Why is the Master insane?

Shot by his wife but being once more reborn, he was last seen forcing Rassilon and the Time Lords back into the hell of Time War-ravaged Gallifrey. A childhood friend of the Doctor, the Master was driven insane after looking into the Untempered Schism on Gallifrey at the age of eight.
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Why does the Master not like the Doctor?

The latest incarnation of the Master had lost all love for the Doctor after he learned that he only existed because of her. Knowing that the whole foundation of Gallifrey was built on a lie, the Master enacted his ultimate revenge and savaged the planet that the Doctor had fought so hard to save.
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Why are the Doctor and the Master enemies?

The relationship between the Doctor and the Master has always been complicated and dysfunctional. Not only did they come from the same world, but they also attended university together, and at one time were even close friends. But then something occurred to sour that friendship, and they became bitter enemies.
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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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Why does the Master hear drumming?

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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What are the Toclafane Doctor Who?

The Toclafane are the last descendants of humanity, living around the year 100 trillion and wandering across space just as the 'heat death' of the Universe began. They are notable for their last-ditch effort at survival: the invasion of Earth, circa 21st century.
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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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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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Why did the Master make himself human?

However, after his failure to end the war using the Heavenly Paradigm, which had only resulted in even more devastation across the timeline, the Master was driven to such a state of terror that he fled to the end of the universe and turned himself into a human baby with a Chameleon Arch.
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Why did the Master destroy Gallifrey?

The Master claims he burned Gallifrey as revenge for some dark secret the Time Lords were hiding. "They lied to us," The Master says. "The founding fathers of Gallifrey...
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Why was the Master hungry?

The Master returns in "The End of Time" (2009–2010) when his disciples attempt a resurrection ritual using a surviving piece of The Master's body. However, Lucy sabotages the ritual, bringing The Master back as a manic undead creature, hungry for human flesh and leaking electrical energy.
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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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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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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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How many regenerations has the Master had?

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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What is the Doctor's real 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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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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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 did the Doctor whisper to Martha?

It is revealed that when the Doctor whispered to Martha in the previous episode, he said: "Use the countdown." Docherty's betrayal was planned — engineered by Martha so that she would be brought on board the Valiant to rejoin the Doctor.
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Is the Doctor actually Gallifreyan?

The Doctor, as explained at length by the Master, was not Gallifreyan at all. She was discovered as a child on another planet by a Gallifreyan scientist called Tecteun (Seylan Baxter), who – after bringing her back home – extracted her power to regenerate in order to form the basis of Time Lord society.
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Do Time Lords have two hearts?

The process allows them to disguise themselves as humans physiologically and psychologically, meaning they only have one heart and are stripped of non-human powers, and of any memory of having been a Time Lord.
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Why was Gallifrey time locked?

The entirety of the Time War and Gallifrey's history was it in a time lock, Gallifrey was locked so as to prevent the Daleks from going back on time preventing Time Lords from coming into being, the war itself was locked away to heal the damage done to the web of time in addition to preventing the evils from escaping.
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How did the doctor win the Time War?

In this context, the President formulated 'the Final Sanction' which would destroy all creation and elevate the Time Lords into beings of pure consciousness. When the War Doctor learned of this plan, he stole 'the Moment', and used it to destroy Gallifrey and the Daleks to end the Time War.
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What happened to the master at the end of the end of time?

1. Back into Hell. The last we saw of the Master in The End of Time was him sacrificing himself to foil Rassilon's plan to escape the time lock and restore Gallifrey. Presumably he ended up back on his home world, at that moment being ravaged by the Time War.
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