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|alias           = {{il|The Lone Centurion|Mr Pond|The Last Centurion|The Constant Warrior|[[Gawain|Sir Gawain]]|The Nose|Roranicus Pondicus}}
|species         = Human
|species2        = Auton
|job             = Nurse
|job2            = gladiator
|job3            = bodyguard
|job4            = Caesar
|job5            = knight
|job6            = doctor
|birth date      = [[1989]]
|death date      = Prior to [[2012]] (age 82), [[New York City]]
|affiliation     = Royal Leadworth Hospital
|affiliation2    = Pandorica Alliance
|affiliation3    = Roman Empire
|affiliation4    = Knights of the Round Table
|affiliation5    = Prince Royal Hospital
|affiliation6    = Eleventh Doctor's gang
|origin          = [[Leadworth]], [[England]]
|first           = The Eleventh Hour (TV story)
|mother          = Rory Williams' mother{{!}}Rory's mother
|father          = Brian Williams
|spouse          = Amy Pond
|child           = Melody Pond
|child2          = Anthony Williams
|in-law          = The Doctor
|in-law2         = Tabetha Pond
|in-law3         = Augustus Pond
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|actor           = Arthur Darvill
|other actor     = Ezekiel Wigglesworth
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'''Rory Arthur Williams''' was a [[human]] [[nurse]] and [[companion]] of the [[Eleventh Doctor]].

He was [[Amy Pond]]'s [[husband]]. He began travelling with the Doctor on [[25 June|the night before]] their [[wedding]], but he died and was [[Temporal dissolution|erased from history]] after being absorbed by the [[time field]]. Shortly before the [[Pandorica]] was opened, Rory reappeared as a [[Nestene Consciousness|Nestene]] [[Lone Centurion|Roman]], waited for Amy to come out of the Pandorica for 1,894 [[year]]s and was restored to a [[human]] after [[Big Bang Two|the second Big Bang]]. He went on to [[Marriage|marry]] Amy and resumed travelling with her and the Doctor. During this time, his [[child]], [[Melody Pond]], was born. When the Doctor married River, Rory became his father-in-law. In [[2012]], he was sent back in [[time]] by a [[Weeping Angel]], and was soon followed through time by his [[wife]]. He [[Death|died]] at age 82 some time before 2012, his [[Tombstone|gravestone]] standing in a [[graveyard]] in [[New York City]].

== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
[[File:Youngrorywilliams.JPG|left|thumb|Rory as a child ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')]]
Rory Arthur Williams ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'') was born to [[Brian Williams]] and [[Rory Williams' mother|his wife]] in [[1989]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Broken Man (comic story)|The Broken Man]]'') [[Rory Williams' grandmother|His grandmother]] would often tell him: ''"You'll never miss the water 'till the well runs dry."'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Night Terrors (TV story)|Night Terrors]]'')

He was a childhood friend of [[Amy Pond|Amelia Pond]] and grew up in the town of [[Leadworth]]. Like much of Leadworth, he was privy to her tales of "[[Eleventh Doctor|the raggedy Doctor]]," and he found himself a reluctant participant in dress-up games that she based on them, though he did not believe the Doctor was real. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') The pair were also friends of [[Mels Zucker]], who, unbeknownst to them, was their daughter from the future.

At [[Leadworth Primary School]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') where he and Amelia first met, ([[WC]]: ''[[Rory's Story (webcast)|Rory's Story]]'') Rory was known as the school "freak" and "geek", with very few friends other than Amelia and Mels. Amelia made him dress as "the raggedy Doctor" at [[Halloween]] at one point during the [[1990s]].

While in third class, Rory was cast as Joseph in the school [[Nativity play]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Imaginary Enemies (comic story)|Imaginary Enemies]]'')

Rory also had a school friend called Alec, who used to play with Rory among the branches of a [[willow]] tree in his [[garden]], pretending it was eating them alive, the [[bridge (ship)|bridge]] of the [[USS Enterprise|Starship ''Enterprise'']], caves that [[Indiana Jones]] would explore or even a [[truck]], of which they'd throw themselves out, armed to the teeth to catch [[bank robber]]s in the act. Alec disapproved of Rory's chasing after Amy and claimed that there was a "whole barrage of girls" out there. Rory was always there for Alec and when Alec had a heart attack and passed away, he supported and comforted Alec's family, all throughout Alec's sickness and death. Ever since, Rory disliked willow trees, because they reminded him of Alec. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Glamour Chase (novel)|The Glamour Chase]]'')

On at least one occasion, while playing [[hide and seek]], Rory hid for hours while Amy and Mels neglected to look for him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') Rory once got lost during a game of [[blind man's buff]] with Amelia, because she forgot. [[Angelo (The Eleventh Hour)|Mrs Angelo]] found him in her garden. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond (webcast)|The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond]]'') On another occasion, when Amy was 9, she put Rory's ''[[Action Man]]'' toy in the [[Microwave oven|microwave]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[I, Rorius (audio story)|I, Rorius]]'')

At some point during his youth Rory owned a labrador called Bernard. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[I, Rorius (audio story)|I, Rorius]]'')

Rory was long attracted to Amy. His feelings were returned only after Mels pointed it out when they were older. Before this, Amy had assumed Rory was [[homosexuality|gay]], because he had never shown any interest in any other girl. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')

=== Meeting the Doctor ===
[[File:Rory shows phone to annoying superior.jpg|thumb|Rory can't get Dr. Ramsden to believe the bizarre behaviours he witnessed from coma patients. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')]]
While working at the [[Royal Leadworth Hospital]] in [[2008]], Rory noticed [[coma]] patients roaming about the village. When he tried to show the photos he had taken of the patients with his [[Mobile phone|mobile]] to his superior, he was ordered to take time off, as she believed he was hallucinating. He went to the park at the same time the [[Atraxi]] put Earth in a force field for incineration, seeing (unknown to him until minutes later) [[Prisoner Zero]] in another disguise. To his shock, he met the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and was left dumbstruck that he was real and not imaginary. Complying with the Doctor's orders, Rory helped lure Prisoner Zero out into the open and watched as it was taken away by its jailers. Rory then watched the Doctor steal an outfit from the hospital and call back the Atraxi to warn them the Earth was under his protection. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') After these events Rory became engaged to Amy and started looking up the "latest scientific theories" as preparation in case of any other alien visitors to [[Leadworth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]]'')

=== Travels with the Doctor ===
[[File:Silence Falls in Venice.jpg|left|thumb|Rory and the Doctor hear only silence. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]]'')]]
In [[2010]], not knowing Amy had left in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and spent days away from Leadworth, Rory was surprised when the Doctor unexpectedly popped out of a cake at his stag party and was disheartened to learn Amy had tried to [[kiss]] the Doctor. The Doctor took the couple on a "romantic break" to [[Venice]] in [[1580]] as a wedding gift. They ran into [[Saturnyn]]s who planned to flood Venice and repopulate it with their species. Rory defended Amy from [[Francesco]], a Saturnyn who wished to convert her into a "fish from space". The Doctor defeated the Saturnyns and while prepared to return to Leadworth, Rory agreed to continue travelling with the Doctor, once Amy asked him to. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]]'') He and Amy shared [[Rory Williams' TARDIS bedroom|a room in the TARDIS]], which the Doctor furnished with a [[bunk bed]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')

The Doctor next took them to [[America]], but they found themselves in the fake town of [[Appletown]]. While the Doctor went off to investigate on his own, Rory and Amy met [[Isley]] and her creator, [[Albert Gilroy]]; she and the other town inhabitants were androids he made for undercover missions that killed anyone who knew their true identities. After Albert explained this and that a bomb would soon destroy them, he was killed by Isley as her [[Walkman]] was no longer blocking her programming. Running from her and the other androids, they eventually came back to where Albert's corpse was to see it was no longer there; the Doctor had altered the past, while dispersing the bomb's force to buy time. They quickly left before the bomb was left to explode. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nuclear Time (novel)|Nuclear Time]]'')

They next went to [[Geath]], only to find it was ruled by royalty instead of politicians as the Doctor originally told them. It turned out a "dragon" made of [[Enamour]] was responsible for hypnotising the populace into obeying the "king". When two different beings known as the Herald and the Regulator came to collect the dragon, claiming it belonged to either of them, Rory enlisted the help of [[Hilthe]], who was not under the Enamour's spell, to help negotiate with the Regulator while the Herald was detained. Leaving Geath, Rory found the Enamour had subconsciously hypnotised him into stealing some objects made of it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The King's Dragon (novel)|The King's Dragon]]'')

[[File:Rory-eknodine.jpg|thumb|left|Rory fights off an [[Eknodine]] whilst in a dream. ([[TV]]: ''[[Amy's Choice (TV story)|Amy's Choice]]'')]]
Aboard the TARDIS, Rory fell victim to the [[psychic pollen]] that ensnared them in two shared dreams; one was of travelling with the Doctor and the other was of living a peaceful (and boring) life in [[Leadworth]]. It had all been done by the [[Dream Lord]], a manifestation of all the darkness in the Doctor's psyche brought out by [[psychic pollen]]. Killed by [[Eknodine]] in the Leadworth dream and by the Doctor in the TARDIS dream, Rory awoke in reality. He learned Amy committed suicide in the Leadworth dream as she couldn't live without him; this assured Rory that she deeply loved him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Amy's Choice (TV story)|Amy's Choice]]'')

Though the Doctor promised to take them to [[Rio de Janeiro|Rio]], in [[2020]], they landed in [[Cwmtaff]], [[Wales]]. Putting Amy's engagement ring in the TARDIS for safe-keeping, Rory emerged from it to be mistaken for a policeman called by [[Ambrose Northover]] to investigate bodies going missing from the graveyard. Though he tried to inform the Doctor, he found it insignificant in comparison to the arrival of [[Silurian]]s, who had kidnapped, not only Ambrose's husband, [[Mo Northover|Mo]], and son, [[Elliot Northover|Elliot]], but Amy as well. Capturing a [[Silurian]], [[Alaya]], Rory was left to guard her ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth (TV story)|The Hungry Earth]]'') while the Doctor went underground to negotiate.

[[File:Rory Dying.jpg|thumb|right|Rory dying after being shot by [[Restac]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'')]]
Ambrose was taunted by Alaya into killing her, making Rory fear for Amy's safety. The Doctor contacted him, explaining negotiations were going well, and that they should bring Alaya back. Upon handing Alaya over, her sister, [[Restac]], attacked them, forcing them to flee to the TARDIS. Restac attempted to shoot the Doctor in revenge. Rory took the blast instead and died. A nearby [[time field|crack]] in time and space swallowed him. Although the Doctor tried to coach Amy into keeping her memories of him, the only things left of Rory were Amy's ring and the Doctor's own memories of him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'')

=== The Last Centurion ===
An Auton duplicate, created as part of the [[Pandorica Alliance]]'s plan to prevent the [[Eleventh Doctor]] from destroying the [[universe]], had been formed from psychic residue from the home of the Doctor's companion [[Amy Pond]], including a children's book on [[Roman Empire|Roman]] [[centurion]]s and a photograph of Amy and her [[fiancé]] Rory Williams taken at a costume party where Rory had worn a Roman centurion costume.

The Nestene Consciousness created a fake Roman army, and included a replicant of Rory Williams. It placed them near [[Stonehenge]] in the year [[102]] [[AD]] as part of an elaborate trap for the Doctor. While the Auton Roman soldiers believed they were, indeed, Romans, the Auton version of Rory retained the memories and personality of the real Rory. He initially dismissed his other life as a dream.

[[File:RoryAndTheDoctor.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor realises that Rory has, surprisingly, returned from the dead. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
When news came to the Roman encampment of visitors, Auton Rory volunteered to help, which led him to encountering the Doctor and Amy. He saved Amy by destroying a [[Cyberman (The Pandorica Opens)|Cyberman]], though she was knocked unconscious. The Doctor initially did not react to him, then welcomed him back, though precisely how this Rory existed was a mystery to the Doctor who was not aware of his nature or origins as an Auton.

Auton Rory learned he had been erased from time and Amy's memory when she did not recognise him after she woke. Encouraged by the Doctor — who returned the engagement ring that Rory had given Amy — Auton Rory set out to make her remember him. While his efforts were successful, Amy's memories returned at the precise time as the Alliance's trap began to unravel upon the Doctor. Part of this sequence involved activating the Autons (including Rory) in order to bring them under Nestene control. He urged Amy to run, but she refused, hugging him as the Auton programming activated, opening his hand and shooting Amy, causing her to die. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')

[[File:SonicScrewdriverDischarge BigBang.jpg|thumb|The Doctor gives "Rory the Roman" [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')]]
Following the [[total event collapse]] all the other Autons were erased, except for the duplicate Rory who was left on Earth, the only remaining planet, weeping over Amy. It was then that the Doctor suddenly appeared in front of him to tell him that Amy wasn't quite dead and swiftly ordered him to open the [[Pandorica]] with [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|the sonic screwdriver]] for the purpose of rescuing the Doctor's earlier self. A bewildered Rory followed these instructions, which led to a reunion with the earlier bewildered Doctor. Because most of the universe had been erased and the Nestenes were now non-existent, Rory's mind was fully restored and he was now in unfettered control of his actions. The Doctor confirmed this by pretending not to care about Amy's death and claiming the total collapse of the universe was more important than she was, earning him a punch in the jaw from Rory.

To save Amy, the Doctor placed her in the Pandorica, where her life would be restored, though she would be in there for nearly two thousand years to complete the process. The Doctor, using [[River Song's vortex manipulator]], offered to take Auton Rory to retrieve Amy in the future, but the duplicate Rory refused, saying he had to make sure no harm came to the Pandorica. The Doctor admired Rory's humanity, Auton or not, and left him to his duty. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') At a point when the Pandorica was still in the Underhenge, he met the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and a future version of [[River Song]], who had returned to this point in space-time because it was a [[Waypoint]] useful in the then-ongoing temporal crisis. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Lost in Time (video game)|Lost in Time]]'')

At some point, Rory had farmers remove the Pandorica for a nobleman from the Roman town of [[Isca]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Constant Warrior (short story)|The Constant Warrior]]'')

Rory watched over Amy for nearly two thousand years, following the box wherever it went and became the stuff of legend as "the Last Centurion" — a mysterious figure dressed as a Roman soldier who stood guard over the Pandorica, warning off those who would attempt to open it, a mythical sentinel whose story appeared in the folk history of a dozen civilisations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')

When the Pandorica was brought to [[Rome]], Rory followed. Losing track of the box, Rory soon found himself a [[gladiator]]. After his inability to die attracted the attention of the Empress [[Augusta]], she made Rory the bodyguard to the reigning [[Caesar (Gladiator)|Caesar]], a task made difficult by the Caesar's pride. During a celebration, Rory befriended [[Marcella (Gladiator)|Marcella]] who was later drugged and framed for the attempted murder of Caesar who was later poisoned. With the blessing of Augusta, Rory smuggled Marcella out of Rome only to be confronted by [[Lepidus]] who attempted to kill them. After this had resulted in Lepidus' own death and Rory had bid farewell to Marcella, he returned to Rome to learn that Augusta had engineered all the recent events to make herself empress, appointing Rory as her personal assassin. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gladiator (audio story)|Gladiator]]'')

[[File:TheLoneCenturionVol1 Textless.jpg|thumb|left|Rory in Rome ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lone Centurion: Volume One]]'')]]
Unwilling to kill anyone, Rory instead took to bribing the empress' targets to leave the city, earning him the suspicions of the empress' head spy [[Decima]]. When Rory was sent to kill the soothsayer [[Tacitus (Gladiator)|Tacitus]], who predicted the abrupt end to Augusta's rule, his ruse was discovered with both he and Tacitus being brought before the empress. When ordered to kill Tacitus, Rory first taste-tested a [[fig]], his Auton physiology protecting him from the poison. When Augusta later bit into another of them, Rory realised that the figs were a poisoned batch that he had earlier thought disposed of. With the death of both the empress and [[Felix (The Unwilling Assassin)|Felix]], brother of the late [[Caesar]], breaking the line of succession, Rory suddenly found himself the new Caesar. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Unwilling Assassin (audio story)|The Unwilling Assassin]]'')

Though first attempting a "bread and circuses" style of ruling and a scaling back of the Roman Empire's overt militaristic lifestyle, the stresses of the job began to affect Rory as he was forced to fend off several [[assassination]] attempts from his [[general]] [[Marinus (I, Rorius)|Marinus]], even cancelling all banquets out of fear that others may be poisoned. Rory eventually built a sanctuary for himself where he grew close to the slave [[Anna (I, Rorius)|Anna]] who promised to protect his flame vulnerable body at the upcoming [[Vulcanalia]] festival. When unveiling a statue of "the [[god]]ess Amelia" at the festival, Rory found Anna had been drowned in Amy's fountain by Marinus. Applying CPR, Rory was able to resuscitate Anna, scaring the Romans into thinking he had the powers of life and death. Appointing Anna as a High Priestess, Rory subsequently abdicated his position, letting [[Hilarius]] become the new Caesar. With the Pandorica having been recovered, Rory made to leave Rome, refusing to let Anna join him. Understanding that the High Priestess had fallen in love with him, Rory bid her a fond farewell and left Rome. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[I, Rorius (audio story)|I, Rorius]]'')

Rory was present at the fall of Rome. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') Centuries later, he became a physician's assistant in [[Camelot]], where he befriended Sir [[Lancelot]] and met King [[King Arthur|Arthur]], Queen [[Guinevere]] and [[Merlin]]. When Lancelot fell ill, the blame was placed on Rory. Rory was then interrogated by Merlin who sought the Pandorica, Rory giving him a false location. After Merlin went off to the fake location, Guinevere arrived to find out more information herself. Rory convinced her to let him try to save Lancelot, deducing that Merlin had poisoned the Knight. When Merlin returned, Guinevere swore to have the wizard executed if Lancelot died and it was therefore in Merlin's best interest to tell Rory the cure. After Lancelot had been cured, he suggested making Rory a knight, an idea that Merlin endorsed as it would trap "Sir Rory" in the city. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Once and Future Nurse (audio story)|The Once and Future Nurse]]'')

During [[Christmas dinner]], a man that would later be named [[the Glowing Warrior]] arrived at Camelot and died, Guinevere giving Rory the task of discovering the Warrior's origins. Accompanied by Lancelot, Rory set out to discover the truth about the Warrior, being joined by the freed Lady [[Lynn (The Glowing Warrior)|Lynn]] and a bard named [[Bertilak|Beau]], who due to miscommunication with Lancelot came to believe that Rory's name was [[Gawain]]. As the quartet followed the trail of the Order of the Green Flame, the group captured them with Beau revealing himself to their leader, Bertilak, and Lynn being his sister. Bertilak revealed that the whole enterprise was an elaborate sham to find a knight willing to marry a disinterested Lynn. Rory was then set against a mechanical [[dragon]], Bertilak instructing him to save either Lynn or Lancelot. Lynn quickly freed herself however, allowing Rory to free Lancelot before they all turned on Bertilak. After Lynn confirmed that the scheme had been funded by someone in Camelot, Rory suspected it was Merlin and rode back to the city with Lancelot. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Glowing Warrior (audio story)|The Glowing Warrior]]'')

Returning to Camelot, Rory and Lancelot discovered that Merlin has placed a spell on many of the knights. With Arthur injured, Guinevere was trying to prepare the remaining knights ready for battle. After Rory had rallied the knights to fight, the group charged against Merlin's forces before a prideful Arthur nearly fell to the wizard. Appealing to his foe's ego, Rory challenged Merlin to honorably duel Arthur, daring the wizard not to use magic. When Arthur proved too weak however, Rory took his place, managing to trick Merlin into using a spell, disqualifying him and sending him running. When it was found that Arthur was fatally wounded, Lancelot suggested Rory take the crown only for him to refuse and nominate Guinevere as king. Aware that Merlin would continue to hunt both him and the Pandorica, Rory, for the safety of his friends, decided to leave Camelot, saying a fond goodbye to Guinevere and Lancelot. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last King of Camelot (audio story)|The Last King of Camelot]]'')

[[File:Legend of the Centurion.jpg|thumb|right|Rory pulls the Pandorica away from destruction during the Blitz ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')]]
During his time guarding the Pandorica, Rory assisted [[King]] [[Harold Godwinson]] in the [[Battle of Hastings]] during the [[Norman]] conquest of [[England]], evidently as his top general, befriended [[Samuel Pepys]], and saved the infant daughter of Pepys's [[baker]] during the [[Great Fire of London]] before he bade farewell to Pepys and travelled to the city. In the [[19th century]], Rory became the inspiration for political cartoonists, and, in [[1934]], he released many leaflets that showed himself and [[Adolf Hitler]] with the message; ''"DON'T LISTEN TO HITLER. HE'S RUBBISH."'' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Constant Warrior (short story)|The Constant Warrior]]'') During the [[London Blitz]] of [[1941]], Rory was spotted moving the Pandorica out of harm's way during a bombing, but afterwards that the Last Centurion disappeared from history and was believed killed or destroyed.

Rory had survived the bombing however and had become employed as a nighttime security guard at the [[National Museum]], reuniting with Amy in [[1996]], when the Pandorica was opened by a younger version of Amy, restoring her older self. They briefly encountered [[Stone Dalek|a partially-restored Dalek]], which Rory disabled using his wrist-gun. As the group hid from the Dalek, Rory reunited with the Doctor and told him how to take part in the meeting that would lead to Rory freeing the Doctor from the Pandorica. After the Doctor had engaged in more temporal manipulation, the group rescued River Song from the exploding [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. Inspired by the Pandorica being able to partially restore the Dalek, the Doctor piloted it into the exploding TARDIS which [[Big Bang Two|restored the universe]], but also rewrote much of its history. The Doctor was erased from reality, and with him gone, the Auton version of Rory was likewise erased from history. The original, human Rory was restored, his death having never occurred. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')

=== Weddings and remembrances ===
[[File:Doctor-rory.jpg|thumb|Rory, back as a human, with the Doctor at his wedding. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')]]
After his Auton self helped [[Big Bang Two|reboot the universe]] almost erased by the [[time field]], the real Rory returned and married Amy on [[26 June]] 2010. He remembered having been an Auton after Amy had recalled the Doctor from the other side of the cracks, exclaiming, "I was plastic!" The Doctor himself considered the human Rory to be a continuation of Auton Rory, privately admiring his devotion to Amy over two millennia, calling him, "the Boy Who Waited". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') He compared these memories to a door in his head; he could open it when he wanted, but usually kept it shut; when the Doctor commented that he had witnessed the fall of Rome, Rory reminded him that he had, too. The Doctor said that the Auton Rory both was and wasn't the real Rory. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Way Through the Woods (novel)|The Way Through the Woods]]'') He never told Amy about this, making her think he didn't remember. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Good Night (home video)|Good Night]]'') After the wedding, they returned to his new wife's garden, where the TARDIS was parked. They bade farewell to Leadworth to continue journeying with the Doctor, starting with the [[Orient Express]] in space. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') The Doctor insisted on calling him "Rory Pond"; though Rory initially told him that wasn't how it worked, he quickly went along with it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'', ''[[The Rebel Flesh (TV story)|The Rebel Flesh]]'' / ''[[The Almost People (TV story)|The Almost People]]'')

=== Honeymoon ===
Amy and Rory passed their wedding night on the TARDIS, conceiving [[Melody Pond|their first child]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')

Shortly after resuming their travels, the Doctor took Rory for a drink in the TARDIS and they talked about their difficulties of having so many memories. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Visiting Hours (TWP short story)|Visiting Hours]]'')

In an attempt to get them to get along better, Amy told the Doctor and Rory to go to a party whilst she sunbathed. They went to the coronation party for the King in Crystal on [[Numina Vitri]], but instead discovered a plot by a group of [[Zygon]]s to steal [[the Mantle]], a self-sustaining life support suit that would keep the King in Crystal alive for a millennium, When Crown Prince [[Maanaster]] used the Mantle to end the situation, a single Zygon managed to escape, so Rory and the Doctor decided to skip the party to track it down. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The King in Glass (short story)|The King in Glass]]'')

During the Ponds' honeymoon, they went to a planet on a honeymoon with an asteroid, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'') visited [[1605]] where [[James I]] arrested them, encountered giant bees at the [[Gardens of Zul-Thep]] in [[3104]], met [[Wyatt Earp]] and went on a beach holiday to [[Drago 14]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Honeymoon Horrors (short story)|Honeymoon Horrors]]'')

[[File:Rory-amy-honeymoon.jpg|thumb|left|Rory with Amy on-board [[Spaceship (A Christmas Carol)|the spaceship]] for their honeymoon. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'')]]
The couple continued their holiday in the honeymoon suite of [[Spaceship (A Christmas Carol)|a starship]] in the [[44th century]]. The ship began to crash towards [[Planet (A Christmas Carol)|a planet]]. The Doctor had less than an hour to convince [[Kazran Sardick]] of [[Sardicktown]] to unlock the cloud belt, allowing the ship to safely land. Rory showed Kazran a hologram of the crashing ship. The cloud belt was opened when [[Abigail Pettigrew]]'s singing calmed the ice, and the ship safely landed.

The trio left for another honeymoon location, but Rory was sceptical about it when told it was a living, carnivorous planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'')

Rory began helping the Doctor maintain the TARDIS, which annoyed Amy as she wasn't allowed. He made the TARDIS materialise inside itself by dropping a [[thermocoupling]] when he was distracted by a look up Amy's skirt through the glass floor. The Doctor dematerialised the TARDIS from the resulting [[space loop]] and told Amy to put on some trousers to keep a repeat from happening. During this encounter, he enjoyed witnessing Amy flirt with a future version of herself, though got a slap from her when he started fantasising about what could happen if there were always two Amy's on board. ([[TV]]: ''[[Space (TV story)|Space]]'' / ''[[Time (TV story)|Time]]'')

=== America ===
Following their [[honeymoon]], Rory and Amy returned to Earth in [[2011]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'') Their families believed they had been in [[Thailand]] the entire time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'')

As a couple, Rory and Amy were captured by [[Adam Mitchell]] and trapped with many other [[companion]]s of [[the Doctor]] in [[Adam Mitchell's fortress]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Choice (comic story)|The Choice]]'') Along with the others, they were released by [[Frobisher]] and assisted the first eleven [[incarnation]]s of the Doctor as they fought through {{Ainley}}'s army of [[Auton]]s. During this ordeal, Rory and Amy briefly caught the [[Eleventh Doctor]] with a "new girl", whom he introduced as [[Clara Oswald]]. After Adam thwarted the Master's plot to destroy the universe at the cost of his life, all the Doctors and their companions oversaw his memorial before taking their leave. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (POT comic story)|Endgame]]'')

At some point, Amy was replaced with a [[Ganger]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Almost People (TV story)|The Almost People]]'')

[[File:Rory-america.jpg|thumb|right|Rory, covered in markings, looks down upon the dam. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')]]
On [[22 April]] [[2011]], they received a TARDIS blue letter which led them to America. There they met up with River Song and the Doctor, who was (unbeknownst to them) a ''[[Teselecta]]'' duplicate. This "Doctor" was shot by a past version of River, faking his death in front of Rory and Amy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'', ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'') After his apparent death, the group spoke briefly to [[Canton Delaware]]. Rory, Amy and the older River went to a diner where they met a younger version of the Doctor with his own invitation. During the older Doctor's talk about "[[space]] [[1969]]", Amy saw one of the [[Silent]]s, aliens who had occupied Earth for centuries.

They arrived in the [[White House]] on [[8 April]] 1969, where they met [[Richard Nixon]] and a younger version of Canton. The Doctor, his companions and Canton went to [[Florida]] to track the mysterious phone calls Nixon was getting. Rory and River found what looked like a Silent [[space-time vessel]] while exploring tunnels under the warehouse to which the calls had led them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'')

Escaping to the TARDIS, the Doctor decided he and his companions had to become renegades to give the Silents a false sense of security. The plan included Canton and the [[FBI]] hunting them down on a nationwide search. He reluctantly sent River and the Ponds on their own nationwide search to find information about the Silents. He gave them cryotosis podlets for when Canton would pretend to kill them. Rory travelled to Oklahoma, Texas and California. He started missing his wife by the time he reached his first destination. During his time in Texas, Rory realised the aliens he was searching for resembled ''[[The Scream]]'' and [[deduce]]d that they were behind its repeated thefts. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Silent Influence (short story)|A Silent Influence]]'')

In [[July]], after spending three months on the run, the Doctor started a revolution against [[the Silence]] by using their own powers against them. Rory and Amy returned to travelling on the TARDIS, still concerned about the Doctor's impending death. During this adventure, Rory questioned Amy's feelings for him yet again because she described someone she loved who "fell out of the sky" and changed her life. However, his doubts were put to rest when Amy told him she had meant him, not the Doctor. Amy also thought she was pregnant, something which she only shared with the Doctor; Rory only found out when he overheard one of their conversations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')

=== Further travels ===
All through their resumed travels with the Doctor, Rory kept reminding Amy of River's warning about how telling the Doctor about his "death" could cause damage to [[time]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot (TV story)|The Curse of the Black Spot]], [[The Rebel Flesh (TV story)|The Rebel Flesh]]'') He was unaware when Amy did accidentally inform the Doctor, thinking him to be his Ganger. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Almost People (TV story)|The Almost People]]'')

Following disturbances in time using a [[timey-wimey detector]], the TARDIS crew found a [[Weeping Angel]] stalking [[Mark Whitaker]]. While Amy and the Doctor followed the time-displaced Mark, Rory stayed in the present to learn more about him. While the Doctor was supposed to return for him in an hour, he took a week to come back and Rory stayed in Mark's flat, briefly returning home to Leadworth to check the mail. Following the changes Mark's presence caused in time, Rory aided in keeping time on track by doing things such as trapping Mark and his wife [[Rebecca Whitaker|Rebecca]] in a museum so they would end up together as they were supposed to. While they were in [[2001]] dealing with the aftermath of Mark meeting his past self, another Rory showed up from the future to reveal he was displaced in [[2003]] by a Weeping Angel and spent a month trapped in the past before he could catch up with them. The Doctor was able to make it safe for the two Rory's to interact and they travelled to 2003 to prevent Mark from saving his wife's life which would cause a major [[temporal paradox]] and grant the Angels great power. During their efforts to defeat the Angels, the present Rory was displaced in time, but his future self revealed that following the Doctor's instructions, he set a trap for the Angels. With the help of Mark and using Rory and the Doctor's trap, they defeated the Weeping Angels and harmlessly dispersed them into a video recording. One escaped but became the Angel that started it all. The Doctor, Amy and Rory, after helping Mark visit his wife in the past for a final goodbye, returned him to his own time where Rory handed him back his flat keys and informed him that he was out of pretty much everything. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Touched by an Angel (novel)|Touched by an Angel]]'')

Answering a distress signal from the [[17th century]], the TARDIS crew ended up on the pirate ship ''[[Fancy]]'', where they were accused of being stowaways. Rory was accidentally cut by a cutlass wielded by Amy and targeted by a [[Siren (The Curse of the Black Spot)|siren]] who had been taking crew members. Though Amy shielded him from the siren, Rory was taken after being washed overboard during a storm. The Doctor figured out the "siren" was a virtual doctor from an [[Spaceship (The Curse of the Black Spot)|invisible spaceship]] in the same space as the ''Fancy''; Rory was in the sick bay of the ship, but the Siren didn't know how to resuscitate someone who had nearly drowned. Rory instructed Amy in CPR, then had himself disconnected from the ship's life-support. He was revived shortly after. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot (TV story)|The Curse of the Black Spot]]'')

[[File:Rory-psychic-message.jpg|thumb|right|Rory is sent a psychic message. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')]]
While listening to the Doctor brag about a past adventure, Rory and Amy were there when he received a [[Hypercube|Time Lord distress call]] from a [[bubble universe]]. However, it turned out to be a trap; a malevolent entity known as [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]] siphoned the TARDIS Matrix into a human body, trapping the Doctor in its universe while it possessed the TARDIS to leave for [[N-Space]]. Trapped inside at the time, Rory and Amy kept House entertained by running for their lives. Rory helped the Doctor get back into the TARDIS by lowering the shields. The embodied soul of the TARDIS, who never got the hang of names, called Rory "the pretty one" and communicated instructions to him telepathically instead of Amy as the Doctor intended. Rory also heard the TARDIS talking about something he would need to know in the future: "The only water in [[Gamma Forests|the forest]] is the river". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')

Rory took a break at the huge shopping complex and spaceport known as [[Spaceport One]]. He sneaked through the back entrance of a bakery and hid as he saw a [[Reptilodon baker]] speak to the [[Reptilodon]] General [[Mystan]] about the Reptilodons' invasion. Rory was followed inside by a boy ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rory's Adventure (short story)|Rory's Adventure]]'') called [[Paulus]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Amy's Escapade (short story)|Amy's Escapade]]'') Rory told Paulus to run for it as it was dangerous inside, and Paulus ran out through the front. Rory tried sabotaging the [[transmat gateway]], but this caused it to activate, bringing in General Mystan's party prematurely. Paulus returned, saying that he and his friend wanted to know what was going on. Rory explained that an invasion was happening. Rory ran out the back, and informed a [[Judoon]] security guard of the invasion. The Judoon told him to wait there until Rory provided his papers, but because he had none, Rory ran back to the TARDIS as soon as the Judoon followed its colleagues into the front entrance of the bakery. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rory's Adventure (short story)|Rory's Adventure]]'')

[[File:Rory-jennifer-ganger.jpg|thumb|left|Rory is tricked by [[Jennifer Lucas (Ganger)|Jennifer Lucas' Ganger]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Almost People (TV story)|The Almost People]]'')]]
After surviving a [[solar tsunami]] in the [[22nd century]], the TARDIS crew were caught in a clash between human workers and their [[ganger]] clones used for the dangerous parts of the job. Rory sympathised with the [[Jennifer Lucas (Ganger)|ganger]] of [[Jennifer Lucas]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rebel Flesh (TV story)|The Rebel Flesh]]'') She took advantage of him, tricking him into trapping the crew, the Doctor, and Amy in a room with an overheating acid vat. Rory learned the truth and returned with the reformed gangers to free everyone. After escaping the deranged Jennifer ganger, the crisis was resolved by saving one of the workers and two gangers from the factory's explosion; the others had died, or stayed to destroy Jennifer's ganger. The gangers who escaped were made permanently human when they travelled in the Doctor's TARDIS.

Rory was stunned when the Doctor revealed Amy was a ganger and the real Amy was elsewhere, having been replaced some time after their honeymoon. Rory vowed to find her, just as the Doctor told Amy before destroying her duplicate. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Almost People (TV story)|The Almost People]]'')

=== Fatherhood ===
Rory and the Doctor raised an army to rescue Amy and his daughter, [[Melody Pond]], from [[Kovarian|Madame Kovarian]] and [[the Church]] in the [[52nd century]]. Rory invaded the [[Twelfth Cyber Legion]] and asked twice for the whereabouts of his wife, while the other ships in the Legion were destroyed as a "message from the Doctor". Soon after, he arrived on [[Demons Run]]. He kept Kovarian from fleeing with a baby while the Doctor's army won the fight in four minutes. However, the baby was not Melody, but another a Ganger; Kovarian had replaced her. Melody had already been taken from the asteroid. Rory also fought the [[Headless Monk]]s alongside [[Jenny Flint|Jenny]], [[Vastra]], [[Strax]] and [[Lorna Bucket]], Rory coming out of it unharmed. River Song appeared and stunned him with the news that she was his daughter, using as proof a [[prayer leaf]] with her name written in the language of the Gamma Forest, translated by the TARDIS. The Doctor left Rory and Amy to be returned to their home era by River while he looked for the infant Melody. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
[[File:Doctor and the Ponds group scream.jpeg|left|thumb|Amy, the Doctor, and Rory all scream. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')]]
After waiting "all summer", Amy had Rory make a crop circle saying "Doctor" to catch the Doctor's attention. They found him waiting and were surprised by their childhood friend, Mels. She ordered them at gunpoint to help her escape the police and take her to kill [[Hitler]]. The TARDIS landed in [[Berlin]] and accidentally crashed into the ''[[Teselecta]]'', where Rory slugged Hitler and locked him in a closet. Discovering Mels had been shot by Hitler, he also learned she was Melody, who regenerated into River Song.

River poisoned the Doctor. Rory and Amy followed her when she left, only to be sucked into the shape-shifting ''Teselecta'', which took Amy's form. While the Doctor tried to reason with their child, they stopped the ''Teselecta'' from hurting her by making the ''Teselecta''{{'}}s [[Teselecta antibody|antibodies]] attack the crew. On the verge of dying again, Rory was saved by his daughter in the TARDIS. Melody gave her remaining regenerations to revive the Doctor. Leaving her in "[[Sisters of the Infinite Schism|the best hospital in the universe]]" to recover from the strain, Rory and Amy rejoined the Doctor, while River was left to find her own way. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')

=== Further adventures ===
The TARDIS landed in [[England]] in 2011 after tracing a distress call from [[George Thompson|George]], a [[Tenza]] who lived in [[Rowbarton Estate|a block of flats]]. Amy and Rory knocked on nearly every door while searching for him. George unknowingly deposited Rory and Amy into [[George Thompson's dolls house|his dolls house]] in [[George Thompson's cupboard|his cupboard]] that had become a [[psychic]] repository for his [[fear]]s. Rory believed they had died again, and then he met the [[Jim Purcell|child's landlord]], who was running from the [[peg doll (Night Terrors)|peg dolls]]. The landlord was caught and turned into a doll in front of him. It joined the others to chase Rory and Amy. Rory then saw his wife transformed into a doll. He met up with the Doctor and George's dad, [[Alex Thompson|Alex]], to hold them off with a [[mop]]. The dolls were stopped when George's father helped George overcome his fears and Amy, along with the others, was restored. ([[TV]]: ''[[Night Terrors (TV story)|Night Terrors]]'')

[[File:Doctor Who 6x10 The Girl Who Waited 065.jpg|thumb|Rory and the Doctor attempt to protect themselves from [[Chen-7]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'')]]
The Doctor took Rory and Amy to a holiday planet, [[Apalapucia]]. The planet was quarantined for the [[Chen-7]] virus. Befuddled by the security measures, Amy wound up in a faster [[time stream]]. While the Doctor hid in the TARDIS because the virus targeted humanoids with two hearts, Rory went to retrieve her. He met his wife nearly forty years into her future, hiding from the robotic medical staff lest their medicine kill her. He convinced her to rescue her younger self on the condition she also be saved. The Doctor forced Rory to choose between the past and future Amys at the last moment; the TARDIS could not sustain such a paradox. The older Amy sacrificed herself by convincing Rory he should not open the door for her. Rory was angry with the Doctor at first, fearing he was turning Rory into the Doctor himself, but later agreed the Doctor had done the right thing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'')

Amy and Rory went to the [[Liao Dynasty]] [[China]] in the [[13th century]], where the guards of the [[Liao Palace]] attacked them for taking food. After the TARDIS took off, it collided with a [[Rutan Host|Rutan]] ship. The ship crashed on the future site of the [[Houses of Parliament]], putting the occupants in stasis until [[1605]], when it sent a distress call. The TARDIS responded to its call and landed in London. Beneath Parliament, Amy and Rory discovered [[Guy Fawkes]] and [[Robert Catesby]] plotting to blow up Parliament and kill King [[James I]]. The Rutan [[Elizabeth Winters|Lady Winters]] was in their ranks. Amy and Rory followed the trail to the Rutan ship and helped find the power rods to let the ship take off. They were also caught in a conflict between [[Sontaran]]s and Rutans over the Rutans' two doomsday weapons. The Doctor reprogrammed one to target Rutans. Rory handed the Sontaran-targeted weapon to the other party, causing a stalemate, as each race was at risk of destroying themselves. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Gunpowder Plot (video game)|The Gunpowder Plot]]'')

They next visited a jungle planet with a high-speed evolutionary pattern, where they encountered a primitive tribe who had been created from the DNA of Rory, making them look and think like him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Planet of the Rorys (comic story)|Planet of the Rorys]]'')

After an adventure in Ancient Egypt, the TARDIS was drawn into [[Federation universe|a parallel universe]] where The Doctor, Rory and Amy joined forces with the crew of the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|USS ''Enterprise''-D]] to defeat a [[Borg-Cyberman Alliance]], preventing the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] from assimilating the [[Borg Collective]] and conquering both realities. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'')

=== Departure from the Doctor ===
Rory ended up in an [[God Complex|alien structure]] modelled on a [[1980s]] hotel with Amy and the Doctor, where [[Minotaur (The God Complex)|a creature]] fed off the faith of those the prison trapped for it. Rory, who had no strong faith for the creature to feed on, kept Amy safe until the Doctor broke her faith in him and the creature died. Rory and Amy were returned to Earth to find the Doctor had bought them [[Amy Pond and Rory Williams' house (The God Complex)|a new home]] and a red E-Type [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]] that Rory had wanted. Hoping to thank the Doctor with some [[champagne]], he went inside, and was confused that the Doctor was gone when he returned. Amy explained the Doctor was saving them from more dangerous adventures with him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'')

After time was restored from the alternate timeline created at [[Lake Silencio]] and the Doctor had "died", River dropped by Rory and Amy's house from just after her adventure with Amy in the ''[[Byzantium (spacecraft)|Byzantium]]''. Rory was pleased by River's visit, but confused by his wife's joy until River explained that the Doctor was still alive. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'')

=== Life abnormal ===
Rory and Amy always made sure there was a place at their table for their son-in-law at Christmas. They were always ready to pretend to not know he survived. On [[25 December]], [[2013]], the Doctor joined them for [[Christmas]] dinner. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (TV story)|The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]'')

The Doctor stayed in contact with him and Amy, often leaving messages or stopping by. During one of his messages, they toasted glasses of [[wine]] to him. The Doctor visited them in the middle of the night, having accidentally landed too far in their past while seeking their help. He wished them good night and left. At another time, the Doctor accidentally left an [[Ood (Pond Life)|Ood]] with them. They uncomfortably let it act as their butler until the Doctor returned and took it back to [[Ood Sphere]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[Pond Life (TV story)|Pond Life]]'') During this time, Rory and Amy [[Sex|tried to have more children]], but they found that Amy was sterile due to something done to her on [[Demons Run]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'')

=== Travelling on and off ===
[[File:Failure to COM-U-NI-CATE.jpg|thumb|left|Rory tries to placate an insane Dalek. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'')]]
Amy broke up with Rory, and began seeking a [[divorce]]. As they finalised it, the [[Dalek]]s took Amy, Rory, and the Doctor to the [[Parliament of the Daleks]]. There, they were asked to save the Daleks from the insane Daleks from the [[Dalek Asylum]] by switching off the planet's defences so it could be destroyed. They were fired into the planet. Rory found himself in a different part of the Asylum from Amy and the Doctor, and was nearly killed by the Daleks there. When he reunited with Amy and the Doctor, he found that Amy had lost her [[Dalek bracelet|protective bracelet]], and was slowly being converted into a [[Dalek puppet]] by the Asylum's [[nanocloud]]. After learning that Amy had only separated from him because he couldn't have children with her, Rory offered himself to the [[nanogene]]s to buy time for the Doctor. However, the Doctor, whom Amy assumed didn't need protecting from the nanocloud, had already given Amy his bracelet to protect her from the nanocloud. They reconciled. The converted Dalek [[Oswin Oswald]] erased knowledge of the Doctor from the Daleks' [[pathweb]] and lowered the Asylum's defences. At the last moment, the Doctor and his companions teleported into the TARDIS and escaped the Daleks. Amy and Rory returned [[Amy Pond and Rory Williams' house (The God Complex)|home]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'') 

[[File:RoryAndBrian.jpg|thumb|left|Rory explains to [[Brian Williams (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)|his father]] that they are on a spaceship. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'')]]
Amy and Rory re-married. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]'') Ten months after their last adventure, the Doctor materialised the TARDIS around Amy, Rory, and Rory's [[Father|dad]], [[Brian Williams|Brian]], who were repairing a [[light bulb|light]] in Amy and Rory's living room. The Doctor took them, [[Nefertiti|Queen Nefertiti]] of [[Egypt]] and [[John Riddell]], a big game hunter from [[1902]], to [[2367]] to investigate a ship that was headed straight to Earth and would reach it in six hours. Upon entering, they immediately found it contained [[dinosaur]]s.

After looking at the main engines of the ship, the Doctor, Rory, and Brian were taken to [[Solomon (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)|Solomon]] by his robots. Solomon had killed all the [[Silurian]]s on this [[Silurian Ark]] and forced the Doctor to repair his legs so he could make off with the cargo. Discovering he had a few hours until the [[Indian Space Agency]] launched missiles at the ship and unable to pilot the ark, Solomon took the most valuable thing on the ship identified by his [[IV system]], Nefertiti. The Doctor magnetised the ark, trapping Solomon's ship inside. The Doctor released it once he put the signal of Silurian Ark inside Solomon's ship. The ISA missiles destroyed Solomon. Rory and Brian, who possessed the same [[gene chain]], were able to pilot the ark to safety with the [[parallel pilot compartment]]s. The Doctor returned everyone home. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'') 

Whilst Amy stayed home to visit her sick mother, the Doctor took Rory to Stormcage for the annual Christmas visit to River. Rory and River became involved in a prison riot and Rory deduced it had been arranged by the prison psycholgist, [[Henrik Chyll]], as an attempt to get River to agree to be a thesis subject for him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Visiting Hours (TWP short story)|Visiting Hours]]'')

Attempting to take his in-laws to [[Mexico]]'s Day of the Dead festival, the Doctor ended up in [[1870]] [[Mercy, Nevada]]. [[Kahler (species)|Kahler]] [[cyborg]] [[Kahler-Tek]], also known as the Gunslinger, had put Mercy under siege and cut off their supply deliveries. Tek was after scientist [[Kahler-Jex]], whom the townsfolk had taken in, but Tek wouldn't risk the lives of the innocent townsfolk by following Jex into Mercy. With the help of the town's [[United States Marshal|marshal]], [[Isaac (A Town Called Mercy)|Isaac]], who had disguised himself as Jex, Rory distracted Tek so the Doctor could reach Tek's ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Town Called Mercy (TV story)|A Town Called Mercy]]'')

=== Travelling fully once more ===
[[File:Hiding from henry viii.jpg|thumb|Rory, along with the Doctor and Amy, hides from [[Henry VIII]], whom his wife has accidentally married. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]'')]]
The Doctor discovered a strange occurrence on Earth during Amy and Rory's time; black cubes had appeared all over Earth in [[July]] [[2012]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') Since they seemed harmless and he lacked the patience to stick around, the Doctor left after only a few days and Amy, Rory, and Brian continued examining the cubes. Amy and Rory had started struggling over the choice over life with the Doctor or life on Earth. Rory committed to working as a hospital nurse full-time at [[Prince Royal Hospital]], something he wouldn't have done before. The Doctor returned on the Ponds' anniversary, and got them side-tracked on a trip for seven weeks. They found a Zygon ship had been buried under the [[Savoy Hotel]] and Amy accidentally got married to King [[Henry VIII]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]'')

As an anniversary gift, the Doctor took the Ponds to [[the Great Exhibition]] where they thwarted the plans of [[The Matrix|Hypothetical Gentleman]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hypothetical Gentleman (comic story)|Hypothetical Gentleman]]'') When Rory and the Doctor came to blows over the latter's recklessness, Amy decided that the two needed alone time to properly bond. Deciding to skip over this meeting, the Doctor and Rory discovered that the TARDIS was suffering from the effects of a [[chronomagnetic pulse]]. Unable to properly navigate back to Amy in [[1814]], the Doctor and Rory went on several adventures, one of which saw Rory become the inspiration for ''[[James Bond]]'', bonding as Amy had wanted. When they finally returned for Amy, who had been trapped in the [[London Beer Flood]], she declared that there would be no more "boys' nights". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)|The Doctor and the Nurse]]'')

After these trips, the Doctor admitted to missing the Ponds, and decided to stay to watch the cubes with them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road To... (comic story)|The Road To...]]'') A year after the cubes appeared, they finally activated, behaving in an unusual manner. When the cubes released an electric pulse that stopped the hearts of a third of humanity, Rory followed some "[[Orderly (The Power of Three)|orderlies]]" carrying Brian away through a portal inside the hospital to a [[Shakri ship]]. The Doctor traced the cubes to the [[Shakri]], who wished to wipe out the "plague" of humanity before they could colonise space. He awakened Rory and Brian on board. The Doctor reversed the electric pulse, restarting the hearts of those affected, blowing up the Shakri ship in the process. On Brian's urging, the Doctor took his in-laws back as full-time companions, as travelling with him was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]'')

In [[2012]] [[Manhattan]], Rory was transported back in time to [[3 April]] [[1938]] by the [[Weeping Angel]]s while he was looking for coffee. There, he met [[River Song]] and the Weeping Angel collector [[Sebastian Grayle]]. Grayle had River held in place and he sent Rory downstairs, where baby Weeping Angels displaced him in space to [[Winter Quay]]. The Doctor, River, and Amy caught up with him and they saw his future self die. The Doctor realised that the Angels took over Manhattan and transported people into the past, trapping them in the Quay and feeding off of their time energy. Amy and Rory escaped the Angels to create a paradox big enough to destroy them. The Doctor reached the roof in time to witness Rory and Amy throw themselves off in order to create the paradox causing Rory to have never been taken by the Angels. The paradox worked, and the Angels were destroyed.

The Doctor, Rory, Amy, and River ended up in the graveyard in New York in 2012 with all of them alive. Relieved, they decided to go on a family outing, but before they entered the TARDIS, Rory found a [[gravestone]] with his name and was sent into the past by a surviving Angel. Amy, devastated, allowed the Angel to touch her, sending her back to Rory. The Doctor was unable to follow her at the risk of an even more catastrophic paradox. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'')

=== Life after the Doctor ===
[[File:DrWilliams.JPG|thumb|left|A considerably older Rory Williams. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Imaginary Enemies (comic story)|Imaginary Enemies]]'')]]
After departing from the Doctor, Amy and Rory lived out their lives together, with Rory possibly becoming a full medical [[doctor]] at some point. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Imaginary Enemies (comic story)|Imaginary Enemies]]'')

By [[1939]], Rory and Amy had used royalities from the ''Melody Malone'' novels to buy [[Amy and Rory Williams' home (Rory's Story)|a home]]. Rory had a grown a [[moustache]] in what he claimed was an attempt to blend in and began practicing meals for when rationing started, despite Amy reminding him they had until [[1942]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ruby's Curse (novel)|The Ruby's Curse]]'')

They lived through [[World War II]] and Rory was impressed with the public spirit he encountered throughout the war. In [[1946]], he and Amy adopted a son, [[Anthony Williams|Anthony]]. Rory began writing [[book (Rory's Story)|a book]] about his and Amy's lives for his son, dictating passages by making videos on what he described as the "only working [[smart phone]] in the world". 

In one such video, he was interrupted by Amy, who asked for his help in painting Anthony's room. ([[WC]]: ''[[Rory's Story (webcast)|Rory's Story]]'') By [[1969]], Rory had introduced several innovations to the medical community, including the [[Williams Wonder Beds]]. He had a habit of telling people he was trained as a nurse in the [[Second World War]]. In a conversation with [[Chrissie Allen]], he instead said the [[Spanish Civil War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Summer Falls and Other Stories]]'')

[[File:Tumb.jpg|thumb|right|Rory's and Amy's grave in as seen by the Doctor in 2012 ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'')]]
Rory died at the age of eighty-two; Amy was buried beside him. Their graves were visited by their younger selves, River, and the Doctor in [[2012]], whereupon Rory and Amy were sent back in time by the [[Weeping Angel|Angel]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'')

=== Legacy ===
Rory's adventures as the Lone Centurion became the subject of an exhibit of the [[National Museum]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') and a feature in ''[[A Directory of Impossibilties]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legend of the Lone Centurion (short story)|The Legend of the Lone Centurion]]'')

Rory's arrival on a jungle planet triggered the planet's DNA key to populate the planet with progressively more advanced generations of Rory clones. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Planet of the Rorys (comic story)|Planet of the Rorys]]'')

As a result of Amy's pregnancy with their daughter on Demons Run, Madame Kovarian created numerous clones of Melody through stolen embryonic DNA: [[Lake (The Lady in the Lake)|Lake]], [[Rindle]], [[Tarn (The Lady in the Lake)|Tarn]], [[Creek (The Lady in the Lake)|Creek]], [[Stream (The Lady in the Lake)|Stream]], [[Wadi]], [[Beck (The Lady in the Lake)|Beck]], [[Brooke (The Lady in the Lake)|Brooke]], [[H-One]], [[H-Two]], and [[O (The Furies)|O]]. When Brooke, H-Two, and O expressed that they were willing to wait as long as it would take to overpower their [[neural block]]s so they could punish Kovarian, River told Kovarian that they got their patience from Rory, their father. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lady in the Lake (audio story)|The Lady in the Lake]]'', ''[[The Furies (audio story)|The Furies]]'')

In [[Eleventh Doctor's diary|his diary]], the Doctor included Rory, along with photographs of him, when recapping his adventures in the [[Dalek Asylum]] and the [[Silurian Ark]]. When he attempted to write about losing him and Amy in New York City, he couldn't find the words to do so. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Doctor's Diary (DWAN 2014 short story)|page=8}})

While facing the Weeping Angels alongside the [[Tenth Doctor]] in [[London]] in [[1969]], an enraged [[Thirteenth Doctor]] told them that they had no idea just how much they had taken away from her, much to the confusion of her younger self. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Little Help from My Friends (comic story)|A Little Help from My Friends]]'')

A [[Joke book (Knock! Knock! Who's There?)|joke book]] that the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] and [[Yasmin Khan]] were trapped in contained jokes featuring constructs of both Rory and Amy. Two jokes saw the couple go to a literal [[honey]][[moon]] that they found too sticky, and to a [[restaurant]] on the [[moon]] that had "no atmosphere". A third and final joke involved the pair discovering the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s "[[anything slide]]". Rory went on the slide simply shouting "[[Urine|Wheeeeeee]]!" all the way down. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Knock! Knock! Who's There? (novel)|Knock! Knock! Who's There?]]'')

=== Undated events ===
At some point, Rory was taken to the [[Black Archive]] by [[UNIT]] to have his record as a [[companion]] of the Doctor taken. His memories of the visit were subsequently erased and he was sent on his way. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')

At another point, Rory and Amy were both abducted by [[Adam Mitchell]] as part of his plan to get revenge on the Doctor, in collaboration with {{Ainley}}. They were placed in stasis alongside the Doctors' multiple other companions, before being released by the Doctors first eleven numbered incarnations with the help of [[Frobisher]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Choice (comic story)|The Choice]]'', ''[[Endgame (POT comic story)|Endgame]]'')

At one point during their travels with the Doctor, Rory and Amy visited several locations as the boundaries of time became blurred. As a result, various individuals and species had become displaced in time. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|When's the Doctor?}})

== Personality ==
Rory was humble, loyal, protective, and a bit sarcastic at times. He was timid in his first meeting with the Doctor. He was easily cowed by [[Dr]] [[Ramsden]] and terrified by the chaos surrounding the Doctor and Prisoner Zero. He still had the presence of mind to record evidence his comatose patients were strolling outside the hospital. He also helped Amy clear the hospital of patients before Prisoner Zero could kill them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')

Rory also showed significant compassion and empathy. This sometimes put him in danger, as when he sympathised with [[Jennifer Lucas (Ganger)|Jennifer Lucas]] and when his first instinct was to help the broken, insane [[Dalek]]s of the Asylum. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rebel Flesh (TV story)|The Rebel Flesh]]'', ''[[The Almost People (TV story)|The Almost People]]'', ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'') He was often found caring for others, sometimes as a nurse, and sometimes just as the TARDIS crew member who stopped to help newcomers acclimatise. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'', ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'')

Because of how many times that he nearly died, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'', ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot (TV story)|The Curse of the Black Spot]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'', ''[[The Almost People (TV story)|The Almost People]]'', ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'', ''[[Night Terrors (TV story)|Night Terrors]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'', ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'', ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'') or did die and come back in some way, ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'', ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''/''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'', ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'') Rory was overconfident about coming back from death. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'') Rory, however, was still somewhat bitter about his numerous deaths, at one point calling into ''[[Lawyers Against Time Lords]]'' to seek compensation. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[No Win, No Fez (comic story)|No Win, No Fez]]'')

In [[Venice]], Rory was unnerved when the Doctor and Amy wanted to return to the [[Saturnyn]] stronghold, yet he grew in bravery. He challenged [[Francesco]] to protect Amy. When he saw Francesco had attacked a girl, his immediate reaction was to see if she was all right. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]]'') He also took a lethal Silurian energy beam meant for the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'')

Rory was stubbornly devoted to Amy. Perhaps the greatest testament to this was his willingness as an Auton to guard Amy in the Pandorica for almost two thousand years. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') He used that to justify that he loved Amy more than she loved him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'') He would perform great feats of courage out of love for Amy and go to any length when angry. He destroyed all but one of the [[Twelfth Cyber Legion]]'s ships to find where Amy was held captive ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'') and as an Auton, punched the Doctor when he was grieving over shooting Amy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') Although he remained aghast at the risks he was forced to take, his reflexive behaviour was heroic. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Rory's Story (comic story)|Rory's Story]]'') He was shown to be devoted to Amy his whole life to the point that she thought him gay as he never showed interest in other girls. Amy failed to pick up on the fact that this was because Rory was in love with her and he was so horrified at the idea she thought him gay and not in love with her, Rory ran off as Amy finally understood the truth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')

At first, Rory was jealous of Amy's infatuation with the Doctor and uneasy at her obsession with him when she was little, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]], [[Amy's Choice (TV story)|Amy's Choice]]'') and, unlike her, was completely faithful, not even wanting a stripper at his stag party. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The King's Dragon (novel)|The King's Dragon]]'') However, after the [[Dream Lord]]'s challenge, ([[TV]]: ''[[Amy's Choice (TV story)|Amy's Choice]]'') Rory became more comfortable with the Doctor's presence in their lives, trying to have civil conversations with him and helping in TARDIS maintenance. ([[TV]]: ''[[Space (TV story)|Space]]''/''[[Time (TV story)|Time]]'') He put up with the occasionally troublesome natures of Amy and the Doctor.

Rory was very loyal to the Doctor, whom he trusted with his life. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth (TV story)|The Hungry Earth]]'') He was devastated when it appeared the Doctor was dead ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'') and when Idris' body died; not only were they his friends, he was a nurse and they were his patients. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')

Rory was a quick learner. When confronted with the necessity of riding a motorcycle for the first time to follow River Song, he sourly noted that it was "one of those days" and did so. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') He was one of the few people to not freak out on entering the TARDIS for the first time, remarking he had done some reading on the theory. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]]'') When he was put inside the ''Teselecta'', he concluded it was a miniaturisation ray simply because they were smaller and it was a ray. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')

Rory was a film buff, preferring older ones such as those of [[Laurel and Hardy]] and the [[1930s]] ''Rock Quasar'' films starring [[Rick Cobbe|Rick "Crusty" Cobbe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Rock Quasar and the Mudslugs of Gurrn (comic story)|Rock Quasar and the Mudslugs of Gurrn]]'')

== Other information ==
=== Skills ===
Rory was a trained nurse. He knew medical procedures and how to examine bodies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]]'', ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot (TV story)|The Curse of the Black Spot]]'') He carried nursing supplies in his pockets in case someone was injured. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'') He eventually used his medical knowledge and keen bedside manner to become an inventor of medical technologies, including creating the acclaimed hospital beds called the Williams Wonder Beds. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Summer Falls and Other Stories]]'')

As he had been a [[Roman]] Centurion, he was accomplished at fighting with a [[sword]]. In two millennia guarding the [[Pandorica]], Rory became a very skilled warrior. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''/''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') In the attack on [[Demons Run]], he survived the battle with the [[Order of the Headless|Headless Monks]]. He also used a [[Energy weapon|gun]] in this battle, shooting down Headless Monks from a distance and then wielding his sword when they got close. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'') Rory was also able to knock the Doctor, Hitler and the ''Teselecta'' to the ground with single blows to their jaws. ([[TV]]:'' [[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') He also demonstrated proficiency with a [[slingshot]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Gunpowder Plot (video game)|The Gunpowder Plot]]'')

=== Deaths ===
Rory was killed by the Silurian [[Restac]]. Soon after, his body was consumed by the [[time field]] and he was erased from time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'') However, due to Amy's subconscious memories of him, he was resurrected as an Auton duplicate, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') and later as a human. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')

Rory and Amy both sacrificed themselves to kill the Weeping Angels since Rory had already seen himself die and by throwing themselves off a roof, he and Amy created a paradox which was poison to the Angels. The paradox cancelled the timeline so Amy and Rory both came back to life. Rory and Amy both died of old age after being sent back in time by a surviving Weeping Angel. This time they both died permanently. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'')

=== Auton Duplicate ===
As part of the trap set up by the [[Pandorica Alliance]], an [[Auton]] duplicate of Rory was made, which retained all of Rory's memories up to his death. However, he initially dismissed these memories as a mere dream, until he later met the Doctor again, who was as unsure of what was going on as he was.

As an Auton duplicate with free-will, Rory was capable of living well beyond the duration of a human, possibly possessing the ability to live forever, and didn't age. He was also armed with a wrist-gun and possessed far greater strength than that of a human, allowing him to move the [[Pandorica]], which contained Amy, out of harm's way. However, he didn't heal, meaning any damage he took was permanent, and was vulnerable to [[radio]] signals. He also possessed superior hearing to humans, allowing him to hear River Song's voice through the noise made by [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] burning up.

Once the universe was reset, Rory was human again, though retained his memories of when he was an Auton. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==
=== ''The Brilliant Book 2012'' ===
''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'', a book that contains [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] information, offers other pieces of Rory's history, including:
* When Amy and Rory went to see ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' in [[1605]], Rory met King [[James I]] and upon informing him of their friendship with the Doctor, almost got himself and Amy arrested. They escaped to the wine [[cellar]] in their hotel. Amy then sent the Doctor a letter, informing him of their situation and that they would be hiding in empty wine barrels.
* At their next destination, Amy and Rory had a picnic in the [[Gardens of Zul-Thep]] in the year [[3104]]. However, their picnic was interrupted by a swarm of giant, talking, [[human]]-hating [[bee]]s attracted to Amy's jam. Rory sent a telemessage to the Doctor to pick them up before the giant bees could hurt them.
* The Doctor sent the Ponds to meet [[Wyatt Earp]]. However, Rory upset Earp, nearly getting shot, in turn upsetting Rory. To make matters worse, aliens appeared and Rory had an "accident" with a cactus. Amy sent a [[telegram]] to the Doctor, asking that he pick them up and bring salve for Rory's injury.
* During their beach holiday on Drago 14, the [[beach]] was attacked by acid-spitting land squids, damaging Rory's [[Terry Pratchett]] book. After the attack, Amy and Rory went to get acid-proof suits and Amy found a brochure for ''The Thrasymachus'' in the travel agent shop next to the acid proof shop. Amy had Rory send an Instant Message to the Doctor about the cruise and told Rory to send the Doctor their love.

=== ''The Doctor: His Lives and Times'' ===
* Rory's stag party took place at the Horse & Jockey, "anytime from about 6pm."
* At age ten, Rory described having a chiropractor as an imaginary friend who could appear at any point in history and give someone a rub if they were in pain.

=== ''P.S.'' ===
[[File:Amy, Rory, and Anthony.JPG|thumb|Rory, Amy, and their son, [[Anthony Williams (P.S.)|Anthony Williams]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[P.S. (webcast)|P.S.]]'')]]
''[[P.S. (webcast)|P.S.]]'', a cancelled [[DVD]] extra, gave some additional details about what happened to Amy after the events of ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]''. Despite the fact that the scene was released by the BBC, however, it can't be taken as necessarily [[T:VS|valid]], any more than any other deleted or unfinished scene.

Amy and Rory arrived again in [[New York City]], ''circa'' [[1938]]. Once they had a house, Rory bought a spade and took up gardening like his father. In [[1946]], Rory and Amy adopted an infant whom they named [[Anthony Williams (P.S.)|Anthony Brian Williams]].

After many years, Rory finally decided to write his dad a letter, which he left for Anthony to deliver one week after he and Amy left [[Great Britain]] and their home era for the last time. According to both his letter to Brian and Amy's afterword in [[Melody Malone: Private Detective in Old New York Town|their daughter's novel]], they were happy and enjoyed a good life despite their circumstances.

=== Nametag controversy ===
[[File:Rory's ID.jpg|thumb|left|Rory's troublesome ID badge.]]
The question of Rory's "home" time period is one that baffled fans in the aftermath of the broadcast of ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''. This was largely fuelled by an image of Rory's [[Royal Leadworth Hospital]] identification badge, that was given an extreme close-up in the episode. This close-up plainly shows the badge to have been issued on [[30 November]] [[1990]], which would seem implausible given the presence of various bits of technology in the episode, such as laptop computers and the 2008 model [[smart phone]]. [[Bebo]] and [[Twitter]] were mentioned; the phone had [[Facebook]]. So perplexing was this badge ID that [[Steven Moffat]] was specifically asked about it in [[New York City|New York]] by an [[American]] fan on [[13 April (production)|13 April]] [[2010 (production)|2010]]. His response was recorded and released in the podcast, ''Meet the Filmmaker'':
{{quote|I have never actually looked at Rory's name tag to be completely honest with you...it's not a significant plot thing.|Steven Moffat at the SoHo Apple Store}}
Though it seemed a genuine, spontaneous answer, Moffat had earlier enthusiastically extolled the virtues of lying to the public and press about the content of ''Doctor Who'' in a question-and-answer session following the New York theatrical screening of ''The Eleventh Hour''. This led some fans to continue to think of the ID badge as having some hidden plot significance.

However, the events of ''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]'' and ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'', date Amy's wedding as taking place on the [[26 June]], [[2010]]. When Amy leaves with the Doctor at the end of ''The Eleventh Hour'' she tells him that it's been two years since she last saw him, placing the scene with Rory's nametag firmly in [[2008]]. The badge is never seen again, and it's never again implied that Rory was working in the [[Royal Leadworth Hospital]] as far back as 1990, suggesting that Moffat was telling the truth. The graphics on the ID page were simply erroneous and a production error.

=== Other matters ===
* Rory and his Auton duplicate are part of a small number of companions that have been duplicated and/or recreated from memories; in the novel ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'', the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s companion [[Fitz Kreiner]] was abducted and apparently killed by [[Faction Paradox]]. The Doctor eventually "replaced" him with [[Kode]], a [[biomass]] duplicate created from others' memories of the original Fitz, "perfecting" the duplicate by allowing him to be shaped by the Doctor and the TARDIS' own "perceptions" of Fitz. In the television episode ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' an [[Mickey Smith (Auton)|Auton duplicate]] of [[Mickey Smith]] was made. [[Sarah Jane Smith]] was also once duplicated as a [[Kraal android]] in ''[[The Android Invasion (TV story)|The Android Invasion]]''.
* According to [[TCH 71|volume 71]] of ''[[The Complete History]]'', though not made clear in the episode, the scene in Henry VIII's bedroom in ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]'' was intended to show the TARDIS trio returning to get Rory's mobile phone charger after Rory had left it behind before ''[[A Town Called Mercy (TV story)|A Town Called Mercy]]''.
* The character of Rory inspired several playable characters in the ''[[Legacy (video game)|Doctor Who: Legacy]]'' mobile game, most of them based on the main version of Rory and "Captain Rory Williams" based on the version from [[River Song's World]], who appeared in the television story ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]''.
* Amy and Rory are the first televised married couple to travel with the Doctor. While [[Mickey Smith]] and [[Martha Jones]] were married to each other, it wasn't during their televised tenures as companions, same with [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] and [[Ben Jackson]] and [[Polly Wright]]. [[Jo Grant]] was baffled that the Doctor had a married couple travelling with him, telling him she only left because she got married, in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' serial ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]''.
* Rory was supposed to appear as a hallucination when the [[Eleventh Doctor]] regenerated, along with other of the Doctor's companions. In the end, only Amy appeared.<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/2013j.html</ref>
* [[Jacob Anderson]] auditioned for the role. He would later play [[Inston-Vee Vinder]].<ref>https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-jacob-anderson-rory-newsupdate/</ref>

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