Debunking more Dalek weaknesses 

In the novella "I am a Dalek", the Doctor mentions that a Dalek would just blink at a nuclear warhead, assuming the mutant was capable of blinking.

I wonder if the basic Daleks will eventually evolve so much they will have no need for dedicated aircraft/spaceships, as they will essentially become one-"man" craft in their own right. Would be a terrifying sight to not see a fleet of Dalek vehicles, but just a fleet of Daleks themselves being the primary fighting force, with any craft being specialized for support or other one-off purposes.

Would really love to see a modern who story but like, with way way older daleks. The doctor just going "ah i can defeat these ones by disabling the electricity on the ground. ok"

Dang that power of the daleks quote was rad! Nice use of the Halo 4 ost. Good to know they have night vision too.

Another way the bronze Daleks casing is presented to be overpowered is in the Doctor who Novel “Prisoner of The Daleks.” In this novel there is a scene where a group of Dalek fighters use a weapon on the Daleks casing which freezes it and immobilises the mutant inside. Initially the weapon works but when they try to use it on another Dalek the weapon fails because the Dalek casing has adapted to protect itself from that specific weapon. In other words the information and tactical data was passed through the Pathweb and the Daleks casing learned to adapt. This is also shown to us on screen in S2 Ep13 “Doomsday” when a squad of Cybermen attack the cult of skaro in the sphere chamber, the guns in Initially impair the Daleks casings until Dalek sec yells “Adapt to weaponry.” The greatest downfall of the Daleks is their own Arrogance, confidence and self hubris. One weakness from classic who that the Daleks have outgrown in New who (I can’t remember if you’ve covered this one already) is their pure dependence on logic and intelligence. Such as during the Dalek Movellan War. xx

People after nuking their own planet: well, that was a grievous sacrifice but now it should stop the Daleks. Meanwhile the Daleks, feeling nostalgic: ah yes, just like back home😊

Could you do a video trying to deduce what the Daleks' native time period actually is?

These are always so factual Usually, you have to outsmart a Dalek. Unless you're prepared with anti-dalek weaponry beforehand, one of the best things you can do is RUN. As you don't have the plot armour of a main character. Note: One of the things I liked about the Magician two parter was the fact that the "plot armour" in a way was gone, which allowed the Daleks to well... Act like how they would normally. They didn't need the companion for any big scheme, so it's best to just exterminate her. On Mars, the governor gave a Dalek survival guide out, and it was quite literally "Run to the mountains where they're less mobile." So yeah, in reality, their only real weakness is their ego, hateb-----r for the doctor, and obsession with making the Earth "New Skaro."

Do a video on the remote control Dalek history

I think with the biological warfare one. It could work for a time if a new biological weapon was developed. Though it would probably only be a short time weapon as the Daleks would most likely adapt to it soon after its usage. So unless you can constantly develop a new virus then yeah biological weapons aren't going to be very good. One weakness I can think of though is possibly corrosive acid strong enough to melt through the Dalekanium. Also speaking of biological warfare. Could we see a list of Dalek bio weapons that they have employed throughout their history?

How’s their vulnerability to blunt force? And has the cold been covered? The Renegade Dalek in Totters Lane wasn’t destroyed by Ace’s Nitro-9, it destroyed the brick wall which crushed it. And the Daleks on Spiradon may not necessarily have been killed but they were most certainly rendered “unconscious” by the liquid ice and wouldn’t wake without being warmed up.

Weren't the ironsides destroyed by a nuclear weapon in 'The Ironsides Advance' though?

Imagine if Davros or the daleks had learned from these mistakes and then evolved to a way Imun and indestructible or even more resistent than human weapon

1 minute ago is legendary

Guess you could persuade the dalek it’s been abandoned by its empire and just to give up. Like 9 did with that Dalek prisoner

Hey dude David Graham who voiced the daleks in doctor who died on the 20th of September

Stairs usually would stop em... Though I don't think that would do so anymore post 1988

I alway wonder what happened to the dalek casings and the dalek Tommy guns in daleks in manhattan and evolution of the daleks was they destroyed or something

Awesome

No nukes! Remember that one…

Spoken like a true Dalek supremacist.

it's kind of boring how they have evolved beyond being able to be destroyed by bazookas and weird virus. Daleks being the ultimatum war machine isn't really that interesting a conflict

1:51 - but later couldn't shoot humans sliding along a floor 😂

assuming that you hit the Dalek directly with the nuke, the blast MIGHT take it out. But again like you said it's trying to remove an ant infestation with a bomb. Sure you remove the problem but you've blown up your house.

I'll throw my hat into the ring, if it hasn't already been said: their own ideology and obsession with purity is a weakness. Daleks cannot stand the idea of being "contaminated" with non-Dalek DNA due to their deluded fascistic obsession with racial purity. The Dalek Civil War as seen in Remembrance led to the extinction of both sides of the conflict after the Imperials eliminated the Renegade faction before themselves being destroyed by the Doctor. In Dalek, the Metaltron is so disgusted by the thought of feeling emotions that it kills itself. In The Parting of the Ways, the human-origin Daleks are driven to insanity by their own flesh. In Evolution, the Cult of Skaro turn on Sec when he attempts to create a more benevolent race of Dalek hybrids, and in Revolution the Recon Scout and his entire faction is purged for impurity in spite of his otherwise unwavering commitment to the Dalek cause. Daleks operate on such an extreme level of the one-drop rule that it kneecaps their ability to survive and succeed. The Metaltron killing itself after absorbing Rose's DNA is analogous to a Schutzstaffel officer killing himself after finding out the blood transfusion that saved his life was from a Jew. Time and time again the Daleks have either brought themselves to extinction or made it unreasonably hard for themselves to create more of themselves (e.g. Victory of the Daleks) because the most insignificant and petty differences in their genetic makeup is enough to invalidate entire Dalek factions from counting as "Daleks". This is one weakness I think they have never been able to shake, though if they ever did, would they really be Daleks anymore?

I wonder if Daleks with their temporal technology will ever go to full scale war with the weeping angels in a "Time War 2"

saw a flood infection form in the thumbnail, very nice

1:49 Tbf hard kill active protection systems aren't like sci-fi technology. They've been around since the 50s and the Merkeva mk 4 and the M1A2C both come with Trophy APS as standard, and all next gen MBTs incorporate some sort of hard kill system. Also that's a Scorpion light tank, which isn't really comparable to an MBT in power.

4:11 Becoming essentially immune to all infectious diseases isn't even super far fetched. It's totally possible given what we know about biology and pathology. Basically what you'd need is incredibly advanced analysis technology that can rapidly analyze and determine the molecular structure of any foreign biological material. The Dalek energy shield actually helps here since it probably sterilizes the surface of the Dalek and thus minimizes the ammount of stuff that has to be analyzed. Then you'd reference it with a database of known biological material, pathogenic or otherwise, if it's a known structure then that's the end of it. If you don't recognize this material though then a second step kicks in, a super computer that rapidly develops either a vaccine for the new thing or just synthesizes the antibodies directly and floods the mutant with them. This is really just speeding up the vaccine development process by magnitudes, we have to have humans do it in the real world and that makes vaccine development really slow, but the Daleks without a doubt have computers powerful enough to do this. It's also kinda just what our immune system already does, just faster and smarter since our immune system doesn't have access to a computer and is limited to making decisions based on behaviour that evolved over millions of years, and that means that pathogens can get ahead of it.

I feel like the Daleks becoming so formidable is a consequence of writers feeling the need to keep 'upping the ante' to keep people taking the old pepper pots seriously. It's gotten a bit tacky at this point, as it just means that each ensuing defeat they face at the hands of The Doctor and his allies will be more and more reliant on nonsense technobabble (see: Journey's End) and other contrivances instead of something simple and satisfying.

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I wonder if a dalek could be defeated by dropping something really heavy on top of it or maybe a land slide could take them out or would it just slow them down a bit

Great video, but I have a question do dalek mutants get out of there casing when there not conquering planets and doing dalek stuff?

What about rusty did he suffer illeffects from a solar flare?

The explosives weakness I do think needs some more exploration. Thing is, it’s well established that Daleks are vulnerable to energy weapons, shaped charges are basically a brute-forcing the effects of an energy weapon, a shaped charge creates a jet of copper plasma, so at that point the difference between explosive and energy weapon is pretty much null. I would put something like a Javelin missile as at the very least worth trying, one because shaped charge and two because they have the top-attack which means there’s every chance a Dalek wouldn’t see it coming until it’s too late. Of course even if it worked, Javelins are prohibitively expensive, given that in New Who a typical Dalek invasion tends to be in the tens of thousands minimum.