|appearances = [[Rory Williams - List of Appearances|Full list of appearances]]
|actor = [[Arthur Darvill]]}}
|mentions = <ul><li>[[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]''</li><li>[[SJA]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]''</li><ul>
:''For the human the [[Auton]] was based on, see [[Rory Williams]]''
'''Rory Williams''', also known as "'''The Lone Centurion'''" was an [[Auton]] copy of the [[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.
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:''For the [[Auton]] based on Rory, please see [[Rory Williams (Auton)|here]].''
'''Rory Williams''' was the "sort of" boyfriend and later husband of [[Amy Pond]]. He became a companion of the [[Eleventh Doctor]], but died and was removed from time after being absorbed by the [[Time Field]]. Following the "Big Bang Two" he was restored to the timeline, married Amy and continued to travel with her and the Doctor. He was later revealed to be the father of [[River Song]].
==Biography==
== Biography ==
===Early life===
The Auton that took the form of Rory Williams was created as part of a plan by an [[The Alliance]] of races that had united to prevent the [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] from destroying the [[universe]]. This alliance included the [[Nestene Consciousness]], creator of the living plastic creatures known as Autons.
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 on her stories. He was also friends with Mels, who was actually his daughter. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') In his youth, Rory was a member of the Cub Scouts. ([[DWA]]: ''[[If You Go Down to the Woods Today]]'') He often ended up playing hide and seek with Amelia and Mels, although they would cruelly leave him hiding for hours without coming looking for him.
When he reached his late teens, Rory began working as a nurse in [[Royal Leadworth Hospital]]. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary (2010)|The Visual Dictionary]]'') Rory felt a long-standing attraction to Amy, which was only reciprocated after [[Melody Pond (Mels)|Mels]] pointed it out to them in [[2006]]. Before this, Amy had believed that Rory was gay, because in the ten years she had known him, he had never shown any interest in any (other) girl due to his quiet fixation on Amy. ([[DW]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
===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 fiancé Rory Williams taken at a costume party (at which Rory had worn 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, the Auton version of Rory retained the memories and personality of the real Rory, though initially dismissing this other life as a dream.
While working at the[[Royal Leadworth Hospital| Hospital]], Rory noticed [[Prisoner Zero|coma patients roaming]] about the village when they should have been in the hospital. He helped [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] defeat [[Prisoner Zero]], lending him his phone to write a computer virus to attract its jailers. Then he watched him warn the [[Atraxi]] away from [[Earth]] after they threatened to roast it. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') Rory later became engaged to Amy and began looking up the latest scientific theories after the ordeal, in case more aliens arrived in Leadworth. ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
[[file:DoctorAndRory.png|thumb|200x|right|[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] is surprised to see Rory. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
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]], though Amy was knocked unconscious. The Doctor initially did not recognize him, but eventually welcomed him back, though how Rory still existed was a mystery - as the Doctor was not aware of the Auton connection as yet.
=== Travels with the Doctor ===
As he assisted the Doctor, Auton Rory learned 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 returned 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, 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]]'')
[[file:RoryAmyTARDIS.jpg|thumb|right|Rory accepts [[Amy Pond|Amy]]'s proposal. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')]] Not knowing Amy had taken off in the TARDIS and had spent days away from Leadworth, Rory had his stag party crashed by the Doctor, who was fetching him to make Amy focus on her life outside her travels. The Doctor took Amy and Rory on a "romantic break" to [[Venice]] in 1580 as a wedding gift. There, they ran into the [[Saturnyn]]s, who planned to flood Venice and repopulate it with their species after losing their home planet. Rory defended Amy against [[Francesco]], one of the Saturnyn, who had taking a liking to her. The Doctor defeated the Saturnyns and Rory agreed to continue traveling with the Doctor after Amy asked him to. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')
[[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 Amy, the Doctor suddenly appeared in front of him, informing him that Amy wasn't quite dead and instructing him to open the Pandorica with the [[sonic screwdriver]] and rescue the Doctor's earlier self. Rory followed the instructions, which led to a reunion with a somewhat bewildered Doctor. Because most of the universe had been erased and the Nestenes were now non-existant, Rory's mind was fully restored and he was now in full control of his actions.
[[file:Rory-eknodine.jpg|thumb|left|Rory fights off an [[Eknodine]] whilst in a dream state. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')]]
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 not, and left him to his duty.
Between destinations, aboard [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], Rory also fell victim to the same [[Psychic Pollen]] that ensnared Amy and the Doctor in two shared dreams. Rory escaped the trap after the Doctor figured out what was happening and killed them in both dreams. His and Amy's relationship was strengthened by her realization that she actually loved him and would not live without him when he died in one of the dreams. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')
Following a missed attempt to visit Rio, Rory, Amy, the Doctor and some new friends stopped the renegade [[Silurian]]s that lived beneath Wales from killing humanity. However Rory was shot and killed by their military leader, [[Restac]], when he shielded the Doctor from a fatal energy beam. He was then swallowed by a nearby crack in time, and erased from existence. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'', ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
Rory watched over Amy for nearly two thousand years, following the box wherever it went and becoming the stuff of legend as '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 attacked by a [[Stone Dalek]] from Stonehenge that had been restored by the Pandorica's energy. Rory rescued them by shooting the Dalek with his hand-laser.
[[File:SoPretty.jpg|thumb|right|Rory, seconds after being shot by [[Restac]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')]]
[[File:Autons-series-5.jpg|thumb|Rory with his Auton gun arm. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')]]
After a tearful reunion with Amy followed, the Doctor pulled them away in order to rescue River Song. Before that, Auton Rory informed the Doctor about his earlier encounter with the "future Doctor", which led to the Doctor taking care of old business. 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.
When [[the Alliance]] scanned the psychic imprint left by Amy, they used her dormant memories of Rory to create a [[Rory Williams (Auton)|Nestene duplicate]] which, due to the crack in Amy's room, possessed Rory's actual emotions and personality. When the Nestenes' trap for the Doctor was complete, the Nestenes tried to control Rory, which made him shoot Amy. The cracks got out of hand and all the universe save the earth was swallowed them, freeing Rory from the Nestene Consciousness, which now had never existed. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
===Memories===
Despite the fact that the Auton Rory now 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, calling him "The Boy Who Waited". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
[[file:Rory-the-roman.jpg|thumb|left|Unknown to Amy, Rory (as an Auton) is reunited with her. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
The real Rory somehow obtained his Roman armour from this incarnation (or wore costume armour) and used it during his Christmas adventure. ([[DW]]: ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'') The real Rory was shown to have the memories of the Auton version of himself, when the Doctor said that he was at Rome when the empire fell with Rory replying "So was I." Rory told the Doctor that he could remember being the Lone Centurion but he didn't always remember, it was like a "door" in his mind and he tried not to think about it. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'') At the Doctor's suggestion, Rory wore the armor again while on a mission to rescue Amy and their infant daughter [[River Song|Melody]] from [[Kovarian|Madame Kovarian]] and the [[Headless Monks]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
A version of the Doctor from the future came to Rory, instructing him to free him from [[Pandorica]] and place Amy's body in it; as it was a perfect prison, it would preserve her until she could be restored to life. Once he had done so, Rory refused the Doctor's offer of a shortcut to when Amy would be fully healed as the box needed protecting. Rory watched over Amy for over eighteen hundred years, following the Pandorica wherever it went; he earnd the sobriquet the Lone Centurion. Over this time, he gained much experience in many areas. Near the end of the Second World War, Rory decided to take a more discrete approach to guarding the box by becoming the night security guard at the museum where the Pandorica was held. In 1996, young Amelia provided the genetic material needed to revive Amy, but the "eye of the storm" from the cracks was closing and little time was left before it closed and the Earth ceased to exist as well. While he and Amy helped the Doctor prevent this, Rory fought a stone Dalek and met River Song.
[[file:Doctor-rory.jpg|thumb|Rory, back as human, with the Doctor at his wedding. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')]]
After helping to save the universe and preventing the cracks in time, the real Rory was returned to a rebooted universe. Despite this, Rory retained memories of experiences as an Auton after Amy remembered the Doctor back into the universe from the other side of the cracks. He compared his Auton self's memories to a door in his head; he could open it when he wanted to, but tended to keep it shut. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'') Rory married Amy and was given the nickname of "Mr Pond" by the Doctor, as Amy wore the pants in their marriage. The Doctor would continue to insist on calling him "Rory Pond" ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'', ''[[The Rebel Flesh]]'', ''[[The Almost People]]'') Following the wedding reception, they returned to Amy's garden where the TARDIS was parked and bade farewell to their lives in Leadworth to continue journeying with the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
::''In the new version of reality, the first time Amy and Rory were together in the TARDIS was during their honeymoon, despite their memories of earlier adventures with the Doctor ''([[DW]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
===Honeymoon===
After their wedding, Amy and Rory went on a long honeymoon on board the TARDIS, spending their wedding night on the ship itself, apparently conceiving [[Melody Pond|their first child]] at the time. ([[DW]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]''). The Doctor left Amy and Rory on a honeymoon planet shortly before the TARDIS was stolen by [[Claw Shansheeth]], but soon returned for them after he recovered it with the help of past companions. ([[SJA]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'')
[[file:Rory-amy-honeymoon.jpg|thumb|left|Rory with Amy onboard the spaceship where their honeymoon was set. ([[DW]]: ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'')]]
The couple continued their honeymoon on board a spaceship in the honeymoon suite, where Rory donned his auton counterpart's Roman armour as part of a costume party onboard the ship. The ship began to crash, and the Doctor had just under an hour to save Rory Amy, and the other four thousand one people on the ship. With help from Amy and Rory, the Doctor succeeded, and the trio left for another honeymoon location, which Rory was sceptical about when the Doctor explained that it was a living, carnivorous planet. ([[DW]]: ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'')
At some point, Rory began helping the Doctor repair the TARDIS, much to Amy's annoyance. He caused the TARDIS to materalize inside itself after dropping a thermocoupling when he accidentally looked up Amy's skirt. The Doctor figured out how to demateralize the TARDIS from the resulting [[space loop]] and told Amy to put on some trousers. ([[DW]]: ''[[Space (TV story)|Space]]'' /''[[Time (TV story)|Time]]'')
===America===
Soon after their honeymoon, Rory and Amy returned to Earth and moved into a house, but she was, unknown to him, replaced with a [[Ganger]] shortly thereafter. ([[DW]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
[[file:Rory-america.jpg|thumb|right|Rory, covered in markings, looks down upon the dam. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')]]
In April 2011, they received a TARDIS-blue letter, which led the couple to America. There they met River Song and a 1103 year-old Doctor, who was shot and killed. The group went to a diner where they encountered a 909-year-old version of the Doctor, who had another copy of the blue letter. During the older Doctor's request to head for "space 1969", Amy had seen one of the aliens known as [[the Silence]], who had been occupying/ruling Earth for centuries. After the Doctor started a revolution against the Silence by using their own powers against them, Rory returned to traveling on the TARDIS along with Amy in order to keep her from telling the Doctor about his impending death. It was during this time that Rory began to question Amy's feelings for him yet again, as she described someone she loved "fell out of the sky" and changed her life. However, his doubts were put to rest when Amy reassured him that she was only using a figure of speech to describe him, not the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'' / ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')
===Further travels===
[[File:Rory-black-spot.jpg|thumb|left|Rory asks the Doctor what is happening to him after he recieves a black spot. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot]]'')]]
Following a distress signal the Doctor detected in the [[17th century]], the TARDIS crew ended up on a pirate ship called the "Fancy", where they were accused of being stowaways. Rory was accidentally cut by a cutlass wielded by Amy and was soon targeted by a [[Siren]] that had been taking members of the crew. Though he was kept safe from the Siren by Amy, Rory was soon willingly taken after being thrown overboard during a storm. The Doctor figured out that the "siren" was really a virtual doctor from an invisible spaceship taking up the same space as the ''Fancy''. Rory instructed Amy in CPR and had himself disconnected from the ship's life-support. He was revived shortly after. When heading off to bed, Rory kept Amy quiet about the Doctor's impending death as the Doctor admitted he was worrying about Amy. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot]]'')
[[File:Rory-psychic-message.jpg|thumb|right|Rory is sent a psychic message by [[Idris]] telling him the details on how to get to a backup control-room. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')]]
Following a false distress signal that originated from outside the universe, Rory and Amy were trapped in the TARDIS by a malevolent entity known as [[House]], who planned to escape to the main universe using the TARDIS and leave the Doctor stranded with his TARDIS's matrix in a human body. Rory helped the Doctor get back into the TARDIS by lowering the shields, when the Doctor used the soul of the TARDIS to defeat House. The soul of the TARDIS thought Rory was "pretty" 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 the forest is the river". It was during this time Rory grew curious about the Doctor having a bedroom of his own as he always seemed to be in the control room.([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')
[[File:Rory-jennifer-ganger.jpg|thumb|left|Rory is tricked by [[Jennifer Lucas (Ganger)|Jennifer Lucas's Ganger]] unbeknownst to him. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Almost People]]'')]]
After surviving a solar tsunami in the 22nd century, the TARDIS crew found themselves caught in a clash between human workers and their [[Ganger]] clones, used for the dangerous parts of the job; Rory sympathized with the [[Jennifer (Ganger)|Ganger]] of [[Jennifer Lucas]] as he had spent time as a similar being (an [[Auton]]). The Ganger took advantage of his sympathy, tricking him into trapping the crew, along with the Doctor and his wife, in a room with an overheated acid vat. Rory soon learned the truth from the Doctor's Ganger 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 impending explosion at the factory to give a press conference about Ganger rights. Rory was stunned when the Doctor revealed that Amy was herself a Ganger, and that the real Amy was elsewhere, having been replaced soon after their honeymoon. Rory vowed to find her no matter what, just as the Doctor had told Amy before destroying her duplicate. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Rebel Flesh]]'' / ''[[The Almost People]]'')
===Fatherhood===
[[File:Rory-meets-cybermen.png|thumb|right|Rory encounters the [[Cybermen#Cybermen of the Cyber Legions|Cybermen]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'')]]
Rory helped the Doctor raise an army to save Amy and his daughter, [[Melody Pond]], from Madame [[Kovarian]] and the Church (once again dressed a roman centurian). Rory encountered the [[Cybermen#Cybermen of the Cyber Legions|Cybermen]] of the [[Twelfth Cyber Legion]], and asked twice for the whereabouts of his wife. It is most likely the Cybermen told him, because Rory was able to find Amy and their baby. Soon after, Melody was taken from Rory and Amy by the same trick as before: a Ganger. River Song told him that she was his daughter, using a Prayer Leaf with Melody's name written in the language of the Gamma Forest, translated by the TARDIS as proof. The Doctor left Rory and Amy, to be returned to their home era by River while he looked for the infant Melody. ([[DW]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
[[file:Rory-motorbike.jpg|thumb|left|Rory and his wife try and find River Song on a motorbike. ([[DW]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'']]
A month later Rory was ordered by Amy to make a crop circle saying "Doctor" to catch the Doctor's attention. They found the Doctor waiting for them and were further surprised by the appearance of their childhood friend Mels, who at gunpoint ordered them to take her to the Third Reich to kill Hilter. Rory locked Hitler in a closet and discovered Mels was actually their daughter, who regenerated into River Song. After she poisoned the Doctor, Rory and Amy followed her to a restaurant, only to be sucked into a robot shape-shifter called the ''Teselecta'' that took Amy's form. While the Doctor tried to reason with their daughter, Rory helped Amy make the Teselecta's antibodies attack the crew. On the verge of dying (again), Rory was saved by his daughter with the TARDIS and taken to the Doctor. Melody gave up her remaining regenerations to cure the Doctor of the poison. Leaving Melody/River in "the best hospital in the universe" to recover from the strain, Rory rejoined the Doctor on new adventures while Melody was left to become River Song. ([[DW]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
===Further adventures===
The TARDIS landed on [[Earth]] in [[2010]], after tracing a distress signal from a [[Tenza]] known as [[George (Night Terrors)|George]]. George lived in a huge block of flats. Amy and Rory knocked on nearly every door to find him. Unbeknownst to him, Rory was passing George's window, joking that they should let the "monsters" eat George. However, this lead George to use his psychic powers and phobia defences to use the lift to drop Rory and Amy into the doll house in his closet. Originally, Rory believed they died again, but soon discovered where and when they were, only to soon find another person running in fear from the [[Peg Doll]]s before being transformed into one that joined the ranks that then chased Rory and Amy. Dispite his best plans to eavde the dolls, Rory was horrifed to see his wife be caught by one and transformed into another doll. Rory fled from the dolls and met up with the Doctor and George's dad, [[Alex (Night Terrors)|Alex]], to hold them off. The dolls were stopped when George overcame his fear, and to Rory's relief, Amy, along with the others, was restored. ([[DW]]: ''[[Night Terrors]]'')
The Doctor took Rory and Amy to a resort planet, [[Apalapucia]]. The planet was quarantined for the Chen7 virus. Amy wound up in a faster timestream. While the Doctor quarantined himself inside the TARDIS (as the virus targets beings with 2 hearts), he locked onto Amy's time stream and sent Rory to retrieve her. Rory met his wife nearly forty years into her future, trapped in the resort, hiding from the robotic medical staff, less their medicine kill her, and convinced her to rescue her younger self on the condition that she also be rescued. Instead the Doctor forced Rory to chose between the past and future Amys at the last moment; the TARDIS could not sustain such a paradox. Rory ultimately picked the past Amy after a heartfelt goodbye with the future Amy. Rory was furious with the Doctor, accusing him of turning himself into him. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited]]'')
===Departure From the doctor===
In the midst of traveling, Rory ended up in an alien structure modled after an 80's hotel with Amy and the Doctor, where a creature was feeding off the strong converted faiths of those the prison trapped for it. Rory, however, had no strong faith that the creature could convert or feed on, but his wife did have a strong faith (the Doctor). Rory did his best to help keep Amy safe from the creature and after the Doctor broke her faith in him, the creature was killed. Unknowing of the Doctor's intentions, Rory was brought back to 2011 Earth to find the Doctor had bought them a humble new home and a brand new luxury car Rory had longed for. Deciding to thank the Doctor with some champagne, Rory went inside and was lost for answers as the Doctor was gone when he returned. Amy explained that the Doctor was saving them from any more potentially dangerous adventures with him. ([[DW]]: ''[[The God Complex]]'')
==Personality==
Rory was timid during his first encounter with the Doctor. He was easily intimidated by [[Dr Ramsden]] and terrified by the chaos caused by the Doctor and Prisoner Zero. Despite this, he had the presence of mind to record evidence to prove that his patients were appearing outside the hospital. He also helped Amy clear the hospital of patients before Prisoner Zero could kill them. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
During the events in Venice, Rory was unnerved that the Doctor and Amy wanted to return to the [[Saturnyn]] stronghold. However, he grew in bravery. He challenged [[Francesco]] to protect Amy, ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'') and took a lethal Silurian energy beam meant for the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'') When he saw Francesco had attacked a girl, his immediate reaction was to see if she was all right. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')
Rory was extremely devoted to Amy and loved her very deeply. Perhaps the greatest testament to this his willingness as an Auton to guard Amy in the Pandorica, for almost two thousand years. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') He would go to any length when angry. He destroyed all but one of the Twelfth Cyber Legion's squadron just to find where Amy was being held captive ([[DW]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'') and punched the Doctor when he was grieving over shooting Amy. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') Although he remained aghast at the risks he was forced to take, his reflexive behaviour was heroic.
At first, Rory was jealous of Amy's infatuation with the Doctor and uneasy at her obsession with him when she was little. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]], [[Amy's Choice]]''). However, after the [[Dream Lord]]'s challenge ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]''), Rory became more comfortable with the Doctor's presence in their lives, even trying to have civil conversations with him and help in TARDIS maintenance. ([[DW]]: ''[[Space (TV story)|Space]]''/''[[Time (TV story)|Time]]'') He put up with the occasionaly troublesome natures of both Amy and the Doctor.
==Other information==
===Known family===
*[[Amy Pond]] - wife
*[[River Song]] (Melody Pond) - daughter
*[[Tabetha Pond]] - mother-in-law
*[[Augustus Pond]] - father-in-law
*Frank - "smelly" uncle ([[DWA]]: [[Pier Head From Space]])
===Skills===
Rory was a trained nurse, and knew medical procedures, and how to examine bodies. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot]]'') Also, due to being a Roman Centurion, he was acomplished at fighting with a gladius. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'') After spending two millenia guarding the Pandorica, Rory became a very effective warrior. In the attack on [[Demons Run]], he survived the battle with the [[Headless monk]]s while two experienced soldiers ([[Strax]] and [[Lorna Bucket]]) were killed. ([[DW]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]''). Rory also demonstrated a good 'gun arm' on several occasions; he knocked the Doctor, Hitler, and the ''Teselecta'' to the ground with single blows to their jaws. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
==Behind the scenes==
==Behind the scenes==
*In a scene deleted 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. However, he can also be considered the same entity as the human Rory, as the Doctor stated that Rory's actual mind and soul were copied by the Alliance because Auton Rory was made from Amy's memories and Amy's mind had been affected by the Time Field crack in her bedroom wall.
*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. ([[Restac]] and [[Cobb]] respectively).
*An [[Mickey Smith (Auton)|Auton duplicate]] of [[Mickey Smith]] was also made. This makes Rory the second male companion to be turned into an Auton. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
*Coincidentally Rory temporarily "dies" in some manner in three consecutive episodes of [[Series 6]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot]]'', and [[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]''). Totalling up, his temporary deaths come to six. The other three 'deaths' occured in [[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'', and the erasure of his Auton duplicate's existence in [[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'' (In addition, earlier in that episode, Amy mourns him when the museum documentary concludes he died in the Blitz). This means he has died more than any other televised companion.
*Auton Rory is the second duplicate of a companion to be created based on the memories of another; during the novel ''[[Interference: Book Two (The Hour of the Geek)|Interference]]'', the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s companion [[Fitz Kreiner]] was abducted and apparently killed by [[Faction Paradox]], the Doctor eventually 'replacing' him with [[Kode]], a [[biomass]] duplicate created from others' memories of the original Fitz as he assumed that the original Fitz had died, 'perfecting' the duplicate by allowing him to be shaped by both the Doctor and the TARDIS's own 'perceptions' of Fitz.
**Incidentally, every time Rory "dies" in a given story, he dies in at least one adjacent story as well.
**Additionally, in the story immediately following [[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'', Rory is the only character for whom a version ''doesn't'' die; at least one version of every other character has an on-screen death, including the Doctor and Amy ([[DW]]: ''[[The Rebel Flesh]]''/''[[The Almost People]]'').
===Nametag controversy===
[[File:Rory's_ID.jpg|thumb|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]]''. 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. 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 City|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 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''. 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, twenty-four hours 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 (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'' that time was shrinking due to the cracks. This may have caused these events, although it was not explicitly stated.
Rory Williams, also known as "The Lone Centurion" was an Auton copy of the the Doctor's companionRory 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.
Biography
The Auton that took the form of Rory Williams was created as part of a plan by an The Alliance of races that had united to prevent the the Doctor from destroying the universe. This alliance included the Nestene Consciousness, creator 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 fiancé Rory Williams taken at a costume party (at which Rory had worn 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 102AD 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, though initially dismissing this 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, though Amy was knocked unconscious. The Doctor initially did not recognize him, but eventually welcomed him back, though how Rory still existed was a mystery - as the Doctor was not aware of the Auton connection as yet.
As he assisted the Doctor, Auton Rory learned 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 returned 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, 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 Amy, the Doctor suddenly appeared in front of him, informing him that Amy wasn't quite dead and instructing him to open the Pandorica with the sonic screwdriver and rescue the Doctor's earlier self. Rory followed the instructions, which led to a reunion with a somewhat bewildered Doctor. Because most of the universe had been erased and the Nestenes were now non-existant, Rory's mind was fully restored and he was now in full control of his actions.
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 not, 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 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 attacked by a Stone Dalek from Stonehenge that had been restored by the Pandorica's energy. Rory rescued them by shooting the Dalek with his hand-laser.
After a tearful reunion with Amy followed, the Doctor pulled them away in order to rescue River Song. Before that, Auton Rory informed the Doctor about his earlier encounter with the "future Doctor", which led to the Doctor taking care of old business. 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.
Memories
Despite the fact that the Auton Rory now 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, calling him "The Boy Who Waited". (DW: The Big Bang)
The real Rory somehow obtained his Roman armour from this incarnation (or wore costume armour) and used it during his Christmas adventure. (DW: A Christmas Carol) The real Rory was shown to have the memories of the Auton version of himself, when the Doctor said that he was at Rome when the empire fell with Rory replying "So was I." Rory told the Doctor that he could remember being the Lone Centurion but he didn't always remember, it was like a "door" in his mind and he tried not to think about it. (DW: Day of the Moon) At the Doctor's suggestion, Rory wore the armor again while on a mission to rescue Amy and their infant daughter Melody from Madame Kovarian and the Headless Monks. (DW: A Good Man Goes to War)
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. However, he can also be considered the same entity as the human Rory, as the Doctor stated that Rory's actual mind and soul were copied by the Alliance because Auton Rory was made from Amy's memories and Amy's mind had been affected by the Time Field crack in her bedroom wall.
Auton Rory is the second duplicate of a companion to be created based on the memories of another; during the novel Interference, the Eighth Doctor's companion Fitz Kreiner was abducted and apparently killed by Faction Paradox, the Doctor eventually 'replacing' him with Kode, a biomass duplicate created from others' memories of the original Fitz as he assumed that the original Fitz had died, 'perfecting' the duplicate by allowing him to be shaped by both the Doctor and the TARDIS's own 'perceptions' of Fitz.
Multi-adventures reference the rare instance when a companion is shown or stated to have multiple adventures with the Doctor but only appears in a single story.
If a medium is not mentioned, then this incarnation did not have companions who were original to that medium; it does not mean that this Doctor failed to appear in that medium.
