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|name              = Nineteenth Master

|image            = The Doctor Falls Master Kill it.jpg

|alias            = [[Aliases of the Master#"Harold Saxon" incarnation|'''''see list''''']]

|job              = Minister of Defence

|job2             = Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

|job3             = Janitor

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After a faulty resurrection by the [[Disciples of Saxon]], the Master used the [[Immortality Gate]] to create the [[Master Race]] and attempted to free [[Gallifrey]] from the [[Time lock]] of the [[Last Great Time War]], but instead entered the last day of the war to get revenge on [[Rassilon]].  

After Gallifrey returned to the universe, the Master left, and eventually ended up on a [[Mondasian]] [[colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]], where he came face to face with a future incarnation of himself in a female body called "Missy". When the Master made to flee from the [[Cybermen]] instead of facing them with the [[Twelfth Doctor]], he was stabbed by Missy, but was able to fatally injure her with his [[laser screwdriver]] before he regenerated from the stab wound.

After years of living as a human being under a [[Chameleon Arch]], the Master was tempted to open the Arch after a meeting with the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Martha Jones]] and [[Jack Harkness]] at the [[end of the universe]], where the Master had been working on the [[Utopia Project]] with [[Chantho]]. Arfter reverting to his true personality, the Master was shot by Chanto after he fatally wounded her, forcing him to [[regenerate]] inside [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')

Now in his nineteenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'') the Master left the Doctor, Martha and Jack on the [[planet]] [[Malcassairo]] with [[Futurekind]] about to burst in the laboratory door, taking the TARDIS and the Doctor's DNA template via [[the Doctor's hand]], which Jack had taken with him to Malcassairo. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') Because of the Doctor's last-minute intervention, the TARDIS would only take the Master to [[Earth]] in the [[2000s]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') with his first stop being to the [[Scoundrels Club]] to recover from the regeneration process. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')  

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Under the guise of "Harold Saxon", the Master entered the government as [[Minister for Communications]], an office under which he designed the [[Archangel Network]] which was hailed as a telecommunications breakthrough. This telecommunications network, tied to mobile phones, carried a mind control signal which made humans trust him. The network affected the Doctor so he had no suspicions as to the Master's presence as "Harold Saxon", as he would have normally noticed the presence of another Time Lord. To those few humans conscious of it, the signal was a persistent drumbeat, the constant drumbeat the Master always heard, that only they could hear.

By [[2007]], "Saxon" had become [[Minister of Defence]] of Great Britain, and had been a driving force in designing the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'', [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]]'s air carrier. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') He went on to campaign for the general election as [[Prime Minister]] of [[Great Britain]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters (TV story)|Love & Monsters]]'') with the slogan "Vote Saxon". ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'') On [[Christmas Eve]], he gave orders for [[British Army]] [[tank]]s to destroy the [[Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride)|Empress of the Racnoss]]'s [[webstar]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'')

The Master visited "Saxon's" old high school during the campaign, using the [[Archangel Network]] to brainwash the staff into having false memories of "Saxon" to gain political support. One teacher, [[James Curtis]], was resistant to the Network, so the Master used his [[laser screwdriver]] to implant the appropriate memories into his mind. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Speech Day]]'')

"Saxon" asserted that [[alien|extraterrestrial life]] did exist and Britain had to do something about it. This made him popular in early [[2008]], after the [[Judoon]] had taken the [[Royal Hope Hospital]] to [[the Moon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'') On the [[4 June|same day]], he was asked to appear on ''[[Big Celebrity Dance Mania]]'', but declined. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'')

"Saxon" also funded the rejuvenation experiments of [[Richard Lazarus]], presumably revealing at least in part the biological processes involved in a Time Lord's physical regeneration; its similarities were noted by the Doctor on observing the process. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]'') With the results from this and the Doctor's DNA, the Master could use the laser screwdriver to age the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') After Martha had left with the Doctor, "Saxon" had a [[Mysterious man (The Lazarus Experiment)|mysterious man]] meet with Martha's mother, [[Francine Jones|Francine]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]'') and then had [[Dexter (42)|an agent]] tap into a conversation between Francine and Martha through the [[superphone]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'')

Before the Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack arrived back from the end of the universe, the Master had sent [[Torchwood Three]] on a wild-goose chase to the [[Himalayas]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') and, along with all other incarnations of the Master, was kidnapped by the [[Sild]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'') The Master also taught the [[Disciples of Saxon]] how to create the [[Potion of Life]], and made preparations to be resurrected in the event of his death. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')

With his election a sure thing, [[politician]]s from other parties flocked to his side. Harold Saxon was elected [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] in [[May]] [[2008]], and visited [[Buckingham Palace]] soon after to give a victory speech.

He gathered his Cabinet for a meeting in the re-built [[10 Downing Street]] and accused them of being traitors for abandoning their political parties to jump on his political ticket. He rigged the desk phone speakers on the Cabinet Room table to release a lethal gas that killed the Cabinet ministers while using a gas mask to protect himself and mock his victims. He later unleashed the [[Toclafane]] on ''[[Sunday Mirror]]'' reporter [[Vivien Rook]], who threatened to expose his fabricated past to the public.  

The Master moved to the ''Valiant'', which the governments of Earth considered neutral territory and therefore fitting for formal first contact with alien life. The Master had the Toclafane murder the [[President of the United States|American President]] [[Arthur Coleman Winters]] and captured the Doctor, Martha and Jack, who had come to the ''Valiant'' earlier that day. Using the results from Professor Lazarus's experiment, along with the DNA in the Doctor's hand, the Master used his laser screwdriver to age the Doctor into an old man, and then ordered the Toclafane to kill one tenth of humanity and commence [[Toclafane invasion|their invasion]] as Martha escaped. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')

While ruling the world for a year, the Master had [[Bill Gates]] executed, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Diary of the Master (short story)|The Secret Diary of the Master]]'') and discovered that the [[Drast]] had secretly invaded before he arrived. Furious, he ordered the Toclafane to burn Japan, where the Drast were situated. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story of Martha (short story)|The Story of Martha]]'')  

[[File:Bexley's got rough.jpg|thumb|left|The Master and his troops search for [[Martha Jones]] in [[Bexley]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')]]

By [[2009]], the Master had converted Earth into a slave camp which he ruled from the ''Valiant''. The Master aged the Doctor even further and planned to expand his [[New Time Lord Empire]] into space. He built an army of warships to take his war across the universe. Martha used the legend of the Doctor, which she had spread, and the thoughts of Earth thinking "Doctor" at the same time. Their [[psychic energy]] was channeled through the Archangel Network, which the Doctor had spent the year infiltrating [[telepathy|telepathically]]. The psychic energy restored the Doctor and gave him [[telekinetic]] powers. After cowering from the Doctor's forgiveness, the Master used [[Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator|Jack's vortex manipulator]] to teleport him and the Doctor to Earth, where he threatened to use the [[black hole converter]] to detonate the rockets, but was foiled by the Doctor's knowledge that the Master could not kill himself.  

[[File:LotTLSimmMasterDefeat.jpg|thumb|The Master cowers before the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')]]

Jack destroyed the Paradox Machine and reversed time one year, although this did not affect anyone aboard the ''Valiant''. Lucy shot the Master. Defeated, he refused to [[regenerate]] to spite the Doctor, and died in his arms, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') having already made the preparations for his resurrection. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The Doctor burned the Master's body on a pyre, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') but, long after he had left, [[Trefusis|Miss Trefusis]], one of the warders of [[Broadfell Prison]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') retrieved [[the Master's ring]] from his funeral pyre. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') As far as the general public were aware, Harold Saxon "went mad" and disappeared, along with President Winters. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') Among all ex-Prime Ministers, Saxon was on file by [[UNIT]], who noted him as one of the Master's incarnations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') By the year [[2119]], Saxon was well-remembered enough that [[Alice O'Donnell]] referred to [[1980]] as "pre-Harold Saxon". ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'')

[[File:24.jpg|thumb|The Master during his resurrection. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]

On Christmas Eve [[2009]], the [[Governor (The End of Time)|prison governor]] of [[Broadfell Prison]] brought Lucy Saxon to a chamber where most of the staff were members of the [[Disciples of Saxon]], who had been working ever since the Master's death to bring about his [[resurrection]]. With the help of the ring and a biometric imprint taken from Lucy, the nude Master reappeared in a swirl of energy, but Lucy and one other warder had prepared for this. To stop his resurrection, Lucy hurled a [[Potion of Death]] at the Master. His followers and Lucy were killed in the resulting explosion.

[[File:The Master Unstable Body.jpg|left|thumb|The Master's damaged body flickers between flesh and raw bones. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]

The Master survived the blast, but his physical form was flawed: his once-brown hair was now bleached blond, and he was unkempt and covered in stubble. Moreover, his [[life force]] was left in a state of constant depletion, forcing him to consume huge quantities of food and drain the vitality of humans to stay alive. As a side effect of the botched resurrection, he could expend his life force for enhanced agility and send bolts of energy from his hands. The Master's body would even fluctuate between a fleshy form and a half-skeletal state.

 

[[File:Doctor Who - The End of Time.jpg|thumb|The [[Master Race]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]

Encountering the Doctor soon after, the Master and the Doctor discovered the drumming in the Master's head was real, not just a symptom of insanity. The Doctor also told him of the [[prophecy]] told to him by the [[Ood]], but the Master quickly dismissed it, assuming that it was referring to him. Billionaire [[Joshua Naismith]] then captured the Master and enlisted his assistance to mend the malfunctioning [[Vinvocci]] medical machine, which he had christened the "[[Immortality Gate]]". The Master co-operated for his own purposes. He broke out of a straitjacket and flew into the gateway, which he had working a billion fold on the human template. The gateway sent out an energy pulse that transformed every human on Earth, except Wilf, whom the Doctor protected with a radiation shield, and his granddaughter, [[Donna Noble]], who was unaffected due to her part-Time Lord physiology, into [[the Master Race]] — identical copies of the Master subservient to him.

After the Doctor and Wilf were rescued from the Master by two [[Vinvocci]], the Master used the combined mental powers of the Master Race and a [[White-Point Star]] that had fallen on Earth to trace the origin of the drumbeat in his head. Receiving contact from the [[Time Lord]] [[High Council]] on the last day of the Time War, the Master tore open the [[time lock]] on the war, bringing back the Time Lords. As the [[Lord President]] [[Rassilon]] and his council arrived through the Immortality Gate, the Master announced he intended to transplant himself into the entire Time Lord race, just as he had done to the human race. Rassilon, using [[Rassilon's gauntlet|his gauntlet]], reversed the effects of the Master's transplantation, and watched as Gallifrey returned to the universe on a collision course with Earth. The Doctor berated the Master for breaking the time lock, warning him that it wouldn't just be the Time Lords and the Daleks, and that he had just opened up "Hell".

[[File:Masterarc.jpg|thumb|left|The Master getting revenge on [[Rassilon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]

Rassilon revealed his plans for the [[Ultimate Sanction]]; the Master asked if he could also "ascend into glory", but Rassilon rebuffed him, calling him "diseased" and revealed that he was responsible for the drumming that the Master had experienced all of his life, and prepared to execute him, but the Doctor stepped in with Wilfred's pistol. After some hesitation on whether to shoot Rassilon or the Master, he shot the White-Point Star, destroying the link. Enraged, Rassilon prepared to kill the Doctor, but the Master unleashed his bio-electric blasts at the President, roaring that the Time Lords had manipulated him and made him the monster he had become, counting the beat of the rhythm that had resounded in his head and tormenting him all his life. The Time Lords, Gallifrey, and the Master then vanished in a burst of white light, and were sent "back into [the] hell" of the final day of the Time War. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')

While [[the Moment]] foresaw the battle as ending with the Master and Rassilon both regenerating, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pandoric's Box (short story)|Pandoric's Box]]'') the Master was able to survive his encounter with Rassilon, though Rassilon still regenerated after the Master choked him with several [[White-Point Star]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'') After his "condition" was cured by the Time Lords, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') the Master escaped [[Gomer's Asylum]], blowing up the [[War Room]] in the process, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'') and left Gallifrey in [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]], seeing his departure as "a mutual kicking [him] out." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

Still possessing blond hair and stubble, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen]]'') the "Saxon" Master was greeted by a {{Gomez|n=female incarnation of himself known as "Missy,"}} who had developed a plan to form a band to hypnotise viewers of ''[[The Battle of the Bands Beyond the Stars]]''. {{Pratt|n=His decaying thirteenth incarnation}}, {{Ainley|n=the incarnation possessing the body of Tremas}} and {{Roberts|n=the incarnation possessing the body of "Bruce"}} all joined in the plan, and the team spent "decades" practising. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'') Much to his appreciation, he was allowed to play the [[drum]]s. After unveiling their presence to the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen]]'') the Masters prepared for their performance. However, the "Tremas" Master began to fight with Missy over the control of [[Missy's device|her device]], believing that he alone could hold the universe in his grasp. The other Masters soon joined in the fight for power as well, while the "Saxon" Master joined seemingly for the fun of it. The five were quickly disqualified, seemingly destroying them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'')

[[File:Missy pregnant.jpg|thumb|left|The Master is shocked to see his future incarnation with [[Missy's child|a baby]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Winning (short story)|Winning]]'')]]

[[File:WEaTSimmMasterasRazor.jpg|thumb|left|The Master disguised as "[[Razor (World Enough and Time)|Razor]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')]]

While working for [[Hospital (World Enough and Time)|a hospital]] hosting the [[Conversion Theatre]], the Master found [[Bill Potts]], who had been given a cybernetic chestpiece after being shot on [[Floor 0000]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') The two of them spent ten years on the lower decks, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') where the Master learned that the [[Twelfth Doctor]] was at the front of the ship. Studying the woman travelling with the Doctor, {{Gomez}}, the Master eventually deduced that she was a future incarnation of himself trying to turn [[good]]. Becoming "concerned about [his] future", the Master lured Bill into surgery for full [[cyber-conversion]], knowing that the Doctor would never forgive him for it. Watching as the Doctor, [[Nardole]], and Missy arrived, the Master revealed his identity to Missy, and the two of them gloated to the Doctor about the fate of his companion. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')  

[[File:The_Doctor_Falls_Any_Requests_Master.jpg|thumb|left|The Master with his future incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')]]

Restraining the Doctor before taking him to the hospital roof, the Master flirted and danced with Missy until the Cybermen turned on them due to the Doctor expanding the Cybermen's definition of humanity to register lifeforms with two hearts as human. Just as [[Nardole]] arrived with [[SL-16|a stolen shuttlecraft]], the Doctor was attacked by one of the Cybermen. The Master and Missy attempted to convince Nardole to leave without him, but their shuttle was stopped by the cyber-converted Bill, who still retained her humanity. Crashing through 549 floors of the colony ship, the shuttlecraft gave out at one of the solar farms. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

That [[night]], while the Doctor recovered from their escape, the Master, accompanied by Missy, ventured to [[Floor 0508]] to revert the Doctor's edits to the Cybermen back on Floor 1056 and regain control of the Cybermen, though they were followed by [[Alit]] and a [[Patient (World Enough and Time)|patient]] that Missy named "[[Topknot]]". However, after an encounter with a patrol of [[CyberNeomorph]]s, the Master abandoned his plans in favour of being rescued by Missy and Alit before destroying the Cyberman patrol, eager to return to Floor 0507 before any other Cybermen arrived. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')

After two weeks of searching, the Master and Missy found disguised lifts, but Missy accidentally summoned the Cybermen in her attempt to escape. Unable to return to the Doctor's TARDIS due to how quickly time was moving on the floor of the Cybermen, the Doctor insisted that they had to prepare for a confrontation. As the Doctor prepared to fight, the Master explained to Missy how he had blown the dematerialisation circuit in his TARDIS, which was surrounded by Cybermen on the bottom floor. Missy, recalling an instance where a very scary woman had pushed him up against a wall and insisted that he always keep a spare dematerialisation circuit, pushed the Master against the wall and insisted that he always keep a spare dematerialisation circuit, revealing the spare dematerialisation circuit she kept on her person. Before departing, however, the pair asked what the Doctor's plan was, knowing that he wouldn't be able to save everyone on the ship. As the Doctor explained that he wanted to save these people simply because it was the right thing to do and tried to implore the Master to stand with him in the battle, the Master made his refusal of the offer known, and he left with Missy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

==== Death ====

After returning to his TARDIS, the Master [[regeneration|regenerated]] into his nineteenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') the same incarnation that had fatally wounded him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

Immediately after his regeneration, the Master appeared to have gone more insane than ever, gleefully jumping around [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]' [[TARDIS control console|control console]], while ecstatically laughing, and toying with his new voice. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') By this point in his life, the Master was tormented more than ever by "[[The Drumming|the drums]]" in his head, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') but, after his sabotaged resurrection, he admitted to seeing it as a central piece of his identity, convinced that something was calling to him through the drum beat. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') So much was he obsessed with them, that, on one occasion, "the drums" was all he would say. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen (comic story)|The Abominable Showmen]]'', ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'') On another occasion, however, the Master fearfully asked the Doctor if he thought "the drumming" would stop after he died. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')

Much like his previous incarnations, the "Saxon" Master was ostentatious; offering out [[jelly babies]] and [[grits]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') opting to wear eyeliner in preparation for being a woman in his next incarnation, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') and dancing to the [[Rogue Traders]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and the [[Scissor Sisters]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He also enjoyed watching the ''[[Teletubbies]]'', believing that the televisions in their stomachs was true evolution, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and thrived on chaos, describing the last day of the [[Last Great Time War]] as "[his] kind of world", ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and was excited about getting into fights. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') He also admitted to loving disguises, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and was particularly outraged when he was "stuck looking like the old Prime Minister." ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')

[[File:SaxonSmile.jpg|thumb|"Harold Saxon" smiles to the camera after giving a post-electoral speech. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]

Behind his charismatic and charming demeanour, however, the "Saxon" Master was sadistic and childishly degrading, even going as far as to slip subtle and private jabs at the Doctor into his public speeches. When Francine, Clive and Tish were forcibly taken to the ''Valiant'' under armed guard, the Master shamelessly treated the ordeal like a school field trip, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and, during [[the Year That Never Was]], he kept them as slaves, taking every opportunity he could to belittle them, even goading Francine into murdering him, until the Doctor convinced her otherwise. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He also made [[Bill Potts]] aware of his part in her [[Cyber-conversion]] to upset her, and was disappointed when his remarks seemed to have failed, stating that she had "[taken] all the fun out of cruelty". He was also alarmed and disgusted at the idea of his future self gaining [[empathy]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') and disliked being interrupted. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')

[[File:Master Black Hole Converter Detonator.jpeg|thumb|The Master realises he can not sacrifice himself to kill the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')]]

He was extremely vain and narcissistic, with the [[Tenth Doctor]] noting that he would never destroy himself, even if he could destroy the Earth with him. During [[the Year That Never Was]], he had monuments of himself built all over Earth, and, according to [[Martha Jones]], had even sculptured himself onto [[Mount Rushmore]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He also used the [[Immortality Gate]] to turn the human race into duplicates of himself, which he dubbed the "[[Master Race]]", and also threatened to do the same to the [[Time Lord]]s, even asserting that [[Rassilon]] "[would] [look] better as [him]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') His vanity was so vast that when the [[Tenth Doctor]] forgave him for his actions, the Master collapsed and wept out of shame. After he expressed revulsion at being "kept" by the Doctor, the Master was shot by Lucy and, to spite the Doctor, decided not to regenerate and die. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') After meeting his female successor, {{Gomez}}, the Master admitted to being attracted to his future self, flirting and dancing with her. However, when he saw the possibility that Missy would aid the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the Master killed her. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') During his rule of [[Kiameth]], he agreed to help stop the entropy wave in hopes of the people loving him again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'')

The "Saxon" Master also had an exceptionally heightened sense of his own brilliance, even reciting a Bible-style verse of his own making to the Doctor as the [[Toclafane invasion]] began. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') He also held [[Time Lord]]s as the absolute superior race, automatically assuming the right to alter history on the principle of him being a Time Lord, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') and was confident that he could beat an entire city of Cybermen while only being armed with his [[laser screwdriver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') However, when his plans were foiled, the Master would turn cowardly, retreating at the first opportunity or allying with whoever could better protect him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'')  

The "Saxon" Master showed minimum affection for the Doctor. Even after he aged the [[Tenth Doctor]] to an elderly man, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') the Master continued to humiliate him by having him live in a makeshift tent aboard the ''Valiant'' during [[the Year That Never Was]], and then furthered the humiliation by ageing the Doctor until he morphed into an ancient dwarf-sized body, and then kept him locked up in a bird cage. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') When {{Gomez}} told him of her plans to join forces with the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the Master adamantly stated his refusal to stand with the Doctor and killed Missy with his [[laser screwdriver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') The Master was even willing to die to spite the Tenth Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') and claimed to prefer death than begging for the Twelfth Doctor's help. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')  He relished describing how he had supposedly finally killed the Doctor to his other selves. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'')

However, the "Saxon" Master was not without his reservations, considering Rassilon's [[Ultimate Sanction]] to be suicidal, but was still willing to subject himself to it to appease Rassilon. He also had a sense of honour, as he sacrificed himself to save the Doctor from Rassilon after the Doctor chose not to kill either of them, also getting his revenge on Rassilon for implanting "the drumming" in his head, and for Rassilon trying to kill him for being "diseased". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')

After his sabotaged [[resurrection]], the Master displayed a feral state that led him to act like a predatory animal, plagued by an insatiable hunger. Despite this insanity, the Master was capable of lucid conversation, nostalgically discussing his childhood friendship with the [[Tenth Doctor]]. He was also still a cunning strategist, allowing himself to remain [[Joshua Naismith]]'s prisoner so he could repair the Immortality Gate and use it to create his Master Race, all so he could turn the Earth into a warship, but then improvised a plan where he used his duplicates to locate the source of "the drumming". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The insanity he developed due to his botched resurrection and the drumming was fixed when the Time Lords repaired the Master's body back to normal. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

Though she referred to as "the Bonkers One", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet Missy! (short story)|Meet Missy!]]'') Missy recalled an enjoyment for being her "Saxon" incarnation, stating how he "burn[ed] like a sun, like a whole screaming world on fire." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') [[Alit]] described the "Saxon" Master as being "an odd and frightening man" with a habit for "nasty comments and exaggerated gestures". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')

After he was fatally stabbed by Missy, the Master admired how his death was "very nicely done", and found that it was "good to know [she] [hadn't] lost [his] touch." Though he accepted his impending regeneration, the Master was unwilling to accept that Missy would stand with the Doctor, and shot her dead. He then began laughing at their "perfect ending" being them "shoot[ing] [them]selves in the back", and continued to laugh as he made his way to his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') Despite this seeming acceptance, he did attempt to escape his coming demise, first by exploiting the energy source at Kiameth and then by gathering his own past selves to feed on them, and showed great hostility to Missy when she intervened. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'')

The "Saxon" Master made a habit of saying, "Oh, no you don't", saying it when the Doctor was locking the TARDIS's coordinates, ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') when avoiding a conversation with the Doctor, when the Doctor restored his youthful physiognomy with the Archangel Network's telepathic link, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') and when fending off a [[Mondasian Cyberman]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')

The Master shared the Tenth Doctor's technical knowledge, as he was able to construct his [[laser screwdriver]] from Earth components, cannibalise the Doctor's TARDIS and turn it into a [[Paradox machine]], miniaturise [[Richard Lazarus]]' genetic manipulation technology, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and was able to repair the [[Immortality Gate]] for [[Joshua Naismith]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') He also designed the [[Archangel Network]] and the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')

Like his previous incarnations, the "Saxon" Master had dangerous foresight and knew it was a mistake to give the Doctor hints about his plans while he could intervene. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') His methods for dealing with the Doctor during his reign as [[prime minister]] showed an efficient and simple mindset; framing the Doctor for murder to send the police after him, arresting Martha's family for insurance, and luring [[Torchwood Three]] away to the [[Himalayas]] to prevent Jack from recruiting their aide. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') He was likewise straight to the point when explaining how the time differentials were affecting the [[Mondas]]ian [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Colony ship]] to [[Bill Potts]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')

The "Saxon" Master was also a decent fighter, having brawled with his other incarnations on equal footing, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'') struck the Tenth Doctor down with a single [[punch]] to the face, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') knocked down a [[Patient (World Enough and Time)|partially-converted Cybermen]] with a blow to the back of their head, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and overpowered the [[Twelfth Doctor]] in unarmed combat. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

== Appearance and clothing ==

[[File:LucyBehindSaxon.jpg|thumb|left|The Master makes a speech. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')]]

In his nineteenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'') the Master was young, with light brown hair, and dark brown eyes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') According to the [[Twelfth Doctor]], he had a "round face". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'') As "Harold Saxon", the Master would wear a black suit with a white shirt and black tie. While meeting [[President]] [[Arthur Coleman Winters]], he wore a black coat with a crimson lined interior. He wore [[The Master's ring|a ring]] on his left ring finger, bearing the [[Lazarus Laboratories]] logo completed with [[circular Gallifreyan]] inside the disks on a green jewel background, while also wearing one on his left ring finger was a simple gold band. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')

After his botched resurrection, the Master's hair was bleached light blond, and he gained some stubble. To remain inconspicuous, he wore a black hooded sweatshirt over a red T-shirt with dark combat trousers and black boots. Due to the corruption of his [[life force]], the Master's outer skin would fade away and reveal the translucent blue life energy encasing his body, exposing his skeleton and internal organs, with each fluctuation making an unsettling primal roar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') After being "fixed" by the [[Time Lord]]s, the Master no longer distorted into the translucent blue energy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'')

By the time he found the [[Twelfth Doctor]] aboard the [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]], the Master had aged somewhat, now having grey hair and a beard. He also discarded his previous clothes for a black coat with a large red lined collar on the left-hand side, a green button up shirt, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') dark trousers, and black zip-up boots. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

When the [[Third Doctor]] saw the "Saxon" Master in [[Sild]] captivity, he described what he saw as "a young man in a business suit, beardless, with a mop of boyish hair," and that his face "seemed friendly and plausible", overall thinking him "the kind of man people would find easy to trust." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')

* The 2010 edition of ''[[Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary]]'' indicates that the "Saxon" Master is the seventeenth incarnation, though this source is considered [[T:VS|invalid]] by this wiki. The 2018 short story ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'' would later claim that the "Saxon" Master was the eighteenth incarnation.

 

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