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{{quote|Played by: Angus MacKay (1976); John Arnatt (1978); Leonard Sachs (1983); Philip Latham (1983)}}
 
One of the Doctor's oldest friends, and a beloved mentor, Borusa has shown up several times throughout the franchise in the 1970s and 1980s. [[The Nth Doctor|Each time with a different face]]. While he was obviously on the Doctor's side during his first two appearances, Borusa appeared to be a little shady during "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S20 E1/E01 Arc of Infinity|Arc of Infinity]]" and turned out to be outright ''evil'' in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/20th AS the Five Doctors/Recap|The Five Doctors]]". While he certainly survived until the end of the Time War, [[Fate Worse Than Death|he didn't do much beyond his last appearance]].
 
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: The Doctor never showed him much respect as a student, but clearly admired him personally.
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* [[Bald of Evil]]
* [[Big Bad]]: Of the 2008 series.
** Though he isn't really in charge. He is being kept in a vault by the Daleks and is basically kept as a pet, with the Supreme Dalek being in charge.
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]
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* [[The Unfettered]]: There is absolutely nothing he's not prepared to do to ensure the survival of the Daleks.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: [[Big Finish]] gave him an entire mini-series dedicated to his upbringing.
* [[Super Wheelchair]]: Based the Daleks' armor on his own bionic eye and life-support chair.
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: He was the head of the Kaled Scientific Elite, and later took on the guise of the "Great Healer" on Necros (working hard to avoid creating [[It Makes Sense in Context|"consumer resistance")]]
 
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{{quote|''I am the Master and you will obey me.''}}
 
The Doctor's evil arch-nemesis, the Moriarty to the Doctor's [[Sherlock Holmes]]. Is a Time Lord, so has had several incarnations: on-screen six, off-screen unknown. Whilst the Doctor's incarnations are generally referred to as "[[The Nth Doctor]]", the Master's incarnations are most often distinguished by the name of the actor. This is probably because it is unclear just what incarnation he starts on, though he is on his last by the Fourth Doctor's run, and since then has returned and endured mostly by cheating death or being resurrected in various ways.
 
==== In General ====
* [[Arch Enemy]]: The most recurring individual adversary for the Doctor.
* [[Badass]]: We are talking about the Doctor's evil counterpart. This is kinda required to stand up that obstacle to your plans.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: A villainous example, but each incarnation of The Master has a few touches of this.
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** Simm's Master liked partying at highly inappropriate times and bopping his head to odd music choices. And, in a [[Shout-Out]] to Delgado, praised the [[Teletubbies]] as the height of evolution.
* [[Determinator]]: This crossed with [[Why Won't You Die?]] is a major reason why The Master will always be a threat to the Doctor, if for no other reason than sheer tenacity and his refusal to permanently die.
* [[Expy]]: In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6 E7/E07 The War Games|The War Games]]", we are introduced to the War Chief, a Time Lord who has past history with the Doctor, who is working with a group of aliens to take over the galaxy, and who plans to betray them the first chance he gets. And he's got [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|an evil moustache]] too. Then, a couple of seasons later, the Master shows up: A Time Lord who has past history with the Doctor, who routinely teams up with aliens and then betrays them, is noted to have ''changed his name'' to The Master since the previous time the Doctor encountered him, and even has a similar taste in clothes and facial hair. [[Word of God]] is quite insistent that they're different people.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: The most notable example for the Doctor.
* [[Evil Former Friend]]: Bordering on [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend|Psycho Ex Boyfriend]] at times.
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[The Master]]: Duh.
* [[Master of Disguise]]: The Delgado and Ainley incarnations used this often, at least, including [[Doctor Who/Recap/S19 E7/E07 Time-Flight|one occasion]] where the Ainley Master disguised himself as a magician ''for no apparent reason''.
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: "I am the Master, and you will obey me." ''Nearly'' always works.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Not only is his name "[[The Master]]", but most of his [[Significant Anagram]] aliases involve plays on either the word "death" or "master".
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* [[Worthy Opponent]]: He sees the Doctor as one.
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: Can be caught watching children's television when not actively being evil. Delgado enjoyed the Clangers, while Simm was impressed by the Teletubbies. "Television...in their stomachs. Now ''that'' is evolution."
** In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10 E3/E03 Frontier in Space|Frontier in Space]]", the Master is seen reading [[The War of the Worlds]] during a space flight. Even evil has to commute.
 
==== Roger Delgado's/Peter Pratt's/Geoffrey Beevers' Master (1971-73, 1976, 1981) ====
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{{quote|''I am usually refered to as the Master...universally.''}}
 
The first appearing incarnation of the character, this Master was a frequent adversary of the Doctor and UNIT during the former's exile on Earth. By ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14 E3/E03 The Deadly Assassin|The Deadly Assassin]]'', he had taken on a rotting form <ref>According to the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''Legacy of the Daleks''</ref>. Being on his final life, the Master attempted to harness the power of the Eye of Harmony in order to renew himself. Failing that, he escaped from Gallifrey in and appeared again in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S18 E6/E06 The Keeper of Traken|The Keeper of Traken]], this time succeeding in his renewal by stealing the body of the Trakenite consul Tremas.
 
* [[Aborted Arc]]: Before filming what was slated to be the ''final'' Master adventure (in which the Master dies to save the Doctor, apparently<ref>and it's also rumored that the Doctor and Master would have been revealed to be part of the same person... or something</ref>), Delgado went to Turkey to film the subsequently-abandoned film ''Bell of Tibet''. Delgado's flight to Turkey was late and the film-makers did not send a car to meet him so he hired a taxi -- the taxi driver drove too quickly along a treacherous mountain road and the car left the road and plunged into a ravine, killing Delgado and a fellow passenger.
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* [[Friendly Enemy]]: UNIT Years. Helped by the fact that Delgado and Pertwee were good friends in real life.
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: Cigars.
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Crispy!Master. Since this Master could no longer regenerate, he switched incarnations by possessing a hapless victim- who happened to be [[Doctor Who/Recap/S18 E6/E06 The Keeper of Traken|Nyssa's father]].
* [[Large Ham]]: Like Davros, Crispy!Master is hammy ''with just his voice''.
* [[Master of Disguise]]: UNIT Years.
* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: Crispy!Master. Although he was never exactly ''harmless'', being on the very brink of death caused the Master to cross out the "Friendly" bit in "[[Friendly Enemy]]", and get right down to saving his own skin, becoming much less the Doctor's [[Worthy Opponent]] and moreso a [[The Determinator|very focused]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]].
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Played by three different actors, but according to the [[Word of God]] and "Legacy of the Daleks", they were all playing the same incarnation of the Master.
* [[Out of Continues]]: This was the last body of his natural regeneration cycle.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: See the listing for [[Aborted Arc]] and understand why.
* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]: UNIT Years.
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* [[Beard of Evil]]
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: He has fun with it.
* [[Didn't See That Coming]]: Wait, what do you mean ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18 E7/E07 Logopolis|a quarter of the universe]]''?
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: The [[Expanded Universe]] of [[Big Finish]] audio adventures did this offscreen on this incarnation of the Master, stripping away his Traken body and forcing him to revert to the Pratt/Beevers Master incarnation - fortunately retaining the voice of Beevers as well. This was somewhat reasonable, though, as Anthony Ainley had passed away some time prior.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: There's a scene in "Mark of the Rani" where the Master actually ''apologizes'' to Peri for getting her mixed up in what was supposed to be a tussle between just him and the Doctor.
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* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Subverted in Ainley's final appearance in "Survival", when he resumes wearing Delgado-style suits.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: He had a tendency to sound as if he'd swallowed a thesaurus. Of course, this does take place during John Nathan-Turner's run as producer, and two of his appearances were written by Pip and Jane Baker ''(no relation to any of the other Bakers in Who)''. They're rather well-known for using huge words and neat scientific concepts that make sense for the time the shows were made... and both the Sixth Doctor and the Master wind up sounding insanely smart.
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: While it doesn't always need to be stated, it should be said that this trope especially applies to Anthony Ainley's incarnation. While most of the other incarnations were all Time Lords, ''this'' body of the Master's [[Doctor Who/Recap/S18 E6/E06 The Keeper of Traken|came from Traken]]. And it ''still'' survived things like being crushed, thrown around in time, ''burned alive'' and so forth!
** In [[Doctor Who/Recap/S21 E5/E05 Planet of Fire|Planet of Fire]], he legitimately dies on screen- we actually see him get ''incinerated''. He was brought back with a [[Hand Wave]].
 
==== Eric Roberts' Master (1996) ====
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* [[The Berserker]]: Implied by his last words after getting shot.
* [[Big No]]
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: The Master goes blond in "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/NS/S4 /E17 E18 The End of Time|The End of Time]]" to try and not look like Harold Saxon.
* [[Big Bad]]: Of the 2007 series.
* [[Board to Death]]
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: Lucy Saxon interrupted the resurrection process in ''[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/NS/S4 /E17 E18 The End of Time|The End of Time]]'', resulting in ''louder'' drums, [[Horror Hunger]], [[Shock and Awe|lightning powers]], and a rapidly dying body.
* [[Cast From Lifespan]]: The one drawback to his Emperor Palpatine powers in The End of Time: using them accelerates the death of an already damaged body.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "It's good, isn't it? Isn't it good?" and "Oh no you don't!"
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* [[Genius' Sweet Tooth]]: What is it with Time Lords and jelly-babies?
** This was intentional -- this Master was designed to co-opt many of the Doctor's traits, after all, the better to disturb the Doctor.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Didn't see that one coming in "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/NS/S4 /E17 E18 The End of Time|The End of Time]]", did you?
** This is more along the lines of 'revenge against the guy who made me crazy', though.
* [[Hidden Villain]]: For series 3.
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* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: The [[Madness Mantra]] (the four drum beats) was {{spoiler|actually implanted by the Time Lords as part of their plot to escape the Time War alive}}. It's implied that {{spoiler|this is the only reason the Master became insane}} which kind of makes them responsible for quite a lot.
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: For example, his definitely-excessive demonstration of the exact meaning of "decimate".
** Not just Wicked Cultured -- Wicked ''Pop'' Cultured. He loves the [[Scissor Sisters]], for example. And Teletubbies.
* [[You're Insane!]]
** [[Insult Backfire|Thumbs Up!]]
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* [[Evil Former Friend]]
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: The "sympathy" really does start to build up in his later appearances in the audio dramas.
* [[Not So Different]]: He's a Time Lord who got bored with Gallifrey and decided to travel through space and time. The major difference from the Doctor is that he decided to change things.
* [[Out-Gambitted]]: In each encounter with the Doctor, he loses a component of his TARDIS. {{spoiler|The Monk apparently recovers these parts, or cobbles together some replacements at least, by the time of the audios}}.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Hasn't been seen in the main series since 1966, sadly. Probably because {{spoiler|the Doctor stole the directional unit from his TARDIS, so he can't control where he goes}}.
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{{quote|Played by: Stephen Thorne (1973); Ian Collier & [[Peter Davison]] (1983)}}
 
One part of a triumvirate that founded modern Time Lord society, he was believed to have been killed after being sucked into a black hole while performing an experiment to provide the Time Lords with time travel. Like with other Time Lords, [[Unexplained Recovery|this didn't stick]]. Instead, he wound up in an anti-matter universe, and tried to return to our own universe twice -- once in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10 E1/E01 The Three Doctors|The Three Doctors]]", and again in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S20 E1/E01 Arc of Infinity|Arc of Infinity]]". The ''bad'' part is that he believes his fellow Gallifreyans forgot and abandoned him, and he is obsessed with getting revenge. The [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] has given him a few more visits, including one where he just wants to go back to the anti-matter universe again.
 
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: This guy was the Doctor's childhood hero. It hurt to discover that he had gone nuts and become obsessed with destroying his own race, after having helped them progress so far.
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: What started him down the road to villainy, supposedly.
* [[Large Ham]]: More so in his latter incarnation than the first, but both loved munching on the scenery.
* [[Mirror Match]]: Played absolutely straight during "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S20 E1/E01 Arc of Infinity|Arc of Infinity]]". Downright creepy, to boot.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Twice in the main series, several more in the [[Expanded Universe]].
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Played by three people in two appearances, technically. Stephen Thorne played him in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10 E1/E01 The Three Doctors|The Three Doctors]]" while Ian Collier and [[Peter Davison]] shared acting duties for Omega in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S20 E1/E01 Arc of Infinity|Arc of Infinity]]", with Collier dubbing Davison's lines for a time. Damned creepy.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: Considering he has an entire universe under his command...
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Suffers from this twice. First in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10 E1/E01 The Three Doctors|The Three Doctors]]" when Omega realizes that, outside his force of will, ''he no longer exists'' and again in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S20 E1/E01 Arc of Infinity|Arc of Infinity]]" when he realizes that the copy of the Doctor's body is falling apart. Both times result in the typical "blow it all up" behavior.
 
=== The Rani ===
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* [[Kneel Before Zod|Kneel Before Rassilon]]: "On your knees, mankind."
* [[Large Ham|Large Rassilon]]
* [[One Steve Limit|One Rassilon Limit]]: Due to some fandom confusion, [[Word of God|Davies had to confirm that it was the same guy]] in ''The Writer's Tale.'' He's [[The Nth Doctor|The Nth Rassilon]] in the new series.
* [[Power Fist|Power Fist of Rassilon]]
* [[President Evil|President Rassilon]]: He ''is'' [[Department of Redundancy Department|Lord President of the Time Lords]].
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{{quote|Played by: Michael Gough (1966); David Bailie (2009)}}
 
The Celestial Toymaker was a powerful being who ensnared sentient beings in apparently childish games, with their freedom as the stakes. However, the Toymaker hated to lose and every game ended in [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]].
 
* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]
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{{quote|Played by: Valentine Dyall (1979, 1983); David Troughton (2009)}}
 
The Black Guardian was an anthropomorphic personification of forces opposed to the powers of light, as embodied by the White Guardian. Together with the White Guardian and four others, he was part of the Six-Fold God known as the Guardians of Time.
 
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{{quote|Played by: Maurice Colbourne (1984-85)}}
 
A semi-villainous figure, the Doctor and Lytton crossed paths twice. Lytton ran into the Fifth Doctor during "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S21 E4/E04 Resurrection of the Daleks|Resurrection of the Daleks]]",<ref>In this adventure, Lytton worked for the Daleks, much to the Doctor's distaste.</ref> while the Sixth Doctor encuontered him in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S22 E1/E01 Attack of the Cybermen|Attack of the Cybermen]]".<ref>And in this adventure, Lytton actually tried to help an alien species fight the Cybermen, though refused to team up with the Doctor.</ref> Thought to be a villain through and through by the Doctor, Lytton actually surprised the Doctor in his final appearance by having a somewhat [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Supposedly left behind a woman in 1985 carrying his child, according to ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''' main website.
 
* [[Badass Normal]]
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: Partially Cyber-Converted into a Cyberman during his final encounter, Lytton experienced this one personally.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Rather heroic for the character, as he was partially turned into a Cyberman at the time and near-death.
* [[Only One Name]]: Commander Lytton had only one name in the televised adventures of the Doctor, but the novelization of [[Doctor Who/Recap/S22 E1/E01 Attack of the Cybermen|Attack of the Cybermen]] gave him the first name of "Gustave". The story also goes further in-depth on Lytton's character, even expanding his relationship with the Doctor somewhat.
 
=== Sil ===
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{{quote|Played by: Nabil Shaban (1985-86)}}
 
A Mentor (read: lizard-slug-alien) and corrupt capitalist, Sil was a perfect compliment to the 1980s, and a good foil for the Sixth Doctor. His [[Doctor Who/Recap/S22 E2/E02 Vengeance Onon Varos|first episode]] had Sil bilking an entire planet out of ''billions'' [[For the Evulz|because he could]], while his [[Doctor Who/Recap/S23 E2/E02 Mindwarp|final appearance so far]] left Sil as an [[Bastard Understudy|understudy]] to a quickly-evolving member of his own species named Kiv... who then stole Peri's body for his own. Sil ''may'' be dead, but a script the Who crew was forced to discard during the 18-month hiatus of Doctor Who would have had Sil teaming up with the Ice Warriors<ref>Said script was novelized and will soon be turned into an [[Big Finish|audio drama]]</ref> too, while a script pitched for the never-produced Season 27 would have had Sil showing up with the Autons and UNIT. Until he shows up again in an actual, televised episode, however, we ''still'' don't know if he survived.
 
* [[Author Appeal]]: Sil is a pretty good character concept for the money-oriented 1980s, which was the intent of his creator.
* [[Bastard Understudy]]: To Kiv in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S23 E2/E02 Mindwarp|Mindwarp]]", technically... though Kiv seems to have slowly lost it as the story progressed.
* [[Con Man]]
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
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* [[Evil Gloating]]
* [[Evil Knockoff]]
* [[Face Heel Turn]]
* [[Future Me Scares Me]]: It's been argued that the Doctor is petrified of him returning, in ''any'' form. The [[Expanded Universe]] went further on this, to the point that an entire incarnation's personality was locked away for a time because of that fear.
** Hell, even ''the Master'' fears him.
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{{quote|Played by: Zoë Wanamaker (2005-06)}}
 
Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17 was a human in the far future. Along with other rich and powerful peoples of the universe, Cassandra was on Platform One, a space station orbiting Earth five billion years in the future, set up to witness the final destruction of the planet by the expansion of the Sun. When the Doctor destroyed her body, she retreated into a hospital back room and waited for a chance to reappear. Rose was that chance, and Cassandra merrily took over Rose's body and mind for a while. When the Doctor protested, she made the jump to the Doctor's body instead, enjoying every moment of it.
 
* [[Big Damn Kiss]]: Gets a proper, long, gorgeous snog with Ten while she's in Rose's body. Ten is absolutely stunned.
* [[Body Surf]]
* [[Brain In a Jar]]: Attached to an enormous piece of skin.
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* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: It's strongly hinted that the mind of the Beast can never be destroyed, that it will live on in the minds of every being in the universe.
{{quote|'''The Beast:''' ''I shall never die! The thought of me is forever: in the bleeding hearts of men, in their vanity, obsession, and lust! Nothing shall ever destroy me! NOTHING!''}}
* [[Our Demons Are Different]]
* [[Outside Context Villain]]: In a strictly sci-fi series, a creature appears claiming to be Satan himself.
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Toby breathes fire when the Beast possesses him and is ranting when the Doctor destroys the gravity field, dooming himself, the Beast and the human survivors.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Starts coming across as one in "Closing Time", though compared to some of the other hams on this list she's still pretty subdued.
* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: Has proved herself quite capable of manipulating the Doctor — and relishes it. Just read the quote.
* [[No Name Given]]: Prior to [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32 E7/E07 A Good Man Goes to War|"A Good Man Goes to War"]], she was never named on-screen and listed only as "Eye-Patch Lady" in the credits.
* [[Villains Want Mercy]]: Actually has the gall to beg Amy for help when {{spoiler|her booby-trapped eyepatch is triggered}}. Amy refuses {{spoiler|and puts the eyepatch back in}}.
* [[Woman in Black]]
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Every possible outcome of her plan in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32 E7/E07 A Good Man Goes to War|"A Good Man Goes To War"]] includes either the Doctor's death or {{spoiler|her escaping with Amy's daughter}}, meaning her ultimate goal is either accomplished or still easily attainable.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|When the Silence have the Doctor in their grasp, they decide they don't need her anymore, and trigger the kill switch in her eyepatch.}}
 
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