It should be relocated at suction cup because because we don’t need a seperate page on this specific manipulator arm with the cup on. The arm itself is not much different from any other manipulator arm, and without that, it’s just the cup that’s the difference, which is nicely covered at the suction cup page.
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The suction arm, also known as the sucker arm, sucker-stick, (TV: The Power of the Daleks) sucker-rod, (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks) or simply the sucker, was the most common type of manipulator arm used by the Daleks, sporting the eponymous circular suction cup at the end. (PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks)
Even if the Dalek died, its arm could still operate machinery for a live person. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) The arm also had a telescopic feature to extend its length. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Dalek)
The suction arm was inadvertently inspired by the Fourteenth Doctor replacing the multi-dextrous claw of the prototype Dalek that Davros and Castavillian were working on after he accidentally smashed it off when his TARDIS crash-landed on Skaro. The Doctor replaced it with a sink plunger from the TARDIS which Castavillian stuck on the Dalek in place of the claw. Upon seeing the makeshift arm, Davros decided that he liked it. (TV: Destination: Skaro [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who (BBC One, 2023).)
Behind the scenes[]
The first glimpse of a Dalek. (TV: "The Dead Planet")
- The suction arm was notably the very first part of a Dalek to appear on-screen, as seen attached to the Dalek which confronts Barbara Wright within the Dalek City at the very end of their first episode, "The Dead Planet". The Daleks would only be revealed in full in their second episode, "The Survivors".
- In the online video game, The Last Dalek, the player can use the "Metaltron's" extending suction arm as a close-quarter weapon.
