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It’s hardly controversial to say that the Daleks make the Doctor crazy. For the post-Time War Doctor, any reminder of the War is enough to trigger the darker parts of his psyche – his reaction to Kahler-Jex in A Town Called Mercy is just one example – and the Daleks are the ultimate triggers for those memories. Beyond the baggage of the Time War, though, the Daleks embody everything the Doctor despises: intolerance, violence, an unimaginative and unthinking hatred.

Interestingly, each Doctor has his own definitive reaction to the Daleks, a reaction which fits with the overall arc of his grief. The ninth Doctor’s is, of course, from Dalek, with his mad, blazing anger mirroring the broken-hearted and furious devastation that underpinned his arc. The almost overblown melancholy and bitterness at losing too many people that began with the loss of Rose in Doomsday runs beneath Ten’s “they always survive, while I lose everything” from Daleks in Manhattan. Eleven’s defining Dalek moment comes in Asylum of the Daleks: “I thought you’d run out of ways to make me sick. But hello again,” he says, channelling the simmering, resigned disgust he always displays whenever he talks about himself.

And as for our twelfth Doctor, fresh off his salvation in Day of the Doctor, his reaction to Rusty in Into the Dalek speaks of surface healing scabbing over still-raw scars. For all he has ostensibly shed the baggage of the Time War, going so far as to attempt to heal what he had always fought against, he is still “a little bit pleased” to see that “Daleks never turn good”, a little bit satisfied to have found vindication for all his anger and contempt. He is a Doctor here, in the most literal sense of the word – being a physician, healing the sick – and yet the bitterness that the Daleks trigger is not buried so far down that it cannot be found: “I see beauty, I see divinity, I see hatred.”

For all that different Doctors react to the Daleks differently, then, a common thread remains: the Daleks drive the Doctor to violence, be it Nine and his big black gun or Eleven and his crowbar. The Daleks represent, in the Doctor’s mind, unquestionable and unambiguous evil – there is no space in his imagination for a Dalek who might be good. And above all, in whatever form it takes – an all-consuming anger, a bitter broken despair, a beaten-down horror, a never-healing wound – the Daleks inspire the Doctor’s hatred.

In short, they make him a Dalek.

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