A 60th Anniversary Villain Is Teased in the Doctor Who Season 2 (2025) Trailer.
In 2025, Doctor Who will return with a new season on BBC One and Disney+. With renowned showrunner Russell T. Davies still leading the series, Ncuti Gatwa will return for further adventures as the Fifteenth Doctor. Varada Sethu, who portrayed the Anglican Marine Mundy Flynn in Season 1 of Doctor Who will play Belinda Chandra, the show’s next companion in Season 2. Ruby Sunday, played by Millie Gibson, will make a cameo alongside Belinda, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, and the other Doctor pals at UNIT. The reappearance of a significant adversary may have even been hinted at in the first Doctor Who, Season 2 teaser trailer.
The preview for the 2024 Christmas special “Joy to the World,” which showed the Doctor battling to bring his new companion home, gave Doctor Who viewers their first glimpse of the Doctor and Belinda in action. Additionally, Gatwa’s Doctor issued a warning on “forces beyond this universe.” The Pantheon, the godlike adversaries that have plagued the Doctor since the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble confronted the Not-Things at the edge of reality in the Doctor’s 60th anniversary special “Wild Blue Yonder,” seem to be the subject of these menacing remarks. Specifically, the trailer seems to allude to the reappearance of the first member of the Pantheon that Gatwa’s Doctor encountered.
The Gods in Doctor Who Season 2 Are Playing Games
“It’s all a game to them,” the Doctor warns Belinda in the teaser video for Doctor Who, Season 2, adding that “the games are deadly.” Fans can see what types of tricks the Pantheon’s gods will be coming up with in the upcoming season from the teaser. A cartoon character emerges from a movie screen in one striking image, which oddly blends two and three dimensions.
This illustrates how the gods of the Pantheon, who originate from outside the cosmos and the bounds of physics, can control reality in ways that cannot be explained. The Doctor is shown in the teaser screaming, “What the hell is this?” while clutching to a skyscraper as it hurtles through space, obviously confronting something that is beyond his comprehension. This further suggests that the gods are interfering. The Doctor’s allusions to lethal games in the teaser are also very intriguing.
Doctor Who has previously introduced several gods. Sutekh, the God of Death, and Maestro, the God of Music, were featured in Season 1. The Trickster, a villain in the Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures who aimed to wreak havoc across time and space, was revealed to be the God of Traps in the season finale. In a similar vein, the God of Beasts was the Mara, the iconic antagonist from Doctor Who. The Toymaker, the God of Games, made a comeback in the 60th anniversary specials of Doctor Who before the start of the new Season 1 (Series 14). The Season 2 clip may be hinting at the Toymaker’s potential return, considering he was first presented during the First Doctor’s time.
Is the Toymaker Coming Back to Doctor Who?
The Toymaker’s most recent appearance was in “The Giggle,” the third and penultimate Doctor Who 60th anniversary special. The Toymaker had infiltrated the real world in this episode after escaping his own dimension, the Celestial Toyroom. Since the laws of gameplay constrained the Toymaker, the Fourteenth Doctor attributed this to his playing a game with the Not-Things at the edge of the universe, which weakened the borders between realities. After the Doctor challenged the Toymaker to a final game, “The Giggle” came to an end, with the Toymaker seemingly dying and the Fifteenth Doctor being born.
The Toymaker decided that he had to play this last game with the next Doctor since he had played each of their other games with a different Doctor incarnation. By shooting the Doctor with UNIT’s Galvanic Beam, he set off the Time Lord’s first bigeneration, in which the new incarnation separates from the old one, allowing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors to take on the Toymaker simultaneously.
The Doctors decided to banish the Toymaker from the world as their prize after defeating the villain in a game of catch. The Toymaker was therefore imprisoned in the box containing his own world, which was then sealed in salt in a vault in UNIT Tower. The Doctor appears to have permanently banished the Toymaker from the cosmos with this triumph. But there is never truly a great Doctor Who villain. There is still hope for the God of Games to return from his banishment, as evidenced by the Toymaker’s jail still standing someplace deep within UNIT.
It is still unclear how the Toymaker could break the rules of his final game and get out of his exile, even if there is still a clear physical path for him to return. The Toymaker’s entire life is governed by game rules, as the Fourteenth Doctor noted, which means he is never allowed to cheat and must follow the results of every game he plays. The Toymaker may win his way back into the cosmos to exact revenge on the Doctor by playing a game from a distance.
In 2025, Doctor Who: Season 2 will be available on BBC iPlayer in the UK and Disney+ globally.
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