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The metal pepper pots have committed some of the worst atrocities in the Whoniverse.
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00:00Doctor Who's first monsters have plagued the Hooniverse time and time again.
00:05Now, these pepper pots first appeared in 1963 and from the very beginning were a chilling force to be reckoned with.
00:13The Daleks have one of the most iconic looks in sci-fi culture,
00:17and whilst the designs have altered slightly over the years, the core design remains the same.
00:22Every Doctor has come across the Daleks many times during their time on screen,
00:27with the exception of the criminally short-lived 8th.
00:30Now, due to the depth expanded media has gone with these characters,
00:35we will be covering moments beyond just that of the TV series.
00:40And so, with that in mind then, I'm Ellie with Who Culture,
00:43here with the 10 worst things the Daleks have ever done.
00:47Number 10. Only the monstrous The Thousand Worlds.
00:51In 2015, Big Finish acquired the right to new Who content,
00:56and their first exploit into this era was a series for the War Doctor venturing into the Time War.
01:03Now, the first audio adventure for the War Doctor saw the Daleks invade a planet called Keska,
01:09along with another ruthless race, the Tarlians.
01:12Now, on the surface, invading a planet and enslaving the locals is a pretty generic thing for the Daleks to do,
01:18but this particular invasion is part of a much larger plot.
01:21Keska is one of a thousand planets, all invaded by the Daleks,
01:26and all with engines being placed at the centre of those planets.
01:31Now, of course, we have seen the Daleks trying to place engines in planets before,
01:36but we'll talk a bit more about that later.
01:38But what is the purpose of these planet engines?
01:42Well, it's pretty simple.
01:43They're going to fire them at Gallifrey to try and win the Time War.
01:46Now, that's one hell of an offensive against the Time Lords,
01:49to invade a thousand planets, enslave all those populations,
01:53and then make those people drill to the core of their own planets.
01:57It's all one very sick scheme.
01:59But thankfully, the Doctor and co. manage to stop this particular plot,
02:03and the war rages on, and the Daleks go on to commit even more atrocities.
02:07Number 9, Dark Eyes, the Dalek Time Controller.
02:11The Big Finish 16-part epic Dark Eyes starring the 8th Doctor
02:16sees a unique kind of Dalek take centre stage, the Time Controller,
02:20and it's no exaggeration to say this is one of the worst Daleks out there.
02:25Having made various appearances in Big Finish before this story,
02:29the Dalek Time Controller has proved a force to be reckoned with,
02:33but Dark Eyes is their big moment.
02:35Using the Doctor's companion Molly, who's infected with retrogenitor particles,
02:39he planned to undo the Time Lords' past, wiping them out.
02:44But thankfully, due to a paradox, this is unsuccessful in the first part of the series.
02:49But the Time Controller still vows to wipe out the Time Lords.
02:53After these events, he is exiled by the Daleks,
02:56and allies himself with the Master.
02:59In the end, the Time Controller seeks out the origins of the Eminence,
03:03a psychic force that's a comparable threat to the universe as the Daleks,
03:07and wishes to become one with it.
03:09Thankfully for the Hooniverse, this plot is foiled by the Doctor and his companions.
03:14But if the Time Controller had succeeded,
03:17then the Time Lords could have been wiped out before the Time War even began.
03:21If there is a Big Finish audio adventure that you should sink your teeth into,
03:25it's this one.
03:26Number 8.
03:27The Magician's Apprentice, and which is familiar,
03:30tricking the Doctor.
03:31The latest reunion between the Doctor and Davros sees the Time Lords summoned to the planet of the Daleks,
03:38Skaro, to meet with their dying creator.
03:41After long chats between these two arch-rivals,
03:44the Doctor is made to feel sympathy for Davros,
03:47who is unable to open his own eyes to watch the sunrise on Skaro one last time.
03:52To fix this, the ever kind-hearted Doctor elects to give the creator of the Daleks some of his regeneration energy,
03:58thinking it enough to allow him this final moment.
04:01When the Doctor unleashes his Time Lord gift into the cables connecting Davros to the rest of the Daleks,
04:06Colony Sarf, a snake-like being,
04:09secures him in place,
04:11siphoning off even more regenerative energy.
04:13This energy is taken and transferred into every single Dalek,
04:17renewing them, including Davros,
04:19allowing him to regain his strength.
04:22However, once rescued by Missy,
04:24the Twelfth Doctor reveals he knew the plan all along,
04:27including the Daleks in the sewers,
04:30who revolt,
04:31destroying the Daleks in the Skaro city.
04:33This resulted in us once again being led to believe Davros has been destroyed,
04:38although we all know that that's most likely not the case.
04:41The evil of this plot,
04:42even if the Doctor did know what was coming,
04:45is that the Daleks try to use the Doctor's kind-hearted nature against him,
04:50even for his worst enemies.
04:51Number 7.
04:52Asylum of the Daleks,
04:54Oswin Oswald the Dalek.
04:56Now, we've seen cyber conversion many times in Doctor Who,
05:00but that seems like nothing when compared to Dalek conversion.
05:04With cyber conversions,
05:06the process puts the participant into the cyber armour,
05:09but then removes all feelings,
05:11whereas the horror of the Dalek conversion
05:13is that hatred and anger are channeled in order to make the machine go.
05:18In the Series 7 opener,
05:20when venturing into the Dalek asylum,
05:22Oswin Oswald ends up captured by the Daleks inside,
05:26and goes through the horrific conversion into a Dalek.
05:29This reality is so horrific for her
05:31that she imagines herself a different version of events.
05:34Trapped within the cold metal shell,
05:36Oswin believes herself to be hiding within her crashed ship making soufflés.
05:41It's not until the Doctor turns up that she sees the true fate that has befallen her.
05:45The moment in which Oswin learns the truth is soul-crushing,
05:48and the following flashback of her being forced into the process,
05:51whilst not graphic,
05:53still feels gruesome.
05:54The only positive in the end is that Oswin manages to fight the process,
05:58allowing and assisting the 11th Doctor to escape.
06:01Now granted, this isn't some huge invasion that puts countless lives at risk,
06:06but the ordeal that Oswin goes through is horrific.
06:09Number 6.
06:10The Dalek's Master Plan.
06:12The Time Destructor.
06:14The huge 60s epic,
06:16The Dalek's Master Plan,
06:17was exactly what it said on the tin.
06:19William Hartnell's last encounter with the Daleks
06:21came in the form of a 12-part serial,
06:24in which the Daleks had created a new weapon,
06:27the Time Destructor.
06:29Their intention was to conquer the solar system.
06:32The device would reverse or accelerate the flow of time with devastating consequences,
06:37exhausting its terranium core,
06:39a mineral only found on Uranus.
06:41Whilst this is thankfully going to become a repetitive trend,
06:44the Dalek plot is halted.
06:46However, the device is still used.
06:49Not only does the serial feature the first and second companion deaths in the franchise,
06:54they are also both equally two of the grimmest fates befallen to who characters.
07:00Katrina's death technically does not involve the Daleks.
07:02However, during the series, she is awfully sucked into space.
07:06But Sarah Kingdom falls victim to the Time Destructor itself.
07:11Basically, aged to death, decaying to nothing.
07:13Now, this device is actually later used by the Time Lords against the Daleks
07:18in that previously mentioned Big Finish War Doctor series in the opening moments.
07:24But it does represent the huge threat presented by the Daleks if not stopped.
07:30Number 5.
07:31Planet of the Ogrons, the Overseer.
07:34Another slightly altered Dalek appearing in Big Finish here.
07:38The Dalek Overseer is a monstrous scientist who appears in the Eighth Doctor's Time War series.
07:45Based on the titular planet of the Ogrons,
07:48the Overseer creates dreadful experiments in order to create weapons to win the Time War.
07:54Now, the Daleks have done some pretty gruesome things in their history,
07:58but none so bad as this abomination.
08:00One of the experiments revolved around inserting Ogron brains into battle TARDISes to bypass their controls.
08:09Another one of the Overseer schemes was the insertion of Ogron armies into events of the past,
08:16such as Day of the Daleks.
08:18But thankfully, these events remained unchanged,
08:21but the aim was to try and increase the Daleks' chances of victory through temporal manipulation.
08:27A final major creation is Doctor Ogron,
08:30where he augmented an Ogron with the personality of the Doctor.
08:35Now, while he did make a lovable character here,
08:37this guy is still bad news,
08:38and this particular experiment did lead to his downfall.
08:42In the end, he was deemed an insult to the Dalek race,
08:45and was exterminated by the other Daleks.
08:48Number 4.
08:49The relationship with their creator.
08:521975's Genesis of the Daleks debuts,
08:54the Pepper Potts creator, Davros.
08:56Through his various appearances throughout the show,
08:59we've seen the Daleks treat their creator with varying levels of respect.
09:03The end of his first appearance,
09:05after having just created the Daleks,
09:07a squad of them come and exterminate Davros.
09:09But by the next serial,
09:11they want him back,
09:12with him thankfully for them having survived within the depths of Scarrow.
09:16Across the remainder of his classic appearances,
09:18Davros starts the Imperial-Renegade Civil War,
09:21where the Imperials side with him against the Supreme and the Renegades.
09:25When Davros returns for New Who,
09:27the Tenth Doctor even mocks that he has chucked away into the basement,
09:31with them simply using him once again,
09:33without him running the show.
09:35The lack of respect is therefore a running trend in Davros' character,
09:39and in the previously mentioned Series 9 opener,
09:41it is clearer than ever that he is only ever used
09:44when they wish to use him for their own gain,
09:46rather than out of any loyalty to him.
09:49Now, we know the Daleks are evil,
09:51but showing no respect for,
09:53for want of a better word,
09:54your father?
09:55That's just truly nasty.
09:58Even if Davros is just as evil,
10:00if not worse.
10:01Number three,
10:02The Stolen Earth and Journey's End,
10:04The Reality Bomb.
10:06When Davros returned to Doctor Who for its new series,
10:09he brought with him the Daleks' most horrific plot to date.
10:13Already in the serial,
10:14Davros has recreated the Daleks using his own cells,
10:17which is pretty bleak as it is,
10:19but with this new army,
10:20he created the Reality Bomb.
10:22The device would result in untold devastation,
10:25killing all that wasn't protected by the Crucible.
10:28Basically, a very extreme version of wiping out all non-Dalek life.
10:31Using the Z-Neutrino energy of the Dalek Crucible,
10:34and the transported planets within the Medusa Cascade,
10:38the Reality Bomb would cancel out the electric field of atoms,
10:42turning everything to dust.
10:43This plot would not just wipe out the main Who universe,
10:46but the life of all other universes.
10:49But we won't get into the potential plot holes of that.
10:51The recreating an entire Dalek army and moving 27 planets
10:55is a testament to the lengths the Pepper Potts were willing to go for this scheme.
11:00And while this plot does fail,
11:02we do see the devastation that this device is capable of
11:06when it is tested on a group of humans,
11:08who, as mentioned, quite literally turn to dust.
11:11Number two,
11:12Revelation of the Daleks,
11:13Using the Dead of Nekros
11:151985's Revelation of the Daleks
11:18sees the sixth Doctor and Perry encounter Davros and the Daleks on a planet called Nekros,
11:24the location of Tranquil Repose, a space funeral home.
11:28However, at its core,
11:29Davros was creating a new race of Daleks from the dead humans.
11:34Revelation, through and through, is a very bleak story,
11:37but Davros using the corpses within the facility is the most appalling aspect.
11:41In this story, the dead are used for two things.
11:44The previously mentioned new Daleks,
11:46as well as being formed into a new type of protein to solve the galaxy's famine problem.
11:51That doesn't seem a very marketable product.
11:54These new Daleks become the ranks of Davros' previously mentioned Imperial Daleks.
11:59This plot is an interesting one,
12:00as using humans, like the case with Oswin years later,
12:03to create Daleks seems to go against their quest for racial purity.
12:07Now, we could argue that this shocking Dalek moment could take top spot,
12:13but there is one more Dalek moment that just about takes the trophy.
12:18Number one,
12:1922nd century Dalek invasions of Earth.
12:22In the 22nd century, the Daleks invade Earth, twice crippling the planet.
12:27The first Dalek sequel brings the creatures from Skaro to Earth for the first time,
12:32and years later, Big Finish brings them back for round two,
12:3620 years after their first attempt.
12:38The strategy for invasion involved bombarding the planet with meteorites,
12:42unleashing a plague from within the meteorites,
12:44which wiped out the majority of people in Africa, Asia, and South America.
12:49Once the population was weakened, the Daleks moved in for conquest.
12:52This may seem kind of run-of-the-mill compared to previously mentioned entries,
12:56but the Daleks occupied Earth for 10 years,
13:00causing insurmountable pain to humanity.
13:02Recent Big Finish adventures following the Doctor's granddaughter Susan
13:05after the first invasion claim Earth's technology is set back 200 years.
13:11Similar to the Thousand World plot,
13:13the Daleks aim to reach the centre of the planet
13:15and replace it with a propulsion system
13:17to use as a massive, movable base of operations to conquest the galaxy.
13:22When they return for their second invasion,
13:25led by the time controller, the plot is fairly similar.
13:28But instead, they use a time warp engine to create a plague planet,
13:33capable of moving through time and space to weaken and infect other worlds.
13:38The Daleks are the most pure evil force in Doctor Who,
13:42and the Who-niverse should be thankful
13:44that most of these plots were stopped before the Daleks reached their goals.
13:48And that concludes our list.
13:50If you can think of anything we missed, then do let us know in the comments below.
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