Iris Wildthyme in popular culture and mythology
Iris Wildthyme was a vastly complex woman, and due to her conflicting and ever changing history, many of aspects of her life had become fictionalised in the 20th century, the 21st century, and beyond.
On occasion, the inhabitants of planets Iris had visited would depict Iris in art, such as the Hysperons, who carved a gigantic and detailed rendition of Iris' likeness into the landscape. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)
This was similar to how the Doctor and his enemies also left traces of their actions in the worlds that they visited.
On Earth and among humans
As a real person
Iris Wildthyme was once blackmailed by Binky into setting up Wildthyme Unlimited in England, 1979. The factory produced popular Suitors, a type of robot modelled after the Third and Fourth incarnations of the Doctor. (PROSE: Suitors, Inc.)
The magazine, Leotards and Leggings, once published a monograph by Iris. The monograph involved research into over one hundred and fifty seven variants of Lycra. (PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost)
As a character in fiction
As a multi-platform franchise
- Main article: Paul Magrs (Bafflement and Devotion)
At the beginning of the 21st century, Paul Magrs began writing a book series about Iris, (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion) who had previously interacted with Paul on various occasions, (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion, In the Sixties) and Iris would subsequently meet him again. (PROSE: Party Fears Two, The Magrs Conundrum!)
Around this time he was asked to write a short piece about his works, and he did, also mentioning the impact that the Doctor Who franchise left on him. (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion)
By December, 2009, Paul had introduced Panda as a character in his series, and the series continued to grow in popularity (PROSE: Brenda's B&B) and by 2017 it had become part of mainstream culture, having a TV series, with a Christmas special, (PROSE: The Magrs Conundrum!) and Spin-Off Audio Adventures, original novelisations, computer games, and comic strips. (PROSE: From Wildthyme with Love)
Thomas Daley's novels
- Main article: Tom's "Wildthyme" novels
Five years after Thomas Daley left Iris, he began to write novels about her. Mida Slike, head of MIAOW, seized this opportunity in order to lay a scheme to learn of Iris' secrets. After setting up Satan & Satan Ltd., and getting Tom to write a contract that bound him to write nine novels, her plan was in motion. At first, Tom's novels weren't particularly successful: that is, until his third book was published, five years later, which took off in popularity when he starred in a chat show, Everybody's on the Settee with Phelula and Ken. Despite Tom's truthful claims that the events documented within the novels were real, most of readers believed that they were fiction.
At one fateful book reading/signing, Iris returned to Tom. His guilt about spinning his and Iris' adventures into novels was brought to a tipping point when she returned, so he and Panda went to Mida Slike, to make her free Tom of his contract to write the novels. She adamantly refused, so Iris herself had to force Mida to terminate the contract. (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large)
In the 42nd century
A future incarnation of Iris Wildthyme wrote an autobiography, Ugg Boots and Catsuits: My Fabulous Life. Due to its popularity, the book was adapted into a TV show, which had tie-in movies, and a line of action figures, including the Twenty-two fourteen bus playset - an action figure playset based off the Celestial Omnibus.
Panda was in the pilot episode, but viewers didn't believe that Iris would've travelled with a "stuffed bear" - a combination of this and the fact that Panda refused to sell his image rights, the producers wrote the character Hoppy in as a replacement.
Hoppy was an Australian Kangaroo with a cocked hat. There was plushy based off his likeness, which had voice synthesiser.
The Radio Times printed a special magazine, the Radio Times Iris Wildthyme Centenary Special, which had a picture on the cover of the same future incarnation of Iris Wildthyme that wrote the autobiography.
Wayne Bland II, owner of The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society and editor of Blags and Gladrags, was a massive fan of this franchise, and he began to stalk a previous incarnation of Iris. He once tracked her down on Trull, where he tricked her into swapping their minds with a Anibusian Mind Transferer disguised as a pen, when she signed his copy of the Radio Times Iris Wildthyme Centenary Special.
In Iris' body, Wayne made Iris into a celebrity on Trull. Iris received a lot of fan mail, and Who Iris Did Next was a TV documentary about Iris. There were even life-size Iris love dolls. There were over six point five billion members in her fan club. (AUDIO: The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society)
Other works
information from Femme Fatale, The Big Crunch, & Mad Dogs and Englishmen needs to be added.
Wildthyme: Confessions of a Time Lady was a book written by Iris. The book contained a fictionalised account of the Eighth Doctor's adventures with Sam, the Brigadier and UNIT. (PROSE: Femme Fatale)
Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus was a book depicting events experienced by Iris and Panda. (PROSE: The Big Crunch)
John Cleavis once came up with a story about a "strange old aunt" who "happened to own a double-decker bus that [could] travel to [a] magical world". (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen)
Meta-fiction universes
In one meta-dimension, Iris existed only as a fictional character. (PROSE: Wildthyme Beyond!, AUDIO: Looking for a Friend) The seventeen-episode The Iris Wildthyme Show inspired a cult franchise with CDs, action figures, comics, fan conventions, and over 300 tie-in novels. (PROSE: Wildthyme Beyond!)
In his youth, Arthur Bayer wrote several stories about a woman who travelled through time and space in a double-decker bus with a panda. (AUDIO: Looking for a Friend)
In other cultures
Mars
The Martians held an ancient legend about a "certain Panda deity who visited them in a scarlet chariot that came from the stars...". As such, the Martians were scared of pandas. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)
Hyspero
On Hyspero, there was once a twenty-story tall sculpture of Iris Wildthyme's grinning face, which was erected after Iris' first trip to Hyspero. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)
Behind the scenes
- The cover of the Wild Thymes on the 22 anthology depicted Iris Wildthyme signing copies of Wild Thymes on the 22, The Perennial Miss Wildthyme, Iris: Abroad, and Iris Wildthyme of Mars.
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