Writer Steven Moffat has suggested that viewers haven’t seen the last of Missy in Doctor Who.

Season 8 concluded last night on BBC One with ‘Death in Heaven’, with the Brigadier returning as a Cybermen to ‘kill’ Missy.

Speaking on Doctor Who Extra, Moffat commented : “I always rather enjoyed how they handled this problem when the wonderful Anthony Ainley was playing the part in the ‘80s. He would get killed, definitively, at the end of every encounter with Peter Davison and Colin Baker. And then he’d turn up at the start of the next Master story with roughly this explanation: ‘I escaped!’ Suits me, I’m fine with that!”

The showrunner added: “Supervillains don’t die, do they? I wouldn’t trust anything about that character’s ability to lie down and stop breathing.”

Michelle Gomez joined Doctor Who as Missy, the first female incarnation of The Master, in Season 8’s opening episode, ‘Deep Breath’.

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