History Characters / AlicesAdventuresInWonderland

Characters who appeared in ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass. For the characters from the [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Disney adaptation]], [[Characters/AliceInWonderland click here]].

* NotSoDifferent: She's just as prone to eccentric and quirky behavior as the creatures she meets, which others will sometimes point out to her. Sometimes they even seem more sensible than her.

* NotSoDifferent: She's just as prone to being a CloudCuckooLander and InsaneTrollLogic as the creatures she meets, which others will sometimes point out to her. Sometimes they even seem more sensible than her!

* TheGhost: Didn't know Alice had a brother? He's incredibly easy to miss, only mentioned off-hand in a single sentence in Chapter 2, when Alice recals looking at her brother's Latin book, so most probably don't even know he ''exists''. He never appears in any adaptations either.

[[folder:Alice's Life]]

[[folder:Alice's Life]]

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/AlicesAdventuresInWonderlandInhabitantsOfLookingGlassLand Inhabitants of Looking-Glass Land]]

[[folder:Looking-Glass Land]]
!! In General:
* ChessMotifs: The whole story takes place during a game of chess, and many of the characters we meet are key players.
* NurseryRhyme: Odds are, if a character isn't an obvious chess piece, then they're from a nursery rhyme.

!!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: They're pretty, but they're not nice.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: They may look pretty, and they may sound sophisticated and sweet, but often they're really just being condescending and rude.
* 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: Has somewhat entered fantasy settings as a monster alongside other creatures like Minotaurs and such.
* BigBad: Of the ''Jabberwocky'' poem.
* DragonsVersusKnights: It is very dragon-like, and is slain by a young but knightly hero with a sword.
* TheDreaded: Implied, since in the poem, his death is met [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing with much rejoicing]]. It's also implied that the only reason he hasn't already been slain is because everyone in the village was just too terrified of him to go after him.
* GiantFlyer: Implied, since he has a pair of wings on his back and easily towers over the hero.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes are illustrated with light lines radiating from them. The text of the poem also speaks of "the Jabberwock with eyes aflame".
* HybridMonster: He has a reptilian body, but also the wings of a bat and the head of a fish.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: If it can be called one.
* ShowWithinAShow: It only appears in a book Alice reads.
* WalkingWasteland: In some adaptations, summoning the Jabberwock twists the Wonderland into a hellish nightmare, and killing it cures it. The musical puts it to song:
--> ''The Red Queen:'' Now watch as all of your reality unwinds/Release the darkness from the corners of your mind!
* WolverineClaws: He has "claws that catch", which look quite impressive in the accompanying illustration.

!!The Red Queen
* AdaptationalVillainy: The original version of the Red Queen isn't as nice as the White Queen, but she has no interest in chopping off heads despite what you might have heard. She even explains the rules of Looking-Glass World to Alice and encourages her to become a queen. In many adaptions she is just as aggressively anti-neck as the Red Queen of the first post, as well as truly malicious towards Alice and her subjects.
* AffablyEvil: According to WordOfGod, "she must be formal and strict, yet not unkindly".
* AnimateInanimateObject: John Tenniel's illustrations show that, while she may talk and move like a regular person, she is definitely still a chess game piece.
* AntiVillain: While she is Alice's rival in the chess game (them being on opposite sides and all), and rather mean and strict, she never directly harms or hinders Alice, and when Alice queens herself the Red Queen accepts it and even goes to her party (albeit still being bossy and demanding).
* ChessMotifs: She's the queen of the red side in a game of chess.
* CompositeCharacter: With the Queen of Hearts in many adaptations, notably in the Creator/TimBurton film.
** 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!
* EtiquetteNazi: Representing Victorian formalism and etiquette, she is quite the stickler for rules.
* EvilRedhead: Red Queen, natch.
* FeudingFamilies: Her and her husband are the opposing team of the White King and Queen and their children.
* FriendlyRivalry: While she is playing against the White Queen and Alice, she doesn't act hostile to them, and is in fact rather friendly aside from some judgmental comments.
* TheHighQueen: An evil-ish version, that is.
* {{Pride}}[=/=]ItsAllAboutMe: "All the ways about here belong to me!" For bonus points, it's also a [[ChessMotifs chess joke]].
* TheStoic: She keeps a stiff upper lip.
* SuperSpeed: Because, as a Queen, she can move any number of squares all at once. Although she is ''also'' noted to have the ability to run as fast as possible without ever actually ''moving'' at all.

!!The White Queen
* BalefulPolymorph: She briefly turns into a sheep.
* TheCakeIsALie: Part of the payment she offers Alice is "jam every second day" - by which she means "jam yesterday and jam tomorrow, but never jam today" -- which Alice is actually okay with since she doesn't like jam. This is actually a Latin pun, if you can believe it - "jam" or "iam" is both the past-tense and future-tense version of the present-tense "nunc" (now).
* ChessMotifs: She's the queen of the white side in a game of chess.
* {{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.
* FriendlyRivalry: She acts quite friendly towards the Red Queen.
* MadOracle: Sort of. As noted in MerlinSickness below, she seems to perceive time backwards, which leads to her being aware of things that will happen in the future and anticipating them. Given that this is the Alice in Wonderland books, she's also mad by default...and indeed, she's implied to be crazy even by their standards.
* MerlinSickness: She seems to perceive time backwards. For example, she bandages a finger and screams in pain ''in anticipation'' of pricking that finger moments later.
* UpperClassTwit: She's as upper class as they come, being a Queen, and in addition to being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} she's also incapable of dressing herself without help.

!!The Red King
* AdaptationalBadass: In the musical, he takes charge after being woken up by the White Knight's magical box. Immediately, the Red Court stops all nonsense.
* AllJustADream[=/=]SchrodingersButterfly: The more obvious example provides the page quote.
* ChessMotifs: Of course.
* FlatCharacter: Movie. He's got a voice actor, but most people assume he's the wizard, who's credited two seconds later.
* HeavySleeper: Nothing Alice or Tweedledum and Tweedledee do wakes him up.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The fact that he sleeps all the time and never moves is symbolic of an actual chess king's limited mobility in a game, especially compared to the speed and power of a chess queen.
* SleepyHead: He spends literally the entire book asleep - although, to be fair, it's not very clear how much time is actually passing in the strange dream-world the story takes place in.

!!The White King
* ButtMonkey: He is nagged by his wife, manhandled by a giant Alice, and picked on by every other character.
* ChessMotifs: Of course.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He seems to be fairly on top of things, especially compared to most of the other Kings and Queens in these books.

!!The Gnat
* CannotTellAJoke: He makes jokes, but does it so sorrowfully and somberly that Alice has to be told when he's doing it, and he even wishes that other people would make the jokes he thinks of.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Refers to Alice as an "old friend" despite never appearing before. Alice lampshades it, stating that she doesn't know who he is.
* TalkingAnimal: He's a talking insect.

!!The Fawn
* {{Bambification}}
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Forgets that he's a fawn, just as Alice forgets who she is while they're both traveling through a forest.
* OnlySaneMan: The most normal character in the second book.
* RealityEnsues: No Alice, the cute little fawn is ''not'' going to stay with you after realizing that you're a human.
* TalkingAnimal: It talks to Alice as they walk together through the woods.

!!Tweedledum and Tweedledee
* BoisterousBruiser: Both are fat, loud, and always scrapping for a fight.
* CatchPhrase: "Nohow!" for Tweedledum, and "Contrariwise" for Tweedledee.
* DoomedByCanon: When Alice meets them, she recites the nursery rhyme they come from--and sure enough, every single event from the poem happens before her eyes. Tweedledum even seems resigned to it ("I suppose you agree to have a battle?").
* FatBastard: A [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example--they're both fat, obnoxious, and rude, but can't really be described as evil.
* NurseryRhyme: Based on one.
* RantInducingSlight: As per the nursery rhyme, Tweedledum completely loses his temper when Tweedledee leaves his "nice new rattle" (a kind of noisemaking toy) on the ground, which ruins it.
* SingleMindedTwins: Maybe the trope codifier. They're definitely not bright.
* ThemeTwinNaming They have very similar names.
* VagueAge: It's not clear how old they are. They act childishly, but they talk like adults and in the illustrations, they are so stylized that it's hard to tell what the intent was. Alice herself notes that they look like schoolchildren (and calls them "First Boy!" and "Second Boy!", terms used in British classrooms to note the top students).
* WeirdAlEffect: More people are likely familiar with them from ''Through the Looking-Glass'' than the actual poem they're based on.

!!The Walrus and the Carpenter
* AdaptationalVillainy: The Walrus gets hit with this quite a lot, ignoring the fact that both of them are supposed to be bad guys.
* {{Big Eater}}s: Of cute little sentient oysters.
* ConArtist: They thrill the little oysters with talk about a fun journey on land, but it's all a ruse so they can eat the oysters.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Alice tries to find reasons to sympathize with both, citing that the Walrus felt remorseful over having eaten the oysters and that the Carpenter had eaten less than the Walrus. However, as Tweedledee and Tweedledum note in response, the Walrus tries to conceal from the Carpenter how much he had eaten by covering his mouth with his handkerchief. The Carpenter clawed for as many oysters he could get his hands on. Dumbstruck by this interpretation, [[TakeAThirdOption Alice decides]] [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy they're both unpleasant]].
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The Walrus.
-->''"The time has come", the Walrus said,''
-->''"To talk of many things:''
-->''Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--''
-->''Of cabbages--and kings--''
-->''And why the sea is boiling hot--''
-->''And whether pigs have wings."''
* CivilizedAnimal: While the Walrus is still a predatory animal, he wears clothes and speaks eloquently.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s[=/=]{{Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist}}s: They're the main characters of the poem, and their main goal is to eat a bunch of sentient oysters alive.

!!The Crow
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: While it's not given very much description, it's wings are big enough to stir up strong winds, and Alice is able to hide from it under a tree.
* TheDreaded: Its appearance is the only thing that can stop Tweedledum and Tweedledee from fighting and run away in fear.

!!The Red Knight
* AffablyEvil: He tries to capture Alice, and battles with the White Knight over her, but he's polite and courteous to both of them, fights fairly, and is a gracious loser.
* ChessMotifs: He's the knight piece for the red side, and tries to capture Alice because she's a white pawn.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He tries to capture Alice, but is even less capable than the White Knight, and loses the battle to him.
* PunchClockVillain: He captures Alice because it's his job, as they're on opposite sides of the chess game. When the White Knight rescues her, they amiably shake hands and the Red Knight rides off with no trouble. He claims to always fairly follow the rules of battle.
* WorthyOpponent: Seems to think the White Knight is this, as they shake hands before the Red Knight rides away.

!!The White Knight
* AbsentMindedProfessor: More of an inventor than a knight.
* AuthorAvatar: According to some sources.
** The theory about the White Knight is widely believed by most scholars, however (given the fact that he was the only character in either book who seemed genuinely kind and polite to Alice, seemingly representing Dodgson's friendship with the girl he based the character on), although Dodgson himself never confirmed nor denied it.
* 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...
* ChessMotifs: The Knight of course. Strange and different from the other pieces.
* DitzyGenius: Is a smart inventor, but is forgetful with most things.
* DorkKnight: Tries so, so much to be a proper knight that people will respect.
* HeroicSacrifice: In the musical, he dies in Alice' arms after defending her from the Jabberwock.
* TheKlutz: He wants to be a noble knight but ends up bungling that.
* KnightInShiningArmor: In a book teeming with Queens and Kings, he's the only one who acts remotely noble.
* LordErrorProne: He's a clumsy, accident-prone knight in shining armor.
* NiceGuy: He's very kind to Alice, who becomes upset when he has to leave.
* SelfDeprecation: If he ''is'' an AuthorAvatar, then Dodgson is portraying himself as a clumsy, scatterbrained fool who is unoriginal with his compositions (Alice recognizes his song of "my own invention" is actually a pre-existing tune). Also, in-universe, the Knight portrays himself in his song as being too scatterbrained to pay attention to a simple conversation and then terrorizing an innocent old man as a result.

!!Humpty Dumpty
* AnimateInanimateObject: He's a talking, clothes-wearing egg.
* AwesomeEgo: His defining trait.
* CatchPhrase: "It is very provoking."
* ClassyCravat: Alice is unsure if it is a cravat or a belt (largely because, since he's an egg, she can't tell if he's wearing it on his neck or his waist--they're the same thing on his body). He insists that it's the former.
* 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.]]
* ExactWords: As part of his lectures on semantics, he uses this trope to trick Alice:
-->'''Humpty Dumpty''': How old did you say you were?
-->'''Alice''': Seven and a half, exactly.
-->'''Humpty Dumpty''': WRONG! You never said a word like it!
-->'''Alice''': I thought you meant "How old are you?"
-->'''Humpty Dumpty''': If I meant ''that,'' I would have said it.
** Ironically, he then ''inverts'' the trope with his famous assertion that "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean"--meaning that words as written or stated ''have'' no meaning and so cannot be exact.
* TheGadfly: He takes great pleasure in deliberately using confusing language or luring people into making erroneous statements just to show off his own skill with words.
* InsufferableGenius: Humpty's a master of the English language, and never lets anyone forget it.
* NurseryRhyme: Of course, he's probably the most famous nursery rhyme character to appear in the books.
* PersonalDictionary:
-->"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
* 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.
* WakeUpCallBoss: A narrative version - After Humpty falls down, Alice realizes that the war she's been embroiled in is serious. She laments that she just essentially killed a person; regardless of how annoying he might've been.

!! Nobody
* TheGhost: He doesn't actually appear, he's only referenced by the White King and Haigha after Alice says that she "sees nobody on the road".
* WhosOnFirst: Being named "nobody" leads to some miscommunication between the White King and Haigha.

!!The Lion and the Unicorn
* BoisterousBruiser: Both of them.
* FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither: The Unicorn is probably the most famous example of this in all literature. Eventually he agrees to believe in Alice because she believes in him.
* MilesGloriosus: The Lion has traits of this.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In Tenniel's illustrations, the Lion and Unicorn are caricatures of UsefulNotes/WilliamGladstone and UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli, respectively.
* NurseryRhyme: Albeit more obscure to American readers--"The Lion and the Unicorn" is about England and Scotland's debate over the throne of the United Kingdom (hence "fighting for the crown").
* TalkingAnimal: They both speak.
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[[folder:Wonderland]]
!!In General
* CloudCuckooLander: Practically everyone Alice meet is this in some way.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The majority of the characters in Wonderland are referred to only by their title or what they are. The only exceptions are Bill the Lizard, the Hatter, and the March Hare (named Hatta and Haigha, respectively) and even then the names of the latter two are only revealed in the sequel.
* FunnyAnimal: Many of the animal wear clothes and act like humans.
* PlayingCardMotifs: Alice meets the Queen and King of Hearts, and their subjects.
* TalkingAnimal: Almost all the animals that Alice meets talk, even if they don't otherwise act human.

!!The White Rabbit
* CatchPhrase: "I'm late!" and "Oh my ears and whiskers!"
* CompositeCharacter: A few adaptations have combined his role with that of the March Hare.
* {{Foil}}: According to WordOfGod, he's this for Alice.
-->"And the White Rabbit, what of him? Was he framed on the "Alice" lines, or meant as a contrast? As a contrast, distinctly. For her 'youth', 'audacity','vigour', and 'swift directness of purpose' read 'elderly', 'timid', 'feeble' and 'nervously shilly-shallying', and you will get something of what I meant him to be. I think the White Rabbit should wear spectacles. I'm sure his voice should quaver, and his knees quiver, and his whole air suggest a total inability to say 'Boo' to a goose!"
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: The {{Trope Namer|s}}, since Alice follows him to get to Wonderland the first time.
* FunnyAnimal: Aside from going down the rabbit hole in the beginning, he acts no differently from a nervous human.
* GrumpyOldMan: How he acts around his servants (including Alice, who he mistakes for one) - although to be fair, his servants are infuriatingly strange.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: He wears a waistcoat but no pants.
* NervousWreck: He's very nervous about being late for the Queen of Hearts. Considering the kind of person she is, it's understandable. Even moreso in the Disney film, since unlike the original book the Queen's executions ''are'' carried out.
* OnlySaneMan: Possibly. But that's not saying much. Among his house staff, definitely. Among everyone else, [[NervousWreck not so much]].
* WhiteBunny: Well, he ''is'' an albino rabbit.

!!The Mouse
* HairTriggerTemper: He's extremely easy to anger or offend.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's grouchy, arrogant and short tempered, but aside from that, he's a generally nice guy as long as you don't offend him.
* TalkingAnimal: While he acts like a mouse, including a fear of cats, he communicates with Alice just fine.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He is understandably very afraid of cats, and doesn't take too kindly when Alice talks about her cat Dinah.

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!!The Dodo
* AuthorAvatar: According to some sources (Charles Dodgson had a stutter, and would introduce himself as "Do-do-dodgson").
** Other sources point out that Dodgson actually stammered, and so would not have repeated syllables.
* CompositeCharacter: With Pat in the Disney version.
* DumbDodoBird: He's a dodo, and a bit of a KnowNothingKnowItAll.
* FunnyAnimal: He talks and acts like a human, and even has hands in the illustrations.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Eaglet accuses him of being one, see SesquipedalianLoquaciousness below.
** Most definitely the case in the Disney film
* NiceGuy
* SelfDeprecation: A rumored reason as to why Dodgson specifically chose a dodo as his caricature was a speech impediment he had that caused him to stutter. As such, he would introduce himself as "Do-Do-Dodgson".
* SeriousBusiness: He and the other birds and animals take the prizes at the end of the Caucus Race very seriously. Alice finds this very silly, but decides it would be rude to laugh after seeing just ''how'' serious they are about it.
-->'''Dodo''': We beg your acceptance of this [[ItMakesSenseInContext elegant thimble]].
* 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
* BrattyHalfPint: The first line from the Eaglet is to yell at the Dodo for using big words and then accuse him of being a KnowNothingKnowItAll.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Lory.
-->'''Lory''': (''to Alice'') I'm older than you and therefore ''must'' know better.
* LiteralMinded: The Duck is implied to be this.
* TalkingAnimal: They're birds that talk.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: They are based on Alice's sisters Edith (the Eaglet) and Lorina (the Lory) and Rev. Robinson Duckworth (the Duck).
** Lampshaded when Alice is noted to talk familiarly with them, "as if she had known them all her life". Though this refers to all the animals in general in the narration, Alice primarily talks to the trio after this mention.

!!Bill the Lizard
* ButtMonkey / TheChewToy: First he's catapulted out of a chimney, then Alice is kind of mean to him when he's part of the jury.
* OhNoNotAgain: The way the White Rabbit and Pat react to him shooting out of the chimney implies that things like that happen to him all the time.
-->'''White Rabbit and Pat''': There goes Bill!

!!The Caterpillar
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: A variant; some adaptations have him metamorphose into a butterfly at the end of his scene, which he didn't do in the book.
* CatchPhrase: "Who are you?"
* CivilizedAnimal: He's a caterpillar that talks and smokes a hookah.
* DeadpanSnarker: In some adaptations. The 2010 adaptation deserves a special mention, as he's voiced by Alan "Severus Snape" Rickman.
* IntellectualAnimal: He talks in a very refined way.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's haughty, impatient and grouchy... but he ''does'' help Alice out.
* {{Metamorphosis}}: In some adaptations, he becomes a butterfly.
* TheOmniscient: A common portrayal of him in adaptations and reimaginings is that he knows absolutely ''everything'' (''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'' and the Tim Burton adaptation are standouts here). In the book, we have no confirmation that he's omniscient, but compared to all the other animals in Wonderland, he might as well be.
* OnlySaneMan: Probably the most level headed individual in Wonderland.
* PowerGlows: In [[Film/AliceInWonderland1999 the 1999 Hallmark adaptation]], especially when he [[spoiler:turns into a butterfly]].
* SmokingIsCool: He smokes from a hookah. Quite a few adaptations (the two Disney movies especially) have him inflict SecondFaceSmoke on Alice as well.
* SuddenlyShouting: In the {{Creator/Disney}} adaptation:
-->'''Alice:''' The other side of what?
-->'''The Caterpillar, now a Butterfly:''' ''THE MUSHROOM, OF COURSE!''
* {{Telepathy}}: Implied; at one point, he responds to Alice's thoughts as though she said them out loud.

!!The Pigeon
* AmbiguousGender: A lot of the animals in Wonderland lack established genders (even the Dodo and the Cheshire Cat were referred to as "it"s by the narrative) but this one is especially confusing; the Pigeon apparently has eggs to hatch, which is why it's so afraid of serpents, but it's never established if it ''laid'' the eggs (which, for obvious reasons, would designate it female) or was just hatching them (a job that would go to either gender).
* NervousWreck: Possibly more-so than the White Rabbit!
* TalkingAnimal: Alice definitely hears its voice.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: After Alice accidentally makes her neck grow to enormous proportions, it mistakes her for a serpent and panics.

!! The Fish Footman and the Frog Footman
* TheCameo: Possibly. A frog-headed character quite similar to the Frog Footman talks to Alice in ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
-->The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to the other, saying, in a solemn tone, "For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet." The Frog-Footman repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the order of the words a little, "From the Queen. An invitation for the Duchess to play croquet."
* FunnyAnimal: Aside from having the faces of a fish and a frog, they act like regular footmen.
* LazyBum: The Frog Footman tells Alice of his plans to just on the steps of the Duchess's house until tomorrow, and for days and days after.

Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together.

!!The Duchess
* AbusiveParent: To her baby during her first appearance.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Unlike the other royals in Wonderland, she is not a playing-card character. But, given the enormous size of her head and her {{Gonk}} features, she might not be human either.
* CatchPhrase[=/=]FauxSymbolism: Seems to like bringing up the "moral(s)" to just about ''anything'', even if it borders on InsaneTrollLogic. Alice even calls "morals" the Duchess' favorite word.
* {{Gonk}}: Her illustrations are based off of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quentin_Matsys_-_A_Grotesque_old_woman.jpg THIS]] for one thing...
* MoodSwinger: She can go from angry to agreeable pretty sporadically.
* TheNapoleon: She's loud and abusive, and small enough to put her head on Alice's shoulder, even though Alice is seven years old and the Duchess is old enough to have a child.
* NiceHat: Her [[PrettyInMink ermine-trimmed headdress]].
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: When in a good mood, something that Alice finds rather disquieting. She's exactly the right height to rest her chin on Alice's shoulder, unfortunately for Alice.

!!The Duchess' Baby
* AmbiguouslyHuman: He is the child of the Duchess, who is also Ambiguously Human, and he apparently regularly transforms into pigs and possibly other things.
* BalefulPolymorph: Transforms into a pig. Possibly averted as the Cheshire Cat implies that he's done this before.
* {{Gonk}}: Like mother, like son it seems. Alice observes that he looks better as a pig than a human.
* NoodleIncident: The Cheshire Cat's reaction to Alice revealing that the baby turned into a pig implies that it's done this before. He proceeds to imply that the baby also turned into a ''fig'' at least once.
* SatelliteCharacter: To the Duchess.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After he turns into a pig and runs off, the Cheshire Cat goes to look for him. He's never seen or mentioned again and the Cheshire Cat doesn't say what became of him when he reappears.

!!The Duchess' Cook
* AngryChef: She's constantly yelling and throwing things at her boss.
* LethalChef: Implied, given how much she puts pepper on everything.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Has a weird obsession with pepper.

!!The Cheshire Cat
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the book, he's the closest thing Wonderland has to a NiceGuy and is the only character Alice thinks of as a friend. Quite a few adaptations, including the Disney movie, turn him into a callous {{Jerkass}}, and some of them even make him directly sinister and dangerous.
* AffectionateNickname: Alice calls him "Cheshire-Puss". His reaction implies that he likes this nickname a lot.
* CatsAreMagic: He has abilities that no other Wonderlanders seem to possess, being able to disappear and re-appear at will.
* CheshireCatGrin: The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]]
* CreepyGood: Despite his unnerving smile and claws, he is friendly and helpful to Alice.
* 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.
* {{Jerkass}}: The Disney version, possibly as an instance of CatsAreMean. Though not overly malicious and 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.
** His portrayal in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series is mainly neutral. He does help Sora with proving Alice's innocence, but later on sends a Trickster to attack him (Though he may have been giving a quick warning before it arrived). He's at his worst in the manga adaptation for ''Manga/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', where he [[spoiler: throws a hedgehog at the Queen of Hearts and frames Roxas for it]].
* KickTheDog: The Disney version. After letting Alice take the blame for his pranks against the Queen, he vanishes, only to return at the end of Alice's trial, after Alice's failed attempt to stand up for herself, to make sure things go as bad as possible for her:
-->'''Alice:''' Now as for you, Your Majesty... ''*starts shrinking*'' "Your Majesty," indeed! Why, you're not a queen! You're just a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old -- ''*finally realizes she has shrunk down to normal size and is smaller than the Queen*'' -- tyrant.\\
'''Queen of Hearts:''' ''*smiling dangerously*'' And what were you saying, my dear?\\
'''Cheshire Cat:''' ''*suddenly appears*'' Well, she simply said you're a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant! ''*laughs and disappears again*''\\
'''Queen of Hearts:''' ''OFF WITH HER HEAD!''
** Seems like some people at Disney thought this made him ''too'' much of a {{Jerkass}}, though, and in one of the RecursiveAdaptation novelizations of the movie, this part is actually changed to the Cat redeeming himself with a pseudo-BigDamnHeroes moment; instead of showing up to make things worse for Alice at the trial, he shows up to confess, and to distract the Queen and the guards with a lot of nonsense, some of which is taken directly from the original book, allowing Alice to escape in the confusion.
* LiteralistSnarking: 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.
* 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.
** This carries over into the [[Film/AliceInWonderland2010 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.
* OnlySaneMan: In the Duchess's house, at least. Subverted, though, in that he proudly considers himself mad.
* PerpetualSmiler: Something Alice finds unsettling at first.
* RealityWarper: Is capable of things that other Wonderlanders aren't, such as turning invisible, teleporting and even taking himself apart. While in the book he only seems to be able to affect himself, adaptations tend to ramp his reality bending powers UpToEleven until he's basically the Wonderland equivalent to [[Franchise/StarTrek Q]]. In the 2010 film, he even [[spoiler:transforms into the Hatter to save him from execution]].
* TalkingAnimal: It's might seem like a normal cat at first, but its smile and talking suggests otherwise.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: One of his most famous abilities.
* 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 (Hatta)
* TheCameo: He makes a brief appearance in ''Through the Looking-Glass'' as "Hatta". The illustrations confirm that it's him.
* 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.
* CompositeCharacter: With Humpty Dumpty (the "unbirthday" routine) in the Disney adaptation.
* DreadfulMusician: Well, given that the Queen of Hearts wanted to execute him for his singing at the royal concert, this can be implied, but given [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen her nature]], it may be taken with a pinch of salt.
* EyeTake: When Alice reprimands him for making "personal remarks."
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His real name is Hatta according to ''Through the Looking-Glass'', but he's most often referred to as the Hatter (or TheMadHatter, in popular culture).
* GivenNameReveal: His real name isn't given until the sequel.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With The Hare.
* IAmNotShazam: 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.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's extremely tactless, especially to Alice and the Dormouse.
* TheMadHatter: The {{Trope Namer|s}}
* NonSequitur: His entire conversational style.
* SpotOfTea: He seems to like tea parties.
* ThoseTwoGuys: He and the March Hare are the only pair of dream-characters to appear in ''Adventures in Wonderland'' and ''Through the Looking-Glass'' (although in the second book, they're called "Hatta" and Haigha").
* TokenHuman: To the tea party, which he is the only human (or at least humanoid) member of.

!!The March Hare (Haigha)
* DeadpanSnarker: A bit more so than his friend, particularly in the animated Disney film.
* DrivenToMadness: Possibly—he went mad right after the Hatter and Time quarreled, though it's unknown whether Time ''caused'' the Hare to go mad or it was just a coincidence being March ("mad as a March Hare" is the phrase the character's namesake comes from).
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His real name is Haigha (pronounced to rhyme with "mayor") according to ''Through the Looking-Glass'', but he's most often referred to as the March Hare.
* GivenNameReveal: His real name isn't given until the sequel.
* FunnyAnimal: He talks and attends tea parties. In ''Looking-Glass'', he is the White Queen's messenger.
* TheGadfly: As Haigha, he teases and picks on the White King, even though he is supposed to be the White King's servant.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With The Hatter. ''Through the Looking-Glass'' in particular has him almost show a paternal kindness toward the Hatter once he (Hatter) gets out of prison.
* SpotOfTea: Like the Hatter, he seems to like tea parties.
* SuddenlyShouting: In ''Looking-Glass'', after telling the White King to lean in close so he can whisper, Haigha yells in his ear.
* ThoseTwoGuys: He and the Hatter are the only pair of dream-characters to appear in ''Adventures in Wonderland'' and ''Through the Looking-Glass'' (although in the second book, they're called "Hatta" and Haigha", with "Haigha" pronounced to rhyme with "mayor".).

!!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.
* CompositeCharacter: With the Mouse in the two Disney films. Though the only trait from the Mouse he gets is his fear of cats.
* FunnyAnimal: He talks and attends tea parties.
* 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.

!!Time
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: To quote the Hatter, Time is not an "it", he's a ''"he"''.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Took such great offense at the Hatter's poor performance at the Queen's concert that he froze him at tea time forever.
* TheGhost: He never physically appears, but the Hatter mentions him, explaining why he and his friends are always stuck at tea time.
* TimeMaster: He ''is'' time, so naturally he can manipulate time as he wishes.
* TimeStandsStill: Did this to the Hatter.

!!The Queen of Hearts
* TheAllSolvingHammer: Her response to any problem is to threaten someone with beheading.
* AlphaBitch: She's the ruler of her sector of Wonderland, and threatens anyone who does something she dislikes with beheading.
* AxCrazy: She's obsessed with chopping off heads, but never actually does it and her orders for beheading are always pardoned by the king—in the original book, anyway. Nearly every adaptation has her go through with the executions.
* BigBadWannabe: She talks constantly about how she'll behead anyone who gets in her way, but they never actually go through with it.
* TheCaligula: As the ruler of the cards (and, presumably, Wonderland), she acts like a petulant, tantrum-throwing child, uses living creatures as props in her games, and orders people executed for petty or nonsensical reasons (thankfully, these executions are seldom actually carried out).
* CatchPhrase: "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"
* CompositeCharacter: With the Red Queen in many adaptations, notably in the Creator/TimBurton film.
* 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]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Threatened beheading is her response to ''everything''.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She's a queen who who seems only interested in bossing people around and executing them.
* HairTriggerTemper: She seems very easily angered.
* {{Jerkass}}: She's mean and spiteful, and that's ''before'' she orders your head chopped off.
* LargeHam: She is '''not''' subtle in what she feels or wants.
* EvilIsHammy: One of the loudest and most dramatic characters in the books, and also the cruelest.
* PimpedOutDress: In the Disney animated version in particular, her dress is vibrant and rather large. Heart-themed of course.
* PlayingCardMotifs: The Queen of Hearts.
* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]]: She's basically a spoiled bratty child trapped in the body of a tyrannical adult queen.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to her husband's Blue.
* WickedHeartSymbol: You wouldn't expect a queen of ''hearts'' of all things to be so cruel.

!!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.
* ManChild: He is petty and sensitive, and while not as tyrannical as his wife, he doesn't seem to care about ruling responsibly any more than her.
* PetTheDog: While he generally goes along with what his wife wants, he pardons the people she orders executed behind her back.
* PlayingCardMotifs: The King of Hearts.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Tries to be one, anyway.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to his wife's Red.

!!The Knave of Hearts
* ButtMonkey: He's put on trial for stealing the Queen's tarts, which he may or may not have done.
* PlayingCardMotifs: The Jack/Knave of Hearts, and serves the King and Queen.

!!Gryphon
* DeadpanSnarker: He heckles Alice and the Mock Turtle.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: With the Mock Turtle while explaining the Lobster Quadrille.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With the Mock Turtle.
* 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.
* OnlySaneMan: Seems to consider himself this in comparison to the Queen of Hearts and the Mock Turtle. [[SubvertedTrope He's actually just as wacky as everyone else in Wonderland]], but he's [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a little nicer than them at the same time]].
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly Man to the Mock Turtle's Sensitive Guy.

!!The Mock Turtle
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: With the Gryphon while explaining the Lobster Quadrille.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With the Gryphon, it seems. They went to school together and are still friends.
* HurricaneOfPuns:He seems to like them.
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: He cries a ''lot''. According to the Gryphon, he has no reason to cry whatsoever.
* MixAndMatchCritters: He's a turtle with the head and tail of a calf, a reference to "mock turtle soup", which was usually made from calf parts.
* NiceGuy: Like the Gryphon, he does casually insult Alice in between his crying fits, but by Wonderland standards he's one of the nicest.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive Guy to the Gryphon's Manly Man.

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* PlayingCardMotifs: Alice meets the Queen and King of Hearts, and they're subjects.

* LonelyRichKid: Implied, moreso in 'Looking-Glass'. Her family is apparently well-off enough to have servants and a governess at their household, she talks to her cats rather than her siblings, and her parents (assuming they're present) are never mentioned.

* NoNameGiven: Though she was based off of Alice's real life sister, Lorina so some adaptations give her that name.

** Lampshaded when Alice is noted to talk familiarly with them, "as if she had known them all her life".

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His real name is Hatta according to ''Through the Looking-Glass'', but he's most often referred to as the Hatter (or TheMadHatter).

!!The Red Night

* TheGhost: Didn't know Alice had a brother? He's incredibly easy to miss, only mentioned off-hand in a single sentence in Chapter 2, so most probably don't even know he ''exists''. He never appears in any adaptations either.

* {{Adorkable}}: Mostly because of her strange tendencies. She's a bit of a space case, but in an endearing way as she interacts with the strangeness of Wonderland. Her innocence is also a factor here.

* {{Adorkable}}: His awkwardness and terrible puns make him utterly adorable.

!!The Red Night:

* LordErrorProne.

* DumbDodoBird

* IntellectualAnimal

* DragonsVsKnights: It is very dragon-like, and is slain by a young but knightly hero with a sword.