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The Silver Surfer was, by some accounts, a real person, (COMIC: Party Animals [+]Loading...["Party Animals (comic story)"], The Incomplete Death's Head [+]Loading...["The Incomplete Death's Head (comic story)"]) although some others seemed to depict him as a fictional character. (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio [+]Loading...["The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)"], COMIC: Selfie [+]Loading...["Selfie (comic story)",""], etc.)
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Red Nose Day 1991[[edit] | [edit source]]
During Red Nose Day 1991, the Silver Surfer arrived to donate to Comic Relief, remarking that he knew what it was like to need a loan. (COMIC: The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic [+]Loading...["The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)"])
On Maruthea[[edit] | [edit source]]
He once attended Bonjaxx's birthday party at Maruthea, wearing a party hat. (COMIC: Party Animals [+]Loading...["Party Animals (comic story)"], The Incomplete Death's Head [+]Loading...["The Incomplete Death's Head (comic story)"])
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
Grant had a poster of the Silver Surfer in his childhood bedroom. (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio [+]Loading...["The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)"])
A cosplayer dressed as the Silver Surfer at San Diego Comic-Con. (COMIC: Selfie [+]Loading...["Selfie (comic story)"])
Natalie described the Twelfth Doctor as being like the Silver Surfer when they were "surfing on the edge of reality". (COMIC: The Fourth Wall [+]Loading...["The Fourth Wall (comic story)"])
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Dan Slott's 2014 run on Silver Surfer was explicitly inspired by Doctor Who, including giving the Silver Surfer a companion named Dawn Greenwood:
[W]hen Tom Brevoort and I first talked about doing the Surfer book, we both approached it from the same angle. We both said, "Wouldn't it be neat if you did a soft reboot the same way Russell T Davies did a soft reboot of 'Doctor Who?'" All the past continuity stands, but here's a nice new way to look at it. The basic element we wanted to "borrow" -- STEAL! [Laughs] was giving the Surfer a human companion; someone that grounded him, because for the most part you look at Surfer and he's this Shakespearean-spouting guy from the top of a bowling trophy. It's hard to literally get under his silver skin. Giving him a human companion though, a character who's eye-level to the reader, grounds him. As much as this book is about exploring the universe, it's also about exploring the Surfer's humanity.
