It all depends on who I’m talking to. If I’m discussing the character with someone then I probably will use the actor’s name as not everyone is as familiar with Who lore as I might be. For example, I have a friend who is familiar with the ‘Ainley Master’. To my knowledge he’s never seen Keeper of Traken so my calling him the Tremas Master would mean nothing to them.
I do the same with Doctors, depending on who I talking to. My wife knows who Colin Baker but if I say I’ve just listened to a Sixth Doctor audio she just says “Which one’s that?”
It’s rather amazing when I do a search for “I am the Master and you will obey”, and it comes up with a bunch of pages with biblical quotes about obeying the Master. Was he involved in writing the Bible?
Depending on the context, I’ll use the actor’s name (Delgado, Simm, etc) or one of the in-universe/fan-created terms…
Memories of being on LiveJournal in the 2000s and tagging posts with stuff like “Crispy!Master” or “Simm!Master”
If we get another woman, I really hope they don’t just use “Missy” again. That feels like it belongs to Gomez. When Dark Water first aired, I was a little miffed at “couldn’t keep calling myself the Master” because, uh, yeah you could’ve. But I grew to love Missy as that incarnation’s nickname / preferred name, and now I quite like the idea that - every now and again - an incarnation will pick their own name to go by, in between others reverting to “the Master”
I wouldn’t mind the next female Master going by The Mistress but definitely agree they shouldn’t go by Missy. Though Master is also fine anyway, I see it as pretty gender neutral
Usually I go with “Actor name + Master” unless the incarnation in question has a very distinct trait to them. Like Missy or Lumiat for example.
(also, idk why, but when I think of them in english I tend to use only the last name + Master, but in portuguese I use full name + Master… go figure)
Trying to go kinda in order
Milo Master / Child Master
Dreyfus Master
Delgado Master
Pratt Master / Crispy Master
Beevers Master / Rotten Master
Ainley Master
Eric Roberts Master
Macqueen Master / Bald Master
Demonic Little Kid Master (the one from Titan Comics)
I get where you’re coming from, here. I feel similar. Doesn’t bother me hugely, but it niggles. I guess it’s because that is just a guise he adopted in one story. It would be a bit like calling the Delgado Master “The Thascalos Master”. He"s so much more than that.
