The Master Show
The sometimes ghastly and almost always dastardly-looking faces of the televised Master. note "I am the Master and you will obey me." Apart from the Daleks, the Master is Doctor Who's most persistent individual enemy. The villain is another renegade Time Lord from Gallifrey, conceived as the Moriarty to the Doctor's Holmes. The Master was the Doctor's friend (or maybe more) when they were students at the Academy, and the Doctor still hopes they'll reconcile again someday. The Master, on the other hand, can never quite decide between wanting to kill the Doctor or wanting to spend as much time with them as possible — or, occasionally, both. The one thing all Masters can agree on is that if anyone else tries to kill the Doctor, then all bets are off as to that person's continued existence because, when they do defeat the Doctor, they are going to have the pleasure of doing it and no-one else is. This does, of course, lead to the Master frequently betraying their allies when they get too close to killing the Doctor. Although the character started out calm and collected, as the years have gone on the numerous incarnations of the Master have fallen off the cliff and skidded down the hill into a more and more unhinged madness, losing bits and pieces of sanity with each new body. Extremely camp in any incarnation and a constant source of Foe Romance Subtext to the Doctor — with the Psycho Ex subtext between them gradually becoming explicit over the years, though the specifics vary Depending on the Writer. While the Doctor's incarnations are generally referred to as "The Nth Doctor", the Master's incarnations are most often distinguished by the name of the actor playing them. This is because there's some controversy over the exact numbering in subsequent bodies, which number regeneration Roger Delgado was meant to be, in addition to many alternate-timeline Masters and an unknown amount of possible unseen ones. The Master has returned and endured mostly by cheating death or being resurrected in various ways, likes stealing bodies, and has had many onscreen incarnations (though most of them died offscreen). The Master uses up regenerations relatively fast, due to so many nefarious schemes backfiring. This has caused the character to suffer horrific levels of disfigurement while stuck on old bodies and unable to heal, to filch replacement flesh and blood by force, and even to devise a way to exist as a disembodied monstrosity after having been cremated once. When the Time War exploded across reality, the Master was given another regeneration cycle, but this time around has been stingier about using them, even choosing death over regenerating once, knowing there was a way to return from the grave without using up a body.
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First Master The First Master (First Doctor)Played by: William Hughes (2007) The first incarnation of the Master, before going by that name, was the Doctor's friend and Academy schoolmate on Gallifrey. He was driven mad at the age of eight by looking into the Time Vortex (an ancient Gallifreyan ritual). Allusions to his life on Gallifrey and his time spent with the Doctor are typically vague, although the Expanded Universe often goes into more detail.
Classic Series MastersRoger Delgado's Master The "UNIT Years" Master (Third Doctor)"Death is always more frightening when it strikes invisibly." "I am usually referred to as the Master... universally." The first appearing incarnation of the character, this Master was a frequent adversary of the Doctor and UNIT during the former's exile on Earth. He was generally calm and collected, loved a good cigar, and genuinely enjoyed spending time with the Doctor in between evil plans to take over the world.
Peter Pratt's/Geoffrey Beevers' Master The "Decayed" Master (Fourth Doctor)"He knows he is walking into a trap... But how can he resist such a bait?" Played by: Peter Pratt (1976), Geoffrey Beevers (1981) "You do not understand hatred as I understand it. Only hate keeps me alive. Why else should I endure this pain?" The result of the Master becoming disfigured (off-screen).note As he was on the last incarnation of his first regeneration cycle when it happened, he was stuck with a rotting body and a broken mind, with only his intense hatred and burning anger keeping him alive. It was around this time the Master truly started his quest for life beyond his regenerations, attempting to harness the power of the Eye of Harmony to renew himself. Escaping Gallifrey when this plot was foiled, the Master was next seen in "The Keeper of Traken", where he succeeded in stealing the body of the Trakenite consul Tremas. The Beevers Master was the first original series Master to appear in Big Finish Doctor Who.
Anthony Ainley's Master The "Tremas" Master (Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors)"Killing you once was never enough for me, Doctor." "Peoples of the Universe, please attend carefully. The message that follows is vital to the future of you all. The choice for you all is simple; a continued existence under my guidance or total annihilation." Manages to steal a Trakenite body to replace his decaying Time Lord one, and expands his plans far beyond just Earth and Gallifrey. From hereon in, he aims to be a constant thorn in the side for the Doctor, encountering him in his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh incarnations. Of all the Masters, this incarnation seems to have the highest body count, while he pursued immortality, or at least a new set of regenerations, for himself. Anthony Ainley reprised his role one last time for the video game Destiny of the Doctors.
Gordon Tipple's Master The "Old Master" (Seventh Doctor)"If I am to be executed, and thus cruelly deprived of all existence…" Played by: Gordon Tipple (1996) An incarnation whose relationship with Ainley's Master is left ambiguous, the "Old Master" (as he is credited) appears for a scant few seconds at the beginning of the TV movie where he is executed by the Daleks on Skaro, to be reborn as a particularly campy Eric Roberts (about which more later). Aside from the child version of the First Master, he is the shortest-lived televised incarnation of the Master, and does not even get any lines in the finished version of the TV movie, though he did have a few recorded, only to be left on the cutting room floor. Also the only incarnation of the Master played by a Canadian.
Eric Roberts' Master The "Bruce" Master (Eighth Doctor)"I always dress for the occasion." Click here to see him in Time Lord robes "Life is wasted on the living!" After being sentenced to death on Skaro, the Master's ashes get taken back to Gallifrey by the Doctor. They naturally get sidetracked and the Master instead comes back to life as a gooey snake-thing, slithers inside an American ambulance driver named Bruce, and proceeds to drezzz for the occasion.
New Series MastersSir Derek Jacobi's Master The War Master (a.k.a. the "Yana" Master) (Tenth Doctor)"The Professor was an invention. So perfect a disguise that I forgot who I am." "Oh...! Now, I can say... I was provoked." A gentle, quiet, bookish and very far from home old man... until he opens his fobwatch. Given a new lease on life by the Time Lords with the intention of having him fight in the Last Great Time War, the Master initially tried to manipulate the conflict to suit his own goals. But he eventually became so horrified by his experiences that he fled to the end of the universe and turned himself into a human to escape the carnage altogether. He has no memory of his true self until he meets the Doctor again, at which point all that quickly changes. After debuting in the possibly-non-canonical animated special Scream of the Shalka, Derek Jacobi's Master is the first revival series Master to appear in Big Finish Doctor Who, taking the spotlight in a series of adventures set during the Time War, with the overarching title The War Master.
John Simm's Master Michelle Gomez's Mistress Sacha Dhawan's Master The "O" Master (Thirteenth Doctor)"Everything that you think you know… is a lie!" "Doctor, I did say look for the spymaster. Or should I say spy... Master?" This incarnation of the Master infiltrated MI6 by stealing the identity of an agent codenamed "O", in charge of researching alien phenomena. In this role, he befriended an oblivious Doctor, eventually masterminding a scheme involving billionaire Daniel Barton and mysterious glowing humanoid creatures. As for his motivation, it's all connected to a secret he found out regarding the true history of the Time Lords and something called the Timeless Child...
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