I need to get this list completed and posted as it has changed twice since I originally composed it. Not that it can't or won't change within the next few months or years anyway! And yes, this installment shall be published in blue. So let's continue with:
10. Romana
9. Zoe Heriot
History:
Zoe is a scientist living on a space wheel when she meets the second Doctor in The Wheel in Space. After helping the Doctor and Jaime defeat the Cybermen she stows away on the TARDIS. She is a genius with a photographic memory who has a penchant for getting herself into trouble. Like Jaime, Zoe's memory of the Doctor is wiped (except for their first journey) by the Time Lords and she is returned to her original time at the conclusion of The War Games.
Memorable Quotes:
"I'm an astrophysicist. Pure-mathematics major."
"Oh, this is going to be fun! I shall learn a lot from you. Come on James Robert McCrimmon, do you know anything about interstellar flora?"
8. Rory Williams
History:
Rory first appears at the beginning of the fifth series as a nurse and the boyfriend of Amy Pond. He officially becomes a companion in The Vampires of Venice. In the beginning he is jealous of the Doctors relationship with Amy especially after finding out the two have shared a kiss. Rory is shot and killed by a Silurian in Cold Blood then absorbed into a crack in time and space erasing him from existence and Amy's memory. He later appears as an Auton version of himself and while attempting to fight his programming he unwillingly shoots Amy. He is called The Last Centurion in The Big Bang episode when he takes Amy's body and preserves her in stasis inside a prison called The Pandorica and stands guard for two millennia. Eventually he is restored to his original time line but keeps memories from when he was an Auton. Eventually Rory becomes more tolerant of the Doctor as well as accepting of his relationship with Amy. Rory and Amy are finally married and after a honeymoon, they reappear in the series six premier The Impossible Astronaut. Rory and Amy have a baby and it is later revealed that this baby, originally named Melody is in fact sometime fellow companion River Song. Feeling guilty for putting them in danger, the Doctor takes them back to Earth. Rory and Amy return as the Doctors companions in Asylum of the Daleks and the two continue to travel with him until The Angels Take Manhattan. After the Angels are destroyed it is revealed that Amy and Rory were sent back in time but due to a paradox the Doctor can never go find them. In a letter Amy is able to get to the Doctor with the help of River Song, it is revealed that Rory dies at the age of 87. While humble and loyal it can be said of Rory that he is protective. At times he can be a bit sarcastic. Love and anger were two emotions that directed many of Rory's actions and decisions. Rory is an accomplished swordsman as well as good with a gun.
Memorable Quotes:
"I was plastic... He was a stripper at my stag... Long story."
"You owe Casanova a chicken?"
"You know what it's dangerous about you? It's not that you make people take risks, it's that you make them want to impress you. You make it so they don't want to let you down. You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you're around."
"Ah, a poncho. The biggest crime against fashion since lederhosen."
7. River Song
History:
Oh boy, this could get confusing! River Song is a time traveler whose meetings with the Doctor are chronologically out of order. For instance the first time we see her meet the Doctor (Silence in the Library), it is the first time he meets her but the final time she will see him. Got that? It doesn't get much easier, trust me. River is a companion of the eleventh Doctor with Rory and Amy. It is later revealed that they are also River's parents. Due to the fact that she was conceived on board the TARDIS she has some Time Lord DNA. It is shown that she knows how to pilot the TARDIS in fact she is better at it than the Doctor is. River tells the Doctor that she is imprisoned in the Stormcage Containment Facility for "killing the best man I've ever known". Shortly after her birth, River (when she was still being called Melody), is kidnapped in order to become a weapon to be used against the Doctor. River has the ability to regenerate as it is shown she once was Amy and Rory's childhood friend Mels and later regenerated into River Song. She looses the ability to regenerate however after she is about to succeed in killing the Doctor by using poison. After changing her mind and appearing to break out of the brainwashing, River uses her regeneration on the Doctor to bring him back to life. The Doctor and River get married but due to the fact the Doctor knows River is still supposed to kill him again he fakes his death and she is imprisoned for his murder. River is able to save the Doctor by whispering his name (one of only a few people in existence that knows it aside from himself) successfully opening his tomb in The Name of the Doctor. She is last seen giving the Doctor a kiss and then fading away as her presence was only due to a psychic link with Clara Oswald that was developed from a computer program on board the TARDIS that the tenth Doctor had programmed after she had died at the end of Forrest of the Dead. Got all that? Good, let's move on. River carries a journal she keeps on hand to mark her progression of meetings with the Doctor in order to be certain that she will not give away any information that would be deemed damaging to him or as she puts it "spoilers". River is a great combination of her parents: frisky like her mother and stubborn like her father. She is also fearless and good at hiding her emotions. She has incredible strength, apparently a side effect of being conceived on the TARDIS. She enjoys showing off in front of the Doctor. She felt that her cleavage "could fell an ox at twenty feet".
Memorable Quotes:
"It's not supposed to make that noise, you leave the brakes on!"
"Spoilers!"
"Everyone knows that everyone dies. And nobody knows it like the doctor. But I do think that all the skies in all the worlds might just turn dark, if he ever accepts it."
"I died saving him; in return he saved me to a database in the biggest library in the universe. And left me like a book on a shelf, he didn't even say goodbye. He doesn't like endings."
"Goodbye, Sweetie."
6. Martha Jones
History:
Martha Jones is a medical student who meets the tenth Doctor and becomes his companion in the 2007 episode Smith and Jones. Martha soon develops romantic feelings for the Doctor but is frustrated that the Doctor is oblivious to her feelings. She feels as though she is the rebound girl after the Doctors painful loss of his previous companion Rose. Martha is the first female ethnic minority companion after Mickey being the first male ethnic minority companion. Some story lines brought in minor racial issues; specifically Human Nature and The Family of Blood. In The Sound of Drums, the Master refers to Martha and Captain Jack and "the girlie and the freak". He adds insult to injury when he says he's not sure which is which. In The Shakespear Code she meets William Shakespeare who calls her his "Dark Lady". She soon decides to leave the Doctor saying that "she can't waste her life pining for someone when the relationship cannot happen". She later becomes a member of UNIT as well as Torchwood. The final time Martha is seen is along side her husband Mickey Smith who she works with as a freelance alien hunter. Martha is described as kind, smart, caring, and possessing a good sense of humor.
Memorable Quotes:
"The Doctor sort of travels through time and space and picks us up. God, I make us sound like stray dogs. Maybe we are."
"We're on the moon. We're on the bloody moon!"
"You just had to go and fall in love with a human and it wasn't me."
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