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This page lists '''appearances of [[The Master]] in the order in which they experienced them'''. It relies on much speculation to fit semi-contradictory sources together, and should ''absolutely not'' be seen as representative of this wiki's general policy.


This page lists '''appearances of [[The Master]] in the order in which he experienced them'''.
{{Doctor Who timelines}}


== Limiting factors ==
== Early life ==
What happened to the Master after ''Survival'' are hard to reconcile as there are three opposing accounts as to what happened.
{{Main|Theory:Timeline - The Master's early life}}
Events after ''Doctor Who'' are difficult to reconcile with each other as they offer contradictory accounts to what happened when the Master escaped the [[Eye of Harmony]].


==Series Basics==
== The War Chief ==
The Master's appearances can be roughly categorised by what incarnation he was in when the story took place and what medium the story took place in.
:: ''Some accounts imply that the [[War Chief]] was an incarnation of the Master, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon]]'') although others state that they are separate individuals. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'', ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')


===TV===
:: ''[[The War Lord]] encounters the Time Lord who will become his War Chief in a [[Trastevarian]] jail, after the Time Lord [[regenerate]]s from his injuries. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Save Yourself (short story)|Save Yourself]]'')''
*[[The Master (UNIT years)]]
*[[The Master (Tremas)]]
*[[The Master (Bruce)]]
*[[The Master (Yana)]]
*[[The Master (Harold Saxon)]]


===Comics===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]''
*[[The Master (The Fallen)]]
: The War Chief matches wits with the [[Second Doctor]] when he lands in the [[War Game]]s, until he proposes an alliance with the Doctor to double-cross the War Lords and seize their powers for themselves. When his treachery is discovered, the War Chief is apparently executed.


===Novels===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]''
*[[The Master (First Frontier)]]
: Continuing on from ''The War Games'', the War Chief undergoes a faulty regeneration from his execution, manifesting as two bodies fused together. Convincing the remaining War Lords that his treachery was a misunderstanding, the War Chief frees them from their [[time loop]] prison, and takes them to [[Nazi]] [[Germany]], where he becomes an occult advisor to [[Adolf Hitler]], with the intention of replacing him as [[Führer]] with [[Heinrich Himmler]]. When the [[Seventh Doctor]] exposes his plans, the War Chief is caught in an explosion at [[Drachensberg]] [[castle]] and is briefly glimpsed by Ace with a "young, tall, dark and satanically handsome" appearance.


===Audio===
== The Master (Roger Delgado) ==
*[[The Master (Dust Breeding)]]
{{main|Theory:Timeline - The Master (Terror of the Autons)}}


==Timeline==
== The Decayed Master ==
*[[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'' (flashback)
{{main|Theory:Timeline - Decayed Master}}
:The Master is at the Academy.
*[[MA]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]''
:Regenerates into the ''Unit Years'' Master.
*[[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]''
*[[EDA]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]''
:Is badly injured by a Dalek superweapon and leads directly into ''The Deadly Assassin''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]''
*[[BFA]]: ''[[Trail of the White Worm]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The King's Demons]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]''
*[[ST]]: ''[[A Town Called Eternity]]''
:The Master is scarred after the events of ''Planet of Fire''.
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[Survival]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''
*[[EDA]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'' (cameo)
:Set just after ''Doctor Who'' whilst the Master is trapped inside the Eye of Harmony.
*[[EDA]]: ''[[Sometime Never...]]'' (cameo)
*[[EDA]]: ''[[The Deadstone Memorial]]'' (cameo) [[EDA]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'' (cameo)
:The Master is still trapped inside the Eye of Harmony.


*[[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]
=== The "Tremas" Master ===
*[[DWF]]: ''[[Speech Day]]''
{{main|Theory:Timeline - The Master (Tremas)}}
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]/''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''
:*[[NSA]]: ''[[The Story of Martha]]'' (cameo)
:Set during the final scene of ''Last of the Time Lords''.
*[[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''


==Unplaced==
=== The "Bruce" Master ===
The following stories deature the ''Unit years''' Master.
{{main|Theory:Timeline - The Master (Bruce)}}
*[[MA]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]''
*[[MA]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]'' 
*[[EDA]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]''
*[[PDA]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]''
*[[PDA]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion]]''
*[[PDA]]: ''[[Last of the Gaderene]]''
*[[PDA]]: ''[[Verdigris (novel)|Verdigris]]''
*[[PHS]]: ''[[Smash Hit]]''
*[[DWY]]: ''[[Reconnaissance]]''
*[[TVC]]: ''[[The One Second Hour]]''
*[[DWAN]]: ''[[Doorway into Nowhere]]''
*[[DWAN]]: ''[[Listen - The Stars]]''
*[[DWAN]]: ''[[Out of the Green Mist]]''
*[[VD]]: ''[[The Duke of Dominoes]]''
*[[ST]]: ''[[The Seismologist's Story]]''
*[[ST]]: ''[[Hidden Talent]]''
*[[ST]]: ''[[The Switching]]''
*[[ST]]: ''[[Freedom]]''
*''[[Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q"]]''
*[[PHS]]: ''[[Fogbound]]''
*[[DWM]]: ''[[The Man in the Ion Mask]]''


The following stories deature the ''Tremas''' Master.
=== The Old Master ===
*[[VG]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror]]''
{{main|Theory:Timeline - Old Master}}
*[[VG]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]''
*[[PDA]]: ''[[Prime Time]]''
*[[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]''
*[[RT]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade]]''
*[[DWAN]]: ''[[Night Flight to Nowhere]]''
*[[DWAN]]: ''[[The Creation of Camelot]]''
*[[DWAN]]: ''[[The Time Savers]]''
*[[DWAN]]: ''[[The Fellowship of Quan]]''
*[[DWAN]]: ''[[The Radio Waves]]''
*[[ST]]: ''[[Stop the Pigeon]]''


These stories feature the ''First Frontier'' Master.
== The Reborn Master ==
*[[NA]]: ''[[First Frontier]]''
{{main|Theory:Timeline - Reborn Master}}
*[[NA]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]''
*[[VD]]: ''[[Housewarming]]''


These stories feature the ''Dust Breeding'' Master.
== The "War Child" Master ==
*[[BFA]]: ''[[Dust Breeding]]''
{{main|Theory:Timeline - "War Child" Master}}
*[[BFA]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]''


These stories are set sometime after ''Doctor Who'' and offer opposing accounts as to how the Master escaped the Eye of Harmony.
== The War Master ==
*[[ST]]: ''[[Prologue]]'' ([[deathworm]])
{{Main|Theory:Timeline - War Master}}
*[[ST]]: ''[[Forgotten]]'' (deathworm)


*[[DWM]]: ''[[The Fallen]]''
== The Saxon Master ==
*[[DWM]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead]]''
{{Main|Theory:Timeline - The Master (Harold Saxon)}}


*[[EDA]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]''
== Missy ==
{{main|Theory:Timeline - Missy}}
 
== The Lumiat ==
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]''
: In an aborted timeline, the Lumiat projects herself to Missy to warn her of the dangers of an [[entropy wave]]. She asks Missy to give over her remaining regenerations, but Missy refuses.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lumiat (audio story)|The Lumiat]]''
: The Lumiat foils several of Missy's schemes, leading Missy to believe she is the Doctor. They spend some time travelling together, with the Lumiat trying to act as a good influence on her. However, Missy soon grows bored of the Lumiat and mortally wounds her, abandoning her in the middle of her regeneration.
 
== The Spy Master ==
{{main|Theory:Timeline - The Master (Spyfall)}}
 
== Other universes ==
=== The [[Unbound Master]] ===
{{main|Theory:Timeline - The Unbound Master}}
 
== Currently unplaced ==
:: ''These entries are placed here due to being part of ongoing storylines that have yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of this Master's timeline, unless further evidence arises in the stories to come.''
 
== Awaiting placement ==
:: ''These entries are placed here until a suitable position in the timeline can be determined based on the available evidence.''
 
=== The ''Doctor Who'' Annuals Master ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Creation of Camelot (short story)|The Creation of Camelot]]''
: The Master is in the same body as described in ''The Radio Waves'', and is recognised by the [[Fifth Doctor]].
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Fellowship of Quan (short story)|The Fellowship of Quan]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Radio Waves (short story)|The Radio Waves]]''
: The Master has "pale skin, prominent cheekbones, a neatly-trimmed black goatee, and voluminous hair with a widow peek", and is recognised by the [[Sixth Doctor]].

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This page lists appearances of The Master in the order in which they experienced them. It relies on much speculation to fit semi-contradictory sources together, and should absolutely not be seen as representative of this wiki's general policy.

Early life[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - The Master's early life

The War Chief[[edit source]]

Some accounts imply that the War Chief was an incarnation of the Master, (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons, Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon) although others state that they are separate individuals. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties, A Brief History of Time Lords)
The War Lord encounters the Time Lord who will become his War Chief in a Trastevarian jail, after the Time Lord regenerates from his injuries. (PROSE: Save Yourself)
The War Chief matches wits with the Second Doctor when he lands in the War Games, until he proposes an alliance with the Doctor to double-cross the War Lords and seize their powers for themselves. When his treachery is discovered, the War Chief is apparently executed.
Continuing on from The War Games, the War Chief undergoes a faulty regeneration from his execution, manifesting as two bodies fused together. Convincing the remaining War Lords that his treachery was a misunderstanding, the War Chief frees them from their time loop prison, and takes them to Nazi Germany, where he becomes an occult advisor to Adolf Hitler, with the intention of replacing him as Führer with Heinrich Himmler. When the Seventh Doctor exposes his plans, the War Chief is caught in an explosion at Drachensberg castle and is briefly glimpsed by Ace with a "young, tall, dark and satanically handsome" appearance.

The Master (Roger Delgado)[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - The Master (Terror of the Autons)

The Decayed Master[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - Decayed Master

The "Tremas" Master[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - The Master (Tremas)

The "Bruce" Master[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - The Master (Bruce)

The Old Master[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - Old Master

The Reborn Master[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - Reborn Master

The "War Child" Master[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - "War Child" Master

The War Master[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - War Master

The Saxon Master[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - The Master (Harold Saxon)

Missy[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - Missy

The Lumiat[[edit source]]

In an aborted timeline, the Lumiat projects herself to Missy to warn her of the dangers of an entropy wave. She asks Missy to give over her remaining regenerations, but Missy refuses.
The Lumiat foils several of Missy's schemes, leading Missy to believe she is the Doctor. They spend some time travelling together, with the Lumiat trying to act as a good influence on her. However, Missy soon grows bored of the Lumiat and mortally wounds her, abandoning her in the middle of her regeneration.

The Spy Master[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - The Master (Spyfall)

Other universes[[edit source]]

The Unbound Master[[edit source]]

Main article: Theory:Timeline - The Unbound Master

Currently unplaced[[edit source]]

These entries are placed here due to being part of ongoing storylines that have yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of this Master's timeline, unless further evidence arises in the stories to come.

Awaiting placement[[edit source]]

These entries are placed here until a suitable position in the timeline can be determined based on the available evidence.

The Doctor Who Annuals Master[[edit source]]

The Master is in the same body as described in The Radio Waves, and is recognised by the Fifth Doctor.
The Master has "pale skin, prominent cheekbones, a neatly-trimmed black goatee, and voluminous hair with a widow peek", and is recognised by the Sixth Doctor.
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