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NateBumber wrote: The character "Tom Baker" has already appeared in very very similar roles twice in the Doctor Who universe (here and here); I don't know why this would be any different. And it's clearly not a very good attempt at "a role away from Doctor Who" if it shares characters with Doctor Who spinoffs! You have to assume I know that Tom Baker as a character exists. Because I do. I'm aware that Tom Baker exists. I've read the adventure where the Doctor enters another universe with a fictional Doctor Who. I think your labelling of the character of "Tom Baker" as a "DWU character" alone is a bit silly.

If I wanted to write a role for Tom Baker based upon his own self and call it "Tom Baker", why should that have anything to do with the "Tom Baker(s)" in the DWU? And why is him playing himself not a good attempt at a role away from the DWU? He's not playing the Fourth Doctor. Nor is he playing a main Doctor Who character.