New Doctor Who merch could hint at the next big villain facing Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor – and it's a familiar face from the '70s

New Doctor Who merchandise may have given us a clue about who next season's big bad could be – and it's a familiar face.

Per Bleeding Cool, new t-shirts, pins, and other merch featuring a character called "the Guardian of Chaos" are listed on the Forbidden Planet and Walmart websites and set to go on sale in January 2025. The character is also known as Black Guardian, one of the Guardians of Time.

Played by Valentine Dyall, whose likeness is on the shirt, he first appeared on the show in 1978 during Tom Baker's stint as the Fourth Doctor and returned during Peter Davison's time as the Fifth Doctor. That's a strange choice for a new line of merch, then – unless the Guardian of Chaos is making a comeback.