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Upon returning in 2005, Doctor Who's first season introduced a host of great villains. The Slitheen had a depth that went far beyond their exterior silliness, the Daleks were upgraded for the modern era, and while not strictly villains, the kids wandering around in gas masks asking "are you my mummy?" were absolutely terrifying. Nevertheless, Doctor Who season 1 failed in terms of adding new recurring antagonists to its roster. Something in the vein of season 3's Weeping Angels, which have since become part of the TARDIS furniture. Looking back, however, Doctor Who set the stage for a perfect new villain before ultimately deciding to make them a hero instead. Mickey Smith: The Doctor Who Villain That Never Was All of the ingredients for Mickey Smith to break bad after Doctor Who season 1 were there. Introduced as, according to the Doctor himself, an "idiot," Mickey immediately became an easy target for the Time Lord's superiority complex. To make matters worse, Mickey lost his girlfriend to the tempting pull of the TARDIS and the Doctor's offer to explore all time and space. That was just the start of Mickey's bad year, however. He became a suspect in Rose's disappearance, was shunned by the locals, and didn't even get the respect of a proper dumping. Even after striking up a romance with Trisha Delaney (Rob Delaney's sister), Rose's jealousy gave Mickey hope that the spark between them wasn't lost, meaning he could never move on. Mickey, to his credit, took the situation as well as anyone could, but there appeared to be a tipping point in "Boom Town." After talking openly with Rose and finding some common ground, Mickey became incensed when she abandoned him at the first sign of something timey-wimey happening without saying a word. Mickey left, shouting into thin air, "Oh, go on then, run! It's him again, isn't it? It's the Doctor! It's always the Doctor! It's always going to be the Doctor. It's never me!" This was the perfect time to make Mickey Smith an enemy of the Doctor's. Instead, his next appearance felt frustratingly tame. Rose talked him into helping the Doctor once again, and from there he was silently inducted as an honorary member of the TARDIS team. One could argue that Mickey's ability to rise above how the Ninth Doctor and Rose treated him is a commendable feature of his personality. It could also be argued that Mickey was walked over, manipulated and used, and never received the opportunity to put things right. Transforming into a force against the Doctor after "Boom Town" would have fixed that issue. How Mickey Smith Could Have Become A Doctor Who Villain During his second encounter with the Doctor, when Rose returned to London in the TARDIS for the first time since leaving, Mickey revealed how he spent a year researching the Doctor's history. We know from season 1's other Doctor fan, Clive, as well as the L.I.N.D.A. club, that plenty of information about Earth's favorite Time Lord can be found on the internet, so Mickey would have given himself a solid foundation of alien knowledge here. We also know that whenever Rose came home during Doctor Who season 1, she regaled Mickey with tales of her travels by the Doctor's side. Mickey, therefore, would have a strong idea of enemies the Gallifreyan had made out there among the stars. Finally, Mickey's Doctor Who ending - in which he becomes an alien-killing soldier alongside Martha Jones - proves his potential to evolve into a far more formidable threat than "Mickey the Idiot." Mickey could have easily teamed up with another alien race in the wake of "Boom Town." Probably not the Daleks, given their hatred of other species, but perhaps other members of the Slitheen, contacted using technology left over from their invasion attempt. Mickey could have trained into a soldier, similar to the person he becomes later but with murkier morals, and been deployed with an arsenal of futuristic alien technology to take the Doctor down. Mickey Becoming A Villain Would Have Been A Refreshing Change For Doctor Who The concept of an innocent citizen being caught up in the Doctor's hubris and seeking revenge isn't one Doctor Who has ever properly explored. Given how heavily the Doctor has interfered over the centuries of their existence, there must be countless innocent people whose lives were made worse by the meddling, even if many more people benefited. How many out there dread the sound of the TARDIS rather than celebrate it? Mickey would have been a perfect representation of all these "forgotten" civilians whose lives were turned upside down without a second thought. People the Doctor overlooked due to arrogance. Children who lost parents during the Doctor's many battles. People the Doctor simply didn't help. Mickey would be the culmination of all that rage and injustice.
