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{{Infobox Individual
{{Infobox Individual
|name       = The Master
|image       = Masterpic8.jpg
|image      = Saxon_master_grin.jpg
|species     = Time Lord
|alias      = Harold "Harry" Saxon
|origin       = [[Gallifrey]]
|species     = Gallifreyan
|first        = Utopia (TV story)
|origin     = [[Gallifrey]]<br />[[Earth]] (adopted)
|appearances  = [[The Master - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
|appearances = [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'' (cameo)/''[[The Sound of Drums]]''/''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''<br />[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story of Martha]]'' (cameo)<br />[[PROSE]]: ''[[Speech Day]]''<br />[[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''
|actor       = John Simm
|actor       = John Simm
|main alias=Harold Saxon|name=The "Saxon" Master}}
}}
Using the alias '''Harold Saxon''', [[the Master]] passed himself off as a [[human]], engineered his election as [[British]] [[Prime Minister]] in [[2008]] and then sought to use the [[Earth]] to create a new [[Gallifrey]]. He later used the [[Immortality Gate]] to create the [[Master Race]] and attempted to free Gallifrey from the [[time-lock]].


== Biography ==
To be added.  
=== Regeneration ===
Recently liberated from the [[human]] form of [[Yana|Professor Yana]], [[the Master (Yana)|the Master]] fatally wounded his assistant, [[Chantho]], who in her final moments shot him. The wounded Master got into [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. He decided that since the [[Tenth Doctor]] had a youthful new body, he should too, and [[Regeneration|regenerated]]. He left the Doctor on the [[planet]] [[Malcassairo]] with [[Futurekind]] about to burst in the laboratory door. The Master now had the TARDIS and [[the Doctor's hand]] (which [[Jack Harkness]] had taken with him to Malcassairo) that contained the Doctor's DNA. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') He went to [[Earth]] in the [[2000s]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')


=== Arriving on Earth ===
==Biography==
''The Master arrived a few months after the events of [[The Christmas Invasion]]; when speaking to the world about the Toclafane in "[[The Sound of Drums]]", the Master spoke of [[Aliens of London|the destruction of Big Ben]]. He had very much established himself on Earth by the time of the events of "[[Love & Monsters]]". ''
===A day to come===
To be added.


He set about fabricating Harold Saxon's past to gain political support. He made his first public appearance about eighteen months before the Doctor met his [[companion]] [[Martha Jones]], shortly after the downfall of [[Harriet Jones]]. The Master unveiled the [[Archangel Network]], which was hailed as a telecommunications breakthrough. By this point he had taken the identity of Harold Saxon, complete with a fabricated past. The Master also presumably observed the Doctor when he was arriving on Earth at various times during the next year until the Doctor arrived in Cardiff to refuel and make his way to the end of the universe.([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
===Young and strong===
The newly-regenerated Master left the Doctor, Martha and Jack on the [[planet]] [[Malcassairo]] with the [[Futurekind]] about to burst in the laboratory door, taking the TARDIS and the Doctor's DNA template via [[the Doctor's hand]], which Jack had taken with him to Malcassairo. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') Because of the Doctor's last-minute intervention, the TARDIS would only take the Master to [[Earth]] in the [[2000s]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') with his first stop being to the [[Scoundrels Club]] to recover from the regeneration process. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')


=== Life on Earth ===
=== Life on Earth ===
Harold Saxon released his autobiography, ''Kiss Me, Kill Me'', a year before his first meeting with the Doctor. While writing the book, Saxon met the Honourable [[Lucy Saxon|Lucy Cole]]<!--see her page for a note on her style-->, who was working in publishing; they were married in 2007. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
The Master took on the alias "Harold Saxon" and set about fabricating "Saxon's" past to gain political support, making his first public appearance shortly after the downfall of [[Harriet Jones]] on [[Christmas Day]] [[2006]]. "Harold Saxon" released his autobiography, ''[[Kiss Me, Kill Me]]'', and, while writing the book, met the Honourable [[Lucy Saxon|Lucy Cole]], who was working in publishing; they were married in [[2007]]. He also cannibalised and converted the Doctor's TARDIS into a [[paradox machine]] to change history, and took Lucy to see the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')


=== Political Career ===
Travelling back to the [[end of the universe]], the Master contacted the [[Toclafane]], the childlike, vicious [[cyborg]] remnants of the [[human]]s who had never found [[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]]. He made an agreement to allow the Toclafane to escape extinction and live anew in the past, with the paradox machine preventing them from changing their own history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
By December [[2007]], he had become [[Ministry of Defence|Minister of Defence]] of Great Britain. On Christmas Eve, he came to real prominence for the first time, ordering [[British Army]] tanks to destroy the [[Empress of the Racnoss]]'s [[webstar]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]], [[The Sound of Drums]]'')


In 2007, he campaigned for the general election as [[Prime Minister]] of [[Great Britain]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'') with the slogan "Vote Saxon". ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'') He visited his old high school during the campaign, and as Harold Saxon did not exist, he used the [[Archangel Network]] to brainwash staff to gain political support. One teacher, [[James Curtis]], was resistant to the Network, so the Master used his [[laser screwdriver]] to implant the appropriate memories into his mind. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Speech Day]]'')
Under the guise of "Harold Saxon", the Master entered the government as [[Minister for Communications]], an office under which he designed the [[Archangel Network]] which was hailed as a telecommunications breakthrough. This telecommunications network, tied to mobile phones, carried a mind control signal which made humans trust him. The network affected the Doctor so he had no suspicions as to the Master's presence as "Harold Saxon", as he would have normally noticed the presence of another Time Lord. To those few humans conscious of it, the signal was a persistent drumbeat, the constant drumbeat the Master always heard, that only they could hear.


"Saxon" asserted that [[alien|extraterrestrial life]] did exist and Britain must do something about it. This made him popular in early [[2008]], after the [[Judoon]] had taken the [[Royal Hope Hospital]] to [[the Moon]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')
By [[2007]], "Saxon" had become [[Minister of Defence]] of Great Britain, and had been a driving force in designing the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'', [[UNIT]]'s air carrier. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') He went on to campaign for the general election as [[Prime Minister]] of [[Great Britain]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters (TV story)|Love & Monsters]]'') with the slogan "Vote Saxon". ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'') On [[Christmas Eve]], he gave orders for [[British Army]] [[tank]]s to destroy the [[Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride)|Empress of the Racnoss]]'s [[webstar]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'') an action which outgoing Prime Minister [[Harriet Jones]] publicly praised. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Judge, Jury and Executioner (short story)|Judge, Jury and Executioner]]'')


With his election a sure thing, politicians from other parties flocked to his side. Harold Saxon was elected prime minister in May [[2008]], and visited the royal palace soon after. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
The Master visited "Saxon's" old high school during the campaign, using the [[Archangel Network]] to brainwash the staff into having false memories of "Saxon" to gain political support. One teacher, [[James Curtis]], was resistant to the Network, so the Master used his [[laser screwdriver]] to implant the appropriate memories into his mind. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Speech Day (short story)|Speech Day]]'')


=== Technological Innovations ===
"Saxon" asserted that [[alien|extraterrestrial life]] did exist and Britain had to do something about it. This made him popular in early [[2008]], after the [[Judoon]] had taken the [[Royal Hope Hospital]] to [[the Moon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'') On the [[4 June|same day]], he was asked to appear on ''[[Big Celebrity Dance Mania]]'', but he declined. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'')
[[File:SaxonSmile.jpg|thumb|left|The Master (as Harold Saxon) as Prime Minister. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
The Master started the [[Archangel Network]]. This telecommunications network, tied to mobile phones, carried a [[mind control]] signal which made [[human]]s trust him. The network affected the Doctor so he had no suspicions as to the Master's presence as "Saxon", though he would have normally noticed the presence of another Time Lord. To those few humans conscious of it, the signal was a persistent drumbeat, the constant drumbeat the Master always heard, that only they could hear.


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


=== Other Activities ===
Before the Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack arrived back from the end of the universe, the Master had sent [[Torchwood Three]] on a wild-goose chase to the [[Himalayas]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and, along with all other incarnations of the Master, was kidnapped by the [[Sild]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
[[File:10k.jpg|thumb|The Master with the [[Toclafane]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
The Master contacted the [[Toclafane]], the child-like, vicious [[cyborg]] remnants of the future [[human]]s who had never found [[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') He cannibalised and converted the Doctor's TARDIS into a [[paradox machine]] to change history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' / ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'') At some point he also took a devoted human wife, [[Lucy Saxon|Lucy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') After Martha had left with the [[Tenth Doctor]], he had [[Dexter|an agent]] meet with Martha's mother, [[Francine Jones|Francine]], who tapped into a conversation between Francine and Martha via the [[superphone]], which could contact Martha through space and time. ([[TV]]: ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'')


=== As Prime Minister ===
==== Prime Minister Saxon ====
In 2008, he was elected Prime Minister. He gassed to death his cabinet in the recently rebuilt [[10 Downing Street]], telling the public they had gone into seclusion, and soon afterward announced first contact with the "friendly" Toclafane who could protect Earth against alien threats. He sent [[Torchwood 3]] on a futile trip to the [[Himalayas]] and branded the Doctor, Jack and Martha as criminals.
[[File:SimmAndToclafane.jpg|thumb|The Master with the [[Toclafane]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
With his election a sure thing, [[politician]]s from other parties flocked to his side. Harold Saxon was elected [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] in [[May]] [[2008]], and visited [[Buckingham Palace]] soon after to give a victory speech.


The Master moved to the ''Valiant'', which the governments of Earth considered neutral territory and therefore fitting for formal [[first contact]] with alien life. The Master had the Toclafane murder the [[American]] President [[Arthur Coleman Winters]]. He captured the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Jack Harkness]], who had come to the ''Valiant'' earlier that day and had Francine Jones, Martha's sister [[Tish Jones|Tish]] and her father [[Clive Jones|Clive]] arrested and taken to the ''Valiant''; Martha's brother [[Leo Jones|Leo]] had received a warning from her and gotten away in time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
He gathered his Cabinet for a meeting in the re-built [[10 Downing Street]] and accused them of being traitors for abandoning their political parties to jump on his political ticket. He rigged the desk phone speakers on the Cabinet Room table to release a lethal gas that killed the Cabinet ministers while using a gas mask to protect himself and mock his victims. He later unleashed the [[Toclafane]] on ''[[Sunday Mirror]]'' reporter [[Vivien Rook]], who threatened to expose his fabricated past to the public.


=== During [[The Year That Never Was]] ===
"Saxon" told the public that the Cabinet had gone into seclusion, and soon afterwards announced first contact with the "friendly" [[Toclafane]] who could protect Earth against alien threats. The Master then had Francine, [[Tish Jones|Tish]] and [[Clive Jones]] arrested and taken to the ''Valiant''; [[Leo Jones]], however, had received a warning from Martha and gotten away in time. During a telephone conversation with the Doctor, the Master had the Doctor, Martha and Jack framed as terrorists responsible for the Cabinet's murder and forced them into hiding. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
[[File:14k.jpg|thumb|left|The Master holding his [[Laser Screwdriver]] as he prepares to age the Doctor again. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')]]
The Master used his laser screwdriver to kill Jack and age the Doctor nine hundred years. Martha escaped. The Master ordered the Toclafane to kill one tenth of humanity and commence [[Toclafane invasion|their invasion]]. One year later, in [[2009]], the Master had converted Earth into a slave camp which he ruled from the ''Valiant''. Here he kept Martha's family, the Doctor and Jack imprisoned. The Master planned to expand his [[Time Lord Empire|New Time Lord Empire]] into space. He built an army of warships to take his war across the universe.


Martha used the legend of the Doctor, which she had spread, and the thoughts of Earth thinking "Doctor" at the same time. Their [[psychic energy]] was channelled through the Archangel Network, which the Doctor had spent a year infiltrating [[telepathy|telepathically]]. The psychic energy restored the Doctor and gave him [[telekinetic]] powers.
=== The Year That Never Was ===
{{Section stub|Information from ''[[The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy (short story)|The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy]]'' needs to be added}}
The Master moved to the ''Valiant'', which the governments of Earth considered neutral territory and therefore fitting for formal first contact with alien life. The Master had the Toclafane murder the [[President of the United States|American President]] [[Arthur Winters]] and captured the Doctor, Martha and Jack, who had come to the ''Valiant'' earlier that day — the Master had seen past the perception filter and knew he and the others were there all along. Using the results from Professor Lazarus's experiment, along with the DNA in the Doctor's hand, the Master used his laser screwdriver to age the Doctor into an old man, and then ordered the Toclafane to kill one tenth of humanity and commence [[Toclafane invasion|their invasion]] as Martha escaped. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')


[[File:Ring.png|thumb|The Master's Ring in his pyre ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'').]]
While ruling the world for a year, the Master discovered that the [[Drast]] had secretly invaded before he arrived. Furious, he ordered the Toclafane to burn Japan, where the Drast were situated. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story of Martha (short story)|The Story of Martha]]'') By [[2009]], the Master had converted Earth into a slave camp which he ruled from the ''Valiant''. The Master aged the Doctor even further and planned to expand his [[New Time Lord Empire]] into space. He built an army of warships to take his war across the universe.
Jack destroyed the Paradox Machine and reversed time one year, although this did not affect anyone aboard the ''Valiant''. Lucy shot the Master. Defeated, he refused to [[regenerate]] rather than receive the Doctor's mercy. He died in the Doctor's arms. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')


=== Aftermath ===
Martha used the legend of the Doctor, which she had spread, and the thoughts of Earth thinking "Doctor" at the same time. Their [[psychic energy]] was channelled through the Archangel Network, which the Doctor had spent the year infiltrating [[telepathy|telepathically]]. The psychic energy restored the Doctor and gave him [[telekinetic]] powers, with which he removed the Master's laser screwdriver from his hand. After cowering from the Doctor's forgiveness, the Master used [[Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator|Jack's vortex manipulator]] to teleport him and the Doctor to Earth, where he threatened to use the [[black hole converter]] to detonate the rockets, but was foiled by the Doctor's knowledge that the Master could not kill himself. The two then teleported back to the ''Valiant'' just as Jack destroyed the paradox machine.
:''It is not known if the general public, or indeed the UK government or UN, were ever made aware of Saxon's true identity.''


As far as the general knew, Harold Saxon simply disappeared along with President Winters. (''[[The Torchwood Archives]]'')
Time reversed to the moment of the paradox machine's activation, just after the US President was killed and just before the Toclafane arrived. Although this did not affect anyone aboard the ''Valiant'' due to being at "the eye of the storm," nobody else would know of the Master's reign of terror in "[[The Year That Never Was|the year that never was]]". The Master then tried to escape but ended up running straight into Jack, who handcuffed him. The Doctor announced that, since the Master was a Time Lord, he was the Doctor's responsibility and would be imprisoned on board the TARDIS. However, the Master was shot by Lucy and refused to [[regenerate]], dying in the Doctor's arms. The Doctor cremated the Master's body on a pyre, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') but, long after he had left, [[Trefusis|Miss Trefusis]], one of the warders of [[Broadfell Prison]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') retrieved [[the Master's ring]] from his funeral pyre. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')


=== Resurrection ===
As far as the general public were aware, Harold Saxon "went mad" and disappeared, along with President Winters. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') Among all ex-Prime Ministers, Saxon was on file by [[UNIT]], who noted him as one of the Master's incarnations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') By the year [[2119]], Saxon was well-remembered enough that [[Alice O'Donnell]] referred to [[1980]] as "pre-Harold Saxon". ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'')
[[File:24.jpg|thumb|The Master during his resurrection ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
The Master was resurrected when his wife Lucy Saxon was imprisoned at [[Broadfell Prison]], London. One of the warders, [[Trefusis|Miss Trefusis]], was the woman who retrieved [[the Master's ring]] from his funeral pyre. On Christmas Eve night, the prison governor brought Lucy to a chamber where most of the staff were members of the [[Disciples of Saxon]], who had been working ever since his apparent death to bring about his resurrection.


With the help of the ring and a biometric imprint taken from Lucy, the Master reappeared in a swirl of energy, but Lucy and one other warder had prepared for this. To stop his resurrection, Lucy hurled a Potion of Death at the Master. His followers and Lucy were all killed in the resulting explosion
=== Rassilon's Final Solution ===
[[File:The Master Unstable Body.jpg|left|thumb|The Master's damaged body flickers between flesh and raw bones. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
On Christmas Eve [[2009]], the [[Disciples of Saxon]], led by the [[Governor (The End of Time)|governor]] of [[Broadfell Prison]], resurrected the Master using his ring and a biometric imprint taken from Lucy. However, Lucy had been prepared for this and hurled a [[Potion of Death]] at him, causing an explosion that killed herself, her accomplice and the disciples whilst the Master's [[life force]] was left in a state of constant depletion. In a state fluctuating between fleshy and skeletal, he was forced to consume huge quantities of food and drain the vitality of humans to survive, also gaining enhanced agility and the power to send bolts of energy from his hands.


=== [[The Master Race]] ===
When the Doctor found the Master, the pair discovered that the drumming in the Master's head was real and not just a symptom of insanity. The Doctor also told him of the [[prophecy]] told to him by the [[Ood]], but the Master quickly dismissed it, assuming that it was referring to him. Billionaire [[Joshua Naismith]] then captured the Master and enlisted his assistance to mend the malfunctioning [[Immortality Gate]]. The Master co-operated for his own purposes and used the Gate to transform every human on Earth, except Wilf and [[Donna Noble]], into the [[Master Race]] — identical copies of the Master subservient to him.
The Master survived the blast, but his life force was left in a state of constant depletion. His once brown hair was now bleached blond, he was unshaven and unkempt, and his physiological deterioration was evidenced by his skeletal system occasionally flashing out from behind the flesh. He consumed huge quantities of food and drained the vitality of humans to stay alive. As a side effect of the failed resurrection, he could expend his life force for enhanced agility and fire energy bolts from his hands. His earlier refined, witty and charming persona was replaced by feral mood swings. He led the Doctor on a wild goose chase after banging the beat of the drums in his mind to lure the Doctor to him and escaped when [[Wilfred Mott]] arrived in search of the Doctor. Encountering the Master soon after, the Tenth Doctor discovered the drumming in his head was not a symptom of insanity, but real, something that shocked him and made the Master howl with joy.[[File:masterrace.jpg|thumb|left|The Master Race makes a meeting.([[TV]]:
''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End Of Time]]) ]]
 
Billionaire [[Joshua Naismith|Mr Naismith]] kidnapped the Master and enlisted his assistance to mend the [[Immortality Gate]], a malfunctioning alien medical device. Unknown to his kidnapper, the Master programmed the Gate to work a billion fold on the human template; he easily got free of a straitjacket and flew into the gateway. The gate sent out an energy pulse, turning every human on Earth, except Wilfred and his granddaughter [[Donna Noble]], into the Master Race - identical, subservient, copies of himself. The Master now had all the resources and troops he needed for an army to conquer the universe.


However, while gloating about his success, he was interrupted by Wilf's cell phone, meaning someone else had not changed. Upon answering the phone, the Master asked Wilf why Donna didn't change. After Wilf explained the meta-crisis situation, the Master alerted everyone on Wessex lane and sent them in to kill her. When the phone fell silent, the Master knew something had gone wrong. The Doctor had left Donna with a defence mechanism that prevented her from remembering him which released a shockwave that knocked them out. When the Master prepared to kill Wilf in defiance, the Doctor suggested that he was clearly missing something blatantly obvious. That something being the fact that his guard was one inch too tall. It was the Vinvocci [[Rossiter]] who had come with his partner, [[Addams]], to salvage the gate. The two rescued Wilf and the Doctor and teleported them to their ship. The Doctor then cut the link so that the Master could not follow them.
After the Doctor and Wilf were rescued by two [[Vinvocci]], the Master used the combined mental powers of the Master Race and a [[White-Point Star]] that had fallen on Earth to trace the origin of the drumbeat in his head. Receiving contact from the [[Time Lord]] [[High Council]] on the last day of the Time War, the Master tore open the [[time lock]] on the war, bringing back the Time Lords into whom he intended to transplant himself. However, Rassilon used [[Rassilon's gauntlet|his gauntlet]] to restore the human race and prepared to execute him before the Doctor got in the way with a [[pistol]], eventually shooting the White-Point Star. As the Time Lords returned to the Time War, the Master attacked him, angered by the revelation that the Time Lords had caused the drumbeat, and disappeared with them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')


==== The Last Act of the Time War ====
While [[the Moment]] foresaw the battle as ending with the Master and Rassilon both regenerating, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pandoric's Box (short story)|Pandoric's Box]]'') the Master was able to survive his encounter with Rassilon, though Rassilon still regenerated after the Master choked him with several White-Point Stars. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'') After his "condition" was cured by the Time Lords, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') the Master escaped [[Gomer's Asylum]], blowing up the [[War Room]] in the process, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'') and left Gallifrey in [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]], seeing his departure as "a mutual kicking [him] out". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
Deciding to use the now multiple minds hearing the drumming, the Master located the source of the signal; it was coming from the sky. A meteor fell down and one of his clones revealed it was a [[White-Point Star]], found only on Gallifrey. Sending an open radio transmission, the Master told the Doctor about the diamond, unintentionally leading him to prepare to kill the Time Lords; they could leave the [[Time-lock]] of the [[Time War]] if he used the diamond to boost the signal in his head. Fitting the diamond to a nuclear bolt to boost the signal, the Master tore open the [[time lock]] on the war, bringing back the Time Lords.


As the Lord President [[Rassilon]] and his council arrived through the Immortality Gate, the Doctor crashed through the skylight of the Naismith mansion, a surprise to the Master. Before the Doctor could explain what he was plotting, the Master announced he intended to transplant himself into the entire Time Lord race, just as he had done to the human race. Rassilon, using his gauntlet, reversed the effects of the Master's transplantation on the humans, and watched as Gallifrey returned to the universe on a collision course with Earth. The Master was left to wonder if he should bask in the glory of being responsible or beg for Rassilon's mercy.
=== After leaving Gallifrey ===
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The President revealed his plans from the [[Ultimate Sanction|final days of the Time War]], but the Doctor stepped in with Wilf's pistol. He could kill Rassilon or the Master, and sever the link. As the Master mocked him, calling him a coward, and Rassilon taunted him that the last act of his life would be murder, the Doctor saw a [[The Woman|familiar Time Lady]] among Rassilon's entourage. He turned to face the Master and told him to step out of the way. Understanding that there was a third way to sever the link, the Master jumped to the side as the Doctor [[File:Masterarc.jpg|thumb|The Master getting revenge on Rassilon for putting the drum beat in his head that lead to his insanity (''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]shot the nuclear bolt holding the White-Point Star, destroying the link.
Still possessing blond hair and stubble, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen (comic story)|The Abominable Showmen]]'') the Master decided to take control of the production of the drug sold by a dealer called "[[the Breeder]]". On the planet where the drug was produced, he came across a young woman, [[Tala (The Night Harvest)‏‎|Tala]], who gave him a transmitter so he could see the nearby village. The next evening, he revealed to her how the Elders of her tribe made a deal with a mysterious "Breeder" to enhance the drug by having the plants feed directly on some of the strongest members of the tribe. The Master then proceeded to kill the Elders and took control of the production, keeping Tala as his partner. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Night Harvest (short story)|The Night Harvest]]'')  


Rassilon prepared to kill the Doctor, but the Master told the Doctor to step out of the way. He unleashed his bio-electric blasts at the Lord President to get revenge, roaring that the Time Lords had made him the monster he had become, counting the beat of the rhythm that had resounded in his head and tormented him all his life. The Time Lords and the Master vanished from the Gate in a burst of white light as Gallifrey and the Time Lords were sent back to the eternal hell of the Time War to die there. It is unknown if the Master's attack on Rassilon used up all his remaining life force and thus caused him to perish, or if he was pulled into the Time War along with the other Time Lords. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
The "Saxon" Master was greeted by a {{Gomez|n=female incarnation of himself known as "Missy,"}} who had developed a plan to form a band to hypnotise viewers of ''[[Battle of the Bands Beyond the Stars]]''. {{Pratt|n=His decaying thirteenth incarnation}}, {{Ainley|n=the incarnation possessing the body of Tremas}} and {{Roberts|n=the incarnation possessing the body of "Bruce"}} all joined in the plan, and the team spent "decades" practising. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'') Much to his appreciation, he was allowed to play the [[drum]]s. After unveiling their presence to the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen (comic story)|The Abominable Showmen]]'') the Masters prepared for their performance. However, the "Tremas" Master began to fight with Missy over the control of [[Missy's device|her device]], believing that he alone could hold the universe in his grasp. The other Masters soon joined in the fight for power as well, while the "Saxon" Master joined seemingly for the fun of it. The five were quickly disqualified, seemingly destroying them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'')


== Personality ==
==== The Mondasian colony ship ====
This incarnation of the Master was charming, charismatic, manipulative and sadistic. He had a childish demeanour and an eccentric sense of humour, traits he shared with the Tenth Doctor. He was extremely vain and self-centred; the Doctor noted that if he destroyed the Earth, he'd destroy himself, and that was something he would never do. His vanity was so vast that when the Doctor confronted him with the simple words "I forgive you," the Master collapsed, taking the Doctor's forgiveness as a massive blow to his pride. Just before his apparent death, the Master refused to regenerate because he did not want to spend the rest of his life trapped in the TARDIS with the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
[[File:The Doctor Falls Any Requests Master.jpg|thumb|The Master with his future incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')]]
Eventually, the Master landed on a [[Mondasian]] [[colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]] which was experiencing time dilation due to pulling itself away from a [[black hole]], and took over the city on [[Floor 1056]], where he "lived like a king until [the people] rebelled against [his] cruelty". Attempting to escape, but being "too close to the event horizon", the Master burned out his TARDIS's [[dematerialisation circuit]], stranding him on the colony ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') Disguising himself as "Razor", the Master oversaw the "[[genesis of the Cybermen]]" via [[Operation Exodus]].


After his resurrection was sabotaged by Lucy Saxon, his madness grew dramatically. His earlier urban sophistication was replaced by a feral mania and blood lust. He was sometimes quite contemplative, reflecting on his childhood days, and wondering about the kind of person he would have been without the drumming in his head, musing that his childhood was one of duty, and how he was taken to the Untempered Schism in the dark. Nevertheless, he retained a touch of his old vanity, transforming everyone on the planet into identical copies of himself after taking control of the Immortality Gate and renaming them "The Master Race". He also showed insolence towards authority, specifically when speaking to Rassilon, thinking that the Lord President of Gallifrey would look much better as the Master and he wanted to turn all the Time Lords into identical copies of himself just like he had to the human race. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
While working for [[Hospital (World Enough and Time)|a hospital]] hosting the [[Conversion Theatre]], the Master found [[Bill Potts]], who had been given a cybernetic chestpiece after being shot on [[Floor 0000]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') The two of them spent ten years on the lower decks, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') where the Master learned that the [[Twelfth Doctor]] was at the front of the ship. Studying the woman travelling with the Doctor, {{Gomez}}, the Master eventually deduced that she was a future incarnation of himself trying to turn [[good]]. Becoming "concerned about [his] future", the Master lured Bill into surgery for full [[cyber-conversion]], knowing that the Doctor would never forgive him for it. Watching as the Doctor, [[Nardole]], and Missy arrived, the Master revealed his identity to Missy, and the two of them gloated to the Doctor about the fate of his companion. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')


This incarnation also showed a softer and more vulnerable side to the Master, proving that he wasn't completely evil, but scared and alone. He pleaded with the Doctor to hear the drumming in his head and was devastated when the Doctor said he couldn't. He also clearly respected the Doctor and remembered the friendship they had shared in their childhood. The Master eventually sacrificed himself to save the Doctor from Rassilon. However it is uncertain whether his sacrifice was an act of redemption or an act of vengeance. Considering the fact that the Master raged at Rassilon for driving him mad, yet also warned the Doctor to stand aside so that he wouldn't be hit by the blasts, it is likely that he had genuinely wanted to save the Doctor whilst simultaniously getting revenge on Rassilon. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
Restraining the Doctor before taking him to the hospital roof, the Master flirted and danced with Missy until the Cybermen turned on them due to the Doctor expanding the Cybermen's definition of humanity to register lifeforms with two hearts as human. Just as [[Nardole]] arrived with [[SL-16|a stolen shuttlecraft]], the Doctor was attacked by one of the Cybermen. The Master and Missy attempted to convince Nardole to leave without him, but their shuttle was stopped by the cyber-converted Bill, who still retained her humanity. Crashing through 549 floors of the colony ship, the shuttlecraft gave out at one of the solar farms. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
[[File:Masterpic.jpg|thumb|The Master's signature laugh ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
==Skills and abilities==
Like all Time Lords, the Master could regenerate although he refused to do so after being shot by Lucy Saxon because he didn't want to remain in the Doctor's TARDIS for the rest of his life. He was also able to use telepathy to force the Doctor to hear the drumming inside his head making the Doctor finally realise that the drumming was real.([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]], [[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]], [[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')


The Master was also very intelligent, despite his insanity, turning the TARDIS into a [[Paradox machine]], creating a [[Laser Screwdriver]] and fixing the [[Immortality Gate]]. He also had enough foresight to prepare his servants for the possibility that he might die and not regenerate, allowing him to return to life without regeneration and in the same incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]], [[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]], [[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
That [[night]], while the Doctor recovered from their escape, the Master, accompanied by Missy, ventured to [[Floor 0508]] to revert the Doctor's edits to the Cybermen back on Floor 1056 and regain control of the Cybermen, though they were followed by [[Alit]] and a [[Patient (World Enough and Time)|patient]] that Missy named "[[Topknot]]". However, after an encounter with a patrol of [[CyberNeomorph]]s, the Master abandoned his plans in favour of being rescued by Missy and Alit before destroying the Cyberman patrol, eager to return to Floor 0507 before any other Cybermen arrived. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')


After his resurrection, the Master's body was constantly losing life force since his body had been "born out of death". Whenever his head glowed and turned into a blue skull it meant he was losing life force. However he had the ability to channel his life force in order to jump unbelievably high. He could also fire powerful blasts of electricity from his hands which he used to attack [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Rassilon]], although he seemed to use up his remaining life force during his vengeful attack on Rassilon.([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
After two weeks of searching, the Master and Missy found disguised lifts, but Missy accidentally summoned the Cybermen in her attempt to escape. Unable to return to the Doctor's TARDIS due to how quickly time was moving on the floor of the Cybermen, the Doctor insisted that they had to prepare for a confrontation.


== Behind the scenes ==
As the Doctor prepared to fight, the Master explained to Missy how he had blown the dematerialisation circuit in his TARDIS, which was surrounded by Cybermen on the bottom floor. Missy, recalling an instance where a very scary woman had pushed him up against a wall and insisted that he always keep a spare dematerialisation circuit, pushed the Master against the wall and insisted that he always keep a spare dematerialisation circuit, revealing the spare dematerialisation circuit she kept on her person. Before departing, however, the pair asked what the Doctor's plan was, knowing that he wouldn't be able to save everyone on the ship. As the Doctor explained that he wanted to save these people simply because it was the right thing to do and tried to implore the Master to stand with him in the battle, the Master made his refusal of the offer known, and he left with Missy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
* The first, very minor, reference to Harold Saxon occurs in ''[[Love & Monsters]]'' when the [[Abzorbaloff]] reads a paper which mentions a Saxon election victory on its cover. The second (and first direct) reference happened in a dialogue reference at the end of ''[[The Runaway Bride]]''. Saxon also crossed over into the ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' spinoff with "Vote Saxon" posters visible in ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]''.
* 'Mister Saxon' is an anagram for 'Master No. Six'.
* The Master disappeared after he took revenge on Rassilon, and fans have disputed over what happened to him. Some claim that he vanished back into the Time War with the Time Lords, while others believe that he used up the last of his life energy attacking Rassilon and perished.
* The [[BBC]] created an official in-[[Whoniverse|universe]] campaign website for the election as well. In [[2007]], a popular online meme among ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fans made popular the "Vote Saxon!" slogan.
* [[John Simm]] stated that after [[David Tennant]] (Tenth Doctor) left the series his association with the programme would end. However in a recent One Show interview he said he would love to return as the Master, and recent comments from [[Steven Moffat]] suggest he could return in a future series. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a314843/doctor-who-exec-john-simm-could-return.html


== External links ==
=== Death ===
* [http://www.haroldsaxon.co.uk/ Harold Saxon official website]
As they prepared to depart, Missy offered to hug the Master and, after stating her enjoyment for being him, she stabbed the Master in the back, mortally wounding him in order to force his [[regeneration]] into her. However, Missy made the wound precise so that the Master would have time to reach his TARDIS before the regeneration occurred. As he was helped into the lift, the Master asked Missy to explain herself, and she told him she planned to stand with the Doctor, believing they had been leading towards it their entire lives. Furious, the Master declared that he would never stand with the Doctor, and shot Missy in the back with his [[laser screwdriver]] at full blast, mortally wounding his future incarnation in a way he claimed had put her past the point of regeneration. Laughing, the Master declared that their perfect ending was always going to be "shoot[ing] [them]selves in the back." Still laughing and in pain, the Master returned to Floor 1056 in the lift, leaving Missy to allegedly die alone. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') In an aborted timeline, the Master attempted to avoid his regeneration into Missy by healing himself, first with the energies of [[Kiameth]], releasing a sentient [[entropy wave]] on the universe in the process, and then by feeding on his own past incarnations who he time-scooped to the ruins of Kiameth, coming into conflict with Missy. These events were undone when the "War" Master created a paradox by poisoning all their past selves including himself and letting the wave consume Missy, having deduced the wave was actually the Master's own future form. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'')


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== Psychological profile==
In contrast to his previous incarnation, this incarnation of the 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 incarnation of the Master was aware that his theatrical plotting could be his undoing, but found amusement in the irony rather than bitterness. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
He thought very highly of his hypnotic skills, finding it amusing when he made two guards believe he was Major Kreer. He looked down at humanity, treating them like children, 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]]'') 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]]'')
The "Tzun" Master was just as adept at winding the Doctor up as his predecessor was, claiming that the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s pacifism was pure hypocrisy, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') and taking delight in his apparent inability to protect his friends from [[Bloom (Happy Endings)|Bloom]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') However, he did hold the Doctor in some regard, believing the Tzun incapable of overpowering him on their own, and insisting he was a threat to be eliminated, though he felt bittersweet about it, admitting to himself that the Doctor was an inspiring adversary, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') though reacted with horror when four variants of the Seventh Doctor confronted him at once. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
Nonetheless, the Master pointed out that the Doctor preferred to kill and destroy from a distance, such as with the [[Sea Devil]]s. To prove this point, the Master handed the Doctor a blaster and baited him to shoot him at close range, which the Doctor refused to do. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')
==Appearance ==
The Master had a high forehead, neat and glossy Van Dyke beard, an aristocratic nose, and a lean face. His voice came across as rich and cultured. ([[PROSE]]: [[First Frontier (novel)|''First Frontier'']])
By the time of his trial, the Master's appearance had turned saturnine. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') His eyes were reptilian in appearance and, as a result of the deathworm morphant, seemed to glow in speckles of gold and blue; as if lit by some kind of fire behind them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'')
===Clothing===
He wore a dark Italian-designed suit, a silk shirt, and a cravat with a silver bird-of-prey tiepin. ([[PROSE]]: [[Housewarming (short story)|''Housewarming'']]) When put on trial by the Daleks, the Master wore a high collared black tunic with crimson lining. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
==Behind the scenes ==
[[File:Gordon Tipple Dressed as the Master.jpg|thumb|Gordon Tipple in costume.]]
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Biography

A day to come

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Young and strong

The newly-regenerated Master left the Doctor, Martha and Jack on the planet Malcassairo with the Futurekind about to burst in the laboratory door, taking the TARDIS and the Doctor's DNA template via the Doctor's hand, which Jack had taken with him to Malcassairo. (TV: Utopia) Because of the Doctor's last-minute intervention, the TARDIS would only take the Master to Earth in the 2000s, (TV: The Sound of Drums) with his first stop being to the Scoundrels Club to recover from the regeneration process. (PROSE: Dismemberment)

Life on Earth

The Master took on the alias "Harold Saxon" and set about fabricating "Saxon's" past to gain political support, making his first public appearance shortly after the downfall of Harriet Jones on Christmas Day 2006. "Harold Saxon" released his autobiography, Kiss Me, Kill Me, and, while writing the book, met the Honourable Lucy Cole, who was working in publishing; they were married in 2007. He also cannibalised and converted the Doctor's TARDIS into a paradox machine to change history, and took Lucy to see the universe. (TV: The Sound of Drums)

Travelling back to the end of the universe, the Master contacted the Toclafane, the childlike, vicious cyborg remnants of the humans who had never found Utopia. He made an agreement to allow the Toclafane to escape extinction and live anew in the past, with the paradox machine preventing them from changing their own history. (TV: The Sound of Drums, Last of the Time Lords)

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

By 2007, "Saxon" had become Minister of Defence of Great Britain, and had been a driving force in designing the Valiant, UNIT's air carrier. (TV: The Sound of Drums) He went on to campaign for the general election as Prime Minister of Great Britain (TV: Love & Monsters) with the slogan "Vote Saxon". (TV: Captain Jack Harkness) On Christmas Eve, he gave orders for British Army tanks to destroy the Empress of the Racnoss's webstar, (TV: The Runaway Bride) an action which outgoing Prime Minister Harriet Jones publicly praised. (PROSE: Judge, Jury and Executioner)

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

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

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

Before the Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack arrived back from the end of the universe, the Master had sent Torchwood Three on a wild-goose chase to the Himalayas, (TV: The Sound of Drums) and, along with all other incarnations of the Master, was kidnapped by the Sild. (PROSE: Harvest of Time)

Prime Minister Saxon

The Master with the Toclafane. (TV: The Sound of Drums)

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

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

"Saxon" told the public that the Cabinet had gone into seclusion, and soon afterwards announced first contact with the "friendly" Toclafane who could protect Earth against alien threats. The Master then had Francine, Tish and Clive Jones arrested and taken to the Valiant; Leo Jones, however, had received a warning from Martha and gotten away in time. During a telephone conversation with the Doctor, the Master had the Doctor, Martha and Jack framed as terrorists responsible for the Cabinet's murder and forced them into hiding. (TV: The Sound of Drums)

The Year That Never Was

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

While ruling the world for a year, the Master discovered that the Drast had secretly invaded before he arrived. Furious, he ordered the Toclafane to burn Japan, where the Drast were situated. (PROSE: The Story of Martha) By 2009, the Master had converted Earth into a slave camp which he ruled from the Valiant. The Master aged the Doctor even further and planned to expand his New Time Lord Empire into space. He built an army of warships to take his war across the universe.

Martha used the legend of the Doctor, which she had spread, and the thoughts of Earth thinking "Doctor" at the same time. Their psychic energy was channelled through the Archangel Network, which the Doctor had spent the year infiltrating telepathically. The psychic energy restored the Doctor and gave him telekinetic powers, with which he removed the Master's laser screwdriver from his hand. After cowering from the Doctor's forgiveness, the Master used Jack's vortex manipulator to teleport him and the Doctor to Earth, where he threatened to use the black hole converter to detonate the rockets, but was foiled by the Doctor's knowledge that the Master could not kill himself. The two then teleported back to the Valiant just as Jack destroyed the paradox machine.

Time reversed to the moment of the paradox machine's activation, just after the US President was killed and just before the Toclafane arrived. Although this did not affect anyone aboard the Valiant due to being at "the eye of the storm," nobody else would know of the Master's reign of terror in "the year that never was". The Master then tried to escape but ended up running straight into Jack, who handcuffed him. The Doctor announced that, since the Master was a Time Lord, he was the Doctor's responsibility and would be imprisoned on board the TARDIS. However, the Master was shot by Lucy and refused to regenerate, dying in the Doctor's arms. The Doctor cremated the Master's body on a pyre, (TV: Last of the Time Lords) but, long after he had left, Miss Trefusis, one of the warders of Broadfell Prison, (TV: The End of Time) retrieved the Master's ring from his funeral pyre. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)

As far as the general public were aware, Harold Saxon "went mad" and disappeared, along with President Winters. (TV: The End of Time) Among all ex-Prime Ministers, Saxon was on file by UNIT, who noted him as one of the Master's incarnations. (TV: Death in Heaven) By the year 2119, Saxon was well-remembered enough that Alice O'Donnell referred to 1980 as "pre-Harold Saxon". (TV: Before the Flood)

Rassilon's Final Solution

The Master's damaged body flickers between flesh and raw bones. (TV: The End of Time)

On Christmas Eve 2009, the Disciples of Saxon, led by the governor of Broadfell Prison, resurrected the Master using his ring and a biometric imprint taken from Lucy. However, Lucy had been prepared for this and hurled a Potion of Death at him, causing an explosion that killed herself, her accomplice and the disciples whilst the Master's life force was left in a state of constant depletion. In a state fluctuating between fleshy and skeletal, he was forced to consume huge quantities of food and drain the vitality of humans to survive, also gaining enhanced agility and the power to send bolts of energy from his hands.

When the Doctor found the Master, the pair discovered that the drumming in the Master's head was real and not just a symptom of insanity. The Doctor also told him of the prophecy told to him by the Ood, but the Master quickly dismissed it, assuming that it was referring to him. Billionaire Joshua Naismith then captured the Master and enlisted his assistance to mend the malfunctioning Immortality Gate. The Master co-operated for his own purposes and used the Gate to transform every human on Earth, except Wilf and Donna Noble, into the Master Race — identical copies of the Master subservient to him.

After the Doctor and Wilf were rescued by two Vinvocci, the Master used the combined mental powers of the Master Race and a White-Point Star that had fallen on Earth to trace the origin of the drumbeat in his head. Receiving contact from the Time Lord High Council on the last day of the Time War, the Master tore open the time lock on the war, bringing back the Time Lords into whom he intended to transplant himself. However, Rassilon used his gauntlet to restore the human race and prepared to execute him before the Doctor got in the way with a pistol, eventually shooting the White-Point Star. As the Time Lords returned to the Time War, the Master attacked him, angered by the revelation that the Time Lords had caused the drumbeat, and disappeared with them. (TV: The End of Time)

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

After leaving Gallifrey

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Still possessing blond hair and stubble, (COMIC: The Abominable Showmen) the Master decided to take control of the production of the drug sold by a dealer called "the Breeder". On the planet where the drug was produced, he came across a young woman, Tala, who gave him a transmitter so he could see the nearby village. The next evening, he revealed to her how the Elders of her tribe made a deal with a mysterious "Breeder" to enhance the drug by having the plants feed directly on some of the strongest members of the tribe. The Master then proceeded to kill the Elders and took control of the production, keeping Tala as his partner. (PROSE: The Night Harvest)

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

The Mondasian colony ship

The Master with his future incarnation. (TV: The Doctor Falls)

Eventually, the Master landed on a Mondasian colony ship which was experiencing time dilation due to pulling itself away from a black hole, and took over the city on Floor 1056, where he "lived like a king until [the people] rebelled against [his] cruelty". Attempting to escape, but being "too close to the event horizon", the Master burned out his TARDIS's dematerialisation circuit, stranding him on the colony ship. (TV: The Doctor Falls) Disguising himself as "Razor", the Master oversaw the "genesis of the Cybermen" via Operation Exodus.

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

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

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

After two weeks of searching, the Master and Missy found disguised lifts, but Missy accidentally summoned the Cybermen in her attempt to escape. Unable to return to the Doctor's TARDIS due to how quickly time was moving on the floor of the Cybermen, the Doctor insisted that they had to prepare for a confrontation.

As the Doctor prepared to fight, the Master explained to Missy how he had blown the dematerialisation circuit in his TARDIS, which was surrounded by Cybermen on the bottom floor. Missy, recalling an instance where a very scary woman had pushed him up against a wall and insisted that he always keep a spare dematerialisation circuit, pushed the Master against the wall and insisted that he always keep a spare dematerialisation circuit, revealing the spare dematerialisation circuit she kept on her person. Before departing, however, the pair asked what the Doctor's plan was, knowing that he wouldn't be able to save everyone on the ship. As the Doctor explained that he wanted to save these people simply because it was the right thing to do and tried to implore the Master to stand with him in the battle, the Master made his refusal of the offer known, and he left with Missy. (TV: The Doctor Falls)

Death

As they prepared to depart, Missy offered to hug the Master and, after stating her enjoyment for being him, she stabbed the Master in the back, mortally wounding him in order to force his regeneration into her. However, Missy made the wound precise so that the Master would have time to reach his TARDIS before the regeneration occurred. As he was helped into the lift, the Master asked Missy to explain herself, and she told him she planned to stand with the Doctor, believing they had been leading towards it their entire lives. Furious, the Master declared that he would never stand with the Doctor, and shot Missy in the back with his laser screwdriver at full blast, mortally wounding his future incarnation in a way he claimed had put her past the point of regeneration. Laughing, the Master declared that their perfect ending was always going to be "shoot[ing] [them]selves in the back." Still laughing and in pain, the Master returned to Floor 1056 in the lift, leaving Missy to allegedly die alone. (TV: The Doctor Falls) In an aborted timeline, the Master attempted to avoid his regeneration into Missy by healing himself, first with the energies of Kiameth, releasing a sentient entropy wave on the universe in the process, and then by feeding on his own past incarnations who he time-scooped to the ruins of Kiameth, coming into conflict with Missy. These events were undone when the "War" Master created a paradox by poisoning all their past selves including himself and letting the wave consume Missy, having deduced the wave was actually the Master's own future form. (AUDIO: Masterful)


Psychological profile

In contrast to his previous incarnation, this incarnation of the Master was calmer, less emotional and flustered, with a proud bearing and an inscrutable demeanour, (PROSE: First Frontier) though he would resort to a panicked state upon confronting the unexpected. (PROSE: Happy Endings) Highly manipulative, the Master would maintain control of a situation, while making others around him think he was not, (PROSE: First Frontier) though would lose this advantage when he knew he was overpowered, such as when at Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding. (PROSE: Happy Endings)

Unlike his immediate predecessor, this incarnation of the Master was aware that his theatrical plotting could be his undoing, but found amusement in the irony rather than bitterness. (PROSE: Happy Endings)

He thought very highly of his hypnotic skills, finding it amusing when he made two guards believe he was Major Kreer. He looked down at humanity, treating them like children, and believed the concept of regeneration to be beyond them, (PROSE: First Frontier) and showed a disdain for explaining things he did not have interest in. (PROSE: 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) He also enjoyed fencing with Mike Yates and Sarah Jane Smith. (PROSE: Housewarming)

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

The "Tzun" Master was just as adept at winding the Doctor up as his predecessor was, claiming that the Seventh Doctor's pacifism was pure hypocrisy, (PROSE: First Frontier) and taking delight in his apparent inability to protect his friends from Bloom. (PROSE: Happy Endings) However, he did hold the Doctor in some regard, believing the Tzun incapable of overpowering him on their own, and insisting he was a threat to be eliminated, though he felt bittersweet about it, admitting to himself that the Doctor was an inspiring adversary, (PROSE: First Frontier) though reacted with horror when four variants of the Seventh Doctor confronted him at once. (PROSE: Happy Endings)

Nonetheless, the Master pointed out that the Doctor preferred to kill and destroy from a distance, such as with the Sea Devils. To prove this point, the Master handed the Doctor a blaster and baited him to shoot him at close range, which the Doctor refused to do. (PROSE: First Frontier)

Appearance

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

By the time of his trial, the Master's appearance had turned saturnine. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) His eyes were reptilian in appearance and, as a result of the deathworm morphant, seemed to glow in speckles of gold and blue; as if lit by some kind of fire behind them. (TV: Doctor Who, PROSE: The Novel of the Film)

Clothing

He wore a dark Italian-designed suit, a silk shirt, and a cravat with a silver bird-of-prey tiepin. (PROSE: Housewarming) When put on trial by the Daleks, the Master wore a high collared black tunic with crimson lining. (TV: Doctor Who)

Behind the scenes

Gordon Tipple in costume.


  • According to David A. McIntee, the regenerated Master's appearance was based on actor Basil Rathbone's portrayal of the Guy of Gisbourne in in The Adventures of Robin Hood (DWM 222).
  • Tipple's role in the television movie was originally a bit larger, with him delivering the prologue voice-over. It was eventually decided to have Paul McGann do the introduction from the point of view of the Eighth Doctor.
  • Tipple appeared on-screen for only a few moments and retained a billing on the closing credits despite no longer having any lines, as well as his face being obscured in the finished film — leaving it unclear what his version of the Master is meant to look like without consulting promotional stills for the film.
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