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    Alice 

Alice

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Alice: I don't wish for anything.
Played By: Sophie Lowe, Millie Bobby Brown (young)
Centric Episodes: "Down the Rabbit Hole", "Trust Me", "Who's Alice", "To Catch a Thief"

A young girl from an alternate version of Victorian London, who followed a rabbit down his hole to Wonderland. She made multiple trips, each time disturbing her father more and more, until she decided to stay with her love, the genie Cyrus. After he apparently died, she returned, inconsolable, and was sent to a mental institution by her father.


  • Action Girl: Alice has learned both swordplay and unarmed combat since her first trip to Wonderland.
  • Adaptational Badass: She has things in common with Labyrinthine McGee's interpretation of the character, a dangerous young girl who survived Wonderland by clever tricks. Justified in that the original stories appear to be based on her first visit to Wonderland, when she was a little girl. She Took a Level in Badass the second time.
  • Anti-Hero: She's mostly heroic and compassionate, but she occasionally indulges in some dark behavior (threatening to behead the Mock Turtle if it doesn't help her, threatening bystanders with her sword just because they were in her way, etc..)
  • Back-to-Back Badasses: With Cyrus in the past in "Home".
  • Battle Couple: With Cyrus.
  • Been There, Shaped History: "And They Lived..." reveals Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an autobiography.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Alice is kind and loyal to the people she loves - not to mention devoted to Cyrus. Just don't get in her way.
  • Black Sheep: Upon returning home, she discovered her father had remarried and had a new family. Her step-mother pressures Alice to consider an arranged marriage, and doesn't want her to interact with her younger sister. Her half-sister, as the step-mother insists.
  • Break the Cutie: After Cyrus' death Alice is inconsolable.
  • Calling the Old Man Out:
    • In "Who's Alice?" she asks her father how he can expect her to forget the man she loves when he spent her childhood mourning her mother.
    • In "Bad Blood" she gives her the man she believes is her father (actually Jafar in disguise) another verbal walloping for the way he treated her first ignoring her after her mother's death and then refusing to believe her about Wonderland.
  • Cassandra Truth: No one in Victorian England believes her about Wonderland preferring to believe she's either insane or lying.
  • Child Marriage Veto: Alice would rather go to an asylum than allow her stepmother arrange a marriage for her.
  • Chronic Hero Syndrome: Discussed Trope in "Bad Blood". And Jafar exploits it for all it's worth.
    Alice: Threatening to kill someone I love so I'll use one of my wishes? You need to get a new trick, Jafar.
    Jafar: I'll get a new trick when this one stops working.
  • Creepy Child: Alice's past self in the Great Divide who actively encourages Alice to kill the queen. Subverted in that it's all a Secret Test of Character.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Has some amusing back-and-forths with Will.
  • English Rose: Sophie Lowe certainly looks the part as Alice, though her personality defies the expectations of a Proper Lady.
  • Genius Bruiser: Not only capable of handling herself in a fight but is shown to be able to think he way out of scrapes. And in "Bad Blood" she's smart enough to figure out that she and Will are light enough for the bird bark to rise them up to Jafar's Island but that adding Cyrus' weight will be enough to bring them back down to Wonderland.
  • Girly Bruiser: Her clothing is practical but feminine and certainly her pretty, girly looks often mean people underestimate her in a fight. Right up until she hands them their asses, that is.
  • Good Is Not Soft: She threatened the mock turtle to get him to help her and Will get across the lake. She threatened to cut off its head. And it knew she was serious because she got its attention by stabbing it.
  • Green Thumb: Almost ''becomes'' a plant in "Who's Alice?".
  • Guile Hero: Much like her boyfriend. One example is her Batman Gambit to find out who exactly are the specific enemies that are coming after her.
  • Happily Ever After: Marries Cyrus in the finale.
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: Alice goes everywhere with hers and she's more than competent while wielding it.
  • Heroic BSoD: After Cyrus' death to the point where she was going to allow them to lobotomise her.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: Thanks to the Queen of Hearts, she's known as "most dangerous sinner in Wonderland" because she tried stealing a weeping willow flower.
  • Hopeless with Tech: Both Alice and Cyrus are this when they visit Storybrooke to a hilarious result.
  • Interspecies Romance: Cyrus is a genie and Alice is human. Subverted when Cyrus admits he was born human and then, again when he becomes human after Will's wish.
  • It's All About Me: Blinded by grief after getting his heart back just to witness Ana's death Will accuses Alice of being like this. He relents quickly, though.
  • Lady of War: In the finale she leads Wonderland citizens to fight Jafar's army.
  • Like Brother and Sister: With the Knave.
  • Lobotomy: Very nearly happens to her (with her permission!).
  • Loners Are Freaks: How she's seen by her family.
  • Love Makes You Crazy: Or at least obsessive. Her desire to save Cyrus can make her a bit single-minded. As an example, she shows a rather shocking amount of callousness towards Will when she learns that he has a phobia of drowning. (Granted, the fact that he planned to steal her wishes and leave her to be eaten by the Cheshire Cat probably didn't do much to endear him to her.) On a much darker note, she also threatens the life of the Mock Turtle if it doesn't cooperate with her, despite the fact that it has done nothing to her personally and was just minding its own business when she showed up.
  • May–December Romance: Cyrus has already lived several lifetimes by the time he meets Alice.
  • Mayfly–December Romance: While he's a genie it looks like it's going to be this because he could live millennia and she'll live the length of a human lifetime. Thankfully it is eventually averted.
  • Meadow Run: To Cyrus in "Home".
  • Missing Mom: Her mother died while she was still very young.
  • The Mourning After: While she thought Cyrus was dead. She points out her father spent her entire childhood mourning her mother's death.
  • Parental Neglect: Her mother died giving birth to her and her father lost himself in his grief for her entire childhood.
  • Platonic Life-Partners: She and the Knave. Word of God has even mentioned it: their relationship is close but purely platonic.invoked
  • Plucky Girl: Once told that Cyrus is alive Alice never stops looking for him despite good sense and other people telling her to give up.
  • Refusal of the Call: When Will and Rabbit came to get Alice she initially wanted nothing to do with them. It was only when Will told her that Cyrus was alive that she was willing to do anything but stay in the asylum.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She hands several to Anastasia after they join forces.
  • Sadistic Choice: Her father forces her to choose between an arranged marriage and being sent to an insane asylum. She rightly guesses it was her step-mother that pressured him into it, as he's clearly unhappy about it.
    • Jafar repeatedly has his way with presenting Alice with these kinds of choices, successfully eliciting two wishes out of her.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: With the Knave.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: She looks absolutely gorgeous during her wedding.
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill: Refuses to kill the Red Queen under moral reasoning.
  • Took a Level in Badass: She was always clever but after learning to fight she becomes pretty unstoppable against ordinary non-magical opponents.
  • True Blue Femininity: Alice wears both blue and pink, in clothes that are practical but very feminine to show her innocence/goodness in contrast to The Red Queen's bolder red.
    • Like her Disney counterpart young Alice wears a blue dress.
    • The blouse she wears in "Down the Rabbit Hole" and "Who's Alice?" is pale blue.
    • Also in the latter of those two episodes adult Alice wears a blue dress given to her by her stepmother when she returns after Cyrus' death (when she might otherwise have expected to wear mourning clothes).
    • She's wearing a pink, frilly, girlish dress when she meets Cyrus.
  • Unfazed Everyman: Not much in Wonderland throws her as she been there so many times it's all normal to her.
  • Unkempt Beauty: Very much so, and in contrast to the Red Queen.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: Will do anything to save Cyrus and has the asskicking skills to back it up.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: She desperately wants her father's love and trust.

    The Knave of Hearts/Will Scarlet 

The Knave of Hearts/Will Scarlet

Played By: Michael Socha
Centric Episodes: "Forget Me Not", "Heart of the Matter", "To Catch a Thief"
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Knave of Hearts: My heart's caused me enough suffering.

A former member of Robin Hood's Merry Men, who left them to be with his true love Anastasia in Wonderland. He was briefly the Knave of Hearts, until Alice took his heart back for him. He then made in back to the Enchanted Forest, just in time for Regina to cast the Dark Curse. The White Rabbit came to fetch him after the curse was broken to break Alice out of an asylum and take them both back to Wonderland to fight against the Red Queen and her sinister ally, Jafar.


  • And Show It to You: Alice once got his heart back for him, back when he served the Queen of Hearts. He eventually reveals that he never put it back in. In "Heart of the Matter" Jafar puts it back just in time so he can murder Anastasia while Will looks on helplessly.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: He asked Cora to take his heart out. When she starts using it to control him as her new Knave, he admits it wasn't exactly his best idea.
  • Breakout Character: Easily the most popular character on the show, enough that he was transferred to the parent show as a main character, no less.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Stealing from Maleficent. And Robin Hood is none too pleased when he finds out.
  • Butt-Monkey
  • Catchphrase: Take a shot every time he says "bloody hell" or just "bloody".
  • Composite Character: He is also Will Scarlet from Robin Hood and as of the finale the White King.
  • The Cynic: He tends to think of the more negative outcome in any situation, as opposed to Alice.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: The things he's alluded to having done that have made him possibly the most wanted man in Wonderland.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Almost constantly. Of course, the "logic" of Wonderland (and prior experience in our world) gives him so much to snark at.
  • Demoted to Extra: In Season 5 he's lowered to recurring character status and doesn't even actually appear, after having already been Out of Focus for much of Season 4.
  • Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: When he shows up in Season 4, he's credited as part of the main cast, but is quickly demoted to the love interest of Belle. Sometimes his only appearances are holding her hand in the background, and he only has a quick, blink-and-you'll-miss-it, unspoken cameo in the finale. To make things worse for him, Belle herself has rarely been more than the love interest of Rumpelstiltskin in the series, making Will Scarlet demoted to the satellite love interest of a satellite love interest.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Says as much to Alice about letting Cora take his heart.
  • Died in Your Arms Tonight: Very nearly happens to him in "Home". Only his wish to end Alice's suffering keeps him from dying in Anastasia's arms.
  • Distressed Dude: For most of the series Will is pretty helpless against the more powerful forces in the show.
    • After Cora took Will's heart she kept it and used it to make him do whatever she wanted him to – and Alice is the one who got it back for him.
    • Jafar tortures him to get Alice to give up her wishes. When Alice wishes that if the Knave dies then she dies, Jafar turns him to stone.
    • He is later captured by Jafar and forced to watch as Anastasia is tortured and killed.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: After everything he went through for Anastasia.
  • Forced to Watch: Jafar after he broke the rules of Magic, forces him to watch as he kisses and cuddles a resurrected Anastasia.
  • Hidden Depths: There's a lot more to the Knave than he's willing to admit.
  • The High King: According to Alice he and Ana eventually became The White King and Queen and led Wonderland to an age of prosperity and happiness.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Despite his Heel–Face Turn, it certainly seems karmic that after a life of thievery and taking things, Will becomes a genie: a being that has to give to others. Interestingly, the original three genies had basically the same origin story, as revealed by the Nyx.
  • Jade-Coloured Glasses: After he has Cora remove his heart and then when he doesn't put it back in.
  • Like Brother and Sister: With Alice, he admits that she reminds him of his dead sister. Also with the Lizard, not understanding that the feeling isn't mutual with her.
  • Legacy Character: When Alice gets his heart back for him, Cora simply takes the one of someone else to be the new Knave of Hearts.
  • Lovable Rogue: Kleptomaniac and initially seems to be heartless, but is a good guy.
  • Mind Manipulation: Once Cora has his heart she can make him do whatever she wants him to until Alice gets it back.
  • Oblivious to Love: In "Nothing to Fear" it's blindingly obvious that Lizard is in love with him, but she has to spell it out for him to get it.
  • The One That Got Away: The mysterious Anastasia. Except that she's not so "away", having become the Red Queen. And it's later revealed she regards him the same way.
  • Only in It for the Money: His constant claim. Subverted when he finally does get his wish.
  • Out of Focus: He was supposed to be a main character in Season 4, but he took second string to the Snow Queen and then the Queens of Darkness. After that... well.
  • Platonic Life-Partners: He and Alice. Word of God has even mentioned it: their relationship is close but purely platonic.invoked
  • Punch-Clock Villain: Pre-series. He wouldn't have served Cora if she didn't have his heart.
  • Refuge in Audacity: He picks the lock to the ice cream shop in front of David and Emma to prove the existence of the Snow Queen.
  • Sarcastic Devotee: Very snarky towards Alice and her plans, and yet it's clear he would do anything for her.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: With Alice.
  • Sticky Fingers: Well, what do you expect from a former member of Robin Hood's Merry Men?
  • Taken for Granite: As Jafar can't kill him without killing Alice, he turns him into stone. He gets better though.
  • Transplant: He started out as a main character in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland before being moved to the main show. However, he was not very useful in the main series, so he gets written out.
  • True Love's Kiss: How he snaps Anastasia out of Jafar's control.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He's the one man who caused Captain Hook to be aggressive and in turn realize something wasn't right with the hand he got from Mr. Gold (or so he thought), and so Hook ended up as Gold's personal slave for a while.

    The Red Queen 

Red Queen / Anastasia

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Red Queen: We all come to Wonderland looking for something more, darling.
Played By: Emma Rigby
Centric Episodes: "Heart of Stone", "Heart of the Matter"

The Queen of Wonderland, who lives in a chessboard castle and is working with Jafar to get wishes from Cyrus. Distinct from the Queen of Hearts, who appeared on Once Upon a Time. While Once Upon a Time in Wonderland hinted that she was one of Cinderella's step-sisters, and became the focus of her mother's abuse after failing to marry Prince Thomas, this was Retconned later on in Once Upon a Time.


  • Abusive Parents: Her mother was very emotionally abusive toward her.
  • Adaptational Attractiveness: To a degree, since in the original story she was a red-faced chess piece, and now she's a thin blonde woman.
  • Ambition Is Evil: Once Ana was a sweet girl who believed that her love for Will would be enough. She let herself be swayed by the king and by Cora, and became The Red Queen.
  • Anguished Declaration of Love: The Red Queen reveals that she still loves the Knave and that her motive for helping Jafar change the Laws of Magic was so that she could change her past decision to give him up for her crown.
  • Anti-Villain: Particularly noticeable when she's paired up with the absolutely ruthless Jafar. And her motives to do so will erase all events that made her a villain to start with so she can get back together with Will.
  • Arch-Enemy: To Alice. It takes Cyrus trusting the Red Queen to dissuade Alice from regarding her this way.
  • The Atoner: Initially just wants to get Will back by changing the past. Eventually she changes to wanting to win him back and improve the lives of the average Wonderland citizen.
  • Back from the Dead: Twice in the finale. The first time, as part of Jafar changing the rules of magic, she's revived by him as yet another way to spite Will, being mindlessly in love with Jafar instead. After Jafar is dealt with and the rules of magic are enforced again she's brought back by water from the Well of Wishes.
  • Bad Boss: Gives the White Rabbit death threats anytime he asks to be let out of his job spying for her. And is holding his family hostage.
  • The Baroness: She is physically very young and beautiful and shares many of the features of the sextop version.
  • Big Bad Duumvirate: With Jafar until "Home".
  • Big Bad Wannabe: While she tries her best to keep it an equal partnership; ultimately it's Jafar whose the true Big Bad of the show.
  • Break the Cutie: The Red Queen not only quickly becomes the lesser evil, but by the second half of the first season transforms into The Woobie and ultimately performs a full Heel–Face Turn. Just in time for "Dirty Little Secrets" to ramp things up from Break the Cutie to "Utterly Destroy the Cutie".
  • Came Back Wrong: Jafar does bring her back as he promised to Will but he also makes her in love with him saying that Will never said she should be revived as she was before.
  • Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Pulls this card on Jafar to avoid getting force-choked.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: She admits as much to Alice:
    Red Queen: I am many things, darling, but pure of heart is not one of them.
  • Catchphrase: "Darling."
  • Chess Motifs: Her castle is designed around chess pieces (which oddly enough are silver instead of red), and she likes to use game metaphors: "setting up the board", "change of hand", etc.
  • Composite Character: After being heavily implied in In-Universe, Word of God finally confirmed that she is indeed adapted from the Cinderella fairy tale, making her a combination of Anastasia Tremaine and the Red Queen.invoked
    • Averted in one case, as for once the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen are not the same person.
    • As of the series finale, she is also the White Queen.
  • The Cynic: This exchange from "Heart of Stone" emphasizes this rather nicely:
    Alice: When two people love each other, there's nothing they can't accomplish together.
    Red Queen: If only that were true.
  • Decomposite Character: She is based on Anastasia, the evil stepsister from Cinderella, but she is not actually related to Cinderella as far as fans can tell. Instead, the actual evil stepsister role is given to Clorinda and Tisbe.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Her partnership with Jafar was doomed to fall apart from the start due to him being more powerful, more evil and a domineering megalomaniac.
  • Disney Death: She dies again when Jafar is defeated and his resurrection spell is undone. However, Nyx gives Alice and Cyrus water from the Well of Wonders to bring her back.
  • Dragon with an Agenda: To Jafar—though she's trying to change it to a more equal relationship and has her own plans.
  • Emotionless Girl: Tries to keep up this appearance, but frequently slips.
  • Ermine Cape Effect: Always dressed in elaborate gowns in her signature color, with not a single hair out of place and plenty of jewelry to match her crown. This contrasts her perfectly with the more effortless, natural beauty of Alice. As the show goes on and her character develops, she loses this and starts to more resemble Alice's style of appearance.
  • Even Evil Has Standards:
    • She's shocked when Jafar reduces her subjects to dust in "Trust Me".
    • While her face remains expressionless, there seems to be pity in her eyes later when Jafar kills the Grendel in "Forget Me Not".
    • When Jafar lifts Alice into the air and begins to torture her in "The Serpent", the Red Queen is smiling evilly. When Alice refuses to give in and Jafar continues, the smile vanishes and now the Red Queen looks actually concerned for her enemy.
    • Eventually she realizes that Jafar's vision of the future benefits no one but himself and she executes a Heel–Face Turn.
  • Evil Brit: Her posh accent is put on but both it and her natural accent are British.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She can't understand why Alice spared her life when she had the opportunity to kill her as in her experience you have to take the things you want, morality be damned.
  • Evil Makeover: She went from a simple pink dress and loose waves decorated with flowers in the past, to elaborate gowns in her signature color and tight updos pulled away from her face.
  • Foil: To Regina, the Evil Queen. Both are magic-wielding queens who married into power and dress in similar outfits (but one in black, the other in red), who seek to harm an adventurous young woman (Snow/Alice) after having lost the man they love. Anastasia was even trained by Regina's mother, Cora.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: She enters Wonderland as a peasant and she ends up becoming the Red Queen, conspiring with Cora and Jafar.
  • God Save Us from the Queen!: People are terrified of their Queen, though maybe not o the extent of the Queen of Hearts.
  • Good Girl Gone Bad: In the past she wore a pink dress and flowers in her hair but circumstance and Cora made her into The Red Queen.
  • Heel–Face Turn: In "Home", she defects from her alliance with Jafar, then utterly discards her Evil Queen guise and crown, returning to being Anastasia, peasant accent and all.
  • Heel Realisation: Had one prior to the start of the story when she realized how it's brought her nothing but loneliness and wants to change history so that she never left Will.
  • Hidden Depths: More and more revealed as the show goes on.
  • The High Queen: Upon her return to Wonderland after Alice and Cyrus' wedding she became the White Queen with Will as her King, and together the two filled the land with wonder once again.
  • Ice Queen: In the early episodes almost always maintained a glacial facade. Even when in the flashback, in which she is presented in front of everyone as the future Red Queen, demonstrates an expression impassive as soon as she meets the gaze of Will
  • If I Wanted You Dead...: In "Heart of Stone", Alice asks her how she knows that sending Alice across the chasm isn't a trick to make her fall. This trope is her response:
    Red Queen: Alice, if I wanted you to fall, I'd push you.
  • It's All About Me: Wants to use magic to have a second chance with Will. But in order to get that goal she kidnaps the White Rabbit's family to ensure his loyalty, separates Alice and Cyrus and who knows what else. This changes from "Nothing to Fear" and onward, where she learns the error of her ways and starts acting selflessly for the good of everyone else.
  • Kick the Dog: Turning the handsome man into the Grendel.
    • Also, while it's unlikely she'd have killed them considering where they were stashed, kidnapping the White Rabbit's wife and kids in order to blackmail him into servitude was not cool.
    • Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Physically abusing the Old Prisoner in "Who's Alice?" becomes retroactively this when the next episode reveals his true identity.
  • Lady of Black Magic: Just look at most of her clothes and the way she behaves when communicating with others or use her magic.
  • The Lost Lenore: As Anastasia, to the Knave. Will is this for her as well.
  • Mind Rape: How the Jabberwocky breaks her.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Wears many form fitting outfits that show off her cleavage and figure.
  • My Greatest Failure: Blames herself for ruining her relationship with Will, and is willing to change the rules of magic in order to fix things.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: After being deposed and then confronted by her former subjects, she realizes that her rule was a horrible thing for the people. It turns her into a revolutionary against Jafar.
  • Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: In the present story, she's only committing evil so that she can turn back the clock and avoid becoming the Red Queen to begin with. Cyrus, who can read people, picks up on this and realizes she's trustworthy.
  • Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In-universe, her stiff posh accent begins to deteriorate after Jafar blows up her castle, and even more after Will refuses to believe that she's trying to help him and Alice.
  • Pet the Dog: When she sets up an elaborate gambit to acquire some magic dust, ostensibly to use as protection from Jafar. It's actually to free the Knave who has been turned to stone by Jafar.
  • Pimped-Out Dress: The dress and accessories she showed in the trailer and promotion photos of the spin off.
  • Playing with Fire: The first spell that is taught to her by the Queen of Hearts is how to turn on or enlarge the fire of a brazier.
  • Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: She goes to extremes to get Will back, wanting to change the past so that they never split up to start with. Unusually for this trope, she's ultimately portrayed sympathetically.
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something: Only sort of to begin with - when she is shown to at least 'try' to listen to her subjects' complaints. Later she becomes this for real when she joins the fight against Jafar.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: This is her goal in changing the laws of magic, though it's only her personal history that she wishes to change, not the history of Wonderland as a whole.
  • Smug Smiler: Tries to be this but between Jafar and Will there are more than a few cracks in her facade.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Jafar, with whom she shares a mutual hatred.
    • She does so with Alice in "Heart of Stone".
  • Tough Leader Façade: A dark, villainous example. She actively cultivates a flawless appearance, an emotionless façade and rules with an iron fist over her people. On the other hand, she fails to be an effective ruler regardless of trying to live up to it in appearance and action.
  • Unknown Rival: As Word of God puts it, Alice considers the Red Queen an Arch-Enemy, but the Red Queen views Alice as just a very important game piece. They both eventually change their views.invoked
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: When she and Will were young lovers in the Enchanted Forest.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: When Will returns to Storybrooke, it is never really mentioned what happened to her or why he left Wonderland as it was shown that they got together in the series finale. With Will's disappearance afterward, it's possible that his time on the main show was Retconned into being before the Wonderland series.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: Never got approval from her mother, which the Queen of Hearts exploited.

    The White Rabbit 

The White Rabbit/Percy

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Played By: John Lithgow

A small white anthropomorphic rabbit with the ability to "dig" portals between worlds. Calls on the Knave to rescue Alice before her lobotomy.


  • Adaptational Badass: He's able to "dig" portals between worlds, including Storybrooke, with absolutely no adverse consequences or apparent effort. 'Nough said.
  • Butt-Monkey: The Red Queen, Jafar, and even Alice (although she apologizes) walk all over him.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Usually he's no good at this, but get him impatient enough and he will be!
"You're late what a surprise!"
  • Easily Forgiven: For his treachery in "Home", a justified example when he reveals that he only did what he did to protect his wife and kids from harm.
  • Grumpy Old Man: The rabbit version.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Although he's a spy for the Red Queen, he clearly does so out of extreme fear, and he stills cares about Alice very much. He also has a wife and kids that he loves as well.
    • And as it turns out, it's said wife and kids being held hostage by the Red Queen that drives him to do what he does. It's not fear for himself: it's fear for his family.
  • Large Ham: It's John Lithgow after all.
  • Minion with an F in Evil: He's only spying on Alice for the Red Queen because of death threats from her part, and because she's holding his family hostage. He really wants out to the point where gave the Red Queen Cyrus' bottle in the hope she would release him from his job for going beyond the call of duty. She didn't.
  • The Mole: Reluctantly, for the Red Queen.
  • Parental Substitute: To Cyrus and especially Alice.
  • Shipper on Deck: To Cyrus and Alice.
  • Welcome Back, Traitor: In "Home".

    The Caterpillar 

The Caterpillar

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Who are you?
Played By: Roger Daltrey (voice, Once), Iggy Pop (voice, Wonderland)

A hookah-smoking caterpillar who apparently has something to do with money lending.


    The Tweedles 

The Tweedles

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Played By: Matty Finochio (Tweedledee) and Ben Cotton (Tweedledum)

A pair of manservants just as vain as their boss, the Red Queen. Run errands for her and, at least in Tweedledee's case, Jafar.


  • The Dandy: Powdered wigs, tailored suits, and gaudy bright-red lightning bolt face paint? Oh yeah.
  • The Dividual: They are essentially identical, aside from their allegiances and facial features.
  • The Ditz: It's implied they're not very intelligent.
  • Losing Your Head: The Red Queen gives Tweedledee this treatment after discovering his alignment with Jafar. Being Wonderland, this doesn't kill him, and his detached head is still able to state the obvious to Jafar ("I think she's onto us.") Jafar rectifies this by giving him a new body... after cutting off the head attached to that body.
  • The Mole: Tweedledee is one for Jafar, reporting to him the events occurring in the Red Queen's castle.
  • Professional Butt-Kisser: They give the Red Queen an endless stream of compliments whenever necessary.
  • Sibling Rivalry: Brought on by their conflicting alliances. Tweedledum is more than willing to sell out his brother to the Queen.
  • Those Two Guys: The only characterization they have is Tweedledee being loyal to Jafar, and Tweedledum being loyal to the Queen.
  • Undying Loyalty: Tweedledum to the Red Queen.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Tweedledee's last non-flashback appearance is in episode 9 where Jafar gives him a new body. His fate as of the finale is unknown.

    Elizabeth "Lizard" 

Elizabeth "Lizard"

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Lizard: I'm afraid that the man I like doesn't feel about me the way I feel about him.
Played By: Lauren McKnight
  • Action Girl: As expected of a mercenary.
  • Adaptation Species Change: Unlike Bill, she's not actually a lizard.
  • Back for the Dead: She dies in her second appearance.
  • Badass Adorable: She's a skilled thief and fighter, and also very cute.
  • Be Careful What You Say: Trying to get the Knave to feel something for her, she carelessly phrases it as a wish. She dies, and the Knave can only helplessly watch.
  • Dies Wide Open: Until Anastasia closes her eyes... and then the Jabberwocky comes and plucks them right out.
  • Eye Scream: After her death, Jabberwocky removes her eyes so that Jafar can view her last glimpses and find out where the Genie's bottle is.
  • Forgotten Fallen Friend: Played straight: she's briefly mourned in the episode she dies but is never mentioned afterward. Will does not even think about bringing her back to life while he was willing to betray Alice to resurrect Anastasia.
  • Gender Flip: The show's counterpart of Bill the Lizard, one of the White Rabbit's gardeners from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
  • Like Brother and Sister: With the Knave. Or so HE thinks, anyway.
  • Love Martyr: She's hopelessly in love with the Knave, who not only is in love with someone else but is also incapable of feeling anything towards her since he removed his heart.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: Gets a magical makeover as one of her wishes.
  • Tomboy: Even her casting call described her as such.

    The Jabberwocky 

The Jabberwocky

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Played by: Peta Sergeant

The single most feared creature in Wonderland. A hundred years ago, five hundred men gave their lives to imprison her using the Vorpal Blade.


    Cheshire 

The Cheshire Cat

Played By: Keith David
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An old friend of Alice's. Apparently he got bigger while she was gone... and hungrier.



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