History Characters / DoctorWhoNewSeriesCompanions

* WhyDidItHavetoBeSnakes: She still seems to have a mazeophobia due to her childhood experience. And it's explored at least four times in ten episodes.

* 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. His eye roll at Eleven's inability to wait for even five minutes gets quite magnificent at times.

* NervesOfSteel: At the start of series 5, he's a nervous nurse who's in no way ready to deal with space/time travel. By mid-series 6, he's literally ''lost the ability to feel fear'' just from the amount of crap he's seen and experienced. This has an added bonus of making him completely immune to MindRape. Even his alternate universe self, in the TimeCrash, still has shades of this. The only thing that can potentially frighten him is the thought of losing Amy.

* BadassFamily: [[spoiler:Her mother and father are Amy and Rory.]]

* 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 [[MoralMyopia 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.

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

* DistaffCounterpart: To the Doctor himself. (In particular, she seems to have borrowed some hairstyling tips from Eight and carries the Third's posh sensibilities as well as knack for no-holds-barred action (coincidentally, the Third is AlexKingston's favorite Doctor))

* 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 [[MoralMyopia 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.

* LoveConfession She tells [[spoiler:the Tenth Doctor]] this. [[spoiler:While he does not say it back, his clone whispers it back in her ear (according to the writers). She stays with the clone in the alternate universe.]]

** Admittedly the Doctor was going on about how great Rose was near constantly, giving her the feeling she could never compete with her.

->'''Amy''': Twelve years! And four psychiatrists!
->'''Eleventh Doctor:''' Four?
->'''Amy''': I kept biting them. They said you weren't real.

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

* WhyDidItHavetoBeSnakes: She still seems to have a mazeophobia due to her childhood expirience. And it's explored at least fourfold in ten episodes.

* WhyDidItHavetoBeSnakes: She still seems to have a mazeophobia due to her childhood expirience. And it's explored at least fourfold in ten episodes.

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

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

-->Played by: BilliePiper (2005-06, 2008, 2010[[spoiler:, 2013]])

* [[spoiler:AGodAmI: Temporarily. "You can't control life and death!" "But I can."]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Rose is responsible for causing more deaths than ''any'' other canon companion -- directly in the series 1 finale, and on top of that, indirectly in [[TorchwoodMiracleDay Miracle Day]].
* BigDamnKiss: The third person (after Grace and Jack) to have a snog with the Doctor in the TV series canon.

** In "Journey's End" when Martha says she can't reach the Doctor on her phone, Rose's reaction is 'Nor me and I was here first.' Particularly prominent as Rose had met Sarah Jane and so knew the Doctor had companions before her.

* [[spoiler:LoveConfession: She tells the Tenth Doctor this. While he does not say it back, his clone whispers it back in her ear (according to the writers). She stays with the clone in the alternate universe.]]

* [[spoiler:PersonOfMassDestruction: As the Bad Wolf entity (with a little help from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife Sexy]]). She destroys half a million Daleks in seconds.]]
* [[spoiler:PhysicalGod: Again, Bad Wolf entity.]]
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: She just doesn't feel at home with her mom anymore after a while, especially in "The Parting Of The Ways".

* [[spoiler: 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").]]
* [[spoiler: IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy]]: In the end.

* PokeThePoodle: Ricky Smith is London's Most Wanted. ...For parking violations.

* [[spoiler: TakingUpTheMantle: When his alternate self dies, Mickey simply assumes his identity and continues the fight.]]

* BigDamnKiss: The first person in the new series, and the first ''male'' person (in the TV show canon at least), to snog the Doctor. Nine doesn't mind at all.

* {{Camp}}: It's JohnBarrowman. His camp switch doesn't have an "off" setting.

* CharacterDevelopment: He starts off as an amoral con-man, but time spent with the Doctor changes him into a loveable anti-hero.
* ChekhovsGunman: In [[spoiler:"The End of The World,"]], as [[spoiler:he's the Face of Boe]]. (RussellTDavies refuses to elaborate on whether or not they're ''actually'' the same person, as it would ruin the joke.) Barrowman said in an interview that when he and Tennant found out the implication, they spent several minutes [[{{Squee}} laughing and cheering]].

* EthicalSlut: Made much more obvious in ''{{Torchwood}}'', where he's shown to care deeply about his partners' personal boundaries, emotional health and safe sex. He ''abhors'' cheating.

* [[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.]]

!![[spoiler: Dr.]] Martha [[spoiler:Smith-]]Jones (Tenth Doctor)

* [[spoiler:AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence]]: At the end.

* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice / StupidSacrifice]]: To take out her boss.

!!Professor River Song [[spoiler:aka Melody Pond aka "Mels"]] (Tenth and Eleventh Doctors)

-->Played by: AlexKingston (2008, 2010-present), [[spoiler:Sydney Wade, Harrison/Madison Mortimer, Maya Glace-Green, Nina Toussaint-White]] (2011)

* AnachronicOrder: She's a time traveler, and she and the Doctor always have to take a few minutes and check where they are in their relative timelines. Because of this, several episodes (like "The Impossible Astronaut", "A Good Man Goes To War" and "Night And The Doctor") feature a few Rivers at once.
* [[spoiler:AnguishedDeclarationOfLove:]] In "The Wedding of River Song".

* 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.

* [[spoiler:BlackBestFriend: As Mels, Amy and Rory's childhood friend.]]

* [[spoiler:DomesticAbuse]]: She frequently hits the Doctor when she can't cope with their way of life. He doesn't protest too much at first (presumably since it's also how she saved him back in the Library), but eventually gets sick of it and stops her mid-slap.
* [[spoiler: ExtraParentConception]]: Due to being [[spoiler: conceived]] in the TARDIS, and having the Time Vortex [[spoiler: poured into her in the womb]], the TARDIS considers herself [[spoiler: River's mother]] in addition to [[spoiler: Amy and Rory]]. River finds out the first time she meets the TARDIS, and is completely shocked when the TARDIS tells her.

* [[spoiler:FauxAffablyEvil: In "Let's Kill Hitler", prior to her HeelFaceTurn. She acts much like she always does, except with more murder attempts.]]

* [[spoiler: GoodThingYouCanHeal]]

* [[spoiler: HalfHumanHybrid]]: She's got [[spoiler:primitive Time Lord]] DNA [[spoiler:from being conceived on the TARDIS]]. It's explicitly said that [[spoiler:she's the TARDIS' daughter as much as she is Amy's and Rory's]].
* [[spoiler: HappilyMarried: To the Doctor, although for many of her meetings after the marriage, he hasn't married her yet, and he doesn't realize he's going to -- although he starts to suspect it as soon as the topic comes up.]]

* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]: Twice. Both times to [[spoiler: save the Doctor's life]]. The first time (from her perspective), she [[spoiler: tries to kill him, then uses all of her regeneration power all at once in order to save him]]. The second time (from her perspective), she [[spoiler: prevents him from making a HeroicSacrifice to save Donna and thousands of others, and gives her own life to save him instead.]] She had to, because she wouldn't even ''exist'' if he'd died that day.

* [[spoiler: InLoveWithTheMark:]] River was supposed to be [[spoiler:The Silence's weapon to use against the Doctor]]. She learned another side of the story while [[spoiler: growing up with Amy and Rory]] and fantasises about [[spoiler: marrying him]] instead. She ''still'' [[spoiler: tries to kill him, but saves his life when she realises the implications.]] When it came time to [[spoiler: kill him at Lake Silencio, she refused, and all of time nearly fell apart due to it being a fixed point in time.]]

* [[spoiler:LoveConfession: To the Doctor in "The Wedding of River Song."]]

* [[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: River gets three regenerations in total.]]
* [[spoiler: OlderThanTheyLook:]] Probably.

* [[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.

* [[spoiler:SassyBlackWoman: As Mels.]]

* StepfordSmiler: Type A, mostly. Comes across as carefree and flirty partially to hide a depressed and lonely side. She tells Amy she tries hard not to let the Doctor see her damage.

* [[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.]]

* [[spoiler: WifeHusbandry / Companion Husbandry]]: "The Impossible Astronaut" revealed that the first time River met the Doctor he knew ''everything'' about her, and it's starting to trouble River herself. As it turns out, [[spoiler:he knew her as an infant -- she's Melody Pond]]. Subverted in that the Doctor doesn't realize he knew her [[spoiler: as a child until some time after [[StableTimeLoop they had their first kiss]]]].
* [[spoiler: YoungerThanTheyLook]]: Is a young twentysomething when she gets [[spoiler: her adult body]]. She instantly ''loves'' it.

!!"The Next Doctor"/[[spoiler:Jackson Lake]] (Tenth Doctor)

* [[spoiler:BadassNormal]]: Able, and willing, to take on the Cybermen by himself.

->'''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!

* [[spoiler: HeroicSuicide]]: In the end.

!!Amelia "Amy" Jessica Pond ([[spoiler:later Amy Williams]]) (Eleventh Doctor)

* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: After Rory gets killed, she chooses to get sent back in time and die early.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: In [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan}} "The Angels Take Manhattan"]].]]

* StrangeGirl: Amy's insistence that her childhood encounter with the Doctor was real is apparently well-known to the people in her small town… and has landed her in psychiatric care a few times. Her resulting trauma, severe attachment disorder and obsessive behaviour make her one of the very few companions with canonical mental issues (along with Ace and River).

* [[spoiler: SurprisePregnancy]]

* TheChampion: Spent [[spoiler: 2000 years]] as the Guardian of the [[spoiler: Pandorica]], simply to make sure Amy would remain protected.

* [[spoiler:DisneyDeath]]: He seems to have a knack for wiggling his way out of [[spoiler:being KilledOffForReal.]]

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]: In "The Angels Take Manhattan", he [[spoiler:commits suicide by jumping off of the top of a building in New York to create a paradox that would prevent the Weeping Angels from taking over New York. He recovers. For a few minutes.]]

* [[spoiler: HotDad]]: To River and, later, Anthony.

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: In [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan}} "The Angels Take Manhattan"]].]] After '''eight''' attempts.

* 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.

* [[spoiler: NotAfraidToDie: He knows full well that he might not survive the 2000 years guarding the Pandorica. He still does so ''anyway''.]]
** [[spoiler: In "The Angels Take Manhattan", after seeing the death of his future self who spent over 50 years without Amy simply as food for the Angels, Rory decides to jump off of the roof. When Amy protests, he says it's BetterToDieThanBeKilled and his intention is not suicide, but to create a paradox large enough that it will [[TakingYouWithMe take the Angels with him]] and prevent ''any'' of this from happening!]]

* [[spoiler:Really700YearsOld: Mentally, he's almost two thousand years old, which makes him technically ''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]].

* [[spoiler:TakingTheBullet]]: At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E09ColdBlood Cold Blood]]"... [[spoiler:and ''then'' he gets retconned out of existence.]]
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Rory Williams: the man who dies, and dies again. In Doctor Who: Best of the Companions, one of the commentators equated him ''to'' Kenny from South Park, and believes Mofatt gets some sick pleasure out of torturing Rory.

!!Clara Oswald (Eleventh [[spoiler:and Twelfth]] Doctor)

-->Played by: JennaLouiseColeman (2012-present), Sophie Downham (2013, as young Clara), [[spoiler: Creator/NicholasBriggs / Nicholas Pegg (2012, as a Dalek)]]

* BodyHorror: In "Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS", she [[spoiler: gets burned alive, while conscious, and runs around in blind pain for most of the episode. The timeline gets reset pretty soon, but]] the Doctor comes close to crying at the sight.
* [[spoiler:BornAgainImmortality: Has been born, lived, died and been reborn again in a million eras on a million worlds.]]

* CameBackStrong: In "The Bells Of Saint John", she comes back from the beyond with her computer knowledge dialed up to maximum by the Great Intelligence's lackeys.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Frequently wears red. In the prequel to "The Bells Of Saint John", this is a clever little indication that [[spoiler:she's the little girl on the swing]].

* [[spoiler:DyingAsYourself: "I am Oswin Oswald. I fought the Daleks and I ''am'' human. Remember me."]]
* ExactWords: StevenMoffat had [[LyingCreator stated]] that Clara wouldn't appear until Christmas. Her appearance in "Asylum Of The Daleks" was a complete surprise -- quickly followed by the Doctor mocking the Daleks by saying "it's Christmas!".

* FutureMeScaresMe: In "Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS", she [[spoiler: gets chased by a burned, mad future version of herself, although that timeline gets aborted soon after]].

** In "Journey to the Centre of the [=TARDIS=]", she directly notes that a red flashing light above a door might mean "Danger, don't open." or "there's danger around, get out this way!" [[SchmuckBait She opens it anyway]].
* HaveWeMetYet: An ''even more'' complicated case than River Song, not just towards the Doctor, but also towards [[spoiler: the Great Intelligence]]. The Clara who saved Victorian London [[spoiler: existed because regular Clara followed the Great Intelligence across time and space after he was defeated by her. Same with the Clara in the Aslyum of the Daleks. There was even a Clara on Gallifrey who told the Doctor which Tardis to steal]].

* ItsAllAboutMe: PlayedForLaughs. The [=TARDIS=] gives Clara a visual voice interface with the appearance of the person she believes Clara esteems the most: Clara herself.

** TheCallPutMeOnHold: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the third (present-day) version of Clara. She makes the Doctor come back around 7pm the next day.

* MythologyGag: In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]", it is revealed Clara was born on November 23rd 1866 and is 26 years old -- the same day the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild first episode]] of ''DoctorWho'' aired in 1963 and the same age as the classic series when it was cancelled in 1989. Modern Clara is 24 years old in 2013-meaning she was born in 1989, the year the show was cancelled. The list of ages in Clara's travel book also omits the ages 16-which would have been in 2005, when the show came back-and 23, which would have been in 2012, when Clara first showed up and died the first time.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous / MeaningfulName: Her namesake? [[Creator/ElisabethSladen Elisabeth Clara Sladen]], who played Sarah Jane Smith for more than three and a half seasons of ''DoctorWho'' and five seasons of ''TheSarahJaneAdventures''.

* PluckyGirl: Can stay upbeat in some ''nightmarish'' situations, and has enough willpower to MindRape both The Great Intelligence and the Daleks. As a scanner describes her in "Journey to the Centre of the [=TARDIS=]";

* [[spoiler:TheyKilledKennyAgain: Gets killed, a lot, only to inevitably get better.]]

*** In the Doctor Who Expanded Universe, The Great Intelligence IS Yog-Sothoth!

* MismatchedEyes: Real ones.

* StrawLoser: Put in so the Doctor has an opportunity to say Rose is 'the best.'

* AlwaysSecondBest: How she feels about replacing Rose. It didn't help the Doctor kept going on about how great Rose was.

** To be fair the Doctor was kept going on about how much better Rose was then her.

* AlwaysSecondBest: How she feels about replacing Rose.

* ReplacementGoldfish: It doesn't take very long for her to feel as though she's simply this for Rose. She doesn't put up with it, sits the Doctor down and makes him tell her what's going on.

* 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.

* InsufferableGenius: Very smug about it.

* * BitchInSheepsClothing: This is an interpretation many have been giving of her. Despite often being treated as a perfect companion she can be very unpleasant. She abandoned her boyfriend Mickey for a year (accidentally making him a murder suspect). This was due to the TARDIS coming back at the wrong time, but she doesn't act sorry for this. She kept disappearing for months at a time, and got mad when she heard that Mickey was dating someone else. This quote from when she first leaves with the Doctor illustrates this:
--> '''Rose''': Thanks.
--> '''Mickey''': For what?
--> '''Rose''': Exactly.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Despite often being treated as a perfect companion she can be very unpleasant. She abandoned her boyfriend Mickey for a year (accidentally making him a murder suspect). This was due to the TARDIS coming back at the wrong time, but she doesn't act sorry for this. She kept disappearing for months at a time, and got mad when she heard that Mickey was dating someone else. This quote from when she first leaves with the Doctor illustrates this:
--> '''Rose''': Thanks.
--> '''Mickey''': For what?
--> '''Rose''': Exactly.

** This video by Welshy outlines this interpretation of Rose. http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/welshy/welshys-top-tens/34767-welshy-top-ten-rose-moments There is also this shorter video. http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/welshy/my-problem-with/28965-my-problem-with-rose-doctor-who

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Despite often being treated as a perfect companion she can be very unpleasant. She abandoned her boyfriend Mickey for a year (accidentally making him a murder suspect), kept disappearing for months at a time, and got mad when she heard that he was dating someone else. This quote from when she first leaves with the Doctor illustrates this:

--> '''Rose''': Exactly.
** Her abandoning of Mickey wasn't her fault though-the TARDIS brought her back twelve months too late.

* 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).

---> '''Madge''': Not the war again... People keep reading about the war, then it will actually happen! ''Then'' where would you be? (Most tragic GilliganCut ever)