Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Marleybone – The Professor

Pop Culture References of Wizard101

The Professor – Doctor Who
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:The_Professor#ixzz7Yw5Qfkc5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who

This pop culture reference ranks as (a tie for) number two on my all time favorites list.

The good Professor’s trans-dimensional Telegraph Box has broken down in-front of the lawn of Scotland Yard. and he needs someone to retrieve his Cosmic Caliper so he can be on his way.

The Professor guides Wizards through through time with special quests inside his Telegraph Box during the Five B.O.X.E.S. Event.

We actually meet another version of the Professor while questing in the Doomsday Krok Gauntlet. It is unknown when on The Professors’ personal timeline this regeneration occurs.

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television program broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The program depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilizations, and helps people in need.

Beginning with William Hartnell, fourteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor (as of 2022); in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the show with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord “transforms” into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. Each actor’s portrayal is unique, but all represent stages in the life of the same character, and together, they form a single lifetime with a single narrative. The time-travelling feature of the plot means that different incarnations of the Doctor occasionally meet.

The Professor seems to take his fashion sense from the fourth (Tom Baker) and tenth (David Tennant) doctors and the regenerated version in the gauntlet takes fashion advice from the thirteenth (Jodie Whitaker) doctor. (Edit 4/22/2023) C. M. Lopes points out that The Professor’s Bow Tie is an homage to the 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) – Editor’s Note HOW did we overlook that feature?

This is the fifty-second article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the ninth Marleybone article. The current list of all the (known) Marleybone references are located here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

The Professor images are from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.

All Doctor Who images are (c)BBC

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