Talk:Magnus (Flashback)

Merge with The War Chief

I feel we have committed a tremendous oversight that has led the fandom astray for as long as the page has existed. This must end. This page needs to be merged with The War Chief, as it's abundantly evident that the illustrations in Flashback (comic story) are meant to resemble Edward Brayshaw. While the page image may look more ambiguous, the images of "Magnus" throughout the rest of the story are embarrassingly obvious in hindsight. The chin dimple, the lips, the nose, the eyebrows, the structure of his head, the placement of lines on his forehead. The hairstyle resembles that of Brayshaw's appearance in The Champions, and the mustache (while different from the one we see in The War Games) is heavily reminiscent of his appearance in Rentaghost. All of these images would be available for reference in the BBC Photo Archive at this time, while shots of The War Games would be strangely harder to come by (no publicity photos seem to have been taken of Brayshaw in close-up in the behind-the scenes for The War Games). I feel as if we must take back all the mean things we ever said about the Doctor falling for "Anthony Ainley in a wig". We really ought to right this wrong now, as the longer we keep it up, the more people will make the mistake of claiming these are separate incarnations. This cannot stand.

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  Panel from Flashback (comic story)

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  Screengrab from The Champions

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  Panel from Flashback (comic story)

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  Screengrab from The War Games (TV story)

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  Panel from Flashback (comic story)

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  Panel from Flashback (comic story)

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  Screengrab from The War Games (TV story)

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  Screengrab from The Champions

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  Panel from Flashback (comic story)

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  Screengrab from The War Games (TV story)

This won't cause any major coverage changes, as this information already essentially needs to be covered on The War Chief anyways, so this should be a simple move. Dewinter ☎ 21:14, 22 May 2024 (UTC)