History Characters / AmericanMcGeesAlice

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* AxCrazy: In the first game.

* MonsterClown: Has this appearance in the first game.

* SerialKiller: A cannibalistic one at that.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The Duchess gains a taste for pig snouts in ''Madness Returns''. Which is ironic since her child is a piglet.
** Then again, Pig apparently tastes very similar to [[ImAHumanitarian her preferred diet in the first game]], so it could be said she's weaning herself off of people by eating the next best thing.

* VillainousGlutton: She's always cooking.

* EnergyWeapon: The Bishops. They only shoot at you.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In the sequel you must slay the King at his own request in order to enter the Queen's palace.]]

* AxCrazy: He even looks the part.

* EvilCounterpart: Arguably to the Caterpillar.

* OriginalCharacter: He's the only boss in the first game not based on a character in Lewis Carroll's books
* UsefulNotes/PrussiansInPickelhauben: His armor is evocative of a soldier from UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany.

* ThoseTwoGuys: As always.

* CutsceneBoss: In ''Madness Returns''.

* EvilRedhead: The Carpenter.
* FatBastard: The Walrus, who has no redeeming qualities at all.

* LargeHam: The Walrus.
* LeanAndMean: The Carpenter.
* NecessaryEvil: The Carpenter's plan was to turn the Walrus into Alice's instinctual fear of violent death, so they could overpower and repel the mind-consuming train meme. It doesn't work.

* DropTheHammer: The croquet mallet in the first game, and the Hobby Horse in the sequel.

** ''Madness Returns'' introduces the [[GatlingGood gatling gun-like Pepper Grinder]], [[DropTheHammer the Hobby Horse]], the [[GrenadeLauncher Teapot Cannon]] and White Rabbit Clockwork Bombs.

* {{Jerkass}}: Once his true colors comes to light, Bumby reveals himself to be a smug, childish prick who mocks Alice about his crimes.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Helped Alice with therapy so he could erase her memories of a crime he committed while also turning her into another prostitute for him.

* DropTheHammer: The Carpenter carries a large hammer with him, which is implied to be a weapon in the art book.

* KickTheDog: At the end, after Alice remembers the truth, he smugly taunts her with the fact that [[KarmaHoudini he will get away with murdering her family and sex crimes against children]] [[note]] Including Alice’s sister, of which he started the fire that killed Alice’s family to cover up him raping and murdering her.[[/note]] because [[CassandraTruth he’s a respected gentleman and she’s a mental patient]]. [[KarmicDeath This ends up costing Bumby his life at Alice’s hands]].

* KickTheDog: After raping Lizzie, he sets her house on fire. This kills Alice's family and causes all the hell in the games.

* AssholeVictim: You won't feel the slightest bit of sympathy for him after Alice pushes Angus to his death especially since he was a rapist, murderer and human trafficker to boot.

* AngstComa: Goes into a catatonic state after her family die, and she's stuck in it for ten years.

* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Male version. Some of his lines in the game's booklet imply that he'd become fond of Alice and despite his good intentions wasn't entirely broken up at the thought that she'd remain under his care if she never got better.

* AloofBigSister: Downplayed. Lizzie loved Alice dearly, but one memory has Dr Wilson suggesting that Lizzie was too old to be much of a playmate to her little sister (they were approximately ten years apart in age).

* HeavySleeper: One memory has Lizzie commenting how their parents fall unconscious past 10 pm. Because of this they didn't notice the fire [[spoiler:or Bumby getting inside their house to rape their daughter]] until it was too late.

* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Lizzie was raped by Dr. Bumby, who then strangled her and burned down the Liddell house to cover his tracks. Considering this is the catalyst for the whole plot and how it is used to reveal Dr. Bumby's true character and intentions (not to mention how horrified Alice is to hear of it) it very well classifies as this trope.]]

It is revealed towards the end that the reason he wants to erase Wonderland is because he was the one who raped and murder Alice’s sister and then caused the house fire that claimed the rest of her family to cover his tracks.

* AnimalMotifs: Cattle, his first name refers to the Aberdeen Angus. Late in the game, he's revealed to be a child sex trafficker who treats the children under his care as livestock. In one scene, he's shown putting a tag over a child's neck as if they were catttle being put out for pasture.

* WalkingSpoiler: His character is significantly more important to the plot and backstory of the series than he would appear at first glance - so much to the point that before all spoilers on his page got unmarked, there were only 4 examples without a spoiler tag.
* WouldHurtAChild: In the worst ways possible. Namely by breaking the minds of children to turn them into sex slaves, whose “services” he gladly indluges in himself. He also rapes and murders Alice’s sister (along with the rest of her family).

-->'''Voiced by:''' Susie Brann

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Is barefoot in her Siren, Fleshmaiden, and Cheshire dresses in ''Madness Returns''.

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* SuperOCD: He's ''obsessed'' with being on time and being precise. He always appears for tea at 6 o' clock ''on the dot''. [[spoiler: This is also a hint that he's weak to the Jacks weapon, as their chaotic nature contrasts his ordered madness.]]

* GiantWaistRibbon: Most of Alice's dresses sport these, usually with a skull or face at the centre.

* {{Gonk}}: To UncannyValley levels.

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* TurtlePower: He helps Alice swim underwater for an extended period of time.

* NiceGuy: Downplayed. He sincerely wants to help Alice and is one of the only nice folk in a dreadful BedlamHouse, but his selfishness and pride make in him inefficient and condescending.

* OhCrap: When Alice is about to kill him. It also adds to the MaybeMagicMaybeMundane nature of ''Madness Returns''; when Alice gives Bumby her murderous glare, her London clothes suddenly turn into her Wonderland clothes. The games leaves it ambiguous the clothes change is symbolic and it was Alice's DeathGlare that scared him, or her clothes actually magically change and that left Bumby gobsmacked.

* DissapointedInYou: [[spoiler: He is disappointed in Alice for her self-pitying actions between the first game and sequel, letting Wonderland deteriorate again and not bothering to help the many children around her.]]

* BigNo: Twice.

** Played with. [[spoiler: In the end of ''Madness Returns'', Alice has only become half sane, as demonstrated by her visualizing both Wonderland and London at the same time. This turns out to be her mastering an ability to travel between the subconscious and material realms, explored in ''Alice Otherlands''. However, she got over her family's death and avenged them by killing the true culprit.]]

* HartmanHips: The animators didn't want to give her big breasts, so they took this option instead.

* GoodParents: The memories reveal that they were this to Alice.

* KarmaHoudini: {{Defied|Trope}}. In his final scene, he brags about how no one will ever believe all the terrible things he did right to Alice's face, and that no one [[CassandraTruth would believe her if she told them]]. Alice takes the matter into her own hands...

* OhCrap: Has this reaction when Alice kills him.

* {{Irony}}: Pris thinks that homeless and dirt poor Alice would have ended up "on the streets, selling her backside!" if she hadn't placed her in Dr. Bumby's care. [[spoiler:Little did the old nurse know that the therapist was planing to pimp Alice out after erasing her compromising memories.]]
* KarmaHoudini: She's a complete asshat throughout the entire game, and nothing happens to her.
** In early previews, reviewers were told that she fell off the roof and Alice was framed for her death. However, this seems to have been removed for the final version.
** She also was to be brutally murdered in her apartment as seen at the end of the beta trailer.

* NiceGirl: She still cares for and looks after Alice despite her family no longer paying her bills.

* PetTheDog: Helps Alice uncover the truth on her family's death, but only because she's paying him.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He acts snarky and condescending, but he's also Alice's best friend.

* TheMentor: Provides the only useful advice to her in both games. The Cat is the only other assist she gets.

* OnlySaneMan: By Wonderland standards.

* HeelFaceTurn: He teams up with Alice in ''Madness Returns'' to defeat the March Hare and Dormouse.

* KilledOffForReal: Since Alice resolves her guilt at the end of the first game, he does not appear again.

* NiceGuy: The few residents of Wonderland who hasn't lost himself in the insanity.

* TookALevelInCynic: He was a lot optimistic in the first game. By the second game he's become so depressed that he hides from the rest of the world, likely due to Gryphon's death.

* AristocratsAreEvil: The Duchess is a villain in this game. Poor soul.

* BigEater: Eats a lot of people.

** She has a HeelFaceTurn in the sequel, asking Alice to find pig snouts for her to make a stew from them. Ironically, [[AllThereInTheManual Alice preferred her when she was evil]].
* FatBastard: She's not nice.

* YourHeadAsplode: How she dies in the first game. She got better.

* AchillesHeel: The scar.

* EvilMinions: They clone themselves.

* HairRaisingHare: The March Hare.

* YouDirtyRat: The Dormouse.

* CigarChomper

* NiceHat: Three of them. First, the Late But Lucky dress, which features a stylish top hat with enormous rabbit ears protruding from the brim; the Hattress dress comes complete with a replica of the Hatter's hat; finally, the Caterpillar dress gives Alice a fez.

* NiceHat: His top hat.

* NiceHat: Wears a fez.

* NiceHat: As traditional.

* CoolHat: Their propeller hats allow them to fly, despite their heavy weights.

* [[ManChild Woman Child]]: In ''Madness Returns'', despite being a young adult, she is still like the little girl from the original story. However, her physical design shows off how ShesAllGrownUp.

* {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s: They aren't in the second game, but it's more or less stated that their factories are modeled on the deplorable nature of Victorian factories.

* GoodIsNotSoft: [[spoiler: Punishes Dr. Bumby by forcing him in front of an oncoming train.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: Tells Alice that he's a KarmaHoudini to her face. She then decides to fix that problem.