Carnival of Monsters: The Enormous-Headed Ice Warrior

Carnival of Monsters

Number Two: The Enormous-Headed Ice Warrior

The Ice Warriors are one of the best-looking monsters from the original series. They look hard enough to actually do you some real damage, assuming they could lumber fast enough to catch you. I like to imagine that they are capable of a stunning turn of speed, like a crocodile, and if they caught you they would tear off your head and suck out your spine. And make your wife and children watch.

If a legion of Ice Warriors attacked your weather base on the moon, you’d be rushing off to change your underwear before the battle even started. They’re organised, well-drilled and their wibbly-wobbly mirror guns probably leave a nasty mark. The fact they have the word Warrior in their name signals tough times ahead. However, if this fellow led the assault, then that fearsome reputation would shatter like, erm, ice (Sorry...).

What happened to him? What tragic T-Mat accident made his head swell to twice its normal size? Did he accidentally shoot himself with his own wibbly-wobbly gun? It’s brave of him to carry on despite his terrible affliction, but surely the other Ice Warriors make little hissing sounds of laughter when he’s not around.