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Mister Six: Would Jesus's change in appearance after leaving his tomb make this one of The Oldest Ones in the Book?

Actually, Given the BBC's morbid fear of pissing off religious types these days, I'd love for someone to pitch a story where The Doctor goes back in time and accidentally kills Jesus as a kid, realises he's screwed up, tries to go back in time but (because the TARDIS has a mind of its own) ends up jumping ahead a few years and realises that he has to take the Messiah's place. Then he regenerates in the tomb and runs off back to the TARDIS, leaving everyone thinking he was a god when he was actually just repeating the Bible by rote.

Sikon: That would be marvelous!

Looney Toons: Well, that certainly would be a twist on Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man...

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Daibhid C: I've reworked this bit from the Red Dwarf entry:

• Llewellyn originally impersonated Roos's original mannerisms before gradually making the part his own

...because no, he didn't. He was doing a funny walk and talking in a Canadian accent from the word go. In his autobiography, he says that both he and the writers wanted to get completely away from the "English butler" C 3 PO-type android and, in fact, he hadn't seen Ross's portrayal before he started.

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"* The Oracle's actress exchange in The Matrix's third movie gets a Hand Wave big enough to cover a small city.

• This troper felt it would've been best either as an Other Darrin, or with a bolder change in the character's appearance (all of age, race, and gender)."

This troper is now fantasizing about Morgan Freeman as the Oracle.