History Film / AliceInWonderland2010

* SmokingIsCool: Absolem, of course.

* AdaptationalVillainy: By that same factor, the Red Queen and the Jabberwocky, for the reasons mentioned on that very Trope page. The Knave of Hearts too, who didn't do anything more than petty theft (maybe) in Carroll's book.

* MoodRingEyes: The Hatter. Whenever he gets angry, his eyes go from a vivid green to a fiery orange, and that would be your cue to ''run''.

* 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 ''[[TravelCool mode of transport]]''.

* 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 ''[[CrazyAwesome mode of transport]]''.

* 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 [[InTheBlood 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.

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

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "I shall futterwacken... ''vigorously''."
** A milder example: various characters referring to the Red Queen as "Bloody Big Head."
** The Knave of Hearts is implied to be a macrophile.
** Each of the Red Queen's courtiers has a comically huge body part, and if one were to look hard enough, there are glimpses of one with GagBoobs. [[spoiler:When it is later revealed that the body parts are all fake, there's a very quick background shot of one of the courtiers tearing the fake breasts away from the woman's chest, though no actual naughty bits are shown]].
** Alice is a 19th-century Brit who plans to trade with China. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_wars Is she stocking poppies]]?
** Despite Disney's usual policy prohibiting depictions of smoking in its movies, this movie still managed to show Absolem the Caterpillar smoking his trademark hookah.

** Lampshaded when the White Rabbit speaks deprecatingly of the animals in the real world that run around naked and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "shukrn" in public]].

* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: The in-story reason why the White Queen acts as the GranolaGirl and doesn't fight her sister directly. When she accepts the Vorpal Sword from Alice and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar looks like she's on the verge of an orgasm while holding it]], she puts it away quickly rather than be tempted into becoming a LadyOfWar.

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* 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. Meaning, she never learned the other warning of ''Literature/ThePrince'': "Avoid being hated." The White Queen has clearly read the book.]]

* AdaptationalNameChange: Alice's surname goes unmentioned in the books and the animated movie, but she's referred to as "Kingsleigh" here. Wonderland is also changed to "Underland".

* AllJustADream: Subverted. Alice spends most of the film convinced that it is just a dream, but it was all actually real.

* AndYouWereThere: Played with a bit: most obviously, the sisters remind Alice of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum. Less explicit is the fact that both the Hatter and Hamish have red hair, and the Hatter represents everything that Hamish is not. The caterpillar is implied to represent her father, which is probably why he was named "Absalom." There's a nod to Hamish's mother representing the Queen of Hearts, and some have seen parallels between the Knave and Alice's sister's husband. A parallel could also be drawn between Alice's sister and the White Queen.

* AttemptedRape: At one point, the Knave of Hearts pins Alice between him and a wall in the hallway and rather seductively (and creepily) whispers to Alice how he "likes largeness." However, Alice fends him off easily, being nine feet tall at the moment (compared to the Knave's seven). If she had been her normal size ... well, actually, he would have left her alone. This probably got as close to the trope as the movie could get while still keeping the rating it had, more or less.

* BadBoss: The Red Queen is sort of a [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrite]] here. On one hand, she orders her minions executed for trivial reasons and sadistically uses them like furniture. On the other, the Knave of Hearts gets off with nothing more than a few slaps to the face when Alice escapes with the Vorpal Sword (something you'd think would ''really'' be bad for them) because he was too dumb to know that she was the one staying in the castle as a guest. Of course, part of that was the Queen's fault too, but she wasn't one to accept blame.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Alice falls down a rabbit hole, gets shrunk, enlarged and stuffed in a teapot, then fights the Jabberwocky ... all without a curl on her head getting tangled. (Though to be fair, she probably got to have a bath while she was in Marmoreal.) There's one small aversion in that even when she returns to her daily life, she still bears the scars from the Bandersnatch attack.

* BlatantLies: Tragically, by the Hatter. After reminiscing how his entire family was slaughtered, Alice asks him if he's alright. A clearly shaken Hatter replies with the following line:

* BrickJoke: Futterwacken. Earlier on, the others chide Hatter for never dancing the Futterwacken anymore; in turn, he promises to do so once the Jabberwocky has been defeated. After the battle, the Hatter does just that.

* ChekhovsGun: You'll be seeing that eye again. Also, the Hatter's various ... [[BuffySpeak hatting ... stuff]]. And the Futterwacken, although that might also count as a BrickJoke.

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

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The Hatter starts out as a cheerfully insane babbling lunatic with occasional hints of darkness. The final battle has him dueling and defeating [[TheDragon The Knave]] without breaking a sweat.
* CruelMercy: At the end of the movie, the White Queen, due to her vows not to harm any living creature, [[spoiler:condemns her sister to spend eternity wandering the borders of Underland chained to her right-hand man, the one person she loves. Being shunned wouldn't have been so unbearable, since she thought he loved her too ... until he tries to kill her, and later begs to be killed to get away from her. The only response from the White Queen is a faint smirk and the reply, "But I do not owe you a kindness."]]
* 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 have to." 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.

* DancePartyEnding: Well, sort-of, with the Mad Hatter. In keeping with his promise earlier on, he dances the Futterwacken for everyone [[spoiler: after Alice beheads the Jabberwocky.]]

* 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.

---> '''Jabberwock:''' Not ''you,'' insignificant bearer! My ancient enemy ... ''the Vorpal one.''
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: The Red Queen stated that men and women end up loving the White Queen.

* EvilRedhead: The Red Queen, whose preferred method of dealing with 'insubordinate' subjects is to chop their heads off.

* EyepatchOfPower: The Knave of Hearts. Interestingly, his patch is often red when in the Queen's presence, but black at any other moment.

** Despite Disney's usual policy prohibiting depictions of smoking in its movies, this movie still managed to show Absalom the Caterpillar smoking his trademark hookah.

* GoodIsImpotent: While this is what often happens to {{Actual Pacifist}}s and [[FriendToAllLivingThings friends to all living things]] in {{Grimmifi|cation}}ed versions of fairy tales, both the White Queen and Alice avert this completely. The White Queen is a genuinely decent (if creepy) person, but if she tries to give you a LastSecondChance, '''you better take it'''. Otherwise, see FateWorseThanDeath above. Alice [[TookALevelInBadass takes about 20 levels in Badass]] over the course of the movie - ''without'' going DarkerAndEdgier.

** The White Queen, who is essentially an original character but for her name, as she shares none of the traits of the elderly chess piece of her namesake.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: The original script called for romance between The Hatter and Alice. Although the kiss was removed, the romantic subtext was not and Johnny Depp stated in interviews that he prefers to think of them as protective towards each other in the way a brother and sister are.

* TheMadHatter: "You're entirely bonkers ... but all the best people are." The March Hare also thanks the Knave for the compliment of calling him mad. The Hatter himself tends to shake off that there's something "wrong with him" with a vigorous "I'm fine." Interestingly, the original script had the Hatter as an extremely lucid character.

* MaidenAunt: Alice's, played by Frances De La Tour, apparently thinks she's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallis,_Duchess_of_Windsor Wallis Simpson]]. ("I'm waiting for my fiance. He's a prince, but alas, he cannot marry me unless he renounces his throne.") [[spoiler:When Alice returns, she tells her aunt she has to let go of her fantasy.]]

** 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]]. As well as [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Elizabeth]], after whom the Red Queen is visually modeled.

* MessyHair: Alice. The Red Queen even says as much when Stayne shows her Frabjous Day on the Oraculum:

* ObfuscatingInsanity: The Hatter is very aware that there is something wrong with his sanity, he knows how the people around him react to insanity, and he knows that everyone thinks he's insane. Knowing the Knave of Hearts dismisses insane people as useless (especially him and the Hare), the Hatter deliberately plays up his insanity to keep the Knave thinking he's harmless. In the process, he fools the Red Queen as well. [[spoiler:In the end, he turns out to be much more capable and much more badass than either of them realized.]]
* 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]]

* 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.

** 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 inexplicably transported to Victorian England with no explanation.

* PsychopathicManchild: The Red Queen,according to her actress, who evidently took inspiration from her young daughter, Nell.

* 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 she 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]].

** Charles Kingsley, author of ''The Water Babies'', was another famous Victorian children's author whose work influenced Lewis Carroll.

* AdaptationalNameChange: While not mentioned, Alice's surname is "Liddell" in the books, while here they renamed her "Kingsleigh". Wonderland is also changed to "Underland".

* CostumePorn: Everybody wears exquisite clothes. Alice's dresses are just the tip of the 'berg. Colleen Atwood's Oscar-winning costume is one aspect of the film that is universally praised.

* CostumePorn: Everybody wears exquisite clothes. Alice's dresses are just the tip of the 'berg.

* AdaptationalNameChange: While not mentioned, Alice's surname is "Liddell" in the books, while here they renamed her "Kingsleigh".

* YoungestChildWins: Mirana succeeds in taking the throne away from her older sister and bringing peace to Wonderland.
* YourCheatingHeart: Alice catches her sister's husband making out with another woman. For extra {{Jerkass}} points, he says that if she tells on him, it will be ''her'' fault that their marriage founders. At the end, she puts him in his place by subtly threatening him.

She finds herself in Underland, where the White Rabbit is confident that she's "the real Alice", while others aren't so sure. The Red Queen has taken over nearly all of Underland, but the ancient document called the Oraculum shows the Frabjous Day arriving, a day of battle on which it is foretold that Alice will slay the Literature/{{Jabberwocky}} and put an end to the Red Queen's reign.

* WomanInWhite: The White Queen in all her pacifistic glory.

Alice Kingsleigh (Creator/MiaWasikowska) has been having strange dreams since childhood, dreams filled with unusual creatures. Nearly twenty years old, she attends a fancy party with her mother and sister where Hamish, a young lord, proposes to her. Marrying him is what is expected of her, but she's conflicted enough to run away. And then promptly [[DownTheRabbitHole falls down a rabbit hole]].

* 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 followed her is because of her big dragon. After the thing dies, they immediately turn on her. Meaning she never learned the other warning of ''Literature/ThePrince'', "Avoid being hated." The White Queen has clearly read the book.]]

%% * AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Vorpal Sword.
%% * ActionGirl:
%% ** Alice becomes this in the final battle.
%% ** As well as the ''Dormouse'' of all people.

%% * AdaptationalUgliness: The Red Queen, while performed by the lovely Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, has a grotesquely oversized head and a creepy appearance.
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%% Was she more beautiful in the book?
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* AndroclesLion: [[spoiler:The Bandersnatch]]

* AttemptedRape: At one point, the Knave of Hearts pins Alice between him and wall in the hallway and rather seductively (and creepily) whispers to Alice how he "likes largeness." However, Alice fends him off easily because of being nine feet tall at the moment (compared to the Knave's seven). If she had been her normal size... well, actually, he would have left her alone. (This probably got as close to the trope as the movie could get while still keeping the rating it had, more or less.)
%% * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: The Hare, in general.

%% * BadassAdorable: The Dormouse, at least when she has her sword.
* BadBoss: The Red Queen is sort of a [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrite]] here. She does order her minions executed for trivial reasons and sadistically use them like furniture. On the other hand, the Knave of Hearts gets off with nothing more than a few slaps to the face when Alice escapes with the Vorpal Sword (something you'd think would ''really'' be bad for them) because he was too dumb to know that she was the one staying in the castle as a guest. Of course, part of that was the Queen's fault too, but she wasn't one to accept blame.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Alice falls down a rabbit hole, gets shrunk, enlarged and stuffed in a teapot, then fights the Jabberwocky... all without a curl on her head getting tangled. (Though to be fair, she probably got to have a bath while she was in Marmoreal.) There's one small aversion in that even when she returns to her daily life, she still bears the scars from the Bandersnatch attack.

* BlatantLies: Tragically, by the Hatter. He says he's fine when he very much is not.

%% * BloodKnight: Of all people, the Dormouse.

%% * BrickJoke: Futterwacken.
* 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 Jabberwock 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).

* CainAndAbel: The vicious Red Queen jealously loathes her younger sister, the benevolent White Queen, because the latter is adored by the populace (and, to judge by a throwaway line toward the end of the film, was the favorite of their parents).

* 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, at least at first.
* ChekhovsGun: You'll be seeing that eye again. Also, the Hatter's various... [[BuffySpeak hatting... stuff]]. And the futterwacken, although that might also count as a BrickJoke.
%% * ChekhovsGunman: The Hatter. '''''Several''''' times.
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%% list concrete examples. how? when? how many times?
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%% * CherryBlossoms: Around the White Queen's castle.

** The White Queen, her castle and soldiers.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Zigzagged, and it's an important part of how Alice eventually succeeds. Wonderland is real, but Alice ''doesn't'' believe it is, and she has to convince herself otherwise. She thinks she's in a dream because everything that's happening seems impossible to her. The only way she can stand up to the Jabberwock - much less defeat him - is convince herself to believe it's real and what she thinks is impossible is, indeed, possible.

%% * CombatByChampion: Alice vs the Jabberwock.
%% * CombatPragmatist: The Mad Hatter.

* CompositeCharacter: The Red Queen comes off as a combination of the Red Queen from ''Through the Looking Glass'' and the Queen of Hearts. Though she's more The Queen Of Hearts.

%% * CoolBigSis: Alice's; her name is Margaret.

* CreativeClosingCredits: The film had a very pretty scene for the cast list and Music/AvrilLavigne's song that showed the clouds shifting, mushrooms growing (and glowing) and the bare GothSpirals branches blooming to show that [[spoiler:Underland is healing after the Red Queen's defeat]]. In the 3D version, this is windowboxed, with the growing fauna spilling out onto the blank areas of the screen, giving the impression that the screen is a window to Underland. This awesome sequence can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHi1gifyLdU here]].

** Johnny Depp seems to have a particular talent for this trope.
* CruelMercy: At the end of the movie, the White Queen, due to her vows not to harm any living creature, [[spoiler:condemns her sister to spend eternity wandering the borders of Underland chained to her right-hand man, the one person she loves. Being shunned wouldn't have been so unbearable, since she thought he loved her too... until he tried to kill her, and later begs to be killed to get away from her. The only response from the White Queen is a faint smirk and the reply, "But I do not owe you a kindness."]]

%% * DaddysGirl: Alice.
%% * DancePartyEnding: Well, almost, with the Mad Hatter.

%% * DeadlyDecadentCourt: The Red Queen's.
* DeadpanSnarker: Absolem the Caterpillar, who practically drips with sarcasm and disdain every time he speaks to Alice. He derides her (in an almost sleepy voice) about how she is clearly not Alice and how dense she's always been, having misnamed Underland as "Wonderland" when she visited the first time. He drops the snark when she finally cottons on that everything is real.
-->"Alice, ''at last''."

%% * DeathbringerTheAdorable: As it turns out, [[spoiler:the Bandersnatch]].

%% * TheDragon: The Red Queen has one literal (the Jabberwocky) and one figurative (the Knave).
%% * DragonInChief: The Jabberwocky
* DreamApocalypse: This is played with a little, despite the fact that this isn't a dream, despite Alice's constant insistence that it is. The Hatter mentions to Alice in a rather serious tone (as opposed to his usual one) that if she ''is'' dreaming all this, then he must not really exist (and she agrees with him). However, he doesn't seem ''too'' concerned about it; he quickly returns to his jovial attitude, saying that she must be a little crazy to have imagined someone like him. (Again, she doesn't deny it.)
* DullSurprise: Pretty much all 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.

%% * EvilCounterpart: The final battle presents the Knave as being this to the Hatter.
%% * EvilRedhead: The Red Queen.

** [[TookALevelInBadass The Dormouse]] has a habit of inflicting this on other creatures.

* FantasticRacism: The reason why the Red Queen [[spoiler:accepts Alice into her court without question]]. Alice claims to be from a town that mocked her for her size, and that she came to the court of the Red Queen believing that she would be more tolerant. The Red Queen has [[EvenEvilHasStandards absolutely no problem with this]], given her own disproportionate head-size. Sure, this is because of her own condition, but the fact that she didn't order Alice's death because she happened to have a massive head that happened to match her body size is fairly impressive.

* {{Fingore}}: One ingredient in the White Queen's potion is "buttered fingers" - which are ''literally severed fingers''.
* FisherKing: "Underland" was definitely brighter under the White Queen compared to its look under the Red Queen, and when the latter is defeated, the sky immediately gets a bit brighter. Also, watch how the scenery changes during the credits.
* 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 making a story that is [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids meant perhaps more for adults than children]].

** A mild example, various characters referring to Red Queen as "Bloody big head."

** Alice is a 19th-century Brit who is gonna engage in trade with China. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_wars Is she stocking poppies]]?

* 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. And the Hatter's eyes are part of a very subtle scene transition. The eyes also help distinguish good guys versus bad guys.
* GoodIsImpotent: While this is what often happens to {{Actual Pacifist}}s and [[FriendToAllLivingThings Friends to All Living Things]] in {{Grimmifi|cation}}ed versions of fairy tales, both the White Queen and Alice avert this completely. The White Queen is a genuinely decent (if creepy) person, but if she tries to give you a LastSecondChance, '''you better take it'''. Otherwise, see FateWorseThanDeath above. Alice [[TookALevelInBadass takes about 20 levels in Badass]] over the course of the movie - ''without'' going DarkerAndEdgier.

* GothSpirals: ''Whole forests'' of 'em! Well it ''is'' Tim Burton.

* HappyDance: The futterwacken, the Mad Hatter's oft-mentioned dance of joy, finally seen after the Red Queen's defeat.
%% * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The Bandersnatch]] once [[spoiler:Alice gives its eye back]].
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Well after all, what the point of sturdy plate armour if you can have your hair flow in the wind?
* HerHeartWillGoOn: If you picked up on on the film's "romantic subtext", [[spoiler:Alice and Hatter get this. No, he doesn't die, but the look on his face as Alice's chooses to leave sends him into near [[TheWoobie Woobie]] territory]]. It doesn't hurt that [[spoiler:Alice said she knew the way back, implying that they could easily meet again someday]].

* 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, and this poisoning created mental instability, and made hair red and skin very pale - all traits given to the Hatter to reflect the original idiom - this poisoning is one of the chief causes for his mental state.
* HorseOfADifferentColour: Unlike the white queen, Alice doesn't ride a horse into battle, She rides the Bandersnatch.

* IFellForHours: The rabbit hole in the film's original script and novelization. Not as long-lasting or drastic in the film itself, Alice speeds down the rabbit hole, whams into a bookcase and a piano ''and'' a bed, before finally crashing through the floor of the Hall of Doors and lands on the ceiling. All within 45 seconds.

*** And [[OverlyLongGag THEN]] she uses a pig as a foot rest.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: After the White Queen sentences her to AFateWorseThanDeath, the Red Queen takes comfort in knowing that the only person who loved her, the Knave of Hearts, will still be by her side... he is so horrified at the prospect that he tries to kill her, and then begs for his own death when he doesn't succeed.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: Alice, naturally. The film takes place many years after the original story it is based on. It's also a DarkerAndEdgier take on the original Mythos.

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

* LosingYourHead: The Jabberwocky.
* TheMadHatter: "You're entirely bonkers... but all the best people are." The March Hare also thanks the Knave for the compliment of calling him mad. The Hatter himself tends to shake off that there's something "wrong with him" with a vigorous "I'm fine." Interestingly, the original script had the Hatter as an extremely lucid character.

* 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 (or something to that effect). 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.

* NeverMyFault: The White Rabbit is pissed off at Alice for being "The wrong Alice" several times lecturing her and calling her out as a fraud, despite the fact that he was the one who chose her and brought her there. (Of course, he may have a valid reason for being angry, because as it turned out, he had ''not'' chosen the wrong Alice, and Alice's insistence that he had the wrong person was likely making him upset.)

* 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 same craziness InTheBlood as does 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.

* ObfuscatingInsanity: The Hatter is very aware that there is something wrong with his sanity, he knows how the people around him react to insanity, and he knows that everyone thinks he's insane. Knowing the Knave of Hearts dismisses insane people as useless (especially him and the Hare), the Hatter deliberately plays up his insanity to keep the Knave thinking he's harmless. In the process, he fools the Red Queen as well. [[spoiler:In the end, he turns out to be much more capable and much more badass than either of them realised.]]
* 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]]
* 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!]]

* 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 colour 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 all the UK and US.

* PsychopathicManchild: The Red Queen according to her actress, who evidently took inspiration from her young daughter, Nell.

* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Alice stands up to the feminine traditions of the time. It was most unorthodox of her.
* 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 in colour from green to a fiery orange-red colour; at which point, characters either try to pull him out of the dark mood or flee.

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The Dormouse again. After the final battle, [[spoiler:the Hatter throws his scissors right into the Knave's wrist, just as he is about to murder the Red Queen (to whom he was forcibly handcuffed [[CruelMercy as punishment]])]].

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: The Hatter has a very tragic back-story 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 colour change in the Hatter.

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:The Bandersnatch's eye]]. Also Alice's infected arm [[spoiler:after the Bandersnatch cures it in return]].
* 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.

* WaifFu: Alice, who looks like [[Series/{{Firefly}} River Tam]]'s even waifier sister, dons a shining suit of armor, and beheads the friggin' Jabberwocky. ''While leaping through the air for dding coolness.''

* WildMassGuessing: Depp's take on the Mad Hatter is a historical one: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_hatter_disease Hatters went mad]] due to working with mercury (which can turn hair and eyes red while bleaching skin and cause anxiety, hallucinations and possibly schizophrenia), and the Mad Hatter has had mercury poisoning for a ''very'' long time. He also went with the Edgar Allan Poe angle to the Raven/writing desk riddle.

* 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.

* YourCheatingHeart: Alice catches her sister's husband making out with another woman. For extra {{Jerkass}} points, he says that if she tells on him, it will be ''her'' fault that their marriage founders. At the end, he is put in his place.

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 [[Disney/AliceInWonderland here]].

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

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

* AndYouWereThere: Played with a bit: most obviously, the sisters remind Alice of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum. Less explicit is the fact that both the Hatter and Hamish have red hair, and the Hatter represents everything that Hamish is not. The caterpillar is implied to represent her father, which is probably why he was named "Absalom." There's a nod to Hamish's mother representing the Queen of Hearts, and some have seen parallels between the Knave and Alice's sister's husband.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Zigzagged, and it's an important part of how Alice eventually succeeds. Wonderland is real, but Alice ''doesn't'' believe it is, and she has to convince herself otherwise. She thinks she's in a dream because everything that's happening seems impossible to her. The only way she can stand up to the Jabberwock - much less defeat him - is convince herself to believe it's real and what she thinks is impossible is indeed, possible.

* 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'.]]

%% * CrapsaccharineWorld: The Underland.

* CruelMercy: At the end of the movie, the White Queen, due to her vows not to harm any living creature, [[spoiler:condemns her sister to spend eternity wandering the borders of Underland chained to her right-hand man, the one person she loves. Being shunned wouldn't have been so unbearable, since she thought he loved her too... until he tried to kill her, and later begs to be killed to get away from her. The only response from the White Queen is a faint smirk and the reply "But I do not owe you a kindness."]]

%% * DeadpanSnarker: Absolem the Caterpillar... not that it's any real surprise considering Creator/AlanRickman is its voice actor. The Caterpillar was pretty snarky in the book too, so it makes sense.
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%% Snarkers gonna snark. This needs some real context, guys.
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* 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.

* 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, while the two Tweedle brothers are her court jesters.

%% * DownTheRabbitHole: Duh.
%% Duh?

%% * ElmuhFuddSyndwome: The Red Queen. Justified by her British accent.

%% * FeatheredFiend: The Jub-Jub Bird.
%% * TheFettered: The White Queen.
%% * {{Fingore}}: "Buttered fingers!"

* {{Frameup}}: As if the Knave's crude attempt to seduce Alice wasn't bad enough (see above), when his attempt to seduce her fails, he tells the Red Queen that [[BlatantLies the exact opposite happened]], and ''she'' tried to seduce ''him''. This actually works, and she orders her execution. (Ironically, this actually works to Alice's advantage. While he's doing this, ''she'' is looking for the Vorpal Sword, and has already found it, befriended the Bandersnatch, and has managed to free the Hatter by the time he shows up to arrest her, at which point what happened before is the least of their problems.)

** Each of the Red Queen's courtiers had a comically huge body part, and if one were to look hard enough, there are glimpses of one with GagBoobs. [[spoiler:When it is later revealed that the body parts are all fake, there's a very quick background shot of one of the courtiers tearing the fake breasts away from the woman's chest, though no actual naughty bits are shown]].

%% * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Played straight with the Red Queen.

%% * GranolaGirl: PlayedForLaughs with The White Queen.

%% * HairTriggerTemper: The Red Queen.

* 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, and this poisoning created mental instability, and made hair red and skin very pale- all traits given to the Hatter to reflect the original idiom- this poisoning is one of the chief causes for his mental state.

* IHaveYourWife: Bayard reluctantly serves the Red Queen because she has his wife, Bielle, and their pups locked in her dungeon.

** 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.

* MaidenAunt: Alice's, played by Frances De La Tour. Apparently thinks she's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallis,_Duchess_of_Windsor Wallis Simpson]]. ("I'm waiting for my fiance. He's a prince, but alas, he cannot marry me unless he renounces his throne.") [[spoiler:When Alice returns, she tells her aunt she has to let go of her fantasy]].

** The White Queen's real name is Mirana, which is [[http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Mirana a variant of Mira]], which means "peace", and 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.

* TheNapoleon: The Dormouse is the smallest and, if it weren't for The Red Queen, grumpiest creature in Underland.

* 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 a 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.

* ObfuscatingInsanity: The Hatter is very aware that there is something wrong with his sanity, he knows how the people around him react to insanity, and he knows that everyone thinks he's insane. Knowing the Knave of Hearts dismisses insane people as useless (especially him and The Hare), The Hatter deliberately plays up his insanity to keep the Knave thinking he's harmless. In the process, he fools the Red Queen as well. [[spoiler:In the end, he turns out to be much more capable and much more badass than either realised.]]
* 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. So Alice's objection to corsets is really more analogous to burning her bra.[[/note]]

-->'''Alice''': It's a calender...

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: 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 inexplicably transported to Victorian England with no explanation.
** 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.

* ShiftingVoiceOfMadness: The Mad Hatter occasionally breaks into a Scottish brogue, usually to deliver defamations or invective.

* TailfinWalking: The fish courtman.

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: The Hatter has a very tragic back-story 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 colour change in The Hatter.

* 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.

* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: The Jabberwocky. And it walks on all fours- ''with its wings''. It can even make fists with them, or climb up the ruins, but it can't fly.

* 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!!

* YourCheatingHeart: Alice catches her sister's husband making out with another woman. For extra {{Jerkass}} points, he says that if she tells on him, it will be ''her'' fault that their marriage founders. At the end, he is put in his place.
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** Director Allusion - at one point you can see a tree that resembles the Tree of the Dead from ''Film/SleepyHollow''.

** The twisted tree near the entry door to Wonderland is very similar to the one in ''Film/SleepyHollow''.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Averted. The Hatter is only ever referred to as such, as "Mad" is never part of his title in the book.

* DullSurprise: Pretty much all 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. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Make of that, what you will.]]

* AdaptationDecay: There were talks about making an VideoGame/AmericanMcgeesAlice live-action movie since before that game was even on store shelves. Apparently, Tim Burton must have heard of these plans at some point, because his movie steals a LOT of ideas from the game: an adult Alice returning to Wonderland to find out that the Queen of Hearts has turned it into a crapsack world, fighting the Jabberwock despite the fact that the Jabberwock was never part of Wonderland or Alice's adventures in it, etc. However, Burton ripped out a lot of the DarkerAndEdgier parts like Alice spending a decade in an insane asylum, and all of the emotional depth. He also incorrectly referred to the Jabberwock as the Jabberwocky, which was the name of the poem in which the Jabberwock appeared.

* AdaptationalNameChange: While not mentioned, Alice's surname is "Liddell" in the cartoon, while here they renamed her "Kingsleigh".

* {{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.)