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So, [[Doctor Who|Dalek Sec]] died a horrible death, leaving behind his casing after the events of "Daleks in Manhattan", right?
Well, [[Killed Off for Real|yeah.]] But he's here now.
In Bioweapon 155's fic, '''''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6918227/1/A_Hero A Hero
That of ''[[
In his investigations of temporal space, he meets one [[Time Traveler|Homura]] [[The Stoic|Akemi,]] and, hopefully, they can finally fix this [[Groundhog Day Loop]] that she's stuck in. [[Crapsack World|Or]] [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|not.]]
It takes a lot to make the reader root for the Daleks, but Kyubey manages.
[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=190449
[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?p=6603831 This is the location of the second thread.]
[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=204644 And the third.]
Not to be confused with [[A Hero (film)|the 2021 film that won the Grand Prix at Cannes]], [[Hero|similarly titled works and tropes]], or [[The Hero|heroes in general]]. And definitely not [[Driven to Suicide|"An Hero"]].
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* [[
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The Spacebattles thread.
* [[Angrish]]: Sec's fourth attempt at [[
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Obviously Dalek Sec, but he's apparently mellowed out to the point where he'll help Homura Akemi. For a good reason, of course.
* [[Badass]]: Sec. Note what happens when he deals with Familiars.
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*Vreeem! Vreeem! Vreeem! Vreeem!*
''So instead of one Dalek fighting in self-defense, they were up against a [[Unstoppable Rage|very, very, very, very '''ANGRY''']] Dalek, who was fighting to [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|kill them all]].'' }}
** Also, see the Dalek Inquisitor General. The Spacebattles forums have somehow built him up into the Dalek version of Chuck Norris, except that "While Chuck Norris facts are fictional and wishful thinking,'' '''these are real.'''" '' The ''author himself'' is "surprisingly not surprised," that somehow the [[Fan Nickname|DIG]] has become sort of a "Fate Worse Than Death," on the forums.
* [[Badass Boast]] (also a [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]):
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'''Kyubey:''' You?
'''Dalek Sec:''' NOT ME. A [[Catch Phrase|WO-RD]]; IT IS A WO-RD THAT CAU-SES SUCH FE-AR, THAT E-VEN THE LORDS OF TI-ME ARE SENT TO THEIR KNE-ES.
'''Kyubey:''' And what word is that?
'''Dalek Sec:''' ''EX-TER-MINATE!!!'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|*blasts Kyubey*]] }}
* [[Badass Pacifist]]: Madoka, who convinces Sec not to crush Kyoko's skull during their first encounter with her. When you can talk an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] out of killing someone, there really isn't anything else you could possibly be but this.
* [[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]].
* [[Beam Spam]]: How Sec gets rid of a few hundred familiars.
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* [[Beneath the Mask]]: Homura, [[You Should Know This Already|of course.]] Unlike other examples, she does this because her own caged emotions would be enough to literally destroy her.
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: One of the central conflicts in the story is about Sec's new human morals and how they mesh with standard Dalek ideas. How do they fit together? [[Hilarity Ensues|They often don't, but that's half the fun.]]
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* [[Epic Fail]]: When Dalek Sec tries to recreate the Dalek race, his first casing ends up with a horrible kludge with almost no internal mechanisms, unstable life-support systems, an eye-stalk that's almost blind, control mechanisms that keep [[Incendiary Exponent|lighting themselves on fire]] and trans-solar disks that keep reversing. [[Even Evil Has Standards|He thinks putting anything inside would be absolutely cruel.]]
** To say nothing of his [[Explosive Instrumentation|experimentations with Grief Seeds...]]
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'''Sec:''' CO-RRECT.
'''Homura:''' Then ''why'' did that thing catch fire? }}
** Sec attempts to play ''[[
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Played with. Sec's human morals tell him that what the Incubators are doing is wrong even though as a Dalek he approves intellectually of the concept behind their operation. What he ''doesn't'' approve of is the Incubators undermining the human race's right to self-determination by manipulating their cultural and social evolution to make them more pliable and easy to manipulate.
** Also, Sec's opinion that it would be cruel to put ''anything'' inside the improvised Dalek shell he constructs in chapter 2.
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** [[Doctor Who|The Doctor's here now, as well.]]
* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]: Dalek Sec, being a non-human, has a few of these. His main one is "SON-OF-A-THAL!"
* [[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, [[
* [[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.
▲* [[Just As Planned]]: Chapter Five gives us two of these: From [[Eldritch Abomination|The]] [[Hive Mind|Mind]] and {{spoiler|[[You Will Be Assimilated|The]] [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Cybermen]]}}
* [[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.]]
* [[No Social Skills]]: Homura. To the point that ''[[Starfish Alien|Dalek]] [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Sec]]'' is considered to have better social skills.
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* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Sec. Homura wonders wherever it's just because the Dalek likes the sound of it's own voice.
** 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.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Kyouko ''somehow'' managed to piss off the Matriarch of ''every single Puella Magi gang in Tokyo''. [[Word of God]] has it that the incident in question invlolved [[Noodle Implements|a sports car, a house, 4 cases of gasoil, 5 pots of boiling coffee, a slinky, 2 boxes full of Grief Seeds, an incubator drone, a van, a briefcase full of money of unscrupulous origins, a maid outfit and cheese.]]
* [[Not
* [[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.
* [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: The ones in charge of the PMM plan. So far, we have and [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch]] [[Hive Mind]], an enormous Uber-Orwellian regime and {{spoiler|The Cybermen}}.
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* [[People's Republic of Tyranny]]: One of the members of the Coalition is called "The People". [[Word of God]] has it that "They call themselves 'The People' for the same reason an oppressive dictatorship calls itself [[Blatant Lies|'The People's Democratic Republic of X']]."
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Uttered by Sec.
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* [[Puny Humans]]: [[Eldritch Abomination|Uhrmann]] seems to think so. {{spoiler|Which is why Sec [[Curb Stomp Battle|stomps]] her/it.}}
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: There's no indication as to how many times Homura's repeated the [[Groundhog Day Loop]], but she's done it enough times to {{spoiler|memorize nearly every single event in Mitakihara that could be remotely relevant to her cause, and learn nearly every single possible route in which events could unfold. Whoa.}}
** Dalek Sec claims that he is ''two hundred and fifty thousand years old.''
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Sec's strategy for remaining inconspicuous is to advertise the fact that he's an [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|robotic alien
** This actually seems to be a common theme with any of Dalek Sec's ideas. Like the time he strapped an [[BFG|orbital defense array]] to a Killcruiser to defeat the [[Eldritch Abomination|Skaro Degradations]], or the time he stole a Time Lord prision ship and crossed the barrier between the universes, or the whole fiasco of [[Half-Human Hybrid|Daleks in Manhattan]].
* [[Running Gag]]: Sec ''never'' succeeds in his first attempt. Or in his second. Or third. And yes, this applies to everything, up to and including video games.
** The only video game we've seen him play is [[
* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: Homura now wears one, much to Dalek Sec's chargin.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Apparently, [[Irregular Webcomic|Dalek Science sneers at the impossible.]]
** The entire [[Curb Stomp Battle]] against Uhrmann is a shout out to the [[Bolo]] series. Her defeat is even called a "Bolostomp," in the author's notes.
** [[Word of God]] has it that Sec's use of the word "Thal" as a swearword is a shout out to [[Second Empire]].
** Sayaka seems to be chanelling [[Fate/stay
** Homura has taken to wearing a long scarf arund her neck. Cue Dalek Sec muttering about "[[The Nth Doctor|Jellybabies]]."
** Kyouku believes, in chapter five, that Sec's emotions are stuck on [[Image Boards|"Always Angry, All the Time"]] which is the battle cry of one of 4 Chan's homegrown (original) [[Warhammer
** One of the members of the Coalition is based on the story 1984, especially in its use of newspeak.
*** Another race is {{spoiler|the Cybermen.}} They end their meetings with the traditional [[Battlestar Galactica
** 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 [[
** Kyouko mentions to Kyubey that Homura handed her "[[An Offer You Can't Refuse|an offer [She] couldn’t refuse]]"
* [[Slasher Smile]]: {{spoiler|Homura, of all people.}} Even Sec finds it disturbing.
* [[Speak of the Devil]]: The Dalek Inquisitor General.
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** [[Tempting Fate|Guess who shows up in chapter five...]]
* [[Stun Guns]]: Sec uses one to knock out Sayaka, to prevent her from attacking Kyouko.
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** Dalek Sec rants ''[[No Indoor Voice|so loudly]]'' about the movie [[Avatar]] that when Homura severs the link between her body and her soul gem, rendering her deaf, ''she can still hear him.''
* [[Tempting Fate]]: While watching Homura {{spoiler|battle Walpurgisnacht}} Sec concludes that the witch isn't looking his way, and wouldn't attack him. A few seconds later [[Oh Crap|he realizes what he just did]] and, sure enough, there's a slew of familiars headed his way. Cue a [[Hold Your Hippogriffs|Dalek-flavored]] F-Strike.
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** This:
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'''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?
'''Sec:''' I WILL TA-KE TH-AT AS A ''CHA-LLEN-GE.''
(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]]}}
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Not actually appearing, but Sec has said that ''[[Sarcastic Confession|"I AM AN IM-PERIAL-IS-TIC SPACE NAZI."]]''
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*** [[Word of God|To clarify:]] {{spoiler|When Amy rebooted the universe, ''everything'' that had been killed was brought back to life, and everything that was supposed to die, died. Sec...didn't, and instead fell through the Void, connecting both universes with a Time Space stream, which allowed The Doctor to come here. [[Oh Crap|As well as other things.]]}}
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Dalek Sec. All the damn time. This is actually fairly common for a Dalek.
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** 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.''
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Chapter 4.
** Chapter Five:
*** Also
* [[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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