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| appearances = [[Rory Williams - List of Appearances|Full list of appearances]]
|actor = [[Arthur Darvill]]
| actor = [[Arthur Darvill]]
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:''For the human the [[Auton]] was based on, see [[Rory Williams]]''
'''Rory Williams''' was the husband of [[Amy Pond]]. He was previously her "sort of" boyfriend and later fiancé. He became a companion of [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]], but later died and was removed from time after being absorbed by the [[Time Field]]. Following the "Big Bang 2" he was restored to the timeline, marrying Amy and continuing to travel with her and the Doctor.
'''Rory Williams''' was an [[Auton]]-based duplicate of [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]]'s companion [[Rory Williams]], who had been killed by a [[Silurian]] and then erased from history by the [[Time Field]] emanating from the cracks in space and time. ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
==Biography==
== Profile ==
===Early life===
[[File:Autory.png|thumb|200x|left|Rory reveals himself to [[Amy Pond|Amy]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
Rory was a childhood friend of [[Amy Pond|Amelia Pond]]. He was privy to her tales of the [[Eleventh Doctor|"raggedy Doctor"]], and an unwilling participant in the dress-up games she based around her stories. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
The Auton that took the form of Rory Williams was created as part of a plan by an [[The Alliance|Alliance]] of races that had united to prevent [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] from destroying the universe. This alliance included the [[Nestene Consciousness]], creators of the living plastic creatures known as Autons.
=== Meeting [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] ===
Utilizing psychic residue obtained from the home of the Doctor's companion [[Amy Pond]] - including a children's book on Roman soldiers and a photograph of Amy and her fiance Rory Williams taken at a costume party (at which Rory wore a Roman soldier costume) - the Nestene Consciousness created a faux Roman army, including a replicant of Rory Williams, and placed them near [[Stonehenge]] in the year [[Early Human history|102]] AD as part of an elaborate trap for the Doctor.
[[File:Rory and Amelia.png|thumb|left|Rory realizes he's talking to "[[Eleventh Doctor|the Raggedy Doctor]]". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')]]
==== First meeting ====
While the Auton Roman soldiers believed they were, indeed, Romans -- and were even susceptible to [[River Song]]'s [[Hallucinogenic lipstick]] -- the Auton version of Rory retained the memories and personality of the real Rory, and initially Auton Rory dismissed his other life as a dream.
Later in life, Rory became a [[nurse]] at [[Royal Leadworth Hospital]], and entered into a romantic relationship with Amelia (now calling herself "Amy"). In his position as a nurse, Rory encountered strange goings-on at the Hospital's coma ward, hearing the patients chanting "Doctor", and witnessing what looked like some of them walking out in town. Rory later encountered the Doctor himself, and was quite surprised to find out he was real, and not a figment of Amy's imagination. Rory witnessed the Doctor defeat [[Prisoner Zero]] and warn the [[Atraxi]] away from [[Earth]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') Following the incident, Rory began to read up on scientific theories, such that he could deduce the reason why the TARDIS was "bigger on the inside" (much to the Doctor's annoyance). ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'') He later got engaged to Amy. ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
==== Joining the Doctor ====
[[File:DoctorAndRory.png|thumb|200x|right|[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] is surprised to see Rory. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
[[File:RoryAmyTARDIS.png|thumb|right|Rory accepts [[Amy Pond|Amy]]'s proposal. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')]]
When news came to the Roman encampment of strange visitors, Auton Rory decided to volunteer to help, which led him to encounter both the Doctor and Amy, saving the latter by destroying a [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cyberman]] with his sword, though Amy was knocked unconscious. The Doctor initially did not recognise him', but eventually welcomed him back after an awkward reunion, though how Rory still existed was a mystery - as the Doctor was not aware of the Auton connection as yet.
After having his stag party crashed by [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]], Rory and [[Amy Pond|Amy]] were taken on a "romantic break" to Venice. While on their break they encountered the [[Saturnynian]]s, a race of alien fish who had [[Perception filter|taken human form]] in order to repopulate their species after having escaped through the [[crack |Time Field]] to escape the 'silence'. While at first he was hesitant and outright scornful of how the Doctor lived, he soon came to change his views, something remarked upon irritatedly by the Doctor at first. While they were in Venice, Rory agreed to continue travelling with the Doctor after Amy asked him to do so. The Doctor whole heartedly agreed and the three entered the TARDIS.([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')
=== Travels ===
As Auton Rory assisted the Doctor, he learned that he had been erased from time, and from Amy's memory, when she did not recognize him after regaining consciousness. Encouraged by the Doctor - who gave him back the engagement ring that Rory had given Amy before his "death" - Auton Rory set out to try and make Amy remember him. His efforts were successful, as Amy's memories began to return. However, soon Rory's Auton nature briefly reasserted itself as the Alliance's trap began to close around the Doctor. Rory attempted to resist the Nestene orders while the other "Romans" came under its control. He urged Amy to run, but she refused. Just as she hugged him, the Auton programming activated and the duplicate Rory's hand opened up into a blaster which shot Amy, seemingly killing her. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
After spending some time aboard [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] traveling with the Doctor and Amy, Rory fell victim to the same [[Psychic Pollen]] that ensnared his companions in two shared dreams, [[File:RoryWelcomes.png|thumb|left|Rory welcomes [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')]]one in which the powerless TARDIS was on a collision course with a bizarre cold sun and one in which the Doctor was visiting Rory and Amy, married and settled in [[Leadworth|Upper Leadworth]] while expecting their first child. In both, he was the subject of some verbal abuse by the [[Dream Lord]], a manifestation of the Doctor's darker nature, who referred to him as a "bumbling country doctor" and mocked him as a lesser rival to the Doctor for Amy's devotion. The Dream Lord demanded that Rory, the Doctor, and Amy—particularly the latter—choose which scenario was real, suggesting they should allow themselves to succumb to the "deadly danger" in the scenario they believed to be a dream.
While Rory favored the Leadworth dream, expressing satisfaction with his job as a doctor and his marriage to a pregnant Amy, the Doctor believed the TARDIS dream to be reality and Amy was unsure. Although Rory's sense of unreality mounted after a number of elderly men and women in his care, secretly [[Ecnodeen]] inhabiting human bodies, murdered a[[File:RoryDoctor.png|thumb|right|Rory tries to convince the Doctor and Amy that "The TARDIS World" is the dream. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')]] class of schoolchildren and began pursuing the Doctor and his former companions through the town of Leadworth, he remained convinced that the cold star in the TARDIS dream could not exist—as well as unnerved by the prospect of abandoning five years of his life he believed he had spent in Leadworth with Amy, becoming a doctor and preparing for fatherhood.
[[File:RW 5.png|thumb|200x|left|Rory cries after he was forced to shoot [[Amy Pond|Amy]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
As Auton Rory wept over the body of Amy, the Doctor suddenly appeared in front of him, informing him that Amy wasn't quite dead and instructing him (after a couple of interruptions) to open the Pandorica using the [[sonic screwdriver]] and rescue the Doctor's earlier self. Rory followed the Doctor's instructions, which led to a reunion with a somewhat bewildered Doctor. In hopes of saving Amy, the Doctor placed his companion in the Pandorica, where her life functions would be restored, though she would be in there for close to 1,900 years. The Doctor, using a time vortex manipulator, offered to take Auton Rory to retrieve Amy in the future, but Rory refused, stating that he had to make sure no harm came to the Pandorica. The Doctor admired Rory's humanity, Auton or no, and left him to his duty.
Rory and Amy were pursued to the upper floor of their house in the Leadworth dream by the marauding Ecnodeen. Amy's consciousness lingered in the TARDIS dream due to the Dream Lord's machinations, forcing Rory to haul her bodily up the stairs. After she awoke, Rory took a pair of scissors and snipped off a ponytail he had grown in the Leadworth dream, much to his dream wife's dismay. Shortly after the Doctor arrived through a window, claiming he was now unsure about the TARDIS dream being reality, an Ecnodeen in the body of [[Poggit|Mrs Poggit]] followed suit. When Rory advanced on "Mrs Poggit", the Ecnodeen breathed a deadly vapour onto him that caused his body to disintegrate. His last words to Amy in the Leadworth dream were, "Look after our baby."[[File:RoryDies.png|thumb|left|Rory dies in the dream, in front of [[Amy Pond|Amy]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')]]
Rory watched over Amy for nearly two thousand years, following the box wherever it went and becoming the stuff of legend as the 'The Lone Centurion' - a mysterious figure dressed as a Roman soldier who stood guard over the Pandorica. During the [[London Blitz]] of [[1941]], Rory was spotted moving the Pandorica out of harm's way during a bombing, but after that the Lone Centurion disappeared from history and was believed killed or destroyed. In reality, Rory continued to look after the Pandorica in other ways, and by 1996 was working as a security guard in the [[National Museum]], where the Pandorica was on display.
Fortunately for all three of the time-travelers, Amy did not heed Rory's advice. Now convinced the Leadworth dream was either a hallucination or a reality she did not want to live in, she "killed" herself and the Doctor by smashing their van into the front of the home she shared with Rory. All three awoke in the freezing TARDIS, where the Dream Lord apparently conceded defeat and restored power to the time machine before vanishing. The Doctor was not taken in by his darker shade's show of magnanimity, though, and decided to blow up the TARDIS after concluding that both scenarios were dreams.
After a younger version of Amelia Pond freed her older self, and the Doctor arrived from the past, the group was immediately attacked by a [[Stone Dalek]] from Stonehenge that coincidentally had been put on display with the Pandorica and had been restored by the Pandorica's energy. Rory rescued them by shooting the Dalek with his hand-laser.
[[File:Autonrory.jpg|thumb|Rory's Auton gun arm ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'').]]
Back in reality, inside the TARDIS, Rory asked how the Leadworth dream ended, having apparently lost his memory of dream's final moments. Amy told him how she ended it and admitted she drove the van into the house not knowing for sure whether it ''was'' in fact a dream. Overwhelmed by the implication that Amy realized she couldn't live without him, Rory kissed her passionately. When the Doctor asked where he wanted to travel next, Rory demurred, saying it was "Amy's choice". ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')
A tearful and romantic reunion with Amy followed, but the Doctor pulled them away in order to rescue River Song from a time loop within the exploding [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]], but not before Auton Rory informed the Doctor about his earlier encounter with the "future Doctor", which led to the Doctor taking care of old business.
[[File:Rory and Ambrose.png|thumb|right|Rory is mistaken to be a policeman. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'')]]
Rory was disappointed when the TARDIS took the time-travelers to [[Cwmtaff]], [[Wales]], in the year [[2020]] instead of [[Rio de Janeiro]]. When it became clear the Doctor intended to have an adventure in the tiny mining town, Rory collected Amy's engagement ring, fretting she might lose it. He placed it in a red ring box and put it on the TARDIS console. By the time he emerged from the time machine, Amy and the Doctor had left, and he was summarily accosted by [[Ambrose Northover]] and her son [[Elliot Northover|Elliot]], who believed him to be a plainclothes detective sent to investigate the disappearance of bodies from the Cwmtaff graveyard. Rory was unnerved by the disappearances, which appeared to occur despite the ground above the graves being undisturbed.
When Rory rejoined the Doctor, the Time Lord was preoccupied with the appearance of an [[energy barrier]] around the village and the impending arrival of a group of unknown attackers from below the ground. Rory was incensed to find Amy missing, and shouted in frustration at the Doctor when he admitted he had been unable to save her from being pulled underground. Rory eventually calmed down and cooperated with the Doctor to trap a [[Silurian]] warrior named [[Alaya]], the apparent leader of the group that kidnapped Amy, in a Meals on Wheels van. When the Doctor left Alaya in the custody of Rory, Ambrose, and Ambrose's father [[Tony Mack]], he warned them nobody could die in this encounter without sparking a bloody war between the Silurian civilization and humankind. Alaya goaded her captors, though, announcing she knew which of the three humans would kill her and ignite the war. Rory was unnerved but defiant, and he led the other two out of the basement in which the Silurian was held. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'')
===Death===
The Auton Rory continued to express his innate humanity as the Doctor encountered ''another'' future Doctor, this one apparently deceased, though this was later discovered to be a ruse. Ultimately, the Doctor was able to pilot the Pandorica into the heart of the exploding TARDIS, which restored the universe, but in the process rewrote aspects of history. The Doctor, for one, was removed from history. And with him removed from history, the Auton version of Rory was likewise removed from history as the original, human Rory was restored, his death having never occurred.
Rory eventually made it down into the Silurians' lair, where all the other victims had been taken. Up in the church, Ambrose killed the captured Silurian [[Alaya]] in anger, as it had poisoned her father with her venom. He went down with Ambrose and [[Tony Mack|Tony]]. Upon seeing this, Alaya's sister [[Restac]] got angry and began a tirade, attacking all humans that got in her way. Rory, Amy and the Doctor made it to the TARDIS after the Silurian scientists filled the caves with poison gas to make the Silurians hibernate. They noticed a crack in the wall, the same as the one on Amy's bedroom wall. Then Restac crawled through into the room and shot at the Doctor. Rory pushed him out of the way of the beam and was hit fatally instead of him. The mysterious [[Time Field]] crack then absorbed and erased him, removing his entire life from existence and making Amy forget about him, having been a major part of her personal timeline. ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
After his death and erasure, the Doctor felt guilty and took Amy to several places she wished. When with [[Vincent van Gogh]] and Amy, the Doctor calls them Rory and Amy, to which Amy asks "Who?". However, while she consciously held no memory of Rory, van Gogh sensed that she was grieving over a loss. ([[DW]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]'') While in the TARDIS, Amy found Rory's ring in the Doctor's jacket pocket. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'')
Despite the fact the Auton Rory never existed, elements of his memory remained within the human Rory. After Amy was successful in restoring the Doctor and the TARDIS through her own memories, Rory likewise remembered having been an Auton, uttering "I was plastic!" at one point. Also, the Doctor himself considered the human Rory to be a continuation of Auton Rory, privately admiring Rory's devotion to Amy over 2,000 years, dubbing him "The Boy Who Waited". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
The [[Nestene Consciousness|Nestenes]] created an [[Auton]] [[Rory Williams (Auton)|duplicate]] of Rory to trap the Doctor. He believed that he was the real Rory, and managed to remind Amy Pond of him. Once the trap was complete the Nestenes tried to control him, but he fought back. However, he could not stop himself from shooting Amy. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') A version of the Doctor from the future came to the Auton Rory, instructing him to place Amy's body in the [[Pandorica]], which had the ability to keep it's occupants alive. Rory watched over Amy for over a thousand years, following the box wherever it went, and eventually ending as a security guard at the [[National Museum]], where the Pandorica had been taken. The Doctor's machinations caused Amy's younger self to release her in [[1996]], fully recovered. When a [[Stone Dalek]], revitalised by the Pandorica's restorative energies, attacked, Rory revealed himself, blasting it with his hand laser. He then reconciled with Amy, and joined the Doctor and [[River Song]] in attempting to avert the destruction of creation. The Doctor succeeded by throwing the Pandorica into the heart of the explosion that caused the cracks undoing it and sealing the cracks. This meant that the real Rory was never erased, and the [[The Alliance|Alliance]] was never formed, thus the duplicate Rory never existed. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
:''Aside from remembering he was plastic, it remains to be seen whether the human Rory retains any specific memories of the Auton replicant over its nearly 1,900-year existence.''
===Resurrection===
[[File:Rory_and_Amy.jpg|thumb|214px|Amy and Rory married ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')]]
After the resetting of the universe, the real Rory married Amy and the two briefly forgot the Doctor. They remembered him after he arrives in the TARDIS during their wedding reception, brought back by Amy's memories. Rory also seemed to have some recollection of his being plastic. Rory and Amy then followed the Doctor to the TARDIS, and decided to once again join him on his travels. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
==Personality==
Rory appears somewhat timid in his first encounter with the Doctor. He is easily intimidated by [[Dr Ramsden]] and is unsettled by the ensuing events caused by the Doctor and Prisoner Zero. Despite this, he does have the presence of mind to record evidence in order to prove that his patients are appearing outside the hospital. He also assists Amy in attempting to clear the hospital of patients before Prisoner Zero can exploit them ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]''). During the events in Venice, Rory was unnerved that the Doctor actually wanted to get back into the [[Saturnynian]] stronghold. However, he was capable of bravery, as shown when he challenged [[Francesco]] in order to protect Amy ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]''), and later when he took a lethal Silurian energy beam meant for the Doctor ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]''). It is also notable that when he saw Francesco had attacked a girl, his immediate reaction was to check the girl was alright. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'') He is greatly devoted to Amy; Perhaps the greatest testament to this personality trait was when his Auton self was willing to guard the Pandorica (with her in it) for almost two thousand years, even knowing that he would remain conscious the entire time. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
===Mickey comparison===
Rory is comparable in some ways with the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s companion, [[Mickey Smith]]. Rory, like Mickey, is the boyfriend of the main companion, and is not present during the companion's initial meeting with [[the Doctor]]. They are then present during the second adventure, getting left behind when the companion, [[Amy Pond|Amy]] and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] respectively, leaves with the Doctor to go travelling. Through their similar personalities and initial antagonism towards the Doctor, they are both often used for comic relief.
The number of appearances as a companion seem to be identical, as both Mickey and Rory, after the episode in which they joined the Doctor, had two on-screen adventures, the second one being a two-part story in both instances, before leaving the TARDIS in a way that they can seemingly never return, in Rory's case, dying and being erased from time and Mickey being left in a sealed-off parallel dimension, only to rejoin the Doctor for the series finale. Also, both companions have had [[Auton]] duplicates, however, while Mickey's was an imperfect copy and obviously plastic, Rory's aesthetically mimicked his human body perfectly and housed his soul after his human form had been erased from existence.
==Key Life events==
*Meets [[Amy Pond]] and befriends her, eventually becoming her "sort of" boyfriend.
*Meets [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and helps him stop [[Prisoner Zero]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
*Proposes to Amy, which she accepts.
*On the night of his bachelor party he meets the Doctor again and steps aboard the TARDIS. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')
*Goes on a date with Amy in Venice, 1580 and helps the Doctor stop the [[Saturnynian|Saturnynian's]] plan to flood Venice. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')
*Agrees to travel with Amy and the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')
*Encounters the [[Dream Lord]] and gets trapped in a dream with the Doctor and Amy. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')
*Dies in the dream. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')
*Encounters the [[Silurian]]s and helps the Doctor with his plan to rescue Amy, [[Mo Northover]], and [[Elliot Northover]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'')
*Gets shot by [[Restac]] and dies, after saving the Doctor's life. ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
*Is consumed by a [[Time Field]] and is erased from existence which causes numerous events to never had existed. ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
:''The cracks were later closed and things were restored, it is assumed the events above also returned However, the absence of the cracks may mean events occurred differently.''
*When [[The Alliance]] scans Amy's mind, they use her dormant memories of Rory to create an [[Rory Williams (Auton)|Nestene duplicate]], which, due to Amy being affected by the crack in her room, possesses Rory's actual heart and personality.
*[[Rory Williams (Auton)|(Auton) Rory]] waits 2,000 years for Amy to wake up while she is in the the Pandorica, and becomes the focus of a legend, dubbed the Lone Centurion, surrounding the Pandorica. During the 20th Century, he gets a job as a security guard at the museum where the Pandorica is on display, protecting it. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
:''After the universe was rebooted in the Big Bang 2, the cracks never existed at all, so it is likely that the Alliance never existed, and therefore, neither did the plastic Rory. However, the real Rory comments at the wedding that he remembers being plastic, so it is possible that some of the Nestene Rory's memories were returned to the flesh-and-blood version.''
*Marries [[Amy Pond]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
*Rejoins the Doctor as a companion alongside his wife. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
==Behind the scenes==
==Behind the scenes==
*In a deleted scene from ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'', the Doctor admits to Amy that he likes Rory, a lot.
* The special circumstances surrounding Auton Rory have led to some fans considering him a separate companion. If so, it is a matter of debate whether Auton Rory should be considered a deceased companion as he technically no longer exists, even though at least some memories live on in the human Rory.
*Rory's death is very similar in nature to Jenny's ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]''). In both cases they died taking a shot intended for the Doctor, and in both cases the shooter was a violent member of a race that the Doctor had helped bring peace to. ([[Cobb]] and Restac respectively.)
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*It is unknown if he'll join [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant]] in [[Series 4 (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|Series 4]] of [[The Sarah Jane Adventures]].
===Nametag controversy===
[[image:Rory's ID.jpg|thumb|right|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|''The Eleventh Hour'']]. This was largely fueled by an image of Rory's [[Royal Leadworth Hospital]] identification badge, that was given an extreme closeup in the episode. This closeup plainly shows the badge to have been issued on [[30th November]] [[1990]], which would seem implausible given the presence of various bits of technology in the episode, such as laptop computers and the named 2008 [[Blackberry]] phone. The existence of Facebook, Bebo, and Twitter were also mentioned, the phone had Facebook. So perplexing was this badge ID that [[Steven Moffat]] was specifically asked about it in [[New York]] by an [[American]] fan on [[13th April]] [[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 signficant 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''. In any event, judging by the technology in existence at the time of the Atraxi incident, it seems unlikely that the 1990 date on the name tag could be genuine. But adding fuel to the fire, 1990s cars were seen, but so were cars said to be of a 2005+ period. ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'' later had the Doctor remark that June 25th/26th 2010 was "Amy's time", meaning that the 1990 date was an error.
However, in the same latter episode, the clock in Amy's bedroom jumped from 11:59am June 25th to 12pm June 26th, one entire day missed in one second - and it was night time outside. This was likely also a production error, and was supposed to transition from 11:59 pm to 12:00 am. In the episode ''[[Amy's Choice]]'', Leadworth was referred to as "the village that time forgot," these things all together causing many fan theories that something has gone wrong with Leadworth involving time itself. It was discovered in The Big Bang that time was shrinking due to the cracks. This may have caused these events, although it was not explicitly stated.
The Auton that took the form of Rory Williams was created as part of a plan by an Alliance of races that had united to prevent the Doctor from destroying the universe. This alliance included the Nestene Consciousness, creators of the living plastic creatures known as Autons.
Utilizing psychic residue obtained from the home of the Doctor's companion Amy Pond - including a children's book on Roman soldiers and a photograph of Amy and her fiance Rory Williams taken at a costume party (at which Rory wore a Roman soldier costume) - the Nestene Consciousness created a faux Roman army, including a replicant of Rory Williams, and 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 -- and were even susceptible to River Song's Hallucinogenic lipstick -- the Auton version of Rory retained the memories and personality of the real Rory, and initially Auton Rory dismissed his other life as a dream.
When news came to the Roman encampment of strange visitors, Auton Rory decided to volunteer to help, which led him to encounter both the Doctor and Amy, saving the latter by destroying a Cyberman with his sword, though Amy was knocked unconscious. The Doctor initially did not recognise him', but eventually welcomed him back after an awkward reunion, though how Rory still existed was a mystery - as the Doctor was not aware of the Auton connection as yet.
As Auton Rory assisted the Doctor, he learned that he had been erased from time, and from Amy's memory, when she did not recognize him after regaining consciousness. Encouraged by the Doctor - who gave him back the engagement ring that Rory had given Amy before his "death" - Auton Rory set out to try and make Amy remember him. His efforts were successful, as Amy's memories began to return. However, soon Rory's Auton nature briefly reasserted itself as the Alliance's trap began to close around the Doctor. Rory attempted to resist the Nestene orders while the other "Romans" came under its control. He urged Amy to run, but she refused. Just as she hugged him, the Auton programming activated and the duplicate Rory's hand opened up into a blaster which shot Amy, seemingly killing her. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)
As Auton Rory wept over the body of Amy, the Doctor suddenly appeared in front of him, informing him that Amy wasn't quite dead and instructing him (after a couple of interruptions) to open the Pandorica using the sonic screwdriver and rescue the Doctor's earlier self. Rory followed the Doctor's instructions, which led to a reunion with a somewhat bewildered Doctor. In hopes of saving Amy, the Doctor placed his companion in the Pandorica, where her life functions would be restored, though she would be in there for close to 1,900 years. The Doctor, using a time vortex manipulator, offered to take Auton Rory to retrieve Amy in the future, but Rory refused, stating that he had to make sure no harm came to the Pandorica. The Doctor admired Rory's humanity, Auton or no, and left him to his duty.
Rory watched over Amy for nearly two thousand years, following the box wherever it went and becoming the stuff of legend as the 'The Lone Centurion' - a mysterious figure dressed as a Roman soldier who stood guard over the Pandorica. During the London Blitz of 1941, Rory was spotted moving the Pandorica out of harm's way during a bombing, but after that the Lone Centurion disappeared from history and was believed killed or destroyed. In reality, Rory continued to look after the Pandorica in other ways, and by 1996 was working as a security guard in the National Museum, where the Pandorica was on display.
After a younger version of Amelia Pond freed her older self, and the Doctor arrived from the past, the group was immediately attacked by a Stone Dalek from Stonehenge that coincidentally had been put on display with the Pandorica and had been restored by the Pandorica's energy. Rory rescued them by shooting the Dalek with his hand-laser.
A tearful and romantic reunion with Amy followed, but the Doctor pulled them away in order to rescue River Song from a time loop within the exploding TARDIS, but not before Auton Rory informed the Doctor about his earlier encounter with the "future Doctor", which led to the Doctor taking care of old business.
The Auton Rory continued to express his innate humanity as the Doctor encountered another future Doctor, this one apparently deceased, though this was later discovered to be a ruse. Ultimately, the Doctor was able to pilot the Pandorica into the heart of the exploding TARDIS, which restored the universe, but in the process rewrote aspects of history. The Doctor, for one, was removed from history. And with him removed from history, the Auton version of Rory was likewise removed from history as the original, human Rory was restored, his death having never occurred.
Despite the fact the Auton Rory never existed, elements of his memory remained within the human Rory. After Amy was successful in restoring the Doctor and the TARDIS through her own memories, Rory likewise remembered having been an Auton, uttering "I was plastic!" at one point. Also, the Doctor himself considered the human Rory to be a continuation of Auton Rory, privately admiring Rory's devotion to Amy over 2,000 years, dubbing him "The Boy Who Waited". (DW: The Big Bang)
Aside from remembering he was plastic, it remains to be seen whether the human Rory retains any specific memories of the Auton replicant over its nearly 1,900-year existence.
Behind the scenes
The special circumstances surrounding Auton Rory have led to some fans considering him a separate companion. If so, it is a matter of debate whether Auton Rory should be considered a deceased companion as he technically no longer exists, even though at least some memories live on in the human Rory.
