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* MultipleChoicePast: May be a Literature/FactionParadox creation. May be from beyond the FourthWall. May be an aspect of the Doctor in some way. May just be mental.

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* MultipleChoicePast: May be a Literature/FactionParadox creation. May be from beyond the FourthWall. May be an aspect of the Doctor in some way. May just be mental. She's sometimes a Time Lady, sometimes belongs to an extradimensional race called The Clockworks.
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* HaveWeMetYet: When he first encountered Iris as a child, he claimed to have had several adventures with her before. When she asks him about it when she's older, he says he doesn't remember and she must have met his future self.

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* CanonWelding: Paul Magrs created her as a parody of The Doctor for his own novels. When he started writing ''Doctor Who'' novels, he made her into a Time Lady and the Celestial Omnibus into a [=TARDIS=].



* RefugeeFromTVLand: Has visited a universe where her life is a TV show at least twice. First to threaten a man who insulted her actress and later to attend a FanConvention.



* YourCostumeNeedsWork: She's visited an Iris FanConvention in another universe and ended in being mistaken for a cosplayer.



* FlyingCar: Can fly through the air as well as time and space.



* LostTechnology: When Iris first found the bus, Dick claimed Omnibuses were a type of vehicle used by the Clockworkers. But when an adult Iris finally reconnects with them, they've lost most of their technology and seem to want to get their hands on the bus.



* GroundhogDayLoop: Iris first found Panda in a crashed Omnibus when she was a child. He gave her the name Iris and claimed he'd adventured with her before implying that he might be experiencing Iris' adventures over and over again.


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* RefugeeFromTVLand: Two versions of him have simultaneously visited a world where he and Iris are fictional characters.


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* YourCostumeNeedsWork: When visiting an Iris Wildthyme FanConvention, he blends in by being mistaken for a cosplay prop.
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* 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.

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!!Iris Wildthyme

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!!Iris Wildthyme[[folder:Iris Wildthyme]]




!!The Celestial Omnibus

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!!Tom

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!!Jenny Winterleaf

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!!Panda

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* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: Has a dimensional drive that lets it travel the multiverse as well time and space.


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

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* GroundhogDayLoop: Iris found the bus derelict as a child filled with years of her own diaries implying that the bus might be experiencing Iris' adventures over and over again.



* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]: He got better.

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* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]: GroundhogDayLoop: Iris first found Panda in a crashed Omnibus when she was a child. He gave her the name Iris and claimed he'd adventured with her before implying that he might be experiencing Iris' adventures over and over again.
* HeroicSacrifice:
He got better.
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* RightBehindMe: Iris comes up behind him when he's talking about how old she is and her unreliable memory in ''Wildthyme Beyond!''.
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* TheFogOfAges: Panda explains she's been around more years than she'll admit so her memory's unreliable when Simon asks why she can't remember if she's been to Hyspero before.

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* InnBetweenTheWorlds: When it becomes The [[spoiler:Wormery, it's a bar with wormholes linking all over time and space]]>

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* InnBetweenTheWorlds: When it becomes The [[spoiler:Wormery, it's a bar with wormholes linking all over time and space]]>space]].


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* PortalToThePast: The ground floor has a slash in the fabric of time and space that leads to a toilet beneath the Hammersmith Odeon in 1972 London.

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* MysteriousPast: May be a Literature/FactionParadox creation. May be from beyond the FourthWall. May be an aspect of the Doctor in some way. May just be mental.

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* MysteriousPast: MultipleChoicePast: May be a Literature/FactionParadox creation. May be from beyond the FourthWall. May be an aspect of the Doctor in some way. May just be mental.



!!The Bus

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!!The Bus
Celestial Omnibus



* BiggerOnTheInside: Parodied with it being slightly smaller on the inside.
** ''Verdigris'' says it is Bigger On The Inside but most of its interior is used for water storage but ''Enter Wildthyme'' and ''The Scarlet Empress'' say it gets its water from a spacetime link to a Canadian lake in 1924.
* 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.



* InnBetweenTheWorlds: When it becomes The [[spoiler:Wormery, it's a bar with wormholes linking all over time and space]]>
* MagicBus: It's a bus that can go anywhere in time and space.




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* TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace: Being a [=TARDIS=] it can go anywhere in the universe as well as time.

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* ExpyCoexistence: As mentioned, she was written as a parody of The Doctor and then met him when Magrs when started writing Whoniverse novels.* FourthWallObserver: Especially in {{omake}} material.

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* ExpyCoexistence: As mentioned, she was written as a parody of The Doctor and then met him when Magrs when started writing Whoniverse novels.novels.
* FourthWallObserver: Especially in {{omake}} material.
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* [[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' 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]].

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* [[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' 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]].
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* FourthWallObserver: Especially in {{omake}} material.

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* ExpyCoexistence: As mentioned, she was written as a parody of The Doctor and then met him when Magrs when started writing Whoniverse novels.* FourthWallObserver: Especially in {{omake}} material.

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* CanonWelding: Paul Magrs created her as a parody of The Doctor for his own novels. When he started writing ''Doctor Who'' novels, he made her into a Time Lady and the Celestial Omnibus into a [=TARDIS=].



* DoctorWhomage: Was written as a female parody of The Doctor.



* RememberTheNewGuy

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* RememberTheNewGuyRememberTheNewGuy: Discussed in-universe. The Doctor can't remember the past adventures she claims they had, concluding she's lying, his memory was erased or she comes from a parallel universe and had adventures with that world's Doctor.
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* TheBusCameBack: A Paul Magrs story for a charity collection revealed Panda was originally... Steven's bear Hi-Fi! He somehow achieved sentience and left the TARDIS circa [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames "The War Games"]].
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** Iris believes she finds him in Looking for a Friend. [[spoiler: It's someone who looks, sounds and behaves similarly to Panda, but it's left up to the listener to decide if it's really him.]]

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** Iris believes she finds him in Looking "Looking for a Friend. Friend". [[spoiler: It's someone who looks, sounds and behaves similarly to Panda, but it's left up to the listener to decide if it's really him.he.]]
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* BootstrappedTheme: Iris' theme tune from her solo series started life as her and Bianca's song from [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho051TheWormery "The Wormery"]].

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

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* [[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' 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).same]].
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* [[YouLookFamiliar You 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. Her character is ''nothing'' like Jo's though. HilarityEnsues in the Creator/BigFinish audio episode [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS5E3FindAndReplace "Find And Replace"]], when the two characters team up.

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* [[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. Her character (Though it should be noted that she herself is ''nothing'' like Jo's Jo though. And they don't sound ''that'' similar either, thanks to Iris' 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.up and [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight nobody notices they look the same).
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* BootstrappedTheme: Iris' theme tune from her solo series started life as her and Bianca's song from [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho051TheWormery "The Wormery"]].
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** 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.
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I'm not sure this sentence has any meaning when it comes to Iris...


** At one point Iris became a member of the Sisterhood of Karn, and one of her stories outright stated (though still not confirmed as canon) that in the Fourth Doctor Episode "The Brain of Morbius", she was one of the members who was chanting "Death".

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** At one point Iris became a member of the Sisterhood of Karn, and one of her stories outright stated (though still not confirmed as canon) that in the Fourth Doctor Episode "The Brain of Morbius", she was one of the members who was chanting "Death".
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* BritishAccents: A very broad something that lies "somewhere between Liverpool, Manchester and perhaps Ilkley Moor".
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: Is in the end of series 4, but doesn't appear in the next box set nor are the circumstances behind his departure addressed.
** Iris believes she finds him in Looking for a Friend. [[spoiler: It's someone who looks, sounds and behaves similarly to Panda, but it's left up to the listener to decide if it's really him.]]

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* 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.



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: 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.
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Pleas note that due to the nature of the character, the tropes described here are continuously warped and overwritten throughout Iris's adventures, even more so than is common in the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: 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.) A later incarnation looks exactly like Creator/JaneFonda.

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: 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.) A later Her sixth incarnation looks exactly rather a lot like Creator/JaneFonda.
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--> Voiced by: Creator/KatyManning, Maria McErlane

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--> Voiced by: Creator/KatyManning, Maria McErlane
[=Maria McErlane=]
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--> Voiced by: Creator/KatyManning

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--> Voiced by: Creator/KatyManning
Creator/KatyManning, Maria McErlane

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