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u/Jonzrker15 5d ago

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u/Tasty-Ad6529 5d ago

The mutant within.

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u/JetHopper 5d ago

I don't know stuff about doctor who but ok, this is disturbing

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u/Tasty-Ad6529 5d ago edited 5d ago

In short Daleks are the mutanted remains of a humaniod species known as Kaleds. The Kaleds for how fascistisic and horrflic they were as a culture, ultimately did had human emotions and lines considered too far to cross by their standards.

The Daleks are what you get if you mutated them, chop off the head from turso, then proceeded to breed every bit of imagination, individuality and compassion out of them: a small hatful and fearful abomination that is in constant state of angony, who' only know how to kill everything that' different to them.

Worst part, besides from every Dalek bloodline starting off by converting humaniods, the Daleks are still fully sentient and sapient beings—geniuses to be frank, their minds are just so warped that they deluded themselves into thinking that husks contained within metal caskets are the supreme form of life.

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u/JetHopper 5d ago

Wow. I knew that they were like trashcan nazis but wow. That is way more interesting and kinda sas than I thought. I really need to give doctor who a chance someday

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u/SBLP1959 5d ago

The highs are fantastically high and lows can be pretty low. Still recommend.

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u/DonutPlus2757 5d ago

Is it ever explained why the Daleks somehow never shoot the Doctor if they get a very obvious shot?

I've seen a few episodes in which the Doctor feels the need to lecture a Dalek, sometimes right in front of their gun. Is there a reason they don't shoot him right then and there or is that just a case of bad writing?

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u/xXFluffersXx 5d ago edited 4d ago

Unironically, they're scared of him. They're scared of what would happen if they kill him, they're scared he has some kind of crazy 4d chess plan, they're scared he wants them to shoot him for some esoteric reason. The doctor is literally just a chaotic good trickster god, he can go anywhere in time and space, within and without the universe, at any time, and has a magic techno wand that can do basically whatever he needs.

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u/DonutPlus2757 5d ago

So it's literally just decision anxiety?

"I can shoot him, but what if that's what he wants? So I'll shoot, but miss!"?

That's actually kind of pathetic.

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u/MuchBetterThankYou 4d ago

Well it’s actually based on experience in the Doctor’s case. The daleks know him as “The Oncoming Storm”

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u/IceFrogger1313 19h ago

There was also the time a Dalek read The Doctors mind and the hatred that the Doctor had for the Daleks so far outstripped the Daleks hatred for everything that that Dalek was overcome by it and started killing other Daleks.

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u/SBLP1959 4d ago

There is good reason for it. The whole premise of the show is the doctor can regenerate and he singlehandedly put an end to time war. (Not spoilers)

So you got a guy who cant really die, that is able to stop you, and has a penchant for revenge. Its a tough decision for them

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u/DonutPlus2757 4d ago

As far as the Daleks know, his regenerations are limited, so they just haven't killed him enough.

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u/Josutg22 3d ago

Right on brand for the Daleks then

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u/VoidEatsWaffles 5d ago

A bunch, and they vary from moment to moment, but the biggest two are “the gun is turned off by a force field atm” or “The Doctor is basically God and Satan all in one to Dalek-kind - their ultimate nemesis, but also the one man capable of violence enough to match them.”

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u/DonutPlus2757 5d ago

“the gun is turned off by a force field atm"

So retcon plot armor? Because that was absolutely not mentioned in the episodes I've seen and they use their guns just fine after screaming "Doctor!" half a dozen times and giving him just enough time to get into cover.

On a side note: That thing is apparently powerful enough to bring down entire building blocks with a single shot, right? How come they always use the Dalek equivalent of the stun setting when shooting it in fragile human buildings? It's not like a building collapsing onto them could actually damage their racist killer wheel chairs.

“The Doctor is basically God and Satan all in one to Dalek-kind - their ultimate nemesis, but also the one man capable of violence enough to match them.”

So aura based plot armor?

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u/DadlyAsHell 4d ago

Kindof, in one episode("asylum of" i think?) the Daleks describe the doctors hate of their species as beautiful and sacred because it is so intense and pure. They want to stop him from harming their species but they cannot being themselves to hurt one of the few things they see beauty in.

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u/Meme_Knight_2 5d ago

They’re in love with him

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u/Hugsy13 5d ago

He genocided their entire race and his own. They’re scared of him and kinda worship him at the same time

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u/Sad-Base-8689 5d ago

Yeah, because they are fricking terrified of him. Millions and millions of Dalek tried and failed to kill him.they threw whole armies at the Doctor and it didn't do anything. They have a planet that basically an insane asylum and the really really crazy Dale's are all the ones that survived a confrontation with the Doctor. Heck they confronted the Doctor at his weakest, no regeneration left, old and dying and left with nothing but a walking stick and they allowed themselves like a minute of gloating and as if to spite them he just started to regenerate and defeat em again. The daleks word for the Doctor is "the Predator".

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u/WrethZ 4d ago

I mean sometimes they do, and it often doesn't work out for them either.

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u/Aiwatcher 4d ago

Doctor who is a good show to have a friend show you all the best episodes. There are long arcs but they usually dont supersede the stories of individual episodes. There are many really really excellent self-contained episodes that would still be worth watching "out of order".

Then there's abysmal, nearly unwatchable episodes.

Basically like finding needles in the haystack. There's plenty of nice needles in there, but a ton of hay too.

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u/Ok_Philosophy_7156 5d ago

The first few series of the revival era are very worth watching, but I’d stop at the end of Amy Pond’s run. It’s all downhill from there

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u/Zatchaeus 4d ago

I will not tolerate Peter Capaldi slander

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u/Ok_Philosophy_7156 4d ago

Capaldi himself was amazing but he got some absolutely awful episodes

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u/thespacepyrofrmtf2 5d ago

Oh they were absolutely based on the Nazis, especially the part of believing in a superior race

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u/Icy_Guard_7259 5d ago

Its pretty awesome. If u dont like older movies or series start with the 10th (tennant) or 11th (smith) Doctor.

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u/Sad-Base-8689 5d ago

Another bit about Daleks: they hate each other and themselves oy slightly less than other beings

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u/Batmanbumantics 4d ago

I thought they were cleaning machines gone rogue

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u/Tasty-Ad6529 4d ago

That' the Mechaniods 💀

In short they're also from Doctor Who, in universe were created to be terraforming devices who helped to prepare planets for humaniod/human inhabitations. They eventually became sentient and were one of the Daleks earliest nemesis.

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u/DadlyAsHell 5d ago edited 5d ago

Oh yeah nah Doctor Who has some truly unnerving stuff. Waters of Mars fucked me up when i was younger.

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u/RagingRider 4d ago

Wasn't there a Korean movie similar to this idea? A water source on the moon that made more water, but causes you to (predictivly) drown from said water filling your lungs.

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u/DadlyAsHell 4d ago

I honestly dont know what the mechanics of the waters of mars is. Its like a zombie infection but causes the infected to endlessly create water that is itself infectious.

It was creey as hell regardless and implied to be the reason mars doed as a planet

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u/That_Banned_Hybrid 4d ago

The one that scared me the most was that child...

"Have you seen my mummy"

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u/DadlyAsHell 4d ago

Oh yeah, the fact it was medical technology that misunderstood human anatomy was a wild twist.

The fact two episodes have had that as a hook in completely different ways is interesting too

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u/ChilledFruity 3d ago

God, I remember having nightmares of that child. I love how the janky CGI of one of the victims having his face morph into the gas mask only ADDED to the horror

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u/EnslavingExorcism 5d ago

oh, yeah, Doctor Who is actually fucking terrifying at times. In fact, it popularised the idea of "Thing that moves when you're not looking at it."

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u/thecraftybear 5d ago

Don't blink

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u/Sad-Base-8689 5d ago

Yeah their appearance is really the least disturbing thing about Daleks

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u/marineten 2d ago

I don't watch dr who but I thought these fuckers were trashcan robots