| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/disney_alice_in_wonderland_poster.jpg]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Most everyone's mad here."]] |
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| 4 | ->''"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Alice''' |
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| 7 | Number 13 in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, this [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1951]] adaptation of ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass'' was a long time coming. Creator/WaltDisney was a lifelong fan of the book and wanted to make it a decade earlier, but another production of the story was being produced elsewhere at the time, prompting the studio to shelve it for a while. Then UsefulNotes/WorldWarII happened and they lost a lot of their budget on war films. Some years of DevelopmentHell turned the film into a more wacky, comedic, and very odd entry in the Disney canon. |
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| 9 | It inspired three attractions in the Ride/DisneyThemeParks, most prominent being the famous spinning teacups ride, which each resort has a variation of.[[note]]Shanghai Disneyland uses [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh hunny pots]] instead of teacups.[[/note]] Disneyland also has a conventional dark ride based on the film, and Disneyland Paris has a Wonderland labyrinth. When Creator/SlaveLaborGraphics had the licenses to produce different Disney comics, they published a sequel miniseries simply titled ''Wonderland'', in which the White Rabbit's unseen maid Mary Ann gets her [[ADayInTheLimelight Day in the Limelight]] and has to save her boss when he is blamed for being responsible for the havoc Alice wrought on Wonderland. |
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| 11 | A [[VideoGame/WaltDisneysAliceInWonderland game adaptation]] for the Game Boy Color was released in 2000, and a SequelSeries to the film aimed at [[AudienceShift the preschool demographic]] called ''WesternAnimation/AlicesWonderlandBakery'' premiered on Creator/DisneyChannel and Creator/DisneyJunior on February 9th, 2022. [[note]] Alongside the show's first 7 episodes being available on Creator/DisneyPlus. [[/note]] |
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| 13 | If you're looking for the 2010 Creator/TimBurton film, also by Disney, visit [[Film/AliceInWonderland2010 here]]. |
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| 16 | !!This film contains examples of: |
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| 18 | * AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: ''"Ser'''PENT'''! Ser'''PEEEEEEEENT'''!"'' |
| 19 | * AdaptationalContextChange: The film depicts the croquet game being rigged to stop Alice from having a chance against the Queen of Hearts—and it's something of a HumiliationConga for her. In the book the rabbit has to warn Alice that she's playing too well—so she [[DeliberateUnderPerformance messes up on purpose]] to let the Queen win. |
| 20 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: In the original book, Alice repeatedly tries to recite poems, but can never remember the words. Here, Alice actually starts off reciting a poem correctly, but the Caterpillar tells her to do the incorrect version from the book instead. |
| 21 | * AdaptationalJerkass: The Cheshire Cat. In the book, he's pretty much Alice's only friend and helps guide her in his own, unique way. Here, he gets her in trouble with just about every appearance. |
| 22 | * AdaptationalVillainy: |
| 23 | ** In Lewis Carroll's book, no one is actually in any danger of being executed by the Queen of Hearts. The King secretly pardons anyone she sentences to death, and it's implied that the inhabitants of Wonderland simply choose to humor her. The Griffin confirms that nobody is really killed. |
| 24 | ** Heck, the King himself, who's gone from pardoning executions to openly supporting them![[note]]In the book, he does threaten the Hatter with the possibility of execution when he's growing impatient during the trial, but that's all.[[/note]] Aside from stopping the first instance of Alice's execution and deciding to have a trial first. |
| 25 | --->'''King of Hearts:''' [''after the Queen sentences another card to death''] Off with his head! Off with his head! By order of the King! You heard what she said!\ |
| 26 | ''Later''\ |
| 27 | '''King of Hearts:''' [''running after Alice using his giant crown as a megaphone''] YOU HEARD WHAT HER MAJESTY SAID! OFF WITH HER HEAD! |
| 28 | ** The Walrus in "The Walrus and the Carpenter". While neither he nor the Carpenter were particularly good people in the original poem (Alice notes that the Walrus [[spoiler: showed remorse for his actions but still ate more oysters than the Carpenter, while the Carpenter ate as many as he could]]), he was much more remorseful in the poem. Here, however, he's depicted as an [[SmugSnake arrogant, manipulative]], [[VillainousGlutton greedy]], [[AristocratsAreEvil evil aristocrat]]. |
| 29 | * AdaptationalWimp: In the book, the King of Hearts is a confident leader and his relative reasonableness prevents the Queen's HairTriggerTemper from doing too much damage. The movie makes him a wimpering coward who makes only occasional, minor and mostly ineffectual attempts to halt his wife's killing sprees. |
| 30 | * AdaptationExplanationExtrication: A minor example when Alice grows to giant size in the forest: it may seem a stretch that the bird would mistake her for a serpent, since she looks nothing like one. In the original book, it was her ''neck'' that had grown out of proportion, which makes the mistake more believable. |
| 31 | * AdaptedOut: By necessity, many of the original characters were cut for pacing. Most notably The Duchess, who lends some of her personality to the Queen of Hearts, her pepper-loving cook, the Mock Turtle and the Griffin. The Jabberwock was also planned to be in the movie despite being from a poem only in Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to the Alice In Wonderland book, but was omitted, although a few lines from the Jabberwocky poem remain. |
| 32 | * AdvertisingByAssociation: The [[https://youtu.be/KLIqErnQCuw original trailer]] did this through other Disney movies' clips and text: |
| 33 | -->"Remember... how ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|and the Seven Dwarfs}}'' thrilled you?\ |
| 34 | How ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' won your heart?\ |
| 35 | Now... Creator/WaltDisney is bringing you his third heroine of fiction... ''Alice in Wonderland''." |
| 36 | * AgeLift: |
| 37 | ** Alice is a little older than she is in the books. She appears to be the same age as her actress Kathryn Beaumont - who was twelve when she recorded her lines. |
| 38 | ** The other way round with her cat Dinah. She's fully grown in the books, or at least by the time of ''Through the Looking-Glass'' where she has kittens of her own, but just a kitten in the film. |
| 39 | * AllJustADream: The entire adventure takes place in a dream Alice is having while dozing off during her sister's lecture. |
| 40 | * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The blue Caterpillar, as per the book, and the Cheshire Cat. Indeed, this adaptation seems to have led to later adaptations making the Cheshire Cat that brilliant mix of purple and pink. |
| 41 | * AnachronismStew: A very subtle example. The Talking Doorknob represents an invention that was not patented until [[http://jacjackie4308.blogspot.com/2014/10/osbourn-dorsey-invented-doorknob-and.html 1878,]] a good ''thirteen years'' after the original book was published. |
| 42 | * AndStarring: The opening credits list "And Introducing Kathryn Beaumont," although she had already been in relatively small roles in other films. |
| 43 | * AntiEscapismAesop: At the beginning, Alice is bored by her lessons and longs for a world where animals wear clothes, flowers talk, and everything is nonsense. She goes DownTheRabbitHole to a world just like her fantasy, but after much growing and shrinking, rudeness and bullying from the strange creatures she meets, and general insanity, she declares "I've had enough nonsense!" and is desperate to get back home. |
| 44 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: The Dormouse looks like an actual mouse (or at least like a typical cartoon mouse) instead of a realistic dormouse, which is an only vaguely mouse-like relative of the squirrel. Then again, he also talks, wears clothes, and lives in a world with blue caterpillars and purple striped cats. |
| 45 | * ArtShift: Wonderland has more abstract, boldly-colored backgrounds compared to the riverbank where Alice's sister reads to her and Dinah. |
| 46 | * AteItAll: The Walrus tricks the Carpenter into going into the kitchen for some bread. When the Carpenter returns to the dining room, he discovers that the Walrus has eaten all of the oysters ("They'd been eaten, every one!"). |
| 47 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Alice four times in the film. First she eats from a box in the bizarre room, which makes her grow so big her tears become an ocean. Then in the White Rabbit's house, which results in the rabbit and the Dodo thinking she's a monster (and trying to smoke her out). When she tests the mushroom out, she grows even larger and towers over the top of a forest. And finally she willingly grows to this size to defend herself in court. |
| 48 | * BalloonBelly: The Walrus gets one after he eats all the oysters. |
| 49 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Alice tells Dinah that her ideal world would be nothing but nonsense and describes it at length (and in song). She's less than pleased by the resulting journey to Wonderland. |
| 50 | * BigWhat: The White Rabbit, when the Dodo suggests burning his house down when a grown Alice, thought to be a monster, is trapped inside. |
| 51 | * {{Blackground}}: Many of the backgrounds are kept pitch black (most notably in scenes with a lot in the foreground such as the Mad Tea Party), allowing the color to stand out. |
| 52 | * BlindMistake: The White Rabbit and the Bird in the Tree both wear glasses: the fact that they're short-sighted presumably explains why the Rabbit mistakes Alice for his maid Mary Ann and why the Bird mistakes her for a serpent. |
| 53 | * BriefAccentImitation: A few instances in the scene with caterpillar. After Alice coughs up smoke, she imitates the way the caterpillar says "Who...", complete with a small "o" coming out of her mouth. Another time combined with PorkyPigPronunciation: |
| 54 | -->'''Caterpillar''': Exactically, what is your problem? |
| 55 | -->'''Alice''': Well, it's exactica... exactica... well, it's precisely this... |
| 56 | * BullyingADragon: During the trial, Alice takes the life-saving mushrooms from earlier and eats them, growing to the size of a giant, after which she calls out the Queen of Hearts. Unfortunately, as Alice speaks, the effects of the mushrooms wear off prematurely and she shrinks down to normal size. As this happens, [[OhCrap her voice trails off as she looks around in confusion and suddenly realizes she's in big trouble now]]. |
| 57 | -->'''Alice:''' And as for you, ''[curtsies]'' Your Majesty... ''[voice turns sour]'' Your Majesty indeed! Why, you're not a queen! ''[suddenly starts shrinking]'' You're just a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old ty... ''[having fully shrunken back down]'' [[OhCrap tyrant...]] |
| 58 | * CagedInsideAMonster: While in the Tulgey Wood, Alice meets a "birdcage bird": a large bird with a birdcage as its trunk, a head and two legs. It has two small birds inside its body. When Alice bumps into it, the door on the birdcage opens and the two small birds escape. The birdcage bird runs after them and swallows them, returning them to the inside of the cage. |
| 59 | * CaptainObvious: A couple of examples. |
| 60 | -->'''Mad Hatter:''' Something seems to be troubling you! Won't you tell us all about it?\ |
| 61 | '''March Hare:''' Start at the beginning!\ |
| 62 | '''Mad Hatter:''' Yes, yes! And when you get to the end, ha ha ha... stop. See? |
| 63 | * CatharticExhalation: The Queen of Hearts exploits this trope, fanning herself after she cheats at croquet. |
| 64 | * CensorshipBySpelling: A G-rated example. Alice spells out C-A-T in an attempt to stop the Dormouse from freaking out. |
| 65 | * CheatersNeverProsper: Except when the game you're playing is completely rigged so that you'll get a perfect score and your opponent will get a zero. |
| 66 | * ChekhovsGun: Subverted. It looks like the size-changing mushrooms will get Alice away from the Queen, but taking both of them at once (since she couldn't remember which piece would make her grow) almost immediately returns her back to her normal size just in time for a frenzied chase. |
| 67 | * ChimneyEntry: Bill the Lizard is sent down the chimney of the White Rabbit's house to get an enlarged Alice. Unfortunately, he accidentally sends clouds of soot from the chimney into the house, which makes Alice let out a SneezeOfDoom that blasts Bill into the sky. |
| 68 | * ChromaticArrangement: During the tea party sequence, Alice is blue, the Mad Hatter is green, and the March Hare is red. |
| 69 | * ClosingCredits: The first picture in the Disney Animated Canon to include these (the ''only'' one until ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''), a list of characters and their voice actors scrolls after the "The End" card. |
| 70 | * {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Wonderland in its entirety. |
| 71 | * ComedicUnderwearExposure: The Queen of Hearts' white, heart-printed, ankle-length bloomers are on display after the Cheshire Cat causes her to flip over and upside down, with a flamingo used as a croquet mallet or club to lift up her dress. |
| 72 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Alice sees a talking white rabbit with a waistcoat and a pocketwatch, and her initial reaction is "What could a rabbit possibly be late for?" |
| 73 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 74 | ** The Queen of Hearts is a combination of the Queen of Hearts, the Duchess, and the Red Queen. The line "All ways are my ways" is from the Red Queen and is TheArtifact here, as it refers to her being a chess piece who can go in every direction. |
| 75 | ** Pat's role is given to the Dodo. |
| 76 | ** The Dormouse has the Mouse's fear of cats. |
| 77 | ** The Mad Hatter and March Hare's "unbirthday" schtick, which replaces the novel's explanation for the Tea Party, is actually taken from Humpty Dumpty's dialogue. |
| 78 | * CompressedAdaptation: The books had a large cast and it would have been unfeasable to put them all into an hour long animated film, so the Disney adaptation cherry picks the most iconic elements of both ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' and ''Through the Looking Glass'' while using the basic plot structure of ''Wonderland'' for the whole film. |
| 79 | * ConvectionSchmonvection: The Mad Hatter pours hot tea into his collar, which flows out his sleeve and into his teacup. This doesn't bug him at all. |
| 80 | * CoversAlwaysLie: Perhaps not a total lie in a strictly visual sense, but a lot of the posters and promotional material for the film would make the denizens of Wonderland out to be much friendlier than they actually are. In reality, most of the Wonderlanders end up quite rude, hostile, or too deranged to be of any help, and Alice's journey is less an enchanting trip through a land of whimsy than it is an endurance test. One old poster goes far enough to show the Queen of Hearts herself smiling and sitting along with Alice at the tea party! |
| 81 | * CrashingDreams: Toward the end, when the Queen of Hearts and everyone else is chasing her, Alice shouts at herself through the keyhole of the talking door to wake up. Her voice dissolves into the voice of her sister trying to wake her. |
| 82 | * CrowdSong: "The Caucus Race", "All in the Golden Afternoon", "Painting the Roses Red" and "The Unbirthday Song Reprise". Man, they love to sing! |
| 83 | * CuttingTheKnot: Surprisingly, the Queen of Hearts defaults to this mindset when dealing with the three cards accused of painting her roses red. When they pathetically try passing the buck, she simply decides it would be easier to just execute all three of them then and there. |
| 84 | * DangerousInterrogative: In the trial against Alice, as the Queen of Hearts is about to carry out her sentence (by beheading, naturally), Alice reaches into her apron pockets and discovers the mushroom pieces from earlier, which she eats, allowing her to grow to giant size. Everyone is terrified at her size now, but as Alice proceeds to [[BullyingADragon bad-mouth the Queen]], she suddenly starts shrinking down to normal size as the effects of the mushrooms wear off, and [[OhCrap her voice trails off as she realizes she's in big trouble now]]. |
| 85 | -->'''Alice:''' ''(to the Queen)'' And as for you, ''(curtsies) Your Majesty... (her expression turns sour)'' Your Majesty indeed! Why, you're not a queen, ''(suddenly starts shrinking)'' you're just a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old ty... ''(she is back to her normal size and she finishes weakly)'' [[OhCrap ...tyrant...]]\ |
| 86 | '''Queen:''' ''(chuckles; softly but dangerously)'' And, uh, what were you saying, my dear?\ |
| 87 | '''[[CatsAreMean Cheshire Cat]]:''' ''(sitting on the Queen's head)'' [[BrutalHonesty Why, she simply said you're a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant!]] ''(cackles)''\ |
| 88 | ''[[OhCrap (Alice becomes alarmed at what the Cat said)]]''\ |
| 89 | '''Queen:''' OFF WITH HER HEAD!!! |
| 90 | * DangledByAGiant: When a currently giant Alice tries to pluck a carrot from a garden to shrink herself, she grabs the White Rabbit as well. |
| 91 | -->Alice: I'm sorry, but I must eat something! |
| 92 | -->White Rabbit: Not me, you barbarian! |
| 93 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Surprisingly despite being a DenserAndWackier addition to the [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Animated Canon]], the film depicts the events from the story in a darker light. The Queen instead of having her beheadings being empty gestures pardoned by the King, are heavily implied to be legitimately enforced with the King's encouragement, being a much more aggressively insane character that puts Alice in mortal jeopardy. |
| 94 | ** Additionally, while there were some helpful and/or at least, sympathetic characters in the original, Wonderland is depicted as a [[WorldOfJerkass world entirely populated by unpleasant and deranged residents with even the animals being unintentionally hindering Alice, causing her to break down emotionally]]. There is also more emphasis on [[DerangedAnimation surreal and bizarre imagery]] than the more oddly whimsical nature of the original story. |
| 95 | * DarkReprise: "Who's Been Painting My Roses Red?" |
| 96 | * DelayedOhCrap: Twice during the scene where Alice grows large in the White Rabbit's house. |
| 97 | ** Bill the Lizard's reaction when encountering Alice: |
| 98 | --->'''Dodo''': You just [[ChimneyEntry pop down the chimney]] and haul that monster out of there. |
| 99 | --->'''Bill''': Righto, guv'nor. (sees Alice) ''Monster!?'' |
| 100 | ** Dodo gets another good idea to get a giant Alice out of the house. |
| 101 | --->'''Dodo:''' That's it, we'll burn the house down!\ |
| 102 | '''White Rabbit:''' Yes, burn the house-- [[BigWhat WHAT!?]] |
| 103 | * DelayedReaction: This is how Alice first encounters the White Rabbit. When her cat Dinah sees him and starts meowing frantically, Alice treats it as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight...before she realizes exactly what she's saying. |
| 104 | -->'''Alice:''' ''(Nonchalantly)'' Oh, Dinah, it's just a rabbit with a waistcoat ''(with realization)'' and a watch?! |
| 105 | * DerangedAnimation: Wonderland being a [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} world where logic is missing]] is filled with surreal and bizarre imagery. Highlights include the Cheshire Cat's unusual manner of disappearing/reappearing/shape-shifting, Alice's altering size moments, and the frenzied ending where all of the characters including the ones exist only in the story told by other characters appear. |
| 106 | * DesperatePleaForHome: |
| 107 | -->'''Alice:''' ''[in tears]'' I'm through with rabbits! I want to go home! |
| 108 | * DetailHoggingCover: In this case, it's the opening credits. As they were still shots, they could show a lot more detail than the film. For instance, the Queen's PimpedOutDress has white edging on the overskirt, but [[http://33.media.tumblr.com/ec751a79b88045bd8b76623e50822734/tumblr_mjf677xuKf1s6zaeso3_1280.jpg the fabric isn't clear in the film]], while [[http://33.media.tumblr.com/6e082488b4fc00dfae10a0a4e56d61ab/tumblr_mjf677xuKf1s6zaeso1_1280.jpg in the credits it's shown trimmed]] with [[PrettyInMink white ermine]]. |
| 109 | * DidntWantAnAdventure: While Alice's predicament is self-inflicted with her need to know where the White Rabbit is going, she gains this mentality in the latter half of the movie. |
| 110 | * DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: While looking for the White Rabbit's gloves, Alice hums the melody of "I'm Late" to herself. |
| 111 | * DisneyAcidSequence: The ending chase. |
| 112 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Each of the queen's reasons for the beheadings that occur. |
| 113 | * DontExplainTheJoke: |
| 114 | -->'''Doorknob:''' Quite alright, but you gave me quite a ''turn''!\ |
| 115 | '''Alice:''' You see, I was falling--\ |
| 116 | '''Doorknob:''' ''[interrupts]'' Heh! Rather good, wot? Doorknob, turn? |
| 117 | * DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Alice fails to see how Tweedledee's and Tweedledum's story about the dangers of curiosity applies to her. |
| 118 | * DramaticTimpani: Some flowers are used as timpani during "All In The Golden Afternoon". |
| 119 | * DubPronunciationChange: In the Italian dub, Alice's name is pronounced with the Italian pronunciation of the name (A-lee-chay). |
| 120 | * EveryoneChasingYou: Happens to Alice right before she awakens in the real world. |
| 121 | * ExitPursuedByABear: The Walrus exits the story being pursued by the angry Carpenter wielding a hammer. |
| 122 | * FacePalm: Alice has [[http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmg5pvNu5l1qzcy5co1_500.jpg a particularly good one]] in reaction to the reprise of the Unbirthday Song. |
| 123 | * {{Fanfare}}: The March of the Cards. |
| 124 | * FantasticRacism: The flowers are very nice and accommodating to Alice until they discover she is not a flower. Then they become hostile, having decided that if she is not a flower, she must be a weed. |
| 125 | %%* FinishingEachOthersSentences: Tweedledee and Tweedledum. |
| 126 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Alice's song, "A World of My Own", foreshadows the nature of Wonderland and that her entire adventure is a dream produced from her imagination. |
| 127 | * FriendlyTickleTorture: Alice is tickled by a playful flamingo while playing croquet with [[BigBad the Queen of Hearts]]. |
| 128 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: The Walrus, the March Hare, and the Dormouse. |
| 129 | * FungusHumongous: The Caterpillar's mushroom. |
| 130 | * GainaxEnding: Once the Queen gets fed up with Alice after the Chesire Cat eggs her on, Alice runs from her card army, but it then gets gradually more bizarre even by the standards of the story standards where Alice is suddenly running in a Cacus Race with the animals near the beginning of the film with Queen and her cabal, the Mad Hatter, March Hare, the Tweedle Twins, and [[MindScrew the Walrus and Carpenter who up till that moment, only existed in the Twins' story joining in as well as tangible beings]] before she's suddenly running on the tea table, and when she goes back to the ocean, she encounters the Caterpillar and this leads him puffing up a pink smoke portal, where Alice in slow-motion approaches the door and sees [[MindScrew herself still sleeping]] as the chasing Wonderland residents dissolve around her as it's revealed to be a dream. All of this occurs at a rapid pace compared to the previously gradual pacing of the film up to that point. |
| 131 | * GetOut: When the talking flowers hear Alice say she's not a flower, they assume she's a weed and promptly shoo her out. |
| 132 | * TheGhost: The White Rabbit's housemaid Mary Ann, is never seen, though implied her appearance is similar to Alice's. |
| 133 | * GiantsDropletHumansShower: When Alice eats a cookie that makes her grow big enough to fill the entire room, she begins crying as she laments of being unable to home. The first of her tears is enough to splatter the Doorknob before the rest of them flood the room. From the Doorknob's view, Alice's tears are basically a sudden rainstorm and flood that almost drown him. |
| 134 | * GoAmongMadPeople: Discussed in the opposite when Alice says that she doesn't "want to go among mad people!" |
| 135 | * GroundPound: The Queen of Hearts does this while the cards are dragging off prisoners for painting the roses red. It sends all of the nearby cards falling flat on their faces. |
| 136 | * {{Hammerspace}}: The items in the small room Alice is in before the "pool of tears" appear out of nowhere. |
| 137 | * HamToHamCombat: In the courtroom: |
| 138 | -->'''King of Hearts:''' What do you know about this unfortunate affair?\ |
| 139 | '''March Hare:''' Nothing.\ |
| 140 | '''Queen of Hearts:''' NOTHING WHATEVER?!\ |
| 141 | '''March Hare:''' NOTHING WHATEVER!\ |
| 142 | '''Queen of Hearts:''' '''''THAAAAAAT'S VERY IMPORTANT!!!''''' |
| 143 | * HappilyMarried: Surprisingly, implied with the King and Queen of Hearts, who are shown to be quite affectionate toward each other when the Queen isn't in a bad mood. |
| 144 | * HaveAGayOldTime: "Gay" as "happy" pops up as "fancy-free and gay" in "The Caucus-Race." |
| 145 | * HumanlikeFootAnatomy: |
| 146 | ** The Cheshire Cat not only has plantigrade feet, he has thumbs on his feet in one scene in the movie. In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Cheshire_Cat_9304.jpg he has one thumb on each foot all the time]]. |
| 147 | ** Dinah also has plantigrade feet, to a lesser extent. |
| 148 | * HurricaneOfPuns: "All in the Golden Afternoon". |
| 149 | * IconicOutfit: Alice's blue dress with the pinafore, white stockings, black Mary Janes, and "Alice band." |
| 150 | * IdiotBall: Alice takes this at the White Rabbit's house. She knows that the "Eat me" treats made her grow before, and she eats one while she's ''inside'' the house. |
| 151 | * ImpactSilhouette: After eating all the oysters without leaving the Carpenter any, the Walrus nervously tries to leave in the face of the angry Carpenter who is menacingly brandishing his hammer. He then vamooses out the seaside shack's door... without opening it. |
| 152 | -->'''Walrus:''' [[CharacterCatchphrase The time has come!]] |
| 153 | * InkSuitActor: |
| 154 | ** Kathryn Beaumont as Alice. |
| 155 | ** Ed Wynn as The Mad Hatter. |
| 156 | ** Jerry Colonna as the March Hare. |
| 157 | * InsaneTrollLogic: Really, all of Wonderland runs on this. |
| 158 | ** The Bird in the Tree comes to the conclusion that Alice must be a serpent because she eats eggs. |
| 159 | ** The Mad Hatter deduces the White Rabbit is late because his pocketwatch is two days slow. |
| 160 | ** The flowers conclude that since Alice is not a flower that she must be a weed. |
| 161 | ** "Nothing whatever" is considered a crucial piece of testimony. |
| 162 | * InsistentTerminology: "''Your'' way?! All ways here are ''my'' ways!" |
| 163 | * IronicEcho: Alice mocks a line from "All in the Golden Afternoon" after the flowers accuse her of being a weed and kick her out of their bed. |
| 164 | -->'''Alice:''' "You can learn a lot of things from the flowers." Hmph! Seems to me they could learn a few things about manners! |
| 165 | * IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Alice says while walking through the Tulgey Wood: "When I get home, I shall write a book about this place. …if I ever ''do'' get home…". [[Literature/AliceInWonderland We all know this happened.]] |
| 166 | * {{Jerkass}}: Several characters. Notable examples being the Cheshire Cat, the flowers, and obviously the Queen of Hearts. |
| 167 | * JewelersEyeLoupe: Played with when the Mad Hatter uses a salt shaker as a loupe to examine the White Rabbit's watch. |
| 168 | * KangarooCourt: Alice's trial. For starters, the queen was intending to pronounce sentence ''before the verdict had been decided'' had the king not intervened. Next, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse all serve as witnesses, providing absolutely nothing of value to the case, yet the court considers it of vital importance. And finally, the trial is interrupted to celebrate the queen's unbirthday (much to Alice's annoyance) |
| 169 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: |
| 170 | -->'''Alice:''' When I get home, [[IShouldWriteABookAboutThis I shall write a book about this place]]. |
| 171 | * LiteralMetaphor: The Mad Hatter and Alice in the climax when she's trying to escape Wonderland. They insist she must join them in a cup of tea. They mean this by literally shoving her into a giant cup of tea. |
| 172 | * MarilynManeuver: Alice, as she descends slowly through the Rabbit Hole, floats towards a narrow section, causing her to fall through faster as she pushes her dress down. |
| 173 | * MatryoshkaObject: Under the Mad Hatter's hat is a smaller hat for the March Hare with an even smaller one under it for the Dormouse. |
| 174 | * TheMaze: Downplayed. Alive has to cross a hedge maze to get into and later escape from the Queen's kingdom. |
| 175 | * MickeyMousing: The orchestral soundtrack often accentuates character movements. For example in the early scene where the White Rabbit takes a run for the rabbit hole. |
| 176 | * MindScrew: Wonderland is filled with bizarre imagery of deranged characters and unusual creatures, but the ending is the most deranged. The pacing escalates to a rapid-paced, maddening degree with Alice's escape from Wonderland, in which the already loose reality begins to fall apart around her as the Walrus and Carpenter- who had previously existed in the Tweedle Twins' story, suddenly appear alongside the residents of Wonderland while the scenery morphs at random from the place to the mountain where another Cacus Race to the mad tea party table to the inside of a giant teacup becoming the ocean from Alice's tears, to a pink smoke portal generated by the Caterpillar as Alice suddenly moves in slow motion towards the door leading to the reveal in which[[spoiler: the Doorknob shows her outside asleep in her real outdoor environment. She wakes up by dreaming that her dream self is begging her real self to wake up]]. |
| 177 | ** The Tulgey Wood encounter after the Mad Tea Party, where Alice encounters a collection of bizarre animals such as birds with mirrors for eyes, a pair of glasses with a beak, sapient vehicle horn birds with duck feet, frogs with either drum for bodies/cymbals for heads, a bird with a cage for a body that is constantly eating two birds that are escaping its loose cage to put them back in again, birds with shovels for heads, birds with hammers for heads, birds with pencils for heads, vultures with umbrellas for bodies, owls with stretching accordion necks, Mome Raths- a pair of different colored legs with a mop of hair with pair of googly eyes were the top of the legs/hair meet, and a dog with a broom for a head/tail. And unlike the previous and succeeding encounters, it is [[DerangedAnimation bizarre imagery without any context to rationalize the unusual even by Wonderland standards of loose logic]] that causes Alice to break down until the Cheshire Cat ironically brings back sense by giving Alice some much-needed context of where to go next. |
| 178 | * MisplacedRetribution: When the Cheshire Cat trips the Queen of Hearts, she blames Alice for it and nearly has her head as punishment. The Queen also implies beforehand that Alice will lose her head if she (the Queen) loses her temper whether Alice was responsible or not. |
| 179 | * MonochromeToColor: When the White Rabbit's watch goes crazy, the screen turns an intense red until the March Hare smashes it with a mallet. For one brief shot, the screen turns black and white to show the watch expiring, before turning back to normal colors in the next scene. |
| 180 | * MoodWhiplash: "Very Good Advice", in which Alice sings about her personal flaws and breaks into tears, feels out-of-place to some people, especially since it comes in between the parts where Alice explores the Tulgey Wood and the Cheshire Cat tells her to visit the Queen of Hearts. Then again, this ''is'' Wonderland we're talking about. |
| 181 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The way the King is introduced. He actually has to remind the Rabbit about it - which leads to this quite fatigued response: "...and the King". |
| 182 | * MythologyGag: |
| 183 | ** The Cheshire cat sings the beginning of "The Jabberwock" poem ("'Twas Bril-lig/ And the sly-thy toves/ Did gyre and gim-ble in the wabe..."). |
| 184 | ** Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee tell Alice "if you stay long enough, we might have a battle", which actually happened both in the book and in the nursery rhyme which the characters originally came from. |
| 185 | * NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Alice uses the mushrooms during the trial so she could turn giant and give a speech about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech the reasons the Queen of Hearts sucks]], but she shrinks while she says it. No one takes it seriously as a result. |
| 186 | * OcularGushers: When Alice gets frustrated with the constant changing of size, she cries an ''entire ocean of tears'' due to being gigantic at this stage. |
| 187 | * OffWithHisHead: The Queen's favorite phrase is to literally call for people to get their heads cut off. When it happens to a card, we're immediately treated to a shot of the unlucky card being dragged off to the chopping block by two cards of the opposite color, flanked by two parallel rows of card soldiers standing guard. |
| 188 | * OhCrap: |
| 189 | ** The Queen of Hearts gets this reaction when she witnesses Alice growing rapidly in the courtroom. |
| 190 | ** Alice gets this twice. First, when she realizes she has shrunk back to her normal size [[BullyingADragon while telling off the Queen]] and is now at the Queen's mercy. Then when she sees the Queen and the other Wonderland residents approaching her while she is trapped at the door trying to escape Wonderland. |
| 191 | * OhNoNotAgain: After Alice eats a treat that says "Eat me", she starts growing again while searching for the White Rabbit's gloves and gets that reaction. |
| 192 | * OnlyOneFindsItFun: When the Rabbit introduces the Queen of Hearts at the croquet match, the speculators all cheer, but when he introduces the King, only one of them does. |
| 193 | * OnlySaneMan: |
| 194 | ** Not just Alice, but also the White Rabbit at some points, though he's way too [[NervousWreck neurotic]] to fit the trope perfectly. |
| 195 | ** The Doorknob is the only one that is fairly polite to Alice during her adventure, gives her helpful advice, and at the end [[spoiler:is the one to let her know that her entire adventure is just a dream, allowing her to escape by waking up.]] |
| 196 | ** Mother Oyster in "The Walrus and The Carpenter". [[spoiler: She avoids death because of it]]. |
| 197 | * OpeningChorus: Just like every other Disney film in the 50s. |
| 198 | * ParachutePetticoat: Alice as she falls down the Rabbit Hole and ends up in Wonderland. |
| 199 | * ParentalBonus: In "Painting the Roses Red," the Ace blames the Deuce, who blames the Trey. The queen echoes the Ace: "The deuce, you say?" The 1950 viewing audience would have recognized "The deuce, you say!" as their older generation's slang term for "Bullshit!" |
| 200 | * PimpedOutDress: The dress worn by the Queen of Hearts, with the {{high collar| of doom}}, underskirt with the black and gold chevron design, and the overskirt with the [[PrettyInMink ermine trim]] (although [[DetailHoggingCover the animation limitations made it look like just a solid white trim in the film]]). |
| 201 | * PossessionPresumesGuilt: While chasing the Dormouse in the courtroom, The King of Hearts accidentally hits the Queen with a gavel. He panics and hands it to the March Hare, who hands it to the Mad Hatter, who hands it to Alice. |
| 202 | * PragmaticAdaptation: The film is actually a combination of the original book and its sequel "Through the Looking Glass". Keeping every character from the books would basically be impossible, so the movie uses the most iconic ones from each book, while the plot itself is based off Wonderland. Tweedledee and Tweedledum, The Walrus and The Carpenter and the singing flowers are originally from ''Through the Looking-Glass''. |
| 203 | * PunBasedCreature: Several. |
| 204 | ** One of the two caterpillars behaves like a cat, and has AnimalJingoism with the fictitious "dogerpillar". |
| 205 | ** One of the strange animals that Alice encounters in the woods is a bird with a cage for a body -- that is, a literal cagebird. |
| 206 | ** One of the animals living in Tulgey Woods appears to be a bird with an umbrella for a body. In other words, a ''literal'' umbrellabird. |
| 207 | ** Also, the various insects that populate the same area as the living flowers, such as Bread-and-Butterflies, Dog-and-Caterpillars, Rocking-Horseflies, and Copper-Centipedes. |
| 208 | * RandomEventsPlot: There is no real story going on (other than Alice trying to get back home); the whole film is about Alice going through a stream of conscious series of RandomEncounters[[note]]No, not [[RolePlayingGame those]] kinds. This was long before pen and paper RPGS, let alone video games (as we know them).[[/note]] with the bizarre residents of Wonderland. Each of the segments were even given to different directors. |
| 209 | * RapidFireBut: The White Rabbit stammers "but, but, but..." when the Mad Hatter cracks open his watch, which gives the Hatter the idea to use butter to "fix" it. |
| 210 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Alice gives a short and brunt one to the Queen of Hearts, telling her what kind of a person she is: a fat, pompous bad-tempered old tyrant. |
| 211 | * ARottenTimeToRevert: Alice, having briefly [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever grown gigantic]] after eating a piece of the MagicMushroom she collected earlier from meeting the caterpillar, starts boldly giving the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen of Hearts]] a ReasonYouSuckSpeech, rounding it off by calling her a "[[FatBastard Fat]], [[{{Pride}} pompous]], [[HairTriggerTemper bad-tempered]] old tyrant". Sadly, whilst Alice is calling her out, the effects of the mushroom wear off, and Alice shrinks back to her normal height, leaving her at the Queen's mercy. |
| 212 | * ScoobyDoobyDoors: Predating even the trope namer, though rather than using actual doors, the scene in question takes place in a hedge maze. |
| 213 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Alice does this thrice: |
| 214 | ** The first time is when she leaves Tweedledee and Tweedledum without addressing them while they recite "Father William". |
| 215 | ** The second time is when she leaves the Caterpillar in disgust after he rudely blows too much smoke rings in her face. He tries to call her back claiming that he has something important to say, but Alice isn't having any more of his rudeness and continues to venture away from him. Though she reconsiders shortly afterwards and returns to the Caterpillar, but remains stern when she comes back. |
| 216 | ** The third time is when she angrily leaves the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, calling their tea party the stupidest she's ever been to in her life. This is what prompts her to make her decision to abandon her pursuit of looking for the White Rabbit and go home instead after getting annoyed with all the nonsense and rudeness being thrown at her. |
| 217 | --->'''Alice''': Well, I've had enough nonsense! I'm going home! Straight home! |
| 218 | * SecondFaceSmoke: The Caterpillar does this to Alice thrice, which causes her to leave as she is disgusted with his rudeness. He does it again to Alice when she desperately asks for his help as she is being chased by the Queen of Hearts. |
| 219 | * SidekickSong: "The Unbirthday Song". |
| 220 | * SneezeOfDoom: While Alice is a giant and stuck in the White Rabbit's house, Dodo sends Bill [[ChimneyEntry down the chimney]] to get her out. Of course, this causes a ton of ashes to come out of the fireplace resulting in Alice sneezing, which ejects Bill out of the house. |
| 221 | -->'''Dodo:''' Well... there goes Bill.\ |
| 222 | '''Alice:''' Poor Bill. |
| 223 | * SomewhereSong: "In a World of My Own". |
| 224 | * SpaceWhaleAesop: Discussed after the Oyster story. |
| 225 | -->'''Alice:''' That was a very sad story.\ |
| 226 | '''Tweedledee and Tweedledum:''' Eh, and there's a moral to it!\ |
| 227 | '''Alice:''' Oh, yes, a very good moral! If you happen to be an oyster. |
| 228 | * SpellingSong: "AEIOU", more or less. |
| 229 | * SuddenlyShouting: As Alice complains to the Caterpillar about three inches being a bad height for her, this happens: |
| 230 | -->'''Caterpillar:''' ''I'' am ''exact-tically'' three inches ''high'', and it is a very good height INDEED!\ |
| 231 | '''Alice:''' But I'm ''not'' used to it! And you needn't... ''SHOUT''! |
| 232 | * SynchronizedSwarming: While Alice is traveling through the Tulgey Wood she meets a group of mome raths, who form themselves into the shape of an arrow to lead her to a path. |
| 233 | * TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: The Mad Hatter and the March Hare keep serving Alice tea, then refuse to give her a chance to drink it. |
| 234 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Several pairs show up: Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Walrus and the Carpenter, and the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. |
| 235 | * TinyGuyHugeGirl: The King and Queen of Hearts. The Queen is about normal size for an adult woman, but her husband is so short that he barely reaches her calf. |
| 236 | * TooDumbToLive: No prizes for guessing what the oysters not taking their mother's advice about staying in the sea to heart led to. |
| 237 | * TrueBlueFemininity: Alice's dress, to match the original book's art. |
| 238 | * TyopOnTheCover: The title card misspells Creator/LewisCarroll's name with only one ending L. |
| 239 | * UnconventionalFoodUsage: The Mad Hatter and the March Hare try to fix the White Rabbit's watch by pouring whatever food they have around inside it, including butter, jam, tea (naturally) and lemon (but not mustard -- that would be silly). |
| 240 | * UnexplainedAccent: Some of Wonderland's residents like the White Rabbit, March Hare, Cheshire Cat and the king and queen speak with American accents when everyone else has English ones. |
| 241 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Alice sees a rabbit in a waistcoat, holding a giant pocket watch, running around and singing. What does she find odd about all this? |
| 242 | -->'''Alice:''' How very curious. What could a rabbit possibly be late for? |
| 243 | * VagueAge: Tweedledee and Tweedledum dress like and act like children, and could pass for large kids, especially in the bizarre Wonderland, but they are shown to be balding underneath their caps, making them look like grown men dressed as kids. This is in keeping with the book, which describes them as "two fat little men," but also says that they looked like "a couple of great schoolboys." |
| 244 | * ViewersAreGeniuses: The film doesn't explicitly state that the White Rabbit and the Bird in the Tree are nearsighted. The audience is expected to know just from their wearing glasses. |
| 245 | * VillainSong: |
| 246 | ** "Who's Been Painting My Roses Red?" |
| 247 | ** The deleted song "I'm Odd" could be seen as one too, though it's more a "BlueAndOrangeMorality Song". |
| 248 | * VocalRangeExceeded: At Alice's solo in "All in the Golden Afternoon", she blows the high note, so the rest of the flowers finish for her. Kathryn Beaumont has acknowledged that she is not a great singer. |
| 249 | * WeedingOutImperfections: Parodied when the talking flowers realize that Alice is not a flower, and immediately declare that she is a "common weed" and kick her out of the garden, declaring, "We don't want weeds in our bed!" |
| 250 | * WhamLine: The Doorknob gives one to Alice just before the ending. |
| 251 | --> '''The Doorknob:''' Oh, but you ''ARE'' outside! |
| 252 | --> '''Alice:''' What? |
| 253 | * WorldOfHam: Wonderland is quite loud and dramatic, but the Queen of Hearts and the March Hare stand out as the hammiest. |
| 254 | * YankTheDogsChain: When Alice meets the momeraths, they help her find a path out of Wonderland. Unfortunately, as she runs down it and cheers that she will finally return home, a dog with broom bristles on its head and tail appears and sweeps the path away. It's hard not to share Alice's frustration afterward. |
| 255 | * YouHaveFailedMe: The Queen of Hearts has an Ace of Hearts beheaded for inadvertently ruining her shot during the croquet game. |
| 256 | ---- |
| 257 | -->''Alice in Wonderland\ |
| 258 | Where is the path to Wonderland?\ |
| 259 | Over the hill or here or there?\ |
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