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| Weeping Angel | |
|---|---|
| Doctor Who race | |
 A hostile Weeping Angel as displayed in 2008. | |
| First appearance | "Blink" (2007) |
| Last appearance | "Survivors of the Flux" (2021) |
| Created by | Steven Moffat |
| In-universe information | |
| Other name(s) | The Lonely Assassins |
| Home world | Unknown |
The Weeping Angels are a race of fictional predatory alien creatures from the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who. The Weeping Angels are "quantum-locked", meaning they can only move when unobserved. Weeping Angels feast by touching a victim; the victim being sent back in time, and the Angel feeds on the resulting time energy from the time travel caused. The Weeping Angels were introduced in the 2007 episode "Blink" and became recurring characters across a variety of Doctor Who media. These later episodes expand the Angels' list of abilities, which include the ability for an image of an Angel to become another Weeping Angel, the ability to turn other statues into Weeping Angels, and the ability to kill others by touching them twice.
The Angels were created by writer Steven Moffat. Moffat was inspired by a variety of sources, including an encounter with a statue in a graveyard, which mysteriously disappeared when he returned to view it at a later date. The Weeping Angels are portrayed by actresses, who portray the Angels physically, with freeze frames being used to make the Angels appear entirely still in the final product. The Weeping Angels were planned to act as the overarching, main antagonists of the spin-off series Class, but this never came to fruition as a result of the series' cancellation.
Since their initial appearance, the Weeping Angels have been repeatedly nominated as one of the most popular and frightening Doctor Who monsters. They have been praised for their concept and fear factor, but have been criticized for the expansion of their abilities and their overexposure across Doctor Who media. They have been significantly analyzed since their debut. The tool Weeping Angel, which was leaked as part of Vault 7, is named after the Angels.