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Given a new regeneration cycle by the [[Tzun]] to overcome the [[Cheetah virus]], '''the Master''' was able to regenerate after being shot by [[Ace]].
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Given a new regeneration cycle by the [[Tzun]] to overcome the [[Cheetah virus]], '''the Master''' was able to regenerate after being shot by [[Ace]]. Then, after being sentenced to death on [[Skaro]], he was able to survive his execution using a [[Deathworm Morphant]].


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== Post-regeneration ===
=== Post-regeneration ===
{{Quote|Free? No fur...|The "Tzun" Master's first words|First Frontier (novel)}}
Escaping the destruction of [[Cheetah World]] using a [[kitling]] named [[Shadow (Kitling)|Shadow]] to transmigrate to [[1957]] [[Earth]], the Master made contact with the [[Tzun]] Canton, and volunteered to help assimilate Earth into the [[Tzun Confederacy]] in return for use of the Tzun's genetic engineering to give him a new regenerative cycle and cure the [[Cheetah virus]]. Shortly afterwards, he was shot in the back by [[Ace]], causing him to regenerate.
Escaping the destruction of [[Cheetah World]] using a [[kitling]] named [[Shadow (Kitling)|Shadow]] to transmigrate to [[1957]] [[Earth]], the Master made contact with the [[Tzun]] Canton, and volunteered to help assimilate Earth into the [[Tzun Confederacy]] in return for use of the Tzun's genetic engineering to give him a new regenerative cycle and cure the [[Cheetah virus]]. Shortly afterwards, he was shot in the back by [[Ace]], causing him to regenerate.


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=== A trap for the Doctor ===
=== A trap for the Doctor ===
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, destroying it. The plan failed when [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Mike Yates]] and [[K9 Mark III]] destroyed the device, causing the Master to flee. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Housewarming (short story)|Housewarming]]'')
The Master laid a trap for the Doctor at one of his homes using a device which would release the energy from a [[time fissure]] once the Doctor's TARDIS [[materialise]]d, destroying it. The plan failed when [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Mike Yates]] and [[K9 Mark III]] destroyed the device, causing the Master to flee. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Housewarming (short story)|Housewarming]]'')


=== The Loom of Rassilon's Mouse ===
=== The Loom of Rassilon's Mouse ===
The nanites the Tzun gave the Master eventually began to fail, risking him returning to his former failing form, causing him to seek the [[Loom of Rassilon's Mouse]] in order to make himself a new body. His plan failed when a [[Fortean Flicker]] caused [[Bernice Summerfield]]'s wedding to occur in the same place, exposing his scheme to her guests. However, the Master managed to escape by hypnotising [[Kitai]] into posing as a decoy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
The Master obtained the [[Loom of Rassilon's Mouse]] in order to make himself a sturdier and indestructible body. However, his plan failed when a [[Fortean Flicker]] caused [[Bernice Summerfield]]'s wedding to occur in the same place, exposing his scheme to her guests, with the Doctor being amongst them. However, the Master managed to escape by hypnotising [[Kitai]] into posing as a decoy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')


=== Execution ===
=== A new body ===
On his final incarnation, and possessing a black goatee, the Master was tried and executed by the [[Dalek]]s, making a request for the Doctor to return his remains to Gallifrey, only to use a [[Deathworm Morphant]] to take the Doctor's TARDIS to [[1999]] [[San Francisco]], where he possessed the body of [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|an ambulance driver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
Like all of his other attempts at extending his life, the Master's [[Tzun]]-made body eventually reverted back to a decayed husk, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet of Dust (audio story)|Planet of Dust]]'') and he once more "extended his life" by adding alien [[gene]]s to his biomass, becoming a man with "saturnine features". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'')
 
Wanting to find a way to survive beyond his final regeneration, the Master tried to steal the body of a mouse-turned-boy named [[Callum (Omegamorphosis)|Callum]], but his plan was foiled by the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Omegamorphosis (short story)|Omegamorphosis]]'')
 
=== Trial ===
[[File:Gordontipplemaster.jpg|thumb|left|The Master is executed by the Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
The Master arrived in the [[Valley of the Kings]] in [[Egypt]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'') where he was captured by a [[Dalek]] [[Dalek scouting party|scouting party]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'') to be placed on trial ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') by the [[Dalek Prelature]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'') for his attempts to destroy them and usurp their place as "the supreme creatures of the universe", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') as well as for his failure in the plot behind the [[Human-Draconian War]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Runes of Fenric (short story)|The Runes of Fenric]]'') as part of a Time Lord-Dalek treaty ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') called the "[[Act of Master Restitution]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)|Meet the Doctor]]'') The Master was tried in the presence of the [[Dalek Emperor (The Novel of the Film)|Dalek Emperor]] while encased in a painful column of light which prevented him from moving. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') It was "said" that he stayed impassive as his long list of crimes were read out to him, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') until the [[Dalek Time Controller|Dalek Litigator]] found him guilty and ordered his extermination. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Vengeance (audio story)|Vengeance]]'')
 
Before he was executed by the Daleks, the Master made a final request: for the Doctor to transport his remains back to Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') According to one account, he made this request via [[telepathic contact]] with the [[Seventh Doctor]], even as he was about to be discorporated, and the Daleks never knew of his demands, which the Doctor fulfilled covertly by sneaking into the Dalek bastion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') According to other accounts, it was as part of a Time Lord-Dalek treaty that the Doctor was able to safely journey to and from Skaro to retrieve the Master's remains. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')
 
=== Survival ===
[[File:The Master as slime creature.jpg|thumb|As a Deathworm Morphant, the Master redirects the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
The Doctor stored the Master's ashes in a casket and set [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] on course for Gallifrey. However, en route, the Master's consciousness escaped from the casket and interfered with the TARDIS, causing a timing malfunction that resulted in an emergency landing in [[San Francisco]] during the final days of [[1999]]. While the Doctor lay wounded after being caught in the crossfire of a gang war and was picked up by an [[ambulance]], the Master exited the TARDIS via its keyhole, and, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') deciding that the Doctor was too injured, and the nearby boy, [[Chang Lee]], too young, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') he hid inside a bag belonging to the ambulance driver, [[Bruce Gerhardt]]. After Bruce had gone home and to bed, the Master forced his way into Bruce's body through his mouth, killing him and taking over his body. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') The Master's survival broke the peace treaty President Romana started, and was one of the causes for the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]; ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')


== Psychological profile ==
== Psychological profile ==
In contrast to his previous incarnation, this Master was calmer, less emotional and flustered, with a proud bearing and an inscrutable demeanour, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') though he would resort to a panicked state upon confronting the unexpected. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') Highly manipulative, the Master would maintain control of a situation, while making others around him think he was not, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') though would lose this advantage when he knew he was overpowered, such as when at [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Jason Kane]]'s wedding. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
In contrast to his previous incarnation, the "Tzun" Master was calmer, less emotional and flustered, with a proud bearing and an inscrutable demeanour, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') though he would resort to a panicked state upon confronting the unexpected. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') Highly manipulative, the Master would maintain control of a situation, while making others around him think he was not, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') though would lose this advantage when he knew he was overpowered, such as when at [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Jason Kane]]'s wedding. Unlike his immediate predecessor, the "Tzun" Master was aware that his theatrical plotting could be his undoing, but found amusement in the irony rather than bitterness. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')


Unlike his immediate predecessor, this Master was aware that his theatrical plotting could be his undoing, but found amusement in the irony rather than bitterness. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
He thought very highly of his hypnotic skills, finding it amusing when he made two guards believe he was Major Kreer. He looked down at humanity, treating them like children, believed the concept of regeneration to be beyond them. However, he showed some respect towards [[Ace]], who had killed his previous incarnation, believing she would make a good enforcer and admiring her willpower. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') He also enjoyed [[fencing]] with [[Mike Yates]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Housewarming (short story)|Housewarming]]'')


He thought very highly of his hypnotic skills, finding it amusing when he made two guards believe he was Major Kreer. He looked down at humanity, treating them like children, and believed the concept of regeneration to be beyond them, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') and showed a disdain for explaining things he did not have interest in. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') However, he showed some respect towards [[Ace]], who had killed his previous incarnation, believing she would make a good enforcer and admiring her willpower. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')
While he agreed with the [[Ice Lord]] [[Savaar]] that he lacked a degree of honour, the Master would only resort to harming others if he found an advantage in the act, opting to perform with "a considerable degree of leniency" when sabotaging Bernice and Jason's wedding until he was forced to take Bernice hostage at gunpoint during the ceremony. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
He also enjoyed [[fencing]] with [[Mike Yates]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Housewarming (short story)|Housewarming]]'')


While he agreed with the [[Ice Lord]] [[Savaar]] that he lacked a degree of honour, the Master would only resort to harming others if he found an advantage in the act, opting to perform with "a considerable degree of leniency" when sabotaging Bernice and Jason's wedding until he was forced to take Bernice hostage at gunpoint during the ceremony. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
He showed a disdain for explaining things he did not have interest in. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
 
The "Tzun" Master was just as adept at winding the Doctor up as his predecessor was, claiming that the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s pacifism was pure hypocrisy, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') and taking delight in his apparent inability to protect his friends from [[Bloom (Happy Endings)|Bloom]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') However, he did hold the Doctor in some regard, believing the Tzun incapable of overpowering him on their own, and insisting he was a threat to be eliminated, though he felt bittersweet about it, admitting to himself that the Doctor was an inspiring adversary, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') though reacted with horror when four variants of the Seventh Doctor confronted him at once. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') Nonetheless, the Master pointed out that the Doctor preferred to kill and destroy from a distance, such as with the [[Sea Devil]]s. To prove this point, the Master handed the Doctor a blaster and baited him to shoot him at close range, which the Doctor refused to do. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')


This incarnation of the Master was just as adept at winding the Doctor up as his predecessor was, claiming that the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s pacifism was pure hypocrisy, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') and taking delight in his apparent inability to protect his friends from [[Bloom (Happy Endings)|Bloom]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') However, he did hold the Doctor in some regard, believing the Tzun incapable of overpowering him on their own, and insisting he was a threat to be eliminated, though he felt bittersweet about it, admitting to himself that the Doctor was an inspiring adversary, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') though reacted with horror when four variants of the Seventh Doctor confronted him at once. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
== Appearance ==
The Master had a high forehead, neat and glossy [[Beard|Van Dyke beard]], an aristocratic nose, and a lean face. His voice came across as rich and cultured. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')  


Nonetheless, the Master pointed out that the Doctor preferred to kill and destroy from a distance, such as with the [[Sea Devil]]s. To prove this point, the Master handed the Doctor a blaster and baited him to shoot him at close range, which the Doctor refused to do. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')
By the time of his trial, the Master's appearance had turned saturnine. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') His eyes were reptilian in appearance and, as a result of the Deathworm Morphant, seemed to glow in speckles of [[Gold (colour)|gold]] and [[blue]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')


== Appearance and clothing ==
=== Clothing ===
The Master had a high forehead, glossy moustache, neat beard, aristocratic nose and a lean face, and spoke in a rich cultured voice. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier]]'') He wore a Vandyke beard, a dark Italian-designed suit, a silk shirt, and a cravat with a silver bird-of-prey tiepin. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Housewarming]]'')
The Master wore a dark Italian-designed [[suit|tailcoat]] with wide, silver-edged lapels and a high collar. Underneath, he wore a black silk [[shirt]], a midnight-blue waistcoat, and a jade [[cravat]] with a [[silver]] bird-of-prey tiepin. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Housewarming (short story)|Housewarming]]'') When put on trial by the Daleks, the Master wore a high collared [[black]] [[tunic]] with [[crimson]] lining. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')


== Footnotes ==
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Given a new regeneration cycle by the Tzun to overcome the Cheetah virus, the Master was able to regenerate after being shot by Ace. Then, after being sentenced to death on Skaro, he was able to survive his execution using a Deathworm Morphant.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Post-regeneration[[edit] | [edit source]]

Free? No fur...The "Tzun" Master's first words [First Frontier (novel) [src]]

Escaping the destruction of Cheetah World using a kitling named Shadow to transmigrate to 1957 Earth, the Master made contact with the Tzun Canton, and volunteered to help assimilate Earth into the Tzun Confederacy in return for use of the Tzun's genetic engineering to give him a new regenerative cycle and cure the Cheetah virus. Shortly afterwards, he was shot in the back by Ace, causing him to regenerate.

Following the regeneration, he was able to make his escape, summoning his TARDIS using a Stattenheim remote control built from Tzun technology. After leaving a booby-trap for the Doctor in a nuclear warhead, the Master fled (PROSE: First Frontier) to the Scoundrels Club to recover from his regeneration. (PROSE: Dismemberment)

A trap for the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Master laid a trap for the Doctor at one of his homes using a device which would release the energy from a time fissure once the Doctor's TARDIS materialised, destroying it. The plan failed when Sarah Jane Smith, Mike Yates and K9 Mark III destroyed the device, causing the Master to flee. (PROSE: Housewarming)

The Loom of Rassilon's Mouse[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Master obtained the Loom of Rassilon's Mouse in order to make himself a sturdier and indestructible body. However, his plan failed when a Fortean Flicker caused Bernice Summerfield's wedding to occur in the same place, exposing his scheme to her guests, with the Doctor being amongst them. However, the Master managed to escape by hypnotising Kitai into posing as a decoy. (PROSE: Happy Endings)

A new body[[edit] | [edit source]]

Like all of his other attempts at extending his life, the Master's Tzun-made body eventually reverted back to a decayed husk, (AUDIO: Planet of Dust) and he once more "extended his life" by adding alien genes to his biomass, becoming a man with "saturnine features". (PROSE: The Novel of the Film)

Wanting to find a way to survive beyond his final regeneration, the Master tried to steal the body of a mouse-turned-boy named Callum, but his plan was foiled by the Doctor. (PROSE: Omegamorphosis)

Trial[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Master is executed by the Daleks. (TV: Doctor Who)

The Master arrived in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, (AUDIO: Mastermind) where he was captured by a Dalek scouting party (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) to be placed on trial (TV: Doctor Who) by the Dalek Prelature (AUDIO: Mastermind) for his attempts to destroy them and usurp their place as "the supreme creatures of the universe", (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) as well as for his failure in the plot behind the Human-Draconian War, (PROSE: The Runes of Fenric) as part of a Time Lord-Dalek treaty (PROSE: Lungbarrow) called the "Act of Master Restitution". (PROSE: Meet the Doctor) The Master was tried in the presence of the Dalek Emperor while encased in a painful column of light which prevented him from moving. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) It was "said" that he stayed impassive as his long list of crimes were read out to him, (TV: Doctor Who) until the Dalek Litigator found him guilty and ordered his extermination. (AUDIO: Vengeance)

Before he was executed by the Daleks, the Master made a final request: for the Doctor to transport his remains back to Gallifrey. (TV: Doctor Who) According to one account, he made this request via telepathic contact with the Seventh Doctor, even as he was about to be discorporated, and the Daleks never knew of his demands, which the Doctor fulfilled covertly by sneaking into the Dalek bastion. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) According to other accounts, it was as part of a Time Lord-Dalek treaty that the Doctor was able to safely journey to and from Skaro to retrieve the Master's remains. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)

Survival[[edit] | [edit source]]

As a Deathworm Morphant, the Master redirects the TARDIS. (TV: Doctor Who)

The Doctor stored the Master's ashes in a casket and set his TARDIS on course for Gallifrey. However, en route, the Master's consciousness escaped from the casket and interfered with the TARDIS, causing a timing malfunction that resulted in an emergency landing in San Francisco during the final days of 1999. While the Doctor lay wounded after being caught in the crossfire of a gang war and was picked up by an ambulance, the Master exited the TARDIS via its keyhole, and, (TV: Doctor Who) deciding that the Doctor was too injured, and the nearby boy, Chang Lee, too young, (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) he hid inside a bag belonging to the ambulance driver, Bruce Gerhardt. After Bruce had gone home and to bed, the Master forced his way into Bruce's body through his mouth, killing him and taking over his body. (TV: Doctor Who) The Master's survival broke the peace treaty President Romana started, and was one of the causes for the Last Great Time War. (PROSE; A Brief History of Time Lords)

Psychological profile[[edit] | [edit source]]

In contrast to his previous incarnation, the "Tzun" Master was calmer, less emotional and flustered, with a proud bearing and an inscrutable demeanour, (PROSE: First Frontier) though he would resort to a panicked state upon confronting the unexpected. (PROSE: Happy Endings) Highly manipulative, the Master would maintain control of a situation, while making others around him think he was not, (PROSE: First Frontier) though would lose this advantage when he knew he was overpowered, such as when at Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding. Unlike his immediate predecessor, the "Tzun" Master was aware that his theatrical plotting could be his undoing, but found amusement in the irony rather than bitterness. (PROSE: Happy Endings)

He thought very highly of his hypnotic skills, finding it amusing when he made two guards believe he was Major Kreer. He looked down at humanity, treating them like children, believed the concept of regeneration to be beyond them. However, he showed some respect towards Ace, who had killed his previous incarnation, believing she would make a good enforcer and admiring her willpower. (PROSE: First Frontier) He also enjoyed fencing with Mike Yates and Sarah Jane Smith. (PROSE: Housewarming)

While he agreed with the Ice Lord Savaar that he lacked a degree of honour, the Master would only resort to harming others if he found an advantage in the act, opting to perform with "a considerable degree of leniency" when sabotaging Bernice and Jason's wedding until he was forced to take Bernice hostage at gunpoint during the ceremony. (PROSE: Happy Endings)

He showed a disdain for explaining things he did not have interest in. (PROSE: Happy Endings)

The "Tzun" Master was just as adept at winding the Doctor up as his predecessor was, claiming that the Seventh Doctor's pacifism was pure hypocrisy, (PROSE: First Frontier) and taking delight in his apparent inability to protect his friends from Bloom. (PROSE: Happy Endings) However, he did hold the Doctor in some regard, believing the Tzun incapable of overpowering him on their own, and insisting he was a threat to be eliminated, though he felt bittersweet about it, admitting to himself that the Doctor was an inspiring adversary, (PROSE: First Frontier) though reacted with horror when four variants of the Seventh Doctor confronted him at once. (PROSE: Happy Endings) Nonetheless, the Master pointed out that the Doctor preferred to kill and destroy from a distance, such as with the Sea Devils. To prove this point, the Master handed the Doctor a blaster and baited him to shoot him at close range, which the Doctor refused to do. (PROSE: First Frontier)

Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Master had a high forehead, neat and glossy Van Dyke beard, an aristocratic nose, and a lean face. His voice came across as rich and cultured. (PROSE: First Frontier)

By the time of his trial, the Master's appearance had turned saturnine. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) His eyes were reptilian in appearance and, as a result of the Deathworm Morphant, seemed to glow in speckles of gold and blue. (TV: Doctor Who)

Clothing[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Master wore a dark Italian-designed tailcoat with wide, silver-edged lapels and a high collar. Underneath, he wore a black silk shirt, a midnight-blue waistcoat, and a jade cravat with a silver bird-of-prey tiepin. (PROSE: Housewarming) When put on trial by the Daleks, the Master wore a high collared black tunic with crimson lining. (TV: Doctor Who)