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* SmokingIsCool

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* SmokingIsCoolSmokingIsCool: He smokes from a hookah. Quite a few adaptations (the two Disney movies especially) have him inflict SecondFaceSmoke on Alice as well.
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* GenreSavvy: After finding the "DRINK ME" bottle, Alice decides not to just immediately drink from it and instead checks to see if it's also labeled "poison".
-->''...for she had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they'' would ''not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them.''

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* PsychopathicWomanchild: She's basically a spoiled bratty child trapped in the body of a tyrannical adult queen.


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* ManChild
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* {{Telepathy}}: Implied; he's prone to responding to things that Alice thinks as though she said it out loud.
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* AffectionateNickname: Alice calls him "Cheshire-Puss". His reaction implies that he likes this nickname a lot.
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* LargeHam[=/=]EvilIsHammy
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* {{Gonk}}

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* {{Gonk}}{{Gonk}}: Her illustrations are based off of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quentin_Matsys_-_A_Grotesque_old_woman.jpg THIS]] for one thing...
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* OnlySaneMan: In the Duchess' house, at least.
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* DeadpanSnarker: In the Hallmark TV movie.
-->'''Knave of Hearts''': Would I lie to you?
-->'''Queen of Hearts''': Yes.
-->''Later''
-->'''Queen of Hearts''': I am NOT in the habit of talking to myself! And yet, [[SurroundedByIdiots that's the]] ''[[SurroundedByIdiots only]]'' [[SurroundedByIdiots way I can get an intelligent conversation around here.]]

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!!The Pigeon
* NervousWreck
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: After Alice accidentally makes her neck grow to enormous proportions, it mistakes her for a serpent and panics.



* {{Jerkass}}: He's extremely tactless, especially to Alice and the Dormouse.



* ButtMonkey: Is often the brunt of abuse from both the Hatter and the March Hare. When Alice leaves the tea party, she notices the two of them trying to stuff him into a tea pot.



* SleepyHead

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* SleepyHead
SleepyHead: Lampshaded by the Hatter.
-->'''Dormouse''': You might as well say that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same as "I sleep when I breathe".
-->'''Hatter''': It ''is'' the same with you.
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* CreepyGood


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* TeleportersAndTransporters: One of his most famous abilities.

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* GenreSavvy: In the book, he gives Alice advice on surviving Wonderland.

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* DarkIsNotEvil: He's somewhat creepy looking (Alice decides to approach him cautiously, after observing his large amount of teeth and sharp claws) but is pretty much the friendliest individual Alice meets in Wonderland.
* GenreSavvy: In the book, he gives He tells Alice advice on surviving Wonderland.that she can't help [[GoAmongMadPeople going among mad people]] in Wonderland and that it's best just to go along with it. Later, he materializes in the Queen's croquet ground as nothing but a head, presumably to avoid being beheaded by the Queen (or to [[TheTrickster mess with her]]).

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* AxCrazy: Kind of. She's obsessed with chopping off heads, but never actually does it.




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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Tries to be one, anyway.




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* TheKlutz




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* NiceGuy: He's very kind to Alice, who becomes upset when he has to leave.
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* DeadpanSnarker: In some adaptations. The 2010 adaptation deserves a special mention, as he's voiced by Alan "Severus Snape" Rickman.
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* TheDreaded: Implied, since in the poem, his death is met [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing with much rejoicing]].

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* AffablyEvil: According to WordOfGod, "she must be formal and strict, yet not unkindly".



** WordOfGod has noted the difference between them to be the following:
-->I pictured to myself the Queen of Hearts as a sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion - a [[AxCrazy blind and aimless Fury]]. The Red Queen I pictured as a Fury, but of another type; her passion must be [[TheStoic cold and calm]] - she must be [[AffablyEvil formal and strict, yet not unkindly]]; pedantic to the 10th degree, the concentrated essence of all governesses!




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* {{Pride}}[=/=]ItsAllAboutMe: "All the ways about here belong to me!" For bonus points, it's also a [[ChessMotifs chess joke]].
* TheStoic
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* CasualDangerDialogue: She spends her fall DownTheRabbitHole making strange comments to herself and shows little concern for the fact that she's potentially falling ''to her death''.
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** This carries over into the [[Film/AliceInWonderland 2010 adaptation]] as well; [[EstablishingCharacterMoment the first thing he does on screen]] is ask Alice where she got her wounds, then offer to use his reality warping to heal them for her. When she refuses, he politely asks if he can at least bandage it for her.
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* LiteralMinded: A few times; for example, when the Mouse says that he has a "long, sad tale", Alice assumes he means his ''tail'' and comments "it is very long, but why do you call it sad?"
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* CatchPhrase: "I'm late!" and "Oh my ears and whiskers!"
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* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: The {{Trope Namer|s}}.

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* CheshireCatGrin: The TropeNamer

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* CheshireCatGrin: The TropeNamer[[TropeNamers Trope Namer]]



* TheMadHatter: Trope Namer.

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* TheMadHatter: The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer.
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!!Bill the lizard, Pat
* TheChewToy: Poor Bill.

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* ButtMonkey / TheChewToy: Poor Bill.



* MoodSwinger



* MoodSwinger

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With The Hare.



* {{Expy}}: He and the Hatter appear in ''Through The Looking Glass'' as the White King's messengers, Hatta and Haigha.



* AlphaBitch



* CatchPhrase: "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"



* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: "Off with their heads!"
* HairTriggerTemper: She seems very easily angered

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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: "Off with their heads!"
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* HairTriggerTemper: She seems very easily angeredangered.
* {{Jerkass}}


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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With the Mock Turtle.
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** AnimalisticAbomination: Possibly.
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* GenreSavvy: In the book, he gives Alice advice on surviving Wonderland.
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* LiteralistSnarker: In the Disney version.

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* LiteralistSnarker: LiteralistSnarking: In the Disney version.
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* StrangeGirl: Alice spends a lot of time talking to herself in both books, including giving herself advice, has an extended monologue to a cat, pretends to be many people at once, and once 'frightened her nurse by saying 'Let's pretend you're a pork bone and I'm a hungry hyena!' She's probably considered a bit odd in the 'real world', but once she gets to Wonderland she becomes the OnlySaneMan.

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* StrangeGirl: Alice spends a lot of time talking to herself in both books, including giving herself advice, has an extended monologue to a cat, pretends to be many people at once, and once 'frightened her nurse by saying 'Let's '[[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Let's pretend you're a pork bone and I'm a hungry hyena!' hyena!]]' She's probably considered a bit odd in the 'real world', but once she gets to Wonderland she becomes the OnlySaneMan.
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* LiteralistSnarker: In the Disney version.
-->'''Cheshire Cat''': (''while standing on his own head'') Can you stand on your head?
-->'''Cheshire Cat''': (''while slowly disappearing'') You may have noticed that I'm not ''all there'' myself.

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* CompositeCharacter: With the Red Queen, notably in the Creator/TimBurton film.

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* CompositeCharacter: With the Red Queen, Queen in many adaptations, notably in the Creator/TimBurton film.



* CompositeCharacter: With the Queen of Hearts. But she has no interest in chopping off heads despite what you might have heard.

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* CompositeCharacter: With AdaptationalVillainy: The original version of the Red Queen of Hearts. But isn't as nice as the White Queen, but she has no interest in chopping off heads despite what you might have heard.heard.
* CompositeCharacter: With the Queen of Hearts in many adaptations, notably in the Creator/TimBurton film.
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!!Alice
* DownTheRabbitHole
* ElegantGothicLolita: Most depictions of her.
* IFellForHours
* {{Kid Hero}}ine
* KindheartedCatLover: She ''adores'' her cat Dinah (and in the book extends the same adoration to Dinah's two kittens), and gets along famously with the Cheshire Cat, whom she calls "Cheshire-Puss".
* LittleMissSnarker
* SizeShifter: Mostly thanks to the "Eat Me" and "Drink Me" items, she changes sizes frequently throughout the first book.
* StrangeGirl: Alice spends a lot of time talking to herself in both books, including giving herself advice, has an extended monologue to a cat, pretends to be many people at once, and once 'frightened her nurse by saying 'Let's pretend you're a pork bone and I'm a hungry hyena!' She's probably considered a bit odd in the 'real world', but once she gets to Wonderland she becomes the OnlySaneMan.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Her dress is almost always shown as blue.
* {{Xenafication}}: Is often subject to it.

!!Dinah, Snowdrop and Kitty
* AdaptedOut: Snowdrop (the white kitten) and Kitty (the black kitten), who are Dinah's kittens, appear only in the book of ''Looking Glass''. They never appear in any adaptations, where Dinah is the only real-world cat to appear (and is often portrayed as a kitten herself).
* AndYouWereThere: Played with in ''Looking Glass''. As Alice wakes up, the Red Queen "turns" into a kitten in her hands, and she discovers that she's holding an actual, purring kitten (the kitten she fell asleep cuddling). Alice takes this as a sign that all three cats were with her in her dream. She identifies the black kitten as the Red Queen and the white kitten as the White Queen, and after a bit of thought decides that Dinah must have been Humpty Dumpty.
* CuteKitten: Dinah in the Disney version (and in several other adaptations). Snowdrop and Kitty in ''Looking Glass''.
* [[ADogNamedDog A Kitten Named Kitty]]: While Dinah and Snowdrop have proper names, the black kitten is never called by any name other than Kitty and is usually referred to as "the kitten" by the narrative.
* TheUnseen: Dinah in the first book. Though Alice often talks about her (especially in earlier chapters), she never actually appears. She does appear in the second book, with her two kittens.

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[[folder:Adventures in Wonderland]]
!!The White Rabbit
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: The {{Trope Namer|s}}.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal
* OnlySaneMan: Possibly. But that's not saying much.
* WhiteBunny: Duh.

!!The Mouse
* HairTriggerTemper: He's extremely easy to anger or offend.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He is very afraid of cats.

!!The Dodo
* AuthorAvatar: To Dodgson.
* CompositeCharacter: With Pat in the Disney version.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: So much that the Eaglet tells him to "Speak English!" and accuses him of not knowing what half the words he uses means.

!!The Lory, the Eaglet and the Duck
* WriteWhoYouKnow: They are based on Alice's sisters Edith (the Eaglet) and Lorina (the Lory) and Rev. Robinson Duckworth (the Duck).

!!Bill the lizard, Pat
* TheChewToy: Poor Bill.

!!The Caterpillar
* CatchPhrase: "Who are you?"
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's haughty, impatient and grouchy... but he ''does'' help Alice out.
* SmokingIsCool

!!The Duchess
* AbusiveParent: To her baby during her first appearance.
* CatchPhrase[=/=]FauxSymbolism: Seems to like bringing up the "moral(s)" to just about ''anything'', even if it borders on InsaneTrollLogic.
* {{Gonk}}
* NiceHat: Her [[PrettyInMink ermine-trimmed headdress]].
* MoodSwinger

!!The Cheshire Cat
* CatsAreMagic: He has abilities that no other Wonderlanders seem to possess, being able to disappear and re-appear at will.
* CheshireCatGrin: The TropeNamer
* {{Jerkass}}: The Disney version, possibly as an instance of CatsAreMean. Though not overly malicious and even seeming friendly in his first two appearances, in the later parts of the film he seems to go out of his way to get Alice into trouble, for no good reason.
** This counts mainly for the actual movie, though. In later appearances in other stories and spin-offs, he's been softened up a bit and is more of a BlueAndOrangeMorality type.
* NiceGuy: By Wonderland standards, anyway. In the book, he's without question the friendliest character Alice meets, being the only one who actually listens to her without getting unreasonably offended or start insulting or threatening her. It's telling that when he reappears, Alice is actually glad to see him.
* RealityWarper
* TheTrickster: In the Disney film; and what is more, many other versions of this character follow it as well, having the cat get Alice in trouble, but never being truly mean-spirited, just mysterious.

!!The Hatter
* BeamMeUpScotty: He is never called The Mad Hatter, only The Hatter, though the chapter he appears in is called 'The Mad Tea Party', and the Cheshire Cat refers to him and the March Hare as mad.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: A more literal case, as during the court scene, he states that the hat he's wearing isn't his, and that being a hatter, he has no hat of his own.
* {{Expy}}: He and the Hare appear in ''Through The Looking Glass'' as the White King's messengers, Hatta and Haigha.
* TheMadHatter: Trope Namer.

!!The March Hare
* DeadpanSnarker
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With The Hatter.

!!The Dormouse
* CompositeCharacter: With the Mouse in the two Disney films. Though the only trait from the Mouse he gets is his fear of cats.
* SleepyHead

!!The Queen of Hearts
* BerserkButton: In the Disney version, don't you DARE call her a "fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant".
* CompositeCharacter: With the Red Queen, notably in the Creator/TimBurton film.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: "Off with their heads!"
* HairTriggerTemper: She seems very easily angered
* PimpedOutDress: Heart-themed of course.

!!The King of Hearts
* CannotTellAJoke: So he has to inform people that he's telling a joke in order to get them to laugh.
* HenpeckedHusband: Made even clearer in the Disney version.

!!The Knave of Hearts
* ButtMonkey

!!Gryphon
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He insults both Alice and the Mock Turtle (but mostly Alice) regularly, he's impatient and often rude, but overall he's one of the more amiable creatures in Wonderland.

!!The Mock Turtle
* HurricaneOfPuns:He seems to like them.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With the Gryphon, it seems. They went to school together and are still friends.
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: He cries a ''lot''. According to the Gryphon, he has no reason to cry whatsoever.
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[[folder:Through the looking-glass]]
!!The Flowers
* {{Alpha Bitch}}es: They're really quite rude to Alice.
** One of them is more so in the 1985 TV movie, while the rest is more good-natured.
* BeautyIsBad
* BitchInSheepsClothing
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Two of the flowers are based on Alice's two sisters Rhoda and Violet.

!!The Jabberwock
* AscendedExtra: He started off as a character within a poem, but in most adaptations he becomes an actual character.
** BreakoutVillain
* OurDragonsAreDifferent

!!The Red Queen
* CompositeCharacter: With the Queen of Hearts. But she has no interest in chopping off heads despite what you might have heard.
* EvilRedhead
* TheHighQueen

!!The White Queen
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: In-universe, SHE'S considered a bit strange.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Alice didn't know that her seemingly nonsensical shouts during their boating trip was actually real rowing jargon.

!!The Red King
* AllJustADream and SchrodingersButterfly: The more obvious example provides the page quote.
* FlatCharacter: Movie. He's got a voice actor, but most people assume he's the wizard, who's credited two seconds later.
* HeavySleeper

!!The White King
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Especially compared to most of the other Kings and Queens in these books.

!!The Gnat
* CannotTellAJoke
* RememberTheNewGuy: Refers to Alice as an "old friend" despite never appearing before.

!!Tweedledum and Tweedledee
* BoisterousBruiser: Both are fat, loud, and always scrapping for a fight.
* NurseryRhyme
* SingleMindedTwins
* ThemeTwinNaming

!!The White Knight
* AuthorAvatar: To Dodgson.
* BunglingInventor: Figures out a fantastic way to keep his sandwiches dry in case of wet weather: he simply fastens his lunchbox to his saddle ''upside down!'' However, he, ah, forgot to fasten the box shut properly...
* KnightInShiningArmor: In a book teeming with Queens and Kings, he's the only one who acts remotely noble.
* LordErrorProne

!!Humpty Dumpty
* DoomedByCanon: In a bit of a DramaticIrony, he tells Alice that he's not scared of falling off the wall, because if he does, the king has promised to send all his horses and all his men. [[ForegoneConclusion No prizes for guessing what happens.]]
* NurseryRhyme: Of course, he's probably the most famous nursery rhyme character to appear in the books.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Mixed with YouKeepUsingThatWord. He defends this by saying that ''he's'' the boss, not the words -- and therefore he can make any word he says mean anything he wants.

!!The Lion and the Unicorn
* BoisterousBruiser: Both of them.
* FairiesDontBelieveInHumansEither: The Unicorn is probably the most famous example of this in all literature. Eventually he agrees to [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann believe in Alice, who believes in him]].
* MilesGloriosus: The Lion has traits of this.
* NurseryRhyme
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