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** On the rare occasions anyone's asked what he's the master ''of'', his response has been that he's "the master of all matter" or simply "The Master of All." By the same token, the Doctor is "a doctor of many things" or "The Doctor of Everything" plus a couple of less-used versions referring to time-travel.
** ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' also had "The Master of the Land of Fiction" from ''The Mind Robber'', who was usually called the Master for short. He wasn't a villain, though. [[Double Subversion|However,]] he was controlled by a computer called the MASTER Brain.
** On at least two occasions in the Second Doctor's run, the Doctor is told that "The Master" wants to see him (on one occasion it's the Master of the Land of Fiction, and on the other it's Professor Maxtible). In each case he reacts with alarm. Since the Master proper hadn't been invented then, his misgivings can only be down to [[Genre Savvy|his knowledge of this trope]] (in-universe, in the character's debut story, "Terror of the Autons", a Time Lord informs that the Doctor that the Master has taken to referring to himself by that title; though the Doctor knew the character before this, he is apparently unaware of the change in his moniker). After the Master proper had already been established, the Fifth Doctor, while playing cricket, was informed he played as well as "the Master", and got progressively more nervous until the other man clarified that he was talking about "the other Doctor -- [
** He's also a very interesting foil of the Doctor himself.
** Going by this name so amused The Master that even when he went incognito he often chose a paper-thin-disguise alias based on its meaning (Mister Magister, Professor Thascalos, etc.).
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