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** Mickey. Out of the four guy companions of the revival series (since it's doubtful the Doctor will regenerate into a girl), he's the only one that makes sense. If it turned out to be Rory, it would put massive amounts of [[Squick]] on his and River's relationship. Jack's a bit too fond of guns. And Adam... no, just ''no.'' Which leave good old Mickey.
** Leaving aside the massive paradoxes this idea would cause, there's also Wilf.
== Rory, death(s) and lack of being dead ==
=== Rory will die in series 6 ===
In the Doctor Who Confidential at the end of ''The Impossible Astronaut'', Stephan Moffat says something along the lines of "sometimes, people you love die." He was referring to the Doctor and Rory.
* Again?
** as of the Siren episode it has only been three to four times. Not to mention since the show keeps reminding us of his time as the Centaurion he is effectively double the Doctor's age. You would think the poor chap wants to out do the Doctor everything, including regenerations.
* He will [[Unexplained Recovery|die then not be dead]] once or twice more to make us think he never will, and then he will. For real and permanently.
** This is a definite possibility. He's already died before in ''Cold Blood'', and in both ''The Curse Of The Black Spot'' and ''The Doctor's Wife'' (though he was quickly revived in the former and the latter was an illusion). Everyone is expecting him to ''not'' die now, which means that in the second half of Series 6 he might be quickly and suddenly killed off for good, with no reset of the universe to save him again.
*** Alternatively, he might just become the Doctor Who equivalent of [[South Park|Kenny]].
** It appeared it was going to happen in ''The Wedding of River Song'', with The Silence even commenting on it, before Amy's [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment.
=== Rory is immortal ===
For a moment, Amy had godlike power thanks to the crack in her bedroom. Not only did she bring The Doctor back into existence, but she also unconsciously made Rory immortal a la Captain Jack. Amy didn't successfully resuscitate him, he just came back to life shortly after she tried. Neither the TARDIS or The Doctor seem to notice this time though, possibly due to how it happened.
* Sort of related to this, Rory is supposed to be dead. After all, he was dead or dying before he was erased from existence. However, Amy is some sort of reality warper(possibly due to the crack) and she brought him back. Now, the universe keeps trying to right itself, hence the reason Rory keeps dying. Amy keeps warping reality to cancel this. Eventually, this will start having really bad effects on the universe and Amy will have to accept the loss and let Rory die for good in order to prevent the end of the world as we know it.
** This could also explain why the TARDIS sensors can't figure out if Amy is pregnant or not. She is pregnant with Rory's child, but Rory is supposed to be dead, so the baby both does and doesn't exist.
** You have no idea how pregnancy works, do you?
=== River Song kills Rory. ===
As stated before, the Doctor isn't a human and Rory is the best "man" River knows. However with Rory's track record, [[Unexplained Recovery|he'll just get better]].
* I dunno about getting better, though I do have my suspicions about this. Recall the Doctor saying the following to Madame Kovarian:
{{quote|'''The Doctor''': Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.}}
If you look at it one way, he's pretty much telling Madame Kovarian that he does indeed have rules, therefore not making him the good man that's been hinted at since [[Recap/Doctor Who S 31 E 05 Flesh And Stone Flesh|and Stone]]. Rory, who, so far this season, has been nothing if not playing the role of 'the good man' straight ever since the beginning of the season, and the only time his temper's really been tested was only at the end of [[Recap/Doctor Who S 32 E 06 The Almost People The|Almost People]].
* Considering the opening was a speech to dear River about how her father was amazing and would never let her down and all that, and well, he ''is'' her father, a role that is often looked up to by a majority of girls, that theory's just gotten a lot more likely, at least in this troper's opinion.
* Look at River's expression when she first realises its Rory in the prison at the begining of 'A Good Man Goes to War'. Its absolutely pained. This may be because he doesn't remember her- or maybe because the last time she saw him, she killed him.
** I though it was because this will be the last time she'll meet a version of her father, who knows who she is.
=== One of Rory's ancestors was a Chameleon Arched Time Lord ===
His Time Lord genes are mostly dormant, but he is still able to come back from the dead, just not regenerate. This might also explain the little girl. If it is Amy's daughter, Rory is the father, and all the time she spent in the TARDIS in utero activated her Time Lord DNA.
* Jossed by the very episode that establishes Chamelon Arches. They don't make the Time Lord DNA "dormant", they put EVERYTHING Time Lord into the fob watch. Also, providing the Little Girl is Amy and Rory's daughter, also Jossed. She was conceived while the TARDIS was in flight, and got tampered by Eye Patch Lady and that's how she got Time Lord DNA.
=== Rory's grandmother was Susan Foreman. ===
In similar way to the Master, Susan escaped from the Time War by using a Chameleon Arch to make herself human. She then ended up starting a family and eventually died of old age. But before she passed away, one of her children ended up marrying someone with the last name Williams and they had a kid named Rory.
** I thought she married David.
** Time Lords don't have the same ageing rate as humans. He could conceivably have died before the Time War reached her.
=== Rory has a weaker version of whatever is causing Miracle Day. ===
The plot for ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day]]'', is that all humans on the Earth become immortal; they should be dead, but they keep living. Its been speculated in show that some aliens have been experimenting to cause this- maybe Rory just happened to be one of the earlier test subjects, and it allows him to keep coming back to life.
* Given what we know by episode 10 of that series, probably Jossed.
=== Rory is [[The Master]]. ===
In Let's Kill Hitler, Rory mentions hearing a knocking sound in his head. Amy dismisses it as Hitler, but it could just be the sound of the drums. Rory is The Master, returned to life [[Joker Immunity|somehow]]. This is why he always comes back to life, because he's a Time Lord. Being [[Came Back Wrong|brought back the way he was]], he now permanently remains the same after regenerating.
* Supporting the theory wholeheartedly. I say that he regenerated after breaking out of the Time Lock, and Chameleon Arched himself to be a human again. Regenerated to a little kid. The Doctor may or may not know about this fact already, but if he does, he just doesn't want to reveal him, and set the Master free - he does not want to basically kill Rory while freeing the Master. Also - the fact that he married the Master's daughter? Ouch.
=== Rory is The Doctor. ===
Something about the regeneration process split him into two people. The Eleven we know will become the Valeyard, and Rory is actually Twelve.
* "You are turning me into you!" Rory, The Girl Who Waited. The Doctor, master of both the [[Batman Gambit]] and the [[Indy Ploy]]. On occasion the Indy Gambit and the Batman Ploy as well. The Doctor hates himself, really hates himself. Look at what he is facing, either an inevitable death or becoming the Valeyard. He can escape his greatest possible fall by suicide by River. Though, at what cost? He even said himself, or that Doctor said, in his final hours "humanity always needs saving". He'll need an heir if he does decide to not stop his death.
* Alternatively, River lied about Rory being her father at Demon's Run, but earlier in her life (as Mels) thought he was before later finding out the truth. She truly is the child of the TARDIS and was actually conceived by the vortex itself. Rory has been a chameleon-arched Eleventh Doctor from the start, albeit with some kind of disguise or perception filter to look different that even ''he'' doesn't know has on at all times, including the illusion of having been a child. Note that Rory wasn't seen when young Amelia first appeared... he didn't ''exist'' yet. At some point, the Doctor figures out that Rory isn't what he seems and deliberately creates a paradox by crossing his own time-line and in effect, comes back for young-Amy after all and into her life as Rory. He ''had'' to do this, else Rory and River both would have never existed and ''bad'' things would have happened to the universe, but at the same time another version of himself still exists that shouldn't... the one doomed to die at the lake. It's a cruel parallel to ''The Girl Who Waited'', with one Doctor having to face certain death. By the end, Rory would have found his fob-watch (thanks to questions from the Doctor about how he was missing something his entire life) and turned back into the Doctor, but the other Doctor is still dead and Rory is gone forever.
** Or maybe it wasn't a paradox that he had to fulfill, maybe Eleven (a later eleven) planned and did this deliberately. One day he realizes he has grown too emotionally distant and realizes too late (after doing something unforgivable) that he's become a monster. So when he regenerates, he turns himself human, goes back in time, and deliberately becomes his own companion to see what it's REALLY like for them to travel in the TARDIS with him and regain a little perspective. When Matt Smith leaves, Rory will regain his memories and continue the show as Twelve (or move right into Thirteen with a new actor).
** Or just to make this even ''more'' complicated, all of the above is true, except Rory is the regeneration of the ''ganger'' Doctor, sending himself back in time to gain perspective on humanity so he will be better equipped to stop the original Doctor, who has become the Valeyard.
** This would also be a pretty big stab to the heart for fans of Old Amy. The TARDIS supposedly can't keep two Amys on board at once, yet there have been two Doctors onboard this whole time. Imagine how that realization might affect both Rory and Eleven.
* It's also possible that Rory might not be the Doctor himself, but a sort of shadow or echo that imprinted on him since he was a child due to the Tenth Doctor's regeneration, as said above. Think of what happened to Jackson Lake, but to a lesser extent.
=== Rory's immortality has already been explained. ===
* Seriously, its all in his original show, [[Inspector Spacetime]].
=== Rory Williams is Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All ===
* Craig and Sophie get caught in some more wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey adventures, and the Doctor loses another baby in time. (Seriously, don't let the Doctor near your baby). It lands in Leadworth and grows up to be Rory.
=== Rory can only die when he believes Amy no longer needs him. ===
* Amy's exposure to the Time Crack over many years has made her a low-level reality warper, as revealed in the Big Bang, where she willed the Doctor back into existence. Because of her love of Rory, even when he'd been removed from her memories and timeline, when the Doctor's enemies used her memories to create a trap, she pulled his soul out of oblivion and into an Auton body. The combination of the Time Crack's power, Amy's exposure to it, Rory's devotion to her and his spending two millenia dedicating his existence to her protection have made him into the ultimate guardian of Amy, so much so that he is unable to truly die so long as she lives and needs him. That is why the Silence told him that no matter what he goes through she would never come back for him when he confronted them in the aborted timeline - it wasn't mockery or a threat, they knew that he'd never let them past him to threaten Amy while he lived, and they can't kill him unless he believes his duty to Amy was over. They wanted him to doubt Amy, and by extension his guardianship of her, so they could get past him and get to the Doctor.
=== Rory is related to [[The Evil Dead|Ash]]. ===
* That level of badassitude? Gotta be genetic.
== Silents ==
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