1. Amelia "Amy" Pond is a fictional character portrayed by Karen Gillan in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
44 Facts About Amy Pond
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Amy Pond appears in the programme from the fifth series to midway through the seventh series.
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Amelia Amy Pond is introduced in the first episode of the fifth series, "The Eleventh Hour", as a seven-year-old girl living with only her aunt when the Doctor crashes into her front yard one night.
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Amy Pond asks him to investigate an unusual crack in her wall, but he is interrupted by an alert from the TARDIS.
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Amy Pond helps him save Earth from the galactic police force, the Atraxi, and when he returns two years later she begins travelling with him as his companion.
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Amy Pond's body is kept alive in the Pandorica, a special prison intended to trap the Doctor.
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The Doctor realises that Amy Pond is connected to the cracks in the universe which originated from a temporal explosion on her wedding day.
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Amy Pond tells her that her parents had been erased by the crack in her wall and urges her to remember them.
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Amy Pond awakes on her wedding day in a timeline where her parents are again part of reality and marries a restored Rory.
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Amy Pond's memories are stirred by the TARDIS-shaped diary River Song leaves for her.
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Once Amy Pond remembers the Doctor, he is restored to reality.
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River Song then arrives and tells Amy Pond that she is an adult Melody.
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Amy Pond is later persuaded by the Doctor to let her adult daughter make her own way in life.
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In "The Girl Who Waited", Amy Pond becomes separated from the Doctor and Rory on a planet's quarantine facility and lives on her own for 36 years before they return.
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Amy Pond appears briefly in "Closing Time", where she is shown to have become a fashion model, noted for a perfume campaign with the slogan "For The Girl Who Is Tired of Waiting".
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The series seven opener "Asylum of the Daleks" shows Amy Pond, still working as a fashion model, signing papers for her and Rory's divorce.
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In "The Power of Three", Amy Pond says that the Doctor has been in her and Rory's life for ten years, and she now works as a journalist.
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Gravestones in a New York cemetery reveal that Rory died at the age of 82 and Amy Pond died at the age of 87.
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River arranges for Amy Pond to leave the Doctor a message in the afterword of a 1930s pulp fiction novel, where she says she is happy with Rory and that they worry about the Doctor travelling alone.
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In Michael Moorcock's lengthier The Coming of the Terraphiles, which takes place during a time in the fifth series Rory is absent, Amy Pond is proposed to by one of the characters, to whom she declines.
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Amy Pond, Rory, and the Doctor appear in IDW Publishing's comic book series Assimilation, published from May to December 2012, which is a crossover between Doctor Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Amy Pond has appeared in several Doctor Who video games.
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Amy Pond is featured, voiced by Gillan, in the 2010 video games Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth and Doctor Who: Return to Earth, made for the DS and Nintendo Wii respectively.
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Amy Pond appears in the smartphone app game Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time.
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Amy Pond brought an energy and excitement to the part that was just fantastic.
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Gillan auditioned for the role in both her natural Scottish accent and an English one, and it was not until after she was cast that it was decided Amy Pond would be Scottish.
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Amy Pond appears more guarded because "she doesn't like to show her emotions because she wants to be strong".
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Gillan thought that Amy Pond had inner confidence to wear clothes that showed "a bit of skin from time to time".
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Gillan said she tried on many things, but when it came to short skirts she "just thought it was right" and showed that Amy Pond was "comfortable and confident about her look".
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Amy Pond believed that the skirts reflected what young women typically wear at her age.
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Executive producer Piers Wenger noted that Amy Pond's 1970s flying jacket, which she wears "quite a lot", reflected Gillan was a "born adventurer" and Amy Pond developed a love for travel and adventure.
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Amy Pond never wears heels, as Gillan desired that the footwear be functional for saving the world.
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Moffat theorised that Amy Pond would have taken her anger out on Rory and would have been "mean" about things such as Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
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In "Amy Pond's Choice", meant to challenge the Doctor and Amy Pond's relationship, Rory dies in an alternate universe that was a result of psychic pollen that had entered the TARDIS.
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The end of "The Big Bang", in which Amy Pond stands up at her wedding and declares the Doctor is real, was the Doctor's success at restoring Amy Pond to the spirit of the girl he first met.
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Amy Pond was pleased that the audience was able to see Amy's life "pan out", starting when she was a child and through her marriage and daughter.
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Gillan would make a brief appearance at the end of the 2013 Christmas special, "The Time of the Doctor", with Amy Pond saying a final goodbye to the Eleventh Doctor just before he regenerates, bringing actors Gillan and Matt Smith together for a brief moment at the conclusion of Smith's last regular appearance as the Doctor.
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Amy Pond is probably the wildest companion that the Doctor has travelled with, but she isn't promiscuous.
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Critics noted that Amy Pond did not develop much throughout the 2010 series.
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Amy Pond praised Gillan's acting abilities and the way her relationship with Rory helped "render [her] character into something quite special".
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Amy Pond praised her relationship with the Doctor, saying that they were "totally believable as best friends".
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Amy Pond noted that Amy was unique because so much had happened to her and she became entwined in the Doctor's life, which allowed the audience to see her "develop and change".
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The Guardians Krystina Nellis argued that Amy Pond functioned more as a plot prop than a strong female character, citing the importance of giving birth to River Song.
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Sarah Barrett from The Mary Sue had mixed feelings about Amy Pond's storyline regarding the birth of River, particularly due to its dark nature.