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* LargeHam: For the most part he's rather calm and affable... and then he opens up a viewing port with a squad of Daleks on the other side and taunts them jovially simply because he knows their weapons aren't working. Once the port is closed, he's right back to his usual collected self.

* CameBackWrong: After dying in "Dark Eyes", a change in timeline resurrects her. [[ForWantOfANail The Master gets to her before the Doctor can.]]

* HiddenDepths: ''Big Finish'' has a tendency to portray all the incarnations of the Master as being capable of redemption and nobility than the show.

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* ForTheEvulz: Shoots Liv Chenkha on sight during ''Day of the Master'', before the War Master can stop him (not out of pragmatism, but just because he already knows it won't take).

* EyeScream: Her final confrontation with the Master ended with her losing her vision.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever

* MoralityPet: [[spoiler:Subverted; the Master chooses Cole as his companion just to make him the focus of an escalating paradox to try and use him as the power source for a means of changing the outcome of the Time War]].
* MyGreatestFailure: His actions on the agrarian planet [[spoiler: create a species of what can only be described as Dalek / Cyberman hybrids, which would've done untold damage to The Web Of Time if The Master hadn't dealt with them later.]] Cole spends the entirety of the last installment of "Only The Good" angsting about it.

* UnwittingPawn: Of The Master, very much so. [[spoiler: Cole surviving the events of Arcking inspires The Master to have the boy interfere on another planet, knowing his actions will cause more paradoxes; eventually powering The Heavenly Paradigm.]]

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* IncrediblyLamePun: He likes cracking them as he horribly murders people.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Geoffrey Beevers is the only surviving actor to play the Master in the original run of the television series[[note]]indeed, his first audio appearance in "Dust Breeding" resulted from Big Finish being unable to agree terms with Anthony Ainley[[/note]], and hence has become the "regular" Master for the Fourth Doctor Adventures and many other appearances in spite of only playing the role for a single television serial.

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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: In "Master!" this is ultimately what drives a wedge between him and [[spoiler: Lila, culminating in her betraying him. Despite his legitimate offer to take her off earth and travel with him, she can't abide the fact he was going to destroy the earth after they left.]]

** When his attempt to take control of an ancient super-weapon brings him to the attention of [[spoiler:Bilis Manger]], he is completely ''terrified'' to the point of coming across as a helpless old man having a delusional breakdown to outside observers. Even when the Master regains his composure, [[spoiler:it is clear he is out of his league with Bilis.]]

** When his attempt to take control of an ancient super-weapon brings him to the attention of [[spoiler:Bilis Manger]], he is completely ''terrified'' to the point of coming across as a helpless old man having a complete breakdown to outside observers. Even when the Master regains his composure, [[spoiler:it is clear he is out of his league with Bilis.]]

** When his attempt to take control of an ancient super-weapon brings him to the attention of [[Characters/Torchwood Bilis Manger]], he is completely ''terrified'' to the point of coming across as a helpless old man having a complete breakdown to outside observers. Even when the Master regains his composure, [[spoiler:it is clear he is out of his league with Bilis.]]

* BreakTheHaughty: It's minor but this is an incarnation who is very used to having absolute control over any given situation and people, and as a consequence [[spoiler:being shot by Liv Chenka]] clearly throws him off his game causing his FauxAffablyEvil mask to drop and to just angrily insult [[spoiler:her]] before doing what he's forced to do. He doesn't even manage to fully turn the tables and is forced to summon Missy for help.

!!The "Bald" Master (Fifth, Seventh & Eighth Doctors)

* CloningBlues: In "The Oseidon Adventure".

* EvilutionaryBiologist: Takes up this role in "Rage of the Time Lords", [[spoiler:gathering useful genetic abnormalities from across all of time and space to combine together into a an extremely powerful living weapon that is as equally savage and merciless as the Daleks he plans to unleash it upon.]]