Which might mean that the design for our suits came from subconscious memories of the Silent Warning, TV Tropes — Steam. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. In Universe It has not been explained why the Silence wear suits or for that matter clothing at all. With that in mind there are a couple of possible answers: The appearance of the Silents in suits is a mental construct of an authority figure created by them as part of their obedience compulsion.
This would likely mean in previous eras, they wore whatever the dominant members of that society wore that would add to a desire to please them. The problem with this is it would not explain why the Doctor sees them the same way as any human might cultural transference could cover it, though. The Silent appear to all have the same physical dimensions, so they have humans tailor clothing which appears as a nondescript suit and tie, reinforcing the psychic illusion they are all the same, or as part of a psychic trigger like a hypnotist using a stopwatch.
See the suit, feel the compulsion to obey the suit and the Silent within it. However: Does this mean there is an entire collection of humans who create suits of a particular size and build, add a shirt and black tie, hang them up and promptly forget they made them?
Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Thaddeus Howze Thaddeus Howze k 22 22 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I like the idea of them wearing suits because it makes people obey as it leads to the question of whether they wear suits because of the implicit authority or whether people feel on an instinctive level there is implicit authority in wearing a suit because the Silence wear them!!
Good answer. I agree that the "psychic suit" idea makes sense, especially as the Doctor used the same technique to appear clothed when he was naked in The Time of the Doctor an episode that also include the Silence. Mark Mark 2 2 bronze badges. I never really thought about it, but when I read the question this is the first thing I thought of. This seems quite likely although there's no-way to prove or disprove it — Matt. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.
Sign up using Facebook. These agents were often fitted with Eye Drives which allowed them to remember the Silents when they turned away. Ultimately, she kissed him with poisoned lipstick.
She later broke free of her conditioning and revived him using the remainder of her regenerative energy to save his life. TV : Let's Kill Hitler. The Silents were first properly encountered by the Doctor in America although he had been aware of the existence of the Silence for some time. The Silence had been on Earth since humanity's beginning, secretly manipulating humanity and its development for their own ends. It was implied they were responsible for the Moon landing because they needed a special spacesuit for Melody Pond for the day when she would kill the Doctor.
The Silence's occupation of Earth was broken when the Doctor issued a post-hypnotic command via the Apollo 11 footage to the entire human race. The footage included a recording that Canton Delaware had made of a Silent saying that humans should kill the Silents on sight. TV : Day of the Moon. The Silence tracked down River Song to the Luna University , where they kidnapped her and forced her into an astronaut suit as part of their plan to kill the Doctor.
TV : The Impossible Astronaut Their plan was foiled when the Doctor convinced the crew of the Teselecta to disguise their ship as him and take his place, tricking the Silence into believing they had killed him at a fixed point in time.
The fixed point was actually the Teselecta's destruction and the deception itself. During the Siege of Trenzalore , the event that led to the founding of the Silence, the Kovarian Chapter broke away from the main body of the Silence to try to prevent the Doctor from reaching Trenzalore and potentially speaking his name by going back in time and engineering events to kill him in his past. These events, the destruction of the TARDIS , the creation of the Cracks , and the kidnapping and manipulation of River Song ironically led to the events they were trying to prevent.
The Doctor referred to this as the Destiny Trap: "you can't change history if you're a part of it. Together they destroyed or forced to retreat all but the Daleks before being overrun.
After the Time Lords changed the future by granting the Doctor a new regeneration cycle, the Crack closed and the Silence's goal was fulfilled as the Dalek forces were destroyed and the Doctor was unable to restore the Time Lords. One Silent was imprisoned in the Judoon prison , along with the Thirteenth Doctor. She stated that she forgot it was there, before being interrupted by Captain Jack Harkness , forgetting it again.
The Silent watched the Doctor and Jack escape through the cell walls, using Jack's breakout ball. TV : Revolution of the Daleks. The Day of the Doctor novelisation. It was theorized by Rory Williams that the rise of s alien invasion films and ss UFO sightings were subconscious reactions to the Silents, and that the Silents made repeated thefts of Edvard Munch 's The Scream to suppress imagery of them.
In , people in and around the Kelly-Hopkinsville farmhouse experienced lights and sound, but only a few alleged seeing aliens. Hodson drew what people claimed to have seen: a creature that resembled a Silent.
It became the most famous alien abduction in America. A Silent was present during one of The Beatles ' performances. Post-hypnotic suggestion is utilised by the Doctor to have humans kill the Silents. WC : Prequel The Impossible Astronaut It killed a woman named Joy in front of Amy Pond before delivering a post-hypnotic suggestion for her to "tell the Doctor what he must know, and what he must never know". Before July in , a great number of Silents had taken up residence at a disused orphanage where the little girl was held.
They used post-hypnotic suggestions to make the director believe the orphanage was still in operation. They showed great interest in the little girl, putting her in a life support "astronaut" suit to keep her healthy and safe — even equipping the suit with a built-in weapons system. They took her to their underground lair and cryptically told her that she would help "bring the Silence. The Doctor inflicted a crushing defeat on the Silents when he ensured that humanity saw footage of a wounded Silent they held captive spliced into the footage of the Moon landing broadcast.
In it, the Silent said "You should kill us all on sight"; it had said this to Canton, sneering at human mercy while he tried to help heal it after it had been shot. This footage was immediately viewed by half a billion humans, It would be seen every time anyone saw the Apollo 11 landing, one of the most famous and frequently viewed film sequences in the history of humanity.
Without enough time to implant more post-hypnotic suggestions when humans looked at them, TV : Day of the Moon the Silents were forced to abandon the planet. A Silent was in attendance at the wedding of William and Kate Middleton. A group of Silents took refuge in Helena Faversham 's house, these Silents planned to regroup with the rest of their species in an attempt to escape from Earth.
After UNIT attacked the house they decided that they no longer had need for Faversham and killed her. They started to use subliminal messaging to undo the Doctor's message to kill them and then to trust Kenneth LeBlanc. They ordered Josh Carter to assassinate LeBlanc at his constituency count, and then to destroy the counting hall.
When Josh hesitated they ordered the crowd to kill him instead. They couldn't get the double assassination but they used the results to get a message out to conteract the Doctor's original subliminal message. They decided to get off the planet but destroy it their wake.
They manipulated the Earth's government to the brink of war by using Osgood to display all the spy satellites. They all transmatted to the Telokni ship and got them to shoot the platform. Some priests, however, remained loyal to the Papal Mainframe and did not become members of the Kovarian Chapter. The "Silents" on board the Papal Mainframe — along with the rest of the Mainframe's crew — were converted into Dalek puppets when the Daleks invaded the Mainframe.
They helped set a trap for the Doctor, and allowed three Daleks to enter the conference room where the Doctor was conversing with Tasha Lem. Later, multiple presumably non-converted Silents assisted the Doctor and the people of Trenzalore against the horde of the Doctor's enemies attacking the planet. Tasha Lem remarked at the sight of "old enemies" fighting side by side. They fought together for years before being overrun, destroying or forcing to retreat all but the Daleks in that time.
Amy noticed it before she was distracted. At some point in their history, Silents starred in black-and-white movies , which were silent films in more ways than one. One such "Silent film", which involved a scene where a Silent character wearing a dress was tied to train tracks by one in a top hat , was available at Cinema Paradoxo. Both of them watched it with rapt attention but were, obviously, unable to remember a single thing about it once the screening ended.
A Silent was held in a cell in the prison where the Doctor was also being held. TV : Revolution of the Daleks. In the Area 52 Pyramid in an alternate timeline, over a hundred Silents were "captured" by Amy Pond's troops and placed in specimen tanks filled with water to prevent them from drawing electricity. The Silents easily broke out and killed the guards.
Three Silents tried to kill Rory, but were gunned down by Amy. When the telepathic Emily Fairfax read the mind of the Hypothetical Gentleman , a Silent was among the images she saw. Additionally, the Silents' hand structure was inspired by the aye-aye , a nocturnal mammal found in Madagascar.
The Brilliant Book Silents are featured both as enemies and as allies called "Silent Priest" in the Doctor Who: Legacy mobile game. In the story of Legacy , the Eleventh Doctor and his companions find a Silent guarding a time paradox in America on 8 April The Doctor claims that the Silence should not be here but further in his past, which he attributes to damage to time caused by the Sontarans ' interference in the timeline.
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