Slitheen
The Slitheen are a fictional family of massive, bipedal extraterrestrials from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. They are adversaries of the Ninth Doctor and later Sarah Jane Smith. The Slitheen are a family of egg-laying calcium-based aliens from the fictional planet Raxacoricofallapatorius. Though their family name is Slitheen, their species are named Raxacoricofallapatorians. The Slitheen are instinctive hunters who are trained from a young age to be ruthless criminals whose main motivation is profit. They were convicted on their home world, not willing to return to their planet in fear of receiving a death sentence.
Raxacoricofallapatorian | |
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Doctor Who race | |
A child member of the Slitheen family as seen in Revenge of the Slitheen (2007). | |
First appearance | "Aliens of London" (2005) |
In-universe information | |
Home world | Raxacoricofallapatorius |
Type | Living calcium bipeds |
Affiliation | Various (families) |
The Slitheen first appeared in the 2005 series episodes "Aliens of London" and "World War Three", and subsequently recur in later episodes of both Doctor Who and the spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures.