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Fiction

Television

Genesis of the Daleks

Davros is first seen, in shadow, flanked by Gharman.
"Now we can begin…"
"I am anxious that you should see immediately the remarkable results that I have achieved…"
Davros, with Nyder, prepares to demonstrate his creations to the Kaled Scientific Elite.
Side view of Davros's head as he gyrates to face the Fourth Doctor.
Full-body side-view of Davros as the sceptical Doctor looks on.
"To know that the tiny pressure of my thumb, enough to break the glass, would end… everything."
The Fourth Doctor struggles with Davros.
Disturbed that it took action without him, Davros scolds the first Dalek.
Davros realises that the Daleks have turned on him.
Davros begs the first Dalek to "have pity".
Davros's hand seizes up as he is exterminated, unable to reach the button to switch off the automated production line.

Destiny of the Daleks

"So… the long darkness has ended…"
"…and the eternity of waiting… is over."
Davros spins around.
Davros is immediately intercepted by the Fourth Doctor.
Davros's head covered in cobwebs.
An indignant Davros is literally pushed around by the Doctor.
Side view.
Davros sulks in a corner as the Doctor, Romana II and Tyssan talk escape routes.
The Doctor and Davros find themselves alone.
"Doctor… do you believe your puny efforts can change the course of destiny?"
"Let's just say I might tamper with it."
Rousing from his stubborn silence, Davros begins monologuing about his grandiose plans for the Daleks.
The Doctor taunts Davros with the knowledge that the Daleks don't need him and left him for dead centuries ago without looking back — until today.
Davros sits in stony silence as the Doctor works on an explosive.
Davros explains to the Fourth Doctor how he survived the events of Genesis of the Daleks.
"I have slept, but now I have awakened… and the universe will be sorry."
As the Daleks break in, the Doctor uses Davros as a hostage.
"We'll meet again, Doctor. Never doubt it. We'll meet again."
"…Quickly! The explosive! He will detonate!"
"Come. There is much to be done."
An ecstatic Davros zooms through the ruined corridors, Daleks following silently behind him.
Inside the Daleks' ship, Davros demands immediate transportation out of Skaro.
"Every moment we remain on Skaro, we are vulnerable to attack!"
Davros is given the computer sphere, and scoffs at the mention of the Supreme Dalek.
Davros ponders his orb.
Davros realises the Daleks needed him because he is less logical than they are.
"You will reprogram our battle computers for us! The Movellans will be exterminated!"
Davros realises the Doctor could reprogram the Movellans' computer and thus negate the edge that Davros's presence gives to the Daleks.
"Then we need more than firepower! Unpack the explosives!"
Davros gives final instructions to the Dalek suicide-bombers he has outfitted.
"I will lead… Davros! Will! LEAD!"
The Doctor's incongruous appearance sends Davros's dreams of complete victory crashing down in an instant.
"I have one more thing to do before I leave."
Davros shows the Doctor the control he will use to detonate the Daleks.
"You see? There's nothing you can do to stop it now."
"Keep away! Keep! Back!"
Davros is put on ice.
"Bah! Humans do not understand logic!"
"Bye bye, Davros!"
Davros is overwhelmed by a white vapour as the cryogenic freezer activates.

Resurrection of the Daleks

The Dalek Troopers find Davros, still in suspended animation.
The cryogenic chamber's door slides open to reveal Davros.
"He's very still… Is he dead?"
Davros twitches.
Davros takes in a big gasp of air.
Davros meets Commander Lytton.
"You speak as though my Daleks are no longer capable of war!"
"…Dalek… casualties…?!…"
Davros sputters and whimpers wildly upon hearing that the Daleks lost the Dalek-Movellan War.
Davros argues with Lytton.
Davros discusses the Movellan War with Lytton as an engineer tends to his life-support system.
Davros shrieks about taking "his rightful place as the Daleks' Supreme Being" and leading them to triumph.
"I. Am. Davros."
Davros opens a secret compartment in his chair's control panel.
"Ninety years, I was frozen in that. Ninety years of mind-numbing boredom!"
"The creatures of Earth have no stomach for judicial murder. They prefer to leave you to rot and die… They call it being humane."
Davros is reunited with the Daleks.
"It is vital you complete your research as soon as possible."
Davros makes his demands.
"Welcome!"
Davros is pleased.
Davros commands his two newly-minted Dalek loyalists to "find out the cause of the delay".
Wide shot as Davros learns that the Doctor is within his grasp.
"I shall build a new race of Daleks! They shall be even more deadly!"
"The Doctor and his TARDIS… Perfect!"
Davros meets the Fifth Doctor.
"I had planned to completely redesign the Daleks…"
The Doctor holds Davros at gunpoint.
Davros hands capsules containing samples of the Movellan virus to a Dalek Trooper.
"Now, for the Daleks!"
"The Daleks are dead… long live the new Daleks!"
Despite his indignant protests that he is not a Dalek and "cannot die", Davros also falls prey to the Movellan virus.

Revelation of the Daleks

Davros, seemingly reduced to a head in a jar, spots the Sixth Doctor on a screen.
"It is the Doctor!"
"Excellent…"
"There are bodysnatchers in the catacombs!"
"Have that woman brought to me.
Davros talks business with Kara over a video conference call.
Davros chuckles.
Davros compliments Tasambeker.
"Please me, and I can offer you the universe!"
"You have pleased me."
Davros stokes Tasambeker's resentment towards Jobel.
"You fools! You cannot kill me! I! Am! Davros!"
Davros continues shooting lightning at Orcini from his bionic eye.
Orcini shoots at Davros at point-blank range.
Davros's head deflates, revealing itself to have been a remotely-operated proxy.
Davros reveals his real body's presence to Orcini.
The real Davros orders Orcini and Bostock to put down their weapons.
Davros dodges a dagger thrown by Bostock.
Now hovering, Davros electrocutes Orcini.
Davros shows Kara her own deadly transmitter.
Davros confronts Kara.
"It is a transmitter — brought by your assassin!"
"I have never trusted you, Kara."
"There is little that is ‘common’ about Orcini."
Davros watches Kara die, stabbed by Orcini.
Davros meets the Sixth Doctor.
"Where is Peri?"
"Safe… for the time being."
The Doctor and Davros catch up.
"I am known as the Great Healer! A somewhat flippant title, perhaps… but not without foundation."
"In every way, I have complied with the wishes of those who came here in anticipation of one day being returned… to life."
Davros takes a malicious joy in letting the Doctor know he has been turning the excess bodies into food and selling that food back to the rest of the Galaxy.
Bostock shoots Davros's hand.
Davros's stump is tended to.
"What? Is? Happening?!… Activate my Daleks!"
Davros zaps Orcini again, this time with his real ocular system.
Davros is taken into custody by one of the real, Skarosian Daleks.
"I created you! I am your master!"

Remembrance of the Daleks

"Emperor on the bridge!"
The "Emperor Dalek" among his subjects.
"Prepare the assault shuttle!"
"We must recover the Hand of Omega without delay!"
The Emperor listens to the reports of his underlings on the Renegade Daleks' position.
The Emperor returns the Seventh Doctor's video call to the Imperial Dalek mothership.
"Ah! Doctor! You have changed again!"
"Your appearance is as inconstant as your intelligence."
"You have confounded me for the last time!"
The Emperor is revealed to really be Davros.
The Seventh Doctor recognises Davros.
"Does it worry, Doctor, that with it, I will transform Skaro's sun into a source of unimaginable power?!"
"The Daleks! Shall! Become! Lords! Of Time!"
"I will teach you the folly of your words, Doctor!"
Davros watches as the Hand of Omega is activated.
Davros realises he screwed up.
"You have tricked me!"
"Do not do this! I beg of you!"
Davros closes his casing again, making to escape.
"Emperor abandoning bridge!"
"Emperor activating escape pod!"

The Stolen Earth

Davros emerges from the shadows.
First shot of Davros's mechanical hand.
"And yet Dalek Caan is uneasy."
"Show respect. Without Dalek Caan, none of this would he possible — and he speaks only the truth."
"I warned you, Supreme One. Just as Dalek Caan foretold, the Children of Time are moving against us."
Davros requests access to the subwave network.
"Your voice is different, and yet… its arrogance is unchanged."
Davros is revealed in full light.
"Welcome to my new Empire, Doctor."
Davros on the TARDIS scanner.
Davros and his Daleks.
Close-up of Davros.
Davros explains how he was saved from the War by Dalek Caan.
"A single, simple Dalek succeeded where Emperors and Time Lords have failed."
Davros unclasps his leather jacket.
"I gave myself to them… quite literally…"
"…each one…"
"…grown from a cell of my own body."
"I have my children, Doctor. What do you have, now?"

Journey's End

to be added

The Daleks & Davros

Davros emerges from the time corridor.
"All hail Davros!"
"Welcome to my Dalek Empire."
"This Royal Albert Hall will become…"
"…my new palace…"
"…and you humans shall become my obedient slaves."
Davros swivels to face the conductor.
"Let the music of destruction commence."
Davros listens.
Another angle on Davros listening.
View of Davros from below.
Davros watches the records of past Dalek battles.
Close-up of Davros.
Close-up of Davros facing the camera.
Davros watches as the power of the Bad Wolf entity overtakes the concert hall.
Davros is overtaken by the power of the Bad Wolf entity.
Davros tries to hold on, in vain.
Final glimpse of Davros's mechanical hand as he is pulled under, banished back to his own time.

The Magician's Apprentice

A child is spotted running through the mist on a battlefield.
The child turns back to look at Kanzo.
The child nods when asked if he "got lost".
The child freezes up in fear upon realising that there are Handmines about.
The child watches anxiously as Kanzo realises that a Handmine has grabbed onto his own ankle.
The child notices that he is standing in a field of Handmines.
"Help me!"
The child hears the Twelfth Doctor's voice.
The Doctor: "I’m straight ahead of you…"
"A choice?"
"Tell me the name of the boy who isn't going to die today!"
"…Davros. My name… is Davros."
Seemingly asleep, Davros repears the Doctor's name.
Insisting that he is a wake and merely "anticipating", he holds the Doctor's sonic screwdriver to his face.
Davros greets the Doctor.
The Doctor stands before Davros.
"Did you suspect a trap? (…) Then why are you here? Did you miss our… conversations?"
"I get the point."
"[Our argument] survived the Time War. But it will end… tonight."
"Where does an old man go to die… but with his children?"
"Clara!"
"You cannot help her now, Doctor."
"You know what children are like…"
Davros admits that he is not in control of the Daleks.
"Predator and prey, held in the ecstasy of crisis. Is this not life at its purest?"
"Let this be my final victory. Let me hear you say it, just once… Compassion. Is. Wrong."
"I don't get it. How did you get there?"
"…Are you gonna save me?"
The Doctor and Davros walk off into the mist, hand in hand.

The Witch's Familiar

"You would threaten a dying man?"
A Dalek sees what has become of Davros.
Davros calls for Colony Sarff.
Davros appears to the Twelfth Doctor on a screen in Dalek High Command.
"Sorry, this seat's taken!"
"Indeed — but not by you."
"Be certain, Colony Sarff… Tonight, we entrap a Time Lord."
Davros spins into view of the Doctor.
"It wasn't easy to procure… and very nearly unique, of course. You should feel privileged. The only other chair on Skaro."
Davros warns the Doctor of the futility of trying to escape.
Davros reiterates that he is dying while continuing not to die yet, to the Doctor's rising irritation.
"Look again at the cables, Doctor. Understand what they are. What they can do."
The Doctor taunts Davros once again with the Daleks' apparent disrespect for him —
— and for his apparent inability to "invent legs".
Davros looks wearily up at the Doctor.
"Respect… mercy, for their father. Design flaws I was… unable to eliminate."
Davros guides the Doctor's hand in his own.
"Why do you hesitate? No one would know. Clara Oswald is dead!"
"Compassion, then."
Davros asks the Doctor why he ran away from Gallifrey.
Davros asks the Doctor about the contents of his confession dial.
Extreme close-up as Davros asks once again why the Doctor left Gallifrey.
"How long has it been, you and I?"
"Long enough. Galaxies have burned."
"Come closer again… Let me see your face."
Davros's artificial eye goes offline as he states he wishes to see the Doctor's face "with his own eyes" once again.
Davros opens his original eyes, with obvious difficulty.
"Take the darkest path — into the deepest hell — but… protect your own… as I have sought to protect mine…"
"Did I do right, Doctor? Tell me! Was I right?…"
"…I need… to know… before the end. Am I good man?"
The Doctor and Davros laugh together.
Davros's breath becomes ragged.
"Pity… I had hoped to the see sun one last time…"
Davros looks out at the Skarosian landscape, deeming it beautiful.
Davros explains how Skaro was restored while the Doctor works.
"I have always admired you, Doctor. I wish… just once… we had been on the same side."
"I… regret… I… cannot… open my eyes!…"
"…Okay. …Don't ever tell anyone that I did this."
The Doctor offers Davros a "little bit" of regeneration energy.
(Seemingly) unnoticed by the Doctor until it's too late, Davros begins to laugh.
The regeneration energy flows into Davros.
"Regeneration energy! The ancient magic of the Time Lords."
"I thought I would have to tear you apart to take it from you…"
"…but, as always… your compassion is your downfall."
Davros brings up the prophecy of the Hybrid.
Davros watches Missy and the Doctor.
"Oh, you are not ‘fine’."
Davros unsuccessfully tries to convince the Doctor, who has retrieved his confession dial, to be worried about the situation.
Davros frowns uncomprehendingly as the Twelfth Doctor explains to him why his glorious plan is about to cause the destruction of the Dalek City.
"No… this cannot be correct!… How can this be!?"
"Doctor! Y-you must help me!"
Missy pokes Davros in the eye.
Davros winces angrily at having been thusly poked.
"Which side are you on? Are you the enemy?"
The young Davros looks up curiously as the Doctor extols the importances of mercy.
The young Davros cautiously takes the Doctor's hand.

Comics

Doctor Who and the Time Witch

An image of Davros in The Galactic Crime-Fighter's Notebook.

Abel's Story

An image of Davros appears on a GBC news broadcast.

Nemesis of the Daleks

"Emperor on the bridge!"
The Emperor exterminates an Ogron.
Close-up of the Emperor's casing's dome and eyepiece.
The Emperor declares Operation Genocide.
The Emperor seen from above.
"None will stand before the Death Wheel… and the total universal domination of the Daleks!"
The Seventh Doctor and Kemlo are ordered to kneel as the Emperor hovers into vew.
The Emperor interrogates the Doctor.
The Emperor boasts about Operation Genocide.
As the Emperor casts dual shadows on the metal floor of the Death Wheel, the Doctor is disturbed to realise he has forgotten his original identity as Davros.
Losing patience, the Emperor orders the Doctor exterminated.
As Abslom Daak rushes unseen to the rescue, the Emperor reiterates his order to the Imperial Guard to exterminate the Doctor.
Undeterred by the Doctor's escape or the burning wreckage of his Imperial Guard around him, the Emperor delivers yet another boastful speech — unwittingly quoting his oldest enemy.

Emperor of the Daleks!

Davros is tried in the Dalek City's Court Room by the Golden Emperor.
Davros complains that the Emperor has allowed "his" Daleks to become "weak".
Davros is sentenced.
Davros protests at the prospect of being exterminated.
Believing he is being saved by his faction of loyalists, Davros escapes.
Davros swears to return as he makes his escape.
Davros is baffled to realise his rescuers are the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown.
Davros enters the TARDIS.
Back in the Court Room, the Golden Emperor watches angrily as Davros parlays with the Daleks' greatest enemy.
Davros greets the Renegade Daleks from atop a pyramid of ice.
Close-up as Davros refuses to surrender to the Black Dalek.
Davros unveils his new army.
Davros watches the first clash of the Dalek Civil War from on high.
"Exterminate the Usurpers!"
Flanked by his victorious Imperial Daleks, Davros greets the Seventh Doctor for the first time.
"You are far more devious in your new form than past incarnations…"
"Perhaps even more than you suspect, Davros…"
Davros threatens the Doctor's friends.
Davros threatens to dissect Bernice Summerfield.
Davros explains his plan to take over Skaro and become Emperor of the Dalek.
Davros mocks the Doctor for having believed his claim that he was prepared to give a sense of morality to his new Daleks.
Davros returns to the Dalek City, escorted by the Doctor.
Davros is rent in half by Abslom Daak in a surprise attack.
"No! I have won! You cannot do this!"
Davros rages impotently as the Doctor's TARDIS departs.
Davros awakes, his memory fuzzy, as a disembodied head.
Davros continues regaining consciousness, slowly realising the nature of his new surroundings.
As his Imperial Dalek attendants finish welding his casing, Davros orders them to start investigating the Hand of Omega.
Hubristically declaring his invincibility, Davros settles into his new role as Emperor of the Daleks, swearing that his next confrontation with the Doctor will be the last.

Up Above the Gods

Davros asks the Sixth Doctor why he saved him.
Davros in the TARDIS.
"There never has been any love lost between us, has there, Davros…?…"
"…And yet you possess a brilliant mind."
"What happened to you, Davros? You were once a geneticist, interested only in the survival of your people…"
"You sought to preserve life in an environment familiar only with destruction."
"What turned you, Davros?"
"What corrupted you?"
"Where did the rage that created the Daleks come from?"
Davros denies ever having had peaceful intentions.
Davros expounds upon his fascistic worldview to the Doctor.
The Doctor and Davros seen from above.
Davros dares the Doctor to acknowledge his own corruption.
The Doctor leans over Davros.
Davros mulls over the Doctor's unexpected offer of a second chance…
…and dismisses it.
The Doctor insists, to Davros's confusion.
Davros refuses to quite give the Doctor his word not to betray him.

Happy Deathday

Davros among the villains assembled by the Beige Guardian.
Davros ambushes the Second and Sixth Doctors with an army of Daleks and Quarks.
The Sixth Doctor attempts to stand up to Davros, but the Second Doctor is already running away.
Davros makes a bad pun at the prospect of killing the Doctor twice over —
— and is thus promptly taken out by the Wildean Wit Enforcer along with his minions.

Hunters of the Burning Stone

Falling through time, the Eleventh Doctor sees a distorted image of Davros among other evils from his past.

Audio stories

Covers

Main Range

Davros (2003 cover)
Classic Villains Trilogy (2020 cover)
The Juggernauts (2005 cover)
The Juggernauts (textless cover art)
Terror Firma (2005 cover)
Terror Firma (2005 cover detail)
The Curse of Davros (2012 cover)
The Curse of Davros (textless cover art)

I, Davros

Innocence (2006 cover)
Purity (2006 cover)
Corruption (2006 cover)
Guilt (2006 cover)

Dalek Universe

The Dalek Defence (2021 cover)
The Dalek Defence (2021 alternative cover)
The Triumph of Davros (2021 default cover)
The Triumph of Davros (2021 alternative cover)

DWM illustrations

A younger, pre accident Davros in AUDIO: Davros. (DWM 335)
"The truth about Davros", as revealed in AUDIO: Davros. (DWM 335)
The Sixth Doctor and Davros in AUDIO: Davros. (DWM 338)

Prose

Covers

Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks (1976 softcover edition cover)
Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks (1976 hardback edition cover)
Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks (1979 US edition cover)
Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks (1991 edition cover)
Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks (2016 edition cover)
Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks (audiobook cover)
Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks (1990 edition cover)
Remembrance of the Daleks (1990 edition cover)
Revelation of the Daleks (2021 edition cover)
Origin Stories

Illustrations

Davros is rejected by his "children". (PROSE: An Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos Colony)
An elderly Davros on Skaro. (PROSE: Davros, Dark Lord of Skaro)
The painting The Eye of the Creator. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)
Davros flanked by two Daleks. (PROSE: Father of the Daleks)

Video games

Dalek Attack

On Skaro, Davros addresses the Battle Commander Daleks.
Close-up view of Davros during his speech.
The Seventh Doctor confronts Davros after foiling his scheme.
Davros "frozen in time and space" by the Time Lords.

LEGO Dimensions

Davros onboard his Dalek flying saucer.
Davros among his white Daleks.
Davros meets the Twelfth Doctor.
Davros waits for the Doctor in his Emperor casing.
Davros, within his Emperor casing.
Davros orders his Daleks to exterminate the Doctor.
Davros curses the Doctor for foiling his plans.
Davros attempts to flee in his Emperor casing.

Webcasts

Monster File: Davros

Davros on the title card.
"Davros… the man who created the Daleks."
Close-up of Davros's prosthetic hand.
Davros as he appeared when he created the Daleks.
"Don't be deceived: Davros might seem rational and intelligent… but he's completely mad."

Doctor Who Minecraft

Davros as seen on the rollercoaster on Minecraftia.

Who Is Davros?

A visual of Davros in the TARDIS information system.
Visual of Davros and his first batch of Grey Daleks in the TARDIS information system.
Visual of Davros and a Bronze Dalek in the TARDIS information system.
Davros's "medical file" in the TARDIS information system.
Visual of Davros's "artificial hand" in the TARDIS information system.
Davros as a boy, as encountered by the Twelfth Doctor, in the TARDIS information system.

The Old Doctor Who Monsters' Home

"Well, Steven asked me if I wanted to be in the new series, and I said…"
"…Yes!…"
"…I would do it!"

Risen

Close-up of Davros's ocular system.
Davros's mouldering hand twitches.
"Only with Davros as their Emperor will they the Daleks take their rightful place…"
"…as the supreme power of the universe!"