History Characters / DoctorWhoRiverSong

* PsychopathicWomanchild: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler "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. As she grows older she has it under control, but still glumly refers to refers to herself as a "psychopath" when she's already a Professor.

** Telling the Doctor "I hate you" whenever he does something clever. Usually followed by the Doctor saying, "No you don't."

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: She is known as a psychopath — and even calls herself that — but she's really not. She seems to be confusing "psychopath", which is an unofficial term for a broad range of mental illnesses, for "sociopath", a person who lacks empathy. She does not display a lack of empathy either, however.

* BiTheWay: Stated in her first appearance, and later confirmed by Word of Moffat. In her first episode, she had one team member keep on his helmet because she didn't "fancy him". The others in the room consisted of Donna and the Doctor, two female members of her archaeology crew and the two Daves. The surface reading would indicate she had a personal dislike for him because he's kind of a dick, but in retrospect...
** Finally made explicit in [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]] (ironic, given that title) where River mentions she's had at least two wives.

* BilingualBonus: "Song" means "River" in Vietnamese.

->'''Played by:''' Creator/AlexKingston (2008, 2010–2012, 2013, 2015), Sydney Wade[[note]]"The little girl"[[/note]] (2011), Harrison and Madison Mortimer[[note]]Baby Melody[[/note]] (2011), Maya Glace-Green[[note]]Young Mels[[/note]] (2011), Nina Toussaint-White [[note]]Mels[[/note]] (2011)

* MistakenForMurderer: She was locked up in Stormcage Prison for seeming to murder the Doctor.

!River Song (née Melody Pond)

* ActionGirl: She made a Dalek ''[[TheDreaded beg for mercy.]]''

* BiTheWay: Stated in her first appearance, and later confirmed by Word of Moffat. In her first episode, she had one team member keep on his helmet because she didn't "fancy him". The room consisted of Donna and the Doctor, two female members of her archaeology crew and the two Daves. The surface reading would indicate she had a personal dislike for him because he's kind of a dick, but in retrospect...

* TheGunslinger: In her own words "kickass with a gun."

* TheILoveYouStigma: Despite the fact she married the guy, River never heard those three exact words said to her by the Doctor. (This is due to a longstanding tradition that the Doctor doesn't say "I love you" directly to anyone, not River, not Rose, not Clara, nor anyone else.)

--->'''The Doctor:''' We've got ten minutes, get dressed.\\

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: In [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]], she reveals that she is at least 200 years old, thanks to her "augmented life-span". This is presumably due to her mixed human-Time Lord biology.

** Both are paradoxical in nature, much like the Doctor. Captain Jack is immortal and is a living fixed point-in-time, while River is a [[HalfHumanHybrid Half Time Lord]] whose entire life is a StableTimeLoop.

* FauxAffablyEvil: In [Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler "Let's Kill Hitler"]], prior to her HeelFaceTurn. Her younger self acts much like she always does, except with more murder attempts.

* NomDeNom: Melody Williams is a geography teacher, Melody ''Pond'' is a superhero.

-->"Sir? It's Doctor Song again. She's doing it again, she's ''packing.''"

!River Song (nee Melody Pond)

A half-human/half-Time Lord, Melody Pond was the child of Amelia Pond & Rory Williams, conceived on the TARDIS after their honeymoon. We wouldn't know this until much later; we first meet her under the alias "River Song", as a professor of archaeology who we'll come to find has an unusually close relationship with the Doctor for many reasons. The first of which is that she and the Doctor never meet in the right order; the Tenth Doctor first met her in the Library in the 51st century, where it would be the last time for her (sort of -- it's complicated), and it only gets more confusing from there. They move ''roughly'' in opposite time directions, and depending on what end of the timeline they're on respectively, they each know secrets about each other that they're unable to talk about without creating paradoxes. As a result, she's a walking collection of "Spoilers!" and very much aware of it.

The other reason is that her mother was abducted by a splinter group of the Papal Mainframe, a religious order who nominally protected certain sections of the universe. This splinter group, led by Madame Kovarian, foretold of the Doctor's arrival on a world called "Trenzalore", where, due to a confluence of events, the Last Great Time War would begin anew leading to the Doctor's permanent death. Engaging in extremes to prevent this, Kovarian abducted Amelia, held her captive on the asteroid "Demon's Run", and forcibly removed Melody from her mother upon birth, the idea being to train her as an assassin who would utilize her Time Lord abilities to insert herself into her parent's timeline as a friend called "Mels". Gaining intel, she would then move in and at the right time, kill the Doctor for good, succeeding in one timeline. What Kovarian didn't count on was Melody genuinely falling in love with him, even marrying him at a moment where his death was prevented, causing time to freeze but history to happen all at once.

!! Tropes associated with the television continuity

* AnachronicOrder: She's a time traveler, and she and the Doctor always have to take a few minutes and check where they are in their relative timelines. Because of this, several episodes (like "The Impossible Astronaut", "A Good Man Goes to War" and "Night and the Doctor") feature a few Rivers at once.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: In "The Wedding of River Song" where she declares no one in the universe loves the Doctor more than she does.

* AxCrazy: Extremely so in "Let's Kill Hitler", as her young, wanting-to-kill-the-Doctor incarnation as Mels.

* BadassFamily: Her mothers and father are Amy Pond (the Girl who Waited), Rory Williams (the Last Centurion), and the TARDIS herself. Also she's married to the last Time Lord in existence.

** Finally made explicit in "The Husbands of River Song" (ironic, given that title) where River mentions she's had at least two wives.
* BoxedCrook: As revealed in "The Time of Angels" / "Flesh And Stone", she spends many years of her life in the ([[CardboardPrison allegedly]]) high-security Stormcage. Her crime is "killing the best man she ever knew". The man turns out to be the Doctor, whose death she helped fake.

* CardboardPrison: The definition of her imprisonment in Stormcage. In "The Time of Angels" River is an inmate who is guarded by Father Octavian, but in "Flesh And Stone" (immediately after), later in "The Pandorica Opens" and in subsequent episodes, River is shown to be imprisoned practically voluntarily, as she is resourceful enough to escape Stormcage easily if she well wanted to. After a date with the Doctor, she breaks ''back into prison''.
--> ''Sir? It's Doctor Song again. She's doing it again; she's packing.''
* CatchPhrase:

* DaddysGirl: It's subtle, but she's very close to her father even before he knows he is her father. She has heartfelt discussions with him about her relationship with the Doctor [[HaveWeMetYet and where it's heading]], happily chats with him about her dates, and confides in him her worries. On a slightly creepy note, [[LikeParentLikeSpouse she's attracted to Roman Centurions]] - though the context of that scene suggests that she might have been lying to preserve Rory's ignorance of their relationship.
* DarkActionGirl: Before her HeelFaceTurn, she was a psychopathic assassin.

** In "The Husbands of River Song", she is revealed to have had multiple husbands -- and at least two wives.

* FauxAffablyEvil: In "Let's Kill Hitler", prior to her HeelFaceTurn. Her younger self acts much like she always does, except with more murder attempts.
* FemmeFatale: Becomes this in her middle phase, black dress and all. ''Thinks'' she's this when she's young. Grows out of it when she's older, which is when we first meet her.
* ForegoneConclusion: Her death in her first appearance, "Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead". Her subsequent appearances are earlier in her timeline.
* GoodIsNotNice: Though she seems to have mellowed out in the future, she starts off quite merciless despite being heroic.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: During the first 15 hours following a regeneration, a dozen bullets are no problem

* HappilyMarried: To the Doctor, hence all the flirting and kissing she does around him. It's not flirting, it's [=PDA=] with her husband. 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. Ironically, in their final (as far as we know) meeting in "The Husbands of River Song", the most she does is kiss the Doctor on the cheek.

** In "A Good Man Goes to War", Rory asks River this when he comes to recruit her to find Amy.

* HeroicSacrifice: Twice and both times were to save the Doctor's life. The first time (from her perspective), she 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 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.
* HypercompetentSidekick: She can fly the TARDIS better than the Doctor, amongst other things. Extremely justified: The TARDIS is her second mom and taught her how.

-->'''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''.

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

* InternalHomage: A nod to the extremely long-running Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse companion Characters/BerniceSummerfield, another professor of archaeology who keeps a diary about the Doctor. Creator/StevenMoffat wrote for the Franchise/BerniceSummerfield franchise before becoming the ShowRunner for the TV series. (He also jokingly suggested that River and Bernice had totally gotten married at some point, which immediately got a big thumbs-up from Benny's creator Paul Cornell. It's worth noting that "The Husbands of River Song" establishes that she has married women at least twice... And now that Creator/BigFinish can write both characters, it's only a matter of time...)

-->'''Ten:''' Time can be rewritten!
-->'''River:''' Not those times. Not one line, don't you dare!

* KissOfDeath: She prefers hallucinogenic lipstick over the traditional poisonous lipstick. The one time this is played straight is in "Let's Kill Hitler", since she was programmed from birth to assassinate the Doctor.
* LadyOfAdventure: When she's not accompanying the Doctor, she's traveling on her own adventures and getting into trouble. "The Husbands of River Song" shows the Doctor what River gets up to when he's not around, this time attempting to scam a valuable diamond out of a bloodthirsty raider.
%%* LargeHam: In "The Time of Angels" and especially "Let's Kill Hitler", when she's still very young.

* LastKiss: With the Doctor in "The Name of the Doctor".
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Her bickering with the Doctor is so characteristic of old married couples that Amy quickly assumes they really are married. At that point, she ''is'' married to him from the perspective of her timeline, but he isn't married to her yet from his. It's timey wimey.
** Even in the Library where Ten meets her for the first time, they argue so much that even Strackman Lux yells at them for acting like a married couple when there were more pressing matters at hand.
* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: 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 for her husband's sake. Just like her mum, it turns out. Also, both she and her ''other'' mom, the TARDIS, consider themselves married to the Doctor.

---> '''The Doctor:''' We've got ten minutes, get dressed. \\

* LoveConfession: To the Doctor in "The Wedding of River Song" and just before the wedding itself. And again in "The Husbands of River Song", though she's not aware at the time that she's actually speaking to the Doctor.

* LuckyTranslation: The French language uses two different forms for "you", the informal "tu" (for family and close friends) and the polite "vous" (superiors, people you don't know, etc.). In the French dub, the Doctor and his companions usually address each other with "vous". During River's first appearances, up until A Good Man Goes to War, she uses "tu" when talking to the Doctor, and he uses the polite "vous". This switches around in Let's Kill Hitler, with River using "vous" and the Doctor using "tu". By The Angels Take Manhattan, however, they're both using "tu".

* TheMasochismTango: Her ''very'' first (from her perspective) words ever to the Doctor are to insult his bow tie. The second time she properly meets the Doctor, she tries to kill him with poison lipstick, then makes a HeroicSacrifice to revive him. The third time she properly meets the Doctor, she refuses to kill him, then finally says she will, even though she will hurt more that the rest of the universe put together, as long as she can tell him how much he is loved; he angrily makes her marry him (long story) and they snark at each other as time itself explodes around them. From that point on, they date quite happily, but she gets on significantly less well with younger versions of him that she occasionally meets -- because she can't spoil anything for fear of paradox. By the time she meets a version of him so young that all they can have is BelligerentSexualTension, their entire relationship revolves around snarking, bitching and flirting while he keeps on being frustrated at how secretive she is. The second to last time involved her meeting a version she didn't know existed (as it was the first face of a new regeneration cycle), while the last time she properly meets him, she punches him in the face, handcuffs him to a wall and makes a HeroicSacrifice to save his life.

--->'''Doctor''': ...[[ShesGotLegs the Legs,]] the Nose, and Mrs. Robinson.\\
'''River''': I ''hate'' you.\\
'''Doctor''': No, you don't!

** "The Angels Take Manhattan" reveals that she's pretty bothered by the fact that he looks "twelve". (Though the context of the scene suggests this was meant more about how he acts than how he looks.)

* MistakenForMurderer: She was locked up in Stormcage Prison for murdering the Doctor.
* MysteriousPast: So much time travel nonsense is in her past that it takes well over a season to be uncovered.
* NoHuggingNoKissing: Totally averted with regards to the Eleventh Doctor. However, reflecting his less-affectionate demeanor, the rule is in place with the Twelfth Doctor except for a kiss on the cheek.

* PaintedOnPants: Lampshaded in "Let's Kill Hitler", when her younger self regenerates into the form that we first met her in. After going off to check out her new body's butt in a mirror, she proudly announces "[[CallForward I'm going to wear]] ''[[CallForward a lot]]'' [[CallForward of jodhpurs]]!"
* PoisonousFriend: She bitterly self-identifies as a psychopath.

* PsychopathicWomanchild: 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. As she grows older she has it under control, but still glumly refers to refers to herself as a "psychopath" when she's already a Professor.

* PromotedToOpeningCredits: In "The Husbands of River Song" - seven years after her debut appearance.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: In "The Husbands of River Song", she reveals that she is at least 200 years old, thanks to her "augmented life-span". This is presumably due to her mixed human-Time Lord biology.

** Inverted in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary "Silence in the Library"]]: she walks up to the Doctor and begins chatting with him as if they're old friends. The Doctor, however, has never met her before -- turns out that, thanks to the TimeyWimeyBall, he's meeting her out of sequence.

* SassyBlackWoman: As Mels she mouthed off to both her friends and teachers. It got her into trouble.

* SerialSpouse: She married the Doctor but also married other people like Hydroflax, Stephen Fry and Cleopatra.

** She's named after herself... ''twice''. Amy named her "Melody" after her childhood friend, Mels... who turns out to ''be'' her daughter Melody. The second time, she adopts her Gamma Forest name translation "River Song" but only because the Doctor, Amy, and Rory keep calling her that, because that's the name they always knew her by.
** Gets the idea of defacing land marks to summon the Doctor from Amy and Rory, who in turn got it from her.
** She and the Doctor give ''each other'' the "Spoilers!" CatchPhrase, during their respective first proper meetings.

* SuddenlyEthnicity: PlayedWith in eleven directions. She is half human and half Time Lord. Except that she has no Time Lord parents -- her parents are two humans and the TARDIS. Also, she spent most of her childhood in her second regeneration, which happened to be black.

* 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.

** Both are paradoxic in nature much like the Doctor. Captain Jack is immortal and is a living fixed point-in-time, while River is a [[HalfHumanHybrid Half Time Lord]] whose entire life is a StableTimeLoop.

** Both are ExtremeOmnisexual and have dated members of various species and gender.
* TangledFamilyTree: From late series 4 onwards. Amy and Rory are together and have a daughter, Melody, who was named after their childhood best friend, Melody. Amy, however, fancies the Doctor and forces him into a kiss early on. Melody turns out to be River Song, who eventually marries the Doctor, and is ''also'' Amy's and Rory's best friend Melody, accidentally named after herself. On top of that, Melody's second mother is the TARDIS, who considers herself married to the Doctor and has a rather romantic (as well as biologically symbiotic) relationship with him. Things get more complicated when Amy accidentally marries Henry VIII in a throwaway gag -- because the Doctor, rather briefly, married Queen Elizabeth I, who happens to be Henry VIII's daughter, making her simultaneously his biological mother-in-law ''and'' his step-mother-in-law. And in the middle of all that, the Doctor starts fancying Rory a bit and snogs him for no reason.

* TokenEvilTeammate: She calls herself a psychopath (even though she's really not - psychopaths lack empathy, which River has loads of), and is by far the most violent of his allies.
-->'''Dalek:''' [[AC: You will be exterminated.]]\\

'''Dalek:''' [[AC: Records indicate you will show mercy. You are an associate of the Doctor's.]] \\

[Beat]\\
'''Dalek:''' [[AC: [[OhCrap Mercy?]]]]\\

'''Dalek:''' [[AC: Mercy!!]]\\

'''Dalek:''' [[AC: [[RuleOfThree Mercyyyyy!!!]]]]\\

* TwinThreesomeFantasy: In "A Good Man Goes to War", River implies that she once spent a very enjoyable birthday with two Doctors at once.
** Also invoked in "Night and the Doctor", when she encounters two versions of Eleven.

* TheVamp: She was raised to be this trope - she killed the Doctor with a kiss. Thankfully, [[HeelFaceTurn she gets better]].

* WholePlotReference: To one of Creator/StevenMoffat's favorite novels, ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife''. The similarities would take quite a while to count. She even meets the Doctor in a library, exactly like the novel's titular characters. (The Twelfth Doctor owns the book, keeps his copy in his console room, and stores a spare TARDIS key between the pages.)
* WifeHusbandry: "The Impossible Astronaut" revealed that the first time River met the Doctor he knew ''everything'' about her, and was charming and wonderful. It turns out he met her as an infant but had no part in raising her.
* YouCantFightFate: River's assassination of the Doctor-inside-the-Teselecta is a fixed point in time. When she attempts to avert it, the universe is plunged into a massive AnachronismStew that threatens to tear time itself apart, leading the Doctor himself to unleash a WhatTheHellHero on her.
** Invoked by the Doctor in "The Husbands of River Song" in response to River begging him to do something to avert the fact that their night at the Singing Towers of Darillium will be their last ever date.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: She is known as a psychopath - and even calls herself that - but she's really not. She seems to be confusing "psychopath," which is an unofficial term for a broad range of mental illnesses, for "sociopath," a person who lacks empathy. She does not display a lack of empathy either, however.

!! Tropes associated with Big Finish

* BerserkButton: Though River describes herself as a psychopath, [[{{Subversion}} she takes it upon herself to help innocent people]] when they get caught up in nasty occurences they don't deserve (chalk that up to the Doctor). This puts her at odds with the Rulers immediately. [[DoubleSubversion She then shows just how much of a psychopath she can be]].
** Reading her diary is another, [[spoiler:as is impersonating the Doctor with it. Even when keeping the man who did the reading and impersonating alive would be optimal, she shoots him dead after freeing herself out of spite]].
** Involving the Doctor, particularly against her, is yet another. [[spoiler:She is particularly unhappy when she finds out the incarnation of the Doctor who receives the Rulers' party invitation is Eight. She views Eight as [[Literature/TheIngenue naive]], and finding out this version from him is from the early days of the Time War makes her all the more incensed.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: Though River plays hard and fast with time travel, she doesn't approve of the Rulers Of The Universe's plans to live up to their name at all and sabotages their schemes twice over. [[spoiler:The second time includes quite a lot more explosions than the first time, and quite a few more people dying. She does sound an alert so that the people partying can get to life-rafts, and she doesn't stop anyone from escaping, but if they're too busy partying or trying to manipulate planets to evacuate she sees that as their problem. Of course, she doesn't take kindly to those who escape by trampling others to do so...]]
** She also has respect towards the Doctor's timeline in that there are certain Doctors she cannot "play with", one in particular being the Eighth. [[spoiler:That doesn't stop her from helping him in any way she can while he's stuck in a death trap she inadvertently brings upon him]].
* HaveWeMetYet: Par for the course for River. However, unusually for her, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness she takes great pains to ensure that she and the Eighth Doctor do not meet]], knowing this incarnation hasn't and thus ''cannot'' meet her. [[note]] According to the Bonus Features on the final disc, potentially the River from this era of her complicated life could go back and tangentially encounter any of the Doctor's classic era incarnations... and implies that not only might this happen, but that River will have to get increasingly creative in avoiding continuity issues.[[/note]]
** [[spoiler: She later encountered the Sixth and Seventh Doctors, who then forget her after an adventure in a collapsing time anomaly wipes River's and Seven's memories and elects to use her amnesia lipstick on the Sixth after he accidentally commits an immoral act and gets concerned he might get too affected by it.]]
* LoopholeAbuse: Think that setting your base in a field that prevents time travel will save you? Not when the depot that supplies you isn't covered by a similar field. [[spoiler:River exploits it for all it is worth, and [[UpToEleven and then some]].]]

* WomanScorned: The Rulers of the Universe made a very keen mistake when they tried to recruit River Song, unintentionally and continuously hitting every one of her buttons. [[spoiler:Handing her over to a man who impersonates a future incarnation of the Doctor, clones her and kills off said clones after they realize who he is, with her being aware of everything said clones went through, is what ''really'' sends her over the edge though.]] Bertie Potts is ''horrified'' when he sees the destruction River brings upon them, alone and in less than an hour, and even more so when he learns how. In short? ''Do not piss off River Song''.

!!River Song (nee Melody Pond)

!River Song (nee Melody Pond)

The other reason is that her mother was abducted by a splinter group of the Papal Mainframe, a religious order who nominally protected certain sections of the universe. This splinter group, led by Madame Kovarian, foretold of the Doctor's arrival on a world called "Trensalore", where, due to a confluence of events, the Last Great Time War would begin anew leading to the Doctor's permanent death. Engaging in extremes to prevent this, Kovarian abducted Amelia, held her captive on the asteroid "Demon's Run", and forcibly removed Melody from her mother upon birth, the idea being to train her as an assassin who would utilize her Time Lord abilities to insert herself into her parent's timeline as a friend called "Mels". Gaining intel, she would then move in and at the right time, kill the Doctor for good, succeeding in one timeline. What Kovarian didn't count on was Melody genuinely falling in love with him, even marrying him at a moment where his death was prevented, causing time to freeze but history to happen all at once.

* TheNthDoctor: She's been played by Creator/AlexKingston, 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.

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

Was never officially deemed a companion, but is included here for completest purposes.

* DaddysGirl: It's subtle, but she's very close to her father even before he knows he is her father. She has heartfelt discussions with him about her relationship with the Doctor [[HaveWeMetYet and where it's heading]], happily chats with him about her dates, and confides in him her worries. On a slightly creepy note, [[LikeParentLikeSpouse she's attracted to Roman Centurions]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: After lifetimes of trying to catch up to the Doctor, she spends 24 years with him on Darillium... [[BittersweetEnding after which, she meets him and he doesn't recognize her]]. [[DrivenToSuicide She doesn't get to meet him again.]]

* InternalHomage: A nod to the extremely long-running Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse companion Characters/BerniceSummerfield, another professor of archaeology who keeps a diary about the Doctor. Creator/StevenMoffat wrote for the Franchise/BerniceSummerfield franchise before becoming the ShowRunner for the TV series. (He also jokingly suggested that River and Bernice had totally gotten married at some point, which immediately got a big thumbs-up from Benny's creator Paul Cornell. It's worth noting that "The Husbands of River Song" establishes that she has married women at least twice...)

!River Song

->'''Voiced by:'''

->'''Played by:''' Creator/AlexKingston (2008, 2010–2012, 2013, 2015)\\
'''First incarnation as a baby played by:''' Harrison and Madison Mortimer (2011)\\
'''First incarnation as a child played by:''' Sydney Wade (2011)\\
'''Second incarnation ("Mels") as a child played by:''' Maya Glace-Green (2011)\\
'''Second incarnation ("Mels") as an adult played by:''' Nina Toussaint-White (2011)