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** Season Six Jack seems to have taken over Locke's role in this archetype.
* An episode of ''[[Kingdom Hospital]]'' involved the Reverend Jimmy being found crucified, followed by a series of miracles re-enacting those of the New Testament. Unusual in that his [[Messianic Archetype]] status only becomes evident ''after'' he's died.
* In the [[Doctor Who]] episode ''[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/NS/S3 /E13 Last of the Time Lords|Last of the Time Lords]]'', Martha Jones walks the world alone for a year after The Master successfully takes over and reduces the planet to [[Crapsack World|a living hell hole]] in preparation for its total annihilation. She becomes something of a legend, considered to be a savior who will defeat the Master. Martha's means of saving the world however involves spreading stories about the Doctor ''"no weapons, just words"'', as well as leaving an instruction, and insisting the whole time that [[The Messiah|the Doctor]] is the actual saviour.
** The Tenth Doctor may have been accepted as a messianic figure by many humans in the New Series, but the writers of the Eleventh Doctor really take advantage of this trope. River Song is convinced that Eleven is the closest thing to a god that the Whoniverse has. Eleven himself seems to believe in some sort of God instinctively, and seems convinced that a higher power is messing with his head. Eleven hates himself (at least according to one of the writers), but is unable to fully save the universe until he accepts (at least temporarily) at least one of those "flaws". For the Christmas Special, people have commented that Eleven will "save the soul of a rich man". They haven't played with the idea as much as as the Tenth did yet, but give them time...
** The RTD era is a subversion as Waters of Mars thoroughly demonstrates that {{spoiler|once the Doctor starts thinking of himself as a saviour or god, he becomes more of a [[Dark Messiah]]}} and that, ultimately, all the messiah metaphors scattered throughout seasons 1-4 aren't meant to indicate anything good. So far Moffat seems to be playing the [[Messianic Archetype]] straight.
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