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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
[[File:Saxon in yanas clothing.jpg|thumb|The Master after his regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]] | |||
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. The Master now had the TARDIS and the Doctor's DNA template via [[the Doctor's hand]], which [[Jack Harkness]] 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 must do something about it. This made him popular in early [[2008]], after the [[Judoon]] had taken the [[Royal Hope Hospital]] to [[the Moon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'') | |||
"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]]'') | |||
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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') | |||
=== Endgame === | |||
[[File:SimmAndToclafane.jpg|thumb|left|The Master with the [[Toclafane]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')]] | |||
He gathered his Cabinet for a meeting in the re-built [[10 Downing Street]] and accused them of being traitors for abandoning their political parties to jump on his political ticket. He rigged the desk phone speakers on the Cabinet Room table to release a lethal gas that killed the Cabinet ministers while using a gas mask to protect himself and mock his victims. He later unleashed the [[Toclafane]] on ''[[Sunday Mirror]]'' reporter [[Vivien Rook]], who threatened to expose his fabricated past to the public. | |||
"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. After 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. | |||
[[File:Presidentkilled.jpg|thumb|The Master begins the [[Toclafane invasion]] with the President's assassination. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]] | |||
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 channelled through the Archangel Network, which the Doctor had spent the year infiltrating [[telepathy|telepathically]]. The psychic energy restored the Doctor and gave him [[telekinetic]] powers. 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 === | |||
[[File:24.jpg|thumb|left|The Master during his resurrection. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]] | |||
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 his apparent 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. | |||
[[File:The Master Unstable Body.jpg|right|thumb|The Master's damaged body flickers between flesh and raw bones. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]] | |||
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. Also, his [[life force]] was left in a state of constant depletion. He consumed huge quantities of food and drained the vitality of humans to stay alive. As a side effect of the failed resurrection, he could expend his life force for enhanced agility and 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. | |||
[[File:Doctor Who - The End of Time.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Master Race]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]] | |||
Encountering the Tenth 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; although the Master called it "my kind of world", the Doctor told him even the Time Lords couldn't survive what he had just unleashed. | |||
[[File:Masterarc.jpg|thumb|right|The Master getting revenge on [[Rassilon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]] | |||
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]]'') | |||
=== After leaving Gallifrey === | |||
[[File:The_Abominable_Showmen_Simm_Master_Drums.jpg|thumb|left|The Master pulls back his disguise. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen]]'')]] | |||
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]]'') | |||
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 voyage === | |||
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 it was his next incarnation 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]]'') | |||
[[File:The_Doctor_Falls_Any_Requests_Master.jpg|thumb|left|The Master with his future incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')]] | |||
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. | |||
[[File:Twelve and Masters The Doctor Falls.jpg|thumb|The Master is confronted by the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')]] | |||
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 ==== | |||
[[File:The Doctor Falls Missy and Master.jpg|thumb|left|The Master is helped by his killer. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')]] | |||
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]]'') | |||
== Psychological profile == | == Psychological profile == | ||
<!--Examples following this point focus on this particular incarnation of the Master's personality traits--> | |||
[[File:HaroldSaxonUtopia.jpg|thumb|The Master after his regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]] | |||
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]]'') | |||
[[File:The Doctor Falls Master's Makeup.jpg|thumb|The Master reapplies his [[eyeliner]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')]] | |||
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]]'') | |||
[[File:SaxonSmile.jpg|thumb|left|"Harold Saxon" smiles to the camera after giving a post-electoral speech. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]] | |||
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 in the most childish ways possible, 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]]'') | |||
[[File:Gasmaskmaster.jpg|thumb|"Harold Saxon" prepares to murder the Cabinet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]] | |||
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]]'') | |||
[[File:Master remembers initiation The End of Time.jpg|thumb|The Master recalls the [[Untempered Schism]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]] | |||
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]]'') | |||
This Master wasn't very good at piloting [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]], something that the Doctor appeared to believe was consistent with all of his incarnations. While trying to escape from a [[black hole]], he burned out [[dematerialisation circuit|a vital component]] and was clearly embarrassed to later admit it to his future self. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') | |||
After his future self was aggressive towards him when ordering the Master to always keep a spare [[dematerialisation circuit]] on him, the Master displayed an attraction towards her. ([[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]]'') | |||
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[[File:LucyBehindSaxon.jpg|thumb|left|The Master makes a speech. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')]] | |||
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]]'') | |||
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]]'') | |||
[[File:The Master.jpg|thumb|The Master prepares to use the [[Immortality Gate]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]] | |||
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]]'') | |||
[[File:The_Doctor_Falls_Simm_Master.jpg|thumb|left|The Master talking to [[Bill Potts]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')]] | |||
By the time he found the [[Twelfth Doctor]] aboard the [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]], the Master 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, dark trousers, and black zip-up boots. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') | |||
