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== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
*Before Christopher Lloyd was cast in the role, | *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. | ||
*Doom's death is an allusion to the | *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. | **In addition, both have weaknesses to liquid. The Witch's demise comes from water while Judge Doom's demise is the Dip. | ||
*The character was originally going to have an animated pet vulture (one of the two that appeared in ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'') named [[Voltaire]] (after the | *The character was originally going to have an animated pet vulture (one of the two that appeared in ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'') named [[Voltaire]] (after the French philosopher) that sat on his shoulder, but that idea was dropped in the interest of saving time. However, the vulture later resurfaced with Doom when a bendable action figure was produced. | ||
*Doom originally had seven weasels accompanying him, rather like the Seven Dwarfs, but he ultimately ended up only having five. He was also to have a jury of kangaroos, as in "Kangaroo Court". These elements were all dropped, because animating them would be too expensive. | *Doom originally had seven weasels accompanying him, rather like the Seven Dwarfs, but he ultimately ended up only having five. He was also to have a jury of kangaroos, as in "Kangaroo Court". These elements were all dropped, because animating them would be too expensive. | ||
**In a deleted scene, when Doom attempts to dip Roger at the bar, the patrons protest that Roger should at least have a proper trial. The judge agrees, then pulls out a suitcase from which jumps a group of kangaroos that hold out signs reading "Y-O-U A-R-E G-U-I-L-T-Y" (a literal Kangaroo Court, in other words). | **In a deleted scene, when Doom attempts to dip Roger at the bar, the patrons protest that Roger should at least have a proper trial. The judge agrees, then pulls out a suitcase from which jumps a group of kangaroos that hold out signs reading "Y-O-U A-R-E G-U-I-L-T-Y" (a literal Kangaroo Court, in other words). | ||