Panda Panda was a ten - inch - tall , fuzzy stuffed panda who travelled with the Iris Wildthyme . For a time , Panda was a robot known as Clockwork Panda . ( PROSE : " Flasket Brinner and the Clockwork Heart " , " The Woman Who Sold the Moon " et al ) Panda was quite sensitive over the fact that he was a toy . ( AUDIO : " Wildthyme at Large " et al ) Using X - ray s , infrared , DNA sequencing , and deep tissue analysis , the Forge were unable to find any signs of life within Panda ' s body . ( PROSE : " Project : Wildthyme " ) Biography . Early life . Panda ' s homeland was China . ( PROSE : " The Delightful Bag " ) Panda originally belonged to Tom when he was writing about his travels with Iris Wildthyme . He was annoyed that he hardly left Tom ' s flat . ( AUDIO : " Wildthyme at Large " ) Travels with Iris and Tom . After Iris returned to Earth , Panda and Tom joined her in her travels around the multiverse . ( AUDIO : " Wildthyme at Large " ) He got annoyed when Iris kept calling him a stuff toy . He was surprised that Tom picked up a girl . He felt for Jenny Winterleaf for only being known for her illness going through the vortex . He fell in love with Iris . Iris thought he was becoming the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz . ( AUDIO : " The Devil in Ms . Wildthyme " ) New adventures with Iris . After Tom returned to Earth to live his life as a journalist , Panda continued to travel with Iris . He got annoyed at the state of the bus . He wanted to be a DJ for Radio Four . ( AUDIO : " The Sound of Fear " ) When Iris was exiled to 1972 he became a journalist and helped Iris in her investigations . After meeting the White Rabbit and Mock Turtle he started to believe that Alice in Wonderland was real . ( AUDIO : " The Land of Wonder " ) He encountered Hilary Wildthyme disbelieving him to be Iris . He didn ' t feel himself after this event and took his hipflask with him everywhere . Roger the Naxian took him to Malaga . His hipflask was a link to the rehab dimension . ( AUDIO : " The Two Irises " ) Several times , Panda got lost at the end of the universe ( PROSE : " Future Legend " ) , completely changed in size ( PROSE : " The Shape of Things " ) and was killed ( PROSE : " The Panda Book of Horror " ) . San Francisco & Santa Claus . Panda sacrificed himself to save the multiverse from being invaded by his alternative selves by jumping into a rift in the Time Vortex while holding a bottle of Tonic Water . ( AUDIO : " The Panda Invasion " ) Panda did not die as he had expected . He was saved by Iris Wildthyme and Santa . ( AUDIO : " Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa " ) Clockwork Panda . After the Steam Lord s retro - fitted the Obverse to be a bit more steampunk , ( PROSE : " The Woman Who Sold the Moon " ) Panda became a robot that had been created by Flasket Brinner . When Clockwork Panda ' s heart broke , Iris searched the multiverse for a replacement . ( PROSE : " Flasket Brinner and the Clockwork Heart " ) Iris and Panda encountered the Counter - Clockwork Yeti of Mrrm , impersonated Venus ian ambassadors on the Moon , ( PROSE : " The Woman Who Sold the Moon " ) visited Skullvaria , ( PROSE : " The Story Sorters " ) and bumped into an entity . ( PROSE : " Being " ) Facing the future Iris . He became a secretary for the fan club of Iris . He had his mind swapped in an event with Traguam . ( AUDIO : " The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society " ) He didn ' t understand why Iris would install a randomiser in her TARDIS that would make the ride more bumpy . ( AUDIO : " Iris Rides Out " ) He asked Iris to take him to earth to get a Pork Pie . Instead he was involved in a murder investigation . A future version of Iris captured them . ( AUDIO : " Midwinter Murders " ) The future Iris captured Panda and her younger self and sent them to a Pleasure Prison , where the pair were immersed in separate virtual realities designed to provide their greatest desires . In this realm he had an autobiographer / PA called Amanda . He kept hearing Iris ' voice and caused the future Iris ' plans to fail . ( AUDIO : " Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme ? " ) He joined Iris to a darts competition . He he met the Bovine race which meant he had only three species in his book of terrifying monsters left to see . ( AUDIO : " Iris at the Oche " ) He had a tv jingle stuck in his head . He became under the the spell of Lift . ( AUDIO : " A Lift in Time " ) A secret mission . After dropping Panda off somewhere to complete a mission for her , Iris travelled with Jo Jones , and later with Captain Edwin Turner . ( AUDIO : " Find and Replace " , " An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium " ) After parting ways with Turner , she went looking for Panda , but couldn ' t find him . Instead , she encountered a human called Arthur Bayer , who had a voice very similar to Panda ' s . ( AUDIO : " Looking for a Friend " ) Later life . At one point later in his life , Panda travelled to the Obverse and helped a young Iris discover her identity and flee escaped the Clockworks in her bus . ( PROSE : " Wildthyme Beyond ! " ) One of Iris ' future incarnations starred in a successful television series as well as several films . Panda only appeared in the pilot episode of the series before he was replaced by a kangaroo named Hoppy . ( AUDIO : " The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society " ) Alternate Pandas . One alternate version of Panda was the villainous Lionel Pandeau . ( AUDIO : " The Panda Invasion " ) In one universe , Panda was an angry chef who starred in a television show . In another , Panda was a successful art critic who only gave important awards to artists that slept with him . Another Panda was a popular writer . ( PROSE : " Framed " ) Personality . Panda was usually bad - tempered . He took offence at being called a toy . Like Iris , Panda drank heavily , and always carried a hip flask of whisky with him , as he felt that it kept him safe through dark times . ( AUDIO : " The Two Irises " ) Panda resented being described as a bear and threatened to punch those whom he had felt insulted him " right up the hooter . " ( AUDIO : " Wildthyme at Large " , et . al ) Behind the scenes . Panda appears in a few of Paul Magrs ' non - " Iris Wildthyme " novels , including " Brenda and Effie Forever ! " and " The Story of Fester Cat " . In a piece of fan fiction that Magrs wrote for his blog , he indicates that Panda is HiFi .