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** The Ninnies from ''The Ninnies On Putney Common'' originated in Paul Magrs book, ''The Ninnies'' the previous year.
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** The Ninnies from ''The Ninnies On on Putney Common'' originated in Paul Magrs book, Magrs's book ''The Ninnies'' the previous year.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: When "The Dreadful Flap" was reprinted in ''The Further Adventures Of Iris Wildthyme'', a time-travelling dildo called the Time Cock was renamed to the "Time Neck Massager".
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: When "The Dreadful Flap" was reprinted in ''The Further Adventures Of of Iris Wildthyme'', a time-travelling dildo called the Time Cock was renamed to the "Time Neck Massager".
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** She sometimes interacts with a man nicknamed El Jefe, a parody of the First Doctor who worked for the Lords Temporal but got bored and stole a wordship. When the ''First Meetings'' short story was reprinted as ''When Iris Met Billy'' he's renamed The Doctor as Magrs allowed to use names from the ''Doctor Who'' franchise.
** The "In The Sixties" short story had Iris attend a party held by a man called Dr Oho who later takes his guests home in a phonebox. He seemed to be based on the Creator/PeterCushing and Creator/PatrickTroughton incarnations of The Doctor.
** The "In The Sixties" short story had Iris attend a party held by a man called Dr Oho who later takes his guests home in a phonebox. He seemed to be based on the Creator/PeterCushing and Creator/PatrickTroughton incarnations of The Doctor.
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** She sometimes interacts with a man nicknamed El Jefe, a parody of the First Doctor who worked for the Lords Temporal but got bored and stole a wordship. When the ''First Meetings'' short story was reprinted as ''When Iris Met Billy'' he's renamed The Doctor as Magrs was allowed to use names from the ''Doctor Who'' franchise.
** The "InThe the Sixties" short story had Iris attend a party held by a man called Dr Oho who later takes his guests home in a phonebox. He seemed to be based on the Creator/PeterCushing and Creator/PatrickTroughton incarnations of The Doctor.
** The "In
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** If they're not allowed to mention Time Lords then Iris and El Hefe will belong to a race from The Clockworks called the Lord's Temporal.
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** If they're not allowed to mention Time Lords then Iris and El Hefe will belong to a race from The Clockworks called the Lord's Lords Temporal.
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* InnBetweenTheWorlds:
** ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho051TheWormery The Wormery]]'' is set in ''Bianca's Cabaret''. A bar on a distant planet full of wormholes for bringing in customers from all over time and space. It turns out to be [[spoiler:a future incarnation of the Celestial Omnibus]].
** In ''Enter Wildthyme'' they visit an alternate 19th Century Paris where a NegativeSpaceWedgie links to other parts of time and space. The nearby Moulin Rouge has a clientel of time travellers and aliens.
** ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho051TheWormery The Wormery]]'' is set in ''Bianca's Cabaret''. A bar on a distant planet full of wormholes for bringing in customers from all over time and space. It turns out to be [[spoiler:a future incarnation of the Celestial Omnibus]].
** In ''Enter Wildthyme'' they visit an alternate 19th Century Paris where a NegativeSpaceWedgie links to other parts of time and space. The nearby Moulin Rouge has a clientel of time travellers and aliens.
* MagicLibrarian: Seems to be a theme:
** Magda runs a failing bookshop but her wheelchair hides a mermaid tail and her shop hides the entrance to an ElaborateUndergroundBase owned by the MenInBlack.
** Terrance runs a second hand bookshop but he's actually a refugee from Hyspero and owns transmat technology that lets him beam onto an alien spaceship in orbit.
** There's an off-hand reference in ''Enter Wildthyme'' to one of the few remaining [=MIAOW=] agents being a Fae librarian called Alan.
** Magda runs a failing bookshop but her wheelchair hides a mermaid tail and her shop hides the entrance to an ElaborateUndergroundBase owned by the MenInBlack.
** Terrance runs a second hand bookshop but he's actually a refugee from Hyspero and owns transmat technology that lets him beam onto an alien spaceship in orbit.
** There's an off-hand reference in ''Enter Wildthyme'' to one of the few remaining [=MIAOW=] agents being a Fae librarian called Alan.
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* ShiwWithinAShow: Magda watches a parody of ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' called ''Midwinter Murders''.
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* ShiwWithinAShow: ShowWithinAShow: Magda watches a parody of ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' called ''Midwinter Murders''.Murders''.
* SpacePirates: Marvelle's Poodles are called Dog Pirates when they attack the Vatrexii ship and take the Empress.
* SpacePirates: Marvelle's Poodles are called Dog Pirates when they attack the Vatrexii ship and take the Empress.
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* InnOfNoReturn: Variation. When an innkeeper on Valcea finds out the gang are going to see the New Gods, [[spoiler:he hides a bomb in Barbra.]]
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* ShiwWithinAShow: Magda watches a parody of ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' called ''Midwinter Murders''.
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* PlanetEngland: The Glass City is also known as Valcea, the name of the planet it's on.
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* TimePolice: If they're not allowed to mention Time Lords then Iris and El Hefe will belong to a race from The Clockworks called the Lord's Temporal.
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* TimePolice: TimePolice:
** If they're not allowed to mention Time Lords then Iris and El Hefe will belong to a race from The Clockworks called the Lord'sTemporal.Temporal.
** The Martians also have Time Agents that travelled through time to assassinate Vince Cosmos.
** If they're not allowed to mention Time Lords then Iris and El Hefe will belong to a race from The Clockworks called the Lord's
** The Martians also have Time Agents that travelled through time to assassinate Vince Cosmos.
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* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: Short stories like ''Bafflement and Devotion'' and ''The Magrs Conundrum!'' have Paul Magrs as an in-universe biographer who writes books based on Iris and The Doctor.
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* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: ATrueStoryInMyUniverse:
** Short stories like ''Bafflement and Devotion'' and ''The Magrs Conundrum!'' have Paul Magrs as an in-universe biographer who writes books based on Iris and TheDoctor.Doctor.
** Iris' ex companion, Tom writes a series of novels about her adventures in the ''Wildthyme At Large'' audio play.
** Short stories like ''Bafflement and Devotion'' and ''The Magrs Conundrum!'' have Paul Magrs as an in-universe biographer who writes books based on Iris and The
** Iris' ex companion, Tom writes a series of novels about her adventures in the ''Wildthyme At Large'' audio play.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Zig-Zagged:
** It's mentioned that Terrance can talk to a Vatrexii due to knowing several languages but later on another member speaks to Iris and co in English.
** Marvelle has to let the Poodles talk to the Martians because they've worked with the before and know the language.
** The neanderthal-like aliens on Valcea speak English but the Glass Men after their own language that only Iris can understand after they used a machine to scan her brain.
** It's mentioned that Terrance can talk to a Vatrexii due to knowing several languages but later on another member speaks to Iris and co in English.
** Marvelle has to let the Poodles talk to the Martians because they've worked with the before and know the language.
** The neanderthal-like aliens on Valcea speak English but the Glass Men after their own language that only Iris can understand after they used a machine to scan her brain.
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* SupernaturalGoldEyes: The Glass Men of Valcea have eyes that shine gold.
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* AdventuresInTheBible: Panda notes that Simon getting to see Vince Cosmos perform would be like seeing the rebirth of Christ and notes that he must ask Iris to take him back to see the return of Jesus.
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* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: The Maelstrom is populated by "Roadkill". Basically the ghosts of people who tried to harness the power of time. They'd be able to force the gang to let them onboard the Omnibus if they made eye contact for too long.
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* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: The Maelstrom is populated by "Roadkill".Time Zombies. Basically the ghosts of people who tried to harness the power of time. They'd be able to force the gang to let them onboard the Omnibus if they made eye contact for too long.
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* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: When heading to confront the New Gods, Panda says that people claiming to be gods usually turn out to be aliens.
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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Dogworld Poodles come in colours like pink, blue and orange.
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* AliensInCardiff: The town of Darlington attracts alot of weirdness due to being a nexus for multiverse explorers.
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* AliensInCardiff: The town of Darlington attracts alot of weirdness due to being a nexus for multiverse explorers.explorers and time travellers.
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* ElaborateUndergroundBase: [=MIAOW=] has one under the Darlington Market to capture anything that emerges from The Dreadful Flap.
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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: An anomaly called The Dreadful Flap deposits creatures from across space and time to Darlington to be captured by a [=MIAOW=] base underneath it. A similar setup to another ''Doctor Who'' spin-off ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''.
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* IntelligentGerbil;
** The population of Dogworld look like poodles with humanlike hands which they hide in booties when trying to pass for dog.
** Likewise the population of Pussyworld would pass for Earth cats.
** The population of Dogworld look like poodles with humanlike hands which they hide in booties when trying to pass for dog.
** Likewise the population of Pussyworld would pass for Earth cats.
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* IntelligentGerbil;
**HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: The population Maelstrom is populated by "Roadkill". Basically the ghosts of Dogworld look like poodles with humanlike hands which people who tried to harness the power of time. They'd be able to force the gang to let them onboard the Omnibus if they hide in booties when trying to pass made eye contact for dog.
** Likewise the population of Pussyworld would pass for Earth cats.too long.
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** Likewise the population of Pussyworld would pass for Earth cats.
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** A race of OctopoidAliens, ''Enter Wildthyme'' has a race called Martians or Meercocks resembling the Martians from ''Literature/WarOfTheWorlds''.
** The ''Iris Wildthyme of Mars'' story collection has several contradictory types of Martians. The "Green Mars Blues" story has Iris summon Martians from various fictional worlds in order to stimulate the imaginations of human colonists and keep the fictional worlds alive.
** The ''Iris Wildthyme of Mars'' story collection has several contradictory types of Martians. The "Green Mars Blues" story has Iris summon Martians from various fictional worlds in order to stimulate the imaginations of human colonists and keep the fictional worlds alive.
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** A race of OctopoidAliens, ''Enter Wildthyme'' has Iris likes to dine at a race called Martians or Meercocks resembling restaurant in an AlternateHistory France where the Martians Martian invasion from ''Literature/WarOfTheWorlds''.
**''Literature/WarOfTheWorlds'' actually happened.
** The''Iris Wildthyme of Mars'' story collection has several contradictory types of Martians. The "Green ''Green Mars Blues" Blues'' short story has Iris summon Martians from various fictional worlds in order to stimulate the imaginations of human colonists and keep the fictional worlds alive.
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* OctopoidAliens: The Martians/Meercocks are the same as the Martians from ''Literature/WarOfTheWorlds''.
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* OctopoidAliens: The Martians/Meercocks are the same as the Martians from ''Literature/WarOfTheWorlds''.''Literature/WarOfTheWorlds'' appear in an AlternateUniverse, Meercocks are a similar race in the main universe.
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* MyOwnGrandpa: When Simon asks why Iris can't just go back in time to stop people dying, Panda says that if she messes too much with the TimeyWimeyBall, everyone will end up being everyone else's grandfather.
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* AlmostDeadGuy: Parodied in ''Enter Wildthyme'' when Iris finds it astounding that the dying Vatrexii they interview had been apparently lying there for two weeks then dies while talking to them.
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* AlienAnimals:
** The Poodles of Dogworld can pass for Earth poodles if they cover up their human-like hands.
** Pussyworlders can similarly pass for cats.
** The Poodles of Dogworld can pass for Earth poodles if they cover up their human-like hands.
** Pussyworlders can similarly pass for cats.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Vatrexiis look like blue-skinned humans.
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* ProudMerchantRace: The Vatrexiis in ''Enter Wildthyme'' are described as the galaxy's rag and bone men. Shipping rubbish from world to world and striking bargains with occasional thieving.
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* AliensInCardiff: The town of Darlington attracts alot of weirdness due to being a nexus for multiverse explorers.
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* WholePlotReference: ''Iris Wildthyme And The Panda Invasion'' audio story was an AffectionateParody of the 1996 ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Doctor Who]]'' movie. Both have the protagonist getting injured and took to a San Francisco hospital on New Year's Eve 1999 and meeting an attractive doctor.
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* WholePlotReference: The ''Iris Wildthyme And The Panda Invasion'' audio story was an AffectionateParody of the 1996 ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Doctor Who]]'' movie. Both have the protagonist getting injured and took to a San Francisco hospital on New Year's Eve 1999 and meeting an attractive doctor.
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* WholePlotReference: ''Iris Wildthyme And The Panda Invasion'' audio story was an AffectionateParody of the 1996 ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Doctor Who]]'' movie. Both have the protagonist getting injured and took to a San Francisco hospital on New Year's Eve 1999 and meeting an attractive doctor.
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* GenreShift: Simon, Kelly and Terrence from ''Enter Wildthyme'' originated in Magrs' novel ''Exchange'' that had no science fiction elements.
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* AllJustADream: The ''In The Sixties'' short story ends with being a dream of the newborn baby Paul Magrs.
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* JuliusBeethovenDaVinci: In ''Marked For Life'', Iris says that she and Peggy were Cleopatra and Anthony in a past life.
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* DoctorWhomage:
** Iris herself was written as a female Doctor Who.
** She sometimes interacts with a man nicknamed El Jefe, a parody of the First Doctor who worked for the Lords Temporal but got bored and stole a wordship. When the ''First Meetings'' short story was reprinted as ''When Iris Met Billy'' he's renamed The Doctor as Magrs allowed to use names from the ''Doctor Who'' franchise.
** Iris herself was written as a female Doctor Who.
** She sometimes interacts with a man nicknamed El Jefe, a parody of the First Doctor who worked for the Lords Temporal but got bored and stole a wordship. When the ''First Meetings'' short story was reprinted as ''When Iris Met Billy'' he's renamed The Doctor as Magrs allowed to use names from the ''Doctor Who'' franchise.
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* DimensionalCutter: Iris has Blithe Pinking Shears that can cut holes in reality that lead to elsewhere in time or the multiverse.
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** The Celestial Omnibus travels through a dimension called The Maelstrom. After Iris was [[CanonWelding Canon Welded]] into the Whoniverse, some reprints renamed it to the Time Vortex. The same dimension that The Doctor's [=TARDIS=] travels through.
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** The Celestial Omnibus travels through a dimension called The Maelstrom. After Iris Maelstrom and emerges elsewhere in time and space. This was [[CanonWelding Canon Welded]] into the Whoniverse, some reprints renamed it to a copyright friendly version of the Time Vortex. The same dimension that The Doctor's [=TARDIS=] travels through.Vortex from ''Franchise/DoctorWho''. When ''First Meetings'' was reprinted in Obverse Books' charity anthology ''A Second Target for Tommy'' as ''When Iris Met Billy'', several phrases were replaced with more Doctor Who-familiar terms and the Maelstrom became the Vortex.
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* ExtradimensionalShortcut:
** The Celestial Omnibus travels through a dimension called The Maelstrom. After Iris was [[CanonWelding Canon Welded]] into the Whoniverse, some reprints renamed it to the Time Vortex. The same dimension that The Doctor's [=TARDIS=] travels through.
** The Very Fabric of Time and Space, (usually just called the Very Fabric for short) often appears as a dimension that time travellers have to pass through in Paul Magrs stories. Notably Iris' Blithe Pinking Shears.
** The Celestial Omnibus travels through a dimension called The Maelstrom. After Iris was [[CanonWelding Canon Welded]] into the Whoniverse, some reprints renamed it to the Time Vortex. The same dimension that The Doctor's [=TARDIS=] travels through.
** The Very Fabric of Time and Space, (usually just called the Very Fabric for short) often appears as a dimension that time travellers have to pass through in Paul Magrs stories. Notably Iris' Blithe Pinking Shears.
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* RecursiveCanon: ''Iris Wildthyme'' sometimes appears as an in-universe media franchise:
** We see an AlternateUniverse in ''Wildthyme Beyond'' where ''Iris Wildthyme'' was a short-lived CultClassic TV show that spun off into a long series of [[TieInNovel Tie-In Novels]] though they don't seem to match any of the real life books.
** In ''Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Wildthyme'' Iris and co. find the entire works of Paul Magrs bound in human skin being sold in The Clockworks.
** We see an AlternateUniverse in ''Wildthyme Beyond'' where ''Iris Wildthyme'' was a short-lived CultClassic TV show that spun off into a long series of [[TieInNovel Tie-In Novels]] though they don't seem to match any of the real life books.
** In ''Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Wildthyme'' Iris and co. find the entire works of Paul Magrs bound in human skin being sold in The Clockworks.
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* TieInNovel: In the alternate reality where Iris was a [=TV=] show that was cancelled after one season but continued to the modern day with over 300 novels.
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* TieInNovel: In the alternate reality where Iris ''Iris'' was a [=TV=] show that was cancelled after one season but continued to the modern day with over 300 novels.
