History Recap / DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang

The one where Amy and Rory wed, and the Doctor adopted a fez. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Again.]]

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Amy climbs over the table at the reception to greet the Doctor, you can hear Rory explaining him is to her parents: "I was plastic; he was the stripper at my stag do..."

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: The museum display Amelia hides in is a penguin. She was not in the Antarctic exhibit, however.

* ActOfTrueLove: Auton!Rory's absolutely epic and yet secret two thousand years of warding of his beloved while she was... stuck.

* AndIMustScream: Downplayed, since he could still move, talk and interract with other people, but Rory waited 2000 years, fully aware for every moment, unable to even sleep. The Doctor thought it would drive him insane. [[TheDeterminator He was wrong.]]

* AlternateUniverse: The immediate effects of the previous episode are no Doctor and ''no stars'', but then [[FromBadToWorse the rules of time and space start breaking down]]. Also, if a brief exchange between Amy's aunt and her psychiatrist is to believed, apparently well-known atheist (at least in this universe) Richard Dawkins is now involved in a "star cult".
* ApocalypseHow: The fallout of the one in the previous episode is witnessed -- it's an inversion of the death of reality as threatened in the last few major climaxes in that Earth is perfectly fine (as is the moon), with the TARDIS explosion acting as a substitute for the sun to ensure life and humanity still develops; but past the moon and substitute sun, there's now ''absolutely nothing''. And the ApocalypseHow/ClassZ is still progressing over the episode and is erasing what's left bit by bit, until eventually reality itself will never have happened.

* BackForTheFinale: After the {{Continuity Cameo}}s of the last episode, 7-year-old Amy makes another appearance. And the [[Creator/CaitlinBlackwood actress]] has a cameo (presumably as Amy's cousin or something) at Amy's wedding. She IS Creator/KarenGillan's real-life cousin...

* BadVibrations: That scene near the end where the wine glasses vibrate, then things start blowing around. Although since they herald the return of the Doctor, they're ''Good'' Vibrations.

--->'''Older Amy:''' ''[to Younger Amy]'' Okay kid. This is where it gets complicated.

* BigEntrance: The TARDIS ''itself'' gets one, in the middle of the wedding reception.

* DescriptionCut: "I only came for the dancing." Cut to the Doctor tearing up the wedding dance floor... ''really really badly''.

** No, Centurion Rory didn't die in the fires of the Blitz.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Compared to the Downer or Bittersweet Endings of previous revival seasons, the whole of reality, the Doctor and his current companions manage to catch a break for once. Not only does Everybody Live, but a couple are brought back and Amy and Rory finally get married.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: The museum display Amelia hides in is a penguin. She was not in the Antarctic exhibit.

** Exhibits you can blink-and-miss include the Penguins of the Nile. And Dinosaurs ''in'' Ice.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Rory ''punches'' the Doctor to remind him Amy matters. Subverted, in that the Doctor is feigning disinterest in Amy to ensure that Rory's personality is stronger than the Nestene part of him.
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* GoodIsNotNice: River may be on the Doctor's side, but she's not interested in being merciful ''at all''... at least around a [[AcceptableTargets Dalek]].

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Close. We're given a few small insights into Rory's time guarding the Pandorica, but nearly 2000 years must have had some good stories we'll never hear.

** Amy keeps making statements along this line, though she may just be joking about the time she tried to [[{{Pun}} bang]] the Doctor. ''May.''

** River may or may not make it a Love Square (see MathematiciansAnswer below).

* MindScrew: What this episode is if you can't make sense of the various timey-wimey paradoxes.

* MoodWhiplash: The entire episode is ''full'' of them:
** Auton!Rory crying, holding (an OnlyMostlyDead, but Rory thinks he's killed her) Amy in his arms... only for the Doctor, wearing a fez and carrying a mop, to appear from nowhere.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: River and Amy move like a single unit to destroy the Doctor's fez. It makes much more sense, while being no less awesome, after season 6. Well... as much as things can make sense in ''Doctor Who''.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Played with. The Pandorica, designed to stop the Doctor, winds up becoming his most valuable tool in saving the universe. Then again, the Doctor's enemies built the Pandorica to trap the Doctor ''so that the universe wouldn't be destroyed'', so building the Pandorica still worked out for them in the end.

* TheNightThatNeverEnds: Sort of. There's day and night, thanks to the exploding TARDIS standing in for our Sun, but no stars.

* NoodleImplements: When we first see the Doctor time travel to see Rory at the start, the fez and mop definitely come across as these (though we get to see where they come from later on).

** The teaser at the end seems to be one of these, apparently setting up a background adventure that happens between episodes. Ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] a few series (and one ''regeneration'') later, when we find out that we didn't skip over the adventure; the Doctor had just taken ages to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E8MummyOnTheOrientExpress get around to it]]. Although the "prayer meeting" that led to the goddess being imprisoned inside the seventh obelisk, on the other hand...

** The Dalek assuming that River Song is just any old companion:

* RealityWarper: Growing up near a time crack makes you a ''moderate'' form of this; you can reverse a RetGone by remembering something, because only you remember it.

* RetGone: Due to the cracks, ''all of existence'' has been erased from history. The only things to have ever existed in this timeline is the Earth, the Moon and an exploding TARDIS, [[FromBadToWorse and they're also fading away]].

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Ordinarily the Doctor cannot go backwards in his own timeline. WordOfGod states that the Doctor's willingness to break his normal rules is due to the ''very'' serious nature of the situation. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Or for cheap tricks.]] It's also justified — as the Doctor himself puts it, the laws of the universe aren't worth much a damn when the universe is now just one planet and an eternally exploding police box.[[invoked]]

* TheSlowPath: Auton!Rory, in an episode by the man who named the trope. One thousand, eight hundred and ninety four years, and he was awake for ''every second of it''.

* TimeyWimeyBall: It's scaled up to a Timey-Wimey Universe, as literally the only thing that's holding it in place is Amy and her memories. Fortunately, as the Doctor points out, the Universe has gotten a ''lot'' smaller after last episode.
* TookALevelInBadass: Rory does it ''again''. The first time was in the last episode, when he came back as a Roman. Now, in addition to his Roman... stuff and his arm cannon, he's also got two millennia of experience guarding the Pandorica. To put it in perspective: In two episodes Rory single-handedly takes out a Cyberman and briefly blinds a Dalek. Compare that to how badly he did in "[[Recap/DoctorWHoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice The Vampires of Venice]]".
* TranquilFury: River after Eleven's ''first'' DisneyDeath.

** You read that right; she forced a ''Dalek'' to plead for mercy.

* VillainsWantMercy: A ''Dalek'' of all things asks for mercy from River Song. It doesn't receive it. Given what [[SociopathicHero River]] ''could'' have done, a quick death ''may'' have been merciful.

** The Doctor is now aware of someone trying to make "silence fall".

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Auton!Rory makes the choice to stay on the slow path and spend 1894 years alone guarding a box because his human values are ''[[DefiedTrope even more important]]'' now that he is not human.

''[The Doctor appears in a pimped out tuxedo, with matching NiceHat]''\\

* NiceHat: The Doctor thinks his fez is cool. River kills it forever. Later at the wedding he wears a spiffy top hat.

** Auton!Rory crying, holding (an OnlyMostlyDead, but Rory thinks he's killed her) Amy in his arms... only for the Doctor, wearing a [[CoolHat fez]] and carrying a mop, to appear from nowhere.

** Amy grabbing the Doctor's [[CoolHat fez]], throwing it up in the air and River shooting it is awesome, which then becomes terrifying as you hear the Dalek.

** The gag made a transition from bowties being cool to [[CoolHat everything the Doctor wears being cool]].

->''SILENCE WILL FALL.''
-->-- '''The Narrator''' and countless others say the ArcWords of this season.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Rory, mentally at least. It's safe to say he retained his memories from when he was an Auton. The Doctor even says that the Nestenes "got more than they bargained for" when they made Auton!Rory, like his heart and his soul. Later, when the TARDIS appears at the wedding, he can be heard saying "I was plastic!" in the background. At the time of the Universe reboot, Rory is more than twice the age of the Doctor himself!

* SecretTestOfCharacter: The Doctor baiting Auton!Rory in the beginning of the episode is to make sure that the real Rory (his soul and heart and such) are truly there and not just an Auton aping his memories.

* NighInvulnerability: One of the last things the Doctor tells Auton!Rory before leaving him on TheSlowPath is that, while he is immortal, he is ''not'' indestructible, so he will need to take care of himself.

* WeirdSun: The unmade univere's version of the sun is far larger, reder and overall fire-like than the real sun. This is because it's not a star at all, it's the exploding TARDIS caught in a timeloop.

* CatchPhrase: Had all gone to plan, the Doctor's FamousLastWords to his companions would have been "Geronimo!"

They lock the Dalek in the room. When Rory realizes that the Doctor looks exactly like he did 2000 years ago when he gave him the sonic screwdriver, the Doctor zaps back (to Rory at the beginning) and forth for a while, getting himself out of the Pandorica, [[RetroactivePreparation fixing time loops and leaving messages]]. And Amelia, here's a drink. [[CrazyAwesome He's grabbed a fez from a mannequin in the museum]]. Then, suddenly, another Doctor appears on top of the stairs, burnt, jacket torn, dishevelled, and collapses. He whispers something into our Doctor's ear and... dies. The good news is, they have ''twelve minutes''.

* ApocalypseHow: Metaphysical Annihilation. Death of reality. This is an inversion of the death of reality as threatened in the last few major climaxes: Earth itself is, more or less, perfectly fine. Everyone else, on the other hand, is nothing.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "I dated a Nestene duplicate once. Swappable heads. [[PowerPerversionPotential It did keep things fresh]]..."
** The episode's title, given that the episode ends with Rory and Amy boarding the TARDIS on their wedding night.

** Rory himself, for surviving the 2000 years.

The one where Amy and Rory wed, then make a baby [[ShrugOfGod on the TARDIS bunk bed rungs]].

And the Doctor adopted a fez. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Again]]. Which was then shot. RIP Fez.

'''River:''' One. More. Time.\\

* TranquilFury: River after Eleven's ''first'' DisneyDeath. "[[AC:MERCY!]]" "Say it again?" You read that right; she forced a Dalek to plead for mercy.