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Bruce (BATMAN) Wayne (DC Comics), Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation). The character in this cartoon was officially designated to be Guinan retroactively. In later cartoons on the pre-2014 archive shortly after this, beyond the fourth wall, the Doctor went looking for an existing character who was not male and/or not white to be recruited as a counterpart and an equal in The Hero of Three Faces to himself, "who travels in space and time like I do or who is already know to be mirrored on more than one plane or, best of all, who might believably be either spacetime traveling or plane reflected." I don't remember whether I'd decided on Guinan before or after I first drew this one, nor whether this character was already Guinan in my mind when I drew the first three panels of this. I only know I later drew an addendum to this scene to help make Guinan someone "who might believably be either spacetime traveling or plane reflected." |
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(Originally, before the Doctor's beyond-the-fourth-wall quest, this was the final panel.) |
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Despite my best intentions I can't say I feel I've quite given Guinan equal standing to the Doctor in Three Faces. In fact I've only muddied the waters by also making spacetime travelers out of Buffy's scooby gang (who though, to be fair, were there before Guinan was) and the Rogue One squad and the Doctor's former companion Peri. And this isn't even to consider all the 2010s Doctor Who characters who onscreen departed the TARDIS to become independent spactime travelers. The one advantage Guinan has over any of the others, even the Doctor, is she hasn't the usual constraints of the Three Faces chronology continuity; unlike them she appears in any time visiting any characters regardless of what her onscreen character was doing at the parallel airdate or whether she was even created yet. Nevertheless there are plenty of gags I draw where the character visiting other characters' plane could be any spacetime traveler who likes puns where I don't even think of putting anyone but the Doctor in it because they're my favorite. Sometimes I work against this by going back and editing the art of recent cartoons, but it won't always work because, since the Doctor's my favorite, I often write specifically to the Doctor. Perhaps that's something I can work on if I ever reboot the site and the continuity over again like I did in 2014. |