Missy/The Master’s most diabolical schemes, ranked!
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For centuries, Missy/the Master has been concocting the most evil and malicious schemes, and for centuries, the Doctor has been foiling them. Most of the time, you could argue that they’re only coming up with these diabolical plans just to get their best friend’s attention. But there’s no denying that Missy/the Master really does have an evil streak, and genuinely enjoys creating as much chaos and destruction as they possibly can.
But which of their devious designs has been the most malicious? We’ve taken a look at some of Missy/the Master’s most diabolical schemes, and ranked them from evil to really, really, unspeakably evil!
Destroying the World Peace Conference to trigger a nuclear war – The Mind of Evil
Trapped on Earth with no TARDIS dematerialisation circuit, the Master had to stave off boredom and keep himself entertained somehow. And what better way than to release a nerve gas missile at the World Peace Conference, killing political and military leaders, destabilising all major world powers and triggering a nuclear war that would destroy the Earth!
The Doctor foiled his plan, of course, but it was better than sitting in his parked TARDIS twiddling his thumbs. And the Master got his dematerialisation circuit back, so off on lots of evil adventures he went!
Rank: Evil.
Turning everyone on Earth into himself – The End of Time
For the people he’s terrorised, one Master in the whole of space and time is more than enough. So, imagine the combined atrocities of 7 billion Masters… Yikes. The End of Time Part 1 saw the entire human race turned into, well, a Master race when the Master managed to replace (almost) every human’s genome with his own Time Lord DNA. Cue a heck of a lot of maniacal laughter…
Rank: Pretty evil.
Summoning ‘the Devil’ aka Azal – The Daemons
The Master went a bit dark magic in The Daemons, and thought it was a good idea to summon ‘the Devil’, which was actually an alien named Azal, from the planet Daemos, who had been influencing human history through the ages in an experiment to see whether or not humanity was worthy of existence. The Master wanted to acquire Azal’s destructive powers in order to, you’ve guessed it, have dominion over the universe, but Azal offers them instead to the Doctor, who declines (of course). Gutted.
Rank: Really evil.
The Toclafane – The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords
The Toclafane were a race of human cyborgs from the year 100 trillion, the end of the universe. The Master, rising to the height of power as Prime Minister Harold Saxon, brought the Toclafane back to 2007 Earth through a time rift to slaughter their ancestors and secure the Master as ruler of the planet.
But, we hear you ask, how could the Toclafane, the remnants of the last humans in the universe, continue to exist if their ancestors were destroyed? Because that cunning Time Lord created a Paradox Machine out of the Doctor’s TARDIS, which he stole at the end of Utopia, that was able to sustain the two time paradoxes. Now that’s clever and evil.
Rank: Fiendishly evil.
Destroying the universe by accelerating entropy – Logopolis
Ok, so, we’re going to try to explain the basics of Logopolis as simply as we can. Logopolis is a planet inhabited by genius mathematicians who, for centuries, have been computing and applying their calculations to slow down the onset of entropy that would have caused the heat death of the universe. The Doctor visits the Logopolitans to ask for their help in fixing his TARDIS’s chameleon circuit, but the Master’s hot on his heels, ready to cause some chaos.
He kills a few of the mathematicians, thinking that this would only put a spanner in the Logopolitans’ TARDIS calculations. Hoo boy, big mistake. The universe starts to crumble, instead. Realising his error, the Master and the Doctor work together to try to stop the acceleration of entropy, but just as they are about to succeed, the Master holds the Doctor at gunpoint and broadcasts a message to the cosmos: submit to his will or he will let entropy destroy the universe. Talk about turning a mistake into a tactical advantage!
Rank: Maniacally evil!
Turning the dead into Cybermen – Dark Water/Death in Heaven
Think destroying the universe by accelerating entropy is pure evil? Well, imagine all your ancestors and departed loved ones resurrected as emotionless metal killing machines, bending to the will of a madwoman. Now, imagine all of the friends the Doctor has lost in all his days of walking the Earth coming back as Cybermen: Amy, Rory, Reinette, Pete Tyler, Joan Redfern, Harriet Jones, Vincent Van Gogh, and of course the Brigadier. That’s pure nightmare fuel, and the worst part is that Missy genuinely thought this was a good idea for a birthday present/olive branch… Awkward.
Rank:Really, really, unspeakably evil!
