The Master

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Roger Delgado, Norman Stanley, Peter Pratt, Geoffrey Beevers, Anthony Ainley, Gordon Tipple, Eric Roberts, Alex McQueen, Derek Jacobi, John Simm, William Hughes, Michelle Gomez, Gina McKee, Sacha Dhawan

### Debut

Terror of the Autons

**The Master** was born on Gallifrey in the outskirts of the planet’s second city, Arcadia. His father died when the Master was almost twenty as his thirteenth incarnation expired. The Master went to the Academy and made friends including the Doctor, the Monk, the Corsair, the Madman, the Assassin, and the Glamorous. However, despite being popular for a while, the Master was an outsider and soon only spent time with the Doctor and the Monk. He did this separately as the two did not get along very well.

### First Twelve Incarnations

The Master was terrible at keeping his incarnations for long periods of time. He burnt through almost all of his regenerations in just 500 years. He regenerated for the first time when he was just twelve years old and he lost his footing on a high wall in the Capitol and fell to his first death. He was also beaten to death just four years later after taunting some Gallifreyan teenagers about them not being able to regenerate. His third incarnation was one that had long, messy brown hair. He reportedly regenerated after causing trouble with some Daleks and being killed. The Master, in his fourth body, stole a TARDIS and left Gallifrey, travelling around the universe. The Master wasn’t careful though, and was killed by some Pyronite life-forms he ran into in the planet Pyrus, they destroyed his entire body and he regenerated out of the ashes into a tall, handsome man with golden hair and blue eyes. However, about fifty years later while he was continuing to travel, he ran into the Cybermen in the far future. This particular group aspired to make him their Cyber Controller, and the Master was killed in the process of trying to escape conversion. Now in his sixth body, the Master travelled back toward Gallifrey, and joined in with a Zygon attack on the planet Avaknaten, helping the Zygons conquer the planet. Priests from the planet Akhaten, which is also in the same solar system, recorded that the Master regenerated three times during this war. Moving to Mutter’s Spiral, he began work as a bounty hunter, but had little success since he often killed people before he could bring them in. After about a year of working as a bounty hunter, he was killed by one of his employers after a failed mission. The Master, who now only had three regenerations left in him, was conscious of this and travelled to a distant, faraway planet known as Sol III, which the inhabitants called Earth. The Master settled on Earth, in an area called America, but had only spent three months there before the FBI arrested him for 15 accounts of murder. The Master spent eighteen years in prison before he was executed by electric chair. The humans, unaware that he would regenerate, allowed his eleventh incarnation to run free. The Master, only too conscious of his nearing death, ran back to Gallifrey to grovel for pittance. Unluckily for him though, when he arrived, President Knox arrested him and had him put on trial for war crimes on Avaknaten. After a six-years-long trial, the Master was sentenced to forced regeneration and a lengthy prison sentence. Once he had been released from his century in jail, the Master fled Gallifrey and hid in the caves of the planet Crallica. His twelfth incarnation had long, greyed hair and a tousled black and white beard. He hid for over a century in the caves on Crallica before he eventually left, with an entirely new face.

### Thirteenth Incarnation

The face the Master had when he left the deep caves on Crallica was one with tanned skin, greying hair and a black beard dotted with grey. He traveled first back to the planet known as Earth so that he could take his revenge on his old friend the Doctor. During that century he spent in the Crallican caves, his passion for killing developed and thrived as he wasted away in his old body. He killed everyone he met on his way to Earth, taking over different ships and slaughtering the crew. He even took a Zygon ship, showing that he never showed anyone any allegiance at all, and massacred the lot of them save one who escaped. The Master arrived on 20th century Earth and found that the Nestene Conscious was already there, assisted by a few of its Autons. The Master struck a deal with the Conscious and the pair agreed that they shared the common interest of destroying Earth.