The sonic screwdriver could also create force fields made out of sound waves, capable of deflecting bullets and sonic cannon blasts, ( PROSE: Peacemaker, COMIC: Agent Provocateur) and stasis beams. We’ll be basing our rankings on elements like: what each sonic can do, how it’s been used and its basic design.

Reversing and erasing the command programmes of the Vardy microbots, causing them to forget their original directives. With all these features, the sonic acted as the perfect accompaniment to Pertwee's action-first Venusian Aikido-wielding Doctor.During his battles in the Last Great Time War, ( COMIC: The Clockwise War) the War Doctor used a sonic screwdriver with a simple metallic handle and a red-light-emitting diode at the end. Extending the Sonic reduces its remote control performance in terms of both distance and control angle. The gestures are: Push, Pull, Rotate clockwise, Rotate anticlockwise, Flick up, Flick down, Flick left, Flick right, Tap on the top, Tap on the bottom, Tap on the right, Tap on the bottom, Double button press. Could act as a communicator with Nardole and download the software from Nardole's computer, enabling it to incinerate and blast numerous types of Cybermen and ignite the entirety of Floor 0507.

Plus, it doesn’t fit with the overall edginess of Capaldi’s Doctor, which came out more as the seasons progressed. Before the Sonic can be used by humans to control Earth devices in the home, it will need to be programmed with the infrared (IR) remote control button codes of those devices. When the Eleventh Doctor met the Tenth Doctor in England, 1562, upon the latter realising that the former was a future incarnation of himself, they both got out their sonic screwdrivers. PROSE: The Blood Cell) The Doctor had given Clara one of his screwdrivers when they faced the Fractures but had forgotten to reclaim it, leading his companion to keep it for herself.

The sonic screwdriver also functioned as a conventional screwdriver ( TV: The Monster of Peladon, The Ark in Space) and could be magnetised to remove bolts. There are two main versions of the Tenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver — one which has a slide feature with button, and one which does not slide and has a fixed button. TV: The Night of the Doctor) It could perform maintenance on the TARDIS console, ( TV: Doctor Who) hack into computers, ( AUDIO: The Harvest) melt ice ( AUDIO: The Magic Mousetrap) and briefly disable electron bombs. The Fourteenth Doctor’s sonic was revealed to us in July and, although we haven’t seen it in action yet, that doesn’t mean we can’t pass judgement on its latest design. At one point during his travels with Bill Potts, the Twelfth Doctor had a version of this sonic design in the colour scheme of his second sonic screwdriver.

I'm sure there was more, but the CO toy was never used for anything long term, and never became the full time prop. TV: The Caretaker) It could also run these as a subroutine, though the Doctor could check their progress.The rotation gestures must be performed slowly, holding the Sonic Screwdriver steady and level, as if gently turning a volume knob.