The Master (known at times by various other aliases), was a renegade Time Lord, he was a friend of The Doctor before becoming a long standing opponent.
Though they had been friends from childhood, and longtime schoolmates at the Academy, The Master's lust for power would eventually pull the two apart. While The Doctor and The Master would sometimes remain close friends, The Master developed an intense hatred for, and offen sought to kill the Doctor, who came to regard The Master as his arch enemy. Despite this enmity, however the two maintained a grudging respect for the other, and would on occasion act as allies.
Biography
Early Life
The Master grew up on Gallifrey in the House Of Oakdown. (TV: The Confrontation of the Wicked)
Academic Career
The Master and the Doctor became friends on their first day at the academy, (TV: Revenge of the Masterr) with both being tutored by Borusa. (TV: Masterplan, Part II) The Master and the Doctor enjoyed building "time flow analogues" to disrupt each other's experiments. (TV: The Time Monster)
Hunger For Power
As the Master graduated from the Academy, he came to a realisation about what he wanted to achieve and decided he wanted to become Lord President and rule over Gallifrey. (MOVIE: Doctor Who: Revelation) After only a few years since leaving the Academy and gaining Time Lord status, the Master became a member of the High Council in the position of Cardinal of the Prydonian Chapter. (TV: Behind the Looking Glass)
Around this time, the Doctor and the Master terminated their friendship after the Doctor saw the Master for who he truly was. After this, the Master sought to seek revenge for the Doctor not joining him in his quest for power. (MOVIE: Doctor Who: Revelation)
The Master finally got his chance when the Doctor was forced to contact the Time Lords to help stop the War Lord. During the trial for the War Lord, he listened as a Time Lord read out the crimes committed but assured everyone that the humans had been returned to their proper times. After The Doctor read his statement and The War Lord attempted to defend his actions, The Master and the two other Time Lords sentenced to erasure from history.
The Master attended The Doctor's trial and learned of how he was willing to help others and fight evil. After this he and the other Time Lord allowed The Doctor to say goodbye to Jamie and Zoe. After deciding The Doctor's fate The Master sentenced The Doctor to exile on Earth in the 20th Century and To forceful regeneration. (TV: The War Games; MOVIE: Doctor Who: Revelation)
Not long after this The Master attempted a coup to overthrow Lord President Slaan, however this plan failed and the Master decided to flee Gallifrey. However as he did so The Master was shot and killed, however he managed to get away in his TARDIS before regenerating into his next incarnation. (MOVIE: Doctor Who: Revelation)
Confrontations with Leftover
The Master's TARDIS crash landed in 2004, California. Soon after, he got word that some of the Doctor's past companions were working together in an extraterrestrial dectetive agency, and the Master realised they were the only ones who could help repair his broken dematerialisation circuit. So, the Master disguised his TARDIS as a police box and himself as a future incarnation of the Doctor.
The Master had the TARDIS taken by van to Los Angeles and he faked a materialisation using old fashioned show-biz techniques, he was in Hollywood after all, and upon leaving his TARDIS he was greeted by the Leftover team who, much to the Master's joy, believed him to be The Doctor.
Eventually, however, he began to arouse the suspicions of the Leftover team, due to slight anachronisms in his personality and eventually they discovered his identity, despite the majority of them never having met the Master. Leftover handed the Master over to UNIT and they locked him away in a high security prison underneath the Statue of Liberty. (TV: The Future's Truth)
Some time later, The Master was interrogated by UNIT Officers Ruth Matheson and Charlie Quenz. However, he managed to hypnotise them and escape his imprisonment. Discovering that UNIT had his TARDIS, he used it to escape and using stolen UNIT technology he repaired the dematerialisation circuit. (TV: Mastermind, Part I)
However when he attempted to leave for Gallifrey, the Master discovered that UNIT had found a way in and tampered with the dematerialisation circuit so that it could only travel on earth, meaning that he was stuck on earth. The Master went into hiding and tried to repair the fault, however Leftover, with help from UNIT, tracked him down and attempted to kill him. However, The Rogue arrived and took the Master back to Gallifrey to face trial. (TV: Mastermind, Part II)
Taking Over Gallifrey
The Master, managed to escape his trial and stole a TARDIS, ending up saving the crew of the HT-1408 during a battle with the Gallifreyan Union. (TV: On the Eve of War, Here I Am) The Master decided he could use them to his advantage and manipulated events so Francs would become Lord President and he could control him as his puppet while also having the Doctor imprisoned. (TV: Auribus Teneo Lupum; TV: The Winner's Protector)
Acting In The Shadows
When the Master learned that the Rani and Ace were attempting to discover the truth about Francs' presidency, he hunted them down and kidnapped the Rani, taking her to his TARDIS. (TV: May Fortune Favour The Bold; TV: Behind The Looking Glass)
Once the Rani regained consciousness, the Master began to interrogate her in an attempt to discover how much she knew and if it was worth the risk releasing her back on to Gallifrey. During this, the Rani managed to manipulate the Master into revealing the truth. The Rani was then rescued by the Doctor and the Rogue and the Master failed in stopping them. (TV: Behind The Looking Glass)
After this the Master began to try and recapture the Rani as well as Ace and he chased them them through various periods in Earth's history. He finally cornered them in Perivale and attempted to kill them, however The Rani saved Ace and escaped with the Master leaving Ace back home. (TV: Demons Of The Past)
The Master then returned to Gallifrey and learnt that the Doctor and the Rogue were attempting to take back the presidency. As a result of this, he placed the whole planet in quarantine and took refuge in the Lord President's office. Later on two guards entered and revealed themselves to be the Doctor and the Rogue. The Master then took a sword and stabbed the Rogue. The Doctor tried to apprehend him but soon they enter a fist fight. The Master got the upper hand and attempted to strangle the Doctor, however he was stabbed from behind by the Rogue who’d just regenerated. The Master was left on the floor and before he was found by Francs and he forced Francs to give him his remaining regeneration energy which healed his wounds. (TV: The Noble Sacrifice)
The Master remained in the Lord President's office to let his wounds fully heal, however he became worried when Francs began to challenge his orders and began to rebel against him. After the Doctor, the Rogue, Leela and K-9 took back the Panopticon and Francs decided to surrender and therefore the Master revealed himself and decided that if he can't have Gallifrey then nobody will. He then opened the Eye of Harmony and escaped into the Matrix. He was eventually tracked down by the Doctor and taken out of the Matrix, when the Doctor ordered him to close the Eye, the Master revealed that only those who were there during it's creation can close it. After the Doctor closed the Eye by extracting Commander Sandra Armstrong from her death and then taking her back, the Master was apprehended by the Doctor and taken to Karn where he's left with the Sisterhood. After this, the Master made an alliance with the Sisterhood and drank their Elixir. (TV: The Confrontation of the Wicked)
Battle With The Eleventh Doctor
The Master And The Sisterhood devised a scheme to obtain the Sash Of Rassilon. The Master repaired a ship that had crash landed on Karn some time ago, he along with the Sisterhood took control of it and set course for Gallifrey. As they neared the planet The Master used the Sisterhood to cause Time Disruptions which soon caused everyone on the planet to fall unconscious. The Master arrived on the planet and along with the Sisterhood they took the unconscious bodies of The Doctor, The Rani, The Rogue And Leela on board the ship and placed them all in separate simulations.
After they all escape from the simulation The Master takes The Rogue, The Rani and Leela prisoner and orders The Doctor to bring the Sash Of Rassilon To him or he'll kill his friends. After The Doctor leaves The Master began to torment his prisoners and even threatened them with a Popln Pet. Later on The Master is contacted by The Doctor Who has The Sash Of Rassilon, the Master agrees to release his prisoners and transport them over to The Doctor while he agrees to transport The Sash Of Rassilon. However he became furious upon discovering The Doctor had lied about The Sash Of Rassilon, The Master engaged in a space battle which ended with The Master's ship crashing back on to Karn, however he along with Othilia and Haspira survived.
The Master was then betrayed by Othilia and Haspira when they decided to switch sides after the deaths of the other members of the Sisterhood, The Master followed them to a functinning ship and stowed away, once back on Gallifrey The Master attacked the Outsiders Village And took Presta and the other Outsiders hostage. He then contacted The Doctor and demanded that he meet him at the Outsiders Village at noon the next day with the Sash Of Rassilon and engage in a mind-bending contest and whoever won would become Lord President while The looser would be exiled from Gallifrey.
The next day The Master began to believe that The Doctor wasn't coming but was proven wrong when he arrived with the Sash Of Rassilon. The two then entered the contest and at first The Master was being weakened, however he pushed back and eventually won killing the Doctor, he was about to take the Sash Of Rassilon when he was suddenly ambushed by Leela and forced back into the Mind Bending device where another contest began, The Master now heavily weakened was unable to fight against Leela's will power and eventually lost which slowly began to kill him.
After The Doctor regenerated The Master Explained how he had been the one to exile The Doctor to Earth so that nothing would stand in his way. He was then confused when The Doctor mentioned the Nestein Consciousness And told The Doctor that he'd never of them. The Master then regenerated into his next incarnation, he was then subdued by The Rogue on The Doctor's instructions and taken off world.
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List of Appearances
Doctor Who
Season 6
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Season 9
Season 10
Season 14
Season 18
Season 19
Season 20
Season 21
Season 22
Season 23
Season 26
Season 30
Season 31
Season 32
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Season 39
Season 42
Season 43
- The Winner’s Protector
- May Fortune Favour the Bold
- Behind the Looking Glass
- The Sharper the Knife
- Demons of the Past
- The Noble Sacrifice
- May The Truth Be Damned
- The Confrontation of the Wicked