Davros

Davros is a male television character who features in Doctor Who.

Biography

Davros.

Davros was a male member of the Kaled race who was born on the distant world of Skaro. As a young child, his world was engulfed in war where one day he found himself running onto a battlefield and got lost. A soldier named Kanzo tried to help when he wandered across ground covered in Handmines, but was sucked into the ground by one of them. The Twelfth Doctor heard his cries for help and threw him his sonic screwdriver, which allowed them to hear each other. Although the Doctor had intended to help the child, when he learned that he was a younger Davros, he returned to the TARDIS and departed. Shortly afterwards, Davros heard the rematerialisation of the Doctor's TARDIS, and, confused and frightened, witnessed the Twelfth Doctor point a gunstick towards him, saying that he was trying to save his friend the only way he could, before yelling 'Exterminate!'. (Episode: The Magician's Apprentice) The Doctor came to kill the Handmines surrounding Davros and took him by the hand and helping him get home. (Episode: The Witch's Familiar)

Davros was once a Kaled scientist on the planet Skaro, designing weapons to be used against the Thals in his people's war with them, until he was scarred and rendered paraplegic in an attack on his lab. Now able only to move his hand and head, Davros grew bitter and insane. Designing a transport device enabling him to move about, he began his plans to create a master race, one capable of surviving in the poisoned world the Kaled-Thal conflict was creating.

Davros began artificially mutating and evolving Kaled specimens who had already been mutated by the chemical and nuclear weapons the two races used on one another. Soon, he had a powerful and aggressive lifeform, which he placed in a robotic transport vehicle based on his transport chair's design. The first Dalek was created. Soon, around 4000 BC Earth time, Davros had a legion of the cybernetic monsters, which- despite the best efforts of the Fourth Doctor to destroy them- rebelled against their master, seemingly killing him and the leaders of the Kaleds.

The Daleks went on to become the terrors of the universe, while Davros' body lie in his old bunker, in suspended animation. He was reactivated over 8 millennia later (around the Earth year 4500) so he could help the Daleks defeat a race of androids known as the Movellans. Davros attempted to do so, believing he could lead his creations to universal domination- but his plans were disrupted by the Fourth Doctor again.

Davros was cryogenically frozen to be taken to trial on Earth, for crimes against all races in the galaxy, and was sentenced to remain in suspension indefinitely. He was freed after 90 years by a mercenary team led by Lytton and hired by the Daleks, so Davros could create a cure for a virus the Movellans designed to kill Daleks. Davros ostensibly agreed, but truly planned to re-engineer the Daleks to serve him, as he always intended they would. The rulers of the Daleks discovered this, and attempted to destroy Davros, who narrowly escaped.

He was also affected by the Movellans' virus, but managed to escape to the planet Necros, home of Tranquil Repose. Davros entered into a business relationship with Repose's operator, Kara. He secretly began to break some corpses down into food, ending famine across the galaxy and giving Davros the ironic name of "the Great Healer." However, he also began using corpses in the creation of a new race of Daleks. The Sixth Doctor and an assassin from the Grand Order of Oberon named Orcini joined forces to stop Davros, and they turned him in to Dalek authorities.

Davros somehow gained control of the Daleks after his return, and became the Dalek Emperor. His body was almost rotted away, so Davros's head was installed in an advanced Dalek body. Davros oversaw the refitting of the Dalek race into the Imperial Daleks, and was only opposed by the Black Dalek and his Renegade Dalek faction. Both groups travelled back in time and space to 1963 Earth, and attempted to acquire the Hand of Omega so that one group could destroy the other. However, thanks to the interference of the Seventh Doctor, Davros was unable to control the hand, which destroyed Skaro's star system in Davros' native time. Davros escaped with his life, but the Daleks were basically destroyed. His final fate is as yet unrevealed.

Davros was thought to have died during the first year of the 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, 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 stole 27 planets, including Earth, and hid them in the Medusa Cascade, one second out of sync with the rest of the universe. (Episode: The Stolen Earth)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Davros had a sound mind early in his life, but the incident that crippled him and his overall experiences in the Thal-Kaled war left him a depraved and insane megalomaniac. He became tyrannical and ruthless, tolerating no opposition to his will and dismissing fairness and democracy as "the creeds of cowards". He did not believe the Daleks were evil, instead believing they would bring peace by becoming the sole life-forms of the universe; he believed different species could not peacefully co-exist, so believed the utter extermination of all other races was the only way the Daleks could succeed at bringing peace. (Episode: Genesis of the Daleks)

Notes

• Davros was created by Terry Nation where he featured in the setting of the Doctor Who universe.
• It should be noted, in reference to War of the Daleks, that some fans were offended by this somewhat cavalier dismissal of all the Dalek stories after "Genesis of the Daleks," where Davros first appeared.

In other media

Novels

• In War of the Daleks (1997), Davros appeared in the non-canon BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel written by John Peel and published by BBC Books. It was later revealed that a plan enacted by the Dalek Prime tricked Davros into believing the planet Antalin, in a star system near Skaro, was in fact his homeworld. This had been the case ever since he was reawakened to battle the Movellans, a war that actually never happened and was also a deception. Thus, it was Antalin that Davros destroyed with the Hand. Davros's escape pod was retrieved by the Thals, who planned to use him in a Thal eugenics program. However, he was recaptured by the Dalek Prime's forces, allowed to lead a revolution to reveal rebellious elements in the Dalek ranks, and was then executed when said revolt failed.

Audio Books

• In Purity, Davros featured in the second story within the Big Finish Productions I, Davros audio book series written by James Parsons where Davros was voiced by actor Terry Molloy. In Nasgard's will, the family finances were held in trust under Davros's name and his wife and daughter were forbidden access to it until Davros was married. Due to her connections with senior members of the Kaled judiciary, Calcula was successful in her attempts to have the terms of the will overturned. Prior to this, she had attempted to set Davros up with the daughter of Councillor Matros, another member of the Council of Twelve who belonged to one of the most influential and wealthy Kaled families. Davros vehemently disagreed with the ideas of his half-sister Yarvell, who had become a peace activist, of a compromise with the Thals. As he approached his thirtieth birthday, he regarded the only satisfactory outcome of the war as being the extermination of the Thals and the complete dominance of the Kaleds over all of Skaro. He was forced into the Military Corps, put in charge of developing new weapons and gadgets to help Kaled soldiers. After his mother killed his father, sister and aunt, Davros no longer had anyone to impress. In honour of Yarvell's death, he and his mother commissioned a statue to house her ashes. In reality, however, Davros used her body for his genetic research.

Appearances

• Doctor Who: "Genesis of the Daleks" (1975)
• Doctor Who: "Destiny of the Daleks" (1979)
• Doctor Who: "Resurrection of the Daleks" (1984)
• Doctor Who: "Revelation of the Daleks" (1985)
• Doctor Who: "Remembrance of the Daleks" (1988)
• Doctor Who: A History of the Universe (1996)
• Doctor Who: War of the Daleks (1998)

External Links

• [ Doctor Who Wiki Entry]
• Wikipedia Entry

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