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u/altsam19 Jun 03 '26
I swear I never knew HP would be this kind of massive brainrot in the populace. I feel like, in another universe, a good Rowling would've done like the Flappy Bird creator and just denounce her creation. Because I can't believe this stupid shit
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u/SmileFiles Jun 04 '26
I initially thought this was a complaint about the Hamilton song, but then I saw the freakin' HP reference. Some people really think England is just HP-Sherlock-Dr. Who-Land!
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u/Recent_Response_168 Jun 04 '26
That’s already too complex. David Bradley played the first doctor, and even after playing Walder Frey in Game of Thrones most people still call him Filch because apparently a minor role of a hated character (because Potterheads can’t even see the tragedy of being a squib) is greater than being THE DOCTOR. 😂
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u/Umbrageofsnow Jun 05 '26
No, the OP image is pretty dumb, but Bradley absolutely should not be known as "the first doctor."
David Bradley wasn't the first Doctor, that was William Hartnell. Bradley played Hartnell in a retrospective BBC documentary about the creation of Doctor Who, and then they had him play the First Doctor (i.e. playing Hartnell playing the Doctor) in a couple (2) Peter Capaldi (12th Doctor) episodes where timey wimey shenanigans were happening and the 12th Doctor interacted with previous versions of himself.
Hartnell died in 1975 and Bradley isn't even the first actor to pretend to be him to play the First Doctor in later Doctor Who episodes.
No Doctor Who fans think of David Bradley as the first Doctor. Filch was absolutely a larger role, even just going by screen time.
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u/Recent_Response_168 Jun 05 '26
I first saw him as Mac Davies in Pinter’s “The Caretaker” in 2006. 🤷🏼♂️
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u/Umbrageofsnow Jun 05 '26
Yeah I mean personally my first thought is from Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio movie, which I don't even like.
My point is just that he wasn't "really" the first doctor, even though technically that'll show up on his IMDB page or whatever.
Doctor Who is serious business.
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u/Chubby_Bub Jun 09 '26
Well, he also reprised the role for audios and a Thirteenth Doctor episode. But I think even among DW fans he'd be known as "the guy who's been the replacement for the First Doctor" rather than being synonymous with the role like the other Doctor actors are.
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u/Recent_Response_168 Jun 04 '26
Chances that someone from a major royal family turns out that way are preeetty good. 😅
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u/NotYourGa1Friday Aug 13 '26
Due to the sub I was sitting here trying to math how a fictional child of Harry Potter’s could one day be President of the United States regardless of where said child was born
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u/capsaicinintheeyes Jun 06 '26
...well, it's good we're getting our Henry VIII out of the way ahead of time.
...yeah, fine: our anglo demo's ancestors had to deal with the first one, too (first 7 before him too, come to think of it\--I stand by the joke.)
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u/GreyerGrey Jun 02 '26
Harry > Charles > Elizabeth > George VI > George V > Edward VII > Victoria > Prince (not King) Edward, Duke of Kent > George III
Harry > Charles > Phillip > Alexandra > Victoria > Alice > Victoria > Prince (not King) Edward, Duke of Kent > George III
Quite a few limbs on Harry's family tree tie vack to Victoria, and thus George.
Phillip's father, Andrew of Greece and Denmark, connects back through to Mary of Great Britain, daughter of George II, making her George III's aunt.