History Film / AliceInWonderland2010

A sequel, entitled ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'', was released in May 2016. Creator/JohnnyDepp and Creator/MiaWasikowska return, along with nearly all the main cast, and ''Film/TheMuppets2011'' director James Bobin takes charge, with Burton himself simply returning as producer.


!!This film provides examples of:

* CompanyCrossReferences: The scene where the Jabberwock appears bears a striking resemblance to [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Chernabog emerging from the mountain]].

** To ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice''. A grown-up Alice returns to Wonderland, which has become significantly less whimsical than when she first visited thanks to the cruel reign of the Red Queen/Queen of Hearts, who uses the Jabberwock as an enforcer.

* EmpathicWeapon: The Vorpal Sword never shows any outright signs of life, but it likely is. Many characters suggest that it plays more of a role in fighting the Jabberwock than Alice does, and she simply has to be the one who holds it. When Alice doubts that she can fight the creature, Absolem assures her that she simply has to "hold on" and let the Sword do the work, and the Jabberwock himself is clearly more concerned about the Sword than he is of Alice (he even calls her "insignificant" when the battle starts).
-->'''Jabberwock:''' So, my old foe. We meet on the battlefield once again.\\
'''Alice:''' We've never met.\\
'''Jabberwock:''' Not ''you,'' insignificant bearer! My ancient enemy... ''the Vorpal one.''

* MsFanservice: Alice herself as result of ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing, which forces her to change outfits all through the movie and most of them being dresses that leaves her arms and shoulders bare, even one scene has her outgrow her clothes leaving her naked (with some SceneryCensor to cover her from her chest down).

* SceneryPorn and SceneryGorn: It ''is'' a Creator/TimBurton movie, after all. A visual feast is practically expected. Even the bombed-out ruins of the White Queen's party look impressive.

* MsFanservice: Alice.

* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: After [[spoiler:Alice slays the Jabberwocky, the Red Queen's crown floats over to land on the White Queen's head (though, of course, the Cheshire Cat was holding it)]].

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Alice and the White Queen. The Hatter also lets slip a DoubleEntendre, though not of the usual sort:

* BizarreDreamRationalization: Alice spends half the movie casually insisting that Wonderland is a dream and that she's gonna wake up at some point. It takes the Caterpillar reminding her she visited Wonderland as a child that she realizes that it's real.

* BloodlessCarnage: There's really not much blood spilt throughout the movie, especially in the final battle, although that one gets a pass as most of the participants are metal cards and chess pieces. In regards to the disaster on Horunvendush Day, the Jabberwocky's [[OurDragonsAreDifferent lightning]] breath is capable of vaporizing people, as at least one knight meets this fate.

* BroadStrokes: [[spoiler:The movie is a continuation of the original stories. However, because the film takes a lot of characters and elements from the ''Looking Glass'' story and puts them into Wonderland (such as the White/Pale Queen and the Queen of Hearts being replaced by the Red Queen) means that Alice never visited the world of the Looking Glass and her adventures in Wonderland played differently to how they happened in the book.]]

** There's a prominent moral, especially early on, of ScrewDestiny - everyone keeps telling Alice to follow some arcane prophecy and she keeps turning them down, which is meant to be analogous to her refusing to get married in "the real world." A major moment is when she defies the destiny altogether and decides to run off on her own. Except seconds later, it turns out ''that defiance'' was part of the prophecy. At the end of the movie, Alice fulfills the prophecy and everything is lovely. So was Alice learning the opposite lesson, that sometimes the plans people have for you are good ones? Apparently not, because when she returns to the real world, she still refuses to get married, and this is treated as a good thing.
** The aspects of rebellion, progress, and fighting the power, both in the real world and in Underland, are undermined heavily by the fact that the White Queen had been in power for a long time as a result of her birthright. The Red Queen is the one who is actually a relative outcast (implied to be TheUnFavorite) who represents a new paradigm, and her taking control is treated as horrible in every way. The film's ending isn't so much an advancement of society as it is bringing things back to the good old days.
** There's a strong undercurrent of "girl power" in the film, what with its conversion of Alice from precocious youth to ActionGirl and the [[DeliberateValuesDissonance constant reminders of Victorian-era sexism]], but the film also goes out of its way to depict Alice's questioning nature and knowledge as something unusual (rather than in the book, where they're treated as common even in a girl her age) and credits them to her father. Meanwhile, most of the characters in Wonderland that were jerks, idiots, and {{Know Nothing Know It All}}s that Alice opposed with her genuine wit and wisdom are [[AdaptationalHeroism rewritten to be more heroic]], often accomplishing far more impressive tasks than Alice or doing actually plot-relevant stuff while Alice sits on the sidelines, and almost all of the characters to receive this treatment are male. And while the movie takes a shot at the idea of women being only valued for their appearance, it also has characters insult the Red Queen for having a big head whenever possible.

* CaptainErsatz: The film's version of the Dormouse comes across as a thinly disguised [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Reepicheep]].

* TheChosenZero: The denizens of Underland aren't sure that Alice is the prophesied champion, and the Dormouse is especially prone to proclaiming that "She's the wrong Alice!"

* ColorCodedEyes: The Hatter and the Cheshire Cat both have very intense, green eyes that positively glow when either of them are in a very good mood. This helps distinguish the Hatter's normal, gentle personality from his much more vicious and violent personality, which has flaming orange eyes. [[spoiler:It also allows the Cheshire Cat to disguise himself as the Hatter and be executed instead of the Hatter. The execution doesn't work because the Cheshire Cat can lose his head without losing his life, unlike the Hatter, who would have been killed. It's the slight difference in the shape of the vivid green eyes that reveals which Hatter is really being 'executed'.]]

* CreepyTwins: Subverted with Dee and Dum, who are more [[TheWoobie woobie]] than anything else.

* CurtainClothing: When Alice grows out of her dress in the Red Queen's garden, the Queen demands she be given new clothes and tells her servants to "Use the curtains if you must." When we later see her clothed, she has a belt that looks suspiciously like a sash cord, hinting that it's exactly what they did.

* DeathByAdaptation: In-Universe example, posthumously. The Queen claims she had her husband the King executed some time in the past; judging by her conversation with the Knave, she was convinced he was going to leave her and he may have had an infatuation with her sister (or at least she believed he did).

* DefectorFromDecadence: It seems this way for at least a few members of the Queen's court, seeing as many members of the resistance are working against her from within it. The White Rabbit is her courier and also sometimes acts as a sort of herald, while the two Tweedle brothers are her court jesters.

* TheDreaded: The Jabberwocky, a draconian beast with vaporizing thunderbolts in place of fire for its breath. The only reason anyone was ever afraid of the Red Queen was because she had this under her control.

* DullSurprise: Pretty much all of Alice's dialogue is delivered in a flat manner - regardless of what's actually happening at the time. She also doesn't react ''at all'' to losing her clothes after becoming a giant and outgrowing them.

* EvilIsPetty: The Knaves of Heart lied to the Red Queen that Alice was the one who tried to have her way with him. Both to save his own life and payback for Alice's rejection.

* GoodEyesEvilEyes: ''Alice In Wonderland'', as a movie, has an abundance of eye tropes. Nearly every character, including Alice, has exaggerated or unique eyes. Even the Dormouse gets a close up of its eyes. The Hatter's eyes are also part of a very subtle scene transition. Additionally, the eyes help distinguish good guys from bad guys.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Several of the {{Talking Animal}}s, including the White Rabbit and the frogs in the Red Queen's court. Somewhat justified, because the Red Queen is at least decent enough to give her servants red garments or markings.
** Lampshaded when the White Rabbit speaks deprecatingly of the animals in the real world that run around naked and "shukrn" in public.

* HistoricalInJoke: The Hatter's design goes back to the phrase "mad as a hatter" which inspired Carroll to create the character. The phrase arose from cases of mercury poisoning in hatters due to the lack of knowledge about toxins. Said poisoning created mental instability, and made hair red and skin very pale - all traits given to the Hatter to reflect the original idiom.

** Despite being named for the shortened-version of the first book, the movie is actually a "pseudo-sequel" of sorts. Alice is actually ''returning'' to Wonderland (although the film calls it "[[IstanbulNotConstantinople Underland]]").
** The Red Queen shares only her title with the chess piece from ''Through the Looking Glass'', and is in every other respect based on the Queen of Hearts from ''Alice in Wonderland''.

* IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery: All of the Queen's couriers have some absurdly-large body part. [[spoiler:As it turns out, all of these are fakes, which they wear to [[ProfessionalButtKisser suck up to the Queen]], who seems rather proud of her own deformity]].

*** And then tells the fish who's attending her that she loves caviar; i.e. [[EatsBabies fish eggs]].
*** And [[OverlyLongGag THEN]] she demands for a pig, which she promptly uses as a foot rest.

** The Bright version is the White Queen as the Lady, and she has ''two'' Knights, Alice (a rare case of a female filling that role) and the Hatter.

** Johnny Depp and Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter. And it's AWESOME.
** The Red Queen completely steals every scene she's in.

* LineOfSightName: Alice picks up the name "Um of Umbrage" after growing fifteen feet tall at the Red Castle to fool the Red Queen. Counts as Line of Sight because the White Rabbit uttered it in hesitation and the Red Queen took it as an actual name. Hilariously lampshaded later in the movie:

* ManInAKilt: The Hatter wears one for the final battle. [[RuleOfCool Little explanation is offered]], other than the Hatter's occasional Scottish-ness. Near the beginning of the movie, when Alice dances with her would-be fiance she tells him that she had a vision of women wearing pants and men wearing dresses. Since she is effectively wearing pants in the final battle, the Hatter wearing a kilt might sort of fulfill the other part of her vision.
* {{Manipulative B|astard}}itch: The Red Queen thinks her sister the White Queen is this (and, to an extent, she's right).

(later) "I know what you're doing. You think you can blink those pretty little eyes and I'll melt, just like Mommy and Daddy did. ''It is MY crown! I am the eldest!''"

** The White Queen's real name is Mirana, [[http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Mirana a variant of Mira]], which means "peace." It's also similar to 'Miranda', which in Latin means '(she who is) worthy of admiration' or 'she who must be wondered at' - which is apt considering most people's response to her.

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: [[PlayingWithATrope Yes and no]]; despite Alice's father having very little screen time, once Alice understands who she is she labels herself as her father's daughter, then proceeds to continue his work. ''However'', she chooses to go into business and leave home to establish trade routes, rather than get married to a 'suitable' member of the aristocracy. She's doing what the eldest son of a family would be expected to do, rather than a daughter.

* NightmareFetishist: The White Queen, as illustrated by the cheerful way in which she puts the disgusting ingredients in the potion she makes for Alice. As explained by her actress Anne Hathaway, the White Queen has the [[ItRunsInTheFamily same craziness]] as her sister, the Red Queen, and so she tries to act very good and pure to compensate, but is still kind of odd. You could think of her as a PerkyGoth who happens to wear all white. On the other hand, she shows a look of brief disgust when [[spoiler:Alice cuts off the Jabberwock's tongue]] and when she [[spoiler:collects blood from the Jabberwock's severed head]]. She also seems to be close to vomiting when briefly smelling the buttered finger for the potion.

* OfCorsetHurts: Alice refuses to wear her corset to show how free-spirited she is, saying how it's an item of female restriction. (Never mind that if she ''wasn't'' wearing the corset, she probably wouldn't have been able to get her dress on in the first place...) [[note]] Actually, that's a common misconception, and odds are she still would be able to: even in the Victorian era, most corsets weren't all that tight, and served more to support the bust than to shrink the waist. Alice's objection to corsets is really more analogous to burning her bra.[[/note]] Her objection to stockings, however, is never really explained.

** The Dormouse after telling Alice to run and accidentally calling her by her real name in the Knave's presence.
** After fainting in the Bandersnatch's shed because of her injury, Alice promptly does this when she wakes up, due to having the Bandersnatch growling right next to her face.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Johnny Depp decided to play the Hatter with two accents, using a Scottish accent to reflect those moments when the the Hatter is slipping into his dark rage. Both the accent and the eye color change combine to warn the characters around him when he's about to become very, very dangerous. However, this constant accent switching does mean his accent slips at the wrong moments during scenes when its not supposed to, making it seem like the Hatter comes from both the UK and US.

* PimpedOutDress: The Queens and their courtiers. Also, Alice gets several over the course of the movie to match her ever-changing size.

** Alice is rebellious in ways which wouldn't even have occurred to girls of her day. She holds attitudes which would have shocked and offended proto-feminists of the era. (For example, in the late 1800s, her refusal to wear a corset would be as scandalous as refusing to wear a ''shirt'' today. What's more, at the time the progressive, scientific opinion was that corsets were ''healthy'' for women; it wasn't a solid consensus but it was there.) This results in an Alice who reads as a progressively feminist girl born in the 1980s or 1990s who has been transported to Victorian England with no explanation.

-->'''Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter:''' The Red Queen is just like a toddler, because she’s got a big head and she’s a tyrant. Toddlers have no sympathy for any living creature. That’s our toddler, Nell just bosses us around with no please or thank yous. It’s ‘Mummy, come here’, ‘Mummy, carry me’. It’s all about her, she never considers us.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Hatter normally has intense green eyes and an energetic but gentle personality. However, he does have a darker, more violent personality that all the good guys fear. The first sign of his personality change is his eyes shifting from green to a fiery orange-red color; at which point, characters either try to pull him out of the dark mood or flee.
* RoyalFavorite: Alice grows to become nine feet tall after eating the "Eat Me" cake, and thanks to this, she manages to ingratiate herself (under an assumed name of Um) with the Red Queen, who states that "Um" is her "new favorite". Free to explore the Queen's palace, Alice finds [[spoiler:the Vorpal Sword]] and [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe cures and befriends]] [[spoiler:the Bandersnatch]].

* Literature/TheSevenBasicPlots: Voyage and Return. Yep, painfully as obvious as [[TheHerosJourney Alice's adventure]], but inverted at the end when [[spoiler:Alice leaves Wonderland but vows to return, and once in her own world sails off to China, implying she has one more voyage before coming home]].

** To ''Film/{{Hook}}''. An iconic English literary character returns to a fantastical land after many years away to face old adversaries. Both films contains flashbacks of the protagonist’s past which features scenes from the books the films were based on.

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: The Hatter has a very tragic backstory that is only briefly seen in flashback and which is implied to be the origin of his split personality, as it appears to be that moment when his eyes first turn orange; in the current storyline, it is references to that back story that almost always trigger the eye color change in the Hatter.

* TheUnFavorite: The Red Queen, or at least she thinks she was; she insists that her parents favored her little sister, the White Queen. This is her FreudianExcuse for being such a psycho.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After the croquet game, the Dodo just disappears. There is no mention of him; he doesn't even show up during the final battle!

* {{Xenafication}}: Alice, naturally, but not right away. At the start of the film, she's just a teenage version of the girl she was before, and has to [[TookALevelInBadass take several levels in badass]] before the full {{Xenafication}} process is complete at the end. (And she becomes a mature, independent young woman in the process.)
* YoungestChildWins: Mirana succeeds in taking the throne away from her older sister and bringing peace to Underland.

* EyeDentityGiveaway: [[spoiler:At one point in the film, the Mad Hatter (who has been taken prisoner by the Red Queen and sentenced to death) walks out into the courtyard, his hands bound, and lays his head on a chopping block. After keeping his hat on, at his insistence, the camera closes in on his face the moment before the axe comes down on his neck, and we see him grinning, whilst his eyes are turquoise instead of their normal green, and with oval-shaped slits for pupils. Right as the axe comes down, instead of cutting through flesh and severing his head, the Hatter's entire body vanishes, except for his hat, which floats into the air until it reaches the Red Queen's balcony- and then, below the hat appears the head of the Cheshire Cat himself, who used his shapeshifting powers to impersonate the Hatter, whilst setting him free to instigate an uprising against the Queen.]]

** The scene where the Jabberwock appears bears a striking resemblance to [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Chernabog emerging from the mountain]].

* LicensedGame: [[VideoGame/AliceInWonderland Received a video game adaptation, courtesy of Electronic Arts]].

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: The White Queen spends most of her time looking elegant and floating around waving her arms in the air; but during her first appearance, she asks her courtiers to excuse her for a moment, and the second they leave, she drops her arms, picks up her skirts, and runs to greet Bayard in a gush of emotion. She's making use of Obfuscating Weirdness.

* BrokenBird: The Hatter. As it gets explained to Alice via flashback (and is made more explicitly clear in supplemental material), his entire family was killed the day the Jabberwocky assaulted Witzend and the White Queen lost her crown. The Hatter himself only survived the invasion because he rushed to get the White Queen to safety; he returned to the scene afterward and found everything burning and everyone dead. This is one of the two main reasons for his madness, the other being mercury poisoning (a common malady for Victorian milliners).

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The Underland has this sort of vibe. One can get the sense that it's normally very bright and colorful and full of whimsy, but it's been languishing under the tyrannical reign of the Red Queen.

* CurtainClothing: When Alice grows out of her dress in the Red Queen's garden, the Queen demands she be given new clothes and tells her servants to "Use the curtains if you must." When we later see her clothed, she has a belt that looks suspiciously like a tie for a curtain, hinting that it's exactly what they did.

A sequel, entitled ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'', was released in May 2016. Creator/JohnnyDepp and Creator/MiaWasikowska return, along with nearly all the main cast, and ''Film/TheMuppets'' director James Bobin takes charge, with Burton himself simply returning as producer.

A 2010 film by Creator/TimBurton, released in 3D. Not an adaptation of either book, but rather a sort of sequel. If you're looking for the 1951 Disney film, visit [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland here]].

* OffWithHisHead: Alice to [[spoiler:the Jabberwocky]] and of course the Red Queen. Unlike the book and the Disney film, the Red Queen actually goes through with it, [[spoiler:even against her own husband!]]

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* PerkyGoth: The White Queen - Anne Hathaway is clearly [[HamAndCheese having a ball]] floating around like a melodramatic crazy girl. Hathaway's own description of her character is "a punk-rock [[GranolaGirl vegan pacifist]]." One movie critic summed her up as "[[Series/TheAddamsFamily Morticia Addams's]] hippie cousin."

* FormulaWithATwist: This film created a {{dark|erAndEdgier}} and surreal take on the classic ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' tale (which was already plenty weird on its own) and makes a story that is [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids meant perhaps more for adults than children]].

* SpiritualSuccessor:
** To ''Film/{{Hook}}''. An iconic English literary character returns to a fantastical land after many years away to face old adversaries. Both films contains flashbacks of the protagonist’s past which features scenes from the books the films were based on.
** To ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice''. A grown-up Alice returns to Wonderland, which has become significantly less whimsical than when she first visited thanks to the cruel reign of the Red Queen/Queen of Hearts, who uses the Jabberwock as an enforcer.

* NiceHat: The Hatter has one (and makes a bunch more for the Red Queen at one point) - it even serves as a ChekhovsGun. And a ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome mode of transport]]''.
-->'''Chessur:''' Goodbye... [[CargoShip sweet hat]].

* TheUnfavorite: The Red Queen, or at least she thinks she was; she insists that her parents favored her little sister, the White Queen. This is her FreudianExcuse for being such a psycho.

A sequel, entitled ''[[Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass Alice Through The Looking Glass]],'' was released in May 2016. Creator/JohnnyDepp and Creator/MiaWasikowska return, along with nearly all the main cast, and ''Film/TheMuppets'' director James Bobin takes charge, with Burton himself simply returning as producer.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The Red Queen. As the Knave of Hearts comments to her, and she later agrees, "It's better to be feared than to be loved." [[spoiler: The only reason anybody ever followed her is because of her big dragon. After the thing dies, they immediately turn on her. In other words, she never learned the other warning of ''Literature/ThePrince'': "Avoid being hated." The White Queen has clearly read the book.]]

* CatsAreMean: Tim Burton made the Cheshire Cat more creepy-looking due to his [[http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/tim-burton-says-hello-kitty-cheshire-cat-taps-into-my-hatred-of-cats/ personal distaste for cats]], but the Cat himself averts this trope. Like his book counterpart he's a mischievous but friendly feline. The Bandersnatch also qualifies, [[spoiler: but only at first.]]

* CoolHorse: [[spoiler: Alice gets one in the form of the Bandersnatch. She rides it when the White Queen and her forces march against the Red Queen.]]

* DancePartyEnding: Well, sort of, with the Mad Hatter. In keeping with his promise earlier in the story, he dances the Futterwacken for everyone [[spoiler: after Alice beheads the Jabberwocky and the Cheshire Cat crowns the White Queen.]]

---> '''Absolem:''' Alice, ''at last.''

---> '''Jabberwock:''' So, my old foe. We meet on the battlefield once again.
---> '''Alice:''' We've never met.
---> '''Jabberwock:''' Not ''you,'' insignificant bearer! My ancient enemy... ''the Vorpal one.''

** In the White Queen's defense, she [[spoiler: made a [[LastSecondChance final plea for peace]] with her sister before the battle started, and it was ignored completely. You could argue that the Red Queen had only herself to blame after that]].

* FormulaWithATwist: This film created a [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] and surreal take on the classic ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' tale (which was already plenty weird on its own) and makes a story that is [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids meant perhaps more for adults than children]].

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The Bandersnatch comes to Alice's aid]] once [[spoiler: she gives its eye back]].

** However, it's only half the reason why he's mad; the other half being [[spoiler: losing his entire family in a Jabberwocky attack.]]
* HorseOfADifferentColour: Unlike the White Queen, Alice doesn't ride a horse into battle. [[spoiler: She rides the Bandersnatch instead.]]

* IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery: All of the Queen's couriers have some absurdly-large body part. [[spoiler: As it turns out, all of these are fakes, which they wear to [[ProfessionalButtKisser suck up to the Queen]], who seems rather proud of her own deformity]].

** The Red Queen's real name is Iracebeth, a play on the word ''irascible'', which she very much is. Iracebeth [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast also sounds a lot like]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzebet_Bathory Erzebet]]. It's also quite similar to [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Elizabeth]], after whom the Red Queen is visually modeled.

---> '''Red Queen:''' I'd know that tangled mess of hair anywhere. Is that Alice?

** The Red Queen after [[spoiler: realizing that the Jabberwocky has been slain.]]

-->'''Alice''': It's a calendar...
-->'''Absolem''': ''[[InsistentTerminology Compendium]]''. It tells of each and every day, since the beginning.

** Her father's former business partner [[spoiler: offers her (an unmarried 19-year-old girl) a 50/50 partnership in a fledgling business]] as if it were no big deal and only a little strange. In that time period, such a decision might well have destroyed his business reputation - far more impactful than some raised eyebrows.

* PreMortemOneLiner: Alice, [[spoiler: to the Jabberwocky: '''OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!''']]

-->'''Chessur''': (''[[CheshireCatGrin grinning his usual grin]]'') Goodbye! (''disappears'')

** To ''VideoGame/AmericanMcgeesAlice''. A grown-up Alice returns to Wonderland, which has become significantly less whimsical than when she first visited thanks to the cruel reign of the Red Queen/Queen of Hearts, who uses the Jabberwock as an enforcer.

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:The Bandersnatch's eye]]. Played with in the case of [[spoiler: Alice's scratched arm after the Bandersnatch licks it better. The inflammation disappears and the bleeding stops, but it's still pretty visible, even when she returns to London in the ending.]]

* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Alice stands up to the feminine traditions of the time. Normally, the people of stuffy 1800s-England consider it most unorthodox of her.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Alice and the Hatter have a lot of chemistry and are instinctively very protective of each other. The other characters seem to be aware that there's some kind of unspoken bond between the two and tolerate it, with the exception of the Dormouse. Interviews and supplementary information reveal that the original script did intend to have Alice and the Hatter kiss, and that the Dormouse is secretly in love with the Hatter. The kiss is written out, but the romantic subtext and The Dormouse's animosity is kept in.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After the croquet game, the Dodo just disappears. There is no mention of him; he doesn't even show up during the final battle!!
* WhosOnFirst : The Knave has some trouble with the name "Um".

* YoungestChildWins: Mirana succeeds in taking the throne away from her older sister and bringing peace to Wonderland.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair:
** Fur for the Cheshire Cat, feathers for the Dodo.
** The White Queen has pure white hair while her sister has blood-red hair.
* YoungestChildWins: Mirana succeeds in taking the throne away from her older sister and bringing peace to Wonderland.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Hook}}''. An iconic English literary character returns to a fantastical land after many years away to face old adversaries. Both films contains flashbacks of the protagonist’s past which features scenes from the books the films were based on.