History Recap / DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks

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* TheEnemyOfMyEnemy: The single remaining Spitfire, a British fighter pilot, uses the callsign "Danny Boy", title of a traditional Irish song. (As noted below, this is a ShoutOut to a callsign from ''Film/WhereEaglesDare''.)

'''Original air date:''' April 17, 2010

'''Production code:''' 1.3

Written by Creator/MarkGatiss.

* LightIsNotGood: Don't be fooled by the bright, shiny new Skittles colours the Daleks have adapted. They're still total bastards.

!!Tropes:

-->'''The Doctor:''' I am the Doctor, and you are the Daleks!\\
'''Dalek:''' [[AC:Correct.]]

'''Churchill:''' Yes, Doctor! Death to our enemies! Death to the forces of darkness, and death to the Third Reich!\\

The Progenitor Device opens and churns out [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience five new, brightly-coloured Daleks]], who promptly decide to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness exterminate their inferior predecessors]], thus symbolically scrapping the Creator/RussellTDavies Dalek props as new Creator/StevenMoffat props roll in... [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks or so the Doctor and the audience thought at the time]]. Said inferior predecessors' response to this? [[AC:"We are ready."]]

The new Daleks attempt to exterminate the Doctor (discovering the self-destruct button to be only a biscuit), but are stopped as three space-worthy, laser-spitting Spitfires attack and destroy the radio dish, turning off the lights of London. The Doctor manages to escape to the TARDIS and orders the last remaining upgraded Spitfire to take out the Dalek ship, but is stopped by the Daleks, who reveal that Bracewell is a bomb powered by a contained wormhole. [[SadisticChoice The Daleks threaten to destroy the Earth unless they go free.]] The Doctor has no choice but to order the Spitfire to call off the attack, and speeds back to Earth anticipating that [[BatmanGambit the Daleks are going to activate the bomb the moment they are out of danger anyway]]. There, the Doctor and Amy get Bracewell to [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots recognise his own humanity]], cutting off the Daleks' control over him and deactivating the bomb. [[JokerImmunity The Daleks time-travel back to the future]] as the Doctor angsts over losing to his greatest enemy again, a funk shortly ended by Amy's good cheer. The Doctor destroys all alien tech (much to Churchill's displeasure) and leaves, but not before allowing Bracewell to live out a full human life.

The one where the Daleks [[NeverLiveItDown TASTE THE RAINBOW!]] [[note]][[SincerityMode Sorry, we couldn't resist.]][[/note]]

The one where the Daleks [[NeverLiveItDown TASTE THE RAINBOW!]] — ([[SincerityMode Sorry]] [---we couldn't resist---]).

* TheEnemyOfMyEnemy: The single remaining Spitfire, a British fighter pilot, uses the callsign "Danny Boy", title of a traditional Irish song.

** The Doctor initially thinks that Bracewell is a human who partnered with the Daleks. Makes sense, since he's seen humans partner with Daleks [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleks'MasterPlan more]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks than]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan once]].

* PrecisionFStrike: Winston Churchill in the French dub.
-->'''Amy:''' What do we do now, Winston?\\
'''Churchill:''' We don't change old habits.\\
'''Amy:''' Which means?\\
'''Churchill:''' We screw with the Fritz. ("On emmerde les Fritz", lit. "We shit on the Fritz".)

* AffectionatePickpocket: Attempted by ''Churchill'' on ''the Doctor'' (in order to get the TARDIS key). Amy pulls him up on it.
* AllThereInTheManual: The book ''Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe'' (2017) delved into the history of the New Dalek Paradigm, from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]" to their fate in the [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor Siege of Trenzalore]].

* ApocalypseHow: The Daleks first try to disrupt history by lighting up the whole of London for the Luftwaffe to bomb. Then, just ForTheEvulz, they try to shunt the Earth into AnotherDimension where it will "die screaming".

* BrandishmentBluff: The Doctor convinces the Daleks that a Jammie Dodger (a type of biscuit) is a control for the (nonexistent) TARDIS self-destruct.[[note]]He gets it wrong; he says it's a Jammie Dodger, but it's actually a Jam Cream.[[/note]]

** The Progenitor Device itself was first introduced in "The Power of the Daleks", as another one had crashed on Vulcan. This episode clarifies its intended purpose.

* ChangedMyJumper: Amy wears a miniskirt in 1941 without comment. Between the ongoing bombing of London and the Daleks threatening the planet, some woman's bare legs were probably the least of people's concerns.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The New Dalek Paradigm — White Daleks are Supremes, Reds are Soldiers, Blues are Strategists, Oranges are Scientists and Yellows are Eternals.
* CliffhangerCopout: Sort of; the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow The Beast Below]]" has Churchill urgently calling the Doctor while a Dalek looms ominously in front of him, with the suggestion that he's in fairly immediate danger. The resolution? Apparently that call was weeks ago, and Churchill's got used to having the "Ironsides" around. He just wanted the Doctor's opinion on them, but now he's made up his mind.

** A more heartwarming example than usual; when the Doctor and Amy go to say goodbye to Bracewell, they find him in his lab, preparing to FaceDeathWithDignity as he assumes that the Doctor and Amy are planning to deactivate him as a potential threat to the timeline. The Doctor, rather surprised (since they were actually just popping along to say goodbye before leaving), agrees but says that he has to go and do some stuff first, and it'll probably take him a while, hint hint. It takes Bracewell rather longer than it probably should to realise that the Doctor ''isn't going to be coming back''.
* CopiedTheMoralsToo: Bracewell is an android created by the Daleks simply to be their pawn. However the human qualities they imprinted on him, most notably the love for a wife that never existed, allow him to deactivate the [[EarthShatteringKaboom planet destroying bomb]] in his body.

* CurbStompCushion: In the scheming sense, the Doctor is able to get the Daleks on the backfoot by fooling them into thinking his jammy dodger is a Tardis self-destruct but is otherwise completely schooled by the Daleks into letting them leave.

* EndOfAnEra: This episode ends the usual revival-era Who’s habit of using an AssPull to bring the Daleks back from their previous final death. They end the episode escaping to an unknown location to rebuild their forces, with later episodes treating them as less ThisCannotBe and more "Oh no, not again."

* HaveWeMetYet: When the Doctor realizes that Churchill new secret weapon is a Dalek, he tries to get Amy to agree with him about how dangerous they are. Amy, for some reason, doesn't recognize them, despite she should have recognized them [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth when the Earth was taken to the other side of the universe.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Inverted, with the ''Daleks'' making a Villainous Sacrifice. What else would you call taking a course of action to save your entire race knowing full well it will end in your demise?

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Churchill repeatedly brushes off the Doctor's warnings with how people are dying every day. If the Doctor says that the Daleks are evil incarnate, Churchill responds that he'd ally with ''the Devil'' in order to stop Hitler.

* INeedToGoIronMyDog: That super important ''thing'' that the Doctor has to go do, but he'll definitely come back and deactivate Bracewell after he does the ''thing''. Gonna take a least half an hour, then Bracewell will be so very deactivated.
* JokerImmunity: Despite Metacrisis Ten's genocide, one ship survived. Daleks ''always'' survive.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Ironically, despite their scheme taking place during WWII, the Daleks ''don't'' work with the Nazis, rather working with Churchill, but one of the Ironside Daleks flat-out calls the New Dalek Paradigm [[AC:"the resurrection of the master race!"]]

* NoodleIncident: How ''did'' the Doctor and Winston Churchill get to know each other so well? Winston knows about the Doctor's "marvelous machine", suggesting that he's been on at least one adventure in time and space. Neither is Winston surprised that the Doctor's appearance has changed, or that aliens are involved.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: One reason for the Dalek redesign was that the RTD Dalek props were built with Creator/BilliePiper's height in mind, so the new Daleks were built to match Creator/MattSmith's height. Creator/KarenGillan even says in the Confidential episode that they're taller than her.

* RuleOfCool:
** '''''Spitfires in space.'''''
** The names of the new Daleks. Originally, Moffat and Gatiss didn't know which Dalek had what name, but dammit they sounded awesome.

* ShooOutTheNewGuy: The New Paradigm Daleks are reduced to brief appearances and then disappear after this episode. Later episodes would establish that the Daleks are unsealed from their can and have rebuilt their civilization, but the nature of the New Paradigm Daleks are never brought up.

* SmokingIsCool: Played with. Despite there being plenty of smokers in Britain at this time period, the only person we see smoking is Winston Churchill, the penultimate BigGood of the British in WWII. However, this is more to stay true to the character, as Winston was well known for enjoying quite a few cigars (and quite a few glasses of brandy, something not even shown here most likely for the sake of the kids), and it's considered one of the icons of his (especially wartime) visage. A bit of FridgeBrilliance takes place when the Doctor declines a cigar from Churchill after saving the Earth. At first it seems like an aversion of the SmokingIsCool Trope, and while that is obviously the case, it also doubles as something else entirely. Cigars being shared is usually a sign of celebration, and while the Doctor DID save the Earth, he personally doesn't have much to celebrate considering the Daleks beat him with a BatmanGambit, only doubling the reasons why he'd not accept a cigar in these circumstances.

* SpoilerTitle: The Daleks win this round; the title couldn't make this more clear. It's in the running for the worst example in the ''entire history'' of ''Doctor Who'', at that.
* StupidJetpackHitler: Inverted. ''Winston Churchill'' gets to use advanced alien weaponry ''against'' the Nazis.
* TomatoInTheMirror: The scientist, Bracewell, who didn't make the Daleks... the Daleks made him, an android. Another revelation exposes Bracewell to also be a bomb, which the Daleks threaten to detonate (and try anyway) to make the Doctor return to Earth. Turns out they [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots made him too]] ''[[RidiculouslyHumanRobots well]]''; his self-awareness and genuine emotions turn out to be the key to stopping them from destroying the planet.

** Bracewell does it as well in his introduction.
* TheWarRoom: The Cabinet War Rooms really existed during the UsefulNotes/SecondWorldWar, although they weren't used for fighter control (an old emergency bunker in Swansea was used for filming). They're open to the public and are pretty awesome.

* WhyAmITicking: Bracewell is powered by an "oblivion continuum", a captured black hole that, if activated, will destroy the entire Earth.

** The Doctor initially thinks that Bracewell is a human who partnered with the Daleks. Makes sense, since he's seen humans partner with Daleks [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks more]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion than]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan once]].

* XanatosSpeedChess: The Daleks play ''an absolute blinder'' on the Doctor — using the Doctor's knowledge of them to make the Progenitor spawn more Daleks. Then, when they're about to lose, they make Bracewell into a walking bomb by equipping him with an Oblivion Continuum; eventually he will '''''go boom''''' and take the Earth with him. They threaten to set him off, the Doctor scarpers off to deal with it, and, in the ensuing chaos, the Daleks decide the smart course of action is to not push their luck any further and get the ever loving hell out of there — which is exactly what they do, with the only Dalek casualties being the old "impure" Daleks!

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Played with. Once the new Daleks are born, their first action is to exterminate the three old Daleks due to not being pure enough. The three Daleks not only are aware this was gonna happen, but ''are perfectly OK with it''.