Ostensibly the grotesque ventriloquist dummy of the Chinese magician Li H'sen Chang, Mr Sin was in actual fact the "Peking Homunculus". This cyborg had been created as a toy for the children of the Icelandic Alliance Commissioner in the 51st Century. It contained a complex of magnetic fields on a printed circuit, but had the cerebral cortex of a pig.
The swinish personality soon came to dominate and it became a ruthless killer, almost causing a fourth world war. It later came into the possession of Magnus Greel, the infamous Minister of Justice known as the "Butcher of Brisbane" for his horrific genetic experiments.
He invented a rudimentary form of time travel capsule and escaped justice of his own by fleeing back to the 19th Century - arriving horribly mutilated in Imperial China. Losing his time cabinet, he brought a local man under his mental control - Chang - and began a hunt across the globe in search of it.
Mr Sin became part of Chang's magic act - the audience little realising that it had a life of its own.
Chang and Greel used it to assassinate their enemies. Its small size enabled it to be easily smuggled into the home of the pathologist Professor Litefoot, after Greel learned that he held the cabinet.
Eventually Greel discovered that even he could not control it due to its homicidal personality.
The Doctor managed to deactivate it when he tore out and destroyed its cortex.
Played by: Deep Roy. Appearances: The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977).
- Roy returned to the series (uncredited) to portray the Posicarian Delegate in Mindwarp, wearing an adapted Terileptil mask.
- He is the only actor to have featured in Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Star Trek, Star Wars and The X-Files.
- He doubled for the Yoda puppet for some walking shots in The Empire Strikes Back.
- A lot of his film appearances have been in the role of stunt performer.
- He played all of the Oompa-Loompas in Tim Burton's 2005 film adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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