A multi-Master story is a story featuring two or more different incarnations of the Master. There are several different ways a "multi-Master story" can be defined; here, stories are sorted according to several different definitions. This list includes stories with flashbacks, but excludes stories featuring only pictures or archive footage of other incarnations.
Series 10's The Doctor Falls acted as both a multi-Master and multi-Doctor story as it featured the Twelfth Doctor and First Doctor as well as the Harold Saxon incarnation of the Master as well as the Missy incarnation.
Direct encounters[]
In these stories, multiple incarnations of the Master encounter each other directly, either in person, through a screen, through a phone, through a psychic link, etc. Italicisation means that the relevant Master did not directly encounter another Master in the story.
| Year | Story | Hughes/ Parker, Dreyfus, Koschei, etc. | Delgado | Pratt/ Beevers | Ainley | Roberts | MacQueen | Jacobi | Simm | Gomez | McKee | Dhawan | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | PROSE: The Face of the Enemy | x | x | ||||||||||
| 2016 | AUDIO: The Two Masters | x | x | ||||||||||
| COMIC: The Abominable Showmen / The Five Masters | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
| 2017 | TV: World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls | x | x | ||||||||||
| PROSE: Winning | x | x | x | x | |||||||||
| 2018 | PROSE: Alit in Underland | x | x | ||||||||||
| 2019 | AUDIO: Day of the Master | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
| AUDIO: He Who Wins | x | x | |||||||||||
| 2020 | AUDIO: The Lumiat | x | x | ||||||||||
| 2021 | AUDIO: Masterful | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||
| 2021 | COMIC: The Master Plan | x | x |
Separate narratives[]
In these stories, multiple incarnations of the Master appear in the same story, but at least one does not encounter other incarnation(s) as they are in separate times and/or places. This including flashbacks and audio/video recordings of a separate incarnation.
| Year | Story | Hughes/ Parker, Dreyfus, Koschei, etc. | Delgado | Pratt/ Beevers | Ainley | Roberts | MacQueen | Jacobi | Simm | Gomez | McKee | Dhawan | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | PROSE: The Eight Doctors | x | x | x | |||||||||
| 2017 | PROSE: The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy | x | x | x | x |
Close proximity[]
In these stories, multiple incarnations of the Master are in the same time and place, but do not encounter each other. This includes scenarios where one incarnation sees another incarnation without the latter incarnation's knowledge.
| Year | Story | Hughes/ Parker, Dreyfus, Koschei, etc. | Delgado | Pratt/ Beevers | Ainley | Roberts | MacQueen | Jacobi | Simm | Gomez | McKee | Dhawan | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | PROSE: Harvest of Time | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||
| 2021 | COMIC: The Master Plan | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
Manifestation[]
In these stories, multiple incarnations of the Master are in the same story, but some are manifestations inside the Master's mind.
(Bold denotes the real incarnations in the story.)
| Year | Story | Hughes/ Parker, Dreyfus, Koschei, etc. | Delgado | Pratt/ Beevers | Ainley | Roberts | MacQueen | Jacobi | Simm | Gomez | McKee | Dhawan | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | PROSE: The Velvet Dark | x[1] | x[1] | x[2] | x | x[1] | |||||||
| 2007 | TV: Utopia | x | x | x | x |
Regenerations and body changes[]
In these stories, the Master regenerates into their next incarnation, or otherwise goes from one body to another.
| Year | Story | Hughes/ Parker, Dreyfus, Koschei, etc. | Delgado | Pratt/ Beevers | Ainley | Tzun | Tipple | Roberts | MacQueen | Jacobi | Simm | Gomez | McKee | Dhawan | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | TV: The Keeper of Traken | x | x[3] | ||||||||||||
| 1994 | PROSE: First Frontier | x | x | ||||||||||||
| 1996 | TV: Doctor Who | x | x[4] | ||||||||||||
| 1998 | PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks | x | x[5] | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | AUDIO: Sympathy for the Devil | x[6] | |||||||||||||
| 2006 | PROSE: The Velvet Dark | x[7] | |||||||||||||
| 2007 | TV: Utopia | x | x | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | COMIC: Fast Asleep | x | x[8] | ||||||||||||
| 2017 | TV: The Doctor Falls | x | x[9] | ||||||||||||
| 2019 | AUDIO: Day of the Master | x | x |
Duplicates[]
In these stories, the Master meets a duplicated version of themself.
Invalid stories[]
| Year | Story | Hughes/ Parker, Dreyfus, Koschei, etc. | Delgado | Pratt/ Beevers | Ainley | Roberts | MacQueen | Jacobi | Simm | Gomez | McKee | Dhawan | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | GAME: Legacy | x | x | x | x | x |
Footnotes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 All of the Tremas Master's first 12 incarnations appear as manifestations in a series of twelve mirrors as he attempts to steal a regeneration from the Fifth Doctor.
- ↑ After the Tremas Master was exiled by the Time Lords, his TARDIS created a Watcher-like manifestation in the image of his previous self.
- ↑ Geoffrey Beevers's decayed incarnation of the Master merges with the body of Tremas to become a new Master. Though unconventional, some sources nevertheless term this a "regeneration".
- ↑ Gordon Tipple's ambiguous incarnation of the Master is killed and his essence steals a human's body.
- ↑ The Roger Delgado Master's body is twisted into Pratt's decaying incarnation by a backfiring Tissue Compression Eliminator combined with a matter transmuter, with no regeneration involved.
- ↑ Alternate Master regenerates into his next incarnation.
- ↑ After having his body taken from him by the Time Lords following The Five Doctors, the Master steals enough regeneration energy from his past selves to restore his Trakenite body.
- ↑ The "Child" Master is reverted back to his The War Master.
- ↑ John Simm's Master is killed and sent on his way to regenerate, with both him and Missy believing he is about to regenerate into Missy, but the regeneration is not completed on-screen, preserving a measure of ambiguity.