Legion Leader

UNIT's data card on the "Legion Leader". (WC: Incoming Transmission - February Update Video ^[+]Sasha Blore and Darren Fitzjohn, Time Lord Victorious (2024).)

The Legion Leader was a Cyberman leader variant with black side handles, faceplate and an exposed brain was documented in UNIT's visual interface by February 2024. (WC: Incoming Transmission - February Update Video ^[+]Sasha Blore and Darren Fitzjohn, Time Lord Victorious (2024).)

History

A similar-looking Cyber-Lord led the surviving Cybusmen, following the Battle of Canary Wharf, during their encounter with the Tenth Doctor and Jackson Lake before being destroyed by Mercy Hartigan. (TV: The Next Doctor ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2008 (BBC One, 2008).) A historical account of the Doctor's universe recounted a suggestion that cross pollination of the Cybus Cybermen and the Cybermen of Mondas led to the weapons-grade Cyberman model used by the Cyberiad. (PROSE: The Whoniverse ^[+]George Mann and Justin Richards, BBC Books (2016).)

A Cyber-Lord was in command of a Cyber-ship which was caught in a temporal storm before crashing on Earth in the Arctic Circle. Ten thousand years later, in 2010, these Cybermen were discovered and defeated by the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond, with the Cyber-Lord being destroyed by Chisholm. (GAME: Blood of the Cybermen ^[+]Phil Ford, The Adventure Games (BBC Wales Interactive, 2010).)

A Cyber-Leader of this type led the Twelfth Cyber Legion and was confronted by Rory Williams whilst the Eleventh Doctor destroyed the Cyber Legion prior to the Battle of Demons Run. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War ^[+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 6 (BBC One, 2011).)

A weapons-grade Cyber-Leader. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen ^[+]George Mann and Cavan Scott, Titan summer events (Titan Comics, 2016).)

At the end of the universe, the weapons-grade Cybermen were seemingly led by a matching Cyber-Leader who allied with Rassilon following his exile, installing him as Cyber-President on Gallifrey. In reality, however, this Leader was subordinate to a Cyber-Controller who betrayed Rassilon and planned to usher in the Age of the Cyberiad, which was thwarted when the Twelfth Doctor and Rassilon regenerated the universe and so erased these events. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen ^[+]George Mann and Cavan Scott, Titan summer events (Titan Comics, 2016).)