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*Before Christopher Lloyd was cast in the role, Tim Curry auditioned for the role, but the producers thought his performance was too scary.

**John Cleese expressed interest in playing Doom, but both [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[Robert Zemeckis]] refused, thinking nobody would take a former member of Monty Python seriously as a sadistic villain.

***Roddy ~~McDowall, Robin Williams~~, Eddie Deezen, Sting, Jon Pertwee, John Lithgow, Vincent Price, Willem Dafoe, John Malkovich, George Hearn, Gabriel Byrne, Tim Robbins, Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Richard Gere, Gene Hackman, Brad Garrett, Michael Richards, Dudley Moore, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Richard Attenborough, Al Pacino, Ron Perlman, Tommy Lee Jones, Ray Liotta, Thomas F. Wilson, James Woods, Alan Rickman, Kevin Spacey, Lance Henriksen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Donald Sutherland, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, and Jeff Goldblum were considered as well.

**Christopher Lee was considered for the role, but turned it down.

**Roddy McDowell, Eddie Deezen, and Sting were all considered for the role as well.<ref>https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62910/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-who-framed-roger-rabbit</ref>

*Doom's death is an allusion to the Wicked Witch of the West's death in [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]'s ''The Wizard of Oz'', as they both melt while shouting, "I'm melting! Melting!".

**In addition, both have weaknesses to liquid. The Witch's demise comes from water while Judge Doom's demise is the Dip.