The Great One
From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.
- For the creator in the myths on Messaline, see The Great One.
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| The Great One | |
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| Race: | Eight Legs |
| Home Planet: | Metebelis III |
| Home Era: | Far future |
| Appearances: | DW: Planet of the Spiders |
| Actor: | Maureen Morris (voice) |
- "All praise to the Great One! All praise to me! Bow down before me, planets! Bow down stars! Bow down whole galaxies and worship the Great One! The Me! The great, all powerful me!"
- ―The Great One
The Great One was a gigantic spider who reigned as the matriarch of the Eight Legs. She sought to rule the universe and needed only the crystal which the Doctor had stolen and taken to 20th century England.
The Eight Legs obeyed the Queen Spider who also obeyed the Great One. Being physically giant the Great One lived in a cavern made of blue Metebelis crystals. With her psychic power she could read the Doctor's mind and discovered how much fear she put into him. Obtaining the Doctor's crystal, which was the last perfect crystal she needed, she completed a web of the crystals which lay above her head and she was able to unlock her mind.
Infinite power and knowledge was being fed into her mind but since there was no way to vent it, radiation from the crystals built up within the web and the crystals burned her mind, destroying her. (DW: Planet of the Spiders)
