Amy Pond was the first person the Eleventh Doctor ever saw and for that reason, she will forever be seared on to the Doctor's hearts (and ours). Amy and Matt Smith's Doctor had a particularly difficult job initially, as the duo were first introduced as David Tennant's replacements in the TARDIS.
Fortunately, they managed wonderfully and a new era of Doctor Who was born. Amy, the Doctor and Rory shared amazing chemistry together and they were largely liked by both viewers and critics. However, despite Amy being a great companion, there were times when her decision making was questionable at best.
She Forgot About Rory
This first entry is far up on our list because it wasn't really Amy's fault. Throughout the whole of Season 5, the Doctor and Amy encountered various cracks in time and space, following them on their travels. It later transpired that the cracks were forged when the TARDIS blew up in the season finale.
The cracks were leaking time energy, a light which erased anything from existence should they come too close. Unfortunately, Rory succumbed to this time energy and was erased from Amy's mind. Amy did have no control over this, but maybe if she'd fought harder, she might have remembered Rory?
She Gave Birth To A Psychopath
Again, this really wasn't Amy's fault, but technically it was one of the worse things she's done, so it's on this list. The mystery of River Song's true identity spanned 2 seasons and 3 years, leaving viewers frantically trying to guess who she was and what she meant to the Doctor.
In Season 6, it was revealed that River Song was the daughter of Amy and Rory. However, before she became River Song, she was Melody Pond, a psychopathic assassin engineered to kill the Doctor. While River broke free of her programming, she still remained more trigger happy than is considered normal.
She Locked The Doctor In A Car During A Crisis
There is a time and a place for having a conversation with your childhood imaginary friend, and it most definitely is not right when the world is about to end. The Doctor had only recently regenerated into his eleventh body and already had a major crisis to deal with, when Amy decided to trap his tie in a car door.
She did this because she wanted answers. And fair enough, the Doctor had abandoned her when she was a child, and yes, she had been to multiple psychiatrists during her childhood, but the world was literally ending. Couldn't she have had that conversation with the Doctor after he had saved the world?
Divorcing Rory
Possibly the worst mistake either Amy and Rory ever made, when viewers rejoined the Ponds in Season 7, all was not well. While the Doctor had been off gallivanting around the universe, Amy and Rory were having particularly terrible marriage troubles, ending up with them divorcing each other.
This made things especially awkward when the Doctor and the Ponds were kidnapped by the Daleks and sent on a rescue mission to the Dalek Asylum. Happily though, thanks to the Doctor's meddling, Amy and Rory had a heart to heart and resolved the issues that lead to their separation.
She Ran Away On The Night Before Her Wedding
The Doctor arriving on your doorstep is the most magical thing that could ever happen to someone. To have an adventure with an excitable Time Lord and then travel in time and space in the TARDIS, which is bigger on the inside, is an opportunity that you would have to be made to decline.
Therefore, we do understand Amy's reaction to a certain point. However, to run away on the night before your wedding with a handsome stranger is a bit mean. Plus, Rory Williams is the most adorable human on the planet. Why would you want to run away from him and a lifetime of happiness?
She Kissed The Doctor
Anyone who knows anything about Doctor Who will know that Amy and Rory are endgame. They've both been through so much together and have always made their way back to each other, no matter how far apart they may be. So when Amy kissed the Doctor early in Season 5, fans were not best pleased.
Firstly, Amy and the Doctor were much better as just friends. Their banter was cute and hilarious but it would have been awkward seeing them fall in love with each other. Secondly, Amy and Rory were properly together at that time, engaged even. This was a moment when Amy was just being selfish.
She Was Prejudiced Against The Ganger Doctor
In one of the better two-parters in Doctor Who's sixth season, the Doctor, Amy and Rory visited a monastery turning mining factory in the future. Because the factory was mining acid, workers used unfeeling clones of themselves (Gangers) to avoid death or serious injury.
However, these Gangers suddenly developed minds of their own and rebelled against the humans. To make matters worse, the Flesh grew a Doctor Ganger. Although the Gangers and humans were exactly the same, Amy refused to acknowledge that the clone Doctor was the same as her original Doctor.
She Was Frequently Embarrassed By Rory
Although Amy and Rory are couple goals, they didn't always start out that way. And, to be honest, that was basically Amy's fault. Half of the time, she took Rory for granted, and the other half, she appeared to be embarrassed that she was in a relationship with him, as if she was too good for him.
For example, when Rory and the Doctor first met, Amy introduced Rory as her friend, when they had in fact been dating for a while. Basically, in her first season, Amy just assumed that Rory would always be there to fall back on, no matter what she did, and that's not a fair way to treat someone you love.
She Killed Herself To Be With Rory
Doctor Who rarely covers suicide as it's such a sensitive subject matter. For the record, Amy did have a plan of sorts, beyond jumping off a building. In the Season 7 midseason finale, the Weeping Angels took Rory back in time to feed on his timeline.
Although the Doctor and Amy found the young version, they also saw an older Rory die, cementing his death. The only way out was for Young Rory to die before that happened, creating a paradox. Refusing to live without her husband, Amy joined Rory on a rooftop and they jumped off together, leaving the Doctor and River devastated.
She Chose To Forget About The Star Whale
In only Amy's second episode, she made a colossal mistake. In "The Beast Below", the Doctor and Amy arrived on board a colony ship carrying the entire population of the UK, excluding Scotland. However, criminals and children who broke the rules were fed to an unknown beast.
When Amy discovered that the humans had trapped a Star whale and were torturing it to pilot their ship, she was horrified and chose to forget about what she had seen. In doing so, she had agreed to continue to let the inhabitants of Starship UK continue to torment a harmless, innocent, kind creature.