mllelaurel

livii, you mentioned the idea of of world without the Doctor, as related to AUs. Well, I was looking up "Inferno" on Wikipedia, and look at what I found:

"During the scenes set on the parallel Earth, images (supposedly) of the UK's dictatorial leader are seen on posters. The image used is that of Visual Effects Designer Jack Kine, in homage to the 1954 BBC adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four where the face of Big Brother was Head of Television Design Roy Oxley (Kine had worked on the visual effects for that production).

Fan speculation, carried forward in the comic strips and novelisations, suggest that the dictator may be the parallel version of the Doctor. The Virgin New Adventure Timewyrm: Revelation by Paul Cornell states that the dictator was one of the alternative regenerations the Time Lords offered the Doctor in The War Games."

Book canonicity is its own can of worms, but dude. The irony.