The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who) Doctor's earlier incarnations, ranging from "Genesis of the Daleks" to "The Stolen Earth". Most notably, he shows footage (from "Genesis of the Daleks") of the Fourth Doctor asking the question "if someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives, could you then kill that child?" Several different designs of the Daleks from across the series' history reappear in the episode, alongside their creator, Davros, and their home planet, Skaro. The first Dalek shown in the
Ming the Merciless Ming the Merciless Ming the Merciless is a character who first appeared in the "Flash Gordon" comic strip in 1934. He has since been the main villain of the strip and its related movie serials, television series and film adaptation. Ming is depicted as a ruthless tyrant who rules the planet Mongo. In the comic strip, when the heroic Flash Gordon and his friends land on the fictional planet Mongo, they found it was ruled by an evil Emperor, a despot who quickly becomes their enemy. He was not named at first, only being known as "the Emperor" until several