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'''"The Master"''' — known in female form as '''"Missy"''', short for '''"Mistress"''', and at times by [[Aliases of the Master|various other aliases]] — was a [[renegade Time Lord]], originally a friend and longtime opponent of [[the Doctor]].
 
Though they had been friends from childhood and schoolmates at the Academy, the Master's lust for power would eventually pull the two apart. While the Doctor and the Master would sometimes remain close friends despite their rivalry ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', et. al) the Master developed an intense hatred for and often sought to kill the Doctor, who came to regard the Master as their arch-enemy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Despite this enmity, however, the two would on occasion act as allies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]], [[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]/[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') The [[Tenth Doctor]] termed the Master as his "arch-frenemy". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Jago & Litefoot Revival (audio story)|The Jago & Litefoot Revival]]'')
 
The last male incarnation of the Master grew furious at the idea of becoming rehabilitated and standing with the Doctor. As a result, he killed his next incarnation, Missy, and left her unable to regenerate. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'')


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
While spying on the Doctor, the Master inadvertently enabled two way communication and unwittingly revealed  his plans to eliminate the Doctor. After the two had arranged to meet on Tersurus, it became apparent  the Master had travelled back in time to bribe a [[Tersuron]] architect to install traps in the castle they were now in. Unbeknown to him, the Doctor had also done the same, bribing the architect with food to change the traps' details. This led to the Master floundering around the sewers of Tersurus for over nine centuries, after falling down the same trap three times. Later he allied himself with the [[Dalek]]s, and then used his very own [[TARDIS]] to travel back to the point just after he fell. Then he threatened the Doctor once again with the Daleks, as they  were the only life-forms without noses and hence the only creatures willing to work with him.
The Master grew up on [[Gallifrey]] in the [[House of Oakdown]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') though he would later comment to [[Wilfred Mott]] that growing up on Gallifrey was not something one could call childhood, but "more a life of duty". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The name he was born with was unknown and apparently consisted of thirty-two letters. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'')
 
[[File:YoungMasterTSOD.jpg|thumb|left|The young Master looks into the [[Untempered Schism]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
Like all [[Time Lord]]s, the Master was taken from his family at the age of eight for the selection process. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') During the ceremony in which he gazed into the [[Time Vortex]] through the [[Untempered Schism]], he went mad, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') due to [[The Drumming|a rhythm of four beats]] being implanted into his head. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') This malady manifested itself as the constant drumming he heard ever after, worsening with time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
==== Academic career ====
The Master and the [[First Doctor]] became friends on their first day at the [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]], ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') with both being tutored by [[Borusa]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') The Master and the Doctor enjoyed building "time flow analogues" to disrupt each other's experiments. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'')
 
Sharing the same heritage and upbringing, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'') the Master developed a strong bond with the Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') with [[UNIT]] scientist [[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]] even describing the Master as the Doctor's "childhood friend". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') The [[Second Doctor]] recalled that he and the Master had everything in common, except that the Master enjoyed being scared of the dark "a little too much", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Menagerie]]'') while the [[Third Doctor]] told [[Jo Grant]] that the two were "inseparable" due to their shared interests, such as a desire to break the [[non-interference policy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Sea Devils]]'') The [[Twelfth Doctor]] recalled how he and the Master had a pact to explore every [[star]] in the [[universe]] together. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
 
The two youths would play in the fields near the Master's father's estates, with pastures of red grass near [[Mount Perdition]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') They would also sneak out of the [[Capitol]] and drink with the [[Shobogan]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') with the Master picking a fight with six drunken Shobogans during one of these outings. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce]]'') The Master also taught his friend [[hypnotism]], and would often hypnotise people as a joke, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]'') but would go unpunished for it, as well as other misdemeanours, always finding a way to avoid his comeuppance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')
 
During their childhood, the Master and the Doctor were mercilessly and viciously bullied by a boy called [[Torvic]]; the Doctor was eventually forced to kill the bully to save his friend's life. He was later confronted by the personification of [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]], who insisted he become her disciple, but the Doctor refused and suggested Death make the Master her champion instead. Death agreed, and the Doctor subsequently forgot about their deal. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
 
According to a dream the [[Fifth Doctor]] had under the control of the [[Celestial Toymaker]], the Master went by the name "Koschei" at the Academy and belonged to a clique of ten young Time Lords with the collective name of [[the Deca]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') He was also part of the "[[Gallifrey Academy Hot Five]]" band, in which he played the [[drums]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'') He was also in charge of organising end of term parties, although the [[Eighth Doctor]] later noted that they weren't very good. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
 
Whilst at the Academy, the Doctor and the Master travelled into Gallifrey's past in search of [[Valdemar]]. They found nothing of the [[Old One (Valdemar)|Old One]]s except for warnings. The Master was fascinated by the power that Valdemar represented, while the Doctor was horrified. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'') The Master also showed a fascination with the ''[[Necronomicon]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nameless City (short story)|The Nameless City]]'')
 
At the Academy, the Master was the teacher's pet and won gold stars, while the Doctor was the class dunce. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') However, he ultimately did not perform well at the Academy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') Although he did earn a higher degree in [[cosmic science]] than the Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') the Doctor's grades were overall better. Because of this, the Doctor received the prizes and praise that the Master so desperately wanted. The [[Seventh Doctor]] theorised that this may have been the cause of the Master's hatred towards him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Survival (novelisation)|Survival]]'') The Master was on an Academy research project when the Doctor was expelled from the Academy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
 
When the Time Lords created the ''[[Consolidator]]'' to conceal various dangerous historical secrets from the rest of the universe, unwilling to destroy the items or races in the ship in case they proved useful later, the Doctor and the Master were assigned to come up with a solution where their peers failed. The Master had the idea of using a black hole to tear a rift in time and send the ''Consolidator'' into the distant future, where the future Time Lords could deal with it, but the Doctor declined to have his name put down on the calculations as he questioned the ethics of the assignment. However, when the experiment was actually attempted, the ''Consolidator'' was apparently destroyed by a mistake in the calculations when it struck the edge of the black hole, leaving the Time Lords to hush the matter up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
 
==== Life on Gallifrey ====
Missy claimed she had [[The Master's daughter|a daughter]] and that, while still on Gallifrey, the Doctor gifted the Master a [[dark star alloy brooch]], after an event which involved his daughter occurred. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')
 
On Gallifrey, the Master had the job of [[Truant Officer]], and he performed his job with punctuality, self-discipline, and meritorious conduct. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') He once attended a ritual in [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]] where he gave [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] a toy that was actually a disguised communication node that would locate the Doctor if he ever left Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'')
 
==== Fleeing Gallifrey ====
On the day that the Doctor left Gallifrey, the Master was desperate to know where he went. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') He used the node he gave Susan to locate the Doctor, but found that the node had established a connection with [[Nyssa]], a companion of the [[Fifth Doctor]]. The Master tried to take control of Nyssa but was stopped by the intervention of the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'') When retired CIA agent [[Maris]] was hired to find the Doctor, the Master, helped by [[the Rani]], used a [[chronal mine]] to kidnap him. They interrogated Maris on the whereabouts of the Doctor, and were displeased when he told them he didn't know. They were about to kill him when [[TARDIS (Prisoners of Fate)|his employer]] extracted him from the area. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir]]'')
 
The Master ultimately left Gallifrey on the same day the Doctor did, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') in [[The Master's TARDIS|a Type-45 TARDIS]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') that he had also stolen ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') when the [[Quadrigger]]s were still working on it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'') [[Time Lord 1 (Colony in Space)|One Time Lord]] stated that the Master left Gallifrey because, like the Doctor, it was "too peaceful for [him], [with] not enough happening". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] believed that the Master left Gallifrey because he was also leaving. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'')
 
According to one account, when the Doctor escaped Gallifrey, the Master was in line for a promotion to Head Truant Officer, but his career depended on catching the Doctor and Susan and preventing any violations of the [[non-interference policy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'')
 
According to another source, during a period of civil unrest on Gallifrey, the Master led many students of the Time Lord Academy in a revolt against the corrupt [[Lord President]], [[Pundat the Third]], and attempted to recruit the Doctor and convince him to take the position as President, but he decided not to interfere with the current constitution. When Pundat died of stress soon after the revolt, his chosen successor was the evil [[Chancellor]] [[Slann]]. The students had found the last of Lord Rassilon's descendants, [[Susan Foreman|Lady Larn]], a seven-year old child adopted by [[Councillor]] [[Brolin]], who was being groomed as a future president. They decided on a second coup, but were overheard by the authorities when trying to convert the Doctor again, and bloody reprisals against the students followed. The Doctor and Larn escaped from Gallifrey after this. Believing the students ready for another coup, the Master assassinated Lord President Slann. However, the students weren't ready and he took this opportunity to steal a TARDIS and flee Gallifrey as a renegade. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'')
 
=== Early exploits ===
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Because his TARDIS was broken when he stole it, it fell apart around him almost instantly, stranding the Master on the furthest arm of a galaxy in the "earliest [[Segment of Time|Segments of Time]]". He took charge of the planet [[Destination]], becoming its hero. He assumed the title of "The Inventor", and developed the planet's technology for his own ends. He pitted the human colonists against the [[Dalmari]], saving them each time, yet urging them to pursue an arms race should they come back. Wanting the colonists to develop nuclear technology, he planned to use the energy to refuel his ship's engines. When the [[First Doctor]] arrived, he changed his plans and tried to steal [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to escape. He was briefly able to trick [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] into leading him to the ship, but the two were able to work together and overpower the Master, subsequently using the [[fast return switch]] to take the TARDIS back to Destination. The Master ultimately became trapped in his own laboratory after the Doctor had rerouted its power to help Destination to rebuild. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
 
At some point, the Master [[regenerate]]d for the first time and his new incarnation found himself at the [[Scoundrels Club]] during the [[Great Fire of London]]. Becoming a member of the club so that he could recover from the regeneration in comfort, the Master organised [[fireworks]] on the roof to celebrate the occasion. He visited the Scoundrels Club after each regeneration to recover as a tradition. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
 
=== Nemesis of the Third Doctor ===
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==== Dealings with the Second Doctor ====
At some point, the Master regenerated into an incarnation with a swarthy complexion, brown eyes, and a goatee beard with white skunk stripes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'') He visited the [[Scoundrels Club]] to recover from the regeneration in comfort. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
 
Having begun calling himself "Koschei", the Master had a Time Lady named [[Ailla (The Dark Path)|Ailla]] planted on him by the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] to monitor his unstable obsession with order; Ailla posed as a [[human]] so Koschei would take her on as his companion during a stopover in the [[28th century]]. Koschei caught up with the [[Second Doctor]] at the [[Darkheart]] colony in the early years of the [[Galactic Federation]]. The temptation posed by the Darkheart device, capable of altering timelines without causing paradoxes or attracting the attention of various "higher beings", proved too much for Koschei, and the revelation that Ailla was a spy killed the last traces of [[good]] in him, and he became "the Master". After the Doctor trapped him in a [[black hole]], the Master swore that he would take revenge. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'')
 
The Master penetrated Gallifrey, and gained access to [[the Matrix]] via a console in the old [[Capitol]]. This gave him a backdoor into the Matrix, which he used to collect classified information for his many devious schemes, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') including the Time Lords' files on the [[Doomsday Weapon]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') and the [[Sea Devil]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'')
 
The Master then put his TARDIS in orbit of the homeworld of the [[Archon (species)|Archons]] and made a deal with them that would result in the Archons acquiring the Doctor's TARDIS for themselves. Posing as a Professor Thascalos, the Master gave the [[Necronomicon]] to the Doctor's [[companion]] [[Jamie McCrimmon]], so that Jamie would give the book to the Doctor and lure the TARDIS to the Archon homeworld. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nameless City (short story)|The Nameless City]]'')
 
According to [[Time Lord messenger|one Time Lord]], before arriving on [[Earth]], the Master was responsible for several interplanetary wars, but always managed to disappear before he could be brought to justice. Though the Time Lords managed to catch him, the Master escaped before his TARDIS "could be de-energised." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'')
 
==== Early times on Earth ====
The Master was imprisoned on [[Shada (prison)|Shada]] by the Time Lords at the time when the Doctor was exiled to Earth. However, the Time Lords decided to keep the Doctor busy whilst he was trapped on Earth by releasing the Master. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoners of the Sun (short story)|Prisoners of the Sun]]'')
 
The Master was present at the first [[Auton]] [[Black Thursday|invasion of Earth]], and heard about [[Channing]]'s attempt to capture the [[Third Doctor]]. He contacted journalist [[James Stevens]] by phone, whose article he had read in the ''[[Daily Chronicle]]'', and told him about the near-kidnapping. He called Stevens again during the [[Silurian]] attacks on [[Wenley Moor]], informing Stevens that [[Edward Masters]] had been the first to die from the plague sweeping London. Shortly after the [[Inferno Project]] incident, the Master once more contacted James Stevens, this time to check up on his work on his [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] article. He promptly hung up when Stevens mentioned [[C19]] and the [[Glasshouse]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
 
Under the alias "Emil Keller", the Master captured a psychic parasite and trapped it within the [[Keller Machine]], and spent many months establishing "Keller" and the machine's credentials. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'')
 
The Master first infiltrated [[UNIT HQ|the headquarters]] of UNIT while [[the Brigadier]] and the Doctor had gone to meet with government officials. He [[hypnotised]] the Doctor's assistant, [[Liz Shaw]], and, through her, learnt of the failed [[Nestene]] invasion and the awakening of the [[Silurians]]. This inspired him to ally himself with the Nestene and to locate more Silurian colonies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Reconnaissance (short story)|Reconnaissance]]'')
 
==== Becoming a threat ====
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The Master appeared at the [[International Circus]], with [[the Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] in the form of a [[horse box]]. He [[hypnosis|hypnotised]] the circus troupe and [[plastic]] factory manager [[Rex Farrel]] to obey his orders as part of his plan to assist the [[Nestene]]s in their latest bid to conquer Earth. A [[Time Lord messenger|Time Lord emissary]] alerted the Doctor to his rival's presence on the planet, and before the [[radio telescope]] could be used to bring the Nestene invasion force to Earth, the Doctor convinced the Master that the Nestenes would not distinguish between the Master and anyone else in their takeover, and the two worked together to fling the Nestenes back into space by "chang[ing] the polarity" whilst the radio telescope's transfer shift was still open. Afterwards, the Master fled. The Doctor, however, had already taken his [[dematerialisation circuit]], preventing the Master from leaving Earth in his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'')
 
The Master returned again, posing as the scientist who had "developed" the Keller Machine. He used prisoners as a plan to hijack the [[Thunderbolt]], a missile containing [[nerve gas]] and use it to destroy the [[World Peace Conference]], which would trigger a [[nuclear war]]. The Doctor, with the help of [[George Patrick Barnham|Barnham]], stopped the Master with the Keller Machine, and the Doctor reactivated the missile's abort mechanism. [[UNIT]] also destroyed the missile along with the Keller Machine, but the Doctor later discovered he had lost the Master's dematerialisation circuit in his altercation with the Master. Shortly after, the Master telephoned to let it be known that he had found the circuit and was free now to come and go as he pleased, while the Doctor had to remain in exile. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'')
 
Shortly after the Master regained control over his TARDIS, he tried to gain control of a cult so he could harness the power of the [[Immortal]]s. He convinced the real cult leader, [[Hadley (Deadly Reunion)|Hadley]], that he could serve the cult loyally, by supplying them with [[Sarg (drug)|sarg]]. Unfortunately for the Master, Hadley only intended to keep the Master alive while he was still useful. With no other options, the Master formed a temporary truce with the Doctor to stop [[Hades]]' plan. After the crisis was resolved, the Doctor allowed the Master to depart unmolested in the name of their temporary truce. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'')
 
The Master brought [[Axos]] to Earth, hoping to ally himself with them. Instead, he became the prisoner of Axos, and only escaped by saying that he would help it. The Doctor tricked the Master into thinking he was going to betray Earth. Instead, he trapped the Master with Axos in a [[time loop]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'')
 
Posing as an [[Adjudicator]], the Master travelled to a [[human]] colony on the [[planet]] [[Uxarieus]] in the year [[2472]]. There, the Time Lord records indicated he would find the [[Doomsday Weapon]] created by [[Uxariean|a near-extinct]] native species. Once again the Doctor defeated his plans and the weapon was destroyed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'')
 
Posing as a [[vicar]] named "Victor Magister" in the village of [[Devil's End]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') after murdering the old vicar, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') the Master summoned the ancient [[Dæmon]] [[Azal]], but he failed to understand the power and control that was necessary following summoning him. Following Azal's confrontation with Jo Grant's selflessness, Azal destroyed himself through Jo's illogical actions. The Master was captured by UNIT following a failed attempt to escape in the Doctor's car, [[Bessie]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'')
 
==== In custody ====
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Prior to his trial, the Master was sent to [[Stangmoor Prison]]. During his captivity, an army of hypnotised salespeople stormed the facility and attempted to rescue him, but the ploy failed and the Master was sent to another secure holding facility. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Jo were trapped in an extra-universal prison by the [[Freedom Corporation]], so the Brigadier was forced to strike a deal with the Master to save them. But the Master double-crossed him and used [[time travel]] technology to regress the Earth backwards in time. However, with help from the Time Lords, the Doctor was freed and was able to stop the Master's plan and restore everything to normal. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Freedom (short story)|Freedom]]'')
 
At his trial, the government used the Master as a scapegoat for all the alien attacks which had recently occurred. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
 
The Master was held at [[Aylesbury Grange Detention Centre]]. Demanding the Doctor visit him, he engaged the Doctor in conversation, insisting he had changed. However, the Doctor refused to believe him, and the Master reluctantly revealed that he had drawn the Doctor to the facility as part of an escape attempt and that the Doctor was speaking to a hologram. The Master nearly escaped but was stopped by UNIT soldiers accompanying the Doctor, who revealed he had been a hologram as well. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Man in the Ion Mask (comic story)|The Man in the Ion Mask]]'')
 
In another escape attempt, the Master created a device that switched his mind with the Doctor's. He went to [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], where he learned that the Time Lords had made the TARDIS ineffective to the Doctor's piloting. Before returning to his own body, he asked the Brigadier to move him to a new holding facility with a good view, and also encouraged [[Mike Yates]] to ask Jo Grant out on a date. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Switching (short story)|The Switching]]'')
 
While in custody, with the Doctor on [[Peladon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'') the Master collaborated with UNIT to prevent an invasion by [[Inferno Earth|a fascist version of Earth]], travelling with the Brigadier, [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara Chesterton]] to the alternate universe and encountering [[Koschei (Inferno Earth)|Koschei]], the alternate version of himself. Koschei was imprisoned and tortured by order of [[Third Doctor (Inferno Earth)|the Leader]] of the [[Republic of Great Britain]]. The Master killed his other self, claiming it was an act of mercy. Before he was imprisoned by UNIT again, the Master hid his TARDIS back in the church crypt in Devil's End. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'')
 
The Master was imprisoned inside a castle prison on [[Fortress Island]] as the only prisoner. The Master convinced his jailer, Colonel [[George Trenchard]], to help him steal electronic parts from [[HMS Seaspite]], telling Trenchard that this was intended as a lure for enemy agents. With these parts, the Master instead made contact with the reptilian [[Sea Devil]]s, an aquatic species similar to the land-dwelling Silurians, and planned to cause a war between humans and Sea Devils, making the Sea Devils rulers of Earth again. Because the reactivation machinery of the Sea Devils' [[hibernation unit]]s deteriorated during millions of years of hibernation, the Master saw it necessary to construct a [[sonar]] device to awaken the remaining reptiles.
 
The Master captured the Doctor and forced him to help create this device, but to prevent the device from reactivating further Sea Devil bases and stop the war, the Doctor blew up the Sea Devil base by reversing the device's polarity, creating a massive reverse feedback. The Master escaped in a [[hovercraft]] when the officer guarding him, CPO [[Myers (The Sea Devils)|Myers]], was hypnotised and framed as the Master's corpse, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') and the Master returned to the church crypt in Devil's End to retrieve his TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'')
 
==== At large again ====
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Sometime after his escape, the Master took control of the [[Glasshouse]], a facility for traumatised UNIT soldiers, taking particular control of Private [[Francis Cleary]]. He planned to use [[The Master's Time Ring|a Time Ring]] to have Cleary go to [[1963]] to prevent the [[Kennedy assassination]], thereby altering Earth's history to make it more vulnerable to invasion. The plan failed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
 
On another occasion, the Master made a deal with the [[Odobenidan]]s to help them invade Earth, but accidentally trapped both them and himself in a time loop whilst undertaking some temporal mechanics on their behalf. He was trapped in the time loop beneath [[Greece]] for months. The Doctor, sent to Greece by the Time Lords to deal with the time loop, released the Master and foiled his plan. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Seismologist's Story (short story)|The Seismologist's Story]]'')
 
After being double-crossed by the [[Voord]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel]]'') the Master posed as "Professor [[Carl Thascalos]]" and constructed a machine known as [[TOMTIT]] at [[Cambridge]]'s [[Newton Institute]] to summon the ancient [[chronovore]] [[Kronos]], whom he wished to control. He hypnotised the institute's director, Dr [[Charles Percival]], but accidentally killed him by releasing Kronos from the [[Crystal of Kronos]]. The Master summoned the [[Atlantean]] priest [[Krasis]] for instructions on how to control Kronos while meddling with the flow of time to obstruct the Doctor from getting in his way.
 
After knocking out [[Sergeant Benton]], the Master retreated to his TARDIS, but the Doctor tried to trap him in a [[time lock]] using his own TARDIS, accidentally creating a [[space loop]] when both TARDISes were materialised within the other. When the TARDISes were separated during their negotiations, the Master ejected the Doctor into space, but the Doctor survived by using the [[telepathic circuit]] of his TARDIS to help Jo return him to safety.
 
The Master travelled to ancient [[Atlantis]] and failed to hypnotise [[King]] [[Dalios]], who easily resisted his influence. Confronting the Doctor there, the Master tried to manipulate [[Queen]] [[Galleia]] into betraying her husband, since she had taken a romantic liking in his charm compared to Dalios' dull personality. Galleia, however, was enraged when the Master caused Dalios to die in the coup they staged in Atlantis. Before he was arrested, the Master commanded Krasis to use the Crystal of Kronos housed in Atlantis and brought forth Kronos, who destroyed the entire civilisation.
 
Fleeing Atlantis with Jo as his hostage, and with Kronos under his control, the Master was in a position to cast destruction unto the entire cosmos, however, the Doctor threatened to [[time ram]] the Master's TARDIS with his own, which would take everyone's lives in the process if he did not give up his plans for chaos. The Master did not believe the Doctor would earnestly carry out his warning because he knew endangering Jo's life was not an option for him. In response to the Doctor's hesitation, Jo tried to complete the time ram before the Master could release Kronos again. Instead, Kronos spared everyone from death, and captured the Master for the crime of trying to control it, but allowed him to go free at the request of the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'')
 
The Master set up a talent show called ''Make a Star'', based on the anagram "AKA MASTER", which he used to disrupt the timeline by making the contestants cover songs that weren't yet written. He intended to use the relatively minor disruption caused to allow him to take control of Earth, but this plan was foiled by the Third Doctor and Jo Grant. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hidden Talent (short story)|Hidden Talent]]'')
 
The Master planned to release a fog in [[Tadcaster]] by using [[Sarkan]] [[mist-flower]]s to generate a fog that would engulf the Earth in a dense fog. Attempting to catch up with the Master, the Doctor commandeered a pier train that crashed into the Master and the mist-flowers, sending all of them into the ocean, where the flowers were destroyed and the Master disappeared. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fogbound (comic story)|Fogbound]]'')
 
Reappearing again, the Master took control of the Brigadier's mind and instructed him to kill the Doctor. However, the Brigadier attacked the Master, but he escaped, restoring the Brigadier to his senses. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Smash Hit (short story)|Smash Hit]]'')
 
==== Distancing himself from UNIT ====
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The Master travelled to the [[Land of Fiction]], where he intended to steal an advanced piece of technology from the Land, and defeated [[James Moriarty|Professor Moriarty]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Character Assassin (comic story)|Character Assassin]]'') and became involved in "a galactic fracas" relating to "a number of large tortoises". The Doctor and Jo put a stop to this scheme. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Fairy Tale (audio story)|The Last Fairy Tale]]'')
 
He attended [[Bonjaxx]]'s birthday party at [[Maruthea]]. When a fight broke out, the Master was seen crouching to avoid the confrontation, evidently annoyed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Party Animals (comic story)|Party Animals]]'')
 
The Master used [[time travel|time-displaced]] [[Scotland|Scottish]] warriors to seize a [[nuclear submarine]] and threaten Britain with obliteration if he wasn't given the Doctor's TARDIS; he ended up temporarily trapped in the [[18th century]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glen of Sleeping]]'')
 
For a short while, the Master adopted the identity of "Duke Dominus", a gangster on early [[20th century]] Earth, but his plan was foiled by the [[Fourth Doctor]] without either realising the others' involvement. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Duke of Dominoes]]'')
 
The Master travelled to a [[Sontaran]]-occupied planet and convinced several of the locals that he was a deity. This would form a new sect of proud, beard-toting column-worshipping Sontarans, which would decades later lead to the destruction of the entire planet by Sontaran command. The Master left decades before this, delighted simply by the idea of the chaos he had created. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Judas Goatee (comic story)|The Judas Goatee]]'')
[[File:DelgadoDreamFIS.jpg|thumb|left|The Master uses the [[hypnosound]] on [[Jo Grant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')]]
Having had enough of Earth, and having other plans to set in motion on [[Skaro]], the Master employed the assistance of a being called [[Verdigris (Verdigris)|Verdigris]] to impersonate him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Verdigris (novel)|Verdigris]]'') On Skaro, the Master forged an alliance with the [[Dalek]]s, acting as their agent to provoke warfare between the [[Earth Empire]] and the [[Draconian Empire]] in the [[26th century]]. To achieve this, he employed a force of [[Ogron]]s who, through the use of [[hypnosound]], made themselves appear human or Draconian, thus provoking the other side. When the Doctor revealed the true perpetrators, the plot was abandoned. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
 
==== Meeting his end ====
According to one account, the Master went undercover on Earth following the [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] and killed [[David Campbell]], the husband of the Doctor's granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]. After being defeated by the [[Eighth Doctor]], he fled in his TARDIS, taking Susan with him as a hostage, unaware of her Gallifreyan heritage. As his TARDIS materialised on [[Tersurus]], she used his TARDIS's telepathic circuits to attack him, forcing him out onto the planet's surface. She used his own Tissue Compression Eliminator against him while he was holding the Dalek's [[matter transmuter]]. The blast severely deformed and nearly killed him. Susan departed in his TARDIS; this brief materialisation, however, alerted the Time Lords to the Master's presence on Tersurus.
 
Investigating the materialisation of an unauthorised TARDIS, the Time Lord [[Chancellor]] [[Goth]] arrived on Tersurus, where he found the Master in a wasted condition — that of a decaying animated corpse. The Master sensed that Goth wished for power and offered it to him, whilst Goth, seeing the Master as a dying "creature", thought he could control the Master for his own means. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'')
 
According to another account, the Master decided to return to Earth after the affair with the Daleks and the Draconians and detected a massive discharge of temporal energy. He watched as the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s TARDIS exploded ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'') in [[1972]] after it was overloaded by its efforts to rewrite a mutated plague. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Pestilent Heart (comic story)|The Pestilent Heart]]'') The Master wrongly speculated this was the cause of the Doctor's third regeneration. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'') When the Doctor moved in with [[Jess Collins]]' family in [[Brixton]] and brought the TARDIS into the back garden to repair itself, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Moving In (comic story)|Moving In]]'') the Master plotted to use the [[artron energy]] given off by the regenerating TARDIS that now lay in the bodies of the [[Collins family]] to create a portal to a [[time lock]]ed dimension he learnt about in the Dalek databanks. When the TARDIS had healed in [[1973]], the Master utilised the efforts of [[Katya Dabrowski]] to bring the Collins family to an apartment in central London, while creating a diversion for the Twelfth Doctor in [[Barking]] with glass mosquito creatures. Warning the Collins family that the Doctor was a dangerous and deceitful alien, the Master tricked them into being scanned for damage, when he actually used them to create a portal to the dimension which they were also sent through. The Master also stole the Doctor's TARDIS and had the Doctor escorted from the Collins family's home to the Master's apartment. The Master linked the Doctor's TARDIS to his own, in order to aid the Doctor through the time lock, so he could be reunited with the Collins family. The Master had Katya accompany the Doctor there.
 
Travelling to the locked dimension, the Master met [[Kiadine]], a being who once split the [[chronon]]. The Time Lords locked him away for this, and he hated them for it ever since. He gave the Master his powers so that he would conquer Gallifrey on his behalf. His exposure to the chronon storm gave him god-like powers, and he began to fight with the Doctor for mastery of them. The Master fired one final attack as the Doctor stood arm in arm with the Collins family, and found that his attack had been repelled back at him with the same artron energy in the bodies of the Collins family that had brought the Master to the dimension. Though battered from the attack, the Master was able to escape in his TARDIS and [[regenerated]] while declaring his intent of revenge on the Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'') Shortly after his regeneration, the new Master visited the [[Scoundrels Club]] to recover. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
 
=== A body in decay ===
The Master regenerated into his thirteenth incarnation after a life of constant pressure and danger, in addition to using some bodies as disguises. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin]]'') Soon after regenerating, he travelled to the [[Scoundrels Club]] to recover from the regeneration process. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
 
==== At war with his future ====
The Master arrived on a Time Lord base on Tersurus with the intention of infiltrating their database. There, he encountered a future version of himself, who burned his body, leaving him a fraction above death. The future Master then signalled Gallifrey for Goth to arrive. Before Goth could arrive, the [[Cult of the Heretic]] switched the Master's mind with that of his future self. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') While he remembered being in great pain, the process left gaps in the Master's memory. He returned to a prison in the south of England, where a former incarnation had lured a [[Carmentine Mind Leach]]. He set up the [[Dominus Institute]] in order to lure the Doctor to him, planning to absorb his intellect. The [[Sixth Doctor]] made a deal with the mind leech, one which had the leech only take the Doctor's short term memory. This was enough to sustain the Master, but ruined his overall plans. The Master fled from the prison in his TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Vampire of the Mind (audio story)|Vampire of the Mind]]'')
 
Regaining his memory of what had happened to him, the Master hired the [[Transhuman Sisters of the Unholy Protocol]] and the [[Dragonhunter]]s to kill the older Master. The act of having a Time Lord inhabiting the body of his past self led to the universe beginning to break down. Realising this, the [[Seventh Doctor]] encountered both of the Masters and helped them get back into the right bodies. The two Masters then returned to the Cult's headquarters and killed all of the members. They then plotted to use the [[anomaly cage]], but were stopped by the Doctor, who made sure that the universe remained practically unchanged by its regeneration. After this, history was allowed to run its normal course, and Goth collected the emaciated Master and took him to Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
==== Revenge on Gallifrey ====
[[File:DA Master close up.jpg|thumb|left|The Master whilst on Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'')]]
Whilst on Gallifrey, the Master made Goth, in line for the position of [[Lord President]] of the [[High Council]] of Time Lords, into his slave, continuing to promise him power until Goth could no longer fight his mental dominance. The Master also took over [[the Matrix]], and realised that the [[Eye of Harmony]] resided beneath the [[Panopticon]]. He believed he could use the [[Sash of Rassilon]] to protect himself from the raw power of the Eye and channel that energy to renew himself.
 
With a [[telepathic]] summons and a vision of the future created by the Matrix, the Master lured the [[Fourth Doctor]] to Gallifrey, seemingly to prevent the murder of the then-serving Lord President. The Doctor failed and ended up on trial for the President's murder.
 
After Goth died, the Doctor defeated the Master in physical combat and, as a result, the Master fell into a crevice created by a localised earthquake. He gained access to his TARDIS in the confusion and escaped, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') having been able to convert the energy from the Eye of Harmony and partially heal himself. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trail of the White Worm (audio story)|Trail of the White Worm]]'')
 
==== Beyond Gallifrey ====
The Master followed the Doctor's TARDIS from Gallifrey, but was knocked off course passing through the [[transduction barrier]] and landed in [[London]] during the [[1890s]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterpiece (audio story)|Masterpiece]]'') He asked the locals if he could speak to someone in authority, and [[Percival Quick|Inspector Quick]] was the first on the scene. The Master wasted no time in hypnotising Quick for his goals, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Museum of Curiosities (audio story)|The Museum of Curiosities]]'') giving him several tasks to carry out on his behalf. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jago & Son (audio story)|Jago & Son]]'')
 
The Master walked the streets of London, concealing himself with a mask and walking with a cane. He spoke to [[Maurice Ravel]], interested in a watch he carried with the [[Prydonian Chapter|Prydonian Seal]] on it. The Master later learned that Jago and Litefoot were the Doctor's contacts in the time period, and intended to visit them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Maurice (audio story)|Maurice]]'') The Master had Quick bring him a sample of Jago and Litefoot's DNA, planning to poison them so that they would summon the Doctor to help them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Woman in White (audio story)|The Woman in White]]'')
 
As he became more frail, the Master planned to use the Doctor's [[artron energy]] in order to heal his form. He travelled to the [[Red Tavern]] and spoke to [[Ellie Higson]], hypnotising her so that he could learn of Jago and Litefoot, and reverted her [[metabolism]] to its natural state, causing her to lose control of her [[Vampire|vampiric]] hunger. Jago and Litefoot learned of the location of the Master's lair with the help of Madame [[Sosostris]] and encountered the Master there. Sosostris' assistant revealed himself to be the [[Sixth Doctor]]. The Master activated a machine to drain the life energy of Jago and Litefoot, before absorbing the Doctor's artron energy. The Doctor reversed the flow of the machine and the Master's life began to be drained. After the Doctor smashed his equipment, the Master slipped into his TARDIS and escaped. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterpiece (audio story)|Masterpiece]]'')
 
With his TARDIS still in the form of a clock, the Master attempted to steal [[Iris Wildthyme]]'s body, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Shadow]]'') and was captured by the [[Sild]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
 
Still looking a little "putrescent", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen]]'') the Master was greeted by {{Gomez|n=a female incarnation of himself known as "Missy"}}, who had developed a plan to form a band to hypnotise viewers of ''[[The Battle of the Bands Beyond the Stars]]''. {{Ainley|n=His next incarnation}}, {{Roberts|n=an incarnation possessing the body of a man named Bruce}} and {{Simm|n=an incarnation going by the name "Saxon"}} all joined in the plan, and the team spent "decades" practising. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'') 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 [[Missy's device|her device]], believing that he alone could hold the universe in his grasp. The decaying Master joined in the struggle, declaring that his future selves were idiots. The five were quickly disqualified, seemingly destroying them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'')
 
==== Fighting the Fourth Doctor ====
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The Master plotted to capture the [[Z-battery]] that the [[Third Doctor]] left on Earth to repair his TARDIS during his exile. The Master's plan was to use the [[Z-radiation]] within the battery, combined with the [[O-radiation]] which permeated [[Oseidon]], to create powerful [[ZO-radiation]] which the Master could use to renew himself. For his plot, the Master entered into an alliance with the [[Kraal (species)|Kraal]]s, and created two robot duplicates; one to pose as Kraal Chief Scientist [[Tyngworg]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Oseidon Adventure (audio story)|The Oseidon Adventure]]'') and a second to search for genetically engineered alien worm in [[Derbyshire]]. In Derbyshire, he spent his time living underneath [[Hugh Spindleton]]'s house. He offered [[Leela]] to the worm, but the worm didn't want to eat her. Knowing that the Doctor was near, he advanced his plans and wanted to capture him. He mused why the worm wanted the Doctor. He activated the worm by generating a lightning storm. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trail of the White Worm (audio story)|Trail of the White Worm]]'')
 
The Master wanted to kill the Doctor with his TCE. He was arrested by [[Grimnal]], but rescued by Leela, and they both went to Oseidon. The duplicate that stayed on Oseidon destroyed the one from Earth. The Doctor defeated the Master by using a Master android duplicate that he had constructed to kidnap the real Master, and take him away in his own TARDIS before his plan could be fulfilled. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Oseidon Adventure (audio story)|The Oseidon Adventure]]'')
 
The Master then posed as Inspector Efendi of the Intergalactic insurance agency so that he could find spaceships full of gold bullion. He then employed the [[Salonu]] to steal this gold, which attracted the attention of the Doctor and Leela to investigate. The Master then used the telepathic abilities of the Salonu to influence Leela into thinking that she was the Master's assassin and that he was the great [[Xoanon]] who desired the death of the Doctor. The [[Salonu Prime]], with the help of the Doctor, noticed the Master's influence and undid the conditioning. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Evil One (audio story)|The Evil One]]'')
 
[[Shandar]] of the [[Rocket Men]] invited the Master on his ship [[the Asteroid]], where the Master saw the Doctor was Shandar's prisoner. When he confronted the Doctor, the Master used his [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]] on him, and apparently killed him, but he realised he had only destroyed a duplicate. The real Doctor was in fact pretending to be [[Oskin]], and used that guise to bring down the force field around the ship, and used [[K9 Mark I]] to stall the Master's TARDIS once it had passed the force field so that the slaves on board the Asteroid could be freed. The Master overrode K9's tampering and kidnapped Leela after she had left the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Requiem for the Rocket Men (audio story)|Requiem for the Rocket Men]]'')
 
Charming the participants' owners with fine dining, the Master became the huntmaster of the Death Match, and used Leela as his champion. The Master said all that he was doing was reviving an old Gallifreyan past-time and sent the Doctor into the Game. He then set the endgame protocols which meant every contestant had an hour to live. [[Kastrella]] worked out that his plan was to wipe out the heads of major armies using his game to do this. He indulged her in killing all her rivals. After the Doctor reversed the command Matrix, he was to be killed as part of the endgame and would only live if he killed Kastrella. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death Match (audio story)|Death Match]]'')
 
The Master attempted to rend asunder the constellation of [[Mandus]] using a segment of the [[Key to Time]] but was defeated by the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')
 
On [[Kendrax]], the Master attempted to ally himself with the Daleks and the [[Cybermen]], but his plan was foiled by [[Romana II]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Not-So-Sinister Sponge]]'') He also entered a pact with the [[Embodiment of Gris]] but found himself again bested by the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')
[[File:BirthOfAinleyMaster.jpg|thumb|The Master steals Tremas' body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'')]]
The Master was drawn to and became stranded on the planet [[Traken]], the centre of the [[Traken Union]], in a [[TARDIS]] configured into the sculpture-shaped [[Melkur]]. He plotted to take over [[The Source (The Keeper of Traken)|the Source]] also located on the planet Traken, the power behind the Traken Union, and use it to restore himself. To this end, over a period of years, he won over [[Kassia]], who later married [[Tremas]] and became a [[stepmother]] to [[Nyssa]]. His plans were thwarted by the Doctor and [[Adric]] when the [[Keeper of Traken]] summoned them, having sensed something of his machinations. With the help of Tremas and Nyssa, the Doctor removed the Master from the Source. However, with some of the Keeper's powers lingering, the Master was able to merge with Tremas, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') regenerating himself into a new body.  ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')
 
=== In Tremas' body ===
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==== Besting the Fourth Doctor ====
In his new body, the Master went to [[Earth]], where he trapped [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] in a [[gravity bubble]]. He killed [[Tegan Jovanka]]'s aunt [[Vanessa (Logopolis)|Vanessa]] and a [[police|police constable]] with his [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]]. He then went to [[Logopolis]], where he pretended to be Tremas to gain Nyssa's cooperation, giving her a bracelet that allowed him to control her arm. Using her as a hostage, he perverted the [[Block Transfer Computation]]s and held the planet for ransom until its secret was revealed. This made the [[causal nexus]] unravel and also broke the [[Logopolitan]]s' blockade of [[entropy]], allowing it to swallow several galaxies, including the entire [[Traken Union]].
 
The entropy wave was so threatening that the Master agreed to work with the [[Fourth Doctor]] to stop it. They travelled to the [[Pharos Project]] on [[Earth]] to do so, using the last theorem of Logopolis to reopen [[Charged Vacuum Emboitment]]s. His true plan was revealed however when he sent a message to the peoples of the universe that he would stop the entropy only if they submitted to his rule. While the Doctor stopped the Master's signal to shut down the CVE that would halt the entropy wave, the Master caused him to fall off the Pharos Project's [[radio telescope]] and [[Regeneration|regenerate]], allowing the Master to escape. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
 
==== Battling the Fifth Doctor ====
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As the [[Fifth Doctor]] made his leave in the TARDIS, the Master reappeared and kidnapped [[Adric]] and held him in a [[hadron web]] to make him a part of [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. Using a projection of Adric, the Master sent the Doctor's TARDIS hurtling to destruction at [[Event One]], but the Doctor saved his TARDIS through the [[Architectural Configuration]]. The Master used Adric's block transfer computations to create [[Castrovalva]] in the [[Andromeda (galaxy)|Andromeda Galaxy]], where the Doctor would recover from his regeneration. He escaped from the [[recursion]] trap and tried to kill the Doctor, but was attacked by the enraged citizens, with the city itself due to collapse. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
 
The Master remained trapped in Castrovalva for some time, but was able to find a way to project himself in [[England]] in the [[1920s]]. In an attempt to capture and kill the Doctor and his companions and escape Castrovalva, the Master manipulated [[Harry Houdini]] to send a psionic distress call to his old friend. When the Doctor answered the call, Houdini claimed that he needed help to stop a fortune teller. However, when the Master's plan was uncovered, the Doctor managed to stop his revenge plan. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Smoke and Mirrors (audio story)|Smoke and Mirrors]]'')
 
The Master eventually escaped from Castrovalva, ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'') but in the attempt, it caused damage to the [[dynamorphic generator]]s, making it difficult to continue piloting his TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') He travelled to Earth in [[Distant past|140,000,000 BC]], where he disguised himself as the [[magic]]ian [[Kalid]], hoping to use the [[Xeraphin]] [[gestalt]] to replace his dynamorphic generators. He brought two [[Concorde]]s to his Citadel via a [[time contour]]. The second held the Doctor, his TARDIS and companions. He originally planned to use the captured passengers to break into the Sanctum and take control of the Xeraphin and add him to his TARDIS, but then he acquired the Doctor's TARDIS in a trade with him for a part the Doctor needed for his own TARDIS. The Xeraphin contacted Nyssa and let Tegan and her enter the Citadel, where the Master revealed his true form. The Master held the passengers hostage for parts from the Doctor's TARDIS. The second Concorde was returned to its own time and the Master ended up on [[Xeriphas]] with the freed and angry Xeraphin. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'')
 
On Xeriphas, the Master found and acquired [[Kamelion]], a shape-changing [[android]] that could be easily controlled by a strong mind. Managing to elude Xeraphin, the Master escaped to England in [[1215]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'') Killing the [[French]] knight "Sir Giles Estram" to assume his identity, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sanctuary (novel)|Sanctuary]]'') the Master made Kamelion impersonate [[John of England]] to prevent the signing of ''[[Magna Carta]]''. However, the arrival of the Doctor, Tegan and [[Vislor Turlough]] caused interference with his plans. After the Doctor defeated him in a joust, the Master fled in his TARDIS after the still-disguised Kamelion offered the Doctor the choice of saving him or another captive. ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'')
 
When the High Council of the Time Lords discovered that the first five incarnations of the Doctor had been [[time scoop]]ed and taken into the [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]], they asked the Master for help and offered him a new cycle of regenerations as a bargaining tool. He agreed and was given a copy of the [[Seal of Rassilon|Seal of the High Council]] by [[Jerricho|the Castellan]] to prove his credentials. However, the [[Third Doctor]] did not believe the Master and blamed him for their being there, taking the seal from him on the pretense that he would return the "stolen property" to the High Council.
 
The Master soon after encountered the Fifth Doctor, who also had trouble believing him, especially when he claimed that the Third Doctor had taken his only proof. Before he could further attempt to gain his trust, however, a group of [[Cybermen (Mondas)|Cybermen]] ambushed them, the Doctor using the Master's recall device to escape and meet with the High Council when the Master was knocked out. Upon waking up, he formed a temporary alliance with the Cybermen to guide them to the [[Dark Tower]], although it was clear they would kill him once he was no further use. After he let the Tower's traps slaughter the Cybermen, he hinted to the [[First Doctor]] how to get past security, but then grew power-hungry at the mention of immortality, and prepared to kill the first three incarnations of the Doctor, still angry at the Third Doctor for refusing his help when he was genuinely there to lend assistance. [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] knocked him unconscious and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Tegan Jovanka]] bound him with rope. After Borusa was encased in [[Rassilon]]'s tomb, Rassilon sent the Master back to his own time, promising that "his sins [would] find their punishment in due time". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
 
For failing to help the Doctor in the Death Zone, the Time Lords destroyed his body. In an attempt to trap the Doctor, and steal his remaining regenerations, the Master faked his own death, ensuring the Doctor would attend the funeral at the nursing home where he supposedly spent his final days. But the Doctor was saved by Turlough, and the Master's plan was foiled yet again. The Master was, however, able to steal some energy from one of the Doctor's previous incarnations, giving him back his form once more. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Velvet Dark (short story)|The Velvet Dark]]'')
 
The Master arrived in [[Camelot]] just after the coronation of [[King Arthur]], and became the new Merlin after the old one died. He planned to make Arthur believe [[Mordred]] was dead so Mordred would grow up to kill Arthur at the battle of Camlan. When the Master saw that the Doctor and Tegan had arrived, he left the court and hurried to his TARDIS to retreat, while the Doctor suggested Arthur create the Knights of the Round Table to prepare for when Mordred came. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Creation of Camelot]]'')
 
The Master developed a more powerful version of the Tissue Compression Eliminator and accidentally shrank himself and his lab, without the ill effect of death. Using a device to boost his telepathy, the Master made contact with Kamelion once more, directing him to use the Doctor's TARDIS to land on [[Sarn (planet)|Sarn]]. With Kamelion acting as his physical proxy, the Master had him pretend to be the locals' god and order the Doctor's death. When this failed, he had Kamelion take the small box his lab had become and take it to the lab on Sarn that used [[Numismaton Gas]], hoping it could restore him.
 
As the Master stood in a gas vent and returned to normal size, the Doctor used the gas to apparently burn him to death. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'') However, the Numismaton Gas increased the power of the Source of Traken still remaining in the Master's body, enabling the Master to survive. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') Horrifically burned, the Master went in search of the Fountain of Youth to restore himself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Town Called Eternity]]'')
 
Using his link to Kamelion, the Master attempted to psychically interfere with the Doctor's fifth [[regeneration]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Winter (audio story)|Winter]]'') urging the Doctor to die from the [[spectrox toxaemia]] poisoning in the TARDIS, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'') but was foiled by Nyssa. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Winter (audio story)|Winter]]'')
 
==== Encountering the Sixth Doctor ====
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The Master allied with his old Academy classmate, [[the Rani]], in [[Killingworth]] against the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]]; the Master hoped to hasten the advancement of Earth's technology for his own nefarious reasons, while the Rani wanted the brain chemical that induced sleep in humans. The Doctor trapped the Master and the Rani in [[the Rani's TARDIS]], which the Doctor had sabotaged, with the [[time spillage]] putting them in danger of being eaten by a [[tyrannosaurus rex]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'') The Master separated the Rani's console room from the rest of her TARDIS, freeing himself while leaving the Rani to drift aimlessly through the vortex. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[State of Change (novel)|State of Change]]'')
 
Recovering his own TARDIS and learning of [[the Valeyard]], the Master materialised in the Matrix and observed the Doctor's trial on [[Space Station Zenobia]] while examining the Matrix footage himself to see what was tampered with. Learning that the Valeyard was an "amalgamation of the darker side of [the Doctor's] nature", the Master decided that the Valeyard was a threat to himself and rescued the Doctor by supplying the Doctor with witnesses in the form of [[Melanie Bush]] and [[Sabalom Glitz]], and revealing himself to the court as a surprise witness. Using Glitz as a tool, the Master tried to steal secrets from the Matrix, but was beaten by the Valeyard, and imprisoned in the Matrix by a limbo atrophier with Glitz. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'') The Time Lords released the Master and Glitz from the Matrix, whereupon the Master killed the technicians and fled in his TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mission: Impractical (novel)|Mission: Impractical]]'') After escaping, the Master could regenerate his body because [[The Source (The Keeper of Traken)|the Source]] of [[Traken]] still existed within him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
 
After escaping from an unsuccessful alliance with the [[Kroton (species)|Krotons]], the Master was attacked by the [[Chronovore]]s looking for revenge for his torture of [[Kronos]], and discovered that the last remnants of the Source of Traken were fading, reducing him to his previous cadaverous form. The Master devised a plan to destroy the Chronovores and achieve omnipotence by trying to access the [[Lux Aeterna]] using the son of [[TOMTIT]], the [[TITAN Array]]. He stole the equipment and used it on a woman he hypnotised, [[Anjeliqua Whitefriar]], expecting it to destroy her before he used it. However, she absorbed the Lux Aeterna, achieved omnipotence and became the [[Quantum Archangel]].
 
Using her power, she filled the universe with too many alternate timelines, leading the Chronovores to feast upon them, eventually leading to the end of the universe. The Master and the Doctor teamed up to rectify the Master's mistake by defeating the Quantum Archangel. They discovered that the Quantum Archangel had allied itself with the [[Mad Mind of Bophemeral]] so it could have infinite knowledge of the Universe. The Doctor and the Master encountered Kronos, who claimed to have been the one who attacked the Master's TARDIS, so he would come up with his plan, and would eventually lead to the Master's destruction as well as allowing Anjeliqua to survive, causing Kronos' plan for revenge to go wrong. They succeeded by draining the Lux Aeterna out of her, although not before the Master escaped using the TITAN equipment to harness the Lux Aeterna to restore his Trakenite body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
 
At some point, the Master discovered the [[Parallel Sect]], where he possessed the body of Keith Potter, wanting to dominate the dimensional nexus. He found the Valeyard, and encountered the Doctor and [[Constance Clarke]]. After the Doctor defeated him, the Master was confronted by the Valeyard, who threatened him, forcing the Master to both leave the nexus and never return and to leave the Doctor alone, as the Valeyard had a plan to deal with him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The End of the Line (audio story)|The End of the Line]]'')
 
==== Further exploits ====
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The 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 ''[[The Battle of the Bands Beyond the Stars]]''. {{Pratt|n=His previous incarnation}}, {{Roberts|n=an incarnation possessing the body of a man known as Bruce}} and {{Simm|n=an incarnation who went by the name "Saxon"}} all joined in the plan, and the team spent "decades" practising. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'') After unveiling their presence to the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen]]'') the Masters prepared for their performance. However, the Master began to fight with Missy over the possession of [[Missy's device|her device]], believing that he alone could hold the universe in his grasp. The other incarnations joined in the fight, and the five were eventually disqualified, seemingly destroying them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'')
 
==== Alliance with Adam Mitchell ====
After meeting [[Adam Mitchell]], a companion who had betrayed the [[Ninth Doctor]], the Master began working to help him take revenge on their common enemy. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Choice (comic story)|The Choice]]'') Together, they set up an asylum in [[7214]] with [[Auton]]s as staff as a trap for the [[Sixth Doctor]], Peri and [[Frobisher]]. The Doctor broke out of his cell thanks to Peri and Frobisher and melted the Autons. The Master escaped by tripping up the Doctor, leaving Adam to capture Peri. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Façades (comic story)|Façades]]'')
 
Using a group of [[Aerolith]]s to further his alliance, the Master syphoned their life force, to transmit to Adam, using a Gulwort. However, when they were freed by the [[Seventh Doctor]], they chased after him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Cat and Mouse (comic story)|Cat and Mouse]]'') After being tortured by the Aeroliths, the Master escaped, and, reunited with Adam, encountering the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. Discouraging Adam from listening to the Doctor, the Master watched in satisfaction as Adam prepared to kill the captured companions, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Choice (comic story)|The Choice]]'') but was prevented when the Doctor summoned his earlier incarnations and revealed that he had arranged for Frobisher to infiltrate the plan by allowing himself to be captured while posing as Peri.
 
The Master and Adam released an Auton army, but the Doctors were able to keep them occupied long enough for Frobisher to release the other companions as reinforcements. However, unbeknownst to Adam, the Master planned to destroy reality itself, using the merged TARDIS that brought the Doctors there to channel chronon energy in a massive backlash that would unmake history. Convinced by the Doctors, Adam stunned him, but the Master stabbed him with a hidden knife. The injured Adam managed to foil the Master's plan but died in the attempt. The Master, still pleased by his role within all the chaos, teleported away. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (POT comic story)|Endgame]]'')
 
==== Facing the Seventh Doctor ====
After trying to start a war between [[Antari Two]] and [[Antari Three]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') the Master went to the [[Cheetah World]], where he took [[mind control|control]] of the [[Cheetah People]] and the [[kitling]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
 
The Master used the Cheetah People to ambush the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] by kidnapping some friends of the Doctor, but he was entombed in an avalanche caused by the Doctor when he came to save his friends. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr. Seventh (novel)|Dr. Seventh]]'')
 
As [[Cheetah virus|exposure to the planet]] began changing the Master into a Cheetah Person, he sent the kitlings to [[Ace]]'s home in the [[London]] suburb of [[Perivale]] to hunt for [[human]] recruits. Eventually, he found a pliable young man called [[Midge]] and used him to escape. Using Midge as his "hunting dog", the Master recruited a gang of Perivale youths to defeat the Doctor and Ace. The Master killed Midge and [[teleport]]ed the Doctor to the Cheetah World, which had begun to break up. The Doctor escaped, but the Master was trapped on the dying world. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
 
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:''How exactly the Master escaped the Cheetah World and what occurred next was a matter of debate.''
The Master was seen multiple times after somehow escaping the Cheetah World, still in Tremas's body and infected by the Cheetah Virus. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Stop the Pigeon (short story)|Stop the Pigeon]]'', ''[[Prime Time (novel)|Prime Time]]'') However, he himself contradictorily claimed that he was immediately stranded on Earth after escaping, and was then was cured by [[Tzun]] [[nanite]]s and regenerated. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')
 
No longer infected by the virus, the Master either lost Tremas's body and reverted to his previous cadaverous form, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'') or regenerated into a new body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') Ultimately, however, he was once again in a stolen body by the time of his execution on [[Skaro]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'')
 
==== Tremas persists ====
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In the year [[2067]], the Master tried to stave off the effects of the Cheetah virus by posing as a "Dr Howard Chithros" and draining the life from his elderly patients. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Stop the Pigeon (short story)|Stop the Pigeon]]'')
 
The Master attempted to gain a new body from a legendary race known as the [[Fleshsmith]]s, claiming that the Cheetah virus would kill his Trakenite body within a year, but his plan was stopped by the Doctor, who ejected the new body from the Fleshsmith vessel into space. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prime Time (novel)|Prime Time]]'')
 
No longer affected by the Cheetah virus, and wanting to find a way to survive beyond his final regeneration, the Master tried to steal the body of a mouse-turned-boy named [[Callum (Omegamorphosis)|Callum]], but his plan was foiled by the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Omegamorphosis (short story)|Omegamorphosis]]'')
 
[[File:The Master In Destiny of the Doctors.jpg|thumb|left|The Master temporarily victorious in capturing the first seven incarnations of the Doctor. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')]]
Looking much older with greying hair, the Master captured the first seven incarnations of the Doctor and put them into a void called [[the Determinant]]. However, the [[Graak]] successfully freed the Doctors and the Master was captured and imprisoned by one of the races involved in his game. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')
 
On a desert planet on the fringes of [[Mutter's Spiral]], the Master obtained and swallowed a [[Deathworm Morphant]] from the [[Morg]]s. He then surrendered himself to the [[Dalek]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') According to this account, the Master was then tried and executed by the Daleks, making a request for the Doctor to return his remains to Gallifrey, only to use the Deathworm Morphant to take the Doctor's TARDIS to [[1999]] [[San Francisco]], where he possessed the body of [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|an ambulance driver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
==== A new regeneration ====
According to one account, the Master became trapped on Earth without his TARDIS in the year [[1957]] after escaping the destruction of the Cheetah Planet by using a kitling named [[Shadow (Kitling)|Shadow]] to transmigrate just as the planet exploded.
 
The Master interrupted the first [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] satellite launch and sent a distress signal to the [[Tzun]] Canton on [[Zeta Reticuli Four]]. He offered to help assimilate Earth into the [[Tzun Confederacy]]. In return, the Master asked for passage off Earth and the use of the Tzun's genetic engineering to cure his Cheetah virus infection. The Tzun accepted and prepared nanites for him that broke down the corrupted [[Trakenite]] DNA in his cells and restructured it. This was meant to restore the Master to being a "full" Time Lord, giving him a new regenerative cycle and curing the Cheetah virus. Shortly after being restored to his full Time Lord heritage, he was shot in the back by Ace to avenge his murder of [[Joe Manco]], causing him to regenerate. Following the regeneration, he was able to make his escape, summoning his TARDIS using a [[Stattenheim remote control]] built from Tzun technology. After leaving a booby-trap for the Doctor in a [[Nuclear missile|nuclear warhead]], the Master fled ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') to the [[Scoundrels Club]] to recover from his regeneration. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
 
Later, the Master laid a trap for the Doctor in one of the Doctor's homes using a device which would release the energy from a [[time fissure]] once the Doctor's TARDIS [[materialise]]d, destroying it. The plan failed when [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Mike Yates]] and [[K9 Mark III]] destroyed the device, causing the Master to flee. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Housewarming (short story)|Housewarming]]'')
 
The nanites the Tzun gave the Master eventually began to fail, risking him returning to his former failing form, causing him to seek the [[Loom of Rassilon's Mouse]] in order to make himself a new body. His plan failed when a [[Fortean Flicker]] caused [[Bernice Summerfield]]'s wedding to occur in the same place, exposing his scheme to her guests. However, the Master managed to escape by hypnotising [[Kitai]] into posing as a decoy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
 
==== Reduced to an old body ====
In another account, the Master, still in [[Tremas]]'s body, learned of a device known as the [[Warp Core]], a sentient powerhouse of mental energy designed as a weapon to safeguard the [[planet]] [[Duchamp 331]]. He tracked the Warp Core to Earth, intending to use it to power his TARDIS. Unprepared for its power and underestimating its outside awareness, he was attacked by the Warp Core, which stripped his Trakenite body from him and reduced him to his previous decaying form. The Master then collected four [[Krill]] eggs with the intention of awakening the Warp Core from its slumber and exhausting it, so that he could draw it into [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] to be his slave. The Master then used a mask to disguise his deformity and followed the Warp Core as it arrived on [[Duchamp 331]]. Under the alias "Mr. Seta", the Master funded Madame [[Salvadori]]'s trip to Duchamp 331.
 
There, the Master unleashed the Krill upon the passengers, hypnotising Salvadori's aide, [[Klemp]], in the process. Revealing his true identity, the Master kept Salvadori alive, before encountering the [[Seventh Doctor]]. When the Core arrived, the Master tried to ally with it, but it dismissed him, leading him to ordering Klemp to kill Salvadori, but Klemp's loyalty was too strong, so the Master killed him. The Doctor escaped to his TARDIS, and attempted to gain control of the Warp Core through his TARDIS's telepathic circuits, while the Master used his TARDIS to fight of the Doctor's influence, and gain control of it. After it and the planet was destroyed, the Master was flung through time and space. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'')
 
The Doctor made a deal with [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]] for the Master to have ten years of peace and sanity, at the end of which the Doctor had to kill him.
 
During his ten years, the Master had become a physician on the colony world of [[Perfugium]] with [[amnesia|no memory of his past]], and took the name [[John Smith (Master)|John Smith]]. He was taken in by [[Wolstonecroft]], and inherited his house when Wolstonecroft died. During his time as John Smith, the Master became emotionally involved with [[Jacqueline Schaeffer]].
 
At the end of the allotted time, the Doctor arrived but strove to avoid fulfilling his side of the bargain. Death herself was present at these events, disguised as the Master's maid, and manipulated events so that the John Smith persona would crumble and the true Master would become dominant once more. It was during these events he learnt that the [[First Doctor]] made a deal with Death after killing [[Torvic]] which made the Master Death's champion, but Smith forgave the Doctor upon this revelation, understanding that the adult couldn't be blamed for the actions of the child that didn't fully understand what was being offered. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
 
=== Fighting the Eighth Doctor ===
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Now in his "final incarnation," ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') the Master arrived in the [[Valley of the Kings]] in [[Egypt]] and was captured by the Daleks to be placed on trial, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'') for his attempts to destroy them and usurp their place as "the supreme creatures of the universe." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') After he was tried and executed by the Daleks on [[Skaro]] as part of a Time Lord-Dalek treaty, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') he made a final request: for the Doctor to transport his remains back to Gallifrey. However, his essence survived his physical death in the fluid-like form ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') of the Deathworm Morphant he had earlier ingested. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'')
 
The Doctor stored the Master's ashes in a casket and set [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] on course for Gallifrey. However, en route, the Master's consciousness escaped from the casket and interfered with the TARDIS, causing a timing malfunction that resulted in an emergency landing in [[San Francisco]] during the final days of [[1999]]. While the Doctor lay wounded after being caught in the crossfire of a gang war and was picked up by an [[ambulance]], the Master exited the TARDIS via its keyhole, and, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') deciding that the Doctor was too injured, and the nearby boy, [[Chang Lee]], too young, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') he hid inside a bag belonging to the ambulance driver, [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|Bruce]]. After Bruce had gone to home and bed, the Master forced his way into Bruce's body through his mouth, killing him and taking over his body. The next morning, the Master awoke, now inhabiting Bruce's body, but realised that the American's body had started decaying and would not last long and launched his scheme to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations, with his first act being the murder of Bruce's [[Miranda (Doctor Who)|wife]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') and then used Bruce's memories to track the Doctor to [[Walker General Hospital]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'')
 
Learning from Bruce's colleagues that the Doctor had died on the operating table and that his body had apparently been stolen, the Master was also informed by [[Nurse]] [[Curtis (Doctor Who)|Curtis]] that  the young gang member who had been present when the Doctor was shot, Chang Lee, had also stolen the Doctor's possessions, including the [[TARDIS key]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Heading to the TARDIS, the Master found Lee already inside, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') and regaled him with stories of the Doctor's supposed villainy, claiming that the Doctor had stolen his lives and home, and was also [[Genghis Khan]]. With Lee's help, the Master was able to open the [[Eye of Harmony]], and discovered that the Doctor had [[regenerate]]d into [[Eighth Doctor|a new body]], and that the Doctor was apparently half-[[human]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
Stealing Bruce's [[ambulance]] by murdering his [[Joey Sneller|paramedic partner]], the Master and Lee answered [[Dr]]. [[Grace Holloway]]'s request for an ambulance to collect the Doctor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') and agreed to take them to [[Professor]] [[Wagg]]'s [[atomic clock]] at the [[Institute for Technological Advancement and Research]] and repair the timing malfunction the Master caused with the clock's [[beryllium chip]], when he was really planning to bring the Doctor back to the TARDIS. Realising the Master's true identity, the Doctor and Grace escaped, but before they could do so, the Master secretly [[Possession|possessed]] Grace's mind. When the Doctor got back to the TARDIS to fix the timing malfunction, the Master had Grace knock the Doctor out and put him in restraints. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
Still wearing Bruce's clothes, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen]]'') the 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 ''[[The Battle of the Bands Beyond the Stars]]''. {{Pratt|n=His decaying thirteenth incarnation}}, {{Ainley|n=an incarnation possessing the body of Tremas}} and {{Simm|n=an incarnation going by the name "Saxon"}} all joined in the plan, and the team spent "decades" practising. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'') 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 [[Missy's device|her device]], believing that he alone could hold the universe in his grasp. The decaying Master joined in the struggle, followed rapidly by the "Bruce" Master, and the group soon became involved in a full on brawl. The five were quickly disqualified, seemingly destroying them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'')
 
Having donned more traditional Gallifreyan robes, the Master boasted his plans to the restrained Doctor, accidentally letting it slip that he had lost his lives trying to destroy the Doctor, exposing his earlier lies to Lee. After killing Lee for refusing to follow his orders, the Master forcibly opened the Eye using Grace's retina so that he could steal the Doctor's regenerations. Although the Master was able to initiate the transfer process that would give him access to the Doctor's remaining regenerations, Grace was able to prevent this by rerouting the TARDIS' power and sending the ship into a [[temporal orbit]]. Grace released the Doctor from his restraints, but the Master threw Grace off of a balcony inside the [[Cloister Room]], killing her. With the Master's body dying as the Doctor's regenerations were returned to him, the two Time Lords fought near the [[Eye of Harmony]], culminating in the Master falling into it when he leapt at the Doctor and misjudged the angle. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
There were many rumours on [[Gallifrey]] concerning what happened to the Master after he was sucked into the Eye of Harmony in the Doctor's TARDIS. Some rumours stated that he was saved from inside the [[Time Vortex]] by the mythical [[Esterath]]; others said that he remained trapped in the TARDIS with his mind transferred into an [[android]] [[body]] to become the Doctor's "[[companion]] or [[pet]]"; still others claimed that this was the death that he would later be resurrected from by the Time Lords to fight in the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')
 
During the [[War in Heaven]], [[Father Kreiner]] killed and decapitated either the original Master or a [[clone]] created as part of the Time Lords' War-time [[hatchling project]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')
 
==== Imprisonment in the Eye of Harmony ====
While his essence was left wandering the [[Time Vortex]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') an "echo" of the Master remained imprisoned inside the Doctor's TARDIS. In the singularity of the Eye of Harmony, the Master commanded infinite power, but could only wield it from within the confines of the Eye. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
 
Shortly after his defeat, the Master laid a final trap for the Doctor, leaving a crystalline structure on the Eye that would give the Doctor [[amnesia]]. However, the Doctor was subconsciously guided by [[Rassilon]] to recover his memories by visiting his previous seven selves. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') Whilst exploring the Eighth Doctor's TARDIS, [[River Song]] thought she heard an American screaming from within the walls. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock]]'')
 
During his imprisonment, the Doctor came to speak to the Master where he dwelled in a room with his face on a screen. The Master spoke to the Doctor in the room on several occasions, telling him that he was an "old friend". After the defeat of the [[Council of Eight]], the Doctor spoke to him about the death of [[Miranda Dawkins]] and if it was worth the cost of him saving the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never...]]'')
 
The Master later appeared to the Doctor within a mirror in the TARDIS, where he asked the Doctor what was going on inside his head. The Doctor was unable to answer the question before the image in the mirror returned to that of the Doctor's reflection. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Deadstone Memorial]]'')
 
The Master had a longer conversation with the Doctor from within the Eye of Harmony. The Master showed the Doctor a vision of [[Marnal]]'s investigation of [[the Shoal]]. When the Doctor pressed him about what happened to Gallifrey, the Master teased him with offers to bring it back and to return his memories. The Master then became angry over the circumstances of his imprisonment. He threatened to use all of his power to detonate a fusion device and have his revenge. The Doctor sealed up the Eye of Harmony before he had the chance to carry out his plan. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
 
=== Beyond the Eye of Harmony ===
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==== Fight for the Glory ====
After the Master passed through the Eye of Harmony, his essence was left wandering the [[Time Vortex]]. Nearing his ultimate destruction, he was rescued from the Vortex by a being named [[Esterath]], the controller of [[the Glory]], the focal point of the [[Omniverse]]. The Master was told that it was time for the Glory to gain another controller, but the power had to be fought for. The Master assumed that the battle would be between himself and the Doctor.
 
After gliding over the many realities throughout the Omniversal Spectrum for what he described as seeming like "centuries", the Master was resurrected into the body of a recently deceased vagrant on the streets of [[2001]] [[Brixton]]. Some weeks afterwards, due to a symbiotic link he had formed with the Doctor's TARDIS when it consumed part of his essence after he passed through the Eye of Harmony, the Master was transported onto [[the Moon]] during one of the Doctor's adventures. The symbiotic link between the Doctor's TARDIS and the Master had also given the latter the ability to influence the flight of the TARDIS, which he used to send the craft to times and places which would weaken the Doctor's self-belief and confidence.
The Master subsequently used this link to trail the Doctor for some time without his enemy suspecting. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
 
He was present in London during the crisis resulting from Grace Holloway's attempt to merge human and Time Lord [[DNA]] but was using the alien DNA of a [[Morphant]] by mistake. He killed [[Duncan (The Fallen)|Duncan]], an [[MI6]] agent, with his TCE. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'')
 
The Master later made contact with [[Sato Katsura]], a [[Japanese]] [[samurai]] unwillingly rendered [[Immortality|immortal]] as a result of his involvement in the Doctor's adventures. The embittered warrior became the Master's follower. At his behest, Sato adopted the identity of "Cardinal Morningstar" and became the leader of the [[Church of the Glorious Dead]], instigator of a holy war that altered the history of Earth, a planet now renamed "Dhakan". After revealing his plot to the Doctor, the Master won a sword fight with the Doctor by stabbing him, but then learned that the true battle for the Glory was between Sato and the Doctor's companion, the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]], of which Kroton was the victor. Amongst his first acts as the controller of the Glory were to cleanse the TARDIS of the Master's influence and to place the Master somewhere that he could not escape. The Master declared he would survive and return. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
 
==== Edward Grainger's dreams ====
Trapped in the [[Eye of Harmony]], the Master eventually escaped by influencing the dreams of [[Edward Grainger]] to unravel the Doctor's timeline, by killing Edward Grainger whilst he was an infant in [[1906]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Forgotten]]'') However, the Master, in the body of Sir [[George Steer]], was stopped by an older [[Edward Grainger]] from [[2006]] and [[Violet (Prologue)|Violet]] after being hit with a rolling pin and being removed from the body he possessed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prologue (ST short story)|Prologue]]'') The Master then managed to evade the Doctor's detection and possessed the body of a human native named [[Richard (Prologue)|Richard]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Forgotten]]'')
 
==== Surviving on Earth ====
After possessing Richard, the Master killed Violet out of revenge. However, the Master discovered his possession had caused the host body to decay at an accelerated rate, so he was forced to steal more bodies to prolong his survival. Realising that the [[First World War]] was rapidly approaching, the Master decided to migrate to [[America]] to avoid the conflict and boarded a ship to go there in [[1912]]. Ironically, he had boarded the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']], unaware of its eventual fate, and escaped in a lifeboat when it sank.
 
Arriving in [[New York City]], the Master took possession of a member of the Hudson Dusters, quickly becoming the leader of the gang and calling himself "Don Maestro". After twenty years of living in his current body, he occupied the body of his host's son, Michael, and moved to [[Las Vegas]] where he owned a casino. He accumulated money to fund experiments towards the elongation of the lifespan of his host body. Fearing the eventual decay of his body, the Master used his money to buy a penthouse to isolate himself from infection. After years living in isolation, his host's son confronted him with the knowledge that he had possessed both his father and his grandfather in some way. He then trapped the Master in the penthouse.
 
After [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] were alerted to the presence of penthouse, they discovered the Master in a comatose state. He was imprisoned in the [[The Vault (Tales from the Vault)|UNIT Vault]], awakening every five years for one hour, before returning to a coma. After fifteen years living in the Vault, the Master awoke for a third time and was interrogated by UNIT officers [[Ruth Matheson]] and [[Charlie Sato]]. However, he managed to hypnotise both of them and escape his imprisonment. Discovering that UNIT had recovered his TARDIS from a sealed tomb in the Valley of the Kings, he used it to escape from the Vault. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
 
=== A new lease of life ===
"Plucked" from "a predicament", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') the Master was [[resurrection|resurrected]] by [[Coordinator]] [[Narvin]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know]]'') Originally intending for him to fight against the Daleks in a possible war, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know]]'') due to the belief that he would be the perfect warrior due to his savagery, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') the Master was instead instructed to use [[the Eminence]], which posed the greater threat, to fight the Daleks. The [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] gave the Master all the information he needed for his mission, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') such as an update on the Doctor's activities. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') The Time Lords also gave the Master a new regeneration cycle. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') The new Master visited the [[Scoundrels Club]] after his regeneration. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
 
==== The Eminence experiments ====
The Master travelled to the [[Nixyce system]] and stole a teleportation casket of the Eminence, integrating it into his TARDIS console. He then tried to use the casket to gain influence over the Eminence, and take control of its [[infinite warrior]]s, calling them his "finite warriors". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') After saving [[Sally Armstrong]] from being hit by a taxi, he recruited her and began to work for the [[Ides Scientific Institute]] in the [[1970s]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'') He tried to discover why some humans were immune to the Eminence's influence, experimenting on them in an attempt to eliminate it so that the Daleks could not exploit it.
 
Encountering the [[Eighth Doctor]] in London, the Doctor managed to defeat the Master by reopening the link to the Eminence located in his mind, teaching it how to pilot a TARDIS. The Eminence then used the teleportation casket located in the Master's TARDIS to pilot it, taking the Master and Sally with it. The Master managed to isolate the Eminence inside his TARDIS through the telepathic circuits, enabling Sally to expel it into the Time Vortex.
 
The Master and Sally then kidnapped [[Molly O'Sullivan]] from her home in [[107 Baker Street]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') and took her to a world on the edge of humanity's war with the Eminence. There, the Master ran an experiment, using the [[retro-genitor particle]]s in Molly to fight the Eminence's [[breath of forever]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'') The Master then destroyed [[Ramosa]], kidnapping all of the planet's human colonists on board his TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reviled (audio story)|The Reviled]]'') The Master infected the human colonists of Ramosa with retro-genitor particles, planning to expose them to the Eminence, and gain control of all of them using the fragment of the Eminence contained in his mind. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
 
The Master unleashed his plans for humanity on Earth. He allied himself with the Eminence and allowed them to conquer Earth. He subsequently activated the retro-genitor particles in the humans and asserted his psychic influence over them. The Doctor escaped the Master's clutches and helped a group of humans overcome the Master's influence and stop his plans. Whilst the Celestial Intervention Agency erased his work from history, the Master escaped in his TARDIS, which was disguised as a palm tree. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'')
 
==== Creating a new Dalek army ====
Forming an alliance with the [[Dalek Time Controller]], the Master aided him in creating a new Dalek army in return for control over a number of conquered worlds. Setting the Controller up in [[Montmartre]] within the [[Red Pagoda]], he returned to the future and aided the Daleks in their occupation of Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'')
 
When the Doctor absconded in time, the Master returned to the Pagoda to help repair it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Monster of Montmartre (audio story)|The Monster of Montmartre]]'') With the amount of convertible humans still available dwindling, he decided to start converting [[Sontaran]]s into Daleks. Liv stole his [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]], and then travelled with him to [[Moscow]]. He created a mutiny with the Daleks, knowing that the Time Controller would betray him. The Doctor stole his TARDIS, leaving the Master stranded in the midst of a Dalek-Sontaran war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'')
 
==== Impersonating the Doctor ====
[[File:Unit_Dominion_Master.jpg|thumb|left|The Master poses as the "Other Doctor". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'')]]
Working against the Time Lords, the Master infiltrated a Time Lord base which contained two [[dimensional node]]s, products of technology developed by "the [[Dimensioneer]]s", and stole them. Attempting to control the dimensional energies of the entire universe, the Master planted one on the planet of the [[Tolian]]s, allowing it to drain all the energy that was available before giving the Tolians a communicator as a way of drawing the [[Seventh Doctor]] to their planet, enabling the Master to steal the only [[node activator]] still intact from the Doctor's TARDIS. Having successfully tricked the Doctor into restoring the Tolians' source of dimensional energy for them using his Node by manipulating him and using a form of [[reverse psychology]], he allowed the Tolians to force him to open a [[dimensional rift]], causing a catastrophic imbalance to the flow of dimensional energy in the process so great that it threatened the structure of reality itself.
 
Aiming to infiltrate UNIT, the Master assumed the guise of the Doctor, modelling his TARDIS' exterior on the form of a police box. Successful in his deceit, he began to work alongside UNIT's current scientific advisor, [[Elizabeth Klein]], under the command of [[Colonel]] [[Lafayette]] and [[Major]] [[Wyland-Jones]]. He assisted UNIT in defeating a number of interdimensional alien incursions, including attacks by [[Mind Leech]]es, [[Lava Spider]]s, [[Skyhead]]s and the [[Nexus]].
 
Rescuing the Doctor and his companion [[Raine Creevy]] from becoming trapped on the other side of a dimensional rift caused by the dimensional instability, the Master stole the Doctor's node activator and sent all the alien invaders back to their own dimensions, fleeing Earth with the Doctor in his TARDIS. Revealing his true identity to the Doctor, he detailed his plan: he intended to use the activator in conjunction with the two nodes to add even more dimensional energy to the Tolians so he could use them to conquer the Earth and other planets and dimensions beyond. However, the Doctor managed to convince the Tolian leader [[Arunzell]] that the Master would betray the Tolians, giving him the opportunity to capture the Master in return for recalling the rest of the Tolians. However, the Master revealed that he had locked the dimensional doorway, prompting him to abandon him to Arunzell. However, the restoration of the dimensional energies reduced Arunzell to his regular size, enabling the Master to kill him with his TCE and escape, intending to try his scheme all over again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'')
 
==== At war with his past ====
The Master made a deal with the [[Cult of the Heretic]] to regenerate the universe using their [[anomaly cage]]. The Cult manipulated the Master into coming into contact with his younger self, whom he disfigured with a staser. The Cult then betrayed the Master by switching the minds of the younger Master and the older Master. The paradox of having a Time Lord inhabiting the body of his past self led to the universe beginning to break down. The Cult intended to execute the future-in-past Master to make the paradox unbreakable, but the future-in-past Master was able to escape. The Cult hired the [[Transhuman Sisters of the Unholy Protocol]] and the [[Dragonhunter]]s to kill the older Master and make the paradox permanent, but the Master was able to drive the assassins off with the 'aid' of the [[Fifth Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'')
 
The Seventh Doctor encountered both of the Masters and helped them get back into the right bodies. The two Masters then returned to the Cult's headquarters and killed all of the members. They then plotted to use the anomaly cage but were stopped by the Seventh Doctor, who made sure that the universe remained practically unchanged by its regeneration, using the Cult's equipment to erase the Masters' memories of these events while sending them back to wherever they had been before the older Master had confronted the Cult. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
=== Last Great Time War ===
Though he was able to write out most of his involvement in the [[Last Great Time War]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Judas Goatee (comic story)|The Judas Goatee]]'') the Master fought in the battle over [[Keetol]] and helped the Time Lords make one of their first victories. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') He was also present at the [[Siege of the Chronotide]], and found himself screaming for [[the General]]'s mercy when the [[Multiform]] closed in. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'')
 
==== Alliance with the Doctor ====
[[File:The Master Time War.jpg|thumb|left|The Master and the Doctor during the Time War. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'')]]
At some point, the Master regenerated into his sixteenth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') Now in the body of a small child, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'') the Master, as he always did after a regeneration, visited the Scoundrels Club. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
 
The Master made a deal with the [[War Doctor]] to end their old ways of fighting and to become allies. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Kill God (comic story)|Kill God]]'') He teamed up with the Doctor and his companion, [[The Squire (The Then and the Now)|the Squire]], for a time, during the period of the War in which the [[Cyclor]]s allied themselves with the Daleks. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'')
 
The Doctor and the Master travelled to [[Veestrax]], where they saw a broken wall with "Exterminhate" written on it. The Master told the Doctor that he hadn't written it. The Doctor then asked for the Master's help with destroying the planet. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Outrun (comic story)|Outrun]]'')
 
He arrived on [[Golgauth]] with the Doctor, asking what he intended to do, to which the Doctor said "what [he] [had] to". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Then and the Now (comic story)|The Then and the Now]]'', ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'') The duo soon encountered the [[Volatix Cabal]], together killing one of its members. They then encountered [[Alice Obiefune]], who had travelled in the Master's TARDIS from after the War had ended. The Master set about tethering his future TARDIS to the Doctor's while the Squire set about saving Alice from the Volatix Tendrils.
 
With both TARDISes in tow, they travelled beneath the surface of Golgauth, where an Overcaste rebel base was located. The Master and the Doctor revealed a Volatix spy in the group and neutralised him. The spy revealed that he had called for help and moments later a Cyclor tore off the roof of the base. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'') The Master used a device to summon a squadron of Gallifreyan ships to attack the Cyclors. He used this distraction to flee, sneaking into his TARDIS that Alice had brought from the future. He inadvertently created a paradox when attempting to fly the machine, realising too late that he was erasing a timeline that brought his future TARDIS into being. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Kill God (comic story)|Kill God]]'')
 
The chronal tumour began to react with the [[Psilent songbox]], which had been activated by Alice. Realising that it would result in a temporal bomb, the Master deactivated it. The Master was too late, however, and the resulting paradox caused his body to [[regenerate]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'') into his seventeenth incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') Horrified by this, he swore revenge on the Doctor and his companions, but ultimately his memory of Alice's intervention in the War was erased. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'') The Master's TARDIS recorded that the Master fled the event horizon in his TARDIS before the Doctor's plans were carried out, deeming them too insane even for him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The One (comic story)|The One]]'') The Master then went to the [[Scoundrels Club]] to better recover from the regeneration process. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
 
==== Working alone ====
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[[File:Master of Worlds cover art.jpg|thumb|The Master assists [[Kate Stewart]] in her battle with the [[Cyberman]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master of Worlds (audio story)|Master of Worlds]]'')]]
While "exploring possibilities", the Master became stranded in a [[Parallel dimension (Telepresence)|parallel dimension]]. When this dimension was invaded by [[Cybermen]] seeking to conquer the [[multiverse]], the Master used the opportunity to obtain technology to repair [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] and followed the Cybermen back to his home universe. The Master landed his TARDIS, urgently in need of repairs, on Earth during the [[2010s]] and saw the Cybermen proceed to invade the universe of the Time War via [[virtual reality]] technology spread by [[the Auctioneers]]. The Cybermen, under the influence of [[Petronella Osgood]], took his TARDIS and attempted to [[Cyber-conversion|cyber-convert]] him. The Master collaborated with [[Kate Stewart]] and [[Sam Bishop]] to destroy the Cybermen by overloading them with power from infinite dimensions, syphoning some of it off to give his TARDIS enough energy to return to "the fray" of the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master of Worlds (audio story)|Master of Worlds]]'')
 
==== Escapades in the Time War ====
During the Time War, the Master fought the [[Supreme Dalek]] on the slopes of the [[Never Vault]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') and considered it a worthy opponent, even showing disappointment when the [[Dalek Emperor]] didn't send it to locate him on [[Arcking]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'') At some point, he designed a [[laser screwdriver]] for his own personal use, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') and became separated from his TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'')
 
The Master agreed to work with the Daleks and was sent to [[Gardezza]]. There he posed as the Doctor, using his reputation to gain the trust of the [[Gardezzan]]s. The Master located his TARDIS on the planet and betrayed both the Daleks and the Gardezzans to retrieve it. Inside, he received a call to return to Gallifrey and left to answer it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'')
 
Arriving on Gallifrey, [[Romana II]] and [[Narvin]] sent the Master alongside [[Leela]] to interrogate [[Finnian Valentine]], and said that they would pardon him for his crimes.  On the planet, he used his laser screwdriver to stun both of the Finnians to get them back to Gallifrey. He hypnotised and killed the various Finnians until he learnt that [[Arcking]] had a power source that could fuel the Time Lords energy banks. On the way back to Gallifrey, the Master expelled Leela into the time vortex and headed to Arcking after he received a signal that originated from there. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know]]'')
 
==== Exploits with Cole Jarnish ====
Travelling to [[hospital]] [[planet]] [[Arcking]] multiple times, the Master, under his Dr Keller alias, attempted to possess an ancient power, known as [[Heart (The Good Master)|the Heart]], on the planet that had resisted the ravages of the Time War, and even prevented unnatural death. It was here he met the pilot [[Cole Jarnish]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'')
 
After travelling with the Master for a while Cole argued that he should do more to save the people of the universe from the effects of the Time War. The Master told Cole that while he, as a Time Lord, could not interfere, he would allow Cole a chance to save a world from destruction, and asked him to pick one amongst the many worlds threatened by the War. Cole's choice fell on a primitive farming planet. Upon landing on the planet the Master reminded Cole that he was not allowed to meddle directly, and so decided to take some time off to create his own vineyard. As several months passed, Cole's attempt to save the peaceful population of the planet went on to backfire horribly, as he inadvertently turned them into a race of warlike semi-robotic creatures. Cole escaped the planet along with the Master and begged him to help him undo his mistake. The Master assured Cole that he would. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sky Man (audio story)|The Sky Man]]'')
 
The Master travelled to [[Stamford Bridge]] in the [[1970s]], where he located a Time Lord repository. Here he revealed his true reason for saving Cole's life and supporting his attempt to save the people of the farming planet, namely to turn him into a paradox powering a paradox. The resulting temporal energy collected in Cole would then be used to power the [[Heavenly Paradigm]]. Without any remorse, the Master killed Cole by sacrificing him to the machine, wanting to use it to create a new timeline in the universe, and thus end the War. The plan backfired, and the Master unintentionally caused both the Time Lords and Daleks to win several battles they had once lost. Because of this, he then saw the Dalek Emperor take control of the Time Lords' [[Cruciform]], which frightened him into fleeing from the Time War, which he now considered "lost". For a time he corrected and observed changes made by the Paradigm. But, still scared and tired of the fighting, he sent his TARDIS away to Gallifrey without him and used a [[chameleon arch]] of his to turn himself into a human baby, intending to eventually resume control once the Time War had ended. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'')
 
==== Under the chameleon arch ====
Physically human, the Master was found as a naked child on the coast of the [[Silver Devastation]] with only an "heirloom" [[Chameleon Arch|fob watch]], which could never keep time and resulted in the Master always being late for things as he grew up under the name "Yana". Yana spent most his life moving from one refugee ship to another. Yana, having retained the Master's intellect, eventually became a professor, and became friends with another scientist, [[Chantho]], who was thought to be the last of the [[Malmooth]] race. Together, they worked on the [[Utopia Project]] to send the remnants of humanity on [[Malcassairo]].
 
Yana met the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Martha Jones]] when they were rescued from the [[Futurekind]]. Overhearing conversation between the Doctor and Jack about things such as [[time travel]], [[Dalek]]s, and [[regeneration]], Yana became visibly upset. Martha drew Yana's attention to the watch in his possession and, hearing voices that commanded and entreated him, Yana opened the watch and returned to his true identity. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
==== Death ====
The Master then locked the Doctor out of Yana's lab and opened the gate keeping the Futurekind at bay to keep the Doctor occupied as he ravaged Yana's lab. After Chantho threatened him with a gun to stop him destroying their work, the Master electrocuted her with a loose set of power cables, angered that she was never curious of the fob watch during their decades of working together, and left her for dead. However, Chantho used the last of her strength to pull a laser gun on the Master while his back was turned, and shot him in the chest before she died.
 
Fatally wounded, the Master slithered into [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] while the Doctor watched on and deadlock sealed the door shut to keep the Doctor out. Finding the idea of dying by the hand of "an insect and a girl" undignified, the Master decided to regenerate into a form that was as young and strong as the Doctor was. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
=== As Harold Saxon ===
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Now in his eighteenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') the Master left the Doctor, Martha and Jack on the [[planet]] [[Malcassairo]] with [[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]]'') with his first stop being to the [[Scoundrels Club]] to recover from the regeneration process. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|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 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]]'')
 
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]]'')
 
The Master designed the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'', [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]]'s air carrier, and then started 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, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') and 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]]'') 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]]'')
 
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 [[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]]'')
 
"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 (The Lazarus Experiment)|mysterious man]] meet with Martha's mother, [[Francine Jones|Francine]], ([[TV]]: ''[[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]]'')
 
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 (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
 
==== Prime Minister Saxon ====
[[File:SimmAndToclafane.jpg|thumb|left|The Master with the [[Toclafane]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[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.
 
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 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]]'')
 
==== 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 [[President of the United States|American President]] [[Arthur Coleman Winters]] and captured the Doctor, Martha and Jack, who had come to the ''Valiant'' earlier that day. Using the results from Professor Lazarus's experiment, along with the DNA in the Doctor's hand, 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]]'')
 
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.
 
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 channeled 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. 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.
 
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]] to spite the Doctor, and died in his arms. The Doctor burned 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]]'')
 
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]]'')
 
==== Rassilon's Final Solution ====
On Christmas Eve [[2009]], the [[Governor (The End of Time)|prison governor]] of [[Broadfell Prison]] brought Lucy Saxon to a chamber where most of the staff were members of the [[Disciples of Saxon]], who had been working ever since the Master's death to bring about his [[resurrection]]. With the help of the ring and a biometric imprint taken from Lucy, the nude 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 killed in the resulting explosion.
 
The Master survived the blast, but his physical form was flawed: his once-brown hair was now bleached blond, and he was unshaven and unkempt. Moreover, his [[life force]] was left in a state of constant depletion, forcing him to consume huge quantities of food and drain the vitality of humans to stay alive. As a side effect of the botched resurrection, he could expend his life force for enhanced agility and send bolts of energy from his hands. The Master's body would even fluctuate between a fleshy form and a half-skeletal state.
 
The Master 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]] interrupted the chase.
 
Encountering the Doctor soon after, the Master and the Doctor discovered the drumming in the Master's head was real, 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 [[Vinvocci]] medical machine, which he had christened the "[[Immortality Gate]]". The Master co-operated for his own purposes. He broke out of a straitjacket and flew into the gateway, which he had working a billion fold on the human template. The gateway sent out an energy pulse that transformed every human on Earth (except Wilf, whom the Doctor protected with a radiation shield, and his granddaughter, [[Donna Noble]], who was unaffected due to her part-Time Lord physiology) into [[the Master Race]] — identical copies of the Master subservient to him.
 
After the Doctor and Wilf were rescued from the Master 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.
 
As the [[Lord President]] [[Rassilon]] and his council arrived through the Immortality Gate, the Master announced he intended to transplant himself into the entire Time Lord race, just as he had done to the human race. Rassilon, using [[Rassilon's gauntlet|his gauntlet]], reversed the effects of the Master's transplantation, and watched as Gallifrey returned to the universe on a collision course with Earth. The Doctor berated the Master for breaking the time lock, warning him that it wouldn't just be the Time Lords and the Daleks, and that he had just opened up "Hell".
 
Rassilon revealed his plans for the [[Ultimate Sanction]]; the Master asked if he could also "ascend into glory", but Rassilon rebuffed him, calling him "diseased" and revealed that he was responsible for the drumming that the Master had experienced all of his life, and prepared to execute him, but the Doctor stepped in with Wilfred's pistol. After some hesitation on whether to shoot Rassilon or the Master, he shot the White-Point Star, destroying the link. Enraged, Rassilon prepared to kill the Doctor, but the Master unleashed his bio-electric blasts at the President, roaring that the Time Lords had manipulated him and made him the monster he had become, counting the beat of the rhythm that had resounded in his head and tormenting him all his life. The Time Lords, Gallifrey, and the Master then vanished in a burst of white light, and were sent "back into [the] hell" of the final day of the Time War. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
 
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 Star]]s. ([[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]]'')


==== After leaving Gallifrey ====
As part of this alliance, the Master had himself "augmented" with Dalek technology, resulting in a more youthful appearance and "Dalek bumps" on his chest. Although he remained adamant they were [[etheric beam locator]]s, the Doctor continually teased the Master because they resembled breasts.
Still possessing blond hair and stubble, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen]]'') the 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 ''[[The 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]]'') Much to this Master's appreciation, he was allowed to play the [[drum]]s.  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 [[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]]'')


==== The Mondasian colony ship ====
When he believed the [[Twelfth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Twelfth Doctor]] to have been killed by the [[zectronic beam]], the Master renounced his evil ways before the Doctor [[regenerated]] into [[Thirteenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|a female form]]. Attracted to each other, the Time Lords walked off, arm in arm. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death]]'')
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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 they rebelled against [his] cruelty". Attempting to escape, but being "too close to the event horizon", the Master burned out [[The Master's TARDIS|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 "[[Creation of the Cybermen|genesis of the Cybermen]]" with [[Operation Exodus]].
 
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]]'')
 
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 tinkering with the computers. 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. 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 (TV story)|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 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 die alone. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
=== As Missy ===
After returning to his TARDIS, the Master [[regeneration|regenerated]] into his nineteenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') the same incarnation that had fatally wounded him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') Now in a female body, the Master adapted her name into "the Mistress". ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') Due to the presence of her older self during the events surrounding her regeneration, she was left unable to recall the exact specifics of it due to their timelines being out of sync ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') and lost all knowledge of her previous incarnation's time on the Mondasian colony ship, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') save only that a "very scary lady" advised him to always carry a spare [[dematerialisation circuit]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
As with her previous incarnations, the Mistress went to the [[Scoundrels Club]] to recover from the regeneration. She was ousted from the Club for being a woman, leading her to kill each member for revenge, and taking the nickname "Missy" on the suggestion of an 18th century woman named [[Saffron (Dismemberment)|Saffron]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'') Under unknown circumstances, Missy managed to acquire a [[Missy's vortex manipulator|vortex manipulator]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'')
 
==== Reclaiming her friend ====
Missy met her former wife, [[Lucy Saxon]], in London, who had been sent to sell three [[matrix data slice]]s to another incarnation of the Master. Missy spoke to Lucy about her husband and told her that one day she would have to kill him with a gun. Lucy listened to her story about what would happen to her, and how it would all work out, though she did not tell Lucy that these events would also result in her death. Lucy agreed to the terms and gave her the three matrix slices. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy (short story)|The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy]]'')
 
Working with the Cybermen, Missy founded the [[3W Institute]], in order to create a Cyberman army of the dead. She uploaded dying minds to the [[Nethersphere]]; a virtual reality housed within a matrix data slice. This reality changed and rewrote the minds, removing their emotions before re-downloading them into their [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyber-converted]] bodies. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'')
 
Missy decided to manoeuvre [[Clara Oswald]] into becoming the Doctor's companion, believing that Clara was just the right companion to attract the Doctor's interest and make it easier for Missy to emotionally manipulate him, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') showing him "the friend inside the enemy [and] the enemy inside the friend." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') [[Ashildr]] believed that Missy placed the two together so that that the Doctor and Clara in tandem would become [[the Hybrid]] of Gallifreyan myth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') In [[2013]], Missy gave Clara the Doctor's phone number, claiming that it was a tech support line, leading to Clara to meet the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') She then kept the Doctor and Clara together into the Doctor's [[twelfth incarnation]] by placing an ad in a newspaper for [[Mancini's Family Restaurant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
 
[[File:Missy In the Forest of the Night.jpg|thumb|left|Missy watches as the world almost burns.([[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'')]]
Missy went along the Doctor's timeline and greeted people who died in connection with him, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') such as the [[Half-Face Man]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') and [[Gretchen Carlisle]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') Finding this made her "a bit busy", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') Missy began to secretly monitor the Twelfth Doctor and Clara, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') as she did when Earth was saved from a [[solar flare]] by a forest that grew overnight. ([[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'')
 
Missy finally met the Twelfth Doctor and Clara at one of 3W's mausoleums, which was hidden inside [[St Paul's Cathedral]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') with [[Dimensional transcendentalism|dimensional engineering]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') Initially posing as an android and sharing a kiss with a very confused Doctor, she revealed her true identity to him as the Cybermen marched out onto the streets of [[London]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') Missy was quickly captured by UNIT, having anonymously tipped them off on the Cybermen's presence. She watched as Cybermen flew into the sky and exploded above major population centres, creating clouds that rained [[Cyber-pollen]], turning the dead into Cybermen. Taken onto [[Boat One]] along with the Doctor, she sent out a signal to the Cybermen, to attack the plane before freeing herself and disintegrating [[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') either the [[human]] or the [[Zygon]] one. ([[TV]] ''[[The Zygon Invasion]]'') Missy then ordered the Cybermen to remove a piece of the fuselage, causing [[Kate Stewart]] and the Doctor to be sucked out before ordering the Cybermen to destroy the plane, and teleporting away.
 
In the Nethersphere, Missy and [[Seb (The Caretaker)|Seb]] watched the Doctor free falling and saving himself by using his [[TARDIS key|key]] to summon [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. When Seb got overexcited at this dramatic turn of events, Missy casually disintegrated him. The Doctor found out from the [[Cyber-conversion|Cyber-converted]] [[Danny Pink]] that Missy planned to have the Cyber-pollen fall again, killing humanity, who would be reborn as Cybermen. She teleported into the graveyard to which the Doctor had piloted his TARDIS. Missy then unexpectedly gave the Doctor control of the Cybermen, wanting him to use them as his army, in the hopes of proving the similarities between them. However, after pondering the idea, the Doctor proclaimed himself to be simply an "idiot" with a box rather than a general or any sort of leader. He turned control over to Danny, who ordered the army into the sky to destroy themselves, dispersing the threatening rainclouds.
 
After the threat of the Cybermen had ended, Missy gave the Doctor coordinates to the current location of Gallifrey, lying to the Doctor that the planet had returned to its original location and that she and the Doctor could travel there together. However, Clara, using Missy's own weapon, decided to kill her. The Doctor wouldn't let Clara kill Miss and, decided to kill his old friend himself to "save [Clara's] soul". Before he could fire the weapon, Missy was shot by a rogue Cyberman, who was revealed to be [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') but Missy used the energy from the [[Cyber wrist blaster|blaster]] to recharge her [[Missy's vortex manipulator|vortex manipulator]] and escape undetected. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')
 
==== Trapped on Skaro ====
Some time later, after he was summoned by [[Davros]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') the Doctor left his [[confession dial]] with [[Ohila]] ([[WC]]: ''[[Prologue (webcast)|Prologue]]'') for her to deliver to Missy. Missy got the attention of both Clara and [[UNIT]] by [[Time stop|freezing]] all the airborne [[Airplane|planes]] on Earth in time. Summoning Clara, she showed her the Doctor's [[confession dial]], the Time Lord equivalent of a will. Together, she and Clara tracked the Doctor down to [[Essex]] in [[1138]].
 
Unbeknownst to them, they led [[Colony Sarff]] right to the Doctor. Sarff then took the three to [[Skaro]], although they were led to believe that they were still in deep space. While the Doctor was taken to [[Davros]], Missy and Clara escaped their cell, but were soon captured by a Dalek. They were taken to the other Daleks before they were both seemingly exterminated. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') However, Missy and Clara had survived by using the Dalek blasts to recharge her [[Missy's vortex manipulator|vortex manipulator]] and [[Clara Oswald's vortex manipulator|one she gave Clara]], and teleporting from the Dalek city, burning them out in the process.
 
Missy and Clara entered the Dalek sewers, composed of rotting Daleks, using Clara to lure a Dalek there. She cut through its case using her [[dwarf star alloy]] brooch, enabling the rotting Daleks to kill it. She put Clara inside the case and pretended to be her prisoner, enabling her to re-enter the Dalek control room. When the Daleks began to gain Time Lord regeneration energy, Missy used their incapacitation to find the Doctor. She used a Dalek gun to shoot Colony Sarff, saving the Doctor. She then watched as the Doctor toyed with Davros about the revived Daleks in the sewers and even tapped Davros' Dalek eye as they made their escape.
 
With the city being destroyed by the regenerated sewer Daleks, Missy tried to trick the Doctor into killing Clara inside the Dalek. However, the Doctor realised the deception and told Missy to run. Trying to escape, she was surrounded by Daleks when the city crumbled in on itself, but purported that she had "a really clever idea". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') [[Boy (Heaven Sent)|One Gallifreyan]] believed that, after she escaped the Daleks on Skaro, Missy went back to [[Gallifrey]] and told [[Rassilon]] that the Doctor knew about [[the Hybrid]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')
 
==== After Skaro ====
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[[File:The Five Masters main pic.jpg|thumb|Missy squabbles with several of her previous incarnations. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'')]]
Hearing that the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] had been forced to enter ''[[The Battle of the Bands Beyond the Stars]]'', Missy came up with a new plan for universal domination. Travelling through her [[time stream]], she recruited her {{Pratt|n=decaying thirteenth incarnation}}, {{Ainley|n=the Master in the stolen body of}} [[Tremas]], {{Roberts|n=the Master in the stolen body of}} [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|Bruce]] and {{Simm|n=the post-resurrection "Harold Saxon" Master}}, and formed a band to compete on the show. The group planned to use the popularity of the program to hypnotise the audiences across the galaxy. According to Missy, the five spent "decades" preparing for the performance. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'')
 
The group went on before Clara and the Doctor due to a shift in the program's schedule, and the five revealed themselves to the pair. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen (comic story)|The Abominable Showmen]]'') Missy expected the Doctor to attempt to stop the five of them, or to at least esquire on their plans, but the Doctor refused to intervene or question their scheme. After much prying, the Doctor correctly predicted the group's plan, but still refused to intervene as they started their song. As she prepared to hypnotise her audience, her previous incarnations began to fight with her over her [[Missy's device|device]], as each wanted to control the universe without the others. During the fight, viewers began to turn off their sets and the group were soon all disqualified and were thus blown up, although neither Clara nor the Doctor believed that they had truly been killed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'')
 
Missy became a [[headteacher]] for the school [[Saxon Heights]] after she had done away with [[Goss (Yes Missy)|the previous one]]. She had implemented new and strange rules, such as a school uniform that was almost identical to her own clothing, and getting rid of everyone's mobile communication devices, with her excuse being that they were used too often. However, the real reason was because that she wanted to summon up a [[Daemon]] by hooking up her newly acquired devices to a transmitter. The Osgoods found this out and had [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] stop her, although Missy managed to escape. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Yes, Missy (short story)|Yes, Missy]]'')
 
In [[1963]], Missy filled in as [[Coal Hill School]]'s supply room teacher. She added a ladder to the supply room which allowed the [[First Doctor]] and [[Shivani Bajwa]] to escape a pack of alien wolves. Shivani later described the incident to Missy and thanked her for the ladder. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill (short story)|Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill]]'')
 
Missy goaded the Doctor into following her through various time periods while she stole valuable items. The Doctor was too late to stop her each time. Finally catching up with her in the [[Stone Age]], the Doctor revealed to her that he had discovered her true plan: to leave [[Cybermat]]s behind where she stole each item. Missy expressed her desire to further reveal her plan to him. The Doctor instead refused to listen and boarded the TARDIS in search of some lunch. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr. Twelfth (novel)|Dr. Twelfth]]'')
 
==== Imprisoned in the Vault ====
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After she was captured by an unnamed species on an [[Planet (Extremis)|unnamed planet]], Missy was sentenced to death. In accordance with their [[Fatality Index]], the Doctor was chosen to carry out the sentence. However, he sabotaged the execution machine so that she was knocked unconscious instead of being killed. Swearing an oath to guard Missy's "body" for a thousand years, the Doctor scared the executioners away and had [[Nardole]] place her inside a [[Vault (The Pilot)|Quantum Fold Chamber]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'') The Doctor and Nardole transported the vault to [[St Luke's University]], where they continued to guard it for several decades. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'')
 
In [[2017]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'') after the Doctor began travelling with [[Bill Potts]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'') Missy began banging on the doors of the vault, only for Nardole to assert that he would stand guard and prevent her escape. ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') When he later double-checked the locks, she started playing ''[[Für Elise]]'' on a [[piano]] the Doctor had given her. Once Nardole was dismissed by the Doctor, Missy started playing ''[[Pop Goes The Weasel]]'' when the Doctor told her about his adventure at [[11 Cardinal Road]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'')
 
After he received an email from [[Twelfth Doctor (Shadow World)|a simulation of himself]] warning of an upcoming invasion, the Doctor became tempted to release Missy from the vault. ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'') When [[the Monks]] later occupied the Earth, the Doctor was kept prisoner for six months. After Bill helped him escape, he decided to consult Missy on how to defeat the Monks. Missy revealed she had dealt with them before, and that the only way to weaken their grip on power was to kill the psychic [[lynchpin]] being beamed to the whole planet. After the Monks had been driven off-world, the Doctor visited Missy in the vault again. This time, she claimed to be in deep regret of all the people she had killed throughout her lifetimes. The Doctor assured her she was making good progress on her redemption. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')
 
Nardole later released Missy from the vault so that she could help him return the TARDIS to [[1881]] [[Mars]]. However, the Doctor reminded her she was acting against their agreement and that he would put her back in the vault. ([[TV]]: ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'')
 
Deciding Missy was worth trusting, the Doctor released her from the Vault to perform maintenance work on the TARDIS while he took Bill and Nardole to find the lost Roman legion. Missy finished the work, then took to watching the Doctor until he returned some days later. Nardole was frustrated that the Doctor had freed her, but he brushed him off, preferring to see if Missy had learned anything. Missy later cried as the Doctor watched on, both wondering if it was possible for them to be friends again and whether Missy was finally becoming the person the Doctor had desired to make her. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'')
 
==== The Mondasian colony ship ====
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To test Missy's [[good]]ness, the Doctor recruited Bill and Nardole to be her "companions" and followed a distress signal to a [[colony]] ship while the Doctor monitored Missy's progress from the TARDIS. However, Missy was ill-prepared to handle a frightened crewmember, [[Jorj]], who subsequently shot Bill; she was carried off by passengers from [[Floor 1056]]. Missy accompanied the Doctor and Nardole down to Floor 1056, where the Doctor left her in charge of gleaning information from the computers. She discovered that the colony ship originated from [[Mondas]] while being pestered by a man called "Razor", who, upon confrontation, revealed himself to be {{Simm|n=her past self}}, who Missy appeared to join forces with for the "[[Genesis of the Cybermen]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
 
However, when the Cybermen turned on them, Missy knocked the Master down and claimed to have been playing him while still on the Doctor's side, but then admitted to being unsure of her allegiance. Just as Nardole arrived with a stolen shuttlecraft, the Doctor was attacked by one of the Cybermen. Missy entered the shuttle after the Master, as her younger self attempted to convince Nardole to leave without him. However, their shuttle was stopped by the Cyber-converted Bill, who still retained her humanity. Crashing through the floors, the shuttlecraft gave out at one of the solar farms on [[Floor 0507]]. 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 [[Floor 1056|moving on the floor of the Cybermen]], the Doctor insisted that they had to prepare for a confrontation.
 
As the Doctor prepared [[Battle of Floor 0507|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 then implored the Master to stand with him, something the Master rejected, but Missy, speaking with the Doctor in private, admitted that she too wanted to stand with the Doctor as an ally, but still left with the Master. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|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, but made the wound precise so that he would have time to reach his TARDIS before the regeneration occurred. Missy then helped the Master into the lift, explaining that she planned to stand with the Doctor and that it was the inevitable end that they had been leading towards their entire lives. However, the Master, declaring that he would never stand with the Doctor, shot Missy in the back with his [[laser screwdriver]] at full blast, mortally wounding her beyond the point of regeneration. With both of them laughing, the Master declared that their perfect ending was always going to be "shoot[ing] [them]selves in the back." As the Master departed for his TARDIS, Missy collapsed to the ground and died. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
=== Undated events ===
* At some point before his first incarnation's exploits on [[Destination]], the Master claimed to have met [[Harry Houdini]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
* The Master travelled with [[Finsey]], a woman who was fascinated by his evilness, until he saw no further use for her and tried to have her killed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Transcendence of Ephros (audio story)|The Transcendence of Ephros]]'')
* Missy claimed to have fought and defeated [[the Monks]] on a planet by pushing the Monks' lynchpin into a [[volcano]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')
* While in the form of a "[[Deathworm Morphant|snake]]", the Master visited the [[Scoundrels Club]] and sat in his favourite chair, taking notice how his snake form went unnoticed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
 
== Other realities ==
The [[Sild]] captured many different alternate versions of the Master. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
 
=== Alternate timelines ===
When the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] allied with [[Rassilon]] to take over history, ([[COMIC]]; ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') the Master, while fighting the [[Third Doctor]], was caught up in a [[time distortion]] which resulted in him being [[cyber-converted]] while pleading to the Doctor for help. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Third Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: the Third Doctor]]'')
 
=== Parallel universes ===
In the [[Inferno Earth]], the Master was still a loyal Time Lord who went under the name [[Koschei (Inferno Earth)|Koschei]]. He was working for the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] and travelled with a human companion called [[Ailla (The Dark Path)|Ailla]]. They became stranded on Earth after defeating the [[Great Intelligence]], and the [[Republic of Great Britain]] captured him for information. Ailla was killed and Koschei was tortured until all his regenerations were used up. Koschei died when he was confronted by the Master from [[N-Space]], who turned off his life-support machine at his request. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'')
 
In an alternative universe created by the [[Quantum Archangel]], the Master joined the Time Lords to fight in [[War in Heaven|the War]]. However, he began aiding the [[Dalek]]s by giving them temporal manipulation technology. The [[Sixth Doctor]], who was [[Lord President|Lord President Admiral]] of Gallifrey, activated the [[Armageddon Sapphire]] and destroyed the universe rather than letting the Enemy win. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
 
In a different alternative universe created by the Archangel, the Master cooperated alongside [[the Rani]], [[the Monk]] and [[Drax]] to try to destroy the world using a DNA recombinator, turning the human race into a gestalt consciousness which could be used as a weapon to conquer the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
 
=== Aborted timelines ===
In a future that never existed, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'') the Master became intent on manipulating events to remove many of his actions from the Last Great Time War, even as it was timelocked. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Judas Goatee (comic story)|The Judas Goatee]]'') The Master operated on the brain of his TARDIS during the [[Last Great Time War]], which resulted in a [[chronal tumour]] protruding from one side of the console, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The One (comic story)|The One]]'') though he never activated the tumour. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Running to Stay Still (comic story)|Running to Stay Still]]'') The Master's plan would be a success, as his TARDIS would be taken into the Time War by [[Alice Obiefune]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Running to Stay Still (comic story)|Running to Stay Still]]'') where it was stolen by the Master's younger self. This created a massive paradox, spiralling the time-ship out of control. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Kill God (comic story)|Kill God]]'')


== Personality ==
== Personality ==
The Master was the polar opposite of the Doctor in almost every respect; condescending, arrogant,  vain, and lusting for power. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') However, the Master's insanity was in part due to the [[High Council]] from Gallifrey's future sending a [[The Drumming|four-beat rhythm of drums]] into the Master's mind, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') with the [[Tenth Doctor]] recalling that staring into the [[Untempered Schism]] as a child caused the Master's personality to change. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
This version of the Master was as melodramatic and hammy as ever, frequently laughing maniacally and taking pleasure in explaining his evil plans at great length.
 
The Master had the ability to control their regenerations, with each face selected bearing an imprint of their mind, leading the Master to keep the same characteristics across various regenerations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'') Comfortable with their villainous reputation, the Master took insults about their madness as compliments, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and reacted with offence if someone asked them if they had turned over a new leaf, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') to the point that they refused to even acknowledge the Doctor's attempts to change them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
When introducing himself, or enthralling someone, the Master would usually say, "I am the Master and you will obey me." ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'') He also liked to say "my dear Doctor" when addressing his adversary. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
Unlike the Doctor, who usually needed their companions to convince people that they knew what they were doing, the Master had no problem manipulating people into helping him with his [[evil]] plans. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
[[File:The Doctor Falls Any Requests Master.jpg|thumb|Two Masters work together. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')]]
Extremely self-centred, the Master was willing to destroy Gallifrey to regenerate himself, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'') believed that the battle for [[the Glory]] was to be between him and the [[Eighth Doctor]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead]]'') thought that [[Carmen (Planet of the Dead)|Carmen]]'s prophesy referred exclusively to him, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and viewed the Doctor's saving Gallifrey as an attempt to save her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven]]'') So great was the Master's ego that he was unable to work with his other incarnations, with the "UNIT enemy" incarnation being psychically attacked by his other selves when he took control of the [[Sild]]'s telepathic network, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'') and the [[Seventh Doctor]] defeating the decayed and bald Masters by tricking them into arguing with themselves over ownership of the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') Though the "Harold Saxon" Master and Missy worked more amicably, their clashing views on helping the [[Twelfth Doctor]] eventually led them to killing each other out of spite. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
The Master's schemes usually fell into three categories; conquest, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') survival, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[Planet of Fire]]'', ''[[Survival]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and the death of the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'') Similar to [[the Monk]], the Master would also, on occasion, attempt to disturb the flow of history, ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'') and, when imprisoned, would devote their energies to gaining their freedom. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[Time-Flight]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
Throughout their lives, the Master would adopt many disguises and aliases, often to pursue their goals, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[Colony in Space]]'',  ''[[The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') though other times with no reason or explanation given. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'') He even stated in his 'Harold Saxon' incarnation that he "loves disguises". ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
 
The Master's disguises ranged from the providence of false qualifications, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[Colony in Space]]'',  ''[[The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') to employing [[The Master's masks|masks]] and heavy [[makeup]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Time-Flight]]'', ''[[The King's Demons]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') or a change of clothing, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani]], [[PROSE]]: [[Out of the Green Mist (short story)|Out of the Green Mist]]'') to even changing physical forms. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'')
 
In a show of vanity, the Master's choice of alias would often reflect their title of "Master". ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Time Monster]]'', ''[[The King's Demons]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q"]]'', ''[[Night Flight to Nowhere]]'', ''[[The Time Savers]]'', ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Last of the Gaderene]]'', ''[[The Quantum Archangel]]'', ''[[The Duke of Dominoes]]'', ''[[The Spear of Destiny (short story)|The Spear of Destiny]]'', ''[[Yes, Missy (short story)|Yes, Missy]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding]]'', ''[[Trail of the White Worm]]'', ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'', ''[[The Evil One]]'', ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'', ''[[Masterpiece (audio story)|Masterpiece]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
High Council President [[Borusa]] described the Master as "one of the most [[evil]] and [[corruption|corrupt]] beings [the] [[Time Lord]] race [had] ever produced" and that his "crimes [were] without number, and [his] villainy without end." The Master seemed amused by the description. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
 
Before their first battle, the [[Third Doctor]] called the Master a "jackanapes" and an "unimaginative plodder", ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'') but later came to view him as the "personification of evil". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') Later incidences had the Master described as the "quintessence of evil" by the [[Fourth Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'') a "psychopath" by the [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth]]  ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') and [[Twelfth Doctor]]s, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'') an "evil genius" by the [[Seventh Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'') and "stone-cold brilliant" by the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
 
[[Iris Wildthyme]] called the Master a "phallocentric dope". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') [[Rassilon]] described the Master as the Time Lords' "most infamous child", ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') while [[Ashildr]] described Missy as the "lover of chaos". ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent]]'')
 
=== First incarnation ===
According to a dream the [[Fifth Doctor]] had under the control of the [[Celestial Toymaker]], Koschei admired [[War Chief|Magnus]]' ability to command people, and wished that he could one day learn to do the same. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
 
He was good friends with the [[First Doctor]] at the [[Time Lord Academy]], and the two bonded over a mutual promise to someday explore the [[universe]] together. The [[Twelfth Doctor]] later recalled that he was "always so brilliant" from the first day at the Academy. The Doctor developed a "man-crush" on him during this time. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
 
Susan Foreman remembered the Master as a highly regarded man, as a "stickler for the rules" with "meritorious conduct". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] believed that his obsession with him was the driving force for him leaving Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'')
 
=== "Inventor" incarnation ===
The Master was very self-centred, willing to influence a whole planet's development to refuel his craft, and equally willing to abandon his plans just to steal the Doctor's ship. He used his hypnotic abilities regularly, subjugating even adepts such as Susan Foreman with ease. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
 
=== "UNIT enemy" incarnation ===
<!--Examples following this point focus on this particular incarnation of the Master's personality traits-->
As the rival of the [[Third Doctor]], the Master was often arrogant and impatient, taken to be rude towards all and showing no tolerance for stupidity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space]]'') To sway others to his way of thinking, the Master acted as a suave and debonair gentleman, with a sardonic sense of humour. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Time Monster]]'') When his own survival was at stake, the Master would not hesitate to betray his allies to save himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'')
 
The Master was willing to play the long game, spinning a web of lies while maintaining several back-ups in his schemes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') He seemed to truly believe his delusions of grandeur, proclaiming that he and the Doctor could "reign benevolently," ending "war, suffering [and] disease," ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'') and that, instead of "all this talk of democracy, freedom, [and] liberty", the world needed "strength, power and decision." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'') When the Doctor accused him of being paranoid, the Master stated that everyone was paranoid, he was just honest about his paranoia. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')
 
The Master held himself in high-esteem, even believing himself immune to the mind parasite within the Keller Machine, when in truth, he was only able to resist its attack on him for a short time, and with great effort. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') He also demonstrated a strong confidence in himself when he walked into the [[UNIT HQ]] on the edge of London without fear of capture, instead hypnotising a handful of UNIT personnel. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'')
 
This Master also had a juvenile side to him, making blithely sarcastic comments about an impending nuclear meltdown, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'') enjoying an episode of ''[[Clangers]]'' in his prison cell, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'') and reading ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' while trying to instigate a war between [[Earth]] and [[Draconia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'') He also had a sadistic side, taking particular pleasure in goading [[the Brigadier]] into attacking [[Axos]] when they both knew that it would put the Doctor and [[Jo Grant]] in danger. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'') He also took considerable delight in blackmailing the Doctor and Jo on Uxarieus. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'')
 
The Master often killed people, casually murdering those whom he could not control, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'') or who were standing in the way of an item he required. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'') He believed that those who died as a result of his schemes to be "necessary sacrifice[s]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'')
 
Unlike his following incarnations, this Master was rarely resentful, instead accepting defeat with only a slight annoyance, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space]]'') though he once stated that destroying the Doctor's favourite species would "be a reward in itself". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'') The Master also learned from his mistakes, placing an anti-intruder alarm beam in his TARDIS ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'') after the Doctor stole his [[dematerialisation circuit]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'')
 
Being a haughty psychopath, he regarded most beings as his inferiors, but had a mutual respect for the Doctor as a worthy opponent and his near intellectual equal, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils]]'') and even showed a certain respect to the Doctor's companions, even if he still considered them inferior. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'') He often found himself unable to kill the Doctor, because that would rid him of the satisfaction of defeating him, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'') and would only resort to killing the Doctor if he viewed him as an unmovable obstacle in his plans, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'') considering his quarrel with the Doctor to be something of a game,{{source}} though he was willing to risk the Doctor's life on the [[Keller Machine]] to satisfy his curiosity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') However, the Master was not above working alongside the Doctor when necessary, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'') and even offered to rule the universe with him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'')
 
While in [[Atlantis]], the Master formed a relationship of sorts with [[Queen]] [[Galleia]], remarking that she was beautiful and promising her power. Both Galleia and [[Lakis]] commented that the Master had "the bearing of a [[God]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')
 
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During this incarnation, the Master would often smoke a [[cigar]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[The Time Monster]]'')
 
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A master manipulator, the Master knew how to use others' greed and sense of duty as bargaining tools in his schemes, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils]]'') and how to use his authority as an adjudicator to manipulate and influence the human factions and their competing aspirations on [[Uxarieus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'')
 
The Master was also stronger than he appeared, as he was able to physically overpower [[Luigi Rossini]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'') [[Harry Mailer]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') [[Smedley]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'') and [[John Benton]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'') He was also able to make a small jump onto a moving lorry from a bridge, and then swing down to the driver's cab to hypnotise the driver. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'')
 
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After an attack he made on the [[Twelfth Doctor]] was sent back at him, the Master, claiming he would get his revenge on the Doctor, proudly welcomed his [[regeneration]], declaring that death was meaningless to him and that "all life [would] obey [him]". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'')
 
=== Degenerated body ===
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While he first approached a situation with youthful naivety, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') the Master later preoccupied his time with finding a way to [[Regeneration|regenerate]] following his disfigurement and the loss of his own ability to regenerate forcing him to face his imminent death. With his mobility and capabilities of camouflage decreased, he was often forced to hide his involvement in his plans until the very moment victory was within his grasp. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')
 
The Master felt a stronger hatred towards the Doctor than before, specifically guiding the [[Fourth Doctor]] back to [[Gallifrey]] so he could be framed for the President's assassination and executed in disgrace, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'') wished to personally kill a [[companion]] of the Doctor, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') and once hatched a plan that would have destroyed all the Doctors  and unravelled the [[Web of Time]] simply for his revenge against the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End]]'') Despite the animosity, the Master was able to have a civil conversation with the Doctor when it suited him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death Match (audio story)|Death Match]]'')
 
While he claimed that nothing he ever did "[was] ever pointless", the Master seemed more comfortable with killing people just for the sake of it, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End]]'') showing a sadistic pleasure when he resorted to killing, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'') and even destroyed the planet [[Raskalar]] for amusement. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death Match (audio story)|Death Match]]'') Despite this, the [[Seventh Doctor]] recalled how this Master was "generally a serious sort", remembering how he was "cold and cruel." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
[[Leela]] claimed that this iteration of the Master was "raw" and "honest", as he "did not seem to hide [himself] away" and "disguise [his] hate". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know]]'')
 
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In his degenerated state, the Master's telepathic capabilities and willpower grew stronger, with the Master proclaiming that "only [his] hate [kept him] alive". He was able to launch a telepathic message to the Doctor from Gallifrey to [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'') and, once he became the [[Keeper of Traken]], the Master forced [[Tremas]] to kill [[Neman]] through sheer willpower, and also paralysing the Doctor to make him watch. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')
 
Meticulous in his schemes, the degenerated Master planned for every imaginable obstacle and putting in place a counter for it.  ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trail of the White Worm]]'', ''[[The Oseidon Adventure]]'') He was willing to be patient with his plans, waiting inside his TARDIS for years to slowly seduce [[Kassia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')
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=== "Tremas" incarnation ===
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After possessing [[Tremas]]'s body, the Master became a more flamboyantly [[evil]], bombastic and sophisticated individual, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Time-Flight]]'', ''[[The King's Demons]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'') who only put trust in himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'') He was prone to laughing maniacally and reciting lengthy and verbose speeches, accompanied by melodramatic gestures and poses. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] even recalled this Master as having "a taste for [[melodrama]]." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
This Master was unwilling to share any form of power with others, often betraying those he worked with to accomplish his own goals, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'', ''[[Survival]]'') even when working with his other incarnations. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'')
 
While in Tremas's body, the Master became devoted to killing the Doctor, often employing elaborate gambits and strategies to this end. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]''; [[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'') However, he mused that a cosmos without the Doctor "scarcely bear[ed] thinking about", and was willing to join forces with the Doctor if he viewed it as beneficial to himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'')
 
He showed a genuine disregard for life and was often uninterested in how many people died at his hands, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The King's Demons]]'', ''[[Survival]]'') and had a particular fondness for the [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Time-Flight]]'', ''[[Planet of Fire]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'') However, he showed an unusual level of moral standards when he apologised to [[Peri Brown]] for involving her in a battle that was originally supposed to be between him and the [[Sixth Doctor]], and was genuinely horrified when the Rani's contraption turned [[Luke Ward]] into a tree, although the Doctor considered it an example of how warped and callous the Master was if he thought that establishing that Luke's death was an accident was any kind of excuse. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'')
 
The Master was delighted and satisfied when [[Lord President]] [[Borusa]] addressed him as "one of the most [[evil]] and [[corruption|corrupt]] beings [the] Time Lord race [had] ever produced", but was surprised and outraged when his attempts to convince the [[Third Doctor]] of his sincerity was ridiculed and spurned. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') He also thanked [[Mel Bush]] when she remarked on how "evil" he was. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'') When the [[Seventh Doctor]] questioned the Master's decision to "act the villain", the Master stated he was "famed for [the] role", and claimed to enjoy the "typecasting". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Crossing the Rubicon (comic story)|Crossing the Rubicon]]'')
 
After he was infected by the [[Cheetah virus]], the Master became more calm and calculating. However, as the virus took its toll, he became more animalistic and sadistic, taking satisfaction in murdering [[Karra]] and attempting to hit the Seventh Doctor's head with a club during their fight. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival]]'')
 
This Master had various opinions of the first seven incarnations of the Doctor. He referred to the [[First Doctor]] as a "bore", the [[Second Doctor]] as an "incapable comedian", the [[Third Doctor]] as a "worthy foe", the [[Fourth Doctor]] as "the bohemian, [and] the wanderer", believed that the [[Fifth Doctor]] was "the nice one full of charm, innocence, and naiveté", described the Sixth Doctor as "the blustering one with the stupid coat",  and that the [[Seventh Doctor]] was "too busy setting traps" to realise the ones "set for him". ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')
 
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Unlike his predecessor, this Master seemed unable to use natural hypnotism, instead using an [[Electro-muscular constrictor]] to enslave [[Nyssa]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') causing misdirection to discredit the [[Fifth Doctor]] at [[Fitzwilliam Castle]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons]]'') and took control of [[Luke Ward]] by combining hypnotic suggestion via a crystal necklace with the Rani's mind parasites. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'') When his attempts to hypnotise [[Sabalom Glitz]] with a swinging silver pendant failed due to Glitz's mind being occupied with calculating the wealth of the pendant, the Master resorted to offering Glitz a chest full of jewellery to ensure his cooperation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'')
 
This Master was able to accurately predict the Doctor's movements, implementing multiple ways to kill him and manoeuvreing him into them with relative ease. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'') [[The Rani]] even believed that his plans were so overcomplicated that if he walked in a straight line he would get dizzy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'') Unlike his other renditions, this Master was able to improvise when things turned awry. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[Survival]]'')
 
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After he was shot in the back by [[Ace]] to avenge his murder of [[Joe Manco]], the Master withered in extreme pain that he tried to fight while complaining about how close he was to victory. Clawing at his wound and grasping his head, the Master [[regenerated]] while cowering from the pain in his TARDIS, begging to be "free". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')
 
=== "Tzun" incarnation ===
In contrast to his previous incarnation, this Master was calmer, less emotional and flustered, with a proud bearing and an inscrutable demeanour, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') though he would resort to a panicked state upon confronting the unexpected. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') Highly manipulative, the Master would maintain control of a situation, while making others around him think he was not, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') though would lose this advantage when he knew he was overpowered, such as when at [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Jason Kane]]'s wedding. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
 
Unlike his immediate predecessor, this Master was aware that his theatrical plotting could be his undoing, but found amusement in the irony rather than bitterness. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
 
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]]'')
 
This incarnation of the Master was just as adept at winding the Doctor up as his predecessor was, claiming that the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s pacifism was pure hypocrisy, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') and taking delight in his apparent inability to protect his friends from [[Bloom (Happy Endings)|Bloom]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') However, he did hold the Doctor in some regard, believing the Tzun incapable of overpowering him on their own, and insisting he was a threat to be eliminated, though he felt bittersweet about it, admitting to himself that the Doctor was an inspiring adversary, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') though reacted with horror when four variants of the Seventh Doctor confronted him at once. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
 
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]]'')
 
=== "John Smith" incarnation ===
As John Smith, the Master was a kind-hearted, charming, humble, knowledgeable gentleman who was still somehow deeply aware of his dark nature and troubled by it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'') As his true self, this incarnation had a far darker and [[evil]] side to him than most of his other selves. He seemed to enjoy being mysterious about his true identity and enjoyed giving his enemies riddles as to who he truly was. Also compared to his other selves, this incarnation was far calmer and well spoken, which made him sound more sinister. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'')
 
{{Quote|Evil? I crave ''power'', dominion, knowledge of the forbidden and secret. So much ''more'' than simply "evil".|The Master|Master (audio story)}}
As John Smith, the Master's favourite dessert was marinated figs with a raspberry coulis, he grew tomatoes, made his own wine, enjoyed theatre, books, and the company of friends. The Master was not fond of dogs or people with shifty eyes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
 
=== While body-jumping ===
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This rendition of the Master was generally calm and sinisterly villainous but was also capable of terrifying rage. After being exterminated by the [[Dalek]]s, the Master took possession of [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|Bruce]] and, after finding that his new body was not stable, became determined to steal the remaining lives of the Doctor himself. When his attempt to take the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s lives was thwarted, the Master reverted to a more basic, brutal approach, attempting to smash the Doctor's head in with a staff positioned around the Eye, proclaiming that life was wasted on the living and rejecting the Doctor's aid when he was being pulled into the Eye. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
This rendition of the Master viewed life as being "wasted on the living", and held it in no regards, unhesitatingly killing Bruce, [[Miranda (Doctor Who)|his wife]], four guards, [[Chang Lee]], [[Grace Holloway]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') [[Joey Sneller]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') [[Duncan (The Fallen)|Duncan]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'') and [[Violet (Prologue)|Violet]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'') whilst also attempting to kill the [[Eighth Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') and an infant [[Edward Grainger]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prologue (ST short story)|Prologue]]'') He was also petty, snapping [[Chang Lee]]'s neck when he refused to follow an order, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') turning Earth into a religious dictatorship to spite the Doctor, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead]]'') and killing [[Violet (Prologue)|Violet]] solely because she foiled his attempt to kill [[Edward Grainger]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
 
Unlike previous incarnations, the Master was extremely serious when there was work to be done, more focused on getting the task at hand completed than engaging in small talk and humour.  ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead]]'') He was also quite literal, not understanding expressions such as killing someone to mean making them laugh. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
In this rendition, the Master felt a pedantic need to correct people on bad grammar, such as when he corrected [[Grace Holloway]]'s "kiss as good as me" to "[kiss] as ''well'' as [me]". As with his previous selves, he was also comfortable with his villainous reputation, thanking Nurse [[Curtis (Doctor Who)|Curtis]] for playfully calling him "sick". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
During the period of his life when he was forced to possess various human bodies to survive, the Master would take on minor personality traits and quirks from the bodies he possessed, and, as a result, he started to fear that his "essence" would eventually become too diluted if he were to jump to another body too frequently, and began to go to great pains to make sure his bodies lasted as long as possible by only possessing members of the same bloodline.
However, as he would later admit, the Master began to somewhat enjoy the experience of being human as the years went by, and even toyed with the idea of dropping his plans of restoring his Time Lord body and just remain in a human body. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
 
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[[File:RobertsFGLeeBG.jpg|thumb|left|The Master is convinced that [[Chang Lee]] is in his thrall. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
Behind the flamboyancy and brutal savagery, the Master still maintained his cunning, leaving a crystalline structure on the Eye that would give the Doctor amnesia in vengeance for his previous defeat, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'') using his link to the TARDIS to send the Doctor to specific locations to later show him the folly of his worth, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead]]'') and acquiring a casino in [[Las Vegas]] to accumulate the money needed to fund the experiments to elongate the lifespan of his host bodies, while also becoming head of the [[Hudson Dusters]], and controlling part of the [[mafia]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
 
A patient incarnation, this Master simultaneously juggled a grand plan to achieve divine power with a pettier plan to morally humiliate the Doctor during the fight for [[the Glory]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead]]'') and also, while trying to remain undetected in the history books, possessed a line of men from the Maestro family to ensure he had a succession of bodies that he could adjust well to, passing from father to son once there was a grandson alive to inhabit later on. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
 
=== "Bald" incarnation ===
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This incarnation of the Master was excitable, enthusiastic, theatrical, and attention seeking, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') but also held a cold and merciless attitude to his egotisticle personality. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'', ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'', ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') He took no offence when the Doctor called him "as nutty as a fruitcake." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
 
Being a manipulative megalomaniac, the Master used his polite mannerisms to enhance his diabolicalness, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[The Reviled (audio story)|The Reviled]]'', ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'', ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') but would drop all niceties the moment he was annoyed or in pain. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') He was also known for making quips and enjoying himself as he carried out his schemes, which allowed the [[Seventh Doctor]] to realise what had happened when the [[Cult of the Heretic]] caused this Master to switch bodies with his decayed past self as the decayed Master was having far more fun than he usually would. In contrast with his decayed incarnation, who killed at the first opportunity, this Master liked to build up to a pun when killing his victims. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
Despite his more theatrical side, this Master was as ruthless as his other incarnations, creating his own [[Infinite warrior]]s by replacing human eyes with fake ones that had Eminence substance in them, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') and manipulating an Eminence attack on [[Heron's World]] for an experiment. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'') He was also unorthodox in his malice, being more interested in being cruel and spiteful, opting to humiliate and punish his opponents, even after he had bested them, and enjoyed "twist[ing] the knife into the wound" by adding personnel tragedies for his enemies into his plans. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'', ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
This Master was more willing to go into dangerous situations than his other incarnations, not only making deals with the Eminence and the [[Dalek]]s for universal domination, but also showed signs of extreme anti-obedience and arrogance, openly mocking his allies while fully aware that they could kill him anytime they wanted. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'')
 
His plans were meticulous, and like his degenerated incarnation, this Master liked to plan for every possible obstacle, but instead of waiting for the contingency to be activated by his opponents, he openly went out of his way to close off those obstacles beforehand. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
He preferred to let others believe they had defeated him before turning the tides and took great pleasure in emotionally humiliating them after he took back control. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
A slightly lazier incarnation, this Master liked the idea of having an army, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'') but didn't enjoy the prospect of building one up himself. The [[Eighth Doctor]] even accused the Master of being unoriginal with his schemes, which inspired the Master to improvise a new plan after his old one failed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
 
Seeing his subordinates as possessions instead of people, this Master had no compunctions towards demeaning, mind controlling or even killing subordinates who caught him the wrong way or had served their purpose, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'', ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') sparing only the most important ones to his plan until they were no longer of importance. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') However, he praised hard work and good results. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'')


While he had a genuine rapport with [[Sally Armstrong]], telling the Doctor that Sally was brilliant enough to fly his TARDIS on her own, he would assert his dominance over her when she disappointed him, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') and when she challenged him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'') He even kissed her hand, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reviled (audio story)|The Reviled]]'') and briefly mourned for her after her death. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
He was also significantly more inept than other versions of the Master, monitoring the Doctor in his TARDIS and gloating about the traps he had set without realising that he was on speakerphone until the Doctor informed him. After deactivating his viewscreen, he continued to monologue in what he thought was privacy, unaware that he had just switched the screen off and was still audible to the Doctor. He also inadvertently fell into a trap he had set for the Doctor no less than three times. Over nine hundred years, he developed some questionable appetites and behaviours with slugs.


This Master would go to great depths to involve the Doctor in his schemes, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'') with the Doctor believing he did so because he enjoyed the attention the Doctor gave him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') He also accused the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s attitude about a war with the Daleks of being hypocritical, noting that, while the Doctor claimed not to be fighting a war with them, he had battled the Daleks across time and space. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') He later belittled the Doctor for his emotional attachments. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
The Master's incompetence manifested itself again when he failed to realise that the Daleks were planning to exterminate him once had assisted them in completing the death ray. In fact, so lacking in common sense was the Master that when the Doctor used the language of the Tersuruns to discreetly (and pungently) inform him of the Daleks' intentions, the Master gave the game away by blurting it out loud, causing the Daleks to try and exterminate him post haste. This Master's uncharacteristic lack of intelligence was further demonstrated by his inability to repair the exploding generator, admitting that only the Doctor had the capacity to do so.


While the Master had always displayed a degree of disrespect for the laws and workings of time travel, this incarnation was especially brazen in this attitude, stating that he could simply use his TARDIS to cross his own timeline and attempt to achieve a failed plan without any concern for the paradoxes or personal dangers involved in doing so. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'') So disregarding to paradoxes was he that he even attacked a past incarnation of himself to further his own agenda, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') and had no qualms about attempting to kill the [[Seventh Doctor]], despite already being involved in the circumstances behind his regeneration. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'')
Despite being a rival with the Doctor for many years, he was devastated that his old foe may not regenerate again, and decided to become good in his memory. However, the Doctor did regenerate, this time as a woman. The Master fell in love with the Doctor and became lovers. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death]]'')
 
He claimed that he never looked back to the past and was always focused on the future. He also stated that he wanted peace across the universe under his rule. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
 
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He would often introduce himself by saying, "Hello, you!", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'', ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]'') and had a flair for a Shakespearian dielect. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
 
This Master also had a habit of imitating the Doctor, such as tricking UNIT into believing him to be a future incarnation of the Seventh Doctor, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'') taking on the Doctor's role of a lone hero saving a group of innocents, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'') and even replacing the Doctor with himself in [[Molly O'Sullivan]]'s memories. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'')
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=== "War" incarnation ===
While fighting in the [[Last Great Time War]], the Master delighted in the prospect of committing genocide. He saw people as resources, and that teaming up with the War Doctor was a worthwhile option during wartime. He also had a fondness for paradoxes. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'') The Master wanted to fight in the Time War, but seeing the hopelessness of his efforts with the Doctor he fled from their fight with the [[Cyclor]]s. He concluded that he enjoyed death and chaos only when it was fun for him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Kill God (comic story)|Kill God]]'')
 
At the moment of his regeneration, the Master held contempt for the Doctor and Alice Obiefune, declaring that he would have his revenge on them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'')
 
=== "Yana" incarnation ===
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While he started his life declaring vengeance, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'') this Master would put on a front of being kind and [[charm]]ing, but would drop the façade the instant it was time to act, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'') though once questioned if he was truly [[evil]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'') He wished to save the universe from the [[Last Great Time War]] so that he could rule over it afterwards, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') and "enjoy [his] victory". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know]]'') Though usually calm and affable, the Master took the time to taunt a squad of Daleks when they were unable to harm him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'')
 
This Master was a misogynist, considering it an embarrassment to have been killed by a girl, even calling it "inappropriate". ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') Although, he equally held everyone in similar disregard unless it benefited him, even planets, stating he only had allegiance to himself. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'') He was unable to empathise with others, yawning at a mother's drive to save her race being born from her dead husband and her son. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'')
 
When comparing him to the degenerated body she was used to, [[Leela]] claimed that this Master was "focus[ed]", "making guesses", and "plotting". In comparison to his past self, the Master claimed he was now "civilised, pleasant, [and] reasonable", which was denied by Leela. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know]]'')
 
After his use of the [[Heavenly Paradigm]] caused the [[Dalek Emperor]] to take control of the [[Cruciform]], the Master, driven by the fear of his failure, fled the [[end of the universe]] and used a [[Chameleon Arch]] to turn himself into a human baby to hide from the [[Time Lord]]s and wait out the war in a safe place. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'')
 
Under the Chameleon Arch, Professor Yana was a benign old man who had lost faith in the [[Utopia Project]]. His spirit was revitalised by the [[Tenth Doctor]], and the two shared a mutual admiration. He was also somewhat scatterbrained and slightly lacking in self-confidence, at one point referring to himself as "a stupid old man." Also, like the Tenth Doctor with [[Martha Jones]], Yana was oblivious to [[Chantho]]'s feelings for him.
 
After returning to his true identity, the Master became cold, ruthless, and dignified, but also abusive and condescending, citing that he had the right to attack Chanto when she pointed a gun at him. He was extremely aggressive towards Chantho after regaining his memories, stating that her constant cultural ticks drove him "insane" during their time together. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
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When given the chance to rest from the Time War, the Master spent his time cultivating [[wine]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sky Man (audio story)|The Sky Man]]'')
 
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Though he thought "inappropriate" to have been killed by a female "insect", the Master welcomed his regeneration in a grandiose fashion, declaring that "the Master [was] reborn." ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
=== "Harold Saxon" incarnation ===
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Immediately after his regeneration, the Master appeared to have gone more insane than ever, gleefully jumping around [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]' [[TARDIS control console|control console]], while ecstatically laughing, and toying with his new voice. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') By this point in his life, the Master was tormented more than ever by "[[The Drumming|the drums]]" in his head, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') but, after his sabotaged resurrection, he admitted to seeing it as a central piece of his identity, convinced that something was calling to him through the drum beat. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') So much was he obsessed with them, that, on one occasion, "the drums" was all he would say. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen (comic story)|The Abominable Showmen]]'', ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'') On another occasion, however, the Master fearfully asked the Doctor if he thought "the drumming" would stop after he died. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
Much like his previous incarnations, this Master was ostentatious; offering out [[jelly babies]] and [[grits]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') opting to wear eyeliner in preparation for being a woman in his next incarnation, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') and dancing to the [[Rogue Traders]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and the [[Scissor Sisters]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He also enjoyed watching the ''[[Teletubbies]]'', believing that the televisions in their stomachs was true evolution, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and thrived on chaos, describing the last day of the [[Last Great Time War]] as "[his] kind of world", ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and was excited about getting into fights. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') He also admitted to loving disguises, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and was particularly outraged when he was "stuck looking like the old Prime Minister." ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
 
Behind his charismatic and charming demeanour, however, this Master was sadistic and childishly degrading, even going as far as to slip subtle and private jabs at the Doctor into his public speeches. When Francine, Clive and Tish were forcibly taken to the ''Valiant'' under armed guard, the Master shamelessly treated the ordeal like a school field trip, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and, during [[the Year That Never Was]], he kept them as slaves, taking every opportunity he could to belittle them, even goading Francine into murdering him, until the Doctor convinced her otherwise. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He also made [[Bill Potts]] aware of his part in her [[Cyber-conversion]] to upset her, and was disappointed when his remarks seemed to have failed, stating that she had "[taken] all the fun out of cruelty". He was also alarmed and disgusted at the idea of his future self gaining [[empathy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
He was extremely vain and narcissistic, with the [[Tenth Doctor]] noting that he would never destroy himself, even if he could destroy the Earth with him. During [[the Year That Never Was]], he had monuments of himself built all over Earth, and, according to [[Martha Jones]], had even sculptured himself onto Mount Rushmore. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He also used the [[Immortality Gate]] to turn the human race into duplicates of himself, which he dubbed the "[[Master Race]]", and also threatened to do the same to the [[Time Lord]]s, even asserting that [[Rassilon]] "[would] [look] better as [him]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') His vanity was so vast that when the [[Tenth Doctor]] forgave him for his actions, the Master collapsed and wept out of shame. After he expressed revulsion at being "kept" by the Doctor, the Master was shot by Lucy and, to spite the Doctor, decided not to regenerate and die. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') After meeting his female successor, {{Gomez}}, the Master admitted to being attracted to his future self, flirting and dancing with her. However, when he saw the possibility that Missy would aid the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the Master killed her. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
This Master also had an exceptionally heightened sense of his own brilliance, even reciting a Bible-style verse of his own making to the Doctor as the [[Toclafane invasion]] began. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') He also held [[Time Lord]]s as the absolute superior race, automatically assuming the right to alter history on the principle of him being a Time Lord, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') and was confident that he could beat an entire city of Cybermen while only being armed with his [[laser screwdriver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') However, when his plans were foiled, the Master would turn cowardly, retreating at the first opportunity or allying with whoever could better protect him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
The Master still held the lives of others without thought, assassinating the [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom]], setting the [[Toclafane]] on [[Vivien Rook]], ordering [[Arthur Coleman Winters]]'s execution as a show of power, commanding the decimation of the population of Earth to emphasise his new dominion, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') destroying the islands of [[Japan]] when he learned that the [[Drast]] had been operating in [[Yokohama]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story of Martha (short story)|The Story of Martha]]'') siphoning the [[life force]]s of the people who resurrected him, and unceremoniously consuming [[Sarah (The End of Time)|Sarah]], [[Tommo (The End of Time)|Tommo]] and [[Ginger (The End of Time)|Ginger]], leaving them as skeletons. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') He also showed a sadistic glee when he resorted to murder, continuously listening in on Rook's dying screams, being excited by the prospect of killing the immortal [[Jack Harkness]] a second time, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and chuckling after casually killing [[Thomas Milligan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') He was also known to kill those who brought him bad news. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story of Martha (short story)|The Story of Martha]]'')
 
This Master showed minimum affection for the Doctor. Even after he aged the [[Tenth Doctor]] to an elderly man, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') the Master continued to humiliate him by having him live in a makeshift tent aboard the ''Valiant'' during [[the Year That Never Was]], and then furthered the humiliation by ageing the Doctor until he morphed into an ancient dwarf-sized body, and then kept him locked up in a bird cage. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') When {{Gomez}} told him of her plans to join forces with the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the Master adamantly stated his refusal to stand with the Doctor and killed Missy with his [[laser screwdriver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') The Master was even willing to die to spite the Tenth Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') and claimed to prefer death than begging for the Twelfth Doctor's help. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
However, this Master was not without his reservations, considering Rassilon's [[Ultimate Sanction]] to be suicidal, but was still willing to subject himself to it to appease Rassilon. He also had a sense of honour, as he sacrificed himself to save the Doctor from Rassilon after the Doctor chose not to kill either of them, also getting his revenge on Rassilon for implanting "the drumming" in his head, and for Rassilon trying to kill him for being "diseased". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
 
While he originally avowed affection for his wife, [[Lucy Saxon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') the Master's vanity and overconfidence in his successful taking of Earth led him to forego such pretences, even teasing her with the possibility of replacing her with his masseuse. He was, however, unsurprised when she shot him, instead making a quip about it "always [being] the women". ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
After his sabotaged [[resurrection]], the Master displayed a feral state that led him to act like a predatory animal, plagued by an insatiable hunger. Despite this insanity, the Master was capable of lucid conversation, nostalgically discussing his childhood friendship with the [[Tenth Doctor]]. He was also still a cunning strategist, allowing himself to remain [[Joshua Naismith]]'s prisoner so he could repair the Immortality Gate and use it to create his Master Race, all so he could turn the Earth into a warship, but then improvised a plan where he used his duplicates to locate the source of "the drumming". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The insanity he developed due to his botched resurrection and the drumming was fixed when the Time Lords repaired the Master's body back to normal. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
Missy recalled an enjoyment for being in this incarnation, stating how he "burn[ed] like a sun, like a whole screaming world on fire." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
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The Master made a habit of saying, "Oh, no you don't", saying it when the Doctor was locking the TARDIS's coordinates, ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') when avoiding a conversation with the Doctor, and when the Doctor restored his youthful physiognomy with the Archangel Network's telepathic link. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
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The Master shared the Tenth Doctor's technical knowledge, as he was able to construct his [[laser screwdriver]] from Earth components, cannibalise the Doctor's TARDIS and turn it into a [[Paradox machine]], miniaturise [[Richard Lazarus]]' genetic manipulation technology, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and was able to repair the [[Immortality Gate]] for [[Joshua Naismith]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') He also designed the [[Archangel Network]] and the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
Like his degenerated and bald incarnations, this Master had dangerous foresight and knew it was a mistake to give the Doctor hints about his plans while he could intervene. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') His methods for dealing with the Doctor during his reign as [[prime minister]] showed an efficient and simple mindset; framing the Doctor for murder to send the police after him, arresting Martha's family for insurance, and luring [[Torchwood Three]] away to the [[Himalayas]] to prevent Jack from recruiting their aide. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') He was likewise straight to the point when explaining how the time differentials were affecting the [[Mondas]]ian [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Colony ship]] to [[Bill Potts]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
 
This Master was also a decent fighter, having brawled with his other incarnations on equal footing, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'') struck the Tenth Doctor down with a single [[punch]] to the face, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') knocked down a [[Patient (World Enough and Time)|partially-converted Cybermen]] with a blow to the back of their head, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and overpowered the [[Twelfth Doctor]] in unarmed combat. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
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After he was fatally stabbed by Missy, the Master admired how his death was "very nicely done", and found that it was "good to know [she] [hadn't] lost [his] touch." Though he accepted his impending regeneration, the Master was unwilling to accept that Missy would stand with the Doctor and shot her dead. He then began laughing at their "perfect ending" being them "shoot[ing] [them]selves in the back", and continued to laugh as he made his way to his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
=== As "Missy" ===
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Though he had previously preferred a male form, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') the Master was indifferent when he learnt he would regenerate into a woman, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') and, fully embracing her new gender, the Master changed her title to "Mistress", shortening it to "Missy". Considering herself to be "old-fashioned", she insisted on being addressed as [[Time Lady]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') while nicknaming herself the "Queen of Evil". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') She also adopted a [[Scottish]] accent, claiming she would keep it after taking a liking to the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s accent, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') occasionally utilising other accents when she felt the need. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')
 
No longer choosing to hide behind a rational persona, Missy openly described herself as "bananas", but took offence when [[Danny Pink]] called her a "lunatic". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') She also displayed tendencies of being a show-off, such as when vastly enlarging her face on a UNIT monitor in a comical manner to show [[UNIT]] that she could, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and enjoyed having information that others did not, such as having knowledge of the Doctor's past that others could not argue with. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
 
Though she adopted a bubblier personality with a welcoming and sociable façade, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and more choreographic movements, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') Missy was more open about her loneliness, and willing to show when she was afraid and remorseful. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'')
 
In her own words, Missy was "especially spiteful". Indeed, she began murdering some of the Scoundrels Club's members and enslaving the others after they refused to allow her to remain a member. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
 
Believing that the Doctor's saving of [[Gallifrey]] was meant to rescue only her, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') Missy's affection for the Doctor became more conspicuous, telling the [[Half-Face Man]] that, while the Doctor could be mean to others, he would not be with her because he "loved [her] so much". She openly referred to him as her "boyfriend", ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') tracked his movements across time and space, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'', ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and mockingly professed that her hearts "belonged to [the Doctor]" after passionately kissing him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') Despite these implications of their relationship being romantic, Missy adamantly denied that she loved the Doctor, even showing disgust at the thought, insisting it to be a complicated friendship, though expressed jealous irritation when the Doctor called [[Davros]] his "arch-enemy", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and would become upset and querulous when he did not show interest in her plans. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr. Twelfth (novel)|Dr. Twelfth]]'')
 
Viewing everything as being born to die, Missy held no regrets when it came to murder, describing her urge to kill as akin to a child wanting to pop a [[balloon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and having a preference for killing "clever-clogs" because they "[made] the best faces". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') When building up to a murder, Missy would insist that her victim "say something nice" to her and would wait patiently for them to reply. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]], [[PROSE]]: [[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')'' ''She also insisted that anyone aiming to kill her do the same with her, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and would take offence if a threat to kill her was not carried out. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')
 
Missy retained her predecessors' sadistic tendencies, demonstrating cruel pleasure at taunting her victims before she [[kill]]ed them, such as telling Dr [[Chang (Dark Water)|Chang]] she would miss him and promising to always keep a picture of him "looking so sweet" before she murdered him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') She also encouraged Osgood to have more self-confidence, while counting down to her death to torment her. However, she atomised [[Seb (The Caretaker)|Seb]] without a second glance for no reason other than that the AI was annoying her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') Missy also held no respect for the dead, using dead human bodies to create a Cyberman army, ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') as well as crushing Osgood's [[glasses]] under her heel while posthumously thanking her for being "yummy". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
 
Missy could be needlessly cruel in her interactions with others, such as taunting [[Clara Oswald]] about her [[Danny Pink|dead boyfriend]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and pushing Clara down a hole to test its depth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') She also ordered the [[death]] of [[Belgium|Belgians]] for no reason, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') vaporised UNIT personnel to prove she had "not gone [[good]]," ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and was believed by [[Ashildr]] to have united Clara and the Doctor together just to see what chaos would result from their clashing personalities. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') She would sometimes act childish or ignorant so that others around her would drop their guard. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'') However, when Missy learnt that the Doctor had departed [[Darillium]] to leave [[River Song]] to [[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|her fate]], she offered her sincere condolences for his loss. ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'')
 
During her imprisonment in [[Vault (The Pilot)|the vault]], Missy went "cold turkey" on being [[evil]] as the Doctor tried to rehabilitate her into being [[good]], which first worked to the extent that she grew remorseful for all the people she had murdered, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'') and then to the point that [[Nardole]] trusted her enough to retrieve the Doctor and Bill from [[Mars]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'') which in turn resulted in the Doctor trusting her enough to do "maintenance" on his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'')
 
Though she continued to show progress with her rehabilitation and made an effort to do good on the [[Mondas]]ian [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]], when she was approached by her past incarnation, she relapsed back to being [[evil]] by allying with him, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') but continued to be conflicted with her allegiance, admitting to the Doctor that she was "in two minds" about what she wanted. However, after being moved by the Doctor's speech on kindness and request for her help, Missy stabbed her past incarnation so that he would regenerate into her and she could stand with the Doctor, only for the Master to shoot her beyond regeneration, leading to her death, though she shared the amusement in her "perfect ending" being shot in the back by her past incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
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Missy showed a liking for singing, substituting her name in with "Mickey" in the song "Mickey" while in UNIT custody, and singing a verse from "Happy Birthday, Mr President" when giving the Doctor control of a Cyberman army. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') She pulled a similar stunt involving "Mickey" lyrics via text communication when she announced her presence to UNIT by halting all aeroplane traffic, and, when imprisoned by [[Colony Sarff]], she passed the time by partaking in opera singing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') Missy was also good at playing the [[piano]], and passed her time in the vault playing ''[[Für Elise]]'', ''[[Pop Goes The Weasel]]'', ([[TV]]: ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]'') and ''[[The Entertainer]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')
 
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Missy was a devious planner and skilled manipulator, able to manoeuvre others into place with ease by exploiting their desires. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') While trapped on [[Skaro]] with [[Clara Oswald]], Missy demonstrated fluid planning as her desires changed from wanting to ally with the Daleks, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') to wanting to help the Doctor, to then wanting the Doctor to unintentionally kill Clara. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') She was also a convincing liar, especially when using her talent for manipulative reasons. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') However, Missy would often opt for one solitary scheme with virtually no contingencies or backup plans in place to help steer events back towards her favour like her previous incarnations employed, instead opting to give the Doctor false hope of reaching Gallifrey after she was beaten, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') and walking away with nothing but taunts to say when the Doctor didn't kill Clara. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')
 
Sharing the Doctor's observational skills, Missy could tell a man she had killed was a married father by the ring on his finger and the detection of "baby leakage" on his jacket. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'')
 
== Appearance and clothing ==
=== First incarnation ===
As an eight-year-old boy, the Master had dark hair and bright blue eyes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
As he matured, the Master swept his black hair back, and also grew a greying beard. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'')
 
The Master was described by [[Maris]] as "pewter, [having] washed-out skin, and the beginnings of a goatee". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir]]'')
 
=== "Inventor" incarnation ===
When he met the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara on Destination, the Master had short hair and a beard, both of which were almost completely grey, save for some dark patches. His eyes were brown in colour. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
 
=== "UNIT enemy" incarnation ===
The Master resembled a mature, elegant man, with a swarthy complexion, brown eyes, and mild streaks of grey in his hair. He had a goatee beard, which also had white skunk stripes. He generally wore a black Cardin-Nehru jacket, with dark trousers, black leather boots and gloves, and a white cuff-linked shirt. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'') On occasion, he would wear a suit, with either an orange, grey or blue tie. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[The Time Monster]]'')
 
While imprisoned on [[Fortress Island]], the Master wore a black cape over a white turtle-neck jumper, with black trousers, but switched these for a naval officer's uniform while secretly infiltrating [[HMS Seaspite]]. During his return and subsequent escape from Fortress Island, he changed back into his black Nehru jacket and trousers. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'')
 
=== Degenerated body ===
Either because [[Susan Foreman]] used the [[Tissue Compression Eliminator|TCE]] against him while he was holding a [[matter transmuter]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'') or because he was burnt in an energy net by {{Macqueen|n=a future incarnation}}, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') the Master came to resemble a deformed corpse, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'') with brown eyes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'') However, after absorbing some energy from the [[Eye of Harmony]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') he became less "putrescent". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trail of the White Worm]]'') With his decayed body, the Master would experience almost unendurable pain. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'')
 
To hide his disfigurement, the Master took to wearing a rotting hooded cloak. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') Whilst in Victorian London, he wore a mask in public to conceal his decaying appearance and also used a cane to aid his frail body. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Maurice (audio story)|Maurice]]'')
 
He was described by [[Spandrell]] as being "emaciated", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'') with [[Bob Dovie]] describing him as looking "burned." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] described him as "a cowled cadaver". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Requiem for the Rocket Men (audio story)|Requiem for the Rocket Men]]'')
 
=== "Tremas" incarnation ===
After the Master used the power of [[The Source (The Keeper of Traken)|the Source]] to steal [[Tremas]]'s body, the [[Trakenite]]'s body was also rejuvenated, with his grey hair becoming a dark brown, and his white bushy beard turning into a black goatee beard. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] didn't think much of the beard, calling it "rubbish" when he met his [[tenth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'')
 
After the Master stole his body, Tremas's robes inexplicably changed into a black velveteen high collared tunic with puffed sleeves and long tails, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'') black trousers, dark leather boots, and black velvet gloves. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') The Master would also utilise a cloak with a large collar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
 
While stranded on [[Cheetah World]], the Master opted to change his usual attire for a black coat with a white collar, with a white collared dark blue shirt and bow tie, black trousers and shoes, a silver waistcoat, and a belt with a dragon-shaped buckle. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival]]'')
 
In an account that depicted this Master with greying hair, he wore a red velvet jacket, a white waistcoat with a black jumper, and a pair of dark trousers, with leather gloves and shoes, with various rings decorating his gloves. Completing the ensemble was a black cloak with a huge collar and white lining, ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'') which the Master had also worn during his alliance with [[Adam Mitchell]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Cat and Mouse (comic story)|Cat and Mouse]])''
 
While combating [[the Graak]] in [[the Determinant]], the Master adopted many costume changes to suit the situation he found himself in; wearing an a conductor hat with an "M"-insignia at a platform station, a bowler hat while on a train taunting the Graak, a [[Dalek Trooper]] helmet while commanding a rocket launcher, and a plastic crown at a medieval-themed festival. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')
 
=== "Tzun" incarnation ===
The Master had a high forehead, glossy moustache, neat beard, aristocratic nose and a lean face, and spoke in a rich cultured voice. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier]]'') He wore a Vandyke beard, a dark Italian-designed suit, a silk shirt, and a cravat with a silver bird-of-prey tiepin. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Housewarming]]'')
 
=== "John Smith" incarnation ===
When the Master was robbed of his [[Trakenite]] body by the [[Warp Core]], he regained his disfigured appearance, which [[Ace]] described as resembling [[Freddy Krueger]] and "a dropped [[pizza]]". To hide his disfigurement, the Master took to wearing a golden mask with diamonds encrusted inside it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding]]'')
 
After becoming John Smith, the Master did not hide his disfigurement and wore a suit instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
 
=== While body-jumping ===
As a [[Deathworm Morphant]], the Master resembled a snake. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
While within Bruce's body, the Master looked like a young [[America]]n man, but his eyes appeared reptilian, forcing him to wear sunglasses to remain inconspicuous. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') He decided to have his new hair gelled ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') into a slick backcomb style, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') as opposed to Bruce's messy style. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') While searching for the Doctor, the Master wore denim jeans and a check shirt with Bruce's leather jacket and light boots. When his plan neared completion, the Master changed his into traditional extravagant Gallifreyan robes, citing that he "always dress[ed] for the occasion". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
After gaining a new body, the Master resembled a black street preacher with a balding head. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'') After revealing himself, he replaced his clothes with a more regal outfit. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
 
When trapped on Earth in the 20th Century, the Master wore whatever his hosts wore normally, to avoid detection. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
 
=== "Bald" incarnation ===
The Master had brown eyes and was bald, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'') with many commenting on his lack of hair. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'', ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') He wore a plain suit with a velvet jacket, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'') and a striped tie. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') On one occasion, he wore a white [[Stetson]] hat. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'')
 
While posing as the "Other Doctor," the Master wore a black overcoat, with black trousers, a dark blazer, white shirt and dark green cravat. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'')
 
=== "War" incarnation ===
In his sixteenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') the Master's body was that of a small child with black hair and blue eyes. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'') On [[Veestrax]], he had short hair, and wore a white shirt with a black jacket. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Outrun (comic story)|Outrun]]'') By the time he and the Doctor had arrived on [[Golgauth]], the Master's hair was longer, and he sported a red shirt under his jacket. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'')
 
=== "Yana" incarnation ===
In his seventeenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') the Master originally looked like an elderly man with white hair and blue eyes. Though he started his life clean-shaven, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fast Asleep (comic story)|Fast Asleep]]'') he eventually grew a scruffy white goatee beard. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'')
 
After use of the [[Chameleon Arch]], he had regressed into a [[baby]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') When Professor Yana met the [[Tenth Doctor]], he resembled a slightly younger version of his original self, having aged naturally. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
He wore a white stiff-collard shirt, often with sleeves rolled up, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beneath the Viscoid (audio story)|Beneath the Viscoid]]'') a dark red waistcoat, a black cravat, and black trousers. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') He once wore a brown tweed jacket over this attire. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') During his encounter with UNIT, he wore a velvet coat. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master of Worlds (audio story)|Master of Worlds]]'') In his waist coat, he housed a Chameleon Arch [[biodata module]], disguised as an ordinary [[fob watch]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
During his expeditionary walks on [[Arcking]], he wore a [[Grav-Suit]] over his clothes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'')
 
=== "Harold Saxon" incarnation ===
In his eighteenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') the Master was young, with light brown hair, and dark brown eyes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') According to the [[Twelfth Doctor]], he had a "round face". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'') As "Harold Saxon", the Master would wear a black suit with a white shirt and black tie. While meeting [[President]] [[Arthur Coleman Winters]], he wore a black coat with a crimson lined interior. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
After his botched resurrection, the Master's hair was bleached light blond, and he gained some stubble. To remain inconspicuous, he wore a black hooded sweatshirt over a red T-shirt with dark combat trousers and black boots. Due to the corruption of his [[life force]], the Master's outer skin would fade away and reveal the translucent blue life energy encasing his body, exposing his skeleton and internal organs, with each fluctuation making an unsettling primal roar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') After being "fixed" by the [[Time Lord]]s, the Master no longer distorted into the translucent blue energy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
By the time he found the [[Twelfth Doctor]] aboard the [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]], the Master had aged somewhat, now having grey hair and a beard. He also discarded his previous clothes for a black coat with a large red lined collar on the left-hand side, a green button up shirt, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') dark trousers, and black zip-up boots. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
When the [[Third Doctor]] saw this Master in [[Sild]] captivity, he described what he saw as "a young man in a business suit, beardless, with a mop of boyish hair," and that his face "seemed friendly and plausible", overall thinking him "the kind of man people would find easy to trust." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
 
=== As "Missy" ===
In her nineteenth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'') Missy looked like a mature woman with pronounced cheek bones, and light [[blue]] [[eye]]s. Her [[black]] [[hair]] was wild and free, but held in place in an up-do. She also adopted a Scottish accent like the Twelfth Doctor's. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') Her immediate predecessor admitted to finding her attractive. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
Fashioning herself in [[Victorian]]-styled garb, Missy wore a starched collared blouse ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath]]'') with a cameo brooch made of [[Dark star alloy]] under her throat, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar]]'') along with a high waisted skirt that cut to ankle length, and a croak lengthen jacket which puffed up at the shoulders and dark lapels. She also wore black ankle boots with a sharp toe and tapered heels. Completing the ensemble was a black boater hat worn at a rakish angle, with an arrangement of black and red berries on the brim and a black veil over the top.
 
For further accessories, Missy wore a spiked bracelet on her left wrist, carried around a black umbrella, and wore two rings on her right hand, and one ring on her left hand. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath]]'')
 
Missy varied the colours of her clothes, with the design coming in black, ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath]]'') bottle green, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek]]'') a shade of dark orange, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker]]'') plum, ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline]]'') and violet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice]]'')
 
Imprisoned in the Vault, Missy was unable to have her hair cut, leading to it growing and looking messier than before. She also replaced her brooch with a necktie. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')
 
== Other information ==
=== Relationship with the Doctor ===
The Master's relationship with [[the Doctor]] was complex. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') They respected the Doctor as a worthy opponent, once offering to use a recently recovered weapon to take control of the universe while offering to share it with the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') As time went on, however, the Master became increasingly obsessed with proving his personal superiority, causing him to view the Doctor both as his greatest friend and his worst enemy. He expressed deep anger toward the Doctor, along with a desire for vengeance, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'') and accused the Doctor of causing him to waste his regenerations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
Although initially willing to work with the Doctor when the situation required it, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'') after the [[Last Great Time War]], the Master absolutely refused to listen to the Doctor on any occasion. He evinced his vanity when the Doctor confronted him with the words "I forgive you", which he had been terrified of hearing because it significantly dented his pride. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
The Master enjoyed making playful flirtations towards the Tenth Doctor while speaking on the phone, even asking the Doctor if he was asking him out on a date. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') When the Doctor harnessed the psychic energy of the entire human race and effectively became a god, the Master was reduced to sobbing against a wall. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
After regenerating into a female incarnation, the Master took her sexual innuendos to a new level by referring to him as her "boyfriend" and holding him responsible for her fate. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven]]'') Upon meeting the Doctor in his [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnation]], she pretended to be an android and passionately kissed him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') She later wanted to give him control of her army of [[Cybermen]], attempting to force him to recognise that they were the same, but he refused and gave it to [[Danny Pink]] instead, who stopped her plans. While surprised, Missy didn't try to stop the Doctor as he prepared to kill her to spare [[Clara Oswald]] from doing it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven]]'') When searching for the Doctor, Missy challenged Clara's scepticism about her concern about him by claiming to have cared about the Doctor "since always" ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and even begged the Doctor to find out about her plans. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'') Shortly before her encounter with her predecessor, Missy showed a genuine desire to rekindle her friendship with the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]'') In fact, she had been rehabilitated enough that she would stand with him to fight the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
=== Companions ===
Unlike the Doctor, the Master usually worked and travelled alone. On rare occasions, they were seen with companions. Examples included [[Ailla (The Dark Path)|Ailla]] the [[Time Lord]] spy; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]'') [[Finsey|Mother Finsey]], a woman who was fascinated by the Master's [[evil]]ness and would follow his track afterwards; ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Transcendence of Ephros (audio story)|The Transcendence of Ephros]]'') [[Chang Lee]], a young [[human]] whom the Master met in [[San Francisco]]; ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') [[Katsura Sato]], an immortal [[Japanese]] [[samurai]] who helped the Master in his quest for Glory; ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') and [[Sally Armstrong]], a woman who helped him to use [[the Eminence]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'')
 
During The Last Great Time War, he took in [[Cole Jarnish]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Good Master (audio story)|The Good Master]]'') though as a ploy, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') and later [[Chantho]], a female assistant and companion to the Master in his Professor Yana identity. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') As Harold Saxon, [[Lucy Saxon]], his wife, was described as having travelled with the Master in the TARDIS in the same fashion as the Doctor and his companions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
Clara also temporarily became Missy's companion when they both teleported out of the Dalek city together. Missy treated Clara as her "canary", forcing her to act as bait for the Daleks and test the safety of their situations first. She also made her get inside a Dalek casing so they would be able to sneak back into the city convincingly. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
=== Character conception and development ===
* He has been called "The 17th Master" by some fans, based upon a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of the spoof. In the special itself he is not referred to as anything but the Master.
[[Barry Letts]] and [[Terrance Dicks]] often discussed that the relationship between [[Third Doctor|the Third Doctor]] and [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] is similar to [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[John Watson|Dr Watson]]. Inevitably, this led them to a question: where is Moriarty? They envisioned a counterpart of the Doctor, a character that became the Master. ([[DOC]]: ''[[The Doctor's Moriarty]]'')
* This Master is a parody of [[Roger Delgado]]'s Master from the [[Third Doctor]]'s era.  
 
In a way, the Doctor himself was the model of the Master. At first, the ''Doctor Who'' production team thought of the Master as the [[evil]] half of a single personality. The Master's name was dreamed up as another counterpart to the Doctor's — like that of his enemy, "Master" is an academic title.{{Fact}} But this does not mean that the Master has a lesser academic degree than the Doctor, as in a master's degree. Both being Time Lords, they have the same level of education and are graduates of the Time Lord Academy. In ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', we learn that both had chosen their names because of what they meant — the Doctor as a healer of wrongs, the Master because of his desire for conquest and dominance.
 
In the [[Third Doctor]]'s [[The Final Game|original final episode concept]], [[Roger Delgado]]'s incarnation of the Master would have redeemed himself and given his life to save the Doctor, after which the Doctor would have [[Regeneration|regenerated]]; however, this story was never developed due to the accidental death of Roger Delgado. Over thirty years later, this idea was reused in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', with [[John Simm]]'s incarnation of the Master sacrificing himself to save the [[Tenth Doctor]] from [[Rassilon]].
 
In ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', writer [[Robert Holmes]] deliberately chose to show the Master in a "transitional" form, in case future production teams wanted to bring back the character. This transitional form was also used in ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]''.
 
The Master was the villain in the early drafts of the 1977 television story ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]''. <ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/4s.html</ref>
 
=== Is "Koschei" their true name? ===
The [[1997 (releases)|1997]] novel ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'' shows the [[Second Doctor]] in one of his first encounters with the Master since leaving [[Gallifrey]]. Throughout the story, the Master is only called by the pseudonym "Koschei". In Russian folklore, Koschei (rus.{{w|Koschei|Коще́й}} or Коще́й Бессме́ртный, "Koschei The Deathless") is a villain who hides his soul in an obscure location under many layers of protection so that he can never die.
 
Though the Second Doctor does not recognise Koschei by that name in ''The Dark Path'', later stories like ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'' and ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'' reuse the name in ways that suggest it is the true or original name of the Master. The [[2018 (releases)|2018]] short story ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'' casts this theory into doubt, however, as Missy states that her real name contains thirty-two letters, though it is possible that "Koshei" is a diminutive, or even a first or last name which, added up with the other, amounts to thirty-two.
 
=== How many Masters? ===
Especially in comparison to other prominent [[Time Lord]]s like [[the Doctor]] and [[Romana]], the count of the Master's incarnations has been left unclear by many stories. [[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' gives the first clue when the Master is said to be near the end of his thirteenth and final life.
 
[[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'' shows the transformation from the [[Roger Delgado]] Master into the degraded form portrayed by [[Geoffrey Beevers]] and [[Peter Pratt]], establishing that all three actors are playing a single incarnation of the Master. However, the comic ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'' contradicts this by showing the Delgado incarnation's [[regeneration]], and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'' features the Beevers incarnation of the Master before disfigurement. However, this may be reconciled as ''Legacy'' does not explicitly feature the Delgado Master 'regenerating' into the Pratt/Beevers version, as the novel depicts him being blown out of his TARDIS when [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] destroys a key piece of equipment and he is later shown being rescued by Goth, creating the possibility that he was not badly injured by the explosion and was able to retrieve another TARDIS to continue his depicted adventures as the Delgado incarnation, such as ''Doorway to Hell'', until he regenerated and was disfigured in ''Two Masters''.
Afterwards, [[Anthony Ainley]]'s version of the Master takes over Tremas' body and goes on to plague the Doctor until the original series' end. Despite being a different form, there's no actual regeneration.
 
The 2010 edition of ''[[Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary]]'' indicates that the Master played by [[John Simm]] is the seventeenth form. However, this source is considered [[T:VS|invalid]] by this wiki.
 
Eight years later, the debate was concluded by the short story ''[[Girl Power! (short story)|Girl Power!]]'', which shows eighteen deaths on Missy's [[Spacebook]] page. This results in nineteen true incarnations, not including possessed bodies. While the identities of the Master's incarnations pre-Beevers are not named by this story, it does account for every incarnation of the Master post-Beevers that have appeared in spin-off media.
 
=== Off-screen relationships ===
Although they played antagonists on screen, in real life [[Roger Delgado]] and [[Jon Pertwee]] were actually close friends. In interviews and convention Q&A sessions, Pertwee often cited the death of Delgado as one of the factors that led him to give up the role. ([[DOC]]: ''[[PanoptiCon 93]]'', [[MM VHS 15]])
 
Long before Tom Baker met Anthony Ainley during the filming of his last episode, he had lived with his brother, Richard Ainley, an acting instructor. Tom often saw Anthony, who would come over to play with Richard's children, but always thought of him as mysterious. <ref>http://www.tom-baker.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=756</ref>
=== Doctor Who The Official Annual 2018 ===
According the ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2018]]'', which is not accepted as a [[Tardis:Valid sources|valid source for in-universe articles on this wiki]], Missy remained on Skaro after ''[[The Witch's Familiar]]'', adopting a [[Slyther]] as a pet that ate the [[Thal]]s she met.
 
When Missy was put on trial for her "crimes against the universe throughout all [her] lives", she talked her way out of being sentenced for the events of [[The Year That Never Was]] by pointing out the Doctor's undoing of those events, for the murder of [[Petronella Osgood]] by pointing out the two Osgoods still working for [[UNIT]], for the event at [[Devil's End]] by pointing out she had already been tried for that crime and cleared up confusion about her involvement in the [[Death Zone]] by reminding everyone that [[Borusa]] was the culprit. She was, however, eventually sentenced to death for pushing a girl into a volcano on [[Riga-Priam]], which she had mentioned doing in ''[[The Lie of the Land]]''.
 
=== Other matters ===
* Missy's appearance is based upon that of the Julie Andrews version of [[Mary Poppins]]. For example, when first introduced in the stage directions from the script of ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', Missy was physically described thus: "She's dressed a little like Mary Poppins." Furthermore, Missy imitates the style of Mary's arrival (floating down from the sky using an umbrella) in ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]''.
 
* The Master was dubbed in German by [[Reinhard Glemnitz]] and [[Klaus Kindler]] as the Ainley incarnation, [[Wolfgang Jürgen]] as the Roberts incarnation, [[Hans-Gerd Kilbinger]] as the Jacobi incarnation, [[Michael Deffert ]]as the Simm incarnation, and [[Katharina Koschny]] as the Gomez incarnation.
* Though Robert Holmes has received a creator credit for male incarnations of the Master in the revived series, no such credit is given for Missy.
 
== Feature ==
=== Casting ===
==== Television ====
{| class="wikitable"
 
! style="width:20%" |Actor
! style="width:5%" |Tenure
! style="width:20%" |First story
! style="wdith:15%" |Last story
! style="width:40%" |Notes
|-
|[[Roger Delgado]]||[[1971 (releases)|1971]]-[[1973 (releases)|1973]]||''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''||''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]''||Roger Delgado would have also appeared in the final story of [[Jon Pertwee]]'s tenure, had not his death intervened.
|-
||[[Norman Stanley]]||[[1971 (releases)|1971]]||''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''||''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''||Stanley, credited as "Telephone Mechanic" in episode three of ''Terror of the Autons'', portrays the Delgado Master disguised by a mask while he infiltrates [[UNIT]] and installs a [[Nestene]] telephone.
|-
||[[Peter Pratt]]||[[1976 (releases)|1976]]||''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]''||''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]''||Peter Pratt was the first actor to portray the Master's cadaverous body.
|-
|[[Geoffrey Beevers]]||[[1981 (releases)|1981]]||''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''||''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''||Geoffrey Beevers became the primary vocal performer of the Master for [[Big Finish]]
|-
|[[Anthony Ainley]]||[[1981 (releases)|1981]]-[[1989 (releases)|1989]]||''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''||''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]''||Anthony Ainley also appeared in the specially shot full motion video that accompanied [[1997 (releases)|1997]]'s ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]''
|-
|[[Gordon Tipple]]||[[1996 (releases)|1996]]||''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''||''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''||Tipple played the Master whom the [[Dalek]]s exterminate at the start of the 1996 telemovie. Virtually all of his footage was cut from the finished film.
|-
|[[Eric Roberts]]||[[1996 (releases)|1996]]||''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''||''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''||The first and, so far, only American actor to play the role.
|-
|[[Derek Jacobi]]||[[2007 (releases)|2007]]||''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''||''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''||[[Derek Jacobi]] had earlier played [[The Master (Scream of the Shalka)|another version]] of the Master in the ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'' webcast.
|-
|[[John Simm]]||[[2007 (releases)|2007]]-[[2010 (releases)|2010]]
||''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''||''[[The Doctor Falls]]''||[[John Simm]]'s version of the character was the first incarnation of the Master to ever be shown as the product of a proper [[regeneration]] shown onscreen, and was also the first Master to return to the role on television after being replaced by another performer.
|-
|[[William Hughes]]||[[2007 (releases)|2007]]||''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]''||''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]] ''||[[William Hughes]] was the Master as a child in a dialogue-free flashback which was repeated in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''.
|-
|[[Michelle Gomez]]||[[2014 (releases)|2014]]-[[2017 (releases)|2017]]||''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]''||''[[The Doctor Falls]]''||[[Michelle Gomez]] was a character introduced as ''Missy'', later revealed to be short for "Mistress" in ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', as she could no longer be known as "Master". Michelle Gomez is notable for being the first female performer to portray the character, and marked the first time in a TV story that a Time Lord had been seen to change gender due to regeneration.
|}
 
==== Audio ====
[[Geoffrey Beevers]] is the main portrayer of the character in [[Big Finish]] audio dramas. Sometimes, as in ''[[Fourth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'', he's merely reprising the pre-[[Tremas]] Master seen in ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''.  On other occasions, he has portrayed a post-''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'' Master that has had the [[Tremas]] layer peeled away. On yet another occasion, in ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'', he played a post-TV movie Master, who switched bodies yet again using the [[Deathworm]], having become trapped in 1900 and spending the next few decades 'body-jumping' along a family line to survive.
 
[[Alex Macqueen]] portrayed the Master in ''[[UNIT Dominion]]'', ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]'', ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'', ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]'', ''[[The Reviled (audio story)|The Reviled]]'', ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]],'' ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'', ''[[Vampire of the Mind (audio story)|Vampire of the Mind]]'' and ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'', set at a time where the Master is given a new regeneration cycle by the Time Lords after his confrontation with the Eighth Doctor, and is set to work on their behalf.
 
In ''The Two Masters'', it is revealed that the Beevers and MacQueen Masters had switched bodies due to the manipulations of the [[Cult of the Heretic]], with the result that the two actors were technically portraying each other's version of the Master in the audios ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'' and ''[[Vampire of the Mind (audio story)|Vampire of the Mind]]'' respectively.
 
[[Derek Jacobi]] returned as the Master in [[Only the Good (audio anthology)|''Only the Good'']] and [[Time War: Volume One|''Gallifrey: Time War'']]. He portrayed the same incarnation as seen in ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', yet set before that incarnation turned himself human.
 
[[James Dreyfus]] portrays the Master in ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'', the first installment of ''[[The First Doctor Adventures (audio series)|The First Doctor Adventures]]''. As well as Dreyfus, the Master, through use of a [[voice filter]], temporarily assumes the voice of the [[First Doctor]] ([[David Bradley]]).
 
Additionally, in ''[[The Hollows of Time (audio story)|The Hollows of Time]]'', an audio adaptation of an unrealised 1980s Sixth Doctor script made as part of ''The Lost Stories'' range, a character called Professor [[Stream]] appears, played by [[David Garfield]]. While he was supposed to be revealed as the Ainley incarnation of the Master in the original script, he was not identified as the Master in the audio version.
 
=== Anagrams ===
During [[Anthony Ainley]]'s tenure as the Master, [[pseudonym]]s made from anagrams of the actor's name were often used in the credits for the Master's disguises, such as Neil Toynay for [[the Portreeve]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]''. [[Tremas]] is itself an anagram of Master.
 
The tradition has continued in the [[BBC Wales]] version of the show.  During [[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series 3]], the Master takes on two new identities, Professor Yana in [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', and Mr Harold Saxon in [[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''.  Yana is an intentional acronym of You Are Not Alone, the final words of the [[Face of Boe]], which led the Doctor to discover that Yana was a Time Lord. "Mister Saxon", as the character was mysteriously referred to throughout series 3, is an anagram of "Master No. Six" -  John Simm's rendition being the sixth on-screen version of the character.  However, [[Russell T Davies]] has claimed that this anagram was unintentional.
 
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A particularly incompetent version of the Master attempted to destroy the Ninth Doctor on the planet Tersurus.

Biography

While spying on the Doctor, the Master inadvertently enabled two way communication and unwittingly revealed his plans to eliminate the Doctor. After the two had arranged to meet on Tersurus, it became apparent the Master had travelled back in time to bribe a Tersuron architect to install traps in the castle they were now in. Unbeknown to him, the Doctor had also done the same, bribing the architect with food to change the traps' details. This led to the Master floundering around the sewers of Tersurus for over nine centuries, after falling down the same trap three times. Later he allied himself with the Daleks, and then used his very own TARDIS to travel back to the point just after he fell. Then he threatened the Doctor once again with the Daleks, as they were the only life-forms without noses and hence the only creatures willing to work with him.

As part of this alliance, the Master had himself "augmented" with Dalek technology, resulting in a more youthful appearance and "Dalek bumps" on his chest. Although he remained adamant they were etheric beam locators, the Doctor continually teased the Master because they resembled breasts.

When he believed the Twelfth Doctor to have been killed by the zectronic beam, the Master renounced his evil ways before the Doctor regenerated into a female form. Attracted to each other, the Time Lords walked off, arm in arm. (TV: The Curse of Fatal Death)

Personality

This version of the Master was as melodramatic and hammy as ever, frequently laughing maniacally and taking pleasure in explaining his evil plans at great length.

He was also significantly more inept than other versions of the Master, monitoring the Doctor in his TARDIS and gloating about the traps he had set without realising that he was on speakerphone until the Doctor informed him. After deactivating his viewscreen, he continued to monologue in what he thought was privacy, unaware that he had just switched the screen off and was still audible to the Doctor. He also inadvertently fell into a trap he had set for the Doctor no less than three times. Over nine hundred years, he developed some questionable appetites and behaviours with slugs.

The Master's incompetence manifested itself again when he failed to realise that the Daleks were planning to exterminate him once had assisted them in completing the death ray. In fact, so lacking in common sense was the Master that when the Doctor used the language of the Tersuruns to discreetly (and pungently) inform him of the Daleks' intentions, the Master gave the game away by blurting it out loud, causing the Daleks to try and exterminate him post haste. This Master's uncharacteristic lack of intelligence was further demonstrated by his inability to repair the exploding generator, admitting that only the Doctor had the capacity to do so.

Despite being a rival with the Doctor for many years, he was devastated that his old foe may not regenerate again, and decided to become good in his memory. However, the Doctor did regenerate, this time as a woman. The Master fell in love with the Doctor and became lovers. (TV: The Curse of Fatal Death)

Behind the scenes

  • He has been called "The 17th Master" by some fans, based upon a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of the spoof. In the special itself he is not referred to as anything but the Master.
  • This Master is a parody of Roger Delgado's Master from the Third Doctor's era.
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