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| {{Infobox Species | | {{Infobox_Individual |
| |image = Victory-of-the-daleks.jpg | | |name = Eternal Dalek |
| |type = [[Dalek]] | | |image = Victory-of-the-daleks.jpg |
| |aka = | | |species = Dalek |
| |affiliation = [[New Dalek Paradigm]]
| | |only = Victory of the Daleks (TV story) |
| |origin = [[Earth]] orbit
| | |actor = Nicholas Briggs}}The first '''[[Eternal Dalek |Eternal Dalek]]'''[[Eternal Dalek | ]]of the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] was created as one of five new Dalek types by the [[Progenitor]] aboard their [[Dalek flying saucer|last surviving ship]] above [[Earth]] in [[1941]] when the last three Daleks tricked the [[Eleventh Doctor]] into allowing them to activate the [[Progenitor]] device. The five new Daleks escaped through a [[time corridor]] and went on to rebuild their empire. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'') |
| |first = Victory of the Daleks (TV story)
| | [[Category:Individual Daleks]] |
| |appearances = {{il|[[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''}} | |
| |individuals =}}
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| The '''Eternal Dalek''' was a yellow, specialised [[Dalek]] of the [[New Dalek Paradigm]]. The first one was created by the [[Progenitor]] in [[1941]]. Unlike its comrades, it had black, not grey, globes on its battle armour. | |
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| == History ==
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| The [[Eternal Dalek (Victory of the Daleks)|original Eternal]] was one of the five New Paradigm Daleks created when the [[Ironside Project|three survivors]] of an encounter with [[the Doctor]] tricked the [[Eleventh Doctor]] into allowing them to activate the [[Progenitor]] device. It escaped through a [[time corridor]] with the others (the others being the white [[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Supreme]], blue [[Strategist Dalek|Strategist]], orange [[Scientist Dalek|Scientist]], and red [[Drone Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Drone]]) and went on to help rebuild the Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')
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| [[File:Victory_of_the_daleks.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Eleventh Doctor]] faces the new paradigm of [[Dalek]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')]]
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| The Daleks joined [[the Alliance (The Pandorica Opens)|the Alliance]] formed to imprison the [[Eleventh Doctor]] in the [[Pandorica]] and save the [[universe]] from the [[Time Field|cracks in time]] created from the TARDIS exploding. When they arrived at [[Stonehenge]], 102 A.D. with the rest of the Alliance, the Eternal, the Supreme, and a Drone witnessed the Doctor being locked in the Pandorica. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') The Eternal Dalek was reduced to dust and [[Stone Dalek|stone]] along with the Supreme Dalek and the Drone Dalek following the [[total event collapse]]. This timeline would later be undone by the Doctor, restoring the Eternal and the other Daleks in their proper place in time, never knowing of the cracks. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' revealed that the name of Eternal Dalek was provided by [[Steven Moffat]] in a "naming session" with [[Mark Gatiss]]. Neither had a meaning for the name, but Moffat opened in ''Confidential'' that he thought that the functionality of the Eternal would one day become critical to a story. ''[[Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook|The Dalek Handbook]]'' quotes Gatiss as saying "its exact function is a total mystery, but it's probably something to do with the Progenitor device and the continuation of the race."
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| * ''[[The Brilliant Book 2011]]'' calls attention to the fact that the Eternal Dalek's colours are usually found on the most dangerous animals in the wild.
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| * The Eternal Dalek is the only one of the five Progenitor Daleks to have black rather than grey orbs like the [[Gold Dalek]]s from [[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]''.
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| * The packaging of the action figure version of Eternal refers to the Dalek as '''The Eternal'''.
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| * The Eternal Dalek is the only Dalek of the New Dalek Paradigm that has yet to appear in any material outside of the main TV series. A yellow Dalek (with dark grey rather than black orbs) is seen on the loading screens for ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'', and in the game itself. It is the only one of five Dalek variants absent in ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]''.
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| * New Paradigm Eternal Dalek is an enemy in the ''[[Legacy (video game)|Doctor Who: Legacy]]'' mobile game, which is not considered a valid DWU source.
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| == External links ==
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| {{Dwlx|Dalek|Dalek enemies}}
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| {{Dalek variants}}
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| [[Category:Progenitor Daleks]] | | [[Category:Progenitor Daleks]] |
| [[Category:The Alliance]]
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| [[Category:Yellow]]
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| [[Category:Dalek ranks]]
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