!!The Books
* AccentDepundent:
** The Mock Turtle's line, "We called him 'Tortoise' because he taught us!". With a non-rhotic accent (like most accents of England), "tortoise" is pronounced "TAW-tus", sounding virtually the same as "taught us". This pun also works in r-dropping American accents, such as a Brooklyn accent (as demonstrated by at least one community radio theater adaptation).
** ''Through the Looking-Glass'' contains an orthographical example: while American readers could easily guess that Hatta is an {{Expy}} of the Hatter, they would be far more likely to pronounce the G in "Haigha" than a British reader, potentially missing the fact that he is a stand-in for the Hare entirely if they don't see the illustrations. Some may also interpret the letter combination "ai" as being pronounced "i", rather than "ay", so a speaker of a non-rhotic accent might think the word is a homonym of "higher" rather than "hare". Fortunately, the text specifies that the name is pronounced to rhyme with "mayor" ("mayor" as pronounced with a British accent, that is).
* AdaptationOverdosed: Let's see -- 16 films, a TV series, countless re-imaginings and sequels in book ''and'' film form... That's not even getting started on the anime, video games and VisualNovels!
* BabyNameTrendStarter: Millions of baby girls were named Alice after the success of the book.
* BeamMeUpScotty: Carroll never refers to the Hatter as the Mad Hatter. Nor does the White Rabbit ever say "I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date!" except in the Disney version. The Tweedles are never referred to as "Tweedledee and Tweedledum"; Tweedledum's name always comes first. A minor case appears in ''Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}''. The birdlike creatures in the first stanza are borogoves, but many misread it as borog'''r'''oves, which isn't helped by some printings getting this wrong, too.
* FountainOfExpies: For AliceAllusion characters.
* MissingEpisode: There was a "lost chapter" of ''Through the Looking Glass'' that Carroll omitted because Tenniel didn't seem to like it.[[note]] Mainly, it seems, because he thought he couldn't do the artwork justice.[[/note]] [[GrailInTheGarbage Discovered at Sotheby’s in 1974]], it was named "A Wasp in a Wig" and detail Alice meeting a GrumpyOldMan with a wasp-like face. [[http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/resources/chapters-script/a-wasp-in-a-wig/ You can read it here.]]
* OlderThanTheyThink: The Queen's "Off with his/her head!" catchphrase is actually a ShoutOut to Creator/ColleyCibber's then-famous but now forgotten abridgement of Shakespeare's ''Theatre/RichardIII''.
* SequelGap: ''Through the Looking Glass'' was released six years after ''Alice's Adventures In Wonderland''.
* ScienceImitatesArt: Minor planets are named for characters from the story include 6042 Cheshirecat, 6735 Madhatter, and 6736 Marchare. The Jabberwocky from ''Through the Looking-Glass'' also has 7470 Jabberwock.
* SleeperHit: Creator/LewisCarroll was an unknown at the time, and most people bought it [[JustHereForGodzilla for John Tenniel's illustrations]], who was already famous for his SugarWiki/AwesomeArt. The story itself became a huge hit with children, and has long since become a classic.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** ''The Wasp in a Wig''. Some editions actually publish this chapter in its proper place at the end of Chapter 8 in ''Through the Looking Glass''.
** Carroll had originally intended the illustration of the Jabberwock to be the frontispiece for ''Through the Looking Glass'', but he worried that it might be too frightening for children; he requested feedback from some parents he knew, and eventually decided to move it to the second chapter (where the poem appears) and use a picture of Alice with the Knight as a frontispiece.
** Tenniel's original illustrations for Alice as a Queen had her dress transformed into one with a hooped crinoline (resembling the White Queen's). Carroll disliked crinolines and had the pictures revised so she kept her original dress.
* WordOfGod: According to Lewis Carroll, Alice's canon surname is Pleasance (from Alice Pleasance Liddell).
* WriteWhoYouKnow
** Alice was based on the real-life Alice Liddell.
** The members of the boating party that first heard Carroll's tale show up in the Caucus Race; Alice's sisters Edith and Lorina, are inserted as the Eaglet and Lory, respectively. Rev Robinson Duckworth is the Duck and [[AuthorAvatar Carroll himself]] is the Dodo.
** Alice and her sisters appear again as Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie in the Dormouse's story. Elsie (L.C.) is Lorina (middle name Charlotte), Tillie is Edith (nickname Matilda), and Lacie is an anagram of Alice.
** Alice's two other, lesser known sisters (Rhoda and Violet) make appearances in the second book, as the rose and the violet in the talking flower garden. The mouse who gives the "dry lecture" and the Red Queen were seemingly based off of Alice's governess. The Queen of Hearts and the Duchess were seemingly caricatures of Queen Victoria and her mother respectively.

!!The Ballet
* BillingDisplacement: From the promotional materials and Opus Arte's DVD trailer, you'd think that the Mad Hatter was a much bigger role. If this were a musical, he'd qualify as MinorCharacterMajorSong.
* ProductionNickname: "The Mad Tapper" for TheMadHatter. It first cropped up in the documentary short about the ballet and has been making the rounds ever since.
* ThrowItIn: An unintentional FunnyBackgroundEvent on the DVD: the gavel head breaks and flies off (violently!) when the Queen of Hearts tries to end the Mad Hatter's and March Hare's testimony. Cue some quick improvisation from both the King and Queen, who initially aren't sure where the gavel head even ''is,'' along with mimed amusement from the Hatter once he notices what's happening.

!!Other Adaptations
* AllStarCast
** The 1999 adaptation features a ''lot'' of well-known faces, including [[Film/ThreeAmigos Martin Short]] as the Mad Hatter, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg as the Cheshire Cat, Creator/ChristopherLloyd as the White Knight, Creator/GeneWilder as the Mock Turtle, and a breakout role for [[Series/VeronicaMars Tina Majorino]].
*** Not to mention the fact that one of the Tweedles is played by Robbie "[[Literature/HarryPotter Rubeus Hagrid]]" Coltraine.
** The 1985 version also features a lot of names in the cast, like Sammy Davis Jr as the Caterpillar, Creator/TellySavalas as the Cheshire Cat, Carol Channing as the White Queen, [=Roddy McDowall=] as the March Hare, and Ringo Starr as the Mock Turtle.
** A 1933 version includes W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Creator/CaryGrant as the Mock Turtle and Gary Cooper as the White Knight, among other stars.
** The 1951 Disney version has a cast of well-known voice actors like Creator/SterlingHolloway as the Cheshire Cat, Creator/EdWynn as the Mad Hatter, Jerry Colonna as the March Hare, Creator/RichardHaydn as the Caterpillar, and Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts.
** The 1966 version for the BBC is full of well-known British actors and comedians, including Sir Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/PeterSellers, Creator/LeoMcKern, Alan Bennett, Creator/PeterCook, and Sir Creator/MichaelRedgrave.
** The 1972 version includes Creator/MichaelCrawford as the White Rabbit, Ralph Richardson as the Caterpillar, Creator/RoyKinnear as the Cheshire Cat, Michael Hordern as the Mock Turtle, Creator/SpikeMilligan as the Gryphon, Creator/PeterSellers as the March Hare, Creator/DudleyMoore as the Dormouse, and Flora Robson as the Queen of Hearts.
** The 1983 TV version features Eve Arden as the Queen of Hearts, Creator/DonaldOConnor as the Mock Turtle, James Coco as the King of Hearts, Creator/RichardBurton as the White Knight, Creator/MaureenStapleton as the White Queen, and Colleen Dewhurst as the Red Queen.
** The 1965 double-LP full cast audio version includes Tommy Cooper and Creator/BruceForsyth as the Mad Hatter and March Hare, Creator/BerylReid as the Duchess, Creator/FenellaFielding as the Dormouse, Peggy Mount as the Queen of Hearts, Creator/FrankieHowerd as the Mock Turtle and Creator/HarryHCorbett as the Gryphon. The narrator is Creator/DirkBogarde.
* DawsonCasting: Alice is pre-pubescent in the books but most TV and movie adaptations depict her as a teenager or twenty-something (e.g. 19-year-old Charlotte Henry in 1933 or 16-year-old Fiona Fullerton in 1972). The few exceptions are 12-year old Sarah Sutton (UK) in 1974, 9-year-old Natalie Gregory (USA) in 1985 and 7-year-old Krystina Kohoutova (Czechoslovakia) in 1988). May Clark, the first actress to portray Alice in film, was 14 at the time (1903). The reason Alice is often aged up on film is that the role is a demanding one, unsuited to a young child.
** Averted in Disney's 1951 adaptation which featured 11-year-old Kathryn Beaumont in the lead. Later played straight when 61-year-old Beaumont reprised the role of Alice in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''.
** Kate Beckinsale plays Alice in a 1998 version of Through the Looking-Glass. It's interesting to note that the film starts out with Beckinsale reading the story to her daughter, only becoming Alice when she falls asleep and dreams that she's in the story, and that when she becomes Alice, she still describes herself as "seven and a half exactly".
** Creator/JanetWaldo, a.k.a. [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Judy Jetson]], was 42 when she voiced Alice in the Hanna-Barbera version, and 68 (!) when she reprised the role in 1987's animated ''Alice Through the Looking Glass''. Of course, adults voicing children is very common in the voice acting industry and the character was drawn as a preteen, but it still might make her the oldest person to play Alice.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Want to see [[Creator/{{ITV}} Anglia Television's]] adaptation? You do? Sorry, it's never been repeated, or released onto video, or onto DVD.
* VideoGame/AmericanMcgeesAlice is for all intents and purposes, a FanSequel taking place shortly after the books.
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