10 Most Inventive Ways That Doctor Who Has Killed Off Its Own Characters

3. Death By Dalek Sink Plunger (Dalek)

For years, the general public have laughed at the fact a Dalek has a whisk and a sink plunger stuck on the front of them. What was that plunger meant to do? It was useful for vaguely Nazi-like salutes and for waving about in a semi-menacing fashion. Later we saw Daleks attempting to use them to operate controls, though never very convincingly. Occasional they could stick something to it, often a message, as if the plunger was also a vacuum cleaner. The later years of the classic series tried to rehabilitate the more rubbish aspects of the Dalek design, showing them finally able of getting up a flight of stairs. However, Series 1 classic Dalek went much further in taking Ray Cusick's cheap and cheerful original and ramping it up to eleven. Key to this was giving that sink plunger some credibility and so we had the brilliant scene when Van Statten's torturer finds his face sucked off by the plunger. Fans across the globe cheered as one. In Doomsday we even found out that two plungers could suck a man's mind out and leave his head a smoking ruin. Cool.