King Dalek
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The King Dalek resided inside the control centre during the "War of the Daleks".
History
After a group of human fighters managed to get to the Daleks' control centre and destroy it, some accounts suggested that the uncovered King Dalek proved close enough to one of the humanoid enemies to exterminate him. (NOTVALID: War of the Daleks)
Physical appearance
The King Dalek had a casing of standard shape, characterised by blue hemispheres on the base unit and a bright red dome. His eyestalk was white with a visible pupil. (NOTVALID: War of the Daleks)
Behind the scenes
- The King Dalek was the only Dalek in War of the Daleks to be depicted by a flat card, to be slotted into a slit in the game board, as opposed to a three-dimensional plastic figure.
- Both on the aforementioned card and on artwork on the side of the board game's packaging, the King Dalek was depicted as a "red-top" Dalek, a Dalek variant often featured in merchandise and which, in one of its only narrative uses in the comic story The Planet of the Daleks, instead appeared to correspond to a fairly low rank in the Dalek hierarchy. In the out-of-universe illustrations of the rulebook, however, the King Dalek's skirt was coloured a deep blue.
- War of the Daleks remains the only story to feature a King Dalek, as most other accounts depict the absolute leader of the Dalek Empire as being the Dalek Emperor or Dalek Prime, with the rank immediately below the Emperor's being that of Dalek Supreme.
