The Master

Attempt at piecing together timeline and incarnations of **The Master** from *Doctor Who*.

## Incarnations

### First

* **William Hughes**
* Milo Parker
* Roger Delgado-likeness as an adult (*CIA File Extracts*)

Takes the name "The Master" at the academy.
Also known as "the Young Master".

### Second

* Comic only (*Flashback*)

Uses the name "Magnus".

### Third

* Anthony Keetch

Uses the name "Pavo".
Is bald.

### Fourth

* Janet Dibley

Uses the name "Melanie Flail".

### Fifth

* Roger Delgado-likeness (*The Dark Path*)

Uses the name "Koschei".
Swears to only call himself "The Master" following this incarnation.

### Eighth

* Generic master look (*The Radio Waves*)

Pretends to be Merlin.

### Ninth

* James Dreyfus

Also known as "the Inventor".
Regenerates into the War Chief incarnation per "*The Home Guard*". Thus regenerates in "*Save Yourself*".

### Tenth

* **Edward Brayshaw**

The War Chief.

### Eleventh

* Book only (*Timewyrm: Exodus*)

Looks like two people fused together. Has white hair and beard.

\*Regenerates into a Delgado incarnation, so theoretically the incarnations listed here as Ninth/Tenth/Eleventh could instead come before the one listed as Fifth (Koschei).\*

### Thirteenth

* **Peter Pratt**
* **Geoffrey Beevers**

Is forced into a decayed state.
Also known as "the Decaying Master".

### Fourteenth

* **Anthony Ainley**

Temporary artificially gained Regeneration via first using the Source to merge with Tremas to regenerate, eventually loses his body and becomes a phantom but regenerates back into this form using regeneration energy from his past selves.
Also known as "the Tremas Master".

### Fifteenth

* **Gordon Tipple**
* **Eric Roberts**

Temporary artificially gained Regeneration via Tzun nanites. (intended to have Basil Rathbone-likeness)
Exterminated and becomes a Deathworm Morphant, used numerous bodies but eventually reverted back to decayed state.
Also known as "the Movie Master".

### Thirteenth (again)

* Geoffrey Beevers

Is killed, but resurrected by Time Lords.

### Sixteenth

* Alex MacQueen

Also known as "the Reborn Master".

### Seventeenth

* **Jonathan Pryce**

An incarnation existed between those played by MacQueen and Jacobi (*Girl Power!*), Missy validated the existence of this Master (*The Bekdel Test*), who was referred to as the "Seventeenth Master" (*The Curse of Fatal Death* BTS)

### Eighteenth

* Derek Jacobi

Also known as "the War Master".

### Nineteenth

* Comic only

Existence removed when he reverts back to Eighteenth as a result of a temporal bomb. (*Fast Asleep*)

### Eighteenth (again)

* **Derek Jacobi**

Temporarily becomes the human "Yana". Restored to normal after opening fob watch.

### Twentieth

* **John Simm**

Dies but is resurrected by his disciples.
Also known as "the Saxon Master".

### Twenty-First

* **Michelle Gomez**

Also known as "the Mistress" / "Missy".

### Twenty-Second

* Gina McKee

Uses the name "the Lumiate" instead of "the Master".

### Twenty-Third

* **Sacha Dhawan**

Temporarily became the "sixteenth" incarnation of the Doctor by abandoning his original body and forcing them to regenerate.
Also known as "the Spy Master".

### Current

Unknown whether this incarnation is still the Twenty-Third or a newer incarnation.

Turned into a gold tooth by the Celestial Toymaker.

### Future incarnation of unknown numbering

* Book only (*Harvest of Time*)

Masked woman wearing a frilly black dress. Black hair streaked with white, combed back from her forehead.

### Final

* Audio only (*Masterful*)

Exists as a sentient entropy wave.
Existence averted.