History Franchise / IrisWildthyme

* CastFullOfGay: Two of Iris's companions, Tom and Jenny, are gay. Iris's very first appearance had her as a lesbian, although she definitely also likes men in later regenerations.

** The Man From Mars from the ''Music/{{Blondie}}'' song, "Rapture".

** 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 Celestial Omnibus travels through a dimension called The Maelstrom and emerges elsewhere in time and space. This was a copyright friendly version of the Time 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.

The WidgetSeries adventures of Iris Wildthyme, transtemporal adventuress, occasionally take place in the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse and occasionally in different continuities altogether. Iris is an old -- very old -- RebelliousSpirit with a love for booze, music and sex. She's had a slew of different bodies and dashes in and out of universes as a merry, if somewhat ditzy, FourthWallObserver.

* PandaingToTheAudience: Creator/BigFinish gave Iris a talking stuffed panda companion. [[RuleOfFunny This was never explained in any way]], although it was indicated he's the same stuffed panda that kept Steven Taylor company in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]''.

* PandaingToTheAudience: Creator/BigFinish gave Iris a talking stuffed panda companion. [[RuleOfFunny This was never explained in any way]].

** 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.

* 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.
** Early on, the story even takes an affectionate jab over the CaliforniaDoubling of Vancouver as San Francisco, by having Iris ask Panda if he'd reconsider his birthday wish to go to San Francisco, New Years, 1999 and instead go to Vancouver on the grounds that it's cheaper (which is why the TV Movie shot there instead of the real San Francisco)

** If they're not allowed to mention Time Lords then Iris and El Jefe will belong to a race from The Clockworks called the Lords Temporal.

* AllJustADream: The ''In The Sixties'' short story ends with being a dream of the newborn baby Paul Magrs.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Fans if the TV show InUniverse had to wait decades for ''The Iris Wildthyme Show'' to get a VHS or DVD release.

** 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.

** The ''Green Mars 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.

** If they're not allowed to mention Time Lords then Iris and El Hefe will belong to a race from The Clockworks called the Lords Temporal.

** The Man From Mars from the ''Music/{{Blondie}}'' song, ''Rapture''.

* ChristmasEpisode: "The Claws Of Santa". (He's her ex.)

* ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma: The Doctor uses a variant of this turn of phrase to is describe Iris. "She's an enigma wrapped in a mystery, with a shapeless, tasteless hat clamped to her head."

** Marvelle has to let the Poodles talk to the Martians because they've worked with the before and know the language.