<Tr> <Th> Home planet </Th> <Td> Unknown </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> First appearance </Th> <Td> "Blink" </Td> </Tr> <P> The Weeping Angels are a race of predatory creatures from the long - running sci - fi series Doctor Who, resembling stone statues . They were introduced in the 2007 episode "Blink", making repeat appearances in "The Time of Angels" / "Flesh and Stone" (2010) and "The Angels Take Manhattan" (2012) as well as cameo appearances in "The God Complex" (2011), "The Time of the Doctor" (2013) and "Hell Bent" (2015). They also feature in the spin - off series Class, in the first series finale "The Lost" (2016). Since their initial appearance, they have been persistently nominated as one of the most popular and frightening Doctor Who monsters . Steven Moffat, their creator, attributes their appeal to childhood games such as Grandmother's Footsteps and the notion that every statue might secretly be a disguised Weeping Angel . </P> <P> According to the Doctor, the Weeping Angels "are as old as the universe (or very nearly), but no one really knows where they come from ." He also describes them as "the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life - form evolution has ever produced ." Weeping Angels are unusual as predators in that they neither kill nor directly parasitize their prey . Their usual mode of feeding is to make use of time paradoxes - with a single touch, a Weeping Angel can send a person into the past to a point before his / her own birth, and can then feed off the "potential energy" of the years which that victim would have lived in the present . The Doctor describes the Angels as "the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely" because their victims are otherwise uninjured and may live out their lifespans in the past . </P>

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