Once their target's gaze is off them, the Weeping Angels can move upon them in less than seconds' time. For this reason, they are often seen as covering their eyes with their hands, giving the impression that they are weeping, when in fact, this is done to prevent them from looking at each other and turning to stone. As a reflex defense mechanism, though it renders them unable to socialize with each other, the Weeping Angels revert to stone statues when looked at by another being, including themselves. However, the Weeping Angels generally prefer to send a victim back in time before they were born to feed on the temporal energy that represents the life that person would have lived through. The Weeping Angels are an ancient race that are described by the Doctor as "the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life-form evolution has ever produced" as they can sometimes kill without a thought. ~ The Doctor describing the Weeping Angels. But then you turn your head away, then you blink, and oh yes it can. Of course, a stone can't kill you either. In the sight of any living thing, they literally turn to stone. The moment they are seen by any other living creature, they freeze into rock. They don't exist when they're being observed. No one quite knows where they came from, but they're as old as the universe, or very nearly, and they have survived this long because they have the most perfect defence system ever evolved. However, it would allow a human to escape which is about all one can realistically hope for when dealing with the Weeping Angel.The lonely assassins, they used to be called. It is a slow process that is not recommended to wait out. If trapped long enough it would starve to death which is among the few ways we know they can be killed. Perhaps other more advanced alien world have a weapon that can be used against them but it appears the best weapon for a human would actually be a mirror.Ī Weeping Angel who stares at their own reflection would be trapped and unable to move. When we first meet the Weeping Angels in “Blink” the Doctor states, “You can’t kill stone.” So it highly likely that the Weeping Angels are indestructible in their statute form by conventional means. Can they only regenerate with the assistance of that energy source? If so would a broken Angel then stay broken until an energy source was found? Later in “Time of Angels” we see the Weeping Angels using the energy from their spaceship to regenerate some of their fallen comrades who had become too weak due to starvation. Was that because it was the fastest way to free her? Was that because there was nothing nearby to break the Weeping Angel instead of River’s bones? Or are the Weeping Angels indestructible in statute form? The only way to get her out is to break River’s wrist. In “The Angels Take Manhattan” River Song is caught by a Weeping Angel who has grabbed her wrist. We may be able to gain a little insight by looking at a few encounters the Doctor has had with the Weeping Angels.
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