Crime lord Julius Grayle captured an Angel, and several baby Angels, keeping the adult manacled in his office, torturing and damaging it, and the babies locked in his dark cellar. They would keep victims imprisoned in Winter Quay and send them back in time whenever they tried to escape. They transformed the majority of statues into themselves, including the Statue of Liberty. The Weeping Angels took over 1938 New York City and made it into their feeding ground due to it's massive population. The Eleventh Doctor, accompanied by Amy Pond, manages to wipe out all the Weeping Angels by having them get sucked into a crack in time which erased them from existence. However, a Weeping Angel trapped in the vault of the ship Byzantium has the vessel crash into Alfava Metraxis to awaken its kind from their slumber. In the distant future, most of the Weeping Angels have occupied Alfava Metraxis but ended up in a state of suspended animation as they wiped out the native race prior to human settlers arriving. However, via a time paradox, the Doctor enlists the aid of a woman named Sally Sparrow to sent the TARDIS back to him while tricking the Weeping Angels into looking at each other to freeze them indefinitely. In their first appearance, a group of Weeping Angels in the abandoned Wester Drumlins mansion trapped the Tenth Doctor and his companion Martha Jones in the past and took his TARDIS to nourish on it's energy. The Angels were defeated by the Fifth Doctor and locked under the catacombs of the Sistine Chapel. Believing it was a miracle, a group of priests and believers formed the Order of the Three Angels, and commissioned Michelangelo to "release" the Angels. Even the image of a Weeping Angel can take on a life of its own.Īccording to the audio drama Fallen Angels, three Weeping Angels were trapped inside Earth during it's formation, and were eventually discovered during the Renaissance inside marble blocks. Once their target's gaze is off them, the Weeping Angels can move upon them in less than seconds' time. For this reason, they are often seen as covering their eyes with their hands, giving the impression that they are weeping, when in fact, this is done to prevent them from looking at each other and turning to stone. ![]() As a reflex defense mechanism, though it renders them unable to socialize with each other, the Weeping Angels revert to stone statues when looked at by another being, including themselves. However, the Weeping Angels generally prefer to send a victim back in time before they were born to feed on the temporal energy that represents the life that person would have lived through. The Weeping Angels are an ancient race that are described by the Doctor as "the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life-form evolution has ever produced" as they can sometimes kill without a thought. ~ The Doctor describing the Weeping Angels. ![]() But then you turn your head away, then you blink, and oh yes it can. Of course, a stone can't kill you either. In the sight of any living thing, they literally turn to stone. The moment they are seen by any other living creature, they freeze into rock. They don't exist when they're being observed. No one quite knows where they came from, but they're as old as the universe, or very nearly, and they have survived this long because they have the most perfect defence system ever evolved. ![]() ![]() The lonely assassins, they used to be called.
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