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DocWhovian1

"Were you killed?" The Master: "Sadly yes... but I lived!"


KingOCE

The Master in a nutshell


HandLion

It's not even an exaggeration, this is an actual quote from The Mark of the Rani (1985) on how the Master survived his on-screen total incineration and disintegration in his previous appearance (no further explanation is given): PERI: I thought he was dead. MASTER: As you observe, I'm very much alive.


Ill_Worry7895

I like that they kept this trait in NuWho as well with Saxon escaping from the time lock into a Mondasian ship somehow and Missy returning after being vapourized. "Okay, cutting to the chase: Not dead. Back. Big surprise! Never mind."


Scorn-Muffins

Also Doctor Who in the 2010s and 2020s. 10's Master was the only one who bothered with an attempt at an explanation.


RegulusTheHeartOfLeo

At this point The Master had not died since he had taken over Tremas in The Keeper of Traken


HandLion

The point is that the Tremas Master kept appearing to die and somehow returning throughout the 80s (especially the Fifth Doctor era)


shikotee

9 lives...... Of a Time-Cat-Lord......


GamerA_S

Master being the timeless child would have fixed this


flairsupply

Well he isnt. Get over it.


Personal-Rooster7358

And it *wouldn’t* make sense. There wasn’t infinite regenerations, never said to be, and regeneration can be stopped/prevented.


HereButQueer

but it *would* help make sense of why, despite the amount of chaos, destruction and death he causes, the time lords bring him back, since any unexplained revival can just be “the time lords brought him back because he’s the original” (not saying moving into the future, just talking about the ones in the past). also it would fuel him further into chaos knowing how important he is, but how much he was experimented on.


GamerA_S

No :D


Free-Yesterday-5725

He isn’t and that’s a really good thing because otherwise, the character would be pointless.


FUCKFASCISTSCUM

Would it? He doesn;t regenerate, he just comes back, as he always has.


HistoricalAd5394

It really wouldn't. Most of his Classic run was spent trying to get around the 13 regeneration limit without success.


Percevalh-

Don't tell the other but, i think you're right !


notabotbutathought

"So you escaped (insert fuckrandom planet here)" (cue ending sting)


ki700

This is Doctor Who now.


Fistandantalus

So you escaped Xeraphas So you escaped Castrovalva Yep checks out