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{{Infobox Individual | {{Infobox Individual | ||
|image = TheLeader.jpg | |image = TheLeader.jpg | ||
|origin = [[Inferno | |origin = [[Inferno universe]] | ||
|job = President of Great Britain | |job = President of Great Britain | ||
|actor = Jack Kine | |actor = Jack Kine | ||
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|appearances = {{il|[[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]''}} | |appearances = {{il|[[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]''}} | ||
}}{{Third Doctor counterparts}} | }}{{Third Doctor counterparts}} | ||
In the "[[Inferno | In the "[[Inferno universe]]", '''the Leader''' was the dictatorial [[President of Great Britain|President]] of the [[Republic of Great Britain]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'') Accounts of his origins were conflicted. | ||
One account suggested that he was the version of [[the Doctor]] native to this reality; specifically, instead of rejecting all the faces suggested to him at [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|the Doctor's trial]] following the [[War Chief incident]], this reality's [[Second Doctor]] had accepted the "thin" face, thus becoming the Leader instead of [[N-Space|another reality]]'s more heroic [[Third Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrn: Revelation]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') | One account suggested that he was the version of [[the Doctor]] native to this reality; specifically, instead of rejecting all the faces suggested to him at [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|the Doctor's trial]] following the [[War Chief incident]], this reality's [[Second Doctor]] had accepted the "thin" face, thus becoming the Leader instead of [[N-Space|another reality]]'s more heroic [[Third Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrn: Revelation]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') | ||
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Origins === | === Origins === | ||
According to one account, the Leader came into being because [[Inferno | According to one account, the Leader came into being because [[Inferno universe]]'s version of the [[Second Doctor (Inferno Earth)|Second Doctor]] selected one of the bodies offered to him by the [[Time Lord]]s after [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|his trial]], before being [[exile on Earth|exiled]] to [[Earth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'') Indeed, one of the faces rejected by the Second Doctor in the conventional versiosn of event was a thin man ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') with a certain resemblance to the Leader. ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'') | ||
However, another account, while it did not reveal his civilian name, suggested the Leader was merely a human politician, despite propaganda-based rumours of him having a supernaturally-long lifespan. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'') | However, another account, while it did not reveal his civilian name, suggested the Leader was merely a human politician, despite propaganda-based rumours of him having a supernaturally-long lifespan. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'') | ||
