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Out of all the known evil's ever encountered by the Doctor in almost 56 years of Doctor Who, Sutekh the Destroyer, from the 1975 4th Doctor adventure 'Pyramids of Mars', surely must be the ultimate evil the Doctor has ever encountered . . yes, even more evil and more powerful then the Daleks themselves if I dare say so.

The Doctor once told his companion, Sarah Jane Smith, in the story itself that not even his own people, the Time Lords of Gallifrey, could possibly destroy Sutekh, and if the Doctor had not delt with Sutekh the way he did in the story, then no doubt Sutekh would have come across the likes of Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels and lord knows what else in the universe of Doctor Who.

With Sutekh dead at the end of 'Pyramids of Mars', the Daleks truly are now the most evil and powerful monsters in the universe of Doctor Who, but it would seem that for a long time, they may have been, at least in the classic series, the second most evil race in the universe after Sutekh himself.

I guess the Daleks should be greatful to the Doctor then that Sutekh is dead, otherwise Sutekh would probably taunt them about being second best of evil villian's in the Doctor Who universe, so at least they'd never have to bother trying to exterminate Sutekh themselves.

And before anyone dares say it, yes I know Big Finish did an audio involving Bernice Summerfield meeting Sutekh somehow, and that the 10th Doctor apparently did in some graphic novels featuring companions who never appeared alongside him in the new series, but it's all a matter really of what one accepts to be canon, so I disregard those modern stories featuring Sutekh and just prefer to believe the 4th Doctor aged the bugger to death in that Vortex that I've always called the Smartie's Vortex . . you'd understand why I call it that if your familar with Smartie's !

'Pyramids of Mars' for me was one of my first experiances of Doctor Who as a young boy in the early 1990's with the VHS Video release, and I think I often did wonder if Sutekh was more powerful then the Daleks themselves.

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Out of all the known evil's ever encountered by the Doctor in almost 56 years of Doctor Who, Sutekh the Destroyer, from the 1975 4th Doctor adventure 'Pyramids of Mars', surely must be the ultimate evil the Doctor has ever encountered . . yes, even more evil and more powerful then the Daleks themselves if I dare say so.

The Doctor once told his companion, Sarah Jane Smith, in the story itself that not even his own people, the Time Lords of Gallifrey, could possibly destroy Sutekh, and if the Doctor had not delt with Sutekh the way he did in the story, then no doubt Sutekh would have come across the likes of Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels and lord knows what else in the universe of Doctor Who.

With Sutekh dead at the end of 'Pyramids of Mars', the Daleks truly are now the most evil and powerful monsters in the universe of Doctor Who, but it would seem that for a long time, they may have been, at least in the classic series, the second most evil race in the universe after Sutekh himself.

I guess the Daleks should be greatful to the Doctor then that Sutekh is dead, otherwise Sutekh would probably taunt them about being second best of evil villian's in the Doctor Who universe, so at least they'd never have to bother trying to exterminate Sutekh themselves.

And before anyone dares say it, yes I know Big Finish did an audio involving Bernice Summerfield meeting Sutekh somehow, and that the 10th Doctor apparently did in some graphic novels featuring companions who never appeared alongside him in the new series, but it's all a matter really of what one accepts to be canon, so I disregard those modern stories featuring Sutekh and just prefer to believe the 4th Doctor aged the bugger to death in that Vortex that I've always called the Smartie's Vortex . . you'd understand why I call it that if your familar with Smartie's !

'Pyramids of Mars' for me was one of my first experiances of Doctor Who as a young boy in the early 1990's with the VHS Video release, and I think I often did wonder if Sutekh was more powerful then the Daleks themselves.