How did the Master turn into Missy?

In the greatest irony of all, Missy stabbed the Master in the back in an effort to stand with the Doctor during his final battle with the Cybermen. Knowing that he was about to die and regenerate into Missy, the Master took it upon himself to shoot Missy in the back with his laser screwdriver.
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Are Missy and the Master the same person?

The Master returns in the eighth series as a new female incarnation called "Missy" (Michelle Gomez), which is short for "Mistress".
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How did the Master survive Missy?

How did the Master survive being stabbed by Missy? After returning to Gallifrey and having his condition 'cured' by the Time Lords, the Master was stabbed by Missy after refusing to stand with the Doctor, forcing him to return to his TARDIS and regenerate into Missy.
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Why does Missy not remember the Master?

The Master and Missy aren't supposed to cross paths, and in doing so, it would result in Simm's Master losing any memories of the event going forward — which would mean that the eventual Missy wouldn't remember any of it.
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Is this Master after Missy?

In case you need a refresher, the last time we saw the Master – then going by the moniker 'Missy' – she'd been shot down by a previous incarnation, John Simm's Master, and left for dead.
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How did the Master regenerate after Missy?

Although the Master believed that the blast had disabled Missy's ability to regenerate, Missy managed to use an Elysian field, forbidden technology that could break a Time Lord's body down into atoms and molecules then reform it anew, to grant herself a new regeneration cycle and kickstart her next regeneration.
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Is Clara the Doctor's daughter?

Clara is the future child of the Doctor and River who's had her memory erased. The two Time Lords must be up to something on their nights away from River's prison cell.
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Why can the Master hear drums?

We know that the Master had been hearing it since childhood when he looked into the Untempered Schizm on Gallifrey. More importantly, we know that the sound itself is nothing more than a tiny signal – a link for Gallifrey to escape from the Time War, or at least, to break the time lock on it.
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Is Captain Jack the Face of Boe?

In-universe, however, we only have Captain Jack's testimony. On May 30, 2020, during the New Earth and Gridlock #NewNewYork tweetalong on Twitter, Davies officially confirmed that Jack is indeed the Face Of Boe.
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Is the Doctor the last Time Lord?

He has experienced the cutting-off (the end of experience, i.e. "death") of every other timeline of every other Gallifreyan who lived while he was alive, and as we go forward in his own timeline, no new Gallifreyans can be born. So in this sense, The Doctor is indeed the last of the Time Lords.
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How many regenerations has the Master gone through?

One is River's regenerations, the other is that the rule is a law that was passed in Gallifrey, not a biological thing. The regeneration limit was a rule enforced by the high counsel, not a biological limit. The master exceeded his 12 so the doctor can too. River gave him all but three of her regenerations.
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Is the Master the Doctor's brother?

While it has never been officially stated, Dr Who scripts were written where it was reveal The Doctor and The Master are half brothers.
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How many incarnations does the Master have?

The short story Girl Power! indicates that the Master had had a total of nineteen incarnations up to, and including Missy. Only instances where the Master has "died" count as regenerations, and not the instances of bodysnatching or undergoing chameleon arch identities.
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Is the war chief the Master?

no, they should be different characters. Some books say he is the Master. Some say he is a separate character. The Monk, the War Chief and the Master are not the same Time Lord, the three of them were all in the same class with the Doctor at the Academy.
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Why Missy is the best master?

Missy took everything the Master had ever been — a foil, a rival, a friend, a foe — and portrayed them all at once. She is one of the most complex interpretations of the Master that fans have seen, toeing the lines between evil and good, chaotic as always but never without a plan.
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Is davros a Time Lord?

Born into war

The Time Lords placed Davros's life up to his apparent death at the hands of the Daleks as concurrent to Earth's ancient history, prior to the 2nd century.
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What was the secret the Face of Boe told the Doctor?

Played by Struan Rodger. Apparently dying in a New New York hospital, when the Face of Boe had watched the universe grow old, he told the Tenth Doctor that he would reveal his greatest secret to "one like himself", before he teleported himself away.
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What is the Doctor's true name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.
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What is a white point star?

A White-Point Star was a type of a diamond found only on the planet Gallifrey. The Time Lords, whilst time-locked in the Last Great Time War, sought a means to escape their imprisonment and their destruction. Lord President Rassilon used the Saxon Master to escape into the universe.
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What does the Master order the Toclafane to do when he takes over the Earth in the sound of drums?

The Doctor, Martha, and Jack enter the bridge of the Valiant as the first four Toclafane appear on board. The Master orders the Toclafane to kill US President Winters.
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What is the drumming Dr Who?

The Drumming was an artificial condition that had afflicted the Master throughout most of their lives, and was believed by the Doctor and the Master both to have been at least partially responsible for the Master's descent into madness.
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Is River a Time Lord?

No. River Song is not a Time Lord. The title and distinction belongs solely to those beings from the world of Gallifrey who have been indoctrinated, trained and introduced to the Time Vortex via a particular set of rituals, instruction and guidance.
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Why does the Tardis not like Clara?

In answering that question in Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat suggested that the TARDIS' dislike of the current companion may be due to her sceptical nature and how she did not seem suitably awed by the Doctor's spaceship. Or, as he said, “It's almost like it's all building to something…
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Does the Doctor love Clara or river?

River makes a point of it that she knows the Doctor doesn't love her, but the Doctor never confirms that. It also seems that anytime River claims the Doctor doesn't love her, the Doctor looks rather uncomfortable (or at least 12 did).
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