10 Times Doctor Who Appeared In Movies

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00:00So we've done two videos now covering different times Doctor Who has appeared in other TV shows

00:06and both of those videos will be linked in the description below but we thought

00:10we've looked at TV shows but we haven't really looked at movies.

00:14So with that in mind I'm Ellie with Who Culture here with 10 times Doctor Who appeared in movies.

00:21Number 10, a Shaun the Sheep movie, Farmageddon.

00:24Shaun the Sheep's TV show was no stranger to Doctor Who references like the hilarious sight of a sheep

00:30cosplaying as a Dalek in Series 2's Party Animals.

00:34So Aardman Animation decided to continue with these shoutouts when Shaun made the leap to the big screen in 2019's Farmageddon.

00:43The sequel to 2015's Shaun the Sheep movie, Farmageddon includes several Doctor Who easter eggs

00:50from the alien creature Lula picking up a sonic screwdriver to a man dressed as the fourth Doctor exiting a portable toilet.

00:57A sheep also disguises itself as a Dalek while attempting to sneak into the Farmageddon theme park

01:03bleating exterminate to the rather confused farmer.

01:06And incidentally the prolific Doctor Who writer and canine co-creator Bob Baker

01:11actually wrote the Wallace and Gromit shorts, the wrong trousers,

01:15A Matter of Loaf and Death and A Close Shave, the latter of which introduced us to Shaun.

01:22So these two British legends have quite the shared history.

01:25Number 9, Looney Tunes Back in Action

01:28Right before Russell T. Davis and Robert Sherman brilliantly reintroduced the Daleks in the 2005 revival,

01:35they made their appearance on the Hollywood stage in 2003's live-action animation hybrid,

01:42Looney Tunes Back in Action, which is a brilliant film and a film that I watched many a time growing up.

01:50Appearing during a scene where Marvin the Martian unleashes a group of illegal aliens that are being held in Area 52,

01:57the Daleks scream their signature catchphrase while attempting to obliterate bugs and the gang.

02:02These Dalek props are actually the same ones used in the 1960s Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies,

02:08which is why they look authentic but also oddly outdated compared to their surroundings.

02:13Now according to an online rumour, it was actually actor Steve Martin who plays the film's villain

02:19who insisted that the Daleks make an appearance in this scene due to the fact that he is a massive Whovian.

02:25Don't actually know if that's true though, I would take that with a pinch of salt.

02:28I mean it would be cool if he is, not sure though.

02:32Number 8, Cars 2

02:33A much more subtle reference now, one found in the finale of Pixar's Cars 2.

02:39Here British spy cars Holly Shiftwell and Finn McMissile are captured and tied up inside Big Ben.

02:46To escape, Holly determines that she must change the direction of the clock, or turn back time as she puts it.

02:52And while she's struggling to do this, she also states,

02:55Reverse the polarity, as Whov fans will know, is one of the most famous phrases in the show,

03:04spoken by many Doctors across the classic and modern eras,

03:08though it's most associated with John Pertwee's third incarnation.

03:11Now considering the timey-wimey context of this scene in Cars 2,

03:16there is no way that this is anything but a nod to Doctor Who.

03:20And now that Disney has a direct link to Doctor Who, it's kind of fun to look back on in retrospect.

03:27Number 7, The Theory of Everything

03:29The late Stephen Hawking was a big Doctor Who fan,

03:33and he was even interviewed as part of Doctor Who Live The Next Doctor,

03:37the 2013 show that introduced Peter Capaldi as Matt Smith's successor.

03:42Fittingly then, 2014's biopic The Theory of Everything,

03:45which chronicles Hawking's incredible life, includes a couple of Doctor Who nods.

03:50The first of these occurs immediately after the scene when Stephen's theory is approved.

03:55Celebrating with his friend, Stephen is toasted as an esteemed and formidable doctor,

03:59only for someone to interject with the quip,

04:01Who?

04:02Then, when Stephen's condition worsens later in the film,

04:05there's a scene where he rolls around in his wheelchair,

04:07with a paper bag on his head, using his voice synthesizer to repeat,

04:11Exterminate!

04:12as his nurse Elaine looks on and laughs.

04:15I think this really goes to show how Doctor Who can appeal to everyone,

04:19from young children to one of the greatest minds in the world.

04:23Number 6, The Lego Batman Movie

04:26Batman plus Doctor Who

04:28I mean, it doesn't get much cooler than that, does it?

04:30In 2017's excellent The Lego Batman Movie,

04:33the Daleks have taken a break from annoying the Doctor and have ventured over to Gotham City,

04:38where they team up with the Joker and attempt to destroy the Dark Knight himself.

04:42The Daleks appear several times throughout the movie, usually squawking Exterminate,

04:47alongside other recognisable villains pulled from the Lego multiverse,

04:51including Lord Voldemort, Sauron and King Kong.

04:54There's also a Doctor Who nod in 2019's The Lego Movie 2, the second part,

04:59where Rex Dangervest uses a TARDIS to build his own time machine.

05:03Now, it can sometimes feel like Doctor Who is this small underdog franchise,

05:07but the fact that the Daleks appear alongside some of the most renowned villains in pop culture,

05:15and in a freaking Batman movie, no less,

05:17it really does demonstrate how massive this show actually is.

05:21Number 5, Big Hero 6

05:23Apparently, Cars 2 isn't the only Disney animation with a Doctor Who shout-out.

05:29In the underrated Big Hero 6,

05:31lead character Hero has the exact sort of messy bedroom you'd expect a 14-year-old to have,

05:36and on one of his toileted shelves rests a model of a white Dalek,

05:41nestled between a bunch of other action figures.

05:43Now, it does seem to be one of the chunky New Paradigm Daleks from Series 5's Victory of the Daleks,

05:48a redesign that didn't go down massively well with fans,

05:53but apparently someone at Disney felt differently about them.

05:55Number 4, Iron Sky

05:57Over the years, Doctor Who has explored countless alternate histories and parallel worlds,

06:03most of them with rather grim consequences for humanity.

06:06The 2012 action flick Iron Sky did something similar,

06:10cranking up the crazy and telling a story about a group of Nazis who survived World War II and fled to the moon.

06:15Over the decades, these Nazis built a fleet of ships and used them to attack Earth in 2018.

06:21Somehow, things get even more insane when you realise that time travel might also exist within the Iron Sky universe,

06:28as evidenced by the easy-to-miss sight of a TARDIS,

06:31which can be seen in the background of Earth's own fleet.

06:34Commenting on the TARDIS's cameo,

06:36one of Iron Sky's writers took to Reddit a couple of months after the film was released,

06:41contrasting the film's Space Nazis concept with the Doctor Who episode Let's Kill Hitler.

06:48He said,

06:48When Let's Kill Hitler came out,

06:50I was scared to death Moffat might outdo us with Space Nazis only a few months before Iron Sky comes out.

06:56I'm still incredibly happy he didn't, but kind of disappointed at the same time.

07:00Was that Steven Moffat accused of playing it safe?

07:03Well, I never thought I'd see the day.

07:05Number 3, Bad Taste

07:07Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is a big Doctor Who fan,

07:11and was even courted to helm an episode in the Peter Capaldi era.

07:15Unsurprisingly, then, he's occasionally slipped Doctor Who easter eggs into his own movies,

07:20as was the case with his 1987 feature debut Bad Taste,

07:24the film that put him on the map and helped him progress into the Hollywood big leagues.

07:28In the film, Jackson plays a character called Derek,

07:30who wears a multicoloured scarf that was intended as an homage to the one worn by Tom Baker's fourth Doctor.

07:36There's also a line of dialogue speculating that the aliens in the film might have arrived in a telephone box,

07:41which is a cheeky wink towards the TARDIS.

07:44Now, later in his career, Jackson did get to work with 7th Doctor Sylvester McCoy when making his Hobbit trilogy.

07:51And as for this Doctor Who episode that he supposedly wants to direct?

07:55Well, in 2018, he did mention that he is still up for it, so maybe one day.

08:01Number 2, Bumblebee

08:02It wasn't really a high bar to clear, thanks to the lacklustre efforts of Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf and Mark Wahlberg.

08:09But, 2018's Bumblebee spin-off is easily the best Transformers movie ever made.

08:15And because Doctor Who makes everything better,

08:18Bumblebee gets some extra brownie points for this Blink and You'll Miss It reference.

08:22When lead characters Charlie and Memo enter Memo's bedroom midway through the film,

08:26we see that his walls are adorned with various pop culture posters befitting of the movie's 1980s setting,

08:33like Indiana Jones and The Thing.

08:35But when Memo sits on the bed beside Charlie, we see what is obviously the greatest poster of the lot,

08:40a fuzzy-haired Tom Baker wearing that unmistakable multicoloured scarf.

08:45He isn't on screen for very long and he's blurred out half the time, but it's definitely him.

08:50Now, a random note here, but in the 1977 serial Robots of Death,

08:55the fourth Doctor quips,

08:56I'm rather fond of Bumblebees.

08:58Now, obviously he's not referring to a Transformer here,

09:01but it's still a fun coincidence that he then appears in a Bumblebee movie more than 40 years later.

09:07Number 1, Encanto

09:09Disney's Encanto is one of the most beloved movies in recent times.

09:14And if you don't have at least one family member who can't stop singing about that Bruno fella,

09:18well, then you're in the minority.

09:20In fact, I've had that song stuck in my head ever since I read this title on this article,

09:24so thank you very much for that, Danny.

09:26Early on, the Madrigal clan hosts a ceremony for young Antonio,

09:29who gains the ability to communicate with animals.

09:32He opens his own magical door, steps inside, and is greeted by a lush jungle habitat,

09:37bursting with lights, flora, and a wide array of animal life.

09:40Amazed that such a huge environment can fit inside a seemingly normal-sized room,

09:45one of the kids behind Antonio exclaims,

09:47it's bigger on the inside as she walks through the door.

09:50Now, of course, Doctor Who fans will recognise that phrase

09:53as something that's said quite a lot when characters first step into the TARDIS.

09:58And as he explained on Twitter,

10:00Encanto director Jared Bush is a massive Doctor Who fan,

10:04and so this line was indeed an intentional nod,

10:07a tip of the fez, if you will.

10:09And that concludes our list.

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