Thread:AustinDR/@comment-1705775-20180408235918/@comment-25008763-20180409001044

(I'll add my piece)

he is but the problem is the insane Doctor Who heinous standards and the fact Master has been a Woobie Destroyer due to Rassilon manipulating and driving them insane etc.. as far as Time Lords go Rassilon is the worst of the worst in the modern era..

it just shows how insanely high heinous standards are in Who that even Master/Missy destroying the world, killing trillions, almost ending reality etc over and over is still not enough.

it's frankly too confusing to try and label any Master as Pure Evil because Who can alter him/her for whatever purpose a story may take and from what I can tell the current insanity of Missy and Master is due to Rassilon.

Valeyard was removed for moral agency reasons, so I'd argue a similar reasoning for Master - not so much that Master can't understand good or evil but that by virtue of being, more or less, fifty or more random beings all linked by an alien mind there's just no good way to define if Master as a whole is Pure Evil, short of making a page for every incarnation.

Davros and Rassilon are so far the only two mega-powerful Who villains I feel are "eternal" Pure Evil, even Davros is starting to wane.. sadly Who is just getting to that stage of "beyond the impossible" in terms of heinous standards and plot twists (Master would of counted after he killed off half the world, had it not been revealed Rassilon was behind it all.. Missy should qualify too, if the whole question of "is Missy's insanity still a side-effect of Rassilon's messing with the "old" Master?" and so on..).

so.. all in all.. no easy answer on this one at all.