History Recap / DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek

--->'''The Doctor:''' What for?! What are you gonna do to me?! If you cant kill, the what are you good for, ''Dalek?!'' What's the point of you?! ''You're nothing!'' What the hell are you here for?

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Van Statten says there must be some way of negotiating with the Dalek. The Doctor points out that you can't negotiate with an OmnicidalManiac who sincerely believes that you should die [[AbsoluteXenophobe for being different]].

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Van Statten says there must be some way of negotiating with the Dalek. The Doctor points out that you can't negotiate with an OmnicidalManiac who thinks you should die [[AbsoluteXenophobe simply for being different]].

* DramaticIrony: All of the drama and tension comes from the audience knowing exactly what Henry von Statten has locked up in his alien collection, but the Doctor having no idea, making his at-first earnest attempt to help the alien his first (and quite riveting) encounter with the Daleks in the new series. Part of it also then comes from Rose and the other humans being totally unaware of the Doctor's past history with the Daleks and being shocked by the anger and violence in his voice.

* ArmourPiercingResponse: After the Doctor unloads a truckload of genocidal rage at the titular creature, it calmly responds: "'''''YOU''''' '''WOULD MAKE A GOOD DALEK.''''' It's clear that this NotSoDifferentRemark shakes the Doctor to his core.

* LastOfHisKind: The Dalek outfights describes itself as the last remaining member of its species.

* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: Attempted by Rose against the Dalek. Doesn't workbbecause, well, it's a Dalek.

* KerbStompBattle: The Dalek single-handedly kills nearly the entire garrison of the bunker it was imprisoned in.

* LastOfHisKind: The Dalek.

** Simmons, the guy tasked with "making [the Dalek] talk", also comes across as a bit of a smug, slimy weirdo who enjoys his job of essentially torturing a living thing every day a bit too much (it's a [[EvilVersusEvil Dalek]], granted, but it's not like ''he'' knows that).

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The guy who'd been drilling into the Metaltron takes off his gloves and offers them to the Doctor, telling him the last guy who touched it burst into flames. The Doctors response: "I won't touch it then." Goddard gives a little smirk.

* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: Attempted by Rose against the Dalek. Doesn't work, because, well, it's a Dalek.

* TookALevelInBadass: The Daleks.

** The Dalek's rampage comes off as one, given what it shouted at van Statten when upon cornering him. Then again, it's a ''[[AxeCrazy Dalek]]'' — they ''start'' at UnstoppableRage and [[OmnicidalManiac work their way up]].

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Oddly, one that doesn't involve the character being established actually ''doing'' anything: When the Doctor first sees the Dalek, he [[OhCrap completely freaks out and begs to be let out]]. That's right: The Dalek is so dangerous that the Doctor's first instinct is to get as far away from it as possible.

* DeathSeeker: The Doctor shows signs. "You survived." [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "Not by choice."]]

'''Original air date:''' April 30, 2005

'''Production code:''' 1.6

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Much like in their last televised appearance, the Doctor tries to talk a lone Dalek into committing suicide, as everything it stood for is gone.

* DyingAlone: The Dalek uses this as a ploy to gain Rose's sympathy: "My race is dead. I shall die alone."

** The Dalek's cry of "[[AC:HAVE PITY!]]" as the Doctor tortures it echoes Davros' exact same words in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]". He asked more or less the same thing of Seven back in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]", and got about as sympathetic a response as Nine gives the Dalek.

* BadassBoast: [[AC:THE DALEKS SURVIVE IN ''ME!'']]

* BadassBoast: '''THE DALEKS SURVIVE IN''' '''''ME!'''''

--->'''The Dalek:''' "DOC-TOR? '''''THE''''' DOC-TOR?! EX-TER-MINATE! '''EX-TER-MINATE!!''' '''''EX-TER-MINAAAAAATE!!!'''''"

** The Dalek's cry of "HAVE PITY!" as the Doctor tortures it echoes Davros' exact same words in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]". He asked more or less the same thing of Seven back in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]", and got about as sympathetic a response as Nine gives the Dalek.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Well illustrated in the Doctor. His sheer disdain for the Dalek leads him to spout an extremely hateful rant, even referring to it as filth. Not unlike the Daleks towards all other life.

'''Dalek:''' '''YOU WOULD MAKE A GOOD DALEK.'''

--->'''Dalek:''' '''SO ARE YOU.''' ''[The Doctor's smile slips]'' '''WE ARE THE SAME.'''\\

'''Dalek:''' '''E-LE-VATE!'''

'''Dalek:''' '''THE DALEKS MUST SURVIVE!'''\\

'''Dalek:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' '''YOU WOULD MAKE A GOOD DALEK.'''

--->'''E-LE-VATE!'''

'''Dalek:''' THEY ARE DEAD BECAUSE OF '''US'''!

* {{Tuckerization}}: Creator/RobertShearman named Diana Goddard after his wife Jane Goddard, who acted in "Jubilee" as an in-joke.

--->'''Dalek:''' '''VAN STATTEN. YOU TORTURED ME.''' ''[tone rises dangerously]'' '''''WHY?!'''''\\

'''Dalek:''' ''[with a definitely acid tone]'' '''THEN HEAR ME TALK ''NOW''. EXTERMINATE. ''EXTERMINATE''!''' ''[gun-stick raises]'' '''EXTERMINAAAAATE!!!'''

'''Dalek:''' '''YOU LIE!'''\\

** "'''YOU WOULD MAKE A GOOD DALEK.'''"

** "'''E-LE-VATE!'''" After years of being joke antagonists, one line made quite sure these would be far more terrifying and less joke-prone than their older incarnations.
** "'''DOK. TOR.'''" While the title gave away what van Statten had in his basement, hearing the voice again qualifies both in-universe and for fans.

* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: The Doctor is mortified when he's told that "'''YOU WOULD MAKE A GOOD DALEK.'''"

This episode marked the return of the eponymous villain to ''Series/DoctorWho'', and began the extremely brief tenure of the untrustworthy companion Adam Mitchell.

JustForFun/TheOneWith well, a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dalek...]] and one ''very'' angry post-war [[StealthPun Doctor who]] thought they were all gone.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The Ninth Doctor carries the heavy weight of being the LastOfHisKind in the war between the Time Lords and the Daleks [[ItsAllMyFault by his own hand]], but manages to keep a mostly calm and optimistic outlook, even being funny and silly at times. When he sees that the "Metaltron" in van Statten's vault is a surviving Dalek, he immediately becomes extremely bitter and even violent, to the point that the Dalek eventually tells him that he "would make a good Dalek", which leaves him unable to think of a response because VillainHasAPoint. In the old show, and in public consciousness even more so, Daleks were often played for laughs. This signals very effectively that on the new ''Doctor Who'', Daleks ain't funny — as everyone else learns quickly enough.

* DoNotTauntCthulhu: After the Dalek gets loose, Simmons, the man who had been torturing it on van Statten's orders, casually asks it if it's going to sucker him to death. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Do we need to say what happens next?]]

'''Dalek:''' '''I WANT... FREEDOM.'''

* BorrowedCatchphrase: It's a sign of what kind of episode this is that the ''Doctor'' says the Daleks' catchphrase of "Exterminate".

* PetTheDog: The only half-decent thing van Statten does throughout the whole episode is offer his sympathies to the Doctor after Rose's apparent death. Unfortunately for him, this just earns him a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Reason You Suck" Speech]] due to how he was partially responsible for her (almost) dying in the first place.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Much to the Doctor's fury, the Dalek tells him that "'''WE ARE THE SAME'''".

* BadassDecay: The Dalek's InUniverse recognition that this is happening to it prompts its own self-destruction.