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| NOTE: This page is solely for the "O" incarnation of the Master. For other versions, see here: The Master. |
| “ | Doctor, I did say, 'Look for the spymaster.' Or should I say, spy… Master. Hi. | „ |
| ~ "O" revealing himself as the Master to the Doctor. |
| “ | One last thing; something you should know in the seconds before you die! Everything that you think you know… is a lie! Got you. Finally… | „ |
| ~ The Master taunting the Doctor. |
| “ | But if I can't be the Doctor… neither can you. | „ |
| ~ The Master before killing the Thirteenth Doctor. |
The "O" incarnation of the Master is the main antagonist of the Thirteenth Doctor’s tenure in the Doctor Who franchise.
After regenerating into a new body at an unknown point in time, the Master discovered the origins of the Doctor as the Timeless Child and destroyed Gallifrey, the home planet of the Time Lords, in a fit of rage. Jealous of the Doctor's true nature, the Master travels to Earth, murders an MI6 agent known as "O", and assumes his identity to enact revenge against his nemesis.
He was portrayed by Sacha Dhawan, who also portrayed Steel Serpent in Marvel's Iron Fist and DS Manish Prasad in Line of Duty.
Biography[]
Previous Incarnations[]
"O"[]
Through means currently unknown, The Master presumably returned to life after his Missy incarnation was supposedly killed by the Saxon incarnation, and somehow managed to escape the colony ship. The Master managed to obtain a TARDIS and travelled to Gallifrey, and entered the Matrix. There he discovered that everything about Time Lord society was built on lies, involving an entity known as the "Timeless Child", which was exploited so that the Time Lords could gain it's ability to regenerate, and it became the Doctor. The Master became enraged enough to murder all the surviving Time Lords and leave his home planet a ruined wasteland. Sometime later, he assumed the identity of an MI6 agent, and would be given the codename O as a joke about how C, his superior, reacted when he gave bad news. He encountered earlier incarnations of the Doctor, becoming a friend of theirs, keeping in touch via text. After being sacked, the Master spent time in the Australian outback where he disguised his TARDIS as a house. At this point the Doctor has again regenerated into a new body.
Spyfall[]
| “ | If you're seeing this you've been to Gallifrey. When I said someone did that, obviously I meant I did. I had to make them pay for what I discovered. They lied to us, the founding fathers of Gallifrey. Everything we were told was a lie. We are not who we think, you or I. The whole existence of our species built on the lie of the Timeless Child. Do you see it? It's buried deep in all our memories in our identity. I'd tell you more but why would I make it easy for you? It wasn't for me. | „ |
| ~ The Master reveals that he was the one who destroyed Gallifrey before explaining why he did it. |
This Master appears in the two-part opener of Series 12 Spyfall, where he reveals his identity to The Doctor and her companions Graham, Ryan and Yaz on a plane piloted by Daniel Barton. He replaces Barton (who was in league with The Master) with a bomb (which was sonic proof to stop The Doctor from stopping it). He also reveals that the plane has no parachutes and reveals that he used a Tissue Compression Eliminator to capture and kill the real O. He also reveals that he is in league with aliens known as Kasaavin. As the bomb explodes, The Master has one of the Kassavin teleport The Doctor away to the Kassavin's dimension before teleporting away himself with the Kasaavin, leaving Graham, Ryan and Yaz to die on the now falling plane.
The Master returned to his TARDIS where he discovered the trio's survival (as they found instructions left by The Doctor to land the plane without a cockpit) and sent Barton to deal with them. He also learnt about The Doctor leaving the Kasaavin dimension and arriving in at a fayre 1834. He travelled to the fayre and used his Tissue Compression Eliminator on several people there, before being sent away by a device thrown at him by The Doctor and Ada Gordon (who later became known as Ada Lovelace).
The Master then arrived in Paris in 1943 where he, with the aid of a perception filter, disguised himself as a Nazi soldier. Via a psychic link, he agreed to meet The Doctor alone at The Eiffel Tower. There, he revealed that he was carrying out his plan in order to get The Doctor's attention, stating that he returned to Gallifrey and found it "nuked". The Doctor did not believe this and disabled The Master's perception filter before escaping The Eiffel Tower as Nazi soldiers came to arrest The Master after they got a Morse Code saying that he was a British spy. This code had been sent out by The Doctor's ally Noor Inayat Khan (an actual British spy).
As The Doctor had taken his TARDIS, The Master was forced to live through 77 years before eventually returning to 2020 where he prepared for his and Barton's plan to assimilate all of humanity by using their DNA as a planet-size hard drive. However, The Doctor arrived and revealed that she used The Master's TARDIS to go back in time to put a stop to the plan. The Kasaavin then arrive and The Doctor plays a message to them of The Master revealing how little he thinks of them. This causes the Kasaavin to turn on The Master and swarm him, sending him to their dimension where he angrily calls out The Doctor's name.
The Doctor later used her TARDIS to travel to Gallifrey and discovered that The Master had been right about the state. She later received a hologram message from The Master, who revealed that he had been the one who destroyed Gallifrey after learning the truth about The Timeless Child.
The Timeless Children[]
At the end of the episode Ascension of the Cybermen, The Master came out from The Boundary, a portal leading to Gallifrey and told The Doctor that terrible things are coming.
In the following episode The Timeless Children, The Master takes The Doctor to Gallifrey and sends both their consciousness's in the Matrix which tells the story of The Timeless Child, who was a young girl found abandoned by a female Gallifreyan named Tecteun, who adopted her and brought her back to Gallifrey and did tests on her to find out her species and origin, but to no avail. One day whilst playing near a cliff edge with a young male Gallifreyan, the child lost balance and fell off the cliff onto the ground below. However instead of dying, the child regenerated and took on another appearance. Following this, Tecteun did more tests on the child to find a way for the Gallifreyens to be able to regenerate. After several years and tests, Tecteun successfully managed to regenerate and took on a male form. Afterwards, Tecteun gave this ability to other Gallifreyans, thus creating the Time Lords.
The Master then reveals that The Doctor was The Timeless Child, but had had her memories wiped. The Master also summons The Lone Cyberman Ashad and offers him Gallifrey as a gift. Ashad takes of having a Death Particle inside him and is the host of The Cyberium, which has all Cyber knowledge. The Master is not impressed when Ashad plans to make Cybermen completely robotic. When Ashad says that the Cyberium will remain in him as long as he is alive, The Master kills him with his Tissue Compression Eliminator and becomes the new host of the Cyberium. Using his new knowledge, The Master creates Cyber-Masters: Cybermen made with the bodies of the Time Lords he killed. Due to made from Time Lords, Cyber-Masters could be able to heal themselves if injured, making them difficult to stop. The Master planned to take over the universe with the Cyber-Masters.
Later, The Doctor confronts The Master and reveals that she has attached Ashad's miniature form (which still had the Death Particle) to a grenade and planned to sacrifice herself to destroy The Master and the Cyber-Masters. The Master goads The Doctor to press the button to activate the grenade and become like him. The Doctor cannot go ahead with her plan, which The Master was not surprised at. Just then a man named Ko Sharmus appears and takes the grenade, as penance for failing to suitably hide the Cyberium, which he had been tasked to hide. The Doctor then flees Gallifrey in another Tardis whilst Ko Sharmus faces The Master and the Cyber-Masters. Outraged at The Doctor's escape, The Master orders the Cyber-Masters to shoot Ko Sharmus. In his dying moments, Ko Sharmus presses the button on the grenade and activates the Death Particle, which causes an explosion that consumes Gallifrey, and during the final seconds the Master could be heard ordering the CyberMasters to follow him.
The Power of the Doctor[]
Despite his apparent death, the Master reappears in the 2022 centenary special, commenting that he escaped through "attention to detail". To further his plans, he forges an alliance with the Cybermen and Daleks, convincing them to put aside their mutual hatred for their own ends. Together, they create a mechanical planet powered by a kidnapped Qurunx alien with the ability to fire a beam that will cyber-convert whatever it hits, and kidnap several seismologists in order to establish a Dalek base beneath the Earth's crust, allowing the Daleks to trigger volcanic events and leave humanity vulnerable to extermination. This will allow them to turn Earth into a foundry for Dalek and Cyber forces.
Meanwhile, the Master uses his technology to place his face on fifteen of the world's most famous paintings in order to cause UNIT to contact the Doctor. When the Doctor arrives, the Master sends her a message telling her he is at a geological conference in Naples with the missing seismologists. Upon arrival, the Doctor and UNIT find that he has murdered the seismologists with his Tissue Compression Eliminator. The Master is arrested by UNIT, but had previously mailed a shrunken Cyberman so that it would end up at UNIT headquarters. It now breaks open and releases an army of full-size Cybermen, including a clone of Ashad, who begin cyber-converting the UNIT soldiers and allow the Master to escape.
The Master time-travels back to 1916 Russia, where the cyber-planet is, and where he is in control of the Winter Palace under the guise of Grigori Rasputin. The Doctor is also there, having been captured by the Daleks, and is placed in a chamber connected to the cyber-planet. Using the power of the Qurunx alien harnessed by a planet-sized structure, he is able to turn the Doctor into him, memories, personality and all. He steals her TARDIS, leaving the Rasputin-Master's lifeless body behind.
As the Daleks and Cybermen begin their invasion, the Master explains to Yaz that he plans to cause death and destruction across the universe under the Doctor's name in order to tarnish their reputation forever. He is however easily overpowered and left on the cyber-planet. Unbeknownst to the Master, the Doctor had previously programmed a holographic failsafe which appears to all their allies and helps them overcome their enemies. In this case, Yaz and Inston-Vee Vinder come to take the Master back to the Winter Palace, where the holographic failsafe assumes the form of an unknown incarnation of the Doctor to distract the Master and incapacitate the CyberMasters. Vinder then shoots the Master and forces him back into the conversion chamber before reversing the process, restoring the Doctor to her body.
Now severely weakened, the Master is brought back to the cyber-planet and left next to his TARDIS while the Doctor releases the Qurunx and convinces it to destroy the planet in order to free itself. However, as the planet is destroyed the Master manages to get back to his feet and uses his TCE to redirect the Qurunx's blast into the Doctor, declaring that if he can't be the Doctor, then neither can she. He then collapses and is seemingly left behind on the planet as it crumbles. Yaz is able to retrieve The Doctor and get her off the planet, but the injuries inflicted cause her to die and regenerate.
In the Fourteenth Doctor's tenure However, The Master's fate was revealed by the Toymaker after the being arrived at the planet during it's destruction, O accepted the Toymaker's game in exchange for his survival, but he instead lost and was sealed inside of a gold tooth, After the Toymaker's defeat and a warning of a future cause, all that was left of the former was the gold Tooth which was later picked up by a mysterious red hand.
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Trivia[]
- Due to licensing issues with the BBC, Big Finish could not get the "O" Master to be in their audio drama for the 50th anniversary of The Master, titled "Masterful".
- Also due to licensing, Big Finish would have to wait until February 2025 to begin releasing an audio drama series centered on this version, named Call Me Master.
- O is retroactively implied to the incarnation of the Master succeeding the Lumiat, a female incarnation of the Master whom Missy regenerated into using an Elysian field.
- In the original script for The Power of the Doctor, the Master was going to have been the historical Rasputin, and after his plan failed, would have gone through Rasputin's legendary death, which he would survive long enough to confront the Doctor for the final time. However this was cut from the finished episode, leaving this Master's status as the "real" Rasputin somewhat ambiguous.
- O continues the Revived Series theme of the Master being unstable in some way. In this case, O has a very volatile temper and can explode at any moment his plans don't work. Unlike Saxon's jovial madness (later flawed resurrection) and Missy's goofy homicides, this is actually scarier as its less predictable.
- In The Giggle it is mentioned that a mortally wounded Master calls upon The Toymaker out of desperation and challenges him to a game as a last ditch attempt at escaping his predicament. The Toymaker bests him and as punishment, seals him inside a gold tooth for all eternity. However after the Doctor defeats the Toymaker, the tooth that imprisons The Master is shown to have been knocked out and is picked up by a mysterious hand. It is unknown whether this is a direct follow up to The Power of the Doctor or a separate event.
- It is possible that the game mentioned was "The Master's Dalek Plan" itself, with the prize being the Doctor's life, which the Master failed at.
External Links[]
- The Master on the Pure Evil Wiki
- The Master on the Doctor Who Wiki
