History Characters / DoctorWhoNewSeriesCompanions

-> ''You know, after a while, everything is just stuff. That's the problem. You make all of space and time your backyard, what do you have? A backyard. But you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.''
--> -- '''Eleventh Doctor'''

The many, many people who accompany the Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'' series (2005 onwards).

As with all ''Doctor Who'' characters, they appear not only in the televised {{Whoniverse}}, but also in the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse branches.

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[[folder:Rose Tyler]]
!!Rose Tyler (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)
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->''The first nineteen years of my life, nothing happened. Nothing at all, not ever. And then I met a man called the Doctor.''

-->Played by: BilliePiper (2005-06, 2008, 2010)
-->Young Rose played by: Julia Joyce (2005)

A shopgirl from 21st century London, Rose was the first companion seen in the new series. She joined the Ninth Doctor for adventures in time and space, realizing that life on Earth with her long-time boyfriend Mickey wasn't doing it for her anymore. Although she delighted in exploring the universe, she also felt a strong loyalty her own mum and to the memory of her dead dad.

Rose stays with the Doctor after he regenerates into Ten and acts as a love interest through both Doctor's runs. Left after series 2, returned for series 4.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Rose is responsible for causing more deaths than ''any'' other companion -- directly in the series 1 finale, and on top of that, indirectly in [[TorchwoodMiracleDay Miracle Day]].
* BigDamnKiss: The third person (after Grace and Jack) to have a snog with the Doctor in the TV series.
* BookDumb: However, that doesn't mean she isn't intelligent, and series four makes it clear she's gotten past this.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Forms most of the tension with Sarah Jane when they first meet, and she ''really'' doesn't seem to like the idea that the Doctor has had female friends other than her in the past (or may have in future).
** In her defence, though, the Doctor never once told her that he had previous companions and was more interested in catching up with Sarah Jane.
** However, by the end of "School Reunion" the tension between Sarah Jane and Rose has disappeared and the two are delighted to see each other again in "Journey's End".
* {{Determinator}}: Who cares if travel between parallel universes is impossible and potentially dangerous? She won't let that stand between her and the Doctor.
* DoubleStandard: She flirts with others, Jack's psychic paper reveals she considers herself available despite having a boyfriend, yet when Mickey starts seeing someone else she starts complaining.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: According to Cassandra in "New Earth", this was Rose's reaction to Doctor's Tenth incarnation;
--> '''Cassandra''': You've been ''looking!'' You ''like'' it!
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Lampshaded by Martha and Jack:
--> '''Martha:''' Is that what happens though, seriously? You just get bored of us one day and disappear?
--> '''Jack:''' Not if you're blonde.
--> '''Martha:''' Oh she was blonde! Oh, what a surprise.
* FirstGirlWins: Rose is one of the few companions that The Doctor has expressed obvious ''romantic'' affection for, eventually ending up with [[spoiler: his half-Donna clone]]. In a very strange (but sweet) way. [[WordOfGod The writers have explicitly said]] that [[spoiler: the Clone told her "I love you" when they hooked up]].
* GirlNextDoor: Of the the most normal companions in the entire series.
* AGodAmI: Temporarily. [[spoiler:"You can't control life and death!" "But I can."]]
* GrandTheftMe: To Cassandra's chagrin. "I'm a chav!"
* HeroicSacrifice: Series 2 finale counts, though she's technically not dead.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Has some very self-centered moments, especially regarding Mickey. [[WhatTheHellHero She gets called out on this.]]
** Despite the Doctor telling her travelling between Parallel Worlds would destroy both worlds, she still tried to travel between them before the barriers began breaking down.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Her interaction with Nine had this vibe to it, leading others to suspect they were a couple.
* LoveConfession: She tells [[spoiler:the Tenth Doctor]] this. [[spoiler:While he does not say it back, his clone whispers it back in her ear (according to the writers). She stays with the clone in the alternate universe.]]
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Nine, and a little bit to Ten as well.
* MoralityChain: For the Ninth Doctor. For the Tenth, not so much...
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Indirectly responsible (along with "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife Sexy]]") for all fallout from making Jack immortal, including [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E11Utopia the return of the Master]] (and by extension, [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E6TheLazarusExperiment Professor Lazarus' rampage]]) and [[Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay Miracle Day]].
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:As the Bad Wolf entity (with a little help from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife Sexy]]). She destroys half a million Daleks in seconds.]]
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Again, Bad Wolf entity.]]
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: To the Ninth Doctor, mainly.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: She just doesn't feel at home with her mum any more after a while, especially in "The Parting of the Ways".
* TookALevelInBadass: She appears to have taken one (off-screen) in series 3. Series 4 makes it explicit.
* {{Tsundere}}: The "sweet" type.
* UnreliableNarrator: Everything she says about her death.
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[[folder:Mickey Smith]]
!!Mickey Smith (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)
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%% Yes, it's "Man In Havana". The reference is to the Graham Greene novel and/or its film adaptation.
%%http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Man_in_Havana
->''Me? [[ManBehindTheMan I'm their 'man in Havana']], [[MissionControl their technical support]]… Oh God, [[ButtMonkey I'm the tin dog]].''

-->Played by: Noel Clarke (2005-06, 2008, 2010)
-->Young Mickey played by: Casey Dyer (2005)

Mickey was Rose's boyfriend, abandoned by her when she became the Doctor's companion. This didn't stop him from running around for a few adventures during that series anyway, although he and Rose never quite managed to patch things up. He later joined the TARDIS crew as a companion for a few episodes early in the second series, only to stay behind off-planet ([[AlternateUniverse sort of]]). He returned at the end of the second series, as well as the end of the fourth and briefly in the 2009 specials.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Played straight with Rose, later averted with [[spoiler: Martha, whom he married]].
* AlternateUniverse: His counterpart in the zeppelin world is a gay gangster named Ricky.
* AlwaysSecondBest: To the Doctor.
* BadassBeard: Once he starts fighting aliens freelance.
* BadassNormal: Eventually.
* BlackAndNerdy: He's a bit of a hacker.
* ButtMonkey: The Doctor considers him an idiot, his girlfriend gives him little to no respect, his girlfriend's mother accuses him of murder when her daughter goes missing, Jack starts making fun of him within ten seconds of meeting him, and even K-9 gets to throw in a bit of snark while informing him, "We are in a car." Hell, his own parallel-universe equivalent finds him embarrassing, and this is a guy who considers himself a badass because of the number of parking tickets he's accrued.
* HumiliationConga: His girlfriend runs off with an alien after basically snarking how useless he was. She goes missing for a year and the police haul him in five times, while her mother and the entire estate gives him hell about it. The Doctor keeps calling him Ricky and turning into better looking guys while hauling his girlfriend all over the cosmos.
* IChooseToStay: At the end of "The Age of Steel," he stays behind in the alternate universe [[spoiler:to help his dead alternate self's [[WordOfGay boyfriend]] (long story) fight the Cybermen and take care of his parallel-universe grandmother. Then he comes back for good at the end of "Journey's End" (after returning briefly in "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday").]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In the end.
* LoveTriangle: Rose leaves him as soon as she meets the Doctor, although she considers herself "sort of" Mickey's girlfriend for a while after that. When she also starts fancying Jack, Mickey pretty much gives up on the relationship. He becomes part of the family again when he and Rose are left without the Doctor for a few years, but eventually [[spoiler: steps out of her life forever when Rose gets together with the Doctor's half-Donna clone]].
* [[MyNameIsNotDurwood My Name is Not Ricky]]: It's ''Mickey!''
* PairTheSpares: With [[spoiler: Martha Jones]].
* PokeThePoodle: Ricky Smith is London's Most Wanted. ...For parking violations.
* PunnyName: Perhaps not intentional, but to "take the mickey" out of someone is to take any fight/vigor/self importance out of them by mocking them, and Mickey does have to put up with a great deal of mockery and bullying from Rose and the Doctor (mostly Nine, but Ten has his moments), and Jackie at first.
* RebelLeader: Alternate Mickey. (It's ''Ricky''.)
* ReplacementGoldfish: Becomes one for Jake, Ricky's [[WordOfGay boyfriend]]. Jake copes pretty well with the idea, but since Mickey's not gay, it's a dysfunctional setup to say the least.
* SaltAndPepper: Alongside his partner in crime, Jake.
* TakingUpTheMantle: [[spoiler:When his alternate self dies, Mickey simply assumes his identity and continues the fight.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Multiple.
** To wit, from lovable but aimless boyfriend to a capable hacker and fully-fledged companion. [[spoiler: Ends up fighting Cybermen in an alternate reality and respected member of that reality's Torchwood, and finally [[{{SelfMadeMan}} earns his happy ending with a woman who saved the world with the power of story.]]]]
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[[folder:Adam Mitchell]]
!!Adam Mitchell (Ninth Doctor)
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->''When I was eight, I hacked into the US defence network… you should have seen them running about!''

-->Played by: Bruno Langley (2005)

Short-lived companion; a TeenGenius from 2012. Holds the dubious honor of being the only companion to be evicted from the TARDIS for bad behavior.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Has a job that revolves around alien artifacts, but sees alien abduction stories as nonsense.
* ButtMonkey: He doesn't get a lot of respect.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Intentionally written as a troublemaker to show what kind of person makes for a bad companion.
* InsufferableGenius: Very smug about it.
* TeenGenius: And quick to mention it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out his fate. Presumably, he did as the Doctor said and kept himself quiet, lest people discover the neural interface he got outfitted with in the future.
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[[folder:Jack Harkness]]
!!Captain Jack Harkness (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)
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->'''Mickey Smith''': What are you captain of, the innuendo squad?

-->Played by: JohnBarrowman (2005, 2007, 2008, 2010)

51st century native Jack (not his real name) is an omnisexual former Time Agent, turned time-traveling con-man, turned galactic hero when he met the Doctor -- and, eventually, turned immortal. Madly fancies the Doctor, although it doesn't exactly stop him from also hitting on AnythingThatMoves. [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Got his own spin off]].

''For tropes pertaining to Jack in ''Torchwood'', see [[Characters/{{Torchwood}} that series' character sheet]]''.

* AgeWithoutYouth: Expresses some worry about having an extremely slow version of this, since despite little actual signs of aging he's begun to find white hairs. To top it off, [[spoiler:he is implied to eventually mutate into the Face of Boe after ''billions'' of years]].
* AntiHero: Though a more family-friendly variant than on ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''.
* AnythingThatMoves: Has a penchant of flirting with everyone he meets, even when the world is ending -- to the Doctor's constant frustration.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Being subjected to the full force of the Time Vortex, while clinging onto a TARDIS that's desperately trying to shake him off, doesn't stop him from [[SayMyName shouting the Doctor's name.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Of the World War II greatcoat variety.
* BigDamnKiss: The first person in the new series, and the first ''male'' person (in the TV show at least), to snog the Doctor. Nine doesn't mind at all.
* BoldlyComing: Men, women... giant insects... robots...
* {{Camp}}: It's JohnBarrowman. His camp switch doesn't have an "off" setting.
* TheCasanova: Constantly.
* CatchPhrase / PhraseCatcher: Some variation of the following exchange will be said when he's around:
-->'''Jack''': (To his latest object of attraction) Captain Jack Harkness, and who are you?
-->'''The Doctor''': Stop it.
-->'''Jack''': [[AnythingThatMoves I was just saying hello]]!
* CharacterDevelopment: He starts off as an amoral con-man, but time spent with the Doctor changes him into a loveable anti-hero.
* TheCharmer: Manages to charm both Rose and the Doctor within minutes.
* ChekhovsGunman: In [[spoiler:"The End of the World,"]], as [[spoiler:he's the Face of Boe]]. (RussellTDavies refuses to elaborate on whether or not they're ''actually'' the same person, as it would ruin the joke.) Barrowman said in an interview that when he and Tennant found out the implication, they spent several minutes [[{{Squee}} laughing and cheering]].
* ChivalrousPervert: Never tries anything with someone who's already in a monogamous relationship except Gwen, and is very willing to be strictly monogamous if the right person comes along. Is kind and considerate towards his fuckbuddy Ianto and eventually enters a committed relationship with him in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. Has been married at least once, although his immortality has made him a bit wary of commitment.
* {{Determinator}}: As mentioned above, Jack clung onto a TARDIS that was desperately trying to shake him off, all the way through the Time Vortex, to the very end of time itself! The TARDIS actually ran out of ''universe'' to go through before Jack was willing to give up his chance to reunite with the Doctor.
** Not to mention, spending 100+ years prior to this waiting around Cardiff for their respective timelines to coincide.
* EthicalSlut: Made much more obvious in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', where he's shown to care deeply about his partners' personal boundaries, emotional health and safe sex. He ''abhors'' cheating.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: As a YouTube comment put it,
--> If you're a guy and you like guys, [[NoBisexuals you're gay.]]
--> If you're a guy and you like Jack, [[MemeticSexGod you're human.]]
* ExtremeOmnisexual: Provides the page image. Writer StevenMoffat calls him "bi", but that doesn't even ''begin'' to cover it.
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: Before he was rendered immortal, his response to the Daleks' "Exterminate" was to defiantly throw down his gun, stand up straight, and mutter "I kinda figured that".
* FantasticRacism: After his transformation into a fixed point in time, the TARDIS initially ''really'' does not like him. She considers him an abomination. She seemed to be over it by "Journey's End".
* FreeLoveFuture: Comes from a century where cultural taboos on sex don't exist anymore. Due to humanity's evolution adapting to InterspeciesRomance, human sexual preference also has little meaning anymore in the 51st century, and pretty much EveryoneIsBi. Jack's very much a FishOutOfTemporalWater in this regard.
* TheGoodCaptain: Although ''technically'', he doesn't become an army captain until ''{{Torchwood}}''. His stint as "Captain Jack Harkness" when he first met the Doctor was a case of stolen identity.
* HandsomeLech: And aware of it.
* HealingFactor: Once he becomes immortal.
* HeelFaceTurn: Originally, he was merely a charming con artist. He became a better person thanks to the Doctor's influence, to the point he'd happily be [[spoiler:a LoveMartyr for him.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: The Doctor certainly seems to think so. Apparently, the TARDIS agrees with him: According to the Doctor, Rose [[spoiler:as the Bad Wolf]], didn't just revive him and make him immortal, she turned made him a living ''fixed point''. The TARDIS went as far as to travel to the end of the universe to get rid of him when he grabbed it, and the Doctor's Time Lord instincts make it difficult to even look at him without mentioning how "wrong" he is.
* IgnoredEnamouredUnderling: Towards the Doctor. Jack and Martha share a moment over this when they realise the Doctor's ignoring both their crushes on him.
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: He'll gladly take a few deaths if it helps save the day.
* InternalHomage: He's the TV series' answer to spinoff character [[Characters/BerniceSummerfield Jason Kane]].
* TheLancer: Turns into this around the Doctor, with shades of TheBigGuy.
* LoveMartyr: For the Doctor.
* MacGyvering GadgeteerGenius: In "Bad Wolf", he not only takes out two droids out to kill him, but scraps them to build ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext a gun that can find the Doctor.]]''
* MadeOfIron: On top of being immortal, he also is far more resistant to things that should instantly kill, thanks to his bonus HealingFactor. He once sat in a radiation chamber that should have disintegrated him from the intense concentration of stet radiation.
** ''Torchwood'' shows that he can regenerate even when half his body has been destroyed from being ''blown up!''
* ManlyGay: More like Manly Omnisexual, but still.
* MrFanservice: Gets completely naked in his third episode, with much glee. Also gets a proper sex scene (with a bloke) in ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'', making him the first and so far only ''Doctor Who'' companion to be shagged senseless on screen.
* MrViceGuy: The vice in question being lust. However, he's a proper EthicalSlut, and always respects people's boundaries.
* NoNameGiven: He admits that "Jack Harkness" is an alias. We ''still'' don't know what his name really is.
* ThePornomancer:
--> The last time I was sentenced to death, I ordered [[GargleBlaster four hyper-vodkas]] for my breakfast. All a bit of a blur after that. Woke up in bed with both my executioners. Lovely couple. They stayed in touch! Can't say that about most executioners.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Over 170 in series 3, over [[spoiler: 2040]] in series 4.
* TheSlowPath: Between series 1 and 3, and again between series 3 and 4.
* TimePolice: Formerly.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Back and forth between this and LivingForeverIsAwesome. You could say both are deconstructed because both are true at points.
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[[folder:Donna Noble]]
!!Donna Noble (Tenth Doctor)
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->''Didn't I ever tell you? Best temp in Chiswick -- 100 words per minute!''

-->Played by: CatherineTate (2006, 2008-10) [[note]]Donna first appeared in a special in 2006, then became a companion for one full season in 2008. She and made a final appearance in both parts of a 2-part story, part 1 airing on Christmas Day 2009, while part 2 aired on New Years Day 2010.[[/note]]

Donna was a temp worker from Chiswick, London in the 21st century. She first met the Doctor when the Racnoss queen fed her an ancient energy normally only found inside [=TARDISes=], and the TARDIS pulled her into itself as a result. Played by established comedienne [[TheCatherineTateShow Catherine Tate]]. Originally a one-off character for the [[{{Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride}} 2006 Christmas Special]], Donna returned as a regular companion for the fourth series as well as a role in the Tenth Doctor's last two specials.

* AbusiveParents: Donna's mom, Sylvia, is verbally abusive to both Donna and Wilf (Donna's grandfather) in a depressingly realistic way. The Doctor is actually shocked when he realizes the extent of it, and tells Sylvia to stop it.
* AllWebbedUp: ''The Runaway Bride''.
* {{Badass}}: Eventually.
* BadassBureaucrat: She was an office worker prior to being a companion, and her office skills prove extremely useful in "The Sontaran Strategem", "The Doctor's Daughter" and "Journey's End". Her ability to understand office files, work a calendar system and type 100 words a minute ends up saving the universe several times over.
* BadassNormal: The Doctor infiltrated (and later broke into) a corporate office building [[MagicTool with psychic paper and the sonic screwdriver.]] She did the same with little more than really good BS skills and an absurd amount of patience.
* BetterAsFriends: With the Doctor, to his great relief. In fact, he wouldn't have let her into the TARDIS otherwise, because he was very tired of everyone falling in love with him. (They share one snog, but it's completely for comic relief and not remotely romantic. And she does find him attractive, but not in ''that way''.)
* BigDamnKiss: With the Doctor, of the "LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain" variety.
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* CatchPhrase: "Oi!"
* CharacterDevelopment: Oh, very much. It's a testament to Tate's acting talent when Donna's mom and grandfather beg the Doctor to let her [[spoiler: keep her memories]], as traveling with him made her a better person -- and we see her revert to her shrill, gossipy, ''idiotic'' old self [[spoiler: when those memories are erased]].
* ChristmasCake: Donna is one of the ''very'' few companions older than 30.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Averted; the Doctor expects the same snarking he got from Rose/Sarah, but when Donna meets Martha they just shake hands and get along fine. Donna's concerns are more that she might lose her position as the Doctor's companion.
* CrazyPrepared: After her debut episode, drove around with every type of clothing she might ever need to travel with the Doctor, just in case he showed up again one day and made her a companion.
* CursedWithAwesome: [[spoiler:Doctor Donna: a human woman with a Time Lord brain and mankind's unique spark that makes her use her newfound intellect at maximum proficency, even surpassing the Doctor himself. But the strain this puts on her human frame is so hard that it starts to ''kill her'' and forces the Doctor to make her forget ''everything'' about her travels with him in order to supress her super intellect and save her life. Worse yet, if Donna ever remembers ''anything'' about her time with the Doctor, her Time Lord brain will resurface and she will ''burn''.]]
* FailingATaxi: In the ChristmasSpecial where we first meet her, she tries to hail a taxi and gets one driven by a {{Mook}}, forcing the Doctor to save her.
* FieryRedhead: Scorching!
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: PlayedWith. Donna is frequently horrified by the amount of responsibility the Doctor has, but copes by going back to being snarky for the start of each new adventure. This means that her CharacterDevelopment is gradual and zig-zaggy. It makes it all the more horrifying when we see her go back to her ''old'' old self.
* GoodWithNumbers: It's more than just math, though -- she's spent most of her life temping, and she's gotten ''ridiculously'' good at it, having gained a knack for spotting patterns in numbers not even the Doctor would notice.
* HalfHumanHybrid: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]", [[spoiler:she saves herself from Dalek-inflicted doom by splicing her DNA with the Doctor's. She then indulges in {{technobabble}}, yelling like the Doctor, and hijacking the Dalek's motor commands to make them spin in circles. Fun is had by all, but it does not last.]]
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Pretty much her entire character arc. And she'll never know what a difference she made.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: She's loud and abrasive because she believes she isn't important.
* LargeHam: Extremely.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Her relationship with the Doctor. In fact, most people initially believe they're married or [[SiblingRivalry brother and sister.]]
* LikeBrotherAndSister: She and the Tenth Doctor have this dynamic, both trading sarcastic barbs constantly but obviously caring deeply for each other. The Doctor outright calls her his [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming best friend]].
* MissingTheGoodStuff: In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]]", her first appearance, she has (somehow) managed to avoid all of London's previous encounters with extraterrestrials.
* MoralityChain: Explicitly considers herself one for the Tenth Doctor.
* PityTheKidnapper: When she was in peril, she often made the bad guys regret putting her there, even without the Doctor's interventions.
* PluckyGirl: Explicitly called this by the Doctor.
* RedHeadedHero: CatherineTate's natural colour.
* RedPillBluePill: "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E11TurnLeft Turn Left]]".
* RefusalOfTheCall: When the Doctor first asks her if she'll travel with him, she says no -- being, understandably, weirded out by his tranquil fury. She later regrets this and begins searching for him.
** JumpedAtTheCall: In her second appearence.
* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: Mainly just one episode, "Turn Left." Rose goes out of her way to get her out of town, and then to use her to change her past.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Quite honestly so this time.
* ShoeSlap: Declined. In 'The Poison Sky', she was supposed to use a shoe to knock out a Sontaran. Thing is, she'd only wear trainers, and those don't have quite the kick needed. Fortunately, PercussiveMaintenance leaves mallets around when you need them.
* {{Tsundere}}: The "harsh" type. Pompeii, the Ood, the Doctor in distress and her own two alternate dimensions trigger the ''dere'' side.
* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: MindRaped to prevent [[MySkullRunnethOver her skull runnething over]].]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Ten.
* WindsOfDestinyChange: Lampshaded by Rose in "Turn Left." Even without the [[spoiler: bug on her back]], she still warps [[RealityWarper reality]]/destiny.
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[[folder:Martha Jones]]
!!Martha Jones (Tenth Doctor)
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->''I traveled across the world. From the ruins of New York, to the fusion mills of China, right across the radiation pits of Europe...''

-->Played by: Creator/FreemaAgyeman (2007-08, 2010)

Martha was a medical student when her hospital ended up on the Moon in the early 21st century. She and the Doctor saved each other's lives a few times that day, and she ended up as the third female (second regular female) companion of the Tenth Doctor. Tries hard not to fall in love with him, but fails rather spectacularly at that. After she left the TARDIS, Jack Harkness pulled some strings to get her a job with UNIT in what seems to be Harry Sullivan's old job. She remains friends with Jack, and has popped up in a a couple of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episodes helping out Torchwood Cardiff. She left UNIT to become a freelance monster fighter but, at least in ''Torchwood'' comics, still work with them.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Develops a crush on the Doctor big enough to rival Rose's feelings. He acknowledges her feelings, after a ''while'', but nothing ever happens. By the time she's no longer a companion, she's over him and they go back to being just friends.
* AlwaysSecondBest: How she feels about replacing Rose.
* BadassBookworm: During her first trip through time, she saves the world by quoting from ''Literature/HarryPotter''.
* BetterAsFriends: Leaves the TARDIS when she realizes the Doctor's never going to like her "that way". In season 4, she's recovering from her crush on him, and they're much happier together just being friends.
* BigDamnKiss: With the Doctor in her first episode ("genetic transfer!"). Also ''eventually'' kisses Jack Harkness in ''{{Torchwood}}'', simply because "everyone else has had a go". Jack just sort of stares at her and grins.
* BlackAndNerdy: Medical student, natch. She also saves the world by quoting ''Literature/HarryPotter''.
* ClingyJealousGirl: A mild case, but more so when Rose is brought up. Once she's getting over her crush on him, [[spoiler:she's actually really happy when the Doctor and Rose are reunited.]]
* {{Determinator}}: At the end of Series 3.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: To John Smith in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E8HumanNature Human Nature]] / [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E9TheFamilyOfBlood The Family of Blood]]".
* HospitalHottie: Studying to become a doctor.
* IgnoredEnamouredUnderling: Just after their first meeting, the Doctor makes her promise not to start fancying him. She agrees, but falls in love with him anyway.
* JustFriends: With the Doctor, to her great frustration.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Although not TheStoic, Martha does keep a grip on her emotions. When she gets angry ("The Sound of Drums") or really scared ("The Sontaran Stratagem"), you know things are very bad.
* PairTheSpares: With [[spoiler: Mickey Smith]]. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What happened to her engagement to Thomas Milligan from Series 4]] has never been explained onscreen. WordOfGod from Russell T Davies says that Tom was the rebound guy.
* ReplacementGoldfish: It doesn't take very long for her to feel as though she's simply this for Rose. She doesn't put up with it, sits the Doctor down and makes him tell her what's going on.
* TechnicalPacifist: Doesn't carry a gun, but has a position of command in a military organisation.
* TookALevelInBadass: In The Year That Never Was. Joins UNIT right after.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Creator/FreemaAgyeman was Adeola Oshodi in "Army of Ghosts", a Torchwood employee who is possessed by the Cybermen and then killed. To explain why Adeola looked similar to Martha, they had Martha refer to Adeola as her cousin in "Smith & Jones".
* WalkingTheEarth: During the Year That Never Was.
* WhatTheHellHero: The Doctor's reaction when he hears about Martha's plan to [[spoiler: blow up Earth]] to stop a Dalek plot.
* YaoiFangirl: As revealed in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', where she takes interest in Jack and Ianto's "dabbling".
* YouLookFamiliar: As above.
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[[folder:Astrid Peth]]
!!Astrid Peth (Tenth Doctor)
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->''Mr. Capricorn? I resign!''

-->Played by: Music/KylieMinogue (2007)

A one-shot character in the [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned 2007 Christmas special]]. A struggling waitress from the planet Sto on board the Starship ''Titanic''.

* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: At the end.
* BigDamnKiss: Surprises the Doctor with her knowledge of Earth Christmas traditions.
* ChristmasCake: And very quick to steal a kiss from the Doctor.
* HeroicSacrifice / StupidSacrifice: To take out her boss.
* HumanAliens: Albeit with very little knowledge of earth.
* {{Meido}}: Wears a little apron and a short skirt.
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[[folder:Wilfred Mott]]
!!Wilfred Mott (Tenth Doctor)
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->''Every night, Doctor, when it gets dark, and the stars come out, I'll look up on her behalf. I'll look up at the sky, and think of you.''

-->Played by: Bernard Cribbins (2007-10) [[note]]A cameo in the 2007 Christmas Special, a RecurringCharacter in the 2008 season, finally PromotedToOpeningCredits as a companion in a 2-part story which aired on Christmas Day 2009 and New Years Day 2010 [[/note]]

A newspaper salesman from 21st century Chiswick, London. Originally a one-off character in [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]], Wilfred was eventually revealed to also be Donna Noble's grandfather (a last-minute rewrite due to the actor hired to play Donna's father [[ActorExistenceFailure dying]]). This resulted in quite a few recurring roles throughout the fourth series, leading to fan-favorite status for the character and finally full-fledged companion status in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]", the Tenth Doctor's final story.

* AscendedExtra: Originally intended to be named "Stan" for [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]] and never show up again. This changed when Howard Attfield, the actor playing Donna's father passed away and Wilf was written in as Donna's grandfather.
* BadassGrandpa: The entire population of London evacuates because they're afraid aliens will invade, and Wilf stays in his stall. Daleks are invading the Earth, and Wilf's first thought is how to disable them... ''with a paintball gun''. He even proves a crack shot with an asteroid laser.
* BadassNormal: Dalek. '''Paintball gun'''. It didn't ''work'', but that's still quite a few levels of {{Badass}}ness above the norm.
* CatchPhrase: [[ProperlyParanoid "It's them aliens again!"]]
* ChekhovsGun: Owns one, and convinces the Doctor to accept it as a gift.
* CoolOldGuy: Willing to do anything to save the world.
* LikeASonToMe: Despite being the Doctor's junior by more than 800 years.
-->'''The Doctor:''' "I'd be proud."
-->'''Wilf:''' "What?"
-->'''The Doctor:''' "If you ''were'' my dad."
* ManlyTears: His friendship with Ten is very emotional.
* OlderSidekick: Obviously more than qualifies in the real world; he's more than twice David Tennant's age. In fact, Bernard Cribbins is the oldest actor to have played a companion on the show. In-universe, the Doctor is still ''much'' older.
* ParentalSubstitute: Is this to Donna. After her father died, and given her mother's aloofness, she always turns to "Gramps".
* PromotedToOpeningCredits: For the Tenth Doctor's final story.
* ProphecyTwist: [[spoiler: "He will knock four times."]] The Doctor was absolutely sure that it referred to [[spoiler: the Master]] (and, admit it, so were you.) Instead, [[spoiler: after the Master is defeated, Wilf politely knocks four times on the door of his glass cage, hoping the Doctor will let him out. Wilf previously trapped himself in the cage to save a random guy's life. The only way the Doctor can get him out is by killing himself.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: A paintball gun. Or his old service revolver. That works, too.
* YouLookFamiliar: Cribbins co-starred in ''DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'' way back in 1966 as well as in the BigFinish episode [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS1E3HorrorOfGlamRock "Horror Of Glam Rock"]].
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[[folder:River Song]]
!!Professor River Song (Tenth and Eleventh Doctors)
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->''Spoilers!''

-->Played by: Creator/AlexKingston (2008, 2010-present) [[labelnote:spoiler note]]Played by other actors in other incarnations. See TheNthDoctor.[[/labelnote]]

A professor of archaeology who has an unusually close relationship with the Doctor. She and the Doctor never meet in the right order; the Tenth Doctor first met her in the Library in the 51st century, where it would be the last time for her (sort of -- it's complicated), and it only gets more confusing from there. They move ''roughly'' in opposite time directions, and depending on what end of the timeline they're on respectively, they each know secrets about each other that they're unable to talk about without creating paradoxes. As a result, she's a walking collection of "Spoilers!" and very much aware of it.

* EightiesHair: A whole lot of it. She's ''delighted'' when she [[spoiler:regenerates into Alex Kingston]] and sees it. Strax, who doesn't really understand mammals, calls her the one with the "gigantic head".
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Professor of archaeology.
* AdventurerOutfit: She loves fancy dresses, but for proper adventuring she changes into practical camo.
* AnachronicOrder: She's a time traveler, and she and the Doctor always have to take a few minutes and check where they are in their relative timelines. Because of this, several episodes (like "The Impossible Astronaut", "A Good Man Goes to War" and "Night and the Doctor") feature a few Rivers at once.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: In "The Wedding of River Song".
* AntiHero: Wasn't always a nice person before she joined team TARDIS. Can't always afford to be a nice person afterwards, due to spoilers.
* AxCrazy: Extremely so in "Let's Kill Hitler", [[spoiler:as her young, wanting-to-kill-the-Doctor incarnation as Mels.]]
* BadassBoast: In "The Timeline of River Song" which was in ''Doctor Who Confidential'' after the 2011 finale, during the footage of River effortlessly gunning down multiple Silence with a laser pistol from the start of the series.
-->'''River:''' Did I mention I was kick ass with a gun? No one kidnaps ''me'' and gets away with it!
* BadassBookworm: Scariest Archaeologist Ever. She is rather kickass for an academic.
* BattleCouple: The Doctor and River Song are made of this. He is feared across time and space, and she is [[spoiler:part-Time Lord and raised as a weapon to fight the Doctor]]. They've fought off alien invaders back-to-back, while flirting.
* BadassFamily: [[spoiler:Her mothers and father are the TARDIS, Amy and Rory.]]
* BigDamnKiss: Five total so far [[spoiler:with the Doctor: his first kiss with her, her first kiss with him, a big one to ''fix'' the consequences of her first kiss with him, one to fix a massive TimeCrash, and her last one (well her, {{Virtual Ghost}}'s last one) with him.]]
* BiTheWay: Pretty much stated in her first appearance, and later confirmed by Word Of Moffat. In her first episode, she had one team member keep on his helmet because she didn't "fancy him". The room consisted of Donna and the Doctor, two female members of her archaeology crew and the two Daves. The surface reading would indicate she had a personal dislike for him because he's kind of a dick, but in retrospect...
* BlackBestFriend: [[spoiler:As Mels, Amy and Rory's childhood friend.]]
* BoxedCrook: As revealed in "The Time of Angels" / "Flesh And Stone", she spends many years of her life in the ([[CardboardPrison allegedly]]) high-security Stormcage. Her crime is "killing the best man she ever knew". [[spoiler:The man turns out to be the Doctor, who's death she helped fake.]]
* BrainsAndBondage: The trope's poster girl for the series. Why would she have handcuffs? Spoilers.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Spends the first years of her life being indoctrinated to kill the Doctor. She falls in love with him instead, and ends up saving him from her first assassination attempt.]]
* CatchPhrase:
** "Hello, sweetie!" whenever she meets the Doctor.
** "Spoilers" when keeping anyone's relative future a secret. Also her [[spoiler:{{Famous Last Words}} before her {{Heroic Sacrifice}}]].
* CharacterDevelopment: PlayedWith. When we first meet her, she's very mature and independent, but we don't know anything about her yet. Since her life unfolds in the opposite direction of the Doctor's, we very slowly get to know her, but each time we see her she's a bit younger. Eventually, when we see who she ''really'' is, she's very young, barely out of puberty, and incredibly crass and stupid.
* ClingyJealousGirl: In a rather funny variation on the trope, she frequently suspects that the Doctor may be hiding other women somewhere while she's around... but it's always a past or future version of herself.
* ConsummateLiar: So as to not spoil anyone's relative future.
-->I lied. I'm always lying.
* DistaffCounterpart: To the Doctor himself. (In particular, she seems to have borrowed some hairstyling tips from Eight and carries the Third's posh sensibilities as well as knack for no-holds-barred action (coincidentally, the Third is Creator/AlexKingston's favorite Doctor))
* DomesticAbuse: She frequently hits the Doctor when she can't cope with their way of life. He doesn't protest too much at first (presumably since it's also how she saved him back in the Library), but eventually gets sick of it and stops her mid-slap.
* ExtraParentConception: Due to being conceived in the TARDIS, and having the Time Vortex [[spoiler: poured into her in the womb]], the TARDIS considers herself River's mother in addition to [[spoiler: Amy and Rory]]. River finds out the first time she meets the TARDIS, and is completely shocked when the TARDIS tells her.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: Says she once dated a guy made of plastic.
** WordOfGod jokingly claimed that she was involved with her entire archeological staff.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler:Inverted. Typically the situation is that a child is raised by someone they're told are not their mother or father but secretly are. River spent her childhood with her parents without them knowing it was her, though she knew.]] And due to TrollingCreator, ''just'' as we're starting to figure all of that out, there are anvil-sized hints that [[spoiler: Amy's baby may also be the Doctor's. It turns out to be a giant RedHerring.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: In "Let's Kill Hitler", [[spoiler:prior to her HeelFaceTurn. She acts much like she always does, except with more murder attempts.]]
* FemmeFatale: Becomes this in her middle phase, black dress and all. ''Thinks'' she's this when she's young. Grows out of it when she's older, which is when we first meet her.
* ForegoneConclusion: Her [[spoiler:death]] in her first appearance, "Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead". Her subsequent appearances are earlier in her timeline.
* GenreSavvy: Remarkably genre-savvy, to the point where on at least one occasion she made the very remark the audience was thinking at the time. [[spoiler:She takes after her father.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: Though she seems to have mellowed out in the future.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal
* TheGunslinger: Very gun-happy.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's got [[spoiler:primitive Time Lord]] DNA [[spoiler:from being conceived on the TARDIS]]. It's explicitly said that [[spoiler:she's the TARDIS' daughter as much as she is Amy's and Rory's]].
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:To the Doctor, although for many of her meetings after the marriage, he hasn't married her yet, and he doesn't realize he's going to -- although he starts to suspect it as soon as the topic comes up.]]
* HaveWeMetYet: The Doctor and River meet in the wrong order: for example, the Doctor's first encounter with her is her last encounter with him. In her first encounter with him, she realizes he's already had many encounters with her future self, motivating her to [[spoiler: save his life.]]
** In "A Good Man Goes to War", Rory asks River this when he comes to recruit her to find Amy.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Kills the Doctor, then brings him back to life, using up all her remaining regenerations in the process. "As first dates go, I'd say that was mixed signals."]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Twice. Both times to [[spoiler: save the Doctor's life]]. The first time (from her perspective), she [[spoiler: tries to kill him, then uses all of her regeneration power all at once in order to save him]]. The second time (from her perspective), she [[spoiler: prevents him from making a HeroicSacrifice to save Donna and thousands of others, and gives her own life to save him instead.]] She had to, because she wouldn't even ''exist'' if he'd died that day.
** More often than that. Her first kiss with the Doctor showed that. [[spoiler:She feared that his first kiss with her was her last kiss with him.]]
* HypercompetentSidekick: She can fly the TARDIS better than the Doctor, amongst other things. Extremely justified: The TARDIS is her [[spoiler:second mom.]]
* IKnowYourTrueName: The first character in the show's 50 years confirmed to know the Doctor's real name, and is still only one out of ''two''. It eventually allows her to [[spoiler: open the Doctor's grave]].
-->'''Tenth Doctor:''' River, you know my name. You whispered my name in my ear. There's only one reason I would ever tell anyone my name -- there's only one time I ''could''.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Shooting Eleven's stetson right off his head.
** She offhandedly shoots a [[spoiler:Silence]] that was behind her.
* InLoveWithTheMark: River was supposed to be [[spoiler:The Silence's weapon to use against the Doctor]]. She learned another side of the story while [[spoiler: growing up with Amy and Rory]] and fantasises about [[spoiler: marrying him]] instead. She ''still'' [[spoiler: tries to kill him, but saves his life when she realises the implications.]] When it came time to [[spoiler: kill him at Lake Silencio, she refused, and all of time nearly fell apart due to it being a fixed point in time.]]
* InstantExpert: In TARDIS piloting. Justifed, since [[spoiler:the TARDIS herself teaches her via telepathy, and is her second mom]]. Seeing as the TARDIS is unused to time progressing linearly and was fully aware of who River was all along, she probably [[spoiler: started training her in utero.]]
* InternalHomage: A nod to the extremely long-running ExpandedUniverse companion BerniceSummerfield, another professor of archaeology who keeps a diary about the Doctor. StevenMoffat wrote for the BerniceSummerfield franchise before becoming the ShowRunner for the TV series.
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Had she not done her HeroicSacrifice in the Library, she never would have met the Doctor and never would have been born.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Literally put her own happiness above [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt everyone else lives]] at the series six finale, when she's still very young and inexperienced with being one of the good guys. This earns her a WhatTheHellHero from the Doctor.
* KidFromTheFuture: She's [[spoiler:Amy and Rory's daughter]].
* KissOfDeath: She prefers hallucinogenic lipstick over the traditional poisonous lipstick. [[spoiler:Played straight in "Let's Kill Hitler", since she was programmed from birth to assassinate the Doctor.]]
* LadyOfAdventure
* LargeHam: In "The Time of Angels" and especially "Let's Kill Hitler", when she's still very young.
* LaserGuidedTykebomb: She was originally raised as [[spoiler:a weapon to kill the Doctor]].
* LastKiss: [[spoiler: with the Doctor in "The Name of the Doctor"]]
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Her bickering with the Doctor is made of this. [[spoiler:Because they are.]]
* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother, Like Daughter]]: She has a penchant for denying mercy to her enemies even when they beg for it, and she's willing to tear time itself apart [[spoiler:for her husband's sake]]. Just like her mum, it turns out. Also, both her and [[spoiler: her ''other'' mom, the TARDIS,]] consider themselves [[spoiler: married to the Doctor]].
* LoonyFan: [[spoiler: Was deliberately brought up all her life to become obsessed with the Doctor, and inevitably fell in love with him in the process. Sacrificed centuries of her life to save him. Then studied archaeology just so she could find him again. When they finally meet face-to-face again years later, she firmly believes that if she were to be separated from him again, she would suffer more than ''the rest of the universe'' combined. When he hears her say that, the Doctor marries her in sheer exasperation, just to get her to listen.]]
* LovableSexManiac: Brags happily about her past lovers, relentlessly flirts with the Doctor, and rivals Jack Harkness when it comes to rampant innuendo. Moffat has joked that she was probably involved with her ''entire'' archaeology team.
--> '''The Doctor:''' We've got ten minutes, get dressed.
--> '''River:''' Oh, that's ''so'' close to the perfect sentence.
* LoveConfession: [[spoiler:To the Doctor]] in "The Wedding of River Song."
* LukeIAmYourFather / LukeYouAreMyFather: River is [[spoiler:Melody Pond, the daughter of Amy Pond, Rory Williams and the TARDIS]]. River tells them this after [[spoiler:her newborn self]] is kidnapped.
* TheMasochismTango: Her ''very'' first (from her perspective) words ever to the Doctor are to insult his bow tie. The second time she properly meets the Doctor, she [[spoiler: tries to kill him with poison lipstick, then makes a HeroicSacrifice to revive him]]. The third time she properly meets the Doctor, [[spoiler: he angrily makes her marry him (long story) and they snark at each other as time itself explodes around them]]. From that point on, [[spoiler: they date quite happily]], but she gets on significantly less well with younger versions of him that she occasionally meets -- because she can't spoil anything for fear of paradox. By the time she meets a version of him so young that all they can have is BelligerentSexualTension, their entire relationship revolves around snarking, bitching and flirting while he keeps on being frustrated at how secretive she is. The last time she properly meets him, she [[spoiler:punches him in the face, handcuffs him to a wall and makes a HeroicSacrifice to save his life.]]
* MoralMyopia: In a backwards version of CharacterDevelopment, she has this big time in later episodes. [[spoiler: Reaches its peak in the Series 6 finale, where she decides that she would suffer more than the entire universe if she was forced to kill the Doctor.]]
* MrsRobinson: The Doctor calls her this. She's not amused.
-->'''Doctor''': ...the Legs, the Nose, and Mrs. Robinson.
-->'''River''': I ''hate'' you.
-->'''Doctor''': No, you don't!
** In her past (and his future), though, she gleefully calls him "Benjamin" in return.
** "The Angels Take Manhattan" reveals that she's actually pretty bothered by the fact that he looks "twelve".
* MysteriousPast: One that takes well over a season to be uncovered.
* TheNthDoctor: [[spoiler:Alex Kingston, Harrison and Madison Mortimer, Sydney Wade, Maya Glace-Green and Nina Toussaint-White. Technically, some of those actresses are [[TimeShiftedActor differently-aged versions]] of the same regenerations: River gets three regenerations in total.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Probably.
* PaintedOnPants: The white jodhpurs that she wears in her first appearance in "Silence in the Library". Later lampshaded in "Let's Kill Hitler", when [[spoiler: her younger self regenerates into the form that we first met her in. After going off to check out her new body's butt in a mirror, she proudly announces "[[CallForward I'm going to wear]] ''[[CallForward a lot]]'' [[CallForward of jodhpurs]]!"]]
* PoisonousFriend: She bitterly self-identifies as a psychopath.
* ThePowerOfLove: She [[spoiler:collapsed all of time itself]] to prevent herself from [[spoiler:killing the Doctor]].
* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]]: In "Let's Kill Hitler" she's essentially a hyperactive teenage girl in a 40-year-old body. One who sees nothing wrong with firing a lot of guns to get her way.
* PsychoSidekick: Has it under control, but still glumly refers to herself as a "psychopath" when she's already a Professor. EpiphanyTherapy is very much averted.
* TheReveal: River Song is in fact [[spoiler:Melody Pond, the daughter of Amy Pond, Rory Williams and the TARDIS]]. She's also been one of Amy and Rory's [[spoiler: closest friends since they were kids]], and becomes [[spoiler: the Doctor's wife]].
* RunningGag: She seems to have a habit of shooting whatever hats the Eleventh Doctor finds himself wearing.
** And free-falling and being caught by the TARDIS.
* SassyBlackWoman: [[spoiler:As Mels.]]
* ScrewDestiny: [[spoiler: Refuses to kill the Doctor in the series 6 finale, and consequently makes ''time itself'' implode in an attempt to avoid that fixed point in time.]]
* SelfProclaimedLiar: All the time.
* ShipperOnDeck: Ships Amy and Rory, her [[spoiler: parents]], and merrily played a part in them hooking up [[spoiler: when they were all teenagers]]. Although they most likely would have, anyway.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqspiJIYQ2E Literally said.]]
* SociopathicHero: She has shades of this, and it's played ''very'' darkly in the series six finale. She calls herself a "psychopath" quite happily when she's young, and significantly less happily when she's older.
* StableTimeLoop:
** She's named after [[spoiler:herself... ''twice''.]] To explain, [[spoiler:Amy named her "Melody" after her childhood friend, Mels... who turns out to ''be'' her daughter Melody.]] The second time, [[spoiler:she adopts her Gamma Forest name translation "River Song" only because the Doctor, Amy, and Rory keep calling her that, because that's the name they always knew her by.]]
** Gets the idea of defacing land marks to summon the Doctor from Amy and Rory, who in turn got it from her.
** She and the Doctor give ''each other'' [[spoiler: the "Spoilers!" CatchPhrase]], during their respective first proper meetings.
* StepfordSmiler: Comes across as carefree and flirty partially to hide a depressed and lonely side. She tells Amy she tries hard not to let the Doctor see her damage.
* SuddenlyEthnicity: PlayedWith, subverted, then PlayedStraight, then completely turned on its head again. [[spoiler: Is half human, half Time Lord. Except that she has no Time Lord parents -- her parents are two humans and the TARDIS. And she spent her entire childhood in her second regeneration, which happened to be black.]]
* SuperStrength: A very minor example, [[spoiler:but in "Day of the Moon" River mentions that the little girl -— her younger self, it turns out -- would have to be incredibly strong to tear herself free from the space suit.]]
* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: Played for a [[WhamEpisode dramatic]] [[TheReveal reveal]] in [[Recap/{{DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar}} "A Good Man Goes to War"]], when it turns out that [[spoiler: River Song's name comes from a close approximation in the language of the Forest People: "Melody" becomes "Song", and they don't quite have a word that means "Pond" because [[ArcWords "The only water in the forest is the river..."]]]]
* TimeyWimeyBall: Suffers from a ton of {{Grandfather Paradox}}es. [[spoiler:Born in the 52nd century at Demon's Run, gets named Melody Pond after Amy and Rory's best friend "Mels", grows up in 1960s Florida, then regenerates into a toddler and grows up again in 1990s England ''as'' Amy and Rory's best friend "Mels". Then meets the Doctor in 2012, proceeds to nearly kill him in 1945, and takes the name "River Song" after learning about her future self. Then, after faking the Doctor's death in 2011, ends up dying saving an incarnation of the Doctor who still hasn't met her in the 52nd century to make sure she exists in the first place.]]
* TouchedByVorlons: As a result of [[spoiler:being conceived in and by the TARDIS]], she is [[spoiler:part-Time Lord]]. The Doctor tries to argue that evolution ''does not work that way''. The TARDIS pointedly disagrees.
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: In "A Good Man Goes to War", River implies that she once spent a very enjoyable birthday with two Doctors at once.
* TykeBomb: [[spoiler:Raised by the Silence to kill the Doctor for the first few years of her life.]]
* VirtualGhost: [[spoiler:Her final fate.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: In-universe and out, to an insane degree. It's even her catchphrase.
* WhatTheHellHero: After the Doctor [[spoiler: saved her VirtualGhost]] in the Library, he [[spoiler: never visited her again, since it would hurt him too much to face her]]. She [[spoiler: seeks him out and calls him out on it, very, very hard.]]
* WholePlotReference: To one of StevenMoffat's favourite novels, ''TheTimeTravelersWife''. The similarities would take quite a while to count. She even meets the Doctor in a library, exactly like the novel's titular characters.
* WifeHusbandry / Companion Husbandry: "The Impossible Astronaut" revealed that the first time River met the Doctor he knew ''everything'' about her, and it's starting to trouble River herself. As it turns out, [[spoiler:he knew her as an infant -- she's Melody Pond]]. Subverted in that the Doctor doesn't realize he knew her [[spoiler: as a child until some time after [[StableTimeLoop they had their first kiss]]]].
* YouAlreadyChangedThePast / YouCantFightFate: The Doctor's first meeting with River is her final meeting with him, and the first time River meets the Doctor (at least at a point she can actually remember, rather than as [[spoiler:a baby]]), he knows everything about her. This means they have no true beginning to their relationship (when one of them first meets the other, the other already knows and cares for the other deeply), and two endings.
** Another example: [[spoiler:River's assassination of the Doctor-inside-the-Teselecta is a fixed point in time. When she attempts to avert it, the universe is plunged into a massive AnachronismStew that threatens to tear time itself apart, leading the Doctor himself to unleash a WhatTheHellHero on her.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Is a young twentysomething when she gets [[spoiler: her adult body]]. Possibly. She instantly ''loves'' it.
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[[folder:The Next Doctor]]
!!"The Next Doctor" (Tenth Doctor)
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->''I'm the Doctor! Simply, 'the Doctor.' The one, the only and the best!''

-->Played by: David Morrissey (2008)

The Doctor teams up with ''this'' Doctor during the [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E14TheNextDoctor 2008 Christmas special]] on Christmas Eve, 1851, making the traditional Doctor into his ''companion'' for a while. Of course, this Doctor was just a normal human, but that doesn't change how awesome he was.

* BackToBackBadasses: With Ten.
* BadassBookworm: He built a dirigible out of household items.
* BadassNormal: Able, and willing, to take on the Cybermen by himself.
* LargeHam: He's hammy even by normal ''Who'' standards.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Which is the reason Ten doesn't press him too hard on his past, at first. Messing with a Time Lord after regeneration amnesia is generally a bad idea.
* TheNthDoctor: He seems to be number 11 -- [[spoiler: but just got blasted with the Doctor's personality and thought he'd regenerated.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: He spends most of the special thinking he's the Doctor, and Ten seems to think he is a future Doctor. Then it turns out he's [[spoiler: just a human whose mind has accidentally been tampered with.]]
* StayInTheKitchen: His attitude towards Rosita, due to DeliberateValuesDissonance.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rosita]]
!!Rosita (Tenth Doctor)
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->''I'm glad you think it's so ''funny''. You're mad! Both of ya! You could've got killed!''

-->Played by: Velile Tshabalala (2008)

Companion of the aforementioned other Doctor, who teams up with the both of them.

* BadassNormal: Veers into OnlySaneMan in the chase scene, when she's the only one with the presence of mind to cut the rope loose before both Doctors can be dragged out the window.
-->'''Rosita:''' You ''idiots''.
* {{Expy}}: A rather obvious amalgamation of the new series' main companions.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Done subtly so the kids wouldn't realize.
* MeaningfulName: "Rosita" is quite close to "Rose" and "Martha", and this is subtly pointed out. It means "little rose".
* SarcasticDevotee: To her Doctor.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lady Christina de Souza]]
!!Lady Christina de Souza (Tenth Doctor)
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->'''Tenth Doctor:''' Come on, allons-y!
->'''de Souza:''' Oui, mais pas si nous allons vers un cauchemar. [Yes, but not if we're going into a nightmare.]
->'''Tenth Doctor:''' [Obviously impressed.] Oh, we were made for each other!

-->Played by: Michelle Ryan (2009)

One-shot character during the [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E15PlanetOfTheDead 2009 Easter Special]], Lady Christina is a thief of noble blood from the early 21st century drawn into the Doctor's world of the weird.

* BlueBlood: French aristocracy.
* ClassyCatBurglar / LadyOfAdventure: Meets the Doctor just after a heist.
* CrazyPrepared: She has something in her pack for every situation... except bus fare.
* DarkActionGirl: A bit more morally ambiguous than most companions. The Doctor doesn't mind too much.
* NotSoDifferent: When the Doctor learns what she does, he acts disapproving for about ten seconds before admitting he stole the [=TARDIS=] from his own people.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Adelaide Brooke]]
!!Captain Adelaide Brooke (Tenth Doctor)
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->''This is'' '''wrong''', ''Doctor. The Time Lord Victorious is'' '''wrong.'''

-->Played by: Lindsay Duncan (2009)
-->Young Adelaide played by: Rachel Fewell (2009)

Stepping into the companion role for "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]" was tough-as-nails Captain Brooke, heading the very first human Mars colony in the 2050s. The Doctor is a huge fan of her, which makes him slightly more involved and slightly less level-headed than usual -- with disastrous results.

* BadassNormal: The harsh, mature variety.
* TheCaptain / TheGoodCaptain: Very much in charge of her ship.
* TheDeterminator: She ''never'' snaps.
* HeroicSuicide: In the end.
* WhatTheHellHero: Calls the Doctor on his ego trip.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amy Pond]]
!!Amelia "Amy" Jessica Pond (Eleventh Doctor)
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->'''Amy:''' Twelve years! And four psychiatrists!\\
'''Eleventh Doctor:''' Four?\\
'''Amy''': I kept biting them. They said you weren't real.

-->Played by: Creator/KarenGillan (2010-2012)
-->Young Amelia Pond played by: Creator/CaitlinBlackwood (2010-2012)

Amy, a [[MsFanservice kissogram]] (and, later, a model), is a Scot raised in a small village in rural England. She first met the Doctor as a little girl in 1996, an encounter that everyone but Amy dismissed as imaginary. But Amy never forgot her "raggedy Doctor", and he served as a sort of imaginary friend for her… until he finally returned, twelve years later. Her relationship with the Doctor is arguably inspired by Wendy Darling's relationship with PeterPan.

* ActionGirl: WordOfGod says she exerts this when "pushed into a corner." "The Girl Who Waited" sees Amy exhibit this trope to her fullest potential.
* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Between Series 6 and Series 7, her marriage with Rory became strained after discovering she's infertile, due to something done to her at Demon's Run. At the beginning of Series 7, they're about to sign their divorce papers before the Doctor's adventure causes them to reconcile.]]
* AllTherapistsAreMuggles: Amy is sent to therapy in two separate realities when others find out what she’s experienced and can’t believe it’s real: in "The Eleventh Hour" because of her tales of The Raggedy Doctor, and in “The Big Bang” where all the stars have gone out and young Amy is the only person in the world who remembers them.
* [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl Always Save The Boy]]: The Doctor even lampshades it.
--> '''Doctor''': [[DistressBall Rory! Rory!]] ''[[DistressBall Always]]'' [[DistressBall with the Rory.]]
* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler:From the end of "Cold Blood" to the end of "The Pandorica Opens".]] Subverted in that [[spoiler:it's the Doctor trying to rekindle Amy's memories of Rory, who's been [[RetGone completely erased from existence]].]]
** Subverted again in [[spoiler:"The Wedding of River Song." Amy remembers that she has a husband named Rory whom she loved dearly, but can't remember who he is, even when looking Captain Williams in the face. Again, it's the Doctor who tries to restart both their memories.]]
* [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Aw Look She Really Does Love Him]]: While she often takes Rory for granted, if anything happens to him, she'll be crushed, even [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E07AmysChoice suicidal]]. After she reads about [[spoiler: Auton-Rory's disappearance]] in the Blitz during [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], she's utterly devastated. "The Girl Who Waited" is one big testament to how deeply she's in love with him.
-->'''Old Amy''': You're asking me to defy destiny, causality, the nexus of time itself for a ''boy''.
-->'''Young Amy''': You're Amy, he's Rory... and oh yes I am.
* {{Badass}}
* BerserkButton: Like Rory, hurt her family and you'll regret it.
** Growing up, the Doctor was her button.
---> '''Doctor:''' ''Four'' psychiatrists?
---> '''Amy:''' I kept biting them.
---> '''Doctor:''' Why?
---> '''Amy:''' They kept saying you weren't real.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When pushed enough or her family's in danger, she can be ''terrifying''. Her ([[PayEvilUntoEvil much-deserved]]) murder of [[spoiler: Madame Kovarian]], for example.
* BigDamnKiss: Has a few incredibly Big Damn Kisses with Rory, first in "Amy's Choice", then in "The Big Bang" and "The Girl Who Waited". She also snogs the Doctor once while he scrambles to shove her off of him.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Because of the cracks affecting her reality so much and leaving her with a fear of abandonment even before the Doctor entered and then left her life, she treated Rory pretty badly during Series 5. She got much better once time was fixed, but she still has her moments.
* BoundAndGagged: ''Ripper's Curse''.
* BrokenBird[=/=]BreakTheCutie: The Doctor abandons her repeatedly in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E01TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]", leaving her with lifelong psychological problems as a result.
** She [[TraumaCongaLine repeatedly suffers this]] in "A Good Man Goes to War": [[spoiler:First she gives birth in captivity, held prisoner God-knows-where in time and space. Then her baby girl is taken away from her by the villains. Then after [[HopeSpot the sheer joy of getting Melody back and reuniting with her husband and the Doctor]], the villains reveal that they've already taken off with the baby and replaced her with a flesh duplicate, which promptly dissolves in Amy's arms.]]
** In "The Girl Who Waited", she's left to fend for herself against killer robots for 36 years, hardening her into a bitter old woman whose faith in the Doctor has dissolved into hatred.
** Finally, in "The God Complex", [[spoiler:the Doctor [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim deliberately breaks that faith in order to save both her life and her future.]]]]
* TheCallPutMeOnHold: As above, she answered yes to [[CallToAdventure the call]] ''long'' before she was able to actually have the adventure associated.
* [[ChangedMyJumper Changed My Miniskirt]]: A worse offender than the Doctor himself. Wearing a miniskirt in public probably would have been a hanging offence in 16th century Venice, and that's just one example.
* CharacterTic: In Series 5, she would bulge her eyes and pucker her mouth a lot. As she never does it in Series 6, this was probably intentional on KarenGillan's part.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She gets pretty annoyed when she thinks Rory is more focused on another woman. Justified for a few reasons though; he's her husband, he's had a SingleTargetSexuality on her for most of their whole lives, he has a tendency to die and she's probably feeling guilty over calling him her "sort of boyfriend" in their first episode.
* DistractedByMyOwnSexy
* DoubleConsciousness: After the events of "The Big Bang", she remembers two different versions of her life, as stated in the "Good Night" mini-episode. [[spoiler:In "The Wedding of River Song", this is now ''triple'' consciousness, with Amy remembering her life in the time-everywhere universe]].
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Very genuinely thinks that abusing Rory is okay, and (emotionally and physically) beats Rory over the head a whole lot. Gets called out on it ''hard'' on occasion, and slowly learns that there are other ways to love someone. It's still her default defense mechanism when she feels her that relationship isn't heading the right way.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After Rory gets killed, she chooses to get sent back in time and die early.]]
** [[spoiler: May be the only example of the trope where living well into one's old age (Amy was in her 80's when she finally passed on, outliving Rory by several years) is considered suicide, due to how the Weeping Angels operate.]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: According to Rory.
--> '''Rory''': Uh, Doctor, ''don't''. Seriously, I let her drive my car once.
--> '''Amy''': Yeah, to the end of the road.
--> '''Rory''': Yeah. Where, according to Amy, there was an unexpected ''house''.
--> '''Amy''': Aw, he's jealous because ''I'' passed my test first time.
--> '''Rory''': You cheated: you wore a skirt.
--> '''Amy''': I didn't wear a skirt. ... No, no; I ''did'' wear a skirt, but it was any old skirt.
--> '''Rory''': Did you see Amy drive, Doctor?
--> '''Doctor''': No?
--> '''Rory''': [[DistractedByTheSexy Neither did her driving instructor...]]
* FagHag: Believed herself to be this to [[MistakenForGay Rory]] for years. It's implied they hooked up [[ObliviousToLove as soon as she realized she wasn't]].
* FieryRedhead: Though she mellows out considerably as time goes on.
* FreezeFrameBonus: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E06TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells Of Saint John"]], the characters -- including the Doctor, eventually -- read an old-looking book titled "Summer Falls". [[spoiler: It's written by Amy]].
* FriendsWithBenefits: Wants to be this with the Doctor. She gets one kiss in before he pushes her away. She tries again ''during'' her wedding -- twice.
* FutureBadass: [[spoiler:Thirty six years spent defending herself from robots who kill with kindness. With a sword.]]
* GenreSavvy: She doesn't quite match Rory, but there are numerous examples, most notably the fact that it only takes her three very brief encounters with the Silents to figure out that they have some kind of agenda against the Doctor, what powers they have, and that it would probably be wise to take a cellphone photo of one.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Inverted with the Doctor, who really doesn't want to fancy her no matter how hard she flirts. Played straight with Rory.
** In the 2011 Comic Relief short, Amy Pond flirts with ''herself''.
* HiddenDepths: She really loves Van Gogh's work.
* HotMum
* [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim If You Kill Her, You Will Be Just Like Her]]: In "The Wedding of River Song", Amy, who by this point [[spoiler: remembers Melody being taken]], finds Madam Kovarian being electrocuted by her Silence-provided EyepatchOfPower. Kovarian tries to pull this in an attempt to save herself. She even tells Amy that the Doctor, "a good man", wouldn't want Amy to kill her, and "you'd never do anything to disappoint your precious Doctor."
-->'''Amy:''' The Doctor is very precious, to me, you're right. But do you know what else he is, Madame Kovarian? ''Not here.''
* InSeriesNickname: The Girl Who Waited. Twice.
* JumpedAtTheCall: ''Asked'' to come along, as a girl; unfortunately, [[TheCallPutMeOnHold the caller got waylaid]] and she had to [[TheSlowPath wait for fourteen years]] before she got to see the inside of the TARDIS.
-->'''Amy''':''When I was a little girl, I dreamed of time and space. Last night, all my dreams came true.''
** Invoked by the Doctor with his repeated [[PhraseCatcher declaration]].
--> '''Doctor''': Amelia Pond! ''Get your coat!''
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan}} "The Angels Take Manhattan"]].]]
** But while [[spoiler:Amy and Rory are dead in the present, they still have 50+ years in the past, and Amy's final note assures the Doctor that they are living HappilyEverAfter there.]]
* LadyOfWar: In "The Girl Who Waited" the future Amy has [[{{TookALevelInBadass}} taken a level in badass]] and become one of these. This attitude is also very much in evidence in "The Wedding of River Song".
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Done to her memories of Rory courtesy of the time-crack. And, it later turns out, to her memories of her parents as well.]]
* LastNameBasis: The Doctor has the habit of calling her “Pond.“
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Appears that way with Rory in series 5; they get mistaken for siblings in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS31E06TheVampiresOfVenice}} The Vampires of Venice]].
* LimitedWardrobe: For the first six episodes of the 2011 series, appeared to have nothing in her wardrobe except two or three similar-looking plaid shirts. Turned out to be a subliminal hint to the audience that she's [[spoiler: actually a mind-linked Doppelgänger in these episodes.]]
* LoveTriangle: Thinks she's in one with Rory and the Doctor. Rory and the Doctor both disagree. She readily accepts the fact that the Doctor wouldn't necessarily ''love'' her, being a 907-year-old alien and all, but she still hopes for a quick shag. The ShipTease around it eventually becomes a major plot point, due to TrollingCreator, when she becomes [[spoiler:pregnant]] and people start to assume that [[spoiler: it might be the Doctor's baby.]] Of course, [[spoiler: it's not -- despite there being, at first, overwhelming evidence for it.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: After she marries Rory, she becomes Amy Williams. The Doctor knows, but calls her "Pond" regardless, unless things get properly serious.
* MaleGaze: Her first appearance as an adult is a slow pan up her legs.
* MamaBear: Very nearly kills a spaceship full of people, including herself and Rory, to save their child. No guarantee that anyone died, but none that everyone lived, either.
* MarryThemAll: In her first season, she genuinely intends to have both Rory and the Doctor as her "boys", completely ignoring the fact that neither of them are interested in that kind of arrangement (and the Doctor isn't interested in doing ''anything'' romantic or sexual at all with her). She pointedly ignores their protests even ''during her and Rory's wedding'', and tells the Doctor he can kiss the bride. (He doesn't.)
--> '''Amy:''' ''*to the Doctor*'' Oi! Where are you sneaking off to? We haven't even had a snog in the shrubbery yet!
--> '''Rory:''' Amy!
--> '''Amy:''' Shut up, it's my wedding!
--> '''Rory:''' ''Our'' wedding!
* MeetCute: She and the Doctor have one when he shows up in a crashed TARDIS asking for an apple.
* [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage Mistress Of The Mixed Message]]: Towards Rory in Series 5 and early in Series 6. Since then, she's clearly established him as her number one priority.
* MsFanservice: She's a Kissogram, and so has several… interesting outfits. Seen onscreen is a FairCop police uniform; refered to are {{Naughty Nurse Outfit}}s, [[NaughtyNuns Naughty Nun]], and FrenchMaid outfits. Has a general liking for short skirts or hotpants that show off KarenGillan's long legs; there's only two episodes of the fifth series in which we don't see her in something like that.
** This notably causes a minor disaster in the 2011 Comic Relief skit, when her wearing a short skirt [[DistractedByTheSexy distracts Rory enough]] to cause him to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero drop a thermocoupling, causing a spatial paradox]].
** It's also implied she {{Invoked|Trope}} this to pass her driving test.
** As of the end of season 6 and the beginning of season 7, she apparently had a quite successful modeling career. By "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship", she seems to have quit.
* NamesTheSame: Depending on the episode she may share with skeleton racer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Williams Amy Williams]].
* ObliviousToLove: For a kissogram, she was a little bit slow in realising that Rory liked her.
* PajamaCladHero: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E02TheBeastBelow The Beast Below]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]", although in the latter episode they're hospital pyjamas.
* ParentalAbandonment: When we first meet her, she's living with her aunt (who's never there). The question of what happened to the rest of her family is part of the season arc.
* ThePowerOfLove: With Rory.
* RealityWarper: Her RippleEffectProofMemory is the only reason the Doctor's second Big Bang goes off without a hitch and [[spoiler:is also the only way the Doctor comes back into existence]].
* RealLifeRelative: Gillan and Blackwood are cousins who had never met before being cast to play Amy.
* RedheadedHero
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Develops this as an actual explicit power, though not so much ripple-''proof'' as ripple-''resistant''. She can lose memories of her own history if she doesn't really concentrate when the moment is rewritten. But she can get those back. This culminates with her remembering [[spoiler:the Doctor]] back into existence after a rather nasty RetGone.
** This skill comes back again in "The Wedding of River Song". She and Rory can both remember bits and pieces of the correct timeline, but Amy is the only one able to remember the correct order of things -- with a lot of effort and many scribbled illustrations.
* ScarfOfAssKicking: Occasionally wears one.
* ScrewYourself: When the TARDIS gets tangled in a time loop, Amy finds her slightly-time-displaced-self rather fetching.
-->'''Doctor:''' [[SurroundedByIdiots Ohhh... this is how it all ends]]. Pond flirting with herself -- true love at last. Oh, sorry, Rory.\\
'''Rory''': [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Absolutely no problem]] [[TwinThreesomeFantasy at all.]]
* SecurityCling: The Eleventh Doctor and Amy have a variation. Because Amy's story is one traumatic BreakTheCutie moment after another, the Doctor develops a habit of clinging tightly to her and rubbing her back while delivering each new piece of bad news. Asking permission from her husband Rory every time, of course.
* ShesGotLegs: To the point where "Time" seemed to be about them.
* ShipTease: With the Doctor. This becomes a major plot point when [[spoiler: she becomes pregnant]] and [[spoiler: her baby turns out to have Time Lord DNA.]] Rumors promptly start flying about the universe as to exactly what happened, with Dorium noting that anyone now hunting Amy or her family will be in serious trouble. Due to TrollingCreator, it takes a ''while'' before we find out that [[spoiler: it was all a big RedHerring, and the Doctor really has never touched Amy]].
* ShowSomeLeg: How she got her driver's permit.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Very mild case of this sometimes, as she tends to overestimate her own competence.
* StrangeGirl: Amy's insistence that her childhood encounter with the Doctor was real is apparently well-known to the people in her small town… and has landed her in psychiatric care a few times. Her resulting trauma, severe attachment disorder and obsessive behaviour make her one of the very few companions with confirmed mental issues (along with Ace and River).
** She has distinct and serious obsessive tendencies, seems to suffer severe sensory overload on occasion, and at one point in "The Beast Below" (although this is almost certainly unintentional) her speech patterns are disturbingly similar to [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} Ladd Russo's]]. The implication is that these obsessive tendencies have been focused mainly on the Doctor during the twelve years they've spent apart.
** She also shows a reluctance to face growing up, [[spoiler: or at least getting married]]. Hardly surprising, given the aforementioned ''PeterPan'' parallels.
* SurprisePregnancy
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Thirty-six years of defending yourself from killer robots will do this.]]
* TrappedInThePast: Amy and Rory's [[spoiler:final fate.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Gets severely traumatised roughly every two episodes. In "Night And The Doctor", she ''tries'' to talk to the Doctor about it, but he sort of dodges the implications of all that's happened to her.
* {{Tsundere}}: "Harsh" type at the beginning of Series 5, "sweet" by the end.
* ViolentGlaswegian
* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Wife]]: It's not a good idea to mess with Rory.
* WistfulAmnesia: Finds herself crying over Rory without realizing it or knowing why several times in series 5.
* YaoiFangirl: As shown in the comics, when Rory kisses the Doctor by accident and Amy asks them to do it again. Slower.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: As she points out, the Doctor only calls her "Amelia" when he's worried about her. And "Amy [[spoiler: Williams]]" when things get very, very serious.
* YouHaveWaitedLongEnough: Amy runs off with the Doctor on the night before her wedding.
* YouLookFamiliar: KarenGillan had previously played a soothsayer in a Tenth Doctor episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E2TheFiresOfPompeii The Fires of Pompeii]]".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rory Williams]]
!!Rory [[TheDanza Arthur]] Williams (Eleventh Doctor)
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->''[[DeadpanSnarker Okay…]] [[GenreSavvy I'm trapped inside a giant robot replica of my wife.]] [[HenpeckedHusband I'm really trying not to see this as a metaphor.]]''

->'''Moffat''': "Rory Pond is everything I could never be — brave enough to show when he’s scared, man enough to take his wife’s name, and so steadfastly in love that he’ll wait 2,000 years and not complain once. Everyone needs a Rory in their life."

-->Played by: Creator/ArthurDarvill (2010-2012)
-->Young Rory played by: Ezekiel Wigglesworth (2011)

Rory is a nurse, Amy's [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend childhood friend, and now her husband]]. Growing up together with Amy, she used to make him dress up as her "raggedy Doctor", and he's appropriately freaked out to learn that the man actually exists. He starts off incredibly reluctant to travel with the Doctor, out of love for Amy and fear for his own life, but quickly rises to the challenge and becomes a tremendously courageous force to be reckoned with.

* {{Adorkable}}: His [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E06TheVampiresOfVenice attempt to fence]] [[WhatTheFuAreYouDoing using a broom]] and his [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon inability to pass for an American]] are but two examples. He also tends to lapse into BuffySpeak.
-->''[[ManlyTears Oh God, I was gonna be cool.]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming I wanted to be cool, look at me…]]''
* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler:In "The Wedding of River Song", in which he's lost all his memories of the correct timeline and only knows Amy as his boss. The Doctor tries to get them back together again… and fails. At first.]]
* {{Atheism}}: The Doctor explicitly points out that [[spoiler:he doesn't get affected by an alien that feeds on faith]] because he doesn't really believe in anything.
* TheAtoner: As an [[spoiler:Auton]], following the (apparent) death of [[spoiler:Amy by his own hands]].
* {{Badass}}
* [[BadassAdorable Badass Adorkable]]: "A Good Man Goes To War" has him terrifying Cybermen and then later crying with joy at his baby daughter.
* BerserkButton: ''Never'' mess with Amy or his baby. And don't shoot his dad, either.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Normally a gentle soul (he's a nurse, after all), but press his BerserkButton and you ''will'' regret it.
--> '''Rory''': I have a message from the Doctor... and a question from me. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHERE. IS. MY. WIFE?]] Oh don't give me those blank looks, the twelfth Cyber-legion monitors everything this entire quadrant! You hear ''everything''. So you tell me what I need to know, you tell me ''now'' and I'll be on my way...
--> '''Cyber-Leader''': What is the Doctor's message?
--> *''The entire Cyberman fleet outside the window explodes''*
--> '''Rory''': Would you like me to ''repeat'' the question?
* BigDamnKiss: Apart from a few very Big Damn Kisses with Amy, the Doctor (well, MattSmith, [[ThrowItIn improvising]]) rather unexpectedly snogs him once. Rory makes a "yuck" face.
* BullyingADragon: Rory is normally a gentle soul, but it is ''not'' a good idea to test his patience whenever Amy is in trouble.
* ButtMonkey: Toned down a lot since [[spoiler:he became the Last Centurion]], but he still gets this treatment now and then.
* TheChampion: Spent [[spoiler: 2000 years]] as the Guardian of the [[spoiler: Pandorica]], simply to make sure Amy would remain protected.
* CharacterDevelopment: He went from an insecure Mickey-type character whose main purpose was to look hurt, to a [[BadassAdorable Badass Adorkable]] man who is willing to spend two thousand years protecting his wife.
* TheChewToy: At one point, fans on {{twitter}} jokingly threatened to come after Moffat with a pitchfork if he'd torture Rory ''again''. Moffat responded they'd have to haul the pitchfork out of Rory first.
* ChickMagnet: Gathers quite a few looks from various female characters (and, after a while, [[BiTheWay from Eleven as well]]). Even ''the TARDIS'' fancies him, calling him "the pretty one" -- one episode later, it's revealed that they have [[spoiler: a child together]].
* CleopatraNose: Which the Doctor can't resist ribbing him about. He calls Rory "Beaky".
* ColonelBadass: Starts to give off these vibes in "A Good Man Goes to War", then fully grows into the role in "The Wedding of River Song".
* CovertPervert: In "Space" and "Time" he accidentally causes a major malfunction in the TARDIS because (a) His wife is wearing a skirt and (b) The TARDIS has a glass floor.
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: Auton Rory spent 1894 years protecting the Pandorica simply because Amy was inside.]]
** In "The Wedding of River Song", in another version of reality, to give Amy time to flee, he ignores the fact he's being ''electrocuted''.
--> '''Amy''': You have to take your eye-drive off!
--> '''Rory''': I can't do that ma'am, I can't forget what's coming.
--> '''Amy''': But it could activate at any moment!
--> '''Rory''' (with trembling, clenched fists): It ''has'' activated, ma'am.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Rory tops himself, and quite possibly takes the all-time Companion Crowning Moment, in Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine comic "The Chains of Olympus", where he lets out a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner in the form of "Hi, honey! Is this bloke bothering you?", announces himself as Roranicus the First of the Upper Leadworth Empire, and whips out a Your Mom joke... all before taking on Ares, the Greek god of war in SINGLE COMBAT, and wiping the floor with him. Eat your heart out, Kratos.
* DisneyDeath: He seems to have a knack for wiggling his way out of [[spoiler:being KilledOffForReal.]]
* DistressedDude: Frequently. Amy never takes it well.
* DoubleConsciousness: Rory remembers both [[spoiler: his original life]] and [[spoiler: his life as the Last Centurion in the universe of the Total Event Collapse]]. However, he's worked out how to block away the latter set of memories most of the time -- [[LetsGetDangerous unless he decides he needs to access them]].
* TheDreaded: After the reboot of the universe, he's been woven into all human legends as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "The Last Centurion".]]
* FanservicePack: Mild version. In Series 6, the costume department gave the character more flattering clothes (like tighter jeans) and hair gel. Also applied to the roman uniform when it reappears.
* TheFettered: Remembering [[spoiler:his time as The Centurion]] hurts, so he blocks it out for his own sanity. When needs must, he has [[spoiler:has 2,000 years of experience as well as years of training as a Roman soldier]] that he can draw on.
* {{Foil}}: The Nurse to the Doctor's Doctor.
* FromBadToWorse: Story of his companionship and [[spoiler:non-existence]] right up through the penultimate episode of Series 5, which culminates in [[spoiler:an Auton with his memories killing Amy]] against Rory's will.
* GenreSavvy: Rory knows a bit about science and science fiction, and the Doctor gets peeved when Rory doesn't need anything explained to him, especially how he perfectly understands the TARDIS interior being bigger on the inside.
** When we're [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E01TheEleventhHour first introduced]] to the character, he notices -- and photographs -- coma patients walking about while everyone else is distracted by the sun going wibbly. Doing so helps the Doctor [[spoiler:reveal the location of Prisoner Zero to the Atraxi, saving the world from incineration]].
** Reaches its apotheosis in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan]]" when he [[spoiler:commits suicide figuring he'll get better because "[[DisneyDeath that's what he does]]".]]
* TheGoodCaptain: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]".
* GuileHero: Rory definitely fell into this mold over time, to the point where in "Let's Kill Hitler":
--> '''Amy''': Can you even ride a motorbike?
--> '''Rory''': Dunno. Expect so. ''It's been that sort of day''...
* TheHeart: This is a common trope for companions of the Doctor, but Rory's compassion and kindness seem to be showcased more than just about any other companion in the Revived Series. These traits often get {{Lampshaded}} by the Doctor and it makes him an UnwittingPawn in the "The Rebel Flesh"/"The Almost People". Of course BewareTheNiceOnes is in full effect.
* HenpeckedHusband: Very much so. He's okay with it most of the time, however, and offers only mild resistance to being called her boy or taking her last name.
-->'''Amy:''' Would I make it up at a time like this?!\\
'''Rory:''' Well, you do have a history of [''receives DeathGlare'']... being very lovely.
* HeroicBystander: Though not a fan of adventuring, Rory sets the tone early when, upon coming across a vampire attack, his first impulse is not to flee or chase the monster, but to stop the victim from bleeding to death. Throughout his time with the Doctor, he tends to act to save life first and foremost. This leads to him not only tending the wounded, but frequently doing awesome things like punching Hitler out to stop him shooting an apparent innocent bystander, and then locking him in a closet!
* HeroicSacrifice: In "The Angels Take Manhattan", he [[spoiler:commits suicide by jumping off of the top of a building in New York to create a paradox that would prevent the Weeping Angels from taking over New York. He recovers. For a few minutes.]]
* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:In his Auton form as the Centurion]]. He draws on this again in "The Wedding of River Song," [[spoiler:but it nearly fails]]. Despite this he manages to keep his gun aimed through nigh unbearable pain. Rory gives Samuel L. Jackson a run for his money in BAMF territory.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Early in "The Big Bang", [[spoiler: he spent 1894 years worth of history guarding the Pandorica]]. [[NoodleIncident Probability of zany adventures: extremely high.]]
* HospitalHottie: In case you could ever forget, he's a nurse. And a pretty one at that.
* HotDad: To River and, later, Anthony.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Rory's ideal world [[spoiler: as recreated by the Dream Lord]] is rather quiet -- he [[spoiler: is a doctor instead of a nurse, Amy is pregnant, and most of the residents of their hometown are over 90]].
* InSeriesNickname: [[spoiler:The Last Centurion.]]
* InternalHomage: He succeeds BigFinish companion [[Characters/BigFinishDoctorWho Hector Schofield]] as a cute nervous nurse (and sci-fi dork) who goes from TheChewToy to intergalactic hero. Creator StevenMoffat is a huge BigFinish fan and loves to reference the series.
* JustFriends: Type 2. Had feelings for Amy whilst she was ObliviousToLove to the point [[MistakenForGay she thought he was gay.]]
* KilledOffForReal: In [[spoiler:[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan}} "The Angels Take Manhattan"]].]] After '''eight''' attempts. ]]
** But while [[spoiler:Amy and Rory are dead in the present, they still have 50+ years in the past, and Amy's final note assures the Doctor that they are living HappilyEverAfter there.]]
* KnightInSourArmor: Starts to display shades of this in Series 6, thanks to [[spoiler:spending 1,894 years straight guarding the Pandorica from anything and everything that could possibly threaten it]]. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]" he says he neither fears nor believes in anything anymore. His eye roll at Eleven's inability to wait for even five minutes gets quite magnificent at times.
** This has the unexpected bonus of making Rory pretty much completely resistant to MindRape, if "The Doctor's Wife" and "The God Complex" are any indication.
* LetsGetDangerous: Whenever Amy is threatened, Rory is no longer content to hold back and stay by the sidelines. He's been pushed to the point where he is going to wage ''War!''
* LivingLegend: As [[spoiler:The Lone Centurion]].
* LoveMartyr: Has elements of it in the cracked timeline. After he dream-dies in "Amy's Choice", Amy admits to the Doctor that she never told him she loved him. And this was the (constant) day before their wedding.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: After he marries Amy, she legally takes on his last name... at which point the Doctor merrily starts to call him "Rory Pond". Rory protests. A bit. At first. Becomes fairly hilarious once the Doctor insists on also calling Rory's ''father'' "Pond".
* TheMedic: Rory is a nurse, and acts like it. (See HeroicBystander above.) As of "A Good Man Goes to War" he's evolved into CombatMedic.
* MissingMom: Rory's mother has never been mentioned. Given his father managed to spend several days in the TARDIS without anyone noticing, that suggests she's not in the picture anymore for whatever reason.
* MistakenForGay: Amy never saw him show any attraction to any girl, and assumed this. Except she was being too thick to realise that there was at least one he liked...
* NervesOfSteel: At the start of series 5, he's a nervous nurse who's in no way ready to deal with space/time travel. By mid-series 6, he believes he's lost the ability to feel fear just from the amount of crap he's seen and experienced, making him immune to this week's form of MindRape. [[hottip:*:Although it's more likely his lack of ''faith'' is the important bit here]] When he thinks he and Amy are dead, his only reaction is ''Again''. His alternate universe self, in the TimeCrash, has shades of this. The only thing that frightens him is the thought of losing Amy.
* NiceGuy: Really, really nice guy. Unless you harm his family.
* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler:He spent 1894 years staying out of trouble... unsuccessfully]].
* NotAfraidToDie: [[spoiler:He knows full well that he might not survive the 2000 years guarding the Pandorica. He still does so ''anyway''.]]
** [[spoiler: In "The Angels Take Manhattan", after seeing the death of his future self who spent over 50 years without Amy simply as food for the Angels, Rory decides to jump off of the roof. When Amy protests, he says it's BetterToDieThanBeKilled and his intention is not suicide, but to create a paradox large enough that it will [[TakingYouWithMe take the Angels with him]] and prevent ''any'' of this from happening!]]
* NotSoDifferent: To the Doctor. Best shown in "A Good Man Goes To War", where his actions demonstrate that episode's title could be interpreted as referring to either the Doctor or himself.
* OlderSidekick: At least in [[spoiler:"The Big Bang", following 2,000 years of guarding the Pandorica as an Auton]]. Outside of that episode is more debatable, being physically in [[spoiler:his twenties, while retaining the Auton memories]].
* OneManArmy: Successfully served as Guardian of the Pandorica for 2000 years.
** Best demonstrated in "''A Good Man Goes To War''", where Rory, in full Centurion gear and armed only with a sword (and a screwdriver!), managed to waltz through a Cyberman-controlled vessel and scare the living crap out of them.
** In the same episode, he takes down a half a dozen Headless Monks armed only with a ''[[SwordAndGun Gladius and Pistol]]''.
** One could argue that when the Doctor seeks to intimdate someone, he goes by himself. When he wants to utterly ''terrify'' someone, he sends Rory instead.
** In "Day of the Moon", Rory noticably has over ''twice'' the number of tallied markings on him, implying that during the three months he spent in 1969, he's dealt with the Silence on nearly a daily basis (while also constantly outwitting the U.S. Secret Service).
* OnlySaneMan: Acts as the voice of reason on the TARDIS. Unlike the Doctor and Amy, he recognises the danger they often find themselves in.
* PapaWolf: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Where. Is. My. Wife.]]
* PhraseCatcher: Manages to get a good "Oh, ''Rory''..." out of the Doctor every once and awhile.
* ThePowerOfLove: When Amy was [[spoiler: trapped in the Pandorica]], Rory protected her for [[spoiler: two thousand years]].
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: As of the 2010 Christmas special, and thereafter.
* PuppyDogEyes: They can rival the Tenth Doctor's.
* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:Mentally, he's almost two thousand years old, which makes him technically ''older than the Doctor''.]]
* ReluctantWarrior: He honestly ''doesn't'' want to fight anyone, but if you threaten Amy, [[LetsGetDangerous all bets are off]].
* RetGone: Temporarily; he's not only [[spoiler:fatally shot, but absorbed by one of the cracks afterwards]]. The Doctor remembers him, but [[spoiler:Amy doesn't]].
* SarcasticDevotee: To the Doctor.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The Doctor intentionally pushes his BerserkButton (see above) to [[spoiler:see if the Auton-Rory he's talking to has genuine human emotions. He does.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: [[spoiler:In his Auton form as the Centurion, getting written into legends all over the world as a result]].
* SingleTargetSexuality: Only ever shows attraction to Amy. His entire life, just Amy. Which, of course, leads to {{Mistaken For Gay}}. By Amy. The moment they focus on his face when Amy says them being together is impossible is sad, then a few seconds later when Amy reveals she thinks he is gay is very funny.
** In a very sweet comic from IDW's ongoing series, Amy and the Doctor get body-swapped. Rory decides that he doesn't even ''care''. He kisses the Doctor, realizing a bit too late that the body switch has already been corrected again. (Amy asks them to do it again. [[YaoiFangirl Slower]].)
* TheSlowPath: As [[spoiler:the Centurion, he spent 1,894 years waiting]] while the Doctor skipped ahead with the Vortex Manipulator.
* SmarterThanYouLook: In his first episode, while the rest of the planet pays attention to the sun going wobbly, Rory (who up til now has just been an easily cowed nurse) pays attention to the coma patient that's out walking his dog. Later on, he figures out why the TARDIS is bigger on the inside remarkably quickly and without any help from the Doctor at all.
** Done rather subtly throughout series 5 and 6, and tied to his TookALevelInBadass. He already was smart enough to spot Prisoner Zero, but when the Doctor comes back for him a few episodes later, he's studied up on enough physics and time travel to know more than most comparable companions. Add in his [[spoiler: years as the Centurion]] and he's become one of the Doctor's most competent companions in a while. For all of his occasional mocking, the Doctor seems to trust him more than any other companion, probably due to their similar experiences.
* StraightMan: Comes with the [[GenreSavvy savvyness]]. WordOfGod says that Rory ''has'' to make himself this, otherwise he'll get sucked in to the life like Amy.
* SubmissiveBadass: He is no doubt a BAMF, but he'll always be an adorable dork and Amy will always be the one in charge.
* SuperStrength: [[spoiler:In his Auton form as the Centurion]].
* SwordAndGun: Due to his memories of being the Last Centurion, he has over 2000 years of experience in this form of combat. He wields them to ''devastating'' effect in Series 6, as shown by managing to infiltrate and blow up a Cyberman fleet and successfully hold off the Headless Monks.
* TakingTheBullet: At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E09ColdBlood Cold Blood]]"... [[spoiler:and ''then'' he gets retconned out of existence.]]
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Rory Williams: the man who dies, and dies again. In Doctor Who: Best of the Companions, one of the commentators equated him ''to'' Kenny from South Park, and believes Moffat gets some sick pleasure out of torturing Rory.
** [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7cbfuA5KI1qi3xkvo1_500.png it's not so much a belief if it's absolutely true]].
* ThousandYardStare: The Doctor notes he has one [[spoiler: whenever he remembers the 2,000 years as The Last Centurion.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: In "The Big Bang", [[spoiler:He was a Nestene replicant whose programming killed Amy]]. He got better.
* TookALevelInBadass: At least 20 levels after [[spoiler:his resurrection into an Auton and nearly 2,000 years as the Lone Centurion]]. The man really would do anything for his wife.
** Again in "A Good Man Goes to War". [[PunctuatedForEmphasis 'WHERE. IS. MY. WIFE?']]
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]], the titular HellHotel shows people their worst fears so [[spoiler:the Minotaur can feed on their faith]]. Rory has no faith, so all it can do is show him the exit.
* TrappedInThePast: Rory and Amy's [[spoiler:final fate.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Part of what causes the above CharacterDevelopment.
* TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: Amy cites this as the reason she fell for Rory:
-->''You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick? Then there's other people, when you meet them you think, "Not bad. They're okay." And then you get to know them and... and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality's written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful. Rory's the most beautiful man I've ever met.''
* UndyingLoyalty: To Amy.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: To Amy.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With the Doctor. Both the Doctor and Rory seem to enjoy the level of snark they throw at each other.
* WeaponOfChoice: [[spoiler:As the Last Centurion, he favors the Roman gladius.]]
** Rory also ends up using a mop as an improvised weapon in many episodes, including "Vampires in Venice", "Night Terrors" and "The God Complex".
* WhatTheHellHero: Often calls the Doctor out on constantly making people try to ''impress'' him, often putting them in serious danger.
--> '''Rory''': [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves?!]]
* WhenHeSmiles: While flirting with him when working the controls, older Amy tells him to give her a minute and his cutest smile in order for her to fix them properly.
-->'''Older Amy''': That's the one.
* YankTheDogsChain: Just as Amy remembers who he is... [[spoiler:the Auton programming overruns him and he's forced to shoot her]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Madge Arwell]]
!!Madge Arwell (Eleventh Doctor)
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-->Played by: Claire Skinner (2011)

A one-shot companion for the 2011 Christmas Special. A housewife and mother of two in [[WorldWarTwo wartime England]], on Christmas, 1938, she helped out the Doctor after he'd just saved the planet from an alien invasion. Three years later, she's trying to hide from her children that their father, an RAF pilot, has gone missing over the English Channel shortly before Christmas when the Doctor taks her and her family on a Christmas adventure where she shows how fantastically BadassNormal she is.

* BlitzEvacuees: Her and her children.
* ChekhovsSkill: Madge is able to drive the robotic walker to the lighthouse because the control panel resembles that of a plane, which Reg taught her to fly once.
* ClarkesThirdLaw: Subverted by Madge, who cons the workers into putting down their guns by fooling them into thinking she's overcome by the futuristic and alien setting.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Madge comes across as a bit of one.
* HappilyMarried: Madge and Reg.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: Madge. [[TimeyWimeyBall At]] [[BackFromTheDead first]].
* MamaBear: Madge.
-->'''Head Soldier''': There's nothing you could say that would convince me you'd ever use that gun.
-->'''Madge''': Oh really? Well, I'm looking for my children.
-->'''Head Soldier''': [[OhCrap (suddenly looks quite convinced he might get shot)]]
* ThePowerOfLove: How Madge flies the forest through the time vortex, and [[spoiler: gets her husband home]].
* SpoofAesop: "Cyril! What have I told you about opening your presents early? Something like this was bound to happen."
* StalkingIsLove: Reg kept following Madge home until she agreed to marry him. She didn't want to cause a scene. Of course, she really loves him and it all had very little to do with the following home part.
* TemptingFate: Madge, upon seeing Reg reading about the war looming in the paper:
--> '''Madge''': Not the war again... People keep reading about the war, then it will actually happen! ''Then'' where would you be? (Most tragic GilliganCut ever)
* TookALevelInBadass: Even before Madge takes over the HumongousMecha to save her children, she pulls a gun on her three interrogators. "Crying's so useful, isn't it?"
* WomenAreWiser: The tree people have a magic crown that, when somebody wears on their head, allows them to absorb the forest's life force. It rejects Cyril and the Doctor, works slightly for Lily, and completely works for Madge, as the tree people consider her the 'mothership'.
* WomenDrivers: Madge seems to bump into lots of things while driving the Doctor to the phone box. She doesn't fare much better when she hijacks a HumongousMecha. [[spoiler:But she does pretty well at traversing the time vortex.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clara Oswald]]
!!Clara Oswald (Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors)
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->''Run, you clever boy. And remember.''

-->Played by: JennaLouiseColeman (2012-present), Sophie Downham (2013, as young Clara)

A young hacker named Oswin Oswald first seen in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E01AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]", who saved the Doctor's life in the far future. Also a young barmaid and governess named Clara Oswin Oswald the Doctor met in 1892, in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]". Also a young nanny named just Clara Oswald the Doctor met in London 2013, who didn't know the first thing about hacking or time travel... the Doctor takes the latter with him as his companion, and sets out to discover how "The Impossible Girl" could have lived three completely different lives.

* AlliterativeName: '''Osw'''in '''Osw'''ald.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: In "The Rings Of Akhaten" and "Hide", the Doctor puts quite a lot of effort into figuring out just ''what'' she is. The results are inconclusive up until "The Name Of The Doctor", and she seems to have a perfectly normal human past.
** [[spoiler:At least one of her incarnations was a Gallifreyan rather than a human, though]].
* ArchEnemy: [[spoiler:She has fought the Great Intelligence throughout time and space, at every moment of the Doctor's life]].
* {{Badass}}: [[spoiler: When you shatter yourself across the Doctor's timestream in order to foil the Great Intelligence, who is killing the Doctor in every adventure he's ever had, and obviously manage to beat it ''every single time'']]... Yeah, Clara definitely qualifies under this trope as of "The Name Of The Doctor" if she didn't already.
* BeyondTheImpossible: There are a number of things about her that, according to ''Doctor Who'''s internal logic, should be impossible. [[spoiler: The dying thing, for one.]]
* BigDamnKiss: Victorian-era Clara snogs the Doctor right off the bat (entirely against his will)... then goes on to declare that the fact he blushed is proof he likes her. He doesn't ''quite'' agree with her logic.
* BodyHorror: In "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS", she [[spoiler: gets burned alive, while conscious, and runs around in blind pain for most of the episode. The timeline gets reset pretty soon, but]] the Doctor comes close to crying at the sight.
* BornAgainImmortality: [[spoiler:Has been born, lived, died and been reborn again in a million eras on a million worlds.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Goes insane [[spoiler:after being turned into a Dalek and then blown up]] in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E01AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]". [[spoiler: Dies rather violently]], just moments after she's officially become a companion, in "The Snowmen". Modern-day Clara has trouble coping with seeing dead bodies and the start and end of her planet.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Though future Clara is a bona-fide computer genius (and modern Clara has those skills uploaded into her brain), you wouldn't know by how odd she can come off as at first.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: A two-way example with modern-day Clara and the Doctor. She can call his TARDIS phone (his ''outside'', purely decorative TARDIS phone) before she has any idea who he is. As a result, he can pilot the TARDIS to her front door before he has any idea who ''she'' is.
* TheCallPutMeOnHold: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the modern version of Clara. She makes the Doctor come back around 7pm the next day.
* CameBackStrong: In "The Bells of Saint John", she comes back from the beyond with her computer knowledge dialed up to maximum by the Great Intelligence's lackeys.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Frequently wears red. In the prequel to "The Bells of Saint John", this is a clever little indication that [[spoiler:she's the little girl on the swing]].
* CulturedBadass: The first version of Clara we meet is a baker, likes listening to classical music, and isn't afraid of ''anyone'' or ''anything''.
* {{Determinator}}: Had enough willpower to MindRape both The Great Intelligence and the Daleks when they tried to control her.
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:"I am Oswin Oswald. I fought the Daleks and I ''am'' human. Remember me."]]
* ExactWords: StevenMoffat had [[LyingCreator stated]] that Clara wouldn't appear until Christmas. Her appearance in "Asylum Of The Daleks" was a complete surprise -- quickly followed by the Doctor mocking the Daleks by saying "it's Christmas!".
* ExperimentedInCollege: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E01AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]", Oswin mentions her first crush was a girl called Nina, though she elaborates it was a phase.
* FamousLastWords: They don't end up being her last, but she certainly thinks they will be. Twice. Also double as ArcWords.
-->'''Clara:''' Run, you clever boy... And remember.
* FlowerInHerHair: Has a flower decoration in her hair in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E01AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]".
* FutureMeScaresMe: In "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS", she [[spoiler: gets chased by a burned, mad future version of herself, although that timeline gets aborted soon after]].
* GenderBlenderName: "Oswin" is traditionally a male name.
* GenreSavvy: Modern-day Clara is one of the very few companions to listen to the "don't wander off" rule. She tells the Doctor exactly when she needs a moment to cope with things, she doesn't take risks that are beyond her ability, and she generally has a "think first, act second" way of solving problems.
** In "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS", she directly notes that a red flashing light above a door might mean "Danger, don't open." or "there's danger around, get out this way!" [[SchmuckBait She opens it anyway]].
* HaveWeMetYet: An ''even more'' complicated case than River Song, not just towards the Doctor, but also towards [[spoiler: the Great Intelligence]]. The Clara who saved Victorian London [[spoiler: existed because regular Clara followed the Great Intelligence across time and space after he was defeated by her. Same with the Clara in the "Asylum of the Daleks". There was even a Clara on Gallifrey who told the Doctor which TARDIS to steal]].
* InSeriesNickname: "Soufflé Girl", "The Impossible Girl". And "Oswin" for modern-day Clara: in "The Bells of Saint John", Clara uses the {{portmanteau}} "'''Os'''wald for the '''win'''"; "Oswin". She'd never heard of the word "Oswin" before the Doctor called her that, after the name she used [[HaveWeMetYet the first two times he met her]].
* InternalHomage:
** Clara isn't the first companion who's supposed to be dead but is mysteriously still alive, calls the TARDIS a "cow", gets into a bitching match with her voice interface, forms a bitter rivalry with her and then gets let in by her without a key anyway in order to follow the Doctor to a pocket universe. [[Characters/BigFinishDoctorWho Charley Pollard]] did all those things in BigFinish about ten years before.
** She eventually turns out to be a WholePlotReference to the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Unnatural History'', in which the Doctor’s lifeline becomes [[spoiler: a scar woven through space and time, which the villain -- dressed as a Victorian undertaker -- is going to attempt to use to rewrite his life, until the Doctor’s companion (who he’s met before in a different version) saves the day by leaping into it at the cost of her own existence]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: PlayedForLaughs. The TARDIS gives Clara a visual voice interface with the appearance of the person she believes Clara esteems the most: Clara herself.
* JumpedAtTheCall: The first two versions of Clara the Doctor meets.
* LadyInRed: First shows up in a bright red dress, and almost all of her appearances have had her in red at some point in the episode. "Cold War" didn't have red, but it did have lots of red lighting on the submarine.
* {{Leitmotif}}: A soft little piano riff that seems to pop up mainly when dealing with her paradoxical existence. Listen to it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60cm0MUo4-Y&t=1m40s here]].
* LivingADoubleLife: In "The Snowmen", Clara worked as a barmaid under her real name and as a governess under the name "Miss Montague".
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Created her own personal mental paradise to avoid the truth that she was turned into a Dalek in "Asylum of the Daleks"]].
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Clara likes both admonishing the Doctor for saying things to her [[ThatCameOutWrong that can be easily misconstrued]] and flirting with him herself.
* MeetCute: The prequel to "The Bells Of Saint John" has the Doctor [[spoiler: meeting a very young version of her. They hang around in a playground for a bit]].
* MissingMom: Her mother died [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall the same day]] [[MythologyGag as the revival's first episode]].
* MotorMouth: It's been said that JennaLouiseColeman was cast in the role based on her ability to talk [[UpToEleven even faster than Matt Smith]].
* MsFanservice: Wears low-cut, tight and/or short dresses at times, but also likes practical clothing.
** Even the Doctor notices, describing her as "a mystery wrapped in an enigma squeezed into a skirt that's just a little bit too... tight."
* MythologyGag: In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]", it is revealed Clara was born on November 23rd 1866 and is 26 years old -- the same day the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild first episode]] of ''Series/DoctorWho'' aired in 1963 and the same age as the classic series when it was cancelled in 1989. Modern Clara is 24 years old in 2013-meaning she was born in 1989, the year the show was cancelled. The list of ages in Clara's travel book also omits the ages 16-which would have been in 2005, when the show came back-and 23, which would have been in 2012, when Clara first showed up and died the first time.
** Clara's mother died on March 5th, 2005... the day "Rose", the first episode of the new series, takes place.
* MysteriousWaif: "The only mystery in the universe still worth solving."
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous / MeaningfulName: Her namesake? [[Creator/ElisabethSladen Elisabeth Clara Sladen]], who played Sarah Jane Smith for more than three and a half seasons of ''Series/DoctorWho'' and five seasons of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''.
* OopNorth: Speaks with Jenna-Louise Coleman's natural Lancashire accent.
* PluckyGirl: Can stay upbeat in some ''nightmarish'' situations, and has enough willpower to MindRape both the Great Intelligence and the Daleks. As a scanner describes her in "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS";
-->''"Lancashire. Sass."''
* TheReveal: It's revealed at the end of "The Snowmen" that Clara's full name is Clara ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E01AsylumOfTheDaleks Oswin Oswald]]''. The Doctor spends half a season trying to understand how that can be possible. He eventually discovers, in "The Name Of The Doctor", that Clara [[spoiler: voluntarily let herself be shattered across time to undo the actions of the Great Intelligence, who'd also let himself be shattered across the Doctor's timeline in order to delete the Doctor from history. She's been there from the day the Doctor and Susan left Gallifrey]].
* ShipTease: Both future Clara and Victorian Clara quite fancy the Doctor, but modern-day Clara is much less flirty and soon realises that she and the Doctor are BetterAsFriends. The idea that he might tell her he likes her "that way" actually makes her realise she's talking to HydePlaysJekyll at one point. Eleven being a bit of a CovertPervert, though, the ShipTease stays somewhere just under the surface.
* StoryArc: The mystery of her impossible existence is the overarching storyline for the second half of Series 7.
* StrangeGirl: Victorian-era Clara jumps at the chance to hang around a WeirdnessMagnet like the Doctor. [[spoiler: It's what she was born for]]. Modern day Clara, by contrast, is a perfectly normal girl.
* SubvertedCatchphrase: When Victorian Clara first sees the interior of the TARDIS, she goes outside, surveys it from all sides, and rushes back in to declare, "It's [[BiggerOnTheInside smaller on]] [[CrowningMomentofFunny the outside]]!"
-->'''Doctor:''' ...that's a first.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: MattSmith and JennaLouiseColeman in the introduction to "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]"'s first trailer make it clear Clara most definitely has nothing to do with Oswin Oswald from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E01AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]".
-->'''Smith:''' And now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the very first look at the Doctor Who Christmas trailer... which is, of course, the very first episode to feature Miss Jenna-Louise Coleman.\\
'''Coleman:''' {{Ahem}}... second.\\
'''Smith:''' Oh yeah, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E01AsylumOfTheDaleks you were in]] [[TheOneWith the Dalek one]], weren't you... playing a different character...\\
'''Coleman:''' Yep, totally different character.\\
'''Smith:''' [...] Yeah... so you couldn't be the same character at Christmas, that would be just impossible.\\
'''Coleman:''' No way.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Gets killed, a lot, only to inevitably get better.
** [[spoiler:Gets turned into a Dalek and then blown up in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E01AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]", only to turn up miraculously alive in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]"]],
** [[spoiler:Proceeds to fall to her death in "The Snowmen". At that point, she miraculously turns up alive ''yet again'' in modern day.]]
** [[spoiler:Gets burned alive by the Eye of Harmony in a possible future timeline in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E10JourneyToTheCentreOfTheTARDIS Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS]]", only for the Doctor to erase the timeline before it could happen.]]
* TimeyWimeyBall: The way time travel works in Doctor Who should make it impossible for both Oswin and Clara to exist, and yet they do...
-->'''Doctor:''' She's not ''possible''.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Made herself forget she was turned into a Dalek in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E01AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]" to keep herself sane. The Doctor tells her the truth when he finally reaches her.]]
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: A running theme -- enemies who try to destroy or feast on her mind tend to die horrible deaths themselves. Justified, since it's later revealed that [[spoiler: that was the exact purpose she keeps being born for.]]
** She dismantles an entire Dalek prison world and then gives the entire race selective amnesia after they make her [[spoiler:one of them]].
** The Great Intelligence has its entire snowman army turned to water while feeding off the thoughts of her and the family she takes care of.
*** In the Doctor Who Expanded Universe, the Great Intelligence IS Yog-Sothoth!
** The TARDIS ''really'' doesn't like her, to the point where the TARDIS passive-aggressively locks her out, unless she's with the Doctor.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Oswin forgets she is a Dalek and imagines hiding in an escape pod because the truth was too terrible in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E01AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]".]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She still seems to have a mazeophobia due to her childhood experience. And it's explored at least four times in ten episodes.
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** And she was convinced [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned the space ship that almost crashed in buckingham]] in the ChristmasSpecial the year after was fake.

!!Clara Oswald aka Oswin Oswald (Eleventh Doctor)