route to the planet Cybertron, Death's Head collided with the Doctor's TARDIS, forcing both to materialise. Death's Head attacked the Doctor, but was shot with a TCE and returned to his original size apparently uninjured. The Doctor eventually used the TARDIS to launch the mechanoid through time and space to Earth in the year 8162. (DWM: Crossroads of Time)


 * ''There is marginal evidence to suggest this version of Earth is in N-space due to the Doctor and Death's Head both encountering the scavenger Keepsake at a later point, but it could just as easily be Earth-616 or another as yet unidentified parallel.

Later, Death's Head attempted to claim the price put on the Doctor's head by Josiah Dogbolter, using a prototype time machine to track him down. However, Dogbolter meant to double-cross the mechanoid, hiding a nuclear device in the time travel unit to kill both him and the Doctor. The Doctor saved Death's Head from the bomb and in return the mechanoid decided not to complete the contract on the Time Lord... this time. (Death's Head #8)


 * Death's Head had many more adventures, most of them occurring in the reality known to its natives as Earth-616. He personally encountered many of that reality's more colourful inhabitants such as the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, and the She-Hulk''. Apart from a rather distant encounter at Bonjaxx's party he and the Doctor did not meet again.