Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Davros is an archenemy of the Doctor and is the creator of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, the Daleks.

Davros is a mad scientist from the planet Skaro whose people, the Kaleds, were engaged in a bitter thousand-year war of attrition with their enemies, the Thals.

Davros is a megalomaniac who believes that through his creations, the Daleks, he can become the supreme being and ruler of the universe.

When he first encounters the Fourth Doctor in Genesis of the Daleks, Davros is the chief scientist of the Kaleds, one of two native sentient races of the planet Skaro.

Davros realizes that contamination from the nuclear and biological weapons used in the war is mutating the Kaled race, and artificially accelerates the process to examine the ultimate evolutionary end product.

However, the Dalek force is destroyed by the Doctor, and Davros is captured and imprisoned by the humans in suspended animation, before being taken to Earth to face trial.

Davros can now fire electric bolts from his hand, although the hand is shot off shortly before his original creations arrive to defeat the new Daleks and transport Davros to face trial on Skaro.

By this time, Davros has been physically transplanted into a customised Dalek casing and is only revealed as the Emperor in the final episode.

However, a Dalek on the bridge of Davros ' ship reports that the Emperor's escape pod is being launched and a white light is seen speeding away from the ship moments before its destruction, leaving a clear route to bring Davros back in the future.

In earlier episodes, Davros is referred to ( albeit not by name ) twice: first in the episode " Dalek " by the Ninth Doctor, who explains that the Daleks were created by " a genius ... a man who was king of his own little world ", and again by the Tenth Doctor in the episode " Evolution of the Daleks ", where he refers to the Daleks ' creator as believing that " removing emotions made a race stronger ".

Davros is then shown in " Fear Her ," in a drawing on Chloe's wall.

Though Davros talks about his " new empire ", he at one point in time has actually been overthrown by his creatures and is kept prisoner in the Vault, being used for his scientific knowledge.

Davros now has a mechanical hand which is capable of firing electricity.

However, Davros has been betrayed by Dalek Caan, who having come to the realisation of the evilness of his race after seeing the entirety of time due to his temporal shift, is using his prophecies and influence to cause the Daleks ' destruction.

Thus the Doctor is forced to leave Davros to his fate as the Crucible self-destructs.

Speaking with the Emperor, the Doctor addresses him as Davros, but the Emperor responds " Who is Davros?

This fits chronologically the fact that in " Remembrance " Davros is seen as a head inside the Emperor Dalek.

Kara, who owns a company, which distributes food throughout the galaxy, is a pawn of the Great Healer, who is in actuality Davros, now apparently reduced to a disembodied head in a tank.

When Davros is revived and asked by the head of an Earth corporation to use his great genius to work for good ends, the Kaled scientist seems to be playing along.

Davros was created by screenwriter Terry Nation.

The Curse of Davros begins with Davros and the Daleks working together to try and alter the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo using technology that Davros has created that allows him to swap peoples ' minds, with matters becoming more complicated when the Sixth Doctor uses the device to swap bodies with Davros in an attempt to subvert the Daleks ' plans from the inside.

Skaro appears in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories The Mutant Phase and Davros ( where we learn that Skaro had two moons: Falkus and Omega Mysterium, names drawn from a chart of Skaro's solar system in a 1976 Marks and Spencer tie-in book-Falkus is there revealed to be an artificial planet created by the Daleks as a last refuge ), and was where the Emperor Dalek operated from in The Genocide Machine, and features prominently in the I, Davros spin-off series, looking at Davros's life and the events that led to him creating the Daleks.

The Doctor tells him that they can harvest the flowers that grow on the planet and use them as a new food source to replace the product Davros had created from dead bodies.

Davros ' Daleks were distinguished from the others by their gold and white livery, and variously created from Kaled mutants ( as other Daleks ), or gentically engineered from the bodies of other species.

In the Fifth Doctor story Resurrection of the Daleks, a small Dalek force aided by human mercenaries and Dalek duplicates liberates Davros ( now played by Terry Molloy, with a new mask designed by Stan Mitchell ) from his space station prison, needing his expertise to find an antidote for a Movellan-created virus that has all but wiped them out.

Davros expresses a desire to build a new and improved race of Daleks.

Davros emerges as " The Great Healer " of the funeral and cryogenic preservation centre Tranquil Repose on the planet Necros in the Sixth Doctor story Revelation of the Daleks, where he uses frozen bodies to engineer a new variety of Daleks loyal to him, distinguished from the original Daleks by their white and gold livery and slightly changed design.

Davros was pulled out of the Time War by Dalek Caan despite it being time-locked, and bred a new Dalek race using cells from his own body, so that he has little skin and flesh left on his chest and his ribcage and internal organs are visible.

In 2008, Julian Bleach appeared live as Davros at the Doctor Who Prom, announcing that the Royal Albert Hall would become his new palace, and the audience his " obedient slaves ".

At that moment, Davros enters the laboratory, and demonstrates his new " Mark III travel machine ", which he later dubs as a " Dalek ".

At the Kaled bunker, Davros declares the Kaled race is dead, giving birth to the Daleks ; he orders Ronson's death as a traitor that gave over the chemical secret, instructs the next scientist, Gharman, to remove compassion and pity from the new Dalek mutations, and send a troop of Daleks to the Thal dome to exterminate all those inside.

In Revelation of the Daleks ( 1985 ) Davros engages in creating a new breed of Dalek mutants to command.

Davros then yells out that he will build a new race of Daleks, and they shall once more become the supreme beings.

Both meet back in Davros ' laboratory where he reveals that he has a new army of Daleks, hidden in catacombs underneath his laboratory.

* Davros creating a new race of Daleks using human tissue is similar to the Dalek Emperor creating a new race of Daleks from human contestants killed on the Game Station, in " The Parting of the Ways ".

By the time of Remembrance of the Daleks, Davros had installed himself as a Dalek Emperor, calling his new breed of Daleks " Imperial Daleks ", with the deposed faction becoming " Renegade Daleks ".

His prophecies guide Davros as he constructs a new Dalek empire using his own Kaled cells.

He manipulated the timelines so that the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble would meet and destroy both Davros and his new Daleks.

Despite attempts to avoid them altogether, the Time Lords continue to send him on occasional missions, including an attempt to prevent the creation of the Daleks ( Genesis of the Daleks ), during which he also meets a new adversary, Davros.

Davros subsequently uses cells from his own body to create a new Dalek Empire and keeps Caan close at his side because of the latter's prophetic abilities.

" Forced however to work alongside his nemesis, on projects such as famine relief, the Doctor seeks to uncover Davros before he can put new schemes to create a powerbase into effect.