| “ | Justice is swift. | „ |
| ~ The Judoon Captain. |
| “ | Language assimilated disengage Earth English you will be catalogued, category human! | „ |
| ~ The Judoon Captain. |
The Judoon are supporting antagonists in the Doctor Who franchise. They are a race of rhinocerid humanoids frequently employed as a mercenary police force.
They are all voiced by Nicholas Briggs, who also voices the Daleks and Cybermen amongst other monsters in Doctor Who.
Personality
The Judoon are very similar to robots in their personality, as they carry out their tasks without regard for the consequences of their actions. They don't fear executing individuals of inferior species without a trial.
History
Encounters with the Tenth Doctor
When Martha Jones first met the Tenth Doctor in Smith and Jones, the Judoon kidnapped an entire hospital to the Moon and pursued the Doctor to arrest a criminal vampire-like creature known as a Plasmavore, which had disguised as a patient at the hospital. They succeeded and sent the hospital back to Earth, but only after being responsible for the deaths of some innocent Humans.
Later in The Stolen Earth, the Judoon helped the Doctor to find the planets stolen by the Daleks together with the Shadow Proclamation. However, when they declared war upon the Daleks, the Doctor decided not to support them and to fight the Daleks on his own.
Prisoner of the Judoon
Sarah Jane Smith met a Judoon called Captain Tybo on Earth, after he had crash-landed there. He sentenced her assistants Clyde and Rani to disintegration, so to save themselves they had to help him preventing his prisoner from escaping.
Other Appearances
During The Pandorica Opens, the Judoon are part of the Alliance wishing to entrap the Eleventh Doctor in the Pandorica, along with the Doctor's greatest foes. They were under the belief the Doctor would be the one to cause the Cracks in Time, and doom the universe. However, they later help him against Madame Kovarian by joining the Doctor's army, as well as Dorium Maldovar, "Danny Boy", Sontaran Commander Strax, the pirate Henry Avery and a Silurian named Vastra. A Judoon was guarding the Shadow Architect when Colony Sarff entered the Shadow Proclamation.
Fugitive of the Judoon
The Thirteenth Doctor encountered the Judoon in the year 2020, when they came to Gloucester to track down an alien fugitive, sealing the city in an energy dome. The Doctor managed to delay them by posing as an Imperial Regulator. Initially believing Lee Clayton to be the fugitive, she took his wife Ruth to safety. However the Judoon discovered he was not the fugitive, and their employer Gat, and by proxy the Division, executed him herself. During a confrontation in Gloucester Cathedral, Ruth began acting strangely, successfully fighting off the platoon, even tearing the captain Plo-Kon-Doon's horn off. As it turned out she, an unknown incarnation of the Doctor, was the fugitive. The Fugitive Doctor's TARDIS was transported aboard their ship, and the two Doctor's confronted Gat and the Judoon. After Gat was killed, the Fugitive Doctor forced them to let her go, as their contract was now irrelevant, and they had no jurisdiction in interstellar space.
Biology
Due to their large lungs the Judoon can survive without much oxygen in the air. Despite being two-metre high, they have rather small brains. Their blood is yellow. While the Judoon look esssentially the same regardless of gender, female Judoon are able to grow hair.
Trivia
- The Sycoraxs who invaded Earth in "The Christmas Invasion" had belts made of Judoon skin.
- In the Doctor Who novel Trading Futures, written before the series' revival, a rhinoceros like alien race features as an antagonist, called the Onhir, itself an anagram of Rhino.
- The Judoon are believed to have effectively put the Ogrons "out of business" due to being more competent at mercenary work - for this reason Judoon have effectively replaced the Ogrons in most modern Doctor Who media.
- The Doctor notably detests the Judoon, whom are stupid and rude.
- In a comic story, the Fifth Doctor would have politely given the Judoon an artifact he had in his possession, but the dimwits held Tegan and Turlough hostage and demanded it
- The Judoon used an H20 scoop to pull a hospital that a plasmavore was hiding in to the moon, as they had no jurisdiction over earth. Only doing the minimum of using a forcefield to keep the air in; not bothering to give a supply, due to Judoon have large lung reserves.
- In Donna's World, this lead to the death of all but one person; due to Sarah Jane Smith bringing Luke, Maria and Clyde along; using up more oxygen.
- The Judoon broke their own law of having no legal reason to be on Earth in 2009 and 2020; tracking down the Veil and Fugitive Doctor.
- They are even stupid enough to arrest the Thirteenth Doctor for the Fugitive's murder of Gat; not caring the Doctor has lived millennia past their statue of limitations.
