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->'''Played by:''' Creator/CatherineTate (2006, 2008–10, 2023)[[note]]Donna first appeared in a special in 2006, then became a companion for one full season in 2008. She made a final appearance in both parts of a two-part story, part 1 airing on Christmas Day 2009, while part 2 aired on New Year's Day 2010.[[/note]]

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->'''Played by:''' Creator/CatherineTate (2006, 2008–10, 2023)[[note]]Donna first appeared in a special in 2006, then became a companion for one full season in 2008. She made a final an appearance in both parts of a two-part story, part 1 airing on Christmas Day 2009, while part 2 aired on New Year's Day 2010.2010. Her final appearance was during the 3-part 60th Anniversary specials with the 14th Doctor.[[/note]]


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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: [[spoiler: The ultimate solution to the Meta-Crisis? Simply making the conscious choice to let go of the power, [[WomenAreWiser something the Doctor was unable to even consider because of his ego]].]]

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Clara Oswald, with both having tremendous amounts of ShipTease with the Doctor with feelings only being confirmed towards the end of their run, and a character arc showing them becoming increasingly Doctor-like, with reckless levels of confidence.
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!!Amelia Jessica "Amy" Pond (Eleventh Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]" (2010)
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan]]" (2012)
->'''Final Appearance:''' [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]] (2013)[[note]]As a possible hallucination seen by the Eleventh Doctor just before he regenerates.[[/note]]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/KarenGillan (2010–2012, 2013)[[note]]A companion from 2010–2012, she was BackForTheFinale in one episode of 2013 for Matt Smith's final regular episode.[[/note]], Creator/CaitlinBlackwood (Young Amy, 2010–2012)[[note]] An unknown [[FakeShemp stand-in]] played her in 2013 when she came BackForTheFinale — Caitlin had become a teenager by that time and was too old to pass as a little kid anymore.[[/note]]

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

''The Girl Who Waited''

Amy, a [[MsFanservice kissogram]] (and, later, a model and a writer), 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 Literature/PeterPan... except that in this case, Wendy is Peter's mother-in-law.

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[[folder:River Song]]
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[[folder:Clara Oswald]]
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!!Twelfth Doctor Era

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!!Nardole (Twelfth
Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "[[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong The Eleventh Hour]]" (2010)
Husbands of River Song]]" (2015)
->'''Joins TARDIS Crew:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]" (2016)[[note]]First story in which he appears as a companion; he actually joins the Doctor earlier in his timeline, as depicted in "Extremis"[[/note]]
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Angels Take Manhattan]]" (2012)
Doctor Falls]]" (2017)
->'''Final Appearance:''' [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]] (2013)[[note]]As "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a possible hallucination seen by the Eleventh Doctor just before he regenerates.[[/note]]

Time]]" (2017)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/KarenGillan (2010–2012, 2013)[[note]]A companion Creator/MattLucas (2015-2017)

-->''"[[BadassBoast I am the only person you have ever met, or ever will meet, who is officially licensed to]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis kick. The Doctor's.]]'' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Arse.]]''''' ''I will happily do the same to you, in the event that you do not align yourself with any instructions I have issued which I personally judge to be in the best interests of your safety and survival."''

A timid, unassuming HumanAlien of the 54th century who was a servant of River Song during her caper to reclaim a valuable diamond
from 2010–2012, she (the head of) the tyrannical cyborg King Hydroflax, whom she'd recently married to get close to. On Mendorax Dellora in 5343, he was BackForTheFinale in one episode sent to fetch the surgeon River hired to perform the... "operation"... and a misunderstanding meant that he brought back the Twelfth Doctor. ''Long'' story short, by the end of 2013 for Matt Smith's final regular episode.[[/note]], Creator/CaitlinBlackwood (Young Amy, 2010–2012)[[note]] An unknown [[FakeShemp stand-in]] played her in 2013 when she came BackForTheFinale this misadventure Hydroflax himself was destroyed and Nardole's head Caitlin had become a teenager by just the head, mind — was peacefully sharing and controlling his deactivated robot body with that time of Ramone, one of River's many husbands and was too old to pass as a little kid anymore.[[/note]]

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

''The Girl Who Waited''

Amy, a [[MsFanservice kissogram]] (and, later, a model and a writer), is a Scot raised
also involved 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 scheme; together they served as a sort waiter at a restaurant near the Singing Towers of imaginary friend for her… until he finally returned, twelve years later. Her relationship with Darillium. However, during the long night the Doctor is arguably inspired by Wendy Darling's relationship spent with Literature/PeterPan... except that River on Darillium (long as in equivalent to 24 Earth years) he "reassembled" Nardole into a cyborg.

Before River went to her death in the Library, she tasked Nardole with becoming the Doctor's "valet"; he promised to take care of the Doctor, to keep him from losing his sense of self and his noble morals... by any means needed, up to and including kicking his arse. Thus, he followed the Doctor to what ''was'' to be the execution of Missy (the Master), and from there they took to guarding the Vault beneath St. Luke's University on Earth. Nardole is determined to make sure the Doctor holds to his vow to watch over Missy for 1,000 years, but
this case, Wendy is Peter's mother-in-law.becomes harder when, several decades into the vigil, the Doctor meets and befriends Bill Potts.



* ActionGirl: She exerts this when "pushed into a corner". [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "The Girl Who Waited"]] sees her exhibit this to her fullest potential by surviving 36 years in a Kindness Facility against an army of hostile robots.
* AllTherapistsAreMuggles: Amy is sent to therapy in two separate realities when others find out what she’s experienced and can’t believe it’s real: in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]] because of her tales of the Raggedy Doctor [[note]] She bit all four of them [[/note]], and in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang “The Big Bang”]] where all the stars have gone out and young Amy is the only person in the world who remembers them.
* AlwaysSaveTheBoy: The Doctor even lampshades it.
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[DistressBall Rory! Rory!]] ''[[DistressBall Always]]'' [[DistressBall with the Rory!]]
* AmnesiacLover:
** From the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood "Cold Blood"]] to the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]], she doesn't remember Rory because he never existed.
** Played with in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]]. Amy remembers that she has a husband named Rory whom she loved dearly, but can't remember what he looks like, and therefore doesn't recognize "Captain Williams". It's the Doctor who tries to restart both their memories.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: While she often takes Rory for granted, if anything happens to him, she'll be crushed, even [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice suicidal]]. After she reads about Auton-Rory's disappearance in the Blitz during [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], she's utterly devastated. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "The Girl Who Waited"]] is 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.
* BackForTheFinale: She returns briefly as a hallucination in the Eleventh Doctor's dying moments.
* BerserkButton: Growing up, the Doctor was her button.
-->'''The Doctor:''' ''Four'' [psychiatrists]?\\
'''Amy:''' I kept biting them.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Why?\\
'''Amy:''' They kept saying you weren't real.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When pushed enough or her family's in danger, she can be ''terrifying''. Her ([[PayEvilUntoEvil much-deserved]]) murder of Madame Kovarian, for example.
* BigDamnKiss: Has a few incredibly Big Damn Kisses with Rory, first in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]] when she made her choice, then in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]] on her wedding day, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "The Girl Who Waited"]], which is effectively "Rory's Choice". She also snogs the Doctor at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone "Flesh and Stone"]], while he scrambles to shove her off of him.
* BodyMotifs: There's a lot of focus on her legs and she's known as the companion who waited for the Doctor all her life. When she finally marries Rory, she still has trouble moving on from the Doctor.
%%* BoundAndGagged: ''Ripper's Curse''.
* BraveScot: She's brave. She's Scottish. What more is there to say?
* BrokenBird:
** The Doctor abandons her repeatedly in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]], leaving her with lifelong psychological problems as a result.
** She [[TraumaCongaLine repeatedly suffers this]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]]: 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 [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "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 [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]], the Doctor [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim deliberately breaks that faith in order to save both her life and her future.]]
* TheCallPutMeOnHold: As above, she answered yes to [[CallToAdventure the call]] ''long'' before she was able to actually have the adventure associated.
* ChangedMyJumper: She's a worse offender than the Doctor himself. Wearing a miniskirt in public would probably have at least caused some comment in some of the places she went.
* CharacterDevelopment: Though she starts as an innocent and adventurous young girl, after being abandoned by the Doctor for 14 years [[BreakTheCutie she grows up to be jaded, snarky and emotionally damaged]], as well as finding herself sexually conflicted between the Doctor and Rory. Throughout Series 5 and 6 she comes to realise just how much she loves Rory, and her mask of overconfidence is toned down as she becomes more mature. She also comes to see the Doctor as less of a childhood hero and more of a friend and equal.
* CharacterTic: In Series 5, she would bulge her eyes and pucker her mouth a lot.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She gets pretty annoyed when she thinks Rory is more focused on another woman. It's justified for a few reasons; he's her husband, he's had a SingleTargetSexuality on her for most of their lives, he has a tendency to die and she's feeling guilty over calling him her "sort of boyfriend" in their first episode.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments. In the ending of, "Flesh and Stone", she snarks that it's a been a while since the Doctor has gotten laid. Subverted earlier in the episode when the Angel Bob makes her cry stone out of her eye and count down.
* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: in the 2011 Comic Relief short when she crossed her own timestream and wouldn't stop flirting with herself.
* DoubleConsciousness: After the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], she remembers two different versions of her life, as stated in the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32HVBSNightAndTheDoctor "Good Night"]] mini-episode. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]], this is now a ''triple'' consciousness, with Amy remembering her life in the time-everywhere universe.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: She emotionally and physically beats Rory over the head a whole lot in Series 5, something hinted to be a result of her epic scale abandonment issues. She gets called out on it ''hard'' on occasion, and slowly learns that there are other ways to love someone. It's still her default defence mechanism when she feels that their relationship isn't heading the right way, but it's thankfully downplayed/non-existent by the later part of Series 7A.
* DrivenToSuicide: After Rory is sent to the past and "killed" by a Weeping Angel, she chooses to get sent back in time by that same Angel to die with him (of old age, though). The Doctor sounds like he's trying to talk her off of a high ledge.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: According to Rory.
-->'''Rory:''' Uh, Doctor, ''don't''. Seriously, I let her drive my car once.\\
'''Amy:''' Yeah, to the end of the road.\\
'''Rory:''' Yeah. Where, according to Amy, there was an unexpected ''house''.\\
'''Amy:''' Aw, he's jealous because ''I'' passed my test first time.\\
'''Rory:''' You cheated: you wore a skirt.\\
'''Amy:''' I didn't wear a skirt. ... No, no; I ''did'' wear a skirt, but it was any old skirt.\\
'''Rory:''' Have you seen Amy drive, Doctor?\\
'''The Doctor:''' No?\\
'''Rory:''' [[DistractedByTheSexy Neither did her driving instructor...]]
* DullSurprise: A minor example; Karen Gillan was a model before she got into acting. In Series 5, her acting was perfectly fine, but her facial expressions could be rather static and make Amy seem kind of deadpan. This was resolved by Series 6, when Karen was much more comfortable in the role and began emoting much more.
* {{Expy}}:
** Shares quite more than a few traits with Sally Sparrow from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]], a story Creator/StevenMoffat wrote before taking over as the head writer, right down to having a guy that's interested in her that's considered way out of his league. Unlike Larry Nightingale, Rory definitely does hook up with the girl he likes.[[note]] This is probably not a coincidence as Steven Moffat wanted Carey Mulligan to reprise the role as a full-time companion only for her to turn the opportunity down.[[/note]]
** Her origin story also appears to be adapted from another Moffat script, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace "The Girl In The Fireplace"]]. Like Reinette in that episode, she first meets the Doctor as a child, believes him to be an imaginary friend, and then is surprised to meet him again in adulthood.
** She also shares more than a few character traits with Rose Tyler. However, unlike Rose, she actually comes to love her {{Muggle}} boyfriend (it helps that he became a [[invoked]]MemeticBadass not far short of the Doctor himself), grows out of her crush on the Doctor, and generally does a lot of growing up.
* FagHag: Believed herself to be this to [[MistakenForGay Rory]] for years.
* FairCop: Subverted in her first appearance, when she uses a Kissogram outfit to pretend to be a cop.
* FanserviceModel: Amy was this for a time before starting her adventures with the Doctor. Different from most of the characters on this trope, she didn't wear lingerie or swimsuits, but FanserviceCostumes since she worked as a kissogram. By the time she saw the Doctor again after meeting him as a child, Amy was wearing a [[FairCop police officer costume]].
* FieryRedhead: This ginger companion is quick to lose her temper. As early as her first episode, there's her smacking the Doctor with a cricket bat and sticking his tie in a car door because he left her alone for 12 years and then won't explain what's going on.
* FreezeFrameBonus: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells of Saint John"]], the characters — including the Doctor, eventually — read an old-looking book titled ''Summer Falls''. It's written by "Amelia Williams".
* FreudianExcuse: Her selfishness and bossy personality is in part because the Doctor accidentally abandoned her when she was little [[HopeSpot after literally promising her the stars]], and having to deal with ''four'' different psychologists over her childhood basically made her [[BreakTheCutie "damaged goods"]] by [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]].
* FriendsWithBenefits: Wants to be this with the Doctor, and she gets one kiss in before he pushes her away. She tries again ''during'' her wedding — twice.
* FutureBadass: Thirty-six years spent alone defending herself from robots with a sword in a quarantined medical facility.
* HappilyEverAfter: While Amy and Rory are dead in the present, they have 50+ years in the past, and Amy's final note assures the Doctor that they had a full and happy life together until their deaths of old age. Karen Gillan herself also [[https://twitter.com/karengillan/status/648941198514614272 thinks]] they had BabiesEverAfter as well — at the very least, they definitely adopted a child.
* HehHehYouSaidX: Gives one in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]] when River asks the Doctor to "sonic her" device in order to amplify its signal, as part of her general winding the Doctor up over his relationship with River.
-->'''Amy:''' Ooh Doctor, you ''sonicked'' her!
* HiddenDepths: She really loves van Gogh's work.
* InSeriesNickname: The Girl Who Waited. Twice.
* InsultOfEndearment: "Stupid face" and "moron" is Amy's love language.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite her selfish and shady attitude on occasion, Amy's overall a good person who's willing to sacrifice her own life for those she cares about.
* 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]].
--->'''The Doctor:''' Amelia Pond! ''Get your coat!''
* KilledOffForReal: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]], her permanent death is confirmed by her tombstone.
* LadyOfWar: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "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 [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]].
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: 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 a habit of calling her "Pond".
* LegFocus:
** The [[Recap/DoctorWho2011RNDSSpaceAndTime "Space"]] short is based on her long legs, her short skirt, and how her husband is distracted by them.
** Clara's thoughts on the subject:
--->'''Clara:''' Dear GOD, that woman is made of legs! That's the most legs on any living human!
** Amusingly, the newly regenerated Twelfth Doctor mutters about her legs in comparison to those of the much shorter Clara... because they're both tied up and Clara's trying to reach the dropped sonic screwdriver with her feet.
* {{Leitmotif}}: There's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zABNs6Dbn4s "Locked On"]], which plays while she gives her narration at the start of the American broadcasts of Series 6. As well as a musical piece called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BuPBQXTcMk Amy's Theme]].
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Despite a chronic case of WillTheyOrWontThey, she and the Doctor ultimately end up like this [[CharacterDevelopment when she realizes that]] Rory is her true love.
* LimitedWardrobe: For the first six episodes of Series 6, appeared to have nothing in her wardrobe except two or three similar-looking plaid shirts. It turned out to be a subliminal hint to the audience that she's actually a mind-linked Doppelgänger in these episodes.
* LoveTriangle: Thinks she's in one with Rory and the Doctor. Rory and the Doctor both disagree. She readily accepts the fact that the Doctor wouldn't necessarily ''love'' her, being a 907-year-old alien and all, but she still hopes for a quick shag. While it largely dies to nothing by the end of Series 5, the ShipTease around it eventually becomes a major plot point, due to [[invoked]]TrollingCreator, when she becomes pregnant in Series 6 and people start to assume that it might be the Doctor's baby. Of course, it's not — despite there being, at first, overwhelming circumstantial evidence for it.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: After she marries Rory, she becomes Amy Williams. The Doctor knows, but calls her "Pond" regardless (he even calls Rory "Rory Pond" consistently), unless things get properly serious.
** She evens names her child "Melody ''Pond''", not "Melody Williams". This becomes important later in the series.
* MaleGaze: Her first appearance as an adult is a slow pan up her legs.
* MamaBear: Very nearly kills a spaceship full of people, including herself and Rory, to save their child. No guarantee that anyone died, but none that everyone lived, either. Madame Kovarian learns this, too.
-->'''Amy:''' You took my baby from me and hurt her. And now she's all grown up and she's fine. But I'll never see my baby again.\\
'''Madame Kovarian:''' But you'll still save me, though. Because he would. And you'd never do anything to disappoint your precious Doctor.\\
'''Rory:''' Ma'am, we have to go. ''Now.''\\
'''Amy:''' The Doctor is very precious to me, you're right. But do you know what else he is, Madame Kovarian? ''Not here.'' ''[reattaches Kovarian's eye-drive, condemning her to a torturous death by electrocution]'' River Song didn't get it all from you... ''sweetie''.
* MarryThemAll: In her first season, she genuinely intends to have both Rory and the Doctor as her "boys", with Rory's unhappiness with such an arrangement going largely over her head (and the Doctor [[ShipperOnDeck not having any intention to come between them — quite the opposite]]). She pointedly ignores their protests even ''during her and Rory's wedding'', and tells the Doctor he can kiss the bride. (He doesn't.)
-->'''Amy''' ''(to the Doctor)'' Oh, you may absolutely kiss the bride
-->'''Amy:''' ''[also to the Doctor]'' Oi! Where are you sneaking off to? We haven't even had a snog in the shrubbery yet!\\
'''Rory:''' Amy!\\
'''Amy:''' Shut up, it's my wedding!\\
'''Rory:''' ''Our'' wedding!
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Towards Rory in Series 5 and early in Series 6, where he goes from her boyfriend to her "sort of boyfriend" to her fiancé, to one of her two "boys" and then forgetting him entirely due to a time crack. 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. She has a general liking for short skirts or hotpants that show off Creator/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 causes a minor disaster in the 2011 Comic Relief skit, when her wearing a short skirt [[DistractedByTheSexy distracts Rory enough]] to cause him to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero drop a thermocoupling, causing a spatial paradox]].
** It's also implied she {{Invoked|Trope}} this to pass her driving test.
** As of the end of Series 6 and the beginning of Series 7, she had a quite successful modelling career. By [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"]], she seems to have quit.
* MultipleChoicePast: After the mess with the cracks in time has been resolved, Amy is left with two largely incompatible childhoods — one where she had a mum and dad, one where she was raised by her aunt. She remembers ''both'' of them, which is a bit of a headache.
* MysticalPregnancy: Straightforward example — Amy is subjected to a horrifying pregnancy and delivery. It leads to a half-Time Lord child — though not by the means that anyone expected.
* ObliviousToLove: For a kissogram, she was a little bit slow in realising that Rory liked her.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Not initially, but over her two-and-a-half seasons Amy ages by roughly a decade, though no effort is made to physically reflect this. The Doctor's line about her wrinkles in "The Angels Take Manhattan" is a little hard to swallow when Karen Gillan's face barely has any lines on it even when frowning.
* PaintedOnPants: If she's not wearing a miniskirt, she's probably wearing these.
* PajamaCladHero: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow "The Beast Below"]], she saves all of Starship UK and the Star Whale carrying her while in her nightie.
* ParentalAbandonment: When we first meet her, she's living with her aunt (who's never there). The question of what happened to the rest of her family is part of the season arc.
* ThePeepingTom: Had no problem watching the Eleventh Doctor's bare backside when he just started changing clothes right in front of her and Rory not long after his regeneration.
-->'''Rory:''' Are you not gonna turn your back?\\
'''Amy:''' ''[smirks]'' Nope.
* PhraseCatcher: "Come along, Pond."
* ThePowerOfLove: With Rory, going both ways. In her case, it helps restore her memories of him in the time-everywhere reality, just in time for her to interrupt his attempted HeroicSacrifice [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend by mowing down half a dozen Silence with an assault rifle]].
* RealityWarper: Her RippleEffectProofMemory is the only reason the Doctor's second Big Bang goes off without a hitch, and is also the only way the Doctor comes back into existence.
* 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 the Doctor back into existence after a nasty RetGone.
** This skill comes back again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]]. She and Rory can both remember bits and pieces of the correct timeline, but Amy is the only one able to remember the correct order of things — with a lot of effort and many scribbled illustrations.
* RedIsHeroic: Mostly because of her fiery red hair, she also wears a lot of red clothing troughout the series, like her big red sweater and her red scarf.
* ScarfOfAssKicking: Frequently wears one throughout Series 5. Less so afterward — which, ironically, is about the time she TookALevelInBadass.
* ScrewYourself: When the TARDIS gets tangled in a time loop, Amy finds her slightly-time-displaced-self rather fetching.
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[SurroundedByIdiots Ohhh... this is how it all ends]]. Pond flirting with herself — true love at last. Oh, sorry, Rory.\\
'''Rory:''' [[TwinThreesomeFantasy Absolutely no problem at all.]]
* SecurityCling: The Eleventh Doctor and Amy have a variation. Because Amy's story is one traumatic BreakTheCutie moment after another, the Doctor develops a habit of clinging tightly to her and rubbing her back while delivering each new piece of bad news. Asking permission from her husband Rory every time, of course, that being Eleven's method of making clear that he's ''not'' trying to rekindle Amy's affection for him.
* ShipTease: With the Doctor. While it seems to die around the end of Series 5 (the Doctor, for his part, never reciprocated), this becomes a major plot point when she becomes pregnant and her baby turns out to have Time Lord DNA. Rumours promptly start flying about the universe as to exactly what happened, with Dorium noting that anyone now hunting Amy or her family will be in serious trouble, explicitly remarking to the Headless Monks, "I've even heard whose child you've taken. Are. You. Mad?!", before talking up the Doctor's reputation as TheDreaded, implying that the Doctor is the father. Due to [[invoked]]TrollingCreator, it takes a ''while'' before we find out that it was all a big RedHerring, and the Doctor has never touched Amy.
* ShowSomeLeg: According to Rory, this is how she got her driver's permit.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Very mild case of this sometimes, as she tends to overestimate her own competence.
** Case in point, during a conversation with River about the Doctor, River says she knows what Amy is thinking. Amy's immediate response is to confidently state that River doesn't. As it turns out, River does in fact know what Amy's thinking — though in fairness to Amy, she didn't.
* StatuesqueStunner: At 5 foot 11 inches she’s the same height as Rory and only an inch shorter than the Doctor, probably why she’s never shown wearing heels on the show otherwise she’d tower over both.
* SurprisePregnancy: She had no idea she was pregnant, even after having done the deed on or after her wedding night.
* TangledFamilyTree: From late Series 6 onward, Amy and Rory are together and have a daughter, Melody, who was named after their childhood best friend, Melody a.k.a. Mels. Amy, however, fancied the Doctor and snogged him early on (he did not reciprocate and was extremely surprised, to say the least). She later marries Rory and has a daughter whom she names Melody, after her and Rory's best friend. Melody turns out to be River Song, who eventually marries the Doctor after a childhood spent as said best friend Melody, meaning that she was 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 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 in his previous incarnation, who happens to be Henry VIII's daughter, making her simultaneously his mother-in-law ''and'' his step-mother-in-law. In the middle of all that, the Doctor snogs Rory for no obvious reason — though the main incident of this was a [[invoked]]ThrowItIn, and could just be the Doctor being excitable and, well, the Doctor. The TARDIS, meanwhile, also fancies "the Pretty One" (Rory).
* TookALevelInBadass: Thirty-six years of defending yourself from killer robots will do this.
* TrappedInThePast: Amy and Rory's final fate is to be locked into early 1930s New York by Weeping Angels.
* TraumaCongaLine: She gets severely traumatised roughly every two episodes, from kidnapping to abandonment to adult fear and death.
* {{Tsundere}}: A textbook examples. She's the "Harsh" type at the beginning of Series 5, thanks to her many, many issues ("Twelve years! Twelve years, and ''four'' psychiatrists!"), and "sweet" by the end.
* UnrequitedLove: very briefly for the Doctor, and arguably it's more lust than love. However, she pretty quickly realises that Rory's the one for her.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Not actually Glaswegian, but she's still Scottish and still very bad tempered when the mood takes her. She invokes it in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks "Asylum of the Daleks"]].
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: It's ''really'' not a good idea to mess with Rory. While he's a [[invoked]]MemeticBadass in his own right, Amy is considerably more ruthless than he is.
* WhamLine: To the Doctor, when he's grilling this "policewoman" on why she lied about how long the Pond family has been gone.
-->'''The Doctor:''' This is important! Why did you say six months?\\
'''Amy:''' ''[screaming, in her real accent]'' Well, why did ''you'' say five minutes?!
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Kissogram, supermodel, travel writer, book publisher... Amy fits in quite a few careers around all the time travelling. {{Justified}} because there are years' worth of gaps between her adventures with the Doctor.
* WistfulAmnesia: Finds herself crying over Rory without realizing it or knowing why several times late in Series 5 after [[{{Retgone}} he'd temporarily been swallowed by a crack in reality]].
* YaoiFangirl: As shown in the comics, when Rory kisses the Doctor by accident and Amy asks them to do it again, but slower.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: As she points out, the Doctor only calls her "Amelia" when he's worried about her, and "Amy Williams" when things get very, very serious.
* YouHaveWaitedLongEnough: Amy runs off with the Doctor on the night before her wedding.

to:

* ActionGirl: She exerts this when "pushed into AllThereInTheManual: Creator/PaulCornell's [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a corner". [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited Time"]] {{novelization}} reveals he gets a SurprisinglyHappyEnding post-[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Girl Who Waited"]] sees her exhibit this Doctor Falls"]]: He lives to her fullest potential by surviving 36 over 700 years in a Kindness Facility old on the colony ship, successfully defending the solar farmers against the Cybermen often enough that at last they only have to deal with with annual Cybermat infestations. He also accumulates six wives over that time. Finally, he's accidentally taken by Testimony, which believes him to be an army actual human, before he dies. He ''guilts it'' into letting his memories be uploaded into it, which is how an avatar appears to Twelve shortly before he regenerates.
* AscendedExtra: Started out as a supporting character in [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands
of hostile robots.River Song"]], getting upgraded to a companion in Series 10. While [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]] was being filmed, Creator/StevenMoffat said that initially Matt Lucas had been contracted for certain episodes of Series 10, but ended up appearing in more. By the time the series came to broadcast, he was in ''every'' episode up to and including [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]].
* TheAtoner: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]] implies he used to be a conman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Spends most of his early appearances as ComicRelief, yet he is capable of piloting the TARDIS and was used as MissionControl when the Doctor and Bill had to navigate a Dalek spaceship in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot "The Pilot"]]. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]], he gives the Doctor a brutal WhatTheHellHero speech when an escapade nearly gets them killed, potentially leaving the Vault and its occupant unguarded. He is then proven correct when the Doctor reveals the trip blinded him.
* BreakingOldTrends: So far he's the only non-human companion in New Who.

* AllTherapistsAreMuggles: Amy BumblingSidekick: To River Song. The whole plot of [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]] gets underway when he is sent to therapy fetch the surgeon involved in two separate realities when others find out what she’s experienced her scheme, and can’t believe it’s real: in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]] because of her tales of instead brings back the Raggedy Doctor [[note]] She bit all four of them [[/note]], Twelfth Doctor. Both she and in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang “The Big Bang”]] where all the stars have gone out and young Amy is the only person in the world who remembers them.
* AlwaysSaveTheBoy: The Doctor even lampshades it.
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[DistressBall Rory! Rory!]] ''[[DistressBall Always]]'' [[DistressBall with the Rory!]]
* AmnesiacLover:
** From the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood "Cold Blood"]] to the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]], she doesn't remember Rory because he never existed.
** Played with in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]]. Amy remembers that she has a husband named Rory whom she loved dearly, but can't remember what he looks like, and therefore doesn't recognize "Captain Williams". It's
the Doctor who tries to restart both their memories.
treat him haughtily, as well.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: While she often takes Rory for granted, if anything happens to him, she'll be crushed, even [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice suicidal]]. After she reads about Auton-Rory's disappearance in the Blitz during [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang ButtMonkey:
** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong
"The Big Bang"]], she's utterly devastated. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "The Girl Who Waited"]] is testament to how deeply she's in love with him.
-->'''Old Amy:''' You're asking me to defy destiny, causality,
Husbands of River Song"]]: He fetches the nexus of time itself wrong person for a ''boy''.\\
'''Young Amy:''' You're Amy, he's Rory...
River and oh yes I am.
* BackForTheFinale: She returns briefly as a hallucination in
learns of his mistake at the Eleventh Doctor's dying moments.
* BerserkButton: Growing up, the Doctor was her button.
-->'''The Doctor:''' ''Four'' [psychiatrists]?\\
'''Amy:''' I
worst possible time. He ends up interrogated and ''decapitated'' by Hydroflax's body, his head kept biting them.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Why?\\
'''Amy:''' They kept saying you weren't real.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When pushed enough or her family's in danger, she can be ''terrifying''. Her ([[PayEvilUntoEvil much-deserved]]) murder of Madame Kovarian, for example.
* BigDamnKiss: Has a few incredibly Big Damn Kisses with Rory, first in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]] when she made her choice, then in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]] on her wedding day, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "The Girl Who Waited"]], which
alive to serve as ''its'' new head. In this state he is forced to effectively "Rory's Choice". She also snogs hold himself hostage so the body can interrogate Ramone. ''Then'' it takes Ramone's head too, and Nardole's head ends up "stored" within its torso, a hot and smelly place. And he almost goes down with the ''Harmony and Redemption'' when it crashes. (Not to mention that the robot short-circuiting can't be a pleasant experience.) All this in one story! When the dust has settled, however, he adjusts to his odd new existence nicely.
** In Series 10 he's constantly belittled and treated as an annoyance who's less important to
the Doctor at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone "Flesh and Stone"]], while he scrambles to shove her off of him.
* BodyMotifs: There's a lot of focus on her legs and she's known as the
than his new companion who waited for the Doctor all her life. When she finally marries Rory, she still has trouble moving on from the Doctor.
%%* BoundAndGagged: ''Ripper's Curse''.
* BraveScot: She's brave. She's Scottish. What more is there to say?
* BrokenBird:
** The Doctor abandons her repeatedly
Bill. Like others in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]], leaving her with lifelong psychological problems as a result.
** She [[TraumaCongaLine repeatedly suffers this]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]]: 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
this situation, he finds that they've already taken off with [[SnarkToSnarkCombat giving as good as he gets]] is the baby and replaced her with a flesh duplicate, which promptly dissolves in Amy's arms.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "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 [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]], the Doctor [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim deliberately breaks that faith in order to save both her life and her future.]]
* TheCallPutMeOnHold: As above, she answered yes to [[CallToAdventure the call]] ''long'' before she was able to actually have the adventure associated.
* ChangedMyJumper: She's a worse offender than the Doctor himself. Wearing a miniskirt in public would probably have at least caused some comment in some of the places she went.
best response.
* CharacterDevelopment: Though she starts as an innocent [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]] reveals that he's grown some backbone since [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]] — he can hold his own in snarking with the Twelfth Doctor, and adventurous young girl, after being abandoned by he has enough insight into him to know that he's trying too hard to mask his post-River loneliness, particularly when preparing to set the villains' bomb on a course for New York City ("I know you miss her, but can't you write a poem?"). By [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]], he is capable of standing up to the Doctor for 14 years [[BreakTheCutie she grows up to be jaded, snarky and emotionally damaged]], about as well as finding herself sexually conflicted between some of his more forthright companions.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Compared to most other companions. Other companions would've probably panicked when the Doctor, say, set a villain's bomb on a course for a city. Nardole's response (after the immediate panic) is to say that he ''knows'' that
the Doctor and Rory. Throughout Series 5 and 6 she comes has been through a lot, but couldn't he think of another way to realise just how much she loves Rory, and her mask of overconfidence express it?
* CowardlyLion: While his fear
is toned down as she becomes more mature. She also comes played for comic relief, he's willing to see follow the Doctor as less of a childhood hero and more of a friend and equal.
* CharacterTic: In Series 5, she would bulge her eyes and pucker her mouth a lot.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She gets pretty annoyed when she thinks Rory
through the increasingly insane situations the Doctor puts all his companions through. By the season finale Nardole is more focused on another woman. It's justified for entirely willing to perform a few reasons; HeroicSacrifice in the Doctor's stead, though he's her husband, talked out of it.
* CowardlySidekick: Once he realises River's scheme is going awry because of his mistake, all he can do is hope for the best; once confronted by Hydroflax's body all he can do is plead for his life, and
he's had a SingleTargetSexuality on quickly rendered helpless.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Lampshaded by Bill in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis "Extremis"]], after Nardole informs
her for most of their lives, he is the only being in all the Universe who has a tendency standing permission to die and she's feeling guilty over calling him her "sort of boyfriend" in their first episode.
kick the Doctor's arse should the need arise. Her words are, "Are you secretly a badass?" Nardole's response is that there's nothing secret about that.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments. In the ending of, "Flesh and Stone", she snarks that it's a been a while since Can surprisingly hold his own with the Doctor has gotten laid. Subverted earlier in the episode when the Angel Bob makes her cry stone out of her eye and count down.
* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: in the 2011 Comic Relief short when she crossed her own timestream and wouldn't stop flirting with herself.
* DoubleConsciousness: After the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang
during [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Big Bang"]], she remembers two different versions Return of her life, as stated Doctor Mysterio"]]. He really has his moments in the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32HVBSNightAndTheDoctor "Good Night"]] mini-episode. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Wedding Doctor Falls"]], when he nonchalantly reveals that most of River Song"]], the surrounding farmland like windmills and bushes are highly explosive.
-->'''Hazran:''' You think you're really something, aren't you?\\
'''Nardole:''' Try not to state the obvious.
* ExpansionPackPast: About OncePerEpisode after his initial would-be one-off appearance, he throws out some new and bizarre factoid about himself.
* {{Foil}}: He and the Twelfth Doctor have a bit of FatAndSkinny going on. Nardole is timid, anxious, unsuspecting, affable, good-mannered, and round-figured, while
this particular Doctor is now a ''triple'' consciousness, tall, near-bony, snarky, and grouchy with Amy remembering her life in the time-everywhere universe.
NoSocialSkills.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: She emotionally and physically beats Rory over the head a whole lot in Series 5, something hinted to be a result of her epic scale abandonment issues. She gets called out on it ''hard'' on occasion, and slowly learns that there are other ways to love someone. It's still her default defence mechanism when she feels that their relationship isn't heading the right way, but HumanAlien: Though it's thankfully downplayed/non-existent by the later part of Series 7A.
* DrivenToSuicide: After Rory is sent to the past and "killed" by a Weeping Angel, she chooses to get sent back in time by that same Angel to die with him (of old age, though). The Doctor sounds like he's trying to talk her off of a high ledge.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: According to Rory.
-->'''Rory:''' Uh, Doctor, ''don't''. Seriously, I let her drive my car once.\\
'''Amy:''' Yeah, to the end of the road.\\
'''Rory:''' Yeah. Where,
not mentioned on screen pre-Series 10, according to Amy, there was an unexpected ''house''.\\
'''Amy:''' Aw,
Matt in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' #507, Nardole's not human, and is possessed of strange abilities and knowledge — making him the TV series' first non-human companion (not counting Handles) since the Fifth Doctor's era. He admits that he isn't human in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], though he's jealous because ''I'' passed my test close enough (after being rebuilt, at least) that a bacterium that is lethal to humans still affects him severely, and he barely survives it.
* InsistentTerminology: He makes a resounding point that he has been given full permission by the late River Song to ''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Kick. The Doctor's. ARSE.]]"''
* LiteralMinded: Does not understand that "restroom" and "little boy's room" are euphemisms for the same thing.
* LosingYourHead: He lost his to Hydroflax's body! He got it back by the time of [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return Of Doctor Mysterio"]], though ("The Pilot" reveals his body's mechanical as he accidentally shed's a bolt and has to awkwardly kick it under the Doctor's desk to utterly fail to hide it from Bill).
* ManChild: Has shades of this in his
first time.\\
'''Rory:''' You cheated: you wore
two appearances, considering his primary outfit is a skirt.\\
'''Amy:''' I didn't wear a skirt. ... No, no; I ''did'' wear a skirt, but it was any old skirt.\\
'''Rory:''' Have you seen Amy drive, Doctor?\\
'''The Doctor:''' No?\\
'''Rory:''' [[DistractedByTheSexy Neither did her driving instructor...]]
* DullSurprise: A minor example; Karen Gillan was a model before she got into acting. In Series 5, her acting was perfectly fine, but her facial expressions could be rather static
duffle coat (usually worn by small children) and make Amy seem kind of deadpan. This was resolved he uses the term "little boy's room". It's gone entirely by Series 6, when Karen was much more comfortable 10.
* MixAndMatchMan: Matt's understanding,
in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' #518, is that Nardole's an alien, "with [[{{Cyborg}} some robot replacement parts]], and some human lungs".
* MoralityChain:
** River Song assigned him to be this to
the role Doctor before her death, knowing that he shouldn't be alone. At Missy's execution, he warned the Doctor not to go through with killing her, and began emoting much more.subsequently did his best to hold the bored, lonesome Doctor to his vow to watch over her and the Vault.
** Interestingly, he considers the Doctor to be this to him, and worries that he'll default back to being a crook if he doesn't have the Doctor to keep him busy. Given that he used to work for River Song, it's hardly improbable that he's got a criminal past.

* {{Expy}}:
** Shares quite more than a few traits with Sally Sparrow from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]], a story Creator/StevenMoffat wrote before taking over as the head writer, right down to having a guy that's interested in her that's considered way out of his league. Unlike Larry Nightingale, Rory definitely does hook up with the girl
MysteriousPast: We know he likes.[[note]] This is probably not a coincidence as Steven Moffat wanted Carey Mulligan to reprise the role as a full-time companion only for her to turn the opportunity down.[[/note]]
** Her origin story also appears
used to be adapted from another Moffat script, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace blue at some point (thanks to a comment in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]]) and in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]] he states that this face wasn't his original as he had to change that while on the run. Why he went on the run and changed his appearance is never made ''completely'' clear, but [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Girl In The Fireplace"]]. Like Reinette in that episode, she first meets the Doctor as a child, believes him Falls"]] reveals he used to be an imaginary friend, and then is surprised to meet him again involved in adulthood.
** She also shares more than a few character traits with Rose Tyler. However, unlike Rose, she
black market dealings. In the same episode he mentions that he doesn't actually comes to love her {{Muggle}} boyfriend (it helps know his origins, only that he became a [[invoked]]MemeticBadass not far short of the Doctor himself), grows out of her crush on the Doctor, and generally does a lot of growing up.
* FagHag: Believed herself to be this to [[MistakenForGay Rory]] for years.
* FairCop: Subverted in her first appearance, when she uses a Kissogram outfit to pretend to be a cop.
* FanserviceModel: Amy
was this for a time before starting her adventures with the Doctor. Different from most of the characters on this trope, she didn't wear lingerie or swimsuits, but FanserviceCostumes since she worked as a kissogram. By the time she saw the Doctor again after meeting him as a child, Amy was wearing a [[FairCop police officer costume]].
"found".
* FieryRedhead: This ginger companion is quick to lose her temper. As early as her first episode, there's her smacking the Doctor with a cricket bat and sticking his tie in a car door because he left her alone for 12 years and then won't explain what's going on.
* FreezeFrameBonus: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn
NoodleIncident: His "few accidental stop-offs" during [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Bells Return of Saint John"]], the characters — Doctor Mysterio"]], including the Doctor, eventually — read an old-looking book titled ''Summer Falls''. It's written by "Amelia Williams".
* FreudianExcuse: Her selfishness and bossy personality is
one [[UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire in part because the Doctor 12th-century Constantinople]], where he claims to have accidentally abandoned her when she was little [[HopeSpot after literally promising her become the stars]], Emperor and having "ruled firmly but wisely".
* ObfuscatingStupidity: According
to deal with ''four'' different psychologists over her childhood basically made her [[BreakTheCutie "damaged goods"]] by [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour Steven Moffat, this is the reason for Nardole's behaviour in [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Eleventh Hour"]].
* FriendsWithBenefits: Wants to be this with the Doctor, and she gets one kiss in before he pushes her away. She tries again ''during'' her wedding — twice.
* FutureBadass: Thirty-six years spent alone defending herself from robots with a sword in a quarantined medical facility.
* HappilyEverAfter: While Amy and Rory are dead in the present, they have 50+ years in the past, and Amy's final note assures the Doctor that they had a full and happy life together until their deaths of old age. Karen Gillan herself also [[https://twitter.com/karengillan/status/648941198514614272 thinks]] they had BabiesEverAfter as well — at the very least, they definitely adopted a child.
* HehHehYouSaidX: Gives one in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]] when River asks the Doctor to "sonic her" device in order to amplify its signal, as part of her general winding the Doctor up over his relationship with River.
-->'''Amy:''' Ooh Doctor, you ''sonicked'' her!
* HiddenDepths: She really loves van Gogh's work.
* InSeriesNickname: The Girl Who Waited. Twice.
* InsultOfEndearment: "Stupid face" and "moron" is Amy's love language.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite her selfish and shady attitude on occasion, Amy's overall a good person who's willing to sacrifice her own life for those she cares about.
* 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]].
--->'''The Doctor:''' Amelia Pond! ''Get your coat!''
* KilledOffForReal: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]], her permanent death is confirmed by her tombstone.
* LadyOfWar: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "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 [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]].
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: 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 a habit of calling her "Pond".
* LegFocus:
** The [[Recap/DoctorWho2011RNDSSpaceAndTime "Space"]] short is based on her long legs, her short skirt, and how her husband is distracted by them.
** Clara's thoughts on the subject:
--->'''Clara:''' Dear GOD, that woman is made of legs! That's the most legs on any living human!
** Amusingly, the newly regenerated Twelfth Doctor mutters about her legs in comparison to those of the much shorter Clara... because they're both tied up and Clara's trying to reach the dropped sonic screwdriver with her feet.
* {{Leitmotif}}: There's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zABNs6Dbn4s "Locked On"]], which plays while she gives her narration at the start of the American broadcasts of Series 6. As well as a musical piece called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BuPBQXTcMk Amy's Theme]].
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Despite a chronic case of WillTheyOrWontThey, she and the Doctor ultimately end up like this [[CharacterDevelopment when she realizes that]] Rory is her true love.
* LimitedWardrobe: For the first six episodes of Series 6, appeared to have nothing in her wardrobe except two or three similar-looking plaid shirts. It turned out to be a subliminal hint to the audience that she's actually a mind-linked Doppelgänger in these episodes.
* LoveTriangle: Thinks she's in one with Rory and the Doctor. Rory and the Doctor both disagree. She readily accepts the fact that the Doctor wouldn't necessarily ''love'' her, being a 907-year-old alien and all, but she still hopes for a quick shag. While it largely dies to nothing by the end of Series 5, the ShipTease around it eventually becomes a major plot point, due to [[invoked]]TrollingCreator, when she becomes pregnant in Series 6 and people start to assume that it might be the Doctor's baby. Of course, it's not — despite there being, at first, overwhelming circumstantial evidence for it.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: After she marries Rory, she becomes Amy Williams. The Doctor knows, but calls her "Pond" regardless (he even calls Rory "Rory Pond" consistently), unless things get properly serious.
** She evens names her child "Melody ''Pond''", not "Melody Williams". This becomes important later in the series.
* MaleGaze: Her first appearance as an adult is a slow pan up her legs.
* MamaBear: Very nearly kills a spaceship full of people, including herself and Rory, to save their child. No guarantee that anyone died, but none that everyone lived, either. Madame Kovarian learns this, too.
-->'''Amy:''' You took my baby from me and hurt her. And now she's all grown up and she's fine. But I'll never see my baby again.\\
'''Madame Kovarian:''' But you'll still save me, though. Because he would. And you'd never do anything to disappoint your precious Doctor.\\
'''Rory:''' Ma'am, we have to go. ''Now.''\\
'''Amy:''' The Doctor is very precious to me, you're right. But do you know what else he is, Madame Kovarian? ''Not here.'' ''[reattaches Kovarian's eye-drive, condemning her to a torturous death by electrocution]'' River Song didn't get it all from you... ''sweetie''.
* MarryThemAll: In her first season, she genuinely intends to have both Rory and the Doctor as her "boys", with Rory's unhappiness with such an arrangement going largely over her head (and the Doctor [[ShipperOnDeck not having any intention to come between them — quite the opposite]]). She pointedly ignores their protests even ''during her and Rory's wedding'', and tells the Doctor he can kiss the bride. (He doesn't.)
-->'''Amy''' ''(to the Doctor)'' Oh, you may absolutely kiss the bride
-->'''Amy:''' ''[also to the Doctor]'' Oi! Where are you sneaking off to? We haven't even had a snog in the shrubbery yet!\\
'''Rory:''' Amy!\\
'''Amy:''' Shut up, it's my wedding!\\
'''Rory:''' ''Our'' wedding!
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Towards Rory in Series 5 and early in Series 6, where he goes from her boyfriend to her "sort of boyfriend" to her fiancé, to one of her two "boys" and then forgetting him entirely due to a time crack. 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. She has a general liking for short skirts or hotpants that show off Creator/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 causes a minor disaster in the 2011 Comic Relief skit, when her wearing a short skirt [[DistractedByTheSexy distracts Rory enough]] to cause him to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero drop a thermocoupling, causing a spatial paradox]].
** It's also implied she {{Invoked|Trope}} this to pass her driving test.
** As of the end of Series 6 and the beginning of Series 7, she had a quite successful modelling career. By [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"]], she seems to have quit.
* MultipleChoicePast: After the mess with the cracks in time has been resolved, Amy is left with two largely incompatible childhoods — one where she had a mum and dad, one where she was raised by her aunt. She remembers ''both'' of them, which is a bit of a headache.
* MysticalPregnancy: Straightforward example — Amy is subjected to a horrifying pregnancy and delivery. It leads to a half-Time Lord child — though not by the means that anyone expected.
* ObliviousToLove: For a kissogram, she was a little bit slow in realising that Rory liked her.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Not initially, but over her two-and-a-half seasons Amy ages by roughly a decade, though no effort is made to physically reflect this. The Doctor's line about her wrinkles in "The Angels Take Manhattan" is a little hard to swallow when Karen Gillan's face barely has any lines on it even when frowning.
* PaintedOnPants: If she's not wearing a miniskirt, she's probably wearing these.
* PajamaCladHero: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow "The Beast Below"]], she saves all of Starship UK and the Star Whale carrying her while in her nightie.
* ParentalAbandonment: When we first meet her, she's living with her aunt (who's never there). The question of what happened to the rest of her family is part of the season arc.
* ThePeepingTom: Had no problem watching the Eleventh Doctor's bare backside when he just started changing clothes right in front of her and Rory not long after his regeneration.
-->'''Rory:''' Are you not gonna turn your back?\\
'''Amy:''' ''[smirks]'' Nope.
* PhraseCatcher: "Come along, Pond."
* ThePowerOfLove: With Rory, going both ways. In her case, it helps restore her memories of him in the time-everywhere reality, just in time for her to interrupt his attempted HeroicSacrifice [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend by mowing down half a dozen Silence with an assault rifle]].
* RealityWarper: Her RippleEffectProofMemory is the only reason the Doctor's second Big Bang goes off without a hitch, and is also the only way the Doctor comes back into existence.
* 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 the Doctor back into existence after a nasty RetGone.
** This skill comes back again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding
Husbands of River Song"]]. She and Rory can both remember bits and pieces This is likely a {{retcon}}.
* Really700YearsOld: The Doctor's scanner in the sonic sunglasses (in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E7ThePyramidAtTheEndOfTheWorld "The Pyramid at the End
of the correct timeline, but Amy is the only one able to remember the correct order of things — with a lot of effort and many scribbled illustrations.
* RedIsHeroic: Mostly because of her fiery red hair, she also wears a lot of red clothing troughout the series, like her big red sweater and her red scarf.
* ScarfOfAssKicking: Frequently wears one throughout Series 5. Less so afterward — which, ironically, is about the time she TookALevelInBadass.
* ScrewYourself: When the TARDIS gets tangled in a time loop, Amy finds her slightly-time-displaced-self rather fetching.
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[SurroundedByIdiots Ohhh... this is how it all ends]]. Pond flirting with herself — true love at last. Oh, sorry, Rory.\\
'''Rory:''' [[TwinThreesomeFantasy Absolutely no problem at all.]]
* SecurityCling: The Eleventh Doctor and Amy have a variation. Because Amy's story is one traumatic BreakTheCutie moment after another, the Doctor develops a habit of clinging tightly to her and rubbing her back while delivering each new piece of bad news. Asking permission from her husband Rory every time, of course, that being Eleven's method of making clear
World"]]) show that he's ''not'' trying to rekindle Amy's affection for him.
237 years old.
* ShipTease: With the Doctor. While RoboticReveal: The opening scene of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot "The Pilot"]] strongly implies that at least part of Nardole's replacement body is robotic, as it seems to die around the end of Series 5 (the Doctor, for his part, never reciprocated), this becomes a major plot point ''squeaks'' when she becomes pregnant he moves and her baby turns a bolt drops out of his sleeve when he's not carrying anything.
* ServileSnarker: '''''Extremely.''''' He's forced to follow the Doctor out of a sense of gratitude, but is pretty honked off at him for using the notion of rebuilding him as an excuse
to have Time Lord DNA. Rumours promptly start flying about the universe someone to talk to [[ReplacementGoldfish when everyone else is gone]]. And 24 years (later an additional 50 to 70) as to exactly what happened, with Dorium noting that anyone now hunting Amy or her family will be in serious trouble, explicitly remarking to the Headless Monks, "I've even heard whose child you've taken. Are. You. Mad?!", before talking up the Doctor's reputation as TheDreaded, implying that toady have rendered him incapable of taking any of his crap anymore. In fact, there are a few times when he outright states a desire to kick the Doctor's arse!
* TechnoWizard: Series 10 has a few moments highlighting his computer skills, most memorably [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The
Doctor is the father. Due to [[invoked]]TrollingCreator, it takes a ''while'' before we find out that it was all a big RedHerring, and the Doctor has never touched Amy.
* ShowSomeLeg: According to Rory, this is how she got her driver's permit.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Very mild case of this sometimes, as she tends to overestimate her own competence.
** Case in point, during a conversation with River about the Doctor, River says she knows what Amy is thinking. Amy's immediate response is to confidently state that River doesn't. As it turns out, River does in fact know what Amy's thinking — though in fairness to Amy, she didn't.
* StatuesqueStunner: At 5 foot 11 inches she’s the same height as Rory and only an inch shorter than the Doctor, probably why she’s never shown wearing heels on the show otherwise she’d tower over both.
* SurprisePregnancy: She had no idea she was pregnant, even after having done the deed on or after her wedding night.
* TangledFamilyTree: From late Series 6 onward, Amy and Rory are together and have a daughter, Melody, who was named after their childhood best friend, Melody a.k.a. Mels. Amy, however, fancied the Doctor and snogged him early on (he did not reciprocate and was extremely surprised, to say the least). She later marries Rory and has a daughter whom she names Melody, after her and Rory's best friend. Melody turns out to be River Song, who eventually marries the Doctor after a childhood spent as said best friend Melody, meaning that she was 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 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 in his previous incarnation, who happens to be Henry VIII's daughter, making her simultaneously his mother-in-law ''and'' his step-mother-in-law. In the middle of all that, the Doctor snogs Rory for no obvious reason — though the main incident of this was a [[invoked]]ThrowItIn, and could just be the Doctor being excitable and, well, the Doctor. The TARDIS, meanwhile, also fancies "the Pretty One" (Rory).
Falls"]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Thirty-six years Somewhere between the opening of defending yourself from killer robots will do this.
* TrappedInThePast: Amy
[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]] and Rory's final fate is to be locked into early 1930s New York by Weeping Angels.
* TraumaCongaLine: She gets severely traumatised roughly every two episodes, from kidnapping to abandonment to adult fear
the end, he becomes a lot more intelligent and death.
* {{Tsundere}}: A textbook examples. She's
savvy, and by the "Harsh" type at the beginning time of Series 5, thanks to her many, many issues ("Twelve years! Twelve years, and ''four'' psychiatrists!"), and "sweet" by the end.
* UnrequitedLove: very briefly for the Doctor, and arguably it's
10, is more lust than love. However, she pretty quickly realises that Rory's the one for her.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Not actually Glaswegian, but she's still Scottish and still very bad tempered when the mood takes her. She invokes it in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks "Asylum
capable of the Daleks"]].
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: It's ''really'' not
unleashing a good idea to mess with Rory. While he's a [[invoked]]MemeticBadass in his own right, Amy is considerably more ruthless than he is.
* WhamLine: To the Doctor, when he's grilling this "policewoman"
brow-beating on why she lied about how long the Pond family has been gone.
-->'''The Doctor:''' This is important! Why did you say six months?\\
'''Amy:''' ''[screaming, in her real accent]'' Well, why did ''you'' say five minutes?!
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Kissogram, supermodel, travel writer, book publisher... Amy fits in quite a few careers around all the time travelling. {{Justified}} because there are years' worth of gaps between her adventures with the Doctor.
* WistfulAmnesia: Finds herself crying over Rory without realizing it or knowing why several times late in Series 5 after [[{{Retgone}} he'd temporarily been swallowed by a crack in reality]].
* YaoiFangirl: As shown in the comics, when Rory kisses
the Doctor by accident (with the occasional threat that he can and Amy asks them to do it again, but slower.
will kick his arse should the need arise).
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: As she points out, UnexplainedRecovery: How exactly he got a new body isn't really explained, beyond the Doctor mentioning he "rebuilt" him.
* UnfazedEveryman: Nardole handles the rigors of time travel quite well, even becoming Emperor of the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century for a time during an accidental side-trip by himself. The
only calls her "Amelia" thing that really makes him panic is when he's worried about her, and "Amy Williams" when things get very, very serious.
* YouHaveWaitedLongEnough: Amy runs off with
the Doctor on decides to do something particularly crazy and stupid.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's ([[TheDreaded understandably]]) terrified at
the night before her wedding.thought of going near [[OmnicidalManiac the Daleks]].
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], the Doctor — after so often belitting and ignoring him — asks him an ArmorPiercingQuestion as they debate which one of them will stay behind to destroy the Cybermen hordes on Floor 507 and which will lead the solar farmers to safety and help protect them against future attacks — which of them is ''stronger?'' The Doctor is implying that it's Nardole who will be able to handle the latter option, and Nardole realises he is right and accepts this.



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!!Rory Arthur Williams (Eleventh Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]" (2010)
->'''Joins TARDIS Crew:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice The Vampires of Venice]]" (2010)
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan]]" (2012)

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

-->''"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."''
--->-- '''Creator/StevenMoffat'''

''The Last Centurion''

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

to:

[[folder:Rory Williams]]
!!Rory Arthur Williams (Eleventh
[[folder:Bill Potts]]
!!Billie "Bill" Potts (Twelfth
Doctor)
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org/pmwiki/pub/images/bill_3.png]] [[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm having the time of my life, and I wouldn't miss it for the world. Even if it kills me."'']]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot The Eleventh Hour]]" (2010)
->'''Joins TARDIS Crew:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice The Vampires of Venice]]" (2010)
Pilot]]" (2017)
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Angels Take Manhattan]]" (2012)

Doctor Falls]]" (2017)
->'''Final Appearance:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" (2017)

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

-->''"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."''
--->-- '''Creator/StevenMoffat'''

Creator/PearlMackie (2017)

-->''"Do you know any sci-fi?"''

''The Last Centurion''

Rory is a nurse, Amy's [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend childhood friend, and now her husband]]. Growing up together
Passenger''

The principal companion of 2017, though she was first introduced
with Amy, a two-minute video clip in 2016. A cafeteria worker at St. Luke's University in Bristol, she used to make him dress up as her "raggedy Doctor", is fascinated with the lectures on time and he's appropriately freaked out to learn that the man space given by one particular, long-tenured "professor" even though she's not actually exists. He starts off incredibly reluctant to travel with the enrolled in his classes at first. The Doctor, out of love for Amy in turn, is fascinated by her curiosity and fear for his own life, but quickly rises to the challenge and he becomes a tremendously courageous force her tutor. A crisis involving her potential girlfriend Heather leads to be reckoned with. the Doctor having to reveal his true nature to Bill, and though he is trying to hold himself to ThePromise regarding his presence at the university, he subsequently takes her on as a companion to show her the wonders she's only heard him lecture about thus far. While her relatively short tenure as a companion sees her undergo horrifying ordeals both on Earth and in the stars, the Doctor's guidance and her inner strength will bring her to a happier ending than even he can imagine is possible.



!!TV Tropes
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: If you suggest that his girlfriend is less important than the universe, then he will punch your lights out.
* AmnesiacLover: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]], in which he's lost all his memories of the correct timeline and only knows Amy as his boss (albeit whom he is quietly devoted to). The Doctor tries to get them back together again... and fails, at first.
* TheAtoner: As an Auton, following the (apparent) death of Amy by his own hands.
* BadassAdorable: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]] has him terrifying Cybermen and then later crying with joy at his baby daughter.
* BerserkButton : Threaten Amy and you might as well dig your own grave as you’ll be needing one once he’s through with you.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Normally a gentle soul (he's a nurse, after all), but he's capable of amazing destruction if his family is threatened.
-->'''Rory:''' I have a message from the Doctor... and a question from me. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHERE. IS. MY. WIFE?]] Oh don't give me those blank looks, the twelfth Cyber-legion monitors this entire quadrant! You hear ''everything''. So you tell me what I need to know, you tell me ''now'' and I'll be on my way...\\
'''Cyber-Leader:''' What is the Doctor's message?\\
''[the entire Cyberman fleet outside the window explodes]''\\
'''Rory:''' Would you like me to ''repeat'' the question?
* BigDamnKiss: Apart from a few very Big Damn Kisses with Amy, the Doctor (well, Creator/MattSmith, [[ThrowItIn improvising]][[invoked]]) rather unexpectedly snogs him once. Rory makes a "yuck" face.
* BroomstickQuarterstaff: He uses a mop as an improvised weapon in many episodes, including [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E9NightTerrors "Night Terrors"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]].
* BullyingADragon: Rory is normally a gentle soul, but it is ''not'' a good idea to test his patience whenever Amy is in trouble.
* ButtMonkey: Started out as Amy's put-on "sort of boyfriend" so wasn't taken seriously by anyone and regularly made a fool of himself. Many, ''many'' [[TookALevelInBadass levels in badass later...]]
* TheChampion: Spent 2000 years as the Guardian of the Pandorica, simply to make sure Amy would remain protected.
* CharacterDevelopment: He went from an insecure Mickey-type character whose main purpose was to look hurt, to a BadassAdorable man who is willing to spend two thousand years protecting his wife.
* TheChewToy: Where Amy gets horribly tortured emotionally, it is Rory's lot to suffer physically, in new and interesting ways. At one point, fans on Website/{{Twitter}} jokingly threatened to come after Moffat with a pitchfork if he tortured Rory ''again''. Moffat responded they'd have to haul the pitchfork out of Rory first.
* ChickMagnet: Gathers quite a few looks from various female characters (and, after a while, from Eleven as well). Even ''the TARDIS'' fancies him, calling him "the pretty one" — one episode later, it's revealed that they have a child together, in a sense.
%%* ColonelBadass: "A Good Man Goes to War", then fully grows into the role in "The Wedding of River Song".
* CovertPervert: In [[Recap/DoctorWho2011RNDSSpaceAndTime "Space" and "Time"]], he accidentally causes a major malfunction in the TARDIS because (a) his wife is wearing a skirt and (b) the TARDIS has a glass floor.
* DeadpanSnarker: An often dry and understated example, he responds to the insanity that is his life with frequent snark.
* {{Determinator}}:
** Auton Rory spent 1894 years protecting the Pandorica simply because Amy was inside and she was, just about, a bit safer with him there.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]], in another version of reality, to give Amy time to flee, he ignores the fact he's being ''electrocuted''.
--->'''Amy:''' You have to take your eye-drive off!\\
'''Rory:''' I can't do that ma'am, I can't forget what's coming.\\
'''Amy:''' But it could activate at any moment!\\
'''Rory:''' ''[with trembling, clenched fists]'' It ''has'' activated, ma'am.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
** Rory tops himself, and quite possibly takes the all-time Companion Crowning Moment, in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic "The Chains of Olympus", where he lets out a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner in the form of "Hi, honey! Is this bloke bothering you?", announces himself as Roranicus the First of the Upper Leadworth Empire, and whips out a Your Mom joke... all before taking on Ares, the Greek god of war in SINGLE COMBAT, and wiping the floor with him. Eat your heart out, Kratos.
** He also once slugged the Doctor, who has been known to do a fair impersonation of Cthulhu himself/send Cthulhu crying for his mummy. That said, in that case, the Doctor was intentionally provoking him, to see how much of him was Auton and how much was Rory.
** He also punched out Hitler. And put him in a cupboard.
* DisneyDeath: He has a knack for wiggling his way out of being KilledOffForReal.
* DistressedDude: Frequently. Amy never takes it well.
* DoubleConsciousness: Rory remembers both his original life and his life as the Last Centurion in the universe of the Total Event Collapse. However, he's worked out how to block away the latter set of memories most of the time — [[LetsGetDangerous unless he decides he needs to access them]].
* TheDreaded: After the reboot of the universe, he's been woven into all human legends as "The Last Centurion".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** He's first introduced as being the ''only'' one in the hospital ''not'' to dismiss the rumour about coma patients wandering about, which attracts the Doctor's attention when he notices he's busy taking photos of them, rather than [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight the sun going dark]]. He's only then introduced properly as Amy's fairly timid boyfriend.
** As a companion this moment comes in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]], when he quite angrily tells the Doctor that "you have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves", establishing himself as the first companion since Donna who doesn't outright idolise the Doctor, and someone who is perfectly willing to call him out.
*** In the same story he witnesses an apparent vampire attack... and focuses on trying to save the victim rather than chasing the vampire.
* {{Expy}}: Shares traits with Larry Nightingale from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]], a story Creator/StevenMoffat wrote before taking over as the head writer, right down to being interested in a girl that's considered way out of his league. Unlike Larry, he definitely does hook up with the girl he likes.
* FanservicePack: Mild version. In Series 6, the costume department gave the character more flattering clothes (like tighter jeans) and hair gel. It's also applied to the Roman uniform when it reappears.
* TheFettered: Remembering his time as the Last Centurion hurts, so he blocks it out for his own sanity. When needs must, he 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. Also to Mickey Smith, as both are the boyfriends of the Doctor's main companion who feel unappreciated and threatened by their girlfriend's close relationship with the Doctor. They were also childhood friends with their respective love interests and experience surprising character development into a more stronger and tough character. The difference is that Rory's character development is shown by him proving his love for Amy by waiting almost 2000 years for her which strengthens their relationship, while Mickey's involves him moving on from Rose.
* FromBadToWorse: Story of his companionship and non-existence right up through the penultimate episode of Series 5, which culminates in an Auton with his memories killing Amy against Rory's will.
* GenreSavvy: Rory knows a bit about science and science fiction, and the Doctor gets peeved when Rory doesn't need anything explained to him, especially how he perfectly understands the TARDIS interior being bigger on the inside.
* TheGoodCaptain: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]", he is "Captain Williams" in Amy's anti-Silence organization.
%%* GuileHero: Rory definitely fell into this mold over time,
* TheHeart: This is a common trope for companions of the Doctor, but Rory's compassion and kindness are showcased more than just about any other companion in the Revived Series. These traits are often {{Lampshaded}} by the Doctor, and it makes him an UnwittingPawn in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh "The Rebel Flesh"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople "The Almost People"]].
* HenpeckedHusband: He's okay with it most of the time, and offers only mild resistance to being called her boy or taking her last name.
-->'''Amy:''' Would I make it up at a time like this?!\\
'''Rory:''' Well, you do have a history of ''[receives DeathGlare]'' ... being very lovely.
* HeroicBystander: Though not a fan of adventuring, Rory sets the tone early when, upon coming across a vampire attack, his first impulse is not to flee or chase the monster, but to stop the victim from bleeding to death. Throughout his time with the Doctor, he tends to act to save life first and foremost. This leads to him not only tending the wounded, but frequently doing awesome things like punching Hitler out to stop him shooting an apparent innocent bystander, and then locking him in a closet!
* HeroicSacrifice: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]], he and Amy commit suicide by jumping off of the top of a building in New York to create a paradox that will prevent the Weeping Angels from taking over New York.
* HeroicWillpower:
** In his Auton form as the Centurion, he uses willpower to keep himself from going insane. He draws on this again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]], 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.
** This has the unexpected bonus of making Rory completely resistant to MindRape, if [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]] are any indication.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Early in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], he spent 1894 years worth of history guarding the Pandorica. [[NoodleIncident Probability of zany adventures: extremely high]].
-->'''The Doctor:''' So. Two thousand years. How did you do?\\
'''Rory:''' Kept out of trouble.\\
'''The Doctor:''' How?\\
'''Rory:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Unsuccessfully.]]
** AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho has announced a new series, ''[[https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-lone-centurion-volume-01-2305 The Lone Centurion.]]'' So far his adventures have taken him to ancient Rome and to Camelot.
* HospitalHottie: In case you could ever forget, he's a nurse, and a pretty one at that.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Rory's ideal world as recreated by the Dream Lord is rather quiet — he is a doctor instead of a nurse, Amy is pregnant, and most of the residents of their hometown are over 90.
* InSeriesNickname: The Last/Lone Centurion.
* InternalHomage: He succeeds Creator/BigFinish companion [[Characters/BigFinishDoctorWho Hector Schofield]] as a cute nervous nurse (and sci-fi dork) who goes from TheChewToy to intergalactic hero. Creator Creator/StevenMoffat is a huge Big Finish fan and loves to reference the series.
* JustFriends: He had feelings for Amy to the point of SingleTargetSexuality, whilst she was ObliviousToLove to the point [[MistakenForGay she thought he was gay]].
* KilledOffForReal: After '''eight''' attempts, Moffat finally kills him permanently in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]]. He has a gravestone and everything. While Amy and Rory are dead in the present, they still have 50+ years in the past, and Amy's final note assures the Doctor that they are living HappilyEverAfter there.
* KnightInSourArmour: Series 6, thanks to spending 1,894 years straight guarding the Pandorica from anything and everything that could possibly threaten it. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]", he says he neither fears nor believes in anything anymore. His eye roll at Eleven's inability to wait for even five minutes gets quite magnificent at times.
* LetsGetDangerous: Whenever Amy is threatened, Rory is no longer content to hold back and stay by the sidelines. He's been pushed to the point where he is going to wage ''war!''
* LivingLegend: As the Lone Centurion, he is interwoven into a significant number of Earth's legends, right up until his presumed death in World War II. Amy's comments in ''A Good Man Goes To War'' suggests that these legends still exist after the universe was rebooted.
* LoveMartyr: After he dream-dies in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]], Amy admits to the Doctor that she never told him she loved him, and this was the (constant) day before their wedding.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: After he marries Amy, she legally takes on his last name... at which point the Doctor merrily starts to call him "Rory Pond". Rory protests, a bit, at first. It becomes fairly hilarious once the Doctor insists on also calling Rory's ''father'' "Pond".
* ManlyTears: He sheds a few when reunited with Amy and their daughter [[YankTheDogsChain before the rug gets pulled out from under them]]:
-->'''Rory:''' Oh God, I was gonna be cool. I wanted to be cool, look at me...\\
'''Amy:''' Crying Roman with a baby. Definitely cool.
* TheMedic: Rory is a nurse, and acts like it. (See HeroicBystander above.) As of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]] he's evolved into a CombatMedic.
* MirrorCharacter: To the Doctor, and it's best shown in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]], where his actions demonstrate that episode's title could be interpreted as referring to either the Doctor or himself.
* MissingMom: Rory's mother never appeared once, though she has been mentioned [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh once in the show]] and more in the expanded universe. Given his father managed to spend several days in the TARDIS without anyone noticing, that suggests she's not in the picture anymore for whatever reason.
* MistakenForGay: Amy never saw him show any attraction to any girl, and assumed this because she was too thick to realise that there was at least one he liked...
* NervesOfSteel: At the start of series 5, he's a nervous nurse who's in no way ready to deal with space/time travel. By mid-series 6, he believes he's lost the ability to feel fear from the amount of crap he's seen and experienced, making him immune to this week's form of MindRape. [[note]]Although it's his lack of ''faith'' that is the important bit here[[/note]] When he thinks he and Amy are dead, his only reaction is "We're dead. ''Again''." His alternate universe self, in the TimeCrash, is like this too. The only thing that frightens him is the thought of losing Amy.
* NiceGuy: Really, really nice guy; he's a popular nurse at his hospital.
* NonActionGuy: At least before he TookALevelInBadass, he'd rather be living a quiet suburban lifestyle than going on adventures in the TARDIS. But he'll do anything for Amy.
* NoodleIncident: He spent 1894 years staying out of trouble... unsuccessfully. ''Big Finish'' has announed they will be revealing what he got up to during this time.
* NotAfraidToDie:
** He knows full well that he might not survive the 1894 years guarding the Pandorica. He still does so ''anyway''.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "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!
* OlderSidekick: At least in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], following 2,000 years of guarding the Pandorica as an Auton.[[note]]This depends on how old you consider the Doctor to be at the time, however, since he's known to be inconsistent about his age.[[/note]] Outside of that episode he's more debatable, being physically in his twenties while retaining the Auton memories.
* OneManArmy:
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon "Day of the Moon"]], Rory has over ''twice'' the number of tallied markings on him, implying that during the three months he spent in 1969, he's dealt with the Silence on nearly a daily basis (while also constantly outwitting the FBI).
** Best demonstrated in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]], where Rory, in full Centurion gear and armed only with a sword (and a screwdriver), managed to waltz through a Cyberman-controlled vessel and scare the living crap out of them. In the same episode, he takes down a half a dozen Headless Monks armed only with a ''[[SwordAndGun Gladius and Pistol]]''.
* OnlySaneEmployee: Unlike his boss, he's the only one in the hospital to take the rumours of wandering coma patients seriously.
* OnlySaneMan: Acts as the voice of reason on the TARDIS. Unlike the Doctor and Amy, he recognises the danger they often find themselves in, and isn't afraid to call out the Doctor on his tendency to act cavalier with people's lives. Steven Moffat says that Rory [[EnforcedTrope actively makes himself this]] because otherwise he'd get sucked into life with the Doctor like Amy.
* PhraseCatcher: Manages to get a good "Oh, ''Rory''..." out of the Doctor every once and awhile.
* ThePowerOfLove: When Amy was trapped in the Pandorica, Rory protected her for two thousand years. It was his love that kept him sane.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: Alongside his character development as a NonActionGuy who then TookALevelInBadass, the makeup department do a good job of making him look hunkier in series 6 compared to series 5.
* PreviouslyOverlookedParamour: Amy initially overlooks Rory (partially because she [[MistakenForGay believes him to be homosexual]]) in favour of her infatuation with the Eleventh Doctor, but eventually comes to terms with her own feelings for Rory, who has always been there for her, and whose personality she considers to be the most beautiful she has ever encountered.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: As of the [[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol 2010 Christmas special]], and thereafter.
%%* PuppyDogEyes: They can rival the Tenth Doctor's.
* Really700YearsOld: Mentally, he's almost two thousand years old, which makes him technically ''older than the Doctor''. (Or, at least, older than the various ages Doctor was claiming to be when he knew Rory. Since the Doctor doesn't remember his exact age anymore, he could still have been older.)
* TheReliableOne: The Doctor seems to trust him more than any other male companion in the modern era, even teaching him the basics of TARDIS repair.
* ReluctantWarrior: He honestly ''doesn't'' want to fight anyone, but if you threaten Amy, [[LetsGetDangerous all bets are off]].
* RetGone: Temporarily; he's not only fatally shot, but absorbed by one of the cracks afterwards. The Doctor remembers him, but Amy doesn't.
* SarcasticDevotee: To the Doctor, and to Amy, if he can get away without being hit with her shoes afterwards.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The Doctor casually threatens Rory's family to see if the Auton-Rory he's talking to has genuine human emotions. He does.
* SecularHero: After his stint as the Last Centurion, he fears nothing and believes in nothing; not religion, not superstition, and not even friends of his like the Doctor.
* ShroudedInMyth: In his Auton form as the Centurion, getting written into legends all over the world as a result. No one knows for sure if he's real or not, but there are many accounts of him.
* SingleTargetSexuality:
** Only ever shows attraction to Amy; his entire life, just Amy. Which, when they were younger, led to him being MistakenForGay ''by Amy''. The moment the camera focuses on his face when Amy says them being together is impossible is sad, then a few seconds later when Amy reveals she thinks he is gay is very funny.
** In a very sweet issue from IDW's comic series, Amy and the Doctor get body-swapped. Rory decides that he doesn't even ''care''. He kisses the Doctor, realizing a bit too late that the body switch has already been corrected. (Amy asks them to do it again but [[YaoiFangirl more slowly]].)
* TheSlowPath: As the Centurion, he spent 1,894 years waiting while the Doctor skipped ahead with the Vortex Manipulator. Note that he explicitly ''chose'' TheSlowPath, despite the Doctor trying to talk him out of it.
* 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. The only companion to have done this so far.
** Done rather subtly throughout series 5 and 6, and tied to [[TookALevelInBadass his taking a level in badass]]. He was already 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 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. He could be the strongest and smartest companion the Doctor will ever have, with the possible exceptions of River and Jack Harkness — which, since one is a part-Time Lord SuperSoldier trained to assassinate the Doctor himself, and the other is a centuries old ex Time Agent with CompleteImmortality (depending on whether or not he's actually the Face of Boe, who was millions/billions of years old, and even then, the Face ''chose'' to die) and incalculable levels of military experience, isn't too shabby.
* StraightMan: According to Moffat, Rory ''has'' to make himself this, otherwise he'll get sucked in to the life like Amy.
* SuperStrength: In his Auton form as the Centurion, he can drag the Pandorica from a burning building. He was also strong enough to stab a Cyberman straight through its metal body and pin it to a door with a sword.
* SwordAndGun: Due to his memories of being the Last Centurion, he has over 2000 years of experience in this form of combat. He wields them to ''devastating'' effect in Series 6, as shown by managing to infiltrate and blow up a Cyberman fleet and successfully hold off the Headless Monks.
* TakingTheBullet: At the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood "Cold Blood"]]... and ''then'' he gets retconned out of existence.
* TangledFamilyTree: Albeit his part of the family tree is probably the least tangled about it. See [[Characters/DoctorWhoRiverSong River Song]] and Amy Pond for the rest.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Rory Williams: the man who dies, and dies again. In ''Doctor Who: Best of the Companions'', one of the commentators equated him ''to'' Kenny from ''South Park'', and believes Moffat gets some [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7cbfuA5KI1qi3xkvo1_500.png sick pleasure out of torturing Rory]]. It gets to the point where he complains at one point that he's dead... ''again''.
* ThousandYardStare: He has one whenever he remembers the 1,894 years as the Last Centurion. The Doctor mentions that he sometimes catches Rory just staring.
* TomatoInTheMirror: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], he did ''not'' come back from the dead. He was a Nestene replicant whose programming killed Amy.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** At least 20 levels after his resurrection into an Auton and nearly 2,000 years as the Lone Centurion. The man really would do anything for his wife.
** Again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]]. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "WHERE. IS. MY. WIFE?"]]
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth:
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]", Rory is not shown to have been subjected to any MindRape by House, suggesting that either House knew it'd not work on him, or that it happened off-screen and Rory was simply better at shrugging it off.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]], the titular HellHotel shows people their worst fears so the Minotaur can feed on their faith. Rory is not religious nor superstitious, has experienced enough in his travels to be left with very little to fear anymore and unlike Amy, does not have faith that the Doctor will always be around to save them. In the end, all the Hotel can do is show him the exit. Shows just how amazing he is.
* TrappedInThePast: Rory and Amy's final fate is to be trapped in 1930s New York by Weeping Angels. The Doctor can't go back to them due to the damage the Angels did to local spacetime.
* TraumaCongaLine: Like Amy, though where hers is emotional/psychological, his is mostly physical — the only characters to die more than him are the Doctor himself (depending on whether or not one counts regeneration as dying) and Captain Jack Harkness, who's got ResurrectiveImmortality going for him.
* TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: Amy cites this as the reason she fell for Rory:
-->'''Amy:''' You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick? Then there's other people, when you meet them you think, "Not bad. They're okay." And then you get to know them and... and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality's written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful. Rory's the most beautiful man I've ever met.
* UndyingLoyalty: 1,894 years guarding what was basically Amy's coffin so she could revive.
* UnfazedEveryman: He's a very ordinary and relatable guy, but he also takes his first view of the inside of the TARDIS far better than most new companions have. He very quickly works out that the TARDIS interior exists in a different dimension, which is what allows it to be BiggerOnTheInside, without any help from the Doctor (which actually kind of annoys him!). While he has his moments of panic after that (at least at first, before he became the Last Centurion) he tends to take things far more in stride than most ordinary people would. In fact his overriding emotion at his house being stormed by UNIT is mild irritation.
-->'''Rory:''' There are soldiers all over my house, and I'm in my pants!
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: He was friends with Amy back when she was "Amelia".
* VitriolicBestBuds:Both the Doctor and Rory seem to enjoy the level of snark they throw at each other.
* WhatTheHellHero: Often calls the Doctor out on constantly making people try to ''impress'' him, often putting them in serious danger.
-->'''Rory:''' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves!]]
* WhenHeSmiles: While flirting with him when working the controls, older Amy tells him to give her a minute and his cutest smile in order for her to fix them properly.
-->'''Older Amy:''' That's the one.
* YankTheDogsChain: Just as Amy remembers who he is... the Auton programming overruns him and he's forced to shoot her.

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!!TV Tropes
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: If you suggest that his girlfriend is less important than SeventiesHair: She has an afro most of the universe, then he will punch your lights out.
* AmnesiacLover: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong
time, though it's absent in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand "The Wedding of River Song"]], in which he's lost all his memories Lie of the correct timeline Land"]].
* AllThereInTheManual: Bill's final fate is explained in the [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]] {{novelization}} by Creator/PaulCornell: After travelling the universe with Heather, the lovers returned to Earth
and only knows Amy grew old together as his boss (albeit whom he humans. The relationship was so happy that Bill ultimately chose to die of old age rather than be rejuvenated again, and on her deathbed gave Heather permission to return to her immortal, travelling state. (Bill's Testimony avatar cannot explain all this to the Doctor because the Testimony gives her LaserGuidedAmnesia so she'll interact with the Doctor as she did before they were parted.)
* AmazonChaser: In ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTheLostDimension'', she's instantly struck by [[ActionGirl Jenny]], remarking she's "drop-dead gorgeous, ''and'' handy in a fight. I think I'm in love." This
is quietly devoted to). said somewhat admiringly while watching Jenny beat people up. The Doctor tries to get them back together again... and fails, at first.
* TheAtoner: As an Auton, following the (apparent) death of Amy by
finds this specific instance somewhat aggravating because Jenny is his own hands.
* BadassAdorable: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]] has him terrifying Cybermen and then later crying with joy at his baby
daughter.
* BerserkButton : Threaten Amy and you might as well dig your own grave as you’ll be needing one once he’s through AndTheAdventureContinues: Her departure has her leaving to explore the universe further with you.
her LivingShip and lover Heather.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Normally a gentle soul (he's a nurse, after all), but he's capable of amazing destruction if his family is threatened.
-->'''Rory:''' I have a message from
ApocalypseMaiden: Becomes this thanks to her consenting to let the Doctor... and a question from me. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHERE. IS. MY. WIFE?]] Oh Monks conquer the planet; though they don't give me those blank looks, realize it, she is the twelfth Cyber-legion monitors this entire quadrant! You hear ''everything''. So you tell me psychic conduit their MassHypnosis of humanity works through. Missy advises the Doctor to kill her or render her braindead to stop the Monks, and over his objections Bill is ready to make a HeroicSacrifice to do so. However, she survives ''and'' breaks off their link, whereupon they flee.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" Bill (or rather her memory avatar) asks the First Doctor why he stole a TARDIS and ran away. Her exact question impresses him:
-->'''Bill:''' I don't mean
what I need to know, you tell me ''now'' and I'll be on my way...ran away from. What were you running to?\\
'''1st Doctor:''' That's rather a good question.
\\
'''Cyber-Leader:''' What '''Bill:''' Questions are kinda my thing. How are you with answers?
* BigDamnKiss: With Heather the Pilot after she's more than [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earned Her Happy Ending]].
* BlackAndNerdy: She's quite geeky, and likes sci-fi. She
is also undoubtedly very clever, enough to sit in on and understand the Doctor's message?\\
''[the entire Cyberman fleet outside the window explodes]''\\
'''Rory:''' Would you like me
lectures despite not being a student and manages to ''repeat'' the question?
* BigDamnKiss: Apart from
pique his curiosity purely through her intellect. When she formally becomes a few student, she very Big Damn Kisses ably steps up to the Doctor's challenge of getting a first and her scores are all excellent.
* BraidsOfAction: Her hair is in this style in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E9EmpressOfMars "Empress of Mars"]]. She's a veteran companion by then, after all.
* BreakTheCutie: Her experiences in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], as she ultimately becomes the first Mondasian Cyberman. In the end, she gets ''much'' better.
* ButchLesbian: Downplayed, but Bill is gay, and she has a TomboyishName and clothing style. Her interview
with Amy, the Doctor (well, Creator/MattSmith, [[ThrowItIn improvising]][[invoked]]) rather unexpectedly snogs him once. Rory makes a "yuck" face.
* BroomstickQuarterstaff: He uses a mop as an improvised weapon in many episodes, including [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E9NightTerrors "Night Terrors"]]
and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]].
* BullyingADragon: Rory is normally
EstablishingCharacterMoment has her telling a gentle soul, but it is ''not'' story about flirting with a good idea to test his patience whenever Amy is in trouble.
* ButtMonkey: Started out as Amy's put-on "sort of boyfriend" so wasn't taken seriously
girl by anyone giving her extra chips and regularly made a fool of himself. Many, ''many'' [[TookALevelInBadass levels in badass later...]]
* TheChampion: Spent 2000 years as the Guardian of the Pandorica, simply to make sure Amy would remain protected.
unwittingly making her fat.
* CharacterDevelopment: He went By the time of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E7ThePyramidAtTheEndOfTheWorld "The Pyramid at the End of the World"]], she has learned enough from an insecure Mickey-type character whose main purpose was the Doctor to look hurt, make the kind of choice he would when she's faced with the prospect of his death: She agrees to let the Monks TakeOverTheWorld if they'll restore his lost eyesight so he can escape the lab that's about to explode, taking the line of thinking that she'll not only save him but he will be able to liberate her and her people. While she must suffer through six lonely months and a BadassAdorable man who gruelling SecretTestOfCharacter in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand "The Lie of the Land"]] before she and the Doctor are reunited and he can put his plan to defeat the Monks into action, she endures and ultimately is willing to spend two thousand years protecting his wife.
* TheChewToy: Where Amy gets horribly tortured emotionally, it is Rory's lot
make a HeroicSacrifice to suffer physically, in new and interesting ways. At one point, fans on Website/{{Twitter}} jokingly threatened to come after Moffat with a pitchfork if he tortured Rory ''again''. Moffat responded they'd have to haul save Earth. Luckily, she survives the pitchfork out of Rory first.
process.
* ChickMagnet: Gathers quite ChubbyChaser: She tried to woo a few looks from various female characters (and, after a while, from Eleven as well). Even ''the TARDIS'' fancies him, calling him "the pretty one" — one episode later, it's revealed that they have a child together, girl by serving her extra chips in a sense.
%%* ColonelBadass: "A Good Man Goes to War", then fully grows into
the role in "The Wedding of River Song".
* CovertPervert: In [[Recap/DoctorWho2011RNDSSpaceAndTime "Space" and "Time"]], he
canteen and, as a result, accidentally causes a major malfunction in caused the TARDIS girl to gain a large amount of weight. But Bill realized she liked seeing the girl bigger because (a) his wife is wearing a skirt she was the one who caused it, and (b) the TARDIS has a glass floor.
* DeadpanSnarker: An often dry and understated example, he responds to the insanity
remarks that is his life the other girl seems just fine with frequent snark.
* {{Determinator}}:
** Auton Rory spent 1894 years protecting the Pandorica simply because Amy was inside and she was, just about,
it. There's a bit safer with him there.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]], in another version of reality, to give Amy time to flee, he ignores the fact he's being ''electrocuted''.
--->'''Amy:''' You have to take your eye-drive off!\\
'''Rory:''' I can't do that ma'am, I can't forget what's coming.\\
'''Amy:''' But it could activate at any moment!\\
'''Rory:''' ''[with trembling, clenched fists]'' It ''has'' activated, ma'am.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
** Rory tops himself, and quite possibly takes the all-time Companion Crowning Moment, in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic "The Chains of Olympus",
brief scene where he lets out she serves an extra serving of chips to a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner in larger girl, implicitly the form of "Hi, honey! Is this bloke bothering you?", announces himself as Roranicus the First of the Upper Leadworth Empire, one mentioned, and whips out shares a Your Mom joke... all before taking on Ares, the Greek god of war in SINGLE COMBAT, and wiping the floor wink with him. Eat your heart out, Kratos.
** He also once slugged the Doctor, who has been known to do a fair impersonation of Cthulhu himself/send Cthulhu crying for his mummy. That said, in that case, the Doctor was intentionally provoking him, to see how much of him was Auton and how much was Rory.
** He also punched out Hitler. And put him in a cupboard.
* DisneyDeath: He has a knack for wiggling his way out of being KilledOffForReal.
* DistressedDude: Frequently. Amy never takes it well.
* DoubleConsciousness: Rory remembers both his original life and his life as the Last Centurion in the universe of the Total Event Collapse. However, he's worked out how to block away the latter set of memories most of the time — [[LetsGetDangerous unless he decides he needs to access them]].
* TheDreaded: After the reboot of the universe, he's been woven into all human legends as "The Last Centurion".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** He's first introduced as being the ''only'' one in the hospital ''not'' to dismiss the rumour about coma patients wandering about, which attracts the Doctor's attention when he notices he's busy taking photos of them, rather than [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight the sun going dark]]. He's only then introduced properly as Amy's fairly timid boyfriend.
** As a companion this moment comes in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]], when he quite angrily tells the Doctor that "you have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves", establishing himself as the first companion since Donna who doesn't outright idolise the Doctor, and someone who is perfectly willing to call him out.
*** In the same story he witnesses an apparent vampire attack... and focuses on trying to save the victim rather than chasing the vampire.
her.
* {{Expy}}: Shares traits with Larry Nightingale from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]], a story Creator/StevenMoffat wrote before taking over as the head writer, right down to being interested in a girl that's considered way out of his league. Unlike Larry, he definitely does hook up with the girl he likes.
* FanservicePack: Mild version. In Series 6, the costume department gave the character more flattering clothes (like tighter jeans) and hair gel. It's also applied to the Roman uniform when it reappears.
* TheFettered: Remembering his time as the Last Centurion hurts, so he blocks it out for his own sanity. When needs must, he 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. Also to Mickey Smith, as both are the boyfriends of the Doctor's main companion who feel unappreciated and threatened by their girlfriend's close relationship with the Doctor. They were also childhood friends with their respective love interests and experience surprising character development into a more stronger and tough character. The difference is that Rory's character development is shown by him proving his love for Amy by waiting almost 2000 years for her
ConstantlyCurious: She's ''always'' asking questions, which strengthens their relationship, while Mickey's involves him moving on from Rose.
* FromBadToWorse: Story of his companionship and non-existence right
amps up through the penultimate episode of Series 5, which culminates in an Auton with his memories killing Amy against Rory's will.
* GenreSavvy: Rory knows a bit about science and science fiction,
teacher/student vibe that she and the Doctor gets peeved when Rory have going.
* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Bill is a cheerful, laidback person who
doesn't need anything explained to him, especially how he perfectly understands have many aspirations in life, very different from bossy, control freak, go getter Clara Oswald. Naturally, they also have very different relationships with the TARDIS interior being bigger on Twelfth Doctor; Clara & the inside.
* TheGoodCaptain: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding
Doctor were very much a couple, while Bill took the role of River Song]]", he is "Captain Williams" in Amy's anti-Silence organization.student/daughter/granddaughter, having an easier, lighter dynamic with him.
%%* GuileHero: Rory definitely fell into this mold over time,
* TheHeart: This is a common trope for companions of the Doctor, but Rory's compassion EarnYourHappyEnding: She endures incredible suffering in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and kindness are showcased more than just about any other companion in the Revived Series. These traits are often {{Lampshaded}} by the Doctor, and it makes him an UnwittingPawn in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh Time"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Rebel Flesh"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople "The Almost People"]].
* HenpeckedHusband: He's okay with it
Doctor Falls"]] that puts the ordeal of the Monks to shame, including getting most of the time, and offers only mild resistance to being called her boy or taking her last name.
-->'''Amy:''' Would I make it up at
chest vaporized, spending ten years trapped in a time like this?!\\
'''Rory:''' Well, you do have
creepy hospital, getting betrayed by a history of ''[receives DeathGlare]'' ... being very lovely.
* HeroicBystander: Though not a fan of adventuring, Rory sets the tone early when, upon coming across a vampire attack, his first impulse is not to flee or chase the monster, but to stop the victim from bleeding to death. Throughout his time with the Doctor, he tends to act to save life first and foremost. This leads to him not only tending the wounded, but frequently doing awesome things like punching Hitler
False Friend (who turns out to stop him shooting an apparent innocent bystander, be none other than the Master) and then locking him in converted into a closet!
* HeroicSacrifice: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]], he
Cyberman, and Amy commit suicide by jumping off of the top of a building in New York to create a paradox that will prevent the Weeping Angels from taking over New York.
* HeroicWillpower:
** In his Auton form as the Centurion, he uses willpower to keep himself from going insane. He draws on this again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]], 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.
** This has the unexpected bonus of making Rory completely resistant to MindRape, if [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]] are any indication.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Early in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], he spent 1894 years worth of history guarding the Pandorica. [[NoodleIncident Probability of zany adventures: extremely high]].
-->'''The Doctor:''' So. Two thousand years. How did you do?\\
'''Rory:''' Kept out of trouble.\\
'''The Doctor:''' How?\\
'''Rory:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Unsuccessfully.]]
** AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho has announced a new series, ''[[https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-lone-centurion-volume-01-2305 The Lone Centurion.]]'' So far his adventures have taken him to ancient Rome and to Camelot.
* HospitalHottie: In case you could ever forget, he's a nurse, and a pretty one at that.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Rory's ideal world as recreated by the Dream Lord is rather quiet — he is a doctor instead of a nurse, Amy is pregnant, and most of the residents of their hometown are over 90.
* InSeriesNickname: The Last/Lone Centurion.
* InternalHomage: He succeeds Creator/BigFinish companion [[Characters/BigFinishDoctorWho Hector Schofield]] as a cute nervous nurse (and sci-fi dork) who goes from TheChewToy to intergalactic hero. Creator Creator/StevenMoffat is a huge Big Finish fan and loves to reference the series.
* JustFriends: He had feelings for Amy to the point of SingleTargetSexuality, whilst she was ObliviousToLove to the point [[MistakenForGay she thought he was gay]].
* KilledOffForReal: After '''eight''' attempts, Moffat finally kills him permanently in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]]. He has a gravestone and everything. While Amy and Rory are dead in the present, they still have 50+ years in the past, and Amy's final note assures
watching the Doctor that they are living HappilyEverAfter there.
* KnightInSourArmour: Series 6, thanks
die, but she holds onto her sanity long enough to spending 1,894 years straight guarding the Pandorica from anything get rescued by Heather and everything that could possibly threaten it. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]", he says he neither fears nor believes in anything anymore. His eye roll at Eleven's inability ends up leaving to wait for even five minutes gets quite magnificent at times.
* LetsGetDangerous: Whenever Amy is threatened, Rory is no longer content to hold back and stay by the sidelines. He's been pushed to the point where he is going to wage ''war!''
* LivingLegend: As the Lone Centurion, he is interwoven into a significant number of Earth's legends, right up until his presumed death in World War II. Amy's comments in ''A Good Man Goes To War'' suggests that these legends still exist after
explore the universe was rebooted.with her. Meanwhile, a Testimony avatar of her is happily reunited with him shortly before his regeneration, which also lifts the burden of his guilt over not being able to undo her Cyber-conversion.
* TheEveryman: As much as any companion can be. Out of the Series 10 Team TARDIS dynamic of Bill, Nardole, the Doctor and Missy she's the only one new to an adventuring life. In fact, Bill may be the most ''normal'' companion since Ten's years.

* LoveMartyr: After he dream-dies FridgeLogic: InUniverse, when she wonders why Daleks say "Exterminate" instead of shorter words, like "Kill". Her unusual, questioning perspective on the Doctor's world is key to her character, according to [[invoked]]WordOfGod.
* GayBestFriend: She has this dynamic with the Doctor, having of course no interest
in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]], Amy admits him romantically. When they talk to each other for the last time in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], she heavily implies to him that she loves him in a platonic way.
* GenderBlenderName: "Billie", her full first name, is the feminine form of "Bill"; she typically uses the masculine form.
* GenreSavvy: She was into sci-fi and space before meeting the Doctor, and recognizes the attempt by
the Doctor that she never told him she loved him, and this was the (constant) day to erase her memories before he does it based on having previously seen it in movies.
* ImaginaryFriend: Her MissingMom becomes this once she has pictures of her. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand "The Lie of the Land"]], she talks to her as a friend because she has no one else to turn to at the time; she knows the truth about the Monks but no one else around her does and she will be arrested for speaking up. Ultimately, her created memories of her mother and
their wedding.
conversations — a pure fiction — are what defeat the Monks in a BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind, as they cannot rewrite fiction, only the truth.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: After he marries Amy, she legally takes on his last name... at which point IncompatibleOrientation: She's the first openly gay Companion and, as such, is the first for whom any fan shipping is ''not cool'' (previous actors have said they and the Doctor merrily starts were totally doing it all over the TARDIS). Bill lampshades this to call him "Rory Pond". Rory protests, a bit, at first. It becomes fairly hilarious once get her and the Doctor insists out of an awkward moment, "I know whe have this student-teacher thing going, but...", and then they laugh and save the world.
* MissingMom: Her biological mother died when she was young. She didn't even have any pictures of her until the Doctor went back in time to take some.
* NaiveNewcomer: She's had an ordinary life in ordinary modern day England with nothing particularly extraordinary happening to her until she was attacked by a puddle, so she doesn't know a thing about Daleks and things from outer space beyond what she's seen in movies. This is why she asks a lot of questions.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: She and Heather are named after Creator/WilliamHartnell and his wife.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Goes by "Bill" rather than "Billie".
* ParentalAbandonment: She was fostered after her mother died. Her father is never mentioned, and her foster mother appears somewhat indifferent to her.
* ParentalSubstitute: The Doctor takes
on the role as a surrogate father or grandfather, assisting in such mundane tasks as helping her move house.
* PopCulturedBadass: Even in dire situations, she just can't stop referencing movies she loves.
* PreserveYourGays: While she was turned into a Mondasian Cyberman in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]], she is assimilated by the Heather creature and they travel the universe together by the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]]. They even have an onscreen BigDamnKiss after both have "died". However, she doesn't regain her human form. She's basically like Heather by that point, although she ''could'' turn back into a human if she wanted.
* RunningGag: Subverted. When meeting the Doctor for the first time, she asks "Doctor what?", rather than "[[TitleDrop Doctor who]]?" It
also calling Rory's ''father'' "Pond".takes her a while to realize that the TARDIS is "bigger on the inside".
* ManlyTears: He sheds a SorryImGay: A good few episodes end up with her telling potential love interests this, ''including the Doctor''. It's inverted when reunited members of a Roman legion actually find it rather cute that she's so… ''restricted''.
* StepfordSnarker: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36ShortFriendFromTheFuture "Friend from the Future"]] suggests that she copes
with Amy life-threatening situations by cracking jokes and their daughter [[YankTheDogsChain before asking deliberately silly questions.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Has this dynamic with Twelve, who has to work not to crack a smile while explaining how much trouble they're in in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36ShortFriendFromTheFuture "Friend From
the rug gets pulled out from Future"]].
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Cyber-conversion ''should'' be Bill's death sentence since the Doctor has no means of restoring her
under them]]:
-->'''Rory:''' Oh God, I
the circumstances, and indeed everything in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]] points to a final HeroicSacrifice, but Heather the Pilot steps in to save the day AndTheAdventureContinues to an extremely full life for Bill.
* SwissArmyTears: She has these because of her connection to Heather/The Pilot. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], they call Heather back to her ''and'' reignite the Doctor's regeneration ability. (AllThereInTheManual material confirms Heather
was gonna be cool. I wanted to be cool, look at me...\\
'''Amy:''' Crying Roman
watching out for her all along.)
* TomboyishName: "Billie" and "Bill". She goes by the masculine latter.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Black lesbian.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: Part of her BreakTheCutie experience. First, she ended up
with her heart being replaced by a baby. Definitely cool.
* TheMedic: Rory is
metal one after it was vaporised by a nurse, gun blast. Then she trusted the wrong person and acts like it. (See HeroicBystander above.) As of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]] he's evolved into a CombatMedic.
* MirrorCharacter: To
ended up the Doctor, first full-blown Mondasian Cyberman.
* WorkingClassHero: She works in a university canteen
and it's best shown in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]], where his actions demonstrate noted that episode's title could be interpreted as referring Bill can't afford to either attend any classes herself — until the Doctor or himself.
* MissingMom: Rory's mother never appeared once, though she has been mentioned [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh once in the show]] and more in the expanded universe. Given his father managed to spend several days in the TARDIS without anyone noticing,
becomes her private tutor, that suggests she's not in the picture anymore for whatever reason.
* MistakenForGay: Amy never saw him show any attraction to any girl, and assumed this because she was too thick to realise that there was at least one he liked...
* NervesOfSteel: At the start of series 5, he's a nervous nurse who's in no way ready to deal with space/time travel. By mid-series 6, he believes he's lost the ability to feel fear from the amount of crap he's seen and experienced, making him immune to this week's form of MindRape. [[note]]Although it's his lack of ''faith'' that is the important bit here[[/note]] When he thinks he and Amy are dead, his only reaction is "We're dead. ''Again''." His alternate universe self, in the TimeCrash, is like this too. The only thing that frightens him is the thought of losing Amy.
is.
* NiceGuy: Really, really nice guy; he's a popular nurse at his hospital.
* NonActionGuy: At least before he TookALevelInBadass, he'd rather be living a quiet suburban lifestyle than going on adventures in the TARDIS. But he'll do anything for Amy.
* NoodleIncident: He spent 1894 years staying out of trouble... unsuccessfully. ''Big Finish'' has announed they will be revealing what he got up to during this time.
* NotAfraidToDie:
** He knows full well that he might not survive the 1894 years guarding the Pandorica. He still does so ''anyway''.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "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!
* OlderSidekick: At least in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], following 2,000 years of guarding the Pandorica as an Auton.[[note]]This depends on how old you consider
YouRemindMeOfX: It's implied her ConstantlyCurious nature reminds the Doctor to be at the time, however, since he's known to be inconsistent about his age.[[/note]] Outside of that episode he's more debatable, being physically in his twenties while retaining the Auton memories.
* OneManArmy:
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon "Day of the Moon"]], Rory has over ''twice'' the number of tallied markings on him, implying that during the three months he spent in 1969, he's dealt with the Silence on nearly a daily basis (while also constantly outwitting the FBI).
** Best demonstrated in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]], where Rory, in full Centurion gear and armed only with a sword (and a screwdriver), managed to waltz through a Cyberman-controlled vessel and scare the living crap out of them. In the same episode, he takes down a half a dozen Headless Monks armed only with a ''[[SwordAndGun Gladius and Pistol]]''.
* OnlySaneEmployee: Unlike his boss, he's the only one in the hospital to take the rumours of wandering coma patients seriously.
* OnlySaneMan: Acts as the voice of reason on the TARDIS. Unlike the Doctor and Amy, he recognises the danger they often find themselves in, and isn't afraid to call out the Doctor on his tendency to act cavalier with people's lives. Steven Moffat says that Rory [[EnforcedTrope actively makes himself this]] because otherwise he'd get sucked into life with the Doctor like Amy.
* PhraseCatcher: Manages to get a good "Oh, ''Rory''..." out of the Doctor every once and awhile.
* ThePowerOfLove: When Amy was trapped in the Pandorica, Rory protected her for two thousand years. It was his love that kept him sane.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: Alongside his character development as a NonActionGuy who then TookALevelInBadass, the makeup department do a good job of making him look hunkier in series 6 compared to series 5.
* PreviouslyOverlookedParamour: Amy initially overlooks Rory (partially because she [[MistakenForGay believes him to be homosexual]]) in favour of her infatuation with the Eleventh Doctor, but eventually comes to terms with her own feelings for Rory, who has always been there for her, and whose personality she considers to be the most beautiful she has ever encountered.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: As of the [[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol 2010 Christmas special]], and thereafter.
%%* PuppyDogEyes: They can rival the Tenth Doctor's.
* Really700YearsOld: Mentally, he's almost two thousand years old, which makes him technically ''older than the Doctor''. (Or, at least, older than the various ages Doctor was claiming to be when he knew Rory. Since the Doctor doesn't remember his exact age anymore, he could still have been older.)
* TheReliableOne: The Doctor seems to trust him more than any other male companion in the modern era, even teaching him the basics of TARDIS repair.
* ReluctantWarrior: He honestly ''doesn't'' want to fight anyone, but if you threaten Amy, [[LetsGetDangerous all bets are off]].
* RetGone: Temporarily; he's not only fatally shot, but absorbed by one of the cracks afterwards. The Doctor remembers him, but Amy doesn't.
* SarcasticDevotee: To the Doctor, and to Amy, if he can get away without being hit with her shoes afterwards.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The Doctor casually threatens Rory's family to see if the Auton-Rory he's talking to has genuine human emotions. He does.
* SecularHero: After his stint as the Last Centurion, he fears nothing and believes in nothing; not religion, not superstition, and not even friends
of his like the Doctor.
* ShroudedInMyth: In his Auton form as the Centurion, getting written into legends all over the world as a result. No one knows for sure if he's real or not, but there are many accounts of him.
* SingleTargetSexuality:
** Only ever shows attraction to Amy; his entire life, just Amy. Which, when they were younger, led to him being MistakenForGay ''by Amy''. The moment the camera focuses on his face when Amy says them being together is impossible is sad, then a few seconds later when Amy reveals she thinks he is gay is very funny.
** In a very sweet issue from IDW's comic series, Amy and the Doctor get body-swapped. Rory decides that he doesn't even ''care''. He kisses the Doctor, realizing a bit too late that the body switch has already been corrected. (Amy asks them to do it again but [[YaoiFangirl more slowly]].)
* TheSlowPath: As the Centurion, he spent 1,894 years waiting while the Doctor skipped ahead with the Vortex Manipulator. Note that he explicitly ''chose'' TheSlowPath, despite the Doctor trying to talk him out of it.
* 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. The only companion to have done this so far.
** Done rather subtly throughout series 5 and 6, and tied to [[TookALevelInBadass his taking a level in badass]]. He was already 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 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. He could be the strongest and smartest companion the Doctor will ever have, with the possible exceptions of River and Jack Harkness — which, since one is a part-Time Lord SuperSoldier trained to assassinate the Doctor himself, and the other is a centuries old ex Time Agent with CompleteImmortality (depending on whether or not he's actually the Face of Boe, who was millions/billions of years old, and even then, the Face ''chose'' to die) and incalculable levels of military experience, isn't too shabby.
* StraightMan: According to Moffat, Rory ''has'' to make himself this, otherwise he'll get sucked in to the life like Amy.
* SuperStrength: In his Auton form as the Centurion, he can drag the Pandorica from a burning building. He was also strong enough to stab a Cyberman straight through its metal body and pin it to a door with a sword.
* SwordAndGun: Due to his memories of being the Last Centurion, he has over 2000 years of experience in this form of combat. He wields them to ''devastating'' effect in Series 6, as shown by managing to infiltrate and blow up a Cyberman fleet and successfully hold off the Headless Monks.
* TakingTheBullet: At the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood "Cold Blood"]]... and ''then'' he gets retconned out of existence.
* TangledFamilyTree: Albeit his part of the family tree is probably the least tangled about it. See [[Characters/DoctorWhoRiverSong River Song]] and Amy Pond for the rest.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Rory Williams: the man who dies, and dies again. In ''Doctor Who: Best of the Companions'', one of the commentators equated him ''to'' Kenny from ''South Park'', and believes Moffat gets some [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7cbfuA5KI1qi3xkvo1_500.png sick pleasure out of torturing Rory]]. It gets to the point where he complains at one point that he's dead... ''again''.
* ThousandYardStare: He has one whenever he remembers the 1,894 years as the Last Centurion. The Doctor mentions that he sometimes catches Rory just staring.
* TomatoInTheMirror: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], he did ''not'' come back from the dead. He was a Nestene replicant whose programming killed Amy.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** At least 20 levels after his resurrection into an Auton and nearly 2,000 years as the Lone Centurion. The man really would do anything for his wife.
** Again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]]. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "WHERE. IS. MY. WIFE?"]]
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth:
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]", Rory is not shown to have been subjected to any MindRape by House, suggesting that either House knew it'd not work on him, or that it happened off-screen and Rory was simply better at shrugging it off.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]], the titular HellHotel shows people their worst fears so the Minotaur can feed on their faith. Rory is not religious nor superstitious, has experienced enough in his travels to be left with very little to fear anymore and unlike Amy, does not have faith that the Doctor will always be around to save them. In the end, all the Hotel can do is show him the exit. Shows just how amazing he is.
* TrappedInThePast: Rory and Amy's final fate is to be trapped in 1930s New York by Weeping Angels. The Doctor can't go back to them due to the damage the Angels did to local spacetime.
* TraumaCongaLine: Like Amy, though where hers is emotional/psychological, his is mostly physical — the only characters to die more than him are the Doctor himself (depending on whether or not one counts regeneration as dying) and Captain Jack Harkness, who's got ResurrectiveImmortality going for him.
* TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: Amy cites this as the reason she fell for Rory:
-->'''Amy:''' You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick? Then there's other people, when you meet them you think, "Not bad. They're okay." And then you get to know them and... and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality's written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful. Rory's the most beautiful man I've ever met.
* UndyingLoyalty: 1,894 years guarding what was basically Amy's coffin so she could revive.
* UnfazedEveryman: He's a very ordinary and relatable guy, but he also takes his first view of the inside of the TARDIS far better than most new companions have. He very quickly works out that the TARDIS interior exists in a different dimension, which is what allows it to be BiggerOnTheInside, without any help from the Doctor (which actually kind of annoys him!). While he has his moments of panic after that (at least at first, before he became the Last Centurion) he tends to take things far more in stride than most ordinary people would. In fact his overriding emotion at his house being stormed by UNIT is mild irritation.
-->'''Rory:''' There are soldiers all over my house, and I'm in my pants!
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: He was friends with Amy back when she was "Amelia".
* VitriolicBestBuds:Both the Doctor and Rory seem to enjoy the level of snark they throw at each other.
* WhatTheHellHero: Often calls the Doctor out on constantly making people try to ''impress'' him, often putting them in serious danger.
-->'''Rory:''' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves!]]
* WhenHeSmiles: While flirting with him when working the controls, older Amy tells him to give her a minute and his cutest smile in order for her to fix them properly.
-->'''Older Amy:''' That's the one.
* YankTheDogsChain: Just as Amy remembers who he is... the Auton programming overruns him and he's forced to shoot her.
granddaughter, Susan Foreman.



[[folder:River Song]]
->[[Characters/DoctorWhoRiverSong Has her own page.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clara Oswald]]
->[[Characters/DoctorWhoClaraOswald Has her own page.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Twelfth Doctor Era

[[folder:Nardole]]
!!Nardole (Twelfth Doctor)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Are you the Surgeon? There's a medical emergency!"'']]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong The Husbands of River Song]]" (2015)
->'''Joins TARDIS Crew:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]" (2016)[[note]]First story in which he appears as a companion; he actually joins the Doctor earlier in his timeline, as depicted in "Extremis"[[/note]]
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Doctor Falls]]" (2017)
->'''Final Appearance:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" (2017)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MattLucas (2015-2017)

-->''"[[BadassBoast I am the only person you have ever met, or ever will meet, who is officially licensed to]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis kick. The Doctor's.]]'' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Arse.]]''''' ''I will happily do the same to you, in the event that you do not align yourself with any instructions I have issued which I personally judge to be in the best interests of your safety and survival."''

A timid, unassuming HumanAlien of the 54th century who was a servant of River Song during her caper to reclaim a valuable diamond from (the head of) the tyrannical cyborg King Hydroflax, whom she'd recently married to get close to. On Mendorax Dellora in 5343, he was sent to fetch the surgeon River hired to perform the... "operation"... and a misunderstanding meant that he brought back the Twelfth Doctor. ''Long'' story short, by the end of this misadventure Hydroflax himself was destroyed and Nardole's head — just the head, mind — was peacefully sharing and controlling his deactivated robot body with that of Ramone, one of River's many husbands and also involved in the scheme; together they served as a waiter at a restaurant near the Singing Towers of Darillium. However, during the long night the Doctor spent with River on Darillium (long as in equivalent to 24 Earth years) he "reassembled" Nardole into a cyborg.

Before River went to her death in the Library, she tasked Nardole with becoming the Doctor's "valet"; he promised to take care of the Doctor, to keep him from losing his sense of self and his noble morals... by any means needed, up to and including kicking his arse. Thus, he followed the Doctor to what ''was'' to be the execution of Missy (the Master), and from there they took to guarding the Vault beneath St. Luke's University on Earth. Nardole is determined to make sure the Doctor holds to his vow to watch over Missy for 1,000 years, but this becomes harder when, several decades into the vigil, the Doctor meets and befriends Bill Potts.

to:

[[folder:River Song]]
->[[Characters/DoctorWhoRiverSong Has her own page.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clara Oswald]]
->[[Characters/DoctorWhoClaraOswald Has her own page.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Twelfth
!!Thirteenth Doctor Era

[[folder:Nardole]]
!!Nardole (Twelfth
[[folder:Yasmin Khan]]
!!PC Yasmin "Yaz" Khan (Thirteenth
Doctor)
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org/pmwiki/pub/images/yasmin_khan.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong The Husbands of River Song]]" (2015)
->'''Joins TARDIS Crew:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]" (2016)[[note]]First story in which he appears as a companion; he actually joins the Doctor earlier in his timeline, as depicted in "Extremis"[[/note]]
[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]] (2018)
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Doctor Falls]]" (2017)
->'''Final Appearance:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" (2017)

Power of the Doctor]]" (2022)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MattLucas (2015-2017)

-->''"[[BadassBoast I am the only person you have ever met, or ever will meet, who
Creator/MandipGill

A young police officer in Sheffield who, after asking for more important responsibilities than parking disputes,
is officially licensed to]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis kick. The Doctor's.]]'' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Arse.]]''''' ''I will happily do the same to you, in the event that you do not align yourself with any instructions I have issued which I personally judge to be in the best interests of your safety and survival."''

A timid, unassuming HumanAlien of the 54th century who was a servant of River Song during her caper to reclaim a valuable diamond from (the head of) the tyrannical cyborg King Hydroflax, whom she'd recently married to get close to. On Mendorax Dellora in 5343, he was
sent to fetch respond to a call put in by her old school friend Ryan about a mysterious object appearing in the surgeon River hired woods. This leads to perform the... "operation"... and a misunderstanding meant that he brought back the Twelfth Doctor. ''Long'' story short, by the end of this misadventure Hydroflax himself was destroyed and Nardole's head — just the head, mind — was peacefully sharing and controlling his deactivated robot body with that of Ramone, one of River's many husbands and also her getting involved in the scheme; together they served as a waiter at a restaurant near the Singing Towers of Darillium. However, during the long night the Doctor spent with River on Darillium (long as in equivalent to 24 Earth years) he "reassembled" Nardole into a cyborg.

Before River went to her death in the Library, she tasked Nardole with becoming
the Doctor's "valet"; he promised to take care of life. Yaz is the Doctor, to keep him longest running companion in the entire series in terms of "years", from losing his sense October 2018 to October 2022 for a total of self 4 years and his noble morals... by any means needed, up to and including kicking his arse. Thus, he followed 16 days.[[note]]Rather than number of episodes, which would be Jamie, or stories, which would be Clara, or seasons, which would be Sarah Jane or Tegan, or time spent with the Doctor to what ''was'' to in-universe, which would be the execution of Missy (the Master), and from there they took to guarding the Vault beneath St. Luke's University on Earth. Nardole is determined to make sure the Doctor holds to his vow to watch over Missy for 1,000 years, but this becomes harder when, several decades into the vigil, the Doctor meets and befriends Bill Potts.Ponds.[[/note]]



* AllThereInTheManual: Creator/PaulCornell's [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]] {{novelization}} reveals he gets a SurprisinglyHappyEnding post-[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]]: He lives to over 700 years old on the colony ship, successfully defending the solar farmers against the Cybermen often enough that at last they only have to deal with with annual Cybermat infestations. He also accumulates six wives over that time. Finally, he's accidentally taken by Testimony, which believes him to be an actual human, before he dies. He ''guilts it'' into letting his memories be uploaded into it, which is how an avatar appears to Twelve shortly before he regenerates.
* AscendedExtra: Started out as a supporting character in [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]], getting upgraded to a companion in Series 10. While [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]] was being filmed, Creator/StevenMoffat said that initially Matt Lucas had been contracted for certain episodes of Series 10, but ended up appearing in more. By the time the series came to broadcast, he was in ''every'' episode up to and including [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]].
* TheAtoner: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]] implies he used to be a conman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Spends most of his early appearances as ComicRelief, yet he is capable of piloting the TARDIS and was used as MissionControl when the Doctor and Bill had to navigate a Dalek spaceship in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot "The Pilot"]]. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]], he gives the Doctor a brutal WhatTheHellHero speech when an escapade nearly gets them killed, potentially leaving the Vault and its occupant unguarded. He is then proven correct when the Doctor reveals the trip blinded him.
* BreakingOldTrends: So far he's the only non-human companion in New Who.
* BumblingSidekick: To River Song. The whole plot of [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]] gets underway when he is sent to fetch the surgeon involved in her scheme, and instead brings back the Twelfth Doctor. Both she and the Doctor treat him haughtily, as well.
* ButtMonkey:
** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]]: He fetches the wrong person for River and learns of his mistake at the worst possible time. He ends up interrogated and ''decapitated'' by Hydroflax's body, his head kept alive to serve as ''its'' new head. In this state he is forced to effectively hold himself hostage so the body can interrogate Ramone. ''Then'' it takes Ramone's head too, and Nardole's head ends up "stored" within its torso, a hot and smelly place. And he almost goes down with the ''Harmony and Redemption'' when it crashes. (Not to mention that the robot short-circuiting can't be a pleasant experience.) All this in one story! When the dust has settled, however, he adjusts to his odd new existence nicely.
** In Series 10 he's constantly belittled and treated as an annoyance who's less important to the Doctor than his new companion Bill. Like others in this situation, he finds that [[SnarkToSnarkCombat giving as good as he gets]] is the best response.
* CharacterDevelopment: [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]] reveals that he's grown some backbone since [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]] — he can hold his own in snarking with the Twelfth Doctor, and he has enough insight into him to know that he's trying too hard to mask his post-River loneliness, particularly when preparing to set the villains' bomb on a course for New York City ("I know you miss her, but can't you write a poem?"). By [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]], he is capable of standing up to the Doctor about as well as some of his more forthright companions.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Compared to most other companions. Other companions would've probably panicked when the Doctor, say, set a villain's bomb on a course for a city. Nardole's response (after the immediate panic) is to say that he ''knows'' that the Doctor has been through a lot, but couldn't he think of another way to express it?
* CowardlyLion: While his fear is played for comic relief, he's willing to follow the Doctor through the increasingly insane situations the Doctor puts all his companions through. By the season finale Nardole is entirely willing to perform a HeroicSacrifice in the Doctor's stead, though he's talked out of it.
* CowardlySidekick: Once he realises River's scheme is going awry because of his mistake, all he can do is hope for the best; once confronted by Hydroflax's body all he can do is plead for his life, and he's quickly rendered helpless.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Lampshaded by Bill in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis "Extremis"]], after Nardole informs her he is the only being in all the Universe who has standing permission to kick the Doctor's arse should the need arise. Her words are, "Are you secretly a badass?" Nardole's response is that there's nothing secret about that.
* DeadpanSnarker: Can surprisingly hold his own with the Doctor during [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]]. He really has his moments in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], when he nonchalantly reveals that most of the surrounding farmland like windmills and bushes are highly explosive.
-->'''Hazran:''' You think you're really something, aren't you?\\
'''Nardole:''' Try not to state the obvious.
* ExpansionPackPast: About OncePerEpisode after his initial would-be one-off appearance, he throws out some new and bizarre factoid about himself.
* {{Foil}}: He and the Twelfth Doctor have a bit of FatAndSkinny going on. Nardole is timid, anxious, unsuspecting, affable, good-mannered, and round-figured, while this particular Doctor is tall, near-bony, snarky, and grouchy with NoSocialSkills.
* HumanAlien: Though it's not mentioned on screen pre-Series 10, according to Matt in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' #507, Nardole's not human, and is possessed of strange abilities and knowledge — making him the TV series' first non-human companion (not counting Handles) since the Fifth Doctor's era. He admits that he isn't human in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], though he's close enough (after being rebuilt, at least) that a bacterium that is lethal to humans still affects him severely, and he barely survives it.
* InsistentTerminology: He makes a resounding point that he has been given full permission by the late River Song to ''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Kick. The Doctor's. ARSE.]]"''
* LiteralMinded: Does not understand that "restroom" and "little boy's room" are euphemisms for the same thing.
* LosingYourHead: He lost his to Hydroflax's body! He got it back by the time of [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return Of Doctor Mysterio"]], though ("The Pilot" reveals his body's mechanical as he accidentally shed's a bolt and has to awkwardly kick it under the Doctor's desk to utterly fail to hide it from Bill).
* ManChild: Has shades of this in his first two appearances, considering his primary outfit is a duffle coat (usually worn by small children) and he uses the term "little boy's room". It's gone entirely by Series 10.
* MixAndMatchMan: Matt's understanding, in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' #518, is that Nardole's an alien, "with [[{{Cyborg}} some robot replacement parts]], and some human lungs".
* MoralityChain:
** River Song assigned him to be this to the Doctor before her death, knowing that he shouldn't be alone. At Missy's execution, he warned the Doctor not to go through with killing her, and subsequently did his best to hold the bored, lonesome Doctor to his vow to watch over her and the Vault.
** Interestingly, he considers the Doctor to be this to him, and worries that he'll default back to being a crook if he doesn't have the Doctor to keep him busy. Given that he used to work for River Song, it's hardly improbable that he's got a criminal past.
* MysteriousPast: We know he used to be blue at some point (thanks to a comment in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]]) and in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]] he states that this face wasn't his original as he had to change that while on the run. Why he went on the run and changed his appearance is never made ''completely'' clear, but [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]] reveals he used to be involved in black market dealings. In the same episode he mentions that he doesn't actually know his origins, only that he was "found".
* NoodleIncident: His "few accidental stop-offs" during [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]], including one [[UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire in 12th-century Constantinople]], where he claims to have accidentally become the Emperor and "ruled firmly but wisely".
* ObfuscatingStupidity: According to Steven Moffat, this is the reason for Nardole's behaviour in [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]]. This is likely a {{retcon}}.
* Really700YearsOld: The Doctor's scanner in the sonic sunglasses (in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E7ThePyramidAtTheEndOfTheWorld "The Pyramid at the End of the World"]]) show that he's 237 years old.
* RoboticReveal: The opening scene of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot "The Pilot"]] strongly implies that at least part of Nardole's replacement body is robotic, as it ''squeaks'' when he moves and a bolt drops out of his sleeve when he's not carrying anything.
* ServileSnarker: '''''Extremely.''''' He's forced to follow the Doctor out of a sense of gratitude, but is pretty honked off at him for using the notion of rebuilding him as an excuse to have someone to talk to [[ReplacementGoldfish when everyone else is gone]]. And 24 years (later an additional 50 to 70) as the Doctor's toady have rendered him incapable of taking any of his crap anymore. In fact, there are a few times when he outright states a desire to kick the Doctor's arse!
* TechnoWizard: Series 10 has a few moments highlighting his computer skills, most memorably [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Somewhere between the opening of [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]] and the end, he becomes a lot more intelligent and savvy, and by the time of Series 10, is more than capable of unleashing a brow-beating on the Doctor (with the occasional threat that he can and will kick his arse should the need arise).
* UnexplainedRecovery: How exactly he got a new body isn't really explained, beyond the Doctor mentioning he "rebuilt" him.
* UnfazedEveryman: Nardole handles the rigors of time travel quite well, even becoming Emperor of the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century for a time during an accidental side-trip by himself. The only thing that really makes him panic is when the Doctor decides to do something particularly crazy and stupid.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's ([[TheDreaded understandably]]) terrified at the thought of going near [[OmnicidalManiac the Daleks]].
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], the Doctor — after so often belitting and ignoring him — asks him an ArmorPiercingQuestion as they debate which one of them will stay behind to destroy the Cybermen hordes on Floor 507 and which will lead the solar farmers to safety and help protect them against future attacks — which of them is ''stronger?'' The Doctor is implying that it's Nardole who will be able to handle the latter option, and Nardole realises he is right and accepts this.

to:

* AllThereInTheManual: Creator/PaulCornell's [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]] {{novelization}} reveals he gets a SurprisinglyHappyEnding post-[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The lesbian version. The Doctor Falls"]]: He lives is compared to over 700 years old on the colony ship, successfully defending the solar farmers against the Cybermen often enough that at last they only have to deal with with annual Cybermat infestations. He also accumulates six wives over that time. Finally, he's accidentally taken by Testimony, which believes him to be an actual human, before he dies. He ''guilts it'' into letting his memories be uploaded into it, which is how an avatar appears to Twelve shortly before he regenerates.
* AscendedExtra: Started out as a supporting character in [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]], getting upgraded to a companion in Series 10. While [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]] was
Byron for being filmed, Creator/StevenMoffat said that initially Matt Lucas had been contracted a bit of a fuckboy, and it's part of the frustrating appeal for certain episodes of Series 10, but ended up appearing in more. By the time the series came to broadcast, he was in ''every'' episode up to Yaz.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Her mother asks if she
and including [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]].
* TheAtoner: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]] implies he used to be a conman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Spends most of his early appearances as ComicRelief, yet he is capable of piloting the TARDIS and was used as MissionControl when
the Doctor are dating when she meets her, and Bill had to navigate a Dalek spaceship later asks the same about Ryan when she meets him. Later on, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati "The Pilot"]]. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]], he gives Haunting of Villa Diodati"]], she makes some comments that can be interpreted as indicating she has a crush on the Doctor a brutal WhatTheHellHero speech when an escapade nearly gets them killed, potentially leaving Doctor. [[spoiler: [[Recap/DoctorWho2022NYSEveOfTheDaleks "Eve of the Vault Daleks"]] confirms that she has feelings for The Doctor.]]
* BrokenPedestal: The shine is completely off Thirteen by "The Halloween Apocalypse", Yaz being sick of the Doctor's lying
and its occupant unguarded. He is then proven correct when the Doctor reveals the trip blinded him.
* BreakingOldTrends: So far he's the only non-human companion in New Who.
evasiveness.
* BumblingSidekick: To River Song. The whole plot of [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]] gets underway when he is sent to fetch the surgeon involved in her scheme, and instead brings back the Twelfth Doctor. Both she and the Doctor treat him haughtily, as well.
* ButtMonkey:
** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]]: He fetches the wrong person for River and learns of his mistake at the worst possible time. He ends up interrogated and ''decapitated'' by Hydroflax's body, his head kept alive to serve as ''its'' new head. In this state he is forced to effectively hold himself hostage so the body can interrogate Ramone. ''Then'' it takes Ramone's head too, and Nardole's head ends up "stored" within its torso, a hot and smelly place. And he almost goes down
ChildhoodFriends: She was friends with the ''Harmony and Redemption'' when it crashes. (Not to mention that the robot short-circuiting can't be a pleasant experience.) All this Ryan in one story! When the dust has settled, however, he adjusts to his odd new existence nicely.
** In Series 10 he's constantly belittled and treated as an annoyance who's less important to the Doctor than his new companion Bill. Like others
primary school, but they didn't keep in this situation, he finds that [[SnarkToSnarkCombat giving as good as he gets]] is the best response.
touch.
* CharacterDevelopment: [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of She's gone from a rookie eager to prove herself to a proto-Doctor, just like Clara Oswald before her.
* DeadpanSnarker: Gains this in Series 13. She snarks back and forth with the
Doctor Mysterio"]] and Dan.
* TheDutifulDaughter: Between her and her sister, Yaz appeared to be the better-received child and is shown to be more responsible than her sister. "Can You Hear Me"
reveals that he's grown some backbone since [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]] — he can hold his own in snarking with the Twelfth Doctor, and he has enough insight she developed into him this character after being consoled by a police officer when she tried to know run away from home.
* EagerRookie: She's on her second year as a probationary officer, and is eager for duties beyond parking disputes, which leads to her getting sent to respond to Ryan's call about an alien object in the woods.
* FairCop: She's a rather attractive rookie police officer.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Is the responsible to her sister's foolish. Yaz became focused on her work as a police officer, while her sister became an irresponsible phone addict who got fired for insulting an unreasonable customer. Downplayed a bit as it turns out Yaz had her own wild streak and was convinced to try for a more responsible life by an inspiring copper, who bet her fifty quid for fifty pence
that he's she'd be happier trying too hard to mask his post-River loneliness, particularly when preparing to set make the villains' bomb on world a course for New York City ("I know you miss her, but can't you write a poem?"). By [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]], he is capable of standing up to better place. (the copper won the Doctor about as well as some of his more forthright companions.
bet)
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Compared GreenEyedMonster: Implied, due to most other companions. Other companions would've probably panicked when the Doctor, say, set a villain's bomb on a course for a city. Nardole's response (after the immediate panic) is to say that he ''knows'' that the Doctor has been through a lot, but couldn't he think of another way to express it?
* CowardlyLion: While his fear is played for comic relief, he's willing to follow the Doctor through the increasingly insane situations the Doctor puts all his companions through. By the season finale Nardole is entirely willing to perform a HeroicSacrifice in
the Doctor's stead, though he's talked out evasiveness about her past and the realisation that she's had previous companions and adventures as a man, Yaz's relationship with the Doctor appears to have elements of it.
retroactive jealousy. A condition or disorder where a person becomes fixated on their partner's past and previous relationships. Then again, this may just stem from Yaz feeling underappreciated and overlooked by the Doctor.
* CowardlySidekick: Once he realises River's scheme HeroWorshipper: According to Mandip Gill, Yaz is going awry because initially so awestruck by the Doctor that, as Gill put it, if the Doctor said "jump", Yaz would ask "How high?" However, in "Revolution of his mistake, all he can do the Daleks", her view on the Doctor is hope jaded somewhat. [[spoiler:That's what happens when your hero disappears for ten months.]]
* ImpliedLoveInterest: Shares this with both Ryan and
the best; once confronted by Hydroflax's body all he can do is plead for his life, and he's quickly rendered helpless.
Doctor.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Lampshaded by Bill in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis "Extremis"]], after Nardole informs her he is the only being in all the Universe who has standing permission to kick InformedAttribute: In Series 11, there were no scenes showing how Yaz became the Doctor's arse should the need arise. Her words are, "Are you secretly a badass?" Nardole's response is that there's nothing secret about that.
* DeadpanSnarker: Can surprisingly hold his own with the Doctor during [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]]. He really has his moments in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], when he nonchalantly reveals that
most of the surrounding farmland like windmills and bushes are highly explosive.
-->'''Hazran:''' You think you're really something, aren't you?\\
'''Nardole:''' Try not to state the obvious.
* ExpansionPackPast: About OncePerEpisode after his initial would-be one-off appearance, he throws out some new and bizarre factoid about himself.
* {{Foil}}: He and the Twelfth Doctor have a bit of FatAndSkinny going on. Nardole is timid, anxious, unsuspecting, affable, good-mannered, and round-figured, while this particular Doctor is tall, near-bony, snarky, and grouchy with NoSocialSkills.
* HumanAlien: Though it's not mentioned on screen pre-Series 10, according to Matt in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' #507, Nardole's not human, and is possessed of strange abilities and knowledge — making him the TV series' first non-human
trustworthy companion (not counting Handles) since the Fifth Doctor's era. He admits and it was assumed that he isn't human she got the role due to her career as a police officer. However, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], though he's close enough (after being rebuilt, at least) that a bacterium that is lethal Series 12, Yaz does start to humans still affects him severely, get her share of heroism and he barely survives it.
* InsistentTerminology: He makes a resounding point that he has been given full permission by the late River Song to ''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Kick. The Doctor's. ARSE.]]"''
* LiteralMinded: Does not understand that "restroom" and "little boy's room" are euphemisms for the same thing.
* LosingYourHead: He lost his to Hydroflax's body! He got it back by the time of [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return Of Doctor Mysterio"]], though ("The Pilot" reveals his body's mechanical
proves herself as he accidentally shed's a bolt and has to awkwardly kick it under the Doctor's desk second-in-command.
* TheLancer: She is frequently seen at the Doctor's side and acting in a partner-like fashion. In contrast
to utterly fail to hide it from Bill).
* ManChild: Has shades of this
the do-gooder traveller living in his first two appearances, considering his primary outfit a police box, she actually is a duffle coat (usually worn by small children) police officer and he uses significantly more rational. In her last episode, she becomes a proto Doctor, like Clara before her, flying the term "little boy's room". It's gone entirely TARDIS by Series 10.
* MixAndMatchMan: Matt's understanding, in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' #518, is that Nardole's an alien, "with [[{{Cyborg}} some robot replacement parts]],
herself, picking up companions and some human lungs".
* MoralityChain:
** River Song assigned him
coming up with her own plan to be this to save the Doctor before her death, knowing that he shouldn't be alone. At Missy's execution, he warned from the Doctor not to go through with killing her, and subsequently did his best to hold the bored, lonesome Doctor to his vow to watch over her and the Vault.
** Interestingly, he considers the Doctor to be this to him, and worries that he'll default back to being a crook if he doesn't have the Doctor to keep him busy. Given that he used to work for River Song, it's hardly improbable that he's got a criminal past.
Master.
* MysteriousPast: We know he used LipstickLesbian: In [[Recap/DoctorWho2022NYSEveOfTheDaleks "Eve of the Daleks"]], [[spoiler:she outright confirms that she is attracted to be blue at some point (thanks to a comment in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]]) and in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]] he states love with the Doctor. After showing no unambiguous signs of feelings for anyone other than the Doctor previously, this means that this face wasn't his original as he had to change that while on the run. Why he went on the run and changed his her only confirmed feelings have been for another woman. When combined with her feminine appearance and presentation, she is never made ''completely'' clear, but [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]] reveals he used this trope.]]
* MarriedToTheJob: She's devoted in her role as a police officer.
* MistakenForRomance: Ryan and Yaz are just friends and nothing more, despite Yaz's sister and mum thinking otherwise.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: She refuses
to be involved give her sister's phone number to Ryan in black market dealings. In the same episode he mentions [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], stating that he she doesn't actually know his origins, only want him as a brother-in-law.
* ObliviousToLove: Whenever she expresses any hint of romantic love for the Doctor, it is because she's of the belief
that he was "found".
* NoodleIncident: His "few accidental stop-offs" during [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]], including one [[UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire in 12th-century Constantinople]], where he claims to have accidentally become
the Emperor and "ruled firmly but wisely".
* ObfuscatingStupidity: According to Steven Moffat,
latter is this is trope. Some of the reason for Nardole's behaviour in [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]]. This is likely a {{retcon}}.
* Really700YearsOld: The
Thirteenth Doctor's scanner in the sonic sunglasses (in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E7ThePyramidAtTheEndOfTheWorld "The Pyramid at the End of the World"]]) show that he's 237 years old.
dialogue, especially throughout Series 12, appears to indicate otherwise.
* RoboticReveal: The opening scene of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot "The Pilot"]] strongly implies that at least part of Nardole's replacement body is robotic, as it ''squeaks'' when he moves OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Yaz to her friends and a bolt drops out of his sleeve when he's not carrying anything.
* ServileSnarker: '''''Extremely.''''' He's forced to follow
family, and since the Doctor out of a sense of gratitude, but is pretty honked off at him for using decided they were friends the notion of rebuilding him as an excuse to have someone to talk to [[ReplacementGoldfish when moment they met, it's how she ends up being called by everyone else is gone]]. And 24 years (later an additional 50 to 70) as the Doctor's toady have rendered him incapable of taking any of his crap anymore. around her.
* OutOfFocus:
In fact, there are a few times when he outright states a desire to kick the Doctor's arse!
* TechnoWizard:
Series 10 has 11, she gets less character background and character focus than her fellow companions. As of "Revolution of the Daleks", it's clear that this was because [[spoiler: she was going to be serving a few moments highlighting his computer skills, most memorably [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls much longer time as a companion than Graham or Ryan.]]
* PluckyGirl: She is often this, being a fangirl of the Doctors and volunteering to help people out. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus "Praxeus"]] even shows her going off on her own adventure and behaving like the Doctor, companion analogue and all!
* ReformedCriminal: The novelisation of
"The Doctor Falls"]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Somewhere between
Witchfinders" reveals that before joining the opening of [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]] police force, she'd been in court for numerous traffic offenses and the end, he becomes a lot more intelligent urinating in public. She claims they were "open and savvy, and by the shut cases".
* TheReliableOne: Yaz spends less
time of Series 10, is more struggling with her insecurities than capable Ryan or Graham and never really needs prodding to do the right thing. As a result, she's [[OutOfFocus out of unleashing focus]] a brow-beating on lot, but the Doctor (with seems to trust her the occasional threat that he can and will kick his arse should the need arise).
* UnexplainedRecovery: How exactly he got a new body isn't really explained, beyond the Doctor mentioning he "rebuilt" him.
* UnfazedEveryman: Nardole handles the rigors of time travel quite well, even becoming Emperor
most out of the Byzantine Empire group.
* TheRunaway: It's revealed
in the 12th century for a time during an accidental side-trip by himself. The only thing [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E7CanYouHearMe "Can You Hear Me?"]] that really makes him panic is when Yaz nearly ran away from home a few years before she met the Doctor decides Doctor. An intervention from a friendly police officer led her to do something particularly crazy change her mind and stupid.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's ([[TheDreaded understandably]]) terrified at the thought of going near [[OmnicidalManiac the Daleks]].
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], the Doctor — after so often belitting and ignoring him — asks him an ArmorPiercingQuestion as they debate which one of them will stay behind
eventually prompted her to destroy the Cybermen hordes on Floor 507 and which will lead the solar farmers to safety and help protect them against future attacks — which of them is ''stronger?'' The Doctor is implying that it's Nardole who will be able to handle the latter option, and Nardole realises he is right and accepts this.become a police officer herself.



[[folder:Bill Potts]]
!!Billie "Bill" Potts (Twelfth Doctor)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bill_3.png]] [[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm having the time of my life, and I wouldn't miss it for the world. Even if it kills me."'']]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot The Pilot]]" (2017)
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Doctor Falls]]" (2017)
->'''Final Appearance:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" (2017)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/PearlMackie (2017)

-->''"Do you know any sci-fi?"''

''The Passenger''

The principal companion of 2017, though she was first introduced with a two-minute video clip in 2016. A cafeteria worker at St. Luke's University in Bristol, she is fascinated with the lectures on time and space given by one particular, long-tenured "professor" even though she's not actually enrolled in his classes at first. The Doctor, in turn, is fascinated by her curiosity and he becomes her tutor. A crisis involving her potential girlfriend Heather leads to the Doctor having to reveal his true nature to Bill, and though he is trying to hold himself to ThePromise regarding his presence at the university, he subsequently takes her on as a companion to show her the wonders she's only heard him lecture about thus far. While her relatively short tenure as a companion sees her undergo horrifying ordeals both on Earth and in the stars, the Doctor's guidance and her inner strength will bring her to a happier ending than even he can imagine is possible.

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[[folder:Bill Potts]]
!!Billie "Bill" Potts (Twelfth
[[folder:Ryan Sinclair]]
!!Ryan Sinclair (Thirteenth
Doctor)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bill_3.png]] [[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm having the time of my life, and I wouldn't miss it for the world. Even if it kills me."'']]
org/pmwiki/pub/images/ryan_sinclair.png]]
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot The Pilot]]" (2017)
[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]] (2018)
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Doctor Falls]]" (2017)
->'''Final Appearance:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" (2017)

"[[Recap/DoctorWho2021NYSRevolutionOfTheDaleks Revolution of the Daleks]]" (2021)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/PearlMackie (2017)

-->''"Do you know any sci-fi?"''

''The Passenger''

The principal companion of 2017, though she was first introduced with a two-minute video clip in 2016.
Creator/TosinCole

A cafeteria warehouse worker at St. Luke's University in Bristol, she is fascinated Sheffield who lives with his grandmother Grace and step-grandfather Graham. When he calls the lectures on time and space given by one particular, long-tenured "professor" even though she's not actually enrolled in his classes at first. The Doctor, in turn, is fascinated by her curiosity and he becomes her tutor. A crisis involving her potential girlfriend Heather leads to the Doctor having to reveal his true nature to Bill, and though he is trying to hold himself to ThePromise regarding his presence at the university, he subsequently takes her on as police after seeing a companion to show her the wonders she's only heard him lecture about thus far. While her relatively short tenure as a companion sees her undergo horrifying ordeals both on Earth and glowing golden symbol in the stars, air which, after touching, causes a mysterious object to appear, he re-connects with his old school friend Yaz, who's gone into the police, and then gets involved in the Doctor's guidance and her inner strength will bring her to a happier ending than even he can imagine is possible.life.



* SeventiesHair: She has an afro most of the time, though it's absent in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand "The Lie of the Land"]].
* AllThereInTheManual: Bill's final fate is explained in the [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]] {{novelization}} by Creator/PaulCornell: After travelling the universe with Heather, the lovers returned to Earth and grew old together as humans. The relationship was so happy that Bill ultimately chose to die of old age rather than be rejuvenated again, and on her deathbed gave Heather permission to return to her immortal, travelling state. (Bill's Testimony avatar cannot explain all this to the Doctor because the Testimony gives her LaserGuidedAmnesia so she'll interact with the Doctor as she did before they were parted.)
* AmazonChaser: In ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTheLostDimension'', she's instantly struck by [[ActionGirl Jenny]], remarking she's "drop-dead gorgeous, ''and'' handy in a fight. I think I'm in love." This is said somewhat admiringly while watching Jenny beat people up. The Doctor finds this specific instance somewhat aggravating because Jenny is his daughter.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Her departure has her leaving to explore the universe further with her LivingShip and lover Heather.
* ApocalypseMaiden: Becomes this thanks to her consenting to let the Monks conquer the planet; though they don't realize it, she is the psychic conduit their MassHypnosis of humanity works through. Missy advises the Doctor to kill her or render her braindead to stop the Monks, and over his objections Bill is ready to make a HeroicSacrifice to do so. However, she survives ''and'' breaks off their link, whereupon they flee.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" Bill (or rather her memory avatar) asks the First Doctor why he stole a TARDIS and ran away. Her exact question impresses him:
-->'''Bill:''' I don't mean what you ran away from. What were you running to?\\
'''1st Doctor:''' That's rather a good question.\\
'''Bill:''' Questions are kinda my thing. How are you with answers?
* BigDamnKiss: With Heather the Pilot after she's more than [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earned Her Happy Ending]].
* BlackAndNerdy: She's quite geeky, and likes sci-fi. She is also undoubtedly very clever, enough to sit in on and understand the Doctor's lectures despite not being a student and manages to pique his curiosity purely through her intellect. When she formally becomes a student, she very ably steps up to the Doctor's challenge of getting a first and her scores are all excellent.
* BraidsOfAction: Her hair is in this style in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E9EmpressOfMars "Empress of Mars"]]. She's a veteran companion by then, after all.
* BreakTheCutie: Her experiences in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], as she ultimately becomes the first Mondasian Cyberman. In the end, she gets ''much'' better.
* ButchLesbian: Downplayed, but Bill is gay, and she has a TomboyishName and clothing style. Her interview with the Doctor and EstablishingCharacterMoment has her telling a story about flirting with a girl by giving her extra chips and unwittingly making her fat.
* CharacterDevelopment: By the time of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E7ThePyramidAtTheEndOfTheWorld "The Pyramid at the End of the World"]], she has learned enough from the Doctor to make the kind of choice he would when she's faced with the prospect of his death: She agrees to let the Monks TakeOverTheWorld if they'll restore his lost eyesight so he can escape the lab that's about to explode, taking the line of thinking that she'll not only save him but he will be able to liberate her and her people. While she must suffer through six lonely months and a gruelling SecretTestOfCharacter in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand "The Lie of the Land"]] before she and the Doctor are reunited and he can put his plan to defeat the Monks into action, she endures and ultimately is willing to make a HeroicSacrifice to save Earth. Luckily, she survives the process.
* ChubbyChaser: She tried to woo a girl by serving her extra chips in the canteen and, as a result, accidentally caused the girl to gain a large amount of weight. But Bill realized she liked seeing the girl bigger because she was the one who caused it, and remarks that the other girl seems just fine with it. There's a brief scene where she serves an extra serving of chips to a larger girl, implicitly the one mentioned, and shares a wink with her.
* ConstantlyCurious: She's ''always'' asking questions, which amps up the teacher/student vibe that she and the Doctor have going.
* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Bill is a cheerful, laidback person who doesn't have many aspirations in life, very different from bossy, control freak, go getter Clara Oswald. Naturally, they also have very different relationships with the Twelfth Doctor; Clara & the Doctor were very much a couple, while Bill took the role of student/daughter/granddaughter, having an easier, lighter dynamic with him.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She endures incredible suffering in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]] that puts the ordeal of the Monks to shame, including getting most of her chest vaporized, spending ten years trapped in a creepy hospital, getting betrayed by a False Friend (who turns out to be none other than the Master) and converted into a Cyberman, and watching the Doctor die, but she holds onto her sanity long enough to get rescued by Heather and ends up leaving to explore the universe with her. Meanwhile, a Testimony avatar of her is happily reunited with him shortly before his regeneration, which also lifts the burden of his guilt over not being able to undo her Cyber-conversion.
* TheEveryman: As much as any companion can be. Out of the Series 10 Team TARDIS dynamic of Bill, Nardole, the Doctor and Missy she's the only one new to an adventuring life. In fact, Bill may be the most ''normal'' companion since Ten's years.
* FridgeLogic: InUniverse, when she wonders why Daleks say "Exterminate" instead of shorter words, like "Kill". Her unusual, questioning perspective on the Doctor's world is key to her character, according to [[invoked]]WordOfGod.
* GayBestFriend: She has this dynamic with the Doctor, having of course no interest in him romantically. When they talk to each other for the last time in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], she heavily implies to him that she loves him in a platonic way.
* GenderBlenderName: "Billie", her full first name, is the feminine form of "Bill"; she typically uses the masculine form.
* GenreSavvy: She was into sci-fi and space before meeting the Doctor, and recognizes the attempt by the Doctor to erase her memories before he does it based on having previously seen it in movies.
* ImaginaryFriend: Her MissingMom becomes this once she has pictures of her. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand "The Lie of the Land"]], she talks to her as a friend because she has no one else to turn to at the time; she knows the truth about the Monks but no one else around her does and she will be arrested for speaking up. Ultimately, her created memories of her mother and their conversations — a pure fiction — are what defeat the Monks in a BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind, as they cannot rewrite fiction, only the truth.
* IncompatibleOrientation: She's the first openly gay Companion and, as such, is the first for whom any fan shipping is ''not cool'' (previous actors have said they and the Doctor were totally doing it all over the TARDIS). Bill lampshades this to get her and the Doctor out of an awkward moment, "I know whe have this student-teacher thing going, but...", and then they laugh and save the world.
* MissingMom: Her biological mother died when she was young. She didn't even have any pictures of her until the Doctor went back in time to take some.
* NaiveNewcomer: She's had an ordinary life in ordinary modern day England with nothing particularly extraordinary happening to her until she was attacked by a puddle, so she doesn't know a thing about Daleks and things from outer space beyond what she's seen in movies. This is why she asks a lot of questions.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: She and Heather are named after Creator/WilliamHartnell and his wife.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Goes by "Bill" rather than "Billie".
* ParentalAbandonment: She was fostered after her mother died. Her father is never mentioned, and her foster mother appears somewhat indifferent to her.
* ParentalSubstitute: The Doctor takes on the role as a surrogate father or grandfather, assisting in such mundane tasks as helping her move house.
* PopCulturedBadass: Even in dire situations, she just can't stop referencing movies she loves.
* PreserveYourGays: While she was turned into a Mondasian Cyberman in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]], she is assimilated by the Heather creature and they travel the universe together by the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]]. They even have an onscreen BigDamnKiss after both have "died". However, she doesn't regain her human form. She's basically like Heather by that point, although she ''could'' turn back into a human if she wanted.
* RunningGag: Subverted. When meeting the Doctor for the first time, she asks "Doctor what?", rather than "[[TitleDrop Doctor who]]?" It also takes her a while to realize that the TARDIS is "bigger on the inside".
* SorryImGay: A good few episodes end up with her telling potential love interests this, ''including the Doctor''. It's inverted when members of a Roman legion actually find it rather cute that she's so… ''restricted''.
* StepfordSnarker: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36ShortFriendFromTheFuture "Friend from the Future"]] suggests that she copes with life-threatening situations by cracking jokes and asking deliberately silly questions.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Has this dynamic with Twelve, who has to work not to crack a smile while explaining how much trouble they're in in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36ShortFriendFromTheFuture "Friend From the Future"]].
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Cyber-conversion ''should'' be Bill's death sentence since the Doctor has no means of restoring her under the circumstances, and indeed everything in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]] points to a final HeroicSacrifice, but Heather the Pilot steps in to save the day AndTheAdventureContinues to an extremely full life for Bill.
* SwissArmyTears: She has these because of her connection to Heather/The Pilot. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], they call Heather back to her ''and'' reignite the Doctor's regeneration ability. (AllThereInTheManual material confirms Heather was watching out for her all along.)
* TomboyishName: "Billie" and "Bill". She goes by the masculine latter.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Black lesbian.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: Part of her BreakTheCutie experience. First, she ended up with her heart being replaced by a metal one after it was vaporised by a gun blast. Then she trusted the wrong person and ended up the first full-blown Mondasian Cyberman.
* WorkingClassHero: She works in a university canteen and it's noted that Bill can't afford to attend any classes herself — until the Doctor becomes her private tutor, that is.
* YouRemindMeOfX: It's implied her ConstantlyCurious nature reminds the Doctor of his granddaughter, Susan Foreman.

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* SeventiesHair: She has an afro most AMFMCharacterization: He's a fan of Music/{{Grime}} music, particuarly Music/{{Stormzy}}. He considered Raze to be the time, though it's absent "sickest grime station" in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand "The Lie of the Land"]].
* AllThereInTheManual: Bill's final fate is explained in the [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]] {{novelization}} by Creator/PaulCornell: After travelling the universe with Heather, the lovers returned to Earth and grew old together as humans. The relationship was so happy that Bill ultimately chose to die of old age rather than be rejuvenated again, and on her deathbed gave Heather permission to return to her immortal, travelling state. (Bill's Testimony avatar cannot explain all this to the Doctor because the Testimony gives her LaserGuidedAmnesia so she'll interact with the Doctor as she did before they were parted.)
* AmazonChaser: In ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTheLostDimension'', she's instantly struck by [[ActionGirl Jenny]], remarking she's "drop-dead gorgeous, ''and'' handy in a fight. I think I'm in love." This is said somewhat admiringly while watching Jenny beat people up. The Doctor finds this specific instance somewhat aggravating because Jenny is his daughter.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Her departure has her leaving to explore the universe further with her LivingShip and lover Heather.
Sheffield.
* ApocalypseMaiden: Becomes this thanks to her consenting to let the Monks conquer the planet; though they don't realize it, she is the psychic conduit their MassHypnosis of humanity works through. Missy advises the Doctor to kill her or render her braindead to stop the Monks, TheArtefact: His family issues and over his objections Bill is ready to make a HeroicSacrifice to do so. However, she survives ''and'' breaks off their link, whereupon they flee.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" Bill (or rather her memory avatar) asks the First Doctor why he stole a TARDIS and ran away. Her exact question impresses him:
-->'''Bill:''' I don't mean what you ran away from. What
relationship with Graham were you running to?\\
'''1st Doctor:''' That's rather a good question.\\
'''Bill:''' Questions are kinda my thing. How are you with answers?
* BigDamnKiss: With Heather the Pilot after she's more than [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earned Her Happy Ending]].
* BlackAndNerdy: She's quite geeky, and likes sci-fi. She is also undoubtedly very clever, enough to sit in on and understand the Doctor's lectures despite not being a student and manages to pique his curiosity purely through her intellect. When she formally becomes a student, she very ably steps up to the Doctor's challenge of getting a first and her scores are all excellent.
* BraidsOfAction: Her hair is in this style in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E9EmpressOfMars "Empress of Mars"]]. She's a veteran companion by then, after all.
* BreakTheCutie: Her experiences in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], as she ultimately becomes the first Mondasian Cyberman. In the end, she gets ''much'' better.
* ButchLesbian: Downplayed, but Bill is gay, and she has a TomboyishName and clothing style. Her interview with the Doctor and EstablishingCharacterMoment has her telling a story about flirting with a girl by giving her extra chips and unwittingly making her fat.
* CharacterDevelopment: By the time of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E7ThePyramidAtTheEndOfTheWorld "The Pyramid
resolved at the End end of Series 11. In Series 12, he's just along for the World"]], she ride, his dyspraxia barely being mentioned. The closest he has learned enough from the Doctor to make the kind of choice he would when she's faced with the prospect of his death: She agrees to let the Monks TakeOverTheWorld if they'll restore his lost eyesight so he can escape the lab that's about to explode, taking the line of thinking that she'll not only save him but he will be able to liberate her and her people. While she must suffer through six lonely months and a gruelling SecretTestOfCharacter in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand "The Lie of the Land"]] before she and the Doctor are reunited and he can put his plan to defeat the Monks into action, she endures and ultimately is willing to make a HeroicSacrifice to save Earth. Luckily, she survives the process.
* ChubbyChaser: She tried to woo a girl by serving her extra chips
an arc in the canteen and, as a result, accidentally caused season is learning how to shoot hoops.
* BookDumb: The others are often left surprised by
the girl to gain a large amount of weight. But Bill realized she liked seeing common knowledge Ryan isn't privy to.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At
the girl bigger because she was end of "Revolution of the one who caused it, and remarks Daleks", he decides that the other girl seems just fine he's found his place on Earth and that it's time for him to move on from adventures with it. There's a brief scene where she serves an extra serving of chips to a larger girl, implicitly the one mentioned, Doctor.]]
* TheCasanova: Hits on a woman in virtually every episode,
and shares a wink many women and gay men like him as well.
* ChildhoodFriends: He was friends
with her.Yaz in primary school, but they didn't keep in touch.
* CynicismCatalyst: Being away from his friends makes Ryan realize that he is not the same as when he first met the Doctor. He even asks Yaz how she feels about leaving the TARDIS.

* ConstantlyCurious: She's ''always'' asking questions, which amps up the teacher/student vibe DisappearedDad: His reaction when his dad fails to show at Grace's memorial service makes it clear that she and the Doctor have going.
* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Bill
man is a cheerful, laidback person who doesn't have many aspirations in life, very different from bossy, control freak, go getter Clara Oswald. Naturally, they also have very different relationships deadbeat. He subsequently comes to the conclusion that his dad's not up to coping with the Twelfth Doctor; Clara & things life can throw at you.
* DullSurprise: One of
the Doctor were more stoic companions, he had a very much a couple, while Bill took the role monotonous, almost robotic manner of student/daughter/granddaughter, having an easier, lighter dynamic with him.speaking (possibly a result of dyspraxia).
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She endures incredible suffering in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough TheEngineer: Studying for his NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) to be a mechanic. He's still learning, but seems to want to puzzle out engineering problems and Time"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls has some skill at figuring out machinery.
* HandicappedBadass: He has to manage his dyspraxia-induced "coordination problem" during his heroic adventures with the Doctor.
* InformedAttribute: Subverted. He has dyspraxia, a condition that affects his physical coordination. It isn't given much focus and is only relevant in his first two episodes, although subtle mentions do come up from time to time, such as while he's playing basketball in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], or hesitating to jump between train cars in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror”]].
* JerkassBall: He's a pretty nice guy, but he grabs it around Graham, refusing to acknowledge the man as his grandfather and rebuffing his attempts at friendship. And he's been doing this for three years. Possibly justified in that Graham often acts ''entitled'' to being treated as Ryan's grandfather, and so Ryan isn't given much space to acknowledge him on his own terms. All this said, he eases off over the course of the series, most notably in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]], where he expresses anger at his {{Jerkass}} father implicitly not considering Graham family. He finally ''does'' call Graham "Granddad" in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway "It Takes You Away"]], after Graham proves he cares about Ryan for the young man's own sake by rejecting the pseudo-Grace so he can save Ryan.
* TheKlutz: Justified and deconstructed. He has dyspraxia, and his inability to ride a bike as a result deeply frustrates him.
* LearningToRideABike: Ryan has dyspraxia, a condition which impairs his coordination, and thus has never learned to ride a bike. [[{{Determinator}} He won't give up]], and as they bond, this cements the father-son dynamic with Graham.
* MissingMom: Died six years before [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth
"The Doctor Falls"]] that puts the ordeal Woman Who Fell to Earth"]], when Ryan was thirteen.
* MistakenForRomance: Yaz's family sees his friendship with Yaz as something more, despite neither
of the Monks to shame, including getting most of her chest vaporized, spending ten years trapped in a creepy hospital, getting betrayed by a False Friend (who turns out to be none other than the Master) and converted into a Cyberman, and watching the Doctor die, but she holds onto her sanity long enough to two thinking that way.
* ObliviousToLove: Ryan does
get rescued by Heather and ends up leaving to explore the universe a small number of admirers. He has a few [[ShipTease moments]] with her. Meanwhile, Yaz, Yaz's sister takes a Testimony avatar of her is happily reunited liking to him, and [[EvenTheGuysWantHim King James asks him to stay]]. Ryan usually responds with him shortly before his regeneration, which confusion, and he doesn't recognise when he's flirting with someone. [[spoiler:Captain Jack also lifts the burden of his guilt over not being able to undo her Cyber-conversion.
flirted with him. Ryan's response: "I like him."]]
* TheEveryman: As much as any companion can be. Out of the PluckyComicRelief: By Series 10 Team TARDIS dynamic 12, he gets plenty of Bill, Nardole, the Doctor comedic moments, and Missy she's the only one new to an adventuring life. In fact, Bill may be is the most ''normal'' companion since Ten's years.comedy oriented of the three.
* TheStoic: He speaks in a very reserved, unemotional manner.

* FridgeLogic: InUniverse, when she wonders why Daleks say "Exterminate" instead of shorter words, like "Kill". Her unusual, questioning perspective ThereAreNoTherapists: Ryan has some deep-rooted daddy issues caused by his father walking out on him and he often brings up these problems. In "Rosa", he and Yaz quickly talk about the Doctor's world is key to her character, according to [[invoked]]WordOfGod.
* GayBestFriend: She has this dynamic
prejudice they face in the modern age after jumping through a window with the Doctor, having of course no interest in him romantically. When they talk Yaz to each other for the last time in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls escape a racist cop. In "The Doctor Falls"]], she heavily implies to him that she loves him in a platonic way.
* GenderBlenderName: "Billie", her full first name, is the feminine form of "Bill"; she typically uses the masculine form.
* GenreSavvy: She was into sci-fi and space before meeting the Doctor, and recognizes the attempt by the Doctor to erase her memories before
Tsuranga Conundrum", [[SkewedPriorities he does it based on having previously seen it in movies.
* ImaginaryFriend: Her MissingMom becomes this once she has pictures of her. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand "The Lie of the Land"]], she talks to her as a friend
stops mid-chase because she has no one else to turn to at the time; she knows pregnant man reminded him of his disappeared dad]]. In "It Takes You Away", he brings the truth possibility that Hanne's father simply abandoned her than being a kidnapped, an insensitive claim that is proven to be pretty accurate because the father actually chose to stay in an alternate universe to stay with something that claims to be his dead wife.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** He's not crazy
about the Monks but no one else around her does and she will be arrested for speaking up. Ultimately, her created memories of her mother and their conversations — a pure fiction — are what defeat the Monks in a BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind, as they cannot rewrite fiction, only the truth.
spiders.
** Or ladders, especially under pressure.
* IncompatibleOrientation: She's the first openly gay Companion and, as such, is the first for whom any fan shipping is ''not cool'' (previous actors YoureNotMyFather: Doesn't have said they the best relationship with Grace's second husband Graham, refusing Grace's and the Doctor were totally doing it all over the TARDIS). Bill lampshades this Graham's efforts to get her and the Doctor out of an awkward moment, "I know whe have this student-teacher thing going, but...", and then they laugh and save the world.
* MissingMom: Her biological mother died
him to call him "Grandad". That said, when she was young. She didn't even have any pictures of her until Graham proudly calls Ryan his grandson in the Doctor went back Jim Crow Deep South in time to take some.
* NaiveNewcomer: She's had an ordinary life in ordinary modern day England with nothing particularly extraordinary happening to her until she was attacked by a puddle, so she
[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa "Rosa"]], Ryan doesn't object. He also lets Graham know a thing about Daleks and things from outer space beyond what she's seen in movies. This is why she asks a lot of questions.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: She and Heather are named after Creator/WilliamHartnell and
he was offended by his wife.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Goes by "Bill" rather than "Billie".
* ParentalAbandonment: She was fostered after her mother died. Her
own father is never mentioned, and her foster mother appears somewhat indifferent to her.
* ParentalSubstitute: The Doctor takes on the role as a surrogate father or grandfather, assisting in such mundane tasks as helping her move house.
* PopCulturedBadass: Even in dire situations, she just can't stop referencing movies she loves.
* PreserveYourGays: While she was turned into a Mondasian Cyberman in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]], she is assimilated by the Heather creature and they travel the universe together by the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]]. They even have an onscreen BigDamnKiss after both have "died". However, she doesn't regain her human form. She's basically like Heather by
implying that point, although she ''could'' turn back into a human if she wanted.
* RunningGag: Subverted. When meeting the Doctor for the first time, she asks "Doctor what?", rather than "[[TitleDrop Doctor who]]?" It also takes her a while to realize that the TARDIS is "bigger on the inside".
* SorryImGay: A good few episodes end up with her telling potential love interests this, ''including the Doctor''. It's inverted when members of a Roman legion actually find it rather cute that she's so… ''restricted''.
* StepfordSnarker: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36ShortFriendFromTheFuture "Friend from the Future"]] suggests that she copes with life-threatening situations by cracking jokes and asking deliberately silly questions.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Has this dynamic with Twelve, who has to work not to crack a smile while explaining how much trouble they're in in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36ShortFriendFromTheFuture "Friend From the Future"]].
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Cyber-conversion ''should'' be Bill's death sentence since the Doctor has no means of restoring her under the circumstances, and indeed everything in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]] points to a final HeroicSacrifice, but Heather the Pilot steps in to save the day AndTheAdventureContinues to an extremely full life for Bill.
* SwissArmyTears: She has these because of her connection to Heather/The Pilot. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], they call Heather back to her ''and'' reignite the Doctor's regeneration ability. (AllThereInTheManual material confirms Heather was watching out for her all along.)
* TomboyishName: "Billie" and "Bill". She goes by the masculine latter.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Black lesbian.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: Part of her BreakTheCutie experience. First, she ended up with her heart being replaced by a metal one after it was vaporised by a gun blast. Then she trusted the wrong person and ended up the first full-blown Mondasian Cyberman.
* WorkingClassHero: She works in a university canteen and it's noted that Bill can't afford to attend any classes herself — until the Doctor becomes her private tutor, that is.
* YouRemindMeOfX: It's implied her ConstantlyCurious nature reminds the Doctor of his granddaughter, Susan Foreman.
Graham wasn't proper family.



!!Thirteenth Doctor Era

[[folder:Yasmin Khan]]
!!PC Yasmin "Yaz" Khan (Thirteenth Doctor)
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!!Thirteenth Doctor Era

[[folder:Yasmin Khan]]
!!PC Yasmin "Yaz" Khan
[[folder:Graham O'Brien]]
!!Graham O'Brien
(Thirteenth Doctor)
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->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Doctor]]" (2022)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MandipGill

A young police officer in Sheffield who, after asking for more important responsibilities than parking disputes, is sent to respond to a call put in by her old school friend Ryan about a mysterious object appearing in the woods. This leads to her getting involved in the Doctor's life. Yaz is the longest running companion in the entire series in terms of "years", from October 2018 to October 2022 for a total of 4 years and 16 days.[[note]]Rather than number of episodes, which would be Jamie, or stories, which would be Clara, or seasons, which would be Sarah Jane or Tegan, or time spent with the Doctor in-universe, which would be the Ponds.[[/note]]

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->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2021NYSRevolutionOfTheDaleks Revolution of the Daleks]]" (2021)
->'''Final Appearance:'''
"[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Doctor]]" (2022)

(2022)


->'''Played by:''' Creator/MandipGill

Creator/BradleyWalsh

A young police officer in Sheffield who, after asking for more important responsibilities than parking disputes, is sent retired bus driver from Sheffield, married to respond to a call put in Grace and therefore Ryan's grandpa by her old school friend Ryan about a mysterious object appearing in the woods. This leads to her getting marriage, who finds himself involved in the Doctor's life. Yaz is the longest running companion in the entire series in terms of "years", from October 2018 to October 2022 for a total of 4 years and 16 days.[[note]]Rather than number of episodes, which would be Jamie, or stories, which would be Clara, or seasons, which would be Sarah Jane or Tegan, or time spent with the Doctor in-universe, which would be the Ponds.[[/note]]life.



* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The lesbian version. The Doctor is compared to Byron for being a bit of a fuckboy, and it's part of the frustrating appeal for Yaz.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Her mother asks if she and the Doctor are dating when she meets her, and later asks the same about Ryan when she meets him. Later on, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"]], she makes some comments that can be interpreted as indicating she has a crush on the Doctor. [[spoiler: [[Recap/DoctorWho2022NYSEveOfTheDaleks "Eve of the Daleks"]] confirms that she has feelings for The Doctor.]]
* BrokenPedestal: The shine is completely off Thirteen by "The Halloween Apocalypse", Yaz being sick of the Doctor's lying and evasiveness.
* ChildhoodFriends: She was friends with Ryan in primary school, but they didn't keep in touch.
* CharacterDevelopment: She's gone from a rookie eager to prove herself to a proto-Doctor, just like Clara Oswald before her.
* DeadpanSnarker: Gains this in Series 13. She snarks back and forth with the Doctor and Dan.
* TheDutifulDaughter: Between her and her sister, Yaz appeared to be the better-received child and is shown to be more responsible than her sister. "Can You Hear Me" reveals that she developed into this character after being consoled by a police officer when she tried to run away from home.
* EagerRookie: She's on her second year as a probationary officer, and is eager for duties beyond parking disputes, which leads to her getting sent to respond to Ryan's call about an alien object in the woods.
* FairCop: She's a rather attractive rookie police officer.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Is the responsible to her sister's foolish. Yaz became focused on her work as a police officer, while her sister became an irresponsible phone addict who got fired for insulting an unreasonable customer. Downplayed a bit as it turns out Yaz had her own wild streak and was convinced to try for a more responsible life by an inspiring copper, who bet her fifty quid for fifty pence that she'd be happier trying to make the world a better place. (the copper won the bet)
* GreenEyedMonster: Implied, due to the Doctor's evasiveness about her past and the realisation that she's had previous companions and adventures as a man, Yaz's relationship with the Doctor appears to have elements of retroactive jealousy. A condition or disorder where a person becomes fixated on their partner's past and previous relationships. Then again, this may just stem from Yaz feeling underappreciated and overlooked by the Doctor.
* HeroWorshipper: According to Mandip Gill, Yaz is initially so awestruck by the Doctor that, as Gill put it, if the Doctor said "jump", Yaz would ask "How high?" However, in "Revolution of the Daleks", her view on the Doctor is jaded somewhat. [[spoiler:That's what happens when your hero disappears for ten months.]]
* ImpliedLoveInterest: Shares this with both Ryan and the Doctor.
* InformedAttribute: In Series 11, there were no scenes showing how Yaz became the Doctor's most trustworthy companion and it was assumed that she got the role due to her career as a police officer. However, in Series 12, Yaz does start to get her share of heroism and proves herself as the Doctor's second-in-command.
* TheLancer: She is frequently seen at the Doctor's side and acting in a partner-like fashion. In contrast to the do-gooder traveller living in a police box, she actually is a police officer and significantly more rational. In her last episode, she becomes a proto Doctor, like Clara before her, flying the TARDIS by herself, picking up companions and coming up with her own plan to save the Doctor from the Master.
* LipstickLesbian: In [[Recap/DoctorWho2022NYSEveOfTheDaleks "Eve of the Daleks"]], [[spoiler:she outright confirms that she is attracted to and in love with the Doctor. After showing no unambiguous signs of feelings for anyone other than the Doctor previously, this means that her only confirmed feelings have been for another woman. When combined with her feminine appearance and presentation, she is this trope.]]
* MarriedToTheJob: She's devoted in her role as a police officer.
* MistakenForRomance: Ryan and Yaz are just friends and nothing more, despite Yaz's sister and mum thinking otherwise.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: She refuses to give her sister's phone number to Ryan in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], stating that she doesn't want him as a brother-in-law.
* ObliviousToLove: Whenever she expresses any hint of romantic love for the Doctor, it is because she's of the belief that the latter is this trope. Some of the Thirteenth Doctor's dialogue, especially throughout Series 12, appears to indicate otherwise.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Yaz to her friends and family, and since the Doctor decided they were friends the moment they met, it's how she ends up being called by everyone around her.
* OutOfFocus: In Series 11, she gets less character background and character focus than her fellow companions. As of "Revolution of the Daleks", it's clear that this was because [[spoiler: she was going to be serving a much longer time as a companion than Graham or Ryan.]]
* PluckyGirl: She is often this, being a fangirl of the Doctors and volunteering to help people out. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus "Praxeus"]] even shows her going off on her own adventure and behaving like the Doctor, companion analogue and all!
* ReformedCriminal: The novelisation of "The Witchfinders" reveals that before joining the police force, she'd been in court for numerous traffic offenses and urinating in public. She claims they were "open and shut cases".
* TheReliableOne: Yaz spends less time struggling with her insecurities than Ryan or Graham and never really needs prodding to do the right thing. As a result, she's [[OutOfFocus out of focus]] a lot, but the Doctor seems to trust her the most out of the group.
* TheRunaway: It's revealed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E7CanYouHearMe "Can You Hear Me?"]] that Yaz nearly ran away from home a few years before she met the Doctor. An intervention from a friendly police officer led her to change her mind and eventually prompted her to become a police officer herself.

to:

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The lesbian version. The Doctor is compared to Byron for being a bit of a fuckboy, and it's part of the frustrating appeal for Yaz.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Her mother asks if she He's not exactly complaining about being kissed by [[spoiler:Jack Harkness]].
* BadBoss: Discussed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"]], where he compares Thomas Edison to his old boss. It is implied that said boss was a factor towards him retiring from his job.
* BeenThereShapedHistory:
** He ends up being the white passenger who Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for, which he's understandably not too happy about.
** In ''The Simple Things'' short story by Joy Wilkinson he goes back to meet the founders of his favourite football team, West Ham United. He gives them his West Ham pin, they like the name
and decide to use it.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Graham is about as sweet as a sweet old man could be. And yet, he is ''hell bent'' on killing Tim Shaw as revenge for Grace — so much so that
the Doctor are dating when she meets her, seriously wonders if he's going to be a threat to them all. In the end, he decides to "be the better man" and later asks the same about Ryan when she meets him. Later on, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati spares Shaw's life... only to subject him to a FateWorseThanDeath.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Returns for
"The Haunting of Villa Diodati"]], she makes some comments that can be interpreted as indicating she has a crush on the Doctor. [[spoiler: [[Recap/DoctorWho2022NYSEveOfTheDaleks "Eve Power of the Daleks"]] confirms that she has feelings for The Doctor.Doctor", without Ryan, who is apparently in Patagonia.]]
* BrokenPedestal: The shine is completely off Thirteen by "The Halloween Apocalypse", Yaz being sick of ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At the Doctor's lying and evasiveness.
* ChildhoodFriends: She was friends with Ryan in primary school, but they didn't keep in touch.
* CharacterDevelopment: She's gone from a rookie eager to prove herself to a proto-Doctor, just like Clara Oswald before her.
* DeadpanSnarker: Gains this in Series 13. She snarks back and forth with the Doctor and Dan.
* TheDutifulDaughter: Between her and her sister, Yaz appeared to be the better-received child and is shown to be more responsible than her sister. "Can You Hear Me" reveals that she developed into this character after being consoled by a police officer when she tried to run away from home.
* EagerRookie: She's on her second year as a probationary officer, and is eager for duties beyond parking disputes, which leads to her getting sent to respond to Ryan's call about an alien object in the woods.
* FairCop: She's a rather attractive rookie police officer.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Is the responsible to her sister's foolish. Yaz became focused on her work as a police officer, while her sister became an irresponsible phone addict who got fired for insulting an unreasonable customer. Downplayed a bit as it turns out Yaz had her own wild streak and was convinced to try for a more responsible life by an inspiring copper, who bet her fifty quid for fifty pence that she'd be happier trying to make the world a better place. (the copper won the bet)
* GreenEyedMonster: Implied, due to the Doctor's evasiveness about her past and the realisation that she's had previous companions and adventures as a man, Yaz's relationship with the Doctor appears to have elements
end of retroactive jealousy. A condition or disorder where a person becomes fixated on their partner's past and previous relationships. Then again, this may just stem from Yaz feeling underappreciated and overlooked by the Doctor.
* HeroWorshipper: According to Mandip Gill, Yaz is initially so awestruck by the Doctor that, as Gill put it, if the Doctor said "jump", Yaz would ask "How high?" However, in
"Revolution of the Daleks", her view on the Doctor is jaded somewhat. [[spoiler:That's what happens when your hero disappears for ten months.Ryan decides to part ways with the Doctor, Graham leaves as well in order to remain in his life.]]
* ImpliedLoveInterest: Shares this CowardlyLion: He's not at all happy with both Ryan and the Doctor.
* InformedAttribute: In Series 11, there were no scenes showing how Yaz became the Doctor's most trustworthy companion and it was assumed that she got the role due to her career as a police officer. However, in Series 12, Yaz does start to get her share of heroism and proves herself as the Doctor's second-in-command.
* TheLancer: She is frequently seen at the Doctor's side and acting in a partner-like fashion. In contrast
danger he finds himself in, yet he rises to the do-gooder traveller living in a police box, she actually is a police officer challenge anyway.
* CruelMercy: The way he
and significantly more rational. In her last episode, she becomes a proto Doctor, like Clara before her, flying the TARDIS by herself, picking up companions and coming up Ryan deal with her own plan to save the "Tim Shaw". The Doctor from did talk them out of killing the Master.guy, but locking him in a stasis pod, conscious, and sealed away where no one is going to find him for a ''very'' long time? Seven and Ten would have approved.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's not impressed by Epzo's misanthropic viewpoint in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]].

* LipstickLesbian: In [[Recap/DoctorWho2022NYSEveOfTheDaleks "Eve of the Daleks"]], [[spoiler:she outright confirms -->'''Graham:''' Were you born that miserable, or did you have to work at it?
* DriverOfABlackCab: Retired bus driver. Still knows colleagues at the station, and when needed goes to them for the local gossip.
-->'''Graham:''' If you want to know what's happening, ask a bus driver.
* HappilyMarried: To Grace, as
she gave him something to live for when he was undergoing cancer treatment. Her death devastates him.
* TheHeart: Despite his SourSupporter moments, Graham
is attracted to and in love the one with the Doctor. After showing no unambiguous signs biggest heart. He always tries to talk to and empathize with people having a hard time. See the way he comforts Yaz in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab "Demons of feelings the Punjab"]] and Jake in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus "Praxeus"]]. Not forgetting the fact he and Ryan help deliver a baby in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum "The Tsuranga Conundrum"]].
* HowDoIShotWeb: Although he has psychic paper in his arsenal, he doesn't really know how it works, as Ace points out.
* TheLostLenore: Grace's absence is a constant influence upon Graham, who asks himself "What would Grace do/think?" repeatedly throughout Series 11. He chose to join Team TARDIS as much to find respite from his grief as to explore new worlds and eras.
* MistakenIdentity: Has been mistaken
for anyone other than the Doctor previously, this means that her only confirmed feelings have been for another woman. When combined with her feminine appearance and presentation, she is this trope.twice now. [[spoiler:The second time, Captain Jack Harkness snogs him thinking the Doctor had regenerated.]]
* MarriedToTheJob: She's devoted NiceGuy: Occasional grumpiness aside, he's actually a sweet guy.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite his general OnlySaneMan attitude, he occasionally cottons on to how cool it is to travel with the Doctor. For instance, after arriving (by mistake)
in her role as a police officer.
1955 Montgomery, Alabama, he asks if they can see Elvis perform live.
* MistakenForRomance: Ryan and Yaz are just friends and nothing more, despite Yaz's sister and mum thinking otherwise.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: She refuses to give her sister's phone number to Ryan in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], stating that she doesn't want him as a brother-in-law.
* ObliviousToLove: Whenever she expresses any hint of romantic love for
OlderSidekick: He's not older than the Doctor, obviously, but he's probably the second-oldest human companion ever after Wilf. And, importantly, he ''looks'' older than the Doctor he's travelling with.
* OnlySaneMan: Much like Rory was to Amy and Eleven, he's the only one of Thirteen's companions to acknowledge how dangerous things are, and is quick to bring the others down to earth:
-->'''The Doctor:''' ''[opening a mysterious suitcase]'' Is anyone excited? I'm ''really'' excited.\\
'''Graham:''' You won't be if it's a bomb.\\
'''The Doctor:''' ''[annoyed]'' Don't kill the vibe, Graham!
* PapaWolf: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa "Rosa"]], he's quick to shield Ryan from a local bigot who shoved him to the ground.
* ParentsAsPeople: He's understandably frustrated by Ryan's refusal to acknowledge him as his grandfather, but he loves the boy just the same.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: He has this dynamic with his wife, Grace. He's generally sour and pointing out how dangerous and/or crazy something is and she is generally more excited and eager for adventure. One example is this exchange from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]]:
-->'''Grace:''' Is
it wrong to be enjoying this?\\
'''Graham:''' [[BluntYes Yes!]]\\
'''Grace:''' ''[giggles]''
* ShipTease: With Ace, who he bumps into while investigating some suspicious volcanic activity. He acts flustered when she calls it a "first" date, and when she tells him her name he says to himself she
is because she's [[TotallyRadical Ace]]. This isn't followed up on at the [[TropaholicsAnonymous former companion support group]].
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: As the snarkiest of Team TARDIS, he often gets into snarking matches, with either the Doctor or the guest stars
of the belief week.
* SourSupporter: Downplayed since he's pretty easygoing overall, but if anyone is going to start grumbling about the little inconveniences
that the latter is this trope. Some of the Thirteenth Doctor's dialogue, especially throughout Series 12, appears lifestyle tends to indicate otherwise.
result in (such as being too busy running around having grand adventures to remember little things like "having lunch"), it's him.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: SurvivorsGuilt: As a cancer survivor, he feels guilty when Grace dies, saying it should have been him instead.
* TeamDad: Or Team Grandad. Cut him in half and you'd find "hard-working busdriver who loves nothing more than telling his fam how proud he is of them" written across his kidneys. Which would be inconvenient for him, so don't do it. Ryan and
Yaz to her friends and family, and since both tear up when he goes full grandad. Also, he's really bad with technology.
* UnfazedEveryman: An easy-going, down-to-earth working-class bloke who takes most of the bizarre things he encounters in his stride.
* VerbalTic: He makes a habit of calling
the Doctor decided they were friends the moment they met, it's how she ends up being called by everyone around her.
"Doc".
* OutOfFocus: In Series 11, she gets less character background and character focus than her fellow companions. As of "Revolution of the Daleks", it's clear that this was because [[spoiler: she was going to be serving a much longer time as a companion than Graham or Ryan.]]
* PluckyGirl: She is often this, being a fangirl of the Doctors and volunteering to help people out. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus "Praxeus"]] even shows her going off on her own adventure and behaving like
VitriolicBestBuds: He clearly admires the Doctor, companion analogue and all!
* ReformedCriminal:
but they get into snarking matches with each other often. The novelisation of Doctor herself seems to enjoy the banter.
* WhatWouldXDo: He asks himself "what would Grace do" when he feels lost. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument
"The Witchfinders" reveals that before joining Ghost Monument"]], the police force, she'd been in court for numerous traffic offenses and urinating in public. She claims they were "open and shut cases".
* TheReliableOne: Yaz spends less time struggling
answer is "What's wrong with her insecurities than Ryan or Graham and never really needs prodding to do the right thing. As a result, she's [[OutOfFocus out of focus]] a lot, but the Doctor seems to trust her the most out of the group.
* TheRunaway: It's revealed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E7CanYouHearMe "Can You Hear Me?"]] that Yaz nearly ran away from home a few years before she met the Doctor. An intervention from a friendly police officer led her to change her mind and eventually prompted her to become a police officer herself.
you? You're on an alien planet. How cool is that?"



[[folder:Ryan Sinclair]]
!!Ryan Sinclair (Thirteenth Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]] (2018)
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2021NYSRevolutionOfTheDaleks Revolution of the Daleks]]" (2021)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/TosinCole

A warehouse worker in Sheffield who lives with his grandmother Grace and step-grandfather Graham. When he calls the police after seeing a glowing golden symbol in the air which, after touching, causes a mysterious object to appear, he re-connects with his old school friend Yaz, who's gone into the police, and then gets involved in the Doctor's life.

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[[folder:Ryan Sinclair]]
!!Ryan Sinclair
[[folder:Dan Lewis]]
!!Dan Lewis
(Thirteenth Doctor)
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org/pmwiki/pub/images/dan_wok_doctor_who_flux_600x337.jpg]]
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]] (2018)
"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E1FluxChapterOneTheHalloweenApocalypse Flux Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse]]" (2021)
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2021NYSRevolutionOfTheDaleks Revolution "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Daleks]]" (2021)

Doctor]]" (2022)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/TosinCole

A warehouse worker
Creator/JohnBishop (2021)

-->''"What's the point
in Sheffield living if it's not to make other people happy?"''

A new companion introduced in 2021's six-part storyline ''Flux'', filling the void left by Graham and Ryan's departure. A slightly eccentric but otherwise ordinary middle-aged bloke from UsefulNotes/{{Liverpool}} whose principal interests include [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams the Reds]], helping poor families at his local food bank, and pretending to be a tour guide at the Museum of Liverpool, Dan is spirited away by a foul-tempered dog-man named Karvanista,
who lives with turns out to be his grandmother Grace assigned protector for the coming apocalypse.

Depending on how you count the tenures of Adam Mitchell
and step-grandfather Graham. When Jack Harkness from Series 1[[labelnote:Namely...]] Adam's 2 stories and episodes don't qualify him as a companion since he calls was designed to show what a "bad" companion is, and Jack's future appearances boost his episode and story counts[[/labelnote]], Dan is the police after seeing a glowing golden symbol shortest tenured companion in the air which, after touching, causes revival era by both episode and story count[[note]]9 and 4 respectively if you treat Flux as a mysterious object to appear, he re-connects with single story, 9 each if you count each episode of Flux as one story, which would ''still'' make his old school friend Yaz, who's gone into tenure one of the police, and then gets involved in shortest on the Doctor's life.show[[/note]].



* AMFMCharacterization: He's a fan of Music/{{Grime}} music, particuarly Music/{{Stormzy}}. He considered Raze to be the "sickest grime station" in Sheffield.
* TheArtefact: His family issues and relationship with Graham were resolved at the end of Series 11. In Series 12, he's just along for the ride, his dyspraxia barely being mentioned. The closest he has to an arc in the season is learning how to shoot hoops.
* BookDumb: The others are often left surprised by the amount of common knowledge Ryan isn't privy to.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At the end of "Revolution of the Daleks", he decides that he's found his place on Earth and that it's time for him to move on from adventures with the Doctor.]]
* TheCasanova: Hits on a woman in virtually every episode, and many women and gay men like him as well.
* ChildhoodFriends: He was friends with Yaz in primary school, but they didn't keep in touch.
* CynicismCatalyst: Being away from his friends makes Ryan realize that he is not the same as when he first met the Doctor. He even asks Yaz how she feels about leaving the TARDIS.
* DisappearedDad: His reaction when his dad fails to show at Grace's memorial service makes it clear that the man is a deadbeat. He subsequently comes to the conclusion that his dad's not up to coping with the things life can throw at you.
* DullSurprise: One of the more stoic companions, he had a very monotonous, almost robotic manner of speaking (possibly a result of dyspraxia).
* TheEngineer: Studying for his NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) to be a mechanic. He's still learning, but seems to want to puzzle out engineering problems and has some skill at figuring out machinery.
* HandicappedBadass: He has to manage his dyspraxia-induced "coordination problem" during his heroic adventures with the Doctor.
* InformedAttribute: Subverted. He has dyspraxia, a condition that affects his physical coordination. It isn't given much focus and is only relevant in his first two episodes, although subtle mentions do come up from time to time, such as while he's playing basketball in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], or hesitating to jump between train cars in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror”]].
* JerkassBall: He's a pretty nice guy, but he grabs it around Graham, refusing to acknowledge the man as his grandfather and rebuffing his attempts at friendship. And he's been doing this for three years. Possibly justified in that Graham often acts ''entitled'' to being treated as Ryan's grandfather, and so Ryan isn't given much space to acknowledge him on his own terms. All this said, he eases off over the course of the series, most notably in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]], where he expresses anger at his {{Jerkass}} father implicitly not considering Graham family. He finally ''does'' call Graham "Granddad" in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway "It Takes You Away"]], after Graham proves he cares about Ryan for the young man's own sake by rejecting the pseudo-Grace so he can save Ryan.
* TheKlutz: Justified and deconstructed. He has dyspraxia, and his inability to ride a bike as a result deeply frustrates him.
* LearningToRideABike: Ryan has dyspraxia, a condition which impairs his coordination, and thus has never learned to ride a bike. [[{{Determinator}} He won't give up]], and as they bond, this cements the father-son dynamic with Graham.
* MissingMom: Died six years before [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]], when Ryan was thirteen.
* MistakenForRomance: Yaz's family sees his friendship with Yaz as something more, despite neither of the two thinking that way.
* ObliviousToLove: Ryan does get a small number of admirers. He has a few [[ShipTease moments]] with Yaz, Yaz's sister takes a liking to him, and [[EvenTheGuysWantHim King James asks him to stay]]. Ryan usually responds with confusion, and he doesn't recognise when he's flirting with someone. [[spoiler:Captain Jack also flirted with him. Ryan's response: "I like him."]]
* PluckyComicRelief: By Series 12, he gets plenty of comedic moments, and is the most comedy oriented of the three.
* TheStoic: He speaks in a very reserved, unemotional manner.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Ryan has some deep-rooted daddy issues caused by his father walking out on him and he often brings up these problems. In "Rosa", he and Yaz quickly talk about the prejudice they face in the modern age after jumping through a window with Yaz to escape a racist cop. In "The Tsuranga Conundrum", [[SkewedPriorities he stops mid-chase because the pregnant man reminded him of his disappeared dad]]. In "It Takes You Away", he brings the possibility that Hanne's father simply abandoned her than being a kidnapped, an insensitive claim that is proven to be pretty accurate because the father actually chose to stay in an alternate universe to stay with something that claims to be his dead wife.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** He's not crazy about spiders.
** Or ladders, especially under pressure.
* YoureNotMyFather: Doesn't have the best relationship with Grace's second husband Graham, refusing Grace's and Graham's efforts to get him to call him "Grandad". That said, when Graham proudly calls Ryan his grandson in the Jim Crow Deep South in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa "Rosa"]], Ryan doesn't object. He also lets Graham know he was offended by his own father implying that Graham wasn't proper family.

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* AMFMCharacterization: BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro: He's a fan of Music/{{Grime}} music, particuarly Music/{{Stormzy}}. He considered Raze introduced to be the "sickest grime station" in Sheffield.
* TheArtefact: His family issues and relationship with Graham were resolved
audience giving a passionate speech to guests at the end Museum of Series 11. In Series 12, Liverpool about what an amazing city it is, suggesting he's just along for a tour guide. After he's finished, Diane, an actual museum employee, walks up to him to escort him off the ride, his dyspraxia barely being mentioned. The closest premises, and tells him that her boss is going to ban him if he has to an arc in the season is learning how to shoot hoops.
* BookDumb: The others are often left surprised by the amount of common knowledge Ryan isn't privy to.
tries a stunt like that again.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At [[spoiler:After being brought within a hair of dying during the end of "Revolution of [=CyberMasters=]' attack on a train, he chose to leave the Daleks", he decides that he's found TARDIS crew amicably. Thanks to his place on Earth and that it's time for him to move on from adventures experiences with the Doctor.Doctor, he can now fight for the life he wants.]]
* TheCasanova: Hits on a woman in virtually every episode, and many women and gay men like him as well.
* ChildhoodFriends: He was friends with Yaz in primary school, but they didn't keep in touch.
* CynicismCatalyst: Being away
CanineCompanion: Dan is Karvanista's designated human to protect from his friends makes Ryan realize that he is not the same as when Flux. While Karvanista is honour-bound to defend him, he first met the Doctor. He even asks Yaz how she feels about leaving the TARDIS.doesn't have to ''[[TeethClenchedTeamwork like]]'' him.
* DisappearedDad: ConversationalTroping: Immediately indentifies a time loop as "Groundhog Day".
* DeadpanSnarker: Easily the wittiest companion of the Thirteenth Doctor.
His reaction when his dad fails to show at Grace's memorial service makes it clear that the man is a deadbeat. He subsequently comes response to the conclusion that TARDIS being BiggerOnTheInside:
-->'''Dan:''' I had a mate who had one of these. I think
his dad's not up to coping was a bit bigger, actually.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: Di decides she doesn't want a relationship with him, resenting him for her ordeal
with the things life can throw at you.
Passenger. He's obviously heartbroken and chooses to commit to travelling in the TARDIS full time afterwards.
* DullSurprise: One DisabledLoveInterest: He's trying to get a date with a woman named Di, an actual employee of the Museum of Liverpool. Di has a malformed arm, but nobody makes a big deal of it.
* EmptyFridgeEmptyLife: He's shown to have an empty fridge after turning down an offer from the food bank he works in, after saying other people needed it more.
* FriendToAllChildren: Gives a bag of sweets to and banters with a girl who visits the food bank with her mother. And later on, making sure he has enough sweets for the children that are trick-or-treating.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Despite being the Doctor's latest companion, the frantic pace of ''Flux'' combined with their constant separations due to temporal distortions means that she and Dan do not share much screentime or have a fully developed relationship yet. Dan ultimately spends much
more stoic companions, time with Yaz after being stranded alongside her in the Edwardian era by some Weeping Angels, so he had seems more like a very monotonous, almost robotic manner of speaking (possibly a result of dyspraxia).companion to Yaz rather than the Doctor.
* TheEngineer: Studying FryingPanOfDoom: His weapon of choice for his NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) to be a mechanic. He's still learning, but seems to want to puzzle out engineering problems and has some skill at figuring out machinery.
* HandicappedBadass: He has to manage his dyspraxia-induced "coordination problem" during his heroic adventures with
bashing Sontarans on the Doctor.
* InformedAttribute: Subverted. He has dyspraxia,
probic vent is a condition that affects his physical coordination. It isn't large wok, given much focus and is only relevant in to him by his first two episodes, although subtle mentions do come up from time to time, such as while he's playing basketball in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], or hesitating to jump between train cars in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror”]].
* JerkassBall: He's a pretty nice guy, but he grabs it around Graham, refusing to acknowledge the man as his grandfather and rebuffing his attempts at friendship. And he's been doing this for three years. Possibly justified in that Graham often acts ''entitled'' to being treated as Ryan's grandfather, and so Ryan isn't given much space to acknowledge him on his own terms. All this said, he eases off over the course of the series, most notably in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]], where he expresses anger at his {{Jerkass}} father implicitly not considering Graham family. He finally ''does'' call Graham "Granddad" in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway "It Takes You Away"]], after Graham proves he cares about Ryan for the young man's own sake by rejecting the pseudo-Grace so he can save Ryan.
* TheKlutz: Justified and deconstructed. He has dyspraxia, and his inability to ride a bike as a result deeply frustrates him.
* LearningToRideABike: Ryan has dyspraxia, a condition which impairs his coordination, and thus has never learned to ride a bike. [[{{Determinator}} He won't give up]], and as they bond, this cements the father-son dynamic with Graham.
* MissingMom: Died six years before [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]], when Ryan was thirteen.
* MistakenForRomance: Yaz's family sees his friendship with Yaz as something more, despite neither of the two thinking that way.
* ObliviousToLove: Ryan does get a small number of admirers. He has a few [[ShipTease moments]] with Yaz, Yaz's sister takes a liking to him, and [[EvenTheGuysWantHim King James asks him to stay]]. Ryan usually responds with confusion, and he doesn't recognise when he's flirting with someone. [[spoiler:Captain Jack also flirted with him. Ryan's response: "I like him."]]
* PluckyComicRelief: By Series 12, he gets plenty of comedic moments, and is the most comedy oriented of the three.
* TheStoic: He speaks in a very reserved, unemotional manner.
parents.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Ryan has some deep-rooted daddy issues caused by his father walking out on him and he often brings up these problems. In "Rosa", he and Yaz quickly talk about the prejudice they face in the modern age after jumping through a window with Yaz to escape a racist cop. In "The Tsuranga Conundrum", [[SkewedPriorities he stops mid-chase because the pregnant man reminded him of his disappeared dad]]. In "It Takes You Away", he brings the possibility that Hanne's father simply abandoned her than being a kidnapped, an insensitive claim that is proven to be pretty accurate because the father actually chose to stay in an alternate universe to stay with something that claims to be his dead wife.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
**
OopNorth: He's not crazy from the North-West of England with a notable scouse accent.
* NiceGuy: Though he can be surly and snarky at times, Dan is nevertheless a lovely man who gets the most pleasure out of helping others and making them happy.
* PatrioticFervour: He '''loves''' his home city of Liverpool. Not just for the football, but the history and culture. His passion is such that he pretends to be a museum tour guide even though he doesn't work there. Moreover, his knowledge of Liverpool's history allows him to deduce Joseph Williamson's identity before anyone else.
* RunawayFiance: From the perspective of the one who got dumped. He was engaged at one point, but his fiancée changed her mind two days before the wedding because she was unable to bear the thought of spending the rest of her life with him and thought she could do better. (We don't know when the conversation in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E3FluxChapterThreeOnceUponTime "Once, Upon Time"]] took place in Dan's timeline, only that the engagement was maybe 15 years or so before that.)
* ShipperOnDeck: He attempts to get the Doctor and Yaz to [[CantSpitItOut admit their feelings for each other]].
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: As another late-middle-aged UnfazedEveryman companion played by an actor best known for light entertainment programming, he would seem to be a replacement for Graham. While his storyline proves to be significantly different from Graham's, it's debatable how different he really is.
* UnfazedEveryman: Dan takes most of the bizarre events that happen over the course of the Flux event in stride. He's mostly unfazed by Karvanista kidnapping him, mainly being furious over the violation of his human rights rather than the fact that an alien abducted him. Even the TARDIS doesn't impress him that much. When he finds out that Karvanista shrunk his house, he's worried
about spiders.
** Or ladders, especially under pressure.
* YoureNotMyFather: Doesn't have
how the best hell he's supposed to live inside it now!
* VitriolicBestBuds: His initial TeethClenchedTeamwork with Karvanista becomes this over the course of ''Flux''. He has this
relationship with Grace's second husband Graham, refusing Grace's and Graham's efforts to get him to call him "Grandad". That said, when Graham proudly calls Ryan his grandson in the Jim Crow Deep South in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa "Rosa"]], Ryan doesn't object. He also lets Graham know he was offended by his own father implying that Graham wasn't proper family.Yaz too.



[[folder:Graham O'Brien]]
!!Graham O'Brien (Thirteenth Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]] (2018)
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2021NYSRevolutionOfTheDaleks Revolution of the Daleks]]" (2021)
->'''Final Appearance:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Doctor]]" (2022)


->'''Played by:''' Creator/BradleyWalsh

A retired bus driver from Sheffield, married to Grace and therefore Ryan's grandpa by marriage, who finds himself involved in the Doctor's life.

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[[folder:Graham O'Brien]]
!!Graham O'Brien (Thirteenth
!!Fifteenth Doctor Era
[[folder:Ruby Sunday]]
!!Ruby Sunday (Fifteenth
Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth [[Recap/DoctorWho2023CSTheChurchOnRubyRoad "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]] (2018)
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2021NYSRevolutionOfTheDaleks Revolution of the Daleks]]" (2021)
->'''Final Appearance:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Doctor]]" (2022)


Church on Ruby Road"]] (2023)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/BradleyWalsh

Creator/MillieGibson

A retired bus driver from Sheffield, married to Grace girl who was abandoned at a church as an infant. She eventually crosses paths with the Doctor and therefore Ryan's grandpa by marriage, who finds himself involved in joins him as a companion, hoping to solve the Doctor's life.mystery of her birth.



* AmbiguouslyBi: He's not exactly complaining about being kissed by [[spoiler:Jack Harkness]].
* BadBoss: Discussed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"]], where he compares Thomas Edison to his old boss. It is implied that said boss was a factor towards him retiring from his job.
* BeenThereShapedHistory:
** He ends up being the white passenger who Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for, which he's understandably not too happy about.
** In ''The Simple Things'' short story by Joy Wilkinson he goes back to meet the founders of his favourite football team, West Ham United. He gives them his West Ham pin, they like the name and decide to use it.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Graham is about as sweet as a sweet old man could be. And yet, he is ''hell bent'' on killing Tim Shaw as revenge for Grace — so much so that the Doctor seriously wonders if he's going to be a threat to them all. In the end, he decides to "be the better man" and spares Shaw's life... only to subject him to a FateWorseThanDeath.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Returns for "The Power of the Doctor", without Ryan, who is apparently in Patagonia.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At the end of "Revolution of the Daleks", when Ryan decides to part ways with the Doctor, Graham leaves as well in order to remain in his life.]]
* CowardlyLion: He's not at all happy with the danger he finds himself in, yet he rises to the challenge anyway.
* CruelMercy: The way he and Ryan deal with "Tim Shaw". The Doctor did talk them out of killing the guy, but locking him in a stasis pod, conscious, and sealed away where no one is going to find him for a ''very'' long time? Seven and Ten would have approved.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's not impressed by Epzo's misanthropic viewpoint in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]].
-->'''Graham:''' Were you born that miserable, or did you have to work at it?
* DriverOfABlackCab: Retired bus driver. Still knows colleagues at the station, and when needed goes to them for the local gossip.
-->'''Graham:''' If you want to know what's happening, ask a bus driver.
* HappilyMarried: To Grace, as she gave him something to live for when he was undergoing cancer treatment. Her death devastates him.
* TheHeart: Despite his SourSupporter moments, Graham is the one with the biggest heart. He always tries to talk to and empathize with people having a hard time. See the way he comforts Yaz in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab "Demons of the Punjab"]] and Jake in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus "Praxeus"]]. Not forgetting the fact he and Ryan help deliver a baby in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum "The Tsuranga Conundrum"]].
* HowDoIShotWeb: Although he has psychic paper in his arsenal, he doesn't really know how it works, as Ace points out.
* TheLostLenore: Grace's absence is a constant influence upon Graham, who asks himself "What would Grace do/think?" repeatedly throughout Series 11. He chose to join Team TARDIS as much to find respite from his grief as to explore new worlds and eras.
* MistakenIdentity: Has been mistaken for the Doctor twice now. [[spoiler:The second time, Captain Jack Harkness snogs him thinking the Doctor had regenerated.]]
* NiceGuy: Occasional grumpiness aside, he's actually a sweet guy.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite his general OnlySaneMan attitude, he occasionally cottons on to how cool it is to travel with the Doctor. For instance, after arriving (by mistake) in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, he asks if they can see Elvis perform live.
* OlderSidekick: He's not older than the Doctor, obviously, but he's probably the second-oldest human companion ever after Wilf. And, importantly, he ''looks'' older than the Doctor he's travelling with.
* OnlySaneMan: Much like Rory was to Amy and Eleven, he's the only one of Thirteen's companions to acknowledge how dangerous things are, and is quick to bring the others down to earth:
-->'''The Doctor:''' ''[opening a mysterious suitcase]'' Is anyone excited? I'm ''really'' excited.\\
'''Graham:''' You won't be if it's a bomb.\\
'''The Doctor:''' ''[annoyed]'' Don't kill the vibe, Graham!
* PapaWolf: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa "Rosa"]], he's quick to shield Ryan from a local bigot who shoved him to the ground.
* ParentsAsPeople: He's understandably frustrated by Ryan's refusal to acknowledge him as his grandfather, but he loves the boy just the same.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: He has this dynamic with his wife, Grace. He's generally sour and pointing out how dangerous and/or crazy something is and she is generally more excited and eager for adventure. One example is this exchange from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]]:
-->'''Grace:''' Is it wrong to be enjoying this?\\
'''Graham:''' [[BluntYes Yes!]]\\
'''Grace:''' ''[giggles]''
* ShipTease: With Ace, who he bumps into while investigating some suspicious volcanic activity. He acts flustered when she calls it a "first" date, and when she tells him her name he says to himself she is [[TotallyRadical Ace]]. This isn't followed up on at the [[TropaholicsAnonymous former companion support group]].
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: As the snarkiest of Team TARDIS, he often gets into snarking matches, with either the Doctor or the guest stars of the week.
* SourSupporter: Downplayed since he's pretty easygoing overall, but if anyone is going to start grumbling about the little inconveniences that the Doctor's lifestyle tends to result in (such as being too busy running around having grand adventures to remember little things like "having lunch"), it's him.
* SurvivorsGuilt: As a cancer survivor, he feels guilty when Grace dies, saying it should have been him instead.
* TeamDad: Or Team Grandad. Cut him in half and you'd find "hard-working busdriver who loves nothing more than telling his fam how proud he is of them" written across his kidneys. Which would be inconvenient for him, so don't do it. Ryan and Yaz both tear up when he goes full grandad. Also, he's really bad with technology.
* UnfazedEveryman: An easy-going, down-to-earth working-class bloke who takes most of the bizarre things he encounters in his stride.
* VerbalTic: He makes a habit of calling the Doctor "Doc".
* VitriolicBestBuds: He clearly admires the Doctor, but they get into snarking matches with each other often. The Doctor herself seems to enjoy the banter.
* WhatWouldXDo: He asks himself "what would Grace do" when he feels lost. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]], the answer is "What's wrong with you? You're on an alien planet. How cool is that?"

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* AmbiguouslyBi: He's not exactly complaining about being kissed by [[spoiler:Jack Harkness]].
* BadBoss: Discussed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"]], where he compares Thomas Edison to his old boss. It is implied that said boss was a factor towards him retiring from his job.
* BeenThereShapedHistory:
** He ends up being
BigSisterInstinct: Quickly finds herself chasing after the white passenger who Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for, which he's understandably not too happy about.
** In ''The Simple Things'' short story by Joy Wilkinson he goes back to meet the founders of his favourite football team, West Ham United. He gives them his West Ham pin,
Goblins when they like kidnap Lulubelle and haul her into their airship.
* DoorstepBaby: Was left by
the name and decide to use it.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Graham is about as sweet
door of a church as a sweet old man could be. And yet, he baby.
* GeneHunting: She
is ''hell bent'' on killing Tim Shaw as revenge introduced looking for Grace — so much so that her birth parents through a genealogy programme. When this fails and she realizes the Doctor seriously wonders if he's going to be is a threat to them all. In time traveler, she joins him with the end, he decides to "be the better man" clear intention of getting some answers.
* HappilyAdopted: She dearly loves her adoptive mother
and spares Shaw's life... only to subject him to a FateWorseThanDeath.
grandmother.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Returns TheJinx: She thinks she's become this for a few weeks leading up to "The Power of Church on Ruby Road"; it turns out the Doctor", without Ryan, who is goblins have been targeting her so they can get to Lulabelle.
* LineOfSightName: She was given the name "Ruby" after the street she was found on.
* MoralityPet: Was
apparently one for her adoptive mother. After she is briefly erased, Carla becomes a cold and selfish woman, a sharp contrast to how loving and warm she is in Patagonia.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At
the end of "Revolution real timeline.
* MultigenerationalHousehold: Lives with her adoptive mother and grandmother.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her mother left her as a newborn on a church on Ruby Road in the middle
of the Daleks", night.
* RetGone: Briefly happens to her during "The Church on Ruby Road"
when Ryan decides to part ways with the Doctor, Graham leaves Goblins go back and kidnap her as well in order to remain in his life.]]
* CowardlyLion: He's not at all happy with
a baby before she can be found by the danger he finds himself in, yet he rises to priest, the challenge anyway.
* CruelMercy: The way he and Ryan deal with "Tim Shaw".
change in the timeline making things much worse for everyone around her. The Doctor did talk them out of killing the guy, but locking him in a stasis pod, conscious, and sealed away where no one is going to find him for a ''very'' long time? Seven and Ten would have approved.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's not impressed by Epzo's misanthropic viewpoint in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]].
-->'''Graham:''' Were you born that miserable, or did you have to work at it?
* DriverOfABlackCab: Retired bus driver. Still knows colleagues at the station, and when needed goes to them for the local gossip.
-->'''Graham:''' If you want to know what's happening, ask a bus driver.
* HappilyMarried: To Grace, as she gave him something to live for when he was undergoing cancer treatment. Her death devastates him.
* TheHeart: Despite his SourSupporter moments, Graham is the one with the biggest heart. He always tries to talk to and empathize with people having a hard time. See the way he comforts Yaz in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab "Demons of the Punjab"]] and Jake in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus "Praxeus"]]. Not forgetting the fact he and Ryan help deliver a baby in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum "The Tsuranga Conundrum"]].
* HowDoIShotWeb: Although he has psychic paper in his arsenal, he doesn't really know how it works, as Ace points out.
* TheLostLenore: Grace's absence is a constant influence upon Graham, who asks himself "What would Grace do/think?" repeatedly throughout Series 11. He chose to join Team TARDIS as much to find respite from his grief as to explore new worlds and eras.
* MistakenIdentity: Has been mistaken for the Doctor twice now. [[spoiler:The second time, Captain Jack Harkness snogs him thinking the Doctor had regenerated.]]
* NiceGuy: Occasional grumpiness aside, he's actually a sweet guy.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite his general OnlySaneMan attitude, he occasionally cottons on to how cool it is to travel with the Doctor. For instance, after arriving (by mistake) in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, he asks if they can see Elvis perform live.
* OlderSidekick: He's not older than the Doctor, obviously, but he's probably the second-oldest human companion ever after Wilf. And, importantly, he ''looks'' older than the Doctor he's travelling with.
* OnlySaneMan: Much like Rory was to Amy and Eleven, he's
the only one of Thirteen's companions who remembers her thanks to acknowledge how dangerous things are, having RippleEffectProofMemory and is quick to bring the others down to earth:
-->'''The Doctor:''' ''[opening a mysterious suitcase]'' Is anyone excited? I'm ''really'' excited.\\
'''Graham:''' You won't be if it's a bomb.\\
'''The Doctor:''' ''[annoyed]'' Don't kill the vibe, Graham!
* PapaWolf: In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa "Rosa"]], he's quick to shield Ryan from a local bigot who shoved him to the ground.
* ParentsAsPeople: He's understandably frustrated by Ryan's refusal to acknowledge him as his grandfather, but he loves the boy just the same.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: He has this dynamic with his wife, Grace. He's generally sour and pointing out how dangerous and/or crazy something is and she is generally more excited and eager for adventure. One example is this exchange from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]]:
-->'''Grace:''' Is it wrong to be enjoying this?\\
'''Graham:''' [[BluntYes Yes!]]\\
'''Grace:''' ''[giggles]''
* ShipTease: With Ace, who he bumps into while investigating some suspicious volcanic activity. He acts flustered when she calls it a "first" date, and when she tells him her name he says to
goes back himself she is [[TotallyRadical Ace]]. This isn't followed up on at to rescue her and [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong fix the [[TropaholicsAnonymous former companion support group]].
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: As the snarkiest of Team TARDIS, he often gets into snarking matches, with either the Doctor or the guest stars of the week.
* SourSupporter: Downplayed since he's pretty easygoing overall, but if anyone is going to start grumbling about the little inconveniences that the Doctor's lifestyle tends to result in (such as being too busy running around having grand adventures to remember little things like "having lunch"), it's him.
* SurvivorsGuilt: As a cancer survivor, he feels guilty when Grace dies, saying it should have been him instead.
* TeamDad: Or Team Grandad. Cut him in half and you'd find "hard-working busdriver who loves nothing more than telling his fam how proud he is of them" written across his kidneys. Which would be inconvenient for him, so don't do it. Ryan and Yaz both tear up when he goes full grandad. Also, he's really bad with technology.
* UnfazedEveryman: An easy-going, down-to-earth working-class bloke who takes most of the bizarre things he encounters in his stride.
* VerbalTic: He makes a habit of calling the Doctor "Doc".
* VitriolicBestBuds: He clearly admires the Doctor, but they get into snarking matches with each other often. The Doctor herself seems to enjoy the banter.
* WhatWouldXDo: He asks himself "what would Grace do" when he feels lost. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]], the answer is "What's wrong with you? You're on an alien planet. How cool is that?"
timeline]].



[[folder:Dan Lewis]]
!!Dan Lewis (Thirteenth Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E1FluxChapterOneTheHalloweenApocalypse Flux Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse]]" (2021)
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Doctor]]" (2022)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnBishop (2021)

-->''"What's the point in living if it's not to make other people happy?"''

A new companion introduced in 2021's six-part storyline ''Flux'', filling the void left by Graham and Ryan's departure. A slightly eccentric but otherwise ordinary middle-aged bloke from UsefulNotes/{{Liverpool}} whose principal interests include [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams the Reds]], helping poor families at his local food bank, and pretending to be a tour guide at the Museum of Liverpool, Dan is spirited away by a foul-tempered dog-man named Karvanista, who turns out to be his assigned protector for the coming apocalypse.

Depending on how you count the tenures of Adam Mitchell and Jack Harkness from Series 1[[labelnote:Namely...]] Adam's 2 stories and episodes don't qualify him as a companion since he was designed to show what a "bad" companion is, and Jack's future appearances boost his episode and story counts[[/labelnote]], Dan is the shortest tenured companion in the revival era by both episode and story count[[note]]9 and 4 respectively if you treat Flux as a single story, 9 each if you count each episode of Flux as one story, which would ''still'' make his tenure one of the shortest on the show[[/note]].
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* BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro: He's introduced to the audience giving a passionate speech to guests at the Museum of Liverpool about what an amazing city it is, suggesting he's a tour guide. After he's finished, Diane, an actual museum employee, walks up to him to escort him off the premises, and tells him that her boss is going to ban him if he tries a stunt like that again.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:After being brought within a hair of dying during the [=CyberMasters=]' attack on a train, he chose to leave the TARDIS crew amicably. Thanks to his experiences with the Doctor, he can now fight for the life he wants.]]
* CanineCompanion: Dan is Karvanista's designated human to protect from the Flux. While Karvanista is honour-bound to defend him, he doesn't have to ''[[TeethClenchedTeamwork like]]'' him.
* ConversationalTroping: Immediately indentifies a time loop as "Groundhog Day".
* DeadpanSnarker: Easily the wittiest companion of the Thirteenth Doctor. His response to the TARDIS being BiggerOnTheInside:
-->'''Dan:''' I had a mate who had one of these. I think his was a bit bigger, actually.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: Di decides she doesn't want a relationship with him, resenting him for her ordeal with the Passenger. He's obviously heartbroken and chooses to commit to travelling in the TARDIS full time afterwards.
* DisabledLoveInterest: He's trying to get a date with a woman named Di, an actual employee of the Museum of Liverpool. Di has a malformed arm, but nobody makes a big deal of it.
* EmptyFridgeEmptyLife: He's shown to have an empty fridge after turning down an offer from the food bank he works in, after saying other people needed it more.
* FriendToAllChildren: Gives a bag of sweets to and banters with a girl who visits the food bank with her mother. And later on, making sure he has enough sweets for the children that are trick-or-treating.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Despite being the Doctor's latest companion, the frantic pace of ''Flux'' combined with their constant separations due to temporal distortions means that she and Dan do not share much screentime or have a fully developed relationship yet. Dan ultimately spends much more time with Yaz after being stranded alongside her in the Edwardian era by some Weeping Angels, so he seems more like a companion to Yaz rather than the Doctor.
* FryingPanOfDoom: His weapon of choice for bashing Sontarans on the probic vent is a large wok, given to him by his parents.
* OopNorth: He's from the North-West of England with a notable scouse accent.
* NiceGuy: Though he can be surly and snarky at times, Dan is nevertheless a lovely man who gets the most pleasure out of helping others and making them happy.
* PatrioticFervour: He '''loves''' his home city of Liverpool. Not just for the football, but the history and culture. His passion is such that he pretends to be a museum tour guide even though he doesn't work there. Moreover, his knowledge of Liverpool's history allows him to deduce Joseph Williamson's identity before anyone else.
* RunawayFiance: From the perspective of the one who got dumped. He was engaged at one point, but his fiancée changed her mind two days before the wedding because she was unable to bear the thought of spending the rest of her life with him and thought she could do better. (We don't know when the conversation in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E3FluxChapterThreeOnceUponTime "Once, Upon Time"]] took place in Dan's timeline, only that the engagement was maybe 15 years or so before that.)
* ShipperOnDeck: He attempts to get the Doctor and Yaz to [[CantSpitItOut admit their feelings for each other]].
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: As another late-middle-aged UnfazedEveryman companion played by an actor best known for light entertainment programming, he would seem to be a replacement for Graham. While his storyline proves to be significantly different from Graham's, it's debatable how different he really is.
* UnfazedEveryman: Dan takes most of the bizarre events that happen over the course of the Flux event in stride. He's mostly unfazed by Karvanista kidnapping him, mainly being furious over the violation of his human rights rather than the fact that an alien abducted him. Even the TARDIS doesn't impress him that much. When he finds out that Karvanista shrunk his house, he's worried about how the hell he's supposed to live inside it now!
* VitriolicBestBuds: His initial TeethClenchedTeamwork with Karvanista becomes this over the course of ''Flux''. He has this relationship with Yaz too.
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!!Fifteenth Doctor Era
[[folder:Ruby Sunday]]
!!Ruby Sunday (Fifteenth Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/DoctorWho2023CSTheChurchOnRubyRoad "The Church on Ruby Road"]] (2023)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MillieGibson

A girl who was abandoned at a church as an infant. She eventually crosses paths with the Doctor and joins him as a companion, hoping to solve the mystery of her birth.
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* BigSisterInstinct: Quickly finds herself chasing after the Goblins when they kidnap Lulubelle and haul her into their airship.
* DoorstepBaby: Was left by the door of a church as a baby.
* GeneHunting: She is introduced looking for her birth parents through a genealogy programme. When this fails and she realizes the Doctor is a time traveler, she joins him with the clear intention of getting some answers.
* HappilyAdopted: She dearly loves her adoptive mother and grandmother.
* TheJinx: She thinks she's become this for a few weeks leading up to "The Church on Ruby Road"; it turns out the goblins have been targeting her so they can get to Lulabelle.
* LineOfSightName: She was given the name "Ruby" after the street she was found on.
* MoralityPet: Was apparently one for her adoptive mother. After she is briefly erased, Carla becomes a cold and selfish woman, a sharp contrast to how loving and warm she is in the real timeline.
* MultigenerationalHousehold: Lives with her adoptive mother and grandmother.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her mother left her as a newborn on a church on Ruby Road in the middle of the night.
* RetGone: Briefly happens to her during "The Church on Ruby Road" when the Goblins go back and kidnap her as a baby before she can be found by the priest, the change in the timeline making things much worse for everyone around her. The Doctor is the only one who remembers her thanks to having RippleEffectProofMemory and goes back himself to rescue her and [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong fix the timeline]].
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* BadassNormal: Unlike the other New Series companions, who saved the day by becoming a PhysicalGod or half-Time Lord, Martha saved the world with herself alone. As of the end of Series 10, she is the only New Series main companion not to become something more than human.

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* BadassNormal: Unlike many companions of the other New Series companions, revival, including both those introduced during Russel T Davies' original tenure who saved the day by becoming a PhysicalGod or half-Time Lord, Martha saved the world with herself alone. As of the end of Series 10, she is the only New Series main companion not to become something more than human.
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* MoralityPet: Was apparently one for her adoptive mother. After she is briefly erased, Carla becomes a cold and selfish woman, a sharp contrast to how loving and warm she is in the real timeline.
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* HeroesWantRedheads:
** Inverted with the Doctor, who really doesn't want to fancy her no matter how hard she flirts.
** It's played straight with Rory.
** In the 2011 Comic Relief short, Amy Pond flirts with ''herself''.
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* AscendedExtra: Originally intended to be named "Stan" for [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]] and never show up again. This changed when Howard Attfield, the actor playing Donna's father, passed away and Wilf was written in as Donna's grandfather.

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* AscendedExtra: Originally intended to be named "Stan" for [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]] and never show up again. This changed when Howard Attfield, the actor playing Donna's father, passed away and Wilf was written in as Donna's grandfather. It is revealed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem "The Sontaran Stratagem"]] that according to Sylvia, he never appeared in [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride "The Runaway Bride"]] because he was ill from a mild form of Spanish flu and was unable to attend Donna's wedding (which ended in disaster).

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[[folder:Craig Owens]]
!!Craig Owens (Eleventh Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger The Lodger]]" (2010)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JamesCorden (2010–11)

-->''"Has anyone ever told you that you're a bit weird?"''

The Doctor's roommate during "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger The Lodger]]" when the latter was stranded on Earth by a malfunctioning TARDIS. {{Hilarity Ensue|s}}d. As Amy Pond was in the malfunctioning TARDIS and thus also separated from the Doctor, Craig had to act as a makeshift companion for him. As a result of a hasty MindMeld InfoDump, he got the Doctor's memories beamed directly into his brain, and knows more about the Doctor's general history than most characters. The Doctor has come to view him as a very good friend.

Craig returned in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E12ClosingTime Closing Time]]", this time in a more clear (if still brief) companion role, helping the Doctor defeat the Cybermen.

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[[folder:Craig Owens]]
!!Craig Owens (Eleventh
[[folder:Clara Oswald]]
->[[Characters/DoctorWhoClaraOswald Has her own page.]]
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!!Twelfth Doctor Era

[[folder:Nardole]]
!!Nardole (Twelfth
Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "[[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong The Lodger]]" (2010)

Husbands of River Song]]" (2015)
->'''Joins TARDIS Crew:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]" (2016)[[note]]First story in which he appears as a companion; he actually joins the Doctor earlier in his timeline, as depicted in "Extremis"[[/note]]
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Doctor Falls]]" (2017)
->'''Final Appearance:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" (2017)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JamesCorden (2010–11)

-->''"Has anyone
Creator/MattLucas (2015-2017)

-->''"[[BadassBoast I am the only person you have
ever told you met, or ever will meet, who is officially licensed to]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis kick. The Doctor's.]]'' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Arse.]]''''' ''I will happily do the same to you, in the event that you're you do not align yourself with any instructions I have issued which I personally judge to be in the best interests of your safety and survival."''

A timid, unassuming HumanAlien of the 54th century who was
a bit weird?"''

The Doctor's roommate
servant of River Song during "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger The Lodger]]" when her caper to reclaim a valuable diamond from (the head of) the latter tyrannical cyborg King Hydroflax, whom she'd recently married to get close to. On Mendorax Dellora in 5343, he was stranded on Earth sent to fetch the surgeon River hired to perform the... "operation"... and a misunderstanding meant that he brought back the Twelfth Doctor. ''Long'' story short, by a malfunctioning TARDIS. {{Hilarity Ensue|s}}d. As Amy Pond the end of this misadventure Hydroflax himself was destroyed and Nardole's head — just the head, mind — was peacefully sharing and controlling his deactivated robot body with that of Ramone, one of River's many husbands and also involved in the malfunctioning TARDIS and thus also separated from the Doctor, Craig had to act scheme; together they served as a makeshift companion for him. As waiter at a result restaurant near the Singing Towers of a hasty MindMeld InfoDump, Darillium. However, during the long night the Doctor spent with River on Darillium (long as in equivalent to 24 Earth years) he got "reassembled" Nardole into a cyborg.

Before River went to her death in the Library, she tasked Nardole with becoming
the Doctor's memories beamed directly into "valet"; he promised to take care of the Doctor, to keep him from losing his brain, sense of self and knows more about the Doctor's general history than most characters. The Doctor has come his noble morals... by any means needed, up to view him as a very good friend.

Craig returned in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E12ClosingTime Closing Time]]", this time in a more clear (if still brief) companion role, helping
and including kicking his arse. Thus, he followed the Doctor defeat to what ''was'' to be the Cybermen.execution of Missy (the Master), and from there they took to guarding the Vault beneath St. Luke's University on Earth. Nardole is determined to make sure the Doctor holds to his vow to watch over Missy for 1,000 years, but this becomes harder when, several decades into the vigil, the Doctor meets and befriends Bill Potts.



* AccidentalPervert: Comes off this way in the lingerie department in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E12ClosingTime "Closing Time"]], resulting in Kelly calling security on him.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Doctor to Craig, with regards to football and his job. Probably not the best thing to do to your landlord.
* AmbiguouslyBi: He casually tells the Doctor that he's always welcome to bring over a girlfriend or boyfriend, and his only objection to the Doctor trying to snog him (ItMakesSenseInContext) is that he's already taken. He and the Doctor get MistakenForGay by just about everyone, and while he finds it aggravating, it is, again, because he's already spoken for.
* 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 feel the mental feedback of his intense desire to protect his infant son.
* BadassUnintentional: None of the BadassNormal stuff he did was on purpose, and he was for the most part scared out of his mind.
* BreatherEpisode: Both [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E12ClosingTime "Closing Time"]] were low intensity and largely comical episodes between big and heavy stuff.
* CannotSpitItOut: Craig and Sophie, even though EveryoneCanSeeIt, they can't admit to it until the end of their first episode.
* ExpositionBeam: The Doctor gives him one during [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]]. One headbutt for general context and then a second for details about the current crisis. It gives them both significant headaches.
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Craig and Sophie for most of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]]; they eventually [[RelationshipUpgrade decide to ruin their friendship]] ''properly''. In their next episode, they have a child.
* 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]][[invoked]]. She sees them hug, and they refer to each other as their "partner". Also, the Doctor tries to kiss Craig, but (as usual) that was to save their lives.
** Craig also makes it a point to make no assumptions about the Doctor when they first meet, telling him that he's always welcome to bring over a girlfriend — or a boyfriend.
* OnlySaneMan: Often points out how completely ''mental'' being around the Doctor is.
* PapaWolf: Fatherhood stresses him out, but it also inspires him to successfully fight off Cyberman conversion.
* PowerOfLove: "I blew them [the Cybermen] up with love!"
* RunningGag: The Doctor "Shhh"-ing people, and Craig wanting to be taught how.
* StoutStrength: According to the Doctor, he had to be pretty strong to keep the Cybermat from biting him.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Craig is so happy in his mundane life that it overloads the alien spacecraft in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]]. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E12ClosingTime "Closing Time"]], [[ThePowerOfLove his paternal instincts overload the Cybermen's emotional inhibitors]], blowing up their whole ship.
* UnwantedAssistance: 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.
* 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 it's clear he's secretly having the time of his life.
* WrongGenreSavvy: PlayedWith. Craig recognises that everywhere the Doctor goes, disaster will come... and also that the safest place for him and Alfie is by his side, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint because the Doctor]] ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint always]]'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint wins]]. While this seems to be a rather dubious assumption, but then again — he ''has'' had the concise summary of the Doctor's life downloaded into his brain, which probably includes just how far the Doctor will go to [[FriendToAllChildren protect a child,]] so he may not actually be wrong. Plus, safety around the Doctor is a rather relative term.
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[[folder:Clara Oswald]]
->[[Characters/DoctorWhoClaraOswald Has her own page.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Twelfth Doctor Era

[[folder:Nardole]]
!!Nardole (Twelfth Doctor)
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->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong The Husbands of River Song]]" (2015)
->'''Joins TARDIS Crew:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]" (2016)[[note]]First story in which he appears as a companion; he actually joins the Doctor earlier in his timeline, as depicted in "Extremis"[[/note]]
->'''Departure Story:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Doctor Falls]]" (2017)
->'''Final Appearance:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" (2017)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MattLucas (2015-2017)

-->''"[[BadassBoast I am the only person you have ever met, or ever will meet, who is officially licensed to]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis kick. The Doctor's.]]'' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Arse.]]''''' ''I will happily do the same to you, in the event that you do not align yourself with any instructions I have issued which I personally judge to be in the best interests of your safety and survival."''

A timid, unassuming HumanAlien of the 54th century who was a servant of River Song during her caper to reclaim a valuable diamond from (the head of) the tyrannical cyborg King Hydroflax, whom she'd recently married to get close to. On Mendorax Dellora in 5343, he was sent to fetch the surgeon River hired to perform the... "operation"... and a misunderstanding meant that he brought back the Twelfth Doctor. ''Long'' story short, by the end of this misadventure Hydroflax himself was destroyed and Nardole's head — just the head, mind — was peacefully sharing and controlling his deactivated robot body with that of Ramone, one of River's many husbands and also involved in the scheme; together they served as a waiter at a restaurant near the Singing Towers of Darillium. However, during the long night the Doctor spent with River on Darillium (long as in equivalent to 24 Earth years) he "reassembled" Nardole into a cyborg.

Before River went to her death in the Library, she tasked Nardole with becoming the Doctor's "valet"; he promised to take care of the Doctor, to keep him from losing his sense of self and his noble morals... by any means needed, up to and including kicking his arse. Thus, he followed the Doctor to what ''was'' to be the execution of Missy (the Master), and from there they took to guarding the Vault beneath St. Luke's University on Earth. Nardole is determined to make sure the Doctor holds to his vow to watch over Missy for 1,000 years, but this becomes harder when, several decades into the vigil, the Doctor meets and befriends Bill Potts.
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* MiddleChildSyndrome: She appears to be the middle child of her family, and her very first scene shows her bombarded with phone calls from her family, who seem to rely on her to solve their problems. Also tends to be this on a meta level: whilst Rose (the first companion of the revival) and Donna (the third) get a lot of reference and play even [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast a decade and a half after their last (official) appearance]] poor Martha rarely gets a mention.

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* MiddleChildSyndrome: She appears to be the middle child of her family, and her very first scene shows her bombarded with phone calls from her family, who seem to rely on her to solve their problems. Also tends to be this on a meta level: whilst Rose (the first main companion of the revival) and Donna (the third) get a lot of reference and play even [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast a decade and a half after their last (official) appearance]] poor Martha rarely gets a mention.
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* MiddleChildSyndrome: She appears to be the middle child of her family, and her very first scene shows her bombarded with phone calls from her family, who seem to rely on her to solve their problems.

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* MiddleChildSyndrome: She appears to be the middle child of her family, and her very first scene shows her bombarded with phone calls from her family, who seem to rely on her to solve their problems. Also tends to be this on a meta level: whilst Rose (the first companion of the revival) and Donna (the third) get a lot of reference and play even [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast a decade and a half after their last (official) appearance]] poor Martha rarely gets a mention.
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-->''"Donna, by the way, Donna Noble; since you didn't ask. I'll have a salute."''

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-->''"Donna, by the way, Donna Noble; since you didn't ask. I'll have a salute.-->''"Sometimes I think there's something missing. Like I had something lovely. And it's gone."''
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* SuperStrength: In his Auton form as the Centurion, he can drag the Pandorica from a burning building.

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* SuperStrength: In his Auton form as the Centurion, he can drag the Pandorica from a burning building. He was also strong enough to stab a Cyberman straight through its metal body and pin it to a door with a sword.
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* TheJinx: She thinks she's become this for a few weeks leading up to "The Church on Ruby Road"; it turns out the goblins have been targeting her so they can get to Lulabelle.



* MultigenerationalHousehold: Lives with her adoptive mother and grandmother.



* RetGone: Briefly happens to her during "The Church on Ruby Road" when the Goblins go back and kidnap her as a baby before she can be found by the priest. The Doctor is the only one who remembers her thanks to having RippleEffectProofMemory and goes back himself to rescue her and fix the timeline.

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* RetGone: Briefly happens to her during "The Church on Ruby Road" when the Goblins go back and kidnap her as a baby before she can be found by the priest. priest, the change in the timeline making things much worse for everyone around her. The Doctor is the only one who remembers her thanks to having RippleEffectProofMemory and goes back himself to rescue her and [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong fix the timeline.timeline]].
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