History FanFic / AHero

** WordOfGod has it that Sec's use of the word "Thal" as a swearword is a shout out to SecondEmpire.

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[[caption-width-right:137:Who would ever think that a ''Dalek'' of all things could become a hero before this?]]

* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: 'Subverted. Though Sec admits that there ''is'' a safety on his death ray, "no Dalek to his knowledge had ever used it."

* YouDidntAsk: Averted with a vengeance. Sec does ''not'' accept that logic

* ShoutOut: Apparently, [[IrregularWebcomic Dalek Science sneers at the impossible]].

* {{Badass}}: Sec. Note what happens when he deals with Familiars.
-->"EX-TER-MINATE!"
-->*Vreeem! Vreeem! Vreeem! Vreeem!*
-->''So instead of one Dalek fighting in self-defense, they were up against a [[UnstoppableRage very, very, very, very ]]'''[[UnstoppableRage ANGRY]]''' Dalek, who was fighting to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kill them all]].''
** Also, the Dalek Inquisitor General.

-->'''Dalek Sec:''' I COME FROM A [[Series/DoctorWho PLACE]] WHERE [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens GODS ROAM A-MONGST THE STARS]], WHERE THERE ARE [[RealityWarper BEINGS THAT COULD E-RASE ALL OF RE-AL-ITY]] [[PhysicalGod WITH BUT A ME-RE THOUGHT]], [[TimeMaster THAT COULD BEND TI-ME TO THEIR WILL]] [[RetGone AND FREE YOU FROM HAVING EVER BEING BORN]]!! YET, NO MAT-TER HOW PO-WER-FUL THEY ARE, [[TheDreaded THEY ALL FEAR THE SAME THING]].

-->'''Dalek Sec:''' ''EX-TER-MINATE!!!'' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome *blasts Kyubey*]]

* {{Dead fic}}: WordOfGod says that he is extremely unlikely to come back to this.
->Probably not. A Hero was written when I was still new to writing, and I've moved on from many of the themes present in it. If I did go back to it, I would probably re-write a whole lot of it.

** One of the members of the Coalition is based on the story 1984, especially in its use of newspeak. Another race is [[spoiler: the Cybermen.]] They end their meetings with the traditional [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaClassic Cylon]] CatchPhrase, "By Your Command."

* JustAsPlanned: Chapter Five gives us two of these: From [[EldritchAbomination The]] [[HiveMind Mind]] and [[spoiler: [[YouWillBeAssimilated The]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul Cybermen]]]]

* OneOfUs: The author has links to the TV Tropes page in the forums, and openly called Sec's defeat of a witch a [[CurbStompBattle Bolostomp]].

*** DidTheResearch: The Thals were the Dalek's mortal enemies in both of their origin stories (''The Daleks'' and ''Genesis Of The Daleks''), so it makes perfect sense

** One of the members of the Coalition is based on the story 1984, especially in its use of newspeak.
*** Another race is [[spoiler: the Cybermen.]] They end their meetings with the traditional [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaClassic Cylon]] CatchPhrase, "By Your Command."

** [[spoiler: In chapter four, the Doctor claims that when Amy rebooted the universe at the end of series five, it accidentally brought back everything that had ever died. Most of it died again, like it did in the original timeline, but Sec was somehow thrust into the Void, where he eventually wound up in the PMM universe. WordOfGod states that the reason why the Doctor and Sec were able to get to the PMM universe is because someone came here during the ''first'' time war.]]

** Chapter Five: [[spoiler: One of the coalition members is the Cybermen!]]
*** Also [[spoiler: [[OhCrap The Dalek Inquisitor General is free]]]].
* [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman What Measure Is A Non-Dalek?]]: Some members of the Cult of Skaro, who were all modified to be able to "Think Like the Enemy", had nagging suspicions about this.

** Kyouku believes, in chapter five, that Sec's emotions are stuck on [[{{Imageboards}} "Always Angry, All the Time"]] which is the battle cry of one of 4 Chan's homegrown (original) [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} Space Marine Chapters]], the Angry Marines.

* HoldYourHippogriffs: Dalek Sec, being a non-human, has a few of these. His main one is "SON-OF-A-THAL!"

* WrittenSoundEffect

->A Hero was written when I was still new to writing, and I've moved on from many of the themes present in it. If I did go back to it, I would probably re-write a whole lot of it.

In [[Tropers/Dalekandrews Bioweapon 155's]] fic, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6918227/1/A_Hero A Hero,]] because of [[TimeyWimeyBall Time Shenanigans,]] he has now appeared in the universe of one certain series...

So, [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek Sec]] died a horrible death, leaving behind his casing after the events of Daleks in Manhattan, right?

Well, [[KilledOffForReal yeah.]] But he's here now.

In Bioweapon 155's fic, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6918227/1/A_Hero A Hero,]] because of [[TimeyWimeyBall Time Shenanigans,]] he has now appeared in the universe of one certain series...

* BadassPacifist: Madoka, who convinces Sec not to crush Kyoko's skull during their first encounter with her. When you can talk an OmnicidalManiac ''out'' of killing someone, there really isn't anything else you could possibly be but this. Sec is a bit more mellow than the average Dalek, but still.
* BadBoss: Sec's former commander, The Dalek Inquisitor General. To the point that he got promoted to Supreme simply by virtue of surviving five consecutive missions under his command.

* CosmicPlaything: Dalek Sec is absolutely convinced that the universe (or at least some god-like entity) is actively screwing with him. He isn't happy about it. [[UnstoppableRage At]] [[HairTriggerTemper all.]]

* EpicFail: When Dalek Sec tries to recreate the Dalek race, his first casing ends up with a horrible kludge with almost no internal mechanisms, unstable life-support systems, an eye-stalk that's almost blind, control mechanisms that keep [[IncendiaryExponent lighting themselves on fire]] and trans-solar disks that keep reversing. [[EvenEvilHasStandards He thinks putting anything inside would be absolutely cruel]].

* HumansAreWarriors:Part of Sec's inner monologue implies that humans are only second to the Daleks themselves when it comes to war. He's not amused that the Incubators see them as cattle.

** See below for a perfect example in WhoWantsToLiveForever. Madoka thinks that [[WhoWantsToLoveForever immortality is a curse]] after hearing Homura talk about it. Sec, on the other hand, is proud to have lived to be a quarter of a million years old.

* BadassPacifist: Madoka, who convinces Sec not to crush Kyoko's skull during their first encounter with her. When you can talk an OmnicidalManiac out of killing someone, there really isn't anything else you could possibly be but this.

** See below for a perfect example in WhoWantsToLiveForever. Madoka thinks that immortality is a curse after hearing Homura talk about it. Sec, on the other hand, is proud to have lived to be a quarter of a million years old.

In his investigations of temporal space, he meets one [[TimeTraveler Homura]] [[TheStoic Akemi]] and, hopefully, they can finally fix this GroundhogDayLoop that she's stuck in.

In his investigations of temporal space, he meets one [[TimeTraveler Homura]] [[TheStoic Akemi,]] and, hopefully, they can finally fix this GroundhogDayLoop that she's stuck in.

** Also, see the Dalek Inquisitor General. The Spacebattles forums have somehow built him up into the Dalek version of Chuck Norris, except that "While Chuck Norris facts are fictional and wishful thinking,'' '''these are real.'''" '' The ''author himself'' is "surprisingly not surprised," that somehow the [[FanNickname DIG]] has become sort of a "Fate Worse Than Death," on the forums.
*** To elaborate on the "real" nature of facts about the Dalek Inquisitor General, most of the facts about Dalek X were pulled by the author from the Tenth Doctor novel [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_the_Daleks Prisoner Of The Daleks]]:
-->The last time the DIG and The Doctor met, a planet exploded.
-->Missions involving the DIG tend to leave more dead bodies than there are enemies.
-->He survived an explosion that killed a Dalek fleet. It made him angrier.
-->He has a reputation amongst Daleks of being so ruthless that other Daleks are horrified.
* BadassBoast (also a PreMortemOneLiner):

* CurbStompBattle: Dalek Sec vs. [[EldritchAbomination Uhrmann]]. It really is no contest.

** The Dalek Inquisitor General, a pre-Time War Dalek, got teleported onto a ship occupied by the 2010 Daleks, and ''shredded them like a tank through wax paper.''

** WordOfGod says, when asked how Daleks can be deadpan, that they do it ''' ''LOUD-LY!'' ''' complete with a font size increase.

* EpicFail: When Dalek Sec tries to recreate the Dalek race, his first casing ends up with a horrible kludge with almost no internal mechanisms, unstable life-support systems, an eye-stalk that's almost blind, control mechanisms that keep [[IncendiaryExponent lighting themselves on fire]] and trans-solar disks that keep reversing. [[EvenEvilHasStandards He thinks putting anything inside would be absolutely cruel.]]
** To say nothing of his [[ExplosiveInstrumentation experimentations with Grief Seeds...]]
--->'''Homura:''' There was nothing there that could've caught fire, there was nothing there to spark a fire, and there was absolutely no reason at all for a [[ViolationOfCommonSense Grief Seed]] [[MadeOfExplodium to catch fire.]]

** Sec attempts to play ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''...and somehow manages to trash ''69 fortresses in a few minutes.''
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played with. Sec's human morals tell him that what the Incubators are doing is wrong even though as a Dalek he approves intellectually of the concept behind their operation. What he ''doesn't'' approve of is the Incubators undermining the human race's right to self-determination by manipulating their cultural and social evolution to make them more pliable and easy to manipulate.

* ExactWords: Kyubey, but that's nothing new. Sec also mentions to Madoka that Walpurgisnacht will devastate "The Area." What she hears is "Destroy the city." What ''he'' means is "Annihilate ''the entire star system''".
* FateWorseThanDeath: Spending any period of time with the Dalek Inquisitor General (DIG) is considered this.
** To the point that one fan suggested that he be timelocked with the Coalition. In response, someone replied that this would be cruel, as "What would he do once he ran out of people to kill?" One branch of thought stated that he would kill them '''''even harder''''', another stated that he would break into the afterlife to continue his mad orgy of destruction.
* FlatWhat: Homura gives one when she realizes that even though she's severed the link between her soul gem and her body, and is effectively deaf, she can ''still hear Sec ranting.''
* FluffyTheTerrible: Kyubey, as in the main series. The difference is that from the ''beginning'' we know he's one of these instead of being the standard MagicalGirl mascot. Also, while he/it tries to use CutenessProximity to appeal to human females, it fails ''hard'' against Sec.

** [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor's here now, as well.]]

* HumanityIsInfectious: Zig-zagged all over the place. On one hand, Dalek Sec now has human emotions. However, it's because of his attempt at hybridization in "Daleks in Manhattan," but he's also trying to work through those feelings. And while he's trying to examine human culture... it doesn't always go quite as simply as some of the more iconic examples of this trope. See also, VideoGame/DwarfFortress or his reaction to ''Film/{{Avatar}}''. But on the other OTHER hand, he views humans as a great species because HumansAreWarriors. See below for more clarification.
* HumansAreSpecial: To a degree, Dalek Sec thinks this. It's mostly because of our endurance and our martial skills.
* HumansAreWarriors: Dalek Sec seems to think this. Part of his inner monologue implies that humans are only second to the Daleks themselves when it comes to war. He is ''not at all'' amused that the Incubators see them as cattle.

* MadScientist: [[CaptainObvious Dalek Sec.]] [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded immediately.]]
* [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain Most Definitely Not An Alien]]/HughMann: Inverted, Dalek Sec doesn't even bother using a disguise or hiding and even accompanies Homura in plain sight, [[ObviouslyEvil while telling everyone who bother to ask that he's an alien Nazi.]] Naturally, [[RefugeInAudacity everyone finds it so ridiculous that they come to their own conclusions instead.]]
* NoSocialSkills: Homura. To the point that ''[[StarfishAlien Dalek]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Sec]]'' is considered to have better social skills.
-->''Kyouko: A little brusque, aren't we?''
* NoIndoorVoice: Sec. Homura wonders wherever it's just because the Dalek likes the sound of it's own voice.
** And later taken UpToEleven when Homura tries tuning him out by partly severing the connection from her Soul Gem to her body, only to discover that ''she can still hear him.''
** The author, on the Spacebattles Forums, has stated that Daleks can do deadpan, but only one way: ''' ''LOUD-LY!'' ''' The original post had the word in greatly increased font size.
* NoodleIncident: Kyouko ''somehow'' managed to piss off the Matriarch of ''every single Puella Magi gang in Tokyo''. WordOfGod has it that the incident in question invlolved [[NoodleImplements a sports car, a house, 4 cases of gasoil, 5 pots of boiling coffee, a slinky, 2 boxes full of Grief Seeds, an incubator drone, a van, a briefcase full of money of unscrupulous origins, a maid outfit and cheese.]]
* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: ''heavily'' subverted. Though Sec admits that there ''is'' a safety on his death ray, "no Dalek to his knowledge had ever used it."

* OneOfUs: The author has links to the TV tropes page in the forums, and openly called Sec's defeat of a witch a [[CurbStompBattle Bolostomp.]]
** [[WordOfGod Why hello there!]]

* RealityWarper: Dalek Sec inadvertently warps space-time by projecting a block-transfer equation onto a wall... which is hovering ''above'' the wall... even ''after'' the projector is turned off.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: There's no indication as to how many times Homura's repeated the GroundhogDayLoop, but she's done it enough times to [[spoiler: memorize nearly every single event in Mitakihara that could be remotely relevant to her cause, and learn nearly every single possible route in which events could unfold. Whoa.]]
** Dalek Sec claims that he is ''two hundred and fifty thousand years old.''

** This actually seems to be a common theme with any of Dalek Sec's ideas. Like the time he strapped an [[{{BFG}} orbital defense array]] to a Killcruiser to defeat the [[EldritchAbomination Skaro Degradations]], or the time he stole a Time Lord prison ship and crossed the barrier between the universes, or the whole fiasco of [[HalfHumanHybrid Daleks in Manhattan]].

** The only video game we've seen him play is VideoGame/DwarfFortress. ''Not'' succeeding is practically the point of the game; so does that mean that [[MindScrew he's succeeding in a game where the only option is failure?]]
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Homura now wears one, much to Dalek Sec's chargin.
* ShoutOut: Apparently, [[IrregularWebcomic Dalek Science sneers at the impossible.]]
** The entire CurbStompBattle against Uhrmann is a shout out to the Literature/{{Bolo}} series. Her defeat is even called a "Bolostomp," in the author's notes.

** Homura has taken to wearing a long scarf arund her neck. Cue Dalek Sec muttering about "[[TheNthDoctor Jellybabies]]."
** Kyouku believes, in chapter five, that Sec's emotions are stuck on [[{{Imageboards}} "Always Angry, All the Time"]] which is the battle cry of one of 4 Chan's homegrown (original) [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} Space Marine Chapters,]] the Angry Marines.

** Kyouko mentions to Kyubey that Homura handed her "[[AnOfferYouCantRefuse an offer [She] couldn’t refuse]]"

** [[TemptingFate Guess who shows up in chapter five...]]
* StunGuns: Sec uses one to knock out Sayaka, to prevent her from attacking Kyouko.

* TakeThat: To the 2010 new Daleks, where it's shown that a single pre-Time War Dalek is capable of shredding an entire ship full of them. On the other hand, the Dalek responsible is the Dalek Inquisitor General, AKA one of the few beings in the cosmos that Sec fears more than the Doctor.
** Dalek Sec rants ''[[NoIndoorVoice so loudly]]'' about the movie ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' that when Homura severs the link between her body and her soul gem, rendering her deaf, ''she can still hear him.''
* TemptingFate: While watching Homura [[spoiler: battle Walpurgisnacht]] Sec concludes that the witch isn't looking his way, and wouldn't attack him. A few seconds later [[OhCrap he realizes what he just did]] and, sure enough, there's a slew of familiars headed his way. Cue a [[HoldYourHippogriffs Dalek-flavored]] F-Strike.

* TheAlliance: The Coalition, composed of [[EldritchAbomination The]] [[HiveMind Mind]] (Incubators), [[{{Dystopia}} The]] [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People]] and [[spoiler: [[UnwillingRoboticisation The]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul Cybermen]]]]

*** [[WordOfGod To clarify:]] [[spoiler: When Amy rebooted the universe, ''everything'' that had been killed was brought back to life, and everything that was supposed to die, died. Sec...didn't, and instead fell through the Void, connecting both universes with a Time Space stream, which allowed The Doctor to come here. [[OhCrap As well as other things.]]]]
* UnstoppableRage: Dalek Sec. All the damn time. This is actually fairly common for a Dalek.

* [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman What Measure Is A Non-Dalek]]: Some members of the Cult of Skaro, who were all modified to be able to "Think Like the Enemy", had nagging suspicions about this.

** Subverted with Dalek Sec, and the subversion is justified: increased age means more combat experience, so having survived a very long time is a [[BlueAndOrangeMorality badge of honor for him.]] Also, he wants to restore his race eventually, and given his first attempts to create Dalek Embryos (in Daleks in Manhattan) and his first attempt at making a casing (chapter two of this story), he's probably gonna be around for a while...

** [[spoiler: In chapter four, the Doctor claims that when Amy rebooted the universe at the end of series six, it accidentally brought back everything that had ever died. Most of it died again, like it did in the original timeline, but Sec was somehow thrust into the Void, where he eventually wound up in the PMM universe. WordOfGod states that the reason why the Doctor and Sec were able to get to the PMM universe is because someone came here during the ''first'' time war.]]

** This actually seems to be a common theme with any of Dalek Sec's ideas. Like the time he strapped an [[{{BFG}} orbital defense array]] to a Killcruiser to defeat the [[EldritchAbomination Skaro Degradations]], or the time he stole a Time Lord prision ship and crossed the barrier between the universes, or the whole fiasco of [[HalfHumanHybrid Daleks in Manhattan]].

* [[BannedFromArgo Banned From Tokyo]]: Kyouko. She ''[[NoodleIncident somehow]]'' managed to antagonize the Matriarchs of every single ''Puella Magi'' gang in the city and can no longer return, or [[EnemyMine they'll work together to kill her]].