"Tzun" Master

Fifteenth Master
Main aliases:	see list
Species:	Time Lord, Deathworm Morphant, Human
Place of origin:	Gallifrey
First appearance:	First Frontier
Appearances:	see list
Main actor:	Gordon Tipple

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Incarnations of the Master
First cycle
Between cycles
Second cycle
Third cycle
Other universes
More ambiguous

Given a new regeneration cycle by the Tzun to overcome the Cheetah virus, the Master was able to regenerate after being shot by Ace. Then, after being sentenced to death on Skaro, he was able to survive his execution using a Deathworm Morphant.

Biography

Post-regeneration

Free? No fur...The "Tzun" Master's first words

Escaping the destruction of Cheetah World using a kitling named Shadow to transmigrate to 1957 Earth, the Master made contact with the Tzun Canton, and volunteered to help assimilate Earth into the Tzun Confederacy in return for use of the Tzun's genetic engineering to give him a new regenerative cycle and cure the Cheetah virus. Shortly afterwards, he was shot in the back by Ace, 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 warhead, the Master fled (PROSE: First Frontier) to the Scoundrels Club to recover from his regeneration. (PROSE: Dismemberment)

A trap for the Doctor

The Master laid a trap for the Doctor at one of his homes using a device which would release the energy from a time fissure once the Doctor's TARDIS materialised, 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)

The Loom of Rassilon's Mouse

The Master obtained the Loom of Rassilon's Mouse in order to make himself a sturdier and indestructible body. However, his plan failed when a Fortean Flicker caused Bernice Summerfield's wedding to occur in the same place, exposing his scheme to her guests, with the Doctor being amongst them. However, the Master managed to escape by hypnotising Kitai into posing as a decoy. (PROSE: Happy Endings)

A new body

Like all of his other attempts at extending his life, the Master's Tzun-made body eventually reverted back to a decayed husk, (AUDIO: Planet of Dust) and he once more "extended his life" by adding alien genes to his biomass, becoming a man with "saturnine features". (PROSE: The Novel of the Film)

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, but his plan was foiled by the Doctor. (PROSE: Omegamorphosis)

Trial

The Master is executed by the Daleks. (TV: Doctor Who)

The Master arrived in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, (AUDIO: Mastermind) where he was captured by a Dalek scouting party (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) to be placed on trial (TV: Doctor Who) by the Dalek Prelature (AUDIO: Mastermind) for his attempts to destroy them and usurp their place as "the supreme creatures of the universe", (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) as well as for his failure in the plot behind the Human-Draconian War, (PROSE: The Runes of Fenric) as part of a Time Lord-Dalek treaty (PROSE: Lungbarrow) called the "Act of Master Restitution". (PROSE: Meet the Doctor) The Master was tried in the presence of the Dalek Emperor while encased in a painful column of light which prevented him from moving. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) It was "said" that he stayed impassive as his long list of crimes were read out to him, (TV: Doctor Who) until the Dalek Litigator found him guilty and ordered his extermination. (AUDIO: Vengeance)

Before he was executed by the Daleks, the Master made a final request: for the Doctor to transport his remains back to Gallifrey. (TV: Doctor Who) According to one account, he made this request via telepathic contact with the Seventh Doctor, even as he was about to be discorporated, and the Daleks never knew of his demands, which the Doctor fulfilled covertly by sneaking into the Dalek bastion. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) According to other accounts, it was as part of a Time Lord-Dalek treaty that the Doctor was able to safely journey to and from Skaro to retrieve the Master's remains. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)

Survival

As a Deathworm Morphant, the Master redirects the TARDIS. (TV: Doctor Who)

The Doctor stored the Master's ashes in a casket and set 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) deciding that the Doctor was too injured, and the nearby boy, Chang Lee, too young, (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) he hid inside a bag belonging to the ambulance driver, Bruce Gerhardt. After Bruce had gone home and to bed, the Master forced his way into Bruce's body through his mouth, killing him and taking over his body. (TV: Doctor Who) The Master's survival broke the peace treaty President Romana started, and was one of the causes for the Last Great Time War. (PROSE; A Brief History of Time Lords)

Psychological profile

Personality

In contrast to his previous incarnation, the "Tzun" Master was calmer, less emotional and flustered, with a proud bearing and an inscrutable demeanour, (PROSE: First Frontier) though he would resort to a panicked state upon confronting the unexpected. (PROSE: Happy Endings) Highly manipulative, the Master would maintain control of a situation, while making others around him think he was not, (PROSE: First Frontier) though would lose this advantage when he knew he was overpowered, such as when at Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding. Unlike his immediate predecessor, the "Tzun" Master was aware that his theatrical plotting could be his undoing, but found amusement in the irony rather than bitterness. (PROSE: Happy Endings)

He thought very highly of his hypnotic skills, finding it amusing when he made two guards believe he was Major Kreer. He looked down at humanity, treating them like children, believed the concept of regeneration to be beyond them. However, he showed some respect towards Ace, who had killed his previous incarnation, believing she would make a good enforcer and admiring her willpower. (PROSE: First Frontier) He also enjoyed fencing with Mike Yates and Sarah Jane Smith. (PROSE: Housewarming)

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

He showed a disdain for explaining things he did not have interest in. (PROSE: Happy Endings)

The "Tzun" Master was just as adept at winding the Doctor up as his predecessor was, claiming that the Seventh Doctor's pacifism was pure hypocrisy, (PROSE: First Frontier) and taking delight in his apparent inability to protect his friends from Bloom. (PROSE: Happy Endings) However, he did hold the Doctor in some regard, believing the Tzun incapable of overpowering him on their own, and insisting he was a threat to be eliminated, though he felt bittersweet about it, admitting to himself that the Doctor was an inspiring adversary, (PROSE: First Frontier) though reacted with horror when four variants of the Seventh Doctor confronted him at once. (PROSE: Happy Endings) Nonetheless, the Master pointed out that the Doctor preferred to kill and destroy from a distance, such as with the Sea Devils. To prove this point, the Master handed the Doctor a blaster and baited him to shoot him at close range, which the Doctor refused to do. (PROSE: First Frontier)

Appearance and clothing

The Master as a preacher. (COMIC: The Fallen)

The "Tzun" 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)

As a Deathworm Morphant, the Master resembled a snake. (TV: Doctor Who) Indeed, Missy recalled him as being "the Snaky One". (PROSE: Meet Missy!)

After gaining a new body, the Master resembled a black street preacher with a balding head. (COMIC: The Fallen) After revealing himself, he replaced his clothes with a more regal outfit. (COMIC: The Glorious Dead)

When trapped on Earth in the 20th century, the Master wore whatever his hosts wore normally, to avoid detection. He discovered each body he possessed would inevitably revert to a decayed appearance, despite his best efforts to prolong them. (AUDIO: Mastermind) By the time of his death by the Ravenous, the Master had continued to rot away, wearing a hooded cloak to conceal himself, and was covered in bandages, with the Eleven comparing him to a mummy. (AUDIO: Planet of Dust)