Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown was a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in Earth-616. (COMIC: The Guns of Avalon (part 1) [+]Loading...{"part":"1","1":"The Guns of Avalon (comic story)"})
Biography
At some point, Brown became Prime Minister.
At 10 Downing Street, he met with Captain Britain and MI13. During the meeting, he mentioned that his Home Secretary turned out to be a Skrull, and that all superheroes were now working for MI13. He told them that they had a responsibility to the world against the Skrulls. (COMIC: The Guns of Avalon (part 1) [+]Loading...{"part":"1","1":"The Guns of Avalon (comic story)"})
Behind the scenes
In non-valid sources
Gordon Brown served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and was widely considered to succeed Tony Blair as Prime Minister. In an interview with Nick Robinson, Blair rejected this idea, calling Brown a "numb-nuts who would start a fight in an empty room with the air conditioning unit" and an "evil, brooding, sulkmeister from Sulkville, Ohio."
Blair would go on, declaring that the clocks had gone back to 1997 and that he was now popular again. Blair then collapsed, and regenerated into the Tenth Doctor. In an address to the people of Britain, the "new and improved Prime Minister" said they could forget about him leaving office, because he "didn't save the planet from the Daleks just so Gordon could take over". The Doctor subsequently raised his fist declaring he'll govern for one hundred more years. (TV: Tony Blair Regenerates [+]Loading...["Tony Blair Regenerates (TV story)"])
Mr Brown was in 10 Browning Street when flies landed in his soup, leading Gordon Ramsay, also present in the room, to become frustrated. (TV: Hedz Series 1 title sequence [+]Loading...["Hedz Series 1 title sequence (TV story)"])
Other matters
Gordon Brown was first mentioned as being Chancellor in the non-valid 2007 Dead Ringers skit Tony Blair Regenerates [+]Loading...["Tony Blair Regenerates (TV story)"], parodying the real world Blair-Brown handover. At the time of the skit's broadcast, Brown was considered the likely successor to Blair, and would go on to win the Labour Party leadership election unopposed and become Prime Minister later that year. His first appearance in a valid source would come in the 2008 Marvel UK comic story The Guns of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Guns of Avalon (comic story)"], written by Paul Cornell. The comic story features an appearance from Merlin the Wise, and therefore is a licensed DWU source.
Mr Brown, Prime Minister, is a recurring character in Hedz, where he is depicted in 10 Browning Street.
As The Guns of Avalon takes place within the Marvel Multiverse, this means that Gordon Brown has yet to be depicted as a Prime Minister, or indeed an existing person, in the Doctor's universe.
Following David Tennant's announcement that he was leaving the role of the Doctor, the eighty-fourth issue of Doctor Who Adventures jokingly touted Gordon Brown as a potential replacement, alongside Catherine Tate, Basil Brush, Zac Efron, David Beckham, and Margaret Slitheen.
Brian Green, who first appeared in the 2009 Torchwood television story Children of Earth: Day One [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)"], served as a fictional DWU stand-in for Brown as Prime Minister. Notably, both Brown and Green have colours for surnames as well as reversed initials.
The New Statesman cover for 7-13 November 2014 featured Gordon Brown as the Fourth Doctor amongst other Labour Party leaders.
Depictions in other media
He was portrayed by David Morrissey in The Deal.
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