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* ClingyJealousGirl: A mild case but more so when Rose is brought up.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: A mild case case, but more so when Rose is brought up.up. Once she's getting over her crush on him, she's actually really happy when the Doctor and Rose are reunited.
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* 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).
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* 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). She gets a lot more mature later on.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: has some very self-centered moments, especially regarding Mickey. [[WhatTheHellHero She naturally gets called out on this.]]
* [[spoiler:LoveConfession: She tells the Tenth Doctor this. While he does not say it back, his clone whispers it back in her ear. She stays with the clone in the alternate universe.]]
* [[spoiler:LoveConfession: She tells the Tenth Doctor this. While he does not say it back, his clone whispers it back in her ear. She stays with the clone in the alternate universe.]]
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* ItsAllAboutMe: has Has some very self-centered moments, especially regarding Mickey. [[WhatTheHellHero She naturally gets called out on this.]]
* [[spoiler:LoveConfession: She tells the Tenth Doctor this. While he does not say it back, his clone whispers it back in herear.ear (according to the writers). She stays with the clone in the alternate universe.]]
* [[spoiler:LoveConfession: She tells the Tenth Doctor this. While he does not say it back, his clone whispers it back in her
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* MoralityChain: For the Ninth Doctor. For the Tenth, not so much…
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* MoralityChain: For the Ninth Doctor. For the Tenth, not so much…much...
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* TookALevelInBadass
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* TookALevelInBadassTookALevelInBadass: Series 4. The fact that Billie Piper no longer looks like a teenager at that point also helps.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Played straight with Rose, later averted with Martha whom he married.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Played straight with Rose, later averted with Martha [[spoiler: Martha, whom he married.married]].
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* 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 has 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 actually haul him in five times. And the Doctor keeps calling him Ricky and turning into better looking guys while hauling his girlfriend all over the cosmos. It gets better..
* HumiliationConga : His girlfriend runs off with an alien after basically snarking how useless he was. She goes missing for a year and the police actually haul him in five times. And the Doctor keeps calling him Ricky and turning into better looking guys while hauling his girlfriend all over the cosmos. It gets better..
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* 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 has he's accrued.
*HumiliationConga : HumiliationConga: His girlfriend runs off with an alien after basically snarking how useless he was. She goes missing for a year and the police actually haul him in five times. And the Doctor keeps calling him Ricky and turning into better looking guys while hauling his girlfriend all over the cosmos. It gets better..better...
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* PairTheSpares: With Martha Jones.
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* PairTheSpares: With [[spoiler: Martha Jones.Jones]].
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* MrFanservice
* FantasticRacism: After his transformation into a fixed point in time, the TARDIS initially ''really'' does not like him. She considers him an abomination. They get along a little better again after he saves her life a few times over.
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* MadeOfIron: On top of being immortal, he also is far more resistant to things that should instantly kill. He took a Dalek blast at full power (which should have disintegrated him), and he once sat in a radiation chamber that should have done the same from the intense concentration of gamma radiation.
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* MadeOfIron: On top of being immortal, he also is far more resistant to things that should instantly kill. He took a two Dalek blast blasts at full power (which should have disintegrated him), and he once sat in a radiation chamber that should have done the same from the intense concentration of gamma radiation.radiation.
* MrFanservice
* MrFanservice
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A shopgirl from 21st century London, Rose was first companion seen in the new series. Left after series 2, returned for series 4. Madly in love with the Doctor, which is awkward for everyone involved.
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A shopgirl from 21st century London, Rose was the first companion seen in the new series. Left after series 2, returned for series 4. Madly in love with the Doctor, which is awkward for everyone involved.involved and leads to the Doctor making up a "falling in love not allowed" rule for his subsequent companions.
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* IChooseToStay: At the end of "The Age of Steel," he stays behind in the alternate universe to help 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").
* MyDearIdiot: As he departs to fight the cyber menace in a world not quite his own, the Doctor fondly calls him "Mickey the Idiot" one last time.
* MyDearIdiot: As he departs to fight the cyber menace in a world not quite his own, the Doctor fondly calls him "Mickey the Idiot" one last time.
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* IChooseToStay: At the end of "The Age of Steel," he stays behind in the alternate universe 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").
* MyDearIdiot: As he departs to fight the cyber menace in a world not quite his own, the Doctor fondly calls him "Mickey the Idiot" one last time."Doomsday").
* MyDearIdiot: As he departs to fight the cyber menace in a world not quite his own, the Doctor fondly calls him "Mickey the Idiot" one last time.
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-->Played by: CatherineTate (2006, 2008-10)[[hottip: *:It should perhaps be noted here that, contrary to appearance, Donna *:Donna wasn't a Companion for three years straight. She was a Companion for one full season in 2008 and made one final appearance in both parts of a 2-part story, Part 1 airing on Christmas Day, 2009, while Part 2 aired one week later on New Years Day, 2010.]]
* AbusiveParents: Donna's mom, Sylvia, is verbally abusive to both Donna and Wilt (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.
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** BadassBureaucrat: She was an office worker prior to being a companion, and those skills prove useful in "The Sontaran Strategem".
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** BadassBureaucrat: She was an office worker prior to being a companion, and those her office skills prove extremely useful in "The Sontaran Strategem".Strategem", "The Doctor's Daughter" and "Journey's End". Her ability to understand office files, work a calender system and type 100 words a minute ends up saving the universe several times over.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Oh, very much. It's a testament to Tate's acting talent when Donna's parents beg the Doctor to let her keep her memories, as traveling with him made her a better person - and we see her revert to her shrill, gossipy old self when those memories are erased.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Oh, very much. It's a testament to Tate's acting talent when Donna's parents mom and grandfather beg the Doctor to let her [[spoiler: keep her memories, memories]], as traveling with him made her a better person - -- and we see her revert to her shrill, gossipy gossipy, ''idiotic'' old self [[spoiler: when those memories are erased.erased]].
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* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Is frequently horrified by the amount of responsibility the Doctor has, but copes by going back to being snarky for the start of each adventure.
* 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]]", 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.
* 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]]", 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.
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* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Is 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 adventure.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 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.
* [[spoiler: HalfHumanHybrid: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]", 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.]]
* GoodWithNumbers: It's more than just math,
* [[spoiler: HalfHumanHybrid: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]", 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.]]
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* JustFriends: 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''.)
* PluckyGirl: Explicitly called this by the Doctor.
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* 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.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: When the Doctor first asks her if she'll travel with him, she says no -- being, understandably, weirded-out weirded out by his tranquil fury. She later regrets this and begins searching for him.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Type A. Pompeii and the Ood trigger the ''dere'' side.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Type A. Pompeii and Pompeii, the Ood and her own two alternate dimensions trigger the ''dere'' side.
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* FirstGirlWins: Love or hate the fact, Rose thus far remains the only companion The Doctor expressed obvious romantic affection for, eventually ending up with him. Kinda. In a very strange (but sweet) way. [[WordOfGod The writers have explicitly said]] that The Doctor loved/loves Rose.
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* FirstGirlWins: Love or hate the fact, Rose thus far remains the only companion The Doctor expressed obvious romantic affection for, eventually ending up with him. Kinda.[[spoiler: his half-Donna clone]]. In a very strange (but sweet) way. [[WordOfGod The writers have explicitly said]] that The Doctor loved/loves Rose.[[spoiler: the Clone told her "I love you" when they hooked up]].
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A shopgirl from 21st century London, Rose was first companion seen in the new series. Returned briefly during the 2008 series finale and the 2010 New Year's special after leaving the show two years previously.
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A shopgirl from 21st century London, Rose was first companion seen in the new series. Returned briefly during the 2008 Left after series finale and 2, returned for series 4. Madly in love with the 2010 New Year's special after leaving the show two years previously.
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* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome
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* FlowersForAlgernonSyndromeFlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Is frequently horrified by the amount of responsibility the Doctor has, but copes by going back to being snarky for the start of each adventure.
* JustFriends: 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''.)
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* MoralityChain: For the Tenth Doctor.
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* MoralityChain: For Explicitly considers herself one for the Tenth Doctor.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: MindRaped to prevent [[MySkullRunnethOver her skull runnething over]].
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* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: MindRaped to prevent [[MySkullRunnethOver her skull runnething over]].
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* 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.
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* HeroicSacrifice / StupidSacrifice
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* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice / StupidSacrificeStupidSacrifice]]
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->''Didn't I ever tell you? Best temp in Chiswick - 100 words per minute!''
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->''Didn't I ever tell you? Best temp in Chiswick - -- 100 words per minute!''
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Donna was a temp worker from Chiswick, London in the 21st century. She first met the Doctor after being fed an ancient energy normally only found inside [=TARDISes=] to help revive the Racnoss race and the TARDIS pulling her to it 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 cameo in the Tenth Doctor's last two specials.
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Donna was a temp worker from Chiswick, London in the 21st century. She first met the Doctor after being fed an ancient energy normally only found inside [=TARDISes=] to help revive the Racnoss race race, and the TARDIS pulling her to it 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 cameo role in the Tenth Doctor's last two specials.
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51st century native Jack (not his real name) is a former Time Agent, turned time-traveling omnisexual con-man, turned good - and, eventually, immortal. [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Got his own spin off]].
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51st century native Jack (not his real name) is a former Time Agent, turned time-traveling omnisexual con-man, turned good - when he met the Doctor -- and, eventually, turned immortal. [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Got his own spin off]].
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* BigDamnKiss: ''Eventually'' kisses Jack Harkness, even though she's engaged at the time, simply because "everyone else has had a go". Jack just sort of stares at her.
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* BigDamnKiss: ''Eventually'' kisses Jack Harkness, even though she's engaged at the time, simply because "everyone else has had a go". Jack just sort of stares at her.
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* BigDamnKiss: ''Eventually'' kisses Jack Harkness, even though she's engaged at the time, simply because "everyone else has had a go". Jack just sort of stares at her.
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* KarmaHoudini: Played straight and possibly subverted. After [[spoiler:nearly tearing the universe apart during the Season 6 finale, claiming that her suffering will outweigh that of [[ItsAllAboutMe everyone else in the universe]], the most she gets is a WhatTheHellHero from the Doctor and a largely voluntary stay inside a CardboardPrison.]] Possibly subverted in that they keep running into each other backwards, which means that eventually, the Doctor won't know her, but whether it's invoked as an actual punishment or simple coincidence is, as yet, unknown.
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* KarmaHoudini: Played straight and possibly subverted. After [[spoiler:nearly tearing the universe apart during the Season 6 finale, claiming that her suffering will outweigh that of [[ItsAllAboutMe everyone else in the universe]], the most she gets is a WhatTheHellHero from the Doctor and a largely voluntary stay inside a CardboardPrison.]] Possibly subverted in that they keep running into each other backwards, which means that eventually, the Doctor won't know her, but whether it's invoked as an actual punishment or simple coincidence is, as yet, unknown. It also may put an interesting twist on her [[StableTimeLoop upcoming]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath death]].
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* 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.]]
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* 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 as a child until after [[StableTimeLoop they had their first kiss]].
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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. Jack Harkness claims to have pulled some strings to get her a job with UNIT after she left the TARDIS; she's been there ever since, in what seems to be Harry Sullivan's old job. She remains friends with Jack, occasionally helps out ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' and has popped up in a few of that series' episodes. According to the comics, she left UNIT to become a freelance monster fighter but she still seems to work with them.
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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. Jack Harkness claims to have pulled some strings to get her a job with UNIT after she left the TARDIS; she's been there ever since, in what seems to be Harry Sullivan's old job. She remains friends with Jack, occasionally helps out and has popped up in a a couple of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' and has popped up in a few of that series' episodes.episodes helping out Torchwood Cardiff. According to the comics, she left UNIT to become a freelance monster fighter but she still seems to work with them.
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Martha was a medical student when her hospital ended up on the Moon in the early 21st century. A vampire, a snog, and a cheap trick later, she ended up as the third female (second regular female) companion of the Tenth Doctor. The Doctor pulled some strings to get her a job with UNIT - and her medical license - after she left the TARDIS; she's been there ever since, in what seems to be Harry Sullivan's old job. She's also been seen on ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. According to the comics, she left UNIT to become a freelance monster fighter but she still seems to work with them.
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Martha was a medical student when her hospital ended up on the Moon in the early 21st century. A vampire, a snog, She and the Doctor saved each other's lives a cheap trick later, few times that day, and she ended up as the third female (second regular female) companion of the Tenth Doctor. The Doctor Jack Harkness claims to have pulled some strings to get her a job with UNIT - and her medical license - after she left the TARDIS; she's been there ever since, in what seems to be Harry Sullivan's old job. She's also been seen on ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''.She remains friends with Jack, occasionally helps out ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' and has popped up in a few of that series' episodes. According to the comics, she left UNIT to become a freelance monster fighter but she still seems to work with them.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Between series 3 and 4. Or possibly in the In The Year That Never Was.Was. Joins UNIT right after.
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* [[spoiler: ThisIsMyNameOnForeign]]: Played for a [[WhamEpisode dramatic]] [[TheReveal reveal]] in [[Recap/{{DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar}} "A Good Man Goes to War"]], when it turns out that River Song's name is actually the closest approximation, in the language of the Forest People, of [[spoiler: Melody Pond. See, it's a pretty simple language, so obviously '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…"]] ]]
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* BreatherEpisode: Craig has only appeared in these. Coincidentally, both before the series finale.
** Not as coincidentally as one might think. The Doctor grew so fond of Craig the first time around that he made a point of seeing Craig one more time [[spoiler:before walking off to his execution]].
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* BreatherEpisode: Craig has only appeared in these. Coincidentally, both before the series finale.\n** Not as coincidentally as one might think. The Doctor grew so fond of Craig the first time around that he made a point of seeing Craig one more time [[spoiler:before walking off to his execution]].
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* GenreSavvy / WrongGenreSavvy: Craig recognizes that everywhere the Doctor goes, disaster will come, and also that the safest place for him and Alfie is by his side, because the Doctor ''always'' wins.
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* GenreSavvy / WrongGenreSavvy: GenreSavvy: Craig recognizes that everywhere the Doctor goes, disaster will come, come...
** WrongGenreSavvy: ...and also that the safest place for him and Alfie is by his side, [[CompletelyMissingThePoint because theDoctor ''always'' wins.Doctor]] ''[[CompletelyMissingThePoint always]]'' [[CompletelyMissingThePoint wins]].
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* SociopathicHero: Younger!River. Played ''very'' darkly in the series six finale.
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* SociopathicHero: Younger!River. Played She has shades of this, and it's played ''very'' darkly in the series six finale.
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!!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 first companion seen in the new series. Returned briefly during the 2008 series finale and the 2010 New Year's special after leaving the show two years previously.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Series 1 finale counts.
* 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).
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Lampshaded by Martha. "Oh, she was a ''blonde'', was she?"
* FirstGirlWins: Love or hate the fact, Rose thus far remains the only companion The Doctor expressed obvious romantic affection for, eventually ending up with him. Kinda. In a very strange (but sweet) way. [[WordOfGod The writers have explicitly said]] that The Doctor loved/loves Rose.
* GirlNextDoor
* 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 naturally gets called out on this.]]
* [[spoiler:LoveConfession: She tells the Tenth Doctor this. While he does not say it back, his clone whispers it back in her ear. She stays with the clone in the alternate universe.]]
* LivingEmotionalCrutch
* MoralityChain: For the Ninth Doctor. For the Tenth, not so much…
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Indirectly responsible (along with "Sexy") for [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion the Sycorax invasion]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E11Utopia the return of the Master]] (and by extension, [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E6TheLazarusExperiment Professor Lazarus' rampage]]) and [[Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay Miracle Day]].
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: To the Ninth Doctor, mainly.
* TookALevelInBadass
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B.
* UnreliableNarrator: Everything she says about her death.
* WhenSheSmiles
!!Mickey Smith (Ninth and Tenth Doctors)
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->''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 at first was the "abandoned boyfriend" of Rose during the first series. This, however, didn't stop him from running around for a few adventures during that series anyway. Later joined in the TARDIS crew as a theoretical Companion for a few episodes early in the second series, only to stay behind off-planet ([[AlternateUniverse sort of]]). 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 Martha whom he married.
* BadassBeard: Once he starts fighting aliens freelance.
* BadassNormal: Eventually.
* BlackAndNerdy
* 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 has 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 actually haul him in five times. And the Doctor keeps calling him Ricky and turning into better looking guys while hauling his girlfriend all over the cosmos. It gets better..
* IChooseToStay: At the end of "The Age of Steel," he stays behind in the alternate universe to help 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").
* MyDearIdiot: As he departs to fight the cyber menace in a world not quite his own, the Doctor fondly calls him "Mickey the Idiot" one last time.
* [[MyNameIsNotDurwood My Name is Not Ricky]]: It's ''Mickey!''
* PairTheSpares: With Martha Jones.
* PokeThePoodle: Ricky Smith is London's Most Wanted. ...For parking violations.
* RebelLeader: Alternate Mickey. (It's ''Ricky''.)
* SaltAndPepper: Alongside his partner in crime, Jake.
* TakeUpMySword: When his alternate self dies, Mickey decides to take up his identity and continue the fight.
* TookALevelInBadass: Multiple.
** To wit, from lovable but aimless boyfriend to a capable hacker and fully-fledged companion. 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.]]
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: He and Rose seem quite happy, though not exactly soulmates.
!!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
* TeenGenius
!!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 a former Time Agent, turned time-traveling omnisexual con-man, turned good - and, eventually, immortal. [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Got his own spin off]].
* 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: Given this is somewhat more family friendly than ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', he's portrayed as as a watered down Type III in mainline DW canon.
* BadassLongcoat: Of The World War II greatcoat variety.
* BoldlyComing
* {{Casanova}}
* TheCharmer
* ChekhovsGunman: In [[spoiler:"The End of The World,"]] if you believe the theory that [[spoiler:he's the Face of Boe]].
* MrFanservice
* 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
* 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".
* TheGoodCaptain
* HandsomeLech
* HeelFaceTurn: Originally, he was merely a charming con artist. [[spoiler: He became a better person thanks to the Doctor's influence, to the point he'd happily be a LoveMartyr for him.]]
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap
* MadeOfIron: On top of being immortal, he also is far more resistant to things that should instantly kill. He took a Dalek blast at full power (which should have disintegrated him), and he once sat in a radiation chamber that should have done the same from the intense concentration of gamma radiation.
* NoNameGiven: He admits "Jack Harkness" is an alias. We ''still'' don't know what his name really is.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Over 170 in series 3, over 2040 in series 4.
* TheSlowPath: Between series 1 and 3.
* TimePolice: Formerly.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
!!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)
Donna was a temp worker from Chiswick, London in the 21st century. She first met the Doctor after being fed an ancient energy normally only found inside [=TARDISes=] to help revive the Racnoss race and the TARDIS pulling her to it 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 cameo in the Tenth Doctor's last two specials.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassAbnormal: [[spoiler: Temporarily, as the Doctor Donna. This also protects her from the Master's scheme in ''The End of Time''.]]
** BadassBureaucrat: She was an office worker prior to being a companion, and those skills prove useful in "The Sontaran Strategem".
** 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.
** PluckyGirl
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* CharacterDevelopment: Oh, very much. It's a testament to Tate's acting talent when Donna's parents beg the Doctor to let her keep her memories, as traveling with him made her a better person - and we see her revert to her shrill, gossipy old self 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: Drove around ready to travel with the Doctor with every type of clothing she might ever need after her debut episode just in case he showed up one day and made her a companion.
* 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
* 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]]", 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.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex
* LargeHam
* MismatchedEyes: Real ones.
* 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: 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.
* RedHeadedHero
* 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.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Quite honestly so this time.
** 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]].
* 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}}: Type A. Pompeii and the Ood trigger the ''dere'' side.
** Also when the Doctor is genuinely distressed. See the end of "Midnight".
* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: MindRaped to prevent [[MySkullRunnethOver her skull runnething over]].
!!Martha Smith-Jones (Tenth Doctor)
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->''I travelled across the world. From the ruins of New York, to the fusion mills of China, right across the radiation pits of Europe…''
-->Played by: FreemaAgyeman (2007-08, 2010)
Martha was a medical student when her hospital ended up on the Moon in the early 21st century. A vampire, a snog, and a cheap trick later, she ended up as the third female (second regular female) companion of the Tenth Doctor. The Doctor pulled some strings to get her a job with UNIT - and her medical license - after she left the TARDIS; she's been there ever since, in what seems to be Harry Sullivan's old job. She's also been seen on ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. According to the comics, she left UNIT to become a freelance monster fighter but she still seems to work with them.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited
* AlwaysSecondBest: How she feels about replacing Rose.
* BlackAndNerdy: Medical student, natch.
* ClingyJealousGirl: A mild case but more so when Rose is brought up.
* {{Determinator}}: At the end of Series 3.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: To John Smith in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E8HumanNature Human Nature]] / [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E9TheFamilyOfBlood The Family of Blood]]".
* HospitalHottie
* 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 Mickey Smith. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What happened to her engagement to Thomas Mulligan from Series 4]] has never been explained.
* ReplacementGoldfish: It doesn't take very long for her to feel as though she's simply this for Rose.
* TechnicalPacifist: Doesn't carry a gun, but has a position of command in a military organisation.
* TookALevelInBadass: Between series 3 and 4. Or possibly in the Year That Never Was.
* WalkingTheEarth: During the Year That Never Was.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: During series 4, Martha was engaged to Tom Milligan (the engagement ring was a bit of a plot point in one of the episodes), but when we next see her one series later, she was inexplicably married to Mickey Smith. [[hottip:*: Possibly the explanation is we're seeing her and Mickey a bit farther into the future than the other Companions Ten visited, but the episode didn't clarify.]]
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Actor Freema Agyeman first appeared as a Torchwood London employee; a character retconned into Martha's identical cousin Adeola.
* YaoiFangirl: As revealed in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', where she takes interest in Jack and Ianto's "dabbling".
* YouLookFamiliar: As above.
!!Astrid Peth (Tenth Doctor)
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->''Mr. Capricorn? I resign!''
-->Played by: 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''.
* [[spoiler:AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence]]
* ChristmasCake
* HeroicSacrifice / StupidSacrifice
* HumanAliens
* {{Meido}}
!!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)
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 (due to 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 the actor playing Donna's father passed away.
* 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.
* CoolOldGuy
* 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."
* ParentalSubstitute: Is this to Donna. After her father died, and given her mother's aloofness, she always turns to "Gramps".
* 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.
* WeaponOfChoice: A paintball gun. Or his old service revolver. That works, too.
* YouLookFamiliar: Cribbins co-starred in ''DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'' in 1966. Sure, it isn't canon, but nonetheless.
!!River Song [[spoiler:aka Melody Pond aka 'Mels']] (Eleventh and Tenth Doctors, in that order from her perspective)
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->''Spoilers!''
-->Played by: AlexKingston (2008, 2010-present), [[spoiler:Sydney Wade, Harrison/Madison Mortimer, Maya Glace-Green, Nina Toussaint-White]] (2011)
A professor of archaeology who has an unusually close relationship with the Doctor, knowing more about him than he knows about himself at times. 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, and it only gets more confusing from there.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist
* AdventurerOutfit
* AntiHero: Developed from type V to type IV to type III, although the Doctor (And the audience) sees it the other way around.
* AxCrazy: In "Let's Kill Hitler", [[spoiler:as her young, Doctor-wanting-to-kill incarnation as Mels.]]
* {{Badass}}: She made a [[spoiler:''Dalek'']] beg for mercy. A ''freakin' [[spoiler:Dalek]]!''
* 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.
--> 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. Plus the very mention of her name made [[spoiler:a Dalek]] beg for mercy.
* TheBigGuy: She is the most competent fighter out of the Eleventh Doctor's companions, other than Rory when he [[spoiler:taps into his memories of his time as the Centurion]].
** TheSmartGuy: She is arguably even more intelligent then she is strong, so she probably fits this better in the team lineup, with Rory as TheBigGuy.
* BoxedCrook: In ''The Time of Angels/Flesh And Stone''. Her crime is "killing the best man [she] ever knew". [[spoiler:The man turns out to be The Doctor, although his death was faked.]]
* BrainsAndBondage: Why would she have handcuffs? Spoilers.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: See AxCrazy.
* CatchPhrase: Along with "Hello, sweetie!" whenever she meets the Doctor, she also says "spoilers" when keeping anyone's relative future a secret. It's also her [[spoiler:{{Famous Last Words}} before her {{Heroic Sacrifice}}]].
* [[spoiler: ChildSoldier: Raised by the Silence to kill the Doctor for a portion of her childhood.]]
* ConsummateLiar: So as to not spoil anyone's relative future.
-->"I lied. I'm always lying."
* 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.]]
* [[spoiler:FauxAffablyEvil: In "Let's Kill Hitler", prior to her HeelFaceTurn. She acts much like she always does, except with more murder attempts.]]
* FemmeFatale: She seems to have a few elements of this in her later (chronologically earlier) appearances.
* ForegoneConclusion: Her [[spoiler:death]] in her first appearance, "Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead". Her subsequent appearances are earlier in her timeline.
* TheGunslinger
* 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.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's got [[spoiler:primitive Time Lord]] DNA [[spoiler:from being conceived on the TARDIS]].
* [[spoiler: HappilyMarried: To the Doctor, although most of her meetings after the marriage, he hasn't married her yet, and he doesn't realize he's going to (Although Amy suspects it.)]]
* 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."]]
* HypercompetentSidekick: She can fly the TARDIS better than the Doctor, amongst other things. [[spoiler:It helps that the TARDIS taught her directly, while the Doctor seems to have learned on the fly.]]
* IKnowYourTrueName: The '''''only''''' character in the show's 47 years confirmed to know the Doctor's real name.
-->'''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.
* InLoveWithTheMark: River was supposed to be [[spoiler:The Silence's weapon]] to use against the Doctor, but she seems to have fallen in love with him instead. When it came time to kill him at Lake Silencio, [[spoiler: 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]].
* KarmaHoudini: Played straight and possibly subverted. After [[spoiler:nearly tearing the universe apart during the Season 6 finale, claiming that her suffering will outweigh that of [[ItsAllAboutMe everyone else in the universe]], the most she gets is a WhatTheHellHero from the Doctor and a largely voluntary stay inside a CardboardPrison.]] Possibly subverted in that they keep running into each other backwards, which means that eventually, the Doctor won't know her, but whether it's invoked as an actual punishment or simple coincidence is, as yet, unknown.
* KidFromTheFuture: She's [[spoiler:Amy and Rory's]] daughter.
* KissOfDeath: Well, not quite. She prefers hallucinogenic lipstick over the traditional poisonous lipstick. [[spoiler:Played straight in "Let's Kill Hitler", when she was programmed from birth to assassinate the Doctor.]]
* LadyOfAdventure
* LargeHam: In "The Time of Angels" and "Let's Kill Hitler".
* LaserGuidedTykebomb: She was originally raised as a weapon to kill [[spoiler:the Doctor]].
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Her bickering with the Doctor is made of this.
* [[spoiler:LoveConfession: River professes her love to the Doctor in "The Wedding Of River Song."]]
* [[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.
* LukeIAmYourFather / LukeYouAreMyFather: River is [[spoiler:Melody Pond, the daughter of Amy Pond and Rory Williams]]. River tells them this after [[spoiler:her newborn self]] is kidnapped.
* 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!
* MysteriousPast
* [[spoiler: TheNthDoctor: 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, but still.]]
* PoisonousFriend
* [[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.
* TheReveal: River Song is in fact [[spoiler:Melody Pond, Amy Pond and Rory Williams' daughter. She's also been one of Amy and Rory's closest friends since long before they saw her fly out of the ''Byzantium'' or take over the Auton Roman camp]].
* 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.
* [[spoiler:SassyBlackWoman: As Mels.]]
* SociopathicHero: Younger!River. Played ''very'' darkly in the series six finale.
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:She's named after 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 the name "River Song" only because the Doctor, Amy, and Rory keep calling her that, because that's the name they always knew her by.]]
* [[spoiler: SuperStrength: A very minor example, 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.]]
* TouchedByVorlons: As a result of [[spoiler:being conceived in the TARDIS]], she is [[spoiler:part-Time Lord]].
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: In "A Good Man Goes to War", River strongly implies that she once spent a very enjoyable birthday with two Doctors at once!
* 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.]]
* [[spoiler: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]]: Or, y'know, ''all reality''.
* 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 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.]]
!!"The Next Doctor"/[[spoiler:Jackson Lake]] (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
* BadassBookworm
* BadassNormal
* DevelopmentGag: David Morrissey was one of the fan- and press-favored front-runners for the Eleventh Doctor role.
* LargeHam: He's hammy even by normal ''Who'' standards.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia
* TheNthDoctor: He seems to be number 11 - 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 just a human whose mind has accidentally been tampered with.
* StayInTheKitchen: His attitude towards Rosita, due to DeliberateValuesDissonance.
!!Rosita (Tenth Doctor)
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->'''Rosita:''' I'm glad you think it's so ''funny''. You're mad! Both of ya! You could've got killed!
->'''[[spoiler:Jackson Lake]]:''' [''still guffawing''] But evidently we did not!
-->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 this is subtly pointed out.
* SarcasticDevotee
!!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
* ClassyCatBurglar
* CrazyPrepared: She has something in her pack for every situation... except bus fare.
* DarkActionGirl
!!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 a Mars mission in the 2050s.
* TheCaptain / TheGoodCaptain
* TheDeterminator: She ''never'' snaps.
* HeroicSacrifice
* WhatTheHellHero: Calls the Doctor on his ego trip.
!!Amelia "Amy" 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: KarenGillan (2010-present)
-->Young Amelia Pond played by: CaitlinBlackwood (2010-2011)
Amy, a [[MsFanservice kissogram]], 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.
* [[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]]. "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}}
** ActionGirl: WordOfGod says she exerts this when "pushed into a corner." "The Girl Who Waited" sees Amy exhibit this trope to her fullest potential.
** 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.
** FutureBadass: [[spoiler:Thirty six years spent defending herself from robots who kill with kindness. With a sword.]]
** 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".
** 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.
** TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Thirty-six years defending yourself from killer robots will do this.]]
** [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Wife]]: It's not a good idea to mess with Rory.
* BerserkButton: Like Rory, hurt her family and you'll regret it.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* [[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 Karen Gillan's part.
* 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]].
* DrivesLikeCrazy: According to Rory.
* 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's mellowed out considerably as of Series 6.
* [[spoiler: GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave / NeverMessWithGranny: Since Older Amy is something like 58 years old, quite justified.]]
* 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, played straight with Rory.
** In the 2011 Comic Relief short, Amy Pond flirts with ''herself''.
* HiddenDepths: She really loves van Gogh's work.
* HotChickWithASword: In "The Girl Who Waited".
* HotMum
* 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!''
* 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. [[spoiler: Possibly a subliminal hint to the audience that she's actually a mind-linked doppelgänger in these episodes.]]
* [[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.
* MeetCute: She and the Doctor have one when he shows up in a crashed TARDIS asking for an apple.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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" — unlike Rory, she can remember events in the correct timeline, but only with a lot of effort and many scribbled illustrations.
* ScarfOfAssKicking: Occasionally wears one.
* ScrewYourself: When the TARDIS gets split in two, Amy finds her duplicate 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 at all.]]
* ShesGotLegs: To the point where "Time" seemed to be about them.
* ShowSomeLeg: How she got her driver's permit.
* 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. This makes her the first companion with canonical mental issues since Ace.
** 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 [[Literature/{{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
* TedBaxter: Very mild case of this sometimes, as she tends to overestimate her own competence.
* {{Tsundere}}: A Type A at the beginning of Series 5, Type B by the end.
* WistfulAmnesia: Finds herself crying over Rory without realizing it or knowing why several times in series 5.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: As she points out, the Doctor only calls her "Amelia" when he's worried about her.
* 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]]".
!!Rory 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: ArthurDarvill (2010-present)
-->Young Rory played by: Ezekiel Wigglesworth (2011)
Rory is a nurse, Amy's [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend childhood friend, and now her husband]]. Although he started off as incredibly reluctant to travel with the Doctor, out of love for Amy and fear for his own life, he eventually rose to the challenge.
* {{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 death of [[spoiler:Amy by his own hands]].
* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead]]
* {{Badass}}
** [[BadassAdorable Badass Adorkable]]: "A Good Man Goes To War" has him terrifying Cybermen and then later crying with joy at his baby daughter.
** 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".
** TheDeterminator
** PapaWolf: [[ThisIsSparta Where. Is. My. Wife.]]
** SubmissiveBadass: He is no doubt a BAMF, but he'll always be an adorable dork and Amy will always be the one in charge.
* BerserkButton: ''Never'' mess with Amy or his baby.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Normally a gentle soul (he's a nurse, after all), but press his BerserkButton and you ''will'' regret it.
* ButtMonkey: Toned down a lot since [[spoiler:he became the Last Centurion]], but he still gets this treatment now and then.
* 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.
* CleopatraNose: Which the Doctor can't resist ribbing him about.
* CovertPervert: In ''Space'' and ''Time'' he accidentally causes a major malfunction in the TARDIS because of A. His wife is wearing a skirt and B. The TARDIS has a ''glass floor''.
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler:DeathIsCheap]]
* {{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 whats coming.
--> '''Amy''': But it could activate at any moment!
--> '''Rory''': It ''has'' activated, ma'am.
* [[spoiler: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]].
* 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.
* 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]].
* TheGoodCaptain: In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]''.
* GoodLookingPrivates: The writers really do seem to like putting him in uniform, just about ''any'' uniform, really. Security guard, modern combat fatigues, and ''particularly'' his signature [[spoiler:Roman centurion]] outfit.
* 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. ''Its 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.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Early in "The Big Bang", [[spoiler: he spent 1894 years worth of history guarding the Pandorica]]. [[NoodleIncident Probability of zany adventures: extremely high.]]
* 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!
* 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.
* HospitalHottie: In case you could ever forget, he's a nurse. And a pretty one at that.
* HotDad
* 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.]]
* ItGotWorse: 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.
* JustFriends: Type 2. Had feelings for Amy whilst she was ObliviousToLove to the point [[MistakenForGay she thought he was gay.]]
* 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 reveals that he neither fears nor believes in anything anymore.
** This has the unexpected bonus of making Rory highly resistant to MindRape, if "The Doctor's Wife" and "The God Complex" are any indication.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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…
* NiceGuy
* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler:He spent 1894 years staying out of trouble… unsuccessfully]].
* 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]].
* PhraseCatcher: Manages to get a good "Oh, Rory" out of the Doctor every once and awhile.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: As of the 2010 Christmas special, and thereafter.
* PuppyDogEyes: They can rival the Tenth Doctor's.
* [[spoiler:Really700YearsOld: Mentally, he's almost two thousand years old, potentially even older than the Doctor.]]
* [[spoiler: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]].
* 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. It's a little bit sad, and at the same time, very funny.
* TheSlowPath: As [[spoiler:the Centurion, he spent 1894 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.
* SuperStrength: [[spoiler:In his Auton form as the Centurion]].
* [[spoiler:TakingTheBullet]]: At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E09ColdBlood Cold Blood]]"... [[spoiler:and ''then'' he gets retconned out of existence.]]
* ThousandYardStare: The Doctor notes he has one [[spoiler: whenever he remembers the 2000 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 2000 years as the Lone Centurion]]. The man really would do anything for his wife.
** Again in "A Good Man Goes to War". [[ThisIsSparta '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 neither fear nor faith, so all it can do is show him the exit.
* TraumaCongaLine: Part of what causes the above CharacterDevelopment.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Amy.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend
* VitriolicBestBuds: With the Doctor. Both the Doctor and Rory seem to enjoy the level of snark they throw at each other.
* 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]].
!!Craig Owens (Eleventh Doctor)
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->''Has anyone ever told you that you're a bit weird?''
-->Played by: James Corden (2010-11)
[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger Rented a room out to the Doctor]] when the latter was stranded on Earth by a malfunctioning TARDIS. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued.]] As a result of a hasty MindMeld InfoDump, he knows more about the Doctor's general history than most non-companion characters, and the Doctor has come to view him as a very good friend.
* AccidentalPervert
* {{Adorkable}}
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Doctor to Craig, with regards to football and his job. Probably not the best thing to do to your landlord.
* {{Badass}}: Yes, really.
** BadassNormal: Emphasis on the latter to justify the former. He's so ordinary that a LotusEaterMachine ''exploded'' instead of killing him, and he once ''blew up an entire Cyberman base'' by simply letting them [[spoiler: feel the mental feedback of his intense desire to protect his infant son.]]
** BadassUnintentional: None of the stuff he did was on purpose, and he was for the most part scared for his life.
** PapaWolf: …eventually.
* BreatherEpisode: Craig has only appeared in these. Coincidentally, both before the series finale.
* CannotSpitItOut: Craig and Sophie, even though EveryoneCanSeeIt.
* ExpositionBeam: The Doctor gives him one when they first meet.
* GenreSavvy / WrongGenreSavvy: Craig recognizes that everywhere the Doctor goes, disaster will come, and also that the safest place for him and Alfie is by his side, because the Doctor ''always'' wins.
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Craig and Sophie for most of The Lodger; they eventually [[RelationshipUpgrade decide to ruin their friendship]] ''properly''.
* MistakenForGay: The Doctor and Craig. As Val tells them, "There's no need to be coy these days."
** Val has more reason than most do for this trope, what with the way Craig and the Doctor [[HoYay act throughout the episode.]] She sees them hug, and they refer to each other as their 'partner'.
* NiceHat: When the Doctor says he is going to America, Craig gives him the Stetson as a parting gift.
* PowerOfLove
* RunningGag: The Doctor "Shhh"-ing people and Craig wanting to be taught how.
* StopHelpingMe: The Doctor's attempts to help Craig (joining his football team, filling in for him at work when he's sick, trying to get Sophie to admit that she loves him, etc.) just make him look like [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter the better man]] who's driving Sophie away.
* StoutStrength: According to the Doctor.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Craig is so happy in his mundane life that [[spoiler:it overloads the alien spacecraft]] in "The Lodger". In "Closing Time", [[spoiler:[[ThePowerOfLove his paternal instincts overload the Cybermen's emotional inhibitors]], blowing up their whole ship]].
* UseYourHead: In order to save time explaining why he's staying with Craig, [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}} the Doctor headbutts him twice]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: With the Doctor. Craig may express exasperation, terror and irritation whenever the Doctor shows up, but its clear he's secretly having the time of his life.
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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 first companion seen in the new series. Returned briefly during the 2008 series finale and the 2010 New Year's special after leaving the show two years previously.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Series 1 finale counts.
* 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).
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Lampshaded by Martha. "Oh, she was a ''blonde'', was she?"
* FirstGirlWins: Love or hate the fact, Rose thus far remains the only companion The Doctor expressed obvious romantic affection for, eventually ending up with him. Kinda. In a very strange (but sweet) way. [[WordOfGod The writers have explicitly said]] that The Doctor loved/loves Rose.
* GirlNextDoor
* 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 naturally gets called out on this.]]
* [[spoiler:LoveConfession: She tells the Tenth Doctor this. While he does not say it back, his clone whispers it back in her ear. She stays with the clone in the alternate universe.]]
* LivingEmotionalCrutch
* MoralityChain: For the Ninth Doctor. For the Tenth, not so much…
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Indirectly responsible (along with "Sexy") for [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion the Sycorax invasion]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E11Utopia the return of the Master]] (and by extension, [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E6TheLazarusExperiment Professor Lazarus' rampage]]) and [[Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay Miracle Day]].
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: To the Ninth Doctor, mainly.
* TookALevelInBadass
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B.
* UnreliableNarrator: Everything she says about her death.
* WhenSheSmiles
!!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 at first was the "abandoned boyfriend" of Rose during the first series. This, however, didn't stop him from running around for a few adventures during that series anyway. Later joined in the TARDIS crew as a theoretical Companion for a few episodes early in the second series, only to stay behind off-planet ([[AlternateUniverse sort of]]). 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 Martha whom he married.
* BadassBeard: Once he starts fighting aliens freelance.
* BadassNormal: Eventually.
* BlackAndNerdy
* 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 has 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 actually haul him in five times. And the Doctor keeps calling him Ricky and turning into better looking guys while hauling his girlfriend all over the cosmos. It gets better..
* IChooseToStay: At the end of "The Age of Steel," he stays behind in the alternate universe to help 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").
* MyDearIdiot: As he departs to fight the cyber menace in a world not quite his own, the Doctor fondly calls him "Mickey the Idiot" one last time.
* [[MyNameIsNotDurwood My Name is Not Ricky]]: It's ''Mickey!''
* PairTheSpares: With Martha Jones.
* PokeThePoodle: Ricky Smith is London's Most Wanted. ...For parking violations.
* RebelLeader: Alternate Mickey. (It's ''Ricky''.)
* SaltAndPepper: Alongside his partner in crime, Jake.
* TakeUpMySword: When his alternate self dies, Mickey decides to take up his identity and continue the fight.
* TookALevelInBadass: Multiple.
** To wit, from lovable but aimless boyfriend to a capable hacker and fully-fledged companion. 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.]]
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: He and Rose seem quite happy, though not exactly soulmates.
!!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
* TeenGenius
!!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 a former Time Agent, turned time-traveling omnisexual con-man, turned good - and, eventually, immortal. [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Got his own spin off]].
* 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: Given this is somewhat more family friendly than ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', he's portrayed as as a watered down Type III in mainline DW canon.
* BadassLongcoat: Of The World War II greatcoat variety.
* BoldlyComing
* {{Casanova}}
* TheCharmer
* ChekhovsGunman: In [[spoiler:"The End of The World,"]] if you believe the theory that [[spoiler:he's the Face of Boe]].
* MrFanservice
* 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
* 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".
* TheGoodCaptain
* HandsomeLech
* HeelFaceTurn: Originally, he was merely a charming con artist. [[spoiler: He became a better person thanks to the Doctor's influence, to the point he'd happily be a LoveMartyr for him.]]
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap
* MadeOfIron: On top of being immortal, he also is far more resistant to things that should instantly kill. He took a Dalek blast at full power (which should have disintegrated him), and he once sat in a radiation chamber that should have done the same from the intense concentration of gamma radiation.
* NoNameGiven: He admits "Jack Harkness" is an alias. We ''still'' don't know what his name really is.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Over 170 in series 3, over 2040 in series 4.
* TheSlowPath: Between series 1 and 3.
* TimePolice: Formerly.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
!!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)
Donna was a temp worker from Chiswick, London in the 21st century. She first met the Doctor after being fed an ancient energy normally only found inside [=TARDISes=] to help revive the Racnoss race and the TARDIS pulling her to it 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 cameo in the Tenth Doctor's last two specials.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassAbnormal: [[spoiler: Temporarily, as the Doctor Donna. This also protects her from the Master's scheme in ''The End of Time''.]]
** BadassBureaucrat: She was an office worker prior to being a companion, and those skills prove useful in "The Sontaran Strategem".
** 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.
** PluckyGirl
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* CharacterDevelopment: Oh, very much. It's a testament to Tate's acting talent when Donna's parents beg the Doctor to let her keep her memories, as traveling with him made her a better person - and we see her revert to her shrill, gossipy old self 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: Drove around ready to travel with the Doctor with every type of clothing she might ever need after her debut episode just in case he showed up one day and made her a companion.
* 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
* 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]]", 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.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex
* LargeHam
* MismatchedEyes: Real ones.
* 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: 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.
* RedHeadedHero
* 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.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Quite honestly so this time.
** 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]].
* 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}}: Type A. Pompeii and the Ood trigger the ''dere'' side.
** Also when the Doctor is genuinely distressed. See the end of "Midnight".
* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: MindRaped to prevent [[MySkullRunnethOver her skull runnething over]].
!!Martha Smith-Jones (Tenth Doctor)
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->''I travelled across the world. From the ruins of New York, to the fusion mills of China, right across the radiation pits of Europe…''
-->Played by: FreemaAgyeman (2007-08, 2010)
Martha was a medical student when her hospital ended up on the Moon in the early 21st century. A vampire, a snog, and a cheap trick later, she ended up as the third female (second regular female) companion of the Tenth Doctor. The Doctor pulled some strings to get her a job with UNIT - and her medical license - after she left the TARDIS; she's been there ever since, in what seems to be Harry Sullivan's old job. She's also been seen on ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. According to the comics, she left UNIT to become a freelance monster fighter but she still seems to work with them.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited
* AlwaysSecondBest: How she feels about replacing Rose.
* BlackAndNerdy: Medical student, natch.
* ClingyJealousGirl: A mild case but more so when Rose is brought up.
* {{Determinator}}: At the end of Series 3.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: To John Smith in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E8HumanNature Human Nature]] / [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E9TheFamilyOfBlood The Family of Blood]]".
* HospitalHottie
* 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 Mickey Smith. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What happened to her engagement to Thomas Mulligan from Series 4]] has never been explained.
* ReplacementGoldfish: It doesn't take very long for her to feel as though she's simply this for Rose.
* TechnicalPacifist: Doesn't carry a gun, but has a position of command in a military organisation.
* TookALevelInBadass: Between series 3 and 4. Or possibly in the Year That Never Was.
* WalkingTheEarth: During the Year That Never Was.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: During series 4, Martha was engaged to Tom Milligan (the engagement ring was a bit of a plot point in one of the episodes), but when we next see her one series later, she was inexplicably married to Mickey Smith. [[hottip:*: Possibly the explanation is we're seeing her and Mickey a bit farther into the future than the other Companions Ten visited, but the episode didn't clarify.]]
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Actor Freema Agyeman first appeared as a Torchwood London employee; a character retconned into Martha's identical cousin Adeola.
* YaoiFangirl: As revealed in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', where she takes interest in Jack and Ianto's "dabbling".
* YouLookFamiliar: As above.
!!Astrid Peth (Tenth Doctor)
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->''Mr. Capricorn? I resign!''
-->Played by: 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''.
* [[spoiler:AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence]]
* ChristmasCake
* HeroicSacrifice / StupidSacrifice
* HumanAliens
* {{Meido}}
!!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)
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 (due to 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 the actor playing Donna's father passed away.
* 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.
* CoolOldGuy
* 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."
* ParentalSubstitute: Is this to Donna. After her father died, and given her mother's aloofness, she always turns to "Gramps".
* 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.
* WeaponOfChoice: A paintball gun. Or his old service revolver. That works, too.
* YouLookFamiliar: Cribbins co-starred in ''DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'' in 1966. Sure, it isn't canon, but nonetheless.
!!River Song [[spoiler:aka Melody Pond aka 'Mels']] (Eleventh and Tenth Doctors, in that order from her perspective)
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->''Spoilers!''
-->Played by: AlexKingston (2008, 2010-present), [[spoiler:Sydney Wade, Harrison/Madison Mortimer, Maya Glace-Green, Nina Toussaint-White]] (2011)
A professor of archaeology who has an unusually close relationship with the Doctor, knowing more about him than he knows about himself at times. 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, and it only gets more confusing from there.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist
* AdventurerOutfit
* AntiHero: Developed from type V to type IV to type III, although the Doctor (And the audience) sees it the other way around.
* AxCrazy: In "Let's Kill Hitler", [[spoiler:as her young, Doctor-wanting-to-kill incarnation as Mels.]]
* {{Badass}}: She made a [[spoiler:''Dalek'']] beg for mercy. A ''freakin' [[spoiler:Dalek]]!''
* 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.
--> 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. Plus the very mention of her name made [[spoiler:a Dalek]] beg for mercy.
* TheBigGuy: She is the most competent fighter out of the Eleventh Doctor's companions, other than Rory when he [[spoiler:taps into his memories of his time as the Centurion]].
** TheSmartGuy: She is arguably even more intelligent then she is strong, so she probably fits this better in the team lineup, with Rory as TheBigGuy.
* BoxedCrook: In ''The Time of Angels/Flesh And Stone''. Her crime is "killing the best man [she] ever knew". [[spoiler:The man turns out to be The Doctor, although his death was faked.]]
* BrainsAndBondage: Why would she have handcuffs? Spoilers.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: See AxCrazy.
* CatchPhrase: Along with "Hello, sweetie!" whenever she meets the Doctor, she also says "spoilers" when keeping anyone's relative future a secret. It's also her [[spoiler:{{Famous Last Words}} before her {{Heroic Sacrifice}}]].
* [[spoiler: ChildSoldier: Raised by the Silence to kill the Doctor for a portion of her childhood.]]
* ConsummateLiar: So as to not spoil anyone's relative future.
-->"I lied. I'm always lying."
* 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.]]
* [[spoiler:FauxAffablyEvil: In "Let's Kill Hitler", prior to her HeelFaceTurn. She acts much like she always does, except with more murder attempts.]]
* FemmeFatale: She seems to have a few elements of this in her later (chronologically earlier) appearances.
* ForegoneConclusion: Her [[spoiler:death]] in her first appearance, "Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead". Her subsequent appearances are earlier in her timeline.
* TheGunslinger
* 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.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's got [[spoiler:primitive Time Lord]] DNA [[spoiler:from being conceived on the TARDIS]].
* [[spoiler: HappilyMarried: To the Doctor, although most of her meetings after the marriage, he hasn't married her yet, and he doesn't realize he's going to (Although Amy suspects it.)]]
* 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."]]
* HypercompetentSidekick: She can fly the TARDIS better than the Doctor, amongst other things. [[spoiler:It helps that the TARDIS taught her directly, while the Doctor seems to have learned on the fly.]]
* IKnowYourTrueName: The '''''only''''' character in the show's 47 years confirmed to know the Doctor's real name.
-->'''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.
* InLoveWithTheMark: River was supposed to be [[spoiler:The Silence's weapon]] to use against the Doctor, but she seems to have fallen in love with him instead. When it came time to kill him at Lake Silencio, [[spoiler: 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]].
* KarmaHoudini: Played straight and possibly subverted. After [[spoiler:nearly tearing the universe apart during the Season 6 finale, claiming that her suffering will outweigh that of [[ItsAllAboutMe everyone else in the universe]], the most she gets is a WhatTheHellHero from the Doctor and a largely voluntary stay inside a CardboardPrison.]] Possibly subverted in that they keep running into each other backwards, which means that eventually, the Doctor won't know her, but whether it's invoked as an actual punishment or simple coincidence is, as yet, unknown.
* KidFromTheFuture: She's [[spoiler:Amy and Rory's]] daughter.
* KissOfDeath: Well, not quite. She prefers hallucinogenic lipstick over the traditional poisonous lipstick. [[spoiler:Played straight in "Let's Kill Hitler", when she was programmed from birth to assassinate the Doctor.]]
* LadyOfAdventure
* LargeHam: In "The Time of Angels" and "Let's Kill Hitler".
* LaserGuidedTykebomb: She was originally raised as a weapon to kill [[spoiler:the Doctor]].
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Her bickering with the Doctor is made of this.
* [[spoiler:LoveConfession: River professes her love to the Doctor in "The Wedding Of River Song."]]
* [[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.
* LukeIAmYourFather / LukeYouAreMyFather: River is [[spoiler:Melody Pond, the daughter of Amy Pond and Rory Williams]]. River tells them this after [[spoiler:her newborn self]] is kidnapped.
* 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!
* MysteriousPast
* [[spoiler: TheNthDoctor: 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, but still.]]
* PoisonousFriend
* [[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.
* TheReveal: River Song is in fact [[spoiler:Melody Pond, Amy Pond and Rory Williams' daughter. She's also been one of Amy and Rory's closest friends since long before they saw her fly out of the ''Byzantium'' or take over the Auton Roman camp]].
* 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.
* [[spoiler:SassyBlackWoman: As Mels.]]
* SociopathicHero: Younger!River. Played ''very'' darkly in the series six finale.
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:She's named after 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 the name "River Song" only because the Doctor, Amy, and Rory keep calling her that, because that's the name they always knew her by.]]
* [[spoiler: SuperStrength: A very minor example, 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.]]
* TouchedByVorlons: As a result of [[spoiler:being conceived in the TARDIS]], she is [[spoiler:part-Time Lord]].
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: In "A Good Man Goes to War", River strongly implies that she once spent a very enjoyable birthday with two Doctors at once!
* 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.]]
* [[spoiler: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]]: Or, y'know, ''all reality''.
* 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 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.]]
!!"The Next Doctor"/[[spoiler:Jackson Lake]] (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
* BadassBookworm
* BadassNormal
* DevelopmentGag: David Morrissey was one of the fan- and press-favored front-runners for the Eleventh Doctor role.
* LargeHam: He's hammy even by normal ''Who'' standards.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia
* TheNthDoctor: He seems to be number 11 - 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 just a human whose mind has accidentally been tampered with.
* StayInTheKitchen: His attitude towards Rosita, due to DeliberateValuesDissonance.
!!Rosita (Tenth Doctor)
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->'''Rosita:''' I'm glad you think it's so ''funny''. You're mad! Both of ya! You could've got killed!
->'''[[spoiler:Jackson Lake]]:''' [''still guffawing''] But evidently we did not!
-->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 this is subtly pointed out.
* SarcasticDevotee
!!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
* ClassyCatBurglar
* CrazyPrepared: She has something in her pack for every situation... except bus fare.
* DarkActionGirl
!!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 a Mars mission in the 2050s.
* TheCaptain / TheGoodCaptain
* TheDeterminator: She ''never'' snaps.
* HeroicSacrifice
* WhatTheHellHero: Calls the Doctor on his ego trip.
!!Amelia "Amy" 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: KarenGillan (2010-present)
-->Young Amelia Pond played by: CaitlinBlackwood (2010-2011)
Amy, a [[MsFanservice kissogram]], 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.
* [[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]]. "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}}
** ActionGirl: WordOfGod says she exerts this when "pushed into a corner." "The Girl Who Waited" sees Amy exhibit this trope to her fullest potential.
** 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.
** FutureBadass: [[spoiler:Thirty six years spent defending herself from robots who kill with kindness. With a sword.]]
** 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".
** 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.
** TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Thirty-six years defending yourself from killer robots will do this.]]
** [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Wife]]: It's not a good idea to mess with Rory.
* BerserkButton: Like Rory, hurt her family and you'll regret it.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* [[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 Karen Gillan's part.
* 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]].
* DrivesLikeCrazy: According to Rory.
* 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's mellowed out considerably as of Series 6.
* [[spoiler: GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave / NeverMessWithGranny: Since Older Amy is something like 58 years old, quite justified.]]
* 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, played straight with Rory.
** In the 2011 Comic Relief short, Amy Pond flirts with ''herself''.
* HiddenDepths: She really loves van Gogh's work.
* HotChickWithASword: In "The Girl Who Waited".
* HotMum
* 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!''
* 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. [[spoiler: Possibly a subliminal hint to the audience that she's actually a mind-linked doppelgänger in these episodes.]]
* [[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.
* MeetCute: She and the Doctor have one when he shows up in a crashed TARDIS asking for an apple.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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" — unlike Rory, she can remember events in the correct timeline, but only with a lot of effort and many scribbled illustrations.
* ScarfOfAssKicking: Occasionally wears one.
* ScrewYourself: When the TARDIS gets split in two, Amy finds her duplicate 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 at all.]]
* ShesGotLegs: To the point where "Time" seemed to be about them.
* ShowSomeLeg: How she got her driver's permit.
* 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. This makes her the first companion with canonical mental issues since Ace.
** 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 [[Literature/{{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
* TedBaxter: Very mild case of this sometimes, as she tends to overestimate her own competence.
* {{Tsundere}}: A Type A at the beginning of Series 5, Type B by the end.
* WistfulAmnesia: Finds herself crying over Rory without realizing it or knowing why several times in series 5.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: As she points out, the Doctor only calls her "Amelia" when he's worried about her.
* 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]]".
!!Rory 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: ArthurDarvill (2010-present)
-->Young Rory played by: Ezekiel Wigglesworth (2011)
Rory is a nurse, Amy's [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend childhood friend, and now her husband]]. Although he started off as incredibly reluctant to travel with the Doctor, out of love for Amy and fear for his own life, he eventually rose to the challenge.
* {{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 death of [[spoiler:Amy by his own hands]].
* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead]]
* {{Badass}}
** [[BadassAdorable Badass Adorkable]]: "A Good Man Goes To War" has him terrifying Cybermen and then later crying with joy at his baby daughter.
** 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".
** TheDeterminator
** PapaWolf: [[ThisIsSparta Where. Is. My. Wife.]]
** SubmissiveBadass: He is no doubt a BAMF, but he'll always be an adorable dork and Amy will always be the one in charge.
* BerserkButton: ''Never'' mess with Amy or his baby.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Normally a gentle soul (he's a nurse, after all), but press his BerserkButton and you ''will'' regret it.
* ButtMonkey: Toned down a lot since [[spoiler:he became the Last Centurion]], but he still gets this treatment now and then.
* 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.
* CleopatraNose: Which the Doctor can't resist ribbing him about.
* CovertPervert: In ''Space'' and ''Time'' he accidentally causes a major malfunction in the TARDIS because of A. His wife is wearing a skirt and B. The TARDIS has a ''glass floor''.
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler:DeathIsCheap]]
* {{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 whats coming.
--> '''Amy''': But it could activate at any moment!
--> '''Rory''': It ''has'' activated, ma'am.
* [[spoiler: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]].
* 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.
* 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]].
* TheGoodCaptain: In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]''.
* GoodLookingPrivates: The writers really do seem to like putting him in uniform, just about ''any'' uniform, really. Security guard, modern combat fatigues, and ''particularly'' his signature [[spoiler:Roman centurion]] outfit.
* 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. ''Its 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.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Early in "The Big Bang", [[spoiler: he spent 1894 years worth of history guarding the Pandorica]]. [[NoodleIncident Probability of zany adventures: extremely high.]]
* 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!
* 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.
* HospitalHottie: In case you could ever forget, he's a nurse. And a pretty one at that.
* HotDad
* 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.]]
* ItGotWorse: 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.
* JustFriends: Type 2. Had feelings for Amy whilst she was ObliviousToLove to the point [[MistakenForGay she thought he was gay.]]
* 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 reveals that he neither fears nor believes in anything anymore.
** This has the unexpected bonus of making Rory highly resistant to MindRape, if "The Doctor's Wife" and "The God Complex" are any indication.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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…
* NiceGuy
* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler:He spent 1894 years staying out of trouble… unsuccessfully]].
* 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]].
* PhraseCatcher: Manages to get a good "Oh, Rory" out of the Doctor every once and awhile.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: As of the 2010 Christmas special, and thereafter.
* PuppyDogEyes: They can rival the Tenth Doctor's.
* [[spoiler:Really700YearsOld: Mentally, he's almost two thousand years old, potentially even older than the Doctor.]]
* [[spoiler: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]].
* 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. It's a little bit sad, and at the same time, very funny.
* TheSlowPath: As [[spoiler:the Centurion, he spent 1894 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.
* SuperStrength: [[spoiler:In his Auton form as the Centurion]].
* [[spoiler:TakingTheBullet]]: At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E09ColdBlood Cold Blood]]"... [[spoiler:and ''then'' he gets retconned out of existence.]]
* ThousandYardStare: The Doctor notes he has one [[spoiler: whenever he remembers the 2000 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 2000 years as the Lone Centurion]]. The man really would do anything for his wife.
** Again in "A Good Man Goes to War". [[ThisIsSparta '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 neither fear nor faith, so all it can do is show him the exit.
* TraumaCongaLine: Part of what causes the above CharacterDevelopment.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Amy.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend
* VitriolicBestBuds: With the Doctor. Both the Doctor and Rory seem to enjoy the level of snark they throw at each other.
* 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]].
!!Craig Owens (Eleventh Doctor)
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->''Has anyone ever told you that you're a bit weird?''
-->Played by: James Corden (2010-11)
[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger Rented a room out to the Doctor]] when the latter was stranded on Earth by a malfunctioning TARDIS. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued.]] As a result of a hasty MindMeld InfoDump, he knows more about the Doctor's general history than most non-companion characters, and the Doctor has come to view him as a very good friend.
* AccidentalPervert
* {{Adorkable}}
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Doctor to Craig, with regards to football and his job. Probably not the best thing to do to your landlord.
* {{Badass}}: Yes, really.
** BadassNormal: Emphasis on the latter to justify the former. He's so ordinary that a LotusEaterMachine ''exploded'' instead of killing him, and he once ''blew up an entire Cyberman base'' by simply letting them [[spoiler: feel the mental feedback of his intense desire to protect his infant son.]]
** BadassUnintentional: None of the stuff he did was on purpose, and he was for the most part scared for his life.
** PapaWolf: …eventually.
* BreatherEpisode: Craig has only appeared in these. Coincidentally, both before the series finale.
* CannotSpitItOut: Craig and Sophie, even though EveryoneCanSeeIt.
* ExpositionBeam: The Doctor gives him one when they first meet.
* GenreSavvy / WrongGenreSavvy: Craig recognizes that everywhere the Doctor goes, disaster will come, and also that the safest place for him and Alfie is by his side, because the Doctor ''always'' wins.
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Craig and Sophie for most of The Lodger; they eventually [[RelationshipUpgrade decide to ruin their friendship]] ''properly''.
* MistakenForGay: The Doctor and Craig. As Val tells them, "There's no need to be coy these days."
** Val has more reason than most do for this trope, what with the way Craig and the Doctor [[HoYay act throughout the episode.]] She sees them hug, and they refer to each other as their 'partner'.
* NiceHat: When the Doctor says he is going to America, Craig gives him the Stetson as a parting gift.
* PowerOfLove
* RunningGag: The Doctor "Shhh"-ing people and Craig wanting to be taught how.
* StopHelpingMe: The Doctor's attempts to help Craig (joining his football team, filling in for him at work when he's sick, trying to get Sophie to admit that she loves him, etc.) just make him look like [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter the better man]] who's driving Sophie away.
* StoutStrength: According to the Doctor.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Craig is so happy in his mundane life that [[spoiler:it overloads the alien spacecraft]] in "The Lodger". In "Closing Time", [[spoiler:[[ThePowerOfLove his paternal instincts overload the Cybermen's emotional inhibitors]], blowing up their whole ship]].
* UseYourHead: In order to save time explaining why he's staying with Craig, [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}} the Doctor headbutts him twice]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: With the Doctor. Craig may express exasperation, terror and irritation whenever the Doctor shows up, but its clear he's secretly having the time of his life.
