Morphant

A morphant was a shape-shifting, snake-like creature native to Skaro. The Master used a morphant to survive his execution by the Daleks. (DWM: The Fallen)


 * The creature was never named on-screen, only in the script and comic story. According to The Eight Doctors, the creature the Master used was a deathworm.

One account suggests that the Master escaped the Eye of Harmony and used the morphant to possess various natives of London in 1906. (ST: Forgotten)

Using a sample of the substance the Master had spat at her, Grace Holloway initiated an ambitious project intending to imbue humans with regenerative abilities, believing it to be Time Lord DNA. Unfortunately, as it happened, it was Morphant DNA, and the head scientist, Donald Stark attempted to include the Morphant's abilities into his own genetic makeup. As he lacked the mental powers of the Master, he was unable to retain his own identity and was left a slave to the Morphant's hunger, transformed into a huge Morphant dwelling in London's sewers, though he kept insisting he was in full control of himself the entire time.

Instead, he started eating people and absorbing their knowledge; this caused the various personalities that made his mind to randomly seize control as he desperately fought to remain himself. Izzy Sinclair nearly fell prey to its cannibalistic desires, though upon detecting she had contact with the Doctor, she was left alive as a bargaining chip. The Doctor destroyed the Morphant hybrid by slamming a combat helicopter on it. (DWM: The Fallen)