History Recap / DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks

%% * ArmourPiercingQuestion: Not for what’s being asked, but for the fact it’s being asked by a Dalek, whose superiors demand UndyingLoyalty to any orders given.

%% * AssholeVictim: Kennedy. Maxtible as well.

%% * BeardOfEvil: Maxtible. A big, bushy one at that.

%% * BigBad: The Dalek Emperor.

%% * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Maxtible is the Victorian version of this trope.

%% * FireForgedFriends: Jamie and Kemel as they try to rescue Victoria from the Daleks.

%% * ForTheEvulz: The Daleks. Pointed out by the Doctor:
%% -->"Everything you say, Waterfield, is true. If we cannot find Jamie, the Daleks will take pleasure in killing everyone in sight, and their greatest pleasure will be in killing me."

%% ** The good Daleks after the Doctor implants the Human Factor into them.

%% * HumansAreSpecial: This belief led to Alpha, Beta and Omega's creation in the first place. It seems the belief was not unfounded.

%% * OhCrap:
%% ** The Doctor has one of these moments when Maxtible mentions using static electricity in the experiments.

%% * RailingKill : How Jamie and Kemel dispose of one of the Daleks.

%%* SmugSnake: Maxtible.

%% * SwordFight: Jamie has one with Arthur Terrall. Sadly, it's in a lost episode, so we can only imagine how awesome it was.

%% * VillainousBreakdown: The Dalek Emperor's reaction to the war.
%% * TheVoiceless: Kemel.
%% * VoiceOfTheLegion: The Emperor Dalek.

%% * WhatTheHellHero: Jamie towards the Doctor, twice. See quote at the top.

%% * GoingByTheMatchBook: Although Kennedy deliberately left it to lure the Doctor and Jamie to the Tricolour.

%% * WhamLine: "The Human Factor showed us what the Dalek Factor was."

%% * DefeatMeansFriendship: Jamie and Kemel, after Kemel falls nearly off the roof and Jamie saves him with a rope.

%% ** The Doctor gets another one when he finds out who's responsible for all this.

* ArmourPiercingQuestion: Not for what’s being asked, but for the fact it’s being asked by a Dalek, whose superiors demand UndyingLoyalty to any orders given.

* AssholeVictim: Kennedy. Maxtible as well.

* BeardOfEvil: Maxtible. A big, bushy one at that.

* BigBad: The Dalek Emperor.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Maxtible is the Victorian version of this trope.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Jamie and Kemel, after Kemel falls nearly off the roof and Jamie saves him with a rope.

* FireForgedFriends: Jamie and Kemel as they try to rescue Victoria from the Daleks.

* ForTheEvulz: The Daleks. Pointed out by the Doctor:
-->"Everything you say, Waterfield, is true. If we cannot find Jamie, the Daleks will take pleasure in killing everyone in sight, and their greatest pleasure will be in killing me."

* GoingByTheMatchBook: Although Kennedy deliberately left it to lure the Doctor and Jamie to the Tricolour.

** The good Daleks after the Doctor implants the Human Factor into them.

* HumansAreSpecial: This belief led to Alpha, Beta and Omega's creation in the first place. It seems the belief was not unfounded.

* OhCrap: The Doctor has one of these moments when Maxtible mentions using static electricity in the experiments.
** The Doctor gets another one when he finds out who's responsible for all this.

* RailingKill : How Jamie and Kemel dispose of one of the Daleks.

* SwordFight: Jamie has one with Arthur Terrall. Sadly, it's in a lost episode, so we can only imagine how awesome it was.

* VillainousBreakdown: The Dalek Emperor's reaction to the war.
* TheVoiceless: Kemel.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Emperor Dalek.
* WhamLine: "The Human Factor showed us what the Dalek Factor was."
* WhatTheHellHero: Jamie towards the Doctor, twice. See quote at the top.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Not for what’s being asked, but for the fact it’s being asked by a Dalek, whose superiors demand UndyingLoyalty to any orders given.

** He also calls his laboratory "the only thing of value in [his] life". [[FridgeHorror He has]] [[ParentalNeglect a daughter.]]

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks The Doctor intends to implant the human factor into the Daleks through a positronic brain]].

* DealWithTheDevil: Maxtible is helping the Daleks in the hope of getting the secret of turning base metal to gold. His eventual reward is to be turned into a human Dalek.

** The Doctor says that even if the Daleks let them go, they couldn't get back to Earth from Skaro without the TARDIS, but muses that he could somehow try to take them to another universe, or even his home planet.

* ThemeNaming: Alpha, Beta and Omega are all named after letters in the Greek alphabet.

* BatmanGambit: The Doctor pulls one on Jamie when the latter is upset with his apparent callousness, knowing that telling him not to try to rescue Victoria Waterfield while result him doing just that, and that Jamie would "infect" the Daleks with all that was good and noble in humanity.

* MissingMom: We only see a portrait of Victoria's mother, though she did appear in the original script.

** Kemel sides with Jamie after Jamie saves him from falling to his death. Though to be fair, Kemel was never actually a genuine villain. He was lied to by Maxtible, and once he learned the truth he quickly made things right.

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: The Daleks want to test Jamie because he is special among humans as a result of having travelled in time, but when the Doctor asks why the Daleks don't just test him, they inform him that he has travelled in time too much and is consequently "more than human," which seems to imply that the Doctor was somehow changed or mutated by his excessive exposure to time ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar an idea that would resurface much later on]]).

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Jamie and Kemel.

* DumbMuscle: Defied. It's Maxtible's opinion of Kemal, largely due to his mutism, but we see through his work with Jamie that he's actually rather clever.

* BatmanGambit: The Doctor pulls one on Jamie, knowing that Jamie would "infect" the Daleks with all that was good noble in humanity. Jamie doesn't take it well.

* GratuitousGreek: The first three Renegade Daleks with the Human Factor are named Alpha, Beta, and Omega. (Note that Alpha and Beta are the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, but the third should be Gamma.)

* GratuitousGreek: The first three Renegade Daleks with the Human Factor are named Alpha, Beta, and Omega.

[[MissingEpisode Only the second episode remains]], but the missing episodes are scheduled to be released in animated form on 27 September 2021.

* AuthorAppeal: David Whitaker liked any excuse to write about alchemy and here is the culmination of his obsession.

Notably, this serial was one of only three from the show's monochrome era to be re-ran during the Classic Series' lifetime,[[note]]The other two were "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild An Unearthly Child]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E4TheKrotons The Krotons]]", which were both repeated on BBC Two in 1981 as part of the "The Five Faces of ''Doctor Who''" repeat season; barring the unscheduled repeat of part 1 of "Unearthly" the week after it went out, the "Evil" repeat was the only example ever of a black-and-white story being seen again on BBC One after its original transmission[[/note]] and under some particularly unique circumstances: at the end of the next season's finale, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E7TheWheelInSpace "The Wheel in Space"]], the Doctor shows Zoe an excerpt from this serial to explain to her the kinds of dangers she'd face when travelling with him. While "The Wheel in Space" only showed the cliffhanger of Episode One for the sake of runtime, its original broadcast was directly followed by a complete re-airing of this story, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNjK422V6Y in-character narration]] from Creator/PatrickTroughton and Wendy Padbury establishing that the re-run is meant to be what the Doctor actually showed Zoe. Due to the likelihood at the time that it was going to be the last Dalek story ever, and Terry Nation had already withdrawn permission for the BBC to exploit the Daleks, the repeat happened as a final opportunity for them to be seen onscreen.

[[MissingEpisode Only the second episode remains.]]

Notably, this serial was one of only two from the show's monochrome era to be re-ran during the Classic Series' lifetime,[[note]]The other was "An Unearthly Child", which was repeated on BBC Two in 1981 as part of the "The Five Faces of ''Doctor Who''" repeat season; barring the unscheduled repeat of part 1 of "Unearthly" the week after it went out, the "Evil" repeat was the only example ever of a black-and-white story being seen again on BBC One after its original transmission[[/note]] and under some particularly unique circumstances: at the end of the next season's finale, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E7TheWheelInSpace "The Wheel in Space"]], the Doctor shows Zoe an excerpt from this serial to explain to her the kinds of dangers she'd face when travelling with him. While "The Wheel in Space" only showed the cliffhanger of Episode One for the sake of runtime, its original broadcast was directly followed by a complete re-airing of this story, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNjK422V6Y in-character narration]] from Creator/PatrickTroughton and Wendy Padbury establishing that the re-run is meant to be what the Doctor actually showed Zoe. Due to the likelihood at the time that it was going to be the last Dalek story ever, and Terry Nation had already withdrawn permission for the BBC to exploit the Daleks, the repeat happened as a final opportunity for them to be seen onscreen.

Notably, this serial was one of few to be re-ran during the Classic Series' lifetime, and under some particularly unique circumstances: at the end of the next season's finale, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E7TheWheelInSpace "The Wheel in Space"]], the Doctor shows Zoe an excerpt from this serial to explain to her the kinds of dangers she'd face when travelling with him. While "The Wheel in Space" only showed the cliffhanger of Episode One for the sake of runtime, its original broadcast was directly followed by a complete re-airing of this story, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNjK422V6Y in-character narration]] from Creator/PatrickTroughton and Wendy Padbury establishing that the re-run is meant to be what the Doctor actually showed Zoe.

Notably, this serial was one of few to be re-ran during the Classic Series' lifetime, and under some particularly unique circumstances: at the end of the next season's finale, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E7TheWheelInSpace "The Wheel in Space"]], the Doctor shows Zoe an excerpt from this serial to explain to her the kinds of dangers she'd face when traveling with him. While "The Wheel in Space" only showed the cliffhanger of Episode One for the sake of runtime, its original broadcast was directly followed by a complete re-airing of this story, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNjK422V6Y in-character narration]] from Creator/PatrickTroughton and Wendy Padbury establishing that the re-run is meant to be what the Doctor actually showed Zoe.

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Maxtible shares the alchemists' dream of transmutating metal to gold. Never mind that having more gold around would actually devalue the stuff.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Daleks want to test Jamie because he is special among humans as a result of having travelled in time, but when the Doctor asks why the Daleks don't just test him, they inform him that he has travelled in time too much and is consequently "more than human," which seems to imply that the Doctor was somehow changed or mutated by his excessive exposure to time ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar an idea that would resurface much later on]]).