10 Insane Doctor Who Rumours That Never Happened

3. Adam is Davros

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Alas, poor Adam, we hardly knew you. Earning the dubious pleasure of being the only Doctor Who companion to be properly evicted from the TARDIS for selfishly trying to profit from visiting the future. But what happened after he was dumped on Earth with a great big hole in his head?

Many Doctor Who fans clearly wanted Adam to take some revenge against his treatment by the Doctor and got their wish in the 2013 IDW twelve issue anniversary series Prisoners of Time, in which he joined forces with the Master.

Before that however, a rumour was doing the rounds on the forums that Adam would return in the closing episode of Series 1. Most fans had guessed that the Daleks would be back in force, and this rumour posited that they would be led by Adam, or as he would now be known...Davros!

The only basis for this appeared to be his previous link to the Daleks and the fact he had a great big hole in his head where you could fit a blue eye. Some fans held firm when the Emperor Dalek was revealed and believed that he would instead be back as the creator of the Cybermen in Series 2...

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