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| |image = [[File:River.png|250px]] | | |image = <gallery> |
| |individual name = River Song | | Young melody escaping.jpg|Melody |
| |alias = <ul><li>Doctor Song</li><li>Professor Song</li><li>[[Cleopatra]]</li> | | Mels in Hitler's office.jpg|Mels |
| |race = [[Human]] or [[Near-Human]] | | River Looks Left LKH.jpg|River |
| |home planet = | | </gallery> |
| |home era = [[51st century]]
| | |alias = [[Mels Zucker]], [[River Song]] <!-- for aliases pertaining to specific incarnations, please see those pages --> |
| |appearances = [[River Song - List of Appearances|Full list of appearances]] | | |species = Human |
| |actor = [[Alex Kingston]] | | |species2 = Proto-Time Lord |
| | |species3 = Data ghost |
| | |job = Archaeologist |
| | |job2 = Detective |
| | |job3 = Writer |
| | |job4 = Assassin |
| | |affiliation = The Silence |
| | |affiliation2 = Luna University |
| | |affiliation3 = Felman Lux Corporation |
| | |birth date = [[52nd century]], [[Demons Run]] |
| | |death date = [[51st century]], [[the Library]] |
| | |spouse = The Doctor |
| | |spouse2 = Ramone |
| | |spouse3 = Hydroflax |
| | |spouse4 = Stephen Fry (in-universe){{!}}Stephen Fry |
| | |spouse5 = River Song's second wife{{!}}second wife |
| | |spouse6 = Jack Harkness |
| | |grandparent = Tabetha Pond |
| | |grandparent2 = Augustus Pond |
| | |grandparent3 = Brian Williams (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship) |
| | |grandparent4 = Rory Williams's mother{{!}}Rory's mother |
| | |mother = Amy Pond |
| | |father = Rory Williams |
| | |adoptive brother = Anthony Williams |
| | |sibling = Lake (The Lady in the Lake) |
| | |sibling2 = Rindle |
| | |sibling3 = Tarn (The Lady in the Lake) |
| | |sibling4 = Stream (The Lady in the Lake) |
| | |sibling5 = Creek (The Lady in the Lake) |
| | |sibling6 = Wadi |
| | |sibling7 = Beck (The Lady in the Lake) |
| | |sibling8 = Brooke (The Lady in the Lake) |
| | |sibling9 = H-One |
| | |sibling10 = H-Two |
| | |sibling11 = O (The Furies) |
| | |adopted child = Kamen Vers |
| | |adopted child2 = Charlotte Lux |
| | |origin = [[Demons Run]] |
| | |first = Silence in the Library (TV story) |
| | |appearances = {{appears}} |
| | |actor = Alex Kingston |
| | |other actor = Harrison and Madison Mortimer |
| | |other actor2 = Sydney Wade |
| | |other actor3 = Maya Glace-Green |
| | |other actor4 = Nina Toussaint-White |
| | |clip = The REAL Melody Pond - Doctor Who - A Good Man Goes to War - Series 6 - BBC |
| | |bts = Introducing the Pond Family - Doctor Who Confidential - Series 6 - Episode 13 - BBC Three |
| }} | | }} |
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| '''River Song''', previously a doctor and eventually a professor, was a mysterious [[archaeologist]]. She was a convicted [[murder]]er who shared a close relationship with [[the Doctor]]. Significantly, she knew the Doctor's true name, which he told her at some point in his future for reasons as yet undisclosed. She would often greet him by saying "Hello, sweetie" whether it be on a message or in person. | | '''Melody Pond''' was the child of [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]. She was a "[[Child of a TARDIS|child]] of the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]", born mostly [[Human]] with some [[Time Lord]] [[DNA]]. She was transformed by [[the Silence]] into the first of several [[Proto-Time Lord]]s, and had the ability to [[Regeneration|regenerate]]. |
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| Although [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]]'s [[Silence in the Library|first meeting]] with her ended in her physical death, they had many adventures, from the Doctor's perspective, afterwards. Like [[Melanie Bush]] and [[Charley Pollard]] before her, she was an example of the rare companion whose timeline was not synchronous with that of the Doctor.
| | Melody was named after her parents' childhood friend, '''[[Mels Zucker]]''', who was in fact secretly her second incarnation gone back in time to ensure her parents got together. Regenerating once more into her third incarnation after being shot by [[Adolf Hitler]], she became best known as [[Professor]] '''[[River Song]]''', and married the [[Time Lord]] known as [[the Doctor]] in his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]]. |
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| ==Biography== | | == Biography == |
| [[File:RiverInStormcage.png|thumb|right|River as a prisoner in Stormcage. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')|180px]] | | === Incarnations of Melody Pond === |
| River Song was an [[archaeologist]] already very familiar with [[the Doctor]] when they first met, from his perspective, in the [[51st century]]. She was, in fact, a future companion of his who would (or, from her perspective, had) traveled with him on and off. According to her, he came to trust her implicitly, though at the start of their relationship, from his perspective, he was generally suspicious of her and occasionally almost hostile to her. Prior to her encounter with the [[Weeping Angel]]s, she was imprisoned in the [[Storm Cage Holding Facility]] for the murder of someone she described as, "A very good man. Best man I've ever known". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'' / ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
| | During her first incarnation, Melody was a [[Melody Pond (Prequel to The Impossible Astronaut)|little girl]], who had been kidnapped by [[Madame Kovarian]]. She harvested Melody's embryonic [[DNA]] in order to [[clone]] more children like her. This resulted in the creation of River's clones, the [[Proto-Time Lord|Proto-Time Lords]]. The clones referred to one another as siblings. The first batch consisted of seven clones named [[Lake (The Lady in the Lake)|Lake]], [[Rindle]], [[Tarn (The Lady in the Lake)|Tarn]], [[Wadi]], [[Creek (The Lady in the Lake)|Creek]], [[Stream (The Lady in the Lake)|Stream]], and [[Beck (The Lady in the Lake)|Beck]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lady in the Lake (audio story)|The Lady in the Lake]]'') The second batch of clones included [[Brooke (The Lady in the Lake)|Brooke]], [[H-One]], [[H-Two]], and [[O (The Furies)|O]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[My Dinner with Andrew (audio story)|My Dinner with Andrew]]'', ''[[The Furies (audio story)|The Furies]]'') Like River, the clones had [[Binary vascular system|two hearts]] and the ability to regenerate; however, the exact amount of regenerations each of them had was random. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lady in the Lake (audio story)|The Lady in the Lake]]'') |
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| ===Meetings with [[The Doctor|the Doctor]]===
| | After escaping from the Silence, Melody had made her way to [[New York City]] and developed a terminal illness, but knew she could "fix it" by [[Regeneration|regenerating]]. She was living homeless in an alley when she finally succumbed to her ailment in January [[1970]], and regenerated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') |
| ====Opening of the [[Pandorica]]====
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| [[File:RiverMeetsLiz.png|thumb|left|River breaks into the [[Royal Collection]] and gets caught by [[Liz 10]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')|180px]]
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| In the 52nd century, an imprisoned River Song received a phone call from [[Winston Churchill]], who was calling from [[1941]], attempting to reach the Doctor. She escaped from the prison after kissing a new guard whilst wearing [[hallucinogenic lipstick]], and stole an old Van Gogh painting, which foretold a deadly prophecy of the TARDIS exploding. [[Liz 10]], the owner of the painting at that time, confronted her about her intentions. River then made a deal at a black market for a [[Time Agent]] [[vortex manipulator]] that she used to travel back in time to the oldest planet in the universe. There, she wrote a message on the cliff face to the Doctor, telling him to go to the Roman era of Earth. Once there, she disguised herself as [[Cleopatra]] and used her hallucinogenic lipstick to fool the Romans.
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| [[File:RiverIsTrapped.png|thumb|right|River realizes she's trapped inside [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')|180px]] When the Doctor arrived, she explained the situation and showed him the [[The Pandorica Opens|painting]] of the TARDIS exploding. They then proceeded to Stonehenge where they searched for the [[Pandorica]]. They located it, but then discovered that Stonehenge was transmitting a signal, bringing in [[Dalek]]s, [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen]], [[Sontaran]]s, and many other alien races. The Doctor managed to convince the assembled aliens to back away for a time, and sent River to bring the TARDIS to him. However, the TARDIS brought River to Amy's house, on the 26th of June, 2010. Looking around, River discovered burn marks scorched into the garden by alien craft and the front door broken and detached from the house. She also found a book on Romans and another on Pandora's Box in Amy's room, the book on Romans containing the exact likenesses of the Roman troops in 102 AD. Returning to the TARDIS to inform the Doctor, River then told him the date. Realising the TARDIS was about to explode, the Doctor urged River to escape. Instead, she found herself trapped as the TARDIS came under control of an unknown external force and started to explode. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') | |
| [[File:Yes.png|thumb|left|River gives the Doctor an ambiguous "yes" about her marital status. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')|185px]]
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| Inside the TARDIS, River was stuck in a [[time loop]] of the first moments of the TARDIS explosion. The Doctor, using the vortex manipulator River had acquired, was able to retrieve her and bring her back to [[1996]], where she mercilessly killed the Dalek responsible for shooting the Doctor. After the Doctor restored the universe to life, erasing himself in the process, River left her now blank TARDIS-shaped [[River Song's diary|diary]] with Amy Pond on her [[26th June|wedding day]] in [[2010]]. This triggered Amy's memories of the Doctor, thus reviving him. When River and the Doctor parted ways, she apologised for something in his future and answered "Yes" to a question she interpreted both as "Will you marry me?" and "Are you married?" before teleporting off with the vortex manipulator. Before she left however, she told the Doctor he would know who she really was very soon, but apologized, warning him that that would be when everything would change. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
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| ====Crash of the [[Byzantium (ship)|Byzantium]]====
| | Now under the name of [[Mels Zucker]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mels at School (short story)|Mels at School]]'') and residing in [[Leadworth]], Melody grew up once more, now alongside her parents. She became Amelia and Rory's close childhood friend, ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') Upon meeting the [[Eleventh Doctor]], Mels held him at gunpoint and made him take her to "kill [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]". There, she was caught in a crossfire between him and the ''[[Teselecta]]''. She got the Doctor to promise to marry her, and revealed her true identity to the three of them. Beginning to regenerate, Melody reflected on her last regeneration, and told her parents she was glad she had found them, before she exploded with [[regeneration energy]]. |
| Some time after these events she was presumably imprisoned once again, but in an earlier century. She remained so until she was put under [[Father Octavian]]'s custody. If she were to carry out the mission assigned to her she would earn her pardon. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
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| [[File:RiverBreaks.png|thumb|left|River breaks into the [[Byzantium (ship)|Byzantium ship]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')|185px]] | |
| While working for Father Octavian, Doctor River Song was sent to be a guest on the Byzantium ship. She infiltrated the lower levels to find the [[Home Box]], into which she carved the message "Hello Sweetie" in the [[Old High Gallifreyan]] language to attract the Doctor's attention. About 12,000 years later [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] found the Home Box in [[Delerium Archive|a museum]].
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| [[File:RiverN11.png|thumb|right|River tells [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] that he will see her again - when the Pandorica opens. ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')|185px]]
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| The Doctor used the Home Box to see who had written the message. Seeing her being pursued by guards and hearing her saying the co-ordinates of her location, he went to rescue her. She then jettisoned herself from an air lock, where the waiting Doctor and Amy Pond picked her up in the TARDIS. River then showed exceptional TARDIS flying skills, landing it next to the Byzantium, which had crashed into the [[Aplan Mortarium|Maze of the Dead]]. Along with the Bishop and his Clerics, River accompanied the Doctor and Amy into the maze. She made it out of the maze alive along with Amy and the Doctor, to be imprisoned once more, but she thought she might have done enough to earn a pardon. She then mentioned to the Doctor that they would meet at the Pandorica. ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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| ====[[Vashta Nerada]] in [[The Library]]====
| | Shortly after regenerating, Melody began examining her new body. Unbeknownst to her, both the Doctor and her parents were already acquainted with this new incarnation, who more commonly used the name [[River Song]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') |
| [[File:DOCTORWHOx408x1410.jpg|thumb|River introduces herself to the [[Tenth Doctor|Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]'')|left]]
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| River's expedition to [[The Library|the Library]] was financed by [[Felman Lux]] and was chartered to discover what disaster had happened there, 100 years previously, when a cryptic final message was sent: ">>> 4022 saved. No survivors <<<". When her team ran into trouble during the expedition, River summoned the Doctor by sending him a message via [[psychic paper]]. [[Tenth Doctor|The version of the Doctor]] who turned up had not yet met her. Though bewildered, he agreed to help River and her team.
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| [[File:River and 10.png|thumb|right|River and the Doctor "do diaries". ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]'')|200px]]
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| River and the Doctor appeared to be very close, even considering the strong bonds the Doctor forms with his companions. She still had her TARDIS-shaped [[River Song's diary|diary]] describing her travels with the Doctor. She carried an [[River Song's sonic screwdriver|upgraded version]] of the tenth incarnation's [[sonic screwdriver]] which a later Doctor had given her.
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| ===Death===
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| As the situation in the Library deteriorated, River realised she must prove to the Doctor that she was, or would become in his case, someone he trusted completely and with profuse apologies, she whispered his true name into his ear. The Doctor was stunned by this information, and River succeeded in winning his trust. [[File:DOCTORWHOx409x2538.jpg|thumb|Right|River, moments before her death. ([[DW]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'')|left]]River physically died when she chose to sacrifice herself in order to stop the Doctor from sacrificing himself in order to save Donna and the other 4022 people trapped in the Library's computer. She pleaded with him to not try and change history, not to change one moment of what is to come for them. After saving all the trapped people, the Doctor realized his future self must have given her his sonic screwdriver for a reason. Inside he found a [[data chip]] called a "Neural Relay", which contained River's [[Data Ghost]]. The Doctor saved her by uploading her into the virtual world contained in [[The Library]]'s data core. [[CAL]], the library's data core, controlled by a human girl (Charlotte Abigail Lux, or CAL) wired into its mainframe, also managed to save the data ghosts of all of River's dead archaeological team, in the process giving her company in the virtual world. River would go on to take care of the two virtual children and Charlotte in the virtual world, reading out her [[River Song's diary|diary]] of her life with the Doctor and how "everybody lives" when the Doctor comes to call. Her story ended with her telling the sleeping children sweet dreams. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]''/''[[Forest of the Dead]]'')
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| The Doctor would later remember her death when [[Davros]] reminded him of the people who had died in his name. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
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| ==Personality==
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| River at times enjoyed showing off her knowledge in front of the Doctor, particularly knowledge of him and his personality. She would often use the word "spoilers" in reference to her knowledge of the Doctor's future, or his knowledge of her future. River was also persistent at keeping secrets from the Doctor, especially anything which could change the future. This included keeping her personal [[River Song's diary|diary]] from him.
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| River showed that she cared about other people, such as the [[Doctor]] and her team in [[The Library]], but could also demonstrate signs of mercilessness, such as killing the [[Stone Dalek]] after it had shot the Doctor and begged for mercy showing a fear of her when it learned who she was. River Song could be cheeky, but was serious when the situation called for it.
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| ==Other information==
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| [[File:River blows a Kiss.png|thumb|Right|River blows a kiss. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')]] | | [[Category:Eleventh Doctor companions]] |
| *River Song seemed to take shorter trips with the Doctor, living a more or less normal life between trips, rather than having one extended trip with the Doctor and never seeing him again after parting ways.
| | [[Category:Twelfth Doctor companions]] |
| *River Song was a skilled TARDIS pilot (with very different methods from the Doctor). She mentioned that she "learned from the best," but implied that her teacher was not the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'') Later, however, she revealed that the Doctor had indeed taught her. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') The inconsistencies of these statements may refer to different incarnations of the Doctor. It is also possible that she was just teasing the Doctor. Alternatively, since the statement that her teacher wasn't the Doctor was actually later from her point of view than the other statement, it's possible another teacher had taught her in more detail after the events of ''The Pandorica Opens''.
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| *Song appeared to have knowledge of Time Lord anatomy, including knowledge of regeneration. She indicated that destruction of both of the Doctor's hearts could be a circumstance after which regeneration was not possible. ([[DW]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'')
| | [[Category:The Doctor's human companions]] |
| *River Song had the ability to write in [[High Gallifreyan]], but it is unknown where she learned this. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
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| *River possessed pictures of all the Doctor's incarnations ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]''), though she did not know the order of the Doctor's incarnations.
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| *River was sentenced to prison for murdering a man described as "a hero to many" and whom she called "A very good man. Best man I've ever known". Octavian felt that the murder victim's identity was something that the Doctor "really [didn't] want to know." ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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| *Before his death, Octavian told the Doctor that "You think you know [River], but you don't. You don't understand who or what she is." ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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| *River is not the only person to travel with the Doctor in anti-chronological order; the first was [[Melanie Bush]].
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| *River seemed to have a sense of ruthlessness, as she destroyed the Stone Dalek even after it asked her for mercy. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
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| ==Behind the scenes==
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| *It is unknown precisely where in time and space River Song originally came from. As the Doctor has left previous companions in different parts of the universe from where he originally found them, it is possible that River was not originally from the 51st century at all.
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| *In a recent interview by Digital Spy, Steven Moffat made a passing comment to the effect that River Song might turn out to be very different from people's presumptions as to who she really is. [http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/s7/doctor-who/tubetalk/a210033/video-steven-moffat-bonus-cut.html]
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| *In [[Doctor Who Confidential]], [[Steven Moffat]] stated that we find out who River Song really is in [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]] hereby revealing that she will return in Series 6.
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| *River Song may be related to [[Bernice Summerfield]] as she knows The Doctor well and is an accomplished archaeologist. She may even be Benny herself or at least someone like her.
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| *Except for flashbacks, River Song has only been used in two-part stories.
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| *[[Steven Moffat]] dismissed the fan theories that River is a future version of [[Amy Pond]], or that she is [[the Doctor]]'s mother. ([[DCOM]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')
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