History Literature / AliceInWonderland

* MemeticOutfit: Alice's dress in John Tenniel's original colored illustrations. It even has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_dress its own Wikipedia article]].

*** I know one [[DontExplainTheJoke shouldn't explain the joke]], but I still don't get it.

* AliceAllusion: TropeMaker.

* BlackComedy: As for example:

* AnAesop: Averted. ''Alice'' is notable for being the first work of Victorian children's literature that sought to entertain rather than to teach dull morals. Though one could argue that ''Alice'' teaches an indirect moral of enjoying your childhood while it lasts, and to never forget it during adulthood.

* WorldOfPun: Both books are famous for their word plays and allusions.

The books have contributed many phrases to the English language, and, thanks to their large cast of characters, are especially popular for adapting into ensemble films loaded with veteran actors.

!!''Alice in Wonderland'' is the TropeNamer for:
* CheshireCatGrin
* DownTheRabbitHole
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit
* GoAmongMadPeople
* OffWithHisHead
* {{Portmanteau}}: While Carroll did not invent the word, its use in ''Alice'' inspired its shift of meaning to the current one.
* TheMadHatter
* TheWonderland
!!...as well as TropeMaker for:
* AliceAllusion
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Movie adaptations of the story go back into the earliest days of film: the first adaptation, a short subject made in 1903, contains some of the earliest examples of special effects in film. Walt Disney made some of his first animated films adapted from the Alice tales, and featured a live-action actress against animated characters. Of course, more popular is {{Disney}}'s [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1951]] [[Disney/AliceInWonderland feature film]], which is considered among the studio's most surreal titles. Again under Disney, TimBurton has made a [[Film/AliceInWonderland new 2010 movie]] with Creator/JohnnyDepp as The Mad Hatter; though it's actually just as much if not more so based on ''Through the Looking Glass''. An unrelated television movie reimagination, ''Series/{{Alice|2009}}'', was produced in 2009 by the SyFy Channel. ''TheLookingGlassWars'' is a trilogy by Frank Beddor based on the idea that ''Alyss'' was heir to the throne of Wonderland and was forced to flee to our world by her evil Aunt Redd. ''And'' there's an animated series by Nippon Animation (the same group that made the ''Biene Maia'', ''Literature/{{Heidi}}'' and ''Dog of Flanders'' animated series). A pop musical version, simply called ''Wonderland'', is playing in Tampa, Florida as of late 2009. The book also inspired various manga. ''PandoraHearts'' and ''AreYouAlice'' are the two most prominent. Among the many video game adapatations are ''[[VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice American McGee's Alice]]''. Many adaptations involve {{Grimmification}} to some degree. Due to being out of copyright, Alice is popular base material for commercial transformative works, including a musical porn film.

* {{Portmanteau}}: While Carroll did not invent the word, it's use in ''Alice'' inspired its shift of meaning to the current one.

* {{Gonk}}: The Duchess and the Queen of Hearts.

* HangingJudge: The Queen of Hearts, although according to the Gryphon, there really aren't that many executions that go on.

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* [[ARG]]: The Cheshire Cat is one of the characters in The Wall will Fall ARG, where he posts riddles that help the tropers that result in the identity of the next fictional character.

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* CommonKnowledge: The Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen are two separate characters. People usually get confused due to CompositeCharacter.

[[caption-width-right:300:"How is a raven like a writing desk?" ]]

* ''Series/{{Alice}}'', SyFy's TV miniseries

Movie adaptations of the story go back into the earliest days of film: the first adaptation, a short subject made in 1903, contains some of the earliest examples of special effects in film. Walt Disney made some of his first animated films adapted from the Alice tales, and featured a live-action actress against animated characters. Of course, more popular is {{Disney}}'s [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1951]] [[Disney/AliceInWonderland feature film]], which is considered among the studio's most surreal titles. Again under Disney, TimBurton has made a [[Film/AliceInWonderland new 2010 movie]] with JohnnyDepp as The Mad Hatter; though it's actually just as much if not more so based on ''Through the Looking Glass''. An unrelated television movie reimagination, ''Series/{{Alice}}'', was produced in 2009 by the SyFy Channel. ''TheLookingGlassWars'' is a trilogy by Frank Beddor based on the idea that ''Alyss'' was heir to the throne of Wonderland and was forced to flee to our world by her evil Aunt Redd. ''And'' there's an animated series by Nippon Animation (the same group that made the ''Biene Maia'', ''Literature/{{Heidi}}'' and ''Dog of Flanders'' animated series). A pop musical version, simply called ''Wonderland'', is playing in Tampa, Florida as of late 2009. The book also inspired various manga. ''PandoraHearts'' and ''AreYouAlice'' are the two most prominent. Among the many video game adapatations are ''[[VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice American McGee's Alice]]''. Many adaptations involve {{Grimmification}} to some degree. Due to being out of copyright, Alice is popular base material for commercial transformative works, including a musical porn film.

A parade of the surreal, with all the logic of a dream -- and invoking the madness of quite a lot of mankind's so called 'logic' -- ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' is a children's classic, filled with allusions to Victorian trivia, most of which is now [[WeirdAlEffect long forgotten]]. ([[TheAnnotatedEdition The book ''The Annotated Alice'']] by Martin Gardner explains all of these, from jokes to basic trivia. It contains both volumes, with Tenniel's original illustrations.)

In the sequel, ''Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'', Alice goes to sleep and then dreams she steps into a mirror, where she becomes a pawn in an allegorical [[ChessMotifs game of]] TabletopGame/{{chess}}. On her march across the board, symbolised as countryside divided up by brooks, Alice meets more strange characters, mostly taken from {{nursery rhyme}}s, before eventually reaching the other end of the board, becoming a queen, and having a coronation party, which rapidly gets out of hand. Seizing the Red Queen, she wakes up and finds she is holding a kitten.

** Alice's two other, lesser known sisters make appearances in the second book, as the rose and the violet in the talking flower garden. The mouse who gives the "dry lecture" and the Red Queen were seemingly based off of Alice's governess. The Queen of Hearts and the Duchess were seemingly caricatures of Queen Victoria and her mother respectively.

* TheFairFolk: Not in appearance mind you; but in their erratic BlueAndOrangeMorality and LackOfEmpathy? Oh hell yes definitely.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Queen of Hearts, well known for her catchphrase, "Off with their heads!" In her defense, she's hardly much worse than the other residents of Wonderland (the Duchess calls for Alice to be beheaded as well, for no reason at all) and is pretty much ignored when it comes to her orders for executions. On the other hand, the White Queen and Red Queen fully subvert this. Despite being respectively nutty and stern with Alice, both are still quite kind.

* NiceToTheWaiter: Alice is kind and polite to pretty much everyone she meets. This is in contrast to the White Rabbit, who apparently is upper-class enough for a servant, to whom he speaks rudely, and we later see him boot-licking the Queen of Hearts.

** An early silent film version also features this where Alice attempts to steal some tarts from the cook before her sister calls her out for an outing where she sees things like a cat in a tree. Caption: Things we do and see before we sleep often influence our dreams.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Some video stores do this with the Fiona Fullerton film, where they take Peter Sellers's face, slap it on the cover and attempt to claim he's the star so they can make a sale.

Movie adaptations of the story go back into the earliest days of film: the first adaptation, a short subject made in 1903, has recently been restored from its badly-deteriorated state, and contains some of the earliest examples of special effects in film. Walt Disney made some of his first animated films adapted from the Alice tales, and featured a live-action actress against animated characters. Of course, more popular is {{Disney}}'s [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1951]] [[Disney/AliceInWonderland feature film]], which is considered among the studio's most surreal titles. Again under Disney, TimBurton has made a [[Film/AliceInWonderland new 2010 movie]] with JohnnyDepp as The Mad Hatter; though it's actually just as much if not more so based on ''Through the Looking Glass''. An unrelated television movie reimagination, ''Series/{{Alice}}'', was produced in 2009 by the SyFy Channel. ''TheLookingGlassWars'' is a trilogy by Frank Beddor based on the idea that ''Alyss'' was heir to the throne of Wonderland and was forced to flee to our world by her evil Aunt Redd. ''And'' there's an animated series by Nippon Animation (the same group that made the ''Biene Maia'', ''Literature/{{Heidi}}'' and ''Dog of Flanders'' animated series). A pop musical version, simply called ''Wonderland'', is playing in Tampa, Florida as of late 2009. The book also inspired various manga. ''PandoraHearts'' and ''AreYouAlice'' are the two most prominent. Among the many video game adapatations are ''[[VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice American McGee's Alice]]''. Many adaptations involve {{Grimmification}} to some degree. Due to being out of copyright, Alice is popular base material for commercial transformative works, including a musical porn film.

* ''AdventuresInWonderland'', DisneyChannel's live-action series