Characters from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010) and its sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass.
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Alice Kingsleigh
Alice Kingsleigh
"Who's to say what is proper?"
Played By: Mia Wasikowska, Mairi Ella Challen (young)
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass
A rebellious girl from Victorian England. She visited Underland when she was a child, but convinced herself that it was all a dream. She is bored and restless in her oppressive life, until one day at a garden party, she sees a rabbit with a waistcoat and a watch, and follows it...
- Action Girl: She steadily becomes this throughout the course of the film, culminating in the final battle when she wields the Vorpal Sword and becomes the White Queen's champion.
- Arranged Marriage: In the first movie, she was pushed towards this by her mother and sister with Hamish, a snobby Lord whose father, Lord Ascot, was Alice's father's business partner. However, Alice rejects him after her adventure helps her understand who she truly is.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Despite all the mayhem she has to endure while in Underland, she mostly goes unblemished. However, the wounds inflicted by the Bandersnatch, even after the Bandersnatch itself heals them, remain when she returns to her world.
- Blue Is Heroic: She usually wears blue dresses and is on the side of good.
- Dude Magnet: Hamish tried to propose to her and Stayne briefly cornered her, but she rejected both of them.
- Friend to All Living Things: She likes animals, especially rabbits; she also saves a caterpillar from being squashed by Hamish, helps a hedgehog to escape from the Red Queen after she uses it as a ball in a croquet game, and befriends the huge Bandersnatch, even after it scratched her arm.
- Huge Girl, Tiny Guy / Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Manages to be both of these with the Hatter, and it is taken to both
extremes. He stays the same size while she can fit on his shoulder during the first couple of scenes at Underland and her hands take up his whole face by the time they're at the Red Queen's castle. Their regular height difference when she's turned back to her normal size is about half a head.Tarrant: Why is it you're always too small... Or too tall? - The Chosen One: Is foretold by the Oraculum to slay the Jabberwocky and save Underland.
- Ms. Fanservice: Spends the majority of the first film wearing dresses that leaves her arms and shoulders bare, even getting a Scenery Censor scene after she outgrows her second dress after turning giant.
- Named by the Adaptation: She gets a surname in this adaptation, while most versions don't.
- Spirited Young Lady : Intelligent, brave and imaginative.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Unlike prior iterations, her clothes do not change in size with her, forcing her to change clothes whenever she grows or shrinks.
Underland
In General
The general inhabitants of Underland.
- Human Aliens: The humanoid Underlandians can be regarded as this. There's a piece of external material stopping them from being Ambiguously Human - a page in Time's documents by Karen Teneyck as shown here◊note show an evolutionary spiral that suggests that they originated on Underland itself. Their main difference towards Earthly humans is that they evolved differently, evolving into humanoids directly after animals started walking on land. Not long after, Alien Animals evolved.
- Named by the Adaptation: Most of the Underlandians were unnamed in the source material.
- Soul Jar: The pocket watches in Time's lair are implied to be this for the Underlandians - when shut, the person whose name is engraved on the cover dies. It is not shown what happens when it is opened again, but the gamebook A Matter of Time shows what happens if one is repaired, presuming that Charles Kingsleigh is also an Underlandian or that Earthly humans have the same Soul Jar: the present rewinds back to a time to when they were alive.
The Resistance
Tarrant Hightopp
Tarrant Hightopp / The Mad Hatter
"You've lost your muchness."
Played By: Johnny Depp, Louis Ashbourne Serkis (young) Foreign VAs
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass
One of the key members of the White Queen's resistance, his hatred of the Red Queen comes from her using the Jabberwocky to slaughter his entire family. Out of all the citizens of Underland, he is the closest to Alice.
- Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: He rotates his head a full 360 degrees when dancing the Futterwacken.
- Actor Allusion: Tarrant, who is played by Johnny Depp, cuts a new dress offscreen, seemingly without scissors.
- Adaptational Heroism: The Hatter certainly wasn't a villain in Carroll's books, but he really wasn't a hero either, at least not the type with the Knight in Shining Armor attitude he is here.
- The Cassandra / The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right: Deals with this in both movies - with Alice being the right one and his family being alive.
- Huge Girl, Tiny Guy / Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Manages to be both of these with Alice, and it is taken to both extremes. He stays the same size while she can fit on his shoulder during the first couple of scenes at Underland and her hands take up his whole face by the time they're at the Red Queen's castle. Their regular height difference when she's turned back to her normal size is about half a head.Tarrant: Why is it you're always too small... Or too tall?
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Well, maybe closer to orange, but whenever his eyes shift from their regular bright green to this... watch out.
- Violent Glaswegian: Occasionally, whenever he is about to slip into a fit of rage, his accent switches to a heavy Scottish brogue.
Mirana of Marmoreal
Mirana of Marmoreal / The White Queen
"The vorpal sword is home again. The armor is complete. Now all we need... is a champion."
Played By: Anne Hathaway, Amelia Crouch (young)
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass
The former queen of Underland, beloved by her subjects, who was overthrown by Iracebeth, her jealous sister. Using her castle as a base, she leads the resistance to take back Underland, despite having made a vow to never harm a single living thing.
- Actual Pacifist: Sort of. She's okay with people fighting for her but refuses to fight herself because of having taken vows never to cause physical harm to anyone. (Cruel Mercy, on the other hand...)
- Adaptational Attractiveness: In the books, the White Queen did not change much in appearance when she turned into a sheep. Here, she's played by Anne Hathaway.
- Cain and Abel: She is the Abel to Iracebeth’s Cain. The Red Queen has been jealous of her little sister since they were little, and she usurped the throne from Mirana, though from Iracebeth's perspective, she's reclaiming the birthright that was taken from her. In the first movie, they are at war with one another and Iracebeth refuses to make peace with Mirana when she had the chance.
- Easily Forgiven: Toward the end of Alice Through the Looking Glass, she tearfully begs Iracebeth's forgiveness for lying about stealing some tarts as a child and blaming her, freely admitting that she was wrong to do so and accepting the blame for everything that happened as a result. A stunned Iracebeth admits that all she ever really wanted was her sister's apology, and the two make peace.
- The Fettered: She's sworn a vow to never harm a living thing under any circumstance, and nothing will convince her to break that vow.
- It's All My Fault: She has this realization toward the end of Through the Looking Glass, when she determines that every bad thing that's ever happened to Underland came about because she lied about stealing and eating tarts as a child and blamed Iracebeth for it.
- Light Is Good: She is a gentle ruler who has very fair skin and wears a white dress.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: As Through the Looking Glass reveals, the plots of both films stem from a single incident. To wit: as children, Mirana ate some of her parents' tarts and lied about it, blaming Iracebeth instead. Iracebeth raced out of the castle and, in her haste, inadvertently injured her head, causing it to swell up. Her attempted coronation went horribly wrong when her crown did not fit, prompting the Hatter to laugh and a humiliated Iracebeth to throw a tantrum that led to Mirana becoming queen instead. Had Mirana simply been honest about her theft, nothing would have gone wrong.
Chessur
Chessur / The Cheshire Cat
Voiced By: Stephen Fry
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass
A grinning cat with "evaporating skills". Despite his professions that he doesn't get involved in politics, he's willing to aid Alice and the resistance.
- Adaptational Heroism: In this movie, he's more willing to help others than to get them in trouble. For a sense of scale: he did everything in his power to make the Queen of Hearts angry and get Alice's head chopped off in the original animated movie, whereas in this one, the first thing he does is offer to heal her and later saves the Mad Hatter from getting his head chopped off. Note that this is a case of Truer to the Text, as the Cheshire Cat wasn't as much of the jerk in the original books.
- Perpetual Smiler: As usual, he always has a big toothy grin on his face.
Mallymkun
Mallymkun / The Dormouse
Voiced By: Barbara Windsor
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass
A close friend to Tarrant and Thackery, and one of the resistance's fiercest fighters. She doesn't think much of Alice at first but comes to see the light.
- Action Girl: She's probably the best personal fighter in the entire movie, excepting the Jabberwocky.
- Defiant to the End: In Through the Looking Glass, she cries "En garde!" and tries to fight back as the Rust overtakes the entire Resistance. Keep in mind that it's an unstoppable, all-consuming force, but she still tries to go out fighting.
- Gender Flip: In most versions, the Dormouse is male. This version is female.
Nivens McTwisp
Nivens McTwisp / The White Rabbit
Voiced By: Michael Sheen
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass
The White Rabbit.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Wears no pants. Lampshaded when he speaks deprecatingly of the animals in the real world that run around naked and "shukrn" in public.
- Never My Fault: The White Rabbit is mad at Alice for being "the wrong Alice," lecturing her several times and calling her out as a fraud, despite the fact that he was the one who chose her and brought her there. (Of course, he may have a valid reason for being angry, because as it turned out, he had not chosen the wrong Alice, and Alice's insistence that he had the wrong person was likely making him upset.)
Thackery Earwicket
Thackery Earwicket / The March Hare
Voiced By: Paul Whitehouse
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass
Also known as the March Hare, Thackery Earwicket is a skittish twitchy hare with tendencies of flinging anything in arm's reach.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He has an extremely short attention span. He forgets what he is taking about when he holds a spoon in his hand.
- Large Ham: His erratic nature can make him pretty over-the-top.
Absolem
Absolem the Caterpillar
Voiced By: Alan Rickman
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass
A caterpillar (later butterfly) who owns the Oraculum, the compendium of Underland.
- Butterfly of Transformation: In the ending scene, Absolem appearing in the form of a butterfly can be seen to symbolize Alice's own transformation.
- Deadpan Snarker: He practically drips with sarcasm and disdain every time he speaks to Alice. He repeatedly calls her a stupid girl, derides her (in an almost sleepy voice) about how she is clearly not Alice, and how dense she's always been, having misnamed Underland as "Wonderland" when she visited the first time. He drops the snark when she finally cottons on that everything is real.Absolem: Alice, at last.
- The Omniscient: Absolem the Caterpillar is implied to be this. Hardly surprising since he's keeper of the Oraculum.Alice: It's a calendar...
Absolem: Compendium. It tells of each and every day, since the beginning. - Smoking Is Cool: Absolem, of course. Interestingly, this movie came out after Disney stated it would no longer show characters smoking in its movies, and the MPAA warning for the first film specifically lists a smoking caterpillar when streaming on Disney+.
Bayard
Bayard Hamar, the Bloodhound
Voiced By: Timothy Spall
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass
- Adaptational Species Change: Assuming he's the Puppy from the original books, he's gone from being an unspecified small breed to being a bloodhound in the films.
- Age Lift: Assuming he's the Puppy from the original books, he's fully-grown by the events of the first film.
- I Have Your Wife: Is only allied with the Red Queen because of his wife and puppies being held captive.
Uilleam
Uilleam the Dodo
Voiced By: Michael Gough
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010)
An old, wise Dodo.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He disappears from the movie after the scene where Iracebeth plays golf. He is not even seen during the final battle.
The Tweedles
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Played By: Matt Lucas
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass
A pair of rambunctious twins.
- The Dividual: Both of them are bumbling, good-natured twins.
The Bandersnatch
The Bandersnatch
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass
A panther-like creature that originally served the Red Queen, but later allies with Alice after she shows it kindness.
- Androcles' Lion: Alice giving its eye back earns her its loyalty.
- Cats Are Mean: It's initially allied with the Red Queen.
- Eye Scream: The Dormouse stabs its eye out with her needle. However, when Alice returns the eye to it, the eyeball pops back into the socket, and seems to work as well as it did prior to being impaled.
- Fantastic Medicinal Bodily Product: Its saliva is able to heal injuries inflicted by its own poisonous claws.
- Heel–Face Turn: Allies with Alice after she gives its eye back.
- Horse of a Different Color: Acts as Alice's steed for the final battle.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: It has several rows of teeth growing in random areas of its mouth.
- Wound Licking: It heals the wounds it had given Alice earlier by licking them.
The Red Queen's Court
Iracebeth of Crims
Iracebeth of Crims / The Red Queen
"Off with his head!"
Played By: Helena Bonham Carter, Leilah de Meza (young) Foreign VAs
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass
The childishly despotic ruler of Underland, who overthrew her beloved sister Mirana and uses the threat of the Jabberwocky to rule the land with an iron fist.
- 0% Approval Rating: As the Knave of Hearts comments to her, and she later agrees, "It's better to be feared than to be loved." The only reason anybody ever followed her is because of the Jabberwocky, and, after its death, they immediately turn on her. In other words, she never learned the other warning of The Prince: "Avoid being hated." The White Queen has clearly read the book.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the books, all her attempts to have people executed are thwarted by her husband, and she's not a villainous figure so much as a cartoonish caricature and side character who's difficult to get along with. Here, she's the main villain, has people killed left and right, and is quite sadistic, even killing her husband, the King. It's likely that, with him gone, there was nobody left to check her impulses.
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of both films.
- Composite Character: As usual, she's called the Red Queen, but has the Queen of Hearts' obsession with cutting off heads and has card soldiers under her command.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She has a frog beheaded just because he was hungry...though to be fair, he did steal her tarts.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: True to her other incarnations, the Red Queen has an explosive temper and is quick to execute her subjects for the smallest things like eating her tarts or wearing fake body parts. She also has the Jabberwocky, which she uses to keep people under her thumb.
- Hopeless Suitor: In the first movie, she was in love with her right-hand man Stayne, who secretly disliked her, and briefly liked Alice (while disguised as Um from Umbridge).
- Jerkass: It's not just her temper; she actually enjoys being cruel to people.
- Large Ham: With her dominating manner, lack of volume control, and being eye-catching due to her bizarre proportions and royal opulence, she takes over every scene she's in.
- Related in the Adaptation: Here, she and the White Queen are sisters.
- Spoiled Brat: An extremely immature variant. She is a loudmouth, thinks the world should cater to her every need, and, thanks to her royal bloodline, thinks she's better than everyone else.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Tends to call anyone around her an idiot. Although the Knave and the rest of her henchmen are just as ruthless as she is, even they are not spared from her insults.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: Once she ultimately overthrew her sister and took over Underland. Her reign proved to be disastrous due to her apathy, and she's too proud to acknowledge that she isn't "ten times the queen" Mirana ever was. Even the citizens grumble about her under their breath.
The Jabberwocky
The Jabberwocky
Voiced By: Christopher Lee Foreign VAs
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010)
A dragon controlled by the Red Queen, who uses him to enforce her Reign of Terror upon Underland. It is for this reason the Oraculum states that, on the Frabjous Day, Alice will slay the beast and put an end to the Red Queen's reign.
- Alien Blood: His blood is purple, and is able to send Alice home.
- Breath Weapon: He breathes purple lightning as a form of attack.
- The Cameo: He makes a brief appearance in Alice Through the Looking Glass, where Alice observes him destroying the Mad Hatter's village in the past.
- Dark Is Evil: His scales are black, and he has a dark essence surrounding him.
- The Dragon: Literally, to the Red Queen.
- The Dreaded: Just about everyone in Underland is terrified of him. The only one who doesn't fear him is Iracebeth, since he is her pet (her "Jabberbabywocky"), and she has him under her control.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He speaks with a deep, scary baritone courtesy of Christopher Lee himself. At least until Alice cuts his tongue out.
- Non-Human Undead: He looks all decayed and emaciated, and his intro even looked like resurrecting from the dead.
- Off with His Head!: He meets his end when Alice decapitates him with the Vorpal Sword. And yes, she does say that.
- Our Dragons Are Different: While he has the appearance of a dragon, the Jabberwocky is more frightening than most other depictions. He breathes purple lightning instead of fire, uses his wings to walk instead of flying (except in the sequel), and is fully sentient and capable of speech (until he loses his tongue).
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has scary red eyes.
- That's No Moon: At the start of the battle he is in the background, looking like a hill until he emerges (similar to Chernobog from Fantasia, another Disney picture).
- Tongue Trauma: He gets his tongue cut off by Alice just before their battle, making him lose his speech capability.
- Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: He walks on all fours - with his wings. He can even make fists with them, or climb up the ruins, but he can't fly. He is, however, shown flying in the sequel, so it may be that his decay might have rendered flying impossible.
- Worthy Opponent: In a unique case, he regards the Vorpal Sword as this - not the one who wields it.
Ilosovic Stayne
Ilosovic Stayne / The Knave of Hearts
Played By: Crispin Glover
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Alice Through the Looking Glass note
Iracebeth's right hand man.
- Dirty Coward: When he's discovered trying to flirt with Alice (in her Um disguise) by the Red Queen, Stayne claims that Um is the one obsessed with him to avoid being beheaded.
- Hopeless Suitor: He briefly likes Alice in her "Um from Umbrage" disguise and tries to flirt with her, but she rejects him.
- The Dragon: He is Iracebeth’s most trusted follower until she is overthrown.
- Killed Off for Real: His corpse is visible in Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Armored Cards
Armored Cards
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010)
The Queen's Army of Cards that are at her beck and call during the first film.
Iracebeth's Court
Iracebeth's Court
Appearances: Alice in Wonderland (2010)
A court that has exaggerated features through artificial means.
- Fake Boobs: One of the court members is a woman with a really big bust, but much of its size is due to being a prosthetic.
- Gag Nose: One woman has a long pointy nose. It falls off a few times.
The Plant Court
The Void
Time
Time
Played By: Sacha Baron Cohen
Appearances: Alice Through the Looking Glass
The personification of time himself that rules over Underland beyond the scope of the current reigning royal family. He manages the lifespans of its inhabitants, ending them when it is right to do so.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Of time.
- Butt-Monkey: Often mistreated by Underlandians; he is the butt of many time puns at the tea party, and Iracebeth's abuse of him is Played for Laughs.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He and his castle are mostly colored in gothic midnight black, but he cares deeply about Underland itself, as well as those he loves.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Surprisingly easy to do so - aside from causing a Chronosphere paradox, one can even just kill his avatar, heck, even as easy as making Time forget about himself, but the consequences of such end up extremely severe: it leads to a permanent Time Stands Still. As such it's more or less walking on eggshells sometimes, unfortunately.
- Don't Fear the Reaper: See Dark Is Not Evil above. When taking Underlandians away, he lets them rest with the same dignity as putting them to sleep, genuinely hoping that they were happy.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: Being essentially Underland's (and possibly Underland's extended universe's) primary deity, he is this - or a Greater-Scope Villain, considering that he is the Grim Reaper equivalent, depending on how death is viewed.
- Hypocritical Humor: Tends to contradict himself often, to the chagrin of both Underlings and his servants.
- King of All Cosmos: He's certainly just as odd or even stranger than the Underlandians, his eccentricity making it hard to even understand what he wants at times.
- Time Master: He's a master of himself.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: Time and Wilkins speak with a weird mock-German accent, complete with sporadic Gratuitous German.
Wilkins
Wilkins
Voiced By: Matt Vogel
Appearances: Alice Through the Looking Glass
Time's butler.
- Ascended Dragon: The variant where the original leader is still alive and kicking, and The Dragon is only given the job temporarily. After Alice steals the Chronosphere, Time puts Wilkins in charge of managing the collapsing Grand Clock while Time himself goes to chase after "the kindergartner" to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Wilkins has his work cut out for him trying to satisfy Time's demands. It only gets worse once he is left in charge while Time is chasing Alice all over the past.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: Time and Wilkins speak with a weird mock-German accent, complete with sporadic Gratuitous German.
The Seconds
The Seconds
As Minutes
Appearances: Alice Through the Looking Glass
Time's servants, there being around over 3600 of them in order to form the Minutes and the Hour.
- Clockwork Creature: Considering they live inside a giant clock castle, it's a given.
- Combining Mecha: They can fuse with each other to become the Minutes, and eventually the Hour.
- Humongous Mecha: As the Hour.
The Serpent
A character that existed in concept art, but never made it into the movie. Concept art has shown that it was to lurk in the moat of Time's Castle, and was, disturbingly, covered in / comprised of pale bodies.
