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| 12 | [[folder:Alice]] |
| 13 | !![[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice]] |
| 14 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alice_ouatiw_1921.jpg]] |
| 15 | [[caption-width-right:350:'''Alice:''' ''I don't wish for anything.'']] |
| 16 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/SophieLowe, Creator/MillieBobbyBrown (young) |
| 17 | ->'''Centric Episodes:''' "Down the Rabbit Hole", "Trust Me", "Who's Alice", "To Catch a Thief" |
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| 19 | A young girl from an alternate version of Victorian London, who followed a rabbit down his hole to Wonderland. She made multiple trips, each time disturbing her father more and more, until she decided to stay with her love, the genie Cyrus. After he apparently died, she returned, inconsolable, and was sent to a mental institution by her father. |
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| 21 | * ActionGirl: Alice has learned both swordplay and unarmed combat since her first trip to Wonderland. |
| 22 | * AdaptationalBadass: She has things in common with [[VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice Labyrinthine [=McGee=]'s interpretation of the character]], a dangerous young girl who survived Wonderland by clever tricks. Justified in that the original stories appear to be based on her ''first'' visit to Wonderland, when she was a little girl. She TookALevelInBadass the second time. |
| 23 | * AntiHero: She's mostly heroic and compassionate, but she occasionally indulges in some dark behavior (threatening to behead the Mock Turtle if it doesn't help her, threatening bystanders with her sword just because they were in her way, etc..) |
| 24 | * BackToBackBadasses: With Cyrus in the past in "Home". |
| 25 | * BattleCouple: With Cyrus. |
| 26 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: "And They Lived..." reveals [[spoiler:''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' is an ''autobiography''.]] |
| 27 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Alice is kind and loyal to the people she loves - not to mention devoted to Cyrus. Just don't get in her way. |
| 28 | * BlackSheep: [[spoiler:Upon returning home, she discovered her father had remarried and had a new family. Her step-mother pressures Alice to consider an arranged marriage, and doesn't want her to interact with her younger sister. Her ''half''-sister, as the step-mother insists.]] |
| 29 | * BreakTheCutie: After Cyrus' death Alice is inconsolable. |
| 30 | * CallingTheOldManOut: |
| 31 | ** In "Who's Alice?" she asks her father how he can expect her to forget the man she loves when he spent her childhood mourning her mother. |
| 32 | ** In "Bad Blood" she gives her the man she believes is her father (actually Jafar in disguise) another verbal walloping for the way he treated her first ignoring her after her mother's death and then refusing to believe her about Wonderland. |
| 33 | * CassandraTruth: No one in Victorian England believes her about Wonderland preferring to believe she's either insane or lying. |
| 34 | * ChildMarriageVeto: Alice would rather go to an asylum than allow her stepmother arrange a marriage for her. |
| 35 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: DiscussedTrope in "Bad Blood". And Jafar exploits it for all it's worth. |
| 36 | -->'''Alice:''' Threatening to kill someone I love so I'll use one of my wishes? You need to get a new trick, Jafar.\ |
| 37 | '''Jafar:''' I'll get a new trick when this one stops working. |
| 38 | * CreepyChild: Alice's past self in the Great Divide who actively encourages Alice to kill the queen. [[spoiler:Subverted in that it's all a SecretTestOfCharacter.]] |
| 39 | * DeadpanSnarker: Has some amusing back-and-forths with Will. |
| 40 | * EnglishRose: Sophie Lowe certainly ''looks'' the part as Alice, though her personality defies the expectations of a ProperLady. |
| 41 | * GeniusBruiser: Not only capable of handling herself in a fight but is shown to be able to think he way out of scrapes. And in "Bad Blood" she's smart enough to figure out that she and Will are light enough for the bird bark to rise them up to Jafar's Island but that adding Cyrus' weight will be enough to bring them back down to Wonderland. |
| 42 | * GirlyBruiser: Her clothing is practical but feminine and certainly her pretty, girly looks often mean people underestimate her in a fight. Right up until she hands them their asses, that is. |
| 43 | * GoodIsNotSoft: She threatened the mock turtle to get him to help her and Will get across the lake. She threatened to ''cut off its head''. And it knew she was serious because she got its attention '''by stabbing it.''' |
| 44 | * GreenThumb: Almost [[{{NightmareFuel}} ''becomes'' a plant]] in "Who's Alice?". |
| 45 | * GuileHero: Much like her boyfriend. One example is her BatmanGambit [[spoiler:to find out who exactly are the specific enemies that are coming after her.]] |
| 46 | * HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Marries Cyrus in the finale.]] |
| 47 | * HeroesPreferSwords: Alice goes everywhere with hers and she's more than competent while wielding it. |
| 48 | * HeroicBSOD: After Cyrus' death to the point where she was going to allow them to lobotomise her. |
| 49 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: Thanks to the Queen of Hearts, she's known as "most dangerous sinner in Wonderland" because [[DisproportionateRetribution she tried stealing a weeping willow flower]]. |
| 50 | * HopelessWithTech: Both Alice and Cyrus are this when they visit Storybrooke to a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious result]]. |
| 51 | * InterspeciesRomance: Cyrus is a genie and Alice is human. Subverted when Cyrus admits he was born human [[spoiler:and then, again when he becomes human after Will's wish.]] |
| 52 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Blinded by grief [[spoiler:after getting his heart back just to witness Ana's death]] Will accuses Alice of being like this. He relents quickly, though. |
| 53 | * LadyOfWar: In the finale [[spoiler:she leads Wonderland citizens to fight Jafar's army.]] |
| 54 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: With the Knave. |
| 55 | * {{Lobotomy}}: Very nearly happens to her ([[HeroicBSOD with her permission!]]). |
| 56 | * LonersAreFreaks: How she's seen by her family. |
| 57 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: Or at least obsessive. Her desire to save Cyrus can make her a bit single-minded. As an example, she shows a rather shocking amount of [[NoSympathy callousness]] towards Will when she learns that he has a phobia of drowning. (Granted, [[spoiler:the fact that he planned to steal her wishes and leave her to be eaten by the Cheshire Cat]] probably didn't do much to endear him to her.) On a much darker note, she also threatens the life of the Mock Turtle if it doesn't cooperate with her, despite the fact that it has done nothing to her personally and was just minding its own business when she showed up. |
| 58 | * MayDecemberRomance: Cyrus has already lived several lifetimes by the time he meets Alice. |
| 59 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:While he's a genie it looks like it's going to be this because he could live millennia and she'll live the length of a human lifetime. Thankfully it is eventually averted.]] |
| 60 | * MeadowRun: To Cyrus in "Home". |
| 61 | * MissingMom: Her mother died while she was still very young. |
| 62 | * TheMourningAfter: While she thought Cyrus was dead. She points out her father spent her entire childhood mourning her mother's death. |
| 63 | * ParentalNeglect: Her mother died giving birth to her and her father lost himself in his grief for her entire childhood. |
| 64 | * PlatonicLifePartners: She and the Knave. WordOfGod has even mentioned it: their relationship is close but purely platonic.[[invoked]] |
| 65 | * PluckyGirl: Once told that Cyrus is alive Alice never stops looking for him despite good sense and other people telling her to give up. |
| 66 | * RefusalOfTheCall: When Will and Rabbit came to get Alice she initially wanted nothing to do with them. It was only when Will told her that Cyrus was alive that she was willing to do anything but stay in the asylum. |
| 67 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She hands several to Anastasia [[spoiler:after they join forces.]] |
| 68 | * SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:Her father forces her to choose between an arranged marriage and being sent to an insane asylum. She rightly guesses it was her step-mother that pressured him into it, as he's clearly unhappy about it.]] |
| 69 | ** Jafar repeatedly has his way with presenting Alice with these kinds of choices, successfully eliciting two wishes out of her. |
| 70 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With the Knave. |
| 71 | * SheCleansUpNicely: [[spoiler:She looks absolutely ''gorgeous'' during her wedding.]] |
| 72 | * ThouShaltNotKill: Refuses to kill the Red Queen under moral reasoning. |
| 73 | * TookALevelInBadass: She was always clever but after learning to fight she becomes pretty unstoppable against ordinary non-magical opponents. |
| 74 | * TrueBlueFemininity: Alice wears both blue and pink, in clothes that are practical but very feminine to show her innocence[=/=]goodness in contrast to The Red Queen's bolder red. |
| 75 | ** Like her Disney counterpart young Alice wears a blue dress. |
| 76 | ** The blouse she wears in "Down the Rabbit Hole" and "Who's Alice?" is pale blue. |
| 77 | ** Also in the latter of those two episodes adult Alice wears a blue dress given to her by her stepmother when she returns after Cyrus' death (when she might otherwise have expected to wear mourning clothes). |
| 78 | ** She's wearing a pink, frilly, girlish dress when she meets Cyrus. |
| 79 | * UnfazedEveryman: Not much in Wonderland throws her as she been there so many times it's all normal to her. |
| 80 | * UnkemptBeauty: Very much so, and in contrast to the Red Queen. |
| 81 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Will do anything to save Cyrus and has the asskicking skills to back it up. |
| 82 | * WellDoneSonGuy: She desperately wants her father's love and trust. |
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| 85 | [[folder:The Knave of Hearts/Will Scarlet]] |
| 86 | !!The Knave of Hearts/Will Scarlet |
| 87 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/MichaelSocha |
| 88 | ->'''Centric Episodes:''' "Forget Me Not", "Heart of the Matter", "To Catch a Thief" |
| 89 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/knave_ouatiw_6876.jpg]] |
| 90 | [[caption-width-right:350:'''Knave of Hearts:''' ''My heart's caused me enough suffering.'']] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | A former member of Robin Hood's Merry Men, who left them to be with his true love Anastasia in Wonderland. He was briefly the Knave of Hearts, until Alice took his heart back for him. He then made in back to the Enchanted Forest, just in time for Regina to cast the Dark Curse. The White Rabbit came to fetch him after the curse was broken to break Alice out of an asylum and take them both back to Wonderland to fight against the Red Queen and her sinister ally, Jafar. |
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| 95 | %%Spoiler tags should remain up for the first season of ''Once Upon a Time In Wonderland'', seeing as it's unlikely the show is continuing on and you don't need to understand it to understand anything about the main show. |
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| 97 | * AndShowItToYou: Alice once got his heart back for him, back when he served the Queen of Hearts. [[spoiler:He eventually reveals that he never put it back in. In "Heart of the Matter" Jafar puts it back just in time so he can murder Anastasia while Will looks on helplessly.]] |
| 98 | %%* AntiHero: Type III initially, but time with Alice has mellowed him into a Type II like her. |
| 99 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He '''asked''' Cora to take his heart out. When she starts using it to control him as her new Knave, he admits it wasn't exactly his best idea. |
| 100 | * BreakoutCharacter: Easily the most popular character on the show, enough that he was transferred to the parent show as a main character, no less. |
| 101 | * BullyingADragon: Stealing from Maleficent. And Robin Hood is none too pleased when he finds out. |
| 102 | * ButtMonkey |
| 103 | * CatchPhrase: Take a shot every time he says "bloody hell" or just "bloody". |
| 104 | * CompositeCharacter: He is also Will Scarlet from Robin Hood and as of the finale [[spoiler:the White King.]] |
| 105 | * TheCynic: He tends to think of the more negative outcome in any situation, as opposed to Alice. |
| 106 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: The things he's alluded to having done that have made him possibly the most wanted man in Wonderland. |
| 107 | * DeadpanSnarker: Almost constantly. Of course, the "logic" of Wonderland (and prior experience in our world) gives him so much to snark at. |
| 108 | * DemotedToExtra: In Season 5 he's lowered to recurring character status and doesn't even actually appear, after having already been OutOfFocus for much of Season 4. |
| 109 | * DemotedToSatelliteLoveInterest: When he shows up in Season 4, he's credited as part of the main cast, but is quickly demoted to the love interest of Belle. Sometimes his only appearances are holding her hand in the background, and he only has a quick, blink-and-you'll-miss-it, unspoken cameo in the finale. To make things worse for him, Belle herself has rarely been more than the love interest of Rumpelstiltskin in the series, making Will Scarlet demoted to the satellite love interest of a satellite love interest. |
| 110 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Says as much to Alice about letting Cora take his heart. |
| 111 | * DiedInYourArmsTonight: Very nearly happens to him in "Home". Only [[spoiler:his wish to end Alice's suffering keeps him from dying in Anastasia's arms.]] |
| 112 | * DistressedDude: For most of the series Will is pretty helpless against the more powerful forces in the show. |
| 113 | ** After Cora took Will's heart she kept it and used it to make him do whatever she wanted him to – and Alice is the one who got it back for him. |
| 114 | ** [[spoiler:Jafar tortures him to get Alice to give up her wishes. When Alice wishes that if the Knave dies then she dies, Jafar turns him to stone.]] |
| 115 | ** [[spoiler:He is later captured by Jafar and forced to watch as Anastasia is tortured and killed.]] |
| 116 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: After everything he went through for Anastasia. |
| 117 | * ForcedToWatch: Jafar after [[spoiler:he broke the rules of Magic]], forces him to watch as he [[spoiler:kisses and cuddles a resurrected Anastasia.]] |
| 118 | * HiddenDepths: There's a lot more to the Knave than he's willing to admit. |
| 119 | * TheHighKing: According to Alice [[spoiler:he and Ana eventually became The White King and Queen and led Wonderland to an age of prosperity and happiness.]] |
| 120 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Despite his HeelFaceTurn, it certainly seems karmic that after a life of thievery and taking things, [[spoiler:Will becomes a genie: a being that has to ''give'' to others. Interestingly, the original three genies had basically the same origin story, as revealed by the Nyx.]] |
| 121 | * JadeColouredGlasses: After he has Cora remove his heart [[spoiler:and then when he doesn't put it back in.]] |
| 122 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: With Alice, he admits that she reminds him of his dead sister. Also with the Lizard, [[ObliviousToLove not understanding that the feeling isn't mutual with her.]] |
| 123 | * LegacyCharacter: When Alice gets his heart back for him, Cora simply takes the one of someone else to be the new Knave of Hearts. |
| 124 | * LovableRogue: Kleptomaniac and initially seems to be heartless, but is a good guy. |
| 125 | * MindManipulation: Once Cora has his heart she can make him do whatever she wants him to until Alice gets it back. |
| 126 | * ObliviousToLove: In "Nothing to Fear" it's blindingly obvious that Lizard is in love with him, but she has to spell it out for him to get it. |
| 127 | * TheOneThatGotAway: The mysterious Anastasia. [[spoiler:Except that she's not so "away", having become the Red Queen. And it's later revealed she regards him the same way.]] |
| 128 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: His constant claim. Subverted when he finally ''does'' get his wish. |
| 129 | * OutOfFocus: He was ''supposed'' to be a main character in Season 4, but he took second string to the Snow Queen and then the Queens of Darkness. [[DemotedToExtra After that]]... well. |
| 130 | * PlatonicLifePartners: He and Alice. WordOfGod has even mentioned it: their relationship is close but purely platonic.[[invoked]] |
| 131 | * PunchClockVillain: Pre-series. He wouldn't have served Cora if she didn't have his heart. |
| 132 | * RefugeInAudacity: He picks the lock to the ice cream shop in front of David and Emma to prove the existence of the Snow Queen. |
| 133 | %%* ReplacementGoldfish: For Belle of all people, after she sends Rumple packing. |
| 134 | * SarcasticDevotee: Very snarky towards Alice and her plans, and yet it's clear he would do anything for her. |
| 135 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Alice. |
| 136 | * StickyFingers: Well, what do you expect from a former member of Robin Hood's Merry Men? |
| 137 | * TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:As Jafar can't kill him without killing Alice, he turns him into stone. He gets better though.]] |
| 138 | * {{Transplant}}: He started out as a main character in ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'' before being moved to the main show. However, he was not very useful in the main series, so he gets written out. |
| 139 | * TrueLovesKiss: How he [[spoiler:snaps Anastasia out of Jafar's control.]] |
| 140 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He's the one man who caused Captain Hook to be aggressive and in turn realize something wasn't right with the hand he got from Mr. Gold (or so he thought), and so Hook ended up as Gold's personal slave for a while. |
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| 143 | [[folder:The Red Queen]] |
| 144 | !![[Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass Red Queen]] [=/=] Anastasia |
| 145 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/red_queen_ouatiw_6036.jpg]] |
| 146 | [[caption-width-right:350:'''Red Queen:''' ''We all come to Wonderland looking for something more, darling.'']] |
| 147 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/EmmaRigby |
| 148 | ->'''Centric Episodes:''' "Heart of Stone", "Heart of the Matter" |
| 149 | |
| 150 | The Queen of Wonderland, who lives in a chessboard castle and is working with Jafar to get wishes from Cyrus. Distinct from the Queen of Hearts, who appeared on ''Series/OnceUponATime''. While ''Once Upon a Time in Wonderland'' hinted that she was one of Cinderella's step-sisters, and became the focus of her mother's abuse after failing to marry Prince Thomas, this was {{Retcon}}ned later on in ''Once Upon a Time''. |
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| 152 | %% |
| 153 | %%Spoiler tags should remain up for the first season of ''Once Upon a Time In Wonderland'', seeing as its unlikely the show is continuing on and you don't need to understand it to understand anything about the main show. |
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| 155 | * AbusiveParents: Her mother was very emotionally abusive toward her. |
| 156 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: To a degree, since in the original story she was a red-faced chess piece, and now she's a thin blonde woman. |
| 157 | * AmbitionIsEvil: Once Ana was a sweet girl who believed that her love for [[spoiler:Will would be enough. She let herself be swayed by the king and by Cora, and became The Red Queen.]] |
| 158 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: The Red Queen reveals that [[spoiler:she still loves the Knave and that her motive for helping Jafar change the Laws of Magic was so that she could change her past decision to give him up for her crown.]] |
| 159 | * AntiVillain: Particularly noticeable when she's paired up with the absolutely ruthless Jafar. And her motives to do so will erase all events that made her a villain to start with so she can [[spoiler:get back together with Will.]] |
| 160 | * ArchEnemy: To Alice. [[spoiler:It takes Cyrus trusting the Red Queen to dissuade Alice from regarding her this way.]] |
| 161 | * TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Initially just wants to get Will back by changing the past. Eventually she changes to wanting to win him back and improve the lives of the average Wonderland citizen.]] |
| 162 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:''Twice'' in the finale. The first time, as part of Jafar changing the rules of magic, she's revived by him as yet another way to spite Will, being mindlessly in love with Jafar instead. After Jafar is dealt with and the rules of magic are enforced again she's brought back by water from the Well of Wishes.]] |
| 163 | * BadBoss: Gives the White Rabbit death threats anytime he asks to be let out of his job spying for her. [[spoiler:And is holding his family hostage.]] |
| 164 | * TheBaroness: She is physically very young and beautiful and shares many of the features of the sextop version. |
| 165 | %% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton: ''Do not'' tell her what she can and cannot do. |
| 166 | * BigBadDuumvirate: With Jafar [[spoiler:until "Home".]] |
| 167 | * BigBadWannabe: While she tries her best to keep it an equal partnership; ultimately it's Jafar whose the true BigBad of the show. |
| 168 | * BreakTheCutie: The Red Queen not only quickly becomes the lesser evil, but by the second half of the first season [[spoiler:transforms into TheWoobie and ultimately performs a full HeelFaceTurn. Just in time for "Dirty Little Secrets" to ramp things up from Break the Cutie to "Utterly Destroy the Cutie".]] |
| 169 | * CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Jafar ''does'' bring her back as he promised to Will but he also makes her in love with him saying that Will never said she should be revived as she was before.]] |
| 170 | * CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Pulls this card on Jafar to avoid getting force-choked. |
| 171 | * CardCarryingVillain: She admits as much to Alice: |
| 172 | -->'''Red Queen:''' I am many things, darling, but pure of heart is not one of them. |
| 173 | * CatchPhrase: "Darling." |
| 174 | * ChessMotifs: Her castle is designed around chess pieces (which oddly enough are silver instead of red), and she likes to use game metaphors: "setting up the board", "change of hand", etc. |
| 175 | * CompositeCharacter: After being heavily implied in In-Universe, WordOfGod finally confirmed that she is indeed adapted from the ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' fairy tale, making her a combination of Anastasia Tremaine and the Red Queen.[[invoked]] |
| 176 | ** Averted in one case, as for once the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen are not the same person. |
| 177 | ** As of the series finale, she is also the White Queen. |
| 178 | * TheCynic: This exchange from "Heart of Stone" emphasizes this rather nicely: |
| 179 | -->'''Alice:''' When two people love each other, [[ThePowerOfLove there's nothing they can't accomplish together]].\ |
| 180 | '''Red Queen:''' If only that were true. |
| 181 | ** She later tells Cyrus that, "Sadly, love isn't always enough," [[IronicEcho the same thing that the King had told her way back when]]. |
| 182 | * DecompositeCharacter: She is based on Anastasia, the evil stepsister from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', but she is not actually related to Cinderella as far as fans can tell. Instead, the actual evil stepsister role is given to Clorinda and Tisbe. |
| 183 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Her partnership with Jafar was doomed to fall apart from the start due to him being more powerful, more evil and a domineering megalomaniac. |
| 184 | * DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:She dies again when Jafar is defeated and his resurrection spell is undone. However, Nyx gives Alice and Cyrus water from the Well of Wonders to bring her back.]] |
| 185 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: To Jafar--though she's trying to change it to a more equal relationship and has her own plans. |
| 186 | * EmotionlessGirl: Tries to keep up this appearance, but frequently [[BeneathTheMask slips]]. |
| 187 | * ErmineCapeEffect: Always dressed in elaborate gowns in her signature color, with not a single hair out of place and plenty of jewelry to match her crown. This contrasts her perfectly with the more effortless, [[UnkemptBeauty natural]] beauty of Alice. As the show goes on and her character develops, she loses this and starts to more resemble Alice's style of appearance. |
| 188 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 189 | ** She's shocked when Jafar reduces her subjects to dust in "Trust Me". |
| 190 | ** While her face remains expressionless, there seems to be pity in her eyes later when Jafar kills the Grendel in "Forget Me Not". |
| 191 | ** When Jafar lifts Alice into the air and begins to torture her in "The Serpent", the Red Queen is smiling evilly. When Alice refuses to give in and Jafar continues, the smile vanishes and now the Red Queen looks actually concerned for her enemy. |
| 192 | ** Eventually she realizes that [[spoiler:Jafar's vision of the future benefits no one but himself and she executes a HeelFaceTurn.]] |
| 193 | * EvilBrit: Her posh accent [[OohMeAccentsSlipping is put on]] but both it and her natural accent are British. |
| 194 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: She can't understand why Alice spared her life when she had the opportunity to kill her as in her experience you have to take the things you want, morality be damned. |
| 195 | * EvilMakeover: She went from a simple pink dress and loose waves decorated with flowers in the past, to elaborate gowns in her signature color and tight updos pulled away from her face. |
| 196 | * {{Foil}}: To Regina, the Evil Queen. Both are magic-wielding queens who married into power and dress in similar outfits (but one in black, the other in red), who seek to harm an adventurous young woman (Snow/Alice) after having lost the man they love. Anastasia was even trained by Regina's mother, Cora. |
| 197 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: She enters Wonderland as a peasant and she ends up becoming the Red Queen, conspiring with Cora and Jafar. |
| 198 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: People are terrified of their Queen, though maybe not o the extent of the Queen of Hearts. |
| 199 | * GoodGirlGoneBad: In the past she wore a pink dress and flowers in her hair but circumstance and Cora made her into The Red Queen. |
| 200 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:In "Home", she defects from her alliance with Jafar, then utterly discards her Evil Queen guise and crown, returning to being Anastasia, peasant accent and all.]] |
| 201 | * HeelRealisation: [[spoiler:Had one prior to the start of the story when she realized how it's brought her nothing but loneliness and wants to change history so that she never left Will.]] |
| 202 | * HiddenDepths: More and more revealed as the show goes on. |
| 203 | * TheHighQueen: Upon her return to Wonderland after Alice and Cyrus' wedding she became the White Queen with Will as her King, and together the two filled the land with wonder once again. |
| 204 | * IceQueen: In the early episodes almost always maintained a glacial facade. Even when in the flashback, in which she is presented in front of everyone as the future Red Queen, demonstrates an expression impassive as soon as she meets the gaze of Will |
| 205 | * IfIWantedYouDead: In "Heart of Stone", Alice asks her how she knows that sending Alice across the chasm isn't a trick to make her fall. This trope is her response: |
| 206 | -->'''Red Queen:''' Alice, if I wanted you to fall, ''I'd push you''. |
| 207 | * ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:Wants to use magic to have a second chance with Will. But in order to get that goal she kidnaps the White Rabbit's family to ensure his loyalty, separates Alice and Cyrus and who knows what else. This changes from "Nothing to Fear" and onward, where she learns the error of her ways and starts acting selflessly for the good of everyone else.]] |
| 208 | * KickTheDog: Turning the [[NoNameGiven handsome man]] into [[ImAHumanitarian the Grendel]]. |
| 209 | ** Also, [[spoiler:while it's unlikely she'd have killed them considering where they were stashed, kidnapping the White Rabbit's wife and kids in order to blackmail him into servitude was not cool.]] |
| 210 | * LadyOfBlackMagic: Just look at most of her clothes and the way she behaves when communicating with others or use her magic. |
| 211 | * TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:As Anastasia, to the Knave. Will is this for her as well.]] |
| 212 | * MindRape: [[spoiler:How the Jabberwocky breaks her.]] |
| 213 | * MsFanservice: Wears many form fitting outfits that show off her cleavage and figure. |
| 214 | * MyGreatestFailure: Blames herself for [[spoiler:ruining her relationship with Will, and is willing to change the rules of magic in order to fix things.]] |
| 215 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After being deposed and then confronted by her former subjects, she realizes that her rule was a horrible thing for the people. It turns her into a revolutionary against Jafar. |
| 216 | * NotEvilJustMisunderstood: [[spoiler:In the present story, she's only committing evil so that she can turn back the clock and avoid becoming the Red Queen to begin with. Cyrus, who can read people, picks up on this and realizes she's trustworthy.]] |
| 217 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: In-universe, her stiff posh accent begins to deteriorate after [[spoiler:Jafar blows up her castle, and even more after Will refuses to believe that she's trying to help him and Alice.]] |
| 218 | * PetTheDog: When she sets up an elaborate gambit to acquire some magic dust, ostensibly to use as protection from Jafar. It's actually to [[spoiler:free the Knave who has been turned to stone by Jafar.]] |
| 219 | * PimpedOutDress: The dress and accessories she showed in the trailer and promotion photos of the spin off. |
| 220 | * PlayingWithFire: The first spell that is taught to her by the Queen of Hearts is how to turn on or enlarge the fire of a brazier. |
| 221 | * PsychoExGirlfriend: [[spoiler:She goes to extremes to get Will back, wanting to change the past so that they never split up to start with. Unusually for this trope, she's ultimately portrayed sympathetically.]] |
| 222 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Only sort of to begin with - when she is shown to at least 'try' to listen to her subjects' complaints. [[spoiler:Later she becomes this for real when she joins the fight against Jafar.]] |
| 223 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: This is her goal in changing the laws of magic, though it's only her personal history that she wishes to change, not the history of Wonderland as a whole. |
| 224 | * SmugSmiler: Tries to be this but between Jafar and Will there are more than a few cracks in her facade. |
| 225 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Jafar, with whom she shares a mutual hatred. |
| 226 | ** She does so with Alice in "Heart of Stone". |
| 227 | * ToughLeaderFacade: A dark, villainous example. She actively cultivates a flawless appearance, an emotionless façade and rules with an iron fist over her people. On the other hand, she fails to be an effective ruler regardless of trying to live up to it in appearance and action. |
| 228 | * UnknownRival: As WordOfGod puts it, Alice considers the Red Queen an ArchEnemy, but the Red Queen views Alice as just a very important game piece. They both eventually change their views.[[invoked]] |
| 229 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: When she and Will were young lovers in the Enchanted Forest. |
| 230 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: When Will returns to Storybrooke, it is never really mentioned what happened to her or why he left Wonderland as it was shown that they got together in the series finale. With Will's disappearance afterward, it's possible that his time on the main show was {{Retcon}}ned into being before the ''Wonderland'' series. |
| 231 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Never got approval from her mother, which the Queen of Hearts exploited. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:The White Rabbit]] |
| 235 | !!The White Rabbit/Percy |
| 236 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whiterabbit_282.png]] |
| 237 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnLithgow |
| 238 | |
| 239 | A small white anthropomorphic rabbit with the ability to "dig" portals between worlds. Calls on the Knave to rescue Alice before her lobotomy. |
| 240 | ---- |
| 241 | * AdaptationalBadass: He's able to "dig" portals between worlds, including Storybrooke, with absolutely no adverse consequences or apparent effort. 'Nough said. |
| 242 | * ButtMonkey: The Red Queen, Jafar, and even Alice (although she apologizes) walk all over him. |
| 243 | * DeadpanSnarker: Usually he's no good at this, but get him impatient enough and he ''will'' be! |
| 244 | ->"You're late ''what'' a surprise!" |
| 245 | * EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:For his treachery in "Home", a justified example when he reveals that he only did what he did to protect his wife and kids from harm.]] |
| 246 | * GrumpyOldMan: The rabbit version. |
| 247 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although he's a spy for the Red Queen, he clearly does so out of extreme fear, and he stills cares about Alice very much. [[spoiler:He also has a wife and kids that he loves as well.]] |
| 248 | ** And as it turns out, [[spoiler:it's said wife and kids being held hostage by the Red Queen that drives him to do what he does. It's not fear for himself: it's fear for his family.]] |
| 249 | * LargeHam: It's Creator/JohnLithgow after all. |
| 250 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: He's only spying on Alice for the Red Queen because of death threats from her part, and because [[spoiler:she's holding his family hostage.]] He ''really'' wants out to the point where gave the Red Queen Cyrus' bottle in the hope she would release him from his job for going beyond the call of duty. She didn't. |
| 251 | * TheMole: Reluctantly, for the Red Queen. |
| 252 | * ParentalSubstitute: To Cyrus and ''especially'' Alice. |
| 253 | * ShipperOnDeck: To Cyrus and Alice. |
| 254 | * WelcomeBackTraitor: [[spoiler:In "Home".]] |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:The Caterpillar]] |
| 258 | !!The Caterpillar |
| 259 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/caterpillar.jpg]] |
| 260 | [[caption-width-right:350:Who are you?]] |
| 261 | ->'''Played By:''' [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]] (voice, ''Once''), Music/IggyPop (voice, ''Wonderland'') |
| 262 | |
| 263 | A hookah-smoking caterpillar who apparently has something to do with money lending. |
| 264 | ---- |
| 265 | * AdaptationalBadass: Once just a hookah-smoking caterpillar, the Caterpillar is now Wonderland's [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Jabba the Hutt]]. |
| 266 | * AdaptationalVillainy: While the original Caterpillar wasn't exactly friendly, he wasn't a sinner overlord either. |
| 267 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He ''begs'' Jafar not to release the Jabberwocky. |
| 268 | * {{Expy}}: He's Wonderland's [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Jabba the Hutt]] in this show, a disgusting slob who runs the local hive of scum and villainy. |
| 269 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: True to the book version, he habitually smokes a hookah. |
| 270 | * KarmaHoudini: He gives people who can't pay his debts a FateWorseThanDeath, and sent his people to bring the Knave, but is never punished for his actions. |
| 271 | * LoanShark: He put a price on the Knave's head due to a debt. |
| 272 | * XanatosGambit: Uses this in his very first main appearance regarding the Forget-Me-Not and the Knave's debt to him. |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:The Tweedles]] |
| 276 | !! The Tweedles |
| 277 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_4406.jpeg]] |
| 278 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/MattyFinochio (Tweedledee) and Creator/BenCotton (Tweedledum) |
| 279 | |
| 280 | A pair of manservants just as vain as their boss, the Red Queen. Run errands for her and, at least in Tweedledee's case, Jafar. |
| 281 | ---- |
| 282 | * TheDandy: Powdered wigs, tailored suits, and gaudy bright-red lightning bolt face paint? Oh yeah. |
| 283 | * TheDividual: They are essentially identical, aside from their allegiances and facial features. |
| 284 | * TheDitz: It's implied they're not very intelligent. |
| 285 | * LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:The Red Queen gives Tweedledee this treatment after discovering his alignment with Jafar. Being Wonderland, this doesn't kill him, and his detached head is still able to state the obvious to Jafar ("I think she's onto us.") Jafar rectifies this by giving him a new body... after cutting off the head attached to that body.]] |
| 286 | * TheMole: Tweedledee is one for Jafar, reporting to him the events occurring in the Red Queen's castle. |
| 287 | * ProfessionalButtKisser: They give the Red Queen an endless stream of compliments whenever necessary. |
| 288 | * SiblingRivalry: Brought on by their conflicting alliances. Tweedledum is more than willing to sell out his brother to the Queen. |
| 289 | * ThoseTwoGuys: The only characterization they have is Tweedledee being loyal to Jafar, and Tweedledum being loyal to the Queen. |
| 290 | * UndyingLoyalty: Tweedledum to the Red Queen. |
| 291 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Tweedledee's last non-flashback appearance is in episode 9 [[spoiler:where Jafar gives him a new body.]] His fate as of the finale is unknown. |
| 292 | [[/folder]] |
| 293 | |
| 294 | [[folder:Elizabeth "Lizard"]] |
| 295 | !!Elizabeth "Lizard" |
| 296 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/w104lizard.png]] |
| 297 | [[caption-width-right:350:'''Lizard:''' ''I'm afraid that the man I like doesn't feel about me the way I feel about him.'']] |
| 298 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/LaurenMcKnight |
| 299 | %% |
| 300 | %%Spoiler tags should remain up for the first season of ''Once Upon a Time In Wonderland'', seeing as its unlikely the show is continuing on and you don't need to understand it to understand anything about the main show. |
| 301 | %% |
| 302 | * ActionGirl: As expected of a mercenary. |
| 303 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: Unlike Bill, she's not actually a lizard. |
| 304 | * BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:She dies in her second appearance.]] |
| 305 | * BadassAdorable: She's a skilled thief and fighter, and also very cute. |
| 306 | * BeCarefulWhatYouSay: Trying to get the Knave to feel something for her, she carelessly phrases it as a wish. [[spoiler:She dies, and the Knave can only helplessly watch.]] |
| 307 | * DiesWideOpen: Until [[spoiler:Anastasia closes her eyes... and then the Jabberwocky comes and plucks them right out.]] |
| 308 | * EyeScream: [[spoiler:After her death, Jabberwocky removes her eyes so that Jafar can view her last glimpses and find out where the Genie's bottle is.]] |
| 309 | * ForgottenFallenFriend: Played straight: [[spoiler:she's briefly mourned in the episode she dies but is never mentioned afterward. Will does not even think about bringing her back to life while he was willing to betray Alice to resurrect Anastasia.]] |
| 310 | * GenderFlip: The show's counterpart of Bill the Lizard, one of the White Rabbit's gardeners from ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.'' |
| 311 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: With the Knave. [[spoiler:Or so [[HopelessSuitor HE thinks, anyway]].]] |
| 312 | * LoveMartyr: She's hopelessly in love with [[spoiler:the Knave]], who not only is in love with someone else but is also [[spoiler:incapable of feeling anything towards her since he removed his heart.]] |
| 313 | * SheCleansUpNicely: Gets a magical makeover [[spoiler:as one of her wishes.]] |
| 314 | * {{Tomboy}}: Even her casting call described her as such. |
| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:The Jabberwocky]] |
| 318 | !!The Jabberwocky |
| 319 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/w110jabberwocky.png]] |
| 320 | ->'''Played by:''' Creator/PetaSergeant |
| 321 | |
| 322 | The single most feared creature in Wonderland. A hundred years ago, five hundred men gave their lives to imprison her using the Vorpal Blade. |
| 323 | ---- |
| 324 | %% |
| 325 | %%Spoiler tags should remain up for the first season of ''Once Upon a Time In Wonderland'', seeing as its unlikely the show is continuing on and you don't need to understand it to understand anything about the main show. |
| 326 | %% |
| 327 | * AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Despite being an unsympathetic monster for most of her screen time, her final scene where she's imprisoned again by Jafar actually earns some viewer pity for her.]] |
| 328 | * BigBadDuumvirate: She [[spoiler:essentially replaces the Red Queen in this role with Jafar following the Red Queen's HeelFaceTurn.]] |
| 329 | * BishonenLine: The most terrifying and powerful creature in Wonderland looks like a woman. Mostly. |
| 330 | * TheDragon: After she's freed by Jafar, she becomes his main enforcer. Despite her being a fearsome ancient HumanoidAbomination, he's the one who ends up betraying her whonce she's no longer useful. |
| 331 | * TheDreaded: Most in Wonderland dare not even speak its name. |
| 332 | * DroppedABridgeOnHer: [[spoiler:After all the build-up and menace, she has '''one''' scene in the GrandFinale, in which Jafar pins her to a wall with the Vorpal Blade and leaves her imprisoned yet again.]] |
| 333 | * EmotionEater: Feeds on fear. |
| 334 | * EnemyMine: [[spoiler:She realizes that Jafar will never give her her freedom, so she makes a tentative alliance with Alice and her friends in order to defeat him and roam free.]] |
| 335 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Perfectly polite, even while making you relive your worst fears. |
| 336 | * {{Foil}}: To Rumpelstiltskin - both are absurdly powerful {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that [[TheDreaded inspire fear]] from everybody within their respective realm whose only weakness is a bladed weapon made for the sole purpose of keeping them in-check and would usually keep to themselves unless provoked or invited. |
| 337 | * ForTheEvulz: Everything she does is mostly just for kicks. |
| 338 | * FreudianExcuse: She tries to evoke this claiming: "People aren't born monsters." |
| 339 | * HumanoidAbomination: She looks rather human, but her movements are animalistic and jerky. Furthermore, nobody ever refers to her as a person or sorceress, but specifically a ''creature''. |
| 340 | * IKnowWhatYouFear: Her main power, which she taps into via MindRape. |
| 341 | * KnightOfCerebus: The show takes a dark turn when she is introduced. |
| 342 | * KryptoniteFactor: [[CoolSword The Vorpal Blade]], which kept her [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice nailed to the ceiling of her prison]]. |
| 343 | * LargeHam: Peta Sergeant is enjoying a scenery-laced meal as the evil and sexy Jabberwocky. |
| 344 | * MindRape: Her M.O. She enters her victims' minds and plays out their [[PrimalFear worst fears]] in their heads. She can drive people to their deaths in this manner. |
| 345 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She gets very close to people she taunts. |
| 346 | * SealedEvilInACan: Imprisoned in a tower until Jafar frees her. [[spoiler:Once Jafar achieves his goals, he imprisons her again.]] |
| 347 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: Just as much as Jafar. |
| 348 | * WeaponOfXSlaying: Well, in this version it doesn't kill her, but the Vorpal Blade ''is'' the only weapon that can harm or restrain her, and is thus used to keep her [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice pinned to the wall]] and [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned]]. |
| 349 | * WouldHurtAChild: She threatens to kill a guy's baby if he doesn't tell where the genie is. |
| 350 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Like she expected, Jafar uses the Vorpal Blade on her after he no longer needs her.]] |
| 351 | [[/folder]] |
| 352 | |
| 353 | [[folder:Cheshire]] |
| 354 | !!The Cheshire Cat |
| 355 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/KeithDavid |
| 356 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cheshire_cat1_5935.png]] |
| 357 | |
| 358 | An old friend of Alice's. Apparently he got bigger while she was gone... and hungrier. |
| 359 | ---- |
| 360 | * AdaptationalVillainy: The Cheshire Cat befriended Alice during her first visit to Wonderland, but has since decided that she would make a better meal than a friend. |
| 361 | * BroughtDownToNormal: Just as the Cheshire Cat's about to pounce on the Knave, he tosses a mushroom piece straight into Cheshire's mouth, shrinking him back to a regular-sized cat that purrs harmlessly afterward. |
| 362 | * CatsAreMean: See AdaptationalVillainy above. |
| 363 | * PantheraAwesome: He's a good deal bigger and more menacing than he's usually portrayed. |
| 364 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: He has very big, very red eyes. |
| 365 | * SlasherSmile: Sporting this constantly. |
| 366 | [[/folder]] |
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