Editing Iris Wildthyme (section)

==Character==
Iris claims to have been raised by a House of Aunts (as opposed to Cousins), in the mountains of southern [[Gallifrey]],<ref name="ahistory3">{{cite book |last1=Parkin |first1=Lance |author-link1=Lance Parkin |last2=Pearson |first2=Lars |author-link2=Lars Pearson |title=AHistory: An Unauthorized History of the Doctor Who Universe |edition=3rd |year=2012 |publisher=Mad Norwegian Press |location=Des Moines, IA |isbn=978-193523411-1 |pages=710–711}}</ref> and also that she has erased all of her records from the [[Matrix (Doctor Who)|Matrix]], explaining why the Time Lords know nothing about her. She is known to have survived the destruction of Gallifrey and the apparent retroactive wiping of the Time Lords from history that took place at the end of the novel ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]''.

Iris regenerates at the end of ''The Scarlet Empress'' (into a form resembling [[Jane Fonda]] in ''[[Barbarella (film)|Barbarella]]''),<ref name="iwho"/><ref name="bafflement">{{cite journal |last1=Magrs |first1= Paul |author-link=Paul Magrs |date=5 April 2000 |title=Bafflement and devotion |journal=[[Doctor Who Magazine]] |issue=289 |pages=26–29 |publisher=[[Panini Comics|Panini]] }}</ref> and is known to have at least six other incarnations. One of these, Bianca (voiced by [[Maria McErlane]]), appears in the [[Big Finish Productions]] audio play ''[[The Wormery]]'' and is similar to the Doctor's villainous [[Valeyard]] incarnation. Iris has also apparently worked for [[United Nations Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] as a Scientific Advisor, and for the Ministry of Incursions and Ontological Wonders (MIAOW).<ref name="bafflement" />

There is no indication of what relationship the character has with the new television series. In "[[The End of the World (Doctor Who)|The End of the World]]" (2005), the Doctor states that his homeworld had been destroyed and that he is the last of the Time Lords.

Attempting to pin down the exact details of Iris's history is problematic because such details are not only kept deliberately vague by Magrs and other writers, but also because the accounts of her adventures may not be reliable, in whole or in part.<ref name="bafflement" /><ref name="iwho2" /> For example, some of her claimed exploits bear a remarkable similarity to those of the Doctor's, and some have suggested that it is the Doctor's adventures that are [[plagiarism|plagiarised]] from Iris's life, rather than the other way around.<ref name="bafflement" />

Her TARDIS is a double-decker red London bus, the number 22 to Putney Common.<ref name="iwho" /> In contrast with other TARDISes, hers is slightly smaller on the inside, a fact attributed to the fact that her TARDIS was dying when she found it. She also claims to have stolen the TARDIS, and to be on the run from her "mysterious superiors".

Iris has also argued that her adventures are more "true" than the Doctor's recollections because she writes them in her diaries while the Doctor does not. Magrs has explicitly stated that Iris "knows — of course she knows — that she's a very deliberate parody of ''Doctor Who''. That's why she loves him so."<ref name="bafflement" /> In [[postmodernism|postmodernist]] style, Iris is portrayed as playfully aware that she is a character in a television programme (or a series of books and audio dramas spun off from a television programme).<ref name="eruditorum">{{cite book |last=Sandifer |first=Elizabeth |title=TARDIS Eruditorum: An Unofficial Critical History of Doctor Who, Volume 3: Jon Pertwee |year=2013 |publisher=Eruditorum Press |location=Danbury, Connecticut |isbn=9781484030233 |pages=218–225}}</ref> Even more so than the Doctor's TARDIS, Iris's bus is a device for moving her between fictional genres and even texts. In the context of the ''Doctor Who'' universe, all this may be explained by Iris's claim in the novel ''[[The Blue Angel (Doctor Who)|The Blue Angel]]'' that she is from the Obverse, a surreal [[Parallel universe (fiction)|parallel universe]] with radically different physical laws.<ref name="ahistory3" /><ref name="iwho2">{{cite book |last=Pearson |first=Lars |author-link=Lars Pearson |title=I, Who 2: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who novels and audios |year=2001 |publisher=Mad Norwegian Press |location=New Orleans |isbn=1-57032-900-1 |pages=117–120}}</ref> More recently in both Big Finish audios and Obverse Books short stories, she has claimed to come from The Clockworks, a planet in the Obverse, ruled over by a race not unlike the Time Lords.<ref name="ahistory3" />