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|range           = Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024
|number in range = #6
|image           = Wanted! Daleks.jpg
|main character  = [[Group (Wanted! Daleks)|Group]]
|enemy           = [[Dalek]]s
|publisher       = Penguin Group
|writer          = Paul Lang
|genre           = Science fiction
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|release date    = 7 September 2023
|publication     = ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024]]''
|format          = Feature
|series          = ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024]]''
|prev            = Random Regenerations (game)
|next            = The Strange Case of the Skinny Man (short story)
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'''''Wanted! Daleks''''' was the third feature and sixth release exclusively published in ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024]]'' on [[7 September (releases)|7 September]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] by [[Penguin Group]]<ref>[https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/456150/doctor-who-annual-2024-by-who-paul-lang-doctor/9781405956895 ''Doctor Who Annual 2024'' on penguin.co.uk]</ref> and written by [[Paul Lang]].

The feature was the first in the "''Wanted!''" series of in-universe [[wanted poster]]s for various villains from the ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]'' series.

== Summary ==
By [[order]] of [[Article 412 of the Shadow Proclamation|Article 412]] of the [[Shadow Proclamation]], [[Group (Wanted! Daleks)|a group]] authorises the [[apprehension]] of the [[Daleks]], along with facts about the Daleks' [[Creation of the Daleks|origin]], [[Daleks' timeline|history]], and [[physiology]].

== Characters ==
* [[Group (Wanted! Daleks)|Group]]
* [[Dalek]]

== Worldbuilding ==
* The Daleks are considered a [[Hostility|hostile]] force by the [[Shadow Proclamation]].
* The Daleks originate from [[Skaro]], and their [[weapons]] include an [[Dalek energy blaster|energy blaster]] and an [[Suction cup|extendable sucker]] with optional [[claw attachment]].
* The [[Dalek Fleet|Daleks' fleets]] are vast, and consist of [[Dalek ship|saucer-shaped spacecraft]].
* The Daleks' aim is to be the [[Supremacy|supreme]] [[creatures]] in [[the universe]], and to [[Destruction|destroy]] all creatures they deem [[Inferiority|inferior]].
* The Daleks' [[crimes]] include [[Dalek invasion|invasion]] of a [[Level 5 planet]], [[theft]] of [[26 (number)|26]] [[planets]] for the [[Reality Bomb]], and [[time travel infraction]]s. However, it is noted that they committed "untold crimes" during the [[Last Great Time War]].
* The Dalek fleet was devastated by multiple [[extinction event]]s, but some [[unit]]s always [[Survival|survive]].
* The [[physiology]] of a Dalek includes a protruding [[eye stalk]], [[Luminosity discharger|twin luminosity dischargers]], an [[energy weapon]], a [[Dalek mutant|mutated organic creature]] inside, multiple [[sensor globe]]s, and [[Reinforcement|reinforced]] [[Dalekanium]] [[casing]].

== Notes ==
''to be added''

== Continuity ==
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* Images from [[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}} and [[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}} are featured.
* An image of a [[bronze Dalek|bronze]] [[Dalek Executioner]] from [[TV]]: {{cs|Eve of the Daleks (TV story)}} is used to represent the Daleks.
* The Dalek mutant is indicated to be contained within the [[casing]]'s [[middle section]], as seen with the [[Spy Dalek]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Power of the Daleks (TV story)}}.

== Footnotes ==
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