Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a BBC television show featuring time travel. It might, just maybe, have something to do with the Doctor.
Fiction
[edit]Marvel The Transformers comics
[edit]After being affected by the interferences of PARD, Starscream's errant video scanner picked up a snippet of a Doctor Who episode, with a mention of the Doctor's enemies, the Daleks, and their "Exterminate" battle-cry. To a Power Unknown!
2005 IDW continuity
[edit]Hunter O'Nion told Ratchet that he had plenty of TV shows to catch up on, including Doctor Who. Our Steps Will Always Rhyme
Ask Vector Prime
[edit]Vector Prime enjoyed Doctor Who, despite the show depicting time travel inaccurately. Ask Vector Prime
Bumblebee film
[edit]Memo had a pair of Doctor Who posters in his room. Bumblebee
Notes
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- Various Marvel UK Transformers creators have written for Doctor Who Magazine, itself a Marvel UK title:
- Simon Furman wrote several stories at the same time he was writing for the Marvel Transformers comic. This included the first crossover between Death's Head and the Doctor, and a Death's Head story featuring DWM character Keepsake.
- Dan Abnett wrote a number of Magazine strips in the late 80s and early 90s, as well as The Incomplete Death's Head.
- Steve Parkhouse and John Ridgway are famous in Who fandom for their work on the Magazine, which included a long run of Sixth Doctor strips. Sleepy Stansham is not too far removed from Stockbridge, a sleepy village from Parkhouse's strips.
- Mike Collins has a lengthy, still-going association with the strip.
- The UK Marvel Generation 1 comic featured Octus, who has a Dalek alt-mode, and the 2017 Transformers annual has a generic Transformer based on the character [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}K9 (Doctor Who)|{{#if:K9|K9|K9 (Doctor Who)}}]].
- The character Natasha Pyraniac from the Animated adventure Time-Quake seems to be based on / influenced by one of the Doctor's foes, [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The Rani (Doctor Who)|{{#if:The Rani|The Rani|The Rani (Doctor Who)}}]].
- Other Doctor Who references in Transformers include Skaro, Trenzalore, the sonic screwdriver, and Verronian Warp Stars. Who superfan David Wise was known to insert references in his scripts, including a member of the Hive repeating "exterminate" in "The Rebirth, Part 2" and the Nebulans reversing the polarity in "The Rebirth, Part 3".<ref>Dude! I have a "Doctor Who" connection!</ref>
- The Ask Vector Prime logo is a parody of the Doctor Who logo used from 2010 to 2014.
- Spacewarp's Combiner Wars bio mentions her being shrunk down by "a time traveler wielding a Tissue Compression Eliminator device," a reference to the weapon wielded by the Doctor's notorious rival the Master.
- In a 2013 episode of Doctor Who, "[[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The Crimson Horror|{{#if:||The Crimson Horror}}]]," the character Clara Oswald is shown to have a G1 Galvatron toy.
- Sound effects from Doctor Who have made it into various cartoon episodes from the 80s, including:
- The Dalek control room pulsing sound in "Microbots", "The God Gambit", and "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2".
- The TARDIS dematerialisation noise in "Explosion on Mars!! Maximus Is in Danger".
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Tardis Wiki, the Doctor Who wiki
- [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Doctor Who|{{#if:||Doctor Who}}]] at Wikipedia