Why was Oswin a Dalek?

Oswin is revealed to have been captured by Daleks after the Alaska crashed on the Asylum and, to preserve her genius-level intellect for Dalek use, was turned into a Dalek. Unable to cope with her conversion, her mind retreated into a fantasy of survival as a human.

Why do Daleks look like that?

So though Daleks may look entirely robotic, they are in fact cybernetic organisms with a biological body encased by a protective outer shell. The inner casing, in which the actual Dalek resides, also holds a life-support system and a battle-computer for strategic and tactical knowledge.

What happened to the new Daleks?

The new Supreme calls the bronze Daleks inferior, not because of their design, but because they are not made from pure Dalek DNA, and this is why they are exterminated. This would then explain why it is bronze Daleks we have been seeing ever since, and the colourful shells of the New Paradigm have vanished forever.

Is Clara Oswald a Dalek?

She is the sole survivor of the starship Alaska, which crashed on the Asylum, a prison planet for insane Daleks. Oswin then learns from the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) that she has been converted from human into a Dalek and has coped by retreating into a fantasy of her own intact survival.

What did the first Dalek look like?

The first-ever glimpse of a Dalek mutant, in The Daleks, was a claw peeking out from under a Thal cloak after it had been removed from its casing.

Why is davros deformed?

Davros is from the planet Skaro, whose people, the Kaleds, were engaged in a bitter thousand-year war of attrition with their enemies, the Thals. He is horribly scarred and disabled, a condition that various spin-off media attribute to his laboratory being attacked by a Thal shell.

Is this the new Dalek design for the doctor who special?

A brand new Dalek design has been leaked ahead of the upcoming Doctor Who special this winter, and it’s causing quite the commotion online. The image, which was shared on Twitter, features a darker colour palette than the bronze incarnation introduced in 2015, plus features never before seen on a Dalek.

What is the colour of the Dalek?

But, as well as the standard sense globes, the casing has long vent-like markings – a feature not seen before, which has an unclear purpose. The Dalek is also a dark silvery grey rather than rusted, which could, of course, be the colour of the Recon Dalek under all that rust.

Is the Dalek still made out of scrap metal?

That Dalek had a casing fashioned out of scrap metal, and though it isn’t clear if the latest model has done the same, it appears to have mostly the same set feature set, with just a few alterations.