Salamander

 Name: Salamander

 Format: Television Show

 Time of Origin: Earth, approximately 2017

 Appearances: "The Enemy of the World"

 Doctors: Second Doctor

 Companions: Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield

 History: Although Salamander’s essential plans and ambitions were relatively straightforward, he is remembered by fans for two very distinct reasons; not only was he the only human villain faced by the Second Doctor during the ‘year of monsters’ of 1968 - every other adversary The Doctor faced during this time was an alien of some sort -, but he was also the exact physical double of the Second Doctor (Although he had a distinctive accent due to his Yucatanian childhood that The Doctor claimed he would take a month to mimic exactly, even though he was able to convincingly mimic it during his time posing as Salamander).

The Doctor or Salamander?

 When The Doctor first learned about Salamander, he was the head of a World Authority in the not-too-distant future, famous for having solved world hunger by his invention of the sun-store, a device that collected energy from the sun and stored them in a concentrated form that he could later direct to areas starved of sun. However, his benevolent public facade hid an assured arrogance, possessing a taste for fine wine from Alaska as well as being a cold-blooded killer with a lust for power. His desire for control was so great that he was actually willing to kill potentially millions of innocent people just so that he could ensure that he would have power over the few thousand that were left in the aftermath.

Giles Kent

 This attitude eventually created Salamander’s enemy in the form of Giles Kent, the former Deputy Security Leader for North Africa and Europe and Salamander’s former right-hand-man, who was discredited and ruined by Salamander to ensure that nobody else realised what he was up to. Attempting to gain control of Salamander’s plans for himself, Kent was given a unique opportunity when the TARDIS materialised on an island near Kent’s base, as the Second Doctor was Salamander’s exact physical double, prompting Kent to convince The Doctor to pose as Salamander to access his main research station and find out what he was up to, The Doctor’s companions Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield infiltrating Salamander’s retinue as new members of his staff after Jamie averted a fake attempt on Salamander’s life.

Subsequent developments revealed that Salamander could apparently predict natural disasters such as a dormant volcano becoming active, subsequently blackmailing various public officials to hand power over to him or be accused of ineptitude for ignoring his prior warnings. While The Doctor discovered some of Salamander’s files of blackmail material, Jamie and Victoria learned that Salamander was causing the natural disasters thanks to a small group of people that he had tricked into confining themselves in a secret bunker while claiming that there had been a nuclear war that had devastated the planet. Not only did this secure him the loyalty of at least some of Earth’s population even if he had to destroy the rest to establish his power, but he also ensured that they possessed only what information about the outside world he was willing to share with them, claiming that Earth’s surface was a nuclear wasteland populated by ruthless mutants that the scientists were helping him eliminate.

Salamander

 Fortunately, The Doctor’s allies ran into one of the scientists after Salamander brought him out of the bunker to kill him - the man having discovered a stray newspaper cutting that threatened to expose Salamander’s lies -, providing them with the necessary information to realise what Salamander was really planning. At the same time, The Doctor was able to deduce the truth about Kent due to the ease with which Kent was willing to resort to murder to get what he wanted, concluding that Kent simply wanted to take Salamander’s place. Having convinced some of Salamander’s staff that he was the monster he was underneath his facade by ‘interrogating’ Jamie and Victoria while posing as Salamander and using their genuine fear of him as evidence, The Doctor pursued Kent and Salamander into the now-deserted bunkers, Salamander setting off bombs to try and kill The Doctor and Kent.

 In a desperate attempt to escape, Salamander attempted to trick Jamie and Victoria into thinking that he was The Doctor after his escape from the mines, but this deception fell apart when he was brought to the TARDIS and he gestured to Jamie to activate the controls, something that the real Doctor had always expressly ordered Jamie not to do. When the real Doctor arrived, having escaped the explosions relatively unharmed, Salamander tried to escape by setting the TARDIS in flight, but in his haste and ignorance he neglected to close the door before the TARDIS dematerialised, with the result that he fell out of the ship and into the Time Vortex, The Doctor and his companions nearly sharing his fate before Jamie managed to close the doors ("The Web of Fear"). As a result, Salamander was left drifting in the Time Vortex for all eternity, trapped in a vast void that he could never escape and that The Doctor would never be able to recover him from.