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Panda, an erudite, rakish, self-professed art critic, was commonly identified as a ten-inch-tall, fuzzy stuffed panda; mention of this, however, would cause Panda a great deal of offense, often driving Panda to resort to violence in retaliation.

Panda spent many of his later years travelling with the garish transtemporal adventuress known as Iris Wildthyme, aboard the Celestial Omnibus - a time machine of conflicting origin, but one thing that did remain consistent was its appearance: a red double decker bus, the 22 to Putney Common.

Though he was Iris' best friend, they often had rows and barneys, but they did it knowing that none of it really mattered. They simply argued for the sheer fun of it. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)

A complicated origin
Once in his travels with Iris, Panda hotly postulated to her that he came from a "whole planet of Pandas", a place where he was among his own kind. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme) There was indeed a (as called it) "Planet of the Bears", Ursino Six, which was home to a faction of reality-engineers resembling stuffed bears, with at least one having similar speech patterns to Panda. (PROSE: Teddy Sparkles Must Die!)

Meeting Iris
Panda's first encounter with Iris Wildthyme was something that got more and more complex and contradictory the longer the two travelled together.

Panda first met Iris Wildthyme in a publishing company that was a secret offshoot of MIAOW, (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large) however as time went on, and other earlier incarnations of Iris met him prematurely, (PROSE: Death of the Author, Wandering Stars) it caused Panda to remember his first encounter with Iris differently. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)

An alternative, and more commonly accepted origin, was that Panda had many adventures prior to his time living with Thomas Daley (a previous companion of Iris) in the late 1990s.

Almost ten years later, sometime in the late 2000s, Panda was contemplating writing his memoirs, but this fell through when Iris returned to Thomas. (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large)

When Iris returned to Tom, she entrusted him with the Memory Crystal from the Mines of Marlion. Feeling guilty about the novels he wrote about Iris, Tom took Panda with him when he went to his publisher to relieve him of his contractual obligation to write more books. The publisher refused, getting livid with Tom, so he and Panda attempted to escape, but this was futile as they were soon captured.

Somewhat unexpectedly, Iris Wildthyme arrived in her bus, being controlled by the Head. The Head almost succeeded in taking the Memory Crystal from Tom, but Panda grabbed it, throwing it down hard onto the ground, shattering it, allowing Iris to save the day, and getting her memories back. (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large)

According to one account, Panda was in fact Steven Taylor's toy mascot, HiFi. He had been inadvertently left inside the TARDIS after Steven's departure, and when the Second Doctor was put on trial, Panda finally left the TARDIS, whereupon he stumbled into Iris Wildthyme in a pub in the under-city of Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Runaway HiFi)

Adventures with Iris
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The truth of Iris' origins
Panda remained on the Celestial Omnibus when Iris investigated strange happenings in Darlington, knowing how the locals would react to his appearance. Still, he made himself useful by relaying information to Iris from the Omnibus.

Iris returned to the Omnibus with her new friend, Simon, and the three of them used the Omnibus to travel to the Begins at Home, the source of the strange happenings. Returning to Darlington, they discovered Anthony Marvelle's scheme to reach the Obverse. They leave with Simon's friend Kelly, travelling to an alternate Paris in 1894, on the brink of the Martian invasion.

They left Paris hastily, and they drop Kelly off back in Darlington after she found she couldn't handle the stress of time travel. Barbra, a Servo-furnishing, stowed away with them when they travelled to Valcea. On their journey to the City of Glass, Panda and Simon discovered a tear in the Very Fabric, left by Marvelle, inside the Omnibus, and they go though it, finding themselves at a Vince Cosmos concert in 1973, and saving Vince from an assassination attempt by Martian Time Agents.

At the after party, a future version of Iris arrived to tell them to get back to the Omnibus. Panda and Simon return to the Omnibus, and they finally reach the City of Glass. They're immediately captured by the Wardrobes, who torture Panda for information. He escaped with Simon and Iris after a bomb that had been secretly placed inside Barbra begins to explode, and Iris pilots the Omnibus to Hyspero, following Marvelle. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)

Further adventures with Iris
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Leaving Iris
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Undated events
Panda once implied to have met Cleopatra. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)

Legacy
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 panda-phobic. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)

Lionel Pandeau
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The Gallery
Panda once found himself in a mysterious place known only as The Gallery, and Mister Heart kept repeatedly luring Panda into other realities, in a ploy to capture Panda within a painting. In these worlds, Panda experienced being other versions of himself, including:

Chef Panda

 * This foul-mouthed and rude version of Panda hosted a reality TV show called What The F**k Do You Call That?, where he would be invited into a home, ridiculing and berating any minor flaw. At the filming of one fateful episode, Panda was given a summer pudding by Janine Bonaventura and her family, which was filled with stuffing, causing him to choke and die.

Art Critic Panda

 * This version of Panda was a judge for an art competition. He had a secretive relationship with young Antoinette Bisby, who turned out to have an ulterior motive of exposing Panda and his fellow judges for their corruption. This betrayal broke Panda's heart, as he was genuinely in love with Antoinette, and he slit his throat with a piece of a shattered trophy in despair.

Author Panda

 * This other version of Panda was an author who had just released a bestselling novel, but when a secret message was discovered in his book, Panda killed himself as he knew he had no future.

As it turned out, Iris had spent seventy-four years deliberately causing the death of Panda within these realities, so as to prevent Panda being trapped in a painting for all eternity. (PROSE: Framed)

Personality
In retrospect, Panda considered himself to be pragmatic and down-to-Earth prior to his adventures with Iris. He also found that being obtuse was, to him at least, "one of the finest pleasures life [had] to offer". (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)

Panda was highly sensitive over his unusual composition, so when somebody highlighted it, he would be scandalized. (PROSE: , Enter Wildthyme, et al) Panda often then resorted to violence in retaliiation. (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion, PROSE: Enter Wildthyme, et al)

Panda was in touch with his sexuality, despite being a stuffed toy, expressing a particular interest in Mida Slike, head of MIAOW, who he though was gorgeous, (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large) as well as having "splendid boobs". (PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Polythene Terror)

Reactions to Panda

 * Due to the obvious fact Panda was most regularly viewed as a living stuffed toy, reactions to Panda varied.

While most people simply accepted the fact Panda was a walking and talking stuffed bear, (PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost, ', et al.) but was too dismayed and embarrassed to talk to Panda,  thought that Paul Magrs and Jeremy were "freaks" for being friends with him, and Fester Cat was initially flabbergasted, before remaining sceptical about Panda for several years, (PROSE: ') although he eventually accepted Panda, and stood up for him on Panda's behalf. (PROSE: ) When visiting Darlington, Panda remained inside the Celestial Omnibus, to avoid arousing unhelpful reactions to his nature. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)

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Panda often acted with a deal of snobbery, knowing fully that he's more eloquent, versed, and knowledgeable on a wide range of things, from fine cuisine to the most talented individuals from the 20th century, than the average individual. (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large, PROSE: Framed, et al)

Panda was highly sensitive over the fact that he was a stuffed bear, so whenever this was pointed out to him, he would threaten to "punch you up the hooter", (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large) an act he was more than prepared deliver.

Panda was an aficionado of varying types of alcohol, preparing and drinking a plethora of different alcoholic drinks.

Appearance
Apart from being a stuffed toy, Panda dressed debonair, often donning a cravat, (PROSE: Framed, Enter Wildthyme, et al) a smoking jacket, (PROSE: Framed)

Due to the fact that he had no fingers, Panda had to stick blu-tack onto his paws in order to turn pages of books. (PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost)

Behind the scenes

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