10 Times Doctor Who Wasted Great Villains

We were introduced to Henry Van Statten when The Doctor and Rose found themselves in an alien museum. As a billionaire, Van Statten was intelligent but very arrogant and selfish, constantly treating his staff horribly and seeing them as expendable - to the point of mind-wiping them when they were fired or resigned so they could not share his secrets.

Van Statten was obsessed with collecting all things alien, finding himself in the presence of a broken Dalek. When he realises The Doctor, himself, was an alien he quickly tortured and examined him, making plans to use his binary vascular system in a marketing venture.

Despite The Doctor’s pleas about the dangers of a Dalek, Van Stratten continued to ignore this and ordered his staff not to shoot it as he saw the Dalek more important than the lives of his staff. Eventually he agreed for The Doctor to stop the Dalek, but only for his own protection.

Henry Van Statten could’ve been a brilliant villain in the show with a much bigger impact if he wasn’t such a coward at the end. Although the greater villain in the episode was the Dalek itself, having an episode centered around Van Statten and his obsession with alien technology, hunting down The Doctor would’ve been an excellent episode to air on the show.