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* The NES game ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' featured Master-D, leader of the now defunct BADDS, a villain born as a result of ExecutiveMeddling. Before Nintendo censored it, he was Adolf Hitler, [[CameBackWrong brought back from the dead]] by TheEmpire to help them finish a superweapon. Master-D probably felt at home, as The Empire was clearly PuttingOnTheReich. Fortunately, the player will have a chance to make Hit...Master-D's [[YourHeadAsplode head explode in a very graphic scene for the SNES]].

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* The NES game ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' ''VideoGame/BionicCommando1988'' featured Master-D, leader of the now defunct BADDS, a villain born as a result of ExecutiveMeddling. Before Nintendo censored it, he was Adolf Hitler, [[CameBackWrong brought back from the dead]] by TheEmpire to help them finish a superweapon. Master-D probably felt at home, as The Empire was clearly PuttingOnTheReich. Fortunately, the player will have a chance to make Hit...Master-D's [[YourHeadAsplode head explode in a very graphic scene for the SNES]].
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* In ''Series/MidsomerMurders'', ''Death in Disguise'' the Master is actually a very nice guy who wants to look after people and help them.

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* In ''Series/MidsomerMurders'', ''Death "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersWroteS1E4 Death in Disguise'' Disguise]]" the Master is actually a very nice guy who wants to look after people and help them.
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* ''Webcomic/TheInvitation'': The Master is an [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abomination]] that [[spoiler:has an endless appetite for lesser sentients, transforming them to fit Her sexual tastes, warping their minds to love it, and then finally, assimilating them into Her. She does seem to do that last part out of a genuine love and caring for the little humans, though.]]
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* The season 1 villain for ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', a vampire ancient enough to have outgrown human features, who wanted to open the Hellmouth and bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. He shows up again in various flashbacks and rules Sunnydale with an iron fist in the [[ForWantOfANail Wishverse]], before coming BackFromTheDead in [[ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Season 8]].

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* The season 1 villain for ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', a vampire ancient enough to have outgrown human features, who wanted to open the Hellmouth and bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. He shows up again in various flashbacks and rules Sunnydale with an iron fist in the [[ForWantOfANail [[AlternateTimeline Wishverse]], before coming BackFromTheDead in [[ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Season 8]].
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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Gul Dukat spends some time leading a cult of pah-wraith-worshipping Bajorans who call him "the Master".

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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Gul Dukat spends some time leading a cult of pah-wraith-worshipping Pah-wraith-worshipping Bajorans who call him "the Master".
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** [[Characters/DoctorWhoMasters The series's longest recurring solo villain]] and the Doctor's EvilCounterpart — who actively chose the title just as the Doctor did theirs, which tells you rather a lot about them as a person. Going by this name so amuses the Master that even while incognito, they often choose a paper-thin-disguise alias based on its sound or [[ThisIsMyNameOnForeign meaning]] (Mister Magister, Professor Thascales, Col. Masters, Prof. [[SignificantAnagram Stream]], Missy, etc.). On the rare occasions anyone's asked what they're the master ''of'', the answer tends to be "the master of all matter" or simply "The Master of All". By the same token, the Doctor is "a doctor of many things" or "The Doctor of Everything" plus a couple of less-used versions referring to time-travel. It's been suggested that the Master's name comes from their degree at the Time Lord Academy. Bear in mind that a master's degree is just one step below a doctorate — this might explain the enmity between the Doctor and the Master! In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]", it's hinted that the word "doctor" (which means "person of knowledge" or "healer") comes from the Doctor himself. So it would be fitting for the word "Master" (which means "controller" and "man of knowledge") to come from him as well.\\\

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** [[Characters/DoctorWhoMasters The series's longest recurring solo villain]] and the Doctor's EvilCounterpart — who actively chose the title just as the Doctor did theirs, which tells you rather a lot about them as a person. Going by this name so amuses the Master that even while incognito, they often choose a paper-thin-disguise PaperThinDisguise alias based on its sound or [[ThisIsMyNameOnForeign meaning]] (Mister Magister, Professor Thascales, Col. Masters, Prof. [[SignificantAnagram Stream]], Missy, etc.). On the rare occasions anyone's asked what they're the master ''of'', the answer tends to be "the master of all matter" or simply "The Master of All". By the same token, the Doctor is "a doctor of many things" or "The Doctor of Everything" plus a couple of less-used versions referring to time-travel. It's been suggested that the Master's name comes from their degree at the Time Lord Academy. Bear in mind that a master's degree is just one step below a doctorate — this might explain the enmity between the Doctor and the Master! In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]", it's hinted that the word "doctor" (which means "person of knowledge" or "healer") comes from the Doctor himself. So it would be fitting for the word "Master" (which means "controller" and "man of knowledge") to come from him as well.\\\

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* Occasionally, [[{{Fanfiction}} fanfics]] will make the Masters from ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Buffy'' the same guy, with the explanation that the ''Doctor Who'' villain gave vampirism a shot in his pursuit of immortality. Sadly, there appears to be no team-ups or fights between the two because they would be too confusing (although theoretically, the confusion could be averted by referring to the ''Doctor Who'' Master by one of many aliases like "Harold Saxon").

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* Occasionally, [[{{Fanfiction}} fanfics]] will make the Masters from ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Buffy'' [[AmalgamatedIndividual the same guy, guy]], with the explanation that the ''Doctor Who'' villain gave vampirism a shot in his pursuit of immortality. Sadly, there appears to be no team-ups or fights between the two because they would be too confusing (although theoretically, the confusion could be averted by referring to the ''Doctor Who'' Master by one of many aliases like "Harold Saxon").

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