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doctor who - How many Daleks are left?


The Skittles breed of Dalek were pretty limited in number. One by one we've seen a couple meet their end, if memory serves.


Which Power Ranger Daleks are still* kicking about the Universe?





* Well, OK; "still" is a fluid concept. We jump around in space and time, and so do the Daleks, so we could say that — depending when we materialise — they're all alive, all the time (which, incidentally, is something that really bothers me about the Doctor deciding to fake his death). But we the viewers still magically seem to have a linear, progressing view .. so let's think in terms of televised adventures. :)


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Answer



I count it thus:




  • All the Daleks were thought destroyed in the Time War.





  • Since then, one crashed on Earth in 1962 and was found in 2012 in Henry Van Statten's collection; that killed itself.




  • The Dalek Emperor's ship also turned out to have survived, and he created an army out of harvested humans, but Bad Wolf!Rose destroyed all that.




  • Then the Cult of Skaro escaped the void and turned up with the Genesis Ark, but the Ark and all the Daleks in it were sucked back into the void.




  • The Cult of Skaro (now the only surviving Daleks in the universe) escaped via temporal shift and made it to 1930 Manhattan.





  • Daleks Sec, Thay and Jast all got killed, Dalek Caan escaped and shifted back into the Time War, where he saved Davros and escaped.




  • They built a Dalek army out of Davros' cells. Both Davros and Caan presumably died when the Crucible was destroyed, so did almost the whole army.




  • As always "one ship survived" and ends up in 1941.





  • The Ironside!Daleks use the Doctor to reactivate the Progenitor and are promptly killed by the Power-Ranger-Daleks.




  • That left the New Paradigm Daleks the only remaining ones.


    As I recall, there were five of those (that we were shown).




    • One was turned to stone in The Big Bang and killed by River shortly after, though that might have been undone by the rebooting of the universe.





    • One was incapacitated (and presumably killed) by the Doctor at the beginning of "The Wedding of River Song".






So in short there are three, possibly four, Daleks left by my count.


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