Editing Davros (section)

==Character history==

===Encounters with the Fourth Doctor===
[[File:Davros Wisher.png|200px|thumb|right|Michael Wisher as Davros in ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' (1975)]]
The [[Fourth Doctor]] ([[Tom Baker]]) first encountered Davros ([[Michael Wisher]]) in ''Genesis of the Daleks'' when he and his companions were sent to Skaro to avert the creation of the Daleks. As chief scientist of the Kaleds and leader of their elite scientific division, Davros devised new military strategies in order to win his people's thousand-year war against the [[Thal (Doctor Who)|Thal]] race that also occupies Skaro. When Davros learned his people were evolving from exposure to [[nuclear weapons]], [[chemical weapon]]s and [[biological weapon]]s used in the war, he artificially accelerates the process to his design and stores the resulting tentacled creatures in tank-like "Mark III travel machines" partly based on the design of his wheelchair. He later names these creatures "Daleks", an [[anagram]] of Kaleds.<ref>{{cite book |last =Rovin |first =Jeff |title =The Encyclopedia of Supervillains |publisher =Facts on File |date =1987 |location =New York |isbn = 0-8160-1356-X |pages=77–78}}</ref>

Davros quickly becomes obsessed with his creations, considering them to be the ultimate form of life compared to others. When other Kaleds attempted to thwart his project, Davros arranges the extinction of his own people by using the Thals, whom he mostly killed with the Daleks later. Davros then weeds out those in elite scientific division who are loyal to him so he can have the Daleks eliminate the rest. However, the Daleks ultimately turn on Davros, killing his supporters before shooting him when he tries to halt the Dalek production line.<ref>{{cite serial | title = [[Genesis of the Daleks]] | series = [[Doctor Who]] | credits = Writer [[Terry Nation]], Director [[David Maloney]], Producer [[Philip Hinchcliffe]] | network = [[BBC]] | station = [[BBC One|BBC1]] | location = London | date=8 March – 12 April 1975 }}</ref>

In ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]'', it is revealed that Davros (now played by [[David Gooderson]]) was not killed, but placed in [[suspended animation]] and buried underground in the destruction of his bunker. The Daleks unearth their creator to help them break a [[logic]]al impasse in their war against the [[android (robot)|android]] [[Movellan]]s. However, the Dalek force is destroyed by the Doctor, and Davros is captured and imprisoned in suspended animation by the humans, before being taken to Earth to face trial.<ref>{{cite serial | title = [[Destiny of the Daleks]] | series = [[Doctor Who]] | credits = Writer [[Terry Nation]], Director Ken Grieve, Producer [[Graham Williams (television producer)|Graham Williams]] | network = [[BBC]] | station = [[BBC One|BBC1]] | location = London | date=1–22 September 1979 }}</ref>

===The Dalek Civil War===
[[File:Davros incarnations.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Davros as played by Terry Molloy, in ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'' (1985)]]
In the [[Fifth Doctor]] story ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'', Davros ([[Terry Molloy]]) is released from his [[space station]] prison by a small Dalek force aided by human [[mercenary|mercenaries]] and Dalek duplicates. The Daleks require Davros to find an [[antidote]] for a Movellan-created [[virus]] that has all but wiped them out. Believing his creations to be treacherous, Davros begins using a syringe-like [[Brainwashing|mind control]] device hidden in a secret compartment in his wheelchair on Daleks and humans; he ultimately releases a sample of the virus to kill off the Daleks before they can exterminate him. Davros expresses a desire to build a new and improved race of Daleks, but he apparently succumbs to the virus himself, his [[physiology]] being close enough to that of the Daleks for the virus to affect him.<ref>{{cite serial | title = [[Resurrection of the Daleks]] | series = [[Doctor Who]] | credits = Writer [[Eric Saward]], Director [[Matthew Robinson (producer)|Matthew Robinson]], Producer [[John Nathan-Turner]] | network = [[BBC]] | station = [[BBC One|BBC1]] | location = London | date=8–15 February 1984}}</ref>

In the [[Sixth Doctor]] story ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'', it is revealed that Davros managed to escape at the end of ''Resurrection'' and has gone into hiding as "The Great Healer" of the funeral and [[cryogenics|cryogenic]] preservation centre Tranquil Repose on the planet Necros. There, creating a clone of his head to serve as a decoy while modifying his body so that it can fire electric bolts and his chair is able to hover, Davros uses the more intelligent frozen bodies to engineer a new variety of white armoured Daleks loyal to him (while using the lesser intellects as food for the galaxy, ending a galaxy-wide [[famine]]), but he is captured by the original Daleks and taken to Skaro to face trial.<ref>{{cite serial | title = [[Revelation of the Daleks]] | series = [[Doctor Who]] | credits = Writer [[Eric Saward]], Director [[Graeme Harper]], Producer [[John Nathan-Turner]] | network = [[BBC]] | station = [[BBC1]] | location = London | date=23–30 March 1985 }}</ref>

Davros' final classic appearance is as the [[Dalek variants#Imperial Dalek Emperor|Emperor Dalek]] in ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'',<ref>{{cite serial | title = [[Remembrance of the Daleks]] | series = [[Doctor Who]] | credits = Writer [[Ben Aaronovitch]], Directors Andrew Morgan, [[John Nathan-Turner]] (uncredited), Producer John Nathan-Turner | network = [[BBC]] | station = [[BBC One|BBC1]] | location = London | date=5–26 October 1988 }}</ref> with his white and gold Daleks now based on Skaro and termed "[[Dalek variants#Imperial Daleks|Imperial Daleks]]", fighting against the grey "Renegade Dalek" faction, who answer to the Dalek Supreme. By this time, Davros has been physically transplanted into a customised Dalek casing. He is only revealed to be the Emperor in the final episode. Both Skaro and the Imperial Dalek [[Mother ship|mothership]] are apparently destroyed (in the future) when the [[Seventh Doctor]] tricks Davros into using the [[Time Lord]] artefact known as the [[Hand of Omega]], which makes Skaro's Sun go supernova, before homing in on their mothership. Davros flees into an escape pod as the ship explodes.

===The Time War and the Reality Bomb ===
During the revived series, Davros was referred to in the episode "[[Dalek (Doctor Who episode)|Dalek]]" (2005) by the [[Ninth Doctor]] ([[Christopher Eccleston]]), who explains to [[Henry Van Statten]] that the Daleks were created by "a genius... a man who was king of his own little world",<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Dalek |episode-link=Dalek (Doctor Who episode) |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |credits=Writer [[Robert Shearman]], Director [[Joe Ahearne]], Producer [[Phil Collinson]] |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=30 April 2005 |series-no=1 |number=6 }}</ref> and again by the [[Tenth Doctor]] ([[David Tennant]]) in the episode "[[Evolution of the Daleks]]" (2007), where he refers to the Daleks' creator as believing that "removing emotions makes you stronger".<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Evolution of the Daleks |episode-link=Evolution of the Daleks |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |credits=Writer [[Helen Raynor]], Director [[James Strong (director)|James Strong]], Producer [[Phil Collinson]] |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=28 April 2007 |series-no=3 |number=5 }}</ref> Davros makes his first physical appearance in the episode "[[The Stolen Earth]]" (2008), portrayed by [[Julian Bleach]]. The episode reveals that Davros was thought to have died during the first year of the [[Time War (Doctor Who)|Time War]], when his command ship "flew into the jaws of the Nightmare Child" at the Gates of Elysium, despite the Doctor's failed efforts to save him. But Davros was pulled out of the time lock of the war by Dalek Caan (voiced by [[Nicholas Briggs]]), using his own flesh to create a "new empire" of Daleks who place him in the Vault as their prisoner to make use of his knowledge. Under Davros' guidance, the Daleks steal 27 planets, including Earth, and hide them in the Medusa Cascade, one second out of sync with the rest of the universe.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Stolen Earth |episode-link=The Stolen Earth |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |credits=Writer [[Russell T Davies]], Director [[Graeme Harper]], Producer [[Phil Collinson]] |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=28 June 2008 |series-no=4 |number=12 }}</ref>

In the follow-up episode "[[Journey's End (Doctor Who)|Journey's End]]" (2008), it is revealed that the stolen planets are required as a power source for Davros' ideal [[final solution]]: the Reality Bomb, which produces a wavelength that would cancel out the electrical field binding atoms to reduce all life outside the Crucible into nothingness in both his universe and countless other realities. But Davros learns too late that Dalek Caan, who came to the realisation of his race's atrocities as a consequence of saving his creator, used his prophecies and influence to ensure the Daleks' destruction while manipulating events to bring the Tenth Doctor and [[Donna Noble]] ([[Catherine Tate]]) together for the role the latter would play. Though the Doctor attempts to save him, having earlier taunted the Doctor for turning his companions into killers and being the cause of the deaths of countless people during his travels, Davros furiously refuses the Doctor's help and accuses him of being responsible for the destruction while screaming: "Never forget, Doctor, you did this! I name you forever: ''You'' are the Destroyer of Worlds!" Thus the Doctor is forced to leave Davros to his supposed fate as the Crucible self-destructs.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Journey's End |episode-link=Journey's End (Doctor Who) |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |credits=Writer [[Russell T Davies]], Director [[Graeme Harper]], Producer [[Phil Collinson]] |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=5 July 2008 |series-no=4 |number=13 }}</ref>

=== Remembering the Twelfth Doctor ===
Davros returns in the two-part Series 9 opening "[[The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who)|The Magician's Apprentice]]" and "[[The Witch's Familiar]]" (2015), having escaped the Crucible's destruction and ending up on a restored Skaro with his life being prolonged by the Daleks. But when the aged Davros' health begins to fail, he remembers his childhood self, played by Joey Price, meeting the [[Twelfth Doctor]] ([[Peter Capaldi]]) during the Kaleds' thousand-year war prior to ''Genesis of the Daleks''. The young Davros finds himself lost on the battlefield and surrounded by handmines, with the Doctor throwing his [[sonic screwdriver]] to the boy with the intent to save him before learning his name and leaving the child to his fate. Davros, seeking a final revenge on the Doctor, employs the snake-like Colony Sarff ([[Jami Reid-Quarrell]]) to bring him to Skaro.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Magician's Apprentice |episode-link=The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who) |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |credits=Writer [[Steven Moffat]], Director [[Hettie MacDonald]], Producer [[Peter Bennett (producer)|Peter Bennett]] |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=19 September 2015 |series-no=9 |number=1 }}</ref> When it appears that the Doctor has lost his companion [[Clara Oswald]] ([[Jenna Coleman]]) to the Daleks, Davros manages to trick the Doctor into using his regeneration energy to heal him, extending his own life while infusing every Dalek on Skaro with the energy. But the Doctor reveals Davros' scheme has also revitalised the decomposing-yet-still-alive Daleks left to rot in Skaro's sewers, causing them to revolt and destroy the city. The Doctor then discovers the Daleks have a concept of mercy and are allowed to have the word in their vocabulary when he encounters Clara, having been placed in a Dalek casing by [[The Master (Doctor Who)|Missy]] ([[Michelle Gomez]]). The Doctor and Clara escape, the former having an epiphany as to how Davros somehow put a sliver of compassion into the Daleks. He then returns to the battlefield in Davros' childhood, using a Dalek gun to destroy the handmines with the one bit of compassion in Davros' life instilled in the Daleks' design to ensure Clara being saved.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Witch's Familiar |episode-link=The Witch's Familiar |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |credits=Writer [[Steven Moffat]], Director [[Hettie MacDonald]], Producer [[Peter Bennett (producer)|Peter Bennett]] |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=26 September 2015 |series-no=9 |number=2 }}</ref>

===The Fourteenth Doctor===
In the ''[[Children in Need]]'' sketch "[[Destination: Skaro]]" (2023) (which takes place during an earlier time in the Kaled-Thal war), Davros ([[Julian Bleach]]) (who has not yet become disfigured or received the cybernetic eye) is seen presenting a Dalek prototype featuring a robotic claw to his assistant, Castavillian. When he briefly departs to attend to an urgent matter, the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] lands in the TARDIS, accidentally destroying the robotic claw. He inadvertently suggests the name "Dalek" for the prototype, mentions its catchphrase of "exterminate" and gives Castavillian a plunger-tipped arm as a replacement for the broken claw. Once he realises that he has accidentally assisted with the creation of his greatest enemy, he quickly departs saying that he was "never here". Davros returns and approves of the new plunger arm.