Name – Black Guardian
The Black Guardian was a conceptual entity embodying Darkness and Chaos. He used the Shadow to stop the Doctor from claiming Princess Astra of Atrios, the sixth segment of the Key to Time. After the Doctor defeated the Shadow, he assembled the Key and outwitted the Black Guardian, enabling the White Guardian to restore the universal balance.
The Black Guardian swore revenge against the Doctor
and, later, used Turlough to try to kill him. The White Guardian and
the Black Guardian offered Enlightenment, symbolized by a crystal
of unknown powers and great value, as the prize to the winner of a
planet-spanning space race undertaken by the Eternals. The Black Guardian
hoped that, with such a prize, the Eternals might wreak havoc throughout
the Universe. Instead, the Doctor won the race but turned down Enlightenment,
which was offered to Turlough. The Black Guardian reminded Turlough
that, to get the crystal, he had to kill the Doctor. But Turlough
refused and threw the crystal at the Black Guardian, who vanished
in a burst of flames. However, The White Guardian explained that the
Black Guardian would exist as long as he did, and would continue to
do so until neither were needed any longer.
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