Theory:Timeline - Missy

This page lists appearances of in the order in which she experienced them. It relies on much speculation to fit semi-contradictory sources together, and should absolutely not be seen as representative of this wiki's general policy.

Limiting factors
Any story where Missy primarily uses an English accent, should come before TV: Deep Breath where she decides to "keep" the Twelfth Doctor's Scottish accent. Therefore any story where she primarily uses a Scottish accent should take place afterwards.

Missy encounters the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald for the first time in TV: Dark Water / Death in Heaven. They do not meet each other again until TV: The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar, therefore all stories featuring Missy with the Twelfth Doctor and Clara must take place after the aforementioned stories.

Early schemes

 * PROSE: Dismemberment
 * The Master has only recently regenerated, but has already chosen her new outfit and begun calling herself "the Mistress", though she adopts the name "Missy" near the end of her campaign against the Scoundrels Club. She kills Dr Skarosa and has an idea involving cremation to use him in.


 * AUDIO: The Bekdel Test
 * Missy does not have a vortex manipulator and is instead using her TARDIS, but she is impressed by River's vortex manipulator and considers getting one of her own. Missy learns that the Doctor survived his assassination at Lake Silencio.


 * PROSE: Lords and Masters
 * After spending some time looking for a replacement power source, Missy jettisons the Eye of Harmony from her TARDIS to gain further freedom from the Time Lords once she finds a usable replacement. She is carrying her vortex manipulator, sonic umbrella, and a TCE, and notes that she hasn't used a TCE in "donkey's years".

The Master TARDIS

 * AUDIO: A Spoonful of Mayhem
 * Missy is exiled to Victorian London by the Wardens for a future crime of hers. She is using her vortex manipulator and becomes the governess for the Davis family when a grandfather clock goes missing from their household, with her receiving the blame for the theft.


 * AUDIO: Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated
 * Gallifrey has returned, and Missy is without a working TARDIS. She steals a component from the Monk's TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: The Broken Clock
 * Missy recovers the TARDIS she used during the Last Great Time War, but loses her vortex manipulator.


 * AUDIO: The Belly of the Beast
 * Missy recovers the Master TARDIS from inside a dead space creature, and feeds her TARDIS from the Time War to its Eye of Harmony using the component she stole from the Monk's TARDIS. She has acquired another vortex manipulator.


 * AUDIO: The Lumiat
 * Missy has recently acquired the Master TARDIS, setting this shortly after The Belly of the Beast. She encounters the Lumiat for the first time. Missy decides to start calling herself a Time Lady after stealing the idea from the Lumiat, setting this before Death in Heaven. She decides to go to Earth, leading directly into Brimstone and Terror.


 * AUDIO: Brimstone and Terror
 * Missy is reunited with Oliver and Lucy Davis. Her vortex manipulator is now quantum linked to the Master TARDIS, and she uses the TCE, setting this after Lords and Masters.


 * AUDIO: Treason and Plot
 * Missy becomes trapped on Earth in 1605 following her escape from Mr. Cosmo, setting this immediately after Brimstone and Terror. Missy is teleported aboard the Monk's space station, leading directly into Too Many Masters.


 * AUDIO: Too Many Masters
 * The Monk attempts to take his revenge on Missy, but they are immediately captured by the Ogrons, who wish to be recompensed for the events of Frontier in Space. They escape in the Monk's TARDIS, with Missy suggesting that this is the beginning of "a horrible friendship".

3W scheme

 * PROSE: The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy
 * Missy acquires three matrix data slices from Lucy Saxon, suggesting that she is planning to set up the Nethersphere.


 * Missy creates the 3W Institute in order to create a Cyberman army of the dead as part of her plan to rekindle her friendship with the Doctor. To further her plan, Missy arranges for Clara Oswald to join the Eleventh Doctor, (TV: The Bells of Saint John) and that they remain together when he regenerates into his twelfth incarnation. (TV: Deep Breath, Death in Heaven'')


 * TV: Deep Breath
 * Missy welcomes the Half-Face Man to the Nethersphere after his death fighting the Twelfth Doctor.


 * TV: Into the Dalek
 * Missy greets Gretchen Carlisle in the Nethersphere after she is killed by Dalek antibodies.


 * TV: The Caretaker
 * Missy is seen by PC Matthew when he arrives in the Nethersphere after being killed by a Skovox Blitzer.


 * TV: Flatline
 * Missy keeps tabs on the Doctor and Clara as they face the Boneless.


 * TV: In the Forest of the Night
 * Missy watches the Earth being protected from a solar flare by overgrown tress.


 * TV: Dark Water
 * After watching the Doctor from afar, Missy meets the Twelfth Doctor for the first time when he and Clara visit the 3W Institute. She begins her Cyberman invasion and reveals her identity to the Doctor, leading directly into Death in Heaven.


 * TV: Death in Heaven
 * Missy's plan is thwarted by the Doctor and Danny Pink, and Missy is seemingly killed by a Cyber-converted Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, but in actuality just teleports away using her vortex manipulator.

Causing mayhem in the universe

 * WC: Who Is The Master?


 * PROSE: Teddy Sparkles Must Die!


 * TV: The Magician's Apprentice
 * Missy comes out of hiding to reveal that she is still alive to the Doctor and Clara.


 * TV: The Witch's Familiar
 * Missy meets Davros for the first time in the Dalek City.


 * PROSE: The Liar, the Glitch and the War Zone
 * Missy has just escaped from the Daleks, setting this immediately after The Witch's Familiar. Missy repairs her TARDIS after it is damaged during a collision with a Gryphon ship.


 * COMIC: The Abominable Showmen / The Five Masters
 * Missy teams up with several of her former incarnations to form a rock band in a battle of the bands against the Doctor and Clara.


 * PROSE: Yes, Missy


 * PROSE: Dr. Twelfth
 * Missy is travelling via vortex manipulator.


 * COMIC: Missy Loves Ghostie


 * PROSE: Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill


 * AUDIO: Day of the Master
 * Missy is using her vortex manipulator, which is her main means of travel. She recalls River's method of wiping memories, setting this after The Bekdel Test. She primarily uses a Scottish accent, suggesting a setting after Deep Breath.


 * PROSE: Missing Habitas Frond
 * Missy recalls escaping Skaro following The Witch's Familiar. The Doctor is currently on Darillium, leaving Missy bored and missing him.

Imprisoned in the Vault

 * PROSE: Missy on Trial
 * Missy is captured by the "Enemies of Life" to stand trial, and is sentenced to be executed, leading directly into Extremis.


 * TV: Extremis
 * Missy is saved from her execution by the Doctor and Nardole. She is placed in a Quantum Fold Chamber.


 * Missy is taken to St Luke's University in the 1940s to be imprisoned by the Doctor, who hopes to rehabilitate her. (TV: Extremis)


 * PROSE: Girl Power!
 * Missy is being held in the Vault, and is beginning to reform her ways, though still insists on doing good in a sadistic way.


 * TV: Thin Ice
 * In 2017, Missy realises the Doctor had begun traveling again, and bangs on the Vault doors.


 * TV: Knock Knock
 * The Doctor has dinner with Missy.


 * TV: The Lie of the Land
 * Missy meets Bill Potts when the Doctor comes to her for advice on how to defeat the Monks.


 * TV: Empress of Mars
 * Nardole releases Missy from the Vault so she can help him return the TARDIS to 1881 Mars.


 * TV: The Eaters of Light
 * With the Doctor now trusting her more, Missy is asked to do maintenance on the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Pain Management
 * The Doctor allows Missy to accompany him, Bill and Nardole on a trip in the TARDIS. However, when she kills someone's during the trip, the Doctor realises that she's not yet ready to accompany them fulltime.


 * COMIC: The Great Shopping Bill
 * Nardole says Missy cannot be let outside of the Vault again.


 * COMIC: A Confusion of Angels

The final test

 * TV: World Enough and Time
 * Missy is taken to colony ship to test if she can be redeemed, but instead finds herself face-to-face with her "Harold Saxon" incarnation, leading directly into The Doctor Falls.


 * COMIC: The Road To...
 * Set during World Enough and Time, when the Doctor, Nardole and Missy are taking the lift to Floor 1056.


 * PROSE: Alit in Underland
 * Set after the prologue of The Doctor Falls.


 * TV: The Doctor Falls
 * Despite a relapse in personality, Missy decides to join forces with the Doctor after fatally wounding the Master, but is seemingly killed by her past incarnation before she can.


 * AUDIO: The Lumiat
 * As she dies, Missy, tired of being evil, creates an Elysian field in order to kick start a new regeneration cycle and reconstructs her body into a distillation of all her goodness. This new incarnation takes on the name "the Lumiat" and seeks to do good in the universe, inspired by the Doctor.

Currently unplaced

 * These entries are placed here due to being part of ongoing storylines that have yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of this Doctor's timeline, unless further evidence arises in the stories to come.

Awaiting placement

 * These entries are placed here until a suitable position in the timeline can be determined based on the available evidence.