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* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: What Alice inevitably ends up doing to travel to Wonderland.


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* IChooseToStay: Peter ends up choosing new life in Neverland over his life in the real world.


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* TheProudElite: Aunt Eleanor.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Jack has a past problem with gambling and a less than happy history with his criminal brother CJ, both of which come back into play following David's death.]]
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* ThunderboltsAndLightning: [[spoiler: David is struck by a bolt of lightning right after having accidentally fallen into the river. He's instantly fried to death by it.]]
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* IRejectYourReality: Alice [[spoiler: refuses to accept that David is really dead, insisting instead that he's merely "disappeared". It takes seeing a photo of David's corpse lying in its coffin for her to admit the truth.]]
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* TheGamblingAddict: [[spoiler: Jack used to have this problem before marrying Rose, and falls back into it after David's death, causing him to once again fall into debt to his shady brother CJ.]]
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* AnArmandaLeg: [[spoiler: CJ settles the debt Jack owes him by crushing one of the latter's hands, making it useless for Jack and forcing it to be amputated. Peter later pays CJ back for it cutting off one of his hands in the middle of a sword fight.]]

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* AnArmandaLeg: AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: CJ settles the debt Jack owes him by crushing one of the latter's hands, making it useless for Jack and forcing it to be amputated. Peter later pays CJ back for it cutting off one of his hands in the middle of a sword fight.]]
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* AnArmandaLeg: [[spoiler: CJ settles the debt Jack owes him by crushing one of the latter's hands, making it useless for Jack and forcing it to be amputated. Peter later pays CJ back for it cutting off one of his hands in the middle of a sword fight.]]
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* TheAlcholic: Rose [[spoiler: becomes this out of grief over David's death.]]

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* TheAlcholic: TheAlcoholic: Rose [[spoiler: becomes this out of grief over David's death.]]

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* DownTheRabbitHole: Alice makes her famous trip down the TropeNamer in the last act of the film.



* OffWithTheirHeads: Uttered (as always) by the Queen of Hearts.

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* OffWithTheirHeads: OffWithHisHead: Uttered (as always) by the Queen of Hearts.
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* TheAlcholic: Rose [[spoiler: becomes this out of grief over David's death.]]


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** Averted, however, with the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen, who are separate characters as in the original books.


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* EvilUncle: [[spoiler: CJ to Alice and Peter.]]


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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: How Alice sees both the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen.


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* OffWithTheirHeads: Uttered (as always) by the Queen of Hearts.


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* ScaryBlackMan: [[spoiler: CJ/Captain Hook.]]
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** David doubles [[spoiler: posthumously]] as [[spoiler: the White Rabbit.]]
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* ForgoneConclusion: Alice will travel to Wonderland and return, while Peter will travel to Neverland and stay there.

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* ForgoneConclusion: Alice will travel to Wonderland and return, while Peter will travel to Neverland and stay there.
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* CainAndAbel: Jack and [[spoiler: CJ]]. Rose and Eleanor are a milder version of this trope.
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*PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler: David's]] death at the end of the film's first act is what sets everything that follows in motion.
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* TaxidermyTerror: [[spoiler: The Crocodile is a stuffed and mounted figure on a wall of the Hatter's pawnshop who comes alive at the climax to eat CJ's hand and pocket watch.]]
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* TheGhost: Aunt Eleanor's husband William is mentioned several times but never actually seen.
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* LivingToys: [[spoiler: The White Rabbit is one of Alice's stuffed toys who comes to life at the climax of the film.]]
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* TheMadHatter: The TropeNamer (or at least the inspiration for him) appears in the film.
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* FramingDevice: The story is framed as [[spoiler: the adult Alice/Mrs. Darling reading the story of her and Peter's childhood to her children Wendy, John and Michael.]]
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* AndYouWereThere: Certain characters in the real world double as characters from Wonderland or Neverland in Alice and Peter's imaginations:
** Rose doubles as [[spoiler: the Queen of Hearts.]]
** Aunt Eleanor doubles as [[spoiler: the Red Queen.]]
** [[spoiler: CJ]] doubles as [[spoiler: Captain Hook]]


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** [[spoiler: The Mad Hatter and Captain Hook are Jack's father and brother respectively, thus making them Alice and Peter's grandfather and uncle and Wendy, John, Michael's great-grandfather and great-uncle.]]

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''Come Away'' is an upcoming fantasy-drama film directed by Brenda Chapman (WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}, WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt) starring Creator/AngelinaJolie and Creator/DavidOyelowo.

Set before the famous tales of how [[Literature/PeterPan Peter became Pan]] and [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice went to Wonderland]], siblings Peter and Alice try to help their parents (Oyelowo and Jolie) not fall into despair following the tragic death of their older brother, only to then be forced to choose between their darkening home or the world of imagination.

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''Come Away'' is an upcoming fantasy-drama film directed by Brenda Chapman (WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}, WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt) (''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'') in her live-action debut, and starring Creator/AngelinaJolie Creator/AngelinaJolie, Creator/DavidOyelowo and Creator/DavidOyelowo.

Creator/MichaelCaine.

Set before the famous tales of how [[Literature/PeterPan Peter became Pan]] and [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice went to Wonderland]], siblings Peter and Alice try to help their parents (Oyelowo and Jolie) not fall into despair following the tragic death of their older brother, only to then be forced to choose between their darkening home or the world of imagination.
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Due to make its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

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** The Mad Hatter is black in this version.

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** The Mad Hatter is black in this version.version, as is Captain Hook.
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* AdaptedOut: Alice's older sister does not exist in this version.
* CanonForeigner: David (Alice and Peter's older brother) and Aunt Eleanor (Alice, Peter and David's aunt on their mother's side).

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** [[spoiler: Wendy, John and Michael Darling are Peter's niece and nephew in this version, since Alice is also Mrs. Darling.]]

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** [[spoiler: Wendy, John and Michael Darling are Peter's niece and nephew nephews in this version, since Alice is also Mrs. Darling.]]]]
* TimeShiftedActor: Alice is played by Keira Chansa as a child and Creator/GuguMbathaRaw as an adult.

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* RaceLift: Peter and Alice are traditionally Caucasian, but here are presumably biracial with a black father and white mother.

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Peter and Alice are traditionally Caucasian, but here are presumably biracial with a black father and white mother. mother.
** The Mad Hatter is black in this version.

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* CompositeCharacter: Alice is also [[spoiler: ''Mrs. Darling'' in this version!]]



* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Peter and Alice are brother and sister, being from different, unconnected source materials that didn't connect prior.

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Peter and Alice are brother and sister, being from different, unconnected source materials that didn't connect prior.prior.
** [[spoiler: Wendy, John and Michael Darling are Peter's niece and nephew in this version, since Alice is also Mrs. Darling.]]
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Due to make its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
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''Come Away'' is an upcoming fantasy-drama film directed by Brenda Chapman (WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}, WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt) starring Creator/AngelinaJolie and Creator/DavidOyelowo.

Set before the famous tales of how [[Literature/PeterPan Peter became Pan]] and [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice went to Wonderland]], siblings Peter and Alice try to help their parents (Oyelowo and Jolie) not fall into despair following the tragic death of their older brother, only to then be forced to choose between their darkening home or the world of imagination.

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!!''Come Away'' includes examples of:
* {{Crossover}}: For Literature/AliceInWonderland and Literature/PeterPan.
* {{Prequel}}: The film depicts versions of Peter Pan and Alice before the stories they originate from.
* RaceLift: Peter and Alice are traditionally Caucasian, but here are presumably biracial with a black father and white mother.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Peter and Alice are brother and sister, being from different, unconnected source materials that didn't connect prior.

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