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Well, [[Killed Off for Real|yeah.]] But he's here now.

 

 

That of ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. [[Oh Crap|Oh dear.]]

 

 

It takes a lot to make the reader root for the Daleks, but Kyubey manages.

 

 

 

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* [[All There in the Manual]]: The Spacebattles thread.

* [[Angrish]]: Sec's fourth attempt at [[Dwarf Fortress]] is described as "''UNINTELLIGIBLE SOUNDS OF INTENSE RAGE.''" Italics and caps included in story. Justified as, well, [[Death World|It's]] [[Everything Trying to Kill You|Dwarf]] [[Crapsack World|Fortress.]]

'''Kyubey:''' And what word is that?

'''Dalek Sec:''' ''EX-TER-MINATE!!!'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|*blasts Kyubey*]] }}

* [[Bad Boss]]: Sec's former commander, The Dalek Inquisitor General. To the point that he got promoted to Supreme simply by virtue of surviving five consecutive missions under his command.

* [[Banned From Argo|Banned From Tokyo]]: Kyouko. She ''[[Noodle Incident|somehow]]'' managed to antagonize the Matriarchs of every single ''Puella Magi'' gang in the city and can no longer return, or [[Enemy Mine|they'll work together to kill her]].

* [[Humanity Is Infectious]]: Zig-zagged all over the place. On one hand, Dalek Sec now has human emotions. However, it's because of his attempt at hybridization in "Daleks in Manhattan," but he's also trying to work through those feelings. And while he's trying to examine human culture... it doesn't always go quite as simply as some of the more iconic examples of this trope. See also, [[Dwarf Fortress]] or his reaction to [[Avatar]]. But on the other OTHER hand, he views humans as a great species because [[Humans Are Warriors]]. See below for more clarification.

* [[Humans Are Warriors]]: Dalek Sec seems to think this. Part of his inner monologue implies that humans are only second to the Daleks themselves when it comes to war. He is ''not at all'' amused that the Incubators see them as cattle.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: [[Captain Obvious|Dalek Sec.]] [[Lampshaded Trope|Lampshaded immediately.]]

* [[Most Definitely Not a Villain|Most Definitely Not An Alien]]/HughMann: Inverted, Dalek Sec doesn't even bother using a disguise or hiding and even accompanies Homura in plain sight, [[Obviously Evil|while telling everyone who bother to ask that he's an alien Nazi.]] Naturally, [[Refuge in Audacity|everyone finds it so ridiculous that they come to their own conclusions instead.]]

** And later taken [[Up to Eleven]] when Homura tries tuning him out by partly severing the connection from her Soul Gem to her body, only to discover that ''she can still hear him.''

** The author, on the Spacebattles Forums, has stated that Daleks can do deadpan, but only one way: ''' ''LOUD-LY!'' ''' The original post had the word in greatly increased font size.

* [[Not with the Safety On, You Won't]]: ''heavily'' subverted. Though Sec admits that there ''is'' a safety on his death ray, "no Dalek to his knowledge had ever used it."

* [[Omniscient Morality License]]: The Incubators, who have not only been exploiting the human race since the stone age but have also been conducting social engineering projects to make humans easier to manipulate. Sec implies that they're responsible for creating the cultural image of the [[Magical Girl]] which misleads so many young girls into contracting with them.

** Sayaka seems to be chanelling [[Fate/stay night|Shirou Emiya]] at times.

** Homura has taken to wearing a long scarf arund her neck. Cue Dalek Sec muttering about "[[The Nth Doctor|Jellybabies]]."

** One of the members of the Coalition is based on the story 1984, especially in its use of newspeak.

** Sec is shown playing an unnamed game, but [[Word of God]] and clues, plus the rage and anger it invokes, shows that the game is [[Dwarf Fortress]].

** Kyouko mentions to Kyubey that Homura handed her "[[An Offer You Can't Refuse|an offer [She] couldn’t refuse]]"

'''Sec:''' I WILL IN-FLICT WHAT IN TECH-NI-CAL TE-RMS IS KNO-WN AS A VIO-LENT-LY PAIN-FUL DE-ATH.

'''Kyouko:''' With what? A plunger?

(proceeds to thrash her up one side of the alley and down the other with said plunger)}}

* [[The Alliance]]: The Coalition, composed of [[Eldritch Abomination|The]] [[Hive Mind|Mind]] (Incubators), [[Dystopia|The]] [[People's Republic of Tyranny|People]] and {{spoiler|[[Unwilling Roboticisation|The]] [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Cybermen]]}}

{{quote|''Dalek Sec wasn’t quite near the I-will-kill-everyone-on-this-planet-with-their-own-internal-organs stage yet, but he was certainly getting there.''}}

** Noted slightly earlier that what a human considers "Unstoppable Rage," is merely "Miffed," to a Dalek. If any other life form in existence felt what a ''Dalek'' considers unstoppable rage, they would ''explode.''

* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: The revelation that ''Puella Magi'' do not age causes much [[Fridge Horror]] for Madoka.

** Subverted with Dalek Sec, and the subversion is justified: increased age means more combat experience, so having survived a very long time is a [[Blue and Orange Morality|badge of honor for him.]] Also, he wants to restore his race eventually, and given his first attempts to create Dalek Embryos (in Daleks in Manhattan) and his first attempt at making a casing (chapter two of this story), he's probably gonna be around for a while...

 

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