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** The villain wasn't killed in the episode "Dalek", but Henry van Staten surely paved the way for his eventual fate. His policy of using torture on his alien captive caused said alien to go on a murdering rampage when it finally got loose, and his fondness for wiping people's memories and dropping them off in a town starting with the same letter as their last name got turned around on him by his newly appointed [[The Starscream|second-in-command]].
** The villain wasn't killed in the episode "Dalek", but Henry van Staten surely paved the way for his eventual fate. His policy of using torture on his alien captive caused said alien to go on a murdering rampage when it finally got loose, and his fondness for wiping people's memories and dropping them off in a town starting with the same letter as their last name got turned around on him by his newly appointed [[The Starscream|second-in-command]].
{{quote|'''Goddard:''' And by tonight, Henry Van Statten will be a homeless, brainless junkie living on the streets of San Diego, Seattle, Sacramento... Someplace beginning with S.}}
{{quote|'''Goddard:''' And by tonight, Henry Van Statten will be a homeless, brainless junkie living on the streets of San Diego, Seattle, Sacramento... Someplace beginning with S.}}
** In ''Genesis of the Daleks'', when the Daleks turn on Davros and his followers Davros (in his one and only moment of compassion) begs the Daleks to have pity on the scientists who helped to create them - but they don't, because Davros did not include pity in their data banks. More or less the same exact thing happens ''every single time he appears''- he makes more Daleks to replace the batch the Doctor has killed, and they turn on and either kill or imprison him soon afterwards. You'd think he'd notice the pattern at some point, but no.
:* In ''Genesis of the Daleks'', when the Daleks turn on Davros and his followers Davros (in his one and only moment of compassion) begs the Daleks to have pity on the scientists who helped to create them - but they don't, because Davros did not include pity in their data banks. More or less the same exact thing happens ''every single time he appears''- he makes more Daleks to replace the batch the Doctor has killed, and they turn on and either kill or imprison him soon afterwards. You'd think he'd notice the pattern at some point, but no.
** Similarly, in "The Age of Steel", John Lumic is defeated because all devices in the parallel universe are capable of interfacing with each other, allowing Mickey and the Doctor to get the code to deactivate the emotional inhibitors into the system.
:* Similarly, in "The Age of Steel", John Lumic is defeated because all devices in the parallel universe are capable of interfacing with each other, allowing Mickey and the Doctor to get the code to deactivate the emotional inhibitors into the system.
*** Lumic's own creations also turn on him at one point:
:* Lumic's own creations also turn on him at one point:
{{quote|::'''John Lumic''': I will upgrade [[Tempting Fate|only with my last breath]].
{{quote|::'''John Lumic''': I will upgrade [[Tempting Fate|only with my last breath]].
::'''Cyberman''': [[Literal Genie|Then breathe no more]]. ''*disconnects apparatus*'' }}
::'''Cyberman''': [[Literal Genie|Then breathe no more]]. ''*disconnects apparatus*'' }}
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