History Film / AliceThroughTheLookingGlass

* CosmicKeystone: The Chromosphere; it sits in the center mechanism of the clock and powers the entire structure. Removing it causes the entire structure to break down and it can expand into a time machine itself.

* RealityChangingMiniature: Time and the grand clock are one and the same, so naturally he has a miniature copy of its face in his chest whose hands he can manipulate to accelerate or pause the flow of... Himself.

* ButterflyOfDoom: Essentially, the Red Queen's tragic origin can be summed up like this. [[spoiler: Mirana stole Iracebeth's tarts when they were children, and when their mother didn't believe Mirana did the deed, Iracebeth ran out in a temper tantrum, causing her to have a nasty run-in with a statue, causing her head to unnaturally swell (the alternative was a grandfather clock, but Alice averted that...[[StableTimeLoop causing her to run into the base of a huge statue instead]]. Years later, Iracebeth was about to be coronated, but her crown created by Tarrant quite literally exploded when they tried putting it on her still-swelling head. Infuriated and out of her mind, Iracebeth declared vengeance on Mirana (who reluctantly replaced her) and the Hightopps, particularly Tarrant.]] And the rest, as they say, is history.

** Everyone in Underland has a [[DeathsHourglass pocket watch]] and Time keeps the living sorted from the deceased. [[spoiler: The fact that there are no watches for the Hightopp family in the deceased category clues Alice in that they're still alive.]]

* DarkIsNotEvil: Time dresses in an ominous dark colored outfit and lives in a dark forbidding castle in the middle of a wasteland. Despite all of this he is not evil in the least.

** Alice finds herself sent to a hospital [[spoiler:before the film's third act]] and her strong-willed, unconventional attitude is diagnosed as [[HystericalWoman "female hysteria"]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Iracebeth, for all her flaws and despicable deeds she committed, seems to have a profound dislike for lying.

** After [[spoiler: Alice saved Underland]], Mally, who spent the first movie complaining that [=McTwisp=] brought the wrong Alice, loudly exclaims that she "always liked that girl".

** Time's fluffy steampunk getup could count as well, even by Underland's standards. He has huge fabric pauldrons, a diagonally-topped fez-like hat, a necklace with gear detailing, and ''an addition to that'' with a large poofy scarf and cape, as well as a cool scepter that includes a small hourglass. [[LampshadeHanging The pauldrons prove to be his undoing in his introductory sequence, where he quite menacingly waltzes down a hallway...only to bump into a corridor that was, comically, shaped specifically for him.]]

* InNameOnly: The only real resemblance the film's plot has to its source material are the chessboard, Humpty Dumpty's appearance, and the fact that Alice reaches Underland by passing through a looking glass. The entire plot surrounding time-travel and the Hatter's family is completely original.

* NeverTrustATrailer: All of the advertising presents Time as the BigBad who intends to destroy Underland. [[spoiler:He's actually one of the closest things Underland has to a BigGood, being the guardian of the clock that keeps it running, and he's trying to save Underland from turning to rust by getting the Chronosphere back from Alice.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:Time becomes this for Alice at the end; she even gives him a broken watch that had belonged to her father. Fitting, since one of its common personifications is Father Time. Time for his part wishes her well, forgives her for stealing the chronosphere, and hopes they don't run into each other in the future]].

* PlatonicDeclarationOfLove: After Iracebeth realizes that the Chronosphere is back in place and she's lost her chance to change the past, she despairingly asks why this always happens to her and why no one loves her. Her sister Mirana replies that ''she'' loves her. Iracebeth snaps back that she ''doesn't'', which leads to Mirana tearfully confessing about the incident with the tarts and asking her forgiveness.

'''Time:''' She took something from me. I will not say what it was, it's not important. It is a trifle. I don't see why you're making such a fuss. (''[[LampshadeHanging everyone else looks at each other in confusion]]'') Ah, think of it as nothing. [[MoodSwinger I must have it back. N-not that I'm concerned. As soon as possible. Either way, I'm fine with the outcome.]]

--'''Time:''' If you continue to vex me, ''it will be an eternity''.

'''Tarrant:''' And what is your business with her?

** Pretty much every word that comes out of Time's mouth.

* DragonAscension: The variant where the original leader is still alive and kicking, and TheDragon is only given the job temporarily. After Alice steals the Chronosphere, Time puts Wilkins in charge of [[spoiler: managing the collapsing Grand Clock]] while Time himself goes to chase after "the kindergartner".

* HypocriticalHumor: Pretty much every word that comes out of Time's mouth. And after [[spoiler: Alice saved Underland]] Mally, who spent the first movie compplaining that McTwisp brought the wrong Alice, loudly exclaims that she "always liked that girl".

* HypocriticalHumor: Pretty much every word that comes out of Time's mouth.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Iracebeth the Red Queen, surprisingly enough, didn't display any of her more deplorable character traits as a child [[spoiler:until after her accident]].

* PartingWordsRegret: The Hatter has always regretted the fact that the Horunvendush Day destroyed his family before he and his father could make amends.

* CoversAlwaysLie: See that pretty golden mirror plastered all over the poster? Yeah, that doesn't actually appear in the film. [[spoilers: Although Alice does pass through an ornate golden mirror at the end when she goes home, its design is very different.]]

** In the first film, Mally is shown with the group of other Underlanians who great Alice when she first returns, however [[spoiler:in the sequel, when Time puts the curse on the Mad Tea Party to keep them stuck at one minute to tea time until Alice shows up, they're all shown to not just be stuck in time, but physically stuck in their chairs! And Thackery clearly mentions the his pocket watch starting to tick again in the first film when Alice meets them for the second time, so Mally clearly couldn't have been freed from the time curse by Alice's first visit as a little girl.]]

** [[spoiler:Time's curse on the Mad Tea Party]] also creates massive continuity problems with the flashback of Horvendush/Horenvendush Day that Tarrant tells Alice in the first film. He flat-out says that he was "Hatter to the White Queen at the time," but [[spoiler:how could he have been her hatter if he was physically unable to move from the head of the tea table?]]

** When [[spoiler:Tarrant is finally reunited with his family at the end of the movie, he tells his father about how he's become a successful hatter, as if none of his family wouldn't know that he was serving in the White Queen's court at the time of Horevedush/Horenvendush Day.]] Heck, he was there at the festival [[spoiler:just like the rest of his family]] and his actions are the whole reason Queen Mirana was able to make it to safety in the first place!

** He instills this in Alice when she travels back to try to convince him to make peace with his father, because [[spoiler:he says that the last thing he would ever want is to end up like his father - exactly the same thing Alice said to (and about) her mother]].

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Queen Elsmere, Iracebeth and Mirana's mother, apparently does her own baking and even cleans her own kitchen.