List of minor Doctor Who villains

This is a list of fictional villains from the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who.

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The War Chief

The War Chief was a renegade Time Lord who assisted an alien race known as the War Lords in the 1969 serial The War Games. He was played by Edward Brayshaw.

Related Topics:
Time Lord - The War Games - Edward Brayshaw

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The War Lords had been kidnapping soldiers from various wars in Earth's history to play war games on an unknown planet. The War Chief provided the War Lords with TARDIS-like travel machines, which they used to kidnap the human soldiers.

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When the War Chief and the Doctor came face to face, they recognized each other. The War Chief wanted the Doctor's help to double-cross the War Lords and seize power for himself. The Doctor refused, and instead summoned the Time Lords for help. The War Lords found out the War Chief's plans, and executed him.

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Although the War Chief was apparently killed at the end of The War Games, some fans choose to believe that the Master (the Doctor's arch-enemy, introduced in Terror of the Autons a couple of years later) is the War Chief in a new guise, due to similarities between the two characters' appearances and modi operandi.

Related Topics:
The Master - Terror of the Autons - Modi operandi

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The spin-off novels (which are of debatable canonicity) include both a novel featuring the return of the War Chief (Timewyrm: Exodus by Terrance Dicks) and a novel featuring the Master set before The War Games (The Dark Path by David A. McIntee), establishing that the two are not the same person.

Related Topics:
Spin-off novels - Canonicity - Terrance Dicks - David A. McIntee

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