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|image          = [[File:New Rory.png|250px]]
|individual name = Rory Williams
|individual name = Rory Williams
|AKA           = Roranicus<br />The Lone Centurion<br />The Last Centurion<br />The Constant Warrior ([[REF]]: ''[[The Brilliant Book 2011]]'')
|image           = [[File:Vlcsnap-2011-08-28-13h53m13s10.png|250px]]
|race            = [[Auton]]
|alias          = Rory Pond<br />The Lone Centurion<br />Roranicus<br />The Last Centurion<br />[[The Doctor]]<br />The Nose<br />Roricus Pondicus
|home planet    = [[Earth]] (adopted)
|species=[[Human]]
|appearances    = [[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'' / ''[[The Big Bang]]''
|home planet    = [[Earth]]
|mentions        = [[NSA]]: ''[[The Way Through the Woods]]''<br />[[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]''<br />[[DW]]: ''[[Good Night]]''
|appearances    = [[Rory Williams - List of Appearances|Full list of appearances]]
|actor          = [[Arthur Darvill]]}}
|mentions        = <ul><li>[[NSA]]: ''[[The Forgotten Army]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''</li><li>[[SJA]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]''</li><li>[[WC]]: ''[[The Night After Hallowe'en]]''</li><ul>
:''For the human the [[Auton]] was based on, see [[Rory Williams]]''
|actor          = [[Arthur Darvill]]<br />[[Ezekiel Wigglesworth]] (child)}}
'''Rory Williams''', also known as "'''The Lone Centurion'''" was an [[Auton]] copy of the the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s [[companion]] [[Rory Williams]], who had been killed by the [[Silurian]] [[Restac]] and then erased from history by the [[Time Field]] emanating from the cracks in space and time.
:''You may be looking for the [[Rory Williams (Auton)|Auton based on Rory]].''
'''Rory Williams''' was [[Amy Pond]]'s boyfriend and later, husband. He became a companion of the [[Eleventh Doctor]], died and was removed from the universe by being absorbed by the [[Time Field]]. After "[[Big Bang Two]]" he was restored, married Amy and continued to travel with her and the Doctor. During this time, his child [[River Song|Melody Pond]] (later River Song) was born. When the Doctor married River, Rory became his father-in-law.


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== The Pandorica Trap ===
=== Early life ===
The Auton that took the form of Rory Williams was created as part of a plan by an [[The Alliance|alliance]] of races who had united to prevent the the [[Eleventh Doctor]] from destroying the [[universe]]. This alliance included the [[Nestene Consciousness]], creator of the living plastic creatures known as Autons.
[[File:Rory-young.jpg|thumb|left|120px|Rory as a child. ([[DW]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')]]
Rory was a childhood friend of [[Amy Pond|Amelia Pond]]. Like much of [[Leadworth]], he was privy to her tales of the [[Eleventh Doctor|"raggedy Doctor"]] and a reluctant participant in dress-up games she based on her stories. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') He was also a friend of [[Mels]], unbeknownst to him, their daughter. He played hide and seek with them; he would hide for hours when they didn't look for him. ([[DW]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'') Rory long was attracted to Amy, which was only returned after Mels pointed it out. Before this, Amy had believed Rory was gay, because in the ten years she had known him, he had never shown any interest in any ''other'' girl. ([[DW]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')


They used 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; Rory had worn a Roman soldier costume. The Nestene Consciousness created a faux Roman army, including a replicant of Rory Williams. It placed them near [[Stonehenge]] in the year [[102]] [[AD]] as part of an elaborate trap for the Doctor. While the Auton Roman soldiers believed they were, indeed, Romans, the Auton version of Rory retained the memories and personality of the real Rory, initially dismissing his other life as a dream.
=== Meeting the [[Eleventh 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]]'')]]
While working at the[[Royal Leadworth Hospital|hospital]], Rory noticed [[Prisoner Zero|coma patients]] roaming about the village when they should have been unconscious. He helped the [[Eleventh Doctor]] defeat [[Prisoner Zero]], then watched him warn the [[Atraxi]] away from [[Earth]] after they threatened to roast it. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') Rory became engaged to Amy and looked up the latest scientific theories. ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
When news came to the Roman encampment of strange visitors, Auton Rory volunteered to help, which led him to encounter 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 recognise him, but 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 Amy's memory, when she did not recognise 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 make her remember him. His efforts were successful. 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. As she hugged him, the Auton programming activated and the duplicate Rory's hand opened up into a blaster, which shot Amy. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
=== Travels with the Doctor ===
Not knowing Amy had left 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 life outside her travels. The Doctor took the couple on a "romantic break" to [[Venice]] in [[1580]] as a wedding gift. They ran into [[Saturnyn]]s who planned to flood Venice and repopulate it with their species. Rory defended Amy from [[Francesco]], a Saturnyn who had taken a liking to her. The Doctor defeated the Saturnyns and Rory agreed to continue travelling with the Doctor after Amy asked him to. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'')


=== Redemption ===
[[File:Rory-eknodine.jpg|thumb|left|Rory fights off an [[Eknodine]] whilst in a dream state. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')]] Aboard [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], Rory fell victim to the [[Psychic Pollen]] that ensnared them in two shared dreams. Rory escaped after the Doctor figured out what was happening and killed them in both dreams. His and Amy's relationship was cemented by her realisation she really loved him and would not live without him when he died in one of the dreams. ([[DW]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'')
[[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 Amy wasn't quite dead and instructing him to open the Pandorica with the [[sonic screwdriver]] and rescue the Doctor's earlier self. A bewildered Rory followed the instructions, which led to a reunion with a 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.


To save Amy, the Doctor placed her in the Pandorica, where her life functions would be restored, though she would be in there for close to two thousand 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. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
Following a failed attempt to visit [[Rio de Janeiro|Rio]], Rory, Amy, the Doctor and some new friends stopped renegade [[Silurian]]s who 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 swallowed by a nearby crack in time, and erased from reality. ([[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. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
T[[the Alliance|he Alliance]] scanned the psychic imprint left by Amy and used her dormant memories of Rory to create an [[Rory Williams (Auton)|Auton duplicate]]. Due to the crack in Amy's room, it had Rory's actual emotions and personality. When the Alliance's trap for the Doctor was ready, they controlled Rory; he shot Amy. The cracks shattered the universe except for "the eye of the storm" on Earth, freeing him from the [[Nestene Consciousness]], which now had never existed. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')


=== Guarding the Pandorica ===
A version of the Doctor from the future had Rory free him from [[Pandorica]] and place Amy's body in it to preserve her until she could be restored to life. Rory refused the offer of a shortcut to when Amy would be healed; she needed protecting. He watched over Amy for almost two thousand years, following the Pandorica wherever it went, earning the sobriquet 'the Lone Centurion'. After saving the Pandorica from being bombed in [[the Blitz]], he took a more discreet approach to guarding the box; he became the night guard at [[National Museum|the museum]] where the Pandorica was held. In [[1996]], young Amelia provided the genetic material to revive Amy, but the "eye of the storm" from the cracks was closing and little time was left before 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.
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. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')


=== Undercover ===
[[File:Doctor-rory.jpg|thumb|Rory, back as human, with the Doctor at his wedding. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')]]
In reality, Rory continued to look after the Pandorica in other ways. Bby 1996 he 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 helping reboot the universe, the real Rory returned and married Amy. He remembered having been an Auton after Amy had recalled the Doctor from the other side of the cracks. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') He compared his Auton memories to a door in his head; he could open it when he wanted, but usually kept it shut. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'') After the wedding reception, they returned to Amy's garden where the TARDIS was parked and bade farewell to Leadworth to continue journeying with the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') The Doctor would insist on calling him "Rory Pond" ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'', ''[[The Rebel Flesh]]'', ''[[The Almost People]]'')
[[File:Autons-series-5.jpg|thumb|Rory with his Auton gun arm. ([[DW]]: [[The Big Bang]])]]
After a tearful reunion with Amy, the Doctor pulled them awa 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 piloted 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 reality. Wth him removed, the Auton version of Rory was likewise removed from history, The original, human Rory was restored, his death having never occurred. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')


=== Legacy ===
::''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]]'')
Despite the fact that the Auton Rory now never existed, elements of his memory remained within the human Rory. After Amy restored the Doctor and the TARDIS through her own memories, Rory likewise remembered having been an Auton, saying "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 two millennia, 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 (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'')
=== Honeymoon ===
Amy and Rory passed their wedding night on the ship itself, conceiving [[Melody Pond|their first child]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'') The Doctor left them on a honeymoon planet shortly before the TARDIS was stolen by [[Claw Shansheeth]], but soon returned for them. ([[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 trip in the honeymoon suite of the starship. The ship began to crash, and the Doctor had less than an hour to save everyone on it. With help from Amy and Rory, he did, and the trio left for another honeymoon location, which Rory was sceptical about when the told it was a living, carnivorous planet. ([[DW]]: ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'')


The real Rory had the memories of the Auton version of himself. When the Doctor said that he was at Rome when the empire fell, Rory replied "So was I." Rory told the Doctor he could remember being the Lone Centurion but he didn't always; it was like a "door" in his mind and he tried not to think about it. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')
Rory began helping the Doctor maintain the TARDIS, which annoyed Amy. He caused the TARDIS to materialise inside itself by dropping a thermocoupling when he inadvertently looked up Amy's skirt. The Doctor dematerialised the TARDIS from the resulting [[space loop]] and told Amy to put on some trousers. ([[DW]]: ''[[Space (TV story)|Space]]'' / ''[[Time (TV story)|Time]]'')


At the Doctor's insistance, Rory wore the armour again while on a mission to rescue Amy and their infant daughter [[River Song|Melody]] from Madame [[Kovarian]] and the [[Headless Monks]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
=== America ===
After their honeymoon, Rory and Amy returned to Earth. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'') Amy was replaced with a [[Ganger]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Almost People]]'')
[[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 them to America. There they met River Song and the Doctor, who in fact was a ''[[Teselecta]]'' duplicate. This "Doctor" was shot by a past version of River, faking his death in front of Rory and Amy. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'', ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]'') Rory, Amy and the older River went to a diner where they met a younger version of the Doctor with his own copy of the blue letter. During the older Doctor's talk about "space [[1969]]", Amy had seen one of the [[Silent]]s, aliens who had occupied Earth for centuries. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'')
 
After three months on the run, the Doctor started a revolution against [[the Silence]] by using their own powers against them, Rory returned to travelling on the TARDIS with Amy to keep her from telling the Doctor about his impending death. During this time Rory began to question Amy's feelings for him yet again, as she described someone she loved who "fell out of the sky" and changed her life. However, his doubts were put to rest when Amy reassured him she was speaking of him, not the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')
 
=== Further travels ===
Following a distress signal from the [[17th century]], the TARDIS crew ended up on the pirate ship ''[[Fancy]]'', where they were accused of being stowaways. Rory was accidentally cut by a cutlass wielded by Amy and targeted by a [[Siren]] who had been taking members of the crew. Though he was shielded from the Siren by Amy, Rory was taken after being thrown overboard during a storm. The Doctor figured out the "siren" was a virtual doctor from an invisible spaceship in 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. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot]]'')
 
[[File:Rory-psychic-message.jpg|thumb|right|Rory is sent a psychic message. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')]]
Following a false distress signal 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 in the TARDIS and strand the Doctor with his TARDIS's matrix in a human body. Rory helped the Doctor get back into the TARDIS by lowering the shields. 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 [[Gamma Forest|the forest]] is the river". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'')
[[File:Rory-jennifer-ganger.jpg|thumb|left|Rory is tricked by [[Jennifer Lucas (Ganger)|Jennifer Lucas's Ganger]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Almost People]]'')]]
After surviving a solar tsunami in the 22nd century, the TARDIS crew were caught in a clash between human workers and their [[Ganger]] clones used for the dangerous parts of the job; Rory sympathised with the [[Jennifer (Ganger)|Ganger]] of [[Jennifer Lucas]]. She took advantage of his sympathy, tricking him into trapping the crew, the Doctor and his wife in a room with an overheated acid vat. Rory learned the truth and returned with the reformed Gangers to free everyone. After escaping the deranged Jennifer Ganger, the crisis was resolved by saving one of the workers and two Gangers from the impending explosion at the factory for a press conference about Ganger rights. Rory was stunned when the Doctor revealed that Amy was herself a Ganger, and 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 rescue Amy and his daughter, [[Melody Pond]], from Madame [[Kovarian]] and the Church. Rory invaded the [[Twelfth Cyber Legion]], and asked twice for the whereabouts of his wife, destroying the other ships in the Legion as a "message from the Doctor". Soon after, he arrived on [[Demon's Run]]. He kept Kovarian from fleeing with his daughter and the Doctor's army won the fight in four minutes. However, he found the baby was not Melody, but another a Ganger; Kovarian had escaped with Melody. River Song appeared and stunned him with the news she was his daughter, using as proof a [[prayer leaf]] with Melody's name written in the language of the Gamma Forest, translated by the TARDIS. The Doctor left Rory and Amy to be returned to their home era by River while he looked for the infant Melody. ([[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 Amy had Rory to make a crop circle saying "Doctor" to catch the Doctor's attention. They found him waiting and were surprised by the appearance of their childhood friend, Mels, ordering them at gunpoint to help her escape the police and take her to kill [[Hitler]]. The TARDIS landed in [[Berlin ]]and accidentally crashed into the'' [[Teselecta]]'', Rory slugged Hitler and locked him in a closet. Discovering Mels had been shot by Hitler, he was shocked to learn she was Melody, who regenerated into River Song.
 
After Mels had poisoned the Doctor, Rory and Amy followed her, only to be sucked into the shape-shifting'' [[Teselecta]]'', which took Amy's form. While the Doctor tried to reason with their child, they made the ''Teselecta'''s [[Teselecta Antibodies|antibodies]] attack the crew. On the verge of dying again, Rory was saved by his daughter in the TARDIS. Melody gave her remaining regenerations to revive the Doctor. Leaving her in "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 call from [[George (Night Terrors)|George]], a [[Tenza]] who lived in a block of flats. Amy and Rory knocked on nearly every door to find him. George used his psychic powers to drop Rory and Amy into the doll house in his closet. Rory believed they had died again, only to find another person running from the [[Peg Doll (Night Terrors)|Peg Dolls]], then being turned into one that joined the others to chase Rory and Amy. Rory was horrified to see his wife transformed into a doll. Rory 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 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 [[Chen-7|Chen7]] virus. Befuddled by the security measures, Amy wound up in a faster timestream. While the Doctor hid in the TARDIS because the virus targeted humanoids with two hearts, Rory went to retrieve her. He met his wife nearly forty [[File:So_close_but_so_far.jpg|thumb|An aged Amy and Rory say goodbye. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited]]'')]]years into her future, hiding from the robotic medical staff lest their medicine kill her. He convinced her to rescue her younger self on the condition that she also be rescued. The Doctor forced Rory to choose between the past and future Amys at the last moment; the TARDIS could not sustain such a paradox. The older Amy sacrificed herself. Rory was at first angry with the Doctor, fearing the Doctor was turning him into the Doctor himself, but later accepted the Doctor had done the right thing. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited]]'')
 
Amy and Rory went to the [[Liao Dynasty]] [[China]] in the [[13th century]], where the guards of the [[Liao Palace]] attacked them for taking food. After the TARDIS took off, it collided with a [[Rutan Host|Rutan]] ship; the Rutan ship crashed on the future site of the [[Houses of Parliament]], putting the occupants in stasis until [[1605]], when it sent a distress call. The TARDIS responded to its call and landed in London. Beneath Parliament, Amy and Rory discovered [[Guy Fawkes]] and [[Robert Catesby]] plotting to blow up Parliament and kill King [[James I]]. The Rutan [[Elizabeth Winters|Lady Winters]] was in their ranks. Amy and Rory followed the trail to the Rutan ship, and helped find the power rods to let the ship take off. They were also caught in a conflict between [[Sontaran]]s and Rutans over the Rutans' two doomsday weapons. The Doctor reprogrammed one of the weapons to target Rutans, and Rory handed over the Sontaran-targeted weapon to the other party, resulting in a stalemate, as each race was at risk of destroying themselves. ([[VG]]: ''[[The Gunpowder Plot]]'')
 
=== Departure from the Doctor ===
Rory ended up in an [[Prison ship (The God Complex)|alien structure]] modelled on an 1980s hotel with Amy and the Doctor, where [[Minotaur (The God Complex)|a creature]] fed off the faith of those the prison trapped for it. Rory, who had no strong faith for the creature to feed on, kept Amy safe until the Doctor broke her faith in him and the creature died. Rory and Amy were returned to Earth some time before they had left to find the Doctor had bought them a new home and a red E-Type Jaguar that Rory had longed for. Hoping to thank the Doctor with some champagne, he went inside and was lost for answers when the Doctor was gone when he returned. Amy explained the Doctor was saving them from more dangerous adventures with him. ([[DW]]: ''[[The God Complex]]'')
 
Some time later, Rory was shopping with Amy when a young girl asked for Amy's autograph. ([[DW]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')
 
After time was restored and the Doctor had "died", River dropped by Rory and Amy's house from just after her adventure with Amy in the ''[[Byzantium]]''. Rory was pleased by River's visit and confused by his wife's joy until River explained that the Doctor was still alive. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]'')
 
In [[2013]], the Doctor joined Rory and Amy for [[Christmas]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]'')
 
In [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/2020 2020], Rory and Amy travelled to [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Cwmtaff Cwmtaff] to wave at their younger selves. ([http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/DW DW]: ''[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Hungry_Earth The Hungry Earth]'')
 
== Alternate timeline ==
[[File:Alt_Rory.jpg|thumb|Rory as Captain Williams. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]'')]]In a timeline where all time happened at once due to the Doctor not dying, Rory was a captain in a military force led by Amy, trying to restore the timeline without killing the Doctor. Unlike Amy and River, he had no memory of the correct timeline. He was attracted to Amy, who was looking for him but didn't recognise him. The Doctor tried to get them together, but Rory saw right through it. When the Silents broke free, tormented by his [[Eye Drive]], he stayed to hold them off, though it meant certain death. Amy saved him, then told him they should get a drink and married. When the Doctor married River, Rory consented to the marriage as the bride's father, even though he didn't understand what was going on. Unlike Amy, the Doctor and River, Rory probably had no memory of these events when the timeline was restored. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]'')
 
== Personality ==
Rory was timid in his first meeting with the Doctor. He was intimidated by [[Ramsden|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 his comatose patients were strolling outside the hospital. He also helped Amy clear the hospital of patients before Prisoner Zero could kill them. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
 
In Venice, Rory was unnerved when the Doctor and Amy wanted to return to the [[Saturnyn]] stronghold, yet he grew in bravery. He challenged [[Francesco]] to protect Amy. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'') When he saw Francesco had attacked a girl, his immediate reaction was to see if she was all right. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'') He took a lethal Silurian energy beam meant for the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')
 
Rory was stubbornly devoted to Amy. Perhaps the greatest testament to this was his willingness as an Auton to guard Amy in the Pandorica for almost two thousand years. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') He would perform great feats of courage out of his love for Amy and go to any length when angry. He destroyed all but one of the [[Twelfth Cyber Legion]]'s squadron to find where Amy was 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 helping in TARDIS maintenance. ([[DW]]: ''[[Space (TV story)|Space]]''/''[[Time (TV story)|Time]]'') He put up with the occasionally troublesome natures of Amy and the Doctor. Rory was very loyal to the Doctor, whom he trusted with his life. He was devastated when it appeared the Doctor was dead and when Idris' body died; not only were they his friends, he was a nurse and they were his patients.
 
Rory was a very fast study. When confronted with the necessity of riding a motorcycle for the first time to follow River Song, he sourly noted that it was "One of those days" and did so. ([[DW]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
 
== Other information ==
=== Known family ===
* Mother ([[Doctor Who|DW]]: ''[[The Rebel Flesh]]'')
* Father ([[Doctor Who|DW]]: ''[[Night Terrors]]'')
* Grandmother ([[DW]]:[[Night Terrors|'' Night Terrors'']])
* [[Amy Pond|Amelia Pond]] - wife
* [[River Song]] (Melody Pond) - daughter
* [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - son-in-law
* [[Augustus Pond]] - father-in-law
* [[Tabetha Pond]] - mother-in-law
 
=== Skills ===
Rory was a trained nurse. He knew medical procedures and how to examine bodies. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'', ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot]]'') As he had been a Roman Centurion, he was accomplished at fighting with a gladius. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'') In two millenia guarding the Pandorica, Rory became a very effective warrior. In the attack on [[Demon's 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 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 ==
* 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.
* In a scene deleted from ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'', the Doctor admits to Amy that he likes Rory a lot.
* An [[Mickey Smith (Auton)|Auton duplicate]] of [[Mickey Smith]] was also made. This makes Rory the second male companion (and the second boyfriend of a companion) to be turned into an Auton. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
* Rory's first 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).
* Auton Rory is the second duplicate of a companion to be created based on the memories of another; during the novel ''[[Interference - Book Two|Interference]]'', the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s companion [[Fitz Kreiner]] was abducted and apparently killed by [[Faction Paradox]]. The Doctor eventually 'replaced' him with [[Kode]], a [[biomass]] duplicate created from others' memories of the original Fitz, as he assumed that the original Fitz had died, 'perfecting' the duplicate by allowing him to be shaped by the Doctor and the TARDIS's own 'perceptions' of Fitz.
* Coincidentally Rory temporarily "dies" in some manner in three consecutive episodes of [[Series 6]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'', ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]''). Totalling up, his temporary deaths come to six. The other three 'deaths' occurred 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.
*''[[The Brilliant Book 2011]]'' contains a deeper non-narrative based history of Rory. It states;
** Incidentally, every time Rory "dies" in a given story, he dies in at least one adjacent story as well.
:*At some point, Rory had farmers remove the Pandorica for a nobleman from the Roman town of [[Isca]]. In preparing for the journey, Rory wrote "FRAGILE" and "THIS WAY UP" on the Pandorica. Rory would later assist King Harold in the Battle of Hastings during the Norman conquest of England, evidently as his top general. Rory would befriend [[Samuel Pepys]]. During the [[Great Fire of London]], Rory saved the infant daughter of Pepys's baker. Afterward, Rory bid farewell to Pepys and travelled to the city.
** 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]]'').
:*During the [[19th century]], Rory become the inspiration for political cartoonists.  
 
:*In [[1934]], Rory released many leaflets that showed him and [[Adolf Hitler]] with the message "DON'T LISTEN TO HITLER. HE'S RUBBISH".
*''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]],'' a book that contains [[Tardis:Canon policy|non-narrative]] based information, puts forward many unknown pieces of Rory's history, including;
:*Escaping to the TARDIS, the Doctor decided that he and his companions had to become renegades to give the Silents a sense of false security. The plan included Canton and the [[FBI]] hunt them down on a nationwide search. He then reluctantly sent River and the Ponds on there own nationwide search; to find information about the Silents. He gave them [[Cryostasis podlet]]s for when Canton would pretend to kill them.
 
:*When Amy and Rory went to see ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' in [[1605]], Rory met King [[James I]] and, apon informing him of their friendship with the Doctor, almost got him and Amy arrested, but they escaped to the wine cellar in their hotel. Amy then sent the Doctor a letter, informing him of their situation and that they would be hiding in empty wine barrels. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'')
:*At their next destination, Amy and Rory had a picnic in the [[Gardens of Zul-Thep]] in the year [[3104]]. However, their picnic was interrupted by a swarm of giant talking [[Human]] hating bees, that were attracted to Amy's jam. Rory then sent a telemessage to the Doctor to pick them up before the giant bees could hurt them. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'')
:*The Doctor then sent the Ponds to meet [[Wyatt Earp]]. However, Rory ended up upsetting Earp, nearly getting shot in the process, which, in turn, upsetting Rory. To make matters worse, aliens appeared and Rory ended up having an accident with a cactus. Amy then sent a telegram to the Doctor, requesting he pick them up and bring Savlon for Rory's cactus injury. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'')
:*During their beach holiday to [[Drago14]], the beach was attacked by acid-spitting land squids, damaging Rory's Terry Pratchett book. After the attack, Amy and Rory went to get acid proof suits and Amy found a brochure for [[The Thrasymachus]] in the Travel Agent shop next to the next to the acid proof shop. Amy then had Rory send an Instant Message to the Doctor about the cruise and told Rory to sent the Doctor their love. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'')
:*Rory travelled to Oklahoma, Texas and California. He started missing his wife by the time he reached his first destination. During his time in Texas, Rory realised the aliens he was searching for resembled ''[[The Scream]]'' and deduced that they were behind it's repeated thefts. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'')
 
=== 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 [[30 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. Bebo and Twitter were mentioned; the phone had Facebook. So perplexing was this badge ID that [[Steven Moffat]] was specifically asked about it in [[New York City|New York]] by an [[American]] fan on [[13 April]] [[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 City|New York]] theatrical screening of ''The Eleventh Hour''. This led some fans to continue to think of the ID badge as having some hidden plot significance.
 
However, later episodes like ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'' and ''[[The Big Bang]]'' proved that Moffat was telling the truth. The graphics on the ID page were simply erroneous.


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Rory Williams was Amy Pond's boyfriend and later, husband. He became a companion of the Eleventh Doctor, died and was removed from the universe by being absorbed by the Time Field. After "Big Bang Two" he was restored, married Amy and continued to travel with her and the Doctor. During this time, his child Melody Pond (later River Song) was born. When the Doctor married River, Rory became his father-in-law.

Biography

Early life

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Rory as a child. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler)

Rory was a childhood friend of Amelia Pond. Like much of Leadworth, he was privy to her tales of the "raggedy Doctor" and a reluctant participant in dress-up games she based on her stories. (DW: The Eleventh Hour) He was also a friend of Mels, unbeknownst to him, their daughter. He played hide and seek with them; he would hide for hours when they didn't look for him. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler) Rory long was attracted to Amy, which was only returned after Mels pointed it out. Before this, Amy had believed Rory was gay, because in the ten years she had known him, he had never shown any interest in any other girl. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler)

Meeting the Eleventh Doctor

While working at thehospital, Rory noticed coma patients roaming about the village when they should have been unconscious. He helped the Eleventh Doctor defeat Prisoner Zero, then watched him warn the Atraxi away from Earth after they threatened to roast it. (DW: The Eleventh Hour) Rory became engaged to Amy and looked up the latest scientific theories. (DW: Flesh and Stone)

Travels with the Doctor

Not knowing Amy had left 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 life outside her travels. The Doctor took the couple on a "romantic break" to Venice in 1580 as a wedding gift. They ran into Saturnyns who planned to flood Venice and repopulate it with their species. Rory defended Amy from Francesco, a Saturnyn who had taken a liking to her. The Doctor defeated the Saturnyns and Rory agreed to continue travelling with the Doctor after Amy asked him to. (DW: The Vampires of Venice)

Rory fights off an Eknodine whilst in a dream state. (DW: Amy's Choice)

Aboard the TARDIS, Rory fell victim to the Psychic Pollen that ensnared them in two shared dreams. Rory escaped after the Doctor figured out what was happening and killed them in both dreams. His and Amy's relationship was cemented by her realisation she really loved him and would not live without him when he died in one of the dreams. (DW: Amy's Choice)

Following a failed attempt to visit Rio, Rory, Amy, the Doctor and some new friends stopped renegade Silurians who 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 swallowed by a nearby crack in time, and erased from reality. (DW: The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood

The Alliance scanned the psychic imprint left by Amy and used her dormant memories of Rory to create an Auton duplicate. Due to the crack in Amy's room, it had Rory's actual emotions and personality. When the Alliance's trap for the Doctor was ready, they controlled Rory; he shot Amy. The cracks shattered the universe except for "the eye of the storm" on Earth, freeing him from the Nestene Consciousness, which now had never existed. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)

A version of the Doctor from the future had Rory free him from Pandorica and place Amy's body in it to preserve her until she could be restored to life. Rory refused the offer of a shortcut to when Amy would be healed; she needed protecting. He watched over Amy for almost two thousand years, following the Pandorica wherever it went, earning the sobriquet 'the Lone Centurion'. After saving the Pandorica from being bombed in the Blitz, he took a more discreet approach to guarding the box; he became the night guard at the museum where the Pandorica was held. In 1996, young Amelia provided the genetic material to revive Amy, but the "eye of the storm" from the cracks was closing and little time was left before 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.

Rory, back as human, with the Doctor at his wedding. (DW: The Big Bang)

After helping reboot the universe, the real Rory returned and married Amy. He remembered having been an Auton after Amy had recalled the Doctor from the other side of the cracks. (DW: The Big Bang) He compared his Auton memories to a door in his head; he could open it when he wanted, but usually kept it shut. (DW: Day of the Moon) After the wedding reception, they returned to Amy's garden where the TARDIS was parked and bade farewell to Leadworth to continue journeying with the Doctor. (DW: The Big Bang) The Doctor would insist on calling him "Rory Pond" (DW: The Big Bang, The Rebel Flesh, The Almost People)

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

Amy and Rory passed their wedding night on the ship itself, conceiving their first child. (DW: A Good Man Goes to War) The Doctor left them on a honeymoon planet shortly before the TARDIS was stolen by Claw Shansheeth, but soon returned for them. (SJA: Death of the Doctor)

Rory with Amy onboard the spaceship where their honeymoon was set. (DW: A Christmas Carol)

The couple continued their trip in the honeymoon suite of the starship. The ship began to crash, and the Doctor had less than an hour to save everyone on it. With help from Amy and Rory, he did, and the trio left for another honeymoon location, which Rory was sceptical about when the told it was a living, carnivorous planet. (DW: A Christmas Carol)

Rory began helping the Doctor maintain the TARDIS, which annoyed Amy. He caused the TARDIS to materialise inside itself by dropping a thermocoupling when he inadvertently looked up Amy's skirt. The Doctor dematerialised the TARDIS from the resulting space loop and told Amy to put on some trousers. (DW: Space / Time)

America

After their honeymoon, Rory and Amy returned to Earth. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut) Amy was replaced with a Ganger. (DW: The Almost People)

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 them to America. There they met River Song and the Doctor, who in fact was a Teselecta duplicate. This "Doctor" was shot by a past version of River, faking his death in front of Rory and Amy. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut, The Wedding of River Song) Rory, Amy and the older River went to a diner where they met a younger version of the Doctor with his own copy of the blue letter. During the older Doctor's talk about "space 1969", Amy had seen one of the Silents, aliens who had occupied Earth for centuries. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut)

After three months on the run, the Doctor started a revolution against the Silence by using their own powers against them, Rory returned to travelling on the TARDIS with Amy to keep her from telling the Doctor about his impending death. During this time Rory began to question Amy's feelings for him yet again, as she described someone she loved who "fell out of the sky" and changed her life. However, his doubts were put to rest when Amy reassured him she was speaking of him, not the Doctor. (DW: Day of the Moon)

Further travels

Following a distress signal from the 17th century, the TARDIS crew ended up on the pirate ship Fancy, where they were accused of being stowaways. Rory was accidentally cut by a cutlass wielded by Amy and targeted by a Siren who had been taking members of the crew. Though he was shielded from the Siren by Amy, Rory was taken after being thrown overboard during a storm. The Doctor figured out the "siren" was a virtual doctor from an invisible spaceship in 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. (DW: The Curse of the Black Spot)

Rory is sent a psychic message. (DW: The Doctor's Wife)

Following a false distress signal 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 in the TARDIS and strand the Doctor with his TARDIS's matrix in a human body. Rory helped the Doctor get back into the TARDIS by lowering the shields. 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". (DW: The Doctor's Wife)

Rory is tricked by Jennifer Lucas's Ganger. (DW: The Almost People)

After surviving a solar tsunami in the 22nd century, the TARDIS crew were caught in a clash between human workers and their Ganger clones used for the dangerous parts of the job; Rory sympathised with the Ganger of Jennifer Lucas. She took advantage of his sympathy, tricking him into trapping the crew, the Doctor and his wife in a room with an overheated acid vat. Rory learned the truth and returned with the reformed Gangers to free everyone. After escaping the deranged Jennifer Ganger, the crisis was resolved by saving one of the workers and two Gangers from the impending explosion at the factory for a press conference about Ganger rights. Rory was stunned when the Doctor revealed that Amy was herself a Ganger, and 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

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Rory encounters the Cybermen. (DW: A Good Man Goes to War)

Rory helped the Doctor raise an army to rescue Amy and his daughter, Melody Pond, from Madame Kovarian and the Church. Rory invaded the Twelfth Cyber Legion, and asked twice for the whereabouts of his wife, destroying the other ships in the Legion as a "message from the Doctor". Soon after, he arrived on Demon's Run. He kept Kovarian from fleeing with his daughter and the Doctor's army won the fight in four minutes. However, he found the baby was not Melody, but another a Ganger; Kovarian had escaped with Melody. River Song appeared and stunned him with the news she was his daughter, using as proof a prayer leaf with Melody's name written in the language of the Gamma Forest, translated by the TARDIS. The Doctor left Rory and Amy to be returned to their home era by River while he looked for the infant Melody. (DW: A Good Man Goes to War)

Rory and his wife try and find River Song on a motorbike. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler)

A month later Amy had Rory to make a crop circle saying "Doctor" to catch the Doctor's attention. They found him waiting and were surprised by the appearance of their childhood friend, Mels, ordering them at gunpoint to help her escape the police and take her to kill Hitler. The TARDIS landed in Berlin and accidentally crashed into the Teselecta, Rory slugged Hitler and locked him in a closet. Discovering Mels had been shot by Hitler, he was shocked to learn she was Melody, who regenerated into River Song.

After Mels had poisoned the Doctor, Rory and Amy followed her, only to be sucked into the shape-shifting Teselecta, which took Amy's form. While the Doctor tried to reason with their child, they made the Teselecta's antibodies attack the crew. On the verge of dying again, Rory was saved by his daughter in the TARDIS. Melody gave her remaining regenerations to revive the Doctor. Leaving her in "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 call from George, a Tenza who lived in a block of flats. Amy and Rory knocked on nearly every door to find him. George used his psychic powers to drop Rory and Amy into the doll house in his closet. Rory believed they had died again, only to find another person running from the Peg Dolls, then being turned into one that joined the others to chase Rory and Amy. Rory was horrified to see his wife transformed into a doll. Rory met up with the Doctor and George's dad, Alex, to hold them off. The dolls were stopped when George overcame his fear and 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. Befuddled by the security measures, Amy wound up in a faster timestream. While the Doctor hid in the TARDIS because the virus targeted humanoids with two hearts, Rory went to retrieve her. He met his wife nearly forty

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An aged Amy and Rory say goodbye. (DW: The Girl Who Waited)

years into her future, hiding from the robotic medical staff lest their medicine kill her. He convinced her to rescue her younger self on the condition that she also be rescued. The Doctor forced Rory to choose between the past and future Amys at the last moment; the TARDIS could not sustain such a paradox. The older Amy sacrificed herself. Rory was at first angry with the Doctor, fearing the Doctor was turning him into the Doctor himself, but later accepted the Doctor had done the right thing. (DW: The Girl Who Waited)

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

Departure from the Doctor

Rory ended up in an alien structure modelled on an 1980s hotel with Amy and the Doctor, where a creature fed off the faith of those the prison trapped for it. Rory, who had no strong faith for the creature to feed on, kept Amy safe until the Doctor broke her faith in him and the creature died. Rory and Amy were returned to Earth some time before they had left to find the Doctor had bought them a new home and a red E-Type Jaguar that Rory had longed for. Hoping to thank the Doctor with some champagne, he went inside and was lost for answers when the Doctor was gone when he returned. Amy explained the Doctor was saving them from more dangerous adventures with him. (DW: The God Complex)

Some time later, Rory was shopping with Amy when a young girl asked for Amy's autograph. (DW: Closing Time)

After time was restored and the Doctor had "died", River dropped by Rory and Amy's house from just after her adventure with Amy in the Byzantium. Rory was pleased by River's visit and confused by his wife's joy until River explained that the Doctor was still alive. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)

In 2013, the Doctor joined Rory and Amy for Christmas. (DW: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)

In 2020, Rory and Amy travelled to Cwmtaff to wave at their younger selves. (DW: The Hungry Earth)

Alternate timeline

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Rory as Captain Williams. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)

In a timeline where all time happened at once due to the Doctor not dying, Rory was a captain in a military force led by Amy, trying to restore the timeline without killing the Doctor. Unlike Amy and River, he had no memory of the correct timeline. He was attracted to Amy, who was looking for him but didn't recognise him. The Doctor tried to get them together, but Rory saw right through it. When the Silents broke free, tormented by his Eye Drive, he stayed to hold them off, though it meant certain death. Amy saved him, then told him they should get a drink and married. When the Doctor married River, Rory consented to the marriage as the bride's father, even though he didn't understand what was going on. Unlike Amy, the Doctor and River, Rory probably had no memory of these events when the timeline was restored. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)

Personality

Rory was timid in his first meeting with the Doctor. He was 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 his comatose patients were strolling outside the hospital. He also helped Amy clear the hospital of patients before Prisoner Zero could kill them. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)

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

Rory was stubbornly devoted to Amy. Perhaps the greatest testament to this was his willingness as an Auton to guard Amy in the Pandorica for almost two thousand years. (DW: The Big Bang) He would perform great feats of courage out of his love for Amy and go to any length when angry. He destroyed all but one of the Twelfth Cyber Legion's squadron to find where Amy was 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 helping in TARDIS maintenance. (DW: Space/Time) He put up with the occasionally troublesome natures of Amy and the Doctor. Rory was very loyal to the Doctor, whom he trusted with his life. He was devastated when it appeared the Doctor was dead and when Idris' body died; not only were they his friends, he was a nurse and they were his patients.

Rory was a very fast study. When confronted with the necessity of riding a motorcycle for the first time to follow River Song, he sourly noted that it was "One of those days" and did so. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler)

Other information

Known family

Skills

Rory was a trained nurse. He knew medical procedures and how to examine bodies. (DW: The Eleventh Hour, The Vampires of Venice, The Curse of the Black Spot) As he had been a Roman Centurion, he was accomplished at fighting with a gladius. (DW: The Pandorica Opens, A Good Man Goes to War) In two millenia guarding the Pandorica, Rory became a very effective warrior. In the attack on Demon's Run, he survived the battle with the Headless monks while two experienced soldiers, Strax and Lorna Bucket, were killed. (DW: A Good Man Goes to War). Rory 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

  • In a scene deleted from The Hungry Earth, the Doctor admits to Amy that he likes Rory a lot.
  • Rory's first 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).
  • Coincidentally Rory temporarily "dies" in some manner in three consecutive episodes of Series 6 (DW: Day of the Moon, The Curse of the Black Spot, The Doctor's Wife). Totalling up, his temporary deaths come to six. The other three 'deaths' occurred 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.
    • 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).
  • Escaping to the TARDIS, the Doctor decided that he and his companions had to become renegades to give the Silents a sense of false security. The plan included Canton and the FBI hunt them down on a nationwide search. He then reluctantly sent River and the Ponds on there own nationwide search; to find information about the Silents. He gave them Cryostasis podlets for when Canton would pretend to kill them.
  • When Amy and Rory went to see Romeo and Juliet in 1605, Rory met King James I and, apon informing him of their friendship with the Doctor, almost got him and Amy arrested, but they escaped to the wine cellar in their hotel. Amy then sent the Doctor a letter, informing him of their situation and that they would be hiding in empty wine barrels. (REF: The Brilliant Book 2012)
  • At their next destination, Amy and Rory had a picnic in the Gardens of Zul-Thep in the year 3104. However, their picnic was interrupted by a swarm of giant talking Human hating bees, that were attracted to Amy's jam. Rory then sent a telemessage to the Doctor to pick them up before the giant bees could hurt them. (REF: The Brilliant Book 2012)
  • The Doctor then sent the Ponds to meet Wyatt Earp. However, Rory ended up upsetting Earp, nearly getting shot in the process, which, in turn, upsetting Rory. To make matters worse, aliens appeared and Rory ended up having an accident with a cactus. Amy then sent a telegram to the Doctor, requesting he pick them up and bring Savlon for Rory's cactus injury. (REF: The Brilliant Book 2012)
  • During their beach holiday to Drago14, the beach was attacked by acid-spitting land squids, damaging Rory's Terry Pratchett book. After the attack, Amy and Rory went to get acid proof suits and Amy found a brochure for The Thrasymachus in the Travel Agent shop next to the next to the acid proof shop. Amy then had Rory send an Instant Message to the Doctor about the cruise and told Rory to sent the Doctor their love. (REF: The Brilliant Book 2012)
  • Rory travelled to Oklahoma, Texas and California. He started missing his wife by the time he reached his first destination. During his time in Texas, Rory realised the aliens he was searching for resembled The Scream and deduced that they were behind it's repeated thefts. (REF: The Brilliant Book 2012)

Nametag controversy

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 30 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. Bebo and Twitter were mentioned; the phone had Facebook. So perplexing was this badge ID that Steven Moffat was specifically asked about it in New York by an American fan on 13 April 2010. His response was recorded and released in the podcast, Meet the Filmmaker:

I have never actually looked at Rory's name tag to be completely honest with you...it's not a significant plot thing.Steven Moffat at the SoHo Apple Store

Though it seemed a genuine, spontaneous answer, Moffat had earlier enthusiastically extolled the virtues of lying to the public and press about the content of Doctor Who in a question-and-answer session following the New York theatrical screening of The Eleventh Hour. This led some fans to continue to think of the ID badge as having some hidden plot significance.

However, later episodes like The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang proved that Moffat was telling the truth. The graphics on the ID page were simply erroneous.

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