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UNIT era Master in Frontier in Space.jpg|UNIT era
Decayed Master (Pratt).jpg|Decayed
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RobertsNoShades.jpg|Bruce
The Master (The Fallen).jpg|Preacher
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War Master Utopia.jpg|War
Titan Comics Kill a God Master Asian Child.jpg|Child
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Spy Master in the Matrix.jpg|Spy
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|alias            = '''''[[The Master's aliases|see list]]'''''
|alias            = '''''[[The Master's aliases|see list]]'''''
|affiliation      = The Deca
|affiliation      = The Deca
|affiliation2      = Dalek Empire
|affiliation2      = Dalek Empire
|affiliation3      = 3W Institute
|affiliation3      = Disciples of Saxon
|affiliation4      = MADAM
|job              = Teacher
|job2              = Truant officer
|job3              = Invasion consultant
|job4              = Minister of Defence
|job5              = Prime Minister of the United Kingdom{{!}}Prime Minister
|species          = Time Lord
|species          = Time Lord
|father            = The Master's father
|species2          = Trakenite
|species3          = Human
|father            = Marnal
|mother            = The Master's mother
|mother            = The Master's mother
|spouse            = Lucy Saxon
|spouse            = Lucy Saxon
|spouse2          = Bobo Braithwaite
|spouse2          = Bobo Braithwaite
|pet              = Flipper
|child            = The Master's daughter
|child            = The Master's daughter
|child2            = Missy's child
|origin            = [[Gallifrey]]
|origin            = [[Gallifrey]]
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|first cs          = Terror of the Autons (TV story)
|first            = Terror of the Autons (TV story)
|first cs note    = {{note|The suggestion in various sources that [[the War Chief]] or [[First Monk|the Monk]] may have been incarnations of the Master would retroactively make [[TV]]: {{cs|The War Games (TV story)}} or [[TV]]: {{cs|The Time Meddler (TV story)}} the character's debut, as well as adding their appearances to the Master's.}}
|appearances      = '''''[[The Master - list of appearances|see list]]'''''
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|actor            = Roger Delgado
|voice actor      = Geoffrey Beevers
|other voice actor = {{il|[[Alex Macqueen]]|[[Yee Jee Tso]]|[[Chris Finney]]|[[James Dreyfus]]|[[David Bradley]]}}
|other actor       = Norman Stanley
|other actor2      = Peter Pratt
|other actor3      = Geoffrey Beevers
|other actor4      = Anthony Ainley
|other actor5      = Gordon Tipple
|other actor6      = Eric Roberts
|other actor7      = Derek Jacobi
|other actor8      = John Simm
|other actor9      = William Hughes
|other actor10    = Michelle Gomez
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|clip              = Rulers of the Galaxy - Doctor Who - Colony in Space - BBC
|clip2            = The Doctor and the Master fight - Survival - BBC
|clip2            = The Doctor vs the Master Survival Doctor Who
|clip3            = The Master Returns - Utopia - Doctor Who - BBC
|clip3            = The Master Returns - Utopia - Doctor Who - BBC
|bts              = Meet the Master with Michelle Gomez - NewToWho - Doctor Who - BBC
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|bts2              = John Simm Returns As The Master - Doctor Who Series 10
|job6 = Spy
|bts3              = Missing Missy - Doctor Who Series 10
|affiliation5 = MI6|job7=Seismologist
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'''"The Master"''' — known in female form as '''"Missy"''', short for '''"Mistress"''', and at times by [[The Master's aliases|various other aliases]] — was a [[renegade Time Lord]], serving as both a friend and an opponent of [[the Doctor]].
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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.


Though they had been friends from childhood and schoolmates at the Academy, the Master's lust for power would eventually pull the two apart. While the Doctor and the Master would remain close friends despite their rivalry, the Master developed an intense hatred for and often sought to kill the Doctor. Despite this enmity, however, the two would on occasion act as allies.
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.


Like the Doctor, the Master would also flee from Gallifrey in [[The Master's TARDIS|a TARDIS of his own]], and fully embrace his darker nature after escaping a [[black hole]] he had been trapped in by the [[Second Doctor]]. The Master then went on to fight various battles against the [[Third Doctor]] and [[UNIT]] during the Doctor's [[exile on Earth]], even spending a short period also trapped on the planet after his [[dematerialisation circuit]] was briefly stolen by the Doctor and when he was imprisoned on [[Fortress Island]] after being arrested by UNIT, until he was able to orchestrate his escape with the aid of the [[Sea Devil]]s.
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]].


Following an incident that resulted in his body being badly disfigured, the Master began searching for a way to restore his [[Time Lord]] body, with only his intense hatred and burning anger keeping him alive. After spending years on [[Traken]] manipulating events to gain the powers of [[The Source (The Keeper of Traken)|the Source]] through the [[Keeper of Traken]], the Master was able to regenerate into a new body after possessing [[Consuls of Traken|Consul]] [[Tremas]], and resumed his crusade to conquer the universe and kill the Doctor.
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.


Eventually landing on the [[Cheetah World]], the Master became infected with the [[Cheetah virus]], which increased his aggressive behavior. According to some accounts, the Master would continue to be plagued by the virus for some time until he overcame the effects and was either taken prisoner by his enemies, or was regressed back to his cadaverous form by the [[Warp Core]]. Another account claimed that, immediately following his escape from the Cheetah World, he was cured by [[Tzun]] [[nanite]]s and regenerated after being shot by [[Ace]].
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}}.


After being sentenced to death on [[Skaro]], the Master was able to survive his execution using a [[Deathworm Morphant]], and would continue to survive by possessing various bodies, until he was given new life by the [[Time Lord]]s in preparation for [[Last Great Time War|a potential war]] with the [[Dalek]]s.
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]].


After working with the [[War Doctor]] in the body of a child during the [[Last Great Time War]], the Master regenerated into an older body that tried to manipulate the conflict to suit his own goals. However, after his failure to properly use the [[Heavenly Paradigm]], the Master was driven to such a sate of terror that he fled to the [[end of the universe]] and turned himself into a human baby with a [[Chameleon Arch]] to escape the Time Lords and wait out the conflict. After spending many years living as a humble human scientist on [[Malcassairo]], the Master's personality was reawakened by [[Martha Jones]], and he made to steal [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] from the [[Tenth Doctor]], but was fatally shot by [[Chantho]] and forced to regenerate into a younger body.
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".


Using the alias "Harold Saxon", the 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 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]].
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.  


After Gallifrey returned to the universe, the Master left, and eventually ended up on a [[Mondasian]] [[colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]], where he came face to face with a future incarnation of himself in a female body, who stabbed him to ensure his regeneration into her. Now in a female body, the Master began to call herself Missy, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Evil". She embarked on a scheme to rekindle her friendship with the Doctor, believing she could convince him they were the same by offering him the power to end tyranny with an army of [[Cybermen]], but the Doctor refused to submit to the temptation.
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]].


Eventually, Missy was captured and imprisoned inside a [[The Vault (The Pilot)|Quantum Fold Chamber]] which was moved into a vault at [[St Luke's University]] by the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Nardole]], with the Doctor taking this opportunity to try and rehabilitate Missy and rekindle their friendship on his terms. Just as she was about to make a breakthrough, Missy joined with her previous incarnation, only to then betray and kill him to join the Doctor, but was killed herself before she could.
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]].


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
=== Early life and exploits ===
The Master grew up on [[Gallifrey]] in the [[House of Oakdown]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') though he would later comment to [[Wilfred Mott]] that growing up on Gallifrey was not something one could call childhood, but "more a life of duty". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The name he was born with was unknown and apparently consisted of thirty-two letters. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'')
{{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.


[[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 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]]'')
Like all [[Time Lord]]s, the Master was taken from his family at the age of eight for the selection process. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') During the ceremony in which he gazed into the [[Time Vortex]] through the [[Untempered Schism]], he went mad, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') due to [[The Drumming|a rhythm of four beats]] being implanted into his head. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') 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]]'')


==== Academic career ====
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]]'')
The Master and the [[First Doctor]] became friends on their first day at the [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]], ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') with both being tutored by [[Borusa]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') and the Doctor quickly developing a [[crush]] on his new friend, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') which the Master was partially aware of. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bekdel Test (audio story)|The Bekdel Test]]'') The duo also made a friend in [[the War Chief]] on their first day at the Academy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')


Sharing the same heritage and upbringing, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'') the Master developed a strong bond with the Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') with [[UNIT]] scientist [[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]] even describing the Master as the Doctor's "childhood friend". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') The [[Second Doctor]] recalled that he and the Master had everything in common, except that the Master enjoyed being [[fear|scared]] of the [[darkness|dark]] "a little too much", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Menagerie (novel)|The Menagerie]]'') while the [[Third Doctor]] told [[Jo Grant]] that the two were "inseparable" due to their shared interests, such as a desire to break the [[non-interference policy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils]]'') The [[Twelfth Doctor]] recalled how he and the Master had a pact to explore every [[star]] in the [[universe]] together. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') The Master and the Doctor enjoyed building "time flow analogues" to disrupt each other's experiments. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'')
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]]'')


The two youths would play in the fields near the Master's father's estates, with pastures of red grass near [[Mount Perdition]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') They would also sneak out of the [[Capitol]] and drink with the [[Shobogan]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') with the Master picking a fight with six drunken Shobogans during one of these outings. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce (short story)|UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce]]'') The Master also taught his friend [[hypnotism]], and would often [[hypnotise]] people as a joke, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') but would go unpunished for it, as well as other misdemeanours, always finding a way to avoid his comeuppance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')
=== 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]]'')  


During their childhood, the Master and the Doctor were mercilessly and viciously [[bully|bullied]] by a boy called [[Torvic]]; the Doctor was eventually forced to kill the bully to save his friend's life. The Doctor was later confronted by the personification of [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]], who insisted he become her disciple, but the Doctor refused and suggested Death make the Master her champion instead. Death agreed, and the Doctor subsequently forgot about their deal. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
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]]'')


According to a dream the [[Fifth Doctor]] had under the control of the [[Celestial Toymaker]], the Master went by the name "Koschei" at the Academy and belonged to a clique of ten young Time Lords with the collective name of [[the Deca]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') He was also part of the "[[Gallifrey Academy Hot Five]]" band, in which he played the [[drum]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'') The Master was in charge of organising end of term parties, although the [[Eighth Doctor]] later noted that they weren't very good. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
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 chose his title while he was beginning to "hone his talents" at the Academy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'') The Doctor chose his around the same time. The Master felt that the name the Doctor chose was "sanctimonious", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') while the Doctor thought the Master's new name was a sign of his ambition and arrogance. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
==== Early life ====
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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]]'')


Whilst at the Academy, the Doctor and the Master travelled into Gallifrey's past in search of [[Valdemar]]. They found nothing of the [[Old One (Valdemar)|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 also showed a fascination with the ''[[Necronomicon]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nameless City (short story)|The Nameless City]]'')
==== UNIT onwards ====
* [[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.)
* 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]]'')
* 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]]'')
* 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]]'')
* 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]]'')


At the Academy, the Master was a "teacher's pet" and won gold stars, while the Doctor was the class dunce, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') though the Doctor was Borusa's favourite. Ultimately, the Master did not perform well at the Academy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') Although he did earn a higher degree in [[cosmic science]] than the Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') the Doctor's grades were overall better. Because of this, the Doctor received the prizes and praise that the Master so desperately wanted. The [[Seventh Doctor]] theorised that this may have been the cause of the Master's hatred towards him, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Survival (novelisation)|Survival]]'') with [[Eighth Doctor]] believing that his [[jealousy]] over Borusa was the cause of the Master's [[hatred]] towards him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
==== Time War onwards =
 
The Master was on an Academy research project when the Doctor was expelled from the Academy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
 
When the Time Lords created the ''[[Consolidator]]'' to conceal various dangerous historical secrets from the rest of the universe, unwilling to destroy the items or races in the ship in case they proved useful later, the Doctor and the Master were assigned to come up with a solution where their peers had failed. The Master had the idea of using a [[black hole]] to tear a [[space-time rift|rift in time]] and send the ''Consolidator'' into the distant future, where the future Time Lords could deal with it, but the Doctor declined to have his name put down on the calculations as he questioned the ethics of the assignment. However, when the experiment was actually attempted, the ''Consolidator'' was apparently destroyed by a mistake in the calculations when it struck the edge of the black hole, leaving the Time Lords to hush the matter up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
 
As the Doctor grew up, he came to understand that he and his friend were not the same. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') Following an incident at the Academy in which the Master did not keep his word, he and the Doctor had a falling out, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Last of the Gaderene (


=== Undated events ===
=== Undated events ===
* At some point before his first incarnation's exploits on [[Destination]], the Master claimed to have met [[Harry Houdini]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
* 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]]'')
* 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]]'')
* Missy claimed to have fought and defeated [[the Monks]] on a planet by pushing the Monks' lynchpin into a [[volcano]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')
* 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]]'')
* While in the form of a "[[Deathworm Morphant|snake]]", the Master visited the [[Scoundrels Club]] and sat in his favourite chair, taking notice how his snake form went unnoticed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
*[[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)}})


== Other realities ==
== Other realities ==
The [[Sild]] captured many different alternate versions of the Master. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
Many versions of the Master were unique to various alternative realities.


=== Alternate timelines ===
===Possible futures===
In an [[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|alternate timeline]] where the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] allied with [[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: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]]'')]]
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]]'')  


=== Parallel universes ===
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]]'')
In 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 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]]'')
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]]'')


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]]'')
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]]'')


=== Aborted timelines ===
=== Parallel universes ===
In a future that never existed, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'') the Master became intent on manipulating events to remove many of his actions from the Last Great Time War, even as it was timelocked. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Judas Goatee (comic story)|The Judas Goatee]]'') The Master operated on the brain of his TARDIS during the [[Last Great Time War]], which resulted in a [[chronal tumour]] protruding from one side of the console, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The One (comic story)|The One]]'') though he never activated the tumour. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Running to Stay Still (comic story)|Running to Stay Still]]'') The Master's plan was a success, as his TARDIS was taken into the Time War by [[Alice Obiefune]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Running to Stay Still (comic story)|Running to Stay Still]]'') where it was stolen by the Master's younger self. This created a massive paradox, spiralling the time-ship out of control. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Kill God (comic story)|Kill God]]'')
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]]'')


== Personality ==
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?]]'')
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 caused the Master's personality to change. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')


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 (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'') Comfortable with their villainous reputation, the Master took insults about their madness as compliments, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[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]]'')
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]]'')


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]]'')
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]]'')


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]]'')
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]]'')


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 enemy" 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 bald Masters by tricking them into arguing with themselves over ownership of the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') Though the "Harold 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
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]]'')


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]]'') 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]]'')
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]]'')


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]]'') 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]]'') He even stated in his 'Harold Saxon' incarnation that he "loves disguises". ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
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...]]'')


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]],'' [[PROSE]]: ''[[Out of the Green Mist (short story)|Out of the Green Mist]]'') 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]]'')
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]]'')


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]]'', ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'', ''[[Masterpiece (audio story)|Masterpiece]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
=== Aborted timelines ===
==== Saxon's multi-Master event ====
{{Main|Alternate timeline (Masterful)}}
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.


High Council President [[Borusa]] 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." The Master seemed amused by the description. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
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]]'')


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]]'') Later incidences had the Master described as the "quintessence of evil" by the [[Fourth Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') a "psychopath" by the [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') and [[Twelfth Doctor]]s, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'') an "evil genius" by the [[Seventh Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'') and "stone-cold brilliant" by the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
==== 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]]'')


[[Iris Wildthyme]] called the Master a "phallocentric dope". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') [[Rassilon]] described the Master as the Time Lords' "most infamous child", ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') while [[Ashildr]] described Missy as the "lover of chaos". ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')
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]]'')


=== First incarnation ===
== Personality ==
According to a dream the [[Fifth Doctor]] had under the control of the [[Celestial Toymaker]], Koschei admired [[War Chief|Magnus]]' ability to command people, and wished that he could one day learn to do the same. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
[[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]]'')


The Master was good friends with the [[First Doctor]] at the [[Time Lord Academy]], and the two bonded over a mutual promise to someday explore the [[universe]] together. The [[Twelfth Doctor]] later recalled that he was "always so brilliant" from the first day at the Academy. The Doctor developed a "man-crush" on him during this time. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
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]]'')


Susan Foreman remembered the Master as a highly regarded man, as a "stickler for the rules" with "meritorious conduct". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] believed that his obsession with him was the driving force for him leaving Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'')
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]]'')


=== "Inventor" incarnation ===
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 was very self-centred, willing to influence a whole planet's development to refuel his craft, and equally willing to abandon his plans just to steal the Doctor's ship. He used his hypnotic abilities regularly, subjugating even adepts such as Susan Foreman with ease. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')


=== "UNIT enemy" incarnation ===
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]]'')
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[[File:DelgadoSuaveTOTA.jpg|thumb|left|The Master brings his suave villainy to [[Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'')]]
As the rival of the [[Third Doctor]], the Master was often arrogant and impatient, taken to be rude towards all and showing no tolerance for stupidity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') To sway others to his way of thinking, the Master acted as a suave and debonair gentleman, with a sardonic sense of humour. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'') When his own survival was at stake, the Master would not hesitate to betray his allies to save himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'')


The Master was willing to play the long game, spinning a web of lies while maintaining several back-ups in his schemes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') He seemed to truly believe his delusions of grandeur, proclaiming that he and the Doctor could "reign benevolently," ending "war, suffering [and] disease," ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') and that, instead of "all this talk of democracy, freedom, [and] liberty", the world needed "strength, power and decision." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'') When the Doctor accused him of being paranoid, the Master stated that everyone was paranoid, he was just honest about his paranoia. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'')
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]]'')


The Master held himself in high-esteem, even believing himself immune to the mind parasite within the Keller Machine, when in truth, he was only able to resist its attack on him for a short time, and with great effort. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') He also demonstrated a strong confidence in himself when he walked into the [[UNIT HQ]] on the edge of London without fear of capture, instead hypnotising a handful of UNIT personnel. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'')
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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]]'')


[[File:The War of the Worlds.jpg|thumb|The Master picks an ironic book to read while plotting warmongering. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')]]
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]]'')
This Master also had a juvenile side to him, making blithely sarcastic comments about an impending nuclear meltdown, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'') enjoying an episode of ''[[Clangers]]'' in his prison cell, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') and reading ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' while trying to instigate a war between [[Earth]] and [[Draconia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') He also had a sadistic side, taking particular pleasure in goading [[the Brigadier]] into attacking [[Axos]] when they both knew that it would put the Doctor and [[Jo Grant]] in danger. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'') He also took considerable delight in blackmailing the Doctor and Jo on Uxarieus. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'')


The Master often killed people, casually murdering those whom he could not control, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') or who were standing in the way of an item he required. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'') He believed that those who died as a result of his schemes to be "necessary sacrifice[s]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'')
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]]'')


Unlike his following incarnations, this Master was rarely resentful, instead accepting defeat with only a slight annoyance, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') though he once stated that destroying the Doctor's favourite species would "be a reward in itself". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') The Master also learned from his mistakes, placing an alarm in his TARDIS ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') after the Doctor stole his [[dematerialisation circuit]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'')
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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]]'')


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 near intellectual equal, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') and even showed a certain respect to the Doctor's companions, even if he still considered them inferior. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') 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 (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'') and would only resort to killing the Doctor if he viewed him as an unmovable obstacle in his plans, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') considering his quarrel with the Doctor to be something of a game,{{source}} though he was willing to risk the Doctor's life on the [[Keller Machine]] to satisfy his curiosity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') However, the Master was not above working alongside the Doctor when necessary, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'') and even offered to rule the universe with him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'')
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]]'')


While in [[Atlantis]], the Master formed a relationship of sorts with [[Queen]] [[Galleia]], remarking that she was beautiful and promising her power. Both Galleia and [[Lakis]] commented that the Master had "the bearing of a [[God]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'')
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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]]'')


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[[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]]'')
[[File:You're an interfering dolt Percival.jpg|thumb|left|The Master listens to [[Charles Percival]] while smoking a cigar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'')]]
During this incarnation, the Master would often smoke a [[cigar]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'')


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== Other information ==
A master manipulator, the Master knew how to use others' greed and sense of duty as bargaining tools in his schemes, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') and how to use his authority as an adjudicator to manipulate and influence the human factions and their competing aspirations on [[Uxarieus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'')
=== 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]]'')


The Master was also stronger than he appeared, as he was able to physically overpower [[Luigi Rossini]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') [[Harry Mailer]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') [[Smedley]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') and [[John Benton]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'') He was also able to make a small jump onto a moving lorry from a bridge, and then swing down to the driver's cab to hypnotise the driver. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'')
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]]'')


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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]]'')
After an attack he made on the [[Twelfth Doctor]] was sent back at him, the Master, claiming he would get his revenge on the Doctor, proudly welcomed his [[regeneration]], declaring that death was meaningless to him and that "all life [would] obey [him]". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'')


=== Degenerated body ===
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]]'')
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[[File:Traken part4.JPG|thumb|The Master's vengefulness shows by possessing [[Tremas]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'')]]
While he first approached a situation with youthful naivety, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') the Master later preoccupied his time with finding a way to [[Regeneration|regenerate]] following his disfigurement and the loss of his own ability to regenerate forcing him to face his imminent death. With his mobility and capabilities of camouflage decreased, he was often forced to hide his involvement in his plans until the very moment victory was within his grasp. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'')


The Master felt a stronger hatred towards the Doctor than before, specifically guiding the [[Fourth Doctor]] back to [[Gallifrey]] so he could be framed for the President's assassination and executed in disgrace, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') wished to personally kill a [[companion]] of the Doctor, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') and once hatched a plan that would have destroyed all the Doctors and unravelled the [[Web of Time]] simply for his revenge against the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'') He also disliked being compared to the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Animal Instinct (audio story)|Animal Instinct]]'') Despite the animosity, the Master was able to have a civil conversation with the Doctor when it suited him, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death Match (audio story)|Death Match]]'') and showed shades of bitterness when he learned [[River Song]] was the Doctor's wife. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Animal Instinct (audio story)|Animal Instinct]]'')
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]]'')


While he claimed that nothing he ever did "[was] ever pointless", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'') and that he only killed for "power", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') the Master seemed more comfortable with killing people just for the sake of it, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'') showing a sadistic pleasure when he resorted to killing, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') and even destroyed the planet [[Raskalar]] for amusement. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death Match (audio story)|Death Match]]'') Despite this, the [[Seventh Doctor]] recalled how this Master was "generally a serious sort", remembering how he was "cold and cruel." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
=== Companions ===
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]]'')


[[Leela]] claimed that this iteration of the Master was "raw" and "honest", as he "did not seem to hide [himself] away" and "disguise [his] hate". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know]]'')
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]]'')


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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]]'')
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In his degenerated state, the Master's telepathic capabilities and willpower grew stronger, with the Master proclaiming that "only [his] hate [kept him] alive". He was able to launch a telepathic message to the Doctor from Gallifrey to [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') and, once he became the [[Keeper of Traken]], the Master forced [[Tremas]] to kill [[Neman]] through sheer willpower, and also paralysed the Doctor to make him watch. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') However, he was unable to hypnotise the [[Proto-Time Lord]] [[River Song]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Animal Instinct (audio story)|Animal Instinct]]'')


Meticulous in his schemes, the degenerated Master planned for every imaginable obstacle and putting in place a counter for it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trail of the White Worm (audio story)|Trail of the White Worm]]'', ''[[The Oseidon Adventure (audio story)|The Oseidon Adventure]]'') He was willing to be patient with his plans, waiting inside his TARDIS for years to slowly seduce [[Kassia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'')
=== 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]]'')


=== "Tremas" incarnation ===
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]]'')
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[[File:Suited up.jpg|thumb|The Master threatens the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')]]
After possessing [[Tremas]]'s body, the Master became more flamboyantly [[evil]], bombastic and sophisticated, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'') only putting trust in himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') He was prone to laughing maniacally and reciting lengthy and verbose speeches, accompanied by melodramatic gestures and poses. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] even recalled this Master as having "a taste for [[melodrama]]." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')


This Master was unwilling to share any form of power with others, often betraying those he worked with to accomplish his own goals, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'', ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'') even when working with his other incarnations. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
=== 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]]'')


While in Tremas's body, the Master became devoted to killing the Doctor, often employing elaborate gambits and strategies to this end. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]''; [[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]'') However, he mused that a cosmos without the Doctor "scarcely bear[ed] thinking about", and was willing to join forces with the Doctor if he viewed it as beneficial to himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'')
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).


He showed a genuine disregard for life and was often uninterested in how many people died at his hands, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'', ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'') and had a particular fondness for the [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') However, he showed an unusual level of moral standards when he apologised to [[Peri Brown]] for involving her in a battle that was originally supposed to be between him and the [[Sixth Doctor]], and was genuinely horrified when the Rani's contraption turned [[Luke Ward]] into a tree, although the Doctor considered it an example of how warped and callous the Master was if he thought that establishing that Luke's death was an accident was any kind of excuse. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'')
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).


The Master was delighted and satisfied when [[Lord President]] [[Borusa]] addressed him as "one of the most [[evil]] and [[corruption|corrupt]] beings [the] Time Lord race [had] ever produced", but was surprised and outraged when his attempts to convince the [[Third Doctor]] of his sincerity was ridiculed and spurned. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') He also thanked [[Mel Bush]] when she remarked on how "evil" he was. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'') When the [[Seventh Doctor]] questioned the Master's decision to "act the villain", the Master stated he was "famed for [the] role", and claimed to enjoy the "typecasting". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Crossing the Rubicon (comic story)|Crossing the Rubicon]]'')
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:Ainley master survival looks left.jpg|thumb|left|The Master on [[Cheetah World]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')]]
=== Near uses ===
After he was infected by the [[Cheetah virus]], the Master became more calm and calculating. However, as the virus took its toll, he became more animalistic and sadistic, taking satisfaction in murdering [[Karra]] and attempting to hit the Seventh Doctor's head with a club during their fight. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
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>


This Master had various opinions of the first seven incarnations of the Doctor. He referred to the [[First Doctor]] as a "bore", the [[Second Doctor]] as an "incapable comedian", the [[Third Doctor]] as a "worthy foe", the [[Fourth Doctor]] as "the bohemian, [and] the wanderer", believed that the [[Fifth Doctor]] was "the nice one full of charm, innocence, and naiveté", described the Sixth Doctor as "the blustering one with the stupid coat", and that the [[Seventh Doctor]] was "too busy setting traps" to realise the ones "set for him". ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]'')
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>


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=== The mystery of the Master's true name ===
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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.
Unlike his predecessor, this Master seemed unable to use natural hypnotism, instead using an [[Electro-muscular constrictor]] to enslave [[Nyssa]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') causing misdirection to discredit the [[Fifth Doctor]] at [[Fitzwilliam Castle]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'') and took control of [[Luke Ward]] by combining hypnotic suggestion via a crystal necklace with the Rani's mind parasites. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') When his attempts to hypnotise [[Sabalom Glitz]] with a swinging silver pendant failed due to Glitz's mind being occupied with calculating the wealth of the pendant, the Master resorted to offering Glitz a chest full of jewellery to ensure his cooperation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'')


This Master was able to accurately predict the Doctor's movements, implementing multiple ways to kill him and manoeuvreing him into them with relative ease. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'') {{O'Mara|c}} even believed 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]]'') Unlike his other renditions, this Master was able to improvise when things turned awry. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
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}}


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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".
After he was shot in the back by [[Ace]] to avenge his murder of [[Joe Manco]], the Master withered in extreme pain that he tried to fight while complaining about how close he was to victory. Clawing at his wound and grasping his head, the Master [[regenerated]] while cowering from the pain in his TARDIS, begging to be "free". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')


=== "Tzun" incarnation ===
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.
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]]'')


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]]'')
''[[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.


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]]'')
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.
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]]'')
=== How many Masters? ===
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.


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]]'')
The lack of ordinal numbers has prompted many conflicting naming schemes for each incarnation of the Master:
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!''{{link|Doctor Who: Battles in Time|black|Battles in Time}}'' (2008)
!''{{link|The Time Traveller's Companion (game)|black|The Time Traveller's Companion}}'' (2012)
!''{{link|Doctor Who: Figurine Collection|black|Figurine Collection}}''
!''{{link|The Secret Diary of the Master (short story)|black|The Secret Diary of the Master}}'' (2015)
!''{{link|Meet Missy! (short story)|black|Meet Missy!}}'' (2015)
!''{{link|Masterful (audio story)|black|Masterful}}'' (2021)
!''{{link|Terrible Time Lords (feature)|black|Terrible Time Lords}}'' (2023)
!''{{link|Universes Beyond: Doctor Who|black}}'' (2023)
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|[[Peter Pratt]]/<br>[[Geoffrey Beevers]]
|The Master (Emaciated Form)
| Dying 13th Body
|Emaciated Master
|Mister Charcoal Grill
|The Yucky One
|Decayed Master or Decaying Master


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]]'')
|Frazzled Master
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|[[Anthony Ainley]]
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|The Master: Setting a Trap for the Doctor!
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|[[John Simm]]
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=== "John Smith" incarnation ===
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As John Smith, the Master was a kind-hearted, charming, humble, knowledgeable gentleman who was still somehow deeply aware of his dark nature and troubled by it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'') As his true self, this incarnation had a far darker and [[evil]] side to him than most of his other selves. He seemed to enjoy being mysterious about his true identity and enjoyed giving his enemies riddles as to who he truly was. Also compared to his other selves, this incarnation was far calmer and well spoken, which made him sound more sinister. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'')
[[File:FASA9002First-FifthMaster(700yo).jpg|thumb|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 (novel)|CIA File Extracts]]''.


{{Quote|Evil? I crave ''power'', dominion, knowledge of the forbidden and secret. So much ''more'' than simply "evil".|The Master|Master (audio story)}}
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 John Smith, the Master's favourite dessert was marinated figs with a raspberry coulis, he grew tomatoes, made his own wine, enjoyed theatre, books, and the company of friends. The Master was not fond of dogs or people with shifty eyes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')


=== While body-jumping ===
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.
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[[File:RobertsMasterWithShades.jpg|thumb|The Master looks for the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
This rendition of the Master was generally calm and sinisterly villainous but was also capable of terrifying rage. After being exterminated by the [[Dalek]]s, 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. When his attempt to take the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s remaining regenerations 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]]'')


This rendition of the Master viewed life as being "wasted on the living", ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') and boated his satisfaction in killing innocents, even claiming that mere petty vengeance was enough motivation to do so. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'') He was also petty, snapping [[Chang Lee]]'s neck when he refused to follow an order, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') turning Earth into a religious dictatorship to spite the Doctor, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') and killing [[Violet (Prologue)|Violet]] solely because she foiled his attempt to kill [[Edward Grainger]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
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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.
=== 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]])


Unlike previous incarnations, the Master was extremely serious when there was work to be done, more focused on getting the task at hand completed than engaging in small talk and humour, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') though would enjoy the company of a likeminded individual if he was not in an immediate hurry. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (audio story)|The Lifeboat and the Deathboat]]'') He was also quite literal, not understanding expressions such as killing someone to mean making them laugh. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
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>


In this rendition, the Master felt a pedantic need to correct people on bad grammar, such as when he corrected [[Grace Holloway]]'s "kiss as good as me" to "[kiss] as ''well'' as [me]". As with his previous selves, he was also comfortable with his villainous reputation, thanking Nurse [[Curtis (Doctor Who)|Curtis]] for playfully calling him "sick", ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') and was critical of people's trust towards the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (audio story)|The Lifeboat and the Deathboat]]'')
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====''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.


During the period of his life when he was forced to possess various human bodies to survive, the Master would take on minor personality traits and quirks from the bodies he possessed, and, as a result, he started to fear that his "essence" would eventually become too diluted if he were to jump to another body too frequently, and began to go to great pains to make sure his bodies lasted as long as possible by only possessing members of the same bloodline.
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]].
However, as he would later admit to [[Charlie Sato]], the Master began to somewhat enjoy the experience of being human as the years went by, and even toyed with the idea of dropping his plans of restoring his Time Lord body and just remain in a human body. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')


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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.
[[File:RobertsFGLeeBG.jpg|thumb|left|The Master is convinced that [[Chang Lee]] is in his thrall. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
Behind the flamboyancy and brutal savagery, the Master still maintained his cunning, leaving a crystalline structure on the Eye that would give the Doctor amnesia in vengeance for his previous defeat, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') using his link to the TARDIS to send the Doctor to specific locations to later show him the folly of his worth, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') and acquiring a casino in [[Las Vegas]] to accumulate the money needed to fund the experiments to elongate the lifespan of his host bodies, while also becoming head of the [[Hudson Dusters]], and controlling part of the [[mafia]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')


A patient incarnation, this Master simultaneously juggled a grand plan to achieve divine power with a pettier plan to morally humiliate the Doctor during the fight for [[the Glory]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') and also, while trying to remain undetected in the history books, possessed a line of men from the Maestro family to ensure he had a succession of bodies that he could adjust well to, passing from father to son once there was a grandson alive to inhabit later on. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
====''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]].
=== "Bald" incarnation ===
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This incarnation of the Master was excitable, enthusiastic, theatrical, and attention seeking, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') but also held a cold and merciless attitude to his egotistical personality. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'', ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'', ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') He took no offence when the Doctor called him "as nutty as a fruitcake." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
 
Being a manipulative megalomaniac, the Master used his polite mannerisms to enhance how diabolical he was, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[The Reviled (audio story)|The Reviled]]'', ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'', ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') but would drop all niceties the moment he was annoyed or in pain. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') He was also known for making quips and enjoying himself as he carried out his schemes, which allowed the [[Seventh Doctor]] to realise what had happened when the [[Cult of the Heretic]] caused this Master to switch bodies with his decayed past self as the decayed Master was having far more fun than he usually would. In contrast with his decayed incarnation, who killed at the first opportunity, this Master liked to build up to a pun when killing his victims. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
Despite his more theatrical side, this Master was as ruthless as his other incarnations, creating his own [[Infinite Warrior]]s by replacing human eyes with fake ones that had Eminence substance in them, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') and manipulating an Eminence attack on [[Heron's World]] for an experiment. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'') He was also unorthodox in his malice, being more interested in being cruel and spiteful, opting to humiliate and punish his opponents, even after he had bested them, and enjoyed "twist[ing] the knife into the wound" by adding personnel tragedies for his enemies into his plans. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'', ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
This Master was more willing to go into dangerous situations than his other incarnations, not only making deals with the Eminence and the [[Dalek]]s for universal domination, but also showed signs of extreme anti-obedience and arrogance, openly mocking his allies while fully aware that they could kill him anytime they wanted. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'')
 
His plans were meticulous, and like his degenerated incarnation, this Master liked to plan for every possible obstacle, but instead of waiting for the contingency to be activated by his opponents, he openly went out of his way to close off those obstacles beforehand. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
He preferred to let others believe they had defeated him before turning the tides and took great pleasure in emotionally humiliating them after he took back control. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
A slightly lazier incarnation, this Master liked the idea of having an army, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'') but didn't enjoy the prospect of building one up himself. The [[Eighth Doctor]] even accused the Master of being unoriginal with his schemes, which inspired the Master to improvise a new plan after his old one failed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
 
Seeing his subordinates as possessions instead of people, this Master had no compunctions towards demeaning, mind controlling or even killing subordinates who caught him the wrong way or had served their purpose, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') sparing only the most important ones to his plan until they were no longer of importance. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') However, he praised hard work and good results. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'')
 
While he had a genuine rapport with [[Sally Armstrong]], telling the Doctor that Sally was brilliant enough to fly his TARDIS on her own, he would assert his dominance over her when she disappointed him, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') and when she challenged him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'') He even kissed her hand, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reviled (audio story)|The Reviled]]'') and briefly mourned for her after her death. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
 
This Master would go to great depths to involve the Doctor in his schemes, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'') with the Doctor believing he did so because he enjoyed the attention the Doctor gave him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') He also accused the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s attitude about a war with the Daleks of being hypocritical, noting that, while the Doctor claimed not to be fighting a war with them, he had battled the Daleks across time and space. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') He later belittled the Doctor for his emotional attachments. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
 
While the Master had always displayed a degree of disrespect for the laws and workings of time travel, this incarnation was especially brazen in this attitude, stating that he could simply use his TARDIS to cross his own timeline and attempt to achieve a failed plan without any concern for the paradoxes or personal dangers involved in doing so. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'') So disregarding to paradoxes was he that he even attacked a past incarnation of himself to further his own agenda, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') and had no qualms about attempting to kill the [[Seventh Doctor]], despite already being involved in the circumstances behind his regeneration. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'')
 
He claimed that he never looked back to the past and was always focused on the future. He also stated that he wanted peace across the universe under his rule. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
 
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He would often introduce himself by saying, "Hello, you!", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'') and had a flair for a Shakespearian dialect. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
 
This Master also had a habit of imitating the Doctor, such as tricking UNIT into believing him to be a future incarnation of the Seventh Doctor, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'') taking on the Doctor's role of a lone hero saving a group of innocents, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'') and even replacing the Doctor with himself in [[Molly O'Sullivan]]'s memories. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'')
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=== "War" incarnation ===
While fighting in the [[Last Great Time War]], the Master delighted in the prospect of committing genocide. He saw people as resources, and that teaming up with the War Doctor was a worthwhile option during wartime. He also had a fondness for paradoxes. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'') The Master wanted to fight in the Time War, but seeing the hopelessness of his efforts with the Doctor he fled from their fight with the [[Cyclor]]s. He concluded that he enjoyed death and chaos only when it was fun for him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Kill God (comic story)|Kill God]]'')
 
At the moment of his regeneration, the Master held contempt for the Doctor and Alice Obiefune, declaring that he would have his revenge on them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'')
 
=== "Yana" incarnation ===
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[[File:TheMaster(Yana).jpg|thumb|The Master threatens [[Chantho]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]]
While he started his life declaring vengeance, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'') this Master would put on a front of being kind and [[charm]]ing, but would drop the facade the instant it was time to act. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'') When the telepathic entity, the [[Heart of Arcking]], questioned him on whether he was truly as [[evil]] as he considered himself after reading his mind, the Master was briefly caught off-guard by the question, and hesitated momentarily in answering before he gathered himself and dismissed the notion, vehemently denying that he had any benevolent sides to his personality. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'') He wished to save the universe from the [[Last Great Time War]] so that he could rule over it afterwards, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') and "enjoy [his] victory", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know]]'') claiming that the only faction he fought for was his own person. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'') Though usually calm and affable, the Master took the time to taunt a squad of Daleks when they were unable to harm him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'')
 
While he would openly admit to allowing the destruction of individuals and places he found "dull", the Master was adamant to ensure the things he found "beautiful" would be left unharmed, such as [[rose]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sins of the Father (audio story)|Sins of the Father]]'')
 
This Master was a misogynist, considering it an embarrassment to have been killed by a girl, even calling it "inappropriate". ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') Although, he equally held everyone in similar disregard unless it benefited him, even planets, stating he only had allegiance to himself. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'') He was unable to empathise with others, yawning at a mother's drive to save her race being born from her dead husband and her son. On a large scale, he also had little to no regard for the other sentient species of the universe, dismissing the majority of them as lesser beings and primitives, and declaring in private that he did not care "one iota" for their plights under the Time War. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'') His disregard for others was so great that he even secretly impregnated several woman with living weapons without a care for the consequences of his actions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Concealed Weapon (audio story)|Concealed Weapon]]'')
 
The Master found enjoyment in the death of others, even killing for his own amusement, believing the most pointless of murders to be the most "fun", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master of Worlds (audio story)|Master of Worlds]]'') and enjoyed tormenting his intended victims before their demise, citing an enjoyment for a "ticking clock". He would even give them a chance at survival for further torment. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Concealed Weapon (audio story)|Concealed Weapon]]'') He also found amusement in the misery of the [[Time Lord]]s, particularly when it came to [[Narvin]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sins of the Father (audio story)|Sins of the Father]]'')
 
When comparing him to the degenerated body she was used to, [[Leela]] claimed that this Master was "focus[ed]", "making guesses", and "plotting". In comparison to his past self, the Master claimed he was now "civilised, pleasant, [and] reasonable", which was denied by Leela. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know]]'')
 
After his use of the [[Heavenly Paradigm]] caused the [[Dalek Emperor]] to take control of the [[Cruciform]], the Master, driven by the fear of his failure, fled the [[end of the universe]] and used a [[Chameleon Arch]] to turn himself into a human baby to hide from the [[Time Lord]]s and wait out the war in a safe place. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'')
 
Under the Chameleon Arch, Professor Yana was a benign old man who had lost faith in the [[Utopia Project]]. His spirit was revitalised by the [[Tenth Doctor]], and the two shared a mutual admiration. He was also somewhat scatterbrained and slightly lacking in self-confidence, at one point referring to himself as "a stupid old man." Also, like the Tenth Doctor with [[Martha Jones]], Yana was oblivious to [[Chantho]]'s feelings for him.
 
After returning to his true identity, the Master became cold, ruthless, and dignified, but also abusive and condescending, citing that he had the right to attack Chanto when she pointed a gun at him. He was extremely aggressive towards Chantho after regaining his memories, stating that her constant cultural ticks drove him "insane" during their time together. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
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When given the chance to rest from the Time War, the Master spent his time cultivating [[wine]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sky Man (audio story)|The Sky Man]]'')
 
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Enjoying "slow-working plans" that gave him ample opportunity to study the small effects that resulted from his ploys, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sky Man (audio story)|The Sky Man]]'') the Master would plan ahead with every scheme, preparing for every eventuality, even his capture. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sins of the Father (audio story)|Sins of the Father]]'') He would also research his targets, and manipulate their history to his benefits. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Concealed Weapon (audio story)|Concealed Weapon]]'') He also showed a great capacity for patience in the implementation of his schemes, being willing to wait for prolonged periods of time to find the perfect subject to manipulate, or for the right time to strike. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'', ''[[The Sky Man (audio story)|The Sky Man]]'')
 
The Master was adept at manipulating individuals quickly in the heat of the moment, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'') using his choice of words and tone of voice to break down their character with his assessment on their quirks and decisions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Call for the Dead (audio story)|Call for the Dead]]'')
 
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Though he thought "inappropriate" to have been killed by a female "insect", the Master welcomed his regeneration in a grandiose fashion, declaring that "the Master [was] reborn." ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
=== "Harold Saxon" incarnation ===
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[[File:SaxonSmile.jpg|thumb|"Harold Saxon" smiles to the camera after giving a post-electoral speech. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
Immediately after his regeneration, the Master appeared to have gone more insane than ever, gleefully jumping around [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]' [[TARDIS control console|control console]], while ecstatically laughing, and toying with his new voice. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') By this point in his life, the Master was tormented more than ever by "[[The Drumming|the drums]]" in his head, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') but, after his sabotaged resurrection, he admitted to seeing it as a central piece of his identity, convinced that something was calling to him through the drum beat. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') So much was he obsessed with them, that, on one occasion, "the drums" was all he would say. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen (comic story)|The Abominable Showmen]]'', ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'') On another occasion, however, the Master fearfully asked the Doctor if he thought "the drumming" would stop after he died. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
Much like his previous incarnations, this Master was ostentatious; offering out [[jelly babies]] and [[grits]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') opting to wear eyeliner in preparation for being a woman in his next incarnation, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') and dancing to the [[Rogue Traders]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and the [[Scissor Sisters]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He also enjoyed watching the ''[[Teletubbies]]'', believing that the televisions in their stomachs was true evolution, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and thrived on chaos, describing the last day of the [[Last Great Time War]] as "[his] kind of world", ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and was excited about getting into fights. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') He also admitted to loving disguises, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and was particularly outraged when he was "stuck looking like the old Prime Minister." ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
 
Behind his charismatic and charming demeanour, however, this Master was sadistic and childishly degrading, even going as far as to slip subtle and private jabs at the Doctor into his public speeches. When Francine, Clive and Tish were forcibly taken to the ''Valiant'' under armed guard, the Master shamelessly treated the ordeal like a school field trip, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and, during [[the Year That Never Was]], he kept them as slaves, taking every opportunity he could to belittle them, even goading Francine into murdering him, until the Doctor convinced her otherwise. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He also made [[Bill Potts]] aware of his part in her [[Cyber-conversion]] to upset her, and was disappointed when his remarks seemed to have failed, stating that she had "[taken] all the fun out of cruelty". He was also alarmed and disgusted at the idea of his future self gaining [[empathy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
He was extremely vain and narcissistic, with the [[Tenth Doctor]] noting that he would never destroy himself, even if he could destroy the Earth with him. During [[the Year That Never Was]], he had monuments of himself built all over Earth, and, according to [[Martha Jones]], had even sculptured himself onto Mount Rushmore. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He also used the [[Immortality Gate]] to turn the human race into duplicates of himself, which he dubbed the "[[Master Race]]", and also threatened to do the same to the [[Time Lord]]s, even asserting that [[Rassilon]] "[would] [look] better as [him]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') His vanity was so vast that when the [[Tenth Doctor]] forgave him for his actions, the Master collapsed and wept out of shame. After he expressed revulsion at being "kept" by the Doctor, the Master was shot by Lucy and, to spite the Doctor, decided not to regenerate and die. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') After meeting his female successor, {{Gomez}}, the Master admitted to being attracted to his future self, flirting and dancing with her. However, when he saw the possibility that Missy would aid the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the Master killed her. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
This Master also had an exceptionally heightened sense of his own brilliance, even reciting a Bible-style verse of his own making to the Doctor as the [[Toclafane invasion]] began. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') He also held [[Time Lord]]s as the absolute superior race, automatically assuming the right to alter history on the principle of him being a Time Lord, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') and was confident that he could beat an entire city of Cybermen while only being armed with his [[laser screwdriver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') However, when his plans were foiled, the Master would turn cowardly, retreating at the first opportunity or allying with whoever could better protect him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
The Master still held the lives of others without thought, assassinating the [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom]], setting the [[Toclafane]] on [[Vivien Rook]], ordering [[Arthur Winters]]'s execution as a show of power, commanding the decimation of the population of Earth to emphasise his new dominion, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') destroying the islands of [[Japan]] when he learned that the [[Drast]] had been operating in [[Yokohama]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story of Martha (short story)|The Story of Martha]]'') siphoning the [[life force]]s of the people who resurrected him, and unceremoniously consuming [[Sarah (The End of Time)|Sarah]], [[Tommo (The End of Time)|Tommo]] and [[Ginger (The End of Time)|Ginger]], leaving them as skeletons. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') He also showed a sadistic glee when he resorted to murder, continuously listening in on Rook's dying screams, being excited by the prospect of killing the immortal [[Jack Harkness]] a second time, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and chuckling after casually killing [[Thomas Milligan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He was also known to kill those who brought him bad news. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story of Martha (short story)|The Story of Martha]]'')
 
This Master showed minimum affection for the Doctor. Even after he aged the [[Tenth Doctor]] to an elderly man, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') the Master continued to humiliate him by having him live in a makeshift tent aboard the ''Valiant'' during [[the Year That Never Was]], and then furthered the humiliation by ageing the Doctor until he morphed into an ancient dwarf-sized body, and then kept him locked up in a bird cage. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') When {{Gomez}} told him of her plans to join forces with the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the Master adamantly stated his refusal to stand with the Doctor and killed Missy with his [[laser screwdriver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') The Master was even willing to die to spite the Tenth Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') and claimed to prefer death than begging for the Twelfth Doctor's help. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
However, this Master was not without his reservations, considering Rassilon's [[Ultimate Sanction]] to be suicidal, but was still willing to subject himself to it to appease Rassilon. He also had a sense of honour, as he sacrificed himself to save the Doctor from Rassilon after the Doctor chose not to kill either of them, also getting his revenge on Rassilon for implanting "the drumming" in his head, and for Rassilon trying to kill him for being "diseased". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
 
While he originally avowed affection for his wife, [[Lucy Saxon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') the Master's vanity and overconfidence in his successful taking of Earth led him to forego such pretences, even teasing her with the possibility of replacing her with his masseuse. He was, however, unsurprised when she shot him, instead making a quip about it "always [being] the women". ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
[[File:Master remembers initiation The End of Time.jpg|thumb|left|The Master recalls the [[Untempered Schism]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
After his sabotaged [[resurrection]], the Master displayed a feral state that led him to act like a predatory animal, plagued by an insatiable hunger. Despite this insanity, the Master was capable of lucid conversation, nostalgically discussing his childhood friendship with the [[Tenth Doctor]]. He was also still a cunning strategist, allowing himself to remain [[Joshua Naismith]]'s prisoner so he could repair the Immortality Gate and use it to create his Master Race, all so he could turn the Earth into a warship, but then improvised a plan where he used his duplicates to locate the source of "the drumming". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The insanity he developed due to his botched resurrection and the drumming was fixed when the Time Lords repaired the Master's body back to normal. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
Missy recalled an enjoyment for being in this incarnation, stating how he "burn[ed] like a sun, like a whole screaming world on fire." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
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The Master made a habit of saying, "Oh, no you don't", saying it when the Doctor was locking the TARDIS's coordinates, ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') when avoiding a conversation with the Doctor, and when the Doctor restored his youthful physiognomy with the Archangel Network's telepathic link. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
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The Master shared the Tenth Doctor's technical knowledge, as he was able to construct his [[laser screwdriver]] from Earth components, cannibalise the Doctor's TARDIS and turn it into a [[Paradox machine]], miniaturise [[Richard Lazarus]]' genetic manipulation technology, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and was able to repair the [[Immortality Gate]] for [[Joshua Naismith]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') He also designed the [[Archangel Network]] and the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
Like his degenerated and bald incarnations, this Master had dangerous foresight and knew it was a mistake to give the Doctor hints about his plans while he could intervene. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') His methods for dealing with the Doctor during his reign as [[prime minister]] showed an efficient and simple mindset; framing the Doctor for murder to send the police after him, arresting Martha's family for insurance, and luring [[Torchwood Three]] away to the [[Himalayas]] to prevent Jack from recruiting their aide. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') He was likewise straight to the point when explaining how the time differentials were affecting the [[Mondas]]ian [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Colony ship]] to [[Bill Potts]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
 
This Master was also a decent fighter, having brawled with his other incarnations on equal footing, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'') struck the Tenth Doctor down with a single [[punch]] to the face, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') knocked down a [[Patient (World Enough and Time)|partially-converted Cybermen]] with a blow to the back of their head, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and overpowered the [[Twelfth Doctor]] in unarmed combat. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
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After he was fatally stabbed by Missy, the Master admired how his death was "very nicely done", and found that it was "good to know [she] [hadn't] lost [his] touch." Though he accepted his impending regeneration, the Master was unwilling to accept that Missy would stand with the Doctor, and shot her dead. He then began laughing at their "perfect ending" being them "shoot[ing] [them]selves in the back", and continued to laugh as he made his way to his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
=== As "Missy" ===
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[[File:Missy close up Death in Heaven.jpg|thumb|Missy taunts the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')]]
Though he had previously preferred a male form, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') the Master was indifferent when he learnt he would regenerate into a woman, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') and, fully embracing her new gender, the Master changed her title to "Mistress", shortening it to "Missy". Considering herself to be "old fashioned", she insisted on being addressed as [[Time Lady]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') while nicknaming herself the "Queen of Evil". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') She also adopted a [[Scottish]] accent, claiming she would keep it after taking a liking to the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s accent, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') occasionally utilising other accents when she felt the need. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')
 
While she claimed that she had the "body of a weak and feeble woman", she maintained that she still possessed "the heart, and stomach, of a homicidal maniac", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bekdel Test (audio story)|The Bekdel Test]]'') openly described herself as "bananas", but took offence when [[Danny Pink]] called her a "lunatic". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') She also displayed tendencies of being a show-off, such as when vastly enlarging her face on a UNIT monitor in a comical manner to show [[UNIT]] that she could, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and enjoyed having information that others did not, such as having knowledge of the Doctor's past that others could not argue with. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
 
Though she adopted a bubblier personality with a welcoming and sociable façade, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and more choreographic movements, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') Missy was more open about her loneliness, and willing to show when she was afraid and remorseful. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'')
 
In her own words, Missy was "especially spiteful". Indeed, she began murdering some of the Scoundrels Club's members and enslaving the others after they refused to allow her to remain a member. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
 
[[File:The Doctor feels Missy's hearts.jpg|thumb|left|Missy lets the Doctor feel her hearts. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'')]]
Believing that the Doctor's saving of [[Gallifrey]] was meant to rescue only her, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') Missy's affection for the Doctor became more conspicuous, telling the [[Half-Face Man]] that, while the Doctor could be mean to others, he would not be with her because he "loved [her] so much". She openly referred to him as her "boyfriend", ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') tracked his movements across time and space, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'', ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and mockingly professed that her hearts "belonged to [the Doctor]" after passionately kissing him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') Despite these implications of their relationship being romantic, Missy adamantly denied that she loved the Doctor, even showing disgust at the thought, insisting it to be a complicated friendship, though expressed jealous irritation when the Doctor called [[Davros]] his "arch-enemy", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and would become upset and querulous when he did not show interest in her plans. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr. Twelfth (novel)|Dr. Twelfth]]'')
 
Viewing everything as being born to die, Missy held no regrets when it came to murder, describing her urge to kill as akin to a child wanting to pop a [[balloon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and having a preference for killing "clever-clogs" because they "[made] the best faces". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') When building up to a murder, Missy would insist that her victim "say something nice" to her, and would wait patiently for them to reply. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') She also insisted that anyone aiming to kill her do the same with her, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and would take offence if a threat to kill her was not carried out. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')
 
Missy retained her predecessors' sadistic tendencies, demonstrating cruel pleasure at taunting her victims before she [[kill]]ed them, such as telling Dr [[Chang (Dark Water)|Chang]] she would miss him and promising to always keep a picture of him "looking so sweet" before she murdered him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') She also encouraged Osgood to have more self-confidence, while counting down to her death to torment her. However, she atomised [[Seb (The Caretaker)|Seb]] without a second glance for no reason other than that the AI was annoying her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') Missy also held no respect for the dead, using dead human bodies to create a Cyberman army, ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') as well as crushing Osgood's [[glasses]] under her heel while posthumously thanking her for being "yummy". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
 
Missy could be needlessly cruel in her interactions with others, such as taunting [[Clara Oswald]] about her [[Danny Pink|dead boyfriend]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and pushing Clara down a hole to test its depth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') She also ordered the [[death]] of [[Belgium|Belgians]] for no reason, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') vaporised UNIT personnel to prove she had "not gone [[good]]," ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and was believed by [[Ashildr]] to have united Clara and the Doctor together just to see what chaos would result from their clashing personalities. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') She would sometimes act childish or ignorant so that others around her would drop their guard. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'') However, when Missy learnt that the Doctor had departed [[Darillium]] to leave [[River Song]] to [[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|her fate]], she offered her sincere condolences for his loss. ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'')
 
During her imprisonment in [[The Vault (The Pilot)|the Vault]], Missy went "cold turkey" on being [[evil]] as the Doctor tried to rehabilitate her into being [[good]], which first worked to the extent that she grew remorseful for all the people she had murdered, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'') and then to the point that [[Nardole]] trusted her enough to retrieve the Doctor and Bill from [[Mars]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'') which in turn resulted in the Doctor trusting her enough to do "maintenance" on his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'')
 
Though she continued to show progress with her rehabilitation and made an effort to do good on the [[Mondas]]ian [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]], when she was approached by her past incarnation, she relapsed back to being [[evil]] by allying with him, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') but continued to be conflicted with her allegiance, admitting to the Doctor that she was "in two minds" about what she wanted. However, after being moved by the Doctor's speech on kindness and request for her help, Missy stabbed her past incarnation so that he would regenerate into her and she could stand with the Doctor, only for the Master to shoot her beyond regeneration, leading to her death, though she shared the amusement in her "perfect ending" being shot in the back by her past incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
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Missy showed a liking for singing, substituting her name in with "Mickey" in the song "Mickey" while in UNIT custody, and singing a verse from "Happy Birthday, Mr President" when giving the Doctor control of a Cyberman army. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') She pulled a similar stunt involving "Mickey" lyrics via text communication when she announced her presence to UNIT by halting all aeroplane traffic, and, when imprisoned by [[Colony Sarff]], she passed the time by partaking in opera singing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') Missy was also good at playing the [[piano]], and passed her time in the vault playing ''[[Für Elise]]'', ''[[Pop Goes The Weasel]]'', ([[TV]]: ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'') and ''[[The Entertainer]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')
 
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Missy was a devious planner and skilled manipulator, able to manoeuvre others into place with ease by exploiting their desires. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') While trapped on [[Skaro]] with [[Clara Oswald]], Missy demonstrated fluid planning as her desires changed from wanting to ally with the Daleks, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') to wanting to help the Doctor, to then wanting the Doctor to unintentionally kill Clara. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') She was also a convincing liar, especially when using her talent for manipulative reasons. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') However, Missy would often opt for one solitary scheme with virtually no contingencies or back-up plans in place to help steer events back towards her favour like her previous incarnations employed, instead opting to give the Doctor false hope of reaching Gallifrey after she was beaten, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and walking away with nothing but taunts to say when the Doctor didn't kill Clara. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')
 
Sharing the Doctor's observational skills, Missy could tell a man she had killed was a married father by the ring on his finger and the detection of "baby leakage" on his jacket. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'')
 
== Appearance and clothing ==
=== First incarnation ===
[[File:Master 8 years old.jpg|thumb|The young Master. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
As an eight-year-old boy, the Master had dark hair and bright blue eyes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') As he matured, the Master swept his black hair back, and also grew a greying beard. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'')
 
The Master was described by [[Maris]] as "pewter, [having] washed-out skin, and the beginnings of a goatee". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'')
 
=== "Inventor" incarnation ===
[[File:DreyfusMaster.jpg|thumb|left|The Master poses as "the Inventor". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')]]
When he met the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara on Destination, the Master had short hair and a beard, both of which were almost completely grey, save for some dark patches. His eyes were brown in colour. He wore an asymetrical black coat with a large white lined collar on the left-hand side. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
 
=== "UNIT enemy" incarnation ===
[[File:The Master - locked up.jpg|thumb|The Master in prison. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'')]]
The Master resembled a mature, elegant man, with a swarthy complexion, brown eyes, and mild streaks of grey in his hair. He had a goatee beard, which also had white skunk stripes. He generally wore a black Cardin-Nehru jacket, with dark trousers, black leather boots and gloves, and a white cuff-linked shirt. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') On occasion, he would wear a suit, with either an orange, grey or blue tie. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'')
 
While imprisoned on [[Fortress Island]], the Master wore a black cape over a white turtle-neck jumper, with black trousers, but switched these for a naval officer's uniform while secretly infiltrating [[HMS Seaspite]]. During his return and subsequent escape from Fortress Island, he changed back into his black Nehru jacket and trousers. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'')
 
=== Degenerated body ===
[[File:Deformed.jpg|thumb|left|The decaying Master. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'')]]
Either because [[Susan Foreman]] used the [[Tissue Compression Eliminator|TCE]] against him while he was holding a [[matter transmuter]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'') or because he was burnt in an energy net by {{Macqueen|n=a future incarnation}}, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') the Master came to resemble a deformed corpse, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') with brown eyes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') However, after absorbing some energy from the [[Eye of Harmony]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') he became less "putrescent". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trail of the White Worm (audio story)|Trail of the White Worm]]'') With his decayed body, the Master would experience almost unendurable pain. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
To hide his disfigurement, the Master took to wearing a rotting hooded cloak. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') Whilst in Victorian London, he wore a mask in public to conceal his decaying appearance, and also used a cane to aid his frail body. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Maurice (audio story)|Maurice]]'')
 
He was described by [[Spandrell]] as being "emaciated", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') with [[Bob Dovie]] describing him as looking "burned." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] described him as "a cowled cadaver", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Requiem for the Rocket Men (audio story)|Requiem for the Rocket Men]]'') while [[River Song]] described him as the "crispy-looking Master". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Animal Instinct (audio story)|Animal Instinct]]'')
 
=== "Tremas" incarnation ===
[[File:Logopolis title.jpg|thumb|The Master in [[Tremas]]'s body. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')]]
After the Master used the power of [[The Source (The Keeper of Traken)|the Source]] to steal [[Tremas]]'s body, the [[Trakenite]]'s body was also rejuvenated, with his grey hair becoming a dark brown, and his white bushy beard turning into a black goatee beard. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] didn't think much of the beard, calling it "rubbish" when he met his [[tenth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'')
 
After the Master stole his body, Tremas's robes inexplicably changed into a black velveteen high collared tunic with puffed sleeves and long tails, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') black trousers, dark leather boots, and black velvet gloves. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') The Master would also utilise a cloak with a large collar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
 
While stranded on [[Cheetah World]], the Master opted to change his usual attire for a black coat with a white collar, with a white collared dark blue shirt and bow tie, black trousers and shoes, a silver waistcoat, and a belt with a dragon-shaped buckle. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
 
In an account that depicted this Master with greying hair, he wore a red velvet jacket, a white waistcoat with a black jumper, and a pair of dark trousers, with leather gloves and shoes, with various rings decorating his gloves. Completing the ensemble was a black cloak with a huge collar and white lining, ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]'') which the Master had also worn during his alliance with [[Adam Mitchell]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Cat and Mouse (comic story)|Cat and Mouse]])''
 
While combating [[the Graak]] in [[the Determinant]], the Master adopted many costume changes to suit the situation he found himself in; wearing an a conductor hat with an "M"-insignia at a platform station, a bowler hat while on a train taunting the Graak, a [[Dalek Trooper]] helmet while commanding a rocker launcher, and a plastic crown at a medieval themed festival. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]'')
 
=== "Tzun" incarnation ===
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 (novel)|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 (short story)|Housewarming]]'')
 
=== "John Smith" incarnation ===
When the Master was robbed of his [[Trakenite]] body by the [[Warp Core]], he regained his disfigured appearance, which [[Ace]] described as resembling [[Freddy Krueger]] and "a dropped [[pizza]]". To hide his disfigurement, the Master took to wearing a golden mask with diamonds encrusted inside it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'')
 
After becoming John Smith, the Master did not hide his disfigurement and wore a suit instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
 
=== While body-jumping ===
[[File:Morphant Snake Master Incarnation.jpg|thumb|The Master as a [[Deathworm Morphant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
As a [[Deathworm Morphant]], the Master resembled a snake. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
While within Bruce's body, the Master looked like a young [[America]]n man, but his eyes appeared reptilian, forcing him to wear sunglasses to remain inconspicuous. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') He decided to have his new hair gelled ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') into a slick backcomb style, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') as opposed to Bruce's messy style. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') While searching for the Doctor, the Master wore denim jeans and a check shirt with Bruce's leather jacket and light boots. When his plan neared completion, the Master changed his into traditional extravagant Gallifreyan robes, citing that he "always dress[ed] for the occasion". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
After gaining a new body, the Master resembled a black street preacher with a balding head. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'') After revealing himself, he replaced his clothes with a more regal outfit. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
 
When trapped on Earth in the 20th Century, the Master wore whatever his hosts wore normally, to avoid detection. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
 
=== "Bald" incarnation ===
[[File:Masterplan.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor and the Master. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')]]
The Master had brown eyes and was bald, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'') with many commenting on his lack of hair. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') He wore a plain suit with a velvet jacket, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') and a striped tie. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') On one occasion, he wore a white [[Stetson]] hat. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'')
 
While posing as the "Other Doctor," the Master wore a black overcoat, with black trousers, a dark blazer, white shirt and dark green cravat. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'')
 
=== "War" incarnation ===
[[File:Titan Comics Kill a God Master Asian Child.jpg|thumb|The Master during the Time War. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Kill God (comic story)|Kill God]]'')]]
In his sixteenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') the Master's body was that of a small child with black hair and blue eyes. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'') On [[Veestrax]], he had short hair, and wore a white shirt with a black jacket. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Outrun (comic story)|Outrun]]'') By the time he and the Doctor had arrived on [[Golgauth]], the Master's hair was longer, and he sported a red shirt under his jacket. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'')
 
=== "Yana" incarnation ===
[[File:YanaUpset.jpg|thumb|left|Professor Yana. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]]
In his seventeenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') the Master originally looked like an elderly man with white hair and blue eyes. Though he started his life clean-shaven, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'') he eventually grew a scruffy white goatee beard. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'')
 
After use of the [[Chameleon Arch]], he had regressed into a [[baby]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') When Professor Yana met the [[Tenth Doctor]], he resembled a slightly younger version of his original self, having aged naturally. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
He wore a white stiff-collard shirt, often with sleeves rolled up, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'') a dark red waistcoat, a black cravat, and black trousers. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') He once wore a brown tweed jacket over this attire. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') During his encounter with UNIT, he wore a velvet coat. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master of Worlds (audio story)|Master of Worlds]]'') In his waist coat, he housed a Chameleon Arch [[biodata module]], disguised as an ordinary [[fob watch]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
During his expeditionary walks on [[Arcking]], he wore a [[Grav-Suit]] over his clothes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'')
 
=== "Harold Saxon" incarnation ===
[[File:LucyBehindSaxon.jpg|thumb|The Master makes a speech. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
In his eighteenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') the Master was young, with light brown hair, and dark brown eyes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') According to the [[Twelfth Doctor]], he had a "round face". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') As "Harold Saxon", the Master would wear a black suit with a white shirt and black tie. While meeting [[President]] [[Arthur Winters]], he wore a black coat with a crimson lined interior. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
After his botched resurrection, the Master's hair was bleached light blond, and he gained some stubble. To remain inconspicuous, he wore a black hooded sweatshirt over a red T-shirt with dark combat trousers and black boots. Due to the corruption of his [[life force]], the Master's outer skin would fade away and reveal the translucent blue life energy encasing his body, exposing his skeleton and internal organs, with each fluctuation making an unsettling primal roar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') After being "fixed" by the [[Time Lord]]s, the Master no longer distorted into the translucent blue energy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
By the time he found the [[Twelfth Doctor]] aboard the [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]], the Master had aged somewhat, now having grey hair and a beard. He also discarded his previous clothes for a black coat with a large red lined collar on the left-hand side, a green button up shirt, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') dark trousers, and black zip-up boots. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
When the [[Third Doctor]] saw this Master in [[Sild]] captivity, he described what he saw as "a young man in a business suit, beardless, with a mop of boyish hair," and that his face "seemed friendly and plausible", overall thinking him "the kind of man people would find easy to trust." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
 
=== As "Missy" ===
[[File:Missy you know who I am.jpg|thumb|left|Missy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'')]]
In her nineteenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') Missy looked like a mature woman with pronounced cheek bones, and light [[blue]] [[eye]]s. Her [[black]] [[hair]] was wild and free, but held in place in an up-do. She also adopted a Scottish accent like the Twelfth Doctor's. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')
 
Fashioning herself in [[Victorian]]-styled garb, Missy wore a starched collared blouse ([[TV]]: '' [[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') with a cameo brooch made of [[Dark star alloy]] under her throat, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') along with a high waisted skirt that cut to ankle length, and a croak lengthen jacket which puffed up at the shoulders and dark lapels, with a blouse shirt coloured in white ([[TV]]: '' [[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') or green. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'') She also wore black ankle boots with a sharp toe and tapered heels. Completing the ensemble was a black boater hat worn at a rakish angle, with an arrangement of black and red berries on the brim and a black veil over the top. For further accessories, Missy wore a spiked bracelet on her left wrist, carried around a black umbrella, and wore two rings on her right hand, and one ring on her left hand. ([[TV]]: '' [[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')
 
Missy varied the colours of her clothes, with the design coming in black, ([[TV]]: '' [[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') bottle green, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') a shade of dark orange, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') plum, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') and violet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'')
 
Before she was imprisoned in the Vault, Missy's up-do hair had grown in length, she had began wearing leather clothes, and she had replaced her brooch with a dark orange necktie. ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'') After spending a number of years in the Vault, her hair grew out into a messier style. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')
 
== Other information ==
=== 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. ([[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, ([[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]]'')
 
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]]'')
 
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]]'')
 
After regenerating into a female incarnation, the Master 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 Doctor in his [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnation]], 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 scepticism 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]]'')
 
=== Companions ===
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]]'')
 
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]]'')
 
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]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
=== Character conception and development ===
[[Barry Letts]] and [[Terrance Dicks]] often discussed that the relationship between the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] is similar to [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[John Watson|Dr Watson]]. Inevitably, this led them to a question: where is Moriarty? They envisioned a counterpart of the Doctor, a character that became the Master. ([[DOC]]: ''[[The Doctor's Moriarty]]'')
 
In a way, the Doctor himself was the model of the Master. At first, the ''Doctor Who'' production team 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.{{Fact}} But this does not mean that the Master has a lesser academic degree than the Doctor, as in a master's degree. Both being Time Lords, they have the same level of education and are graduates of the Time Lord Academy. In ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', we learn that both had chosen their names because of what they meant — the Doctor as a healer of wrongs, the Master because of his desire for conquest and dominance.
 
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 accidental 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 sacrificing himself to save the [[Tenth Doctor]] from [[Rassilon]].
 
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. This transitional form was also used in ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''.
 
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]]''. <ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/4s.html</ref>
 
=== Is "Koschei" their true name? ===
The [[1997 (releases)|1997]] novel ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'' shows the [[Second Doctor]] in one of his first encounters with the Master since leaving [[Gallifrey]]. Throughout the story, the Master is only called by the pseudonym "Koschei". In Russian folklore, Koschei (rus.{{w|Koschei|Коще́й}} or Коще́й Бессме́ртный, "Koschei The Deathless") is a villain who hides his soul in an obscure location under many layers of protection so that he can never die.
 
Though the Second Doctor does not recognise Koschei by that name in ''The Dark Path'', and the novel even goes so far as to state that the Master has "begun" calling himself thusly, later stories like ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'' and ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'' reuse the name in ways that suggest it is the true or original name of the Master. The [[2018 (releases)|2018]] short story ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'' casts this theory into doubt, however, as Missy states that her real name contains thirty-two letters, though it is possible that "Koshei" is a diminutive, or even a first or last name which, added up with the other, amounts to thirty-two.
 
The comic ''[[Flashback (comic story)|Flashback]]'' was written with the intent that its character of [[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. This would make Magnus the Master's true name as opposed to Koschei, or, indeed, anything thirty-two letters long. However, the comic did not explicitly confirm Magnus's identity, and later sources went on to retcon that Magnus was actually [[the War Chief]].
 
=== How many Masters? ===
Especially in comparison to other prominent [[Time Lord]]s like [[the Doctor]] and [[Romana]], the count 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 life.
 
[[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'' shows the transformation from the [[Roger Delgado]] Master into the degraded form portrayed by [[Geoffrey Beevers]] and [[Peter Pratt]], establishing that all three actors are playing a single incarnation 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. However, this may be reconciled as ''Legacy'' does not explicitly feature the Delgado Master 'regenerating' into the Pratt/Beevers version, as the novel depicts him being blown out of his TARDIS when [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] destroys a key piece of equipment and he is later shown being rescued by Goth, creating the possibility that he was not badly injured by the explosion and was able to retrieve another TARDIS to continue his depicted adventures as the Delgado incarnation, such as ''Doorway to Hell'', until he regenerated and was disfigured in ''Two Masters''.
Afterwards, [[Anthony Ainley]]'s version of the Master takes over Tremas' body and goes on to plague the Doctor until the original series' end. Despite being a different form, there's no actual regeneration.
 
The 2010 edition of ''[[Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary]]'' indicates that the Master played by [[John Simm]] is the seventeenth form. However, this source is considered [[T:VS|invalid]] by this wiki.
 
Eight years later, the debate was concluded by the short story ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'', which shows eighteen deaths on Missy's [[Spacebook]] page. This results in nineteen true incarnations, not including possessed bodies. While the identities of the Master's incarnations pre-Beevers are not named by this story, it does account for every incarnation of the Master post-Beevers that have appeared in spin-off media.
 
=== 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]])
 
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>
=== 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]], 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.
 
When Missy was put on trial for her "crimes against the universe throughout all [her] lives", she talked her way out of being sentenced for the events of [[The Year That Never Was]] by pointing out the Doctor's undoing of those events, for the murder of [[Petronella Osgood]] by pointing out the two Osgoods still working for [[UNIT]], for the event at [[Devil's End]] by pointing out she had already been tried for that crime and cleared up confusion about her involvement in the [[Death Zone]] by reminding everyone that [[Borusa]] was the culprit. She was, however, eventually sentenced to death for pushing a girl into a volcano on [[Riga-Priam]], which she had mentioned doing in ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]''.


=== Other matters ===
=== Other matters ===
* Missy's appearance is based upon that of the Julie Andrews version of [[Mary Poppins]]. For example, when first introduced in the stage directions from the script of ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', Missy was physically described thus: "She's dressed a little like Mary Poppins." Furthermore, Missy imitates the style of Mary's arrival (floating down from the sky using an umbrella) in ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]''.
*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 Master was dubbed in German by [[Reinhard Glemnitz]] and [[Klaus Kindler]] as the Ainley incarnation, [[Wolfgang Jürgen]] as the Roberts incarnation, [[Hans-Gerd Kilbinger]] as the Jacobi incarnation, [[Michael Deffert]] as the Simm incarnation, and [[Katharina Koschny]] as the Gomez incarnation.
*''[[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]].
* Though Robert Holmes has received a creator credit for male incarnations of the Master in the revived series, no such credit is given for Missy.
*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]]".


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|[[Roger Delgado]]||[[1971 (releases)|1971]]-[[1973 (releases)|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.
|| [[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.
||[[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]]
|[[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)|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 (releases)|1997]]'s ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]''
|[[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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|[[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.
|[[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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|[[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.
| [[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.
|-
|[[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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|[[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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|[[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.
|[[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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|[[John Simm]]||[[2007 (releases)|2007]]-[[2010 (releases)|2010]]
|[[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.
||''[[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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|[[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]]''.
|[[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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|[[Michelle Gomez]]||[[2014 (releases)|2014]]-[[2017 (releases)|2017]]||''[[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 portray the character, and marked the first time in a TV story that a Time Lord had been seen to change gender due to regeneration.
|[[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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[[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 has had the [[Tremas]] layer peeled away. On yet another occasion, in ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'', he played a post-TV movie Master, who switched bodies yet again using the [[Deathworm]], having become trapped in 1900 and spending the next few decades 'body-jumping' along a family line to survive.
[[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.
[[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 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.


[[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.
[[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.


[[James Dreyfus]] portrays the Master in ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'', the first installment of ''[[The First Doctor Adventures (audio series)|The First Doctor Adventures]]''. As well as Dreyfus, the Master, through use of a [[voice filter]], temporarily assumes the voice of the [[First Doctor]] ([[David Bradley]]).
[[Milo Parker]] played the Master during his time at the Academy in ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]''.


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 Ainley incarnation of the Master in the original script, he was not identified as the Master in the audio version.
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.


=== Anagrams ===
===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.
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 (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]''. 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 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, [[Russell T Davies]] has claimed that this anagram was unintentional.
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.


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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.

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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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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]]

Main article: Alternate timeline (Masterful)

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)

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

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)

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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 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.

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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 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

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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.

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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]

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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.

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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.

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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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  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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