Characters who appeared in the Disney animated film, Alice in Wonderland. For the original book characters, click here.
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Alice
Voiced by: Kathryn Beaumont (1951-2005), June Foray (1954 album Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party) Hynden Walch (2005-present), Kat Cressida (in tandem with Kathryn Beaumont)
Voiced in French by: Marie-Claire Marty (1951), Séverine Morisot (1974)
Voiced in Polish by: Barbara Rylska
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Teresita Escobar
Voiced in Swedish by: Maj-Britt Nilsson (1951), Sanna Nielsen (1998)
Voiced in Japan by: Mika Doi
A curious and imaginative young girl and the protagonist of the movie.- Adaptational Intelligence: In the original book, she tries several times to recite poems but always gets every line wrong. In the movie, she starts to recite "How Doth the Little Busy Bee" correctly, but the Caterpillar interrupts her to do the wrong version from the book instead. In all fairness, her getting the poems wrong in the book is implied to be caused by the strangeness of Wonderland muddling her mind, not something she normally does.
- Adaptational Nice Girl: When it comes to Bill the lizard. In the original book, she intentionally kicks him out of the chimney. In the film, she accidentally sneezes him out and feels sorry for him.Dodo: Well, there goes Bill.
Alice: [looking up at the sky] Poor Bill. - Age Lift: The original book series has Alice state her age as seven years old. However, the animated film adaptations tend to lift her age to 10-12, as evidenced by the physical maturity level contrasts between her book and animated counterparts, as well as her original voice actress being a then-12-year-old girl.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Due to her sizeshifting, she does this twice to the denizens of Wonderland.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Okay, Alice. You wanted a world where everything is nonsense. What do you think of it?
- Break the Cutie: She tearfully sings "Very Good Advice" when she feels lost and thinks she will never get back home. By the end of the song, she's crying even harder.
- Butt-Monkey: Trolled by nearly everything and everyone Wonderland can throw at her.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Downplayed, especially compared to the book. In Wonderland, she's of course the Only Sane Woman — and (perhaps due to her Age Lift) she's less obviously loopy than her book counterpart, as most of her off-the-wall comments and bizarre ideas have been cut. But even this incarnation of Alice will occasionally display a certain eccentric line of thought, focus on the wrong thing in the wrong situation, or get downright nonsensical. In the real world she's probably considered a bit odd... not to mention, considering all events of the movie took place in one of her dreams... that's one disturbed kid.
- Constantly Curious: In the beginning, as she chases a white rabbit when she finds out he can walk and talk like a human.
- Damsel out of Distress: When she cries a river after being scared she would be trapped in Wonderland, she saves herself by luckily falling into a bottle. Then she avoids being set on fire by shrinking. She then escapes the Queen of Hearts by running away and waking up.
- Dub Name Change:
- In Spanish, her name is Alicia.
- In Finnish, she is known as Liisa.
- She is called Liza in Albanian.
- Dull Surprise: Several of her reactions throughout the film are hilariously underwhelmed; for example, when she falls down the rabbit hole and calmly calls goodbye to her cat. Justified, since she's dreaming.
- Go Among Mad People: Discussed in the opposite when Alice says that she doesn't "want to go among mad people!"
- Gratuitous Princess: Isn't actually a princess, but she's a Princess of Heart in the Kingdom Hearts series.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Foolish to her sister's Responsible. She doesn't pay attention to her sister's lessons and wants to live in her own world.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a kind girl with light blonde hair.
- Hartman Hips: The film emphasizes her having this body type when she enters the rabbit hole at the beginning. The top half of her body easily fits in, but she gets stuck and struggles to get through once she reaches her hips due to her butt being too big. Considering how mature Alice's personality is, giving her such a body type may have been a visual way to emphasize that.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: During the song "Very Good Advice" she feels worthless, claiming she never learns and is only able to bring trouble on herself.
- I Am Very British: Alice is an English girl (though it's not known where in England she lives), and thus speaks with a very posh accent.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: Again as a result of Wonderland's size shifting. She spends a large early part of the film insect sized and talking to the life below.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Kathryn Beaumont and Alice look(ed) alike.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: They represent her youthful innocence, curiosity, and imagination.
- Inopportune Voice Cracking: When Alice attempts to hit a high note when she's singing "All In a Golden Afternoon", her voice cracks, and she can't go on. Apparently, it was an improvised moment for that scene.
- Kid Heroine: Alice is about 10 years old for her adventure through Wonderland as the story's protagonist.
- Kiddie Kid: In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice is 7 years old, so her personality makes sense. Most adaptations, including Disney's Alice in Wonderland, age lift her to 10-12, so in these versions her personality comes off as slightly immature for her age. It makes more sense for a 7-year-old to be utterly bored by books without "pictures or conversations," or to cry a big pool of tears when she finds herself grown into a giant.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: She adores her cat Dinah. Her initial reaction to meeting the Cheshire Cat enforces this trope.
- Little Miss Snarker: Again, it's downplayed compared to the book, but she will often have a few choice comments in in reaction to the insanity around her.Queen of Hearts: That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet. WRITE THAT DOWN!!
Jury: Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle...
Alice: Twinkle, twinkle. What next? - Loon with a Heart of Gold: The dream she had implies that she's a little off in her own world, but she's a real gentle girl.
- Marilyn Maneuver: As she descends slowly through the Rabbit Hole, she floats towards a narrower, chimney-like section. She pushes on her skirt to fit through, causing her dress to fly up around her as she falls through the bottleneck, before her dress balloons out as a parachute again.
- Modesty Shorts: She wears knee-length pantalettes under her dress, and that's a good thing with all the size changing she does along with a few times she unintentionally exposes them for the viewers.
- Ms. Imagination: "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense..."
- Negated Moment of Awesome: Her speech to the Queen of Hearts is negated because she's shrinking down while giving it.
- Nice Girl: Bit of an oddball, but Alice is still a sweet gal.
- Only Sane Woman: At least compared to the denizens of Wonderland that aren't the White Rabbit, she is more rational.
- Parachute Petticoat: As she falls down the rabbit hole, her blue dress balloons up like a parachute and catches some air, slowing her descent and allowing her to observe her surroundings and ruminate about her situation.
- Pinball Protagonist: Wonderland kind of keeps throwing insane situations at her, and she must manage to live through all of it.
- Plucky Girl: She's not afraid to speak her mind!
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She gives a short and to the point one to the Queen of Hearts after she is accused and upsizes herself into a giantess.Alice: Your Majesty, indeed. Why you’re not a queen! You’re just a…fat…pompous…bad tempered old tyrant!
- Sizeshifter: Constantly, because of all kinds of magic substances she keeps encountering.
- Signature Headgear: Her black hairband, which has become so strongly associated with her that she's responsible for hairbands being referred to as "Alice bands".
- Skewed Priorities: Obsessed with catching up with the white rabbit, even as her life becomes more threatened or she undergoes bizarre situations such as being shrunk. She has a reality check later however, and just wants to get home.
- Sophisticated as Hell: More in terms of maturity than in being crude. In the beginning of the film, Alice is extremely childish and immature but speaks in a proper and sophisticated way that makes her sound more sensible than she actually is. It slowly becomes more genuine as she becomes the Only Sane Woman to Wonderland's crazier and crazier residents.
- Took a Level in Badass: Just look at her telling the Queen of Hearts off.
- True Blue Femininity: The only outfit she's seen wearing is her blue dress, which is reflected in her proto-feminine behavior in Wonderland.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Often reacts to the bizarre events of Wonderland with mild perplexity.
- Younger Than They Look: She looks more like a proper Disney Princess than a 10-year-old girl. Maybe that's why she's one of the Princesses of Heart?
Residents of Wonderland
White Rabbit
"Oh my goodness! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!"
Voiced by: Bill Thompson, Corey Burton (1983-current)
Voiced in French by: Paul Villé (1951), Guy Pierauld (1974)
Voiced in Polish by: Kazimierz Brusikiewicz
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Luis Manuel Pelayo
Voiced in Swedish by: Wiktor Andersson (1951), Hans Lindgren (1998)
Voiced in Japan by: Shigeru Ushiyama
The neurotic rabbit that Alice is following throughout the movie and the reason she gets stuck in Wonderland in the first place.- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: He's elegantly dressed, wears glasses and even carries an umbrella, but he doesn't wear any shoes.
- Break the Cutie: Thanks to the Mad Hatter and March Hare, his watch—an unbirthday present—was destroyed at the tea party scene.
- Butt-Monkey: Alice (accidentally) demolishes his house, the Dodo ruins all his furniture, and that's before the Mad Hatter gets hold of his watch.
- Character Catchphrase: "I'm late!"
- Follow the White Rabbit: Alice does this to him for the first half of the movie.
- Iconic Item: His watch.
- It Was a Gift: His watch was an unbirthday present.
- Minion with an F in Evil: He's not a particularly antagonistic character but later in the movie he's seen working for the Queen.
- Nervous Wreck: Anxiety is his main personality trait. Of course, his worries about being late could be seen as Foreshadowing that he serves the Queen and he's panicky about what she might do to him. In the Polish dub it's actually made far more clear; His very first words are "Skrzyczy mnie królowa! Późno już!" which translates to "The Queen will yell at me! It's late already!".
- Only Sane Man: Almost as much as Alice. And like Alice, it doesn't do him any good. Not that he doesn't have his oddball moments. For instance:
- Skewed Priorities: The biggest concern he has about butter being spread all over the inside of his pocketwatch is the possibility of crumbs getting into it.
- Waistcoat of Style: Complete with big gold pocketwatch on a chain.
- White Bunny: The Ur-Example and trope namer for Follow the White Rabbit.
The Doorknob
Voiced by: Joseph Kearns (original), Corey Burton (Current), Craig Ferguson (Alice's Wonderland Bakery)
Voiced in French by: Jacques Bauchey (1951), Georges Atlas (1974)
Voiced in Polish by: Roman Kłosowski
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Guillermo Portillo Acosta
Voiced in Swedish by: Folke Rydberg (1951), Anders Öjebo (1998)
A sentient doorknob.- Animate Inanimate Object: A sentient, talking doorknob. Downplayed in that he can't move around, since he's still just a part of an inanimate door.
- Canon Foreigner: The only character not to be taken from the original stories.
- Chekhov's Gunman: He appeared in the beginning of the movie, serving as the way into Wonderland. The Doorknob appears again in the film's climax where he serves as the exit from Wonderland. He also reveals to Alice that she's already out of Wonderland by showing her sleeping form behind him.
- Cool Gate: Has an interdimensional portal inside him in Kingdom Hearts.
- Heavy Sleeper: Especially in the Kingdom Hearts series, where he only cares about sleeping.
- Innocently Insensitive: As helpful as he is, him cracking jokes when Alice becomes too big to go anywhere can come off as this.
- Nice Guy: Probably the only one who's even remotely helpful to Alice in the whole movie.
Mr. Dodo
"To skipping, hopping, tripping, clopping
Fancy free and gay,
I started it tomorrow,
but I'll finish yesterday."
Fancy free and gay,
I started it tomorrow,
but I'll finish yesterday."
Voiced by: Bill Thompson
Voiced in French by: Jean Brochard (1951), Jean-Henri Chambois (1974)
Voiced in Polish by: Witold Kałuski
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Salvador Carrasco
Voiced in Swedish by: Sigge Fürst (1951), Ulf Källvik (1998)
A minor character from the movie, though he has a bigger role than his book counterpart and is merged with another character, Pat the Gardener.
- Ascended Extra: To some degree.
- Big Fun: A cheerful, plump dodo bird.
- Cloudcuckoolander: The first of the many crazy characters that appear in the film.
- Composite Character: With Pat from the book.
- Doofy Dodo: Though he's not so much stupid as he is subject to the bizarre leaps of logic of all Wonderland residents.
- Feather Fingers: To the point that it actually hurts him when one of them gets burned.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He doesn't wear shoes or pants.
- Keet: And a suitably avian one too!
- Large Ham: Seeing a pattern developing here?
- Species Surname: A dodo bird called Mr. Dodo.
- Talk Like a Pirate: Downplayed, he likes to use nautical terms in his first appearance.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Played for Laughs when he tries to burn the White Rabbit's house down to get rid of "the monster" (actually a ridiculously huge Alice).
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
Voiced by: J. Pat O'Malley (Original movie), Corey Burton (Current)
Voiced in French by: Jacques Balutin (Dee), Albert Augier (Dum) (1974)
Voiced in Polish by: Kazimierz Brusikiewicz
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Edmundo Santos (Dee), Carlos Max García (Dum)
Voiced in Swedish by: Bertil Perrolf (Dee), Bo-Teddy Ladberg (Dum) (1951), Anders Öjebo (1998)
Two identical fat brothers and minor characters of the movie.- Acrofatic: Both of them jump and make acrobatics as if they were human balloons or air horns (even making honk sounds while they're at it).
- Boisterous Bruiser: Both are fat, loud, and always scrapping for a fight.
- Creepy Twins: Even though they are playful, there's something really off-putting about them.
- Large Ham: Everyone here qualifies.
- Single-Minded Twins: The two have pretty much the same personality.
- The Storyteller: They tell Alice the story of the carpenter and the walrus.
- Those Two Guys: Those two twins, actually.
- Trickster Twins: They act mischievous and annoying towards Alice on purpose.
- Twin Banter: Often speaking at the same time.
- Vague Age: They dress and act like children, but their voices are adult men's and their heads are bald under their caps.
- Vocal Dissonance: There are moments where they appear to be speaking together, but only one voice is heard.
The Walrus
The leader of the duo in "The Walrus and The Carpenter" story.
- Adaptational Villainy: While neither he nor the Carpenter were particularly good people in the original poem, he was much more remorseful in the poem. Here, however, he's depicted as an arrogant, manipulative, greedy, evil aristocrat. Also, in the poem, the Walrus ate more oysters than the Carpenter, but here, he doesn't leave any oysters for the Carpenter to eat.
- Ate It All: 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.
- Character Catchphrase: "The time has come!"
- Dastardly Whiplash: A rare non-human example; a Con Man who wears a well-worn suit and top-hat and gives his bushy mustache a sinister twirl when he's about to snack on sentient oysters.
- Dirty Coward: Despite being larger than the Carpenter, and manhandling him effortlessly earlier on, the Walrus still runs away from him when the Carpenter finds out his partner cheated him out of his food.
- Fat and Skinny: The Fat to The Carpenter's Skinny.
- Fat Bastard: A very fat and very greedy con artist.
- Impact Silhouette: Leaves one in the front door of the shack-like restaurant in his haste to flee the angry Carpenter.
- Lazy Bum: He's shocked and appalled when the Carpenter suggests they get to work (though, in the Walrus's defense, the Carpenter did propose they spend half a year sweeping up the beach for no discernible reason), and when the two hatch a plan to eat the oysters, the Walrus stands back and lets the Carpenter do all the labor building them shelter while he takes all the food for himself.The Carpenter: We'll sweep this clear in half a year, if you don't mind the work.
The Walrus: WORK?! [gags and sputters] - No Name Given: Only known as "The Walrus".
- "Oh, Crap!" Smile: When faced with the enraged Carpenter.
- Sluggish Seal: The Walrus panics when the Carpenter suggests sweeping the beach clean, because he doesn't want to do the work. He also manipulates the Carpenter into building a restaurant and preparing a sauce, under the impression that he and the Walrus are going to eat oysters together. However, while the Carpenter is busy, the Walrus eats all the oysters himself.
- Villain of Another Story: He never meets Alice because he's just part of a story told by Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
- Villainous Glutton: He devours cute little sentient oysters.
- Wily Walrus: He takes all the oysters for himself instead of sharing with the Carpenter, like he did in the poem. Also, this movie portrays the oysters as youngsters, making the Walrus seem even more monstrous!
The Carpenter
The Walrus's sidekick.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He may be short and doopy-looking, but the angry expression on his face when he finds out the Walrus didn't leave him any oysters is so unnerving that the Walrus runs for it.
- Dumb, but Diligent: He comes off as less intelligent than the Walrus, since he almost botches their plan to lure the oysters to their doom and doesn't suspect the Walrus' betrayal until it's too late, but unlike his Lazy Bum of an associate, he's a very hard worker who's skilled enough at his trade to build a small restaurant singlehandedly in seconds. His strong work ethic even clouds his common sense, as he at one point proposes that he and the Walrus spend the next half a year trying to sweep all the sand off a beach — a futile and pointless undertaking that the Walrus understandably wants no part of.
- Evil Redhead: He's a redhead and in cahoots with the Walrus to eat oyster children.
- Fat and Skinny: The Skinny to the Walrus's Fat Bastard.
- Fiery Redhead: He is a redhead and he angrily chases the Walrus out of his shabbily, hastily built restaurant for eating all the oysters.
- No Name Given: Only known as "The Carpenter".
The Oysters
A family of young oysters and their mother.
- Eaten Alive: The way they get eaten by the Walrus.
- Only Sane Woman: Mother Oyster. She avoids death because of it.
- Outliving One's Offspring: One wonders how Mother Oyster will react when she learns her children have been eaten. Though considering that they appear at the end, she might have nothing to worry about.
- Too Dumb to Live: No prizes for guessing what the oysters not taking their mother's advice to heart about staying in the sea led to.
- Unexplained Recovery: The young oysters appear at the end running around the rock Mr. Dodo is standing on with the other characters. However, as every character in Wonderland are all ultimately revealed as figments of Alice's dream anyway, it's probably justified note .
The Flowers
Voiced by: Doris Lloyd (Rose), Norma Zimmer (White Rose)
A group of sentient (and singing) flowers.- Adaptational Jerkass: Double Subverted. In the source material, the flowers are just petty to Alice. Here, they invite Alice to hear them sing, accuse her of being a weed and chase her away from their bed.
- Alpha Bitch: They look down on Alice because she isn't a flower like them, calling her "nothing but a common mobile vulgaris" and a "weed".
- Beauty Is Bad: Beautiful flowers on the outside, but not that nice at all.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: They initially appear to be rather friendly, singing a lighthearted and happy song about themselves, but when Alice tells them she's not a flower, they change attitude and start being openly mean to her.
- Enfant Terrible: When Alice gets shoved into the pansies, they all yell "We don’t want weeds in our bed!" and shove Alice back on her feet.
- Evil All Along: They're mainly xenophobic towards anyone who isn't a flower, and might've become violent to Alice had she not ran away.
- Fantastic Racism: 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.
- Foul Flower: They quickly reveal themselves to be a bigoted and judgmental lot when they suspect Alice of being a weed.
- Jerkass: They're really quite rude to Alice, especially Iris.
- Token Good Teammate: The little rose bud definitely qualifies.Daisy: Hahaha! Just look at those stems!
Iris: Rather scrawny, I’d say.
Rose bud: I think she’s pretty!
Rose: Quiet, bud! - When Trees Attack: Flowers in this case, going rogue against Alice whom they consider her a weed. Justified, considering they're nearly the size of trees to Alice.
Mr. Caterpillar
Voiced by: Richard Haydn (Alice in Wonderland) Corey Burton (Current)
Voiced in French by: Philippe Dumat (1974)
Voiced in Polish by: Roman Wilhelmi
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Guillermo Portillo Acosta
Voiced in Swedish by: Kjell Stensson (1951), Ulf Källvik (1998)
A blue insect who smokes a hookah.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Like the Cheshire Cat, he's more of a Jerkass in the Disney movie than in the book.
- Berserk Button: He got really angry over Alice saying that three inches in height is nothing. Taking offence as he is just as tall, yelling that his height is ideal, and literally puffing out.
- Blowing Smoke Rings: Or in this case, letters. And a few other illustrations.
- Character Catchphrase: "Who are you?"
- Hypocritical Humor: He complains about Alice's impatience and temper with him. Just a moment later, he gets angry at Alice for mocking his height and then loses patience when Alice keeps asking what he means (in this case, the mushrooms that allow one to grow).
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Like in the book, though the jerk part is slightly more pronounced—he's haughty, impatient and short tempered, but he does give Alice helpful advice.
- Large Ham: He isn't as loud as most of the other characters but he still hams up his questions with emphasis on the letters.
- Master of Illusion: Can create images with the smoke from his hookah.
- The Napoleon: He's only three inches high, and he snaps at Alice when she accidentally insults his height.
- Pride: He takes pride in his three inch height.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "WHO. ARE. YOU?"
- Second-Face Smoke: Tends to exhale his smoke into Alice's face too frequenly.
- Smoking Is Cool: Smokes a hookah, just like the book.
- Species Surname: A caterpillar called Mr. Caterpillar.
- Suddenly Shouting:Alice: The other side of what?
The Caterpillar, now a Butterfly: THE MUSHROOM, OF COURSE!
Cheshire Cat
Voiced by: Sterling Holloway (Alice in Wonderland), Tony Pope (Disneyland Attraction), Hal Smith (Wonderful World of Disney), Jim Cummings (Current), Max Mittelman (Alice's Wonderland Bakery)
Voiced in French by: Yves Furet (1951), Roger Carel (1974)
Voiced in Polish by: Zbigniew Kancler
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Irving Lee
Voiced in Swedish by: Sven Arefeldt (1951), Roger Storm (1998)
Voiced in Japan by: Tokio Seki
A mysterious pink and purple striped cat with a devious, mischievous personality.- Adaptational Jerkass: The book version, despite his oddness, was helpful. While not malicious outright, the film's version serves more as a Troll victimizing Alice and exacerbating her situation. His portrayal in the Kingdom Hearts series is mainly neutral—in fact, in the manga of the first game, Maleficent offers him a place in her council of villains, and he declines. He does help Sora with proving Alice's innocence, but later on sends a Trickster to attack him (Though he may have been giving a quick warning before it arrived). He's at his worst in the manga adaptation for Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, where he throws a hedgehog at the Queen of Hearts and frames Roxas for it.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Seems like some people at Disney thought he was too much of a Jerkass and in one 1975 novelization of the movie he's back to being the friendliest and most helpful Wonderlander. While he still get Alice into trouble at the croquet game, it's unintentional on his part; he lets everyone see that he's the one who's pranking the Queen, leading to a variation of the classic "can you even behead someone who doesn't have a body" argument from the book. It's only when the Cheshire Cat proves impossible to kill that the Queen decides to target Alice instead. At the trial, the Cat redeems himself with a pseudo-Big Damn Heroes; instead of showing up to make things worse for Alice at the trial, he (or rather his smile) shows up to distract the Queen with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, allowing Alice to escape in the confusion.Cat: No point in talking to me, Queenie. I'm just a grin; I don't have any ears, so I can't hear a word you're saying.
Queen: Why are you even talking to me if you can't even hear what I'm saying?!
Cat: Isn't that what you do all the time? Talk, talk, talk, never listen.
Queen: I'm Her Majesty the Queen! I will not be spoken to like that, not by a little girl and certainly not by a grin! Guards! Off with this grin's head!
King: Errrr... Dear? I already told you...
Queen: What did you already tell me?!
King: You can't kill a grin! And the executioner says he's too old to learn how!
Cat: Too bad, Queenie. You're just going to have to listen to me.
Queen: And who are you even addressing, monster?! I will not be referred to as "you"! You are to call me Your Majesty!
Cat: And even with all that, the one I'm addressing is you... the only monster here.- In later appearances in other stories and spin-offs, he's been softened up a bit and is more of a Blue-and-Orange Morality type.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: This adaptation is probably the one that started this for other adaptations. In the colored version of the original book, he looked like a bigger version of an ordinary brown cat.
- Cats Are Magic: He can disappear and reappear at will.
- Cats Are Mean: He gives Alice horrible advice on who to ask for help, gets her in trouble with the queen constantly, and causes a big chase scene at the end with everyone in Wonderland after Alice.
- Cats Are Snarkers: He comes across as snarky in a smug way when he's trolling Alice.
- Character Catchphrase: He sings the first part of Jabberwocky almost every time he appears, but he's particularly fond of starting and finishing conversations with "And the mome raths outgrabe..."
- Cheshire Cat Grin: The Trope Namer. The Cheshire smiles an unsettling and unnerving wide toothy smile all the time.
- Cloudcuckoolander: "Almost everyone is mad here. Ha... ha ha ha ha ha! You may have noticed that I’m not all there myself.... "
- Cute and Psycho: While he does seem to be a very endearing, likable and funny character, the Cheshire Cat and his general craziness can be pretty creepy, especially with his sadistic need to screw with Alice by getting her in trouble with the queen.
- False Friend: He acts friendly to Alice but is not very helpful, and in the final act he outright causes the problems to put Alice in the verge of losing her head.
- Fat Bastard: He seems to delight in getting Alice into trouble with the Queen. Whether Alice is actually the intended target of his mischief or he simply enjoys angering the Queen is not made clear.
- Idiotic Partner Confession:Alice: Now as for you, Your Majesty... *starts shrinking* "Your Majesty," indeed! Why, you're not a queen! You're just a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old — *finally realizes she has shrunk down to normal size and is smaller than the Queen* — tyrant.
Queen of Hearts: *smiling dangerously* And what were you saying, my dear?
Cheshire Cat: *suddenly appears* Well, she simply said you're a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant! *chuckles and disappears again* - It Amused Me: His whole motive for angering the Queen? "It's loads of fun."
- Jerkass: In the movie, at least. While in his first two appearances he appears to be quite friendly and not overly malicious, in the later parts of the film he seems to go out of his way to get Alice into trouble, for no good reason.
- Kick the Dog: After letting Alice take the blame for his pranks against the Queen, he vanishes, only to return at the end of Alice's trial, after Alice's failed attempt to stand up for herself, to make sure things go as bad as possible for her.
- A Kind of One: Introduces himself as a Cheshire Cat
- Mysterious Purple: The Cheshire Cat is a mischievous and mysterious magical cat. He appears quite literally out of thin air to either Troll or occassionally help Alice. Whether or not he has good intentions towards Alice is unclear: he intentionally lets Alice take the blame for his pranks, which puts her at risk of being beheaded, only to show up later to confess and provide a way for Alice to escape. Naturally, he is pink and purple striped all over, combining this trope with Psycho Pink.
- Perpetual Smiler: Right on par with his book counterpart, he is never seen without a smile.
- Reality Warper: Moreso here than in the original book.
- Troll: Best summed up in the following exchange with Alice:Cheshire Cat: Oh, and by the way. If you'd really like to know, he went that way.
Alice: Who did?
Cheshire Cat: The White Rabbit.
Alice: He did?
Cheshire Cat: He did what?
Alice: Went that way.
Cheshire Cat: Who did?
Alice: [getting frustrated] The white Rabbit!
Cheshire Cat: What rabbit?
Alice: But didn't you just say...oh dear! - Visual Pun: Is fond of making these.Cheshire Cat (while his head is off his body and he's standing atop it like a circus ball): Can you stand on your head?
Mad Hatter
Voiced by: Ed Wynn (Alice in Wonderland), Corey Burton (Current), Alan Tudyk (Once Upon a Studio)
Voiced in French by: Marcel Charpentier (1951), Jacques Ciron (second dub)
Voiced in Polish by: Jerzy Magórski
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Dagoberto de Cervantes
Voiced in Swedish by: Tord Stål (1951), Thomas Oredsson (1998)
Voiced in Japan by: Kazuo Kumakura (TV Dub), Hiroyuki Nishimoto (second dub)
An insane resident of Wonderland who is best friends with the March Hare.- Adaptational Badass: Unlike in the book, his weirdness extends to being an outright Reality Warper.
- Cloudcuckoolander: This IS the Mad Hatter we are on about here.
- Comically Cross-Eyed: His eyes are seldom straight.
- Everyone Has Standards: Played for Laughs When "fixing" the White Rabbit's watch, he objects to using mustard, claiming it to be too silly for him.
- Fun Personified: He likes to have fun and tea parties with his best friend.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With the March Hare.
- Ink-Suit Actor: He looks so much like Ed Wynn there.
- Large Ham: He and the March Hare really like Chewing the Scenery.
- The Mad Hatter: Of course.
- Maniac Tongue: Since he is crazy, this is no surprise.
- Mood-Swinger: Being the nut job he is, nearly everything Alice says brings a completely opposing reaction.
- Real After All: In the Lux Radio Theatre production, he and the March Hare are heard commenting about Alice's recollection of her adventures to her sister, all the while still drinking tea.
- Reality Warper: Not to the same extent as the Cheshire Cat, but he still qualifies.
- Speech Impediment: He's got quite the lisp on him but then again Ed Wynn was known for doing this. Ed Wynn had a lisp when he spoke naturally, but it was generally a minor one. He exaggerated it to comic proportions for this and other roles.
- Those Two Guys: With the March Hare.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Or rather, favorite drink: tea!
March Hare
Voiced by: Jerry Colonna (Alice in Wonderland), Maurice LaMarche (Current)
Voiced in French by: Claude Rollet (1974)
Voiced in Polish by: Wiesław Gołas
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Roberto Espriú
Voiced in Swedish by: Karl-Anne Holmsten (1951), Hasse Andersson (1998)
The Mad Hatter's equally kooky best friend.- Aside Glance: Gives one when mentioning Alice doesn't know what an unbirthday is.
- Cloudcuckoolander: When it comes to Insane Troll Logic, he's just as bad as the Mad Hatter.
- Comically Cross-Eyed: His eyes are seldom straight.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Due to being a humanized Funny Animal.
- Fun Personified: He likes to have fun and tea parties with his best friend.
- Hair-Raising Hare: Downplayed, but he's a bit more aggressive than the Hatter.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With the Hatter.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Less noticeable than with the Hatter, but he has Jerry Colonna's wide, staring eyes and expressive eyebrows.
- Keet: He's portrayed as being more manic than the Hatter.
- Large Ham: He and the Mad Hatter really like Chewing the Scenery.
- Maniac Tongue: Since he is insane, no surprise.
- Mood-Swinger: Shared with the Mad Hatter.
- Motor Mouth: He speaks very quickly, though it's hard to understand him.
- Percussive Maintenance: Seems to be the way he solves most of his problems.
- Real After All: In the Lux Radio Theatre production, he and the Mad Hatter are heard commenting about Alice's recollection of her adventures to her sister, all the while still drinking tea.
- Reality Warper: Has the same skill as the Mad Hatter, being able to summon a cup and sugars from tipping a teapot.
- Those Two Guys: With the Mad Hatter.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He enjoys tea just as much as the Mad Hatter.
Dormouse
Voiced by: Jimmy MacDonald
Voiced in French by: Lisette Lemercier (1974)
Voiced in Polish by: Zofia Raciborska
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Edmundo Santos
Voiced in Swedish by: Ulla Waller (1951), Anders Öjebo (1998)
A friend of the Mad Hatter and the March Hare who lives in a teapot.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He only talks to say random things or freak out about cats.
- Composite Character: He gets his fear of cats from the Mouse who appeared at the beginning of the book.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Wears a purple vest.
- Heavy Sleeper: Like in the book, he is sleepy and lazy.
- Trauma Button: Cats, to the point where even hearing the word "cat" causes him to panic.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He panics at the mention of the word "cat".
The Cards
Giant, sentient playing cards under the Queen of Hearts' rule.
- Killed Offscreen: Three of them are dragged away to be beheaded.
- Nice Guy: The three cards whom we see painting the roses red, are quite kind to Alice when she helps, and when under the anger of the Queen of Hearts, they all blame each other, but avoid pinning the blame on Alice.
Queen of Hearts
"All ways are my ways!"
Voiced by: Verna Felton (Alice in Wonderland), Tress MacNeille (1983-2005), April Winchell (2005-current)
Voiced in French by: Germaine Karjean (1951), Paule Emanuele (1974)
Voiced in Polish by: Hanna Skarżanka
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Gloria Iturbe
Voiced in Swedish by: Anna-Lisa Baude (1951), Iwa Boman (1998)
Voiced in Japan by: Sumie Ozawa
The main antagonist, she is the despotic ruler of Wonderland.- Adaptational Badass: In the book, her calls for beheadings had no actual consequences, as the King secretly pardoned all her intended victims. Here, she really does have the power to get people killed on a whim.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Her appearance in the comic "Walt Disney's Unbirthday Party" depicts her as much more pleasant and friendly (albeit still somewhat hot-tempered) than her appearance in the movie.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the original book, she still has her famous temper and is just as prone to sentencing beheadings, but she's not openly antagonistic to Alice and in fact treats her with kindness from time to time; furthermore, the King is quick to pardon anyone she tries to kill, and her people largely shrug off her threats as empty shouting. The film, by contrast, makes her the closest thing the plot has to a villain, given that she seems to actively want Alice dead; her subjects are also shown to be genuinely terrified of her and go out of their way to help her cheat in the croquet game because she has to win. Other adaptations of the Disney story will have her on the "villain" side, too.
- Adipose Rex: The fat Queen of Hearts is a female example.
- All Crimes Are Equal: Her answer to any perceived offense is to order the perpetrator's beheading.
- Ax-Crazy: She is too eager to chop of heads for any infraction. From lying to her, to failing to cheat on her behalf.
- The Caligula: An Ax-Crazy ruler whose answer to everything is a beheading.
- Character Catchphrase:
- "OFF WITH HIS/HER/THEIR HEAD(S)!"
- She has a tendency to remind people that "ALL WAYS ARE MY WAYS!"
- Composite Character: Of the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen from Lewis Carrol's books. She also has some qualities that are similar to the Duchess.
- Dirty Coward: When Alice turns into a giant during the trial, she is the most scared.
- The Dreaded: Everyone is terrified of her and her reactions, except maybe the March Hare (who has no problem screaming in her face) and the Cheshire Cat.
- Evil Is Hammy: If her catchphrase wasn't evidence enough.
- Fat Bitch: As Alice puts it, a "fat, pompous, bad tempered old tyrant".
- Faux Affably Evil: She pretends to herself and by extension to Alice to be nice when telling her she should act like a proper lady shortly before threatening to cut off her head.
- Gale-Force Sound: Her voice is powerful enough to blow the jury members out of their box at one point.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: She has a huge temper and has anyone who upsets her executed. It's no surprise that she provides the trope image.
- Gonk: Just as unattractive as she is unpleasant.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: One of the most famous examples. Tries to remain calm at the beginning, but any minor thing not going her way is enough to driver her to yelling.
- High Collar of Doom: Her dress has a large, white collar, and she's not a nice person. The collar even creates a contrast when she's angry, emphasizing how red her face is.
- It's All About Me: In Wonderland, ALL ways are HER ways.
- Jerkass: It's not just her temper, she actually enjoys being cruel to people.
- Karma Houdini: Nothing bad happens to her, though she's just a figment of Alice's dreams, anyway.
- Large and in Charge: She is obviously the one giving all the orders, and she is literally the largest person in the kingdom, from what we see.
- Mood-Swinger: She has huge mood swings, from content to enraged at a moment's notice.
- No Indoor Voice: She screams most of her sentences.
- Pet the Dog: Her one good trait is that she actually does appear to love her husband, and will actually do things like holding a trial instead of an execution and not just rushing through said trial if her husband really wants it and asks politely for it.
- Pimped-Out Dress: A red, black, and whitenote dress to go with the card motif.
- Plot-Irrelevant Villain: The movie is really just wacky nonsense. There really isn't much plot for her to be relevant or irrelevant to.
- Psychopathic Womanchild: She's basically a spoiled bratty child trapped in the body of a tyrannical adult queen.
- Red And Black And Evil Totalitarianism: Courtesy of the natural playing card colors.
- Slasher Smile: Lots of them. The animators put a lot of imagination into showing just how much the Queen seems to enjoy losing her temper.
- Suddenly Shouting: She can change from shouting as loud as possible to a sweet tone in a single sentence.Queen of Hearts: That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet!... WRITE THAT DOWN!!!
- Tempting Fate: "LET ME HAVE IT!!!" [gets hit in the face with some jam]
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: She's much taller than the King of Hearts.
- Villain Song: "Who's Been Painting My Roses Red?""For painting my roses REEEEEEED
Someone will lose their head! - Would Hurt a Child: She's perfectly willing to have a little girl beheaded. All because she made her lose her temper.
- Your Answer to Everything: Beheading, of course.
King of Hearts
Voiced by: Dink Trout, Tony Pope (Disneyland Attraction)
Voiced in French by: Teddy Bilis (European French dub)
Voiced in Swedish by: Tord Stål (1951), Andreas Nilsson (1998)
The Queen's short and submissive husband.
- Adaptational Villainy: He goes from pardoning executions in the book to openly supporting them.King: [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!
- Happily Married: With the Queen of Hearts, oddly enough.
- Henpecked Husband: He at least tries.King: Consider, my dear. Uh... we called no witnesses... Uh... couldn't we... uh... maybe one or two? Huh? Maybe?
Queen: Oh, very well. But get on with it! - Minion with an F in Evil: He is not nearly as bad as his wife, the Queen, he even tries as much as possible to keep her calm.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: He could probably share notes with the Trope Namer.White Rabbit: Her Imperial Highness, Her Grace, Her Excellency, Her Royal Majesty, the Queen of Hearts! ...and the King.
- And later again:White Rabbit: "Your majesty? Members of the Jury? Loyal subjects?... And the king."
- And later again:
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Tries to be one, anyway.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Tiny Guy to the Queen's Huge Girl.
Other Characters
Dinah
Alice's pet kitten from the real world.
- Age Lift: In the books she's called a cat, not a kitten, and by the time of Through the Looking-Glass she has kittens of her own. Here she's a kitten herself.
- Cute Kitten: A small, red, adorable-looking kitten. Look at the picture!
- Pink Means Feminine: Her pink bow.
- Reused Character Design: Early designs for Dinah were lifted directly from a Figaro model sheet. She was originally supposed to be a black cat.
- She's a Man in Japan: Dinah becomes a male cat named Oreste in the Italian dub, for complicated reasons of language adaptation.note Same in the Polish dub, where she is renamed "Jacek" (Polish for Jack) and Alice refers to her as "mały" (Polish for "little one" except that female version would be "mała").
Alice's Sister
Voiced by: Heather Angel
Voiced in Swedish by: Fylgia Zadig (1951), Marie Kühler-Flack (1998)
Alice's older sister.- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Responsible. She tries to instruct Alice (Foolish) who doesn't pay attention and wants to live in her own world.
- No Name Given: Alice never talks about her and we never learn her first name.
- Only Sane Woman: The sanest character in the entire movie. Justified, as she never goes to Wonderland (due to being just a dream).
- Practically Different Generations: She seems to be in her late teens or twenties, while her little sister Alice is a preteen, or at most an early adolescent. She could be mistaken for Alice's mother, or her governess, if the closing credits didn't reveal that she's her sister.
