Line #280 Characters/AlicesAdventuresInWonderlandInhabitantsOfWonderland


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3	[[folder:In General]]
4	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Practically everyone Alice meets is this in some way.
5	* 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.
6	* FunnyAnimal: Many of the animals wear clothes and act like humans.
7	* PlayingCardMotifs: Alice meets the Queen and King of Hearts, and their subjects.
8	* TalkingAnimal: Almost all the animals that Alice meets talk, even if they don't otherwise act human.
9	[[/folder]]
10
11	!!The Pool of Tears Party
12	[[folder:The Mouse]]
13	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mouse_9.jpg]]
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15	* HairTriggerTemper: He's extremely easy to anger or offend.
16	* 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.
17	* TalkingAnimal: While he acts like a mouse, including a fear of cats, he communicates with Alice just fine.
18	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He is understandably very afraid of cats, and doesn't take too kindly when Alice talks about her cat Dinah.
19	[[/folder]]
20
21	[[folder:The Dodo]]
22	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dodo.jpg]]
23
24	* AuthorAvatar: According to some sources (Charles Dodgson had a stutter, and would introduce himself as "Do-do-dodgson").
25	** Other sources point out that Dodgson actually stammered, and so would not have repeated syllables.
26	* CompositeCharacter: With Pat in the Disney version.
27	* DoofyDodo: He's a dodo, and a bit of a KnowNothingKnowItAll.
28	* FunnyAnimal: He talks and acts like a human, and even has hands in the illustrations.
29	* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Eaglet accuses him of being one, see SesquipedalianLoquaciousness below.
30	** Most definitely the case in the Disney film.
31	* NiceGuy
32	* 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".
33	* 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.
34	-->'''Dodo''': We beg your acceptance of this [[ItMakesSenseInContext elegant thimble]].
35	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: So much that the Eaglet tells him to "Speak English!" and accuses him of not knowing what half the words he uses means.
36	[[/folder]]
37
38	[[folder:The Lory, the Eaglet and the Duck]]
39	[[quoteright:201:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lory.jpg]]
40
41	* 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.
42	* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Lory.
43	-->'''Lory''': (''to Alice'') I'm older than you and therefore ''must'' know better.
44	* LiteralMinded: The Duck is implied to be this.
45	* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Possibly the Lory. He tries to win arguments with Alice by saying "I'm older than you and therefore ''must'' know better", but refuses to tell Alice how old he actually is.
46	* TalkingAnimal: They're birds that talk.
47	* WriteWhoYouKnow: They are based on Alice's sisters Edith (the Eaglet) and Lorina (the Lory) and Rev. Robinson Duckworth (the Duck).
48	** 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.
49	[[/folder]]
50
51	!!The White Rabbit's House
52
53	[[folder:The White Rabbit]]
54	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whiterabbit.jpg]]
55
56	* AlwaysLate: In the original book, he is often in a rush to get places and has a lack of punctuality, indicated by the pocket watch he always carries with him. This carries over into many adaptations of the book, as well.
57	* CatchPhrase: "I'm late!" and "Oh my ears and whiskers!"
58	* CompositeCharacter: A few adaptations have combined his role with that of the March Hare.
59	* {{Foil}}: According to WordOfGod, he's this for Alice.
60	-->"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!"
61	* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: The {{Trope Namer\|s}}, since Alice follows him to get to Wonderland the first time.
62	* FunnyAnimal: Aside from going down the rabbit hole in the beginning, he acts no differently from a nervous human.
63	* GrumpyOldMan: How he acts around his servants (including Alice, who he mistakes for one) - although to be fair, his servants are infuriatingly strange.
64	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: He wears a waistcoat but no pants.
65	* 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.
66	* OnlySaneMan: Possibly. But that's not saying much. Among his house staff, definitely. Among everyone else, [[NervousWreck not so much]].
67	* WhiteBunny: Well, he ''is'' an albino rabbit.
68	[[/folder]]
69
70	[[folder:Bill the Lizard]]
71	[[quoteright:337:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bill_45.jpg]]
72
73	* 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.
74	* 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.
75	-->'''White Rabbit and Pat''': There goes Bill!
76	[[/folder]]
77
78	!!The Duchess's Household
79
80	[[folder:The Fish Footman and the Frog Footman]]
81	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/footmen.jpg]]
82
83	* TheCameo: Possibly. A frog-headed character quite similar to the Frog Footman talks to Alice in ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
84	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
85	-->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."
86	* FunnyAnimal: Aside from having the faces of a fish and a frog, they act like regular footmen.
87	* 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.
88	[[/folder]]
89
90	[[folder:The Duchess]]
91	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/duchess_4.png]]
92
93	* AbusiveParent: She advocates for being extremely severe to one's children, up to punishing one’s child for ''sneezing'', as she believes her son to do this as a way to deliberately annoy her. She also constantly shakes her baby during her scene.
94	-->“Speak roughly to your little boy\
95	and beat him when he sneezes\
96	he only does it to annoy\
97	because he knows it teases.\
98	I speak severely to my boy\
99	I beat him when he sneezes\
100	for he can thoroughly enjoy\
101	the pepper when he pleases.”
102	* AmbiguouslyHuman: Unlike the other royals in Wonderland, she is not a playing-card character. But, given the enormous size of her head, her {{Gonk}} features, and her shapeshifting baby, she might not be human either.
103	* FauxSymbolism: Likes bringing up the "moral(s)" to just about ''anything'', even if it borders on InsaneTrollLogic. Alice even calls "morals" the Duchess' favorite word.
104	* {{Gonk}}: Her illustrations are based off of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quentin_Matsys_-_A_Grotesque_old_woman.jpg THIS]] for one thing...
105	* HatOfAuthority: Her [[PrettyInMink ermine-trimmed headdress]].
106	* MoodSwinger: She can go from angry to agreeable pretty sporadically.
107	* 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.
108	* 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.
109	[[/folder]]
110
111	[[folder:The Duchess' Baby]]
112	[[quoteright:329:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pig_baby.gif]]
113
114	* AmbiguouslyHuman: He is the child of the Duchess, who is also Ambiguously Human, and he apparently regularly transforms into pigs and possibly other things.
115	* ForcedTransformation: Transforms into a pig.
116	* {{Gonk}}: Like mother, like son it seems. Alice observes that he looks better as a pig than a human.
117	* PepperSneeze: He sneezes nonstop due to the Cook's obsessive use of pepper. The Duchess sings about [[AbusiveParents beating him]] for this.
118	* 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.
119	* SatelliteCharacter: To the Duchess.
120	* 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.
121	[[/folder]]
122
123	[[folder:The Duchess' Cook]]
124	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cook_87.jpg]]
125
126	* AngryChef: She's constantly yelling and throwing things at her boss.
127	* LethalChef: Implied, given how much she puts pepper on everything.
128	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Has a weird obsession with pepper.
129	[[/folder]]
130
131	[[folder:The Cheshire Cat]]
132	[[quoteright:262:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chesire_cat.jpg]]
133
134	* 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.
135	* AffectionateNickname: Alice calls him "Cheshire-Puss". His reaction implies that he likes this nickname a lot.
136	* BreakoutCharacter: Despite his relativaly small role, he became THE most iconic character of the ''Alice'' books. If just one symbol is chosen to represent the series, chances are that it will be the Cheshire Cat's grin.
137	* CatsAreMagic: He has abilities that no other Wonderlanders seem to possess, being able to disappear and re-appear at will.
138	* CheshireCatGrin: The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]]
139	* CreepyGood: Despite his unnerving smile and claws, he is friendly and helpful to Alice.
140	* 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.
141	* ExactWords: Alice asks him to stop "appearing and vanishing so suddenly" because it freaks her out. He says "all right", and then vanishes ''gradually'', so that his off-putting smile remains hanging in the air after the rest of his body has disappeared.
142	* {{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.
143	** 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.
144	** 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]].
145	* 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:
146	-->'''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.\
147	'''Queen of Hearts:''' ''smiling dangerously'' And what were you saying, my dear?\
148	'''Cheshire Cat:''' ''suddenly appears'' Well, she simply said you're a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant! ''laughs and disappears again''\
149	'''Queen of Hearts:''' ''OFF WITH HER HEAD!''
150	** 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.
151	* LiteralistSnarking: In the Disney version.
152	-->'''Cheshire Cat''': (''while standing on his own head'') Can you stand on your head?
153	-->'''Cheshire Cat''': (''while slowly disappearing'') You may have noticed that I'm not ''all there'' myself.
154	* 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.
155	** 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.
156	* OnlySaneMan: In the Duchess's house, at least. Subverted, though, in that he proudly considers himself mad.
157	* PerpetualSmiler: Something Alice finds unsettling at first.
158	* 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 up 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]].
159	* TalkingAnimal: It's might seem like a normal cat at first, but its smile and talking suggests otherwise.
160	* TeleportersAndTransporters: One of his most famous abilities.
161	* 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.
162	[[/folder]]
163
164	!!The Tea Party
165	[[folder:The Hatter (Hatta)]]
166	[[quoteright:207:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mad_hatta.jpg]]
167
168	* BreakoutCharacter: Despite having a relatively brief appearance in the book (and its sequel), the Mad Hatter is one of the most enduring elements of the Alice iconography.
169	* TheCameo: He makes a brief appearance in ''Through the Looking-Glass'' as "Hatta". The illustrations confirm that it's him.
170	* 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.
171	* CompositeCharacter: With Humpty Dumpty (the "unbirthday" routine) in the Disney adaptation.
172	* 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.
173	* EyeTake: When Alice reprimands him for making "personal remarks."
174	* 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).
175	* GivenNameReveal: His real name isn't given until the sequel.
176	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With The Hare.
177	* 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.
178	* {{Jerkass}}: He's extremely tactless, especially to Alice and the Dormouse.
179	* TheMadHatter: The {{Trope Namer\|s}}
180	* NonSequitur: His entire conversational style.
181	* 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").
182	* TokenHuman: To the tea party, which he is the only human (or at least humanoid) member of.
183	[[/folder]]
184
185	[[folder:The March Hare (Haigha)]]
186	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alice_in_wonderland_march_hare_philip_mendoza.jpg]]
187
188	* DeadpanSnarker: A bit more so than his friend, particularly in the animated Disney film.
189	* 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).
190	* 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.
191	* GivenNameReveal: His real name isn't given until the sequel.
192	* FunnyAnimal: He talks and attends tea parties. In ''Looking-Glass'', he is the White Queen's messenger.
193	* TheGadfly: As Haigha, he teases and picks on the White King, even though he is supposed to be the White King's servant.
194	* 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.
195	* SuddenlyShouting: In ''Looking-Glass'', after telling the White King to lean in close so he can whisper, Haigha yells in his ear.
196	* 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").
197	[[/folder]]
198
199	[[folder:The Dormouse]]
200	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dormouse_9.jpg]]
201
202	* 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.
203	* CompositeCharacter: With the Mouse in the two Disney films. Though the only trait from the Mouse he gets is his fear of cats.
204	* FunnyAnimal: He talks and attends tea parties.
205	* SleepyHead: Lampshaded by the Hatter.
206	-->'''Dormouse''': You might as well say that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same as "I sleep when I breathe".
207	-->'''Hatter''': It ''is'' the same with you.
208	[[/folder]]
209
210	[[folder:Time]]
211	* AnthropomorphicPersonification: To quote the Hatter, Time is not an "it", he's a ''"he"''.
212	* DisproportionateRetribution: Took such great offense at the Hatter's poor performance at the Queen's concert that he froze him at tea time forever.
213	* TheGhost: He never physically appears, but the Hatter mentions him, explaining why he and his friends are always stuck at tea time.
214	* TimeMaster: He ''is'' time, so naturally he can manipulate time as he wishes.
215	* TimeStandsStill: Did this to the Hatter.
216	[[/folder]]
217
218	!!The Cards
219	[[folder:The Queen of Hearts]]
220	[[quoteright:183:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/queen_of_hearts_9.jpg]]
221
222	* TheAllSolvingHammer: Her response to any problem is to threaten someone with beheading.
223	* AlphaBitch: She's the ruler of her sector of Wonderland, and threatens anyone who does something she dislikes with beheading.
224	* 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.
225	* BigBadWannabe: She talks constantly about how she'll behead anyone who gets in her way, but they never actually go through with it.
226	* 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).
227	* CatchPhrase: "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"
228	* CompositeCharacter: With the Red Queen in many adaptations, notably in the Creator/TimBurton film.
229	* DeadpanSnarker: In the Hallmark TV movie.
230	-->'''Knave of Hearts''': Would I lie to you?
231	-->'''Queen of Hearts''': Yes.
232	-->''Later''
233	-->'''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]].
234	* DisproportionateRetribution: Threatened beheading is her response to ''everything''.
235	* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She's a queen who who seems only interested in bossing people around and executing them.
236	* HairTriggerTemper: She seems very easily angered.
237	* {{Jerkass}}: She's mean and spiteful, and that's ''before'' she orders your head chopped off.
238	* LargeHam: She is '''not''' subtle in what she feels or wants.
239	* EvilIsHammy: One of the loudest and most dramatic characters in the books, and also the cruelest.
240	* PimpedOutDress: In the Disney animated version in particular, her dress is vibrant and rather large. Heart-themed of course.
241	* PlayingCardMotifs: The Queen of Hearts.
242	* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]]: She's basically a spoiled bratty child trapped in the body of a tyrannical adult queen.
243	* RedOniBlueOni: Red to her husband's Blue.
244	* WickedHeartSymbol: You wouldn't expect a queen of ''hearts'', of all things, to be so cruel.
245	[[/folder]]
246
247	[[folder:The King of Hearts]]
248	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/king_of_hearts.jpg]]
249
250	* CannotTellAJoke: So he has to inform people that he's telling a joke in order to get them to laugh.
251	* HenpeckedHusband: Made even clearer in the Disney version.
252	* 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.
253	* PetTheDog: While he generally goes along with what his wife wants, he pardons the people she orders executed behind her back.
254	* PlayingCardMotifs: The King of Hearts.
255	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Tries to be one, anyway.
256	* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to his wife's Red.
257	[[/folder]]
258
259	[[folder:The Knave of Hearts]]
260	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/knave.jpg]]
261
262	* ButtMonkey: He's put on trial for stealing the Queen's tarts, which he may or may not have done.
263	* PlayingCardMotifs: The Jack/Knave of Hearts, and serves the King and Queen.
264	[[/folder]]
265
266	!!Others
267	[[folder:The Caterpillar]]
268	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alicewcaterpillar_graphicsfairy010sm.jpg]]
269
270	* 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.
271	* BreakoutCharacter: While he's only in one scene, he's become one of the most iconic characters of the book, overshadowing similar one-scene characters like the Mouse, the Mock Turtle, or the Gryphon.
272	* CatchPhrase: "Who are you?"
273	* CivilizedAnimal: He's a caterpillar that talks and smokes a hookah.
274	* CommanderContrarian: It seems that the Caterpillar's automatic response to anything Alice says is to disagree.
275	* DeadpanSnarker: In some adaptations. The 2010 adaptation deserves a special mention, as he's voiced by Alan "[[Franchise/HarryPotter Severus Snape]]" Rickman.
276	* IntellectualAnimal: He talks in a very refined way.
277	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's haughty, impatient and grouchy... but he ''does'' help Alice out.
278	* {{Metamorphosis}}: In some adaptations, he becomes a butterfly.
279	* 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.
280	* OnlySaneMan: Sort of. The Caterpillar can tell Alice’s version of "Father William" is wrong and is confused by her claims that she has been changed into someone else several times over the course of the day… but it also believes changing size repeatedly would be not a bit confusing and is frustratingly difficult to converse with due to its short, contrarian responses and tendency to sit in extended silence between remarks. In general, the Caterpillar seems to have little regard for anything other than smoking its hookah.
281	* PowerGlows: In [[Film/AliceInWonderland1999 the 1999 Hallmark adaptation]], especially when he [[spoiler:turns into a butterfly]].
282	* SmokingIsCool: He smokes from a hookah. Quite a few adaptations (the two Disney movies especially) have him inflict SecondFaceSmoke on Alice as well.
283	* SuddenlyShouting: In the {{Creator/Disney}} adaptation:
284	-->'''Alice:''' The other side of what?
285	-->'''The Caterpillar, now a Butterfly:''' ''THE MUSHROOM, OF COURSE!''
286	* {{Telepathy}}: Implied; at one point, he responds to Alice's thoughts as though she said them out loud.
287	[[/folder]]
288
289	[[folder:The Pigeon]]
290	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lcaliceandpigeon500.jpg]]
291
292	* 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). The Disney version portrays it as female.
293	* NervousWreck: Possibly more-so than the White Rabbit!
294	* TalkingAnimal: Alice definitely hears its voice.
295	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: After Alice accidentally makes her neck grow to enormous proportions, it mistakes her for a serpent and panics.
296	[[/folder]]
297
298	[[folder:The Gryphon]]
299	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gryphon.png]]
300
301	* DeadpanSnarker: He heckles Alice and the Mock Turtle.
302	* FinishingEachOthersSentences: With the Mock Turtle while explaining the Lobster Quadrille.
303	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With the Mock Turtle.
304	* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: When the Mock Turtle cries too hard to speak, the Gryphon shakes him and punches him in the back until he pulls himself together.
305	* 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.
306	* 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]].
307	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly Man to the Mock Turtle's Sensitive Guy.
308	[[/folder]]
309
310	[[folder:The Mock Turtle]]
311	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alice_module2_nurseryalice1890tenniel_14.png]]
312
313	* FinishingEachOthersSentences: With the Gryphon while explaining the Lobster Quadrille.
314	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With the Gryphon, it seems. They went to school together and are still friends.
315	* HurricaneOfPuns:He seems to like them.
316	* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: He cries a ''lot''. According to the Gryphon, he has no reason to cry whatsoever.
317	* InelegantBlubbering: He periodically sobs so hard that he can't talk – "Same as if he had a bone in his throat," says the Gryphon.
318	* 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.
319	* NiceGuy: Like the Gryphon, he does casually insult Alice in between his crying fits, but by Wonderland standards he's one of the nicest.
320	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive Guy to the Gryphon's Manly Man.
321	[[/folder]]
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Context Characters / AlicesAdventuresInWonderlandInhabitantsOfWonderland