List of Minor Doctor Who Villains - L - John Lumic

John Lumic was a physically disabled genius and megalomaniac who was the head of Cybus Industries on a parallel Earth. Among his many inventions were the Earpods, a highly popular and widespread communications and entertainment device which allowed the downloading of news and other information directly into the brain. Paralyzed, dependent on his ventilator, and slowly dying, Lumic was driven insane by his desperate need to stay alive, so he researched possible ways of making humans immortal. He experimented on human subjects, namely homeless people kidnapped off the streets. The final solution he found was to bond the human body to a metal exoskeleton, with the brain preserved by "copyrighted chemicals." This gave birth to the parallel universe version of the Cybermen. He sent a force of Cybermen to assassinate the President and the government and hypnotised, through the EarPods, the Londoners to march towards the factories and begin cyber-conversion. In the process, one of his employees turned against Lumic and smashed his ventilator; rather than repairing it the Cybermen then took him unwillingly to be "upgraded"." transforming him into the Cyber-Controller. After Mickey Smith reactivated emotions in the Cybermen, causing them to go insane and destroy themselves, and setting alight the conversion factory, the Cyber Controller sought revenge by attempting to climb aboard a zeppelin which The Tenth Doctor and his companions were using to escape. However, the parallel universe Pete Tyler cut the rope ladder and sent the creature falling back into the blazing factory. John Lumic is played by Only Fools And Horses and The Vicar Of Dibley actor Roger Lloyd Pack.