History Characters / IrisWildthyme

Supposedly another renegade Time Lord, although she's more of a constantly changing canon wildcard: a FourthWallObserver who dashes in and out of plotlines with little regard for the laws of time and space. Her TARDIS looks like a red double-decker London bus, and she has a habit of claiming that many of the Doctor's escapades were really hers. She originated in a series of wildly unrelated novels and immigrated into the ''Doctor Who'' novels a few years later. In Creator/BigFinish, she played a key role in the [[TrilogyCreep four-part]] [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsExcelisDawns Excelis trilogy]], met up with Six in the main range, had adventures with Characters/BerniceSummerfield (as well as with the Third Doctor's former companion Jo Grant, [[TalkingToHimself who shares the same actress as Iris]]), and eventually got her own proper Creator/BigFinish spinoff series.

* ShoutOut: It seems to be named after a short story by Creator/EMForster about a boy having fantastic adventures on a MagicBus.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Paul Magrs' short story ''The Runaway Hi-Fi'' says that the stuffed panda, Hi-Fi, owned by the First Doctor's companion Steven Taylor was actually Panda.

** ''Sick Building'' was an AmbiguousTimePeriod but ''The Dreadful Flap'' short story says Barbra came from the 35th century and ''Enter Wildthyme'' says she's from the 59th.

A companion who meets Iris in ''Enter Wildthyme''. He'd previously appeared ''The Great Big Book Exchange'' short story and a novel called ''Exchange'' about a boy and the staff of his favourite bookshop.

* NoNameGiven: A precursor to him appeared in the ''The Great Big Book Exchange'' short story where he's only referred to as grandson.

** Amusingly, Six is a bit taken aback when she says she doesn't actually fancy this version of him as much. Though by the end of "The Wormery" he's grown on her.

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Towards Six in [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho051TheWormery "The Wormery"]]. The scene even manages to be on the sweet side of {{Yandere}}.

* BootstrappedTheme: Iris's theme tune from her solo series started life as her and Bianca's song from [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho051TheWormery "The Wormery"]].

* FreakyFridayFlip: This happens to Iris in "The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society" when she unwittingly swaps bodies with an obsessed fan, Wayne Bland III.

* FutureMeScaresMe: In "The Wormery".

** At one point Iris became a member of the Sisterhood of Karn, and one of her stories outright stated that in the Fourth Doctor Episode "The Brain of Morbius", she was one of the members who was chanting "Death".

* SpareBodyParts: An x-ray in ''Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion'' shows that Iris has two livers as a nod to The Doctor having two hearts.

* [[YouLookFamiliar You Look And Sound Familiar]] -- She's voiced in audios by Creator/KatyManning, who played Jo Grant in the TV series, albeit 35 years of age and heavy smoking later. (Though it should be noted that she herself is ''nothing'' like Jo though. And they don't sound ''that'' similar either, thanks to Iris's raspy "years of gin and fags, chuck!" voice). HilarityEnsues in the Creator/BigFinish audio episode [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS5E3FindAndReplace "Find And Replace"]], when the two characters team up and [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight nobody notices they look the same]].

* FutureMeScaresMe: In "The Wormery", she [[spoiler: gets cannibalised into a bar. Which is also a nexus point in a massive attempt at transdimensional engineering]].

* AKindOfOne: Celestial Omnibuses were a type of vehicle used by martian colonists in Paul Magrs' ''Lost On Mars'' trilogy

* PutOnABus: In "The Sound Of Fear", he leaves the bus for someone he's only just met, in a parody of how the Doctor's companions tend to leave him.

* TeleportationSickness: She always got the runs from transdimensional travel, which actually became a plot point in "The Devil In Ms. Wildthyme".

* EarlyBirdCameo: Paul Magrs' short story, ''The Runaway Hi-Fi'' says that the stuffed panda, Hi-Fi, owned by the First Doctor's companion Steven Taylor was actually Panda.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Paul Magrs' short story, ''The Runaway Hi-Fi'' says that the stuffed panda, Hi-Fi owned by the First Doctor's companion Steven Taylor is actually Panda.

* 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.

Supposedly another renegade Time Lord, although she's more of a constantly changing canon wildcard: a FourthWallObserver who dashes in and out of plotlines with little regard for the laws of time and space. Her TARDIS looks like a red double-decker London bus, and she has a habit of claiming that many of the Doctor's escapades were really hers. She originated in a series of wildly unrelated novels and immigrated into the ''Doctor Who'' novels a few years later. In Creator/BigFinish, she played a key role in the [[TrilogyCreep four-part]] [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsExcelisDawns Excelis trilogy]], met up with Six in the main range, had adventures with Characters/BerniceSummerfield (as well as with the Third Doctor's former companion Jo Grant, [[TalkingToHimself who shares the same actress]]), and eventually got her own proper Creator/BigFinish spinoff series.

Supposedly another renegade Time Lord, although she's more of a constantly changing canon wildcard: a FourthWallObserver who dashes in and out of plotlines with little regard for the laws of time and space. Her TARDIS looks like a red double-decker London bus, and she has a habit of claiming that many of the Doctor's escapades were really hers. She originated in a series of wildly unrelated novels and immigrated into the ''Doctor Who'' novels a few years later. In Creator/BigFinish, she played a key role in the [[TrilogyCreep four-part]] [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsExcelisDawns Excelis trilogy]], met up with Six in the main range, had adventures with Characters/BerniceSummerfield (as well as [[TalkingToHimself with Jo Grant]]), and eventually got her own proper Creator/BigFinish spinoff series.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Her first three regenerations looked strikingly like Edith Sitwell, Shirley Bassey and Beryl Reid, respectively. (Three celebrities who also happened to look quite a bit like DistaffCounterpart versions of Creator/WilliamHartnell, Creator/PatrickTroughton and Creator/JonPertwee.) Her sixth incarnation looks rather a lot like Creator/JaneFonda.

* SuperpoweredRobotMaid: Is capable killing large creatures when her only job is to be a vending machine.

* ToiletHumor: She always got the runs from transdimensional travel, which actually became a plot point in "The Devil In Ms. Wildthyme".

* HumanOutsideAlienInside: An x-ray in ''Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion'' shows that Iris has two livers as a nod to The Doctor having two hearts.

* ObfusciatingStupidity: Jenny thinks that Iris only pretends to be a daft old bag because she's trying to hide something terrible.

* HumanOutsideAlienInside: ''Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion'' says that she has two livers.

* ExpyCoexistence: As mentioned, she was written as a parody of The Doctor and then met him when Magrs when started writing Whoniverse novels.

* ExtradimensionalShortcut: It goes through a dimension called The Maelstrom when travels through time and space. When the series got Canon Welded into ''Doctor Who'', reprints usually renamed it to the Time Vortex.