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* The graphic novel series {{wi|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen}} by [[Alan Moore]] had several licensed connections to the Moorcock Multiverse, featuring the characters Michael Kane of Old Mars and [[Jerry Cornelius]]. This series also had several unlicensed references to ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | * The graphic novel series {{wi|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen}} by [[Alan Moore]] had several licensed connections to the Moorcock Multiverse, featuring the characters Michael Kane of Old Mars and [[Jerry Cornelius]]. This series also had several unlicensed references to ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | ||
* [[Zenith (The Albino's Shadow)|Zenith the Albino]], a public domain character who inspired [[Elric]] and was integrated into the Moorcock Multiverse through the [[Seaton Begg]] stories, has appeared in several stories related to ''Doctor Who''. | * [[Zenith (The Albino's Shadow)|Zenith the Albino]], a public domain character who inspired [[Elric]] and was integrated into the Moorcock Multiverse through the [[Seaton Begg]] stories, has appeared in several stories related to ''Doctor Who''. | ||
=== Influence of the Moorcock Multiverse on Doctor Who === | |||
As a large influence on science fiction and fantasy in general, Michael Moorcock's stories have had an influence on ''Doctor Who''. | |||
Being a common science fiction concept predating Moorcock, parallel realities as a general concept appeared in ''Doctor Who'' from near its inception; the [[multi-dimension]]s were recurringly mentioned in [[Doctor Who annual]]s of the 1960s and 70s (with {{cs|The Battle Within (short story)}} using the term "[[Omniverse]]") and the 1970 television story {{cs|Inferno (TV story)}} focused on the concept. The first use of the Moorcockian term "[[multiverse]]" was in the novel {{cs|Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)}}, released after the end of the original show at a point when the word had entered common sci-fi language. | |||
[[Brian Hayles]]' 1967 story {{cs|The Ice Warriors (TV story)}} has elements which could be taken as references to contemporary Moorcock stories. The [[Second Ice Age]] setting somewhat resembles the [[Earth's frozen period|frozen Earth]] seen in the story ''The Ice Schooner'' published in ''New Worlds'' magazine a year earlier. Additionally, a character has the uncommon name [[Elric Penley|"Elric"]]. | |||
The 1976 audio story {{cs|Exploration Earth (audio story)}}, written by [[Bernard Venables]] who contributed nothing else to ''Doctor Who'', features the [[Fourth Doctor]] fighting ancient "Lords of Chaos" who are characterized similarly to the Lords of Chaos from the ''Elric'' stories. | |||
In 1978, the [[Season 16 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 16]] storyline concerning the conflict between the [[White Guardian]] and [[Black Guardian]] had elements very similar to the [[Cosmic Balance]] between [[Chaos]] and [[Law (The Coming of the Terraphiles)|Law]] of Moorcock's stories, with Season 16 being based around a [[universal balance]] between [[chaos]] and [[order]]. ''Doctor Who'' essayists such as [[Elizabeth Sandifer]] in ''[[TARDIS Eruditorum]]'' have argued for Moorcock being a clear inspiration for this storyline. | |||
Moorcock's fiction was a formative influence on [[Paul Magrs]],[https://lifeonmagrs.blogspot.com/2012/07/coming-of-terrapiles-by-michael.html] who began writing ''Doctor Who'' in the 1990s. Magrs' character [[Iris Wildthyme]] has a similar parodic relationship with [[the Doctor]] to what [[Jerry Cornelius]] has with [[James Bond]], with both Wildthyme and Cornelius often dealing with similar themes of identity and incoherence, as well as being associated with the [[multiverse]]. The [[Eighth Doctor]] short story {{cs|Femme Fatale (short story)}} featuring Wildthyme is structured similarly to an average Cornelius story, also having similar plot devices, identity uncertainty, and approach to integrating genre tropes into shocking headline events of the 1960s (with ''Femme Fatale'' focusing on the attempted assassination of [[Andy Warhol]]). Magrs features a cameo from Cornelius in the short story [[PROSE]]: {{cs|In the Sixties (short story)}}, further showing his own multiversal continuity as owing a debt to Moorcock's. | |||
== Stories by Moorcock set in the Multiverse == | == Stories by Moorcock set in the Multiverse == | ||
