10 Doctor Who Characters You Didn't Realise Probably Died Horrible Deaths
2. The General

In the early 2010s, Doctor Who introduced a new recurring Time Lord character for the first time in decades.
The General was in charge of Gallifrey’s defences during the last days of the Time War, and struck up an uneasy alliance with the Doctor(s) before returning to help the Doctor depose Lord President Rassilon.
Across their appearances the General managed to develop an entertaining dynamic with the Doctor, with the two being polar opposites while still having a lot of respect for each other. It’s a relationship that had potential for the General to become a recurring character like Madame Vastra or Kate Stewart – so it’s a shame they’re almost certainly dead.
Considering how utterly destroyed Gallifrey is in The Timeless Children, and that the General was, the last time we saw them, still in a position of power, it's safe to assume that they were one of the many victims of the Master’s bloodthirsty rampage. And given the Spy Master’s affinity for inventively painful ways of killing, we can’t imagine the General didn't suffer on their way out.
The same goes for the rest of the Time Lords too, many of whom also suffered a rather undignified afterlife due to being converted into CyberMasters. The Spy Master was crazy even by Master standards, and after discovering the secret of the Timeless Child – which sends him into a pure rage – you can bet that he wanted to make the Time Lords pay in the most painful way possible.