10 Unluckiest Doctor Who Characters

1. Rory Williams

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Death is the ultimate sign that your luck has run out, and on that note, who could forget an iconic Doctor Who moment like the demise of companion Rory Williams?

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No, not that death, the other death.

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Ummm... no. We actually meant the other one.

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Okay, we'll stop now, but with the ridiculous amount of deaths this guy has had, we could honestly keep doing this for a while.

Right from the start of his tenure as a full-time TARDIS traveller, Rory was constantly on the chopping block, meeting his maker by drowning, being shot, falling from a building, and, best of all, being attacked by an alien disguised as an old woman.

Things got so bad that Rory's deaths eventually turned into a running gag, with various characters in the show actually pointing out his fragile existence - like the villainous Silence, who mock him for it in the Series 6 finale.

Rory had a lot of good luck in that he got to spend the rest of his days with Amy by his side, but his habit of dying over and over again makes him the king of bad luck in the Doctor Who world.

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