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| {{Update|This page needs to also include information from the books; the main priority being [[MA]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]''.}}
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| name= The Master|
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| alias = see [[Aliases of the Master]]|
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| image = DelgadoMaster.jpg|
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| race= [[Gallifreyan]] ([[Time Lord]])|
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| origin=[[Gallifrey]]|
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| appearances= [[The Master - List of Appearances|List of Appearances]]|
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| actor=[[Roger Delgado]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'' to ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')<br />[[Peter Pratt]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')<br />[[Geoffrey Beevers]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'', [[BFA]]: ''[[Dust Breeding]]'', [[BFA]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'', [[BFA]]: ''[[Trail of the White Worm]]'', [[BFA]]: ''[[The Oseidon Adventure]]'')}}{{masters}}
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| The '''thirteenth incarnation'''<ref>''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'' Part 4 - 19:26</ref> of the [[Time Lord]] known as [[the Master]] was a [[renegade Time Lord|renegade]], seen by his own people as one of their worst members. Though initially friends with him, the Master had, by this time, already [[The Master#Early life|sworn enmity against the Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'')
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| For much of his life, he opposed the [[Third Doctor]] and [[UNIT]], mainly in the late [[20th century]] in [[England]], though occasionally in other times and places. He eventually became trapped there and was even imprisoned at one point. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils]]'')
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| As this was his thirteenth [[Regeneration|body]], the Master began to decay as his body fell into ruin. He devoted his time to finding a means by which he could rejuvenate himself, and eventually did so. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')
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| == Biography ==
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| === Encounter with the [[Second Doctor]] ===
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| ''to be added''
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| === Futher adventures ===
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| Before the [[Third Doctor]] became aware of his presence, the Master had infact been on Earth for some time.
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| The Master was present at the first [[Auton]] [[Black Thursday|invasion of Earth]]. He had apparently seen or heard about [[Channing]] attempt to capture the [[Third Doctor]]. He contacted journalist [[James Stevens]] by phone, who's article he had read in the ''[[Daily Chronicle]]'', and told him about the near-kidnapping. ([[MA]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'')
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| He later called Stevens again, during the [[Silurian]] attacks on [[Wenley Moor]]. He informed Stevens that [[Edward Masters|Frederick Masters]] had been the first to have died from the plague sweeping London. ([[MA]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'')
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| Shorty after the [[Inferno Project]] incident, the Master once more contacted James Stevens, this time to check up on his work on his [[U.N.I.T.]] article. He promptly hang up when Stevens mentioned [[C19]] and [[Glasshouse]]. ([[MA]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
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| [[File:Reconnaissance.jpg|thumb|left|The Master interrogates [[Liz Shaw]]. ([[DWY]]: ''[[Reconnaissance]]'')]]
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| He 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, learned of recent events, including the recent failed [[Nestene]] invasion and the awakening of the [[Silurians]]. This inspired him to ally himself with them and to locate any more Silurian colonies. ([[DWY]]: ''[[Reconnaissance]]'')
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| :''The Master appears to have originally intended to proceed directly with his plan to use the [[Keller Machine]], as he spent many months establishing his (and the Keller Process') credentials, and must have brought the mind parasite to Earth with him prior to joining forces with the Nestenes.''
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| === Encounters with the [[Third Doctor]] ===
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| The Master had already appeared at a circus, [[the Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] in the form of a circus trailer or horse box. He [[hypnosis|hypnotised]] the circus troupe 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 (Terror of the Autons)|Time Lord emissary]] alerted the Doctor to his rival's presence on the planet. After the failure of the Master's plan, he fled. ([[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'')
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| [[File:Master's_Fear.jpg|thumb|The Master experiences his greatest fear. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'')]]
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| The Doctor stole the [[dematerialisation circuit]] of the Master's ship, stranding him on [[Earth]]. He returned again, posing as the scientist who had "developed" the [[Keller Machine]], in reality a living alien entity. He used prisoners as a plan to hijack a missile containing [[nerve gas]] and use it cause a conflict that would trigger a [[nuclear war]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'')
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| The Master recovered the functioning of his TARDIS and brought [[Axos]] to Earth hoping to ally himself with them. Instead he became the prisoner of Axos and only escaped with the aid of CIA agent [[Bill Filer]]. The Doctor tricked the Master into thinking he was going to betray Earth. Instead, he trapped the Master with Axos in a [[time loop]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'')
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| Posing as an [[Adjudicator]], the Master then visited a [[human]] colony on the [[planet]] [[Uxarieus]] in the year [[2472]]. The stolen Time Lords' records had informed him that here he would find the [[Doomsday Weapon]] created by [[Uxariean|a near-extinct]] native species. The Doctor once more defeated him. ([[DW]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'')
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| === The imprisonment of the Master ===
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| In the [[Wiltshire]] village of [[Devil's End]], he summoned the [[Dæmon]] [[Azal]]. At the conclusion of this event, UNIT captured him. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'') Following a trial by human authorities, the Master was sentenced to life imprisonment in a prison on an island designed especially to hold him. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'') The government used him as a scapegoat for all the alien attacks that had occurred. ([[MA]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
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| While in custody, with the Doctor gone to [[Peladon (planet)|Peladon]], ([[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon]]'') the Master collaborated with UNIT to prevent an invasion by [[Parallel universe (Inferno)|a fascist version of Earth]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'') The Master quickly gained control over his jailer, [[George Trenchard]], and nearly caused a war between [[human]]s and [[Sea Devil]]s, a species related to the Silurians. He later escaped in the confusion. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'')
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| === Events following the Master's escape ===
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| Some time during his obvious actions against the Doctor and UNIT, the Master infiltrated the government's Department [[C19]] to a shocking degree. He took control of the [[Glasshouse]], a facility for traumatised UNIT soldiers, and in particular [[Francis Cleary]]. He also tried to undermine UNIT in the short term. In the long term, he planned to use 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. ([[MA]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
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| The Master travelled to ancient [[Atlantis]] and, confronting the Doctor there, brought forth [[Kronos]], king of the [[Chronovore]]s. Kronos captured him but allowed him to go free. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'') Returning to [[1970s]] Earth, he 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]]. ([[TVC]]: ''[[The Glen of Sleeping]]'') He also worked with the [[Gaderene]] race to conquer Earth. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Last of the Gaderene]]'')
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| [[File:Master_(Delgado).jpg|thumb|left|The Master and [[Jo Grant]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')]]
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| He forged a short-lived 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 Draconion, thus provoking the other side. When the Doctor revealed the true perpetrators, the plot was abandoned. ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')
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| For a short while the Master adopted the identity of Duke Dominus, a gangster on early [[20th century]] Earth, but his plan on this occasion was halted by the [[Fourth Doctor]] without the Master even knowing it. ([[VD]]: ''[[The Duke of Dominoes]]'')
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| The Master finally went under cover 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 degenerated when exposed to a lethal blast from a [[Dalek]] artefact, caused by [[Susan Foreman]]. ([[EDA]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'') | |
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| === Escape to Tersurus ===
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| When the [[Time Lord]] [[Chancellor]] [[Goth]] came to Tersurus to investigate the materialisation of an unauthorised [[TARDIS]], ([[EDA]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'') he found the Master in a wasted condition, that of a decaying animated corpse. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')
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| === On Gallifrey ===
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| [[File:DA_Master_close_up.jpg|thumb|The Master whilst on Gallifrey. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')]]
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| The Master made Goth, in line for the position of [[Lord President]] of the [[High Council]] of Time Lords, into his slave. He also took over the mind of [[Solis]], one of the [[Chancellory Guard]]. With a [[telepathic]] summons and a vision of the future created by [[the Matrix]], the Master lured the [[Fourth Doctor]] to [[Gallifrey]] to prevent the murder of the then-serving Lord President. The Doctor failed and ended up on trial for the President's murder. In the mean time, the Master casually killed a guard with his [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]] and left it for the Doctor to find like a grisly calling card.
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| Secretly, the Master had access to [[the Matrix]]. He also had guessed the secret of the [[Eye of Harmony]] and various artefacts left behind by [[Rassilon]]. He realised that the Eye of Harmony, a [[black hole]], resided beneath the [[Panopticon]] and, realising that it had immense power, believed he could use the [[Sash of Rassilon]] to protect himself from the raw power of the Eye and the destruction that unleashing it would cause. He thought that it could channel that energy to renew himself.
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| [[File:A New Body At Last.jpg|thumb|left|The Master steals the body of [[Tremas]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')]]
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| The Doctor defeated the Master in physical combat and he appeared to have fallen into a crevice created by a localised earthquake. In fact, he had gained access to [[the Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]], disguised as a [[grandfather clock]], and escaped. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')
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| === On Traken ===
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| The Master travelled to the [[planet]] [[Traken]], the centre of the [[Traken Union]], in a [[TARDIS]] configured into the sculpture-shaped [[Melkur]]. He set about a plan to steal [[the Source]] 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]]. Defeated once more by the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Adric]], he took over the body of Tremas. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')
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| == Personality ==
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| [[File:Rage.jpg|thumb|The Master calls the Doctor's bluff, showing an understanding of his personality. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')]]
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| This incarnation of [[the Master]] was suave and debonair with a sardonic sense of humour. A haughty psychopath, he regarded most beings as his inferiors but had a mutual respect for the Doctor as a worthy opponent and (almost) his intellectual equal. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'')
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| While in [[Atlantis]], the Master formed something of a relationship with [[Queen]] [[Galleia]], remarking that she was beautiful, and promising her power. Both she and [[Lakis]] commented that he had "the bearing of a [[God]]". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')
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| Following his degeneration, he became less charming and witty. He was mainly preoccupied with finding a way to [[Regeneration|regenerate]]. The vengeful and vindictive side of the Master was at its most apparent while he was in this state. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * Although they played antagonists onscreen, in real life [[Roger Delgado]] (the Master) and [[Jon Pertwee]] (Third Doctor) were actually close friends. In interviews and convention Q&A sessions, Pertwee often cited the death of Delgado as one of the factors which led him to give up the role.
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| == Footnotes ==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| {{Season 8 aliens}}
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| {{Season 9 aliens}}
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| {{season 10 aliens}}
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| {{Season 14 aliens}}
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| {{Season 18 aliens}}
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| {{TitleSort}}
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| [[Category:Incarnations of the Master]] | | [[Category:Incarnations of the Master]] |
| [[Category:Individual Time Lords]] | | [[Category:Individual Time Lords]] |
