Barack Obama: Difference between revisions

He was resident in the [[White House]] at the time {{Simm}} became every human on Earth. During a globally-publicised press conference in which the president was to announce his plan to reverse an economic downturn, the Master used the [[Immortality Gate]] to turn Obama, and everyone else on the planet, into a member of the so-called "[[Master Race]]". After the substitution had taken place, the Master which had formerly been Obama gleefully announced the financial solution "deleted."

* Barack Obama was played in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' by an uncredited stand-in whose face was obscured from camera view. The actor's back was to the camera and archive audio of the real Obama's voice was heard as the character began his speech. Brief footage of the real Obama is also shown. In the ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' episode ''[[Lords and Masters]]'', the actor's face was briefly seen during a break after shaking his head around for the transformation of Obama into the Master.

* Barack Obama was the first sitting real-life American president to be depicted in a televised ''Doctor Who'' story. Obama's relationship to his fictional predecessor, President [[Arthur Winters]] is considerably unclear. It's not known whether Winters, who was killed by {{simm}} in ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', was Obama's ''immediate'' predecessor — in which case Obama would have been Winters' [[Vice President]], or whether he simply won the [[2008]] general election, and took over from an interim, "caretaker" president. Both eventualities are possible, given the vagueness of the scripts involved.