Attack of the 50ft Rory (comic story)

Attack of the 50ft Rory was a comic strip story published in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2012.

Summary
Responding to an intergalactic SOS, The Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams leave the TARDIS to be pursued by a giant rat and a giant ant. They are temporarily held off by Amy armed with a fire extinguisher. Fleeing to a nearby building (the Hope Institute of Science), Rory is sent to distract the giants while the Doctor and Amy search for a Professor Finn (whose name happens to be on a door), whom they find hiding under a desk. It was the Professor who sent the SOS. The Institute was attempting to feed the population with larger fruits and vegetables using a machine found onboard a crashed spaceship to supersize things. While the Doctor admits to a bit of meddling himself, it isn’t without warning of the dangers. Elsewhere in the Institute, Rory has come across the machine and like a “typical bloke”, plays with the buttons. The result is that Rory is supersized. Picking Amy up, he seems unable to recognise or hear her. The Doctor shouts up to Amy that Rory’s probably in a state of shock and urges her to talk to him and remind him of who he is – which she does by talking about her imaginary friend when she was growing up and their adventures up to and including their honeymoon. The Doctor, meanwhile, has returned to the spacecraft with the Professor, looking for something to reverse the effect. They find another crystal like that used in the machine which the Professor dismissed as a spare. When the Doctor applies the sonic screwdriver too the crystal, which he recognises as being developed by a small warrior race from Dehliop Four, the Dehliops, used to make themselves bigger against the enemy, the supersizing effect is reduced. Because of the side-effects of the technology, the machines were banned. The Doctor takes away the last remaining one to be destroyed, but not before offering to sort that nose of Rory’s out first! Amy is happy with Rory just the way he is and Rory wonders what is wrong with his nose!

Named Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Amy Pond
 * Rory Williams
 * Professor Finn

Original print details

 * Doctor Who The Official Annual 2012
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity

 * The sonic screwdriver was used to cause a reaction with the second crystal that undid the effects of super-sizing.
 * Using the crystal to alter the size of Rory’s nose was an ongoing reference to the size of Rory’s nose.
 * Amy refers to the Atraxi, vampires in Venice, the Silurian city, the Pandorica and her honeymoon with Rory.