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The Master
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'' Welcome To The Hellmouth ''
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'' Prophecy Girl ''
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Joss Whedon
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The Master
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Deceased
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Vampire
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Order Of Aurelius
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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Psychic" class="copylinks">Psychic powers grant him the ability to read minds, project his thoughts to plague dreams and exert Hypnotic control over the bodies of others, and also read auras and sense the presence of great mystical powers
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Mark Metcalf
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is a
Fictional Character in the
U.S. Television Series ''
Buffy The Vampire Slayer '', played by
Mark Metcalf .
The Master first appeared in "
Welcome To The Hellmouth ", the first episode of ''Buffy'', as
Buffy 's first Big Bad. The Master is the ruler of the
Order Of Aurelius , a vampire cult which has included the likes of
Darla , Luke and The Three, amongst many others. (Note that it is a common misconception that Angelus, Drusilla or Spike were ever acolytes of the Order of Aurelius. They are part of the Master's bloodline, but they were never brethren of the Order.) He is mystically trapped inside the
Hellmouth and seeks to escape, to claim dominion over the world.
The Master is unlike other vampires, and is similar looking to
Nosferatu , presumably (although this is never confirmed) due to his extremely old age. When The Master was staked by Buffy in season one's "
Prophecy Girl ", he left bones, unlike most vampires. The Master was supposed to be revived by his right-hand child, the
Anointed One , but his plans were stopped by Buffy, and the Anointed One was later killed by Spike.
Unlike ordinary vampires, The Master could exercise hypnotic control over Buffy. The only other vampires that later proved able to do so were another vampire king —
Dracula himself — and Drusilla, who hypnotized and killed the Slayer known as
Kendra .
The Master was also somehow connected with a three-headed demon, commonly referred as the Hellmouth Spawn. During his escape from the Hellmouth, this demon fought
Giles ,
Willow ,
Cordelia ,
Jenny , and
Xander inside the library, while Buffy fought The Master on the rooftop of
Sunnydale High School, above the library. During the fight with the three-headed demon, a library table was turned over and a leg broken, so that it resembled a long, pointed stake. Buffy threw The Master through a skylight in the roof, and he was impaled upon the broken table leg. All the flesh on his bones streamed off, leaving only his skeleton behind. The Anointed One later tried to use these bones in his ritual to return The Master to life, but Buffy interrupted the ritual and crushed the skeleton with a sledgehammer.
The Master is known to have been very old. He sired Darla, who was the sire of
Angel .
To truly understand the scale of The Master's reputation and power we look to the fact that when Buffy challenges Angel to fight The Master himself. Angel, an otherwise very brave and heroic character, refuses to, his excuse being "'Cause I'm afraid." Later when we see Angel (as the evil Angelus) and The Master's first meeting, The Master effortlessly beat him to the ground, despite Angel being a great and powerful vampire in his own right. Even during this battle, Angel still showed virtually no fear, no respect and no acknowledgement to the Master's superiority. He then demonstrated this by persuading Darla, who was sired by the Master, to operate outside of the Master's chain of command while he was right in front of them both. Years later, the Master described Angel as being the most savage creature he had ever known who he believed was destined to become his right-hand man.
Despite his death, The Master would appear several more times on both ''Buffy'' and its spin-off, ''
Angel '', usually in flashbacks involving specific vampires. A notable circumstance occurred in the ''Buffy'' episode "
The Wish " in which Cordelia Chase inadvertedly wishes in front of
Anyanka that Buffy never came to Sunnydale, thus throwing her into an
Alternate Reality in which The Master rules the town with vampiric versions of Willow and Xander at his side, Angel as a tortured pet of sorts, and most everyone else cowering in fear once the sun goes down. Just before this reality is negated, The Master kills Buffy, thus fulfilling the same
Prophecy he carried out in "Prophecy Girl".
In the first ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' video game, the Master returns as a phantom and temporarily possesses Angel with the help of a trio of demons known as the Dreamers.
The Master
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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Penn_(Buffyverse)" class="copylinks">Penn (1764-1764)
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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Drusilla_(Buffyverse)" class="copylinks">Drusilla
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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Spike_(Buffyverse)" class="copylinks">William Pratt/Spike
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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Anne_Pratt_(Buffyverse)" class="copylinks">Anne Pratt
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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Sam_Lawson_(Buffyverse)" class="copylinks">Sam Lawson
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