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Creator of the Daleks
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Davros

ruthlessly ambitious fanatically driven technologically obsessed reflective relentless cynical visionary ruthless technologically brilliant symbolic authoritarian intellectually uncompromising desperate under pressure haunting manipulative volatile desperate for control fanatically determined persistent arrogant coldly triumphant megalomaniacal self-destructive ruthlessly pragmatic
Davros is the architect of the Dalek race, a Kaled scientist whose ruthless intellect and authoritarian vision genetically engineered the Daleks and established their militant ideology of universal domination. Encased in a mobile life-support chair after his body atrophied, he wields biogenic threats as tools of control and speaks with mechanically augmented certainty. Across his appearances, he shifts from the creator who manipulates his creations to a figure whose megalomania forces the Daleks to evolve beyond his designs, then to a haunting vision that embodies the Doctor's guilt during the fall from Logopolis. He resurfaces as the Great Healer at Necros, pursuing genetic and cybernetic experiments with cynical pragmatism, and later asserts temporal domination ideology from his cybernetic form. Davros remains a figure of relentless ambition, willing to sacrifice even his own creations to maintain absolute control, treating his continued existence as proof against entropy.
152 appearances
Dalek genetic experimentation and cybernetic augmentation
Also known as: DAVROS, Davros, Creator, DALEK, Architect of the Daleks

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Season 12 · anchor

Kaled scientist who genetically engineered the Dalek race and established their militant ideology while wielding biogenic threats as tools of control