10 Disturbing Doctor Who Implications You Totally Missed

There are a couple of really dark implications in Chris Chibnall's surface-level breezy Series 12 opener Spyfall.

Real-world figure Noor Inayat Khan – the intelligence agent who aids the Doctor in defeating the Master – spent her final days in a concentration camp, adding a real gloominess to the moment where the Thirteenth Doctor wipes Noor's memory and sends her back to work fighting fascism.

On top of this, there's the Master's throwaway line about how tough it is to live through the 20th century, and that he's had to escape from some pretty grim places. This is after the Doctor abandons him to the Nazis by exposing him as a spy, implying that he became a prisoner of war and ended up in a concentration camp, which he then successfully escaped from.

Sure, this is the Master we're talking about. As we've already established in this list, he's the definition of a wrong 'un! But that's still a pretty bleak punishment for the Doctor to force upon her bestest frenemy.

The Master could've ended up facing plenty of other difficult moments between 1943 and the present day too. The partition of India, the Korean and Vietnam wars, Chernobyl – not to mention that mad Christmas Day where everyone wore the face of his previous self!

Did the Spy Master briefly become the Saxon Master? I'm sure Big Finish is making a boxset about that as we speak.