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== Nature == | == Nature == | ||
[[File:The Master Regenerates Doorway.jpg|thumb|left|In one account, the "UNIT era" Master begins to regenerate, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'') which he could not have securely done had he been in his thirteenth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet Missy! (short story)|Meet Missy!]]'', ''[[The Doctor vs the Master (short story)|The Doctor vs the Master]]'')]] | |||
By their nature as a [[Time Lord]], the Master was [[born]] with an initial [[life cycle]] of [[13 (number)|13]] lives, which the [[Eighth Doctor]] knew had all been used by the time of {{Tipple}}'s [[The Master's trial (Doctor Who)|trial]] on [[Skaro]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Missy acknowledged that she had first died thirteen times before before taking over "some bloke's body". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') In fact, {{Pratt}}, who claimed to be nearing the end of his "twelfth [[regeneration]]", had acquired "{{Ainley|n=a new body}}" in the [[Trakenite]] [[Tremas]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') Surviving his [[execution]] on [[Skaro]] as a [[Deathworm Morphant]], {{Tipple}} took the body of [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|Bruce]], a [[human]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | By their nature as a [[Time Lord]], the Master was [[born]] with an initial [[life cycle]] of [[13 (number)|13]] lives, which the [[Eighth Doctor]] knew had all been used by the time of {{Tipple}}'s [[The Master's trial (Doctor Who)|trial]] on [[Skaro]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Missy acknowledged that she had first died thirteen times before before taking over "some bloke's body". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') In fact, {{Pratt}}, who claimed to be nearing the end of his "twelfth [[regeneration]]", had acquired "{{Ainley|n=a new body}}" in the [[Trakenite]] [[Tremas]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') Surviving his [[execution]] on [[Skaro]] as a [[Deathworm Morphant]], {{Tipple}} took the body of [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|Bruce]], a [[human]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | ||
{{Roberts|n=The Bruce Master}} claimed to [[Chang Lee]] that the Doctor had taken most of his [[regeneration]]s whilst the Doctor told [[Grace Holloway]] that the Master was both "on his last life" and had "[ran] out of all his lives". In their ensuing [[Regeneration Operation|confrontation]], the Master claimed that it was because of the Doctor that he had "wasted all [his] lives". The Doctor challenged this, reminding Lee that the Master claimed that he had stolen those lives when the reality was that the Master sought the Doctor's remaining lives after having "used all his lives", noting that the Master himself had just admitted to wasting "all of them". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') In any case, the bodily theft was followed by the Master's fourteenth death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') | {{Roberts|n=The Bruce Master}} claimed to [[Chang Lee]] that the Doctor had taken most of his [[regeneration]]s whilst the Doctor told [[Grace Holloway]] that the Master was both "on his last life" and had "[ran] out of all his lives". In their ensuing [[Regeneration Operation|confrontation]], the Master claimed that it was because of the Doctor that he had "wasted all [his] lives". The Doctor challenged this, reminding Lee that the Master claimed that he had stolen those lives when the reality was that the Master sought the Doctor's remaining lives after having "used all his lives", noting that the Master himself had just admitted to wasting "all of them". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') In any case, the bodily theft was followed by the Master's fourteenth death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') | ||
== The Master on Earth == | |||
[[File:UNIT era Master in Frontier in Space.jpg|thumb|The "UNIT era" Master. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')]] | |||
According to one account, {{Delgado}} who fought the [[Third Doctor]] during the latter's [[exile on Earth]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') was forced to [[regenerate]] after being injured in a temporal storm after an encounter with the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'') Because he was suffering from an [[artron energy]] deficiency ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dead Travel Fast (short story)|The Dead Travel Fast]]'') as a result of the storm, his regeneration went wrong ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'') and his new incarnation was brought into existence already horribly scarred. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dead Travel Fast (short story)|The Dead Travel Fast]]'') This {{Pratt|n=Decayed Master}} was believed by his fellow [[Time Lord]]s to be at the end of his [[regeneration cycle]] following a twelfth regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') | |||
According to one account, the Decayed Master emerged as a result of [[Susan Foreman]] forcing the "UNIT era" Master out onto [[Tersurus]] and attacking him with the [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]] while he was holding the [[Dalek]]s' [[matter transmuter]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
=== Invalid sources === | === Invalid sources === | ||
[[File:FASA Beardy Master.jpg|thumb|The Master. ([[NOTVALID]]: ''[[The Doctor Who Role Playing Game]]'')]] | |||
''[[The Doctor Who Role Playing Game]]'' by [[FASA]], which admits to taking liberties with the source material in its opening pages, gives a rundown of the Master's first thirteen [[incarnation]]s in "[[The Master (reference book)|The Master]]" supplement book, which was similar to (but not entirely consistent with) the in-universe biography given for [[the Master]] in FASA's own ''[[CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts]]''. | ''[[The Doctor Who Role Playing Game]]'' by [[FASA]], which admits to taking liberties with the source material in its opening pages, gives a rundown of the Master's first thirteen [[incarnation]]s in "[[The Master (reference book)|The Master]]" supplement book, which was similar to (but not entirely consistent with) the in-universe biography given for [[the Master]] in FASA's own ''[[CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts]]''. | ||
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=== Other matters === | === Other matters === | ||
In [[2023 (releases)|2023]], a fan-made infographic of the Master's incarnations which identified {{Delgado}} as played by [[Roger Delgado]] as the "Twelfth Master", between [[Edward Brayshaw]]'s [[The War Chief|War Chief]] and | In [[2023 (releases)|2023]], a fan-made infographic of the Master's incarnations which identified {{Delgado}} as played by [[Roger Delgado]] as the "Twelfth Master", between [[Edward Brayshaw]]'s [[The War Chief|War Chief]] and {{Pratt}}, was retweeted by the official [[Big Finish Productions]] Twitter account, who compared the character profiles to "new [[Weetabix]] cards".<ref>{{cite web | ||
|url=https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1610629581442109451 | |url=https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1610629581442109451 | ||
|title=New Weetabix cards. | |title=New Weetabix cards. |