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| :''This article is about the renegade Time Lord known as "The Master." For other uses of the term "Master", see [[Master (disambiguation)]].
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| individual name= The Master | | | individual name= The Master | |
| image=[[Image:Six Masters.JPG|250px]] | | | image= | |
| alias= [[Aliases of the Master|Full list of aliases]] | | | alias= | |
| race= [[Gallifreyan]] ([[Time Lord]]) | | | race= [[Time Lord]] | |
| home planet=[[Gallifrey]] | | | home planet=[[Gallifrey]] | |
| home era= [[Rassilon Era]]| | | home era= [[Rassilon Era]]| |
| appearances= [[The Master - List of Appearances|Full List of Appearances]] | | | appearances= [[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death]]'' | |
| actor= <ul><li>[[Roger Delgado]]</li><li>[[Peter Pratt]]</li><li>[[Geoffrey Beevers]] </li><li>[[Anthony Ainley]]</li><li>[[Eric Roberts]]</li><li>[[Derek Jacobi]]</li><li>[[John Simm]]</li></ul>
| | actor= [[Jonathan Pryce]] |}} |
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| {{Quote|I am the Master and you will obey me.|The Master}}
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| '''The Master''', once known as '''Koschei''' and by [[Aliases of the Master|various temporary aliases and pseudonyms]], was a renegade [[Time Lord]], who [[the Doctor]] opposed many times. On at least one occasion, he threatened the existence of the [[universe]] itself. [[Borusa]] called him, "one of the most evil and corrupt beings the Time Lord race ever produced." ([[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]'')
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| ==Biography==
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| ===Early life===
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| ====Childhood====
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| [[Image:Master 8 years old.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Koschei at the age of 8 ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
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| {{Quote|Ever since I was a child... I looked into the Vortex and that's when it chose me. The drumming. The call. To war.|The Master|Last of the Time Lords}}
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| Koschei, later known as the Master, grew up on [[Gallifrey]], in the [[House of Oakdown]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'')
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| The Master's true origins are surrounded in mystery and there are many conflicting theories about it. In his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]], the Doctor related a story which explained the Master's origins. He said that both he and the Master had been mercilessly and viciously bullied as children. The [[First Doctor|young Doctor]] found himself forced to kill the bully in order to save his friend's life. He was later confronted by the personification of [[Death]] who insisted he become her disciple.
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| The Doctor refused and instead suggested Death make the Master her champion instead, to which she agreed. [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] said that ever since he had always felt partly responsible for the carnage the Master would later cause. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
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| :''It's not clear whether this event occurred before or after the event described below.''
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| Like most Gallifreyans taken as Time Lords, the Master would be taken at the age of eight for his training. During the ceremony where he gazed into the [[Time Vortex]] through the [[Untempered Schism]], it is said that the Master went insane. This manifested by the constant drumming he heard ever since the event, which appeared to worsen as time went on. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''/''[[The Sound of Drums]]''/''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
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| ====Youth====
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| At the [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]], Koschei belonged to a clique of young [[Time Lord]]s with the collective name of [[the Deca]]. The Doctor and other future rivals [[The Rani|Ushas]] (later known as the Rani) and [[Magnus]] (later known as the War Chief) also belonged to the Deca. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'')
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| ===Vendetta against the Doctor===
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| ====Origins of the vendetta====
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| After the Doctor fled Gallifrey, Koschei was recruited to pursue and apprehend him. His unstable obsession with order however, prompted the Time Lords to plant the Time Lady [[Ailla]] as a spy to monitor Koschei's actions. Ailla posed as a [[Human]] so that Koschei would take her on as his companion during a stopover in the [[28th century]]. Koschei caught up with [[Second Doctor|the Doctor]] at the [[Darkheart]] colony in the early years of the [[Federation]].
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| The temptation posed by the Darkheart device proved too much for Koschei, and the revelation that Ailla had been a spy killed the last traces of good in him. After the Doctor trapped him in a [[black hole]] Koschei, the Master, swore to take revenge on him. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]'')
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| ====The vendetta continues====
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| [[Image:First Master.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Master during his vendetta against the Doctor.]]
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| {{Quote|Doctor, you're my intellectual equal. Almost. I have too few worthy opponents. When they've gone I always miss them.|The Master.|Terror of the Autons}}
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| The Master then sought to defeat the [[Third Doctor|newly regenerated]] Doctor on [[Earth]] and in doing so came up against him, [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] and the rest of [[UNIT]].
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| :''For details on this period of his life, see [[The Master (UNIT years)|separate article]].''
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| ===Degeneration===
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| [[Image:Second Master.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Master decaying.]]
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| {{Quote|You do not understand hatred as I understand it. Only hate keeps me alive. Why else should I endure this pain?|The Master.|The Deadly Assassin}}
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| [[Susan Foreman]] triggered an explosion when the Master attempted to kidnap her. He exhausted his regenerative cycle recovering from the injuries sustained in the explosion on the [[planet]] [[Tersurus]] ([[EDA]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]''), where Chancellor [[Goth]] found the Master, in a wasted condition. The Master had by this time reached the end of his [[regeneration cycle]] and had turned into an animate though rotting corpse. The Master, with the collaboration of Goth, lured [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] to Gallifrey in order to have him framed for the assassination of the [[Lord President]].
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| The Master nearly succeeded in acquiring the [[Eye of Harmony]] and using its energy reserves to renew himself. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'') On the planet [[Traken]], the centre of the [[Traken Union]], still in his degenerated form, the Master plotted to take over [[the Source]], the power behind the [[Traken Union]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')
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| :''For details on this incarnation, see [[The Master (Tersurus)|separate article]].''
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| ===Usurpation===
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| {{Quote|A new body at last.|The Master.|The Keeper of Traken}}
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| The Master did manage to steal the body of [[Tremas]], the father of the Doctor's future companion, [[Nyssa]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'') He immediately set out on a new career of villainy in his new body. ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') Eventually, he found himself taken over himself on the [[Cheetah World]] by a foreign influence and began to lose control. He ended up trapped there as it began to die. ([[DW]]: ''[[Survival]]'')
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| :''For more details on this incarnation, see [[The Master (Tremas)|separate article]].''
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| ===New Regenerative Cycle===
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| The Master was able to [[teleport]] from the [[Cheetah World]] to [[1953]] Earth where he constructed himself an identity as Major Kreer. He made a deal with the [[Tzun]] to restore his corrupted Time Lord DNA, caused by his physical merger with the [[Trakenite]], [[Tremas]]. This was a success, and he was able to regenerate into a new body. ([[NA]]: ''[[First Frontier]]'')
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| The Master later attempted to seize control of a powerful artifact known as the [[Warp Core]]. This plan backfired and due to his exposure to the device the Master's body reverted to a state similar to his degenerated form. For a while he persisted in trying to acquire the Core. During that time he habitually wore a mask and adopted the alias Mr Seta. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Dust Breeding]]'')
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| :''From the perspective of [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Ace]], this took place before, not after the Master's meeting with the Tzun.''
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| ===Doctor John Smith===
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| [[Image:Master audio.JPG|thumb|left|250px|The Master in Perfugium.]]
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| [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] related a story of how he made a deal with Death whereby the Master would have ten years of peace and sanity, at the end of which the Doctor must kill him. The still-scarred Master had become a physician with no memory of his past, and took the name [[Doctor John Smith]].
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| He was still somehow deeply aware of his dark nature and troubled by it. The Master had in the meantime become emotionally involved with a woman named [[Jaqueline Schaeffer]] during this time.
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| At the end of the ten years the Doctor duly arrived but strove to avoid fulfilling his side of the bargain. The Master became aware of the Doctor's role in pledging him to Death as her servant but forgave him for it. Death herself was present then, disguised as the Master's maid. She manipulated events so that it would appear inevitable that the John Smith persona would crumble and the true Master become dominant once more. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
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| ===Glory===
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| [[Image:TippleMaster.png|thumb|right|200px|The Master awaiting his execution at the hands of the Daleks. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]]'')]]
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| {{Quote|Life is wasted on the living!|The Master.|Doctor Who: The TV Movie}}
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| Eventually, he was tried and executed and physically destroyed by the Daleks on [[Skaro]] as part of a Time Lord-Dalek treaty. However, his essence survived in a [[Deathworm|fluid-like form]]; his "last wish" was for the Doctor to transport his remains to Gallifrey, which allowed him the opportunity to escape during temporal transit and find a new body. He was able to take over the body of [[Bruce]], an ambulance driver on Earth.
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| At the end of his battle with the recently regenerated [[Eighth Doctor|Doctor]], the Master fell into the [[Eye of Harmony]], and he appeared to be destroyed. The Doctor claimed that he had been eaten by the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]]'')
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| However, the Master was rescued from the Time Vortex by a being named [[Esterath]], the then-controller of the [[Glory]], the focal point of reality. It would soon be time for the Glory to gain another controller, but the power had to be fought for. Of course, the Master assumed the battle would be between himself and his greatest foe.
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| Given a new body, the Master trailed the Doctor for some time without his enemy suspecting - even after they had met face to face. He was present in London during the crisis resulting from [[Grace Holloway]]'s attempt to merge Human and Time Lord [[DNA]] (the alien DNA was in fact that of a [[morphant]] from [[Skaro]]). He killed an [[MI6]] agent with the [[TCE]] at this time, but fortunately the Doctor departed before the Master's trademark was discovered. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Fallen]]'')
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| The Master later made contact with [[Sato Katsura]], a [[Japanese]] [[samurai]] unwillingly rendered immortal as a result of his involvement in the Doctor's adventures. The embittered warrior became the Master's follower. At his behest, Sato adopted the identity of Cardinal Morningstar and became leader of the [[Church of the Glorious Dead]], instigator of a holy war that altered the history of Earth and led to it becoming known as Dhakan.
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| Passing through the Eye had given the Master the ability to influence the flight of the TARDIS, which he used to send the craft to times and places which would weaken the Doctor's self-belief and confidence. This done, the two fought for the Glory, with the Master apparently triumphant.
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| However, the Master was mistaken: the true battle was between his companion, Sato, and the Doctor's, the [[Cyberman]] [[Kroton (Cyberman)|Kroton]]. Kroton was the ultimate winner of this contest, and amongst his first acts as controller of the Glory were to cleanse the TARDIS of the Master's influence, and to banish the Master himself to parts unknown. The Master declared he would survive and return. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead]]'')
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| One account tells of how he later escaped from the Eye and possessed the body of a Human native of [[1906]]. ([[ST]]: ''[[The Forgotten]]'')
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| [[Image:Master stealing tardis.JPG|thumb|left|250px|The regenerated Master stealing the Doctor's TARDIS.]] | |
| {{Quote|So it came to pass, that the human race fell... and the Earth was no more. And I looked down upon my new dominion, as Master of all, and I thought it... good.|The Master|The Sound of Drums}}
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| In the [[Last Great Time War]], the Time Lords themselves brought the Master back from oblivion and gave him a new set of regenerations, wanting to use him as a weapon in defense of Gallifrey. However, the sheer scale of the conflict frightened even the Master, and he deserted the instant the [[Dalek Emperor]] took control of the [[Cruciform]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
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| : ''The notion of the Master receiving a new set of regenerations is supported by the precedent of him being previously offered same by the High Council in exchange for his help ([[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]''), and his ability to once more regenerate. It is not known whether any regenerations occurred between his resurrection and his later transformation into Yana. Neither has it been confirmed if he could have regenerated after being shot due to the chance that even with the new regeneration which he may have used up in the last time war prior to Utopia ''
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| He fled to the end of the [[universe]] and used a [[Chameleon Arch]] to become [[Human]], remaining in the guise of the elderly [[Professor Yana]], but he came back into his old identity. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
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| :''For more information on [[Yana]], see separate article.''
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| Fatally wounded, though now aware of his identity, the Master regenerated and escaped to [[2000s]] Earth. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') Here, he called himself [[Harold Saxon]] and successfully ran for the position of [[Prime Minister]]. He then took over [[Earth]], though he had most of the damage he had caused reversed, so that it had never happened. At the conclusion of this, the Master was shot at the hands of [[Lucy Saxon]], and collapsed in the Doctor's arm.
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| With the Doctor pleading for him to regenerate, the Master refused opposing to spend the rest of his life imprisoned within the Doctor's TARDIS. Refusing to regenerate gave the Master an unlikely victory over the Doctor as his death would mean the Doctor is truly the last of the Time Lords. A resurrection seems possible as an unknown person, possibly Lucy Saxon, took [[the Master's ring]] and the Master's voice could be heard, suggesting his soul was inside the ring. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]''/''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
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| :''For more details, see [[Harold Saxon]].''
| | '''The 17th Master''' was a particularly incompetent incarnation of [[The Master|the Master]] who attempted to destroy [[Ninth Doctor (Comic Relief)|the Doctor]] on the [[planet]] [[Tersurus]]. |
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| | When spying on the Doctor, the Master had inadvertently enabled two way communication between the two, and unwittingly revealed several of his plans to eliminate the Doctor. After the two had arranged to meet on Tersurus, it became apparent that the Master had travelled back in time to bribe a tersuran architect to install several traps in the castle they were now meeting. Unbeknownst to him however, the Doctor had also done the same, bribing the same architect to change the details of the traps. This eventually led to the Master floundering around in the sewers of Tersurus for centuries, after with the [[Daleks]]. |
| {{Quote|I only need two things. Your submission and your obedience to ''my will!''!|The Master.|The Dæmons}}
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| Unlike the Doctor, the Master is most often encountered working and traveling alone. On rare occasions, he has been seen with companions. Examples include [[Chang Lee]], a young [[Human]] who the Master met in [[San Francisco]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]]''); [[Chantho]], a female assistant and companion to the Master during his Professor Yana identity (although both of them were unaware of "Yana"'s true nature for most of that time) ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''); and [[Lucy Saxon]], his wife, who is described as having traveled with the Master in the TARDIS in the same fashion as the Doctor and his companions. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]''/''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'') [[The Rani]] may have also traveled with the Master for a time, when they got trapped together. [[DW]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'')
| | As part of this alliance, the Master had himself "augmented" with Dalek technology, resulting in not only a more youthful appearance, but also "Dalek bumps" installed on his chest. Although he remained adamant they were [[Etheric beam locators]], the Doctor contiually teased the Master due to the fact that they resembled breasts. |
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| ===Imitators===
| | When he believed the Doctor to be dead, the Master renounced his evil ways, before the Doctor [[regenerated]] into [[Thirteenth Doctor (Comic Relief)|a female form]]. With both timelords finding themselves attracted to each other, they walked off, arm in arm. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death]]'') |
| The Master has at least one (rather pathetic) imitator in the form of [[The Mentor (Death to the Doctor!)|the Mentor]]. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Death to the Doctor!]]
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| ==Other versions of the Master==
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| * Following graduation from the Time Lord Academy, the Master, using the name Koschei, pursued a career as Magistrate for the [[High Council]]. In this capacity, his devotion to justice and discipline in time devolved into an obsession with order which marked the beginning of his descent into darkness ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'')
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| :''We do not know if this event occurred before the Master had left Gallifrey, in an alternative timeline or after he had reformed and returned to Gallifrey.''
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| * While helping UNIT stop an invasion by [[Inferno Earth|a parallel Earth]], the Master met that alternate reality's version of himself, still using the name Koschei, imprisoned and vivisected by order of that reality's version of the Doctor. The Master killed his other self, claiming this was an act of mercy. ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'')
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| * In an apparent alternate timeline, a version of the Master exists as an android companion to the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|Alternative Ninth Doctor]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka]]'')
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| * In the [[Donna's World|reality created around Donna]], it can be assumed that as a result of the Doctor and Martha Jones' deaths, the Master never found out who he really was and never travelled back to Earth, as the Doctor never lived to discover him on [[Malcassairo]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
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| ==Personality==
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| [[Image:Master five doctors.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Master listens with pleasure as he is told by the High Council how evil he is.]]
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| {{Quote|You are one of the most evil and corrupt beings our Time Lord race has ever produced. Your crimes are without number and your villainy without end.|Lord President Borusa to the Master.|The Five Doctors}}
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| The Master is essentially the polar opposite of the Doctor in almost every respect. Though he retains a brilliant Time Lord mind and all of the Doctor's wit and cunning, he possesses two fatal character flaws - he is arrogant and exceptionally vain, which leads to his downfall on many occasions. By the time of his return on [[Utopia (planet)|Utopia]], he appears after his regeneration to have gone more insane than ever, regressing to an almost childlike state of spitefulness and obliviousness. It is implied by the Doctor that the Master's insanity has been present ever since he was eight years old. He instantaneously rejected a plea to listen by saying, "No. It's my turn. Revenge." ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
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| In this instance, the Doctor, being aware of how dangerous the Master was, attempted to take on the role of a kind of mentor in an attempt to save the Master from himself "I'm not here to kill him. I'm here to save him". He pleads with him on numerous occasions ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]], [[The Sound of Drums]], [[Last of the Time Lords]]'') to calm down, stop what he is doing, listen and look at himself.
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| The Master absolutely refuses to listen to the Doctor on either occasion. He revealed his vanity when the Doctor confronts him with the words "I forgive you", which he had been terrified of hearing because it would have significantly dented his pride. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
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| He also had an exceptionally heightened sense of his own brilliance which is far more pronounced and blatant than that of the Doctor. He refers to himself in the third person as "your Lord and Master" on numerous occasions and in reciting a Bible-style verse of his own making to the Doctor, "...and so it came to pass that the Human race fell. And I looked down, upon my new dominion as Master of All and I thought it good", reveals a penchant for fancying himself as a god. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') He also holds Time Lords to be an absolutely superior race of life automatically assuming the privelege of altering history, on principle of this: "I'm a Time Lord. I have that right" ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''), also showing a sense of extreme entitlement. All these are traits of a [[Wikipedia:Narcissistic personality disorder|Narcissistic personality disorder]].
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| He was able to match the Doctor's keen wit and sense of humour, particularly in his sixth incarnation. He remarks to the President of the United States when reprimanded for his audacious conduct contravening established first contact policy with regards to the Toclafane with a casual "Oh, you know what it's like, new job, all that paperwork....I think I left it down the back of the settee. I did have a quick look...I found a pen, a sweet, a bus ticket...have you met the wife?" ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
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| [[Image:Master firing laser screwdriver.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Master firing his laser screwdriver.]]
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| The Master also shared the Doctor's incredible technical know-how. He is able to construct his [[laser screwdriver]] from Earth components and miniaturize [[Professor Lazarus]]' genetic manipulation technology. He is also able to cannibalize the Doctor's TARDIS and turn it into the [[Paradox Machine]] both devices in and of themselves serving as marked and distinctive parallels of the Doctor's [[sonic screwdriver]] and ordinary his TARDIS.
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| It should also be noted that both devices, in contrast to the Doctor's tools, had a hostile purpose; the laser screwdriver is a weapon specifically created to offensively attack and kill others, unlike the Sonic Screwdriver which "doesn't kill, wound, or maim". ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
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| The Master also had a crippling fear of the Doctor, based around how his old enemy can alwys make him feel small and insignificant as he effortlessly defeats the Master's plans ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]''). When the Doctor harnessed the psychic energy of the entire human race and effectively became a god, the Master was reduced to sobbing against a wall. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''). | |
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| The Master's relationship with the Doctor is one of the most complex in the series. He respects him as a worthy opponent but was also obsessed with proving his personal superiority, causing him to view the Doctor both as his greatest friend and his worst enemy. He expressed deep anger toward the Doctor, along with a desire for vengeance, saying "No, it's my turn, revenge, best served hot". ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
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| ===Conception and development of the character===
| | Like the rest of ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death]]'', this version of [[the Master]] is not considered [[canon]]. The name "The 17th Master" is based upon fan speculation; in the special he is not referred to as anything else but The Master.[[Category:Non-canonical incarnations of the Master|Seventeenth Master]] |
| When conceiving the character, the production team had originally considered the idea of the Doctor having a female, rather than male, arch-nemesis. Later, they thought of the Master as the evil half of a single personality.
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| In the final [[Third Doctor]], the Master would have redeemed himself and given his life to have saved the Doctor, after which the Doctor would have [[regenerate]]d. The accidental death of [[Roger Delgado]], who had played the [[The Master (UNIT years)|original version of the Master]] made it so that this development never happened.
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| In ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', writer (and then [[Script Editor]]) [[Robert Holmes]] deliberately chose to show the Master in a "transitional" form in case future production teams wanted to bring back the character.
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| ===Actors who have portrayed the Master===
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| :''Apart from the incarnations below, other incarnations of the Master have appeared in novels and comics.''
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| ====''Doctor Who'' television appearances ([[1971]]-[[1989]])====
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| *[[Roger Delgado]] (as [[The Master (UNIT years)|the first version of the character]] to appear on ''[[Doctor Who]]''. He first appeared in the role in [[1971]]'s ''[[Terror of the Autons]]''.
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| *[[Peter Pratt]] and [[Geoffrey Beevers]] (as [[The Master (Tersurus)|his next incarnation]] (both actors played the same incarnation of the character). They appeared in ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' and ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'', respectively.
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| *[[Anthony Ainley]] as [[The Master (Tremas)|The Master in the body of Tremas]] from the last moments of ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'' through the last original series story ''[[Survival]]'', making him the longest running actor to portray the Master up to the present day. Note that the character had several extended absences from the series.
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| =====Television movie and mini-episode ([[1996]] and [[1999]])=====
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| *[[Eric Roberts]] played the Master in the body of [[Bruce]], in ''[[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]]''.
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| *In the same production, [[Gordon Tipple]] appeared in a non-speaking role as the Master's previous incarnation.
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| *[[Jonathan Pryce]] played "[[The 17th Master]]" in a non-[[canon]]ical spoof mini-episode, ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death]]''.
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| =====New series ([[2007]])=====
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| *[[Derek Jacobi]] played [[Professor Yana]], actually a [[Human]] version of the Master, as well as the Master himself once he turned back into a Time Lord.
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| *[[John Simm]] played the Master's [[Harold Saxon|next incarnation]]. Both actors debuted in ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', though only Simm appeared in the follow-up episodes ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' and ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''.
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| *[[William Hughes]] had a non-speaking cameo as a child version of the Master during a flashback sequence in ''[[The Sound of Drums]]''.
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| ====Other media====
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| =====Animation=====
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| *Derek Jacobi also played [[The Master (Scream of the Shalka)|another incarnation of the Master]] in the web-based animation ''[[The Scream of the Shalka]]''.
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| =====Audio=====
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| *[[Geoffrey Beevers]] reprised the role in the audio plays ''[[Dust Breeding]]'' and ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]''.
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| *[[Mark Gatiss]] played an [[The Master (Sympathy for the Devil)|alternative version of the character]] in ''[[Sympathy for the Devil]]''.
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| ====Video game====
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| *Anthony Ainley reprised the role in videotaped scenes included in the game ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]''. These sequences appear as extras on the DVD version of ''[[Survival]]'', his last television story.
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| ===Continuity===
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| *''[[The Doctor Who Role Playing Game]]'' from the American gaming company [[FASA]] identified [[the Monk]] and the [[War Chief]] as earlier incarnations of the Master, causing a few fans to mistakenly believe that ''[[Doctor Who]]'' itself had stated a connection, when it had not done so. Novel and comic continuity specifically indicates otherwise.
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| *The [[Big Finish Productions]] audio play ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'' and the television episode ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' have the Doctor telling two different and apparently contradictory explanations for how the Master turned evil (Although it may be that both the schism and the deal with Death were responsible, with the deal with Death making the Master's madness more powerful).
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| *Although novels have been written establishing [[the Master (UNIT years)|the "first" Master]]'s activities between the final televised appearance of [[Roger Delgado]] ''[[Frontier in Space]]'' and the character's return in ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' in a [[The Master (Tersurus)|degenerated form]], the latter adventure makes no direct link. Therefore it can't be said for certain (based upon on-screen evidence) whether this incarnation is the same one played by Delgado.
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| *In the 2009 easter special of doctor who [[Planet of the Dead (TV story)]], the phsycic character states at the end that the doctor's song will soon end, (a possible reference to the fact that the current doctor David Tennant would soon be leaving and regenerating into Matt Smith), and that "it is returning" (a reference to maybe a former enemy returning to the show), and that "he will knock 4 times". This appears to be a sign that the master may return as the last appearance of the master was in the series finaly of the new series 3, where he was constantly seen tapping a rythm of drums that had only four beats.
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| ===Anagrams===
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| 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 [[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story) |Castrovalva]]''. [[Tremas]] is itself an anagram of Master.
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| At the same time, in [[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series 3]] (season 29), the Master takes on two new identities: Professor Yana in [[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', and Mr. Harold Saxon in [[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'' (as it happens, "Mister Saxon" is a (possibly unintentional) anagram of "Master No. Six" as "Sam Tyler" (John Simm's ''[[Wikipedia:Life on Mars (TV series)|Life on Mars]]'' character) is an anagram of "masterly").
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| *The next Doctor Who Special, [[The Waters of Mars]], is an anagram of "Wars of The Master" and "The Master of Wars" and "The War of Masters". It has been heavily hinted that the Master is returning in the last episodes to feature [[David Tennant]] as The [[Tenth Doctor]]. This may be another hint at his return.
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