Iris Wildthyme

Iris Wildthyme
Doctor Who character
First appearance	Old Flames
Last appearance	Ongoing
Portrayed by	Katy Manning (voice)
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Affiliated	None
Species	Time Lord?
Home planet	Gallifrey?
Home era	Rassilon Era

Iris Wildthyme is a fictional character created by writer Paul Magrs, who has appeared in short stories, novels and audio dramas from numerous publishers. She is best known from spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, where she is sometimes depicted as a renegade Time Lady.

Her stories are in the New Wave mold, characterised by nonlinear, sometimes stream of consciousness narrative, intertextual references to the rest of Doctor Who and popular culture, and themes of unreliable narration. She has a playful, mischievous personality, delighting in baiting the Doctor and getting into trouble.

Iris Wildthyme first appears in one of Magrs's non-genre novels, Marked for Life, as a lesbian novelist who has lived for far longer than a normal lifespan. At the end of the novel, Iris Wildthyme seems to die and then become a baby in a scene reminiscent of regeneration. The infant Iris appears in later books by Magrs taking place in the same Phoenix Court setting, and an apparently adult version re-appears in the story 'Hospitality', in the collection Iris: Abroad.

Iris's first Doctor Who appearance is in the short story Old Flames, where she meets the Fourth Doctor and Sarah. The Doctor already knows Iris as an "old friend", and she is seen to be travelling in a 20th-century London AEC Routemaster double-decker bus (the route 22 to Putney Common), which is, in reality, her TARDIS.

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