Figure (Doctor Who)

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“	What's that in the mirror, or the corner of your eye? What's that footstep following, but never passing by?	„
	~ The Doctor

The Figure was the main antagonist in the Doctor Who episode, "Listen."

Biography[]

The Twelfth Doctor hypothesised that every being in the universe could be shadowed by an entity that was perfectly evolved to hide.

The Figure once appeared on top of Rupert Pink's bed at the West Country Children's Home in the mid-1990s. It did so when Clara Oswald took Rupert underneath his bed to assure him that there was nothing there. Believing that the figure could be one of the creatures he hypothesised, the Doctor told Rupert and Clara to turn their backs, in order to allow the figure to leave peacefully. He promised the figure that the three wouldn't look at it. When the figure left, it took Rupert's bed spread with it.

The Doctor came up with two possibilities for the creature's identity. The first possibility was that it was just one of Rupert's friends at the children's home playing a joke on him. Possibility two was that it wasn't. He acknowledged to Clara that it was "entirely possible" that Danny was saved from what Clara referred to as "another kid in a bed spread".

Later, while at the end of the universe, the Doctor attempted to see if the creatures would reveal themselves when there was no other life. He let the airlock shut down, but it was unclear if he actually encountered anything. Whether the creatures were real or not, the Doctor was left satisfied by his answer.

Gallery[]

Don't. Look. Round. - Listen - Doctor Who - BBC

Trivia[]

The Figure is the most enigmatic monster of all Who fiction, with its very existence being in question - no official explanation of what it is has been given, thus it is up to the audience to guess.. some even suggest it is not a real entity at all but a bogeyman figure made up by the Doctor himself.
Some fans considered The Figure could be a type of Floof, an alien originating from a Moffat-penned short story Corner of the Eye. When asked about in Doctor Who Magazine 490, Steven Moffat revealed that this was not the intention on his part, as he had completely forgotten about the story when writing Listen.

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