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|alias            = '''''[[The Master's aliases|see list]]'''''
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'''The Master''', also known as '''"[[Missy]]"''' (short for '''"the Mistress"''') and '''[[the Lumiat]]''' in their two major female incarnations and [[The Master's aliases|by a variety of aliases and disguises]] throughout their lives, was a power-hungry [[renegade Time Lord]] who was [[the Doctor]]'s archnemesis.


Friends and schoolmates at the [[Time Lord Academy]] in [[The Master's early life|their youth]], the divide between the Master's lust for power and the Doctor's empathy for "[[lesser species]]" would eventually pull the two farther and farther apart — to the point that the Master often sought to kill the Doctor. Despite this enmity, however, the two would on occasion act as allies, and both continued to yearn for their old friendship.


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Like the Doctor, he also fled from [[Gallifrey]] in [[The Master's TARDIS|a TARDIS of his own]], and, having fully embraced his darker nature, {{Delgado}} would go on to pit himself against the [[Third Doctor]] and [[UNIT]] during the Doctor's [[exile on Earth]]. Later, having expended his original [[Life cycle|regeneration cycle]], the [[Thirteenth Master]] survived in the decayed form of a living cadaver, in which form he fought the [[Fourth Doctor]], before exploiting the powers of [[The Source (The Keeper of Traken)|the Source]] on [[Traken]] to steal the body of [[Tremas]]. The [[Tremas Master]] would continue his crusade to submit the universe to his will in a variety of stolen or otherwise fraudulent bodies, from using [[Tzun]] [[nanite]]s in order to gain new [[regeneration]]s, to transferring his essence into a [[Deathworm Morphant]], which allowed him to survive execution by the [[Dalek Prelature]], and continue to survive by possessing a succession of [[human]] bodies, such as [[Bruce Gerhardt]].
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'''The Master''' — known by [[Aliases of the Master|many other temporary aliases]] — was a [[renegade Time Lord]] and [[the Doctor]]'s arch-enemy.


Although they were originally boyhood friends ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]''), one of the Master's primary goals was to destroy the Doctor and [[Earth]] while acting on a number of schemes, both petty and gross. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
Finally killed by the [[Ravenous]], the Master was eventually restored to life for good on the instructions of the [[Time Lord]]s, in preparation for [[Last Great Time War|a future conflict]] with the [[Dalek]]s. The Master would once again regenerate, this time into [[War Master|an older body]] that tried to manipulate the conflict to suit his own goals. However, after his failure to end the war using the [[Heavenly Paradigm]], which had only resulted in even more devastation across the timeline, the Master was driven to such a state of terror that he fled to the [[end of the universe]] and turned himself into a human baby with a [[Chameleon Arch]]. After spending many years living as a humble [[Yana|human scientist]] on [[Malcassairo]], the Master's personality was reawakened by [[Martha Jones]], and, fatally shot by [[Chantho]], he regenerated into a younger body.


The Master was referred to as a "jackanapes" and an "unimaginative plodder" by the [[Third Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''), the "quintessence of evil" by the [[Fourth Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]''), "one of the most evil and corrupt beings [the] [[Time Lord]] race [had] ever produced" and that his "crimes [were] without number and [his] villainy without end" by High Council President [[Borusa]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''), "pure evil" by the [[Eighth Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''), "stone-cold brilliant" by the [[Tenth Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'' / ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''), and "the Time Lords' most infamous child" by Time Lord founder [[Rassilon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
Using the alias "[[Harold Saxon]]", the [[Saxon Master]] engineered his election as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] in the [[2008]] elections, and then sought to use the Earth to create a new Gallifrey. When his plan was foiled, he was shot by his wife, [[Lucy Saxon|Lucy]], and decided not to regenerate and die to spite the [[Tenth Doctor]]. Following 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 {{Dalton}}.


The Master's diabolical madness was at least partially the result of a genuine malady in the form of [[The Drumming|a never-ending drumming sound]] that had been retroactively implanted inside his head by the Time Lords on the last day of the [[Last Great Time War]] to further their own goals. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
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 female incarnation of himself, who stabbed him to ensure his regeneration into her. Now a woman, the Master began to call herself "[[Missy]]", the self-proclaimed "Queen of Evil". Missy went through many chaotic adventures of her own throughout the universe, but, although she loudly denied having "turned good", she demonstrated a willingness to rekindle her friendship with the [[Twelfth Doctor]].


== Biography ==
Eventually, Missy was captured and imprisoned inside [[The Vault (The Pilot)|a Quantum Fold Chamber]], which was moved into a vault at [[St Luke's University]] by the Twelfth Doctor and [[Nardole]]. Although she claimed she could leave the Vault anytime she wanted to, she chose not to because she wanted to become a good person. So the Doctor tried to rehabilitate her and rekindle their friendship on his terms. On the verge of changing, Missy was sent on a trial adventure with Nardole and [[Bill Potts]] to the same [[colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]] her previous incarnation had regenerated on, later joining him upon realising that he had been responsible for Bill's [[cyber-conversion]]. In the end, though, she betrayed and killed her past self in order to finally stand with the Doctor, but was then killed herself in retaliation before she could return to him, with both Masters believing that this had been their "perfect ending".
=== Early life ===
The Master grew up on [[Gallifrey]] in the [[House of Oakdown]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') The Master and the Doctor shared the same heritage and upbringing. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[UNIT: Dominion (audio story)|UNIT: Dominion]]'')


Despite his childhood being more a life of duty, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') he had a friendship with the [[First Doctor]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'') The two youths would play in the fields near the young Master's home which was his father's estates, with pastures of red grass near [[Mount Perdition]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') They used to sneak out of the [[Capitol]] and drink with the [[Shobogan]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') On one of these outings, the young Master picked a fight with six drunken Shobogans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce]]'')
Although the Master believed that the blast had disabled Missy's ability to regenerate, Missy managed to use an [[Elysian field]], a forbidden technology that could break a Time Lord's body down into atoms and molecules then reform it anew, to grant herself a new regeneration cycle and kickstart her next regeneration. Using the field, she was also able to edit her personality, distilling all the goodness within her into a new benevolent incarnation who called herself "[[the Lumiat]]". The Lumiat, whose mission it was to go back and undo the damage her previous incarnation had caused, attempted several times to change Missy's ways before she was ultimately killed by her, having grown bored of her future self. The Lumiat regenerated into a male incarnation who called himself "the Master" again, who looked down on Missy's attempts to better herself.  


[[File:YoungMasterTSOD.jpg|thumb|left|The young Master looks into the [[Untempered Schism]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
The [[Spy Master]] returned to Gallifrey and discovered in [[the Matrix]] that all of Time Lord history had been "built on the lie" of the [[Timeless Child]], which involved the true origin of the Doctor. Embittered by his discoveries, and lashing out from the belief that the Doctor had always been more than he was, the Master took his revenge on Gallifrey, leaving it in ruin. He next turned to plague the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] and [[Team TARDIS]], eventually revealing the truth about the Timeless Child and building an army of [[CyberMaster]]s from the remains of the Time Lords he had killed, becoming the host of the [[Cyberium]] consciousness to make himself their commander. However, his plot was thwarted when [[Ko Sharmus]] detonated the [[death particle]] on Gallifrey, wiping out whatever organic life remained on the planet, though the Master and his CyberMasters managed to escape to enact [[the Master's Dalek Plan]], which saw the Master finally steal the Doctor's body and become the Doctor himself after posing as [[Grigori Rasputin]]. However, the Doctor was able to reclaim her body with help from her "extended [[fam]]", leaving the Master stuck back in his damaged body, though he was able to mortally wound the Doctor. Now dying, the Master challenged [[the Toymaker]] to [[Game between the Toymaker and the Master|a game]] in order to extend his life, but lost and was imprisoned in [[the Toymaker's gold tooth]].
Like all Time Lords, the young Master was taken for his initiation at the age of eight. During the ceremony in which he gazed into the [[Time Vortex]] through the [[Untempered Schism]], he went mad, which was not uncommon, as when Time Lords saw the Untempered Schism they either "went mad or ran away". This malady  manifested itself as the constant drumming he heard ever after, worsening with time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') Unknown to him, the drumming had been implanted retroactively into his mind by [[Rassilon]] as a link to later free the Time Lords from the [[time-lock]] imposed upon them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')


During their childhood, the young Master and the Doctor had been mercilessly and viciously bullied by a boy called [[Torvic]]; the young Doctor was eventually forced to kill the bully to save his friend's life. He was later confronted by the personification of [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]], who insisted he become her disciple. The Doctor refused and suggested Death make the Master her champion, to which she agreed. The Doctor had subsequently forgotten about his deal, but subconsciously, felt partly responsible for the Master ever since. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
When the Toymaker was banished from existence by the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] after he and the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] beat him in [[Game between the Toymaker and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors|a game]], the gold tooth was left behind and retrieved by [[Woman (The Giggle)|an unknown hand]].


At the [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]], the Doctor and the Master were also part of the Gallifrey Academy Hot Five, in which the Master played the drums. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'') The Master would also hypnotise people, likely as a joke, but anyone he did hypnotise the Doctor could un-hypnotise. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'')
== Biography ==
=== Early life and exploits ===
{{main|The Master's early life}}
There existed a variety of different and largely irreconcilable accounts of [[the Master's early life]] before the incarnation which became the [[Third Doctor]]'s nemesis. These accounts differed on details including the physical appearances of the Master and the names they used during their early exploits.


Whilst at the Academy, the Doctor and the Master travelled into Gallifrey's past in search of [[Valdemar]]. They found nothing of the Old Ones except for warnings. The Master was fascinated by the power that Valdemar represented while the Doctor was horrified. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'')
The Master and [[the Doctor's early life|a young Doctor]] became friends on their first day at the [[Time Lord Academy]], ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and they shared many adventures ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils]]'', ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', et al.) before falling out. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Last of the Gaderene (novel)|Last of the Gaderene]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')


According to one account by the Master himself, during a period of civil unrest on Gallifrey, he led many students of the [[Time Lord Academy]] in a revolt against the corrupt [[Lord President]], [[Pundat the Third]], and attempted to recruit the Doctor and convince him to take the position as President, but he decided not to interfere with the current constitution. When Pundat died of stress soon after the revolt, his chosen successor was the evil [[Chancellor]] [[Slann]]. The students had found the last of Lord Rassilon’s descendants, [[Susan Foreman|Lady Larn]], a seven-year old child adopted by [[Councillor]] [[Brolin]], who was being groomed as a future president. They decided on a second coup. Yet in trying to convert the Doctor, the students were overheard. Bloody reprisals against the students followed. The Doctor and Larn escaped from Gallifrey after this. Believing the students ready for the second coup, the Master assassinated Lord President Slann. However, the students weren’t ready and he took this opportunity to steal a TARDIS and flee Gallifrey as a renegade. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'')  
After an illustrious political career, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts]]'', ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'', ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') the Master left Gallifrey and became a [[renegade Time Lord|renegade]] on the same day or shortly after [[the Doctor]] left with [[Susan]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'') during a period of civil unrest. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'')


=== Dealings with the Second Doctor ===
By some accounts, the incarnation that left Gallifrey had brownish-grey hair and a short beard and already went by the name "Master". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'', ''[[The Home Guard (audio story)|The Home Guard]]'', ''[[The Psychic Circus (audio story)|The Psychic Circus]]'') According to other accounts, he hadn't yet chosen the name "the Master" and instead went by the name "Koschei". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'', ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'', ''[[Rebel Rebel (short story)|Rebel Rebel]]'') According to the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]]'s research, he still hadn't chosen the name "Master" by his sixth incarnation, who called himself a "Monk"; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts]]'') however, by most accounts, [[the Monk]] was a different childhood associate of the Doctor's. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'', ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'', ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'')


After the First Doctor fled Gallifrey in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his stolen TARDIS]], the Master left Gallifrey on the same day, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead]]'') surprised to find no one chasing him. However, his unstable obsession with order prompted the Time Lords to plant the Time Lady [[Ailla (The Dark Path)|Ailla]] as a spy to monitor his actions. She posed as a [[human]] so Koschei (as the Master had now started calling himself) would take her on as his companion during a stopover in the [[28th century]].
=== The Master's incarnations ===
{{main|List of incarnations of the Master}}
The Master had the ability to control their [[regeneration]]s, with each face selected bearing an imprint of their mind, leading the Master to keep the same characteristics across various regenerations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')  


Koschei caught up with the [[Second Doctor]] at the [[Darkheart]] colony in the early years of the [[Galactic Federation]]. The temptation posed by the Darkheart device proved too much for Koschei, and the revelation that Ailla was a spy killed the last traces of good in him, and he became the Master. After the Doctor trapped him in a [[black hole]], the Master swore that he would take revenge. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') The Doctor would later say that he and the Master had everything in common, but the Master enjoyed being scared of the dark a little too much, and it swallowed him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Menagerie]]'')
After reaching the end of their original [[life cycle]], the Master resorted to various expedients to extend their lifespan, including stealing or merging with the bodies of others, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') creating incarnations who held themselves to be distinct from the [[Decayed Master|base Thirteenth Master]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'') but were not "exactly" new regenerations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') By the time they reemerged after the [[Last Great Time War]], the Master was once again in possession of a regeneration cycle, having been [[resurrection of the Master|resurrected]] by the [[Time Lord]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') although other factors soon intervened to complicate their regenerative history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lumiat (audio story)|The Lumiat]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'')


The Master put his TARDIS in orbit of the homeworld of the [[Archon (species)|Archon]]s and made a deal with them that would result in the Archons acquiring a TARDIS of their own, namely [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the Doctor's]]. Posing as a Professor Thascalos, the Master gave the [[Necronomicon]] to the Doctor's [[companion]] [[Jamie McCrimmon]], so that Jamie would give the book to the Doctor and lure the TARDIS to the Archon homeworld. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nameless City (short story)|The Nameless City]]'')
Before her encounter with {{Roberts}}, [[River Song]] believed that she had met all the Master's incarnations. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (audio story)|The Lifeboat and the Deathboat]]'') Across multiple [[time stream]]s, the [[Sild]] collected about 470 incarnations of the Master. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'') Incidentally, the Master's old enemy, [[the Doctor]], was known to have had hundreds of incarnations. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Secret of Novice Hame (webcast)|The Secret of Novice Hame]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')


The Master penetrated Gallifrey, and gained access to [[the Matrix]] via a console in the old [[Capitol]]. This gave him a back door into the Matrix, which he used to collect classified information for his many devious schemes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
==== Early life ====
{{main|The Master's early life}}
Multiple contradictory sources discussed versions of the Master earlier than [[The Master (Terror of the Autons)|the one]] who began menacing the [[Third Doctor]] during his [[exile on Earth]].
* One account depicted the final falling-out, on [[Gallifrey]], of the [[First Doctor]] with an [[Magnus (Flashback)|ambitious Time Lord]] who had retained the nickname of "Magnus" from the same school days from which the Doctor was known as "[[Theta Sigma|Thete]]". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Flashback (comic story)|Flashback]]'') Though some accounts implied this "Magnus" to have been the Master, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]'', etc.) others treated him as an incarnation of a distinct [[Magnus]] of whom [[the War Chief]] encountered by the Doctor during the [[War Game]]s was also an incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'', etc.)
* [[First Monk|A Renegade Time Lord]] whom the [[First Doctor]] encountered in the [[12th century]] in the guise of a [[monk]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]'') and again during the [[Daleks' master plan]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'') was suggested by some accounts to be a version of the Master, predating his adoption of the moniker and a more aggressive approach to meddling in time; this was, at any rate, the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]]'s belief at one stage. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts]]'', ''[[A Sourcebook for Field Agents (novel)|A Sourcebook for Field Agents]]'') However, most other accounts depicted [[the Monk]] as a Time Lord in their own right. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Too Many Masters (audio story)|Too Many Masters]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
* [[The Master (The Destination Wars)|One early incarnation of the Master]] was reckoned to be the "third or fourth" by the [[Fourth Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blood of the Time Lords (audio story)|Blood of the Time Lords]]'') He first met the [[First Doctor]] on the planet [[Destination]] while living under the alias of "[[the Inventor]]", but was already using the name of "the Master". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'') By the time of an encounter with the [[Second Doctor]], he was beginning to lay the groundwork for a [[War Game|grand plan involving taking Earth soldiers out of time]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Home Guard (audio story)|The Home Guard]]'')
* After [[The War Chief|another version of him]] regenerated in a [[Trastevarian]] jail, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Save Yourself (short story)|Save Yourself]]'') a [[renegade Time Lord]] who had once known the [[First Doctor]] began to act as [[the War Chief]] of an [[the War Lord|alien War Lord]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') Multiple accounts suggested he was an incarnation of the same man who later became "the Master", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Home Guard (audio story)|The Home Guard]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon]]'', etc.) although others claimed that "the War Chief", or [[Magnus]], was a distinct Time Lord. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'', ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[The Legions of Death (game)|The Legions of Death]]'')


=== Nemesis of the Third Doctor ===
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* [[The Master (Terror of the Autons)|An incarnation of the Master]], the twelfth according to one account, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Universal Databank (reference book)}}) accumulated a large number of schemes to take over the [[Earth]] during the period when the [[Third Doctor]] was [[Exile on Earth|exiled on Earth]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', etc.) and later allied with the [[Dalek Empire]] as part of the [[Second Dalek War]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') Multiple accounts of his ultimate fate existed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'', etc.)
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* The [[Decayed Master]] was a decrepit, skeletal version of the Master who, having reached the end of his natural [[life cycle]], engaged in multiple schemes to acquire more [[regeneration]]s and/or steal healthier [[body|bodies]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') He successfully merged with [[Traken]]'s [[Consul]] [[Tremas]], transitioning to a [[The Master (The Keeper of Traken)|healthier form]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') but some accounts showed that the Master was later reverted to his decaying form on multiple occasions before he managed to rid himself of it permanently. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'', ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'', ''[[Planet of Dust (audio story)|Planet of Dust]]'')
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* After merging with [[Tremas]], [[the Master (The Keeper of Traken)|the Master]] lived on in a more youthful form who was responsible for the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s [[death]] at the [[Pharos Project]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') and subsequently menaced the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Seventh Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'', ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'') Multiple accounts of his ultimate fate existed; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'', ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'') two unrelated ones suggested that before the end, he had managed to convert his body from a Trakenite into a biologically [[Gallifreyan]] one. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Velvet Dark (short story)|The Velvet Dark]]'', ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')
If you concentrate only on televised ''Doctor Who'', you'll probably be confused by the history of the Master presented here. A key concept of the character comes from the novel, ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'', which explains that [[the Doctor]]'s granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] turned the [[TCE]] on the Delgado Master in [[the Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] — and it fried him. Extra crispy.  All ready for his adventure in ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]''. So [[Peter Pratt]] is actually playing the ravaged form of Delgado.  And really [[Anthony Ainley]] is playing the combination of Delgado with [[Tremas]]. But then in most [[Big Finish]] audios comes a Master who's had the Tremas side of him removed in ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]''. That means that the Delgado Master is back on Big Finish — but played by [[Geoffrey Beevers|Geoffrey Beevers, who played him in ''The Keeper of Traken'']].}}
* An "[[old Master]]" was [[The Master's trial (Doctor Who)|put on trial]] by the [[Dalek]]s on [[Skaro]]. Despite their different appearances, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') one account suggested this was still the "Tremas" Master, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') but others concurred that he was a renewed version of the Master, having managed to [[Regeneration|regenerate]] using the technology of the [[Tzun]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'', ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') This body was blown apart when the Daleks [[Execution|executed]] him, forcing the Master to resort to possession once again. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
Before the [[Third Doctor]] was made aware by the Time Lords of his presence, the Master had in fact been on [[Earth]] for some time.  
* After surviving in the form of a [[Deathworm Morphant]], the Master stole the body of a paramedic named [[Bruce (The TV Movie)|Bruce]]. The [[The Master (Doctor Who)|new Master]] initiated a plan to use the [[Eye of Harmony]] to steal the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s remaining lives, but instead fell into the Eye of Harmony. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') He escaped from it on multiple occasions, but tended to end up tossed back into the [[Time Vortex]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (audio story)|The Lifeboat and the Deathboat]]'', etc.) His body eventually began to destabilise, becoming phantom-like and warped, and when he was resurrected by [[the Glory]], he was transferred into a new body, that of of an American street preacher. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
* Resurrected into the body of a black American preacher, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'') [[the Master (The Fallen)|the Master]] tried to take control of the [[Omniverse]] through [[the Glory]], battling the [[Eighth Doctor]] once again, but was ultimately banished to parts unknown by [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') When he ultimately emerged from the [[Eye of Harmony]] for good, the Master appeared as a gas and took possession of a series of human bodies, though found they all eventually decayed to resemble his original decayed form. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'') In his decayed form he was finally killed by the [[Ravenous]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet of Dust (audio story)|Planet of Dust]]'') though was resurrected by his past and future selves who made a deal with the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] to give him a new regeneration cycle. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Day of the Master (audio story)|Day of the Master]]'')


When the Doctor was exiled to Earth, the Master was imprisoned on [[Shada (prison)|Shada]] by the Time Lords. However, the Time Lords decided to keep the Doctor busy whilst he was trapped on Earth by releasing the Master. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoners of the Sun]]'')
==== Time War onwards ====
* After his [[resurrection of the Master|resurrection]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Day of the Master (audio story)|Day of the Master]]'', etc.) the [[The Master (Dominion)|"Reborn" Master]] was an arrogant, conspicuously bald man who once spent some time posing as [[the Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'')
* The [[War Master]] participated in the [[Last Great Time War]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'') but, terrified when he saw the [[Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War|Dalek Emperor]] taking control of the [[Cruciform]], ran to the end of the universe and [[Chameleon Arch|made his body human]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') with the kindly [[Professor]] [[Yana]] remaining safe until after the War. When the [[Tenth Doctor]] stumbled upon him, [[Martha Jones]] accidentally spurred Yana to release the Master's consciousness from the [[biodata module|fob watch]]. However, the returned War Master only lived briefly before being fatally shot by Yana's assistant [[Chantho]], regenerating into a [[The Master (Utopia)|new form]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
* During the Time War, the Master regenerated into the form of a [[The Master (The Then and the Now)|young child]] who brokered an uneasy alliance with the [[War Doctor]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Then and the Now (comic story)|The Then and the Now]]'') but this regeneration was ultimately averted by a time paradox, with the Master being reverted to his older, War Master form. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'')
* In a [[The Master (Utopia)|younger body]], the Master became [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] under the name of [[Harold Saxon]] and successfully took over the [[Earth]] during "[[the Year That Never Was]]", but was ultimately defeated and shot by [[Lucy Saxon|his human consort]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He had, however, arranged for his resurrection, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and would ultimately die at the hands of his [[Missy|future self]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
* Having regenerated into a female body, the Master adopted the nickname of [[Missy]]. She arranged for the [[Eleventh Doctor]] to meet [[Clara Oswald]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and created the [[Nethersphere]]. The [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s discovery of this artificial afterlife was the first of many encounters between him and Missy, ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', etc.) and they had even tried to renew their friendship, with Missy pledging to renounce her "evil" ways, by the time the two were killed on a [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]], with Missy being shot in the back by her own past self. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
* Because the laser bolt her past self had shot her with disabled regeneration, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') Missy had no choice to survive but to enact the [[Elysian field]]. This created [[the Lumiat]], a manifestation of the Master with a reset regeneration cycle, who intended to put Missy's noble intentions into practice and become a force for good. Encountering an earlier version of Missy, however, the Lumiat was shot and began to regenerate, with Missy hoping that this would spur the next one along to abandon these moral ideals. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lumiat (audio story)|The Lumiat]]'')
* The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] next encountered [[The Master (Spyfall)|a Master]] who referred to himself as a "Spy" Master. His worldview having been toppled by the discovery of the [[Timeless Child]], this Master [[Razing of Gallifrey|razed Gallifrey]] and acted as an enemy to the Doctor again. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'', ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') After gaining powers of foresight by merging with the [[Cyberium]], the Master hatched a [[The Master's Dalek Plan|final scheme]] to usurp the Doctor's entire existence via a [[Thirteenth Doctor's forced regeneration|forced regeneration]], but was forced back into his original body by [[Yasmin Khan]] and the [[Holo-Doctor]]. By then, this original body was failing due to the stress he had put it through, and he only found the strength to kill the Thirteenth Doctor in turn before he collapsed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'') While dying, the Master challenged [[the Toymaker]] to a game in a gambit to extend his life, but lost and was trapped within [[the Toymaker's gold tooth]]. After the Toymaker was defeated by the [[Fourteenth Doctor|Fourteenth]] and [[Fifteenth Doctor|Fifteenth]] [[The Doctor|Doctors]], an unknown person with red painted nails retrieved the golden tooth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]'')


The Master was present at the first [[Auton]] [[Black Thursday|invasion of Earth]]. He had apparently seen or heard about [[Channing]]'s attempt to capture the Third Doctor. He contacted journalist [[James Stevens]] by phone, whose article he had read in the ''[[Daily Chronicle]]'', and told him about the near-kidnapping.
=== Undated events ===
* At some point, a version of the Master pursued some sort of scheme in mid-[[20th century]] [[Chicago]], which involved wiping out a biker gang. His plot was foiled by the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] member [[Rollo]] with the help of a surviving gangster, [[Jim Waters]], whom Rollo ended up taking on as a [[companion]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedpart=Player Characters}})
* A version of the Master [[The Master (The Creation of Camelot)|posed as Merlin]] in [[Camelot]], facing the [[Fifth Doctor]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Creation of Camelot (short story)|The Creation of Camelot]]'') and had two subsequent encounters with the [[Sixth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Fellowship of Quan (short story)|The Fellowship of Quan]]'', ''[[The Radio Waves (short story)|The Radio Waves]]'')
* One of the incarnations of the Master who were extracted from their [[time stream]]s and imprisoned by the [[Sild]] was encountered by the [[Third Doctor]] as a masked woman wearing a frilly black dress. She had black hair streaked with white, combed back from her forehead. The Doctor noted "a familiarity" in the shape of her cheekbones and brow, in accordance with the Master's ability to control their [[regeneration]] finely and maintain an air of familiarity from one body to the next. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
* At some point before his exploits on [[Destination]], the Master claimed to have met [[Harry Houdini]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
* The Master travelled with [[Finsey]], a woman who was fascinated by his evilness, until he saw no further use for her and tried to have her killed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Transcendence of Ephros (audio story)|The Transcendence of Ephros]]'')
* An unknown incarnation of the Doctor failed to prevent the Master from escaping. He tried to take off after him, but the Master had sabotaged the Doctor's TARDIS, forcing him to play a quiz game before he could start the engines again, and thus successfully delaying him. The Master, calling the Doctor "my dear fellow", mocked him over the TARDIS speakers as he took off. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Enjoy the Game (short story)|Enjoy the Game]]'')
*[[The Master (The Curse of Fatal Death)|One incarnation of the Master]] confronted [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|a version of the Ninth Doctor]] on [[Tersurus]] ([[TV]]: [[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|''The Curse of Fatal Death'']]), spending many years crawling through the sewers there ([[TV]]: [[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|''The Curse of Fatal Death'']], [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bekdel Test (audio story)|The Bekdel Test]]'') due to a trick of the Doctor's. He then teamed up with the [[Dalek]]s, and witnessed several of the Doctor's subsequent regenerations. Thinking [[Twelfth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|the Doctor]] dead, he, along with the Daleks, renounced evil in memory of the Doctor, who then regenerated into [[Thirteenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|a female incarnation]], whom the Master fell in love with. ([[TV]]: [[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|''The Curse of Fatal Death'']])
* During the [[Last Great Time War]], a version of the Master was captured by [[The Union (The Union)|the Union]] who tested her [[degeneration]] weapon on them, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Union (audio story)}}) causing them to shift between their [[incarnation]]s. In an attempt to stabilise, they accidentally went too far forward in their life and became Missy even though she was in their future. Stable for a time, Missy occupied herself trying to recreate ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' on [[Planetoid 50]], creating a facsimile of Victorian London which she populated with kidnapped residents including the [[Paternoster Gang]], as well as fake Martians to invade, however she lost control of them. The Doctor arrived in the midst of their own degeneration crisis, and Missy helped stabilise them as the [[Tenth Doctor]]. After the Doctor dealt with the fake Martians by shrinking them, Missy began to destabilise again and left to degenerate alone. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 (audio story)}}) The Master subsequently became the Lumiat and travelled to a beach on [[Solaris Hexis]] where they met [[Liv Chenka]]. The pair were transported to the [[Hall of the Time Lord Immemorial]] where they encountered the degenerating Doctor, now in the form of the [[Ninth Doctor]], and a [[Unbound Doctor|version of the Doctor]] from [[Unbound Universe|another universe]]. The Lumiat helped fulfill the prophecy to summon the [[Time Lord Immemorial]] to prevent the universes colliding, serving as both the Doctor’s greatest friend and foe. She subsequently returned Liv to the beach whilst trying to hold off another degeneration, and rapidly departed before she changed as she knew Liv would not like her other selves. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Time Lord Immemorial (audio story)}}) After the Union’s weapon was destroyed and the degeneration energy dispersed, the War Doctor believed the Master would return to normal. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Union (audio story)}})


He later called Stevens again, during the [[Silurian]] attacks on [[Wenley Moor]]. He informed Stevens that [[Edward Masters|Frederick Masters]] had been the first to die from the plague sweeping London.
== Other realities ==
[[File:Reconnaissance.jpg|thumb|left|The Master interrogates [[Liz Shaw]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Reconnaissance (short story)|Reconnaissance]]'')]]
Many versions of the Master were unique to various alternative realities.
Shortly after the [[Inferno Project]] incident, the Master once more contacted James Stevens, this time to check up on his work on his [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] article. He promptly hung up when Stevens mentioned [[C19]] and the [[Glasshouse]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')


He first infiltrated [[UNIT HQ|the headquarters]] of UNIT while [[the Brigadier]] and the Doctor had gone to meet with government officials. He [[hypnotised]] the Doctor's assistant [[Liz Shaw]] and, through her, learned of recent events, including the recent failed [[Nestene]] invasion and the awakening of the [[Silurian]]s. This inspired him to ally himself with them and to locate any more Silurian colonies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Reconnaissance (short story)|Reconnaissance]]'')
===Possible futures===
[[File:DelgadoSuaveTOTA.jpg|thumb|left|The Master brings his suave villany to [[Earth]]. (''[[TV]]'': ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'')]]
[[File:Shalka master android face.jpg|thumb|The Master's cybernetic nature is revealed by the Doctor. ([[WC]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'')]]
The Master invented the [[Keller Machine]], and spent many months establishing his and its credentials. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'')
Whilst exposed, the [[Heart of the TARDIS|heart]] of [[The Master's first TARDIS|the Master's TARDIS]] showed him some of his possible futures. In one the Master was horribly deformed, being cared for in a [[Zero Room]] on Gallifrey after being rescued by Chancellor [[Goth]].  In another, however, the Master achieved his aim of conquest, but now possessed an entirely alien body. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Threshold (audio story)|The Threshold]]'')  


The Master appeared at a circus, [[the Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] in the form of a circus trailer or horse box. He [[hypnosis|hypnotised]] the circus troupe to obey his orders as part of his plan to assist the [[Nestene]]s in their latest bid to conquer Earth. A [[Time Lord messenger|Time Lord emissary]] alerted the Doctor to his rival's presence on the planet. After the failure of his plan, the Master fled. The Doctor had already taken his [[dematerialisation circuit]], however, preventing the Master from leaving Earth in his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'')  
A [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|"listless-looking" Ninth Doctor]] who existed as a separate future for the [[Eighth Doctor]] from the "[[Ninth Doctor|man with big ears]]" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'') was the contemporary of a [[The Master (The Curse of Fatal Death)|male incarnation of the Master]] with a black beard and wild hair, who wore an outfit with a long cloak and a large green collar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'')


[[File:DelgadoSmokesMOE.jpg|thumb|The Master schemes up some [[Cold War]] mayhem. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'')]]
Alternatively, an [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|pale, aristocratic Ninth Doctor]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'') was accompanied in [[the TARDIS]] by a [[The Master (Scream of the Shalka)|bearded Master]] who now resided in an [[android]] body. ([[WC]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'')
The Master returned again, posing as the scientist who had "developed" the Keller Machine  (in reality a living alien entity). He used prisoners as a plan to hijack a missile containing [[nerve gas]] and use it to cause a conflict that would trigger a [[nuclear war]]. The Doctor stopped him and destroyed the missile, but later discovered he had lost the Master's dematerialisation circuit back. Shortly after, the Master telephoned to let it be known that he had found the circuit and was free now to come and go as he pleased, while the Doctor had to remain in exile. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'')


Shortly after the Master regained control over his TARDIS, he tried to gain control of a cult so he could harness the power of the [[Immortal]]s. He convinced the real cult leader, [[Hadley]], that he could serve the cult loyally, by supplying them with [[Sarg (drug)|sarg]]. Unfortunately for the Master, Hadley only intended to keep the Master alive while he was still useful. With no other options, the Master formed a temporary truce with the Doctor to stop [[Hades]]' plan. After the crisis was resolved, the Doctor allowed the Master to depart unmolested in the name of their temporary truce. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'')  
In an [[Alternate timeline (Masterful)|aborted timeline]], the gathered incarnations of the Master were faced with an [[entropy wave]] that threatened to destroy and consume the universe. However, the [[War Master]] eventually deduced the wave was actually their final form. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'')


The Master eventually recovered full functionality of his TARDIS and brought [[Axos]] to Earth, hoping to ally himself with them. Instead, he became the prisoner of Axos, and only escaped by saying that he would help it. The Doctor tricked the Master into thinking he was going to betray Earth. Instead, he trapped the Master with Axos in a [[time loop]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'')  
=== Parallel universes ===
According to one group of [[human]] [[historian]]s, [[Morgaine]] was the equivalent of the Master in [[Arthur's World]], an alternative reality ruled by magic instead of science where the Time Lords were the "[[Magic Lord]]s". Her enemy was [[The Doctor (Battlefield)|Merlin]], himself the counterpart of [[the Doctor]], who became part of [[King Arthur (Arthur's World)|King Arthur]]'s court after being [[exile to Earth|exiled to Earth]]. The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] published the work of these historians but did not directly comment on their reading of the Merlin Doctor; in her introduction, she merely noted some ideas in the book were clever while others were "a bit daft". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Monster Vault (novel)|The Monster Vault]]'')


Utilising records stolen from the Time Lords, the Master, posing as an [[Adjudicator]], travelled to a [[human]] colony on the [[planet]] [[Uxarieus]] in the year [[2472]]. There the records indicated he would find the [[Doomsday Weapon]] created by [[Uxariean|a near-extinct]] native species. Once again the Doctor defeated his plans. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'')
In [[Barusa's universe|one]] of the infinite [[parallel universe]]s of "[[Multiverse|possible space]]", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fire and Brimstone (comic story)|Fire and Brimstone]]'') [[the Master (Barusa's universe)|the Master]] was the grandson and heir of [[Barusa]]. He was believed to be Barusa's only living descendant, but Barusa actually had another grandson, the Master's greatest rival and — secretly — his half-brother: [[the Doctor (Barusa's universe)|the Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Chronicles of Doctor Who? (short story)|The Chronicles of Doctor Who?]]'')


[[File:Daemons title.jpg|thumb|left|The Master during the [[Devil's End]] incident. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'')]]
On the [[Inferno Earth]], the Master was still a loyal Time Lord who went under the name [[Koschei (Inferno Earth)|Koschei]]. He was working for the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] and travelled with a human companion called [[Ailla (The Dark Path)|Ailla]]. They became stranded on Earth after defeating the [[Great Intelligence]], and the [[Republic of Great Britain]] captured him for information. Ailla was killed and Koschei was tortured until all his regenerations were used up. Koschei died when he was confronted by the Master from [[N-Space]], who turned off his life-support machine at his request. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'')
In the [[Wiltshire]] village of [[Devil's End]], the Master summoned the ancient [[Dæmon]] [[Azal]], but he failed to understand the power and control that was necessary following summoning him. Following Azal's confrontation with Jo Grant's selflessness, he was captured by UNIT following a failed attempt to escape in the Doctor's car, [[Bessie]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'') After a trial by human authorities, the Master was sentenced to life-long imprisonment on [[Fortress Island|an island]] off of the coast of [[England]], one designed especially to hold him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'') The government used him as a scapegoat for all the alien attacks which had recently occurred. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')


[[File:DelgadoMasks.jpg|thumb|right|The Master reveals his considerable talent for disguise. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Man in the Ion Mask]]'')]]Prior to his trial, the Master was sent to [[Stangmoor Prison]], but during his captivity, an army of hypnotised salespeople stormed the prison. This was an attempt to rescue him, but the attempt failed and the Master was sent to another secure holding facility. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Jo were trapped in an extra-universal prison by the [[Freedom Corporation]], so the Brigadier was forced to strike a deal with the Master to save them. But the Master double-crossed him and used [[time travel]] technology to regress the Earth backwards in time. However, with help from the Time Lords, the Doctor was freed and was able to stop the Master's plan and restore everything to normal. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Freedom (short story)|Freedom]]'')  
In the [[Unbound Universe]], a reality where [[Unbound Doctor|the Doctor]] did not arrive on [[Earth (Unbound Universe)|Earth]] until [[1997]], the Master had become stranded on the planet following [[Unbound Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] being placed "beyond [his] reach". Initially finding work with the [[United Nations]], the Master defected to [[China]] following the failure of the [[World Peace Conference]], trying to cause enough chaos to attract the Doctor's attention. Using alien parasites to build more [[Keller Machine]]s, the Master brainwashed political prisoners, making them mindless soldiers, later to be organised in the infamous [[Ke Le Division]]s. In 1997, when the new Chinese government lost faith in him, the Master tried to escape to [[Hong Kong]], hoping to claim the last of the parasites only to [[Regeneration|regenerate]] into [[Unbound Master|a new incarnation]] after his plane crashed. Though the Master claimed the parasite, he abandoned the scheme to strike a deal for passage offworld with the recently arrived Doctor. When the Master reneged on the deal, he found himself outgambitted by the Doctor and left on Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)|Sympathy for the Devil]]'') Evenetually managing to escape Earth, the Master became a key player in the [[Great War (The Library in the Body)|Great War]], working with the Doctor until he deemed the Master's plans too insane. After the War, the Master attempted to escape the dying universe by tricking people into entering his portal at the [[Gateway Emporium|Emporium]], which instead killed them to power up a true portal for him. His scheme was exposed by [[Bernice Summerfield]] and the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emporium at the End (audio story)|The Emporium at the End]]'') He resurfaced when the Doctor was being impeached as President of the Universe. He succeeded the Doctor by promising to activate the [[Apocalypse Clock (The City and the Clock)|Apocalypse Clock]] to create a safe zone regardless of the potential consequences. This briefly unleashed the Great Old Ones, but the Doctor stole their energy to transport Bernice home. This left the Master with all the responsibility of ruling the universe and with the Parliament to constrain him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The True Saviour of the Universe (audio story)|The True Saviour of the Universe]]'') After his universe finally came to an end, the Master was the last being left alive inside a shielded bubble, a fate he was saved from by the [[Dalek Time Strategist (The Shadow Vortex)|Dalek Time Strategist]] who recruited him for aid in thwarting his [[N-Space]]'s counterpart perversion of Dalek history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shockwave (TWM audio story)|Shockwave]]'') When the scheme was thwarted and the Daleks restored, the Master fled through a [[wormhole]] into the larger [[multiverse]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[He Who Wins (audio story)|He Who Wins]]'')


Before he was sent to the island, the Master was sent to [[Aylesbury Grange Detention Centre]]. The Doctor visited the Master, who insisted he had changed, only to reveal he had escaped. The Doctor was speaking to a hologram. The Master nearly escaped, but was stopped by soldiers. The Doctor revealed he had been a hologram as well. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Man in the Ion Mask (comic story)|The Man in the Ion Mask]]'')
In an alternative universe created by the [[Quantum Archangel]], the Master joined the Time Lords to fight in [[War in Heaven|the War]]. However, he began aiding the [[Dalek]]s by giving them temporal manipulation technology. The [[Sixth Doctor]], who was [[Lord President|Lord President Admiral]] of Gallifrey, activated the [[Armageddon Sapphire]] and destroyed the universe rather than letting the Enemy win. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')


While in custody, with the Doctor gone to [[Peladon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon]]'') the Master collaborated with UNIT to prevent an invasion by [[Inferno Earth|a fascist version of Earth]], travelling with the Brigadier and [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara Chesterton]] to that alternate universe and encountering an [[Koschei (Inferno Earth)|alternate version of himself]]. This alternate Master was imprisoned and tortured by order of [[Third Doctor (Inferno Earth)|the Leader]] of the [[Republic of Great Britain]], that reality's version of the Doctor. The Master killed his other self, claiming it was an act of mercy. Before he was imprisoned by UNIT again, the Master hid his TARDIS back in the church crypt in Devil's End. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'')
In a different alternative universe created by the Archangel, the Master cooperated alongside [[the Rani]], [[the Monk]] and [[Drax]] to try to destroy the world using a DNA recombinator, turning the human race into a gestalt consciousness which could be used as a weapon to conquer the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')


Some time during his obvious actions against the Doctor and UNIT, the Master infiltrated the government's Department [[C19]] to a shocking degree. He took control of the [[Glasshouse]], a facility for traumatised UNIT soldiers, and in particular Private [[Francis Cleary]]. He also tried to undermine UNIT in the short term. In the long term, he planned to use a [[time ring]] to have Cleary go to [[1963]] to prevent the [[Kennedy assassination]], thereby altering Earth's history to make it more vulnerable to invasion. The plan failed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
In a [[Parallel universe (Exile)|parallel universe]], [[The Master (Exile)|the Master]] used many fake names, including Roger, Peter, Geoffrey, Tony, Eric, Robert and Sam. That universe's [[The Doctor (Exile)|version]] of [[the Doctor]] mistook [[Bob (Exile)|Bob]] for the Master and used [[Venusian aikido]] on him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exile (audio story)|Exile]]'')


In a later encounter, the Master created a device that switched his mind with the Doctor's. He went to [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], where he learned that the [[Time Lord]]s had made the TARDIS unpilotable by the Doctor. Before returning to the TARDIS, the Master asked the Brigadier to move him to a new holding facility with a good view and told [[Mike Yates]] to ask [[Jo Grant]] out on a date. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Switching]]'')
In a [[Parallel universe (He Jests at Scars...)|parallel universe]], the Master was inside [[The Master's TARDIS (He Jests at Scars...)|his TARDIS]] when it was parked on Earth in [[1981]]. [[The Doctor's TARDIS (He Jests at Scars...)|The Doctor's TARDIS]] materialized around it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') This was part of the events that would lead to [[Entropy wave|Logopolis' destruction]] and the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[He Jests at Scars... (audio story)|He Jests at Scars...]]'') When [[The Valeyard (He Jests at Scars...)|the Valeyard]] was fixing his past mistakes, he tried to stop his younger self's trip to Logopolis in order to save the planet. But he accidently [[Time ram|time-rammed]] his younger self and past TARDIS, destroying them. The Master's TARDIS was time-rammed too as it was inside the Doctor's TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[He Jests at Scars... (audio story)|He Jests at Scars...]]'')


When he was finally sent to Fortress Island, the Master quickly gained control over his jailer, [[George Trenchard]], and nearly caused a war between [[human]]s and [[Sea Devil]]s, a species related to the Silurians. He later escaped in the confusion, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'') and returned to the church crypt in Devil's End to retrieve his TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'', ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'')
In [[the Warrior's universe]], [[The Master (The Warrior's universe)|an incarnation of the Master]] fought with [[the Warrior]] in an alternate version of the [[Last Great Time War]]. He guided the Warrior into sealing off a timeline where the [[Unified Skaroan Alliance]] won the Time War into a [[Carrisent Particum]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Aftershocks (audio story)|Aftershocks]]'')


The Master posed as Professor Thascalos at [[Cambridge]]'s [[Newton Institute]], constructing a machine known as [[TOMTIT]] to summon an ancient creature that he wished to control. He hypnotised the institue's director, Dr. [[Charles Percival]], noting he was one of the best and most obedient subjects he hypnotised. The Master accidentally killed him, however, by releasing the creature inside half of the [[Crystal of Kronos]]. The Master summoned the [[Atlantean]] priest [[Krasis]] for instructions on how to control the creature in the crystal, while meddling with the flow of time to obstruct the Doctor from getting in his way.
=== Aborted timelines ===
==== Saxon's multi-Master event ====
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In another aborted timeline, the mortally wounded "Saxon" Master sought to survive his death and avert becoming Missy. He travelled to the human colony on [[Kiameth]], taking it over and using the energy of the planet to thrive and flourish, so that he could heal his own decaying body. Though the colony flourished for a time, he had unleashed a sentient [[entropy wave]], which the "War" Master later deduced was actually the final form of the Master, that destroyed Kiameth. The wave then spread across the universe, despite the efforts of a [[Unbound Master|parallel Master]] to combat it by throwing the resources of the Time Lords and Daleks at it. In the ruins of Kiameth, the "Saxon" Master used a time scoop to take six of his previous selves out of time (the young Master before leaving Gallifrey, the "Decayed" Master, the "Tremas" Master who sent [[Kamelion]] in his stead, the "Bruce" Master, the "Bald" Master and the "War" Master) and brought them to his castle, intending to use the [[Attornium]] to take their lives in a desperate bid to survive.  


He later performed the what Benton called the "oldest trick in the book" on him- disguising his voice over the phone as the Brigadier to lure Benton into a trap. His impression was surprisingly correct, until the Master addressed Benton with "my dear fellow", his own speech habit. Benton caught on, quickly arriving at the institute, waiting to turn his gun on the Master and capture him. The Master responded by pretending that the Doctor had just entered the room. Benton turned around expecting to see the Doctor, and the Master knocked the gun out of his hand, then threw him into a filing cabinet, which knocked Benton out. The Master proudly declared, "You're wrong, Sergeant Benton. ''That'' is the oldest trick in the book!"
His attempt to time scoop the "UNIT era" Master failed, with Jo Grant being caught instead. The Masters decided to sacrifice her for fun, but were interrupted by Missy. She exposed the "Saxon" Master's plan and used the time scoop to scatter the different incarnations along the timeline of Kiameth, to see if any of them would find a chance of redemption by either stopping the wave or salvaging something from its aftermath. Missy herself explored the ruins of Kiameth, after loaning her space yacht to the parallel Master, along with Jo. During their explorations they were pursued by the entropy creature and contacted by the Lumiat, who tried to warn them about what the Master had done. The entropy wave caught Jo and Missy reunited with the parallel Master, who conceded defeat and returned to his own universe. Only four of the Masters managed to do as Missy has hoped: the "Decayed", the "Bald", the "War" and Missy herself. The others, who had turned against Missy, were killed by Kamelion on Missy's orders, though the "Saxon" Master escaped. Despairing about her future, Missy convinced the surviving Masters to use "Saxon's" Attornium to stop the creature by feeding on it, but the "War" Master refused to allow it as the plan would cause a massive energy release capable of destroying any universe. He discreetly poisoned himself and every other incarnation of the Master, having realised the wave was their own future, then turned off the Attornium and left Missy to be devoured by the wave. The resulting [[Temporal paradox|paradox]] erased the events of this timeline, bringing the universe back to normal. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'')


The Master retreated to his TARDIS, but the Doctor tried to trap him in a [[time lock]] using his own TARDIS, accidentally creating a [[space loop]] when both TARDISes were materialised within the other. When the TARDISes were separated during their negotiations, the Master ejected the Doctor into space. The Doctor survived by using the [[telepathic circuit]] of his TARDIS to help Jo return him to safety.
==== Other ====
[[File:The Master Light at the End.JPG|thumb|left|The Master and the Vess drones. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')]]
In an [[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|alternate timeline]] where the [[Cybermen]] allied with [[Rassilon (Hell Bent)|Rassilon]] to take over history, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') the Master, while fighting the [[Third Doctor]], was caught up in a [[time distortion]] which resulted in him being [[cyber-converted]] while pleading to the Doctor for help. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Third Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: the Third Doctor]]'')


[[File:Astonished Delgado.jpg|thumb|left|The Master's dumbfounded response to the Doctor surviving his brush with the time vortex. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')]]
Discovering that the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] were gathering illegal [[Vess]] weapons, the [[Decayed Master]] blackmailed their agent, [[Straxus (The Light at the End)|Straxus]], into handing over a [[conceptual bomb]]. The Master then visited [[Bob Dovie]] and, after killing his family, planted the device into his head. When Dovie saw the inside of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], his refusal to believe in it caused the Doctor's TARDIS to explode, causing its timeline to begin to collapse. With the Doctor's timeline collapsing along with the TARDIS's, the Doctor's first eight incarnations joined forces to avert the detonation of the bomb, before the [[First Doctor]] erased the events from history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')
The Master travelled to ancient [[Atlantis]] and failed to hypnotise [[King]] [[Dalios]], who easily resisted his influence. Confronting the Doctor there, he tried to manipulate [[Queen]] [[Galleia]] into betraying her husband, since she had taken a romantic liking in his charm compared to Dalios's often dull personality. Galliea, however, was enraged when the Master caused Dalios to die in the coup they staged in Atlantis. Before he was arrested, he commanded Krasis to use the Crystal of Kronos housed in Atlantis which he had obtained. He brought forth [[Kronos]], king of the [[Chronovore]]s, who destroyed the entire civilisation.


The Master captured Jo with the complete Crystal of Kronos. With Kronos under his control, the Master was in a position to cast great destruction unto the entire cosmos. The Doctor knew this and threatened to [[time ram]] the Master's TARDIS with his own, which would take everyone's lives in the process if he did not give up his plans for chaos. The Master did not believe the Doctor would earnestly carry out his warning, because he knew the measure of the Doctor's character. Endangering the life of a companion was not an option for him. In response to the Doctor's hesitation, Jo tried to complete the time ram before the Master could release Kronos again. Instead, Kronos spared everyone from death. However, taking the form of a female, Kronos captured the Master for the crime of trying to control it, but allowed him to go free at the request of the Doctor. The Master's enemy took pity on him when Kronos planned to make the Master suffer an eternity of torment. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')
== Personality ==
[[File:The Five Masters main pic.jpg|thumb|The Master was prone to betraying alliances, even with versions of themselves from other points in time. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'')]]
The Master was the polar opposite of the Doctor in almost every respect; condescending, arrogant, vain, and lusting for power. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') However, the Master's insanity was in part due to the [[High Council]] from Gallifrey's future sending a [[The Drumming|four-beat rhythm of drums]] into the Master's mind, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') with the [[Tenth Doctor]] recalling that staring into the [[Untempered Schism]] as a child had been "how it all started" for the Master. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')


[[File:DelgadoDreamFIS.jpg|thumb|The Master as seen by [[Jo Grant]] under the hypnosound's effects. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')]]
Comfortable with their villainous reputation, the Master took insults about their wickedness as compliments, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and reacted with offence if someone asked them if they had turned over a new leaf, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') to the point that they refused to even acknowledge the Doctor's attempts to change them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
The Master employed the assistance of a being called [[Verdigris (Verdigris)|Verdigris]], who impersonated the Master, and was tasked with interfering in the Doctor's life. After Verdigris contacted him again, the Master told him that he had enough of Earth and had other plans to set in motion on Skaro. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Verdigris (novel)|Verdigris]]'')
He forged a short-lived alliance with the [[Dalek]]s, acting as their agent to provoke warfare between the [[Earth Empire]] and the [[Draconian Empire]] in the [[26th century]]. To achieve this, he employed a force of [[Ogron]]s who, through the use of [[hypnosound]], made themselves appear human or Draconian, thus provoking the other side. When the Doctor revealed the true perpetrators, the plot was abandoned. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')


The Master set up a talent show called ''Make a Star'', which he used to disrupt the timeline by making the contestants cover songs that weren't yet written. He intended to use the relatively minor disruption caused to allow him to take control of Earth, but this plan was foiled by the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hidden Talent (short story)|Hidden Talent]]'') On another occasion, the Master made a deal with the [[Odobenidan]]s to help them invade Earth, but accidentally trapped both them and himself in a time loop whilst undertaking some temporal mechanics on their behalf. He was trapped in the time loop beneath [[Greece]] for months. The Time Lords sent the Doctor to Greece so that the Doctor would deal with the time loop, where he released the Master and foiled his plan again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Seismologist's Story (short story)|The Seismologist's Story]]'')
When introducing himself, or enthralling someone, the Master would usually say, ''"I am the Master, and you will obey me."'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'') He also liked to say "my dear Doctor" when addressing his adversary. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')


Returning to Earth, the Doctor uncovered another plot by the Master to release a fog in [[Tadcaster]] by using [[Sarkan]] [[mist-flower]]s to generate the fog. If they bloomed, their seeds would spread and the Earth would be covered in the dense fog. Attempting to catch up with the Master, the Doctor commandeered the pier train. They jumped off the train as it reached the end of the tracks and crashed into the Master and the mist-flowers, sending all of them into the ocean, where the flowers were destroyed and the Master disappeared. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fogbound (comic story)|Fogbound]]'') Reappearing again, the Master took control of the Brigadier's mind, and instructed him to kill the Doctor. However, this plan failed and the Brigadier attacks the Master. He escaped, restoring the Brigadier to his senses. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Smash Hit (short story)|Smash Hit]]'')  
Unlike the Doctor, who usually needed their companions to convince people that they knew what they were doing, the Master had no problem manipulating people into helping him with his [[evil]] plans, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') even getting people to side with by exaggerating certain truths about the Doctor to paint him in a bad light. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)|The Lazarus Experiment]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'')


The Master once travelled to the [[Land of Fiction]], where he intended to steal an advanced piece of technology from the Land, and met characters like [[James Moriarty|Professor James Moriarty]] and [[Count Dracula]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Character Assassin (comic story)|Character Assassin]]'')
Extremely self-centred, the Master was willing to destroy Gallifrey to regenerate himself, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') believed that the battle for [[the Glory]] was to be between him and the [[Eighth Doctor]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') thought that [[Carmen (Planet of the Dead)|Carmen]]'s [[prophecy]] referred exclusively to him, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and viewed the Doctor's saving Gallifrey as an attempt to save her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') So great was the Master's ego that he was unable to work with his other incarnations, with the "UNIT era" incarnation being psychically attacked by his other selves when he took control of the [[Sild]]'s telepathic network, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'') and the [[Seventh Doctor]] defeating the Decayed and Reborn Masters by tricking them into arguing with themselves over ownership of the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') Though the Saxon Master and Missy worked more amicably, their clashing views on helping the [[Twelfth Doctor]] eventually led them to killing each other out of spite, with Missy purposefully forcing her past incarnation's regeneration to ensure that he would become her and stand with the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') In the aborted timeline in which the Saxon Master tried to avoid his regeneration into Missy, he planned to feed on the life force of five past incarnations and came into direct conflict with Missy herself, who exposed his schemes and manipulated the Masters to her own ends. Three incarnations eventually joined the Saxon Master in working against her, so she had them killed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'') When Missy came into contact with the Lumiat, she similarly clashed with her, though over a difference in morality rather than ambition. The Lumiat eventually lost her patience with her past self and attempted to shoot her with a TCE, though Missy manipulated the situation to enable her to shoot the Lumiat instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lumiat (audio story)|The Lumiat]]'')


The Master used [[time travel|time-displaced]] [[Scotland|Scottish]] warriors to seize a [[nuclear submarine]] and threaten Britain with obliteration if he wasn't given the Doctor's TARDIS; he ended up temporarily trapped in the [[18th century]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glen of Sleeping]]'') He also worked with the [[Gaderene]] race to conquer Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Last of the Gaderene]]'')
The Master's schemes usually fell into three categories; conquest, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') survival, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'', ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and the death of the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'', ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'') Similar to [[the Monk]], the Master would also, on occasion, attempt to disturb the flow of history, ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') and, when imprisoned, would devote their energies to gaining their freedom. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')


For a short while the Master adopted the identity of Duke Dominus, a gangster on early [[20th century]] Earth, but his plan on this occasion was halted by the [[Fourth Doctor]] without the Master even knowing it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Duke of Dominoes]]'')
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Throughout their lives, the Master would adopt many disguises and aliases, often to pursue their goals, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'') though other times with no reason or explanation given. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'')


==== A body in decay ====
The Master's disguises ranged from the providence of false qualifications, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') to employing [[The Master's masks|masks]] and heavy [[makeup]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') or a change of clothing, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'', ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'') to even changing physical forms. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'')
The Master finally went under cover on [[Earth]] following the [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] and killed [[David Campbell]], the husband of the Doctor's granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]. After being defeated by the [[Eighth Doctor]], he fled in his TARDIS, taking Susan with him as a hostage, unaware of her Gallifreyan heritage. As his TARDIS materialised on [[Tersurus]], she used his TARDIS' telepathic circuits to attack him, forcing him out onto the planet's surface. She used his own Tissue Compression Eliminator against him while he was holding the Dalek's [[matter transmuter]]. The blast severely deformed and nearly killed him. Susan departed in his TARDIS; this brief materialisation, however, alerted the Time Lords to the Master's presence on Tersurus. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'')


Investigating the materialisation of an unauthorised TARDIS, the [[Time Lord]] [[Chancellor]] [[Goth]] arrived on Tersurus, where he found the Master in a wasted condition — that of a decaying animated corpse. The Master sensed that Goth wished for power and offered it to him, whilst Goth, thinking that the Master was a dying "creature," thought he could control the Master for his own means. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')
In a show of vanity, the Master's choice of alias would often reflect their title of "Master". ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q" (short story)|Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q"]]'', ''[[Night Flight to Nowhere (short story)|Night Flight to Nowhere]]'', ''[[The Time Savers (short story)|The Time Savers]]'', ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Last of the Gaderene (novel)|Last of the Gaderene]]'', ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', ''[[The Duke of Dominoes (short story)|The Duke of Dominoes]]'', ''[[The Spear of Destiny (short story)|The Spear of Destiny]]'', ''[[Yes, Missy (short story)|Yes, Missy]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'', ''[[Trail of the White Worm (audio story)|Trail of the White Worm]]'', ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'', ''[[The Evil One (audio story)|The Evil One]]'', ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'', ''[[Masterpiece (audio story)|Masterpiece]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'', ''[[The Coney Island Chameleon (audio story)|The Coney Island Chameleon]]'')


[[File:DA Master close up.jpg|thumb|left|The Master whilst on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')]]
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The Master made Goth, in line for the position of [[Lord President]] of the [[High Council]] of Time Lords, into his slave, continuing to promise him power. Whilst on Gallifrey, he also took over the mind of [[Solis]], one of the [[Chancellory Guard]]. With a [[telepathic]] summons and a vision of the future created by [[the Matrix]], the Master lured the Fourth Doctor to [[Gallifrey]], seemingly to prevent the murder of the then-serving Lord President. The Doctor failed and ended up on trial for the President's murder. Whilst the Doctor was on trial the Master killed others on Gallifrey through the use of his [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]], leaving them to be found like a grisly calling card for the Doctor.
Before their first battle, the [[Third Doctor]] called the Master a "jackanapes" and an "unimaginative plodder", ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') but later came to view him as the "personification of evil". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] described the Master as both the "quintessence of evil", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') and a "vengeance fixated sociopath with megalomaniacal tendencies". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trail of the White Worm (audio story)|Trail of the White Worm]]'')


Secretly, the Master had access to [[the Matrix]]. He also had guessed the secret of the [[Eye of Harmony]] and various artefacts left behind by [[Rassilon]]. He realised that the Eye of Harmony, a [[black hole]], resided beneath the [[Panopticon]] and, realising that it had immense power, believed he could use the [[Sash of Rassilon]] to protect himself from the raw power of the Eye and the destruction that unleashing it would cause. He thought that he could channel that energy to renew himself.
However, the [[Seventh Doctor]] recognised the Master as an "evil genius", ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'') with the [[Tenth Doctor]] sincerely calling him "stone-cold brilliant". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The [[Twelfth Doctor]] once stated that Missy was the only person "as smart as [him]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')


The Doctor defeated the Master in physical combat, and as a result, the Master appeared to have fallen into a crevice created by a localised earthquake. In fact, he had gained access to his TARDIS, disguised as a [[grandfather clock]], and escaped. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')
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High Council President {{Latham}} described the Master as "one of the most [[evil]] and [[corruption|corrupt]] beings [the] [[Time Lord]] race [had] ever produced" and that his "crimes [were] without number, and [his] villainy without end." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') Rassilon described the Master as the Time Lords' "most infamous child". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')


Immediately after leaving Gallifrey, the Master attempted to rend asunder the constellation of [[Mandus]] using a segment of the [[Key to Time]]. The Master also entered a pact with the [[Embodiment of Gris]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') With his TARDIS still in the form of a clock, the Master tried to steal [[Iris Wildthyme]]'s body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Shadow]]'')
[[Iris Wildthyme]] called the Master a "phallocentric dope", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') while [[Ashildr]] described Missy as the "lover of chaos". ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')


The Master had entered into an alliance with the [[Kraal]]s, and claimed to help them invade the Earth in [[1979]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Oseidon Adventure (audio story)|The Oseidon Adventure]]'') He tried to achieve this by looking for a genetically engineered alien worm, whose purpose was to generate [[Wormhole|wormholes]] in space. The worm had been living in [[Derbyshire]] for centuries and had passed into folklore, however; it had taken the form of a woman called [[Demesne Furze]]. While he was looking for the worm, he allied himself with [[Spindleton|Colonel Spindleton]], where they both met the Fourth Doctor and [[Leela]]. However, the Master generated a storm, using a lightning bolt from it to activate the worm's ability to create wormholes, in turn, generating a wormhole to [[Oseidon]], but also killing the worm. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trail of the White Worm (audio story)|Trail of the White Worm]]'')
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=== Relationship with the Doctor ===
The Master's relationship with the Doctor was complex. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') They respected the Doctor as a worthy opponent, once offering to use a recently recovered weapon to take control of the universe while offering to share it with the Doctor though he refused. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') As time went on, however, the Master became increasingly obsessed with proving his personal superiority, causing him to view the Doctor both as his greatest friend and his worst enemy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'') He expressed deep anger toward the Doctor, along with a desire for vengeance, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') and accused the Doctor of causing him to waste his regenerations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')


Upon arrival on Earth, the Kraals, led by Marshal [[Grinmal]], double-crossed the Master and imprisoned him with Leela, while they sent the Doctor to Oseidon to be interrogated by Chief Scientist [[Tyngworg]]. However, the Master and Leela escaped through the wormhole and infiltrated the Kraal bunker. While he was in the bunker, the Master discovered he was an android duplicate, ever since he arrived in Derbyshire, and the Master had been on Oseidon all along, impersonating Tyngworg. During this, the Doctor escaped and reprogrammed the androids to destroy the invasion force. But as the Master tried to deactivate all the androids, he discovered he was susceptible to the signal, and therefore, he had also been an android all along as well. The Doctor and Leela constructed another duplicate of the Master in order to help them discover the real Master's plan. The Master plotted to capture the [[Z-battery]] that the Doctor left on Earth to repair his TARDIS during his exile. The Master's plan was to use the [[Z-radiation]] within the battery, combined with the [[O-radiation]] which permeated Oseidon, to create powerful [[ZO-radiation]] which the Master could use to renew himself. The Doctor defeated the Master by using the Master's android duplicate he had constructed to kidnap the Master, and take him away in his own TARDIS, before his plan could be fulfilled. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Oseidon Adventure (audio story)|The Oseidon Adventure]]'')
Although initially willing to work with the Doctor when the situation required it, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'') after the [[Last Great Time War]], the Master absolutely refused to listen to the Doctor on any occasion. He evinced his vanity when the Doctor confronted him with the words ''"I forgive you"'', which he had been terrified of hearing because it significantly dented his pride. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')


[[File:The_Master_Light_at_the_End.JPG|thumb|The Master and the Vess drones. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End]]'')]]
The Master enjoyed making playful flirtations towards the Tenth Doctor while speaking on the phone, even asking the Doctor if he was asking him out on a date. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') When the Doctor harnessed the psychic energy of the entire human race and effectively became a god, the Master was reduced to sobbing against a wall. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
Discovering that the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] were gathering illegal [[Vess]] weapons, the Master blackmailed their agent, [[Straxus]], into handing over a [[Conceptual bomb]], the Master visited [[Bob Dovie]] and, after killing his family, planned the device into his head. When Dovie saw the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s TARDIS, his refusal to believe in it caused the Doctor's TARDIS to explode. With the Doctor's timeline collapsing in on itself, the Doctor's first eight incarnation joined forces to [[Time ram]] the Master's TARDIS into a [[Pocket dimension]], before the [[First Doctor]] erased the events from history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')


[[File:MasterTrakenAgony.jpg|thumb|left|The Master in his TARDIS on [[Traken]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')]]
After regenerating into a female incarnation, Missy took her sexual innuendos to a new level by referring to him as her "boyfriend" and holding him responsible for her fate. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', '' [[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') Upon meeting the [[Twelfth Doctor]], she pretended to be an android and passionately kissed him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') She later wanted to give him control of her army of [[Cybermen]], attempting to force him to recognise that they were the same, but he refused and gave it to [[Danny Pink]] instead, who stopped her plans. While surprised, Missy didn't try to stop the Doctor as he prepared to kill her to spare [[Clara Oswald]] from doing it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') When searching for the Doctor, Missy challenged Clara's skepticism about her concern about him by claiming to have cared about the Doctor "since always" ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and even begged the Doctor to find out about her plans. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'') Shortly before her encounter with her predecessor, Missy showed a genuine desire to rekindle her friendship with the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') In fact, she had been rehabilitated enough that she would stand with him to fight the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
The Master was drawn to and became stranded on the [[planet]] [[Traken]], the centre of the [[Traken Union]], in a [[TARDIS]] configured into the sculpture-shaped [[Melkur]]. The Master plotted to take over [[the Source]] also located on the planet Traken, the power behind the [[Traken Union]], and use it to restore himself. To this end, over a period of years, he won over [[Kassia]], who later married [[Tremas]] and became a stepmother to [[Nyssa]]. His plans were thwarted when [[the Keeper]] summoned the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Adric]], who had sensed something of his machinations. With the help of [[Tremas]] and [[Nyssa]], the Doctor removed the Master from the Source.
[[File:BirthOfAinleyMaster.jpg|thumb|The Master steals [[Tremas]]' body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')]]
However, with some of the Keeper's powers lingering, the Master merged with Tremas, stealing his body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'') However, because Tremas's body was not that of a Time Lord, it could not regenerate but would age instead. If he wanted to survive, the Master would have to steal another body. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')


=== In Tremas' body ===
Missy's male successor enjoyed playing long games, like tricking the Doctor into believing he was someone else, expressing he had had "a lot of fun" when the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] finally realised he had fooled her. Despite not wanting her as his enemy again, he loved playing mind games on the Doctor and treating her as an inferior, having her kneel and call him "Master". He chased her through time to force her to listen to him just to get a message across, but would express rage when she outsmarted him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'')
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=== Companions ===
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Unlike the Doctor, the Master usually worked and travelled alone. On rare occasions, they were seen with companions. Examples included [[Ailla (The Dark Path)|Ailla]] the [[Time Lord]] spy; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') [[Finsey|Mother Finsey]], a woman who was fascinated by the Master's [[evil]]ness and would follow his track afterwards; ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Transcendence of Ephros (audio story)|The Transcendence of Ephros]]'') [[Chang Lee]], a young [[human]] whom the Master met in [[San Francisco]]; ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') [[Katsura Sato]], an immortal [[Japanese]] [[samurai]] who helped the Master in his quest for Glory; ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') and [[Sally Armstrong]], a woman who helped him to use [[the Eminence]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'')
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During the Last Great Time War, he took in [[Cole Jarnish]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'') though as a ploy, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') and later [[Chantho]], a female assistant and companion to the Master in his "Professor Yana" identity. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') As Harold Saxon, [[Lucy Saxon]], his wife, was described as having travelled with the Master in the TARDIS in the same fashion as the Doctor and his companions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
The Master, in his new [[Trakenite]] body, went to [[Earth]], where he trapped [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] in a [[gravity bubble]]. He killed [[Tegan Jovanka]]'s aunt [[Vanessa (Logopolis)|Vanessa]] and a [[police|police constable]] with his [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]]. He went to [[Logopolis]], where he pretended to be Tremas to get Nyssa's cooperation, giving her a bracelet that allowed him to control her arm. Using her as a hostage, he perverted the [[Block Transfer Computation]]s and held the planet for ransom until its secret was revealed. This made the [[causal nexus]] unravel and release an unstoppable wave of [[entropy]] to destroy the [[universe]]. He also broke the [[Logopolitan]]s' blockade of entropy, allowing it to swallow several galaxies, including the entire Traken Union.


The entropy wave was so threatening that the Master agreed to work with the Fourth Doctor to stop it. They travelled to the [[Pharos Project]] on [[Earth]] to do so, using the last theorem of Logopolis to reopen [[Charged Vacuum Emboitment]]s, or CVEs. His true plan was revealed however, when he sent a message to the peoples of the universe that he would stop the entropy only if they submitted to his rule. While stopping the Master's signal to shut down the CVE that would halt the entropy wave, the Doctor fell off the Pharos Project's [[radio telescope]] and regenerated, allowing the Master to escape. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
Clara also temporarily became Missy's companion when they both teleported out of the Dalek city together. Missy treated Clara as her "canary", forcing her to act as bait for the Daleks and test the safety of their situations first. She also made her get inside a Dalek casing so they could sneak back into the city convincingly. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')


The Master kidnapped [[Adric]] and held him in a [[hadron web]] to make him a part of his TARDIS. Using a projection of Adric on board the TARDIS, the Master sent the newly-regenerated [[Fifth Doctor]] hurtling to destruction at [[Event One]], but the Doctor saved his TARDIS through the [[Architectural Configuration]]. The Master used Adric's block transfer computations to create [[Castrovalva]] in the [[Andromeda (galaxy)|Andromeda Galaxy]], where the Doctor would recover from his regeneration. He escaped from the [[recursion]] trap and tried to kill the Doctor, but was attacked by the enraged citizens with the city itself due to collapse. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
=== References ===
After he turned himself into the [[human]] [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|John Smith]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] slightly remembered the Master as a man with a beard who always upset his experiments. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')


The Master escaped from Castrovalva, but in the attempt, it caused damage to the [[dynamorphic generators]], making it difficult to continue piloting his TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')  
When holding [[Kahler-Jex]] at gunpoint, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] said he honoured the Master's victims along with others. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Town Called Mercy (TV story)|A Town Called Mercy]]'')


In an attempt to capture and kill the Doctor and his companions, the Master arrived in [[England]] in the [[1920s]], and manipulated [[Harry Houdini]] to send a psionic distress call to his old friend. When the Doctor answered the call, Houdini claimed that he needed help to stop a fortune teller. However, when the Master's plan was uncovered, the Doctor managed to stop his arch-enemy's revenge plan. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Smoke and Mirrors (audio story)|Smoke and Mirrors]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
[[File:KaleedSmiles.jpg|thumb|left|The Master as Kalid — one of the most elaborate of his disguises. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'')]]
=== Character conception and development ===
[[Barry Letts]] and [[Terrance Dicks]] often discussed that the relationship between the Third Doctor and the Brigadier was similar to [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[John Watson|Dr Watson]], and envisioned a counterpart of the Doctor to act as "Moriarty", a character that became "the Master", his name being developed to counter the Doctor's — like that of his enemy, "Master" is an academic title. ([[DOC]]: ''[[The Doctor's Moriarty (documentary)|The Doctor's Moriarty]]'')


He travelled to Earth in [[Distant past|140,000,000 BC]], where he disguised himself as the [[magic]]ian [[Kalid]], hoping to use the [[Xeraphin]] [[gestalt]] to replace his dynamorphic generators. He brought two [[Concorde]]s to his Citadel via a [[time contour]]. The second held the Doctor, his TARDIS and companions. He originally planned to use the captured passengers to break into the Sanctum and take control of the Xeraphin and add him to his TARDIS, but then he acquired the Doctor's TARDIS in a trade with him for a part the Doctor needed for his own TARDIS.
In the Third Doctor's [[The Final Game (TV story)|original final episode concept]], [[Roger Delgado]]'s incarnation of the Master would have redeemed himself and given his life to save the Doctor, after which the Doctor would have [[Regeneration|regenerated]]; however, this story was never developed due to the sudden death of Roger Delgado. Over thirty years later, this idea was reused in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', with [[John Simm]]'s incarnation of the Master seemingly sacrificing himself to save the Tenth Doctor from Rassilon (although ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'' later revealed that his incarnation of the Master had survived this event).


The Xeraphin contacted Nyssa and let Tegan and her enter the Citadel, where he revealed his true form. The Master held the passengers hostage for parts from the Doctor's TARDIS. The second Concorde was returned to its own time and the Master ended up on [[Xeriphas]] with the freed and angry Xeraphin. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'')
In ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', writer [[Robert Holmes]] deliberately chose to show the Master in a "transitional" form, in case future production teams wanted to bring back the character. As reported by [[DWM 5|''Doctor Who Weekly'' #5]], the intent at the time was that the Master had succeeded in gaining new [[regeneration]]s and was beginning to regenerate in the scene where he escapes Gallifrey in [[Goth's TARDIS]]; it was expected that when the Master next returned, it would be in a once-more-healthy, new body. However, this idea was not included in [[Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin (novelisation)|the novelisation]]; as the [[Target novelisation]]s were informally used by [[John Nathan-Turner]] as continuity guides, over the original scripts, this resulted in the decayed Master reappearing in ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'' (albeit looking slightly healthier).
[[File:SirGilles.jpg|thumb|The Master disguised as Sir Gilles. ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'')]]
On Xeriphas, he found and acquired [[Kamelion]], a shape-changing [[android]] that could be easily controlled by a stong mind. Managing to elude Xeraphin, the Master escaped to [[England]] in [[1215]]. He disguised himself as the [[French]] knight Sir Giles and made Kamelion impersonate [[John of England]] to prevent the signing of ''[[Magna Carta]]''. However, the arrival of the Doctor caused interference with his plans. After the Doctor defeated him in a joust, the Master fled in his TARDIS after the still-disguised Kamelion offered the Doctor the choice of saving him or another captive. ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons]]'')


Directly following these events, the [[High Council]] of the [[Time Lord]]s discovered that earlier incarnations of the Doctor had been taken into the [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]]. They asked the Master for help and offered him a new cycle of regenerations. He agreed and was given a copy of the [[Seal of the High Council]] by [[Castellan (Arc of Infinity)|the Castellan]]. The Doctor's [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]] did not believe him and took the seal from him.
The relationship between the Doctor and the Master has often been thought of by fans as a romantic, or formerly romantic, one. This has only sparsely been hinted at in official media, although [[David A. McIntee]] reported that he once pitched a [[Virgin Missing Adventures|''Virgin Missing Adventure'' novel]] which would have featured the [[Fifth Doctor]] and {{Ainley|n=the Ainley Master}}, and, in a subplot, revealed the Doctor and the Master as ex-[[Marriage|spouses]].<ref>[https://originallonemagpie.tumblr.com/post/102452330527/well-i-guess-we-know-where-the-idea-for-missy David A. McIntee on Tumblr]</ref>
[[File:AinleyIncredulousTFD.jpg|thumb|left|The Master can't quite believe the [[High Council]] want him to save [[the Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')]]
He made a temporary alliance with the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] to guide them to the [[Dark Tower]]. He informed the [[First Doctor]] how to get past security, but then grew power-hungry at the mention of immortality. [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] knocked him unconscious and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Tegan Jovanka]] bound him. After Borusa was encased in [[Rassilon]]'s tomb, Rassilon sent the Master back to his own time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')


As an attempt to trap the Doctor, and steal his remaining regenerations, the Master faked his own death, ensuring the Doctor would attend the funeral at the nursing home where he supposedly spent his final days. But the Doctor was saved by Turlough, and the Master's plan was foiled yet again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Velvet Dark]]'')
=== Near uses ===
The Master was the villain in the early drafts of the 1977 television story ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'', until he was replaced by [[Magnus Greel]].<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/4s.html</ref>


The Master arrived in [[Camelot]] just after the coronation of [[King Arthur]]. He became the Merlin after the old one had died. He planned to make Arthur believe [[Mordred]] was dead so Mordred would grow up to kill Arthur at the battle of Camlan.
When writing the 2015 audio story ''[[The Black Hole (audio story)|The Black Hole]]'', [[Simon Guerrier]] intended for Constable [[Pavo]] of the Time Lord police force to be an earlier incarnation of the Master. This is strongly hinted at in the story, where Pavo makes use of a deadly "[[Tissue Compression Eliminator|silver baton]]", possesses hypnotism similar to the [[Roger Delgado]] Master's, and seems to be on the path to breaking away from Gallifrey's authority, as she ends up wiping the Doctor and companions' memories of their encounter and letting them go so as not to risk implicating herself concerning her own transgressions. However, the connection is not spelled out.<ref>https://twitter.com/0tralala/status/1104079021510402048</ref>


The Doctor and Tegan arrived, met Arthur and told him about the Master. Arthur summoned the Merlin to test their truthfulness. When the Master saw the Doctor and Tegan, he told Arthur he had no intention of harming him. He left the court and hurried to his TARDIS, which was disguised as the turret room of Arthur's castle. The Doctor suggested Arthur create the Knights of the Round Table so when Mordred came they would be ready. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Creation of Camelot]]'')
=== The mystery of the Master's true name ===
In the [[DWM 79]] ''[[Matrix Data Bank (feature)|Matrix Data Bank]]'', [[Richard Landen]] responded to the question "Most fans know the Doctor's true name is a mathematical formula: [[∂³Σx²]]. What is the Master's true name?" by suggesting that the Master's equivalent equation was ∂⁼Βx⁴.


The Master developed a more powerful version of the Tissue Compression Eliminator and accidentally shrank himself and his lab, without the ill effect of death. Using a device to boast his telepathy, the Master made contact with Kamelion once more, directing him to use the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS to land on planet [[Sarn (planet)|Sarn]]. With Kamelion acting as his physical proxy, the Master had him pretend to be the locals' god and order the Doctor's death. When this failed, he had Kamelion take the small box his lab had become and take it to the lab on Sarn that used [[Numismaton Gas]], hoping it could restore him. As the Master stood in a gas vent and returned to normal size, the Doctor used the gas to burn him (apparently) to death. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'') However, the Numismaton Gas increased the power of the Source of Traken still remaining in the Master body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') He went in search the Fountain of Youth to restore himself, which he managed to exploit. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Town Called Eternity]]'')
The [[1997 (releases)|1997]] novel ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'' shows the [[Second Doctor]] in what is purported to be his first encounter with the Master since leaving [[Gallifrey]]. Throughout the story, the Master is only called by the name "Koschei", and it is only at the end of the tale, when his turn to evil is complete (as foreshadowed by the title), that he proclaims himself "the Master". In Russian folklore, Koschei (rus.{{w|Koschei|Коще́й}} or Коще́й Бессме́ртный, "Koschei the Deathless") is a villainous sorcerer who hid his soul in an obscure location under many layers of protection so that he may never die. ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'', by the same writer, saw [[Roger Delgado]]'s Master encountering a [[Koschei (Inferno Earth)|parallel version]] of himself for whom ''The Dark Path'' had not happened, who still called himself "Koschei". The Second Doctor recognises Koschei's name in ''The Dark Path'' when [[Ailla (The Dark Path)|Ailla]] mentions it, although the narration also suggests that it is an alias rather than the Master's birth name. Writer [[David McIntee]] commented on his Tumblr blog:<ref>[http://originallonemagpie.tumblr.com/post/146842531372 David McIntee on Tumblr]</ref>
{{quote|The intention is certainly that (a bit like Anakin Skywalker) it’s a name he never uses later - but being set before he’s called the Master means he has to be called *something*. As for whether it’s actually his original real name… Well, in my head, yeah, but you’ll notice (IIRC) that the Doctor doesn’t address him by that name until after it’s been mentioned by others, so it not necessarily the case.|David McIntee}}


A hallucination of this incarnation of the Master appeared to the Fifth Doctor as he lay dying of [[spectrox toxaemia]] in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'') This was due to the Master's attempts to psychically interfere with the Doctor's fourth [[regeneration]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Winter (audio story)|Winter]]'')
In ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'', flashbacks to the Doctor's childhood in "[[the Deca]]" have the future Master already calling himself "Koschei" at the [[Time Lord Academy]], although it is no clear if this is his birth name or a school nickname like "[[Theta Sigma]]" (the name persistently used for the Doctor in those same flashbacks). Although the flashbacks themselves come in the form of dreams the Doctor has under the influence of the [[Celestial Toymaker]], and are explicitly inaccurate in some respects, the epilogue confirms that "Koschei" eventually became obsessed with "becoming the Doctor's Master".


[[File:Markoftherani title.jpg|thumb|left|The Master works with [[the Rani]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'')]]
The comic ''[[Flashback (comic story)|Flashback]]'' was written with the intent that [[Magnus (Flashback)|Magnus]], an old friend of [[First Doctor|Theta Sigma]] who seems to be growing more and more corrupted, was an early incarnation of the Master. However, the comic did not explicitly confirm Magnus's identity, and later sources went on to use "Magnus" as a name for [[the War Chief]], although [[The War Chief#Connection with the Master|the Master and War Chief are sometimes thought to be one and the same]]. Interestingly, in the original script, the name was not "Magnus" but "Magus", the Latin word for "sorcerer" or "wise man"; it was incorrectly "fixed" to Magnus by the letterer, who assumed Magus was a typo.
The Master allied with [[the Rani]] (whom he knew as a member of [[the Deca]] on Gallifrey) in [[Killingworth]], an early [[19th century]] English mining village, against the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]]; he hoped to hasten the advancement of Earth's technology for his own nefarious reasons while the Rani wanted the brain chemical that induced sleep. The Doctor trapped the Master and the Rani in [[the Rani's TARDIS|her TARDIS]], which the Doctor had sabotaged; [[time spillage]] put them in danger of being eaten by a [[tyrannosaurus rex]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'') The Master separated the Rani's console room from the rest of her TARDIS, leaving her to drift aimlessly through the vortex. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[State of Change (novel)|State of Change]]'')


Working with [[Adam Mitchell]], the Master set up a asylum in [[7214]] with [[Auton]]s as staff as a trap for the Doctor, Peri and [[Frobisher]].  The Doctor broke out of his cell thanks to Peri and Frobisher and melted the Autons. The Master escaped by tripping up the Doctor, leaving Adam to capture Peri. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prisoners of Time (comic story)|Prisoners of Time]]'')
''[[The Black Hole (audio story)|The Black Hole]]'' featured the [[Second Doctor]] bumping into a Time Lord called [[Pavo]], working for the Time Lord police to track down [[Renegade Time Lord|renegades]] (consistent with the claim in ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'' that the Master was a "truant officer" who was originally sent by the Time Lords on the Doctor's trail before deciding to become a Renegade himself). This Time Lord was intended by writer [[Simon Guerrier]] to be the Master prior to their turning evil; there are other clues to Pavo's identity, such as the [[Tissue Compression Eliminator|silver rod]] Pavo wields as a weapon or their hypnotic abilities. It is, in any event, not made clear whether "Pavo" is an alias, nickname, code name, or birth name.


Recovering his own TARDIS and learning of the Valeyard, the Master materialised in [[the Matrix]] and observed the Sixth Doctor's trial on [[Space Station Zenobia]] while examining the Matrix footage himself to see what was tampered with. He considered [[the Valeyard]] a rival and rescued the Doctor rather than have the Valeyard win as the darker version of his foe was someone he believed unbeatable. He used [[Sabalom Glitz]], always ready to work with anyone for a quick [[grotzit]], as a tool. He tried to steal secrets from the Matrix, but he was double-crossed by the Valeyard, and imprisoned in the Matrix with a limbo atrophier. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'') The Time Lords released the Master from the Matrix, whereupon the Master killed the technicians and fled in his TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mission: Impractical (novel)|Mission: Impractical]]'') After escaping, the Master could regenerate his body because [[the Source]] of [[Traken]] still existed within him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
Beyond all those possibilities, several accounts suggest the Master's true name was something altogether more alien than "Koschei," "Magnus," "Magus" or "Pavo". In {{cite source|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|ed=1975 paperback|page=25}}, when the Doctor asks which Time Lord the [[Time Lord messenger (Terror of the Autons)|messenger]] has come to warn him about, he first replies with "a string of mellifluous syllables — one of the strange Time Lord names that are never disclosed to outsiders" before informing the Doctor that "these days he calls himself the Master" (in contrast to the TV version, where the messenger simply calls him "the Master", more clearly assuming that the Doctor is already familiar with his old friend's new name). The notion of the Master's name being long and complicated, in the fashion of the Time Lord names pioneered by "[[Romanadvoratrelundar]]", was echoed by the [[2018 (releases)|2018]] short story ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'', which had Missy stating that her real name contained thirty-two letters.


After escaping from an unsuccessful alliance with the [[Kroton]]s, the Master discovered that the last remnants of the Source of Traken were fading, so his previous cadaverous form would return and he would die. Meanwhile, he was attacked by the [[Chronovore]]s looking for revenge after he tortured [[Kronos]]. The Master devised a plan to destroy the Chronovores and achieve omnipotence by trying to access the [[Lux Aeterna]] using the son of [[TOMTIT]], the [[TITAN Array]]. He stole the equipment and used it upon a woman he hypnotised, [[Anjeliqua Whitefriar]], expecting it to destroy her before he used it. However, she absorbed the Lux Aeterna, achieved omnipotence and became the [[Quantum Archangel]]. Using her power, she filled the universe with too many alternate timelines, leading the Chronovores to feast upon them, eventually leading to the end of the universe. The Master (fully returned to his cadaverous form again) and the Doctor teamed up to rectify the Master's mistake by defeating the Quantum Archangel. They discovered that the Quantum Archangel had allied itself with the [[Mad Mind of Bophemeral]] so it could have infinite knowledge of the Universe. The Doctor and the Master encountered Kronos, who claimed to have been the one who attacked the Master's TARDIS, so he would come up with his plan, and would eventually lead to the Master's destruction as well as allowing Anjeliqua to survive, causing Kronos' plan for revenge to go wrong. They succeeded by draining the Lux Aeterna out of her, although not before the Master escaped using the TITAN equipment to harness the Lux Aeterna to restore his Tremas body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
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Especially in comparison to other prominent Time Lords like the Doctor and [[Romana]], the number of the Master's incarnations has been left unclear by many stories. [[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'' gives the first clue when the Master is said to be near the end of his thirteenth and final incarnation. [[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'' shows the transformation from the [[Roger Delgado]] Master into the degraded form portrayed by [[Peter Pratt]] in ''The Deadly Assassin'', establishing that they, and [[Geoffrey Beevers]], are playing a single regeneration of the Master. However, the comic ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'' contradicts this by showing the Delgado incarnation's [[regeneration]], and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'' features the Beevers incarnation of the Master before disfigurement.


After trying to start a war between [[Antari Two]] and [[Antari Three]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') the Master went to the [[Cheetah World]], where he took [[mind control|control]] of the [[Cheetah People]] and the [[kitling]]s. He sent them to [[Ace]]'s home in the [[London]] suburb of [[Perivale]] and hunted for [[human]] recruits. At the same time, exposure to the planet was [[Cheetah Virus|changing him into a Cheetah Person]]. He found a pliable young man called [[Midge]] and used him to escape.
The lack of ordinal numbers has prompted many conflicting naming schemes for each incarnation of the Master:
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Using Midge as his "hunting dog", he recruited a gang of Perivale youths to defeat the [[Seventh Doctor]] and Ace. The Master killed Midge and [[teleport]]ed the Doctor to the Cheetah World, which had begun to break up. The Doctor escaped but the Master was trapped on the dying world. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival]]'')
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How exactly the Master escaped the [[Cheetah World]] was a matter of debate. Several competing theories existed.
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One idea about the Master's escape from Cheetah World had it that he escaped  with the aid of a Kitling just as the planet exploded. The explosion of the planet sent him back in time to [[Earth]] in [[1957]].
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Trapped on Earth at the dawn of the Space Age, the Master interrupted the real first [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] satellite launch and sent a distress signal to the [[Tzun]] Canton on [[Zeta Reticuli Four]]. He offered to help assimilate Earth into the [[Tzun Confederacy]]. In return the Master asked for passage off Earth and the use of the Tzun's genetic engineering to cure his [[Cheetah Virus]] infection. The Tzun accepted and prepared [[nanite]]s for him that broke down the corrupted [[Trakenite]] DNA in his cells and restructured it. This restored the Master to being a "full" [[Time Lord]], which gave him a new [[regeneration|regenerative]] cycle. While assisting the Tzun, the Master used the alias Major Kreer. Shortly after being restored to his full Time Lord heritage he was shot in the back by [[Ace]], causing him to [[regenerate]]. Following the regeneration he was able to make his escape, summoning [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] using a [[Stattenheim remote control]] built from Tzun technology. After leaving a booby-trap for the [[Seventh Doctor]] in a [[Nuclear missile|nuclear warhead]], the Master fled. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier]]'')
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Later, the Master laid a trap for the Doctor in one of the Doctor's homes using a device which would release the energy from a [[time fissure]] once [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] [[materialise]]d. This would destroy it. The plan failed when [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Mike Yates]] and [[K9 Mark III|K9]] destroyed the device, causing the Master to flee. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Housewarming]]'')
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The nanites the Tzun gave the Master eventually began to fail, causing him to seek the [[Loom of Rassilon's Mouse]] in order to make himself a new body. The plan failed and the Master managed to escape by hypnotising [[Kitai]] into posing as a decoy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'')
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Another theory held that the Tremas Master simply continued to exist after his time on [[Cheetah World]], and that he remained infected by the [[Cheetah Virus]] for quite some time. On [[Earth]], he tried to cure the virus by extracting nutrients from dying humans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Stop the Pigeon]]'') The Master next tried to gain a new body from legendary aliens, the [[Fleshsmith]]s. The Master's plan was stopped by the Doctor, who ejected the new body from the Fleshsmith vessel into space. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prime Time]]'') 
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[[File:The Master In Destiny of the Doctors.jpg|thumb|left|The Master temporarily victorious in capturing the first seven incarnations of [[the Doctor]].  ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')]]According to this version of history, it wasn't at all clear how the Master rid himself of the virus that had so plagued him, but he got rid of it by the time  of his second alliance with [[Adam Mitchell]]. At this point he used a group of [[Aerolith]]s to further his alliance. He syphoned their life force, to transmit to his "partner", using a Gulwort. However, when they were freed by the Seventh Doctor, they chased the Master. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[POT 7|Prisoners of Time]]'')
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Eventually, the Master captured the first seven of the Doctor's incarnations and put them into a void called [[the Determinant]]. The [[Graak]] freed the Doctors and the Master was put on trial. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')
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A third account failed to touch on any ill-effects of the Master's interaction with the [[Cheetah People]].  Focused instead on the latter part of the Tremas Master's life, it suggested that at some point, the Master learned of a device known as the [[Warp Core]], a sentient powerhouse of mental energy designed as a weapon to safeguard the [[planet]] [[Duchamp 331]]. He tracked the Warp Core to Earth, intending to use it to power his TARDIS. Unprepared for its power and underestimating its outside awareness, he was attacked by the Warp Core, having the body he stole from Tremas stripped from him, reducing him to his previous, decaying form. The Master then used a mask to disguise his deformity and followed the Warp Core as it arrived on Duchamp 331. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding]]'')
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The Seventh Doctor made a deal with [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]] whereby the Master would have ten years of peace and sanity, at the end of which the Doctor had to kill him. The still-scarred Master had become a physician on the colony world of [[Perfugium]] with [[amnesia|no memory of his past]], and took the name John Smith. He was taken in by [[Wolstonecroft]], and inherited his house when Wolstonecroft died. During his ten years as John Smith, the Master had become emotionally involved with [[Jacqueline Schaeffer]].
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At the end of the allotted time, the Doctor duly arrived but strove to avoid fulfilling his side of the bargain. The Master became aware of the Doctor's role in pledging him to Death as her servant but forgave him for it. Death herself was present, disguised as the Master's maid, and manipulated events so that the John Smith persona would crumble and the true Master become dominant once more. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
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When the Master, then in his "final incarnation", ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') arrived in the [[Valley of the Kings]] in [[Egypt]], he was captured by the Daleks to be placed on trial, but his TARDIS was left behind in the tomb. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'') After he was tried and executed by the Daleks on [[Skaro]] as part of a Time Lord-Dalek treaty, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') the Master's last and, in the words of the [[Eighth Doctor]], "somewhat curious" request was for the [[Seventh Doctor]] to transport his remains to Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') However, his essence survived in a fluid-like form that was known as a [[Deathworm Morphant]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
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The Seventh Doctor stored the ashes in a casket and set [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] on course for Gallifrey. En route, the Master, whose consciousness had survived the death of his physical body, escaped from the casket and interfered with the TARDIS, causing a timing malfunction. The ship [[materialise]]d in [[San Francisco]] during the final days of [[1999]].
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On exiting the TARDIS, the Doctor was caught in a crossfire of a gang war and was picked up by an [[ambulance]]. As he lay wounded, he saw the Master's form exiting the TARDIS via its keyhole, but he was unable to communicate this information to the humans nearby. While [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|Bruce]] tended to the Doctor and loaded him into the ambulance, the Master hid inside a bag. After Bruce had gone to home and bed, the Master forced his way into Bruce's body through his mouth, killing him and taking over his body.
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The next morning, the Master awoke, now inhabiting Bruce's body. He realised the decaying form would not last long and launched his scheme to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations. His first act was to kill Bruce's [[Miranda (Doctor Who)|wife]].
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The transformation into Bruce involved some complications. His eyes retained the "cat's eye" appearance, forcing him to wear sunglasses to remain inconspicuous. Also, Bruce's body began to decay rapidly.
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The Master befriended [[Chang Lee]], a young gang member who had been present when the Doctor was shot, and who had stolen the [[TARDIS key]]. With Lee's help, he entered the Doctor's TARDIS and regaled Lee with stories of the Doctor's supposed villainy (claiming, among other things, the Doctor had stolen the Master's regenerations). As part of his plan to take the Doctor's lives, he intended to open the [[Eye of Harmony]], destroying the Earth in the process. With Lee's further help, he was able to open the Eye. He discovered that the Doctor had [[regenerate]]d into a [[Eighth Doctor|new form]], and that the Doctor was half-[[human]]. This answered a few of the Master's longstanding questions about his foe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] revealed to Chantir in prison that he tricked the Master into thinking this, with a "wide eyed expression, a couple of words, and a half-broken chameleon arch." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'')
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[[File:RobertsFGLeeBG.jpg|thumb|left|The Master enters the final phase of his plan to switch bodies with the [[Eighth Doctor]] — [[Chang Lee]] in tow. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]The Master tracked the Eighth Doctor down, pretending to be Bruce, and agreed to take the Doctor and [[Dr]] [[Grace Holloway]] to [[Professor]] [[Wagg]]'s [[atomic clock]] at the [[Institute for Technological Advancement and Research]], to which Grace was a member of the board of trustees, and repair the timing malfunction the Master caused with the clock's [[beryllium chip]]. The Doctor escaped, but before he could do so, the Master secretly [[Possession|possessed]] Grace's mind. When the Doctor got back to the TARDIS to fix the timing malfunction, the Master had Grace knock the Doctor out and put him in restraints. He killed Lee by snapping his neck when Lee realised the truth about the Master after the Master accidentally revealed that he had wasted ''all'' of his lives in fighting the Doctor, rather than the Doctor having stolen them. The Master then forcibly opened the Eye using Grace's retina (freeing her from possession and returning her human eyes) so that he could steal the Doctor's lives.
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Although the Master was able to initiate the transfer process that would give him access to the Doctor's remaining lives, Grace was able to prevent this by rerouting the TARDIS' power and sending the ship into a [[temporal orbit]]. Grace released the Doctor from his restraints, but the Master threw Grace off of a balcony inside the [[Cloister Room]], killing her. With the Master's body dying as the Doctor's regenerations were returned to him, the two Time Lords fought near the [[Eye of Harmony]], culminating in the Master falling into it when he leapt at the Doctor and misjudged the angle. After the TARDIS brought Lee and Grace back to life, Lee asked what had happened to the Master. He heard a strange rumbling sound coming from the TARDIS and the Doctor responded, "Indigestion." ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
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Shortly after his defeat, the Master laid a final trap for the Doctor, leaving a crystalline structure on the Eye that would give the Doctor [[amnesia]]. However, the Doctor was subconsciously guided by [[Rassilon]] to recover his memories, Rassilon helping him travel to various locations where the Doctor could make contact with his younger selves and regain his memories through telepathic contact, eventually being restored to normal. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'')
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An "echo" of the Master imprisoned inside the Doctor's TARDIS offered the Eighth Doctor advice through a portrait, a mirror and later the Eye of Harmony. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never...]]'', ''[[The Deadstone Memorial]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') Whilst exploring the Eighth Doctor's TARDIS, [[River Song]] thought she heard an American screaming from within the walls. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock]]'')
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The Master escaped through the [[Eye of Harmony]] by influencing the dreams of [[Edward Grainger]] to unravel the Doctor's timeline, by killing Edward Grainger whilst he was an infant in [[1906]]. However, the Master was stopped by the First Doctor and [[Violet (Prologue)|Violet]] after being hit with a rolling pin and being removed from the body he possessed.
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Arriving in [[New York City]], the Master took possession of a member of the Hudson Dusters, quickly becoming the leader of the gang and calling himself Don Maestro. After twenty years of living in his current body, he occupied the body of his host's son, and moved to [[Las Vegas]] where he owned a casino. He accumulated the money to fund his experiments, in an attempt to elongate the lifespan of his host body by forty years. Fearing the eventual decay of his body, the Master used his money to buy a penthouse to isolate himself from infection, so he had longer to live. After years living in isolation, his host's son confronted him, realising that the Master had possessed his father and his grandfather for decades. He then trapped the Master in the penthouse.
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After [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] infiltrated the sealed penthouse, they discovered the Master in a self-preserving comatose state. He was imprisoned in the [[The Vault (Tales from the Vault)|UNIT Vault]], awakening every five years for one hour, before going into a coma again. After fifteen years living in the Vault, the Master awoke again, and was interrogated by UNIT officers [[Ruth Matheson]] and [[Charlie Sato]]. However, the Master had managed to hypnotise both of them, and escape his imprisonment. He also discovered that UNIT had recovered his TARDIS from the Valley of the Kings, which had been there for three thousand years, and used it to escape from the Vault. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
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Another account shows that the Master passed through the [[Eye of Harmony]], and his essence was left wandering the [[Time Vortex]] and close to extinguishing. Eventually he was rescued from the Vortex by a being named [[Esterath]], the then-controller of [[the Glory]], the focal point of the [[Omniverse]]. The Master was told that it was time for the Glory to gain another controller, but the power had to be fought for. The Master assumed that the battle would be between himself and his greatest foe, the Doctor.
 
[[File:Master(GloriousDead).png|thumb|The Master begins to disappear after being banished by [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')]]
 
After gliding over the many realities throughout the Omniversal Spectrum for what he described as seeming like centuries, the Master was resurrected into the body of a recently-deceased vagrant on the streets of [[2001]] [[Brixton]]. Some weeks afterwards, the Master was transported onto [[the Moon]] during one of the Doctor's adventures (due to a symbiotic link he had formed with the Doctor's TARDIS, when it consumed part of his essence after he passed through the Eye of Harmony). The Master subsequently used this link to trail the Eighth Doctor for some time without his enemy suspecting - even after they had met face to face. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
 
He was present in London during the crisis resulting from Grace Holloway's attempt to merge human and Time Lord [[DNA]] (the alien DNA was in fact that of a [[Morphant]]). He killed an [[MI6]] [[M16 agent|agent]] with the [[TCE]] at this time, but fortunately for the Master the Doctor departed before his trademark was discovered. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'')
 
The Master later made contact with [[Sato Katsura]], a [[Japanese]] [[samurai]] unwillingly rendered [[Immortality|immortal]] as a result of his involvement in the Doctor's adventures. The embittered warrior became the Master's follower. At his behest, Sato adopted the identity of Cardinal Morningstar and became leader of the [[Church of the Glorious Dead]], instigator of a holy war that altered the history of Earth, a planet now renamed "Dhakan".
 
The symbiotic link between the Doctor's TARDIS and the Master had also given the latter the ability to influence the flight of the TARDIS, which he used to send the craft to times and places which would weaken the Doctor's self-belief and confidence. This done, the two fought for the Glory, with the Master apparently triumphant.
 
It would soon be time for the Glory to gain another controller, but the power had to be fought for. The Master assumed the fight would be between himself and his greatest foe. He was mistaken. The true battle was between his [[companion]], Sato, and the Doctor's, the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]]. Kroton was the victor. Amongst his first acts as controller of the Glory were to cleanse the TARDIS of the Master's influence and to place the Master somewhere that he could not escape. The Master declared he would survive and return. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
 
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The Master was rescued from "a predicament" and was given a new lease of life by the Time Lords. The Master presumed that they were "softening him up for [[Last Great Time War|something]]". Originally intending for him to fight against the Daleks, the Time Lords discovered that [[the Eminence]] posed a greater threat, and instructed him to use them to fight the Daleks. The [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] gave the Master all the information he needed for his mission.
 
The Master travelled to the [[Nixyce system]] and stole a teleportation casket of the Eminence, integrating it into his TARDIS console. He then tried to use the casket to gain influence over the Eminence, and take control of its [[infinite warrior]]s, calling them his "finite warriors". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') He saved [[Sally Armstrong]] from being hit by a taxi, recruited her, and began to work for the [[Ides Scientific Institute]] in the 1970s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'') He tried to discover why some humans were immune to the Eminence's influence, and eliminate it so that the Daleks could not exploit it.
 
The Master encountered the Eighth Doctor in London, and the Doctor opened his link to the Eminence located in his mind, teaching it how to pilot a TARDIS. The Eminence then used the teleportation casket located in the Master's TARDIS to pilot it, taking the Master and Sally with it. The Master managed to isolate the Eminence inside his TARDIS through the telepathic circuits, and Sally expelled the Eminence into the Time Vortex.
 
Some time later, Sally and the Master kidnapped [[Molly O'Sullivan]] from her home in [[107 Baker Street]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'')
 
[[File:Unit_Dominion_Master.jpg|thumb|The Master as "The Other Doctor". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[UNIT: Dominion (audio story)|UNIT: Dominion]]'')]]
At a later point, the Master infiltrated a Time Lord base which contained the [[Node Stone]], which was a product of dimension technology, developed by the [[Dimensioneer]]s, and stole them. The Master attempted to control the dimensional energies using the Node Stone, by planting one of the Node Stones on the planet of the [[Tolian]]s, to drain all the energy that was available. This was a way of drawing the Doctor to the Tolians' planet, so he could gain possession of the only other Node, which the Doctor had in his TARDIS. By manipulating the Tolians, he tricked the Doctor into re-supplying dimensional energy to the Tolians using his Node, which caused a catastrophic imbalance in dimensional energy, threatening the structure of reality itself.
 
The Master attempted to infiltrate [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] by pretending to be a future incarnation of the Doctor, modelling his TARDIS on the police box exterior. He had to work alongside the UNIT scientific advisor, [[Elizabeth Klein]] and work under the command of [[Lafayette|Colonel Lafayette]]. He assisted UNIT in defeating a number of interdimensional alien incursions, including the [[Mind Leeches]], [[Lava Spiders]], the [[Nexus]] and [[Skyheads]].
 
When the Doctor and his companion, [[Raine Creevy]], fell through a dimensional doorway caused by the dimensional instability, the Master stole the Doctor's Node Stone, and sent all the alien invaders back to their own dimensions, but not before he left with the Doctor in his TARDIS. It was at this point that the Master revealed his true identity, and his plan, which was to use the two Node Stones to add even more dimensional energy to the Tolians, so he could use them to conquer the Earth and other planets beyond. However, the Doctor managed to convinced the leader of the Tolians, [[Arunzell]], that the Master would betray his species. This gave the Doctor the opportunity to capture the Master, use the two Nodes to send the Tolians back to their own dimension, and then destroy both Node Stones, but not before the Master escaped during the ensuing chaos, intending to try his scheme all over again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[UNIT: Dominion (audio story)|UNIT: Dominion]]'')
 
=== Under the chameleon arch ===
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-->The Master was resurrected by the [[Time Lord]]s to fight in the [[Last Great Time War]], believing him to be a perfect warrior, due to his savagery. He was present when the [[Dalek Emperor]] took control of the [[Cruciform]]. Frightened by the horror of the Time War, he ran away as far as he possibly could, to the end of the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')  There, he used a [[chameleon arch]] to hide himself as a [[human]], Professor Yana. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') The [[War Doctor]] was sent by [[Rassilon]] to find the Master, but was unable to do so. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'')
[[File:YanaAndFobWatch.jpg|thumb|left|Professor Yana opens the [[fob watch]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]]
Physically human, Yana believed that he was found on the coast of the [[Silver Devastation]] with only an "heirloom" [[Chameleon Arch|fob watch]]. His memory of his past was that the watch could never keep time and was always late for things. He believed that he spent his life moving from one refugee ship to another and all his life he heard the sound of drums every waking hour as if they were getting closer. However, it was likely that none of what Yana believed about himself was any more true than that which, for example, [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)|John Smith]] gave to [[Joan Redfern (TV character)|Joan Redfern]].
 
Yana retained the Master's brilliant intellect and ultimately became involved in the attempt to send the remnants of humanity to [[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]]. He eventually became friends with another scientist, [[Chantho]], who was thought to be the last of the [[Malmooth]] race. Together, they worked on the [[Utopia Project]] to convey the surviving humans from the [[planet]] [[Malcassairo]] to [[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]].
[[File:YanaEyesGoBlack.jpg|thumb|right|The Master's personality returns.  ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]]
Yana met the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Martha Jones]], who spoke phrases curiously familiar to him, phrases such as [[Time Vortex]], "extermination", [[Last Great Time War|Time War]], [[Dalek]]s and [[regeneration]]. Martha made the Professor aware of a watch in his possession. Hearing voices in his mind that commanded and entreated him, he opened it and returned to his true identity.
 
He then attacked his assistant, angered that Chantho was too inept to return his memories after decades. He had also grown sick of her presence as he waited to be restored. Vengeful, he electrocuted her with a loose set of power cables, leaving Chantho for dead. However, Chantho used the last of her strength to pull a laser gun on the Master while his back was turned, and shot him in the chest before she succumbed to death. Fatally wounded, the Master regenerated into a younger incarnation and escaped to [[Earth]] in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
=== As Harold Saxon ===
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====Became Harold Saxon====
[[File:SaxonSmile.jpg|thumb|left|"Harold Saxon" smiles to the camera after giving a post-electoral speech. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
With his new body, the Master left the Doctor on the [[planet]] [[Malcassairo]] with [[Futurekind]] about to burst in the laboratory door. The Master now had the TARDIS and [[the Doctor's hand]] (which [[Jack Harkness]] had taken with him to Malcassairo) that contained the Doctor's DNA. ([[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]].  There, he began fabricating Harold Saxon's past to gain political support. He made his first public appearance about eighteen months before the Doctor reunited with his [[companion]] [[Jack Harkness]], shortly after the downfall of [[Harriet Jones]]. The Master unveiled the [[Archangel Network]], which was hailed as a telecommunications breakthrough. By this point he had taken the identity of Harold Saxon, complete with a fabricated past. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
By December [[2007]], he had become [[Minister of Defence]] of Great Britain. On Christmas Eve, he came to real prominence for the first time, ordering [[British Army]] [[tank]]s to destroy the [[Empress of the Racnoss]]' [[webstar]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
In 2007, he campaigned for the general election as [[Prime Minister]] of [[Great Britain]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'') with the slogan "Vote Saxon". ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'') He visited his old high school during the campaign, and as Harold Saxon did not exist, he used the [[Archangel Network]] to brainwash staff 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]]'')
 
Around the same time, Captain Jack Harkness discovered that [[Torchwood]] files were being "given" to the Opposition leader, by the Prime Minister. This was presumably "Saxon," attempting to learn more about Captain Jack and other confidential information. ([[TV]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'')
 
"Saxon" asserted that [[alien|extraterrestrial life]] did exist and Britain must do something about it. With his election a sure thing, [[politician]]s from other parties flocked to his side.
 
The Master started the [[Archangel Network]]. This telecommunications network, tied to mobile phones, carried a [[mind control]] signal which made [[human]]s trust him. The network affected the Doctor so he had no suspicions as to the Master's presence as "Saxon", though 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.
[[File:SimmAndToclafane.jpg|thumb|right|The Master with the [[Toclafane]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
 
He also designed the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'', [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]]'s air carrier, and a [[laser screwdriver]] which he reserved for his own use. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') "Saxon" funded the rejuvenation experiments of [[Richard Lazarus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]'') "Saxon", along with all other incarnations of the Master, was also kidnapped by the [[Sild]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
 
The Master contacted the [[Toclafane]], the child-like, vicious [[cyborg]] remnants of the future [[human]]s who had never found [[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]]. To allow the Toclafane to escape extinction and live anew in the past, he cannibalised and converted the Doctor's TARDIS into a [[paradox machine]] to change history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' / ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'') After Martha had left with the Doctor, he had [[Dexter|an agent]] meet with Martha's mother, [[Francine Jones|Francine]], who tapped into a conversation between Francine and Martha via the [[superphone]], which could contact Martha through space and time. ([[TV]]: ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'')
Before the Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack arrived back from the end of the universe, ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') the Master had sent Jack's Torchwood team on a wild-goose chase to the [[Himalayas]].
 
===="The Master of all"====
In 2008, he was elected Prime Minister. He announced [[first contact]] with the "friendly" Toclafane who could protect Earth against alien threats. Though he kept up appearances with the public, the Master began to deal with private matters severely. He gathered his [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom|Cabinet]] for a meeting and accused them of being traitors who abandoned their political parties to jump on his political ticket. He rigged the deskphone 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]], [[Arthur Coleman Winters]]. He captured the Doctor, Jack, and Martha's family, 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, he used his laser screwdriver to age the Doctor one hundred years.
 
The Master ordered the Toclafane to kill one tenth of humanity and commence [[Toclafane invasion|their invasion]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
Martha escaped capture on the ''Valiant'' and travelled the world. One year later, in [[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 channelled through the Archangel Network, which the Doctor had spent a year infiltrating [[telepathy|telepathically]]. The psychic energy restored the Doctor and gave him [[telekinetic]] powers.
 
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]] rather than receive the Doctor's mercy. He died in the Doctor's arms. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
As far as the general public knew, Harold Saxon "went crazy" and disappeared, along with President Winters. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
 
==== Raised from the dead ====
[[File:24.jpg|thumb|left|The Master during his resurrection. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
The Master was resurrected when his wife [[Lucy Saxon]] was imprisoned at [[Broadfell Prison]], London. One of the warders, [[Trefusis|Miss Trefusis]], retrieved [[the Master's ring]] from his funeral pyre. On Christmas Eve [[2009]], the [[Governor (The End of Time)|prison governor]] brought Lucy to a chamber where most of the staff were members of the [[Disciples of Saxon]], who had been working ever since his apparent death to bring about his resurrection.
 
With the help of the ring and a biometric imprint taken from Lucy, the 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 all killed in the resulting explosion.


[[File:The Master Unstable Body.jpg|right|thumb|The Master's damaged body flickers between flesh and raw bones. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
====Evidence in invalid entries====
The Master survived the blast, but his physical form was flawed: his once brown hair was now bleached blond, and he was unshaven and unkempt. Also, his [[life force]] was left in a state of constant depletion. He consumed huge quantities of food and drained the vitality of humans to stay alive. As a side effect of the failed 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. At times when his life force dipped to near depletion or he expressed strong emotion, his outer skin would fade away and reveal the translucent blue life energy encasing his body. This exposed his skeleton and internal organs, and each fluctuation made an unsettling noise likened to an abominable, primal roar. He led the Doctor on a wild goose chase after banging the beat of the drums in his mind to lure the Doctor to him and escaped when Wilf interrupted the chase. Encountering the Master soon after, the Tenth Doctor discovered the drumming in his head was not a symptom of insanity, but real.
[[File:FASA9002First-FifthMaster(700yo).jpg|thumb|The first to fifth incarnations of the Master ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Doctor Who Role Playing Game]]'')]]
[[File:MasterRace3Shot.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Master Race]]. ([[TV]]:
''[[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 incarnations in "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 End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
 
Billionaire [[Joshua Naismith]] kidnapped the Master and enlisted his assistance to mend the malfunctioning [[Vinvocci]] medical machine, the [[Immortality Gate]]. The Master cooperated 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 [[Wilfred Mott]] and his granddaughter [[Donna Noble|Donna]], into [[the Master Race]] — identical copies of the Master subservient to him.


The High Council of Time Lords made contact with the Master using the rhythm of the drumbeats in his head — the same rhythm as the Time Lord's heartbeat — and sent him a [[White-Point Star]], found only on Gallifrey, to boost the signal. Fitting the diamond to a nuclear bolt to boost the signal, the Master tore open the [[time lock]] on the war, bringing back the Time Lords.
According to the book, the Master could control the form of his incarnations, and frequently used the same face. His first to fourth incarnations lived on Gallifrey and regenerated due to his researches. The Fifth Master kept the same face as his predecessors, but lasted over four-hundred-years due to his retirement. He eventually regenerated, aged over 700-years-old, when his rebellion on Gallifrey failed and forced him to become a renegade, with [[the War Chief]] among his followers. The sixth and seventh incarnations were "[[the Monk]]", as portrayed by [[Peter Butterworth]], being different from his previous incarnations mostly by lacking a beard, who regenerated when repairing his TARDIS after the events of ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]''. The Eighth Master, aged over 800-years-old, regenerated following the events of ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'', returning to a bearded Delgado-like appearance and being the first to call himself "the Master". He kept these features up to his twelfth incarnation which combed his grey hair back. The thirteenth incarnation, still aged over 800-years-old, started intervening against UNIT, but, after his death to the Daleks following ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'', took on the decayed appearance of [[Peter Pratt]]. The Fourteenth Master, aged over 900-years-old, was portrayed by Ainley, who stole the body of Tremas and he survived the events of ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'', due to the gas which gave him a new cycle and he regenerated into a similar fifteenth incarnation.


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 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 2010 edition of ''[[The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)|The Visual Dictionary]]'' indicates that the Master played by [[John Simm]] is the seventeenth incarnation.


The President revealed his plans from the [[Ultimate Sanction|final days of the Time War]], but the Doctor stepped in with Wilfred's pistol. After some hesitation, he shot the nuclear bolt holding the White-Point Star, destroying the link.
====Valid entries====
[[File:Masterarc.jpg|thumb|right|The Master getting revenge on [[Rassilon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
The short story ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'' showed eighteen deaths on Missy's [[Spacebook]] page. This results in nineteen true incarnations to result from regeneration, not including incarnations who come into being as possessed bodies (although notably, the Spacebook entry mentions one singular instance of body-theft). While the identities of the Master's first regeneration cycle's incarnations are not named by this story, and the unique cases of the multiple Ainleys and of the "Tzun" regeneration are not addressed, it does account for most regenerations of the Master to have appeared in spin-off media at the time.
Rassilon prepared to kill the Doctor, but the Master told the Doctor to step out of the way. He 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 according to the Tenth Doctor, Gallifrey and the Time Lords 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]]'')
=== Off-screen relationships===
Although they played antagonists on screen, in real life [[Roger Delgado]] and [[Jon Pertwee]] were actually close friends. In interviews and convention Q&A sessions, Pertwee often cited the death of Delgado as one of the factors that led him to give up the role. ([[DOC]]: ''[[PanoptiCon 93]]'', [[MM VHS 15]])


=== The Mistress ===
Long before [[Tom Baker]] met [[Anthony Ainley]] during the filming of Baker's final serial, ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', he had lived with his brother, Richard Ainley, an acting instructor. Tom often saw Anthony, who would come over to play with Richard's children, but always thought of him as mysterious.<ref>http://www.tom-baker.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=756</ref>
At some point after the events of ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]], ''the Master regenerated into a Time Lady and started working under the guise of "the Mistress" or "Missy" . (TV: ''[[Dark Water]]'')
==Alternative timelines==
In [[the Infinity Doctors universe|one universe]], the Master was a [[The Magistrate|Magistrate]] for the [[High Council]] upon graduating the [[Time Lord Academy]], and he was still close friends with [[The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors universe)|the Doctor]]. Over time, his devotion to justice and discipline devolved into an obsession with order which marked the beginning of his descent into darkness. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'')


In a [[Inferno Earth|parallel universe]], the Master was still a loyal Time Lord who went under the name [[Koschei (Inferno Earth)|Koschei]]. He was working for the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] and travelled with a human companion called [[Ailla (The Dark Path)|Ailla]]. They became stranded on Earth after defeating the [[Great Intelligence]], and the [[Republic of Great Britain]] captured him for information. Ailla was killed and Koschei was tortured until all his regenerations were used up. Koschei died when he was confronted by the Master from [[N-Space]], who turned off his life-support machine at his request. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'')
===Information from invalid sources===
====''The Doctor Who Fun Book''====
A glimpse into the Master's life on [[Gallifrey]] is provided by the short story [[PROSE]]: ''[[TARDIS Stolen! (short story)|TARDIS Stolen!]]'' from [[1987]]'s ''[[The Doctor Who Fun Book]]'', which is not considered a [[Tardis:Valid source|valid source]] by this Wiki due to its parodical nature, such as revealing that the Master's true name is "Cuthbert Windbottom", though he is already going by "the Master", a choice of identity the author of the ''Gallifreyan Gazette'' article finds unsurprising.


In an alternative universe, the Master aided the [[Dalek]]s in a war against the Time Lords. The war was being led by the [[Sixth Doctor]], who was President of the Time Lords. Due to the aid of the Master, the enemy began winning the war. Rather than let them win the war, the Doctor activated the [[Armageddon Sapphire]], which destroyed this universe and killed the Master. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
Following the [[First Doctor]]'s theft of [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and flight from Gallifrey, the Master is interviewed by the ''[[Gallifrey Gazette]]'' to give his opinion on the probable motives of his old classmate's crimes; the Master claims that the Doctor had been very excited in the last month over a phone call from "[[BBC (in-universe)|the BB Corporation]]" and attempts to convince the interviewer that these were surely [[Bed and Breakfast Corps|some of Gallifrey's oldest enemies]] in whose league the Doctor had entered. Yet another hint as to the Master's activities is the classified ad for "lifelike dolls" to be purchased from him, which heavily suggests that the Master is already in possession, and making illegal use of, a [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]].


In a different alternative universe, the Master cooperated alongside [[the Rani]], [[the Monk]] and [[Drax]] to try to destroy the world using a DNA recombinator, turning the human race into a gestalt consciousness which could be used as a weapon to conquer the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
====''Doctor Who The Official Annual 2018''====
According the ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2018]]'', which is not accepted as a [[Tardis:Valid sources|valid source for in-universe articles on this wiki]] due to not constituting a story as such, Missy remained on Skaro after ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', adopting a [[Slyther]] as a pet that ate the [[Thal]]s she met.


In one possible future, the Master had a female incarnation. This incarnation, along with all other incarnations of the Master, was kidnapped by the [[Sild]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
====''Doctor Who: Legacy''====
In the story of ''[[Legacy (video game)|Doctor Who: Legacy]]'', [[time travel]]ling [[Sontaran]]s' attacks on the [[timeline]] are felt by the "Saxon" Master. After witnessing [[the universe]] collapse with [[Lucy Saxon]] on [[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]], the Master, seeking to establish his [[New Time Lord Empire]], leads the [[Toclafane]] in overrunning the [[Sontaran Empire]] and pursuing the Doctor. As the Doctor's incarnations assemble, the Master likewise gathers his other selves, retrieving his decaying incarnation from the collapsing reality. Next to be summoned is the "UNIT era" Master, wielding a [[paradox generator]].


== Personality ==
=== Other matters ===
The Master was the polar opposite of the Doctor in almost every respect. Though he retained a brilliant Time Lord mind and all of the Doctor's wit and cunning, he possessed two fatal character flaws - he was arrogant and exceptionally vain, which almost invariably led to his downfall. However, it was also revealed that the Master hadn't always been like this: he and the Doctor were once good friends as children on Gallifrey. The Doctor believed that staring into the [[Time Vortex]] as an eight-year old child drove him insane and caused his personality to change. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') It was, in fact, during that occasion that the [[High Council]] from Gallifrey's future sent the sound of the heartbeat of a Time Lord into the Master's mind, leading at least in part to his madness. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
*A [[The Master (Battle for the Universe)|distinct incarnation]] of the Master features in the board game ''[[Battle for the Universe (game)|Battle for the Universe]]''.
*''[[The Companions (reference book)|The Companions]]'', a reference book by [[John Nathan-Turner]], established that [[Melanie Bush]] joined the [[Sixth Doctor]] in [[1986]] when she helped thwart the Master (presumably {{Ainley}}), who planned a dastardly attempt at a massive computer fraud involving all the banking houses on [[Earth]].
*The 2020 animated version of the Second Doctor serial ''[[The Faceless Ones (TV story)|The Faceless Ones]]'' retroactively makes this story the Master's first appearance, though they do not appear in person. He appears on two separate wanted posters, one showing his Roger Delgado incarnation, and another showing the incarnation played by Sacha Dhawan.
*The character was originally supposed to be killed off for good in ''[[The Final Game (TV story)|The Final Game]],'' which would have seen him sacrifice himself to save the Doctor and reveal that they are split parts of the same personality (the Doctor being the Ego and the Master being the Id). [[Roger Delgado]]'s death prevented this.
*He was originally supposed to be the main villain of ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]],'' presumably the [[Peter Pratt]] incarnation.
*''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'' was supposed to be his final appearance, as [[Anthony Ainley]]'s contract was expiring. Dialogue from ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'' explaining how he survived was cut.
* The Master was intended to be the main villain of the cancelled novel ''[[To Hold Back Death (novel)|To Hold Back Death]]''.
*[[Mestizer]] was intended by [[Daniel O'Mahony]] - the author of the books she appeared in - to be an incarnation of the Master.
*The version portrayed by Eric Roberts was the first Master to be given an official incarnation-specific name, with the film's [[Doctor Who - TV movie (soundtrack)|soundtrack release]] referring to him as "The UnBruce".
*The ''[[Doctor Who: Figurine Collection]]'' generally did not assign names to incarnations of the Master, with the {{Simm|n=John Simm}} ([[DWFC 89]]), {{Delgado|n=Roger Delgado}} ([[DWFC 100]]), {{Ainley|n=Anthony Ainley}} ([[DWFC 144]]) and {{Dhawan|n=Sacha Dhawan}} ([[DWFC 187]]) incarnations all being introduced simply as "the Master". However, the {{Pratt|n=Peter Pratt}} incarnation ([[DWFC 49]]) was named the "Emaciated Master", whilst [[DWFC 105]] specified its release being "{{Jacobi|n=the Master (Derek Jacobi)}} as [[Professor Yana]]".


=== Thirteenth incarnation ===
==Feature==
[[File:Rage.jpg|thumb|The Master showing an understanding of his personality.{{What}} ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')]]
===Casting===
When he encountered the [[Third Doctor]], the Master was suave and debonair with a sardonic sense of humour. Being a haughty psychopath, he regarded most beings as his inferiors but had a mutual respect for the Doctor as a worthy opponent and his (almost) intellectual equal. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'') He often found himself unable to kill the Doctor, because that would rid him of the satisfaction of defeating him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'') The Master was also not above working alongside the Doctor when necessary, and even showed a certain respect to the Doctor's companions even if he still considered them inferior to his adversary ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'').
==== Television====
 
The opposite nature of the two showed up not only in their goals and methods, but also in the most basic of ways. The Master at this point was often arrogant and impatient, taken to be rude towards all and showing no tolerance for stupidity. The Doctor, on the other hand, was kind, caring and, when asked, would actually take the time to explain what he was doing and why. The Master often lied and killed people, but he gave the impression that he saw murder as a regrettable necessity rather than a lifestyle choice. He also considered his quarrel with the Doctor to be something of a game. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'')
 
While in [[Atlantis]], the Master formed a relationship of sorts with [[Queen]] [[Galleia]], remarking that she was beautiful and promising her power. Both she and [[Lakis]] commented that he had "the bearing of a [[God]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')
[[File:Traken_part4.JPG|thumb|right|The Master's vengefulness shows by possessing [[Tremas]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')]]
 
Following his degeneration, he was mainly preoccupied with finding a way to [[Regeneration|regenerate]]. The vengeful and vindictive side of the Master was at its most apparent while he was in this state. This vengefulness came through by killing various fellow Time Lords on Gallifrey, and his eventual possession of Tremas. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'') The Master felt a even stronger hatred towards the Doctor, once attempting a plan that would have destroyed ''all'' the Doctors, even future Doctors, due to the Doctor causing the Master to waste regenerations. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End]]'')
 
=== Tremas incarnation ===
[[File:Timeflight_ep2.JPG|thumb|left|The Master in [[Tremas]]'s body. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time Flight]]'')]] After possessing [[Tremas]], the Master was, deadly and sophisticated but became decidedly more flamboyantly evil, bombastic and futile than he had been. He was prone to laughing and reciting speeches. At this point in his life, the Master was devoted to kill the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'') [[The Rani]] said that his plans were so overcomplicated that if he walked in a straight line he would get dizzy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') After he was infected by the [[Cheetah Virus]], he seemed more calm and calculating. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
 
=== Pre-Time War incarnation ===
[[File:The Master (TV Movie).jpg|thumb|The Master in [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|a human]]'s body dressed for the occasion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]] This incarnation of the Master was generally calm and sinisterly villainous, but was also capable of terrifying rage. After being exterminated by the [[Dalek|Daleks]], the Master took possession of [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|Bruce]] and, after finding that his new body was not stable, became determined to steal the remaining lives of the Doctor himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
In this incarnation, he felt a pedantic need to correct people on bad grammar. The most noteworthy occasion was when he corrected [[Grace Holloway]]'s "kiss as good as me" to "kiss as well as me". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
When his attempt to take the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s lives was thwarted, the Master reverted to a more basic, brutal approach, attempting to smash the Doctor's head in with a staff positioned around the Eye, proclaiming that life was wasted on the living and rejecting the Doctor's aid when he was being pulled into the Eye. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
===Time War incarnation===
Under the human identity of Professor Yana, the Master was kind, considerate and polite, and dedicated to finding a way to save humanity at the end of the universe. However, after returning to his identity as a Time Lord, this incarnation of the Master proved to be cold, ruthless and vindictive, a contrast from his human form. In contrast to his next incarnation, he was always serious and dignified. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') This incarnation was also a coward, preferring to run away and become a human being instead of fighting in the war. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
=== Post time war incarnation ===
[[File:HaroldSaxonUtopia.jpg|thumb|left|The Master after his regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]]
By the time of his return from his [[Yana]] persona, the Master appeared after his regeneration to have gone more insane than ever, regressing to an almost childlike state of spitefulness and obliviousness. He instantaneously rejected a plea to listen by saying, "No. It's my turn. Revenge." ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'') In this instance, the [[Tenth Doctor]], being aware of how dangerous the Master was, attempted to take on the role of a kind of mentor in an attempt to save the Master from himself, saying "I'm not here to kill him. I'm here to save him." He pleaded with him on numerous occasions to calm down, stop what he is doing, listen and look at himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
The Master also had an exceptionally heightened sense of his own brilliance which is far more pronounced and blatant than that of the Doctor. He refers to himself in the third person as "your Lord and Master" on numerous occasions and in reciting a Bible-style verse of his own making to the Doctor, "...and so it came to pass that the human race fell. And I looked down, upon my new dominion as Master of All and I thought it good", revealed a penchant for fancying himself as a god. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') He also held Time Lords to be an absolutely superior race of life automatically assuming the privilege of altering history, on the principle of: "I'm a Time Lord. I have that right". ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
[[File:Masterpic.jpg|thumb|The Master laughs. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
The Master was able to match the Doctor's keen wit and sense of humour. He remarked to the President of the United States when reprimanded for his audacious conduct contravening established first contact policy with regards to the [[Toclafane]] with a casual "Oh, you know what it's like, new job, all that paperwork - I think I left it down the back of the settee. I did have a quick look. I found a pen, a sweet, a bus ticket. Have you met the wife?" ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
The Master also shared the Doctor's incredible technical know-how. He was able to construct his [[laser screwdriver]] from Earth components and miniaturise [[Richard Lazarus]]' genetic manipulation technology. He was also able to cannibalise the Doctor's TARDIS and turn it into the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|Paradox Machine]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
After his revival, the Master was more insane than ever. He acted like an animal, eating food like one and acting rash. He could be close to sane when talking to the Doctor and was sure he was not insane when the Doctor finally heard the drums he hated so much. At the very end of his life, his personality seemed to revert; when [[Rassilon]] tried to kill the Doctor, the Master sacrificed himself as he found Rassilon a common enemy. He used an unknown amount of his life-force to blast Rassilon and save the Doctor when he could have let Rassilon kill the Doctor and survived himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
 
==Other information==
===Relationship with the Doctor===
[[File:3rdMasterMOE.jpg|thumb|left|The Master with The [[Third Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'')]] The Master's relationship with the Doctor was one of the most complex known. He respected the Doctor as a worthy opponent, once offering to use a recently-recovered weapon to take control of the universe while offering to share it with the Doctor ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]''). As time went on, however, the Master became increasingly obsessed with proving his personal superiority, causing him to view the Doctor both as his greatest friend and his worst enemy. He expressed deep anger toward the Doctor, along with a desire for vengeance, saying "No, it's my turn, revenge, best served hot" ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''), and accusing the Doctor of causing him to waste his regenerations.
 
Although initially willing to work with the Doctor when the situation required it ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]''), towards the end of his life, the Master absolutely refused to listen to the Doctor on any occasion. He evinced his vanity when the Doctor confronted him with the words "I forgive you", which he had been terrified of hearing because it would have significantly dented his pride due to the Doctor's status as his sole remaining peer affirming that he was wrong. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
The Master also had a crippling fear of an all-powerful, God-like Doctor probably based around the Doctor's habit of challenging his old foe's grandiose self-image by constantly derailing his plans. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'') When the Doctor harnessed the psychic energy of the entire human race and effectively became a god, the Master was reduced to sobbing against a wall. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
===Companions===
[[File:JacobiAndChantho.jpg|thumb|right|[[Chantho]] was Professor Yana's assistant for almost two decades. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]]
Unlike the Doctor, the Master usually worked and travelled alone. On rare occasion, he was seen with companions. Examples included [[Ailla (The Dark Path)|Ailla]] the [[Time Lord]] spy; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]'') [[Chang Lee]], a young [[human]] whom the Master met in [[San Francisco]]; ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'') [[Katsura Sato]], an immortal [[Japanese]] [[Samurai]] who helped the Master in his quest for Glory; ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') [[Sally Armstrong]] that helped him to use [[the Eminence]]; ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'') [[Chantho]], a female assistant and companion to the Master in his Professor Yana identity; ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') and [[Lucy Saxon]], his wife, who was described as having travelled with the Master in the TARDIS in the same fashion as the Doctor and his companions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') However, Alia was the only companion he travelled with because he wanted to rather than because he had to; in all other occasions, he only had a companion because he required a human ally to achieve his goal, with Lucy Saxon providing a convenient cover to reinforce his assumed human identity.
 
== Behind the scenes ==
=== Character conception and development ===
When conceiving the character, the production team had originally considered the idea of the Doctor having a female arch-nemesis rather than male one (this idea was later revived with the creation of [[the Rani]]). Later, they thought of the Master as the evil half of a single personality. The Master's name was dreamed up as another counterpart to the Doctor's — like that of his enemy, "Master" is an academic title. But this does not mean that the Master has a lesser academic degree than the Doctor, as in a Masters Degree. Both being Time Lords, they have the same level of education and are graduates of the Time Lord Academy.
 
In the [[Third Doctor]]'s [[The Final Game|original final episode concept]], [[Roger Delgado]]'s incarnation of the Master would have redeemed himself and given his life to save the Doctor, after which the Doctor would have [[Regeneration|regenerated]]; however, this story was never developed due to Delgado's accidental death. Over thirty years later, this idea would be reused in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' with [[John Simm]]'s incarnation of the Master sacrificing himself to save the [[Tenth Doctor]] from [[Rassilon]].
 
In ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', writer [[Robert Holmes]] deliberately chose to show the Master in a "transitional" form in case future production teams wanted to bring back the character. This transitional form was used in ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]''.
 
The Master was the villain in the early drafts of the [[1977]] television story [[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]].<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/4s.html</ref>
 
=== Is "Koschei" his true name? ===
The name "Koschei" has been developed in various novels. However, like the Doctor's name, the Master's actual moniker has never been revealed in performed ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
 
Still, the name has a befitting Russian heritage.  Koschei (rus.{{w|Koschei|Коще́й}} or Коще́й Бессме́ртный, "Koschei The Deathless") is an antagonist in Russian folklore. He is an immortal who hides his soul inside a needle, which is inside an egg, in a duck, inside a hare, in an iron chest which is buried under a tree on the island of Buyan. As long as his soul is safe, he cannot die.
 
=== How many Masters? ===
It has never been firmly established on screen how many incarnations of the Master have existed. The only number explicitly given by any narrative is that found in [[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', where the Master is said to be near the end of his thirteenth and final life. In [[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'', it's unambiguously established that [[Susan Foreman]] uses a combination of the Master's [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]] and her knowledge of [[the TARDIS]] to wreak devastating physical damage on the Roger Delgado Master, and the form portrayed by [[Geoffrey Beevers]] and [[Peter Pratt]] is merely the degenerated form of Delgado and not a wholly different incarnation. 
 
Afterwards, [[Anthony Ainley]]'s version of the Master takes over Tremas' body goes on to plague the Doctor until the original series' end. Despite no actual [[regeneration]], it's technically a different form. 
 
There are no narratives whatsoever which unambiguously define the relationship between the Ainley Master and those that follow him, meaning that it's impossible to assign numbers to the Master's forms, in the same way that we would with incarnations of [[the Doctor]].
 
That hasn't stopped at least one non-narrative source from trying, though.  The 2010 edition of [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary]]'' indicates that the Master played by [[John Simm]] is the seventeenth form. According to this theory, [[Derek Jacobi]] would be the sixteenth, [[Eric Roberts]] the fifteenth, and Anthony Ainley/[[Gordon Tipple]] the fourteenth. However, there's no narrative evidence to support ''any'' of the ''Visual Dictionary'' claims.
 
=== Off-screen relationships ===
Although they played antagonists onscreen, in real life [[Roger Delgado]] and [[Jon Pertwee]] were actually close friends. In interviews and convention Q&A sessions, Pertwee often cited the death of Delgado as one of the factors which led him to give up the role. ([[DOC]]: ''[[PanoptiCon 93]]'', [[MM VHS 15]])
 
Long before Tom Baker met Anthony Ainley during the filming of his last episode, he had lived with his brother, Richard Ainley, an acting instructor. Tom often saw Anthony, who would come over to play with Richard's children, but always thought of him as mysterious. <ref>http://www.tom-baker.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=756</ref>
 
=== Casting ===
==== Television ====
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|[[Roger Delgado]]||[[1971]]-[[1973]]||''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''||''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]''||Roger Delgado would have also appeared in the final story of [[Jon Pertwee]]'s tenure, had not his death intervened.
|[[Peter Butterworth]]||[[1965 (releases)|1965]]-[[1966 (releases)|66]]||''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]''||''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]''||A minority of later accounts suggested that the Monk was an earlier incarnation of the character later played by Delgado. However, he was never referred to as "the Master" on-screen, instead going by [[the Monk]], an alias he first assumed in Saxon England. Subsequent stories have introduced other incarnations of the Monk, though only Butterworth's has ever been identified with the Master.
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|[[Edward Brayshaw]]||[[1969 (releases)|1969]]||''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]''||''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]''||The War Chief was suggested in some, but not all, later accounts to be an earlier incarnation of the character later played by Delgado (see footnote). However, he was never referred to as "the Master" on-screen, instead going by [[the War Chief]], his rank in the [[War Lord]]s' hierarchy.
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|[[Roger Delgado]]||[[1971 (releases)|1971]]-[[1973 (releases)|73]]||''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''||''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]''||Roger Delgado would have also appeared in the final story of [[Jon Pertwee]]'s tenure, had not his death intervened.
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|| [[Norman Stanley]]||[[1971 (releases)|1971]]||''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''||''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''||Stanley, credited as "Telephone Mechanic" in episode three of ''Terror of the Autons'', portrays the Delgado Master disguised by a mask while he infiltrates [[UNIT]] and installs a [[Nestene]] telephone.
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||[[Peter Pratt]]|| [[1976 (releases)|1976]]|| ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]''|| ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]''||Peter Pratt was the first actor to portray the Master's cadaverous body. Accounts differ on whether this decaying Master is a later form of Delgado's incarnation or a different incarnation.
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|[[Geoffrey Beevers]]||[[1981 (releases)|1981]]|| ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''||''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''||Geoffrey Beevers became the primary vocal performer of the Master for [[Big Finish]]
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|[[Anthony Ainley]]||[[1981 (releases)|1981]]-[[1989 (releases)|89]]||''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''||''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]''||Anthony Ainley also appeared in the specially shot full motion video that accompanied [[1997 (releases)|1997]]'s ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]''
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|[[Dallas Adams]]||[[1984 (releases)|1984]]||''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]''||''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]''||Adams primarily played [[Howard Foster]]. While remotely possessing [[Kamelion]], the Master briefly adopts Foster's appearance at the end of episode one, managing to get access to the TARDIS control console thanks to the deception; he then has Kamelion shifts into the appearance of his Trakenite body. Throughout the rest of the episode, Kamelion possessed by the Master is thus exclusively played by Ainley once more.
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||[[Peter Pratt]]||[[1976]]||''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]''||same||Peter Pratt was the first actor to play the Master after Roger Delgado. He was also the first actor to portray the Master's cadaverous body.
| [[Gordon Tipple]]||[[1996 (releases)|1996]]||''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''|| ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''||Tipple played the Master whom the [[Dalek]]s exterminate at the start of the 1996 telemovie. Virtually all of his footage was cut from the finished film.
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|[[Geoffrey Beevers]]||[[1981]]||''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''||same||Geoffrey Beevers became the primary vocal performer of the Master for [[Big Finish]]
|[[Eric Roberts]]||[[1996 (releases)|1996]]||''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''||''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''||The first and, so far, only American actor to play the role.
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|[[Anthony Ainley]]||[[1981]]-[[1989]]||''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''||''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]''||Anthony Ainley also appeared in the specially shot full motion video that accompanied [[1997]]'s ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]''
|[[Jonathan Pryce]]||[[1996 (releases)|1999]]||''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]''||''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]''||Pryce's portrayal of the Master was openly parodying the character's more humourous traits.
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|[[Eric Roberts]]||[[1996]]||''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''||same||[[Gordon Tipple]] played the Master who the [[Dalek]]s exterminate at the start of the 1996 telemovie. Virtually all of his footage was cut from the finished film. Roberts is the first and so far the only American actor to play the role.
|[[Derek Jacobi]]||[[2007 (releases)|2007]]||''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''||''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''||[[Derek Jacobi]] had earlier played [[The Master (Scream of the Shalka)|another version]] of the Master in the ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'' webcast.
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|[[Derek Jacobi]]||[[2007]]||''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''||same||[[Derek Jacobi]] had earlier played [[The Master (Scream of the Shalka)|another version]] of the Master in the ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'' webcast.
|[[John Simm]]||[[2007 (releases)|2007]]-[[2017 (releases)|2017]]
||''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''|| ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]''||[[John Simm]]'s version of the character was the first incarnation of the Master to ever be shown as the product of a proper [[regeneration]] shown onscreen, and was also the first Master to return to the role on television after being replaced by another performer.
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|[[John Simm]]||[[2007]]-[[2010]]||''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''||''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''||[[John Simm]]' version of the character was the first incarnation of Master to ever be shown as the product of a proper [[regeneration]] shown onscreen. Although he hasn't appeared since [[2010]]'s ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', he remains the incumbent as of March 2014.
|[[William Hughes]]||[[2007 (releases)|2007]]||''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]''||''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]] ''||[[William Hughes]] was the Master as a child in a dialogue-free flashback which was repeated in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''.
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|[[William Hughes]]||[[2007]]||''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]''||''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''||[[William Hughes]] was the Master as a child in a dialogue-free flashback which was repeated in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]].''
|[[Michelle Gomez]]||[[2014 (releases)|2014]]-[[2017 (releases)|17]]||''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]''|| ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]''||[[Michelle Gomez]] was a character introduced as Missy, later revealed to be short for "Mistress" in ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', as she could no longer be known as "Master". Michelle Gomez is notable for being the first female performer to play this character, and marked the first time in a TV story that a Time Lord had been seen to change gender between regenerations, though the actual regeneration was not shown.
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|[[Sacha Dhawan]]
|[[2020 (releases)|2020]]-[[2022 (releases)|2022]]
|''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]''
|''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]''
|[[Sacha Dhawan]] was the first [[POC|non-white]] actor to play the Master.
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|[[Michelle Gomez]]||[[2014-]]||''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]''||''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]''||[[Michelle Gomez]] was a character introduced as ''[[Missy (Deep Breath)]]'', later revealed to be short for "Mistress" in ''[[Dark Water]]'' as she could no longer be known as "Master".''  
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[[Geoffrey Beevers]] is the main portrayer of the character in [[Big Finish]] audio dramas. Sometimes, as in ''[[Fourth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'', he's merely reprising the pre-[[Tremas]] Master seen in ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''. On other occasions, he has portrayed a post-''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'' Master that had had Tremas's body stricken away. On two more occasions, ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'' in 2013 and ''[[Day of the Master (audio story)|Day of the Master]]'' in 2019, he played a post-TV movie Master, who is established as always returning to the same emaciated form even as he takes over the bodies of others.
 
[[Alex Macqueen]] portrayed the Master in ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'', ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'', ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[The Reviled (audio story)|The Reviled]]'', ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]],'' ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'', ''[[Vampire of the Mind (audio story)|Vampire of the Mind]]'' and ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'', set at a time where the Master is given a new regeneration cycle by the Time Lords after his confrontation with the Eighth Doctor, and is set to work on their behalf.
 
In ''The Two Masters'', it is revealed that the Beevers and MacQueen Masters had switched bodies due to the manipulations of the [[Cult of the Heretic]], with the result that the two actors were technically portraying each other's version of the Master in the audios ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'' and ''[[Vampire of the Mind (audio story)|Vampire of the Mind]]'' respectively. In the former, the Macqueen Master in the Beevers Master's body lost his physical form; he briefly took over the body of [[Michael Masterson]](as played by [[Russ Bain]]) before said body decayed back into a replica of the Master's previous Time Lord body, once again being voiced by Geoffrey Beevers.
 
[[Derek Jacobi]] returned as the Master in his own audio series, ''[[The War Master (audio series)|The War Master]]'', as well as ''[[Time War: Volume One|Gallifrey: Time War]]''. He portrayed the same incarnation as seen in ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', yet set before that incarnation turned himself human. [[Michelle Gomez]]'s Missy was given [[Missy (audio series)|her own series]] as well in 2019.
 
[[James Dreyfus]] portrayed the Master in ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'', ''[[The Home Guard (audio story)|The Home Guard]]'' and ''[[The Psychic Circus (audio story)|The Psychic Circus]]''. As well as Dreyfus, the Master, through the use of a [[voice filter]], temporarily assumes the voice of the [[First Doctor]], as played by [[David Bradley]]. The announcement of his casting on the [[Big Finish]] website referred to him as "the first incarnation of the Master".<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/james-dreyfus-is-the-master</ref> This would make him the adult version of [[William Hughes]]' incarnation, although him being the First Master is not explicitly mentioned in his audio stories.
 
[[Milo Parker]] played the Master during his time at the Academy in ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]''.


==== Audio ====
Additionally, in ''[[The Hollows of Time (audio story)|The Hollows of Time]]'', an audio adaptation of an unrealised 1980s Sixth Doctor script made as part of ''The Lost Stories'' range, a character called Professor [[Stream (The Hollows of Time)|Stream]] appears, played by [[David Garfield]]. While he was supposed to be revealed as the "Tremas" Master in the original script, he was not identified as the Master in the audio version, and the audio is narrated by the Doctor and Peri as a flashback, where their memories are partially distorted, leaving them both uncertain as to Stream's true identity.
[[Geoffrey Beevers]] is the main portrayer of the character in [[Big Finish]] audios.  Sometimes, as in [[The Fourth Doctor Adventures]], he's merely reprising the pre-[[Tremas]] Master seen in ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''.  On other occasions, he has portrayed a post-''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'' Master that has had the [[Tremas]] layer peeled away. Thus, in ''[[Dust Breeding]]'' and ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'', he is ''once again'' the decayed version of the Delgado Master.  


Additionally, [[Alex Macqueen]] portrayed the Master in the audio drama ''[[UNIT Dominion]]'' and ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]''/''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'', set at a time where the Master is rescued by the Time Lords and is set to work on their behalf.
===Anagrams===
During [[Anthony Ainley]]'s tenure as the Master, [[pseudonym]]s made from anagrams of the actor's name were often used in the credits for the Master's disguises, such as "Neil Toynay" for [[the Portreeve]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]''. "[[Tremas]]" is itself an anagram of "Master".


=== Anagrams ===
The tradition continued in the [[BBC Wales]] version of the show. During [[Series 3 (Doctor Who 2005)|Series 3]], the Master takes on two new identities, "Professor Yana" in [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', and "Mr. Saxon" in [[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]''. "Yana" is an intentional acronym of "You Are Not Alone", the final words of the [[Face of Boe]], which led the Doctor to discover that Professor Yana was a Time Lord. "Mister Saxon", as the character was mysteriously referred to throughout series 3, is an anagram of "Master No. Six" - John Simm's rendition being the sixth on-screen version of the character. However, showrunner [[Russell T Davies]] has claimed that the anagram was unintentional.
During [[Anthony Ainley]]'s tenure as the Master, [[pseudonym]]s made from anagrams of the actor's name were often used in the credits for the Master's disguises, such as Neil Toynay for [[the Portreeve]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]''. [[Tremas]] is itself an anagram of Master.


The tradition has continued in the [[BBC Wales]] version of the show.  During [[series 3 (Doctor Who)|series 3]], the Master takes on two new identities, Professor Yana in [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', and Mr. Harold Saxon in [[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''.  Yana is an intentional acronym of ''''Y'''ou '''A'''re '''N'''ot '''A'''lone, the final words of the [[Face of Boe]], which led the Doctor to discover that Yana was a Time Lord.
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The Master, also known as "Missy" (short for "the Mistress") and the Lumiat in their two major female incarnations and by a variety of aliases and disguises throughout their lives, was a power-hungry renegade Time Lord who was the Doctor's archnemesis.

Friends and schoolmates at the Time Lord Academy in their youth, the divide between the Master's lust for power and the Doctor's empathy for "lesser species" would eventually pull the two farther and farther apart — to the point that the Master often sought to kill the Doctor. Despite this enmity, however, the two would on occasion act as allies, and both continued to yearn for their old friendship.

Like the Doctor, he also fled from Gallifrey in a TARDIS of his own, and, having fully embraced his darker nature, the Master would go on to pit himself against the Third Doctor and UNIT during the Doctor's exile on Earth. Later, having expended his original regeneration cycle, the Thirteenth Master survived in the decayed form of a living cadaver, in which form he fought the Fourth Doctor, before exploiting the powers of the Source on Traken to steal the body of Tremas. The Tremas Master would continue his crusade to submit the universe to his will in a variety of stolen or otherwise fraudulent bodies, from using Tzun nanites in order to gain new regenerations, to transferring his essence into a Deathworm Morphant, which allowed him to survive execution by the Dalek Prelature, and continue to survive by possessing a succession of human bodies, such as Bruce Gerhardt.

Finally killed by the Ravenous, the Master was eventually restored to life for good on the instructions of the Time Lords, in preparation for a future conflict with the Daleks. The Master would once again regenerate, this time into an older body that tried to manipulate the conflict to suit his own goals. However, after his failure to end the war using the Heavenly Paradigm, which had only resulted in even more devastation across the timeline, the Master was driven to such a state of terror that he fled to the end of the universe and turned himself into a human baby with a Chameleon Arch. After spending many years living as a humble human scientist on Malcassairo, the Master's personality was reawakened by Martha Jones, and, fatally shot by Chantho, he regenerated into a younger body.

Using the alias "Harold Saxon", the Saxon Master engineered his election as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the 2008 elections, and then sought to use the Earth to create a new Gallifrey. When his plan was foiled, he was shot by his wife, Lucy, and decided not to regenerate and die to spite the Tenth Doctor. Following 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, where he came face-to-face with a future female incarnation of himself, who stabbed him to ensure his regeneration into her. Now a woman, the Master began to call herself "Missy", the self-proclaimed "Queen of Evil". Missy went through many chaotic adventures of her own throughout the universe, but, although she loudly denied having "turned good", she demonstrated a willingness to rekindle her friendship with the Twelfth Doctor.

Eventually, Missy was captured and imprisoned inside a Quantum Fold Chamber, which was moved into a vault at St Luke's University by the Twelfth Doctor and Nardole. Although she claimed she could leave the Vault anytime she wanted to, she chose not to because she wanted to become a good person. So the Doctor tried to rehabilitate her and rekindle their friendship on his terms. On the verge of changing, Missy was sent on a trial adventure with Nardole and Bill Potts to the same colony ship her previous incarnation had regenerated on, later joining him upon realising that he had been responsible for Bill's cyber-conversion. In the end, though, she betrayed and killed her past self in order to finally stand with the Doctor, but was then killed herself in retaliation before she could return to him, with both Masters believing that this had been their "perfect ending".

Although the Master believed that the blast had disabled Missy's ability to regenerate, Missy managed to use an Elysian field, a forbidden technology that could break a Time Lord's body down into atoms and molecules then reform it anew, to grant herself a new regeneration cycle and kickstart her next regeneration. Using the field, she was also able to edit her personality, distilling all the goodness within her into a new benevolent incarnation who called herself "the Lumiat". The Lumiat, whose mission it was to go back and undo the damage her previous incarnation had caused, attempted several times to change Missy's ways before she was ultimately killed by her, having grown bored of her future self. The Lumiat regenerated into a male incarnation who called himself "the Master" again, who looked down on Missy's attempts to better herself.

The Spy Master returned to Gallifrey and discovered in the Matrix that all of Time Lord history had been "built on the lie" of the Timeless Child, which involved the true origin of the Doctor. Embittered by his discoveries, and lashing out from the belief that the Doctor had always been more than he was, the Master took his revenge on Gallifrey, leaving it in ruin. He next turned to plague the Thirteenth Doctor and Team TARDIS, eventually revealing the truth about the Timeless Child and building an army of CyberMasters from the remains of the Time Lords he had killed, becoming the host of the Cyberium consciousness to make himself their commander. However, his plot was thwarted when Ko Sharmus detonated the death particle on Gallifrey, wiping out whatever organic life remained on the planet, though the Master and his CyberMasters managed to escape to enact the Master's Dalek Plan, which saw the Master finally steal the Doctor's body and become the Doctor himself after posing as Grigori Rasputin. However, the Doctor was able to reclaim her body with help from her "extended fam", leaving the Master stuck back in his damaged body, though he was able to mortally wound the Doctor. Now dying, the Master challenged the Toymaker to a game in order to extend his life, but lost and was imprisoned in the Toymaker's gold tooth.

When the Toymaker was banished from existence by the Fourteenth Doctor after he and the Fifteenth Doctor beat him in a game, the gold tooth was left behind and retrieved by an unknown hand.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Early life and exploits[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: The Master's early life

There existed a variety of different and largely irreconcilable accounts of the Master's early life before the incarnation which became the Third Doctor's nemesis. These accounts differed on details including the physical appearances of the Master and the names they used during their early exploits.

The Master and a young Doctor became friends on their first day at the Time Lord Academy, (TV: World Enough and Time) and they shared many adventures (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils, The Eight Doctors, TV: The Time Monster, The End of Time, et al.) before falling out. (PROSE: Last of the Gaderene, TV: Death in Heaven)

After an illustrious political career, (PROSE: CIA File Extracts, Time and Relative, The Legacy of Gallifrey) the Master left Gallifrey and became a renegade on the same day or shortly after the Doctor left with Susan (COMIC: The Glorious Dead, PROSE: Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir, AUDIO: The Toy) during a period of civil unrest. (PROSE: Birth of a Renegade)

By some accounts, the incarnation that left Gallifrey had brownish-grey hair and a short beard and already went by the name "Master". (AUDIO: The Destination Wars, The Home Guard, The Psychic Circus) According to other accounts, he hadn't yet chosen the name "the Master" and instead went by the name "Koschei". (PROSE: The Dark Path, The Face of the Enemy, Rebel Rebel) According to the Celestial Intervention Agency's research, he still hadn't chosen the name "Master" by his sixth incarnation, who called himself a "Monk"; (PROSE: CIA File Extracts) however, by most accounts, the Monk was a different childhood associate of the Doctor's. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords, Divided Loyalties, No Future)

The Master's incarnations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: List of incarnations of the Master

The Master had the ability to control their regenerations, with each face selected bearing an imprint of their mind, leading the Master to keep the same characteristics across various regenerations. (PROSE: Harvest of Time)

After reaching the end of their original life cycle, the Master resorted to various expedients to extend their lifespan, including stealing or merging with the bodies of others, (TV: The Keeper of Traken, Doctor Who) creating incarnations who held themselves to be distinct from the base Thirteenth Master, (AUDIO: Masterful) but were not "exactly" new regenerations. (TV: The Five Doctors) By the time they reemerged after the Last Great Time War, the Master was once again in possession of a regeneration cycle, having been resurrected by the Time Lords, (TV: Utopia, The Sound of Drums) although other factors soon intervened to complicate their regenerative history. (AUDIO: The Lumiat, TV: The Power of the Doctor)

Before her encounter with the Bruce Master, River Song believed that she had met all the Master's incarnations. (AUDIO: The Lifeboat and the Deathboat) Across multiple time streams, the Sild collected about 470 incarnations of the Master. (PROSE: Harvest of Time) Incidentally, the Master's old enemy, the Doctor, was known to have had hundreds of incarnations. (WC: The Secret of Novice Hame, PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)

Early life[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: The Master's early life

Multiple contradictory sources discussed versions of the Master earlier than the one who began menacing the Third Doctor during his exile on Earth.

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Undated events[[edit] | [edit source]]

Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

Many versions of the Master were unique to various alternative realities.

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The Master's cybernetic nature is revealed by the Doctor. (WC: Scream of the Shalka)

Whilst exposed, the heart of the Master's TARDIS showed him some of his possible futures. In one the Master was horribly deformed, being cared for in a Zero Room on Gallifrey after being rescued by Chancellor Goth. In another, however, the Master achieved his aim of conquest, but now possessed an entirely alien body. (AUDIO: The Threshold)

A "listless-looking" Ninth Doctor who existed as a separate future for the Eighth Doctor from the "man with big ears" (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows) was the contemporary of a male incarnation of the Master with a black beard and wild hair, who wore an outfit with a long cloak and a large green collar. (TV: The Curse of Fatal Death)

Alternatively, an pale, aristocratic Ninth Doctor (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows) was accompanied in the TARDIS by a bearded Master who now resided in an android body. (WC: Scream of the Shalka)

In an aborted timeline, the gathered incarnations of the Master were faced with an entropy wave that threatened to destroy and consume the universe. However, the War Master eventually deduced the wave was actually their final form. (AUDIO: Masterful)

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According to one group of human historians, Morgaine was the equivalent of the Master in Arthur's World, an alternative reality ruled by magic instead of science where the Time Lords were the "Magic Lords". Her enemy was Merlin, himself the counterpart of the Doctor, who became part of King Arthur's court after being exiled to Earth. The Thirteenth Doctor published the work of these historians but did not directly comment on their reading of the Merlin Doctor; in her introduction, she merely noted some ideas in the book were clever while others were "a bit daft". (PROSE: The Monster Vault)

In one of the infinite parallel universes of "possible space", (COMIC: Fire and Brimstone) the Master was the grandson and heir of Barusa. He was believed to be Barusa's only living descendant, but Barusa actually had another grandson, the Master's greatest rival and — secretly — his half-brother: the Doctor. (PROSE: The Chronicles of Doctor Who?)

On the Inferno Earth, the Master was still a loyal Time Lord who went under the name Koschei. He was working for the Celestial Intervention Agency and travelled with a human companion called Ailla. They became stranded on Earth after defeating the Great Intelligence, and the Republic of Great Britain captured him for information. Ailla was killed and Koschei was tortured until all his regenerations were used up. Koschei died when he was confronted by the Master from N-Space, who turned off his life-support machine at his request. (PROSE: The Face of the Enemy)

In the Unbound Universe, a reality where the Doctor did not arrive on Earth until 1997, the Master had become stranded on the planet following his TARDIS being placed "beyond [his] reach". Initially finding work with the United Nations, the Master defected to China following the failure of the World Peace Conference, trying to cause enough chaos to attract the Doctor's attention. Using alien parasites to build more Keller Machines, the Master brainwashed political prisoners, making them mindless soldiers, later to be organised in the infamous Ke Le Divisions. In 1997, when the new Chinese government lost faith in him, the Master tried to escape to Hong Kong, hoping to claim the last of the parasites only to regenerate into a new incarnation after his plane crashed. Though the Master claimed the parasite, he abandoned the scheme to strike a deal for passage offworld with the recently arrived Doctor. When the Master reneged on the deal, he found himself outgambitted by the Doctor and left on Earth. (AUDIO: Sympathy for the Devil) Evenetually managing to escape Earth, the Master became a key player in the Great War, working with the Doctor until he deemed the Master's plans too insane. After the War, the Master attempted to escape the dying universe by tricking people into entering his portal at the Emporium, which instead killed them to power up a true portal for him. His scheme was exposed by Bernice Summerfield and the Doctor. (AUDIO: The Emporium at the End) He resurfaced when the Doctor was being impeached as President of the Universe. He succeeded the Doctor by promising to activate the Apocalypse Clock to create a safe zone regardless of the potential consequences. This briefly unleashed the Great Old Ones, but the Doctor stole their energy to transport Bernice home. This left the Master with all the responsibility of ruling the universe and with the Parliament to constrain him. (AUDIO: The True Saviour of the Universe) After his universe finally came to an end, the Master was the last being left alive inside a shielded bubble, a fate he was saved from by the Dalek Time Strategist who recruited him for aid in thwarting his N-Space's counterpart perversion of Dalek history. (AUDIO: Shockwave) When the scheme was thwarted and the Daleks restored, the Master fled through a wormhole into the larger multiverse. (AUDIO: He Who Wins)

In an alternative universe created by the Quantum Archangel, the Master joined the Time Lords to fight in the War. However, he began aiding the Daleks by giving them temporal manipulation technology. The Sixth Doctor, who was Lord President Admiral of Gallifrey, activated the Armageddon Sapphire and destroyed the universe rather than letting the Enemy win. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel)

In a different alternative universe created by the Archangel, the Master cooperated alongside the Rani, the Monk and Drax to try to destroy the world using a DNA recombinator, turning the human race into a gestalt consciousness which could be used as a weapon to conquer the universe. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel)

In a parallel universe, the Master used many fake names, including Roger, Peter, Geoffrey, Tony, Eric, Robert and Sam. That universe's version of the Doctor mistook Bob for the Master and used Venusian aikido on him. (AUDIO: Exile)

In a parallel universe, the Master was inside his TARDIS when it was parked on Earth in 1981. The Doctor's TARDIS materialized around it. (TV: Logopolis) This was part of the events that would lead to Logopolis' destruction and the Fourth Doctor's regeneration. (TV: Logopolis, AUDIO: He Jests at Scars...) When the Valeyard was fixing his past mistakes, he tried to stop his younger self's trip to Logopolis in order to save the planet. But he accidently time-rammed his younger self and past TARDIS, destroying them. The Master's TARDIS was time-rammed too as it was inside the Doctor's TARDIS. (AUDIO: He Jests at Scars...)

In the Warrior's universe, an incarnation of the Master fought with the Warrior in an alternate version of the Last Great Time War. He guided the Warrior into sealing off a timeline where the Unified Skaroan Alliance won the Time War into a Carrisent Particum. (AUDIO: Aftershocks)

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Saxon's multi-Master event[[edit] | [edit source]]

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In another aborted timeline, the mortally wounded "Saxon" Master sought to survive his death and avert becoming Missy. He travelled to the human colony on Kiameth, taking it over and using the energy of the planet to thrive and flourish, so that he could heal his own decaying body. Though the colony flourished for a time, he had unleashed a sentient entropy wave, which the "War" Master later deduced was actually the final form of the Master, that destroyed Kiameth. The wave then spread across the universe, despite the efforts of a parallel Master to combat it by throwing the resources of the Time Lords and Daleks at it. In the ruins of Kiameth, the "Saxon" Master used a time scoop to take six of his previous selves out of time (the young Master before leaving Gallifrey, the "Decayed" Master, the "Tremas" Master who sent Kamelion in his stead, the "Bruce" Master, the "Bald" Master and the "War" Master) and brought them to his castle, intending to use the Attornium to take their lives in a desperate bid to survive.

His attempt to time scoop the "UNIT era" Master failed, with Jo Grant being caught instead. The Masters decided to sacrifice her for fun, but were interrupted by Missy. She exposed the "Saxon" Master's plan and used the time scoop to scatter the different incarnations along the timeline of Kiameth, to see if any of them would find a chance of redemption by either stopping the wave or salvaging something from its aftermath. Missy herself explored the ruins of Kiameth, after loaning her space yacht to the parallel Master, along with Jo. During their explorations they were pursued by the entropy creature and contacted by the Lumiat, who tried to warn them about what the Master had done. The entropy wave caught Jo and Missy reunited with the parallel Master, who conceded defeat and returned to his own universe. Only four of the Masters managed to do as Missy has hoped: the "Decayed", the "Bald", the "War" and Missy herself. The others, who had turned against Missy, were killed by Kamelion on Missy's orders, though the "Saxon" Master escaped. Despairing about her future, Missy convinced the surviving Masters to use "Saxon's" Attornium to stop the creature by feeding on it, but the "War" Master refused to allow it as the plan would cause a massive energy release capable of destroying any universe. He discreetly poisoned himself and every other incarnation of the Master, having realised the wave was their own future, then turned off the Attornium and left Missy to be devoured by the wave. The resulting paradox erased the events of this timeline, bringing the universe back to normal. (AUDIO: Masterful)

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The Master and the Vess drones. (AUDIO: The Light at the End)

In an alternate timeline where the Cybermen allied with Rassilon to take over history, (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen) the Master, while fighting the Third Doctor, was caught up in a time distortion which resulted in him being cyber-converted while pleading to the Doctor for help. (COMIC: Prologue: the Third Doctor)

Discovering that the Celestial Intervention Agency were gathering illegal Vess weapons, the Decayed Master blackmailed their agent, Straxus, into handing over a conceptual bomb. The Master then visited Bob Dovie and, after killing his family, planted the device into his head. When Dovie saw the inside of the Doctor's TARDIS, his refusal to believe in it caused the Doctor's TARDIS to explode, causing its timeline to begin to collapse. With the Doctor's timeline collapsing along with the TARDIS's, the Doctor's first eight incarnations joined forces to avert the detonation of the bomb, before the First Doctor erased the events from history. (AUDIO: The Light at the End)

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The Master was prone to betraying alliances, even with versions of themselves from other points in time. (COMIC: The Five Masters)

The Master was the polar opposite of the Doctor in almost every respect; condescending, arrogant, vain, and lusting for power. (TV: Terror of the Autons, Colony in Space, The Sound of Drums) However, the Master's insanity was in part due to the High Council from Gallifrey's future sending a four-beat rhythm of drums into the Master's mind, (TV: The End of Time) with the Tenth Doctor recalling that staring into the Untempered Schism as a child had been "how it all started" for the Master. (TV: The Sound of Drums)

Comfortable with their villainous reputation, the Master took insults about their wickedness as compliments, (TV: The Time Monster, The Five Doctors, Doctor Who, The Sound of Drums) and reacted with offence if someone asked them if they had turned over a new leaf, (TV: The Magician's Apprentice) to the point that they refused to even acknowledge the Doctor's attempts to change them. (TV: The Doctor Falls)

When introducing himself, or enthralling someone, the Master would usually say, "I am the Master, and you will obey me." (TV: Planet of Fire) He also liked to say "my dear Doctor" when addressing his adversary. (TV: Colony in Space, The Sea Devils, Time-Flight, The Caves of Androzani, The Doctor Falls)

Unlike the Doctor, who usually needed their companions to convince people that they knew what they were doing, the Master had no problem manipulating people into helping him with his evil plans, (TV: The Time Monster, Doctor Who) even getting people to side with by exaggerating certain truths about the Doctor to paint him in a bad light. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment; COMIC: Doorway to Hell)

Extremely self-centred, the Master was willing to destroy Gallifrey to regenerate himself, (TV: The Deadly Assassin) believed that the battle for the Glory was to be between him and the Eighth Doctor, (COMIC: The Glorious Dead) thought that Carmen's prophecy referred exclusively to him, (TV: The End of Time) and viewed the Doctor's saving Gallifrey as an attempt to save her. (TV: Death in Heaven) So great was the Master's ego that he was unable to work with his other incarnations, with the "UNIT era" incarnation being psychically attacked by his other selves when he took control of the Sild's telepathic network, (PROSE: Harvest of Time) and the Seventh Doctor defeating the Decayed and Reborn Masters by tricking them into arguing with themselves over ownership of the universe. (AUDIO: The Two Masters) Though the Saxon Master and Missy worked more amicably, their clashing views on helping the Twelfth Doctor eventually led them to killing each other out of spite, with Missy purposefully forcing her past incarnation's regeneration to ensure that he would become her and stand with the Doctor. (TV: The Doctor Falls) In the aborted timeline in which the Saxon Master tried to avoid his regeneration into Missy, he planned to feed on the life force of five past incarnations and came into direct conflict with Missy herself, who exposed his schemes and manipulated the Masters to her own ends. Three incarnations eventually joined the Saxon Master in working against her, so she had them killed. (AUDIO: Masterful) When Missy came into contact with the Lumiat, she similarly clashed with her, though over a difference in morality rather than ambition. The Lumiat eventually lost her patience with her past self and attempted to shoot her with a TCE, though Missy manipulated the situation to enable her to shoot the Lumiat instead. (AUDIO: The Lumiat)

The Master's schemes usually fell into three categories; conquest, (TV: Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, Colony in Space, The Dæmons, The Time Monster, Logopolis, The Sound of Drums) survival, (TV: The Deadly Assassin, The Keeper of Traken, The Five Doctors, Planet of Fire, Survival, Doctor Who, The End of Time) and the death of the Doctor. (TV: Castrovalva, The Ultimate Foe, The Power of the Doctor) Similar to the Monk, the Master would also, on occasion, attempt to disturb the flow of history, (TV: The King's Demons, The Mark of the Rani) and, when imprisoned, would devote their energies to gaining their freedom. (TV: The Claws of Axos, The Sea Devils, Time-Flight, Utopia, The Doctor Falls)

Throughout their lives, the Master would adopt many disguises and aliases, often to pursue their goals, (TV: Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, Colony in Space, The Dæmons, The Time Monster, Frontier in Space, Castrovalva, The Sound of Drums, Spyfall) though other times with no reason or explanation given. (TV: Time-Flight, The Mark of the Rani)

The Master's disguises ranged from the providence of false qualifications, (TV: Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, Colony in Space, The Dæmons, The Time Monster, Frontier in Space, The Sound of Drums) to employing masks and heavy makeup (TV: Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Castrovalva, Time-Flight, The King's Demons, World Enough and Time) or a change of clothing, (TV: The Sea Devils, Logopolis, The Mark of the Rani, Spyfall) to even changing physical forms. (TV: The Keeper of Traken, Utopia, Dark Water, Spyfall)

In a show of vanity, the Master's choice of alias would often reflect their title of "Master". (TV: Terror of the Autons, The Dæmons, The Time Monster, The King's Demons, The Sound of Drums, Dark Water; PROSE: Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q", Night Flight to Nowhere, The Time Savers, Legacy of the Daleks, Last of the Gaderene, The Quantum Archangel, The Duke of Dominoes, The Spear of Destiny, Yes, Missy; AUDIO: Dust Breeding, Trail of the White Worm, Mastermind, The Evil One, And You Will Obey Me, Masterpiece, The Two Masters, The Coney Island Chameleon)

Before their first battle, the Third Doctor called the Master a "jackanapes" and an "unimaginative plodder", (TV: Terror of the Autons) but later came to view him as the "personification of evil". (TV: The Sea Devils) The Fourth Doctor described the Master as both the "quintessence of evil", (TV: The Deadly Assassin) and a "vengeance fixated sociopath with megalomaniacal tendencies". (AUDIO: Trail of the White Worm)

However, the Seventh Doctor recognised the Master as an "evil genius", (TV: Survival) with the Tenth Doctor sincerely calling him "stone-cold brilliant". (TV: The End of Time) The Twelfth Doctor once stated that Missy was the only person "as smart as [him]". (TV: The Lie of the Land)

High Council President Borusa described the Master as "one of the most evil and corrupt beings [the] Time Lord race [had] ever produced" and that his "crimes [were] without number, and [his] villainy without end." (TV: The Five Doctors) Rassilon described the Master as the Time Lords' "most infamous child". (TV: The End of Time)

Iris Wildthyme called the Master a "phallocentric dope", (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress) while Ashildr described Missy as the "lover of chaos". (TV: Hell Bent)

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Relationship with the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Master's relationship with the Doctor was complex. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice) They respected the Doctor as a worthy opponent, once offering to use a recently recovered weapon to take control of the universe while offering to share it with the Doctor though he refused. (TV: Colony in Space) As time went on, however, the Master became increasingly obsessed with proving his personal superiority, causing him to view the Doctor both as his greatest friend and his worst enemy. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice, Spyfall) He expressed deep anger toward the Doctor, along with a desire for vengeance, (TV: Last of the Time Lords) and accused the Doctor of causing him to waste his regenerations. (TV: Doctor Who)

Although initially willing to work with the Doctor when the situation required it, (TV: Terror of the Autons, The Claws of Axos) after the Last Great Time War, the Master absolutely refused to listen to the Doctor on any occasion. He evinced his vanity when the Doctor confronted him with the words "I forgive you", which he had been terrified of hearing because it significantly dented his pride. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)

The Master enjoyed making playful flirtations towards the Tenth Doctor while speaking on the phone, even asking the Doctor if he was asking him out on a date. (TV: The Sound of Drums) When the Doctor harnessed the psychic energy of the entire human race and effectively became a god, the Master was reduced to sobbing against a wall. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)

After regenerating into a female incarnation, Missy took her sexual innuendos to a new level by referring to him as her "boyfriend" and holding him responsible for her fate. (TV: Deep Breath, Death in Heaven) Upon meeting the Twelfth Doctor, she pretended to be an android and passionately kissed him. (TV: Dark Water) She later wanted to give him control of her army of Cybermen, attempting to force him to recognise that they were the same, but he refused and gave it to Danny Pink instead, who stopped her plans. While surprised, Missy didn't try to stop the Doctor as he prepared to kill her to spare Clara Oswald from doing it. (TV: Death in Heaven) When searching for the Doctor, Missy challenged Clara's skepticism about her concern about him by claiming to have cared about the Doctor "since always" (TV: The Magician's Apprentice) and even begged the Doctor to find out about her plans. (COMIC: The Five Masters) Shortly before her encounter with her predecessor, Missy showed a genuine desire to rekindle her friendship with the Doctor. (TV: The Eaters of Light) In fact, she had been rehabilitated enough that she would stand with him to fight the Cybermen. (TV: The Doctor Falls)

Missy's male successor enjoyed playing long games, like tricking the Doctor into believing he was someone else, expressing he had had "a lot of fun" when the Thirteenth Doctor finally realised he had fooled her. Despite not wanting her as his enemy again, he loved playing mind games on the Doctor and treating her as an inferior, having her kneel and call him "Master". He chased her through time to force her to listen to him just to get a message across, but would express rage when she outsmarted him. (TV: Spyfall)

Companions[[edit] | [edit source]]

Unlike the Doctor, the Master usually worked and travelled alone. On rare occasions, they were seen with companions. Examples included Ailla the Time Lord spy; (PROSE: The Dark Path) Mother Finsey, a woman who was fascinated by the Master's evilness and would follow his track afterwards; (AUDIO: The Transcendence of Ephros) Chang Lee, a young human whom the Master met in San Francisco; (TV: Doctor Who) Katsura Sato, an immortal Japanese samurai who helped the Master in his quest for Glory; (COMIC: The Glorious Dead) and Sally Armstrong, a woman who helped him to use the Eminence. (AUDIO: Time's Horizon)

During the Last Great Time War, he took in Cole Jarnish, (AUDIO: The Good Master) though as a ploy, (AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm) and later Chantho, a female assistant and companion to the Master in his "Professor Yana" identity. (TV: Utopia) As Harold Saxon, Lucy Saxon, his wife, was described as having travelled with the Master in the TARDIS in the same fashion as the Doctor and his companions. (TV: The Sound of Drums)

Clara also temporarily became Missy's companion when they both teleported out of the Dalek city together. Missy treated Clara as her "canary", forcing her to act as bait for the Daleks and test the safety of their situations first. She also made her get inside a Dalek casing so they could sneak back into the city convincingly. (TV: The Witch's Familiar)

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After he turned himself into the human John Smith, the Seventh Doctor slightly remembered the Master as a man with a beard who always upset his experiments. (PROSE: Human Nature)

When holding Kahler-Jex at gunpoint, the Eleventh Doctor said he honoured the Master's victims along with others. (TV: A Town Called Mercy)

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Character conception and development[[edit] | [edit source]]

Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks often discussed that the relationship between the Third Doctor and the Brigadier was similar to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, and envisioned a counterpart of the Doctor to act as "Moriarty", a character that became "the Master", his name being developed to counter the Doctor's — like that of his enemy, "Master" is an academic title. (DOC: The Doctor's Moriarty)

In the Third Doctor's original final episode concept, Roger Delgado's incarnation of the Master would have redeemed himself and given his life to save the Doctor, after which the Doctor would have regenerated; however, this story was never developed due to the sudden death of Roger Delgado. Over thirty years later, this idea was reused in The End of Time, with John Simm's incarnation of the Master seemingly sacrificing himself to save the Tenth Doctor from Rassilon (although The Doctor Falls later revealed that his incarnation of the Master had survived this event).

In The Deadly Assassin, writer Robert Holmes deliberately chose to show the Master in a "transitional" form, in case future production teams wanted to bring back the character. As reported by Doctor Who Weekly #5, the intent at the time was that the Master had succeeded in gaining new regenerations and was beginning to regenerate in the scene where he escapes Gallifrey in Goth's TARDIS; it was expected that when the Master next returned, it would be in a once-more-healthy, new body. However, this idea was not included in the novelisation; as the Target novelisations were informally used by John Nathan-Turner as continuity guides, over the original scripts, this resulted in the decayed Master reappearing in The Keeper of Traken (albeit looking slightly healthier).

The relationship between the Doctor and the Master has often been thought of by fans as a romantic, or formerly romantic, one. This has only sparsely been hinted at in official media, although David A. McIntee reported that he once pitched a Virgin Missing Adventure novel which would have featured the Fifth Doctor and the Ainley Master, and, in a subplot, revealed the Doctor and the Master as ex-spouses.[1]

Near uses[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Master was the villain in the early drafts of the 1977 television story The Talons of Weng-Chiang, until he was replaced by Magnus Greel.[2]

When writing the 2015 audio story The Black Hole, Simon Guerrier intended for Constable Pavo of the Time Lord police force to be an earlier incarnation of the Master. This is strongly hinted at in the story, where Pavo makes use of a deadly "silver baton", possesses hypnotism similar to the Roger Delgado Master's, and seems to be on the path to breaking away from Gallifrey's authority, as she ends up wiping the Doctor and companions' memories of their encounter and letting them go so as not to risk implicating herself concerning her own transgressions. However, the connection is not spelled out.[3]

The mystery of the Master's true name[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the DWM 79 Matrix Data Bank, Richard Landen responded to the question "Most fans know the Doctor's true name is a mathematical formula: ∂³Σx². What is the Master's true name?" by suggesting that the Master's equivalent equation was ∂⁼Βx⁴.

The 1997 novel The Dark Path shows the Second Doctor in what is purported to be his first encounter with the Master since leaving Gallifrey. Throughout the story, the Master is only called by the name "Koschei", and it is only at the end of the tale, when his turn to evil is complete (as foreshadowed by the title), that he proclaims himself "the Master". In Russian folklore, Koschei (rus.Коще́й or Коще́й Бессме́ртный, "Koschei the Deathless") is a villainous sorcerer who hid his soul in an obscure location under many layers of protection so that he may never die. The Face of the Enemy, by the same writer, saw Roger Delgado's Master encountering a parallel version of himself for whom The Dark Path had not happened, who still called himself "Koschei". The Second Doctor recognises Koschei's name in The Dark Path when Ailla mentions it, although the narration also suggests that it is an alias rather than the Master's birth name. Writer David McIntee commented on his Tumblr blog:[4]

The intention is certainly that (a bit like Anakin Skywalker) it’s a name he never uses later - but being set before he’s called the Master means he has to be called *something*. As for whether it’s actually his original real name… Well, in my head, yeah, but you’ll notice (IIRC) that the Doctor doesn’t address him by that name until after it’s been mentioned by others, so it not necessarily the case.David McIntee

In Divided Loyalties, flashbacks to the Doctor's childhood in "the Deca" have the future Master already calling himself "Koschei" at the Time Lord Academy, although it is no clear if this is his birth name or a school nickname like "Theta Sigma" (the name persistently used for the Doctor in those same flashbacks). Although the flashbacks themselves come in the form of dreams the Doctor has under the influence of the Celestial Toymaker, and are explicitly inaccurate in some respects, the epilogue confirms that "Koschei" eventually became obsessed with "becoming the Doctor's Master".

The comic Flashback was written with the intent that Magnus, an old friend of Theta Sigma who seems to be growing more and more corrupted, was an early incarnation of the Master. However, the comic did not explicitly confirm Magnus's identity, and later sources went on to use "Magnus" as a name for the War Chief, although the Master and War Chief are sometimes thought to be one and the same. Interestingly, in the original script, the name was not "Magnus" but "Magus", the Latin word for "sorcerer" or "wise man"; it was incorrectly "fixed" to Magnus by the letterer, who assumed Magus was a typo.

The Black Hole featured the Second Doctor bumping into a Time Lord called Pavo, working for the Time Lord police to track down renegades (consistent with the claim in Time and Relative that the Master was a "truant officer" who was originally sent by the Time Lords on the Doctor's trail before deciding to become a Renegade himself). This Time Lord was intended by writer Simon Guerrier to be the Master prior to their turning evil; there are other clues to Pavo's identity, such as the silver rod Pavo wields as a weapon or their hypnotic abilities. It is, in any event, not made clear whether "Pavo" is an alias, nickname, code name, or birth name.

Beyond all those possibilities, several accounts suggest the Master's true name was something altogether more alien than "Koschei," "Magnus," "Magus" or "Pavo". In Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons [+]Loading...{"page":"25","ed":"1975 paperback","1":"Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)"}, when the Doctor asks which Time Lord the messenger has come to warn him about, he first replies with "a string of mellifluous syllables — one of the strange Time Lord names that are never disclosed to outsiders" before informing the Doctor that "these days he calls himself the Master" (in contrast to the TV version, where the messenger simply calls him "the Master", more clearly assuming that the Doctor is already familiar with his old friend's new name). The notion of the Master's name being long and complicated, in the fashion of the Time Lord names pioneered by "Romanadvoratrelundar", was echoed by the 2018 short story Lords and Masters, which had Missy stating that her real name contained thirty-two letters.

How many Masters?[[edit] | [edit source]]

Especially in comparison to other prominent Time Lords like the Doctor and Romana, the number of the Master's incarnations has been left unclear by many stories. TV: The Deadly Assassin gives the first clue when the Master is said to be near the end of his thirteenth and final incarnation. PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks shows the transformation from the Roger Delgado Master into the degraded form portrayed by Peter Pratt in The Deadly Assassin, establishing that they, and Geoffrey Beevers, are playing a single regeneration of the Master. However, the comic Doorway to Hell contradicts this by showing the Delgado incarnation's regeneration, and AUDIO: The Two Masters features the Beevers incarnation of the Master before disfigurement.

The lack of ordinal numbers has prompted many conflicting naming schemes for each incarnation of the Master:

Actor Battles in Time (2008) The Time Traveller's Companion (2012) Figurine Collection The Secret Diary of the Master (2015) Meet Missy! (2015) Masterful (2021) Terrible Time Lords (2023) Universes Beyond: Doctor Who (2023)
William Hughes Young Master
Milo Parker Young Master
Roger Delgado The Master: The Deadliest Man in the Universe Beardy One The Beardy One Charming Master The Master, Mesmerist
Peter Pratt/
Geoffrey Beevers 		The Master (Emaciated Form) Dying 13th Body Emaciated Master Mister Charcoal Grill The Yucky One Decayed Master or Decaying Master Frazzled Master
Anthony Ainley The Master: Setting a Trap for the Doctor! Beardy Two The Sneaky One Bodysnatching Master The Master, Formed Anew
Eric Roberts The Snaky One Movie Master
Alex Macqueen Reborn Master
Derek Jacobi The Master (Pre-regeneration) The Master as Professor Yana: Hiding at the End of the Universe Wizard of Oz The Nice One War Master Hidden Master
John Simm The Master 17th Incarnation The Master: Vote Saxon! The Bonkers One Saxon Master Prime Master The Master, Multiplied
Michelle Gomez Missy The Best One Missy Mistress Missy
Sacha Dhawan The Master: Destroyer of Gallifrey Destructive Master The Master, Gallifrey's End
Mark Gatiss Alternative Master or Unbound Master

Evidence in invalid entries[[edit] | [edit source]]

The first to fifth incarnations of the Master (GAME: 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 incarnations in "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.

According to the book, the Master could control the form of his incarnations, and frequently used the same face. His first to fourth incarnations lived on Gallifrey and regenerated due to his researches. The Fifth Master kept the same face as his predecessors, but lasted over four-hundred-years due to his retirement. He eventually regenerated, aged over 700-years-old, when his rebellion on Gallifrey failed and forced him to become a renegade, with the War Chief among his followers. The sixth and seventh incarnations were "the Monk", as portrayed by Peter Butterworth, being different from his previous incarnations mostly by lacking a beard, who regenerated when repairing his TARDIS after the events of The Time Meddler. The Eighth Master, aged over 800-years-old, regenerated following the events of The Daleks' Master Plan, returning to a bearded Delgado-like appearance and being the first to call himself "the Master". He kept these features up to his twelfth incarnation which combed his grey hair back. The thirteenth incarnation, still aged over 800-years-old, started intervening against UNIT, but, after his death to the Daleks following Frontier in Space, took on the decayed appearance of Peter Pratt. The Fourteenth Master, aged over 900-years-old, was portrayed by Ainley, who stole the body of Tremas and he survived the events of Planet of Fire, due to the gas which gave him a new cycle and he regenerated into a similar fifteenth incarnation.

The 2010 edition of The Visual Dictionary indicates that the Master played by John Simm is the seventeenth incarnation.

Valid entries[[edit] | [edit source]]

The short story Girl Power! showed eighteen deaths on Missy's Spacebook page. This results in nineteen true incarnations to result from regeneration, not including incarnations who come into being as possessed bodies (although notably, the Spacebook entry mentions one singular instance of body-theft). While the identities of the Master's first regeneration cycle's incarnations are not named by this story, and the unique cases of the multiple Ainleys and of the "Tzun" regeneration are not addressed, it does account for most regenerations of the Master to have appeared in spin-off media at the time.

Off-screen relationships[[edit] | [edit source]]

Although they played antagonists on screen, in real life Roger Delgado and Jon Pertwee were actually close friends. In interviews and convention Q&A sessions, Pertwee often cited the death of Delgado as one of the factors that led him to give up the role. (DOC: PanoptiCon 93, MM VHS 15)

Long before Tom Baker met Anthony Ainley during the filming of Baker's final serial, Logopolis, he had lived with his brother, Richard Ainley, an acting instructor. Tom often saw Anthony, who would come over to play with Richard's children, but always thought of him as mysterious.[5]

Information from invalid sources[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor Who Fun Book[[edit] | [edit source]]

A glimpse into the Master's life on Gallifrey is provided by the short story PROSE: TARDIS Stolen! from 1987's The Doctor Who Fun Book, which is not considered a valid source by this Wiki due to its parodical nature, such as revealing that the Master's true name is "Cuthbert Windbottom", though he is already going by "the Master", a choice of identity the author of the Gallifreyan Gazette article finds unsurprising.

Following the First Doctor's theft of the TARDIS and flight from Gallifrey, the Master is interviewed by the Gallifrey Gazette to give his opinion on the probable motives of his old classmate's crimes; the Master claims that the Doctor had been very excited in the last month over a phone call from "the BB Corporation" and attempts to convince the interviewer that these were surely some of Gallifrey's oldest enemies in whose league the Doctor had entered. Yet another hint as to the Master's activities is the classified ad for "lifelike dolls" to be purchased from him, which heavily suggests that the Master is already in possession, and making illegal use of, a Tissue Compression Eliminator.

Doctor Who The Official Annual 2018[[edit] | [edit source]]

According the Doctor Who The Official Annual 2018, which is not accepted as a valid source for in-universe articles on this wiki due to not constituting a story as such, Missy remained on Skaro after The Witch's Familiar, adopting a Slyther as a pet that ate the Thals she met.

Doctor Who: Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the story of Doctor Who: Legacy, time travelling Sontarans' attacks on the timeline are felt by the "Saxon" Master. After witnessing the universe collapse with Lucy Saxon on Utopia, the Master, seeking to establish his New Time Lord Empire, leads the Toclafane in overrunning the Sontaran Empire and pursuing the Doctor. As the Doctor's incarnations assemble, the Master likewise gathers his other selves, retrieving his decaying incarnation from the collapsing reality. Next to be summoned is the "UNIT era" Master, wielding a paradox generator.

Other matters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Feature[[edit] | [edit source]]

Casting[[edit] | [edit source]]

Television[[edit] | [edit source]]

Actor Tenure First story Last story Notes
Peter Butterworth 1965-66 The Time Meddler The Daleks' Master Plan A minority of later accounts suggested that the Monk was an earlier incarnation of the character later played by Delgado. However, he was never referred to as "the Master" on-screen, instead going by the Monk, an alias he first assumed in Saxon England. Subsequent stories have introduced other incarnations of the Monk, though only Butterworth's has ever been identified with the Master.
Edward Brayshaw 1969 The War Games The War Games The War Chief was suggested in some, but not all, later accounts to be an earlier incarnation of the character later played by Delgado (see footnote). However, he was never referred to as "the Master" on-screen, instead going by the War Chief, his rank in the War Lords' hierarchy.
Roger Delgado 1971-73 Terror of the Autons Frontier in Space Roger Delgado would have also appeared in the final story of Jon Pertwee's tenure, had not his death intervened.
Norman Stanley 1971 Terror of the Autons Terror of the Autons Stanley, credited as "Telephone Mechanic" in episode three of Terror of the Autons, portrays the Delgado Master disguised by a mask while he infiltrates UNIT and installs a Nestene telephone.
Peter Pratt 1976 The Deadly Assassin The Deadly Assassin Peter Pratt was the first actor to portray the Master's cadaverous body. Accounts differ on whether this decaying Master is a later form of Delgado's incarnation or a different incarnation.
Geoffrey Beevers 1981 The Keeper of Traken The Keeper of Traken Geoffrey Beevers became the primary vocal performer of the Master for Big Finish
Anthony Ainley 1981-89 The Keeper of Traken Survival Anthony Ainley also appeared in the specially shot full motion video that accompanied 1997's Destiny of the Doctors
Dallas Adams 1984 Planet of Fire Planet of Fire Adams primarily played Howard Foster. While remotely possessing Kamelion, the Master briefly adopts Foster's appearance at the end of episode one, managing to get access to the TARDIS control console thanks to the deception; he then has Kamelion shifts into the appearance of his Trakenite body. Throughout the rest of the episode, Kamelion possessed by the Master is thus exclusively played by Ainley once more.
Gordon Tipple 1996 Doctor Who Doctor Who Tipple played the Master whom the Daleks exterminate at the start of the 1996 telemovie. Virtually all of his footage was cut from the finished film.
Eric Roberts 1996 Doctor Who Doctor Who The first and, so far, only American actor to play the role.
Jonathan Pryce 1999 The Curse of Fatal Death The Curse of Fatal Death Pryce's portrayal of the Master was openly parodying the character's more humourous traits.
Derek Jacobi 2007 Utopia Utopia Derek Jacobi had earlier played another version of the Master in the Scream of the Shalka webcast.
John Simm 2007-2017 Utopia The Doctor Falls John Simm's version of the character was the first incarnation of the Master to ever be shown as the product of a proper regeneration shown onscreen, and was also the first Master to return to the role on television after being replaced by another performer.
William Hughes 2007 The Sound of Drums The End of Time William Hughes was the Master as a child in a dialogue-free flashback which was repeated in The End of Time.
Michelle Gomez 2014-17 Deep Breath The Doctor Falls Michelle Gomez was a character introduced as Missy, later revealed to be short for "Mistress" in Dark Water, as she could no longer be known as "Master". Michelle Gomez is notable for being the first female performer to play this character, and marked the first time in a TV story that a Time Lord had been seen to change gender between regenerations, though the actual regeneration was not shown.
Sacha Dhawan 2020-2022 Spyfall The Power of the Doctor Sacha Dhawan was the first non-white actor to play the Master.

Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]

Geoffrey Beevers is the main portrayer of the character in Big Finish audio dramas. Sometimes, as in Fourth Doctor Adventures, he's merely reprising the pre-Tremas Master seen in The Keeper of Traken. On other occasions, he has portrayed a post-Survival Master that had had Tremas's body stricken away. On two more occasions, Mastermind in 2013 and Day of the Master in 2019, he played a post-TV movie Master, who is established as always returning to the same emaciated form even as he takes over the bodies of others.

Alex Macqueen portrayed the Master in Dominion, Time's Horizon, Eyes of the Master, The Death of Hope, The Reviled, Masterplan, Rule of the Eminence, Vampire of the Mind and The Two Masters, set at a time where the Master is given a new regeneration cycle by the Time Lords after his confrontation with the Eighth Doctor, and is set to work on their behalf.

In The Two Masters, it is revealed that the Beevers and MacQueen Masters had switched bodies due to the manipulations of the Cult of the Heretic, with the result that the two actors were technically portraying each other's version of the Master in the audios And You Will Obey Me and Vampire of the Mind respectively. In the former, the Macqueen Master in the Beevers Master's body lost his physical form; he briefly took over the body of Michael Masterson(as played by Russ Bain) before said body decayed back into a replica of the Master's previous Time Lord body, once again being voiced by Geoffrey Beevers.

Derek Jacobi returned as the Master in his own audio series, The War Master, as well as Gallifrey: Time War. He portrayed the same incarnation as seen in Utopia, yet set before that incarnation turned himself human. Michelle Gomez's Missy was given her own series as well in 2019.

James Dreyfus portrayed the Master in The Destination Wars, The Home Guard and The Psychic Circus. As well as Dreyfus, the Master, through the use of a voice filter, temporarily assumes the voice of the First Doctor, as played by David Bradley. The announcement of his casting on the Big Finish website referred to him as "the first incarnation of the Master".[6] This would make him the adult version of William Hughes' incarnation, although him being the First Master is not explicitly mentioned in his audio stories.

Milo Parker played the Master during his time at the Academy in Masterful.

Additionally, in The Hollows of Time, an audio adaptation of an unrealised 1980s Sixth Doctor script made as part of The Lost Stories range, a character called Professor Stream appears, played by David Garfield. While he was supposed to be revealed as the "Tremas" Master in the original script, he was not identified as the Master in the audio version, and the audio is narrated by the Doctor and Peri as a flashback, where their memories are partially distorted, leaving them both uncertain as to Stream's true identity.

Anagrams[[edit] | [edit source]]

During Anthony Ainley's tenure as the Master, pseudonyms made from anagrams of the actor's name were often used in the credits for the Master's disguises, such as "Neil Toynay" for the Portreeve in TV: Castrovalva. "Tremas" is itself an anagram of "Master".

The tradition continued in the BBC Wales version of the show. During Series 3, the Master takes on two new identities, "Professor Yana" in TV: Utopia, and "Mr. Saxon" in TV: The Sound of Drums. "Yana" is an intentional acronym of "You Are Not Alone", the final words of the Face of Boe, which led the Doctor to discover that Professor Yana was a Time Lord. "Mister Saxon", as the character was mysteriously referred to throughout series 3, is an anagram of "Master No. Six" - John Simm's rendition being the sixth on-screen version of the character. However, showrunner Russell T Davies has claimed that the anagram was unintentional.

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Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ The suggestion in various sources that the War Chief or the Monk may have been incarnations of the Master would retroactively make TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"] or TV: The Time Meddler [+]Loading...["The Time Meddler (TV story)"] the character's debut, as well as adding their appearances to the Master's.

References[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ David A. McIntee on Tumblr
  2. ↑ http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/4s.html
  3. ↑ https://twitter.com/0tralala/status/1104079021510402048
  4. ↑ David McIntee on Tumblr
  5. ↑ http://www.tom-baker.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=756
  6. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/james-dreyfus-is-the-master
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According to one account, the Master had the appearance of Roger Delgado while on Gallifrey. According to another, he had Anthony Ainley's likeness. According to another one, the one with James Dreyfus's appearance was the incarnation who ran away from Gallifrey.

Divided Loyalties, A Brief History of Time Lords and The Legions of Death feature, or otherwise acknowledge, the War Chief, but in the process contradicted the notion put forward by other stories that he was an incarnation of the Master.

One account suggests that the incarnation portrayed by Roger Delgado may be the same as the one portrayed by Peter Pratt while some others distinguish them.

According to one account, the incarnation portrayed by Gordon Tipple is the one portrayed by Anthony Ainley, while some others state that the Ainley one was already lost by then.

While fighting to extend his life at the end of his regeneration cycle, many bodies were possessed by the Beevers incarnation, but all kept somehow reverting to his real being until he finally regenerated into the MacQueen one. Hence, these sections cannot be strictly chronological
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Cardinals
Arkendo  • Borusa  • Irving Braxiatel  • The Colonel • Franilla  • Grayvas  • Helron  • Hemal • Karlax  • Leabind  • Lenadi  • Luvis  • Matthias  • Morissa  • Ollistra  • Padrac  • Pandad  • Sendok  • Tachen  • Tortheth  • Valyes  • Zass  • Zero  • Zorac
High Chancellors
Azmeal • Slann  • Delox  • Socra  • Goth  • Borusa  • Thalia  • Flavia  • Theora  • Irving Braxiatel  • Valyes  • Narvin  • Jerasta  • Volstrom  • Unnamed 2
Castellans
Marnal  • Spandrell  • Kelner  • Rannex  • Jerricho  • Lowri  • Lode  • Casmus • Voran  • Andred  • Wynter  • Maxil  • Annos  • Slyne  • Unnamed 1  • Unnamed 2  • Plutus  • Kanteer  • Unnamed 3
Councillors
Rassilon  • Omega  • Alekall  • The Doctor • The War Chief/The Master • Cortalian • Darkel  • Delox  • Elar  • Flavia  • Hedin  • Kandarl  • Milvo  • Morin  • Narvin  • Norval  • Ollistra  • Ortan  • Ragnar  • Rath  • Ratisbon  • Romana II  • Ryoth  • Samax  • Sardon  • Taskor  • Verne  • Wblk
Gold Ushers
Others
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