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In ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', [[Stephen Thorne]], who had previously portrayed another vengeful near-deity (the [[Dæmon]] [[Azal]]) in ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', was called upon to portray Omega. With the character meant to have no physical body under his helmet, only Thorne's voice was applied to Omega, thus allowing for easy recasting upon Omega's return to the series in ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]''. The anti-matter god was now embodied and voiced by [[Ian Collier]], who reprised the role in an audio format in the [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|Big Finish audio drama]] ''[[Omega (audio story)|Omega]]''.

[[File:Timeless Children Hidden Omega.jpg|thumb|left|The publicity photograph of Mark Corden as a man understood in the script, and during production, to be a Omega. In the finished ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'', his face is not seen clearly and he is not explicitly identified as Omega.]]In the scene corresponding to the point in ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'' where [[Second Tecteun|Tecteun's male incarnation]] stands alongside two other Time Lords in full high-collared regalia, the ''Timeless Children'' script release mentions that "we can assume [the other two] are [[Rassilon]] and Omega".<ref>[http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/doctor-who-s12-ep10-the-timeless-children.pdf ''The Timeless Children'' script]</ref> In late 2020, the BBC released a promotional photograph providing a better look at these Time Lords' faces.<ref>[https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1330956294199635971 "The FIRST Time Lords!" on the official ''Doctor Who'' Twitter account]</ref> [[Mark Corden]], the episode's [[2nd assistant director]], claimed on Twitter that he himself was the performer playing "Omega", also explaining that he had selected the extra playing Rassilon based on his resemblance to [[Don Warrington]], who had played an incarnation of Rassilon for Big Finish.<ref>https://twitter.com/boristhedalek/status/1330960792716521480</ref>

[[John Ridgway]], the artist for [[Cutaway Comics]]' ''[[Omega (comic story)|Omega]]'' miniseries, elaborated in a special feature at the end of the first issue on an early concept he had when called upon to visualise Omega in the comic:

{{quote|You can't have him be a little man like [[the Mekon]]. It has to be dynamic, fluid, and fit in with the script. My original thought, which sadly won't work, is he'd be different every time that you saw him. He could be male in one picture, Chinese in the next, female in the next and all the permutations of that. But the readers would need to understand this is what was happening, without wondering why there were so many different characters.|John Ridgway}}