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|enemy = [[Dalek Prime|Dalek Emperor]]
|enemy = [[Dalek Prime|Dalek Emperor]]
|setting= [[Skaro]]
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|artist= [[Ron Turner]]
|artist= [[Ron Turner]]
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|publication= ''[[TV Century 21]]'' 86-89
|publication= ''[[TV Century 21]]'' 86-89
|release date= [[10 September (releases)|10 September]] - [[1 October (releases)|1 October]] [[1966 (releases)|1966]]
|release date= 10 September - 1 October 1966
|publisher= City Magazines
|publisher= City Magazines
|reprint = DWCC 17
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It leads to Daleks proclaiming, "Protect Beauty...Flowers are Beautiful".
It leads to Daleks proclaiming, "Protect Beauty...Flowers are Beautiful".


The Emperor finds a Dalek proclaiming this and claiming to be the new Dalek Emperor. Daleks begin stating that "Beauty is Strength", the Dalek Emperor then orders the Dalek's destruction.
The Emperor finds a Dalek proclaiming this and claiming to be the new Dalek Emperor. When Daleks begin stating that "Beauty is Strength", the Dalek Emperor orders the Dalek's destruction.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==

Revision as of 22:05, 28 January 2024

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Shadow of Humanity was a TV Century 21 comic story in The Daleks series.

Summary

When the Emperor commands the building of a new road to the Lake of Mutations, one of the Daleks questions his orders. The Emperor has the squad of Daleks taken for testing. He realises that the questioning of an order could lead to the destruction of the Dalek race.

Plot

Whilst clearing flowers from near the Lake of Mutations a Dalek discovers its humanity. The Dalek Emperor worries where this might lead.

It leads to Daleks proclaiming, "Protect Beauty...Flowers are Beautiful".

The Emperor finds a Dalek proclaiming this and claiming to be the new Dalek Emperor. When Daleks begin stating that "Beauty is Strength", the Dalek Emperor orders the Dalek's destruction.

Characters

Worldbuilding

Notes

  • The One in a Million Dalek's qualities are presumably rare ancestral traits reasserting themselves but his "diseased brain" is blamed on an accident in manufacture.
  • Both "human" and humanoid are used to describe the One in a Million Dalek's qualities.
  • In 2009, Altered Vistas released an animated adaptation of this story.

Continuity

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