User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151008023030/@comment-6032121-20191107205939

Okay, well, that's that for the "Tzun Master reverts into Ainley" factoid, even though I'll still keep the fact in my personal headcanon and invite others to do the same, it makes much more sense of everything.

But, regarding The Eight Doctors… did we read the same book here? I very distinctly recall a scene that obviously leads straight into the TV Movie, wherein which an unspecified Master travels to the planet of the Morgs, buys some Deathworms from them, and experiments on one of them until it is strong enough to support his Time Lord mind while also possessing a bunch of neat superpowers on the side. He then ponders where to go to get himself pseudo-executed in such a way that his Morphant-occupied ashes will end up in the Doctor's TARDIS, and hits upon the idea of getting himself killed by the Daleks. That has gotta be Tipple, surely.

@Schreibenheimer: I agree that it's worth remembering that Template:Master_stories isn't exactly in-universe to begin with. It's a list of stories, and wherever available, the Masters are identified by the last name of the actor who portrayed them… not to mention there are some invalid sources in it!

…Speaking of which, however, is it fair to characterize Curse of Fatal Death as "deliberately being set outside the DWU"? AFAIR Moffat actually went to great lengths to make it work as a plausible continuation of the TV series, continuity-wise. It's invalid to us because we disallow parodies in general, but that's different from making any statements as to the authorial intent itself. Is there any chance we might update that text alongside the other edits to the template, while we're at it?