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The Kandy Man (often misspelt Kandyman) was a pathological, psychopathic robotic killer from The Happiness Patrol. He was employed by the egocentric Helen A, the Kandy Man delighted in creating methods of torture and destruction using confectionery, such as drowning people in sugary solutions like its "fondant surprise". It was sadistic, speaking with a squeaky voice and had a very warped sense of humour, claiming it liked its victims to "die with a smile on their faces". He was composed of things like sherbet, marzipan and caramel, it was created by Gilbert M, with whom it shared an almost symbiotic relationship. The Doctor stuck the Kandy Man to the floor using lemonade — it had to keep moving or its constituent ingredients would coagulate. The Kandy Man died when its external candy shell was dissolved in a pipe by fondant surprise released by the repressed Pipe People. Although it resembled the trademarked character of Bertie Bassett, the BBC's own internal investigations revealed that this was entirely coincidental, though they did promise Bassetts that the character would not return. Again the Doctor encountered the Kandy Man on the planet Tara in The Trials of Tara, a short story by Paul Cornell from Decalog 2 written entirely in iambic pentameter. In that story Count Grendel rebuilt the Kandy Man after its charred body crash landed on Tara. RELATED LINKS |
