6. The Boy Who Waited
Rory's time in the TARDIS began with the reluctance of his future wife. Amy Pond took a while to warm to the idea of travelling with Rory as she looked for adventures with her imaginary friend. His love and undeniable persistence won over in the end as fans would eventually find out that, deep down, Amy's one true love was Rory Williams. In fairness, there's a good chance the conclusion of the Eleventh Doctor's first series played a big part in that. The climactic events of The Pandorica Opens found Amy Pond dead, the Doctor trapped in an impenetrable prison and all hope of saving the universe seemingly lost. What followed was a mess of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff with the most self-resolving paradoxes than in Doctor Who history. In a nutshell, the Doctor travelled back in time to give Rory his sonic screwdriver with the Roman ultimately used to release the Time Lord from the Pandorica in the first place. Confused? You should be. Now, if fans forget for a moment that the Doctor has consistently affirmed he can't travel back in his own timeline, they can find it easier to accept what followed. Amy was placed in the Pandorica in order to preserve her life and Rory's love for her was so strong that he vowed to never leave her side. Rather than taking the "faster route" and travelling into the future using a vortex manipulator, the Last Centurion would stand guard over the love of his life for over two thousand years, subsequently becoming an historic legend in his own right. Despite being a Nestene duplicate, Rory would have to live every moment of those two thousand years and live them he did, even saving the Pandorica from a warehouse fire. Rory would get his reward, however, as he would be reunited with Amy Pond and soon after, the two would be married. Rory's need to protect Amy, despite her clearly being in the safest place in the entire universe at that moment, showed everything that you needed to know. Amy was his life and he would fight to the end of his to protect her. In the end, it was a tribute that Amy would choose to give up everything she knew just to spend the rest of her days with her Roman.