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| “ | I am the Master, and you will obey me! | „ |
The Master briefly known as Missy is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Davros) of the Doctor Who franchise. He serves as the overarching antagonist in the Classic series, and the main antagonist of the Revival series.
In the Revival series: he is the main antagonist of Series 3, Series 10, and Series 12, and he is the central antagonist of the 10th Doctor's Finale Special "End of Time". His female counterpart Missy is the main antagonist of Series 8.
The Master has been played by various actors, originally by the late Roger Delgado during the Third Doctor era, followed by Peter Pratt in The Deadly Assasin and Geoffrey Beevers in The Keeper of Traken (both playing the same incarnation), the late Anthony Ainley throughout the 1980s, Gordon Tipple (in a cameo), Eric Roberts in the 1996 TV Movie, Derek Jacobi in Utopia, John Simm in the series 3 finale, The End of Time, and the series 10 finale, Michelle Gomez throughout the Twelfth Doctor era, as a female incarnation known as Missy (short for Mistress) and most recently Sacha Dhawan in series 12.
The late William Hughes also played a child version of the Master in flashbacks shown in the third series. Many voice actors have also voiced The Master in the Big Finish audio stories (i.e Alex MaQueen, Chris Finney (as the Ainley Master) and James Dreyfus).
Incarnation[]
Inventor[]
Like the Doctor, this incarnation of the Master would also flee from Gallifrey in a TARDIS of his own, but in The Destination Wars, the poor condition of his craft resulted in him crash-landing on Destination. He took charge of the planet, becoming its hero. He assumed the title of "The Inventor", and developed the planet's technology for his own ends, pitting the human colonists against the Dalmari, saving them each time, and urging them to pursue an arms race. This was to manipulate the colonists into develop nuclear technology, 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 and Barbara 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.
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Magister[]
This incarnation of the Master was the first one to be seen on TV, and was the main antagonist of Season 8, and would be a recurring antagonist of Season 9 and 10.
At some point, the Master stole the Time Lord's data files on classified information, such as the Doomsday Weapon, the Sea Devils, and others. As revealed in The Mind of Evil, the Master captured a mind parasite, and trapped in his "Keller machine". The Master would spend months establishing himself as Emil Keller, the machine's credentials.
In Terror of the Autons, the Master appeared at the International Circus, with his TARDIS in the form of a horse box. He hypnotised the circus troupe and plastic factory manager Rex Farrel, under the alias Colonel Masters, to obey his orders as part of his plan to assist the Nestenes in their latest bid to conquer Earth. As well as eliminating several business rivals, such as Rex's father, the Master made several attempts on the Doctor's life, the first of which involved hypnotising his new assistant Jo Grant to deliver a bomb to him. The Master would describe the bomb as a "greetings card". After this, he sent a pair of Autons disguised as policemen to assassinate the Doctor and Jo.
Before using the radio telescope 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.
Decaying[]
- Main article: The Master (Decayed)
Tremas[]
Logopolis[]
In this new body, the Master trapped the Doctor's TARDIS in a gravity bubble, and killed Tegan Jovanka's aunt Vanessa and a police constable with his TCE. He then went to Logopolis, where he posed as 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 Computations and held the planet for ransom until its secret was revealed. This threatened the Universe's stability, and led to the increase of entropy, allowing it to swallow several galaxies, including the 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 Embodiments. The Master used this to his advantage, sending a message to the peoples of the universe that he would stop the entropy only if they submitted to his rule. While the Doctor ensured the CVE would remain open, the Master caused him to fall off the Pharos Project's radio telescope and regenerate, allowing the Master to escape.
Survival[]
In Survival, the Master went to the Cheetah World, where he took control of the Cheetah People and the kitlings. As 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 usefel 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 when he failed and teleported the Doctor to the Cheetah World, which had begun to break up. The Doctor escaped, but the Master was trapped on the dying world.
Tzun[]
This Master was the result of the Tzun granting the Master the ability to regenerate. He was the main antagonist of the Virgin New Adventures novels First Frontier, and Happy Endings.
Bruce[]
Bruce
This Master, played by Eric Roberts, and was the main antagonist of the Doctor Who TV Movie, plotting to steal the Doctor's body, and thus his regenerations.
The TV Movie[]
Now in his "final" incarnation, the Master, as revealed in Mastermind, arrived in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt and was captured by the Daleks to be placed on trial. As seen in The TV Movie, after he was tried and executed by the Daleks on Skaro, he made a final request: for the Seventh Doctor to transport his remains back to Gallifrey. However, his essence survived his death in the form of a Deathworm Morphant.
The Doctor stored the Master's ashes in a casket and headed for Gallifrey. The Master 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 hid inside a bag belonging to the ambulance driver, Bruce. After Bruce had gone to home and bed, the Master forced his way into Bruce's body, taking over his body. The next morning, the Master awoke, but realised that the body had started decaying and would not last long. Thus, he launched his scheme to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations, with his first act being the murder of Bruce's wife, and tracked the Doctor to Walker General Hospital.
Learning from Bruce's colleagues that the Doctor had died on the operating table and that his body disappeared, the Master was also informed by that the young gang member who had been present when the Doctor was shot, Chang Lee, had also stolen the Doctor's possessions. Heading to the TARDIS, the Master found Lee already inside, and got him on side him with stories of the Doctor's villainy, claiming that the Doctor had stolen his lives and home. With Lee's help, the Master opened the Eye of Harmony, and discovered that the Doctor had regenerated.
Stealing Bruce's ambulance, the Master and Lee answered Grace Holloway's request for an ambulance to collect the Doctor, and agreed to take them to Professor Wagg's atomic clock, 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 possessed Grace's mind. When the Doctor got back to the TARDIS to fix the timing malfunction, the Master had Grace knock him out and put him in restraints.
Donning Gallifreyan robes, the Master boasted to the Doctor, accidentally letting slip that he had wasted his lives, exposing his lies to Lee. After killing Lee for refusing to follow orders, the Master opened the Eye using Grace's eyes so that he could steal the Doctor's regenerations. Although the Master began the transfer, Grace prevented this by sending the ship into a temporal orbit. 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, they fought near the Eye of Harmony, leading to the Master falling into it when he leapt at the Doctor, refusing his hand when the Doctor tried to save him.
De'ath[]
This Master, the first one to be "resurrected" for the Time War, was the hidden antagonist of UNIT: Dominion, and a recurring antagonist of the Dark Eyes saga, even being the main antagonist of Dark Eyes 3. He presented a cheery, theatrical front, but was ruthless and manipulative.
War Master[]
This Master, was the hidden antagonist of Utopia, having escaped the Time War to hide as a human at the end of the universe. As the villainous protagonist of the War Master series, he was depicted as a dark and ruthless schemer. He manipulated the Time War for his own ends, until it become too dangerous.
Saxon[]
- Main article: The Master (Harold Saxon)
After regenerating, the new Master was more energetic and insane than ever. After setting himself up as Prime Minister, the Master conquered Earth for a year with the aid of the Toclafane, to begin a New Time Lord Empire. After his reign was erased, he was shot, and he let himself die rather than be helped by the Doctor.
Missy[]
Missy, short for "Mistress" is the main antagonist of Series 8, an anti-villain in Series 9, and an overall anti-hero in Series 10. She is the female incarnation of "The Master".
Spy[]
The Master, initially known as O is the main antagonist of Series 12, and possibly the entire 13th Doctor's storyline. Having used his identity to claim to be a friend of the Doctor's, the Master revealed that he had discovered the lie of the Timeless Child, and planned to torment the Doctor with that knowledge.
Personality[]
Magister[]
The Master presented himself as a suave, debonair gentleman, with a sardonic sense of humour. However, his true nature was arrogant, and inpatient, with no time for fools. The Master was willing to play the long game, spinning a web of lies while maintaining several back-ups in his schemes. The Master held himself in high-esteem, having full confidence in his abilities. The Master would casually murder those whom he could not control, or who were standing in his way. He claimed that those who died as a result of him were "necessary sacrifice[s]".
Given his haughty nature, he regarded most beings as his inferiors, but had a mutual respect for the Doctor as a worthy opponent and his near intellectual equal, and even showed a certain respect to the Doctor's companions, even if he still considered them inferior. He would only resort to killing the Doctor if he viewed him as an unmovable obstacle in his plans, considering his quarrel with the Doctor to be something of a game. However, the Master was not above working alongside the Doctor when necessary, and even offered to rule the universe with him. He seemed to believe his delusions of grandeur, proclaiming that he and the Doctor could "reign benevolently," over the universe and that, instead of democracy, the world needed "strength, power and decision."
Underneath his suave exterior, this Master had a somewhat childish side to him, revelling in sarcasm, watching children's TV, showing a sense of irony. 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 in danger. He also took considerable delight in blackmailing the Doctor and Jo.
Unlike his following incarnations, this Master was a gracious loser, though he once stated that destroying the Doctor's favourite species would "be a reward in itself". The Master also learned from his mistakes, placing an alarm in his TARDIS after the Doctor stole his dematerialisation circuit.
Quotes[]
| “ | I only need two things. Your submission and your obedience to MY WILL! | „ |
| ~ The Master, The Daemons. |
| “ | Life is wasted on the living! | „ |
| ~ The Bruce Master, the TV Movie. |
| “ | This is my masterplan! Every eventuality has been considered! | „ |
| ~ The De'ath Master, Masterplan. |
| “ | Hello, you! | „ |
| ~ The Master's catchphrase |
| “ | Say something nice. | „ |
| ~ Missy, Death in Heaven. |
| “ | A little chaos is a wonderful thing. | „ |
| ~ The "Spy" Master, Spyfall. |
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- Despite their onscreen rivalry, Roger Delgado and Jon Pertwee were close friends.
- The "Tzun's" Master’s appearance was based on Basil Rathbone.
- It may be the it's unclear what incarnation of the Master that is portrayed at the start of the TV Movie by Gordon Tipple, being executed by the Daleks.
- This was the first new incarnation of the Master since the classic series was cancelled. This would be contradicted by novels and comics afterwards, which would feature the Ainley Master after the events of Survival, usually struggling with the Cheetah Virus. Adding onto this, the Big Finish audios Dust Breeding and Master depict the Master having an entirely different "post Ainley" fate.
- Planet of Dust implies that each time the Master tries to unnaturally extend his life, he inevitably reverts to his decaying form.
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