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The Master

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69 feature instances
36 referencing feature instances

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The Master	comment	Beware of any character whose name is simply "The Master". They're often in charge of things (duh) but most often these things include a reclusive mansion in the middle of nowhere, or a castle, or a laboratory, or all three! If they don't rule on the periphery of civilization like an old-school noble, they may rule right under our noses in civilized society. Whatever they're up to, expect them to have a big mustache, a great dining hall, and any number of Evil Plans. Note that characters who have a name to go with "Master" are exempted from this â€” for example, Master So-and-So who teaches martial arts. Often a student will simply refer to their teacher as "Master", but that's also an exemption. See also Names to Run Away from Really Fast, Spell My Name with a "The", Just the First Citizen. Rank Scales with Asskicking is usually in effect. Not to be confused with the Paul Thomas Anderson film (though the Master in that does fit the theme to a degree), or with the TV show Master Ninja (also known simply as The Master), or the similarly named trope Old Master.
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The Master / int_195bfe55	type	The Master
The Master / int_195bfe55	comment	In the late 1980s revival of The Shadow, the Shadow's agents frequently referred to him by this title, though that comes close to the student mode of address exemption, and he's technically a good guy.
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The Master / int_21bf1f01	type	The Master
The Master / int_21bf1f01	comment	Aversion: Even though Lee Van Cleef was "The Bad", his titular character in the TV series The Master (a.k.a. Master Ninja to MST3K fans) was a good guy.
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The Master / int_22211d68	type	The Master
The Master / int_22211d68	comment	In Bones the Serial Killer Gormogon apparently preferred to be called "The Master", though admittedly the only people who did so were his apprentices.
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The Master / int_22e3bdd9	type	The Master
The Master / int_22e3bdd9	comment	The Strain has an ancient evil vampire simply called The Master. That's revealed to be a pseudonym, and his true name is Sariel/Ozaryel, and implicitly he's the Angel of Death.
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The Master / int_2ba16bf9	type	The Master
The Master / int_2ba16bf9	comment	The Master is about the rise of a Church of Happyology-style cult leader who's called "Master" by his followers.
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The Master / int_383d1260	type	The Master
The Master / int_383d1260	comment	Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon: Sho'Nuff, The Shogun of Harlem insisted everyone call him "The Master".
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The Master / int_386a53ef	type	The Master
The Master / int_386a53ef	comment	Averted in Touken Ranbu - Hanamaru - the Master of the citadel doesn't actually appear, as they're supposed to represent the player of the game on which the series is based, but they love all of the Sword Warriors dearly. The master does things for them like buy them books and sew swimsuits for them, and when their master gets sick, the Sword Warriors all worry and do things like make soup, and go out to find a special herb to make medicine from. It's all very hanamaru.
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The Master / int_38fa34eb	type	The Master
The Master / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman Vol 1: The Masters of Neptune are plotting to enslave a large part of humanity and jettison the earth from orbit.
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The Master / int_3afb0bd2	type	The Master
The Master / int_3afb0bd2	comment	The Alpha Flight villain later known as the Master of the World.
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The Master / int_40b716af	type	The Master
The Master / int_40b716af	comment	In Assassin's Creed, the leader of the assassins is named Al Mualim, literally 'The Master'. Turns out at the end of the game that he was just using you to give him undisputed control of the Piece of Eden, an ancient artifact capable of brainwashing the world.
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The Master / int_43662a49	type	The Master
The Master / int_43662a49	comment	Yin Yang Yo! has the Night Master, the Evil Sorcerer Big Bad. After his defeat it's revealed that he's a Legacy Character and that anyone with the ambition to be evil enough can become the next Master.
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The Master / int_46f0352c	type	The Master
The Master / int_46f0352c	comment	The Shadow: The Black Master, one of the earlier novellas in The Shadow Magazine, sometimes referred to the eponymous criminal mastermind as "The Master" before settling on "The Black Master".
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The Master / int_4820721e	type	The Master
The Master / int_4820721e	comment	Averted entirely by the Magistra of Suburban Senshi. (The Magistra being the feminine Latin word for Master) This was brought up exactly once in RP where someone compared her name to that of the Master and the fact that she is a Time Lady. It was quickly pointed out that the Master was male and dead and that her name came from Magistra Magi (despite not being one) because she was the first spell-casting Time Lord and wanted to reference that. (Which match previous and later statements made by her player.)
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The Master / int_487743ee	type	The Master
The Master / int_487743ee	comment	Charby the Vampirate: The cruel and sadistic necromancer that brought back Mye and Hex as his zombie slaves was only known to them and referred to by them as The Master. His true name remains unknown but he is also known as the "Bear Witch".
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The Master / int_4fcbe146	type	The Master
The Master / int_4fcbe146	comment	Strider has Grandmaster Meioh, commonly simply referred to as The Grandmaster. Of note is that "Meioh" isn't his name but is simply another title meaning "Dark King" or "Lord of Darkness".
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The Master / int_5593a35d	type	The Master
The Master / int_5593a35d	comment	Wayward Children: The Master is a Card-Carrying Villain Vampire Monarch in the Dark World of the Moors. His title is doubly ominous, referring both to the human towns he controls and to the girls he raises as a twisted father figure to be his willing victims.
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The Master / int_59f4b9f3	type	The Master
The Master / int_59f4b9f3	comment	The Invitation: The Master is an Eldritch Abomination that 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 Master / int_5d354f8	type	The Master
The Master / int_5d354f8	comment	On Red Dwarf, the Master is the title given to the monster from Terrorform. It's revealed to be a representation of Rimmer's self-loathing, and attempts to torture him with a hot poker.
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The Master / int_68a8d1da	type	The Master
The Master / int_68a8d1da	comment	According to bandits' tales in Metro: Last Light, the Master (or Tunnel Master) is the name of a psychic Eldritch Abomination within the system's haunted metro tunnels. Periodically, it will compel people in far-off stations to suddenly wander off into uncharted tunnels, never to return. If you ask them where they're going, all they say is "I've been summoned by the Master," and if you tie them down, they'll bite through their restraints to escape. The Master might just be an urban legend, since you never encounter it or anyone it summons in-game, but considering all the other paranormal phenomena in the metro...
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The Master / int_699c1e80	type	The Master
The Master / int_699c1e80	comment	It's not the exact name, but The Leader has pretty much the same vibe. And in his appearance in the Dan Slott She-Hulk series, he was drawn as Roger Delgado with hypercephaly.
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The Master / int_6a989b15	type	The Master
The Master / int_6a989b15	comment	The race of aliens in The Tripods are called the Masters. Guess what they're like.
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The Master / int_6ac55ec7	type	The Master
The Master / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: The Big Bad from the X4/X5 adventure series is known as the Master, and is the ruler of the dangerous nation of Hule. The "Master" is really a mental projection of Hosadus, an evil prophet whose true body lies inert in a sarcophagus.
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The Master / int_6c1d09b1	type	The Master
The Master / int_6c1d09b1	comment	The main antagonist of the first Fallout is a mutated abomination called The Master (formerly a vault dweller named Richard Grey) who is the leader of the Super Mutants on the West Coast.
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The Master / int_6c9193a1	type	The Master
The Master / int_6c9193a1	comment	The Venture Brothers: Dr. Orpheus' mysterious master, that he gets to though his daughter's closet is a rare good example of this trope. He is the master of all these who seek mystical powers, and always takes a new form. And for someone as obviously powerful as him, he is surprisingly humble and easy to talk to.
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The Master / int_73d7930f	type	The Master
The Master / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Gul Dukat spends some time leading a cult of Pah-wraith-worshipping Bajorans who call him "the Master".
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The Master / int_74a4c713	type	The Master
The Master / int_74a4c713	comment	Kingdom Hearts χ introduces to the Kingdom Hearts franchise a character called "The Master of Masters," with no other name. Amongst his powers is the ability to see the future, which he uses to unknown ends. To clarify, he saw the Keyblade War coming, and not only did nothing to stop it, but he practically encouraged it to happen through his apprentices. It's eventually implied that he's the Greater-Scope Villain of the series as he was The Man Behind the Man who manipulated Xehanort into starting the Second Keyblade War.
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The Master / int_78d6f120	type	The Master
The Master / int_78d6f120	comment	The Master in Destroy All Humans!: Path of the Furon is a a Jerkass Old Master and also the game's Big Bad.
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The Master / int_7bf97a85	type	The Master
The Master / int_7bf97a85	comment	ActRaiser subverts convention. You are the Master and you're not at all evil. That is, in the Western version. In the Japanese version, the Master is known as God. Considering that you play as a powerful benevolent being watching human settlements from the skies to help them grow and protect them from evil, assisted by a little cherub angel, the name change isn't fooling anyone. Makes one wonder if the translators chose the term because it's a Nintendo-censorship-friendly synonym for "The Lord".
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The Master / int_7de09a4a	type	The Master
The Master / int_7de09a4a	comment	Subverted in Marc Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: the title Yankee was styled The Boss by the British.
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The Master / int_805e8b39	type	The Master
The Master / int_805e8b39	comment	Maison Ikkoku: The bartender at the ChaChaMaru is known as "Master". Suppose this may double as Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep", but he DOES fit with the big mustache and the great dining hall. As for evil plans, well, he has a crush on his boozy redhead slacker alcoholic waitress and eventually marries her, so he's got that going for him. "Master" is actually what Japanese people call bartenders in general; you can see it in a few other series, like Kimagure Orange Road.
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The Master / int_8125b468	type	The Master
The Master / int_8125b468	comment	In the Batman Elseworlds story "The Master Of The Future", a turn-of-the-century Batman battled the so-called "Master", Alexandre LeRoi (very likely inspired by the Jules Verne example in Literature below), who attempted to destroy the Gotham City World's Fair Exposition from his Cool Airship, via a solar cannon composed of an array of lenses that concentrated sunlight into a cohesive beam.
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The Master / int_81bc1811	type	The Master
The Master / int_81bc1811	comment	Mega Man Legends 2 has "The Master", the last true human being there is, with everyone else in the world being robots or clones or robot clones. He's actually very benevolent. Unfortunately, he's also already dead, and most of his direct creations are much less benevolent than he was.
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The Master / int_826ef177	type	The Master
The Master / int_826ef177	comment	The NES game Bionic Commando featured Master-D, leader of the now defunct BADDS, a villain born as a result of Executive Meddling. Before Nintendo censored it, he was Adolf Hitler, brought back from the dead by The Empire to help them finish a superweapon. Master-D probably felt at home, as The Empire was clearly Putting on the Reich. Fortunately, the player will have a chance to make Hit...Master-D's head explode in a very graphic scene for the SNES.
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The Master / int_83443877	type	The Master
The Master / int_83443877	comment	That is, in the Western version. In the Japanese version, the Master is known as God. Considering that you play as a powerful benevolent being watching human settlements from the skies to help them grow and protect them from evil, assisted by a little cherub angel, the name change isn't fooling anyone. Makes one wonder if the translators chose the term because it's a Nintendo-censorship-friendly synonym for "The Lord".
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The Master / int_8459204b	type	The Master
The Master / int_8459204b	comment	In Legend of the Seeker, the male confessor son of Darken Rahl in the final episode of season 1 was referred to as The Master. This seems to be a side effect of confessor powers, as female confessors are usually referred to as "Mistress" by those they've confessed.
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The Master / int_86c3beca	type	The Master
The Master / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: The Master of Paris is a powerful Spark over 200 years old who instills dread in most of the other players in the political sphere of Europa and can control everything, including the very bricks in his city, to use as weapons against his opponents or those who would defy him.
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The Master / int_8983aed3	type	The Master
The Master / int_8983aed3	comment	In The Sisters Grimm, the leader of the Scarlet Hand and Big Bad gets the title "The Master".
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The Master / int_8a76eb6b	type	The Master
The Master / int_8a76eb6b	comment	The Master and Margarita: One of the eponymous characters from M. Bulgakov's novel is of course the Master â€“ though this is not a villain, but one of the most good and kind-hearted characters in the book. He was a writer, but after his book was banned, he went out of his mind, and started to call himself "the Master" (an important note: in Russian "master" means not "lord", but something like "maestro"). He was actually given the name by his lover (that would be Margarita) who was devoted to him and his novel. His real name is never revealed, but it's implied that his skill is so great that Master is the more fitting name anyway.
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The Master / int_904f975a	type	The Master
The Master / int_904f975a	comment	Manos: The Hands of Fate: ThE mAsTeR wOuLd NoT aPpRoVe BeInG oVeRlOoKeD fRoM tHiS lIsT. nO, tHe MaStEr WoUlD nOt ApPrOve.
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The Master / int_90f18253	type	The Master
The Master / int_90f18253	comment	Battletech: Thomas Marik - that is to say the original Marik and not his body double - is known as the Master to his organization, The Word of Blake.
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The Master / int_93f9c777	type	The Master
The Master / int_93f9c777	comment	Inachika Akitani from The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer tends to end his introductions with "Also known as, The Master."
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The Master / int_93fc1d2b	type	The Master
The Master / int_93fc1d2b	comment	Paper Mario: The Superboss and most powerful enemy in the original game, the head of a martial arts dojo, is known simply as The Master.
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The Master / int_9b8fd034	type	The Master
The Master / int_9b8fd034	comment	In Knocked Up, Martin can only get out of the dirty man challenge by explicitly referring to Jason as The Master.
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The Master / int_9cc8c624	type	The Master
The Master / int_9cc8c624	comment	In one ValÃ©rian story, appropriately named "The Master's Birds", the titular Master is a gigantic brain-like alien mind raping people into submission.
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The Master / int_9e2f90f4	type	The Master
The Master / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Caesar Clown of One Piece bears the nickname "Master" (also written in English in the original Japanese edition), often just shortened to "M". He's a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Mad Scientist that you just Love to Hate...
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The Master / int_a4a6b86a	type	The Master
The Master / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: Lelouch has a theme called "THE MASTER" for his most ominous, overlordly, badass scenes.
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The Master / int_a7bb2a13	type	The Master
The Master / int_a7bb2a13	comment	In Mega Man ZX Advent "Master" is given as the title to the members of the Sage Trinity. Two out of the three are evil.
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The Master / int_aad9b544	comment	The Master is a major boss in Tales of Maj'Eyal.
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The Master / int_b3710357	type	The Master
The Master / int_b3710357	comment	TRON gives us a digital example in the Master Control Program (MCP).
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The Master / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: It's not the exact name, but The Leader has pretty much the same vibe. And in his appearance in the Dan Slott She-Hulk series, he was drawn as Roger Delgado with hypercephaly. Also, the evil future Hulk calls himself the Maestro.
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The Master / int_b6145a16	comment	SoulBlazer makes a lesser example of an alternate version of God, for whom the Silent Protagonist acts as an agent during the events of the game.
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The Master / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The series's longest recurring solo villain and the Doctor's Evil Counterpart â€” 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 meaning (Mister Magister, Professor Thascales, Col. Masters, Prof. 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 â€” this might explain the enmity between the Doctor and the Master! In "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. On at least three occasions in the Second Doctor's run, the Doctor is told that "The Master" wants to see him (on one occasion it's the Great Intelligence, on another it's the Master of the Land of Fiction, and on the other it's Professor Maxtible). In each case he reacts with alarm. Since the Master proper hadn't been invented then, his misgivings can only be down to his knowledge of this trope. (In-universe, in the Master's debut story, "Terror of the Autons", a Time Lord informs the Doctor that the Master has taken to referring to himself by that title; though the Doctor knew the character before this, he is apparently unaware of the change in his moniker.) After the Master proper had already been established, the Fifth Doctor, while playing cricket, was informed that he played as well as "the Master", and got progressively more nervous until the other man clarified that he was talking about "the other Doctor" â€” W. G. Grace. The Great Intelligence also uses "The Master" as a pseudonym in "The Abominable Snowmen". "The Master of the Land of Fiction" from "The Mind Robber", who was usually called the Master for short. He wasn't a villain, though. However, he was controlled by a computer called the MASTER Brain.
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The Master / int_c49480dc	comment	From Battle Arena Toshinden 2 there's the Master who doesn't spell her name with a "the".
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The Master / int_cd81de4	comment	Quest for Glory IV has a character whom almost everybody knows only as "The Master," who rules Mordavia from an old castle on the north side of the valley. She has a name, Katrina, which she has shared with her apprentice Ad Avis and her adopted daughter Tanya, and then with the Hero when they meet; nobody else knows her name.
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The Master / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman: Last Son of Krypton pits the Man of Steel, and Lex Luthor, against a tyrant named The Master, who is determined to wrest the rule of the entire galaxy away from the Guardians of Oa.
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The Master / int_d0c75992	comment	In real life, heads of Oxford colleges have a number of different titles (Warden, President, Rector...). But Inspector Morse villains seem to gravitate to colleges where the traditional title is Master. Matthew Copley-Barnes, Master of Beaufort College has a decades-long history of abusing children. Clixby Bream, the Master of Lonsdale College in "Death Is Now My Neighbour", is a very nasty piece of work and even harasses, manipulates and takes advantage of a woman throughout the episode which ultimately causes her death.
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The Master / int_d7081096	comment	Porky/Pokey from the Mother franchise likes to identify himself with the prefix of "Master".
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The Master / int_dae94b19	comment	In Road Rovers, The Rovers' boss is called The Master, but he was originally known as Professor William F. Shepherd.
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The Master / int_db72dabc	comment	The villain from Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles is known as simply "The Master".
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The Master / int_e293455a	comment	The season 1 villain for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a vampire ancient enough to have outgrown human features, who wanted to open the Hellmouth and bring about The End of the World as We Know It. He shows up again in various flashbacks and rules Sunnydale with an iron fist in the Wishverse, before coming Back from the Dead in Season 8.
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The Master / int_e6318baf	comment	In Midsomer Murders, Death in Disguise the Master is actually a very nice guy who wants to look after people and help them.
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The Master / int_eb46e06a	comment	Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome: A character called Master was one half of MasterBlaster in the film. He was played by Angelo Rossitto, co-founder of the Little People Society of America and star of Freaks.
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The Master / int_ef4fd083	comment	The Brave Little Toaster: The owner of the titular character. That's not his name, though; he doesn't even call himself "the master". It's just the appliances' name for him.
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The Master / int_ef661e97	comment	Street Fighter has a half example. In Japan the villain is named Vega (and the one named Vega is called Balrog). However, in America, he got a more famous name: Master Bison.
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The Master / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Mega Man: In Mega Man ZX Advent "Master" is given as the title to the members of the Sage Trinity. Two out of the three are evil. Mega Man Legends 2 has "The Master", the last true human being there is, with everyone else in the world being robots or clones or robot clones. He's actually very benevolent. Unfortunately, he's also already dead, and most of his direct creations are much less benevolent than he was.
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The Master / int_f6f3a050	comment	The Navy Lark had its own recurring villain, The Master, played with gusto and a surprisingly-for-the-usually-over-the-top-show-restrained Chinese accent by Jon Pertwee â€“ who at the same time was also portraying on television the mortal foe of a completely different Master.
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The Master / int_fd0b756	comment	Note the Master of Laketown in The Hobbit, though he's by no means an evil mastermind; more of a cowardly Obstructive Bureaucrat.
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The Master / int_fe724d7f	comment	The Rammstein song "Der Meister" (The Master) is about the apocalypse.
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The Master / int_fe85bfc8	comment	The Master Hand from the Super Smash Bros. series. And, as of the Wii U and 3DS versions, Master Core.
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