Dalek Caan

Help the Doctor and the Children of Time defeat Davros and the Daleks (succeeded).
Destroy the Daleks (partially succeeded).

### Crimes

Mass murder
Terrorism
Treason
Usurpation
Genocide
Kidnapping
Enslavement
Theft

### Type of MB

Omniscient Traitor

*Dalek Caan* is the secondary antagonist of the Tenth Doctor era of the BBC sci-fi series *Doctor Who*. He was a member of the elite Cult of Skaro, a group of four Daleks designed to think in a different capacity from others of their kind. After usurping leadership of the Cult and later entering the Time War, he gains omniscience at the cost of his sanity and turns on the Daleks, seeking to end the terror they've all caused.

He was portrayed by Nicholas Briggs.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* As a member of the Cult of Skaro, Dalek Caan had the ability to think and act independently, as well as to adapt to the mindset of the enemy, intended to give them an advantage over them. He demonstrates these traits in several ways:
	+ He was the Cult's liasion with Mr. Diagoras, the overseer for the Empire State Building's construction, and took advantage of his ambition to run New York City to further their goals, using him to collect bodies and build a conductor on top of the building for the sake of their "Final Experiment" to save their near-extinct race.
	+ He hesitates to follow the orders of Dalek Sec after the latter merges with Diagoras and gains human emotions, eventually conspiring with Daleks Thay and Jast to overthrow him due to his intention to create a more humanlike species of Dalek, which would destroy Dalek "purity". Overriding the gene sequence for the human-Dalek hybrids with 100% Dalek DNA, Caan becomes the Controller of the new Dalek species and the leader of the Cult of Skaro.
* After being foiled by the Doctor and becoming the last surviving Dalek, Caan escapes via an emergency temporal shift. In doing this, he somehow bypasses the temporal lock on the Time War, rescuing the Daleks' creator Davros from his death at the hands of the Nightmare Child.
* During his journey into the Time War, Caan saw time itself; although it broke his mind and reduced him to a giggling lunatic, it granted him the ability to see all possible timelines and outcomes. Due to this, Caan came to see how truly evil his kind was. Witnessing the vast scale of their destruction across the universe, he soon began engineering their downfall.
	+ He remains one of the only Daleks to change their evil ways and assist the Doctor.
* He manipulates Davros into believing he's a prophet and the one to bring the Daleks to supremacy. He and Davros use cells from the latter's body to create new Daleks and restore the Dalek Empire. While Davros believed Caan's prophecies would lead them to victory, in secret, Caan was setting them up for defeat, manipulating the timelines to ensure the Doctor crossed paths with Donna Noble, who would be a key component in the defeat of the Daleks and Davros, along with the meta-crisis Doctor that was created by the combination of the Doctor's regeneration energy and Donna's DNA, also making her part-Time Lord
* After Davros' plan to destroy the universe was averted by Donna, Caan manipulates the meta-crisis Doctor into acting as the final tool in the destruction of the Dalek race, insisting that he is the one who must end the Daleks. He complies and destroys the Dalek Empire, leaving Caan content as the ship carrying him and Davros goes up in flames, presumably ending his life.

## What Makes Him a Baddie?

* Being a Dalek (albeit a unique one), Caan was created to be hateful and merciless, traits which do not subside until he is quite literally rendered insane.
* Alongside the other Cult members, he massacred several humans and Cybermen in Torchwood One and unleashed the Daleks imprisoned inside the Genesis Ark over London in an attempt to conquer the planet.
* As the Cult's mouthpiece to Diagoras, Caan has him lure humans to them to conduct their Final Experiment on, collecting thousands of human bodies and intending to overwrite the human DNA of their subjects with "superior" intelligence with Dalek DNA and reestablish the Dalek race. The subjects of "lesser" intelligence were turned into mute human-pig hybrids who were enslaved, acting as the Daleks' labor force.
* Caan eventually brings Diagoras to Dalek Sec, who then absorbs the unwilling businessman and becomes the first human-Dalek hybrid.
* Caan participates alongside Jast in an attack on Central Park's Hooverville, killing several humans and destroying much of the town. When Solomon, the leader of the town, attempted to reason with the Daleks, Caan exterminated him without a second thought and is only stopped from doing the same to the Doctor when Sec orders the attack halted. Caan only obeys because he was bred to obey his superior.
* Taking notice of Sec developing emotions and mercy after merging with Diagoras, Caan and the other Cult members work together to overthrow Sec, no longer viewing him as a Dalek and therefore a leader. Sec is chained up and Caan becomes the Dalek Controller for the Dalek humans in his stead.
* Caan orders the Dalek humans to attack Manhattan until he detects the Doctor's sonic screwdriver signal and orders them to converge on his location instead.
* The Dalek humans revolt against their former masters due to the Doctor causing his Time Lord DNA to mix with theirs, prompting Caan to declare the experiment a failure and kills them all, destroying an entire species.
* While he does secretly stand against the Daleks after entering the Time War, he still helps Davros and them take 27 planets from different places in both space and time to create a "reality bomb", with the purpose of destroying the entire universe except for Davros and the Daleks. The Daleks lay siege to the planets, namely Earth, ordering the surrender of the planets' inhabitants and causing much death and destruction in their wake.
* Knowing the Doctor would never agree to perpetrating a genocide, he manipulates the meta-crisis Doctor, who has less moral inhibitions, into fulfilling the "prophecy" and destroying the Daleks, horrifying the Doctor.

## External Links

* Dalek Caan at the Villains wiki
* Dalek Caan at the *Doctor Who* wiki
* Dalek Caan at the Inconsistently Heinous wiki