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"# The Doctor and the Master, as the quote below implies. Canonically, used to be best friends in their schooldays.
The Doctor: All we've got is each other!
The Master: Are you asking me out on a date?
* Helped along by the sixth Master being specifically cast and acted to resemble the Doctor in his actions and mannerisms. His wife, or as the Doctor indirectly calls her, The Beard, clearly was not willing to let another man run off with her husband though.
* The Master was quite clearly being sarcastic during the part of the phone conversation quoted at the top of the page. Of far more relevance to this trope is the following exchange.
Master: Doctor.
Doctor: Master.
Master: I like it when you use my name.
o Pretty much the whole thing is quality Foe Yay. See for yourself.
* Later in the same episode, while the Master is bouncing around the command deck of the Valiant to the tune of "Voodoo Child", he even blows the Doctor a good-bye kiss.
o It should be noted that this is the pre-watershed way of saying "Fuck you, I win."
* There's also the Master pushing the Doctor around in his wheelchair, singing along to "I Can't Decide". Although the line doesn't feature in the programme, since Doctor Who is a children's programme, the song contains the line 'F*** and kiss you both at the same time'.
* "The Mark of the Rani" provided some three-way Foe Yay between the Doctor, the Master and the Rani. Apparently strong enough to deserve a bit of lampshading.
The Doctor: The Rani IS a genius. Shame I can't stand her. [pause] I wonder if I was particularly nice to her she might... no. No, of course not.
* The Rani apparently ships Doctor/Master, too, in addition to having Foe Yay with both: You and the Doctor are a well-matched pair of pests. This isn't an isolated comment - she spends most of the episode making cracks about how she wishes the Doctor and the Master would take their courtship elsewhere and leave her to her experiments.
* At the end of the parody special, The Curse Of Fatal Death, the Doctor regenerates into a female body. She and the Master take quite a liking to each other...
The Doctor: So why do they call you "The Master"?
The Master: [seductively] I'll explain later...
* In the non-canon webcast "Scream of the Shalka", the Master has had his consciousness transferred into an android that was (probably) created by the Doctor to save his life. They are now living together semi-peacefully on the TARDIS. Complete with marital bitching and a rather suggestive outgoing message on their answering machine.
Doctor (on recording): *giggle* - You have reached the good ship TARDIS. *giggle* We're rather - *giggle* - busy at the moment, *giggle* *giggle* so leave a message after the beep and we'll try to get back to you before you called. *giggle* - Stop that! *giggle* *giggle*
Master: We really should change that message.
o The author has admitted that this was intentional.
o The same author wrote the Seventh Doctor book "Human Nature" in which the Doctor recalls "A boy in [his] class who so hated and loved [him] that he kept upsetting [his] experiments." Given Three specifies that they *both* did this, the implications run a little deep.
* Then there's the scene with a sobbing Doctor cradling the Master's dying body in his arms in Last of the Time Lords. It's nigh identical to any number of scenes from any number of programs where the hero holds his dying love interest in his arms.
* And the Master keeping the Doctor in a dog kennel? Kinky...
o Mitigated somewhat by how the Doctor is an old man while stuck there.
o Of course, the Doctor has been an old man before, and it doesn't seem to deter the Master too much. Also the old man thing is in itself a form of humiliation, in a way.
* The Doctor also seemed very admiring of Professor Yana back when he didn't know who he actually was.
* If they ever do make the Doctor and the Master brothers in the series, as was planned in the original series but dropped, all this is gonna look REALLY creepy.
o During the Third Doctor's era, they planned to have the Master's final story reveal the Doctor and Master were aspects of the same person (which also got dropped), making this selfcest.
* RTD said it himself (spoilers for the 2009 Christmas specials) : It's personal for the Doctor. The Master is his enemy, his opposite, and yet so tantalisingly close to being his soul mate. There's something epic about their sheer existence - the last two survivors of an ancient race. It's a clash of the titans. Both of them heading for death, and yet both determined to survive - at any cost!
o Also, this quote from Doctor Who Magazine 417:
Euros Lyn: Why didn't the Master kill the Doctor?
Russell T. Davies: Because he loves him. Honestly, I think he does.
* The second part of The End of Time includes the Doctor gushing about how brilliant the Master is and how beautiful he could be if he'd just give up this evil lark. "We could travel the stars; it would be my honour". When the Master shortly thereafter says he doesn't know what he'd be without the drums, the Doctor wonders "what [he'd] be without [the Master]." There's really nowhere else this one can go except to the land of canon.
o What with the Doctor saying that the only thing stopping him from running away with the Master into the sunset was the Master's habit of killing people? Not a damn much.
* What about that scene in the Paul McGann film where the Master tackles the Doctor to the ground and tells him;
The Master: You are my life, Doctor.
* AHistory, a book that attempted to put in chronological order all the events in Doctor Who published material (in this troper's copy, up to 2006) made note of the line uttered by the Master as he burned in "Planet of Fire"
Won't you show mercy to your own...[burns]
o They note that people think the final word is "brother" but another, less common guess is "husband".
* People, He and the Doctor used to run through the red grass together, calling to the sky! Granted, were they under the age of twelve it would merely be a Friendship Moment. Otherwise...
* The War Chief in "The War Games" is all over the Doctor, with lines such as "We are two of a kind" and "We need each other". This is one reason why some fans believe he's an earlier Master. Noted on the DVD commentary by Frazer Hines:
War Chief: [Having just made sure he's alone with the Doctor] You may have changed your face, but I know who you are.
Hines: "... my wife!"
o Well, I guess Hines likes MS T3k to make a comment like that.
* The Doctor Who Expanded Universe novels introduce an Anti Villain called Sabbath, who steals the Doctor's heart. Literally. (And that's not all he does with it, as the quote below alludes to.) The Doctor, being quite a Pungeon Master, finds it amusing, although, in the spirit of a Take That Kiss, mostly does this to get Sabbath's goat.
"Ah", said the Doctor, "˜I see I was standing too close. Invading your personal space. Of course, even from over here I'm invading your personal space. [...] All nestled up under your ribs. Quite intimate, really. Yet we hardly know each other. Love songs have been written about less."
[...] "˜I kept wondering where my heart had got to. [...] Had it joined a club for other lonely ones of its kind? Was it achy? Or breaky? Did it now belong to someone named Daddy?" Sabbath had turned his attention to some papers. The Doctor suddenly stretched out across them, like a cat taking over a computer keyboard. He gazed soulfully into Sabbath's eyes. "˜Shall I call thee Father?"[...]
Sabbath left the room. "I've got you under my skin", the Doctor warbled after him. "
"# The Doctor and the Master, as the quote below implies. Canonically, used to be best friends in their schooldays.
The Doctor: All we've got is each other!
The Master: Are you asking me out on a date?
* Helped along by the sixth Master being specifically cast and acted to resemble the Doctor in his actions and mannerisms. His wife, or as the Doctor indirectly calls her, The Beard, clearly was not willing to let another man run off with her husband though.
* The Master was quite clearly being sarcastic during the part of the phone conversation quoted at the top of the page. Of far more relevance to this trope is the following exchange.
Master: Doctor.
Doctor: Master.
Master: I like it when you use my name.
o Pretty much the whole thing is quality Foe Yay. See for yourself.
* Later in the same episode, while the Master is bouncing around the command deck of the Valiant to the tune of "Voodoo Child", he even blows the Doctor a good-bye kiss.
o It should be noted that this is the pre-watershed way of saying "Fuck you, I win."
* There's also the Master pushing the Doctor around in his wheelchair, singing along to "I Can't Decide". Although the line doesn't feature in the programme, since Doctor Who is a children's programme, the song contains the line 'F*** and kiss you both at the same time'.
* "The Mark of the Rani" provided some three-way Foe Yay between the Doctor, the Master and the Rani. Apparently strong enough to deserve a bit of lampshading.
The Doctor: The Rani IS a genius. Shame I can't stand her. [pause] I wonder if I was particularly nice to her she might... no. No, of course not.
* The Rani apparently ships Doctor/Master, too, in addition to having Foe Yay with both: You and the Doctor are a well-matched pair of pests. This isn't an isolated comment - she spends most of the episode making cracks about how she wishes the Doctor and the Master would take their courtship elsewhere and leave her to her experiments.
* At the end of the parody special, The Curse Of Fatal Death, the Doctor regenerates into a female body. She and the Master take quite a liking to each other...
The Doctor: So why do they call you "The Master"?
The Master: [seductively] I'll explain later...
* In the non-canon webcast "Scream of the Shalka", the Master has had his consciousness transferred into an android that was (probably) created by the Doctor to save his life. They are now living together semi-peacefully on the TARDIS. Complete with marital bitching and a rather suggestive outgoing message on their answering machine.
Doctor (on recording): *giggle* - You have reached the good ship TARDIS. *giggle* We're rather - *giggle* - busy at the moment, *giggle* *giggle* so leave a message after the beep and we'll try to get back to you before you called. *giggle* - Stop that! *giggle* *giggle*
Master: We really should change that message.
o The author has admitted that this was intentional.
o The same author wrote the Seventh Doctor book "Human Nature" in which the Doctor recalls "A boy in [his] class who so hated and loved [him] that he kept upsetting [his] experiments." Given Three specifies that they *both* did this, the implications run a little deep.
* Then there's the scene with a sobbing Doctor cradling the Master's dying body in his arms in Last of the Time Lords. It's nigh identical to any number of scenes from any number of programs where the hero holds his dying love interest in his arms.
* And the Master keeping the Doctor in a dog kennel? Kinky...
o Mitigated somewhat by how the Doctor is an old man while stuck there.
o Of course, the Doctor has been an old man before, and it doesn't seem to deter the Master too much. Also the old man thing is in itself a form of humiliation, in a way.
* The Doctor also seemed very admiring of Professor Yana back when he didn't know who he actually was.
* If they ever do make the Doctor and the Master brothers in the series, as was planned in the original series but dropped, all this is gonna look REALLY creepy.
o During the Third Doctor's era, they planned to have the Master's final story reveal the Doctor and Master were aspects of the same person (which also got dropped), making this selfcest.
* RTD said it himself (spoilers for the 2009 Christmas specials) : It's personal for the Doctor. The Master is his enemy, his opposite, and yet so tantalisingly close to being his soul mate. There's something epic about their sheer existence - the last two survivors of an ancient race. It's a clash of the titans. Both of them heading for death, and yet both determined to survive - at any cost!
o Also, this quote from Doctor Who Magazine 417:
Euros Lyn: Why didn't the Master kill the Doctor?
Russell T. Davies: Because he loves him. Honestly, I think he does.
* The second part of The End of Time includes the Doctor gushing about how brilliant the Master is and how beautiful he could be if he'd just give up this evil lark. "We could travel the stars; it would be my honour". When the Master shortly thereafter says he doesn't know what he'd be without the drums, the Doctor wonders "what [he'd] be without [the Master]." There's really nowhere else this one can go except to the land of canon.
o What with the Doctor saying that the only thing stopping him from running away with the Master into the sunset was the Master's habit of killing people? Not a damn much.
* What about that scene in the Paul McGann film where the Master tackles the Doctor to the ground and tells him;
The Master: You are my life, Doctor.
* AHistory, a book that attempted to put in chronological order all the events in Doctor Who published material (in this troper's copy, up to 2006) made note of the line uttered by the Master as he burned in "Planet of Fire"
Won't you show mercy to your own...[burns]
o They note that people think the final word is "brother" but another, less common guess is "husband".
* People, He and the Doctor used to run through the red grass together, calling to the sky! Granted, were they under the age of twelve it would merely be a Friendship Moment. Otherwise...
* The War Chief in "The War Games" is all over the Doctor, with lines such as "We are two of a kind" and "We need each other". This is one reason why some fans believe he's an earlier Master. Noted on the DVD commentary by Frazer Hines:
War Chief: [Having just made sure he's alone with the Doctor] You may have changed your face, but I know who you are.
Hines: "... my wife!"
o Well, I guess Hines likes MS T3k to make a comment like that.
* The Doctor Who Expanded Universe novels introduce an Anti Villain called Sabbath, who steals the Doctor's heart. Literally. (And that's not all he does with it, as the quote below alludes to.) The Doctor, being quite a Pungeon Master, finds it amusing, although, in the spirit of a Take That Kiss, mostly does this to get Sabbath's goat.
"Ah", said the Doctor, "˜I see I was standing too close. Invading your personal space. Of course, even from over here I'm invading your personal space. [...] All nestled up under your ribs. Quite intimate, really. Yet we hardly know each other. Love songs have been written about less."
[...] "˜I kept wondering where my heart had got to. [...] Had it joined a club for other lonely ones of its kind? Was it achy? Or breaky? Did it now belong to someone named Daddy?" Sabbath had turned his attention to some papers. The Doctor suddenly stretched out across them, like a cat taking over a computer keyboard. He gazed soulfully into Sabbath's eyes. "˜Shall I call thee Father?"[...]
Sabbath left the room. "I've got you under my skin", the Doctor warbled after him. "