Doctor Whosday: Nazis vs. Aryans

Looking back, the Daleks really are perfect sci-fi villains. They are unashamedly evil, completely duplicitous, obsessed with exterminating anything that isn't Dalek, and based on the Nazis. How could villains based on the Nazis fail?

Pictured: The greatest terror known to Britain.

Indeed, the second Doctor Who serial, generally known as "The Daleks", was the beginning of Doctor Who's massive popularity. It turns out the things which frighten children the most are Nazi R2-D2s.

And the Daleks were Nazis. From their stilted, clipped voices (so reminiscent of the accents of "German" television and movie villains), to their advanced technology and mechanization, to their ideological desire to exterminate any and all beings different from their "purity", the Nazi overtones are obvious.