Why did the Doctor married River?

But rather than let that happen—she went to school to learn to love the guy, come on! —she decides that she'd rather destroy the universe than fulfill that function. But the universe has to be righted, so to appease her, the Doctor agrees to marry her.
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Are the Doctor and River actually married?

Moffat squashed this hypnosis saying that the Doctor's marriage to Elizabeth I was unconsummated and therefore invalid and that the Doctor never actually married either Marilyn Monroe nor River Song.
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Did Dr Who Marry River Song?

Amy allows Kovarian to die as revenge for the kidnapping and brain-washing of her daughter Melody (aka River Song). The Doctor and River escape to the top of the pyramid followed by Amy and Rory. The Doctor marries River on the spot and whispers to her to look into his eye.
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Is River the Doctor's wife?

Kingston plays her in 15 episodes, as River becomes a companion, romantic interest and eventual wife of the Doctor in his eleventh incarnation portrayed by Matt Smith.
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Did the Doctor love the river?

River makes a point of it that she knows the Doctor doesn't love her, but the Doctor never confirms that.
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Did the Doctor and River have a child?

Clara is the future child of the Doctor and River who's had her memory erased. The two Time Lords must be up to something on their nights away from River's prison cell.
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Was Rose pregnant with the Doctor baby?

Two years after "Journey's End," Rose Tyler is pregnant with the Meta-Crisis Doctor's child. The Doctor now goes by Corin because Rose decided she wanted him to have a name and refused to call him "the Doctor." Corin works as a general practitioner, while Rose is working toward a diploma in Early Years care.
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Why did the Doctor tell river his name?

Obviously this couldn't just be a coincidence of "Oh, look, there's some person with me while I'm dying, I'll tell my name to them," because River uses her knowledge to convince the Doctor that one day, he will trust her absolutely.
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Why is River Song backwards?

River Song's Timeline isn't backwards (and neither is the Doctors). Their individual timelines move forward from birth to death (in the loosest sense of the word) but as time travellers they are free to visit any time and space in any order.
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What did the Doctor whisper to River?

On The Wedding of River Song he whispers, "Look into my eye." and then lies and says that he just told her his name. That's when River realized that what he whispered to her when they first met was his name.
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When did River Song marry the Doctor?

The Wedding of River Song was the thirteenth and final episode of series 6 of Doctor Who.
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Is River Amy and Rory's daughter?

River Song is Amy and Rory's daughter, also known as Melody. Also known as Mels. It's complicated. River was born with the power to regenerate but used up all her remaining regenerations when she saved the Doctor after she poisoned him because she was programmed to kill him...
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Does Doctor Who ever fall in love?

The Tenth Doctor meets Madame de Pompadour, mistress to King Louis XV, when he steps through an 18th-century French fireplace in a 51st-century spaceship. He falls in love. He saves her from aliens. She's beautiful.
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How many times has the Doctor married?

The Doctor Who wiki offers a pretty comprehensive overview of his married life according to the various TV series and prose books. To date, he's definitely been married at least four times, excluding his relationship with River Song but only two of those marriages took place prior to "Blink".
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How many regenerations does River Song have?

Assuming they did not, it would appear that Melody Pond/River Song gave up TEN incarnations (9 regenerations) to save The Doctor. First Regeneration - while homeless, young Melody Pond apparently succumbed to hunger & illness, undergoing her first regeneration in the episode "Day of the Moon".
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What is the Doctor's real name in Gallifreyan?

Is Theta Sigma the Doctor's real name? Theta Sigma was the Doctor's unique nickname when he was studying at the Time Lord Academy on Gallifrey. Although this identified the Doctor from all the other Time Lords at the academy, the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) dismisses it as just a nickname in The Happiness Patrol.
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Why is the Doctor's name a secret?

Long story short: the Doctor lies. Recently, fans have hypothesized that the reason why the Doctor never speaks their own name is for their own safety. And the hypothesis also suggests that the only occasion for which a Time Lord would reveal their name is at the moment of their final death.
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Why did river slap the Doctor?

River expresses her anger about wanting to slap him for his smugness. Amy asks her how she can be okay with the Doctor dying, and River explains that everyone dies eventually and that neither the Doctor's death nor her own frighten her, as there is a worse day coming for her.
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How was River Song born?

River Song. I was born in battle on an asteroid called Demons Run. I was the daughter of Amy Pond and Rory Williams. They named me Melody Pond.
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How did River Song meet the Doctor?

First introduced during the Tenth Doctor's reign, River Song first appeared to the Doctor in "Silence In The Library" and clearly knew the Time Lord very well. Unfortunately, the Doctor had no recollection of ever meeting River, as she had only encountered future regenerations of the Doctor.
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What is the Doctor's real name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.
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Was Rose a virgin before Jack?

Writer Roxane Gay even participated in a Twitter conversation about this very subject, citing her belief that Rose is a virgin when she sleeps with Jack. she loses her virginity to jack. Cal is furious that rose hasn't slept with him yet. there's a whole scene in the movie about this.
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Did Doctor love Rose?

To some, companion Rose Tyler was the greatest love of the Doctor's life. He seemed to have a closer bond with her than almost anyone he'd travelled with before, and as time went on it was increasingly clear that she was deeply in love with him.
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Who does Rose Tyler end up with?

4 The Doctor And Rose Tyler

Technically, the Doctor and Rose didn't get their happily ever after - except they did. Once the Doctor left Rose behind in the end, he moved on. Rose also did the same, forming a relationship with the Meta Doctor, who looked like the Tenth but was now human.
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