The Eye of the Giant (Christopher Bulis)

 Name: Nancy Norton

 Format: Book

 Time of Origin: First fought The Doctor in 1934; The Doctor, Liz Shaw and Mike Yates had a brief confrontation with an alternate version of her in an alternate 1970.

 Appearances: "The Eye of the Giant"

 Doctors: Third Doctor

 Companions: The Brigadier, Sergeant Benton, Liz Shaw and Mike Yates

 History: Although Nancy herself appeared to be little more than a spoiled former Hollywood starlet when she first met The Doctor - overly paranoid about any potential threat to her livelihood after dragging herself up from the slums to become the star she was as an adult -, the circumstances under which she met him resulted in her becoming a threat to freedom on a global scale, with the situation being particularly personal because she would never have been able to go that far if it weren’t for The Doctor’s own interference in the past.

 A Hollywood starlet from the 1930s, Nancy was the second wife of film producer Marshal Grover, accompanying him on his expedition to the legendary lost island of Salutua as he allegedly sought to use it as the setting for a realistic monster movie, Grover also bringing his daughter, Amelia, who lost an arm in the car crash that killed his first wife. Upon arriving at Salutua - protected from the outside world by what appeared to be an atmospheric disturbance -, Grover’s expedition were surprised at the unnaturally large growth rate, Nancy initially refusing to do any filming on the island after she was attacked by a giant snake, only to become paranoid and hostile after Grover’s cameraman suggested using Amelia for long-range shooting. While the jealous Nancy argued with Amelia on the Constitution’s deck, the ship was attacked by giant crabs, Nancy accidentally knocking Amelia overboard in the resulting chaos.

 While searching for Amelia - although Nancy stayed on the ship due to her own guilt -, the expedition was subsequently joined by the Third Doctor and Liz Shaw from 1970 (Although they claimed to simply be members of a British expedition); while attempting to track the origins of a fragment from what appeared to be a spaceship that had recently washed up on the coast of Australia, The Doctor had turned his Time-Space Visualiser into a Time Bridge as an effort to escape his exile, tracing the ship fragment’s origin to Salutua only for he and Liz to be lost in the past when UNIT headquarters’ power generators overloaded while they were exploring the island. Learning that the fragment came from a ship that had crash-landed in the volcano at Salutua’s centre - the ship drawing on the volcano’s geothermal energy to maintain a force field rendering the island invisible to the rest of the world -, The Doctor, Liz, and Sergeant Mike Yates - who had followed The Doctor and Liz through after the bridge had been repaired - were able to help find Amelia, only to simultaneously discover a strange stone statue with a giant red eye and a miniature tank gathering flora and fauna... just as The Brigadier sent them a message revealing that Salutua would be destroyed by a volcanic eruption that night.

Examining the statue, The Doctor learned that it was a container for phials containing drugs developed by the Semquess, the most skilled bio-engineers in the galaxy; two phials remained in the statue, but the third phial had been released at some point after the crash, causing the gigantism on Salutua. Grover attempted to take the phials himself, having come to Salutua in the hope that the cause of the unnatural growth could be harnessed to help restore Amelia’s lost arm, but Nancy unintentionally destroyed herself in Grover’s eyes when she lashed out at her step-daughter’s self-righteousness. With Grover ignoring The Doctor’s protests that humanity wasn’t ready to harness the power of the Semquess - as well as Amelia’s own refusal to take the drugs, seeing her missing arm as a test from God -, Nancy seduced one of the crew to try and take the statue’s eye, learning too late that it was actually an alien called Brokk who’d stolen the phials from the Semquess in the first place, having crash-landed on Earth while escaping and remaining in stasis due to his damaged spacesuit - Brokk’s species required higher temperatures than those on Earth - until the crewman was influenced to build a fire. Although Brokk attempted to escape as the Semquess arrived in force - the tanks Yates and Amelia had encountered earlier were the Semquess determining their drugs’ role in the island’s growth -, his ship was shot down, scattering into fragments and giving The Doctor and his UNIT allies time to escape before his ship’s nuclear core triggered the predicted eruption.

 Unfortunately, as The Doctor and UNIT learned when they returned to the present, their actions had changed history for the worse; whereas before Brokk and the expedition had all died in the eruption, thanks to The Doctor’s interference, the ship had returned to America... and Nancy, seeking power, had made a deal with Brokk, Brokk giving her the Semquess phials and fragments of his ruby hypnotic eye so that part of him might survive the Semquess attack. Using the contents of the second Semquess phial to merge with Brokk’s eye, gaining mesmeric powers that grew stronger as she spread her influence through Grover’s films, essentially transforming herself into the ‘Goddess’ of the world, humanity fighting off the Semquess and working to prepare a new body for Brokk. Fortunately, the time bridge had irradiated UNIT headquarters with artron energy that rendered them - albeit temporarily - immune to the changes in history, allowing The Doctor, The Brigadier, Benton and Yates to return to the past after establishing the cause of the diversion, knowing that Nancy’s authority was based on nothing more than fear and her ‘utopia’ was doomed by its very nature.

 In the final confrontation with the now-insane Nancy of 1934 on the Constitution, The Doctor was forced to use his sonic screwdriver to shatter the ruby fragments of Brokk’s eye, only for his effort to be wasted when the dying Nancy fell onto the phial, causing her to merge with Brokk’s eye and the organic fragments of the ship to become an insane animal/vegetable/mineral hybrid. With no other option, The Doctor was prepared to drink the third phial - capable of releasing the full potential of any life form that consumed it -, but Amelia drank it first, her faith and the power of her transformation turning her into an angelic being, departing Earth with the insane hybrid to care for it until Nancy and Brokk could be separated, seeking her new place in life. Returning to the present, The Doctor and his UNIT colleagues were gratified to find that, barring some newspaper headlines about Grover’s expedition, history had returned to its original path.