X-Men

X-Men was a comic book series and a film series.

The Eighth Doctor was a big X-Men fan. (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress)

Rick Pirelli had an X-Men movie poster in his room. (PROSE: Forever Autumn)

After the Great Cock Up of 2107, humanity lost most of western literature, but managed to salvage a complete run of X-Men comics. (PROSE: Digging up the Past)

Cindy Wu mistook Cerebravore for the name of the X-Men's mutant-detection computer. (COMIC: The Fountains of Forever)

Behind the scenes

 * The name of the mutant-detection computer from X-Men is in fact.
 * Steve Lyons wrote an X-Men novel trilogy, The Legacy Quest.
 * Patrick Stewart, who played Professor Charles Xavier in several X-Men movies, was considered for the roles of both the Doctor and the Master in the 1996 TV movie.
 * Ian McKellen played Magneto in the original film trilogy, and Days of Future Past.
 * In 2017, Alan Cumming, who played Nightcrawler in the 2003 film X2, said that he had been approached about playing the Doctor on two occasions, once by Russell T Davies and once by Mark Gatiss, but that the deal-breaker both times had been his reluctance to relocate to Cardiff.
 * The mask worn by Korwin in TV: 42 was partly inspired by X-Men mutant Cyclops.